Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and say that man does *not* look 114 years old..

@thanos879

Жыл бұрын

You don't know that idiot lol Edit: You edited your comment to say he doesn't "LOOK" 114. That's reasonable. So I retract my statement calling you an idiot. At first it said you were sure he wasn't 114.

@kristoffer82

Жыл бұрын

According to the life expectancy of that aera, he was 20

@michaelvaus

Жыл бұрын

​@@kristoffer82 You dont seem to understand how life expectancy is calculated

@yay9891

Жыл бұрын

Whys everyone so toxic just trying to show people that they know everything, like chill out

@Aug.7

Жыл бұрын

​@@michaelvaus it was a joke my man

"I still remember the time Mozart dropped his first album"

@TheCleaner76

Жыл бұрын

on Spotify

@tink6225

Жыл бұрын

the town was going brazy

@isthisthekrustykrab_

Жыл бұрын

I still remember his first mixtapes on Soundcloud 😌

@Cisco661Barber

Жыл бұрын

The brothers were poppin fasho 😂

@Tuff.Laverne.Thor.

Жыл бұрын

He said it hits harder than the English civil war💀☕🗿👌

John Adams is 100 years old in that photo. He lived to be 104. Absolutely incredible

@itsshrimp91

2 күн бұрын

What a life to have lived... he's a rose among the flowerbed of early American history for sure ❤

@anth_00

2 күн бұрын

He looks good for 100 ngl

@Browniera_

2 күн бұрын

​@@anth_00fr

@CJ-hv6fe

2 күн бұрын

@@anth_00fr tho lol

@MKZionUltra

Күн бұрын

Born 1735 died 1826

And these photos still look better than most security cam footage.

@hawkeyejo9609

Ай бұрын

Well yeah. Because film is the highest possible quality image... digital cameras have compression and storing them causes artifacting. A Polaroid has a better quality because it's physically imprinting the view 1 for 1 onto an actual physical media.

@bobthebear1246

Ай бұрын

​@@hawkeyejo9609Nerd alert 🤓

@ericridgeway2846

Ай бұрын

You also have to keep in mind that security cameras are literally recording all the time, meaning you have days worth of footage, and all of that has to be stored somewhere. If it was all 1080p 60 fps footage, that would take a ton of storage space.

@0o0ox

Ай бұрын

you're comparing a quality camera wih a cheap camera........

@zebran4

Ай бұрын

Of course they do! They are photos, not videos! 🤦

I legit thought he was gonna say "he was 11 years old...WHEN THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN." Times was hard back then

@withoutdaysofficial

Жыл бұрын

LMAO!

@RR_theproahole

Жыл бұрын

Me too man

@DavidL1986

Жыл бұрын

I also thought hed tell us the age in that photo but he didnt :(

@rakeshramesh4585

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@papabird4425

Жыл бұрын

@@Andrew_of_the_James what do you mean by vibrational? What are you talking about?

Imagine you’re just casually getting a shoe shine on a Tuesday afternoon before a hot date and *BOOM* you’ve made history.

@Adi-qj6ci

Жыл бұрын

why does nobody talk about the guy whose doing the shoe shining 😢

@Gu....

Жыл бұрын

@@Adi-qj6ci yeah...

@iamlrrrruleroftheplanetomi1799

Жыл бұрын

​@Adi it's cuz he's black.

@joel.ha.

10 ай бұрын

​@fruit-punchsamurai4452 huh? In the years immediately after the louisiana purchase of 1803, over 50,000 free blacks escaped from America to France. And they definitely took jobs like this. High likelihood that man is black

@joel.ha.

10 ай бұрын

@@Selendeki except it was extremely likely...

That guy look like the Samuel l Jackson character in Django

@et34t34fdf

2 күн бұрын

Yes!

@sinnombreg7045

2 күн бұрын

STEVEN

@ramalshebl60

Күн бұрын

exactly my first thought!

@thecanary4238

Күн бұрын

Ok there’s the inspiration 😂

@delladylan8301

Күн бұрын

This is so accurate 😂

You cant convince me that John Adams is not a vampire in disguise 💀

@NA-AN

3 күн бұрын

Those are demon eyes I tell ya.

@erm_what_the_spruce

Күн бұрын

Thats exactly what i thought

@karigranmoe3005

Күн бұрын

Glad im not the only one. Ha

@azimochaa

Күн бұрын

I wonder if he's the inspiration for vampires

@delladylan8301

Күн бұрын

It’s those eyes 😂 Terrifying. Imagine waking up in the middle night and getting ready to walk outside to the outhouse and you see those eyes staring at you from across the room. That’s how indoor plumbing was invented 😂

He ignored the shoe shine guy like he wasnt even there.

@glh5622

Жыл бұрын

Came here to say this 🥲 The working class is invisible

@lavenderharmony944

Жыл бұрын

I was looking for this comment!

@artemisameretsu6905

Жыл бұрын

Just about to say this myself Justice for shoe shine guy 😂

@georgielancaster1356

Жыл бұрын

I was wanting to say same thing. Truly shocking that the young? shoe shine boy was totally ignored. Deeply insulting. Who is this person commenting? He has the mentality of the people in the earliest portraits. Hello! Welcome to the 21st century...

