2y ago

what are some great YouTube channels worth checking out?

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Technology Connections
- "An hour long video on a fridge, huh?" YUUUP! :⁠-⁠D
- The video where he installs a transparent panel on a dishwasher is enthralling, and I never thought I’d be so interested in his continual pursuit of the perfect Christmas lights.
  All presented with blink-and-you’ll-miss-it dry humor and 90’s PBS editing.
  If you haven’t done so already, do yourself a favor and subscribe.
- Came here to suggest the same. This is the channel where they can make several long videos about dishwashers, while keeping it interesting and it makes you question all lifechoices afterwards: https://youtu.be/_rBO8neWw04
  I can also highly recommend this video about a toaster: https://youtu.be/1OfxlSG6q5Y
  
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Tom Scott does great stuff, and I found him through Computerphile years ago.
If you like board games, check out No Rolls Barred.
Veritasium and Smarter Every Day are good educational channels about science. Nile Red too.
I can give more if any of these are hitting for you.
- Am I right in thinking Tom Scott is quitting / taking a break soon? I'm sure I saw something along those lines.
  
  Yeah, end of the year. Link to a lemmy world post
- Does anybody else find Tom Scott annoying?
  I love channels that deep-dive into the details of things, etc. But I've always found Tom to be so smug and patronising.
  Is it just me?
  
  I don't at all. He's like a little kid when he gets to watch the maglev train in Japan
  
  He's just very British, I think. IIRC, he also plays a bit of a character inspired by BBC reporters of his youth on camera.
  If you listen to him in a context other than his main channel (I love his Lateral podcast) he doesn't come off as smug at all really.
  
  He's definitely a bit of a dork but it's not annoying
  
  I couldn't stand his Tesla/SpaceX obsession but for the past few months he seems to have let go of it
- Definite +1 for No Rolls Barred. I recently discovered them through their Communist Monopoly House Rules episode. It's been a long time since I've laughed that much at a video.
  
  That video was amazing and I'm glad they're getting tons of views and recognition for it. They introduced me to my favorite game, Blood on the Clocktower. I'll throw that playlist on and fall asleep to it all the time.
Really depends on what you want to check out. Here are some of my favorites in no particular order but roughly ordered by topic.
Science
Astrum - various space and planets related topics
Geschichtsfenster - A German channel on medieval topics and reactions to documentaries
Raumzeit - Vlog der Zukunft - A German channel about space and science
Urknall, Weltall und das Leben - A German science channel with focus on space topics
Technology
Cathode Ray Dude - In-detail videos on 2000's tech with focus on audio/video hardware
Lost In Tech - Videos on 3D printing and 3D printers
my mechanics - High quality "restoration ASMR"
The 8-Bit Guy - Videos about 1980's computer technology
Brodie Robertson - News and commentary on various Linux and FOSS topics
ThePrimeagen - Reactions on various coding-related content
Kevin Powell - CSS tutorials and videos on CSS development
Zack Freedman - Could be best described as "open source craftmanship"
Gaming
aCookieGod - Minecraft mega builds in hardcore mode
Fan The Deck - Steam Deck news and commentary
Karl Jobst - Documentations on gaming history and speedruns
Shulkercraft - Minecraft videos about creative and large build projects
Summoning Salt - Video games speedrun history and documentation
3D printing
3D Printing Nerd - A channel about 3D printing topics
CNC Kitchen - Mainly 3D printing content
- I came here to suggest Cathode Ray Dude, glad to see him mentioned. Fantastic, high-quality channel.
I don't know these were posted or not but here is my suggestions which every youtube watching person probably already heard about most of them:
Not Just Bikes: Channel about Urban Planing-Living and how destructive the cars are.
History Matters: Short animated videos about historical events, narrated with humor.
my mechanics: Best and most detailed restorations ever.
NileRed - NileBlue: All about experimenting with chemical reactions.
Oversimplified: Like the name, oversimplified narrations of historical events but in a long form with animated depictions and humor of course.
Stefan Milo: Really informative research videos of archeology.
The Linux Experiment: Like the name suggests it's all about Linux.
Bad Lip Reading: It's in the name.
ChrisFix: Best car repair channel out there.
DIY Perks: DIY videos but heavy on the entertainment side rather than the doable diys.
Ethan Chlebowski: Trying to understand cooking from the perspective of homecooks.
Alex (the French Guy Cooking): Reverse engineering the recipes.
Brick Experiment Channel: Building Lego machines.
These all are high quality channels imo. There are a lot more but I am kinda lazy for now.
This is a csv file of really high quality channels that you can directly use in Piped: Proton Drive Link to csv file
- Even though I kinda like "Not Just Bikes" it feels a bit too much of a pro Netherlands propaganda channel for me.
  In comparison a "Honest guide" just feels more honest.
  Also I have to add "Brick Technology" since it's the "Brick Experiment Channel" but more.
  
