@@nickbarbera2192 watching old episodes of Only Connect, that's exactly the evil tactics they would use. Your mistake was not finding the fourth category before locking in the third.
"I remember when I had lymphoma and I looked up 'what is the lymphatic system' and *me* came up to explain it to me." Learning isn't perfect, and it isn't (or at least shouldn't) be expected to be! This is WHY we need information storage/communication devices like the Internet!
I've heard a lot of anecdotes that publishing or recording something can, depending on intent, make it difficult to remember. You'll end up relying on that record, or the people you told.
“No one is looking at that and calling it the ewe emoji… (checks internet) … it’s the ewe emoji…” the disappointment and surprise in equal measure was hilarious
I've been on team 'any connections people are mad over are actually good' since day 1, love the challenge + you get to learn something when you get it wrong
Did no one else (mainly the people that were mad) see that this was different because of April 1st? Anyway this was by far my favourite, got the homophones straight away! Could not see the movies but they were left till last anyway…
Homophones drove me crazy. I saw I, U and B immediately but the Saw and Teapot emojis weren't loaded for me so I had to inspect elements then copy paste them into google just to see them and assumed the teapot was a kettle from the limited glance I gave it because I didn't want to google the exact name of the emoji (wasn't sure if it'd give me too much of a hint or not). Ended up giving up before remembering T does in fact have a homophone. This completely blinded me from the obvious rhyming words right in front of me
Actually, they might not have used the explicit ewe emoji--I can't post the screenshot here, but there were definitely horns on my display of the emojis
It's still a solid call that they wouldn't use the visuals of the emojis themselves, since a lot of emojis look different depending on what platform you're looking at.
I had the worst time figuring out what the bacon one was. It was as abstract as you can get on my laptop, just some wiggly red and white lines. It actually looked like a stack of poker chips until I zoomed way in and saw that it was two pieces.
right? I knew like, hank is mostly reading a prompter for scishow videos and thus does not retain all the information he's ever dictated to youtube, but I had not thought about the surrealism of learning about something from a past recording of yourself that you have no memory of
Linguistically, the emoji keyboard is basically just a pictographic/ideographic written language. If you're inclined to be a visual thinker or more imaginative person I can definitely see how it may have been really intuitive!
I agree. Several times I've gotten 3 of the categories, paused to look at the remaining 4 items and thought "I have no idea what these have in common". And then when the game _tells_ me the category, I still think "I never knew that and would never have been able to put those words together were it not for process-of-elimination".
I find this a lot with some of the easier ones, where they’ll involve slang that’s super specific to North America that I’m completely unfamiliar with, and so I end up getting the “harder” ones much more easily.
I use it for genuine shock, but same, outside the context of horror movies I would've never thought it would be associated with a sound. (Although now that I'm looking at it, I can kinda see the Kevin McAllister face in it lol.)
@@zmaj12321 Oh, I think I know what you're talking about, but it's not a strong cultural reference where I'm from; I think I only learned about it in my early twenties (whereas the Kevin McAllister face is a childhood classic haha).
I watched “Black Sheep” for the first time while on vacation with my parents in the late 2000’s, I must have been about 15 at the time. We were staying at a friend’s house in Ireland, and pulled the DVD out of a bargain bin at a local shop, bringing it home without realizing what we had signed up for. Nearly two decades later we still talk about this movie, and we’ve even re-watched it a few times since. I hope you watch it, and enjoy all the camp silliness just as much as we did ❤
I liked it. I object to calling a teapot a tea kettle, and it took me much longer than it should have to realise a sheep could be a ewe, but I really enjoyed it.
I appreciated the emoji idea, but I'm among the ranks of people who were mad only because TWO OF THEM WERE BLANK FOR ME. If not for that, I'm pretty sure I would have gotten it.
I really liked the emoji game! The horror movies were actually the first thing I picked up on, and I would have never in a million years thought the food items were connected to money (like, now i can see "dough" and "bacon", but definitely not cheese or lettuce, though in fairness I'm not a native speaker). I was really confused about how the "sheep" fit in with the rest of the homophobes though, so at least that mystery has now been solved, "ewe" never even occurred to me. (To be honest I'm not even sure I could tell you which animal "ewe" was, or what a female sheep is called, though it'd probably be in the running both ways.)
