Really depends on what you want to check out. Here are some of my favorites in no particular order but roughly ordered by topic.
Science
- Astrum - various space and planets related topics
- Geschichtsfenster - A German channel on medieval topics and reactions to documentaries
- Raumzeit - Vlog der Zukunft - A German channel about space and science
- Urknall, Weltall und das Leben - A German science channel with focus on space topics
Technology
- Cathode Ray Dude - In-detail videos on 2000’s tech with focus on audio/video hardware
- Lost In Tech - Videos on 3D printing and 3D printers
- my mechanics - High quality “restoration ASMR”
- The 8-Bit Guy - Videos about 1980’s computer technology
- Brodie Robertson - News and commentary on various Linux and FOSS topics
- ThePrimeagen - Reactions on various coding-related content
- Kevin Powell - CSS tutorials and videos on CSS development
- Zack Freedman - Could be best described as “open source craftmanship”
Gaming
- aCookieGod - Minecraft mega builds in hardcore mode
- Fan The Deck - Steam Deck news and commentary
- Karl Jobst - Documentations on gaming history and speedruns
- Shulkercraft - Minecraft videos about creative and large build projects
- Summoning Salt - Video games speedrun history and documentation
3D printing
- 3D Printing Nerd - A channel about 3D printing topics
- CNC Kitchen - Mainly 3D printing content
I came here to suggest Cathode Ray Dude, glad to see him mentioned. Fantastic, high-quality channel.
Tom Scott
I don’t know these were posted or not but here is my suggestions which every youtube watching person probably already heard about most of them:
Not Just Bikes: Channel about Urban Planing-Living and how destructive the cars are.
History Matters: Short animated videos about historical events, narrated with humor.
my mechanics: Best and most detailed restorations ever.
NileRed - NileBlue: All about experimenting with chemical reactions.
Oversimplified: Like the name, oversimplified narrations of historical events but in a long form with animated depictions and humor of course.
Stefan Milo: Really informative research videos of archeology.
The Linux Experiment: Like the name suggests it’s all about Linux.
Bad Lip Reading: It’s in the name.
ChrisFix: Best car repair channel out there.
DIY Perks: DIY videos but heavy on the entertainment side rather than the doable diys.
Ethan Chlebowski: Trying to understand cooking from the perspective of homecooks.
Alex (the French Guy Cooking): Reverse engineering the recipes.
Brick Experiment Channel: Building Lego machines.
These all are high quality channels imo. There are a lot more but I am kinda lazy for now.
This is a csv file of really high quality channels that you can directly use in Piped: Proton Drive Link to csv file
+1 for NJB.
My Mechanics is really great!
Hang on why are you spying on me? This is essentially all I watch!
Really? We essentially have a same taste then. I am curious do you have any other suggestions for me?
If you’re into bread tube / left tube, I highly recommend Innuendo Studios. In particular, Innuendo Studios’s playlist, “the Alt-Right Playbook.” It helps make sense of internet discourse.
They’ve also got fantastic gaming related content, namely This is Phil Fish, The Artist is Absent: Davey Wreden and The Beginner’s Guide, and Who Shot Guybrush Threepwood.
Their series on Gamer Gate, Why Are You So Angry?, is also worth a watch!
- Adam Something
- blameitonjorge
- Computerphile
- crowbcat
- Digital Foundry
- dime store adventures
- ElectroBOOM
- GamersNexus
- LEMMiNO
- neo
- Nexpo
- PBS channels
- RealLifeLore & related channels
- Sam O’Nella Academy
- Tom Scott
You could add Summoning Salt to this list. I’m not really otherwise interested in world record attempts, but something about his narration is so good.
Another fun addition could be Oversimplified.
If you like Summoning Salt, I highly recommend OneShortEye.
This didn’t tickle my fancy, but I can see why the videos are popular.
Gaming
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TheRussianBadger - gaming with good humor and editing
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Max0r - gaming with good humor, voice acting, and insane editing
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Scott the Woz - for that old YouTube feel
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RTGame - funny Irish gaming man
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Call Me Kevin - funny Irish gaming man
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Indeimaus - mostly horror and Metroidvania gaming
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Game Apologist - good Sonic content
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RadKing - Fallout content
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Iron Pineapple - From Software enthusiast
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MuYe - BeamNG content
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The Orpheon - good Metroid content
Tech Stuffs
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Louis Rossman - disgruntled business tech repair man
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Gamers Nexus - pc tech review
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Linus Tech Tips (and its other channels) - LMG has been making some very good changes since their first response to their recent controversies. If they actually deliver with them, then all of these channels should be good to watch. Mac Address should be fine to watch as it has been stated that the channel and group affiliated are kept somewhat separated from the rest of LMG for various reasons.
