#YouTube Philosophy

[ancientroyalblood]

Expanding Horizons: Nourishing the Mind Through Philosophy and the like.

📚✨ Welcome to Expanding Horizons ✨📚 In a world brimming with distractions, finding solace and wisdom within the pages of great philosophical works is a journey worth embarking upon. Here at Expanding Horizons, we invite you to join us on this intellectual odyssey, where the echoes of the world’s greatest thinkers come to life through the spoken word. What is Expanding Horizons? Expanding…

[theabigailthorn]

NEW TOOB TONIGHT

new Philosophy Tube drops tonight!

7pm British time - I'll be in the live chat from 6.30pm, that's in about 90 mins!

let's gooooooo this one is very special haha

[pro-philosopher]

Pro Philosopher 2 has an official release date: October 8th! To celebrate, we've created a new trailer introducing two of our most opinionated characters. Face Karl Marx, and YOUR OWN MOM, when we release this Fall! We've got a lot more information on our page, and a DEMO available, so check it out and be sure to Wishlist if you want further updates! (and so the almighty capitalist algorithm knows you care!)

[deedeedeedeedeedeedee]

Just a reminder to keep "no idols, no heroes, no gods" mentality. I say this in reference to celebrities and youtubers, etc. I've had this mentality from a very young age. I've only had merch from one creator ever and it was a present. Never put your favorite YouTuber or celebrity on a pedestal, do not idolize them, do not worship them. Over the past month on more recently with some YouTubers and celebrities who many people idolized getting called out for horrible behaviors, I've seen so many people who are "disappointed" and "couldn't believe it." YOU can't believe it, I can. You put these people on pedestals and act as if they are less able to commit atrocious acts or say awful things than other bad people you've come into contact with in your life. They aren't, they are just as able, if not moreso. You don't KNOW them. No matter whose content I'm watching or reading, etc, I never once think that because I deeply enjoy their creation or what they are a part of, it eliminates them from the possibility of being morally wrong or ignorant. I'm not mad at people who have this reaction, being heartbroken, but I simply have learned long ago to not become emotionally invested in creators or celebrities. They are just as bad as real people, they are human. When I say they are human, I'm saying they are just as able to do and say horrible things as people in our own lives are. I'm not surprised by or disappointed in certain information that comes out, because well, I didn't idolize them. It's not surprising to me, because to people in those positions, they are selling you a part of their.personaliy. they are not your friend, they are not people worthy of idolization. You can admire their WORK. But unless you know them personally, even then, do NOT idolize them.

[carolofthebell]

My latest obsession:

@rubydianarts animatic of Get in the Water from Epic: the Musical with Hama!

It’s perfection

[morlock-holmes]

Maybe this is appropriate for September, but I watched this joke when it first aired:

And as I approach late middle age I'm struggling to deal with the question not of how I deal with the fact that it happened, but with the fact that it didn't.

You just are never going to convince me that I'm as culturally different from the Zoomers as the baby boomers were from their WWII-era parents, and you aren't going to convince me of it because it is so incredibly, self-evidently untrue.

The reason I say this is appropriate for September is that after the 9/11 attacks some people tried to talk about the cultural death of irony and its replacement by the New Sincerity, which I now take to be an attempt to convince ourselves that the pace of cultural change wasn't slacking, but there was no New Sincerity, and the irony of the 90s continues unabated to this day.

After that Bush II created the disgusting morass of the Iraq war, and people said, "Well, at least we'll get some great protest art and comedy out of this".

I remember Jon Stewart talking about how it was fundamentally unserious to even suggest that the moral horrors of the 00s were worth it because we might get some good comedy out of it, and while that was a good point it kind of overshadowed the fact that, for the most part, the biting satire and artistically vital protest art didn't actually materialize at all.

Now we're trying to gin up this generation gap nonsense and we are on at least the third attempt of my life to cargo cult the moral and artistic vitality of the 60s back into existence.

But man, like, that radio tower is just a stack of bamboo and that headset is made of coconuts.