As soon as Hank started Googling "Horror movies about sheep," I knew he'd get to Black Sheep, and I was looking forward to his reaction. I was not disappointed.
I don't think that many people where complaining about it being pictures. People were complaining because a lot of people who play on a PC didn't get all the emojis to work with. The most common problem was the teapot and saw were blank. I only got 6 black and white pictures, and the other 10 squares were blank.
This one stumped me good, which felt very insulting as a visual artist/visual thinker 😂 To be fair, I’m pretty new to the NYT games, so I’m still learning how they “think”
unironically i thought of the sheep emoji for horror before the vampire one BECAUSE of that black sheep film. being a small child in new zealand and seeing it on late at night permanently altered my brain chemistry
It would have been a mistake to base it on the specific details of the pictures. The general concepts of the emojis are standardized, but since they're font-based the pictures look different on different devices.
I've been fully fluent in English for YEARS and never in my whole life have I heard or read the word Ewe??? Mind you, I consume insane amounts of both educational videos and articles of all kinds, the fact I've never seen this word is mind-blowing.
I wasn't sure about signing up for the newsletter, but when you mentioned you'll put your connections games in the newsletter I subscribed immediately. I always loved playing your connections games whenever you would post them on Threads.
i felt super old because i didn't get ewe, but i also did not even get what the scream emoji was supposed to be. i was like what is even a word for that face. distress?
This Connections was absolutely wild and threw me for such a loop. I was thinking about the purple for so long cause I instantly recognized 3 of them but the fourth one I couldn't figure out at all, all because of "sheep".
wait. people were angry about yesterday's Connections?! I thought it was delightful! I honestly wish they'd do this more often because I had so much fun doing it.
Wow, idk why this vid in particular made it hit me, but I feel like hankschannel has been like suddenly way more active recently. Not complaining mine you, I'm all here for it. Especially vids of you solving Connectionses, these are fun (time for a hankgames comeback?? 👀)
I LOVE THIS GAME! There are days when the categories instantly click, and others where I simply concede. The emoji puzzle was a unique joy, I hope they repeat the challenge
Yeah, I got caught up on eye, tea, saw, and bee all being 3 letters. I considered the homophones route but I couldn't think of ewe, otherwise the rest were pretty easy.
The sheer amount of ADHD energy is this video is so relatable- 😂 Like from coming up with the word groups to forgetting information to jumping around and looking things up to forgetting the year to-
This is a neat idea for a Connections, but I wish they could have set up categories that weren't based on English sound-alikes (letters / rhymes), since the advantage of emoji is that they're language-agnostic.
Lamb is a divisive horror movie. I loved it a lot, but I seem to love most movies, especially weird ones! A good example is Six String Samurai, it’s one of my all time favorites!
I loved the emoji connections; I wish they'd do it that way more often! I spotted "Bee" and "Eye" right off the bat and quickly got the words that sound like letters, then the rhyming words, and then the rest just fell into place. It was actually one of the easier Connections in a while.
This is so interesting! Usually Hank solves the Connections WAY faster than I do (I know the videos are edited down but I just stare at my phone thinking for 5-20 minutes at a time and often can't solve them all) but I solved all the categories within 10 minutes when they were emojis! My thought process was more on point than Hank's in this video, whereas normally I'm in awe of how quickly he sees the connections.
The upsetting thing for me was not all the emoji's displayed on my computer so I was like, what do I even do with these free blank spaces. But I don't think I solve this even if I had all the information.
Interesting, i didnt know people didnt like this one! In order, I got food first (didnt realize it was money based), then letters, then rhyme, then horror movies by default.
The fact that Hank appears to believe 2021 is "this year" is the most relatable part of this video
I legit had to check to see how old the video was
Yeah how dumb. That's next year, silly!
💯
@@Braincain007same, which is so silly given that I know this Connections just came out yesterday. 😂
@@JimCullentoo soon.
The fact that he got to lamb and black sheep before silence of the lambs astounds me. The brain is a funny thing
Seriously, I was there going 'Oh yeah I guess that would've fit' and second guessing the answers I got yesterday
He searched for horror movies about sheep and silence of the lambs isn't really about the lambs tho
That would be two emojis. 🤫🐑
My mistake was doing saw, silence of the lambs, scream, and Dracula…. It was my last mistake I was so mad
@@nickbarbera2192 watching old episodes of Only Connect, that's exactly the evil tactics they would use. Your mistake was not finding the fourth category before locking in the third.
