I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were actually good

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  • I didn't expect this to work so well. • Includes text generated by OpenAI's GPT-3 at my request: openai.com • Art by Chris Quay: www.chrisquay.com/ • Got an idea for a video? www.tomscott.com/contact/
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    Thanks to Eddie the corgi's owner for introducing me to the folks at OpenAI: / eddie_corg
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    thenextweb.com/neural/2021/01...
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  • @TomScottGo
    @TomScottGo  3 ปีที่แล้ว +26464

    I should clarify that by "out of ideas", I mean that I've only got enough to last me until the end of March, or maybe the middle of April if lockdown eases. The way I work, that's close enough that I start to get worried.

    • @hamfrog9893
      @hamfrog9893 3 ปีที่แล้ว +872

      Pinned comment made hours before uploading, as usual

    • @Sohamsta
      @Sohamsta 3 ปีที่แล้ว +515

      😂just upload your videos with longer intervals between each than usual to give yourself more time to gather ideas /film more maybeee

    • @ByronHawk
      @ByronHawk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Hi

    • @alexandraryverah6397
      @alexandraryverah6397 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Great ideas!

    • @imabot4815
      @imabot4815 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ok

  • @ResonantRTS
    @ResonantRTS 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37636

    Please, i beg you. Find a cliff that refuses to be a cliff.... im sure he's out there somewhere

    • @MarkLindsayCNC
      @MarkLindsayCNC 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3766

      If it helps any, my middle name is Cliff, and I refuse to answer to it. It wouldn't be much of a video, but there ya go...

    • @jabezcrisp7899
      @jabezcrisp7899 3 ปีที่แล้ว +860

      It is, it's in Norfolk, and it's now the receding coastline...

    • @nerdhomestead
      @nerdhomestead 3 ปีที่แล้ว +278

      Landslide

    • @fruffy3220
      @fruffy3220 3 ปีที่แล้ว +199

      I'm calling your bluff. There's no cliffless cliff out there

    • @EuanBCFC
      @EuanBCFC 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      *Holderness says hi*

  • @pogglefishii6807
    @pogglefishii6807 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9524

    “The British road that is also a boat” actually exists in at least one place in Britain since the Woolwich Ferry is considered to be part of the North Circular Road.

    • @tforlee2955
      @tforlee2955 3 ปีที่แล้ว +540

      That sounds perfect

    • @gottjager760
      @gottjager760 3 ปีที่แล้ว +578

      And there was a British moon program (spoilers, it didn't happen).

    • @StraveTube
      @StraveTube 3 ปีที่แล้ว +190

      This is getting scary.

    • @HunterHunter150
      @HunterHunter150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      Wow this is actually a great video idea

    • @yogesha4727
      @yogesha4727 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      This comment has to be in the top

  • @one_smol_duck
    @one_smol_duck 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5912

    Hahahahahaha I love "The beach where you can hear the sea." If nothing else, this AI could produce top tier shitposting.

    • @g6a0912
      @g6a0912 2 ปีที่แล้ว +324

      The road that was made for transport
      The water bottle that holds water
      The home that holds people
      The train that moves
      The fan that spins

    • @GameGod77
      @GameGod77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      The city with a million lights

    • @daooffibonnacicats8247
      @daooffibonnacicats8247 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@g6a0912 l

    • @emocrab7545
      @emocrab7545 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@user-dn9gm4oi1p that's called ~being deaf~

    • @mattschumacher4581
      @mattschumacher4581 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@user-dn9gm4oi1p a beach on a lake

  • @lamialua26
    @lamialua26 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1862

    The "white cube at the end of the world" would actually be proof that this entire planet was modelled in Blender, and that its author forgot to delete the default cube before releasing it

    • @goatyqt4553
      @goatyqt4553 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      The UV Mesh is insane back here in Canada. I don’t know if it is for the rest of the world though, but I’m happy they rendered every detail even in the middle of nowhere.

    • @iamnevrchange.9570
      @iamnevrchange.9570 ปีที่แล้ว +131

      the skybox is bugged out in the UK. it's always completely gray.

    • @goatyqt4553
      @goatyqt4553 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@iamnevrchange.9570 Damn back here where I live they forgot to turn off their geometry nodes animation so the forests have been getting eaten by caterpillars for like 20 years.

    • @confusedaxolotl7833
      @confusedaxolotl7833 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I would like to direct your attention to, "Orbis et Globus," on the tiny island of Grimsey. This island is north of Iceland and functionally the end of the world in that direction.

    • @kennethwardingley9209
      @kennethwardingley9209 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      God must have one hell of pc set up in order to render this much detail

  • @AlRoderick
    @AlRoderick 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2539

    "Please drive carefully: Village is periodically invisible."

    • @omri9325
      @omri9325 3 ปีที่แล้ว +137

      It becomes invisible every time you blink, prove me wrong.

    • @aightbet164
      @aightbet164 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ooh

    • @travcollier
      @travcollier 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Reminds me of the invisible cows of Maunakea

    • @TimeTravelingFetus
      @TimeTravelingFetus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      SCP

    • @devilspride8694
      @devilspride8694 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Anyone who visits the village will [REDACTED]

  • @SwitchAndLever
    @SwitchAndLever 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8149

    "There was no Russian utopia!" That sounds EXACTLY what a Russian utopia would like you to believe!

    • @maxsmith8196
      @maxsmith8196 3 ปีที่แล้ว +300

      Russian utopias usually refer to themselves as that, but it’s actually just millions of dead Ukrainians

    • @falconJB
      @falconJB 3 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      "There was no Russian utopia!" is the counter to every Russian philosopher.

    • @jimbob3332
      @jimbob3332 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      It's in the Polyhedron outside of the village, but only kids are allowed inside.

    • @sageinit
      @sageinit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Soviet Unterzögersdorf is real, don't believe the lies

    • @pvtpain66k
      @pvtpain66k 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      INVISIBLE VILLAGE!

  • @FromJustJ
    @FromJustJ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7493

    Regarding "The British Road That Is Also A Boat", I direct your attention to the SS Badger, a ferry in the US between Ludington, MI and Manitowoc, WI that is officially a part of highway US 10.

    • @zeroyuki92
      @zeroyuki92 2 ปีที่แล้ว +231

      Soo what's the history of it, I genuinely want to know

    • @Brave_Sir_Robin
      @Brave_Sir_Robin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +511

      Ah but it isn’t British 😩

    • @jimslim4227
      @jimslim4227 2 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      A pontoon bridge is boats that are also a bridge if that counts.

