Comment by mrguyorama

Veritasium has some of the worst horseshit "clickbait" of anyone on Youtube. They know it too, because after they let the algorithm A/B test different clickbait titles on you for a month, they will change it to a real title that actually is relevant to the title and then I will finally be interested in the video because it actually suggest what it might be about.

He's very much "selling out" but meh, he was never really a "high brow" creator anyway. Still managed to cover lots of cool things, but just not trying to make good content. They were optimizing for profitable content.

However, the couple of discussions around "how to think about electricity" and "how do sails work" he participated in and somewhat spawned were great, and showed how actual productive discussion among people genuinely trying to come to a real understanding works. Lots of groups chimed in and actual experiments were run to support arguments and the end result was essentially "eh, there's nuance"! Wonderful outcome.

It was clear for a very very long time that he wasn't doing it for the same reason as most of the good people: A desire to share learning and lust for scientific inquiry.

I also think the new animation style is mediocre, but that's just opinion.

Get out of the way, enjoy the life you have left, and let someone else blossom into the space you left!