"I remember when I had lymphoma and I looked up 'what is the lymphatic system' and *me* came up to explain it to me." Learning isn't perfect, and it isn't (or at least shouldn't) be expected to be! This is WHY we need information storage/communication devices like the Internet!
YES. I run a ecology advice website and I recently had the same thing happen. This made me laugh so hard. Extremely relatable. 😅
I've heard a lot of anecdotes that publishing or recording something can, depending on intent, make it difficult to remember. You'll end up relying on that record, or the people you told.
yea our brains can't remember everything, this is why we write things down too imo lol
The mental trauma of peer review is enough to make me forget the things I've researched and written for hours 🙃
I'm going to be laughing at this all week, it's such a mood
Absolutely lost it when you googled "sheep emoji" and the result was "Ewe Emoji". Someone at the NYT feels extremely vindicated watching this.
“No one is looking at that and calling it the ewe emoji… (checks internet) … it’s the ewe emoji…” the disappointment and surprise in equal measure was hilarious
TBF NO ONE CALLS THAT THE EWE EMOJI!
WHAT DOES EWE MEAN!!!!!
@@palmossifemale sheep
I loved the Emoji connection wall. I didn't know people didn't like it.
I think it's genius
I also actually had lamb as one of my horror movies because I didn't get the homophones. I thought it stood for Silence of the lambs
i had multiple blanks...
I loved it, variety on the puzzle is great.
I've been on team 'any connections people are mad over are actually good' since day 1, love the challenge + you get to learn something when you get it wrong
@@JJarosze9595sometimes the connections are ridiculous (usually purple is just batshit crazy and sometimes its super easy)
Did no one else (mainly the people that were mad) see that this was different because of April 1st? Anyway this was by far my favourite, got the homophones straight away! Could not see the movies but they were left till last anyway…
I got the movies first 😂
Homophones drove me crazy. I saw I, U and B immediately but the Saw and Teapot emojis weren't loaded for me so I had to inspect elements then copy paste them into google just to see them and assumed the teapot was a kettle from the limited glance I gave it because I didn't want to google the exact name of the emoji (wasn't sure if it'd give me too much of a hint or not). Ended up giving up before remembering T does in fact have a homophone. This completely blinded me from the obvious rhyming words right in front of me
it wasn't the April 1st puzzle tho
@@merren2306 it might depend on your time zone but in New York it was April 1.
@@merren2306 Yes it was, I played it and at the start of the video you can see it says April 1st.
"it came out this year" shows movie from 2021
hank is a time-traveller confirmed?
Didn’t realize it is still 2021 lol
That's the pandemic for ya, time blends together
What you mean we’re not in 2021?
and then goes on to say "that's the stuff you can't get away with in 2024", like how we all know it's 2024 but isn't it still 2020?
Hank, that is a teapot! A kettle is a different object entirely
Thank you!
I didnt know this for a long time because everyone around me has used them interchangeabley
I kept thinking the sheep was for “Silence of the Lambs”
in defense of ewe, there is a separate emoji for ram
🐏🐑 I didn't even notice
Good catch!
Actually, they might not have used the explicit ewe emoji--I can't post the screenshot here, but there were definitely horns on my display of the emojis
@@cheesiscool335444 could be how your device displays emoji. I use Opera desktop browser
WHAT DOES EWE MEAN!!!!!
Hank: "This one is called Vampir, and it came out this year"
Me, looking at the prominent "2021" in the image: ...
literally came to comment this 😂
People are honestly mad about the most harmless and adorable April Fools joke/special i saw all day?
It took me a full day to realize this was their version of a prank. I love it!
I think it might be because some of the emojis don’t load depending on your device
People get pressed about April Fools, even if it's the most innocuous joke
2:27 "I remember when I got lymphoma and I went and I was like, 'what is the lymphatic system?' and me came up to explain it to me"
lmao
Even Hank needs Hank Green to teach him science
It's still a solid call that they wouldn't use the visuals of the emojis themselves, since a lot of emojis look different depending on what platform you're looking at.
