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.
I’ll add some that haven’t been mentioned.
Tech Ingredients - various experiments and builds. Everything on how to make rum to good novel speakers.
Erik Brandal - makes sound sculptures
/noclip - video game dev documentaries
This old Tony - Machining while being funny
Red Letter Media. I’ve grown bored of the content though but that’s a me problem.
Majuular. He makes long form retrospectives of old games, his Ultima retros are amazing. Just keeps getting better and better.
Practical Engineering. His videos are about all the infrastructure that makes the modern world function.
Captain dissolution
Corridor crew
SBPlaysGames, super tiny lets play channel, but has been consistently uploading for 10 years and she picks some really good indie games (as well as board games) that i would otherwise never would have heard of. Plus pretty good analysis of the games, though of course the lets play format means it’s pretty spread out across episodes. And by analysis i don’t mean reviews, but more like movie analysis level. Though I’d love it if she’d lean into that part a bit more.
and i specifically picked her because it’s one thing to consistently produce good content when you have millions of views (and dollars?), but doing so with 28k subs and maybe 100-200 views, for over 10 years, that takes real dedication.
Oh and on the topic of video game channels, AnyAustin is amazing. Fucking weird but amazing. He also does video game analysis but not how you’d think…
Okoii
Ssethtzeentach
VaatiVidya
Ymfah
Sitting With Dogs (Rocky Kanaka)
Some More News
History Marche
Fairbairn Films
Don’t Tell Comedy
James Hoffman, it even keeps getting better with time. The prophet for the coffee fans
no slow mo guys mentioned in this entire thing? always been entertaining and decently interesting to me
Paleo analysis-just straight academic dinosaur content.
Language Jones-academic etymology breakdown of various slang, patoiss, and memes
Legit Street Cars - just great high quality and extremely consistent.
Dawid does tech stuff - guys just funny as shit.
Red dead restorations - absolutely amazing how consistent he’s restorations are truly talented.
Everything by Jupiter Broadcasting. Not really A YouTube channel, but they stream there.
FortNine: both the content and the video quality are top notch.
TechnologyConnections is the only channel where you’ll waste an hour nerding out on washing machines, even if you don’t own one.
Louis Rossmann has been instrumental in the fight for right to repair in the US.Yeah i could list many more but you asked for one (and i already overran that), plus these are the ones that stand out to me.
+1 for technology connections. Who knew I could watch 3 hours about dishwashers and stay interested?
I just find Lewis Rossman to be an incredibly irritating person. I appreciate what he’s doing but at a personal level I can’t stand him. He’s just very whiny.
Rossman does good work but I wouldn’t call his videos “High Quality”
He’s like Gamers Nexus, very rambly and angry. If you like that vibe and just want a techy “Grinds my gears” ass rant channel to put on while you do anything else, he’s fine.
Rossmann fights the good fight, but his two hour rambles could be a blog post instead
He also dramatizes for clicks.
you’re not supposed to watch it on 0.25x speed
Fortnine made a famous video about how motorcycle armor was a waste of time and front to back, the entire video is wrong and the comments from ER MDs back that up. Fuck Ryan.
fortnine noticeably dropped off in quality when they lost the original editor and moved out west… early videos are still gems tho!
I did notice Aneesh is missing, didn’t know it was due to moving.
Primitive Technology. He started the whole “build a shelter in the woods” genre that has become so dumb, but his videos are still just as great as ever. No narration or music, other than the sounds of the birds and insects, just interesting experiments into basic technology like shelters, fire, charcoal, kilns, pottery, small machines, bricks, roof tiles, etc., all using only the most primitive stone age tools, created from materials found in the forest and stream around his camp.
Even his attire is as spare as his videos, just a pair of khaki shorts.
Currently, he’s working through a series of experiments to make fire hot enough to smelt metal.
I’ve been watching him since he started, and he’s the only channel that I stop everything to watch when a new video drops.
Testing history with Max Miller and How to Drink.
