[jasonwatkinspdx]

It's largely fans of Sabine Hossenfelder youtube channel, where some years ago sadly she shifted into just being a grifter selling conspiracy theories about the funding of particle physics.

The audience here tends to vastly overweight contrarian near conspiracy theory style stuff, so this sort of comment shows up on literally every damn post about physics research.

[chrystalkey]

Dont be too harsh on the first comment, I'm Sure he's a good guy. Interesting to see that hossenfelder thing, I was'nt aware of it. Her videos got recommended to me but title+thumb always felt like an over the top commentary with more drama than actual problem to be aware of.

So I never clicked and at some point youtube stopped.

[jasonwatkinspdx]

Yeah, it's sad she went that direction, because her educational videos that aren't agitpop are very good.

It's just another example of how the incentives on modern social media pull people towards ragebait and other forms of grift.