My mom is a schizophrenic who does not understand popular trends or technology. When she watches theory videos, she enters each one impressionable and naïve. She believes them wholeheartedly. This has broken our family apart. I hate conspiracy theories and the vulnerable population they target.
I remember a very old case of like a nurse or something? Who, to convince an antivaxx to get a vaccine (I guess this happened when vaccines for corona started), made up on the spot a conspiracy theory about antivaxxers who made conspiracy theories
Yeah it’s seriously fucked up, I went down a horrible rabbit hole of shit full of poorly disguised antisemitism and ableism which I fully believed because of manic episode.
I think the biggest problem is that a lot of people don't understand what theory means in scientific terms. Science theories are concepts that have been tested heavily, like the theory of gravity or evolution. Both have been proven time and time again, but they're theories because they go through rigorous experimentation and tests. A good amount of people confuse theory and hypothesis, since hypothesis is what they're actually thinking of.
Yup! They don’t know the differences from hypothesis, theory, and law! It’s scary how many uneducated ppl we have in this world in 2022 considering that when I was in school 40+ years ago, we couldn’t research things at the touch of our phones. Part of the problem is parents, they need to be actively teaching their kids how to look things up, what sites are reliable, and which ones aren’t. Too many parents expect that to be the job of teachers, and don’t take accountability for their own kids’ upbringing.
@@SeanShimamoto Great point!! I argue from my personal experience that “authority” is viewed as the only knowledge-bringers. Authority is synonymous with “expert” in many cases too, but this blurs the line between people genuinely educated in their line of work and those who are pushing an agenda. I have older parents despite being a Gen Zer, and I grew up religious whose values are strictly against mine and my identity (anti-gay, anti-abortion etc) - so that put me in a mental loop where I was taught authority is correct but I know that gay people aren’t sinners and they are great people because I know them! I have friends who I love and care for who isn’t these “sexual deviants” my church (and many churches in America) said. So, my own personal experiences are debunking these authority figures who know everything. That put me in a moral crisis lol. I see these conspiracy theories being peddled to kids and most importantly ADULTS preying on their lack of knowledge and putting themselves as the “authority figure” of this knowledge. Cult leaders and conspiracists use the same tactics as many churches here in America and that is: “if you start to doubt, they (devil, antivaxxers etc) won”.
Thank you I literally had someone try to argue with me that there was no evidence backing up the “Out of Africa theory” because it was called a theory 🫥
I make a point to call out what conspiracy nuts call "theories" for what they are: rumors, gossip, lies (of both the "half-truth" & flat out B.S. varieties), & in certain contexts even hearsay! I think more of us should start using phrases like conspiracy rumors & conspiracy gossip instead as it's more accurate AND (as an added bonus) it would be a GREAT way to troll the conspiracy nuts!
27:50 “That’s why when you walk into a room you feel energy” a man believing that the feeling of chemicals in his brain being released in response to him processing new social stimulus/information is actually a glitch in the matrix hive mind is so funny to me. Its like a dog getting scared of its own fart
Danny Gonzalez had a quote that always helps me if I ever find my anxious self genuinely considering some of these insane theories. He made a video about some wild Instagram conspiracies, & the gist of his response was: "If the government didn't want you to find out, why would they make a puzzle for you to solve? Why wouldn't they just... not do that?"
I've asked so many "q" Trump lovers the same questions.. its terrifying how easily manipulated so many Americans are & now they are using their "insider info" to vote.. Absolutely terrifying
My moment of realization was similar. I had just heard a report that a man was found dead and decapitated because "he had a heart attack and his dog must've eaten his head afterwards". The authorities found the head, and the conclusion was "the dog must've thrown it up". When the government tries to hide something, they are NOT subtle with it at all. If something's sketchy, then it'll look sketchy from a mile away. They classify everything when they lie, so when they do things like display a real Saturn V rocket at the Kennedy Space Center for everybody to see, it's pretty safe to say that they actually did fly those things to the moon.
Shane: So if we were living in a simulation then would that mean cats aren't actually real right? His brother: yes Shane: So anything I do or have done to a cat would be okay because it is just a computer program?
Computer person here, motherboards can indeed be made in any shape. My least favorite ones are the laptop ones where they cram just about every component onto the same board so if even one of them dies you have to replace the whole thing. The only real connection between them and the pic Shane shows is that they both look a bit like an aerial view of a road map lmao
im p sure the picture shane shows is photoshopped anyway, bc the pixellation/image degradation of the plain background area is identical on both photos. looks like they just coloured the aerial shot green n added a few circuit lines(? idk the term). but even if it was real, there must b billions of motherboards on earth so its not weird that one would just happen to look like a (very small) city
@@Mars-dw2zc I don't think it's photoshopped, I think it's just a circuit made to replicate the shape and the artifacting you're seeing is just a result of JPEG compression from the image being saved over and over again.
It reminds me of that sarcatic comment on those Ancient Aliens people who compare ancient city layouts to computer circuits: _"It looks like a little city" _ the first thought of absoultely every single person who ever saw an electronic circuit_
Also the photo shown must definitely be either shopped or a motherboard especifically made to look like the pyramids. At the hardware level computers are all about differences of speed in tiny fractions based on the distance between components, having a long ass bus between components for no reason with nothing in-between is just a waste lol
@@firebreatha Shit stops lol if we live in a simulation then the plug gets pulled and then there's nothing, just like real life so it really doesn't matter
@@am-ranth8955 you missed my point too, never did I mention you talking about death, did I. I’m just saying that if we were to live in a simulation, it would also shatter the idea of death in some sense. And that is a certain effect. At least my perception of death would change. You said you couldn’t call out any things that would change. I could.
I think Shane's brother being an ex-christian makes sense. he realized that some of the knowledge he got (in school or via parents) was based on a story, so he started seeing all "authority-based facts that way" I'm high as balls
Thank you for acknowledging the anti-semetic part of these theories. I'm not Jewish but it makes me mad how often people push these blatantly anti-semetic views and sometimes push some they don't realize are anti-semetic. Plus they think it's harmless even though theories and suspicions like these are what have led to violence against Jewish people many times throughout history.
looking back at this, i also worry about people with any mental illness involving paranoia. could you imagine what videos like this, insanely popular videos everyone was seeing, would do to them?
I have mental illnesses that can cause paranoia, I watched a couple of his conspiracy videos and didn't sleep for almost a week because they triggered massive bouts of paranoia. Conspiracy videos in general are bad for people like me but Shane's were the worst for me, the atmosphere he would put in his videos would set me on edge for days
@@aluna1234 yes, and the music made it so much worse for me. I'd feel like I "had" to watch to become smarter or something and I got so anxious from the scary music and sound effects. it was terrifying, and while I'm sorry that you went through that I'm happy to know that I'm not the only one who felt like that
I have paranoia... It's hell. I fell HARD down conspiracy theory rabbit holes. I was also extremely paranoid from 8-13 years old that every plane in the sky had a nuke 🥲
Off topic from the video, props for Orr for hiding his brother’s identity. I think it’s always a good idea to keep kids off the internet as much as possible. To many weirdos out there nowadays.
Shane, after getting called out for doing blackface for like 5 years: I swear, I won't do anyting racist again Also Shane: Did you guys know this theory that assumes Jewish people control the world is totally viable and like, true, guys? :|
I think if anything proves cancel culture doesn't really exist in the way people say it does, its that Shane still has a following and is still successful on TH-cam. After the VERY blatant continuous racism through his early career, the sexualizing of animals and young girls, and then pushing very conspiratorial thinking to impressionable young people. ON TOP OF THAT, his content is just not good, its lazy, its meandering, its nonsensical, and some of his videos he outright steals large chunks of his run times from other channels WITHOUT credit. I don't understand how Shane has a following
I never did either. He doesn't even have a charismatic personality, or at least in my experience he always made me cringe with his "humor" and I never found him funny. And his videos are SO BORING
"And then Einstein thought of the theory of gravity..." Sir Isaac Newton didn't get hit in the head with that apple for y'all to disrespect him like this 😭
As a Jew, it's refreshing to see a TH-cam channel with a decent subscriber base pointing out the ways that these videos usually come back to conspiracies about Jews. Somewhat telling that it has to come from a creator who is Jewish, rather than the countless non-Jewish others who have talked about conspiracy channels etc but can't be bothered to call out the antisemitism. But regardless, it's nice to see on your channel :) Also I said this on another video but I'm so glad I found this channel, it's a blast and it's also nice to finally see a Jewish creator with a decent thing going (subscriber-wise and content-wise)! :D
@@dysmissme7343 I feel you - recently I've felt like Pinely is some kind of a safe space, where I can just watch him do fun and silly things without fearing what he might say next. Hang in there 💙
The funniest part to me is that the "10th planet" theory was directly used in Scooby Doo Mystery Inc. This man believes in the thing the Scooby doo series used to be edgy
It's really stupid, because the constellation of course still existed, so they'd know about that set of stars, but it wouldn't be "The belt of Orion" to them, it'd likely have some other meaning than the belt of some Greek Hunter with a extreme tendency to piss off the Gods (no, literally in every version of the Orion Myth he pisses off some god and that leads to his downfall).
My biggest problem as someone who suffers with delusions is the fact that the people who support these theorys and understand that they sre theories will stop at nothing to tell you your delusions are real. Like the amount of times ive been told like for example my hallucinations are me looking into another dimension or me seeing spirits or my delusions is the universe trying to warn me about something is absolutely crazy. They likr the turn your personal mental health experiences and turn it jnto a fun theory. I honestly don't care what other people believe but that behaviour is a massive trend in shanes fans and its so harmful and dangerous
when i was younger i heard about shanes theories so i watched one video and in the video, he spent half the time talking about random tv shows and then showed 2 videos of birds “floating”. i happen to have grown up with 2 bird watcher parents and was able to figure out that the first birds wings flapping matched up to the framerate of the camera recording it, and the second was kiting. which is. a thing that birds do. it was so obvious. so ig i dodged a bullet with that one
It's not just kids, believe it or not. My best friend's mom - a 50yo college professor with a PhD in sports medicine - came out as a flat earther recently. My mom was flabbergasted because she isn't really online. I wasn't, because I am. So when my friend and I sat down to "reverse-engineer" the proof she sent us, it took two degrees of separation to get back to Shane. Two. Of course, all the blame can be laid at any one person's feet. There's a conversation about a lack of critical thought to be had. But it bothers me that massively popularizing wild conspiracy theories and peddling them to a massive audience is considered to be the GOOD part of his content, even by his detractors.
A quick Google search revealed that it took early humans over two million years to develop bows and arrows. So Orion must have been rather uninvolved for a while lol
The double think is insane. How does he simultaneously believe that the Earth is flat, but ALSO he believes that the simulation is proven, because doing (weirdly specific) maths to a pyramid makes the circumference of the Earth? What?
I swear to God I've seen the same "theory" you found on Eminem but about Avril Lavigne once. The theory was that the "real" Avril killed herself and was replaced by a doppelganger. It was truly the craziest crap I have ever to this day clicked on, and no there wasn't any legitimate proof it was all based on "evidence" like her music changing (that stuff happens as artists grow and change themselves?) Biggest waste of time and yet there was way too many people who seemed on board with that type of theory in the comments
people bring up this conspiracy in avril's comment section on instagram all the time 😒 it's so stupid. hell, not even just in her comments but literally anywhere i see avril, there will be people making comments about "it's actually melissa" - can never tell if these people are joking or not anymore.
