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
Technology Connections is great!
Niche
2.07M subscribers
OP’s example was lockpickinglawyer at 4.39M, YouTube is just a bigger platform than it used to be
Also CathodeRayDude
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
PBS Space Time
I’d recommend PBS Storied as well! It has a compilation of a few segments like Monsterum (folklore), Otherwords (etymology), Fate and Fabled (mythology), and more
I like PBS Eons, about paleontology.
Ooh thanks. Subscribed.
Seconding NeverKnowsBest, excellent stuff
I recently discovered Ben Eater, his videos about how computer hardware works are really interesting
I built a breadboard computer by following his series. Was super fun to put together, and makes for a great conversation starter (whether people like it or not).
I have a friend who built one and every time he talks about it we pull up that gif of a guy talking to a wall
Lmao that’s exactly the vibe.
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
I did a thing is vaguely similar with unique and odd engineering creations with less coding, precision, and safety, and more darker Australian humor
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You beautiful scholar of a bot. 🥳
Sounds like my kind of thing, thanks!
If you want something like lock picking lawyer but longer, check out wristwatch revival
And Nico for small bits of high-energy watch enthusiasm sprinkled in. Be warned though, he’s a bit rough around the edges.
His voice is just soooo soothing!
I have zero interest in watches, but I’ll watch him any day
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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Add Jay Foreman to the list, and his series about unfinished London, British humor at its best 😆
Only channel where the ads sometimes are as good as the regular content.
Best bloody ads on the screen today.
I’m always loling over map men too
krazam makes hilarious skits about tech/programming/work in tech, uploads are rare but always a complete treat
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Oh their AI boyfriend skit gets me in stitches every time. Microservices too.
Cracking the cryptic
Yes! Love it!
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.
Ben eater is craazy
His breakdown of Wozmon was my introduction to him. He is incredibly good at explaining and breaking things down. I was riveted when I started watching.
- 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.
Acerolla is so good, glad to see him here
jan Misali I simply love it!
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This Old Tony, Practical Engineering, Aging Wheels
Dank Pods - hilarious Aussie who messes with iPods and old mp3 players. Very entertaining
Is he niche though?
I think “niche” doesn’t necessarily mean “unpopular”, it’s rather about the topics being covered. Without his awesome charisma and jokes he wouldn’t be as popular.
I like his automotive channel as well
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.
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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Superfastmatt, the dude is an engineer and vlogs about building project cars. Super well made videos, insightful and dry humor which I love!
Here’s my favourite car YouTube, awesome videos