Amosdoll Music is a channel run by an expert pianist who regularly highlights moments in animated media where a piano was animated incorrectly, and then demonstrating both how the piano should have sounded being played the way that it was and how it ought to have been played to sound accurate. That said, the channel does also highlight moments where the piano and music were animated properly. Among some of the animated media demonstrated by the channel to have accurate piano playing include Pokémon: The Series (here), Soul (here), Neon Genesis Evangelion (here), and even a five-second Nick Jr. station ident (here).
Out of character, James Rolfe shows a ton of work in his movie reviews. He's especially knowledgeable about the horror genre.
Gametrailers has a tendency to go into insane amounts of research for their "Pop-Up Block" segments, which analyze trailers using context clues. For Assassin's Creed II, for instance, they looked up the names of the masks several characters wore. In English, and the Italian. Would the average user need to know these facts? Probably not, but they're in there anyway.
The viral video "Bride Has Massive Hair Wig-Out" had many debating its authenticity (it was staged). One of the arguments in favour of it being real was the bride wearing a button-down blouse — something a bride would wear after getting her hair done for a wedding (so as not to mess up the hair by pulling a top up over it).
The gamemaster ("Serris") of the forum based RP, Darwin's Soldiers apparently does his research when it comes to the sciences. Not to mention weaponry.
Dead Meat features tons of background information about the behind the scenes effort that goes into making the movies he covers. As time has gone on, his Kill Count videos have featured these facts more and more until they've since become another well-known feature of the channel. He also tends to research things he doesn't know about the movies he's covering to ensure that he gets all of his facts right while discussing a film (such as the type of car someone drives or the type of gun they use).
Before every DEATH BATTLE!, the hosts Wiz and Boomstick give information about the characters that are going to fight; since the main point of the show is to decide the winners with research, this is very important. They even mention lesser known facts like how Starscream possessed a young girl and forgot to pull up her pants after going to the bathroom, or that Batman went back in time and became a pirate. They even use facts to back up predictions like claiming that Pikachu's years of experience makes him level 100 or the speed of Rainbow Dash being Mach 5 or 10 based on her sonic cone before launching a sonic rainboom.
For the Pokemon Starter Battle Royale, it's revealed that factoring in status problems, possible movesets and accuracy rolls, there are over 7,000 possible ways a battle between Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise would play out under Pokemon game mechanics. Venusaur wins only 17% of them, meaning he dies first, and Blastoise wins just over half of them, cementing his victory over Charizard.
Taken to extremes with the Superman vs. Son Goku battle, where they not only lay out the extreme math given detailing Superman's capabilities (which were outlined in one way or another in Superman media) but also for Goku, who had nowhere near the amount calculations made on part of the creators in the media he has been in. As a result, Wiz and Boomstick had to create formulas to follow in calculating his statistics using what few math Dragonball actually did put into itself to put Goku's capabilities into numbers. Zig-zagged though, as several people noticed that they deliberately nerfed Goku.
Balrog vs T.J. Combo was decided in part by real life boxing theory; that theory is that all things being equal, boxing breaks down into a Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors scenario based on three styles- "Slugger", "Outboxer", and "Swarmer". Sluggers use slow but hard hitting attacks and their own ridiculous toughness to tank incoming attacks and flatten opponents in a few powerful hits, but are countered by Outboxers who use hit-and-run tactics to wear out their opponents while avoiding attacks, who are in turn countered by Swarmers who quickly rush their opponents with a flurry of blows but lack the strength and stamina to take heavy hits. According to this theory, T.J. (who uses a Outboxing fighting style) would have an advantage over Balrog (a Slugger), with the hosts citing Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman as a real life example of a similar matchup.
Derek the Bard does a lot of research about the books he reads.
Especially in regards to vampire mythology, as detailed in the Anita Blake video.
Explains the history of The Iliad in episode 20, as well as recommending other, more obscure classical Greek stories to Lupa) and reciting a passage from it.
Runs down the history of James Bond in episode 21.
And during Pulp Month, with regards to the medium itself and the history of the period.
