Captain Disillusion - Does videos about fake videos and pictures and about video editing in a humorous way. He has had same high quality over 18 years now.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEOXxzW2vU0P-0THehuIIeg

Primitive technology. There are many imitators, but the original is a man on his own in Australia. His videos focus on building structures in the woods. Starting with river mud, he will make a furnace in order to make bricks in order to make a building to sleep in in order to use it for kiln drying for larger structures etc.....

Be sure to watch with subtitles to read his explanation of things!

Edit to fix: he is based in Australia, not new Zealand.

Practical Engineering

Tasting History with Max Miller.

FortNine: both the content and the video quality are top notch.
TechnologyConnections is the only channel where you'll waste an hour nerding out on washing machines, even if you don't own one.
Louis Rossmann has been instrumental in the fight for right to repair in the US.

Yeah i could list many more but you asked for one (and i already overran that), plus these are the ones that stand out to me.

Some of these channels have changed over the years, expanding and adding hosts and things, but they consistently make good content and have either improved or maintained that quality.

Wendover and Half As Interesting

Real Engineering

Mustard

Legal Eagle

Mentour Pilot

Not a channel, but a creator: Yahtzee Croshaw (was Zero Punctuation/Extra Punctuation on The Escapist, is now Fully Ramblomatic/Semi Ramblomatic on Second Wind.

CGP Grey

SciShow (and many of the other projects from the vlogbrothers, including Crash Course and vlogbrothers itself)

Technology Connections

Shaun

HBomberGuy

ElectroBOOM

Videogamedunkey

https://youtube.com/@explainingcomputers
+
https://youtube.com/@christopherbarnatt

DOT COM

https://youtube.com/@mothersbasement

I only listen to this one guy for anime reccomendations.

https://youtube.com/@colinfurze

Never has a lull, always good.

https://youtube.com/@chemicalforce

Pretty toxic chemistry

https://youtube.com/@weirdexplorer

If you don't really care about exotic fruit adventures, at least watch his feature length Nutmeg documentary it's most excellent.

https://youtube.com/@civvie11

Boomer shooter comedic...retrospectives? I like him.

https://youtube.com/@mrcarlsonslab

He repairs very old electronics and is soothing to listen to.

https://youtube.com/@fortnine

I don't even really care about motorcycles, but their video editing skills are incredible.

https://youtube.com/@lowbuckgarage

Accurate, he will do everything possible to avoid spending money on a project.

https://youtube.com/@styropyro

Mad scientist.

https://youtube.com/@casuallyexplained

His sense of humor doesn't get old for me.

https://youtube.com/@thecodyreeder

Mad scientist.

https://youtube.com/@robwords

Taught me more about language than any teacher in my life ever did.

https://youtube.com/@st1ka

I find a lot of obscure old games to play via this guy and his videos are high effort.

https://youtube.com/@posymusic

Every video is a work of art. It doesn't matter what the subject is, you'll be entranced.

https://youtube.com/@techtangents

Bitrot necromancy enthusiast.

https://youtube.com/@littlevmills

A Canadian who makes high effort metal music covers.

https://youtube.com/@joel-haver

He just likes to make movies. I like his movies. A lot.

https://youtube.com/@theslowmoguys

It's in the name!

https://youtube.com/@integza

Mad scientist.

https://youtube.com/@evenflow2907

High effort vehicular brainrot.

https://youtube.com/@labeast

Have a good day!

https://youtube.com/@umami

A lovely weird Canadian artist I adore.

I'll hop on the Technology Connections train and add

Styropyro

CathodeRayDude

Civvie11

Northernlion

Primitive Technology. He started the whole "build a shelter in the woods" genre that has become so dumb, but his videos are still just as great as ever. No narration or music, other than the sounds of the birds and insects, just interesting experiments into basic technology like shelters, fire, charcoal, kilns, pottery, small machines, bricks, roof tiles, etc., all using only the most primitive stone age tools, created from materials found in the forest and stream around his camp.

Even his attire is as spare as his videos, just a pair of khaki shorts.

Currently, he's working through a series of experiments to make fire hot enough to smelt metal.

I've been watching him since he started, and he's the only channel that I stop everything to watch when a new video drops.

Map Men. It's always educational, interesting, and they have amazing Monty Pythonish gags and jokes.

Map Men / Jay Foreman

Interesting and genuinely amusing for about 15 years at this point.

In a Nutshell - Kurzgesagt

Cross-instance linking is a mess. You linked to an ad for your mobile app, which links to a kbin instance, which links back to lemmy.world... The app page devotes most of its space to download links while kbin demands the viewer log in before it will show them anything.

