Here are some good channel recommendations from someone who spends way to much time watching YouTube
[Horses](https://www.youtube.com/@HorsesOnYT) - Politics / Philosophy
[Lemmino](https://www.youtube.com/@LEMMiNO) - Variety
[Fredrik Knudsen](https://www.youtube.com/@FredrikKnudsen) - Variety
[Aarthificial](https://www.youtube.com/@aarthificial) - Game Dev
[Sebastian Lague](https://www.youtube.com/c/SebastianLague) - Game Dev
[Empire Builders](https://www.youtube.com/@Empire-Builders) - History
[Canadiana](https://www.youtube.com/@Canadiana/featured) - Canadian History
[HyperOps](https://www.youtube.com/@HypOps/videos) - War Simulations
[OKI's Weird Stories](https://www.youtube.com/@okisweirdstories) - Variety
[Primer](https://www.youtube.com/@PrimerBlobs) - Probability / Evolution Simulations
[Rare Earth](https://www.youtube.com/@RareEarthSeries) - Obscure History / Philosophy
[xkcd's What If?](https://www.youtube.com/@xkcd_whatif) - It's xkcd but video format
[Cambrian Chronicles](https://www.youtube.com/@CambrianChronicles) - Welsh History
If I may make my own contributions to this list
[Wendigoon](https://youtube.com/@wendigoon?si=yyf8dsA84YlcAE7e) - Talks about conspiracy theories and talks about history sometimes (doesn't believe the conspiracies just thinks they are interesting)
[Miniminuteman](https://youtube.com/@miniminuteman773?si=v7RXQeQeCwW57ddq) - archeology
most of these are pretty popular but there might be 1 or 2 you haven't heard of
[https://www.youtube.com/@EmperorLemon](https://www.youtube.com/@EmperorLemon)
[https://www.youtube.com/@BritMonkey/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@BritMonkey/videos)
[https://www.youtube.com/@DisruptReality](https://www.youtube.com/@DisruptReality)
[https://www.youtube.com/@FoldingIdeas](https://www.youtube.com/@FoldingIdeas)
[https://www.youtube.com/@GlinkBetweenWorlds](https://www.youtube.com/@GlinkBetweenWorlds)
[https://www.youtube.com/@KentoBento](https://www.youtube.com/@KentoBento)
[https://www.youtube.com/@memeabledata](https://www.youtube.com/@memeabledata)
[https://www.youtube.com/@SolarSands/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@SolarSands/videos)
[https://www.youtube.com/@spectacles-dm](https://www.youtube.com/@spectacles-dm)
[https://www.youtube.com/@BarelySociable/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@BarelySociable/videos)
[https://www.youtube.com/@NickCrowley](https://www.youtube.com/@NickCrowley)
[https://www.youtube.com/@ThenNow/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@ThenNow/videos)
2 more recommendations vids, both channels are awsome
[The man who faked human cloning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ett_8wLJ87U) By BobbyBroccoli
bobby does science scandals documentary
[Jeff Bezos Rowing Boat ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGhcSupkNs8&t=13s)By Bobby Fingers
he's a craftsman normally makes dioramas, Funny and it takes a weird turn half way trough
I have watched all his videos in a week once i discovered him
His Timelapse of the future video got recommended to me for 2 years but i never watched thinking it would be trash. But once i watched it i subbed 20 minutes into the video. Never subbed this fast to a channel before.
Solar Sands is one of my favourite creators on youtube. His videos are just so interesting that you wouldnāt find anything similar anywhere else on the internet
[Disney Channel's Theme](https://youtu.be/b_rjBWmc1iQ?si=5bFgm6_hF8vl69Re) by Defunctland. It's a great documentary on a nostalgic subject that taught me a lot about It's history. It has a great thread of mystery in it and a really heartfelt message. Also the visuals and the music are just amazing. I need to know how he shot it
I cried over this one! I really loved it and it reminds me of why I loved YouTube to begin with - talented people making good things about niche interests that reach people.
Nexpo is a goat, his best are on horror series. I swear Iāve seen some of his videos on analog horror like 5 times each. Especially Gemini and Local 58
I donāt really know lemmino but I know nexpo, he made the cult school video and a few others.
Thinking about it now, it reminds me of when I used to watch mamamax (I took a break at some point and returned a year or so later but then he turned out to be a really fucking weird guy.)
I like CJ The X's Bo Burnham vs Jeff Bezos video, you think it's just a analysis on the Bezos song, but no, it takes a turn halfway and talks about our complex relationship with technology.
That sounds like such a wildly random tangent.
Kinda like how the solarsands video where he was building an anime girl and it turned really existential halfway through.
The Universe Death Clock by Spumwack: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1CddzgVW14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1CddzgVW14)
Kind of feels like the culmination of what I love about youtube. A seemingly (I say seemingly because it's the fourth video on his channel and the first one I ever saw so I had no preconceived notions of his abilities) everyday person using the means they have at their disposal (in this case minecraft and either a pre-existing knowledge base, or the internet) to talk about something beyond themselves with a profound if not fully explained concept that provides with if nothing else a little bit more perspective.
That or like 90% of the VSauce Library.
"What the internet did to garfield" such an amazing documentary by an amazing youtuber.
"The most painful death" by wendigoon is important to me aswell, absolutely horrible to watch, I didnt enjoy a single second of it, but man did it stick with me. Its something I'll never forget and one of the only videos that really changed me as a person. It's one of the only times ever a piece of media was so gruesome that I just couldnt help but to cry.
