One the big issues he no longer narrate any if his video to the end maybe he do the set up and definitely the sponsorship but not the rest he get an other guy who we don't know.

When people like that get sponsored it honestly just makes me dislike the sponsor. Like, magic spoon? Really? Definitely not getting that now.

There's a point when he's content down graded, For me it's when he blonde he's hair.

Especially when he said how unpredictable crypto was and then shilled a coin... Like, we see what you just did.

Wait what drama what happened I just ran onto this

I blame the audience too He was telling everyone money corrupts you

​@@RONPEE-STINGER Power doesn't corrupt, it reveals character

@@d_1877 i said money corupts ppl

👁️👁️ .RAEN SI DNE

@@RONPEE-STINGER 👁️👁️ .RAEN SI DNE

Now that would be cool

Don't give him any ideas

That would be so easy i wouldn't be surprised if he does that soon

Seriously there are already Ai sites that offer this service. I wouldn't be surprised if his voice switches back over but at the same time, he wouldn't have to pay for it, if he's filtering in new views and subscribers of his successful channel that don't care. The goal is to make as much money and spend as little as possible I would assume.

@@willywakka7830 ai voice has improved but it is still not nearly as good as real one

no, the sponsorships are supposed to be jokes

​@@yeetboi268is this a joke

Not really lol, jake always had the same ambitions and always strived towards his goal since the beginning. Nothing changed

It sounds like he was pretty open about it from the start, to be honest.

But he was so Open about it, why was it a surprise?

@@neuemilch8318 he was so blatantly open that it sounded like satire

from a guy called the beta male, sounds about right lolololol

@@neuemilch8318 Consider; you're talkin' to US Americans. They are ... different.

@@DaroriDerEinzige True, I am still impressed by this naivety

It has been a thing since forever, even "pioneers" like Jobs and Gates fit into that saying

👁️👁️ .RAEN SI DNE

Shhhh. That's how I learned social skills...

Most people are lazy and useless. It’s easy to entertain

Not social media. Capitalism

Nah you people made him famous just like you people allowed this world to burn, others will follow in his footsteps and you people have learned nothing.

Selling your soul is not a positive trait

He obviously didn't care what it made him look like, being the hero was never part of his plan. I'm actually willing to bet that the reason he came up with the exposing the evils of rich people niche was because he studied this in his spare time because it's what he aspired to. Nobody reads Machiavelli to learn what not to do, people that care about morals already know not to do those things.

But these people spend big so when his views drop he ends up broke and depressed

Are you trying to blame his subs for his actions? A bit ridiculous lol@@stackedgaminginc

what does he know? he’s not in the circles he claims to be exposing so how do we know he’s telling the truth?

Even if it's only a drop in the bucket, it's still important. The more people who do that, the more of an impact it makes. After all, what is the ocean but a collection of raindrops? Incidentally, I also unsubbed him - though in my case, it was back when he first started hawking scams.

Me too. You can only control your own behavior, not the behavior of others.

I did so and tought it was pointless... But y'all are right

i was gonna sub to him but then he started to promote the same things that he talked about his video

same thing i did. i also had to do the same with Disrupt recently. i hate it.

"I play both sides so I always come out on top"

@@KovoriaTheConquerer "how long do u think can you play both sides before your house of cards comes tumbling down?"

His entire life were scams

He doesnt scam though, people are just hating on this man and saying he scams, and about that message when he said what do you expect from someone who teaches you to be evil this guy skipped the whole explanation he put after. You dont have to buy what is promoted, if you like it you buy. He is not scamming nobody, people want it they use their monney and they get it, and the content is good so they keep watching. There is nothing more to it. This just amounts to him being attacked because people are mad he is making good monney from his strategy of sponsering certain companies, its not like hes doing what the people in his vids do.

@@godlyking2200 how very naive of you, lol.

he doesn't want to expose them, he wants exposure to them.

@Baxi I don't care if he's successful or not, his videos were always very low effort and presented you with nothing new beyond what you could read in any tabloid article. He can sit in Bali and pose with models and drive fast vroom vrooms, it doesn't change that the content was always shit and that's he's a cringelord. If you watch this garbage you have already lost either way.

