Why knights fought snails in medieval art

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  • Look in the margins of medieval books and you'll find an unusual theme: knights vs. snails. Follow Phil Edwards and Vox Almanac on Facebook for more: / philedwardsinc1
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    Medieval snails and knights - who knew? It turns out that medieval illuminated manuscripts featured a lot of bizarre imagery in the margins, but this pocket of art history might be one of the most intriguing.
    Scholar Lilian Randall provides the best theory for the unusual motif: these medieval knights fought snails in the margins because snails represented the Lombards, who had become widely despised lenders throughout Europe. Snail was an insult and, over time, it became a type of meme detached from its original meaning.
    Of course, like much of art history, this theory is just a theory. But it gives us an insight into the rich culture of marginal art and all the complexity, confusion, and amusement that sits on the side of the page.
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  • @sammylong3704
    @sammylong3704 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3945

    The answer is simple, in medieval times giant snails were a real menace but thankfully the brave Knights of Europe wiped them all out for us.

    • @wackwacker8623
      @wackwacker8623 4 ปีที่แล้ว +190

      Just like how lamps have shrunk Moths, Newton invented gravity to shrink the snails.
      The government wants us to believe no beasts can touch us, but I fear the day the moths and snails go back to their original size.

    • @tavishfinnegandegroot3513
      @tavishfinnegandegroot3513 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      ur one of the time travelling knights!!
      even tho theres no such thing as timemachine in the middld ages

    • @CaptainSeaDog_
      @CaptainSeaDog_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      This is my head canon now

    • @rahmat4848
      @rahmat4848 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@wackwacker8623 lol 🤣 good thing Newton invented gravity huh?

    • @ra_alf9467
      @ra_alf9467 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Knight Jiub

  • @r8them84
    @r8them84 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3488

    everybody gangsta till the giant snail start fightin

    • @Ginerization
      @Ginerization 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Then nobody helps with the dishes after...

    • @mickymouse2445
      @mickymouse2445 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      That giant snail that fights everybody really, really hard but also really, really slow

    • @rahmat4848
      @rahmat4848 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Just throw salt.. problem solved 😌

    • @healthandsurvival4461
      @healthandsurvival4461 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You laugh but just wait....the great prophecy shall come true

  • @Andy-gq5hb
    @Andy-gq5hb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5647

    The correct title would have been, "Rare medeival memes"

  • @FrizzleLamb
    @FrizzleLamb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1977

    This is the medieval times' equivalent to today's "this meme will be hard to explain in 100 years"

    • @johnnoahdeandres9458
      @johnnoahdeandres9458 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      True

    • @Mary_OTT
      @Mary_OTT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I don no If anyone cares but I made the likes 420

    • @ginterka381996
      @ginterka381996 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hahaha, true. XD

    • @rage_2000
      @rage_2000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      “Here you can see an image of a common guy with a green shirt immersed in some sort of blue flame….”

    • @johnlee7164
      @johnlee7164 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Try explaining 4 year old memes.

  • @jordanguy4241
    @jordanguy4241 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3965

    This is not a question I've ever asked, nor was I ever going to ask. yet here I am for an answer

    • @ReddishNeck
      @ReddishNeck 6 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Jordan Guy This is how we all feel, I think. Weird. But it's such an intriguing video title, we all just clicked on it.

    • @SaladinGucman
      @SaladinGucman 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      😂

    • @pufwuf
      @pufwuf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The answer lies in the stars. Specifically; a snail can be seen in Cassiopeia, where also can be seen the shining 'countenance divine' of William Blake's 'Jerusalem'. This countenance is that of the biblical god (c.f. 'snails! - short for 'god's nails' - being an interjection of surprise and es-car-got translating loosely as 'you're for god') and it is this the knights are confronting, with good cause. There is some myth about the snail returning to Jerusalem (can't locate it at the moment) and I think it safe to say that it is well on it's way. Happy days ahead!

    • @dionjaywoollaston1349
      @dionjaywoollaston1349 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nick Addey I always thought that the snails represent the French, given how the french like to eat snails and it would have been a bit ridiculous to paint a giant clove of garlic, I feel a bit sorry for the knights who had to fight giant snails”my liege why doth That fellow from palastine George get to fighteth a dragon while I must slay a giant snail”speaking in RPG terms would a giant snail be more or less dangerous than a slime?

    • @Bee_v0mit
      @Bee_v0mit 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      O wow I saw you on a Jack stauber video and I see you in this comment section as well. Nice profile pic btw

  • @beelzeboo
    @beelzeboo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3690

    Its quite obvious that they were fighting giant snails hundreds of years ago

    • @GrassPossum
      @GrassPossum 5 ปีที่แล้ว +171

      Or that people were much smaller then.

    • @anaccountmusthaveaname9110
      @anaccountmusthaveaname9110 5 ปีที่แล้ว +225

      @@GrassPossum They wouldn't have written normal sized books then. I think we should leave behind these childish conspiracies about tiny knights and stick to the hard science of gigantic snails.

    • @kseventytwo
      @kseventytwo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      anAccountMustHaveAName its not exactly ‘hard’ science, unless we talk about the shells

    • @anaccountmusthaveaname9110
      @anaccountmusthaveaname9110 5 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      @B. J. If giant snails aren't real, then explain how you were so slow to get a joke.

