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Grimbeard, puts out well researched and highly entertaining game retrospectives.

BobbyFingers creates dioramas of famous events with insane tangents while documenting their creation. One video even has a choreographed song.

Lawerence systems covers a lot of self hosted tech with articulate and concise instructions. Really like his method of teaching.

GreenX has some amazing retrospective videos about games, they’re a bit newer of a channel. Every upload has been fantastic though. Insanely funny, highly recommend watching their STALKER video.

Facefullofeyes, same as above but has a very inconsistent upload schedule. Much less humor than greenx but very insightful analysis. Highly recommend the SWAT 4 video.

Practical Engineering. His videos are about all the infrastructure that makes the modern world function.

Bernadette Banner does historical (largely Victorian) sewing techniques and patterns but sometimes branches out into health and beauty recipes as well.

Abby Cox does historical fashion on a broader scale and sometimes has content about other historical trends or myths that she encounters in her research.

Jacob Geller has put out consistently amazing videos for years on end.

One I haven't seen mentioned yet is Marius Hornberger. Awesomely talented young German maker.

https://youtube.com/@mariushornberger

I'll add some that haven't been mentioned.

Tech Ingredients - various experiments and builds. Everything on how to make rum to good novel speakers.

Erik Brandal - makes sound sculptures

/noclip - video game dev documentaries

This old Tony - Machining while being funny

Posy - Quirky beautiful retro HiFi/Tech

Edit: have to add Posy

Captain dissolution

Corridor crew

James Hoffman, it even keeps getting better with time. The prophet for the coffee fans

Red Letter Media. I've grown bored of the content though but that's a me problem.

Majuular. He makes long form retrospectives of old games, his Ultima retros are amazing. Just keeps getting better and better.

Many A True Nerd for gaming, History Buffs for historical accuracy in movies and timmmm, a small channel of which I'm still surprised it's so small because his videos are really well produced.

Tom Grossi. I'm not an NFL fanatic but his videos are well written and very entertaining. No sponsors or mid-video ads.

Ailaughatmyownjokes. Silvia wanted to name her channel "I laugh at my own jokes" but someone else had it, so she just added an "a" to the front. Very funny stuff. Lots of shorts if you're attention span is dead. Like mine.

Adam Savage and Xyla Faolin have been mentioned and I agree. The PBS channels also.

pReview'd. They do movie/TV reactions and just started producing a travel show. Two besties watching stuff and having a good time.

Coy Jandreau. Total comic book nerd.

Okoii

Ssethtzeentach

VaatiVidya

Ymfah

Sitting With Dogs (Rocky Kanaka)

Some More News

History Marche

Fairbairn Films

Don't Tell Comedy

SBPlaysGames, super tiny lets play channel, but has been consistently uploading for 10 years and she picks some really good indie games (as well as board games) that i would otherwise never would have heard of. Plus pretty good analysis of the games, though of course the lets play format means it's pretty spread out across episodes. And by analysis i don't mean reviews, but more like movie analysis level. Though I'd love it if she'd lean into that part a bit more.

and i specifically picked her because it's one thing to consistently produce good content when you have millions of views (and dollars?), but doing so with 28k subs and maybe 100-200 views, for over 10 years, that takes real dedication.

Oh and on the topic of video game channels, AnyAustin is amazing. Fucking weird but amazing. He also does video game analysis but not how you'd think…

no slow mo guys mentioned in this entire thing? always been entertaining and decently interesting to me

FortNine: both the content and the video quality are top notch.
TechnologyConnections is the only channel where you'll waste an hour nerding out on washing machines, even if you don't own one.
Louis Rossmann has been instrumental in the fight for right to repair in the US.

Yeah i could list many more but you asked for one (and i already overran that), plus these are the ones that stand out to me.

Primitive Technology. He started the whole "build a shelter in the woods" genre that has become so dumb, but his videos are still just as great as ever. No narration or music, other than the sounds of the birds and insects, just interesting experiments into basic technology like shelters, fire, charcoal, kilns, pottery, small machines, bricks, roof tiles, etc., all using only the most primitive stone age tools, created from materials found in the forest and stream around his camp.

Even his attire is as spare as his videos, just a pair of khaki shorts.

Currently, he's working through a series of experiments 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.

Everything by Jupiter Broadcasting. Not really a YouTube channel, but they stream there.