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

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  • @TomScottGo
    @TomScottGo  3 ปีที่แล้ว +26481

    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 +874

      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

  • @pogglefishii6807
    @pogglefishii6807 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9650

    “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 +546

      That sounds perfect

    • @Volunteer-per-order_OSullivan
      @Volunteer-per-order_OSullivan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +587

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

    • @StraveTube
      @StraveTube 3 ปีที่แล้ว +193

      This is getting scary.

    • @HunterHunter150
      @HunterHunter150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +131

      Wow this is actually a great video idea

    • @yogesha4727
      @yogesha4727 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      This comment has to be in the top

  • @ResonantRTS
    @ResonantRTS 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37751

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

    • @MarkLindsayCNC
      @MarkLindsayCNC 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3785

      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 +863

      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*

  • @AlRoderick
    @AlRoderick 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2636

    "Please drive carefully: Village is periodically invisible."

    • @omri9325
      @omri9325 3 ปีที่แล้ว +140

      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 +28

      Anyone who visits the village will [REDACTED]

  • @lamialua26
    @lamialua26 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1965

    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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      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.

    • @populistscum
      @populistscum 2 ปีที่แล้ว +137

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

    • @goatyqt4553
      @goatyqt4553 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      @@populistscum 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 2 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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

  • @Niccolonic
    @Niccolonic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8110

    "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 +253

      Or a road that lets people drive over water.

    • @cactusguy4363
      @cactusguy4363 3 ปีที่แล้ว +144

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

    • @PatheticTV
      @PatheticTV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +158

      @@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.

  • @kevinhodge7450
    @kevinhodge7450 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1730

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

    • @JJAB91
      @JJAB91 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

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

    • @noytelinu
      @noytelinu 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!

  • @schmid1.079
    @schmid1.079 3 ปีที่แล้ว +895

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

    • @aronrouzaut
      @aronrouzaut 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @adilmohammed6897
      @adilmohammed6897 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "Badam stsss"

    • @kezkai
      @kezkai 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ha!

    • @NestorCustodio
      @NestorCustodio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A+ callback!

    • @LukeLockwood
      @LukeLockwood 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This comment right here 🙏

  • @one_smol_duck
    @one_smol_duck 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5988

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

    • @g6a0912
      @g6a0912 3 ปีที่แล้ว +329

      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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      The city with a million lights

    • @daooffibonnacicats8247
      @daooffibonnacicats8247 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@g6a0912 l

    • @emocrab7545
      @emocrab7545 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@שחראטדגי-ד4ו that's called ~being deaf~

    • @mattschumacher4581
      @mattschumacher4581 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@שחראטדגי-ד4ו a beach on a lake

  • @mikan1546
    @mikan1546 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1644

    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 +2

      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

  • @tobylittlejohn8827
    @tobylittlejohn8827 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8152

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

    • @tusharmaharana3373
      @tusharmaharana3373 3 ปีที่แล้ว +226

      sun

    • @clockworkpotato9892
      @clockworkpotato9892 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      Waluigi Dominus.

    • @jahredharrison4069
      @jahredharrison4069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +402

      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 +213

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

    • @rachelknapp7271
      @rachelknapp7271 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😂

  • @mulgerbill
    @mulgerbill 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1203

    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

  • @FromJustJ
    @FromJustJ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7531

    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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +234

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

    • @Brave_Sir_Robin
      @Brave_Sir_Robin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +514

      Ah but it isn’t British 😩

    • @jimslim4227
      @jimslim4227 3 ปีที่แล้ว +101

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

    • @moochoopr9551
      @moochoopr9551 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

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

    • @Eliasstatis2341
      @Eliasstatis2341 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      This is amazing

  • @LordOceanus
    @LordOceanus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1895

    "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 +27

      Or the old pea soupers.

    • @2ms2
      @2ms2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +145

      Like the AI, we also look for patterns.

    • @gunnerkobra
      @gunnerkobra 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      This should 100% be a vídeo.

    • @LordOceanus
      @LordOceanus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@2ms2 Its what the Human mind does best

    • @mothratemporalradio517
      @mothratemporalradio517 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@gunnerkobra i would totally be here for it

  • @Erstus
    @Erstus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1082

    "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.

    • @CharlesAmericanus
      @CharlesAmericanus 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...

