Neat - but the clickbait title is garbage, and so I have to downvote. What's wrong with just titling it "Statistical reasons why you could die next week". Ah, there's an intriguing title that makes me want to watch it without any gotcha games.
Because on every other platform, a title like that won't compete with clickbait and ragebait. Its only really here (and to a lesser extent Reddit) where clickbait negatively impacts a video's spread. Until people want to post here specifically, that won't change.
Well luckily, we aren't other platforms.
May I take a moment to say thank you? Many people have downvoted, leaving me wondering why tbh, so I appreciate your forthrightness here.
Also as you say, it is definitely clickbait - e.g. it might, not "will", save someone's life. But primarily if they were dumb enough to drink and then immediately drive while still drunk, or to go swimming in or even walking by the ocean (or other large body of water) while drunk. It also mentions cars in general being dangerous, even when you are not the one primarily at fault for an accident, though "not driving" isn't something that most people could switch to simply "not doing" as soon as the very next week. So yes, it is hyperbolic. Beyond that, its premise is sound that we so often get deluged with the clickbait media that it warps and twists our minds as to what is actually dangerous... but yes it has resorted to using some of the same tricks done by the other side in order to get its messages out to the widest possible audiences.
Also there's that annoying text that gets added by the Lemmy automation, below the video about going to that brilliant.org website whatever it is, I presume an ad for them.
On the other hand, Kurzgesagt is a shining beacon of hope in this world (I know, weird to say, especially about them who are so often accused of making people glum:-) where on the one hand, the President of the USA is telling people to take things like hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin, while on the other Kurzgesagt fights against disinformation and misinformation campaigns with such simple and easy-to-understand videos as this one that is only 11 minutes long and uses video game- or movie-like terminology ("nature dojo vs. vaccine dojo") to explain to someone, both precisely and yet still simply, why the crap coming from the other side is incorrect. It may literally have saved some people's actual, literal lives - e.g. a kid who in defiance of their parents sneaks out to receive a vaccine.
So yeah, I tend to give them a pass to say whatever they need to, if it helps reach a better audience.
But thank you for reminding me that WE are not that audience here - I probably should have edited their title to something more precisely true, except that the content would remain as it is. Which I think has a place, like perhaps being shown in a classroom even - and no, not so much to us but to friends & family members (who don't use Arch btw:-P) who may need to be reached by such messages.
Though my thoughts & preferences do not dictate how it will be received, and again thank you for this discussion - I am glad for it.
this is actually a pretty great one, the title doesn't do it justice.
I kinda thought so:-)
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[42🌻] Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell: This Video Might Save 58 Lives Next Week#Tournesol is an open-source web tool made by a non profit organization, evaluating the overall quality of videos to fight against misinformation and dangerous content.
