# Recommend me some of your favorite Youtube channels. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 16, 2016, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341 "2016-04-16T09:32:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/21 "2016-04-19T19:38:23Z")
[Knobfeel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF2kPqOyRz2A1FHcUgFJHfQ) - Reviews of electronic equipment knobs, short and sweet - and nonverbal [Goldvision](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvBv3PCvD9v-IKKTkd94XPg) - A reflective philosophical generally non-violent guy plays various video games [Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin?](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrQieQckb9Fw9-SD7BdkpjQ) - Video game themed skits, raunchy, violent, satirical, silly. Written by one of the writers of Borderlands I believe. Ash voices Tiny Tina in Borderlands. [SerpentZa](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl7mAGnY4jh4Ps8rhhh8XZg) - A South African/Englishman moves to China and blogs about it. Very immersive and informative. ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/22 "2016-04-24T18:03:57Z")
> **[Facts.](https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=facts)** > > Facts is bringing you Fact based videos from around the world. Never be misled again! > > / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / > > Business and advertising inquiries: facts@rumble.com > > / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /... "Irish People Try/Taste/Watch/Explain… hilarious time-suck !! ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/23 "2016-04-24T19:14:53Z")
How about my own channel? Lots of fun tidbits here. You won’t be disappointed: > **[Pat McCauley](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtMZGGrOXSmAciZ-kR5QZiA)** > > Share your videos with friends, family, and the world ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/24 "2016-04-27T03:14:30Z")
I’ve been trying to tell people how great Youtube Channels are; but they just don’t get it! A few of my faves [Postmodern JukeBox](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCORIeT1hk6tYBuntEXsguLg) “Today’s hits, yesterday.” They take current hit songs and play/sing them in 1930s-1960s Style. If you get a chance to see them in concert it’s worth it! [Grant Thompson - The King of Random](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1zZE_kJ8rQHgLTVfobLi_g) From his youtube page: “Call it “mad science”, or just a “quest for discovery”. These are some of my experiments, life-hacks, and random weekend projects.” Basically he builds cool stuff. [Engineer Guy](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2bkHVIDjXS7sgrgjFtzOXQ) Bill Hammack explores the world of engineering, and explains complex topics and dumbs them down for us mere mortals. It’s worth it just for his discussion about how/why cola cans are built the way they are. [This Old House](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUtWNBWbFL9We-cdXkiAuJA) Because who doesn’t love This Old House? ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/25 "2016-04-27T03:17:21Z")
> [@Philliam](#): > > [http://goo.gl/yEIawC](http://goo.gl/yEIawC) > > "Irish People Try/Taste/Watch/Explain… hilarious time-suck !! I love this one. My wife and I are going to Ireland in August/September and I came across this looking for Ireland videos. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/26 "2016-04-27T03:32:18Z")
The React channel. > **[People Vs Food](https://www.youtube.com/user/React)** > > People Vs Food is the newest channel from React Media! React's Replay has become your #1 food and cooking destination, People vs Food, with Replay favorites like TRY NOT TO EAT, along with a ton of insanely cool new shows for you to sink your teeth... Especially their people vs. food series. I especially like the ones with kids trying various unusual or foreign foods. https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PL73YndQawY3MC79qrr7Oj7Cq_I2iQvJao&wmode=transparent&rel=0&autohide=1&showinfo=1&enablejsapi=1 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/27 "2016-04-27T05:24:59Z")
Three channels about filmmaking: [Every Frame a Picture](https://www.youtube.com/user/everyframeapainting) [Filmmaker IQ](https://www.youtube.com/user/FilmmakerIQcom) [Now You See It](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWTFGPpNQ0Ms6afXhaWDiRw/videos) ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/28 "2016-04-27T07:04:22Z")
[PBS Idea Channel](http://www.youtube.com/user/pbsideachannel) - I’m always surprised this one isn’t more popular with Dopers. A great look at pop culture, technology, and philosophy. [Extra Credits](https://www.youtube.com/user/ExtraCreditz) The best in depth look at the planning and creating of video games. PLUS a great world history series called Extra History. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/29 "2016-04-29T18:02:38Z")
It’s times like this when I wish that in addition to a polling option (which would be good here too), that we had an automated bracket software so we could easily toss all of these into a tournament style bracket and get the consensus on the best channel. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/30 "2016-04-29T19:49:36Z")
I am surprised to find that the Green brothers are involved in a great deal of my favorite YouTube channels. Probably because they have the cutest guys on camera. They’re all so adorable. In fact I can only think of one girl who is featured regularly and she is . . . interesting looking. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/31 "2016-04-30T06:21:07Z")
This is a great idea for a thread, looking forward to checking some of these links out. My recommendations: [The Hillbilly Gor Channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNmgRmRR05AdxXAGDRQAp5w) – For general WTFness, in a NSFW sort of way (naked gaming avvies and some nude language, although this consists mostly of combat vidoes, but … the voiceover is … different. [The Katering Show](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGc8JKl5EvE8IjZ_qprNcQ)– what a cooking show should be! [The Guild](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt9S9nd8hATsfRjRlrcyklw) – Hilarious series about hardcore gamers. Do them in order, they aren’t standalones, and they are totally worth the trouble. This is the series where Felicia Day made her bones as a Youtube celebrity. [Vaginal Fantasy](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPmtjirgHtbF9lryHaawLIg) – It’s not as bad as it sounds. It’s book reviews of romance novels. Sometimes very steamy romance novels, but oftentimes not all that steamy. the real fun is the four women who team to give the reviews: Felicia Day, Veronica Belmont, Kiala Kazebee and Bonnie Burton, four very funny and sometimes very drunk women who are fun to listen to even if the book they are reviewing does not sound very good. And as I am not generally a fan of romances, that’s saying something. The reviews are standalones, watch them in any order you please. ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/32 "2016-04-30T06:32:54Z")
