What My YouTube Subscriptions Say About Me

YouTube is the strangest bookshelf I own. It has lectures from people who build programming languages, live streams from open source maintainers, guitar arrangements I will probably never play cleanly, sketching channels that make me want to draw again, and a handful of videos that exist purely because the internet is allowed to be unserious. I recently looked through my subscriptions and found 161 channels. That number surprised me less than the shape of the list. My YouTube is not random. It is a map of what I keep returning to when I want to learn, practice, relax, or feel pulled back toward making things. The quick stats These numbers came from my YouTube subscriptions page on 9 July 2026. YouTube showed subscriber counts for 157 of the 161 channels, so subscriber-based stats below use only the visible counts. Genre Channels Technology, programming, and software craft 104 Art, sketching, and visual taste 17 Music, guitar, and performance 16 Playful internet, sports, and gaming 15…