The best part is the debate lasted until the French Revolution when there was so conflict about an national bread recipe that the government gave up and made everyone plant potatoes instead
Fun fact parents were originally against Pokémon claiming it was satanic, until Pope John Paul himself said the series was good because it promoted friendship
@@sanchu6335 that is at best a meme from pokemon, because that has nothing to do with pokemon, like at all, it not even close to what the lore says hahaha.... pokemon want to be capture, and they are willing to leave humans to capture them if they seem human-worthy. and most pokemons are as intelligent as humans, and the other few are smarter than humans
@@sanchu6335 No? Science was very much considered satanic. As knowledge and advances that technology had brought had opposed the power and highness of religions, namely Christianity. Witches were more or less just smart women, anyone who was said were performing mystical acts were simply scientists. People were just idiots.
My favorite thing about these pencils is that literally EVERY kid who sharpened it down to "Drugs," always just left it like that cause they didn't want to shave it away lmao.
As a child, all throughout school, I was told that someone at some point would try to pressure me into doing drugs, smoke cigarettes, or to drink. Never happened. Not even once. I was told every single year that it would happen, and it never did. I learned significantly more about drugs from those anti-drug programs than from anyone who actually used drugs. When I was in college and I was doing a research project with the police, a police officer offered me chewing tobacco. When I started working, mainly with older people from the generation who started all of the moral panics, they started pressuring me constantly to go smoke with them. They still do. Maybe this was a common issue in older generations and it's just normal to them, in which case I guess those programs might have worked somehow.
Funny thing, turns out drugs are expensive and NOONE wants to share them with your kids for free.. lol. Every year the "drugs in Halloween candy hand outs" and "these are drugs not candy" posts come out and every year those of us who actually had fun in the 90s post wondering where THOSE candies are getting given out. 🤣
Yup it's really disappointing to me that when I could really use a joint after a bad day at work that not one person stopped me in a car asking if I'd like to take the edge off. Instead I had to drive to a liquor store
I remember at my schools, it was weirdly cool to have the smallest pencil to an infuriating level that you can hardly write with it. The teachers hated it and I still have a pencil sat on my desk that is just over 4cm left over from then
Fun fact about Night Trap, the Nintendo of America president at the time, said that Night Trap would never be released on a Nintendo console. August 24th, 2018: Night Trap was released on the Nintendo Switch.
The first time I saw the clip of Howard Lincoln saying that was in the documentary that came with the rerelease of that game. I was watching it on a Nintendo Switch.
@@thisisasupersayin376 the 1982 activision game "river raid" was on the "index" in germany, a list of games by the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons that can't be advertised and only sold with restrictions, to only adults. When in 2002 it wasto appear on on the Activision Anthology for PS2 it was still on the index, meaning the whole collection would have been, if Activision didn't request a removal. This was succesful, so the Anthology got published without any age restrictions...
Can confirm every kid in my class immediately altered all DARE gear to have pro-drug messages. This is pretty much universal Anti-drug program behavior.
There was an organization against child abuse that had the same problem with their pencils. They read "Don't shake a baby." Which of course became "shake a baby."
I'd heard about the pencils but learning that a ten-year old was the one to point out the glaringly obvious problem with them that a bunch of adults somehow missed is just priceless.
The best part of this is if "too cool to do drugs" was printed invertedly (to read from the eraser, towards the lead) it would fix the issue. It seems like a 100% intentional choice by just one guy, somewhere along the line, who thought "ha! I wonder if anyone will notice this before one gets sharpened". That or he just wanted a pencil that said "cool to do drugs" and saw, then seized the opportunity
As you sharpen the pencil, it perfectly captures the line of thought, First: I’m too cool to do drugs Then: it’s cool to do drugs Then: I should do drugs Finally:(as whole world is consumed by addiction) drugs
actually, i'm pretty sure that it's printed that way because most people are right handed the way it is, if you look at your pencil while you're writing, you'll be able to read it fine... but if it was inverted, then it'd be upside down while you're writing (unless you're left handed)
This reminds me of when they'd give out red ribbons with gold letters that said "Proud to be Drug Free" on them. However, the lettering was easily scraped off, so naturally in a few seconds the ribbons that you were expected to wear all day would say "Proud to be Drug-ee".
I love how Karl uses Fred from Scooby Doo to demonstrate a guy using traps to defend a house from intruders Like, that’s basically Home Alone the game. And he went for ‘Fred’
That was my thought too, and the traps in Home Alone were way more gruesome, from what I can tell. No one in Night Trap, to my knowledge, gets a rusty nail through their foot.
