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Red Letter Media. I've grown bored of the content though but that's a me problem.

Majuular. He makes long form retrospectives of old games, his Ultima retros are amazing. Just keeps getting better and better.

Hbomberguy has been getting nothing but better.

Foldingideas also has fantastic long form video essays that I really enjoy.

I think a whole lot of "maker" type channels have all stayed pretty solid, off the top of my head

This Old Tony
Adam Savage
Xyla Foxlin
Clickspring
Blondihacks
Colin Furze
Inheritance Machining (though compared to some of the others he's relatively new)
Stuff Made Here
Jeremy Fielding

Branching out a bit

How to drink
Caitlin Doughty (ask a mortician)
LockpickingLawyer
NileRed (and NileBlue)
Tasting History
Townsends
Useful Charts
EDIT: Almost forgot Technology Connections

Some of them have changed their format a bit over the years, I don't think that's been a negative for any of them. Also due to how YouTube revenue works these days a lot of them have had to rely more heavily on sponsors, patron, merch etc. don't hate the player for that, hate the game.

Okoii

Ssethtzeentach

VaatiVidya

Ymfah

Sitting With Dogs (Rocky Kanaka)

Some More News

History Marche

Fairbairn Films

Don't Tell Comedy

ZeFrank. After a long gap in videos he's back even better

In a Nutshell - Kurzgesagt

I just wanted to say, y'all are my people, we don't agree on everything, but I'm glad to have moved to lemmy. The few channels mentioned here that I'm not subbed to, I'll be checking out.

Ahoy. video game documentarian. Makes 1 or 2 very high quality videos a year and has done so for years.

Overly Sarcastic Productions, consistently producing animated essays about history, mythology, and story tropes

Project Farm

Bernadette Banner does historical (largely Victorian) sewing techniques and patterns but sometimes branches out into health and beauty recipes as well.

Abby Cox does historical fashion on a broader scale and sometimes has content about other historical trends or myths that she encounters in her research.

Michael Reeves. One video a year, making the dumbest most hilarious shit you can think of.

Accursed Farms, twoodfrd, Rummy's Corner, Grimbeard, RedLetterMedia, Summoning Salt, Zaric Zhacaron, OneShortEye.

If you like reviews/comparisons check out Project Farm.

Smarter Everyday (space, slow mo, manufacturing), PBS Space Time (space, quantum physics, astrophysics...), Xisumavoid (Minecraft Let's Play), Magnus Midtbø (Climber), Asianometry (technology, manufacturing, science history)

This Old Tony started posting sporadically again!

Goofy dad joke making hobby machinist with a sprinkling of fun cuts, and literally just a voice and hands working on things. One of my favorite channels.

Joe Pera, comedian started around 14 years ago

nobody, musical mixes/tracklists, really good at setting moods and introduced me to a bunch of artists and songs 4 years of mixes

Townsends, classic pioneers time guy, mostly food I don't know how long but he's been around forever

Jeff Gerstmann, video games journalist

Stefan Milo - real archaeology, not ancient aliens

Cool Worlds - real astrophysics, not aliens

PBS Space Time - it's never aliens

twoodford - Zen and the Art of Guitar Repair

Lemmino, Ahoy and kurzgesagt

some of my faves:

k&j lumber

project kamp

martjin doolard

m. bjornstroem

technology connections

this old tony

wesley treat

pask makes

frank howarth

chest’er

four eyes furniture

shawn boyd made this

The Majority Report

I echo a lot of the sentiments here. Two I'm not really seeing are Project Farm and Eric the Car Guy. Eric is just coming back from a hiatus of sorts.

A few others I like

CNC Kitchen

Rob Dahm

Low-Buck Garage

Zach Freedman

SuperfastMatt

StrangeParts

Driving4Answers

CrackerMilk

PixelPete

Andy Didorsi (not as old a channel though)

Mr Carlson's Lab

Heather Cox Richardson

And of course, Technology Connections and Gamer's Nexus.

Bonus item because I like what they are doing, Edison Motors.

Music bonus item because she's remained consistently excellent for years, Lauren Babic.

Tom Scott for sure kept video quality high and standard over the years. I miss him.

The USCSB has a channel with breakdowns of chemical disasters

It's got a pretty fun cult following and it posted within the last week XD

Jacob Geller has put out consistently amazing videos for years on end.

Brick Technology (link)

There's no voiceover, no clickbait, no intro or outro, just an engineer building absurd Lego machines to overcome set challenges. The quality and entertainment are top tier.

RedLetterMedia

They used to do the Mr. Plinkett reviews and still publish a bunch of videos of reviewing movies that are very, very good (and entertaining) and other movie related content. While there are no more Mr. Plinkett reviews, they have maintained the same high quality of the channel for the last 15+ years. They just don’t publish content as often. It’s down to once or twice a week now.

Hard for me to say because over the years I've lost interest in most channels I watched years ago.

BobbyBroccoli, NightHawkInLight and Technology Connections are three that I always watch every time I notice a new video.

Techmoan is one of those that I watch from time to time.

And Nerdwriter1 is one that I haven't watch in some time but it is hard for me to imagine it having a decline in quality.

If u have any interest in cars or engineering:

-Driving 4 answers -engineering explained -superfast matt

One I haven't seen mentioned yet is Marius Hornberger. Awesomely talented young German maker.

https://youtube.com/@mariushornberger