Title essentially. Youtube’s algorithm is hot garbage, so I can’t search for anything anymore without a ton of AI slop and rage bait. So, who do you go to for actual good long form videos? Exposes, scandals, behind the scenes, documentaries, film, travel, transit, who do you recommend I follow?
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- For comedy I love watching Drew Gooden and especially Kurtis Conner.
- DougDoug (Twitch Streamer) has an incredible creativity for stream ideas and his videos on the main channel are edited incredibly well to capture the essence of a stream in ~30 minutes.
- Techmoan is one of my favorite technology YouTubers. He has such a calming voice
- Another Tech YouTuber I really love is CRD - Cathode Ray Dude. He pretty much is the nerdiest nerd for the most incredible niches. Highly recommend
- To get some girls here: I enjoy the essays by Gabi Belle quite a lot, she makes video essays on pop culture with a high focus on music and Gordon Ramsay for some reason
I like the Why Files, very entertaining even if they have to ruin the fun by “telling the actual story” at the end.
Depends how long is long form for you, if you mean like multi hour videos I have less to give. But for like 25 to 40 minutes videos:
Practical engineering - educational videos about civil engineering.
Dr. Becky - space/astronomy news from an astrophysicist.
Plainly difficult - civil disaster documentaries
Joseph Anderson - gaming essays (multi hour)
Raycevick - gaming essays (around 30min)
The sphere hunter - game essays, mainly classic horror
Jay Foreman - British comedy.
LGR - retro tech deep dives, and tech oddware.
Joe Scott - Did you know, style investigations.
Plus some already mentioned. There is probably more, but keeping this shorter.
Peter Dibble has some great documentaries on historical curiosities around the Pacific Northwest, and beyond.
Technology Connections does deep dives into topics of technology, specific devices and appliances, and generally is very entertaining and informative.
RedLetterMedia for film critiques, so bad it’s good reviews, and comedy.
Defunctland does documentaries around theme parks.
Tasting History with Max Miller is a very educational historical food dishes show. Not super long form.
Matt Baume does great “LGBTQ+ in TV, historically” type of content. And wrote a book about it which is great too.
Stand-up Maths does great math content. Yeah, it’s math, but it’s fun. Bonus is he also wrote a great book relating to his content about engineering and maths mistakes in real life on large scales.
LGR- retro computer tech
Techmoan- retro audio tech
These are channels I follow or at least like enough to look up once in a while. They’re a bit random. I apologize if any are repeats, but they’re worth repeating (and I didn’t read every reply):
Adam Savage’s tested: https://youtube.com/@tested
bigclivedotcom: https://youtube.com/@bigclivedotcom
Intelligence Squared: https://youtube.com/@intelligence-squared
MIT Open CourseWare: https://youtube.com/@mitocw
Townsends: https://youtube.com/@townsendsEntertainment:
Cirque du Soleil: https://youtube.com/@cirquedusoleilVery other:
SBSK: https://youtube.com/@specialbooksbyspecialkids
the channel features a man who goes around and interacts with/interviews disabled children and adults. I take this one in small doses. It is not long form in the traditional sense of a well researched and thoroughly laid out topic, but I find it very wholesome/heartbreaking at the same time.Two video game ones:
I saw a lot of tech and science channel in the comments so to balance that out, here are some of my favourite crafting channels:
North of the border: creates a clay sculpture every week. Generally it is something nerdy or something cursed
Enchanterium: repaint dolls, often to popular characters. They also sew their own outfits. A lot of fun even if you’re not interested in dolls
Nerdforge: create a lot of crazy projects, mostly related to nerdy stuff. (Last project was a 2m booknook)
Wicked makers: create decorations and animatronics for Halloween
Florian Gadsby: very talented potter with very relaxing voice and videos
Pottery to the people: pottery videos, often trying new experiments
Evan and Katelyn: videos on stuff that they build. Always a lot of fun (last video: how they built an ergonomic laptop)
TL Yarn Crafts: crochet videos
Kaypea Creations: making of art dolls (animals), either out of clay or fake fur.
