Lockpicking Lawyer

Short videos. Reminder that no lock is impenetrable. Also, April Fool’s Day videos are very special.

Kaptain Kristian

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.

Every Frame a Painting

Expert film analysis. If it’s not, it sure looks like it is.

CGP Grey

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.

Kutiman ‐ Thru You

Classic YouTube. 15 years ago, mans took a bunch of other YouTube videos and remixed them into each other, producing meta tracks.

North of the Border

His name is Adam and he likes to make tiny nerdy things. He makes dioramas of nerdy stuff, sometimes normal, some times with too many teeth, fingers, and/or toes.

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.

Not counting music, I assume - I have a gazilion artists I love if anyone’s interested.

As for actual Content with a capital C:

• PhilosophyTube Extremely interesting, well-researched and entertaining presentation of a wide range of philosophical and sociopolitical topics. From the UK.

• Shaun Ditto, though with a different angle and a Northern accent.

• 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.

• Dr. Geoff Lindsey - Linguistics and phonology stuff, deep dives into pronunciation, fascinating as fuck.

• Middle Eats Really damn good middle-eastern cooking channel, no-nonsense presentation.

• Brian Lagerstrom - Baking / cooking - good recipes, sensible treatment.

• J. Kenji López-Alt of Serious Eats fame - damn good cook, nice guy.

• Tom Bates Creator of Nigel and Marmalade. Dumb, stoopid, awesome.

• Adam Millard - The Architect of Games - video essays on gaming

• Noodle - very funny animated video essays on gaming

• Ice Cream Sandwich - stoopid funny little cartoons about dumb shit.

• 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.

• 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.

• Taylor Tries Videos on juggling. I have the hugest talent-crush.

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.

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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.

Brick Technology makes cool mechanisms out of Lego to solve some simple problems

Bigtime

is an awesome newer car and motorcycle channel, they split off from donut to go do their own creative stuff after donut go bought by a big soulless media company

Fortnine

is an amazing motorcycle youtube channel with absurd production quality and directing often worthy of full length documentaries

Berm peak

is a super well produced mountain biking and bikes channel

Lab Muffin Beauty Science

If you’re into science based skincare I absolutely adore her, she has a chemistry PhD and a specialization in cosmetic chemistry. She spends a lot of time debunking baseless skincare marketing which I don’t really need since everything I know about skincare I learned from her and various other science focused youtubers, but I absolutely adore her informative videos that are guides to various aspects of skincare, or an exploration of how to competently interpret research

Adam savage’s Tested

channel is a lot of fun if you like maker content, he’s just as energetic and charismatic of a character as he was back on Mythbusters

Hybrid calisthenics

is a wonderful exercise fitness and wellness channel where the guy running it is just an earnest, kind, compassionate human being who offers advice that meets people where they are and helps them progress, regardless of their current ability level. He went viral a while back for a video talking about how you can do exercise at any level, even if you’ve literally never done a pushup in your life, where he demonstrates modified versions of bodyweight exercises that make them more accessible, or even more difficult so that people can work their way up to their goals from any starting point. People fell in love with his personality and attitude of compassion.

My absolute favorites for cooking are:

Adam Ragusea

does an amazing job of making recipes realistic and approachable for home cooking, and his background as a journalist results in incredibly high quality research videos that are unbelievably informative

internet shaquille

unprotentious while focusing on technique, has a fantastic delivery style, it’s hard to describe exactly what makes him special, but the videos are phenomenal and he often gives great life advice

J Kenji Lopez alt

the goat. Super knowledgable, especially regarding the science of cooking, and is a well respected name in recipe development. His videos are him with a gopro camera strapped to his head while he prepares the food and talks about it’s origin, how he likes to make it, etc. Its like having an expert demonstrate for you in their home kitchen while casually chatting about all the knowledge they have to share about a given recipe

Chinese cooking demystified

the absolute best source for traditional chineese cooking, and food history lessons to boot. I love their delivery style, and their videos always give a ton of historical and cultural context and are a joy to watch)

Lemme know if you’d like more food youtubers, these are my absolute faves though, and all offer very different perspectives on food (sometimes disagreeing with eachother) while usually teaching at least as much about technique, how to approach cooking, and their own personal philosophy when developing recipes as they do the specific recipe itself.

Brian David Gilbert

makes a wide range of bizarre nonsense and I adore him. Comedy sketches, horror short film kinda stuff, incomprehensible fever-dreams, a guide to the united states health insurance mess that somehow manages to be as funny as it is depressing, goofy music, unironically wonderfull music, recipies. He used to make polygon’s unhinged video series called unraveled, his personal channel is even better and even more unhinged

Brew

*Delves into all kids of weird circumstances and medical mysteries. Morbid and informative.

