I’ve added my favorite YouTube channels in the comments below. (Feel free to check them out!) But, my preferences aside, what YouTube channel(s) do you want more people to see?
Legal Eagle is great at explaining current events and their Legal implications, he also does reviews on movies or shows to explain how they portray law vs reality.
Ordinary Sausage makes sausage out of everything and generally does cooking experiments in a quick and humorous way
Bobby Fingers is a mix of artisan videos where he expertly hand crafts dioramas (mostly) of events while making funny and interesting comments, but he adds some pizazz and production to the whole thing that makes it very engaging.
Bobby fingers came in swinging with high production value from day 1. He doesn’t have many videos but the quality of them is so good.
You have mentioned some great channels! In addition to those I recommend,
- NotJustBikes
- MapMen
- Mustard
- Climate Town
- About Here
- Adrian Gray Comedy
- Andrew The Arborist
- Animagraffs
- Casually Explained
- cities4people
- City Beautiful
- 3Blue1Brown
- iFixit
- Life Where I’m From
- Medlife Crysis
- Primitive Technology
- Rick Steves’ Europe
- Snazzy Labs
- Strong Towns
- Technology Connections
- thejuicemedia
- xkcd’s What If?
- The Acoustic Room
- Ted-Ed
- JapanEat
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I love how you just casually included the iFixit channel.
It’s true though. They’ve got teardowns for just about every major mobile device, and then some. As for their store, I bought the screen I’m typing this on from them. The shipping could be better, at least in my experience, but the products are definitely high quality.
A couple of random suggestions:
Summoning Salt - Video essays detailing world record speedrun history across a variety of games. Videos are easy to understand and assume you aren’t intimately familiar with the games in question. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i1AHCaokqhg
RRC Restorations - A Scottish bloke that does really in depth restorations of mostly cars and motorcycles, very relaxing and a joy to watch without any flashy filter. Just a super talented guy doing cool things in his little workshop. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JJSjy4OciLs
Motion in Art - Film essays similar to some of your other favourites that might be of interest.
Art Deco - Analysis, investigation and explanation of art, including the history and context in which paintings were made, themes and motifs, and details that you almost certainly missed when looking at art as a layperson. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m3hM6Qw8Nf4
Fredrik Knudsen - Making the series Down The Rabbithole, which are dives into a variety of topics, including tech and history. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UCgoxQCf5Jg
Lemmino - Video essays on conspiracies and mysteries, all are very interesting and worth watching. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5u7euN1HTuU
Love down the rabbit hole
While ill, and stuck on the couch, I watched the entire Eve Online video in 1 sitting. All 6+ hours of it.
I have several excellent YT channels to recommend, in alphabetical order:
Accursed Farms - The source of the “Freeman’s mind” series, Ross also makes excellent videos about other games.
Alasdair Becket-King - ABK is a comedian who makes short but really funny videos.
Anders Enger Jensen - A Norwegian musician making awesome synth songs.
Barely Sociable - Interesting videos about odd topics, focuses on “dark” stuff, has a good voice.
Brick Experiment Channel - Remote controlled submarine made out of Lego and other Lego stuff, need I say more?
Calum - A guy from Scotland making amazing videos about stuff like: Rescue buoys from WWII, WV Beetles at the south pole, Flying homes of the past, Jerry Cans, Secret WWII Bunkers, and much more. This is awesome.
Code Bullet - Chaotic AI programing, very fun and cool to see.
DankPods - Started with iPod Repair videos, reviews random crappy MP3 players, has insane amplifier to blow up headphones, mostly talks about weird nuggets of technology. Well worth a look.
James Channel - Do you want a portable Super Nintendo, but are worried about not breaking it? DankPods oldmate will show you how to do it with some random components, duct tape and hot glue.
Jet Lag: The Game - A game show where the planet is the board, they have played connect 4 across the US, Raced around the world, played Tag across Europe, made New Zeeland into a board game, played CTF across Japan, and more, really good!
Mustard - Exellent transportation documentaries, with great CGI.
Paper Skies - Son of a Soviet air force pilot talking about how life and work in the Soviet air force was.
Paper Will - Documentaries about “dark” topics like “The ugly side of kids TV”, “Entertainment made by cults”, “Games about 9/11”, really interesting stuff!
Peter Dibble - Want to learn about the bus running on the wires of a ski lift system? You can here! You can also learn about that time that Amtrack brought a Swedish and a German high speed train across the US for tests in the 90s.
Ringway Manchester - Videos about two way radios, amateur radio and other things on the airwaves.
Side Note - North Korean cruises? Hitler’s Birthday? US presidential yachts? An ice block in Sahara? Mysterious Egypt/Israel flights? A floatibg hotel in North Koera? What do all of these topics have in common? They all have videos on the Side Note channel.
