How Weird Is My Audience? I Polled 15,408 People To Find Out
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That's it, from now on I wanna be called "former UN secretary General ban ki moon"
love the dedication here
This comment has a character arc. Brilliant.
I'm still just going to call you Henry
You absolute madman.
Anything you say former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon
“wait you have an owl? what’s its name?” *former un secretary general ban ki moon*
I'm gonna make a religion out of that
No, don't.
Yes, do.
I am naming my next pet that.
I had to stop the video for a solid 2 minutes to laugh. My stomach hurts
The guys who named the Owl "Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon" and "XxX_The_-Mouse_Killer_69_XxX" should receive an Oscar.
you mean an "Owlscar"?
@@wawercat1516😂
@@wawercat1516 69 likes... We did it folks Edit: no don't unlike plz
Yes
Demonstrated thorough understanding of the assignment.
It’s scary how all the answers the audience gave are exactly my answers. It’s scary how similar one group can be.
Precisely this fact is why when people see a suspiciously relevant ad, the assume their phone is “listening” - the sad reality …. You aren’t that special, and another 10,000 people in your demographic also just talked about building a shed, and then saw an ad for one.
Wild that you gave the answer “former un secretary general ban ki moon”
@@decent_random exactly!!
Ironically, how 'weird' someone rates themselves appears to be normally distributed.
And we aren't outliers, just skewed a bit
*gaussian distribution has entered the chat*
With 20% addition of uniform distribution in the case of the general public.
Looks more like beta to me
You might as well call it how 'normal' someone rates themselves though.
I didn't even know that there's such thing as "two spacers".
same tbh, shocked me
I had to learn this for work. Now I only type in 2 space when I make a word document/google doc. But prior to that, I never heard of it either.
@@teapot55 ah I see. Do they have any specific reason for that?
Me neither.. maybe it's a cultural thing as well? That they teach it at school in some countries?
@@siopaosoysauce then maybe in some states
Lmao the graph of weirdness 8:26 , Tom's audience literally gave a middle finger in the last question
In reference to your audience being more likely to be a cat person, this is common among internet polls. Several theories exist for this phenomenon, although none are confirmed obviously Namely whether an individual is an introvert or extrovert. Clearly both use the internet, but the internet caters better to introverts as do cats Good dog ownership is relatively urban locations almost guarantees a good bit of social interaction with strangers, while cats are often content lounging around the house with their caretaker. Dogs are also are more severely impacted by bizarre sleeping schedules that often plague internet users than cats Cats also understand personal space. A cat will leave you alone for several hours in a day more often than not, while a dog is more often attached to their caretakers hip at all times
@Naikomi Ooh I did not know this! Why do you think that is?
@@steelwall4396 What was it?
That's was my exact thought process when I decided to choose cats. I need personal space and a cat is more likely to give me that
Congratulations to whoever named the Owl "Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon" for managing to break One Take Tom Scott
XD I didn't notice that before and now I will always be aware of that.
mad respect
Twice.
I looked him up and he’s an actual person, did not expect that
and congrats to this community for breaking Google's algorithm because the picture of that owl is now the 13th hit when image searching "Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon" as of 16/7/2021. That is both hilarious and incredible.
"Hey look, there's a Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon outside my window"
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Can someone explain that joke to me?
@@redprez16 6:36
The smell question is really interesting. Never thought about that. There are some smells I can imagine, e.g. smells of certain spices or flowers or drinks or fruits and so on but it is harder than imagining a picture or a song. However, I cannot imagine complex smells like perfumes, not even those that would be familiar to me when I'd actually smell them and that's probably because I cannot associate them either. Sometimes I smell a perfume and I know that some person I meet more often is using it as well since the smell is very familiar to me but I won't be able to tell which person that is. Smell is not an attribute my brain stores together with a face if you know what I mean.
Ironically the only smell I could clearly imagine was the sickening sweet smell of decaying garbage, only after quite a lot of effort could I imagine anything else.
@@Gavin-N gee, thanks. I really needed to have that smell rolling around in my head.
I do find thinking of smells to be harder than thinking of images or music, but I kinda think it's just because it's not something I intentionally do much. Even in the couple minutes I spent trying it, it got much easier after I'd been doing it for a bit.
