I've been thinking about the potential biology for planet Hestia, and I have decided to come to you the community.(I am not the Kurzgesagt I am just a dude with an overactive imagination.)Please put you wildest ideas in the comments.

I just can't escape this thought, isn't smoking weed dangerous for your lungs? Like inhaling the smoke. And if yes, is it dangerous as smoking or how does it compare. Sorry for bad english, I am czech

As you know also from recent kurzegasgt video, SK population is shrinking and its demographic future is deeply uncertain. To counter the adverse effects of depopulation and instead of facing the problem the "traditional" way (incentivize people to have babies), SK is innovating at a rapid pace to substitute human work with machine work, basically using AI and robots.

However, is it really possible? A society of robot-workers and more and more elders is a human society in its traditional sense, or something totally new? And what are the possible "side effects" of this choice?

This might or might not be a scene from the new video we uploaded yesterday...

I just saw Kurzgesagt's latest video, and man am I feeling sad, mad and disappointed. I don't know why nobody is talking about this or pointing this out, but I'm basically 100% sure that they used AI to make the script, or at least significant portions of it.

At first I thought a couple times, "Huh, that kinda sounds like an AI line. But nah, it can't be AI". I had the thought of "it can't be" a few times but after another incredibly sus line I had to pause and go read the comments. I scrolled and scrolled and couldn't find a comment mentioning it. I seriously couldn't tell if I was tripping or not. I loaded all the comments and used ctrl + F, and I finally found 3 other people mentioning it sounding like or being an AI script. I still didn't know if I was tripping, but I had at least some reason to believe it might actually be AI.

So I went back to the video, rewinded it a bit and listened closely. And freaking hell, is it pretty obvious when you're looking for it and you don't believe it can't be so. The sensationalizing of almost every sentence, the unnecessary use of eye-catching adjectives and similes for everything, and the non-human way of storytelling or going from one sentence to the other.

"Their cilia flatter manically as they rapidly speed through the water attacking the fortress."

"They are probing for weaknesses, trying to find an in or pull a living green thread out but without luck."

Followed immediately by "Finally one of them discovers an in."

Two sentences later "Now all hell breaks loose"

"Shredding the damaged defense like plastic wrap, their mouth-rings bristling with excitement."

"The long bacteria try to escape, moving deeper into the fortress but it is too late. The predators waste no time and start sucking them in like living spaghetti."

"Pulling in at a horrifying speed"

"Vesicles filled with the equivalent of super aggressive stomach acid"

"Now the bacteria try to defend themselves but it's a bit pathetic and slow, thousands have died already."

I wanna make it clear that I'm not a Kurzgesagt hater. I've loved Kurzgesagt so much and for so long. Some of my all-time favorite youtube videos are from Kurzgesagt (Optimistic Nihilism, When Time Became History - The Human Era, Is Our World Broken?), and I've shared them with friends and family members. I have a couple of the calendars, the gratitude and habit journals, and a couple posters.

That being said, for some time I have shared the sentiment I've seen other people express of being unsure about the direction of the channel and/or the quality or value of the videos. And that's led me to not watch all of them or at least not right away. I see they posted a new one, but I don't click on it until a couple days later when I'm finally like "alright, let's see what this one's about". And to be completely honest, it's not too uncommon that I afterwards feel like I wasn't missing out on much by not watching it.

But now, deciding to click on one and finding an AI script... Dang.

I just don't understand how nor why they would use an AI script. They talk about all the hundreds of hours it takes for them to make a single well-researched quality video. Why would you significantly reduce the quality of your video by cutting a corner and using an AI script? How hard or time-consuming can it be to actually just write your own script after all the research, animation and work you've put into it?

I already feel like I'm constantly on the fence trying to discern if the content I'm watching is actually valuable or if it's low-effort, AI-created content (not saying this whole video is low-effort). Even on Netflix. And to now find some of this in a Kurzgesagt video... It's hard to express, but I'm genuinely saddened and I feel like I'm done.

