Favorite Youtubers

I was scrolling through my subscriptions list because I was talking to a creator and got reminded about a lot of different content I consume. This is me after scrolling through my youtube subscriptions and choosing the nonmusical/ones that I click on and watch in the corner when I see them on youtube. I subscribe to more but I think this is a solid list to represent myself. This is me fleshing out why I think you might enjoy them too! This is in alphabetical order so I didn’t confuse myself.

2swap

His video on the lambda calculus with his own visualizer is insane! I would go as far to say that his visualizers are a bit of the reason that I wanted to get more into programming language theory!

3blue1brown

He has a ton of math videos that explain math relatively intuitively. He’s the guy that made Manim, which is nuts!

acerola

Ton of videos on graphics programming and inspired me to make a CTF based on the Kuwahara Filter.

adam mcdaniel

New Zealander who has a good intro piece on compilers.

aidin robbins

I honestly don’t particularly care if you are skimming this.

But stop for this guy.

His documentaries are INSANE. I genuinely love his content so freaking much.

adumb

Does a ton of data analysis/visualization stuff! Most known for his wikipedia visualization project.

alex cisse

His travel vlogs are insanely cinematic. The video “The Beginning of Everything” is still stuck with me.

alex haraus

Has a movie out! Goes into the oldest trees in America. He also lives in his car, and has a sick setup.

answer in progress

3 people making simple documentaries of the form “i have a ‘simple’ question and i will do all i can to answer it.” Captivating in no other way.

bay area rising

Really cool to see the music community within the Bay Area! Huge fan of the Band in a Van.

bernardo bacalhau

His bikepacking videos are insane! He has travelled in so many weird ways to so many cool places.

byran

Made a laptop from scratch.

calebwielhouwer

Aura farming in literally every sense of the word?

ccarretti

His artstyle is soft in all the right ways, particularly love the main theme of TOTK.

cody gindy

I saw his video on turning 3D scenes painterly, and his most recent video takes the blender monkey and creates a scene only using that as a primitive…

crow

Crow goes into bits of malware!

curious archive

In high school I did some speculative biology worlds for fun. This was a huge inspiration and help for developing those!

david rule

Dad jokes for days while building cool things to sleep and move in.

dingding luo

Has an animation piece, with incredibly clean lighting. Would recommend the watch!

donald jewkes

His video on the MIT integration bee is ridiculously hype.

dogfish

Crazy BOTW animations to music.

doodletmeGO

Distinctive artstyle (see the eyes) with solid colors and animations that play around with scale.

ellison dueck

This guy is running around the world and living life how it’s meant to be lived.

eurothug4000

Goes into video games, particularly into their styles. Is a fan of SABLE!

freedom (alexander james travel)

Older version of Ellison Dueck.

freya holmer

Has the website https://cat.gay.

giant cheerio

Bikepacker. She travelled in the Middle East on her bike, which not that many can ever claim to do.

good blood

Probably some of the best edited video essays online about video games narrative analysis.

goth babe music

This guy plays in a band, has a a dog, rides motorcycles, lives in Oregon. Man, some people really do have it all.

greg mccahon

Is doing the top to bottom of the world ride and documenting it. To me, it shows the genorosity of strangers along the way.

h woo

Really cool to see that many different Asian cooking techniques! The food scene in LA seems more developed than in SF.

heechan lim

Stanford freshman filming his own movies!

henna palosaari

If it’s outdoors, she does it, strongly recommend her Japan Journals.

henry kidman

Has some insane cinmetographic projects, not in the filming a movie sense, but in the building camera sliders and 3D printing movie cameras.

ichika nito

The song The World Is Still Beautiful makes you feel that the world is still and will always be beautiful.

institute for advanced study

Sometimes they post videos I understand!

introvertedmadness

Was a Stanford CS major and described his gripes with that system, and now makes kind of fun updates-in-the-life videos from New York.

ivan miranda

Built a super cool marble clock, i.e. the display is from sliding marbles. So many weird technical challenges in order to do this.

j-square

He has an amazing video on the Sobel Operator, and developed his own graphics engine.

jacob geller

Some of the best video game narrative analysis online, beat out only by himself on Nebula.

jakedontdraw

Does fine/traditional oil paintings.

jam2go

So I find it really hard to predict what he’s going to post, but I never find it hard to predict /how/, since he has the same kind of quirky etheral strange vibe for each video. It’s awesome.

jasper tan

Bikepacking in SE Asia is an insane vibe, especially since the people are super nice and there is always a rice field to ride through.

jawpictures

Aesthetic travel videos, insanely cinematic.

jdh

“Yeah so we’re doing this from first principles” kind of guy. Made everything you’d reasonably need to program a first person shooter from scratch. Including a GPU!

jeffery sun

Self-documentaries that ask good questions. He has a beautiful Taiwan travel film. I want more friends in Taiwan.

joonbohobo

This guy treated Desmos like a. Game Engine. What the. What the-

joseph anderson

Is a game commentator/critiquer, and is insanely in depth. Like, I have barely seen anyone come near his level of quality for critiques, regardless of the artform.

josh’s channel

His animation style seems so time consuming? But it’s such a gummy delight to watch, and he has beautiful videos on ray tracing and mountain generations.

junfero

Insane computer history videos with dry humor that always lands.

kay lack

I haven’t seen that many people attack the primitives of CS as they do, in the sense of discussing regexes and dynamic arrays. Insanely baller.

kyle goes off

He’s trying to make a meal in every state while travelling in his van. Gangster!

lawrence carpenter

Doesn’t really post anymore, but wow bikes are insanely cool.

