Thank you for confirming my belief that Buzzfeed is the Herpes of the internet.

@rainverrev2307

8 жыл бұрын

Buzzfeed is red...

@Nootathotep

8 жыл бұрын

OOOOOOOH

@EmanuelSer

8 жыл бұрын

:O BUZZFEED IS ANGER!!

@ricciops2

8 жыл бұрын

hahaha

@MrTigrika

8 жыл бұрын

ramble ramble ramble...

I'm angry this video didn't make me angry Oh wait

@jocelynfernandes2131

4 жыл бұрын

Facts

@garretthodsdon3542

4 жыл бұрын

@0 subscribers without a video? get destroyed

@thepillarmen2960

4 жыл бұрын

0 subscribers without a video? Lies you have 5

@suned3128

4 жыл бұрын

Toxic 10 No, fuck you and everyone else.

@bam_marks

4 жыл бұрын

Oof

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.

@Rabi2in

2 жыл бұрын

Memes, the dna of the soul

@Thorne-In-Your-Side

2 жыл бұрын

@@Rabi2in Apple Bottom Jeans, Raiden. Boots with the fur.

@Rabi2in

2 жыл бұрын

@@Thorne-In-Your-Side emergency meeting

@andrewtorrens7790

Жыл бұрын

It goes far beyond memes... It also encompasses the fox vs MSNBC extremes, KZread misinformation, american politics...

@Thorne-In-Your-Side

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewtorrens7790 Those are all memes.

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.

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

@undyingUmbrage

6 жыл бұрын

T H O U G H T D E S T R O Y E D

@fgvcosmic6752

6 жыл бұрын

XD lololololololol

@ZurielJoven

6 жыл бұрын

Satanael!

@oskarjanson4858

6 жыл бұрын

thought reproduced

@stayhydrated2371

6 жыл бұрын

Dammit

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.

@RaylaEclipse

4 жыл бұрын

You know what, I don't think we need that video. Let's argue now.

@carlstan4282

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

@jeyaramsathees6128

4 жыл бұрын

🤔

@raddragon1373

4 жыл бұрын

@@carlstan4282 Actually no, we dont need a video, as arguing is best done via arguing and experience.

@carlstan4282

4 жыл бұрын

@@raddragon1373 I disagree. Lets start a [stupid, biased and unethical] race war

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

@irisbassin

2 жыл бұрын

It is still there

@funnyfisher7

2 жыл бұрын

@@irisbassin yeah, I just made a comment about how the closed captions go beyond the end of the video ... quite interesting!

@zionj104

2 жыл бұрын

Aw :( I think it's still there on the podcast

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.

@captaineflowchapka5535

2 жыл бұрын

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

@siryizzir

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@nicefloweytheoverseer7632

Жыл бұрын

I'd try to stop the arguement itself, taking a third side.

So memes are biological weapons that is condemned by the Geneva convention

@subscribefornoreason7390

4 жыл бұрын

No *shit*

@hugasbernotas3250

4 жыл бұрын

Article 13 instensifyies

@subscribefornoreason7390

4 жыл бұрын

@Rafael Cracel makes sense to me.

@vsiegel

4 жыл бұрын

Commie Memes - No, memes are psychological weapons.

@ericstiffin8532

4 жыл бұрын

Haha!

This guy just explained meme culture in 7 minutes... A feat I couldn't complete in my lifetime

@kd013n

3 жыл бұрын

you know there's an invisible timeline behind every video of any length, right?

@Enderia2

3 жыл бұрын

Or like 4 if you go to 2x speed

@wegwerfacc2667

3 жыл бұрын

"Meme" actually means spreading thoughts and ideas around. The study of this is called "memetics" you should look it up

@motazfawzi2504

3 жыл бұрын

@@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_

@racool911

3 жыл бұрын

More than meme culture, he basically explained all culture

I love how 9,251,353 people clicked on this video, wanting to get angry.

this has only become more relevant with each new year and i suspect this will continue for many more

I'm in AWE and really pretty HAPPY that this video didn't make me ANGRY. (sneeze)

@mw170037

9 жыл бұрын

I caught the germ D:

@emmejm

9 жыл бұрын

I disagree

@JesseGardner

9 жыл бұрын

I'm SAD my comment won't get any likes. ;)

@TheDivegeek

9 жыл бұрын

"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".

