Ask Lemmy

Welp, there goes several dozen hours or more of my free time.

The Dungeon Dudes are always solid if you want DnD content. Even their episodes where you wouldn't expect great talking points they somehow pull it off.

A lot of the old "Golden Age" League of Legends content creators have moved on to making really good content about other topics and games. Basically Dunkey and everyone who was at one point accused of being a Dunkey clone lol

Dunkey obviously still makes content and it's still good. I've never personally been a huge fan of the short length goofy one off gag style of his but I know people still really like his content.

Skooch does miscellaneous other games now (mostly Mario and sonic lately) but the content is the best it's ever been

Bricky does Warhammer mostly but also makes long form analyses of big AAA titles that are sequels to franchises from the 360 days

Keyori (now Barny/Maddy) rebranded, transitioned, and now makes literally the best World of Warcraft content I've ever seen

FrostPrime streams I know but I think his YouTube is literally exclusively just stream VODs now.

Outside of that group I still get a kick out of Game Grumps 10 years later but I know the old school let's play thing isn't really for everyone. Also Alpharad still makes good content, though lately it's been a lot of mid, sponsored or otherwise kinda forced out stuff.

Well, after looking through, I saw that some of my favorites are not on here.

Kraut: makes well thought out video essays on politics, history, culture and everything in between. He also tells you his reading list that went into making a particular video.

Adam Something: bit of politics, bit of urban planning, bit of shitting on Elon Musk, bit of shitting on stupid ideas.

The Great War: started in 2014 doing week by week of the first world War, 100 years after it began. Now is doing a similar series on the second world War.

The Operations Room: breaks down historical military operations minute by minute, incredible level of detail.

Korean Englishman/ Jolly: Josh and Ollie a couple of British guys introduce korean food to people and on Jolly they go get into other foods and hijinks

Townsend: showing what life was like in early colonial America

MrMobile(Michael Fisher) - His video presentation skills 10/10, I specially love his series named when phones were fun, where he fondly talks about yesteryear phones and gadgets.

Harald Baldr - I may not go to all the places he goes, but the way he interacts with different people irrespective of the barrier of communication is commendable. The way he presents himself in his videos, I believe that's him in real life as well. No fakery.

The Why Files

A few I haven't seen show up yet:

• Brick Immortar, bunch of good videos on maritime incidents
• Maritime Horrors, same category as above, great quality stuff
• Pulsar, Lemmino-style documentaries

Would like to throw in Atomic Frontier, he makes on-location video essays about random science and engineering topics that are edited with great supporting infographics

XboxAhoy (The channel name is just Ahoy)

• 3balsue1brown
• Kathy Loves Physics & History. I like that she stays in her lane and hasn't deviated from electricity and history.
• freecodecamp, each video is a course that's several hours long.

Too many to name. I'm easily on YouTube 2+ hours each day and there's not exactly lack of quality content

A few comes to mind.

Ordinary Things is great and Michael Fisher is good and usually doesn't hype stuff up.

Harry Mack. Greatest off-top freestyler ever (except maybe Juice WRLD, but that's apples and oranges). Folks are sad about the end of Omegle Bars, but I've always thought Wordplay Wednesdays is his best format.

Posy, I am surprised at que quality of his videos, they are incredibly artistic

Late to this but I'll drop a niche list. They've all done fighting game content.

• Core-A Gaming
• GuileWinQuote
• TheoryFighter
• Leon Massey

He posts infrequently but Sean Hodgins videos keep getting better. Don't let the thumbnails fool you, he puts a ton of work into them. It's hard to describe, it's mostly him showing off his projects but they have an analogue/80s cyberpunk feel in the way he tells his story, the music that's played, and how he edits the videos together.

Calum https://youtube.com/@CalumRaasay

Barely Sociable https://youtube.com/@BarelySociable

Bright Sun Films https://youtube.com/@BrightSunFilms

Code Bullet https://youtube.com/@CodeBullet

Jet Lag: The Game https://youtube.com/@jetlagthegame

Half As Interesting https://youtube.com/@halfasinteresting

Mustard https://youtube.com/@MustardChannel

PaperWill https://youtube.com/@PaperWill

Peter Dibble https://youtube.com/@peterdibble

RetroBytes https://youtube.com/@RetroBytesUK

Ringway Manchester https://youtube.com/@RingwayManchester

Ruairidh MacVeigh https://youtube.com/@rorymacve

SideNote https://youtube.com/@SidenoteChannel

TheEpicNate315 https://youtube.com/@TheEpicNate315

Tom Scott https://youtube.com/@TomScottGo

Techmoan https://youtube.com/@Techmoan

Wendover Productions https://youtube.com/@Wendoverproductions

Beau Miles. He is just so different. His content really challenges my cynicism.

Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

A low brow approach to botany and ecology through the ramblings of a crass Chicago Italian. Nowhere else will you find a full frontal milkweed pollination or see a San Francisco portapotty botanized.

i think AVGN still posts quality, especially since its been almost 20 years of AVGN. but it depends on who you ask

Some I haven't seen after scrolling for a while

Maangchi - she made me fall in love with Korean food

Future Canoe - only if you want radioactive chicken

Explanation Point - mostly reviews anime. Good style, recovered incel

Scamboli Reviews - mostly reviews anime also, IDK

Joov (IDK is he high quality)

North of the Border - umm clay art. Just watched reverse centaur, it was a thing indeed

Unresolved Textual Tension - book reviews, I'm here for Will's sass but Maria and Katie are good too

Ordinary Sausage - actually extraordinary

John Maclean - I wish I was as pretty as he is

Steve Mould - my son says he is "Steve Mould the science gold" (to the tune of Bill Nye)

I'm probably missing somebody but this is a good weird list