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maths phd from Aotearoa. I like ducks and topological geometry

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Small Rosie rant:

so I'm watching this youtube video on an embroidery technique I'm interested in. The person doing the video starts off with like a 5 minute section on the history of the technique. Its not particularly noteworthy and I didn't think much of it until later on when she was talking about just how hard it was to research this stich.
So I'm like "hmmn, wonder why that is" and go googling. In 5 minutes I clear up all the things she was uncertain about, and discover that like 80% of what she said in that introduction was just wrong.
Like this wasn't looking up journal articles or any form of difficult research, this was 5 minutes on a search engine to reveal basic facts she presented were just false. This is youtube, for a lot of people watching this she will be their only source of information on this and its just wrong.

How can you put a video out on youtube, where you have put dozens of hours into a fabric craft and then further time into video editing but at no point did you take 5 minutes to check what you were saying was true??? Again this did not require any advanced research skills, just basic search engine stuff


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