How in the actual hell is technology connections not on that list and also why have I not seen it in any of the comments yet
Top tier YouTube channel!!
This list is basically the tippy toppy fresh snow that’s fallen on the iceberg.
Technology connection comes a little lower.
Through the magic of buying two of them, you have someone who agrees that it should be on the list.
here to rep “through the magic of having a broken one…!”
Through the magic of latent heat we have 4 likes for every unit of person
“Through the magic of heat pumps…”
Hmmmm… I prefer cold fusion and astrum.
I’ll add Captain Disillusion to this thread
Is it just me or has Kurtzgesakt gotten really weird over the last couple years? Like, their videos seem like they want to be clickbait, but they’re really bad at it.
Ah, yes. Their “We found space whales on Nimbus!” video (about speculative Zoology of alien worlds), which was later titled “What actual aliens might look like” was something I could excuse. I don’t consider claiming the impossible click-bait, but seeing the controversy, it was best they changed it.
However, what I really hated was their ad for a “strange matter” vile/necklace (i forgor), not because they lied about it containing reality destroying elements, but because they did the “buy now because they’ll never come back” trick. I consider manipulative sales tactics to be a greater sin than clickbait.
A lot of their political and historical videos are propaganda
Such as?
Not going to give them views, but find any modern history video especially if it’s from a designated enemy nation by the US State Dept
Oh you were talking about oversimplified… I thought you meant kurzegesagt and was very confused. They don’t do any history, well with a focus on it at least.
the one that talks shit on so-called third parties is basically all conjecture and poorly interpreted academics.
I stopped watching them several years ago. I can’t say it was a specific video or event, but I just started zoning out when trying to watch them. I don’t do that much, I generally only watch, play, listen to and do things I can focus on. I’ve tried to watch some videos since then but I just lose interest after a minute or two. It’s like they refined their style so much that it all became too “samey” and it feels like they’re so scared of offending anyone that they end up saying nothing.
Yeah they’re kinda bullshit.
SpaceTime and 3Blue1Brown are good science educators for the college level.
Veritasium is good for the middle/high school level.
Kurzgesagt is probably useful for an infant. Or like a smart dog. Maybe an Australian shepherd.
Garbage channel.
What exactly is bullshit?
If this is meant to be a tongue in cheek comment on their video titles, then you deserve a dramatic slow clap.
Their videos about the climate catastrophe are paid by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
A lot more than those. It’s usually the ones that say Big Pharma saved the world and will do it again or that things are great actually
It’s honestly the fate of most edutainment videos.
Eventually they run out of cool stuff to educate people on, so they pivot to hypotheticals.
You can tell the Gates-bucks have really leaned them in a neo-liberal slant. It kind of sucks.
It’s not simply the Gates money, but the pivot to pursuing grants by chasing clicks to the exclusion of all else.
They’ve been Mr Beast-ified.
So happy capitalism allows me to experience network decay on the internet.
It has been neoliberal biased for ages. For example this is a 2021 article calling out their neoliberal bias. https://aninjusticemag.com/the-inescapable-neoliberal-bias-behind-kurzgesagt-in-a-nutshell-215eb1e9b70f?gi=9574bf28f4a0
But it has undoubtedly gotten a lot worse recently. That south korea video was abymaly blind and baked in unrealistic capitalist assumptions.
Kurzgesagt when its summarizing research papers is alright, but as soon as anything touches on a social or political issue it’s all “vote with your wallet 🙂”
Dang, I’m surprised to see how many folks are down on Kurtzgesakt in the comments here! Bummer!
They might not be perfect, ya’ll, but at least they encourage open thought and critical thinking! Better than a lot of other media can say these days! 🙂
But they don’t encourage open thought and critical thinking. They basically tell you what to think.
Their early videos were very well researched and put together. At a certain point, they became a lot of “What is the purpose of dust? I guess we’ll never know. Isn’t the universe a mysterious place?”
They seem to be trying to copy xkcd’s video format with the fantasy tier what if questions answered seriously. Seems out of place to me, not sure what Gates Foundation gets out of fluff pieces like figuring out what banana rain would do to the planet while getting the terminal velocity of a banana wrong right off the bat too. What a shit video.
They’re doing the thing where they upload a video and then change the thumbnail and title of the video every few days which I’ve only seen done by all the low effort click bait channels. It’s what finally got me to install the dearrow extension which swaps titles and videos of YouTube videos to be more informative and less click bait.
A lot of channels do this, you might’ve just not noticed.
I believe this is a YouTube feature that effectively runs A/B tests on your behalf. You give it multiple titles and thumbnails and it’ll gauge engagement with each and then use the one that was most popular. I hate it.