    • @nikolasmichael6377
      @nikolasmichael6377 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      That’s what the History Channel would interpret from this

  • @m1l22
    @m1l22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2338

    *_So basically this is the birth of shitposting?_*

    • @philiproe1661
      @philiproe1661 4 ปีที่แล้ว +144

      Nah shitposting dates back to Egypt.

    • @philiproe1661
      @philiproe1661 4 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      @Aleksa Petrovic
      Really shitposting is as old as drawing and writing themselves.

    • @Anti-HyperLink
      @Anti-HyperLink 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Can you speak like a person?

    • @guyfacks1320
      @guyfacks1320 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @Aleksa Petrovic the egyptians are as old to the romans as the romans are to us

    • @lashlarue7924
      @lashlarue7924 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@guyfacks1320 That is freaking mindblowing, but yeah. Actually I think the Egyptians would have been even more slightly older to the Romans than the Romans are to us (today)...

  • @TheSwordbird98sPage
    @TheSwordbird98sPage 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2281

    i have a feeling it was probably over something dumb. like a well-known person freaked out over a snail once and they started mocking them through drawings of snails vs knights

    • @foxify_
      @foxify_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Kind of like sarcasm?

    • @phanvan4076
      @phanvan4076 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      But nope it was racial slur

    • @natebush8217
      @natebush8217 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Hmm..."Knights vs. Snails"...yeah, that sounds like the next big Dream Works hit! :D

    • @venture3800
      @venture3800 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      and thus dank medieval memes were born

    • @bashkillszombies
      @bashkillszombies 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Doubtful, it was some group so powerful that you couldn't ridicule them. To see who rules over you look to he who you cannot ridicule. Or count the cookies one can bake per year.

  • @schmurble2254
    @schmurble2254 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1655

    RIP dude at the end. Horrifically murdered by a mutant snail from the 1300s. Gone too soon.

    • @Cyber_Noot
      @Cyber_Noot 7 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      KSJDbv you're right. Mutant snails are no joke.

    • @millerrepin4452
      @millerrepin4452 7 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      How insensitive my family was killed by mutant snails

    • @TheOtherNeutrino
      @TheOtherNeutrino 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      It was a decoy snail

    • @luiscarvalho6428
      @luiscarvalho6428 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      TheOtherNeutrino If that's the decoy snail where's the real one...

    • @witnesstochange1801
      @witnesstochange1801 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Luis Carvalho right behind you!!!

  • @lukmigindnuforhelved
    @lukmigindnuforhelved 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3555

    Knights were the athletes superstars of the time. Monks were the academics.
    Maybe the nerds were mocking the jocks?

    • @bluemantis1448
      @bluemantis1448 5 ปีที่แล้ว +203

      A time when nerds bullied jocks?

    • @lukmigindnuforhelved
      @lukmigindnuforhelved 5 ปีที่แล้ว +232

      @@bluemantis1448 In their little margin world, yes :)

    • @maosama3695
      @maosama3695 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Nah it's probably the king hired those knights to kill any snails they could find for if anyone touches the king he'll die.

    • @deusexrockina
      @deusexrockina 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Haha! Nice

    • @venture3800
      @venture3800 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@bluemantis1448 not so much bullying as satire? 😂

  • @aabcc
    @aabcc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +703

    "Yo dude look at this snail i just drew"
    "Hey thats a good one!! Imma draw one too."
    Medieval meme stealing

    • @cerridianempire1653
      @cerridianempire1653 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      yup it's terriffying to think that our humor will just go full circle and revert back to banana slipping gags

  • @itsjustlukeRevive
    @itsjustlukeRevive 4 ปีที่แล้ว +880

    Snail: *slimes* on Knight's foot
    Knight: DEMON!!! 🗡️

  • @Laerei
    @Laerei 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2121

    600 years from now: why astronauts fought rainbow farting toast cats in digital era internet art.

    • @mk_rexx
      @mk_rexx 6 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      We'll never know...

    • @smaugtheimpenetrable8009
      @smaugtheimpenetrable8009 6 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      The mystery will be unveiled , but until then...

    • @anonymous.t6649
      @anonymous.t6649 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Laerei ajakjsjjsjjehfbiejddjiosjenosodnowienodjdjowkemksidniwisn*djdj*eein(ejiiejdiiskwi*×××

    • @milascave2
      @milascave2 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Is that actually a thing?

    • @MrGamelover23
      @MrGamelover23 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Opinunate ted Well Nyan Cat is the thing he described being fought.

  • @dutchministryofdefence604
    @dutchministryofdefence604 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1079

    its a older meme sir but it checks out

    • @-yourandyoureare2different612
      @-yourandyoureare2different612 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      an*

    • @krabbza
      @krabbza 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thank you Robert EO Speedwagon of the Speedwagon Foundation from the popular anime manga franchise Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

    • @yokokurama5174
      @yokokurama5174 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@krabbza obnoxious*

  • @seepdrer3990
    @seepdrer3990 4 ปีที่แล้ว +575

    When you are lvl 1 player, so you have to fight some snails to get some xp.

  • @CraftxTD
    @CraftxTD 4 ปีที่แล้ว +443

    This technically is a meme since a meme is an “element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.”

    • @harukasaigusa8906
      @harukasaigusa8906 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Stop talking.

    • @erikeriks
      @erikeriks 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Memes are like viruses if you think about it

    • @hendywijaya3213
      @hendywijaya3213 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      real definition of meme

    • @alarmy5211
      @alarmy5211 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Haruka Saigusa bro what he do tho

    • @VictoryDay-qe7vm
      @VictoryDay-qe7vm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@harukasaigusa8906 no u

  • @3hallaman
    @3hallaman 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1542

    Man, this guy just ignoring the invasion of the giant alien snails.

