Ask Lemmy

I still like Level1Techs. They don't put out nearly as many videos as they used to, but what do they put out is usually good.

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

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.

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

Colin Furze (inventor with crazy ideas)

Anna Cramling (chess streamer)

Modern Vintage Gamer

Thoughty2

Joe Scott

SomeOrdinaryGamers

Josh Strife Hayes / Josh Strife Plays

TheReportOfTheWeek

Whang!

CaptainSparklez

Simon Whistler

Surprised no one mentioned LGR/Lazy Game Reviews

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.

Sam O nella Academy

MauLer - great film and tv critiques.

Defunctland - incredible documentaries about theme parks.

Adam Ragusea ftw and Kenji Lopez-Alt

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.

• 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.

Marques Brownlee for tech.

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

I'll add GeoWizard to all the good answers already. He has some great adventure videos. He composes all of the music as well.

Oh, and anything by Brady Haran: Objectivity, Numberphile, Sixty Symbols, Periodic Videos, etc.

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

Because it hasn't been mentioned yet,

League of Pigs

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.

my fav youtubers are probably

• I did a thing
• Dank Pods
• Bringus Studios
• StyroPyro
• Posy
• fern
• A few others I cant remember rn

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

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).

Ethoslab

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.

Redlettermedia for sure, they may as well be YouTube dinosaurs at this point, but their content has only gotten better. If you're in the Lemmy minority like me and enjoy the NFL: ThatsGoodSports, Tom Grossi, UrinatingTree are all gems worthy of your time

I still get excited when I see a notification for Applied Science after several years. Breaking Taps doesn't miss, either. They both do really interesting stuff.

Andrew Camarata and Foresty Forest are one of the few no-bullshit YouTubers that I know of who simply focus on making good content and nothing else.

EDIT: Steve Wallis and post10 aswell

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.

Steve Wallis. He is an all around great down to earth guy. He does stealth camping and regular camping.

Transport Evolved (they are also on Peertube), RM Transit, Gamers Nexus, Climate Town, Not Just Bikes, JayzTwoCents, Techtesters, The Linux Experiment (also on Peertube), LowSpecGamer