As in any game or sport, there seems to be two areas of interest--competitive play (and how to improve) and hilarious bloopers. When you watch the replays of a football game on the news, they show both the most amazing, technically skilled videos that inspire others and they show the crazy, funny mistakes. This is applicable to the game of League of Legends as well when you're surfing YouTube.
The videos vacillate between videos on how to improve your play and the best way to make the epic plays featured there. These comprise more than half of all of the amateur videos out there while the other portion is comprised of videos that are deliberately made to incite laughter either through mistakes, memes, or joke-filled commentary about other games.
For the most part, the videos are unedited except for potentially music or commentary or title pages and the like. Usually the content speaks for itself and does not need to be altered. Definitely a lot of montages both in the instructional and parody videos with cuts from professional and amateur streams.
These different types of videos drive the types of personalities that you find within the LoL community. The drive to improve your play and win more and more games creates the need for instructional videos from other players that have figured out the tricks or skills needed already--people to learn and grow from. The pressure to perform, however, can take its tole and the need to blow off steam comes in the form of these gag videos, both to make fun of others' mistakes (which you have probably made a few times) and laugh at the inside jokes of the game.
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