It's funny that he made a career exposing these corporations despite all of the info is available to the public kinda shows how lazy a lot of people have become when it comes to research. I don't want to sound like a boomer, but people nowadays don't think for themselves and because the education system is so fucked they *need* to rely on people who have more free time and energy to do all of that type of research. In a world were people, especially Americans, are sick and tired of being exploited by billionaires who take advantage of the system, they do nothing to stop it nor try to fix it because they feel that no matter how hard they try, they're efforts are gonna get fucked over by the next guy and the cycle never ends. Jake Tran knows this. He knows his fanbase are gullible. He knows they're easy to get swayed to his side. And as a result, he exploited them by giving them shitty apps that 'supposedly' gives people tips on how to make money fast. By going after shady corporations, he's learning how to be shady himself. He's not Edward Snowden. He's not even a renown journalist. He's a manipulative piece of shit who goes after vulnerable people thinking he's on their side, but in reality all Jake will ever see them as is a quick paycheck.

@Baxi try hard edgelord.

@Baxi Evil only wins when good men do nothing. When we fucking hanged people in town square, we didn't have ANYWHERE NEAR the problems we have now. How many scammers or corruption do you think would plague the world right now, if they knew they'd hang for it.

You'd think so

@@Tardvark Yeah, that's kinda my point. It's probably the best place for these kinda scammy ads. Right after the video explaining them. He still gets paid, but people are less likely to get scammed.

Exactly what I've been saying if you are dumb enough to fall for those types of scams you deserve to get scammed

Gullable people will probably assume that what he's promoting is safe since he called out the bad stuff. I mean it's all the same garbage but I can kind of see naive people falling for it.

@@javier4741speaking of stupidity, your opinion is stupid. There is a scam for everyone, and there are more scams for people who think they can't be scammed. Victim blaming is scummy behavior, and it's often perpetrated by the guilty.

Activision Blizzard Tran xD

Yep, I enjoyed his documentaries when he narrated them, some were quite interesting. Though always skipped past the ads/sponsor segments. And as soon as he stopped narrating, and he got other people to basically do it for him. It became generic, overly dramatised, repeat snippets several times, American documentary style that just instantly turns me off and unsubbed. And saw what he was doing too, built up his rep, let other people do it in his place while he reaps the rewards.

Babish

Annndd what’s the issue? Work hard and real Th benefits later. Y’all are just jelly

@@madpad4397 We're all seeking meaning rather than addiction, and don't want to support addictive practices. If you don't get what I'm saying by this, then there's no point discussing it.

Correct. Everyone is susceptible to a degree of Dunning Kruger driven denial. Check and balance is a must.

it's not knowledge of your bias that makes you less susceptible, it's having a bias that you only have because of ignorance.

@@NelsonStJames You don't have bias because of ignorance. Bias is part of our brain's hardware. It doesn't depend on what you do or don't know.

Knowing of your bias helps against bias but never completely stops it

@@kringle7804 Just "knowing" about bias doesn't dispel it. You can make an active effort to fight against it, which can somewhat help. But, in the end, that effort will inevitably have its own bias attached to it.

I’m well into Moon as well, does some good pieces. He’s got a crime channel as well now

Yes, the two channels are quite similar.

He's gonna turn into boogie.

I don't think he's forgotten, and if he's as smart as he seems to be, he's probably already secured enough assets that if the youtube thing were to fold tomorrow he'd still be better off than the majority of people criticizing him for the rest of his life.

@@NelsonStJames This. He's milked the hell out of any and all sponsors and already checked out enough money to not care about the fallout (if any at all). At this point it's a cash cow; and he'll just keep running it that way because, honestly, it's working for him.

@@MrInsiipid that’s like saying things are working for a heroin addict who’s always able to get his fix. I’m positive guy is just like everyone else, trying to fill a void with money. And he’ll learn just like everyone else that it doesn’t work. I don’t get why people think making money actually makes you happy, because from my perspective that’s what this comment looks like. Scamming, harming, doing people wrong, it always catches up with you. In some way or another. He might not care now, but some day he will. The universe works that way.

@@jackson.6282 Does it now?

Does the channel owner tell you they want to make a video on a certain topic, and you have to do all the research and then write a script? Or do they come in with the research in hand?

@@lordtette depends from channel to channel. Most of them just give a topic and a vague indication of the type of theme or key points they want to make, then I go off and do all the research.

@@rugbyf0rlife Do you work with Simon Whistler and his small army of channels? Do some channels request specific writers?

@@shaness112233 lmao! I was gonna ask the same question!!