I can imagine smells if I am hungry
The second question is phrased somewhat weirdly, as some people in the general public might think of ‘imagining’ as a childlike make-believe situation where they literally see their loved one or are singing a song, rather than just relaying it back in their head.
*We don't want to refer us "very weird", because we've seen the weird side of youtube.*
nice, my favourite feet magician watches tom scott!
Ye, I know the depths of weird and while I can be weird, I'm not *that* weird.
Filthy Frank
That's why I'm only 6 of 7.
Me who watched Ecchi mangas and Hentai:
I was 100% expecting "Owly McOwlface" to be an answer
That was my answer, but apparently not many other people answered this way.
@@thedavidd because they polled Americans, not Brits.
Boaty McBoatface
i thought Owlbert would make it into the top 15
I was disappointed by that too!
So nice that you credited your animator. I was admiring the graphics and animation all the way through this video and wondering how it was done. 💛 Also, cool video!
You know, Tom, in the Netherlands, there is a series called "Wie denk je wel dat je bent?" ("Who do you think you are?"). Its main focus is sociology and spychology, and in one of the episodes the theme was "Cat-people vs. dog-people". Apparently, whereas dog-people are more extroverted (like it is shown that Americans in fact are, compared to many other countries in the world), cat-people are more introverted. And I think that may explain why your followers tend to be cat-people. :D
Spychology is the act of spying on someone by corrupting or paying a psychologist to report on someone's weaknesses or insecurities
I never knew two spaces after a full stop was even a thing.
Same
same. like, why? is this a britain thing? is this an english speaking thing? I never heard of that discussion at all
came looking for your comment :D I can't understand where that might be coming from
Yup same
@@lux481 I'm american and that's how I was taught in school in the 80s/90s. I still sometimes do it by ancient reflex, but mostly I just do one these days.
The mere fact that almost no one thought they were normal, makes the people who said they are very normal, weird.
Almost like a paradox
Survivor bias
Thinking you're normal is just a form of egotism. To think that your world view is in some way objectively correct and therefore 'normal', whereas others are out there going against the natural order of things.
@@Mandragara You're projecting that the question is about world view, you might interpret it that way but it's very open. I'd read weird as having uncommon characteristics and normal as having common ones. If anything I'd say its most common to not have any strong political opinions or a firmly held set of beliefs.
By definition there are a number of people in existence who are outstandingly unremarkable.
Rating yourself as "very normal" is a strange catch 22, because almost no one does it - which automatically makes you weird.
1:46 I have a theory on the cat person thing. A study from Carrol University, Wisconsin showed “cat people” to be more introverted, open minded and sensitive, as well as scoring higher on intellegence tests than “dog people”. Other studies have shown similar results. I would think that someone more extroverted, close-minded, and somewhat less intellegent would be less likely to be sitting at home watching academic youtube videos about surveys.
Hun...
If I ever get an owl I will certainly name it "Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon."
"if" go get an owl
I think the ‘Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’ (EDIT: I WAS WRONG, someone pointed out that it was actually Boutros Boutros Galli) thing was a running joke on the David Letterman show a looong time ago.
I don't get it, why is this funny?
@@llaughridge Not that long time ago since Ban Ki Moon has been *Former* UN Secretary General for four years.
@@MondeSerenaWilliams Because the full name and title including formerly held offices of someone well known is quite an unexpected thing to call an owl.
So answering that you are “slightly more weird than average” is actually the least weird thing to do
Weird
Average
The weirdest weird people still consider themselves to be normal.
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The weirdest of the weird consider themselves very normal according to the poll
I think describing oneself as "slightly werid" makes sense. People have a limited perspective on other peoples inner and private lives so are going to possibly overestiamte how weird they are, especially as everyone will deviate from the norm on some things, but you don't know most people well enough to know where they deviate. But at the same time, we are our own baseline, so you will be less likely to think of yourself as "really weird"..
It is common for older people to put two spaces after a period. This is because of typing classes. Typing on a typewriter, you were taught to put two spaces after a period. And, even after the typewriter fell out of popularity, computer typing classes in schools were based on typewriter classes, and so much wasn't changed, including the instruction to use two spaces after a period. I know this because my 53-year-old mother still has trouble not putting two spaces after a period, even after regularly using a computer for work for over a decade. Just thought I'd share her thoughts.
