Tom Scott (he's back after a break)

John Michael Godier (science and astronomy)

Videogamedunkey

Any Austin (deep dives into minutea of video games)

• Mathematics
  • 3blue1brown
  • Numberphile
  • Mathologer
• Science
  • PBS Space Time
  • minutephysics
  • Alpha Phoenix
  • The Rest Is Science
• Technology
  • Technology Connections
  • Benn Jordan
  • Internet of Bugs
• Video Games
  • Any Austin
  • Acerola
  • Displaced Gamers
• Speedrunning
  • Summoning Salt
  • Bismuth
  • pannenkoek2012
• Other random stuff
  • Amelia Dimoldenberg (Chicken Shop Date)
  • Ghoul City Online (Comedic reviews)
  • Hazel Thayer (Leftist topics)
  • In Deep Geek (Tolkien lore)
  • udiprod (Algorithm animations)

In alphabetical order for no good reason:

BeardMeatsFood - Competitive eater turned touring food challenge attempter. Wins more than he loses.

Dr Becky - Astrophysicist. Monthly space news updates.

Lock Picking Lawyer - Masterlock's greatest foe. And a foe to many other terrible locks and safes too. Look out for the April Fools videos.

Numberphile - Brady Haran's popular channel about mathematics

[Periodic Videos (https://www.youtube.com/@periodicvideos) - Chemistry videos by the same producer as Numberphile. He has a bunch of channels, but I'll only list the two here.

Primitive Technology - No voice-over or talking head(s), chill vibes, primitive building techniques. The original. Be sure to turn on subtitles / closed captions!

Simone Giertz - Down-to-Earth Inventor and Entrepreneur. Formerly the Queen of Sh*tty Robots.

Simon Roper - Linguist with an interest in English

Weird Explorer - Reviews weird and wonderful fruits from all around the globe, many you've probably never heard of. Currently branching out into some home gardening videos, but still doing fruit.

Most of these have extensive back-catalogues that would take some considerable time to get through. Enyoy.

In no particular order:

Dr. Becky (astronomy)

Josh Johnson (comedy)

New Venture Games (old man boardgaming)

Cornell Lab of Ornithology (ornithology)

Ant Lab (entomology)

Practical Engineering (engineering, mostly civil)

Numberphile (maths, as they say across the pond)

The Octopus Lady (marine biology)

Juniper Dev (young gun making games)

suckerpinch (software stuff)

Jenny Nicholson (media critic)

engineerguy (engineering)

Steve Mould (physics)

Dang, I gotta clean up my subscriptions. I tend to add people when I find one good video, then ignore them when I find they aren't to my taste

Gamers Nexus

Primitive Technology: One guy, wearing only a pair of shorts, no music, no narration, just bird and forest sounds, as he creates shelters and items from the forest around him using prehistoric technology.

He started by building various types of shelters, then got into making pottery, bricks, and roof tiles, using clay from a nearby stream.

Currently, he's working on fire technology, creating hotter and hotter fires first to fire his clay objects to make them durable, and then to smelt iton.

Where does he get the metal? He harvested "iron bacteria" from the creek, and dried it fired it, and collected the tiny iron "prills". When he had enough, he went through a series of experiments to make his fire hot enough to melt the prills, and forge it into a tiny, rough, triangular knife.

Today, there are lots of copycats, mostly building elaborate shelters, but this guy is the OG. I mostly watch musical and political content, but Primitive Technology is the only channel I watch as soon as a new video drops. When the apocalypse arrives, I'll be ready.

Edit: Ever see someone start a fire by spinning a stick between his palms? This guy does it in almost every episode.

Internet Today - ever since the Machinima days

RedLetterMedia

Blame Society (Beer and Boardgames and Welcome To The Basement)

Jimmy Broadbent - Following him going from being a 'degenerate simracer' in a shed to racing IRL has been inspiring

Loading Ready Run - from way back when they were on The Escapist, and then to Penny Arcade and now their own channel.

