Why old screens make a ʰᶦᵍʰ ᵖᶦᵗᶜʰᵉᵈ noise

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  • Last week I made a video surrounded by old-school CRT monitors and televisions - cathode ray tubes. And I completely forgot to remove the high pitched whine they produce. Here's why: why they make that noise, and why I didn't notice it.
    Thanks again to the Cambridge Centre for Computing History! www.computinghistory.org.uk/
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  • @TomScottGo
    @TomScottGo  6 ปีที่แล้ว +10896

    Last time I was here I had a professional camera operator. This time, I have... well, me. At least I checked the audio though. (Thanks again to everyone at the Cambridge Centre for Computing History!)

    • @Eric-zz5ij
      @Eric-zz5ij 6 ปีที่แล้ว +137

      hey was that a Morse code or something in the end?

    • @Danny_Boel
      @Danny_Boel 6 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      not just you getting old Tom, I didn't notice a thing and thought it was a greenscreen...

    • @jeremylakeman
      @jeremylakeman 6 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      Well, I can still hear it. Wait the video stopped? But I can still hear it...

    • @Eric-zz5ij
      @Eric-zz5ij 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Jeremy is it stuck in your head? like you hear it even if the video isn't on?

    • @cybercat1531
      @cybercat1531 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Starts at 3:58. It's bloody headache inducing.

  • @augmentedjustin835
    @augmentedjustin835 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13647

    This video went from “oh cool science” to “oh mortality” very quickly

    • @anisadiniyahr384
      @anisadiniyahr384 4 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      Indeed :(

    • @squishmastah4682
      @squishmastah4682 3 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      So from "oh cool science" to "oh bummer science"? 😂

    • @lokiswager
      @lokiswager 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      1000 like

    • @azerithboxxed4339
      @azerithboxxed4339 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Everything goes back to our inevitable deaths.

    • @amiqai
      @amiqai 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sums it up

  • @conciseenglish7486
    @conciseenglish7486 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16932

    I heard the high-pitched beeping at the end. I recognized it as morse code. I downloaded the audio for the video, put it into audacity, and transcribed it. I wasted 30 minutes of my life on this, just to see that I was writing down "NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP"

    • @Sheffy-gb9rp
      @Sheffy-gb9rp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2265

      Thank you for sparing me the time bc the curiosity was about to drive me mad

    • @ceddyd
      @ceddyd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +230

      Lmao

    • @darkrighteous64
      @darkrighteous64 2 ปีที่แล้ว +831

      GODDAMNIT TOM

    • @awc3651
      @awc3651 2 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      and to get 196 likes

    • @spacekelp_1645
      @spacekelp_1645 2 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      Thank you for doing it so I don't have to

  • @overclockofficial6669
    @overclockofficial6669 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4189

    Him: "At least you can still hear it."
    Everyone in the comments: "AHH MY EARS"
    Me: "What? ... oh no"

    • @MadNumForce
      @MadNumForce 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      I had to put on my AKG Austrian made headphones to pick it up. With my regulator PC speakers it wasn't audible (for me).

    • @FredbrStudios
      @FredbrStudios 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@MadNumForce 3 hours ago lmao

    • @mattnelson9123
      @mattnelson9123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      This is how I've just found out I can't hear high frequencies any more :(

    • @GopaiCheems
      @GopaiCheems 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      SAME

    • @theomni1012
      @theomni1012 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I’m 14 and I can’t hear anything. What

  • @carpedm9846
    @carpedm9846 2 ปีที่แล้ว +810

    "At least you can still hear it."
    Me: ah what a wonderful and wholesome endi-OHGOD STOP

    • @dankolord
      @dankolord 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      never gonna give you up

    • @Zermelin
      @Zermelin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Is the last part a morse code? It sounds like it?

    • @vibaj16
      @vibaj16 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Zermelin yes, morse code for what the guy above you said

    • @obiwankenobi8033
      @obiwankenobi8033 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lol-zp1ps probably a year or two the limit is usually mid 30s

  • @Zaurthur
    @Zaurthur 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7896

    >"Sorry you were slightly inconvenieced by my video, I was too busy confronting my impending mortality"
    This video got dark.

    • @ericpeterson2960
      @ericpeterson2960 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      It really did.

    • @huntleysheep4787
      @huntleysheep4787 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      when did it say that

    • @gabemerritt3139
      @gabemerritt3139 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      @@huntleysheep4787 more like paraphrasing the entire video

    • @billkoul9780
      @billkoul9780 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@huntleysheep4787 Near the end, that "I'm getting older" is the most obvious clue

    • @gyrgrls
      @gyrgrls 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@billkoul9780 Well, at the end, it is customary to fade to black...

  • @marcogh
    @marcogh 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12311

    WHAT THE MORSE CODE AT THE END SAID: "NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP". I like the sense of humor

    • @crimsonorbital
      @crimsonorbital 6 ปีที่แล้ว +241

      Morris code?

    • @suicidaljell
      @suicidaljell 6 ปีที่แล้ว +420

      Thank you this is what I was looking for

    • @marcogh
      @marcogh 6 ปีที่แล้ว +161

      Morse* My bad.

    • @lukeboggon4769
      @lukeboggon4769 6 ปีที่แล้ว +157

      From 3:59 onwards

    • @Hellion232Z
      @Hellion232Z 6 ปีที่แล้ว +518

      That was a very painful version of morse code.

  • @battlehawk77
    @battlehawk77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    Bravo, Tom, for showing some vulnerability, something that seems to be more and more lacking these days.
    The bulk of the video explains why, as a kid, I knew when one of my siblings had snuck downstairs to watch tv in the middle of the night.

    • @offichannelnurnberg5894
      @offichannelnurnberg5894 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I guess they are all traumatized now and this may be a too private question? But if not, why not ditch age restrictions at all if midnight program does not seem to have harmed them?

    • @battlehawk77
      @battlehawk77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@offichannelnurnberg5894 They were watching cartoon videotapes.

