I know that Olly skinwalking Contrapoints is the most obvious point in the world to make but I thought I'd screenshot the youtube thumbnails on their respective channels and its amazing how much something so small reveals:
I was thinking about this when the Transhumanism video showed up on my recommended feed, despite my best efforts, because seeing the thumbnail gives absolutely no indication about anything noticeably transhumanist, its just Olly's big fat face plastered on with next to no additional context beyond the title. The main message you get is that this, for both Olly and Contra but especially Olly at this point since he still actually makes content, is mostly just a profile building campaign to make them feel like big celebrities, as if the camera fawning over their face while they wear whatever ridiculous, thematically appropriate costume they have should be enough of a draw in and of itself to bring in eyeballs. Note the difference compared to other educational channels like Sci-Show or Eons where they barely ever show the hosts in the thumbnail, usually only for the most casual videos, and instead its something that directly relates to the topic at hand first and foremost because they understand that while people might recognize somebody like Hank Green, the purpose of the a Channel like that is to give some basic education, not make Hank Green famous. Its more in line with something you'd see from a Fortnite streamer who makes their money gurning for the camera with wildly exaggerated reactions or being a hot girl who plays videogames.
What's particularly funny about this is that Olly actually did used to have some sense that the video thumbnail should probably revolve around the actual topic moreso than around himself, if you sort his vids by oldest you can see how things look completely different with no sign of his face at all:
Of course the actual videos are mostly just a close up of his face while he blurts out undergraduate knowledge of major philosophical figures and concepts, but at least the basic presentation was trying to be more informative and less nakedly narcissistic.
You can also see how he really cribbed from Contra's naming scheme in his recent videos too, just single words describing very broad topics, ie 'men', 'voting', 'transhumanism' or 'logic', as if we're going to get the final word on this entire topic in a rambling frequently wrong on basic facts half hour video from either of these intellectual powerhouses.