I’m Enjoying some Northernlion and lamenting about Drawfee during there 2 week vacation
Kitboga all the way
I’ve been obsessed with Jacob Geller’s video essays for months now. There’s just something about the way he writes that lands with such a punch for me, I can’t get enough of it. Notable mentions are his video on orbital lasers— one of the best openings to a video essay I’ve ever listened to— and the comparison video between RE4R, HBO’s TLOU and Dead Space Remake. If you’re into video essays and/or gaming in any capacity, check him out. You won’t regret it.
I really like Corridor Crew / Corridor Digital: I have been following them for over a decade and they have so many good videos where they dissect Visual Effects and stunts or experiment with new tools (lately they have been toying with Stable Diffusion and they did with Deep Fakes earlier).
On a similar subject, Captain Disillusion is underrated, he’s debunking viral videos using his knowledge of VFX.
Ahoy makes mini-documentaries on video game history (mainly retro PC gaming) with really nice graphics and music made by himself.
And lastly, not so much a creator, but a documentary series that sucked me in: PsychOdyssey follows the developers from Double Fine during the production of Psychonauts 2. It’s a very rare and honest look into the creation process of video games and it particularly hit with me because Psychonauts 2 is my favorite game of 2021.
In no particular order,
Gaming:
- WoolieVS
- Pat Stares At
- Northernlion
Gaming adjacent:
- Davi Vasc (composer)
- Birds of Play (Final Fantasy)
- Tarnished Archaeologist (Elden Ring/Soulsborne)
- Caddicarus (long reviews)
Podcasts:
- Dan Carlin/Hardcore History (history)
- Castle Super Beast (gaming/variety)
- Behind the Bastards (terrible people!)
- This Podcast Will Kill You (medical science and history)
Other:
- münecat (unhinged teardowns of terrible people)
- Girl With the Dogs (pet groomer)
- Sabaton History (history behind the Sabaton songs)
- Red Squirrel Studios (unironically comfy Finnish birdcams to entertain my cats and help me fall asleep)
My favorite let’s player is Mr Samuel Streamer
https://youtube.com/@MrSamuelStreamer
Constant uploads (1-2 a day most days all high quality) funny memes, and a real focus on story telling and not just meta gaming which leads to chaos and more fun times. Also makes ridiculous mod packs for the games he plays. Mostly RimWorld and Crusader Kings stuff.
Internet Comment Etiquette and Warlockracy mostly
- This Old Tony
- Adam Ragusea
- 3 Blue 1 Brown
- Practical Engineering
- Stand-up Maths
Acollierastro Physicist and academic breaks down varying topics in casual and fun long-form format. string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard
Value Select Multi-talented (really) independent content creator, who flavours his borderline surrealist humour with 80’s stylings and DnD/medieval vocabulary and theatrics. Pushes for good vibes while keenly aware of the grind “Embrace the mirth”.
He’s always experimenting and pushing his production to unbelievably comedic quality, so I discovered him when he was doing musical skits such as Tell me your name again (again) Hit Me With Your Car 2020
Right now he’s been on fire with his youtube shorts. Not everyone’s thing and if you wanna take a glance, personal favourites include:
I’m surprised he hasn’t been mentioned so far, but DougDoug is my favorite YouTuber/streamer. He has some of the most creative and entertaining videos of any currently active content creator imho.
By topic, in order of how likely I am to immediately click on their video if I see a new one:
D&D:
• Viva La Dirt League D&D
(Including hammy greenscreen reenactments! Beyond hilarious. Top of the list. My god.)Skits:
• Viva La Dirt League (gaming)
• Dr. Glaucomflecken (medicine)
• Ryan George• Paint (parody music)
• MTGRemy (Magic: The Gathering parody music)
• Brian David Gilbert (music)• Fire Department Chronicles
• Steven He (being Asian)
• Daniel ThrasherInteresting/horrible facts:
• Casual Geographic
• Tom Scott
• KurzgesagtMovies:
• Pitch Meeting
• CinemaTherapy (psychology of movies)Psychiatry (gaming bent):
• HealthyGamerGGHistory:
• Tierzoo (prehistory if it were an MMO)
• Linfamy (Japanese)
• Fall of Civilizations (all 1-3hrs long but great)
• Townsends (US colonial)
• Shadiversity (medieval)Gaming:
• The Escapist (zero punctuation)
• JelloPlaysGames
• Razbuten (highly recommend checking out his “Gaming for a Non-Gamer” series)Art (chill):
• Sultan Sketches
• LavenderTowne
• ABD IllustratesArt (tutorial):
• David Finch
• Bobbo Andonova
• Winged CanvasMisc:
• OwlKitty (cat greenscreened into movie trailers)
• Exurb1a (emotionally distressing prose)
• LegalEagle (lawyer drama)• JelloApocalyse (misc/gaming, can genuinely recommend the hilarity of a video about lemonade reviews, of all things. His delivery is fantastic.)