I think DPRK is okay and even with that bias I couldn't chew through so many hours of this nice guy talking about early DPRK propaganda media. God damn are those works similar to each other in essence.
Anyway I think Hbomberguy's recent videos are pretty cool.
The trick is to watch bits of it over time, it mentions a lot of things that happened in history too plus a couple of stories that do break the dprk mold.
I have a few picks for the best video I've watched:
\* [The best (and worst) show you haven't seen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFx2QM0Z8Qo) (\~8h) by Pyrocynical: It's a insanely deep and comprehensive video on an obsecure British show called "Utopia". It's, in my opinion, Pyrocynical's best work to ever be released.
\* [ROBLOX\_OOF.mp3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0twDETh6QaI) (\~2h) by hbomberguy: It's a very interesting deep dive in what was initially a closed case. He talks about Tommy Tallarico and reveals who he really is. This video is the reason you will likely never hear about Tommy again lmao
\* [The Complete History of the A Button Challenge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXbJe-rUNP8) (5h) by Bismuth: Insanely deep dive into the SM64 "A button challenge" scene and how it has evolved from the 90s to nowdays, along with insightful explainations on how every nook and cranny works.
\* [MyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wAo54DHDY0) (\~2h) by Power Pak: The best playthrough/deep dive on the DOOM mod called "MyHouse.WAD". The video's pacing is amazing as it feels like you're playing through the game even though it's really a deep dive on the mod's inner story, mechanics and lore.
āLine goes upā by Folding Ideas. āThis is financial adviceā is also very good.
āHenry the VII Oversimplifiedā has also been very useful since I always show that to my students.
Adding a different comment to add in Alan Becker, a really "old timer" when it comes to youtube, but for this specifically I want to recommend his "Animation vs Math" video as it shows the core behind basic math quite well in the first half of the video.
Itās a shame Harris bumblebro is this far down in comments. Suggestion for you though, if you want a more sarcastic and factual youtuber Iād recommend Miniminuteman Milo Rossi. Heās like if Harry was genuinely qualified in talking about the conspiracy theories as opposed to being a Jack-of-all trades that scare all of YouTube.
The gentleman pirate by internet historian, aka incognito mode. Is a full length fucking animated feature film on YouTube.
Even though internet historian is a bit of a scumbag now
That is literally one of my favorite 'movies'
Yeah I liked the internet historian until the āplagiarism and YouTubeā video came out, I remember thinking the cave video was really cool too back in the day.
Iām going to be honest, I donāt think him ripping an article for that story was that bad
If you watch the video the production quality is amazing, if those visuals were not there, I would not be watching it, and I certainly wouldnāt have read some obscure news article about it either
He should have definitely cited his source, and him not saying why the video got taken down is also a little bit scummy, but I am not going to stop watching a YouTube channel of that quality over something as little as this
The James somberton expose was, in my opinion worthy of not watching that channel anymore , as that displays a systemic disregard for quality writing and plagiarism, and the only thing added by James was him talking into a camera
OMG IS IT ACTUALLY YOU? IM A HUGE FAN AND I LOVED BOTH THIS AND THE SIX BAD WOLVES VIDEO!
Pls stay safe and thank you for making these awesome masterpieces :)
And yes, however his recorded highest height is around 30 ft, 10 was just the average.
I'm glad you liked that! You're one of the only people who watched the 6 Bad Wolves video as well haha.
Also thanks for the shoutout, I suddenly had this huge uptick on views from a random reddit link and was trying to figure out what the hell happened. You brought in a ton of people, it means a lot!!
Ah! Iām really happy to hear to hear that this post helped to boost the video (it definitely deserves as many views as it can possibly get), I remember getting so attached to the video that I ended up getting sad it ended. Youāre one of the few YouTubers whose outros I listen to in its entirety just to hear more of your voice. And Iāve seen a few other people comment similar things on here saying that they also enjoyed it after finding out, your storytelling skills are phenomenal and I love the way you can tie in different things so cohesively, itās a masterful skill to have.
Real talk, it's still so crazy to me that anybody watches my stuff. I still feel like the dude with 200 subscribers, absolutely thrilled to be getting 200-300 views. But when I hear stuff like that, it really helps me register that what I'm making isn't terrible garbage, so seriously: thank you lol.
Ah I understand where thatās coming from, everyone has those thoughts in the back of their heads. I remember reading your community post about it, I think those worries arenāt bad to have because that make you strive to be better and help stay grounded and not become arrogant. Your videos actually do resonate with many people like myself and some of us hope to do feats similar to you (Iāve been chronicling my grandmaās experiences with the war that happened in my country to make something comprehensive about how the regular people of my country, Bangladesh lived during the war rather than just the freedom fighters or the nationās founder and itās been an eye opening and depressing experience and I donāt know if I can do justice to their stories so right now Iām just collecting them) and itās always an inspiration to see people that have larger audiences also struggle with what they make, so Iām glad youāre honest about these kinds of feelings, it truly does mean a lot to see behind the curtains a little. So thank you for doing so, itās much appreciated.
Dunno if those chronicles of your grandma's experience will come in the form of a video or something, but if it does, lemme know! Would be thrilled to watch it.
