And honestly? I don’t care. The content is good, and if the hat gets them more viewers then all the better.
In the UK we see this with nonsense talk of 'the [energy] price cap' being some £ figure per year - when it's not, it's a £/kWh cap, but the media can't cope with that, we're stuck with what it means for 'the average household'. Even comparison sites refuse to compare what you actually pay, £/day and £/kWh, and instead insist on asking you about number of bedrooms etc.
I'm sick of everything being dumbed down.
I’m just saying there’s a decent reason for some of it. A huge audience on YouTube are children, teens.
I'm not sure you can call his series a curriculum, yet I think I learned a lot more from there than from my university classes, despite watching it primarily for the fun and not for learning.
what are you talking about?
a student gets stuck going to class regardless of how goofy the teacher dresses, whereas I feel an extreme sense of revulsion when I click on a YT link with a meme-thumbnail or a clickbait title.
your analogy fails since in this instance the 'student' gets to decide whether or not they participate in the course.
If I had had the chance to walk out on goofy teachers through high school then -- just as one anecdote -- I wouldn't have graduated.
so, in other words, clickbait 'engagement' style marketing will get your volume numbers up, but the hidden aspect is that there will be a market that pulls entirely away from you -- 'teachers' on YT will need to understand these market dynamics if they're really interested in teaching the masses rather than making money on viewership.
If teachers K-12 were paid according to their student throughput that'd turn into a major humanitarian crisis, imo.