Five creators worth discovering this week
October 4, 2026
Five creators you may not know yet, and should. For each one we picked a video to start with.
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Jaku
Movie and TV clips and commentary
Jaku keeps asking one question of cartoons: what is that character really saying? Here he turns it on the Chinese writing in Avatar: The Last Airbender, from wanted posters to maps and shop signs, and by his account finds Fire Nation propaganda, hidden jokes and bits of backstory. The comments read like fans adding footnotes, and the same series takes on Bill Cipher's backwards lines in Gravity Falls and Luz's Spanish in The Owl House.
4.5M views this week
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What Does All the Chinese Writing in Avatar Actually Say?
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Applied Science
Science and experiments
Ben Krasnow runs the kind of home lab most people only see at universities, with electron microscopes, femtosecond lasers and a rotor spun by sound alone, and he explains each build with patient precision. This one tackles a familiar problem with welding, an arc too bright to see past, using a system that, in his words, uses "intense pulsed lighting to outshine electric arc, laser cutter." He is also just back from a summer break with a 1970s patent for a sodium-water reactor that is meant to stay calm "(in theory)."
285K views this week
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Welding visualization system uses intense pulsed lighting to outshine electric arc, laser cutter
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jillyeon
Strategy, simulation and role-playing games
Crusader Kings III gets a gleefully unholy run here, as jillyeon sets her in-game daughters against each other in a race to become pope. Her channel motto admits she is "not the best at games but having fun anyway," and that cheerful honesty is the charm. The same spirit runs through her martial-arts outing, bluntly titled "i'm terrible at Where Winds Meet."
525K views this week
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i made my daughters fight to become pope in CK3
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Girl Truck Routine
Vlogs and daily life
Natural sound and no voice-over are the whole format of Girl Truck Routine, a woman who drives alone across Europe and films her days and nights in the cab. This night on the highway is a quiet, steady watch of the road and the long hours behind the wheel, and her August vlog "Every Day Feels Like Groundhog Day on the Road" offers the same calm in daylight. Lately her world has widened, with a night ferry to England and an old military truck she bought to turn into an off-grid expedition home.
2.6M views this week
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Highway Nights Solo Female Trucker Shows Her Real Routine
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Spenser Wilton
Motorbikes, off-road and motorsport
Fans of the Canadian off-road crew Cboys know him as Spenny, and on his own channel the dirt bike is his way into the backcountry. This trip takes him camping in the Rockies, in a stretch he flags in capitals as bear country, as part of a fall of outdoor rides and enduro tests. His newest, "Backcountry Camping on Dirtbikes," goes deeper into the bush, and back in August he even led supercross racer Cooper Webb through the trees.
2.6% more subscribers this week
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Camping in the Rocky Mountains (BEAR COUNTRY)
