Youtube Highlights: Big Issues Then Comics

Here we go folks, here's yet more youtube videos I've found and enjoyed in the past week. Buckle up.


To get the serious stuff out of the way first, SciShow did a video on the horrifying Zika virus.

Regular readers may have noticed an overlap between SciShow and vlogbrothers via Hank Green. Here is his brother John is talking about the gender pay gap

Ever wonder why some comics had a random picture of Spider-Man or whatnot on the cover. NerdSync tells us why.

Speaking of comics, the viral marketing campaign for the new Deadpool movie continues apace, this one from 20th Century Fox UK.

The normally serious and a little dry ComicsExplained also attempted to explain how Deadpool became Iron Man.

On the theme of violence and things I'm looking forward to, a new trailer was released for the new Doom game, seemingly based off E3 footage. As is appropriate, it is HUGELY VIOLENT, so caution is advised. Via Bethesda Softworks.

 


And finally the self-proclaimed Internet Personality Vangelus has done an education video on tightening joints on Transformers. Useful information, which I intend to use myself at some point. Full disclosure and/or claim to fame: I also met the fellow at Botcon 2013, nice guy.

 

Youtube Highlights: Youtube was naughty and suddenly CATS!?

Here we go, another week of youtube highlights, and we have to start off on a sad note. Buckle up.

Doug Walker and Channel Awesome seemingly ran afoul of youtube's automated systems this past month, and lost monetisation for their videos. He put up the following appeal.

Less than 4 hours later, they got their monetisation back. Youtube really needs to get is act together, but in the meantime, your best plan is to go public if you have a problem with your account and copyright.

NerdSync had a very similar experience.

BanditIncorporated also had a lot to say about this.

Speaking of youtubers being subject to copyright claims by corporations, Super Bunnyhop has done a video defending online-only multi-player.

SciShow meanwhile did a video on cancer misconceptions. Please note, this post went up BEFORE I heard about Sir Terry Wogan passing this morning.

Almost, but not really, on the same theme, we have The Film Theorists. Here they ruin the ending of Dark Knight Rises with science. Although, it was pretty ruined before they got there, to be fair.

And finally, ever hear of cyriak? You probably have seen at least a few of his animations, they tend to stick in the mind. Well, he did a music video for the RunTheJewels track "Meowpurrdy”, where they rap over kitten sounds. The whole album is like that, apparently.


So........yeah. I feel like I'm falling down a rabbit hole on this one.


Anywho, here it is. This is proper rap music, so expect some very NSFW words, but I don't think you'll notice.

I apologise for your nightmares.