Only real homies watch Dankpods.
Got some open backs because of him. Prized possessions, they are. Even got myself the Frank Longboi
Forget YouTube and Google by extension. Imagine if you spend all those hours watching something that improves your mind and capabilities: https://ocw.mit.edu
Work on yourself, friends.
There are plenty of self improvement videos.
Laden with ads and an algorithm to keep you watching as long as possible. A decade ago you could look something up on YouTube and find a quick video and be done. Now even the most basic answer is a ten minute video, which is required for monetization.
Get off of YouTube, it’s junk.
Sorry I was joking. It didn’t land.
I know better vibes going on here
Yeah, what was I thinking suggesting people try to improve themselves 🤷
Oooh! I think I’m gunna learn me some Machine Learning for Inverse Graphics.
Kill tony - stand up comedy
Outdoor boys - bushcraft
Channel 5 - journalism
Beard meats food or matt stonie - eating challanges
Cold ones - funny dumb memes
Mental outlaw or hated one or surveillance report - privacy content
David bombal or pc security channel - pc security
The linux experiment or distrotube - linux content
Gman lives or pyrocynical - long form gaming videos
Big lez show - tv show made in ms paint
Sheiy - urban exploring
Lockpicking lawyer - lockpicking content
Healthy gamer gg - content about mental health by a qualified doctor
Louis rossman - right to repair and simmilar content
Bald and bankrupt or geowizard - travel content
Cart narcs - man pretending to be a robot shaming people for leaving shopping carts and littering in car parks
Captin disilluaion - special effecrs content
Coffeezilla - internet detectives
Some ordinary gamer or penguinz0 - commentary
Micheal reeves or mark rober or i did a thing - making cool stuff
Dont hug me im scared - short horror show (also has a tv show now)
Edit: adding more suggestions and spaces between suggestions
These are the channels that keep me coming back. I’ve tried to sort them by genre but there is a bit of overlap.
- I watch a lot of video essays:
Architectural Digest, Business Insider, Insider Tech, CGPGrey, SciShow, CrashCourse, EconomicsExplained, Practical Engineering, Real Engineering, RealLifeLore, ClassicalNerd, TierZoo (zoology) Kurzgesagt, Wendover Productions (transportation) ColdFusion, Understitch (fashion), Fashion History Sessions, Veritasium (physics), PolyMatter (geopolitics), hbomberguy, CompanyMan, Super Eyepatch Wolf, SomeMoreNews, KnowledgeHusk, Georg Rockall-Schmidt, Russell Brand Louis Rossman, Nerdwriter, minutephysics, MinuteEarth, Numberphile, Mental Floss (trivia), Captain Midnight, Savage Books, Bookpilled.
- Comedy
CalebCity, Internet Historian/Incognitio Mode, Kill Tony, All Things Comedy, AceVane, penguinz0, Casually Explained, Ordinary Things, Vsauce, CrackerMilk, Death Battle!, Bad Lip Reading, Doobus Goobus, Flashgitz, Honest Ads, Ozzy Man Reviews, Pitch Meeting, RDCworld1, Rich Black Guy, ODAWG, brain david gilbert, Sam O’Nella Academy, Stevie Emerson, The Onion.
- Gaming
Skill Up, ACG, videogamedunkey, The Escapist, Polygon, gameranx, GameSpot Game Maker’s Toolkit, Girlfriend Reviews, t90Official (any aoe2 fans?), lionheartx10.
- Music
deepcuts, theneedledrop/Anthony Fantano, Sound Field, Polyphonic, Genius, The Company Man, The Lyricologist, Science of Loud.
- Movies
YourMovieSucks, RedLetterMedia, The Critical Drinker, The Cosmonaut Variety Hour, ralphthemoviemaker, The Vile Eye, Screen Junkies, Now you See It, Every Frame a Painting, Lessons from the Screenplay, Screenplayed.
- History
Modern History TV, HardcoreHistory, Shadiversity, SandRhoman History, History Dose, History Matters, Fall of Civilizations, Extra History, Absolute History.
- Philosophy
ContraPoints, Philosophy Tube, Philosophize This!, Wireless Philosophy, Wisecrack, The School of Life, Then and Now.
- Food
FirstWeFeast, Binging with Babbish, One Bite Pizza Reviews (everyoneknowstherules), Alton Brown, Black Tie Kitchen, Tasty, Epicurious.
- Basketball
JxmyHighroller, Thinking Basketball, Professor Live, dime.
- Anime
Gigguk/Garnt, Mother’s Basement, Otaku Spirit, olawoolo.
