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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?

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Gaming

Makers

...more in Honytawk's comment below

Science + Technology

  • Applied Science - In depth videos about random science-y things this dude finds interesting. No clickbait, just an excited dude talking about a project he tried.

  • Atomic Frontier - A lot like Tom Scott. He's also a rare case where the video is more interesting than the title/thumbnail. Generally focused on science-y topics + has shockingly high production value considering the dude seems to be an overworked college student.

  • NileRed/NileBlue - Crazy in depth chemistry videos. Personally find NileBlue more entertaining as he tends to explore things he's not that great at.

  • Practical Engineering - Explanations of various civil engineering concepts.

Other

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Your makers can be padded out a bit more.

  • I did a thing - dry humor Australian who walks barefoot and wears an apron.

  • Michael Reeves - chaotic coding goblin that makes robots

  • TheBackyardScientist - Floridaman using his backyard to explode stuff

  • Mark Rober - Nasa engineer explaining science to kids with great editing

  • William Osman - Collaboration expert, you will see him in all the other channels mentioned above.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

1 more dude I skipped but I'll put here - Stuff Made Here - Insanely skilled engineer who seems to be able to make just about anything. Skipped because his thumbnails are horribly clickbaity.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't know about this person, but honestly the thumbnail is pretty tame compared to majority of YouTube ngl

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

If you like making/engineering videos, don't let a thumbnail dissuade you. It's always in the details. Stuff Made Here is literally top 3 for me. He's amazing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Been scrolling to make sure he was included somewhere. Cool projects and so many Easter eggs in the videos. One of the best maker channels for sure

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the list, I'm sure others will appreciate it!

I'm actually subscribed to almost all of those channels lmao. I skipped several because I'm being picky, and I mean picky. You probably won't agree with a lot of my decisions. Here's what I mean...

  • I did a thing - forgot about him I'll add him to the list
  • Micheal Reeves - Last real video was a year ago
  • Backyard scientist - Unsubscribed a while ago due to clickbait. From a quick glance his videos seem fine now though.
  • Mark Rober - Video quality has been going downhill. More and more clickbait, and videos seem to spend a lot more time than necessary on "look at our happy family fun time we're having."
  • William Osman - I like him just not enough to put him on the list
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They all do a podcast called safety third, I watched it for a while but I stopped cus the content feels really lazy. And when I realized most of them have slowed down their main channel video output a ton like Osman and NileRed and Reeves I just got bored of the lot. Like their videos are all dumb shit like "i gave a snake legs" and it's the most half assed 3d printed shit the barely works and they just act like teenage boys the entire video, then look at view count and it gets millions of views. Kinda starts to feel dumb and more like youtube celebrity shit than actual quality maker content, sorta pisses me off a little seeing them get so much money making like 1 video every 6 months where they build literal garbage. And they sorta brag about it in their podcast. It sorta feels like they are slowly slipping into more cringry content like trash-taste kinda stuff and im just not into it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Second on Etho, he's remarkably constant all the way from when Minecraft was in alpha.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Been watching etho for at least a decade if not more, one of my all time favorites

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My homie (don’t actually know him) Road guy Rob makes some of the BEST videos on roads and the engineering of traffic systems and infrastructure. His content is insanely good and wayyyyy better than any small YouTuber should be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

+1. I love this guy because he's not just another one of those new urbanism YouTubers complaining that every American doesn't have 10 trains showing up at their house every minute and anyone that disagrees is mentally compromised (see: "car brain"). He instead focuses on feasible, practical, incremental solutions to our problems over shouting about the "kill all cars with fire immediately" solutions.

I didn't post him because I figured the audience on Lemmy would eat me alive for saying all that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh shit a Marblr shoutout! I love his stuff, his propensity for finding and diagnosing bugs is out of this world. He used to stream on twitch and it was really fun because it would essentially be a behind the scenes look at all the custom workshop stuff he's built in order to reproduce bugs and get footage for his videos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think all of the Hermits are still really good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Veritasium is one of the oldest and consistently greatest science channels

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You win. Nice effort.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

He’s also a rare case where the video is more interesting than the title/thumbnail

It's insane but it's true. Great guy.