@JayBeMeee

Жыл бұрын

Probably because you can't see them. the really blurry part (that barely looks like a person) looks halfway hidden behind something else. Unless I'm looking at the picture wrong but I can't find any other way to look at it.

How cool is it that the first person photographed was getting a shoe shine, and the earliest born person to have a photograph is a shoe maker.

@chocomilkfps1264

3 ай бұрын

It is kind of cool at most… but good catch lol

@hux2000

3 ай бұрын

The other first person to be photographed was the shoe shiner. It's weird how we're just pretending he isn't there, for some reason.

@caseco4979

3 ай бұрын

Oh my god Shoes

@tessie7e777

3 ай бұрын

@@hux2000absolutely exactly what I was thinking. You see the profiles of both of them. Why is the one standing more important than the one shining his shoes?

@gadpivs

3 ай бұрын

I'm honestly not surprised given the long held tradition of shoemaking and shoe shining. It wasn't until Chinese sweatshops that this went away in modern times. Used to be a huge part of everyday life.

Caesar is a distinguished gentleman

I feel like the guy doing the shoe shine deserves more recognition

@Kuekenschublade

3 ай бұрын

I was looking for this comment.

@hux2000

3 ай бұрын

Right? What's the deal with just acting like he didn't even exist? It's not like it's just some unrelated person. If he wasn't there then the guy getting his shoes shined wouldn't be either.

@xxfalconarasxx5659

3 ай бұрын

@@hux2000 The problem is with the guy doing the shoe shine is that he is incredibly distorted compared to the man receiving the shoe shine, and this is because, he's moving around too much. The camera that took the photo requires a very long exposure time. The street here should actually be bustling with people, but because everyone is moving around, the camera could not pick them up. The guy getting his shoe shined was able to stand still for long enough for the camera to get a fairly clear image of him.

@shotgunmasterQL

2 ай бұрын

Sort of, it looks like the shoe shiner is being obscured by the lamp post as well, so he's only partially in the picture, while the person standing is fully pictured.

@bosstowndynamics5488

9 күн бұрын

​@@hux2000There's a valid discussion to be had about how history prioritises the wealthy over service people, but in this case, as others have said, it's a purely technical reason in that the only person who is actually imaged in any kind of recognisable way is the recipient of the shoe shining since the shiner was moving

What I like about that shoeshine picture is that the only reason they're in the picture is because they were standing still long enough for the camera to register them. The streets look completely abandoned but there probably were a lot of people, they just moved too fast for the camera to register them.

@alexiseptimus

Жыл бұрын

Not the camera, and also not the film at the time. But the silver plate. Because on this rare occasion, this guy is wrong. Because that was not a photography, but a daguerreotype. But technically, photographia means painting with light, so I guess he’s technically right, which is the best but tastiest flavour of right.

@malte291

Жыл бұрын

I'm not entirely sure about that. A quick google search says that daguerrotypes needed 15 minutes of exposure time at most. And it doesn't make sense to me that the guy and all the shadows would be so relatively sharp while a number of people passing by supposedly didn't even leave a blur. Very possible it was just a lazy day at an hour when not many people were out.

@WiWillemijn

Жыл бұрын

​@@alexiseptimus I know how it works, but I don't know the specific words because english is not my native language. (I tried)

@EebstertheGreat

Жыл бұрын

@@alexiseptimus The plate would have been in a camera. The daguerrotype was simply the earliest form of photography, and it was called as such by Sir John Herschel, who apparently coined the term "photograph." It clearly had to use a camera, for the same reason we use cameras for all other forms of photography. Camerae obscurae had been used by artists for centuries, and called "cameras" since the early 1700s.

@EebstertheGreat

Жыл бұрын

​@@malte291 Yeah, I'm willing to bet he picked a time when the street was not busy to avoid getting a totally blurry and indistinct image. But surely some people were walking around, just not that many, and not for long enough to ruin the photo.

If that man is 114, I want to know his moisturizing routine 😂

@KnuckleHunkybuck

Жыл бұрын

It starts with getting his shoes shined every morning.

@myamdane6895

Жыл бұрын

@@KnuckleHunkybuck 😂😂

@TaijanDean

Жыл бұрын

​@@KnuckleHunkybuck Plot Twist: He's the guy who was caught getting his shoes shined in 1838.

@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache

Жыл бұрын

@@TaijanDean r/yourjokebutworse

@nickmonk7945

Жыл бұрын

@@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache 😂

Caeser as a slave dresses better than most people today

@constantlybored

Күн бұрын

i mean he’s just dressed the way ppl back then used to dress…

@silasmerzenich

Күн бұрын

No its for the picture

Looked like Samuel l Jackson in django

For a split second I thought he was gonna say that John Adam's guy was 11yrs old when he was photographed 😂

@kenotube3160

Жыл бұрын

He was. People just looked a lot older than their age back then 😂

@MoonlightSonata88

Жыл бұрын

Lmao me too

@Mii..

Жыл бұрын

Bro same 😂

@jeffreylawson5082

Жыл бұрын

Ya. He ages backwards. That photo was taken on the day of his birth.