Zoe

*Up-to-date exercise and nutrition science. I’ve seriously learned a lot.

Imperfect Paintings

Shows you how to try different types of abstract art. Has been a huge inspiration in getting me to paint and experiment with art.

Garand Thumb. Excellent humor, badass historical guns, and new badass guns, too. For example he dresses up as John Wick and has a rep from the company that made the custom guns for the movie bring in the guns, and they shoot them. Seeing a 12ga magazine fed shotgun shoot ~15 rounds in like 2 seconds is terrifying and awesome.

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.

The ones that I get excited to see new videos from are, in no particular order:

Lindsay Nikole

She’s a biologist and does videos on prehistoric animals and time periods, that we know of. Entertaining videos and it turns out we studied under some of the same people.

acollierastro

Dr. Collier is a theoretical physicist who covers a wide arc a physics topics, and who did a pretty impressive review of Picard.

BobbyBroccoli

Very indepth and well researched videos about science and tech scandals and controversies

Dr Becky

Is an Oxford Astrophysicist who covers a lot of findings about JWT and will point out upcoming things in the night sky

Several:

BobbyBroccoli - Good videos about science scandals.

Brick Experiment Channel - Guy in Finland making awesome Lego builds

Calum - Fantastic videos about really cool stuff like, shipping cintainers, land trains, WWII rescue buoys, flying homes and more.

Clabretro - Interesting videos about setting up a retro lab with cool enterprise computer gear.

Code Bullet - Chaotic programming with a focus on making AI playing games.

James Channel - A channel by a video games collector, the first video he uploaded a year ago about making a portable Super Nintendo, he uses a lot of duct tape and hot glue. He has also built a working NES game that can play other NES games.

Jet Lag: The Game - The team behind Wendover Productions plays games where the world is the game board, they have played tag across Europe, the have played Hide and Seek throughout Switzerland, they have played connect four with US states and more.

Our Own Devices - A lovely man talks about things, highly recommended.

Paper Will - Have you ever wondered about how North Korea entertains their citizens? This channel has a five and half hour long video about it. What about cults? What kind of entertainment do they produce? There is an hour long video about that.

Peter Dibble - A channel focusing on the Pacific North West of the US, but has awesome videos about barcodes, the 90s US high speed train campaign, a buss riding the sky, America’s christmas monorails, Lego’s cousin Modulex, and more.

RetroBytes - Highly nerdy content, excellent videos about topics like: CPU architectures, Unix workstations, Networks, the History of Computer Graphics.

Claire__ Saffitz x Dessert Person

Baker/ pastry chef that makes all sorts of tasty treats. Content is largely educational giving you tips and tricks on what she’s doing and why so you can replicate her recipe more easily.

Binging with Babish

Started out as one dude recreating food from films and shows and has expanded to having a dedicated anime food creator, doing fun food mashups for sports things, redoing episodes that he messed up on, and still doing food from films and shows.

Aspiring film maker who flies paramotors

https://m.youtube.com/judsongraham

Heres a bunch of random shit that i like. It’s not in a particular order but i did attempt to sort them by related concepts.

Stuff Made Here - Engineering projects
SmarterEveryDay - Engineering deep-dives
Practical Engineering - Civil engineering stuff explained
Steve Mould - Engineering concepts
Kyle Hill - Science communicator
PBS Spacetime - Space stuff explained
Answer in Progress - Channel looking for answers to questions?
Disrupt - Dark software explanations
Driving 4 Answers - Automobile/engine theory/explanations
Integza - Amateur rocket enthusiast/projects
Major Hardware - PC fan concept testing and misc
SuperfastMatt - Car and other projects
Vice Grip Garage - Man rescues garbage classic cars
2Stroke Stuffing - Man tries to build two stroke land speed bike
RCTestFlight - RC projects (mostly boats/planes)
Beau Miles - Aussie who runs and stuff and random stuff
VC Adventures - Vegan Cyclist bro
Rapha Films - Pro cycling team adventures
This Old Tony - Hobby machinist
Drawfee Show - Artists doing themed art challenges
Adam Neely - Jazz bassist theory/explanations
Exurbia - Uhhhhh… Story creator/philosophy enthusiast?
Gbay99 - LoL documentaries
Any Austin - Video game investigations, kinda?
Let’s Game It Out - Gaming entertainment
TomatoAnus - Speedruns explained
Joov - Skyrim challenges
EdgeOmega - Skyrim challenges
Rekrap1 - Minecraft content
Rekrap2 - Minecraft content
Evbo - Minecraft films
Ogmoe - Minecraft manhunt god
BayAreaBuggs - GTAV RP
JANTSUU - GTAV vehicle testing

This is just a sample. There is much more good shit out there that i like.