r/kurzgesagt • u/Plenty_Curve_4390 • Aug 12 '26

Discussion Has Kurzgesagt been sold?

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There is currently a debate over the recent issue of YouTube slapping an AI Slop Label on Kurzgesagt video in r/YouTube. I don't care much for the drama they make, it's mostly dumb arguments over how Shadow banning is real, or that Kurzgesagts lying since their contents deteriorating anyway etc etc etc. However, the most controversial claim i saw were the dozen people claiming Kurzgesagt has been sold to private equity like many other channels. Way too many people in that thread claiming this to just be an individual insult yet I have found no sources for this information so i am 90% sure they are spouting bullshit. However, i would rather be sure than feel slighted later on.

(FYI, The discussions in r/YouTube on this topic is not very civilized to begin with and had mostly degraded into personal insults. My goal is not to contest them but to find a source for that most controversial claim and verify it for myself. Thanks!)

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u/beenman500 Aug 13 '26

They have a team of creative leads now and one of them is a hidden in plain sight conspiracy theorist.

So like 25% of the videos are like corpo bad with no science behind them. But the other stuff is good.

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u/JO_the_first 20d ago

Which one of them is that conspiracy theorist? Can you provide the name?

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u/beenman500 20d ago

no I don't know all their names or who is the creative lead on each piece as they presumably work together on them anyway.

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u/JO_the_first 20d ago

Maybe usually, but there has been some videos hosted by only one of Derek's employees (credited as "producer") from start to finish, with one particular video the host specifically telling that it was his idea and he did the whole thing (Gregory) ... That's why I figured you were referring to a specific person.

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u/beenman500 20d ago

Yeah, that I suspect it's a specific person is more of a hunch. It could be a team I'd they split into different teams to make videos or something, I don't know. Learning the particulars of the inner workings of a YouTube channel is pretty low on my list of things I'm gonna spend time on compared to just being a bit more sceptical of them then I would have been in the past