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Viva La Dirt League if you're looking for short but hillarious videos. I also quite enjoy Foil Arms and Hog, Daniel Thrasher and Chris Hallbeck
Kurzgesagt and CGP Gray for general easy to understand science.
Numberphile, Stand-up Maths and 3Blue1Brown if you are into math facts and stuff and computer science. Also minutephysics for physics.
If you like Minecraft, you must check out all the members of Hermitcraft.
That about sums up my subscription list.
Adding to those that aren't here
Tech ingredients - science experiments at home on a wide range of subjects
This old tony - well crafted videos about machining and other shop stuff with a pinch of humor
Look mom no computer - electronics and synths
Strange parts - maker, electronics (he made the iphone with USB c)
AvE - foul mouthed hero, tool teardowns and other stuff
Wintergatan - about a man who's making a music machine
StarTalk
Joe Scott
Slidebean
Carwow
Donut Media
Doctor Mike
Chris Ramsay
Cleo Abram
Half Asleep Chris
Physics Girl
TLDR News
Steve Wallis - camping with Steve
Super wholesome - great dude. Enjoys camping in..... Non traditional spots.
First video I watched was him camping in the middle of a roundabout (traffic circle). Good times.
Depends what you're into
I like:
Air Safety Institute - https://www.youtube.com/@AirSafetyInstitute - they cover recent GA crashes, all sorts of stuff related to airplanes and what not. Really interesting and well presented.
HorrorGeek - https://www.youtube.com/@TheHorrorGeek - amusing reviews of horror movies
NerdExplains - https://www.youtube.com/@NerdExplains - really snarky and mean-spirited horror movie reviews
PeriscopeFilm - https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm - Archival film footage from through the ages, just all kinds of crazy stuff
Ill Advised Records - https://www.youtube.com/@illadvisedrecords - relaxing music
Law & Crime Network - https://www.youtube.com/@LawAndCrime - Content about crime and trials and what have you
Cryochamber - https://www.youtube.com/@cryochamberlabel - Relaxing music
There's a bunch more (the New Jersey museum guy, Drachnifel, bunch of true crime stuff) but that's what leapt to mind first
I'll skip the ones already mentioned.
Anton Petrov - Science and Space news
Postmodern Jukebox - Modern songs in different styles
Legal Eagle - A lawyers take on modern events, movies, etc
Ze Frank - I am unable to describe, just give a video a watch
Anything with Simon Whistler, he has too many channels to list
Munro Live - An engineering firms take on new cars.
nicola white mudlark - Very good if you like history.
Only ones I haven't seen mentioned so far:
Post Apocalyptic Inventor
German guy visits scrapyards to find tools and other items to repair out repurpose.
AudioPilz
Aka. Bad Gear. Reviews of synths and drum machines. Goes over the pros and cons, mostly cons. Does AV audio demo and 2 song demos with music videos made from retro cartoons and tons of meme content.
David Hilowitz Music
I guess I would call this mostly unusual music stuff. Lots of unusual and found or cheaply made diy instruments. He uploads sample libraries for then as well so you can make songs with them too.
Rose Anvil
Dissects shoes and boots so you can find footwear worth the cost.
Haven't seen acollierasto mentioned yet.
She's a scientist with a PHD in Astrophysics and does deep dives on specific topics, generally from the angle of science communication and how it often fails that topic in some way.
Her videos are very simple and low production value, but packed with information. She's a great communicator and you walk away from each video, not just with better knowledge on a topic, but also with a sense of where the holes in that knowledge are. Like where the limits of the metaphor being used to covey the topic to you exist.
~~GeoGuesser's~~ GeoWizard's adventures
I'll watch anything, but never expected I'd watch a dude just walk in a straight line for hours
Edit: clearly not that memorable, but still recommended!
Can't believe nobody's recommended NileRed/NileBlue yet. His videos are awesome
When it comes to food, stay away from non-professional channels like Tasty or even websites like Allrecipes.com. The recipes may turn out to be disasters - pro sources always test and retest their recipes.
I can recommend these food channels:
Thai cooking by a Thai https://www.youtube.com/@PailinsKitchen
Soul food by Momma Cherri https://www.youtube.com/@MommaCherri
EZ Asian cooking https://www.youtube.com/@adamliaw
Italian https://www.youtube.com/@NOTANOTHERCOOKINGSHOW
Keto recipes https://www.youtube.com/@KetoConnect
Baking https://www.youtube.com/@BrianLagerstrom
Food Lab https://www.youtube.com/@JKenjiLopezAlt/videos
Ethan Chlebowski https://www.youtube.com/@EthanChlebowski/videos
Code Bullet: Australian doing stupid and entertaining programming
John Savill: if you want to know anything about the Microsoft Azure Cloud
Francis John: Irish dude playing Rimworld and Oxygen Not Included with weird settings.
Without saying what you like it is quite hard to recommend things.
Nick Zentner (@GeologyNick) has been delivering college level lectures and seminars in geology for years. He has several lecture series ranging from 101 level, senior College level, to breaking research. He also has many shorts and onsite presentations.
Noraly (@ItchyBoots) has been traveling around the world via motorcycle for 6 or so years. She's currently traversing western Africa, and has hundreds of hours of backlog. She has previously traveled from India to the Netherlands, and then from Argentina to Alaska (with a break for COVID).