The evidence for that one is actually because there was a real voice double, that would perform when avril couldn’t. Because she also looked like Avril they decided to use her instead of announcing her death. Not my thoughts I just wanted to share the full theory
If you wanna look for crazy patterns in nature, just look at the fibonacci sequence, or tessellations, or fractals. That shits really cool, and not dangerous info to spread. ALSO. These things are theory because science is willing to find exceptions should they arise. I think he's confusing theory with hypothesis. Hypothesis is still in the testing phase, but theory has been repeatedly and comprehensively demonstrated as being accurate. (I'm sure y'all know this, but my parents are like this too and I wanted to get the thoughts down)
I watched these kinds of videos in my earlier teens, I was undiagnosed with a mental disorder that makes it hard to tell what's real and what isn't, not getting too detailed for privacy reasons, but these videos made me really paranoid, and created trust issues for everything I was told that was labeled as fact, I believed him because he was older and seemed to know more then me, it just was really toxic to the point where my parents told me to stop watching him after they looked him up for themselves. I am better now btw, I enjoy the dark side of things still but I have a better way of critical thinking, and I don't push my mental state at all
I suffer from severe anxiety and fell into the shane rabbit hole when I was 13-14 and I unfortunately started to believe a lot of the theory’s. I remember being so paranoid all the time to the point where I fell into a depressive state. I was lucky to have been able to get out and realize that everything Shane said was bullshit. To this day I still have some of theses theory’s in the back of my head and have to remind myself that it’s not real. It’s really sad how many kids were negatively impacted by this bozo.
@@rgarcia6065 it's scary to think we aren't alone with our experiences, I know he targeted his videos at our ages, usually 11-17 so he had to know the effect they could have had, btw I hope your doing better these days 💕
Privacy reasons? No one can figure out who you are by describing your mental disorder. It's not only one country using TH-cam. Not only one age group. Etc.
@@secretformulathief910 it really is scary, I know that there’s gotta be wayyy more people out there that probably fell into a worse rabbit hole or something. It’s the fact that he knew the effects and kept it going and still keeps going that makes me sick. And I’m doing as good as I can be now :) hope your doing alright too !!
While I don't have that mental disorder you have. I definitely still fell in the rabbit hole shane made. I also was really deeply paranoid, almost dysfunctionally so. I honestly feel lucky and grateful to be out of that hole now. I am also really glad to see you've made it out as well. I really wish for the best to the people that are still stuck in the hole. It is genuinely an awful place to be in.
One funny thing about flat earthers is that some have tried to prove that the earth is flat but end up proving that it's round and STILL refuse to believe it.
My dad has never been to New York, doesn’t know anyone that ever has and has no personal connections to the event whatsoever, but every time someone brings up 9/11 I can see the pain and emotion he has in remembering witnessing it live on tv. Other people I know too. I feel terrible that people still peddle the theory that it was fake when the people who were alive at the time still can remember the horrible event.
"Planet is just the word 'plane' with a T" That's not it. That's not even remotely it. Jesus fuck but we need to start insisting people be tested for a certain amount of basic intelligence and knowledge before being allowed on TH-cam.
This explanation at 19:20 is the best way I’ve heard ridiculous conspiracies explained, building on BS with more BS. Thank you!! And weird how Shane’s brother doesn’t know that people from all over the world are working up on the International Space Station together, and at different stations on the earth. They’re not all from NASA.
one of my favourite authors c.m koseman once said that people now more than ever are turning to conspiracy theories because they are easier to understand that actual science. Science has developed to the point that it is impossble for any human to fully comphrehend it.
I'm waiting for your video for such a long time pinely. Happy to hear you are all good and well. Thank you for the video. It's 1am right now here in India and I'm not gonna sleep untill I watch the whole video. I'm sooo excited.
Yes you can put chips wherever you want on the board so long as you can make the connections (metal lines) between them fit correctly, just as you can put your keyboard and mouse wherever you like on your desk in relation to your computer so long as the wires connect correctly.
In 2019 when I was still a child with a pea brain (I was 11) I binge watched all of these videos by Shane. And it was definitely the thumbnails that hooked me in. It just appealed to my baby brain. Ofc I just shrugged them off as being theories so I wasn’t affected by them. But the videos did make me feel a bit shivery when I watched them. Anytime I watch videos with serious topics I kinda get a bit paranoid. Idk. I’m just goofy. But yeah. Bad idea for them to be accessible for impressionable kids.
All of Jared’s “facts” just come from him not realising there are other countries outside of America lmao. We have documented evidence of Australian explorers going to Antarctica and the South Pole, it was a big thing that multiple people raced to do.
His brother said, “my personal belief, is”. That’s because he doesn’t have enough for a theory, but he does try to debunk well known ones. Some folks don’t deserve a platform, and are dangerous if they do manage to get one.
My dad knew a guy when he lived in Jersey that helped people get out of the city during 9/11. Years later, he fell for conspiracy theories about crisis actors and shit as if he himself didn't witness the event and people directly injured in it
when i was around 14/15, some classmates were talking about a shane dawson video talking about flat earth i asked if they seriously believed that, and one of theem genuinely said "im willing to believe anything shane dawson talks about"
I love the recent evolution of your channel so much! The new content is amazing, and it's so nice you're not a talking animated box anymore because the Internet deserves to see how handsome you are :3
Fr tho I am so over the whole rantsona style of commentary.. just comes across as insecure lol it’s gotten to a point where if I click on a vid and it features a cartoon animal making 3 different faces while commenting on some topic I immediately click off lmfao
yeah I really agree, I realized that when I watched videos I enjoyed it a lot more when it was an actual human being talking to me and not some cartoon character. And while I really did enjoy the drawing part of making my videos, I think I can find other ways to include that (for example the intro section I made for this video). I've been feeling a lot more comfortable on camera as of late as well, so this format is definitely here to stay :)
I can't get over the Futurama clip. The entire episode is about Fry trying to escape from Leela because he doesn't want a career chip or to be a delivery boy again. He convinces her to take hers out because she hates her job and then they get new jobs together. The entire point of the big scary claw and the fixed career was to demonstrate how different and scary the future is. The chips come up a couple more times and they're never treated as something good or even reasonable.
A "theory" can basically be considered any rational conclusion that can be drawn from the results of testing a hypothesis through controlled and verifiable experimentation. Or in laymen's terms a theory means "We've literally done this 1000's of times, and it always worked like this"
"I feel more special and more significant." - Bingo! Also makes people feel like they have more control and relieves A LOT of anxiety and fear. It's just about as reinforcing as religion.
I want nothing more than to see these flat earthers try and find the edge. Like, just close your laptop, get out of the house, start walking, and don’t stop till you find the edge. Go on, now. I’ll wait.
I was younger when I was watching him I was like in fifth grade and he made me believe the 9/11 plane was a hologram my mom had to sit me down and had to talk about how her freinds died I hated myself for it and will never forgive him
no because shane really made middle school me, who was obsessed with astronomy, believe that the earth could be flat for a good day. i had a whole conversation with my uncle about it too, it was insane
I love that Pinely protects his little brother's identity but still includes him in his content sometimes. They both seem like cool people, and his little brother seems very smart for his age! When I was 9 I was just playing barbies and talking about littlest pet shop 😂
i remember seeing that shane video talking about the 9/11 conspiracy and me being young impressionable actually believing it, i went on this rabbithole of 9/11 conspiracies. i’m glad my parents showed me that it was total bullshit but without them i’d maybe still believe in it. his videos are very harmful. i was lucky enough to have parents who cared enough to call me out on my bullshit which makes me feel bad for the kids who went down the same rabbithole as me and maybe didn’t get out so easily or quick.
Same but it was Jesse Ventura. I was convinced by his BS TV show that Building 7's collapse was suspicious... And then I saw videos of firefighters at the scene confirming that they're pulling their people out because it was gonna collapse from structural damage.
Watching Shane give a platform to his alt-right pipeline brother is hilarious. They seem like such polar opposites, yet somehow align. A great case study of the pipeline in real-time action.
It's funny seeing this from the POV of someone who doesn't know much about flat earthers beliefs, I have fun debating them, so when you said "they don't believe gravity exists" I laughed if only you knew some of the things I've heard apparently, the reason why the plane trips in the southern hemisphere take just as long as ones in the north (even though on the flat earth map the distances are longer in the south) is because there are high speed winds, and they get the planes to only fly during the times these winds go in the right directions so they can get a boost that is the exact same as in the north that or australia just doesn't exist
i had watched a couple of his videos back then, until one of his conspiracies turned me off from him forever, and i'm glad it did. there was one conspiracy where he claimed a news reporter who was shot and killed on camera wasnt actually killed and it was all faked because of some small inconsistency between the video taken by the shooter and the video by the news station. i dont remember exactly what it was but i remember being like "oh it is extremely easy to explain why this inconsistency exists" and the fact that he was willing to claim someone faked their own death on tv based on something so small and clearly explainable when this woman likely has family who're still traumatized by this to this day, that really really made me upset.
When I was 10/11, I was a huge Shane Dawson fan (which stemmed from his conspiracy theory videos). What did this cause for me? A massive bout of paranoia that led to a year of agoraphobia. Because of his conspiracies, I was so convinced that everybody was inherently evil that I was afraid to be outside of my home alone, and when I did have to, my ten-minute walk home from school would turn into a two-hour one because anytime I saw someone, I would duck and hide, and anytime a car passed that I thought I had seen pass already, again I would duck and hide, or change routes completely. Like I say, it took me about a year to get over this, which honestly could've been worse, and I'm lucky to have just ended up with paranoia rather than flat-earther beliefs or anti-vax madness. But yeah. Shane Dawson caused 10-year-old me so much mental distress that I developed agoraphobia. Kind of insane.
one thing that bothers me especially personally about the flat earth thing - the projection they use would stretch out Australia to truly massive proportions in comparison to much of the rest of the world. as an australian, who has driven across much of the country, it is exactly the size it seems. you do the speed calculations for when you will get somewhere in the car according to maps, and it very much lines up. it can't just be bigger? unless I also am bigger and move faster than people in the northern hemisphere. flat earthers should fear my might
"It's been debunked, but it's weird that a thing that I just said didn't happen, happened". -Shane Dawson, PhD in explaining things and mental olympics. Also, "just a theory" smh do they don't know that theories have to be proven to be recognized as theories and not hypothesis?
the predictive programming 9/11 thing is so stupid, because did you see the aftermath of 9/11??? people had huge reactions (for good reason) that directly contradicts the idea we were "programmed" to not react
I tried looking for people to explain why the space one looked like that. I just thought maybe something with movement and the lines are just stars but I keep getting conspiracy videos.
There's actually another reason pyramids and motherboards look similar, and it's the same reason that lichtenberg figures and rivers look the same, and the reason that spiral galaxies and coffee swirls look the same. Maths. The specific numbers are different, but the same equations govern similar actions. Both water and electricity spread across all possible paths to a degree inversely proportional to the resistance. Spiral galaxies and the froth on a cup of coffee are both objects (stars or bubbles) rotating in a system that prevents them from spreading out (gravity or the cup). Whether you're working in petajoules or microjoules, the kinetic energy equations are the same. The difference is in quantity, not quality. The Great Pyramids are part of a religious complex consisting of several important sites linked by roads in a very flat region. A motherboard is a series of several important components linked by connections on a flat piece of plastic. There are only a finite number of ways to arrange and connect these elements, and if you want to be efficient and effective while still giving each element its own space (to be appreciated in the religious complex or to be replaced on the motherboard) then the possible arrangements decrease even further. What is a good shape for one system is necessarily a good shape for the other, because they're both governed by similar principles and designed for human use. When you see repeated patterns, the most common explanation is that they're governed by the same underlying principles, not that they're evidence of a grand conspiracy.