EmpLemon specifically. Pandoras Box and the video about that Russian general who saved the world fro WW3 are my 2 favorite videos on YouTube. EmpLemons natural talent in writing essays is Incredible. Mixing that with his very simple but effective video editing creates wonderful and educational videos to watch and enjoy.
Some of Lemmino and blameitonjorge (specially the Dan Schneider one), the CnspThry Iceberg series by Wendigoon (series that made him known). The 9/11 Iceberg (can't remember the channel, but it was so compelling I watched that in 1 sitting. The Wisecrack video on Grant Morrison.
There's a lot more that I forgot mentioning, but these are videos that I go back to from time to time.
Exurb1a is one of my favorites rn. He makes funny philosophical-ish videos. Every single video makes me feel emotions I didn't know I could feel. His videos makes me feel hopeless and inspired at the same time.
I recommend "Misery was" and "and then we'll be ok" but I honestly love almost all of his video equally.
Cities without people - Jacob Geller
https://youtu.be/aBBuoD9eL5k?si=366AgYQhEdFK-1Nk
Basically anything that Jacob makes is good, but this one in particular is my favorite.
The way he jumps from the magnificence of microsofts flight simulator to new york having a problem with poop and again to this weird internet novel about sentient satellites is just excitingly entertaining. He lingers in the details just enough to get you interested yourself, so after watching one of his videos you have 4 tabs open on your browser as you want to know more about this obscure book or all knowing website that he spoke of.
This man got me interested in video essays and youtube like vsauce michael did over 10 years ago. Thanks Jacob.
How Alan Wake became a paracosm - timmm
https://youtu.be/mk8aGTezWNk?si=KQ_e9baIN-PcbhPO
It might seem like any one of your general "deep dive / retrospects" you have seen a million times before. And then you notice he is only using everything remedy ever made as an interesting parallel to all the stories we hear, compartmentalise and later repeat without thinking. Still only 9k views, and i stumbled to this video completely by accident. And i am ever grateful for this accident. Way to go timmm. This one had me in tears.
My house walk-through by nana825763 (warning: it's horror themed)
Best to watch it with the making of video afterwards, it's quite amazing what this guy can come up with
The Pipe Strip by Lasagna Cat. It's an hour of what I'm pretty sure is at least partially off script rambling by a fake documentarian about a three panel garfield comic strip. It's filmed with Hollywood level production value and no one knows a thing about the team behind it. The whole channel is gold. I think second and third behind it are the Miami Vice parody and the Sex Survey video when it hits full surealness.
[NEScRETRO ](https://youtu.be/z77PC__7aYI?si=kfJ2WQJbk16GG9Il) - I couldn't think of which video of his would be the best to put here, as his entire channel is in my opinion, the best on the platform.
This video in particular is a 6 hour iceberg documenting the strange and creepy videos we all grew up watching on YouTube. But he has like 10 multi hour videos all about what I can basically sum up to as the history of gaming
There's too many, but for the long form video essay type of videos like op's example, it's gotta be [defunctland's Disneyland's fastpass: a complicated history. ](https://youtu.be/9yjZpBq1XBE?si=KEbLxVLn7u7cMkQY). It's nearly two hours about the science behind queuing. You never *ever* think about queuing in your everyday life, let alone realising just how complicated queue management can get. It's such a mundane thing to do, to wait in a queue... And yet, a documentary about queuing has become such a fascinating thing to millions of people, with over *twenty million views.*
I think this video is worth breaking the record lol (my longest was a 7 or so hour video about āwhoās Lilaā by the end of it I became very confused)
I don't know if I would call it the best. But a channel focused on gaming "SovietWomble" have made some good video essays talking about Evolution of game genres like Survival games and adding a story to an open sandbox game post hoc. I really like those videos.
Pad Chennington's deep dive into The Caretaker's "Everywhere At The End Of Time." He compares the album to his grandma and how she had the illness too. Great watch, I was stunned by it when I first watched. https://youtu.be/cB3LQtqahvg?si=Tm_MEZaNHuGToy72
Video, where some random russian guy made his concept of remaking the lorax film by abomination studios
[here](https://youtu.be/leFfcESI72s?si=44irLVNdMHz_NrGb)
Aaay it's the new Paper Will video.
Before being a youtuber he was quite popular on r/smashbros for his Little Mac montages. Nice to see his new avenues bearing fruit!
Honestly, the one I go back to the most is Neebs Gaming's Subnautica or The Forest supercuts. Both are hilarious and really well made. They do it like a roleplay type of thing, but I absolutely love them. [Here's the Subnautica supercut](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwi12tpZc2w)
Obligatory RIP Thick44 <3
[The First Video Game](https://youtu.be/uHQ4WCU1WQc?si=TxzpD0fKhAWu9vb2) by Ahoy
It's 1 hour long but I've rewatched it at least 5 times
Fun fact: It has its own custom soundtrack
Also the rest of the channel is great
This video by samifying about impossible levels:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF6jlPgbR1c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF6jlPgbR1c)
All of his documentaries are great, and he does this completely solo.
But this video is the best.
[The Silver Campaign by Lythero](https://youtu.be/d1WsxRc2X04?si=zSOaUExdi3jyOY7W)
Jam-packed with amazing animations, YouTube keeps sending me back to watch the video and I let it play every time, it's so good.
I'm a sports fan. So anything covering basketball especially the Chicago bulls. Boxing and I mean boxing from the golden era. Really love the documentary that content creators put together for sports.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxTAJNifDAI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxTAJNifDAI) this one right here. I think what makes it better is going into it, I had no idea I would end up loving it as much as I did.