@meanyomama

Жыл бұрын

@@kenotube3160 bro what???

John Adams looks like he's about to try and rebuild his intergalactic empire

@byamboy

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@solidtank7957

Жыл бұрын

This is an underrated comment.

@Fl0w0fCalamity

Жыл бұрын

@Snyder The Star Wars Fan this dude definitely gets it

@bboi1489

Жыл бұрын

Bros on 1 hp.

@SebastianPappG

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂 Good one

Ceasar looks like Stephen from Django Unchained

That shoe shiner is also in that photo ❤ God bless that worker and his family

@Billy_McBigballs

2 ай бұрын

I think it’s too late for that, brother

@aquaperson1292

2 ай бұрын

He is very much dead by now

@bcbphilosophy

2 ай бұрын

No shit lol

@John_Lee_

2 ай бұрын

his descendants are family, no?

@lewis0705

Ай бұрын

yes but he wouldve been moving around so he didnt get picked up. the streets in the photo look empty but there wouldve been alot of people walking through as the picture was being taken

I feared that he would say "this guy was eleven years old when the photograph was taken" 🤣🤣🤣

@matf8812

Жыл бұрын

Life was rough back then

@livewireOrourke

Жыл бұрын

Well they didn't have Vsauce back then.

@Thawhid

Жыл бұрын

Well they didn't have sauce for ya fries back then

@THE_PRIMORDAL_GOD

Жыл бұрын

@@Thawhid they didn’t have fries for your sauce back then

@Thawhid

Жыл бұрын

@Rimuru texting ♪ they didn't have YOU back then either so what's ya point pikey? 🤠

I know black don't crack, but there ain't no way that man is 114 years old

@accountrandomnumber182

Жыл бұрын

Huh????

@metalswifty23

Жыл бұрын

@@accountrandomnumber182 It's a common phrase used mainly by African Americans, because people of African descent often age incredibly well. No amount of good genetics would have someone looking decades younger when they're _that_ old, though.

@THEJPR

Жыл бұрын

​@Pickles Too many words. It diluted the joke.

@themagnificentorange672

Жыл бұрын

@@THEJPR true

@j4y167

Жыл бұрын

​@@metalswifty23they look 40 until they're 60, and then suddenly they look 200

Not only is he older than Mozart, but he also outlived him by several decades.

Can we just talk about Ceasar's eyes? Gorgeous.

“meaning he was 11 when Mozart was born.” Damn, wtf? I can't believe it.

@icarusbinns3156

Жыл бұрын

I keep forgetting how recent a lot of Classical composers really were…

@Mabbdaa

Жыл бұрын

People for some reason think most classical composers were born in like 1500 - 1700

@thechickennugget30

Жыл бұрын

I thought he was gonna say “when this picture was taken” 🤣

@icarusbinns3156

Жыл бұрын

@@Mabbdaa specific ones, yes. I often forget that Mozart is pretty modern

@joshuacrisanto7419

Жыл бұрын

@@Mabbdaa i'm guessing because people mix it up with classical painters?

Shoe shine boy: "Am I a joke to you?!'

@tj_3783

Жыл бұрын

?? What is this supposed to mean

@unknownyuserishy8335

Жыл бұрын

​@@tj_3783 it's from the photograph

@tj_3783

Жыл бұрын

@@unknownyuserishy8335 so? Why is he born earlier than someone born a hundred years before him

@fanplant

Жыл бұрын

​@@tj_3783 the narrator spoke about the person getting the shine but not the person giving the shine

@greenxblood

Жыл бұрын

Lmao 🤣 imagine getting exposed and doxxed 200 yrs in the future

Shoe shine guy was literally the first photobomb while also being in the aftermath of what looks like an actual bomb.

Bro capitalized with the photo, looked hella dapper with that pose

There was another person in that photo - the shoeshine guy. That would make them the first two people to ever appear in a photograph.

@xdirtyrandyx

Жыл бұрын

shoe shine guy isnt in the photo because he was moving and did not stand still long enough to be picked up by the camera exposure

@Agent-ie3uv

Жыл бұрын

Shoeshine BOYs were usually children ages 7-12.

@Blackholefourspam

Жыл бұрын

@@xdirtyrandyx Underexposed doesn’t mean “non-exposed” isn’t that him in front of the guy? It’s a messy black blob because he would have been moving and knelt over the whole time, but there are darkened filaments on that plate that would translate directly back to light which bounced off that kid all the same.

@Thymed

Жыл бұрын

@@Blackholefourspamthere were likely a lot of people who got photographed but weren’t there for long enough for the camera to really pick it up

@Blackholefourspam

Жыл бұрын

@@Thymed Ok? this person was there the whole time with a resultant dark spot I can point to

My guess is that the year of Caesar’s birth was just written terribly, and he was actually born in 1787. Which would make him at least 60 years old at the time of that photograph being taken.

@santivsj

Жыл бұрын

This would make sense, but it's impossible. The inscription on the photograph names his masters and their relationship to the previous one, thus making it impossible that it was illegible or a typo. What could have happened is that he just assumed someone else's identity, possibly a relative, to pass as an older man than he actually was so as to live in retirement. Remember that enslaved people would be freed or retired once they were deemed too old to work.

