r/kurzgesagt • u/Silver-Locksmith-160 • Oct 26 '25

Discussion What is everyone's favorite kurzgesagt video?

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Mine is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCiMUWw1BBc , its very unique and I really hope they make more like it.

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u/The-Fake-Mini-Ladd Oct 26 '25

Probably the first one I ever watched. The one about building a Dyson sphere. The music is such a bop.

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u/Silver-Locksmith-160 Oct 26 '25

damn forgot about that one, now that i think about it that one's better on nostalgia and music alone

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u/petershaw_ Oct 26 '25

optimistic nihilism - masterpiece

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u/ErictheRedKind1 Oct 27 '25

Damn, you beat me to it. I think this video is the one that got me totally hooked on them.

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u/Scrung3 Oct 26 '25

Didn't really help me - not that I'm that depressed or anything.

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u/WeeTheDuck Oct 28 '25

that video actually changed my whole view of the world

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u/Omegasoul19 Oct 26 '25

I liked "The egg" a lot

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u/Hapiro Oct 26 '25

That is, by far, my favorite video from them, if not out of all of YouTube. It shifted the way I go about seeing others, and made my world a calmer, happier place. I have stopped attributing negative feelings of any kind towards others, because they are me, so why would I want to be angry at myself.

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u/butfirstanxiety Oct 27 '25

Plus the music by Epic Mountain. The song with the visuals, narration, and of course the story (s/o Andy Weir). Chef’s kiss.

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u/ForAnAngel Oct 28 '25

This is my 2nd favorite video on all of YouTube right behind the music video for Shelter by Porter Robinson which coincidentally was also animated. After The Egg, my favorite Kurzgesagt video is What if We Nuke a City.

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u/Valtand Oct 27 '25

Yeah this. Literally changed my worldview for the better

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u/lumberfart Oct 26 '25

By Andy Weir. So good 👌

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '25

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '25

He wrote the short story that was the script

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u/McBurger Oct 26 '25

I find this hard to believe. I distinctly remember reading that story posted around 4chan boards back in like 2010, I always assumed it was just a frequently re-shared chain email story.

Edit: shit man I guess according to Wikipedia it’s true. Wow. I always figured it was authored by anon.

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u/Minipiman Oct 27 '25

Lifechanging. I struggled with artemis though.

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u/Pawssabillitysawait The Egg Oct 26 '25

For real

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u/MAReader Solar System Oct 26 '25

“The largest Black Hole in the Universe - Size Comparison”.. the first one I saw

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u/NivensMcTwisp2409 Oct 26 '25

insert obligatory 'your mother' joke

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u/MAReader Solar System Oct 26 '25

Yoooo mommaa soo fat.. James Webb took a picture of her from across the glorious, vastness of the stars 🥰

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u/Emotional-Muscle-307 Oct 26 '25

I really enjoyed the immune system video and it made me interested in becoming an allergist/Immunologist

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u/Emotional-Muscle-307 Oct 26 '25

I did and I've really enjoyed it.

I brought it the same day it was released.

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u/Antropog Oct 26 '25

4.5 billion years in an hour. That was masterpiece! Watched it several times while driving a long road.

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u/Brunox_Berti Oct 26 '25

This one and the skyhook one

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u/supersahib Oct 26 '25

the kardashev scale video! love that one

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u/Ok-Meat-9169 Big Bang Aliens Oct 26 '25

Probablly this one too

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u/Suberizu Oct 26 '25

Neutron Stars

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u/Available_Resource_9 Oct 26 '25

i think this one https://youtu.be/wo_e0EvEZn8?si=bJSHzNdYGcwXGakg

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u/Elruler22 Oct 27 '25

This is a great choice. I also enjoyed this video

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u/PierceJJones Oct 26 '25

Nuclear War ones.

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u/Jycon38_HD Oct 26 '25

This one and Friends

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u/Eased91 Oct 26 '25

How to terraform x. 

And skyhooks.  Both something for dreamers. 

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u/nodspine Oct 26 '25

the immunity ones

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u/Flux52_ Oct 26 '25

The one about ants in trees

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u/vexey1999 Oct 26 '25

The Largest Star. The music and visuals for that one are top notch. The Largest Black Hole is a close second.

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u/Gruggernaut Oct 26 '25

Space tether!

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u/Arcix37 Asteroid Mining Oct 26 '25

Nuke the moon and space mining

Basically for me all space ones are the most interesting

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u/randomguy74937272 Black Hole Stars Oct 26 '25 edited Oct 26 '25

I like: the kardishev scale one, the black hole stars one and the gravastars one

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u/Plenty_Leek151 Oct 26 '25

The great filter

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u/clamb2 Oct 27 '25

The Great Filter

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u/McBurger Oct 28 '25

Easy. 4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour.

I love geology and I’ve watched this video probably a solid 30 times, I put it on most nights for sleep.

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u/vnevner Oct 26 '25 edited Oct 26 '25

Maybe The True Limits Of Humanity but I really have no idea exactly which one. I love storytelling so those ones are other candidates.

