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?
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Slow mo guys
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.
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.
Been watching RLM for 17 years and that sounds insane to say.
- 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)
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.
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.
- 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)
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.
Dunkey is funny as hell.
Glad some people enjoy him. I never could get into Dunkeys type of humor.
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.
Any Austin!! Dang, I just watched his video about GTA SA. Good pick!
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’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)
Love Inheritance Machining, I think Brendan’s wife is editing the videos and she’s so good, they’re beautiful. Pask Makes never misses for me, I’ve grown to love his vocal quirk of upturning the final word in every other sentence 🤣
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.
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Jimmy Broadbent
Still remember the streams from the shed. It’s crazy what he’s built since then. I don’t watch him a lot nowadays, but the 23 hours for charity races are always nice 🦀🦀🦀🦀
Welcome to the Basement, but man do I still miss Craig.
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.
RIP Maru
Sad
I had a wow paladin named Immaru which is Summarian for “light”. I was always worried that people would confuse my name as “I’m Maru” like the cat. No one ever asked. Regardless, it was one of my favorite characters and I definitely loved that cat
A long winded way I guess to say that even though it’s sad they passed, I have a very fond intertwined memory of them. A remembery of one will make me think of the other
afraid to be banned yet still throws grenade… “your mom” 🙊
