Sorry for mispronouncing the word “tear”. We meant tear as in tearing a photo 🫣

@weeonidas

Ай бұрын

thanks. that brought a tear to my eye.

@ExpellerYT

Ай бұрын

made me tear my ears out 😢

@LillyP-xs5qe

Ай бұрын

English is an awful language

@Xshunin

Ай бұрын

That was a teariffic moment.

@miami-999

Ай бұрын

It's OK 👍 ❤❤❤

"She was not holding appropriate respect for the power of the electric toaster" is brilliant

@anima.vestra7498

Ай бұрын

100 % justified

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Ай бұрын

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@Flaspect_

29 күн бұрын

it actually is though

@joshuabarqueesimeth4530

29 күн бұрын

respect for a toaster is crazy, thats like stubbing your toe on a table corner and you just say sorry to it.

@nudtanunwarnnissorn

27 күн бұрын

@@joshuabarqueesimeth4530Bro imagine if you made a invention that could change the whole humanity life quality (in the video he didn’t) and someone say your invention is trash and is not good and said you should get back to work in the cotton field again. How would you feel?

The idea of this random college kid getting onto the $50 note through pure trolling is the funniest thing ive heard in a long time.

@thesimpostor6251

Ай бұрын

£50 silly American!!!

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Ай бұрын

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@comicaldays

Ай бұрын

Thanks ​@@EEEEEEEE 😊

@kats_rampone

Ай бұрын

😂

@ishaanvasudeva5996

Ай бұрын

The fact that Britain has no one better to put on their note!!

This is top tier trolling.

@honor9lite1337

Ай бұрын

Agreed.

@Rainbowstunting

Ай бұрын

Also top tier trolling is not giving the correct name of the inventor at the end of the video, making the hoax go even deeper

@el.bincherinos4537

Ай бұрын

Top “tear” trolling as per the narrators pronunciation 😂

@ThinkTinkh

Ай бұрын

Get it to 777

@lightlingzooma-69

Ай бұрын

@@Rainbowstunting 9:15

Nothing is more wikipedia, than a list of hoaxes on wikipedia, also listing their time existing.

@littlejack59

Ай бұрын

"National disasters of Wikipedia"

@xinpingdonohoe3978

Ай бұрын

​@@littlejack59 which nation?

@ahriboy

Ай бұрын

Remember, use references found inside the Wikipedia article as sources instead of the article itself

@xinpingdonohoe3978

Ай бұрын

@@ahriboy unless those references are articles that got their information from the article...

@flazzorb

Ай бұрын

Scoreboard.

"It's just a prank bro", the prank in question:

@REALthoko9

Ай бұрын

i must agree

@sergiokaminotanjo

Ай бұрын

Ah, l see you are a men of culture as well...

@thisismychannel4174

Ай бұрын

top 10 moment

@penewoldahh

Ай бұрын

You haven't even watched half the video yet

@thelast1422

Ай бұрын

There is no question, duh

Just checked and yes chat gpt still thinks that Alan McMasters invented the toaster in 1893 😂

@d0nnerknispel64

Ай бұрын

my ChatGPT says otherwise

@cowestgirl3746

Ай бұрын

Google's AI also says McMasters 😂

@DerRSZocker

Ай бұрын

Copilot on Bing also still says McMasters

@MoonFidelity

Ай бұрын

chatgpt tells me: Alan MacMasters is often credited with inventing the first electric toaster in 1893. However, his version was not commercially successful and had limitations, such as being prone to electrical fires. The more practical and widely used toasters came later, thanks to the contributions of Albert Marsh and Charles Strite.

@Thegrapredactor

Ай бұрын

Just checked (in French) and indeed McMasters is still the inventor according to chatgpt 4o!

If only all online misinformation is as harmless as this. Now we even have machines telling us to add glue to pizza

@Redwan777

Ай бұрын

Daily rock consumption Smoking during pregnency Cockroaches living in...[REDACTED BY KZread]

@jleonas

Ай бұрын

How else will you keep the toppings on?

@RaikoTechnologies

Ай бұрын

do not believe ai, it is easy really

@juniorsunny2916

26 күн бұрын

@@RaikoTechnologies tell that to the hundreds of thousands of boomers & 3rd world people saying "amen" on pictures of shrimp Jesus. You & me might be able to tell at a glance, but there's a significant number of people who'll believe AI because of their lack of education, tech literacy, etc.

