Apparently another youtuber wanted to interview them over PopScience and how it can lead to wide spread misinformation. They delayed the interview and used his questions to build a surprise defense video ("Can you trust Kurgewhatev?")
Something happened between K and CB and we don't know what.
CB made a video showing one side of the argument, and painting K in a bad light.
People saw the video and ran with it.
K comes to addresses it, and we are exposed to what happened between K and CB before CB's video.
We are shown that CB seems to have been in the wrong by sensationalizing the issue and inferring that K has been malicious, without any proof. Furthermore, it seems CB has been twisting the truth to help his case.
My opinion on 6.: This is not a problem. CB would have been wrong to rely on K. K doesn't seem to mean to stall to get their video out before CB, it could be entirely feasible that they did so to be more thorough (they mention talking to youtube friends). K wouldn't have been "in the wrong" to race CB's video anyways, as it is obviously better to come out of your own accord than to do so when called out, which I don't fault them for doing. They don't owe CB or anyone anything, and I don't think less of them for wanting to come out about their own problems, which they've apparently been working on for 2 years.
Some people see point 6. as K being malicious. Things escalate.
IMHO, K is in the right, CB was trying to be a sensationalist to gather views, it worked.
Extra juicy ending of the video when CB calls out K for "co-owning" the "smart youtube mafia" and throwing a bunch of of recognized channel's thumbnails on screen: https://youtu.be/v8nNPQssUH0?t=803
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1 SnapshillBot 2019-03-12
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1 Ashleychud 2019-03-12
What did they do?
1 shaneoffline 2019-03-12
Apparently another youtuber wanted to interview them over PopScience and how it can lead to wide spread misinformation. They delayed the interview and used his questions to build a surprise defense video ("Can you trust Kurgewhatev?")
1 accountforshit 2019-03-12
So the guy is mad because he thought this was going to be his big break into YouTube fame?
1 shaneoffline 2019-03-12
yeah, he played it straight up and got rolled by the established channel
1 shaneoffline 2019-03-12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8nNPQssUH0#t=10m13s
His answer to this question will be pretty decisive for me.
1 ImSoISIRNRightNow 2019-03-12
It sort of feels like the following happened.
Something happened between K and CB and we don't know what.
CB made a video showing one side of the argument, and painting K in a bad light.
People saw the video and ran with it.
K comes to addresses it, and we are exposed to what happened between K and CB before CB's video.
We are shown that CB seems to have been in the wrong by sensationalizing the issue and inferring that K has been malicious, without any proof. Furthermore, it seems CB has been twisting the truth to help his case.
K does a slight admission (that they apparently "stall but not the degree said in the video" [https://www.reddit.com/r/kurzgesagt/comments/b0bgvj/ama_2_can_you_trust_kurzgesagt/eidk6je/]), nowhere stating that they were doing it to stall CB's video, simply that they stalled.
My opinion on 6.: This is not a problem. CB would have been wrong to rely on K. K doesn't seem to mean to stall to get their video out before CB, it could be entirely feasible that they did so to be more thorough (they mention talking to youtube friends). K wouldn't have been "in the wrong" to race CB's video anyways, as it is obviously better to come out of your own accord than to do so when called out, which I don't fault them for doing. They don't owe CB or anyone anything, and I don't think less of them for wanting to come out about their own problems, which they've apparently been working on for 2 years.
IMHO, K is in the right, CB was trying to be a sensationalist to gather views, it worked.
1 LongPostBot 2019-03-12
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1 i_am_thot 2019-03-12
Extra juicy ending of the video when CB calls out K for "co-owning" the "smart youtube mafia" and throwing a bunch of of recognized channel's thumbnails on screen: https://youtu.be/v8nNPQssUH0?t=803