  Yeah I've been subscribed to both of them too but like I said I felt lazy to write all of them. Also Honest Guide's content range is broader and video styles are different. But Brick Technology is also good.
  NJB is really pro Netherlands but I am kinda okay with that because I really didn't consume any media before that are pro Netherlands so it has a place to join with the pro America, UK and France media I guess.
- My Mechanics is really great!
- +1 for NJB.
- Hang on why are you spying on me? This is essentially all I watch!
  
  Really? We essentially have a same taste then. I am curious do you have any other suggestions for me?
Anton Petrov
Geology Hub
PBS SpaceTime
Sabine Hossenfelder
Fraiser Cain
Mentor Pilot
Told in Stone
Kings and Generals
Applied Science
Broken Taps
This old Tony
Huygens Optics
Two minute papers
- Huygens optics is really taking of, love that guy!
- Stands just out of frame waving hands
  Now hear me out here. This old tony, best Channel. Or greatest channel?
Tom Scott
Defunctland is great for high quality documentaries on amusement parks and 2000s television
If you're into bread tube / left tube, I highly recommend Innuendo Studios. In particular, Innuendo Studios's playlist, "the Alt-Right Playbook." It helps make sense of internet discourse.
- They’ve also got fantastic gaming related content, namely This is Phil Fish, The Artist is Absent: Davey Wreden and The Beginner’s Guide, and Who Shot Guybrush Threepwood.
  Their series on Gamer Gate, Why Are You So Angry?, is also worth a watch!
  
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Sampson Boat Co. - British man and friends rebuild wooden sailing boat. If you have any interest in boats or craftsmanship you'll enjoy. Watch from the very beginning to see their incredible progress.
Beau Miles - Charming and slightly rough Australian man has strange adventures and philosophizes along the way. He gets excited about particularly useful/edible bits of trash along the highway.
Primitive Technology - Silent man with blue shorts exists alone in the jungle and has been working his way up to iron tools. He is freakishly fast at making fire with only two sticks. Watch in order to see his progression and turn on captions to see his commentary.
Spirit Of The Law - Extremely thorough Age of Empires II science and analysis. If you thought this 24 year old video game was dead, think again.
Settled - Old School RuneScape player plays the game with extra restrictions that create surprisingly compelling storytelling. "Swampletics", his Morytania-locked Ultimate Iron Man is legendary.
DIY Perks - British guy makes mostly brass/wooden PCs and other tech. His creations aren't always the most practical but they are always interesting. His slim PlayStation 5 was neat.
There's a handful of sustainable farming channels that I like: No-Till Growers, Richard Perkins, and Josh Sattin Farming. If your interests include food or growing stuff then these are for you.
- Primitive Technology
  I'm looking forward to seeing him build a video editing computer from elements he's crafted himself.
- Upvoted for Settled
I'm mostly into educational channels:
CGP Grey (infrequent posting schedule, but really good when he does)
Minute Earth (Quick Earth science videos)
Minute Food (Quick food science videos)
Technology Connections (explains new and old technologies)
Kurzgesagt (general science with cartoon birds)
Mark Rober (over the top engineering)
The 8-bit Guy (retro computing and pc gaming)
Then there's "You Suck at Cooking" for silly, but good recipe videos.
"Film Joy" for deep dives into films
"Lock Picking Lawyer" to watch a guy pick any lock in a few minutes (addictive)
Adam Something
blameitonjorge
Computerphile
crowbcat
Digital Foundry
dime store adventures
ElectroBOOM
GamersNexus
LEMMiNO
neo
Nexpo
PBS channels
RealLifeLore & related channels
Sam O'Nella Academy
Tom Scott
- You could add Summoning Salt to this list. I'm not really otherwise interested in world record attempts, but something about his narration is so good.
  Another fun addition could be Oversimplified.
  