    • @merrittanimation7721
      @merrittanimation7721 6 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      gingersassy I know right? Those men died valiantly.

    • @tarasarma2888
      @tarasarma2888 6 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      It's shameful. My friend's ancestors died in that war.

    • @codyg6514
      @codyg6514 6 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      You mean the Snailens right?

    • @codyg6514
      @codyg6514 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Damnit, someone in the comments above already used my joke..

    • @AT-gk1tw
      @AT-gk1tw 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Cody Green is a genius.

  • @hobbesfield1082
    @hobbesfield1082 7 ปีที่แล้ว +831

    I just kind of learned that medieval monks made memes.
    I can die happily.

    • @ghiribizzi
      @ghiribizzi 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Hobbesfield well that escalated quickly , well for medieval time standards

    • @92alexmaster
      @92alexmaster 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      There are even older memes. The Three Hares meme is about 1500 years old from China, The Abracadabra is from the Roman Empire and The Sator square dates to the roman republic.

    • @AxelLeJeff
      @AxelLeJeff 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And Kilroy has existed since the dawn of man.

    • @facelessman9224
      @facelessman9224 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      History's first trolls!

    • @crazyeyes8962
      @crazyeyes8962 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It's really not hard to imagine when you realize that a bunch of dudes who all lived in monasteries totally remote from the rest of the population were in control of almost all written information

  • @kitsandcards7968
    @kitsandcards7968 5 ปีที่แล้ว +428

    Back then they go braggin about "I fought snails more fearsome than you!"

    • @Corvus__
      @Corvus__ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Just like how an f-1 racer today could say "I've seen snails faster than you!"

    • @lemiov6885
      @lemiov6885 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      In the next few decades, it would be mud crabs.

    • @Corvus__
      @Corvus__ 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lemiov6885 Why mud crabs?

    • @kitsandcards7968
      @kitsandcards7968 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Corvus__ it's an elder scrolls game reference hehe

    • @Corvus__
      @Corvus__ 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kitsandcards7968 So mud crabs, aren't a real thing?

  • @eldaroses.g.r.7945
    @eldaroses.g.r.7945 2 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    So, it’s confirmed. Snail vs knight was a medieval meme. We’ve been memeing way longer than we get credit for.

    • @thecandlemaker1329
      @thecandlemaker1329 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Even longer than you think. Ancient romans shitposted on rocks and the walls of their public structures, leaving such important messages as "On April, 19th I baked a bread"

    • @TheCasualAbsurder
      @TheCasualAbsurder 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Absolutely. Dawkins just rehashed some classical rhetorical analysis as an evolutionary advantage. Even “meme” is just a variation and abbreviation of “enthymeme.”

  • @chistinelane
    @chistinelane 7 ปีที่แล้ว +448

    The reason we don't see them is because the knights won. The greatest heroes we never knew

    • @scienceme9794
      @scienceme9794 7 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Yeah, Don Quixote wiped the giant snails out before he took on the windmills.

    • @JotaDeeMeO
      @JotaDeeMeO 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Otherwise we would have heroic stories about snails and dragons nows.... and let's not talk about snail movies..

    • @Wavemaninawe
      @Wavemaninawe 7 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Surely you jest. Knights were wiped off the map centuries ago.
      My brother is still fighting snails in his garden to this day.

    • @alantomy1444
      @alantomy1444 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      chistine lane history favors the victor

  • @ChronicleLiving
    @ChronicleLiving 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1576

    Legends says that the French Knights are still fighting with snails in their fancy restaurants.

    • @olddoggeleventy2718
      @olddoggeleventy2718 6 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      How dare you insult my French forefathers..."I fart in your general direction." ( Monty Python and The Holy Grail) couldn't resist the opportunity to use that line!

    • @sendai6694
      @sendai6694 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Also the snails are eaten in the region of catalonia in spain

    • @jayrussell1825
      @jayrussell1825 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Deww nut git funnee with ME, Meeseuer - - Sir Jacques Clouseau, Knights of the Ringside Tables

    • @kwest9747
      @kwest9747 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Snails are widely eaten across Europe and can be popular village food, e.g on the island of Lebos. In fact you’ll sometimes find snails in the frozen section of Lidl (not by accident) even in the UK.

  • @darrenlynch2619
    @darrenlynch2619 5 ปีที่แล้ว +239

    The snails were very clearly just a meme for the medival arts

  • @willhoffman6629
    @willhoffman6629 2 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    False. The Knights were granted immortality but in exchanged a snail hunted them down, if caught the Knights would perish. The photos depict said events.

    • @TurquoiseIcy
      @TurquoiseIcy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      We have come full circle haven't we?

  • @fionacowell3544
    @fionacowell3544 7 ปีที่แล้ว +804

    So..
    Are you telling me..
    That snails are the memes of the 14th century???

    • @quandovoceleroscomentarios9622
      @quandovoceleroscomentarios9622 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      They had memes. They had swords and pretty people. They were cool.