I had one of these, the second it was put into my hands I knew what had to be done. I planned on saving it forever but they were cheaply made and turned to dust in like 3 years
I distinctly recall getting these pencils as a kid, the first thing everyone in the class did was sharpen the pencils down to say “do drugs”. I think it was a different company though. Back when D.A.R.E was in every school
If there's one thing I learned from my K-12 years, it's that kids will always find a way to turn a lame slogan into something hilarious. We used sharpie's on an anti-bullying t-shirt that said "Rachel's Challenge" to make it read "Rachel is Challenged".
"drugs are for fucking losers!" Most C level executives, especially in tech, have all done psychedelics to break through. And rely on stimulants to continue working at high output. Professional athletes use performance enhancing drugs for their namesake. Rock Stars. No further explanation needed. The average caffeine addict. Stigma against certain drug users and not others leads to unnecessary drug related deaths do to fear of repercussions should someone reach out for help. Hope I don't get blocked for having a volatile opinion. I really like this page.
yes, and also a lot of anti-drug law is based on colonialism and white supremacy, most notably with hallucinogenic substances and marijuana, which are classed in the US as more dangerous than methamphetamine, while actually being very promising for medical research
Man in my elementary school we had sniff pencils that cost 2 dollars and would lose their smell in a day, so every day you had to buy a new one because if you owned one that didn't have a scent you were roasted nonstop.
In the Us when I was in elementary school, so around 06/07ish, we had Smencils. They were pencils with scented erasers. I don't remember any of the flavors except one: chocolate. The reason I remember that one is I distinctly remember it making me feel very nauseous whenever I got close to one
The funny thing about Night Trap's "violence" is that the game was actually designed to be more of a family friendly game. Night Trap was initially developed around 1987 for an unreleased console called Control-Vision, a console that would've been manufactured by Hasbro (hence the call to make the game family friendly). So whenever you see those goofy contraptions the Augers use to draw blood from their victims, you can thank Hasbro for that as they thought that'd be more tame compared to the Augers biting the victims instead. But yeah. One of the most controversial video games of all time in the same conversation as Mortal Kombat.
One thing I enjoyed learning in media when I was in school was learning about moral panic. I'd love a whole episode on that tbh! But the one that made me laugh the most was hoodies
I think the best anti-drug products was possibly the drugisaurs. It was literally just a book of a bunch of dinosaurs that were altered to be doing some kind of drug. It even went into detail about the drug itself
The one instance of moral panic from my childhood I remember clearly was the satanic Yugioh craze. I studied at a catholic primary school and when Yugioh became super popular in the playground, soon came a wave of rumors about how the game was satanic. There was even a story about how in another country (because of course) a kid was found dead with a fiend type monster in his hand. I remember the principal of the school, a priest, approached me and my friends to talk about the cards, he was like investigating the matter, as if there was a secret drug rig in the fourth grade. He asked us to explain to him the game, we spent like 10 minutes talking about how cool it was, then the guy stopped us and said "So....what do these cards do?", we looked at each other and said "....nothing?". Years later I learned that the Yugioh craze on my school was started by the mom of a kid from my class who brought it up at a school meeting and it spread among the hyper Christian moms of the school, in reality, the original mom just didn't want to buy her son Yugioh cards XD.
Yu-gi-oh! And Magic: the Gathering have both had to censor regionalised sets as (in the case of Yu-Gi-Oh!) the Japanese artwork has been suggestive, religious/ anti-religious themed or violent (blood splatters on some first generation cards, boobs/ cleavage shown and some cards having various symbols on them that are religious or anti-religious etc) In the case of MTG, several cards had images changed over editions due to being too violent and/or suggestive too.
@@darkfang797 🤣 effect: “let me talk to the manager!” Reduces the IQ of the loser by 50 points, and anyone forced to listen by 5. Can’t be countered by “Logic”.
My old Saints Row 2 character wore a brown stalagmite hat (which looked an awful lot like a dog turd) with a decal on the front that said "DRUGS". The word was meant to be crossed out like in the Ghostbusters logo, but I made the cross-out brown too and it just blended into all the blurry textures of SR2.
This pencil kind of tells a story about peer pressure and addiction if you think about it, although petition to get Karl a shirt with the word "Drugs" on it
My friend recently bought scented glue for her kid and when she got home says "Can't wait for him to sniff this gl--" and I could see her brain click what she had just done 😂
I could have sworn we had something similar on pencils in school. I remember we used to sharpen down pencils so we could make it say whatever it said and laugh. And I remember there was a limited amount, if you were lucky enough to have one other kids noticed.
My favourite moral panic from history is when cutlery was first invented people thought it was satanic. They believed that eating using anything other than your hands was ungodly and unnatural.
I remember getting these pencils, and the next day all of us had sharpened them all down to say "DO DRUGS". Hundreds of kids with pencils that say DO DRUGS upset the teachers. They tried to get them back but we all refused.
