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?
I’ve watched A Dose of Buckley, Stephanie Sterling, and Vinesauce (yeah he’s a Twitch streamer, but I only watch his Vods) for over a decade. There’s a few others, but those 3 I feel have had the biggest impact on me.
Good Mythical Morning is the oldest, longest running thing on YouTube I still watch. I was watching them before they were even on YouTube.
Only for the Norwegians and maybe other Scandic’s, but Level Up is one of Norway’s longer running gaming channels that puts journalistic integrity high and are a lot of fun to watch.
Could you please link it here? I can’t seem to find the right thing looking for “level up”. Thanks!
Edit: maybe this one? https://www.youtube.com/@LevelUpNor
If you’re into Norwegian gaming content, both those guys and Nerdelandslaget are great podcasts. Level Up is a bit quirky, but lots of fun Nerdelandslaget is more showy with a tighter production quality, game shows and guest nerds every other week and they also run Norway’s biggest gaming discord.
Both have almost every year a long stream on twitch as well collecting money for a charitable foundation. Otherwise they both stream irregularly but somewhat often as well. Nerdelandslaget also live streams their podcast every Monday or Tuesday, before the podcast goes live Wednesdays.
Thanks! I’m learning Norwegian so more input is never a bad thing.
That’s the one!
PBS Space Time for science. Asmongold for lulz. Economics Explained for economy. Shoe0nhead for fun politics. LTT and Gamers Nexus for tech
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)
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
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.
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
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.
Animagraffs is so good
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.
- Plastic Pills.
- Technology Connections / Extras
- Wood by wright.
- Rex Kruger. (another woodworker)
Tom Scott (he’s back after a break)
John Michael Godier (science and astronomy)
Videogamedunkey
Any Austin (deep dives into minutea of video games)
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.
Idk what happened but at some point Dunkey must became super annoying for me, used to like his videos.
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.
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
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!
- 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
Hello future me
Slow mo guys
I really like the adventures by geowizard since the beginning of his youtube career.
I mentioned him in the other thread 😔
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.
Double toasted . I love long form podcast format of movie reviews which cool humor Smosh pit but only their reddit stories serie
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 🤣
