I agree, they’re not perfect. It was more the format than the material. Veritasium is supposed to be informative\educational in format. Yes, there is some license taken with these channels to be entertaining and engaging, but I just wanted to separate that style out of just looking for “how to” videos - things that one would hope would be informative and concise, but more often are blathering and unfocused.
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themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
By the way veritasium isn’t really good. I have some issues with the ways he oversimplifies but at some point you gotta and I respect that, but much worse is his inability to actually cover truth, instead choosing to only parrot what the company “graciously” hosting him told him.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 days ago
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
I still prefer Veritaisum over a channel like Mark Rober which has almost 4x the subscribers, with content that sounds informational, but is really just dumbed down. Maybe Mark Rober is more aimed at younger kids, but they both are very similar with trying to make math and science accessible, but executed differently and I think Veriatsium done better.
With videos with exclusive access, i’d imagine it’s difficult to do all the fact checking of everything the company is telling you. Tom Scott also dealt with this, and it requires a tremendous effort. If there are lies being spread and the description isn’t updated or a pinned comment on the video set, then yeah, that’s shitty behavior, but generally I haven’t seen that from Derk.
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
Idk why, but I’ve always gotten a eery vibe from Mark Robert. Very similar to what I feel when watching Mr. Beast. Whatever they do, it just feels shallow and disingenuous for some reason.
MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I feel the same way about Mark Rober. For me I think I’ve figured out that I don’t like how blatantly obvious it is that the only reason the video exists is to grab headlines and attention by being so outlandish. I figured that out when I couldn’t tolerate many LTT videos anymore but still liked other LMG channels and the WAN show
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
I watch his video about the glitter bomb and putting roaches/rats (or whatever that was) in the scam center but didnt even express any remorse over letting scammers kill living creatures. Like he didn’t cause a pest infestation and they happened to be there, he caught living beings and released them as a “prank”. Feels odd to watch that.
Like I am not saying its immoral to kill pests, its hard to catch them alive so its understandable thats the easier way to get rid of harmful pests. But like catching them to release to someone who is gonna chase and kill them feel like a bit more like “torture”. Maybe I’m oversensitive?