For me I really do enjoy watching some of the Locking picking lawyers content and he is an expert when it comes to picking locks!

Another few are mental outlaw (although I think everyone knows of him here) and Steven Bridges who makes videos on card counting at casinos and he shows how much he wins/loses from playing

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    Lockpicking Lawyer is great.

    I also love:

    • ElectroBOOM – for learning about electricity whilst giggling at his mishaps
    • Gutsick Gibbon – for anthropology and busting creationism in the sweetest way
    • 12tone – excellent analysis of modern music, immensely educational and fun
    • Casual Geographic – zoology facts made fun
    • Dominic Noble – highly insightful and critical book and movie reviews
    • MertKayKay – detailed critical game analyses from a UXD perspective , and some movie/tv reviews, too
    • NeverKnowsBest – very in-depth game reviews and industry analyses
    • PBS Space Time – popular sci
    • Professor Dave Explains – lots of educational topics, and his F/E and creationist takedowns are a guilty pleasure
    • TodePond – creative coding
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – interviews with survivors and presentations, lest we forget
    • Stanford Online – full lectures on many subjects, free to watch
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    Stuff Made Here: Crazy talented maker with a huge set of skills, tools and ideas. Add a good portion of humor and a a slightly annoyed wife who has to test all the inventions. Very inspiring for makers and entertaining for non-makers. Hard to call it a niche as he has 4.4 million subscribers but as OP also listed the lock picking laywer I think it’s fair. 😁 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj1VqrHhDte54oLgPG4xpuQ

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      And Nico for small bits of high-energy watch enthusiasm sprinkled in. Be warned though, he’s a bit rough around the edges.

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    EthosLab is your favorite Minecraft YouTuber’s favorite Minecraft YouTuber

    Thought Emporium does mad science-level experiments

    NighthawkInLight is basically supercharged at-home science

    Jet Lag: The Game is tag/capture the flag on steroids

    Roffle makes daily Hearthstone videos, mostly in Wild where cards are never cycled out and things get pretty crazy

    Edit: more

    Rare Earth, run by the son of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, tells deep stories from obscure places

    NileRed does crazy chemistry stuff

    I really agree with the people recommending Technology Connections and Techmoan

    This Old Tony takes you along as he does stuff on his workshop

    The Drum Thing and rdavidr both make interesting videos about weird from equipment, which I never thought I’d be interested in

    You may have heard of The Game Grumps before but The Ten Minute Power Hour on their side channel The Grumps has me in stitches every episode

    The backlog of the late and great Technoblade, probably one of if not the top Minecraft PvPer while he was alive, is always worth a watch

    I never played WoW but I love Crendor’s Pointless Top Ten videos and Barny64’s slow decent into madness playing WoW Classic

    I might come back to do more later, I’m doing all of this from a tablet lol

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    krazam makes hilarious skits about tech/programming/work in tech, uploads are rare but always a complete treat

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    These are not necessarily unpopular in terms of subscribers, but nieche in terms of topics:

    • acollierastro: theoretical physicist with a unique style. What got me hooked are her videos debunking or responding to popular scientific misconceptions.
    • Ben Eater: teaches computer related subjects like electronics, networking, low level programming, architecture etc. in a fun way. He has a series where he builds a computer from scratch with cables and circuit boards.
    • Living Ironically in Europe: if 2balkans4you was a youtube channel, although he has some serious content as well
    • Masaman: mostly talks about genetics, he hasn’t made any new videos in a while.
    • Max Derrat: he seems to have deep knowledge about occult stuff and its history which he uses to analyse video games and other media.
    • Ostura Official TV: progressive metal band from Lebanon.
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    Cracking the Cryptic

    They solve Sudoku Puzzle variants and some other types of puzzles. I quite enjoy watching them work through the logic. They put out 2 videos per day so there’s always something new to watch. Their videos range from 20-60 minutes depending on the difficulty of the puzzle.

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      This channel is such a hidden gem. Their Patreon is also one of the best investments I’ve ever made. They do a monthly puzzle club where they send out packs of puzzles that take plenty of time to work through.

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    • Acerola - Video Game shaders and other digital art techniques
    • Andrewism - hopefull Philosophy / Politics
    • Eisenbahn in Ö, D, CH - Trains (in german)
    • carykh - AI and various
    • jan Misali - Conlang + various + Mashups
    • Marco Reps - Electronics and EE
    • Then & Now - History/Philosophy
    • NeverKnowsBest - Lengthy Video Game reviews/ History of Gaming
    • BobbyBroccoli - Science scandals
    • Applied Science - Various science and Eng
    • Asianometry - Semiconductor / Engineering / Taiwan / History / Economics (very frequent uploads)
    • RMTransit - Transit (NA focus)
    • Tom Nicholas- more politics
    • Junferno - Software Development in sarcastic weeb
    • Oliver Lugg - I don’t even know
    • People Make Games - Video Game Journalism

    I tried to only pick stuff <1M subs excluding game play and news.

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    Brick Immortar - does very neutral, safety oriented breakdowns of maritime disasters (mostly) I love his narration, he speaks with a ton of authority imo and I find all the procedures and rules of ships fascinating.

    Animagrafs - modern marvels but shorter and on 1 topic. Extremely professional animations of big ass machines. He just did one on Big Boy steam locomotives and it was amazing to see the systems work.

    The Squidd - does video essays on famous cars and their histories

    Game makers tool kit - following his journey of learning game development

    History of the entire universe - incredible free documentaries about the deepest and craziest topics about our universe and reality. I listen to them to sleep

    I did a thing Backyard scientist William Osman ^science YouTubers, menaces

    Marcus house - following along with space progress, specifically starship.

    No clip - video game documentaries

    People make games - interesting stories about gaming, very professional deep dive stuff (Roblox is the devil)

    Regular Car Reviews - bizarre car reviews with a goofy narrator who makes a ton of literary references I think he used to be a teacher

    Secret Base - sports stat nerds (watch their scoragami and worst NFL punt videos)

    Technology connections - learn how genius some of our everyday inventions really are

    Zack Freedman - ADHD tech maker 3d printing nerd

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    Dank Pods - hilarious Aussie who messes with iPods and old mp3 players. Very entertaining