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Who is a Youtuber you find to be overrated ? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Veritasium. As soon as he put out a video with sponsored content where he lied with science I immediately knew he could no longer be trusted. I completely stopped watching his videos that day.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Which video?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ha, I wasn't even talking about that one. I think I stopped watching before then because he just went in deep with the sponsors and it was clear he wasn't actually caring about the science anymore. The one I'm talking about he 'proved' that wet wipes are flushable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

here's the video. https://youtu.be/5zI9sG3pjVU?t=983

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/yjztvddhZmI?si=qTMNmu-xRVJgDtYP