    • @moochoopr9551
      @moochoopr9551 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Why did I imagined "a highway road built on a ferry which acts as a bridge of a highway"...

    • @Eliasstatis2341
      @Eliasstatis2341 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      This is amazing

  • @That2J
    @That2J 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4569

    I would love Tom to make one of these “alternate reality” videos for April Fools every year

    • @vincentweaver6038
      @vincentweaver6038 2 ปีที่แล้ว +293

      "April fools is a curse and we should abandon it." - Tom Scott

    • @viditsinha9707
      @viditsinha9707 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Like geography now does

    • @22oreos
      @22oreos ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death

    • @tornadotaylor8956
      @tornadotaylor8956 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You mean similar to how the future prediction ones are?

    • @Kuino
      @Kuino ปีที่แล้ว

      honeslty same

  • @kevinhodge7450
    @kevinhodge7450 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1671

    "It's all farmland"
    Sounds like a Russian utopia to me, comrade.

    • @JJAB91
      @JJAB91 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Not accurate to reality. Needs move government workers taking the food by force and leaving the farmers to go hungry.

    • @noytelinu3409
      @noytelinu3409 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You may be right Ranma. Perhaps Ryoga can visit it there one day by accident.

    • @oliverrawnsley2655
      @oliverrawnsley2655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      sounds like the whole of East Yorkshire...

    • @Telamon8
      @Telamon8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      (Rostov Oblast liked this comment)

    • @fireaza
      @fireaza 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Da! We will be growing many of the potato!

  • @Niccolonic
    @Niccolonic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8022

    "The British Road that is also a Boat" sounds exactly like a Tom Scott video about some sort of ferry that has a street name

    • @haroerhaktak2613
      @haroerhaktak2613 3 ปีที่แล้ว +251

      Or a road that lets people drive over water.

    • @cactusguy4363
      @cactusguy4363 3 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      Or a street called the S.S. something or other.

    • @PatheticTV
      @PatheticTV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +157

      @@haroerhaktak2613 Where do you draw the line between a bridge and a very long boat? Hmm

    • @Niccolonic
      @Niccolonic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      @@PatheticTV one is attached and the other can pick up and move around. I do like the idea of an ambulatory bridge though

    • @haroerhaktak2613
      @haroerhaktak2613 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@PatheticTV A bridge has things in place to prevent you from just doing a 90 degree turn and deciding the ocean is your new home.
      Majority of roads don't care. So as long as it doesn't have any railings or protections in place, it's a road not a bridge.
      If you were to define a bridge as simply taking you over something else, then technically every road is a bridge.

  • @vs5210
    @vs5210 ปีที่แล้ว +166

    5:24 I asked ChatGPT for an English word for "nostalgia for a thing that could never have existed" and it gave me "anemoia", a word coined by John Koenig in 2012 for his "Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows". It's been two years since this video came out.

    • @irlmeow
      @irlmeow 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      isn’t that a disease or something

    • @beyondobscure
      @beyondobscure 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nope it's true@@irlmeow

    • @ThatOnionispog
      @ThatOnionispog 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      thats anaemia@@irlmeow

  • @RoseAbrams
    @RoseAbrams ปีที่แล้ว +471

    Today, I asked ChatGPT to make a script for the "Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death" episode of Top Gear. It went perfect, and consisted of him surviving races in six cars with various life-threatening faults.

    • @caav56
      @caav56 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Can you release it anywhere, please?

    • @RoseAbrams
      @RoseAbrams ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@caav56 I didn't save it. But you can just make one yourself, ChatGPT is free and a prompt could be like "write a script for an episode of Top Gear titled..."

    • @CinemaDemocratica
      @CinemaDemocratica ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I did "The Cliff That Refuses to be a Cliff" and it's friggin perfect. I also stretched out a little and did, "The Day That Richard Nixon Crashed a Cow."

    • @manfail7469
      @manfail7469 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      this would actually be a sick idea for an episode, the guys draw straws to drive different cars in a race, one with the steering broken, one with failing brakes, and one with a sticking throttle before racing them

    • @Klick404
      @Klick404 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      One of the cars is just driven by Hammond

  • @mikan1546
    @mikan1546 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1595

    Okay but "The Cliff that Refuses to be a Cliff" does sound exactly like a Tom Scott video title...

    • @burntchickennugget191
      @burntchickennugget191 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Wouldnt that be an aroading mountain side.

    • @PianoKwanMan
      @PianoKwanMan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When is a cliff not a cliff?

    • @macmann57
      @macmann57 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      very true

    • @sageinit
      @sageinit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's about quadratic-hyperbolic functions (hyphen, not en dash!), clearly.

    • @TheMegaxPlus
      @TheMegaxPlus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      I imagine that the video would be of a infamous cliff that isn't considered a cliff due to legal shenanigans
      Ngl I would watch that

  • @snipars
    @snipars 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17946

    Will you tell us when we're watching the video that the AI predicted?

    • @maxwellpriore3579
      @maxwellpriore3579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1261

      maybe the AI predicted this....

    • @majorfallacy5926
      @majorfallacy5926 3 ปีที่แล้ว +450

      Which, for many people, will be an AI-written video, suggested to them by an AI

    • @rorynator7567
      @rorynator7567 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      snipers

    • @elevown
      @elevown 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      yup please do.

    • @stepford139
      @stepford139 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      You are the reason I learnt how to edit videos.

  • @thehoodedteddy1335
    @thehoodedteddy1335 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1111

    I wish you had hit the “write script” button on Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death

    • @andrewbrown464
      @andrewbrown464 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      I can hear the theme song now...

    • @calblack4156
      @calblack4156 2 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      Sometimes my genius its almost frightening

    • @ringoferrer2343
      @ringoferrer2343 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      This is the deadliest lottery *_in the world_*

    • @Elmojomo
      @Elmojomo ปีที่แล้ว +10

      MOAR POWER... pardon me, I meant to say.... MOAR DEATH! - Jeremy

    • @grantflippin7808
      @grantflippin7808 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Spoilers

  • @peterfalconer
    @peterfalconer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1863

    As an artist who creates parafictional histories, I'm delighted to see that AI might be coming for my job, too. It's nice to feel included.

    • @disnagburnazog9552
      @disnagburnazog9552 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      rofl

    • @elhopper3735
      @elhopper3735 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lmao

    • @alejjtheninja5803
      @alejjtheninja5803 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Ah yes, the thought of being redundant also fills me with glee.

