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Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?

Seeing the other post here about YouTuber that went downhill and seeing content creators I am familiar with makes me sad. But how about those that still makes great, high quality content?

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    • The Bread Circus
      • They go through the Star Wars movies from a book lore perspective, point out flaws in the writing and lore-breaking, and offer suggestions on how the sequels could have been handled differently. They did The Last Jedi, and I really enjoyed it. They also have some cool videos on podracing, ships, and guns.
    • Defunctland
      • History of Disney rides, takes the culture of the time into consideration, the video on queues is a must-watch, imo.
    • Draw Like a Sir
      • Really solid drawing tutorials that aren't very complicated, takes the time to break down high-level concepts into simple exercises. Overall a really fun channel to watch, even if you're not into drawing.
    • Fredrik Knudson
      • Long, deep-dive videos into internet history/culture. Rare uploads, but a banger every time.
    • James Lee
      • Newgrounds-era animator with amazing compositing techniques and a very unique animation style where he inserts himself into his videos as a very animated caricature of himself.
    • Lemmino
      • Like the History Channel but without the fluff. Cool topics, very nice animations, high production, high-quality content.
    • MattKC
      • Known for a Lego Island decompilation project. Also does retro console repair from time to time — very fun watch.
    • Paper Will
      • Rare uploads. but interesting video essay topics. High quality and a nice watch during lunch.
    • Pecos Hank
      • A storm chaser who is Reed Timmer's ying to his yang. Very chill, documentary-quality footage featuring himself playing guitar and talking about the beauty and power of nature. You've probably seen his footage on the Weather Channel!
    • Technology Connections
      • Great deep dives into random technology, old and new. The video on the popcorn button on microwaves is really good (I think that may be on his second channel?)
  • Tom Scott

    Curious Droid - lots of sci fi, technology content.

    WaterlineStories - all sorts of nautical/diving disasters narrated by a South African chap with a lot of experience.

    Qxir - Irish guy with a lot of weird stories told in stick figure form.

    Plainly Difficult - a lot of disasters frequently nuclear.

    Nile Red is still fun - and a nice dude. Chemistry

    Vince Vintage is hilarious, great editing (like internet historian but not a jerk)

    Also my homeboy Video Game Dunkey.

    Dreading is good(sort of successor to JCS), very sober and tasteful host discussing true crime.

  • Practical Engineering - in depth presentations of civil engineering feats, concepts, problems, solutions

    Joe Scott - just simple, entertaining discussions of interesting topics

    Philosophy Tube - longer format, intensely well-cited presentations on philosophy related to current events (with theatrical costumes!)

    Ryan Hall - who knew that a weather forecast could be so fun? Regularly updated weather forecasts for the entire United States with detailed coverage and livestreams of events like tornado outbreaks, hurricanes, and large snowstorms. With charity drives to provide supplies to people on the ground

    PBS Spacetime, PBS Eons, all the PBS channels really

    Plainly Difficult - consistent quality, often hilarious presentations of various disasters. I particularly like his entire series on radiological accidents, often involving lost radioactive sources that random members of the public stumble onto, which is terrifying.

  • Consumer Tech: mkbhd, LTT, MrMobile, Dave2D, JerryRigEverything, UrAvgConsumer, GamersNexus

    Geeky Tech: TechnoTim, ServeTheHome, Explaining Computers, Level1Techs, Jeff Geerling, , Low Spec Gamer, Modern Vintage Gamer, Wolfgangs Channel, Network Chuck, Project Farm, Tech Rules

    Smart Home: Everything Smart Home, The Hook Up, Smart Home Solver, Paul Hibbert, Reed's Smart Home, NotEnoughTech

    Popular science: Veritasium, Kurzgesagt, Smarter Every Day, Hank Green

    Science: Cleo Abram, Physics Girl, Nile Red/Blue, Computerphile, NumberPhile, Minutephysics, The SciShow, PeriodicVideos, Sixty Symbols, Scott Manley, The Action Lab, 3blue1brown, Kyle Hill, Steve Mould, Fermilab, PBS Space Time

    Engineering: Practical Engineering, B1M, Coby Explanes, engineerguy, Technical Connections, Simone Giertz

    Entertainment with some science/engineering sparkled in: Colin furze, Mark Robert, Slow Mo Guys, Johnny Harris, TheBackyardScientist

    Entertainment: CGP Grey, Tom Scott, Max Fosh, Lockpicking Lawyer, Legal Eagle, Kitboga, Not Just Bikes, Cheddar

    Docutainment: Cold Fusion, Wendover Productions/Half as Interesting, Anything with Simon Whistler (Megaprojects, etc)

    Programming: Fireship, The Primeagen, Tech world with Nana, freCodeCamp, Ben Eater, Jake Wright, Dreams of Code, mCoding

    Electronics: Andreas Spiess, GreatScott!, Tall Paul Tech, EEV

    Chess: Anna Cramling, Gotham Chess, Hikaru

    Cars: Carwow, Out of Spec Reviews, TeslaBjorn, Throttle House, Engineering Explained, autoTrader, Donut, Hagerty, RSEV

