Tom, yes, but who's Derek? Oh, so that's Veritasium's name.

Post #439,318 by CRConrad 6/16/21 5:33:11 PM 6/16/21 5:33:11 PM Reply	Tom, yes, but who's Derek? Oh, so that's Veritasium's name. Idunno, voice-wise I like Simon Whistler better. Or maybe even Nikolas "Lindybeige" Lloyd? -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
Post #439,319 by static 6/17/21 1:29:59 AM 6/17/21 1:29:59 AM Reply	Whistler used to be better. I liked Simon Whistler's older videos better, so maybe it's the writing. But yeah, he sounds right. I like Derek's sense of wonder as it comes tinged with experience about when the wonderful can turn to terrible. He did a TV series about Uranium a few years ago where that was very useful. I haven't heard of Nikolas Lloyd. I'll go seek him out. Wade.
Post #439,324 by pwhysall 6/17/21 12:49:00 PM 6/17/21 12:57:51 PM Reply	Whistler's enunciation grinds my gears. He's got what probably sounds to non-native ears like well-spoken (almost RP) diction - but it's just off enough, with an ever-present hint of estuary, that I'd rather he spoke in a broad Birmingham accent. YTers I prefer to listen to, over Whistler, and their accents: Mike from ThatChapter (Dublin "turty tree") Atomic Shrimp (English) Kurzgesagt (very English) Big Clive (Edinburgh) Fran Blanche (Mild E. Coast merkin) Caitlin from Ask a Mortician (Mild W. Coast Merkin) The Shrouded Hand (Soft Liverpool) Clint from LGR (soft Southern; think he's in Tennessee?) Neil from RMC (soft/posh SW English) Quinn from Snazzy Labs (generic California, I think) And, of course, the one whose visual style Whistler has wholeheartedly copied: Michael from Vsauce. (Also, I'm not convinced about Whistler's fact-checking) Edited by pwhysall June 17, 2021, 12:57:51 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #439,326 by pwhysall 6/17/21 1:05:33 PM 6/17/21 1:05:33 PM Reply	Then there's those who get on my tits a little bit, but I like their content anyway Hank from SciShow (much prefer Olivia's presentation) Dave from EEVBlog (too squeaky) Linus from Linus Tech Tips (also too squeaky, should basically let Anthony do all the talking) Justin from JustinGuitar (so unctuous and worthy, but you'll not find a better learn-to-play-the-guitar channel) Dawid from Dawid Does Tech Stuff (wtf is that accent?) Mehdi from ElectrBOOM (but let's face it, we only watch to see (a) him hurt himself and (b) his daughter laughing at (a))
Post #439,330 by static 6/18/21 6:32:15 AM 6/18/21 6:32:15 AM Reply	Ooh! Clint from LGR! Yes, he has a nice presentation voice. Wade.
Post #439,332 by CRConrad 6/18/21 9:20:58 AM 6/18/21 9:20:58 AM Reply	Holy shit, did I just forget or totally miss that those are different guys? I'm not even sure any more which of them I really thought would be best for this; I suppose I knew at some time they're not one and the same, but I don't think I remembered that when I wrote the above. So I was probably thinking of an amalgam of both that I'd created in my mind; perhaps someone with Stevens' mannerisms and patterns of speech, but Whistler's voice and possibly accent. -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
Post #439,333 by pwhysall 6/18/21 9:45:33 AM 6/18/21 9:45:33 AM Reply	Re: Holy shit, did I just forget or totally miss that those are different guys? Vsauce has 17M subscribers. All of Whistler's channels together... ...don't.
Post #439,334 by CRConrad 6/18/21 10:25:14 AM 6/18/21 10:25:14 AM Reply	So what? I'm equally many subscribers on both: Just one.
Post #439,335 by pwhysall 6/18/21 11:28:25 AM 6/18/21 11:28:25 AM Reply	It's about confusing a very famous person with a not very famous person (In YT terms, anyhoo)
Post #439,362 by CRConrad 6/23/21 4:52:42 AM 6/23/21 4:52:42 AM Reply	Is that even a thing; are celebrities now gods, to not even be confused for mere mortals?

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