Mai Thi Nguyen Kim
She gives up her YouTube channel “MaiLab”.
Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim says goodbye to her YouTube channel “MaiLab”.
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Host Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim has announced the end of her YouTube channel MaiLab. The channel has almost 1.5 million subscribers.
A real shock for all “MaiLab” fans: The presenter Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim (35) announced the end of her YouTube channel. But she wanted “not to be sad, but to be grateful”, says the 35-year-old in her “most difficult ‘MaiLab’ video ever”. She has been running the channel, which currently has almost 1.5 million subscribers, since 2016. Her trademark: packaging scientific content in such a way that laypeople can also understand it.
Especially in the wake of the corona pandemic, she made it her mission to counter false claims and to provide information about the current scientific status. For this she was awarded the Grimme Prize, the Nannen Prize and the Federal Cross of Merit.
These are the reasons for the end
The journalist, who also has a doctorate in chemistry, gives several reasons for the end. On the one hand, a second child is on the way, which will take up additional time. In addition, SWR editor Melanie Gath, an important part of her team, will no longer be available for personal reasons.
You’ve “thought for a long time how I can stick to ‘MaiLab’ – with two children and without Melanie,” says Nguyen-Kim. But the high quality standards can no longer be met under the given conditions. “We don’t want to upload anything here, just premium stuff,” she explains.
Nguyen-Kim continues to explain on TV
After all: As a TV presenter, Nguyen-Kim will continue to be active after her baby break. For example, she will soon be presenting the program “MAITHINK X – The Show” again. This is basically pursuing the same goal as “MaiLab” on YouTube up until now: picking up viewers on scientific topics in an uncomplicated way. Nguyen-Kim only confirmed this to the news agency spot on news in September.
Science “should not be an exclusive academic club because it contains so many beautiful things,” she said in an interview. “And I’m really happy that through my work I’m contributing to the fact that you don’t have to study it to have anything to do with it.”
One always looks for topics “where many questions and discussions arise,” she reveals. They should then also like to be distributed “across the board”. “But that’s not that difficult, because science plays a role in every imaginable area of our lives,” explained the journalist.