Some may not know how many hours I watch YouTube daily, well I’m coming clean. A lot of hours. I don’t have Netflix cause I’m living that cheap life, so YouTube serves as my only form of entertainment besides my cat. So I would like to think that because I’m on the platform so much, I would have good taste in YouTubers. The following are relatively comedic channels, with some beauty channels as well. Trust me, they’re definitely worth a watch.
David Dobrik
If you haven’t heard of the Vlog Squad by now, allow me to fill you in. David Dobrik basically invented a form of vlogs that are scripted comedic content, and all of his friends have channels with their own content, including Jason Nash, Toddy Smith, Scotty Sire, Kristen McAtee, Liza Koshy, Josh Peck, and some more people. Liza Koshy, who you should definitely know, has the most subscribers of the squad, but David is second highest at 9.8 million, and is personally my favorite. His short videos have me laughing the entire time, and I could rewatch them for hours.
BuzzFeed Unsolved
I’m not an adement watcher of all of BuzzFeed, but I enjoy random videos here and there. However, a bunch of BuzzFeed’s branches, like the recently-independent Try Guys, are amazing. BuzzFeed Unsolved is run by two beautiful men, Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej, who tell the thrilling stories of unsolved murders, mysteries, and occurrences. They sometimes travel to locations that are haunted, like the Winchester house or the Queen Mary, and sleep there overnight, or they’ll sit in their office and Ryan will read through all his research. All the episodes are more funny than scary, and you actually learn a lot of interesting things.
ThreadBanger
With only 3.9 million subscribers, this channel is of the lesser known on my list, but I love them too much to not mention them. Corinne Leigh and Rob Czar are a married couple who have run ThreadBanger for over a decade; the channel began as DIY projects and evolved into doing Pinterest projects to see which were fake, and now they’ve branched out to all kinds of videos. Some videos are run by Rob, some by Corinne, and some are a competition between them. They’ve done food videos, pranks, vlogs, life hacks, and just generally really funny content.
Safiya Nygaard
Bringing it back to BuzzFeed creators, Saf used to work for BuzzFeed until she decided she was too good for them and began her own channel, and she’s created some of the most original content I’ve ever seen. In some videos, she mixes all her makeup together to create a new product, or she’ll get makeovers done based on time eras or foreign cultures, she’ll wear really weird clothes for a week straight, or just general videos that are always entertaining.
ElleOfTheMills
Elle Mills is a new find of mine, but I immediately fell in love with her content and binged her channel. Much like David Dobrik’s form of videos, Elle’s are always super fast-paced in a short amount of time. The editing is amazing, the comedy is always there, and I could watch her videos all day. The classic Elle Mills video is always outrageously over-the-top, like how she purchased a billboard of herself and put it outside her old high school, she married her sister’s boyfriend for a prank, she hosted a frat party at her mom’s house, and created a roast for her brother.
Glam & Gore
I’ve been a huge fan of this channel from the beginning. Mykie is a SFX makeup artist who began her channel by doing gore tutorials, like frostbite Elsa and post plastic surgery Barbie, and some makeup tutorials, like holiday glam and 90s grunge and supermodel makeup. Her channel has evolved over the years into less tutorials and more funny shenanigans. She transforms herself into cartoon characters, did horror makeup in haunted locations across the US, let Tinder matches choose her makeup, and so much more.
Jenna Marbles
If you don’t watch Jenna Marbles, you need to get on it ASAP. She’s been popular on the platform for quite some time now, but her content has changed so much over the years. At first she did comedy skits all the time, but now her videos are unscripted and are just her fooling around with green screens, makeup, hair dye, her dogs, or anything. All of her videos are so funny and so wholesome, there’s no way she couldn’t make you laugh.