Inside Games - another from Machinima.

styropyro, pretty interesting videos although i don't understand most of the science stuff he talks about tbh

Most of my favourites have already been mentioned but here's a few that I haven't seen:

• Chris Spargo - Documentarian 'Answering life's little questions' (in his own words)

• HowTown - Well researched, slick documentaries on science and sociology

• Useful charts - Family trees and history combined with some nuanced religious history

• Map Men - Somehow both an incredible geography channel and very funny skit show

• ToldInStone - Regular and endlessly fascinating ancient history content

• Captain Disillusionment - A one man special effects genius makes funny deep dives and debunks on special effects topics

• Nile Red - Chemistry wiz kid makes alcohol from toilet paper - The closest thing to a modern alchemist I can imagine

• Joel haver - Inventor the rotoscoped paint cartoon, funny, creatively driven and refuses to sell out

• Patrick Boyle - Educated, nuanced and cuttingly dry humoured takes on popular economics issues

• Steve Mould - High quality science demos and explanations with an engaging and humble host

Cody's Lab. A lot of channels do cool shit for their youtube channel, and it feels like Cody has a youtube channel for the cool shit he's already doing. Like, vacuuming out a chicken coop. Check out how he does it without dirtying the filter on his shop vac. Or an infinite pickle jar. With a couple design modifications, that could legit be a marketable product.

Also Know Art. I can't even imagine the effort it takes to make the 3d models he uses to explain things, but damn if I don't know a hell of a lot more about telescoping mechanisms and drills and buttons and phones and staplers and saws and like a million other things because of their amazing channel

Folding Ideas' - long form deep dive videos into various topics. His video about NFTs is particularly good.

In no particular order:

• The Rest Is Science (podcast)
• Technology Connections/Connextras
• Jeff Geerling / Level 2 Jeff -- Edit: see replies below
• Techmoan
• Gamers Nexus / GNCA
• LGR
• Switch and Click
• The Linux Experiment
• Tasting History with Max Miller
• Ben Eater (breadboard computers)
• Stuff Made Here (engineering)
• Up and Atom (science)
• Simon d'Entremont (photography)
• Words Unravelled and Rob's Words (English language)
• Kurzgesagt -- Edit: see replies below
• Veritasium -- Edit: see replies below
• Tom Scott (the returned)
• Asianometry (tech history)
• Clabretro (retro networking and server hardware)

Edit: A few bonus channels that may be of interest but didn't all fit the criteria for me:

• Action Retro - doing silly stuff with old computers - more recent discovery for me
• Dr Geoff Lindsey - Linguistics - I only watch occasionally - can be a bit heavy on the linguistic science for an amateur like me.
• Lftkryo - Linus Åkesson - an absolute wizard coding on the C64
• RetroBytes - computer history. Most of his content is mainly him just talking, so I can just listen while I'm doing something else
• Tech Tangents - more of a recently discovered channel for me. Vintage hardware. Underrated channel.
• Serial Port and Parallel port - vintage computers and networking. Brings back memories from my days working for an ISP.
• Honorary mention to Veronica Explains. She keeps things pretty basic so I don't get a lot out of her videos, but I like her stance on open source and not selling out. She posts everything on Peertube as well.

The Majority Report with Sam Seder - politics and humor

Crash Course - general learning

Just Have a Think - climate tech news

Astrum - cosmology and astrophysics learning

Some More News - politics and humor

Zeteo with Mehdi Hasan - politics

Josh Johnson - comedy

Tom Scott

Casually Explained

Tier Zoo

Red Letter Media - the guys are still just as cynical and witty as ever. Maybe even better as they’ve gotten older. I’ve got random episodes of Best of the Worst on in the background pretty often.

A lot of them, but if I'm going to pick a top 10:

Urbanism: About Here, Not Just Bikes, Adam Something

Video Essays: Big Joel

Intercultural life: Chinese Cooking Demystified, Uyen Ninh, The Korean Vegan

True Crime: Matt Orchard- Crime and Society

Health: Viva Longevity!

Recipes: Rainbow Plant Life

New find shout out: Animagraffs, very cool video on the construction of the Hoover Dam

PBS Spacetime, MandaloreGaming, RedLetterMedia, Jenny Nicholson, Middle Nation, SpaceIce.

✌️

Lockpickinglawyer. Fascinating to watch. The guy is so speedy at opening locks without a key.

In addition to lots of other channels already mentioned, there are:

• The Elephant Graveyard
• Bobby Fingers
• Folding Ideas
• Thought Slime
• Technology Connections
• Nutrition Facts
• Viva Longetivity
• Not Just Bikes
• Climate Town

I'd say that the only channel I come back to time and time again is probably technology connections. Just the right amount of snarkiness and information.

Man, people here have a very different sense of "A long time" on YouTube. I was hesitating to include TimeGhost because I've only watched them for about eight years.

