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.
Captain dissolution
Corridor crew
James Hoffman, it even keeps getting better with time. The prophet for the coffee fans
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.
I just find Lewis Rossman to be an incredibly irritating person. I appreciate what he’s doing but at a personal level I can’t stand him. He’s just very whiny.
Rossmann fights the good fight, but his two hour rambles could be a blog post instead
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’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
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.
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.
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.
Red Letter Media. I’ve grown bored of the content though but that’s a me problem.
Majuular. He makes long form retrospectives of old games, his Ultima retros are amazing. Just keeps getting better and better.
Okoii
Ssethtzeentach
VaatiVidya
Ymfah
Sitting With Dogs (Rocky Kanaka)
Some More News
History Marche
Fairbairn Films
Don’t Tell Comedy
Jacob Geller has put out consistently amazing videos for years on end.
One I haven’t seen mentioned yet is Marius Hornberger. Awesomely talented young German maker.
Map Men / Jay Foreman
Interesting and genuinely amusing for about 15 years at this point.
They are great, I love their sponsored adverts moments also! Can’t wait to read their new book, This way up.
Yep, literally the only time I watch a sponsor segment on YouTube, insane the effort they go through compared to other channels
Myron Cook - A very hands on and educational geology channel
USCSB - US Chemical Safety Board that recreates incident investigations and gives recommendations.
I’ll hop on the Technology Connections train and add
Styropyro
CathodeRayDude
Civvie11
Northernlion
O hey cancer mouse.
He just put out a new Blood video that was under 10 minutes. I didn’t think something so short was possible for him.
I LOVE TC, NL, and Styropyro. I’ll have to check out CRD and Civvie11!
