Top Class YouTube Channels

[Caomhaoin]

Similar to the podcasts one, lets hear some excellent YouTube channels that aren't the ones my young lad watches, assholes playing video games for other assholes.

Jim Can't Swim - Extremely well researched and fascinating look at criminal psychology, based principally around the behaviour analysis of suspects being interrogated by the police.

Kings and Generals - Detail heavy with cool graphics look at various, mainly obscure, battles and conflicts. Military history nerds take note.

Lowder with Crowder - The most obnoxious, shouty Anti-Chris on the planet.

[ochoill]

That Kings and Generals one sounds decent, I must give that a go.

Few of my recent favourites, probably known here since they're popular enough but just in case:

LEMMiNO - old videos are in the "top 10" vein of things, and are easy watches, but his best stuff my miles are the single topic videos he does.  Just great structure and storytelling of odd events in the recent past.  Check out "The Vanishing of Flight 370", "Cicada 3301", and "The Dyatlov Pass Case" for good ones.

Barely Sociable - not a massive amount of content but again, great and well researched internet/real life crossover stories.  Mostly mysteries, usually a few solutions on each explored, plenty of info in each so worth a watch even if you know the topic.  The "Lake City Quiet Pills" video is excellent and absolutely worth a watch even if you dive no further.  Second channel Slightly Sociable is similar but not as well put together, much quicker videos and not as interesting topics but worth keeping an eye on.

Lock Picking Lawyer - absolute chewing gum for the eyes.  I love it.  Pick up anywhere in the middle and work in either direction.  You'd never watch them all but there is severe satisfaction in watching a lad bust locks open with pure ease.

Steve1989MREinfo - a lad buys and tests various MREs from around the world.  The best ones are obviously the ridiculously old ones he gets - he makes a stab at eating 100 year old beef stock boiled up in water in one, unreal stuff.  The very modern ones are alright but it's very interesting to see the old ration packs and what goes into them.

Fredrik Knudsen - AKA 'Down The Rabbit Hole'.  A lad investigates odd events in real life and on the internet.  Some of them are basically internet drama spilling out into real life and completely consuming people, others are more historically based.  Niche topics but always presented in an excellent, watchable, slightly gas way.  Some of my favourites are "The Final Fantasy House" (completely demented living situation tales) and "Anime and Otaku" (just a neatly presented history).

MrSpacepig - excellent archive of local Cork metal gigs.  Unreal list of bands filmed in great quality, audio and video.

CGP Grey - deep dives & educational videos on a ridiculously broad range of topics.  Very easy to get lost in a hole with them.  Goes from how tumbleweed took over the US, to airline boarding methods, how electoral systems work, how to become pope/a pirate/a dictator... everything is touched on.  Well presented, very watchable.

Wavy Web Surf - pretty much a history of people who became internet memes.  Dives into how it happened, where they are now, backstory or related events that you might not know, that sort of thing.  Some of it is great, probably not for everyone, having spent far too long on 4chan and Encyclopedia Dramatica myself and seeing these things happen at the time, it's interesting to revisit it.

Primitive Technology - man goes into the bush and survives using whatever he can build.  Stone tools, mud huts, eventually expands into large scale tools and simple farming, among other things.  No talking, severely relaxing watch, if you're on a laptop you can leave on annotations for extra info.

Nexpo - paranormal mysteries, mostly.  Some are excellent, grand paced watch, others don't hit the same spot, but overall there's some great stuff in there if you like that kind of thing.  Videos like "Cult in a dead MMO" and "The search term that made a youtuber vanish" are excellent creepy rabbit hole dives and recommended.  Others are sort of top 10-style things of current internet videos doing the rounds but usually a bit over the top in their presentation, if interesting.

I have more if anyone likes

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Some stuff for geeks:

3blue1brown - Simply excellent channel revealing the inner dynamics and wonder of geometry and mathematics in an intuitive, visual way. The guy who does it is like the Carl Sagan of maths.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

StatQuest - Light-hearted, sometimes a bit silly, yet perfectly explained fundamentals of statistics, probability, machine learning, and lots more.
https://www.youtube.com/user/joshstarmer

Corey Schafer - Hands down the best Python tutorials I've found on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/user/schafer5

PBS Space Time - Speaking of Carl Sagan, this in my mind - rather than DeGrasse Tyson's effort - is the true follow up to the original Cosmos series; it's just full of mind-blowing moments.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g

Stanford Lecture Collection - And since mugz was mentioned today, here's someone he referred to - like almost everything else - as being a relic of the "past" (he's not), Robert Sapolsky. This lecture series on human behavioral biology is awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D

[ochoill]

PBS Space Time is good from the few bits I've seen.  Definitely going to go through some of that Stanford Lecture Collection next week, that looks great.  3blue1brown too, I think I've seen some of that before thanks to the algorithm, love mathematics channels too (even though I'm not as up to scratch as I was on it when I was 18/19).