  • @Michael_Pereira
    @Michael_Pereira 2 ปีที่แล้ว +521

    3:30
    "I can't hear mosquito alarms anymore." -Tom Scott
    We feel pain at this great loss Tom

    • @maremike2691
      @maremike2691 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I would be glad not hearing them, because I could make mosquitos go away and sleep at the same time

    • @Jayden3649
      @Jayden3649 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@maremike2691they rnt for mosquitos they r for children

  • @dybiosol
    @dybiosol 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8207

    "...at least you can still hear it."
    Me: "Can I though?"
    (1 second later)
    Me: AAAAAAAAAA

    • @vunga8195
      @vunga8195 3 ปีที่แล้ว +221

      never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down

    • @poplee6478
      @poplee6478 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Arrghh! The pain!

    • @poplee6478
      @poplee6478 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      This is funny, video still great!

    • @user-jd6gq2vh5w
      @user-jd6gq2vh5w 3 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      There is secret morse code ;)

    • @jessewilliams8724
      @jessewilliams8724 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      What do you mean? There was just the end card

  • @W92Baj
    @W92Baj 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7242

    As you get older you start hearing a low pitched grunt every time you get up from a chair. Its odd

    • @BobbyMoran606
      @BobbyMoran606 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      W92Baj - Minecraft and games Hi Baj!

    • @salami99
      @salami99 6 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      i hoping someone can explain this more, becuase that sounds depressing.

    • @Madhattersinjeans
      @Madhattersinjeans 6 ปีที่แล้ว +241

      @concurrent Flame, I think it's a joke about things taking more effort as you get older, like getting up from a chair and making a grunt from the effort.

    • @SilverSpade92
      @SilverSpade92 5 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      I'm already doing that. I'm 26.

    • @dawnqwerty
      @dawnqwerty 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Baj!

  • @stkyriakoulisdr
    @stkyriakoulisdr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I though being able to hear when CRT screens were on was my childhood superpower. My parents couldn't hear that pitch and when I told my friends they didn't seem to know what I was talking about, so I thought I was one of few people that could do it. I haven't been any more disappointed with an informative TH-cam video in my life.

  • @Doodle128
    @Doodle128 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    My granddad was always confused when I covered my ears in hardware stores with old monitors that show the camera feed until I told him about this, cheers Tom.

  • @jorgecoelho2
    @jorgecoelho2 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3121

    "NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP"

    • @TomScottGo
      @TomScottGo  6 ปีที่แล้ว +828

      Let the record show that Jorge here figured it out first.

    • @SkeleCrafteronYT
      @SkeleCrafteronYT 6 ปีที่แล้ว +146

      Maybe you'll get older Tom Scott but memes will live on forever

    • @IboCamIbo
      @IboCamIbo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Tom Scott rick rolled yet again

    • @djoakeydoakey1076
      @djoakeydoakey1076 6 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      You Rick Rolled us?!

    • @Coccinelf
      @Coccinelf 6 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      But the big question is, do you hear it Tom?

  • @CoolTomato
    @CoolTomato 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3320

    I can't believe I spent 10 minutes translating the morse code at the end just to get rick rolled. Tom, I'm disappointed in you.

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns 4 ปีที่แล้ว +339

      You should know better than that. No one would be disappointed at that. Except us who did not hear it.

    • @panderleander9370
      @panderleander9370 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      What did it say?

    • @filiplayz1893
      @filiplayz1893 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      Wtf I didn’t hear it

    • @EMETRL
      @EMETRL 4 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      we're no strangers to love

    • @itzmeroky1305
      @itzmeroky1305 4 ปีที่แล้ว +140

      @@filiplayz1893 I have bad news for you

  • @TrueMetis
    @TrueMetis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    There's a real fun game you can play when you've got sensitive hearing but you also deal with loud noises often. I call it "Am I actually hearing something or have I finally developed tinnitus". Loads of fun.

  • @WilliamMelton617
    @WilliamMelton617 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I literally just turned 28 yesterday and you hit me with this

  • @JSSell25
    @JSSell25 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4031

    "Well...at least you can still hear it."
    *proceeds to play noise so high-pitched it feels like a drill inside my brain*
    Gee, thanks for that heartfelt lesson on gratitude, Tom.

    • @douglasparkinson4123
      @douglasparkinson4123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +177

      its morse. i cant decrypt it but i know its morse

    • @insdel3227
      @insdel3227 4 ปีที่แล้ว +341

      @@douglasparkinson4123 morse says "NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP"

    • @mozarteanchaos
      @mozarteanchaos 4 ปีที่แล้ว +212

      that was the most painful rickroll ive ever experienced

    • @sirrivet9557
      @sirrivet9557 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Can only hear up to 15k hertz so.

    • @gabemerritt3139
      @gabemerritt3139 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@insdel3227 I can barely hear it, I'm only 19....

  • @dandan1812
    @dandan1812 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2388

    Protect your hearing, then blasts high pitched hell at the end.

    • @harsimaja9517
      @harsimaja9517 4 ปีที่แล้ว +312

      What high pitched hell?
      ...
      Oh. :(

    • @tanuki9691
      @tanuki9691 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Har Simaja if you are on a phone, it doesn't play those frequencies, i had to turn on my headphones to hear it

    • @TheScaith
      @TheScaith 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      @@tanuki9691 My s10 plays it just fine tho

    • @46rt76
      @46rt76 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @@TheScaith depends on the quality of the speakers probably

    • @TheScaith
      @TheScaith 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@46rt76 Yea, although s10 speakers are neither really good nor really bad, I just thought that the frequency range would be something that stays rather consistent in smartphone speakers. It's usually more about how low and how loud the small thing can get and the frequency of that morsecode is about that of the higher frequencies a high hat produces, which you really don't want to be missing from your music.

  • @CrArC
    @CrArC 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    It's just occurred to me that I might've lost my ability to immediately tell whether or not a CRT TV/monitor was on in a 25m radius, and not even know it, because of course nobody uses those old things any more. I was the same as Tom, could easily do this all the way through my 20's!

  • @benhudelot2829
    @benhudelot2829 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    When I was younger that noise would give me horrendous skull splitting headaches if I spent too long on the TV. My parents couldn’t hear it, so we assumed it was from eye-strain. It wasn’t until years later, when we got a new TV, but my grandparents still had their old one that I realized what the real cause was.

  • @DaeHan2321
    @DaeHan2321 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1433

    I came for the science, left with a life lesson

    • @MarkBonneaux
      @MarkBonneaux 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      DaeHan2321 science AND a life lesson!

