Ask Lemmy

You have mentioned some great channels! In addition to those I recommend,

1. NotJustBikes
2. MapMen
3. Mustard
4. Climate Town
5. About Here
6. Adrian Gray Comedy
7. Andrew The Arborist
8. Animagraffs
9. Casually Explained
10. cities4people
11. City Beautiful
12. 3Blue1Brown
13. iFixit
14. Life Where I'm From
15. Medlife Crysis
16. Primitive Technology
17. Rick Steves' Europe
18. Snazzy Labs
19. Strong Towns
20. Technology Connections
21. thejuicemedia
22. xkcd's What If?
23. The Acoustic Room
24. Ted-Ed
25. JapanEat

Science: Steve Mould

History: timeline, odyssey, war stories, told in stone, vasile luga, get.factual

Music: cercle

Geopolitics: Caspian Report

Aviation: mustard

Biographies: the people profiles

Cooking:

Anti-Chef: Jamie tries to cook from cookbooks if the greatest, but he's not a chef or anything, and you see all his mistakes, such as his recent deboning of a chicken, where he mistakenly de-meated it as well and had to venture out for a new chicken. It isn't bits, just a guy that wants to cook but isn't always so good about following directions, but he learns skiing the way.

Food Wishes: Chef John was a chef, and he makes a wide variety of things in easy to understand ways. He's got lots of catch phrases and such, but he's old so they're endearing instead of obnoxious. His speech pattern can be somewhat off-putting to some, but I got used to it, and he's just trying to be upbeat.

Tool Reviews:

Project Farm: Putting tools, small outdoor machinery, oils, batteries, bungee cords, etc through the paces to replicate real world use and some materials testing. It's pretty fun for a review, and shows what tools are good at their price points.

Music:

David Hilowitz Music: I don't care about his actual music so much, but he makes obscure instruments or repairs broken ones he finds in the trash and ends up with very unique things. He also makes sample libraries from all sorts of things, musical or otherwise, so you can play a version of all his weird stuff.

Cars / General Mayhem:

Garage 54: Some Russian guys with old Soviet cars that do strange Frankenstein experiments with them. Welding 4 engines together, tires made of various objects, all kinds of horrific and entertaining things!

A couple of random suggestions:

Summoning Salt - Video essays detailing world record speedrun history across a variety of games. Videos are easy to understand and assume you aren't intimately familiar with the games in question. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i1AHCaokqhg

RRC Restorations - A Scottish bloke that does really in depth restorations of mostly cars and motorcycles, very relaxing and a joy to watch without any flashy filter. Just a super talented guy doing cool things in his little workshop. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JJSjy4OciLs

Motion in Art - Film essays similar to some of your other favourites that might be of interest.

Art Deco - Analysis, investigation and explanation of art, including the history and context in which paintings were made, themes and motifs, and details that you almost certainly missed when looking at art as a layperson. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m3hM6Qw8Nf4

Fredrik Knudsen - Making the series Down The Rabbithole, which are dives into a variety of topics, including tech and history. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UCgoxQCf5Jg

Lemmino - Video essays on conspiracies and mysteries, all are very interesting and worth watching. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5u7euN1HTuU

Legal Eagle is great at explaining current events and their Legal implications, he also does reviews on movies or shows to explain how they portray law vs reality.

Ordinary Sausage makes sausage out of everything and generally does cooking experiments in a quick and humorous way

Bobby Fingers is a mix of artisan videos where he expertly hand crafts dioramas (mostly) of events while making funny and interesting comments, but he adds some pizazz and production to the whole thing that makes it very engaging.

Forget YouTube and Google by extension. Imagine if you spend all those hours watching something that improves your mind and capabilities: https://ocw.mit.edu

Work on yourself, friends.

These are the channels that keep me coming back. I've tried to sort them by genre but there is a bit of overlap.

• I watch a lot of video essays:

Architectural Digest, Business Insider, Insider Tech, CGPGrey, SciShow, CrashCourse, EconomicsExplained, Practical Engineering, Real Engineering, RealLifeLore, ClassicalNerd, TierZoo (zoology) Kurzgesagt, Wendover Productions (transportation) ColdFusion, Understitch (fashion), Fashion History Sessions, Veritasium (physics), PolyMatter (geopolitics), hbomberguy, CompanyMan, Super Eyepatch Wolf, SomeMoreNews, KnowledgeHusk, Georg Rockall-Schmidt, Russell Brand Louis Rossman, Nerdwriter, minutephysics, MinuteEarth, Numberphile, Mental Floss (trivia), Captain Midnight, Savage Books, Bookpilled.

• Comedy

CalebCity, Internet Historian/Incognitio Mode, Kill Tony, All Things Comedy, AceVane, penguinz0, Casually Explained, Ordinary Things, Vsauce, CrackerMilk, Death Battle!, Bad Lip Reading, Doobus Goobus, Flashgitz, Honest Ads, Ozzy Man Reviews, Pitch Meeting, RDCworld1, Rich Black Guy, ODAWG, brain david gilbert, Sam O'Nella Academy, Stevie Emerson, The Onion.

• Gaming

Skill Up, ACG, videogamedunkey, The Escapist, Polygon, gameranx, GameSpot Game Maker's Toolkit, Girlfriend Reviews, t90Official (any aoe2 fans?), lionheartx10.

• Music

deepcuts, theneedledrop/Anthony Fantano, Sound Field, Polyphonic, Genius, The Company Man, The Lyricologist, Science of Loud.

• Movies

YourMovieSucks, RedLetterMedia, The Critical Drinker, The Cosmonaut Variety Hour, ralphthemoviemaker, The Vile Eye, Screen Junkies, Now you See It, Every Frame a Painting, Lessons from the Screenplay, Screenplayed.

• History

Modern History TV, HardcoreHistory, Shadiversity, SandRhoman History, History Dose, History Matters, Fall of Civilizations, Extra History, Absolute History.

• Philosophy

ContraPoints, Philosophy Tube, Philosophize This!, Wireless Philosophy, Wisecrack, The School of Life, Then and Now.

• Food

FirstWeFeast, Binging with Babbish, One Bite Pizza Reviews (everyoneknowstherules), Alton Brown, Black Tie Kitchen, Tasty, Epicurious.

• Basketball

JxmyHighroller, Thinking Basketball, Professor Live, dime.

• Anime

Gigguk/Garnt, Mother's Basement, Otaku Spirit, olawoolo.

• Fitness

Jeff Nippard, Jeremy Ethier, Alan Thrall, Eddie Hall (world's strongest man).

• Other

General Discharge (military), Marques Brownlee (tech), Outdoor Boys (camping), Our Wyoming Life, EasyGerman, The Slow Mo Guys.