• b2studios (programming fun)
• Huggbees (“How It’s Made” parodies)
• The OnionPlease keep this up, because I need to be able to come back to this and check out the stuff I don’t already follow and look at. Since you had quite a few I already enjoy I’m mostly assuming you’ve got good taste…
My wife and I’s top 3 on YouTube:
Internet Comment Etiquette with Eric
Ordinary Things
Brutalmoose
Plenty of others, but these are the three I always recommend to people.
Have young kiddos so apologies for that POV.
YouTube: Mark Rober, Kurzgesagt, and Dr Plants
For podcasts I like Dan Carlin.
So glad youtube has these kinds of channels and its not all just clickbait cringey trash. I wish there were a browser plugin or something to filter out reaction videos and anything where there’s a gen-Z-er just straight overreacting and yelling at their phone
Agreed :) also wtf TikTok. I refuse to use that site or that app.
I filter out tiktok on my home firewall. There is absolutely nothing worth seeing on it.
Yup me also on my Pi-holes. Best idea ever.
My Favorite Youtube Channels (Not in any particular order):
Jacksepticeye - Gaming and variety content - Very wholesome Irish dude, never heard of any controversies about him
Ted-Ed - Education channel with variety of history, science, some philosophy, and a lot of good riddles (actual good riddles, unlike some other channels)
CGP Grey - Hexagon is the bestagon! - But seriously, it’s a bunch of cool stuff about various topics
Exurb1a - Philosophy that can trigger an Existential Crisis
Vsauce - Science, but weird
Veritasium - Science, but interesting
Mark Rober - Engineering, and pranking scammers and “porch pirates” with a fake package containing a device that shoots out glitter
Mentour Pilot - Interesting stuff about Aviation, story-telling of aircraft accidents/incidents with an explanation of the technical stuff he knows as a pilot (I don’t work in the aviation industry and I’m not a frequent flier, I’m just obsessed with aviation stuff)
Louis Rossmann - Right to repair, technology stuff, and occasional cat videos (and some in the “shorts” section)
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I’m on the other side of your opinion - I like that phrase. “Content” can mean art, audio/visual media, writings, etc. - basically anything that we consume.
IMO, Professional creative like artists/writers/performers are all content creators but not not all content creators are professional creatives.
In this day and age, everyone creates music, comedy, videos, skits. Some work a job primarily but create media or rabbitholes that can be scoured through.
I think “content creator” is a nice catch-all term for personalities that do a lot of stuff that can be casually consumed for entertainment or discourse, especially because it stops limiting said people to one occupation like “musician” or “author”, while also preserving the seriousness of those occupations.
- Nerbit (video game challenges)
- ItsJabo (video game challenges)
- Joov (video game challenges)
- TheRussianBadger (Video game fucking around)
- CGPGrey (Hexagons are the bestagons 'nuff said)
- Jill Bearup (Armor reviews in media)
- Strat-Edgy (video game reviews)
- The Salt Factory (video game reviews)
- Technology Connections (explanations with S A S S)
- The Spiffing Brit (Abusing exploits in video games for BRITANNIA)
- LGR (retro tech)
- Modern Vintage Gamer (video games)
- Nostalgia Nerd (retro tech documentaries)
- Mitten Squad (video game challenges / I hope he’s doing okay 😟)
- BruvaAlfabusa (fan fiction creator extraordinaire / Obligatory fuck you Games Workshop)
iam not sure but I think you like watching video game challenges
I like technology connections and pbs spacetime.
Is PBS Spacetime like their old Nova shows?
its more like a ted talk but about some aspect of physics. Talks about complex topics that are understandable to a the non expert but you know you need decent science grounding. Seems like post docs have been the speakers but the guy now has been doing it awhile so im not sure if its like a career now for him. When they get deeper in a topic they link to earlier ones that have went through different important background pieces that could be helful to watch to understand the current topic. Topic bounces between recent developments to just interesting theoretical concepts and such.
Interesting… I shall check it out!
Thank you!
