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[–] MooseBoys 108 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

Veritasium has really gone down hill. I honestly think it started when he did the video on “clickbait” and actually realized how much more lucrative it was to make shittier clickbaity content than make straightforward science content.

It went from “here’s why magnetism is just electric field + relativity” to “I buried myself in cement - you won’t believe what happens!”

[–] Arthur_Leywin 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

???? His recent videos have been nothing but great. His knot, IQ, Oppenheimer, entropy, and maze solving videos (and more) are all recent and amazing videos. What's your criticism against him?

[–] Hans5958 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think the problem here is that Veritasium these days now covers popular (possibly overrated) science-y topics rather than actually interesting (but not so popular) science content to stay on the radar. It's about the covered topic, not the quality.

[–] Arthur_Leywin 12 points 1 year ago

Knot theory, entropy and maze solving are things most people don't know about though. If this critique is pointed at the Oppenheimer video because there was a popular movie then I would say that it's ok to talk about something trending if most of his videos are relatively niche.

[–] MooseBoys 6 points 1 year ago

I think you hit the nail on the head. I’m fairly knowledgeable in the natural sciences, but I still used to learn a lot from watching his videos. These days, more often than not my reaction is just “well thats obvious”. It reminds me of the MythBusters episode when they shot a ball out of the back of a moving truck, and when they confirmed the ball dropped without moving, Carrie just sarcastically said “Yay we did vector addition…”

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