I can't watch the video but is this the extent of it? Why is this bad/wrong/shady?
Get a claim wrong > have someone point that out > correct it
Is this not how we want society to behave?
The shady part is not mentioning Coffee Break at all in this. They acted like it was completely their idea, that they did out of the goodness of their own hearts/their own personal review of their videos. When it was Coffee Break that pointed out the flaws, and asked them about what was going on there, but at the same, they were all just like "good enough" and made no mention of working on a video like this, or that they would take down the incorrect videos, or anything, when they almost certainly were planning on those things at the time because of the timeline. The whole problem is them trying to get kudos for something that wasn't their idea or anything to begin with. Especially since another part of the problem was Kurzgesagt did this all in a video called "Can you Trust us" or whatever which was basically about how awesome they are for doing this, that they don't have to do this, but they're doing it anyway because of how awesome they are and you should totally love them for not, with no mention of Coffee Break anywhere and how it obviously inspired that. It's super manipulative and not very cool, and the irony of a video on that subject winding up proving that they can't be trusted and there are things going on behind the scenes can't be understated.
It wouldn't be shady had they just admitted it. But instead, they just used it as a PR opportunity to make it seem like everything was their idea at every step when it wasn't, and when the original subject was "can you trust us" and that's how they presented it, when, as it turns out, they left stuff out... yeah definitely not a good look on their part.
