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Catholic Priests and America Youth.
Pretty cool antimaga shit
Tips From a Shipwright
Tom Scott with amazing places & things you might not know.
But he stopped making videos. I'd say that's a significant drop in quality.
He placed the main channel on hold, but has still continued to produce content. He has an extraordinary game show in podcast format that shares very unique trivia called Lateral. He is also in the post-production phase of a new run of videos featuring a big road-trip, according to his newsletter. He also occasionally still makes new series of Technical difficulties.
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Captain Disillusion - Does videos about fake videos and pictures and about video editing in a humorous way. He has had same high quality over 18 years now.
CD is the GOAT
I also really like the Corridor Crew for VFX content but it’s not the same tier.
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Primitive technology. There are many imitators, but the original is a man on his own in Australia. His videos focus on building structures in the woods. Starting with river mud, he will make a furnace in order to make bricks in order to make a building to sleep in in order to use it for kiln drying for larger structures etc.....
Be sure to watch with subtitles to read his explanation of things!
Edit to fix: he is based in Australia, not new Zealand.
All true, except he’s in Queensland, Australia.
I'm still amazed he's alive after all this time working in the Australian jungle
Also needs to be said that he's been creating for a decade and every video is consistently as good as the last one. The man single handedly spawned an entire genre and he just kept doing his own thing, algorithms and influencer culture be damned.
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The various PBS YouTube channels almost never miss.
Some of the best science content on the internet and explains everything in layman's terms.
For higher level science:
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas
Puts up conferences and interviews of some of the top scientific minds on the planet.
PBS is awesome and I donate to them whenever I can. So should everyone.
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Tasting History with Max Miller.
Some of these channels have changed over the years, expanding and adding hosts and things, but they consistently make good content and have either improved or maintained that quality.
Wendover and Half As Interesting
Real Engineering
Mustard
Legal Eagle
Mentour Pilot
Not a channel, but a creator: Yahtzee Croshaw (was Zero Punctuation/Extra Punctuation on The Escapist, is now Fully Ramblomatic/Semi Ramblomatic on Second Wind.
CGP Grey
SciShow (and many of the other projects from the vlogbrothers, including Crash Course and vlogbrothers itself)
Technology Connections
Shaun
HBomberGuy
ElectroBOOM
Videogamedunkey
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https://youtube.com/@explainingcomputers
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https://youtube.com/@christopherbarnatt
DOT COM
https://youtube.com/@mothersbasement
I only listen to this one guy for anime reccomendations.
https://youtube.com/@colinfurze
Never has a lull, always good.
https://youtube.com/@chemicalforce
Pretty toxic chemistry
https://youtube.com/@weirdexplorer
If you don't really care about exotic fruit adventures, at least watch his feature length Nutmeg documentary it's most excellent.
Boomer shooter comedic...retrospectives? I like him.
https://youtube.com/@mrcarlsonslab
He repairs very old electronics and is soothing to listen to.
I don't even really care about motorcycles, but their video editing skills are incredible.
https://youtube.com/@lowbuckgarage
Accurate, he will do everything possible to avoid spending money on a project.
https://youtube.com/@styropyro
Mad scientist.
https://youtube.com/@casuallyexplained
His sense of humor doesn't get old for me.
https://youtube.com/@thecodyreeder
Mad scientist.
Taught me more about language than any teacher in my life ever did.
I find a lot of obscure old games to play via this guy and his videos are high effort.
https://youtube.com/@posymusic
Every video is a work of art. It doesn't matter what the subject is, you'll be entranced.
https://youtube.com/@techtangents
Bitrot necromancy enthusiast.
https://youtube.com/@littlevmills
A Canadian who makes high effort metal music covers.
https://youtube.com/@joel-haver
He just likes to make movies. I like his movies. A lot.
https://youtube.com/@theslowmoguys
It's in the name!
Mad scientist.
https://youtube.com/@evenflow2907
High effort vehicular brainrot.
Have a good day!
A lovely weird Canadian artist I adore.
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Map Men. It's always educational, interesting, and they have amazing Monty Pythonish gags and jokes.
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Cross-instance linking is a mess. You linked to an ad for your mobile app, which links to a kbin instance, which links back to lemmy.world... The app page devotes most of its space to download links while kbin demands the viewer log in before it will show them anything.
Technology Connections are great, but this doesn't feel very connected.
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This one guy Richard Astley. Banging tunes and the smoothest moves.
But really: Technology Connections
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In a Nutshell - Kurzgesagt
In a Nutshell is often too simplified. They often present fringe hypothesis as widely accepted scientific theories.
Then again, they've always done that, so their quality has stayed the same.
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Hbomberguy has been getting nothing but better.
Foldingideas also has fantastic long form video essays that I really enjoy.
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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.
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Some ones I haven't seen yet:
- Camping with Steve (relaxed Canadian camping with plenty of dry humour, usually some wild stealth camping adventures)
- Budget-Builds Official (tries out random ass computer hardware and finds its limits)
- dosdude1 (infamous for crazy Mac upgrades that require resoldering BGA chips and chip programming)
- EthosLab (already saw Xisumavoid mentioned, Etho is still happily making mature Minecraft videos)
- Flexiny (ASMR-like videos of mechanics fixing old cars to run again)
- FlyTech Videos (Windows experiments and deep dives into how Win32 and NT do things)
- GIFGAS (usual accomplice with shiey in train surfing, although I enjoy GIFGAS' edits more than shiey)
- Side note: His videos are taken down regularly so you have to be quick to download them before they disappear
- Hugh Jeffreys (Australian right to repair advocate, usually repairs smartphones but has dabbled into more vintage items recently)
- Janus Cycle (2000s deep retrospectives into technology)
- Plainly Difficult (British industrial accident examinations with wonderfully shoddy graphics)
- polymatt (absolute 3D modelling wizard who takes on restoring vintage tech to beyond brand new with incredible attention to detail, and very engaging edits)
- Seytonic (cyber security news roundup weekly)
- This Does Not Compute (retro computer repairs and retrospectives)
- Usagi Electric (extremely vintage computer repairs, going right back to vacuum tubes to 1980s minicomputers)
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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)
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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.
Tom Scott for sure kept video quality high and standard over the years. I miss him.
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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.
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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.
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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.