What's your favourite YouTube channels?

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Here's a bit of a mixed list of good channels indicative of my interests, in no particular order, and excluding traditional media orgs and stuff like bands (though as an exception I'll shout out tiny desk by NPR):

Technology connections - video essays about household tech

Techmoan - retro AV gear and adjacent stuff

Nostalgia nerd - video essays about retro games

Cathode ray dude - video essays on old video production and industrial tech, and adjacent stuff

LGR (+ Blerbs) - classic PC video games and hardware

Retro bytes - more video essays about retro games

Hbomberguy - video essays about games and politics

Philosophy tube - video essays about philosophy

Evan edinger - mix of topics (often transit, language, travel, differences between US/UK) about an American who's lived in the UK and Europe

AudioPilz - retro audio gear

Ringway Manchester - amateur radio

Jago Hazzard - trains and transit, particularly London

William Osman (+ 2nd channel) - unhinged engineer currently trying to farm

Kurzgusagt - edutainment about science, health and philosophy

Binging with babish - cooking

Bigclivedotcom - electronic/electrical engineering

Macho Nacho productions - retro game console mods

Modern vintage gamer - retro game emulation and adjacent stuff

Slow news day - topical UK news analysis

Chris Spargo - short documentaries about random oddities

Tom Scott (+ the technical difficulties) - currently visiting various interesting sites around the UK, general documentary content

Pad Chennington - video essays about obscure music genres and trends

Linus Boman - typography and design

Humano Studios - vinyl DJ sets

James Hoffman - coffee documentaries and reviews

Notjustbikes - public transit and urban planning

The Serial Port - 80s/90s era Telco and ISP tech

Clabretro - similar stuff, maybe a bit more stuff about old servers

Abroad in Japan - travel content and entertainment for Japan hosted by a British expat

Rion Ishida - walking vlogs in Japan focusing on travel

Nilered - science experiment edutainment

Defunctland - abandoned theme park video essays

Adam Ragusea - cooking and health

Lockpicking Lawyer - guy picks into every lock in front of him

Gary's Economics - video essays about why everything is going to shit (economics)

Adrian's digital basement - retro tech repair

How to drink - cocktails and their history

VWestlife - more retro tech repair

Adam Martyn - British broadcast media history

J.J. McCollough - pop culture video essays

Summoning Salt - speed running video essays

Wendover Productions (+ half as interesting and jet lag the game) - video essays about logistics and adjacent topics. HAI is more short content and general topics

MattKC - retro game reverse engineering

Self sufficient me - gardening

Ogmios - pov vlog with a fun voiceover

Level1Techs - more tech content

Ambiguous amphibian - game challenges

Off topic but I guess it might be useful. YouTube channel RSS is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id<channel_id>, or with gnu sed:

echo '<channel_url>' | sed 's|https://www/\.youtube\.com/channel/|https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id|'

Red Letter Media

LPN Network / Last Podcast on the Left

I like Not Just Bikes

Sean Munger
Asianometry
Angela Collier
Language Jones
The Elephant Graveyard
Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
Decoding the Gurus

Fortnine: allegedly bikes but the videos are works of art.

Bad Obsession Motorsport: a new Project Binky video at least every 6 months!

RRC Restoration: a Scotsman doing up old bikes and cars.

Jeffiot: long form internet investigations of silly things that are fascinating.

New Yorkshire Workshop: a man doing up a house. No commentary, just amazing skills and great filming.

Here's some more...

ASMR

• Odd Tinkering

Board/Tabletop Gaming

• BoardGameGeek
• Critical Role
• Rahdo Runs Through
• Shut Up & Sit Down
• Watch It Played

Comedy

• We Got The Chocolates

Interviewing

• 100 Questions with Tom Simons

Media

• Once We Were Spacemen
• Secret Galaxy
• Weird History

Music

• Barbershop Harmony Society
• FrankTedesco
• Professor of Rock

Space/Science

• StarTalk

Technology

• Computer History Museum
• Dave's Garage
• Gamers Nexus
• Jeff Geerling
• LaurieWired
• LGR
• Michael Tunnell
• NetworkChuck
• Technology Connections
• TronicsFix

Video Games

• Games Done Quick
• Retro Game Corps
• ryukahr
• Summoning Salt

Bobby Fingers.

