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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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

He also has a habit of making videos that are just long ads, like that self-driving car, or that shampoo

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I've watched his leaded gasoline video, capitalism doesn't seem like something he would need to bring up? Unless I'm not remembering the video correctly, the cause of the problems aren't something he goes into

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