Top Ten Bald
Youtubers
10.
David Cummings Does The Best Dramatic Readings
David Cummings has managed to make his appearance nearly irrelevant to his fanbase.
This Canadian performer is all about his voice, which he’s used to launch a podcast of dramatic
readings of horror fiction called The NoSleep Podcast.
Since starting that show which has been praised by the likes of Fangoria and Wired magazines,
Cummings has branched out into posting his readings on Youtube under Chilling Tales for
Dark Nights and enjoyed considerable success.
Several of his videos, such as The Basement and Why I Didn’t Shower for Twenty-One Years,
have gotten over 100,000 views.
9.
Jack Packard is One of Red Letter Media’s Underrated Stars
The most famous members of the movie reviewing channel Red Letter Media headquartered in
Milwaukee, WI by far are Mike Stoklasa, Rich Evans, and Jay Bauman.
Jack Packard is still one of most enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and quick-witted members of
the team.
Anyone can see that who has watched him on their popular Half in the Bag show where they
review popular recently released films or their Best of the Worst video series where
strange old VHS programs get made fun of.
Packard spun his involvement with Red Letter Media into a separate channel called ‘Previously
Recorded’ which he hosts with Rich Evans.
While there are also some movie discussions on there every so often, the primary focus
is irreverent video game reviews.
By far the most notable and controversial assertion ever made on the channel was when
he claimed that the massively popular Sonic the Hedgehog game is the most overrated one
ever made because flaws in its design and interactivity make it almost impossible to
play as advertised.
8.
Taras Kulakov is a Crazy Russian Hacker
It took six years and three channels for Russian immigrant and now North Carolina resident
Taras Kulakov to have enough success making Youtube videos that he could quit his day
job at Walmart.
Probably the fact the first channel he started in 2009 was devoted to the niche subject of
Origami was why it was initially slow going.
Instructional videos on how to open a can without a can opener or how to make shoes
waterproof seem that they’d almost inherently have a more universal appeal.
Also he seems to have an enduring obsession with making videos about Coca-cola, including
what happens when you boil it and how to make popsicles of it using dry ice.
As of late 2016 he has more than 8.6 million subscribers that have provided his channel
alone about 1.5 billion views.
It would have to be one very impressive channel that gets that many views teaching origami.
7.
Michael Stevens’s VSauce Asks Big Questions
This particular educator from Los Angeles, CA started his channel in 2010 making relatively
lowbrow videos like Mario Farts, which is actually a slightly worse video than the title
implies.
But he moved on in a big way.
Who would have thought that videos with subject matter like answering questions such as “What
is the speed of dark?”, “Is cereal soup?”, and “How do you count past infinity?”
would have been good for more than a billion views with more than ten million subscribers?
His presentation style also helps, sounding excited about the subject matter he’s covering
while neither talking down to viewers or trying too hard to be endearing and instead becoming
grating.
6.
Northernlion
With most Let’s Play channels, the focus is on making videos for a variety of video
games so that viewers can get a taste of the game and move on.
Vancouver resident Ryan Letourneau went in a very different direction.
As of the time of writing, he has made more than one thousand five hundred videos of himself
playing the indie game Binding of Isaac, made by the same designer that created Super Meat
Boy.
These are not brief videos either, many of them stretching over half an hour.
To put that in perspective, even if you watched them day and night without a break, it would
take well over four and a half weeks to get through his Binding of Isaac videos.
On top of that, he’s gotten more than a million views for some of them.
With that level of fan devotion, it’s no wonder he was able to make a living producing
videos for Youtube as early as December 2011.
Sure, he’s also made videos for other popular video games like Fallout 4 and Grand Theft
Auto V.
But the sheer level of commitment he had to Binding of Isaac means all other gameplay
videos he does will be in the shadow of that series.
Especially since he’s had some legal issues with other games such as Ubisoft hitting a
series of videos he did of the Assassin’s Creed game with a copyright complaint.
5.
Matthew Santoro Makes Lists
A former Canadian accountant switched to making Youtube videos after being laid off, he makes
video lists too.
