I love Outside XBox (they do more than Xbox content) And Outside Extra. I think its the best short-form gaming variety content there is

I like casual gaming videos, and often watch Mr. A Game and QuinBoBin, particularly their Zelda videos.

I also enjoy a good analysis, so Cinema Therapy is my go-to.

I have young children in the house, so it can be hard to find entertaining videos that don't have bad language that I don't want parroted back to me.

I mostly just use it to find new music.

There's a couple of cooking channels I keep an eye on, a bit of tom scott and contrapoints/shaun/etc - but mainly just music.

No, I don't have or want spotify. I like music videos, and I like being able to easily skip through and sample fragments of songs, rather than just have them on in the background.

Learn Linux TV

Fall of Civilizations

I haven't seen this mentioned yet, but it's incomparably good (if stories about past civilizations is your thing).

Yeah youtube has massive amounts of good content. The only downside is that it's owned by google.

Some of my favs in alphabetical order:

Anton Fomenko

BeardMeatsFood

GeoWizard

I did a thing

Jet Lag: The Game

Joel Haver

Ludwig

Max Fosh

Modest Pelican

NFKRZ

RAINBOLT

Steve Wallis

STORROR

Tom Scott

Uri Tuchman

Xiaomanyc

I watch some science and education channels, programming related. Notable channels are

• Louis Rossmann
• The mad watch collector
• Kyle Hill
• Tom Scott
• LTT
• Watchfinder
• Just one more watch
• Captain Disillusion
• EEVblog & 2
• SAMTIME
• Nexpo

Anything else that looks interesting, Car histories, movie/TV reviews

I mostly watch high elo games of LoL, TFT, Chess. like @PekinWoof, @Bebe872, @Frodan and many more.

If you are into fishing, hunting, cooking, and a a bit of Southwest history check out Sin City Outdoors. They have family friendly content. For outdoor recovery Matts Off Road Recovery is good and Heavy D Sparks sometimes has great content if you don’t mind fast forwarding a bit.

For food/bbq a few that I like Guga Foods, Mad Scientist BBQ, First We Feast (hot ones), and Munchies.

Lots of good tech channels depending on your interests but here are a few smaller ones I like. Matt Moniz does good laptop reviews, Brandon Butch digs deep into every iOS release, All Things One Place only reviews power adapters and cables.

This Old Tony, Abom, Tested (mostly just One Day Builds by Adam Savage), Wirtual, Isaac Arthur, CityNerd, Intelligence Squared debates, FloridaMan Diplomacy, Abom79

I watch a few, but the first worthy one that comes to mind is TBSkyen.

Scott the Woz (video games) and Patrick H Willems (films, but leans towards action)

Okay so I’m a nerd. I didn’t get into YouTube until recently and I just watch storm chasers, airplanes taking off, and power washing/landscaping porn.

My subscriptions feed (food and science) is mostly channels I’ve been subscribed to for years now and they’ve all maintained their high quality or improved.

For food, Carla Lalli Music is an entertaining chef and recipe developer who shares recipes from her books. She takes inspiration from all sorts of cuisines and blends them into delicious, adaptable recipes. Crispy gingery ground beef like lime and herbs earned an instant spot in my regular meal rotation.

Claire Saffitz and her team bring mostly baking videos with occasion forays into cocktails, dinners, and lifestyle. Expect lots of cat cameos and fun editing easter eggs.

NYT Cooking has a good variety but their stars are Sohla and Ham El-Waylly, a wildly creative culinary power couple who can make a multi course tasting menu out of anything.

For all things science, basically anything out of Complexly Studios is worth your time. My personal favorite is SciShow Tangents. The various MinuteScience channels are great too (minutephysics, minuteearth, and minutefood ), and while the titles/thumbnails can feel a little bit clickbaity at times, the content is solid and informative.

Second Thought, First Thought, Our Changing Climate, Polymatter, Kurzgesagt, The Grayzone, Geopolitical Economy Report, Breakthrough News, Democracy Now.

I do yes as I also have a channel that I do videos for (my only income as I fund my own website without ads or 3rd party trackers). I do make my videos' ads skippable though. And yes my own browser blocks ads.

But the pleasantness, or lack thereof, comes down to a site's rules and moderation. The vast majority of people don't want to be aggravated, and they also don't really want to pay to use a website.

But scammers and clickbait are everywhere. I think a lot depends on whether they can game the algorithm to force their way into your home feed or not. Many news media sites also use clickbait, and the same goes for politicians wanting to get attention through fear and anger. But I agree very often clickbait crosses the line - it is really irritating when you see a thumbnail of something, and that image literally appears nowhere inside the content.

I mostly follow technology channels though.