I just watched through the LA video for now... Any video is staged to a degree if for no other reason then because the creator chooses where to take the footage from or make interviews, but it's certainly something you don't see often on mainstream media about LA. I'll have a look at the other videos when I can to make a better impression.
The best channel I have come across to see content that is not covered by the mainstream is https://www.youtube.com/@TylerOliveira/videos and he does show a considerable amount of footage that is insane but cannot be staged by a YouTuber at his scale.
https://www.youtube.com/@CashJordan/videos is a guy who used review apartments in New York. He does show the streets a lot in his older videos. They look very different from how the streets look now. In the middle of 2023 he started making videos like this one:
He continued his old review videos for few months. Now he is almost exclusively makes videos such as this:
The trend and the change in the streets is clearly visible and and from the way he speak, I think he is very likely a left of center voter. He is not some anti immigration right wing content producer for sure. The old videos and even some of the current ones are evidence of that.