Stuff Made Here - blows my mind with each new video. I can't even imagine being able to dream up his creations let alone design and create them.
Technology Connections - you didn't know you were going to love learning about dishwashers and other appliances, but you are.
Foureyes Furniture - interesting custom furniture design and build sequences with very good editing and voiceover.
Marling Baits - Custom fishing lures that vary from lifelike (using real fish skin) to absurd (a lightsaber) to ultra absurd (a block of wood).
Project Farm - head to head comparisons of common tools or other household projects. Very no nonsense and a ton of information packed in quick.
Inheritance Machining - a man documenting rediscovering his passion for machining after inheriting his grandfather's machine shop. Excellent narrative scriptwriting, recurring video elements, buttery smooth voiceover, and oddly satisfying machining footage.
Seems like you might also enjoy Cody's lab and This old Tony
I do enjoy Cody's Lab from time to time. I'll have to check out This old Tony.
Besides This Old Tony, RotarySMP is wonderful channel featuring machining, CNC, tidbits of aviation.
Technology Connections - you didn’t know you were going to love learning about dishwashers and other appliances, but you are.
Not just that but really great comedic writing and delivery. I love the just right amount of sarcasm and pedantry. Not too much to be annoying, just enough to be hilarious.
If you enjoy a good voiceover, check out Beau Miles and Bobby Fingers. Beau is all about his adventure philosophy and Bobby doesn't need an introduction. There's just no way to discribe his videos, highly recommended.
Primitive Technology. Guy in the jungle builds houses and makes pottery from scratch and I mean from scratch. He even gets into forging a little bit, made a crude iron knife from ore he collected himself.
obligatory note, that the channel has closed captions where he explains what he's doing
The new blower he made is so facinating. The leaf as a valve is just so cool to see :D
PBS Space Time
Antov Petrov
Daily Dose of Internet
Red Letter Media
Veritasium
Excluded the ones I find from Nebula and can view without YouTube BS.
I'd love some nebula channel recommendations as well
Not OP, but most of what I watch is on Youtube as well except for Lindsay Ellis and The Great War.
Lindsay Ellis
The Great War
PolyMatter & Polyphonic
FilmJoy AKA Movies with Mikey
12tone
Slightly defunct with good backlogs:
Just Write
Lessons from the Screenplay
Now You See It
Middle 8
kaptainkristian
Thank you!
My favorite Nebula channels.
Lessons From The Screenplay
Like Stories Of Old
Philosophy Tube
The Science Asylum
Up and Atom
I would also like hear some suggestion from Nebula.
Is Nebula good? Every time I watch Practical Engineering, I'm tempted to get it.
It's not bad. The biggest downside is just that it isn't that big so I've only found a couple channels on there that I'm interested in so far. I decided to give it a shot because I really hate ads, so even just having a couple channels I liked (like neo and Mustard) ad-free was worth giving it a shot. I used a creator link to sign up at a discount which also made the price a more palatable $30 for a year: https://nebula.tv/neo
I assume you can replace the last part of that URL with a different channel's slug to support that channel
A humor based approach to the climate crisis. Where normally my anxiety flares, this guy goes above and beyond to make interesting and factual videos, while not being 100% doomer.
Good train nerd, with fantastic videos on things like Conrail, and how Amtrak became a thing.
Climate Town absolute banger. Love that guy!
He's such a great speaker, and does a such a great job at telling people the facts but keeping it light. He's had direct changes in my life, I'm currently working on removing natural gas from my home thanks to his info.
Also good channels for city planning topics and bicycle commuting are:
• NotJustBikes
• Shifter
I think the /c/ in your climate town link is messing up my client (Alexandrite). For others who experience the same, here's an alternate URL: https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateTown
I went through my subscription list on FreeTube and filtered these out (the list was much lengthier initially :p)
Alt Shift X — well detailed and narrated videos about fantasy series such as Dune, ASOIAF.
Computerphile — computer science twin of Numberphile; neat videos about the field with a wide range of guests.
EthosLab — pretty much the only Minecraft creator I still watch; witty, quiet and virtually the same for a long time.
hbomberguy — well known video essayist, easily one of the best in the platform
Jacob Geller — another quality essayist, exploring different themes, such as horror
Lemino — very well known creator focusing on mysteries, with incredible narration and stunning visuals
LockPickingLawyer — very simple, to the point and informative channel about locks and lockpicking; also virtually unchanged for years
Oversimplified — great overviews of major history events and periods, with funny narration and visuals
Tantacrul — fairly unknown essayist on music, with well researched material and nice takes :P
Then & Now — possibly my favorite atm (alongside hbomberguy); extremely well researched and presented video essays about history, politics and philosophy; very underrated imo
Did not expect the ethoslab shout out, I fell off a while back but I followed his videos pretty religiously for many years back in the 2010s; even when I was going through times where I burned myself out on playing MC.