  If you like Summoning Salt, I highly recommend OneShortEye.
Gaming
TheRussianBadger - gaming with good humor and editing
Max0r - gaming with good humor, voice acting, and insane editing
Scott the Woz - for that old YouTube feel
RTGame - funny Irish gaming man
Call Me Kevin - funny Irish gaming man
Indeimaus - mostly horror and Metroidvania gaming
Game Apologist - good Sonic content
RadKing - Fallout content
Iron Pineapple - From Software enthusiast
MuYe - BeamNG content
The Orpheon - good Metroid content
Tech Stuffs
Louis Rossman - disgruntled business tech repair man
Gamers Nexus - pc tech review
Linus Tech Tips (and its other channels) - LMG has been making some very good changes since their first response to their recent controversies. If they actually deliver with them, then all of these channels should be good to watch. Mac Address should be fine to watch as it has been stated that the channel and group affiliated are kept somewhat separated from the rest of LMG for various reasons.
Hardware Unboxed - Australian pc tech review
Monitors Unboxed - Hardware Unboxed for Monitors
Dave's Garage - cool Windows tricks from the guy who made the Task Manager
The Cherno - good Australian C++ channel
Open Source Stuffs
Nicco Loves Linux - good KDE and GNOME stuff
The Linux Experiment - Linux and open source news
unfa🇺🇦 - open source audio solutions
Mental Outlaw - the libre man
Royal Skies - free and open 2d and 3d content and assets
Animation
TerminalMontage - great animations
Noodle - great story animator
Practical Experiments
The Slow Mo Guys - slow motion videos of pretty cool stuff
Hacksmith Industries - cool Sci-Fi irl building channel
Shadiversity - medieval weapon and armour experimentation
ElectroBOOM - shocking experiments
Major Hardware - 3d printing and fan design showdown
Donut - good car content
Music
SilvaGunner - wacky game music
Eurobeat Gems - great if you like Eurobeat music
Education
Audio University - how your sound system works
Kyle Hill - science with nerd Thor
LockPickingLawyer - you will never look at locks the same way
Miscellaneous
No Text To Speech - cool for Discord users
Fact Fiend - miscellaneous facts and British banter
Bosnian Ape Society - If you've seen Nvidia Bread, then you'll understand.
High Boi - movie summaries
There's more that I could # recommend, but I couldn't figure out how to describe them.
- Big IndieMaus fan. Good rec. August is Metroidvania month, time to get hyped!
- Max0rs Ace Combat videos are gold!
- Gamers Nexus and The Linux Experiment kinda rubbed me the wrong way in a way that I'm not sure how to describe, so i personally couldn't get into those when I tried BUT I can vouch that they are both popular and Gamers Nexus in particular is well endeared by the PC/Gaming community
  
  That's understandable. When I first saw The Linux Experiment, he felt almost like a 3D render rather than a real human being. Gamers Nexus can get pretty passive aggressive.
- How you gonna have education section and forget Tom Scott, Veritasium, and especially Vsauce
  
  or gaming and forget the OG angry video game nerd
  
  I like Vsauce, but YouTube just never recommends his videos to me. Same with all the others except for Veritasium. I just haven't seen enough of their content and schedule.
A list of dependable education channels I made a while ago
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheHistoryGuyChannel
https://www.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson
https://www.youtube.com/c/szyzyg
https://www.youtube.com/c/PlainlyDifficult
https://www.youtube.com/c/SteveMould
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCKvREB11-fxyotS1ONgww
https://www.youtube.com/c/Bigclive
https://www.youtube.com/greymatter
https://www.youtube.com/c/fermilab
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRoyalInstitution
https://www.youtube.com/c/imperialcollegevideo
https://www.youtube.com/c/scholagladiatoria
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQMyhrt92_8XM0KgZH6VnRg
https://www.youtube.com/c/Wendoverproductions
https://www.youtube.com/c/Scienceasylum
https://www.youtube.com/c/PracticalEngineeringChannel
https://www.youtube.com/c/TomScottGo
https://www.youtube.com/c/veritasium
https://www.youtube.com/user/todsstuff1
https://www.youtube.com/user/EngineeringExplained
https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile
https://www.youtube.com/user/periodicvideos
https://www.youtube.com/user/sixtysymbols
https://www.youtube.com/c/CuriousDroid
https://www.youtube.com/c/inanutshell
https://www.youtube.com/c/ProjectFarm
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheTimTraveller
https://www.youtube.com/c/RealEngineering
https://www.youtube.com/c/ModernHistoryTV
https://www.youtube.com/c/CityBeautiful
https://www.youtube.com/user/ObsNights
https://www.youtube.com/c/AncientHistoryNerd
https://www.youtube.com/user/PIOutreach
https://www.youtube.com/c/arduinoversusevil2025
https://www.youtube.com/c/smartereveryday
https://www.youtube.com/c/EconomicsExplained
https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics
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  https://piped.video/user/jastownsendandson
  https://piped.video/c/szyzyg
  https://piped.video/c/PlainlyDifficult
  https://piped.video/c/SteveMould
  https://piped.video/channel/UCfCKvREB11-fxyotS1ONgww
  https://piped.video/c/Bigclive
  https://piped.video/greymatter
  https://piped.video/c/fermilab
  https://piped.video/user/TheRoyalInstitution
  https://piped.video/c/imperialcollegevideo
  https://piped.video/c/scholagladiatoria
  https://piped.video/channel/UCQMyhrt92_8XM0KgZH6VnRg
  https://piped.video/c/Wendoverproductions
  https://piped.video/c/Scienceasylum
  https://piped.video/c/PracticalEngineeringChannel
  https://piped.video/c/TomScottGo
  https://piped.video/c/veritasium
  https://piped.video/user/todsstuff1
  https://piped.video/user/EngineeringExplained
  https://piped.video/user/numberphile
  https://piped.video/user/periodicvideos
  https://piped.video/user/sixtysymbols
  https://piped.video/c/CuriousDroid
  https://piped.video/c/inanutshell
  https://piped.video/c/ProjectFarm
  https://piped.video/c/TheTimTraveller
  https://piped.video/c/RealEngineering
  https://piped.video/c/ModernHistoryTV
  https://piped.video/c/CityBeautiful
  https://piped.video/user/ObsNights
  https://piped.video/c/AncientHistoryNerd
  https://piped.video/user/PIOutreach
  https://piped.video/c/arduinoversusevil2025
  https://piped.video/c/smartereveryday
  https://piped.video/c/EconomicsExplained
  https://piped.video/user/minutephysics
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- Very nice list.
  Check out https://youtube.com/@TechIngredients
  Top tier channel.
Steve1989MREinfo
- Let's get this out on to a tray
  