@mw170037

9 жыл бұрын

Memes aren't the only "thought germ" though.

This video needs to be permanently pinned to KZread's front page, right smack in the center.

@LurkerPlus

5 жыл бұрын

minus access to the comments section, I hope. :-)

@nolanwestrich2602

5 жыл бұрын

@@LurkerPlus Actually, the comments seem to be primarily making fun of these polarizing, symbiotic thought germs.

@jadegrace1312

5 жыл бұрын

Why not left smack in the center, reeee

@tritonvid9680

5 жыл бұрын

lets report

@dejayrezme8617

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's like one of the most important systems of our time.

This aged well ... Unfortunately

Psh politics, *am I right?*

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

@coolestto

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@aydennuula979

2 жыл бұрын

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?

@kara6020

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@snow-in4zp

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@baileyt2249

2 жыл бұрын

@@coolestto isnt pro life anti abortion?

The “you’re with us or against us” line hits pretty different in 2021.

@kyleking3839

3 жыл бұрын

It does in any election year and the one after lol

@dantecaputo2629

3 жыл бұрын

@@kyleking3839 Yeah, but this one is a bit different.

@JamesMcCloud966

3 жыл бұрын

"Blame all and praise all are two blockheads." -Benjamin Franklin

@year6million

3 жыл бұрын

@@kyleking3839 why u so mad?

@kyleking3839

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

This only gets more relevant as time goes on. Godspeed Grey, you may well be our only hope

"Sad thoughts don't get very far" -they get in depressed people. Does that mean depression is basically a mental immune deficiency?

@thomastakesatollforthedark2231

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@poisax

4 жыл бұрын

Nah it's just that nobody wants to hear your sorry ass. Just kidding I don't mean that ♡

@strawberryflavouredcloroxb1565

4 жыл бұрын

the fuck-

@daniel4647

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@jmh1189

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, sad thoughts get into a brain. Causes unalive. Can't continue.

This video was made five years ago but couldn’t be more relavent right now in 2020

@kaned2732

3 жыл бұрын

I swear all the these info channels are time travelers

@romanmorozov6974

3 жыл бұрын

-Do you mean the metaphor of germs, or the topic of divisiveness? -Yes

@dazedandconfused2896

3 жыл бұрын

Roman Morozov more so decisiveness but it works for both

@Justanothermusicnerdxo

3 жыл бұрын

This is basically the entire year. Mask vs Nomask, blm vs blm, d vs r.

@BrazzMataz

3 жыл бұрын

Literally was describing this video to my grandfather to explain social outrage on FB

Didn't make me angry. Disappointed.

bro predicted 10 years into the future...

>click a video expecting to get clickbaited >get a video on memetics I don't know about you, but I'm happy.

@Jan-su5vm

6 жыл бұрын

Dawkins ftw

@greenapple3554

6 жыл бұрын

he clickbaited you so you're supposed to be mad

@Horny_Fruit_Flies

6 жыл бұрын

You're supposed to be mad either way.

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

@guerra_dos_bichos

8 жыл бұрын

+The Bandog NO! You ugly dog!

@leelemar7432

8 жыл бұрын

+Gnomelord0 ANGRY ANGRY ANGRY ARGUMENT BLAH BLAH!

@ParanoidAlaskan

8 жыл бұрын

+Dendarang Im sure 4Chan could

@Gnomelord0

8 жыл бұрын

Dendarang Did you just criticize strawmen while using tumblr as a strawman? classy

@Gnomelord0

8 жыл бұрын

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.

did anyone notice 0:35?

thinking of tweets on twitter as sneezes definetly makes me feel better

@certifiedfurry

2 жыл бұрын

@@caseyschannel amazing

That's my secret, I'm always angry

@bluegoose7832

8 жыл бұрын

Im on my phone but I would like your comment if I was on PC

@Pangolinist

8 жыл бұрын

Sweet, thanks!

