craftyindividual,

Tom Scott

Curious Droid - lots of sci fi, technology content.

WaterlineStories - all sorts of nautical/diving disasters narrated by a South African chap with a lot of experience.

Qxir - Irish guy with a lot of weird stories told in stick figure form.

Plainly Difficult - a lot of disasters frequently nuclear.

Nile Red is still fun - and a nice dude. Chemistry

Vince Vintage is hilarious, great editing (like internet historian but not a jerk)

Also my homeboy Video Game Dunkey.

Dreading is good(sort of successor to JCS), very sober and tasteful host discussing true crime.

douglasg14b, (edited )
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Qxir?

I found too many of their videos have unsubstantiated claims, and illogical/wrong conclusions drawn from inaccurate or incomplete information.

While they may have high production value at a glance, the quality of the information itself is about as good as any other social media thread.

It’s really disappointing to me cuz I would love their videos but I just can’t keep watching them with such inaccuracies…

craftyindividual,

Fair enough. I really enjoy his delivery. He’s not perhaps the most researched or precise YouTuber but I like the subjects he covered.

Solo,

Just look up what creators are on nebula. Almost all of them creat high quality cpntent.

fpslem,

With a few exceptions and hold-outs still on YouTube only, I have found this to be generally true too.

cheesebag,

I agree, though is TLDR News that good? I see tons of their thumbnails but get weird vibes from them. Didn’t they repeat Russian propaganda?

OhmsLawn,

I’m honestly uncomfortable with TLDR. I haven’t checked up, but every time I watch an episode, it just feels off.

cheesebag,

Ok same!

jbk,

Oh also Brick Experiment Channel for fun stuff with Lego.

jbk,

Berd, danooct1, Huggbees, Hugh Jeffreys, Michael MJD, NileRed, Ordinary Sausage, Sam O’Nella (barely), Tapakapa

At least that’s what I find great.

dog_,

Dan and Hugh in one group??? Never thought I’d see that before.

themurphy,

Marques Brownlee for tech.

He’s also known as MKBHD, and he’s amazing with his camera work.

QueriesQueried, (edited )

I would give a shout out to two makers, Frank Howarth and This Old Tony both do some amazing works in general. Tony does a good amount of metal work, while Frank is almost all about woodworking.

For some AI (sorta) stuff: Primer engaging way to learn about statistics I guess, I don’t know the right way to describe them but I always leave with something new.

For car stuff: Rob Dahm who is known for a wild RX7. Also publishes a lot of public data for the rotary community.

Junkyard Digs who does lots of classic car “restorations” or repairs. Generally tries to do the most accessible methods or tools.

Tofu Auto Works does mostly custom body kits and so on, shown in step by step processes with tips and reasons/preferences for doing things a certain way.

For gaming I’ll just throw City Planner Plays out there. He mainly plays Cities Skylines, and talks about how and why certain infrastructure is designed or used.

Editting to add: sorta (mostly) does gaming, also does other topics as well. Arch fantastic visuals and historical breakdowns of topics. Doesn’t have many videos, but they are quite good.

And purely because I’ve met him IRL and think his channel is very under viewed, About Here discusses city planning, accessibility and so on. A lot of it has to do with housing and it’s current issues, but has other city/civic related topics as well.

Allan8795, (edited )
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MrMobile(Michael Fisher) - His video presentation skills 10/10, I specially love his series named when phones were fun, where he fondly talks about yesteryear phones and gadgets.

Harald Baldr - I may not go to all the places he goes, but the way he interacts with different people irrespective of the barrier of communication is commendable. The way he presents himself in his videos, I believe that’s him in real life as well. No fakery.

Chetzemoka,

Practical Engineering - in depth presentations of civil engineering feats, concepts, problems, solutions

Joe Scott - just simple, entertaining discussions of interesting topics

Philosophy Tube - longer format, intensely well-cited presentations on philosophy related to current events (with theatrical costumes!)

Ryan Hall - who knew that a weather forecast could be so fun? Regularly updated weather forecasts for the entire United States with detailed coverage and livestreams of events like tornado outbreaks, hurricanes, and large snowstorms. With charity drives to provide supplies to people on the ground

PBS Spacetime, PBS Eons, all the PBS channels really

Plainly Difficult - consistent quality, often hilarious presentations of various disasters. I particularly like his entire series on radiological accidents, often involving lost radioactive sources that random members of the public stumble onto, which is terrifying.

davetapley,

Did you see spin off Practical Construction yet? That’s next level production, my wife laughed at me waiting for next ep like it’s GoT or something.

Also do you notice that YT never pushes PBS videos? I’m subscribed but always have to go to channel.

