*Riloe

*Architect of games

*Nakey Jake

*Gamer makers toolkit

*Curious archive

*Lemino

*12 tone

*AI and games

*Alpha Phoenix

*Barely sociable

*Be smart

*Branch education

*Brick immortar

*Bytebytego

*Cgp grey

*Coffeezilla

*Defunctland

*Eckharts ladder

*Electroboom

*Every frame a painting

*Lessons from the screenplay

*History of the earth

*History of the universe

*Internet Historian

*Kurzgesagt

*Lockpickinglawyer

*Markrober

*Mustard

*Cold fusion

*Polymatter

*Minute physics

*No clip documentaries

*PBS spacetime

*Pursuit of wonder

*Real engineering

*Scishow

*Secret base

*Stevemould

*Technology connections

*The b1m

*The history guy

*The squidd

*Throttle house

*Tom Stanton

*Tom Scott (retired now)

*Veritasium

*Vsauce

*Wendover productions

Edit: things I forgot or didn't know about and had suggested to me below

*Half as interesting

*Undecided with Matt Farrell

*3blue1brown

*Numberphile

*Mathologer

*Miniminuteman

*Sam o'nella

*Alternate history hub

*Road guy rob

*8-bit guy

*Modern vintage gamer

*Bobby Broccoli

*Jenny Nicholson

*Animagraffs

*Captain disillusion

*Driving 4 answers

*Engineering explained

*Jeff geerling (raspberry pi type projects)

*Kings and generals

*Michael Reeves

*Noah caldwell-gervais

*People make games

*Pointless hub

*Smarter everyday

*The engineering mindset

*The great war

*The operations room

*The modern rogue

*Zack Freedman

*The backyard scientist

*Brew

*I did a thing

*Neo

*Stand up maths

There i think that's it. That's a ton of stuff but I really follow more quality YouTube than anything else and I like sharing great YouTube channels. If you enjoy interesting YouTube I would honestly just check a couple of these out and see if the topics fit your interests.

These channels range from science, space, physics, to history, sports, cars, to tech, movies, games, to makers who build stuff seriously as well as builders who make stuff silly.

Not everything here is video essay, but it's high quality content imo