Inspired by this post but the other way around. Which channels (any subject) do you think have stayed true to their beginnings and are still worth watching today?
My pick would be Gamers Nexus.
Workshop Companion is great for beginner-friendly woodworking, and I’ve been really liking HomeRenoVision DIY for home renovation content.
fixing furniture is pretty solid too. “wooden it be nice” lolz
Brick Technology (link)
There’s no voiceover, no clickbait, no intro or outro, just an engineer building absurd Lego machines to overcome set challenges. The quality and entertainment are top tier.
Accursed Farms, twoodfrd, Rummy’s Corner, Grimbeard, RedLetterMedia, Summoning Salt, Zaric Zhacaron, OneShortEye.
RedLetterMedia is so good.
Its just reaction content with mild reviews of movies. But I love that they’re reacting to media so old in most cases that it doesn’t feel gross.
@Raycevick
He makes great in depth analysies about games. I would gladly sacrifice every single ign, gamespot, polygon etc etc articles just to have well tought content like his released biweekly.
Good Mythical Morning/Mythical Kitchen.
They’ve maintained their high quality since even before YouTube and they hosted their own content.
Same with Cinemassacre (James Rolfe aka The Angry Video Game Nerd’s channel). Er… If you can consider purposely being low-quality for B-movie nostalgia as actually high quality 🤔
Testing history with Max Miller and How to Drink.
Yes! Both are interesting and well researched.
Literal Disney prince makes hardtack. Excellent channel.
Hbomberguy has been getting nothing but better.
Foldingideas also has fantastic long form video essays that I really enjoy.
Yeah Folding Ideas is one of the few youtubers I often make a point to watch with my wife as an event. As is Hbomberguy
Similarly, I know controversy follows her everywhere, but contrapoints maintains very good content, and while some of her videos have their issues they tend towards high quality and extremely well thought out, even when I don’t entirely agree with all of the takes she has in them.
I think a whole lot of “maker” type channels have all stayed pretty solid, off the top of my head
This Old Tony
Adam Savage Xyla Foxlin
Clickspring
Blondihacks
Colin Furze
Inheritance Machining (though compared to some of the others he’s relatively new)
Stuff Made Here
Jeremy FieldingBranching out a bit
How to drink
Caitlin Doughty (ask a mortician)
LockpickingLawyer
NileRed (and NileBlue)
Tasting History
Townsends
Useful ChartsSome of them have changed their format a bit over the years, I don’t think that’s been a negative for any of them. Also due to how YouTube revenue works these days a lot of them have had to rely more heavily on sponsors, patron, merch etc. don’t hate the player for that, hate the game.
Clickspring is absolute gold. The guy is crazy talented and to be fair most of the time I don’t know what he’s talking about, I just enjoy watching a master at work.
Colin is a blast lol
I watched Colin Furze for the first time in some time, recently. I was surprised by how much more calm and measured he seemed. And then I realized it was likely because he was a little older, had more people in his life to be careful for, and probably moving a little slower in general. And then I felt old. And sad. And surprisingly irrelevant.
I have subscribed to a few skateboard channels that I have followed for a long time. Not because of the tricks, because quite frankly, these guys are not the best skaters, but they make good content for old skaters like myself who don’t care much about the latest tricks.
Ben Degros. Perhaps better known for his other channel The Vancouver Carpenter. Well, he’s also a skateboard product connoisseur, who can smell the difference between different presses of deck concave and wheel sizes.
Jon Bishop. An old fart from UK who started skating at an old age and walks through all the basics and thoughs of beginner and intermediate tricks.
And obviously: The Skate Nomad. Mike Boisvert. A (relatively) young Canadian dude who quit everything and set out to live the dream of skateboarding in every country in the world, while couch crashing at locals the entire way. It’s interesting to see the differences and similarities in cultures world wide from this perspective.
Primitive Technology. He started the whole “build a shelter on the woods” genre that has become so dumb, but his videos are still just as great as ever. No narration or music, just interesting experiments into basic technology like shelters, fire, lions, pottery, etc., all using only materials from the forest around his camp. Now he’s working on a way to make fire hot enough to smelt metal.
I’ve been watching him since he started, and he’s the only channel that I stop everything to watch when a new video drops.
If you’re interested in why he is doing what he is doing - I would highly suggest turning on the close captions. It was a game changer as someone that is entertained by infotainment!
Oh, yeah, I discovered the captions long ago. Had to go back and watch all the old ones with the captions on.
Holy fuck
Cathode Ray Dude
Phil DeFranco is better than he used to be by a long shot. He’s getting senators and journalists in interviews for all manner of new related content. And he stopped with the enlightened centrism angle he had for a bit. Much more mature and level-headed.
I listen to him almost everyday after work
I like PDS and watched for over a decade. but ive had to stop treating it like a news source. I feel his coverage is not informative unless you live under a rock and need a quick rundown of what’s happening. He oversimplifies to the point of being misleading definitively leaves out contrary info and makes way stronger claims than the evidence really supports. He knows his audience (me included) and spins the story for them and in reality its probably not him but his writing team.
His interviews with officials are still good.
politics, reaction, influencer types are usually of lower quality than other non-political channels, most of them devolve into clickbait or reaction slop. plus its like watching cnn or fox in youtube format, no need if you already access the same political content from other social media platform. Youtube pushes heavily on politics into your feeds(even non-conservative content). i used to followed asian ytubers that give commentary/jokes on news , but when it comes to politics, they lean heavilya certain way, but was always able to play off of it and not in your face, overtime they became lazy and lean all the way in to it now, that it turned fans off, adding a little mysgoyny as well.
Techmoan, if you are interested in old or weird tech.
Its a German channel, but I would throw Simplicissimus into the ring. They always had high quality content, and the quality of their videos is constantly rising.
They also have an English channel
Northernlion is very consistent
