I'm Enjoying some Northernlion and lamenting about Drawfee during there 2 week vacation
I'm Enjoying some Northernlion and lamenting about Drawfee during there 2 week vacation
100% That video where he voice changes as an old lady and convinces a scammer that she wont use any piece of technology because she was afraid of the robot uprising was gold. His ability to improv like 3-4 people on the phone switching voice changers seamlessly is amazing
Yes!!! I genuinely think he's the best improv artist I've ever seen, and he can multitask so well. I've also learned a ton about scams from him and use the information to reach out to companies and try to enact change.
Something else I appreciate is that he treats anyone and everyone with respect (no matter how vile they are towards him); not something you see on the internet often.
By topic, in order of how likely I am to immediately click on their video if I see a new one:
D&D:
ā¢ Viva La Dirt League D&D
(Including hammy greenscreen reenactments! Beyond hilarious. Top of the list. My god.)
Skits:
ā¢ Viva La Dirt League (gaming)
ā¢ Dr. Glaucomflecken (medicine)
ā¢ Ryan George
ā¢ Paint (parody music)
ā¢ MTGRemy (Magic: The Gathering parody music)
ā¢ Brian David Gilbert (music)
ā¢ Fire Department Chronicles
ā¢ Steven He (being Asian)
ā¢ Daniel Thrasher
Interesting/horrible facts:
ā¢ Casual Geographic
ā¢ Tom Scott
ā¢ Kurzgesagt
Movies:
ā¢ Pitch Meeting
ā¢ CinemaTherapy (psychology of movies)
Psychiatry (gaming bent):
ā¢ HealthyGamerGG
History:
ā¢ Tierzoo (prehistory if it were an MMO)
ā¢ Linfamy (Japanese)
ā¢ Fall of Civilizations (all 1-3hrs long but great)
ā¢ Townsends (US colonial)
ā¢ Shadiversity (medieval)
Gaming:
ā¢ The Escapist (zero punctuation)
ā¢ JelloPlaysGames
ā¢ Razbuten (highly recommend checking out his "Gaming for a Non-Gamer" series)
Art (chill):
ā¢ Sultan Sketches
ā¢ LavenderTowne
ā¢ ABD Illustrates
Art (tutorial):
ā¢ David Finch
ā¢ Bobbo Andonova
ā¢ Winged Canvas
Misc:
ā¢ OwlKitty (cat greenscreened into movie trailers)
ā¢ Exurb1a (emotionally distressing prose)
ā¢ LegalEagle (lawyer drama)
ā¢ JelloApocalyse (misc/gaming, can genuinely recommend the hilarity of a video about lemonade reviews, of all things. His delivery is fantastic.)
ā¢ b2studios (programming fun)
ā¢ Huggbees ("How It's Made" parodies)
ā¢ The Onion
Please keep this up, because I need to be able to come back to this and check out the stuff I don't already follow and look at. Since you had quite a few I already enjoy I'm mostly assuming you've got good taste...
Have young kiddos so apologies for that POV.
YouTube: Mark Rober, Kurzgesagt, and Dr Plants
For podcasts I like Dan Carlin.
So glad youtube has these kinds of channels and its not all just clickbait cringey trash. I wish there were a browser plugin or something to filter out reaction videos and anything where thereās a gen-Z-er just straight overreacting and yelling at their phone
Iāve been obsessed with Jacob Gellerās video essays for months now. Thereās just something about the way he writes that lands with such a punch for me, I canāt get enough of it. Notable mentions are his video on orbital lasersā one of the best openings to a video essay Iāve ever listened toā and the comparison video between RE4R, HBOās TLOU and Dead Space Remake. If youāre into video essays and/or gaming in any capacity, check him out. You wonāt regret it.
In no particular order,
Gaming:
Gaming adjacent:
Podcasts:
Other:
I really like Corridor Crew / Corridor Digital: I have been following them for over a decade and they have so many good videos where they dissect Visual Effects and stunts or experiment with new tools (lately they have been toying with Stable Diffusion and they did with Deep Fakes earlier).
On a similar subject, Captain Disillusion is underrated, he's debunking viral videos using his knowledge of VFX.
Ahoy makes mini-documentaries on video game history (mainly retro PC gaming) with really nice graphics and music made by himself.
And lastly, not so much a creator, but a documentary series that sucked me in: PsychOdyssey follows the developers from Double Fine during the production of Psychonauts 2. It's a very rare and honest look into the creation process of video games and it particularly hit with me because Psychonauts 2 is my favorite game of 2021.
I'm surprised he hasn't been mentioned so far, but DougDoug is my favorite YouTuber/streamer. He has some of the most creative and entertaining videos of any currently active content creator imho.
On YouTube, I like:
Alasdair Beckett-King
Alien Theory
Like Stories of Old
Pitch Meeting
Shaun
For podcasts, I like:
Adam Buxton
The Watch
Acollierastro Physicist and academic breaks down varying topics in casual and fun long-form format. string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard
Value Select Multi-talented (really) independent content creator, who flavours his borderline surrealist humour with 80's stylings and DnD/medieval vocabulary and theatrics. Pushes for good vibes while keenly aware of the grind "Embrace the mirth".
He's always experimenting and pushing his production to unbelievably comedic quality, so I discovered him when he was doing musical skits such as Tell me your name again (again) Hit Me With Your Car 2020
Right now he's been on fire with his youtube shorts. Not everyone's thing and if you wanna take a glance, personal favourites include:
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ā¢ Thorhighheels: Video game analysis, mainly older or more obscure games. Tends to focus more on vibes than gameplay. Makes really good music too. ā¢ Jacob Geller: Another mainly game analysis channel but he covers other forms of media as well. Check him out on Nebula if you like his content for extra and longer videos.
its more like a ted talk but about some aspect of physics. Talks about complex topics that are understandable to a the non expert but you know you need decent science grounding. Seems like post docs have been the speakers but the guy now has been doing it awhile so im not sure if its like a career now for him. When they get deeper in a topic they link to earlier ones that have went through different important background pieces that could be helful to watch to understand the current topic. Topic bounces between recent developments to just interesting theoretical concepts and such.
My wife and I's top 3 on YouTube:
Internet Comment Etiquette with Eric
Ordinary Things
Brutalmoose
Plenty of others, but these are the three I always recommend to people.
In the order they popped into my head
I did a thing
Dankpods
Cold ones
IC3PEAK
Wendigoon
Cowchop (house/barn era)
Call me Kevin
D&D: Critical role Dimension 20 Matt Colville
Makers: Tom Stanton Christopher Helmke Miscast
Science: PBS Spacetime Sabine Hossenfelder Anton Petrov
AI: AI explained Alan Thompson