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Hardware Unboxed - Australian pc tech review
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Monitors Unboxed - Hardware Unboxed for Monitors
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Dave’s Garage - cool Windows tricks from the guy who made the Task Manager
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The Cherno - good Australian C++ channel
Open Source Stuffs
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Nicco Loves Linux - good KDE and GNOME stuff
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The Linux Experiment - Linux and open source news
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unfa🇺🇦 - open source audio solutions
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Mental Outlaw - the libre man
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Royal Skies - free and open 2d and 3d content and assets
Animation
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TerminalMontage - great animations
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Noodle - great story animator
Practical Experiments
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The Slow Mo Guys - slow motion videos of pretty cool stuff
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Hacksmith Industries - cool Sci-Fi irl building channel
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Shadiversity - medieval weapon and armour experimentation
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ElectroBOOM - shocking experiments
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Major Hardware - 3d printing and fan design showdown
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Donut - good car content
Music
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SilvaGunner - wacky game music
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Eurobeat Gems - great if you like Eurobeat music
Education
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Audio University - how your sound system works
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Kyle Hill - science with nerd Thor
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LockPickingLawyer - you will never look at locks the same way
Miscellaneous
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No Text To Speech - cool for Discord users
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Fact Fiend - miscellaneous facts and British banter
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Bosnian Ape Society - If you’ve seen Nvidia Bread, then you’ll understand.
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High Boi - movie summaries
There’s more that I could # recommend, but I couldn’t figure out how to describe them.
Gamers Nexus and The Linux Experiment kinda rubbed me the wrong way in a way that I’m not sure how to describe, so i personally couldn’t get into those when I tried BUT I can vouch that they are both popular and Gamers Nexus in particular is well endeared by the PC/Gaming community
That’s understandable. When I first saw The Linux Experiment, he felt almost like a 3D render rather than a real human being. Gamers Nexus can get pretty passive aggressive.
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Depends on what you are interested in:
AntsCanada
Donut Media
Hoonigan
Ken Block
george hotz archive
Primitive Technology
Scott Manely
Colin Furze
Linus Tech Tips
Louis Rossman
NotJustBikes
Adam Something
City Beautiful
Alan Fisher
CityNerd
Rich Rebuilds
JerryRigEverything
Marques Brownlee
WOBO
Rising with The hill
Breaking points
Russell Brand
Kim Iverson
Sabby Sabs
The Jimmy Dore Show
Hard Lens Media
The Dive with Jackson Hinkle
JRE Snips & Clips
+1 for primitive technology. Interesting guy that goes out to some empty land in I think Australia and builds houses and all kinds of stuff with just his hands and tools he makes himself. He is going for forging his own iron knife now, which is insanely impressive.
kurzgesagt - Science & Education - I personally love their videos of nuclear technology and their videos such as “What if we nuked the moon?”
What I think are underrated channels, alreayd listed channels removed. Some have irregular schedules but still worth checking out.
Animals
- Cal Falcons: live stream of a falcon nest on a rooftop
- Deep Look: small world biology (PBS)
- Journey to Microcosmos: smaller world biology (Hank Green)
- Saveafox: domestic fox rescue
Science/Tech
- Captain Dissilusion: video editing vs disinformation
- Cody’s Lab: currently building a “Mars” habitat
- The Friday Checkout: weekly tech highlights
Music
- CSGuitars: electric guitar science
- First of October (Andrew Huang, Rob Scallon): very constrained songwriting
- Rhythm in Africa: sub-Saharan instruments
- Wataru Kousaka: Japanese instruments
Pop culture
- Game Changer: improv comedy as a game show (CollegeHumor)
- Overanalyzing Avatar: “This man is dead. Appa killed a man”
- Solid jj: voiced superhero comic parodies
History
- Jay Foreman: British culture and/or maps
- Lateral with Tom Scott: lateral thinking puzzle as a podcast
- Objectivity: very interesting objects (Brady Haran)
- Sam O’Nella Academy: badly researched and animated trivia satire
- jackpot ( @jackpot@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
add Jim Lill and Mike George to music, guitarist of six years I vouch strongly
Viva La Dirt League + their D&D Channel
They’re great, watching their skits makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside, and some good laughs.
Sampson Boat Co. - British man and friends rebuild wooden sailing boat. If you have any interest in boats or craftsmanship you’ll enjoy. Watch from the very beginning to see their incredible progress.
Beau Miles - Charming and slightly rough Australian man has strange adventures and philosophizes along the way. He gets excited about particularly useful/edible bits of trash along the highway.
Primitive Technology - Silent man with blue shorts exists alone in the jungle and has been working his way up to iron tools. He is freakishly fast at making fire with only two sticks. Watch in order to see his progression and turn on captions to see his commentary.
Spirit Of The Law - Extremely thorough Age of Empires II science and analysis. If you thought this 24 year old video game was dead, think again.
Settled - Old School RuneScape player plays the game with extra restrictions that create surprisingly compelling storytelling. “Swampletics”, his Morytania-locked Ultimate Iron Man is legendary.
DIY Perks - British guy makes mostly brass/wooden PCs and other tech. His creations aren’t always the most practical but they are always interesting. His slim PlayStation 5 was neat.