  Nice
Depends on what you are interested in:
AntsCanada
Donut Media
Hoonigan
Ken Block
george hotz archive
Primitive Technology
Scott Manely
Colin Furze
Linus Tech Tips
Louis Rossman
NotJustBikes
Adam Something
City Beautiful
Alan Fisher
CityNerd
Rich Rebuilds
JerryRigEverything
Marques Brownlee
WOBO
Rising with The hill
Breaking points
Russell Brand
Kim Iverson
Sabby Sabs
The Jimmy Dore Show
Hard Lens Media
The Dive with Jackson Hinkle
JRE Snips & Clips
- +1 for primitive technology. Interesting guy that goes out to some empty land in I think Australia and builds houses and all kinds of stuff with just his hands and tools he makes himself. He is going for forging his own iron knife now, which is insanely impressive.
I've seen it listed a bunch but i want to highlight project farm.
It is a great channel that tests everything tool related including commom household products. Definitely check it out before buuing any tools really.
LEMMiNO
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  Oh wow that's a cool trick
What I think are underrated channels, alreayd listed channels removed. Some have irregular schedules but still worth checking out.
Animals
Cal Falcons: live stream of a falcon nest on a rooftop
Deep Look: small world biology (PBS)
Journey to Microcosmos: smaller world biology (Hank Green)
Saveafox: domestic fox rescue
Science/Tech
Captain Dissilusion: video editing vs disinformation
Cody's Lab: currently building a "Mars" habitat
The Friday Checkout: weekly tech highlights
Music
CSGuitars: electric guitar science
First of October (Andrew Huang, Rob Scallon): very constrained songwriting
Rhythm in Africa: sub-Saharan instruments
Wataru Kousaka: Japanese instruments
Pop culture
Game Changer: improv comedy as a game show (CollegeHumor)
Overanalyzing Avatar: "This man is dead. Appa killed a man"
Solid jj: voiced superhero comic parodies
History
Jay Foreman: British culture and/or maps
Lateral with Tom Scott: lateral thinking puzzle as a podcast
Objectivity: very interesting objects (Brady Haran)
Sam O'Nella Academy: badly researched and animated trivia satire
- add Jim Lill and Mike George to music, guitarist of six years I vouch strongly
Here are a few of my favorites:
Up and Atom — an educational science channel. She gives plain-English explanations of all sorts of science topics, from quantum physics to computer science and even some philosophical puzzles from history.
TierZoo — a comedy/educational channel. In each video, he looks at animals as though they are playable classes in an MMO, explaining their strengths, weaknesses, and place in "the meta". It's comedy because it's video-game-themed, but it's also well-researched and based on real zoology. It's a riot.
Simone Giertz — you've probably seen clips of her shitty robots. She builds things for fun, profit, and just because. Most of her projects have an element of absurdity. Some of them work.
- Related to Simone is Laura Kampf's channel. Also great.
- TierZoo
  That channel is absolutely amazing, each video has so many hilarious little moments. The video game music/sound effects/animations are just perfectly edited in. Seeing new uploads from that guy is usually the highlight of my week.
I Did a Thing, just a straight up funny guy who builds some interesting/dangerous stuff, often naked and usually australian
- Also friendlyjordies
Echoing some other suggestions surely, but here are a few that I regularly come back to:
GAMING:
CallMeKevin (really funny, wholesome Irish guy known for playing games kinda hilariously incorrectly )
GameGrumps (two best friends playing games and riffing. Usually very funny and wildly inappropriate. Feels like gaming with high school buddies)
Outside Xbox/Outside Xtra (small team of British friends with lots of quirky, easily digestible “7 things” lists over the years)
Dungeon Dudes (pretty broad and approachable dives into all things D&D)
Smooth McGroove (older channel with many delightful a cappella renditions of video game songs)
COOKING:
Babish Culinary Universe (super approachable, funny, and well-edited cooking tutorials with fun themes and lots of room to be wrong)
How to Cook That (Ann Reardon is a super knowledgeable, friendly, crazy talented baker, and she does a lot of good work to address and debunk dangerous & stupid trends on social media)
Joshua Weissman (similar vibes to Babish, but a little more overtly comedic. Does great recreations of fast food classics)
SCIENCE & TECH:
Technology Connections (deep dives that make mundane things in our lives seem super fascinating)
OzTalksHw (very wholesome, budget-friendly PC builds with an emphasis on self care.)
ZeFrank (excellent, accurate, and very funny short nature documentaries)
NetworkChuck (friendly, well-edited tutorials on lots of IT-related things)
ENTERTAINMENT AND OTHER/MISC:
Kitboga (fairly wholesome considering the content area. He exposes and confronts phone scammers with hilarious made up character voices and fake websites & accounts, and he teaches people what to look out for in the process. Lots of swearing and shouting from scammers that he regularly pisses off by wasting their time and getting their accounts closed)
Watcher (Ryan and Shane do a lot of different interesting things, and their banter and chemistry are infinitely watchable. Puppet History is a particular favorite)
Digging the Greats (really cool deep dives into the makings, origins, and fun facts about all things hip hop)
Camping with Steve
Defunctland
Mic the Snare
Weatherbox
SovietWomble
Kitboga
Eddy Burbank
Summoning Salt
NakeyJakey
- I feel so sorry for camping with steve
- Steve is awesome.
kurzgesagt - Science & Education - I personally love their videos of nuclear technology and their videos such as "What if we nuked the moon?"
Captain Desilusion, definitely
Viva La Dirt League + their D&D Channel
- They're great, watching their skits makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside, and some good laughs.
numberphile: math channel
project kamp; bunch of people building a remote permaculture camp. invite people all over the world to work there.
primitive technology
alt shift x
ze Frank : witty animal science channel
game maker's toolkit
journey to the microcosmos
Corning museum of glass
townsends
life in jars?
lofty pursuits
learn Google sheets and excel spreadsheets
Jacob Geller Wonderful art and gaming essays.
Lemmino, hogg and fern. for quality animated documentaries
German: Ultralativ for Medienkompetenz-Content
If you're interested in computer architecture/embedded systems, you gotta watch Ben Eater videos. His series of building a 6502 computer really helped computer architecture click for me.
https://youtu.be/LnzuMJLZRdU
- Love this guy. Keep hinting that someone should buy my the kit for my birthday, but no luck yet. (There will come a point when I'll just treat myself...)
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The China Show. Latest Video shows the astonishing destruction from the floods in Beijing and how the CCP is doing their best to cover it up. Literally. No, actually literally. Timecode is about 7:20 if I remember correctly.
I've been binging their videos for 2 weeks, and learning so much about how China actually works.
- Oh and they are also on Odysee so you can watch there if you want!
- Thanks, this was really interesting!
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- Oh no, not the racist sexpats. Not sure I would necessarily want to be using those guys as your source of news in China. Laowhy is an absolute piece of shit to his wife, and actually made a video of himself desecrating gravesites in Taiwan and laughing about it. Complained that his daughter looked too asian. Just an absolute piece of garbage.
  They found out being condescending towards Chinese people sells right now, and that has been their entire brand since they left the country. They're probably useful in that anything they say, you can assume the exact opposite is the truth.
  