Alternate explanation for the weirdness scale: Your audience are citizens of the internet, and rated themselves a perfect 5/7.
Fight Club moments
🤣🤣🤣
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Five out of seven? I must say, this is a grading scale like no other I've seen before.
with rice?
People who would name the owl "owl" were definitely underrepresented in the survey.
I was waiting for Owly McOwl Face
I was voting for goat
I guess there was a write-in option, I can see why that presents a problem for collecting quantifiable data in surveys.
surprised Owly McOwlface wasnt on there tbh
@@iwantsexseemyvideo464 A spam bot in the wild, interesting
I would've said Henry for the Owl question too, before I even saw the results, I was just like: "Yes, this Owl is HENRY! It just makes sense!" Isn't that spooky?
I said Oscar or Jeremy
Are there other things you would call Henri? Beside the vacume cleaner
I strongly remember in middle school, when we were writing a report on something or the other on the single computer in the classroom, I used three spaces after the period because "it looked right". My teacher promply and in no uncertain terms explained that one space was well enough, so I get my experience therefrom. Must've been at least 15 year ago now, I still remember you Mrs Jeppsson.
Top tip, infrastructure should never win by a "landslide"
It might be a buttress.
I mean, if a landslide happens and levels all the buildings except the infrastructure-related ones, you might say infrastructure has won by a landslide.
Well, the landslide is how you test if the infrastructure is good.
I didn’t even know 2 spaces after a period was a thing.
Me neither.
Two spaces after a period was a format requirement in my classes growing up (Northeast USA, 90s-00s); I can't say how widely it's still taught these days though.
@@xNajda Yah I’ve always used two spaces and I’m 21. I guess it was more to do with when I used Microsoft word or something cause two spaces made the next letter an automatic capital. I don’t think I was ever told one space or two spaces, but I feel one space after a soft break like a comma and two spaces after a hard break like a period makes sense.
I've only ever used 1
tried to teach us that at school... it was uncomfortable
I love the editing of this video, it reminds me of the Dexter’s Laboratory episode “Dos Boot” with the Computer Desktop motif Also Mr. Scott’s app icon being a red shirt is brilliant
I hope Tom does more things like this and the 'what is the best thing' poll. I love data, and seeing these results are so interesting that I even came back to watch this again.
I actually answered your survey as a member of the general public. That's wild.
But did you say yes to the mist challenge
The audience is part of the general public, so if no one from the audience would be polled in the general public, the poll would be more skewed... I think
What did you name the owl?? 😄
@@Gurrehable presumably, the audience is such a small number when compared to the total population that the influence of double answers would be statistically insignificant.
@solarcat93 but the owl didn't look like hedwig
My mind is completely blown right now. Before you gave the polling results I answered "Henry" for the owl. xD
I was exactly the same.
I said susie, guess I don't think the same
dude same
That was so wack
Same henry
I’ve never in my life heard about anyone using two spaces after a period.
1:40 maybe it's coz everyone on the internet loves cats and all your audience is from the internet
I learns a lot here 1. People can imagine smell. 2. Some people use 2 spaces. Edit: can I just say that as a Brit it is so off putting for people responding with period.
This past summer, I was writing something involving a camping trip, and dug so far into my own memories of past family camping trips that I swear I could smell the acrid scent coming off a camp fire in the morning dew once or twice - but I was sitting in my living room with all the doors and windows closed. I had to actually step outside to make sure my neighbors’ house wasn’t burning or something, the imaginary smell was so strong.
@@Tustin2121 I think I might sometimes get that, my room smelt like smoke when there wasn’t any fire or anything for a couple weeks. I can’t think and smell like I can think and see, I can’t even experience the memory of smells like I can think of a face for example.
@@purpledevilr7463 I do both :)
@@winnywin why do you do space twice?
@@purpledevilr7463 It what I was taught to do - in the mid 80's.
I think it's likely that your audience is largely introverted, introverts tend to like cats more because cats are generally more quiet and low maintenance than dogs.
I agree. I can't even imagine having a dog as a pet. To me, they seem too needy, and always up in your business.
