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elizabeth  ·  3631 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hank Green: Holy Shit I Interviewed the President

:( I really like Hank Green.

He's really good at the youtube thing. He and others produce absolutely amazing educational content on Youtube so I would argue they are different from the "look at me" crowd, that definitely exists on youtube too. They seem to be focused on producing good content, not on becoming "youtube famous" or anything: mostly because they don't need to. Their content gets shared everywhere anyway. And unlike many others i listen to, they often break past the youtube bubble and make it all the way to my mom.

I am torn on the President's interview tho. I'm not too sure what to think. They definitely were some cringe-worthy moments but props to Obama, he's reeeally good at handling that stuff.

As a member of the younger crowd that Hank talks about in his post, he's right: I don't listen to news. And I did watch this interview mostly because I follow Hank on Youtube and was curious how it will go. Now do I think this should replace real journalists? Definitely not. Maybe I should be more critical of it all but I'm too biased by my simple liking of the guy. I'll have to think about it all. Thanks for the alternate perspective beyond the usual "she did ____ once, thus anything she says is invalid".