Some of my favourite YouTube videos:

• How Wolves Change Rivers by Sustainable Human
• history of the entire world, i guess by bill wurtz
• The Universe in 4 Minutes and We're the Last Humans Left by exurb1a

• The White Room, Groundhog Daying and Abduction by Chris and Jack
• A Conversation With My 12 Year Old Self: 20th Anniversary Edition by Content With Jeremiah - This seems like the sort of thing I could have done
• "Cigarettes and Riddles" - The Chronicles of Sharpie & Quark Ep.01 by cupofste - This is the precursor to HarmonQuest
• The Scrollweheel by Guy Collins Animation - This is me almost every time I watch someone use a computer
• It's Not About The Nail by Jason Headley
• Only Lads Will Get This by Victorious Sponge
• Baby hands

• Autistic Reporter, Michael Falk, Enchanted By Prison's Rigid Routine
• New Live Poll Lets Pundits Pander To Viewers In Real Time
• Memorial Honors Victims Of Imminent Dam Disaster (2008)
• Brain-Dead Teen, Only Capable Of Rolling Eyes And Texting, To Be Euthanized
• Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire!!! (unofficial)

• 3Blue1Brown

• I've been enjoying the War Stories series on Ars Technica's channel. Particularly Prince of Persia, Myst, PUBG, Command & Conquer and Civilization.

• Behind the Screens - What all the computer screens in random movies are actually showing. I enjoy this immensely :)

• Tom Scott
• Veritasium
• Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell - Always fascinating
• GCP Gray
• VSauce
• SmarterEveryDay
• Primitive Technology - This is the original build-from-scratch-in-the-woods guy.
• Historia Civilis - I didn't know I was into historic battles until I discovered this channel.
• bill wurtz - This guy has a unique way to explain things. Check out history of the entire world, i guess
• D!NG
• Drugslab - Interesting to watch the effects of various recreational drugs on the hosts
• exurb1a - Particularly The Universe in 4 Minutes and We're the Last Humans Left
• Mark Rober
• TheSpanglerEffect

• Photonicinduction - This channel terrifies me a little. Fascinating though.

• Alien Theory - I can talk about the Aliens franchise all day. This fills a niche.
• EC Henry - Lots of interesting science videos about the technology in Star Trek
• Trekspertise (particularly A History of the Borg and Artificial Intelligence in Sci-Fi & Star Trek

• minutephysics
• Numberphile
• oceanexplorergov
• Physics Girl

• Technology Connections - some many different subjects, from why VHS beat Betamax to how antique toasters worked. Some favourties of mine: Toasters, Disney Elevators, Laserdisc, Rice Cookers, TOSLINK and CED and RCA.
• Captain Disillusion - This guy is excellent. He debunks fraudulent videos. His unique appearance (bottom half of his face is silvered) is interesting - makes him memorable and is both recognisable and a disguise (which reminds me a little of Logan from Black Angel).
• Techmoan
• The 8-Bit Guy

• bigclivedotcom - Fascinating dis-assemblies of products (especially Poundland electronics). Very informative.

• carykh - Software evolution
• Computerphile
• LiveOverflow
• sentdex

• Jenny Nicholson - I love this girl's cynical take on popular movies.
• The Slow Mo Guys - Always interesting to see everyday things slowed down a million times!
• Hydraulic Press Channel (and their sister channel Beyond the press)
• Binging with Babish - Cooking the food featured in various movies and TV shows.
• CinemaSins - These guys can be pretty insightful as well as funny.
• How It Should Have Ended
• Daily Dose of Internet
• Doug DeMuro - I'm not a big car fan, but I find his reviews of luxury cars from decades ago pretty interesting
• Gas Station Encounters - Very schadenfreude
• Mythbusters for the Impatient
• Photonicinduction - This guy does terrifying things with electricity
• Wisecrack
• WIRED

• DUST - Sci-fi shorts
• Omeleto - Sci-fi shorts

• GrandPa Kitchen - Just watching an old man cook huge meals for kids
• Grand Illusions - An old man with a passion for old school gadgets
• Joe Robinet - A guy camping in the woods
• Kris Harbour Natural Building - I've been watching this guy build his dream off-the-grid home for years.
• Tibees - Mathematics softly spoken

I find these channels so relaxing. Especially lathework. Sandblasting is also very satisfying to watch.

• TysyTube Restoration
• my mechanics
• Hand Tool Rescue
• Rescue & Restore (rss) - specialises in sheet metal toys
• Baumgartner Restoration - Art restoration. This guy is unbelievably meticulous.

• See also Music Videos
• Leningrad - Some high energy Russian songs I like
• Lil Dicky - This guy is one of my favourite rappers. Check out Professional Rapper, Earth and Ex-Boyfriend
• JonLajoie - This guy had some weird videos early on like Show Me Your Genitals but also produced some beautiful music videos like A New Beginning
• Nine Inch Nails
• officialpsy

• Caravan Palace
• BILLYBONGrecords
• Parov Stelar
• PostmodernJukebox
• SquigglyDigg
• takeSomeCrime - Putting this here because this guy's dancing videos got me into Electroswing.
• The Speakeasy
• Xefox Music

• Bo Burnham - Country Music
• Bo Burnham - Repeat Stuff

• Bitch in Business

• ProZD
• boburnham
• Chris and Jack - These guys make some excellent sketches. Check out The White Room, Groundhog Daying and Abduction.
• ExplosmEntertainment - The Cyanide & Happiness shorts are always entertaining.
• TheOdd1sOut
• Guy Collins Animation (Particularly The Scrollweheel)
• Jason Headley
• Limmy

• Flo & Joan - Musical comedy duo
• Garfunkel And Oates - Musical comedy duo
• Stephen Lynch - Topic - Unofficial/fan channel
• The Key Of Awesome
• The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
• Tim Minchin (and unofficial TimMinchinLive)

• Hollie McNish

I like watching people make things well.

• jimmydiresta
• Jeremy Schmidt
• Matthias Wandel - Interesting build projects including lots of variations on mousetraps. “In my imagination, I would have done a better job too.”

Not sure how to label these ones, but I always want to know when they make new videos

• Boston Dynamics - These guys are definitely pioneering state of the art robotics. Check out Atlas and Spot (bonus UpTown Spot).

• Starship Goldfish

These videos shaped memes over the years. I want to archive them.

• Over attached girlfriend
• My Heart Will Go On - Recorder By Candlelight by Matt Mulholland

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