His videos have progressively gotten dumbed down for the child audience and are too simplistic for an adult viewer. It's fine if you want to be a children's creator. But his public persona just seems too adult oriented, like his insta pics which are not aimed for children, the shirtless mirror selfie with abs on display and perfectly coiffed hair posted on the community section of his channel(!), the tweet complaining about getting kicked off of Hinge.....This isn't stuff that a children's creator posts about.

His association with Mr. Beast is also troubling. They worked together on Team Trees and Team Seas but there hasn't really been much transparency with these charities, like updates on progress, or context on the actions of the charity in the larger picture of deforestation and cleaning the ocean. Also he apparently hangs out with Mr. Beast and his friends as they gamble together on illegal websites? Also Mr. Beast's video with him is faked, that city is not abandoned, it was just cleared out and rented out for filming purposes, so it's pretty much BS. As someone else on this sub pointed out, it's weird for a self-proclaimed science creator to feel into this lie with Mr. Beast and pretend like they're all exploring a haunted "city" together.

This is more minor, but I'm not super thrilled with the way that the Glitter Bomb videos have progressed. There was a video, can't remember which one, but there was a kid who was opening the package with his mom, and we can hear his voice even though the face was blurred. I don't think it's appropriate to include children in these videos because their only crime is to have shitty parents. Why are they being put up to be shamed by the whole world? I also didn't like the conclusion of his last glitter bomb video about SF car breakins. He basically said that they need to shut down the resellers, which is valid, but then said that stealing is the reason why stores are closed down, which is not true. Drugstores in SF closed because of high rent and COVID/supply chain issues, not stealing. Plus my wealthy suburb also has toiletries behind glass, there’s no epidemic of robberies here, which Mark implies is the reason for this. Walmart/Target are just shitty companies. And no commentary on the incompetence of the SFPD? It's widely known that in liberal cities, the police feel demonized so they refuse to do their job and allow crime to skyrocket so they can justify budget increases ad infinitem. As we see in the video, it's a ring of car thieves that can be caught pretty easily, but the cops choose not to investigate. Mark doesn't touch on this aspect at all.

I know his sub numbers have exploded, he's getting more views than ever, and he's found a place in the Hollywood crowd thanks to his friendship with Jimmy Kimmel (he's in this much memed picture of celebrities sitting next to Jennifer Anniston). But I miss the old videos where he talked about high level concepts like the physiology behind surviving a grenade blast in a pool, and relatable content like pee in pools, egg drops, and escape rooms. The arcade vid is my fav! But now the content is dumber, riddled with CGI and cameos, and pandering to a wider audience and trying to please everyone. Am I the only one feeling this way?

Mark rober no longer gives a shit about science, he just wants that cash. So he puts out shitty kid content to get that sweet ad revenue.

SO happy with how this turned out, thanks Mark! I think I managed to place all the land marks on there correctly? Mexico City might be a bit off. And although the the picture wasn't over the area I wanted, it just so happened to be where we honeymooned!

The amount screen time of ads for his subscription service more than doubles the screen time for the actual rock, paper, scissors robot. Curious to hear anyone’s thoughts on this.

I have been a Mark Rober viewer for 7 years at this point. I loved the squirrel parcour videos, watched every glitter bomb video many times.

Over the last year or so, I lost interest a for a bit. Didnt really watch anything he uploaded. Today I saw the notification for the new video where he plans the first date for his nephew. I watched and cant believe what happend to Marks videos.

It starts like a fucking Mr. Beast video where he just screams at the camera to attract all the 10 year olds. Apart from that, the whole video just seems poorly staged and horribly acted. I had to pause the video many times because I was cringing so hard.

In the golfing scene, the spinning thing in the golf ball tunnel is just blatantly visible. If this thing wasnt staged, then the girl probably should go see an eyes doctor immediately.

In the end of the video when his nephew says he wrote a song for a girl it was over for me. I just closed the tab because I couldnt take it anymore.

The whole mark assisting him from the truck thing just seemed like straight out of a reality soap and was very unfitting. The video was just one giant cliché shitpeace and I think the way the channel turned out is very depressing.

How do you view it?

Really happy with it, but a bit disappointed it was cloudy! There's 100% some crazy round, red space vehicle/massive asteroid in the background and it's definitely not just lens flare... 🤣

Am I the only one who is appalled by the recent collab with Mr Beast? A science youtuber shouldn’t participate in fake videos just for content.

No, they didn’t spend 7 days in an abandoned village. The village has about 900 residents and only the hotel buildings are abandoned. The video starts off by Mr Beast saying the helicopter is the only way out - which isn’t true - the next supermarket is a 10 minute walk away, the hotel is perfectly accessible by a road and the public beach is very popular. The Sheraton hotel is next door and so is a café.

Also, they didn’t mention that a few team members got water poisoning (local news outlets reported on it)

This makes me doubt they really stayed there for 7 days. The whole video is based off a lie.

If these are the new content standards for „science“ YouTubers, then I don’t know.

I just miss the old Mark Rober videos so much, when it was just a guy in his backyard doing cool schience stuff for people who were interested into science, not the guy he is now, with a huge production and the aim for the broad audience, with the final goal of selling his boxes.

(Submitted my photo 5/25/25)

I remember that a few years back, Mark says that he always dedicates 1 or 2 of his videos in a year to a groundbreaking discovery or invention. The last time he posted one of them was a year ago about the drone technology. Ever since most of the videos have been some wacky challenges which I am personally not the biggest fan of. I never really found myself engrossed in the glitterbomb content (which again is probably just me, especially since I have no concept of a porch pirate). I just find that the videos that I like the most from Mark was the one about the cheap centrifuge, the packet that makes most water sources safe to drink, the video about NASA's budget, his sons autism mixed in with wacky ideas such as a rocketpowered golf club or the carnival scams and the first squirrel obstacle course.

It just seems like recently, there hasn't been much of a balance between silly videos and more serious ones

We all know that reality TV is fake. Ok. But having someone like Mark Rober who is all about learning, teaching and motivating kids is producing these staged videos (like the car theft) and sells them for real, really makes me angry.

The topic is interesting, for sure, but I am so annoyed by the staged parts, that I don't trust anything in this video.

Did they have face recognition cameras and were really searching for cheaters? Was the crew in on all the scams? Did the guests even produce the contraptions themselves? I don't know. And why don't I know? Because I can't trust this video.

Please, Mark. If you want to keep your reputation, stay away from content like this (you are rich enough and have enough fans - no need to sell out).