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Tbh i'm more impressed he was able to co-ordinate his movements with the flying eels, which are totally not cgi because they have shadows 😉 Tom scott is good, but this is next level 👍
There's another one he did where there was an event at the end that perfectly coincided with his narration. Which of course he had to start like 5 minutes previously and time every part of his stroll perfectly in order to make his points. It's truly next level stuff. I can't even comprehend the amount of planning or even the method of workflow it would take to achieve these kinds of feats.
I’ve never even seen a 1mil sub channel with this level of production, he not only seems to have memorized an entire 10 minute script (or is very good at hiding himself looking at a prompter) but he even seems to had already planned out where all the images would go so that he could leave enough room in the frame...
This has some of the highest production values and editing of any RU-vid channel. The only other non-professional one I can think of is one called FortNine who does motorcycle content. (Although he is up to like 2 million subs.) Both of these channels should be acknowledged with some kind of award for excellence. Because they both really go above and beyond.
So is there any company out there trying to replicate this life cycle, maybe even research how to make a fully grown eel from the little one until its breeding.
@@raifikarj6698 It's mentioned in the video that it was discovered they had different phases because someone messed up the temp/salinity of their tank with one. Seems to me like all you have to do is have the proper temperature and salinity for the different stages. Whether or not that's actually worth doing (or feasible) is another question. For research? Yeah I'm sure it's been attempted, but for a "company"? I don't see any reason why.
Dude. That was nothing short of amazing. I mean, your videos never fail to impress. But, something was different about this one. I can't put my finger on it. I absolutely loved the visuals of you walking along the rocks, explaining the life cycle while superimposed images appear around you. As if by augmented reality. But there was something much deeper about this that made it so much more enjoyable. I just can't put my finger on it. Whatever it was, if you were experimenting with a new idea or something KEEP AT IT. Because you're onto something. Thank you for another great video that brought joy to my otherwise dreary life. It helps a lot to forget about life's problems for a little bit. Cheers.
Lots of people have commented on your similarity to Tom Scott and that you're a good replacement. While that's a great complement, I want to say thank you for your amazing work and unique approach to explaining material.
A video about eels appeared in my subscription feed, and initially, I was hesitant. However, upon giving it a chance, I was reminded why I subscribed to your channel. I will watch your career with great interest.
this is genuinely The video i always wanted to see. like i never cared enough to research on my own but always wanted some good summary of this eel debacle.
This channel always amazes me with the one take. It has to be the ONLY channel on the platform with this skill. Very very underrated channel and I don’t know why. It has everything you want out of a channel like this
You have no idea how distracted I was by waiting for the cut. I'm impressed. And the topic was also really one of the most interesting I watched in the past couple of weeks. I did not know anything of that. Really amazing, thank you.
Another great video James! I have to say, you're not the next Tom Scott, you're really paving your own unique style that I dare say goes above even the classics. I love those animations too, cant wait for more!
absolutely incredible job on this video, i have been working as a marine scientist for 2 decades and learned a lot from this vid! Excellent production and really informative! Thank you!
Incredible video. I feel like I had heard bits and pieces of this info in separate places, but never all in one place and presented so well. Thanks for all the time you put into this!!
You have such an incredible and unique editing and speaking style which makes it one of the rare youtube channels that can completely and fully keep my attention during the whole video. Top marks.
Wow this was captivating. The subject matter helped, a mystery being resolved by science, but your style no doubt elevates the story immensely. Now I remember why I subscribed :)
The motion tracked visualisations feel really really good, and I can't think of anyone else doing this on youtube. This could certainly become your visual style that both augments the content of the video and sets you apart from other similar creators with a unique visual style. I think it would work really well if executed with similar fidelity to this video. Also bravo on the one-take. It feels like a performance art, Tom Scott would be proud (although he never did a 10-minute one afaik, so maybe you're already outdoing him).
One piece of critical feedback I can offer is - try to work on your sponsorship deliveries, making them more "natural". Also consider putting them earlier in the video - I understand you don't wanna disrupt the content, which is great for us, but perhaps not as great for you. Perhaps announce the sponsor at the start and do an ad read in the middle. I think most people are used to this already and accept that in order to get these high quality videos, it also needs to be sustainable for you. If the choice is between no videos and videos with an ad-read in the middle, I am confident 99.99% of your viewers would go for the latter. And if the ads perform well, you will be able to get paid more for those in the future too. I'm sure there are plenty of science communicators on youtube who might've struggled with this on their way up and eventually learned how to effectively advertise, who would be happy to help you bootstrap your way into being quite decent at it. It sure as hell isn't a natural skill for most people, I imagine. Anyway, if it's annoying just ignore this, I'm only trying to provide some constructive tips. Good luck!
As someone who's gone on deep dives into the biology and struggles of sustainably farming eels - and how difficult it was to even figure out how to feed them - this was a fantastic and informative video! I personally love Unagi and would be incredibly sad to see the species go extinct from overfishing, which is what'll happen quickly at the rate things are going.
know of the eel a bit from similar vids and education but this is the first time that the movement of plate tectonics was brought up and the moving of the sea, answered questions i didnt relise i had.
I really enjoyed this a lot and it was the first video i saw of yours! I would have also loved to see a source list, so i could learn more about some of the specific facts mentioned, but Wikipedia will help scratch an initial itch. Thanks and do consider a source list :)
stunning visuals! PS shadows at 4:06 have the wrong blend mode perhaps and are solid black instead of semi transparent and I think only at 5:25 they have a smoothed edge, which looks way nicer
I once got to know about a mammal who also lives in stages When it has just been born, it can't even move on its own. But there comes a transition, a part of life in which they begin to walk by themselves. By then, their day to day habitat changes. They begin to prepare for a greater transition in the future. They spend so many years preparing, during which they undergo physical changes, visually and also reach sexual maturity. But they're not expected to reproduce yet. They will, instead, first go through the next big transformation, I call it the greater migration. They're supposed to, specially in the recent times, just enjoy life somewhere nice. Develop their particular traits. See the world. Like the Eels. Some do skip this step. Then, there comes another great stage in which they come back to the region close to where they were born in the first place, and there they reproduce. For that to happen, yes, a lot of them have to sacrifice their nutrition supply. After they have their offspring, these will then go through all the stages once again.
I remember learning about this about a year ago, a really fascinating creature with a very strange life cycle to be sure, considering the difficulties we've faced proving these theories even in modern times you really can't blame people in the past for thinking eels just appeared out of nowhere.
How are you pulling 1500-2000 words from memory, in one take, every time? If there is a trick, I'm not sure I want to know, would ruin the magic. Well done!
Practice! Although it helps that I spend so much time on research so can wing a sentence here or there as needed. Back in high-school I used to memorize all my essays to help pass english exams!
The life cycle of the eel is so absurd it's hard to believe. It reminds me of the things people used to make up about animals, like Aristotle wrote that birds transmuted into other birds or species like fish and animals, to explain their seasonal disappearance and reappearance, instead of the simple explanation that they migrate to warmer locations.
Curiously, on the complete opposite side of the planet, New Zealand shares a similar situation; We have a rough idea where they go, far far away across an entire ocean, but we've never actually seen adult eels in what we assume is their spawning grounds.
Studies published this year in New Zealand, have had several tags survive to their breeding points for NZ longfin eels, their breeding site has been identified to within 50 Nmi in a region of the south Fiji basin.
It's just so crazy how these animals coevolved not just with another species, but with global geography as a whole. Today their great journey makes no sense, but their great-great ancestors agreed on this place millions of years ago, so that's where they'll go.
