The business of YouTube and the blurry PYREX incident
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Date: 2025-09-28
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haxkjh
While I understand the point you are trying to make for sophomoric savvy, Epstein is a very poor example. It's true that none of us know what happened for sure, we don't know if any event happened for sure. Did the moon landing actually happen You can't say for sure it did, you weren't there. But there is a lot of evidence to suggest we did indeed land on the moon and so while none of us know for sure, it's pretty accepted that you can say with confidence we did. To say the Epstein death was a bit fishy is like saying the sun is a bit hot. He was taken off suicide watch right before, his cell mate was transfered the night before, two different guards fell asleep at the exact time he died and then falsified their records, the camera footage had a critical blind spot and footage was missing, the autopsy is disputed by professionals, and of course the extreme incentive of the exact people who were overseeing the situation to make sure Epstein didn't get a chance to testify. It's true that if anyone says they know 100% with absolute certainty that Epstein was killed that is an incorrect statement. But trying to avoid sophomoric savvy doesn't mean just closing your eyes to overwhelming evidence and claiming that you don't really know for sure what happened. At some point there is enough evidence that you have to Occam's Razor the station and decide what is the most likely situation that all of the context clearly points to. We don't know the exact details of the death, who was it that actually killed him, if he was pressured somehow into doing it himself. But we can be pretty dang confident that he was compelled to die one way or another.
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While I understand the point you are trying to make for sophomoric savvy, Epstein is a very poor example. It's true that none of us know what happened for sure, we don't know if any event happened for sure. Did the moon landing actually happen You can't say for sure it did, you weren't there. But there is a lot of evidence to suggest we did indeed land on the moon and so while none of us know for sure, it's pretty accepted that you can say with confidence we did. To say the Epstein death was a bit fishy is like saying the sun is a bit hot. He was taken off suicide watch right before, his cell mate was transfered the night before, two different guards fell asleep at the exact time he died and then falsified their records, the camera footage had a critical blind spot and footage was missing, the autopsy is disputed by professionals, and of course the extreme incentive of the exact people who were overseeing the situation to make sure Epstein didn't get a chance to testify. It's true that if anyone says they know 100% with absolute certainty that Epstein was killed that is an incorrect statement. But trying to avoid sophomoric savvy doesn't mean just closing your eyes to overwhelming evidence and claiming that you don't really know for sure what happened. At some point there is enough evidence that you have to Occam's Razor the station and decide what is the most likely situation that all of the context clearly points to. We don't know the exact details of the death, who was it that actually killed him, if he was pressured somehow into doing it himself. But we can be pretty dang confident that he was compelled to die one way or another.
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FishyBoi1337
Epstein killing himself is the same as if he didn't kill himself. Either way, he was killed before justice could be eeked out of wherever it could be. If you are arrested for disorderly conduct at a bar or simply refusing to put your seatbelt on, if you are held in the county jail cell for 12 hours, they take your shoes and/or the laces out of them. They took my mom's shoelaces when she was accused of shoplifting and forgot her license at home. She was held for less than 6 hours. The single most notorious predator, in recent history, at least, held in a maximum security cell with personal guards assigned to him, whom all fell asleep concurrently, while the cameras failed, while outside of hours when somebody might hear some commotion even from outside, without taking any possibly dangerous materials from his person, allowed him to not be alive. If he killed himself HE did not kill himself. He was given every possible sign to say Make this happen for us or suicide will be the only thing you think about for the rest of your short life
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Epstein killing himself is the same as if he didn't kill himself. Either way, he was killed before justice could be eeked out of wherever it could be. If you are arrested for disorderly conduct at a bar or simply refusing to put your seatbelt on, if you are held in the county jail cell for 12 hours, they take your shoes and/or the laces out of them. They took my mom's shoelaces when she was accused of shoplifting and forgot her license at home. She was held for less than 6 hours. The single most notorious predator, in recent history, at least, held in a maximum security cell with personal guards assigned to him, whom all fell asleep concurrently, while the cameras failed, while outside of hours when somebody might hear some commotion even from outside, without taking any possibly dangerous materials from his person, allowed him to not be alive. If he killed himself HE did not kill himself. He was given every possible sign to say Make this happen for us or suicide will be the only thing you think about for the rest of your short life
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timstevens3183
Adam I hope you keep sharing these stories! I found this damn interesting, and I appreciate your wisdom at the end about replacing lies with new lies. I just got into a debate last night with another fellow left leaning person about the attempted assassination of president Trump last year. Their belief was that the assassination was staged, and I had trouble expressing the exact sentiment at the end of this video. That sentiment being that we should be cautious with the incredibly low levels of information we have on this situation to draw conclusions that may only replace lies with different lies.