This is why on the channels I actually watch and enjoy I give props to the host's researchers also.

for real he's a fake useless human and needs to lose everything and these companies need to come after him for fraud as he's openly defrauding them

Hes not forcing you to watch

@@TstrangeO I’m not watching, lol. I’m giving my opinion on the situation, which I’m fully entitled to do.

@Spookylilgirl Horrid things, like showing 5 second ads for lotteries? Your bar for "horrid" is extremely low. He turned his channel into business. There is nothing admirable about it, but nothing inherently evil either

Tru. These mfers makim him look like he's some kind of mass murdered lmao

Tran-ies are known to brigade and harass anyone that calls them out

Not defending him but I don’t think he’s ever took a moral high ground … the whole purpose of his content is to be aware or use to your advantage

@@vontai4553 he's stupid tho by revealing his hands too early

@@ridhosamudro2199 honestly him getting exposed I don’t think most care or we’re even suprised I’d never buy anything from him …I think ppl only dislike him now is because he doesn’t voice his own videos and those narrating the videos copy directly from sources like Wikipedia

​@@vontai4553 Being honest about being scummy does not absolve you of you criticism. It means you're not a hypocrite, it means no one should "expect" anything different, but that's not the argument being made. If someone you know is an asshole suddenly punched you in the face you wouldn't go "meh, it's on brand for him" and walk away.

Most of his viewers are aware of what he's doing but you're spot on, they don't care. I've never engaged with a sponsorship shown to me in a video, and frankly if you're stupid enough to fall for a "risk free lottery" we shouldn't call the scammer a criminal, we should call him a teacher.

Yeah, people are on youtube mostly to get entertained. Most didn't care anything else. And this is not like he was stealing other people videos. He just turned his youtube channel into his own business with his own workers and money come in when he only have to do the minimum. In a way, this is not that different from big company doing videos...

@@bobbobber4810 yeah I really thought Kira's predicted next step was for it to become like a watch mojo or something, but tbh it already is that just not out in the open about it.

I wonder how many of us old viewers un-subbed so far? Once he started advertising crypto everything went down hill.

@@thorogood473, presumably as many as there are new subs, if two join for every one that leaves. :P J/k, but i'm assuming a lot. I think he had reached a lot of people who are interested in these EviL CoRpOrATiON exposés out of ethical curiosity for what the underreported happenings are on that scale of business. Most of those probably feel abandoned once they see those same approaches being used on them. There's still other channels, like Moon for instance, which cater to the same curiosity (and using a lot of the same marketing approaches), but without the exploitative ads (at least with none of those just yet). I am curious to see how this stuff develops, but i'll be watching from afar. :>

@@scum-scum I think the if another Jake tran-like channel comes along it will be his undoing.

Weirded out? It's funny. I don't understand why people are complaining about Jake, the sponsorships are clearly jokes.

@@yeetboi268pretty bad and unfunny jokes if your promoting shit to the same people you are "educating" for personal gain. Its a "red water ocean" by him "shit talking" other cereal but then promoting his own, he has become a shark who kills other sharks.

Duh, we are supposed to laugh at the cereal company for approving the promotion. You simpleton just don't get it.@@johioju5990

@@johioju5990 and thats funny in a twisted way

Evil company doesnt mean bad product i guess? Idk i stoped watching him years ago

Ditto. I wasn't a Jake everyday person, so I was late to the party. Saw the NFT video and dipped out, laughing to myself at the balls on him.

This is the exact moment I decided never to watch his stuff again. He had some interesting videos he also always had some sketchy ads but after this I thought “yup not watching anymore of his bs” and haven’t watched anything of his since.

Which video is this?

@@BriannaWinebarger I think the name was "Evil business of NFTs"

I’m supposed to feel bad for the people who got scammed like that? I get it, it’s wrong and all, but if it’s that easy to scam you then I can’t help but think that’s a you problem.

Never trust guys dyeing their hair with flashy colors.

@@cendrieeR what about dantdm long ago? Edit: Oh wait...

True! never trust people who preach and modify/hide parts of their body, look at Jim Jones reference.

😂😂😂

@@Wroar2020s what did he do?

Just take what you want from the video and discard the rest. It's free content in the first place

Better Help ads is how I tell which content creators are tw@ts that only care about money

interesting, i watch double toasted a lot and they push better help a lot, youtube is a scamland, i never fell for any of it, but i had no idea ppl would be so blatant about it with such big channels.

