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.
I’ve been watching Yahtzee Croshaw for ~5 years now, but he’s been around for more like 15. He did change channels, but the style of videos he made stayed the same, and the quality, if anything, has only gotten better
FortNine: both the content and the video quality are top notch.
TechnologyConnections is the only channel where you’ll waste an hour nerding out on washing machines, even if you don’t own one.
Louis Rossmann has been instrumental in the fight for right to repair in the US.Yeah i could list many more but you asked for one (and i already overran that), plus these are the ones that stand out to me.
Primitive Technology. He started the whole “build a shelter in the woods” genre that has become so dumb, but his videos are still just as great as ever. No narration or music, other than the sounds of the birds and insects, just interesting experiments into basic technology like shelters, fire, charcoal, kilns, pottery, small machines, bricks, roof tiles, etc., all using only the most primitive stone age tools, created from materials found in the forest and stream around his camp.
Even his attire is as spare as his videos, just a pair of khaki shorts.
Currently, he’s working through a series of experiments to make fire hot enough to smelt metal.
I’ve been watching him since he started, and he’s the only channel that I stop everything to watch when a new video drops.
Practical Engineering. His videos are about all the infrastructure that makes the modern world function.
Map Men / Jay Foreman
Interesting and genuinely amusing for about 15 years at this point.
No captain disillusion?!
The prompt was a question for you lol. You should have just written “captain disillusion” as the reply.
What’s no captain disillusion all about?
Captain disillusion is an OG YouTube who never sold out but he also rarely puts out videos unfortunately. Extremely high quality stuff and if you just heard of him now you have a bunch of good videos to go watch now
He’s the best. I’m just sad he publishes one video a year
Testing history with Max Miller and How to Drink.
Captain dissolution
Corridor crew
James Hoffman, it even keeps getting better with time. The prophet for the coffee fans
Techmoan, if you are interested in old or weird tech.
Its a German channel, but I would throw Simplicissimus into the ring. They always had high quality content, and the quality of their videos is constantly rising.
They also have an English channel
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.
Grimbeard, puts out well researched and highly entertaining game retrospectives.
BobbyFingers creates dioramas of famous events with insane tangents while documenting their creation. One video even has a choreographed song.
Lawerence systems covers a lot of self hosted tech with articulate and concise instructions. Really like his method of teaching.
GreenX has some amazing retrospective videos about games, they’re a bit newer of a channel. Every upload has been fantastic though. Insanely funny, highly recommend watching their STALKER video.
Facefullofeyes, same as above but has a very inconsistent upload schedule. Much less humor than greenx but very insightful analysis. Highly recommend the SWAT 4 video.
Overly Sarcastic Productions, consistently producing animated essays about history, mythology, and story tropes
I’ll add some that haven’t been mentioned.
Tech Ingredients - various experiments and builds. Everything on how to make rum to good novel speakers.
Erik Brandal - makes sound sculptures
/noclip - video game dev documentaries
This old Tony - Machining while being funny
Posy - Quirky beautiful retro HiFi/Tech
Edit: have to add Posy