[notaplaceofhonour]

something I realized looking at the stats for “breadtube” creators like Hbomberguy, PhilosophyTube, ContraPoints, etc. is, as much as we may tend to think of them as all having comparable platforms, it really isn’t even close.

yes, many of the core group have a similar number of subscribers (1-2M) and many of them are friends or have collaborated in the past, but in terms of actual viewership, none of the others even come close to having the same reach as Hbomberguy.

at time of writing, his last video got 24M views. 6 of his last 8 videos got ~10M or more. The average viewership for his essays is ~5.6 million, a number that ContraPoints has cracked a total of four times, Lindsay Ellis and Shaun once each, and PhilosophyTube never.

there isn’t a huge point to this other than that it kinda reframes the scale of their platforms, for me at least. none of them have a platform even remotely comparable in size to hbomberguy.

[waytoobiased]

MOTHER NOTICED ME

[itsbansheebitch]

My Hot Take for the Day

After the James Somerton situation, the SWOOP exposes Johnny Silvestri in the Colleen Ballinger situation, and other videos where youtubers do serious investigative work, I feel like some of these youtubers should be recognized for their efforts.

SWOOP has already been on multiple news outlits for her youtube videos, why don't we give these people more recognition?

I can already name some people that should, I don't know, get an award for investigative journalism or something

Coffeezilla (Specifically regarding his SBF & Save The Kids Crypto scam series)

SWOOP (The Colleen Ballinger series, specifically)

Hbomberguy (For the Plagiarism, Roblox, vaccines, and climate change videos specifically)

Philosophy Tube (specifically for the vaccine video, that was an awesome study)

FriendlyJordies (Got his house fire bombed when he investigated Australia's government & many more people & organizations)

This is a starting list, but please, feel free to add to the list, we need to give these people more recognition!

I don't know the best way to formally recognize youtubers for investigative journalism, but I do know these are some people you should take seriously. Their work is unmatched.

[polar-bears-making-pancakes]

why I haven't seen more people talk about this?

Google very possibly is using youtuber's content to train generative ai. Hank Green did a very interesting video about it:

there's also a survey for youtubers and creators in the description. he is going to use this data in his talks with youtube

what he presents as a solution is simply an option to opt out. because there's an issue with youtube's tos that they interpret in their favour. this happened already with reddit where all the content posted by users is understood as the property of reddit. and they can sell their property to further clients like databases for generative ai

[glendylucast]

Given the chance to break, would you be on your way out? Who are you? Novo Amor - Seneca

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My Call of Duty WW2 OC, Clifford Wildblood.

He was just a little boy back then, stranded far away from home.

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Found a perfect theme song for him

More here

The Death of Seneca (1773) by Jacques-Louis David

No further context for now lol, but one day when we get to his story, you'll find out.

[theabigailthorn]

NEW EPISODE IS HERE!

It's about death, including mass death (Gaza, COVID, climate change) and why we ignore it. And it's a collab with Caitlin Doughty AKA Ask A Mortician!

[pro-philosopher]

WE FINALLY DID IT

We launched our Ace Attorney inspired philosophy debating sim today, and we are SO HYPE TO SHARE THE

MUSICAL TRAILER

with you!

Play the first chapter for free, and don't forget to wishlist! Everything helps when you're supporting a micro indie like us!

AHHHHH WE'RE SO EXCITED!!!!

[kacievvbbbb]

But like hypothetically if I decided to make a series of YouTube video breaking down and rambling about how I think the first year trio encompass the full gradient scale of what it means to be “morally good” and how by the end of the series they have grown exponentially but their moral inner workings are so entrenched in who they are they never needed to change they just became more of who they already were.

Because initially Yuuji wants to save the world in that abstract way all heroes do, Megumi is only interested in saving those he can save and Nobara is only interested in those she wants to save. And all these are treated as morally valid by the narrative and not really flaws in need of changing but instead philosophies in need of refining and understanding.

Because Jujutsu Society as a whole encourages and thrives off a moral apathy or superiority, they are in the business of killing curses not saving lives and that ultimately raises the question of if you’re going out there everyday killing curses and inadvertently saving lives does it really matter the reason why? Or the morality behind it? Maybe not to you but to the society, maybe.

So anyway, hypothetically ….would you be hypothetically interested👀

[createimpact3p0]

A wonderful video including the great masters Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.

[geopsych]

Getting a little corny on this weekend that is sacred to some people, here is a song, introduced to me by someone of indigenous ancestry, that captures some of what I feel as I take the pictures and videos I post here.