Underappreciated YouTube Channels You Want to Share

[vvinrg]

oh! i thought of another channel!!

no no infrequently posts cool demos of stuff they're working on. it's mostly experiments with first-person stuff, and they do it all by hand(no game engine). there's no narration on any of the vids, it's just them showing off the thing. you can probably binge the whole channel in like 30-40 mins.

there's also their video, empty forest place which makes me feel things and also got me into shigeo sekito. just a cool channel lol.

[georgemoody]

Surprised no one's mentioned LGR yet. He covers all sorts of retro hardware and software, and he even has an old video essay series detailing stuff like AOL, 3Dfx, and BonziBuddy. He also does Sims 4 videos from time to time. His latest video is a five hour compilation and commentary about building his woodgrain 486.

speaking of LRG, Michaelmjd is also a great YouTuber that also covers old tech, and sometimes even modernish tech (mid 2000s onwards). love his chill, bored voice; overall, pretty cool guy and channel

[MrsMoe]

As someone who mainly watches video essayists above all else, a channel I want to give a shout out to is The Morbid Zoo.

Horror is one of my biggest passions and I don't think I've ever seen someone who really gets what makes horror so appealing to be quite like she does. Her videos on The Thing, The Babadook, and the decline of race horror are all fantastic. Chromalore and Kaiserbeams are some other super underrated essayists I'd recommend.

[mechanical]

I like Acerola's videos! They're centered around graphics programming and how to do them (+ a video or two about some other thing that's still related to programming). I think his stuff is pretty neato and super informative for a subject that not a lot of people talk about. I will admit, I don't really get much of it, but they're still fun to watch :-D

[Daryl Sun]

selfacoustic is a Korean stop-motion paper art channel with cute designs, bright colors, and soft music. The themes of the videos vary around food, beauty care, and cleaning. There are occasionally sponsored videos, but they look so cute that one forgets they're sponsored videos.

Here's the video that introduced me to their channel: Sandwich & Hamburger Making Stopmotion

[virtue]

I am legally obligated to mention JC Foster Takes It To The Moon. He is primarily a comedy channel but also does these utterly captivating longer-form videos that just blow me away. If you like incomprehensible, hectic contemporary humor and weird philosophical things with gorgeous and extremely unique/stylistic presentation, SERIOUSLY give his content a watch. He also makes incredible music!

I get stuck in a cruise ship cabin for a week

Shared Delusions by JC Foster

GDNF by JC Foster (EPILEPSY WARNING)

[Fish]

Galactic Hole

A channel I've been watching for years showing some of the best and funniest mashups I've ever seen/heard

Hes also made a bunch of albums over the years that you can listen to on bandcamp

[Tadpole]

Cat Fm radio REBOOTED!  Its inspired by the original cat fm radio broadcast 1. All of the cat fm radios deserve a listen in your day to day life I promise you. It's so so dear to my heart, meowsynth by beloved.

[Tadpole]

The death of malls in the US is fascinating to me. Here in Canada we don't seem to be having the same cultural shift. The two malls I usually went to as a teenager are still pretty busy today. A few retail stores have closed since COVID, but they've been replaced by others. But I'm only speaking for one city, so maybe it's different elsewhere in the country.

Cw: Gun violence
I used to have a similar thought. The area I live in is a bit of a time capsule, so the one mall I had nearby me was super crowded for a long time until 2019. The only thing that could have made people avoid it happened, and there have been

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5 separate shootings

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since then. It's really unfortunate. another one happened in the only other mall within a 2 hour drive, so we've got no other's to go to. If that hadnt happened, I honestly thing ours would be still just the way that they were for many more years to come, considering it's kinda the main source of entertainment and enrichment we had aside from driving to the nearest pet store.

[Yaya]

I love channels like this so much. I think some of my favorite content on the internet is just people sharing odd things they're passionate about.

Same here. It just makes the internet cool and personable again.

I have a lot of channels that I like which range from 50-100k but there's one small channel I like this guy Yukio Koitohe's in the military and he just makes playlists of good Japanese music--love it.

[alexela64]

Ohhh i've been waiting to share this one with the world
Emara is an animated webseries that i love to BITS. although it was not concluded, and i don't really know what happened to the producers, i would still HIGHLY recommend.

Someone else here mentioned 4096, i second that
James Tullos is great, he mainly talks about YA literature and books in general. I appreciate his video essays, as a former YA-obsessed kid who read a lot of the books he discusses

JVScholz talks a lot about digital minimalism and inspired a lot of the sentiment i have about social media today. Plus his setups are GAS

LABY is my favorite crack edit channel. They edit really bad old animes like Diabolik Lovers and Dance with Devils, and every time a video of theirs comes out my friends and I are on the floor laughing.

MakeBabi.es is inactive now but hosts another webseries gem, Senpai Club. Genuinely so entertaining.

츠미 tsumi has some of the best dj sets i've listened to on youtube

Finally, DecafIsHere is a cool anime youtuber -- since i don't really watch anime i often use his videos to keep up with the genre lol

[TheFrugalGamer]

I'm not sure if 14k subscriptions counts as underappreciated or obscure, but I think this channel fits in really well with the vibe here: Dr. Rip VHS is a VHS collector who rips full VHS tapes that he finds at Goodwill outlets and other thrift stores. Not feature films or anything, but those obscure DIY films that you'd get shoved into your latest big purchase or sent off for in a catalogue. For instance, here's 45 minutes of "Fitness after sixty"!

And contender for best title goes to: "Learn Country Line Dancein' Vol 2: Featuring the Tush Push!"

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I'm obsessed with this small creator Daskalos who is a professional archaeologist and he has this series where he plays vanilla Minecraft as someone in the Bronze Age and builds Bronze Age monuments and settlements using his archaeological expertise. I love when he peppers in some details like prayers to the gods in Ancient Greek while making his way through the world. Such a cool crossover of two of my favorite things: minecraft let's plays and ancient history!

[neongod]

One channel I found recently and really liked is The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Finding new words for feelings we all experience sometimes but have no words for:

[DiffydaDude]

I have a couple channels in my feed that are less than well known.
This channel, omg I cant believe theyre still uploading, and their videos are really good! https://iv.catgirl.cloud/channel/UCvBtV_185n_vNBih-j4H6uA their name is JoAnn Raptor Girl, I found her when i was looking through this playlist of old animation memes from a decade ago; i decided to check out their channel expecting their 8 year old last video to be on the top, but nah theyre still making pretty awesome videos today, and i love to watch them, not because i like dinosaurs, but its because they arent doing the same things that every other channel is doing or because their videos dont feel lethargic to watch.

This channel is really awesome to watch, theyre called Cambrian Chronicles and his videos are all about obscure Welsh history https://iv.catgirl.cloud/channel/UC22uGvImj3o7m9Zf11jEDkg
I could watch them talk all day about whatever way a common belief about welsh history is wrong, or a mystery about some forgotten locality nobody remembers.