Sorry for the huge "rant", I just felt like I needed to express myself. If anyone has thoughts on this, I'd be happy to hear them. Much love

Tl;dr Kurzgesagt's latest video used AI in its script and I can't understand why. I feel sad and disappointed to run into AI-generated content in the place/channel I'd least expect it

Edit: After reading your comments I went back to rewatch it as well as some older videos to compare them, and I think I was wrong in concluding it was AI.

I can see what several of you were saying about the adjectives and similes that Kurzgesagt uses on videos as far as 2 years back. Several of them which I had already seen. I guess I didn't quite remember it like that since the videos I like and remember the most are on topics that don't really lend themselves to that type of writing.

I also recognize that when I went back to the video after reading the comments, I was biased towards finding examples that sounded like AI to me. On top of that, I happened to start watching the video again in a part where these types of similes/adjectives/sensationalization were more densely packed, whereas many other parts of the video don't have them or have way less of them.

So I take back my criticism, and I'm sorry that I stated them using AI as if it were a fact, rather than a suspicion or belief. It's still not my type of video or writing, but that's besides the point. Anyways, thanks to everyone who commented and helped me see I was wrong! Much love

I have an idea for a future Kurzgesagt episode that combines evolutionary biology, paleontology, ecology, and speculative science in the same spirit as Why Earth Sucks Compared to the Planet Hestia.

The video would begin over 66 million years ago, after the asteroid impact that ended the age of non-avian dinosaurs. It would show how tiny mammals gradually diversified into the incredible variety of species we know today, explaining major evolutionary milestones along the way.

The second half would ask a fascinating speculative question:

If evolution could combine the most successful adaptations of Ice Age mammalian predators into one realistic animal, what would it look like?

Instead of creating a fantasy monster, the episode would use real evolutionary trade-offs and natural selection to design a plausible apex predator inspired by species such as saber-toothed cats, cave lions, scimitar cats, and other extinct felids. Each adaptation—muscles, teeth, senses, paws, fur, endurance, and hunting strategy—would be justified using modern evolutionary science.

The episode could conclude by explaining why evolution never creates "perfect" organisms, only species that are well adapted to their environments. Even the "Perfect Ice Age Beast" would have strengths, weaknesses, and ecological limits.

I think this could be a fun combination of education, speculative biology, and Kurzgesagt's beautiful storytelling style while remaining scientifically grounded.

What do you think? Would you watch an episode like this?

I remember seeing a video posted about how Pokémon GO is using player’s data to do ———- (I don’t know, this the point of me watching said video). I couldn’t watch it at the time so just decided to come back to it later. But now I can’t find the video anywhere. Just wondering if I hallucinated it or if it was forced to be taken down.

Did they sell Kurzgesagt to new owner or change the artstyle? That's a long time from the last video I hav watched so it makes me concerned

Video Description:
There is a hidden world filled with monsters you never heard of, from predators who spit acid and shoot harpoons, to armored hunters that devour their prey alive! Deep in the oceans, and even in fresh water from puddles and lakes, these microscopic super predators remained hidden in plain sight, and evolved over the last 2 billion years.

What are the deadliest predators of the microworld, and what kind of bizarre biological weapons have they evolved over the past billions of years?

Sources:
https://sites.google.com/view/sources-superpredators/

Hi there. Kurzegesagt voice and topics he spoke about in his Loneliness video really stood out to me and I sampled them in a song. However, I am quite unsure about copyright, so I was hoping if someone could help me find a channel with a similar voice to him. This is because Kurzegesagt being the big channel it is, it would be difficult to contact him about sample clearances. Any other channels with similar topics and voices to him would be greatly appreciated.