    Travel: HONEST GUIDE (the Prague guy), Pack Hacker, SV Delos, Tim Traveller, Trek Trendy

    History: the fat electrician, historigraph, history matters,

    Woodworking: Shaun Boyd, Blacktail Studio, Foureyes furniture

    Late Night: Colbert, Meyers, Kimmel, Daily Show, Last Week Tonight

    Russia/Ukraine: LazerPig, 1420 (Daniil Orain), Perun (edited to add)

    If you speak German: HausbauHelden, FelixBa, Lohnt sich das, Finanzfluss, Next Move, Autogefühl, Smarthome yourself, Jonas Winkler, Held der Steine

  • There's plenty more, but here's a few of mine:

    RedLetterMedia - Got pretty big on YouTube about 15 years back for their review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, where they made an actual, honest critique of why the film (and later the other prequel films) didn't really work on their own merits and hid it inside a 1.5-hour skit about an elderly serial killer. They're, uh... they're not for everyone, but I like them. Also, Macaulay Caulkin as a recurring guest star. Worth your time.
    Technology Connections - Did you ever want to know why ceiling fans start at max power when you turn them on? Because I already knew before I clicked on the video and I still watched the whole damn thing. I swear this person could make ANYTHING sound interesting, no matter how dry.
    They've been mentioned already but Second Wind - I mean, Yahtzee Croshaw pretty much picked up his fanbase and moved it here when his bosses at The Escapist made the boneheaded move to fire, uh.. his boss? I think? I don't watch a whole lot of the other stuff, but I haven't had any complaints about anything of theirs I've watched.
    Project Farm - This dude legit goes out with his own money, buys like 8 different items in the same category (mainly tools, though his most recent video is on space heaters) and subjects them all to fairly rigorous testing to see which one is the best for the money. If I'm looking to buy something, I'll check and see if Project Farm has a video on it first.
    LGR (Lazy Game Reviews) - I think someone already mentioned this as well, but I thought I'd bring it up too. The channel covers more than just games now and just covers all kinds of (mainly 80s/90s) computer tech. Plus, Clint's a good dude.
    Colin Furze - He's a bit extra but he started making Wolverine claws in his little garage workshop and now he's building a "secret" tunnel under his house. Following this man's videos are wild. He basically says "what if (crazy idea)" and then just... does it.

    edit: omg how did I forget DankPods? Of course he has like five channels now. He's got a masters in music, he made a living playing jazz drums, he started a dumb YouTube channel about fixing iPods, and now he has a warehouse where he plays drums and games and fixes cars and all kinds of shit. Wade is great.

  • Scrolling through my subscribes, here are some of the ones mostly widely interesting I figure. In no particular order:

    Civvie11- Retro gaming enthusiast.

    Beware The Qu- Lots of speculative evolution content.

    Big red 40TECH- Battletech lore guy.

    BobbyBroccoli- Long videos about science scandals.

    Mandaloregaming- Long form game reviews.

    Seth Skorkowsky- Videos about TTRPG reviews and how to run TTRPGs.

    Warlockracy- Russian video game reviewer with a bent to older games and weird Russian obscure mods.

    Forgotten Weapons- Man on a life's quest to collect French ammunition.

    Red Letter Media- Movie reviews and such.

    Wargamer Fritz- Battletech tabletop tactics.

    ReligionForBreakfast- Scholar who talks about religious history topics.

    The Tank Museum- Tanks.

    The Chieftain- Tanks.

    Paper Skies- Channel on strange aviation stories, focus on Soviet military aviation.

    Quinn's Ideas- Scifi review channel. Huge Dune nerd.

    Olden Demon- Oldhammer channel. Talks about 2e and retells old 2e official battle reports.

    oboeshoesgames- Like Dunkey but still funny.

    Minisodes- Plays Oldhammer 2e in modern day and paints retro minis.

    Grim Beard- Goth that reviews usually more obscure games.

    Billiam- Watches and reviews a lot of trash TV.

    Ancient Americas- History channel about ancient American (north, central, and south) history.

    I'm subscribed to a lot of painting, DIY, instructional, and such channels which I find good but are very niche.

    • Huge +1 for BobbyBroccoli. Most entertaining & gripping documentaries I've watched in a long time. The two part Cloning documentary (Part 1, Part 2) was absolutely spectacular.

      Lemmino is great as well.

  • Tested with Adam Savage

    Atomic Frontier

    Captain Disillusion

    Answers with Joe

    • CD has been making videos of quality for 16 years and the only thing that's really changed is the YouTube resolution limit.