    • @SianaGearz
      @SianaGearz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I came for the science and left with a tinnitus, due to a loud encoded message at the end.

    • @omarhuda4997
      @omarhuda4997 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Siana Gearz I didn't hear it. :'-(

    • @happydawg2663
      @happydawg2663 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      barely heard the morse code, wasn't sure if I was going crazy or was real

    • @factsverse9957
      @factsverse9957 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      marcs It was real

  • @flamingorentals6819
    @flamingorentals6819 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2165

    nice trolling at the endcard

    • @michaelpayne5272
      @michaelpayne5272 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      What did it say?

    • @reworkgaming1202
      @reworkgaming1202 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Derek Higginbotham you mean the Morse code thing?

    • @GaviLazan
      @GaviLazan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Yes, it's a rick roll.

    • @timboooh
      @timboooh 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      It was a high pitched noise

    • @TheLuckyRabbitZ
      @TheLuckyRabbitZ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      "NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP"

  • @YourCo-workerAlbedo
    @YourCo-workerAlbedo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    When you’re 17 and didn’t hear anything at the end 🗿

  • @ivyssauro123
    @ivyssauro123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That's gotta be the best and most straight forward explanation of how a CRT work i've ever seen, I'll admit that even tho I've been enamoured by the things for a while now I didn't REALLY get it how they worked and now it makes perfect sense, thanks!
    Watching from CRT that doesn't make any noise because it's frequency is too high haha

  • @michaelzheng5250
    @michaelzheng5250 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3476

    Tom: Well, at least you can still hear it
    Tom 2 seconds later: Let’s use Rick-roll Morse to pierce your eardrums

    • @alfiehawes2412
      @alfiehawes2412 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      do you know what the morse translates to?

    • @joahnnaibarra2282
      @joahnnaibarra2282 3 ปีที่แล้ว +227

      @@alfiehawes2412 Never gonna give you up
      :) good ol rick roll
      -. . ...- . .-. --. --- -. -. .- --. -- ...- . -.-- --- ..- ..- .--.

    • @questioner1596
      @questioner1596 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I noticed it, but only slightly. When I turned off the 20 year old plasma TV I used as a monitor and listened on the laptop speakers, it was very obvious. That plasma also puts out quite a buzz, and it was drowning out the audio.
      It's not the same noise that CRTs make (it is 1080p after all), and it changes based on how bright the picture is. My newer 4K LED backlit LCD also makes a high pitched buzz based on how bright the picture is. It's so annoying that I turned the brightness down on the TV just so I don't have to listen.

    • @unliving_ball_of_gas
      @unliving_ball_of_gas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@questioner1596 That's just....weird. You must be superhuman. Lcd's don't make sounds

    • @questioner1596
      @questioner1596 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@unliving_ball_of_gas, it certainly does make a sound, and I find it worse than the CRT TVs' sound because its fluctuations make it more noticable.
      It's an LG from around 2015.

  • @sealofapoorval7437
    @sealofapoorval7437 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6480

    This used to be my "superpower" as a kid. I could always tell when the television was on without even looking at it and with seemingly no sound. Sometimes when a TV takes a long time to start and my parents would keep pressing the start button, I would tell them to just wait because the TV had already started and is just loading. Other times when someone would watch the TV on mute (to avoid disturbing sleeping people in house) i could still tell the TV was on because of this sound. I genuinely thought I had a superpower

    • @hireahitCA
      @hireahitCA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +292

      Same! I could pick out where in the computer lab a monitor was left on too, not always perfectly, but enough to go to the right row instead of walking the whole room. I wonder if I still can.

    • @dvdvnr
      @dvdvnr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +199

      Back in the 1970s my second ever job was as an apprentice TV Engineer. Because I was hearing that 15,625 Hz noise all day long in the workshop, I think I must have learned to mostly tune it out. Back in those days most TVs had a "Horizontal Hold" - I could adjust it by sound alone knowing that, when it was set right, it didn't appear as loud to me.

    • @Nimerian
      @Nimerian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +140

      SAME! My mother used to go nuts turning the tv on and off b4 the picture could start and I was watching in amusement hearing the noise getting on and off.

    • @ninsophy9798
      @ninsophy9798 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@Nimerian what a lad

    • @Eddytorial
      @Eddytorial 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      this is exactly what I've been through (:

  • @staiain
    @staiain 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i actually got anxieety a bit in the beginning because i thought i had lost the ability to hear it but then i vaguely remembered you had indeed removed the pitch and i was relived

  • @RetroGamingStories
    @RetroGamingStories 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    0:05 Sega Genesis/Mega Drive with Sega CD, Super Nintendo, Philips CDi, Amiga CD32, Panasonic 3DO, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn 😃

  • @Meekox
    @Meekox 6 ปีที่แล้ว +762

    Tom what the hell, didn't expect this kind of sadness

    • @stormkeepergu
      @stormkeepergu 6 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      Yeah, that was a bit depressing... it reminded me of how much older I am getting as well!

    • @Pinkrevenge101
      @Pinkrevenge101 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What manga is in your pfp?

  • @n0ame1u1
    @n0ame1u1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +878

    That turned depressing real quick.

    • @user-qx7tm5df8j
      @user-qx7tm5df8j 6 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      even more depressing fact: the mean thing is, even tho you cant hear high frequences, they can still damage your hearing. thats why these animal ultrasonic devices are so increadibly dangerous and dumb.

    • @majj6598
      @majj6598 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I know right I some reason feel sad for tom

  • @ChristiRich
    @ChristiRich ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I used to ask my parents about the high pitched whine from the television when I was growing up. They were never able to hear it.

  • @drcyb3r
    @drcyb3r 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember the big CRT TV we had when I was a child. I hated watching movies on it, as it was so loud (the noise). Some weeks ago I was on vacation and the hotel still had CRTs, but they were really quiet somehow. Sadly I forgot to check the frequencies with my phone, but I am able to hear really high noises and all other CRTs, so that somehow was a special one. I can also hear the morse-code in the CRT-pitch at the end of the video perfectly fine.

  • @hellterminator
    @hellterminator 6 ปีที่แล้ว +361

    Well, this is among the more elaborate ways I've been rickrolled.

