15 YouTubers Play The Telephone Game

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Here’s what happened when more than a dozen of our favorite channels got together to blindly make a video with one another.
0:00 - Intro
1:14 - Kate & Ever | MinuteEarth
1:49 - Henry | MinuteEarth | MinutePhysics / minutephysics
2:30 - Sarah | MinuteEarth
3:11 - Arcadi | MinuteEarth | Gastrofísica / tippetopphysics
3:56 - Grant | 3Blue1Brown / 3blue1brown
4:42 - Dianna | Physics Girl / physicsgirl
5:22 - Osmosis / osmosis
6:03 - Tom Scott / tomscottgo
6:40 - Scishow / scishow
7:17 - Mithuna | Looking Glass Universe / lookingglassuniverse
7:47 - Stephen | Welch Labs / welchlabsvideo
8:17 - Vanessa | BrainCraft / braincraftvideo
8:48 - Patch | TierZoo / tierzoo
9:21 - Jabril | Jabrils / jabrils
10:03 - Danielle | Animalogic / animalogic
10:45 - Joe | It's Okay to be Smart / itsokaytobesmart
11:17 - About Telestrations
11:52 - Our Favorite Reactions
14:49 - Outro
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[@padoru369]

Everyone before Tom Scott: Mildly connected Tom Scott: *Bartender's elbow*

[@kwibloupthesomething]

yes

[@gracegaskell8068]

@D.A. Botos She was connected at all?

[@AbhishekSachans]

Exactly my thought!

[@AbhishekSachans]

@D.A. Botos She mentioned 'fake news' which was somewhat an element of the original information.

[@AbhishekSachans]

@D.A. Botos She mentioned 'fake news' which was somewhat an element of the original information.

[@osmosis]

Now we're wondering if the only way to stop feline obesity is to stop making our biceps swole, or drinking beer. What an ethical dilemma.

[@zyansheep]

Those puns are purrfect!

[@Nathan-mu8zy]

Honesty I think Tom Scott really messed it up 🤣🤣

[@nocx4592]

I'm confused, to stop feline obesity do we need to either stop working out, or stop drinking beer. Or is it stop working out and stop drinking beer. Or is it that we can either stop working out or drink more beer? (This is a reply showing how misunderstanding of grammar also contributes to the change of information)

[@davidtitanium22]

I think it all starts going down when 3b1b's minimalist style of animation left out a lot of information, leaving the next narrator to try to fill in the gaps

[@davidtitanium22]

@g@m3 insert obligatory joe mama joke but I think he meant joe from it's okay to be smart

[@96nikecha]

I love the confusion where Jabril was just implicitly thinking of a sequence cause that's such a prominent concept in programming and when danielle heard his explanation she was like "what the fuck are you talking about guy"

[@Jadanbr]

But joe explanation made sense in the chaos jabril made in his narration

[@durdleduc8520]

the fact that he's a programmer makes that part make so much more sense

[@bubify3403]

I like how Tom can make anything sound legit

[@atomcrusher1236]

bartender's elbow

[@superduperchris8746]

I actually believed him for a while

[@tinytime3362]

Ikr lol

[@totaltcl1099]

He was just like 'fuck it, we ball' I was screaming at the screen!

[@cpt_nordbart]

That's a British accent in action.

[@besmart]

Being the person at the very end of this game of KZbin telephone, I just have to say WHAT THE HECKY?! 😂

[@Juulieeen]

You did the best with what you were given

[@nicolasberube]

I agree with Tom, you were the MVP. You turned complete confusion into a gorgeous narrative.

[@Packbat]

Your explanation of evolution was really cool! Bringing up D&D dice really illustrates the way that it's not about who's got the highest stats, but higher stats give them better odds. It was a really neat metaphor!

[@galacticbat5224]

Last is best in this game

[@TierZoo]

Joe I'm stealing that final line and putting it in my own video, no backsies

[@user-sf1uc7ft1t]

"Feline obesity" "Bartender's elbow"

[@grey3247]

Minute earth: Miscommunication

[@aerospacegamer7775]

"A cup of ice"

[@user-vf9ej3hp2v]

Hi

[@user-vf9ej3hp2v]

Hi

[@user-vf9ej3hp2v]

Hi

[@MichaelMoore99]

Early Ones: Research can lose its meaning once it gets to the public. Tom Scott: Bartender's Elbow! Vanessa: SHAKE THAT ICE! Jabril: Flower, 1 to 3! Danielle: Wat? OK, let's just draw this... Joe: Evolution D&D!

[@NaCubical]

so funny lol

[@bennyblubman9476]

You missed Diana: want to write an essay? DRINK BEER!

[@wren_.]

nobody’s talking about mithuana, i’m surprised how well her explanation for with what she was given

[@geeteevee7667]

definitely

[@weeaboo869]

Everyone's talking about Tom's lovely derailing with bartender's elbow, but Jabril's literal explanation had me DEAD

[@3blue1brown]

I would pay good money to have Joe Hanson, Dianna Cowern, or Jabril re-narrate any video I made from the visuals alone.

[@emperorpingusmathchannel5365]

I would pay you money to pay them money

[@RGapskiM]

I bet no money is needed, only likes, tons of likes!

