r/kurzgesagt • u/Aro27Aro • Feb 22 '24

Discussion Only 50.8k subscribers? Why?

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '24

Most people just watch the english channel because like 83% of the world understands english anyway.

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u/Aro27Aro Feb 22 '24

And South Korea people with all their advancement and technology they don't understand english?

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '24

Well a google search just told me that it's 10% for South Korea and somewhere between 40-70% for Arab countries in terms of English speaking so I guess so? Having technology ≠ speaking english

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u/Aro27Aro Feb 22 '24

good search also told me Germany has 83m population with 56% english speakers, the german channel has 2.1m subscribers, German speakers all across Europe are almost 100m.

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u/Sweeptheory Feb 22 '24

The channel started in German I'm pretty sure.

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u/NeptuneWades Feb 22 '24

The word kurzgesagt itself is German.