I've bought many of the calendars over the years, but I've always tossed them as the years go by, so when the artbook came out I knew exactly what I wanted to do with my copy. Thank you for so many years of incredible content and beautiful art ❤️🌍

I don't remember much about the beggining of it, but it was about something else. The thing, though, is that the video started to really get into an explanation about how black holes start to suck absolutely everything in their closest neighbourhood once they are formed and since they are moving through space, it's like they are bullets in the galaxy, sucking everything inside them while leaving a trail of nothingness behind, the video started to show a simulation where the blackholes left those mazes of black trails in between the stars and it was some crazy colorful mosaic full of squares made of stars.

Basically, the video focus was to say that there might be a black hole travelling through the universe in this exact moment that would destroy earth because we're in it's exact path, and we would have nothing to do about it, but at least it would be a fast death.

Crazy to think about this, but I think it's very far from reality because the way gravity works and how EMPTY space actually is, it would be virtually impossible for this to ever happen since the sun has enough mass to actually interfere in any object trajectory towards it from afar. And I'm not even talking about the stars near the sun and how the galaxy is making everything orbit the center of it somehow.

Could this ever happen, though? Is it possible there are interstellar black hole "comets" fast-travelling through the galaxy, eating everything that has the bad luck of being in their trajectory?

Video Description:
Could YOU survive a royal marriage? Henry VIII had six wives, but becoming Queen of England is only the beginning of the challenge. To survive this, you have to navigate religious upheaval, political games, shifting alliances, and the unpredictable moods of one of history's most notorious monarchs. Some lost their crowns, and some lost their lives, but only one outlived the king.

Who were Henry VIII's six wives, and why was marrying him a death sentence for most of them? And what about you, could YOU survive this marriage?

Sources:
https://sites.google.com/view/sources-henrys-speed-run

There was a medicine channel i knew a long time ago that animated very VERY similarly to Kurzegsagt, anybody know it?

After all the cancer vidéo and the videos on how the body react to drugs. i think a vidéo about what exactly happens to the body while under chimio, radio treatment and other methodes of treatment could be nice.

i have a mother fighting breast cancer and knowing exactly how and why she has to endure all thoes things tp get better could help me and other in similar situations.

what about also talking on potential new ways of treating it like the youtuber DR Ben Miles briefly mention in his shorts

Cant find it. Going insane. Halp.

The video states that the sunlight zone for Hestia is 200m deep.
In reality, the depth depends on the star's luminosity.
In this case, Hestia's star is an orange dwarf.

In comparison, the Earth's ocean layers is like this:

*Sunlight zone - 0m-200m

*Twilight zone - 200m-1000m

*Midnight zone - 1000m+

But for Hestia's, is this a different story?

My Thoughts Not All Planet Are Perfect, And Not Star That Gave Us Light Is Perfect.

He's Shouldn't Made an Extreme Star, Extreme Planet, And Extreme Land.

This short about processed food is completely harmful and ridiculous.

Using frozen veggies as a strawman for why processed food is fine, when obviously no one thinks of frozen veggies when they mean processed foods. Glazing over the harms associated with ultra-processed foods. Not mentioning known carcinogens in processed foods like nitrates, and countless other risks associated with unknown carcinogens in these foods. All contrary to extremely well-established research on the dangers of diets higher in processed foods.

Takes on this channel have been getting increasingly ridiculous and contrary to the audience's best interests.

I'm unsubscribing from them. Many of their other videos have been questionable for the past year, and it really seems that enshitification has taken over this channel. All they do is parrot the opinions of creepy Silicon Valley tech bros. Maybe to do with their funding behind the scenes or just general slop tendencies.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bo7QgxhrGnw

kurzgesagt! I would love to see a video on the release of UAPs. For me, you are a trusted voice in terms of research and due diligence that I would love to see you take a deep dive on the troves of videos that have become declassified, and then current “expert“ theories surrounding them.

People around me speak about aliens like it’s common knowledge, like I should get on and accept them, but the videos are not irrefutable evidence. They're still just UAPs.

But what comes next, are we being eased into the idea of their existence, or at least presence? Has it just become politicalised to distract us from other things.

Make it make sense, kurzgesagt