The guy who was asking the question was understandably very upset about this and made a video to that effect. Instead of responding to their queries, they denied that there was a problem for a month while working on their own retraction video. Someone pointed out an error in one of their videos and contacted them about it as part of a video he was doing into the flaws of popular science communication. I was pointed to this post which is relevant to the conversation Hopefully this all turns out to be harmless, but until then I think this is something we as a community should keep in the back of our heads. I am obviously concerned about this incident which affects some of my favorite creators, and also wonder what could lead people who I usually experience as very honest to act this secretly. A post on r/Kurzgesagt with 16 upvotes is the biggest thing I could find. If the intention behind this was to keep the whole thing under people’s radar it’s been pretty successful. I think it’s safe to assume that whatever happened everybody involved has agreed to not talk about it. I also asked a creator who is a member of Standard on discord (he’s rather active there, and we’ve talked a good amount) and he didn’t answer. I looked at Twitter, Reddit and official websites and there’s nothing. The really interesting part is that there seems to be no information out there regarding what happened. That’s also about when I remember noticing Kurzgesagt missing from Nebula. Standard is a community of digital creators.Īs a side note, this change appears to have happened between -29, while the last snapshot which includes Kurzgesagt is from. Standard is a community of digital creators, co-founded by Dave Wiskus, CGP Grey, and Philipp Dettmer. As mentioned, their channels are missing from nebula as well as the website ( Wayback Machine, current) The paragraph It looks like CGP Grey and Kurzgesagt have silently left Standard. Standards portfolio is focused on educational content and includes channels like TierZoo, Real Engineering and Minute Physics (and used to include Kurzgesagt and CGP Grey). It’s also the legal body behind Nebula, a payed streaming service “for creators by creators“ which is intended to reduce creators dependency on YouTube. There’s something fishy going on with Standard, the MCN-ish project which was originally founded by CGP Grey, Philipp Dettmer (the founder of Kurzgesagt) and Dave Wiskus (don‘t know much about him, he seems to be behind this and this YouTube channel, but mostly occupied with Standard).
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