    • @mattchamp1541
      @mattchamp1541 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Don't worry, for my honors I built a robot that draws actual art, so we're also coming for that

    • @brucecipher
      @brucecipher ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Parafictional histories? I’d love to see some of your work! :Dc

  • @LordOceanus
    @LordOceanus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1867

    "The green Death and the Industrial Revolution" Actually that sounds like it may work referring to Scheele's Green which killed many thousands of people though arsenic exposure when it became the most popular pigment in Britain.

    • @chrispictures
      @chrispictures 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Or the old pea soupers.

    • @2ms2
      @2ms2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      Like the AI, we also look for patterns.

    • @iwantsexseemyvideo8642
      @iwantsexseemyvideo8642 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ❌♥️

    • @gunnerkobra
      @gunnerkobra 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      This should 100% be a vídeo.

    • @LordOceanus
      @LordOceanus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@2ms2 Its what the Human mind does best

  • @schmid1.079
    @schmid1.079 3 ปีที่แล้ว +856

    "Two Drums and a Cymbal Fall off a Cliff, but the Cliff refuses to be a cliff."

    • @aronrouzaut
      @aronrouzaut 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is the second time I laugh so loud after reading something online.

    • @adilmohammed6897
      @adilmohammed6897 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "Badam stsss"

    • @kezkai
      @kezkai 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ha!

    • @NestorCustodio
      @NestorCustodio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A+ callback!

    • @LukeLockwood
      @LukeLockwood 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This comment right here 🙏

  • @thescaredshadow
    @thescaredshadow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +340

    Couldn't "The green death and the Industrial Revolution" be about how the Thames River was so horribly polluted before indoor plumbing or how Paris Green was used in common stuff like clothing and paint was extremely deadly.

    • @zappababe8577
      @zappababe8577 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Ooo, that's a really accurate observation!

    • @MrToradragon
      @MrToradragon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Or maybe about green wallpapers that used arsenic fot that vibrant green ant it really had killed several people?

    • @theKobus
      @theKobus ปีที่แล้ว +8

      "green death and the industrial revolution" is a very Caitlyn Doughty topic

  • @tobyparker6239
    @tobyparker6239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    "GPT-3 is the worlds most powerful Bigotry generator." Oh great, now I'm going to have AI calling me newly invented racial slurs like i've just entered the worlds most creative COD lobby.

  • @tobylittlejohn8827
    @tobylittlejohn8827 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8098

    For reference, the "strange light in the sky over Oxfordshire" is called the moon.

    • @tusharmaharana3373
      @tusharmaharana3373 3 ปีที่แล้ว +223

      sun

    • @clockworkpotato9892
      @clockworkpotato9892 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      Waluigi Dominus.

    • @jahredharrison4069
      @jahredharrison4069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +398

      If you think you've seen the "moon" or something similar to it, I'm afraid I've got bad news: You're in Oxfordshire and have been all along.

    • @gubx42
      @gubx42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +212

      Considering the English weather, the unlikely appearance of the moon may indeed seem strange.

    • @rachelknapp7271
      @rachelknapp7271 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😂

  • @Ermude10
    @Ermude10 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7017

    I'm disappointed that the AI didn't give the suggestion: "I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were actually good"

    • @mermaidismyname
      @mermaidismyname 3 ปีที่แล้ว +276

      I once asked an ai to write an article about AIs writing articles

    • @outspade
      @outspade 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@mermaidismyname wr

    • @Kellexyz
      @Kellexyz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @ExDeeXD Music wr

    • @harrietjameson
      @harrietjameson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Kellexyz wr

    • @JoBot__
      @JoBot__ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@harrietjameson wr

  • @meiguess6765
    @meiguess6765 2 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    I like how the sound of the car going by at 7:09 corresponded with the sigmoid curve in volume and emphasized the dramatic change that can occur in technology

    • @AlexPushkinChannel
      @AlexPushkinChannel ปีที่แล้ว +3

      parabola not sigmoid

    • @PremiumCheeses
      @PremiumCheeses ปีที่แล้ว

      I was hoping somebody else noticed this, it felt dramatic in a way nobody could've ever expected or predicted

    • @Baconator1368
      @Baconator1368 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the sound of the car roughly follows the derivative of the sigmoid curve, not the sigmoid curve

    • @jaytheman5386
      @jaytheman5386 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@AlexPushkinChannelthanks for spreading misinformation

    • @proloycodes
      @proloycodes 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Baconator1368since when did cars have their own cars?!

  • @daniellemorley2628
    @daniellemorley2628 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    This aged well.

  • @smoche
    @smoche 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3807

    “The cliff that refuses to be a cliff.”
    Looks like _someones_ having an identity crisis

    • @yriafehtivan
      @yriafehtivan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Cliff Richards?

    • @alexhando8541
      @alexhando8541 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      If you think about it, all cliffs do that

    • @Hans-gb4mv
      @Hans-gb4mv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The AI that refuses to be an AI

    • @8draco8
      @8draco8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      What if it's about cliff made out of sand that is quite fast turning into beach. That would be definitely cliff that refuses to be a cliff especially if people would try to somehow prevent it turning into beach but failed. Like "Fastest collapsing cliffs in Skipsea, Yorkshire" - google it, it's actually a thing.

    • @OrangeC7
      @OrangeC7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Jack_The_Ladd If there were a language where pronouns changed based on last name then this sentence could actually make sense
      Edit: The comment I was responding to has been mysteriously deleted

  • @mattpinkerton6562
    @mattpinkerton6562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +972

    Petition to create a new channel called Tom Bott which is just full of these fictional stories

    • @carlnesterud5638
      @carlnesterud5638 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Tom Sbott

    • @ceruchi2084
      @ceruchi2084 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It can be an even more sci-fi dystopian version of his tales from a future series.

    • @citywitt3202
      @citywitt3202 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Imagine the parallel universe where he’s making these videos already, where this video is about finding ideas that are real and ditching AI...

    • @olasdorosdiliusimilius2174
      @olasdorosdiliusimilius2174 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@carlnesterud5638 Tom Sbeve

    • @nicky2575
      @nicky2575 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh YES

  • @wyvernlad13
    @wyvernlad13 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    5:21 There is a word, it’s Anemoia. It’s defined as a feeling of nostalgia for a time you didn’t experience, whether it be vicarious through someone else, for a time in the past, or a time that didn’t happen at all. Another similar word to describe the feeling is Ringlorn, defined as the wish that the modern world felt as epic as the ones depicted in old stories and folktales.

    • @LeifNelandDk
      @LeifNelandDk 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Some ABBA songs give me that feeling. E.g "Our last summer" I never walked hand in hand along the river Seine, but it feels like I have when I hear it.

