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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

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.

The USCSB has a channel with breakdowns of chemical disasters

It's got a pretty fun cult following and it posted within the last week XD

Hard for me to say because over the years I've lost interest in most channels I watched years ago.

BobbyBroccoli, NightHawkInLight and Technology Connections are three that I always watch every time I notice a new video.

Techmoan is one of those that I watch from time to time.

And Nerdwriter1 is one that I haven't watch in some time but it is hard for me to imagine it having a decline in quality.

Michael Reeves. One video a year, making the dumbest most hilarious shit you can think of.

Mighty Car Mods are a pair of Australian blokes who have been doing car-based videos for 15+ years. Everything they've done has been high quality and entertaining.

I honestly don't know how they do it.

Joe Pera, comedian started around 14 years ago

nobody, musical mixes/tracklists, really good at setting moods and introduced me to a bunch of artists and songs 4 years of mixes

Townsends, classic pioneers time guy, mostly food I don't know how long but he's been around forever

Jeff Gerstmann, video games journalist

Bad Obsession Motorsport ! I've been watching them build a Mini rally car for 12 years. They keep getting distracted by perfectionism and I'm very here for it.

I echo a lot of the sentiments here. Two I'm not really seeing are Project Farm and Eric the Car Guy. Eric is just coming back from a hiatus of sorts.

A few others I like

CNC Kitchen

Rob Dahm

Low-Buck Garage

Zach Freedman

SuperfastMatt

StrangeParts

Driving4Answers

CrackerMilk

PixelPete

Andy Didorsi (not as old a channel though)

Mr Carlson's Lab

Heather Cox Richardson

And of course, Technology Connections and Gamer's Nexus.

Bonus item because I like what they are doing, Edison Motors.

Music bonus item because she's remained consistently excellent for years, Lauren Babic.

Overly Sarcastic Productions, consistently producing animated essays about history, mythology, and story tropes

Veritasium.

some of my faves:

k&j lumber

project kamp

martjin doolard

m. bjornstroem

technology connections

this old tony

wesley treat

pask makes

frank howarth

chest’er

four eyes furniture

shawn boyd made this

If you like reviews/comparisons check out Project Farm.

Captain dissolution

Corridor crew

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

Dank Pods! The content has only gotten better over the years, plus their expansion into car stuff and gaming. Started from iPods, now a bunch of different type of content. 🇦🇺

For gaming content, I've been following CallMeKevin for several years. His stuff is always a good time.

Some more news is still as it ever was

Vlogbrothers ftw

Workshop Companion is great for beginner-friendly woodworking, and I've been really liking HomeRenoVision DIY for home renovation content.

Gaming Historian comes to mind. (Caveat: he's no longer doing YT full time, so the uploads are a lot less frequent.) Anyway, he started out as the kind of prototypical kid with Youtube videos, doing a pretty well with the history angle. But over time evolved into a serious documentarion doing top-notch work. Along the same line, DidYouKnowGaming went from an ok channel that repackaged pretty common trivia into interesting but almost click-bait videos, into now being an investigative journalist kinda thing, where they semi-regularly share previously unknown information about old or cancelled games. Still on the games side, Electric Playground has been going for like a quarter-century, since back when it had to be on cable TV instead of Youtube, and Victor Lucas still doesn't suck.

3Blue1brown and Ben Eater make great technical educational videos that, as far as I'm aware, haven't really degraded.

Here's a range:

Sebastian Lague - game dev and software dev exploration

Pitch Meeting - film summary in short satire comedy form

Sick Animation - fucked up animations

Will McDaniel - comedy sketches using practical effects, puppets and fx makeup

DefendTheHouse - gaming myth busters and community content

FunWithGuru - showcasing easter eggs in games