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I enjoy the veritasium youtube channel but it's important to remember that videos like this are enabled by the military as recruiting and propaganda aids. The same is true of channels like Smarter Every Day when they partner with the coast guard or military.

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Absolutely. I always wonder how these videos actually get made. Did the channel reach out to the military, or did some military PR arm reach out to the channel and ask if they were interested in showcasing night vision tech? Hard to imagine anything other than the latter, which is fairly insidious behavior.

Calling this propaganda is a bit much in my opinion. Of course the military has an interest in creating a video like this but I never felt that this video was an ad.

Derek has always been very ethical about his sponsorships, never going for NordVPN or shitty mobile games but services that promote science (like Nebula or Brilliant).

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