Studson Studios: creates amazing sculptures out of mostly trash. Amazing channel, one of my favourites
Make strange things: makes strange things. Small channel but greatly appreciated
Boylei hobby time: creates dioramas
Lightning cosplay: creats amazing cosplays
Transcended furniture gallery: restores vintage furniture
Bonus: Half-Asleep Chris: videos with stop motion elements, mostly about cats and/or lego
A podcast about the collapse of civilizations throughout history.
Why do civilizations collapse? What happens afterwards? And what did it feel like to watch it happen?
The original podcast episodes have been set to high-quality video of the area being discussed and whatever remains of the civilization are possible to capture on video.
The discussion of what we know about these dead civilizations and what happened to them is really fascinating.
No wonder I feel like such an outsider here. I’ve been on youtube for almost two decades and there’s not a single channel I follow mentioned here in this thread.
EDIT: Well there was one match: Primitive Technology
Na, you just found other good stuff, YouTube is actually really massive. Add some of yours here as well!
Coffeezilla for crypto exposes
Most of my favourites have been mentioned already, but I wanna add a really niche one:
OSW Review, old school wrestling video podcast. Some Irish booked who watch old wrestling shows und discuss them in a mostly humorous, yet still informative manner.
Upvote and another shout out for OSW. They initially went through old school WWF, have now covered older and newer stuff from TNA and AEW, as well as film reviews and some video game deep dives. They do have quite a few running jokes at this point, but not so much that it would alienate new viewers.
Adding a few I haven’t already seen:
- https://www.youtube.com/@NeverKnowsBest - very long form videos on video games
- https://www.youtube.com/c/SummoningSalt - documentaries on speedrunning in various games
- https://www.youtube.com/@Steve1989MRE - reviews of military rations, spanning from very old to very new
- https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes - videos on urbanism from the perspective of The Netherlands
- https://www.youtube.com/@SkipIntroYT - videos about TV shows
I have a few to recommend:
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SEA and Astrum. Almost interchangeable calm and chill space documentary channels. If you’re like me and get a spinny mind around bedtime, these are great, they hold my attention to keep my mind from racing and are calm enough to drift to sleep while listening.
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Bedtime Stories. Anything from urban legends to strange disappearances told in a campfire ghost story format accompanied by hand drawn illustrations. Sometimes wanders into hibbidy jibbidy but fun nonetheless. See also Wartime Stories for a similar format focusing on stories from/about the military.
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History For Granite. I read this guy as an armchair archaeologist who is interested primarily in the pyramids and megalithic structures of ancient Egypt almost as much as he is at sniping at Zahi Hawass. Possibly a bit of a crank, though his wild ideas tend to be things like “The pyramid was designed to remain open for worshippers to routinely enter” and he often focuses on the engineering of the structures and layout of the stones.
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Nexpo. Short for Nightmare Expo, purveyor of creepy stories.
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Captain KRB. Video essayist, fond of minecraft, retro media, and occasional odd stories like the Voynich manuscript or the Cicada 3301 mystery.
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Lemmino, started out as a top ten list channel, has pivoted to long form documentaries on a “when it’s done” basis. Topics range from the history of the “Cool S” graffiti symbol to the Lost Colony of Roanoke.
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Ahoy. Churns out one, maybe two videos a year on the topic of video games, primarily video game weapons. Typical format will introduce a weapon, say, the M-16 combat rifle, discuss its real world invention and service history, then its depiction in video games and possibly other media. Peppered in are other more general video game topics; his video on Polybius is particularly good.
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This Old Tony. A dude named Tony whose got a hobby machine shop full of dad jokes in his garage.
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Clickspring. Australian dude who makes soul-achingly beautiful videos about clockmaking and machining. Go watch him build a clock out of raw brass and tell me your life hasn’t changed.
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Tech Tangents. One of those guys who will hold an 8-bit ISA card in his hands with a look of utter rapture on his face, he repairs, restores and documents old computer and gaming equipment, and operates a capacitor wiki. He once reverse engineered an ISA adapter card to get a very early CD-ROM drive functioning…live on Twitch.
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