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Which of your favorite creators content quality went downhill very quickly? (lemmy.world)

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Kind of a trend, the amount of youtubers who i had loved but their content became generic after gaining popularity is quite a bit, most drastic one being mrwhosetheboss, his uniqueness went down faster than ~~MH27~~ MH17

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[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 108 points 6 months ago

Veritasium. After he put that uncritical commercial for the self driving car company on his feed I couldn’t take any of his content seriously anymore.

[-] Raxiel@lemmy.world 45 points 6 months ago

I stopped watching after the "speed of electricity in a wire" video. When I realised a video about something I knew about was bollocks, it made me question every other video that taught me about something I didn't know.
Even if that had been a one off, how would I know? The trust is gone.

[-] Hope@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

What was wrong with that one?

[-] Raxiel@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Without getting into it too deeply the way he conflates induction and conductivity just to set up some kind of gotcha.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

IIRC, it was way too confusing to be useful as an educational video

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Op said it's bollock, not because it's confusing, so i'm curious what went wrong as well. I think Electroboom challenge him as well, but not sure the context and how it went.

[-] pineapplelover@infosec.pub 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I would also like to know.

[-] Tedhan@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 6 months ago

There are a lot of videos that made me question the validity of his "science". While I didn't want to spend time dissecting a specific video but with the videos piling up I decided it would be easier to just not watch him. I don't watch videos to question whether it's bullshit or not, so I ended up watching videos where I don't have to ask that question.

[-] refoux@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I'll purposely seek out videos covering topics I'm (more) familiar with, from unfamiliar content creators that I might be interested in watching more of. It helps me gauge their accuracy, confidence, and ability to simplify without losing the underlying reasoning.

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