    • @armanderschreckliche
      @armanderschreckliche 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Fiona Cowell Lmao 😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏👌👌👌👌👌

    • @henryt3802
      @henryt3802 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Fiona Cowell yup, they were people just like u and me, they also had their jokes, memes and running gags

    • @henryt3802
      @henryt3802 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Banana Melon dude my name's henry you should expect me to talk like that.😂

    • @Katie-mw7pd
      @Katie-mw7pd 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      JIM

  • @johnpetrov6602
    @johnpetrov6602 7 ปีที่แล้ว +576

    Yes it is most accurate to say the snails are a meme. In my law class we ran over an ancient Roman law that required individuals to flee from battle if an avenue of retreat was available, rather than to fight an aggressor. This law was meant to prevent personal skirmishes from resulting in pointless death. Two aggrieved parties would menace each other with weapons then slowly back away to avoid combat while keeping their honor. In the margins of the book containing this law, there is a knight defending himself from a snail. Obviously, the point is that he could easily run away from the snail. That's the punch line. Like any meme, every time it appears the joke is slightly different until the original meaning is obscured. The joke might have several origins; there's no telling where it came from.

    • @OktoPutsch
      @OktoPutsch 7 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      one of the most interesting comments here ,Sir, thank you.

    • @rib_rob_personal
      @rib_rob_personal 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That's really freakin' cool.

    • @ixian_technocrat
      @ixian_technocrat 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Do you happen to remember the title of the manuscript with the aforementioned law and the drawing?

    • @johnpetrov6602
      @johnpetrov6602 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Ixian Technocrat Ah well it would probably have been out of the Code of Justinian. That's all I remember.

    • @barbequesauce7167
      @barbequesauce7167 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      If you removed the old law then you'd have to find every reference to it and change it appropriately, then check the references to _those_ laws to make sure they still made sense...
      New laws sort of overwrite old ones. There's that one about it being legal to shoot a Welshman with a longbow, but newer laws about bodily harm have priority.

  • @yeah8598
    @yeah8598 2 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    Obviously people back then were just immortal,the snail is inevitable.

    • @tancredi7106
      @tancredi7106 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Finally someone said it 💀

    • @skellybird8697
      @skellybird8697 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh this is Christmas *WAAAR IS OVER IFF YOU WANT IT and what have we done

  • @cluckcluck6494
    @cluckcluck6494 5 ปีที่แล้ว +292

    Goku: I’ve got the strongest enemies
    Knights: Hold my beer

    • @6catsinacoat781
      @6catsinacoat781 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      To be fair... I haven't seen goku fight a snail ...yet.

    • @cluckcluck6494
      @cluckcluck6494 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thomas Ridley Freiza will turn to a snail I tell you!

    • @JarmalK
      @JarmalK 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@cluckcluck6494 r u gay

    • @jordantampubolon8694
      @jordantampubolon8694 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hold my snails

    • @atallguynh
      @atallguynh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hold my mead.

  • @roxyshow123
    @roxyshow123 6 ปีที่แล้ว +584

    The knights killed off the really big snails. So only the little itty bitty mollusks were left.

    • @aljoschalong625
      @aljoschalong625 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @brainchild. Nonono, the knights didn't kill off the big snails - the normal, everyday mollusks, decimated the small anti-mollusc knights to extenction. So we still have snails today, but no knights, especially tiny ones.

    • @pamungkastabah8163
      @pamungkastabah8163 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Breaking Darwin

  • @SomeoneJustWatching
    @SomeoneJustWatching 7 ปีที่แล้ว +421

    England, making memes since 1200

    • @marmorealcandors
      @marmorealcandors 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Donald J Trump isn’t New York your city?

    • @Jescide
      @Jescide 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Leonard Marc Ramos
      America is his city

    • @martind349
      @martind349 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jescide Life and all of these Londons' still

    • @xenotypos
      @xenotypos 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The manuscripts (in this video) are written in old french.
      So I doubt any of those are from england.

    • @taptapuyo2714
      @taptapuyo2714 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Harry Sinclair before it was cool. 😎

  • @justas423
    @justas423 5 ปีที่แล้ว +211

    My theory is that it's a representation of them fighting boredom.

    • @bashkillszombies
      @bashkillszombies 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You'd be wrong.

    • @reieben886
      @reieben886 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Yes, before printing press, medieval scriber are very boring and time consumming job, they lose time to socializing with other people.. the snails symbolizing slowness and boredom

    • @therealrenegade
      @therealrenegade ปีที่แล้ว

      YES! Finally! I knew I wasn't the only one think that.

    • @andyramirez6016
      @andyramirez6016 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Or sloth…

    • @petrospetromixos6962
      @petrospetromixos6962 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Dmn thats actually the best explanation i ve heard reading the comments

  • @gunfiend5175
    @gunfiend5175 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    The snail has finally caught up with them...it's their final day, and they are going down by their own terms!

  • @onewhoisanonymous
    @onewhoisanonymous 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1146

    God. I can heard the future historians trying to describe 21st century memes to our distant future generations. "Here we see a photograph of a young person outlaid with a black border. Notice the ancient text encircling the photograph...its true meaning lost to time. Dr. ---- has been studying their cryptic texts for years and theorized...."

    • @BvousBrainSystems
      @BvousBrainSystems 7 ปีที่แล้ว +199

      My most profound hope is that I'm somehow transported to the future you're describing. I'm basically a meme scholar, I can explain them all about it and finally feel like I'm good at something.

    • @Diana-mu7pc
      @Diana-mu7pc 7 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      This sounds like a joke on Futurama

    • @NicolasOrlinski
      @NicolasOrlinski 7 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      All memes will disappear. The 21st Century will be known as the Dark Ages 2 without any written documents.
      Why? Because in 2017 I can't even use links to the digital articles from 1999, because whole newspapers and portals disappeared and when you google after them you may probably find some notes that they ever existed. The digital world is as stabile as the Facebook account with hundreds of pictures and wise words which get banned and goes to the digital nirvana during the one single minute.