[@daniellewilson8527]

Let’s have them do this

[@zyansheep]

I want to see this too!

[@KaptenKetchup]

It's been confirmed everyone 😄

[@zettabyte323]

Tom Scott causes chaos with his “bartender’s elbow”.

[@jmz1736]

You can tell hes used to making stuff up for his own channel.

[@geekjokes8458]

*THE 1970S*

[@michaelmu6765]

3 of these people are lying was good practice

[@jerichogonzales1290]

I love how He immediately jumps to historical reference before science on impulse. Classic tom scott storyteller

[@jonathans1759]

Red Shirt Syndrome.

[@baguettegott3409]

I feel like the moment it went off the rails was not Physics Girl's description, but 3B1B's illustration. His style is so minimalistic that a lot of context got lost in there, and I immediately knew that whoever came afterwards would go off track.

[@flori5296]

I think it was a combination of 3b1b's minimalistic style and physics girls literal narration.

[@isavenewspapers8890]

@@flori5296Congratulations on getting 6 likes in 4 hours on a reply to a comment from 3 years ago.

[@dawsonhicks5929]

@@isavenewspapers8890the fact we’re all here must mean the algorithm decided to boost this 3 year old video for whatever reason

[@Xiphoseer]

​@@dawsonhicks5929it's probably the sort of video where the likelyhood of interaction on randomly appearing in someones feed is high enough to kickstart the algorithm, because there are so many people involved you may know.

[@Imperial_Squid]

@@flori5296 definitely, I'm not sure what the brief they were all given was but physicsgirl and jabril giving very literal narrations absolutely destroyed any chance of a cohesive story lol

[@Dodo-gy4ly]

Honestly, I just wanna see how everyone reacted to Jabril’s “Flower 1 to 3, sun 1 to 3..”

[@reality8763]

And they said Avengers is the most ambitious crossover ever.

[@ZachariahMBaird]

The Lego Movie

[@ragnkja]

Reality Ambitious? Possibly. Best result? That seems to be up for debate.

[@germanfan6481]

Lol

[@Jabrils]

Awh man that was amazing. In my defense, I just seen some guy shaking ice & turning half super saiyan from it. 😂😂😂

[@Juulieeen]

That's 1 part stupid, 3 parts hilarious

[@DrivingAway1]

Danielle did a fantastic job illustrating tho!

[@manooxi327]

3 leafs I was dead

[@thewrecker2974]

haaaaaa-HAAAAAAA-YAHHHHHHHHH..... The ice makes ME STRONGER HAAAAAAAAA.......

[@adogwhoapparentlyknowshowt4391]

I thought you were purposly making it weird

[@MihaelGeng]

11:03 I like the fact that, a certain circular thing with spikes in 2020 was so impressive that at least one smart person would literally see a shape of a shining sun as "a virus". 😂

[@canalso5806]

I din't noticed it

[@PrinceMekhel]

interestingly enough, the thin layer of atmosphere on the sun is called the "corona" 💀

[@MihaelGeng]

@@PrinceMekhel Yeah cuz it's like the sun's crown lol

[@clairdeloona]

Joe and Tom have an ability to make everything sound real

[@dongleyliam8927]

I hate to be a blind follower but anything that tom says is fact, no matter what, end of story.

[@EappleSandbox]

Everyone's talking about how Tom and PhysicsGirl changed the game, but no one's mentioning how Jabril completely turned the premise upside down by taking the drawings way too literally, with hilarity ensuing

[@marleneg.7128]

And that Grant's drawings were too abstract and could lead to many interpretations.

[@emperortgp2424]

one sun to three suns

[@Paremo_]

@@marleneg.7128 3b1b is so focused on clarity of illustration over thoroughness of exposition that a LOT of information was simply lost completely.

[@androkguz]

Jabril not interpreting 3 months is just... disastrous. "Flower 1 through 3" wtf??

[@vivaeljason]

The thing is though that it was already off the rails by the time it got to Jabril. His interpretation was hilarious but it was long gone.

[@petersmythe6462]

At the start: yeah this is the same concept: In the middle: feline obesity At the end: shake the ice dice to evolve!

[@rainbowthedragoncat6768]

What? Ice dice shaker is evolving! Da da da da daa da da da

[@rainbowthedragoncat6768]

Mice with lice eating nice ice dice made of rice

[@NStripleseven]

Rainbow the Dragon Cat too many rhymes! Noooo!

[@synthmark7687]

Your Ice Dice Shaker evolved into Articuno!

[@anch95]

TomScott used Bartender's Elbow , everyone else gets confused.

[@tesscrelli783]

I like how everyone was sticking to the same idea, then it gets to Dianna and she just chooses to interpret the information as literally as possible. aN esSaY ThaT mAgiCAllY coPieS itsElf

[@chrisj4288]

Literal interpretation creates the funnies stories

[@tristanseanpaulcinco7018]

It was clearly 3blue1brown that quite derailed the situation. His illustrations were too vague that right off the bat when his illustrations started while the one before him was narrating, I immediately thought "oh no those illustrations are going to get so misinterpreted". Try getting someone who hasn't seen this yet to watch his part again without audio and ask them to describe what it's supposed to say. Then show them the illustrations before Grant's then ask them again what those mean. I hypothesize that they will be so starkly different

[@yfeboanvakenss8841]

@@chrisj4288 a person, presumably bald...