A guy at uni is anti mask/anti vax and I wanted to discuss it with him and maybe change his mind. We talked a bit and he's a full on q anon conspiracy theorist, I have no idea how to help him.
If you're concerned about him and serious about wanting to help him, you should just be a friend & don't abandon him because he believes differently than you. The caveat being as long as he's not talking about doing anything to hurt himself or others. If that's the case then it may be beyond your reach & more professional help may be necessary.
Be careful if you are one of the people he believes to be in the "conspiracy". I appreciate you trying to help him, maybe just talking with him will help. I have the impression those people never talked to the groups they think are "evil" before and that's why they are easily fouled by this bullshit. So maybe just talking with him would help, but sincerely I don't know too...
I used to watch shane, and what really turned me off of his theory videos is the crisis actor stuff. I am from connecticut, pretty close to where the sandy hook shooting happened. I was in elementary school at the time and I actually remember going into lockdown on the day that it happened. to hear shane spouting the same shit that alex jones was saying about the families of the victims of sandy hook being crisis actors really made me rethink being a fan of his content. its genuinely disgusting that he got away with spreading this insane misinfo for so long without people checking him on it.
So interestingly, most likely the word planet and plane aren't etymologically related. One comes from Latin and one comes from Greek. Plane comes from Latin "planum" meaning flat surface, whereas planet comes from Greek "planetes" meaning wanderer, which later forms found their way into late Latin and old French. But most likely the words aren't actually etymologically related/from the same roots lmao. Because earth was not originally referred to as a planet (though some ancient Greeks did figure out it was round and I think some theorized it revolved around the sun or was also a planet but couldn't prove it)
Loving the anglo-centric takes they make. "Planet is just plane with a t at the end" Well in Finnish 'Earth' is 'maapallo' where 'maa' means land or ground and 'pallo' means ball. Therefore we live on a ball of dirt. Checkmate flat-earthers
I used to think conspiracies were fun and harmless until I realized they encourage distrust in science and discourage critical thinking, it's kinda sad
Why has science been made into a deity. Very many scientists in the modern day have used it for an agenda and why do we blindy trust every one calling themselves a scientist
@@dinoguy163 I find that's The Thing with conspiracies in general. Often times they'll have a grain of truth to them (not all them ofc), such as "you can't trust the gov!!" , the mere concept of the CIA proves that. Then within 5 sentences it goes from "you can't trust the gov" to "the Rothschild's are turning our kids trans with nuclear Russian space lasers!!". Of course it depends on the propagandist speaking as to how well they can traffic in their ideas without being mask off about it.
Nah, a lot of that is just people trying to explain away the realisation that they're probably autistic and nobody can convince me otherwise. Same with "highly sensitive person". Edit: unless they're literally just making it up for attention like some do, but I'm referring to the majority I've encountered who generally seem to genuinely believe it. Like nah mate, look up the diagnostic criteria for autism in women/adults in particular and get back to me on that
@@ChoppedLiver Listen here girlfriend, i feel you on feeling my feels but as an empath i am morally obliged to feel your feels heavier than my own and you shouldn't be ashamed to be you. Sleigh Queen yasss💅
It's very irritating! Why are we all being left out of this global conspiracy?? None of my friends are in it. Clearly, we have clique issues within the tribe.
I love that he doesn't realize constellations are a social construct. We assign meaning to the meaningless, it's what we have done for millennia. We love stories and creating collective understanding. I think that is so cool! But it doesn't mean there is a god/creator who taught our ancestors to hunt or draw lol
@Skyliner actually, stars from the perspective of Earth do look the same (as in the same patterns) for thousands of years. They would just have been shifted over (since our sky appears to shift over time). That’s also why zodiacs no longer line up with our birthdays in the sky at the same time.
It’s like the pyramid aliens thing. They think of our ancestors as dumb barbarians who were completely incapable of anything complex. They must’ve been taught everything by higher beings
He seems to believe that cavemen saw Orion and started immitating it instead of finding the shape in the sky after one of their most common activites. That logic is just Impossible to exist so maybe we DO live in a simulation.
@@skyliner4413 the pictures he was using aren't even from what most people think of as cavemen lol, they're a few thousand years younger. early cave art in europe, africa, and now indonesia has basically no human figures, they were much more concerned with depicting animals!
"I feel more special, more significant" that is a very important statement. The rush you get out of having "hidden knowledge" is very powerful, it's practically an addiction
It's very interesting to me though that chasing that rush doesn't lead people into studying actual science. I'm a chem major and I know that feeling; I experience it whenever someone asks me to explain a process they don't understand and I do. Like, genuinely recommended. Read an actual science book, science papers, that's pretty much hidden knowledge to most of the population.
@@hana-a-cha I do the same thing and it's so much fun. I even read about things out of my field of study to learn about the common layman misconceptions so that I can be slightly less uneducated. It's so much fun to be able to explain things to people like why it's important to finish their antibiotics in terms they can understand that their doctor doesn't have time to explain at their appointment. Or why their Christmas tree doesn't benefit from crushed aspirin. Or how to make your yard slightly more environmentally beneficial without breaking my local town's yard ordinances.
As an empath I could totally tell that Shane's true intentions were to make children stupid so he could eventually sell them t-shirts with holes in them for 60$
I'm always in shock about how USA-centric most space related theorys are. They are unable to even consider the possibility of another country having any theory, discovery or even writing a scientific papper about it. Not only that but they disconsider years of history and how even ancient people were fascinated by space and studied it. Astronomy was a huge part of the begining of the development of the scientific method and most ancient civilizations were at least a little bit rigth in their early studies (the round earth idea was even something discussed there if the famous experiment of Eratosthenes in Alexandria. It ends passing an image that even "fake" science can only be discovered by the US (maybe some European countries, but that is it).
Disclaimer: I'm brazilian and it's just unconfortable how this theorys kindda imply that people outisde of US are irrelevant. It gets even worse with the "aliens affecting history" theorys
@@lemonace6695 I'm glad you brought this up. I feel as though the US is a culture of narcissism, due to people who live here being *constantly* taught that we are "the greatest country on Earth" and "the only truly *free* country in the world". Because of this, people are raised to believe that we are the front-runners, and that the opinions and views of people from other countries and cultures are less accurate, due to them not being as "far along" as we are. This is internalized and taken as fact, and I believe that this is one of the biggest reasons why there is *still* so much racism here. I could honestly go on and on about this, but I think I've touched on all the major points. In short, Americans are raised to be narcissists.
Yeah the space race was really done more as a way to "own the commies" rather than achieving something as a planet and human kind, and i think cause of that its always been VERY US centric in terms of disscussion about space travel and exploration
Americans are nothing if not egocentric and egocentric in our brand of moronism. I mean yeah, if you listen to conservative talking points, then the dehumanization of the rest of the planet isn't surprising.
guys, seriously, this is not exclusive to americans. i'm telling you, as a jewish person who's the alleged puppet master behind these conspiracies, run rampant in european culture (and many in different asian cultures as well). in fact, the majority of these conspiracy theories originate from anti-jewish cabals dating back to the dark ages. these beliefs have traveled the world - malaysia, for example. it's a country that has no jewish presence but anti-jewishness is a normal, every day part of their lives. please don't assume these are purely americentric ideas and beliefs. it hurts those living overseas (and us a collective) whose experiences go completely unnoticed or blatantly ignored as a result of apathy towards victims whose lives are still being taken by their neighbors who innately can't let go of the superstitions and lies. there's nothing for them to call out unless it happens in america because it means they can divert the attention away from them so they can look like the altruistic good guys. let's take a look at some of the most infamous conspiracy theorists who are also known for their disturbing propaganda: stefan molyneux, paul joseph watson, and david icke... these aren't the names of american conspiracy theorists, yet they're the most influental voices of the far right. molyneux is irish-canadian and the other two are from the UK. these people even peddle very popular conspiracy theories about things that have no on-surface connection to the majority of conspiracies that originated from europe's crusade era, such as chemtrails, vaccines, 5G towers, and soy products. a couple more examples in re: caricatures of jews depicted by conspiracy theorists outside of america: - for belgium's carnival in 2019, the people had a parade where they dressed up as hook-nosed jews wearing rabbinical clothing and streimels with fake peyos. a year later, spain decided to follow suit a year after, where they dressed up and paraded themselves in costume those locked up in camps (which their ancestors had no qualms with) were forced to wear while others in a certain military costume danced alongside. in spain's defense, they at least took a little bit of accountability by apologizing. - notice how alt-righters on twitter constantly discuss the conspiracy theory about how jews are disloyal to america? look at the flags in their display names. the US flag is always missing. the only people who do are usually middle-aged parents who've accidentally ventured into twitter and don't know what they're up against. - major terr0r1st attacks that have happened in europe and asia over the past decade have been carried out by people who take time to make little detours to jewish places that have nothing to do with their overall plans due to hatred caused by conspiracy theories about jews. (eg; charlie hebdo and the hostage situation at a kosher grocery mart, the 2008 mumbai attack and the nariman chabad house, etc.) *and last but **_definitely_** not least:* the flat earth society is based in dover, england. its founder was a british conspiracy theorist named samuel shenton.
If any of you are wondering the earth's circumference is 24,901 miles which means that one degree of curvature in the earth's circumference is a little over 69 miles. Shane's brother is confused because he can't see the curvature 3 miles in the distance. When of course he couldn't as the difference is so slight that from a distance he wouldn't be able to perceive it.
Lovely, mathematical explanation. But I think (I hope!) that people could figure out the basic concept on their own. But apparently I’m wrong, which is terrifying…
I was confused when he said the earth has no curve cuz when you fly on a plane at a certain height, you can absolutely see the planet curving and that it’s round…
@@KingOfGaymes also when you’re driving on a flat road and you suddenly see cars popping up in the horizon and it almost seems like they are driving over a hill. It’s hard to explain but if you’ve lived in the plains/cornfields of Illinois, you can see how the earth is curved just by driving.
I understand your confusion but Einstein actually did invent the theory of gravity. Relativity is actually a gravitational theory that explains gravity through the curvature of spacetime. You're probably thinking of Newton's work on the law of gravity, which quantifies the visible effects of gravity in mathematical terms but isn't a theory because it doesn't explain how gravity works. Laws are what happens but theories are why they happen. Einstein was the one who gave an actual explanation for the mechanism behind gravity in 1916.
@@michaelkenner3289 ohhhhh okay! but still calling it the theory of gravity was technically wrong because it’s the theory of relativity (that’s more of a nitpick lol) thank u for the knowledge though. I knew that relativity was in relation to gravity but I didn’t know it literally *explained* gravity!
My youngest brother fell heavy to conspiracy theories a few years back we couldn’t even watch a show without him pausing every few seconds to show us “illuminati symbolism.” I told him most of the conspiracy theories are rooted in racism and alt right beliefs and to analyze WHO was making the content and what their motives were, and to stop letting strangers on the internet instill fear into his everyday existence. Once he started analyzing the content creators he realized most of them are religious extremists or alt right followers. He stopped soon after.
I've seen this exact same comment before on another video. Down to the phrase of pausing every few seconds to talk about illuminati. Do you bring this up in TH-cam comments a lot or is this just some copy paste job?