  • @tparadox88
    @tparadox88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +655

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

    • @brandon3883
      @brandon3883 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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).

  • @That2J
    @That2J 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4592

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

    • @vincentweaver6038
      @vincentweaver6038 3 ปีที่แล้ว +298

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

    • @Fsast9707
      @Fsast9707 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Like geography now does

    • @22oreos
      @22oreos 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death

    • @tornadotaylor8956
      @tornadotaylor8956 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You mean similar to how the future prediction ones are?

    • @Kuino
      @Kuino 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      honeslty same

  • @theblackumbrella4257
    @theblackumbrella4257 3 ปีที่แล้ว +740

    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.

  • @kalvaxus
    @kalvaxus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +641

    "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

  • @TehJimlad
    @TehJimlad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +844

    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!

    • @DrWhoFanJ
      @DrWhoFanJ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @I WANT ŞĘX !!! SEE MY VÌDEÓ !!! Begone, bot! 😡😡😡😡

    • @ivanzoric2405
      @ivanzoric2405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @Felixr2
      @Felixr2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@DrWhoFanJ Replying to a bot means their channel name and link will stay here even if the comment has eventually gotten enough reports to get deleted. Also, it makes the comment appear higher up in the comment section for the period before it gets removed. Just report and don't interact with them, that's the best countermeasure.

  • @vs5210
    @vs5210 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    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.

    • @batabids
      @batabids 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      isn’t that a disease or something

    • @beyondobscure
      @beyondobscure 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nope it's true@@batabids

    • @ThatOnionispog
      @ThatOnionispog 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      thats anaemia@@batabids

    • @batabids
      @batabids 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ThatOnionispogmy bad

  • @mattpinkerton6562
    @mattpinkerton6562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +982

    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 +13

      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

  • @Ermude10
    @Ermude10 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7011

    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

  • @catsayswut7097
    @catsayswut7097 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1416

    "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!

  • @thehoodedteddy1335
    @thehoodedteddy1335 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1117

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

    • @andrewbrown464
      @andrewbrown464 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      I can hear the theme song now...

    • @calblack4156
      @calblack4156 3 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      Sometimes my genius its almost frightening

    • @ringoferrer2343
      @ringoferrer2343 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      This is the deadliest lottery *_in the world_*

    • @Elmojomo
      @Elmojomo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

    • @grantflippin7808
      @grantflippin7808 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Spoilers

  • @colinmanning9080
    @colinmanning9080 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4957

    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

  • @isaacmcmanus3666
    @isaacmcmanus3666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3511

    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 +159

      @@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.

  • @chancesmith116
    @chancesmith116 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1733

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

    • @Shanoyu19271
      @Shanoyu19271 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      lmao

    • @zane_sadauskis
      @zane_sadauskis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      are you sure about that?

    • @wendimunson844
      @wendimunson844 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

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

    • @PolarBear-rc4ks
      @PolarBear-rc4ks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ooh not heard of that one? Whats that about

    • @benford1726
      @benford1726 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @RoseAbrams
    @RoseAbrams ปีที่แล้ว +494

    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 +4

      Can you release it anywhere, please?

    • @RoseAbrams
      @RoseAbrams ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@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 +21

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      One of the cars is just driven by Hammond

  • @swookang2575
    @swookang2575 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1048

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

    • @박소영-b4h3q
      @박소영-b4h3q 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

  • @snipars
    @snipars 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17933

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

    • @maxwellpriore3579
      @maxwellpriore3579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1258

      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.

    • @ST3PF0RD
      @ST3PF0RD 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      You are the reason I learnt how to edit videos.

  • @floydhebert3684
    @floydhebert3684 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1698

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

    • @travdump209
      @travdump209 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      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

  • @peterfalconer
    @peterfalconer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1874

    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 3 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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @cecildesist
      @cecildesist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @Chewierulz
    @Chewierulz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +439

    "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 +25

      Underrated. Thanks for the chuckle.

    • @higurro
      @higurro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      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

  • @mr.nerd3.142
    @mr.nerd3.142 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1084

    “Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death” broke me. Because it legitimately sounds like something that could happen.

    • @Never_Or_More
      @Never_Or_More 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      I'd watch it.

    • @PlebNC
      @PlebNC 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      Clarkson: This is the deadliest game show.... IN THE WORLD.