[@P3dotme]

You say that because you had the information when looking at Grant's visuals. Grant is great at uniquely and creatively visualizing and abstracting data which is fantastic allowing people to see math in new and fresh ways... but isn't as strong at clearly conveying concrete narratively structured information. Dianna is great at clearly and concisely conveying complex literal information to a broad audience, which is perfect for science communication... but that isn't the strongest skill set for constructing a connected narrative based on largely abstract imagery. I think it's more impressive that the original meaning lasted as long as it did and less surprising that the meaning broke down, especially when people are doing things outside their wheel house.

[@user-kj2fj8qr9l]

@@P3dotme I think the original meaning lasted as long as it did because the first few were people from the "minute" channels, and thus were more in tune with one another.

[@alejandroojeda1572]

1-4 near perfect 3b1b: really good but difficult to interpret Dianna: she got the memo but heck that was a bit misleading, wonder how the next will... Tom Scott: eLBoW

[@mohamedaboubakr1758]

Jabril: flower 1-3, sun 1-3, leaf 1-3, snowflake 1-3

[@wren_.]

@@mohamedaboubakr1758 joe managing to pull it all into a coherent video was the icing on the cake

[@noonehere6994]

feel like dianna's misdirection was on purpose since there's no way she said "that's how fake news is made" without having known the original point, so she knew but decided to mess with the later people

[@xiaohuwang4173]

Diana: You see a clear upward *_linear_* trend Osmosis: **draws a curved line**

[@semurobo]

Yes, I am Not the only one who noticed!

[@Kram1032]

thought the same thing!

[@ok23539]

its Dianna i have a teacher named Diana

[@comteharbour]

The horizontal axis has a logarithmic scale. That's why ! 😂

[@theMxiden6fF7re]

I saw that too lol.

[@Flint_Inferno]

This is proof that I would believe anything that Tom Scott says.

[@redpalkia0682]

...yup

[@jeremiahsaxton8967]

"This field, right here, in the middle of Russia, doesn't look that useful. . . because it's not."

[@JackReacheround]

@@jeremiahsaxton8967 Any children that are caught frolicking in the field are hit with sticks and set to yakutz for 8 months where they're scolded and then tied to posts to have- where the locals throw rocks at their feet. it awful, nobody- it horr- it's just nobody likes this field :(.

[@ForTomorrowToday]

That is something I do know

[@dobb2106]

1k

[@M0vess]

Tom Scott is the chaotic evil in this story. He literally made up a story just throw everyone off. 10/10.

[@CatOnACell]

Jabrill was the only person who tried to accurately portray the animation without assuming any additional information. Truly the most scientificaly minded describer in the sequence.

[@kathorsees]

That is such an interesting take! I had the exact opposite reaction. I thought some of them were trying to actually understand what's being said and looked for a plausible interpretation, while others... Well, it looked to me like they weren't trying at all. I cannot understand how you could come up with "sun 1 to 3" and just keep it there, it's absurd and meaningless. I assumed that the description of the task was vague, and that's what threw Jabrill off.

[@alyxis380]

Jabrill is actually a programmer so the way he explained the animation as if it was a sequence makes sense. I found it funny😂

[@vags1234]

Tom Scott is like the kid that didn't prepare for the presentation, but makes something up and bullshits his way into an A. lol

[@Ghost-te5wj]

Sounds accurate 🤣

[@blauwbeer556]

this reminds me of that one kid that just made his presentation in break time and it was just 5 blank slides with just a sentence one it but because of how much he knew about the topic already, he got a decent grade for it...

[@piteoswaldo]

He created a game that is exactly like that, so that's no surprise. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out "two of these people are lying".

[@shridharhegde1272]

Me type. XD

[@Lucien_M]

Most people: talking about science Tom Scott: Here's a little lesson in history

[@amyshaw893]

"ok, this is going pretty well so far" "...no dianna... DIANNA, NO" "....jabrils, what are you doing..."

[@alexp6013]

I think he spent time on it, then gave up and went to the most obvious thing

[@OatmealTheCrazy]

It was kinda more 3b1b than Dianna lol

[@thatoneguy9582]

@@OatmealTheCrazy “3b3b”

[@OatmealTheCrazy]

@@thatoneguy9582 I noticed and was just really lazy cause forgot what thread it was in

[@Domihork]

I still cannot wrap my head around someone not realizing those were months...

[@ScopeofScience]

That was fantastic! Seems fitting that it ended on talking about evolution.

[@anhbui-bc4ew]

yep, also 1st on verified wooo

[@nellbell_sk8]

@@anhbui-bc4ew *claps*

[@karalach6215]

Yeah, and the starting statement was about how things can change from person to person.

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

923rd, funny like number but yes, joe is a legend at humor serious

[@Shwammi]

Evolution D&D is the cat's meow.

[@finntastiq1524]

"Flower 1-3, Sun 1-3, Leaf 1-3 and Snowflake 1-3 replaces from Sun 2 to Snowflake 1 with strength in the sequence..." is my new life motto.

[@braincraft]

This was both very fun, and *deeply* unsettling

[@osviherrero5138]

Yeah but you didnt featured on this vídeo just because youve focused on 1 thing only!!!