@bluegoose7832

8 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome

@Awesome-zu7iw

8 жыл бұрын

Hulk smash

@Storse

8 жыл бұрын

same

I really want the "Arguments: You're making everything worse" video to come to life.

@lilowhitney8614

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@lilowhitney8614

3 жыл бұрын

@@presidentialcampaignmusic1018 You're right, but in the context of thought germs most of them are. Just look at the comment section of youtube.

@cursed_cats5710

3 жыл бұрын

@@presidentialcampaignmusic1018 Argument without aggression is debate.

@ultimatedude5686

3 жыл бұрын

@@cursed_cats5710 nah debates are more formal

@cursed_cats5710

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

are the dislikes from people who got angry or people who didnt?

The simplest explanation of both meme theory and infohazards.

I'm thinking Democrats vs Republicans is the perfect example for this

@UsernameNULL755

9 жыл бұрын

chaosXP3RT you forgot about theists vs atheists.

@rcticfloof

9 жыл бұрын

Shketri and Tumblr and the rest of the world

@Drudenfusz

9 жыл бұрын

My first thought was GamerGate and anti-GamerGate and then Feminists and the MRM.

@Drudenfusz

9 жыл бұрын

***** Great, there you do it, defaming one side because you are in favour of the other, guess you learned nothing from that video!

@atlerthedark3639

9 жыл бұрын

Also Atheists and religious people.

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.

@johnquincyadams1562

3 жыл бұрын

Going to kick your teeth in lmao

@ahobimo732

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnquincyadams1562 what?

@locorocky1

3 жыл бұрын

*appreciates message. Goes to comment in agreement. Sees other responses..... Sigh* ok, yeah, welcome to the internet.

@confusedcay8845

3 жыл бұрын

Share it and spread those thought germs

@9051team

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnquincyadams1562 want to grow our anger germs?

If there's any video that deserves to be pinned to the front page of KZread for the rest of eternity, it's this one.

nine years later still revelent as always would love that argument video

...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"?

@matthewnickolas4706

9 жыл бұрын

IoEstasCedonta And 1% is Games?

@AstroTorch

9 жыл бұрын

IoEstasCedonta Sounds right to me.

@Maxander2001

8 жыл бұрын

+Gamers Combat (Sapis) "pointless games" :)

@matthewnickolas4706

8 жыл бұрын

Maxander2001 kinda

@ixgracee

8 жыл бұрын

IoEstasCedonta cat porn? DX HORRIBLE

This makes me remember the time that reddit fought over what color the upvote button was (red or orange)

@mikerotchburns7122

3 жыл бұрын

Obviously orange

@sdrawkcab_emanresu

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

@-khayri-4280

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@sdrawkcab_emanresu

3 жыл бұрын

@@-khayri-4280 RED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And a combination of red and orange would be orange, but IT IS RED AND RED ONLY!!!!!!111!!!!

@sekhmet7774

3 жыл бұрын

@@sdrawkcab_emanresu The color of reddit's logo and lots of the UI is orange so why would it be red and not orange?

7yrs later and this video couldn't ring any more true if it wanted to. Aging like great wine.

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.

“It’s your brain, be hygienic with it.” *scrubs brain with soap*

@rox10.07

4 жыл бұрын

Its GG Gamer that is absolutely horrifying.

@user-rx7sq8fd1p

4 жыл бұрын

Roxana no problem

@user-rx7sq8fd1p

4 жыл бұрын

JosukeHasCoolHair :/

@thedaemonofreason3406

4 жыл бұрын

RIP

@danese1636

4 жыл бұрын

Ayy! Brain Washing!!!

This explains the longevity of the Pineapple on pizza debate.

@camohawk6703

5 жыл бұрын

two sides. one is right and the other wrong. which is which?

@GamingKing-jo9py

5 жыл бұрын

I love pineapples on pizza with their softness a juice (softer than normal, it's good).