    • Cathode Ray Dude - goes over tech from the 80's, 90's and early 00's
    • CloudCuckooCountry - Infrequent book reviewer
    • Distant Signal - Like trains? You'll like Danny Harmon
    • Great Art Explained - Does exactly what it says on the tin
    • Jacob Geller - I'm not sure how to describe him to be honest
    • Jay Foreman - MAP MEN MAP MEN MAP MAP MAP MEN MEN MEN
    • Josh Strife Hayes - Reviews of terrible MMOs
    • Mr Samuel Streamer - High quality Rimworld videos (has also played Terraria, Stardew Valley, Fallout NV and other games), has a bit of a motor mouth however
    • PatricianTV - Extremely long video game reviews; his Skyrim review is 20 hours spread across two videos
    • Technology Connections - Through the power of buying two of them!
    • The Unlucky Tug - Mainly talks about Thomas the Tank Engine
  • NeverKnowsBest For very in depth game essays. He has a 2:44:46 in depth look into the history of MMO's. 2:03:15 Elder Scrolls analysis. And he has an absolutely comforting voice that sweeps you along so easily that you don't even feel the time pass.

    Mortismal He reviews games after he 100% them, makes guides, game lore, builds. His favorite genre is tactical rpg's but he'll to do others of people ask him to. The man is a consummate professional, and work horse. Puts out a video 5 days a week. He went from foster care, to being homeless to making a living doing what he loves. Used to put up posters offering to make game guides for money when he was a kid.

    Lex Fridman He did long form interviews of really brilliant people. Novel prize winning scientists, mathematicians, biologists, philosophers, politicians, tech moguls, artists. The list goes on. He's not funny, but he is refreshingly sincere in his wanting to try and understand the topics, people, and life. He's a Russian-American computer scientist and research scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems.I don't always agree with him, but I love getting to listen to the people he interviews.

    Quinn's Ideas A wonderful fan of sci-fi that reviews and explore the worlds of great sci-fi novels, turning over the abstract concepts inside those universes. He has an extensive playlist on the world of Dune, Lovecraft, authors I've never heard of, and he also covers other nerdy things too. He has a wonderful voice that brings you down into the world he's describing. You can tell her really gets into the books he reads, the more mysterious or awe inducing the better.

    Wes Roth I recently found this guy. He reports on current news on AI. He does a great job at explaining things you would be too afraid to ask about for fear of sounding stupid. He's not an AI expert he's just discovering AI advancements with you, for you. Calm, nothing flashy, and curious to see where this is headed. If you wish you had time to look up and read about what's new in AI, this is your guy.

    The Big Lez Show An all knowing multidimensional immortal Aussie Sasquatch doing a bunch of drugs, also some humans and some aliens.

    The Royal Institute Like TED talks but in Great Britain, much longer, more in depth and very scientific. The intended audience are scientists, but some talks are just too fascinating to miss out on.

    Luetin09 Warhammer 40k everything. Really great lore videos that are darkly beautiful to watch. He is a veritable font of WH40K knowledge.

    dslyecxi It's like watching a team of military professionals conduct missions in ARMA 3, and with all of the hilarious fuckery that ensues. ARMA 3 is a realistic military sim, nothing like the arcadey Call of Duty or Modern Warfare. Really great footage.

    Edit: Mr Sunday Movies Movies, comic, and TV shows, shooting up your butthole. They're Australian, but they make up for it.

  • Here's some of my own, in no particular order:

    Gotham Chess - also known for his catchphrase: "Sacrifices... THE ROOK!!!". Yeah, that guy.

    Kyle Hill is a science communicator and makes awesome educational content; he also debunks conspiracy theories.

    Jeff Geerling is a RasPi aficionado who's made tons of projects.

    Louis Rossmann specializes in consumer tech (mostly computers); he's a great critic of corporations and DRM.

    Jenna Moreci is a published fantasy writer and has great videos on what to do and not to do when writing fiction.

    One Topic at a Time - shares LGBTQ memes found on reddit. His voice may sound annoying. (What can I say? It's an acquired taste)

    Bits inside by René Rebe specializes in Linux and Open Source stuff.

    Noralities is a girl who makes video essays about anime, and they're not trivial opinions They involve writing, stereotypes, romance, society, and stuff. She's done her homework.

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  • Looks like there's some I can add:

    We're In Hell Funny videos about reality shows that devolve into leftist madness, they're amazing

    Blue Jay If Sam o Nella was a bird

    Mr. Beat Ex history teacher and amazingly awkward dude, quite good at explaining US political stuff.

    Second Wind Yahtzee Croshaw (ZP) and Cold Take, as well as a bunch of other ex escapist people and it rules.

    The Vile Eye The series "analysing evil" is a pretty good dive into fictions baddies

    The Stupendium Performs and writes songs based on pop culture, and is great at what he does

    munecat cute British girl pours Beer really badly funny music lady debunks/discusses political shit

    knowing better long form history content from an ex history teacher. Most recently had been doing the insane religious movements behind Kellogg's and whatnot

    b2 studios videos about AI being trained in Unreal Engine, like teaching an ai to bowl or play ping pong. Also funny AF

    your movie sucks movie reviews. Dude knows his shit and is pretty funny

    Oh god why is my subs list so long and there are still so many to list and I'm too tired and high after work rn maybe I'll edit this later

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