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?
Summoning Salt.
Not many people can make a 2 hr video about the world record progression of a game I’ve never heard of and have me absolutely invested in it all the way through.
Dude makes a video every 3-6months but god I love them. If anything they’ve improved over the years as his style has been refined and the videos got longer.
Kurzgezagt - In a Nutshell
I would give a shout out to two makers, Frank Howarth and This Old Tony both do some amazing works in general. Tony does a good amount of metal work, while Frank is almost all about woodworking.
For some AI (sorta) stuff: Primer engaging way to learn about statistics I guess, I don’t know the right way to describe them but I always leave with something new.
For car stuff: Rob Dahm who is known for a wild RX7. Also publishes a lot of public data for the rotary community.
Junkyard Digs who does lots of classic car “restorations” or repairs. Generally tries to do the most accessible methods or tools.
Tofu Auto Works does mostly custom body kits and so on, shown in step by step processes with tips and reasons/preferences for doing things a certain way.
For gaming I’ll just throw City Planner Plays out there. He mainly plays Cities Skylines, and talks about how and why certain infrastructure is designed or used.
Editting to add: sorta (mostly) does gaming, also does other topics as well. Arch fantastic visuals and historical breakdowns of topics. Doesn’t have many videos, but they are quite good.
And purely because I’ve met him IRL and think his channel is very under viewed, About Here discusses city planning, accessibility and so on. A lot of it has to do with housing and it’s current issues, but has other city/civic related topics as well.
Fundie Fridays puts out enjoyable, quality content. They’re is a little more “low budget” but good quality and they discuss right-wing extremism and Christian fundamentalism.
If you are into watches then I would say Watchbox reviews is the best. Tim Mosso there is the best host I’ve come across in the watch space.
my fav youtubers are probably
- I did a thing
- Dank Pods
- Bringus Studios
- StyroPyro
- Posy
- fern
- A few others I cant remember rn
+1 for Dank Pods. Been watching him since the beginning
I’m surprised he hasn’t been mentioned yet. Haven’t seen another channel that presents medical cases in such a good pacing and storytelling while being able to eloquently explain complicated medical stuff such that everyone can understand.
Fall of Civilizations, though those are podcasts first. All of them are amazing.
Lockpicking Lawyer makes the best short videos. Not “yt shorts”, it’s just that it takes him 2-5 seconds to pick open the vast majority of locks, the rest of the video is his comment on the lock quality.
JoshStrifeHayes has 3 separate channels now, but that main channel that deals with MMOs still makes quality content in my opinion, but not as often. I also enjoy him playing the old games on JoshStrifePlays.
Linus Tech Tips, Good Mythical Morning, Tom Scott, CGP Grey, Moxie2D, The Stupendium, Phillip DeFranco, Trainer Tips, Element Animations
Clickspring makes some of the most beautiful, soothing, detail obsessed machining videos imaginable. Dude builds complex gear works from scratch, including a replica of the Antikythera mechanism which is still in progress after many years, though nearly finished now.
Kinda late to the party here but I’ll share a couple of my favorites:
Melodysheep - video essays about science and science fiction with absurdly high quality animations and production value
Mustard - same as above, except about interesting and/or unusual real vehicles
Casually Explained - just a dude with a great sense of humor and crude artwork explaining random things to you
Sam O’Nella Academy - same as above, except covering very specific and much weirder topics
Biblaridion - his usual content is about conlangs (don’t ask, I don’t know either) but his ongoing Alien Biospheres series about speculative evolution is simply amazing
TierZoo - highly entertaining videos about animals and zoology, except it’s all a videogame
LowSpecGamer - as the name implies, he used to make videos about making AAA games run on potato systems but has since pivoted into making (great) mini docs about the history of videogames and technology
Cyriak - he doesn’t post often but the dude has been making the same kind of technically impressive and often disturbing animations for over 15 years now
Chuggaconroy has been around forever yet he’s only gotten better with time, despite only doing let’s plays.
There’s a lot of great channels though, it depends what you’re looking for.
Scrolling through my subscribes, here are some of the ones mostly widely interesting I figure. In no particular order:
Civvie11- Retro gaming enthusiast.
Beware The Qu- Lots of speculative evolution content.
Big red 40TECH- Battletech lore guy.
BobbyBroccoli- Long videos about science scandals.
Mandaloregaming- Long form game reviews.
Seth Skorkowsky- Videos about TTRPG reviews and how to run TTRPGs.
Warlockracy- Russian video game reviewer with a bent to older games and weird Russian obscure mods.
Forgotten Weapons- Man on a life’s quest to collect French ammunition.
Red Letter Media- Movie reviews and such.
Wargamer Fritz- Battletech tabletop tactics.
ReligionForBreakfast- Scholar who talks about religious history topics.
The Tank Museum- Tanks.
The Chieftain- Tanks.
Paper Skies- Channel on strange aviation stories, focus on Soviet military aviation.
Quinn’s Ideas- Scifi review channel. Huge Dune nerd.
Olden Demon- Oldhammer channel. Talks about 2e and retells old 2e official battle reports.
oboeshoesgames- Like Dunkey but still funny.
Minisodes- Plays Oldhammer 2e in modern day and paints retro minis.
Grim Beard- Goth that reviews usually more obscure games.
Billiam- Watches and reviews a lot of trash TV.
Ancient Americas- History channel about ancient American (north, central, and south) history.
I’m subscribed to a lot of painting, DIY, instructional, and such channels which I find good but are very niche.
I feel like Markiplier keeps improving, over time his videos have cut out a lot if padding and fluff that was the standard in old school let’s plays, but it’s not a smash cut fest like some newer youtubers are.
He also is diversifying his mediums, like the movie that he’s currently making (not a “youtuber movie”, an actual movie adapted off the game Iron Lung).
The only real controversy of his that I can think of was when he stood up for PewDiePie when he said the n-word. Mainly because they were friends. With how many years he’s been going I’m surprised there’s not more.
The only real controversy of his that I can think of was when he stood up for PewDiePie when he said the n-word.
Interesting. I thought that since that happened they no longer in touch
I don’t know if they are in touch or not, but I just remember an impassioned video of Mark shaming the growing hate group on Pewds around that incident. He talked like a stern father.
I don’t know what their status was after that, maybe he quietly cut ties after the Nazi suit or the Fiver incident, that would be the wise thing.
Forrest Valkai. He’s a biologist who makes a mixture of educational content, videos debunking creationist claims (in an educational way rather than the “look at this fucking idiot” approach that much of atheist youtube seems to take), and just some silly fun in-between.
He doesn’t have the insanely high production value of other channels named here, but he’s the most wholesome person I’ve ever seen. His love for life and science radiates off of him and watching him passionately explain how cool something is genuinely makes me happy in such a depressing and pessimistic world.
