*goes near the subway* Homer: "sing oh muse, of this lost soul."

The beauty of AHA to me, was that it created a safe space where one's silly and big curiousities were DULY RESEARCHED AND TAKEN SERIOUSLY by someone whose branding was PURSUING KNOWLEDGE, THE BEAUTY OF RESEARCH, AND EMBRACING YOUR DESIRE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE WORLD.

AHA was a hit because it celebrated the human mind and our sense of wonder.

And now, we're all finding out he's been using ChatGPT for research. I AM SO UTTERLY REPULSED, I FEEL LIKE SOMEONE THREW MUD ON MY FACE.

(Addendum because I woke up and realized I'm still not done being upset about this)

I don't quite know what he meant by "a ton of pressure" but if he ever felt the need to rush pumping content out because the channel has been doing well, It's SO DISAPPOINTING.

As someone who has watched his content for a little more than a decade, I can safely say that his audience would understand it if he told us that AHA episodes and other Complexly content would take more time because of the extent of research needed. Releasing content takes time. Pursuing knowledge takes time.

If he felt pressured to upload faster and took a cheap AI shortcut to do so, then it's no better than the AI slop creators abound who choose to take the easy road than actually put in the work for their content.

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The Mother of Dragons, The Queenmaker and The Puppet Prince

Still, you can dislike that book and other retellings, but people who like it are not all stupid plebians who "dont know nuance".

Besides you cant police people to perceive the myths exactly the way you like, I mean I have my own conditions too such as I dont particularly like Hades and Persephone being read as a romantic pair and generally have a disdain for the "dark romance" genre. But truth to be told myths are fluid there is no concept "canon" or "accurate characterisation" when it comes to myths because mind you Helen from Iliad is very different from Helen in Odyssey and the latter is a sequel to the former. There are also interpretations where Iphigenia does not die and Agamemnon instead sacrifices a deer (which if you know changes a lot of things- such as without that incident the plot of Orestia would have never taken place). There is also a version by Euripedes where Helen never goes to Troy. There are so many different interpretations of a single myth.

Myths evolve with time adapt to the moralities of the relevant time period and thats why retellings will always going to be a thing whether you like it or not.

⬇️ Suggestive Noelthur Yuri below the cut ⬇️

I love lesbians

ah yes could i request Lorick and charlie napping? (you didn't say which charlie)

ah yes could i request Lorick and charlie napping? (you didn't say which charlie)

ah yes could i request Lorick and charlie napping? (you didn't say which charlie)