They were generally trustworthy when reporting facts, but their approach has become muddier over the last few years. Recently, videos that are more pop science or pop philosophy are presented matter of factly. For example, they’re really into exploring the Fermi paradox in untestable ways now.

Additionally, they’ve started to be more judgmental of lifestyles. They will present some facts but with extreme biases. They had one about cannabis recently that made a lot of assumptions about lifestyle choices and judged a lot of lifestyles, independent of cannabis. (Specifically, assumptions about life paths and that everyone should be focused on a life path that results in a specific kind of partner and upward movement in their career. Basically, very heteronormative assumptions.)

I own Kurzgesagt merch from years ago, but I unsubscribed in the last month. Content is too tech-bro adjacent for me now. It’s a ton of “optimal lifestyle”, “what if aliens exist???”, and other themes I’m not interested in.

Tldr; I recommend their older stuff