I'm sorry if this is not the best place for this, I couldn't think of anywhere better to ask about it
the reason most of these people are youtubers is because I went through my youtube subscriptions for ideas
edit: I've just realized I forgot to add rule to the title but I don't know how to fit it in there with it looking not bad
They seem like some of the very few genuinely decent human beings who were also celebrities.
Adam Savage
I like Adam Savage. I watch Adam Savage. However, be careful putting anyone on a pedestal. The claims were settled out of court which doesn't mean anything either way. And I think all of us feeling like we have more familiarity with Adam himself would definitely rather side with him and his version of things. But that's just bias at this point.
Adam is most definitely a fascinating guy with a varied and interesting work experience. We can all safely say that for sure. And has overtime become a great presenter with a lot of wisdom to share. And that's probably where we should keep it. 🙂
The last true hero.
maybe some women?
Adding some musicians:
Ooh edgy, say more
I don't see what's edgy about that. You should include people in that list for who they are and what they do. Not because of their gender.
If you think of women who you would put on that list then suggest them. OP asked for that. Be the change you want to see.
You seem a bit troll-y too but I'll bite.
The only one suggesting to add women because they are women is the edgy beb. The change I want to see is edgies being made to feel small. I have achieved based on their anemic come back :)
The person starting this thread wants to see the world you're suggesting I create. And in doing so has opened a whole new class of YouTuber for our dear OP to explore..the analogy about fish, fishing and teachers come to mind
Zack Freeman has been a recent favorite, doing the hard science so we don't have to buy beef jerky filament.
Brennan Lee Mulligan and, by extension, Sam Reich.
edit: to be fair, a lot of the Dropout cast seem like pretty great human beings as well (Emily Axford comes to mind, plus she frequently played opposite Adam Conover in the series Adam Ruins Everything which is both entertaining and horrible)
Some of my personal ones are:
Gabe Newell
The vinesauce crew (Vinny, Joel, Limes, Rev, etc)
Jerma
Jabroni Mike
Fredrick "fat nuts" Knudsen
WhiskeyDing0
Hideki Naganuma
King Gizzard
Peter Gabriel
Ross Scott (acursed farms)
John Carmack
John Romero
Might update this with more if I think of any.
+1 for Lord GabeN
Who is Jerma and why does YouTube keep trying to force me to watch their vids.
"I'm killing you. I don't care about anything else, my programming is just get that fucking guy right there." - Friendly neighborhood Jerma
Okay, if I... if I chop you up in a meat grinder, and the only thing that comes out, that's left of you, is your eyeball, you'r- you're PROBABLY DEAD! You're probably going to - not you, I'm just sayin', like, if you- if somebody were to, like, push you into a meat grinder, and, like, your- one of your finger bones is still intact, they're not gonna pick it up and go, "Well see, yeah it wasn't deadly, it wasn't an instant kill move! You still got, like, this part of your finger left!" NO I'M NOT GONNA PUT YOU INTO A MEAT GRINDER. I'M NOT GONNA PUT YOU INTO A MEAT GRINDER. NO. I'm making a reference to the fact that, like, if I, like, if I were to get fucking KILLED... I don't know, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYIN'. If- if- okay, if you were to- okay we're gonna take humans out of this, if alien Globgobglobgo 1 fuckin' shoots a disintegrating ray at alien Globglo 2, if there's only fucking TEETH LEFT, it's- it's fucking you're dead, you're dead.
"If I were to put you in a meat grinder," goddamnit, it's so fucked up! You understand what I'm sayin' though, I'm not actually saying that I'm going to put somebody in a meat grinder, goddamnit. Whatever.
- an entirely sane and not completely deranged psychopath.
Edit: the man in question
Huge inspiration for me!
Grady Hillhouse of Practical Engineering. He provides so much insight to the constructed world around us and, more recently, has done a ton of work to digest complex reports to, as he puts it, "elevate the discussion" around manmade disasters so that the layman can have a more informed opinion.
Pannenkoek as well. He's pretty niche, making videos almost exclusively about Mario 64, but he has an incredible talent for teaching complex technical concepts in an understandable way. It's often really hard for people that freakin smart to turn around and explain their knowledge to a layman, but Pannen puts a ton of work into visuals and examples to make sense of some really comprehensive stuff.
