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Comment by archerx

7 hours ago

What’s wrong with veritasium?

It's been bought up by venture capital and it's rubbed a lot of fans the wrong way with the changes by the new management.

  • What are the changes that are rubbing fans the wrong way? I feel like the latest videos have been interesting.

    • I still find them engaging and well made. It’s a bit more “corporate” but honestly the content remains as good

  • I was also afraid of that, but I actually really liked the recent videos.

    • Yeah actually I haven't been dissapointed with the quality of the new videos so far, I will hold my breath though as venture capitals priorities aren't always aligned long-term.

The problem I have encountered is that some of the physics explanations are of dubious quality. A good example is the debate between Veratasium, Steve Mould, and ElectroBOOM about “whether electricity travels at the speed of light.” The Veratasium video comes across as pretty clickbait-y. That said, the combined narrative across these three channels was pretty interesting.