Philosophy professors define 'pseudo-intellectualism' for oliSUNvia, and viewers keep asking
A street-interview video from the Toronto creator's back catalog has passed 1.4 million views and still draws the most daily traffic on a channel with nothing new this week.
oliSUNviaStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
i asked philosophy professors to define PSEUDO-INTELLECTUALISM
Olivia, the creator behind oliSUNvia, posted nothing new over the past seven days, and her channel did not slow down for it. If anything it sped up: daily views are running about half again above their usual level.
Most of that lift points back to one video. "i asked philosophy professors to define PSEUDO-INTELLECTUALISM" is well over a year old, past 1.4 million views, and still pulls in several times more each day than anything else she has up. The description bills it as continuing Socrates' legacy of bugging people with philosophy questions, and the chapters show how far it wanders: what separates the real thing from the imitation, whether philosophy itself is pseudo-intellectual, how academics might earn back trust, and whether social media is a net plus or minus. The tags name a few universities, Toronto among them.
Behind it sit two of her essays. "surveillance is an EXISTENTIAL threat: why we need more strangers" builds on philosopher Lowry Pressly's argument for a right to be forgotten, face-recognition glasses and context collapse included. "to be loved is to be understood, but to be human is to change" sets Sartre's idea of the self as both object and subject against Alexandra Kollontai's writing on love.
Among the explainer and history channels around her size, Geography By Geoff and FORGOTTEN HISTORY are having the loud weeks, while Lindybeige is quieter than usual. For a channel whose about line promises to be open-minded, empathetic and critical, it fits that the video doing the work is the one where she mostly listens.
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Socrates, whose habit of questioning people oliSUNvia jokingly continues, was a philosopher from which ancient city?
Socrates lived and taught in Athens, where he was tried and sentenced to death in 399 BC.
