I’ve added my favorite YouTube channels in the comments below. (Feel free to check them out!) But, my preferences aside, what YouTube channel(s) do you want more people to see?
Legal Eagle is great at explaining current events and their Legal implications, he also does reviews on movies or shows to explain how they portray law vs reality.
Ordinary Sausage makes sausage out of everything and generally does cooking experiments in a quick and humorous way
Bobby Fingers is a mix of artisan videos where he expertly hand crafts dioramas (mostly) of events while making funny and interesting comments, but he adds some pizazz and production to the whole thing that makes it very engaging.
Laden with ads and an algorithm to keep you watching as long as possible. A decade ago you could look something up on YouTube and find a quick video and be done. Now even the most basic answer is a ten minute video, which is required for monetization.
Summoning Salt - Video essays detailing world record speedrun history across a variety of games. Videos are easy to understand and assume you aren’t intimately familiar with the games in question. m.youtube.com/watch?v=i1AHCaokqhg
RRC Restorations - A Scottish bloke that does really in depth restorations of mostly cars and motorcycles, very relaxing and a joy to watch without any flashy filter. Just a super talented guy doing cool things in his little workshop. m.youtube.com/watch?v=JJSjy4OciLs
Motion in Art - Film essays similar to some of your other favourites that might be of interest.
Art Deco - Analysis, investigation and explanation of art, including the history and context in which paintings were made, themes and motifs, and details that you almost certainly missed when looking at art as a layperson. m.youtube.com/watch?v=m3hM6Qw8Nf4
Fredrik Knudsen - Making the series Down The Rabbithole, which are dives into a variety of topics, including tech and history. m.youtube.com/watch?v=UCgoxQCf5Jg
Lemmino - Video essays on conspiracies and mysteries, all are very interesting and worth watching. m.youtube.com/watch?v=5u7euN1HTuU
Anti-Chef: Jamie tries to cook from cookbooks if the greatest, but he’s not a chef or anything, and you see all his mistakes, such as his recent deboning of a chicken, where he mistakenly de-meated it as well and had to venture out for a new chicken. It isn’t bits, just a guy that wants to cook but isn’t always so good about following directions, but he learns skiing the way.
Food Wishes: Chef John was a chef, and he makes a wide variety of things in easy to understand ways. He’s got lots of catch phrases and such, but he’s old so they’re endearing instead of obnoxious. His speech pattern can be somewhat off-putting to some, but I got used to it, and he’s just trying to be upbeat.
Tool Reviews:
Project Farm: Putting tools, small outdoor machinery, oils, batteries, bungee cords, etc through the paces to replicate real world use and some materials testing. It’s pretty fun for a review, and shows what tools are good at their price points.
Music:
David Hilowitz Music: I don’t care about his actual music so much, but he makes obscure instruments or repairs broken ones he finds in the trash and ends up with very unique things. He also makes sample libraries from all sorts of things, musical or otherwise, so you can play a version of all his weird stuff.
Cars / General Mayhem:
Garage 54: Some Russian guys with old Soviet cars that do strange Frankenstein experiments with them. Welding 4 engines together, tires made of various objects, all kinds of horrific and entertaining things!
Chef John’s recipes are always spot on; it’s rare for me to make something of his I don’t like. Sometimes they require a bit of extra effort, but he always tries to make his recipes as accessible as possible, talking about what shortcuts are appropriate.
These are the channels that keep me coming back. I’ve tried to sort them by genre but there is a bit of overlap.
I watch a lot of video essays:
Architectural Digest, Business Insider, Insider Tech, CGPGrey, SciShow, CrashCourse, EconomicsExplained, Practical Engineering, Real Engineering, RealLifeLore, ClassicalNerd, TierZoo (zoology) Kurzgesagt, Wendover Productions (transportation) ColdFusion, Understitch (fashion), Fashion History Sessions, Veritasium (physics), PolyMatter (geopolitics), hbomberguy, CompanyMan, Super Eyepatch Wolf, SomeMoreNews, KnowledgeHusk, Georg Rockall-Schmidt, Russell Brand Louis Rossman, Nerdwriter, minutephysics, MinuteEarth, Numberphile, Mental Floss (trivia), Captain Midnight, Savage Books, Bookpilled.