@incognitoman3656

Жыл бұрын

I thought so as well… but then, the average person to live past 15 would die by 50. He was lucky

@limitbreak2966

Жыл бұрын

That’s so fucked that they still made slaves, well, *be slaves* even when they were seniors. evil bastards

@tomokokurokiirl

Жыл бұрын

@@santivsj that actually makes a lot of sense. you should repost it as your own comment for more people to see

@santivsj

Жыл бұрын

@@tomokokurokiirl I will do it right now

Michael is always a welcome speaker. Always an excellent presentation.👍🏻🇺🇸

The shoeshiner himself: 🗿

Imagine being alive when Mozart was born. Then imagine seeing dude making bangers when they first came out

@brandonlykins2419

Жыл бұрын

and not having to pay ticket master fees!

@taevon690

Жыл бұрын

@@MarkSmith-vv5zi nah he was out there putting Bach's and other niggas names on his music and putting it on Napster 💪🏾

@Richard_Nickerson

Жыл бұрын

That guy was 15 when Mozart became famous at 4

@scholaroftheworldalternatehist

Жыл бұрын

Peoppe back then did not have instant access to entertainment. Youve probably heard more of mozart than he did

@taevon690

Жыл бұрын

@@scholaroftheworldalternatehist that's nuts thinking like that

Michael: “…is John Adams” Me: “Oh!” Michael: “a shoemaker” Me: “Oh. 😂”

@Trekzity

Жыл бұрын

😂

@biggiec8224

Жыл бұрын

I mean, it's a very common name

@po210

Жыл бұрын

he meant to say a showmaker

@po210

Жыл бұрын

@sleepyavocado_11 it's just a joke

@drbruh3567

Жыл бұрын

Relatable 😂!

Everyone always talks about the person getting the shoe shine but never the shoe shiner

@DavidMcdonald-df8tb

9 сағат бұрын

Read the replies. Almost everyone is talking about it ❤

“John Adams” gotta be the most factory settings ass name I’ve ever heard

@daniel-zh9nj6yn6y

3 күн бұрын

What about John Smith ?

Probably 1787 and the ink has rubbed off or the person wrote their 8 strangely. Make the guy 64 rather than 114. He looks a little older than 64 but being a slave will age you, I imagine.

@benjibader32

Жыл бұрын

This actually makes a lot of sense

@arago8649

Жыл бұрын

The 1850 census lists Caesar as 110 years old, indicating a birth year of 1740. Edit: his grave clearly says 1737, not 1787.

@thegamerfe8751

Жыл бұрын

So you're just speculating based on nothing that he's not over a 100 years old just cause ? Ok.

@natalyst

Жыл бұрын

​@@thegamerfe8751yeah 110 year old were EVERYWHERE 200 odd years ago. You couldn't go into the street without tripping over one, it's a commonly known fact.

@thegamerfe8751

Жыл бұрын

@@natalyst By your logic 110 year old people didn't exist in the past. And the logic behind the sarcasm of the comment itself doesn't add up.

I find it incredible that some fella just woke up one day and became a massive part of history without ever knowing it

@velvetcroc9827

Жыл бұрын

'massive'? 🤡

@missyflutter5562

Жыл бұрын

Honestly it’s why I love literature & history it’s weirdly incredible stupid ❤

@J.A.huscher

Жыл бұрын

This reply section giving me all kinds of feelings that I don't like lol

@dodgyhodgyo4

Жыл бұрын

@@velvetcroc9827 No u

@muttipi

Жыл бұрын

@@velvetcroc9827Yes the first person ever photographed is probably a pretty big deal lol

Lucas “Scrambled Eggs” Tracy serving up a 10-8 with a side of Big Ugly Low-Kicks to your favorite MMA-Tuber

Ever adorable talk and nice message you have shared! May God bring unlimited happiness for you.

@ModernDayRenaissanceMan

Ай бұрын

Who? El? Yhwh? You know they are different ones right?

The shoe shiner never being mentioned 🫠

@BadDriversOfNapa

Жыл бұрын

The shoe shiner is not really seen behind whatever object that is, that's obscuring him from view.

@TheNickHorton

Жыл бұрын

Irrelevant. The shoe shiner was most likely a youngster. As such, the person he was tending to would have been the “earliest born” as per the topic.

@deadfr0g

Жыл бұрын

@@BadDriversOfNapa The ELITES are using classist media manipulation to hide the plight of good, blue-collar, working folk behind… uhh… some sort of shadowy mechanical pillar thing…

@SSruh

Жыл бұрын

Shout out to all my android users, who don't know what the punchline is. I'm with you

@shehannanayakkara4162

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNickHorton The person getting his shoes shined could also be a youngster? That part of the video has nothing to do with "earliest born" anyway, Vsauce is just saying who was the first person to be photographed. And yes you can see the shoe shiner (even though partially obscured) so it would have been more accurate to say those two people were the first to be photographed.

“John Adams... a shoemaker from New England!” ...and I thinking about John Adams, the former US-president lol.

