Your [Year] Theme | CGP Grey [6:23]
Submitted 3 weeks ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to videos@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE
Submitted 3 weeks ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to videos@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Let me guess, he’s advertising another one of his physical diaries or a similar product? I used to have such enormous respect for Grey, but his stuff has become more and more productivity guru techbro nonsense over time, especially since COVID.
PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Its a posting of his video from years ago.
While I’ve been disappointed by his lack of modern content, I don’t see a reason to call the productivity techniques he likes nonsense, nor to lose respect for him as a whole. Is there a particular reason?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
The productivity hack stuff is only one small part of it, but I do think it’s more relevant than you suggest. He’s got a podcast that’s all about how to be more productive, meanwhile he’s put out zero main videos (i.e. , not a follow-up or ad) since July '23.
But the main things that bug me are different from that.
The first thing that really pissed me off was when he put out an apology after his missile silo urbex video. In it, he used the wrong name for a missile. The one he mentioned was submarine based and the right one was land based, or vice versa. I forget, because ultimately it was such a minor nitpick it really didn’t matter. But Grey made a huge deal about it and said it was such an important issue with the video he was compelled to correct the record. Which wouldn’t be such a problek—maybe he just holds himself to a very high standard—if it weren’t for the fact that he has multiple videos whose most basic thesis is directly conflicting with expert consensus, including one based on Jared Diamond’s Guns Germs and Steel, which pushes a deterministic narrative popular with racists. His pro-Tesla AI-hyping techbro bs with the “automation with kill all jobs” video wasn’t great, but his “autopilot is going to fix traffic” is even more directly harmful considering how detrimental it would be to cyclists and pedestrians to do things the way he suggests…if it’s even technically possible.
Then there’s the more direct disrespect to his most dedicated fans with how he cancelled Hello Internet. I don’t think anyone expects them to keep the podcast going indefinitely, but to have a community as strong as HI did and not ever make any public statement himself, and only have his co-host day that they’re on a temporary hiatus six months after the final episode, and no further updates after that. It was very disrespectful and it says a lot to me about the kind of man he is. He didn’t genuinely see us as the community we thought we were, but a means to an end. He’s one of those disingenuous influencer types—he was just better than most at hiding it for a long time.