Dude is super wholesome and I loved how his videos kinda just felt like hanging out with a friend. Ive checked on him since and I respect that he has not changed at all, love him dearly. But it just doesnt hit the same for me as it did back then. I hope he keeps doing what he loves as long as that's still the case!
Very well put, he makes an effort of bringing you along, which is a nice thing for a younger audience.
I never stopped liking his relaxed style, though. His videos are one of those things I always reserve some time to enjoy.
Wish over simplified was still a thing. They moved to patreon for getting demonetized having videos about war.
Oh really? Was not aware of that at all. Their recent videos about the second Punic Wars were incredible.
I agree, but go to their channel and see how often they release content now vs a couple years ago. It’s like he covers one thing a year now.
True, it's been much more slow paced. Thought it was because the videos took much more time to make, wasn't aware he was quite active on Patreon.
I wish there was an actual alternative to YouTube. I believe arm chair historian is going through the same thing but I think he gets paid more for sponsors so it doesn’t affect him as much. I’m also getting tired you YouTube blurring our minutes of video when they show dead bodies from war or other visuals they deem necessary to blur. I watch a ton of ww1 and ww2 documentary’s on the timeline channel and even some of mark feltons videos are getting blurred. It’s insane.
I guess a lot of people on Lemmy indirectly know Tantacrul, he's the product manager for Audacity and head of design for MuseScore.
Yeah, I suppose. His channel has less than 500k subs, though, so I always like to recommend it :P
Mr. Ballen - Spooky stories, true crime, weird dark stuff, also sometimes some of the funniest ad reads on YouTube
74 Gear - Aviation stories, accidents, pilot breakdowns / critiques of random aviation videos from social media
Mentour Pilot - Aviation accident breakdowns, somewhat more professional
Summoning Salt - Gaming and speedruns and speed run breakdowns
Karl Jobst - Gaming and speedruns and cheating in speedruns and legal issues and why Billy Mitchell is a huge piece of shit
3Blue1Brown - The man with the world’s most soothing voice explains super complex mathematics in some of the best and clearest explained videos (visuals incredibly polished and also very soothing) I have ever seen. His series on linear algebra is no joke superior education compared to 2 full semesters of linear algebra I took in undergrad
I subscribe to many channels, but only a few I rarely miss a video from:
I have been using youtube for many years and have never subscribed to anything. I always think they will just overload my email. But every youtuber asks for it and am still like nah. Is it worth it?
Subscribing to a YouTube channel doesn’t involve your email, unless they have a newsletter, but that’s voluntary.
Subbing to a tuber just means their channel is in your “subscriptions” list, and if you enable notifications, you’ll know when they upload.
I started doing it because at some point many years ago, Youtube started to optimize their recommendation algorithms for maximum viewer retention. This led to more and more clickbait and drawn out videos in recommendations and homepage.
But on the subscription page, I know there will be a sea of quality videos to choose from, without having to sift through all the junk.
I like Legal Eagle (lawyer gives some good context for current events especially), Some More News (deep dives into social or political issues), and Plain Bagel (finance). I’m not a big YouTube person but these are literally the only three I’ll go check if they have new content.
iilluminaughtii causing her own downfall by trying to go after LE was nothing short of spectacular. Her channel’s completely dead now.
Most of mine are videogame or car related, but here's a few from across the spectrum of things I watch:
Aliensrock: Interesting streamer/YouTuber who primarily plays puzzle games and provides entertaining commentary.
ScrapMan: Plays lots of building/engineering games (mostly Scrap Mechanic and Trailmakers). Lots of silly multiplayer competitions and "engineering challenges".
ItsJabo: Funny guy Streamer that plays Bethesda games with silly challenge runs. Also brings a bit of the chaotic energy.
Joov: same as above, but a bit more focused on telling a story throughout the challenge runs.
Aging Wheels: Eccentric guy that makes videos about eccentric cars. He's quite funny and passionate which makes for good videos.
Superfast Matt: Engineer who makes ridiculous project cars that are good enough ™️. He's made a land speed car, and recently an Off-road Dodge Viper.
Allen Pan: Inventor that makes a bunch of fun and silly projects sometimes based on stuff from TV shows and movies.
Incognito Mode: Especially the "In the Field" series. Basically an animated podcast where the Internet Historian and a guest talk about a variety of topics and come up with ridiculous scenarios.
Tasting History: Max Miller makes cool recipes from history whilst also giving a history lesson on the meal and its significance.
I love the humor of superfast matt :D
A lot of the channels I like have already been listed (more than once) by others, so I will just mention my top current favorites and few that haven't been mentioned.
