Veritasium'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?

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Veritasium'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? - tchncs

Should we stop supporting them with our eyes for taking sponsorships from shady companies?

Veratasium had some similar issue a few years ago too, didn’t he?

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