[@Denielgunz]

This was like watching Joker didn't know if to laugh or to cry 😂. Here is a Braincraft fan and subscriber 🙌

[@osviherrero5138]

Hmmm im not so sure...

[@TH3_S4LMON]

FLOWER , ONE TO THREE

[@osviherrero5138]

@@TH3_S4LMON ill buy the psvr and Play with not my friends but to celebs baby!!!

[@Zoroark1089]

Flower 1 to 3 Sun 1 to 3 Leaf 1 to 3 Snowflake 1 to 3 I can't stop laughing 😂

[@PokeNebula]

I loved the way jabrils reacted to danielles illustration by just dying inside

[@eggy543]

Kate: *explains how data can be misleading* Henry: *re-explains in a more literal sense* Arcadi: *re-explains to much younger people* Dianna: *re-explains with a more comedic effect* Tom: *sounds like a Wikipedia article* Mithuna: *sounds like an advertisement* Vanessa: *sounds like fake news* Jabril: *says whatever that is happening on-screen* Joe: *supports his bizarre point* Edit: I fixed some of the wording in this comment.

[@quinn7894]

I wish I could like this comment twice.

[@EnieMenieMinieMo]

I love how Jabril's mind works like a computer lol

[@totalynotcatherine]

Bartender's elbow is a real thing. Most bartenders have elbows.

[@shivakumar00740]

😂😂😂

[@Filipnalepa]

Just like guitarist's nipple or cello scrotum? Cello scrotum is main theme of one Citation needed.

[@adityaphatak8590]

This really cracked me up 😂😂😂👍🏼

[@kathrynlynnkipfmiller9110]

OMG. I JUST GOOGLED THIS AND IT'S TRUE! Can I subscribe to your science channel too?

[@ragnkja]

Filip Nalepa A much larger percentage of guitarists have nipples than cellists have scrotums, and they’re also far more likely to have the names body part affected by their playing … or are they?

[@nosho409]

Everyone else: Let's try to find a tight narrative that links all the animations together and give it a scientific spin Jabril: "Sun, one to three, leaf, one to three, and snowflakes, one to three." Damn that's good stuff.

[@sophiaruizuvalle2523]

It was the truest description tho

[@georgy2596]

“A person, *presumably bald* “

[@NStripleseven]

Perfection.

[@retro34]

@@georgy2596 I lost it at that part

[@SCRedstone]

to be fair what else could he possibly say about it lol

[@andrewpinedo1883]

6:15 I like how Tom Scott took the images so literally.

[@thelastcube.]

You could tell by Jabril's narration that he indeed is a programmer lmao

[@andyhaochizhang]

A matlab programmer

[@TierZoo]

Is lifting a cup of ice OP?

[@sciblastofficial9833]

Agreed.

[@grovemeister04]

Yes, unless you're Chuck Norris.

[@achmadfatoni1375]

I would love to know that on your next episodes

[@wawatchdog89]

I came here just for TeirZoo.

[@PatrickStaight]

Hey TierZoo, Is your real name Patrick? That's my name too! That's so cool.

[@lgitsx9665]

The only sad part is that cats were lost in transition

[@brandtforester837]

The sadder thing is that if a cat drinks alcohol it would die

[@KitsukiiPlays]

But, hey! Icy dices!

[@pineapplepie4929]

dwarf fortress approves

[@tranthien3932]

it's the schrodinger's cat effect, you won't know what happened to the cat until you watch the whole video

[@generalcodsworth4417]

@@brandtforester837 , Well, is it not true then that larger cats would be able to tolerate more beer before it becomes problematic?

[@felpshehe]

The Danielle to Joe transition was amazing! Ice is dice Sun is virus Flashy upgrades is evolution

[@Thejas_Gatty]

9:40 when you don't know what to write in your test but wants to increase the number of words

[@smalls1485]

“It’s probably a real thing” “I JUST MADE UP BARTENDERS ELBOW”

[@kenshinrx]

It’s a real thing, lol

[@meat_doughnuts3457]

Bloxing Noob ZERO lol

[@guard13007]

Bloxing Noob ZERO That's what's even funnier about it!!

[@neurofiedyamato8763]

There's actual result that pop up which made that WAY more convincing

[@TH3_S4LMON]

Everyone: lets make telephone science! Jabril: So when he shakes the glass , *flower , 1-3 , sun , 1-3 , leaf , 1-3 , and snowflake 1-3.*

[@itscoper8133]

*a number 3 medium, sauce on the side*

[@CyanSoCalico]

replaces from sun 2 to snowflake [leaf] 1 with strength in the sequence!

[@em__1]

@@itscoper8133 A number 6 with extra dip

[@itscoper8133]

@@em__1 dont skimp on the mustard in number 53

[@profilepicture828]

**A person, presumably bald**

[@syriuszb8611]

Some youtubers: "well, that animation is weird, but I will try to make sense out of it!" Jabril: "I don't care, I will just describe what I see..."

[@wealthyroseblossom]

Up until 5:35 I thought it was possible the game could get back on track based on illustrations... but when the axes of the graph were switched around I knew it could only go downhill from there because whoever looked at it would think the cat/person/arm was the independent variable.

