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?
Channels that I actually look forward to each release:
4WD 24-7 Australian four wheel driving, visiting a lot of places I wish i could go to.
Fire to fork Camp fire cooking, but at the moment also a bit of a travel blog as Harry is in Canada right now.
Andy cooks Cooking show by a personable ex-chef
Brian Lagerstrom More cooking by a slightly less personable ex-chef
Captain Disillusion Special effects debunks and explainers. Rarely puts out videos but they’re worth watching when they do arrive.
Clickspring Master craftsman does metalwork. I often have no idea what he’s talking about but it’s just great to watch.
Dylan O’Donnell Astrophotography with an Australian slant.
LEMMiNO Deep dives into mysteries and other topics. Well researched.
Nat’s What I Reckon Started no-nonsense cooking videos during COVID lockdowns, delivering a good mix of cooking advice, mental health awareness and swearing. His videos aren’t as tight now as they used to be but they’re still fun to watch.
Primative Technology No voice over, relaxing to watch dude in North Queensland improving his skills over the years to make huts, ceramics and some iron smelting. Make sure you turn on captions!
TLDR news (news)
The Linux experience (Linux and open source news)
Real Civil Engineer (video games, I scratch the itch without playing)
Kurzgesagt (explainers)
Not Just Bikes (urbanism)
Money and Macro (economics)
Just have a think (energy transition/climate news)
Wendover (deep dives, a lot on aviation)
Real life lore (history, mostly 20th century or later)
Stuff made here (entertaining engineering projects)
Simon Clark (climate news)
Polymatter (mix of economics, history and geopolitics, a lot on China)
Real Engineering (engineering)
Climate Town (climate explainers, a lot on fossil fuel lobby)
Veritasium. They still make great videos, I would argue better ones, and if private equity can take the hint to do it like that we’d be in good shape.
Wendover Productions
fern
Ahoy
Rowan J Coleman
Slidebean
Gamers Nexus
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.
PBS Space Time for science. Asmongold for lulz. Economics Explained for economy. Shoe0nhead for fun politics. LTT and Gamers Nexus for tech
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
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.
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.
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.
- 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)
Any Austin!! Dang, I just watched his video about GTA SA. Good pick!
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.
- 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
Oddity Archive. The dude has been going for 15 years and the videos haven’t really changed at all. It feels like YouTube did before becoming something people could make a living off of. I don’t really know how he finds time/money to do it without sponsors and less than 100k subscribers, but the dedication is admirable.