    • @cole_s13
      @cole_s13 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm impressed

  • @kiro9291
    @kiro9291 6 ปีที่แล้ว +657

    this got strangely emotional

    • @klaxoncow
      @klaxoncow 6 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      The feels.

    • @shockine
      @shockine 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      >ywn regain your hearing

    • @nathangatenby4448
      @nathangatenby4448 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bit cringeworthy how he Nearly started crying

  • @OfficialReggarf
    @OfficialReggarf ปีที่แล้ว +4

    2:10 made my fall of my chair. OUCH!!!

  • @CeladonHairExtraordinaire
    @CeladonHairExtraordinaire 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Aw I want to give you a hug after hearing the end bit!

  • @Jesspunk
    @Jesspunk 6 ปีที่แล้ว +503

    I sat through and painstakingly wrote out that morse code, and you rickrolled me Tom, I don't know what I expected

  • @colterpett8590
    @colterpett8590 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2904

    Alternate title: Tom has a breakdown about getting old because of old tvs

    • @OHOE1
      @OHOE1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I have a tv that sounds like that

    • @ApolloRBLX
      @ApolloRBLX 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      A

    • @paulf1071
      @paulf1071 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Anybody know how Tom made the words 'high pitched' appear as superscript in the video title?

    • @unbeknownstprofile
      @unbeknownstprofile ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@paulf1071 superscript text generator

  • @signalzero77
    @signalzero77 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That super high pitch at the very end during the credits thing hurt so bad. I'm glad my hearing still works though!

  • @timloescher2728
    @timloescher2728 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the high pitch you put on the outro haha. I studied music in college and I also am proud of my hearing ability. Listenening to your experience of loosing the upper range of sounds is something I worry about. happening.

  • @jocax188723
    @jocax188723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1050

    Me, being a pilot in my twenties hearing the end card: "Wait a minute, that sounds like Morse! 'N..e..v..e..r..g..o..n-' oh for feck's sake"

    • @Lampe2020
      @Lampe2020 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      You have to admit, it's one of the most clever ways to rickroll all of TH-cam...

    • @HSkraekelig
      @HSkraekelig ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Wait, what morse co... oh... *sigh*(

    • @Bezimienny444
      @Bezimienny444 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The second I heard beeping, I knew that was the morse code but I had no idea what it meant lmfao

    • @itsv1p3r
      @itsv1p3r ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He cant keep getting away with this!😩

    • @Dismantled95
      @Dismantled95 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      LMAO

  • @Babalooza
    @Babalooza 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2136

    who remembers when you could tell if someone left the tv on the moment you walked into the house?

    • @allyzapena1001
      @allyzapena1001 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Babalooza I miss those times 😢

    • @quamne
      @quamne 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      i dont

    • @malding1
      @malding1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Everyone

    • @alex0589
      @alex0589 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      A freakin superpower

    • @TubbyJ420
      @TubbyJ420 5 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      i have strong memories of back in school when you walked down the hall past a bunch of classrooms, if the door was open you heard the sound for a second.

  • @tdoyr2119
    @tdoyr2119 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My ears are still ringing from the end there
    Thanks.

  • @Dismantled95
    @Dismantled95 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've always wondered why CRTs did that! Glad I found this video!

  • @MeAuntieNora
    @MeAuntieNora 6 ปีที่แล้ว +443

    That noise is a *wonderful* noise when you're a kid in school, and you can hear that you're going to be watching a video instead of regular, boring class.

    • @reverseturingtest
      @reverseturingtest 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Me Auntie Nora
      I guess it also indicates that your school doesn't have enough money to replace 15 year old televisions though.
      I heard that noise a lot.

    • @MeAuntieNora
      @MeAuntieNora 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Haha, indeed... it could also be true that I haven't been in school in 15 years as well.

    • @ArgoIo
      @ArgoIo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      We had a TV in school which was so loud that it would drown out the audio... Our teachers didn't understand why we were complaining.

    • @MrBrimstone
      @MrBrimstone 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      No idea about in Europe, but in the U.S. schools are dreadfully underfunded for the most part.
      Still to this day, many grade-schools use the old TVs and see-through plastic/magnifier projectors.

    • @mixthos
      @mixthos 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It's less wonderful when the teacher leaves the TV on for the entire period after watching a 10min video and you sit right next to it...

  • @massimookissed1023
    @massimookissed1023 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2883

    Try tinitus.
    It's on *every* video.

    • @nathanielhawkins6959
      @nathanielhawkins6959 6 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      I also got very confused about people mentioning morse code at the end. I can barely hear it

    • @gronki1
      @gronki1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      I checked with a spectrogram app and it's actually there. So sad :(

    • @simpleminded1uk
      @simpleminded1uk 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Yep - I can't hear even a suspicion of Morse code.

    • @Igor-ls1qq
      @Igor-ls1qq 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I can hear it, but only in my left ear
      Just found out my right ear is totally bad at both high and low frequencies

    • @finian2
      @finian2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I can hear it if I switch my volume from low to high, because then I can tell which new frequencies have been added to the mix. Otherwise it just blends in.

  • @braylonchampion5908
    @braylonchampion5908 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Over 4 years later, and I have just decoded the code at the end. Well played, Tom. Well played.

  • @thessie
    @thessie 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well, that was both fascinating and a kick in the feels. Hope you're doing OK.

  • @trevorchan9342
    @trevorchan9342 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1704

    The morse code is ringing in my ear now. I'm continuously getting RickRolled.

    • @minethink1442
      @minethink1442 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      hahaha i just noticed

    • @achiinrst1628
      @achiinrst1628 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Do you know what it says

    • @cajunvoodoo5930
      @cajunvoodoo5930 5 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      NEVERGONNAGIVEYOUUP

    • @flyinggreenbee
      @flyinggreenbee 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Now I wished that I had learnt Morse code. Cos I could hear it but didn't know what it was trying to say.

    • @russia1305
      @russia1305 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@flyinggreenbee never too late to learn it

  • @Fluffycat
    @Fluffycat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +724

    When the video ends but you still hear ringing...

