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Social media conspiracy videos are ridiculously stupid, I think we can all agree. People peddling nonsense pseudoscience as gospel, with a way too confident tone.

Luckily, actual science has its own protectors. Let me show you Milo Rossi, AKA MiniMinuteMan. He's an archeology/environmental studies graduate, and made a career out of putting those idiotic conspiracies on blast. His channel has both short and long form video, with the short form just absolutely flaming idiots with basic explanations about not only why their conspiracies are stupid - they are as well.

For example:




The longer form content is also great. It's not just a quick snappy explanation of why someone is wrong, it's a detailed dive into insane theories, explaining where the false data or hypotheses come from, and then absolutely dunking on them by telling how it actually works. The main "series" dealing with this is called "awful archeology", which is only 8 episodes in, so far.
Where do the 1.7 million subs come from, then? Well, his 4 part series completely shitting all over the Netflix show "Ancient Apocalypse". Said show is an awful piece of documentary making, with "archeologist" Graham Hancock traveling the world in an attempt to prove Atlantis was real, and it was all aliens. Because of course it was.
And it's absolutely hilarious to see an actually qualified and knowledgeable person completely debunk every theory they set out in that show.

Someone in the comments described the channel as "that one hilarious professor you had, ranting about something stupid", and it fits pretty well.


I saw that "IT'S A GRID SYSTEM" video that Mave shared in the discord, and figured he'd like more stuff like that :biggrin:
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This sounds really good :biggrin: Cheers for sharing!

EDIT: love this one as well



EDIT2: lmao

 
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Finnish humor is weird, man.



A Finnish company made fully kitted out camo uniform... with Ian's face on it. The madlads.
 
At this point I am willing to bet he isn’t even a real Doctor.

 
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And another one for "what greed does to a mfer".

You might know Donut. It's one of the largest car-related channels out there. And for a while, it was a great watch. There were multiple hosts, but the most important ones were James, Nolan, Zach, Jeremiah, and Justin. Those 5 were the main faces, and they brought interesting videos and topics. Hell, they even voiced themselves in a Forza Horizon update, and a Motorfest campaign.

But they didn't own the company behind the channel. They just "worked" there as writers/hosts. The channel itself was owned by other people, who were there since the beginning. Nothing wrong with those guys, they were, by all accounts, great people. But, they eventually decided to sell the channel to a large private equity company.

And the writing and creativity went downhill. Videos were less about being interesting or cool, but more about pleasing the algorithm and grabbing more viewers. There were still some interesting topics, and some of the newer vids were actually pretty cool, but... the original magic of the channel was gone. And apparently, the hosts felt this as well. So much, in fact, that three of them... left.

James, who was one of the earliest and biggest hosts on the channel, took his producer buddy Jesse with him, and started Speeed (with three E's). So far, there is only one video on that channel, "Why I left Donut", but the channel already has 1.03mil subscribers. Nothing much can really be said about this one - there is simply no content to talk about yet. But, James ran the incredibly popular Up 2 Speed series on Donut, and promises that this new channel would be more like that. So I'm interested to see what he can crank out.

Zach and Jeremiah took off and started Big Time, which is more like the old-school Donut build videos. Some of the new content involves repairing a semi-abandoned Nissan S14, and the purchasing and running of a second-hand big rig. These videos feel... genuine. Yeah, it's clearly produced by experienced folks, but it feels like a couple of guys just fixing their cars or talking about something they clearly like. They're honestly great.

AFAIK, the two remaining "big" hosts on Donut, Nolan and Justin, still work there (as well as Zach and Jeremiah occasionally presenting stuff there). But, they have been in less and less videos, so we'll see what happens.
 
Stybar said:
And another one for "what greed does to a mfer".

You might know Donut. It's one of the largest car-related channels out there. And for a while, it was a great watch. There were multiple hosts, but the most important ones were James, Nolan, Zach, Jeremiah, and Justin. Those 5 were the main faces, and they brought interesting videos and topics. Hell, they even voiced themselves in a Forza Horizon update, and a Motorfest campaign.

But they didn't own the company behind the channel. They just "worked" there as writers/hosts. The channel itself was owned by other people, who were there since the beginning. Nothing wrong with those guys, they were, by all accounts, great people. But, they eventually decided to sell the channel to a large private equity company.

And the writing and creativity went downhill. Videos were less about being interesting or cool, but more about pleasing the algorithm and grabbing more viewers. There were still some interesting topics, and some of the newer vids were actually pretty cool, but... the original magic of the channel was gone. And apparently, the hosts felt this as well. So much, in fact, that three of them... left.

James, who was one of the earliest and biggest hosts on the channel, took his producer buddy Jesse with him, and started Speeed (with three E's). So far, there is only one video on that channel, "Why I left Donut", but the channel already has 1.03mil subscribers. Nothing much can really be said about this one - there is simply no content to talk about yet. But, James ran the incredibly popular Up 2 Speed series on Donut, and promises that this new channel would be more like that. So I'm interested to see what he can crank out.

Zach and Jeremiah took off and started Big Time, which is more like the old-school Donut build videos. Some of the new content involves repairing a semi-abandoned Nissan S14, and the purchasing and running of a second-hand big rig. These videos feel... genuine. Yeah, it's clearly produced by experienced folks, but it feels like a couple of guys just fixing their cars or talking about something they clearly like. They're honestly great.

AFAIK, the two remaining "big" hosts on Donut, Nolan and Justin, still work there (as well as Zach and Jeremiah occasionally presenting stuff there). But, they have been in less and less videos, so we'll see what happens.
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How goated is this guy?

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