  Wow a wumao! I didn't expect to see one here!
  Give my regards to Winnie.
  You know Winston and Laowhy86 are fighting for you and against the CCP right? You know they only want the oppression of the CCP to end and for China's people to be free right? You know every single episode like 5 times they will say 'and we aren't talking about the Chinese people, the Chinese people are good people, we love China, we are opposed to the CCP'?
  If you want to talk smack about Laowhy then you better provide proof. I've seen what you guys do. Winston liked a comment from someone who said 'that toilet needs to be napalmed' and then all you wumao's are like 'Winston wants to napalm Asians!'
  It's not working, Mr CCP Shill. Come over to the light side and help us criticise the CCP and expose their racism, oppression and corruption that is holding back China's development. Don't do it for me, do it for the Chinese people who deserve better than Xi Jinping's tyranny.
Tasting History: Historical recipes re-created and the history behind them.
Accented Cinema: Video essays covering foreign (mainly Asian) films and actors.
ComicTropes: History of certain comic book runs, spin-offs, writers, artists, and tropes.
Game Sack: Deep dives into classic video game consoles and games.
Ordinary Sausage: A guy who makes sausage out of anything and everything.
Tried to hit multiple interests with this list. There’s so many smaller creators I’d love to recommend, but they all revolve around more specific topics / hobbies / interests.
- Oh god, the sausage one... I was just a little curious. There's videos making an air sausage and a water sausage (which go about as you'd expect).
  
  Overall I’d have to rate the channel 4.5 Mark Ruffalos.
- Go HAM on the hobbies... I am interested, I doubt people will mind if you have the time.
  
