Trap streets and paper towns
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Digging up the pop culture peculiarities and nonsense that exists in the darkness on the edge of town.
"None of these things exist."
**THIS EXISTS**
The fact that these things do not exist itself exists
There's always one... **whoosh**
*_"EXISTENCE EXISTS"_*
Cross reference multiple different maps or encyclopedias with AI and weed out the filler. Problem solved.
I use the canary trap,
I write my address slightly different for each time I am asked when purchasing online. That way I know who is selling my address when I get junk mail.
i do the same thing, spell the road wrong everytime
forfluf Thanks for the tip, I'll have to start using that one.
I think they're onto me. Every time I order something, I write my address with slightly changed details, but all the people I buy from immediately catch on and I never get what I ordered!
I tried this. I changed my street address from 19 to 29 so I'll let you know how it goes! Funny enough I've got a new neighbor at 29 of my street and they have nearly the same taste as I do. It's like everything I order they do too
Does nobody understand this thread is a joke yet?????
A friend created a Wikipedia entry on a fictitious character we created with some friends inside a videogame.
We took a screenshot of it before it got deleted and we post it in forums or conversations sometimes if the context calls for it. People buy it.
ZZXJANW is not even a Maori word. Maori does not contain Z or X. One would only have to look at their language briefly to see that.
THIS
Yes, thank you for mentioning this!
May-Oi-Rey, What the fuck? How did u butcher that that badly?
why are you arguing with the video as if the channel made up the word...lol
phonetics bitch
...Wouldn't this lead to problems with GPS and self-driving cars, or something?
"Turn left into Notarealstreet."
But they'll just have to ignore them
Only if they made their fake street go somewhere. Your GPS is never going to direct you onto a no outlet street since none of the addresses that would be accessible by taking it exist.
It's not quite a paper town, but back in the 1927, British soldiers surveying an area of the Gold Coast (now Ghana) got bored and drew a 300 ft elevation contour in the shape of an elephant on an official British Army map. It went unnoticed for some time and reappeared on several other maps years later.
Some people have too much time on their hands making paper towns. If it rains, they are royally fucked lol.
Haha! 😂
Apparently Ordinance Survey maps are far more subtle, they will add an extra building to say a farm, rather than a whole street.
A company that I worked for used canary traps to confuse the situation more than track leaks. When the information was shared, it would eventually lead to people hearing 2 or 3 different things. Then few people could not piece together the truth. Many even gave up trying.
For the TV show "Columbo", the character's name is "Frank Columbo." It's shown on his badge and name plaque. However, when Fred L. Worth wrote his "The Trivia Encyclopaedia", his name was written as "Philip" as a copyright trap.
The game Trivial Pursuit later used it and was sued by Worth. But the case didn't go anywhere. The verdict was "The truth cannot be copyrighted."
my favorite paper town would have to be atlantis.
Oh damn that canary trap is kind of what Tyrion did in Game Of Thrones to catch who was selling him out to Cersei.
There was a reverse trap street in my neighborhood in Philadelphia. I tried for ten years to *get* it on a map. . Labeled Fishers Lane at the north end and "I" Street at the other it has a historic stone bridge dated 1756 in the middle. For most of the 20th century it was a popular shortcut with thousands of cars a day using the tiny two lane road.The north end was recently demolished for safety reasons, making it a cul-de-sac. Ironically, Google Maps now has it listed, including the missing "I" St.
I'd hope a GPS won't try to have you take a fake street. We already have people driving into lakes when their GPS tells them to.
+Jenna Germain THE OFFICE!!! OO
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Only an issue if they made their fake street go somewhere. Your GPS is never going to direct you onto a no outlet street since none of the addresses that would be accessible by taking it exist.
+Nevir202 It was a reference to a TV show, so yeah.
Identity Crisis
I see, hard to tell because what she said has literally happened.
Just use open street maps dataset then. Far more accurate and detailed anyways.