@camohawk6703

5 жыл бұрын

GamingKing2436 thanks for pointing out the wrong position

@Thrlta

5 жыл бұрын

@@camohawk6703 the anti pop

@spongebobsquarepants2175

5 жыл бұрын

@@GamingKing-jo9py tf is wrong with you

Instructions unclear, i'm not angry.

0:34 why did the germs turn into clowns for 1 frame

so memes ARE actually aids

@matthistauritzbakker1992

8 жыл бұрын

no cancer

@alonetorch

8 жыл бұрын

+Matthis Tauritz Bakker no that's buzzfeed

@matthistauritzbakker1992

8 жыл бұрын

Michael Agnello lol

@imbadatusernames3304

8 жыл бұрын

Are pepes memes?

@NebulaOldChannel

8 жыл бұрын

+Ralana Whelton Yes

"Still here? You got infected really hard." Well, no, I got lost in the comments..

@Ryutsashi

5 жыл бұрын

The other thought germs got to you before Grey's did

@tarrenpk6180

5 жыл бұрын

Eryn Chandler same

@Vileplume87

5 жыл бұрын

Bucket Hat Trick a

@mb8021

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂

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? ._.

2023 and I think more people need to see this video

"Each group argues among themselves about how angry they are at the other group" Reddit and internet culture in a nutshell

@1973Washu

3 жыл бұрын

Reddit is pure cancer , avoid it.

@Chaotic-warp

2 жыл бұрын

@@1973Washu how the mighty has fallen down :( Reddit used to be the best now it's terrible

@anonym3

2 жыл бұрын

*group

@teresitaledesma799

2 жыл бұрын

A-among!? *US*

@idkwhattoputhere4729

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah and twitter

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.

@sergeymyasnikov736

2 жыл бұрын

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(

@filipelimartins

2 жыл бұрын

@@sergeymyasnikov736 so what changed?

@siryizzir

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@mastico_piedras

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@rubyr8922

2 жыл бұрын

Why not just build up an immunity to it, expose yourself to it so much that it no longer phases you in the slightest.

literally "Inception" (2010 movie) : "What is the most resilient parasite? A bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea."

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!"

@pocok5000

Жыл бұрын

it is

Does this mean memes are literally cancer?

@SomeGuyNotKnown

8 жыл бұрын

the dankest of memes at least

@XYxTheOppxJX

8 жыл бұрын

it means trump is cancer because its devisiveness

@notnormalyet

8 жыл бұрын

cancer isn't contagious...

@jimbob9325

8 жыл бұрын

+notnormalyet or a germ lol

@parafitaify

8 жыл бұрын

More like Ebola

reddit in a nutshell

@Gianlol12

8 жыл бұрын

+TheBadGuy Says a guy that probably uses 4chan on a daily basis and never really reads Reddit. I'm close, aren't I ?

@B3Band

8 жыл бұрын

+Gianlol12 There are people who think 4chan is more popular than reddit? Seriously?

@iandoyle3695

8 жыл бұрын

+Gianlol12 as someone who uses both 4chan and reddit. I have to say. 4Chan is bester than Reddit.

@SIGSEGV1337

8 жыл бұрын

+ian doyle 8chan is better than 4chan

@piecake9173

8 жыл бұрын

just subs like /r/atheism

0:06 Well, for me that also is an educational video, i'm learning a lot of stuf...

3:03 I love how there’s only 1 CGP Germ

Trainers HATE him! 7 things you didnt know about.. What he did next will SHOCK you!

@ErickTG

9 жыл бұрын

Man, I clicked on your comment!

@jawada154

9 жыл бұрын

This ONE weird trick to burn fat! ... Uhh, like eating less?

@TallOldOak

9 жыл бұрын

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.

@RobbyGAMEZ

9 жыл бұрын

DrMrProfJacob you should own buzzfeed

@liboud22

9 жыл бұрын

I'm making $7453 USD a day. You can too. I'll tell you my secret for only $7453.

Two years later and now we know where the Paul brothers learned to do what they did.

@parkashsinghbadal9983

5 жыл бұрын

And pewds do the same

@amandeepsinghbedi108

4 жыл бұрын

St Paul's?

