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I'm angry this video didn't make me angry
Oh wait
Facts
@0 subscribers without a video? get destroyed
0 subscribers without a video? Lies you have 5
Toxic 10
No, fuck you and everyone else.
Oof
Thank you for confirming my belief that Buzzfeed is the Herpes of the internet.
Buzzfeed is red...
OOOOOOOH
:O BUZZFEED IS ANGER!!
hahaha
ramble ramble ramble...
This is actually called "memetics" and every time he says "thought-germ" he means "meme." But if he had outright called them "memes" I think it would've lost some people.
Memes, the dna of the soul
@@Rabi2in Apple Bottom Jeans, Raiden. Boots with the fur.
@@Thorne-In-Your-Side emergency meeting
It goes far beyond memes... It also encompasses the fox vs MSNBC extremes, TH-cam misinformation, american politics...
@@andrewtorrens7790 Those are all memes.
there used to be a part of the video at the end saying something like "this video is also a thought germ. please sneeze it out to people you know, *infect everyone*" that seems to have vanished. given the pandemic, I am not surprised about that, but I shall forever miss that bit
It is still there
@@irisbassin yeah, I just made a comment about how the closed captions go beyond the end of the video ... quite interesting!
Aw :( I think it's still there on the podcast
T H O U G H T D E T E C T E D
B E G O N E T H O U G H T
T H O U G H T D E S T R O Y E D
XD lololololololol
Satanael!
thought reproduced
Dammit
This video needs to be permanently pinned to TH-cam's front page, right smack in the center.
minus access to the comments section, I hope. :-)
@@LurkerPlus Actually, the comments seem to be primarily making fun of these polarizing, symbiotic thought germs.
Why not left smack in the center, reeee
lets report
Yeah it's like one of the most important systems of our time.
This makes so much sense, and it reminds me of another thing that fits perfect with this model.
I usually take the neutral position on a lot of divisive thought germs, and one thing I have notice is the one side or the other trick makes the thought germs fight harder against resistant minds. Both sides of the virus get angry that you aren't infected and try to make you angry yo pick a side.
i personnaly always take the opposite side of the argument , i make it clear that it not my argument but simply a argument . it very supprising to see that by engaging for the sake os social make people less block int they way of thinking
Yep, I don’t know how many times I’ve been called a fence sitter or even a coward for just not wanting to discuss something.
I'd try to stop the arguement itself, taking a third side.
What's tiring is that not having an stance (sometimes for the valid reason of "I don't know enough to form one") is seen as agreeing with the "enemy" of whoever asked for such stance. It's even more tiring to be expected to be experts on all issues all the time. It's impossible at best and anxiety/stress inducing at worst. Even if you want to be an activist, it's more effective to focus on one core issue than to spread your time and energy over all issues.
“It’s your brain, be hygienic with it.”
*scrubs brain with soap*
Its GG Gamer that is absolutely horrifying.
Roxana no problem
JosukeHasCoolHair :/
RIP
Ayy! Brain Washing!!!
So memes are biological weapons that is condemned by the Geneva convention
No *shit*
Article 13 instensifyies
@Rafael Cracel makes sense to me.
Commie Memes - No, memes are psychological weapons.
Haha!
This aged well ... Unfortunately
I love how 9,251,353 people clicked on this video, wanting to get angry.
5:41 "All this isn't to say there's no point in arguing; that's a different video."
It's been almost 5 years, I think we need that video now.
You know what, I don't think we need that video. Let's argue now.
@@RaylaEclipse actually we need it now CGP grey is piling up videos he doesn't touch or work on and that makes each video he promises less appealing kinda like half life 3
🤔
@@carlstan4282
Actually no, we dont need a video, as arguing is best done via arguing and experience.
@@raddragon1373 I disagree. Lets start a [stupid, biased and unethical] race war
This guy just explained meme culture in 7 minutes... A feat I couldn't complete in my lifetime
you know there's an invisible timeline behind every video of any length, right?