  • @Twentydragon
    @Twentydragon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    Only Tom Scott could turn "I'm out of ideas" into an intriguing video.

  • @colinmanning9080
    @colinmanning9080 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4960

    Hire an artist to animate these “parallel universe” stories that are narrated by you with the script created bythe AI. Call it “Tales of the Multiverse”

    • @vesperin5172
      @vesperin5172 3 ปีที่แล้ว +171

      Good idea, but it wouldn't actually teach you anything, so I don't think he'd do it.

    • @jayturner5242
      @jayturner5242 3 ปีที่แล้ว +410

      Would make a good second channel. Tom should wear Green in them

    • @juliusnepos6013
      @juliusnepos6013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      This sounds rad

    • @radekchrabota
      @radekchrabota 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      @@jayturner5242 woah, that's a bit extreme, I mean can you even imagine Tom wearing green?

    • @kaelanirevyruun1676
      @kaelanirevyruun1676 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Sounds too generic. A better name would be “Chronicles from the Alterverse” xD

  • @Erstus
    @Erstus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1057

    "The Green Death And The Industrial Revolution." Actually makes a lot of sense. There was a specific green pigment used in the wallpapers during The Industrial Revolution that contained arsenic. Search "arsenic in wallpaper". Also I think it's also not too weird to have a road that is also a boat, just look for bridging boats.

    • @thegreatoutagesign9204
      @thegreatoutagesign9204 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      so, a ferry?

    • @lincolntrains2639
      @lincolntrains2639 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      @@thegreatoutagesign9204 Not necessarily, the British army has a vehicle called the 'M3 Amphibious rig' Which is essentially a big truck that also floats which can be joined to another truck just like it to form a bridge across a river during a wartime scenario. Note that the British army is not the only country to use these vehicles.

    • @nitehawk86
      @nitehawk86 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      How about a pontoon bridge? There are a pair of floating bridges in Seattle that carry I-90.

    • @ChannelRandomMy
      @ChannelRandomMy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      And Aircraft carriers, wow good points!

    • @dorabrooks76
      @dorabrooks76 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Iirc, arsenic green was also used to dye clothing, poisoning a bunch of people around the same time as the wallpaper...

  • @aname4931
    @aname4931 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    It's mind-boggling that this is now a normal thing

  • @HeidiBird
    @HeidiBird 3 ปีที่แล้ว +220

    Omg, it's adorable that you asked the AI using "please" at the start of your request. You are definitely one of the few people who are going to survive the techno-apocalypse because you showed the machines respect from the start.
    EDIT: and then this took a scary and sinister turn when you mentioned the possibility of AI generating customer reviews etc...

  • @chancesmith116
    @chancesmith116 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1720

    “The Strange Light over Oxfordshire” that’s just the moon, Tom.

    • @lgay1927
      @lgay1927 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      lmao

    • @zane_sadauskis
      @zane_sadauskis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      are you sure about that?

    • @wendimunson844
      @wendimunson844 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Heck, it could possibly even be the sun. Yes, I know, not very likely

    • @PolarBear-rc4ks
      @PolarBear-rc4ks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ooh not heard of that one? Whats that about

    • @benford1726
      @benford1726 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Based on the posts on my towns Facebook group, it's probably a helicopter

  • @stevenbridges
    @stevenbridges 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2582

    I like how you put the text over the video to say it’s fictional, just incase someone clipped it and used it to start a weird conspiracy theory 😂

    • @benholroyd5221
      @benholroyd5221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      Well there's already a Wikipedia page.

    • @hygo64
      @hygo64 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@benholroyd5221 I need a link!

    • @csweezey18
      @csweezey18 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@benholroyd5221 Link needed!

    • @benholroyd5221
      @benholroyd5221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@csweezey18
      You have trust issues
      As Helena Von Hahn said
      "There is no religion higher than truth"
      But then you are the Antichrist.
      and i'm an atheist.

    • @dragonrykr
      @dragonrykr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Linkkk

  • @jasonthesnow
    @jasonthesnow 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Watching this video 2 years later is amazing

  • @CaseCat
    @CaseCat ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Two years ago when this was surprising....

  • @GadgetAddict
    @GadgetAddict 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3359

    3 years from now we'll find out all these videos were created by AI and poor Scott has been locked in a goop filled pod.

    • @user936
      @user936 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      Before we too find out we're in goop filled pods, 4 towers over.

    • @AlbertScoot
      @AlbertScoot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@user936 My goop filled pod is crap. There's a pandemic worldwide, I caught the virus and recovered with minimal issues but the world's still f-ed.

    • @user936
      @user936 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@AlbertScoot just keep playing the game til everyone else wakes up - shouldn't be too long now ⏳

    • @avnishshrivastava2272
      @avnishshrivastava2272 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Claim just in case this happens I was here before ticket here

    • @Michael_Pereira
      @Michael_Pereira 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sounds like something an AI would say

  • @TehJimlad
    @TehJimlad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +842

    You should have saved 'the beach where you can hear the sea' for april fool's day

    • @thebiglightbulb1457
      @thebiglightbulb1457 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Exactly

    • @user-mq3um5iu2q
      @user-mq3um5iu2q 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      let's hope he's saving an even better one then!

    • @iwantsexseemyvideo8642
      @iwantsexseemyvideo8642 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ❤️❣️

    • @DrWhoFanJ
      @DrWhoFanJ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@iwantsexseemyvideo8642 Begone, bot! 😡😡😡😡

    • @ivanzoric2405
      @ivanzoric2405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Look up Zadar Sea Organ , it is from Zadar, a city on the coast of Croatia. :)

  • @popkittycat
    @popkittycat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    5:16
    Anemoia, is a nostalgic sense of longing for a past you yourself have never lived.

  • @mineral66
    @mineral66 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    2 years later Chat Gpt 4 has come out and is talk about everywhere. When I saw the video 2 years ago I didn't expect it to become so big. Even I use it at least 2 times per week.

    • @Lucas_van_Hout
      @Lucas_van_Hout 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      GPT-3,5 being free is a godsend

  • @josipcuric8767
    @josipcuric8767 3 ปีที่แล้ว +895

    "The british road that is also a boat" isn't that a ferry??

    • @luzcro7345
      @luzcro7345 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Or a bridge that floats freely on some river

    • @B-M.B
      @B-M.B 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@luzcro7345 and there is actually a bridge wide enough for cars build on floating Pontons..

    • @NotADoctor558
      @NotADoctor558 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Yep, the SR 520 floating bridge in Seattle. I'm sure that's not the only one though.

    • @blunderingfool
      @blunderingfool 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      There’s a modern rope-ferry in use in (I think) the south of England. The water flows too fast for a regular ferry to operate.

    • @kkmac7247
      @kkmac7247 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@NotADoctor558 Seattle, my favourite place in Britain

  • @isaacmcmanus3666
    @isaacmcmanus3666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3502

    The word you are looking for is Hiraeth, it is a Welsh loan word and is nostalgia for something you have never experienced.

    • @bfcraft87
      @bfcraft87 3 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      the meaning of hiraeth isn’t: homesickness from a place you can’t return, or that never was?

    • @Col_Mustard
      @Col_Mustard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +158

      @@bfcraft87 well, etymologically, nostalgia does mean homesickness. So both concepts are quite similar.

    • @manskken
      @manskken 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      i was about to comment this!

    • @ycylchgames
      @ycylchgames 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@bfcraft87 It doesnt translate properly but it means longing for something, usually it's been used to mean a longer to return to Wales but technically it could mean a longing for anything.

    • @DatBisa
      @DatBisa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      The welsh have their own word for Vaporwave? Wild.

  • @nosville22
    @nosville22 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    There is a word for nostalgia for a thing that never existed. "Anemoia". The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a great resource for broadening ones vocabulary.

    • @jameswalker199
      @jameswalker199 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The DofOS makes up words (or takes new meanings for new loan words), so you can only really call it broadening your vocabulary if the words they invent enter broader use. I'm not saying its a bad resource, I'm just saying its also not an entirely credible one.

    • @nosville22
      @nosville22 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jameswalker199 I know this
      however this particular word entered my vocabulary and I have indeed been spreading it. I do hope it enters the broader consciousness

    • @jackreid2664
      @jackreid2664 ปีที่แล้ว

      More nostalgia for something that you never witnessed but I see what you're getting at. Hireath is another similar thing that can imply the non existence of the something you are longing for.

  • @countertony
    @countertony ปีที่แล้ว +18

    At 7:12 and onward, well done (whether by accident or design) for having the 'whoosh' of the passing car sync up with the steepest point on the sigmoid curve.

  • @mulgerbill
    @mulgerbill 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1183

    Time to revisit an old idea with a modern twist
    ""Two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff that refuses to be a cliff""

    • @kenet7877
      @kenet7877 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Banger comment, sir/madam/human

    • @TheLoopyTiger
      @TheLoopyTiger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@kenet7877 Maybe they're an AI?

    • @yt.lilsantee
      @yt.lilsantee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@TheLoopyTiger Maybe YOU are an AI :0

    • @Big-Chungus21
      @Big-Chungus21 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Bad dum ts- the fabric of reality falls apart as reality refuses to be real.

    • @mulgerbill
      @mulgerbill 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@TheLoopyTiger it seems odd to bestow intellect on a bundle of vague sensory perceptions

  • @tparadox88
    @tparadox88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +642

    "Welcome to Lofthouse. Please drive carefully, some buildings are invisible."

    • @brandon3883
      @brandon3883 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Given that there's already a sign that says "Please drive carefully", if someone decides to go off-roading here I think they deserve what they get(/hit).

  • @hackman6486
    @hackman6486 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Watching this in 2023 and it is crazy how far this has come.

  • @robertmartin2867
    @robertmartin2867 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    “Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death” is the title for the upcoming British remake of Squid Game.

  • @anch95
    @anch95 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1896

    "Jeremy Clarkson's lottery of death"
    The loser rides with Richard Hammond.

    • @alxwlsh
      @alxwlsh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      No, the loser has their knees smashed in with Clarkson's arsenal of Hammers.

    • @UltraMaXAtAXX
      @UltraMaXAtAXX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Oh no! Anyway.

    • @iwantsexseemyvideo8642
      @iwantsexseemyvideo8642 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ‼️🅱️🙃

    • @DrWhoFanJ
      @DrWhoFanJ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@iwantsexseemyvideo8642 Begone, bot! 😡😡😡😡

    • @snoozieboi
      @snoozieboi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      But is it the most deadly lottery .... in the world?

  • @davisdesigns1153
    @davisdesigns1153 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1241

    The Onion: *Write that down!*

    • @oktemsk7174
      @oktemsk7174 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Whos that

    • @cringe511
      @cringe511 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@oktemsk7174 It’s a satirical news channel, if you watch some of their videos you’ll get the idea

    • @dubiousmoonpie6155
      @dubiousmoonpie6155 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@oktemsk7174 you gotta watch their stuff from 6+ years ago tho. That’s where the gold is at

    • @panhandlesomen
      @panhandlesomen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@dubiousmoonpie6155 *anonymous hero donates 300 kidneys to a hospital*

    • @matthewhrenchir2977
      @matthewhrenchir2977 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Remember to check out the next season of *Sex House*!

  • @Dracinard
    @Dracinard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    "Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death"
    The new series of Millionaire sounds like a bit of a change from established formula, but I'm here for it.

  • @rincallinen7312
    @rincallinen7312 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    5:05 I just want to appreciate this specific art. It’s my favorite out of the ones here.

  • @jpobi9880
    @jpobi9880 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1801

    This video should be titled: "Tom Scott discovers the 'Fiction' genre and wants to switch jobs".

    • @elsanicceleste4753
      @elsanicceleste4753 3 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      Actually, Tom videos based on fictional themes would be great

    • @jpobi9880
      @jpobi9880 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@elsanicceleste4753 I agree.

    • @potatoeyboi
      @potatoeyboi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@elsanicceleste4753 I agree.

    • @confused_cactus7697
      @confused_cactus7697 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@elsanicceleste4753 I agree

    • @rebeccama7672
      @rebeccama7672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@elsanicceleste4753 I agree.

  • @kalvaxus
    @kalvaxus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +637

    "The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" sounds like such a British video.

    • @Bruno-cb5gk
      @Bruno-cb5gk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Or it could just be a really boring video about a guy named Cliff who changed his name

    • @be9concepts
      @be9concepts 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "Cliffs are shaped through erosion and weathering . ... As the notch increases in size, the cliff becomes unstable and collapses, leading to the retreat of the cliff face. The backwash carries away the eroded material, leaving a wave-cut platform."

    • @genericname8727
      @genericname8727 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Bruno-cb5gk I want that video tbh

  • @DeathEatsCurry
    @DeathEatsCurry 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Y'know, without even any alterations, a lot of these would make great D&D campaign hooks or mystery show episodes.