Rebecca Sugar, creator of Steven Universe. They've always had a mission to reach queer kids and have taken inspiration from Mr. Rogers to help children love and accept themselves. Over the course of their career, they've really come out of their shell and fought for representation in cartoons, driving the whole medium forward while supporting their peers across the animation industry. They've been pretty quiet online since the end of Steven Universe, but it's because they're out there in person at LGBTQ+ youth centers teaching kids how to understand and express themselves. I didn't know what it meant to have a role model until I started following their career.
Pannenkoek has one video about Smash Bros. Except it's actually about sm64 wall hitboxes and YouTube mislabelled it. https://youtu.be/DfiDhmrnoQg
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Fred Rogers
Dolly Parton
Steve Wozniak
Betty White
Carl Sagan
Hedy Lamarr
Albert Einstein
Grace Hopper
Alan Turing
That is a terrible oversight on my part and my list has been amended.
That dude is a national treasure: Good catch!
Just YouTubers? I don't really know them as people but I think the content they create is admirable at least:
Electroboom
Mark Rober <- Never mind, apparently he's down with Autism Speaks (a shitty group that wants to "cure" neurodivergence) That's a shame.
Kurzgesagt
SmarterEveryDay
Oversimplified
Vsauce
Veritasium
Captain Disillusion
ZeFrank
ForgottenWeapons
I guess I'm kind of a sucker for educational stuff.
Zefrank
Educational stuff
Hmmm
ZeFrank is fucking hilarious, but also, technically informative as well.
Edit: Hmm, maybe I should also add YourGrammarSucks too...
Personally, Veritasium is out of that list for me due to some of his more recent videos. He still has some good content but I really disliked that "rods from God" video where it feels like he's basically doing the same thing as the "How Ridiculous" guys and trying to disguise it as science communication. And the (admittedly few) ones where he's basically disguising advertising as his regular content.
I nominate BobbyBroccoli to take his spot.
Gamers Nexus is good for PC stuff, they do factory tours of PC parts manufacturing and testing/analysis of PC parts
Louslis Rossmann has great mackbook repair videos and now does lots of advocy for right to repair
Strange Parts does all sorts of electronics stuff and has been doing pretty cook factory tours too
Project Farm tests everything and does a great job of it
Damn, really? That's disappointing to learn, why's he a dick?
Ok so not nessesarialy a dick, just a strong reaction with his name sorry.
In his video saying he has an autistic son, he did a charity event for NEXT for autism, who wish to 'cure' autism, and have worked with Autism speaks before. The actual event before changes made due to criticism had like no autistic voices present. I don't think Mark is a dick because he seems to genuinely love his son, but was just uninformed about the harm that group does.
Kurzgesagt is a shitty neoliberal who greenwashes the future involving climate change. I'm not sure if he's paid by oil companies or if he just loves huffing their balls that much.
Some more youtubers:
Sebastian Lague
Stefan from CNC Kitchen
Sam from Wendover
Jason Slaughter (NJB)
Reece Martin (RMTransit)
Are we talking just contemporary people? Because John Brown, as a historical figure, is a great inspiration for me.
so what i'm seeing here is that your youtube recommendations are borderline identical to mine
Boyboy and friendlyjordies, they are what journalist should be
Wendy Carlos. One of the earliest trans icons who basically invented the genre of electronic music.
She maintains a personal website that's straight out of the early 2000s.
Wendy Carlos HomePage - https://www.wendycarlos.com/
Hell yeah Wendy Carlos! Those old videos of her explaining how synthesizers work were legitimately my intro into production. You can just tell she’s so passionate about these nifty machines, it’s absolutely lovely.
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What's the deal with Deviant's name? Every time I see it written it's spelled "Ollam" but people pronounce it "Ollaf" out loud.
Posy has many videos along the lines of technology connections with incredible macro footage as well as lots of other random interesting stuff.
mitxela for well documented high quality projects blending mechanical and electrical engineering.
The Tim Traveller is basically Tom Scott if only covering strange historical things. And unlike Tom Scott he's still making videos.
Cathode Ray Dude does a mix of long form content like technology connections, but focusing on relatively modern computers.
I LOVE posy, just a dude talking about whatever catches his fancy and making beautiful videos about them.
Chris Hadfield? But maybe that's just cuz I'm a big space nerd.
I'd put him on there, he's done so much to educate people about life in space and is always happy to address questions and run experiments for curious kids, even if they seem trivial.
I couldn't imagine doing that. Just stepping into the role of your recently deceased partner. That'd be tough. At this point, I am sad that no one has really stepped into that role, even just a spiritual successor.
Richard Feynman
So happy to see him here.
"Lemme have a smell of these"
Pedro Pascal
If you have sethbling, how about etho?