The Spiffing Brit.

Any Austin.

Some More News.

Ryan George.

Space Ice.

Camping With Steve for wholesome stealth camping as well as some quirky and conventional camping. Hand Tool Rescue for slight nonsense simple restoration videos for old hand tools. Any Austin for chill deep dives into parts of video game design that are often overlooked. Channel5 for man on the street style journalism with looks into alternative American cultures and subsects. Internet Comment Etiquette for poignant and hilarious examinations of Internet culture. Just to make a few

Right now:

Techmoan

Adrians digital basement

Epictronics

Dawid does tech stuff

Civvie 11

Historymarche

Dequitem

Haters Garage

Zeteo, because Mehdi Hasan is the finest debator, interviewer, journalist, and political commentator of our time

Liltenhead, for Space Station 14 videos

Technology Connections, for all kinds of awesome deep dives into all kinds of subject matter like heat pumps, dishwashers, heat pumps, electric vehicles, old media formats, heat pumps, and heat pumps

US Chemical Safety Board (USCSB) for outstanding videos detailing industrial accidents

Gamers Nexus for exposing corporate bullshit and surveillance, and great reviews of PC gaming hardware

Red Means Recording for fun and informative videos on all things electronic music and a dash of political commentary, and foxes

A couple that haven't already been mentioned:
This Old Tony
Sixty Symbols
Legal Eagle
Stefan Gotteswinter
Matt Godbolt
Kaname Naito

Funny shorts:

Farming while beige

Food content:

Sorted Food, Food Wishes, Matty Matheson, Max the Meat guy

Music content:

Heavy Metal Philosophy, Mic the Snare, Todd in the Shadows, theDickeyDinesShow, Kardavox Academy, Forgemaster Metal, imakaiya, Drumeo, Musora, Harry Mack, Never a Phase Network

Gaming content:

FlamingMercury5 (Mega Man content, mostly), Alanah Pearce, Jason Graves, Gaming Broductions, Hungry Goriya, Second Wind, Videogamedunkey, The Completionist (yes even after the controversy)

News:

Philip DeFranco Show, Internet Today, Even More News

Culture/Commentary:

Contrapoints, Adam Ragusea (also sometimes food), Pop Culture Detective, Nikhil Clayton, Full Fat Videos, Storied (PBS)

Comedy/Casual:

Drawfee, Internet Comment Etiquette, Red Cow Entertainment, The Grumps (Game Grumps is kind of trash but The Grumps is often hilarious), Smosh, Smosh Games, Smosh Pit (believe it or not somewhere down the line Smosh grew up and now makes excellent casual content for adults)

Weed girlies:

Macdizzle420, jayblazedd

I’ve been watching History in Taberna recently, which is a silly history meets cooking mashup.

Also love Technology Connections and PBS Spacetime.

Comedy/entertainment:

Red letter media

Garron

Mst3k

Old horror TV show and radio show channels there's a bunch like channel 42

Science/math/tech:

Lindsay Nikole (paleontology)

Gutsick gibbon (Paleo anthro)

Louis Rossman (tech, FOSS, software/hardware legislature)

3blue1brown (maths)

Simon roper (linguistic anthro)

Guitar:

Sor hands (classical guitarist)

Dean lamb (tech death)

Philip McKnight (hardware reviews and news)

High z productions (reviews and music/entertainment)

Ola Englund (chug)

Philosophy/debate:

Allegedly Ian (philosophy debate)

Dr blitz (physicist debates)

Jon Cohen (philosophy debate)

A few more that haven't been mentioned yet:

Alton Brown - cooking mad scientist

How Money Works - how the rich bastards of the world are screwing the rest of us over

Adam Savage's Tested - the Mythbusters guy's channel for building things, talking with other makers, videos on movie props, models, and similar items

Practical Engineering

Animagraffs

Life Wit Eb

Team Coco

Scott Manley

Casual Geographic has great animal content, and is just a really funny likable guy.

Parkrose Permaculture for US leftist politics.