    • @christianmoore7109
      @christianmoore7109 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Fluffycat tinnitus gang rise up 😤😤😤

    • @kurigohan7800
      @kurigohan7800 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Its not your ear ringing, its a morse code :D it translates to "never give you up"
      Considering what Tom said, we're lucky we could still hear it (*^o^*)

    • @5joe
      @5joe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@kurigohan7800 I think they meant after the entire video ended, which would mean they have tinnitus like me

    • @dausefulmarker
      @dausefulmarker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      wait which type of ringing
      i have a white noise type ringing
      like when you turn on a tv from the 2000s

    • @greenyhobunkr6774
      @greenyhobunkr6774 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I could still hear it after the video but i could not before. Did it cause tinnitus?

  • @billgreen576
    @billgreen576 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Getting old Tom. Oh what adventures await.

  • @jayuliana9697
    @jayuliana9697 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for adding the noise to the end of the video too.

  • @Scadunc
    @Scadunc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1672

    The Morse code at the end is genuinley the most clever thing on youtube

    • @TsaDude
      @TsaDude 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Do you know what it says?

    • @13_cmi
      @13_cmi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      @@TsaDude It's a rick roll apparentlayf

    • @polski_dezerter
      @polski_dezerter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      darn now I regret I hadn't learnt morse code

    • @ITAC85
      @ITAC85 2 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      @@TsaDude It says "Never gonna give you up"

    • @metalnep
      @metalnep 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I’m surprised I could hear that!

  • @BBQnapalm
    @BBQnapalm 6 ปีที่แล้ว +242

    I feel like Tom was hiding sad feels when he started talking about age and hearing... :(

    • @MaxIvoWes
      @MaxIvoWes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I think so too, it's sad to see :(

  • @lliddle7616
    @lliddle7616 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The very very high pitched beeps at the end of the video were a nice touch. Not bragging about my hearing. Just glad I have it

  • @mastertonberry9224
    @mastertonberry9224 ปีที่แล้ว

    28 and I can still hear the noise at the end... feeling grateful lmao

  • @McHeisenburger
    @McHeisenburger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +482

    3:59 I just got Rick Rolled by high pitched morse code.

    • @ajemajh
      @ajemajh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      what?

    • @hideyboishit
      @hideyboishit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      ah so that's what it was, thanks tom

    • @jasonw98
      @jasonw98 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks my sponsor blocker to block me from being rickrolled

    • @sbstratos79
      @sbstratos79 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @james they're taking about the sponsor block extension available for Chrome, firefox and other browsers.

    • @MultiverseCODM
      @MultiverseCODM 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hahaha yes

  • @SummerSausage1
    @SummerSausage1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1776

    at 4:00 there's some type of high pitched morse code sounds playing. Tom, you're the definition of attention to detail, even if you can't hear your own jokes anymore ;)

    • @Pamgin
      @Pamgin 6 ปีที่แล้ว +266

      SummerWizz1 if only someone here was young enough and knew Morse code

    • @EliasTheHunter
      @EliasTheHunter 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Pamgin that's a very good point!

    • @T0DD
      @T0DD 6 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      I caught it... and now I want to know what it was

    • @Wheeze_NL
      @Wheeze_NL 6 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      Pamgin I am young enough to hear it (28 but still...) and am a Licensed Amateur radio operator, but I still haven't mastered CW/Morse-code.
      I'll try to get the pitch down and ask a very skilled friend on Wednesday.

    • @arjen4120
      @arjen4120 6 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      SummerWizz1 it probably says "things you might not know"

  • @agrofindastation
    @agrofindastation 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ugh, I remember the day in 2006 when I stopped hearing the mosquito alarm advertised on TV. I had literally spent a whole night next to the speaker system at a club in Australia, and a few days later they had an ad for that and I didn't hear it, when a few weeks before I had.

  • @gearsie_
    @gearsie_ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    damn, he was contemplating his mortality 6yrs ago? Tom Scott deserves to not have to think about YT. he'll be missed, but I'm glad I was able to see his ideas when I could

  • @calebmerritt8788
    @calebmerritt8788 6 ปีที่แล้ว +585

    That took a sudden sad and introspective turn that I don't normally expect from your videos, but it was sincere and touching. Thanks, Tom.

  • @pastaman64
    @pastaman64 3 ปีที่แล้ว +450

    No matter how bad my hearing gets I'll always be able to hear the sound of a CRT since my tinnitus sounds like it

    • @ohthatremindsmeofmypruneju3669
      @ohthatremindsmeofmypruneju3669 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      yup

    • @hchskxnbcj
      @hchskxnbcj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Me who could hear the noise and has a tinitus in this sound: unlimited power!

    • @tommeng6522
      @tommeng6522 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      paaaaaiiin

    • @mickeymouse12678
      @mickeymouse12678 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      My tinnitus developed at a very young age and it has always sounded sort of like the CRT whine, but also warbling in directionality. I think I've always had it, but it has become louder as I've gotten older.

    • @JesseBellas
      @JesseBellas 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I'm starting to develop tinnitus. I do not look forward to it getting worse.

  • @TheKeonz21
    @TheKeonz21 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for adding that at the end geezer

  • @Vhexp
    @Vhexp ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for the outro, now my ears have been ringing for 3 hours.

  • @CommanderTK9091
    @CommanderTK9091 4 ปีที่แล้ว +718

    I could barely hear the high pitch at the end over the roar of my tinnitus.

    • @JurgenBlitz
      @JurgenBlitz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      MMMOP.
      MMMOP.
      MMMOOOOOP.

    • @46rt76
      @46rt76 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@JurgenBlitz wat

    • @ithinkpaulmightbehavinastr8878
      @ithinkpaulmightbehavinastr8878 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I also have tinnitus, I know that feeling (and Tom's) bro

    • @demonindenim
      @demonindenim 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      tfw the high pitch sounds keep going after the video ends

    • @AllTimeAmberx
      @AllTimeAmberx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have tinnitus too!

  • @ExiusCorp
    @ExiusCorp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    For anyone who isn't aware, Tinnitus - for a lot of people including myself - is that very sound, but constant. Never going away completely, always there, often an amalgamation of multiple high pitch frequencies. I've had it for as long as I can remember and notice I often tune it out subconsciously, but when it's quiet around me, it's there.
    So this video's coming up on 3 years old but I only recently found it, sorry!

