Asklemmy

Mental Outlaw

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.

Breaking Taps

The Thought Emporium

Technology Connections

The first two are people doing things at home that shouldn't be possible without a uni lab.

Connections does really thorough deep dives into every day tech we use.

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.

ilmango, airforceproud95, project farm, cutting edge engineering australia, ave, welker farms, millenial farmer

jim browning (tech support scams).

Hacks into scammers' systems while they're scamming him and exposes them. Gives you a so satisfying sense of justice. And it's overall interesting to see how he's working, and educational too.

Thanks guys this is awesome!

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.

Jan Misali

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 😀

BobbyBroccoli

Dude makes hour long (or longer) videos / (videoseries) about scientific topics, such as "America's missing supercollider" or "Man who tried to fake an element". And they are all done really well.

Link: https://youtube.com/@BobbyBroccoli

RedLetterMedia - movie and bad movie "reviews"

Most of mine have already been mentioned, but here are a few I didn't see:

• Songs by Spencer A guy named Spencer makes songs. Relatively new channel, but the production quality is top notch. I think his day job is owner of a video production company.

• Cheap Audio Man Reviews relatively cheap audio gear. Cheap is a pretty wide range in the audio world.

• Awesome Open Source Talks about open source software. Usually runs through how to install and basic usage/features.

• Chris Titus Tech Tech channel. Mostly Windows and Linux.

• Techno Tim Mostly homelab related stuff

• 66Samus Drum stuff

• Nicole van der Hoeven Obsidian.md / Personal Knowledge Management

• Rachel Maksy Cosplay / crafty stuff

• How to ADHD ADHD stuff

• Coffeezilla Covers scams, grifters, etc.

• James Hoffmann All things coffee

• The Kiffness Makes songs out of random internet clips of animals. Or remixes other people singing. My kids love this channel.

I haven't seen the fall of civilizations channel being mentioned, so here you go.

Subject zero science

• 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

• 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

Miniminuteman - Archaeology and BS-debunking

Crecganford - Anthropological views on mythology

münecat - popular culture BS-debunking and other stuff

The daily show - I like the discussions more than the show.

NativLang - Linguistics and stuff

fern is a relatively new channel covering various themes – like why french McDonalds is so much better or how a few german companies profited from Hitler and never took responsibility – in extremly high quality. Its a cooperation of two established dutch and a german channels. Really worth checking out.

Soft white underbelly.

So these people are my go too:

Tech: MrWhosTheBoss LTT Sam Baker Andrew Ethan zeng Joe knows best(amazing but hardly uploads now)

Cars Donut Misha charoudin Auto Alex Matt Armstrong Chris slix

Video games Wildcat Black panthaa Game riot Cartoonz Grizzy Smi77y

Other random things: Thoughty2 History matters Shxtsngigs Manny khoshbin Drivetribe Gameranx Lemmino

I really like Illinois EnergyProf Talks a lot about energy, reactors, turbines, solar you name it

glassslinger - million year old guy in a dress fabricates vacuum tubes and repairs radios. steve1989mreinfo - guy eats old mres crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt - gonzo nature walks uscsb - your tax dollars at work

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.

Pop Culture Detective - probably my favourite out of the millions of video-essay makers

Bad Obsession Motorsport - Project Binky

my fav car build on youtube

also My Mechanics, crazy good restoration projects

I can't believe no one has mentioned Aging Wheels and Under Dunn, both by Robert Dunn.

The first is Robert's channel about his crazy car collection and the work he does on them. The second is his woodworking channel. His sense of humor and video editing skills are amazing and he seems like a really nice guy all around.