Top 10 YouTube Channels of 2022

The “commentary” genre is quite stacked, and it’s hard to discover new, quality names. Well, let us recommend SunnyV2. This Australian YouTuber used to do gaming videos, playing the likes of “Runescape” and “Fortnite.” However, he eventually branched out to commentary and saw an explosion of popularity throughout 2022. His views have skyrocketed, with huge hits like “How Primitive Building Videos Are Staged” and “How Amy Schumer Became The Most Hated Human Ever.” Both were uploaded in July, and both have already reached over ten million views. SunnyV2 is the new kid on the commentary block, and we can’t wait to see what he does next.

If there’s one genre even more overcrowded than commentary, it’s true crime. Yet, MrBallen was able to carve himself quite a little niche and is now one of the genre’s most popular content creators. MrBallen began posting in March of 2020 and exploded in popularity the following year. He continued the strong trajectory throughout 2022, with each new video garnering millions of views. MrBallen’s videos are quite simple in nature, as he simply sits in front of a green screen and speaks into the camera. But he has an incredible penchant for storytelling, and he tells these fascinating tales with a lot of depth, emotion, and humanity. There is no better true crime storyteller on the platform.

Who knew the law could be so much fun? This channel is run by a lawyer named Devin Stone, who originally posted videos about law school. However, he eventually shifted focus to pop culture and saw much greater success. LegalEagle uses his law expertise to comment on the likes of movies, TV shows, and current events, with his reaction videos being particularly entertaining. He covered a wide range of topics throughout 2022, including the Alex Jones and Depp-Heard trials, Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, and even the infamous Will Smith Oscars slap. The channel is educational, informative, and hilarious, and it helped us make sense of the year’s biggest stories.

Despite his name, this YouTuber has nothing to do with either coffee or Godzilla. In fact, he uses his platform to expose scams and explain how they work. Coffeezilla developed an interest in exposing scammers after his cancer-stricken mother was given snake oil by people looking to exploit her situation. He exposes the likes of influencer scams, fake gurus, and NFTs, and he generates millions of views in doing so. Coffeezilla enjoyed a particularly fruitful 2022, having reached one million subscribers in March and even earning his own profile in The New Yorker in May. There are certainly a lot of scams out there, so expect to hear much more from Coffeezilla in the future!

In 2019, former Buzzfeed employees Ryan Bergara, Shane Madej, and Steven Lim left the company and founded their own channel. Titled Watcher, it focuses on a wide range of topics and videos, including top fives, cooking, and telling scary stories. But their big hitters are Puppet History and Ghost Files, the former of which saw enormous success throughout the fall of 2022. Ghost Files sees Bergara and Madej exploring creepy locations and attempting to find evidence of ghosts. But there’s a twist - Bergara is a legitimate believer in the supernatural, whereas Madej thinks it’s all nonsense. Ghost Files is entertaining, hilarious, and sometimes even spooky, and it helped catapult Watcher to the top of the trending lists.

#5: Girlfriend Reviews

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There are a million video game-centric channels out there, so you have to do something really special to stand out from the pack. Girlfriend Reviews does that special thing. This channel is run by Shelby and Matt, a couple with a wicked sense of humor. The channel is devoted to reviewing video games, with Matt playing the game and Shelby adding her opinion as a bystander. The magic of Girlfriend Reviews lies not only in the chemistry between Shelby and Matt, but also in the brilliantly-written commentary and the incredible editing. With popular games like “Elden Ring,” “Horizon Forbidden West,” and “God of War Ragnarök,” Girlfriend Reviews enjoyed a very strong, and very funny, year.

#4: Mark Rober

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Some YouTubers put an insane amount of effort into their videos, and Mark Rober is one of them. Rober once worked as an engineer for NASA, but he eventually left the company and focused his unbelievable talents into YouTube. And we’re glad he did! Rober is one of the most brilliant men on the platform, and certainly, its most popular engineer. His videos are endlessly fascinating, and in 2022 he dropped an egg from space, beat rigged arcade games, made a robot piano, and pranked scam callers with a glitter bomb. With amazing inventions, a charismatic personality, and cinematic production values, each Mark Rober video is an exercise in wonderment.

#3: Good Mythical Morning

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Somehow, someway, Rhett and Link are still pumping out enjoyable videos each and every day of the year. Rhett and Link are some of the OG YouTubers, and they have been generating quality content for well over a decade. What started as a small internet talk show in North Carolina blossomed into one of the internet’s biggest sensations, and “Good Mythical Morning” is now a legendary piece of YouTube culture. But the old gang is still showing how it’s done, with nearly every video hitting the trending page and generating millions of views. With a wide variety of topics and games, not to mention the sparkling chemistry between its hosts, “Good Mythical Morning” is still going strong all these years later.

It’s extremely hard to do what Dude Perfect does. And that’s what makes them so popular. The channel is mostly devoted to sports and stars five incredibly gifted and athletic individuals. Basically, everything related to the sporting world is here - unbelievable trick shots, fun competitions, heck, even breaking multiple world records. But it’s not all related to sports. There are also the likes of model rocket battles, airsoft games, and “stereotypes,” which are fun scripted segments comedically displaying stereotypes of certain activities. All were present throughout 2022, ensuring a good degree of variety. And with the fun personalities of the hosts, amazing talent on display, and awe-inspiring production values, Dude Perfect remains one of YouTube’s greatest channels.

#1: MrBeast

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Yep, it’s MrBeast. How could it not be MrBeast? This channel is basically the very embodiment of YouTube culture at this point, so prolific and popular it is. A number of factors go into making MrBeast so renowned. There’s the cinematic filmmaking, the chemistry of the cast, the wickedly fun nature of the videos, and yes, the truckloads of money and effort that goes into every production. Whether it’s playing hide and seek in an empty stadium, building Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, or simply standing in a circle for as long as possible, MrBeast knows how to deliver the goods. There’s simply no other YouTube channel like it, and 2022 proved as good a year as all the others.