Asklemmy

Hyperspace pirate is currently working on making a cryocooler to make liquid nitrogen, out of cheap and readily accessible components. He's not done yet, but the progress videos are very interesting to watch. https://www.youtube.com/@HyperspacePirate

Rick Beato - music theory Meat Canton - animation James Lee - animation Tasting History - food and history Bunch of cop watchers and civil rights folks. Bad Cop No Donut stuff.

Oh. Also:

Captain Disillusionment - VFX and skeptics Corridor - VFX Movies with Mikey - film video essays In/Frame/Out - film theory and savage commentary Emmet Short - pop tech Daryl Talks Games - psychology of video games. I cry. WrySci - small channel but funny science stuff. Wish it’d have taken off.

I love CallMeKevin, he’s so funny and generally wholesome, his content is great. Beyond that it’s all over the place. Tolkien Untangled, Wendigoon, Contra Points, Cracking the Cryptic for wild sudoku solving, Ryan Hollinger, a lot of history channels, things like Real Engineering, and coding stuff when needed

The only person I'd trust with finance stuff is Joseph Hogue cuz he doesn't seem to be a scummy bastard, unlike most others.

Also, I think he's the only Certified Financial Advisor on YT Link: https://youtube.com/@josephhogue

The only cultural people I follow are The Critical Drinker for film reviews and Better Ideas for inspirational content, also Nate O'Brien for both investment stuff and life advice stuff.

Everything else I follow is tevh-related, and in a niche without a lot of pushy sponsor crap.

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My current favorites are Kruggsmash, civvie11, cheaprvliving

Been watching a lot of Ordinary Sausage lately. Such absolute culinary insanity and yet weirdly wholesome.

On the more soothing side of things, Townsends' cooking videos are usually just plain nice, not to mention surprisingly tasty. Never would've thought "literally put an unpeeled onion in the oven until it smells delicious" would be a viable recipe but it turns out it's amazing. Also, Mushroom Ketchup rules.

I like McNally on youtube. He's like The Lock Picking Lawyer with the agression setting turned up to 11.

I watch quite a bit of YouTube. Favorite channels right now (in no particular order):

Anders Erickson-cocktail recipes, tips and general banter Steve Wallis-relaxing camping videos Snazzy labs-tech/apple Becki and Chris-helicopters, photography, DIY MrMobile-phone reviews Rctestflight-all sorts of drone/3D printing/electric vehicle projects Digital Foundry-in depth technical game/console videos The Proper People - relaxing urban/abandoned exploration TheUnlockr-phone reviews/tech vlogs

Good finance channels imo The plain bagel Patrick Boyle Modern MBA

I'm subscribed to Linux Tech Tips and Givemeabreakman. I've been following both for over a decade.

Other than that, I use Youtube to listen to really long (10+ hrs) videos of walking across skyrim and other elder scrolls games to relax.

Johnny Harris just released a video on the history of the Mormon Church.

As an exmormon, it is awesome to see stuff this high quality from someone with the same perspective as me. I'll link the video: https://youtu.be/hUW7j9GmXjI

I've got a few creators I subscribe to and only ever look at my subscriptions and never at the recommendations. My YouTube experience has been pretty consistent over the years. Still greatly enjoy it, subscribing to creators once or twice a year.

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A lot of great recommendations in the tread and I don't have much to add but for something a little different, here are my suggestions :

DayDream Gaming - Cool and/or relaxing walks through game worlds like Skyrim, Cyberpunk 2077, horseback riding in RDR, etc.

dulevoz - Cabview train rides full of cool details like the number of tunnels, elevation, engine types, etc. You don't need to be a train nerd, try it, it's absolutely fantastic and relaxing!

Virtual Railfan - Live cams at famous railroad crossings, just for the fun of watching trains go by or watch the scenery

StreamTime Live - live cams at various harbours in the US

M. B. Archives - Commentary tracks from various movies (the latest being The French Connection, rip William Friedkin)

My favorite channels (not previously mentioned)

• Red Letter Media - bad movie fun, and movie reviews
• Joel haver - great short form sketches
• Friday Beers / Almost Friday - wkyk style sketches
• screen crush - nerd content analysis
• 3 brown 1 blue - great math content
• number phone and computerphile - great short form educational content on math and computer science

SUSD is the only thing good on YT

Louis Rossman

No, I stopped using YouTube overall.

The scams / weird aggressive marketing + politics / solutions that don't work for problems no one has... is part of it. The next part is it fails to suggest reasonable content. The last part is that video is a really, really slow way for me to absorb information. Text, please!

The are very rare exceptions. One is clickspring. Others are specific colleagues who engineer unique-in-the-world stuff (so... people like clickspring, I guess). If it's less good than that, I cannot bear to use YouTube, and refuse to post content there too.

Then again it would be really weird to show you videos of circuit diagrams and code. So it's not a great medium for the stuff I do anyway.

If i had to pick my top 2 YouTube channels... Project Farm
Good Mythical Morning

It's been going downhill for a long time. Popular content do the same as tv-cable network where they try to generate outrage. If the videos I watch start to change in ways I don't like I just move on which is what I think people should do. Decrease in viewership will definitely be noticed. Luckily, the creators I follow have stayed the same where they are a one person or small group who create videos to inform or for entertainment.