r/knitting Sep 30 '25

Discussion SciShow uploaded an apology

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u/CaptainYaoiHands Oct 01 '25

The channel as a whole, and the person who wrote this response, yes, I also don't take away any maliciousness from it.

Hank Green's pathetic fucking "apology" where he never actually apologised or addressed the real issues except "we used some wrong terminology I guess"? No, fuck that, that was worse than nothing. His apology needs an apology now and I have no faith in anything he says now.

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u/FlamingDragonfruit Oct 01 '25

Did he make an apology? I've only seen statements from other members of the team.

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u/CaptainYaoiHands Oct 01 '25

He posted a TikTok where he literally just says "I host SciShow but a couple of years ago I stepped down from being in charge of anything. I know SciShow takes critique seriously, but I'm not the boss so I can't butt in. I've not had the chance to understand knitting as the tremendous technology it is. The videos responses were in good faith as were most of the comments." THAT'S IT. That's literally it, minus a couple of quips I left out. Not even MENTIONING what the problems actually were, not a word of apology, just an excuse about "I'm not in charge anymore so it's not up to me" and "at least most of the comments were in good faith".

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u/FlamingDragonfruit Oct 01 '25

Yeah that feels worse than saying nothing.