I subscribe to many channels, but only a few I rarely miss a video from:
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NileRed - Chemistry
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Ahoy - Video game essays
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This Old Tony - Hobby machinist
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The Slow Mo Guys - Slow motion
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Stuff Made Here - Ridiculous inventions
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Technology Connections - Technology deep dives
Honorable mentions:
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SmarterEveryDay - Exploring the world using science
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Practical Engineering - Explaining engineering practices
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frank howarth - Calm woodworking projects
If you like This Old Tony, you might like Inheritance Machining
Plus 1 for Ahoy! So happy he seems to be back making videos a bit more consistently.
I have been using youtube for many years and have never subscribed to anything. I always think they will just overload my email. But every youtuber asks for it and am still like nah. Is it worth it?
Subscribing to a YouTube channel doesn’t involve your email, unless they have a newsletter, but that’s voluntary.
Subbing to a tuber just means their channel is in your “subscriptions” list, and if you enable notifications, you’ll know when they upload.
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Internet Today is a great news channel. Based guys too.
It’s like having 2 friends to watch the end of the world with.
Vampire Robot. Love me some B-roll.
- PBS Space Time
- Antov Petrov
- Daily Dose of Internet
- Red Letter Media
- Veritasium
Excluded the ones I find from Nebula and can view without YouTube BS.
Why not list the ones on Nebula?
I’d love some nebula channel recommendations as well
My favorite Nebula channels.
- Lessons From The Screenplay
- Like Stories Of Old
- Philosophy Tube
- The Science Asylum
- Up and Atom
I would also like hear some suggestion from Nebula.
Not OP, but most of what I watch is on Youtube as well except for Lindsay Ellis and The Great War.
- Lindsay Ellis
- The Great War
- PolyMatter & Polyphonic
- FilmJoy AKA Movies with Mikey
- 12tone Slightly defunct with good backlogs:
- Just Write
- Lessons from the Screenplay
- Now You See It
- Middle 8
- kaptainkristian
Is Nebula good? Every time I watch Practical Engineering, I’m tempted to get it.
It’s not bad. The biggest downside is just that it isn’t that big so I’ve only found a couple channels on there that I’m interested in so far. I decided to give it a shot because I really hate ads, so even just having a couple channels I liked (like neo and Mustard) ad-free was worth giving it a shot. I used a creator link to sign up at a discount which also made the price a more palatable $30 for a year: https://nebula.tv/neo
I assume you can replace the last part of that URL with a different channel’s slug to support that channel
Foundations of Amateur Radio: https://youtube.com/@vk6flab
Stuff Made Here - blows my mind with each new video. I can’t even imagine being able to dream up his creations let alone design and create them.
Technology Connections - you didn’t know you were going to love learning about dishwashers and other appliances, but you are.
Foureyes Furniture - interesting custom furniture design and build sequences with very good editing and voiceover.
Marling Baits - Custom fishing lures that vary from lifelike (using real fish skin) to absurd (a lightsaber) to ultra absurd (a block of wood).
Project Farm - head to head comparisons of common tools or other household projects. Very no nonsense and a ton of information packed in quick.
Inheritance Machining - a man documenting rediscovering his passion for machining after inheriting his grandfather’s machine shop. Excellent narrative scriptwriting, recurring video elements, buttery smooth voiceover, and oddly satisfying machining footage.
If you enjoy a good voiceover, check out Beau Miles and Bobby Fingers. Beau is all about his adventure philosophy and Bobby doesn’t need an introduction. There’s just no way to discribe his videos, highly recommended.
Technology Connections - you didn’t know you were going to love learning about dishwashers and other appliances, but you are.
Not just that but really great comedic writing and delivery. I love the just right amount of sarcasm and pedantry. Not too much to be annoying, just enough to be hilarious.
Seems like you might also enjoy Cody’s lab and This old Tony
I do enjoy Cody’s Lab from time to time. I’ll have to check out This old Tony.
The only person I’ve ever supported on Patreon. And he just went back to doing YouTube full time. Which is awesome.
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Many channels I watch have already been mentioned, but one comes to mind that hasn’t been: if you like Stuff Made Here and NileRed, you’ll love The Thought Emporium. Dude is a mad scientist, for real. His current long term project is trying to make a neural net that can play DOOM… except he means real neurons. Biological neurons grown in his self built lab, sourced from rats.
I’m amazed none of these have been mentioned yet. Here are some of my faves
Explaining stuff that’s happening
- Real Life Lore (I’m almost signing for Nebula because of him, gorgeous map graphics)
- Cold Fusion
- Wendover
History stuff
- Fall of Civilizations - Hands down the best documentary-like content I know of. Takes forever for new stuff to show up (because research), but it’s so fucking worth it!
- Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Kings and Generals (the narrator butchers every non-anglo name, it really grinds my gears)
- Heroes and Legends - The long form, documentary-level videos are amazing. Watch the ones on Gertrude Bell and Voltaire
Gamurrs
- Basement Brothers - Almost monotone narration, but possibly the only channel in english that plays and shows several details of old Japan exclusive PC games (PC88 and PC98 mostly)
- Russian Badger - There’s a very high chance you’ve seen some of the memes straight out of his videos. Start with “Heavy flamer heresy” if you’ve never seen any.
A lot of the channels I like have already been listed (more than once) by others, so I will just mention my top current favorites and few that haven’t been mentioned.
- SuperfastMatt -He’s a former Tesla engineer that hobby builds custom vehicles like an offroad Dodge Viper and a land-speed car
- HyperspacePirate -he’s a guy building his own diy cryocooler while doing all sorts of at-home refrigeration refinement utilizing off the shelf materials.
- Max Miller -He’s an educational cook that seems to speak to the former Alton Brown crowd.
- ThisOldTony -He’s a pair of machinist hands 🙌 that shows people the fundamentals of how to work with metal while also being entertaining
- Extractions&Ire -He’s a mad chemist from the southern hemisphere
- The Thought Emporium -He’s an amateur mad bio-engineer who among other things is working to create an array of rat neurons that he can teach to play Doom
Nilered is a mad chemist from the northern hemisphere that also barely makes content anymore so I can’t list him
I also love most of the content creators that are apart of Nebula.
Nicknamethe1st - makes stickfigure fights and was inspired by Zeurel82mk2
Neurotic goose - plays modded minecraft challenges