Casual Geographic has great animal content, and is just a really funny likable guy.

Parkrose Permaculture for US leftist politics.

Attorney Mark Lopez for how to deal with cops (also US)

Accounting Rescue with Lisa if you have accounting questions

Fire Department Chronicles for funny medical skits

Former Black Panther Speaks: the origin of Standards Not Force, which is the spiritual successor to the Black Panthers.

T1J for interesting analysis of random popular media.

Chris and Jack for funny skits.

Mina Le for cultural analysis in media, particularly fashion and appearance related.

I also follow a ton of channels related to making and selling art, but i’m not going to list those unless anyone requests it.

I currently have a Youtube phase and like:

• Charlatan Wonder and Charl(his cat) for Immersive Sims
• Redlyne for the more obscure entries in gaming and adjacent areas (i loved his exploration of dead online spaces)
• oboeshoesgames for funny, more indepth stuff, oboeshoestwos for “bottom of the barrel” steam games and some surprisingly good games that do not have anyone playing them
• Denys Davydov well sourced daily Ukraine updates
• INSIDE RUSSIA for how the SMO changes Russia and how the russian system works
• Perun for everything military
• The rest is Science with the Vsauce guy and Hannah Fry, Hannah Fry herself too
• Louis Rossman, Gamers Nexus and GNCA for Hardware and consumer rights
• Technology Connections, Veratisium, CPG Gray, 3brown1blue, NileRed, Styropyro, Codys Lab, Elektroboom and Chem Thug for more Sciencey Stuff, Chubbyemu for medical stuff
• Strange Aeons and Lessons in Meme Culture for Subcultures and to be up to date on popular Memes
• Legal Eagle for US legal stuff and Reckless Ben because he’s insane in a good way

Off topic but I guess it might be useful. YouTube channel RSS is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id<channel_id>, or with gnu sed:

echo '<channel_url>' | sed 's|https://www//.youtube/.com/channel/|https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id|'

Funny shorts:

Farming while beige

Bobby Fingers.

The Spiffing Brit.

Any Austin.

Some More News.

Ryan George.

Space Ice.

I don’t have a lot of overlap with what you watch, but maybe Atlas Pro? That might be up your alley.

Tabi-Ie.

Japanese guy who built a tiny house on his mini Toyota flatbed. There’s no talking. There’s always the same script: hit an onsen, cook elaborate dinner, sleep, cook elaborate breakfast. It’s very relaxing.

Skuru Dog, Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik, Earlybird, GameGrumps, GMM, Mythical Kitchen, BlueJay, Odd1sOut, NileRed, Oversimplified, and Checkpoint.

A few of mine:

Reb Masel - True crime / law podcast

Tommy Sabbatical - Off the beaten path travel vlog

What happened to All? I noticed a big change when I switched from the app to a browser, so I figured it was that. I don’t want to bias the responses by saying what I observed.

Here’s a bit of a mixed list of good channels indicative of my interests, in no particular order, and excluding traditional media orgs and stuff like bands (though as an exception I’ll shout out tiny desk by NPR):

Technology connections - video essays about household tech

Techmoan - retro AV gear and adjacent stuff

Nostalgia nerd - video essays about retro games

Cathode ray dude - video essays on old video production and industrial tech, and adjacent stuff

LGR (+ Blerbs) - classic PC video games and hardware

Retro bytes - more video essays about retro games

Hbomberguy - video essays about games and politics

Philosophy tube - video essays about philosophy

Evan edinger - mix of topics (often transit, language, travel, differences between US/UK) about an American who’s lived in the UK and Europe

AudioPilz - retro audio gear

Ringway Manchester - amateur radio

Jago Hazzard - trains and transit, particularly London

William Osman (+ 2nd channel) - unhinged engineer currently trying to farm

Kurzgusagt - edutainment about science, health and philosophy

Binging with babish - cooking

Bigclivedotcom - electronic/electrical engineering

Macho Nacho productions - retro game console mods

Modern vintage gamer - retro game emulation and adjacent stuff

Slow news day - topical UK news analysis

Chris Spargo - short documentaries about random oddities

Tom Scott (+ the technical difficulties) - currently visiting various interesting sites around the UK, general documentary content

Pad Chennington - video essays about obscure music genres and trends

Linus Boman - typography and design

Humano Studios - vinyl DJ sets

James Hoffman - coffee documentaries and reviews

Notjustbikes - public transit and urban planning

The Serial Port - 80s/90s era Telco and ISP tech

Clabretro - similar stuff, maybe a bit more stuff about old servers

Abroad in Japan - travel content and entertainment for Japan hosted by a British expat

Rion Ishida - walking vlogs in Japan focusing on travel

Nilered - science experiment edutainment

Defunctland - abandoned theme park video essays

Adam Ragusea - cooking and health

Lockpicking Lawyer - guy picks into every lock in front of him

Gary’s Economics - video essays about why everything is going to shit (economics)

Adrian’s digital basement - retro tech repair

How to drink - cocktails and their history

VWestlife - more retro tech repair

Adam Martyn - British broadcast media history

J.J. McCollough - pop culture video essays

Summoning Salt - speed running video essays

Wendover Productions (+ half as interesting and jet lag the game) - video essays about logistics and adjacent topics. HAI is more short content and general topics

MattKC - retro game reverse engineering

Self sufficient me - gardening

Ogmios - pov vlog with a fun voiceover

Level1Techs - more tech content

Ambiguous amphibian - game challenges

Fortnine: allegedly bikes but the videos are works of art.

Bad Obsession Motorsport: a new Project Binky video at least every 6 months!

RRC Restoration: a Scotsman doing up old bikes and cars.

Jeffiot: long form internet investigations of silly things that are fascinating.

New Yorkshire Workshop: a man doing up a house. No commentary, just amazing skills and great filming.

Tom Scott - He is back with new videos every week: !tomscott@lemmy.zip

A couple that haven’t already been mentioned:
This Old Tony
Sixty Symbols
Legal Eagle
Stefan Gotteswinter
Matt Godbolt
Kaname Naito

“Brutalmoose”/“Moose2”, easily!

“More Kitboga” is up there for me.

Someone randomly recommended “Thread Menace”, a Valheim speedrunner. Really comfy, chill, long adventures.