Michael Stevens the persona behind the YouTube sensation Vsauce, is an online personality with an entertaining approach to explaining the science behind seemingly ordinary, everyday phenomena. Michael's videos have been watched over 400 million times and Vsauce's 4.5 million subscribers continues to add an astonishing 15 thousand subscribers each day. Michael lives in London where he works for Google as an in-house consultant for other creators on the platform.

This video talks about the imfamous Giving Tree and how the interpretation of the true meaning of the book has been debated for years. As well as asking if the book is even a good book to show to children in the first place.

I remember seeing the thumbnail of the video and thinking to myself "The giving tree? What is wrong with the giving tree?" It has been awhile since I last read it but I remember the story itself about a tree who keeps on fulling requests from a boy as he grows up. However I wasn't expecting to learn about the almost double meaning of what the book is trying to say. How instead selfish and toxic the relationship is between the boy and the tree really is. As well as looking into the artist and author behind the book was another interesting dive.