[wenc]

Yes. YouTube educational videos are fun to watch because they surface “cult” or “not widely known” knowledge in a fun way.

But they are also availability machines usually not backed by domain knowledge or deep research. They’re designed to grab views. Wendover productions for instance has lots of great videos about transportation (especially aviation) which are mind blowing. The creator Sam is also just a college student in his 20s with no deep domain knowledge on any of the subjects he covers — his expertise is perhaps enthusiasm, knowing how to do research into trivia type knowledge, and making great videos about it.

Most Wendover videos are good, but there are some in which he is pretty wrong.