[Ollkiller]

Great thread lads. Will be checking a lot of these out.

MrSpacepig - excellent archive of local Cork metal gigs.  Unreal list of bands filmed in great quality, audio and video.

An absolute legend in the cork scene and an unbelievably sound buck too.

[ochoill]

MrSpacepig - excellent archive of local Cork metal gigs.  Unreal list of bands filmed in great quality, audio and video.

An absolute legend in the cork scene and an unbelievably sound buck too.

Yeah he's a sound chap, had a chat with him
before though only met him the once - briefly at the first Monolith fest - will no doubt meet him again once live shows are back in action.  I regularly sift through his channel for the bands on it, some right stuff in there.

[Trev]

Signals Music Studio https://www.youtube.com/c/SignalsMusicStudio

I like how he focuses on how to apply ideas to creating songs, without getting overly bogged down in theory

[Carnage]

Some interesting astronomy & astrophysics related videos here: https://www.youtube.com/user/melodysheep

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

I miss Spacepig

[Ollkiller]

I miss Spacepig

 

[Pedrito]

That Kings and Generals one sounds decent, I must give that a go.

Few of my recent favourites, probably known here since they're popular enough but just in case:

LEMMiNO - old videos are in the "top 10" vein of things, and are easy watches, but his best stuff my miles are the single topic videos he does.  Just great structure and storytelling of odd events in the recent past.  Check out "The Vanishing of Flight 370", "Cicada 3301", and "The Dyatlov Pass Case" for good ones.

Barely Sociable - not a massive amount of content but again, great and well researched internet/real life crossover stories.  Mostly mysteries, usually a few solutions on each explored, plenty of info in each so worth a watch even if you know the topic.  The "Lake City Quiet Pills" video is excellent and absolutely worth a watch even if you dive no further.  Second channel Slightly Sociable is similar but not as well put together, much quicker videos and not as interesting topics but worth keeping an eye on.

Lock Picking Lawyer - absolute chewing gum for the eyes.  I love it.  Pick up anywhere in the middle and work in either direction.  You'd never watch them all but there is severe satisfaction in watching a lad bust locks open with pure ease.

Steve1989MREinfo - a lad buys and tests various MREs from around the world.  The best ones are obviously the ridiculously old ones he gets - he makes a stab at eating 100 year old beef stock boiled up in water in one, unreal stuff.  The very modern ones are alright but it's very interesting to see the old ration packs and what goes into them.

Fredrik Knudsen - AKA 'Down The Rabbit Hole'.  A lad investigates odd events in real life and on the internet.  Some of them are basically internet drama spilling out into real life and completely consuming people, others are more historically based.  Niche topics but always presented in an excellent, watchable, slightly gas way.  Some of my favourites are "The Final Fantasy House" (completely demented living situation tales) and "Anime and Otaku" (just a neatly presented history).

MrSpacepig - excellent archive of local Cork metal gigs.  Unreal list of bands filmed in great quality, audio and video.

CGP Grey - deep dives & educational videos on a ridiculously broad range of topics.  Very easy to get lost in a hole with them.  Goes from how tumbleweed took over the US, to airline boarding methods, how electoral systems work, how to become pope/a pirate/a dictator... everything is touched on.  Well presented, very watchable.

Wavy Web Surf - pretty much a history of people who became internet memes.  Dives into how it happened, where they are now, backstory or related events that you might not know, that sort of thing.  Some of it is great, probably not for everyone, having spent far too long on 4chan and Encyclopedia Dramatica myself and seeing these things happen at the time, it's interesting to revisit it.

Primitive Technology - man goes into the bush and survives using whatever he can build.  Stone tools, mud huts, eventually expands into large scale tools and simple farming, among other things.  No talking, severely relaxing watch, if you're on a laptop you can leave on annotations for extra info.

Nexpo - paranormal mysteries, mostly.  Some are excellent, grand paced watch, others don't hit the same spot, but overall there's some great stuff in there if you like that kind of thing.  Videos like "Cult in a dead MMO" and "The search term that made a youtuber vanish" are excellent creepy rabbit hole dives and recommended.  Others are sort of top 10-style things of current internet videos doing the rounds but usually a bit over the top in their presentation, if interesting.

I have more if anyone likes

Spent the morning watching that lad eating olf army food. The Boer War beef stock was something else 

[astfgyl]

He has me caught on the lock picking lawyer

[Pedrito]

I'll be onto that soon I reckon.

Love watching lads building cabins up near the arctic too, as said earlier just so relaxing.

[Kurt Cocaine]

The lock picking lawyer is great viewing. Been onto that channel for a while now...


For all you fascist right wing Trump loving soy haterz....

https://www.youtube.com/c/AntonioChavez


This video in particular blew me off, errrr I meant away....

https://youtu.be/fh138fFl1I4

[Pedrito]

Jesus nearly puked watching that second vid. Ham slicer needed for that lad