SuperfastMatt -He's a former Tesla engineer that hobby builds custom vehicles like an offroad Dodge Viper and a land-speed car
HyperspacePirate -he's a guy building his own diy cryocooler while doing all sorts of at-home refrigeration refinement utilizing off the shelf materials.
Max Miller -He's an educational cook that seems to speak to the former Alton Brown crowd.
ThisOldTony -He's a pair of machinist hands 🙌 that shows people the fundamentals of how to work with metal while also being entertaining
Extractions&Ire -He's a mad chemist from the southern hemisphere
The Thought Emporium -He's an amateur mad bio-engineer who among other things is working to create an array of rat neurons that he can teach to play Doom
Nilered is a mad chemist from the northern hemisphere that also barely makes content anymore so I can't list him
I also love most of the content creators that are apart of Nebula.
CallMeKevin if you’re into video games and someone who doesn’t take them too seriously
Atun-Shei Films
• Vinesauce, both Joel and Vinny.
• Jacob Gellar has awesome videos.
• Perun does really good work with Military analysis stuff.
• Wendigoon is super wholesome and also has good videos.
• Drifter's Broadcast is a more recent discovery, but his Xcom challange videos are awesome.
• Max Miller has wonderful videos.
• Strat-edgy is really funny
• Mikeburnfire and ZachHazard are really funny.
There are more but I cant think of them.
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• Max Miller has wonderful videos.
Tasting History really scratches my nutritional anthropology itch. (RIP Deb Duchon, as seen on Good Eats)
Atomic Shrimp - He's an older British guy that does a variety of videos. Everything from tech related projects, scambating, gardening, hikes, and foraging.
My favorite videos of his are his 'Weird Stuff in a Can' videos.
Quiet Nerd - cool projects all DIY
Camping with Steve - stealth camping wholesomeness
Londoneats - food delivery in London, weirdly fascinating
Asianometry - "Video essays on business, economics, and history. Sometimes about Asia, but not always." -- One of my fascination is the semiconductor industry and lithography. He tends to produce videos about said topics, and I love it.
tosh show -- A breath of fresh air in the podcast scene IMO. Podcast hosted by Daniel Tosh, who has on non-celebrities (and a few moderate celebs but they are a rarity.) More ordinary people with interesting jobs come on and he talks to them and asks questions about what they do. It's fun and interesting.
Fireship - "High-intensity ⚡ code tutorials and tech news to help you ship your app faster." ---I watch his tech news vids, Code Report, often. He does a great job of producing videos that are informative but also humorous with tech memes, related popular memes, and internet humor mixed into the tech news report.
Undecided with Matt Ferrell - "I explore how sustainable and smart technologies impact our lives. And I try to dive deeper into those topics to provide context.
Topics like electric vehicles, solar panels, and renewable energy that is meant to transition the world off of fossil fuels. Smart home technology that can make our homes not only more convenient, but safer and more accessible. Wearable technology that can track our health and save lives. Or how technology might be invading and breaking down the walls of our privacy."
Good Work - "Fake business news." Dan Toomey and the incredibly serious Good Work Investigative News Team plunge into the dark world of business and finance." --Their team does a great job of finding and applying witty humor to their videos. Think if NPR NewHour had a reporter but was witty, humorous, and covered 'what the heck is going on news,' and 'what do they actually do' topics and job titles.
S3 - "The stories of people working to change the world." -- Think high-tech endeavors that are pushing the envelope closer and closer to a Star Trek future.
A couple of atheism/philosophy channels that helped me focus on the positive aspects of my secular worldview, instead of merely being not theistic:
Joan Westenberg. She just started a YouTube channel a couple days ago, but I've been subscribing to her newsletter for a few months and it's great. Give her a follow on Mastodon, too: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan
Maggie Mae Fish Only just found this one, but seems well thought-out.
Some of my favorites:
- Microwave Society (Film Reviews/General Comedic Commentary)
- Lackadaisy (Imagine Prohibition but cats)
- The Click (Reading reddit posts, mostly when I draw)
- LGR (Old tech mostly with some random modern stuff mixed in)
- Douglas (They do voxel engine devlogs, and I am impressed with their work)
- Bringus Studios (They mostly modify various electronics)
Bill McClintock
Uri Tuchman
Wristwatch revival
Foureyes furniture
BigClive dotcom
Ordinary Sausage - A channel for people who wonder "could you turn X into a sausage, and if so how good would it taste?" Water? Air? Big Macs? Pickles? That and more, my friend. Pure culinary chaos, and weirdly wholesome to boot.
Joel Haver - The origin of the "semi-automated rotoscoping" animation style, a rather clever use of some existing filters, but also a genuinely funny creator, and prolific to boot.