The results of these questions makes perfect sense to me - most people on the internet think they are "weird" and an "introvert" simply because they are a younger audience. They have developed along with internet connectivity, as a result of this they become more introverted. In a similar way, younger people are perhaps less in touch with other people as a result of introversion meaning they don't know how similar they are to other people. Funny, because I would probably describe myself as very normal despite growing up with the internet myself.
Yep I like cat and am introverted that checks out
As somebody who’s out of the house more often than most I prefer cats because they’re low maintenance and I can spend more time with friends, as well as having a pet
@@hatemykids1933 Obama Gaming
Congrats to the editor (assumedly WIlliam Marler the animator credited at the end) for making the time in the top right corner move along like a real clock!
Finally watched, this was incredibly interesting to see the results of! Thanks for asking the interesting questions Scott.
Tom, do you have a more formal red tshirt, for like interviews, funerals, fancy dinner clubs, etc?
Black t-shirt, with a bowtie printed on
@@narthex1681 Exactly! I want to be formal, but I'm here to party!
i actually had a conversation about r-labialisation with my sister a little while ago and realized I say my R's quite differently. would love to see results!
@@joelcrow "Formal but here to party!" Perfect for a funeral!
Maybe a fancy grey hoodie.
Tom: "How weird is my audience" Me, just coming from a video about pokemon edibility: *sweats nervously*
Nice
That’s not that weird though
@@davidferrer678 debatable
heh.. I've got it open in another tab but i thought i'll start with Tom
That’s on the sidebar for me right now.
I've only recently subscribed, and the last question can be answered by the many different topics that you cover, which, to me, is interesting. YT tends to serve up so much of the same content as the video just watched, it gets boring fast. Being all over the place is a strength in my opinion - so far.
these statistics videos are my favourite videos of yours. i find them fascinating, i have always wanted to take part in one but never see the tweet on time.
Classic Tom, his comment is already a week old. Master of time
Wait what
How is it possible?
wait wHAT????
"The laws of time are mine and they will obey me!"
@@KamranKhan-dc1ip wrote the comment a week ago, made the video public today probably
I wonder how many people named the owl Blathers
i did!
Oh hi
I wouldn't have. I mean... Blathers is a fastidious owl, Scruffles there certainly isn't.
Idk why I just immediately though Terence
I thought jerry
Actually regarding the spaces after a period, I'm not sure if others have experienced this, but in school (in California at least) we are specifically taught that it's always 1 space after a period, and that two spaces is the "old" way of doing it. The reason being, as stated by Scott, that the computer will reduce it to one, and thus during typing classes we were taught to avoid it as it was doing nothing but introducing inefficiencies to our typing and slowing us down.
"Perfectly weird, 5/7"
My favorite poll result is that 94% of american college professors rate themselves as better than average at their job. Those numbers dont add up :D
Die Amis sind halt nicht die Hellsten Kerzen auf dem Ständer:) For all the ones complaining so much: The Americans are simply not the brightest candles on the candle holder. There you go
Technically could be true if the other 6% were REALLY bad and held the average down. Now if they were better than median...
@@Josh-pn5wg why are you writing German
@@clevelandjr.2392 Probably because the original commenter has a German username.
@@clevelandjr.2392 Why are you writing English
I like how the Tom Scott.exe logo is just a red shirt
It looks like a mac so I guess it's Scott.dmg 🤔
@@pedram.mp4 It could be a skinned Distro of Red Shirt Linux
Iconic
my guy could sell merch and it would just be a red shirt and it would make bank, hell, I would buy it.
@@RoonyKingXL windows executable, like the .app bundle on mac
I love how you didn't have a bunch of distracting background music and noises behind this video! Thank you so much.
wait, you can litterally imagine an image?! my world is broken!
Clovenhorn, Destroyers of Mars is definitely an underrated owl.
Who?
@@formerunsecretarygeneralba2383 ahh my favourite owl
@@formerunsecretarygeneralba2383 What are you up to these days Ban Ki Moon?
@@sparrow4852 nothing much, Just eating kids
Ms Scarlet Blumberton of East London: Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary.
Lesson here: don't hire a polling firm that pays its respondents.