[@walternunez4118]

I love how Tom just straight up gives up in trying to come up with anything sensible and goes screw it, bartender's elbow

[@jvgreendarmok]

It makes me think of the AI-written fake history video he did.

[@GusThePrankster]

@@jvgreendarmokwhat

[@kasyu1101]

what's funny is that tom Scott's BS actually makes sense.

[@a12i9]

right? it makes more sense than the original one

[@j2dragon109]

@@a12i9 You have just been seduced by his sexy voice.

[@a12i9]

@@j2dragon109 😂😂😂 guilty.

[@pyromaniac4240]

He 100% could’ve told me that and I just would’ve been like “yeah yeah, alright I can believe that”

[@rickole7404]

the way Tom Scott says anything is just believeable to me

[@deatrix4746]

You simply MUST do this again. This is one of the single greatest YT videos this decade

[@AkashWShah]

11:38 Playing telestrations will give you a heart attack.

[@ManjotSingh-sf2ri]

Thats a hilarious miscommunication

[@slyar]

I love how it goes from "Beer doesn't make you stronger" to "Evolution is like a game of D&D"

[@shadowxxe]

It went from "Don't trust clickbait science" to "Studies have proven that bartenders are strong" to "Ice shaking makes you strong" to "Level up your strength stats using dice"

[@Zetsuke4]

that dumbass mentioned d&d for no reason.

[@dragonfury3378]

Zetsuke4 talk about how jabril just didnt follow the basic instructions and described the shapes he saw

[@luckyblockyoshi]

sounds like a Vsauce video

[@Oddity2994]

@@luckyblockyoshi Hey vscause Michael here beer makes your arms stronger. Or does it? **vsauce music starts**

[@davidrust3169]

Who else thinks that this should become an annual tradition between these channels? :)

[@crazydawn22]

yes! regular weekly or monthly would make this kind of content less special. Annual will make us anticipate it more.

[@nomadMik]

Yes! And with more channels… CGP Grey, Wendover Productions, Inés Dawson, Mark Rober, Soliloquay… How Ridiculous, Epic Rap Battles… 😉

[@KireTheCat]

@@nomadMik i wanna see epic rap battles do this so badly now

[@AtarahDerek]

I'm just here for the Montana representation.

[@toprz]

Yes education channels should do that it would definitely motivate everyone to listen to their actual channels!

[@MikooOnYoutube]

I didn't even question bartender's elbow. I blindly trusted that Tom was at the very least spewing lies about a real thing. Tom is _really_ good at making up BS - I'm going to need to start fact checking his videos from now on lol.

[@NoArtisticLimitation]

Not gonna lie, I’d literally watch hours of this. Heck, I’d watch a sequel, where you have the ones who drew reading, and visa versa XD

[@ashleybroening6933]

Same!!!

[@cjzamora1992]

Tom's narration was so nonsensical, and yet I still feel I learned something

[@Zaddis]

Yoooo ur pfp, something osmosis I can’t exactly remember.

[@cjzamora1992]

@@Zaddis O S M O S I S J O N E S

[@anatine_banana_69]

"This field, in the middle of Russia, does not look very useful; because it's not."

[@ollierowan9767]

Just goes to show that Tom could be making shit up and I would be none the wiser because he sounds like he knows what he's talking about so I trust him

[@SIRJACOBSTINE]

I remember osmosis jones from a 5th grade in-class health movie, you know like when they give u a question sheet and ya fill it out as the video goes on. I also remember the terribly animated allergy pill and exploding zit. Why these memories were revealed after reading this comment, i haven’t the slightest idea.

[@mrmimeisfunny]

Jabril: "Replaces from Sun 2 to Snowflake 1 with Strength in the sequence" Danielle: "I give up"

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

Jabril: `[SUN[2]:SNOWFLAKE[1]].REPLACE(STRENGTH)` Danielle: `AttributeError. IndexError. NameError. WTFMateError.` Everyone: What?

[@thelastcube.]

his narration was the funniest part. Purely objective, truly a programmer

[@macurvello]

I was looking for this comment

[@George-iz2ce]

@@thelastcube. Well, it was actually sun2 to leaf1 though.

[@thegamergirl6164]

lol

[@iguessyeah8687]

WE NEED TO SEE THE FULL REACTIONS

[@theshifted6109]

Tom Scott "Bartenderitis" Doctor "Inflammation of the Bartender?"

[@weareallbornmad410]

My bartender is hot, doctor...

[@EHMM]

@@weareallbornmad410 Oh no you have a crush on the local bartender

[@tommydoez]

The original idea: Misinterpretation can cause a lot of problems, especially if there is a lack of communication. The rest of the telephone game: Oh I'm going to prove this hypothesis to be so right.

[@amineaboutalib]

exactly, it should've been natural

[@OEpistimon]

The fact that Tom made up bartender's elbow and a bunch of other stuff and made it sound completely normal was kinda scary. The dude could fool anyone with how confidently he presents everything he says.

[@EternusNex]

And yet, he claims not to be good at improv or bluffing

[@ragnkja]

EternusNex As long as you don’t see him, so that he doesn’t have to keep a straight face, he can make up the most outrageous things and still sound believable.

