• Hond@piefed.social
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    7 days ago

    unsubscribed kurzgesagt a year ago. mostly because of a rant a biologist made about the sunfish video(sorry, cant link it). but also because some videos felt really weirdly framed. looks like i made the right call.

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      7 days ago

      yeah, I’m still subscribed, but don’t like their trajectory, a lot of their new videos feel like they’re framed too sensationalistically and light on substance. I tried out their historical channel (“Kurzgesagt After Dark”) when it launched, but that was even worse, just focusing on the scandal and suffering of their subjects 😮‍💨

      I skip a lot of their videos nowadays, did this AI one too bc I knew it was bullshit.

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        7 days ago

        Same, too many of their videos feel sensationalized when they are about something in the popular zeitgeist. I rather enjoy the more random topics that come up occasionally, like the cancer video from 3 weeks ago. Granted, I’m no biologist, so if this one was also poor quality, I don’t know the topic well enough to have noticed.

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      7 days ago

      I unsubbed when they made this video.

      https://youtu.be/LxgMdjyw8uw

      4 years ago. Damn.

      It was so clearly just propaganda trying to take on a scientific point of view. The countless “pointing to the problem correctly” and waving hands around solutions to attempt to reduce only worry and not the reality of the problem.