I'm from Germany.... Love your show! There is a not so well known Student in a town called "Jena" (its close to my birthplace) where the students of the local university invented a fake student to cash in on the "BaföG", wich is the german gouvernment support for students (similar to student loans). The fake Student was never dissmissed by the university so people thought it would be funny to take exams in his name. 15 years later the nonexistent person actually graduated from the university XD I wonder who would take the time to pass exams for somebody else! ^^
Chateau Chat
but who ever did it passed the student. so they didn't need to do that to begin with
A Person that does not exist!
On a side note: The picture of Jakob Maria Mierscheid was used for a fictional character named "Karl Ranseier" in the german late night show "RTL Samsatg Nacht" (think of it as a german version of Saturday Night Live) during the 1990s. They had a (parody) news segment where sometimes they announced that Karl Ranseier is dead ("Karl Ranseier ist tot"). In those announcements he always had a weird job, talent or invention, but was the most abortive person in/with it. Word plays were used to describe his life and in most cases his job, talent etc. was also the cause of his death
For example (very short since most of the word plays only work in german): Karl Ranseier is dead. The most abortive cook of all time was teased for his mayo-nose since kindergarten [...] Later on he lost all his money at the roulade tables [...] He lost his life yesterday in the former capital city at a Bonn-duel. (Bonn was the capital city of west germany during the cold war)
No, it actually seems to be the other way around. The picture of Karl Ranseier was used later on for Merscheid. The picture apparently is taken from the private photo album of Jacky Dreksler who invented the character.
I was only recently thinking about Karl Ranseier and now he appears on my current favorite TH-cam channel and finally prompts me to figure out what it is all about...I had no idea about all of that Merscheid business. How cool is that?
The Karl Ranseier bits are probably the only thing from that show that gained some kind of international fame. Well, Die Doofen maybe did, too. =P
Back in the pre-internet days I was on a couple of roads that on regular state maps showed as standard roads. One was across a very rural area of Eastern Oregon. The road started out as a fine two lane road, then one, then lots of pot holes, then dirt, and I am just in a regular mid-size street car. Should I turn back, no I have somewhere to be and possibly not enough gas to turn around and make it to civilization. Decided to go on, then there came wash-outs to pick through. After several miles, paved road returned and we made it. Many drivers would not have had the skill to negotiate their way through. The second time was a road that connected I-5 to the Oregon coast. It too lost it paving and became a narrow winding forest service road that I traveled in the dark at about 10MPH. Needless to say I was hours late to my destination. Several years later I read in a newspaper a family was caught in a snow storm and several of the family died. They too thought that it was just going to be a regular paved road. Neither road was marked as a "unimproved" road, which was in the key to the map. Moral of the story, even if the item is on a map, doesn't mean that the conditions of travel are going to be as you expect.
Thanks for saying "what do you think?" in every video so i know when to stop watching
+ASMR tryp lol you're welcome
As a Maori i laughed when i heard about the Maori drum.
Traditional Maori instruments are mainly wind Instruments, though the Guitar is primarily used for Kapa Haka these days
I grew up near one of those. It was a joke for people in the area. We would go through the intersection where this town was supposed to be and "ooh and aw" about the "beautiful town". When in actuality it was farmland and woods. Nothing else.
I'm reading Papertowns right now. (I'm almost done with it, highly recommend it since it's being made into a movie soon) when the book mentions the "town", the article the main character is reading says how the mapping company who made the town was about to sue another company for having the town name in their map, when it turned out that someone opened up a shop there with the name "The Agloe General Store", making it impossible for them to sue.
The Trent Reznor connection makes sense.
His film for the album “Broken” has drop outs so he knows who’s copy of the film circulated on the internet, since he had copies he sent to people he knew.
Too many random cutaways, chill, this ain't family guy
Video suggestion, how did rap go from "let's change the way we treat each other" to "got an ass make a nigga' wanna buy a ring."
Sam confirmed for le wrong generation
The original Trivial Pursuit used a "fact" that was made up by a trivia book writer about Columbo's first name. They were sued but it was ruled that "facts" can not be copy written.
