Hey now, have I got a list of YouTubers for you…!
Share please. Always need more long form nerdy content creators.
I’d highly recommend:
Technology connections; he does in depth videos about the engineering of household appliances we often take for granted.
Bernadette Banner; she does videos about historical textile arts, weaving, sewing, ECT.
Lindsey Nikole; she does videos about ancient animals, Zoology, and Paleontology.
Ze frank; he does irreverent videos about interesting species of animal.
If you like Ze Frank, there’s another comedy channel I like that is a very different and distinct thing, but sort of scratches that same itch for me. It’s called Homemade Ecosystems. Sort of a silly and irreverent comedy sketch filled with obligatory immature humor but also genuinely informative and geared towards cultivated invertebrates pets.
Add Casual Geographic to this list for zefrank fans
Technology Connections: Deep dives into the random everyday tech around you. If you have ever wondered how your air conditioning or a traffic signal works, check it out.
Macho Nacho: Game console modding. Installing mod chips and software mods, explaining their benefits and drawbacks, etc…
Adam Savage’s Tested: Adam Savage from Mythbusters is a prop-maker turned machinist. He hosts a show where he does all kinds of tool tips, workshop experience, war stories from his time in the film industry, etc…
AvE: Machinist with decades of experience goes through tool reviews/teardowns, machinist experience, etc…
The Modern Rogue: Two certified idiots cover everything from attempted weapon builds to whiskey tasting.
Skill Tree: LARP’er tries to make his own gear.
Eoin Reardon: Traditional carpenter restores hand tools
Smarter Every Day: Scientist goes on a journey to learn as much as he can. He covers everything from nuclear engineering to why a frisbee is shaped the way it is.
Practical Engineering: Civil engineer explains how and why infrastructure is built the way it is. He covers everything from river dams to the slopes leading up to highway overpasses.
A communist, a socialist, and an anarchist walk into a bar, and make a podcast about engineering disasters. I was convinced to listen to Well There’s Your Problem when I heard that the episodes about the Titanic were a combined five and a half hours. My favorite episode is probably the one about the Byford Dolphin
Angela Collier makes a variety of sciencey videos. Less Kyle hill, more Sixty Symbols. If you’re the kind of person who reads a title like “alkaline water …with lemon” and immediately laughs out loud, and also doesn’t mind listening to an explanation of exactly why, scientifically, that statement is funny, you’ll probably like her
CJ the X isn’t so much nerdy, but by God does he share about his interests. Here’s nearly a half an hour about how skipping the first 5 minutes of Tangled makes it a better movie. Here’s a video essay about Bo Burnham’s Inside, that’s nearly twice as long as the actual special. His channel’s banner reads “im not talking 2 fast ur listening 2 slow,” and I think that’s a perfect description of his energy
Adam Savage runs Tested, and I don’t think I need to explain why it’s nice listening to Adam Savage talk about literally anything. If you were a fan of Mythbusters, he has endless stories about the show, the people who made it, and how it impacted his life. That’s not all he talks about, but it seems to be the main draw to his channel
I love Adam Savage’s videos. I don’t really care about the Mythbusters stuff but when he deep dives into why he likes particular tools or objects and goes into great detail it makes me feel seen. I do that with people in my life and nobody ever seems to understand. Then people wonder why I’m so quiet all the time.
I post lil videos of microbes to music. I set everything to creative commons so anyone can use my music or videos if they want.
Edit: should probably leave my channel name lol - Parker’s Microbes
History nerds:
Forgotten weapons for everything in relation to firearm history
Drachinefel for all things naval
Sandrhoman history does very good siege videos
Real time history does great traditional docs
TIK history is a madman who did a 40+ part series JUST on stalingrad
Historocrat does a bunch of long form videos about different topics from loch Ness to bronze age collapse
Probably missing some but these guys are all super into it
There is a … massive Asterisk on tik history. He’s does great research on historical operations and battles, but, uh, keep away from anything outside that, he has a super weird ideological agendas and misquotes references or makes stuff up in side videos. Some side videos are fine, even good in their sourcing, but many are low key unhinged.
Good asterisk to mention. Never strayed to other vids due to that and it sometimes creeped into the good ones.
Suppose you got to be a bit unhinged to delve that deep lol
What sort of agendas, and are they at least entertaining?
World War Wisdom for ww2 trivia
Treantmonk is a guy who does in-depth D&D math, I’ve been playing that game using his ideas for like two decades now and his channel is called Treantmonk’s Temple
ok. so first off, you know how you can send emails to other people that aren’t using the same email website, right…?
TL:DR: looks at the email spec
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOoh is that the start of a fediverse info dump? :D
Everyone says this until I start getting into Armored Core lore
Always thought Armored Core looked cool. Never really got into it.
The newest installment is a good jumping off point. It takes place early in the AC timeline and is quite a bit simpler than earlier entries.
Since it’s from Fromsoft, I expect its lore to be on par with Dark Souls or Kings Field in amount of hidden threads connecting things.
One bit I remember reading about many years ago was how the whole eternal war was effectively a farce among the two top military companies of the world
So, was handler Walter a pilot during the fires of Ibis? What’s the deal with him and Carla, and their dead friend? Is his dad Dr. Nagai? So many questions!! :)
What is the deal with Carla?! Is she single? Why won’t she calm me back? Anyways Walter definitely strikes me as the kinda guy who’s seen some shit so I’d believe he was alive during the fires of Ibis. Hopefully AC 6 ANSWERS handles all these questions
I am always worried I’m boring and/or annoying my SO but they always insists they love it lol
Omg, right?
And normies told us this is supposed to be most boring shit ever.
Normies don’t know the good shit.they are
They are the good shit?
Well, “yes”, but only because they define what the average ‘good shit’ is.(But yes, normies sure are some cruel, average shit, the average of “human” ain’t pretty.)
I’m the nerd that feels the deep need to talk about those things, usually history stuff and how one thing led to another and explains certain cultural norms that endure to this day (Muslim conquest of the 7-8th century, many words in Portuguese and Spanish having Arab roots, reconquista, the treaty of Tordesillas leaving Africa and India for Portugal, while Spain got almost the whole of America, on and on)
This is me with my husband 😅 Every month or two it’s something new and I love it so much
My modded Balatro has been calculating a hand for almost four hours now :)
I, armed with random sysadmin knowledge, am exactly this kind of person.
Autistic people be like…
InterestS rule
Why is this @kinky_wholesome? What have you cropped out?
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
yep. this. summs up my youtube subs. also: suggestions disabled, because thats all i need.
