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[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm starting to think that Kurzgesagt is either paid media and/or propaganda. I really liked their well researched approach. But this one is straight out in your face. They outright deny the filter bubble that each one of us have experienced firsthand on corporate social media - and then blame you for the ill effects. Also, if you look at the imagery - the emoticons and especially the thumbs up symbol, they are trying to invoke memories of specific social media. It feels very much like they're trying to garner sympathy for those antisocial-media.

BTW, this isn't the first time their motives have been called into question. They have in the past, taken money from bigphrama to paint them as benevolent superheroes.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

Have you read the sources? They are below the video. If you have, does the video misrepresent what's in the sources?