Or like 4 if you go to 2x speed
"Meme" actually means spreading thoughts and ideas around. The study of this is called "memetics" you should look it up
@@kd013n what?
You mean the time he spent to actually construct those 7 minutes?
If yes then indeed he spent Hours possibly Days "Understanding meme culture" but he still took 7min to _explain it_
More than meme culture, he basically explained all culture
this has only become more relevant with each new year and i suspect this will continue for many more
This only gets more relevant as time goes on. Godspeed Grey, you may well be our only hope
This video was made five years ago but couldn’t be more relavent right now in 2020
I swear all the these info channels are time travelers
-Do you mean the metaphor of germs, or the topic of divisiveness? -Yes
Roman Morozov more so decisiveness but it works for both
This is basically the entire year. Mask vs Nomask, blm vs blm, d vs r.
Literally was describing this video to my grandfather to explain social outrage on FB
The “you’re with us or against us” line hits pretty different in 2021.
It does in any election year and the one after lol
@@kyleking3839
Yeah, but this one is a bit different.
"Blame all and praise all are two blockheads." -Benjamin Franklin
@@kyleking3839 why u so mad?
@@year6million I'm not mad though I'm just saying every election year will be you're with us or you're against us so are you with me or against me lol
Seven years later and this video still telling the truth about the internet
did anyone notice 0:35?
That's my secret, I'm always angry
Im on my phone but I would like your comment if I was on PC
Sweet, thanks!
You're very welcome
Hulk smash
same
I just realized how accurate this is to political quarrels, when the sides really argue, they point to the totems and say "this is you" and the other side denies it and then says the exact same thing, repeat forever
Nobody in modern politics argues accurately. I very rarely see people arguing against the true beliefs of an opposing viewpoint. Instead they attack an outrageous strawman which completely bypasses the logic of the true belief.
Best example is abortion. Pro-life argues that "The pro-choicers are MURDERING CHILDREN! They are BLOODTHIRSTY and inhumane." Pro-choice argues "The pro-lifers are MISOGYNISTS who oppose abortion because they want to CONTROL WOMEN!"
Not one person actually addresses the true divide in opinions, which is whether or not a human fetus constitutes a human being. If THAT were the focus of conversation, maybe we could actually get somewhere TOGETHER, but instead we're gridlocked by manufactured outrage.
It gets pretty mind-numbing after a while, doesn't it? Makes many people check out from these discussions all together. Who could blame 'em?
@@coolestto ..people argue over whether fetuses are humans all the time. each group will make claims at eachother, but that isn’t all they do.
@@coolestto personally I think as soon as the egg is fertilized it should be considered a human and have all the rights that everyone should have but that being said there are lots of situations where abortion should exist so I think it needs to be controlled a little better because there are unfortunately people that use it as a form of birth control but it needs to be around for the people that truly need it.
@@coolestto isnt pro life anti abortion?
thinking of tweets on twitter as sneezes definetly makes me feel better
@@caseyschannel amazing
The simplest explanation of both meme theory and infohazards.
"Sad thoughts don't get very far"
-they get in depressed people.
Does that mean depression is basically a mental immune deficiency?
Yes
Nah it's just that nobody wants to hear your sorry ass.
Just kidding I don't mean that ♡
the fuck-
It's more like the opposite. One of the things about depressed people is that they have limited neurogenesis, which means they become incapable of forming new thoughts so their mind basically get stuck in a loop they can't get out of. They become more or less incapable of accepting new thoughts, they only accept thoughts that conform to ideas they already have. Tell a depressed person why and how things are not so bad the only thing they'll do is find a reason why it is and why that person is wrong and stupid and just trying to hurt them and so on, they can't accept the idea because they're not forming new neurons, or at least a lot less of them than regular people, and will therefore never see things from a new perspective. Why this happens nobody knows. But that's what medication tries to do, basically kickstart neurogenesis. But without it being combined with therapy/spiritual guidance they'll just create new depressing thoughts, so they'll need someone to guide them in order to form more positive ideas going forward.
