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For me it's DJ Peach Cobbler. I've been watching his videos since he had around 2,000 subscribers. Now it's nearly 450,000.

He used to mostly make videos on games, now he does a lot of history stuff too. He also has a little satirical news show, and a few tasteful shitposts. A really diverse YouTube channel.

What's your favorite YouTube channel that's not a mainstream big-name like pewdiepie, mrbeast, ksi, etc...?

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[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Bobby Fingers. He makes diaramas of weird things and then buries them in the woods for people to find. Doesn't make videos too often but they're hilarious.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also, he was one of the guys in Rubberbandits

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

... wow, that explains a lot.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

I have zero interest in watching an anonymous YouTuber making models… but Bobby Fingers is so much more than that. Highly recommended.

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Hanging out for the next one. Dude's so funny.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kyle the Scott. A Scottish cisman with a kinda effeminate voice who once did a dramatic shirt rip to prove he is in fact cis, in the middle of a half hour essay about why it shouldn't even matter and "transvestigations" are bullshit.

But his normal schtick is media criticism, covering franchises like Star Wars, Halo, and Assassin's Creed. They're just genuinely good reviews that aren't afraid to get into the politics where appropriate (including explicitly rejecting some of the more popular bigoted takes) but honestly feel it's about the way that particular lens affects the media, rather than being an end into itself.

[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

who once did a dramatic shirt rip to prove he is in fact cis, in the middle of a half hour essay about why it shouldn’t even matter and “transvestigations” are bullshit.

Based

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A really tiny channel I like is Don't Look East. Currently less than 3000 subscribers and most videos just get a few hundred views. He does unscripted travel vlogs about rarely visited destinations, mostly in Asia and Eastern Europe. For example he recently travelled the entire Thailand/Myanmar border by motorcycle.

[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Amazing. Such an underrated channel, Thanks for posting!

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My husband recently found this gem of a cooking channel that we both love. Chef Jean Pierre He's hilarious and the food looks amazing.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Hello friends! happy t-rex arm wiggle

[–] HeneryHawk@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Matt Brown - security researcher and bug bounty hunter

Robert Murray Smith - general mechanical engineering tinkering, lots to learn

TheCod3r - console and other electronic repairs

Wesley Kagan - builds cars but is just an overall genius and entertaining

Joe Grand - hacker, genius

There are more popular/sometimes better people and channels in each genre but I've stuck to those with under 1 million sub's. I'll assume people like Colin Furze, Ben Eater, Computerphile are already too well known for this thread

[–] Sal@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Very interesting list! I am especially curious about Matt Brown's videos. Thanks!

twoodfrd - the guy repairs guitars with his soothing voice and lots of technicial knowledge

[–] Sal@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Fresh from the Farm Fungi - he is a mushroom farmer from Colorado. He has a ton of valuable information on growing mushrooms and running a business. He also has a few series of videos on very interesting experiments such as growing boletus, morelles, and cordyceps.

Microbehunter - he is a biology teacher that runs a microscope channel. His videos are very useful for learning the basics of microscopy.

Huygen Optics - I'm not sure about this guy's background. He worked in R&D for Phillips in the 90s and he knows a lot about optics and chemistry, but I don't know much more. He has built some equipment in has garage for sputtering metals on surfaces and has some pretty cool videos.

MissOrchidGirl - she is more popular than the others. She has great info about caring for orchids and a fantastic orchid collection.

Ben Felix - he is a portfolio manager with very solid financial advice. He supports his claims with research articles.

[–] ganymede@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

+1 for huygen optics, this dude is legit

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Combo Class is a neat math education channel where things are often on fire or falling apart in the background in a way that’s fascinating on top of the math itself

Side note, I have no idea how many subscribers counts as obscure. It seems relative to the size of the niche. Or maybe I have no idea how big people are relative to how much I care about them. Like I would expect Ben Levin (music theory and production creator) to be closer in subs to Adam Neely (same) but he’s an entire order of magnitude lower. Like is CJ The X (video essayist) obscure enough at 341K subs?

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

Aussie Wood Shed

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Blind Drunk. I know for a near fact that nobody's heard of them because they have like 2K subs, but they're good as hell. They make a drinking game out of reading trash right wing books by people like Boris Johnson, Ben Shapiro, and the dork who wrote the Turner Diaries. But despite how messy and dark things could get with that premise, it's some of the funniest, best put together and most insightful content I've ever seen on the subject of fascism and fascist psychology.

Love me some Peach Cobbler too.

[–] ikilledtheradiostar@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Inside China Business

Its a chauvinist doing 10min reports on China's business practices. Its mostly a guy presenting well researched information about how China is eating the us' lunch and being frustrated about it.

[–] JustVik@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLfFWXUNJ_I It's more of one playlist than a channel about quantum mechanics on Russian, but as I see it has English subtitles. A fairly clear explanation with a small amount of simple mathematics, probably the minimum that is possible. It helps to understand at least a little such a complex and illogical science for the average layman.

[–] fattyfoods@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

https://www.youtube.com/@epochphilosophy - philosophy channel with very well researched and produced videos

@PaddysBushcraft

@TheMapReadingCompany

@VideoTechExplained

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

DuskTillShawn

Does mostly just kinda essay like videos going over cartoon episodes (or even whole characters in the case of Hey Arnold!). Seemingly just nickelodeon right now, though there are others like a CtCD video.

Don't feel as out of place sharing a 159k sub channel when OP brings up a nearly 450k channel.

Also, this post motivated me to look through my subs and found a couple I unsubbed to and found some shocking things like some channels last videos were more recent than I thought. Also keeping myself away from going on a nostalgia trip of over a decade ago.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://youtube.com/@FishingHistoricPlaces - Brief visits to places, mostly in New England, with interesting historic and natural history info. Rarely any fishing.

https://youtube.com/@EarlyMusicinadifferentway - talented multi-instrumentalist and composer playing early music and his own compositions and improvisations in an early music style. Interesting videos too.

[–] IlIllIIIllIlIlIIlI@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This spanish guy makes videos about retro consoles, games and computers from Japan. The videos are pure info, without intro/subscribe/like shit. He changes the name of the channel every few days so maybe this link will be dead soon: https://youtube.com/@conpostersdetiasenlapared

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Vindsvept, fantasy music https://youtu.be/ZDokgvuuS7E

Also I didn't think it was a small channel but apparently he only has just over 1m subs: Karl Jobst, he mostly covers video game speedrunning achievements and cheating https://youtu.be/AFrQ1_2bbsI

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

CGP Grey kicked me off on this intense obsession with getting rid of First Past The Post voting, but he has many other very well made videos. Cannot recommend him enough.

Notable runners up:

Steve1989MRE (let's get this channel out on the tray)

JoergeSprave ("welcome to the slingshot channel" evil genius laughing)

Campingwithsteve (for info on how to be homeless more effectively)