[@MasonJuarez]

Takes me back to his "why you can't trust me" video 🤔

[@achmadfatoni1375]

Maybe the rule is, you cant check the validity of your thought about the illustrations before you. So, i think his blunder is receivable.

[@Kram1032]

I mean it's basically what he and his friends do in various games and what not. He's top tier bluffer and I *really* wanna see a roleplay session involving him

[@michaelb4415]

I love how it slowly went from logical to complete nonsense, and then at the end it suddenly turned into something brilliant

[@cowboymooman8776]

Tom Scott's interpretation, and Tom Scott in general is so Chaotic Good

[@A_Dog_Named_Vox]

Can we just appreciate how Joe's explanation made PERFECT sense despite Jabril's chaotic narration and Danielle's confused drawing "As an organism levels up, it never wins the game, it just has more dice to roll in the next round" is legit one of the best lines I have ever heard in a biology-related video

[@Efflorescentey]

Joe’s explanation could be a standalone video on his channel 😂

[@nezbut7]

YES exactly!

[@discord4039]

Omg yes how did he make that work idk but WOW

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

His take was the perfect conclusion. Started with a believably normal video, devolved into chaos, and then came out the other end with a meaningful video.

[@temmiemew]

I know its an AMAZING metaphor!!!

[@martinpohl2383]

"you see a clear upward linear trend" animator: *shows exponential trend* me: oh c'mon

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

The *trend* goes upwards linearly- not the curve itself. The trend is equivalent to the first derivative. If it goes up linearly, then that means the curve goes up exponentially.

[@martinpohl2383]

@@neolexiousneolexian6079 the derivative of an exponential function is still an exponential function. even if you were right in the first part, you arguing wrongly in the second part when you say that: the derivative is linear so the function is exponential. no! the antiderivative of a linear function is a power function not an exponential function. to conclude: your line of argumentation isnt even consistent in itself

[@martinpohl2383]

@Cole's too cool i was commenting on a scene at 5:37

[@EpicManaphyDude]

yeah same

[@ReedShort]

yeah an upward linear trend would mean a graph of x^2, most likely only the right side

[@bernadettemontembault665]

The way it was all going quite smoothly and then Diana came barging in and everything went off the rails just sends me, this woman is a treasure

[@gal749]

The thing is, in the beginning it was about how things change over time, and in the end it was about... How things change over time.

[@amyclarke6176]

Tom’s that guy that purposely messes with the game of telephone. Everyone changed it but he seemed like he was having the most fun with his changes.

[@ragnkja]

From Dianna onwards, things began to change a lot more rapidly.

[@ThisIsNotAlex]

Jabril also

[@tijn0770]

Jabril was just saying what was happening

[@shreyanshupanda1219]

It was grant's confusing illustration that started the cascade of confusion imo.

[@limepop340]

RENEE PARK Jabril tried preserving the graphics for future iterations, rather than attempting to guess the incoming video’s script. It’s a somewhat legitimate strategy for a telephone-esque game this size, as long as you don’t fail spectacularly.

[@nathanjerizmendoza1125]

Kate: Correlation and Causation Henry: Cats drink beer Arcadi: Beer makes you swole Dianna: Essays are better with beer Tom: Bartender's Elbow Mithuna: Flex your muscles Vanessa: *why shaking a cup of ice can make you healthy* Jabril: *flower 1-3, sun 1-3, leaf 1-3, and snowflake 1-3* Joe: Dungeons and Dragons

[@kwibloupthesomething]

all of these are sorta true. Cats'll probably drink since they wouldn't know it was beer all swole men i've seen drink so yeah writing an essay drunk is fun your arm'd probably hurt pouring all those drinks flexing muscles is.. flexy? shaking stuff can probably work out your wrists those things were on screen and for the last one idk

[@thewingedporpoise]

@@kwibloupthesomething it's a good analogy, just rolling dice and going on with more if you roll well, no real point or end or direction, just chance and success

[@TheNonsenseGuy]

@@kwibloupthesomething Yep all of these are true. Don't get me started on the philosophical weight of flower 1 to 3.

[@pengwino828]

geometrydash

[@smt4090]

E

[@user-ft3jq5vi2l]

I like how everyone makes a bunch of great guesses, then one person takes it all into a whole new direction and a new "era" starts.

[@Jazzatic2011]

Tom: *points at Dianna “this is where it all fell apart” Audience: umm

[@noiz1762]

He did have to interpret whatever she made up

[@orbracha25]

i love how no-one is mentioning how Joe took the story in a sharp turn. he turned ice into dice, actual actions into evolution and literal people into figurative embodiments of animal populations!

[@AbhishekSachans]

Yeah, from an information preservation standpoint, he put in a huge distortion. Said something completely unrelated to even his nearest neighbour. Perhaps, its easier to say for us viewers because we had the full overview of the flow of information starting right from the original information, but it was a huge distortion even if we just take the last two stages.

[@GrifterMage]

Joe actually did really well--he looked at the animation as a whole to figure out what coherent narrative it *could* be telling, and reconstructed that narrative perfectly. If he'd been earlier in the sequence, he would have likely passed on the original information really well. The problem was one of Garbage In, Garbage Out--if the input doesn't carry a coherent narrative on its own merits, it's impossible for the next link in the chain to reconstruct that narrative, so they have to come up with a narrative of their own. Overall, most of the information was generally lost in the translations from narrative to animation--to the point where on Jabril's turn, he couldn't wring any sensible narrative out of the animation at all and simply described the animation instead.