“I’m just open to different possibilities” Given that many of these theories are rooted in antisemitism and bold rejection of fact, I wouldn’t doubt it.
Remember when Shane tried to use someones handwriting to prove they were replaced by a double and the only difference was that one of them was in cursive.
that's so dumb, i've had at least 5 different writing methods in my life and would swap between them whenever i felt like it. handwriting means basically nothing
Fans are often like “Shane’s not problematic anymore! He apologized for the blackface and stuff!” And then he does shit like this, which kinda goes being problematic to being actively harmful.
Riiight. He's like "Nah I'm not like problematic anymore...I'm outright actively off base influencing young people into the direction of lunatic conspiracies that are actively harmful to minorities and are all easily disproved if you bother to look at facts!"
There’s this idea among Shane fans(and people in general) that an apology negates all wrongs. Not only is it a misunderstanding of what “apology” means, it’s proof that they do not care about what he apologized for in the first place
@@rotroom I think what they’re saying that his fans blindly believes he’s changed even though he exhibits the same behavior, but just packaged differently
Thank you for bringing up the anti-semitism at the centre of these conspiracies, I don’t see a lot of larger channels bring it up when talking about these types of theories. I mean it’s probably because you’re Jewish yourself but still, I was glad to see you bring it up.
A lot of conspiracists tend to fall into anti-semitism which somehow also leads them to be racist and homo-transphobic. It sounds weird but it makes sense that someone who develops a mistrust in scientific institutions would also fall for the "everyone is secretly trans" conspiracy theory or continue to believe in "scientific" racism or homophobia based on evidence that has been debunked decades if not centuries ago.
Antisemitism is kind of like the structural foundation of every "they're out to get you", "what they don't want you to know", etc theory that's out there, even if said theory isn't explicitly blaming teh joos
There's a book I saw that I decided to buy and will hopefully get around to reading soon called "When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People." And it essentially talks about how people fall into conspiracy theories, and why teaching logic and critical thinking is so important. Pretty much every conspiracy theory is deeply flawed logically, and just a few minutes of critical thinking unravels them so quickly. It's scary that people believe these things, and even scarier that very popular creators like Shane are entertaining these ideas like their equal to reality. Yes looking at all sides is important, but with that comes knowing that not all sides are equally sound or equally likely.
Operation Northwoods was considered a conspiracy theory until the CIA declassified their documents to show that yes, they were ACTUALLY debating whether to commit mass shootings and blame them on Castro in order to drum up public support for an invasion of Cuba. WMDs in Iraq was something that all the experts in our government from both parties were saying, and instead of WMDs we found gold and oil and claimed it out of the smoldering husk that was now Iraq. MKUltra sounds fucking bonkers and the CIA would’ve never owned up to it if it weren’t for Congress pushing them on it. Our leaders lie to us every day, it would truly be insane if you believe everything that’s considered part of the orthodoxy today without question.
@@nwut yeah, most people in most countries are religious. There are exceptions (most notably China), but more than 80% of the world population says they're religious.
Yup, even before he was "cancelled" for being a creep, I hated him for this kind of content. He's a major part of the normie-to-n4z1 pipeline and not enough people talk about that.
@@trashman424 ohh stuff like that. Oh f9r sure theres an elite group controlling the planet in some way hut they arent all jews lmao. Most likely people from every country from. Around the world. Chances of 9ne being a jew is high but chances of all of them being jews is laughable.
@@MackenziiRivers a lot of it is under the umbrella of qanon which is violently antisemitic. Also a lot of the conspiracies cross over into Holocaust denial, which is a favorite passtime of n4zis.
i love the flat earthers because like... what do they think the motivation is for "the Man" to keep up the alleged falsified information that the world is round? why does it need to be round? why would they hide it if the earth was flat?
A big part of the appeal to conspiracy theorists is when people talk about how "they" are hiding the truth suddenly "they" looks a lot like whatever group you happen to dislike already. So many interviews I've seen from conspiracy gatherings will have dozens of wildly different reasonings for why the thing they believe is happening
Bizarrely a lot of from what I’ve seen boils down to a crazy anti Semitic theory that says that hitler is alive and hiding underneath the Antarctica wall building up an army so he can rise up again and “win this time”
@@madeline5493 I cannot tell you how many people have tried to harass me in a transphobic sense with the standard “it’s against biology” and “all of you are predators” arguments that have been disproven for ages… and when those arguments fail, a shocking amount of them have devolved into this mad rambling about how “all teachers and professors are being controlled by Jews who are inventing this rhetoric for no reason”… It is honestly so startling that it’s happened to me more than once… I guess when they can’t come up with a logical response they just go full batshit insane about it.
@@MrHendrix17 Well, that's why it's called a conspiracy *theory* Yeah, motivation is a good factor to question, but let me also say, it's doesn't need a clear motive to question it, afterall, you could come up for three different possible motives after thinking about it for 30 minutes.
Mind so open, their brains fell out. Y’know, it’s really sad that this kind of lazy conspiracy shit is so popular, when *actual* science is really fucking awesome and interesting. People who put out videos like Shane’s should be fined to compensate for all the education they’re undoing.
Sooo TRUUU, real scientific phenomenon is wayyy more interesting than any conspiracy JUST LEARN ABT EVOLUTION!!! that shit alone is mindboggling and theres PROOF thru so many things like fossil records
there's this channel that put some absurd things into question, such as how to become soap and how many lions would it take to overwhelm(?) the sun. using science and math to get an answer. pretty over the top and impossible things, but it's still explored and explained throughout the videos. meanwhile, these guys just go like '[proven thing] is a hoax :0' and way too much people believe them 🤧
I think this is the thing - so many conspiracy theories boil down to the believer's inability to understand the science. They just don't understand it. A lot of conspiracies are just making sense of the world with as much science as a 5th grader can understand 😭
Your hair is still so cool. Also: I’m also Jewish, pretty religious too, and it’s so nice calling out these dumb illogical theory channels that spread so much misinformation and hate (especially towards Jews).
I never realized the conspiracy theory community and the far right (racist fascist) types had so much in common until the past few years. But the type who need hateful alternative ways of looking at the world are usually the type who need to a group of people to blame for their own inadequacies- they want to believe the people they hate should be feared (I’m Muslim, so I kind of can empathize though on a different level.) It sucks
Hey, I'm a pretty religious Jew as well, who's been through some bad antisemitic attacks in my life, & am so sick of these utterly stupid conspiracy theories. They do lead to dangerous views & violence. It's so refreshing seeing a major TH-cam channel just call it out. It's just tiring being a jew online, because it seems like antisemitic theories are now so mainstream.
I'm not Jewish (Christian, myself), but I can't imagine how tiring it must be to see all of these conspiracy theories that have their roots in antisemitism get mainstreamed. So much of this shit, when you dig just a little bit, is just thinly veiled antisemitism.
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Funny thing is... Alex is getting reemed in court right now for these claims. Shane is, literally, so stupid he is risking a lawsuit.
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My mom is a schizophrenic who does not understand popular trends or technology. When she watches theory videos, she enters each one impressionable and naïve. She believes them wholeheartedly. This has broken our family apart. I hate conspiracy theories and the vulnerable population they target.
Burn the juice
same :/
I remember a very old case of like a nurse or something? Who, to convince an antivaxx to get a vaccine (I guess this happened when vaccines for corona started), made up on the spot a conspiracy theory about antivaxxers who made conspiracy theories
Yeah it’s seriously fucked up, I went down a horrible rabbit hole of shit full of poorly disguised antisemitism and ableism which I fully believed because of manic episode.
@@supotter377nah that's on you
I think the biggest problem is that a lot of people don't understand what theory means in scientific terms. Science theories are concepts that have been tested heavily, like the theory of gravity or evolution. Both have been proven time and time again, but they're theories because they go through rigorous experimentation and tests. A good amount of people confuse theory and hypothesis, since hypothesis is what they're actually thinking of.
ppl dont get a lot of words, "if" and"bullshit 4 fun" and "statistics" are really not so difficult but.....
Yup! They don’t know the differences from hypothesis, theory, and law! It’s scary how many uneducated ppl we have in this world in 2022 considering that when I was in school 40+ years ago, we couldn’t research things at the touch of our phones. Part of the problem is parents, they need to be actively teaching their kids how to look things up, what sites are reliable, and which ones aren’t. Too many parents expect that to be the job of teachers, and don’t take accountability for their own kids’ upbringing.
@@SeanShimamoto Great point!! I argue from my personal experience that “authority” is viewed as the only knowledge-bringers. Authority is synonymous with “expert” in many cases too, but this blurs the line between people genuinely educated in their line of work and those who are pushing an agenda. I have older parents despite being a Gen Zer, and I grew up religious whose values are strictly against mine and my identity (anti-gay, anti-abortion etc) - so that put me in a mental loop where I was taught authority is correct but I know that gay people aren’t sinners and they are great people because I know them! I have friends who I love and care for who isn’t these “sexual deviants” my church (and many churches in America) said. So, my own personal experiences are debunking these authority figures who know everything. That put me in a moral crisis lol. I see these conspiracy theories being peddled to kids and most importantly ADULTS preying on their lack of knowledge and putting themselves as the “authority figure” of this knowledge. Cult leaders and conspiracists use the same tactics as many churches here in America and that is: “if you start to doubt, they (devil, antivaxxers etc) won”.
Thank you I literally had someone try to argue with me that there was no evidence backing up the “Out of Africa theory” because it was called a theory 🫥
I make a point to call out what conspiracy nuts call "theories" for what they are: rumors, gossip, lies (of both the "half-truth" & flat out B.S. varieties), & in certain contexts even hearsay! I think more of us should start using phrases like conspiracy rumors & conspiracy gossip instead as it's more accurate AND (as an added bonus) it would be a GREAT way to troll the conspiracy nuts!
27:50 “That’s why when you walk into a room you feel energy” a man believing that the feeling of chemicals in his brain being released in response to him processing new social stimulus/information is actually a glitch in the matrix hive mind is so funny to me. Its like a dog getting scared of its own fart
When I walk into a room all I feel is anxiety
Explain that flat earthers
The last sentence sums it up perfectly 😭
They’re mistaking “I can’t explain this” for “this can’t be explained.” It’s pretty silly.
That’s such a beautiful way to think about it. Thank you
Danny Gonzalez had a quote that always helps me if I ever find my anxious self genuinely considering some of these insane theories. He made a video about some wild Instagram conspiracies, & the gist of his response was: "If the government didn't want you to find out, why would they make a puzzle for you to solve? Why wouldn't they just... not do that?"
perfectly summed up!
I've asked so many "q" Trump lovers the same questions.. its terrifying how easily manipulated so many Americans are & now they are using their "insider info" to vote..
Absolutely terrifying
My moment of realization was similar. I had just heard a report that a man was found dead and decapitated because "he had a heart attack and his dog must've eaten his head afterwards". The authorities found the head, and the conclusion was "the dog must've thrown it up". When the government tries to hide something, they are NOT subtle with it at all. If something's sketchy, then it'll look sketchy from a mile away. They classify everything when they lie, so when they do things like display a real Saturn V rocket at the Kennedy Space Center for everybody to see, it's pretty safe to say that they actually did fly those things to the moon.
exactly - if it was real, they would capitalize on it. if the earth was flat, there would be fancy trips to the edge. but it's not. so there aren't.
Also, just-why? WHY lie about the shape of the Earth? For what purpose? How would that benefit anyone?
