Never use to watch him, but actually enjoying his content as of late.

Edit: probably because he’s an internet goofball around my age.

That actually sounds pretty cool for him.

I feel like this is pretty much the path the large majority of YouTubers take. They gain a following. Stay consistent over the years. Slowly grow. And after a while people just watch because that’s what they’ve always done for years. The person could post a video of them just like peeling a potato and plenty people would still watch just cause.

He is rich enough to not desperately beg for likes and comments at every other breath. I don’t even think YouTube paid people back when he got popular. Maybe they did and I’m just dumb, but I don’t remember that being a thing.

That simple omission makes his content easier to watch than most in my opinion. Plus he seems like an actually cool guy. I’ve never heard of a real life scumbag example of him. Not saying he’s a saint or anything, but with his size of an audience, I would think news about him being a jerk would be spread around, but I haven’t heard of any.

Seems like he’s pursuing other career paths at this point, as his posting frequency has gone way down, unless the algorithm isn’t bringing him up as much for me, haven’t really checked into it. But since making his 2nd big “choose your own adventure” project, he seems like he’s doing bigger stuff.

Which I’m happy for him in that regard. I miss the consistency, but he’s just a busy guy now.

Distractible I’m really behind on, but I do like it.

I mainly subscribe to ASMRists, and even then I don’t follow the bigger ones because I don’t enjoy their content.

And one of the gaming channels I follow is brilliant and yet they have so few subscribers. Filthy Casuals, three Australian comedians chatting about games. Their Let’s Plays are great.

While I dislike PewDie as an adult, had I discovered him at the age of 13, I’d have absolutely loved him.

I feel like people frequently forget that internet demographics are very unique compared to the overall demographics of the whole population. It is definitely easier and more fun to spend lots of time on here while you’re still very young, and generally have more free time and open curiosity.

That just makes it worse

All I see in the “you’re not logged in” frontpage is music videos anyways, and not conventional youtubers. I dunno how someone finds Mr. beast “organically”.

I would really like a channel that covers start-ups well, like explaining their idea and what they hope to accomplish then going into some of the challenges they face.

Far too many seem to be nothing but reading the press release and the first couple of paragraphs of Wikipedia.

There was this one from a couple years ago that was about self-driving cars and also sponsored by Waymo. Tom Nicholas made a video which IMO does a good job of covering the problems with that video, and the broader implications of this kind of content on YouTube.

found it. https://youtu.be/5zI9sG3pjVU?t=983

there’s even people in the comments that don’t realize the experiment was bad science and think that maybe these wipes are ‘different’

more people actually saying they’re going to switch to flushable wipes.

I don’t remember which video it was, I’d have to go find it. At the end he sets up a ‘science experiment’ to show that wet wipes are flushable, unlike what everyone says. And the way he ‘proves’ it is clearly a terrible way to prove it, but if you aren’t thinking about it you’ll agree. I’ll try to find the video.

yeah. honestly it stinks because he did have good science videos. but as soon as he sold out and the way he did so I knew he was no longer an educational channel.

Yeah I want to know as well. His content isn’t exactly my cup of tea and can feel dystopia, but my dude flies around the world giving away free surgery to people and shit, and he promotes charities and foundations and actually moves people to donate to them. His thumbnails are creepy as shit, and his content feels like it was made to be cut up into a bunch of 6 second tiktok videos, but I don’t really see a dark side here.

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I agree. Like most science channels, they’re really good when they stick to pure science.

The issues usually occur when they decide to weigh in on a social or policy issue that they’re not qualified to talk about. Kurtzgesagt’s blunders all seem to be related to climate policy videos and their wishful thinking regarding Hail Mary technologies saving us.

For other readers, my bias is generally pro kurtzgesagt, I have several of their posters on my wall. Their social policy videos have just been really rubbing me the wrong way.

I subscribe to some YouTubers on the site, but the algorithm seems to understand roughly what I want.

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