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  • By topic, in order of how likely I am to immediately click on their video if I see a new one:

    D&D:
    • Viva La Dirt League D&D
    (Including hammy greenscreen reenactments! Beyond hilarious. Top of the list. My god.)

    Skits:
    • Viva La Dirt League (gaming)
    • Dr. Glaucomflecken (medicine)
    • Ryan George

    • Paint (parody music)
    • MTGRemy (Magic: The Gathering parody music)
    • Brian David Gilbert (music)

    • Fire Department Chronicles
    • Steven He (being Asian)
    • Daniel Thrasher

    Interesting/horrible facts:
    • Casual Geographic
    • Tom Scott
    • Kurzgesagt

    Movies:
    • Pitch Meeting
    • CinemaTherapy (psychology of movies)

    Psychiatry (gaming bent):
    • HealthyGamerGG

    History:
    • Tierzoo (prehistory if it were an MMO)
    • Linfamy (Japanese)
    • Fall of Civilizations (all 1-3hrs long but great)
    • Townsends (US colonial)
    • Shadiversity (medieval)

    Gaming:
    • The Escapist (zero punctuation)
    • JelloPlaysGames
    • Razbuten (highly recommend checking out his "Gaming for a Non-Gamer" series)

    Art (chill):
    • Sultan Sketches
    • LavenderTowne
    • ABD Illustrates

    Art (tutorial):
    • David Finch
    • Bobbo Andonova
    • Winged Canvas

    Misc:
    • OwlKitty (cat greenscreened into movie trailers)
    • Exurb1a (emotionally distressing prose)
    • LegalEagle (lawyer drama)

    • JelloApocalyse (misc/gaming, can genuinely recommend the hilarity of a video about lemonade reviews, of all things. His delivery is fantastic.)

    • b2studios (programming fun)
    • Huggbees ("How It's Made" parodies)
    • The Onion

  • In no particular order,

    Gaming:

    • WoolieVS
    • Pat Stares At
    • Northernlion

    Gaming adjacent:

    • Davi Vasc (composer)
    • Birds of Play (Final Fantasy)
    • Tarnished Archaeologist (Elden Ring/Soulsborne)
    • Caddicarus (long reviews)

    Podcasts:

    • Dan Carlin/Hardcore History (history)
    • Castle Super Beast (gaming/variety)
    • Behind the Bastards (terrible people!)
    • This Podcast Will Kill You (medical science and history)

    Other:

    • münecat (unhinged teardowns of terrible people)
    • Girl With the Dogs (pet groomer)
    • Sabaton History (history behind the Sabaton songs)
    • Red Squirrel Studios (unironically comfy Finnish birdcams to entertain my cats and help me fall asleep)

  • I really like Corridor Crew / Corridor Digital: I have been following them for over a decade and they have so many good videos where they dissect Visual Effects and stunts or experiment with new tools (lately they have been toying with Stable Diffusion and they did with Deep Fakes earlier).

    On a similar subject, Captain Disillusion is underrated, he's debunking viral videos using his knowledge of VFX.

    Ahoy makes mini-documentaries on video game history (mainly retro PC gaming) with really nice graphics and music made by himself.

    And lastly, not so much a creator, but a documentary series that sucked me in: PsychOdyssey follows the developers from Double Fine during the production of Psychonauts 2. It's a very rare and honest look into the creation process of video games and it particularly hit with me because Psychonauts 2 is my favorite game of 2021.

  • • Thorhighheels: Video game analysis, mainly older or more obscure games. Tends to focus more on vibes than gameplay. Makes really good music too. • Jacob Geller: Another mainly game analysis channel but he covers other forms of media as well. Check him out on Nebula if you like his content for extra and longer videos.

  • My wife and I'd top 3 on YouTube:

    Internet Comment Etiquette with Eric Ordinary Things Brutalmoose

    Plenty of others, but these are the three I always recommend to people.

  • My Favorite Youtube Channels (Not in any particular order):

    Jacksepticeye - Gaming and variety content - Very wholesome Irish dude, never heard of any controversies about him

    Ted-Ed - Education channel with variety of history, science, some philosophy, and a lot of good riddles (actual good riddles, unlike some other channels)

    CGP Grey - Hexagon is the bestagon! - But seriously, it's a bunch of cool stuff about various topics

    Exurb1a - Philosophy that can trigger an Existential Crisis

    Vsauce - Science, but weird

    Veritasium - Science, but interesting

    Mark Rober - Engineering, and pranking scammers and "porch pirates" with a fake package containing a device that shoots out glitter

    Mentour Pilot - Interesting stuff about Aviation, story-telling of aircraft accidents/incidents with an explanation of the technical stuff he knows as a pilot (I don't work in the aviation industry and I'm not a frequent flier, I'm just obsessed with aviation stuff)

    Louis Rossmann - Right to repair, technology stuff, and occasional cat videos (and some in the "shorts" section)

  • In tech: GeekerWan Therelaxingend Mr mobile (Michael Fisher) Mkbhd

    In Cars: Doug Demuro

    In Games: Motogamestv Calem Mrnazreenn

  • As far's 'tubers go :

    • Any Austin : Interesting video game (location|unemployment rate)s
    • BlueBoyPhin : Obscure pokemon content
    • Defunctland : Mostly defunct theme parks
    • Izzzyzzz : Aspects of (internet|contemporary) subcultures
    • RetroGamingNow : In(teresting|formative) minecraft video essays

  • I'll eat up anything they put out:
    Perun (War economics, logistics, procurement, etc)
    The Chieftain (Tank history and doctrine)
    CGP Grey (Deep dives on random topics)
    The Operations Room (High quality visualizations of historical battles)
    The Intel Report (Followup topics related to Operations Room)
    dnsl (Trolling in games)

    Channels I'll binge on once in a while:
    Drachinifel (Naval history)
    agadmator (Chess breakdowns)
    Forgotten Weapons (Firearm history and mechanics)
    Lockpicking Lawyer (Lock history and picking)
    LifesAGlitchTV (StarCraft 2 commentary duo)
    Spookston (War Thunder gameplay)
    The Tank Museum (More tank history)
    Real Engineering (Deep dives on interesting engineering)
    Scott Manley (Space & rocketry related topics)

  • One of my favorite yt channels is currently Stumpt. They got a ton of series on mc from their older backlog, and a variety of other games they've done videos as well if you don't necessarily like mc.

  • Thoraya's yt channel has been one of my faves for years now. She basically asks questions and such to stranger on the streets, I love hearing about peoples' experiences, thoughts, life stories etc

    I also enjoy EXPLORE WITH US' content, it's a yt channel focused on true crime, unsolved cases etc. The majority of their videos include clips in the interrogation room that are being analysed, it's super interesting

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