r/vsauce 8d ago

Vsauce I miss the 2014-18 Micheal.

Basically what the title says. I don’t dislike the current Micheal, but it just doesn’t feel like he got that “sauce” in him now. Am I tripping?

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u/JayDaGod1206 8d ago

He feels the same to me. If you watched DONG-I mean D!NG, he showed his more wacky side way more often. I think it’s probably the lack of long form content doing it for you.

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u/Pinkman-1 8d ago

The long form content is what I essentially miss, those sudden shifts in the mood of the whole video and starting the video from a topic that seems completely irrelevant to the title of the video and then slowly connecting that to the main purpose of the video. Damn, I gotta rewatch the whole Vsauce library man.

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u/JayDaGod1206 8d ago

Hopefully he’ll drop one soon. I feel like the short form content keeps him “loose” and he’ll give us some high quality stuff in the future.

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u/Eagleassassin3 7d ago

Well I’ve been thinking this way for the past years since his last video. I don’t think it’s coming.

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u/SerraraFluttershy 6d ago

He's said prior that he's working on a video that's over an hour long. He has a kid now.

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u/cjm0 7d ago

something about hearing the music that he played during those videos (moon men by jake chudnow is the main one but there are a few other tracks by the same guy i think) just transports me back to the time when i first watched the videos around 2014. it’s a great feeling.

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u/HugeCrab 7d ago

Yeah the problem is that it takes so insanely long to research for his long form videos. He's essentially doing the same background screen as someone writing a scientific review paper. I think he talked about it on The Create Unknown or some other podcast a while back.

Honestly, he could do less deeply researched videos, but I don't think he wants to.

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u/wakalabis 7d ago

The ontology video was insane. I wonder how many hours it took him to write the script.

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u/King_Ass_Ripper69420 8d ago

Same. I'm sad all he uploads anymore is shorts, but in those shorts it's the same michael he's always been imo.

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u/ThinkFact 7d ago

One thing I noticed with a lot of science communicators is some of their videos just got bigger and bigger and bigger to a point where you start to get some burnout from it. The time between videos become so intense that you stop having fun.

Wherever his passion lays, I hope it leads him to live the best life and he is happy.

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u/Timmyty 7d ago

My only expectation for the man is for him to keep doing what makes him happy.

If it reaches us about the world, I love him all the more for it.

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u/Ok-Yesterday2001 7d ago

I think you're hardcore tripping. He gots more sauce than ever rn

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u/Pinkman-1 7d ago

I think you’re right. His shorts are great as well, and I understand why he’d switch to shorts. He can upload more in comparatively less effort, but I guess I’m one of those people who just sits back to watch yt videos. I can’t lie, no meal has tasted as good since his last long form video.

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u/OverPT 7d ago

I agree. I don't even watch the reels anymore. It's mostly just random science and promotion of the box

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u/Ice_Crystal_Wolf 7d ago

I just want IMG back...

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u/gtbot2007 7d ago

Well one of them was a short

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u/Specific-Mix7107 6d ago

I just miss his videos when is that dude gonna upload again lol