  Here are a few of the top of my head…
  Calvin Dyson: In depth reviews on all things James Bond.
  The Backyard Scientist: Crazy guy in FL doing crazy science experiments.
  Doctor Wolfula: Horror related channel that harkens back to the days of horror movie hosts.
  Comic Book Corner 2.0: Casual video centered around comic book collecting.
  Minnime: Reviews / retrospectives of more obscure games.
  Scarfulhu: Reviews / retrospectives of mainly point and click adventure games.
  Jim Browning: Exposes all sorts of tech support scams. Unlike other scam channels (Scammer Payback, Kitboga, Trilogy Media, etc), Jim is more focused more on educating rather than comedic scam baiting.
  Puppet Nerd: If you ever wanted to learn how to make a puppet or get into puppetry, this is the go-to channel. The creator (Adam) was diagnosed with brain cancer last year, but he’s doing much better now and starting to put more videos out again.
Styropyro - if Bill Nye, Doc Brown and FPS Russia had a baby and it made youtube videos
ManyATrueNerd for funny and wholesome let's plays. Especially for Fallout fans, but there's so much more than that.
Mathologer makes great math videos that should be understandable even by people with no higher math education.
Jet Lag the game
- Absolutely loved the first two seasons great recommendation
Steve1998MREInfo tests and reviews military MREs from all around the world. Surprisingly entertaining and wholesome.
Townsends 18th century living history reenactment and history, especially focusing on the food and everyday chores of colonial Americans.
Wendigoon cool dude who makes videos on conspiracies, analog horror series, modern mysteries, and bible studies.
Knowing Better educational political and sociological videos with occasional skits.
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  https://piped.video/user/jastownsendandson
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I'm not doing links because I'm lazy, but I watch a lot of YouTube and these are my favorites:
Ordinary Things - funny smarmy British dude explains ordinary things. Once a month or so, very high effort stuff.
That Chapter - funny sarcastic Irish guy explains true crime things. Twice a week on a good week. Also high effort research
Internet Comment Etiquette - this is not for you. Don't watch it. You've been warned.
LGR - the best legacy youtuber talks about the best legacy tech.
Patrick Willems - funny American guy explains movie stuff.
The Crafsman Steady Craftin - funny puppet man does crafts. This is the most high effort channel on YouTube.
- Ordiany things is one of the only "belled" youtube channels i have.
  I can also second patrick.
  I will have to check the rest of these .
- If you like sarcastic Brits and the Craftsman, please check out Bill Making Stuff.
  
  Love that channel! I bought some of his prints and 2 of his shirts from his shop. Pretty affordable vs many other YouTube artists!
Contrapoints and Andrewism immediately come to mind. Might add more in an edit.
I like watching 'My Mate Vince" he just tries to repair broken stuff really.
- I love this repair community thing. Bring back the days when things are repairable.
  
