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You can tell the Gates-bucks have really leaned them in a neo-liberal slant. It kind of sucks.

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.

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?"

Yeah they’re kinda bullshit.

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.

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.

Through the magic of buying two of them, you have someone who agrees that it should be on the list.

+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?

They're honest, direct, open, and willing to learn, I love kurzgesagt. The world sucks, but we shouldn't shy away from understanding why it sucks and how we can improve it

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.

https://youtu.be/m6KnVTYtSc0

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.

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.

I liked smarter every day but recently I have been kinda put off because of his fairly frequent military propaganda for USA's military.

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.