Jesus, now that I’m reading my own meme, I can fucking HEAR HIM SAYING THAT SHIT, IN MY MIND’S…EAR.
I had no idea why it had done this, but I figured I would just ignore it, and everything would be ok.
I’m gonna be honest, he had some interesting videos at first, but I couldn’t freaking stand his voice. Now that his shit has started to become more and more sensationalist and catering to the masses, I’m over it.
lol the down votes. Let’s have a discussion? I’m simply voicing an opinion. 😄
Explosions and Fire is better. Sure he took four years to make the world’s shittiest cubane, but his despair is quite entertaining
NurdRage is the best. He’s the OG YouTube chemist, and he’s actually done some original research in his videos, like pioneering the alcohol-catalyzed magnesium reduction process for making sodium metal. Thanks to him, sodium metal can now be made without a high-temperature electrolysis apparatus.
The alcohol catalized magnesium reduction is an amazing series. I’ve watched it a bunch of times
My problem with him is that he lacks rigor and his methodology is poor.
Also, from the amount of money he throws around buying equipment, I suspect he has wealthy parents bankrolling him.
Applied Science is a far more interesting youtube channel.
He’s always been transparent about the fact that his parents helped him get started, and he’s been financially operating on his own for years. Many of his videos are every bit as rigorous as Applied Science.
Re: transparency about bankrolling, i believe you since you say so. I’ve seen many of his videos and never heard him say so. I guess I just missed the ones where he did, or perhaps he said so on social media.
As for rigor, I can’t count the number of times he uses an unspecified amount of a chemical in a reaction, referring only to “throwing a bunch in.” But again, perhaps I’ve just watched the wrong videos.
His approach seems to me to be very “by guess and by gosh.” Part of that stems from trying to follow poorly written instructions in an academic paper; applied sciences grapples with that too. And some of it may be less slapdash that it appears, with Nilered using a deliberately casual tone in his scripts so that they’re more relatable, knowing that people aren’t likely to use his videos to attempt to reproduce his results. Even taking that into account though, given the number of attempts it often takes him to get the desired result, I doubt his rigor. Props to him for showing the failures and partial successes, though. And whatever else I say about him, I do generally find him entertaining.
You’re watching the wrong videos. A lot of his material manufacturing videos tend to have a lot more trial and error. In the more pure chemical extraction or synthesis videos, he’s hyper precise about amounts, timing, temperatures, and safety. In others he’s definitely in “making a funny video fucking around mode.”
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No, look back at his older videos when he was working out of the garage. Not rich. Decently off but most of the equipment is donated or paid for with channel income.
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It’s ok to enjoy many different sources of chemistry content.
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If you like rigor and methodology you should check out Explosions and Fire / Extractions and Ire.
Not gonna lie that’s the channel I head to when I’ve run out of Nilered content. Been following his Cubane synthesis for a while now and it’s been a crazy ride.
“First, we start by breaking down the chemicals on the exterior. I couldn’t use hydrofluoric acid because I didn’t have a good way to filter that out and I don’t really want anything corrosive in my candies. I looked online for alternatives and found a couple like isocyanatomethane. Thankfully because I’m a registered chemist these searches don’t put me on a government watchlist anymore.”
He won’t be jolly though. During his dissolution he will be decidedly a Sad Rancher
Thats what the oxy is for
reminds me of NileGreen who parodies NileRed / NileBlue
He changed his channel name to MrGreen to avoid people thinking it’s one of Nigel’s official channels. He actually does some pretty insane chemistry on his channel now as well.
In starting a chemistry YouTube channel, call it “mummy brown” and dissolve shit in different shit as long as it takes to become literal shit. Business model yes or no?
crop off the nobody part