I had the worst time figuring out what the bacon one was. It was as abstract as you can get on my laptop, just some wiggly red and white lines. It actually looked like a stack of poker chips until I zoomed way in and saw that it was two pieces.
Yeah I had a problem where two of the icons didn't show up on my Chrome browser, so I just saw two blank tiles
They could have used actual images so they were consistent if they really wanted to
"me came up to explain it to me" LMFAOO
+++ Probably my favourite line
right? I knew like, hank is mostly reading a prompter for scishow videos and thus does not retain all the information he's ever dictated to youtube, but I had not thought about the surrealism of learning about something from a past recording of yourself that you have no memory of
2:26 "I remember when I got lymphoma" - so great to have this in the past tense!!!
Sci-show is just an elaborate way to take notes for yourself.
2:26 "I remember when I got lymphoma and I was like "what is the lymphatic system" and ME came up" AHAHAHA
That lymphatic system video probably helped me through intro bio 5 years ago and I can’t remember it now either Hank. You’re not alone 😂
Vampir: from 2021
“It came out this year” is crazy 😭😭
You know what I mean...
@@hankschannel Time stopped working during the pandemic so I understand.
2020-2022 was basically just a 3 year long 2019
Lmao I had to go back to make sure I heard him right
I never thought of Hank Green the type to make obvious mistakes in his videos for engagement but maybe that's why??
I love watching you find a correct solution and then reason your self out of that solution.
"This one is just called Vampir, and it came out this year." I'm sorry, Hank, but 2021 was three years ago.
this was easier for me than normal connections! got it with no mistakes in less than a minute. truly they’re just words, but simple ones.
Linguistically, the emoji keyboard is basically just a pictographic/ideographic written language. If you're inclined to be a visual thinker or more imaginative person I can definitely see how it may have been really intuitive!
I get almost every connections. But I failed at this one hard. I was overthinking too much
@@360dom360 Same, I am easily 90-95 percent, but this one was really hard for me.
April 1 connections was better than a lot of the previous ones where the blue and purple need hyperspecific knowledge of specific topics.
I agree. Several times I've gotten 3 of the categories, paused to look at the remaining 4 items and thought "I have no idea what these have in common". And then when the game _tells_ me the category, I still think "I never knew that and would never have been able to put those words together were it not for process-of-elimination".
Where do I find this game? Is it on Google play as an app?
@@MBMCincy63 nyt games (either on the website or through the app)
@@MBMCincy63it's a browser game! Just look up "connections" and it should be the first result, it's on the New York Times website.
I find this a lot with some of the easier ones, where they’ll involve slang that’s super specific to North America that I’m completely unfamiliar with, and so I end up getting the “harder” ones much more easily.
Hank, your channel videos are like a warm hug. I love you verbalizing how your brain works in your most recent videos
I have a very toxic relationship with NYT Connections. Connections every day is my own waking nightmare I love it I can't stop
I always use the 😱 emoji for sarcastic shock, so i completely missed that it's actually supposed to be scream
I use it for genuine shock, but same, outside the context of horror movies I would've never thought it would be associated with a sound.
(Although now that I'm looking at it, I can kinda see the Kevin McAllister face in it lol.)
@@alissa6380 Funny how you thought of that scream and not the Munch painting
@@zmaj12321 Oh, I think I know what you're talking about, but it's not a strong cultural reference where I'm from; I think I only learned about it in my early twenties (whereas the Kevin McAllister face is a childhood classic haha).
Lol i got the food, saw "food slang for money" and immediately thought "oh no, that's not what i was thinking at all. I'm screwed. "
I watched “Black Sheep” for the first time while on vacation with my parents in the late 2000’s, I must have been about 15 at the time. We were staying at a friend’s house in Ireland, and pulled the DVD out of a bargain bin at a local shop, bringing it home without realizing what we had signed up for. Nearly two decades later we still talk about this movie, and we’ve even re-watched it a few times since. I hope you watch it, and enjoy all the camp silliness just as much as we did ❤
"I've seen this screen and I don't know what it means" is my new favorite vocal warmup
I liked it. I object to calling a teapot a tea kettle, and it took me much longer than it should have to realise a sheep could be a ewe, but I really enjoyed it.
