Professor Dave if you wanna watch someone get absolutely demolished.
I stopped watching kurzgesagt after their copium video on global warming where we all hold hands and sing and magically reverse it.
I wasn’t gone on their video on the cruelty of the slaughter industrial complex where they bent over backwards to avoid suggesting veganism as the obvious solution.
They are a corporate shill, I forget who talked about. I should go find it
Here’s an existential threat to humanity, and the various ways that it’s worse than you think. But don’t worry! Capitalism will save the day by inventing solutions to our problems which won’t necessitate any restructuring of our society or economy!
Thanks as always to our billionaire
ownersdonors!
Anyone here like Folding Ideas? He’s done some good stuff about flat earthers, crypto bros, and such.
One of the greats! Also, if you like Folding Ideas, you’ll love Benn Jordan. The style is very similar. Also, Technology Connections.
A bit more esoteric and in-depth than these 4 and much better
Me: “Sam O… haha cute name. I’ve never heard of it. I’ll see if they have a YT channel. Oh they do! What?! I’m already subscribed??!”
I wish YT actually respected subscriptions. Here I am subscribed to someone and I’ve so thoroughly forgotten it that their name doesn’t even ring a bell.
wat? How do you get from being forgetful about your own stuff to youtube not respecting subscriptions? (whatever that even means lol)
I use YT daily, heavily.
It’s pretty well known that their feed is optimized for engagement above all else. They will show you videos they think you’ll like and NOT show you a new video from a channel you’re subscribed to.
It’s called an “algorithm.”
It’s so extreme at times that you can even not know that you’re subscribed to a channel, because you never see them.
This is what I mean by not respecting subscriptions. There’s no stronger explicit signal I can give YT when I want to see more of a creator. But they ignore that and decide for me what I’ll like.
Do you not check the subscriptions tab and just hope “the algorithm” keeps feeding people you like?
Isn’t that what the “subscriptions” tab is for?
Neither the main tab nor subscriptions really gives me what I want. The main tab is good - I do discover good things there. I’m not one of those people who says “just give me my subscriptions in chronological order.” Because that actually sucks, and that’s kinda what you get on the subscription tab.
I want a smart algorithm, I just want it to pay more respect to my subscriptions and show more of them more often. “Home” gives you some but not enough.
Not possible afaik. Your request is a bit specific.
I know YT music has something like that where you can tweak mixes to listen more diverse things or mainly what you already know, but yea it might be cool to have that as well on YT.
Their algorithm is still super good
It is, until you realize wow I haven’t seen that subscribed channel in a frickin year
The implication is that Youtube so rarely presents them the content they are subscribed to that they have forgotten about the channel entirely.
He doesn’t really put out videos very often and also took multi year hiatus recently.
it’s quite funny that he said ‘going to college, be back in 4 years’ then ACTUALLY stopped posting for 4 years then came back like nothing happened and made a joke about a Scooby do movie.
like thats so insanely based I wouldn’t believe it actually happened except that it fits his character so well. Like took a nap through all of covid then starts singing a song about animals feet.
also he made a channel about crossword puzzles lol
https://youtube.com/@samonellacrosswords
Missing my personal favorite. https://m.youtube.com/@Physicsduck
I’ll add Captain Disillusion to this thread
2019 Kurzgesagt: “I guess we will fact check, if that’s important to you.”
Im suprised nobody here mentioned extra history
My problem with threads like this is that I only have 24 hours a day, and I’ve accumulated a critical mass of content creators to the point where I cannot keep up.
Which of these awesome people do I ignore?! What information do I leave behind!? How am I supposed to get anything useful done with my life?!?
Also, check out Chris Boden if you want to see something cool!
Chris Boden, my beloved…
History Matters is my personal favorite
I love how They’re positioned.
Colorful on the bottom, black and white (mostly) on the top.
Professional and well researched on the right.
Shitposty on the left.
Veritasium?
The Rest is History is always a good listen.
Historia Civilis and others like Kings and Generals etc are often good too.
Don’t like him for the ways he pushes bullshit, even if it technically might be correct under x y z assumptions that are utterly nonsense in real live. Last video I watched was with the interference and “light takes all paths” and the way to actually show it was complete nonsense. Yikes. At 600 nm you are not going to have any measurable amount going 10 cm somewhere else.
