Shameless plug of my playlists:

Edit: Yes the playlists are very much still incomplete and a work in progress. I promise I’ll eventually add the recommendations yall made!

    • irq0@infosec.pub
      2·
      5 months ago

      I didn’t wake up planning to watch a 4hr video in the failure of the Star Wars hotel but I’m weirdly glad I did

    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
      1·
      5 months ago

      My wife: we’re not going to watch a 4hr video about the Stars Wars Hotel.

      My wife, 3hs50min into the Star Wars Hotel video: I need to know more!!

    • NecroParagon@lemm.ee
      1·
      5 months ago

      Only when they become a recap of the subject for 90% of it do I get annoyed, lol.

      I’ve never even thought to look into JP lore. But this is my front page now

      I blame my office job

  • DogWater@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 months ago

    *Riloe

    *Architect of games

    *Nakey Jake

    *Gamer makers toolkit

    *Curious archive

    *Lemino

    *12 tone

    *AI and games

    *Alpha Phoenix

    *Barely sociable

    *Be smart

    *Branch education

    *Brick immortar

    *Bytebytego

    *Cgp grey

    *Coffeezilla

    *Defunctland

    *Eckharts ladder

    *Electroboom

    *Every frame a painting

    *Lessons from the screenplay

    *History of the earth

    *History of the universe

    *Internet Historian

    *Kurzgesagt

    *Lockpickinglawyer

    *Markrober

    *Mustard

    *Cold fusion

    *Polymatter

    *Minute physics

    *No clip documentaries

    *PBS spacetime

    *Pursuit of wonder

    *Real engineering

    *Scishow

    *Secret base

    *Stevemould

    *Technology connections

    *The b1m

    *The history guy

    *The squidd

    *Throttle house

    *Tom Stanton

    *Tom Scott (retired now)

    *Veritasium

    *Vsauce

    *Wendover productions

    Edit: things I forgot or didn’t know about and had suggested to me below

    *Half as interesting

    *Undecided with Matt Farrell

    *3blue1brown

    *Numberphile

    *Mathologer

    *Miniminuteman

    *Sam o’nella

    *Alternate history hub

    *Road guy rob

    *8-bit guy

    *Modern vintage gamer

    *Bobby Broccoli

    *Jenny Nicholson

    *Animagraffs

    *Captain disillusion

    *Driving 4 answers

    *Engineering explained

    *Jeff geerling (raspberry pi type projects)

    *Kings and generals

    *Michael Reeves

    *Noah caldwell-gervais

    *People make games

    *Pointless hub

    *Smarter everyday

    *The engineering mindset

    *The great war

    *The operations room

    *The modern rogue

    *Zack Freedman

    *The backyard scientist

    *Brew

    *I did a thing

    *Neo

    *Stand up maths

    There i think that’s it. That’s a ton of stuff but I really follow more quality YouTube than anything else and I like sharing great YouTube channels. If you enjoy interesting YouTube I would honestly just check a couple of these out and see if the topics fit your interests.

    These channels range from science, space, physics, to history, sports, cars, to tech, movies, games, to makers who build stuff seriously as well as builders who make stuff silly.

    Not everything here is video essay, but it’s high quality content imo

    • Phegan@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      Based on the names I know on this list, I am super excited to check out the ones I don’t. Thanks!

      Also check out miniminuteman too. Good pseudoscience/conspiracy theory debunking.

    • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      I know several of those. One I don’t see listed is stuff made here. If you’re a fan of backyard scientist, you’re gonna love stuff made here.

      Smarter everyday is really a special one. The way that guy involves his kids and his own boyish excitement when he finally gets an experiment right is downright heartwarming. Then there was the whole episode checking in on physics girl. He had no particular incentive to do that. He just really seems to care.

  • _NoName_@lemmy.ml
    1·
    5 months ago

    Also check out Fredrik Knudsen’s DTRB

    I have not been able to get up from a single one of his videos. They’re all addictively well-paced and written. All great vids.

  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    5 months ago

    dude I’m supposed to learn how to taxes, not be reminded to crawl back into the rabbit hole of how to sharpen a knife on a whetstone by hand

  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    5 months ago

    There’s a lot of YouTubers that started doing big videos like that and i just don’t have the time to watch something like that and give it all my attention. Same with caddicarus, used to watch both of these a lot but since they started having massively long videos i just haven’t bothered with them in ages

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      0·
      5 months ago

      You definitely don’t have to watch it all in one go. I usually just watch however much of it I want to watch that day and then send myself a time stamped link to pick it back up whenever I have the time and interest again

      Of course if you’re just not interested that’s totally fair

    • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      Also sponge bob skin theory. Dude had a little video putzing around, then a couple years later dropped a couple hour long video to convince people of some absolutely wild shit about sponge bob, then just disappeared.