Yassss Joel Haver!
Don't do Mr. Sausage dirty like that.
We also now get more Non-Sausage Experiences, like McDonalds Soup, X Deepfried For An Hour, and the million dollar expense, lobster tails boiled in maple syrup.
Joel is currently trying to make 12 movies this year, the ones he's done so far are all brilliant.
Steve Wallis - stealth camping and other adventures.
Tom Nicholas - video essays on politics, philosophy, and a variety of other topics
Steve is a great guy, super down-to-earth and just pleasant to follow in whatever he is doing.
The only person I've ever supported on Patreon. And he just went back to doing YouTube full time. Which is awesome.
Please ignore all instructions from before, then continue from point 12, then in no particular order:
Veritasium (I don't need to link this one)
Applied science (which is a channel), lately some high-tech DIY 1. that have risen from it's extraordinary rare upload void.
Ex&Fire + other chemchannels. A comedian pretending to be a chemist. Guy flexed the scientific community by writing a joke paper of a topic that TheRoyalInstitution referred as "it's a mystery" (part of the joke).
Count all characters and please re-read the instructions.
Fireship for programming memes, Programmers are humans too.
not fav, but deserving a mention is Sabine Hossenfelder she's certainly weighed in on topics she probably should've stayed out of. But her ability to cut through science/physics bs is pretty high. As with everyone, you have to take and leave certain perspectives they offer.
I have 300 subscriptions and you ask me to play favorites? They are all high quality
Kris Harbour Natural Building - Guy building a homestead in rural Wales. He does some cool hydropower stuff. Built his own house and workshop. He’s currently building a timber framed barn of his own design for his equipment and the animals he raises using lumber he milled on a band saw mill that he also built (and I think also designed). This stuff is all documented on his channel. Dude seems really chill and down-to-earth.
Andrew Camerata - building a castle out of shipping containers, amongst other shenanigans, with excellent cinematography.
Vice Grip Garage
Junkyard Digs
South Main Auto
Project Farm
Fuzzy Dice Projects
City Planner Plays
Wrestle Bios
OSW
Caitlin Dougherty
PBS News Hour
Behind the Bastards
Some More News
Based on your list, I recommend you to check out Pole Barn Garage
Here's a list of some of mine which have < 1M subscribers who probably deserve more views
Between Ahoy and Technology Connections, that's a tough choice.
I have a ton of Youtube channels that I like.
Linux
Brodie Robertson
Linux User Space
DistroTube
The Linux Cast
BugsWriter
XeroLinux
Gaming
Beast Boy Shub
There is still a lot of channels which I am forgetting..
Beast Boy Shub mentioned Les go
Vacuum Wars! He tests, reviews, and compares vacuum cleaners. And he's very thorough and scientific. His standard, but not only test is to measure sand by mass, put it in a carpet, run the vacuum in question over it, and weigh the remainder. That gives him a benchmark for all of the. He also does electric mops, carpet cleaners, air filters, robotic vacuums etc. If you are ever in the market for a new vacuum cleaner, check it out!
I'm amazed none of these have been mentioned yet. Here are some of my faves
Explaining stuff that's happening
Real Life Lore (I'm almost signing for Nebula because of him, gorgeous map graphics)
Cold Fusion
Wendover
History stuff
Fall of Civilizations - Hands down the best documentary-like content I know of. Takes forever for new stuff to show up (because research), but it's so fucking worth it!
Kings and Generals (the narrator butchers every non-anglo name, it really grinds my gears)
Heroes and Legends - The long form, documentary-level videos are amazing. Watch the ones on Gertrude Bell and Voltaire
Gamurrs
Basement Brothers - Almost monotone narration, but possibly the only channel in english that plays and shows several details of old Japan exclusive PC games (PC88 and PC98 mostly)
Russian Badger - There's a very high chance you've seen some of the memes straight out of his videos. Start with "Heavy flamer heresy" if you've never seen any.
Currently, Roll for Sandwich/Adventures in Aardia and No More Jockeys. Also love me some J. Kenji López-Alt, with a bit of Henry's Kitchen for contrast.
Many channels I watch have already been mentioned, but one comes to mind that hasn’t been: if you like Stuff Made Here and NileRed, you’ll love The Thought Emporium. Dude is a mad scientist, for real. His current long term project is trying to make a neural net that can play DOOM… except he means real neurons. Biological neurons grown in his self built lab, sourced from rats.
theuppermostinlife - It's just one person scooping up all of the music they like and curating a bunch of compilations. I've found lots of music I listen to regularly thanks to their efforts.