The people behind Die Anstalt really know their psychological theories, from Gestaltzerfall to pathogenetic points of view to theta wave synchronization.
Dinosauria: Despite not being a proper documentary, the series has an admirable amount of small details and references to specific paleontological discoveries of the last decade or so.
The two main Styracosaurus males in "Old Buck" are each based on a specific real-world specimen with unique horn configurations, and the overall variation in designs among the whole species is reflective of the recent discovery of the extent of individual variation in Styracosaurus albertensis.
The old male's inward-pointing frill horns are based on the formerly proposed holotype of Styracosaurus ovatus, which was sunk into the type species of Styracosaurus, S. albertensis, in 2020 after being considered a distinct species and even genusnote being referred to Rubeosaurus in 2010 for almost 90 years.
The young challenger is based on the specimen UALVP 55900note University of Alberta Vertebrate Paleontology (nicknamed "Hannah"), which shows an asymmetrical arrangement with three frill horns on one side and four on the other. It also has a pathology on lower left base of its frill that was incorporated into the design.
All of the hadrosaurus have a large hoof/nail on their main toe on their forefeet, per the (still unpublished) late 2019 discovery of this feature in an Edmontosaurus "mummy".
Unlike other onscreen depictions of the Alaskan Pachyrhinosaurus, which are usually modeled after the earlier and southern-dwelling species P. lakustai, here the proper species, P. perotorum, is properly shown.
Deinonychusaurs and troodontids are properly feathered and act like birds rather than leaning in to Raptor Attack cliches.
Phooie (the nephew that Scrooge had given to the Beagle Boys before Ducktalez 7) is the fan name given to a fourth nephew that was sometimes mistakenly added into drawings of the Donald Duck comics.
False Swipe Gaming: All the videos are clearly researched, and the sources for said research can always be found in the description.
In addition to being two graduate students, the hosts of Fat, French and Fabulous (a podcast on niche and bizarre true crime/history topics) often reference and even occasionally make fun of the sources of their research. They take pains to clarify when the source material is ambiguous, flawed, or potentially biased.
Film Brain does the research about the films he reviews and it shows. This goes to the point that he ends up doing the research where the creators clearly didn't.
In the notorious Seven Pounds, Film Brain points out an absolutely catastrophic research failure on the writer's part: the main character's plan to donate his organs after committing suicide would fail because of his suicide by jellyfish. The jellyfish's venom is cardiotoxic and would damage his heart, rendering it unfit for transplant.
Each of his reviews goes into detail about the production of the film he's reviewing, including the history of the director and writer(s).
For All Time has a truly massive catalog of historical figures, ranging from famous names to those from the most marginalized of fringe movements. It also does a good job of putting those fringe figures into positions of power.
Cecil Trachenburg from Good Bad Flicks does a big amount of research for his reviews as he manages to provide alot of interesting trivia facts, production stories, executive meddling etc.
In Hazbin Hotel, the sigils◊ that Alastor produces as he spellcasts Sir Pentious into an abyss are actual representations of the symbols of the Haitian Vodun deities Loko, Kalfou, Santa Muerta, and Papa Legba.
Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures:"My Melody's Plush One". While walking in the snow covered woods, Hello Kitty, My Melody, and Kuromi come across a series of tracks. My Melody worries that they're bear tracks, but Kuromi correctly points out that bear tracks have five toe prints, while the ones they've found only have four. (They turn out to be Yeti prints)
Stolas from Helluva Boss has many little details surrounding his design and personality that are taken straight from his namesake:
He's a long-legged, owl-like demon with a crown on his hat. The demon from the Ars Goetia that he's named after is often portrayed in art as a long-legged owl wearing a crown◊.
The walls of his castle and corners of his balcony are decorated with the seal of the demon he's based on.
Him being shown as a Caring Gardener and his mansion being filled to the brim with various Man Eating Plants coincides with the fact that in demonology he is stated to be knowledgeable about herbs and plants.
His bathtub is surrounded by moving constellations, and he shows Octavia a dying solar system during his song. The real Stolas teaches astronomy.
