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I'm surprised he hasn't been mentioned yet. Haven't seen another channel that presents medical cases in such a good pacing and storytelling while being able to eloquently explain complicated medical stuff such that everyone can understand.

ashens is still making that quality brown sofa content 17 years later.

FortNine. It's a motorcycle channel, but even if you don't care about motorcycles it's a great watch. Top production values and great storytelling.

Example: why Harley Davidson is dying: https://youtu.be/EOwxxsPaogY?si=XHHZc_P1hAiRIhp2

This Old Tony

EthosLab - the OG Minecraft Youtuber that other Minecraft Youtubers watch; somehow still innovating on redstone and technical builds to this day despite Minecraft redstone already pushed to its limits long ago, and his multiplayer shenanigans on Hermitcraft and Life Series is top notch.

Adam Ragusea - cooking videos made for actual home cooks who just want no-flair no-fuss recipes, as well as food science videos exploring and explaining different cooking methods and food chemistry. I'm particularly a fan of how he encourages you to measure and cook by feel rather than by strictly following recipes.

Here are a few that I find have consistent high quality content:

The B1M... His videos seem to really get into the nitty gritty logistics of various large construction projects.

Caitlin Doughty (Ask a Mortician)... I feel like each video is better than the previous. The historical death documentaries are incredible.

Climate Town... Videos about climate change & has a really fun sense of humor.

Neo... Lots of really cool explanatory videos. The editing is really good as well! The recent video on the presidential motorcade was very cool.

And one more... Reckless Ben... IDK if it really fits within the prompt of this thread.. The channel is tough to watch with all the annoying humor & there is a lot of hit-or-miss videos, but at least lately, it seems to really be doing some very interesting things. I enjoyed his series on mckamey manor.

Mighty Car Mods --> https://www.youtube.com/mightycarmods

Dudes have been making awesome automotive content since 2007. And Moogs sound tracks that he creates for the episodes (and especially the feature length stuff) is incredible.

Don't think they've had a single moment of boring content in 16 odd years, let alone anything objectively bad. Absolute units the pair of them.

Food Wishes

Yes that's rightt, you're reading this in Chef John's voice now. Not only do I cook, which is my life's passion, and probably my second favorite thing to do, but I also tell jokes, because let's face it, it's a perfect opportunity to perfect my comedy routine.

Dunkey. Mind you, he just had a kid so I think he's put out some lower (but not phoned in) effort videos in the last couple of months, but his comedic voice and the banal way he mocks games and gamers has always been consistent.

Since I haven't seen him mentioned, Michael Stevens aka Vsauce, great Philosophy and science YouTuber.
Sadly only makes like 2 videos a year :/
But his older videos are all still very good watches, I love to rewatch them.

StyroPyro

Cody's Lab

NakeyJakey

InfernoPlus

Kruggsmash

Your Movie Sucks

juliaplaysgroove

The 8-bit Guy

Code Parade

Adam Savage (via Tested)

Climate Town

Captain Disillusion

Naomi Wu

Red letter media

bigclivedotcom has been my favourite channel for almost a decade. Specalized on electronics and his soothing voice is pleasant to listen to.

Kurzgesagt - Love their production and content

Sovietwomble has been consistently obsessed with the quality of his videos. He also consistently makes me laugh.

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.

Joe Scott (Answers With Joe)

Tim Dodd (Everyday Astronaut)

Scott Manley (Scott Manley)

Captain dissolution, doesn’t post often but makes up for it with insane editing quality

Karl Jobst for sure.

Clickspring makes some of the most beautiful, soothing, detail obsessed machining videos imaginable. Dude builds complex gear works from scratch, including a replica of the Antikythera mechanism which is still in progress after many years, though nearly finished now.

A bunch of my other subs have already been mentioned, so I want to add Caitlin from Ask a Mortician. She has demonstrated integrity and consistently high effort for her channel despite growing to over 2mil subscribers.

Jenny Nicholson is another that's been around and gotten big but her videos have only gotten more weird and interesting.

Climate Town has rapidly become one of my favorite channels and consistently puts out well-researched, informative and entertaining vids

I would give a shout out to two makers, Frank Howarth and This Old Tony both do some amazing works in general. Tony does a good amount of metal work, while Frank is almost all about woodworking.

For some AI (sorta) stuff: Primer engaging way to learn about statistics I guess, I don't know the right way to describe them but I always leave with something new.

For car stuff: Rob Dahm who is known for a wild RX7. Also publishes a lot of public data for the rotary community.

Junkyard Digs who does lots of classic car "restorations" or repairs. Generally tries to do the most accessible methods or tools.

Tofu Auto Works does mostly custom body kits and so on, shown in step by step processes with tips and reasons/preferences for doing things a certain way.

For gaming I'll just throw City Planner Plays out there. He mainly plays Cities Skylines, and talks about how and why certain infrastructure is designed or used.

Editting to add: sorta (mostly) does gaming, also does other topics as well. Arch fantastic visuals and historical breakdowns of topics. Doesn't have many videos, but they are quite good.

And purely because I've met him IRL and think his channel is very under viewed, About Here discusses city planning, accessibility and so on. A lot of it has to do with housing and it's current issues, but has other city/civic related topics as well.

I haven't seen him mentioned here:

Fact Fiend

I watch him a lot less than I did before, but it has nothing to do with the quality of his content (which has always been great) and more to do with me not watching YouTube that much nowadays (I used to have a very boring job, so had lots of downtime for watching videos)

Sam O nella Academy

Oh also Brick Experiment Channel for fun stuff with Lego.

Ethan Chlebowski does phenomenal cooking videos and deep dives into the science of food, specifically if some expensive ingredients are objectively worth the cost.

Fascinating Horror does unique videos in that they are discussions on all man-made or natural disasters. Great audio and video as well.

H0ser does fantastic videos on countries and economics with some humor, and cute animals to represent countires.

Horses does brilliant essays on a variety of topics, all of which are interesting and researched very well.

Nick Crowley does creepy, scary, and true crime like a lot of others, but puts a lot of effort into his editing and aesthetic.

Nexpo is largely the same as Nick Crowley, but with deeper dives and longer videos.

Professor Leonard has the best calculus series on YouTube.

Lets get Steve1989mreinfo out onto a comment... nice.

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

I haven't seen Forgotten Weapons mentioned, yet. If you couldn't tell by the channel name, it covers rare and historical weapons, mostly firearms, but does so in a straightforward, informational, and apolitical way. It's basically the kind of show the history channel should make. I think he's been putting out episodes since around 2011.

Brian David Gilbert has always made cool stuff, but as he spun off from polygon he's created some wild existential videos.

Ian McCollum from Forgotten Weapons. https://youtu.be/THsDpGJcpk8?si=

If you like guns, (I know, this is lemmy, but there must be a few of you) Demolition Ranch, Kentucky Ballistics, Edwin Sarkisian.

In no particular order:

• Mind of Watercolor - Steve Mitchell
• Paul Clark
• Escape to Rural France
• Mark Rober
• SloMo Guys
• Bear Essentials
• Primitive Technology
• Adventure Archives

There’s also a fair amount of surprisingly good fan films in various franchises.

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

Surprised no one mentioned LGR/Lazy Game Reviews

Colin Furze (inventor with crazy ideas)

Anna Cramling (chess streamer)