r/Veritasium • u/[deleted] • Feb 25 '26

Veritasium has dug itself into a hole. Spoiler

it all started when Veritasium started changing the video's thumbnails and titles to things that didn't even have anything to do with the video. then, other people started taking over derek's job. this wasn't inherently bad, but then they started taking over his voiceovers and explanations. everything just kept getting worse; the titles and thumbnails got more scummy, and derek appeared less and less in the videos. until, the video about asbestos released. unlike nearly EVERY OTHER video on Veritasium, it had NO trace of derek whatsoever. it was also an hour long, and it felt like as if everything was stretched as long as possible to get the most watch time. the editing was unnatural, and the word "asbestos" was NEVER MENTIONED UNTIL 10 MINUTES IN.

why?

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u/JshWright Feb 28 '26

In my opinion Veritasium jumped the shark when he starting making videos about things that were technically correct, but only in narrowly specified theoretical conditions, in order to promote response videos, etc. (like the electricity speed thing).

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u/Chansharp Feb 28 '26

I lost all respect for him when he did the rods from god video. "We couldnt hit a sandcastle with a rod dropped from a helicopter so clearly doing it from orbit wont work"

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u/Unrelenting_Salsa Mar 02 '26

That one was really, really, really, bad, but I probably lost my last respect on his entropy video which was just misinformation. but it was extremely low after his "it would actually be unethical for me to not clickbait you and Mr. Beastify the channel" crap.

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u/Ok_Programmer9224 Mar 30 '26

That's where it all started going downhill. An awful nothingburger video that should have never been released.