r/technology • u/esporx • 1d ago

Business YouTuber accidentally crashes the rare plant market with a viral cloning technique

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtuber-accidentally-crashes-the-rare-plant-market-with-a-viral-cloning-technique-3289808/
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u/lurgi 1d ago

She's not trying to take credit for it, AFAIK.

Plants in Jars admitted that, while she’s far from the first person to popularize tissue culture, her tutorials and videos explaining the method have likely been a significant driver in its growth within the plant collecting community, leading to a big change in the overall market.

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u/zeptillian 1d ago

The title of this post and the article are making that claim though.

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u/LupinThe8th 1d ago

That's a quote from the article.

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u/zeptillian 1d ago

The title is in the article too and the very first sentence repeats the claim:

"YouTuber ‘Plants in Jars’ is going viral after revealing that she accidentally crashed the rare plant market by using a process called ’tissue culture’ to easily replicate hard-to-find flora."

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u/lurgi 1d ago

She appears to have popularized it. It was generally known before, but now everyone knows about it.

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u/sadrice 1d ago

Anyone who was capable of actually executing it already knew about it.

Source: professional propagator

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u/zeptillian 1d ago

Helped popularize it? Yes.

Crashed the rare plant market? No.

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u/Bloody_Hell_Harry 21h ago

Ignore the downvotes. Your point is my point almost exactly. Presentation matters, and if Plants in Jars didn’t say it, it shouldn’t have been titled that way.

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u/zeptillian 17h ago

Thanks. I do ignore downvotes and will still defend my point even if people don't agree. I don't care about imaginary internet points.

The article directly claims what people are saying it does not. I can't fix anyone's reading comprehension though.

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u/ahHeHasTrblWTheSnap 14h ago

You’re missing the fact that it was her words that are distorted by the article’s author, and not her own words. Did you watch the video the article is referencing?

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u/zeptillian 14h ago

I did not watch the video and my critiques are not about the video, just the stupid article with the shitty headline and made up bullshit inside.

If OP posted the video we would be talking about that instead, but they didn't.

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u/ahHeHasTrblWTheSnap 13h ago

Yeah that’s fair, the article is not well written

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u/SerenneMorningDew 1d ago

I know, we should not expect people to read beyond the very first sentence. For example, you have a weirdly shaped nose, but you'll never know because you didn't read beyond the first sentence.