Unless I'm mistaken, it's much more expensive to sift through all of the no-responses when trying to get people to answer for free. And that's not free of its own methodological issues, since really your only option is calling landlines. Note that in the U.S. it's illegal to auto-dial cell phones without prior consent, due to the Telemarketing Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (47 U.S.C. 227); there is no exemption for polling.
Then your sample ends up being biased towards the people with the free time to answer an unpaid survey.
All types of polling have a different kinds of a bias: Phone-based polling is generally limited to landline phones (of which there are fewer all the time), free polling skews towards (frankly) the kind of people that like to answer polls and do personality tests (Just guessing here, but I'd bet it'd skew more towards female respondents), and in-person polls are biased by both the location they're taken (regional variations) and the person performing the poll (the pollster is effectively an audience and that affects how you respond). As such, it's more important to be aware of what those biases are and then correct for them.
I do a lot of paid academic surveys and they all have attention check questions. Responses that get that wrong will be chucked out (though it usually doesn't affect your compensation)
I think they should put a timer so that no one could answer in 2 seconds and go to the next question...
Fascinating! For the smell question, I note there wasn’t an option ‘It’s easier to imagine a smell’ (certainly my experience - anyone else?)
Mom: He's gonna be a doctor to save so many lives! Dad: No, he's gonna be a lawyer and help innocent people not be unfairly jailed! Me in my room laughing at "Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon":
Genuinely surprised that "Owly McOwlface" was not in the top ten audience names.
Because most people aren't redditors.
I was also waiting for that! Owly McOwlface is the only correct answer :D
Exactly! I was surprised it didn't even at least get a honorary mention.
Yes! I was waiting for that response!
I literally wrote this a minute ago, glad im not the only one!
idk why when i saw the owl i instantly thought "Jackson" edit : Michowl Jackson
Hoo hoo
LMAO THAT IS AMAZING- Meanwhile, my brain immediately went when I saw the owl: “Mr. Henry the Hooter”
Lmfao
@@yelpkelp9134 You just made me bellylaugh. Thank you, funny stranger.
@@araw_buwan I feel so accomplished now, you’re welcome! :D
The “how weird are you“ one got me. I said I wasn’t normal because I know nobody is except One, but then I didn’t want to say completely weird because I know there’s a few creeps out there, so I was aiming for right about where the highest bar fell.
"Name this owl" Me: Scruffy! "This is a scruffy owl" Me: EXACTLY!
But Scruffy's the janitor.
I said Barry haha
I SAID SCRUFFY TOO
I'm afraid I went with Owly McOwlface :D
YES!
For those wondering, using two spaces after a period was standard practice on typewriters back in the day. Usually when someone uses two spaces on a computer, they either originally learned to type on a typewriter, or (like me) were taught to type using standard typewriter rules. The computer has negated the need for the two spaces, but many still use it. I use it to help make my papers for school longer ;).
Hahah, good idea...
"In recent decades, news outlets and academic consortia have been steadily eliminating the two-space requirement from their style manuals. The latest editions of the Associated Press style book, the Chicago Manual of Style, and the U.S. Government Printing Office’s guidelines all mandate a single space between sentences. So do the style manual of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (a.k.a. Turabian style). The publication guidelines of the Council of Science Editors (CSE) make no formal recommendation one way or the other, deferring instead to the style sheet of the particular publication or university, which usually means a single space."
Smort
Yes but why was it two spaces
@@thewingedporpoise easier to read
The graphics and editing are amazing omg
I had literally never imagined putting two spaces after a period before watching this video.
Right? I've never heard of two spaces after punctuation
Me looking at the owl: henry Sees its the top result. THE WHAT
me too!
Yes! WHAT
Exactly the same happened to me, I came on to the comments section to see if I had been prompted to think “Henry”. There must be a reason for it.
@@Dukeofboots1 it could be something similar to the idea that people will say "carrot" more often than not when asked to pick a vegetable, but i named the owl jerry so ¯\(ツ)/¯
I had the same but with Harold
tom breaking down into laughter is probably one of the best things i've seen all week
It happens so rarely, I was shook.
Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon
For a good long time you couldn't mention the name of the secretary general of the UN in our house without laughter. Mention of Bhuttos Bhuttos Ghalli, Khofi Annan and BKM just resulted in us all trying to suppress giggles until someone broke. Very disappointed with the current UN Secretary Generals name.
Public Error: Composure Lost Y: Try again N: Next question
EmotionShownException thrown
Not gonna lie, when I saw that owl, I thought. "That little guy's a Henry for sure."
I think the content of Tom's videos selects against the extremes of weirdness self-ratings. People who rate themselves as entirely normal wouldn't like Tom's quirky content and people who rate themselves at the other extreme would find Tom's videos entirely too sensible.
"Jimmy Tallon" is a clever name for the owl
Wellcome to hooters
You putted that there didn't you?
Any name starting with J is what I'd have.
Or XxX_The_-Mouse_Killer_69_XxX
There's an aquarium in NY that has a Screech Owl named Jimmy Talon, he's had his picture taken with the real Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Talon got me 😂
دراد 🤨
Same!
Thats one of the only two references i got
XxX_The_-Mouse_Killer_69_XxX got me.
I genuinely thought of calling the owl 'Henry' in my mind before it came up.
Everyone is weird. Everyone has a quirky or tic that they have and can't really control. I do say that people that recognize this one themselves are just more introspective than the rest.
Whenever I feel down, I’m just gonna think about the fact that someone named the owl: “XxX_The_Mouse_Killer_69_XxX”
I laughed so loud from that
Owl's Xbox Live username from 2006.
@@DruidEnjoyer oh god.
that was mE HAHAAH
Even Owls know the drill now.
“Something about this audience makes you more likely to be a cat person.” It’s introversion. Edit: Dudes please stop philosophizing in the replies. It’s just a joke about both cats and Extremely Online Nerds being “introverted,” I’m not making any legit statements here.
Yea, internet audience.
In my anecdotal experience, most people like cats and dogs, or only dogs. The latter tend to be authoritarians.
@@SenorDerpyHooves Well that's exactly the opposite of my experience. The cat people are the ones telling everyone else what they should and shouldn't be doing, especially this year.
I like to think your both wrong and there's absolutely no correlation between how controlling a person is and the pets they own.
@@thegreatoutagesign9204 definatly
we need more of these
7:56 Why is this blurred out? I can still read it cause you dint blur it while moving.
What did it say
@@TheFirstWoffle "There was another question about linguistics i there, but the results are boring. If anyone's doing research on r-labialisation, email me. I can send you the results."
@@m4rt_ hebprob blurred it out after a while so he wouldn't get thousands of email
@@danieldavidson2209 maybe
Ok why did I name the owl Harold and why did so many people agree? Genuine question, why would so many of us associate Harold/Henry with owls?
Sounds like Harry from Harry Potter I guess, but different enough to not be a blatant derivative.
I'm interested too. As far as I know, there are no Harold or Henry owls in popular culture.
@@SuperCuriousFox I never read or watched Harry Potter. I polled my friends on this as well and 2/6 called the owl Harold or Henry.
I didn’t even decide on a name in time for him to show the results
@@cappew22 Perhps cus it sounds like a wise name?
"Clovenhorn, Destroyer of Mars" almost made me choke to death laughing. Same with "Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon".
I'll bet Call Me Kevin gave that answer
@@samsibbens8164 More like Bore: Ragnarok, amirite?
I don't know what was wrong with Hootros Hootros Ghali, personally.
I don't get it, why is Ban Ki Moon funny?
I didn't manage to get to the question, but I was answering them while watching, and named the owl "Artemis".
Absolute banger of a 2021 last hurrah video
We need more of these
The people who chose The Mist Challenge were time travellers who witnessed the event in the future but came to 2020 because it was dystopia out there
>dystopia out there >so they return in 2020 That's worrying
Plot twist: This video causes the Mist Challenge to be a thing Edit 2037: wow guys thanks for 27k likes, mist challenge was a total success this year
wait ive had some intense fog lately here i dont like where this is going
@Vikarn RAJORA [11M2] I don't think human race is going to be a thing in 2037
For a split second reading this comment, I actually believed you
Can we just appreciate how good Tom's editor is with all of this. This must take a lot of time
exactly. i use after effects and this would be stress for me.
