About That Idris Elba Gold Documentary
About That Idris Elba Gold Documentary
Clickbait Title: Can this magical metal make you immortal? Godkings hate this one weird trick!
This was a lot of fun to work on because I got to spend a lot of time learning THE TRUTH ABOUT GOLD and by that I mean actually interesting facts about how humans use gold. The mythology of gold actually makes a lot of sense through the lens of its…
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I really would watch the good version of a gold documentary
I had similar thoughts when I briefly turned to ad-based streaming to watch new episodes of Rick and Morty. Every ad break was from a different jewelry company selling diamond wedding rings, which at first seemed to be a waste of ad money for a demographic that likely is not old enough to have money or reason to buy very expensive jewelry right now, nor are they likely interested in purchasing it for themselves. Then I noticed that the ads, while from different companies, all carried the same through-line that marrying a partner requires a hefty investment of multiple thousands of dollars in diamonds and Precious Metals™, and the amount of your investment is a direct correlation to the amount of love you have for your partner. That's when it dawned on me that they weren't encouraging men to go out and buy jewelry after the episode ended—they were specifically reinforcing to the next generation of boys the invented notion that an insane investment in diamonds is a requirement for their last rite of passage into manhood.
You say nothing in 40 minutes. It's watered down to say the most agreeable crap; 'Propoganda bad' or 'Enviornmental damage bad.'
The thing that got me is the fixation on “born in the heart of dying stars”
Because, y’know what ELSE is born in the heart of dying stars?
Iron! The same element that forms a critical atomic component of hemoglobin, and allows your red blood cells to carry oxygen to your tissues
Lo e your stuff!
GOWD
Don't forget about diamonds. Blood diamonds and child labor. Take me home country road.
After reading Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara, this film takes on a more sinister and more disgusting form. With the horrible conditions of mines in The Congo, it feels like they intentionally choose an African spokesperson.
have lived in south africa for a long time (decades); history about gold in the bipoc communities here is always about how rich white cishet british (and sometimes dutch/french) capitalist settler colonists have, and still do, exploited indigenous peoples, displaced whole ethnic groups (think about how johannesburg, its nickname "the city of gold" was 'founded') , funded and directly participated in genocide of those peoples, etc etc etc for that element on the periodic table – even sanitised history books in the curriculum (at least when studied in cape town and north west provinces almost a decade ago) have stated how bad that was and how its negatively impacting the environment now…this documentary is cishet capitalist settler colonist revisionist history and its gross; abolish this shit, riot – almost cried when the clip of an actual exploited black mine worker was used to further this shitty propaganda about gold
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One of my close friends obtained gold jewelry from her mother, I want to acknowledge the actual financial independence south Asian women get from gold because of it. She admitted she got it from hand me downs or a genuine unethical lake, but its reason to give down is to give financial independence to a woman seeking financial independence. She, as a terrible mind you, acknowledge the terrible system behind gold and the security behind it. She was able to give her child something that could give her a little financial dependence, but considering living and scholastic costs…it's meant bearly anything to her to give up…
Wow, how much did they pay him? Some large nuggets of gold, presumably.
This guys face is adorable. I want to kiss him, but not really shag him.
The price of gold is skyrocketing this means a big War is coming….
I don't believe it. Dan said "is comprised of" where he should have said "comprises". Is he ok?
Love the vid – New Zealand is itself in the global south however, gave me a double take with that one [ 31:48 ]
when i heard the outro music i immediately thought of terry pratchetts discworld dwarfs and their all time hit "gold"
You’re all watching this on devices that need gold to function.
What a fantastic video. Have postponed watching it for so long but it was really worth the time
Ah yeah, Aotearoa's gold mining history is very normal and not full of mass murder, union busting, climate destruction, genocide and desecration. /s
Even just googling "New Zealand mine" you're gonna learn about Pike River (it's been 14 years and seventeen bodies are still unaccounted for btw neither major party's government can commit to retrieiving them because it's that physically unsafe for humans.)
Also, Reefton is a little suspect as an example given that it was founded by Pakēhā settlers who were there for gold mining and that only, you know it being the site of a huge miner's strike and lockout in the 1910s that disproportionately targeted the working class ( and often Māori) miners resulting in the cops killing a man in Waihi, but nah don't worry about it look at some stock film of a wēka.
As a big energy lobbyist this is so fun to watch. Great insights. Im taking notes lol
Naming your gold propaganda “GoldHub” is low key spot on in a way I don’t think was intended
What, you didn't press 'skip'?
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If this had been a documentary about gold, the mineral (?), the human race's historical relationship to it, and whatnot, narrated by Idris Elba, it'd probably have been nice!
Hey, so…any chance of uploading the opening "song" separately.
"Reddit atheist comments on things he doesn't understand in a refreshingly condescending and all knowing tone" a good summary.
Gold is the og crypto
Communist cope.
IF you knew what Vale and BHP did in Brazil… you'd be depressed, really
Great doc! Again
Rewatching the intro I selfishly hope Dan is getting the same weird AI Illuminati alien interference ads I’ve been getting because the video he’d make on it would be amazing
This guy’s leftist is showing lol
3 minutes in & the best the gold docu is gonna be is a fluff piece & at worse a fluff piece the ignores, says it does not happens or it is not so bad as people say the exploitation that happens with gold mining
The colonialism part is wild. The documentary wants to say "yeah, black miners were oppressed from all the mining they had to do. But they also had a leverage in that they could cease mining operations to demand to stop being oppressed" like what
went to a rock and mineral show one time and there was a booth selling gold for crypto
"The Forbidden Gatorade" You are the best.
I can’t tell if that tee shirt is a crew neck or v neck, however… I can see that’s it’s gold 🤟
I clicked off the video at 30 seconds and had to come back because the punchline happened right as the page unloaded. lol
Huh, haven't seen your vids in a few years and I see you've grown in popularity. Too bad you've leaned into populist "takes" though. I enjoyed your older style much more.
Please stop mining Gold. It will make it even more valuable
Love to see the Berkley Pit make a cameo
28:29 “This is not a miner problem”🔥✍️
I finally, last night, got an ad for this documentary.
Are you going to make a video about "The Sound of Freedom"?
I'm guessing it now, Dan's next video is about AI, and I hope it does to AI what his NFT video did for Crypto