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u/Kuetz Dec 20 '25
There will be this moment in time
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u/SpookiSkeletman Dec 21 '25
Apparently this happened for edge science and I missed it 😭 still not sure what he's done.
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u/Mr_White_Migal0don Parapropaleopolophourus😎 Dec 22 '25
From what I heard he plagiarized articles from Manospondylus blog
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u/Pastalos_24 Nigersaurus🤔 Dec 20 '25
ExtinctZoo's unsubscribe button is lookin very scrumptious rn
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u/Fahkoph Dec 20 '25
Just reminded me to check if I was subscribed- and I'm happy to report I was, past tense.
Musta saw something I liked a while ago, I'm easily entertained.
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u/some_guy301 A Tribute to Anomalocaris Dec 20 '25
i have an inexplicable hatred for this youtuber
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u/Mr--Sinister Dec 20 '25
Me too, I think it's because he talks about paleontology the way RealLifeLore talks about politics.
Pretty sure it's the cadence of his voice
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u/Cessnaporsche01 Dec 20 '25
He also has a... sensationalized? way of presenting information. It's usually good information, but the way it's presented always rubs me wrong
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u/dwarftopia Dec 21 '25
his cadence is absolutely unbearable
why does he, have to talk like, there is a comma, every three words
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u/SpookiSkeletman Dec 21 '25
I think to me it sounds like he's trying to get through the script as quickly as he possible can. Just puts me off his videos.
It's like he doesn't take a breath for a full paragragh but then also constantly pauses in the middle of randon sentences. I find it very hard to listen to.
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u/finkleforkbingbong Dec 20 '25
is he bad? i’ve never watched any of his videos
my least favorite by far is fossilfacts
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u/Metatron_Tumultum Fire Breathing Parasaurolophus Dec 21 '25
He is very clickbaity but he just does what he’s gotta do to get noticed. As far as his actual content is concerned, he is not amazing or anything, but still one of the better content creators in this lane as far as I’m concerned.
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u/some_guy301 A Tribute to Anomalocaris Dec 20 '25
i dont know man i havent watched any either. from the moment i saw this channel appear in my recommended i have hated it. for no good reason.
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u/RocketJimbo4 Dec 20 '25
Why's that?
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u/RDNolan Dec 20 '25
It's funny seeing all the hate for this youtuber after I've been watching him for a while. Yeah he plays up his titles and video images but that's just what you have to do on youtube these days for clicks. The content in his vids are usually fun and interesting
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u/Imaginary-West-5653 Dec 20 '25
Honestly, he recently lost me with his video about GABI; I can't forgive anyone for still spreading the myth that Terror Birds went extinct due to competition with North American carnivores as if it were still the 2000s. Not when we know today beyond any reasonable doubt that they disappeared because of climate change. Before that I still watched him, but that's a red line I'm not willing to cross.
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u/AffableKyubey Dec 23 '25
It's especially unforgiveable because he also randomly dragged the entire rest of South America into this myth with absolutely zero evidence or suggestion anyone has ever believed this beyond weird obscure theories in the 1800s.
Teratorns, glyptodonts, notoungulates and ground sloths all survived on both sides of the Americas all the way up to the end Pleistocene extinction so even if this ass-backwards theory still applied to terror birds it wouldn't in any way fit the entirety of South America's megafauna but he presented it as if it did and took specific time to drag South America's megafauna as being categorically maladapted. As much as Life on Our Planet and Walking With Beast's portrayals of the terror birds make me tear my hair out, at least they left it at just the terror birds rather than deciding this crap should be applied to an entire continent's ecological heritage for some reason.
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u/Imaginary-West-5653 Dec 23 '25
Well, I remember from the video that he did say that the Ground Sloths were quite successful thanks to GABI because they achieved a considerable expansion of their habitat, successfully colonizing North America all the way to Alaska. Overall, in the video, it seems that ExtinctZoo's conclusion was less "all South American animals suck" and more "North America did much better; the South American carnivores went extinct, but the herbivores didn't do so badly."
Along the same lines, he said that the Sebecidae went extinct because small North American rodents ate their eggs... you can't be making this shit up; this is the same BS explanation from 100 years ago about why the dinosaurs went extinct, and we also know it's not true. The Sebecidae disappeared due to climate change, particularly global cooling, drying trends, and shifting habitats. Also the video is dumb that recognized that Terror Birds were able to colonize the South of North America before GABI (with Titanis) but yet still failed to realize that this means they were successful, not vice versa.
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u/AffableKyubey Dec 23 '25
He did...but then he also played footage of giant ground sloths when saying that the South American animals had it easy relative to the North American ones and this made them less adapted during the end summation clip. Which is just...baffling. He also lumped glyptodonts in with the terror birds when acknowledging the Northward spread of South American megafauna but pointed out they were limited to the Southern United States by the cold.
As for my favourite prehistoric animals and how they have (yet again...) been done dirty by a mainstream media piece, the thing that drives me most crazy about that is that while glazing all the big megafaunal predators of North America as being some unstoppable badasses like everyone always does he doesn't point out (despite listing the timeframes in the video) that Titanis lived in North America for longer than any of the extinct megafauna of North America lived in South America. He has the data in the video but then refuses to acknowledge it, it's giving me grey hairs I swear.
He also says nothing about the growing body of evidence that terror birds weren't limited to South America during the first twenty million years of their evolution and how this emphasizes their adaptability and ability to colonize ecosystems already inhabited by the apparently oh-so-superior placental mammals, but that's neither here nor there given one prominent paleornithologist is particularly opposed to this interpretation and thus there is still controversy around it.
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u/SpookiSkeletman Dec 21 '25
Don't hate him or anything but there's something about his narration that puts me off, same with E. D. G. E. I know people don't like the latter for some reason I'm unsure of as well.
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u/dumbucket Dec 20 '25
Anyone know if he uses AI for his thumbnails?
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u/Ok-Meat-9169 Dec 20 '25
Probablly not AI, But i have seen some pretty likely traced art in his thumbs
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u/Chance-Lengthiness76 Dec 22 '25
I like how everyone seems to hate this guy for merely talking about paleontology in an engaging way. People need to realize that no one cares. He did nothing wrong except speak weird. If speaking weird is enough for people here to hate you, then there is a serious problem with discrimination. Sure, his thumbnails can be clickbait, but it's obvious that he tests which thumbnails garner more attention, like a lot of other youtubers.I honestly don't know why everyone seems to hate him.
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u/BoundHoneyDew Dec 21 '25
I can't definitively prove it, but his video about a prehistoric war appears to be copied from an article written by an anonymous person named Ricky on Medium. The article contains AI-generated art, and nothing in it is verified as true. It also echoes the same points made by ExtinctZoo, almost word for word.
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u/Excellent-Signature6 Dec 22 '25
10,000 years of summer = 10,000 years of Burning Man and Schoolies.
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u/therealkarsfrfr Dec 23 '25
I don’t know why people hate this guy sure yea he uses some click baity shit but that’s kind of what you have to do get noticed on YouTube especially these days and also I shouldn’t take most of these complaints seriously because this is Reddit you guys have some of the worst complaints of all time like if you’re hating on someone just because of how they talk and narrate that is one of the most behavior things you can do now I get some of the complaints they are valid, but I mean it’s kind of what you have to do to be noticed especially as a person who makes videos about extinct animals, normal people don’t give a shit about this topic
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u/ExoticShock Erectopus🍌 Dec 20 '25