  • @jordancasssandra
    @jordancasssandra 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    "The industrial warehouse in the middle of nowhere" "The beach where you can hear the sea" those sure are things

  • @Patterrz
    @Patterrz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3015

    Secret British Moon landings? The Empire rises again

    • @BulbasaurRepresent
      @BulbasaurRepresent 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      GLORY TO THE EMPIRE

    • @carstorm85
      @carstorm85 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Sounds like the premise for a video game!

    • @IlluminatiBG
      @IlluminatiBG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      If we knew about those, they won't be secret, wouldn't they?

    • @somestupiddudewithayoutube4676
      @somestupiddudewithayoutube4676 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      The colonial invasions part 2: electric boogaloo

    • @maciek_k.cichon
      @maciek_k.cichon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      oh, H.G. Wells wrote the novel about it in 1901, and they filmed it 1964. Good show!

  • @swookang2575
    @swookang2575 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1045

    I really wish to read the generated script for "Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death"

    • @user-zb8ne6lu6j
      @user-zb8ne6lu6j 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Who doesn't?

    • @BD-yl5mh
      @BD-yl5mh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      POOOWEEEERRR!!!

    • @schrodingerskatze4308
      @schrodingerskatze4308 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes

    • @Phonixrmf
      @Phonixrmf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Jeremy: I just bought the Lottery of Death. Still... could be worse

    • @MiguelLuna1
      @MiguelLuna1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I would watch it

  • @MoeAndTekila
    @MoeAndTekila ปีที่แล้ว +29

    tom really is the kind of person to read the full terms of service

  • @alisioardiona727
    @alisioardiona727 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    2:20 ''The cliff that refused to be a cliff'' I absolutely lost it.

  • @saumitrachakravarty
    @saumitrachakravarty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +618

    "The Beach Where You Can Hear the Sea" sounds like the title of an indie movie.

    • @ashen_dawn
      @ashen_dawn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Just tweak it ever so slightly to "The Beach Where You Cannot Hear the Sea" and it's even more so.

    • @harryganz1
      @harryganz1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@ashen_dawn so that could be a Tom Scott video. There are lots of those in areas which were covered by glaciers in the last ice age. As the glaciers melted it caused the continental crust to rebound, lowering sea levels and pushing things that used to be by the ocean up hill. There is a cool cobblestone beach with sea cliffs on Day Mountain in Acadia National Park in Maine (U.S.).

    • @revimfadli4666
      @revimfadli4666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Or a botched translation of an anime title or more likely, Chinese film

    • @rexfury485
      @rexfury485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or indie game!

    • @xtodoubt9919
      @xtodoubt9919 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Some sort of dystopian book about the last real beach

  • @jamiewindsor
    @jamiewindsor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3318

    There's no word for nostalgia for a thing that never existed as far as I know, but the word _Anemoia_ has been coined to describe nostalgia for a time you personally have never experienced.

    • @Liggliluff
      @Liggliluff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +319

      Welsh has _hiraeth_ at least, _"a deep feeling of yearning for a home that cannot be returned to, no longer exists, or never was"_
      English has a close connection to Welsh, so nothing wrong with borrowing the word. Maybe respelling it to "hirythe"/"hirighth"

    • @brauno3539
      @brauno3539 3 ปีที่แล้ว +179

      German author Walter Moers invented a word in a book, I am currently reading (Princess Insomnia).
      Its called "Niemalsweh (combination of never and wanderlust):
      It is like wanderlust for a place you will never get to, because it does not exist or exists only in your imagination"
      (Otherwise there is no german word for it)

    • @TheFaro2011
      @TheFaro2011 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Wow , that's me for the 70s

    • @balarka3885
      @balarka3885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Hauntology and Nostalgia for Lost Futures according to Mark Fisher

    • @iamlooktoyou
      @iamlooktoyou 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      what about deja vu?

  • @donofdeaths
    @donofdeaths ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Anemoia: a nostalgic sense of longing for a past you yourself have never lived.

  • @BakeBakePi
    @BakeBakePi ปีที่แล้ว +16

    You should remake this video now, and compare the results!

  • @Chewierulz
    @Chewierulz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +430

    "The Strange Light that Floats over Oxfordshire"
    I know it's very cloudy in the UK but surely Brits know what the moon is.

    • @elylozada9576
      @elylozada9576 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Underrated. Thanks for the chuckle.

    • @higurro
      @higurro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      Of course we do; we landed there

    • @end3rzl33t
      @end3rzl33t 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Maybe the AI is simulating a drunk Brit that's giving suggestions? 😜

    • @ninjadudeofficial
      @ninjadudeofficial 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      But the moon isn't a light? Or are we saying 'close enough'?

    • @xhafts
      @xhafts 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@higurro britain never landed china did 🇨🇳 we are saving world and do most for space exploration out of all country

  • @JamesandKiimmy
    @JamesandKiimmy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1766

    The cliff that refuses to be a cliff hahaha

    • @AHA-od8yo
      @AHA-od8yo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You are a cliff.

    • @AHA-od8yo
      @AHA-od8yo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      27 seconds ago....

    • @Litl_Skitl
      @Litl_Skitl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      I'm not a cliff! I'm just a very steep hill, and you can't convince me otherwise!

    • @hominidan
      @hominidan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It actually sounds more reasonable than "Why the world's smallest skyscraper is actually a scam"

    • @abailumlerrad1037
      @abailumlerrad1037 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hominidan u right

  • @SillyPerson1711
    @SillyPerson1711 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    watching this in 2023 gives an interesting perspective

  • @teh-maxh
    @teh-maxh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    That "green death" one could actually be a video (definitely for someone, maybe here)! Scheele's green was discovered (and popular) during the industrial revolution and it definitely did kill people.

  • @theblackumbrella4257
    @theblackumbrella4257 3 ปีที่แล้ว +727

    Tom: Im running out of ideas
    Tom: Oh, that gives me an idea

    • @richardpike8748
      @richardpike8748 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Boom, writer's block has now been solved

    • @Joshlama
      @Joshlama 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tom: I've done the idea! I'm out of ideas 😪

    • @Norsilca
      @Norsilca 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Of course, Tom Scott's gonna be the exception to the rule that writers writing about writer's block isn't interesting.

  • @floydhebert3684
    @floydhebert3684 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1696

    I need to see “The Cliff That Refuses To Be A Cliff” and “Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death” immediately

    • @travdump209
      @travdump209 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death is the Venn diagram of Top Gear and Top Gun.