    • @professorjack2099
      @professorjack2099 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      My tinnitus is the same frequency as a CRT. Grew up with it always on and even slept with it through the night. I wonder if this is a cause of tinnitus

    • @kirara2516
      @kirara2516 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same. I can never have total silence and need background noise just to sleep because of it.

    • @professorjack2099
      @professorjack2099 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kirara2516 box fan

    • @kirara2516
      @kirara2516 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@professorjack2099 that helps. Sometimes I also have to use a video of a crackling fireplace or rain falling in a forest to help.

    • @theplayer4664
      @theplayer4664 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i dont have tinnitus but my ears have a genetic thing in that they grew in a weird way that lets me hear higher pitch frequencies than a person with normal hearing, i hate the sound of CRT screens beacause i can hear them, not only higher pitch frequencies but i can hear lower volumes too
      yes i do have frequent headaches from this

  • @darcmatter7560
    @darcmatter7560 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Tom: Just remember, you’re going to lose your hearing
    Me: ok
    Also Tom: Let’s hurt them necks

  • @joeking4206
    @joeking4206 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is an old video but... don't beat yourself up. Your videos are excellent. I can't believe that "fans" take the trouble to point out your trivial mistakes. Perhaps they should try to do what you do. Keep it up Tom.

  • @lkivl
    @lkivl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2294

    "I'm getting older"
    >Look like 15 years old boi

    • @cottonsheep2367
      @cottonsheep2367 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Tbh Tom scott is a british george clooney

    • @hyfive2111
      @hyfive2111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      definitely not a fox •_•

    • @nadiahapsari3359
      @nadiahapsari3359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@hyfive2111 oh reallyyy

    • @emmy3296
      @emmy3296 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      hey what was the old calling noise that was kinda a meme on tiktok?

    • @boabuin1151
      @boabuin1151 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@emmy3296 are you talking about the arabic nokia?

  • @blueberry1c2
    @blueberry1c2 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1712

    "Protect your hearing" as i listen to high quality bassboosted memes every day

    • @dcarbs2979
      @dcarbs2979 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Bass is a different frequency and near harmless to hearing. If it's around your natural frequency it can disintegrate organs

    • @thejojomonado3647
      @thejojomonado3647 4 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      @@dcarbs2979 "Near harmless"
      "Can *disintegrate organs* "
      I'm getting seriously mixed messages here

    • @dcarbs2979
      @dcarbs2979 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@thejojomonado3647 Audible bass is near harmless. The frequency you need to disintegrate an object is the natural frequency. For humans that's 7Hz (below the audible range of 20Hz). And you'll probably need a bigger amplitude than domestic hifis can produce to achieve it. Club and festival-scale PA's should be able to do it!
      Ears have smaller components, more susceptible to damage from higher frequencies.

    • @dylanpyle6500
      @dylanpyle6500 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If that's are frequncey, I wonder why I have not heard if sound weapons.

    • @memeeeeh
      @memeeeeh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@dcarbs2979 while resonating at our natural frequency can be discomforting, it will not desintegrate organs. The natural frequency of a human body ranges from 3Hz to 7Hz, with newer studies saying up to 10Hz. However different body parts have different natural frequencies.

  • @Dudukina
    @Dudukina 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you managed to make it both heart-breaking and ear-breaking, wow

  • @RydersRacing
    @RydersRacing ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dude that morse code at the end scared the shite out of me.

  • @crinklecake53
    @crinklecake53 6 ปีที่แล้ว +327

    my parents used to tell me that i was just hearing things as a kid but i knew it was there, and it was thanks for proving it to me

    • @renigold3390
      @renigold3390 6 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      Well, technically, you were _hearing_ things

    • @ryanboll5621
      @ryanboll5621 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      No offence, but your parents were probably just too old to hear it. Your ability to hear high pitched noises like this goes away with age.

    • @NahrAlma
      @NahrAlma 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Don't you just love that? I asked my parents about these things I sometimes get in my eyes. They told me I'm crazy. Years later Michael from Vsauce talked about eye floaters.
      That's why I don't have more respect for older people. They often think they've got things figured out and don't want to learn.

    • @DMack6464
      @DMack6464 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      owo

    • @necrome9746
      @necrome9746 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@NahrAlma I've spoken to 50 year olds that still say the world is still an amusement park for them. Still learning silly things they couldn't figure out for decades. You could see how their eyes light up like a young child fascinated by something new they discover. I really hope that love for learning stays with me as well.

  • @NoXion100
    @NoXion100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +766

    I'm 33 years old, and I couldn't hear a damn thing at the end. Not with the big hi-fi speakers nor the headphones. I guess 20 years of heavy metal has taken its toll.

    • @chocobrowniewin
      @chocobrowniewin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I wonder if they are just pulling our legs! What buzz?

    • @unliving_ball_of_gas
      @unliving_ball_of_gas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @@chocobrowniewin Haha, this makes me remember about my grandparents when I told them their plasma tv is loud.

    • @RosieGoldie85
      @RosieGoldie85 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@chocobrowniewin
      Nah, i can hear it just fine (am 16 years old)
      Not only that, it isnt just a random buzz either, its a message in morse code!
      (Ow, it really hurts my ears though. High pitched noises are very unpleasant)

    • @BierBart12
      @BierBart12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Don't worry, the metal is probably not what did you in. It's probably genetic. Someone around 70 I know could hear those rods they use to scare moles away underground, which beeps at the same frequency(or a bit higher) as the end of the video, while my dad(same age) couldn't
      I only heard the beeping on my right ear at 25... I guess my left ear is worse

    • @greego5952
      @greego5952 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      BTW the morse code message is a rick roll

  • @JalnorTheGreat
    @JalnorTheGreat ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Right there with you, Tom. I also heard those alarms when I was 27 but then recall thinking they'd just been a fad and now I have to strain to hear the nonitors in the unfiltered audio...

  • @hojjat5000
    @hojjat5000 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    That noise at the end... that made me happy... I can still hear it...

  • @killmajaro1
    @killmajaro1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +472

    The gap in my front 2 teeth is the perfect size to allow me to make the mosquito noise. I can adjust the pitch up and down and have always been able to bring the pitch beyond my own range of hearing. (I had people tell me they could still hear it after I couldn't anymore.)
    This video made me think about my ability to do this over the course of my life. Good stuff.

