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.
Everything by Jupiter Broadcasting. Not really A YouTube channel, but they stream there.
Legit Street Cars - just great high quality and extremely consistent.
Dawid does tech stuff - guys just funny as shit.
Red dead restorations - absolutely amazing how consistent he’s restorations are truly talented.
LSC as a car-tuber is just such a gift. No click bait, no rage bait, no being a dick in his cars. Just a love of vehicles and working on them. Him and Doug DeMuro are like the only thing keeping me sane in the car community since all the others turn to super cars, buying insanely expensive stuff, and just constant environmental shitting and debauchery. I know my cars aren’t great for the environment, but the way other car-tubers just open pollute and destroy the environment is disheartening.
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.
I just find Lewis Rossman to be an incredibly irritating person. I appreciate what he’s doing but at a personal level I can’t stand him. He’s just very whiny.
Rossman does good work but I wouldn’t call his videos “High Quality”
He’s like Gamers Nexus, very rambly and angry. If you like that vibe and just want a techy “Grinds my gears” ass rant channel to put on while you do anything else, he’s fine.
Rossmann fights the good fight, but his two hour rambles could be a blog post instead
He also dramatizes for clicks.
you’re not supposed to watch it on 0.25x speed
Fortnine made a famous video about how motorcycle armor was a waste of time and front to back, the entire video is wrong and the comments from ER MDs back that up. Fuck Ryan.
fortnine noticeably dropped off in quality when they lost the original editor and moved out west… early videos are still gems tho!
I did notice Aneesh is missing, didn’t know it was due to moving.
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.
If you’re interested in why he is doing what he is doing - I would highly suggest turning on the close captions. It was a game changer as someone that is entertained by infotainment!
Testing history with Max Miller and How to Drink.
Literal Disney prince makes hardtack. Excellent channel.
The Majority Report
Its a German channel, but I would throw Simplicissimus into the ring. They always had high quality content, and the quality of their videos is constantly rising.
They also have an English channel
Phil DeFranco is better than he used to be by a long shot. He’s getting senators and journalists in interviews for all manner of new related content. And he stopped with the enlightened centrism angle he had for a bit. Much more mature and level-headed.
I listen to him almost everyday after work
Map Men / Jay Foreman
Interesting and genuinely amusing for about 15 years at this point.
They are great, I love their sponsored adverts moments also! Can’t wait to read their new book, This way up.
Yep, literally the only time I watch a sponsor segment on YouTube, insane the effort they go through compared to other channels
Accursed Farms, twoodfrd, Rummy’s Corner, Grimbeard, RedLetterMedia, Summoning Salt, Zaric Zhacaron, OneShortEye.
RedLetterMedia is so good.
Its just reaction content with mild reviews of movies. But I love that they’re reacting to media so old in most cases that it doesn’t feel gross.
Techmoan, if you are interested in old or weird tech.
Chrisfix
Glock9 if you like gaming
Agreed he has stayed consistent for sure.
No captain disillusion?!
The prompt was a question for you lol. You should have just written “captain disillusion” as the reply.
What’s no captain disillusion all about?
Captain disillusion is an OG YouTube who never sold out but he also rarely puts out videos unfortunately. Extremely high quality stuff and if you just heard of him now you have a bunch of good videos to go watch now
I haven’t actually seen it myself yet but I believe he makes a cameo in this new Corridor Crew video: https://youtu.be/MVUuoXAkuUg
If you follow his Patreon it’s insane how much he’s working round the clock for that one video a year.
He did make a cameo and that corridor crew video was very well done. Would recommend it when you have the time
He’s the best. I’m just sad he publishes one video a year
@Raycevick
He makes great in depth analysies about games. I would gladly sacrifice every single ign, gamespot, polygon etc etc articles just to have well tought content like his released biweekly.
One that I don’t expect to see here is biz barclay. If a 3 hour video of a woman with ADHD getting drunk and doing literary analysis sounds even remotely enjoyable you’ll love her content. A good starter video is her video on attempts to subvert the manic pixie dream girl trope, and why she doesn’t believe it’s possible to succeed at.