    • @kipicbloud
      @kipicbloud 7 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      That thought has always been darkly amusing to me. We have "all" the information in the world at our fingertips, but when our civilization collapses and the next one rises, it is almost a given that there will be almost no written accounts of it given our reliance on electronics and transitional media that is wiped daily.
      Crazy, huh?

    • @edlingja1
      @edlingja1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Brandon Bricker it's like this analogy:
      Building a tent with no beams, instead we all have to blow as hard as possible to collectively help keep the tent up. If we all stop blowing, it ceases to be a tent and is, instead, simply just a very large blanket. Our current society relies on us ALL partaking in the fields of economics, politics, religion, and all other factors prevalent in our society.

  • @mugensamurai
    @mugensamurai 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2297

    Maybe they really hated escargot.

    • @noneofyourbeeswax01
      @noneofyourbeeswax01 6 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      I was expecting to find that the snail represented the French, a traditional foe of the English and notorious eaters of the cuisses de grenouilles, flesh of le cheval and more pertinently, as you have pointed out, the escargot in question... but apparently not.

    • @Changeling9au
      @Changeling9au 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Don't trifle with truffles!
      :)

    • @Hal-kc5bk
      @Hal-kc5bk 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      and the french

    • @TheLiamis
      @TheLiamis 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      mugensamurai or the french

    • @mywallet7367
      @mywallet7367 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      are you in the wrong timeline?

  • @jeremyuzca7697
    @jeremyuzca7697 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    I imagine a video in 2420: Why 2020 memes used to have a frog named Pepe?

    • @josephsellers5978
      @josephsellers5978 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      No need. There's already a doc out on that.

  • @Nytr8
    @Nytr8 5 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    Title : why knights are fighting snails in images
    Video: we don’t know exactly why

  • @ironsoul941
    @ironsoul941 7 ปีที่แล้ว +281

    Actually, in medieval times animals represented something. Snails possibly represented slothfulness, so fighting slothfulness and to keep copying might have been a theme many monks writings these books were familiar with.

    • @naverilllang
      @naverilllang 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      You know what represents slothfulness even more than snails?
      Sloths.
      Walked right into that one, didn't you?

    • @rin_etoware_2989
      @rin_etoware_2989 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Sloths lived in America.
      Walked right into that one, didn't you?

    • @thatonehamster4130
      @thatonehamster4130 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@rin_etoware_2989 and America is a sea away from europe
      Swam right into that one, didn´t you?

    • @muhammaddaffaarvianda5050
      @muhammaddaffaarvianda5050 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@thatonehamster4130 and swimming wasn't invented yet in medieveal Europe
      Boated, idk, right into that one, didn't you?

    • @raenaprottengeier
      @raenaprottengeier 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      they actually represented strength, because they carry their houses on their backs.

  • @jaschabull2365
    @jaschabull2365 6 ปีที่แล้ว +491

    1:40: Praying is no use, knight. Snails never do anything quickly!

    • @teslagirl1
      @teslagirl1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Shellikybookies. There's a wonderful Irish children's song about snails, and that's what they were called.

  • @weaklistworm
    @weaklistworm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    He tried to fight the immortal snail, a brave soul

  • @user-ff9xb7ds9y
    @user-ff9xb7ds9y 5 ปีที่แล้ว +224

    There is an explenation:
    The knights were french

    • @dearsol.
      @dearsol. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      *shook*

    • @akachi1046
      @akachi1046 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      shut up

    • @mammontustado9680
      @mammontustado9680 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      "En garde, escargot!"

    • @lightningfletch5598
      @lightningfletch5598 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Remember the Lombards were defeated by Charlemagne was also French. A French king at that.

    • @Letizia2810
      @Letizia2810 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don’t like French. Or Northern Italians

  • @vixen768
    @vixen768 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1332

    FINALLY! An answer I've been looking for!
    Thank you. So much.

    • @Sara3346
      @Sara3346 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Yes and I also wanted to know about the snails!

    • @mdarnell514
      @mdarnell514 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      vixen768 no way, totally medieval world's misconception of ammonite fossils that could be quite large. You can see in the illustrations that sometimes they look more like modern day Nautilus's... or squid like in the opening... but... who can prove ammonites didn't walk on land? Maybe some were alive then still. >:)

    • @RIFLQ
      @RIFLQ 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      The day I think about why knights fought snails is the day when Vox upload this video

    • @JacobJonesy
      @JacobJonesy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Okay the problem is that this is just an opinion. Take your "answer" not as fact.

  • @caityreads8070
    @caityreads8070 6 ปีที่แล้ว +327

    obviously it's because there used to be giant killer snails and the brave heroes killed them all which is why there isn't any anymore

    • @theAverageJoe25
      @theAverageJoe25 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Their weapon were made of salt

    • @Texelion3Dprints
      @Texelion3Dprints 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      They probably played Bastion.

    • @TheSkepticalIdealist
      @TheSkepticalIdealist 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      crusades was actually about snail wars

    • @pauljones3017
      @pauljones3017 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But there still are snails arround, what we lack is knights. Huw...

    • @robjossick7380
      @robjossick7380 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The brave men didn't kill the snails... The brave men rode them.

