Channel name
description of what it covers and why you watch it
Chef Jean-Pierre, I just adore him
Geography Now to learn about the rest of the world!
Ben Felix - Finance, investing etc. He’s a professional working in the field, never suggests specific stocks or crypto and always refers to sources for his claims. Be very skeptical of all finance and economy suggestions.
Two Cents - Personal Finance (No suggestions for specific stocks or crypto)
Adam Something
Technology Connections
Tom Nicholas - Long form video essays
Polymatter
Kurzgesagt. If you have any interest in science, this is a must watch.
Short videos. Reminder that no lock is impenetrable. Also, April Fool’s Day videos are very special.
Video essays. No longer in production, high-quality reviews of some cultural artifacts. He’s moved his operation to Curiosity Stream. Made me realize it’s worth it to pay creators directly for their work rather than having advertisers and platforms like YouTube. Now, if only I had money to pay these creators. Aye, there’s the rub.
Expert film analysis. If it’s not, it sure looks like it is.
Snarky educational. Fun! The best damn flag contest, best takedown of first-past the post voting, and best reflection on how to go forward after hitting YouTube fame. I still want to know if he and Roman Mars have talked flags.
Classic YouTube. 15 years ago, mans took a bunch of other YouTube videos and remixed them into each other, producing meta tracks.
mapreadingcompany - navigation plus funny wierd facts
explainingcomputers - explains computers
paulsellers - hand tool woodworking
robwords - english language
citynerd - deadpan humour and sarcasm about cities
astonishingglasgow - local hisory about places in Glasgow
Not counting music, I assume - I have a gazilion artists I love if anyone’s interested.
As for actual Content with a capital C:
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PhilosophyTube Extremely interesting, well-researched and entertaining presentation of a wide range of philosophical and sociopolitical topics. From the UK.
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Shaun Ditto, though with a different angle and a Northern accent.
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Contrapoints Ditto, but American and quite a bit more… theatrical. Quite a strong focus on gender and transgender issues; check out her video on J. K. Rowling for one of the best treatments of the topic.
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Dr. Geoff Lindsey - Linguistics and phonology stuff, deep dives into pronunciation, fascinating as fuck.
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Middle Eats Really damn good middle-eastern cooking channel, no-nonsense presentation.
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Brian Lagerstrom - Baking / cooking - good recipes, sensible treatment.
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J. Kenji López-Alt of Serious Eats fame - damn good cook, nice guy.
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Tom Bates Creator of Nigel and Marmalade. Dumb, stoopid, awesome.
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Adam Millard - The Architect of Games - video essays on gaming
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Noodle - very funny animated video essays on gaming
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Ice Cream Sandwich - stoopid funny little cartoons about dumb shit.
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Jaiden Animations Animated little essays about stuff, she must be protected at all costs. See for instance Things about Relationships I wish someone told me about.
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Tom Scott has finished up his Things You Might Not Know series, but there’s like a decade of them and they’re amazing. Little investigative videos on everything from programming to wasp farming. You need to watch all of them.
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Taylor Tries Videos on juggling. I have the hugest talent-crush.
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Saveitforparts
Guy hacks around with surplus hardware like consumer satellite dishes and such. Super laid back, intelligent, being himself.
I like watching him learn and his commentary.
Steve Wallis (Camping with Steve)
Guy goes camping in unique and interesting ways, again super chill laid back dude who is just being himself.
I watch them both because they are relaxing and easy to digest and I usually learn something. Mostly because they are relaxing to me.
I’m a big fan of Emily the Engineer. She’s a similar chaotic energy as early Michael Reeves but less directly focused on “offensive ideas” or “things to hurt your friends”. The creativity behind both the projects and the videos is top notch.
History of the Universe is exactly what it sounds like. Amazing channel!
ScienceClic English is based on the German channel original, and covers in depth science topics, narrated by a truly stellar individual.
PBS Space Time is simply stunning science coverage that’ll melt your brain.
RedLetterMedia
Movie reviewers that like all sorts of movies. Great production quality.
Those hack frauds?
The very same.
Brick Technology makes cool mechanisms out of Lego to solve some simple problems
They’re a group of 4 people who play games together, but aren’t the super energetic and annoying type of content creators. You know the type I’m talking about. Plus, Stumpt usually seems to play a lot more indie games or every once in a long while anymore they may go back to m!neceraft for a mod pack.
Andy Cooks - amazing chef, easy to follow recipes (he uses metric first), but also a nice, down to earth, no-nonsense guy.
Bobby Fingers
Irreverent movie prop maker who builds diorama’s with a dressing of Irish humour.
Primitive Technology
Makes houses, tools etc, starting from just his hands and natural resources. No knife. No axe. No rope. No tarps. No dialogue.
Kraut
Does videos on history and culture. Helped me understand why Russian culture is the way it is. In-depth, informative and interesting.
Primitive Technology
Makes houses, tools etc, starting from just his hands and natural resources. No knife. No axe. No rope. No tarps. No dialogue.
Make sure you turn on the captions for that one.