@amandeepsinghbedi108

4 жыл бұрын

Or pual juniot

@amandeepsinghbedi108

4 жыл бұрын

Junior*

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!

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.

@mattcollins5974

2 жыл бұрын

fascist

@TheDankEngineer

2 жыл бұрын

@@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?

I can't watch this without thinking about American politics and how polarized it is now, I'm not even American.

@kimjunguny

7 жыл бұрын

Funny.. Keep to your own country.

@smallblueflower

7 жыл бұрын

HicaptainWorld Funny.. keep your army out of my region.

@smallblueflower

7 жыл бұрын

HicaptainWorld Funny.. stop creating terrorism swamps by invading and destabilizing other countries.

@parsalotfi8143

7 жыл бұрын

+HicaptainWorld take your L

@moonx3260

7 жыл бұрын

HeyThereBImHope please save us

It's so relevant right now. Yeah, right now, no matter when you read it.

@themindbender1652

3 жыл бұрын

First reply somehow

@Leonium797

3 жыл бұрын

yep

@bastard-took-the-name-I-had

3 жыл бұрын

Omg he is transmitting this message through time and space

@Swordfish42

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

@bastard-took-the-name-I-had

3 жыл бұрын

@@Swordfish42 Glad to help?

This video aged like wine

The whole germ analogy wouldn't be the best one to use in the world's current state.

it didn't make me angry, i want my money back lol

@smala017

8 жыл бұрын

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.

@smala017

8 жыл бұрын

By the way, how can it not make you angry? He pronounced gif wrong. >:(

@ScottJFox

8 жыл бұрын

+Stephen Malacaria no, He pronounced gif correctly. >__>

@billtalent1

8 жыл бұрын

Scott J. Fox i wasn't listening did he say jif or gif?

@ScottJFox

8 жыл бұрын

i am da maasta he says "gif" like a proper human being. :P

This video made me angry because it didn't make me angry Oh wait

@kristiyanmirchev8127

7 жыл бұрын

Oh wait

@mattk6343

7 жыл бұрын

I did something wrong. It didn't make me angry, and I am also not angry at the fact that it didn't

@sciblastofficial9833

7 жыл бұрын

Kristiyan Mirchev P A R A D O X

@mattk6343

7 жыл бұрын

maybe, but being as flegmatic as I am is not always the best.

@PokeMaster22222

7 жыл бұрын

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.

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?

Did the video mentioned at 5:41 ever get made? I cant see it in CGPs library.

Much like a driving test before getting on the road, this video should be shown to everyone before getting on the internet.

@anishogale7574

3 жыл бұрын

Yea

@signodeinterrogacion8361

3 жыл бұрын

Bycicles: Weell I think I broke the system!

@adarshmohapatra5058

2 жыл бұрын

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".

@PecsaV

2 жыл бұрын

No not actually, it would be impossible, you live under the rocks?

@mariuscovic4797

2 жыл бұрын

@@PecsaV why?

This video made me angry because there was a 30 sec unskipable ad before

@tonywoodhouse6988

7 жыл бұрын

Does anyone ever look at these ads? I don't.

@CO8ism

7 жыл бұрын

adblock

@viccorum4640

7 жыл бұрын

support youtube creators!

@liberemur6555

7 жыл бұрын

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

Dude that frame at 0:35 is actually horrifying I thought I was hallucinating for like a full minute.

Man, this feels like it was way ahead of it's time in 2015. I only realized stuff like this in recent years.

Never has a video so accurately encapsulated social media before this

@lorrainewilliams7896

6 жыл бұрын

Does anyone else find it disturbing that Facebook, Twitters, etc. are getting rich off people spewing irrational hatred?

@AsfandyarAfridi

5 жыл бұрын

my hate for india is gone

01:08 "Sad thoughs don't get very far." That's sad :(

@ruizmanuel69

3 жыл бұрын

guess this didn’t spread very far

@jfish032

3 жыл бұрын

It is!! Because sadness is most associated with slowing down and learning 🥺

@womp47

3 жыл бұрын

you proved his point

@jfish032

3 жыл бұрын

@@presidentialcampaignmusic1018 of all the emotions? I would say so!

