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• orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What’s the story? What’d they do?

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  • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sold out to some venture capital firm.

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Don’t support u/Agent641

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    • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        So many didn’t grow out of their “I’m so special and unique, I don’t follow the mainstream” teenage phase and it really shows.

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      • sheepishly@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That's most of the internet these days

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    • sheepishly@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Also, create a thousand accounts in advance at random days, never use them and make this comment their only, but when account is not fresh. That way it would look like it’s a legitimate reader that was just once so outraged they decided to comment and then shut up forever

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    • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Don’t support Djahngo.

      (Kidding. Kidding.)

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  • LytiaNP@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Aren’t they also bought out by private equity?

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      • BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Veritasium themselves has a video on the topic, they’ve indeed sold parts to investors

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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        He himself claimed he’s not a scientist so /shrug

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    • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        No that’s literally the experiment that Derek did. He “showed” that the wet wipes “disintegrated”. What they actually did was break apart under a large weight he put on top of them. That’s not what happens in a sewage system. Along with that, unless they completely dissolve they will still cause issues as the broken up strands.

        Unless you are a civil engineer you should not be deciding what goes in a sewer. And no one making wet wipes are civil engineers.

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      • blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There’s no standard they have to adhere to, but there are certifications you can look for that guarantee they break up properly.

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  • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Right right. Point being they’ve been proven wrong.

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And why would that be?

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  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        people still think that youtubers with 100k+ subs do all the work themselves

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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s the number not the company.

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• macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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