Someone Dead Ruined My Life Again. (CGP Grey)

It's a great video, but there is an aspect to his personal journey that seems a little contradictory.

He seems to have been motivated to make the video in no small part because he had felt lonely working on this project for months without being able to share his findings and frustrations with anyone. (Lockdown has probably had a similar effect on a large proportion of the population). At the end of the video, though, he thanks the community of people who like his work so much that they give him regular funding for access to behind-the-scenes footage.

Perhaps the world of YouTube content creation is so cut-throat that if he had mentioned to his backers that he was looking for information about an old poem, someone would have reverse engineered the topic of his next video and beaten him to making it, stealing all the views from his then-not-produced final product. On the other hand, maybe people appreciate his unique style and the effort he puts into videos and they would be more likely to watch his documentary series about the name "Tiffany" after seeing the copycat videos, which would act as free advertising.

I'm not a YouTuber, so I have to assume he knows more about the risks of this than I do, but if he was really struggling with his mental health for not having someone to talk with about his work, then he didn't give the impression that he had considered all the ways to mitigate that.

Great notes on how the "historic record" happens and how noise gets in and propagates through it.