I think I like Bowie, but admittedly I am not familiar with all aspects of his life or personality
Primative Technology. That guy is just... unfathomableable. Pots, fire, bricks, crops, shelter, kilns, repeat, no words, no justification. We can't even be certain the guy in the video wrote the subtitles. Has he ever even acknowledged the camera? Is he a good guy? Evil? How would I tell? Does it even matter?
Neil Cicierega, Neil Gaiman, Gooseworx
I love his excitement, positivity and passion for the subject. His content is great but I can't get myself to listen to him anymore due to his speech style. I can mostly ignore the thick accent but the ad style intonation with the constant interruptions was just too much for me to handle after a while. But again, aside from that, his content is always top notch and he's wholesome.
"Hold onto your papers..."
:O a fellow Ethogirl!
Dolly Parton belongs on there
Ligma balls
balls mama
gottem
Only alive, or Steve Irwin?
I dunno man, they seem like cool people, but it seems like drama tends to follow them and their fans can be bat shit insane.
I'd love to be proven wrong (because he had a pretty big impact on my worldview in my mid 20s and he's got a wonderful singing voice), but the last I heard of Daniel he had been accused of grooming. (Warning Reddit link, but I did find a host of articles by searching "dan avidan controversy" in case you don't want to give Reddit traffic).
Sorry. Like I said, I'd love to be proven wrong. He seemed like a really cool guy.
Literally all the comments in that thread are pointing out how the accusations and the evidence provided are bullshit as none of the girls were actually underage at the time, along with evidence of their own to back it up (including the original poster saying they made it up and deleting their Twitter but some user in the comments had screenshots). So...
Neil Ciecierega
Clint from LGR
Super small youtuber, but I really look up to TyraLore. Her videos are all about the Minecraft Create mod, but her way of explaining everything, as well as her creativity in her survival series, have really inspired me to play Minecraft again.
Create mod my beloved
Thanks for the recommendation! Her stuff looks really cool :3
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Add steve just below Steve Wallis
Blues Clues Steve?
Steve Steve
(Minecraft Steve)
Jacob Andrews, Julia Lepetit, Nathan Yaffe, Karina Farek :)
I have never seen a drawfee ep that gives me bad vibes and they've raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for some pretty nice charities in just the last year
Protesilaos Stravou
He is awesome
Tom Brailsford (the main old teacher from Computerphile) Brian Kernighan Dennis Ritchie Ken Thompson
Nick Gammon
Made mush client. Several top tier micro controller tutorials. Their web 1.0 website loads in like 0.003 ms.
EthosLab
Adam Ragusea (subjective; I really like his style and philosophy, but a lot of people don't)
Sebastian Lague
Acerola
I think Uncle Ben from Urban Rescue Ranch is worthy of the list. He's an animal rehabber from Waco, TX who spent years turning a crack house, needle-filled property into a beautiful animal rehabilitation center. He frequently updates his YouTube channel with his day-to-day life, and the animals he has are fun (capybaras, kangaroos, rheas, etc.). He genuinely loves animals and loves his work and I've learned a lot from his channel.
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Good list
One person i have to add is Rob Dahm. 196 probably doesnt know him because hes a car guy but for me every time he releases a video my life stops and i have to watch it. Full respect to what hes doing.
That‘s a name I haven‘t heard in a while.
Uh.. Jason.. Mamoa?
Acapellascience (Tim Blais)
Markiplier :D
I'm surprised no one's mentioned James and Chelsea from Dead Meat.
Xi, Diez Canel,
doingfedtime
Steve Zaragoza
How about Dr Matt O'Dowd?
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Pink Williams
James Doohan
https://knowledgenuts.com/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COJuF7n9gGA
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Mike Duncan seems like a pretty cool dude, and the Revolutions podcast is incredibly good
grey cgp? PewDiePie? MrwhosetheBoss?
Isn't PewDiePie a Nazi?
Not openly or outright. Potentially not at all, but he is loved by Nazis.
Just one example of Nazis and terrible people liking him, was a terrorist who live streamed his attack on a couple mosques in NZ and during the attack he said to "subscribe to PewDiePie" amongst other things.
I bet you don't know a single one of these people.
This is a bad idea.
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I had a lot of conversations with my dad about how glorifying people is setting yourself up for failure when there were loads of protests were going on about bringing down statues of famously racist people who did like a handful of notable things i.e. most of the U.S. founding fathers.
I wouldn’t suggest keeping a list of names that you admire. Maybe keep a list of things about those names that you admire
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