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.
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.
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.
I’m amazed by the fact that it remains such high quality even when you go so far back to the early videos. It’s crazy. Dude is a genius.
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.
I listen to him almost everyday after work
I like PDS and watched for over a decade. but ive had to stop treating it like a news source. I feel his coverage is not informative unless you live under a rock and need a quick rundown of what’s happening. He oversimplifies to the point of being misleading definitively leaves out contrary info and makes way stronger claims than the evidence really supports. He knows his audience (me included) and spins the story for them and in reality its probably not him but his writing team.
His interviews with officials are still good.
politics, reaction, influencer types are usually of lower quality than other non-political channels, most of them devolve into clickbait or reaction slop. plus its like watching cnn or fox in youtube format, no need if you already access the same political content from other social media platform. Youtube pushes heavily on politics into your feeds(even non-conservative content). i used to followed asian ytubers that give commentary/jokes on news , but when it comes to politics, they lean heavilya certain way, but was always able to play off of it and not in your face, overtime they became lazy and lean all the way in to it now, that it turned fans off, adding a little mysgoyny as well.
Many A True Nerd for gaming, History Buffs for historical accuracy in movies and timmmm, a small channel of which I’m still surprised it’s so small because his videos are really well produced.
@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.
Love techmoan. Guy’s an unsung national treasure.
Captain dissolution
Corridor crew
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.
Alright, fair enough. Not for me but if he’s putting in that much effort maybe he did make 10 hours of useful video essay content.
Smosh Philip Defranco Markiplier