I stopped watching because I always thought he had a punchable voice.

NO qualified professionals??? My mom is a doctor of psychology and works w them so thats at least 1

This is a perfect example of when outrage spins out of control. At some point (ca. 2016) their terms of service allegedly read: “we do not control the quality of the Counselor Services and we do not determine whether any Counselor is qualified to provide any specific service as well as whether a Counselor is categorized correctly or matched correctly to you,..." This does not means that there are no qualified mental health professionals. It just means that betterhelp didn't have to check their credibility and the responsibility was passed on to the clients. It's also crappy but wording shows the difference between nuance and falsehoods. Today, the terms and conditions express that credibility is checked and to what extent with regard to the therapists in the US, UK & Australia. I use betterhelp and I'm pleased to share that I was thankfully assigned a real professional. People like to fault youtubers for making commissions with sponsorships like this but it's no different from any other company to me. As long as I'm made aware of the sponsorship, every decision is of my own volition not the influencer's. Besides, if my favourite KZfaqrs hadn't continuously shoved betterhelp down my throat, I may have never really considered well needed therapy.

holy shit you're right

Maybe he's gay. He looks gay.

@@judahfade1003 nothing wrong with being gay

@@nebeskisrb7765Oh no, don't misunderstand me. I did not insinuate it being right or wrong, I'm just taking a guess on his orientation.

exactly why psychopathy are in high positions of power

Also applies to dating sadly.

Don't be deceived, no one gets away with *nothing* in this life without paying the consequences for their actions. You might never get to see it on their end but you reap what you sow and whatever you believe in, something very much real takes charge of making sure you get the same exact taste of your own medicine at some point and if you gave bad at any point you will get it back and it won't be pretty.

Guess dyeing your hair purple and getting fitted for lace vest tops takes too much time to allow for this :/

Anyone with morals would, but anyone without morals would see how much money it gets due to how well it works, and says: I'll do it. All evil success is built on the foundation of duping the stupid. And the supply of stupid on this Planet ...is endless!

@@bentonrp LMAO so very true

@@bentonrp I’m saying though if he just did the voice over work it wouldn’t of been a lot of effort but it would’ve kept a lot more of his audience and meant a good amount more money so seems silly and utterly lazy.

@@homoerectus3355 And I'm saying that it's not silly and utterly wasteful. It's proven in the 3rd part of this video: The majority of his viewers just don't care. It's proven in the title: The video is called Jake Tran Exploits His Audience And No One Cares. It's proven in the thumbnail: How To Be Evil. Because it's not silly and utterly wasteful. What it is, is Evil. I know what you were saying. That's why I responded the way I did. Or, to put it in other words: It's kind of the point of the whole video, that I've been trying to point out to you...😀.

I don't agree with it, but what I've come to accept is that I have no control over it. Jake Tran obviously can't get rich at my expense, because he has no appeal to me. He succeeds because he is on some level giving people what they want, or he would fail. So being angry at Tran is equivalent to being angry at a large demographic of people that I have to accept are there -- and trust me if you look at the state of the world, there are a lot of terrible mindsets and ideologies out there. I don't have the time, nor the energy to worry about any of them, only to be knowledgeable enough about them to figure out how to avoid them and which are a direct threat. If I'm super angry just because someone got rich by unscrupulous means that didn't affect me personally than I've probably got some issues like envy, or jealous in my subconscious that I need to check unless I'm that rare individual that gets angry over every injustice and not specific ones -- and I happen to know that I'm not.

It's a dog eat dog world buddy

I thought it was smart

It doesn’t really sound like he has broken any law to me. His NFT thing maybe but I don’t know the details

@@NelsonStJames Very wise thought process. I used to get very angry as well but in the end, it's just people doing whatever they can to make as much money as possible.

Well what is a corporation

@@joshmaxspeed6906 Something that makes money. Nothing else.

@@joshmaxspeed6906 Another word for company or any kind of business.

@@Xdgvy an entity dedicated to making money, not necessarily something that happens to make money. Mothers and fathers have to make money for their families, it does not mean they are untrustworthy and evil. But if they were solely dedicated to hustling and getting rich and their family coming second and suffering for it, then yeah those labels may apply. I mean technically, a corporation is simply a group of people or other entities that act as one entity legally, i.e. a brand like Amazon. An honest mom and pop shop could be a corporation and I would consider them a friend, whereas some lone grifter I would not consider my friend. There are also sole proprietorships in which a business is wholly owned by and is essentially one individual, which can be better or worse than a corporation. I could go on with examples but it is unfortunate how oversimplified or wrong that the average person or KZfaq commenter is about various topics. There is nothing wrong about that, until they start acting like they do know and tell other people misguided or false information confidently, as you have done.