I was eating while watching this and every time you mentioned "pencil with just Drugs on it" I burst out laughing. Not holding it against you, but I spewed scalding hot coffee out of my nose.
I had pencils that said “better things to do than drugs.” It didn’t matter, many of us would scratch out the words we needed to make the pencils say “Better do drugs.”
I grew up in 2000's California and we got these pencils, though they sort of fixed it by flipping the print. Problem is that a bunch of kids just scratched out parts and made fun of the irony. There's also the red ribbon bracelets that had easy to scratch off print with the exact same problem. If you got caught with these though they'd confiscate it without a replacement. Worked especially great with the bracelets because if you had one at lunch you'd get free stuff. If you got caught several times however, you'd get a scolding as well as detention. Honestly...kids are great with instant recognition because they have the mindset of sabotaging everything to get a laugh. The one's who point out flaws are the true attention seekers since they're searching for validation.
I love that all the anti drug campaign all horrifically backfired As a sufferer of the dare program i found great joy that it increased drug used and failed in every way possible
I remember these. I always thought it was some sort of deeper metaphor. The more you do drugs, the more that's all you can think of/the worse your mind gets... may have just been me.
One story I got told what that a university in the Darwin, Australia was called "Collage and University of Northern Territory" and they decided to print the initials of some T-shirts. Shortly after they printed some they discovered what the initials spelled.
I was at a U2 concert and at one point between songs, Bono started clapping every five seconds. He said "every time I clap my hands, a child dies in Africa". So I said "well then stop fucking doing it!"
@@jameskilgour387 exactly, people are gonna do drugs at least they know the risks, science, and the basics of what they're using... Lot better than some people who don't even know what they're taking
This is actually exactly what my town did, as drugs are rampant all over the place, but they'd rather push people towards the "safer" ones (IE marijuana) than let children make ill informed decisions and get into "harder" more dangerous drugs (like cocaine or meth)
I remember this story from grade school in N.Y. We're in the D.A.R.E. program (drug abuse resistance education) and kids we're talking about these pencils.
When I was in school we had the "D.A.R.E" program which was anti-drug propaganda. However, part of the program was them giving us a list (with pictures) of drugs that us, as teens, should never try. It backfired 😂 Many kids used the list as a checklist of drugs they should try next.
my school had almost identical pencils, and the only reason I even remember this is for like 2 years after kids would sell the sharpened down ones that just said "drugs" for like a dollar each, and would propose business by going "psst hey kid wanna buy some drugs" because everyone thought it was hilarious
the kid's line at the end makes sense (at least to me) since when I was a kid, my friends were always told that pens were for adults and that we weren't allowed to use them in class
My favorite moral panic is the one against comic books back in the 70s or so. Apparently a thing that people could get bullied for reading is a vehicle for crimes influence
8:32 you mention that only one school in New York got these pencils. I went to school in CA and definitely got these pencils. I even remember some kids being too impatient to sharpen it so they’d just scratch out some of the words
I think a smple way to keep people from doing drugs, at least with the idea of being cool if you don't do them, is to just show people Dante from Devil May Cry
I grew up in Santa Cruz, CA... not only did I have train tracks practically in my backyard, but my friends & I would throw rocks at passing trains all the time! Brah, we should hang out and throw rocks at trains sometime!
I remember D.A.R.E, which was an anti-drug campaign, and it went so badly from what I heard that D.A.R.E caused more people to get into drugs, because of the constant unintentional message of "The cool kids do drugs" and "Everyone is doing drugs." They kept hammering home how even if the cool kids were doing them and everyone else was doing them you should say no, but what kids took from that was to fit in they should do drugs and if they wanted to be cool they should do drugs, which caused more kids to do drugs. I'm not even sure if D.A.R.E still exists but I know the whole thing was a failure.
The program was cancelled and replaced with one based on science which demonstrably lowers rates of drug use among people who went through it as children, so obviously there are some Republican politicians in the United States who want to bring dare back and scrap the new program as some "culture war" bullshit
You mentioned wanting to wear a shirt with someone else's name on it. Back in the day, I would find and keep random name tags then wear them to work. I worked with one guy for three months before he asked why everyone called me Shawn while my name tag said Ralph. And as for things like throwing rocks at trains, I threw them across the freeway because the train tracks were too far.
Never got the pencils but we did have the D.A.R.E. program and making up different meanings for the acronyms was always fun. Drugs Are Really Excellent is the one I remember but there were so many others.
I had a dream where I hung out with you and your crew. You took me on tour of some awesome city, then to a music concert were we all got really drunk and rank away from the police and spent half the day avoiding cops in a shopping mall.
