And why did you stop watching them?

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    5 months ago

    CGPGrey. I even listened to his podcasts.

    For someone who tried to sell productivity tools at one point, he was very unproductive.

    Also, given what happened with Standard and Nebula, I got to say I side with Nebula over him.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah, it’s weird, CGPGrey videos used to be the most must-watch of all YouTube for me and I subscribed to his Patreon at one point. I listened to Hello Internet loyally and I was even unhurt about how it ended. I still think he’s an interesting guy and would follow his stuff again but he doesn’t seem to be doing anything of interest to me any more.

      What happened with Standard/Nebula?

    • weeeeum@lemmy.world
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      I didn’t like his take, “solving” traffic nescitates the use of self-driving cars. Can’t have traffic without cars, it’s as simple as that. We need public transport, not more shit to spend our increasingly scarce money on.

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        Him and Kurzgesagt were helping to build an organization for YouTubers with the current CEO. The first talent signed on was Wendover and Real Engineering.

        Grey and Kurzgesagt were rather inactive partners when they should have been more active and were trying to build a much more exploitative company instead of what Nebula became. It is vague on how they left, but they left and the company became better for it.

    • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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      I found his video on FPTP Binary political systems video to be logically flawed and I think it ultimately caused more harm than good. It’s irritating to see people reference it in political discussions today. That eventually convinced me to stop giving him views.