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Veritasium's new video on Jumping Spiders is having its sponsor Better Help on blast in the top comments. Should we hold content creators to account? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Should we stop supporting them with our eyes for taking sponsorships from shady companies?

Edit: I took my first step and unsubscribed from the channel and I will continue to withhold my viewership to those that don’t take better care of the viewers.

Likely doesn’t matter, but I’m on a roll of not giving my money to companies that are immoral so why not do the same with my eyes.

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[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Veratasium had some similar issue a few years ago too, didn't he?

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I recall Tom Nichols making a video on them and also perhaps an incorrect video about electricity so probably.

[–] Kumikommunism@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

On the electricity video, he was actually correct. It was mostly a matter of semantics and people clinging to the common models of electricity.

[–] Kumikommunism@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

His video with one of those "genetic research" companies was very bad anti-privacy propaganda, where they used the excuse of catching the Golden State Killer as justification for storing and using the related genetic information of masses of unconsenting individuals.

He's also dipped several times into making state department propaganda like Smarter Every Day consistently does. Not nearly quite as bad as him yet though.

And he's made several videos about failures of capitalism, wherein he very obviously refuses to identify it as the problem. Like the one about planned obsolescence or leaded gasoline and another I'm forgetting.

[–] Pirky@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

There was a video he did on a startup taxi service using self driving cars. Basically the entire thing was an advertisement for that company.
Then another Youtuber, Tom Nicholas, released a video about that a few months later and how it's an issue. I'll have to watch it again as I don't remember what he specifically talks about.