There is a direct correlation between how intricate a “breadtubers” set is, and how much substance the video has. The more involved and theatrical Philosphy Tube got, the more shit the videos became.
Or I guess there’s a sweetspot because the Jordan Peterson one was pretty good as far as I remember it.
Jordan Peterson is really easy to critique though, like babies first philosophy 101 class easy to critique. The fact that he became popular and was taken seriously is a whole indictment of the state of popular philosophy. Like, for god’s sake, popular philosophy was in a better state when the existentials were at the helm, which is saying something since the existentialists were pretty shit most of the time.
He isn’t even a philospher, right? isn’t he a psychologist? and a jungian one at that lol, uhhh yeah my shadow self is why I’m depressed, gotta go read the hero with a thousand faces to figure out why my childhood wasn’t good.
I’d rather just someone talk and occasionally pop explanatory graphics on screen. Not a fan of theatricality
Yeah, I don’t mind the theatricality, but I don’t watch videos explaining philosophy for the costumes, I watch it for the philosophy and these people seem to think it’s otherwise. And then they don’t put any effort into the actual content and then I stop watching even though they got a kickass poseidon costume.
yeah I find philosophy tube hard to watch. the host got things wrong sometimes but it wasn’t that. it was too much theatrical nonsense every video
