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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• tyler@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t support Veritasium

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  • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What’s the story? What’d they do?

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    • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sold out to some venture capital firm.

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      • tyler@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I didn’t know he did that. He was shit long before that. Here’s my comment:

        He created fake science experiments to sell products and slipped them into normal videos, like the video where he claimed wet wipes are flushable, then created a fake experiment “proving” they were flushable. He’s incredibly untrustworthy and also, not a scientist! He’s an art major or business, can’t remember which.

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      • timestatic@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So what? If he gets a good offer for what he built, why shouldn’t he be allowed to sell his own channel. His content is still good. I prefer independent creators but he’s in full right to sell of what he made. He doesn’t owe the community content or to stay independent

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    • Djehngo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I hate this so much,

      Someone is mentioned on Lemmy and there is always a drive by comment saying don’t support X or X is a bad person with no context whatsoever. No mention of what specifically they are accused of doing/saying, no way to figure out if that clashes with your values or not, no documentation etc.

      And subjectively it feels like half the time I research why this might be true it’s debatable at best, I assume because if there was compelling evidence the person doing the drive by would have linked it.

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      • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Don’t support u/Agent641

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      • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Lemmy sometimes feels like one big ball of barely seething social outrage.

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      • sheepishly@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I should start replying to random shit with "don't support X" with no context or followup

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      • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Don’t support Djahngo.

        (Kidding. Kidding.)

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    • LytiaNP@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Personally I’ve noticed topics covered by smaller content creators, explaining almost the exact same thing (minus maybe a few details like some random guy’s age), uploaded a few weeks before, and then suddenly Veritasium decides to cover the topic with basically the exact same info over a longer time span.

      Not to mention the clickbait titles and thumbnails, less focus on the technical side of topics and more on the emotional/personal side, and the whole selling out to private equity thing.

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      • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Aren’t they also bought out by private equity?

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He created fake science experiments to sell products and slipped them into normal videos, like the video where he claimed wet wipes are flushable, then created a fake experiment “proving” they were flushable. He’s incredibly untrustworthy and also, not a scientist! He’s an art major or business, can’t remember which.

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      • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        According to Wikipedia

        In 2004, Muller graduated from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Physics. Muller moved to Australia to study film-making; however, he instead enrolled for a PhD in physics education research from the University of Sydney, which he completed in 2008 with the thesis, Designing Effective Multimedia for Physics Education.

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      • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        To be fair some wet wipes are flushable (as in they disintegrate when flushed), the problem is that not all of them are and there’s no standard they have to adhere to, so even the ones that shouldn’t be flushed are allowed to advertise themselves as flushable.

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    • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dont know if theres anything else, but I’ve seen the criticism covered in this Tom Nicholas video. I still watch Veritasium though.

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    • TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know they’ve been wrong a couple times. Take anything the channel says with some salt.

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      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        like you hopefully do with all things you see online, right?

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And why would that be?

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    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Personally, I just don’t like the guy and his vibes. But I wouldn’t tell random people online to avoid him, he’s not that bad.

      There was also that self-driving car video which turned out to be really scummy.

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      people are annoyed that he sold to a venture capital business

      but then not realizing that so far, their quality improved, while also releasing more videos

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      • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        i liked his older videos far more, so quality is definitely subjective. it was one guy’s channel about physics with specific vibe, now it is just general channel about everything, indistinguishable from all the other science channels…

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        which is funny because that’s most established content on YT, whether you realize it or not.

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He created fake science experiments to sell products and slipped them into normal videos, like the video where he claimed wet wipes are flushable, then created a fake experiment “proving” they were flushable. He’s incredibly untrustworthy and also, not a scientist! He’s an art major or business, can’t remember which.

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    • macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t support shitty youtube. It sucks since googol bought it.

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      • athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s the number not the company.

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  • macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t support shitty youtube. It sucks since googol bought it.

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• macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t support shitty youtube. It sucks since googol bought it.

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  • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You are literally 20 years late with this opinion.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t tell me what to do.

    Especially, don’t tell me what to do, without a functional alternative, and most certainly without giving me a good reason to do it.

    And absolutely don’t tell me what to do without giving me a reason or functional alternative multiple times in low effort copy pasta comments.

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• fizzle@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a meme.

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• meekah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  there are 2 answers depicted under the option you claim to be correct. one of those answers is indeed correct, but it is not really clear which one from your answer.

  clear answer

  it is the straight diagonal.

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