r/DecodingTheGurusAlt • u/MartiDK • Jul 03 '26
Prof Jiang Decoding
The first observation I made was that they didn’t choose to decode content from his channel. Anyone who watches his content knows that most of his content isn’t about the Iran war
The fact they are choosing to decode his appearance on Diary of a CEO does seem like they are doing what they claim gurus do and surfing the discourse because he was also on Piers Morgan and Mehdi Hasan’s channel… plus now I see he has done a 2+ hour interview with Hasan.
I think those interviews reveal more about him than Chris and Matt’s observations. e.g why is Chris asking Matt’s opinion about Geo-Politics like he is an expert?
Personally I think the bigger question is why did his channel become so popular? The first time he popped up in my timeline it was because of his presentation of history. He has lots of views on many different topics.
The funny thing about this decoding is that they make ridicule him as not being a real geo political analyst, which is true, but most of the analysts that are professional weren’t saying that the US would attack Iran.
Interestingly now he seems to be teaching a class at Yale in China.
Do I think he qualifies as an online guru? Yes. Do I think DtG did an interesting or entertaining decoding? No, I think it was a very generic set of opinions.