For stuff I've been watching for less long, the creators that come to mind are:

Timeghost - they do history documentaries, focusing on chronological "real time" content, such as their current series, the Korean War Week-by-Week

LEMMiNO - does deep-dives into supposed mysteries. His older stuff isn't great, but shifted towards higher-quality long-form content about 8 years ago, and he does a good job on them.

AHOY - does documentaries on the history of games, and adjacent tech and culture. Not usually super deep, but well written, produced and animated.

Desync - makes stupid gaming videos, usually abusing bugs or just being silly. Doesn't post often, but on the rare occasion he does, it'll be well produced and funny.

For stuff more at the age I was thinking of originally, 10+ years:

John and Hank Green - cover a whole range of topics, although nowadays, it tends to be a mix of advocacy, science, philosophy, and just sillyness.

The Yogscast - Just a plain old gaming channel, albeit with unusually frequent and higher production quality videos. Nothing extraordinary, but consistently good and fun, despite the fact that they've been making videos for nearly 20 years.

Tom Scott - short video essays, explainers and documentaries on a variety of topics. Primarily, videos on different interesting places.

TomSka - The ASDF Movie guy. That said, just as good or better are his other skits, and now even his long-form content and videos essays.

A few of my goats I haven't seen mentioned:

• Noah Caldwell-Gervais - absolute pinnacle of long-form gaming content. Amazing writing, and in depth critique which justifies it's run length.
• House of Tabula - cinephile shit. Many hot takes and elitism so not for everyone but I really appreciate what they do.
• Chinese Cooking Demystified - one of the best cooking channels period but especially if you like Chinese food. Authentic recipes, deep-dives, technique focused.
• Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't - misanthropic foul-mouthed botanist travels the world describing plants and ecosystems.

Mars Guy. He's a geology lecturer who releases a new video every Sunday detailing what's been happening with the rovers on Mars that week. Very chill and always good learning.

Highlight of my Sunday morning.

Red Letter Media. Obviously I found them through their Star Wars prequel joke reviews, but they've just turned out to be a really solid and enjoyable semi-comedic film review channel. You get a sense of their particular interests and biases, some they share, some they don't and that helps understand their perspective on films they review so you have an idea of if you'd like them. Plus their other series like Re;View and Best of the Worst show me discussions on movies I probably wouldn't have ever watched otherwise.

I also just love how low-key they are as far as the YT influencer BS that's become the norm on the platform. No sponsorships. They never ask you to "Like and subscribe and leave a comment and hit that bell!". They have a Patreon but they don't even advertise it in their videos, let alone dedicate a portion of the video to a stream of internet names that donated. The thumbnails and titles aren't really clickbait. Their video descriptions are actually descriptions of the video instead of a bunch of links to their socials and sponsors. They don't act overly hype or angry or anything. They just act like what they are: Shlubs. They occasionally get B-list celebrities as guests and rather than plaster their name and whatever projects they're working on all over the fucking video for clickbait, they just don't even really acknowledge they're celebrities. They're just some dudes who happened to stop by to hang out and be on the shows. With most of them you wouldn't even know they were celebrities if you didn't already know them. I had to look up a few of them, which is hard when they don't even use their full names.

I watch pretty much all of their Half in the Bag and Re;View shows and the occasional miscellaneous video they make. I don't watch Best of the Worst that often, but I have enjoyed it when I have watched it.

For me, hopescolling (doomscrolling but looking for any reason to have hope) is a full time job regarding the political situation in the US. To that end, my regular resources are:

Ashley B: Ashley discuses US history, mostly black history, but not always, covering other issues such as J. Edgar Hoover, the scandals of past presidents, and black culture. She doesn't hold back regarding the brutal details of slave history and post-bellum racial violence, and those videos can be tough to listen to.

Belle of the Ranch: The successor to Beau of the Fifth Column, Belle discusses particulars of current issues, explaining details of the economy, of the US war on Iran, and Trump telling on himself in his social media posts. While left leaning, answers a lot of comments from MAGA.

Climate Town Rollie Williams is a very watchable climatologist who covers issues of climate and government gone wrong, such as why Americans eat so much cheese, how the US doesn't drive cars anymore (we drive Non-Passenger Work Vehicles, aka SUVs) and how the methane industry (natural gas) is the climate-killing dark horse.

Heather Cox Richardson: Richardson is a professor of American History at Boston college and does a lot of videos discussing current events and how they rhyme with past events in US history, which can be reassuring that we might actually get through this. I listen to her Letters From An American daily.