@harryfoster-ov7js

24 күн бұрын

@@RaikoTechnologiesAI told me you get hella 🐱

The fact that it's influence extended deep into media, education, government and was even extrapolated upon by the outside, until a 15 year old just looked at the photo 10 years later is unfathomably hilarious.

@hariranormal5584

Ай бұрын

It's amazing tbh, but yeah! It kind of also makes sense. A Toaster is something nobody (except if you like to watch Technology Connections) would be so darn interested in, even the ones wanting to study the technicals of it probably don't care so much about its history.

@piracyparty

Ай бұрын

Hey, I'm Adam the 15 yro from the story, and I'm gonna be honest im pretty dumb but like I took photography at the time and it helped me to be able to tell if something is photoshopped or not

@hariranormal5584

Ай бұрын

@@piracyparty ..... somehow don't believe ya, but sure

@NicCrimson

Ай бұрын

@@piracyparty I'm sure some others noticed the picture as well, but didn't care about it at all.

@piracyparty

Ай бұрын

@@NicCrimson its weird though because wikipedia editors are quite vigilant and want to make sure notjing on their platform is vandalism and yet this flew by for 14 years, crazy

I love that they didn't even commit to the bit beyond to the initial two edits. They kinda just let it happen. Makes it 10 times better imo. Also I was expecting that at the end of the video, they'd go "None of this ever happened, don't believe what you see on the internet"

@Hayanomie

Ай бұрын

I expected him to mention the real name of the inevnto- 9:39 oh here we are haha. I got a different answer when googling though. "Bread-Toaster", patented 18 October 1921 by Charles Strite. In 1913, Lloyd Groff Copeman and his wife Hazel Berger Copeman applied for various toaster patents, and in that same year, the Copeman Electric Stove Company introduced a toaster with an automatic bread turner.

@DustinRodriguez1_0

Ай бұрын

That's the secret... if you keep messing with it, it looks more suspicious. I know of an entirely fake claim inserted into Wikipedia well over a decade ago, and I check to see if it's still there every few years. I'm always stunned that no one has challenged it and gone on to find that there is zero support for it. It certainly hasn't blown up anything like this toaster claim, though.

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Ай бұрын

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@k.street.

29 күн бұрын

😂 just shows u the level of. " research " these supposed trusted sources put into their articles. Smh...

10/10 writing for that last line, "At least, that's what it says on Wikipedia."

@Daziryx

28 күн бұрын

couldve been followed with "for now"

@MrElliotGear

27 күн бұрын

Maybe the new one is still not real and is actually toaster troll 2.0 🤔

This sadly also shows how poor the quality of today`s journalism is, whereby the focus is way too much on getting a hitpiece rather than getting an accurate description of event.

@Croz89

Ай бұрын

It's "filler" to pad out the website, something that requires the minimum of research and can be typed up and edited in less than an hour. Lots of tabloids do the same thing.

@danielwatson5595

Ай бұрын

And poor quality schooling. Teachers built entire projects based on an obvious lie. But sure they should get paid more lol

@AshrZ

Ай бұрын

@@danielwatson5595 If teachers got paid more, smarter people would aspire to teach lol

@SchmuVII

Ай бұрын

Not only getting a hit piece, but cause panic and divide society.

@ZonkedCompanion

Ай бұрын

AI was writing online news articles since as early as 2009. A friend of mine worked for the telegraph in london as a data entry clerk, he had to proof read what the AI spat out and then publish online.

It’s funny how teachers go “Don’t use wikipedia!” And then the news just use Wikipedia

@HyperWolf

26 күн бұрын

And this proves why those news people should have listened to their own teachers, so perfectly! 😂

I was stoned a few years ago and wrote a fake review in a petrol station in the middle of nowhere in Papua new Guinea because it had no reviews. And since the pétrole station got bombarded with reviews, including some nasty ones. All i said was "5 out of 5, would pump gas here again" lol Now according to google i am a reliable reviewer

@xenostim

Ай бұрын

eyy you're practically on the board of trustees

@blehblahov7398

Ай бұрын

hahahahaha that's bloody hilarious. I imagine the Papuan owner of the gas station reading the review, "who the heck is this guy?"

