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I miss old Rooster Teeth. I rarely go back to it, but I go on a little watch spree every few years.

I'd also include Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games. Incredible channel that was run by the man himself. I've learned so much about the developer side of things from his channel. Sadly he ended it a few years ago because he felt like he was able to talk about pretty much everything he wanted to touch on. And he had to get working on Kirby Air Riders.

A couple other small ones would be:

Scykoh- Made a series called Glitchfest where he would break down and show off significant bugs/glitches in games. Similar to A+Start.

Jasper- A guy who broke down how Nintendo created certain elements of their games. Very informative as well, but he only made a handful of videos and then just randomly stopped a few years ago.

Sp0ntanius- Musician who made creatively edited Zelda music covers. He actually still uploads the occasional video. But he often doesn't upload for several years at a time.

Kruggsmash. He's mostly (maybe entirely?) A Dwarf Fortress creator. I first found him just looking for basic tutorials of how to play the game, but soon started watching his series where he uses the game as a platform for storytelling. He takes the procedurally generated stuff and fleshes it out. He voiced characters and made incredibly charming drawings for important scenes.

Camelworks. Rest in peace- the channel is dead because he passed away earlier this year. Mostly did content dicing into Elder Scrolls games, occasionally Fallout and other games.

Is It a Good Idea to Microwave This? - classic old school YouTube, from the days when it waa just high school and college students fucking around. Just 3 dudes with a camera, an extra microwave, and someone's parents cool enough to let them do dumb stuff. They eventually stopped as life caused the 3 of them to grow apart.

Technoblade and Mitten Squad are the 2 I keep. I miss TB's humor and MS's Fallout & Skyrim challenge videos.

I'm surprised no one mentioned Comicstorian. He would do long form reads of comic books and he would like to act out quotes. Right when he was becoming huge on youtube he randomly crashed into a tree and died. 🤷‍♂️ life is Strange.

Coding-with-Yalco, bro showed up, dropped some best-in-class software concepts tutorials, then disappeared. I think he's still active on another channel in Korean language tho.

https://youtube.com/@adamraymonda

They’re all really well done covers. No updates in years, but I highly recommend. Venus and XO are probably the ones I found to be most surprising.

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Oh, and FOR SURE Clownc0re! It’s a side project from a couple of guys from Snarky Puppy. Definitely check out the porta-potty and van videos.

https://youtube.com/@clownc0re

Sammie Kohn. Used to love her videos. Then she changed platforms or something and her content quality went downhill :(

Edit: I had to refresh myself on what happened. I guess she had a bunch of copyright infringement warnings for reacting to different shows. And ended up making her own website. Can't remember why I didn't follow her over. Maybe she had moved everything behind a paywall and I couldn't afford it, I don't recall.

VeganBlackMetalChef: vegan cooking with a twist you might not guess…OK it's in the name you guessed it

RubberNinja. I miss Ross' offbeat sense of humor and his collabs with EgoRaptor.

Been 6 years since the last upload, so it seems well and truly dead.

Another one is HelloImAPizza, who became known for his compilation of PSAs across the world, and for his high-quality presentation of the matter. Been a year since he uploaded and tends to go several years without new content, so maybe he'll come back some day. Dunno.

BirgirPall - a pair of Icelandic guys who would play games together, and their "We Broke..." series was an utter delight. I'm an old bastard who dislikes pretty much the entire genre of "watch someone else play a video game and yammer over it" entertainment, but BirgirPall were a major exception due to their talent for finding weirdass bugs and glitches, cracking up infectiously at the results, and editing them down into excellent little short videos. The guys behind the channel seem to have left it behind these days, and their individual channels just aren't the same.

I'm also a longtime fan of YouTube Poop, and stay subscribed to a lot of the early poopers from the old days. Every now and then one of them will come back and post something cool.

Does Veritasium count? It's not exactly dead, but its a zombie.

VinoFarm - It was a nice positive beekeeping channel

Far North Bushcraft And Survival - Watching the guy survive in absolutely freezing conditions.

MrBTongue

His video on Shandification was quite interesting though I think YouTube removed it from his actual channel.

He hasn't posted in like 8 years though.

Patchlunch. He made a live loop in ableton with beat segments from flying lotus (I think) that was just flawlessly executed. I rewatch it every so often and hope he continued to hone his craft.

Yogs cast.

formerly digibro, but all the videos are gone now.

Corporeal.

They were a garage band that did a cover of the Halo Sound track. Every now and then I check it out to listen to their version.

They have not posted anything in years.

I used to follow this linux techy guy who had a channel called QuidsUp and then one day they just fell off the face of the internet. That was a few years back and every once in a while I look again- nope, still mysteriously gone. No uploads.

Early in YouTubeland (circa 2008-2010) there was a user called AntiConsumer. Content was all taken down and the profile disappeared.

I'd love to know where to find some of that material now. There were clips from documentaries, ads, lectures and more. Might have seen my first bits of Michael Parenti there. Im pretty sure that my firat exposure to Wesley Clark's "7 countries in 5 years" talk was from there.

GoldPlatedGoof, the guy came made a couple of top notch maths explanation videos and then completely disappeared and has not upload anything in 8 years. Hope he's OK.

randytaylor69 for a long time - and then suddenly she started streaming regularly and it is a hilarious drunken shit show every time

Kent carlevi - easily the best guitar videos on yt. The fact that he made them almost 20 years ago is mind boggling.

Heather Feather and Jellybean Green are two ASMRtists I miss. Heather stopped years ago after her father passed away, and JB left more recently as it was too taxing on her.