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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

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

https://youtube.com/@explainingcomputers
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https://youtube.com/@christopherbarnatt

DOT COM

https://youtube.com/@mothersbasement

I only listen to this one guy for anime reccomendations.

https://youtube.com/@colinfurze

Never has a lull, always good.

https://youtube.com/@chemicalforce

Pretty toxic chemistry

https://youtube.com/@weirdexplorer

If you don't really care about exotic fruit adventures, at least watch his feature length Nutmeg documentary it's most excellent.

https://youtube.com/@civvie11

Boomer shooter comedic...retrospectives? I like him.

https://youtube.com/@mrcarlsonslab

He repairs very old electronics and is soothing to listen to.

https://youtube.com/@fortnine

I don't even really care about motorcycles, but their video editing skills are incredible.

https://youtube.com/@lowbuckgarage

Accurate, he will do everything possible to avoid spending money on a project.

https://youtube.com/@styropyro

Mad scientist.

https://youtube.com/@casuallyexplained

His sense of humor doesn't get old for me.

https://youtube.com/@thecodyreeder

Mad scientist.

https://youtube.com/@robwords

Taught me more about language than any teacher in my life ever did.

https://youtube.com/@st1ka

I find a lot of obscure old games to play via this guy and his videos are high effort.

https://youtube.com/@posymusic

Every video is a work of art. It doesn't matter what the subject is, you'll be entranced.

https://youtube.com/@techtangents

Bitrot necromancy enthusiast.

https://youtube.com/@littlevmills

A Canadian who makes high effort metal music covers.

https://youtube.com/@joel-haver

He just likes to make movies. I like his movies. A lot.

https://youtube.com/@theslowmoguys

It's in the name!

https://youtube.com/@integza

Mad scientist.

https://youtube.com/@evenflow2907

High effort vehicular brainrot.

https://youtube.com/@labeast

Have a good day!

https://youtube.com/@umami

A lovely weird Canadian artist I adore.

I just wanted to say, y'all are my people, we don't agree on everything, but I'm glad to have moved to lemmy. The few channels mentioned here that I'm not subbed to, I'll be checking out.

Chrisfix

Glock9 if you like gaming

videogamedunkey

Been watching his videos for ~10 years now

Numberphile and any other channel by Brady Haran.

Hbomberguy has been getting nothing but better.

Foldingideas also has fantastic long form video essays that I really enjoy.

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 Fielding

Branching out a bit

How to drink
Caitlin Doughty (ask a mortician)
LockpickingLawyer
NileRed (and NileBlue)
Tasting History
Townsends
Useful Charts
EDIT: Almost forgot Technology Connections

Some 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.

I've been watching TheCrafsMan explain DIY techniques for almost a decade now.

The topics and explanations have always made for great videos but the effort put into videography and music has definitely skyrocketed as the channel grew. He's never strayed from the wholesome, zen-like tone or given clues about his real identity.

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 🤔

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.

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.

Cross-instance linking is a mess. You linked to an ad for your mobile app, which links to a kbin instance, which links back to lemmy.world... The app page devotes most of its space to download links while kbin demands the viewer log in before it will show them anything.

Technology Connections are great, but this doesn't feel very connected.

science based channels(research, discoveries), although you have to correct the info from time to time, so it doesnt sound like misinformation, occurs quite frequently with biology, phylogenitcs. influencer channels however degrade/decline over time, especially when they become annoyingly political.

i watch pbs eons, deep look, have to comment on them making mistake about species, phylogeny accuracy from to time. one time i commented on the "acoelomorph" video, and said they are unrelated to flatworms.

Some more news is still as it ever was

Well There's Your Problem, a podcast about engineering disasters with slides.

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

This Old Tony started posting sporadically again!

Goofy dad joke making hobby machinist with a sprinkling of fun cuts, and literally just a voice and hands working on things. One of my favorite channels.

One that I don't expect to see here is biz barclay. If a 3 hour video of a woman with ADHD getting drunk and doing literary analysis sounds even remotely enjoyable you'll love her content. A good starter video is her video on attempts to subvert the manic pixie dream girl trope, and why she doesn't believe it's possible to succeed at.

ZeFrank. After a long gap in videos he's back even better

A channel that's missing here which I personally really like is TimeGhost history and their other channels World War Two and The Korean War. Their coverage of world war two in real time (which they finished already) was especially great. I'm not necessarily the biggest history nerd, but there's something quite enjoyable about following history "live" this way.

Stefan Milo - real archaeology, not ancient aliens

Cool Worlds - real astrophysics, not aliens

PBS Space Time - it's never aliens

twoodford - Zen and the Art of Guitar Repair