Deconstructs the Connecticut Yankee Plot by pointing out that even an intelligent, well-educated person from the modern age doesn't know enough about how the technology he takes for granted works; he has to basically start from scratch when he finds himself in a low-tech world. Word of God is that it's difficult to give radio to the Romans when you don't know how to build a radio and a radio receiver from first principles, and how many people these days know how to do that?
Horses are not "living cars", but mammals with realistic limits to their physical endurance, making it difficult to cover long distances quickly.
Paul recognizes a sapphire "about half the size of a hen's egg" as an enormous gemstone. Likewise, a piece of solid gold artwork is not only extremely heavy, but also very soft and requires special care when transporting it so it won't get damaged.
Aluminum is considered more valuable than gold. Paul laughs at the concept, saying it's "about as rare as sand" and the real tricky part is separating it from its ores. (Which is very, very difficult unless you have access to electricity, and then it gets a lot easier.) As Paul is conducting research into the generation of electrical power in his spare time, he makes a comment at one point about a long-term plan to develop a process that can generate aluminum in plentiful quantities.
A small group of people on NationStates (mostly comprised of members of NSD—though one does not necessarily mean the other) love to showcase their work in roleplay posts and especially designs. There is immense craft in several designs, the Ur-example being the NakÃl, then surpassed by the Lince (it takes up most of that page).
Frequently in New York Magician. There's one arc that opens with a detailed account of firefighters fighting a gas fire. Instead of just "they pour water on it", Michel's narration notes the use of foam as a suppressor, and using water mainly to douse any flames that escape the foam. This does raise the question of why a financial guy would even know so much about firefighting, but one can presume he simply looked it up between the end of that story arc and writing it down.
Orion's Arm, extensively, critics of the setting's assumptions are advised to bring a solid familiarity of modern science. While Orion's Arm has many fantastic technological advances detailed, the settings' writers forbid any phenomena that are known to be impossible by our current understanding of science. They regularly update the setting when new discoveries are made, trying to keep the fantasy-science plausible. However, some critics have argued that the writers have too loose a definition of what should be considered "impossible by modern science".
For all the flak The Other Wiki gets for its "anyone can edit" model, its guidelines call for either extensive footnotes or extensive "[citation needed]" tags. Their "good" and "featured" articles are prime examples of this trope — unless, of course, the article was promoted before the standards for quality articles became so strict.
One of the main characters of The Pains is an electrical engineer. The author uses the correct terminology, in the correct context. Think what you want about the insane "Mindpixel" ramblings later on, but Mr. Sundman's portrayal of circuitry is spot-on.
Phelous often digs into the obscure backgrounds of whatever it is he's reviewing, whether it's an adaptation of something old, a bad horror movie, or even a silly bootleg toy. He presents these details, big and small, to the viewers in each video as a bit of context before jumping in. For example, his reviews of the Galaxy Warriors and their bootlegs contain a lot of information about the toys, from the history of their production to minor variations between the different toy lines.
Pikasprey shows his research skills when doing his own special challenges in video games, often exploiting minor loopholes and glitches in the games to soft-lock them, and then finding even smaller loopholes and glitches to allow himself a way to escape them, oftentimes even finding escape routes his viewers didn't consider.
The fan film Power/Rangers, a parody of Darker and Edgier remakes of older works, was clearly written by someone who was either a genuinely knowledgeable fan of the original Power Rangers shows, or had done an awful lot of research. (This, as well as its high production values, convinced a lot of people that it was a serious attempt to do a grim 'n' gritty revival of the show.)
Let's PlayerProtonJon does this with his LP of Superman 64, most notably in showcasing the in-depth bios of the characters that have appeared in the series the game is based off of, explaining their general backstories and characterizations, as well as their appearances, in chronological order.
Retelling Myths: Although light on the commentary at the beginning, as the series goes on, the author begins to include lots of detailed information about the stories that they're retelling in their commentaries. The stories themselves are also full of well-researched details, such as Orpheus having been an Argonaut along with Heracles, Merlin being a cambion, and Nezha's arsenal of weapons.