[Project Binky!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hCPODjJO7s) Did you ever watch one of those “some folks in a garage work on some sort of vehicular project” shows? This is how it should be done. There are no made-up rows or arbitrary deadlines. No pre-commercial cliffhangers. These are just some dry-wit brits in a garage doing their thing. The project is simple. Take a mini. Try and fit the insides of a sportscar in there. And through ingeniuity, craft and stubbornness, they’re going to see it through. [And here’s an URL to the first episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hCPODjJO7s). ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/33 "2016-05-01T00:55:35Z")
The other day I stumbled across [Fran Blanche](https://www.youtube.com/user/ContourCorsets). I really like her stuff since she is a very geeky woman who gets down in the weeds talking about engineering stuff. It seems to me that most people who post videos in this vein are guys, with a mildly annoying know-it-all attitude. It is so refreshing to see this lady talking so casually and without any air of superiority, while waxing poetic about her collection of LED’s from the 1960’s and 1970’s. At one point in a video she mumbled about how some folks would freak out at her soldering in a Monsanto XYZ-Somethingorother 7-segment display from the 70s, at which point she opened a cardboard box brimming with hundreds of them and laughed as she said she probably had the world’s supply of them in her hands. Check out her video on [The Apollo Saturn V Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC) Circuit Board](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0ggqY7vnAw). ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/34 "2016-05-01T01:14:13Z")
Extra Credits and their sub-channel Extra History are great. > **[Extra History](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCODtTcd5M1JavPCOr_Uydg)** > > Welcome! > > We’re an educational YouTube channel made up of entertainment enthusiasts with backgrounds in game design, television production, literature and academia. Our team creates short-form animated video essays every week about world history,... Extra Credits talks about topics in gaming, especially game design. Extra History is series on a variety of historical topics, but I find quite often topics which don’t get enough coverage. ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/35 "2016-05-01T01:33:46Z")
If you like gardening, [Home Grown Veg](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPrZIwOWNvem_IAuGgmIWlg) is great fun. It’s presented by a headless old dear from northern England, with a delightful turn of phrase and accent. He mostly grows his veg in lightweight pots on his patio (“pa’io”) and has many reveal vids where he digs up a root crop like carrots or potatoes, often enormous harvests, to his obvious delight. His dog, Molly, is a frequent contributor too. My favourite is this one: [First pot of organic Carrots reveal 2015, my best ever result. Seeing is believing. - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tFza61oQxY). ---
**Author:** ![HeXen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@HeXen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeXen)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2016, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/36 "2016-05-01T02:47:41Z")
I mostly watch AVGN and Happyconsolegamer and similar type of shows. Most everything else on YT is fake, pointless or stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/37 "2016-05-01T04:19:05Z")
[Vet Ranch](https://www.youtube.com/user/VetRanch). They rescue animals that, in general, are about to be euthanized because the shelters don’t have the money to pay to treat them, and make them well and able for adoption. Ironically, the veterinarian who started Vet Ranch also runs [Demolition Ranch](https://www.youtube.com/user/DemolitionRanch), where he blows things up with heavy guns. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2016, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/38 "2016-05-01T04:21:29Z")
Adam Plaze’s homophobic comments were a big turnoff to me, and I’m not even gay. ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/39 "2016-05-01T20:49:48Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Adam Plaze’s homophobic comments were a big turnoff to me, and I’m not even gay. Adam Johnston is gay, so I think he’s kind of being ironic or self-effacing. Still, I can see how that would be a turn off. ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341/40 "2016-05-01T20:59:59Z")
[Comic Book Girl 19](https://www.youtube.com/user/comicbookgirl19/featured) is passionate about, well, comic books obviously, but also movies, TV shows, and other media. Most of her videos are reviews of newly-released items, but she’s also done longer in-depth series like [Epic History Game of Thrones](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHZDkFt4F9fOIKzm15gWcebo2Iaio92hJ) and [Epic History X-Men](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvWDjHWgNgc). [CineFix](https://www.youtube.com/user/CineFix/featured) has some informative series with high production values. [What’s the Difference?](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1AXWu-gGX6Jmq1jfa0FP2G0gTV4wgptm) goes into the differences between movies and their source material. [Things You Didn’t Know](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1AXWu-gGX6L3AXjKHlxHSXoOsFrBhc8Q) does indeed have a lot of trivia which I hadn’t picked up from IMDb. And [8-Bit Cinema](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1AXWu-gGX6LNsfQ-KkeGPxL76CFONTom) is just amazing, turning popular films into NES games. The music alone makes them worth checking out. [Alt Shift X](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCveZqqGewoyPiacooywP5Ig) examines fan theories about _A Song of Ice and Fire_ in exhaustive detail, with fun graphics and deadpan humor. My favorite: [Ser Pounce = Azor Ahai: will Tommen’s kitten save Westeros?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7sh3rG96Ew) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-of-your-favorite-youtube-channels/752341.md?page=3)