Post the names of youtubers and other internet microcelebs you love with a burning passion based on more than vibes. Very preferably not large.
A good example is Cathode Ray Dude, who makes long videos on older technology. He doesn’t seem to have done anything reactionary, he’s got a personality far beyond “the algorithm”, and he doesn’t associate with any terrible people. And I enjoy his videos.
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Random Indian guy with one upload that explains the solution to a very specific problem I’m having with some software. Thank you my nameless friends.
They’re a dying breed! Everyone is switching to AI voice-overs for explanations and I say that’s a damn shame. Bring back the heavily accented English, it’s draining all the magic and charm from my preferred method of solving tech issues. What a sad state, this world.
Pretty much all the tech knowledge I have was taught to me by random Indian you tubers and I am forever grateful to them for it.
same with designing very specific things in blender or adobe illustrator!
I would imagine many people here who watch Youtube are already familiar with Folding Ideas, at least from his video about NFTs. He is imo the best video essayist by a wide mile.
Then there’s Jenny Nicholson, her videos are hit or miss in the sense that I really don’t care about most topics she talks about, but I find even those videos engaging and when she does talk about an interesting topic it’s an all-timer for me.
I watched all four hours of her video about the Star Wars hotel. Damn, that was almost a year ago and apparently she hasn’t posted a video since.
She posts more videos on her patreon, IIRC like 2-3x what’s on her channel now. She doesn’t advertise it much, probably because of how rarely she makes videos lol.
I’m amazed it’s not been mentioned here yet - Luna oi! is a very cool socialist Vietnamese channel. Her videos are both fun and informative, and good for getting a non-western take on so many things.
Angela Collier has awesome videos, especially about physics and the experience of being a physicist. Appreciate her a ton, my best science professor. is definitely a bit lib but seems on the edge of communist in some cases.
Videogamedunkey is probably not a great person in political terms (idk, but he’s american) but his videogame reviews are awesome even though I never play them lol. And he plays mario funny
3Blue1Brown
The current goat of youtube math education. I don’t know what he is like on some of his streams (because I don’t care about those). However, his mainline videos really helped me understand a lot of math concepts.
Numberphile is very good too!
Agree. Some smaller also good ones:
Thomas Kern Really good at making some advanced/less mainstream topics accessible, careful to build up lots of necessary background and thoroughly explain details, so a bit like 3B1B except 0 fancy animations and slightly more rigorous. Covers a variety of topics but with a focus on automata and theory of computation.
Sheafification of G The opposite of Thomas Kern, designed for people with extreme ADHD. No slowing down, very little explanation, borderline silliness, you learn by osmosis. Half of the videos are him trying to incept category theory into your head. I still haven’t learned category theory, but I’m old and my brain is starting to calcify, I did learn some stuff though and it’s always entertaining.
Going to sheaffication of G sometimes feels like I’m getting whatever the opposite of education is lol.
Indeed, but if I could somehow revert to infant level neuroplasticity while retaining all my current knowledge it would be super useful
My spouses YouTube channel was very good and popular until she retired
i quite like Lily Simpson, she does analysis of trans episodes of shows mostly
fair warning, most of the shows she talks about are transphobicShe’s great. It’s rough watching her videos, but they’re really well done.
I also really like her videos. My only nitpick is that she didn’t really look at the basic lore of Sabrina, so when Lily asks why Sabrina asks Salem for advice about boys, I knew she hadn’t looked too much into the series. Salem is a human cursed to be a cat, which is established pretty early in the series. Other than that, her videos are good.
Crime Pays, Botany Doesn’t for sweary, amusing, but very informative stuff about nature and plants in particular. Always with lots of working class solidarity.
EVNautilus for submarine shenanigans and cool footage of rarely seen marine life, especially cute octopus.
LUXE37 hasn’t uploaded in almost a decade but they made cool Japanese car chase movies with stop-motion, toy cars, and amazingly detailed models.
OgmiosZen does relaxed, zen-like commentary over his dashcam footage of having to drive around London for his job. Often amusing. The channel has grown a lot and now he’s narrating other driving videos which I don’t like as much.
People Make Games isn’t specifically leftist or anything, but it’s the only place I’ve found putting out actual investigative journalism into things like workers rights, bad industry practices, exploitative outsourcing to the ‘developing world’ and more in the video game industry. They also do some fun videos on more niche or elaborate non-video-game gaming like elaborate LARPs or tournaments of competitive Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet solving.
The Craft Beer Channel makes interesting videos and documentary series about beer - from ingredients growing to breweries to pubs - with lots of focus on history and the current actual people behind beer production.
YouSuckAtCooking makes slightly amusing little recipe videos with some willfully silly editing jokes, but without any pretension. Good for basic recipes, done in the most basic kitchen with very available ingredients. Also includes little songs and pets at the end of each video.
