I stopped watching kurzgesagt after their copium video on global warming where we all hold hands and sing and magically reverse it.
Here’s an existential threat to humanity, and the various ways that it’s worse than you think. But don’t worry! Capitalism will save the day by inventing solutions to our problems which won’t necessitate any restructuring of our society or economy!
Thanks as always to our billionaire
ownersdonors!
Kurzgesagt is cancer
Also:
LockPickingLawyer
How To Cook That
Captain Disillusion
Pilot Debreif
Stand-Up Maths
Kur is being shit recently with Bill gates
It’s been fairly neoliberal for awhile now, I can’t remember which video it was but one of them really put a bad taste in my mouth. Whatever it was, imo it felt very apologist of capitalism. I unsubbed after that.
Kurgesatz was really good before they started the black mirror season, where every video is about how humanity can get killed by various things.
Never heard of the other ones but I’ll give it a try.
And there’s a PBS video for anything you can think about, sometimes they just don’t surface properly with search.
I am big fan of their prepandemic work. But if you can get past their click bait videos, I think they still do good content.
Science pieces spreading awareness about something are their best videos.
This recent video on fentanyl was very good.
The south korea one, the vaping and weed ones. Very good at condensing complicated topic while still retaining pertinent information that’s new and not patronizing.
It was very pro heroin
For real though! What a weird watch 😂
In a way it was a breath of fresh a air to hear the high honestly described in a way that makes it understandable why people would want to do it again, but also how it will never, ever be as good as the first time, and will ruin your life.
If you wanna learn from the best chef in the world:
You Suck At Cooking! Yeah, you totally suck!
Or Preppy Kitchen if we’re being serious
Legal stuff:
Meidas Touch and Legal Eagle
Retro video and music devices:
Techmoan and VWestlife
Also: Tom Scott. Or at least his backlog because he retired.
And a very important one! - Science stuff: Potholer54 I can’t believe he doesn’t have millions of subs. It actually kind of makes me sad.
vsauce. no, you haven’t watched all of his videos. also i think his previously exclusive series is available now.
I might be in a niche. Here’s my fav, Religion for Breakfast, Let’s Talk Religion, Esoterica, Al-Muqaddimah, Tablets and Temples, Useful Charts. Not religious but I like Religious Studies because it’s overlaps to history.
In addition, the Crash Course series to Religious Studies by PBS is also very good.
Also few history channel, Dan Davis History, A Historian’s Craft, Kings and Generals
- Kraut
- Varitasium
- OBF
- Astrum
- miniminuteman
- Wendover Productions
- Hankschannel
- Practical engineering
- NileRed, NileBlue
- Fern
- Hoog
- Plainly Difficult
- NEO
- Versed
- ColdFusion
Thoughty2- DamiLee
- Facts in Motion
- Barely Sociable
- Mark Rober
- Deep Dive
Edit: Also know you can watch videos without ads AND without sponsor parts (using sponsor block) on desktop and android with grayjay.app
Isn’t thoughty2 an insane right winger?
I googled it and apparently there’s been some commotion about him and his views. Especially about a video about why people are so easily offended, one I haven’t seen myself. I’m only on YouTube and Lemmy, I completely missed everything else on other platforms.
The videos I’ve seen had no political content so I never noticed anything, but it’s good to know as it might have influence on the information and nuance he provides. So thank you for pointing out his bias.
Branch Education. Rare videos, but so good!
I’ve lost trust in veritasium. I don’t remember the specifics right now but every video he makes I have to take with caution
they did some self-driving car propaganda a while ago iirc. their latest videos have been mostly pretty focused physics and math history though, so they’ve generally been pretty okay imo. but any time they mention anything that can be sold i become a lot more suspicious
Professor Dave if you wanna watch someone get absolutely demolished.
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
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…!”
This list is basically the tippy toppy fresh snow that’s fallen on the iceberg.
Technology connection comes a little lower.
I’ll add Captain Disillusion to this thread
I learnered about some interesting looking channels from this thread so I’ll pay it forward and share some that I like.
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Angela Collier
Bobby Broccoli
Climate Town
Computerphile
Defunctland
fern
Folding Ideas
JimmyTheGiant
KnowledgeHusk
Lextorias
Not Just Bikes
Odd Compass
Ordinary Things
PBS Space Time
slow start
Suibhne
Thought Slime
Tom Nicholas
3Blue1Brown?
Yeah that’s a great one! I intentionally didn’t mention channels that I saw others had already listed.
Unlearning economics is pretty good too
Angela Collier…I also have my fair share of physics classes under my belt due to my engineering degree and she makes me think of things in a way that none of my professors did.
She’s brilliant.
They’re pretty okay for shallow understanding on a subject, but Wendover (not on the list), Economics Explained (not on the list), and CGP gray all get stuff pretty wrong once you get past shallow depth. I know because I’m a huge transit/urbanism nerd. If these channels haven’t wronged you in some minor way, they just haven’t talked about something you’re a subject matter expert in yet. The point here isn’t that they’re bad, just understand that these are shallow explainers, the next step in from like a news article, Wikipedia, or a blog, and take them with a grain of salt.
My personal list is Kurzgesagt, XKCD explained, and The Action Lab.
Wendover is pretty bad and finding out they take essentially bribes in the form of free stays and travel from an amusement park to say only nice things a little them after the park had an accident that killed a kid makes it so it’s pretty obvious it’s not about being good content for us but for the people making it. Likely tax write-offs and funny accounting all over their channels.
They state that they aren’t for education but entertainment and thus don’t have a to cite sources either.
Yeah they aren’t a trustworthy source is my point.
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.
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.
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
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.