    • @hhhharis622
      @hhhharis622 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I would watch that

    • @KuK137
      @KuK137 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      AKA "who that imbecile will drunkedly punch next for no reason"...

    • @lewisbaitup6352
      @lewisbaitup6352 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@KuK137 i mean it would be very rare to get punched by jermery clarkson

  • @AbbreviatedReviews
    @AbbreviatedReviews 3 ปีที่แล้ว +467

    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

  • @thescaredshadow
    @thescaredshadow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +345

    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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Ooo, that's a really accurate observation!

    • @MrToradragon
      @MrToradragon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

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

    • @theKobus
      @theKobus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @watchm4ker
      @watchm4ker 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@MrToradragon That's "Paris Green". It was marketed under a dozen different names, but the pigment compound is copper(II) acetoarsenite

  • @Caparo479
    @Caparo479 3 ปีที่แล้ว +887

    Tom standing on a beach and astonishingly saying "I can... hear the sea."
    That truly broke me

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I could watch that whole video.

    • @megatheinternet
      @megatheinternet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 2:10 do it, I dare you

    • @DevilboyScooby
      @DevilboyScooby 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      "And *that* is something that you might not have known."

  • @GadgetAddict
    @GadgetAddict 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3361

    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

  • @Qubrof
    @Qubrof 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1607

    "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...

  • @tobyparker6239
    @tobyparker6239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    "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.

  • @jamiewindsor
    @jamiewindsor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3320

    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 +318

      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 +180

      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

    • @gerontion1011
      @gerontion1011 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Hauntology and Nostalgia for Lost Futures according to Mark Fisher

    • @iamlooktoyou
      @iamlooktoyou 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      what about deja vu?

  • @AllanLimosin
    @AllanLimosin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1370

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

    • @StoriesByDighe
      @StoriesByDighe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      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.

  • @SwitchAndLever
    @SwitchAndLever 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8153

    "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 +48

      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!

  • @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...

  • @AlbertGenower
    @AlbertGenower 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1229

    “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

  • @palestine2795
    @palestine2795 3 ปีที่แล้ว +412

    "The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" that killed me for some reason. Sounds like a video you'd actually do

    • @WeaselKing1000
      @WeaselKing1000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      It's certainly 'The Other Tree That Owns Itself'-adjacent.

    • @prezadent1
      @prezadent1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I like the animator that refuses to animate.

  • @josipcuric8767
    @josipcuric8767 3 ปีที่แล้ว +906

    "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 +42

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

    • @NotADoctor558
      @NotADoctor558 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

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

    • @blunderingfool
      @blunderingfool 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      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

  • @meiguess6765
    @meiguess6765 2 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@AlexPushkinChannelthanks for spreading misinformation

    • @proloycodes
      @proloycodes 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @anch95
    @anch95 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1899

    "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.

    • @DrWhoFanJ
      @DrWhoFanJ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @I WANT ŞĘX !!! SEE MY VÌDEÓ !!! Begone, bot! 😡😡😡😡

    • @snoozieboi
      @snoozieboi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

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

    • @SettyAngle
      @SettyAngle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @I WANT ŞĘX !!! SEE MY VÌDEÓ !!! bot

  • @nominis4523
    @nominis4523 3 ปีที่แล้ว +188

    "The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" actually sounds like a Tom Scott video

    • @steve1
      @steve1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I think it might be a channel 5 documentary about a guy called Cliff who looks and sounds like Cliff Richard but refuses to be a look a like and instead pursues his dream of breeding tropical fish.

  • @real.bingus
    @real.bingus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3153

    Okay, now I want to know the script to “Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death”.

    • @_badger_9902
      @_badger_9902 3 ปีที่แล้ว +188

      One would think it be called ,,Richard Hammond's Lottery of Death".

    • @kubaantonin5694
      @kubaantonin5694 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@_badger_9902 Under rated :D

    • @danielperales3958
      @danielperales3958 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Available on Amazon Prime Video XD

    • @generalkenobianimations
      @generalkenobianimations 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      Who wants to be a millionaire, with a DEADLY twist... Coming soon, "Who wants to live?"