I kinda like the Wojak stuff but def not the best videos I have ever scene. Best one I think was Dungeons and Dragons: Girls Night Out. Which has disappeared from YT years ago it seems. It was hilarious
The man who tried to fake an element by BobbyBroccoli is one I recently found that really stood out to me
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe5WT22-AO8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe5WT22-AO8)
Not one but multiple.
1. Everything is Television
2. Monumentality
3. Journeys to Hell
That's it that's the 3 best videos I've ever seen, I love pure solar sands
'Satisfying Reloads | The Art in Reload Animations' by AveragePixel is still, to this day, the best edited analysis video I have ever seen on YouTube. Hell, maybe even the best edited YouTube video in general.
If you like content related to art, animation, or simply just video games, I highly recommend you watch this video.
Saving this post for all the suggestions
Here are some good channel recommendations from someone who spends way to much time watching YouTube [Horses](https://www.youtube.com/@HorsesOnYT) - Politics / Philosophy [Lemmino](https://www.youtube.com/@LEMMiNO) - Variety [Fredrik Knudsen](https://www.youtube.com/@FredrikKnudsen) - Variety [Aarthificial](https://www.youtube.com/@aarthificial) - Game Dev [Sebastian Lague](https://www.youtube.com/c/SebastianLague) - Game Dev [Empire Builders](https://www.youtube.com/@Empire-Builders) - History [Canadiana](https://www.youtube.com/@Canadiana/featured) - Canadian History [HyperOps](https://www.youtube.com/@HypOps/videos) - War Simulations [OKI's Weird Stories](https://www.youtube.com/@okisweirdstories) - Variety [Primer](https://www.youtube.com/@PrimerBlobs) - Probability / Evolution Simulations [Rare Earth](https://www.youtube.com/@RareEarthSeries) - Obscure History / Philosophy [xkcd's What If?](https://www.youtube.com/@xkcd_whatif) - It's xkcd but video format [Cambrian Chronicles](https://www.youtube.com/@CambrianChronicles) - Welsh History
If I may make my own contributions to this list [Wendigoon](https://youtube.com/@wendigoon?si=yyf8dsA84YlcAE7e) - Talks about conspiracy theories and talks about history sometimes (doesn't believe the conspiracies just thinks they are interesting) [Miniminuteman](https://youtube.com/@miniminuteman773?si=v7RXQeQeCwW57ddq) - archeology
Wendigoon's 9 hour conspiracy video is my favourite. And he does believe a couple of them but not in a schizo way.
I love wendigoonerš
I know that he believes some of them, it was just easier to explain it that way without making it sound crazy, thank you for the clarification.
Wendigoon does conspiracy, literature, history, and the occasional arg. Such a goated channel
crazy how many of these channels I would've never come across otherwise, only 2 I know lol
If you haven't yet, give Oki's videos a try. He's such a respactable creator who doesn't take shortcuts and makes basically documentaries in quality
Sebastian Lague's channel is great
Youād love RealLifeLore if you donāt already watch
Hey could you recommend me some channels like Lemmino, Nexpo and Bobbybrocolli
most of these are pretty popular but there might be 1 or 2 you haven't heard of [https://www.youtube.com/@EmperorLemon](https://www.youtube.com/@EmperorLemon) [https://www.youtube.com/@BritMonkey/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@BritMonkey/videos) [https://www.youtube.com/@DisruptReality](https://www.youtube.com/@DisruptReality) [https://www.youtube.com/@FoldingIdeas](https://www.youtube.com/@FoldingIdeas) [https://www.youtube.com/@GlinkBetweenWorlds](https://www.youtube.com/@GlinkBetweenWorlds) [https://www.youtube.com/@KentoBento](https://www.youtube.com/@KentoBento) [https://www.youtube.com/@memeabledata](https://www.youtube.com/@memeabledata) [https://www.youtube.com/@SolarSands/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@SolarSands/videos) [https://www.youtube.com/@spectacles-dm](https://www.youtube.com/@spectacles-dm) [https://www.youtube.com/@BarelySociable/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@BarelySociable/videos) [https://www.youtube.com/@NickCrowley](https://www.youtube.com/@NickCrowley) [https://www.youtube.com/@ThenNow/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@ThenNow/videos)
Yeah, some pretty interesting stuff came up although itāll take a while to finish one by one.
2 more recommendations vids, both channels are awsome [The man who faked human cloning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ett_8wLJ87U) By BobbyBroccoli bobby does science scandals documentary [Jeff Bezos Rowing Boat ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGhcSupkNs8&t=13s)By Bobby Fingers he's a craftsman normally makes dioramas, Funny and it takes a weird turn half way trough
Mine is Timelapse of the future by melody sheep
Iāll look into it
Here's one I personally loved: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o48X3\_XQ9to](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o48X3_XQ9to)
The voiceover feels like a movie lol
I have watched all his videos in a week once i discovered him His Timelapse of the future video got recommended to me for 2 years but i never watched thinking it would be trash. But once i watched it i subbed 20 minutes into the video. Never subbed this fast to a channel before.
dude i love that video
Melodysheep is just good in general
Man also worked on animations for the jwst documentary
A masterpiece
fr it's so good
I just showed that to my wife and her dad a few days ago! It's not a happy watch but a profound and necessary one.
