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.
Good Mythical Morning!
I’ve known about them and watched off and on for years, but my wife and I have been on a GMM binge lately and I really enjoy those guys.
Well There’s Your Problem, a podcast about engineering disasters with slides.
Tips From a Shipwright
The various PBS YouTube channels almost never miss.
Some of the best science content on the internet and explains everything in layman’s terms.
For higher level science:
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas
Puts up conferences and interviews of some of the top scientific minds on the planet.
PBS is awesome and I donate to them whenever I can. So should everyone.
I love arte for francophone stuff, public broadcasting is the best
I think that’s NPR, but still 👍
PBS spacetime is the only channel I watch at 1x
Captain Disillusion - Does videos about fake videos and pictures and about video editing in a humorous way. He has had same high quality over 18 years now.
One of the best ever
CD is the GOAT
I also really like the Corridor Crew for VFX content but it’s not the same tier.
Phil DeFranco is better than he used to be by a long shot. He’s getting senators and journalists in interviews for all manner of new related content. And he stopped with the enlightened centrism angle he had for a bit. Much more mature and level-headed.
@Raycevick
He makes great in depth analysies about games. I would gladly sacrifice every single ign, gamespot, polygon etc etc articles just to have well tought content like his released biweekly.
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.
Techmoan, if you are interested in old or weird tech.
Puts out videos super rarely, because they’re often upwards of 10 hours long, but Tim Rogers/Action Button makes amazing videos
A 10 hour video is too much imo. These people need to learn how to edit
Not his videos… He takes years to make them. His most recent video was 7 months ago, and the one before that was 4 years.
They’re not always that long, I was specifically thinking of his CP2077 review, which is split into several videos, where you’re supposed to choose in a way that’s similar to choosing your path in the game.
He worked at Sony Japan in the 90s, so he speaks fluent Japanese and also knows a shit ton about how games were made and translated back then so he has really unique insights. He’s also very funny.
I recommend his review of Boko no Natsuyasumi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=779coR-XPTw
The Tokimeki Memorial video is also great.
And I’m someone who is decidedly not a weeb.
Smosh Philip Defranco Markiplier
A channel that’s missing here which I personally really like is TimeGhost history and their other channels World War Two and The Korean War. Their coverage of world war two in real time (which they finished already) was especially great. I’m not necessarily the biggest history nerd, but there’s something quite enjoyable about following history “live” this way.
Primitive technology. There are many imitators, but the original is a man on his own in new Zealand. His videos focus on building structures in the woods. Starting with river mud, he will make a furnace in order to make bricks in order to make a building to sleep in in order to use it for kiln drying for larger structures etc…
Be sure to watch with subtitles to read his explanation of things!
Also needs to be said that he’s been creating for a decade and every video is consistently as good as the last one. The man single handedly spawned an entire genre and he just kept doing his own thing, algorithms and influencer culture be damned.
Isn’t he in Northern Qld, Australia. In only ever watched part of 1 episode and he was there then (I am Australian)
I get the idea he’s around Kuranda ? maybe Tully (i lived up there many yeaes ago)
This was also the first channel I thought of when looking at the question. Shame that it created so many low effort imitations that are obviously fake though.
Is there anyone out there that is even vaguely similar without being fake?
Very glad to see this mentioned, yet somewhat miffed you think he’s in, I assume “Tropical” New Zealand?
His videos, and those of Lemmino, are the only ones where I’ll set aside a time of day so I can watch them alone and happy.
All true, except he’s in Queensland, Australia.
I’m still amazed he’s alive after all this time working in the Australian jungle
I watched this channel for at least 5 years before I knew to turn on the captions!
https://www.youtube.com/@shugemery
Whoooo buddy! Hammocking, camping and occasional circus antics since good Lord knows when.