Anyways, I thoroughly enjoyed this snippet of info about the behind-the-scenes of the YT world, and I hope you do more! :)
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Adam I hope you keep sharing these stories! I found this damn interesting, and I appreciate your wisdom at the end about replacing lies with new lies. I just got into a debate last night with another fellow left leaning person about the attempted assassination of president Trump last year. Their belief was that the assassination was staged, and I had trouble expressing the exact sentiment at the end of this video. That sentiment being that we should be cautious with the incredibly low levels of information we have on this situation to draw conclusions that may only replace lies with different lies.
Anyways, I thoroughly enjoyed this snippet of info about the behind-the-scenes of the YT world, and I hope you do more! :)
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tinypapercube
I trust Fran's ability to estimate speed, but my initial reaction is shock. I'm in NYC and although there are definitely ebikes everywhere, they rarely hit those speeds and definitely not on the sidewalks. But it's not kids on them, it's deliveristas. Interested in the social, economic, and legal differences between here and there.
With more restrictions due to battery fires, there are more gasoline motorcycles/scooters. In the bike lanes, which is obviously annoying to me, who already thinks ebikes in the bike lanes are annoying.
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I trust Fran's ability to estimate speed, but my initial reaction is shock. I'm in NYC and although there are definitely ebikes everywhere, they rarely hit those speeds and definitely not on the sidewalks. But it's not kids on them, it's deliveristas. Interested in the social, economic, and legal differences between here and there.
With more restrictions due to battery fires, there are more gasoline motorcycles/scooters. In the bike lanes, which is obviously annoying to me, who already thinks ebikes in the bike lanes are annoying.
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brianbarry5673
There may have been a more plausible reason for Sensodyne blurring the Pyrex logo. Pyrex and Sensodyne are owned by two of the largest conglomerates in the world, Pyrex by KKR (Pyrex has not been owned by Corning for years) and Sensodyne by GSK. There might be the possibility that Pyrex might compete with another KKR owned brand.
I worked in marketing at a large company that had an app specifically to check for brand name conflicts. Because of all the mergers and acquisitions, the app had to be updated every month.
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There may have been a more plausible reason for Sensodyne blurring the Pyrex logo. Pyrex and Sensodyne are owned by two of the largest conglomerates in the world, Pyrex by KKR (Pyrex has not been owned by Corning for years) and Sensodyne by GSK. There might be the possibility that Pyrex might compete with another KKR owned brand.
I worked in marketing at a large company that had an app specifically to check for brand name conflicts. Because of all the mergers and acquisitions, the app had to be updated every month.
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steamr0ll
It took me a while to finally watch this video but I must say: Great video about a fascinating and weird topic, and I am glad you mentioned Rick Beato. Really well written and obviously very heartfelt. I do wish that people would have more patience with the world and not demand ALL INFORMATION IMMEDIATELY, but I guess that is the curse of the digital age. but honestly though at the time I just thought you had switched to that hot new measuring cup brand FUKER!
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It took me a while to finally watch this video but I must say: Great video about a fascinating and weird topic, and I am glad you mentioned Rick Beato. Really well written and obviously very heartfelt. I do wish that people would have more patience with the world and not demand ALL INFORMATION IMMEDIATELY, but I guess that is the curse of the digital age. but honestly though at the time I just thought you had switched to that hot new measuring cup brand FUKER!