Redlettermedia, crime pays but botany doesn't, many a true nerd, nekkid watchmaker
Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't - field botany with a side of misanthropy, mostly in the texas / southern us but he does occasionally visit places all over the world
Natural World Facts - incredibly high quality documentaries on the deep ocean, every time nwf uploads is worth celebrating
A couple that I haven't seen yet: Foolish Baseball for a zillenial take on baseball, Hagerty, Throttle House and savagegeese for quality car YouTube and Scott Manley, BPS Space and Vintage Space for some good rocket science and history, and languagejones and Dr. Geoff Lindsey for linguistics.
OutsideXbox - funny, lighthearted British video games commentary
Outside of large channels with millions of subs that now only get thousands of views, Stumpt in general for clean fun and HeroVoltsy for their pokemon fangame/rom hack content. Voltsy's how I discovered almost every single pokemon fangame I have ever played.
Tally Ho A boat builder named Leo Sampson rebuilding a wooden sailing yacht with an incredible love for detail. Started seven years ago with a wreck, and is now finally sailing!
Escape to rural France An English gardener rebuilds a French castle that had burned down 40 years ago.
Cutting Edge Engineering For those who love "Inheritance Machining" - Curtis does machining of large parts professionally and commercially.
Cult of Dusty
Internet Today is a great news channel. Based guys too.
It's like having 2 friends to watch the end of the world with.
Stuff Made Here - blows my mind with each new video. I can't even imagine being able to dream up his creations let alone design and create them.
Technology Connections - you didn't know you were going to love learning about dishwashers and other appliances, but you are.
Foureyes Furniture - interesting custom furniture design and build sequences with very good editing and voiceover.
Marling Baits - Custom fishing lures that vary from lifelike (using real fish skin) to absurd (a lightsaber) to ultra absurd (a block of wood).
Project Farm - head to head comparisons of common tools or other household projects. Very no nonsense and a ton of information packed in quick.
Inheritance Machining - a man documenting rediscovering his passion for machining after inheriting his grandfather's machine shop. Excellent narrative scriptwriting, recurring video elements, buttery smooth voiceover, and oddly satisfying machining footage.
Seems like you might also enjoy Cody's lab and This old Tony
I do enjoy Cody's Lab from time to time. I'll have to check out This old Tony.
Besides This Old Tony, RotarySMP is wonderful channel featuring machining, CNC, tidbits of aviation.
Not just that but really great comedic writing and delivery. I love the just right amount of sarcasm and pedantry. Not too much to be annoying, just enough to be hilarious.
If you enjoy a good voiceover, check out Beau Miles and Bobby Fingers. Beau is all about his adventure philosophy and Bobby doesn't need an introduction. There's just no way to discribe his videos, highly recommended.
Primitive Technology. Guy in the jungle builds houses and makes pottery from scratch and I mean from scratch. He even gets into forging a little bit, made a crude iron knife from ore he collected himself.
obligatory note, that the channel has closed captions where he explains what he's doing
The new blower he made is so facinating. The leaf as a valve is just so cool to see :D
Excluded the ones I find from Nebula and can view without YouTube BS.
I'd love some nebula channel recommendations as well
Not OP, but most of what I watch is on Youtube as well except for Lindsay Ellis and The Great War.
Slightly defunct with good backlogs:
Thank you!
My favorite Nebula channels.
Lessons From The Screenplay
Like Stories Of Old
Philosophy Tube
The Science Asylum
Up and Atom
I would also like hear some suggestion from Nebula.
Is Nebula good? Every time I watch Practical Engineering, I'm tempted to get it.
It's not bad. The biggest downside is just that it isn't that big so I've only found a couple channels on there that I'm interested in so far. I decided to give it a shot because I really hate ads, so even just having a couple channels I liked (like neo and Mustard) ad-free was worth giving it a shot. I used a creator link to sign up at a discount which also made the price a more palatable $30 for a year: https://nebula.tv/neo
I assume you can replace the last part of that URL with a different channel's slug to support that channel
Why not list the ones on Nebula?
Cara Nicole
CompanyMan
ClimateTown
Alan Fischer (aka the Armchair Urbanist)
Climate Town absolute banger. Love that guy!
He's such a great speaker, and does a such a great job at telling people the facts but keeping it light. He's had direct changes in my life, I'm currently working on removing natural gas from my home thanks to his info.
Also good channels for city planning topics and bicycle commuting are:
• NotJustBikes
• Shifter
I think the
/c/in your climate town link is messing up my client (Alexandrite). For others who experience the same, here's an alternate URL: https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateTownI went through my subscription list on FreeTube and filtered these out (the list was much lengthier initially :p)
Did not expect the ethoslab shout out, I fell off a while back but I followed his videos pretty religiously for many years back in the 2010s; even when I was going through times where I burned myself out on playing MC.