  I hope you're a Louis Rossman fan, he is pushing hard for Right To Repair
https://youtube.com/@ExplainingComputers
A very easy to follow channel explaining all things computers. It should come to no surprise the guy is (was?) a lecturer at university
All these comments and not one mention of Tasting History with Max Miller. If you like food and/or history, check it out.
BobbyBroccoli
Dude makes hour long (or longer) videos / (videoseries) about scientific topics, such as "America's missing supercollider" or "Man who tried to fake an element". And they are all done really well.
Link: https://youtube.com/@BobbyBroccoli
https://www.youtube.com/@TheTimTraveller - Utterly charming and funny travel videos
https://www.youtube.com/@AtomicShrimp - Incredibly wholesome nerdyness in a multitude of forms
https://www.youtube.com/@anderspuck - Insightful and considered observations about the war in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/@TheCriticalDrinker - Unashamedly non-PC reviews and observations on film and TV
- I don't know about the others but I want to second the critical drinker. His reviews are very interesting.
- My favourite thing about Tim Traveller is trying to figure out what songs he's playing on the soundtrack. I rarely get them all.
Breaking Taps
The Thought Emporium
Technology Connections
The first two are people doing things at home that shouldn't be possible without a uni lab.
Connections does really thorough deep dives into every day tech we use.
Moon Channel, a lawyer who dives into some of the legal topics surrounding the gaming industry, most of them Nintendo related. Really well researched information about emulation legality, modding, even copyright infringement Nintendo themselves committed in the 90's (in the Mother 3 video), all sorts of stuff.
He also has a few other things, like a REALLY LONG video on JRPGs, or commentary on MMOs.
RedLetterMedia - movie and bad movie "reviews"
- RedLetterMedia has been my favorite channel for years now. They're pretty big outside of the internet too, as I've worked with a couple fellow fans. The Mr Plinkett Star Wars Prequel reviews put em on the map, like what.. a decade ago?
ilmango, airforceproud95, project farm, cutting edge engineering australia, ave, welker farms, millenial farmer
- Requesting mayday!
I think this thread is the first one to get my save button.
On topic, if you're into gardening (or just wanna watch something different) check out Hoocho. A guy building hydroponic systems and growing stuff. Great channel. Also no weed if that's the first thing that comes to mind from hydroponics.
I was going to suggest the older "All Gas No Brakes" or "Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan" but looks like there's been some controversy around him and no more videos since then.
Dankpods
Astonished to see a thread about YouTube and not see any mention of Dankpods. I sub to two patreons, and Wade's is one of them. It's because of him that I have an ever-growing collection of iPods.
jim browning (tech support scams).
Hacks into scammers' systems while they're scamming him and exposes them. Gives you a so satisfying sense of justice. And it's overall interesting to see how he's working, and educational too.
Alt Shift X
Sam O'nella Academy
Nexpo
William Osman
Plainly Difficult
Good Mythical Morning / Rhett and Link
Ed Bassmaster
Sumito Media
Primitive Technology
Solar Sands
Veritasium
Brian Lagerstrom
Beau Miles
First We Feast
Thanks guys this is awesome!
Mental Outlaw
Vlogbrothers has been a favourite for many years. They do so much good! And do lots of silly stuff too, like making a series of videos with titles taken from smash mouth’s rockstar 😀
Most of mine have already been mentioned, but here are a few I didn't see:
Songs by Spencer A guy named Spencer makes songs. Relatively new channel, but the production quality is top notch. I think his day job is owner of a video production company.
Cheap Audio Man Reviews relatively cheap audio gear. Cheap is a pretty wide range in the audio world.
Awesome Open Source Talks about open source software. Usually runs through how to install and basic usage/features.
Chris Titus Tech Tech channel. Mostly Windows and Linux.
Techno Tim Mostly homelab related stuff
66Samus Drum stuff
Nicole van der Hoeven Obsidian.md / Personal Knowledge Management
Rachel Maksy Cosplay / crafty stuff
How to ADHD ADHD stuff
Coffeezilla Covers scams, grifters, etc.
James Hoffmann All things coffee
The Kiffness Makes songs out of random internet clips of animals. Or remixes other people singing. My kids love this channel.
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/nicolevdh
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  I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
This is pretty niche, but if you've watched Summoning Salt and are looking for something similar, check out OneShortEye:
https://www.youtube.com/@OneShortEye
He does something similar for the world of speedrunning old LucasArts/Sierra adventure games. Highly recommended!
glassslinger - million year old guy in a dress fabricates vacuum tubes and repairs radios. steve1989mreinfo - guy eats old mres crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt - gonzo nature walks uscsb - your tax dollars at work
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/user/glasslinger
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Wristwatch Revival. I have never and will never own or repair an expensive non digital watch, but it's great content. Marshall is easy to listen to and it's actually very interesting.
- Was looking for this one! Marshall does an excellent job explaining the process as well and his work is excellent.
Veritasium
So these people are my go too:
Tech: MrWhosTheBoss LTT Sam Baker Andrew Ethan zeng Joe knows best(amazing but hardly uploads now)
Cars Donut Misha charoudin Auto Alex Matt Armstrong Chris slix
Video games Wildcat Black panthaa Game riot Cartoonz Grizzy Smi77y
Other random things: Thoughty2 History matters Shxtsngigs Manny khoshbin Drivetribe Gameranx Lemmino
- As for the random things I give a special thanks to James Bisonette and Kelly Moneymaker
- add mentaloutlaw to tech
Jan Misali
I like echarts ladder lots of starwars content.
Also obsidian ant, game reviews etc
Pop Culture Detective - probably my favourite out of the millions of video-essay makers
Grand Illusions. A nice old man gently shows you all the cool stuff he's collected. It's fantastic calm and soothing entertainment.
Bad Obsession Motorsport - Project Binky
my fav car build on youtube
also My Mechanics, crazy good restoration projects
- My Mechanics is the GOAT
I haven't seen the fall of civilizations channel being mentioned, so here you go.
My favourite channel is probably History of the Universe
PBS Space Time is also excellent
- mine too, wonderful channels
Miniminuteman - Archaeology and BS-debunking
Crecganford - Anthropological views on mythology
münecat - popular culture BS-debunking and other stuff
The daily show - I like the discussions more than the show.
NativLang - Linguistics and stuff
Soft white underbelly.
fern is a relatively new channel covering various themes – like why french McDonalds is so much better or how a few german companies profited from Hitler and never took responsibility – in extremly high quality. Its a cooperation of two established dutch and a german channels. Really worth checking out.
If you are interested in woodworking there are 2 channels.
Stumpy Nubs -- provides quick (usually < 15 min) how to videos on different techniques and tricks. He does a great job of explaining and demonstrating things
Bourbon Moth - a lot of full build videos (they tend to be > 30 minutes), but he does a great job of explaining the whole process from start to finish
- Bourbon Moth lost some credibility with me over the rag fire thing.
  