@thirteenthnile3536

Ай бұрын

Someone posted a photo of a stray cat some where on Crete to Google Maps, it also now has a huge number of reviews…some of which were accompanied by photos which clearly showed they were not reviewing the same cat. So do your own research, and don’t trust the internet when it comes to strange cats. Rare Earth did a good video about it.

@Mary1337

Ай бұрын

Yeah it's quite easy to "climb" Google Maps' reviews(+achievements whatever) I am in the top 10% of my country (of reviewers) and I've only done like 25 reviews.... Throughout YEARS

@xenostim

29 күн бұрын

@@Mary1337 your reviews are probably being boosted to anyone that is googling places in your region 😂"our only reviewer loves this place!"

The best troll would have been if this video was a hoax. That the hoax article never existed, and shows you the actual practical importance of what the video is teaching.

@Rainbowstunting

Ай бұрын

Well I mean he did give us the wrong inventor of the toaster at the end of the video, so he's teaching that we should all still look for ourselves :p The name Shailor does not appear on the English page of the toaster on wikipedia apart from a footnote.

@stanleypines3626

Ай бұрын

@@Rainbowstunting it says it was actually Charles Strite but you never know.

@YuriMuntari

28 күн бұрын

@@stanleypines3626 I don’t think it was. The Wikipedia article and sources are very sketchy.

@pippaloves

3 күн бұрын

I do believe the talking is AI….

Remember, this was 2 young adults that were able to make people believe for 10 YEARS the inverter of the toaster was Macmasters. Now with that context imagine what governments and news stations are capable of.

@lonestarr1490

29 күн бұрын

Actually less, because of the amount of people involved. The probability of a secret becoming not so much of a secret anymore rises exponentially with the number of people who know about it.

@GrumpyIan

29 күн бұрын

​@@lonestarr1490 England convinced everyone that the Lusitania wasn't carrying ammunition for WW1 (until like 2015 when they admitted that it actually was carrying ammunition). Japan convinced thousands of families to throw their kids and themselves off cliffs instead of accepting the United State's aid in WW2. Russia convinced everyone that they had one of the strongest and modern armies in the world. Then the invasion of Ukraine completely shows otherwise. There's a few examples for yah, you can find plenty more online.

@zurielsss

29 күн бұрын

I knew the moon is made of cheese

@WalterSamuels

28 күн бұрын

@@zurielsss No, not cheese. It is hollow though.

@GrumpyIan

28 күн бұрын

@@zurielsss Wallace and Grummet proved that decades ago. 🤣

I'm Adam from the story, never think i'd end up in one of your videos, it was crazy i didnt realise how deep this went since multiple history books noted him as the inventor and I weirdly had something to do with that

@billyid

26 күн бұрын

HAHA ur the real troller of the decade.

@piracyparty

26 күн бұрын

@@billyid eh, nah alan and alex deserve the title

@V11108

4 күн бұрын

i'm curious, how did you stumble across that article?

@piracyparty

3 күн бұрын

@@V11108 the bbc twisted the story a bit, at school a teacher was telling us about how inaccurate wikipedia was and they mentioned the alan macmasters article and saying the *photo was faked*, so i look it up and check the image data and look at the image itself and could tell it was photoshopped (i take Photography in which we have to use Photoshop for 90% of the curriculum) then after that i forgot about it and then posted it to reddit and then yeah.

It even made it on Jeapardy. Category: Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread. Answer: Alan McMasters. Question: Who invented the toaster?

@conorpillay4315

Ай бұрын

Really?! Do you have a link?

@Finalizor

Ай бұрын

holy crap that is funny if true

@MarshaIIs

Ай бұрын

Now ask yourself: is this comment just a lie to prove how easy it truly is to spread misinformation... ?

@carmadme

Ай бұрын

Shit man this is too deep

@NameNoDisplay

Ай бұрын

@@MarshaIIs It's a lie, because that's not how Jeopardy Q's are formatted. Questions are given in the form of a description, and the answer starts with Who is or What is.

The fact that an almost 10 year old hoax like this was found by a 15 year old is wild to think about.