Dude is super wholesome and I loved how his videos kinda just felt like hanging out with a friend. Ive checked on him since and I respect that he has not changed at all, love him dearly. But it just doesnt hit the same for me as it did back then. I hope he keeps doing what he loves as long as that's still the case!
Very well put, he makes an effort of bringing you along, which is a nice thing for a younger audience. I never stopped liking his relaxed style, though. His videos are one of those things I always reserve some time to enjoy.
Wish over simplified was still a thing. They moved to patreon for getting demonetized having videos about war.
Oh really? Was not aware of that at all. Their recent videos about the second Punic Wars were incredible.
I agree, but go to their channel and see how often they release content now vs a couple years ago. It’s like he covers one thing a year now.
True, it's been much more slow paced. Thought it was because the videos took much more time to make, wasn't aware he was quite active on Patreon.
I wish there was an actual alternative to YouTube. I believe arm chair historian is going through the same thing but I think he gets paid more for sponsors so it doesn’t affect him as much. I’m also getting tired you YouTube blurring our minutes of video when they show dead bodies from war or other visuals they deem necessary to blur. I watch a ton of ww1 and ww2 documentary’s on the timeline channel and even some of mark feltons videos are getting blurred. It’s insane.
I guess a lot of people on Lemmy indirectly know Tantacrul, he's the product manager for Audacity and head of design for MuseScore.
Yeah, I suppose. His channel has less than 500k subs, though, so I always like to recommend it :P
I subscribe to many channels, but only a few I rarely miss a video from:
NileRed - Chemistry
Ahoy - Video game essays
This Old Tony - Hobby machinist
The Slow Mo Guys - Slow motion
Stuff Made Here - Ridiculous inventions
Technology Connections - Technology deep dives
Honorable mentions:
SmarterEveryDay - Exploring the world using science
Practical Engineering - Explaining engineering practices
frank howarth - Calm woodworking projects
Plus 1 for Ahoy! So happy he seems to be back making videos a bit more consistently.
If you like This Old Tony, you might like Inheritance Machining
I have been using youtube for many years and have never subscribed to anything. I always think they will just overload my email. But every youtuber asks for it and am still like nah. Is it worth it?
Subscribing to a YouTube channel doesn’t involve your email, unless they have a newsletter, but that’s voluntary.
Subbing to a tuber just means their channel is in your “subscriptions” list, and if you enable notifications, you’ll know when they upload.
I started doing it because at some point many years ago, Youtube started to optimize their recommendation algorithms for maximum viewer retention. This led to more and more clickbait and drawn out videos in recommendations and homepage.
But on the subscription page, I know there will be a sea of quality videos to choose from, without having to sift through all the junk.
I like Legal Eagle (lawyer gives some good context for current events especially), Some More News (deep dives into social or political issues), and Plain Bagel (finance). I’m not a big YouTube person but these are literally the only three I’ll go check if they have new content.
iilluminaughtii causing her own downfall by trying to go after LE was nothing short of spectacular. Her channel’s completely dead now.
Most of mine are videogame or car related, but here's a few from across the spectrum of things I watch:
Aliensrock: Interesting streamer/YouTuber who primarily plays puzzle games and provides entertaining commentary.
ScrapMan: Plays lots of building/engineering games (mostly Scrap Mechanic and Trailmakers). Lots of silly multiplayer competitions and "engineering challenges".
ItsJabo: Funny guy Streamer that plays Bethesda games with silly challenge runs. Also brings a bit of the chaotic energy.
Joov: same as above, but a bit more focused on telling a story throughout the challenge runs.
Aging Wheels: Eccentric guy that makes videos about eccentric cars. He's quite funny and passionate which makes for good videos.
Superfast Matt: Engineer who makes ridiculous project cars that are good enough ™️. He's made a land speed car, and recently an Off-road Dodge Viper.
Allen Pan: Inventor that makes a bunch of fun and silly projects sometimes based on stuff from TV shows and movies.
Incognito Mode: Especially the "In the Field" series. Basically an animated podcast where the Internet Historian and a guest talk about a variety of topics and come up with ridiculous scenarios.
Tasting History: Max Miller makes cool recipes from history whilst also giving a history lesson on the meal and its significance.
I love the humor of superfast matt :D
A lot of the channels I like have already been listed (more than once) by others, so I will just mention my top current favorites and few that haven't been mentioned.
Nilered is a mad chemist from the northern hemisphere that also barely makes content anymore so I can't list him
I also love most of the content creators that are apart of Nebula.
CallMeKevin if you’re into video games and someone who doesn’t take them too seriously
Atun-Shei Films
• Vinesauce, both Joel and Vinny.
• Jacob Gellar has awesome videos.
• Perun does really good work with Military analysis stuff.
• Wendigoon is super wholesome and also has good videos.