How Business Worked aka How History Works: This is the sister project to How Money Works (below). Which discusses history with a business slant. Recent topics of interest (to me) include No one wants to work anymore is a recurring theme and The Powell Memorandum and The myth of Hitler fixing the German economy. HBW is slightly longer form than HMW.

How Money Works: A (former?) finance bro talks about business and economic issues, breaking them down so that I (not a money guy) can understand them. Recent videos that are particularly edifying include why big tech now is hiring back its layoffs and how entrenched money is in US politics.

Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie: Jamelle Bouie is a NYT columnist who reads a lot of books, knows a lot about US government and has good insights into the thought processes of MAGA figures.

Tech Moan

Hi, I'm the one that asked the opposite question that Op linked to :p

Ashens.

He doesnt make many videos anymore, though theres always a cchance for a random burst of uploads, I think his actual film making hobby has taken more importance, which is understandable, but that is made up for every christmas when he and nerdcubed do some crazy advent calendar thing for 24/25 days leading up to christmas. Which is a yearly christmas ritual for me, to watch all the old ones, and the new one, every year.

Cutting Edge Engineering Australia.

An Australian machinist that does repairs for heavy digging/mining equipment. Rebuilding hydraulic cylinders, repairing smashed frames, manufacturing new to spec parts (for a fraction of what they'd cost from the manufacturer), plus he also has videos on making new shop tools, and a long running series about totally rebuilding a truck crane.. Which kinda lost its urgency and importance with a new ceiling crane they got installed, but are still gonna work on it and finish it.

Used to post one video every friday, but their shop has gotten busier and busier and they made an announcement a few months back that they were going to a every other week release schedule, which makes me sad because watching him was my friday morning ritual, but I'm not upset about it because his business is doing gangbusters and i'm not so self centered as to expect him to sacrifice business that pays $$$$$$ to keep making videos that bring in a fraction of a fraction of that.

The Tim Traveller - Travel vlogs of interesting places

Wes Cecil - Philosophy professor with loads of complete lectures

Nerdwriter - Movie and culture analysis

Blondihacks. Genuinely some of the best machining videos for a small hobbyist I have seen, I look forward to every weekly episode. My dream is one day to recreate a small fraction of her things.

SomeOrdinaryGAmers. I find his switch to awareness about current issues regarding privacy is really good. It's easy to get lost in our busy lives.

I would also say that Clabretro and Cathode Ray Dude are really cool. Been watching them for years at this point.

I'll add my own recommendations as well!

• Mike Okay (travel)
• Any Austin (niche gaming deep dives)
• Inheritance Machining and This Old Tony (machining)
• Pask Makes (woodworking, metalworking)
• Tested (particularly Adam Savage's One Day Builds series)
• Quips&Guac (MTG)
• Pete Complete and Ambiguous Amphibian(gaming challenge and long form roleplay series)

Drew Gooden. I've always loved him, but his anti-capitalist renaissance has been very enjoyable to watch

Hello future me

Slow mo guys

• Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik
• Veritassium
• William Osmon
• Technology Connections
• LGR
• Bringus
• Macho Nacho Productions
• polymatt

Off the top of my head, I love Sam O Nella and Casually Explained

AntsCanada
Formerly a channel about ants keeping is now posting weekly updates on his vivariums (basically big themed micro ecosystems.

Very engaging and good storytelling about how he created big interconnected tanks with a >3500L volume (6 tanks each connected to each other.

Stop Skeletons from Fighting has some amazing docs and just released another for Mighty Number 9 that was really good

Copied from my previous answer on the topic.

Ancient Americas is the best pre-columbian history youtuber. I always watch his videos.

Here are some others I usually watch.

Stefan Milo for anthropology

Dig. for ancient near east topics

PBS spacetime for physics videos

Whats going on with Shipping for updates on the shipping industry

Technology Connections and LaurieWired for random tech stuff

Grant Harting to watch a pharmacist eat random pills

Road Guy Rob for road engineering information

Canned Fish Files to watch a man eat sardines

ESOTERICA for information on history, magic and religious practices.

Crime Pays But Botany Doesnt for botany tours of predominantly the American southwest

Asianometry for random history and tech history videos

Andy Wards Ancient Pottery for learning about historic ceramic practices

Patrick Kelly for healthcare and medical history

Democracy Now, Majority Report (RIP Michael Brooks), This Old Tony

Tom Scott, Ross Scott.

