Why is the video out at the same time as this article?

Also the user posting this article on HN was only created 5 hours ago.

Is the US planning for war with Russia and are manufacturing consent again?

Because the video is based on the research done in this article, it even specifically calls out the article's authors in the description

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nativeit an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Is that normal? To promote a research paper in ArXiv so heavily? I think the parent comment’s concerns still apply, saying a large, well-funded YouTube channel is specifically releasing coordinated content to promote this prompts more questions than it answers, in my mind.

	▲	mbreese 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yes it is common, just not always to the scale of a Veritasium video. Usually it’s just the press office for a university putting out a press release or a summary article in Scientific American. But in the case where the story is interesting to a larger audience, having a push behind a story across non-academic media is not unheard of. If you can get some media coverage of an academic topic, it can be very beneficial to the researchers’ careers. One goal for a researcher is to bring notoriety to their research, to their institution, and to the field in general. This is the main motivation I see. The authors may have pushed the arxiv paper out earlier due to the timing of the release of the video.

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TechSquidTV an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Am I correct it looks like this was published 3 days ago? They made that video.. in essentially 2 days?

	▲	yladiz an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I doubt it based solely on that there are multiple interviews including from one of the paper’s authors. Given that Veritasium is a very well known channel at this point I wouldn’t be surprised if they were contacted instead and then roughly coordinated the timing of the paper and video release together.

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TiredOfLife 39 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Russia is currently waging a huge war with europe. While your country is helping them just like they helped nazis in ww2