@ashleylueck3751

5 ай бұрын

Me too

@LSqre

4 ай бұрын

the closest we got was John Quincy Adams. John Adams died just a little too soon to be photographed

@hammurds

4 ай бұрын

@@LSqrewhat are you talking about? John Adams was born in 1735, just ten years before this John Adams.

@canniballer69

4 ай бұрын

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one lmao, guess I’ve been thinking to much about ‘MURICA 🦅🇺🇸 lately.

@chriswells506

3 ай бұрын

Everyone was named John Adams back then.

By the time he heard Mozart he would have been in his thirties and wondered how can kids today call that music.❤😂

Caesar looks like the average 25 year old in 1800’s pictures😂

i have never seen a person smile from the 1700s, maybe that’s why my mom is so depressed

@notharry9328

Жыл бұрын

That's because it was hard to keep a smile for so long, faster exposure times have allowed us to take photos much quicker and be able to smile at the same time. 😁 And of course Victorian and Edwardian culture looked down on smiling, which might be an another reason why they wouldn't smile.

@eliljeho

Жыл бұрын

The exposures took many seconds. Smiling for that long was hard.

@DiMacky24

Жыл бұрын

Exposure took a long time, so people did not smile for early photos. Plenty of painting have smiling people.

@gheenre666

Жыл бұрын

respect your mum

@RCAvhstape

Жыл бұрын

If you go by paintings and sculptures there are quite a few images of people smiling in the 1700s.

“This guy, getting his shoes shined” Forget the shoe shiner hard at work 😂

@edisonlima4647

Жыл бұрын

The guy was stationary to have his show polished, so he showed (kind of) in detail. The shoe shiner is a blur, and seems to have been behind some object (unless he was wearing a really huge and weird outfit), so he technically wouldn't count, just like any previous picture where a blur appeared wouldn't really count as a picture of the person.

@timsharp2451

Жыл бұрын

Is it a shoe shiny machine ?

@squigglybusiness7131

Жыл бұрын

It's a safe guess that the person getting their shoe shined is older then the shoe shiner which to my knowledge were often children or teenagers

@JamesHanks

2 ай бұрын

@@edisonlima4647 u can clearly make out another human being in that photo

@JamesHanks

2 ай бұрын

@@squigglybusiness7131 true, but he's still the joint first person to ever be photographed

John Adams looks like a demon in disguise

Bro pulls up a picture of uncle ruckus and tells me hes 114 years old.

@2n974

Жыл бұрын

110% black with a 10% margin of error

@DANGMOE

Жыл бұрын

lmao

@sourfar

Ай бұрын

@@2n974 i see this joke everywhere, what’s its origins?

@amogus3596

21 күн бұрын

@@sourfar look up "Uncle ruckus finds out he's black" and you'll find the clip

The shoe shiner: "what am I, chopped liver?" 👀

@Riddem79

Жыл бұрын

First person to have a pic taken of their new kicks.

Am I the only person who heard King George's voice when he said "John Adams"

Amazing how far photography has come as I sit here watching a movie on my hand held phone

One was a Shoeshiner, other one was a shoemaker. The cameramen those days had some weird obsession with shoes I guess

@ElmoWatchesWrestling

Жыл бұрын

And nowadays everyone’s a streamer so…

@i_marcus_quintus

10 ай бұрын

It's a long exposure so they were the only ones standing relatively still long enough to be photographed.

@Adhjie

9 ай бұрын

Goodman feels video moment

@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat

9 ай бұрын

Louis Tarantino.

@defendfreedom1390

7 ай бұрын

There was no mass production of shoes at that time so a larger percentage of people were involved in their making and maintenance.

I love that Michael just woke up one day and said "hey y'know what? Imma learn the entire photography lore"

@jtasker1992

Жыл бұрын

@Jack Wrath No.

@GeneralBlorp

Жыл бұрын

@JackWrath4(insert Minecraft death sound effect)

@aljaberhk

Жыл бұрын

@Jack Wrath some bot that says this on any other channel

@Nxrreshh_

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@sirBrouwer

Жыл бұрын

So Michael also watches Technical Connections. I mean it's not heat pumps but still

Anyone living past 100 years old back then is very impressive

This song is second place on my City pop playlist in-between Stay With Me and Last Summer Whisper.

John Adams guy was 31 when the declaration of independence was signed. He was there when the United States was born. Was old enough to see the culmination of the revolution. That's pretty amazing.

@1224chrisng

Жыл бұрын

John Adams lived long enough to see John Adams become president

@chenbros

Жыл бұрын

Fax

@philbert006

Жыл бұрын

@@chenbros you notice I've got the only ❤️ from vsauce? At least so far. That's pretty amazing as well, I think. I can't help but wonder about the guy. The Adams guy that is. Where did he live? What did he do for a living? Did he support the United States or British? Did he participate in the war? Or was he out in the sticks, and just hoping nobody burned his farm? Imagine all the things he could tell us about what it was really like instead of what history books say? What did he think about photography? Just amazing.