@@KovoriaTheConquerer Fair enough, I will tweak my definition: Something that *only exists* to make money. As for the second part, I disagree. Mom and pop shops don't care about you either. Now, mom and pop care about you (assuming a small enough consumer base) and they value your money- and can even value you as a person. But the shop only exists to make money. Same thing with proprietorships; but the point isn't that people can't be your friend, the point is that a nonliving entity with *literally only one goal* is not your friend. As for why my answer was so simple? The complexities of corporate structure in this context have less bearing on the topic at hand IMO. I kept it simple, but (as you rightly pointed out) I missed two very important words. I have rectified it here. Edit because I'm dumb and phones are not conducive to typing.

Don't make him destroy you.

Did he really want to destroy it, he made tutorials to be evil after all.

He exposed what he swore to become.

He became a better player

Fight fire with fire Duh..

I stopped watching him normally before he stopped voicing it.

When people say "don't judge a book by it's cover" they are just trying to stay incognito lol.

@@ItsDevlcon oh I don't, I just place my bets and observe :v

That gut filling is you sensing a psychopath. A lot of people can feel that something is wrong with specific people, but since they haven't had direct experience, they don't know how to respond and keep them self safe (especially when it comes to friends who can use you for their own goals). Since psychopaths have no sense of empathy, their "feelings" are an act, a show, that can sometimes feel like that weird gut feeling - uncanny valley! Trust your instincts and stay away from such people.

@@florkyman5422 same wtf I didn't even know he stopped voicing the vids. His somewhat soothing voice was the only reason I watched at all

Bruh why is wanting to have lots of money bad lol. THIS CIDEO LITERALY DESCRIBES NORMAL BEHAVIORS IN CAPITALISM OF OUTSOURCING and all a sudden we hate jake for taking time off after creating a successful channel. You people are RE TARDED AND I MEAN IT

@@madpad4397 Personally I don't really look down upon what Jake Tran is doing, but I think you don't understand people aren't mad about him outsourcing anything or capitalizing off the channel. It's specifically the type of sponsors he chooses which are very sketchy. Just think of a Twitch gambling streamer for example. Ain't no one mad they're making money. What most see as the problem is that they sell out their audiences for it.

@@Syrxen if you don't wanna get scammed, don't buy it lol. Maybe you whites aren't used to that concept but in Asia this is practically natural law; if you get scammed it's your fault

@@joshjonson2368 I'm Asian, and I personally don't care 😂

@@madpad4397 wanting to have money is not bad, it’s the shady and exploitative practices that most people at the top do that make it bad.

That's basically what it is, it suckers in desperate/hopeful people who then become just a resource for more money, only teaching them generic stuff, but probably not the full "this is how I did it" while milking them for it

Your job almost certainly is exploiting you. Also exploit doesn't mean force. You seem to be using an odd, incorrect definition of the word.

Well, he stated moral opinions.... Crazy that you see the word "evil" and even after that you think these were pure "facts". Yes he set a moral tone.... That is not a bad thing though. The bad, that in today's world people are more and more uncapable to differentiate. You too, my friend, no offense.

@@AquaCoalaNest The problem is how he presents them and his ultimate purpose to gain money out of it, while spreading misinformation on his way of presenting his moral opinions. It's a whole problem with everything he does.

"about the whole situation"... Can you do something for me and read the comments on this video and actually tell me what is that 'situation' exactly? All I can see are hundreds of people appalled at the 'situation' but none of them puts any words on it... Let me do that real quick: Stupid kid, makes documentaries, makes money, hires voice over, script writers and go partying... Oh, you meant the sh!tty sponsorships? You mean like all the other youtubers? Sorry, but seeing your favorite youtuber shilling a predatory mobile game doesn't make it less "evil" because every other youtuber is also shilling the same product... 20% of your favourite youtubers have just been "exposed" for accepting sponsors from Established titles and Kamikoto... So, clearly, we're not talking about bad sponsors here... So, what's left? Stupid kid, makes documentaries, makes money, hires voice over, script writers and go partying... That's the 'whole situation'. In other words, this video was a massive nothing burger. You guys are appalled because the tone of the video put you in a mood where you were supposed to be appalled... In other words, this video alone is a greater scam than Jake Tran ever pulled ^-^ Your strings have been pulled. You have been played.