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kernelpickle
It’s even possible Epstein paid off the guards to make killing himself easier. The guy still had money, so if he was that determined to do it then I wouldn’t put it past him to pay off the guards to make it happen. I’d like to see the banking and financial transactions for the folks on duty when he died, because that would be a clue confirming or contradicting whether or not someone was paying for it to happen the way it did.
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It’s even possible Epstein paid off the guards to make killing himself easier. The guy still had money, so if he was that determined to do it then I wouldn’t put it past him to pay off the guards to make it happen. I’d like to see the banking and financial transactions for the folks on duty when he died, because that would be a clue confirming or contradicting whether or not someone was paying for it to happen the way it did.
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food
The blurring of the pyrex distracted people from the video so much that it was the only thing people could think about. So by blurring the common household item this company successfully removed all eyes from their advertisement.
Even now I don't remember the name of the company so
Good job, whatever toothpaste you are. You've made yourself unimportant with this one little trick! I'm sure other advertisers hate you!
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The blurring of the pyrex distracted people from the video so much that it was the only thing people could think about. So by blurring the common household item this company successfully removed all eyes from their advertisement.
Even now I don't remember the name of the company so
Good job, whatever toothpaste you are. You've made yourself unimportant with this one little trick! I'm sure other advertisers hate you!
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annakissed3226
Thankyou for a wonderful video, that just came up on my feed. Had a quick word with a Haiku an LLM working on contract to DuckDuckGo and amongst their suggestios was brand dilution. And Pyrex is really hot (pun intended) on loss of trademark. As they don't want what happened to Hoover happen to them - Hoover becoming the word to mean vacuuming & cleaning.
So no one says: that issue is pyrex hot!
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Thankyou for a wonderful video, that just came up on my feed. Had a quick word with a Haiku an LLM working on contract to DuckDuckGo and amongst their suggestios was brand dilution. And Pyrex is really hot (pun intended) on loss of trademark. As they don't want what happened to Hoover happen to them - Hoover becoming the word to mean vacuuming & cleaning.
So no one says: that issue is pyrex hot!
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aragusea
Initially I assumed it was the same reason I heard for why a lot of photographers working on TV shows (like when reality TV shows have photoshoots) will tape over their logos. The general knowledge is that the company isn't paying for the slot, so why promote them Like if Canon isn't sponsoring the TV show, then they don't deserve their logo seen.
I didn't realize there was more to it.
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Initially I assumed it was the same reason I heard for why a lot of photographers working on TV shows (like when reality TV shows have photoshoots) will tape over their logos. The general knowledge is that the company isn't paying for the slot, so why promote them Like if Canon isn't sponsoring the TV show, then they don't deserve their logo seen.
I didn't realize there was more to it.
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ReadTheUnderstory
Your description of the Epstein fiasco is seriously deliberately obtuse. It's well understood that even if he killed himself, it was because someone LET him do it to avoid having him spill the beans about his operation. Which is functionally. killing him. What a bizarre segue from the topic of this video. Really poorly done and condescending to your viewers.
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Your description of the Epstein fiasco is seriously deliberately obtuse. It's well understood that even if he killed himself, it was because someone LET him do it to avoid having him spill the beans about his operation. Which is functionally. killing him. What a bizarre segue from the topic of this video. Really poorly done and condescending to your viewers.
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Daeca
Don't get me wrong, I'm coming from a place of concern. Please, take a break. A breather. Away from the Internet and content creation. I'm not a regular watcher, but I'm a long-time watcher and in this video it's clear that you're stressed even though I'm bad at reading body language. Your voice gets strained. You're more animated than usual. Get some rest.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm coming from a place of concern. Please, take a break. A breather. Away from the Internet and content creation. I'm not a regular watcher, but I'm a long-time watcher and in this video it's clear that you're stressed even though I'm bad at reading body language. Your voice gets strained. You're more animated than usual. Get some rest.