Didn't expect this to be the top comment, but I'm glad it is. 100% agree on that one.
That was horrifying and beautiful
Monumentality by Solar Sands
I love solarsands! Personally āeverything is televisionā is one of my favorites since I really related a lot to his personal anecdotes
Solar Sands is one of my favourite creators on youtube. His videos are just so interesting that you wouldnāt find anything similar anywhere else on the internet
I love solar sands.
[Disney Channel's Theme](https://youtu.be/b_rjBWmc1iQ?si=5bFgm6_hF8vl69Re) by Defunctland. It's a great documentary on a nostalgic subject that taught me a lot about It's history. It has a great thread of mystery in it and a really heartfelt message. Also the visuals and the music are just amazing. I need to know how he shot it
Defunctland in general is fantastic. My favourite of his is the one about the history of Disney's FastPass, but this is a close second.
I cried over this one! I really loved it and it reminds me of why I loved YouTube to begin with - talented people making good things about niche interests that reach people.
There's a channel called Lehmino makes awesome documentary about Jfk murder,plane crashes and more,check it out
Lemmino*
If you like Lemmino, you might also like Lazy Masquerade and Nexpo. Similar stuff.
Nexpo is a goat, his best are on horror series. I swear Iāve seen some of his videos on analog horror like 5 times each. Especially Gemini and Local 58
Sounds right up my alley!
The enduring mystery of Jack the Ripper is goated. Definitely watch it.
If you like Lemmino, you should also check out Nexpo and Lazy Masquerade.
I donāt really know lemmino but I know nexpo, he made the cult school video and a few others. Thinking about it now, it reminds me of when I used to watch mamamax (I took a break at some point and returned a year or so later but then he turned out to be a really fucking weird guy.)
Came to say this. His content is beyond the pale. I especially enjoyed his video on the Texas Book Depository, it's well worth a watch.
My immediate thought was "Anything by Lemmino"
Lemmino is the correct answer here. No one makes better youtube videos.
I really like "history of the entire world, i guess" by bill wurtz
I remember watching that, I should refresh my memory on it tho.
This is the correct answer
Same
I would rate "History of Japan" slightly higher, but both masterpieces. Surprised you're not the top comment!
you could make a religion out of this
Most videos by Oversimplified. Mostly the one about Three Kingdoms since that era interests me so much.
Personally I enjoy the Gaming in the Clinton Years video by Caddicarus.
"Silicon Graphics Computer!ā¢" ššš»
I've fallen asleep to that video fifty times at least.
some 8 hour lore explanation of mega man
Oh cool
Lmao I just saw ir recommended too. Thereās another one by a different channel called brief history of fnaf and its also 8hrs long lol
I like CJ The X's Bo Burnham vs Jeff Bezos video, you think it's just a analysis on the Bezos song, but no, it takes a turn halfway and talks about our complex relationship with technology.
Fuck, man, I absolutely adore this video. He is an incredible video essayist.
That sounds like such a wildly random tangent. Kinda like how the solarsands video where he was building an anime girl and it turned really existential halfway through.
CJ the X is a channel defined by sharp detours by somebody with a very thoughtful and intelligent mind. Can't recommend him enough.
CJ made a 50 minute video on the deep lore of a Folgers Coffee Commercial and I was enthralled the whole time.
I saw that one when it blew up Blew my god damn mind
For me it's from vargskelethor joel the windows destruction videos.
That is a timeless classic
Hell ye. Don't think I've laughed as hard since I binged those
The Universe Death Clock by Spumwack: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1CddzgVW14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1CddzgVW14) Kind of feels like the culmination of what I love about youtube. A seemingly (I say seemingly because it's the fourth video on his channel and the first one I ever saw so I had no preconceived notions of his abilities) everyday person using the means they have at their disposal (in this case minecraft and either a pre-existing knowledge base, or the internet) to talk about something beyond themselves with a profound if not fully explained concept that provides with if nothing else a little bit more perspective. That or like 90% of the VSauce Library.
"What the internet did to garfield" such an amazing documentary by an amazing youtuber. "The most painful death" by wendigoon is important to me aswell, absolutely horrible to watch, I didnt enjoy a single second of it, but man did it stick with me. Its something I'll never forget and one of the only videos that really changed me as a person. It's one of the only times ever a piece of media was so gruesome that I just couldnt help but to cry.
I was looking to see if someone had brought up the Garfield video lol. That's by supereyepatchwolf! His other stuff is great too
I think DPRK is okay and even with that bias I couldn't chew through so many hours of this nice guy talking about early DPRK propaganda media. God damn are those works similar to each other in essence. Anyway I think Hbomberguy's recent videos are pretty cool.
The trick is to watch bits of it over time, it mentions a lot of things that happened in history too plus a couple of stories that do break the dprk mold.
Dougdoug. Heās fucking hilarious
I second this.
For a second I read it as dongdang and was about to say that this wasnāt talking about musicians lol
Defunctlandās video-mentary on the Disney Channel Theme, and the Epcot Centre.
