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.
