Seeing the other post here about YouTuber that went downhill and seeing content creators I am familiar with makes me sad. But how about those that still makes great, high quality content?
I love watching Lets Plays and HCBailly is the best let’s player. His quality has only gone up over the years and his consistent upload schedule leaves nothing to be desired. He’s under rated and deserves 3 million subs.
CAPTAIN DISILLUSION
Gaming
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EthosLab - most authentic Minecraft YouTuber around. No trash clickbait, cringeworthy attempts to appeal to children, ad spam, etc. Just a dude chilling out and playing Minecraft.
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Battle(non)sense - Tests various input lag reduction tech + strategies. Input Lag: Low DPI vs High DPI - turns out increasing your DPI can significantly reduce input lag! AMD AntiLag+ vs Nvidia Reflex - turns out not only does AMD’s solution trigger anti-cheat, but it also offen increases system latency.
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Marblr - High quality analysis of weird game behavior. Mostly Overwatch for now. Overwatch: The Effectiveness of Shield Spinning
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People Make Games - Videos about games and the gaming industry. Highly accessible to folks not familiar with the industry. Making Sense of VR Chat, the Metaverse People Actually Like
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NoClip - Crowd funded feature length video game documentaries. Making of Horizon Zero Dawn
Makers
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ColinFurze - builds crazy stuff and does an amazing job of it! Currently building an underground garage at his house that connects to his underground tunnel system.
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I Did a Thing - Australian man with a great sense of humor. Makes ridiculous stuff. Giant Beyblade destroys stuff
…more in Honytawk’s comment below
Science + Technology
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Applied Science - In depth videos about random science-y things this dude finds interesting. No clickbait, just an excited dude talking about a project he tried.
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Atomic Frontier - A lot like Tom Scott. He’s also a rare case where the video is more interesting than the title/thumbnail. Generally focused on science-y topics + has shockingly high production value considering the dude seems to be an overworked college student.
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NileRed/NileBlue - Crazy in depth chemistry videos. Personally find NileBlue more entertaining as he tends to explore things he’s not that great at.
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Practical Engineering - Explanations of various civil engineering concepts.
Other
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Krazam - Legendary comedy channel focused on software engineering related topics. Most famous video - microservices.
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You Suck At Cooking - Short videos presenting recipes in an entertaining way.
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Studio Binder ; High quality videos about all things movie/video production. Owned by a movie production software company so you’re gonna see ads for it in every video but SponsorBlock gets rid of that with no issues. Ultimate Guide to Camera Movement - Every Technique Explained
Your makers can be padded out a bit more.
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I did a thing - dry humor Australian who walks barefoot and wears an apron.
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Michael Reeves - chaotic coding goblin that makes robots
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TheBackyardScientist - Floridaman using his backyard to explode stuff
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Mark Rober - Nasa engineer explaining science to kids with great editing
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William Osman - Collaboration expert, you will see him in all the other channels mentioned above.
Thanks for the list, I’m sure others will appreciate it!
I’m actually subscribed to almost all of those channels lmao. I skipped several because I’m being picky, and I mean picky. You probably won’t agree with a lot of my decisions. Here’s what I mean…
- I did a thing - forgot about him I’ll add him to the list
- Micheal Reeves - Last real video was a year ago
- Backyard scientist - Unsubscribed a while ago due to clickbait. From a quick glance his videos seem fine now though.
- Mark Rober - Video quality has been going downhill. More and more clickbait, and videos seem to spend a lot more time than necessary on “look at our happy family fun time we’re having.”
- William Osman - I like him just not enough to put him on the list
I agree. There are not many YouTubers making and people enjoying the absolute tiny niche content I enjoy.
With your high standards you may like Huygens Optics an old optics engineer who does videos about light simply because he enjoys making them. But the content is niche.
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Technology Connections
Absolutely love him.
He’s a big Fediverse guy, too. Very active on Mastodon.
One of the most informative channels I’ve ever watched. I recommend his dishwasher video, because everybody is doing it wrong.
Been on reddit for over a decade, never heard of this channel. On lemmy since a few weeks, I keep reading about him and his dishwasher video at least twice a week.
And yes, I’ve watched it a couple of weeks ago, it is good. I’ll have to watch some of his other videos sometimes
His one about basic style rice makers is fantastic
Always knew those pods sucked for more money. He did convert me to the powder tho
Was going to comment this
3blue1brown
Makes great visual math videos. Without him I would have never studied electronics.
hbomberguy
Colin Furze (inventor with crazy ideas)
Anna Cramling (chess streamer)
Colin Furze takes oil money.
Climate Town, Adam Something, Not Just Bikes, Contra Points, Hbomberguy, World War Two, The Great War, The Linux Experiment, CivDiv, The Thought Emporium, and there are some others that currently escape my mind.
I also have GioPizzi and Yotobi but their videos are in Italian.
PhilosophyTube fits quite well into your list :)
~Internet Historian~, Mustard, Real Engineering, Wendover Productions, Gigguk (for anime), The Squidd
Edit: Didn’t know about plagiarism problem Internet Historian got into
Weird including Internet Historian after the Hbomberguy video. Wouldn’t care so much but I found Historian’s statement on it pretty gross. Doesn’t seem to take the plagerism very seriously.
Statement by IH? Could you link that maybe?
MrMobile(Michael Fisher) - His video presentation skills 10/10, I specially love his series named when phones were fun, where he fondly talks about yesteryear phones and gadgets.
Harald Baldr - I may not go to all the places he goes, but the way he interacts with different people irrespective of the barrier of communication is commendable. The way he presents himself in his videos, I believe that’s him in real life as well. No fakery.
From someone who loved watching his buddy BaldAndBankrupt’s videos…oof I got some stuff for you to read and make up your own mind:
Too many to name. I’m easily on YouTube 2+ hours each day and there’s not exactly lack of quality content
That
s true but sometimes its hard to spot gold when it is burried under a sea of shit
Seems like he’s been doing his thing for the entire existence of the internet. Silly little flash animations and games in the early 2000’s and now his ‘true facts’ of animals videos. Seems to keep true to his own style, ever evolving as it may be, but always similar- and maybe thats what I find comforting- he’s been there for most of the 20+ years I’ve been ‘surfin the web’, as the kids like to say.
I was hoping someone would post ZeFrank! His True Facts series is exactly what education content should be - entertaining, interesting, funny, and most importantly, rigorously sourced and credited to the real life scientists and researchers he bases his info on.
For more animal facts, check out Isabella Rossellini “Green Porno”. A little more risqué, and a different kind of humor, though interesting and educational as well. It was a Sundance thing from about 10 years ago that was semi ‘viral’ at the time.
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