Who Explains the Most? An Analysis of Educational YouTubers
Jose Nicholas Francisco
What color is a mirror? Where did the name Tiffany come from? What does it take to become an expert at something?
Well, if you’ve been on what one might call the “Explainer” side of YouTube, the answers to these questions may already be laying dormant in the back of your mind.
Creators like VSauce, CGP Grey, and Veritasium make in-depth videos that not only give their audience the straightforward answers to these questions, but also reveal eye-opening, and sometimes jaw-dropping information that you didn’t know you didn’t know.
If you haven’t yet explored ExplainerTube, it’s a deep rabbit hole. Even if the content just rehashes what you already know, you’ll at the very least leave entertained. Creators in this space cover a lot of ground, from niche topics in logistics to emerging areas of physics research. We’ll be analyzing the output of the following channels: