Psych2Go is an American educational YouTuber covering topics related to psychology, including facts about mental health disorders, relationships and personality traits. Their videos are usually animated, and feature a white humanoid character carrying out actions they are describing along with annotations.
Face reveal[]
On November 7, 2020, the channel uploaded a video entitled "The VOICE Behind Psych2Go's Videos", revealing the videos to be voiced by Canadian YouTuber Amanda Silvera.
Other channels[]
Foreign languages[]
Psych2Go has various localised channels:
- Psych2Go DE (German)
- Psych2Go Español (Spanish)
- Psych2Go Hungary (Hungarian)
- Psych2go Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Psych2Go Japan (Japanese)
- 심리툰 Psych2Go Korea/간편심리 Psych2Go (Korean)
- Psych2go на русском (Russian)
- Psych2Go Thai (Thai)
- Psych2go Mandarin (Mandarin Chinese)
Psych2Go Talk[]
Psych2Go Talk takes submissions, animates them and pays the writer for their contribution.[1] The first video was uploaded on February 26, 2021.[2]
Psych2Go Education[]
This channel focuses on "solution and advice."[3] The first video was uploaded on May 19, 2020.[4]
Soothifying[]
Soothifying was created in partnership with a fan, and captures everyday things that could be calming.[5]
Controversy[]
Video about autism[]
On August 2, 2020, Psych2Go uploaded "What Is High Functioning Autism? 7 Things You Should Know". The video was criticized by many autistics for a variety of reasons. The issues included the use of terms such as “high functioning”, “milder form”, and “Asperger’s”. It was also criticized for portraying autism as negative, mentioning ABA (an abusive practice) and treatment, and the use of puzzle pieces as a symbol.
The channel pinned a comment on the video apologizing for misinformation and carelessness. They explained in the comment that: “autism is not an illness. Being autistic does not mean you have an illness or disease. It means your brain works in a different way from other people and there's nothing wrong with that!”. The comment ended with the statement that: “We are truly sorry for hurting people with this misinformation. We have left out the voices of the people from the autism community in this video. As a way to apologize, we decided to unlist this video from the public because it’s better off not being accessible to the public to stop the spread of this hurtful information.” The video was public for a while until being fully unlisted in around 2021-2022. The title also has been updated to include "(DO NOT PUBLISH)" in the title.
Trivia[]
- Many of their earliest videos were filmed using a camera as opposed to being animated, and featured an actor presenting the information to the viewers.
- They are a fan of Genshin Impact and some of their thumbnails feature its characters.[6]
- They also use a lot of popular characters from other popular games/videos such as DDLC, Yandere Sim, Omori etc.[7]
- They also once made a reference to Levi Ackerman from the anime Attack on Titan.
References[]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/post/UgwUSEDzeqWlLXNzBxp4AaABCQ
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_mUKE9ble4
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugw_oChZ4ucnCeoD3Np4AaABCQ
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j_qiBnnN5I
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/post/UgyqW_q7pVcJhksf6NV4AaABCQ
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZLVg5KpTGQ
- ↑ https://youtu.be/475XZVLp7TU