Imagine talking about an alien race called "inkies" and thinking you're speaking the truth. I'd die of embrassment 💀
anunnaki you mean? I don't know much ab those theories but if you're gonna make fun of it, gotta know how it's spelled
@dh.151 no there was another alien species though were talking about called the inkies
Splatoon?
Igigi perhaps. They are from actual Sumerian myths
Shane: So if we were living in a simulation then would that mean cats aren't actually real right?
His brother: yes
Shane: So anything I do or have done to a cat would be okay because it is just a computer program?
Lol...underrated comment.
I really wanna ask their mother where she went wrong lol
Lmaooo
@@t_ylr she encouraged all of it 💀
@@t_ylr she should be studied by psychologists so they can write papers on how NOT to raise your children
Computer person here, motherboards can indeed be made in any shape. My least favorite ones are the laptop ones where they cram just about every component onto the same board so if even one of them dies you have to replace the whole thing. The only real connection between them and the pic Shane shows is that they both look a bit like an aerial view of a road map lmao
im p sure the picture shane shows is photoshopped anyway, bc the pixellation/image degradation of the plain background area is identical on both photos. looks like they just coloured the aerial shot green n added a few circuit lines(? idk the term). but even if it was real, there must b billions of motherboards on earth so its not weird that one would just happen to look like a (very small) city
@@Mars-dw2zc I don't think it's photoshopped, I think it's just a circuit made to replicate the shape and the artifacting you're seeing is just a result of JPEG compression from the image being saved over and over again.
It reminds me of that sarcatic comment on those Ancient Aliens people who compare ancient city layouts to computer circuits:
_"It looks like a little city" _ the first thought of absoultely every single person who ever saw an electronic circuit_
Also the photo shown must definitely be either shopped or a motherboard especifically made to look like the pyramids. At the hardware level computers are all about differences of speed in tiny fractions based on the distance between components, having a long ass bus between components for no reason with nothing in-between is just a waste lol
Speaking of road map circuit boards, who's a fan of Tron?
I love that Shane would sooner believe that we live in a simulation rather than entertain the idea that kids can be creative and smarter than he is.
@@am-ranth8955 well if we live in a simulation, what would death be?
@@firebreatha Shit stops lol if we live in a simulation then the plug gets pulled and then there's nothing, just like real life so it really doesn't matter
@@am-ranth8955 you missed my point too, never did I mention you talking about death, did I. I’m just saying that if we were to live in a simulation, it would also shatter the idea of death in some sense. And that is a certain effect. At least my perception of death would change.
You said you couldn’t call out any things that would change. I could.
@@Katiethewizard actually does, consider religions for a second.
@@firebreatha no thanks
I think Shane's brother being an ex-christian makes sense. he realized that some of the knowledge he got (in school or via parents) was based on a story, so he started seeing all "authority-based facts that way"
I'm high as balls
Thank you for acknowledging the anti-semetic part of these theories. I'm not Jewish but it makes me mad how often people push these blatantly anti-semetic views and sometimes push some they don't realize are anti-semetic. Plus they think it's harmless even though theories and suspicions like these are what have led to violence against Jewish people many times throughout history.
the way shane's brother said "the earth is *only* 24,000 miles around" like that's a short distance
looking back at this, i also worry about people with any mental illness involving paranoia. could you imagine what videos like this, insanely popular videos everyone was seeing, would do to them?
I have mental illnesses that can cause paranoia, I watched a couple of his conspiracy videos and didn't sleep for almost a week because they triggered massive bouts of paranoia. Conspiracy videos in general are bad for people like me but Shane's were the worst for me, the atmosphere he would put in his videos would set me on edge for days
paranoia and delusions go brrrrrrrrr
not good things, it was a terrible time in my life when I watched these things
@@aluna1234 yes, and the music made it so much worse for me. I'd feel like I "had" to watch to become smarter or something and I got so anxious from the scary music and sound effects. it was terrifying, and while I'm sorry that you went through that I'm happy to know that I'm not the only one who felt like that
I have paranoia... It's hell. I fell HARD down conspiracy theory rabbit holes. I was also extremely paranoid from 8-13 years old that every plane in the sky had a nuke 🥲
Off topic from the video, props for Orr for hiding his brother’s identity. I think it’s always a good idea to keep kids off the internet as much as possible. To many weirdos out there nowadays.
unfortunately, shane's brother is in his videos quite frequently now. he's well liked by shane's fans. 🤦♀️ it terrifies me as a jew.
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Shane, after getting called out for doing blackface for like 5 years: I swear, I won't do anyting racist again
Also Shane: Did you guys know this theory that assumes Jewish people control the world is totally viable and like, true, guys?
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I guess... Its not racist if its... Antisemetic????
@@Featheryfaith7 Sure
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 Sure. We talked about this in social work class. Depends the reasons why. Different perspective in life. Have some wisdom.
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Fifteen steps away from me and stay away
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I think if anything proves cancel culture doesn't really exist in the way people say it does, its that Shane still has a following and is still successful on TH-cam. After the VERY blatant continuous racism through his early career, the sexualizing of animals and young girls, and then pushing very conspiratorial thinking to impressionable young people. ON TOP OF THAT, his content is just not good, its lazy, its meandering, its nonsensical, and some of his videos he outright steals large chunks of his run times from other channels WITHOUT credit. I don't understand how Shane has a following
Men rarely get "cancelled" but they whine about it like they do. And that's that.
I never did either. He doesn't even have a charismatic personality, or at least in my experience he always made me cringe with his "humor" and I never found him funny. And his videos are SO BORING
He does credit people also he still has a following probably because the things he did was like 10 years ago :/
@@MaigeGames44 In my opinion, things like kissing a 12-year-old on the lips and swapping gum with a 15-year-old don't have expiration dates.
@@MaigeGames44 he made out with a dog
"And then Einstein thought of the theory of gravity..." Sir Isaac Newton didn't get hit in the head with that apple for y'all to disrespect him like this 😭
As a Jew, it's refreshing to see a TH-cam channel with a decent subscriber base pointing out the ways that these videos usually come back to conspiracies about Jews. Somewhat telling that it has to come from a creator who is Jewish, rather than the countless non-Jewish others who have talked about conspiracy channels etc but can't be bothered to call out the antisemitism. But regardless, it's nice to see on your channel :)
Also I said this on another video but I'm so glad I found this channel, it's a blast and it's also nice to finally see a Jewish creator with a decent thing going (subscriber-wise and content-wise)! :D
I feel the same- especially in the current noxious sociopolitical environment 😓💜
@@dysmissme7343 I feel you - recently I've felt like Pinely is some kind of a safe space, where I can just watch him do fun and silly things without fearing what he might say next. Hang in there 💙
The funniest part to me is that the "10th planet" theory was directly used in Scooby Doo Mystery Inc. This man believes in the thing the Scooby doo series used to be edgy
I was wondering if anyone else here recognised the Scooby Doo lore 😂
I'm losing my mind they actually talked about it 😭😭😭 they sounded so genuinely serious 😭
Damn. The cavemen knew about the belt of Orion. A character in Greek mythology. I'm sorry but this is the part that broke me.
It's really stupid, because the constellation of course still existed, so they'd know about that set of stars, but it wouldn't be "The belt of Orion" to them, it'd likely have some other meaning than the belt of some Greek Hunter with a extreme tendency to piss off the Gods (no, literally in every version of the Orion Myth he pisses off some god and that leads to his downfall).
My biggest problem as someone who suffers with delusions is the fact that the people who support these theorys and understand that they sre theories will stop at nothing to tell you your delusions are real. Like the amount of times ive been told like for example my hallucinations are me looking into another dimension or me seeing spirits or my delusions is the universe trying to warn me about something is absolutely crazy. They likr the turn your personal mental health experiences and turn it jnto a fun theory. I honestly don't care what other people believe but that behaviour is a massive trend in shanes fans and its so harmful and dangerous
when i was younger i heard about shanes theories so i watched one video and in the video, he spent half the time talking about random tv shows and then showed 2 videos of birds “floating”. i happen to have grown up with 2 bird watcher parents and was able to figure out that the first birds wings flapping matched up to the framerate of the camera recording it, and the second was kiting. which is. a thing that birds do. it was so obvious.
so ig i dodged a bullet with that one
It's not just kids, believe it or not. My best friend's mom - a 50yo college professor with a PhD in sports medicine - came out as a flat earther recently. My mom was flabbergasted because she isn't really online. I wasn't, because I am.
So when my friend and I sat down to "reverse-engineer" the proof she sent us, it took two degrees of separation to get back to Shane. Two.
Of course, all the blame can be laid at any one person's feet. There's a conversation about a lack of critical thought to be had. But it bothers me that massively popularizing wild conspiracy theories and peddling them to a massive audience is considered to be the GOOD part of his content, even by his detractors.
A quick Google search revealed that it took early humans over two million years to develop bows and arrows. So Orion must have been rather uninvolved for a while lol
The double think is insane. How does he simultaneously believe that the Earth is flat, but ALSO he believes that the simulation is proven, because doing (weirdly specific) maths to a pyramid makes the circumference of the Earth? What?
Thank you for posting a video about this. I hated how he did this to kids
Yes! And also thank you to Pinely for exposing the antisemitism.
I swear to God I've seen the same "theory" you found on Eminem but about Avril Lavigne once. The theory was that the "real" Avril killed herself and was replaced by a doppelganger. It was truly the craziest crap I have ever to this day clicked on, and no there wasn't any legitimate proof it was all based on "evidence" like her music changing (that stuff happens as artists grow and change themselves?) Biggest waste of time and yet there was way too many people who seemed on board with that type of theory in the comments
i’m like 90% sure shane covered this theory
@@maryd7753 did he? Maybe that's where I had seen it then honestly it's been a whole so it's completed possible
@@maryd7753 yeah he did
people bring up this conspiracy in avril's comment section on instagram all the time 😒 it's so stupid. hell, not even just in her comments but literally anywhere i see avril, there will be people making comments about "it's actually melissa" - can never tell if these people are joking or not anymore.
The evidence for that one is actually because there was a real voice double, that would perform when avril couldn’t. Because she also looked like Avril they decided to use her instead of announcing her death. Not my thoughts I just wanted to share the full theory
6:55 its actually kinda sweet to see how Mythbusters did inspire kids to actually think critically and not buy into random shit they see
If you wanna look for crazy patterns in nature, just look at the fibonacci sequence, or tessellations, or fractals. That shits really cool, and not dangerous info to spread.
ALSO. These things are theory because science is willing to find exceptions should they arise. I think he's confusing theory with hypothesis. Hypothesis is still in the testing phase, but theory has been repeatedly and comprehensively demonstrated as being accurate.
(I'm sure y'all know this, but my parents are like this too and I wanted to get the thoughts down)
The American government invented the Fibbonaci Fractallation to let the lizard people control our minds WAKE UP SHE-PEOPLE
I watched these kinds of videos in my earlier teens, I was undiagnosed with a mental disorder that makes it hard to tell what's real and what isn't, not getting too detailed for privacy reasons, but these videos made me really paranoid, and created trust issues for everything I was told that was labeled as fact, I believed him because he was older and seemed to know more then me, it just was really toxic to the point where my parents told me to stop watching him after they looked him up for themselves. I am better now btw, I enjoy the dark side of things still but I have a better way of critical thinking, and I don't push my mental state at all
I suffer from severe anxiety and fell into the shane rabbit hole when I was 13-14 and I unfortunately started to believe a lot of the theory’s. I remember being so paranoid all the time to the point where I fell into a depressive state. I was lucky to have been able to get out and realize that everything Shane said was bullshit. To this day I still have some of theses theory’s in the back of my head and have to remind myself that it’s not real. It’s really sad how many kids were negatively impacted by this bozo.
