Five creators worth discovering this week
October 18, 2026
Five creators you may not know yet, and should. For each one we picked a video to start with.
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Arjay McCandless
Technology companies and software
Arjay McCandless is a programmer who turns backend questions into hands-on experiments, like swapping databases on the same small rented machine to see what changes. Here he gives a twelve-dollar server to community programmers and watches Rust, C++, PHP and even Fortran push it until Linux itself becomes the limit. The best part comes at the end, when he admits he "probably wouldn't ship most of these implementations" at work, an honest line between winning a benchmark and writing code colleagues can live with.
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I Asked Expert Programmers to Max Out a $12 Server
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phoebeisginger
Comedy sketches and skits
Redheads get their own comic timeline in the sketch below, part of Phoebe's run of quick skits that walk one theme through the decades, like how women have sung about men. The subject is close to home, since her channel introduction simply reads "i'm ginger, if you didn't know :)". Viewers answer with their own memories of schoolyard teasing and the slow turn toward admiration, which gives the joke a warm, personal edge.
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HOW REDHEADS ARE TREATED THROUGHOUT THE YEARS 👩🏻🦰: #fyp #redhead #history #throughtheyears
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Jim Baird - Adventurer
Outdoors, fishing and homesteading
Feature-length solo expeditions are Jim Baird's craft, and his latest follows him alone through the Backbone Ranges of the Northwest Territories, past deep canyons and red mountains. The film playing here keeps the interruptions alongside the rapids: hail, a river too high to paddle, a search for a hidden hot spring, bull trout turned into fish stew and a pot of campfire poutine. Viewers talk about brewing a coffee and settling in for it like a movie night.
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11 Days, 350 kms ALONE Through the NWT's Subarctic Backbone Ranges
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littletoh
Art, crafts, magic and photography
Tiffany Toh sews her own clothes on littletoh, and this reveal gathers a whole black-tie wedding guest gown into one sitting, from shopping for Anna Sui lace to wearing it at the Plaza Hotel. Halfway through, the skirt gives her "Victorian widow vibes," so she builds a corset-style bodice with spiral steel boning, hand-sews beaded trim for hours and finishes with velvet ribbon bows at the arms. She calls it the most elaborate thing she has made, and the bows alone have the comments swooning.
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DRESS REVEAL and full process of how I made a black tie wedding guest dress 🤍🖤 #sewing #wedding
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Paul Bernard II
Religion and faith
Church moments are Paul Bernard II's specialty: he mixes Christian encouragement with short, funny clips of services where the music refuses to stop, like a preacher pleading with his band so everyone can sit down. In this one, a man in a light suit and glasses never leaves his pew, trading gospel runs with the congregation's clapping before landing a high note at the close. The comments fill with people who hear the churches they grew up in, and plenty who wish the clip had started earlier.
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Who taught this man to sing like this!? 😳🔥🙌🏾 #gospel #churchtok #sundayservice #god #music #church