  • @N1GHTSTRIKER-45
    @N1GHTSTRIKER-45 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Immortal snail meme predecessor

  • @BOAYang
    @BOAYang 5 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    Lion: I'm the king of the jungle
    snail: *I'm about to end this man's whole career.*

  • @thelardmaker6806
    @thelardmaker6806 7 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    In short these are basically medieval memes.

    • @eeeeea
      @eeeeea 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Lard Maker now i'm actually thinking what people in 1000 years from now will think about today's memes

  • @flensdude
    @flensdude 7 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    So it turns out the Monty Python joke about the killer rabbit (and other small animals) has been a long running joke in Europe.

    • @Abraxas948
      @Abraxas948 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      gladomi Ah yes, I remember when King Arthur was arrested and put in a police van before he could fight the battle for the holy grail. Oh, and how could I have forgotten about the holy hand grenade? Those crazy scribes sure were inventive

    • @VinchVolt
      @VinchVolt 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Gilliam took various liberties for the sake of comedy, but if you remove the jokes it ironically follows the original plot of the legends closer than most other adaptations.

    • @MrMlinmlin
      @MrMlinmlin 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      but if you remove the jokes theres barely anything left... a dude named Arthur riding around with a bunch od dudes... -_-

    • @gamingolympian4245
      @gamingolympian4245 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Which is exactly what it was... What did you think there was some like intense war or something? It's a Dude named Arthur who happens to be king of Wales/Britannia traveling through some shithole looking for the Holy Grail.

  • @LordBrittish
    @LordBrittish 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Modern snails aren’t what their ancestors once were. Ancient snails used to tower over man, and we had to fight them off with fire and salt.

  • @Shaun-vy9vi
    @Shaun-vy9vi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Just clarifying something, they were called illluminated manuscripts because they often had gold leafing/inks that appeared to make the pages glow under candle light.

  • @crozraven
    @crozraven 7 ปีที่แล้ว +216

    or snails pictures were just medieval trolls

  • @aprilrhoden116
    @aprilrhoden116 7 ปีที่แล้ว +389

    This was hilarious and informative. This has sparked an interest in me for medieval manuscripts that did not exist before. Thank you, Vox.

    • @Vox
      @Vox  7 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      We linked the main paper/book in the description.
      If you want to just look at gorgeous medieval ms scans, this one is great:
      brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3433279
      You'll find a snail/knight battle on 169r.
      brbl-zoom.library.yale.edu/viewer/1020266
      -Phil

    • @aprilrhoden116
      @aprilrhoden116 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Thanks again!

    • @fdsdh1
      @fdsdh1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It might be worth taking a look at the British Library too, they have a fairly substantial collection of digitised manuscripts
      www.bl.uk/manuscripts/

    • @aprilrhoden116
      @aprilrhoden116 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Okay, Thanks, I'll do that!

    • @JacobJonesy
      @JacobJonesy 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you older than 13, April?

  • @leo.6541
    @leo.6541 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    They fought the snails to protect themselves from the legion of the Immortal Snails; they succeeded, and got rid of all except one.

    • @leo.6541
      @leo.6541 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They used creative mode, by the way. Deleted all except the last.

  • @NikkiKrissoff
    @NikkiKrissoff 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    It’s all fun and games till the giant snail comes squirming into the room

  • @Ares-5933
    @Ares-5933 7 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    And we thought we invented memes, turns out memes are hundreds of years old

    • @dutch1641
      @dutch1641 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ares5933 during ww 2 memes were a thing too

    • @nos4me
      @nos4me 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ares5933 memes started existing when culture did

    • @krieginphernjacobson
      @krieginphernjacobson 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      memes were born far before humanity, they will also outlive us all.

    • @horatiotrismegistus616
      @horatiotrismegistus616 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Memes are a new invention, like water and dirt.

  • @Peasant_of_Pontus
    @Peasant_of_Pontus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Snails=boredom. Reading=fighting boredom. Knights fighting snails=reading to pass time.

    • @kimurico1
      @kimurico1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nice. I would have thought rather snail = time, knight fighting against snail = scribe finishing a manuscript after a loooong time of hard work

  • @sarahtoonswastaken9990
    @sarahtoonswastaken9990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    the immortal snail came for them

  • @emmytweetie2177
    @emmytweetie2177 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Is it ok to draw in the margins of my school books now????

  • @nonamedpleb
    @nonamedpleb 7 ปีที่แล้ว +339

    TLDR: IT'S A MEME

  • @cheesecakelasagna
    @cheesecakelasagna 7 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    Someone please make this ancient meme great again!

  • @cernunnos_lives
    @cernunnos_lives 5 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    So basically: how an ethnic slur became a meme for perhaps a few generations of scholarship.

  • @klyntarkenny8046
    @klyntarkenny8046 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Did medieval knights do battle with snails?
    Ancient Astronaut Theorists say “yes”

  • @DavidBlaze420
    @DavidBlaze420 7 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    this means there were huge snails back then but the knights killed them all

    • @ShipShipMaya
      @ShipShipMaya 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      David Blaze Definitely

  • @coreyshipe
    @coreyshipe 6 ปีที่แล้ว +365

    TLDR: Snails represent the Lombards, who were thought to be slimy merchants who carried their homes on their backs. The snail is a jest insult to the name of the time. (1400 Memes)

    • @fuckingblackgod
      @fuckingblackgod 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@tijuanaforeplay8232 hehe, I understood that.