YOU DIDNT THINK OF SILENCE OF THE LAMBS? For shame, Hank
I got lucky with the homophones thinking it was black ___ (black sheep, black eye, black bee, and pot calling the kettle black)
I appreciated the emoji idea, but I'm among the ranks of people who were mad only because TWO OF THEM WERE BLANK FOR ME. If not for that, I'm pretty sure I would have gotten it.
Whenever an emoji doesn't show up for me, I copy and paste it into Google and go to Images. Works every time.
I really liked the emoji game! The horror movies were actually the first thing I picked up on, and I would have never in a million years thought the food items were connected to money (like, now i can see "dough" and "bacon", but definitely not cheese or lettuce, though in fairness I'm not a native speaker).
I was really confused about how the "sheep" fit in with the rest of the homophobes though, so at least that mystery has now been solved, "ewe" never even occurred to me. (To be honest I'm not even sure I could tell you which animal "ewe" was, or what a female sheep is called, though it'd probably be in the running both ways.)
I am a native speaker and I don't think I've ever heard cheese or lettuce used to mean money.
I think the lettuce was meant to represent “greens,” green being the classic color of American money.
i’ve definitely never heard “lettuce” but absolutely have heard “cheese.” probably originating from government cheese
I want these every day!!! Both hank and emoji.
As soon as Hank started Googling "Horror movies about sheep," I knew he'd get to Black Sheep, and I was looking forward to his reaction.
I was not disappointed.
i was SO convinced that the Eye, Bee, Saw, and Tea (pot) would be in a group for all having 3 letters
This is basically Only Connect. Hank, I think you would like that show. It's hosted by the mighty Victoria Corren Mitchell.
Me screaming “SILENCE OF THE LAMBS”
I don't think that many people where complaining about it being pictures. People were complaining because a lot of people who play on a PC didn't get all the emojis to work with. The most common problem was the teapot and saw were blank. I only got 6 black and white pictures, and the other 10 squares were blank.
Rewatched the "2021 this year" bit twice thinking the daylight saving time's made me think it's the future
Screaming at the screen “emojis that sound like letters of the alphabet!”
To be fair, the rhyming one got me.
I suck at connections so bad that this is just a slap to the face
Helpful tip: the purple category is usually [thing]-x or x[thing] and sometimes x with one letter added or removed
I had almost word for word the exact thought process for the "food slang for money" category lol
This is so much fun! Please keep doing these videos!
This one stumped me good, which felt very insulting as a visual artist/visual thinker 😂 To be fair, I’m pretty new to the NYT games, so I’m still learning how they “think”
Emoji don't look the same across operating systems, so I don't think they could have reliably used the images themselves.
I did not think I’d watch Hank reference my niche nightmare fuel (the horror movie Lamb) but here I am. Incredible job btw!
In the same vein as “that’s clearly a sheep”, i was definitely thinking you were barking up the wrong tree with kettle since it’s clearly a teapot
unironically i thought of the sheep emoji for horror before the vampire one BECAUSE of that black sheep film. being a small child in new zealand and seeing it on late at night permanently altered my brain chemistry
I honestly loved this one, the fact that you had to take each one non-literally was funny. I’d be happy to see more emoji connections
It would have been a mistake to base it on the specific details of the pictures. The general concepts of the emojis are standardized, but since they're font-based the pictures look different on different devices.
That first puzzle has my brain tingling already, thank you for making me aware of this delight :>
Silence of the Lambs: am i a joke to you
Thank you! I loved it! Everyone being outraged really got my goat hahahaha
no Hank, you're correct. no one is calling that the ewe emoji, that's a sheep
I've been fully fluent in English for YEARS and never in my whole life have I heard or read the word Ewe??? Mind you, I consume insane amounts of both educational videos and articles of all kinds, the fact I've never seen this word is mind-blowing.
I wasn't sure about signing up for the newsletter, but when you mentioned you'll put your connections games in the newsletter I subscribed immediately. I always loved playing your connections games whenever you would post them on Threads.
i felt super old because i didn't get ewe, but i also did not even get what the scream emoji was supposed to be. i was like what is even a word for that face. distress?
This Connections was absolutely wild and threw me for such a loop. I was thinking about the purple for so long cause I instantly recognized 3 of them but the fourth one I couldn't figure out at all, all because of "sheep".
silence of the lambs.............it was right there......could you not hear me screaming through my computer???
