Ask HN: What YouTube channels do you subscribe to?

I keep a Google Document of these to share just in case people ask about my YouTube interests.

I Actually Watched All of Them

I have actually watched ALL of the videos on these channels and I don’t even feel bad about it :-) I actually like new videos from some of the ones below (like NativLang, for example) but they maybe don’t hold up in the early videos.

- Space Time: PBS Physics, sooo good -- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g -- Great first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8gV05nS7mc

- Lindsay Ellis: Really, really intelligent video essays about film and culture -- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG1h-Wqjtwz7uUANw6gazRw -- Great First Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpUx9DnQUkA&t=1s

- Periodic Videos: Chemistry, including a video for every element -- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtESv1e7ntJaLJYKIO1FoYw -- Great first video (obviously): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rdmpx39PRk

Other Math and Science

- 3Blue1Brown: Amazing math visualizations -- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw -- Great first video, how e^pi*i works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0YEaeIClKY

- NumberPhile: Fun math videos -- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoxcjq-8xIDTYp3uz647V5A -- Great first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBU9N35ZHIw

- PBS Eons: Biology! -- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzR-rom72PHN9Zg7RML9EbA -- Great first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMdv3JlPizw

- PBS Infinite Series: Math math math, really really hard math -- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs4aHmggTfFrpkPcWSaBN9g -- Great first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63HHmjlh794

- SciShow: Science! More poppy but fun -- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZYTClx2T1of7BRZ86-8fow -- Silly first show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZELEjE92D-c

-- Actual physics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Ej3Q_QquA

- VSauce: Science-y? -- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6nSFpj9HTCZ5t-N3Rm3-HA -- Great first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktkjUjcZid0

- Practical Engineering: -- https://www.youtube.com/c/PracticalEngineeringChannel -- Great first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0olpSN6_TCc

Other Humanities

- Alliterative: Connections via language -- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG6tBbWzY_ZR4_rd72vp6CA -- Great first video about gin and gimlets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7jEH6E6l90

- Bon Appetit: Such fun food stuff! -- Gourmet Makes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2nY7Tu1Qgs -- It’s Alive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx8pYMkkKXg

- Masaman: Genetics and human migration (and low production values sadly) -- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1vVNQN-TCy8d3Mb_Owr2Kw -- Great first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc2Qcca8xkE

- NativLang: Animated shorts about language -- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMk_WSPy3EE16aK5HLzCJzw -- Great first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7vreUPCl9c

- Vox: Never for the news, but for the “other” series -- https://www.youtube.com/user/voxdotcom/featured -- Check out this amazing video about Venezuela and Columbia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU0RqwweuWY -- Or this video about giant steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62tIvfP9A2w&list=PLJ8cMiYb3G...

- Cogito!! (No links yet…) -- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKMnl27hDMKvch--noWe5CA -- Great first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oQ5Jd7p2aY

Maybe. But curation on that scale ain't free and I don't have time for that.

Anyways, I thought OP was more interested in overlap than specific recommendations. How are we going to see overlap when there's tens of thousands of possible channels? Any who can't search for youtube channels in their interests?

Tsoding. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEbYhDd6c6vngsF5PQpFVWg Haskell, Rust, C, and vodka

Am I the only one who does not subscribe to a single youtube channel on any of my accounts?

My theory is that once you've watched a few of the videos you're interested in, the YouTube algorithm curates a list for me which I can continue watching. I do not want to be notified or otherwise informed of every video a channel publishes.

They've thought of that. It's why the subscription has three levels of "bell" denoting how much you want to hear about new content from the channel.

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In keeping with the TRUE purpose of YouTube, instead of posting dozens of miscellaneous channel links, I'll offer the BEST purveyors of cat videos, who all happen to be Korean:

https://www.youtube.com/c/SuriNoel/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/크림히어로즈/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/MejooandCats/videos