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[โ€“] snowe@programming.dev 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[โ€“] Tristano@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] mudeth@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[โ€“] ItsPlasmaSir@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

There was this one from a couple years ago that was about self-driving cars and also sponsored by Waymo. Tom Nicholas made a video which IMO does a good job of covering the problems with that video, and the broader implications of this kind of content on YouTube.

[โ€“] snowe@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

Ha, I wasn't even talking about that one. I think I stopped watching before then because he just went in deep with the sponsors and it was clear he wasn't actually caring about the science anymore. The one I'm talking about he 'proved' that wet wipes are flushable.

[โ€“] snowe@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] snowe@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

found it. https://youtu.be/5zI9sG3pjVU?t=983

there's even people in the comments that don't realize the experiment was bad science and think that maybe these wipes are 'different'

more people actually saying they're going to switch to flushable wipes.

[โ€“] mudeth@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the answers! I had a bad taste in my mouth after his dandruff video which felt very corporate but I gave him the benefit of the doubt assuming that the science was solid. I guess my gut instinct was right.

I still think a lot of his videos are good, it's just sad that the obviously sponsored ones are low quality. I'll check out the links and response video someone else posted and keep being skeptical.

[โ€“] snowe@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn, really? His concrete video was pretty interesting

[โ€“] snowe@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

yeah. honestly it stinks because he did have good science videos. but as soon as he sold out and the way he did so I knew he was no longer an educational channel.