Aussie Wood Shed

Matt Brown - security researcher and bug bounty hunter

Robert Murray Smith - general mechanical engineering tinkering, lots to learn

TheCod3r - console and other electronic repairs

Wesley Kagan - builds cars but is just an overall genius and entertaining

Joe Grand - hacker, genius

There are more popular/sometimes better people and channels in each genre but I’ve stuck to those with under 1 million sub’s. I’ll assume people like Colin Furze, Ben Eater, Computerphile are already too well known for this thread

Blind Drunk. I know for a near fact that nobody’s heard of them because they have like 2K subs, but they’re good as hell. They make a drinking game out of reading trash right wing books by people like Boris Johnson, Ben Shapiro, and the dork who wrote the Turner Diaries. But despite how messy and dark things could get with that premise, it’s some of the funniest, best put together and most insightful content I’ve ever seen on the subject of fascism and fascist psychology.

Love me some Peach Cobbler too.

Combo Class is a neat math education channel where things are often on fire or falling apart in the background in a way that’s fascinating on top of the math itself

Side note, I have no idea how many subscribers counts as obscure. It seems relative to the size of the niche. Or maybe I have no idea how big people are relative to how much I care about them. Like I would expect Ben Levin (music theory and production creator) to be closer in subs to Adam Neely (same) but he’s an entire order of magnitude lower. Like is CJ The X (video essayist) obscure enough at 341K subs?

Inside China Business

Its a chauvinist doing 10min reports on China’s business practices. Its mostly a guy presenting well researched information about how China is eating the us’ lunch and being frustrated about it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLfFWXUNJ_I It’s more of one playlist than a channel about quantum mechanics on Russian, but as I see it has English subtitles. A fairly clear explanation with a small amount of simple mathematics, probably the minimum that is possible. It helps to understand at least a little such a complex and illogical science for the average layman.

This spanish guy makes videos about retro consoles, games and computers from Japan. The videos are pure info, without intro/subscribe/like shit. He changes the name of the channel every few days so maybe this link will be dead soon: https://youtube.com/@conpostersdetiasenlapared

DuskTillShawn

Does mostly just kinda essay like videos going over cartoon episodes (or even whole characters in the case of Hey Arnold!). Seemingly just nickelodeon right now, though there are others like a CtCD video.

Don’t feel as out of place sharing a 159k sub channel when OP brings up a nearly 450k channel.

Also, this post motivated me to look through my subs and found a couple I unsubbed to and found some shocking things like some channels last videos were more recent than I thought. Also keeping myself away from going on a nostalgia trip of over a decade ago.

CGP Grey kicked me off on this intense obsession with getting rid of First Past The Post voting, but he has many other very well made videos. Cannot recommend him enough.

Notable runners up:

Steve1989MRE (let’s get this channel out on the tray)

JoergeSprave (“welcome to the slingshot channel” evil genius laughing)

Campingwithsteve (for info on how to be homeless more effectively)