    • @hunterkiller7352
      @hunterkiller7352 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Oy Vey

    • @Max_Le_Groom
      @Max_Le_Groom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Only 1400s kids will understand 👍👌

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lol just no, that's just ONE interpretation but no one knows for sure.

  • @justcallmehaterik
    @justcallmehaterik 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    So this was the first time the snail was hired to catch some dude? O.o

  • @DZ477
    @DZ477 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    2019: Why knights fought snails in medieval art
    2119: Why players fought chickens in CSGO

  • @werbearjack
    @werbearjack 7 ปีที่แล้ว +268

    So snails are medieval Pepes?

    • @iAmTheSquidThing
      @iAmTheSquidThing 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Now would be a great time to invest in rare snails before the normies realise.

    • @happyswedme
      @happyswedme 7 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Imagine future scientists being like "at the dawn of the third millennia people liked to draw frogs"

    • @rocketxiv4980
      @rocketxiv4980 7 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      𝖄𝖊 𝖔𝖑𝖉𝖊 𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙𝖕𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌

  • @Kinopio710
    @Kinopio710 6 ปีที่แล้ว +484

    Medieval memes need to make a comeback 🤔

    • @SargentoBonzo
      @SargentoBonzo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I want Vox to make a video about: Why knights fought RABBITS in medieval art
      i.pinimg.com/originals/67/00/c4/6700c497d421ae1d0f032e740f7dfd00.jpg

    • @edwardliu111
      @edwardliu111 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They have
      www.reddit.com/r/trippinthroughtime/?st=JD6NYJK0&sh=d881a549

    • @Trashproductions2
      @Trashproductions2 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh I thought this was a meme.

    • @lohitjagarapu9351
      @lohitjagarapu9351 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Matt B: What's going to do? Nibble your bum?

    • @jonathanruiz866
      @jonathanruiz866 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's what I was thinking

  • @default2591
    @default2591 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    So the immortal snail is real?

  • @100KillStreak
    @100KillStreak 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Fromsoft missed the biggest opportunity to add a snail boss in Dark Souls.

    • @lancergt1000
      @lancergt1000 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      the Phalanx in the Painted World of Ariamis are kinda snails

  • @yosefyonin6824
    @yosefyonin6824 7 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    *VINTAGE MEMES! VINTAGE MEMES! GET YOUR PERFECTLY PRESERVED 700 YEARD OLD MEMES RIGHT HERE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!*

  • @tigerboy1966
    @tigerboy1966 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Here's a thought- the pictures were charms to protect the manuscripts from being eaten by snails.

  • @lorettap.925
    @lorettap.925 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I really like that first "snail" at 0:34. It's like a cat-snail. Cnail.

  • @RandallStephens397
    @RandallStephens397 7 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    the rare medieval pepe

  • @booklover569
    @booklover569 7 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    so...knights battling snails was an ancient meme?

    • @yesmansam6686
      @yesmansam6686 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Emily Daenzer it would appear so 😐

  • @rickro2878
    @rickro2878 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    "And so, good Knight, thou will have to fight thy Giant Snail for your promotion."

  • @edwinpaulhermo7650
    @edwinpaulhermo7650 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Someone agreed to be immortal, that's what.

  • @checkmatefurries286
    @checkmatefurries286 7 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    I think this is my new favorite Vox video. Meme in peace, scribes. Meme in peace.

  • @thinkgodd2501
    @thinkgodd2501 7 ปีที่แล้ว +184

    Plottwist Giant Snails Exist!!!

  • @belkYT
    @belkYT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The immortal snail.

  • @spineck5499
    @spineck5499 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    everybodys gangsta till the snails roll up in the castle

  • @StudioAnnLe
    @StudioAnnLe 7 ปีที่แล้ว +387

    So you are saying that European Medieval Artists were the original meme creators? Does this make the scribes the original 9Gag?

    • @Hasharin14
      @Hasharin14 7 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      9gag? WHAT?
      You could at least say 4chan...

    • @facelessman9224
      @facelessman9224 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      But it's 2017. Humans have evolved SO MUCH. We're nothing like those medieval subhumans.... Right?

    • @aftabzafar2032
      @aftabzafar2032 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Faceless Man as they say the more things change the more they remain the same

    • @linusbehrend2242
      @linusbehrend2242 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ann Le {Anneorshine} you mean the original 4chan

    • @joeyquiroga3102
      @joeyquiroga3102 7 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Ann Le {Anneorshine} you get your memes from 9gag? Thats sad

  • @RideTheTrack
    @RideTheTrack 7 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    Last time I came this early, it was the dark ages

    • @maggers2580
      @maggers2580 7 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      *dank meme age

    • @youreallinsane
      @youreallinsane 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      the internet doesn't need to know your fetishes.

    • @quester09
      @quester09 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ride The Track and giant snails roamed the earth.

    • @FERTHEBOSS1
      @FERTHEBOSS1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      more like the dank ages

    • @CeeVell
      @CeeVell 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mh

  • @BltchErica
    @BltchErica 5 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    I wonder if they actually had memes inb4 christ. Imagine some egyptian kids drawing mummies with shiny eyes doing t poses on scrolls without any explanation.

    • @Pugetwitch
      @Pugetwitch 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It happened.

    • @chonacastillo4777
      @chonacastillo4777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice profile pic.

    • @Pollicina_db
      @Pollicina_db 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      There is one. When archaeologist found a place in Egypt with lots of pillars they noticed that one of them had hiyeroglifs. So they climbed up that very tall pillar to see what it said. It said:"This is a veryyyy tall pillar".

