By topic, in order of how likely I am to immediately click on their video if I see a new one:

D&D:
• Viva La Dirt League D&D
(Including hammy greenscreen reenactments! Beyond hilarious. Top of the list. My god.)

Skits:
• Viva La Dirt League (gaming)
• Dr. Glaucomflecken (medicine)
• Ryan George

• Paint (parody music)
• MTGRemy (Magic: The Gathering parody music)
• Brian David Gilbert (music)

• Fire Department Chronicles
• Steven He (being Asian)
• Daniel Thrasher

Interesting/horrible facts:
• Casual Geographic
• Tom Scott
• Kurzgesagt

Movies:
• Pitch Meeting
• CinemaTherapy (psychology of movies)

Psychiatry (gaming bent):
• HealthyGamerGG

History:
• Tierzoo (prehistory if it were an MMO)
• Linfamy (Japanese)
• Fall of Civilizations (all 1-3hrs long but great)
• Townsends (US colonial)
• Shadiversity (medieval)

Gaming:
• The Escapist (zero punctuation)
• JelloPlaysGames
• Razbuten (highly recommend checking out his "Gaming for a Non-Gamer" series)

Art (chill):
• Sultan Sketches
• LavenderTowne
• ABD Illustrates

Art (tutorial):
• David Finch
• Bobbo Andonova
• Winged Canvas

Misc:
• OwlKitty (cat greenscreened into movie trailers)
• Exurb1a (emotionally distressing prose)
• LegalEagle (lawyer drama)

• JelloApocalyse (misc/gaming, can genuinely recommend the hilarity of a video about lemonade reviews, of all things. His delivery is fantastic.)

• b2studios (programming fun)
• Huggbees ("How It's Made" parodies)
• The Onion

Kitboga all the way

Have young kiddos so apologies for that POV.

YouTube: Mark Rober, Kurzgesagt, and Dr Plants

For podcasts I like Dan Carlin.

I’ve been obsessed with Jacob Geller’s video essays for months now. There’s just something about the way he writes that lands with such a punch for me, I can’t get enough of it. Notable mentions are his video on orbital lasers— one of the best openings to a video essay I’ve ever listened to— and the comparison video between RE4R, HBO’s TLOU and Dead Space Remake. If you’re into video essays and/or gaming in any capacity, check him out. You won’t regret it.

In no particular order,

Gaming:

• WoolieVS
• Pat Stares At
• Northernlion

Gaming adjacent:

• Davi Vasc (composer)
• Birds of Play (Final Fantasy)
• Tarnished Archaeologist (Elden Ring/Soulsborne)
• Caddicarus (long reviews)

Podcasts:

• Dan Carlin/Hardcore History (history)
• Castle Super Beast (gaming/variety)
• Behind the Bastards (terrible people!)
• This Podcast Will Kill You (medical science and history)

Other:

• münecat (unhinged teardowns of terrible people)
• Girl With the Dogs (pet groomer)
• Sabaton History (history behind the Sabaton songs)
• Red Squirrel Studios (unironically comfy Finnish birdcams to entertain my cats and help me fall asleep)

I really like Corridor Crew / Corridor Digital: I have been following them for over a decade and they have so many good videos where they dissect Visual Effects and stunts or experiment with new tools (lately they have been toying with Stable Diffusion and they did with Deep Fakes earlier).

On a similar subject, Captain Disillusion is underrated, he's debunking viral videos using his knowledge of VFX.

Ahoy makes mini-documentaries on video game history (mainly retro PC gaming) with really nice graphics and music made by himself.

And lastly, not so much a creator, but a documentary series that sucked me in: PsychOdyssey follows the developers from Double Fine during the production of Psychonauts 2. It's a very rare and honest look into the creation process of video games and it particularly hit with me because Psychonauts 2 is my favorite game of 2021.

On YouTube, I like:

Alasdair Beckett-King
Alien Theory
Like Stories of Old
Pitch Meeting
Shaun

For podcasts, I like:

Adam Buxton
The Watch

Acollierastro Physicist and academic breaks down varying topics in casual and fun long-form format. string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard

Value Select Multi-talented (really) independent content creator, who flavours his borderline surrealist humour with 80's stylings and DnD/medieval vocabulary and theatrics. Pushes for good vibes while keenly aware of the grind "Embrace the mirth".

He's always experimenting and pushing his production to unbelievably comedic quality, so I discovered him when he was doing musical skits such as Tell me your name again (again) Hit Me With Your Car 2020

Right now he's been on fire with his youtube shorts. Not everyone's thing and if you wanna take a glance, personal favourites include:

• Anything Is Possible
• It's a Man's World
• Simulacrush (Lady On The Cake)

Hey guys, ChrisFix here!

I'm surprised he hasn't been mentioned so far, but DougDoug is my favorite YouTuber/streamer. He has some of the most creative and entertaining videos of any currently active content creator imho.

