The Youtube channels I would recommend are the following:

Tech/Science

S3 - The stories of people working to change the world.

Modern Day Eratosthenes - A great STEM communicator who provides a moderate level breakdown of STEM topics. Videos are less than 12 minutes long.

Ziroth - This channel focuses on highlighting new science and engineering projects that are helping the world transition to a zero carbon future!

Speculative Science

Isaac Arthur - This channel focuses on exploring concepts in science with an emphasis on futurism and space exploration, along with a healthy dose of science fiction. While we explore many concepts and technologies that are far beyond us now, we try to keep everything inside the bounds of known science or major theories.

Analytical Tech News/Stories

TechAltar - Analytical videos about tech companies [and their products or services].

Tech Business/Economics/History Video Essays

Asianometry - One of my favorite YT channels. He does a great job producing high quality videos about tech history, tech related economics, and sometimes dives into what that latest tech is and how it might play a part in our future.

Humorous Business Journalism

Good Work - “Edge-cutting” business journalism, with a healthy dose of humor mixed in. Actually covers things that you might want to know more about in the realm of business, trading, and why the American economy is so freaking weird.

The Making of a Movie/TV Show

It Was A Sh*t Show - Making stuff is hard, especially in the entertainment world when there are millions of dollars on the line. And we are going to talk about these disastrous, never ending, and sometimes dangerous productions. With video documentaries and a companion conversational podcast, It Was A Sh*t Show is an entertaining look at some of your favorite films and tv shows, and why they were such a nightmare to make.

Frame Voyager - Mini-documentaries on films without the clickbait negativity.

Mini/Full Documentary Makers

Peter Dibble - Obscure history from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. I recommend checking out America’s First Cross-Country Auto Race.

Kirby Ferguson - He’s best known for his documentary series called, Everything is a Remix. He made an updated and extended version of it. I recommend it.

  • Zahille7@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Drue Langlois - animator/filmmaker who makes absurd and fun videos. One of my favorites

    Wigglewood - another animator who’s in the process of making their own little shared world of silliness.

    Oboeshoesgames - streamer who has a decent sense of humor and is actually pretty creative with coming up with little parody songs for the games he plays. He also knows a SHITTON about Bionicle and will throw in references sometimes, which is always nice to see.

    RudeJackArt - artist/animator behind this masterpiece

    SplinterChalk - very small YouTuber who does challenge runs in games, similar to MittenSquad (RIP Paul), but mostly focusing on the Batman: Arkham games. He does play others though.

    ChadCat - he condenses other long-form YouTube videos (i.e. videos over 10 minutes) down to their most important details, usually taking up to about 20 seconds to a minute each time, calling them the “ADHD Versions.”

    Venjent - DJ/producer who makes badass beats using sounds he finds out in the world, such as a squeaky door

    2 Guys and A Cooler - family-run cooking channel where they make different cool things. Their video on pemmican got me interested in them.

    CharlieBo313 - basically a modern anthropologist who goes to the 'hoods and ghettos of America and talks to the people who live there, and showcases what life is like.

    Poe’s Sketchbook - stop-motion animator behind this badass fight

    Luka Big Pants - strange guy who makes videos in that weird stuttery FMV game style. It’s all weird and absurd but it’s all really good.

    Crazy Korean Cooking - a Korean family eating food, pretty much. They try different foods they never have, like Mexican and Jamaican foods, then they’ll experiment and try mixing the new stuff with their Korean food and it gets pretty fun. The parents are honestly super fun to watch because they just enjoy it all.

    BM Cartoons - an animator who just makes silly little cartoons.

    Edit: oh there’s more.

    Fearnley Fitzroy - the animator behind this absolute masterpiece and other fun souls-like dance videos.

    GilGamesHello - gamer who plays a lot of physics-based games like Exanima and Half Sword.

    Spine_apples - Saruman the Stupid

    TRYBALS - a very cool channel that shows western media and such to tribal villagers from Pakistan.

    Bill McClintock - someone who mashes up songs from wildly different genres and somehow makes them sound fuckin awesome. Stuparena (a mashup of The Macarena and Stupefied)

    Bushy - another challenge gamer, but he focuses on Elden Ring and other Souls-likes.

    Bax Taylor - a musician who makes his own original songs, but also does silly covers of others like Toto doing Apple Bottom Jeans, or Frank Sinatra’s Balls In Yo Jaws.

    Media Zealot - he breaks down different civilizations/organizations/other groups from different popular IPs and says why they wouldn’t be able to work in reality. Like “villains too stupid to win” and so on.

    Corey Laddo - an SFM animator who makes funny shorts, based around G-man and Gordon interacting and playing out a meme or something.

  • deranger@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Alexander the Ok - 101k subscribers, does some great hour long engineering / computer science videos. F-14 central air data computer (first microprocessor), Minuteman missile (led to the first desktop computers), B-29 turret system (networked mechanical computers), and Buran (not really computers, but a really good video anyways).

  • Metostopholes@midwest.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    This is a fairly niche answer, but Noah Caldwell-Gervais.

