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.
Tom Scott with amazing places & things you might not know.
But he stopped making videos. I’d say that’s a significant drop in quality.
He placed the main channel on hold, but has still continued to produce content. He has an extraordinary game show in podcast format that shares very unique trivia called Lateral. He is also in the post-production phase of a new run of videos featuring a big road-trip, according to his newsletter. He also occasionally still makes new series of Technical difficulties.
Or simplify taking a stand that he wasn’t willing to go down the click bait path the algorithm pushes for. I haven’t found another comment for a channel I agree with here yet
Actually, 3Blue1brown and PBS science videos (minus space) are pretty great too
what about pbs space time?
Yeah, good question. I can’t remember why I went off it. There is definitely some good content. I think for a while he was just really excited about the multiverse and that’s just a bit too strong an interpretation in my mind to go push that hard. It might have been something else. Its been a while
Seriously wtf space time
pbs spacetime, discusses astrophysics, and discovery on the universe, if you a nerd for physics that is.
No I used to watch it, I just didn’t think k it was very high quality compared to the other PBS projects. So much speculation!
oh yea, and it would be more prudent to use an actual physicist, astronomer, astrophysicist on the show it would improve the quality.
I am about to cross a road
I’m off to the Arctic for three weeks
Ayoo. Another Tom Scott fan. Rad!
Love his videos. Each one had so much passion and thought put into them
Captain Disillusion - Does videos about fake videos and pictures and about video editing in a humorous way. He has had same high quality over 18 years now.
CD is the GOAT
I also really like the Corridor Crew for VFX content but it’s not the same tier.
Very high quality.
If anything keeps upping the ante that’s why it takes him so long
One of the best ever
I’m amazed by the fact that it remains such high quality even when you go so far back to the early videos. It’s crazy. Dude is a genius.
Primitive technology. There are many imitators, but the original is a man on his own in Australia. His videos focus on building structures in the woods. Starting with river mud, he will make a furnace in order to make bricks in order to make a building to sleep in in order to use it for kiln drying for larger structures etc…
Be sure to watch with subtitles to read his explanation of things!
Edit to fix: he is based in Australia, not new Zealand.
All true, except he’s in Queensland, Australia.
I’m still amazed he’s alive after all this time working in the Australian jungle
Also needs to be said that he’s been creating for a decade and every video is consistently as good as the last one. The man single handedly spawned an entire genre and he just kept doing his own thing, algorithms and influencer culture be damned.
Very glad to see this mentioned, yet somewhat miffed you think he’s in, I assume “Tropical” New Zealand?
His videos, and those of Lemmino, are the only ones where I’ll set aside a time of day so I can watch them alone and happy.
You can blame this all on me for my ignorance. As someone from the US, I can’t say I am very familiar with the details on Australian versus New Zealand geography. No miffing was intentional, I assure you!
This was also the first channel I thought of when looking at the question. Shame that it created so many low effort imitations that are obviously fake though.
Is there anyone out there that is even vaguely similar without being fake?
I watched this channel for at least 5 years before I knew to turn on the captions!
Isn’t he in Northern Qld, Australia. In only ever watched part of 1 episode and he was there then (I am Australian)
I get the idea he’s around Kuranda ? maybe Tully (i lived up there many yeaes ago)
The various PBS YouTube channels almost never miss.
Some of the best science content on the internet and explains everything in layman’s terms.
For higher level science:
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas
Puts up conferences and interviews of some of the top scientific minds on the planet.
PBS is awesome and I donate to them whenever I can. So should everyone.
I love arte for francophone stuff, public broadcasting is the best
I think that’s NPR, but still 👍
PBS spacetime is the only channel I watch at 1x
And even that’s too fast sometimes :D
Even his no effort November videos are high quality.
I thought no effort november was technology connections thing?
Oh yeah, wrong channel.
I know bps space did one as well XD
Tasting History with Max Miller.
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His quality had definitely fallen around the time he made his site. He would just upload videos of shitting on bad locks and using his own tools. I unsubscribed shortly after. I don’t know if it’s any better now, but originally he would upload a video when the video had something worthwhile to show.