Since you like a lot of same as me: check out Climate Town.

Saint_of_Illusion,

CAPTAIN DISILLUSION

Neve8028,

Definitely some of the best production value on youtube. Even his stuff from 10+ years ago holds up incredibly well aside from the resolution.

therealjcdenton,

Jerma985

AceFuzzLord,

Stumpt. Despite having 540k subs, they aren’t one of the super high energy balls to the walls energy where every 5 seconds they zoom in on a small part of the video. They usually have a much more calm energy about them and one thing I really like is how they aren’t telling you to like and subscribe every few minutes, let alone at all in their videos usually.

STRIKINGdebate2,
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I used to watch all their gang beasts episodes. They were amazing. Lovely to hear they are still around.

Edit: the videos are 9 years old now. Holy fuck.

0x30507DE,
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A few I haven’t seen show up yet:

popemichael,
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Explosions&Fire and its sister channel ExtractionsAndIre

The person who makes these science videos does it in such an entertaining and funny way that you forget that it’s a science channel. He uses homemade tools and chemicals to make explosions and fire and SO much more…

The best part is that he puts his videos up, no matter if he fails or not. In fact, he fails more times than not on ExtractionsAndIre. I’ve been watching him for years and years, and any day that he posts a new video is a wonderful day.

Undoubtedly, he’s been my inspiration to muddle through chemistry experiments without the proper background nor proper safety equipment.

deus, (edited )

Kinda late to the party here but I’ll share a couple of my favorites:

Melodysheep - video essays about science and science fiction with absurdly high quality animations and production value

Mustard - same as above, except about interesting and/or unusual real vehicles

Casually Explained - just a dude with a great sense of humor and crude artwork explaining random things to you

Sam O’Nella Academy - same as above, except covering very specific and much weirder topics

Biblaridion - his usual content is about conlangs (don’t ask, I don’t know either) but his ongoing Alien Biospheres series about speculative evolution is simply amazing

TierZoo - highly entertaining videos about animals and zoology, except it’s all a videogame

LowSpecGamer - as the name implies, he used to make videos about making AAA games run on potato systems but has since pivoted into making (great) mini docs about the history of videogames and technology

Cyriak - he doesn’t post often but the dude has been making the same kind of technically impressive and often disturbing animations for over 15 years now

GarytheSnail,
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Melodysheep is so cool. Also, it is John D. Boswells project. Finding it turned me onto an entirely new genre of music for me called plunderphonics.

Check out the Music of Sound album and then also check out the artist Pogo.

DarkGamer,
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  • Some More News (Last Week Tonight-like political commentary)
  • AngryTurtle (fallout 76 content)
  • videogamedunkey (gaming/humor)
  • Yahtzee Croshaw (game reviews/rants)
  • Wendover Productions (random interesting education and air travel gameshows)
  • Practical Engineering (how the world around you is built)
  • Technology Connections (deep dives into engineering everyday gizmos)
  • Tom Scott (interesting tech/education)
  • RealLifeLore (explains geopolitics)
  • Internet Historian (amusing yarns, discussions, and stories)
  • LegalEagle (law)
  • Kurzgesagt (explains scientific concepts, lots of what if scenarios, animated birds)
  • Tasting History with Max Millar (historical cooking in a modern kitchen)
  • Let's Game it Out (dude who breaks games in the most amusing way possible)
  • My Name Is Andong (cooking)
  • Chef Jean-Pierre (cooking)
  • Economics Explained (economics)
  • Matthew Berman (explores the latest AI/LLM tech)
amazing_stories,

It’s great how Some More News is so consistent. I can only think of a few episodes where they seemed to be stretching for content on a topic.

gamermanh,
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News daddy must gives us our juicy news

deus,

Love most of your suggestions but I wouldn’t recommend Internet Historian. Dude is a plagiarist at best and a Nazi at worst.

VelveteenUnderground,

Can you explain this?

deus,

Sure, here it is. As for the plagiarism accusations look no further than the latest Hbomberguy video.

VelveteenUnderground,

Oof, thank you

Cornucopiaofplenty,

“Well hello there friends!” Chef Jean Pierre makes me so incredibly happy every time I put one of his videos on. His delivery, humorous self-awareness, and sheer passion for cooking never fail to put me in a good mood. Highly recommended!

CetaceanNeeded,

If I can add to this list because you listed most people I would mention.

  • Calum (videos about interesting topics and crazy one off machines, giant land trains, Antarctic exploring vehicles etc).
  • Blondie Hacks (machining but focused on how to do everything and how to learn machining mostly with limited tooling, she is currently building a live stream model loco).
  • Aging Wheels (videos about quirky old cars and related projects).
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