Genuinely surprised to not see Smarter Every Day in these comments. Maybe it was there and I missed it.

One that I haven't seen mentioned in this thread yet is AntsCanada. He has an incredible vivarium series going on right now and posts weekly updates.

I'm convinced that dude will continue to add 1000 gallon tanks to his house until the structure physically can't support it anymore.

If you fancy yourself joining the resistance and might run into law enforcement, Audit the Audit is a treasure trove of knowledge on what is legal or not in those encounters.

That Pedal Show: weekly show about guitars, pedals and amps. I haven’t missed an episode in over 10 years

I am an unusual consumer of YouTube content, with interests that go in many different directions. All of these folks are likeable, have been going for a really long time and know their topics intimately:

Thus, in no particular order, YouTubers I like are:

Enes Yilmazer (luxury real estate / mansion walkthroughs): https://youtube.com/@enesyilmazer

Aquaholic (boats and yachts): https://youtube.com/@aquaholic

The B1M (construction and civil engineering): https://youtube.com/@theb1m

The Bond Experience (Bond, James Bond): https://youtube.com/@thebondexperience

Red Dead Restoration (vintage watch restoration - usually completely silent videos except for ASMR as he restores old watches): https://youtube.com/@reddeadrestoration

Jay Leno's Garage ('nuff said -- in no way an obscure channel, but Jay knows and loves his cars): https://youtube.com/@jaylenosgarage

Hodinkee (watches) - https://youtube.com/@hodinkee

Berliner Philharmoniker (sublime music and orchestral performances) - https://youtube.com/@berlinphil

Bright Sun Films (abandoned buildings, bankrupt companies and other things, usually in a mini-documentary format): https://youtube.com/@brightsunfilms

This Old Tony. If you know you know. He's sort of like Locksmithing Lawyer for machining.

Sabine Hossenfelder. Physics and shit.

Adam Savage Tested. You know.

Perkins Brothers Builders. They build houses start to finish, two shows a week that follow their current build.

Dale Philip. No BS travel vlogger. His backstory is he won $750K playing poker and decided to start a travel vlog.

TLDR news (news)

The Linux experience (Linux and open source news)

Real Civil Engineer (video games, I scratch the itch without playing)

Kurzgesagt (explainers)

Not Just Bikes (urbanism)

Money and Macro (economics)

Just have a think (energy transition/climate news)

Wendover (deep dives, a lot on aviation)

Real life lore (history, mostly 20th century or later)

Stuff made here (entertaining engineering projects)

Simon Clark (climate news)

Polymatter (mix of economics, history and geopolitics, a lot on China)

Real Engineering (engineering)

Climate Town (climate explainers, a lot on fossil fuel lobby)

• Mystic Arts for D&D
• Taskmaster for Taskmaster
• Lessons from the Screenplay and Every Frame a Painting for movie theory (though both have slowed down a lot)
• El Train | Loop Kitchen for hip hop/sampling history
• NPR Music for Tiny Desk
• Team Coco for General Insanity
• Late Night with Seth Meyers for the only way I can watch news some days
• Triple J for the music

• Plastic Pills.
• Technology Connections / Extras
• Wood by wright.
• Rex Kruger. (another woodworker)

Nutrition Made Simple - Science backed nutrition and health information with none of the nonsense that is so common with this type of social media content. No sponsorships, no ads, no products being sold. Just information.

Northernlion

Not sure how long "a long time" is so im just going to say 5yr + A lot of the youtubers I watch are new ones. The old ones either dont post anymore or I dont watch them anymore. These are the only ones I could find out of hundreds of subscriptions.

Jazza Art videos

Post 10 unblocking culverts

Q+A NZ news show.

Tech connections

Amatur MMA A mix of high quality fights and low quality fights short fights.

For new high quality channels it feels like there is an endless list. The people starting youtube now are so much better at making "good" videos.

WindowsG Electronics Old tech, linux, femboy in a maid outfit need I say more.

Diinki linux

Maple Circuit linux kernel patch notes

Ionic1k retro computer channel.

i2cjak capacitor vtuber roasts peoples schematics.

Dr Semiconductor guy building a semi fab in his shed.

B-Team cool Jiu jutsu channel and Craig Jones is a legend.

Real American Freestyle wrestling free videos of freestyle wrestling. Lots of MMA fighters head over here to compete.

