I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [video]

Re:I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [... by kzrdude on Saturday December 18, 2021 @05:37AM (#29603456)

They really managed to get a success this time: lots of views for this controversial video! But for me, it feels like a lot of credibility capital was spent. I was probably part of the core audience a few years ago.

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Re:I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [... by runarberg on Saturday December 18, 2021 @09:11PM (#29610722)

For me Veritasium lost all his credibility capital by the way he responded to Tom Nicholas’ video about YouTube sponsorships using Veritasium as a case study[1]. In stead of approaching the debate calmly (or better yet, simply ignoring it) he came to the comment section way too defensive, like a lot, basically calling Tom a lair and a bad actor.

Actually that is not quite true, Veritasium lost a bunch of his credibility capital when he made the sponsored content for the self driving cars. I never watched that video as I spotted it was basically and ad and was reluctant to watch his new stuff after that (though I did).

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM0aohBfUTc

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