The all feed on YouTube is completely useless now, so for those that only use the subscribed tab, what’s your favourite channels?
I’m liking the PBS channels, Ryan Georg and pitch meeting, stuff made here, animagraffs, map men, practical engineering, tasting history, and couple of more but kinda similar theme.
Hermitcraft is usually good, PBS eons, TeirZoo, independent news (of the liberal/leftist variety), Overly sarcastic productions, Historia Civilis, inequality media, CGP Grey are all good stuff. I also enjoy Civvie11, YatzeeCroshaw, ERB, and a bunch of folks who mostly post shorts.
Oh, and if you are into Minecraft stuff, I’m trying to get back into content production myself. Same username.
Right now:
Techmoan
Adrians digital basement
Epictronics
Dawid does tech stuff
Civvie 11
Historymarche
Dequitem
Haters Garage
I like Not Just Bikes
Red Letter Media
LPN Network / Last Podcast on the Left
I’ve been watching History in Taberna recently, which is a silly history meets cooking mashup.
Also love Technology Connections and PBS Spacetime.
Tom Scott - He is back with new videos every week: [email protected]
Elephant graveyard
Primitive technology
Here’s a bit of a mixed list of good channels indicative of my interests, in no particular order, and excluding traditional media orgs and stuff like bands (though as an exception I’ll shout out tiny desk by NPR):
Technology connections - video essays about household tech
Techmoan - retro AV gear and adjacent stuff
Nostalgia nerd - video essays about retro games
Cathode ray dude - video essays on old video production and industrial tech, and adjacent stuff
LGR (+ Blerbs) - classic PC video games and hardware
Retro bytes - more video essays about retro games
Hbomberguy - video essays about games and politics
Philosophy tube - video essays about philosophy
Evan edinger - mix of topics (often transit, language, travel, differences between US/UK) about an American who’s lived in the UK and Europe
AudioPilz - retro audio gear
Ringway Manchester - amateur radio
Jago Hazzard - trains and transit, particularly London
William Osman (+ 2nd channel) - unhinged engineer currently trying to farm
Kurzgusagt - edutainment about science, health and philosophy
Binging with babish - cooking
Bigclivedotcom - electronic/electrical engineering
Macho Nacho productions - retro game console mods
Modern vintage gamer - retro game emulation and adjacent stuff
Slow news day - topical UK news analysis
Chris Spargo - short documentaries about random oddities
Tom Scott (+ the technical difficulties) - currently visiting various interesting sites around the UK, general documentary content
Pad Chennington - video essays about obscure music genres and trends
Linus Boman - typography and design
Humano Studios - vinyl DJ sets
James Hoffman - coffee documentaries and reviews
Notjustbikes - public transit and urban planning
The Serial Port - 80s/90s era Telco and ISP tech
Clabretro - similar stuff, maybe a bit more stuff about old servers
Abroad in Japan - travel content and entertainment for Japan hosted by a British expat
Rion Ishida - walking vlogs in Japan focusing on travel
Nilered - science experiment edutainment
Defunctland - abandoned theme park video essays
Adam Ragusea - cooking and health
Lockpicking Lawyer - guy picks into every lock in front of him
Gary’s Economics - video essays about why everything is going to shit (economics)
Adrian’s digital basement - retro tech repair
How to drink - cocktails and their history
VWestlife - more retro tech repair
Adam Martyn - British broadcast media history
J.J. McCollough - pop culture video essays
Summoning Salt - speed running video essays
Wendover Productions (+ half as interesting and jet lag the game) - video essays about logistics and adjacent topics. HAI is more short content and general topics
MattKC - retro game reverse engineering
Self sufficient me - gardening
Ogmios - pov vlog with a fun voiceover
Level1Techs - more tech content
Ambiguous amphibian - game challenges
Great list; I recognize a few, but not many, and the topics covered are weirdly aligned with my own interests. Thanks!
I think you’ll enjoy Physicsduck too ;)
Food content:
Sorted Food, Food Wishes, Matty Matheson, Max the Meat guy
Music content:
Heavy Metal Philosophy, Mic the Snare, Todd in the Shadows, theDickeyDinesShow, Kardavox Academy, Forgemaster Metal, imakaiya, Drumeo, Musora, Harry Mack, Never a Phase Network
Gaming content:
FlamingMercury5 (Mega Man content, mostly), Alanah Pearce, Jason Graves, Gaming Broductions, Hungry Goriya, Second Wind, Videogamedunkey, The Completionist (yes even after the controversy)
News:
Philip DeFranco Show, Internet Today, Even More News
Culture/Commentary:
Contrapoints, Adam Ragusea (also sometimes food), Pop Culture Detective, Nikhil Clayton, Full Fat Videos, Storied (PBS)
Comedy/Casual:
Drawfee, Internet Comment Etiquette, Red Cow Entertainment, The Grumps (Game Grumps is kind of trash but The Grumps is often hilarious), Smosh, Smosh Games, Smosh Pit (believe it or not somewhere down the line Smosh grew up and now makes excellent casual content for adults)
Weed girlies:
Macdizzle420, jayblazedd
Coldwarmotors - Canadian rednecks working on old junk cars, mostly. They’re pretty funny at times and informative if you’re interested in old American cars, they also do old French and old British cars sometimes. They also do actual restorations. He did a 60 Plymouth Fury that I wouldn’t have even bothered with and spliced it with the platform of a 60 Dodge and made a really nice car.
Fall of Civilizations - It’s a podcast, but he does video accompanyment and the content is very well written and researched.
Thenthapple - does fallout lore videos that I really like.
JTCurtisMusic - has a really good history of rock series.
WellRedComedy - Trae Crowder (the liberal redneck), Cory Ryan Forrester, and Drew Morgan do podcasts from a rural progressive view and also have a lot of their stand-up and comedy sketches
A couple that haven’t already been mentioned:
This Old Tony
Sixty Symbols
Legal Eagle
Stefan Gotteswinter
Matt Godbolt
Kaname NaitoLegal Eagle has only gotten better with time. Liz Dyer is my favorite addition.
Fortnine: allegedly bikes but the videos are works of art.
Bad Obsession Motorsport: a new Project Binky video at least every 6 months!
RRC Restoration: a Scotsman doing up old bikes and cars.
Jeffiot: long form internet investigations of silly things that are fascinating.
New Yorkshire Workshop: a man doing up a house. No commentary, just amazing skills and great filming.
I like shadiversity but honestly its just because they are all like con guys and its fun to have them geeking out over medieval stuff in the background. pbs spacetime of course. Epic npc man, epic rap battles, the thing with doing alternate movie commercials.
Used to like that channel. His love of “AI” generated slop and shitty personal beliefs ramped up and hit the threshold for me.
I still love his thoughts on sticks, though.
you know I have not actually watched youtube much in awhile. I may have missed the ai stuff. He was actually getting a bit tiring with the youtube changes. I get it but as much as getting some income out of it is great the fact is he is doing stuff my friends and I would do for free for the heck of it. Don’t like the idea of google making money off the videos but the changes he made would be less views so google loses as well.
I use freetube but I’ve certainly watched less videos overall.
I doubt he gets less views. YouTube skews right so, I’m thinking he’s still growing.
Funny shorts:
Farming while beige
