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Surprised no one mentioned LGR/Lazy Game Reviews

MauLer - great film and tv critiques.

Defunctland - incredible documentaries about theme parks.

• Lemmino. Quality only got better over the years. Started as a top 10 memes channel. Then became top 10 cool subjects presented like documentaries. Now it's actual documentaries.

• Gameranx. Watched them when they were still just two or three dudes just talking about games. All those years, they made it pretty big on YouTube, and they still didn't lose that vibe.

Marques Brownlee for tech.

He's also known as MKBHD, and he's amazing with his camera work.

I'll add GeoWizard to all the good answers already. He has some great adventure videos. He composes all of the music as well.

Oh, and anything by Brady Haran: Objectivity, Numberphile, Sixty Symbols, Periodic Videos, etc.

Steve1989MRE, chill and informative seeing how MREs have evolved. He eats all the MREs and only got botulism twice so he’s doing good.

For funny content badlandschugs is pretty entertaining and the videos are generally quick.

Simon Whistler

Alpha Pheonix is a great channel with some really good electricity videos recently.

FutureCanoe: A cooking channel that doesnt take itself serious and is super funny.

Kara and Nate: The only Travel bloggers i can watch, from biking across America to visiting 9 Christmas Markets in Europe in 9 different countries in 9 days. Their content is always unique and engaging

Alex Novell: A great documentarian channel that has tricked Alan Dershowitz and Alex Jones into interviews and confronted them for the harm they have done to society

FD Signifier: One of the best video essayists on the Platform, making great socially concious content.

Forrest Valkai. He's a biologist who makes a mixture of educational content, videos debunking creationist claims (in an educational way rather than the "look at this fucking idiot" approach that much of atheist youtube seems to take), and just some silly fun in-between.

He doesn't have the insanely high production value of other channels named here, but he's the most wholesome person I've ever seen. His love for life and science radiates off of him and watching him passionately explain how cool something is genuinely makes me happy in such a depressing and pessimistic world.

Good Mythical Morning has been around since before YouTube even existed and they still put out good shit. Even more so, with the GM Kitchen stuff (which I actually like more; those guys are fun as hell).

Fall of Civilizations, though those are podcasts first. All of them are amazing.

Lockpicking Lawyer makes the best short videos. Not "yt shorts", it's just that it takes him 2-5 seconds to pick open the vast majority of locks, the rest of the video is his comment on the lock quality.

JoshStrifeHayes has 3 separate channels now, but that main channel that deals with MMOs still makes quality content in my opinion, but not as often. I also enjoy him playing the old games on JoshStrifePlays.

Redlettermedia for sure, they may as well be YouTube dinosaurs at this point, but their content has only gotten better. If you're in the Lemmy minority like me and enjoy the NFL: ThatsGoodSports, Tom Grossi, UrinatingTree are all gems worthy of your time

Red Letter Media. Movies with Mikey, but he's starting to focus more on Nebula. ~~Internet Historian, but his videos come out like twice a year.~~

Edit: Nevermind on Internet Historian. As folks mentioned below, the dude sucks. Also it turns out my favorite video of his was plagiarized.

It's crazy scrolling so long and seeing no one say Markiplier.

my fav youtubers are probably

• I did a thing
• Dank Pods
• Bringus Studios
• StyroPyro
• Posy
• fern
• A few others I cant remember rn

GoodTimesWithScar ... if you enjoy Minecraft content the dude is a beast, so talented ! and also funny and entertaining

I did a thing is fun.

Viva La Dirt League, their skits are still good as a decade ago

Transport Evolved (they are also on Peertube), RM Transit, Gamers Nexus, Climate Town, Not Just Bikes, JayzTwoCents, Techtesters, The Linux Experiment (also on Peertube), LowSpecGamer

IME the more focussed/narrow/niche the subject is, the longer the channel will remain quality.

More importantly I think is if the channel owner is someone who truly enjoys their content, or someone who’s just enjoying celebrity and found a way to do it.

This is like Green brothers vs Fein Brothers.

8 bit guy, Nostalgia Nerd, Modern Vintage Gamers…great channels by people who are passionate about their content, still giving out great videos year after year.

AVGN? Ass. Shit. Ass covered in diarrhea shit. He made his fame off being an edgelord and that only works so long. Still check in every now and then but when he had guest appearances by Gilbert Gottfried and Macaulay Cullen he really jumped the shark.

Bobby Fingers

Berd, danooct1, Huggbees, Hugh Jeffreys, Michael MJD, NileRed, Ordinary Sausage, Sam O'Nella (barely), Tapakapa

At least that's what I find great.

MrMobile(Michael Fisher) - His video presentation skills 10/10, I specially love his series named when phones were fun, where he fondly talks about yesteryear phones and gadgets.

Harald Baldr - I may not go to all the places he goes, but the way he interacts with different people irrespective of the barrier of communication is commendable. The way he presents himself in his videos, I believe that's him in real life as well. No fakery.

Thoughty2

Joe Scott

SomeOrdinaryGamers

Josh Strife Hayes / Josh Strife Plays

TheReportOfTheWeek

Whang!

CaptainSparklez

The Dungeon Dudes are always solid if you want DnD content. Even their episodes where you wouldn't expect great talking points they somehow pull it off.

Welp, there goes several dozen hours or more of my free time.