Inspired by the opposite question posted recently, what YouTube creators have you watched for a long time and still find worth returning to? Alternatively, what are some new high quality channels you have been enjoying?
Hi, I’m the one that asked the opposite question that Op linked to :p
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.
I started watching CEE out of curiosity, but damn, it’s a good channel. Our host is just low-key charismatic, and wastes no time getting into laying out the problem, customer requirements, and how we’re going to fix things. Then the big machines are put to work, which is just a treat to watch. Wrap it all up with a brisk but informative narrative style, and an adorable tank of a dog that helps break up the content, and it really is a good watch. Dare I say a comfy watch at that.
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.
Been watching RLM for 17 years and that sounds insane to say.
Love those guys. The recent What Are Next For Star Trek video is great.
The food fight was so wholesome, lol.
They really are masters of physical comedy. Watching Rich trash the set is always hilarious.
- Mathematics
- 3blue1brown
- Numberphile
- Mathologer
- Science
- PBS Space Time
- minutephysics
- Alpha Phoenix
- Technology
- Technology Connections
- Benn Jordan
- Video Games
- Any Austin
- Acerola
- Displaced Gamers
- Speedrunning
- Summoning Salt
- Bismuth
- pannenkoek2012
- Other random stuff
- Ghoul City Online (Comedic reviews)
- Hazel Thayer (Leftist topics)
- In Deep Geek (Tolkien lore)
- udiprod (Algorithm animations)
what about pbs eons, space time is not my taste, because im not a physics/astronomy nerd.
Eons is awesome! I tried watching space time but it seemed too unpolished for my taste.
I love Mathologer but it’s not for casuals. Great stuff
Naw, Mathologer is fine, he starts out super basic and builds on it until it gets very complex.
If you’re not interested in the complex, you can just dip out when it gets too heavy.
- Mathematics
Double toasted . I love long form podcast format of movie reviews which cool humor Smosh pit but only their reddit stories serie
Tom Scott (he’s back after a break)
John Michael Godier (science and astronomy)
Videogamedunkey
Any Austin (deep dives into minutea of video games)
Dunkey is funny as hell.
Glad some people enjoy him. I never could get into Dunkeys type of humor.
Any Austin!! Dang, I just watched his video about GTA SA. Good pick!
Idk what happened but at some point Dunkey must became super annoying for me, used to like his videos.
I felt a sharp decline in quality after he got a kid. He started uploading videos a lot more often but each individual video wasn’t as good as previous videos of his. It’s a little sad but also understandable if it’s to pay the bills of a newborn
Same, his videos just feel hollow now. Before, he was funny and there was always solid content put together. Now it just feels like pure empty high-nosed sarcasm. Every now and then he drops a good one, though.
My kids put me on to Dunkey a few years ago. He’s great. I only discovered Any Austin recently, but love his work, too.
If you fancy yourself asking 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.
In no particular order:
- The Rest Is Science (podcast)
- Technology Connections/Connextras
- Jeff Geerling / Level 2 Jeff
- 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
- Veritasium
- Tom Scott (the returned)
- Asianometry (tech history)
- Clabretro (retro networking and server hardware)
Jeff Geerling
He came up in the other thread about youtubers people stopped following, so you may want to check that out.
Thanks for the heads up. I knew he was a devout Catholic, but I never had the experience that he was pushing any agenda–as in he tends to just stick to technical content. I don’t mind watching people with different opinions than mine, but “cure the gay” is very problematic. I would be sad, since I really like his content. I will have to read up some more on this.
Along similar lines: another channel I have been watching is Smarter Every Day, where the host, Destin, is fairly open about his faith. That may put some people off, but overall I have found his content overall interesting and I don’t feel like he’s preaching to me, but others may be more sensitive to that. He’s currently pushing his own grill scrubber product pretty hard, which I find off-putting, but I see what he’s trying to do. I’m giving him a chance to get back to more interesting engineering stuff.
To address the others: yes, I know there are some potentially controversial entries, like Veritasium and Kurzgesagt. I have Veritasium “on probation” due to the change, but so far the new hosts have done a pretty decent job. Kurzgesagt is one I kind of leave for a long time and then come back every so often, because they have something interesting and their content is presented well. Totally understand if people choose to give them a skip.
Veritasium is majority owned by private equity now, fyi. I just found out myself the other day.
So is Kurzgesagt. Can’t bring myself to watch PE channels. But the rest of this list is fire, happy to see Asianometry and Words Unravelled get shout outs
- Plastic Pills.
- Technology Connections / Extras
- Wood by wright.
- Rex Kruger. (another woodworker)
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
Animagraffs is so good
If you haven’t heard of him yet, for true crime, I suggest checking out Sean over on Mysterious WV. Easily the most professional true crime channel I have come across online. His quality is high to the point where a lot of the cases he cover comes from the police, and families of victims, sending them their cases to cover, including police giving him their whole case files.
I really like the adventures by geowizard since the beginning of his youtube career.
I mentioned him in the other thread 😔
I really like travel stuff, I like Kara and Nate. I like maker/cosplayer Rachel Maksy.
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.
It’s funny how much he scaled up. I used to watch him as a kid and was extremely surprised he was still running and still highly popular
I have issues with how he treats animals. He says he’s super respectful, but at the same time he easily discards entire colonies of ants, or any other animals, if it doesn’t get enough views anymore.
Stop Skeletons from Fighting has some amazing docs and just released another for Mighty Number 9 that was really good
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.
For cyclists, GCN (and its other associated channels) is has been really good for 10+ years now.
Park Tools is consistently good too.
Agree. Both of the channels have creators that really, really care. Park Tools surprises me, because it’s corporate, but still mostly informational.
