I haven't listened to the Thiel interview yet but one thing I did find striking is the truly bizarre colour grading. you can see the original on the left and my 2-second correction on the right.

you would be hard-pressed to grade this footage in a less flattering way, almost as if your explicit goal was to make the subjects look alien. blue casts are a non-starter for skin tones.

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intentional

i would be so angry i'd have my entire team down the interviewer's ass to fix this

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that was my first thought - does no one on his team like him at all?

also, it takes some little bit of tech know how to fix the problem, but not to tell the first pic is wrong

yeah, I have done this type of colour correction work (mostly for stills though) and this would be considered tremendously disrespectful. it wouldn't make it past any reasonable producer ("why is he blue...?").

They did this for their article on Bitcoin mining too. Absolutely intentional.

@jordan_vondy @wadaniel @nytimes Either you're a completely clueless hack, or you extended the bounds of your black point to wash the image out. See how theres ZERO color information (not just a low amount) below 80? This IS altered. https://t.co/6XmAG3wSyV

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great point! I totally forgot about this. to me, it is unequivocally intentional and reflects their bias.

They did this for their article on Bitcoin mining too. Absolutely intentional.
https://x.com/roryhighside/status/1645726015233351680