Nah, sad thoughts get into a brain. Causes unalive. Can't continue.
I'm in AWE and really pretty HAPPY that this video didn't make me ANGRY. (sneeze)
I caught the germ D:
I disagree
I'm SAD my comment won't get any likes. ;)
"Thought germ"? There's no need to coin a new phrase for that. Richard Dawkins created a perfectly good word for it back in the 1970s: "meme".
Memes aren't the only "thought germ" though.
Psh politics, *am I right?*
nine years later still revelent as always would love that argument video
This is the best explanation I've ever seen of the psychology that is fueling our current culture wars. I can't think of a more important video that literally everyone should see. I can't believe I missed this for so long.
Going to kick your teeth in lmao
@@johnquincyadams1562 what?
*appreciates message. Goes to comment in agreement. Sees other responses..... Sigh* ok, yeah, welcome to the internet.
Share it and spread those thought germs
@@johnquincyadams1562 want to grow our anger germs?
>click a video expecting to get clickbaited
>get a video on memetics
I don't know about you, but I'm happy.
Dawkins ftw
he clickbaited you so you're supposed to be mad
You're supposed to be mad either way.
bro predicted 10 years into the future...
are the dislikes from people who got angry or people who didnt?
so memes ARE actually aids
no cancer
+Matthis Tauritz Bakker no that's buzzfeed
Michael Agnello lol
Are pepes memes?
+Ralana Whelton Yes
This makes me remember the time that reddit fought over what color the upvote button was (red or orange)
Obviously orange
@@mikerotchburns7122 Are you MAD?! IT IS RED AND RED ONLY!!! It does not depend on the Monitor or something IT IS RED!!! ORANGE?! ARE YOU SERIOUS?! pfffffff
@@sdrawkcab_emanresu That is obviously red-orange. That's how this whole "wHiCh CoLoR?" thing works. I could literally find a blue-green flower, ask the internet whether it's blue or green and they would lose their minds. It's not red or orange. Its both.
@@-khayri-4280 RED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And a combination of red and orange would be orange, but IT IS RED AND RED ONLY!!!!!!111!!!!
@@sdrawkcab_emanresu The color of reddit's logo and lots of the UI is orange so why would it be red and not orange?
0:06 Well, for me that also is an educational video, i'm learning a lot of stuf...
If there's any video that deserves to be pinned to the front page of TH-cam for the rest of eternity, it's this one.
I think the moral here is that even when opposing something horrific and enraging, you need to question your assumptions and your source of information
+The Bandog NO! You ugly dog!
+Gnomelord0 ANGRY ANGRY ANGRY ARGUMENT BLAH BLAH!
+Dendarang Im sure 4Chan could
Dendarang Did you just criticize strawmen while using tumblr as a strawman? classy
Dendarang A website with millions of users has a singular coherent ideology? Sounds like your making demonic strawmen and your argument is becoming fucking retarded as a result.
I really want the "Arguments: You're making everything worse" video to come to life.
I think I can guess some of the points. Humans tend to mirror emotions, so when someone is aggressive/angry at them they respond in anger as well, which only causes them to get further entrenched in their position.
@@presidentialcampaignmusic1018 You're right, but in the context of thought germs most of them are. Just look at the comment section of youtube.
@@presidentialcampaignmusic1018 Argument without aggression is debate.
@@cursed_cats5710 nah debates are more formal
@@ultimatedude5686 i would refute that statement, but that would cause a debate about debates and we can't be having that kind of debateception here
Didn't make me angry. Disappointed.
excellent way of summarizing the "us or them" mentality!
I do my best to reject that one when I see it in the wild (while tempering my anger as best I can that someone almost pulled me into their blindness), but as happened at least one time recently, it is sometimes incredibly difficult to take a third option.