Futakuchi Mana should be talked about more in online leftist spaces ngl
- a people’s history of rome, that sort of stuff. i get the feeling they’re marxists keeping it on the down-low, but who knows. - https://www.youtube.com/@tribunateSPQR
- some cool geology lectures about the west coast of north america - https://www.youtube.com/@GeologyNick
- she visits interesting houses - https://www.youtube.com/@kirstendirksen
- japanese man builds houses - https://www.youtube.com/@ShoyanJapaneseCarpenter
- history stuff, i think he’s not bad - https://www.youtube.com/@premodernist_history
- they build houses in western north carolina (they’re probably enormous chuds but they mostly keep it out of the videos. mostly) - https://www.youtube.com/@PerkinsBuilderBrothers
- various linguistics-related videos - https://www.youtube.com/@DrGeoffLindsey
- civil engineering stuff, with hand-built models and demostrations - https://www.youtube.com/@PracticalEngineeringChannel
a people’s history of rome, that sort of stuff. i get the feeling they’re marxists keeping it on the down-low, but who knows. - https://www.youtube.com/@tribunateSPQR
Either they’re Marxists or PhD level trained historians. The field pretty much agrees that the base premises of historical materialism are the right tools for analysis.
A similar internet person who does much more overt commie ancient history analysis is Patrick Wyman, and his Tides of History podcast.
At 4:55 in their Roman Afterlives video, it really sounds like they make a Marx reference. “a way to interpret the world in various ways, their point however is to help us change it” vs “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."
she visits interesting houses - https://www.youtube.com/@kirstendirksen
Big fan of her. Some videos are rich people wankery, but a lot of them are forward-thinking examples of ecologically sound housing and/or cool community building projects.
yeah, not all of them are hits but eg the one about the italian immigrant guy who excavated a series of caves and underground courtyards in the desert? or the two videos about houses built inside greenhouses? hell yeah
This one about the semi-indoor village is my favorite: https://youtu.be/EzKSKqjEmDA
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I still, unsurprisingly, like the kids in hololive and holostars. They’re all a bunch of bright and talented, essentially, theater kids.
I also like false edge hema and dequitem because it’s fun watching large adult children beat the shit out of each other with metal sticks fancily.
I also enjoy natural habitat, under studio hub, fire department chronicles, and some others
Nerissa is the epitome of a theater kid and I’m 100% here for it. Her hotpot yapping streams while she’s been in Japan have been the perfect thing to put in the background while I work on stuff.
For me its Ruze and Shinri’s yappy streams that I enjoy listening to in the background but really ill enjoy anyone’s yappy yakky fun times
Grimbeard, Warlockracy and justbackgroundnoise for filthy G&ming content. The first two drop 1 per month and the last is about 1 weekly. Gaming content on youtube is a wasteland of either terrible politics or zoomer attention span, but these three are good on both of those from my experience.
Sellsword Arts for HEMA and sword content and blumineck for archery (and nothing else
) mostly shorts based, some 20 min vids infrequently.Nicole Coenen for woodcutting (and definitely nothing else
) shorts that soothe the soul mostly.blumineck for archery
I totally get ya. Love how he really works his bow. And no other reasons.
Nicole Coenen for woodcutting
You might also like Thoren Bradley then. He does woodcutting. And shorts. And I like watching him cut wood. And nothing else too
it is very dreamy how they do all the ‘nothing besides’
thank you for more woodcutters, can never have too many is what i say
… I sometimes wish I was the log so I could get split right down the center
totally not meaning anything else than what that literally means.
Warlockcracy just made a video walking through a non-existent Fallout mod that is only in his head and it was pretty much the same as any of his other videos for real mods lol. Good stuff.
god but i actually want that mod what doesnt exist
Peak “quality over quantity” dude
Cathode Ray Dude- mentioned elsewhere as well, generally cool dude
Tech Tangents - haven’t seen mentioned, another old tech guy that stays in his lane politically and makes cool content
Technology Connections - my favorite “well technically” nerd
VWestlife - a gem of youtube, untarnished by advertisers or thr algorithm
Dr. Angela Collier - Smart Science Dr who makes cool commie adjacent videos
Ethoslab - my one parasocial relationship is this reclusive canadian minecrafter who uploads once a month and I mostly catch on other peoples server streams
Robot Cantina - old dude that’s making diesel electric batter vehicles out of his garage for cheap, really cool electrical and mechanical engineering going on with just one dude, fabrication as well.
Just cause you mentioned Tech Tangents, some more cool retro computing channels: MichaelMJD, Usagi Electric, Action Retro, Curious Marc, Adrian’s Digital Basement, NCommander
Farya Faraji! He got really popular with his video on Orientalist music vs actual Middle Eastern music: https://youtu.be/LR511iAedYU
Really funny, clever, passionate, dedicated to his craft (the intersection of music and anthropology). I almost never like video essays but his are actually good and actually engaging. His music is great too and i love just he includes detailed descriptions about them.
Man’s channel deserves more love.
Yarr he’s got good research and good music. Great fella.
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