    • @bilbo_gamers6417
      @bilbo_gamers6417 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      just wait until GPT-4 comes out and give it that title lmao

  • @wyvernlad13
    @wyvernlad13 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    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 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @smoche
    @smoche 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3834

    “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 +6

      The AI that refuses to be an AI

    • @8draco8
      @8draco8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      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

  • @aydenkron2254
    @aydenkron2254 3 ปีที่แล้ว +432

    “The British road that’s also a boat” and “the cliff that refuses to be a cliff” are both titles I would expect to see on this channel honestly

    • @altaccout
      @altaccout 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      "The British road that’s also a boat" sounds like a permanent pontoon bridge. Maybe this pontoon bridge moves up and down a river depending on where the bridge is needed.

    • @unitrader403
      @unitrader403 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@altaccout Or alternatively some River which has huge changes to the Water Flow/Depth, and also the Ground wont support a proper solid bridge (and/or the traffic is so low that it would be too expensive)

    • @rushi5638
      @rushi5638 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Or just, you know, a ferry that's listed on some map as being part of a roadway.

    • @nekomatafuyu
      @nekomatafuyu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      "The British road that's also a boat" to me conjures up the idea of a ferry crossing that has been issued a road designation. That actually sounds like a plausible idea come to think about it.

    • @arinkhandelwal
      @arinkhandelwal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      'the British road thats also a boat' sounds like the description of an aircraft carrier

  • @stevenbridges
    @stevenbridges 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2581

    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

  • @Twentydragon
    @Twentydragon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +94

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

  • @JooJPC
    @JooJPC 3 ปีที่แล้ว +389

    "The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" seems like a story that could be in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

    • @erufailon4723
      @erufailon4723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      A planet of sentient geographic features has to exist somewhere in H2G2's universe, this is my headcanon now

    • @blindleader42
      @blindleader42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Or Discworld

    • @annap697
      @annap697 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yesss!

    • @SD1fruitbat
      @SD1fruitbat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was thinking something more along the lines of "Worlds Most Horizontal Cliff!"

    • @eefneleman9564
      @eefneleman9564 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SD1fruitbat You mean like... a beach? Where you can hear the sea?

  • @davisdesigns1153
    @davisdesigns1153 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1241

    The Onion: *Write that down!*

    • @oktemsk7174
      @oktemsk7174 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Whos that

    • @cringe511
      @cringe511 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @dubiousmoonpie6155
      @dubiousmoonpie6155 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @panhandlesomen
      @panhandlesomen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

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

    • @matthewhrenchir2977
      @matthewhrenchir2977 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @MrMessiah2013
    @MrMessiah2013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1679

    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

    • @LilliD3
      @LilliD3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@rufushb3872 that is not the same thing

  • @popkittycat
    @popkittycat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

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

  • @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 +39

      @@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.

  • @nicholassullivan6105
    @nicholassullivan6105 3 ปีที่แล้ว +313

    "The white cube at the end of the world" This could work for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory located at the South Pole.

  • @saumitrachakravarty
    @saumitrachakravarty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +620

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

    • @tempest_dawn
      @tempest_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

      @@tempest_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

  • @rincallinen7312
    @rincallinen7312 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

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

  • @dreadangel3752
    @dreadangel3752 3 ปีที่แล้ว +446

    "The Strange Light That Floats Over Oxfordshire."
    Isn't that just...the Moon?

    • @e1123581321345589144
      @e1123581321345589144 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      it's a beacon left by the secret British moon landings.

    • @citywitt3202
      @citywitt3202 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Or the ego of some overenthusiastic professor who worked to build the Russian utopia in Yorkshire.

    • @rationalagent6927
      @rationalagent6927 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      That's no moon

    • @FallenFlak
      @FallenFlak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Or the sun

    • @Venentine
      @Venentine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yes but don't tell anyone in Oxfordshire, it's very funny watching them get excited about it

  • @RealHypeFox
    @RealHypeFox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +414

    “The Green Death and the Industrial Revolution” is either a Panic! At The Disco song or an Irish documentary.

    • @jeffbrownstain
      @jeffbrownstain 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Why not both?

    • @biscuitty
      @biscuitty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      The Green Death, the Doctor Who story, is about pollution and coal mining, so it is intimately connected to the Industrial Revolution (the birth of which featured in another Doctor Who story).

  • @real.bingus
    @real.bingus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1183

    “Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death” is genuinely the most unexpected and funniest thing I’ve heard in a while

    • @AnimeSunglasses
      @AnimeSunglasses 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      And disturbingly (read: uproariously) easy to imagine now that it's been suggested!