Louis Rossman
Cool DIY projects with an overall chilled vibe: https://www.youtube.com/@DIYPerks
Relaxing watch restorations with informative commentary https://www.youtube.com/@WristwatchRevival
For informative but entertaining car related stuff MCM are pretty great: https://www.youtube.com/mightycarmods
If you're into F1, The Race has a pretty good youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/WeAreTheRace
Also Josh Revell deserves a shoutout https://www.youtube.com/@thejoshrevell
Crazy mashups - think Mr Bean in Cyberpunk: https://www.youtube.com/@eli_handle_bwav
General drunken shinanigans: https://www.youtube.com/@coldones
Chilled, nicely shot Japanese cooking videos: https://www.youtube.com/@JunsKitchen
Other generic cooking advice but also quite entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/@SortedFood
Geeky coffee related stuff: https://www.youtube.com/@jameshoffmann
Standard self plug (mostly stupid gaming stuff): https://www.youtube.com/@WoodstockYT
History Matters is absolutely hilarious if you like world history and British humor.
Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik
Watchers
Good Mythical Morning
Civvie11
Let's Game it Out
AmbiguousAmphibian
The Spiffing Brit
Call Me Kevin
SUV RVing: https://www.youtube.com/@SUVRVing
An extremely down to earth travel channel about a guy who mostly just drives around exploring the American West and sleeping in his car.
He finds all kinds of hidden gems you have never heard of and he researches and tells you a lot of interesting details about the areas he visits. But the videos are very chill and he talks about some of the more mundane details of his trip that would be cut from most channels videos.
It is extremely relaxing to watch, really feels like you are hanging out and going on a road trip with your buddy.
AvE Adam Savage/Tested Bushy and the Backlogs
For entertainement:
Good Mythical Morning
Mythical Kitchen
Cold Ones
Girlfriend Reviews
Ididathing
William Osman
Michael Reeves
Ludwig/Mogul Mail
Podcasts:
H3 Podcast
The Yard Podcast
Trash Taste Podcast
PaymoneyWubby Stream Archive
Veritasium, high minded science made simple and easy without it seeming patronizing
And of course a plug for Simon Whistler, the man has like 8 individual channels covering a lot of information
Well There’s Your Problem
Drachinifel
Sam Holmes Sailing. I know nothing about sailing and somehow stumbled across his videos. He makes vlogs about his solo sailing adventures. They are relaxing to me for some reason.
I really like Potholer54 - he doesn't do any ads so youtube NEVER promotes his videos. He will read, cite, link all his sources and more importantly, will respond to misrepresentations of science in the media. He will usually explain the science behind the articles he sources and explain why the media gets it wrong.
I've also found Skip Intro is really good regarding copaganda. He has some great videos on a lot of the media I was exposed to growing up and its good to reexamine it with a more modern take. He also dunks on paw patrols which is fucking terrible.
DankPods
He recently announced that he'll be taking a break from content creation, so this is the perfect time for you to binge watch everything he has made in the past 3 years.
Little Chinese Everywhere
I've traveled in China a lot and she goes to places I've never had the opportunity to, asks so many well thought out questions to the locals, and does an excellent job editing it together. Great channel if you like travel stuff
The B1M
Incredible channel about construction and architecture. Because they cover worldwide you get a big of regional information. The videos are high quality with tons of business details you would have to pay for premium subscriptions to get before.
Maigomika
New channel about a couple who moved to a very rural part of Japan and their challenges. It isnt stuffed with info, they let the environment lead the pace and fill in little details here and there. Beautiful imagery with a bit of home cam style that really brings the viewer into their world.
For in-depth game analysis: Joseph Anderson; Whitelight
If you're interested in a dry-humored, game-reviewing owl with an upload schedule just as fucked up as his sleep schedule, try Shammy.
For humorous but interesting, creative and well explained engineering: Stuff Made Here
For interesting gaming challenges: Ymfah is absolutely amazing
@yousuckatcooking - entertaining cooking and legit recipes!
@fortnine - amazing quality motorbike channel. Even if you don't ride its very educational and entertaining.
Micheal MJD is a nice channel if you're interested into retro hardware
AveragePixel
Applied science
Tomatoanus
Cathode Ray Dude, CloudCuckooCountry, Distant Signal, Jacob geller, Jay foremen, patriciantv, power pak, technology Connections, train of thought
Legit Street Cars, Primitive Technology, Ghost Town Living, Donut (their older stuff is better than newer), Colin Furze (older stuff also better than new, but newer stuff is bigger, more expensive projects as his channel has grown), Blackmail Studio and Wristwatch Revival. Those are the YT channels I'm constantly watching (along with Critical Role, but excluded due to length of episodes).
Edit: Oh and SpyroPyro does some awesome stuff with Lasers.
https://www.youtube.com/@MrBallen/videos
MrBallen is a guy who retells storys in a very compelling way. Stories of murder-cases, odd occurences, sinister events, etc.
This channel is really worth listening/watching (and also binging). I discovered his channel two years ago and follow it ever since. The videos length unsually varies between 15 to 30 minutes. Although the video's thumbnails and titles appear like it is clickbait, each video is well-made and worth a watch! Almost every Sunday a new video is uploaded.