    • @billul1
      @billul1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Bottom Gear live action

    • @Hans-gb4mv
      @Hans-gb4mv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That second one might be coming to Amazon Prime Video soon 😆

    • @ridingtothegrave
      @ridingtothegrave 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I need the white cube

    • @8draco8
      @8draco8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I think Jeremy Clarkson Lottery of Death is a thing but only Hammond is playing

  • @davh29
    @davh29 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    It’s come a long way since this was posted

  • @Repnerao
    @Repnerao 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Hearing him try and explain gpt-3 in 2023 where chatgpt is super popular is quite strange

    • @scj6693
      @scj6693 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      like watching those 90s videos about the “world wide web”

  • @catsayswut7097
    @catsayswut7097 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1412

    "The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" is a title that I would totally expect Tom to make, so well the bot really is on something

    • @h-Films
      @h-Films 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I agree

    • @petterjy5047
      @petterjy5047 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Tru

    • @abbofun9022
      @abbofun9022 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      A sanddune on the Dutch coast possibly?

    • @zetahurley294
      @zetahurley294 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I can imagine a cliff that TECHNICALLY wasn't a cliff legally, like how there was that period where NASAs definition for a moon technically didn't include the moon. And then the definition of a cliff changed but there was a Rockslide of something that shifted the cliff and made it still technically not a cliff

    • @HomeTownAdventurers
      @HomeTownAdventurers 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I volunteer to play myself!

  • @hitlers_grandson
    @hitlers_grandson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4086

    "The white cube at the end of the world" sounds like an SCP

    • @besnick
      @besnick 3 ปีที่แล้ว +139

      time to steal ideas

    • @hitlers_grandson
      @hitlers_grandson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@besnick XD

    • @Evan--tt5os
      @Evan--tt5os 3 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      Or the cube from everywhere at the end of time

    • @besnick
      @besnick 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@Evan--tt5os What? Forget about it, it's just a burning memory.

    • @boomerfunnyjimgaffigan4998
      @boomerfunnyjimgaffigan4998 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      fortnite cube

  • @Michael-Madrid
    @Michael-Madrid ปีที่แล้ว +7

    5:26 Anemoia : Nostalgia for a time or a place one has never known.

  • @SnoFitzroy
    @SnoFitzroy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    "The beach where you can hear the sea"
    > jump cut
    ...I can hear the sea.

  • @charlesdean2781
    @charlesdean2781 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1159

    “It’s just farmland” + “there never was any Russian utopia” are contradictory statements Tom.

    • @_Atzin
      @_Atzin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      10/10 Very nice.

    • @kre3k939
      @kre3k939 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It would be closer if it was "it's just an endless Tundra" but eh, Farmland is close enough.

    • @paxhumana2015
      @paxhumana2015 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Charles Dean, you, and anyone else that is stupid enough to give you an up vote, are all reasons of why the Coronavirus exists.

    • @TERRORdrigo
      @TERRORdrigo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@paxhumana2015 👍

    • @theluigifan42
      @theluigifan42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@paxhumana2015 stay mad

  • @ImNotActuallyChristian
    @ImNotActuallyChristian 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    i did this myself, feeding it tom scott videos. Got some awesome results.
    "The Amazingly Simple Mechanism That Transforms This Chair into an Orbital Motor"
    "The Secret Life of Mice in Space"

  • @thegardenofeatin5965
    @thegardenofeatin5965 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    "The road that is also a boat." Tom has done several videos about car ferries.

  • @AbbreviatedReviews
    @AbbreviatedReviews 3 ปีที่แล้ว +456

    I want "The Cliff That Refuses To Be A Cliff" video. It would obviously be about a cliff that is carved out by the sea but keeps collapsing back into a sloped bank.

    • @ajaxrosso1
      @ajaxrosso1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Funnily enough also in East yorkshire

    • @Rebar77_real
      @Rebar77_real 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That reminds me of the way the Niagara horseshoe falls are carving themselves up river.

    • @justrecentlyi5444
      @justrecentlyi5444 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It could also be a video about Cliff Richard

  • @vickymc9695
    @vickymc9695 3 ปีที่แล้ว +991

    "Hiraeth" in Welsh means nostalgia for something that no longer exists or never did. :)

    • @unneccry2222
      @unneccry2222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      i wanna be irish now

    • @vickymc9695
      @vickymc9695 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      @@unneccry2222 why, do they have a similar word?

    • @bitjules
      @bitjules 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's wonderful

    • @pattheplanter
      @pattheplanter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      I knew I had heard it somewhere. Could I propose an English word? Mythalgia.

    • @LocketShoru
      @LocketShoru 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      The history of the word 'hiraeth' refers specifically to the time before Wales was colonized by England, not knowing what it was like (because the English colonization meant that little remained in the way of records) but yearning for it regardless of the likely hardship that was faced. So it doesn't apply here, but that's about as close a word as we're going to get! :O

  • @nahnvm8493
    @nahnvm8493 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is ahead of its time

  • @vancedisbetter5139
    @vancedisbetter5139 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    7:16 well timed car for emphasis

  • @MrMessiah2013
    @MrMessiah2013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1682

    Humble suggestion for nostalgia about things that never existed: '"not"stalgia'

    • @aliciacordero7436
      @aliciacordero7436 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I like it

    • @brandonmartin-moore5302
      @brandonmartin-moore5302 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Dave Gorman did something like that.

    • @rufushb3872
      @rufushb3872 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      The dictionary of obscure sorrows has a word for this.
      Anemoia - 'nostalgia for a time you've never known'

    • @Lc-vv8dw
      @Lc-vv8dw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      how about Yesstalgia

    • @iwantsexseemyvideo8642
      @iwantsexseemyvideo8642 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ❌😧

  • @Qubrof
    @Qubrof 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1605

    "The Green Death and the Industrial Revolution" sounds like a fascinating look at the use of the arsenic-laden Paris Green pigment in wallpaper in Victorian times, and how it started to fall out of use around the turn of the century.

    • @lawrencecalablaster568
      @lawrencecalablaster568 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      oh YES

    • @lawrencecalablaster568
      @lawrencecalablaster568 3 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      Combine this with the famous pea-soup fog caused by “sea-coal” burning & you’ve got gold (or arsenic).

    • @sarahkay4765
      @sarahkay4765 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      thats rlly interesting. I was just thinking the title referred to the pollution/damage the industrial revolution caused to its surroundings.

    • @mirjanbouma
      @mirjanbouma 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      It wasn't just Scheele's green though. Arsenic compounds were used in a lot of things and not just as pigments either.