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CoreyKearney
I know you are old enough to remember the cola wars. Coke would never. coke very much did, so did Pepsi. You were there. Most companies avoid naming direct competitors even thou they could make that fair use comparison, it just isn't done. In the 90's Coke and Pepsi could not help themselves to levels the Wendy social media media would be proud of.
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I know you are old enough to remember the cola wars. Coke would never. coke very much did, so did Pepsi. You were there. Most companies avoid naming direct competitors even thou they could make that fair use comparison, it just isn't done. In the 90's Coke and Pepsi could not help themselves to levels the Wendy social media media would be proud of.
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TitanSix
Reminds me of They Might Be Giants’ song AKA Driver, which is called that because calling it NyQuil Driver ran into legal issues being cleared since it’s a brand name on a song that’s on an album being sold for money (or something like that. I don’t even think they had the lyrics printed in the album’s liner notes.
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Reminds me of They Might Be Giants’ song AKA Driver, which is called that because calling it NyQuil Driver ran into legal issues being cleared since it’s a brand name on a song that’s on an album being sold for money (or something like that. I don’t even think they had the lyrics printed in the album’s liner notes.
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aragusea
We are trusting -of all people- Michael Baden and yet another of his works for hire. He distorted facts for the defense of OJ Simpson and Phil Spector. He probably got paid well this time, too. Trusting his conclusions this time when he deliberately mislead for at least two of his previous clients is a big ask.
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We are trusting -of all people- Michael Baden and yet another of his works for hire. He distorted facts for the defense of OJ Simpson and Phil Spector. He probably got paid well this time, too. Trusting his conclusions this time when he deliberately mislead for at least two of his previous clients is a big ask.
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RabidHobbit
It's interesting how something so trivial can become significant simply because we're animals who are extremely good at recognizing patterns, and we flip the hell out when those patterns change. Thank you evolution, for protecting us from videos that contain blurred Pyrex labels.
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It's interesting how something so trivial can become significant simply because we're animals who are extremely good at recognizing patterns, and we flip the hell out when those patterns change. Thank you evolution, for protecting us from videos that contain blurred Pyrex labels.
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hughbrackett343
I suggest you follow the movie studios’ example and never show a trademark unless you’re getting paid to use the product in your video. Surely someone can whip up some Ragusea-branded measuring cups for you to use on screen. Heck, you could probably sell them!
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I suggest you follow the movie studios’ example and never show a trademark unless you’re getting paid to use the product in your video. Surely someone can whip up some Ragusea-branded measuring cups for you to use on screen. Heck, you could probably sell them!
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classicforreal
man, it could be Trump, Jimmy, Rogan, Sensodyne, Pyrex, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Helix, Van Halen, Rick Beato or some local lawyer that Coffeezilla will have to make videos about if Adam were to disappear
twist ending: it was actually Coffeezilla all along
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man, it could be Trump, Jimmy, Rogan, Sensodyne, Pyrex, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Helix, Van Halen, Rick Beato or some local lawyer that Coffeezilla will have to make videos about if Adam were to disappear
twist ending: it was actually Coffeezilla all along
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aprilderg7241
I think that epstein died when he tripped and stumbled, flailing his arms and looping a belt around a pipe, it slid into the buckle, and he slipped into the belt accidentally hanging himself.
My source: trust me bro i know what im talking about
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I think that epstein died when he tripped and stumbled, flailing his arms and looping a belt around a pipe, it slid into the buckle, and he slipped into the belt accidentally hanging himself.
My source: trust me bro i know what im talking about
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absentmindedjwc
Question around 15: 30. an ad with pepsi and coke next to eachother. What if you were a corner store and were showing your amazing selection, and showed people enjoying competing brands. I would imagine that would also fall under TM fair use.
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Question around 15: 30. an ad with pepsi and coke next to eachother. What if you were a corner store and were showing your amazing selection, and showed people enjoying competing brands. I would imagine that would also fall under TM fair use.
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