Correct, should not watch kiratv since he is also an influencer. Shouldn't watch any other youtube at this point. Another sheep like me bub.

@@derpderp8440 cry👶

I saw that too. Dont forget the loan sharking sponsors. I don't think he has cared about being the good guy for a while, if at all he ever did. Many watchdogs secretly wish it was them profiting

Is someone forcings you to invest?

He knows the rules of the game and plays it. A moral compass would only be a limitation with the route he is going. He taught about the strategies of evil people, presented it as a guide to repeat the process, and then employed those strategies. Is anyone surprised?

Same.

I'm sorry he did what? lmao I love this stuff, it's like the modern version of eating endangered animal toenails or whatever to make your dick huge.

@@appalachiabrauchfrau im actually surprised he didnt addvertise intellafuck, the only sexual improvement supplement that also increases iq

It wasnt the tabloid nature of his videos?

My pleasure dude

Hilarious you reference coffeezilla here considering he's just as bad if not worse. Everyone likes to forget about the channel he abandoned after multiple false accusations he levelled at people. Dude has zero integrity

@@j4y167 I haven't heard of these myself as a newer viewer, tell me about them

youtube hasn't recommended it to me in months. Dude flew too close to the sun.

@@BlooftubeBloof Me either, I completely forgot about jake until this video, I have no plans to return to his trashy channel though

@@j4y167 Got any reference to that?

That's not really the point Kira is trying to make, but ok, sure.

this is probably why I never got into him after seeing like 3 videos of him. he was generic from the get go to me as I was already out growing generic fillers like him. I had like 3 other channels I was currently phasing out like him. so surprising this guy was well known when he had the most annoying voice but maybe that's just a personal issue. it's like he sounds disinterested but also whiny at the same time.

Fair point..my first thought was how do none of those commenters know any of this stuff the internet has been around for decades now 😂

All the knowledge wasn't current and all could be found in textbooks or just wiki

Hes not that old lmao.

God I hope so

Lmfao

Or just blow through all his money. Low-effort outsourcing is easily reproduced, so this gravy train won't last. Folks who get rich quick have a hard time holding on to it - especially if they obsess over status symbols & performative wealth. He's a kid, with few/no skills - it takes a lot of money to live that hard for 50+ years.

Hopefully

That’s not nice, jeez, can u not say you learned something from jakes videos, you’re all vultures and will turn on a dime 🤯

I think your right, the average user doesn't care who puts the videos out just that it's whatever they searched for/interest in. I will say that not interested option does not work for me. There's afew channels I've pushed that option on multiple times so I don't even bother with it anymore.

@@theespartanff3188 So far for me its working. But yeah that happens to me and the "I already watched this video" trust me im done with getting recommended stuff ive already watched.

heads up.... nobody cares, not really.

The algorithm seemed to start caring in March 2020... y'know when that pesky "misinformation" started to bother the Pfizer bought Corps... i doubt Jake Tran would ever make a video about that, but go to the alternate video sites and you'll get all the information deleted here.

When he's all alone and realizes money is worthless will it finally hit him. Our shame eats us slowly but it never stops consuming.

Thanks for the support, super generous of you. I get you, there are creators I've also unsubbed from for doing things that don't align with how I see things, it always sucks

Welcome to the Edu-tainment future

Yup, this is how we got in the current state of the world, and I'm not seeing things getting any better :(

"Poorly researched videos about crucial topics by apathetic creators" Fucking nailed it lmao

I don't watch his content anymore but IIRC he always put a huge list under each video full of the sources he used both for the background footage and the information

@@cyberninjazero5659 hey there - I've watched his content for a while as well. A list of references is a good start. But the temptation to make things up - or to fudge facts - or exaggerate claims - or lean on speculation remains high. Because few people in the audience will go through such a long list of refs to double check for where every individiual claim comes from. Thats why putting timed citations under each claim - either by time stamping the video itself - or by putting time code in the reference document - should be the standard for creators. We as the audience must demand this. This is the standard for nonfiction writing - it should be the standard for nonfiction video work. You can see creators like Lemmino, HBomberGuy and others already do this.

Great episode. Can be used as a metaphor for many things