Ask Lemmy

I've been watching Yahtzee Croshaw for ~5 years now, but he's been around for more like 15. He did change channels, but the style of videos he made stayed the same, and the quality, if anything, has only gotten better

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.

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

Map Men / Jay Foreman

Interesting and genuinely amusing for about 15 years at this point.

I'll hop on the Technology Connections train and add

Styropyro

CathodeRayDude

Civvie11

Northernlion

Some of these channels have changed over the years, expanding and adding hosts and things, but they consistently make good content and have either improved or maintained that quality.

Wendover and Half As Interesting

Real Engineering

Mustard

Legal Eagle

Mentour Pilot

Not a channel, but a creator: Yahtzee Croshaw (was Zero Punctuation/Extra Punctuation on The Escapist, is now Fully Ramblomatic/Semi Ramblomatic on Second Wind.

CGP Grey

SciShow (and many of the other projects from the vlogbrothers, including Crash Course and vlogbrothers itself)

Technology Connections

Shaun

HBomberGuy

ElectroBOOM

Videogamedunkey

No captain disillusion?!

Map Men. It's always educational, interesting, and they have amazing Monty Pythonish gags and jokes.

Testing history with Max Miller and How to Drink.

This one guy Richard Astley. Banging tunes and the smoothest moves.

But really: Technology Connections

Captain dissolution

Corridor crew

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

Techmoan, if you are interested in old or weird tech.

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

videogamedunkey

Been watching his videos for ~10 years now

Numberphile and any other channel by Brady Haran.

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.

Some ones I haven't seen yet:

• Camping with Steve (relaxed Canadian camping with plenty of dry humour, usually some wild stealth camping adventures)
• Budget-Builds Official (tries out random ass computer hardware and finds its limits)
• dosdude1 (infamous for crazy Mac upgrades that require resoldering BGA chips and chip programming)
• EthosLab (already saw Xisumavoid mentioned, Etho is still happily making mature Minecraft videos)
• Flexiny (ASMR-like videos of mechanics fixing old cars to run again)
• FlyTech Videos (Windows experiments and deep dives into how Win32 and NT do things)
• GIFGAS (usual accomplice with shiey in train surfing, although I enjoy GIFGAS' edits more than shiey)
  • Side note: His videos are taken down regularly so you have to be quick to download them before they disappear
• Hugh Jeffreys (Australian right to repair advocate, usually repairs smartphones but has dabbled into more vintage items recently)
• Janus Cycle (2000s deep retrospectives into technology)
• Plainly Difficult (British industrial accident examinations with wonderfully shoddy graphics)
• polymatt (absolute 3D modelling wizard who takes on restoring vintage tech to beyond brand new with incredible attention to detail, and very engaging edits)
• Seytonic (cyber security news roundup weekly)
• This Does Not Compute (retro computer repairs and retrospectives)
• Usagi Electric (extremely vintage computer repairs, going right back to vacuum tubes to 1980s minicomputers)

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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.

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 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.

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

Ahoy. video game documentarian. Makes 1 or 2 very high quality videos a year and has done so for years.

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.

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

If you like reviews/comparisons check out Project Farm.

Okoii

Ssethtzeentach

VaatiVidya

Ymfah

Sitting With Dogs (Rocky Kanaka)

Some More News

History Marche

Fairbairn Films

Don't Tell Comedy

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