This explains the longevity of the Pineapple on pizza debate.
two sides. one is right and the other wrong. which is which?
I love pineapples on pizza with their softness a juice (softer than normal, it's good).
GamingKing2436 thanks for pointing out the wrong position
@@camohawk6703 the anti pop
@@GamingKing-jo9py tf is wrong with you
This video made me angry because it didn't make me angry
Oh wait
Oh wait
I did something wrong. It didn't make me angry, and I am also not angry at the fact that it didn't
Kristiyan Mirchev
P A R A D O X
maybe, but being as flegmatic as I am is not always the best.
Paradox?
You got angry when you didn't get angry - therefore, you're not angry, but you are regardless? Or therefore, you're angry, but you really are not angry?
...I'm confused.
Coming back to this video in 2021 has me letting out a long, mirthless, depressed laugh.
Oh my gods we have seen this get cranked into the stratosphere in the past couple years, haven't we? ._.
7yrs later and this video couldn't ring any more true if it wanted to. Aging like great wine.
...how did I not just realize that the infographic at the beginning essentially says "[half the Internet is pointless arguing, and] the other half is cat pictures and porn"?
IoEstasCedonta And 1% is Games?
IoEstasCedonta Sounds right to me.
+Gamers Combat (Sapis) "pointless games" :)
Maxander2001 kinda
IoEstasCedonta cat porn?
DX
HORRIBLE
01:08 "Sad thoughs don't get very far."
That's sad :(
guess this didn’t spread very far
It is!! Because sadness is most associated with slowing down and learning 🥺
you proved his point
@@presidentialcampaignmusic1018 of all the emotions? I would say so!
And *yet*, there are so many videos about doomers and such. I don't like them, but now that I think about it this way, it's almost inspiring.
0:34 why did the germs turn into clowns for 1 frame
This is quite possible the most relevant video of all time.
This, and maybe the one of the little girl saying: "Look at all those chickens!"
it is
Trainers HATE him!
7 things you didnt know about..
What he did next will SHOCK you!
Man, I clicked on your comment!
This ONE weird trick to burn fat!
... Uhh, like eating less?
Man sentenced to death be electric chair, what happens next is shocking. Rare brain desease causes spontaneous combustion, what happens next will blow your mind. Chef chops onions for the first time since his mother died, what happens next will bring him to tears.
DrMrProfJacob you should own buzzfeed
I'm making $7453 USD a day. You can too. I'll tell you my secret for only $7453.
"Still here? You got infected really hard."
Well, no, I got lost in the comments..
The other thought germs got to you before Grey's did
Eryn Chandler same
Bucket Hat Trick a
😂😂
3:03 I love how there’s only 1 CGP Germ
literally "Inception" (2010 movie) : "What is the most resilient parasite? A bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea."
I started practicing heavy brain hygiene last year. For those with anxiety like myself, being ignorant of anything happening outside your immediate sphere of influence is such a healthy thing. You learn so much about tackling the problems you can actually spend time solving rather than stressing over issues that you can’t do anything to change.
Tried that one, turns out the verbiage "if you have no interest in politics, eventually it'll develop interest in you" was coined by a very wise man(
@@sergeymyasnikov736 so what changed?
Great comment. This is something I need to do. Overconsumption of political news, doomscrolling, and just overall pessimistic media is doing me no favors. I could be using that energy improving my own life rather than worrying about what the rest of the world is up to.
@@siryizzir Well, you do need quita a bit of privilege in order to do that. You can’t really ignore politics if your rights are on the table, aka, if you’re a minority. Just keep that it mind.
Why not just build up an immunity to it, expose yourself to it so much that it no longer phases you in the slightest.
"But do I give a fuck?" - How to get through the world around you.
Tru dat
no u need to make 2 group of ppl constantly angry with each other,, TRUMP + HILARY,, and then the conversation never stops.,, like the cold war,, US + USSR
HILLARY SUCKS!!!
