For me it’s Skallagrim. This is a channel of a guy who specializes in ancient armory and weaponry, he also reviews swords and stuff that’s sold online and tests them. Pretty cool.
But then I started to not like him for some reason and it took me a while to put my finger on it. Until I saw the video where he tried criticizing weapons in video games. Then that was where I found problems with him as a channel.
His personality comes off very pretentious and one of those pseudointellectuals you know, who try sounding smarter than they really are. He even has the voice tone to back that with.
So yeah I really once loved his channel. Though whenever he goes on tirades about things that are meant for fantasy purposes which aren’t supposed to make sense when translated to reality, as well as try to poke at fictitious things that borrow from ancient history, I feel he misses the plot of his entire channel and why people like me once subscribed to it.
We didn’t subscribe to your channel for your stupid takes on - anything. We subscribed because you seem to know your melee weapons and historical backgrounds of said weaponry. Stick to those.
Might I suggest Clickspring. It was actually AvE who turned me onto him. Clickspring aka G’day Chris Heah is an Australian man who makes soul-achingly beautiful videos about clockmaking. He’s on a very long project of building a replica Antikythera mechanism, from which has already emerged some serious academic research.
Clickspring is great! I’d also like to add Blondihacks, which is just very down to earth machining content, mostly with very traditional techniques/tools, and also just high quality educational content. And she has very wholesome vibes
And also NotAnEngineer, another aussie doing machining with humor similar to ToT. Working out of a small cramped garage, his wife/partner doing a lot of the recording. And the projecte are usually quite unique
I remember Blondihacks from way back in the Caleb Kraft Hackaday days.
she’s awesome.