Kind of tired watching trash from YT.
Edit: Thanks for all the replies. It’s good to see that there are still gems in YouTube.
Technology connections
Every frame a painting
Alt shift x
Dad how do I
Food wishes
Kurzgesagt In a nutshell
Primitive technology
Kurzgesagt tends to push a lot of pseudoscience (e.g. carbon capture tech) and other stuff following the investment interests of their founders.
I like their animation style and honestly I wish they used proper data sources, however if you check the sources they mention on some of their more dubious videos they all come from some made up source.
This is particularly upsetting with everything related to parroting whatever Bill Gates is pushing (artificial meat, carbon capture, inequality is the teacher’s fault, climate change isn’t that bad, etc.)
Adding on to this; There’s a video by The Hated One who initially broke this story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjHMoNGqQTI&pp=ygUVa3Vyemdlc2FndCBwcm9wYWdhbmRh
Have you watched their response?
Ys. It didn’t feel very convincing, nor did they actually address the issue of them citing a company Bill Gates owns in order to support another one he owns.
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Seeing where the money is is a good way to see why someone says what they do. That’s disappointing. I’m mostly there for their space videos personally and so far there doesn’t seem to be any propaganda there.
Technology Connections is SO GOOD.
Kurzgesagt is great!
I’ve really enjoyed Strange Parts (Also Stranger Parts for longer format) over the years. He’s been through a lot and the videos show some of that. But I think he’s doing alright again now and has interesting things frequently.
I also really enjoy Simone Giertz, she’s an excellent follow, also has gone through a lot (brain tumor for one) over the years but is still enjoyable.
Adam Savage Tested - It’s Adam Savage from mythbusters etc, but doing his own thing and being a geek about it. I really enjoy his personal content. I greatly dislike Mythbusters and most forms of TV media.
ProjectFarm - Independent testing of all kinds of things. If you need to know how tools compare to each other without worrying about sponsor money, Todd is excellent. His methods aren’t perfect, but they are good enough for what he is trying to do and for understanding somewhat practically how the various things compare.
If you are ok with a little more spasticity, Colin Furze is always up to a cheeky bit of fun.
Zach Freedman - Prototyping and 3d printing but make it fun and full of puns and sarcasm and a dash of nonsense
Mr Carlson’s Lab - If you like electronics and very long format, chat while working style content. This is a great one.
DownieLive - Has good travel videos, especially liked his Alaska series, the canal series was neat and he has multiple unique train ones that are interesting.
I’ve started to check out Alice Cappelle after watching a good video on the counter points to the 15-minute city.
Music
Lauren Babic - Metal singer, does lots of covers, has her own stuff too, but I enjoy her stuff a lot. She’s my favorite singer along with Courtney LaPlante.
Ichika Nito - Lots of really chill, intricate, technical guitar, I wish he’d do more long format stuff but he’s fun to listen to. Similar playing to Covet and Polyphia but generally solo and easier going.
Climate Town - Does a decent job explaining climate-related topics and still makes them interesting.
Jay Foreman - Very funny map trivia.
JerryRigEverything - A bit too much promotion on some stuff, but really comprehensive tear downs.
MIT OpenCourseWare - learn good.
Pop Culture Detective - Deconstructive pop culture tropes that make you think a lot.
SNES drunk - retrogaming (not just SNES) but well done, 0% additives just prime content.
stacksmashing - electronics trivia and hardcore reverse engineering.
The National Gallery - If you’re into history, this is an excellent channel about art trivia. I’m not much into art and this is always top quality for me.
Tom Scott plus - Tom Scott does British telly stuff like playing board games or chasing people on the streets with an apple tag.
Voices of the Past - This is slow, exhaustive history for nerds. Worth it if you want to let the story wash all over you.
Vox - slightly left leaning great journalism, albeit sometimes too brief to explain complex topics.
Weird History - They get some stuff wrong, but it’s still entertaining.
Project Farm - Wanna buy an angle grinder? Now you do.
Insider - Had a series of “How Real Is It?” videos that let professionals describe stuff seen in movies, and it is both entertaining and a learning experience.
Corridor - Some stuff of dubious quality but if you’re interested in FX, it’s good.
LegalEagle - Law is hard, but is law fun?
brian david gilbert - Existential horror camouflaged as comedy.
PBS Space Time - Good but hard space science.
BurtBot - Orcs with normal voices.
Joel Haver - Neat if you’re into deadpan humor.
Taskmaster - Probably some of the best british television available in YT.Bonus round:
Practical Engineering - How stuff is built but explained well enough that even I can understand it.Plus, use FreeTube, not You Tube. Don’t be a slave of their terrible algorythm and all the recommendations will turn out to be of your taste.
Tom Scott, he has done a video every week for like 10 years. Sort of a science travel adventure nerd. His videos are generally short and interesting.
Veritasum - Science guy with some interesting topics
Donut Media - If you like cars, they do some interesting and funny things while not being complete asshats.
The Proper People - Abandoned places, nice videos and respectful exploration.
Cash Jordan - Gives tours of NYC apartments from tiny studio apartments up to multi-million dollar penthouses.
Geography Geek - A lot of interesting geography-related facts.
Knob Feel - Short and sweet reviews of various knobs.
Vice Grip Garage - If you are interested in how old cars are repaired and have lots of time, he has many ~1.5 hour videos of dragging old cars out of the bushes that haven’t ran for 20 years, getting them mostly running, and driving them home.
Polyphonic - Interesting video essays about various music and musical artists.
Vice Grip Garage is excellent long-form car stuff for sure. Much easier to watch than the length of the video suggests.
Louis Rossman
Numberphile, Computerphile, PBS Spacetime, PBS Infinite Series (sad they stopped), Standup Maths, 3Blue1Brown
Alpha Phoenix too, if you like 3b1b
FortNine; motorcycle and related stuff with a knack for writing and cinematography.