LimiNZ tiny little nz channel but he makes good videos about NZ.

SaveItForParts DIY Projects, horder, like satelites

Channels that I actually look forward to each release:

4WD 24-7 Australian four wheel driving, visiting a lot of places I wish i could go to.

Fire to fork Camp fire cooking, but at the moment also a bit of a travel blog as Harry is in Canada right now.

Andy cooks Cooking show by a personable ex-chef

Brian Lagerstrom More cooking by a slightly less personable ex-chef

Captain Disillusion Special effects debunks and explainers. Rarely puts out videos but they're worth watching when they do arrive.

Clickspring Master craftsman does metalwork. I often have no idea what he's talking about but it's just great to watch.

Dylan O'Donnell Astrophotography with an Australian slant.

LEMMiNO Deep dives into mysteries and other topics. Well researched.

Nat's What I Reckon Started no-nonsense cooking videos during COVID lockdowns, delivering a good mix of cooking advice, mental health awareness and swearing. His videos aren't as tight now as they used to be but they're still fun to watch.

Primative Technology No voice over, relaxing to watch dude in North Queensland improving his skills over the years to make huts, ceramics and some iron smelting. Make sure you turn on captions!

I really like the adventures by geowizard since the beginning of his youtube career.

📚 🐶

Steve Donoghue - Curmudgeonly king of booktube. An outcast, a leper, a pariah!

• Zero filter. Doesn't care about algorithmic exposure. Encourages you not to sub
• Thousands of book recommendations, from romance to World War II to post-apocalypse SF to biography
• Entire novel readalongs with included commentaries
• Extended takedowns of grifters and general book-related stupidity

Channel ID: UC1B9FfvVLRt8s6scUa79oag

Feral Historian - Perceptive media commentary (SFF oriented)

Channel ID: UC4tpMC_bflphcXUtPk59Vyw

ramblinactivist - A UK left-liberal conservationist tackles economics, politics, etc. and profiles a whole lot of interesting books. Shows you how to make a portable stove for your illiicit camping excursions too. He's no longer active but there's a keen mind at work here

Channel ID: UClZOu4ZeZP75cx2d4t5gHbA

I've watched Maru and Walter Santi (cats) for a long time.

My husband likes Bourbon Moth Woodworking. I can't stand the stupid fake speech pattern he adopted when he got popular.

In no particular order:

• Civvie11 (Video games)
• Warlockcracy (Video games, mostly CRPGs. Good humour)
• Wilburgur (Video games)
• SsethTzeentach (Hyper meme-fied game reviews)
• Historia Civilis (History)
• ymfah (Video game challenges, hyper meme-fied)
• Technology Connection (Everyday tech)
• Grim Beard (Long video game reviews)
• Noah Caldwell-Gervais (Long video game reviews)
• Frederik Knudsen (Rabbit hole stuff)

Plus more I can't recall right now. But I can watch any old video from these guys any time and not feel bored.

watched for a long time and still find worth returning to

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• PlayFrame - animator plays video games (the guy from the original Extra Credits)
• NewFramePlus - about video game animation, really well made, fun and informative (same person as above)
• SnakeDiscovery - snake hatching videos and reptile content
• Clint's Reptiles - biologist, "best pet for you?" and animal phylogenies etc. Very engaging personality.
• 7 Days of Science - paleontology science news
• Bernadette Banner - historical fashion
• BilliSpeaks and NotMadJustMoody - cats learning to "speak" using buttons
• Casual Geographic - entertaining and surprisingly accurate animal mini-documentaries
• CinemaTherapy - therapy explained with movies
• How to Cook That - food science and debunking
• Jim Browning - fighting tech support scams
• JunsKitchen - japanese cooking (but the cats steal the show)
• Leafy Street - entertaining reptile keeping videos
• Matthias Krantz - builds whacky musical instruments
• NativLang - animated videos about obscure linguistics
• SerpaDesign - terrarium and vivarium builds
• People Are Fish - palaentology deep dives and new discoveries
• Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong - explaining and updating old toy dinosaur designs

There's many more but I fear the list would get too long.

Mighty Car Mods is still putting out great content after all these years.

I've been watching since they were replacing head units in crappy 90s nuggets in their mums driveway. Now they've really evolved and are replacing head units in crappy 90s nuggets in their own workshop.

ones i haven't seen mentioned:

• hbomberguy: long form video essays, uploads about once a year
• Core-A Gaming: video analysis about fighting games at large
• Domics: one of the pioneers of the animated "storytime" YouTube meta
• FilmJoy: long form video essays about visual media, typically focusing on a particular movie per essay
• Internet Shaquille: an extremely down to earth cooking channel
• Knowing Better: long form video essays, generally about American history, often exploring untaught/heavily misunderstood subjects
• MeatCanyon: great animation meant to be disturbing and funny, sometimes even both at once
• Outdoor Boys: watch a very pleasant man survive outdoors, usually in Alaska
• Project Farm: attempts to apply the scientific method on various household appliances to discover which are good at what they're supposed to do
• Will Anderson: did you ever want competitive Scrabble analysis? Then boy do I have the channel for you!
• The Plain Bagel: levelheaded explanations for financial news, not quite as dry as Patrick Boyle
• synthet: visual and funny breakdowns of popular musical (synth) techniques
• Zullie the Witch: From Software lore explorer
• CalebCity: short form comedy skits, often with a gaming tint to it
• tanks for nothin: watch someone build interesting aquascaped fishtanks, but the videos themselves are art too

I've watched A Dose of Buckley, Stephanie Sterling, and Vinesauce (yeah he's a Twitch streamer, but I only watch his Vods) for over a decade. There's a few others, but those 3 I feel have had the biggest impact on me.

Driving4answers for motor vehicle engineering fun. Jonas ceika (formerly Cuck philosophy) for philosophy/media criticism/political theory.

Most of my staples have been mentioned, but I want to give a shout out to Food Wishes, America's Test Kitchen and That Dude Can Cook, Chef Jean-Pierre. Been cooking staples for years now. Also, Hey Grill Hey but it's younger.

For drinks, How To Drink (though I feel they've been chasing algorithms and losing focus and soul), City-Steady Brewing, Cocktail Chemistry and Cocktail Time with Kevin Kos.

For politics, I go to Parkrose Permaculture and Farm to Taber. Both excellent and insightful even if I'm not always in full agreement.

For woodworking, it's StumpyNubs, Blacktail Studio (highly recommend even if you're not into woodworking), The Wood Whisperer. Lincoln Street Woodworking is newer but I still enjoy it.

I'm a car guy and honestly this space has become dismal. I watch Stay Tuned every Friday or weekend at least. I voted my conscience and unsubbed from Matt's Offroading, Rat Rod Racing, Robby Layton and all of the Utahbers. While I can't be certain I'm guessing they all voted for Trump and I just can't support that shit. Oh and I really enjoy Regular Car Reviews

Smooth McGroove - Really good a cappella video game covers.

I really like travel stuff, I like Kara and Nate. I like maker/cosplayer Rachel Maksy.

Syd and Macky (Mountain Biking)

Veritasium. They still make great videos, I would argue better ones, and if private equity can take the hint to do it like that we'd be in good shape.

Wendover Productions

fern

Ahoy

Rowan J Coleman

Slidebean

Gamers Nexus

Anton Petrov. Talks about scientific papers. Cool guy.

For cyclists, GCN (and its other associated channels) is has been really good for 10+ years now.

Park Tools is consistently good too.

Red letter media, crittervision, paulogia

Outdoor boys is the only one I actually watch

Funkyfrogbait and Drew Gooden.

I just wait until they upload a bunch of stuff so I can return.

Rex Krueger, Putomikel, Alex el Zurdo and Linguriosa

dan and phil <3

grace, hannah, and mamrie

tyler oakley

rachel and jun

danny motta <3

https://www.youtube.com/user/kirstendirksen/videos

Channel5 (journalism) Cold fusion (tech news) Fads (tech news) Stuff made here (maker) Watch Wes Work (maker/mechanic) I did a thing (maker) Styropyro (maker)

Fortnine. No question.

I haven't watched him in a couple years now, but BKXC was my favorite channel during COVID and the year or so afterwards.

https://youtube.com/@mentourpilot

air accidents explained. Very detailed, very professional, in a way that people like me can understand it.

https://youtube.com/@jcs

Someone already mentioned Matt Orchard, JCS falls into the same category

Cathode Ray Dude

VWestlife

Ashens

Anitubers. Glass Reflection. Mother's Basement. Bennett the Sage (away while he helps his father). Bonsai Pop (also trends political), Super Eyepatch wolf

Political content: FD Signifier, Climate Town, More Perfect Union,

Cooking: Aaron and Claire, Derek Sarno

Medical: Chubbyemu

Body building: Jeff Nippard, Noel Deyzel, trainer winny

Other health: Yoga with Adriene

Other: aamon animations, coffeezilla, dungeon soup, Jacob Geller, ODD TINKERING, physics girl, self sufficient me, the sphere hunter

Oddity Archive. The dude has been going for 15 years and the videos haven't really changed at all. It feels like YouTube did before becoming something people could make a living off of. I don't really know how he finds time/money to do it without sponsors and less than 100k subscribers, but the dedication is admirable.

