Just mildly curious, since there's not many quality people on the platform who don't have issues nowadays imo (Often drama/politics-related), I'm curious to see if anyone's got any recommendations for some good ones left.
Side note: I use invidio.us instances to avoid giving my data (and views) up to YT, plus its a lightweight front-end to youtube that doesn't get ads or anything like that. Would recommend it to anyone interested in those benefits.
Some of mine off the top of my head in terms of gaming that I regularly watch(ed):
SsethTzeentach - many already know about this dude, basically an old holdover memer from 4chan/8chan days who makes funny game reviews, he's an entertaining guy, though he has self-censored compared to his past self because of YT, still worth watching. He spawned a bunch of clones on YT and is probably this generation's equivalent of AVGN in that respect.
Mangs - Fire Emblem and Advance Wars (and strategy/tactics video games) youtuber, he's a pretty uncucked and funny guy. Does what he wants, shitposts and plays games, a lot of memes come from him. Was cancelled by pretty much the entire Fire Emblem community 2 years ago but still survived and stayed strong despite it.
LoreRunner - Probably autistic dude who does analyses of many different kinds of games, he's probably a mild to moderate leftist if I had to guess, but I've rarely heard him bring up politics and he's willing to justify villains in his analysis instead of being some cringy pearl-clutching guy. Seems alright to me at least.
AfreecaTV (and various other channels) - I just watch for the Starcraft 1 and 2 content, the ASLs and GSLs with Tastosis were nice; don't watch the Masters shit outside of Korea, its awful.
Used to watch Day9TV but he turned soy in the last 3 years, though if you want some great content, he had some great stuff pre-2020 (where Floyd turned even people like Day9 who never brought up politics into openly leftist ideologues). His Amnesia playthrough is still the best on YT imo, though I'd watch his stuff through a front-end like Invidio.us to not give views. He has some great playthroughs in the past and his old Starcraft 2 content is top-tier.
There's others I don't regularly "watch", but their stuff was always funny in the past if I go revisit it, like Manslay3r's gamer poop videos.
In terms of anime YTers:
Gigguk is a pretty funny guy who makes high quality videos ranging from tongue-in-cheek stuff, to recommending anime/manga, genre breakdowns, shitposts, abridged series, etc.
Joey/TheAnimeMan - More his old content, his new shit doesn't even talk about anime anymore, he's pretty pretentious and less interesting compared to Gigguk, don't expect too much but he's alright. He's a moderate leftist though, not a total pearl-clutcher since he's willing to defend controversial stuff in anime but a naive "nice guy" idiot.
Trash Taste is an alright podcast who features the above 2 youtubers, plus a guy named Connor and sometimes some big guests, they only occasionally talk about anime though so its kind of a meme now.
And various other YTers for one-offs and videos otherwise.
It depends on what I'm after since I can go to YouTube for info or be entertained, to stay entertained:
Solus Astorias: who knew that providing dubbing over Internet comics could be so entertaining as he mostly uses two artists, Baalbuddy did my favourite apocalypse scenario while Centurii does good historical parodies in an all female cast
Bread boys: simple skits usually ending with a shotgun and screaming
Rimmy downunder: Helps fill my RTS desire though Ironically I found him the shit show that was the Fallout Frontier mod debacle
Shadiversity: Love medieval history and how he explains weapons both historic and fantasy
Solid JJ: simple parody skits using shows from my childhood
Also like Trash Taste for the banter and guest to have in the background, and sometimes go into a lot of Japan based stuff through them.
On a more informative side:
Viva Fri: having their livestream recording on in the background to get a law perspective of current events
The Archcast: nice hearing from someone as cynical as me on media
Razorfist: his recent Lincoln video was fantastic
I do watch Shortfatotaku and Shoeonhead so not to get too tunnel visioned and only see from one perspective, I'd recommend them if you have the same attitude as they won't make you want to bash your head into a table listening to them.
Then cause I can I'd recommend Kane Pixels as a '17 year old schools all of Hollywood on how to do a series correctly'
Short commie still makes me want to bash my head in, but Ive been quite far gone past fenceshitter takers for a while, so more power to those of you that can still listen to somebody like Peterson without wanting to throttle them for their lack of a spine.