Me and my old friends in elementary school (like grade 4) used to take pencils and shave the paint off them with scissors and then color them with markers & paints and we sold them for profit to kids that liked the designs 😂
Interestingly enough, the footage from the game proceeds Home Alone as it was shot in 1987 for an unreleased system. It wouldn't be used for another 5 years.
I live in Florida and I distinctly remember getting these in school. So if they're saying these were only in New York, that's just a blatant lie to somewhat cover their asses.
Moral panics getting reboots- we'd love to see it. I don't know how prominent it was internationally, but the Satanic Panic from the late 80's to the mid 90's is always a classic. Specifically the one revolving around Pokémon and how churches were genuinely trying to make a case that Pokémon is satanic propaganda made to veer innocent children off the righteous path of God and into the ways of the Devil. Idk why Japan would care enough to do that, but sure. Perfect amount of absurdity without any of the really dark implication or horrifying real life consequence that came after it like a good amount of the stuff from that era.
I grew up in the middle of nowhere and my favorite past time was building hideaways up in trees that were close to the road and throw rocks at passing cars. I dunno how we didn't kill anyone
My favourite moral panic was when in the 1600s a new bread recipe was created which required less kneading and it was attacked for promoting idleness
What? It's not idle. Just not as kneady!
You aren't sUFfEriNg eNouGH foR YoUr bReaD 😤
The best part is the debate lasted until the French Revolution when there was so conflict about an national bread recipe that the government gave up and made everyone plant potatoes instead
Your joking right
@@Wild_Dice I see you. And I appreciate you.
Fun fact parents were originally against Pokémon claiming it was satanic, until Pope John Paul himself said the series was good because it promoted friendship
So it is satanic!
@@sanchu6335 Problem is Pokemon love fighting each other, if lore is true.
@@sanchu6335 one of the reasons is because Pokémon evolve and people thought it promoted the theory of evolution
@@sanchu6335 that is at best a meme from pokemon, because that has nothing to do with pokemon, like at all, it not even close to what the lore says hahaha....
pokemon want to be capture, and they are willing to leave humans to capture them if they seem human-worthy. and most pokemons are as intelligent as humans, and the other few are smarter than humans
@@sanchu6335 No? Science was very much considered satanic.
As knowledge and advances that technology had brought had opposed the power and highness of religions, namely Christianity.
Witches were more or less just smart women, anyone who was said were performing mystical acts were simply scientists.
People were just idiots.
My favorite thing about these pencils is that literally EVERY kid who sharpened it down to "Drugs," always just left it like that cause they didn't want to shave it away lmao.
My anti-drug pencils were the most ugly color, the only reason why anyone kept them is just so that they had a pencil that read "drugs"
As a child, all throughout school, I was told that someone at some point would try to pressure me into doing drugs, smoke cigarettes, or to drink. Never happened. Not even once. I was told every single year that it would happen, and it never did. I learned significantly more about drugs from those anti-drug programs than from anyone who actually used drugs. When I was in college and I was doing a research project with the police, a police officer offered me chewing tobacco. When I started working, mainly with older people from the generation who started all of the moral panics, they started pressuring me constantly to go smoke with them. They still do. Maybe this was a common issue in older generations and it's just normal to them, in which case I guess those programs might have worked somehow.
I have been pressured more to consume anime than any drug even including coffee.
Funny thing, turns out drugs are expensive and NOONE wants to share them with your kids for free.. lol.
Every year the "drugs in Halloween candy hand outs" and "these are drugs not candy" posts come out and every year those of us who actually had fun in the 90s post wondering where THOSE candies are getting given out. 🤣
Yup it's really disappointing to me that when I could really use a joint after a bad day at work that not one person stopped me in a car asking if I'd like to take the edge off. Instead I had to drive to a liquor store
Wait till you realize going to Uni doesn't make you a success.
I tried drugs because I wanted too, not because anyone ever pressured me too
I'm just impressed those pencils got sharpened that far down without being lost or broken.
The kids definitely made sure they kept them
Oh ye of little sharpening determination. My chilhood peers would sharpen pencils with the fury of Thor and keep them until they were naught but nubs.
I remember at my schools, it was weirdly cool to have the smallest pencil to an infuriating level that you can hardly write with it. The teachers hated it and I still have a pencil sat on my desk that is just over 4cm left over from then
Once they realized they probably sharpened them immediately with no regard for pencil life
We did it on purpuse 🤣
Fun fact about Night Trap, the Nintendo of America president at the time, said that Night Trap would never be released on a Nintendo console.
August 24th, 2018: Night Trap was released on the Nintendo Switch.
I bought the pack with Double Switch! I had played the demo back in the day. Glad these were preserved.
The first time I saw the clip of Howard Lincoln saying that was in the documentary that came with the rerelease of that game. I was watching it on a Nintendo Switch.