@ChadVulpes

3 жыл бұрын

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.

More people need to watch this even more so nowadays.

This video feels very relevant in Canada 2022..

“Not so educational videos” A circle with a heart in it hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

@superdrummergaming

3 жыл бұрын

Slightly more polite than using the pornhub logo.

@aspennnnnnnn

3 жыл бұрын

0:59 The heart goes to the pituitary gland

@bolson42

3 жыл бұрын

@@aspennnnnnnn lmao nice catch

@xLynxxx

3 жыл бұрын

@@aspennnnnnnn lmaooo

@elanrg

3 жыл бұрын

Turn the heart upside down and you get some uhhhh.... the only hint imma give is “test”

This guy really doesn't want to say the word "meme."

@owenlever

8 жыл бұрын

2:53

@StrontiumMercury

8 жыл бұрын

Owen Lever Thanks.

@timotab

8 жыл бұрын

+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.

@AnaseSkyrider

8 жыл бұрын

+StrontiumMercury wat

@SOMEGUY7893

8 жыл бұрын

+StrontiumMercury This is actually a really simple explanation of what memetics are though.

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.

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.

Now did CGP Grey make this video due to the dress debate, because he says that it takes him forever to make a video. Or did he predict the dress debate. Or did CGP Grey start the dress debate to make this video inherently relevant. It's official, CGP Grey has become the internet, and actually controls everything we see and post. CONFIRMED.

@SuperSMT

9 жыл бұрын

CGP Grey IS illuminati!

@TheDewok12

9 жыл бұрын

Nope.

@AlwaysConfused4

9 жыл бұрын

CGP Grey is really a sentient supercomputer intent on making us kill each other over the colors of a dress!

@treybowers4839

9 жыл бұрын

HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED

@FloridatedH2O

9 жыл бұрын

I, for one, welcome our new robot CGP Grey/Illuminati overlords.

"But do I give a fuck?" - How to get through the world around you.

@danielc.5724

7 жыл бұрын

Tru dat

@alkoy2

7 жыл бұрын

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

@halcaster4052

7 жыл бұрын

HILLARY SUCKS!!!

@manuelbauer6307

7 жыл бұрын

RoobehTunes thanks for the advice 😊

@marklando1516

7 жыл бұрын

RoobehTunes But that just spreads more angry gems XD.

very sąd that you din’t use the proper term, “meme”

"anger reproduces the most" Breaking news: schools cancel snow days! ... BREAKING NEWS: # SaveSnowDays HAS TAKEN TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION!

@Brahvim

3 жыл бұрын

xDDDDDDDD

@atchaaa

2 жыл бұрын

ah yes

"Logging on to your social media then is exposing yourself to everyone's mental sneezes."

@aa01blue38

4 жыл бұрын

"Their snot in your mouth"

@nataly_171

4 жыл бұрын

I really do want a sneeze-themed social media platform for some reason now.

I swear, the comments for this video are some of the CALMEST and happiest I've ever seen for any KZread 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.*

@qaawara109

6 жыл бұрын

under-rated comment :D

@oreole9608

6 жыл бұрын

you got a bit angry there tho

@lorrainewilliams7896

6 жыл бұрын

I also thought there was an unusual amount of intelligence and optimism in these comments. A welcome change for sure!

@venusfrommyshows

6 жыл бұрын

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *Angerirng intensifies*

@over00lordunknown12

6 жыл бұрын

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...

The only winners here, are the ones who never play.

@videogames8261

Жыл бұрын

you just keep on trying

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!

@Tk-wg9fp

6 жыл бұрын

Hik M

@dehartfamily3091

6 жыл бұрын

Very true - I like the ending comment about how we need to be wary of views that have passed through so many hands

@Knowledge-uy5sq

6 жыл бұрын

Hik Molokov HAHA STOOPID LIBTARDS!!!!1!

@ZurielJoven

6 жыл бұрын

wow, that's a pretty bad sneeze. God bless

@papagary7723

6 жыл бұрын

Hik Molokov ok

The Dome fossil was our true god and Flareon wasn't a false prophet.