    • @IPooopdogl
      @IPooopdogl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      The show will only consist of cyclists and tv producers

    • @jeremynewcombe3422
      @jeremynewcombe3422 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Tonight, I try rehearsing a new game. James inconspicuously dies, and Hammond lives to see another hat.

    • @tylerburney8576
      @tylerburney8576 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I’m so upset that it doesn’t exist, if someone mentioned it in passing I would be 100% convinced it was a thing.

    • @parisbtw5779
      @parisbtw5779 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@jeremynewcombe3422 t'n'b'g

  • @countertony
    @countertony ปีที่แล้ว +19

    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.

  • @OuroborosChoked
    @OuroborosChoked 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1334

    Tom Scott: I'm out of ideas.
    Also Tom Scott: ...that gives me an idea!

    • @davidwickline9710
      @davidwickline9710 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      AI, I know what we’re gonna do today!

    • @davidwickline9710
      @davidwickline9710 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@שחראטדגי-ד4ו That would be IA, common mistake

  • @割
    @割 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1191

    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

    • @割
      @割 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

  • @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 +109

      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.

  • @mineral66
    @mineral66 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      GPT-3,5 being free is a godsend

  • @steffahn
    @steffahn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +942

    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 +136

      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*

  • @2-Way_Intersection
    @2-Way_Intersection 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1089

    "the strange light over oxfordshire" would be an amazing april fools video. like it's just you talking about the sun like its some wierd historical light and not, yknow, _the sun_

    • @unflexian
      @unflexian 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      It's giving dihydrogen monoxide and I love it

    • @kjn3350
      @kjn3350 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      To be fair, it would be strange if the sun were out over Oxfordshire.

  • @hackman-hackman
    @hackman-hackman ปีที่แล้ว +15

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

  • @jellyrolls2765
    @jellyrolls2765 3 ปีที่แล้ว +425

    When I heard "The Dream of a russian utopia in east yorkshire" that legitimately started ringing vague memory bells in my head. The power of suggesting something plausible is so strong

    • @aarons8711
      @aarons8711 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      To be fair, England and America were breeding grounds for experimental utopian societies during the great awakenings- you might have heard about them if you studied US history in America (it’s part of AP US History)
      Hell I wouldn’t even be surprised if a few of them were Russian 🤷‍♂️

    • @coinsilver3
      @coinsilver3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Disney actually tried to do that in florida.

    • @nikitaavdeev9681
      @nikitaavdeev9681 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Arise proletarians of Yorkshire against the bourgeoisie

    • @Allan003
      @Allan003 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I don't recall what it was called, so take this with the understanding it could be wrong. However, I know in western Canada there was a Russian (CCCP, respectively) sponsored township. It was an experimental idea with it's own self governing leadership. I believe it was in the 1950's, in Alberta or British Columbia. Though, in the America's it is not uncommon for settlements of people from one nation to still exist with little to no influence from the country they are in.

    • @Cruxador
      @Cruxador 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well, the AI references the internet for its sources so there's probably something which is true that's more or less similar to that story - though clearly not where the AI said it was.

  • @AngryKittens
    @AngryKittens 3 ปีที่แล้ว +681

    The Strange Light That Floats Over Oxfordshire.
    "Is a moon"

    • @TomOConnor-BlobOpera
      @TomOConnor-BlobOpera 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Nah, it's a space station.

    • @RogerEverett
      @RogerEverett 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@TomOConnor-BlobOpera I have a bad feeling about this.

    • @SD1fruitbat
      @SD1fruitbat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      "a moon", not 'the moon'? What is it you're not telling us?!?

    • @rdablock
      @rdablock 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      it's His Throne

    • @thescuffedchannel6052
      @thescuffedchannel6052 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TomOConnor-BlobOpera oh no

  • @Patterrz
    @Patterrz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3011

    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!

  • @robertmartin2867
    @robertmartin2867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

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

  • @LittleDergon
    @LittleDergon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +510

    The gravity defying mountain sounds like a type of cliff that confused geologists because through the calculations, the rock should have slipped or broken off and their not sure why it hasn't

    • @tightiefenbach3429
      @tightiefenbach3429 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      You mean it’s a cliff that refuses to be a cliff?