• This Old Tony
• Adam Ragusea
• 3 Blue 1 Brown
• Practical Engineering
• Stand-up Maths

Realcivilengineer on YouTube

YouTube - Dankpods

Podcast - Chart Music and Blindboy

Those three are my jams.

• BigClive
• ididathing
• HandOfBlood(german)
• NeilRed

• Nerbit (video game challenges)
• ItsJabo (video game challenges)
• Joov (video game challenges)
• TheRussianBadger (Video game fucking around)
• CGPGrey (Hexagons are the bestagons 'nuff said)
• Jill Bearup (Armor reviews in media)
• Strat-Edgy (video game reviews)
• The Salt Factory (video game reviews)
• Technology Connections (explanations with S A S S)
• The Spiffing Brit (Abusing exploits in video games for BRITANNIA)
• LGR (retro tech)
• Modern Vintage Gamer (video games)
• Nostalgia Nerd (retro tech documentaries)
• Mitten Squad (video game challenges / I hope he's doing okay 😟)
• BruvaAlfabusa (fan fiction creator extraordinaire / Obligatory fuck you Games Workshop)

• Thorhighheels: Video game analysis, mainly older or more obscure games. Tends to focus more on vibes than gameplay. Makes really good music too. • Jacob Geller: Another mainly game analysis channel but he covers other forms of media as well. Check him out on Nebula if you like his content for extra and longer videos.

My wife and I's top 3 on YouTube:

Internet Comment Etiquette with Eric

Ordinary Things

Brutalmoose

Plenty of others, but these are the three I always recommend to people.

My Favorite Youtube Channels (Not in any particular order):

Jacksepticeye - Gaming and variety content - Very wholesome Irish dude, never heard of any controversies about him

Ted-Ed - Education channel with variety of history, science, some philosophy, and a lot of good riddles (actual good riddles, unlike some other channels)

CGP Grey - Hexagon is the bestagon! - But seriously, it's a bunch of cool stuff about various topics

Exurb1a - Philosophy that can trigger an Existential Crisis

Vsauce - Science, but weird

Veritasium - Science, but interesting

Mark Rober - Engineering, and pranking scammers and "porch pirates" with a fake package containing a device that shoots out glitter

Mentour Pilot - Interesting stuff about Aviation, story-telling of aircraft accidents/incidents with an explanation of the technical stuff he knows as a pilot (I don't work in the aviation industry and I'm not a frequent flier, I'm just obsessed with aviation stuff)

Louis Rossmann - Right to repair, technology stuff, and occasional cat videos (and some in the "shorts" section)

In tech: GeekerWan Therelaxingend Mr mobile (Michael Fisher) Mkbhd

In Cars: Doug Demuro

In Games: Motogamestv Calem Mrnazreenn

In the order they popped into my head

I did a thing
Dankpods
Cold ones
IC3PEAK
Wendigoon
Cowchop (house/barn era)
Call me Kevin

D&D: Critical role Dimension 20 Matt Colville

Makers: Tom Stanton Christopher Helmke Miscast

Science: PBS Spacetime Sabine Hossenfelder Anton Petrov

AI: AI explained Alan Thompson

I'll eat up anything they put out:
Perun (War economics, logistics, procurement, etc)
The Chieftain (Tank history and doctrine)
CGP Grey (Deep dives on random topics)
The Operations Room (High quality visualizations of historical battles)
The Intel Report (Followup topics related to Operations Room)
dnsl (Trolling in games)

Channels I'll binge on once in a while:
Drachinifel (Naval history)
agadmator (Chess breakdowns)
Forgotten Weapons (Firearm history and mechanics)
Lockpicking Lawyer (Lock history and picking)
LifesAGlitchTV (StarCraft 2 commentary duo)
Spookston (War Thunder gameplay)
The Tank Museum (More tank history)
Real Engineering (Deep dives on interesting engineering)
Scott Manley (Space & rocketry related topics)

As far's 'tubers go :

• Any Austin : Interesting video game (location|unemployment rate)s
• BlueBoyPhin : Obscure pokemon content
• Defunctland : Mostly defunct theme parks
• Izzzyzzz : Aspects of (internet|contemporary) subcultures
• RetroGamingNow : In(teresting|formative) minecraft video essays

Beau of the Fifth Column and Glenn Kirschner make some quality content on YT

Mr Samuel Streamer is my daily bread. Funny dude. Never miss a video.

Harald Baldr.

One of my favorite yt channels is currently Stumpt. They got a ton of series on mc from their older backlog, and a variety of other games they've done videos as well if you don't necessarily like mc.

Thoraya's yt channel has been one of my faves for years now. She basically asks questions and such to stranger on the streets, I love hearing about peoples' experiences, thoughts, life stories etc

I also enjoy EXPLORE WITH US' content, it's a yt channel focused on true crime, unsolved cases etc. The majority of their videos include clips in the interrogation room that are being analysed, it's super interesting

Internet Comment Etiquette and Warlockracy mostly

I like Michael Jackson, he has some smooth tracks. But the man hasn't published in a while

Hand of Blood Kalle Sterzik

Name a better one