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After the new Kurzgesagt video about black holes... (imgflip.com)
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[-] M137@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

I used to love Kurzgesagt but I just don't like their videos anymore, and I'm not sure why. They definitely make the kind of content I enjoy, always did and still do, but when I try to watch any of their videos from the last 3-4 years I just don't like it. I also get this feeling that they are kinda smug about their popularity and how famous they are, it's weird.

[-] MBM@lemmings.world 21 points 1 year ago

I unsubscribed after they put out a vid that felt like an unmarked ad for the cyberpunk game

[-] NerdsGonnaNerd@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

I feel the same. If I had to put a finger on it, I would say it is since the time they parted ways with the german "GEZ". Wiki GEZ

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

They recently repeated establishment disinformation about drugs. Didn't address the real problem. They pro status quo bias and hide behind science justifications.

They're good, but they're stretching the sauce and don't get to tge bottom of things that are too controversial even if high probability of being true.

[-] Kacarott@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago

"hide behind science justifications" maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but isn't basing opinions and world views on science exactly what people should be doing?

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

There's science in the imagination and tgere's real science which only makes grants request to questions where the answer is something a politician wants to hear.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

I feel the same way. I can't put my finger on it, but I feel something is off and not as good as the older videos. Definitely not because they're more mainstream now though

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

Nope, you're definitely not a contrarian by nature in real life.

You're also immune to Russian apathy propaganda and Lemmy complaints about green washing...

It's gotta be because they managed to make money off spreading well researched and sauced scientific videos and something just feels off now...

[-] 0x0@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Wow. Big toes like that must be cumbersome huh?

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago

Probably since they decided to take billionaire money, which limited what they can now say in their videos. It feels more superficial and vague now.

[-] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Glad I'm not alone on this

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Sauce: Black Hole's Evil Twin - Gravastars Explained - Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Ohno. My brain can't take this rn. Thanks though

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 25 points 1 year ago

“Yeah, I’m really getting into non-black-hole stellar mass singularities at the moment. You’ve probably never heard of it.”

[-] NichtElias@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Isn't the whole thing about gravastars that they don't have singularities?

[-] lung@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Imma wait to be excited about this, it's some kinda nonsense like gigantic atoms, with a hard candy shell made of bubbles but the energy of 10 suns idk man that's pretty out there

Ofc existence is pretty strange on a good day ...

[-] moonlight@fedia.io 14 points 1 year ago

Well, black holes are pretty out there, too. Singularities don't really make sense with our current understanding of physics. Also we can directly observe some really weird states of matter like bose einstein condensates, so I don't think this is ridiculous.

[-] lung@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My mang if giant atoms exist then we are definitely the empty space between them, part of a large X-dimensional furry

[-] Talaraine@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago

With the number of 'impossible' things I'm seeing each day in the news, this video was met with an optimistic shrug and a bottle of wine before work.

[-] Redex68@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I mean physics is insane in general. XKCD had a video the other day that mentioned that if you had enough light/a strong enough laser, space itself stops being transparent because matter suddenly starts materialising out of nothing and blocks the light.

[-] Aremel@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I watched it last night. I'm still trying to get my head around positive pressure vacuum.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 32 points 1 year ago

Wikipedia says "the inner region has thermodynamically no entropy and may be thought of as a gravitational Bose–Einstein condensate" if that helps

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago

Oh thanks, that clears it up completely.

[-] chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

It helps in that I clearly don't understand what is happening, but at least I can put fancy words with it.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Can you get your head around singularities? Because as much as I do understand, I still don't understand them.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm gonna rephrase that for both of us, I think (hope):
We understand better what it is we don't understand about them.

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

I wonder how old these three people are now ...

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/distracted-boyfriend

The source image was from 2015, and the people appear to be in their mid-20s then, soooo.... about 35 now.

Huh.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's not a person it's a picture

[-] pfm@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 1 year ago

It's not a picture, it's a sequence of bytes

[-] abaddon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's not a sequence of bytes, it's a sequence of bits

[-] hmmm@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Gravastar are sexy but Black hole can suck better.

[-] Kacarott@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

The soundtrack on this video was a banger too

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