Inspired by this post but the other way around. Which channels (any subject) do you think have stayed true to their beginnings and are still worth watching today?
My pick would be Gamers Nexus.
Well There’s Your Problem, a podcast about engineering disasters with slides.
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
LockPickingLawyer - Keeps things short and sweet, doesn’t waste your time. my mechanics - Restoration channel, doesn’t pull any YT tricks or shit. danooct1 - PC Virus showcasing channel.
I’ll hop on the Technology Connections train and add
Styropyro
CathodeRayDude
Civvie11
Northernlion
Some more news is still as it ever was
Workshop Companion is great for beginner-friendly woodworking, and I’ve been really liking HomeRenoVision DIY for home renovation content.
fixing furniture is pretty solid too. “wooden it be nice” lolz
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
Ahoy. video game documentarian. Makes 1 or 2 very high quality videos a year and has done so for years.
Tips From a Shipwright
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.
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
This one guy Richard Astley. Banging tunes and the smoothest moves.
But really: Technology Connections
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.
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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You and I have very similar viewing tastes. Nice list.
Funny enough, you’re not the first one who’s also noticed this. A couple years ago, me and a colleague (in helpdesk) shared our YouTube subscriptions and found 80% of them matched, and he introduced me to such channels like Usagi Electric.
I do otherwise tend to notice comments on one channel’s videos make references to other channels I also watch (outside of the usual Bringus Studios and DankPods references), so I tend to think I’m part of a larger niche of Gen Z / Millenial computer geeks.
Oh no, my PKCell!
Kent Survival is another relaxing, casual camping channel. Not quite like Steve.
Budget Builds kind of inspired me to fix up this Dell Precision 690 I rescued from the trash.
Polymatt’s video on LGR’s laptop was positively incredible. So good. So impressive.
Ever watch Brick Immortar? Mostly maritime tragedies, and much more dry than plainly difficult. But I kind of feel they are in the same sphere. I fall asleep to them sometimes.
Man, Usagi Electric’s homebrew project is insane.
I could go on and on. So few people I know are interested in this stuff.
Big Old Boats? Hyce? How about Atomic Shrimp? I’m interested in other channels we might share.
Going to be checking some of these out for sure. Nice list!
Rick Beato. His channel banner says “Everything Music” and it’s not a misnomer. I am not a musician, don’t know a Dorian from a pentatonic, but every time he throws something up I drop everything and sit and listen to it. It’s just that interesting.
You should know that he plugs his own music training courses (probably worth it) but has never once taken an outside sponsorship. He covers all genres and all fields of talent in music, and regularly pulls in younger unknowns for interviews as well as household names. He has nothing but praise for effort and talent, but no time for hacks. It is incredibly refreshing.
Even if you are only a listener and not a player, just getting the pro-level views on what things should sound like and even how to listen will take your own music listening up multiple notches. Be sure to look for his “What Makes This Song Great” videos, because they are not reactions, they are dissections: you will hear and learn things about songs you’ve heard a million times that you never noticed before.
Can’t say enough good about this channel. When life sucks, I go listen to some Rick Beato.
That’s funny, when life sucks, I go watch one of Pat Finnerty’s What Makes This Song Stink videos, a direct (and similarly detailed) parody of Beato’s videos