- Fitness
Jeff Nippard, Jeremy Ethier, Alan Thrall, Eddie Hall (world’s strongest man).
- Other
General Discharge (military), Marques Brownlee (tech), Outdoor Boys (camping), Our Wyoming Life, EasyGerman, The Slow Mo Guys.
If you like video essays and video games, I can suggest The Tarnished Archeologist. He does deep lore dives into FromSoft games (Dark Souls, Elden Ring, etc.) using real world archeological techniques and insights, and draws parallels with real world civilizations.
Even if you aren’t into FromSoft games, his videos are worth it for the real world archeological parallels alone.
That does sound interesting. I’ll check it out
Somehow you are missing:
Captain Disillusion
Internet Comment Etiquette
AvE & This Old Tony & ElectroBOOM
ZeFrank
I was gonna say all these +
Post apocalyptic Inventor,
Stuff Made Here,
SmarterEveryday
Subject Zero
Fat electrician
12tone
Knowing Better (best essays on the tube)
Second Thought
Hakim
Superfastmatt
Bigclive
Explosions&Fire/Extractions&ire
Nilered
HoeMath
Darkmatter2525
Van Neistat
Hyperspace Pirate
NighthawkinLight
Tech ingredients
Farmcraft101
Dude, Second Thought is basically tankie propaganda now
You don’t have to agree with everything you see my dude. In fact, I would hope you don’t.
There’s a difference between watching content you don’t agree with and giving views (and thereby ad revenue) to propagandists.
I don’t know about you, but I’d rather not spend my limited time alive on listening to people who are intellectually and morally bankrupt.
In my eyes, suppressing knowledge, or advocating it, is morally bankrupt.
If you have a better argument, you engage in the conversation, you don’t end the conversation and make sure no one else can talk about it again.
You shouldn’t even try to dissuade people from watching it, you should want the people around you to be better educated, I would think. Idk, man, I want my wife to stay with me cuz she chooses too, not because I’ve lied to her about every other man in the world, or destroyed her self confidence so she thinks she can’t do better.
To be clear, that’s abuse. All of that.
Looking around, imma go ahead and say capitalism, in any flavor it’s being expressed in this world, isn’t living up to its promises. From what I can tell, that puts me with 95% of everyone else.
Do I think communism is the answer? No. I think capitalism is fine for grand pianos, not Grandma’s pills.
After WW2 the post war economies settled on social democracy as the compromise between the two. I think we need to get back to that, and designate areas of the economy fundamental and forbidding people from profit or rent seeking practices. Education, medicine, emergency services, community development. Essentially if it’s something the government offers or necessitates, then it’s already paid for in taxes, that goes for permits, passports, licensing, reviews, All of it. I think that because it’s obvious the relationship between elected officials and civil servents to the population needs repairing, drastic change. The only positive change I can fathom is simplifying for the end user (one tax) and open-transparency.
I’m willing to entertain arguments against, I don’t claim or think to know everything. In fact, everything Im right about now I can guarantee I was wrong about before.
In my eyes, suppressing knowledge, or advocating it, is morally bankrupt.
Claiming I’m advocating the suppression of knowledge is a bold claim. I’m informing you (and anyone reading this thread) about their heavily skewed view of the world as a caution. You can always choose to not take my advice.
Also, claiming people are trying to suppress you simply because they shared their opinion is rather disingenuous. I have made a single personal attack on you, I’ve only criticized the informational valye of the channel you recommended, assuming that you were simply unaware of its issues.
You shouldn’t even try to dissuade people from watching it, you should want the people around you to be better educated
It’s weird you’re using this argument when the channel in question has a video called “Alternatives to Capitalism” that is just a 15 minute rant on why capitalism is bad and spends no time actually discussing potential alternatives to capitalism.
I’m willing to entertain arguments against, I don’t claim or think to know everything. In fact, everything Im right about now I can guarantee I was wrong about before.
Given how you immediately resorted to a “reducto ad absurdum” argument makes me highly suspicious of your willingness to entertain differing arguments. In fact, it’s concerningly similar to the debate strategy of Second Thought and tankues in general.
Please keep trying to broaden your horizons, particularly to more moderate sources. You’re sounding like you’re falling into an echo chamber
Hot damn. I think you got all of mine plus tons more. Only one I watch you might like is Oversimplified: animated comedic history.
Head’s up, The Escapist is essentially dead since they fired their editor-in-chief (Nick Calandra) and all of the talent (Yahtzee, Frost, JM8, Jack, etc.) quit to start a new employee-owned company with him called Second Wind
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Dime store adventures is amazing and very underrated youtube channel
How is science and futurism with Isaac Arthur (SFIA) not getting more love? They are probably the highest quality and most educational videos on the entirety of YouTube. And while all of the videos cover the future, they cover wildly different topics and fields.