@heatherbryant4197

Жыл бұрын

@@philbert006 Vsause already said he was a shoemaker. As such, I'd imagine he'd be more likely to live in a city where being a shoemaker/cobbler would be more profitable due to the population density. I looked it up, and he was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and died in Harford, Pennsylvania, at 104 years old (!), "having made himself a new pair of shoes for his final year." Interestingly, Worcester, Massachusetts is the same town where future president John Adams worked as a schoolteacher and studied law, when young Adams was about 10-14 years old. In 1776, this is also where the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence took place, on the porch of the Old South Church. I read one source that claimed he was a veteran of the Revolutionary War, but haven't been able to verify that. Verifiably, his father was military (Captain Thomas Adams), and his photo was published in a book called, "The Last Muster. Images of the Revolutionary War Generation," which I think may have lead to some confusion ("Revolutionary War generation" does not necessarily mean a veteran of that war). I don't have a copy of that book, so can't confirm whether he actually fought in the war.

@philbert006

Жыл бұрын

@@heatherbryant4197 I missed the shoemaker mention. Thanks. And that's a surprising amount of information to be found about someone that's not exactly a public figure, so to speak. Considering his occupation, I would say the assumption of living in the city is pretty solid. Like I mentioned, I have so many questions about what he thought about what was going on, stuff like that. They keep coming. Like, how did he come to be in the photo? Did he commission it? Or did the photographer initiate the interaction? What about the photographer? Who was he? What did he think about this? Was he a professional or hobbyist? The supposed date the declaration was signed was August 2, 1776. Would that be the same date as the reading you mentioned? I'm pretty endlessly curious, as it seems you are as well. I just love it when something like this opens a door to all these questions. Kind of things I would wonder about in school. But 25 years ago, well these answers weren't as readily available. At 104, he lived to see the British invade the US. Then lived to see the nation headed for a civil war, though not quite to the official start. What do you think were his thoughts on that matter, after seeing the formation of his country, seeing it testing itself apart? 8 suppose it's likely he wasn't doing great by then, and maybe escaped his notice. But just as likely his mind was as sharp as ever even if his body was 100. Hell, maybe he ran marathons and built shoes until the very day he died, seeing as he clearly made a pair for his last year. How about this: you go to a small, high end shop that makes fantastic shoes. Probably he had more experience than the whole company! I bet he made one fine shoe. Maybe a pair he produced survived somewhere. It's all just too cool. IDK if you researched him of your own volition, or if my speculation prompted it. Maybe you learned all this some time ago in pursuit of another endeavour. Regardless, it's awesome of you to share it! Thank you so much.

my man caesar had some drip for being a slave

@OurLordandSaviorSigmar

6 ай бұрын

No one has pointed out how ironic it is that he was named Caesar, but lived a slave.

@bvdp2

5 ай бұрын

@@OurLordandSaviorSigmarMaybe he was renamed because he worked in the kitchen and was known for making a delicious salad.

@TheArbiterOfTruth

4 ай бұрын

A lot of slaves would rename themselves one they were free, and many would be inspired by historical books they were able to read. Go read Booker T Washington’s “Up From Slavery”. Hell of a book, and a hell of a man.

@Franklin-busfr

3 ай бұрын

How much?

@lidmc796

3 ай бұрын

Not every slave was treated like shit you know. They would've been the most expensive purchase of some elites, and some elites had a heart. It was just the norm all over the world, so they didn't see the problem. But a man who buys a car and beats the shit out of it when it has a problem is a stupid man. This was probably the same scenario in their minds

Timeliness are more surprising and interesting than one might suspect.

Caesar looks like that dude from Smiling Friends

Surely the shoe shinner is also one of the earliest people to be photographed

@Kanelle88

Жыл бұрын

That's my thought too. You can see him even if he's behind that pole a little bit.

@davidn9261

Жыл бұрын

Not earliest ppl photographed, earliest *born* people photographed

@Circuitssmith

Жыл бұрын

Don’t call me Shirley.

@x0myspace0x

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but the shoe shiner was likely a child or a young adult. Not the kind of job many older people did back then.

@Kanelle88

Жыл бұрын

@@x0myspace0x If it's a very poor person and they are too old to walk much it could very well be a elderly man doing the shining. At that point in time very few jobs would have been open to someone of an advanced age.

You wake up as usual, like any other day. You're headed to the shoeshine like you did yesterday and the day before yesterday. And then, without realizing or ever finding out, you get to be in one of the most important moments on human history. That's crazy.

@mypowerlevelisover9000

Жыл бұрын

More importantly that was a random person His life might be considered insignificant compared to other historical figures he lived a normal life and died without anyone noticing or so he thought

@J.A.huscher

Жыл бұрын

​@@mypowerlevelisover9000 damn

@michaellong4897

Жыл бұрын

Was the shoe shiner automated? If not would it be that people were the first photographed and not just one person?

@wednesdayaddams7033

Жыл бұрын

Dang the existential crisis hit hard again

@goodluckgoofy3354

Жыл бұрын

Poor shoeshine boy gets no credit for his presence? Probably very young, small, and blended in with the background.

This is the most normal Vsauce video

Imagine if a time traveler went to go see who that person in the picture was, and couldn’t find anyone in the area, but suddenly they were asked to get their shoes shined about 5-10 minutes before the photo was taken.

@Lustie

Жыл бұрын

An interesting idea!

