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Casey Neistat

Filmmaker and YouTube Creator · 1 appearance on the record.

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Casey Neistat is an American filmmaker and YouTube creator known for pioneering cinematic daily vlogging and viral video projects. He also co-founded the multimedia company Beme and serves as an investor and advisor to hardware startup ModRetro.

14statements → 6claims → 1claims resolved → 3.93/5average certainty → 2.5/5average debate potential → 1said about them ↓

0 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 5 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 predictions · 2 assertions · 3 opinions · 5 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 5 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Casey argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up
Neistat: Every MrBeast Video Gets More Views Than the Super Bowl
“Every video he posts does more views than the Super Bowl we'll do this year. With Taylor Swift, he will do more views with every video he posts.”
Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 22:41 #32: Taylor Swift vs. MrBeast w/ Casey Neistat and Ricky Van Veen · More or Less Podcast

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Casey Neistat on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Casey Neistat said on More or Less that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Casey Neistat: TikTok is a platform for sensationalism, not creativity
“I don't think it's a platform for creativity. I think it's a platform for sensationalism all the way through and through.”
Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 43:27 #32: Taylor Swift vs. MrBeast w/ Casey Neistat and Ricky Van Veen · More or Less Podcast
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Neistat: Every MrBeast Video Gets More Views Than the Super Bowl
“Every video he posts does more views than the Super Bowl we'll do this year. With Taylor Swift, he will do more views with every video he posts.”
Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 22:41 #32: Taylor Swift vs. MrBeast w/ Casey Neistat and Ricky Van Veen · More or Less Podcast
Opinion
Casey Neistat: TikTok built the greatest video creation toolset ever made
“I think that what they've done that no one talks about is they've created the single greatest video creation tool tool set that anyone's ever done.”
Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 42:31 #32: Taylor Swift vs. MrBeast w/ Casey Neistat and Ricky Van Veen · More or Less Podcast
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Neistat: Generative AI Will Steamroll Bottom 90% of Content Creators
“Broadly, I think that it's going to just steamroll the bottom 90% of creators, because the bottom 90% of creators make content that's either, you know, it's made to look like someone else's, or sort of trying to emulate someone else that don't know what to do,…”
Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 44:47 #32: Taylor Swift vs. MrBeast w/ Casey Neistat and Ricky Van Veen · More or Less Podcast
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Neistat: AI avatars will never close the authenticity gap with real humans
“So you said it's not a hundred percent you, but it's 60% you. So maybe in two years, they'll get it to be like 80% you, and then they'll get it to 90%, then 95%, 97 point. They're never going to close that Gap.”
Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 51:01 #32: Taylor Swift vs. MrBeast w/ Casey Neistat and Ricky Van Veen · More or Less Podcast
Opinion
Neistat: Elon Musk Deserved Pay Package Because He 'Delivered'
“It's like he fucking delivered. What do you want?”
Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 8:23 #32: Taylor Swift vs. MrBeast w/ Casey Neistat and Ricky Van Veen · More or Less Podcast
Insight
Neistat: Creators Striving for Universal Appeal Are Either Failing or Average
“Universal appeal is almost taboo. If everybody likes you, you're probably doing something wrong or you're just average.”
Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 22:15 #32: Taylor Swift vs. MrBeast w/ Casey Neistat and Ricky Van Veen · More or Less Podcast
Insight
Casey Neistat: No traditional celebrity fame compares to internet fame
“I was extremely naive to the fame aspect of it. Like there is no fame, like YouTube fame, like internet fame.”
Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 32:03 #32: Taylor Swift vs. MrBeast w/ Casey Neistat and Ricky Van Veen · More or Less Podcast
Insight
Neistat: Digital perfection erases humanity and breaks audience connection
“I had a lecture that I used to give called Perfection Erases Humanity, and it was largely directed at CGI when it was exploding a dozen years ago, which is that we can now make everything perfect. Everything perfect. And in that perfection, there's no sign of …”
Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 56:12 #32: Taylor Swift vs. MrBeast w/ Casey Neistat and Ricky Van Veen · More or Less Podcast
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Neistat: More signs for Taylor Swift at Bills game than for any player
“I think the most remarkable thing I saw was there were more signs in the audience that said Taylor or cutouts of Taylor Swift than there were for any other athlete or either team.”
Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 14:41 #32: Taylor Swift vs. MrBeast w/ Casey Neistat and Ricky Van Veen · More or Less Podcast
Insight
Neistat: Creator Economy Now Supports a Viable Middle Class
“10 years ago, if you weren't one of those people at the top, you really couldn't. There was no middle class. And we're seeing now a middle class of celebrity, of influencer, of creator.”
Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 21:23 #32: Taylor Swift vs. MrBeast w/ Casey Neistat and Ricky Van Veen · More or Less Podcast
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Neistat: Young kids make no distinction between Disney+, YouTube, and Netflix
“My kids don't differentiate what source the content's coming from. To them, there's no distinction between Disney+, YouTube, and Netflix.”
Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 41:42 #32: Taylor Swift vs. MrBeast w/ Casey Neistat and Ricky Van Veen · More or Less Podcast
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Neistat: Creators with Unique Perspectives Will Be Valued More Due to AI
“And it's going to force me to focus on the one thing that I can do uniquely because I have a unique perspective, just like, you know, every, you know, musician or filmmaker or photographer who has a unique perspective, they will be valued more because everythi…”
Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 45:46 #32: Taylor Swift vs. MrBeast w/ Casey Neistat and Ricky Van Veen · More or Less Podcast
Insight
Neistat: Defuse fan encounters by taking the selfie yourself
“All anybody wants is the selfie. Number one, don't ever wait for them to ask. The minute they're approaching, give me your phone with a smile. And then like they're diffused and they're ready to go. And then number two, I always take the picture.”
Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 39:00 #32: Taylor Swift vs. MrBeast w/ Casey Neistat and Ricky Van Veen · More or Less Podcast

The other half of the tape: Casey Neistat's own voice is left out of every number here. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Statements about Casey Neistat, by other people (1)

Insight
Lessin: AI makes expensive content cheap, causing audiences to stop caring
“There's a whole economy of how much did you actually invest in something, and therefore how do I interact with it? People, to Casey's point, are subconsciously unbelievably sophisticated at, right? And so the more you understand that, and that's why I think th…”
Sam Lessin Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 55:52 #32: Taylor Swift vs. MrBeast w/ Casey Neistat and Ricky Van Veen · More or Less Podcast

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
#32: Taylor Swift vs. MrBeast w/ Casey Neistat and Ricky Van Veen · More or Less Podcast Feb 2, 2024 20m
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