Nah still the same, pushing his tools hard in every video.
Only the April Fool’s videos are worth watching now.
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Yeah I do sort of wonder what the point of his channel is. Every now and then one of his videos will be recommended and I’ll watch it, but I’ve learnt that there is absolutely no point because they’re all exactly the same. He always picks every lock within about 4 seconds.
I’m not really interested in knowing which locks I shouldn’t buy. I want to know which locks I should.
All the lock picking channels are like that though, I think they feel that if they upload video where they can’t get into a lock, that means that in some way they’ve failed. So they don’t do it.
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As someone who owns a couple lock picks and plays around with em, let me tell you, knowing how to do it does not make it easy. Info about how to pick locks is easily obtained elsewhere, and honestly his videos aren’t exactly helpful in an instructional way. I really doubt he’s had a large effect on criminals using lockpicks, especially when it’s so much easier to most to cut them with bolt cutters. What I would say he has had more of an impact on is people using more secure locks than masterlocks. I suspect he’s had a net benefit on security. I dunno, not like I know the statistics or anything, I think it’s a fair estimate though.
This is the LockPickingLawyer, and today we have a-
lock spontaneously performs an impression of the bluesmobile at Daley Plaza
…in any case, that’s all I have for you today…
My Mechanics is fantastic. His current restoration of the 240z is excellent, he even supplied parts to Ronald Finger for his 280z.
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.
Some of these channels have changed over the years, expanding and adding hosts and things, but they consistently make good content and have either improved or maintained that quality.
Wendover and Half As Interesting
Real Engineering
Mustard
Legal Eagle
Mentour Pilot
Not a channel, but a creator: Yahtzee Croshaw (was Zero Punctuation/Extra Punctuation on The Escapist, is now Fully Ramblomatic/Semi Ramblomatic on Second Wind.
CGP Grey
SciShow (and many of the other projects from the vlogbrothers, including Crash Course and vlogbrothers itself)
Technology Connections
Shaun
HBomberGuy
ElectroBOOM
Videogamedunkey
+1 for Wendover, Half As Interesting, Real Engineering, Mustard, and Mentour Pilot.
Love those channels. Can somehow keep me engaged enough to watch a few hours of content on some random stuff. :)
I like the way Legal Eagle has branched out and invited other attorneys to help keep tabs on … gestures broadly.
https://youtube.com/@explainingcomputers
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https://youtube.com/@christopherbarnattDOT COM
https://youtube.com/@mothersbasement
I only listen to this one guy for anime reccomendations.
https://youtube.com/@colinfurze
Never has a lull, always good.
https://youtube.com/@chemicalforce
Pretty toxic chemistry
https://youtube.com/@weirdexplorer
If you don’t really care about exotic fruit adventures, at least watch his feature length Nutmeg documentary it’s most excellent.
Boomer shooter comedic…retrospectives? I like him.
https://youtube.com/@mrcarlsonslab
He repairs very old electronics and is soothing to listen to.
I don’t even really care about motorcycles, but their video editing skills are incredible.
https://youtube.com/@lowbuckgarage
Accurate, he will do everything possible to avoid spending money on a project.
https://youtube.com/@styropyro
Mad scientist.
https://youtube.com/@casuallyexplained
His sense of humor doesn’t get old for me.
https://youtube.com/@thecodyreeder
Mad scientist.
Taught me more about language than any teacher in my life ever did.
I find a lot of obscure old games to play via this guy and his videos are high effort.
https://youtube.com/@posymusic
Every video is a work of art. It doesn’t matter what the subject is, you’ll be entranced.
https://youtube.com/@techtangents
Bitrot necromancy enthusiast.
https://youtube.com/@littlevmills
A Canadian who makes high effort metal music covers.
https://youtube.com/@joel-haver
He just likes to make movies. I like his movies. A lot.
https://youtube.com/@theslowmoguys
It’s in the name!