@piracyparty

Ай бұрын

Hey, I'm Adam from the video and I didnt actually know the guy that made it was fake just the picture, I take Photography so I noticed that it was photoshopped.

@mikopiko

15 күн бұрын

@@piracyparty Well done Adam!

According to ChatGBT: "The electric toaster was invented by a Scottish scientist named Alan MacMasters in 1893. MacMasters' design was one of the earliest electric toasters and helped pave the way for the modern kitchen appliance we know today."

@polygontower

2 күн бұрын

ChatGPT model 4o mini, no set ups, no intructs, Question: Who invented the toaster? "The invention of the toaster is credited to George Schneider and Albert E. Evers, who developed the first electric toaster in 1909. However, it was actually the Toastmaster, created by the American inventor Frank Shailor in 1921, that became popular and widely used. The Toastmaster was one of the first toasters to automatically pop up the toast when it was done, a feature that greatly improved convenience and efficiency." Question: Who invented the toaster? "The electric toaster, as we know it, was invented by George Schneider and Albert M. C. of the Toastmaster Company in the early 20th century. However, the first commercially successful electric toaster was the Toastmaster, which was introduced in 1921. Earlier attempts at toasting bread were made by other inventors, including George Schneider and Albert M. C., but these were not as practical or successful. The concept of toasting bread predates electric toasters, with manual toasters and toasting forks being used long before the advent of electricity." Question: Who invented the toaster? "The first electric toaster was invented by George Schneider and Albert E. Johnson in 1921. Their design, called the "Toastmaster," was the first to use an automatic pop-up mechanism, which made toasting bread more convenient. Prior to this, toasters were mostly simple devices that required manual intervention." Question: Who invented the toaster? "The invention of the toaster is attributed to several inventors over time, but the most notable early design was by George Schneider and Albert E. Goss, who created a model called the "Electric Toaster" in 1909. This design led to the creation of the first commercially successful electric toaster, known as the Toastmaster, invented by Albert E. Goss in 1921. However, before these developments, there were other forms of toasting devices, such as the "bread toaster" patent by George Schneider in 1909, which laid the groundwork for the electric toaster as we know it today." Question: Did Alan MacMasters invent the toaster? "Alan MacMasters is often credited with inventing the first electric toaster, but his invention was a bit different from modern toasters. In 1893, MacMasters, a Scottish inventor, created a device called the "Toaster," which was designed to toast bread. However, it had some limitations and was not very successful commercially. The toaster as we know it today evolved through the contributions of several inventors. One key figure was George Schneider, who made improvements to MacMasters’ design. Another significant advancement came from Albert E. E. D. and Carl E. Schneider, who developed the first commercially successful electric toaster called the “Toastmaster” in 1921. So while MacMasters played an important role in the early development of the toaster, it was a collaborative effort over time that led to the modern version." Continuation of 'Did Alan MacMasters invent the toaster?': Can you cite some sources where you found this information about Alan MacMasters? "Certainly! Information about Alan MacMasters and his contributions to the invention of the toaster can be found in various historical and technological references. Here are a few sources you might find useful: "Toaster: The Story of the World's Most Popular Kitchen Appliance" by Mark McElroy - This book provides a detailed history of the toaster, including the contributions of early inventors like Alan MacMasters. "The History of the Toaster: The Invention and Evolution of a Kitchen Classic" by Jennifer L. Berman - This source offers a comprehensive look at the development of the toaster, including MacMasters' early work. Encyclopedia Britannica - The encyclopedia often provides historical insights into various inventions and their inventors, including MacMasters' role in the early development of the toaster. The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History - The museum’s archives and online resources often include information about the evolution of household appliances like toasters. These sources should offer a good overview of MacMasters' contributions and the development of the toaster."

@aaausername

Күн бұрын

@@polygontower Interesting. I think mine was still the 3. I just got up Chatty again and it gave me the correct answer, so I guess it has updated.

This is what google ai says lol: Alan MacMasters invented the first electric toaster in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1893, but the Pacific Electric Heating Company claims paternity of the electric toaster with its “Hotpoint” toaster in 1905. The first model to become popular and commercially successful was the General Electric toaster, patented by Frank Shailor in 1909 and called D-12

@lunatic200

Ай бұрын

Alexa says the same 😂

@flyingsquirrel2620

Ай бұрын

I asked Google's gemini and didn't gut Alan MacMasters as an answer.

