Some of these channels have changed over the years, expanding and adding hosts and things, but they consistently make good content and have either improved or maintained that quality.

Wendover and Half As Interesting

Real Engineering

Mustard

Legal Eagle

Mentour Pilot

Not a channel, but a creator: Yahtzee Croshaw (was Zero Punctuation/Extra Punctuation on The Escapist, is now Fully Ramblomatic/Semi Ramblomatic on Second Wind.

CGP Grey

SciShow (and many of the other projects from the vlogbrothers, including Crash Course and vlogbrothers itself)

Technology Connections

Shaun

HBomberGuy

ElectroBOOM

Videogamedunkey

I just wanted to say, y’all are my people, we don’t agree on everything, but I’m glad to have moved to lemmy. The few channels mentioned here that I’m not subbed to, I’ll be checking out.

This one guy Richard Astley. Banging tunes and the smoothest moves.

But really: Technology Connections

Some ones I haven’t seen yet:

• Camping with Steve (relaxed Canadian camping with plenty of dry humour, usually some wild stealth camping adventures)
• Budget-Builds Official (tries out random ass computer hardware and finds its limits)
• dosdude1 (infamous for crazy Mac upgrades that require resoldering BGA chips and chip programming)
• EthosLab (already saw Xisumavoid mentioned, Etho is still happily making mature Minecraft videos)
• Flexiny (ASMR-like videos of mechanics fixing old cars to run again)
• FlyTech Videos (Windows experiments and deep dives into how Win32 and NT do things)
• GIFGAS (usual accomplice with shiey in train surfing, although I enjoy GIFGAS’ edits more than shiey)
  • Side note: His videos are taken down regularly so you have to be quick to download them before they disappear
• Hugh Jeffreys (Australian right to repair advocate, usually repairs smartphones but has dabbled into more vintage items recently)
• Janus Cycle (2000s deep retrospectives into technology)
• Plainly Difficult (British industrial accident examinations with wonderfully shoddy graphics)new, * polymatt (absolute 3D modelling wizard who takes on restoring vintage tech to beyond brand new with incredible attention to detail, and very engaging edits)
• Seytonic (cyber security news roundup weekly)
• This Does Not Compute (retro computer repairs and retrospectives)
• Usagi Electric (extremely vintage computer repairs, going right back to vacuum tubes to 1980s minicomputers)

I feel like Ethoslab deserves a mention. He’s basically making the exact same great fun Minecraft videos as I, a grown ass man, remember from my literal childhood!

• Practical Engineering
• Gamer Nexus (for sure)
• Matt’s off road recovery
• Tested(Adamsavage)
• Startalk
• Trail mater
• GrizzlyandBear Overlanding
• Kirk Kreifles
• the Car Care Nut & Car Care Nut auto reviews
• Driver 61
• Sarah-n-tuned
• Max Velocity (weather)
• Grind Hard Plumbing
• Throttle House
• AutoJeffReviews
• DrivingSportsTV

Post10.

11 years of posting videos. No politics, no ads, no culture war bullshit. Just camping videos and unclogging culverts.

I think a whole lot of “maker” type channels have all stayed pretty solid, off the top of my head

This Old Tony
Adam Savage Xyla Foxlin
Clickspring
Blondihacks
Colin Furze
Inheritance Machining (though compared to some of the others he’s relatively new)
Stuff Made Here
Jeremy Fielding

Branching out a bit

How to drink
Caitlin Doughty (ask a mortician)
LockpickingLawyer
NileRed (and NileBlue)
Tasting History
Townsends
Useful Charts

Some of them have changed their format a bit over the years, I don’t think that’s been a negative for any of them. Also due to how YouTube revenue works these days a lot of them have had to rely more heavily on sponsors, patron, merch etc. don’t hate the player for that, hate the game.

Hard for me to say because over the years I’ve lost interest in most channels I watched years ago.

BobbyBroccoli, NightHawkInLight and Technology Connections are three that I always watch every time I notice a new video.

Techmoan is one of those that I watch from time to time.

And Nerdwriter1 is one that I haven’t watch in some time but it is hard for me to imagine it having a decline in quality.

Dank Pods! The content has only gotten better over the years, plus their expansion into car stuff and gaming. Started from iPods, now a bunch of different type of content. 🇦🇺

The Wonky Angle for IDM/electronic music coverage

Gtrippin for trip sims

Badempanada for anti-status-quo takes

Jacob Geller for video game content with a touch of breadtube

The USCSB has a channel with breakdowns of chemical disasters

It’s got a pretty fun cult following and it posted within the last week XD

Map Men. It’s always educational, interesting, and they have amazing Monty Pythonish gags and jokes.

Hbomberguy has been getting nothing but better.

Foldingideas also has fantastic long form video essays that I really enjoy.

Vlogbrothers ftw