It’s probably not the genre people here tend to enjoy, but if you are into homesteading and farm stuff, Gold Shaw Farm has been excellent for years now.

Testing history with Max Miller and How to Drink.

Primitive Technology. He started the whole “build a shelter on the woods” genre that has become so dumb, but his videos are still just as great as ever. No narration or music, just interesting experiments into basic technology like shelters, fire, lions, pottery, etc., all using only materials from the forest around his camp. Now he’s working on a way 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.

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.

People have already mentioned most of the maker and DIY channels that I enjoy

so I’ll mention a new to me channel — Hunter Direction

if you already like most of the machinist and maker channels, and you like cars, then you will probably love this channel. seems like it’s a guy just making videos about his project cars, which expanded into making videos about his projects (home ownership stuff). but his latest stuff is scripted and shot and edited so damn well, it’s art. I would highly recommend watching his last couple videos. they’re not short but god damn are they quality

oh, and Mujin. I didn’t see anybody mention him. another dry humor DIY type channel. love it.

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

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

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.

Cathode Ray Dude

If u have any interest in cars or engineering:

-Driving 4 answers -engineering explained -superfast matt

Map Men / Jay Foreman

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

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.

No captain disillusion?!

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 🤔

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