I’m amazed none of these have been mentioned yet. Here are some of my faves

Explaining stuff that’s happening

• Real Life Lore (I’m almost signing for Nebula because of him, gorgeous map graphics)
• Cold Fusion
• Wendover

History stuff

• Fall of Civilizations - Hands down the best documentary-like content I know of. Takes forever for new stuff to show up (because research), but it’s so fucking worth it!
• Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• Kings and Generals (the narrator butchers every non-anglo name, it really grinds my gears)
• Heroes and Legends - The long form, documentary-level videos are amazing. Watch the ones on Gertrude Bell and Voltaire

Gamurrs

• Basement Brothers - Almost monotone narration, but possibly the only channel in english that plays and shows several details of old Japan exclusive PC games (PC88 and PC98 mostly)
• Russian Badger - There’s a very high chance you’ve seen some of the memes straight out of his videos. Start with “Heavy flamer heresy” if you’ve never seen any.

not fav, but deserving a mention is Sabine Hossenfelder she’s certainly weighed in on topics she probably should’ve stayed out of. But her ability to cut through science/physics bs is pretty high. As with everyone, you have to take and leave certain perspectives they offer.

Primitive Technology. Guy in the jungle builds houses and makes pottery from scratch and I mean from scratch. He even gets into forging a little bit, made a crude iron knife from ore he collected himself.

Currently, Roll for Sandwich/Adventures in Aardia and No More Jockeys. Also love me some J. Kenji López-Alt, with a bit of Henry’s Kitchen for contrast.

Songs for Littles (Ms. Rachel) - Really good Prek content for my kid.

A lot of the channels I like have already been listed (more than once) by others, so I will just mention my top current favorites and few that haven’t been mentioned.

• SuperfastMatt -He’s a former Tesla engineer that hobby builds custom vehicles like an offroad Dodge Viper and a land-speed car
• HyperspacePirate -he’s a guy building his own diy cryocooler while doing all sorts of at-home refrigeration refinement utilizing off the shelf materials.
• Max Miller -He’s an educational cook that seems to speak to the former Alton Brown crowd.
• ThisOldTony -He’s a pair of machinist hands 🙌 that shows people the fundamentals of how to work with metal while also being entertaining
• Extractions&Ire -He’s a mad chemist from the southern hemisphere
• The Thought Emporium -He’s an amateur mad bio-engineer who among other things is working to create an array of rat neurons that he can teach to play Doom

Nilered is a mad chemist from the northern hemisphere that also barely makes content anymore so I can’t list him

I also love most of the content creators that are apart of Nebula.

Internet Today is a great news channel. Based guys too.

It’s like having 2 friends to watch the end of the world with.

https://youtube.com/@lukehumphris - does nice lil animated shorts

https://youtube.com/@darksimpsons - Uses recut Simpsons footage to make dark edits

• Vinesauce, both Joel and Vinny.

• Jacob Gellar has awesome videos.

• Perun does really good work with Military analysis stuff.

• Wendigoon is super wholesome and also has good videos.

• Drifter’s Broadcast is a more recent discovery, but his Xcom challange videos are awesome.

• Max Miller has wonderful videos.

• Strat-edgy is really funny

• Mikeburnfire and ZachHazard are really funny. There are more but I cant think of them.

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Kris Harbour Natural Building - Guy building a homestead in rural Wales. He does some cool hydropower stuff. Built his own house and workshop. He’s currently building a timber framed barn of his own design for his equipment and the animals he raises using lumber he milled on a band saw mill that he also built (and I think also designed). This stuff is all documented on his channel. Dude seems really chill and down-to-earth.

Vampire Robot. Love me some B-roll.

Nicknamethe1st - makes stickfigure fights and was inspired by Zeurel82mk2

Neurotic goose - plays modded minecraft challenges

Outside of large channels with millions of subs that now only get thousands of views, Stumpt in general for clean fun and HeroVoltsy for their pokemon fangame/rom hack content. Voltsy’s how I discovered almost every single pokemon fangame I have ever played.

I have a ton of Youtube channels that I like.

Linux

• Brodie Robertson
• Linux User Space
• DistroTube
• The Linux Cast
• BugsWriter
• XeroLinux

Gaming

• Beast Boy Shub

There is still a lot of channels which I am forgetting…

I really like Curious Archive, their video “I Hope It Ends With Monster” is one of my favorites.