RoobehTunes thanks for the advice 😊
RoobehTunes But that just spreads more angry gems XD.
Definitely one of the best explanations of this phenomenon ever made! Commentating to help the algorithm! Everyone should seriously watch this video multiple times to let to concepts really sink in!
Instructions unclear, i'm not angry.
it didn't make me angry, i want my money back lol
The point of the title is that remember how in the video he said angry stuff gets shared the most? It's an inside joke of sorts.
By the way, how can it not make you angry? He pronounced gif wrong. >:(
+Stephen Malacaria no, He pronounced gif correctly. >__>
Scott J. Fox i wasn't listening did he say jif or gif?
i am da maasta he says "gif" like a proper human being. :P
"Each group argues among themselves about how angry they are at the other group"
Reddit and internet culture in a nutshell
Reddit is pure cancer , avoid it.
@@1973Washu how the mighty has fallen down :( Reddit used to be the best now it's terrible
*group
A-among!?
*US*
Yeah and twitter
2023 and I think more people need to see this video
This became super predictive for the whole mask vs anti-mask, vax vs anti-vaxx anger fires. Those two fires riff off of each other for energy. And it's really, really hard to stay neutral because safety and health (or to hear some tell it, liberty itself) is on the line.
fascist
@@mattcollins5974 Should I engage in assisting your thought germ of apparent government attempts to take control of our lives and... do something with that control that nobody has even thought of?
It's so relevant right now.
Yeah, right now, no matter when you read it.
First reply somehow
yep
Omg he is transmitting this message through time and space
@@bastard-took-the-name-I-had You just gave me an idea for message that is static in time, and weird paradoxes it implies are breaking my mind
@@Swordfish42 Glad to help?
I'm thinking Democrats vs Republicans is the perfect example for this
chaosXP3RT you forgot about theists vs atheists.
Shketri and Tumblr and the rest of the world
My first thought was GamerGate and anti-GamerGate and then Feminists and the MRM.
***** Great, there you do it, defaming one side because you are in favour of the other, guess you learned nothing from that video!
Also Atheists and religious people.
Happy to see CGP back in the recommendations in 2022 and revisit these videos. Whims of the algorithm I guess.
This one is quite topical today.
The most depressing part of this is that, what do you do once you get tired of hearing your side demonising a straw man version of the other? Try to talk to the other side and hear them demonise a straw man version of yours?
Dude that frame at 0:35 is actually horrifying I thought I was hallucinating for like a full minute.
Don't think I didn't see the spooky clowns at 0:35
The whole video was fascinating and didn't make me mad but when I saw the clowns I lost it.
youre helping it reproduce
Oh darn
I saw it! I was about to comment, but I wanted to see if anyone beat me to it (in the year this was up).
I didnt see it
I can't watch this without thinking about American politics and how polarized it is now, I'm not even American.
Funny.. Keep to your own country.
HicaptainWorld Funny.. keep your army out of my region.
HicaptainWorld Funny.. stop creating terrorism swamps by invading and destabilizing other countries.
+HicaptainWorld take your L
HeyThereBImHope please save us
The whole germ analogy wouldn't be the best one to use in the world's current state.
Man, this feels like it was way ahead of it's time in 2015. I only realized stuff like this in recent years.
Much like a driving test before getting on the road, this video should be shown to everyone before getting on the internet.
Yea
Bycicles: Weell I think I broke the system!
Yeah but everyone needs to be able to understand it. People need to understand that what he's talking about explains both memes and political discussions. They should be able to tell that what they're doing comes under the title "thought germs".
No not actually, it would be impossible, you live under the rocks?
@@PecsaV why?
Never has a video so accurately encapsulated social media before this
Does anyone else find it disturbing that Facebook, Twitters, etc. are getting rich off people spewing irrational hatred?
my hate for india is gone
This video feels very relevant in Canada 2022..
