Seeing the other post here about YouTuber that went downhill and seeing content creators I am familiar with makes me sad. But how about those that still makes great, high quality content?
Practical Engineering - in depth presentations of civil engineering feats, concepts, problems, solutions
Joe Scott - just simple, entertaining discussions of interesting topics
Philosophy Tube - longer format, intensely well-cited presentations on philosophy related to current events (with theatrical costumes!)
Ryan Hall - who knew that a weather forecast could be so fun? Regularly updated weather forecasts for the entire United States with detailed coverage and livestreams of events like tornado outbreaks, hurricanes, and large snowstorms. With charity drives to provide supplies to people on the ground
PBS Spacetime, PBS Eons, all the PBS channels really
Plainly Difficult - consistent quality, often hilarious presentations of various disasters. I particularly like his entire series on radiological accidents, often involving lost radioactive sources that random members of the public stumble onto, which is terrifying.
Tom Scott. Only gotten better with time.
Smarter Every Day
Mark Rober
I love Rober but his most recent video kinda irked me with the double science camp commercial, hopeful that’s an accident and not intentional.
Veritasium is in the same vein.
I think Addy Valentine is the most underappreciated YouTuber when compared to his production quality.
Less than 4k subscribers, but without a doubt the highest quality videos in the entire Game Developer section of YouTube.
Tom Scott is a beacon of YouTube quality.
He never had a phase where all of his videos were 10:00 for the algorithm, he never jumps on topical shit for clicks, he just talks about genuinely interesting shit, and has gotten to do so on a higher and higher budget.
He has diversified, and has other channels that interface with other YouTubers in gameshow and stuff. But it’s all still legit content.
And a deep cut from 9 years ago. Same kind of content. Slightly lower quality but… Guys been doing this kind of “hey I think this is neat let me tell you about it” for a decade, without becoming a dingbat.
You get the idea.
I fell in love with him after the execution of the Dasani video. Walking backward ten minute single take, amazing: https://youtu.be/wD79NZroV88
Unfortunately not for much longer, though
Video icon has giant red text saying “NOBODY SURVIVES”. Open with Tom Scott standing at a gate to the Chernobyl exclusion zone
“Today I’m here to talk to you about something dark, something that has produced so much pain, something that decays life itself. Me standing in Chernobyl actually has nothing to do with it, because pulls up a laptop showing a game I’m referring to League of Legends”
Oh also Brick Experiment Channel for fun stuff with Lego.
Beau Miles. He is just so different. His content really challenges my cynicism.
Posy, I am surprised at que quality of his videos, they are incredibly artistic
Seems like he’s been doing his thing for the entire existence of the internet. Silly little flash animations and games in the early 2000’s and now his ‘true facts’ of animals videos. Seems to keep true to his own style, ever evolving as it may be, but always similar- and maybe thats what I find comforting- he’s been there for most of the 20+ years I’ve been ‘surfin the web’, as the kids like to say.
I was hoping someone would post ZeFrank! His True Facts series is exactly what education content should be - entertaining, interesting, funny, and most importantly, rigorously sourced and credited to the real life scientists and researchers he bases his info on.
For more animal facts, check out Isabella Rossellini “Green Porno”. A little more risqué, and a different kind of humor, though interesting and educational as well. It was a Sundance thing from about 10 years ago that was semi ‘viral’ at the time.
He left for a while to do buzzfeed content. But now he is back Those were the dark years lol
I was wondering where he went, very happy when he come back.
This was my answer! I watched a couple old videos last night actually and then watched some new ones. He’s gotten better in my opinion. What you said is right. It’s in the same style but now it’s more polished.
He is also able to fart bees!
Andrew Camarata and Foresty Forest are one of the few no-bullshit YouTubers that I know of who simply focus on making good content and nothing else.
EDIT: Steve Wallis and post10 aswell
Andrew has had some low level videos, destroying cars or lawnmowers that go against his normal content that I recall weren’t well received. Otherwise, his stuff is very good and whenever a new video pops up I’ll reach for some cold beers and enjoy.
Yeah he has “Unlisted B videos” playlist also with a ton of lower grade content. He just loves filming stuff.
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Calum https://youtube.com/@CalumRaasay
Barely Sociable https://youtube.com/@BarelySociable
Bright Sun Films https://youtube.com/@BrightSunFilms
Code Bullet https://youtube.com/@CodeBullet
Jet Lag: The Game https://youtube.com/@jetlagthegame
Half As Interesting https://youtube.com/@halfasinteresting
Mustard https://youtube.com/@MustardChannel
PaperWill https://youtube.com/@PaperWill
Peter Dibble https://youtube.com/@peterdibble
RetroBytes https://youtube.com/@RetroBytesUK
Ringway Manchester https://youtube.com/@RingwayManchester
Ruairidh MacVeigh https://youtube.com/@rorymacve
SideNote https://youtube.com/@SidenoteChannel
TheEpicNate315 https://youtube.com/@TheEpicNate315
Tom Scott https://youtube.com/@TomScottGo
Techmoan https://youtube.com/@Techmoan
Wendover Productions https://youtube.com/@Wendoverproductions
Well, after looking through, I saw that some of my favorites are not on here.
Kraut: makes well thought out video essays on politics, history, culture and everything in between. He also tells you his reading list that went into making a particular video.
Adam Something: bit of politics, bit of urban planning, bit of shitting on Elon Musk, bit of shitting on stupid ideas.
The Great War: started in 2014 doing week by week of the first world War, 100 years after it began. Now is doing a similar series on the second world War.
The Operations Room: breaks down historical military operations minute by minute, incredible level of detail.
Korean Englishman/ Jolly: Josh and Ollie a couple of British guys introduce korean food to people and on Jolly they go get into other foods and hijinks
Townsend: showing what life was like in early colonial America
Steve Wallis. He is an all around great down to earth guy. He does stealth camping and regular camping.
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.
