• Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    10 months ago

    Kurtuzeg. And alot of the “science” channels. They are so full of shit sometimes.

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    10 months ago

    Another one I’d mention is Rooster Teeth (the whole gang). I watched some of their “shenanigans” videos and they were just destroying office furniture, doing shitty pranks and in general being man-childs.

    I just thought all the mess they left behind for everyone not on camera and what a shitshow it must be for the production crew to work with a bunch of internet mini-celebrities. They were basically the OG streaming mansion.

    Fast forward a few years and you hear all these allegations of terrible work conditions. Go figure.

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    10 months ago

    Mr Beast and his fucking thumbnails with open mouth and ugly mustache. How come such douche can make 5M views in 2days, it baffles me.

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    10 months ago

    Veritasium. As soon as he put out a video with sponsored content where he lied with science I immediately knew he could no longer be trusted. I completely stopped watching his videos that day.

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        I don’t remember which video it was, I’d have to go find it. At the end he sets up a ‘science experiment’ to show that wet wipes are flushable, unlike what everyone says. And the way he ‘proves’ it is clearly a terrible way to prove it, but if you aren’t thinking about it you’ll agree. I’ll try to find the video.

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              10 months ago

              Thanks for sharing that. I’ll agree it’s pretty dubious, but not enough to stop me enjoying their other content. But I have a pretty high skeptic quotient for everything online to begin with so, a little light shilling isn’t enough to turn me off of a channel that’s otherwise entertaining and often thought-provoking.

              That “experiment” definitely deserves the mythbusters treatment, though. Even if that brand breaks into pieces faster, that doesn’t account for total breakdown or even what happens to its individual fibers after flushing. More data needed.

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      10 months ago

      I kinda slowed down on his videos since that Tom Nicolas video, but I watched his video from a few days ago about blimps because blimps are cool. But it just seemed like a corporate ad. The amount of the video that’s renders of products vs actual products is pretty bad.

      It didn’t feel like a science video about blimps, it felt like half blimp startup ad, half simple blimp explanation. I don’t know, it just felt a little devoid of depth.

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        10 months ago

        I would really like a channel that covers start-ups well, like explaining their idea and what they hope to accomplish then going into some of the challenges they face.

        Far too many seem to be nothing but reading the press release and the first couple of paragraphs of Wikipedia.

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    10 months ago

    MrBeast is a horrible example of a person and everyone acts like he’s a second coming out Jesus. He fucks up people’s lives with his “charity” on a regular basis.

    PewDiePie is one of the most annoying people ever born.

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      10 months ago

      There are a lot of smaller channels that are just people who are really good at something showing off what they do. It’s pretty amazing.

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        10 months ago

        Agreed. Niche channels that I watch (woodworking, ham radio, four wheeling vehicle build tips) are usually pretty good.

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          10 months ago

          I was kind of addicted to pimple popping videos, mini terrarium and horse shoe ones are cool too.