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Ethan Chlebowski does phenomenal cooking videos and deep dives into the science of food, specifically if some expensive ingredients are objectively worth the cost.

Fascinating Horror does unique videos in that they are discussions on all man-made or natural disasters. Great audio and video as well.

H0ser does fantastic videos on countries and economics with some humor, and cute animals to represent countires.

Horses does brilliant essays on a variety of topics, all of which are interesting and researched very well.

Nick Crowley does creepy, scary, and true crime like a lot of others, but puts a lot of effort into his editing and aesthetic.

Nexpo is largely the same as Nick Crowley, but with deeper dives and longer videos.

Professor Leonard has the best calculus series on YouTube.

Ian McCollum from Forgotten Weapons. https://youtu.be/THsDpGJcpk8?si=

Sam O nella Academy

Oh also Brick Experiment Channel for fun stuff with Lego.

In no particular order:

• Mind of Watercolor - Steve Mitchell
• Paul Clark
• Escape to Rural France
• Mark Rober
• SloMo Guys
• Bear Essentials
• Primitive Technology
• Adventure Archives

There’s also a fair amount of surprisingly good fan films in various franchises.

Steve1989MRE, chill and informative seeing how MREs have evolved. He eats all the MREs and only got botulism twice so he’s doing good.

For funny content badlandschugs is pretty entertaining and the videos are generally quick.

Brian David Gilbert has always made cool stuff, but as he spun off from polygon he's created some wild existential videos.

I would give a shout out to two makers, Frank Howarth and This Old Tony both do some amazing works in general. Tony does a good amount of metal work, while Frank is almost all about woodworking.

For some AI (sorta) stuff: Primer engaging way to learn about statistics I guess, I don't know the right way to describe them but I always leave with something new.

For car stuff: Rob Dahm who is known for a wild RX7. Also publishes a lot of public data for the rotary community.

Junkyard Digs who does lots of classic car "restorations" or repairs. Generally tries to do the most accessible methods or tools.

Tofu Auto Works does mostly custom body kits and so on, shown in step by step processes with tips and reasons/preferences for doing things a certain way.

For gaming I'll just throw City Planner Plays out there. He mainly plays Cities Skylines, and talks about how and why certain infrastructure is designed or used.

Editting to add: sorta (mostly) does gaming, also does other topics as well. Arch fantastic visuals and historical breakdowns of topics. Doesn't have many videos, but they are quite good.

And purely because I've met him IRL and think his channel is very under viewed, About Here discusses city planning, accessibility and so on. A lot of it has to do with housing and it's current issues, but has other city/civic related topics as well.

Ahoy is still great, probably because it's just 2 videos per year; Scott the Woz is still funny, Silvagunner too.

I haven't seen Forgotten Weapons mentioned, yet. If you couldn't tell by the channel name, it covers rare and historical weapons, mostly firearms, but does so in a straightforward, informational, and apolitical way. It's basically the kind of show the history channel should make. I think he's been putting out episodes since around 2011.

Tom Scott, Sorted Foods, Mr. Barry Lewis, Freakin' Reviews, GeoWizard, Backyard Scientists, I Did A Thing, Stuff Made Here, Scott Stro-Solves.

Thoughty2

Joe Scott

SomeOrdinaryGamers

Josh Strife Hayes / Josh Strife Plays

TheReportOfTheWeek

Whang!

CaptainSparklez

Adam Ragusea ftw and Kenji Lopez-Alt

Many A True Nerd has always made consistently great Fallout content, and he's only gotten better over the years. Been watching him since 2014.

I'm honestly surprised to have not seen Super Eyepatch Wolf show up yet. Because of him, I'll never look at Garfield the same way again. He might not put out content often, but as far as I've seen, it's all top notch quality.

Tokyo Lens is another I enjoy. Fun explorations of Japan, lots of cool informational stuff, stuff like that. A little bit Abroad in Japan, but somewhat less bombastically edited, and a bit more positive.

Clemps is another one that doesn't put out content very often, but does some great deep dives into older JRPGs, and some fantastic looks at Yoko Taro's games.

Then there's the ones that have been posted again and again: RedLetterMedia, Technology Connections, Tom Scott, Jacob Geller, Food Wishes, You Suck At Cooking. I'm sure there's more out there, and there will always be more new ones popping up, too.

• Lemmino. Quality only got better over the years. Started as a top 10 memes channel. Then became top 10 cool subjects presented like documentaries. Now it's actual documentaries.

• Gameranx. Watched them when they were still just two or three dudes just talking about games. All those years, they made it pretty big on YouTube, and they still didn't lose that vibe.

Simon Whistler

Colin Furze (inventor with crazy ideas)

Anna Cramling (chess streamer)

MauLer - great film and tv critiques.

Defunctland - incredible documentaries about theme parks.

Surprised no one mentioned LGR/Lazy Game Reviews

Climate Town, Adam Something, Not Just Bikes, Contra Points, Hbomberguy, World War Two, The Great War, The Linux Experiment, CivDiv, The Thought Emporium, and there are some others that currently escape my mind.

I also have GioPizzi and Yotobi but their videos are in Italian.

Yogscast still going strong.

Whether you like their gaming content or not, their editing is always on point.

Currently churning out content because of their Jingle Jam Charity.

Marques Brownlee for tech.

He's also known as MKBHD, and he's amazing with his camera work.

Forrest Valkai. He's a biologist who makes a mixture of educational content, videos debunking creationist claims (in an educational way rather than the "look at this fucking idiot" approach that much of atheist youtube seems to take), and just some silly fun in-between.

He doesn't have the insanely high production value of other channels named here, but he's the most wholesome person I've ever seen. His love for life and science radiates off of him and watching him passionately explain how cool something is genuinely makes me happy in such a depressing and pessimistic world.

Good Mythical Morning has been around since before YouTube even existed and they still put out good shit. Even more so, with the GM Kitchen stuff (which I actually like more; those guys are fun as hell).

Alpha Pheonix is a great channel with some really good electricity videos recently.

Fall of Civilizations, though those are podcasts first. All of them are amazing.

Lockpicking Lawyer makes the best short videos. Not "yt shorts", it's just that it takes him 2-5 seconds to pick open the vast majority of locks, the rest of the video is his comment on the lock quality.

JoshStrifeHayes has 3 separate channels now, but that main channel that deals with MMOs still makes quality content in my opinion, but not as often. I also enjoy him playing the old games on JoshStrifePlays.

Modern Vintage Gamer

FutureCanoe: A cooking channel that doesnt take itself serious and is super funny.

Kara and Nate: The only Travel bloggers i can watch, from biking across America to visiting 9 Christmas Markets in Europe in 9 different countries in 9 days. Their content is always unique and engaging

Alex Novell: A great documentarian channel that has tricked Alan Dershowitz and Alex Jones into interviews and confronted them for the harm they have done to society

FD Signifier: One of the best video essayists on the Platform, making great socially concious content.

Knowing Better Dude does amazing deep dives into topics that's we should know more about that explain things that are a bit controversial.

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