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Welp, there goes several dozen hours or more of my free time.

Well, after looking through, I saw that some of my favorites are not on here.

Kraut: makes well thought out video essays on politics, history, culture and everything in between. He also tells you his reading list that went into making a particular video.

Adam Something: bit of politics, bit of urban planning, bit of shitting on Elon Musk, bit of shitting on stupid ideas.

The Great War: started in 2014 doing week by week of the first world War, 100 years after it began. Now is doing a similar series on the second world War.

The Operations Room: breaks down historical military operations minute by minute, incredible level of detail.

Korean Englishman/ Jolly: Josh and Ollie a couple of British guys introduce korean food to people and on Jolly they go get into other foods and hijinks

Townsend: showing what life was like in early colonial America

Cooking

https://youtube.com/@foodwishes?si=yI4JtmUn50uBBHTq Chef John is a treasure, every recipe I've followed of his has been a banger! Highly recommend

Guitar related

https://youtube.com/@EricHaugenGuitar?si=Ey2YYsjMmoss8XWE Eric Haugen is a fantastic guitar player/teacher, I love his mellow Bob Ross-esque vibe

https://youtube.com/@PhillipMcKnight?si=oHF6ndW08Z4uP9KU Philip McKnight is the god of the guitar gear heads. Has a ton of great videos showing how to do simple guitar repairs, reviewing gear etc.

Comedy/pop culture

https://youtube.com/@commentiquette?si=_s6NoLnG3oDCNPmz Internet comments etiquette is a hilarious channel that teaches how to leave respectful comments in this increasingly hostile and confusing online world.

https://youtube.com/@RedLetterMedia?si=el68vpczG7nP9JvF Red Letter Media - movie/tv critics with great skits and characters. Maybe the best thing on YouTube IMO

Board Games

https://youtube.com/@shutupandsitdown?si=WBR9bWjHv8-NbyaR Really great board game reviews, I've found a bunch of my favorite games here

Educational

https://youtube.com/@animagraffs?si=Dabm4scpS_pZEFFb Amazing 3d renders and walkthroughs of complex machines/systems. The video on the HMS Victory is inspired.

https://youtube.com/@ProfessorDaveExplains?si=j1_aVPIv7onfSuk4 Professor Dave does science education, great videos on many topics.

Motorcycles

https://youtube.com/@FortNine?si=GXooYCKjCYaMPgPF FortNine puts out the best moto content I've found on the Internet.

Wendigoon, he doesn't post as frequently as a lot of others but his videos are like an hour long and he researches the fuck out of a subject. He did one about the unabomber recently that he had to break into a two partner because one part was just an hour long interview with the lead FBI investigator on the case.

Anton Petrov

https://youtube.com/@whatdamath

Late to this but I'll drop a niche list. They've all done fighting game content.

• Core-A Gaming
• GuileWinQuote
• TheoryFighter
• Leon Massey

A few comes to mind.

Ordinary Things is great and Michael Fisher is good and usually doesn't hype stuff up.

Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

A low brow approach to botany and ecology through the ramblings of a crass Chicago Italian. Nowhere else will you find a full frontal milkweed pollination or see a San Francisco portapotty botanized.

He posts infrequently but Sean Hodgins videos keep getting better. Don't let the thumbnails fool you, he puts a ton of work into them. It's hard to describe, it's mostly him showing off his projects but they have an analogue/80s cyberpunk feel in the way he tells his story, the music that's played, and how he edits the videos together.

XboxAhoy (The channel name is just Ahoy)

A few I haven't seen show up yet:

• Brick Immortar, bunch of good videos on maritime incidents
• Maritime Horrors, same category as above, great quality stuff
• Pulsar, Lemmino-style documentaries

Harry Mack. Greatest off-top freestyler ever (except maybe Juice WRLD, but that's apples and oranges). Folks are sad about the end of Omegle Bars, but I've always thought Wordplay Wednesdays is his best format.

Too many to name. I'm easily on YouTube 2+ hours each day and there's not exactly lack of quality content

The Why Files

• 3balsue1brown
• Kathy Loves Physics & History. I like that she stays in her lane and hasn't deviated from electricity and history.
• freecodecamp, each video is a course that's several hours long.

Calum https://youtube.com/@CalumRaasay

Barely Sociable https://youtube.com/@BarelySociable

Bright Sun Films https://youtube.com/@BrightSunFilms

Code Bullet https://youtube.com/@CodeBullet

Jet Lag: The Game https://youtube.com/@jetlagthegame

Half As Interesting https://youtube.com/@halfasinteresting

Mustard https://youtube.com/@MustardChannel

PaperWill https://youtube.com/@PaperWill

Peter Dibble https://youtube.com/@peterdibble

RetroBytes https://youtube.com/@RetroBytesUK

Ringway Manchester https://youtube.com/@RingwayManchester

Ruairidh MacVeigh https://youtube.com/@rorymacve

SideNote https://youtube.com/@SidenoteChannel

TheEpicNate315 https://youtube.com/@TheEpicNate315

Tom Scott https://youtube.com/@TomScottGo

Techmoan https://youtube.com/@Techmoan

Wendover Productions https://youtube.com/@Wendoverproductions

Posy, I am surprised at que quality of his videos, they are incredibly artistic

Would like to throw in Atomic Frontier, he makes on-location video essays about random science and engineering topics that are edited with great supporting infographics

Carefree Wandering

Social critique, critical theory, postmodern theory, theory of media, from a Daoist, Luhmann, and sometimes Marxist perspective.