Who/What are your favourite content creators?

By topic, in order of how likely I am to immediately click on their video if I see a new one:

D&D:
• Viva La Dirt League D&D
(Including hammy greenscreen reenactments! Beyond hilarious. Top of the list. My god.)

Skits:
• Viva La Dirt League (gaming)
• Dr. Glaucomflecken (medicine)
• Ryan George

• Paint (parody music)
• MTGRemy (Magic: The Gathering parody music)
• Brian David Gilbert (music)

• Fire Department Chronicles
• Steven He (being Asian)
• Daniel Thrasher

Interesting/horrible facts:
• Casual Geographic
• Tom Scott
• Kurzgesagt

Movies:
• Pitch Meeting
• CinemaTherapy (psychology of movies)

Psychiatry (gaming bent):
• HealthyGamerGG

History:
• Tierzoo (prehistory if it were an MMO)
• Linfamy (Japanese)
• Fall of Civilizations (all 1-3hrs long but great)
• Townsends (US colonial)
• Shadiversity (medieval)

Gaming:
• The Escapist (zero punctuation)
• JelloPlaysGames
• Razbuten (highly recommend checking out his "Gaming for a Non-Gamer" series)

Art (chill):
• Sultan Sketches
• LavenderTowne
• ABD Illustrates

Art (tutorial):
• David Finch
• Bobbo Andonova
• Winged Canvas

Misc:
• OwlKitty (cat greenscreened into movie trailers)
• Exurb1a (emotionally distressing prose)
• LegalEagle (lawyer drama)

• JelloApocalyse (misc/gaming, can genuinely recommend the hilarity of a video about lemonade reviews, of all things. His delivery is fantastic.)

• b2studios (programming fun)
• Huggbees ("How It's Made" parodies)
• 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...

Kitboga all the way

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.

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 there’s a gen-Z-er just straight overreacting and yelling at their phone
- Agreed :) also wtf TikTok. I refuse to use that site or that app.

I’ve been obsessed with Jacob Geller’s video essays for months now. There’s just something about the way he writes that lands with such a punch for me, I can’t get enough of it. Notable mentions are his video on orbital lasers— one of the best openings to a video essay I’ve ever listened to— and the comparison video between RE4R, HBO’s TLOU and Dead Space Remake. If you’re into video essays and/or gaming in any capacity, check him out. You won’t regret it.

In no particular order,

Gaming:

WoolieVS
Pat Stares At
Northernlion

Gaming adjacent:

Davi Vasc (composer)
Birds of Play (Final Fantasy)
Tarnished Archaeologist (Elden Ring/Soulsborne)
Caddicarus (long reviews)

Podcasts:

Dan Carlin/Hardcore History (history)
Castle Super Beast (gaming/variety)
Behind the Bastards (terrible people!)
This Podcast Will Kill You (medical science and history)

Other:

münecat (unhinged teardowns of terrible people)
Girl With the Dogs (pet groomer)
Sabaton History (history behind the Sabaton songs)
Red Squirrel Studios (unironically comfy Finnish birdcams to entertain my cats and help me fall asleep)

On YouTube, I like:

Alasdair Beckett-King
Alien Theory
Like Stories of Old
Pitch Meeting
Shaun

For podcasts, I like:

Adam Buxton
The Watch

IIIIIIIII added one more podcast…

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.

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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Hey guys, ChrisFix here!

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.

Realcivilengineer on YouTube

This Old Tony
Adam Ragusea
3 Blue 1 Brown
Practical Engineering
Stand-up Maths

BigClive
ididathing
HandOfBlood(german)
NeilRed

• Thorhighheels: Video game analysis, mainly older or more obscure games. Tends to focus more on vibes than gameplay. Makes really good music too. • 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.

YouTube - Dankpods

Podcast - Chart Music and Blindboy

Those three are my jams.

