Ask HN: What are your favorite YouTube channels to learn stuff?

TwoSetViolin - classical violinists provide music theory infused hilarity

NardwuarServiette - idiosyncratic and over-researched interviews with musicians of all kinds

matthias wandel - canadian engineer and one of youtube's early wood working wizards

sam johnson - voice teacher analyzes vocal performances

practical engineering - civil engineering videos

Hand Tool Rescue - old tool rebuilds

mr. chickadee - handtool woodcraft and traditional building techniques

RegularCars - sassy and knowledgeable reviews of regular cars

It isn't mean spirited at all. It's observations based on his videos the past 1-2 years. He also has pretty blah production quality with rough edits, often terrible lighting, lots of rambling, more oft than not questionable (at best) safety practices, when he's doing chemistry he never has proper safety equipment etc. Unlike NileRed that has fantastic lighting, proper ventilation, obviously at least partially scripts what he's going to say, doesn't get sidetracked with unrelated rants...

Cody literally had federal agents come to his house and search it after some of his highly questionable videos involving radioactive materials, commercial explosives and homemade (highly unstable) explosives.

He literally power-walked through a busy airport recording himself talking about blowing himself up in one video (referencing his 'prank' video where he 'blew himself up', not that all the people he was rushing past were likely to know that).

He literally used liquid mercury as mouthwash in a recent video.

He literally showed his shelf of canned food with his row of home made poisons and toxic substances.

He's had several videos lately where he's showing textbook signs of clinical depression after his breakup and has ramped up his eccentric behavior even more since, like wearing chainmail in public and ranting about the government and YouTube being against him.

Gaming & politics: Hbomberguy, Jim Sterling

Politics: Shaun, philosophytube, contrapoints

Food & Travel: Tabieats, mikey chen/strictly dumpling

Mountain Biking: seths bike hacks, bkxc

If you haven't checked out mountain biking youtube before I highly recommend it!

> girlfriend leave him around which time he started being super mopey

That tends to happen.

I often wonder what enables people to leave such scathing reviews of someone else's work. Reviewers like you had nothing to do with the production or promotion of videos and often don't pay anything to watch them. If a user feels a channel is going awry, they have no resistance to belittling the creator and doing so with a total lack of empathy.

Sure the anonymity is a huge factor that doesn't make someone care enough to write about it. It's as if you felt a sense of ownership in Cody'sLab and he let you down when he began to display the negative affects of his real live in the videos he created.

Your feeling of ownership over something you have done nothing to earn is entitlement. YT creators are just people and they don't get paid a lot. They are constantly chasing an algorithm created within a labyrinth for which they have they have no control over. They feel they need to create and post weekly or they will be penalized. Once they achieve Internet influencer status they find it is a very lonely depressing place to be and everyone watching has demands yet provides no money and no help to create. It's frankly disgusting to see people behave this way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1mv0vwb08Y

In this video Cody'sLab clearly spells out that he's going through a hard time in his life. He's allowed to be human. If you don't like it just move on and shut your mouth. Have some dignity and allow others around you to reclaim or maintain their dignity and self-respect.

You are a fat piece of shit, and everyone hates you. Commit suicide today.