Seeing the other post here about YouTuber that went downhill and seeing content creators I am familiar with makes me sad. But how about those that still makes great, high quality content?
I love watching Lets Plays and HCBailly is the best let’s player. His quality has only gone up over the years and his consistent upload schedule leaves nothing to be desired. He’s under rated and deserves 3 million subs.
Technology Connections
One of the most informative channels I’ve ever watched. I recommend his dishwasher video, because everybody is doing it wrong.
Always knew those pods sucked for more money. He did convert me to the powder tho
Been on reddit for over a decade, never heard of this channel. On lemmy since a few weeks, I keep reading about him and his dishwasher video at least twice a week.
And yes, I’ve watched it a couple of weeks ago, it is good. I’ll have to watch some of his other videos sometimes
His one about basic style rice makers is fantastic
He’s a big Fediverse guy, too. Very active on Mastodon.
Hi @TechConnectify@mas.to o/
Absolutely love him.
Was going to comment this
Ze best
Overrated and borderline insufferable.
But… dishwasher episode!!
No, it isn’t informative if you’ve ever read the manual to your dishwasher. Dude bought a car then a house and goes around explaining things about them that are clearly explained in owners manuals. He does some interesting videos like the pinball machine or jukebox tear down, but the rest mostly non-substantial filler. Dude needs to stick to electromechanical tear downs.
Tom Scott
Won’t he stop doing videos in like a week?
I think he’s gonna slow down on his main channel, but still upload. He does have a second channel as well. Tbf he’s been doing his thing for 10 years
The back log is great and still very watchable.
There’s no backlog if you’ve seen them all #notastalker
I remember subscribing to his channel 20 years ago.
hbomberguy
SELL THEM TO WHO BEN? FUCLING AQUAMAN?
IT WAS THEM’LL
I JUST recently found out about his Donkey Kong 64 Nightmare stream and just how much fucking money he raised for charity by torturing himself for 58 hours.
He’s an angel.
CGP Grey
I can’t get enough flag videos
Primitive Technology
He’s mastered the bronze age and is making progress on the iron age, all by himself.
Kind of skipped bronze, since there aren’t ready sources of copper and tin on his property. But yes his experiments with iron processing have been interesting. Pretty incredible what can be managed with such simple tools.
Poor access to iron, too. He’s putting in a ton of effort to get like 5 grams of actual metal from the iron bacteria.
Technology Connections!
Through the power of buying two of them!
CAPTAIN DISILLUSION
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Definitely some of the best production value on youtube. Even his stuff from 10+ years ago holds up incredibly well aside from the resolution.
Seems like he’s been doing his thing for the entire existence of the internet. Silly little flash animations and games in the early 2000’s and now his ‘true facts’ of animals videos. Seems to keep true to his own style, ever evolving as it may be, but always similar- and maybe thats what I find comforting- he’s been there for most of the 20+ years I’ve been ‘surfin the web’, as the kids like to say.
I was hoping someone would post ZeFrank! His True Facts series is exactly what education content should be - entertaining, interesting, funny, and most importantly, rigorously sourced and credited to the real life scientists and researchers he bases his info on.
For more animal facts, check out Isabella Rossellini “Green Porno”. A little more risqué, and a different kind of humor, though interesting and educational as well. It was a Sundance thing from about 10 years ago that was semi ‘viral’ at the time.
He is also able to fart bees!
He left for a while to do buzzfeed content. But now he is back Those were the dark years lol
I was wondering where he went, very happy when he come back.
This was my answer! I watched a couple old videos last night actually and then watched some new ones. He’s gotten better in my opinion. What you said is right. It’s in the same style but now it’s more polished.
LGR.
As a DOS gamer, he’s pretty much me in a more American and charismatic package.
- Some More News (Last Week Tonight-like political commentary)
- AngryTurtle (fallout 76 content)
- videogamedunkey (gaming/humor)
- Yahtzee Croshaw (game reviews/rants)
- Wendover Productions (random interesting education and air travel gameshows)
- Practical Engineering (how the world around you is built)
- Technology Connections (deep dives into engineering everyday gizmos)
- Tom Scott (interesting tech/education)
- RealLifeLore (explains geopolitics)
- Internet Historian (amusing yarns, discussions, and stories)
- LegalEagle (law)
- Kurzgesagt (explains scientific concepts, lots of what if scenarios, animated birds)
- Tasting History with Max Millar (historical cooking in a modern kitchen)
- Let’s Game it Out (dude who breaks games in the most amusing way possible)
- My Name Is Andong (cooking)
- Chef Jean-Pierre (cooking)
- Economics Explained (economics)
- Matthew Berman (explores the latest AI/LLM tech)
Love most of your suggestions but I wouldn’t recommend Internet Historian. Dude is a plagiarist at best and a Nazi at worst.