    He does very smart critical analysis of video games as a medium, often in multi-hour long retrospectives of entire franchises. They are all split into chapters, so it’s easy to watch in parts. The visuals and editing are not very flashy, pretty much just footage of the game he’s talking about, but they are so well written and thoughtful I find them extremely compelling. There’s also road trip travelogues, but I’m not as into those.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Cara Nicole. She does a good job at explaining finance and budgeting to the layman, I liked her because I found that what she said more or less aligned with what I’ve found to be true, so I think she’s sending out smart ways of managing money to people. Plus she does fun videos about things like giving financial audits to Michael Scott and breaking down people’s wish lists. Idk I always enjoy her videos.

    https://youtube.com/@thefinancialfreedomgirl

    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Todd in particular deserves a lot more attention/subscribers/success given how long he’s been around, and just how much content he’s released.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Luetin09 apparently only has 901k subscribers.

    SomeMoreNews is at 884k.

    DoshDoshington is at an unacceptably low 309k.

    Atrioc is up near 706k.

    And everyone should be subscribed to YoungScrolls but sadly only 269k people are.

  • pedz@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    I like tech, old and new, so:

    https://www.youtube.com/@CathodeRayDude

    https://www.youtube.com/@TechTangents

    https://www.youtube.com/@ConnectionsMuseum

    https://www.youtube.com/@VeronicaExplains

    https://www.youtube.com/@UsagiElectric

    https://www.youtube.com/@PlatimaTinkers

    https://www.youtube.com/@RetroBytesUK

    https://www.youtube.com/@harkeofficial

    I"d also suggest Jeff Geerling but he’s close to a million subscribers.

    About trains, cycling, transit, and urbanism:

    https://www.youtube.com/@OhTheUrbanity

    https://www.youtube.com/@BenDurham

    https://www.youtube.com/@MilesinTransit

    https://www.youtube.com/@JagoHazzard

    https://www.youtube.com/@TFTSB

    And about hiking, camping, outdoors stuff:

    https://www.youtube.com/@StephenJReid

    Oh and on languages and etymology:

    https://www.youtube.com/@WordsUnravelled

    https://www.youtube.com/@RobWords

    https://www.youtube.com/@Xidnaf

    https://www.youtube.com/@kklein

    https://www.youtube.com/@Linguisticae (in French)

    https://www.youtube.com/@Linguriosa (in Spanish)

  • 5in1k@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Engels Coach Shop. Dude rebuilds wagons and other horse pulled things from piles of rubble. Really nice calm guy out in Wyoming.

    Pat Finnerty breaks down bad songs in hilarious fashion.

    Alpha Phoenix is a good science channel

    Kari, she’s a retro gaming nerd, really young but absolutely knows her shit

    Look Mum No Computer. An extremely talented musician who does videos around analog electronic music gear.

    Mbmmllc. They do mining videos. The Kenya video is unbelievable and I learned so so much about the world from it.

    Periscope Films. Stock footage that varies wildly

    These are my picks.

  • Badabinski@kbin.earth
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    3 months ago

    I’m shocked nobody has mentioned Bobby Fingers (266k subscribers at this time). He’s a sassy Irish man with a really deep voice who makes incredibly detailed dioramas of weird moments. My favorite diorama is the one he made about Fabio Lanzoni (the sexy guy on the cover of hundreds of romance novels) getting hit in the face by a goose while riding a roller coaster: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2RIEPKEhE2s

    It’s absolutely spectacular. He sculpts the faces out of clay in 1:1 scale, scans them, 3D prints them in miniature, and just goes above and beyond. The videos are funny as all fuck too, with tons of jokes with long setups. I’d highly recommend them.

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Perun does some excellent defense economics and analysis. Probably one of the channels I have learned the most from.

    Jake Broe does regular updates on the Russo Ukraine war which I always find helpful.

    And finally, Zeihan on Geopolitics, does, well, what the name says. I find he brings ideas I hadn’t thought of, or that are not well explained, into clarity.

  • chaosCruiser 🚫@futurology.todayEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Oh, there are so many.

    Just Have a Think: Energy, electricity, fuels, batteries, renewables

    Engineering with Rosie: electricity production, transmission, storage etc.

    xkcd’s What If?: physics, silly questions, silly answers

    Applied Science: Science, technology, DIY lab stuff

    Elina Charatsidou: Nuclear physics

    Future Proof Health: anything health related

    AlphaPhoenix: Material science, physics, technical stuff

    Design Theory: In-depth explanations on why items are designed to look a particular way.

      • chaosCruiser 🚫@futurology.todayEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Hmm… Let’s take a look Yeah, that looks like a pretty cool channel. Oh wait, I’ve seen many of these videos already. Maybe I should subscribe. Hold on, I’m also subscribed already? Looks like I totally forgot this channel even existed!

        Yeah, totally can recommend. Awesome electron microscopy, detailed explanations and all that.

  • Soulifix@kbin.melroy.org
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    3 months ago

    danooct1 - A guy who demonstrates computer viruses on OSes like Windows and DOS.

    WrestlingWithWregret (For wrestling fans) - This guy does various wrestling content but some of his best is PPV Classic reviews. Charming personality.