[@iantaakalla8180]

I like how by the time of Jabril’s explanation, he was so confused that he had to explain the twelve months as a series of three flowers, three suns, three withered leaves, and three snowflakes. Then again, shaking a cup of ice for twelve months to grow your muscles is not a topic you can pick up on immediately. Admittedly, figuring out that Grant was drawing about miscommunications from science to social media is just close enough to media sensationalism by itself that that misinterpretation is not bad.

[@martinovallejo]

It clearly started trailing off between 3Blue and Diana's reading, but Tom truly hit the nail in the coffin of derailing the whole thing, then it came upside down with Jabril literally describing the drawings. Still I loved how Joe made sense of Danielle's gorgeous illustrations. Something I find interesting is how in the comments most of the "blame" goes to those who had to make a script from video, and not the other way around, as if most of the actual information wasn't lost in the translation from natural language to visual storytelling. It's a nice introduction to the process some of these people have when choosing how to back what they say with images, and also goes to show the importance of good graphic design in communication.

[@ironsfamily6]

I think 3Blue1Brown's illustrations were a little too abstract to carry the ideas on their own (his videos aren't intended to work that way), and then I think Diana kinda sealed the deal. I think Tom Scott really just gave up on making sense of it and went with a ridiculous Technical Difficulties-esque made up story.

[@dsgowo]

Fourteen of These People are Lying

[@midgetwars1]

I'll say it, whatever the hell Scishow were doing with their animation was ridiculous.

[@iadtag1853]

@@midgetwars1 You can tell that they really rushed that one.

[@Aviertje]

You make a really good point. I think that visual->script is indeed where crucial information was lost, because visuals are typically meant to reinforce or illustrate something being discussed, but not to explain causation. Add in that most of the topics were relatively abstract, and it increases the opportunity for misunderstanding when playing telephone. In particular, I note how the images have gone from feeling 'scientific' to 'encyclopedic' to 'infoblurb' to outright 'entertainment', which has shifted the emphasis given to subjects. Small beers in graphs became the leading element. Small cats eating apples became a crisis of overweightness. Etc. Tom came up with bartenders elbow because he couldn't figure out the story the images were telling. Another came up with crazy powerups and a highly visual description because the concept of time passing had been lost in the iconified representation of the seasons. And the last one interpreted ice cubes as dice because a previous iteration had already used ice-like glasses instead of outright beer for the mentions of it, which killed the colour that the liquid would have had, thus leading to the misunderstanding. It was amazing to see.

[@rootabeta9015]

10:10 Mr. Clean needs a refill and he's willing to fight dirty to get it

[@tristanseanpaulcinco7018]

Yeah it was clearly with 3blue1brown's illustrations where it started to go sideways. His illustrations were very vague especially since he didn't properly use persons and their professions at all, which was clearly proving effective before his turn. Everyone else that followed, including Physics Girl, just did their best to salvage the situation

[@theeggman1199]

physics girl's and Tom Scott's narration just had everything go off the rail.

[@ayushagarwal7631]

Honestly Jabril's narration was also very .... Different...

[@kattenelvis1778]

Personally I found that 3blue1brown to physics girl is when things started to go off topic.

[@harker-san6903]

The moment Physics Girl started talking I choked.

[@Henry-zk9sy]

The egg man ikr

[@janmelantu7490]

Original Video: There were no human Trials Tom Scott: There were human trials

[@UnPuntoCircular]

I'm just going to say that there are 10 min worth of funny reactions to this video, which we didn't include because this video was already very long (to our standards). However, if this video gets 250,000 views in its first week, I promise to put it together and share it with the world. So share it around! :)

[@NathyIsabella]

yesss plz!!!

[@annie4424]

Seriously, watching an hour’s worth of reactions would make my day. This was so much fun. 😆

[@germanfan6481]

Like video plz

[@alarcon99]

Estuvo Fantastico!

[@ragnkja]

10 minutes per participant, right?

[@cogmonocle2140]

I love how surreal it gets once you hit Dianna's narration. The flow (or lack thereof) of content reminds me of something like a Bill Wurtz video

[@caroline6218]

This was amazing. I know Half of this channels and I’m so glad that this collaboration happened. I hope you do this again, maybe with some more science channels. 10:45 How the heck dos Joe actually make this sound like an episode of it’s ok to be smart?

[@VaradMahashabde]

Tom, Diana, Jabril and Joe The four horsemen of "It fits the thing, it'll do"

[@sagenight3]

Physics girl: a clear upward liniear trend OSMOSIS: Draws a slightly sloped line

[@laurencefraser]

Also curved.

[@sagenight3]

@@laurencefraser yeah kind of what i meant, wrong word my bad

[@ungratefulmango]

5:38 for those who couldn't find it

[@nafrost2787]

Nice to know I'm not the only one who noticed, if you ask me that's a parabola.

[@phosphorus4]

…which is, basically, linear!!