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None of them on the fediverse :/
Sam O’Nella was caught up in H Bomber Guy’s plagiarism tea spillI misremembered, please accept my apology for being incorrect.
In what way?
You know what, I apologize, I misremembered the YouTuber in question. Editing my original comment to reflect my incorrectness.
Is it just me or has Kurtzgesakt gotten really weird over the last couple years? Like, their videos seem like they want to be clickbait, but they’re really bad at it.
Ah, yes. Their “We found space whales on Nimbus!” video (about speculative Zoology of alien worlds), which was later titled “What actual aliens might look like” was something I could excuse. I don’t consider claiming the impossible click-bait, but seeing the controversy, it was best they changed it.
However, what I really hated was their ad for a “strange matter” vile/necklace (i forgor), not because they lied about it containing reality destroying elements, but because they did the “buy now because they’ll never come back” trick. I consider manipulative sales tactics to be a greater sin than clickbait.
Dang, I’m surprised to see how many folks are down on Kurtzgesakt in the comments here! Bummer!
They might not be perfect, ya’ll, but at least they encourage open thought and critical thinking! Better than a lot of other media can say these days! 🙂
But they don’t encourage open thought and critical thinking. They basically tell you what to think.
I stopped watching them several years ago. I can’t say it was a specific video or event, but I just started zoning out when trying to watch them. I don’t do that much, I generally only watch, play, listen to and do things I can focus on. I’ve tried to watch some videos since then but I just lose interest after a minute or two. It’s like they refined their style so much that it all became too “samey” and it feels like they’re so scared of offending anyone that they end up saying nothing.
They’re doing the thing where they upload a video and then change the thumbnail and title of the video every few days which I’ve only seen done by all the low effort click bait channels. It’s what finally got me to install the dearrow extension which swaps titles and videos of YouTube videos to be more informative and less click bait.
A lot of channels do this, you might’ve just not noticed.
I believe this is a YouTube feature that effectively runs A/B tests on your behalf. You give it multiple titles and thumbnails and it’ll gauge engagement with each and then use the one that was most popular. I hate it.
Damn YouTube is such a shitty platform
Every other week I learn something about YouTube that makes me sad
They seem to be trying to copy xkcd’s video format with the fantasy tier what if questions answered seriously. Seems out of place to me, not sure what Gates Foundation gets out of fluff pieces like figuring out what banana rain would do to the planet while getting the terminal velocity of a banana wrong right off the bat too. What a shit video.
Their early videos were very well researched and put together. At a certain point, they became a lot of “What is the purpose of dust? I guess we’ll never know. Isn’t the universe a mysterious place?”
A lot of their political and historical videos are propaganda
Such as?
Not going to give them views, but find any modern history video especially if it’s from a designated enemy nation by the US State Dept
Oh you were talking about oversimplified… I thought you meant kurzegesagt and was very confused. They don’t do any history, well with a focus on it at least.
the one that talks shit on so-called third parties is basically all conjecture and poorly interpreted academics.
Yeah they’re kinda bullshit.
What exactly is bullshit?
Their videos about the climate catastrophe are paid by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
A lot more than those. It’s usually the ones that say Big Pharma saved the world and will do it again or that things are great actually
If this is meant to be a tongue in cheek comment on their video titles, then you deserve a dramatic slow clap.
SpaceTime and 3Blue1Brown are good science educators for the college level.
Veritasium is good for the middle/high school level.
Kurzgesagt is probably useful for an infant. Or like a smart dog. Maybe an Australian shepherd.
Garbage channel.
You can tell the Gates-bucks have really leaned them in a neo-liberal slant. It kind of sucks.
It’s not simply the Gates money, but the pivot to pursuing grants by chasing clicks to the exclusion of all else.
They’ve been Mr Beast-ified.
So happy capitalism allows me to experience network decay on the internet.
Kurzgesagt when its summarizing research papers is alright, but as soon as anything touches on a social or political issue it’s all “vote with your wallet 🙂”
It has been neoliberal biased for ages. For example this is a 2021 article calling out their neoliberal bias. https://aninjusticemag.com/the-inescapable-neoliberal-bias-behind-kurzgesagt-in-a-nutshell-215eb1e9b70f?gi=9574bf28f4a0
But it has undoubtedly gotten a lot worse recently. That south korea video was abymaly blind and baked in unrealistic capitalist assumptions.