@@rgarcia6065 it's scary to think we aren't alone with our experiences, I know he targeted his videos at our ages, usually 11-17 so he had to know the effect they could have had, btw I hope your doing better these days 💕
Privacy reasons? No one can figure out who you are by describing your mental disorder. It's not only one country using TH-cam. Not only one age group. Etc.
@@secretformulathief910 it really is scary, I know that there’s gotta be wayyy more people out there that probably fell into a worse rabbit hole or something. It’s the fact that he knew the effects and kept it going and still keeps going that makes me sick. And I’m doing as good as I can be now :) hope your doing alright too !!
While I don't have that mental disorder you have. I definitely still fell in the rabbit hole shane made. I also was really deeply paranoid, almost dysfunctionally so. I honestly feel lucky and grateful to be out of that hole now. I am also really glad to see you've made it out as well. I really wish for the best to the people that are still stuck in the hole. It is genuinely an awful place to be in.
One funny thing about flat earthers is that some have tried to prove that the earth is flat but end up proving that it's round and STILL refuse to believe it.
My dad has never been to New York, doesn’t know anyone that ever has and has no personal connections to the event whatsoever, but every time someone brings up 9/11 I can see the pain and emotion he has in remembering witnessing it live on tv. Other people I know too. I feel terrible that people still peddle the theory that it was fake when the people who were alive at the time still can remember the horrible event.
"Planet is just the word 'plane' with a T"
That's not it.
That's not even remotely it.
Jesus fuck but we need to start insisting people be tested for a certain amount of basic intelligence and knowledge before being allowed on TH-cam.
Yeah that would help😅
Any social media.
This explanation at 19:20 is the best way I’ve heard ridiculous conspiracies explained, building on BS with more BS. Thank you!!
And weird how Shane’s brother doesn’t know that people from all over the world are working up on the International Space Station together, and at different stations on the earth. They’re not all from NASA.
Good to know that everyone in shane's family is insane.
in shane
shane said my neighbor being murdered on live tv was a hoax and i can assure you it was not
Holy shit what happened?!? I haven’t heard of that
one of my favourite authors c.m koseman once said that people now more than ever are turning to conspiracy theories because they are easier to understand that actual science. Science has developed to the point that it is impossble for any human to fully comphrehend it.
I'm waiting for your video for such a long time pinely. Happy to hear you are all good and well. Thank you for the video. It's 1am right now here in India and I'm not gonna sleep untill I watch the whole video. I'm sooo excited.
I hope you enjoy it!
@@archagenteverlasting1239 yes..very much enjoyed it😊
Yes you can put chips wherever you want on the board so long as you can make the connections (metal lines) between them fit correctly, just as you can put your keyboard and mouse wherever you like on your desk in relation to your computer so long as the wires connect correctly.
In 2019 when I was still a child with a pea brain (I was 11) I binge watched all of these videos by Shane. And it was definitely the thumbnails that hooked me in. It just appealed to my baby brain. Ofc I just shrugged them off as being theories so I wasn’t affected by them. But the videos did make me feel a bit shivery when I watched them. Anytime I watch videos with serious topics I kinda get a bit paranoid. Idk. I’m just goofy. But yeah. Bad idea for them to be accessible for impressionable kids.
You…you’re still a child now…? 2019 was not that long ago and you are only 15.
The way that bald dude says ''Teotihuacan'' gives me immense pain.
All of Jared’s “facts” just come from him not realising there are other countries outside of America lmao. We have documented evidence of Australian explorers going to Antarctica and the South Pole, it was a big thing that multiple people raced to do.
His brother said, “my personal belief, is”. That’s because he doesn’t have enough for a theory, but he does try to debunk well known ones. Some folks don’t deserve a platform, and are dangerous if they do manage to get one.
My dad knew a guy when he lived in Jersey that helped people get out of the city during 9/11. Years later, he fell for conspiracy theories about crisis actors and shit as if he himself didn't witness the event and people directly injured in it
So many of these theories rely on people confusing correlation with causation. Two different things.
when i was around 14/15, some classmates were talking about a shane dawson video talking about flat earth
i asked if they seriously believed that, and one of theem genuinely said
"im willing to believe anything shane dawson talks about"
happy passover my dude! glad to get this treat of a video just in time for the holidays, such an important topic and im glad you're covering it
I love the recent evolution of your channel so much! The new content is amazing, and it's so nice you're not a talking animated box anymore because the Internet deserves to see how handsome you are :3
Fr tho I am so over the whole rantsona style of commentary.. just comes across as insecure lol it’s gotten to a point where if I click on a vid and it features a cartoon animal making 3 different faces while commenting on some topic I immediately click off lmfao
yeah I really agree, I realized that when I watched videos I enjoyed it a lot more when it was an actual human being talking to me and not some cartoon character. And while I really did enjoy the drawing part of making my videos, I think I can find other ways to include that (for example the intro section I made for this video). I've been feeling a lot more comfortable on camera as of late as well, so this format is definitely here to stay :)
I can't get over the Futurama clip. The entire episode is about Fry trying to escape from Leela because he doesn't want a career chip or to be a delivery boy again. He convinces her to take hers out because she hates her job and then they get new jobs together. The entire point of the big scary claw and the fixed career was to demonstrate how different and scary the future is. The chips come up a couple more times and they're never treated as something good or even reasonable.
34:59 literally the kaylon’s backstory from the orville
A "theory" can basically be considered any rational conclusion that can be drawn from the results of testing a hypothesis through controlled and verifiable experimentation. Or in laymen's terms a theory means "We've literally done this 1000's of times, and it always worked like this"
Sees Orion
*Hunter class unlocked*
"Hmm yes, time to spec into the Hunter class."
"I feel more special and more significant." - Bingo!
Also makes people feel like they have more control and relieves A LOT of anxiety and fear. It's just about as reinforcing as religion.
I want nothing more than to see these flat earthers try and find the edge. Like, just close your laptop, get out of the house, start walking, and don’t stop till you find the edge. Go on, now. I’ll wait.
I was younger when I was watching him I was like in fifth grade and he made me believe the 9/11 plane was a hologram my mom had to sit me down and had to talk about how her freinds died I hated myself for it and will never forgive him
no because shane really made middle school me, who was obsessed with astronomy, believe that the earth could be flat for a good day. i had a whole conversation with my uncle about it too, it was insane
the way shane just immediately goes “no way” and doesn’t for a second question any information his brother tells him is genuinely troubling
I love that Pinely protects his little brother's identity but still includes him in his content sometimes. They both seem like cool people, and his little brother seems very smart for his age! When I was 9 I was just playing barbies and talking about littlest pet shop 😂
i remember seeing that shane video talking about the 9/11 conspiracy and me being young impressionable actually believing it, i went on this rabbithole of 9/11 conspiracies. i’m glad my parents showed me that it was total bullshit but without them i’d maybe still believe in it. his videos are very harmful. i was lucky enough to have parents who cared enough to call me out on my bullshit which makes me feel bad for the kids who went down the same rabbithole as me and maybe didn’t get out so easily or quick.
Same but it was Jesse Ventura. I was convinced by his BS TV show that Building 7's collapse was suspicious...
And then I saw videos of firefighters at the scene confirming that they're pulling their people out because it was gonna collapse from structural damage.
Watching Shane give a platform to his alt-right pipeline brother is hilarious. They seem like such polar opposites, yet somehow align. A great case study of the pipeline in real-time action.
They "seem" like polar opposites. You'd be surprised by how many new age spiritual type people are sucked into the same pipelines as the alt-right.
24:25 this reminds me, my 9th grade science teacher was talking about how he doesn’t believe in gravity
It's funny seeing this from the POV of someone who doesn't know much about flat earthers beliefs, I have fun debating them, so when you said "they don't believe gravity exists" I laughed
if only you knew some of the things I've heard
apparently, the reason why the plane trips in the southern hemisphere take just as long as ones in the north (even though on the flat earth map the distances are longer in the south) is because there are high speed winds, and they get the planes to only fly during the times these winds go in the right directions so they can get a boost that is the exact same as in the north
that or australia just doesn't exist
I’ll never forget how he said the “this man” talked to him in his dreams despite “this man” being a marketing thing
I used to watch all his conspiracies when I was younger. I always thought they were real and would always cry myself to sleep out of pure fear.
i had watched a couple of his videos back then, until one of his conspiracies turned me off from him forever, and i'm glad it did. there was one conspiracy where he claimed a news reporter who was shot and killed on camera wasnt actually killed and it was all faked because of some small inconsistency between the video taken by the shooter and the video by the news station. i dont remember exactly what it was but i remember being like "oh it is extremely easy to explain why this inconsistency exists" and the fact that he was willing to claim someone faked their own death on tv based on something so small and clearly explainable when this woman likely has family who're still traumatized by this to this day, that really really made me upset.
When I was 10/11, I was a huge Shane Dawson fan (which stemmed from his conspiracy theory videos). What did this cause for me? A massive bout of paranoia that led to a year of agoraphobia. Because of his conspiracies, I was so convinced that everybody was inherently evil that I was afraid to be outside of my home alone, and when I did have to, my ten-minute walk home from school would turn into a two-hour one because anytime I saw someone, I would duck and hide, and anytime a car passed that I thought I had seen pass already, again I would duck and hide, or change routes completely.
Like I say, it took me about a year to get over this, which honestly could've been worse, and I'm lucky to have just ended up with paranoia rather than flat-earther beliefs or anti-vax madness. But yeah. Shane Dawson caused 10-year-old me so much mental distress that I developed agoraphobia. Kind of insane.
one thing that bothers me especially personally about the flat earth thing - the projection they use would stretch out Australia to truly massive proportions in comparison to much of the rest of the world. as an australian, who has driven across much of the country, it is exactly the size it seems. you do the speed calculations for when you will get somewhere in the car according to maps, and it very much lines up. it can't just be bigger? unless I also am bigger and move faster than people in the northern hemisphere. flat earthers should fear my might
"It's been debunked, but it's weird that a thing that I just said didn't happen, happened". -Shane Dawson, PhD in explaining things and mental olympics. Also, "just a theory" smh do they don't know that theories have to be proven to be recognized as theories and not hypothesis?
the predictive programming 9/11 thing is so stupid, because did you see the aftermath of 9/11??? people had huge reactions (for good reason) that directly contradicts the idea we were "programmed" to not react
I tried looking for people to explain why the space one looked like that. I just thought maybe something with movement and the lines are just stars but I keep getting conspiracy videos.
Another great one from pinely! Thank you so much for addressing this, especially the Jewish part, I had a really similar experience as a child
a scientific theory is completely different from a regular theory
There's actually another reason pyramids and motherboards look similar, and it's the same reason that lichtenberg figures and rivers look the same, and the reason that spiral galaxies and coffee swirls look the same.
Maths.
The specific numbers are different, but the same equations govern similar actions. Both water and electricity spread across all possible paths to a degree inversely proportional to the resistance.
Spiral galaxies and the froth on a cup of coffee are both objects (stars or bubbles) rotating in a system that prevents them from spreading out (gravity or the cup). Whether you're working in petajoules or microjoules, the kinetic energy equations are the same. The difference is in quantity, not quality.
