Most of mine are videogame or car related, but here’s a few from across the spectrum of things I watch:
Aliensrock: Interesting streamer/YouTuber who primarily plays puzzle games and provides entertaining commentary.
ScrapMan: Plays lots of building/engineering games (mostly Scrap Mechanic and Trailmakers). Lots of silly multiplayer competitions and “engineering challenges”.
ItsJabo: Funny guy Streamer that plays Bethesda games with silly challenge runs. Also brings a bit of the chaotic energy.
Joov: same as above, but a bit more focused on telling a story throughout the challenge runs.
Aging Wheels: Eccentric guy that makes videos about eccentric cars. He’s quite funny and passionate which makes for good videos.
Superfast Matt: Engineer who makes ridiculous project cars that are good enough ™️. He’s made a land speed car, and recently an Off-road Dodge Viper.
Allen Pan: Inventor that makes a bunch of fun and silly projects sometimes based on stuff from TV shows and movies.
Incognito Mode: Especially the “In the Field” series. Basically an animated podcast where the Internet Historian and a guest talk about a variety of topics and come up with ridiculous scenarios.
Tasting History: Max Miller makes cool recipes from history whilst also giving a history lesson on the meal and its significance.
I love the humor of superfast matt :D
Here’s a list of some of mine which have < 1M subscribers who probably deserve more views
I like Legal Eagle (lawyer gives some good context for current events especially), Some More News (deep dives into social or political issues), and Plain Bagel (finance). I’m not a big YouTube person but these are literally the only three I’ll go check if they have new content.
iilluminaughtii causing her own downfall by trying to go after LE was nothing short of spectacular. Her channel’s completely dead now.
Red Letter Media! <3
(Yo, cake day lol)
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.
The new blower he made is so facinating. The leaf as a valve is just so cool to see :D
obligatory note, that the channel has closed captions where he explains what he’s doing
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.
Ordinary Sausage - A channel for people who wonder “could you turn X into a sausage, and if so how good would it taste?” Water? Air? Big Macs? Pickles? That and more, my friend. Pure culinary chaos, and weirdly wholesome to boot.
Joel Haver - The origin of the “semi-automated rotoscoping” animation style, a rather clever use of some existing filters, but also a genuinely funny creator, and prolific to boot.
Yassss Joel Haver!
Don’t do Mr. Sausage dirty like that.
We also now get more Non-Sausage Experiences, like McDonalds Soup, X Deepfried For An Hour, and the million dollar expense, lobster tails boiled in maple syrup.
Quiet Nerd - cool projects all DIY
Camping with Steve - stealth camping wholesomeness
Londoneats - food delivery in London, weirdly fascinating
Some of my favorites: - Microwave Society (Film Reviews/General Comedic Commentary) - Lackadaisy (Imagine Prohibition but cats) - The Click (Reading reddit posts, mostly when I draw) - LGR (Old tech mostly with some random modern stuff mixed in) - Douglas (They do voxel engine devlogs, and I am impressed with their work) - Bringus Studios (They mostly modify various electronics)
I went through my subscription list on FreeTube and filtered these out (the list was much lengthier initially :p)
- Alt Shift X — well detailed and narrated videos about fantasy series such as Dune, ASOIAF.
- Captain Disillusion — very well made videos about VFX.
- Computerphile — computer science twin of Numberphile; neat videos about the field with a wide range of guests.
- EthosLab — pretty much the only Minecraft creator I still watch; witty, quiet and virtually the same for a long time.
- hbomberguy — well known video essayist, easily one of the best in the platform
- Jacob Geller — another quality essayist, exploring different themes, such as horror
- Lemino — very well known creator focusing on mysteries, with incredible narration and stunning visuals
- LockPickingLawyer — very simple, to the point and informative channel about locks and lockpicking; also virtually unchanged for years
- Oversimplified — great overviews of major history events and periods, with funny narration and visuals
- Tantacrul — fairly unknown essayist on music, with well researched material and nice takes :P
- Then & Now — possibly my favorite atm (alongside hbomberguy); extremely well researched and presented video essays about history, politics and philosophy; very underrated imo
Wish over simplified was still a thing. They moved to patreon for getting demonetized having videos about war.
Oh really? Was not aware of that at all. Their recent videos about the second Punic Wars were incredible.
I agree, but go to their channel and see how often they release content now vs a couple years ago. It’s like he covers one thing a year now.
True, it’s been much more slow paced. Thought it was because the videos took much more time to make, wasn’t aware he was quite active on Patreon.
Did not expect the ethoslab shout out, I fell off a while back but I followed his videos pretty religiously for many years back in the 2010s; even when I was going through times where I burned myself out on playing MC.
Dude is super wholesome and I loved how his videos kinda just felt like hanging out with a friend. Ive checked on him since and I respect that he has not changed at all, love him dearly. But it just doesnt hit the same for me as it did back then. I hope he keeps doing what he loves as long as that’s still the case!
Very well put, he makes an effort of bringing you along, which is a nice thing for a younger audience. I never stopped liking his relaxed style, though. His videos are one of those things I always reserve some time to enjoy.
I guess a lot of people on Lemmy indirectly know Tantacrul, he’s the product manager for Audacity and head of design for MuseScore.
Yeah, I suppose. His channel has less than 500k subs, though, so I always like to recommend it :P
Bill McClintock Uri Tuchman Wristwatch revival Foureyes furniture BigClive dotcom
The Action Lab easily my favourite
The Try Channel. Super funny Irish individuals trying food & alcohol. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCabq3No3wXbs6Ut-Pux6SzA/videos Kirsten Dirksen. She is a filmmaker that has many videos on tiny homes, micro apartments, sustainable gardening and so much more. She travels the world to film. https://www.youtube.com/user/kirstendirksen/videos
I love that most of the people from the original channel (I think it was Facts.) came back to the Try channel.
I love these people, I watch every video even if I hate the subject of it because sometimes it goes off the rails with humor.
Asianometry - “Video essays on business, economics, and history. Sometimes about Asia, but not always.” – One of my fascination is the semiconductor industry and lithography. He tends to produce videos about said topics, and I love it.
tosh show – A breath of fresh air in the podcast scene IMO. Podcast hosted by Daniel Tosh, who has on non-celebrities (and a few moderate celebs but they are a rarity.) More ordinary people with interesting jobs come on and he talks to them and asks questions about what they do. It’s fun and interesting.
Fireship - “High-intensity ⚡ code tutorials and tech news to help you ship your app faster.” —I watch his tech news vids, Code Report, often. He does a great job of producing videos that are informative but also humorous with tech memes, related popular memes, and internet humor mixed into the tech news report.
Undecided with Matt Ferrell - "I explore how sustainable and smart technologies impact our lives. And I try to dive deeper into those topics to provide context.
Topics like electric vehicles, solar panels, and renewable energy that is meant to transition the world off of fossil fuels. Smart home technology that can make our homes not only more convenient, but safer and more accessible. Wearable technology that can track our health and save lives. Or how technology might be invading and breaking down the walls of our privacy."
Good Work - “Fake business news.” Dan Toomey and the incredibly serious Good Work Investigative News Team plunge into the dark world of business and finance." --Their team does a great job of finding and applying witty humor to their videos. Think if NPR NewHour had a reporter but was witty, humorous, and covered ‘what the heck is going on news,’ and ‘what do they actually do’ topics and job titles.
S3 - “The stories of people working to change the world.” – Think high-tech endeavors that are pushing the envelope closer and closer to a Star Trek future.
The only person I’ve ever supported on Patreon. And he just went back to doing YouTube full time. Which is awesome.