  yep, same here.
  which brings up another good suggestion (since I haven't seen it yet)... AvE. https://youtube.com/@arduinoversusevil2025. if you like smart, irreverent commentary on tool build quality and other similar stuff, this cannuk is freaking hysterical. and, I must say, quite informative
- Woodworking for Mere Mortals is also great!
I really like Illinois EnergyProf Talks a lot about energy, reactors, turbines, solar you name it
Subject zero science
I can't believe no one has mentioned Aging Wheels and Under Dunn, both by Robert Dunn.
The first is Robert's channel about his crazy car collection and the work he does on them. The second is his woodworking channel. His sense of humor and video editing skills are amazing and he seems like a really nice guy all around.
I like this ASMR channel: https://youtube.com/@InvolvingAmbience
History
Atun Shei Films
Politics
Left Laser (If you speak Dutch) | Second Thought | First Thought | Breakthrough News
Comedy
ExplosmEntertainment (Cyanide and Happiness) | Foil, Arms and Hog (irish comedy sketches)
Travel
Kristian Hansen (Travels through Indonesia with a motorbike)
Nature
Mossy Earth (does rewilding projects with the funding from their patreon)
Cathode Ray Dude
I've been a fan of Continue? for over a decade. Just a weekly let's play series that's kept the spirit of the early 2010 gaming YouTube alive.
CoolWorldsLab
Mr Mobile for all your tech needs. Great looking videos, great content.
I really like Stevie videos. He plays this game called Rust that's a pvp based game. He's makes hours long videos that have a solid plot with a beginning, middle, and end. I've never played a minute of rust but I love his narrative style. Its art truly.
monty zander makes really nice video essay analyzing video games and his podcast lore dump is great. really underated channel
If you like art and comedy, try Drawfee. They are millennials, just FYI.
If you like insanely funny gaming, I highly recommend LetsGameItOut for some good "oh god my sides I'm dying here" funnies.
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/channel/UCoal_hpPIPAnWlG-kWHLheA
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
LOVE the Hopeless Romantic Society recently. Jahad has truly perfected the "man on the street" formula, gives grace to the interviewee, and has a punchy, hilarious editing style.
Did anyone mention MelodySheep? His space videos are so damn amazing I actually downloaded them and backed them up to the cloud.
My interests/politics:
Brodie Robertson
Jessie Gender
Wisecrack
Some More News
Jared Bauer
ThePrimeAgen
John Hammond
david bennett piano is a really cool music analysis channel
Not many I follow too closely to be honest these days. I just did a big purge of a bunch of my subscriptions so there's only a handful now.
Gaming/Entertainment:
Nextlander: General gaming; comprised of three ex-members of Giant Bomb (Vinny, Alex, and Brad).
Mr. Samuel Streamer: Primarily focused on Rimworld and Crusader Kings, just an extremely witty guy that puts a lot of work into what he does. Often spends 8-9 hours in gameplay and editing to make a 30 minute episode, every day.
Nilaus: Factory/automation games, like Factorio and Dyson Sphere Program.
The Jimmy Dore Show: Semi-leftist, has liberal tendancies but is more political comedy than serious commentary, so I categorize him more as entertainment than political. I often don't agree with all of his takes, but the show can be good sometimes.
CryptTV: Mini-horror episodes, often with a few recurring monsters. Really well done effects work.
Politics:
Li Jingjing: China-based journalist, covers China and the global south as a whole. Does both serious stories and cultural/interest pieces. Great for somebody just interested in seeing more China without the anti-China rhetoric.
George Galloway: Left-leaning talk show host, some reactionary tendancies but he does have a pretty good range of guests from time to time, including the above. He's been around for ages, very well established.
The Deprogram: Leftist talk show and podcast.
That's kind of my entire subscription list at the moment, it has been cut down a lot recenty.
CathodeRayDude and Keybored
Mic The Snare is a great channel talking about music. He uploads "Deep Discog Dives" where he goes into the discography of artists and does commentary talking about hot topics in music. His most DDD is Prince which is nearly 2 hours long (don't worry, most of his DDDs are less than 40 minutes long) and it was amazing.
I'm into mystery and true crime stuff.
Lazy Masquerade - mix of mystery and true crime
Nick Crowley - Internet deep dives with horror theme
Nexpo - same as above
Wendigoon - conspiracies, mysteries, ARGs, GIANTS
Lore Lodge - probably the most objective mystery YouTuber
Lights Out Podcast - podcast for supernatural and true crime
Mr. Ballen - good primer for this kind of content, more of a storyteller than objective
Let's Read - narration of scary stories
Street Lamp Horror - same as above
Ripshy - same as above and smaller YouTuber
- I'm a fan of the WHY FILES. hit a similar genre as what you seem to like
- Roanokegaming does great breakdowns on pop culture monsters. Hes a pathologist so he's got a pretty good understanding of monsterverse diseases
  
  Oh yeah I like him and NerdExplains. Roanoke had a very compelling argument that the alien from Nope was actually terrestrial.
Vice Grip Garage Rescues old forgotten cars and manages to drive them home. He has his own style and I think you either like it or not. You can't deny his skill and ability to resurrect classic cars.
Caleb Hammer
He's like a millennial Dave Ramsey. Personal finance doesn't get enough attention and he makes good bingeable content that makes me want to save more.
Here's a few channels I like that post interesting content if you're into retro stuff.
Tech Tangents
Michael MJD
Anders Nielsen
PCRetroTech
ctrl-alt-rees
Noel's Retro Lab
GadgetUK164
Adrian's Digital Basement
There's many more but these are the channels I highly recommend checking out.
LunaOi - Vietnamese communist YouTuber.
IBIJ Anime - I‘m not that into anime, but these crossover vids are just amazing!
If you like cats and building things for cats this guy is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/@hahahaYouTube
It's a korean guy on a fish farm that started vlogging 7 years ago, and he had a lot of stray cats that he helped out, made food for, made sleeping spots etc. I think he became pretty popular in korean (1mil + subs), and he is now building more and more cool stuff for his cats.

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