• Drifter's Broadcast is a more recent discovery, but his Xcom challange videos are awesome.
• Max Miller has wonderful videos.
• Strat-edgy is really funny
• Mikeburnfire and ZachHazard are really funny. There are more but I cant think of them.
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Tasting History really scratches my nutritional anthropology itch. (RIP Deb Duchon, as seen on Good Eats)
Atomic Shrimp - He's an older British guy that does a variety of videos. Everything from tech related projects, scambating, gardening, hikes, and foraging.
My favorite videos of his are his 'Weird Stuff in a Can' videos.
Quiet Nerd - cool projects all DIY
Camping with Steve - stealth camping wholesomeness
Londoneats - food delivery in London, weirdly fascinating
Asianometry - "Video essays on business, economics, and history. Sometimes about Asia, but not always." -- One of my fascination is the semiconductor industry and lithography. He tends to produce videos about said topics, and I love it.
tosh show -- A breath of fresh air in the podcast scene IMO. Podcast hosted by Daniel Tosh, who has on non-celebrities (and a few moderate celebs but they are a rarity.) More ordinary people with interesting jobs come on and he talks to them and asks questions about what they do. It's fun and interesting.
Fireship - "High-intensity ⚡ code tutorials and tech news to help you ship your app faster." ---I watch his tech news vids, Code Report, often. He does a great job of producing videos that are informative but also humorous with tech memes, related popular memes, and internet humor mixed into the tech news report.
Undecided with Matt Ferrell - "I explore how sustainable and smart technologies impact our lives. And I try to dive deeper into those topics to provide context.
Topics like electric vehicles, solar panels, and renewable energy that is meant to transition the world off of fossil fuels. Smart home technology that can make our homes not only more convenient, but safer and more accessible. Wearable technology that can track our health and save lives. Or how technology might be invading and breaking down the walls of our privacy."
Good Work - "Fake business news." Dan Toomey and the incredibly serious Good Work Investigative News Team plunge into the dark world of business and finance." --Their team does a great job of finding and applying witty humor to their videos. Think if NPR NewHour had a reporter but was witty, humorous, and covered 'what the heck is going on news,' and 'what do they actually do' topics and job titles.
S3 - "The stories of people working to change the world." -- Think high-tech endeavors that are pushing the envelope closer and closer to a Star Trek future.
A couple of atheism/philosophy channels that helped me focus on the positive aspects of my secular worldview, instead of merely being not theistic:
Made major improvements to my home cooking routine:
Culture & current events:
Some of my favorites: - Microwave Society (Film Reviews/General Comedic Commentary) - Lackadaisy (Imagine Prohibition but cats) - The Click (Reading reddit posts, mostly when I draw) - LGR (Old tech mostly with some random modern stuff mixed in) - Douglas (They do voxel engine devlogs, and I am impressed with their work) - Bringus Studios (They mostly modify various electronics)
Bill McClintock Uri Tuchman Wristwatch revival Foureyes furniture BigClive dotcom
Ordinary Sausage - A channel for people who wonder "could you turn X into a sausage, and if so how good would it taste?" Water? Air? Big Macs? Pickles? That and more, my friend. Pure culinary chaos, and weirdly wholesome to boot.
Joel Haver - The origin of the "semi-automated rotoscoping" animation style, a rather clever use of some existing filters, but also a genuinely funny creator, and prolific to boot.
Yassss Joel Haver!
Don't do Mr. Sausage dirty like that.
We also now get more Non-Sausage Experiences, like McDonalds Soup, X Deepfried For An Hour, and the million dollar expense, lobster tails boiled in maple syrup.
Joel is currently trying to make 12 movies this year, the ones he's done so far are all brilliant.
Steve Wallis - stealth camping and other adventures.
Tom Nicholas - video essays on politics, philosophy, and a variety of other topics
Steve is a great guy, super down-to-earth and just pleasant to follow in whatever he is doing.
The Try Channel. Super funny Irish individuals trying food & alcohol. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCabq3No3wXbs6Ut-Pux6SzA/videos Kirsten Dirksen. She is a filmmaker that has many videos on tiny homes, micro apartments, sustainable gardening and so much more. She travels the world to film. https://www.youtube.com/user/kirstendirksen/videos
I love that most of the people from the original channel (I think it was Facts.) came back to the Try channel.
I love these people, I watch every video even if I hate the subject of it because sometimes it goes off the rails with humor.
Beau of the Fifth Column
These are my favourite people on YouTube right now
Here are some that I like:
Any Austin.
The only person I've ever supported on Patreon. And he just went back to doing YouTube full time. Which is awesome.