Can you explain this?
Sure, here it is. As for the plagiarism accusations look no further than the latest Hbomberguy video.
Oof, thank you
It’s great how Some More News is so consistent. I can only think of a few episodes where they seemed to be stretching for content on a topic.
News daddy must gives us our juicy news
If I can add to this list because you listed most people I would mention.
- Calum (videos about interesting topics and crazy one off machines, giant land trains, Antarctic exploring vehicles etc).
- Blondie Hacks (machining but focused on how to do everything and how to learn machining mostly with limited tooling, she is currently building a live stream model loco).
- Aging Wheels (videos about quirky old cars and related projects).
“Well hello there friends!” Chef Jean Pierre makes me so incredibly happy every time I put one of his videos on. His delivery, humorous self-awareness, and sheer passion for cooking never fail to put me in a good mood. Highly recommended!
Primative Technology. A dude out in the bush building houses and tools out of mud, sticks, and rocks without speaking a word.
I’m a fan of him.
Do you watch How To Make Everything?
I know there are several similar channels so maybe I’m mixed up, but wasn’t this the one where they found out the guy was using machinery to create his projects off camera and claiming it was all done by hand?
Nope. This guy is the real deal. Nothing he does is large scale or unbelievable. If you turn on captions he walks you through what his thought process is/what he is doing. Very enjoyable.
He is legit.
The most popular fake primitive building channels are obviously fake if you have even a little bit of critical thinking. They usually pretend to build some preposterously sized waterparks and other complex structures that are obviously above the scale of two guys with hand tools.
Nah, this is the guy that basically spawned the entire “genre”. He’s legit as can get.
- The Bread Circus
- They go through the Star Wars movies from a book lore perspective, point out flaws in the writing and lore-breaking, and offer suggestions on how the sequels could have been handled differently. They did The Last Jedi, and I really enjoyed it. They also have some cool videos on podracing, ships, and guns.
- Defunctland
- History of Disney rides, takes the culture of the time into consideration, the video on queues is a must-watch, imo.
- Draw Like a Sir
- Really solid drawing tutorials that aren’t very complicated, takes the time to break down high-level concepts into simple exercises. Overall a really fun channel to watch, even if you’re not into drawing.
- Fredrik Knudson
- Long, deep-dive videos into internet history/culture. Rare uploads, but a banger every time.
- James Lee
- Newgrounds-era animator with amazing compositing techniques and a very unique animation style where he inserts himself into his videos as a very animated caricature of himself.
- Lemmino
- Like the History Channel but without the fluff. Cool topics, very nice animations, high production, high-quality content.
- MattKC
- Known for a Lego Island decompilation project. Also does retro console repair from time to time — very fun watch.
- Paper Will
- Rare uploads. but interesting video essay topics. High quality and a nice watch during lunch.
- Pecos Hank
- A storm chaser who is Reed Timmer’s ying to his yang. Very chill, documentary-quality footage featuring himself playing guitar and talking about the beauty and power of nature. You’ve probably seen his footage on the Weather Channel!
- Technology Connections
- Great deep dives into random technology, old and new. The video on the popcorn button on microwaves is really good (I think that may be on his second channel?)
Technology Connections
“It’s november, so that means no effort videos all month.” proceeds to make high effort video
- The Bread Circus
Primitive Technology
Low volume (not even 1 video a month), high quality, highly entertaining.
Beware of the copycats, though.
Always turn on captions, he narrates in text.
WHHHHAAAAAAÀTTTTTTTTTT??? game changer
Whaaaat! I had no idea. This is blowing my mind. I’ve watched this guy’s channel for years and didn’t know about this.
We have all, at one point, been you and gone back and rewatched every single one now with captions. It just hits later for some. They’re still good though.
I cannot believe I had to scroll so far down here to find this. It’s a channel so good he created a freaking genre! And plus, almost no one else does what he does legit. At least a lot of the bushcraft ones show when they use tools, but I’ve seen videos with 8 million views showing hand tools and harvesting wood, then boom, suddenly there’s dimensional lumber in the shot. Drives me wild when people fake it, but the OG never does, since he started the whole project for fun and fell backwards into money.
Tom Scott. Only gotten better with time.
