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.
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.
Rossmann fights the good fight, but his two hour rambles could be a blog post instead
Primitive Technology. He started the whole “build a shelter on the woods” genre that has become so dumb, but his videos are still just as great as ever. No narration or music, just interesting experiments into basic technology like shelters, fire, lions, pottery, etc., all using only materials from the forest around his camp. Now he’s working on a way 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.
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
Techmoan, if you are interested in old or weird tech.
Cathode Ray Dude
If u have any interest in cars or engineering:
-Driving 4 answers -engineering explained -superfast matt
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.
Good Mythical Morning/Mythical Kitchen.
They’ve maintained their high quality since even before YouTube and they hosted their own content.
Same with Cinemassacre (James Rolfe aka The Angry Video Game Nerd’s channel). Er… If you can consider purposely being low-quality for B-movie nostalgia as actually high quality 🤔
Map Men / Jay Foreman
Interesting and genuinely amusing for about 15 years at this point.
They are great, I love their sponsored adverts moments also! Can’t wait to read their new book, This way up.
Yep, literally the only time I watch a sponsor segment on YouTube, insane the effort they go through compared to other channels
I have subscribed to a few skateboard channels that I have followed for a long time. Not because of the tricks, because quite frankly, these guys are not the best skaters, but they make good content for old skaters like myself who don’t care much about the latest tricks.
Ben Degros. Perhaps better known for his other channel The Vancouver Carpenter. Well, he’s also a skateboard product connoisseur, who can smell the difference between different presses of deck concave and wheel sizes.
Jon Bishop. An old fart from UK who started skating at an old age and walks through all the basics and thoughs of beginner and intermediate tricks.
And obviously: The Skate Nomad. Mike Boisvert. A (relatively) young Canadian dude who quit everything and set out to live the dream of skateboarding in every country in the world, while couch crashing at locals the entire way. It’s interesting to see the differences and similarities in cultures world wide from this perspective.
No captain disillusion?!
He’s the best. I’m just sad he publishes one video a year
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
I haven’t actually seen it myself yet but I believe he makes a cameo in this new Corridor Crew video: https://youtu.be/MVUuoXAkuUg
If you follow his Patreon it’s insane how much he’s working round the clock for that one video a year.
If you like reviews/comparisons check out Project Farm.
A channel that’s missing here which I personally really like is TimeGhost history and their other channels World War Two and The Korean War. Their coverage of world war two in real time (which they finished already) was especially great. I’m not necessarily the biggest history nerd, but there’s something quite enjoyable about following history “live” this way.
Overly Sarcastic Productions, consistently producing animated essays about history, mythology, and story tropes
David erick ramos, ocarina musician