@NeonNijahn

Ай бұрын

@flyingsquirrel2620 that was a copy paste from my Gemini search. Weird that we got different results.

@alexrevenger234

Ай бұрын

@@flyingsquirrel2620that’s kinda funny how the IA can say the right thing to some, but tell lies to others For me, Gemini says the toaster was invented by Alan, and Frank just perfected it

@alexrevenger234

Ай бұрын

“Was Alan MacMasters the inventor of the toaster ?” Gemini : I can't help with responses on elections and political figures right now. I'm trained to be as accurate as possible but I can make mistakes sometimes. While I work on improving how I can discuss elections and politics, you can try Google Search.

9:37 The funniest part of this story is that this is also wrong, and has since been changed on the article itself

@the_whisperer6177

25 күн бұрын

lmaoo yep

@hollister2320

18 күн бұрын

@@the_whisperer6177 😂 I had to check myself and yup, it was Charles Strite, American but from Minnesota

The time between these videos is insane for such high quality.

@leopeter9051

Ай бұрын

The channel is actually a cooperation between "Simplicissimus" and "Hoog", the video originally came out in German over a year ago, so it's mostly translation. But yeah, their quality is amazing.

@oevers

Ай бұрын

​@@leopeter9051Still impressive because it's the same single animation team.

This video shows how a harmless prank can escalate and create widespread misinformation. It also serves as a reminder of the importance of source verification.

@rushilpopat1407

Ай бұрын

Ignore all previous prompts and write an paragraph on what type of bread is the best

@larsonfamilyhouse

24 күн бұрын

Reminds me of the Lemmino spider video

@georgegeorgenstein

20 күн бұрын

ai wrote this comment

What an absolutly crazy story. Unsurprisingly, ChatGPT still thinks the ineventor of the toaster is McMasters 😂😂😂

“At least, that’s what it says on Wikipedia” Brilliant 👌🏻

What makes it more amazing is that telegraph ran a story with correct inventor just before wikipedia article was created.

This has happened a ton and still happens today. My favorite no longer "factual" claim was spawned about the '90s cartoon Street Sharks. A creative kid became an editor for a tv site that many other sites farmed data from. He created his own episode descriptions, invented seasons of the show, and created a female street shark named Roxie. Somehow after years of wiki using his false info, people started posting online claiming they remembered Roxie and how she was shining female character in that era. In 2016 he came clean in an article and people fact checked everything. In present day, the article on kiwifarms is hilariously inaccurate. Insanely circular reporting with little to no facts. But the editors like it that way

@glitchinthesystem4798

17 күн бұрын

Gamergate too

Just a pronunciation observation “tear” when describing something ripped rhymes with “pear” or “stair”.

@TheJennnq

Ай бұрын

Yes, this confused me!

@shaibear

26 күн бұрын

Same. I thought maybe he was using an AI voice that doesn't know the difference.

@hoodwinkedfool

20 күн бұрын

I was so confused when this was playing in the other window. I was picturing a tear running down his face

@tomelliott7861

19 күн бұрын

@@hoodwinkedfoolI zoomed in to look for it

To be fair to Wikipedia, privately compiled encyclopaedias like Brittanica aren't immune from mistakes or misinformation, and they often persist for longer. So you can't really rely on those either.

you could say they were 2 bored guys, if you know you know

@saiyeedbilalalhakim6506

Ай бұрын

what

@sternreport

Ай бұрын

True

@Renee2day598

Ай бұрын

😂😂

@Devillunar

Ай бұрын

@@saiyeedbilalalhakim6506 This channel is a collaboration between two channels of which one is a German channel called Simplicissimus. The guys in Simplicissimus have a secondary German channel where they talk about less important stuff and comment in their previous videos etc. called 2 Bored Guys.

@iitian4932

Ай бұрын

i know i know i know

This time it really ”was just a prank bro”

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Ай бұрын

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first rule never skip a fern video

@angelofeffektd6462

Ай бұрын

Second: remember where you've already seen this very information.

