YouTube Rabbit Holes Worth Falling Into
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Fails, Stunts & Viral Compilations
The channels that turn other people's worst moments into your best evening. Popcorn recommended.
FailArmy
The OG fail compilation channel. 50M+ subscribers watching people eat pavement, miss the pool, and learn physics the hard way.
Schadenfreude headquartersPeople Are Awesome
FailArmy's optimistic sibling. Insane stunts, impossible talent, and humans doing things that shouldn't be possible. The palate cleanser after a fail binge.
"Humans are occasionally incredible"Daily Dose of Internet
Short, curated compilations of the most interesting viral clips. Funny, surprising, wholesome — a bit of everything in 3-minute doses. No filler. No fat.
Your daily multivitamin of internetBinge Central
Idiots in cars. Boat fails. Construction disasters. If something expensive is being destroyed by someone overconfident, Binge Central has the footage.
Insurance adjusters' nightmare fuelOzzy Man Reviews
An Australian man narrates viral footage with commentary so funny it turns a cat video into Shakespeare. The accent does 40% of the work and he knows it.
Australian David Attenborough for failsPoke My Heart
Wholesome, heartwarming, and funny viral content. The channel you watch after Binge Central makes you lose faith in humanity.
Emotional support YouTubeComedy, Sketches & Funny Commentary
Channels where people are funny on purpose (as opposed to the fail channels where they're funny by accident).
Funny or Die
Celebrity sketches, viral comedy, and curated funny content. Will Ferrell co-founded it. "The Landlord" video started it all.
Hollywood's comedy YouTubeSmosh Pit
Improv, commentary, and sketches from one of YouTube's oldest comedy brands. "Try Not to Laugh" series is dangerously bingeable.
2005-era YouTube energy, evolvedJimmy Here
"You Laugh You Lose" series that's become a YouTube institution. Audience-submitted clips judged by a man with zero poker face.
Your lunch break, ruined by laughterThe Try Channel
Irish people trying weird foods, drinks, and products for the first time. The reactions are genuine. The accents make everything funnier.
"What in the feckin' Jaysus is this?"HowToBasic
"Tutorial" videos that start normal and descend into absolute chaos within 30 seconds. Eggs are involved. Always. Nobody knows why.
Surrealist cooking terrorismJenna Marbles (Archive)
Retired but eternal. "What My Dogs Do When I Leave" and "Giving Myself a Terrible Makeover" are cultural artifacts. The queen of early YouTube absurdism.
Retired legend, still funnyAnimals Being Animals
Because sometimes you just need to watch a cat misjudge a jump.
The Pet Collective
Funny pet fails, cute compilations, and curated animal clips. Your serotonin dealer.
Dopamine on demandBrave Wilderness
A guy voluntarily gets stung and bitten by the most painful creatures on Earth. Educational. Also deeply concerning.
"Let me just put my hand near this bullet ant"The Dodo
Rescue stories, animal friendships, and enough wholesome content to counteract an entire week of internet toxicity.
Crying-on-the-couch-at-midnight energyTucker Budgyn
A golden retriever with 10M subscribers and more charisma than most humans. His "reactions" to food are Oscar-worthy.
The dog is more successful than youGaming & Reactions
For when you want to watch someone else rage-quit so you don't have to.
IGP
Let's Play content with maximum energy, chaotic humor, and reactions loud enough to concern your neighbors. Horror games are his specialty.
Energy drink in human formDunkey
Gaming commentary from the internet's funniest critic. "Dunkey's Best of" videos are annual events. Brutally honest reviews disguised as comedy.
The Roger Ebert of screaming at video gamesLet's Game It Out
"What happens if I break every game mechanic simultaneously?" Turns simulation games into crimes against virtual humanity.
Digital war crimes, but funnypenguinz0 (Cr1TiKaL)
Charlie's monotone delivery over unhinged content is a genre unto itself. Product reviews, gaming, commentary — all deadpan, all lethal.
Deadpan deityScience, Experiments & "Why Would You Do That?"
Channels where curious people do things the rest of us are too smart (or too scared) to try.
Mark Rober
Ex-NASA engineer builds elaborate contraptions — glitter bombs for porch pirates, world's largest Nerf gun, squirrel obstacle courses.
Engineering revenge fantasiesBackyard Scientist
"What happens if I pour molten aluminum into a watermelon?" A channel dedicated to answering questions nobody asked with experiments nobody should try.
Your HOA's worst nightmareWilliam Osman
Builds terrible robots, questionable machines, and things that almost work. The "almost" is where the comedy lives.
Engineering, but make it chaoticHydraulic Press Channel
A Finnish man crushes things in a hydraulic press. That's the channel. It's been running for years. Nobody is tired of it.
300 tons of satisfying destructionI did a thing
An Australian who builds absurd inventions and documents the process with dry humor. Made the world's largest scissors. Of course he did.
"I shouldn't have done this thing"