[Luis Dias]

It has befallen to my recent state of mind that, given how youtube is outputting hundreds of hours of video per second, I should totally have a lot more amazing channels subscribed to my YT feed. So I start this thread with a question, a useful one perhaps not only for me but for other people searching for curious channels as well: what great youtube channels have you found out so far?

And because I'm not one to merely take and give nothing back, here is a short list of some of my current favorite YT channels, that range from History shorts to Game and Movie reviews, and more!

ComputerPhile: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9-y-6csu5WGm29I7JiwpnA

From basic computing ideas that are 001 for any programmer out there, to explaining how exploits function, maths, how they solved the ENIGMA machines, I always enjoy their short videos.



Big Think

Several interesting and challenging personalities of all stripes make videos about one single issue each one, be it philosophy, science, economics, psychology. Like a good fast food snack.


Ahoy

Excellent presentation, great videos about videogame's history and traditions, influences and everything.


A Dose of Buckley

"Angry Humour from an Angry Man", always hilarious and to the point. Ranting about anything.


Errant Signal

Of course. Especially love his classic game reviews, from Doom and Quake and so on, where he is able to encapsulate the cultural aspects of them in a powerful manner.


Crash Course

I'm probably too old for the intended audience, but I appreciate the tone, succintness and lightweight manners of how they present their vignettes of history. For more "hardcore" history podcasts, I have Dan Carlin, but not on youtube!


The RAGEAHOLIC

This metal head is funny as hell! I love his demeanour. From game reviews, to old classic "manly" movies (predator, cobra, etc) to music anthologies (his Michael Jackson video is amazing), he is quick witted and insightful. This guy got talent.



I have many others, but they hardly fill my headphones in my week. So I ask thee, what do you usually subscribe to? The Young Turks? Veritasium? VSauce? TED or SVAstronomy Lectures? Perhaps Red Letter Media or Screen Junkies. CGP Grey?

But... are there more? What am I missing here. Billions and billions of hours, they can't be all cats.

[The E]

Okay, so here's a selection from my subscriptions.

1. LoadingReadyRun and associated channels. Fine Comedy, and a LOT of output.
LoadingReadyRun main channel

They also have LoadingReadyLive (For recordings of their Twitch streaming shows) and Desert Bus (for highlight reels of the annual Desert Bus for Hope fundraiser

2. Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time
Delicious meals and complete mayhem.

3. zefrank1
For factuality. Most informative program ever.

4. PurpleEyesWTF
I love abridgers, and Purple is among the best. His None Piece series is a masterwork of anarchic comedy.

[Flipside]

Another abridged I would recommend for those who have been unfortunate enough to miss it, is Team Four Star. I seem to be behind much of the Internet in that I only discovered their existence a month or so ago, but they do bloody hilarious work in both their Dragonball and Hellsing anbridged series'.

[Hobbie]

PurpleEyesWTF is the best abridger hands down.

One other channel worth watching is Ten Second Songs, because the guy comes out with things like this:

(His Halloween and Christmas ones weren't that great though)

[Klaustrophobia]

Is he staring at my soul?

[Sandwich]

Ok, ok, here goes.

Jesse Cox (NSFW language):

CorridorDigital - SFX guys:

Pentatonix - a superb a capella band (i.e. no instruments!) you're probably already heard of:

Or if you prefer quieter fare, their Christmas season songs have been massive hits. Here's last year's:

...and this year's hit:

Ok, moving on...

FPS Russia - guy with bad fake Russian accent shoots tons of weapons of all sorts:

Next, couple of educational/informative channels. First up, Smarter Every Day:

The Slow Mo Guys:

Vsauce2:

Action Movie Kid is awesome:

Epic Rap Battles of History is a blast:

How It Should Have Ended :

And finally, a guy called Spumwhack doing... unconventional stuff, mostly related to Minecraft:

[headdie]

Lets see, my 2 main watches are

Total Biscuit / The Cynical Brit
General PC Gaming Critique and entertaining personality
Advocate of
 - 60+ fps gaming
 - The end of Pre-orders
 - Consumer friendly practices

 - WTF is...

TBs flagship series providing first impressions of games

Co-optional Podcast

Twitch streamed podcast with TB, Jesse Cox, Dodger and usually a guest with a background in gaming or the gaming industry somewhere.  They occasionally talk about video games.

Hearthstone

Started out with 2 series, "Lord of the Arena" and "Lord of the Gimmicks" but he got bored of Arena so just does gimmick decks for the lols


QuickyBaby
WoT player
 - Replay Commentator
 - Twitch Streamer
 - EU Community figure

[MP-Ryan]

I must be a contender for world's youngest tech-savvy curmudgeon, because I am subscribed to nothing on YouTube and actively have avoided signing in when I watch videos.

That said, I do watch Pentatonic, zefrank, Errant Signal, and Zero Punctuation periodically. Other than that, mostly random videos I stumble across.

Now get off my lawn you rotten kids.

[Klaustrophobia]

I must be a contender for world's youngest tech-savvy curmudgeon, because I am subscribed to nothing on YouTube and actively have avoided signing in when I watch videos.

That said, I do watch Pentatonic, zefrank, Errant Signal, and Zero Punctuation periodically. Other than that, mostly random videos I stumble across.

Now get off my lawn you rotten kids.

I'm with you.  Except I've given up on the signing in thing, since somehow I'll be logged in to one of my 4 or so accounts that got bought out by google from their original owners whether I signed out last time or not.  For a while there it was actually useful, because suggested videos were actually based on what I tended to watch, but now it's just pushing all the viral crap at me.  I'm actually subscribed to like 4 people.  Those were for concert videos of a couple specific bands years ago.

[Lorric]

First of all, those embeds need turning into links. Great idea for a thread, but it slows the thread to a crawl.

I don't subscribe to things because I don't want Youtube filling my inbox. I have a bunch of channels saved to my favourites which I check when I see fit which usually with the frequency I check them at along with me knowing roughly their rate of production means there is new content when I do.

[Scourge of Ages]

A note on subscriptions:

Did you ever wonder why so many videos ask you to "Please Subscribe" at the end? Because if a Youtuber wants a sponsor, so they can eat and make videos and stuff, the subscriber count is part of what they use to set a pay rate and things.
And there should be settings so you don't get e-mail spammed. I think I get 1 or 2 a week, and I have over 100 subscriptions. No, I don't watch all those channels, but I like to keep them as a reminder to check for new things. Plus it helps.

[Luis Dias]

For me, I do think the email spamming could be a problem and people generally just don't want to manage that stuff. I use gmail so it's not even an issue for me, it all goes to the "social" tab, so my inbox isn't really bothered by all this. I do get notifications whenever some of the channels I chose to subscribe have a new video, but that's a rarity. To me it's all a plus, I know whenever my fav channels have a new video, which might be not a trivial thing, as many of them are topical (and thus lose a bit of their relevance when seen out of date).

It even manages a bit of a "backlog" for me, telling what I have seen so far and what I have not, which is an useful add-on for my terrible memory.

Anyway, there have been great suggestions and channels so far!

[headdie]

I manage mine with an email filter into a folder called youtube