Kind of tired watching trash from YT.

Edit: Thanks for all the replies. It’s good to see that there are still gems in YouTube.

  • massive_bereavement@kbin.social
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    Climate Town - Does a decent job explaining climate-related topics and still makes them interesting.
    Jay Foreman - Very funny map trivia.
    JerryRigEverything - A bit too much promotion on some stuff, but really comprehensive tear downs.
    MIT OpenCourseWare - learn good.
    Pop Culture Detective - Deconstructive pop culture tropes that make you think a lot.
    SNES drunk - retrogaming (not just SNES) but well done, 0% additives just prime content.
    stacksmashing - electronics trivia and hardcore reverse engineering.
    The National Gallery - If you’re into history, this is an excellent channel about art trivia. I’m not much into art and this is always top quality for me.
    Tom Scott plus - Tom Scott does British telly stuff like playing board games or chasing people on the streets with an apple tag.
    Voices of the Past - This is slow, exhaustive history for nerds. Worth it if you want to let the story wash all over you.
    Vox - slightly left leaning great journalism, albeit sometimes too brief to explain complex topics.
    Weird History - They get some stuff wrong, but it’s still entertaining.
    Project Farm - Wanna buy an angle grinder? Now you do.
    Insider - Had a series of “How Real Is It?” videos that let professionals describe stuff seen in movies, and it is both entertaining and a learning experience.
    Corridor - Some stuff of dubious quality but if you’re interested in FX, it’s good.
    LegalEagle - Law is hard, but is law fun?
    brian david gilbert - Existential horror camouflaged as comedy.
    PBS Space Time - Good but hard space science.
    BurtBot - Orcs with normal voices.
    Joel Haver - Neat if you’re into deadpan humor.
    Taskmaster - Probably some of the best british television available in YT.

    Bonus round:
    Practical Engineering - How stuff is built but explained well enough that even I can understand it.

    Plus, use FreeTube, not You Tube. Don’t be a slave of their terrible algorythm and all the recommendations will turn out to be of your taste.

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    LEMMiNO is extremely good. His older content is neat but his newer stuff is highly polished 30 min-1 hour ish long documentaries on miscellaneous mysteries like Jack the ripper or DB Cooper

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    Tom Scott, he has done a video every week for like 10 years. Sort of a science travel adventure nerd. His videos are generally short and interesting.

    Veritasum - Science guy with some interesting topics

    Donut Media - If you like cars, they do some interesting and funny things while not being complete asshats.

    The Proper People - Abandoned places, nice videos and respectful exploration.

    Cash Jordan - Gives tours of NYC apartments from tiny studio apartments up to multi-million dollar penthouses.

    Geography Geek - A lot of interesting geography-related facts.

    Knob Feel - Short and sweet reviews of various knobs.

    Vice Grip Garage - If you are interested in how old cars are repaired and have lots of time, he has many ~1.5 hour videos of dragging old cars out of the bushes that haven’t ran for 20 years, getting them mostly running, and driving them home.

    Polyphonic - Interesting video essays about various music and musical artists.

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      Vice Grip Garage is excellent long-form car stuff for sure. Much easier to watch than the length of the video suggests.

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    Numberphile, Computerphile, PBS Spacetime, PBS Infinite Series (sad they stopped), Standup Maths, 3Blue1Brown

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    FortNine; motorcycle and related stuff with a knack for writing and cinematography.