Topics have included the Worst Prisons to Live in, Weirdly Famous People, and Stuff
you were taught in school that was wrong.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation said in a profile of him that he had a larger presence
on Youtube than Drake.
During the same profile he said that all he had was himself to attract the audience he
did.
Judging from some of the videos he’s created which have brought him hundreds of millions
of views and millions of subscribers, he must have been quite the fan of Toptenz.
4.
Glenn Izett is the Bald Chef
Despite the rather humble name for his channel, Colonel Glenn Izett’s tutorials are some
truly excellent cooking instructional videos.
There’s no bells or whistles, just his calmly explaining the processes for making sumptuous-looking
meals with his charming southern accent for more than three hundred videos.
He makes even food you know from past experience you don’t really enjoy look irresistible.
Since he’s not only an accomplished chef from Washington D.C. but a man who’s travelled
around the world, he has an extremely diverse range of recipes from Europe, Asia, and South
America.
When he shows recipes for Italian marinara sauce, Korean barbecue, and Peruvian Lomo
Saltado, he’s learned the technique to make it authentic.
You know a show host must be doing something right if he can get more than five hundred
thousand views for detailing the best way to cook asparagus or approaching two hundred
thousand views for a beef and broccoli recipe with his homemade, gimmick-free videos.
3.
Dennis Roady is an Extreme Prankster
This self-identified natural born prankster was working at a UPS factory before in 2014
starting a his channel.
What it lacks in taste and tact it makes up for in enthusiasm and boldness.
Probably the single best example of this is the one he did at the time of the 2014 Ebola
scare.
Many of his popular prank videos revolve around having performers pretend to be having sex
in public locations ranging from airplanes to libraries to retail checkout areas during
Black Friday.
Quite a few of them involve excrement in various ways.
On the more pleasant side, he’s also done a few videos where the appeal is that he’s
performing good deeds, including for homeless people.
Like many pranksters, some would argue Roady will sometimes go too far.
In 2015 he made his most famous prank video where he went to a Detroit auto show, snapped
pictures of vehicles using an app that superimposes car damage like dings and scratches.
Although he came away with a video that grew to more than ten million views, the management
for the show condemned his actions.
He’s also has a few videos where he had run-ins with the police during the shoots.
2.
Schola Gladitoria Loves Medieval Warfare
When it comes to critiquing such fight scenes as the sword duels in HBO’s modern classic
Game of Thrones, few people on Youtube are half so qualified as Matt Easton from the
UK.
He is the founder of a school for the history and use of medieval weaponry, able to get
his hands on anything from longswords to peasant armor from the fifteenth century to viking
throwing axes more than a millennium old.
But the video series is also lighthearted enough that he’ll take time to reviews the
lightsaber battles in the Star Wars movies, even though that seems outside his area of
expertise.
Among his most recommended videos are his review of the Emmy-sweeping Game of Thrones
episode Battle of the Bastards.
He discusses the many strengths of the episode but doesn’t gush or go on interminably long.
1.
Andrea Pellegrini is Baldly Beautiful
We think of vlogging as largely a young person’s game.
Viewing trends indicate that appealing to child viewers is the best way to get a large
amount of traffic.
That makes Andrea Pellegrini’s vlog Baldly Beautiful all the better.
In September 2014 she began chemotherapy for her breast cancer.
Initially she felt extremely insecure about her appearance, being something of a fashionista.
But at her husband's encouragement, she decided to use her Youtube channel to reach out to
other people undergoing the same treatment she was and offer fashion tips for women who
felt the need to shave their heads.
It may seem like a very esoteric subject matter, but the channel quickly found an enthusiastic
audience of people in similar situations.
It makes sense as an estimated one in seven women will suffer from breast cancer at some
point in their life.
Her views and followers never climbed into seven-figure level, but the value of her videos
and the impact they had on her audience were enough that she got mainstream media attention.
BONUS!
Me.
It might have come across a bit biased to put myself on this list so here a bonus unranked
entry.
Of course, myself, host of this channel.