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?
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
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.
Lockpickinglawyer. Fascinating to watch. The guy is so speedy at opening locks without a key.
Tom Scott, Ross Scott.
James Hoffman, Hames Joffman
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.
Driving4answers for motor vehicle engineering fun. Jonas ceika (formerly Cuck philosophy) for philosophy/media criticism/political theory.
Democracy Now, Majority Report (RIP Michael Brooks), This Old Tony
This old Tony is also a gateway drug into machining YT:
- Blondiehacks
- Inheritance Machining
- ABOM
- Not An Engineer
Let me add oxtoolco to the list they are a tool maker.
There is also Jeremy Fielding I like but don’t watch enough. More about robotics though.
PS: Yeah I’d love a small lathe for making bicycle parts. Tony totally didn’t infect me lol
Outdoor boys is the only one I actually watch
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
I didn’t hear of reckless Ben until the recent B&M shit, and I really wanted to like him, but it’s clear (here) that both he and b&m are fucking chock full of shit.
How is he full of shit whats the drama?
Bricks and minifigs (company that resells Legos) basically agreed to sell someone’s Legos for them but stole them.
Reckless Ben got involved and did his thing to drag b&m until they caved, but instead b&m had him falsely arrested for making threats and selling drugs, and now they’ve charged him with stalking.
But reckless Ben’s videos exaggerate to the point of intentionally misinforming. Stuff like claiming his sixth amendment is being violated (isn’t being told what he is charged with) when really they just hadn’t yet given him discovery, at the hearing to determine how to safely give him discovery.
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.
every time they upload a new video i just think, “again, it happened again!”
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)
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.
MandaloreGaming is in a similar vein to Civvie and Ross’s Game Dungeon, all great game content makers/reviewers.
Yeah, I watch Mandalore too. Didn’t strike me at the time. He’s one of the more serious reviewers I find with low-key humour.
Red letter media, crittervision, paulogia
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.
For Primitive Technology don’t forget to turn on CC as he leaves a bunch of notes there! (You might already know this but others following suggestion might not)
PBS Space Time for science. Asmongold for lulz. Economics Explained for economy. Shoe0nhead for fun politics. LTT and Gamers Nexus for tech