    • @swiggitysk8
      @swiggitysk8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      of course they had memes. memes are a human thing. they were just called common jokes up until recently.

    • @copperlemon1
      @copperlemon1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Romans had graffiti accusing each other of buggery and cuckholdry, by at least year 79, as demonstrated by inscription preserved at Pompeii.

  • @z.xdtcfy
    @z.xdtcfy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Immortal snail existed in the middle ages

  • @IamMeHere2See
    @IamMeHere2See 7 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    So it's basically the Wilhelm scream of Gothic literature. Cool.

  • @yseson_
    @yseson_ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    Love the "pray that 🐌 kills you quickly" interesting fact an ex roommate and I would make our own paper and keep it in the basement guess what creature loves to eat fresh paper? 🐌
    So I imagine it was a precaution toward being diligent in the care of precious paper

    • @kriscampbell7807
      @kriscampbell7807 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh gosh, I hadn't thought of that at all.

    • @markusgorelli5278
      @markusgorelli5278 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So it was a charm of sorts to frighten snails away. Cool!

  • @liviahorowitz2225
    @liviahorowitz2225 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Plot twist: the crusades were actually just wars about killing giant snails, which were considered a delicacy for the elite.

  • @ohnename4076
    @ohnename4076 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    *clap clap* meme review.

  • @IsThisRain
    @IsThisRain 7 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    *Insert comment here stating that the snails were medieval dank memes because no-one has commented this before*

  • @kurz6860
    @kurz6860 7 ปีที่แล้ว +486

    It's interesting how the monks could draw clothes perfectly but knew barely anything about anatomy.

    • @JustinCage56
      @JustinCage56 7 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      360sblulev I can't believe your comment got upvoted

    • @kurz6860
      @kurz6860 7 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      I'm not complaining about humans combined with animals or other impossible stuff, that would be hypocrytical of me because I like to draw crazy creatures too, I have nothing against it. It just seems weird for me that they made the clothes look extremely realistic while the faces and body proportions of normal humans are kinda off.

    • @grandsome1
      @grandsome1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Max Hofman Words and symbols had litteral reality bending property in the mind of the ancient people (especially when a nobleman can get killed with one word), so artists would often refrain from drawing living things too well by fear of the drawing becoming alive or of fear of blasphemy. There's that sort of motif in many story from the Jewish golems to Pinocchio. This is also why Egyptian drew the way they did, and were afraid of writing some people names on walls. And this is also where the concept of spells comes from.

    • @kurz6860
      @kurz6860 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      That's cool to know! Thanks for informing me.

    • @neeneko
      @neeneko 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Keep in mind that a lot of it was stylistic, and the styles changed over time.

  • @apexshinbi638
    @apexshinbi638 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    2:52 *First Battle Royale Mode, colorized (1260)*

  • @bluemariomedia8351
    @bluemariomedia8351 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Jontron: im a brave boi
    *see a snail*
    Jontron: NOT A BRAVE ENOUGH BOI FOR THIS!

  • @davidmccullough4678
    @davidmccullough4678 7 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    now I understand both memes and Adventure Time

    • @gforskli4307
      @gforskli4307 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      David McCullough lol

    • @samuelhadjaissa5201
      @samuelhadjaissa5201 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      what you mean adventure time ?

    • @fulcrum2951
      @fulcrum2951 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      There is some snail waving its uhh "hand" in the background or something or a talking snail

    • @samuelhadjaissa5201
      @samuelhadjaissa5201 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I guess that makes sense

  • @TheReverendGreene
    @TheReverendGreene 6 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    What if snails represented procrastination? Imagine you live in a monastery. People judge you harshly all the time, you're pressured to produce, but you never really go anywhere and probably lack motivation all the time. "Sloth" or laziness is a sin. Maybe it was an inside joke about how hard it was to fight off their laziness and actually make the manuscript they were always talking about

    • @yooringonghan
      @yooringonghan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      honestly that was my interpretation as well

    • @darkmasterchief227
      @darkmasterchief227 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hmm yeah i gathered that too

    • @jelkel25
      @jelkel25 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      One of the 7 deadly sins, along with the 7 virtues a big part of Western culture that conveniently disappeared.

  • @AtZero138
    @AtZero138 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Who Also.. just got a New Tattoo idea!!????

    • @wangxian_
      @wangxian_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Did you actually do it??

  • @malahamavet
    @malahamavet 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    BEHOLD THE MIGHTY SNAIL MEME!!! one of the oldest memes in history

  • @warhammernerd52Daxx-Lorenzo898
    @warhammernerd52Daxx-Lorenzo898 7 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    +Vox, why don't we see cars in medieval art?

    • @nemoflexual
      @nemoflexual 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      warhammernerd52 those things are way too hard to draw

  • @tnought
    @tnought 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Vox: Answering the important questions.

  • @plotwist1066
    @plotwist1066 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    i think they include it in their drawing because the snails are beautiful and easy to draw because it moves slooooooooooowlyyyyyyy. 🐌

  • @smallstudiodesign
    @smallstudiodesign 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Seems like we’re heading back into *The Dark Ages* - so why not learn more about Medieval Art?

  • @MrMovieduck
    @MrMovieduck 7 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Why didn't they just end the snails rightly?

    • @unpaintedcanvas
      @unpaintedcanvas 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      MrMovieduck Sadly they just couldn't unscrew their pommel in time...

    • @magiv4205
      @magiv4205 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We need Skallagrim to see this video