Damn YouTube is such a shitty platform
Every other week I learn something about YouTube that makes me sad
+Practical Engineering
+Real Engineering +Technology Connections +EngineerGuy +Explosions&Fire +NurdRage +NileRed (more entertainment than education nowadays but his old videos are pretty information dense) +Chris Boden +MinutePhysics/MinuteEarth/MinuteFood +LegalEagle +Engineering Explained +Wendover Productions / Half as Interesting
I got tons more but my legs are starting to fall asleep.
+3blue1brown, if you need more pain.
+ElectroBoom, if you want to see grown adult play with electricity
He still crackles me up
+Chill Dude Explains needs a shoutout in general here. Fits in neatly between CGP Grey and Sam O’Nella I feel.
+ComboClass +FloatHeadPhysics +Stand-up Maths +Tor’s Cabinet of Curiosities +Oceanliner Designs +Plainly Difficult +ColdFusion +BobbyBroccoli +Unsolicited Advice +Horses +Hochelaga +Inspiraggio +Art Deco +Kyle Hill
I could add more but I use ReVanced and I misplaced my subscriptions page
+styropyro +benn jordan +chubbyemu +hemereview +creganford +esoterica +religion for breakfast +dark science +philosophy tube +wisecrack +gutsick gibbon +metta beshay +Hamilton Morris +PBS eons +sage the bad naturalist +Steve mould +talon fitness +the poopie show +thought emporium +useful charts +weird explorer +writing with andrew
+AlphaPhoenix +Applied Science +Breaking Taps +ProjectsInFlight +suckerpinch
If you want to learn a bit about machining while also dealing with maximum dad humor: This Old Tony
He spends WAY too long on parting sections of his stock. /s
Wendover has gotten strange. Their Maldives video was just the same 10 minutes regurgitated over 30.
Technology connections is so good. I watched a video and wanted to share it but peoples response was always “I’m not fucking watching an hour video on how a dishwasher works” I say but thats the shorten version
Fat Electrician
None of them on the fediverse :/
Veritasium?
The Rest is History is always a good listen.
Historia Civilis and others like Kings and Generals etc are often good too.
Don’t like him for the ways he pushes bullshit, even if it technically might be correct under x y z assumptions that are utterly nonsense in real live. Last video I watched was with the interference and “light takes all let’s” and the way to actually show it was complete nonsense. Yikes. At 600 nm you are not going to have and measurable amount going 10 cm somewhere else.
Which one are you talking about, Veritasium?
Yes
Nothing like turning on Sam O’Nella for some entertaining educational comedy for the kids only to hear “removed” over and over again
Angela Collier completes a nice Venn diagram of (making me feel like I’m) learning stuff, righteous anger, and being a person with a face who isn’t some new media production studio
Really appreciate her work - the educational stuff is good at putting things into a context and giving laypeople some mental coathooks to hang things off of, and I like how she emphasizes the video explainer format is a provider of jumping off points more than a source of real understanding.
Her discussion of media and news is maybe not as relevant here but still pretty on point in my experience.“Her discussion of media and news is maybe not as relevant here but still pretty on point in my experience.”
I remember being surprised how much I enjoyed her video about Star Trek: Picard, given that it was a multiple hour long rant video — it’s amazing how much difference it makes for someone to be engaging in good faith criticism
Not one I’ve watched yet, but there definitely is some magic to listening to someone talking about something they really care about, if you connect with them as a communicator.
Like, I don’t have any relationship to Disney’s Buzzy animatronic myself, but I’ve rewatched Jenny Nicholson ranting about it more than once because it’s fun. Captain Disillusion talking about the effects work that inspired him also feels kinda similar.
What a weird bunch, to me these are 2 titans, 1 serial one-hit-wonder, and 1 guy whose humour is family guy cutaway gags.
Id be interested to hear which are which. My guess are: Family Guy - Oversimplified Hit-Wonder - Grey Titans - Sam and Kurzgesagt
I’ll throw Dr Becky (Smethurst) and Numberphile into the mix
My four horsemen:
- Uri Tuchman
- Hyperspace pirate
- Hand tool rescue
- Apetor
May he rest in peace
Based on that list, you may be interested in This Old Tony, Jeremy Makes Things, Rainfall Projects, and Tyler Bell.
Man, I am still sad about apetor. What a horrible way to go.
CGP Grey is a Tesla shill
I don’t think it’s on purpose. He got his before the vasy majority knew what a shithead Musk is.
So the only thing determining whether tesla is good or bad in your eyes is the ceo?
They never provided competitive value to customers, even when Musk was taking the left for a ride.
wheres wendover and reallifelore?
I don’t see Blue Jay. 😔