@@thisisasupersayin376 the 1982 activision game "river raid" was on the "index" in germany, a list of games by the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons that can't be advertised and only sold with restrictions, to only adults.
When in 2002 it wasto appear on on the Activision Anthology for PS2 it was still on the index, meaning the whole collection would have been, if Activision didn't request a removal. This was succesful, so the Anthology got published without any age restrictions...
Can confirm every kid in my class immediately altered all DARE gear to have pro-drug messages. This is pretty much universal Anti-drug program behavior.
Dare was such a hilarious failure. I low-key want to get one to wear whilst on drugs.
@@TheGamerGoy a good number of kids kept their gear for that purpose. I got a larger than needed shirt so I could grow into it.
@@holstorrsceadus1990 oh, now you're thinking with portals
Was it? It bace more successful, from a boogyman to a joke.
Better hope they don’t do fentanyl. Pretty wretched stuff.
There was an organization against child abuse that had the same problem with their pencils. They read "Don't shake a baby." Which of course became "shake a baby."
*furiously shaking a baby's hand*
I'd heard about the pencils but learning that a ten-year old was the one to point out the glaringly obvious problem with them that a bunch of adults somehow missed is just priceless.
Even when accidental, there's always more examples of how drugs won "the war on drugs".
Drugs are too cool not to do drugs
The best part of this is if "too cool to do drugs" was printed invertedly (to read from the eraser, towards the lead) it would fix the issue. It seems like a 100% intentional choice by just one guy, somewhere along the line, who thought "ha! I wonder if anyone will notice this before one gets sharpened". That or he just wanted a pencil that said "cool to do drugs" and saw, then seized the opportunity
As you sharpen the pencil, it perfectly captures the line of thought,
First: I’m too cool to do drugs
Then: it’s cool to do drugs
Then: I should do drugs
Finally:(as whole world is consumed by addiction) drugs
actually, i'm pretty sure that it's printed that way because most people are right handed
the way it is, if you look at your pencil while you're writing, you'll be able to read it fine... but if it was inverted, then it'd be upside down while you're writing (unless you're left handed)
@@loganroman5306 you just turned my mediocre joke into some philosophy sh*t, i like it
@@loganroman5306 to do: drugs
This reminds me of when they'd give out red ribbons with gold letters that said "Proud to be Drug Free" on them. However, the lettering was easily scraped off, so naturally in a few seconds the ribbons that you were expected to wear all day would say "Proud to be Drug-ee".
I love how Karl uses Fred from Scooby Doo to demonstrate a guy using traps to defend a house from intruders
Like, that’s basically Home Alone the game. And he went for ‘Fred’
That was my thought too, and the traps in Home Alone were way more gruesome, from what I can tell. No one in Night Trap, to my knowledge, gets a rusty nail through their foot.
@@Philthy_Phill forget the nail I always hate the bit with the tarantula
I had one of these, the second it was put into my hands I knew what had to be done. I planned on saving it forever but they were cheaply made and turned to dust in like 3 years
I distinctly recall getting these pencils as a kid, the first thing everyone in the class did was sharpen the pencils down to say “do drugs”. I think it was a different company though. Back when D.A.R.E was in every school
i too could have sworn the DARE program handed us these pencils in Canada.
You got all the DARE swag in Ohio too
I remember D.A.R.E! Think that was a Canada thing.
@@Tessicaria oh well never mind. Lol guess it got around 😂
@@technician0096 It was America too
imagine bulk buying these and grinding them down to the drug supportive bit and selling them with mark up.
If there's one thing I learned from my K-12 years, it's that kids will always find a way to turn a lame slogan into something hilarious. We used sharpie's on an anti-bullying t-shirt that said "Rachel's Challenge" to make it read "Rachel is Challenged".
"drugs are for fucking losers!"
Most C level executives, especially in tech, have all done psychedelics to break through. And rely on stimulants to continue working at high output.
Professional athletes use performance enhancing drugs for their namesake.
Rock Stars. No further explanation needed.
The average caffeine addict.
Stigma against certain drug users and not others leads to unnecessary drug related deaths do to fear of repercussions should someone reach out for help.
Hope I don't get blocked for having a volatile opinion.
I really like this page.
yes, and also a lot of anti-drug law is based on colonialism and white supremacy, most notably with hallucinogenic substances and marijuana, which are classed in the US as more dangerous than methamphetamine, while actually being very promising for medical research
If this gets deleted, it would be ironic considering how many videos he's done on a drug lol
@@archerymidnight3422 still up
So are you against that phrase or against the whole Anti-Drug deal?
@@JosephFlores-yn4yi both
Man in my elementary school we had sniff pencils that cost 2 dollars and would lose their smell in a day, so every day you had to buy a new one because if you owned one that didn't have a scent you were roasted nonstop.
