I wrote before how the popular Veritasium YouTube channel has in later years started to suffer from what I call the "Numberphile syndrome". In other words, an immensely popular channel with millions of subscribers and millions of views per video, which for many years was very interesting and published very interesting didactic videos, has in later years started producing videos that are longer and longer, more and more tedious, and containing way too much irrelevant detail and minutia, with explanations that are needlessly long and boring for things that wouldn't really have to be.
His latest video, as of writing this, is no exception to that:
(What a boring and unusual thumbnail for his channel. Although I'm sure that he will change it in the next days to something else entirely. Probably several times, as he always does. The title might also be changed, like he also most of the time does.)
The video is almost 40 minutes long. For a subject matter that could very well be explained in 5 minutes. I'm not exaggerating. If he wanted to go a bit into the history of that chart, and how it has been used and so on, then a 10-minute video would perfectly suffice. 15 minutes at the very most.
40 minutes is definitely needlessly long. And, indeed, once again the explanations go into completely needless detail, are repetitive, long-winded, plodding, mostly useless.
It's just boring to watch. Seriously.
(No, I didn't get to the point where the meaning of the graph was finally explained. I couldn't be bothered. It's buried in there somewhere in the 40 minutes of unnecessary detail. I just stopped watching. Meh.)
Well, I suppose it doesn't matter. He's still getting over a million views in just 13 hours. Probably going to raise to 5-10 million views in the next few days, like all of his videos still do.
(I don't know how YouTube counts views. Does it increase the view count even if someone just watches the first minute and then stops? I have no idea. I would suspect that it does, and the millions of views might in large part consist of those.)
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