    • @jevesh4491
      @jevesh4491 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Wow, I have the same talent too, except for the part about not hearing high frequencies, I really didn't think I would meet anyone who could do it.

    • @s2ms10ik5
      @s2ms10ik5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thanks, I unlocked a new skill today

    • @unliving_ball_of_gas
      @unliving_ball_of_gas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I use my lips to adjust the hole and the frequency. But Idk if I can go that high pitched.

    • @Lou-li5mv
      @Lou-li5mv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      what, how do you do that????

    • @whizthesugoi
      @whizthesugoi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Lou-li5mv it's like whistling but while smiling

  • @lalaland3329
    @lalaland3329 6 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    OMG thank you for this, I always described my Tinnitus as an old TV screen ringing and no one knows what I'm talking about!

    • @kicksledkid
      @kicksledkid 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      lalaland I've had tinnitus since I was a kid, and I always described it as an old crt turning on.

    • @rubaninferno
      @rubaninferno 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      wow PPTA and lalaland. Found someone like myself!

    • @traplover6357
      @traplover6357 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      KT just try not to go insane if you're in a sound-free bedroom. Like always turn on the fan or something so you won't get annoyed.

    • @QuotePilgrim
      @QuotePilgrim 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      KT, I also only remember I have tinnitus when someone mentions it, but mine is faint enough that it doesn't bother me even when I notice it.

    • @EliteXtasy
      @EliteXtasy 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can't tell whether the high-pitch sound is coming from the video or my tinnitus. I'm just going to pretend it's coming from the video so that I don't feel old.

  • @djentslayer
    @djentslayer 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    3:58 Tom, you crazy S.O.B. This is why I love this channel. 🤘

  • @hristosmourselas3939
    @hristosmourselas3939 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    For some reason, that morse in the end, felt really nice

  • @joebleasdale5557
    @joebleasdale5557 4 ปีที่แล้ว +547

    Every time I watch this video my urge to hug and protect Tom from every hardship in the world increases

    • @emilytrost4123
      @emilytrost4123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      I forgot I'm literally an empath and started crying

    • @MaxIvoWes
      @MaxIvoWes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@emilytrost4123 Aww that's sweet :)

    • @inmiseryseekrootbeer4966
      @inmiseryseekrootbeer4966 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@emilytrost4123 whats an empath?

    • @herculesmclovin
      @herculesmclovin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@inmiseryseekrootbeer4966 Empaths are empathetic. Empathy = the ability to actually feel how others feel and show a genuine concern for them as if it's your problem too. Like sharing someone's troubles, crying together etc..
      I understand it but my asbergers gets in the way often, sometimes I'm only capable of sympathy (which is more like understanding it must be hard/sad for someone and being sorry for them, but not actually feeling how they do)
      Sometimes I feel sociopathic were I feel nothing for no one apart from maybe myself. Contrary to popular belief, sociopaths are capable of empathy and can even feel large amounts of guilt/shame. It's more like a switch flips in their mind and they loose touch of empathy. It could be a protective measure to flip, because they can't deal with their overwhelming feelings.
      The opposite to empathy is Apathy. Apathy is a common trait in horrible people (such as serial killers & psychopaths) but of course not everyone. Being closer to apathy than empathy can be a sign of childhood trauma - many of us have a tough background, leading to a degree of trouble in our emotional intelligence. It's often that we neglect the importance of our mental health, perhaps, even accusing others of always being the problem when really we need to take a deep and long look in the mirror.
      We are not responsible for others and their behaviour, we aren't here to alter them. We are responsible for our own behaviour and the way we response to others, despite how they act.

    • @anirobrien7004
      @anirobrien7004 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      gay

  • @WardyLion
    @WardyLion 6 ปีที่แล้ว +394

    Thanks to tinnitus, I have that "old TV whine" in my right ear 24/7...joy...

    • @zacharylaw9513
      @zacharylaw9513 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Im gonna copy and paste this from a page i read a long time ago for a temporary cure for Tinnitus (Although apparently it can stop it with time)
      - Place the palms of your hands over your ears with fingers resting gently on the back of your head. Your middle fingers should point toward one another just above the base of your skull. Place your index fingers on top of you middle fingers and snap them (the index fingers) onto the skull making a loud, drumming noise. Repeat 40-50 times. Some people experience immediate relief with this method. Repeat several times a day for as long as necessary to reduce tinnitus.

    • @prod.hxrford3896
      @prod.hxrford3896 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Does this actually do anything?

    • @foxman105
      @foxman105 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My dad worked as a military doctor/surgeon and he says it drives him crazy. His left ear is damaged from the repeated shockwaves.

    • @Pinkrevenge101
      @Pinkrevenge101 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Zachary Law covering the ears with your palms so sound amplifies from the fingers hitting the skull? That's interesting what about when taking a shower do the same but instead of fingers you can hear the water dropping onto your skull very clearly.

    • @Moselae
      @Moselae 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yep. Despite being young, I didn't notice the high pitched noise in the video because I thought it was the noise in my head.

  • @raspucin70
    @raspucin70 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Tom: "old style, CRT television sets"
    Everyone under 20: Yawn
    Tom: "They have an electron gun inside"
    Everyone under 20: A RAY GUN? COOL!

  • @biomcbane4150
    @biomcbane4150 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I see what you did at the end there. 25 and ONE of my ears is still good enough to hear it.

  • @halfaworldaway
    @halfaworldaway 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1170

    Is that morse code at the end card?

    • @Pacvalham
      @Pacvalham 6 ปีที่แล้ว +543

      Yes, and according to some other comments, it says
      "Never gonna give you up"

    • @paigeg2109
      @paigeg2109 6 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Anyone know morse code?

    • @spazmaster6731
      @spazmaster6731 6 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      is that actually what it says or are you just posting a stale 2005 dead meme

    • @TomJake500
      @TomJake500 6 ปีที่แล้ว +217

      Spazmaster
      It does, in fact, say "never gonna give you up".

    • @downthegardenpath
      @downthegardenpath 6 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Am I missing something? Can't hear or see anything on the end card

  • @Asthriona
    @Asthriona 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The fact I could hear the end of the video even with tinnitus made my day better x3

  • @greggf.1393
    @greggf.1393 ปีที่แล้ว

    After your message about getting older and not hearing higher frequencies, I was relieved to have heard the morse code at the end of the video.

