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.
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
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.