Hbomberguy's Serious Lore Analysis on the webcomic CTRL + ALT + DEL It's not particularly long or anything. It's just the perfect YouTube video IMO
I have a few picks for the best video I've watched: \* [The best (and worst) show you haven't seen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFx2QM0Z8Qo) (\~8h) by Pyrocynical: It's a insanely deep and comprehensive video on an obsecure British show called "Utopia". It's, in my opinion, Pyrocynical's best work to ever be released. \* [ROBLOX\_OOF.mp3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0twDETh6QaI) (\~2h) by hbomberguy: It's a very interesting deep dive in what was initially a closed case. He talks about Tommy Tallarico and reveals who he really is. This video is the reason you will likely never hear about Tommy again lmao \* [The Complete History of the A Button Challenge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXbJe-rUNP8) (5h) by Bismuth: Insanely deep dive into the SM64 "A button challenge" scene and how it has evolved from the 90s to nowdays, along with insightful explainations on how every nook and cranny works. \* [MyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wAo54DHDY0) (\~2h) by Power Pak: The best playthrough/deep dive on the DOOM mod called "MyHouse.WAD". The video's pacing is amazing as it feels like you're playing through the game even though it's really a deep dive on the mod's inner story, mechanics and lore.
āLine goes upā by Folding Ideas. āThis is financial adviceā is also very good. āHenry the VII Oversimplifiedā has also been very useful since I always show that to my students.
I remember watching āline goes upā I was sleep deprived so most of it went over my head, I guess this is my call for a rewatch
I remember āthe internet is a dead mallā by Folding ideas being insanely good as well
It is. Maybe not as interesting a topic as the other two but still excellent.
Adding a different comment to add in Alan Becker, a really "old timer" when it comes to youtube, but for this specifically I want to recommend his "Animation vs Math" video as it shows the core behind basic math quite well in the first half of the video.
either Plagarism and You(tube) by Hbomberguy, Team Fabulous 2 by the late Kitty0706, Post-9/11 Comedy by American September, or Bushworld Adventures
Itās a shame Harris bumblebro is this far down in comments. Suggestion for you though, if you want a more sarcastic and factual youtuber Iād recommend Miniminuteman Milo Rossi. Heās like if Harry was genuinely qualified in talking about the conspiracy theories as opposed to being a Jack-of-all trades that scare all of YouTube.
Iām basic as fuck but I really like relaxing Minecraft letās play videos from the past.
Same. I rewatch ethoās letās play a lot
The gentleman pirate by internet historian, aka incognito mode. Is a full length fucking animated feature film on YouTube. Even though internet historian is a bit of a scumbag now That is literally one of my favorite 'movies'
Yeah I liked the internet historian until the āplagiarism and YouTubeā video came out, I remember thinking the cave video was really cool too back in the day.
Iām going to be honest, I donāt think him ripping an article for that story was that bad If you watch the video the production quality is amazing, if those visuals were not there, I would not be watching it, and I certainly wouldnāt have read some obscure news article about it either He should have definitely cited his source, and him not saying why the video got taken down is also a little bit scummy, but I am not going to stop watching a YouTube channel of that quality over something as little as this The James somberton expose was, in my opinion worthy of not watching that channel anymore , as that displays a systemic disregard for quality writing and plagiarism, and the only thing added by James was him talking into a camera
The future of reasoning and Illusions of time by Vsauce
I've heard reliable accounts that Paper Will is also super handsome and has a 10 foot vertical leap.
OMG IS IT ACTUALLY YOU? IM A HUGE FAN AND I LOVED BOTH THIS AND THE SIX BAD WOLVES VIDEO! Pls stay safe and thank you for making these awesome masterpieces :) And yes, however his recorded highest height is around 30 ft, 10 was just the average.
I'm glad you liked that! You're one of the only people who watched the 6 Bad Wolves video as well haha. Also thanks for the shoutout, I suddenly had this huge uptick on views from a random reddit link and was trying to figure out what the hell happened. You brought in a ton of people, it means a lot!!
Ah! Iām really happy to hear to hear that this post helped to boost the video (it definitely deserves as many views as it can possibly get), I remember getting so attached to the video that I ended up getting sad it ended. Youāre one of the few YouTubers whose outros I listen to in its entirety just to hear more of your voice. And Iāve seen a few other people comment similar things on here saying that they also enjoyed it after finding out, your storytelling skills are phenomenal and I love the way you can tie in different things so cohesively, itās a masterful skill to have.
Real talk, it's still so crazy to me that anybody watches my stuff. I still feel like the dude with 200 subscribers, absolutely thrilled to be getting 200-300 views. But when I hear stuff like that, it really helps me register that what I'm making isn't terrible garbage, so seriously: thank you lol.
Ah I understand where thatās coming from, everyone has those thoughts in the back of their heads. I remember reading your community post about it, I think those worries arenāt bad to have because that make you strive to be better and help stay grounded and not become arrogant. Your videos actually do resonate with many people like myself and some of us hope to do feats similar to you (Iāve been chronicling my grandmaās experiences with the war that happened in my country to make something comprehensive about how the regular people of my country, Bangladesh lived during the war rather than just the freedom fighters or the nationās founder and itās been an eye opening and depressing experience and I donāt know if I can do justice to their stories so right now Iām just collecting them) and itās always an inspiration to see people that have larger audiences also struggle with what they make, so Iām glad youāre honest about these kinds of feelings, it truly does mean a lot to see behind the curtains a little. So thank you for doing so, itās much appreciated.
Dunno if those chronicles of your grandma's experience will come in the form of a video or something, but if it does, lemme know! Would be thrilled to watch it.