The Great Pyramids are part of a religious complex consisting of several important sites linked by roads in a very flat region. A motherboard is a series of several important components linked by connections on a flat piece of plastic. There are only a finite number of ways to arrange and connect these elements, and if you want to be efficient and effective while still giving each element its own space (to be appreciated in the religious complex or to be replaced on the motherboard) then the possible arrangements decrease even further. What is a good shape for one system is necessarily a good shape for the other, because they're both governed by similar principles and designed for human use.
When you see repeated patterns, the most common explanation is that they're governed by the same underlying principles, not that they're evidence of a grand conspiracy.
A guy at uni is anti mask/anti vax and I wanted to discuss it with him and maybe change his mind. We talked a bit and he's a full on q anon conspiracy theorist, I have no idea how to help him.
you might not be able to and it might not be worth it :/
If you're concerned about him and serious about wanting to help him, you should just be a friend & don't abandon him because he believes differently than you.
The caveat being as long as he's not talking about doing anything to hurt himself or others. If that's the case then it may be beyond your reach & more professional help may be necessary.
@@stacin821 he's more of an acquaintance, I don't plan on abandoning him but I don't think I can help him either
Just stop talking to him, don't bother with stupid people.
Be careful if you are one of the people he believes to be in the "conspiracy". I appreciate you trying to help him, maybe just talking with him will help.
I have the impression those people never talked to the groups they think are "evil" before and that's why they are easily fouled by this bullshit. So maybe just talking with him would help, but sincerely I don't know too...
I used to watch shane, and what really turned me off of his theory videos is the crisis actor stuff. I am from connecticut, pretty close to where the sandy hook shooting happened. I was in elementary school at the time and I actually remember going into lockdown on the day that it happened. to hear shane spouting the same shit that alex jones was saying about the families of the victims of sandy hook being crisis actors really made me rethink being a fan of his content. its genuinely disgusting that he got away with spreading this insane misinfo for so long without people checking him on it.
I remember grown adults calling David Hogg, a teenage victim of the Parkland school shooting, a crisis actor. blows my mind
So interestingly, most likely the word planet and plane aren't etymologically related. One comes from Latin and one comes from Greek. Plane comes from Latin "planum" meaning flat surface, whereas planet comes from Greek "planetes" meaning wanderer, which later forms found their way into late Latin and old French. But most likely the words aren't actually etymologically related/from the same roots lmao. Because earth was not originally referred to as a planet (though some ancient Greeks did figure out it was round and I think some theorized it revolved around the sun or was also a planet but couldn't prove it)
exactly. it drives me crazy when people say things like that because tracing the root of the word is so easy and so revealing
Loving the anglo-centric takes they make. "Planet is just plane with a t at the end" Well in Finnish 'Earth' is 'maapallo' where 'maa' means land or ground and 'pallo' means ball. Therefore we live on a ball of dirt. Checkmate flat-earthers
Ikr! So many American conspiracy really show the "America is the centre of the universe" mindset
LANDBALL😭
Earth in Chinese literally mean land/ground ball as well.
@@Halfgay_boi balls with land.
So Finland runs the illuminati confirmed.
I used to think conspiracies were fun and harmless until I realized they encourage distrust in science and discourage critical thinking, it's kinda sad
Not to mention some of them just repackaged propaganda
@@dinoguy163 and some are blatantly racist(I.e. Ancient Alien, Rothschild, Reptilian).
Why has science been made into a deity. Very many scientists in the modern day have used it for an agenda and why do we blindy trust every one calling themselves a scientist
Some of them would make for cool fantasy settings, if there wouldn't be the exact problem you mentioned.
@@dinoguy163 I find that's The Thing with conspiracies in general. Often times they'll have a grain of truth to them (not all them ofc), such as "you can't trust the gov!!" , the mere concept of the CIA proves that. Then within 5 sentences it goes from "you can't trust the gov" to "the Rothschild's are turning our kids trans with nuclear Russian space lasers!!".
Of course it depends on the propagandist speaking as to how well they can traffic in their ideas without being mask off about it.
I still blame Shame Dawson for the fact that people suddenly started claiming to be an "empath" for no reason
Yeah, that too.😬
I read your vibes, and I could just feel that you felt that way.
I use to tag him in empath memes. I think he blocked me
Nah, a lot of that is just people trying to explain away the realisation that they're probably autistic and nobody can convince me otherwise. Same with "highly sensitive person".
Edit: unless they're literally just making it up for attention like some do, but I'm referring to the majority I've encountered who generally seem to genuinely believe it. Like nah mate, look up the diagnostic criteria for autism in women/adults in particular and get back to me on that
@@ChoppedLiver Listen here girlfriend, i feel you on feeling my feels but as an empath i am morally obliged to feel your feels heavier than my own and you shouldn't be ashamed to be you. Sleigh Queen yasss💅
As a Jew myself, I'm am very mad that I'm not included in all the "controlling the world thing" or having lots of money
Ikr?? Where the fuck is my space laser?!?!?!
It's very irritating! Why are we all being left out of this global conspiracy?? None of my friends are in it. Clearly, we have clique issues within the tribe.
My best friend/ ex-girlfriend is Jewish, and she and her family are definitely not controlling the world. These people are crazy.
Honestly. We work so hard to have a hand in all the elections and ‘accidental deaths’ in famous people. Give us the credit.
Same. Someone better run me my money 😂 cause I'm struggling
“Why do rich Americans always need to buy a ranch?” Tax evasion.
I love that he doesn't realize constellations are a social construct. We assign meaning to the meaningless, it's what we have done for millennia. We love stories and creating collective understanding. I think that is so cool! But it doesn't mean there is a god/creator who taught our ancestors to hunt or draw lol
And in addition constellations most certainly didn't look like what we currently see back then when cavemen did their drawings.
@Skyliner actually, stars from the perspective of Earth do look the same (as in the same patterns) for thousands of years. They would just have been shifted over (since our sky appears to shift over time). That’s also why zodiacs no longer line up with our birthdays in the sky at the same time.
It’s like the pyramid aliens thing. They think of our ancestors as dumb barbarians who were completely incapable of anything complex. They must’ve been taught everything by higher beings
He seems to believe that cavemen saw Orion and started immitating it instead of finding the shape in the sky after one of their most common activites. That logic is just Impossible to exist so maybe we DO live in a simulation.
@@skyliner4413 the pictures he was using aren't even from what most people think of as cavemen lol, they're a few thousand years younger. early cave art in europe, africa, and now indonesia has basically no human figures, they were much more concerned with depicting animals!
"I feel more special, more significant" that is a very important statement. The rush you get out of having "hidden knowledge" is very powerful, it's practically an addiction
It's very interesting to me though that chasing that rush doesn't lead people into studying actual science. I'm a chem major and I know that feeling; I experience it whenever someone asks me to explain a process they don't understand and I do. Like, genuinely recommended. Read an actual science book, science papers, that's pretty much hidden knowledge to most of the population.
@@hana-a-cha I do the same thing and it's so much fun. I even read about things out of my field of study to learn about the common layman misconceptions so that I can be slightly less uneducated. It's so much fun to be able to explain things to people like why it's important to finish their antibiotics in terms they can understand that their doctor doesn't have time to explain at their appointment. Or why their Christmas tree doesn't benefit from crushed aspirin. Or how to make your yard slightly more environmentally beneficial without breaking my local town's yard ordinances.
That’s why I love fun science facts!
As an empath I could totally tell that Shane's true intentions were to make children stupid so he could eventually sell them t-shirts with holes in them for 60$
As a fellow empath I agree wholeheartedly 🤣
As an empath I can actually tell that Shane only wants to make children more impressionable so he can ask them to twerk on camera
@@pissapocalypseMESSED UP HCFBJJKGFFVBH
To be fair a t shirt with no holes would be useless
I'm always in shock about how USA-centric most space related theorys are. They are unable to even consider the possibility of another country having any theory, discovery or even writing a scientific papper about it. Not only that but they disconsider years of history and how even ancient people were fascinated by space and studied it. Astronomy was a huge part of the begining of the development of the scientific method and most ancient civilizations were at least a little bit rigth in their early studies (the round earth idea was even something discussed there if the famous experiment of Eratosthenes in Alexandria. It ends passing an image that even "fake" science can only be discovered by the US (maybe some European countries, but that is it).
Disclaimer: I'm brazilian and it's just unconfortable how this theorys kindda imply that people outisde of US are irrelevant. It gets even worse with the "aliens affecting history" theorys
@@lemonace6695 I'm glad you brought this up. I feel as though the US is a culture of narcissism, due to people who live here being *constantly* taught that we are "the greatest country on Earth" and "the only truly *free* country in the world".
Because of this, people are raised to believe that we are the front-runners, and that the opinions and views of people from other countries and cultures are less accurate, due to them not being as "far along" as we are. This is internalized and taken as fact, and I believe that this is one of the biggest reasons why there is *still* so much racism here.
I could honestly go on and on about this, but I think I've touched on all the major points.
In short, Americans are raised to be narcissists.
Yeah the space race was really done more as a way to "own the commies" rather than achieving something as a planet and human kind, and i think cause of that its always been VERY US centric in terms of disscussion about space travel and exploration
Americans are nothing if not egocentric and egocentric in our brand of moronism.
I mean yeah, if you listen to conservative talking points, then the dehumanization of the rest of the planet isn't surprising.
guys, seriously, this is not exclusive to americans. i'm telling you, as a jewish person who's the alleged puppet master behind these conspiracies, run rampant in european culture (and many in different asian cultures as well). in fact, the majority of these conspiracy theories originate from anti-jewish cabals dating back to the dark ages. these beliefs have traveled the world - malaysia, for example. it's a country that has no jewish presence but anti-jewishness is a normal, every day part of their lives.
please don't assume these are purely americentric ideas and beliefs. it hurts those living overseas (and us a collective) whose experiences go completely unnoticed or blatantly ignored as a result of apathy towards victims whose lives are still being taken by their neighbors who innately can't let go of the superstitions and lies. there's nothing for them to call out unless it happens in america because it means they can divert the attention away from them so they can look like the altruistic good guys.
let's take a look at some of the most infamous conspiracy theorists who are also known for their disturbing propaganda: stefan molyneux, paul joseph watson, and david icke... these aren't the names of american conspiracy theorists, yet they're the most influental voices of the far right. molyneux is irish-canadian and the other two are from the UK. these people even peddle very popular conspiracy theories about things that have no on-surface connection to the majority of conspiracies that originated from europe's crusade era, such as chemtrails, vaccines, 5G towers, and soy products.
a couple more examples in re: caricatures of jews depicted by conspiracy theorists outside of america:
- for belgium's carnival in 2019, the people had a parade where they dressed up as hook-nosed jews wearing rabbinical clothing and streimels with fake peyos. a year later, spain decided to follow suit a year after, where they dressed up and paraded themselves in costume those locked up in camps (which their ancestors had no qualms with) were forced to wear while others in a certain military costume danced alongside. in spain's defense, they at least took a little bit of accountability by apologizing.
- notice how alt-righters on twitter constantly discuss the conspiracy theory about how jews are disloyal to america? look at the flags in their display names. the US flag is always missing. the only people who do are usually middle-aged parents who've accidentally ventured into twitter and don't know what they're up against.
- major terr0r1st attacks that have happened in europe and asia over the past decade have been carried out by people who take time to make little detours to jewish places that have nothing to do with their overall plans due to hatred caused by conspiracy theories about jews. (eg; charlie hebdo and the hostage situation at a kosher grocery mart, the 2008 mumbai attack and the nariman chabad house, etc.)