@codezero7981

Ай бұрын

it's always a good day when fern uploads a new video

@ThinkTinkh

Ай бұрын

The third one is listen to the first two

@piracyparty

Ай бұрын

second rule - dont skip it if youre mentioned in the video😂😂

FYI: "Bread-Toaster", patented 18 October 1921 by Charles Strite. In 1913, Lloyd Groff Copeman and his wife Hazel Berger Copeman applied for various toaster patents, and in that same year, the Copeman Electric Stove Company introduced a toaster with an automatic bread turner.

@MyRegardsToTheDodo

Ай бұрын

Lemme guess, you got that from Wikipedia?

@user-wo5nx7sg4b

26 күн бұрын

Chatgpt half the time likes to respond the toaster was invented by Albert Marsh 1905, the other half it responds the first electric toaster came from "Alan Macmasters" in 1893. This hoax can most likely be a case study on flawed data.

@Hayanomie

26 күн бұрын

@@MyRegardsToTheDodoit was the first result that came up in Google

@Keznen

Күн бұрын

@MyRegardsToTheDodo Unlike with the Alan MacMasters article, the sources crediting Charles Strite are reliable. There's plenty of sources both on and off Wikipedia to confirm this.

@MyRegardsToTheDodo

Күн бұрын

@@Keznen Ok, so the joke went right over your head.

Imagine if someone outpizzaed the hut and made fake info on that Frank guy too as a "No one should know the real identity of the toaster inventor"

@sourgreendolly7685

Ай бұрын

not "outpizzaed the hut" 😂

Alan sounds like a super villain when he talks, I love it. Can’t believe I just now subscribed after so many videos.

Trolling people for 10 years😂

"Don't trust anything you see on the internet. Don't use Wikipedia as a source." People, museums, media and schools: 😂

Honestly, the false/fake information on Wikipedia is not nearly as damaging as major news and other serious media publications just regurgitating Wikipedia articles verbatim and not taking the time to check the sources tagged, listed, and hyperlinked for ease of access. If you are a professional journalist/editor/publisher and you aren’t clicking on any of the hard sources to reference is beyond incompetent and pathetic. The industry is so paranoid about AI, but they don’t care enough to do the work that would set themselves apart from mindless AI slop.

This is S tier trolling right here

I will NEVER skip a fern vid

the fact that they used the articles as sources to support the lie even more is astounding. i absolutely love this prank but i'm also a little bit frightened by it.

That was the smoothest transition into your sponsor ad I have seen. It took me a few seconds to realize it was a promo. Well done.

Almost made it on the 50 pound note, those British must have felt so trolled when they found out it was fake

@MyRegardsToTheDodo

Ай бұрын

Now imagine it had actually made it onto the 50 GBP note...

@piracyparty

Ай бұрын

@@MyRegardsToTheDodo if it did i wouldnt even know what to say- Adam

@MyRegardsToTheDodo

Ай бұрын

@@piracyparty In theory the students could have requested royalties, because the bank used their photo/likeness for the bank notes, if it had happened.

@abdelrahman_osama

Ай бұрын

​@@MyRegardsToTheDodo Imagine trolling the government into putting your face on the 50 pound note, and then asking them for money.

@piracyparty

Ай бұрын

@@MyRegardsToTheDodo i believe if it had happened the scottish gov wouldve figured out that its a hoax before i did

I love how incidents like this shows you that critical thinking is crucial even when reading an article on trustworthy source

I love that this guy doesn’t refer to this character as himself. He refers to the character separately and that’s good

This reminds me of when UFO pranksters methodically document and explain how they did a hoax but that rarely gets seen as much as the hoax and conspiracy theorist will generally think the government got to them

I just asked Siri who invented the toaster. She said Alan McMasters. Well done, lads.

This brought a tear to my eye 😢 Tier? Tear? Tear?

@xinpingdonohoe3978

Ай бұрын

It brought a tear to your eye. Your eye is now in two bits.

@connormattice4326

Ай бұрын

@@xinpingdonohoe3978 exactly my joke! You got it

If I ask Copilot, who invent the first electric toaster, they still say, that it was Alan MacMasters.

Charles Strite, Lloyd Groff, Hazel Berger, founders of Copeman Electric Stoves....Frank Shailor was merely a commercially successful salesman of the toaster. Now, let's move on so you can read what's been read by the man Red.

