Kind of tired watching trash from YT.
Edit: Thanks for all the replies. It’s good to see that there are still gems in YouTube.
Climate Town - Does a decent job explaining climate-related topics and still makes them interesting.
Jay Foreman - Very funny map trivia.
JerryRigEverything - A bit too much promotion on some stuff, but really comprehensive tear downs.
MIT OpenCourseWare - learn good.
Pop Culture Detective - Deconstructive pop culture tropes that make you think a lot.
SNES drunk - retrogaming (not just SNES) but well done, 0% additives just prime content.
stacksmashing - electronics trivia and hardcore reverse engineering.
The National Gallery - If you’re into history, this is an excellent channel about art trivia. I’m not much into art and this is always top quality for me.
Tom Scott plus - Tom Scott does British telly stuff like playing board games or chasing people on the streets with an apple tag.
Voices of the Past - This is slow, exhaustive history for nerds. Worth it if you want to let the story wash all over you.
Vox - slightly left leaning great journalism, albeit sometimes too brief to explain complex topics.
Weird History - They get some stuff wrong, but it’s still entertaining.
Project Farm - Wanna buy an angle grinder? Now you do.
Insider - Had a series of “How Real Is It?” videos that let professionals describe stuff seen in movies, and it is both entertaining and a learning experience.
Corridor - Some stuff of dubious quality but if you’re interested in FX, it’s good.
LegalEagle - Law is hard, but is law fun?
brian david gilbert - Existential horror camouflaged as comedy.
PBS Space Time - Good but hard space science.
BurtBot - Orcs with normal voices.
Joel Haver - Neat if you’re into deadpan humor.
Taskmaster - Probably some of the best british television available in YT.Bonus round:
Practical Engineering - How stuff is built but explained well enough that even I can understand it.Plus, use FreeTube, not You Tube. Don’t be a slave of their terrible algorythm and all the recommendations will turn out to be of your taste.
Map men map men map map map men men men.
I love Vox, but I would call it more than slightly left leaning.
The journalists, sure. The company, less so.
The company, less so.
Well, it’s neither a non-profit nor a worker-owned co-op, so that’s to be expected.
Technology connections
Every frame a painting
Alt shift x
Dad how do I
Food wishes
Kurzgesagt In a nutshell
Primitive technology
Kurzgesagt tends to push a lot of pseudoscience (e.g. carbon capture tech) and other stuff following the investment interests of their founders.
I like their animation style and honestly I wish they used proper data sources, however if you check the sources they mention on some of their more dubious videos they all come from some made up source.
This is particularly upsetting with everything related to parroting whatever Bill Gates is pushing (artificial meat, carbon capture, inequality is the teacher’s fault, climate change isn’t that bad, etc.)
Adding on to this; There’s a video by The Hated One who initially broke this story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjHMoNGqQTI&pp=ygUVa3Vyemdlc2FndCBwcm9wYWdhbmRh
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=HjHMoNGqQTI&pp=ygUVa3Vyemdlc2FndCBwcm9wYWdhbmRh
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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Have you watched their response?
Ys. It didn’t feel very convincing, nor did they actually address the issue of them citing a company Bill Gates owns in order to support another one he owns.
Good to know, thanks for the info!
In that case: Skeptics guide to the universe and their sister channel alpha quadrant six
Technology Connections is SO GOOD.
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Seeing where the money is is a good way to see why someone says what they do. That’s disappointing. I’m mostly there for their space videos personally and so far there doesn’t seem to be any propaganda there.
Kurzgesagt is great!
- MinutePhysics
- MinuteEarth
- AsapSCIENCE
- CGP Grey
- Company Man
- Every Frame a Painting (abandoned)
- Historia Civilis
- Mark Rober
- Now You See It
- Sam O’Nella Academy (semi abandoned, but so good)
- Smithsonian Channel
- Two Minute Papers
sounds like you’d enjoy alphaPhoenix as well :)
Thanks, I will blindly subscribe to it.
you won’t regret it, I’m pretty sure! lol
Tom Scott
Technology Connections
Love this guy. He’s such a nerd! My kind of people
The only thing I would like to be improved is his rambling. But other than that: great content and I especially like his humour and acting.
I actually kind of like that about him, usually (I’m not gonna watch an hour long video about electric car chargers ffs).