Stuart Slade, author of The Salvation War and The Big One, is a military statistician and frequently throws in details about weapons, battle strategy, and injuries caused in the battle.
Sometimes this veers into Reality Is Unrealistic territory, as after the USS Normandy (CG-60) incident in Pantheocide (Book 2 of The Salvation War) and the ensuing discussion, he admitted that "I was dancing on the extreme edge of what can be said about SPY-1 and AEGIS in public," referring to the real-life radar and naval combat systems respectively that were used in the story, to the point of handwaving certain statistics as being classified in-universe.
The description of the nuclear warhead on the Gryphon "Glickem" is practically Description Porn that could be mistaken for a blueprint for a nuclear device... good thing some key details are deliberately omitted.
How about the slight mention of the classified "aurora"?
Their "Draw My Life" video for Edgar Allan Poe was literally improvised from his Wikipedia page.
The beginning of The Case of the Gilded Lily includes a shot of the Hollywood Sign reading Hollywoodland, which is really did until 1949.
Real Lawyer Reacts toThe Simpsons gives the episode "The Day The Violence Died" a solid A- for legal realism, noting how the episode is utterly riddled with Genius Bonuses for people familiar with the American legal system and obscure aspects of copyright law (notably how they referenced the specific date Copyright law changed in the United States) and how the only unrealistic aspects are either done on purpose for a laugh or to fit the trial into the episode. He's especially enamored with Lionel Hutz, saying the man is " the best worst lawyer of all time" and how the writers must clearly know how to write a good lawyer if they're able to write one that hilariously bad.
The website Snopes is all about this. From debunking urban legends to examining current topical stories, every article is well-researched and has at least a few paragraphs of text. Many of them also go into how the rumor or urban legend started, including just how badly some of the stories have been exaggerated.
The Solstice War gets a lot of small details about World War 2 and its equipment quite correct, enough to feel pretty well researched, though in the end it's meant to be a story first and the author does embellish things for the sake of the story, such as radios functioning more reliably than usual, and technology appearing a few years before its time as super prototypes.
Summoning Salt details the history of speedruns, and puts a lot of information in each video, even mentioning speedrunners whose runs were lost to the internet, or who went generally unnoticed by the rest of the speedrunning community. On the occasion he gets something wrong, he'll take strives to present the proper information afterward.
Survival of the Fittest encourages this mindset when dealing with any hobbies, medical conditions, laws, or so on during the profile approval process and in the roleplay proper, as to prevent power-playing or handling things in an insensitive manner.
The Transformers Wiki in general applies this by listing continuity errors within episodes, even pointing out obscure Mythology Gags. Very obscure.
Unbiased History, as a satirical retelling of Roman history, will naturally need to be well-researched. There are a lot of jokes that those not well-versed on Roman history will probably miss.
Hydronix has the knowledge of Quest 64, introducing characters from the game and sticking to their powers.
WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK.: A lot of the PBS Kids-related videos show the names of actual PBS member stations that existed at the time the tapes were recorded.
Diane Castle from Whateley Universe, writer of the Ayla stories, includes a lot of details that are related to things Ayla should know about. This includes everything from details on restaurants, to discussion of literature. Oh, and lots and lots of business information.
Oh brother. In the first full-length Aquerna novel, Anna needs to get her squirrels back into hibernation. Someone did a ton of research on which types of squirrels hibernate, and the biochemistry of hibernation, and synthesizing H.I.T., which turns out to be a real chemical that really has been tested and found to induce hibernation in squirrels. It's worked into the story without an Infodump, but it's all there.
A number of the authors of the Whateley Universe have done this, from details of computer science to statistical algorithms to a discussion of the physics involved when a PK superboy punches a density-changer who has already gone super-dense.
is a channel run by an expert pianist who regularly highlights moments in animated media where a piano was animated incorrectly, and then demonstrating both how the piano should have sounded being played the way that it was and how it ought to have been played to sound accurate. That said, the channel does also highlight moments where the piano and music were animated properly. Among some of the animated media demonstrated by the channel to have accurate piano playing include Pokémon: The Series (here
