~ demonicRiddle's link compendium ~

Useful

Temporary Email – Don't want to use your actual email(s) to sign up to websites? Use throwaways instead!

dCode – 800+ tools for solving games, riddles, ciphers and whatnot.

Is It Down Right Now? – Figure out if a website is having problems or if it's on your end.

Virustotal – Scan files and URLs for viruses.

PDFDrive – A search engine for PDF files, hosting over 80 million of them.

Z-Library – Free e-book downloading site.

Onelook's Thesaurus – Enter words to find synonyms and related words.

Zalgo.it – Create text with the zalgo effect.

Zalgo remover – Or remove the zalgo effect from text.

Cobalt – Download videos from various websites.

Stacher – Or alternatively, you can use this yt-dlp GUI frontend, which seems to work a bit better.

/g/'s Based Sites – Huge list of very useful sites.

Catbox – File uploading site up to 200 MB.

Locale Emulator – Trick programs into thinking your OS is in a different language, useful for playing Japanese games and such.

Fun

myPhysicsLab – Physics simulations in browser.

noclip – Fly around on maps from various games.

n-gon – An open source 2d rouge-lite platformer game.

Pointless Sites – Huge list of "pointless" sites updated daily.

The Useless Web – Click on a button to be taken to a random "useless" website. Probably the coolest thing is that there's a blog full of info about the sites.

BJAODN – Wikipedia's Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense.

April Fools' Day On The Web – Lists April Fools' jokes that happened on the Internet each year.

JSPaint – MSPaint recreated with Javascript.

Death Generator – Generate screenshots from classic video games.

monkeytype – Minimalistic typing test.

galaxy.click – A website for finding and playing incremental/idle games.

Dan-Ball – Many browser games developed by one guy. I've spent so much time playing Powder Game on here...

Sandboxels – Speaking of Powder Game, this seems like its spiritual successor.

Yumebooru's Archived Fangames Online – Play tons of Yume Nikki fangames in your browser.

Yume Nikki Online Project – Play Yume Nikki and some of its fangames in your browser, but with multiplayer!

Web Desktops

Simone's Computer – A web desktop with tons of other sites to visit.

Windows 93 – A classic Windows 9x parody with tons of programs.

Windows 96 – Also based off of Windows 9x, but more "tech-y".

Neat Stuff

Terminal 00 – A huge maze of a website full of abstract pixel art.

corru.observer – An extensive multi media experience revolving around investigating a fragmented alien biocomputer.

Revenge of the Sun Fish – A website dedicated to the games and projects of Jacob Waldemar Buczynski.

The Obscuritory – A blog about odd, lesser-known games and software.

vgperson's Stuff – Bunch of stuff translated from Japanese to English by vgperson, along with his original work.

Information Mesh – 30 years of facts about the World Wide Web.

Uncyclopedia – A satirical encyclopedia that parodies Wikipedia.

Encyclopedia Dramatica – An insanely edgy encyclopedia about Internet happenings (slurs, porn, gore and disgusting imagery galore, you've been warned).

The Cutting Room Floor – Website dedicated to unused and cut content from video games.

Hidden Palace – Website dedicated to the preservation of media from video game development.

lolwut – A personal website dedicated to 2000's internet culture and 4chan (may include some slurs).

Cameron's World – A web-collage of text and images taken from archived GeoCities pages.

websites from hell – Terrible websites from all around the web.

Iceberg Charts – A website dedicated to the creation and sharing of iceberg charts.

Internet Artifacts – Browse through old Internet history from 1977 to 2007.

Video Games

dnsl – Trolling people in video games. Also check out his other two channels.

3kliksphilip – In-depth videos about Counter-Strike. Also check out his other two channels.

Jolly Wangcore – Videos about Source mods and other games, all with subtitles and funny edits.

Bismuth – In-depth explanations of speedruns.

Dacoobers – Funny shenanigans with friends in Source games.

FUNKe – Originally made videos about TF2, but turned into a video essayist about various games and other media.

Lute – Video essays about various games.

Noodle – Video essays about games and other things that feature paper cutouts of his character in a decaying cardboard house.

NOMOIDA – Very long video game essays featuring original music.

pannenkoek2012 – Bringing Super Mario 64 down to its knee. Also check out his other channel.

tomatoanus – Explanations of video game speedruns. Why is that his name

Commentaries & Documentaries

Ahoy – Stylized documentaries about video games, weapons and whatnot.

Atrocity Guide – Videos about Internet anomalies and interesting people.

Barely Sociable – Analyses of mysteries around the world.

blameitonjorge – Videos about lost media and other stuff.

Captain KRB – Videos about the Internet and real life oddities.

Disrupt – Used to be about VR, but now focuses on high production videos about real life events.

EmpLemon – YTPer turned video essayist.

Fredrik Knudsen – In-depth dives into rabbit holes of the world.

Jacob Geller – Video essays about video games, history, politics and more.

Internet Historian – Exactly as his name says. Also check out his other channels Incognito Mode and Storymode

Kid Leaves Stoop – Videos about lost media and obscure topics.

MagicMush – Mostly videos about Internet history.

Nick Robinson – Documentaries about very trivial mysteries that are solved by going to extreme lengths. Think he goes to Japan too idk

Nick Crowley – Videos about disturbing Internet and real life moments.

Nexpo – Videos mostly centered around Internet mysteries.

Pad Chennington – Deep dives into music.

Solar Sands – Video essays about various topics like art.

Whang! – Videos about Internet stories and whatnot, which are usually gross.

wavywebsurf – Videos about Internet and real life stories.

Comedy

Buttered Side Down – First person comedy videos with lore and very good editing.

Casually Explained – Usually actual explanations with crude drawings, filled with jokes.

OFFCANNY – An improvisational comedy channel in the "vein of Adult Swim's programming".

Misfits – "The most scuffed channel on youtube".

The Group – Comedy videos of a group of guys who live together.

Films & Animations

4096 – Insanely smooth animations about games and companies.

KRUGSTON – Animations in a pretty unique style using the creator's characters.

Alex Bale – Tons of short films, mostly known for Pizza Time Pizza and DON'T FEED THE MUSE.

bill wurtz – Very unique animations with tons of original music. Mostly known for "history of the entire world, i guess" and "history of japan".

David Firth – Mostly disturbing animations. Known for the series "Salad Fingers".

James Lee – An animator with a unique, somewhat gloomy style.

Kane Pixels – Insanely talented 3D animator, film director, VFX artist and composer. Known for his "Backrooms" web series.

Nobudge – Hundreds of low-budget short films and indie features.

PilotRedSun – Grotesque looking animations. Also makes music under PilotRedSky.

The world is ending and I'm late for work – Surrealistic 3D parody animations.

vewn – Animations with themes about social issues and mental health.

u m a m i – Animator best well known for his series Interface.

Education

3Blue1Brown – Explanations of difficult math problems using animations.

Jared Owen – Explanations of how things work using 3D animation.

minutephysics – Physics problems and whatnot explained with simple drawings.

Retro Game Mechanics Explained – Exactly as it says. Goes into a lot of detail.

Vsauce – Interesting videos about scientific, mathematical, psychological and philosophical topics. Also check out Vsauce2 and D!NG.

Other

Captain Disillusion – Videos debunking internet hoaxes.

CodeParade – Videos mostly about math stuff like non-euclidean geometry and the 4th dimension, and his own games about them.

danooct1 – Video showcases of viruses, malware and whatnot.