Favourite thing that doesnt exist?
The best marketing stunt in existance.
Everyone SWEARS Shaye Saint John exists. Her creator died in 2010, only leaving behind the weirdest youtube channel ever (named after Shaye) and the creepiest website ever, also named after the weird woman.
You should research on it a bit, This Exists super interesting, you're gonna love it.
you sure the creator is dead? i've heard in some places that it was a hoax
TheLastSliceOfPie You never know for sure. A man known for tricking the internet since 2005 can sure as hell trick everyone into thinking he's dead.
I heard you were doing the hand thing again.
Darker xz Baby got a skin tape seshawn
Tmanstext For my condishun
Personal Fav.
There is a Toshiba RMA Center address is an empty lot with a trailer in it somewhere in the Midwest. No buildings, no people. It is said to be a UPS transfer station specifically for Toshiba products. You have no idea where your laptop is actually being repaired.
3:36 WOW, you posted the original. Thumbs up. The Nerves are a great power pop band.
Māori is not May-Ori. Think of Chairman Mao, It's said like that. Mao-ri with an elongated a (that's what the dash above the a tells you) & a rolled r (like in Spanish; rojo, rabioso, pero, etc).
Also, the Māori alphabet has no Z,X, or J.
Furthermore, drums and string instruments weren't used by Māori until after the arrival of European settlers. Even now the use of drums in Māori music isn't very common. The closest thing I can think of to a percussion instrument would be poi or rako.
Practice it a couple of times and then try Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu :)
Tena kotou, tin o' cocoa, tin o' baked beans. No mai, o mai, apple pie.
LilaRose89 finally, someone spotted that out..
It's my Kiwi duty man haha
Lol
What's with all the songs in the video?
Quit cutting to music for no reason.
Quit cutting to shitty rap music too, while you're at it. Even if it were music I like, there's no reason for it to be in here. Stop it.
stop doing thing i dont like NOW!!!!! :'((((((
***** stop kissing his ass
alidoge Stop pollution.
alidoge Tmanstext Sach966 Stop telling people to stop doing things.
You sound like you wanna cry?
I've seen Canary traps used in work schedules between companies competing for contracts.
yeah... those "transitions" are just annoying cutting to music.... it is kind of disconnecting from the video, and stops the connection between the video and learning the information being given.
+Share The Music It's not a question of attention span. We don't want to waste memory on silly, dancing people when accessing information.
+Doctor Watson it's part of the texture of these videos it's not important but without it it no longer feels like a this exists video. it may be annoying, but more importantly it's iconic.
Alchemist almost as much as the google ad's song lol
My high school's student directory and yearbook had an entry for Harold J. Stukes, a non-existent student. I'm not sure how long this tradition lasted or who started it, but I seem to recall Harold was in 11th-and-a-half grade.
I love how Doctor Who explained trap streets in the last season.
I love it! A channel dedicated to talking about astonishing things that exists talking about astonishing things that don't exist!
I never even heard of trap street or paper towns before. That's crazy. I'll definitely be looking into it now
Why did you make a This Exists for things that don't exist you deep fry.
But they DO exist, by not existing.
...I sound like a pothead.
+RaptureRocker
Why does my alarm go off until I turn it off? It's madness man
I love that you end your show with "be excellent to each other".... probably the best ending line on any of the shows I have seen or subscribed to... Just saying :) Much love brother
This channel should have way more subscribers.
I think trap streets and paper towns would make a great roadtrip. Just because they're fake doesn't mean that the place where they're written is fake, right? Maybe some breathtaking sights to see or a nice little restaurant, for some examples
Tyrion used a Canary Trap in Game of Thrones. Neat
"Thumbs Up For Gucci" - You Caught me off guard with that one. Get Up The Good Work. Great Vids. -I'm Subscribing.
Mind blown yet again, Sam. I always thought Blondie wrote "Hanging on the Telephone." The Peanut Gallery is being so vocal already. I need to stop reading the negative comments before I get all defensive. Keep up the great work. This is my favorite channel.