Nerbit (video game challenges)
ItsJabo (video game challenges)
Joov (video game challenges)
TheRussianBadger (Video game fucking around)
CGPGrey (Hexagons are the bestagons 'nuff said)
Jill Bearup (Armor reviews in media)
Strat-Edgy (video game reviews)
The Salt Factory (video game reviews)
Technology Connections (explanations with S A S S)
The Spiffing Brit (Abusing exploits in video games for BRITANNIA)
LGR (retro tech)
Modern Vintage Gamer (video games)
Nostalgia Nerd (retro tech documentaries)
Mitten Squad (video game challenges / I hope he's doing okay 😟)
BruvaAlfabusa (fan fiction creator extraordinaire / Obligatory fuck you Games Workshop)

iam not sure but I think you like watching video game challenges
- You know, you might be on to something there. xD
I like technology connections and pbs spacetime.
- Is PBS Spacetime like their old Nova shows?

I'll eat up anything they put out:
Perun (War economics, logistics, procurement, etc)
The Chieftain (Tank history and doctrine)
CGP Grey (Deep dives on random topics)
The Operations Room (High quality visualizations of historical battles)
The Intel Report (Followup topics related to Operations Room)
dnsl (Trolling in games)

Channels I'll binge on once in a while:
Drachinifel (Naval history)
agadmator (Chess breakdowns)
Forgotten Weapons (Firearm history and mechanics)
Lockpicking Lawyer (Lock history and picking)
LifesAGlitchTV (StarCraft 2 commentary duo)
Spookston (War Thunder gameplay)
The Tank Museum (More tank history)
Real Engineering (Deep dives on interesting engineering)
Scott Manley (Space & rocketry related topics)

In tech: GeekerWan Therelaxingend Mr mobile (Michael Fisher) Mkbhd

In Cars: Doug Demuro

In Games: Motogamestv Calem Mrnazreenn

As far's 'tubers go :

Any Austin : Interesting video game (location|unemployment rate)s
BlueBoyPhin : Obscure pokemon content
Defunctland : Mostly defunct theme parks
Izzzyzzz : Aspects of (internet|contemporary) subcultures
RetroGamingNow : In(teresting|formative) minecraft video essays

In the order they popped into my head

I did a thing
Dankpods
Cold ones
IC3PEAK
Wendigoon
Cowchop (house/barn era)
Call me Kevin

Beau of the Fifth Column and Glenn Kirschner make some quality content on YT

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

Hand of Blood Kalle Sterzik

Name a better one

Harald Baldr.

I like Michael Jackson, he has some smooth tracks. But the man hasn't published in a while

@Tsouintsouin Yeah, I hear some of his team worked with a big video game company in the 90s?
@Ilflish

Thoraya's yt channel has been one of my faves for years now. She basically asks questions and such to stranger on the streets, I love hearing about peoples' experiences, thoughts, life stories etc

I also enjoy EXPLORE WITH US' content, it's a yt channel focused on true crime, unsolved cases etc. The majority of their videos include clips in the interrogation room that are being analysed, it's super interesting

One of my favorite yt channels is currently Stumpt. They got a ton of series on mc from their older backlog, and a variety of other games they've done videos as well if you don't necessarily like mc.

Mr Samuel Streamer is my daily bread. Funny dude. Never miss a video.

My favorite let's player is Mr Samuel Streamer

https://youtube.com/@MrSamuelStreamer

Constant uploads (1-2 a day most days all high quality) funny memes, and a real focus on story telling and not just meta gaming which leads to chaos and more fun times. Also makes ridiculous mod packs for the games he plays. Mostly RimWorld and Crusader Kings stuff.

Internet Comment Etiquette and Warlockracy mostly

I'm on the other side of your opinion - I like that phrase. "Content" can mean art, audio/visual media, writings, etc. - basically anything that we consume.
IMO, Professional creative like artists/writers/performers are all content creators but not not all content creators are professional creatives.
In this day and age, everyone creates music, comedy, videos, skits. Some work a job primarily but create media or rabbitholes that can be scoured through.
I think "content creator" is a nice catch-all term for personalities that do a lot of stuff that can be casually consumed for entertainment or discourse, especially because it stops limiting said people to one occupation like "musician" or "author", while also preserving the seriousness of those occupations.

There aren't many I follow. I don't watch much YouTube, but I like Kand Hayati. She posts videos of her life in rural Azerbaijan, showing some of the family's small scale agriculture and lots of the delicious food that they make.

H3h3 podcast best show on the internet baby let's go