Misc. Media Your Favorite YouTube Channels

[Boots]

What are some of your favorite YouTube channels, and why?

 

[shortkut]

How it should have ended - HISHE because they’re short and amusing

 

[A Maybe Baker]

• Atlas Pro: it's high level production stuff about the natural sciences (geography, geology, oceanography, etc)
• Some More News: news program similar to Last Week Tonight, but YouTube based
• Simon Whistler's stuff:
  • Decoding the Unknown: conspiracy theories and breaking them down, showing any truth behind them (if there is anything) and how it got to what it is today
  • The Casual Criminalist: very sad & violent, it's a breakdown of major criminals over history (usually serial killers, but sometimes it's financial crimes and such)
  • The others are good too, but those are my top ones (Side Projects, Brain Blaze, etc.)
• Mr. Beat: makes good history and politics content
• ThaBeast721: currently playing a series of beating every N64 game, and I've been loving following that
• Stefan Milo: he does ancient human history, a lot of subjects that aren't usually covered, and it's clear he really enjoys it and teaching about it

 

[Boots]

Ars Technica has some solid war stories interviews with game devs.
Before Death 4 dudes in their 30s trying to climb the highest peak in each European country.
Bright Sun Films abandoned documentaries
Defunctland make some really well researched documentaries. The Disney channel theme one is really good.
Every Frame a Painting hasn't uploaded in years but the videos are timeless to a film buff.
Girlfriend Reviews for funny, well-produced video game reviews.
JunsKitchen Japanese guy + cooking + cats. He has another channel or 2 with his American/Canadian wife.
MelodySheep awesome space videos.
Nick Robinson goes down the rabbit hole solving trivial mysteries no one asked him to let alone asked themselves.
REAL ONES with Jon Bernthl deep interviews with interesting people. The Shia LaBeouf one is amazing.
Stephi Lee girl with cystic fibrosis van life.
TimeGhost History/Indy Neidell for WWI and WWII history videos.
Weird History self-explanatory.
Wendover Productions another documentary channel 20-30 minute videos.

 

[Boots]

Simon Whistler's stuff:

• Decoding the Unknown: conspiracy theories and breaking them down, showing any truth behind them (if there is anything) and how it got to what it is today
• The Casual Criminalist: very sad & violent, it's a breakdown of major criminals over history (usually serial killers, but sometimes it's financial crimes and such)
• The others are good too, but those are my top ones (Side Projects, Brain Blaze, etc.)

I like his stuff Today I Found Out and Biographics are solid. Dude has 15 channels and probably at least twice that number in staff.

 

[A Maybe Baker]

I like his stuff Today I Found Out and Biographics are solid. Dude has 15 channels and probably at least twice that number in staff.

Yeah those are two of the others I've watched. You can probably find something of his that you like, regardless of who you ware.

 

[Fire Queen]

• Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games: the game dev who created Kirby and the Super Smash Bros. series, formerly of Nintendo, now publishes videos that pull back the veil on what it's actually like to make video games, his advice if you're interested in making games yourself, and stories from the games he led development on. if you were following "Japan Time" during the Super Smash Bros. Brawl days (like i was), this is the channel for you.
• DaThings: do you know what a youtube poop is? do you like them and think they are funny? does sentence mixing impress you? do you, like me, avoid older youtube poops for fear of the terribly dated jokes that might lie within? never fear, DaThings is here. you may know her most famous video, 24601 Releases a Sammich on Parole
• iteachvader: more YTPs, but these are way more musical. get yourself some earworms from the old sonic cartoon. i recommend Hedgehog Stew as an intro
• Summoning Salt: speedrun history videos. need i say more?
• Secret Base / Jon Bois: do you want to watch a history of the seattle mariners that lasts over three hours? yes, you do. do you want to cry about former toronto blue jays pitcher dave stieb? yes, you do. do you want to watch a deep dive into a forum argument about how many days are in a week, or a primer on why 24 was the most insane show ever created? of course you do. maybe you just want to watch a heartwrenching study of every single professional athlete ever to be named Bob. as an intro, my fiancee recommends Section 1, a short (40 minutes is short for these guys) film about an NFL playoff matchup from the 70s where if the Steelers don't beat the Colts badly enough, people will die.

 

[A Maybe Baker]

+1 on Summoning Salt

oh, related, The Gaming Historian is a good one.

