Asklemmy

Really depends on what you want to check out. Here are some of my favorites in no particular order but roughly ordered by topic.

Science

• Astrum - various space and planets related topics
• Geschichtsfenster - A German channel on medieval topics and reactions to documentaries
• Raumzeit - Vlog der Zukunft - A German channel about space and science
• Urknall, Weltall und das Leben - A German science channel with focus on space topics

Technology

• Cathode Ray Dude - In-detail videos on 2000's tech with focus on audio/video hardware
• Lost In Tech - Videos on 3D printing and 3D printers
• my mechanics - High quality "restoration ASMR"
• The 8-Bit Guy - Videos about 1980's computer technology
• Brodie Robertson - News and commentary on various Linux and FOSS topics
• ThePrimeagen - Reactions on various coding-related content
• Kevin Powell - CSS tutorials and videos on CSS development
• Zack Freedman - Could be best described as "open source craftmanship"

Gaming

• aCookieGod - Minecraft mega builds in hardcore mode
• Fan The Deck - Steam Deck news and commentary
• Karl Jobst - Documentations on gaming history and speedruns
• Shulkercraft - Minecraft videos about creative and large build projects
• Summoning Salt - Video games speedrun history and documentation

3D printing

• 3D Printing Nerd - A channel about 3D printing topics
• CNC Kitchen - Mainly 3D printing content

Tom Scott

I don't know these were posted or not but here is my suggestions which every youtube watching person probably already heard about most of them:

Not Just Bikes: Channel about Urban Planing-Living and how destructive the cars are.

History Matters: Short animated videos about historical events, narrated with humor.

my mechanics: Best and most detailed restorations ever.

NileRed - NileBlue: All about experimenting with chemical reactions.

Oversimplified: Like the name, oversimplified narrations of historical events but in a long form with animated depictions and humor of course.

Stefan Milo: Really informative research videos of archeology.

The Linux Experiment: Like the name suggests it's all about Linux.

Bad Lip Reading: It's in the name.

ChrisFix: Best car repair channel out there.

DIY Perks: DIY videos but heavy on the entertainment side rather than the doable diys.

Ethan Chlebowski: Trying to understand cooking from the perspective of homecooks.

Alex (the French Guy Cooking): Reverse engineering the recipes.

Brick Experiment Channel: Building Lego machines.

These all are high quality channels imo. There are a lot more but I am kinda lazy for now.

This is a csv file of really high quality channels that you can directly use in Piped: Proton Drive Link to csv file

If you're into bread tube / left tube, I highly recommend Innuendo Studios. In particular, Innuendo Studios's playlist, "the Alt-Right Playbook." It helps make sense of internet discourse.

• Adam Something
• blameitonjorge
• Computerphile
• crowbcat
• Digital Foundry
• dime store adventures
• ElectroBOOM
• GamersNexus
• LEMMiNO
• neo
• Nexpo
• PBS channels
• RealLifeLore & related channels
• Sam O'Nella Academy
• Tom Scott

Gaming

• TheRussianBadger - gaming with good humor and editing

• Max0r - gaming with good humor, voice acting, and insane editing

• Scott the Woz - for that old YouTube feel

• RTGame - funny Irish gaming man

• Call Me Kevin - funny Irish gaming man

• Indeimaus - mostly horror and Metroidvania gaming

• Game Apologist - good Sonic content

• RadKing - Fallout content

• Iron Pineapple - From Software enthusiast

• MuYe - BeamNG content

• The Orpheon - good Metroid content

Tech Stuffs

• Louis Rossman - disgruntled business tech repair man

• Gamers Nexus - pc tech review

• Linus Tech Tips (and its other channels) - LMG has been making some very good changes since their first response to their recent controversies. If they actually deliver with them, then all of these channels should be good to watch. Mac Address should be fine to watch as it has been stated that the channel and group affiliated are kept somewhat separated from the rest of LMG for various reasons.

• Hardware Unboxed - Australian pc tech review

• Monitors Unboxed - Hardware Unboxed for Monitors

• Dave's Garage - cool Windows tricks from the guy who made the Task Manager

• The Cherno - good Australian C++ channel

Open Source Stuffs

• Nicco Loves Linux - good KDE and GNOME stuff

• The Linux Experiment - Linux and open source news

• unfa🇺🇦 - open source audio solutions

• Mental Outlaw - the libre man

• Royal Skies - free and open 2d and 3d content and assets

Animation

• TerminalMontage - great animations

• Noodle - great story animator

Practical Experiments

• The Slow Mo Guys - slow motion videos of pretty cool stuff

• Hacksmith Industries - cool Sci-Fi irl building channel

• Shadiversity - medieval weapon and armour experimentation

• ElectroBOOM - shocking experiments

• Major Hardware - 3d printing and fan design showdown

• Donut - good car content

Music

• SilvaGunner - wacky game music

• Eurobeat Gems - great if you like Eurobeat music

Education

• Audio University - how your sound system works

• Kyle Hill - science with nerd Thor

• LockPickingLawyer - you will never look at locks the same way

Miscellaneous

• No Text To Speech - cool for Discord users

• Fact Fiend - miscellaneous facts and British banter

• Bosnian Ape Society - If you've seen Nvidia Bread, then you'll understand.