The irony of smoking a bowl watching this video
That kid had a CSI: Miami moment, with that quote.
"Maybe... they didn't sharpen their pencils." (cue The Who's 'Won't Get Fooled Again')
*YEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHH!!!*
*epic guitar noises*
In the Us when I was in elementary school, so around 06/07ish, we had Smencils. They were pencils with scented erasers. I don't remember any of the flavors except one: chocolate. The reason I remember that one is I distinctly remember it making me feel very nauseous whenever I got close to one
Same lol
shout out to the old D.A.R.E. program highlighters they handed out that everyone always immediately started huffing
The funny thing about Night Trap's "violence" is that the game was actually designed to be more of a family friendly game. Night Trap was initially developed around 1987 for an unreleased console called Control-Vision, a console that would've been manufactured by Hasbro (hence the call to make the game family friendly). So whenever you see those goofy contraptions the Augers use to draw blood from their victims, you can thank Hasbro for that as they thought that'd be more tame compared to the Augers biting the victims instead. But yeah. One of the most controversial video games of all time in the same conversation as Mortal Kombat.
It is truly baffling how nobody in the organization realized the problem with those pencils.
Not sure if it's less or more baffling if you consider how often stuff like that happens
The whole organization was a joke this stuff happened so often I feel people hd to have been doing it on purpose
One thing I enjoyed learning in media when I was in school was learning about moral panic. I'd love a whole episode on that tbh! But the one that made me laugh the most was hoodies
I think the best anti-drug products was possibly the drugisaurs. It was literally just a book of a bunch of dinosaurs that were altered to be doing some kind of drug. It even went into detail about the drug itself
Karl “when I was a kid I used to throw rocks at trains”
Lucas “yeah….. *help*”
Throwing rocks at trains is wholesome, your from a rough place when kids are throwing rocks at cats
U know ur from the hood when the mandem throws trains at cats
Me and my siblings who used to beat the shit out of each other to avoid boredom: Why trains though?
I used to waste half the pencil by sharpening it to say “do drugs”
The one instance of moral panic from my childhood I remember clearly was the satanic Yugioh craze. I studied at a catholic primary school and when Yugioh became super popular in the playground, soon came a wave of rumors about how the game was satanic. There was even a story about how in another country (because of course) a kid was found dead with a fiend type monster in his hand. I remember the principal of the school, a priest, approached me and my friends to talk about the cards, he was like investigating the matter, as if there was a secret drug rig in the fourth grade. He asked us to explain to him the game, we spent like 10 minutes talking about how cool it was, then the guy stopped us and said "So....what do these cards do?", we looked at each other and said "....nothing?". Years later I learned that the Yugioh craze on my school was started by the mom of a kid from my class who brought it up at a school meeting and it spread among the hyper Christian moms of the school, in reality, the original mom just didn't want to buy her son Yugioh cards XD.
Yu-gi-oh! And Magic: the Gathering have both had to censor regionalised sets as (in the case of Yu-Gi-Oh!) the Japanese artwork has been suggestive, religious/ anti-religious themed or violent (blood splatters on some first generation cards, boobs/ cleavage shown and some cards having various symbols on them that are religious or anti-religious etc)
In the case of MTG, several cards had images changed over editions due to being too violent and/or suggestive too.
Your mom accidently set off the trap card "Karen" XD
@@darkfang797 🤣 effect: “let me talk to the manager!”
Reduces the IQ of the loser by 50 points, and anyone forced to listen by 5.
Can’t be countered by “Logic”.
My old Saints Row 2 character wore a brown stalagmite hat (which looked an awful lot like a dog turd) with a decal on the front that said "DRUGS". The word was meant to be crossed out like in the Ghostbusters logo, but I made the cross-out brown too and it just blended into all the blurry textures of SR2.
This was on Qi a few days ago, I remember having these lol.
This pencil kind of tells a story about peer pressure and addiction if you think about it, although petition to get Karl a shirt with the word "Drugs" on it
I'm 22 and I distinctly remember getting a few of these during red ribbon week growing up in Texas
My favourite panic was the clowns in 2016, that shit was hilarious
My friend recently bought scented glue for her kid and when she got home says "Can't wait for him to sniff this gl--" and I could see her brain click what she had just done 😂
"Here's your sign".
I have a theory the more combative the news gets the more violent people get.
Years ago my friend bought us all T-shirts he found that said "D.A.R.E. Drugs Are Really Excellent."
I could have sworn we had something similar on pencils in school. I remember we used to sharpen down pencils so we could make it say whatever it said and laugh. And I remember there was a limited amount, if you were lucky enough to have one other kids noticed.
