Good Youtube ‘Documentary’/‘Information’ channels - Get your Learn On.

Here's a small and underrated channel, most of this guy's videos I'm not really into (it's mainly short "top 10" type videos) but he released a full length documentary/investigation which is similar to Atrocity Guide/DtRH stuff.

 
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@Sage In All Fields
I have some criticism about your psych picks and some more suggestions.

Cass Eris: seems to have a pretty hardcore agenda. I'm not a good person to judge how truly honest and informative she is because I have my own (probably opposite) one, but citing Philosophy Tube for any reason does not bode well. Same with philosophy of science, it's almost impossible not to inject one's own perspective there (I don't know enough to criticize here.)

Kati Morton: is the Philip DeFranco of youtube psychology. She shilled Betterhelp and tends to do the "therapist thing" of oversimplifying and agreeing with what the audience says.

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This guy, Dr. Daniel Fox
He's focused on NPD and BPD, more specifically providing strategies and resources for those affected by it, their friends, and their loved ones. The videos are still informative and interesting for your average person with an interest in psych.

Edit: edited to further remove personal bias and highlight certain parts. (Hey, if I'm gonna be an autist I might as well go all out.)
 
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DiddyKongMain1989 said:
@Sage In All Fields
I have some criticism about your psych picks and some more suggestions.

Cass Eris: seems to have a pretty hardcore agenda. I'm not a good person to judge how truly honest and informative she is because I have my own (probably opposite) one, but citing Philosophy Tube for any reason does not bode well. Same with philosophy of science, it's almost impossible not to inject one's own perspective there (I don't know enough to criticize here.)

Kati Morton: is the Philip DeFranco of youtube psychology. She shilled Betterhelp and tends to do the "therapist thing" of oversimplifying and agreeing with what the audience says.
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Eh everyone has an agenda but at the end of the day I still think they put out alot of good info hence why I mentioned them. I'm not one to nitpick and I wouldn't call Kati the Philip DeFranco of YouTube psychology given how far off the deep end DeFranco's gone in recent years, although I know what you meant by that.

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This guy, Dr. Daniel Fox
He's focused on NPD and BPD, more specifically providing strategies and resources for those affected by it, their friends, and their loved ones. The videos are still informative and interesting for your average person with an interest in psych.

Edit: edited to further remove personal bias and highlight certain parts. (Hey, if I'm gonna be an autist I might as well go all out.)
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Interesting, thanks for suggesting him, I'll give him a sub.
 
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Schizo poster here with some questionably useful but fun channels.

Thinking Anomalous does ~20 minute long essays on ayy encounters and the occasional ancient architecture in a very formal way, has a smooth voice too which helps with listening, if you're already into this stuff you might not find anything new in here.

The Truth Factory has a woman larp as a talking cat presenting conspiracy theories mostly about the collusion of big tech, media and the government, she cites a lot of documents but as with stuff like this: massive grain of salt.

Jake Tran makes "instructional videos" on topics like how to run your own China like concentration camps, how the Russian Mafia operates or how to be a successful dictator. He has a very good presentation style but every video of his ends with a 2-3 minute blurb of him talking about something off-topic which can be annoying if you're binge watching.

Deep Sea Odditites makes short videos about deep sea creatures, mostly using undersea footage with on screen text so this is practically useless if you just want to listen to something on the background, but some creatures are really weird so it might tickle some fancies.

Meme Analysis is a guy who uses philosophy to try to understand how specific memes are made and why they are used. Has a hardon for Carl Jung.
 
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I've been enjoying these debunking videos by How to Cook That. She looks for these popular cooking "life hacks" and tries them out to prove "yeah, no, these life hacks are retarded" but she's done some other interesting stuff too.

 
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John Titor said:
I've been enjoying these debunking videos by How to Cook That. She looks for these popular cooking "life hacks" and tries them out to prove "yeah, no, these life hacks are retarded" but she's done some other interesting stuff too.

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I love this lady. This kind of content can get really watered down with reddit style debunking but she put a lot of effort into her videos and shows the correct way to make things at certain points. Her baking recipes are fun to do if you're into that stuff too

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Matt Orchard puts out semi regular content that is in the same vein as Jim Can't Swim. Found him when I was missing JCS videos and I prefer this guy. He puts a lot of effort in to videos and branches out from just covering police interrogations
 
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Two big ones which I think haven't been mentioned:

1. Domain of Science
He makes good, well produced videos mostly about modern physics but he went viral with his "Map of [field]" videos which are still some of his most popular.


Though, speaking from a grad student perspective, his videos about quantum physics, quantum computation and particle physics are easily the best on Youtube of their type. Neither too technical nor dumbed down to meaninglessness.

2. Numberphile
Mainly videos about math. I like that they feature many approaches to learning and explaining math, as well as a range of topics. I think the difficulty in comprehension varies greatly, some are definitely not for a 'general audience' so to speak, but many are.

More "edutainment" style

And this is just a British (I think?) dude straight up doing the Fourier proof for the irrationality of e. A classic but not necesarily entertaining or easy to follow.
 
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Curiosity Show
An old Australian TV show about science. Aimed at middle schoolers, it ran from 1972 to 1990. The two guys that made it bought the rights back about 10 years ago, and have been uploading segments ever since. Full of fun experiments, interesting facts and activities that kids can do using everyday household items. As an added bonus, the two dudes that made it (Deane and Rob) are active in the comments feed, despite the fact that both of them are nearly 80 years old now.

Project Farm
More of a consumer advice channel than anything. Midwestern ex-Air Force guy testing a bunch of items to see which is the best. Highly skeptical, famous for his catchphrase "we're gonna test that!". Very wholesome.

Oddity Archive
Forgotten technology, media and other ephemera from the latter half of the 20th century. The presentation style is deadpan; full of the driest humour to grace YouTube. You'll either love it or hate it.

Big Car
Interesting mini-docos for car spergs. A lot of reading from Wikipedia whilst showing photos and/or old promotional footage of the cars in question, but the presenter's British accent is quite soothing.

Rick Beato
If you've ever wondered why music sounds like it does, Rick is really good at breaking down well-known songs to almost a molecular level. He's unable to monetise most of his videos because he spends so much time deconstructing chords in popular songs, which makes me respect him even more.
 
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