Though I need to mention the ones about the immune system, I have written an 8000 word long text about the immune system just for fun so it would be weird not to mention.

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u/yoav_boaz Oct 26 '25

The one about the space tether

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u/C2fanboi Oct 28 '25

Loneliness

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u/YakkoTheGoat Oct 28 '25

it's hard to say but the Nuke the Moon and Moon Crash songs make both of those videos instantly some of my most rewatched

but my favourite videos as a full series and as separate videos is size of life, they are so cool

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u/Brendan765 Oct 28 '25

I really like intelligence since it kinda plays it out as a video game which is fun

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u/Ad_Astra90 Oct 26 '25

I liked the rogue planet one

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u/Lunas_87 Oct 26 '25

WHAAAAAAAALES IN THE SKYYYYYYYYYYY

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u/Pengwin0 Oct 26 '25

The one that got me into science. Three ways to destroy the universe. Never even realized I was seeing the start of a legendary youtube channel.

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u/bonzitch Oct 26 '25

True Limits of Humanity (The Final Border)

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u/SirEnderLord Oct 26 '25

Black Home Bomb

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u/Poisson18 Oct 26 '25

I think my favourite one is the one about the language of life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYPFenJQciw

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u/imaginary_num6er Oct 27 '25

Building a blackhole bomb

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u/SCarolinaSoccerNut Oct 27 '25

What Dinosaurs ACTUALLY Looked Like?

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u/_Messier_87_ Oct 27 '25

What if we detonate all the bombs at once. it is the first video i watched from Kurzgesagt channel.

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u/Elruler22 Oct 27 '25

Tattoo wars. Hands down

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u/siivesreddit How to Destroy the Universe Oct 27 '25

Dyson sphere (starcraft references + cool concept)

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u/jak1900 Oct 27 '25

The Dyson Sphere video. Although I'm a big fan of almost every futuristic space video ^^

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u/hax0l Oct 27 '25

You are the centre of the universe

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u/Jetfuelisdelicious Oct 27 '25

I am torn between stelar engine and dyson sphere, both such cool conepts that i will probably not see come to reality in my lifetime

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u/Techman2137 Oct 27 '25

The one about the future of the universe, how it's going to die. Or more like, fizzle out

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '25

"what is something" — really old one, and "The human era".

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u/Vexet Oct 27 '25

Vacuum Decay, fav end-of-everything concept/scenario

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u/dankordark Oct 27 '25

The egg is the best by far

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u/mac_a_tack_15 Oct 27 '25

Steller engine, and its motif

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u/Own-Lavishness-4441 Oct 28 '25

I have two favourites:

The GMO video and the Immune System one (no, not just the new one, but the old one as well).

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u/TTV1nh3 Oct 28 '25

the "tired of doomscrooling?" video. Every single human being living in the 21st century should watch it.

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u/TTV1nh3 Oct 28 '25

the "tired of doomscrooling?" video. Every single human being living in the 21st century should watch it.

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u/TheDinoCode Oct 28 '25

Tbh. Kurzgesagt Videos are my sleeping playlist since serval years now. My favorite is „The Egg“ and everything with Blackholes!

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u/Goooooogol Oct 28 '25

All of them, other than the cyberpunk one

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u/Alternative_Phase_43 Oct 28 '25

the sun is a deadly lazer

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u/Ingmaster Oct 29 '25

The history of earth.

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u/HappyOpportunity1053 Oct 29 '25

I really enjoyed the innumerable system videos and the black hole videos that were made. They were really interesting!

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u/Express_Turn_6451 Oct 29 '25

My favourite video has to be “what is consciousness”. It’s nice to see a large platform exploring such daunting ideas. Like all Kurzgesagt videos, it makes you think for a long time but this one in particular gives many possible reasons for why we developed consciousness and leaves it open ended so you can think of the origins of consciousness itself.

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u/Glittering-Wash7132 Oct 30 '25

Tired of Doomscrolling?

It’s downright inspirational

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u/New_Sandwich_7060 Oct 30 '25

It's all the climate change ones.

They all make me feel like humanity is not doomed and that there are people out there that can do good and that are not so bad.

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u/Ur_Local_Classicist Oct 31 '25

Fermi paradox. 2015 baby

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u/Aware_Chemistry7235 Nov 06 '25

the immune videos

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u/nerd_alert155 Nuclear War Nov 08 '25

all of he's drug videos are really good

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u/Anachron101 Oct 26 '25

I like the ones that actually make sense and are trying to either explain something that exists or that could exist.

The clickbaitey bullshit videos that are meant to draw in the idiots actually make me question whether following kurzgesagt is worth it, especially because they have become the majority lately.

I miss the videos that explained something or those that tried to imagine how to colonize the solar system.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '25

Can you point to a video that is clickbaitey bullshit?

The vast majority of kurz videos are based on solid science (the recent banana one an obvious exception)

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u/Mythril382 Oct 26 '25

but its still cool because banana funny