Your favorite YouTube channels
POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Saturday, September 5, 2026 02:39
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Originally posted by whozit:
I like several, Zebra Corner, Ryan George who also does Screen Rant's Pitch Meetings. Also Voxis Productions and Lindsey Ellis is brilliant, and of course...Doomcock. There are also many automotive and sci-fi channels I like but are too many to list. I also like the channels with trains hitting cars and trucks...maybe I need help
lol... I've seen some accidents videos before. I think it's just a phase that we all grow out of. At least for me they got boring to watch after a few hours. Did you see the one where the truck was too high for the bridge and it got stuck and eventually set on fire? That was pretty epic.
Another Ryan George fan. Cool.
Why don't you write up a little intro to the other channels you're bringing up and post a video you like and think does a good job representing what they're about?
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Yeah, watched the posted vid. I think I've got tons of respect for HP but to be honest, his stuff isn't for me.
I fall more ( ok, totally ) into the Tolkien camp. I don't even bother w C.S. Lewis, so it seems going to the other extreme, Lovecraft, is right out.
Props, but no... not for me.
That's cool man. I get you're not into Lovecraft now. I won't bring it up again. That being said, I'm going to change the video for Georg to a different one. I think I'm going to change the video I put for What Is Anti-Logic too. I didn't really pick videos that were best representations about what those channels are and instead made more topical choices.
I'm more interested in what you think about the content creators that I posted than the specific subject matters of the videos I posted.
Where's your picks? You started the thread and haven't contributed to it at all.
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Technology Connections:
I always thought that video player my grandma inherited when my great grandma died was a Laserdisc player. Who knew it was actually the evolution of the vinyl record that was playing movies, and that the technology existed more than a decade before I was born?
Did you know that despite marketing and packaging, that $20 space heater is going to heat your house just as well as the $120 model due to the way that electricity works and the limitations of how our houses are wired for electric?
This guy did.
Watch one of the world's nicest guys tell you all about it while wearing a suit top over a t-shirt while still wearing his pajama bottoms behind the desk.
Not exactly underrated at 650k+ subscribers, but hopefully he hits a million soon because he's been doing a lot of great work over the last 5 years.
The 8-Bit Guy:
Here's a guy who finally hit his 1 Million subscibers late last year. Unlike some of the others I watch, he already had a pretty large base by the time I started watching him. Fairly niche market that his videos cater to, but however he did it he seemed to get all of them to watch.
Originally going by "The Apple Guy" many years ago, I assume he ran out of old Apple-exclusive tech to go over and as the viewer base expanded so did the content that he created.
Just like Technology Connections, it's fascinating to me to see in depth analysis of how old computers used to work. It's interesting to see reviews and specs of machines I never even knew existed while I was growing up, as well as seeing a random video pop up of a computer or games console that I either owned or knew somebody who did too.
If you ever wanted to know what "Phone Phreaking" was when they used that term in movies like Hackers, you should check out his presentation at the Let's Play Gaming Expo in Texas last year. This dude is OG Hacker.
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What I find sorta weird about HPL is that I never even heard of him until 10-15 years ago.
I may have heard, in passing, mention of Cthulhu , but never understood the origins...I just assumed it was some ancient god or deity of some sort. 
I never realized he was a made up character from some early 20th century writer I'd never heard of.
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Yeah. I actually thought that Joss put the HP's Elder Gods into Cabin in the Woods.
Turns out that it was actually parody on how movie fans will rip a movie apart if they don't like it and the end of the movie was actually about you and me.
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Cabin in the Woods. Good flick. Nice twists there and play on the standard slasher film. My only problem was that knowing it was Joss's film, seeing familiar faces ( Amy Acker, Fran Kranz ) and the whole corporate evil thing going on ( Wolfram & Hart ? ) it seemed a bit of a rip off of his own work.
So, Joss is saying that WE are the Elder Gods? I dunno about that. Maybe Joss was trying to protect copywrite or something.