• High Boi - movie summaries

There's more that I could # recommend, but I couldn't figure out how to describe them.

Depends on what you are interested in:

AntsCanada

Donut Media

Hoonigan

Ken Block

george hotz archive

Primitive Technology

Scott Manely

Colin Furze

Linus Tech Tips

Louis Rossman

NotJustBikes

Adam Something

City Beautiful

Alan Fisher

CityNerd

Rich Rebuilds

JerryRigEverything

Marques Brownlee

WOBO

Rising with The hill

Breaking points

Russell Brand

Kim Iverson

Sabby Sabs

The Jimmy Dore Show

Hard Lens Media

The Dive with Jackson Hinkle

JRE Snips & Clips

kurzgesagt - Science & Education - I personally love their videos of nuclear technology and their videos such as "What if we nuked the moon?"

What I think are underrated channels, alreayd listed channels removed. Some have irregular schedules but still worth checking out.

Animals

• Cal Falcons: live stream of a falcon nest on a rooftop
• Deep Look: small world biology (PBS)
• Journey to Microcosmos: smaller world biology (Hank Green)
• Saveafox: domestic fox rescue

Science/Tech

• Captain Dissilusion: video editing vs disinformation
• Cody's Lab: currently building a "Mars" habitat
• The Friday Checkout: weekly tech highlights

Music

• CSGuitars: electric guitar science
• First of October (Andrew Huang, Rob Scallon): very constrained songwriting
• Rhythm in Africa: sub-Saharan instruments
• Wataru Kousaka: Japanese instruments

Pop culture

• Game Changer: improv comedy as a game show (CollegeHumor)
• Overanalyzing Avatar: "This man is dead. Appa killed a man"
• Solid jj: voiced superhero comic parodies

History

• Jay Foreman: British culture and/or maps
• Lateral with Tom Scott: lateral thinking puzzle as a podcast
• Objectivity: very interesting objects (Brady Haran)
• Sam O'Nella Academy: badly researched and animated trivia satire

Sampson Boat Co. - British man and friends rebuild wooden sailing boat. If you have any interest in boats or craftsmanship you'll enjoy. Watch from the very beginning to see their incredible progress.

Beau Miles - Charming and slightly rough Australian man has strange adventures and philosophizes along the way. He gets excited about particularly useful/edible bits of trash along the highway.

Primitive Technology - Silent man with blue shorts exists alone in the jungle and has been working his way up to iron tools. He is freakishly fast at making fire with only two sticks. Watch in order to see his progression and turn on captions to see his commentary.

Spirit Of The Law - Extremely thorough Age of Empires II science and analysis. If you thought this 24 year old video game was dead, think again.

Settled - Old School RuneScape player plays the game with extra restrictions that create surprisingly compelling storytelling. "Swampletics", his Morytania-locked Ultimate Iron Man is legendary.

DIY Perks - British guy makes mostly brass/wooden PCs and other tech. His creations aren't always the most practical but they are always interesting. His slim PlayStation 5 was neat.

There's a handful of sustainable farming channels that I like: No-Till Growers, Richard Perkins, and Josh Sattin Farming. If your interests include food or growing stuff then these are for you.

Viva La Dirt League + their D&D Channel

ManyATrueNerd for funny and wholesome let's plays. Especially for Fallout fans, but there's so much more than that.

The China Show. Latest Video shows the astonishing destruction from the floods in Beijing and how the CCP is doing their best to cover it up. Literally. No, actually literally. Timecode is about 7:20 if I remember correctly.

I've been binging their videos for 2 weeks, and learning so much about how China actually works.

• Steve1998MREInfo tests and reviews military MREs from all around the world. Surprisingly entertaining and wholesome.
• Townsends 18th century living history reenactment and history, especially focusing on the food and everyday chores of colonial Americans.
• Wendigoon cool dude who makes videos on conspiracies, analog horror series, modern mysteries, and bible studies.
• Knowing Better educational political and sociological videos with occasional skits.

• Tasting History: Historical recipes re-created and the history behind them.

• Accented Cinema: Video essays covering foreign (mainly Asian) films and actors.

• ComicTropes: History of certain comic book runs, spin-offs, writers, artists, and tropes.

• Game Sack: Deep dives into classic video game consoles and games.

• Ordinary Sausage: A guy who makes sausage out of anything and everything.

Tried to hit multiple interests with this list. There’s so many smaller creators I’d love to recommend, but they all revolve around more specific topics / hobbies / interests.

Mathologer makes great math videos that should be understandable even by people with no higher math education.

https://youtube.com/@ExplainingComputers

A very easy to follow channel explaining all things computers. It should come to no surprise the guy is (was?) a lecturer at university

Jacob Geller Wonderful art and gaming essays.

Lemmino, hogg and fern. for quality animated documentaries

German: Ultralativ for Medienkompetenz-Content

I like watching 'My Mate Vince" he just tries to repair broken stuff really.

Mental Outlaw

RedLetterMedia - movie and bad movie "reviews"

Contrapoints and Andrewism immediately come to mind. Might add more in an edit.

