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I've added my favorite YouTube channels in the comments below. (Feel free to check them out!) But, my preferences aside, what YouTube channel(s) do you want more people to see?

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[-] Shape4985@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

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

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

How is science and futurism with Isaac Arthur (SFIA) not getting more love?

Tbf, Isaac Arthur will sometimes propose ideas that absolutely no hope of working such as orbital loops. While I get that he's not an engineer, videos like that tend to be a blemish on his reputation.

[-] 65gmexl3@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I also like Primal Space when it comes to space videos. His animation are amazing

[-] YoFrodo@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] them@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Bobby fingers came in swinging with high production value from day 1. He doesn't have many videos but the quality of them is so good.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Only real homies watch Dankpods.

Got some open backs because of him. Prized possessions, they are. Even got myself the Frank Longboi

[-] jonesy@aussie.zone 5 points 9 months ago

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

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Love down the rabbit hole

[-] Soliyou@midwest.social 5 points 9 months ago

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

[-] HatchetHaro 4 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] puppy@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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
[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago

Map men map men map map map men men men.

[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

You forgot a few of these "," please sprinkle them where ever for maximum annoyance.

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I love how you just casually included the iFixit channel.

It's true though. They've got teardowns for just about every major mobile device, and then some. As for their store, I bought the screen I'm typing this on from them. The shipping could be better, at least in my experience, but the products are definitely high quality.

[-] bartvbl@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Noah Caldwell-Gervais

https://youtube.com/@broadcaststsatic

Detailed video reviews of games primarily focusing on the narrative.

[-] kryllic@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

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

[-] rx8geek@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

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

[-] rpr@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, anything with DewClaw was great, the tool breakdowns are usually good, but he's lost the plot a bit lately.

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

The Engineer Guy

Bill Hammack explains engineering concepts and household items clearly.

(All licenced under Creative Commons BY)

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Loouis Rossman. He's interesting to listen to.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Your next question has to be sky related and rotate the picture up. Then ground and rotate down.

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago
[-] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Head's up, The Escapist is essentially dead since they fired their editor-in-chief (Nick Calandra) and all of the talent (Yahtzee, Frost, JM8, Jack, etc.) quit to start a new employee-owned company with him called Second Wind

[-] derphurr@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Somehow you are missing:

Captain Disillusion

Internet Comment Etiquette

AvE & This Old Tony & ElectroBOOM

ZeFrank

[-] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I was gonna say all these +

Post apocalyptic Inventor,

Stuff Made Here,

SmarterEveryday

Subject Zero

Fat electrician

12tone

Knowing Better (best essays on the tube)

Second Thought

Hakim

Superfastmatt

Bigclive

Explosions&Fire/Extractions&ire

Nilered

HoeMath

Darkmatter2525

Van Neistat

Hyperspace Pirate

NighthawkinLight

Tech ingredients

Farmcraft101

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Dude, Second Thought is basically tankie propaganda now

[-] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

You don't have to agree with everything you see my dude. In fact, I would hope you don't.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There's a difference between watching content you don't agree with and giving views (and thereby ad revenue) to propagandists.

I don't know about you, but I'd rather not spend my limited time alive on listening to people who are intellectually and morally bankrupt.

[-] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

In my eyes, suppressing knowledge, or advocating it, is morally bankrupt.

If you have a better argument, you engage in the conversation, you don't end the conversation and make sure no one else can talk about it again.

You shouldn't even try to dissuade people from watching it, you should want the people around you to be better educated, I would think. Idk, man, I want my wife to stay with me cuz she chooses too, not because I've lied to her about every other man in the world, or destroyed her self confidence so she thinks she can't do better.

To be clear, that's abuse. All of that.

Looking around, imma go ahead and say capitalism, in any flavor it's being expressed in this world, isn't living up to its promises. From what I can tell, that puts me with 95% of everyone else.

Do I think communism is the answer? No. I think capitalism is fine for grand pianos, not Grandma's pills.

