Found this very useful Youtube video about How do Magnets & Magnetic Fields Work? and within it I finally found someone willing to explain greater details about how same poles repel in laymen terms. The link above takes you to the section where the Presenter explains how (as I understand him) potential energy forms between the same poles and that energy ultimately causes the repulsion. I like his thermodynamic(?) description and haven’t ever come across a better laymen explanation. That said, I was hoping to get some opinions about them. I’ve also read about the exchange of virtual photons but even that wasn’t intuitively explained.

Thank you for any additional insight.