Kind of a trend, the amount of youtubers who i had loved but their content became generic after gaining popularity is quite a bit, most drastic one being mrwhosetheboss, his uniqueness went down faster than MH27 MH17

  • xenomor@lemmy.world
    51·
    9 months ago

    Veritasium. After he put that uncritical commercial for the self driving car company on his feed I couldn’t take any of his content seriously anymore.

    • Raxiel@lemmy.world
      151·
      9 months ago

      I stopped watching after the “speed of electricity in a wire” video. When I realised a video about something I knew about was bollocks, it made me question every other video that taught me about something I didn’t know.
      Even if that had been a one off, how would I know? The trust is gone.

      • Tedhan@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        31·
        9 months ago

        There are a lot of videos that made me question the validity of his “science”. While I didn’t want to spend time dissecting a specific video but with the videos piling up I decided it would be easier to just not watch him. I don’t watch videos to question whether it’s bullshit or not, so I ended up watching videos where I don’t have to ask that question.

      • fastandcurious@lemmy.worldOP
        71·
        9 months ago

        Yeah, the new SAT video was great and i still can’t for the life of me figure how those people managed to think about the problem and realize the options were wrong, really goes to show how intelligent people are always doing things with a very alert mind, even if the problem is very easy

    • Custoslibera@lemmy.world
      131·
      9 months ago

      It was his video on IQ tests that set off alarm bells for me.

      IQ tests are not some method of determining intelligence they are very much linked to relative education/socioeconomic standing. His complete lack of criticism and neutral/positive support of IQ tests make me think he likes the result of his score…

    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      9 months ago

      “Oh and by the way, this is a sponsored video 🤷” and then spends half an hour sucking a company’s dick for money

      That and the shampoo ad killed my interest in the channel, and ever since then I’m extremely wary of everyone. Kurzgesagt is also up there, for producing propaganda for a billionaire’s charity.

      • MBM@lemmings.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        Whoa, I thought I was alone in disliking Kurzgesagt. What made me unsubscribe was a video that was very clearly sponsored by the game Cyberpunk but didn’t mention that anywhere

        • 9bananas@lemmy.world
          1·
          9 months ago

          here’s a thorough analysis:

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCuy1DaQzWI

          TL;DW: they assume technology will magically “fix” the climate crisis and no big changes to society or the economy are necessary. thus perpetuating and worsening the climate crisis by pretty much telling people “it’s gonna be fiiiiine”…when it really won’t be “fine”.

          edit: note, that most of their content is fine, just the climate “solutions” and stuff are…so optimistic as to be misleading. their physics and futurology stuff is fine. also way oversimplified in many cases, but fine.