    • @ThePixel1983
      @ThePixel1983 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wonder why it fell out of use...

  • @gab_v250
    @gab_v250 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    6:19 KIRBY KIRBY KIRBY THAT'S THE NAME YOU SHOULD KNOW

  • @0xEARTH
    @0xEARTH 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "...which I swear was a genuine suggestion it gave me, and which I assume will be coming to Amazon Prime next year"
    Tom your comedic timing is amazing

  • @0xABADCAFE
    @0xABADCAFE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2195

    I would totally watch Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death.

    • @beek.4860
      @beek.4860 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      @Bruce Wang The new, exciting sequel to the Hunger Games.

    • @thepestilence7939
      @thepestilence7939 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      It’s just the Vietnam draft with Jeremy Clarkson

    • @calblack4156
      @calblack4156 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      The speeeeeeeeeedd

    • @teamkilled1227
      @teamkilled1227 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      that actually sounds like a monty python skit if it was done in 2021

    • @Eyyy579
      @Eyyy579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Sometimes Death... Its almost Frightening

  • @steffahn
    @steffahn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +947

    I need a generated script for “The cliff that refuses to be a cliff.” right now!

    • @Zack_Wester
      @Zack_Wester 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Im writing it of as a classification issue and pure old stubbornest.

    • @CircuitrinosOfficial
      @CircuitrinosOfficial 3 ปีที่แล้ว +137

      Here you go.
      I gave GPT-3 this prompt.
      Please create a monologue script for a short, factual TH-cam video titled "The cliff that refuses to be a cliff":
      Title: "The cliff that refused to be a cliff"
      Script:
      And it generated this:
      "This is a story about a cliff that refused to be a cliff.
      The cliff in question is the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare, Ireland.
      It's a very popular tourist destination.
      But there is a bit of a problem.
      The Cliffs of Moher are actually a series of 20 foot high limestone stacks, not a true cliff.
      But for hundreds of years, the story of the Cliffs of Moher has been that it's a cliff."

    • @dave220
      @dave220 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@CircuitrinosOfficial this could easily be a tom scott video

    • @codemovie
      @codemovie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@CircuitrinosOfficial not all heroes wear capes

    • @banana_man_101
      @banana_man_101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@CircuitrinosOfficial The Cliffs of Moher are real! County Clare is real and *THE CLIFFS ARE IN COUNTY CLARE*

  • @hericartus9706
    @hericartus9706 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I can imagine eventually that the whole youtube process could be entirely automated by AI, finding video ideas, generating a script, creating an animation. Its very possible for something like that to happen, which is quite a scary thought...

  • @dermaniac5205
    @dermaniac5205 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This needs an update with chatGPT 🙂

  • @AllanLimosin
    @AllanLimosin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1371

    Tom Scott: “Do you have ideas for videos?”
    AI: “Talk about you asking me ideas of videos”
    📈

    • @digheanurag
      @digheanurag 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      STONKS

    • @kennarajora6532
      @kennarajora6532 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I know were all joking around, but could you imagine if that actually was the case? I'd have a much different opinion of where neural networks are at the current moment.

    • @devinweston8983
      @devinweston8983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Takashi brothers: feel the power of the rotary

    • @StormTheSquid
      @StormTheSquid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Spibidydkdushusbwns Please tell me where I can access this. I need reference images for things that can't possibly exist for my art projects.
      Also is there a way to convert thoughts into words? I need that as well so I can stop being mute half the time.

    • @kennarajora6532
      @kennarajora6532 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Spibidydkdushusbwns I Haven't seen it. But thanks for telling me about it, it's really interesting.

  • @GamesFromSpace
    @GamesFromSpace 3 ปีที่แล้ว +825

    "Parastalgia."
    I checked google, and this is apparently a new word, but it has been used as a moniker.

    • @PuppetSquid
      @PuppetSquid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I quite like "
      La nostalgie du possible" too

    • @z-beeblebrox
      @z-beeblebrox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      I like it, because it's both a logically accurate prefix (para- meaning outside of/abnormal, both of which work) and it also evokes the word "parallel" as in "parallel worlds". Additionally it removes the root for 'memory' (the "nos" part), which makes sense because it's describing things which by definition we'd have no memory of.

    • @EcoCurious
      @EcoCurious 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I like this, I'm going to start using it if I ever get the chance!

    • @tiko4621
      @tiko4621 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Anemoia is another way I’ve heard this feeling described.

    • @z-beeblebrox
      @z-beeblebrox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@tiko4621 Except "anemoia" is nostalgia for REAL events that you never took part in. It's a small difference, but I think it's an important one.

  • @tiramisucocolands7952
    @tiramisucocolands7952 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    None of us knew we needed a Tom Scott chibi but after seeing the video thumbnail there's a sense of tranquility and our lives are complete.

  • @adamradford8053
    @adamradford8053 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love how you double check that Lofthouse was still there at the end

  • @UKYTPMV
    @UKYTPMV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1188

    isn’t the “Cliff that refuses to be a cliff” kind of a throwback to “Two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff” since that wasn’t actually a cliff you threw them off?

    • @jaredkennedy6576
      @jaredkennedy6576 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      That would be interesting with current version Tom Scott.

    • @123457474869
      @123457474869 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was most certainly a cliff

    • @UKYTPMV
      @UKYTPMV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@123457474869 it was not a cliff, if you watch the park bench video you tom states that it is not a cliff

    • @kathybramley5609
      @kathybramley5609 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      If someone mentions a post joke badum tss or drum and cymbals explicitly... Well, it might eventually become like my (or rather young Mr Scott's) version of rickrolling. But it's not there yet.

    • @therealbeanbot
      @therealbeanbot 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@123457474869 specific name

  • @AlbertGenower
    @AlbertGenower 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1230

    “Jeremy Clarkson’s lottery of death” sounds like a mortal twist to the next series of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

    • @PanAndScanBuddy
      @PanAndScanBuddy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Doctor Who Wants To Be A Millionaire: Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death

    • @MattTester
      @MattTester 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@PanAndScanBuddy Certainly fits in with the laser death Weakest Link they did in 2005.

    • @mariegreedy6176
      @mariegreedy6176 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Steaming site make this.. Shutup and take my money.

    • @childabuseOVER900000
      @childabuseOVER900000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      10/10 would watch!

    • @ZakB96
      @ZakB96 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ahahah

  • @hayimlee7070
    @hayimlee7070 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    A lot of these titles also sound like titles for HAI videos

  • @Nick12_45
    @Nick12_45 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    GPT-3 2 YEARS AGO?