Culturix is a video encyclopedia of the world with a sense of humour: short videos about places, history, science and culture, each made from a real source you can check. Until now you could only watch them here, on the Culturix World feed. From today, our videos are also on YouTube and TikTok as Kulcha.
If you like learning something in under a minute, whether that is a fact about a country you have never visited, the story behind a famous landmark or why a popular belief is wrong, this is where to follow along.
Where to find us
- YouTube: Kulcha (@kulchaworld)
- TikTok: @kulcha.world
- Instagram: @kulcha_world
Three series on one channel
On YouTube, the Kulcha channel is organised into three playlists. Each one has its own tone, but they share the same idea: short videos that are fun to watch and do not make things up.
World: the world explained in short videos
World is the heart of the channel. These are short explainers about places, history, science and culture: a historic site, a natural wonder, an animal, an invention, a tradition. Think of them as short history videos and facts about countries, told with a light touch. World videos start from a source, and that source is linked so you can read the full story yourself. You can browse them by theme or by place in the World feed.
Not So Fast: popular misconceptions, debunked
In Not So Fast, three animal hosts, Gaston, Pip and the Wolf, take a popular misconception, the kind of thing everyone has heard and few people have checked, and take it apart. The facts in each episode come from a cited source, so the correction is not just one more opinion. Watch every Not So Fast episode on the site.
Kulcha Toons: comedy sketches about trends
Kulcha Toons are short comedy sketches about what people are talking about right now, played by a recurring cast of characters such as Kumar. They are the most playful part of the channel: less encyclopedia, more sketch show. Each one riffs on a real news story or tradition, and that story is linked. Watch Kulcha Toons on the site.
Why short videos with sources?
A lot of what people learn about the world now comes from short videos, and plenty of them are confidently wrong. A clip can be entertaining and still leave you with a fact that falls apart the moment you look it up.
We wanted the opposite: culture explained quickly, without losing the trail back to where the facts came from. Each World video begins with a real source, such as a Wikipedia article or a UNESCO World Heritage listing, and the script is written from that source. Videos link to their source, and new videos are reviewed before publishing.
The humour is there because facts stick better when they are fun. The tone is light; the facts come from the source.
How to find a video's source
Checking a video should take seconds, not a research project. On culturixcloud.com:
- Open any video from the World feed.
- On a computer, open the “Details” tab next to the player. On a phone or tablet, tap the page icon beside the video and the transcript and source slide up from the bottom of the screen.
- Read the transcript, then follow the source link to the original article or listing.
If a short video on social media made you curious, the version on the site is the quickest way to the source behind it.
Watching on the site
Everything on Culturix is free to watch, with no account. The site is available in English, French, German and Spanish, and you can switch language from the menu at the top of any page. Besides the feed, you can explore videos on a map of the world, open a country to see the videos about it, or filter by theme: places, natural phenomena, species, technology and more.
A good place to start: browse the newest videos, or jump straight to Not So Fast if you want a misconception corrected before lunch.
Follow along
Subscribe to Kulcha on YouTube for all three series in one place, and follow @kulcha.world on TikTok if that is where you scroll, or @kulcha_world on Instagram. And whenever a video leaves you wanting more, the full catalogue, with its sources, is here onCulturix.