*and last but **_definitely_** not least:*
the flat earth society is based in dover, england. its founder was a british conspiracy theorist named samuel shenton.
If any of you are wondering the earth's circumference is 24,901 miles which means that one degree of curvature in the earth's circumference is a little over 69 miles. Shane's brother is confused because he can't see the curvature 3 miles in the distance. When of course he couldn't as the difference is so slight that from a distance he wouldn't be able to perceive it.
I hear what you're saying but since I'm an empath I can feel that your true intention was to say that the globe is a lie.
69 miles? Nice.
Lovely, mathematical explanation.
But I think (I hope!) that people could figure out the basic concept on their own. But apparently I’m wrong, which is terrifying…
I was confused when he said the earth has no curve cuz when you fly on a plane at a certain height, you can absolutely see the planet curving and that it’s round…
@@KingOfGaymes also when you’re driving on a flat road and you suddenly see cars popping up in the horizon and it almost seems like they are driving over a hill. It’s hard to explain but if you’ve lived in the plains/cornfields of Illinois, you can see how the earth is curved just by driving.
"Einstein invented the theory of gravity" hurt me deep within my soul
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RIGHT. I was really hoping someone else caught how mind boggling idiotic that statement was on so many levels.
I understand your confusion but Einstein actually did invent the theory of gravity. Relativity is actually a gravitational theory that explains gravity through the curvature of spacetime.
You're probably thinking of Newton's work on the law of gravity, which quantifies the visible effects of gravity in mathematical terms but isn't a theory because it doesn't explain how gravity works.
Laws are what happens but theories are why they happen. Einstein was the one who gave an actual explanation for the mechanism behind gravity in 1916.
@@michaelkenner3289 ohhhhh okay! but still calling it the theory of gravity was technically wrong because it’s the theory of relativity (that’s more of a nitpick lol) thank u for the knowledge though. I knew that relativity was in relation to gravity but I didn’t know it literally *explained* gravity!
@@michaelkenner3289 Free knowledge. Thank you so much.
I'm a Geographer. This flat Earth stuff is going to turn me into the Joker.
I'm a regular person and conspiracy theories also make me want to turn into the joker. They're so goddamn predatory it makes me want to go ape shit
My youngest brother fell heavy to conspiracy theories a few years back we couldn’t even watch a show without him pausing every few seconds to show us “illuminati symbolism.” I told him most of the conspiracy theories are rooted in racism and alt right beliefs and to analyze WHO was making the content and what their motives were, and to stop letting strangers on the internet instill fear into his everyday existence. Once he started analyzing the content creators he realized most of them are religious extremists or alt right followers. He stopped soon after.
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@@mr.fahrenheit7009you have a problem?
I'm glad you were able to talk sense into him.
I've seen this exact same comment before on another video. Down to the phrase of pausing every few seconds to talk about illuminati. Do you bring this up in TH-cam comments a lot or is this just some copy paste job?
@@TheBeastlyFollowercould be a bot copying a real comment but usually the bot pastes it on the same video so idk
I feel like these people might also, just maybe... um, *deny* certain events that happened in Germany in the 1930s and 40s. I know it's a stretch.
Oh crap😣
I have a nasty feeling that you're onto something.
“I’m just open to different possibilities”
Given that many of these theories are rooted in antisemitism and bold rejection of fact, I wouldn’t doubt it.
Not a stretch. Theories vaguely gesturing at “an elite group trying to keep us down” usually point back to one specific minority :/
Exactly
Remember when Shane tried to use someones handwriting to prove they were replaced by a double and the only difference was that one of them was in cursive.
That's some other level bafoonary
Goofy ahh evidence
Love the Yoosung pfp 🖐🏻😩
that's so dumb, i've had at least 5 different writing methods in my life and would swap between them whenever i felt like it. handwriting means basically nothing
That is absolutely hilarious
Fans are often like “Shane’s not problematic anymore! He apologized for the blackface and stuff!” And then he does shit like this, which kinda goes being problematic to being actively harmful.
Riiight. He's like "Nah I'm not like problematic anymore...I'm outright actively off base influencing young people into the direction of lunatic conspiracies that are actively harmful to minorities and are all easily disproved if you bother to look at facts!"
To be fair alot of the problematic things he did before were also very actively harmful
There’s this idea among Shane fans(and people in general) that an apology negates all wrongs. Not only is it a misunderstanding of what “apology” means, it’s proof that they do not care about what he apologized for in the first place
@@rotroom I think what they’re saying that his fans blindly believes he’s changed even though he exhibits the same behavior, but just packaged differently
he's also been creepy towards young girls. idfc if he's "apologized" that's just unforgivably fucked up
Thank you for bringing up the anti-semitism at the centre of these conspiracies, I don’t see a lot of larger channels bring it up when talking about these types of theories. I mean it’s probably because you’re Jewish yourself but still, I was glad to see you bring it up.
Why do we bootlick jewish people
A lot of conspiracists tend to fall into anti-semitism which somehow also leads them to be racist and homo-transphobic. It sounds weird but it makes sense that someone who develops a mistrust in scientific institutions would also fall for the "everyone is secretly trans" conspiracy theory or continue to believe in "scientific" racism or homophobia based on evidence that has been debunked decades if not centuries ago.
Antisemitism is kind of like the structural foundation of every "they're out to get you", "what they don't want you to know", etc theory that's out there, even if said theory isn't explicitly blaming teh joos
There's a book I saw that I decided to buy and will hopefully get around to reading soon called "When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People." And it essentially talks about how people fall into conspiracy theories, and why teaching logic and critical thinking is so important. Pretty much every conspiracy theory is deeply flawed logically, and just a few minutes of critical thinking unravels them so quickly. It's scary that people believe these things, and even scarier that very popular creators like Shane are entertaining these ideas like their equal to reality. Yes looking at all sides is important, but with that comes knowing that not all sides are equally sound or equally likely.
Operation Northwoods was considered a conspiracy theory until the CIA declassified their documents to show that yes, they were ACTUALLY debating whether to commit mass shootings and blame them on Castro in order to drum up public support for an invasion of Cuba. WMDs in Iraq was something that all the experts in our government from both parties were saying, and instead of WMDs we found gold and oil and claimed it out of the smoldering husk that was now Iraq. MKUltra sounds fucking bonkers and the CIA would’ve never owned up to it if it weren’t for Congress pushing them on it. Our leaders lie to us every day, it would truly be insane if you believe everything that’s considered part of the orthodoxy today without question.
Not all of them, most of them, but not all. To blindly believe a government or corporation is just as crazy as not believing any.
@@sleepyproduction7166 exactly. The government lies but so do random people on the internet
Is that by Michael Shermer? The title sounds very similar to one of his books.
"The irrational ape" is another good book I've read on this same subject
"Like most people I grew up in a religious household" is an unintentionally very telling throwaway line
i mean not really
@@nwut yeah, most people in most countries are religious. There are exceptions (most notably China), but more than 80% of the world population says they're religious.
@@kwarra-anchina is fucking huge
@@jeniferjoseph9200 it is, but that doesn't change the fact that 80% of people worldwide say they're religious.
@@kwarra-anWhere are you getting that stat? I can’t find it anywhere and would like to know more
Yup, even before he was "cancelled" for being a creep, I hated him for this kind of content. He's a major part of the normie-to-n4z1 pipeline and not enough people talk about that.
I kind of disagree with this. But I will not elaborate.
wdym by nazi pipeline. what conspiracies lead to that he talked about?
@@MackenziiRivers pretty much any conspiracies talking about "elites" or people in control end up being very antisemitic
@@trashman424 ohh stuff like that.
Oh f9r sure theres an elite group controlling the planet in some way hut they arent all jews lmao. Most likely people from every country from. Around the world. Chances of 9ne being a jew is high but chances of all of them being jews is laughable.
@@MackenziiRivers a lot of it is under the umbrella of qanon which is violently antisemitic. Also a lot of the conspiracies cross over into Holocaust denial, which is a favorite passtime of n4zis.
i love the flat earthers because like... what do they think the motivation is for "the Man" to keep up the alleged falsified information that the world is round?
why does it need to be round? why would they hide it if the earth was flat?
A big part of the appeal to conspiracy theorists is when people talk about how "they" are hiding the truth suddenly "they" looks a lot like whatever group you happen to dislike already. So many interviews I've seen from conspiracy gatherings will have dozens of wildly different reasonings for why the thing they believe is happening
Bizarrely a lot of from what I’ve seen boils down to a crazy anti Semitic theory that says that hitler is alive and hiding underneath the Antarctica wall building up an army so he can rise up again and “win this time”
@@madeline5493 I cannot tell you how many people have tried to harass me in a transphobic sense with the standard “it’s against biology” and “all of you are predators” arguments that have been disproven for ages… and when those arguments fail, a shocking amount of them have devolved into this mad rambling about how “all teachers and professors are being controlled by Jews who are inventing this rhetoric for no reason”…
It is honestly so startling that it’s happened to me more than once… I guess when they can’t come up with a logical response they just go full batshit insane about it.
Some people use it to deny that space exists, because obviously what’s above the sky is heaven! Not space!
@@MrHendrix17 Well, that's why it's called a conspiracy *theory*
Yeah, motivation is a good factor to question, but let me also say, it's doesn't need a clear motive to question it, afterall, you could come up for three different possible motives after thinking about it for 30 minutes.
Mind so open, their brains fell out. Y’know, it’s really sad that this kind of lazy conspiracy shit is so popular, when *actual* science is really fucking awesome and interesting. People who put out videos like Shane’s should be fined to compensate for all the education they’re undoing.
Sooo TRUUU, real scientific phenomenon is wayyy more interesting than any conspiracy JUST LEARN ABT EVOLUTION!!! that shit alone is mindboggling and theres PROOF thru so many things like fossil records
Science is about questioning things
there's this channel that put some absurd things into question, such as how to become soap and how many lions would it take to overwhelm(?) the sun. using science and math to get an answer. pretty over the top and impossible things, but it's still explored and explained throughout the videos. meanwhile, these guys just go like '[proven thing] is a hoax :0' and way too much people believe them 🤧
@@dalays7509 science is about scientists questioning things, not your mom on Facebook
I think this is the thing - so many conspiracy theories boil down to the believer's inability to understand the science. They just don't understand it. A lot of conspiracies are just making sense of the world with as much science as a 5th grader can understand 😭
Your hair is still so cool.
Also: I’m also Jewish, pretty religious too, and it’s so nice calling out these dumb illogical theory channels that spread so much misinformation and hate (especially towards Jews).
I never realized the conspiracy theory community and the far right (racist fascist) types had so much in common until the past few years. But the type who need hateful alternative ways of looking at the world are usually the type who need to a group of people to blame for their own inadequacies- they want to believe the people they hate should be feared (I’m Muslim, so I kind of can empathize though on a different level.) It sucks
Hey, I'm a pretty religious Jew as well, who's been through some bad antisemitic attacks in my life, & am so sick of these utterly stupid conspiracy theories. They do lead to dangerous views & violence. It's so refreshing seeing a major TH-cam channel just call it out. It's just tiring being a jew online, because it seems like antisemitic theories are now so mainstream.
CNN, Fox News, New York times...
I'm not Jewish (Christian, myself), but I can't imagine how tiring it must be to see all of these conspiracy theories that have their roots in antisemitism get mainstreamed. So much of this shit, when you dig just a little bit, is just thinly veiled antisemitism.
@@ArtisticlyAlexis oh god that’s horrifying 😨