I’ve added my favorite YouTube channels in the comments below. (Feel free to check them out!) But, my preferences aside, what YouTube channel(s) do you want more people to see?

  • balderdash@lemmy.zipOP
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    10 months ago

    These are the channels that keep me coming back. I’ve tried to sort them by genre but there is a bit of overlap.


    • I watch a lot of video essays:

    Architectural Digest, Business Insider, Insider Tech, CGPGrey, SciShow, CrashCourse, EconomicsExplained, Practical Engineering, Real Engineering, RealLifeLore, ClassicalNerd, TierZoo (zoology) Kurzgesagt, Wendover Productions (transportation) ColdFusion, Understitch (fashion), Fashion History Sessions, Veritasium (physics), PolyMatter (geopolitics), hbomberguy, CompanyMan, Super Eyepatch Wolf, SomeMoreNews, KnowledgeHusk, Georg Rockall-Schmidt, Russell Brand Louis Rossman, Nerdwriter, minutephysics, MinuteEarth, Numberphile, Mental Floss (trivia), Captain Midnight, Savage Books, Bookpilled.

    • Comedy

    CalebCity, Internet Historian/Incognitio Mode, Kill Tony, All Things Comedy, AceVane, penguinz0, Casually Explained, Ordinary Things, Vsauce, CrackerMilk, Death Battle!, Bad Lip Reading, Doobus Goobus, Flashgitz, Honest Ads, Ozzy Man Reviews, Pitch Meeting, RDCworld1, Rich Black Guy, ODAWG, brain david gilbert, Sam O’Nella Academy, Stevie Emerson, The Onion.

    • Gaming

    Skill Up, ACG, videogamedunkey, The Escapist, Polygon, gameranx, GameSpot Game Maker’s Toolkit, Girlfriend Reviews, t90Official (any aoe2 fans?), lionheartx10.

    • Music

    deepcuts, theneedledrop/Anthony Fantano, Sound Field, Polyphonic, Genius, The Company Man, The Lyricologist, Science of Loud.

    • Movies

    YourMovieSucks, RedLetterMedia, The Critical Drinker, The Cosmonaut Variety Hour, ralphthemoviemaker, The Vile Eye, Screen Junkies, Now you See It, Every Frame a Painting, Lessons from the Screenplay, Screenplayed.

    • History

    Modern History TV, HardcoreHistory, Shadiversity, SandRhoman History, History Dose, History Matters, Fall of Civilizations, Extra History, Absolute History.

    • Philosophy

    ContraPoints, Philosophy Tube, Philosophize This!, Wireless Philosophy, Wisecrack, The School of Life, Then and Now.

    • Food

    FirstWeFeast, Binging with Babbish, One Bite Pizza Reviews (everyoneknowstherules), Alton Brown, Black Tie Kitchen, Tasty, Epicurious.

    • Basketball

    JxmyHighroller, Thinking Basketball, Professor Live, dime.

    • Anime

    Gigguk/Garnt, Mother’s Basement, Otaku Spirit, olawoolo.

    • Fitness

    Jeff Nippard, Jeremy Ethier, Alan Thrall, Eddie Hall (world’s strongest man).

    • Other

    General Discharge (military), Marques Brownlee (tech), Outdoor Boys (camping), Our Wyoming Life, EasyGerman, The Slow Mo Guys.

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      10 months ago

      If you like video essays and video games, I can suggest The Tarnished Archeologist. He does deep lore dives into FromSoft games (Dark Souls, Elden Ring, etc.) using real world archeological techniques and insights, and draws parallels with real world civilizations.

      Even if you aren’t into FromSoft games, his videos are worth it for the real world archeological parallels alone.

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      10 months ago

      Somehow you are missing:

      Captain Disillusion

      Internet Comment Etiquette

      AvE & This Old Tony & ElectroBOOM

      ZeFrank

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        10 months ago

        I was gonna say all these +

        Post apocalyptic Inventor,

        Stuff Made Here,

        SmarterEveryday

        Subject Zero

        Fat electrician

        12tone

        Knowing Better (best essays on the tube)

        Second Thought

        Hakim

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            10 months ago

            You don’t have to agree with everything you see my dude. In fact, I would hope you don’t.

            • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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              10 months ago

              There’s a difference between watching content you don’t agree with and giving views (and thereby ad revenue) to propagandists.

              I don’t know about you, but I’d rather not spend my limited time alive on listening to people who are intellectually and morally bankrupt.

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                10 months ago

                In my eyes, suppressing knowledge, or advocating it, is morally bankrupt.

                If you have a better argument, you engage in the conversation, you don’t end the conversation and make sure no one else can talk about it again.

                You shouldn’t even try to dissuade people from watching it, you should want the people around you to be better educated, I would think. Idk, man, I want my wife to stay with me cuz she chooses too, not because I’ve lied to her about every other man in the world, or destroyed her self confidence so she thinks she can’t do better.

                To be clear, that’s abuse. All of that.

                Looking around, imma go ahead and say capitalism, in any flavor it’s being expressed in this world, isn’t living up to its promises. From what I can tell, that puts me with 95% of everyone else.

                Do I think communism is the answer? No. I think capitalism is fine for grand pianos, not Grandma’s pills.

                After WW2 the post war economies settled on social democracy as the compromise between the two. I think we need to get back to that, and designate areas of the economy fundamental and forbidding people from profit or rent seeking practices. Education, medicine, emergency services, community development. Essentially if it’s something the government offers or necessitates, then it’s already paid for in taxes, that goes for permits, passports, licensing, reviews, All of it. I think that because it’s obvious the relationship between elected officials and civil servents to the population needs repairing, drastic change. The only positive change I can fathom is simplifying for the end user (one tax) and open-transparency.

                I’m willing to entertain arguments against, I don’t claim or think to know everything. In fact, everything Im right about now I can guarantee I was wrong about before.

                • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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                  10 months ago

                  In my eyes, suppressing knowledge, or advocating it, is morally bankrupt.

                  Claiming I’m advocating the suppression of knowledge is a bold claim. I’m informing you (and anyone reading this thread) about their heavily skewed view of the world as a caution. You can always choose to not take my advice.

                  Also, claiming people are trying to suppress you simply because they shared their opinion is rather disingenuous. I have made a single personal attack on you, I’ve only criticized the informational valye of the channel you recommended, assuming that you were simply unaware of its issues.

                  You shouldn’t even try to dissuade people from watching it, you should want the people around you to be better educated

                  It’s weird you’re using this argument when the channel in question has a video called “Alternatives to Capitalism” that is just a 15 minute rant on why capitalism is bad and spends no time actually discussing potential alternatives to capitalism.

                  I’m willing to entertain arguments against, I don’t claim or think to know everything. In fact, everything Im right about now I can guarantee I was wrong about before.

                  Given how you immediately resorted to a “reducto ad absurdum” argument makes me highly suspicious of your willingness to entertain differing arguments. In fact, it’s concerningly similar to the debate strategy of Second Thought and tankues in general.

                  Please keep trying to broaden your horizons, particularly to more moderate sources. You’re sounding like you’re falling into an echo chamber

                  • SoylentBlake@lemm.ee
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                    10 months ago

                    You’ve cherry picked parts of my argument and disregarded the meat, the heart of it that carried my point.

                    In other words, you either found contention too soon and disregarded the rest of youre intentionally being obtuse and arguing circularly as if one of us can win here.

                    The opening line was a statement, not an attack. The "you " in the second line is generic, not directed. If I’m not directing at you, why would I feel personally attacked? Cuz I don’t. C’mon man.

                    Try again bro.

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      10 months ago

      Hot damn. I think you got all of mine plus tons more. Only one I watch you might like is Oversimplified: animated comedic history.

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      Head’s up, The Escapist is essentially dead since they fired their editor-in-chief (Nick Calandra) and all of the talent (Yahtzee, Frost, JM8, Jack, etc.) quit to start a new employee-owned company with him called Second Wind