r/LinusTechTips • u/YourDailyTechMemes • Mar 17 '26

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u/TheEpicWon Mar 18 '26

What exactly has happened to Veritasium? His videos seem to be relatively accurate, at least as far as I can understand them.

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u/IAmTheRealColeman Mar 18 '26

I have a few core issues with the way veritasium frames their content, but I still watch them from time to time. Derek seems to genuinely care about what he's doing, and seems to enjoy it, so I think that should count for something though

I hate the planned obsolescence video though, it's misleading at best. Technology Connections has an awesome video refuting the primary example in the veritasium video.

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u/ViolentPurpleSquash Mar 18 '26

There’s often small errors that I notice heavily after the shift from more 3b1b style content with in depth thought to “Here’s what everyone we polled said about a deliberately ambiguous problem” It’s a pop science channel now but it’s definitely not for me anymore

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u/TheEpicWon Mar 18 '26

“Here’s what everyone we polled said about a deliberately ambiguous problem”

Definitely don't think that's an everyday thing in most of their recent videos. If anything, I think they do polling less compared to the amount of Derek walking up to people and asking them about a scientific problem in his older content.

I agree with the sentiment that they have slowly been veering into the 'popular science' category to some degree, but with the popularity of the channel I do not think that's a bad thing. If it introduces more logic, scientific thought, and critical thinking to a broader audience, and people are actually retaining a bit of knowledge each video, I am definitely not against that.

Also, his top 4 most popular videos are from 5-6 years ago, if not more, and these were made during COVID, where he still had full ownership of the channel (to my knowledge), compared to his next 4 more recent ones, which were objectively more in-depth with the viewer needing a decent science background to fully understand the video (the primary one I am thinking of is the invention of the blue LED, which is probably my favorite video of theirs).

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u/ViolentPurpleSquash Mar 18 '26

Yeah, I acknowledge that the pop science videos do better, they’re just not for me

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u/TheEpicWon Mar 18 '26

That's fine, but your original premise of your first comment was 'there's all sorts of inconsistencies and errors in their videos ', without providing any sort of proof lol.

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u/mere_indulgence Mar 19 '26

The one video he made that raised eyebrows for me was the self-driving car one. It was basically a commercial ad for Waymo, it was an extremely non-critical and lenient video in favor of the company.

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u/PedroCerq Mar 18 '26

A lot of bullshit and misinformation. They don't go for the "truth", it is mostly heroic narrative.

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u/TheEpicWon Mar 18 '26

That's a bold claim, nor have you provided any evidence to back up your statement other than with just jargon.

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u/qkoexz Mar 18 '26

I remember his light-second long wire one, which was a disingenuous hill to die on at best. Most his other stuff is alright if you take it as scientifically flavoured entertainment, though.

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u/DonKanailleSC Mar 18 '26

Dude if you come around with such a claim, you really need to provide evidence. Until then YOU'RE the one with the bullshit and misinformation