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Kurzgesagt gets funding from the German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF. Their financing model is a little weird but they are in practice state media. German liberals love to claim that they’re not state media as their money doesn’t come from the government but a separate household broadcasting fee.
In looking that up I found mostly German media articles referencing the partnership (it looks like it’s primarily to support the production of German language content). There’s also a bunch of far-right German libertarian type conspiracy blogs raving about how these videos are all lies.
Empanada (regardless of what we think of him) has also done some great responses to them. I stopped paying attention to them a while ago without the need for anyone’s input. Their videos are off-putting. Their videos are all lies cleverly developed to confuse and convince people who haven’t seen the big picture yet.
That’s the point. Without a grasp of social theory you will only engage with the video thesis, “why am I lonely” and take their words and cutesy pictures at face value without being able to root the thesis into it’s broader social context. Without a grasp of social theory you can be lied to and persuaded in any direction. That’s what these videos are designed to do.
Kurzgesagt gets funding from the German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF. Their financing model is a little weird but they are in practice state media. German liberals love to claim that they’re not state media as their money doesn’t come from the government but a separate household broadcasting fee.
In looking that up I found mostly German media articles referencing the partnership (it looks like it’s primarily to support the production of German language content). There’s also a bunch of far-right German libertarian type conspiracy blogs raving about how these videos are all lies.
Empanada (regardless of what we think of him) has also done some great responses to them. I stopped paying attention to them a while ago without the need for anyone’s input. Their videos are off-putting. Their videos are all lies cleverly developed to confuse and convince people who haven’t seen the big picture yet.
That’s the point. Without a grasp of social theory you will only engage with the video thesis, “why am I lonely” and take their words and cutesy pictures at face value without being able to root the thesis into it’s broader social context. Without a grasp of social theory you can be lied to and persuaded in any direction. That’s what these videos are designed to do.
Thanks, that was probably what I was thinking of