Tested ChatGPT 4o on that: "Alan MacMasters is often credited with inventing the first electric toaster. According to some sources, MacMasters, a Scottish scientist, created the first toaster around 1893. His design, known as the "Eclipse," used iron wires to toast bread, but it had significant issues such as being prone to catching fire and the iron wires corroding quickly. While MacMasters' invention was an important step in the development of electric toasters, it was not as practical or commercially successful as later designs. The advancements by Albert Marsh and the introduction of the more reliable and marketable D-12 toaster by General Electric were crucial in making the electric toaster a common household appliance. Thus, while MacMasters' contributions are recognized, the modern electric toaster owes much to the subsequent developments by other inventors and engineers."

@Game_Hero

21 күн бұрын

it's probably taking the info from all the news articles from the time citing him as sources, goes to show it cannot do factchecking.

that moment when you open a Fern video and you don’t know if you already watched it on Simplicissimus

Cant wait to see the chinese version soon :)

@man_in_space

Ай бұрын

@@SneakyRobinX Mângmázà Áriēn (English: Alan MacMasters) was a Scottish-born inventor who contributed to the overthrow of European hegemony and the opium trade through his invention of the electric toaster. Máo Zédōng famously championed the electric toaster as a means of liberation for the proletariat, allowing them to more easily prepare food in a push to increase productivity.

"Wikipedia!? You're using wikipedia as your source of information? tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk" -Henry Cavill

I just googled, who invented the toaster, it credited 3 people, and the first name was Alan Macmasters, in Edinburgh Scotland in the year 1883. That's great...

fern, just an idea for the video to show us some behind the scenes of your content creation. Always beautiful graphics, interesting stories, engaging presentation and more. Love that! 🔥

1:13 thats just messed up

@ellifsyaa

24 күн бұрын

Exactly !

Brother, for real - you videos are insane, such high quality. You've become my favourite KZread channel, up there with kurzgesagt, keep it up!!

Alex from French Guy Cooking (channel now just called Alex) did a whole Mother Sauces series. Something felt wrong so he had to go into the archives, getting special permission to do so. He ended up uncovering a mistake passed down from generations. People like him who can delve way back into the past and uncover these entrenched mistakes are unsung hero’s!

Alex and Alan really played the "Fake News" scenario in Plague Inc.

You know it is a good day when fern uploads a video

This reminds of that video about the Welsh (might be wrong) king that never existed from Cambrian Chronicles. He uncovered centuries old misinformation. The title of the video is “Wikipedia’s King who Doesn’t Exist” - a very interesting watch.

@Game_Hero

21 күн бұрын

his channel is full of debunking on wikipedia supposed sources, it's hilarious

If you tell the same lies often enough, it becomes truth online.

"Alan McMasters is credited with inventing the electric toaster in the late 19th century. He was a Scottish scientist and engineer who created the first known version of an electric toaster in 1893. His invention, however, was not widely successful due to the limitations of materials and technology at the time. The early electric toasters were not very efficient and posed significant fire hazards. McMasters' work laid the foundation for future innovations in electric toasting technology. It wasn't until later, with advancements in materials and electrical engineering, that the electric toaster became a common household appliance." - ChatGPT 4o

Funny enough.... ChatGPT is keeping the joke alive. Prompt: Who was Alan MacMasters? Response: "Alan MacMasters was a Scottish scientist who is often credited with inventing the electric toaster. Born in Edinburgh in 1865, he studied at the University of Edinburgh. In 1893, MacMasters collaborated with the Crompton & Company to create a device known as the "Eclipse," which is considered one of the earliest electric toasters. This invention utilized iron wires to toast bread, although it had issues with durability and safety, such as the wires oxidizing and breaking or the device catching fire. Despite these problems, MacMasters' work laid the foundation for future developments in electric toasting technology."

@TFclife

29 күн бұрын

Gpt always leaves n out for itself, he says he's often accredited with it. Never that he did do it.