  • @pedrol.mammini4940
    @pedrol.mammini4940 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2106

    As I was watching this video, I remembered of a very funny story of how me and my friends installed an app that allows you to release a constant sound with a especific frequency, and we tested in many ocasions. One of these ocasions was our physics class, where we generated a 17000 Hz sound (very annoying and agonizing sound) and the cool thing is that our teacher was not only old but on top of that, confiscated our cellphones and put them on his table, and for a period of 45 minutes, the entire classroom suffered with that sound, everyone except my physics teacher, that believed the students were being too distracted and finding excuses to leave the class. I could barely hold my laughter.

    • @CaseyShontz
      @CaseyShontz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      I kind of want to try this some time

    • @isaiahway
      @isaiahway 4 ปีที่แล้ว +212

      *Some men just want to watch the world burn*

    • @chemicalfuzzy
      @chemicalfuzzy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      How did I not see you on r/madlads yet

    • @lord_raindrops237
      @lord_raindrops237 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      May I know the app name?

    • @olbradley
      @olbradley 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Same thing happened too me. Bunch of annoying as kids who play high pitched sounds and the teacher never notices it.

  • @NoriMori1992
    @NoriMori1992 6 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    I had a feeling "I can't hear it anymore" was going to come into play at some point. I was shocked at how sad he managed to make me about it, though…

  • @Exilum
    @Exilum ปีที่แล้ว

    The noise at the end was a nice touch.

  • @embracethemystery
    @embracethemystery 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tom, you are a good person. Thanks for being.

  • @JeremyBaxendell
    @JeremyBaxendell 6 ปีที่แล้ว +240

    I went back and listened to the previous video. I couldn't hear the high pitched noise either.
    Maybe we need to view the inability to hear such noises as an asset. At level 7, we get +4 resistance to sonic damage.

    • @therealpomax
      @therealpomax 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Unfortunately, that's not how it works. You can't hear it - and it still damages your hearing. Sort of like how you can't see UV light, and it'll still boil your retinas. This stuff's super unfair.

    • @klutterkicker
      @klutterkicker 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I can hear it but just barely. For contrast I had no problem hearing the easter egg at the end of this video. I think the humming is just low in volume and at a frequency made by a variety of electronic devices (or ear congestion).

    • @jamesyeoman794
      @jamesyeoman794 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jeremy Baxendell An immunity to Unrelenting Force... FUS RO DAH!

    • @MrHatoi
      @MrHatoi 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You could also have speakers/headphones that can't play those noises, as well. And it does not make you more resistant to sonic damage, it means you already have it.

    • @TheGuardian163
      @TheGuardian163 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      what's the last video with the high pitch noise?

  • @tykouae2757
    @tykouae2757 6 ปีที่แล้ว +332

    That noise in the end hurts

    • @empath69
      @empath69 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Don't worry; won't be TOO long before it won't bother you anymore...

    • @renfrien7009
      @renfrien7009 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      It's morse code! A special message just for us younger beans. ;)

    • @jessekendall8441
      @jessekendall8441 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      hurts in more way than one

    • @PinkyGhost
      @PinkyGhost 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Am i weird for finding it al little pleasant

    • @marcuscross8051
      @marcuscross8051 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I can't hear it

  • @bassboostcentral2287
    @bassboostcentral2287 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice addition at the end there

  • @demar1496
    @demar1496 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    While I'm long past hearing those high pitched noises, I find that they can still make my head hurt.

  • @geocarey
    @geocarey 6 ปีที่แล้ว +290

    I am 70. My upper limit is now 9000Hz. My hifi stereo system still sounds the same. I guess my brain is filling in the missing frequencies.

    • @lobsterbark
      @lobsterbark 6 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      Most likely you just lost your hearing so slowly that you forgot what those frequencies sound like. My freinds grandpa has a really good home theater and hifi system in his basement that we use whenever we hang out there, and its kinda disappointing because the calibration and speaker placement is really messed up because his grandpa can't hear well enough to realize that it sounds like garbage due to the way its set up. Its all pretty decent equipment, its just setup wrong.
      One time we played an old cassette in it, and I could hear the azimuth was completly off. I fixed it, and his grandpa couldn't hear the difference, while my friend was shocked that cassettes can actually sound really good with nothing but a quickly done by ear calibration.

    • @lumpyfishgravy
      @lumpyfishgravy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      As you age, your brain starts to make symbolic shortcuts. You think you see or hear something, but more and more of it is memories.

    • @jackfrost9728
      @jackfrost9728 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      If you can't hear the morse code at the end card, put a portable AM radio tuned to around 530 KHz up to your computer's speakers. You can clearly hear it thru the AM radio. Turn up your computer's volume to max.

    • @artysanmobile
      @artysanmobile 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      geocarey That is absolutely true. Your mind compensates for shortcomings in all your senses. It does this in a way you cannot discern.

    • @Orrinn123
      @Orrinn123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Well then you probably didn’t hear the high pitch in the end. It was morse code that said “Never gonna give you up”. At least you’re immuned to high pitched rickrolls, so I guess that’s your silver lining?

  • @Sugarglidergirl101
    @Sugarglidergirl101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +233

    This video actually makes me kinda sad.
    This reminds me of when I was in Japan where some of the stores/malls had high pitched noises to keep birds and stuff away and I remember my ears hurting when it didn’t bother anyone else.

    • @almachizit3207
      @almachizit3207 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I thought they used it to keep teenagers away

    • @planefan082
      @planefan082 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@almachizit3207 I don't think that's ethical use of tech

    • @almachizit3207
      @almachizit3207 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@planefan082 doesn't stop most shops where I live

    • @sodiboo
      @sodiboo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@planefan082 well it’s still a thing people do

    • @somelokyguy6466
      @somelokyguy6466 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@planefan082 In some places they blast high pitch noises down alleyways to stop teenagers from congregating in there.

  • @firefly2472
    @firefly2472 ปีที่แล้ว

    That last beeping sound ? NEVER GONA GIVE YOU UP.

  • @ddrs15
    @ddrs15 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    thanks for the high pitch tune at the end.