@@itsmecaldo more time is in making the images than the animations.
@Eshan Butt you didn't watch till the end 😉
Like Tom's video on the intro sequence a week or two back... So many details and flourishes that aren't really needed, but improve the package.
It's such a perfect and unique animation.
As someone who is subscribed, I can confirm that as soon as the owl came up I thought 'Henry Washington Buford Penanthony the third' would be perfect
I saw the owl and shouted out, "look at that Henry." And now I'm staring at the ceiling, dazed.
"The Mist Challenge" sounds so ominous and it genuienly makes me feel scared, I don't know why.
how to do the mist challenge Step 1: Wait for it to be a very foggy night, Preferably around midnight Step 2: Wander into the deepest forest nearby Step 3: Walk in a non-straight path for a long time Step 4: Pray
But it's about smoking wet weed until your aparment is filled with mist.
fear the mist
See, I thought maybe it was a real challenge that I'd mist.
We must make it a real chaklenge
I’m curious about how “weird” this audience is relative to other KZhead audiences.
That does sound interesting
xqc already won, charlie probably second
@@giannisr.7733 you forgot the e stands for educated
Yasss!!! Can you and your nebula peeps do this!?! There's obviously some cross over there, but I don't know half of the creators' named in the Nebula promos
For me it's weirder to watch boring rich people's lives all day (vloggers)
the visual elements in this video are phenomenal. great editing edit: shoutout to william marler
I think the best explanation for the how weird do you think you are is that internet culture of any country and that countries culture are so radically divergent. Most people that spend time online, ones more likely to follow your content are more likely to have personalities aligned with internet culture, but still view their actual countries culture as the "normal" one as such to them personally they are not normal.
The fact that a LOT of people watched this video, saw the owl, and thought "Henry" is UNCANNY.
I was one of them. That’s what I immediately thought of and I don’t know why.
I was one of them as well, I was surprised and jokingly called it "some hive mind type stuff"
i was also one of those people i instantly thought henry
I thought Friedrich.
Are there any owls in popular media named Henry?
MOAR PLS! I could watch these comparisons for hours!…
When he said that people who can imagine smells but can't imagine images should be a "very small number of people" I genuinely felt special
For the record, I would have named him Gerald. I name everything Gerald, except my cat. His name is Wormy.
I also name everything Gerald! I didn’t know there were other people who name everything Gerald! I thought I was just...weird?
I named the ghost in my home Gerald. Strange.
I'm Gerald.
I love this
I sometimes name things greg or gerald, but I normally name things John
While it didn't exist before, something tells me that "The Mist Challenge" will be something that exists in the very near future...
challenge to follow a map and find certain like buoys in the middle of a misty lake? (suggestion)
Was not myst a computer game, ?
The red mist challenge maybe
@@highpath4776 yes, it was...
@@johnbeauvais3159 pink mist... 🎯
2 spaces when being formal, one when casual.
Not being able to see images in your head in actually quite a bit more common than you would expect, shown by some more recent studies if I’m getting my facts rights
Is nobody else going to recognize how Tom and Jerry were tied for 18th place in the owl names?
Jeremy....but ok
@@stefandavison who cares
@@bezimienny1337 well it makes the joke less funny
@@stefandavison Thomas and Jeremy doesn’t have the same ring to it
@@stefandavison jerry is short for jeremy
As soon as Tom said “think of a name for this owl” I looked at it and immediately thought it looked like a Henry. That is so interesting how so many people thought Henry.
Dude same, that fked me up a bit to see Henry pop up on both sides. Why the hell did I think of Henry, why did so many others do the same?
Harry Potter?
@@galaxychill9578 There's no owl named Henry in Harry Potter?
I immediately thought Hootie! Weird.
Same here! My immediate answer was Henry, so seeing the results kinda freaked me out a little
I've just noticed that the time in the top right changes with the video! Great attention to detail!
I really enjoyed this, I'm now looking for more vids about funny surveyz
Yep, that Henry definitely looks like an owl.
@Possum I chose Henry but the name Harold also crossed my mind
Hey, that's Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon to you!
Fredrick*
Why tho? I immediately thought Henry. Is there something about it that is inherently Henry-ish?