The Action Lab easily my favourite
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Andrew Camerata - building a castle out of shipping containers, amongst other shenanigans, with excellent cinematography.
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.
Vampire Robot. Love me some B-roll.
Dust ups: growing a forest in the TX desert
Bamabass: rich pnut farmer essentially builds a bass pond but it spirals out of control and now he runs a beautiful wildlife sanctuary
Fabrats, trail mater, tom toms, RAD etc.
Aussie bonsai bloke
Many channels I watch have already been mentioned, but one comes to mind that hasnโt been: if you like Stuff Made Here and NileRed, youโll love The Thought Emporium. Dude is a mad scientist, for real. His current long term project is trying to make a neural net that can play DOOMโฆ except he means real neurons. Biological neurons grown in his self built lab, sourced from rats.
Currently, Roll for Sandwich/Adventures in Aardia and No More Jockeys. Also love me some J. Kenji Lรณpez-Alt, with a bit of Henry's Kitchen for contrast.
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.
Any Austin. Super chill, slightly autistic & fairly unique gaming content, just what I need on any given day https://youtube.com/@any_austin?si=ZKlpL3k8YvWZEfoZ
Nicknamethe1st - makes stickfigure fights and was inspired by Zeurel82mk2
Neurotic goose - plays modded minecraft challenges
OutsideXbox - funny, lighthearted British video games commentary
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.
theuppermostinlife - It's just one person scooping up all of the music they like and curating a bunch of compilations. I've found lots of music I listen to regularly thanks to their efforts.
Songs for Littles (Ms. Rachel) - Really good Prek content for my kid.
https://youtube.com/@lukehumphris - does nice lil animated shorts
https://youtube.com/@darksimpsons - Uses recut Simpsons footage to make dark edits
Tally Ho A boat builder named Leo Sampson rebuilding a wooden sailing yacht with an incredible love for detail. Started seven years ago with a wreck, and is now finally sailing!
Escape to rural France An English gardener rebuilds a French castle that had burned down 40 years ago.
Cutting Edge Engineering For those who love "Inheritance Machining" - Curtis does machining of large parts professionally and commercially.
GrayStillPlays, LetsGameItOut, Drawfee, Certifiably Ingame, Internet Today, The Spiffing Brit.