Attorney Mark Lopez for how to deal with cops (also US)

Accounting Rescue with Lisa if you have accounting questions

Fire Department Chronicles for funny medical skits

Former Black Panther Speaks: the origin of Standards Not Force, which is the spiritual successor to the Black Panthers.

T1J for interesting analysis of random popular media.

Chris and Jack for funny skits.

Mina Le for cultural analysis in media, particularly fashion and appearance related.

I also follow a ton of channels related to making and selling art, but i'm not going to list those unless anyone requests it.

Coldwarmotors - Canadian rednecks working on old junk cars, mostly. They're pretty funny at times and informative if you're interested in old American cars, they also do old French and old British cars sometimes. They also do actual restorations. He did a 60 Plymouth Fury that I wouldn't have even bothered with and spliced it with the platform of a 60 Dodge and made a really nice car.

Fall of Civilizations - It's a podcast, but he does video accompanyment and the content is very well written and researched.

Thenthapple - does fallout lore videos that I really like.

JTCurtisMusic - has a really good history of rock series.

WellRedComedy - Trae Crowder (the liberal redneck), Cory Ryan Forrester, and Drew Morgan do podcasts from a rural progressive view and also have a lot of their stand-up and comedy sketches

Frank Watkinson for soulful guitar covers

Mentour Pilot for aviation accident debriefings

Alec Steele for metalworking

Double toasted

Tabi-Ie.

Japanese guy who built a tiny house on his mini Toyota flatbed. There's no talking. There's always the same script: hit an onsen, cook elaborate dinner, sleep, cook elaborate breakfast. It's very relaxing.

Skuru Dog, Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik, Earlybird, GameGrumps, GMM, Mythical Kitchen, BlueJay, Odd1sOut, NileRed, Oversimplified, and Checkpoint.

What happened to All? I noticed a big change when I switched from the app to a browser, so I figured it was that. I don't want to bias the responses by saying what I observed.

I have a strange mix of sports/outdoors/lifestyle genres that I like:

• adamdoesnotexist (specific mix of public transportation and camping)
• dustinthewind (very relaxing bike life in Chicago)
• Fergus Crawley (triathlon/hybrid athlete)
• Floberg Runs (marathon training)
• Xander Budnick (increasingly more remote survival camping)
• Lantern Rouge (very entertaining pro cycling talk)

A few of mine:

Reb Masel - True crime / law podcast

Tommy Sabbatical - Off the beaten path travel vlog

I don't have a lot of overlap with what you watch, but maybe Atlas Pro? That might be up your alley.

Some I haven't seen yet: Sage the bad naturalist HGModernism Miniminuteman Nilered/Nileblue

TTRPG play:
Final Show Films (smaller, really dedicated crew. Old friends playing WoD games, like Vampire, Werewolf, etc. and some DnD. LGBT+ friendly if that matters to you)
Apocalypse Players (a crew of professional British actors playing Call of Cthulhu)
Push the Roll (shorter scenarios played based off the titles suggested by viewers, run by Ross Bryant, an incredible improv actor)
Glass Cannon Network (has moments of the money side messing with things, but they have hired great improv actors, like Ross Bryant, to be on the regulars list)

Media analysis:
Morbid Zoo (looks at media, especially movies, both as art and propaganda)
Once More With Feeling (Mariana from Morbid Zoo and a friend who works in movie industry watching and analysing movies that have been remade. S1 is all about the Disney live action remakes and the old originals)
Folding Ideas (Hard to pin down, these days more documentary style stuff)
Hedgehog's Nonsense (visual novel review and analysis)
Jess of the Shire (literary analysis, particularly but not always Tolkien)
Meeptop (media meets psychology)
Poltergibbst (mostly horror analysis from a diagetic perspective)
Sideways (passionate looks at music in movies and how musical elements can be intertwined with narrative)

Gaming:
Splitsie (Space engineers and other mechanical simulation games)
Conedodger240 (mixed channel, part garage, part gaming) Excel Esports (excel as an export)