There’s a handful of sustainable farming channels that I like: No-Till Growers, Richard Perkins, and Josh Sattin Farming. If your interests include food or growing stuff then these are for you.
Primitive Technology
I’m looking forward to seeing him build a video editing computer from elements he’s crafted himself.
ManyATrueNerd for funny and wholesome let’s plays. Especially for Fallout fans, but there’s so much more than that.
- ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶ ( @luthis@lemmy.nz ) 7•1 year ago
The China Show. Latest Video shows the astonishing destruction from the floods in Beijing and how the CCP is doing their best to cover it up. Literally. No, actually literally. Timecode is about 7:20 if I remember correctly.
I’ve been binging their videos for 2 weeks, and learning so much about how China actually works.
- ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶ ( @luthis@lemmy.nz ) 5•1 year ago
Oh and they are also on Odysee so you can watch there if you want!
Oh no, not the racist sexpats. Not sure I would necessarily want to be using those guys as your source of news in China. Laowhy is an absolute piece of shit to his wife, and actually made a video of himself desecrating gravesites in Taiwan and laughing about it. Complained that his daughter looked too asian. Just an absolute piece of garbage.
They found out being condescending towards Chinese people sells right now, and that has been their entire brand since they left the country. They’re probably useful in that anything they say, you can assume the exact opposite is the truth.
- ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶ ( @luthis@lemmy.nz ) 1•1 year ago
Wow a wumao! I didn’t expect to see one here!
Give my regards to Winnie.
You know Winston and Laowhy86 are fighting for you and against the CCP right? You know they only want the oppression of the CCP to end and for China’s people to be free right? You know every single episode like 5 times they will say ‘and we aren’t talking about the Chinese people, the Chinese people are good people, we love China, we are opposed to the CCP’?
If you want to talk smack about Laowhy then you better provide proof. I’ve seen what you guys do. Winston liked a comment from someone who said ‘that toilet needs to be napalmed’ and then all you wumao’s are like ‘Winston wants to napalm Asians!’
It’s not working, Mr CCP Shill. Come over to the light side and help us criticise the CCP and expose their racism, oppression and corruption that is holding back China’s development. Don’t do it for me, do it for the Chinese people who deserve better than Xi Jinping’s tyranny.
Give my regards to Winnie.
Shock, the guy who watches racists is a racist.
‘and we aren’t talking about the Chinese people, the Chinese people are good people, we love China, we are opposed to the CCP’?
The white man’s burden bullshit argument. Oh those poor Chinese people can’t possibly really support the CPC, they are just misguided and need us brave foreigners to come save them.
If you want to talk smack about Laowhy then you better provide proof.
Laowhy desecrating remains. His girlfriend (at the time) calls him out on it and he tells her to shut up because it makes good content. Nobody who loves China descreates their dead. You can’t even use the excuse that he was confused or didn’t know what it was, he was told to stop and refuses.
His treatment of his wife. Makes her sit on the floor of the car while he makes racist jokes with his family. Sorry to link to reddit, I don’t keep extensive archives of these guys.
Not expecting you to suddenly change your opinion on the CPC, but these guys in particularly are indefensible and nobody should be encouraged to watch them.
- ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶ ( @luthis@lemmy.nz ) 1•1 year ago
Shock, the guy who watches racists is a racist.
😂 Because I’m using a meme made by the Chinese people that offends a single person?
The white man’s burden bullshit argument. Oh those poor Chinese people can’t possibly really support the CPC, they are just misguided and need us brave foreigners to come save them.
Oh come on, you and I both know that you’re not allowed to speak against the government in China. But we can speak out in the free world and raise awareness, and hopefully that will put more pressure on the CCP. Why do you assume I’m white bro?
On the videos, well, for his wife in the car, that’s kinda what happens when you don’t have enough seats in the car. Someone’s gotta sit on the floor. It’s been me plenty of times. You’re making assumptions, I didn’t see him make her sit there. I wasn’t able to tell from the tiny snippet the context of the chatter, and ‘racist’ jokes happen among close people anyway. It doesn’t mean anyone is actually racist, and from how much he harps on and on and on against racism on the podcast… well. It’s clear to me.
On the grave desecration however, Laowhy has spoken about it and been regretful of his younger self’s actions. I’ve done stupid shit before, but I’m not going to defend his actions there. I wouldn’t have done it. It sounds like grave desecration, even when unintentional or unknowingly is an unforgiveable sin that you could never look past, even if I showed you proof that Laowhy is really apologetic, is that right?
Mathologer makes great math videos that should be understandable even by people with no higher math education.
- Steve1998MREInfo tests and reviews military MREs from all around the world. Surprisingly entertaining and wholesome.
- Townsends 18th century living history reenactment and history, especially focusing on the food and everyday chores of colonial Americans.
- Wendigoon cool dude who makes videos on conspiracies, analog horror series, modern mysteries, and bible studies.
- Knowing Better educational political and sociological videos with occasional skits.