Technology Connections are great, but this doesn't feel very connected.

videogamedunkey

Been watching his videos for ~10 years now

Numberphile and any other channel by Brady Haran.

Smarter Everyday (space, slow mo, manufacturing), PBS Space Time (space, quantum physics, astrophysics...), Xisumavoid (Minecraft Let's Play), Magnus Midtbø (Climber), Asianometry (technology, manufacturing, science history)

No captain disillusion?!

ZeFrank. After a long gap in videos he's back even better

Project Farm

Hbomberguy has been getting nothing but better.

Foldingideas also has fantastic long form video essays that I really enjoy.

I think a whole lot of "maker" type channels have all stayed pretty solid, off the top of my head

This Old Tony
Adam Savage
Xyla Foxlin
Clickspring
Blondihacks
Colin Furze
Inheritance Machining (though compared to some of the others he's relatively new)
Stuff Made Here
Jeremy Fielding

Branching out a bit

How to drink
Caitlin Doughty (ask a mortician)
LockpickingLawyer
NileRed (and NileBlue)
Tasting History
Townsends
Useful Charts
EDIT: Almost forgot Technology Connections

Some of them have changed their format a bit over the years, I don't think that's been a negative for any of them. Also due to how YouTube revenue works these days a lot of them have had to rely more heavily on sponsors, patron, merch etc. don't hate the player for that, hate the game.

Some ones I haven't seen yet:

• Camping with Steve (relaxed Canadian camping with plenty of dry humour, usually some wild stealth camping adventures)
• Budget-Builds Official (tries out random ass computer hardware and finds its limits)
• dosdude1 (infamous for crazy Mac upgrades that require resoldering BGA chips and chip programming)
• EthosLab (already saw Xisumavoid mentioned, Etho is still happily making mature Minecraft videos)
• Flexiny (ASMR-like videos of mechanics fixing old cars to run again)
• FlyTech Videos (Windows experiments and deep dives into how Win32 and NT do things)
• GIFGAS (usual accomplice with shiey in train surfing, although I enjoy GIFGAS' edits more than shiey)
  • Side note: His videos are taken down regularly so you have to be quick to download them before they disappear
• Hugh Jeffreys (Australian right to repair advocate, usually repairs smartphones but has dabbled into more vintage items recently)
• Janus Cycle (2000s deep retrospectives into technology)
• Plainly Difficult (British industrial accident examinations with wonderfully shoddy graphics)
• polymatt (absolute 3D modelling wizard who takes on restoring vintage tech to beyond brand new with incredible attention to detail, and very engaging edits)
• Seytonic (cyber security news roundup weekly)
• This Does Not Compute (retro computer repairs and retrospectives)
• Usagi Electric (extremely vintage computer repairs, going right back to vacuum tubes to 1980s minicomputers)

Edit: fixed formatting error

Veritasium.

Practical Engineering. His videos are about all the infrastructure that makes the modern world function.

RedLetterMedia

They used to do the Mr. Plinkett reviews and still publish a bunch of videos of reviewing movies that are very, very good (and entertaining) and other movie related content. While there are no more Mr. Plinkett reviews, they have maintained the same high quality of the channel for the last 15+ years. They just don’t publish content as often. It’s down to once or twice a week now.

Tom Scott for sure kept video quality high and standard over the years. I miss him.

Testing history with Max Miller and How to Drink.

Lemmino, Ahoy and kurzgesagt

• Practical Engineering
• Gamer Nexus (for sure)
• Matt's off road recovery
• Tested(Adamsavage)
• Startalk
• Trail mater
• GrizzlyandBear Overlanding
• Kirk Kreifles
• the Car Care Nut & Car Care Nut auto reviews
• Driver 61
• Sarah-n-tuned
• Max Velocity (weather)
• Grind Hard Plumbing
• Throttle House
• AutoJeffReviews
• DrivingSportsTV

Techmoan, if you are interested in old or weird tech.

Brick Technology (link)

There's no voiceover, no clickbait, no intro or outro, just an engineer building absurd Lego machines to overcome set challenges. The quality and entertainment are top tier.

This Old Tony started posting sporadically again!

Goofy dad joke making hobby machinist with a sprinkling of fun cuts, and literally just a voice and hands working on things. One of my favorite channels.

Stefan Milo - real archaeology, not ancient aliens

Cool Worlds - real astrophysics, not aliens

PBS Space Time - it's never aliens

twoodford - Zen and the Art of Guitar Repair

Forgotten Weapons