Documentary:
Aged Skills (old documentaries about old, often pre/semi-industrial processes for things like stone quarrying, wall/roof slating, etc.)
Andy Ward's Ancient Pottery (Andy Ward attempting to do experimental archeology to figure out lost pottery techniques of old pueblo Indians of the American Southwest)
Cheese52 (a lady who makes cheese)
Deviant Ollam (Security industry professional who talks about locks, security systems, social engineering, etc.)
Discover Permaculture with Geoff Lawton (permaculture)
Primerblobs (playing with simulations of social dynamics)
Tech Ingredients (the science teacher you wish you had back in school)
Uncle Juff (a jugalo spouting wisdom, odd)
DGQC (an autodidact asshole, vehement in his assholery, but not a complete moron. The trick is looking for where he has knowledge vs confidence. Currently doing a translation of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-oedipus. Also acts as a platform for many reading groups for texts on philosophy.)
Unlearning Economics (professional economist discusses various problems with learning econ 101 and stopping at that)
We're In Hell (video essays on how everything is kind of fucked and why)

Music: David Coffin (a sea shanty singer)
Mahogany Sessions (professionally recorded sessions in unusual places) Nataliya Serbina (Ukrainian folk singer)

“Brutalmoose”/“Moose2”, easily!

“More Kitboga” is up there for me.

Someone randomly recommended “Thread Menace”, a Valheim speedrunner. Really comfy, chill, long adventures.

I currently have a Youtube phase and like:

• Charlatan Wonder and Charl(his cat) for Immersive Sims
• Redlyne for the more obscure entries in gaming and adjacent areas (i loved his exploration of dead online spaces)
• oboeshoesgames for funny, more indepth stuff, oboeshoestwos for "bottom of the barrel" steam games and some surprisingly good games that do not have anyone playing them
• Denys Davydov well sourced daily Ukraine updates
• INSIDE RUSSIA for how the SMO changes Russia and how the russian system works
• Perun for everything military
• The rest is Science with the Vsauce guy and Hannah Fry, Hannah Fry herself too
• Louis Rossman, Gamers Nexus and GNCA for Hardware and consumer rights
• Technology Connections, Veratisium, CPG Gray, 3brown1blue, NileRed, Styropyro, Codys Lab, Elektroboom and Chem Thug for more Sciencey Stuff, Chubbyemu for medical stuff
• Strange Aeons and Lessons in Meme Culture for Subcultures and to be up to date on popular Memes
• Legal Eagle for US legal stuff and Reckless Ben because he's insane in a good way

Edit: a few of them are currently inactive, like CPG Gray (but the Cortex Podcast is still going), but there's so much great stuff there that you won't run out for a while

Hermitcraft is usually good, PBS eons, TeirZoo, independent news (of the liberal/leftist variety), Overly sarcastic productions, Historia Civilis, inequality media, CGP Grey are all good stuff. I also enjoy Civvie11, YatzeeCroshaw, ERB, and a bunch of folks who mostly post shorts.

Oh, and if you are into Minecraft stuff, I'm trying to get back into content production myself. Same username.

Primitive technology

Weird Fruit Explorer

Tasting History

For gaming, I tend to go with ACG and Noisy Pixel.

For movies in physical media formats, I like to watch Jeff Rauseo's channel, from time to time.

Recently found a transportation news channel called City For All, which is pretty niche, but I found it surprisingly interesting and relaxing.

For tech segments, I enjoy TechAltar and its sister channel The Friday Checkout.

I'm also keen on The Linux Experiment, Gardiner Bryant, and Michael Horn for Linux/open-source news and tips, as well as Continuum Gaming for Jolla/SailfishOS.

Somewhere in between the last two, I like the privacy segments from the Proton channel, together with Tech Gets Real.

Dr. James Gill (the content is actually pretty good, I'm just massively misusing his contributions) and Restoration Kamasutra channels for that sweet sweet ASMR.

For news and politics discussions, TLDR News EU or TLDR News Global, as well as EU Made Simple, and I guess The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight for poking fun at the news from across the pond.

I like shadiversity but honestly its just because they are all like con guys and its fun to have them geeking out over medieval stuff in the background. pbs spacetime of course. Epic npc man, epic rap battles, the thing with doing alternate movie commercials.