After WW2 the post war economies settled on social democracy as the compromise between the two. I think we need to get back to that, and designate areas of the economy fundamental and forbidding people from profit or rent seeking practices. Education, medicine, emergency services, community development. Essentially if it's something the government offers or necessitates, then it's already paid for in taxes, that goes for permits, passports, licensing, reviews, All of it. I think that because it's obvious the relationship between elected officials and civil servents to the population needs repairing, drastic change. The only positive change I can fathom is simplifying for the end user (one tax) and open-transparency.

I'm willing to entertain arguments against, I don't claim or think to know everything. In fact, everything Im right about now I can guarantee I was wrong about before.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

In my eyes, suppressing knowledge, or advocating it, is morally bankrupt.

Claiming I'm advocating the suppression of knowledge is a bold claim. I'm informing you (and anyone reading this thread) about their heavily skewed view of the world as a caution. You can always choose to not take my advice.

Also, claiming people are trying to suppress you simply because they shared their opinion is rather disingenuous. I have made a single personal attack on you, I've only criticized the informational valye of the channel you recommended, assuming that you were simply unaware of its issues.

You shouldn't even try to dissuade people from watching it, you should want the people around you to be better educated

It's weird you're using this argument when the channel in question has a video called "Alternatives to Capitalism" that is just a 15 minute rant on why capitalism is bad and spends no time actually discussing potential alternatives to capitalism.

I'm willing to entertain arguments against, I don't claim or think to know everything. In fact, everything Im right about now I can guarantee I was wrong about before.

Given how you immediately resorted to a "reducto ad absurdum" argument makes me highly suspicious of your willingness to entertain differing arguments. In fact, it's concerningly similar to the debate strategy of Second Thought and tankues in general.

Please keep trying to broaden your horizons, particularly to more moderate sources. You're sounding like you're falling into an echo chamber

[-] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You've cherry picked parts of my argument and disregarded the meat, the heart of it that carried my point.

In other words, you either found contention too soon and disregarded the rest of youre intentionally being obtuse and arguing circularly as if one of us can win here.

The opening line was a statement, not an attack. The "you " in the second line is generic, not directed. If I'm not directing at you, why would I feel personally attacked? Cuz I don't. C'mon man.

Try again bro.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

You've cherry picked parts of my argument and disregarded the meat, the heart of it that carried my point.

Your entire argument was (and should) be disregarded when you immediately resort to calling me morally bankrupt by your reducto ad adsurdum argument about your wife, which I actually did address if you read properly.

The opening line was a statement, not an attack. The "you " in the second line is generic, not directed. If I'm not directing at you, why would I feel personally attacked?

If you truly believe that any reasonable person wouldn't take that as a personal attack then you need to brush up on your English skills.

Like I suggested for, you're stacking up to be exactly what I would expect a fan of Second Thought to be like, and that's not a compliment. I offered you a chance to help you dig yourself out of a tankie echo chamber, but if you want to mire yourself in that then by all means go ahead.

[-] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Way up that list before I mentioned Second Thought I also mentioned the Fat Electrician, whom, if you haven't seen his work, is staunchly, aggressively, anti-communist.

Do those that you've come up with or currently surround yourself with completely lose their critical thinking once video starts playing?

Idk what to tell you man, you jump to a shitton of conclusions. Wearing pink doesn't make me gay

When I see a sign in another language I don't think it's talking about me.

Take care of yourself, I guess, if you want, either way, I'm done here.

[-] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

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...

[-] AnomalousBit@programming.dev 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Forget YouTube and Google by extension. Imagine if you spend all those hours watching something that improves your mind and capabilities: https://ocw.mit.edu

Work on yourself, friends.

[-] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

There are plenty of self improvement videos.

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[-] them@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I know better vibes going on here

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[-] IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Oooh! I think I'm gunna learn me some Machine Learning for Inverse Graphics.

[-] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

MobileTechReview (https://www.youtube.com/@mobiletechreview ), Lisa's reviews feel the most authentic to me without too much bullshit and they always helped me with my buying decisions.

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