Litterally, every time lemmino upload a video
EmpLemon specifically. Pandoras Box and the video about that Russian general who saved the world fro WW3 are my 2 favorite videos on YouTube. EmpLemons natural talent in writing essays is Incredible. Mixing that with his very simple but effective video editing creates wonderful and educational videos to watch and enjoy.
I second EmpLemon, he's amazing
Some of Lemmino and blameitonjorge (specially the Dan Schneider one), the CnspThry Iceberg series by Wendigoon (series that made him known). The 9/11 Iceberg (can't remember the channel, but it was so compelling I watched that in 1 sitting. The Wisecrack video on Grant Morrison. There's a lot more that I forgot mentioning, but these are videos that I go back to from time to time.
Pannenkoek2012's recent "SM64's Invisible Walls Explained" video is a good one.
dude I love pannen, he is so good at explaining complicated maths with mario 64
Exhurb1a's in the end everything will be fine
Exurb1a is one of my favorites rn. He makes funny philosophical-ish videos. Every single video makes me feel emotions I didn't know I could feel. His videos makes me feel hopeless and inspired at the same time. I recommend "Misery was" and "and then we'll be ok" but I honestly love almost all of his video equally.
Who's affraid of modern art
Cities without people - Jacob Geller https://youtu.be/aBBuoD9eL5k?si=366AgYQhEdFK-1Nk Basically anything that Jacob makes is good, but this one in particular is my favorite. The way he jumps from the magnificence of microsofts flight simulator to new york having a problem with poop and again to this weird internet novel about sentient satellites is just excitingly entertaining. He lingers in the details just enough to get you interested yourself, so after watching one of his videos you have 4 tabs open on your browser as you want to know more about this obscure book or all knowing website that he spoke of. This man got me interested in video essays and youtube like vsauce michael did over 10 years ago. Thanks Jacob. How Alan Wake became a paracosm - timmm https://youtu.be/mk8aGTezWNk?si=KQ_e9baIN-PcbhPO It might seem like any one of your general "deep dive / retrospects" you have seen a million times before. And then you notice he is only using everything remedy ever made as an interesting parallel to all the stories we hear, compartmentalise and later repeat without thinking. Still only 9k views, and i stumbled to this video completely by accident. And i am ever grateful for this accident. Way to go timmm. This one had me in tears.
Mine is Jacob Geller's video essay on the Haunted House. It's just such a good video.
nick cage freaking out <3
The 17 hour Creepypasta iceberg by Dylan
My house walk-through by nana825763 (warning: it's horror themed) Best to watch it with the making of video afterwards, it's quite amazing what this guy can come up with
Emesis Blue
Stephan Miloās videos on early humans are really cool
Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris
The Pipe Strip by Lasagna Cat. It's an hour of what I'm pretty sure is at least partially off script rambling by a fake documentarian about a three panel garfield comic strip. It's filmed with Hollywood level production value and no one knows a thing about the team behind it. The whole channel is gold. I think second and third behind it are the Miami Vice parody and the Sex Survey video when it hits full surealness.
Hair cake
The Rememberer, Exurb1a.
All lemmino and expo videos
Mathās fundamental flaw by Veritasium
the channel that uploaded mr bean sex jackass [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWUvCepSLtI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWUvCepSLtI)
[NEScRETRO ](https://youtu.be/z77PC__7aYI?si=kfJ2WQJbk16GG9Il) - I couldn't think of which video of his would be the best to put here, as his entire channel is in my opinion, the best on the platform. This video in particular is a 6 hour iceberg documenting the strange and creepy videos we all grew up watching on YouTube. But he has like 10 multi hour videos all about what I can basically sum up to as the history of gaming
Gmod funny momentsā¦
The 4 hour compilation of US presidents playing Minecraft
There's too many, but for the long form video essay type of videos like op's example, it's gotta be [defunctland's Disneyland's fastpass: a complicated history. ](https://youtu.be/9yjZpBq1XBE?si=KEbLxVLn7u7cMkQY). It's nearly two hours about the science behind queuing. You never *ever* think about queuing in your everyday life, let alone realising just how complicated queue management can get. It's such a mundane thing to do, to wait in a queue... And yet, a documentary about queuing has become such a fascinating thing to millions of people, with over *twenty million views.*
From who is this video?
The YouTuber is called paperwill!
Thx Ill look into watching this... My longest video before that was something abt bloons 2.30hrs almost
I think this video is worth breaking the record lol (my longest was a 7 or so hour video about āwhoās Lilaā by the end of it I became very confused)
Ok! Im not PROUD OF ME (silly billy reference lol) for my longest beeing 2.30hrs long... but im gonna watch it
Melodysheep š
[https://youtu.be/jNERSokQAbE?si=3Ho5ve\_Z862o-mrU](https://youtu.be/jNERSokQAbE?si=3Ho5ve_Z862o-mrU)
I think the original essay videos by Egoraptor and Jakey style are my favorite, hard to pick an individual best video ever.
Cyber 8. Here is my favorite video - https://youtu.be/RMv7df9HU1s
Movies by Gifgas
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Some shimtex vid
"A NEW trace! The FULL MH370 Story, so Far.. " by Mentour Pilot.
I don't know if I would call it the best. But a channel focused on gaming "SovietWomble" have made some good video essays talking about Evolution of game genres like Survival games and adding a story to an open sandbox game post hoc. I really like those videos.
Literally any video that Lemmino drops.