My favourite moral panic from history is when cutlery was first invented people thought it was satanic. They believed that eating using anything other than your hands was ungodly and unnatural.
I remember getting these pencils, and the next day all of us had sharpened them all down to say "DO DRUGS". Hundreds of kids with pencils that say DO DRUGS upset the teachers. They tried to get them back but we all refused.
I was eating while watching this and every time you mentioned "pencil with just Drugs on it" I burst out laughing.
Not holding it against you, but I spewed scalding hot coffee out of my nose.
It always sounds like clicking but they always give you what you came for right away.
I had pencils that said “better things to do than drugs.”
It didn’t matter, many of us would scratch out the words we needed to make the pencils say “Better do drugs.”
Why sniff pens when you have tested and proven, good old fashion glue in your desk? :D
I grew up in 2000's California and we got these pencils, though they sort of fixed it by flipping the print. Problem is that a bunch of kids just scratched out parts and made fun of the irony. There's also the red ribbon bracelets that had easy to scratch off print with the exact same problem.
If you got caught with these though they'd confiscate it without a replacement. Worked especially great with the bracelets because if you had one at lunch you'd get free stuff. If you got caught several times however, you'd get a scolding as well as detention.
Honestly...kids are great with instant recognition because they have the mindset of sabotaging everything to get a laugh. The one's who point out flaws are the true attention seekers since they're searching for validation.
My favorite moral panic was when Socrates said reading and writing was going to ruin the younger generation’s ability to memorize
I had that game when I was a kid. It was about as fun watching random security cameras. It really felt like Home Alone. R.I.P. Dana Plato. Drugs suck!
Plot twist: The main character of Night Trap that is watching cameras is the dog from the dog ending of silent hill
respect for lucas for getting to say anything controversial and the first thing he thinks of is "trans rights matter". hell yeah, trans rights
Wooh!
Trans rights
TRANS RIGHTS BABY.
Im trans
@@TheDodecapolar hell yeah same
I love that all the anti drug campaign all horrifically backfired
As a sufferer of the dare program i found great joy that it increased drug used and failed in every way possible
Congratulations to drugs for winning the war on drugs
I remember these. I always thought it was some sort of deeper metaphor. The more you do drugs, the more that's all you can think of/the worse your mind gets... may have just been me.
These pencils are a perfect representation of the US "war on drugs"
Hell yeah Trans Lives Matter!
One story I got told what that a university in the Darwin, Australia was called "Collage and University of Northern Territory" and they decided to print the initials of some T-shirts. Shortly after they printed some they discovered what the initials spelled.
Looks like I need to try drugs. The pencils told me to and they seem pretty sharp
Love the tangent about the shirts because I have a shirt that just says "This Better Not Suck"
Parent sees something violent: *Chock* I must destroy this so my child won't see it
Everyone: *Facepalm*
I spent the whole video wanting someone to point out that shaving off the T spells “OO COOL TO DO DRUGS”
Well since we're talking about charity, Did you know in Africa every 60 seconds. 1 minute passes
together we can stop this
And don't forget to finish your food. Kids in Africa are starving.
I was at a U2 concert and at one point between songs, Bono started clapping every five seconds. He said "every time I clap my hands, a child dies in Africa". So I said "well then stop fucking doing it!"
Imagine teaching kids how to do drugs to support anti-drug use.
Actually not as dumb as it sounds. Promoting safer ways to do drugs is infinitely more effective than just saying "don't do drugs".
@@jameskilgour387 exactly, people are gonna do drugs at least they know the risks, science, and the basics of what they're using... Lot better than some people who don't even know what they're taking
This is actually exactly what my town did, as drugs are rampant all over the place, but they'd rather push people towards the "safer" ones (IE marijuana) than let children make ill informed decisions and get into "harder" more dangerous drugs (like cocaine or meth)
I remember this story from grade school in N.Y. We're in the D.A.R.E. program (drug abuse resistance education) and kids we're talking about these pencils.
Meanwhile in the states, MILLIONS of pencils that said "don't do drugs" were dispensed
The anti-drug program in my school had a plastic cover you could peel off to make it say “Drugs in school🤘”
When I was in school we had the "D.A.R.E" program which was anti-drug propaganda. However, part of the program was them giving us a list (with pictures) of drugs that us, as teens, should never try. It backfired 😂 Many kids used the list as a checklist of drugs they should try next.
Lucas: trans rights mater!
My stupid ears: trains ride tomatoes.
Yes! I am not alone!
