Ask Lemmy

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.

You have mentioned some great channels! In addition to those I recommend,

1. NotJustBikes
2. MapMen
3. Mustard
4. Climate Town
5. About Here
6. Adrian Gray Comedy
7. Andrew The Arborist
8. Animagraffs
9. Casually Explained
10. cities4people
11. City Beautiful
12. 3Blue1Brown
13. iFixit
14. Life Where I'm From
15. Medlife Crysis
16. Primitive Technology
17. Rick Steves' Europe
18. Snazzy Labs
19. Strong Towns
20. Technology Connections
21. thejuicemedia
22. xkcd's What If?
23. The Acoustic Room
24. Ted-Ed
25. JapanEat

A couple of random suggestions:

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. https://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. https://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. https://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. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UCgoxQCf5Jg

Lemmino - Video essays on conspiracies and mysteries, all are very interesting and worth watching. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5u7euN1HTuU

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.

Kill tony - stand up comedy

Outdoor boys - bushcraft

Channel 5 - journalism

Beard meats food or matt stonie - eating challanges

Cold ones - funny dumb memes

Mental outlaw or hated one or surveillance report - privacy content

David bombal or pc security channel - pc security

The linux experiment or distrotube - linux content

Gman lives or pyrocynical - long form gaming videos

Big lez show - tv show made in ms paint

Sheiy - urban exploring

Lockpicking lawyer - lockpicking content

Healthy gamer gg - content about mental health by a qualified doctor

Louis rossman - right to repair and simmilar content

Bald and bankrupt or geowizard - travel content

Cart narcs - man pretending to be a robot shaming people for leaving shopping carts and littering in car parks

Captin disilluaion - special effecrs content

Coffeezilla - internet detectives

Some ordinary gamer or penguinz0 - commentary

Micheal reeves or mark rober or i did a thing - making cool stuff

Dont hug me im scared - short horror show (also has a tv show now)

Edit: adding more suggestions and spaces between suggestions

Cooking:

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!

Lately I've been obsessed with Tasting History with Max Miller. He recreates historic dishes while exploring the history surrounding it. Very bingeable

https://youtube.com/@TastingHistory?si=1YuJ-SPuoRLjiDO4

Loouis Rossman. He's interesting to listen to.

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.

• Anime

Gigguk/Garnt, Mother's Basement, Otaku Spirit, olawoolo.

• Fitness

Jeff Nippard, Jeremy Ethier, Alan Thrall, Eddie Hall (world's strongest man).

• Other

General Discharge (military), Marques Brownlee (tech), Outdoor Boys (camping), Our Wyoming Life, EasyGerman, The Slow Mo Guys.

How is science and futurism with Isaac Arthur (SFIA) not getting more love? They are probably the highest quality and most educational videos on the entirety of YouTube. And while all of the videos cover the future, they cover wildly different topics and fields.

What will space travel actually be like? Will we live in space? What about new space sports? How will space effects our diets? What about AI? How will it effect our lives and hobbies? Mind uploading? Clark tech? Dyson swarms? O'Neill cylinders? Could the entire universe be a hallucination?

Also shout-out to PBS spacetime

Science: Steve Mould

History: timeline, odyssey, war stories, told in stone, vasile luga, get.factual

Music: cercle

Geopolitics: Caspian Report

Aviation: mustard

Biographies: the people profiles

EthosLab - the OG Minecraft Youtuber that other Minecraft Youtubers watch; somehow still innovating on redstone and technical builds to this day despite Minecraft redstone already pushed to its limits long ago, and his multiplayer shenanigans on Hermitcraft and Life Series is top notch.

Adam Ragusea - cooking videos made for actual home cooks who just want no-flair no-fuss recipes, as well as food science videos exploring and explaining different cooking methods and food chemistry. I'm particularly a fan of how he encourages you to measure and cook by feel rather than by strictly following recipes.

The Engineer Guy

Bill Hammack explains engineering concepts and household items clearly.

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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...

https://youtu.be/oPlzbfIRRqI?si=QCEbIn4QUfXX1mv3

If you have 12 hours of idle time, there's a fantastic video on The Phantom Menace that really added to my appreciation for it. Bread Circus is amazing

Noah Caldwell-Gervais

https://youtube.com/@broadcaststsatic

Detailed video reviews of games primarily focusing on the narrative.

Despite him being on the side of the canadian freedom truckers AVE has some of the best power tool teardowns

Mighty car mods - https://youtube.com/@mightycarmods

A couple of Aussie blokes and their mates having some wholesome fun mucking about with cars bought sight unseen from the internet.

Let's see, Nexpo if you like horror of any kind, DevilArtemis if you like anime or high quality animations, Jordan Howlett if you want fast food secrets, and Casual Geographic if you like animal facts even if they hurt.