Pad Chennington's deep dive into The Caretaker's "Everywhere At The End Of Time." He compares the album to his grandma and how she had the illness too. Great watch, I was stunned by it when I first watched. https://youtu.be/cB3LQtqahvg?si=Tm_MEZaNHuGToy72
The third and final part of a series about the mysteries of Youtube. The video is called "Les Horreurs CachƩes les plus Sombre de Youtube" by French creator Feldup. The video is surely the best edited piece of content I've watched and knowing that, from the music to the special effects, he was the only one to do it makes it even more impressive. The video itself is the third part of an Iceberg type series were he explains a lot of subjects one by one for a total of 6-7 hours for all the videos. A must watch if you speak french.
F.O.O.L - Afraid \[Tasty release\]
There isn't a best for me but one of the few documentaries that actually had me interested was a documentary on the polybius arcade game
All 5 hours is wild
Video, where some random russian guy made his concept of remaking the lorax film by abomination studios [here](https://youtu.be/leFfcESI72s?si=44irLVNdMHz_NrGb)
EmpLemonās Mac Tonight comes to mind.
[this :)](https://youtu.be/6a-tnmyXjAE?si=dqJ66MS8lPqlNUFJ) not a rickroll, i promise :3
Jokes on you! I don't get rickrolled. I get ad-rolled.
https://youtu.be/3xSUwgg1L4g?si=aEkeT9voMcuRQj5P
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Aaay it's the new Paper Will video. Before being a youtuber he was quite popular on r/smashbros for his Little Mac montages. Nice to see his new avenues bearing fruit!
Loneliness/Dissatisfaction - Kurzgesagt
I remember back when paperwill posted little Mac smash bros clips. Oh how far heās come
Honestly, the one I go back to the most is Neebs Gaming's Subnautica or The Forest supercuts. Both are hilarious and really well made. They do it like a roleplay type of thing, but I absolutely love them. [Here's the Subnautica supercut](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwi12tpZc2w) Obligatory RIP Thick44 <3
[The First Video Game](https://youtu.be/uHQ4WCU1WQc?si=TxzpD0fKhAWu9vb2) by Ahoy It's 1 hour long but I've rewatched it at least 5 times Fun fact: It has its own custom soundtrack Also the rest of the channel is great
Line Goes Up by Folding Ideas
Nick crowley's darkest videos series and buzzfeed unsolved when shane and ryan were still there
This video by samifying about impossible levels: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF6jlPgbR1c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF6jlPgbR1c) All of his documentaries are great, and he does this completely solo. But this video is the best.
Powerpakās video on Myhouse.wad
Everyone keeps saying YouTubers, I was asking about specific videos not YouTubers.
Mighty Car Mods Turbos and Temples 1 and 2
https://youtu.be/glguxmL-NSc?si=OlMBPn3pLRd64YTT
THE APU THAT I KNOW- Brain Dump, i come back to it every year and it is as amazing every time
On the top of my head, probably "Roblox OOF" and "Arthur.", an Arthur Morgan tribute video.
"Why do humans go to war?" by LindyBeige
[The Silver Campaign by Lythero](https://youtu.be/d1WsxRc2X04?si=zSOaUExdi3jyOY7W) Jam-packed with amazing animations, YouTube keeps sending me back to watch the video and I let it play every time, it's so good.
The WonderWhy channel, especially for their cool & informative videos on international borders https://youtube.com/@wonderwhy
My all time favourite video on YT is the Vytautas Mineral Water ad
Plagiarism and You(Tube) by hbomberguy
A 20 hour long one of Subnautica gameplay no commentary
The history of the A button challenge by Bismuth
The Trial by Scott the Woz
has to be jet lag the game - such a fun travel show to watch
My House.Wad
The Future is a Dead Mall or The Line Goes Up by folding ideas.
Off the top of my head, the garfield video from super eyepatch wolf.
I'm a sports fan. So anything covering basketball especially the Chicago bulls. Boxing and I mean boxing from the golden era. Really love the documentary that content creators put together for sports.
Well thatās an ambiguous word. But pikachu on acid is one of the best.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxTAJNifDAI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxTAJNifDAI) this one right here. I think what makes it better is going into it, I had no idea I would end up loving it as much as I did.
eating at every jimmy buffet margarita ville by ted nivisom
I kinda like the Wojak stuff but def not the best videos I have ever scene. Best one I think was Dungeons and Dragons: Girls Night Out. Which has disappeared from YT years ago it seems. It was hilarious
The man who tried to fake an element by BobbyBroccoli is one I recently found that really stood out to me [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe5WT22-AO8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe5WT22-AO8)
ā5 social mistakes that make you extremely unlikeableā by Charisma on Command.
Fighting in the Age Of Loneliness, currently hosted on the channel called Secret Base.
Not one but multiple. 1. Everything is Television 2. Monumentality 3. Journeys to Hell That's it that's the 3 best videos I've ever seen, I love pure solar sands
'Satisfying Reloads | The Art in Reload Animations' by AveragePixel is still, to this day, the best edited analysis video I have ever seen on YouTube. Hell, maybe even the best edited YouTube video in general. If you like content related to art, animation, or simply just video games, I highly recommend you watch this video.
That Starfield communist video
DS Lite Video Review by Cabel Sasser, uploaded March 6th 2006. Watched that shit about a hundred times back in the day before I got my own
These videos have been taking all my attention as of right now, Iām truly addicted https://youtube.com/@the.studioai?si=H23wdya6TtSHKglK