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Benjamin Magnus, a streamer who plays both some niche games and popular ones. Some games I don't see many other people play. Xenonauts 2, Rule the Waves 3, Ultimate General: Civil War, and Hearts of Iron 3 being my favorite to watch. He also does Rimworld, Project Zomboid, and other games, but the games mentioned are my favorite to watch.
It's a livestream (on Twitch but restreamed over to YT too), so it's longform content and requires some attention span to watch.
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.
Ancient Americas is a really good channel that covers pre Columbian cultures in the Americas
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
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.
i quite like Lily Simpson, she does analysis of trans episodes of shows mostly
fair warning, most of the shows she talks about are transphobic
She's great. It's rough watching her videos, but they're really well done.
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!
Tom 7 is peak comedy for computer scientists (not to be confused with tech bros) with a penchant for deadpan delivery.
I wouldn't be surprised if he posts a new video within the next few months since SIGBOVIK passed last month and he has a paper in the proceedings.
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My spouses YouTube channel was very good and popular until she retired 
I like the singer Scarlet Slaadek.
i don't listen to Farya Faraji's music (i'm sure it's fine) but his talking about stuff is really good
SuperGreatFriend is a fairly high effort gaming channel on the much more chill end. Covers a lot of obscure games as well as mainstream ones. Probably best known for his excellent Deadly Premonition LP from almost 15 years ago now, has moved more into doing blind playthroughs. He has a small (rarely get over 10k views) but very dedicated fan base.
Favourite series of his are Deadly Premonition, Illbleed, Life and Times of Bully Demise and Laser Lords.
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
I like Cathode Ray Dude too, he's a good talker who can make anything sound interesting and he has ”I hate capitalism and I'm not here to get sponsorships, I just want to share what I'm up to for your entertainment and education.” in his bio and that pride flag VHS case in the background of all his videos.
LGR makes similar content and at this point I appreciate every YouTube person who hasn't turned into a chud, started making algorithm pandering content or both.
Clint (LGR) has been around for 19 years, and the quality has been consistently good across that time.
He made a video last year celebrating 15 years of LGR, so I guess he considers 2009 and the first videos labelled as LGR the time he really started on YouTube. I've been watching him pretty much since the beginning, when his channel was still technically called phreakindee, lol.
Yeah, his videos are still great, I'm glad he made it through the hurricane okay.
Those are all the same reasons I’ve been watching his stuff for years, and VWestlife even longer.
VWestlife even still makes most of his videos in like 480p with Windows Movie Maker and all in one take, he is incredibly true to how he wants to do things and I love that.
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.
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!
MadelineJamesWorldbuilds a channel about in deep world building (featuring things like where various rock formations would be located)
Ugh as if! a podcast mostly about art. The hostess is an actual comrade.
Angela’s Symposium talks about various forms of mysticism.
Monstergarden an artist talking about his world-building process.
Zane Parker does reviews about horror classics with a very comedic twist.
historic_ly does long form podcasts reading several works of lenin.
This channel is very good: https://youtu.be/aVwxzDHniEw
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Two best friends play
Ze Frank makes funny documentaries. Technology connections is also good
i saw someone on reddit call Ze a tankie for some reason but didn't get any followup on why
I have no clue tbh
It's absolutely not my "thing" but somehow I got really into watching parkour videos a couple years ago. I haven't watched for a year or so, so hopefully they haven't done anything horrible in the meantime, but for a while I really loved the lads that make up Storror. Toby Segar especially gives off really cool, compassionate, laid-back-person-I-wish-I-knew sort of vibes. He can do some truly amazing feats but he's so genuinely humble about it.
Isn't storror a decendant of karl marx?
FailRace and LeatherCap for fun, chaotic racing videos. Such a marvel of a community in a sea of racing dude bros.
Huh Failrace, I used to watch that like 8 years ago.
I started watching them 6 years ago, when youtube randomly recommended Survive the Hunt #8 to me. Instantly fell in love.
Bringus studios is a super awesome dude
Every single Clickspring video is a piece of art about making a piece of art which is also a fully functional piece of a clock. I know absolutely nothing about him other than that he is very very good at precision machining and that's the way I like it.
Not really YouTubers much anymore. But I still follow DingDongVG and Julian who separated from OneyPlays half a decade back.
They started their own indie game company WanWan games and are working on a Domino Tetris thing (can't remember the name). Looks pretty good too. They mostly stream gameplay of old games now from time to time and the atmosphere is much more chill and less forcefully edgy which I like.
Also DingDong mostly just shitposts now on his channel lol.