I heard tomatoes but couldn't get the rest so I had to go back and listen again
We definitely had these in school. Dare class lmao
The thing is the minute you say don’t do drugs is the minute the kids who have never heard of drugs get curious abt them
my school had almost identical pencils, and the only reason I even remember this is for like 2 years after kids would sell the sharpened down ones that just said "drugs" for like a dollar each, and would propose business by going "psst hey kid wanna buy some drugs" because everyone thought it was hilarious
the kid's line at the end makes sense (at least to me) since when I was a kid, my friends were always told that pens were for adults and that we weren't allowed to use them in class
My favorite moral panic is the one against comic books back in the 70s or so. Apparently a thing that people could get bullied for reading is a vehicle for crimes influence
8:32 you mention that only one school in New York got these pencils. I went to school in CA and definitely got these pencils. I even remember some kids being too impatient to sharpen it so they’d just scratch out some of the words
Honestly it just shows how important it is to test your product on actual users (pun not intented, but appreciated), before releasing it.
I think a smple way to keep people from doing drugs, at least with the idea of being cool if you don't do them, is to just show people Dante from Devil May Cry
Just "this man is cool, and he doesn't do drugs. So you can be cool just like him, for the most part."
I grew up in Santa Cruz, CA... not only did I have train tracks practically in my backyard, but my friends & I would throw rocks at passing trains all the time! Brah, we should hang out and throw rocks at trains sometime!
Idek what to call this style of video making but gotta say I love it, it's like half podcast/video essay but 100% well done
YESSSSSS I HAVENT EVEN FINISHED THE VIDEO AND IM ALREADY VALIDATED TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Yayyy
Im trans
trans girl here really happy about the trans rights matter at the start :)
Those pencils were everywhere when I was a kid
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I remember D.A.R.E, which was an anti-drug campaign, and it went so badly from what I heard that D.A.R.E caused more people to get into drugs, because of the constant unintentional message of "The cool kids do drugs" and "Everyone is doing drugs." They kept hammering home how even if the cool kids were doing them and everyone else was doing them you should say no, but what kids took from that was to fit in they should do drugs and if they wanted to be cool they should do drugs, which caused more kids to do drugs.
I'm not even sure if D.A.R.E still exists but I know the whole thing was a failure.
The program was cancelled and replaced with one based on science which demonstrably lowers rates of drug use among people who went through it as children, so obviously there are some Republican politicians in the United States who want to bring dare back and scrap the new program as some "culture war" bullshit
'There's parks' "not where I grew up" have an air hug buddy
Only thing those campaigns did was make me instantly say yes when my stepsister offered me weed.
I've seen that pencil in real life, I owned one of those pencils
You mentioned wanting to wear a shirt with someone else's name on it. Back in the day, I would find and keep random name tags then wear them to work. I worked with one guy for three months before he asked why everyone called me Shawn while my name tag said Ralph. And as for things like throwing rocks at trains, I threw them across the freeway because the train tracks were too far.
Never got the pencils but we did have the D.A.R.E. program and making up different meanings for the acronyms was always fun. Drugs Are Really Excellent is the one I remember but there were so many others.
I had a dream where I hung out with you and your crew. You took me on tour of some awesome city, then to a music concert were we all got really drunk and rank away from the police and spent half the day avoiding cops in a shopping mall.
That black smudge on your green screen made me try clean my phone lol
I did exactly the same thing.
Me and my old friends in elementary school (like grade 4) used to take pencils and shave the paint off them with scissors and then color them with markers & paints and we sold them for profit to kids that liked the designs 😂
This is a perfect metaphor for each stage of most people's lives
God those smell pens is such an old memory, I was in an all boys school and they were still popular
Never heard of Night Trap but it just sounds like a Home Alone rip off to me and kids love Home Alone.
Interestingly enough, the footage from the game proceeds Home Alone as it was shot in 1987 for an unreleased system. It wouldn't be used for another 5 years.
By embellished, I thought he was going to say something like "these pencils was directly responsible for the opium epidemic" or something like that.
I live in Florida and I distinctly remember getting these in school. So if they're saying these were only in New York, that's just a blatant lie to somewhat cover their asses.
Best pencil as a kid
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I see this channel is still full of cool people.
Just like the short bus
Moral panics getting reboots- we'd love to see it.
I don't know how prominent it was internationally, but the Satanic Panic from the late 80's to the mid 90's is always a classic. Specifically the one revolving around Pokémon and how churches were genuinely trying to make a case that Pokémon is satanic propaganda made to veer innocent children off the righteous path of God and into the ways of the Devil. Idk why Japan would care enough to do that, but sure.
Perfect amount of absurdity without any of the really dark implication or horrifying real life consequence that came after it like a good amount of the stuff from that era.
These must have been made into a novelty item cause I remember seeing these as a kid.
A ffiend of mine has a black shirt that just says "pants." in the least showy font ever.
I grew up in the middle of nowhere and my favorite past time was building hideaways up in trees that were close to the road and throw rocks at passing cars. I dunno how we didn't kill anyone