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This kid has started a pretty good youTube channel on early animals.
(He also has a boatload of informative bird videos but obviously I'm here for the arthropods)
I really enjoy the simple but essentially accurate drawings in this video mixed with photos of fossils. With cambrian animals it's tempting and fun to get imaginative. But these simple drawings represent the limit of what we really know.
Also, they are the kind of drawings that make you want to try drawing these creatures yourself. This is one of the best ways to understand them better regardless of the quality of your results.
@futurebird Wait what?! That's amazing work! I'm 2 minutes in, subscribing with an aggressive click. 
There are still good things on the internet. And good things being added to the internet on the daily. I wish people would link more of the good low-view count videos they find. These only have like 600 views, but the quality is excellent.
We need to work to expose the real internet which is stuff posted by people who care about it a lot.
Oh! If you post a youTube link here strip everything after the first '?' in the url to remove trackers and other assorted nonsense.
@futurebird @todymotmot Definitely remove the “si={string of text}” which my brain autocompletes to “share ID.”
@futurebird @todymotmot Could we generate noise instead? Like, "?advice=drink_ovaltine&brush_teeth"?
Will the link still work? I think it might. It's just telling the server variable it doesn't care about.
However you will make the nervous little bot who tries to clean up such URLs around here upset if you do that.
@futurebird @todymotmot thank you. did mot know this
@futurebird @todymotmot yes.
In this vein, you may find this post from Ethan Zuckerman interesting
ethanz@social.coop - "From WEIRD to Wide", my talk at CSCW 2024 about "quotidian" YouTube and TikTok video, and the need to study content creation in Global Majority countries: https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/01/13/from-weird-to-wide-my-keynote-at-cscw-2024-in-costa-rica/ d