I keep coming back to Liberace singing "Feelin' Groovy" with a bunch of loudly dressed dancers. Mesmerizing.

time wasting crap mostly…

CyclingMikey - London cyclist who reports dangerous car driving

Kitboga, scammer payback, scammerrevolts, deeveeaar - taking revenge on scammers

USDC by rokas leo - self defence challenges

knockoutAudit, DemarcoTV - filming drunk British idiots fighting in the street

cart narcs - politely requesting shoppers return their carts

Tommy G - in depth interviews of street crime related stuff, and more

Simon Doherty - discusses popular party drugs

Reckless ben - seeks justice for weird shit

StopXam - Russians against selfish driving

Wheezywaiter

Todd in the Shadows.

8-but guy. Every video is a fucking banger.

Probably not a lot of golf fans here, but Peter Finch. Nearly all other golf creators are shoving endless ads down our throats.

These are the creators whom I still watch most of their videos; otherwise, I mostly don't actually really use YouTube much anymore. I pay premium for my extended family to all use it without ads lol

No, I'm not going to try and teach my mum how to use Vanced or whatever is popular now. I used to ask for a bit of cash from each of them, but you know how that tends to go.

• SexuaLobster - funny animations
• Kurzegezegazagat - educational animations
• Singsing - streamer I like to watch play games I don't have energy for
• TerminalMontage - funny parody animations
• Dunkey, as others have mentioned

Nothing good, honestly. My tastes have changed so they're isn't much I've been watching for a long time that I still watch, except for maybe slowmo guys.

Now I mostly watch stupid little build projects, like project air, rctestflight, bps space, big time, and true north yachts. Some of the people seem maybe a little crazy, but it's nice to watch someone create something novel.

John Wolfe

I've got a soft spot for Minty Comedic Arts. Been watching his videos for years. He's silly and loves movies, so I feel a kinship. Plus, he's a small YT producer and I love supporting him

Good Mythical Morning is the oldest, longest running thing on YouTube I still watch. I was watching them before they were even on YouTube.

My absolute favorite lately, "Ordinary Sausage". Dude just makes sausages from various (and sometimes highly questionable) ingredients.

As far as "old school" goes, is LA Beast still making videos?

I still enjoy Internet Comment Etiquette - the only channel that has sponsored ads that I don't skip.

Foresty Forest

There are a handful of channels that I actively make an effort to watch as soon as they drop a video. In no particular order:

Folding Ideas Zoe Bee Mia Mulder Dime Store Adventures Dr. Geoff Lindsey Bart Ehrman Innuendo Studios Jenny Nicholson

mostly the science, animal channels. any other channels like podcasts, or opinion channels i dont keep in touch. i tend to avoid news or political channels due, not logging and being bombarded by unsolicted videos of the same time. i will revisit channels that make clips of old shows, as a way to reminisce.

I don't watch many big/full time channels, so most of them have gone inactive over the years as they've lost interest or life has taken over. One that hasn't is ArtWhisperer88, although he started more recently (2021). His videos are very simple: it's just him creating visual art, often imitating the style of a topical artist (perhaps one being featured in an art gallery in his city), with some smooth jazz or other easy listening music quietly playing in the background. He has a slow, soft voice which is very relaxing as he talks through what he is doing. Occasionally, he will also do visual tours of art galleries and exhibitions that allow filming and he also regularly features the artwork of his viewers.

Only for the Norwegians and maybe other Scandic's, but Level Up is one of Norway's longer running gaming channels that puts journalistic integrity high and are a lot of fun to watch.

Double toasted . I love long form podcast format of movie reviews which cool humor Smosh pit but only their reddit stories serie

PBS Space Time for science. Asmongold for lulz. Economics Explained for economy. Shoe0nhead for fun politics. LTT and Gamers Nexus for tech

afraid to be banned yet still throws grenade...... "your mom" 🙊