 

[Boots]

Gaming Historian

I used to watch his stuff. He stopped posting with regular frequency a few years ago.

 

[A Maybe Baker]

I used to watch his stuff. He stopped posting with regular frequency a few years ago.

Not very frequent for sure, but he still has the occasional new content that goes out.

 

[canadaguy]

• Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games: the game dev who created Kirby and the Super Smash Bros. series, formerly of Nintendo, now publishes videos that pull back the veil on what it's actually like to make video games, his advice if you're interested in making games yourself, and stories from the games he led development on. if you were following "Japan Time" during the Super Smash Bros. Brawl days (like i was), this is the channel for you.
• DaThings: do you know what a youtube poop is? do you like them and think they are funny? does sentence mixing impress you? do you, like me, avoid older youtube poops for fear of the terribly dated jokes that might lie within? never fear, DaThings is here. you may know her most famous video, 24601 Releases a Sammich on Parole
• iteachvader: more YTPs, but these are way more musical. get yourself some earworms from the old sonic cartoon. i recommend Hedgehog Stew as an intro
• Summoning Salt: speedrun history videos. need i say more?
• Secret Base / Jon Bois: do you want to watch a history of the seattle mariners that lasts over three hours? yes, you do. do you want to cry about former toronto blue jays pitcher dave stieb? yes, you do. do you want to watch a deep dive into a forum argument about how many days are in a week, or a primer on why 24 was the most insane show ever created? of course you do. maybe you just want to watch a heartwrenching study of every single professional athlete ever to be named Bob. as an intro, my fiancee recommends Section 1, a short (40 minutes is short for these guys) film about an NFL playoff matchup from the 70s where if the Steelers don't beat the Colts badly enough, people will die.

I will always take the time to watch someone breakdown why The Josh is a fucking idiot

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Nogla+, APlatypuss, SideArms4Reason for the Amogus long plays.

Throttle House, Donut, Everyday Driver, and Straight Pipes for car related content. Just Rolled In to remind yourself that you have indeed not seen everything when it comes to cars.

emongg for Overwatch content. Most of my other favorites don't post much anymore.

Abroad in Japan - British dude with a Japanese tourist channel.

CarlSaga42 and FreakAndGeek for Mario Maker vids.

Dorkly, FilmCow and ScottFalco for animated skits. Noodle can squeeze in there, too.

The Linus Tech Tips family of channels.

Gigguk for anime.

History Matters, General Knowledge, RealLifeLore, Wendover, and Half as Interesting for real life stuff and history. Might as well throw Crash Course in there, too.

outsidexbox, Outside Extra, gameranx, and videogamedunky for video game variety content.

Ravic for Battlefield stuff.

Road Guy Rob for road related info vids. Niche subject.

The Food Theorists - The only "That's just a theory" channel I sub to.

Tuxbird for Rainbow Six Siege shitposts.

UrinatingTree and Jomboy Media for sports.

Others worth mentioning that may or may not be active: About Here, Ahoy (Xbox Ahoy), Ask a Ninja (dead channel), CGP Grey, CinemaSins, Crowbcat, DeSinc, Glove and Boots (dead channel), GmanLives, Good Mythical Morning, HISHE, jackfrags, GamersNexus, JelloApocalypse, KarQ, Kurt Warner x QBConfidential, Last Week Tonight, KYRSP33DY, Salty Phish, Neebs Gaming, PastaroniRsvioli, Your Overwatch, Project Farm, Screen Junkies, SMii7Y, Stun_Gravy (dead channel).

 

[BigDaddy]

• Summoning Salt: speedrun history videos. need i say more?
• Secret Base / Jon Bois: do you want to watch a history of the seattle mariners that lasts over three hours? yes, you do. do you want to cry about former toronto blue jays pitcher dave stieb? yes, you do. do you want to watch a deep dive into a forum argument about how many days are in a week, or a primer on why 24 was the most insane show ever created? of course you do. maybe you just want to watch a heartwrenching study of every single professional athlete ever to be named Bob. as an intro, my fiancee recommends Section 1, a short (40 minutes is short for these guys) film about an NFL playoff matchup from the 70s where if the Steelers don't beat the Colts badly enough, people will die.

+1 on Summoning Salt

oh, related, The Gaming Historian is a good one.

Yes to all of these. Especially Secret Base/Jon Bois. I love the one about Steve Bono's 76 yard stroll in the park for a touchdown with nary a care in the world nor a defender in sight.