Paper towns and trap streets sound more like fictional places criminals use to throw off investigators in 1920s radio shows.
I have the pleasure of living within a half hour of Beatosu and Goblu.
Make some soap in a Trap House on Paper Street
everyone who read "paper towns", don't watch this
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its the name of a book
I smell...homestuck
Why WoUlD'nT i?
Anyone not watching this can't read your comment.
I used to live in Upland, CA! What a trip.
I like how this video was constructed, I like the end and then the post show!
I'm glad I checked to see if anyone else had done Philip Columbo.
I remember that there was a Gravity Falls somewhere in Southeastern Colorado sometime last year.
TRENT REZNOR IS MENTIONED SO OFTEN :D
its those little things what make me happy
This reminds me of Ben Franklin misspelling Pennsylvania on the money he printed so people who were forging assumed they were working off of a a forged bill and correct the spelling. Source: www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/revolutionary_money/introduction.html
How about Martin Lewis and his fictitious Beatles songs, which he mentioned in a New Musical Express article (they were simply titles of songs he himself wrote), and have been mentioned in dozens of Beatles books since as existent tunes?
George P. Burdell who was enrolled every year at Georgia Institute of Technology from 1927 to 1969 (the first year in which registration was computerized which made the process harder, some students still found a way to enroll him that year and then again in 1975 and 1980, and all 3 times he was registered for every single class, over 3000 credit hours). The man behind his creation, William Edgar Smith, would take 2 tests and do 2 copies of each assignment varying the handwriting and details enough to avoid teachers discovering the ruse, and by 1930 George P. Burdell had received a Bachelor's degree
He gets paged over the PA system around halftime during Georgia Tech's away games, was a board member for Mad Magazine for several years, and would have won Time's 2001 Person of the year if Time hadn't removed him from consideration (both George P. Burdell (~57% of the vote) and George P Burdell (no period after the P), were in the top 5 when Time learned of his fictional status). For a time he was listed as a production Assistant for SouthParkStudios.com, though he no longer is mentioned in their web credits. He also "flew" a B-17 Bomber during WW2
He has a fictional wife Ramona Cartwight Burdell (a similar prank that came out of the nearby women's college Agnes Scott College), and apparently a son (I just learned of this) George P. Burdell Jr. who has been listed as a proctor for a number of classes over the years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_P._Burdell
Background song: "Flip Fantasia"
my childhood
this is one of my favorite shows on youtube
This goes against the series' name, because Trap Streets _DON'T EXIST._
I want to put up an ad for a house i´m selling on one of those fake streets, so when the buyers arrive there´s nothing there but a field.
*twilight zone music plays*
Buy your own trap street
Tyrion uses a Canary Trap in HBO's Series Game of Thrones. I say the HBO Series, because I haven't read the books by Martin to know if he employs the Canary Trap there as well.
My favorite false thing is probably the Enron scandal. For anyone who doesn't know, I wont sit here and spill, but the jist is that this company called Enron started in the 80's in Texas, and after royally fucking up their finances several times, they hired a staff of accountants to successfully hide billions of dollars worth of debt for almost two decades before going entirely belly up in 2001.They had everyone pretty fooled, they were listed as one of the top ten innovative companies by professionals for many years, and had thousands of investors worldwide. I'm currently in my second semester of Marketing and heard about it, thought it fit this perfectly
You: ...and none of these exist.
(This Exists text pops up)
Me: This Exists? More like This Doesn't Exist!
I hear Miershied also works for MAD. Or at least, someone with his same 'existentially challenged' diagnosis.
John Cameron *Mierscheid
paper towns was a surprisingly good film
Bartlett place does exist. It's a fed ex building, it used to be an alleyway years ago, there street sign is still there.. - Kuranoshin
1:38 -- "Poop on the, poop on the beau-ti-ful laaaawwwwn!"
