Shameless plug of my playlists:

Edit: Yes the playlists are very much still incomplete and a work in progress. I promise I’ll eventually add the recommendations yall made!

  • DogWater@lemmy.world
    18·
    6 months ago

    *Riloe

    *Architect of games

    *Nakey Jake

    *Gamer makers toolkit

    *Curious archive

    *Lemino

    *12 tone

    *AI and games

    *Alpha Phoenix

    *Barely sociable

    *Be smart

    *Branch education

    *Brick immortar

    *Bytebytego

    *Cgp grey

    *Coffeezilla

    *Defunctland

    *Eckharts ladder

    *Electroboom

    *Every frame a painting

    *Lessons from the screenplay

    *History of the earth

    *History of the universe

    *Internet Historian

    *Kurzgesagt

    *Lockpickinglawyer

    *Markrober

    *Mustard

    *Cold fusion

    *Polymatter

    *Minute physics

    *No clip documentaries

    *PBS spacetime

    *Pursuit of wonder

    *Real engineering

    *Scishow

    *Secret base

    *Stevemould

    *Technology connections

    *The b1m

    *The history guy

    *The squidd

    *Throttle house

    *Tom Stanton

    *Tom Scott (retired now)

    *Veritasium

    *Vsauce

    *Wendover productions

    Edit: things I forgot or didn’t know about and had suggested to me below

    *Half as interesting

    *Undecided with Matt Farrell

    *3blue1brown

    *Numberphile

    *Mathologer

    *Miniminuteman

    *Sam o’nella

    *Alternate history hub

    *Road guy rob

    *8-bit guy

    *Modern vintage gamer

    *Bobby Broccoli

    *Jenny Nicholson

    *Animagraffs

    *Captain disillusion

    *Driving 4 answers

    *Engineering explained

    *Jeff geerling (raspberry pi type projects)

    *Kings and generals

    *Michael Reeves

    *Noah caldwell-gervais

    *People make games

    *Pointless hub

    *Smarter everyday

    *The engineering mindset

    *The great war

    *The operations room

    *The modern rogue

    *Zack Freedman

    *The backyard scientist

    *Brew

    *I did a thing

    *Neo

    *Stand up maths

    There i think that’s it. That’s a ton of stuff but I really follow more quality YouTube than anything else and I like sharing great YouTube channels. If you enjoy interesting YouTube I would honestly just check a couple of these out and see if the topics fit your interests.

    These channels range from science, space, physics, to history, sports, cars, to tech, movies, games, to makers who build stuff seriously as well as builders who make stuff silly.

    Not everything here is video essay, but it’s high quality content imo

    • Phegan@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 months ago

      Based on the names I know on this list, I am super excited to check out the ones I don’t. Thanks!

      Also check out miniminuteman too. Good pseudoscience/conspiracy theory debunking.

      • DogWater@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        Nice! My list here is science, videogames, tech, cars, sports, spooky conspiracy stuffs, and space

        So if youre interested in a topic let me know I can point you to the right channels.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
      3·
      6 months ago

      How you gonna have Wendover and not Half as Interesting (his shorter form side-channel)?

      No Road Guy Rob? Or Practical Engineering?

      No Extra History? (I only know him from Nebula but I think he’s on YouTube too)

      Also recommend 8bit-Guy for retro computing and Modern Vintage Gamer for retro gaming.

    • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      I know several of those. One I don’t see listed is stuff made here. If you’re a fan of backyard scientist, you’re gonna love stuff made here.

      Smarter everyday is really a special one. The way that guy involves his kids and his own boyish excitement when he finally gets an experiment right is downright heartwarming. Then there was the whole episode checking in on physics girl. He had no particular incentive to do that. He just really seems to care.