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Kyle Hill. He's a science YouTuber and he has a series about nuclear energy that is very good.

Here's some of my own, in no particular order:

Gotham Chess - also known for his catchphrase: "Sacrifices... THE ROOK!!!". Yeah, that guy.

Kyle Hill is a science communicator and makes awesome educational content; he also debunks conspiracy theories.

Jeff Geerling is a RasPi aficionado who's made tons of projects.

Louis Rossmann specializes in consumer tech (mostly computers); he's a great critic of corporations and DRM.

Jenna Moreci is a published fantasy writer and has great videos on what to do and not to do when writing fiction.

One Topic at a Time - shares LGBTQ memes found on reddit. His voice may sound annoying. (What can I say? It's an acquired taste)

Bits inside by René Rebe specializes in Linux and Open Source stuff.

Noralities is a girl who makes video essays about anime, and they're not trivial opinions They involve writing, stereotypes, romance, society, and stuff. She's done her homework.

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• Cathode Ray Dude - goes over tech from the 80's, 90's and early 00's
• CloudCuckooCountry - Infrequent book reviewer
• Distant Signal - Like trains? You'll like Danny Harmon
• Great Art Explained - Does exactly what it says on the tin
• Jacob Geller - I'm not sure how to describe him to be honest
• Jay Foreman - MAP MEN MAP MEN MAP MAP MAP MEN MEN MEN
• Josh Strife Hayes - Reviews of terrible MMOs
• Mr Samuel Streamer - High quality Rimworld videos (has also played Terraria, Stardew Valley, Fallout NV and other games), has a bit of a motor mouth however
• PatricianTV - Extremely long video game reviews; his Skyrim review is 20 hours spread across two videos
• Technology Connections - Through the power of buying two of them!
• The Unlucky Tug - Mainly talks about Thomas the Tank Engine

Game Makers Toolkit (GMTK)

StyroPyro

Cody's Lab

NakeyJakey

InfernoPlus

Kruggsmash

Your Movie Sucks

juliaplaysgroove

The 8-bit Guy

Code Parade

Adam Savage (via Tested)

Climate Town

Captain Disillusion

Naomi Wu

chubbyemu

I'm surprised he hasn't been mentioned yet. Haven't seen another channel that presents medical cases in such a good pacing and storytelling while being able to eloquently explain complicated medical stuff such that everyone can understand.

Here are a few that I find have consistent high quality content:

The B1M... His videos seem to really get into the nitty gritty logistics of various large construction projects.

Caitlin Doughty (Ask a Mortician)... I feel like each video is better than the previous. The historical death documentaries are incredible.

Climate Town... Videos about climate change & has a really fun sense of humor.

Neo... Lots of really cool explanatory videos. The editing is really good as well! The recent video on the presidential motorcade was very cool.

And one more... Reckless Ben... IDK if it really fits within the prompt of this thread.. The channel is tough to watch with all the annoying humor & there is a lot of hit-or-miss videos, but at least lately, it seems to really be doing some very interesting things. I enjoyed his series on mckamey manor.

Dunkey. Mind you, he just had a kid so I think he's put out some lower (but not phoned in) effort videos in the last couple of months, but his comedic voice and the banal way he mocks games and gamers has always been consistent.

Summoningsalt

FortNine. It's a motorcycle channel, but even if you don't care about motorcycles it's a great watch. Top production values and great storytelling.

Example: why Harley Davidson is dying: https://youtu.be/EOwxxsPaogY?si=XHHZc_P1hAiRIhp2

I haven't seen him mentioned here:

Fact Fiend

I watch him a lot less than I did before, but it has nothing to do with the quality of his content (which has always been great) and more to do with me not watching YouTube that much nowadays (I used to have a very boring job, so had lots of downtime for watching videos)

Since I haven't seen him mentioned, Michael Stevens aka Vsauce, great Philosophy and science YouTuber.
Sadly only makes like 2 videos a year :/
But his older videos are all still very good watches, I love to rewatch them.

Clickspring makes some of the most beautiful, soothing, detail obsessed machining videos imaginable. Dude builds complex gear works from scratch, including a replica of the Antikythera mechanism which is still in progress after many years, though nearly finished now.

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EthosLab - the OG Minecraft Youtuber that other Minecraft Youtubers watch; somehow still innovating on redstone and technical builds to this day despite Minecraft redstone already pushed to its limits long ago, and his multiplayer shenanigans on Hermitcraft and Life Series is top notch.

Adam Ragusea - cooking videos made for actual home cooks who just want no-flair no-fuss recipes, as well as food science videos exploring and explaining different cooking methods and food chemistry. I'm particularly a fan of how he encourages you to measure and cook by feel rather than by strictly following recipes.

bigclivedotcom has been my favourite channel for almost a decade. Specalized on electronics and his soothing voice is pleasant to listen to.

I still like Level1Techs. They don't put out nearly as many videos as they used to, but what do they put out is usually good.

Mighty Car Mods --> https://www.youtube.com/mightycarmods

Dudes have been making awesome automotive content since 2007. And Moogs sound tracks that he creates for the episodes (and especially the feature length stuff) is incredible.

Don't think they've had a single moment of boring content in 16 odd years, let alone anything objectively bad. Absolute units the pair of them.

Kurzgesagt - Love their production and content

Joe Scott (Answers With Joe)

Tim Dodd (Everyday Astronaut)

Scott Manley (Scott Manley)

Lets get Steve1989mreinfo out onto a comment... nice.

Ahoy is still great, probably because it's just 2 videos per year; Scott the Woz is still funny, Silvagunner too.

A bunch of my other subs have already been mentioned, so I want to add Caitlin from Ask a Mortician. She has demonstrated integrity and consistently high effort for her channel despite growing to over 2mil subscribers.

Jenny Nicholson is another that's been around and gotten big but her videos have only gotten more weird and interesting.

Climate Town has rapidly become one of my favorite channels and consistently puts out well-researched, informative and entertaining vids

In no particular order: *Mind of Watercolor - Steve Mitchell
*Paul Clark
*Escape to Rural France
*Mark Rober
*SloMo Guys
*Bear Essentials
*Primitive Technology
*Adventure Archives

There’s also a fair amount of surprisingly good fan films in various franchises.

Sam O nella Academy

Oh also Brick Experiment Channel for fun stuff with Lego.

This Old Tony

Usagi Electric (Old mini-computers and terminals)

Adrian's Digital Basement (Old micro-computers restoration)

bigclivedotcom (electronics reverse engineering)

Nerdforge (Arts and crafts)

Tom Scott, Sorted Foods, Mr. Barry Lewis, Freakin' Reviews, GeoWizard, Backyard Scientists, I Did A Thing, Stuff Made Here, Scott Stro-Solves.

Simon Whistler

• Lemmino. Quality only got better over the years. Started as a top 10 memes channel. Then became top 10 cool subjects presented like documentaries. Now it's actual documentaries.

• Gameranx. Watched them when they were still just two or three dudes just talking about games. All those years, they made it pretty big on YouTube, and they still didn't lose that vibe.

Surprised no one mentioned LGR/Lazy Game Reviews

Many A True Nerd has always made consistently great Fallout content, and he's only gotten better over the years. Been watching him since 2014.