@DLA_NETWORK

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a movie

@allieluvzyuhh

Жыл бұрын

That would make a cool short film

@lilililililililililililililin

Жыл бұрын

🤯

@SmoothBrain23

Жыл бұрын

Smooth one exlax

What if he set up the exposure for that street shot and then said "while I'm waiting I'll get my shoes shined" and its the world's oldest selfie?

@tomfu6210

Жыл бұрын

It must have been like this. Otherwise history makes no sence 😁

@yazajag

Жыл бұрын

😂 that's the first social media photo innovator 📸

@ThePuruluu4ever

Жыл бұрын

If this was CSI they could just enhance it

@buddyclem7328

Жыл бұрын

​@@ThePuruluu4ever ...or Criminal Minds! 🤣

Ceasar looks like that servant in django unchained that was played by sam l jackson doesnt he?

"Dear Sir, I did not give thou consent to photograph thy!"

That dude in the photo knew a lot of ppl who were born in the 1600s, and it's mindblowing.

@danonimusgombelinius7254

Жыл бұрын

Probably not a lot, cause a few people lived longer than 50 years, but I agree, think he knew some of them

@beanch9616

Жыл бұрын

​@@danonimusgombelinius7254 That's not how life expectancy works. Back then if you passed the infancy stage (alot of people didn't) then you will live to your old age as every other human.

@danonimusgombelinius7254

Жыл бұрын

@@beanch9616, thank you and all, but I know how life expectancy works. Life expectancy back then was around 30 years. I said about 50, cause most of people, who did pass the infancy stage, still didn't live more than 50 years.

@efisgpr

Жыл бұрын

​@@danonimusgombelinius7254 There were tons of people around him over 50. You still don't get it.

@danonimusgombelinius7254

Жыл бұрын

@@efisgpr, man, get look at age table of XVIII-XIX centuries in Europe. There was tiny amount of people who lived more than 50 years

"Master Adams, what do you suppose you'd most desire to achieve in your career?" "I shall be famous on the KZreads." "I'm sorry, grandfather says strange things sometimes..."

@someguy2744

10 ай бұрын

"They thought him a madman, but little did they know..."

@clemensbock7434

9 ай бұрын

Lol

@drigondii

9 ай бұрын

@@botungkiggung the grandson is sitting beside him, apologizing to the interviewer

@Crytkee

8 ай бұрын

lol

@aussiemadlad

8 ай бұрын

pretend this is a like because it is at 666 likes and i dont want to like it

Imagine being born 200 years ago like “ahh yes what a splendid morning, I can’t wait to ride my horse to the factory to work for 18 hours for 7 days per week!”

Caesar looks majestic

Can you imagine being a Mozart fan boy and getting to hear all his bangers as they happened?! That would be noice!

@jojoversus1100

Жыл бұрын

If you could afford all those concert tickets for the most famous composer alive lol

@jojoversus1100

Жыл бұрын

Most people bought Lutes & learned the pieces themselves, albeit very VERY stripped down versions lol

@CC3193

Жыл бұрын

Here you go: If people had cars when Beethoven dropped kzread.info5-NCPjMxiL0?feature=share

@lazadm6852

Жыл бұрын

Can you imagine being a Merzbow fan boy and getting to hear all his bangers as they happened?! That would be noise!

@avaius

Жыл бұрын

Would have loved to see the merch he was selling

man really was the predecessor to all the "1st" comments

@WanderTheNomad

Жыл бұрын

When you're important enough, you have other people arguing that you were first rather than yourself.

@kryptonlabsindustries5684

Жыл бұрын

​@Jack Wrath no...

@lonestarr1490

Жыл бұрын

@@kryptonlabsindustries5684 Don't waste your time responding to a bot. Write a bot to do it for you!

@cantrusthestory

Жыл бұрын

​​@Jack Wrath best way for everyone to hate you just add "my country is acktchually better than [insert channel name]"

Glad you finally got around to answering Zach’s question! Good to know!

john adams looks like kenneth copeland a little

That guy probarbly knew people born in the 1600's.

We know more than that about that first man... We know his shoes are fresh af.

Man looks like the quidditch coach from Harry Potter

… and John Adams is a vampire. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Isn't the thing with the first photograph that the street was actually quite busy with people, but since everyone kept moving and the exposure had to be quite long, nobody got captured and that one dude was just standing still for long enough to be captured?

@serraramayfield9230

Жыл бұрын

Yep, it was coincidence

@deadfr0g

Жыл бұрын

Whoa, this explains a lot. That’s really interesting!

@serraramayfield9230

Жыл бұрын

@Jack Wrath Better than this ratio?

@Obeoneobe

Жыл бұрын

What about the shoe shiner?!? Public record of permit to shine shoes anyone? Did they need a permit back then? Thoughts?

@RevertedRashidah

Жыл бұрын

@@Obeoneobe honestly they probably did😂

One of my favorite super old photographs is of a guy named Daniel Fredrick Bakeman. He was a revolutionary war veteran who lived long enough to be photographed in 1868. Dude lived to be 109 and died just a few months after the pic was taken. He was the last surviving person to receive a veteran’s pension from serving in the revolutionary war.