To me, it makes the videos seem a bit less scripted and more like just a guy talking about things he’s passionate about.
Tom Scott, he has done a video every week for like 10 years. Sort of a science travel adventure nerd. His videos are generally short and interesting.
Veritasum - Science guy with some interesting topics
Donut Media - If you like cars, they do some interesting and funny things while not being complete asshats.
The Proper People - Abandoned places, nice videos and respectful exploration.
Cash Jordan - Gives tours of NYC apartments from tiny studio apartments up to multi-million dollar penthouses.
Geography Geek - A lot of interesting geography-related facts.
Knob Feel - Short and sweet reviews of various knobs.
Vice Grip Garage - If you are interested in how old cars are repaired and have lots of time, he has many ~1.5 hour videos of dragging old cars out of the bushes that haven’t ran for 20 years, getting them mostly running, and driving them home.
Polyphonic - Interesting video essays about various music and musical artists.
Tom Scott’s videos are so interesting
Vice Grip Garage is excellent long-form car stuff for sure. Much easier to watch than the length of the video suggests.
Laura Kampf
Simone Giertz
MKBHD
Tom Scott
Mark Rober
Climate Town
Jay Foremen (Map Men)
Daily Dose of Internet
Captain Disillusion
Casually Explained
Tom Scott would be my top pick for quality YouTube not tied to a specific hobby. His videos are great.
Besides his educational content, he also has some pretty good (still somewhat educational) game show type series, like Citation Needed and Two Of These People Are Lying (links to the playlists).
Also runs a podcast game show called Lateral which is pretty fun to listen to. Last I checked only highlights were uploaded to YouTube, and full episodes are on typical podcast services
Lateral is excellent
I really wish Two Of These People Are Lying would make a comback
Ben Eater. He’s been explaining the low level details of how computers work. Literally building a functioning computer from nothing but a cpu and a breadboard. Incredibly good explanations.
I mean, he also built a functioning CPU on breadboards.
One of my favorite video series on youtube
And for those who have watched all Ben Eater’s videos, I highly recommend James Sharman’s 8 Bit CPU from scratch playlist. I’ts a bit less step-by-step-tutorial, but it covers more ground than Ben.
I learned more from that guy than I did from the “intro to computer engineering” class I took for my CS degree.
I started in the industry doing 6502 assembly language programming and I’m still learning a ton from him!
In the same vein, check out CuriousMarc, especially the series about restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer to working order. (They actually finish up by simulating a moon landing.)
PBS Spacetime (Physics)
Money & Macro (Economics)
Patrick Boyle (Finance)
Perun (Military Analysis)
Veritasium (Physics)
3Blue1Brown (Mathematics)
Asianometry (Semiconductors and Geopolitics)
Engineerguy (Engineering)
RealLifeLore (Geopolitics)
Polymatter (China)
Tantacrul (Music)
Mustard (Aircraft and Trains)
Biolayne (Fitness)
I want to add Fermilab as a quality physics channel as well, easy to follow and Don Lincoln is entertaining to listen to.
LOL this guy has a mission and its to never turn left or right :D
Philips fast talking makes me anxious lmao, idk why
Sup sup sup sup sup
Family
Well There’s Your Problem
Drachinifel
Viva La Dirt League if you’re looking for short but hillarious videos. I also quite enjoy Foil Arms and Hog, Daniel Thrasher and Chris Hallbeck
Kurzgesagt and CGP Gray for general easy to understand science.
Numberphile, Stand-up Maths and 3Blue1Brown if you are into math facts and stuff and computer science. Also minutephysics for physics.
If you like Minecraft, you must check out all the members of Hermitcraft.
That about sums up my subscription list.
i watched a few of their videos too! good stuff, though a bit more advanced than what I’m used to
I’ll skip the ones already mentioned.
Anton Petrov - Science and Space news
Postmodern Jukebox - Modern songs in different styles
Legal Eagle - A lawyers take on modern events, movies, etc
Ze Frank - I am unable to describe, just give a video a watch
Anything with Simon Whistler, he has too many channels to list
Munro Live - An engineering firms take on new cars.
nicola white mudlark - Very good if you like history.- The China Show
- The Punkrock MBA
- Callmenchoko
- Kmac2021
- The Art of Photography
- TwoSetViolin
- Davie504
- NFKRZ
- TwoMinutePapers
- Adam Neely