lemmino

History/speculative videos, particularly loved the video on the Kryptos code.

leon ex machina

His interviews with engineers gives me cool context into the world my brother inhabits.

lubomyr melnyk

I met a student of his in Oxford. Melnyk’s music is extremely quick paced and his story is immense.

luke korns

Travel documentaries but either to unexpected places or in nontrivial ways without feeling like a contrived challenge.

martsnack

So you could in theory beat FireRed while blind/deaf and uh beat every seed of Pokemon Platinum? What the fuck?

matt yuan

I met him in Oxford! He’s doing his PhD in CS there, and he also builds nerf blasters on his channel. Lovely guy.

mav

He truck camps and just has fun while doing it.

max0r

God this guy’s timelines must lag his computer so much, video game content.

melodysheep

Content wise I’m not actually that in love with the channel but the actual things on display are always immense and cool.

mossbag

Dad jokes and lore videos for games from Team Cherry.

mr chops

Makes interesting lifestyle videos. His videos on spending 0 currency in London, Lisbon, Belgium are always nice to see.

natalie lynn

Your creator’s favorite creator. “All my dreams became memories.” Embody that.

natzgreat

4k miles alone in his drift car and all he got to show for it was a banger video.

nemean

Has nice math videos on some algorithms/algebra.

noah kane

Climbing content, particularly the climbing of trees. Scratches that childhood itch.

nolen royalty eieio games

1000000000 checkboxes, chessboards online should not be technically feasible. It somehow is.

nor gather into barns

His videos have the same vibe as Taipei Story. Like, when people make their film intentionally dark for cinema effects but it falls flat, but this all avoids that. IDK if it’s because of his camera though. Slice of Life stuff.

not all wrong

His video on unsolvability of the quintic via commutators is quite, quite good, I believe the first of its kind on Youtube.

oliSUNvia

Video essays on internet culture.

overly sarcastic productions

I love Red’s videos so much, mostly because I prefer stories to history. Sorry Blue!

people make games

Makes critical commentary videos on the video game industry as a whole.

peter sebio

A really, really good climber from the Bay Area.

pezza’s work

Really cool computational projects (cloth sim, ants, ai).

physics for the birds

Cutest animation style, always has engaging titles. If this guy published papers he would get far.

polyamath

A mathmo at Cambridge, he animates his math with DaVinci Resolve, which is insane.

polylog

Goes into simple algorithms in CS!

polyphia

Banger music bro ain’t got nothing else to say.

praneeth namburi

Researcher working on movement, competitive ballroom dancer. Is the body more efficient while dancing?

premature abstraction

Funny CS videos that are more from the applied angle!

projectmaria

Documenting the programming job market.

RAINBOLT

Need I say anything?

razbuten

Has decent videos and nice takes on video games, it’s always really cute to see him and his wife play games together.

reducible

Discusses popular algorithms, but his videos on JPEG and PNG are both really cool.

regionaltantrums

Niche channel discussing mostly Rust & GPU programming.

RJ palmer

His ability to draw creatures at any level of detail is insane.

runevision

Shader content. The fractal dithering is really, really cool, and he also made a hair shader!

sarv

I hate my phone so I love him.

scott yu-jan

Annoyingly aesthetic. Like, how dare you, where is your mess???

sebastion lague

Makes incredible videos on rendering! Ray tracing, smoke simulation, fluid simulations, text rendering, etc.

shaffer nickel

Dry humor, clean videos, lighting is insane, amazing knowledge about cameras, a reality to experience.

shar

INCREDIBLY CUTE ANIMATIONS!!!

sheafification of G

GPU Programmer who also does a ton of math readings.

shleepy studio

Someone in SF just vibing around.

simondev

A lot of game development content, really unique presentation style.

sirrandalot

He made a camera within blender. I. I.

sphaerophobia

Complete streams of a guy trying to build all the software he can from scratch.

stefano ghisolfi

His outdoor climbs really mess with me because everything in my head is saying that there is literally nothing to climb.

structures-computer interaction labratory

Different types of movements in robots!

struggling grad student

It’s reallly nice to see a math phd document their life!

t3ssel8r

Insane artstyle in his games, his video on shading / procedural animations are bangers.

TACT.mp3

Insane guitar aura.

tanks for nothin

He makes insane tanks for his fishies!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!

tantan

Rust based game developer. Shoutout Bevy.

teo crawford

Films a ton of content about film.

terence tao

Math guy Of All Time. MOAT?

the hyrule journals

Mhm crunchy film grain in my favorite game series ever.

The Turtle

Holden Mui is probably one of the best composers of his generation.

tibees

Have you ever heard a calm Australian? That’s talking about math? This is it.

tierzoo

Gamer Zoology Content.

toemas

Did SWE in his car for a bit. Transferred to Columbia. Figuring out how to make money online. Cool guy.

tradprincess

For how insanely strong she is she has barely any subscribers?

tristan ridley

Bike Go Brr. Recently did a long ride for cheap. Recently did a bike ride through Iceland!

useless game dev

Love his breakdowns of different rendering/gameplay techniques in Unity.

vaatividya

Lore videos for the Souls genre.

vercidium

Optimizing game engines to the max!

viene

Insane vibes. Like, wow. If a cafe had those vibes I would show up early and leave late.

yenji jem

Lists, lists, and more lists! Lists of numbers, of history, etc.

yosh

AI in Trackmania. RL.

& 오댕손과 방울가위

It’s crazy to me that all of this person’s art is in blender?

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A lot of these themes are travel, biking, video games, cs algorithms, blender art, dad jokes, etc.

If you like any of these youtubers too and I know you, I’d love to talk to you about them!