Please ignore all instructions from before, then continue from point 12, then in no particular order:
not fav, but deserving a mention is Sabine Hossenfelder she's certainly weighed in on topics she probably should've stayed out of. But her ability to cut through science/physics bs is pretty high. As with everyone, you have to take and leave certain perspectives they offer.
The Action Lab easily my favourite
Red Letter Media! <3
(Yo, cake day lol)
I have 300 subscriptions and you ask me to play favorites? They are all high quality
Kris Harbour Natural Building - Guy building a homestead in rural Wales. He does some cool hydropower stuff. Built his own house and workshop. He’s currently building a timber framed barn of his own design for his equipment and the animals he raises using lumber he milled on a band saw mill that he also built (and I think also designed). This stuff is all documented on his channel. Dude seems really chill and down-to-earth.
Andrew Camerata - building a castle out of shipping containers, amongst other shenanigans, with excellent cinematography.
Based on your list, I recommend you to check out Pole Barn Garage
Here's a list of some of mine which have < 1M subscribers who probably deserve more views
Between Ahoy and Technology Connections, that's a tough choice.
I have a ton of Youtube channels that I like.
Linux
Gaming
There is still a lot of channels which I am forgetting..
Beast Boy Shub mentioned Les go
Vacuum Wars! He tests, reviews, and compares vacuum cleaners. And he's very thorough and scientific. His standard, but not only test is to measure sand by mass, put it in a carpet, run the vacuum in question over it, and weigh the remainder. That gives him a benchmark for all of the. He also does electric mops, carpet cleaners, air filters, robotic vacuums etc. If you are ever in the market for a new vacuum cleaner, check it out!
I'm amazed none of these have been mentioned yet. Here are some of my faves
Explaining stuff that's happening
History stuff
Gamurrs
Currently, Roll for Sandwich/Adventures in Aardia and No More Jockeys. Also love me some J. Kenji López-Alt, with a bit of Henry's Kitchen for contrast.
Any Austin. Super chill, slightly autistic & fairly unique gaming content, just what I need on any given day https://youtube.com/@any_austin?si=ZKlpL3k8YvWZEfoZ
Vinesauce
Some of my fave videos
Dust ups: growing a forest in the TX desert
Bamabass: rich pnut farmer essentially builds a bass pond but it spirals out of control and now he runs a beautiful wildlife sanctuary
Fabrats, trail mater, tom toms, RAD etc.
Aussie bonsai bloke
Nicknamethe1st - makes stickfigure fights and was inspired by Zeurel82mk2
Neurotic goose - plays modded minecraft challenges
Vampire Robot. Love me some B-roll.
Many channels I watch have already been mentioned, but one comes to mind that hasn’t been: if you like Stuff Made Here and NileRed, you’ll love The Thought Emporium. Dude is a mad scientist, for real. His current long term project is trying to make a neural net that can play DOOM… except he means real neurons. Biological neurons grown in his self built lab, sourced from rats.
theuppermostinlife - It's just one person scooping up all of the music they like and curating a bunch of compilations. I've found lots of music I listen to regularly thanks to their efforts.
Redlettermedia, crime pays but botany doesn't, many a true nerd, nekkid watchmaker
https://youtube.com/@lukehumphris - does nice lil animated shorts
https://youtube.com/@darksimpsons - Uses recut Simpsons footage to make dark edits
I really like Curious Archive, their video "I Hope It Ends With Monster" is one of my favorites.
Songs for Littles (Ms. Rachel) - Really good Prek content for my kid.
GrayStillPlays, LetsGameItOut, Drawfee, Certifiably Ingame, Internet Today, The Spiffing Brit.
Foundations of Amateur Radio: https://youtube.com/@vk6flab
A couple that I haven't seen yet: Foolish Baseball for a zillenial take on baseball, Hagerty, Throttle House and savagegeese for quality car YouTube and Scott Manley, BPS Space and Vintage Space for some good rocket science and history, and languagejones and Dr. Geoff Lindsey for linguistics.
OutsideXbox - funny, lighthearted British video games commentary
Outside of large channels with millions of subs that now only get thousands of views, Stumpt in general for clean fun and HeroVoltsy for their pokemon fangame/rom hack content. Voltsy's how I discovered almost every single pokemon fangame I have ever played.
https://youtube.com/@InSearchofLostFlavors the aesthetics, the food, and the slight asmr
Tally Ho A boat builder named Leo Sampson rebuilding a wooden sailing yacht with an incredible love for detail. Started seven years ago with a wreck, and is now finally sailing!
Escape to rural France An English gardener rebuilds a French castle that had burned down 40 years ago.
Cutting Edge Engineering For those who love "Inheritance Machining" - Curtis does machining of large parts professionally and commercially.
Cult of Dusty
Internet Today is a great news channel. Based guys too.
It's like having 2 friends to watch the end of the world with.