I feel accomplished by the fact that no specific internet argument came to mind when you were talking about how anger germs spread.
“Not so educational videos”
A circle with a heart in it
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Slightly more polite than using the pornhub logo.
0:59 The heart goes to the pituitary gland
@@aspennnnnnnn lmao nice catch
@@aspennnnnnnn lmaooo
Turn the heart upside down and you get some uhhhh.... the only hint imma give is “test”
I swear, the comments for this video are some of the CALMEST and happiest I've ever seen for any TH-cam comments section. It's as if everyone is consciously AVOIDING getting angry just to prove the video wrong about them.
Even the "angry" comments you see here aren't actually angry. They're just jokes poking fun at anger, itself. Hell, even trolling is virtually nonexistent! That is, I barely see ANYONE in the comments saying anything that's INTENDED to bait other people into angry arguments. I only see "pretend trolls" here, which are basically just people who are PRETENDING to be trolls and have no real intention of instigating angry responses as real trolls would.
*The title of this video should be called "Reverse Psychology" because that's exactly what it is -- getting people to avoid anger by telling them they will be angry.*
under-rated comment :D
you got a bit angry there tho
I also thought there was an unusual amount of intelligence and optimism in these comments. A welcome change for sure!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
*Angerirng intensifies*
I am not arguing, I am telling you my opinion on the matter, but not saying you are wrong, just speaking personally, I have seen nicer comments on other videos (mainly stupid ones about mushy emotion...), but I have not made nice comments/mean comments here just to prove or disprove the video...
More people need to watch this even more so nowadays.
Before this, I never realize the stark similarity. It's really satisfying. Thanks CGP Grey
This sounds oddly familiar....
Like politically familiar....
Nope, doesn't ring a bell. Welp, gonna go tweet about how much I hate the opposing party!
Hik M
Very true - I like the ending comment about how we need to be wary of views that have passed through so many hands
Hik Molokov HAHA STOOPID LIBTARDS!!!!1!
wow, that's a pretty bad sneeze. God bless
Hik Molokov ok
reddit in a nutshell
+TheBadGuy Says a guy that probably uses 4chan on a daily basis and never really reads Reddit. I'm close, aren't I ?
+Gianlol12 There are people who think 4chan is more popular than reddit? Seriously?
+Gianlol12 as someone who uses both 4chan and reddit. I have to say. 4Chan is bester than Reddit.
+ian doyle 8chan is better than 4chan
just subs like /r/atheism
I watched this video without getting angry. BOW BEFORE ME-
On a more serious note, I feel enlightened. Thank you, CGP, for this video.
Memes being popular explained.
These “mind germs” as you refer to them are called _Memes_
no shit sherlock
Meme have one weakness tho. A short lifespan. Some memes may have longer lifespans than others but they all still spread faster than anger germs.
Only if they are funny.
It’s_pronounced_ _SVAUVÉ Grey knows that but was avoiding the word because it has a different meaning to most people.
@@nicksel2 no, the original meaning of the meme is this
"Logging on to your social media then is exposing yourself to everyone's mental sneezes."
"Their snot in your mouth"
I really do want a sneeze-themed social media platform for some reason now.
This 7 minute video explains all of social media and politics.
I watched this video when I was 12, I didn’t understand why this video should make me angry, and it didn’t at the time, now that I’m older I think I finally understand.
Emotions are weak spots in my brain? Better get rid of them
Live long and prosper. 🖖
Psychopaths beat the system!!
Remember the words of the Emperor:
An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded.
Happiness is a delusion of the weak.
Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.
Truth is Subjective.
To Question is to doubt.
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
Those quotes are depressing but accurate and logical nevertheless.
Channel Unbound BY BEING EMO
ive just watched a lesson on memetics unironically
Lemuel Ogabang, we need official meme scientists.
YOU USED IRONICALLY WRONG
Did the video mentioned at 5:41 ever get made? I cant see it in CGPs library.
