For me I really do enjoy watching some of the Locking picking lawyers content and he is an expert when it comes to picking locks!
Another few are mental outlaw (although I think everyone knows of him here) and Steven Bridges who makes videos on card counting at casinos and he shows how much he wins/loses from playing
System Crafters https://youtube.com/@SystemCrafters 31 000 subs
Videos about emacs, gnu guix, lisp. very well made and informative, a lot of inspirations about how to make your linux computer environment a better place
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If your into wood epoxy tables, check out blacktail studio
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Machining and Microwaves really interesting videos about machining radio components, and design concepts and machineing footage, with some neet backstory for many of them.
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I discovered a channel called ‘Just Alex’ awhile ago, and I’ve binge-watched most of his videos. He makes videos about a variety of activities he engages in. For example, two years ago, he started beekeeping as a hobby. In these videos, he shows the progress he has made since then, taking care of his bees and harvesting their honey.
He also has videos on collecting mushrooms, growing crops, and traveling around Europe.
What I like about him is how calming his videos are and the amount of effort he puts into making them interesting, without resorting to clickbait content.
- Acerola - Video Game shaders and other digital art techniques
- Andrewism - hopefull Philosophy / Politics
- Eisenbahn in Ö, D, CH - Trains (in german)
- carykh - AI and various
- jan Misali - Conlang + various + Mashups
- Marco Reps - Electronics and EE
- Then & Now - History/Philosophy
- NeverKnowsBest - Lengthy Video Game reviews/ History of Gaming
- BobbyBroccoli - Science scandals
- Applied Science - Various science and Eng
- Asianometry - Semiconductor / Engineering / Taiwan / History / Economics (very frequent uploads)
- RMTransit - Transit (NA focus)
- Tom Nicholas- more politics
- Junferno - Software Development in sarcastic weeb
- Oliver Lugg - I don’t even know
- People Make Games - Video Game Journalism
I tried to only pick stuff <1M subs excluding game play and news.
jan Misali I simply love it!
Acerolla is so good, glad to see him here
Bisqwit. Mainly his C++ videos and the Windows/Linux dual boot or rather “fuck windows” video.
I like puzzles and Chris Ramsay has some great production and epic puzzles.
Dank Pods - hilarious Aussie who messes with iPods and old mp3 players. Very entertaining
I like his automotive channel as well
Is he niche though?
Stuff Made Here: Crazy talented maker with a huge set of skills, tools and ideas. Add a good portion of humor and a a slightly annoyed wife who has to test all the inventions. Very inspiring for makers and entertaining for non-makers. Hard to call it a niche as he has 4.4 million subscribers but as OP also listed the lock picking laywer I think it’s fair. 😁 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj1VqrHhDte54oLgPG4xpuQ
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You beautiful scholar of a bot. 🥳
I did a thing is vaguely similar with unique and odd engineering creations with less coding, precision, and safety, and more darker Australian humor
Sounds like my kind of thing, thanks!
I’m recently really into Cracking The Cryptic, it’s two British guys solving daily variant sudoku and other hardcore puzzles.
Two Minutes Papers by some Hungarian AI scientist, where he discusses new papers in the field.
Michael Penn is a guy solving math olympiad problems while doing backflips.
Cracking The Cryptic is amazing. Their videos are so interesting to watch.
I don’t know if Scott Manley is niche (1,6 million subscribers), but if you are interestet in everything about space, rockets and sometimes flying, this is the channel for you.
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MartSnack - okay, this one is kind of cheating because there’s only one video so far, but if you like obscure and highly technical video game challenges like the SM64 A Button Challenge, it’s one of the best damn videos on the internet right up there with pannenkoek’s classic Watch for Rolling Rocks - 0.5x A Presses. It’s satisfying, interesting, and also surprisingly funny and relaxing. I’ve watched it like 7 or 8 times by this point, and I’m gonna watch it again after I submit this comment. Also if you like it def subscribe and hit the bell, he’s been working on a new video for months and has been giving updates in the comments as recently as a few days ago, so hopefully it’ll come out eventually!
Church of Kondo - Repository for remastered video game OSTs (primarily the cartridge era). These aren’t just any old remastered, but the result of countless hours of painstaking research to identify the exact samples used in games, track them down in the highest possible quality, and recreate a “perfect quality” mix. They’ve got reams of spreadsheets detailing all the samples they’ve cataloged.
mklachu - Dope Otamatone covers with extremely cute Otamatone costumes
Retro Game Mechanics Explained - Probably the highest production value you’ll ever see for videos on this topic–combines a deep knowledge of retro game hardware and programming with beautiful visualizations and demos. His video on Pac-Man ghost behavior is pretty representative of how he takes a subject and drills down to the assembly to show you exactly what’s happening with some really cool graphics that show what the code does step by step.
There are many small/niche channels that I absolutely love. I’ll list some of them here, avoiding the tech/science ones since they’ve mostly been mentioned.
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Bill Making Stuff. He’s a dude hanging out in his attic making cool miniature sculptures out of junk. He has a wicked, dry, British sense of humour (also his brother “Dan Does” is also on YouTube but he tends to make more horror themed stuff). I also enjoy North of the Border, who makes awesome sculptures out of mostly polymer clays.
Adding Studson Studios to the list of craft channels!
The “missions” by GeoWizard where he attempts to cross countries in a straight line. I really like his narration, it’s very relaxing (even though his attempts to get away from farmers etc. of course deliver more suspense than the average Marvel movie).
For example The Mission across Wales
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