    • @LittleDergon
      @LittleDergon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      @@tightiefenbach3429 more like a cliff that refuses to NOT be a cliff 😁

    • @samsowden
      @samsowden 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@LittleDergon it could be an overhang that would become a sheer cliff if it ever got round to collapsing.

    • @pentelegomenon1175
      @pentelegomenon1175 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The algorithm is really keen for us to look into something.

  • @judebedessem4101
    @judebedessem4101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1162

    7:14 That car in the background had excellent timing. Right on cue

    • @yaboi7239
      @yaboi7239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      damn you right

    • @matthew9677
      @matthew9677 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      So good you don't notice

    • @HI-hx6jr
      @HI-hx6jr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      All of the cars passing had good timing for whatever reason

    • @bombyman84
      @bombyman84 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Around 1:17 there's a good timed car too

    • @Bobsmith-xq2pr
      @Bobsmith-xq2pr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think he timed it, quality video making by tom

  • @0xABADCAFE
    @0xABADCAFE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2189

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

    •  3 ปีที่แล้ว +223

      It's like Russian Roulette except instead of two contestants, its a nationwide mandatory lottery. There's still one winner and one loser. The winner gets all of the wealth of the loser plus a portion of the proceeds from the viewership. The loser wins 15 minutes of fame as they get run over by Jeremy Clarkson.

    • @beek.4860
      @beek.4860 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      @ The new, exciting sequel to the Hunger Games.

    • @thepestilence7939
      @thepestilence7939 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      It’s just the Vietnam draft with Jeremy Clarkson

    • @calblack4156
      @calblack4156 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      The speeeeeeeeeedd

    • @teamkilled1227
      @teamkilled1227 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

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

  • @nosville22
    @nosville22 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    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.

    • @dafoex
      @dafoex 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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dafoex 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 2 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.

  • @Monosekist
    @Monosekist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +796

    “The British Road that is Also A Boat”
    Ok so an aircraft carrier.

    • @eXcalibre_
      @eXcalibre_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Moving bridge?

    • @SerenaBluee
      @SerenaBluee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      BOAT is also Byway Open to All Traffic, a type of UK road classification.

    • @misham6547
      @misham6547 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      A ferry?
      Wow, I actually kind of guessed it somehow

    • @m1co294
      @m1co294 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@misham6547 a RO/RO ferry to be exact

    • @olibob203
      @olibob203 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      technically a runway

  • @vickymc9695
    @vickymc9695 3 ปีที่แล้ว +989

    "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

  • @mayeejun
    @mayeejun 3 ปีที่แล้ว +386

    The ones that can't be made because they're not true are begging to be April Fools content for the next x years.

    • @matthewparker9276
      @matthewparker9276 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      It's really only a month from now. I hope the ai is already writing a good script.

    • @BaldMancTwat
      @BaldMancTwat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I think AI will put The Onion out of a job.

    • @DrWhoFanJ
      @DrWhoFanJ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @I WANT ŞĘX !!! SEE MY VÌDEÓ !!! Begone, bot! 😡😡😡😡

    • @kala_asi
      @kala_asi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@matthewparker9276 even if the ai doesn't do a good job, we can all enjoy the Parker square of a script it would produce!

    • @musicbyella3769
      @musicbyella3769 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The one about the mysterious light above Oxfordshire, esp. bc the art looked like it was literally just the moon

  • @AeciusthePhilosopher
    @AeciusthePhilosopher 3 ปีที่แล้ว +602

    "The strange light over Oxfordshire." You mean that thing that's visible during cloudless days?

    • @RainaRamsay
      @RainaRamsay 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      XD

    • @therealbeanbot
      @therealbeanbot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      I heard some people are calling it “Son”. I think they’re getting too attached to it.

    • @Business_Skeleton
      @Business_Skeleton 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Cloudless days? Don't be ridiculous

    • @KuchiKaeschtliTV
      @KuchiKaeschtliTV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      cloudless? you're telling me the sky isn't normally white? what kind of mystical color does the sky have then?

    • @palapafox1268
      @palapafox1268 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ah yes, British humor

  • @chocolateorange
    @chocolateorange 3 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Glad to know that Lofthouse was in fact not invisible.

  • @JusFoNo
    @JusFoNo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1043

    4:49 is indeed real. That's the default Blender cube escaping deletion.

    • @jd_the_cat
      @jd_the_cat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yes.