This was impressive. But also bee movie is creepy. A central plot point is the bee trying to sleep with a human
The only part I didn't understand immediately was the homophones because I've never heard the word ewe. Everything else was pretty straightforward
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS HANK ???????
Yes, watch black sheep! As a kiwi, my unbiased opinion is its a brilliant movie that withstands the effects of time.
I had no idea Hank was this adhd 😂
I thought this connections was easy.
wait. people were angry about yesterday's Connections?! I thought it was delightful! I honestly wish they'd do this more often because I had so much fun doing it.
Wow, idk why this vid in particular made it hit me, but I feel like hankschannel has been like suddenly way more active recently.
Not complaining mine you, I'm all here for it. Especially vids of you solving Connectionses, these are fun (time for a hankgames comeback?? 👀)
I LOVE THIS GAME! There are days when the categories instantly click, and others where I simply concede. The emoji puzzle was a unique joy, I hope they repeat the challenge
For me, two of the emojis were blank and I thought that was how it was supposed to be. Made it very difficult.
They used the emoji set of your operating system, which means they couldnt depend on consistency of the emoji images
Yeah, I got caught up on eye, tea, saw, and bee all being 3 letters. I considered the homophones route but I couldn't think of ewe, otherwise the rest were pretty easy.
I saw the horror movies first, but was overthinking and almost lost. I was thinking "bee" was candyman, and the "lamb" was for silence of the lambs
My brain feels better that even Hank needs Hank to explain things sometimes
The Bee Movie was pretty creepy. They HEAVILY implied bee on human romantic attraction.
I was only mad at this one because I had blank spaces instead of the Saw and Tea emojis and had no idea what to do. Didn't realize it was a bug.
Tbh, thanks to the "hippo birdie two ewes" birthday card puns, I looked at the sheep and pretty quickly went "sheep... ewe."
The problem with using the emoji image for the clue is that emojis look different on different platforms.
The sheer amount of ADHD energy is this video is so relatable- 😂
Like from coming up with the word groups to forgetting information to jumping around and looking things up to forgetting the year to-
I agree. I 100% definitely was thinking "food words for money" and not "a sandwich?" when I solved that one
Hank is just too much of a chad to have found this so easy
For some reason, I had 2 of the emojis not show up on the screen, which made things harder.
That is very clearly a teapot, not a kettle.
I thought it was so easy, but I do watch a lot of only connect
somehow got all 4 but none of them were the categories i thought they were 💀
I like to watch these for the googling tangents tbh 😂
This is a neat idea for a Connections, but I wish they could have set up categories that weren't based on English sound-alikes (letters / rhymes), since the advantage of emoji is that they're language-agnostic.
You know it's a ewe, not a ram, because of the lack of horns.
i had a hard time because for some reason 2 of my emoji didnt even load so i had 2 blank squares
Lamb is a divisive horror movie. I loved it a lot, but I seem to love most movies, especially weird ones! A good example is Six String Samurai, it’s one of my all time favorites!
I was stuck on “I saw” being the answer
I loved the emoji connections; I wish they'd do it that way more often! I spotted "Bee" and "Eye" right off the bat and quickly got the words that sound like letters, then the rhyming words, and then the rest just fell into place. It was actually one of the easier Connections in a while.
This is so interesting! Usually Hank solves the Connections WAY faster than I do (I know the videos are edited down but I just stare at my phone thinking for 5-20 minutes at a time and often can't solve them all) but I solved all the categories within 10 minutes when they were emojis! My thought process was more on point than Hank's in this video, whereas normally I'm in awe of how quickly he sees the connections.
Somehow, the homophones and horror movies jumped out to me first? I straight up didn't even NOTICE the rhyming words.
Hank saying “I remember when I got lymphoma” is somehow the funniest thing I’ve heard today.
I don't know why, but this was much much easier for me than any word connections
The upsetting thing for me was not all the emoji's displayed on my computer so I was like, what do I even do with these free blank spaces. But I don't think I solve this even if I had all the information.
I had to look up the saw and teapot emojis because they didn’t resolve on mine
Interesting, i didnt know people didnt like this one! In order, I got food first (didnt realize it was money based), then letters, then rhyme, then horror movies by default.