I don’t have the time or energy for politics. I’m just trying to live the best life I can while making sure my family is taken care of. Apparently, this makes me a fence sitter, a coward, problematic, part of the problem, spineless and so on and so forth.
I really wish this political extremism on both sides would settle down, because it has really brought out the worst in people that I once considered very close to me who now want nothing to do with me because of my “fence sitting”. It’s just sad.
@@mattcollins5974 k
It's a lot of work picking through a ton of data (and even more if you want to do it right). I don't blame anyone for not wanting to have an opinion on every single thing, it's exhausting.
This guy really doesn't want to say the word "meme."
2:53
Owen Lever Thanks.
+StrontiumMercury He wants to avoid it because although what he's talking about is what "meme" was coined to mean, it has come to more commonly mean "picture with added text for lulz", and he didn't want to make people think he was *only* talking about that kind of meme.
+StrontiumMercury
wat
+StrontiumMercury This is actually a really simple explanation of what memetics are though.
Two years later and now we know where the Paul brothers learned to do what they did.
And pewds do the same
St Paul's?
Or pual juniot
Junior*
Guess What, Emotions are actually a Choice. Nothing can make you Sad, Happy, or Angry. You Chose to be Happy, Sad, Or angry, and I chose to be Neutral.
"Not so educational videos."
I love how explicate that is.
0:35 Pause right after he says "either way"
I see that too thats kinda creepy
omg so creepy...
what
Thank you for that, I was having the hardest time stopping right on that frame
How did you catch that?
This video made me angry because there was a 30 sec unskipable ad before
Does anyone ever look at these ads? I don't.
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am I the only one who is noticing that most channels took away the skip add button so now the 30 minute adds are nearly unavoidable unless you want to mess around with adblock
This video aged like wine
I watch this video once every couple moths as a way to check myself. It keeps me humane and able to empathize with people who have fallen victim to this stuff, on every side of every passionate argument.
This video is truly a masterpiece @CGP Grey, never forget you made this incredible revelation of a video, Grey. It should be shown in schools, on every forum, before you can create a FB or Reddit account, etc. This and 7 ways to maximize Misery have quite literally changed my life.
At this point I have showed this to at least 200 people, some close to me, some not. I will never stop linking this to people. Thanks.
Does this mean memes are literally cancer?
the dankest of memes at least
it means trump is cancer because its devisiveness
cancer isn't contagious...
+notnormalyet or a germ lol
More like Ebola
he's literally just described Richard Dawkins' original definition of 'meme'
Other people thought of it long before Dawkins did. In fact, at least one guy, a year before Dawkins, described it in his writings. A guy named Cloak.
Dawkins stealing other people's ideas is nothing new.
+GreyWolfLeaderTW I'm just referring to the fact that Dawkins coined the term 'meme'
+Kelly Corless which is what he's talking about pretty much in this video (meme from in the more general, internet-based societal phenomenon, not just pepe and grumpy cat)
The very idea of a meme is that ideas really can't be "stolen" as opposed to "shared" if things like that happen. I'm not sure if Dawkins legitimately stole the idea or put his own take on it, but he made a meme out of describing memes if it was the latter.
And the biggest issues with the theory of memetics are:
No physical, measurable explanation for the proposed phenomenon
The mutability of thoughts are such that a stable descent is not possible, and thoughts mix in ways not applicable to reproduction/genetics/population curves. (If they were, a human could mate with a fly, and get a cow)
Folkloristics and other such fields make models and setups more comprehensible and useful than those proposed after Dawkins's memetics
"anger reproduces the most"
Breaking news: schools cancel snow days!
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BREAKING NEWS: # SaveSnowDays HAS TAKEN TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION!
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ah yes
Ahh, how wonderful to see a video that talks about germs, the flu, and even shows literal drawings of coronaviruses WITHOUT ONCE mentioning covid.
I miss the old world of 2+ years ago.