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Who is a Youtuber you find to be overrated ? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] 48 points 2 years 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.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [โ€“] -1 points 2 years 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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  • [โ€“] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Which video?

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  • [โ€“] 25 points 2 years 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.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 2 years 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.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 2 years 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.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    K

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years 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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