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.
Practical Engineering. His videos are about all the infrastructure that makes the modern world function.
Grimbeard, puts out well researched and highly entertaining game retrospectives.
BobbyFingers creates dioramas of famous events with insane tangents while documenting their creation. One video even has a choreographed song.
Lawerence systems covers a lot of self hosted tech with articulate and concise instructions. Really like his method of teaching.
GreenX has some amazing retrospective videos about games, they’re a bit newer of a channel. Every upload has been fantastic though. Insanely funny, highly recommend watching their STALKER video.
Facefullofeyes, same as above but has a very inconsistent upload schedule. Much less humor than greenx but very insightful analysis. Highly recommend the SWAT 4 video.
Bernadette Banner does historical (largely Victorian) sewing techniques and patterns but sometimes branches out into health and beauty recipes as well.
Abby Cox does historical fashion on a broader scale and sometimes has content about other historical trends or myths that she encounters in her research.
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
Posy - Quirky beautiful retro HiFi/Tech
Edit: have to add Posy
Jacob Geller has put out consistently amazing videos for years on end.
James Hoffman, it even keeps getting better with time. The prophet for the coffee fans
One I haven’t seen mentioned yet is Marius Hornberger. Awesomely talented young German maker.
Okoii
Ssethtzeentach
VaatiVidya
Ymfah
Sitting With Dogs (Rocky Kanaka)
Some More News
History Marche
Fairbairn Films
Don’t Tell Comedy
Myron Cook - A very hands on and educational geology channel
USCSB - US Chemical Safety Board that recreates incident investigations and gives recommendations.
Many A True Nerd for gaming, History Buffs for historical accuracy in movies and timmmm, a small channel of which I’m still surprised it’s so small because his videos are really well produced.
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?
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.
Tom Grossi. I’m not an NFL fanatic but his videos are well written and very entertaining. No sponsors or mid-video ads.
Ailaughatmyownjokes. Silvia wanted to name her channel “I laugh at my own jokes” but someone else had it, so she just added an “a” to the front. Very funny stuff. Lots of shorts if you’re attention span is dead. Like mine.
Adam Savage and Xyla Faolin have been mentioned and I agree. The PBS channels also.
pReview’d. They do movie/TV reactions and just started producing a travel show. Two besties watching stuff and having a good time.
Coy Jandreau. Total comic book nerd.
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.
If you’re interested in why he is doing what he is doing - I would highly suggest turning on the close captions. It was a game changer as someone that is entertained by infotainment!
Holy fuck
Oh, yeah, I discovered the captions long ago. Had to go back and watch all the old ones with the captions on.
no slow mo guys mentioned in this entire thing? always been entertaining and decently interesting to me
Everything by Jupiter Broadcasting. Not really a YouTube channel, but they stream there.
I quit listening after the meltdown that caused Noah to leave Linux Action Show. That was an amazing podcast while it was running.
What meltdown? I was deployed and came back to find him gone. He’s been on since then and they were perfectly amicable. Or do you mean lunduke?
