Inspired by the opposite question posted recently, what YouTube creators have you watched for a long time and still find worth returning to? Alternatively, what are some new high quality channels you have been enjoying?
Wheezywaiter
In alphabetical order for no good reason:
BeardMeatsFood - Competitive eater turned touring food challenge attempter. Wins more than he loses.
Dr Becky - Astrophysicist. Monthly space news updates.
Lock Picking Lawyer - Masterlock’s greatest foe. And a foe to many other terrible locks and safes too. Look out for the April Fools videos.
Numberphile - Brady Haran’s popular channel about mathematics
Periodic Videos - Chemistry videos by the same producer as Numberphile. He has a bunch of channels, but I’ll only list the two here.
Primitive Technology - No voice-over or talking head(s), chill vibes, primitive building techniques. The original. Be sure to turn on subtitles / closed captions!
Simone Giertz - Down-to-Earth Inventor and Entrepreneur. Formerly the Queen of Sh*tty Robots.
Simon Roper - Linguist with an interest in English
Weird Explorer - Reviews weird and wonderful fruits from all around the globe, many you’ve probably never heard of. Currently branching out into some home gardening videos, but still doing fruit.
Most of these have extensive back-catalogues that would take some considerable time to get through. Enyoy.
In no particular order:
Dr. Becky (astronomy)
Josh Johnson (comedy)
New Venture Games (old man boardgaming)
Cornell Lab of Ornithology (ornithology)
Ant Lab (entomology)
Practical Engineering (engineering, mostly civil)
Numberphile (maths, as they say across the pond)
The Octopus Lady (marine biology)
Juniper Dev (young gun making games)
suckerpinch (software stuff)
Jenny Nicholson (media critic)
engineerguy (engineering)
Steve Mould (physics)
Dang, I gotta clean up my subscriptions. I tend to add people when I find one good video, then ignore them when I find they aren’t to my taste
Jenny is such wholesome outrage.
I love critics who love the things they’re critiquing.
Tom Scott (he’s back after a break)
John Michael Godier (science and astronomy)
Videogamedunkey
Any Austin (deep dives into minutea of video games)
Dunkey is funny as hell.
- Mathematics
- 3blue1brown
- Numberphile
- Mathologer
- Science
- PBS Space Time
- minutephysics
- Alpha Phoenix
- Technology
- Technology Connections
- Benn Jordan
- Video Games
- Any Austin
- Acerola
- Displaced Gamers
- Speedrunning
- Summoning Salt
- Bismuth
- pannenkoek2012
- Other random stuff
- Ghoul City Online (Comedic reviews)
- Hazel Thayer (Leftist topics)
- In Deep Geek (Tolkien lore)
- udiprod (Algorithm animations)
- Mathematics
I haven’t watched him in a couple years now, but BKXC was my favorite channel during COVID and the year or so afterwards.
Pretty sure he quit. That’s the last I heard anyway. Mtb YouTube has died off now that everyone can do pov videos. Seth’s bike hacks (berm creek?) did a video on it
Most of my favourites have already been mentioned but here’s a few that I haven’t seen:
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Chris Spargo - Documentarian ‘Answering life’s little questions’ (in his own words)
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HowTown - Well researched, slick documentaries on science and sociology
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Useful charts - Family trees and history combined with some nuanced religious history
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Map Men - Somehow both an incredible geography channel and very funny skit show
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ToldInStone - Regular and endlessly fascinating ancient history content
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Captain Disillusionment - A one man special effects genius makes funny deep dives and debunks on special effects topics
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Nile Red - Chemistry wiz kid makes alcohol from toilet paper - The closest thing to a modern alchemist I can imagine
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Joel haver - Inventor the rotoscoped paint cartoon, funny, creatively driven and refuses to sell out
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Patrick Boyle - Educated, nuanced and cuttingly dry humoured takes on popular economics issues
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Steve Mould - High quality science demos and explanations with an engaging and humble host
I will second Map Men. Extremely well sourced and entertaining.
NileRed made alcohol from air a few days ago.
He makes chemistry look so cool, casual and interesting.
Edit: I should have started that I hated chemistry in college.
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