What will space travel actually be like? Will we live in space? What about new space sports? How will space effects our diets? What about AI? How will it effect our lives and hobbies? Mind uploading? Clark tech? Dyson swarms? O’Neill cylinders? Could the entire universe be a hallucination?
Also shout-out to PBS spacetime
How is science and futurism with Isaac Arthur (SFIA) not getting more love?
Tbf, Isaac Arthur will sometimes propose ideas that absolutely no hope of working such as orbital loops. While I get that he’s not an engineer, videos like that tend to be a blemish on his reputation.
I also like Primal Space when it comes to space videos. His animation are amazing
Cooking:
Anti-Chef: Jamie tries to cook from cookbooks if the greatest, but he’s not a chef or anything, and you see all his mistakes, such as his recent deboning of a chicken, where he mistakenly de-meated it as well and had to venture out for a new chicken. It isn’t bits, just a guy that wants to cook but isn’t always so good about following directions, but he learns skiing the way.
Food Wishes: Chef John was a chef, and he makes a wide variety of things in easy to understand ways. He’s got lots of catch phrases and such, but he’s old so they’re endearing instead of obnoxious. His speech pattern can be somewhat off-putting to some, but I got used to it, and he’s just trying to be upbeat.
Tool Reviews:
Project Farm: Putting tools, small outdoor machinery, oils, batteries, bungee cords, etc through the paces to replicate real world use and some materials testing. It’s pretty fun for a review, and shows what tools are good at their price points.
Music:
David Hilowitz Music: I don’t care about his actual music so much, but he makes obscure instruments or repairs broken ones he finds in the trash and ends up with very unique things. He also makes sample libraries from all sorts of things, musical or otherwise, so you can play a version of all his weird stuff.
Cars / General Mayhem:
Garage 54: Some Russian guys with old Soviet cars that do strange Frankenstein experiments with them. Welding 4 engines together, tires made of various objects, all kinds of horrific and entertaining things!
Project Farm is the reviewer that I wish reviewed everything I want to ever buy.
I enjoy the abuse testing, because even if it isn’t always scientific, we all tend to use what we have in hand other than the proper tool at times.
His corrosion and UV testing is also great stuff that many review places overlook.
I’d definitely love if he had a better that reviewed more household and entertainment/hobby items!
Chef John’s recipes are always spot on; it’s rare for me to make something of his I don’t like. Sometimes they require a bit of extra effort, but he always tries to make his recipes as accessible as possible, talking about what shortcuts are appropriate.
You reminded me I forgot to mention he goes into more info about the how and why of his recipes in his blog posts linked in the comments too!
They are actually helpful if you want to know more.
Lately I’ve been obsessed with Tasting History with Max Miller. He recreates historic dishes while exploring the history surrounding it. Very bingeable
Science: Steve Mould
History: timeline, odyssey, war stories, told in stone, vasile luga, get.factual
Music: cercle
Geopolitics: Caspian Report
Aviation: mustard
Biographies: the people profiles
Caspian Report is fantastic
Caspian report is crap opinions passing as geopolitical knowledge and analysis. I have watched a few of his vids. and the guy doesn’t know what is really happening in other foreign countries, but it doesn’t stop him from writing 30 mn long bullshit videos and impressing an audience that is just as uneducated about those subjects as him. i.e Any one who claims to know everything about every other country in the world is a FRAUD.
Curious why do you assume it’s just the narrator’s lone opinion and not the narrator describing the research performed by a team of people on the subject of each episode?
What’s your best geopolitics channel then? Or is the very idea of one also a fraud to you?
Loouis Rossman. He’s interesting to listen to.
Bill Hammack explains engineering concepts and household items clearly.
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EthosLab - the OG Minecraft Youtuber that other Minecraft Youtubers watch; somehow still innovating on redstone and technical builds to this day despite Minecraft redstone already pushed to its limits long ago, and his multiplayer shenanigans on Hermitcraft and Life Series is top notch.
Adam Ragusea - cooking videos made for actual home cooks who just want no-flair no-fuss recipes, as well as food science videos exploring and explaining different cooking methods and food chemistry. I’m particularly a fan of how he encourages you to measure and cook by feel rather than by strictly following recipes.
My favorite channel would have to be Destination Adventure with Dustin Porter. Why this guy doesn’t have 10,000,000 subscribers is beyond me. Not only does he go to some amazing places, but he’s a really gifted videographer. Everything about them is top-notch, and he does it all by himself. The amount of B-roll stuff he gets must be a tremendous amount of work. He picks great music too…