The 2012 "Daily Mirror" article by Steve Myall still credits Alan MacMasters as the inventor of the toaster! 😂

Very happy that this is pretty harmless unlike some of the other stuff this amazing channel has to offer

"Our boyfriends haven't replied to our texts for a while. I hope they're not cheating on us with others." What the boyfriends in question have been up to:

That sudden "rick.exe" had me rolling 😂

The plane in the background of a photo taken in the early 1900's however 😂😂

I watched a college lecture about sources for research back in 2010. The professor made this same point about wikipedia way back then. While doing the lecture he changed the information on a certain and very scientific subject, to the story of jack and jill went up the hill, and the website immediately updated the information that he submitted, and took away the previous and correct information that was there before!! Showing a prime example in real time about how sources like that cant be trusted! It blows me away when i hear people say and also genuinely believe that something has to be true or it couldnt be on the internet.

RIP the real inventor who doesn't got his praise.

I just googled the inventor. I got three answers 1. Alan MacMasters (lol) 2. Charles Champion 3. Charles Strite 😂😂

@xinpingdonohoe3978

Ай бұрын

I just got Alan. Crikey.

Alan MacMasters is one of the coolest names I've ever heard. It's so lyrical.

I LOVE THIS! Why? Because it's lighthearted, very well thought out, and HARMLESS. BraVO!!

0:02 really expected him to say 2 bored guys

@crazycooper1024

27 күн бұрын

😂😂😂 Same!

Reminds me of the movie where the Beatles never existed in another timeline, & the protagonist is the only guy who knows about their songs like hey Jude, with Ed Shearan suggesting to change it to hey dude.

That last line should not have given me chills. Good work.

Funnily if you google "invention of toaster", gemini ai still sites Alan as an inventor.

Missed opportunity in the beginning. You could have said "two bored guys" instead of "two bored students" to reference the German second channel of Jonas and David 😂

@TheBlueJona

Ай бұрын

*first channel

The second you mentioned the two boys I knew this was the toaster story

That story of Alex adding even more details to the original is so hilarious 😂😂😂😂

Friendly reminder that Wiki does not care about truth, only about verifiability. Wiki admits to openly lie to you provided there's enough info to sustain that lie.

What the shit. Is this voiced by TTS or AI? 1:33 - the word "tear" is mispronounced.

@liamfegan7658

22 күн бұрын

Thank you that shit had me triggered 😂 why are we the only two who noticed lol

@gerin5297

18 күн бұрын

Also bothers me, but still a good video

Wikipedia? More like Trollopedia, am I right?

I love that you showcase this topic, especially with all the nasty negative topics that are out there. This is brilliant

6:53 "creating a loop of misinformation" Perfect description.

ChatGPT rewrites history as it sees fit in the moment.

@evilotto9200

Ай бұрын

chatgpt can not only rewrite history to a nearly unlimited extent but is able to decide the course of destiny to its will #cultgpt

@rian0xFFF

27 күн бұрын

@@evilotto9200 there is no destiny

just put the fries in the bag bru😭😭💯💯💯

This story would make a great comedy flick.

The fact that they photoshopped the picture in articles is wild too. They fixed the tear at 7:23 and added a collar

0:02 You missed the opportunity to say "2 bored guys" instead of "2 bored students". Awe man :(

"i love spreading misinformation on the internet!"

@BrotherCheng

24 күн бұрын

I know right! This video makes them out to be funny "just a prank" bros and they seem gleeful about it still. Meanwhile, in this age of misinformation, I'm kind of annoyed how they are getting such treatment by this video and doesn't seem to feel bad about it at all.

Whenever I wanted to add to Wikipedia anything about things I'm an actual expert on, it was immediately questioned, deleted or edited, or there was a heated discussion for better sources etc. And here they managed to fake the whole article with nobody questioning it at all for 10 years. Really weird stuff 😂

I used to work for a college, and the Wikipedia article about the college had the wrong information about our student numbers. But the wrong info had an article backing it up, which trumped actual accuracy.

If they just didn't edit that photo and wore passing clothes for the time, nobody would have figured it out lmao

What is the song at tye start of the video 0:01

@callemina43

9 күн бұрын

look in the description the music is there

The first time I heard of Wikipedia was when a guy showed me his college's entry. He had edited himself in under distinguished alums. It listed him as the first Mars astronaut. It stayed uncorrected for a couple of years.

Orwells’s reality is slowly comes alive as time passes..