Comedy
CalebCity, Internet Historian/Incognitio Mode, Kill Tony, All Things Comedy, AceVane, penguinz0, Casually Explained, Ordinary Things, Vsauce, CrackerMilk, Death Battle!, Bad Lip Reading, Doobus Goobus, Flashgitz, Honest Ads, Ozzy Man Reviews, Pitch Meeting, RDCworld1, Rich Black Guy, ODAWG, brain david gilbert, Sam O’Nella Academy, Stevie Emerson, The Onion.
Gaming
Skill Up, ACG, videogamedunkey, The Escapist, Polygon, gameranx, GameSpot Game Maker’s Toolkit, Girlfriend Reviews, t90Official (any aoe2 fans?), lionheartx10.
Music
deepcuts, theneedledrop/Anthony Fantano, Sound Field, Polyphonic, Genius, The Company Man, The Lyricologist, Science of Loud.
Movies
YourMovieSucks, RedLetterMedia, The Critical Drinker, The Cosmonaut Variety Hour, ralphthemoviemaker, The Vile Eye, Screen Junkies, Now you See It, Every Frame a Painting, Lessons from the Screenplay, Screenplayed.
History
Modern History TV, HardcoreHistory, Shadiversity, SandRhoman History, History Dose, History Matters, Fall of Civilizations, Extra History, Absolute History.
Philosophy
ContraPoints, Philosophy Tube, Philosophize This!, Wireless Philosophy, Wisecrack, The School of Life, Then and Now.
Food
FirstWeFeast, Binging with Babbish, One Bite Pizza Reviews (everyoneknowstherules), Alton Brown, Black Tie Kitchen, Tasty, Epicurious.
Basketball
JxmyHighroller, Thinking Basketball, Professor Live, dime.
If you like video essays and video games, I can suggest The Tarnished Archeologist. He does deep lore dives into FromSoft games (Dark Souls, Elden Ring, etc.) using real world archeological techniques and insights, and draws parallels with real world civilizations.
Even if you aren’t into FromSoft games, his videos are worth it for the real world archeological parallels alone.
MobileTechReview (www.youtube.com/ ), Lisa’s reviews feel the most authentic to me without too much bullshit and they always helped me with my buying decisions.
I have several excellent YT channels to recommend, in alphabetical order:
Accursed Farms - The source of the “Freeman’s mind” series, Ross also makes excellent videos about other games.
Alasdair Becket-King - ABK is a comedian who makes short but really funny videos.
Anders Enger Jensen - A Norwegian musician making awesome synth songs.
Barely Sociable - Interesting videos about odd topics, focuses on “dark” stuff, has a good voice.
Brick Experiment Channel - Remote controlled submarine made out of Lego and other Lego stuff, need I say more?
Calum - A guy from Scotland making amazing videos about stuff like: Rescue buoys from WWII, WV Beetles at the south pole, Flying homes of the past, Jerry Cans, Secret WWII Bunkers, and much more. This is awesome.
Code Bullet - Chaotic AI programing, very fun and cool to see.
DankPods - Started with iPod Repair videos, reviews random crappy MP3 players, has insane amplifier to blow up headphones, mostly talks about weird nuggets of technology. Well worth a look.
James Channel - Do you want a portable Super Nintendo, but are worried about not breaking it? DankPods oldmate will show you how to do it with some random components, duct tape and hot glue.
Jet Lag: The Game - A game show where the planet is the board, they have played connect 4 across the US, Raced around the world, played Tag across Europe, made New Zeeland into a board game, played CTF across Japan, and more, really good!
Mustard - Exellent transportation documentaries, with great CGI.
Paper Skies - Son of a Soviet air force pilot talking about how life and work in the Soviet air force was.
Paper Will - Documentaries about “dark” topics like “The ugly side of kids TV”, “Entertainment made by cults”, “Games about 9/11”, really interesting stuff!
Peter Dibble - Want to learn about the bus running on the wires of a ski lift system? You can here! You can also learn about that time that Amtrack brought a Swedish and a German high speed train across the US for tests in the 90s.
Ringway Manchester - Videos about two way radios, amateur radio and other things on the airwaves.
Side Note - North Korean cruises? Hitler’s Birthday? US presidential yachts? An ice block in Sahara? Mysterious Egypt/Israel flights? A floatibg hotel in North Koera? What do all of these topics have in common? They all have videos on the Side Note channel.
My favorite channel would have to be Destination Adventure with Dustin Porter. Why this guy doesn’t have 10,000,000 subscribers is beyond me. Not only does he go to some amazing places, but he’s a really gifted videographer. Everything about them is top-notch, and he does it all by himself. The amount of B-roll stuff he gets must be a tremendous amount of work. He picks great music too…
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