Endgame Viable

I don’t actually know if it’s still Creator Appreciation week in Blaugust or not, but I know I don’t have anything to talk about this morning so I’ve pulled up this previously-prepared post.

This is a list of YouTube channels I regularly frequent. Some more regularly than others. In truth, I only frequent maybe five of these channels at any given time, since the algorithm tends to bury channels you haven’t watched in roughly the last 24 hours.

I tried to confine the list to more “independent” creators, though the definition of “independent” varies wildly.

Comedy

• Judge John Hodgman
• Mitchell and Webb
• Pitch Meeting
• Ryan George
• Ryan George Extra Plus!
• Smosh
• Smosh Games
• Smosh Pit
• SmoshCast
• Taskmaster
• Taskmaster International
• Viva La Dirt League

History

• Fascinating History *
• Sideprojects
• The Operations Room
• The Rest Is History

Macabre

• Decoding the Unknown
• Fascinating Horror
• Mentour Pilot
• Mentour’s Black Box
• Oceanliner Designs
• Pilot Debrief
• The Raven’s Eye

Movies

• Chris Stuckmann

Music

• Professor of Rock
• Wings of Pegasus

Podcasts

• It’s a Thing Podcast
• Mythfits Podcast

Politics

• Politics Politics Politics *
• The Bulwark
• The Political Orphanage *
• The Rest Is Politics
• The Rest Is Politics US
• The Rest Is Politics: Leading
• The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
• We’re Not Wrong

Pop Culture

• The Rest Is Entertainment

Skepticism

• TheSkepticsGuide

Space

• NASA

Sports

• ThatsGoodSports

Technology

• Daily Tech News Show

TTRPGs

• Bob World Builder
• Critical Role
• High Rollers DnD
• Seth Skorkowsky
• The Glass Cannon Network
• Viva La Dirt League D&D

* These channels use what looks like AI-generated thumbnails or B-roll illustrations from time to time, if that’s something that matters to you. I don’t know if it’s AI-generated, mind you, it’s just a suspicion. In any case, it doesn’t detract from the content.

P.S. Speaking of AI disclosures, I used Antigravity to fetch my list of subscriptions from the YouTube API and format it in Markdown, because manually going through a big list of subscriptions and writing down their links is for the birds. So a portion of this post was technically “AI-generated.” However, I did go through and re-order and categorize the list by hand.