A Trent Reznor reference, heck yeah!!
Appreciate the Gucci Mane, mane! started feeling dry. lol
i thought this was gonna be about the "Celebration Town Disney Thing" and plastic towns which might not even exist
You're the fucking best just for including that audio clip of the nerves be fucking excellent indeed!
Hey me again! Breakfast was great I had potatoes. Regardless, I actually had something I could add to this. Did you know that in Fight Club, the house that Tyler lived in was on paper Street, and it's a direct reference to the exact topic of this video?
It occurs to me that the opening garbled graphic and creaky noise are kinda creepy. And that's cool. I wonder why that resonates as creepy though.
Google Maps gave me instructions to use a bike road that did not exist... Ended up in the middle of the woods close to a burial mound... I felt really stupid at first, but then laughed it off as my summer adventure and learned not to trust GPS while biking :P
My favorite entry on things that don't actually exist? Mormon Horns... People still think that Mormons have horns, and I find it hilarious... The rumor has been found in literature dating all the way back to the 1840's, so it's not like this it's a new thing either. I find ridiculous myths and propaganda about any group of people to be humorous most of the time. Like "all Irish people are drunkards"... which is played with even by the Irish... which I think is pretty great, especially since it has an ounce of truth to it. (Still a fallacy though.)
Funny story, PhantomAlert (a Waze competitor) is now suing Google and Waze on the basis of finding their copyright traps (fake points of interest) in Waze's POI database.
Do one on Cicada 3301 PEASEEEE!!!
You can make any copyright trap if you want to.
Quredsamutz, Australia is a town founded on September 9th, 1909.
Trap streets would not be able to catch someone in a copyright dispute because geographic information is factual, and therefore will be the same no matter how often it is produced. Tl;Dr: no copyrights on trap streets because no copyrights on map info
"May-or-ee"
hahahhhahaha
Don't forget the islands that don't exist that are drawn on maps too.
I actually knew the guy who made "goblu" and "beatosu" before he died.
In the kibbutzim (settlements founded on Marxist ideals in Israel) there are no streets, which often makes it somewhat of a hassle to get mail when they insist on adding a street name. One person decided to have some fun with it and give bizarre street names whenever he needed something delivered. The name that takes the cake would probably be ‘The Flip-flops of Justice Street’.
my fav. store about a paper town is a map maker put a new town on his make and another map make call him up and told he he had coped there map the town was fake. but what happened was so meny ppl saw the town on the first map they moved there fond no town and make it. so it when from a paper town to a real town.
They'd allow strangers in our home it was very traumatic I had to undergo 15 years of therapy after all the things they did to me
I enjoy fictitious words the most myself, like Oxford's esquivalience. I find it interesting that they can reach the point in which they are pretty much considered real.
There is a spot in my basement where the location changes to a place called 'Scott'... Paper town in my basement?
lol, Mayorey drum.
Wouldn't it be freaky if the papertown in the map suddenly became a real town managed by homeless and drifters. A creepy thought.
"he twitters and blogs"
he *TWITTERS*
WHAT IS THAT
Here is a list of types of creative works that can't contain easter eggs in one form or another:
P.S. that's right, easter eggs are everywhere.
P.P.S. I'm not sure whether or not the Universal Declaration of Human Rights contains easter eggs.
You said Maori wrong! I am a New Zealander and it's pronounced like the word mouldy but replace the 'd' with a rolled r.
I may have clicked on this video because of the latest Dr. Who episode xD
My brother used to live on Sesame Street and there was an adjacent street called big bird lane
I live north of Columbus but now I'm going to college in dayton. I didn't watch any football this year. Might have been a bad year to make that choice.
Trap streets are home to many of my trap houses.
I forgot penn had a Camio in friends
Is that German politician just a picture of Friedrich Nietzche with glasses
SPOILER ALERT: If you are reading Paper Towns by John Green, watch at risk of spoilers
Kinda makes me wonder. Are there ficticious animals we all believe are extinct, but they never actually existed?