Funny how he'd say that though... because as that movie came out, seems to be about the time when actors and directors started getting rabbit ears and taking criticisms of their work personally and pushing back on the fans. They stopped treating " us " as customers and more like annoyances. Just my 2 cents.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Cabin in the Woods. Good flick. Nice twists there and play on the standard slasher film. My only problem was that knowing it was Joss's film, seeing familiar faces ( Amy Acker, Fran Kranz ) and the whole corporate evil thing going on ( Wolfram & Hart ? ) it seemed a bit of a rip off of his own work.
Outside of Firefly and Cabin in the Woods, I've never actually seen anything else he's done. I'll have to take your word on that.
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So, Joss is saying that WE are the Elder Gods? I dunno about that. Maybe Joss was trying to protect copywrite or something.
I dunno. I saw that on this video:
The hands were defiantly human looking. If they were Lovecraftian, they'd probably be tentacles instead.
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Funny how he'd say that though... because as that movie came out, seems to be about the time when actors and directors started getting rabbit ears and taking criticisms of their work personally and pushing back on the fans. They stopped treated " us " as customers and more like annoyances. Just my 2 cents.
Perhaps he was ahead of his time with that criticism too.
If that really was what he was doing, I don't take issue with it. It made for a good movie and a clever ending, IMO. Sure beats the hell out of calling somebody names on Twitter.
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Don't know that I have any real favourites but I watch some British Telly on YouTube, things like "Good Neighbours" which is British comedy.
Also tend to watch "Top 5 Scary Videos". It's a channel that reviews horror movies. I mean I don't even like horror movies.
Simon Whistler for his historic videos and geographic ones.
So, not really any favourites just whatever catches my eye.
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Lately here's a sample of what I've been watching most. In no particular order or category.
Alteori
Nerdrotic
Geeks and Gamers
Tim Pool
Mr. H Reviews.
Daisy Cousins
Again, I subscribe to approx. 40 channels, a full 10-15 of those I almost never watch. Like SETI . Love the topic, but their vids are a bit on the dry side for my likes. Overly technical, long vids about topics I don't mind watching about, but not 1-2 hours worth.
Bright Insight - I'll bounce back and check up on Jimmy's vids, but they come out a month or more apart and I frankly was underwhelmed with his BIG shocking video last month. It was too much speculation for my likes, and not at all his best work.
Oh, and how can I forget !!!!
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Don't know that I have any real favourites but I watch some British Telly on YouTube, things like "Good Neighbours" which is British comedy.
Yeah. That's cool. I didn't even realize that there are some free TV shows up on youtube. I just found a whole bunch of episodes of an old anthology series called Ray Bradbury Theater. Kind of like the Twilight Zone, but from the late 80's and early 90's.
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Also tend to watch "Top 5 Scary Videos". It's a channel that reviews horror movies. I mean I don't even like horror movies.
lol. I know exactly what you're talking about there. I watch movie reviews constantly, but I could probably count on both hands the number of movies I've actually watched in the last 5 years, and 3 of those were in the last 8 months.
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I used to watch a lot of Tim "It's Complicated" Poole, but he's gotten pretty stale, IMO. Every one of his videos are 20 to 30 minutes long and he repeats himself 1,000 times per video. I know they need to make videos at least 10 minutes long to make the ad revenue worth the upload, so if he has to ramble on mindlessly he should at least focus and cut his videos down to 10 minutes, even though hardly any of them justify being more than 5 minutes long.
I watch Styx for my political commentary. He doesn't monetize any of his videos ever and he seems to be more intelligent than most when it comes to independent journalism.
Anyway... Here's another channel I watch...
Filed under Video Game History:
Jeremy Parish:
Talk about biting off more than you can chew...
This guy has been making in-depth game reviews for all NES games released in chronological order by release date. (In the US alone, that's roughly 650 games, but he's also doing Japanese and Europe releases as well).
But then he started adding other systems as well, such as Game Boy and N64. That was likely to break up the monotony of doing just the one system, but he already took an insanely massive project and added 4 times the work.
He's been constant in his releases for 5 years now. He's probably got the rest of the free time in his life planned out for himself if he doesn't give it up.
Huge fan of this extremely underappreciated channel. Only 50k subs, and hasn't really grown much.
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