These are my favourite people on YouTube right now
Atomic Shrimp - He’s an older British guy that does a variety of videos. Everything from tech related projects, scambating, gardening, hikes, and foraging.
My favorite videos of his are his ‘Weird Stuff in a Can’ videos.
theuppermostinlife - It’s just one person scooping up all of the music they like and curating a bunch of compilations. I’ve found lots of music I listen to regularly thanks to their efforts.
- 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
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
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
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.
Vampire Robot. Love me some B-roll.
Primitive Technology. Guy in the jungle builds houses and makes pottery from scratch and I mean from scratch. He even gets into forging a little bit, made a crude iron knife from ore he collected himself.
The new blower he made is so facinating. The leaf as a valve is just so cool to see :D
obligatory note, that the channel has closed captions where he explains what he’s doing
Here’s a list of some of mine which have < 1M subscribers who probably deserve more views
A couple of atheism/philosophy channels that helped me focus on the positive aspects of my secular worldview, instead of merely being not theistic:
Made major improvements to my home cooking routine:
- Adam Ragusea. His podcast, which he stopped doing this year, is also worth a listen.
- Rainbow Plant Life. Vegan.
- Derek Sarno. Also vegan.
Culture & current events:
- Joan Westenberg. She just started a YouTube channel a couple days ago, but I’ve been subscribing to her newsletter for a few months and it’s great. Give her a follow on Mastodon, too: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan
- Maggie Mae Fish Only just found this one, but seems well thought-out.
- Tara Mooknee Same here.
Most of mine are videogame or car related, but here’s a few from across the spectrum of things I watch:
Aliensrock: Interesting streamer/YouTuber who primarily plays puzzle games and provides entertaining commentary.
ScrapMan: Plays lots of building/engineering games (mostly Scrap Mechanic and Trailmakers). Lots of silly multiplayer competitions and “engineering challenges”.
ItsJabo: Funny guy Streamer that plays Bethesda games with silly challenge runs. Also brings a bit of the chaotic energy.
Joov: same as above, but a bit more focused on telling a story throughout the challenge runs.
Aging Wheels: Eccentric guy that makes videos about eccentric cars. He’s quite funny and passionate which makes for good videos.
Superfast Matt: Engineer who makes ridiculous project cars that are good enough ™️. He’s made a land speed car, and recently an Off-road Dodge Viper.
Allen Pan: Inventor that makes a bunch of fun and silly projects sometimes based on stuff from TV shows and movies.
Incognito Mode: Especially the “In the Field” series. Basically an animated podcast where the Internet Historian and a guest talk about a variety of topics and come up with ridiculous scenarios.
Tasting History: Max Miller makes cool recipes from history whilst also giving a history lesson on the meal and its significance.
I love the humor of superfast matt :D
I like Legal Eagle (lawyer gives some good context for current events especially), Some More News (deep dives into social or political issues), and Plain Bagel (finance). I’m not a big YouTube person but these are literally the only three I’ll go check if they have new content.
iilluminaughtii causing her own downfall by trying to go after LE was nothing short of spectacular. Her channel’s completely dead now.
Kris Harbour Natural Building - Guy building a homestead in rural Wales. He does some cool hydropower stuff. Built his own house and workshop. He’s currently building a timber framed barn of his own design for his equipment and the animals he raises using lumber he milled on a band saw mill that he also built (and I think also designed). This stuff is all documented on his channel. Dude seems really chill and down-to-earth.
Red Letter Media! <3
(Yo, cake day lol)
Quiet Nerd - cool projects all DIY
Camping with Steve - stealth camping wholesomeness
Londoneats - food delivery in London, weirdly fascinating
Bill McClintock Uri Tuchman Wristwatch revival Foureyes furniture BigClive dotcom
Ordinary Sausage - A channel for people who wonder “could you turn X into a sausage, and if so how good would it taste?” Water? Air? Big Macs? Pickles? That and more, my friend. Pure culinary chaos, and weirdly wholesome to boot.
Joel Haver - The origin of the “semi-automated rotoscoping” animation style, a rather clever use of some existing filters, but also a genuinely funny creator, and prolific to boot.
Yassss Joel Haver!
Don’t do Mr. Sausage dirty like that.
We also now get more Non-Sausage Experiences, like McDonalds Soup, X Deepfried For An Hour, and the million dollar expense, lobster tails boiled in maple syrup.
