dependencyinjectionVeritasium's new video on Jumping Spiders is having its sponsor Better Help on blast in the top comments. Should we hold content creators to account?
SnokenKeekaGuardVeratasium had some similar issue a few years ago too, didn’t he?
I recall Tom Nichols making a video on them and also perhaps an incorrect video about electricity so probably.
Kumikommunism [comrade/them, any]On the electricity video, he was actually correct. It was mostly a matter of semantics and people clinging to the common models of electricity.
I’m not really sure it was just semantics. He was technically correct the light would get some power right away, but the thing everyone would understand when hearing the main assertion, i.e. the light is fully lit and the circuit is in its relatively steady, final state, is very much not true.
starman2112The electricity one wasn’t so much him being wrong as it was him being really bad at communicating that one point
His video with one of those “genetic research” companies was very bad anti-privacy propaganda, where they used the excuse of catching the Golden State Killer as justification for storing and using the related genetic information of masses of unconsenting individuals.
He’s also dipped several times into making state department propaganda like Smarter Every Day consistently does which people have a problem with. Not nearly quite as bad yet though.
And he’s made several videos about failures of capitalism, wherein he very obviously refuses to identify it as the problem. Like his one about planned obsolescence or leaded gasoline and another I’m forgetting.
I’ve watched his leaded gasoline video, capitalism doesn’t seem like something he would need to bring up? Unless I’m not remembering the video correctly, the cause of the problems aren’t something he goes into
He also has a habit of making videos that are just long ads, like that self-driving car, or that shampoo
PirkyThere was a video he did on a startup taxi service using self driving cars. Basically the entire thing was an advertisement for that company.
Then another Youtuber, Tom Nicholas, released a video about that a few months later and how it’s an issue. I’ll have to watch it again as I don’t remember what he specifically talks about.
Then another Youtuber, Tom Nicholas, released a video about that a few months later and how it’s an issue. I’ll have to watch it again as I don’t remember what he specifically talks about.
Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now
Yeeep I remember the saga bc of the Tom Nicholas video