Some of the best YouTube channels

In the last years and months, I've discovered a couple of independent YouTubers who produce content that is truly exceptional. I'd like to present them in this news entry. All of them are enjoyable for people of all backgrounds and political affiliations.

• LEMMiNO produces well-researched top-10 lists and documentaries with a focus on popular mysteries like the origin of the Universal S and the lost colony of Roanoke. While the videos of many other documentarians mostly consist of read out Reddit posts, his videos boast high production values and a cool visual style.

• CGP Grey also produces documentaries about a wide range of topics. Most of them feature funny looking stick figures. He also tackles topics that you may have never heard of before, like the race to win Staten Island and the trouble with tumbleweed. If you can't get enough of short documentaries, you may also want to check out Tom Scott. But his stuff just isn't as original and exciting as LEMMiNO's and CGP Grey's.

• Summoning Salt creates videos that present the world record progression for the fastest speedruns of games like Super Mario Bros. and Mike Tyson's Punch-Out. If you haven't been interested in speedruns before, chances are high that you'll become a regular on speedrun.com after watching a couple of his meticulous composed videos. You'll watch a 55 minute long video on Castlevania and will be sad that it's already over... If you're interested in individual speedrunners afterwards, I suggest the channel of Super Mario Bros. runner Kosmic.

• Ceave Gaming has produced several astonishing videos in which he tried to beat various Super Mario games without collecting a single coin or create a truly impossible level in Super Mario Maker. Not all videos on his channel are equally interesting, but if you have a thing for Super Mario games, you'll be entertained for hours by his upbeat narration.

• The LockPickingLawyer picks locks. That's pretty much all he does, but his unusually pleasant voice and the little stories about the history of the locks he picks make his videos true highlights. Most of them are very short, since the crappy locks are no match for his leet lock picking skills. If you can't get enough of lock picking, you can also check out the videos of his friend BosnianBill.