We Made A New Channel!

TL;DR

Kurzgesagt launched "Nightshift – Kurzgesagt After Dark," a new channel for darker, story-driven historical content.

Key Points

• 1.The channel's debut video covers the 1809 pirate raid on Sanshan, China, where 2,000 villagers were killed and 80 severed heads were left as a warning.
• 2.The story explores why Qing Dynasty China — governing 300–400 million people and running the world's largest economy — couldn't protect its own coastal villages from pirates.
• 3.China is portrayed as the "Middle Kingdom," a 2,000-year-old civilization that invented gunpowder and paper money, yet was ruled by the Manchu Qing dynasty, who conquered it in 1644 and kept the existing system intact.