Mad scientist.
https://youtube.com/@evenflow2907
High effort vehicular brainrot.
Have a good day!
A lovely weird Canadian artist I adore.
Never has a lull, always good.
Still waiting for him to connect the secret tunnel to his bloody bunker though. THAT WAS THE BLOODY POINT OF IT. But nooo, he got too into the idea of an underground garage. Which is, in fairness, very cool.
Im pretty sure its all connected to the house now
The garage, workshop, and house are connected, but he hasn’t finished going from the workshop to the bunker. His ADHD ass got distracted by something more interesting to him, meanwhile it’s killing me that he still can’t get to his cool bunker through the tunnel.
Ups for styropyro. Man just gets more unhinged by the year, it’s beautiful.
You know things are getting insane when he’s starts bragging about breaking Photonicinduction records.
Right? Imagine the shit he’d get up to with the UK’s 240V lines. They should do a collab.
I swear I can hear his voice. “Explaining computers… dot com.”
That’s a long list. Glad to see FortNine made it, because I was going to mention them if someone else didn’t already do it. I am into motorcycles, and no one else in that space has better camera work or editing. Usually good info too, although some of Ryan’s takes get controversial
I’ll hop on the Technology Connections train and add
Styropyro
CathodeRayDude
Civvie11
Northernlion
O hey cancer mouse.
He just put out a new Blood video that was under 10 minutes. I didn’t think something so short was possible for him.
I LOVE TC, NL, and Styropyro. I’ll have to check out CRD and Civvie11!
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.
Map Men. It’s always educational, interesting, and they have amazing Monty Pythonish gags and jokes.
Seconded! They changed channel name to Jay and Mark now though, but it’s the same great content.
‘Map Men’ was always sort of a series on Jay Foreman’s channel. He also has other content, namely various urbanistics trivia about London, and humorous songs performed live.
Map Men / Jay Foreman
Interesting and genuinely amusing for about 15 years at this point.
Cross-instance linking is a mess. You linked to an ad for your mobile app, which links to a kbin instance, which links back to lemmy.world… The app page devotes most of its space to download links while kbin demands the viewer log in before it will show them anything.
Technology Connections are great, but this doesn’t feel very connected.
Trying to get a correct URL to change it but I literally can’t. Any idea? :/
Edit: Changed Voyager settings and now I can share the original. Please let me know if it’s ok now
Worked for me
Op should have used threadiverse.link, or the home instance of the content, both of which are options in Voyager. The voyager link is primarily for sending to non-lemmy users.
My Voyager app only seems to offer the vger.to link. It’s a recent change I’m not happy about.
Ah shit really?! Mine still has all the options. I get Voyager from F-Droid, not sure if that makes any difference, maybe my version is slightly out of date? Either way, seems like a shitty change, which will probably end up getting reversed.
Mine is version 2.41.0, obtained from F-Droid.
To be fair, it could be some kind of user error – maybe the option does exist, but I’m not seeing it for some reason – but I don’t really think so.
Edit: Ah! It’s a setting! Settings →General → Other → Share Links. Mine is set to “Voyager App (vger.to)”, but there are also the other options you mentioned, as well as “ask” (which is presumably what yours is set to).
I’m pretty sure vger.to is the default (perhaps for new installs – I changed phones relatively recently), which is unfortunate, since I definitely didn’t change that setting.
Brill, thanks for figuring this out.
Thank you for sharing, I had no idea this was a setting! That makes it a lot easier to get the other links.
The most ridiculous thing about ‘vger.to’ links is that Voyager itself can’t open them.
What do you mean?
Just doesn’t open them, does nothing and shows an error message. Despite having created those links.
That sounds like a bug. Please let me know next time, a screen recording would be very helpful! 🙏
I guess it was a glitch somewhere: here’s a comment that didn’t work for me, but does now. The error overlay appearing back then wasn’t informative, it just said ‘can’t open the link’ immediately, so it looked like Voyager just couldn’t deal with it.
By the way, because of how your username is highlighted, I thought I was talking to the thread’s OP.