@Fistminer

9 жыл бұрын

Hail Helix!

@UncopyrightTNT

9 жыл бұрын

All hail the true master, Amber!!!

@VG_164

9 жыл бұрын

What the Helix did you just fucking say about me, you little ledge? I’ll have you know I graduated last in my class at Silph Co, and I’ve been involved in prolonged erratic walking within Rock Tunnel, and I have over 300 confirmed saves per minute. I am trained in sand attack warfare and I’m the top tree cutter in the entire Helix Fossil armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another TM. I will toss you away with a lack of precision the likes of which has never been seen before, mark my 10,000 fucking words. You think you can get away with pressing the start button over the Internet? Think again, Eevee. As we speak I am spamming chat to gather my secret network of 'b' spammers across Kanto, and your Pokemon ID is being traced right now so you better prepare for the Pidgeot, you Dome fossil. The Pidgeot that blows away the pathetic little thing you call your sanity. And trust me, Now's not the time to use that , kid. I can be anywhere but where you want me to be, and I can solve puzzles in over seven hundred thousand steps, and that’s just with my thousands of bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in cutting tress in under 4 hours, but I have access to Jay Leno and I will use it to its full extent to push you off various ledges, you little Kabuto. If only you could have known what unholy frustration your little “start” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have prayed to the almighty Helix Fossil. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying with nuggets, you idiot. I will release vital Pokemon from the PC all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking tossed, Dome Fossil.

@JohannesEckhoff

9 жыл бұрын

Heretic!

@lukas15gc

9 жыл бұрын

Lol, you ain't got shit on lazorgator!

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.

I feel accomplished by the fact that no specific internet argument came to mind when you were talking about how anger germs spread.

I am now angry that the video did not make me angry.

@noahwilliams8996

8 жыл бұрын

+Salim Jbara I'M ANGRY THAT YOU CONTRADICTED YOURSELF! D:

@SalimJ

8 жыл бұрын

+Noah Williams NOW I'M ANGRY THAT YOU'RE ANGRY DUE TO MY SELF CONTRADICTION!

@noahwilliams8996

8 жыл бұрын

Salim Jbara STOP SHOUTING! YOU'RE MAKING ME MORE ANGRY! D:

@SalimJ

8 жыл бұрын

+Noah Williams DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! NOW I'M REALLY ANGRY!

@noahwilliams8996

8 жыл бұрын

Salim Jbara I'M SO ANGRY I COULD JUST GO AND ARGUE ABOUT HOW ANGRY I AM!

Emotions are weak spots in my brain? Better get rid of them

@KyleAButler

7 жыл бұрын

Live long and prosper. 🖖

@gmandurj40

7 жыл бұрын

Psychopaths beat the system!!

@EiSaaPeittaas

7 жыл бұрын

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.

@champagnemoneyabuelo

7 жыл бұрын

Those quotes are depressing but accurate and logical nevertheless.

@aaxram310

7 жыл бұрын

Channel Unbound BY BEING EMO

I can't find the video about arguing, anyone know what happened to it?

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.

Don't think I didn't see the spooky clowns at 0:35

@sanity8794

7 жыл бұрын

The whole video was fascinating and didn't make me mad but when I saw the clowns I lost it.

@mattieerola6312

7 жыл бұрын

youre helping it reproduce

@skozgard2144

7 жыл бұрын

Oh darn

@MaxJ.ProfessionalLilGuy

6 жыл бұрын

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).

@pinkystarrr7492

6 жыл бұрын

I didnt see it

he's literally just described Richard Dawkins' original definition of 'meme'

@GreyWolfLeaderTW

8 жыл бұрын

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.

@Kelly_C

8 жыл бұрын

+GreyWolfLeaderTW I'm just referring to the fact that Dawkins coined the term 'meme'

@Kelly_C

8 жыл бұрын

+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)

@AirahsELL

8 жыл бұрын

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.

@necronlordoflawtan

8 жыл бұрын

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

4:59 CGP Grey explains US politics in 44 seconds!

he really predicted the doors - wheels argument