• Alt Shift X
• Sam O'nella Academy
• Nexpo
• William Osman
• Plainly Difficult
• Good Mythical Morning / Rhett and Link
• Ed Bassmaster
• Sumito Media
• Primitive Technology
• Solar Sands
• Veritasium
• Brian Lagerstrom
• Beau Miles
• First We Feast

Here are a few of my favorites:

Up and Atom — an educational science channel. She gives plain-English explanations of all sorts of science topics, from quantum physics to computer science and even some philosophical puzzles from history.

TierZoo — a comedy/educational channel. In each video, he looks at animals as though they are playable classes in an MMO, explaining their strengths, weaknesses, and place in "the meta". It's comedy because it's video-game-themed, but it's also well-researched and based on real zoology. It's a riot.

Simone Giertz — you've probably seen clips of her shitty robots. She builds things for fun, profit, and just because. Most of her projects have an element of absurdity. Some of them work.

I like echarts ladder lots of starwars content.

Also obsidian ant, game reviews etc

• https://www.youtube.com/@TheTimTraveller - Utterly charming and funny travel videos
• https://www.youtube.com/@AtomicShrimp - Incredibly wholesome nerdyness in a multitude of forms
• https://www.youtube.com/@anderspuck - Insightful and considered observations about the war in Ukraine
• https://www.youtube.com/@TheCriticalDrinker - Unashamedly non-PC reviews and observations on film and TV

Veritasium

I was going to suggest the older "All Gas No Brakes" or "Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan" but looks like there's been some controversy around him and no more videos since then.

This is pretty niche, but if you've watched Summoning Salt and are looking for something similar, check out OneShortEye:

https://www.youtube.com/@OneShortEye

He does something similar for the world of speedrunning old LucasArts/Sierra adventure games. Highly recommended!

Dankpods

Astonished to see a thread about YouTube and not see any mention of Dankpods. I sub to two patreons, and Wade's is one of them. It's because of him that I have an ever-growing collection of iPods.

Styropyro - if Bill Nye, Doc Brown and FPS Russia had a baby and it made youtube videos

Moon Channel, a lawyer who dives into some of the legal topics surrounding the gaming industry, most of them Nintendo related. Really well researched information about emulation legality, modding, even copyright infringement Nintendo themselves committed in the 90's (in the Mother 3 video), all sorts of stuff.

He also has a few other things, like a REALLY LONG video on JRPGs, or commentary on MMOs.

Not many I follow too closely to be honest these days. I just did a big purge of a bunch of my subscriptions so there's only a handful now.

Gaming/Entertainment:

• Nextlander: General gaming; comprised of three ex-members of Giant Bomb (Vinny, Alex, and Brad).

• Mr. Samuel Streamer: Primarily focused on Rimworld and Crusader Kings, just an extremely witty guy that puts a lot of work into what he does. Often spends 8-9 hours in gameplay and editing to make a 30 minute episode, every day.

• Nilaus: Factory/automation games, like Factorio and Dyson Sphere Program.

• The Jimmy Dore Show: Semi-leftist, has liberal tendancies but is more political comedy than serious commentary, so I categorize him more as entertainment than political. I often don't agree with all of his takes, but the show can be good sometimes.

• CryptTV: Mini-horror episodes, often with a few recurring monsters. Really well done effects work.

Politics:

• Li Jingjing: China-based journalist, covers China and the global south as a whole. Does both serious stories and cultural/interest pieces. Great for somebody just interested in seeing more China without the anti-China rhetoric.

• George Galloway: Left-leaning talk show host, some reactionary tendancies but he does have a pretty good range of guests from time to time, including the above. He's been around for ages, very well established.

• The Deprogram: Leftist talk show and podcast.

That's kind of my entire subscription list at the moment, it has been cut down a lot recenty.

I think this thread is the first one to get my save button.

On topic, if you're into gardening (or just wanna watch something different) check out Hoocho. A guy building hydroponic systems and growing stuff. Great channel. Also no weed if that's the first thing that comes to mind from hydroponics.

Vlogbrothers has been a favourite for many years. They do so much good! And do lots of silly stuff too, like making a series of videos with titles taken from smash mouth’s rockstar 😀

I'm not doing links because I'm lazy, but I watch a lot of YouTube and these are my favorites:

Ordinary Things - funny smarmy British dude explains ordinary things. Once a month or so, very high effort stuff.

That Chapter - funny sarcastic Irish guy explains true crime things. Twice a week on a good week. Also high effort research

Internet Comment Etiquette - this is not for you. Don't watch it. You've been warned.

LGR - the best legacy youtuber talks about the best legacy tech.

Patrick Willems - funny American guy explains movie stuff.

The Crafsman Steady Craftin - funny puppet man does crafts. This is the most high effort channel on YouTube.

Jet Lag the game

Thanks guys this is awesome!

Bad Obsession Motorsport - Project Binky

my fav car build on youtube

also My Mechanics, crazy good restoration projects

Did anyone mention MelodySheep? His space videos are so damn amazing I actually downloaded them and backed them up to the cloud.