    • @G_Macks
      @G_Macks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      I actually keep it in as an Easter egg for my animations (the two I did back in freshman) cuz I could never delete it

    • @bluestar_sage
      @bluestar_sage 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      HAHAHAH I just got into blender like last week, this is funny XD

    • @JusFoNo
      @JusFoNo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@bluestar_sage Yee fam xd

    • @UnliVW
      @UnliVW 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Smh not just changing your startup file. Instead you cruelly torture an innocent cube

  • @donofdeaths
    @donofdeaths ปีที่แล้ว +23

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

  • @photovoltage
    @photovoltage 3 ปีที่แล้ว +602

    Tom, you've been entered into Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death for saying Wigan Pier is in the Midlands

    • @IslandlifeIoW
      @IslandlifeIoW 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I felt a shiver through Orwell’s spine!

    • @isaaclee-mort
      @isaaclee-mort 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I came here to find a comment like this as a Wiganer myself

    • @SophsNotes
      @SophsNotes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's Wigan North Western not Wigan West Midlands

    • @RicardoSanchez-es5wl
      @RicardoSanchez-es5wl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wigan doesn’t exist

    • @haggler
      @haggler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@RicardoSanchez-es5wl I’ve never seen a pie, have you?

  • @zhuofanzhang9974
    @zhuofanzhang9974 3 ปีที่แล้ว +130

    Props to the driver at 7:17 that made the sound at the same time as "the world is changing". That's some serious serendipity.

    • @PinkishPlant
      @PinkishPlant 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wait it wasn’t edited in?

    • @AhimtarHoN
      @AhimtarHoN 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      TIL a new word "serendipity", thanks

  • @xtreemgamer129
    @xtreemgamer129 3 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    7:20 the sound of that car passing by lined up so perfectly with the graph animation it feels like it had to have been planned

  • @MoeAndTekila
    @MoeAndTekila 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

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

  • @npc6817
    @npc6817 3 ปีที่แล้ว +393

    Please someone edit "the beach where you can hear the sea" into a stand-alone episode

  • @gowzahr
    @gowzahr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +319

    Alternate title: Tom Scott teams up with sophisticated AI to cover up the truth of the Russian Utopia in the UK.

    • @Rotem_S
      @Rotem_S 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      After all, it is only a utopia if nobody outside knows about it

    • @mayamayhemmusic
      @mayamayhemmusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This screams “Bielefeld“

  • @EmsionProductions
    @EmsionProductions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +520

    “Hiraeth” is a Welsh word for that exact feeling. “Nostalgic longing for something that never was”.

    • @Asha2820
      @Asha2820 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Anemoia

    • @ovni2295
      @ovni2295 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Asha2820 I hope this is related to the Anemoi of Greek mythology!

    • @MonkeyJedi99
      @MonkeyJedi99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Asha2820 Yep! Well found.

    • @theinternetlemon2856
      @theinternetlemon2856 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      As a Welsh speaker, I'd say 'hiraeth' describes a feeling more like longing for something you've lost; something that isn't there now rather than what was never there

    • @Sidnoea
      @Sidnoea 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I've heard the term "not-stalgia" suggested before.

  • @Dracinard
    @Dracinard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    "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.

  • @seraaron
    @seraaron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +473

    There's a word in Welsh - hireath - which has no direct translation, but which can be described as 'nostalgia for a place that you cannot return to, or for a thing which never existed, or which you have only ever dreamed of'. I think this is more or less the word your looking for, and it's a lot more poetic than some cruddy portmanteau.

    • @Rukathesoldier
      @Rukathesoldier 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How is that pronounced?

    • @Monochrome_math
      @Monochrome_math 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@Rukathesoldier Somewhat like Hi-re-a-ff. (Yes th has a ff sound)

    • @EmsionProductions
      @EmsionProductions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Monochrome_math I don’t think the TH is a FF sound in Welsh. I think it’s just as you see it, TH.

    • @Monochrome_math
      @Monochrome_math 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@EmsionProductions No. Thats incorrect. Some letters like th, ng, ll (yes its one consonant letter even if it is written like 2) have completely different sounds than one might expect in welsh. Any welsh person can confirm this.

    • @theinternetlemon2856
      @theinternetlemon2856 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@Monochrome_math Again, th is not pronounced f anywhere in Welsh. I am a Welsh person and I can confirm what @EmsionProductions said is true