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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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

FailRace and LeatherCap for fun, chaotic racing videos. Such a marvel of a community in a sea of racing dude bros.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i don't listen to Farya Faraji's music (i'm sure it's fine) but his talking about stuff is really good

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She's great. It's rough watching her videos, but they're really well done.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Futakuchi Mana should be talked about more in online leftist spaces ngl

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Two best friends play

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

My spouses YouTube channel was very good and popular until she retired stalin-heart

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Bringus studios is a super awesome dude

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

johnz makes some relaxing and chill videos about hiking and sewing your own gear

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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 crush) mostly shorts based, some 20 min vids infrequently.

Nicole Coenen for woodcutting (and definitely nothing else hyperflush) shorts that soothe the soul mostly.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ze Frank makes funny documentaries. Technology connections is also good

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

i saw someone on reddit call Ze a tankie for some reason but didn't get any followup on why

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

LEMMiNO

Peak "quality over quantity" dude

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

same with designing very specific things in blender or adobe illustrator!

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