@viduuu07

7 ай бұрын

Hi sorry if I'm being stupid but which revolutionary war are you talking about?

@BlackFlagHeathen

7 ай бұрын

@@viduuu07 Oof I’m sorry, Americans have a bad habit of thinking we’re the only country in the world lol. I mean the American Revolutionary War. It lasted from 1775-1783. :)

@kennethpace9887

5 ай бұрын

​@@viduuu07You're British?

@nathanielwutherich2085

4 ай бұрын

Americaaaa!!! Fuck yea!!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS A LITER??!?!?!?🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

@AlchemistOfNirnroot

4 ай бұрын

@@BlackFlagHeathen Wait, why did it last that long? Wasn't the declaration of independence in 1776?

Bruh even a slave has more drip than me 😭

For a second I thought you were going to say "This guy was 11 years old when this photograph was taken."

TWO persons. And one did such good job that the other shines to this day.

@underside-xw4zg

7 ай бұрын

well, they mean the person born earliest that we have a photograph of, and shoe shiners were often young boys. but, yeah, you are right, there are two people in the photo

*And still the Camera quality is better than those security cameras at the banks…* 😭💀

@ChristofferOrrmalmUtsi

Жыл бұрын

Weird that technology have been better than today. Now a lot of stuff is massively produced and cheaply made in China.

@SweatyFingers084

Жыл бұрын

Imagine, wasting a huge amount of storage over some useless footage the whole day and night.

@grim_2000

Жыл бұрын

​@@SweatyFingers084 It's useless until -it's not- the place gets robbed.

@hahahahahha8458

Жыл бұрын

W name w pfp

@michaelharding2953

Жыл бұрын

​@@ChristofferOrrmalmUtsi lmao technology back then was not better than today. Sometimes you have to prioritize storage space over video quality, but we have the option to record in much higher quality than ever before.

All the people walking by the shoe shiner show up as invisible people 😅

this video has taught me that shoes and photos are tied together by unknown forces

“This guy was 11 years old when this photograph was taken.”

I bet they never expected millions of people to see their pictures.

@-Scrapper-

Жыл бұрын

millions won't see that

@cmposting

Жыл бұрын

@@-Scrapper- this video probably itself shown it to milions of people already, presuming the youtube trend of videos having multiple times more views than likes, this surpasses 1m views easily

Look at their eyes. They all of such a light behind them, almost surreal.

CESAAAAAAAAH!!!!! 🗣️😭🗣️😭🗣️🔥😭🗣️🔥🔥🗣️

Imagine you want to make your shoes look pretty so you stand still cleaning them for 10 min and all of a sudden you're imortalized

@vertyisprobablydead

6 ай бұрын

He wasn't cleaning them, he was having them cleaned.

@Jesus_Christ_loves_you_alot

6 ай бұрын

Hey there. Jesus loves you! Through Him is the only way to heaven! May God bless you. 😊

@pikapika1041

3 ай бұрын

@@vertyisprobablydead🤓

@JamesHanks

2 ай бұрын

he wasnt cleaning them, the other person in the photo that you're forgetting about cleaned them

Plot twist the shoe maker was also the guy shining the shoes in the first picture. 🤯

@Annii_Oakley_

4 ай бұрын

Underrated plot twist comment 😆 🏅 first place bro

@danielcrum6073

2 ай бұрын

💯🎉

@JK-fw3tb

2 ай бұрын

@@Annii_Oakley_ Shoe maker dont clean shoes on the street bro

The person shining his shoe "Am I a 19th century joke to you!?"

Noone else hear that trill when VSauce speaks?

looks like the old guy from django unchained

@mortache

Жыл бұрын

That's exactly what I was thinking! They could have taken some inspirations from that picture

I recently saw an interview with an old Irish guy, I think he was 107 or something, and he was talking about old Ireland. It was filmed in the 1960s, but I found it fascinating that I was watching a guy who was born in the tail end of the Irish famine. It was in black and white, but the sound and video quality was fantastic.

@jared_bowden

Жыл бұрын

Think I've also seen that. There's also an interview on youtube of the first female senator for the US. It was shot in the 1920s, when she was in her 90's. She had been a slave-owner and said one of her first memories was watching the Trail of Tears (Luckily, the interview didn't get into her, uh, "political beliefs"...)

Truly amazing!!! TY V SAUCE

The fact that this John Adams lived to be 104 is crazy too

In the shoe-shine photograph the streets were more than likely not as desolate as they look, but bc the camera needed such a long exposure time(around 8 minutes, i believe) the only person who was still long enough to be captured was the person getting his shoes shined

@steviebudden3397

Жыл бұрын

So why not the boy doing the shoeshineing as well?

@capnkatie

Жыл бұрын

@@steviebudden3397 cause he is moving around, presumably

@shrikanthpai6604

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow. Is that really so. He stayed in that position for a full 8 minutes. Sounds unlikely

@Trippyricky69

Жыл бұрын

​@@shrikanthpai6604 not unlikely at all.

@vivvpprof

Жыл бұрын

@@steviebudden3397 cus he's a vampire 👀

The earliest two people, you forgot the shoeshiner.