[@evergreentree8042]

I love how some KZbinrs were really literal with their narrations and others were really creative. Like the contrast of 'bartender's elbow' and 'snowflake 1-3' was so striking.

[@tobylegion6913]

Tom Scott: 'You shouldn't trust me' Proves his point

[@AryanSharma-kh5zw]

Basically, a normal Vsauce video concept in which Michael jumps from one topic to the heat death of universe. But took 15 KZbinrs.

[@notwildcard377]

Oh I wish Michael was in this. Or even jake.

[@Jouzou87]

Beer makes you stronger...or does it?

[@ANTSEMUT1]

@@Jouzou87 cue vsauce intro music.

[@maxliu7576]

Asjad Ali oh, michael would be amazing in this

[@imperfectly_megan]

It was so disconcerting to me to hear my favorite science KZbinrs (especially Tom Scott) spout some bullshit and make it sound totally believable lol.

[@Efflorescentey]

I fully believed bartenders elbow 😂

[@naturegame8624]

It's actually a real thing too! My sister and I read through a few articles. I don't know the specifics but I remember reading about it being real.

[@everyone4352]

@@DingDingTheKZbinBuddy It probably would too It's as if what he says turns into an actual fact

[@Efflorescentey]

@@comfortableovertones haha yes!! Tom Scott has not led me astray!!

[@6023barath]

After watching Tom's "Two of these people are lying" it just sounds plausible!

[@Riddleis]

i love how the whole science community on youtube sometimes comes together and do silly things such as this, i must say it really is a nice small break from all the complex things

[@orange-one]

"wanna write a BANGING title for your essay" 😂😂

[@gateauxq4604]

‘This is the point it went off the rails’ THE CATS. IT WENT OFF THE RAILS WHEN CATS WERE REMOVED. THEREFORE CATS ARE NECESSARY TO HUMAN EXISTENCE.

[@Efflorescentey]

Heard it here first folks

[@NoName-kj2vf]

What if that is the fake news they said initially. But cats are awesome anyways Edit: also that logic is post hoc ergo propter hoc

[@joeplavin]

After cats were introduced it only took a few steps for it to devolve, dogs never ruined it and therefore are better

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Also beer.

[@zmaj12321]

I like how this comment is an example of the original idea

[@SteveMould]

This was really fun!

[@smonke4377]

Imagine that you were there, i think it'd be so funny

[@41-Haiku]

Steve kinda sus

[@nomadMik]

@@smonke4377 And imagine if Matt Parker were there… 'The dice don't add up along all the axes, but they're still pretty good, so give the cat a beer anyhow…'

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

@@nomadMik I wonder if there could be a version of this done with markers on brown paper, not to mention the occasionally-interrupting Australian...

[@mohammadzuhairkhan8661]

Wait, why haven't you become a verified channel yet?

[@pijamita]

Joe from its okay to be smart, did such a good job interpreting and giving a meaning to the drawing, in contrast to Jabril and Dania, who gave such a literal understanding of what was happening, instead of translating it to what it was symbolising

[@Superb17C]

Judging by Jabril's style of play, I think he'd be great at Portrayal/Duplik. It's a game where you have to look at a complex picture, describe it for the other players to draw, and score points based on how many details they drew accurately.

[@daviddavis4885]

I love how some of them, most notably Physics Girl, Braincraft, and Jamil, clearly just had **no** idea what to do with their material lol And then It’s Okay to be Smart definitely clutched the ending by some making sense of that madness

[@vidblogger12]

Tom Scott looked like he knew exactly what he was doing, but he secretly had no idea what he was doing.

[@xenon8342]

@@vidblogger12 it's something of a British superpower

[@Zeverinsen]

Man, 3B1B's illustrations were so minimalistic that it was bound to go off the rails! 😂 Tom Scott brings some abstract humour and then Jabril interprets what he sees so literally that nobody after him knows what to do with the information, lmao!

[@teho1536]

I love that Dianna completely changed the story, and yet still came to the same conclusion

[@calheller811]

tom went so hard with bartenders elbow even though he wasn’t even close

[@tealblade2994]

Everyone else: trying to stay relatively close to the previous one Tom scott: *Im gonna do whats called a pro gamer move*

[@jazzman1596]

Interesting how the beer in the first drawing stayed all the way through, and ended up as a dice cup

[@moenchii]

I love how Jabril just described what he saw on screen.

[@s6th795]

I've read a few AI papers and Jabril's description makes total sense. He sees boxes on screen, he's going to describe the boxes on screen. I love how the "strength" motif was the only thing left by the end of the video!

[@freddymeng]

Yeah. As a programmer, his mind is really analytical and objective, so he just points out exactly what he sees on screen

[@rampagerslife]

i genuinely love how absolutely westward tom's rendition took it. it went from fake news to confirmational study in 30 seconds

[@leotamer5]

Because at that point, the video didn't have anything to indicate any of the information was false. Which explains a lot, except for why he decided to just make bartender's elbow.

[@jaksida300]

Diana’s narration was the link in the chain that derailed everything.

[@li_ka2]

@@jaksida300 ehh, 3b1b's was very bare bones. You wouldn't know what it was supposed to convey without the guiding narration either. She did the best she could with what she was given in her own style.

[@Uwu-hq4bt]

@@leotamer5 I think the graph that the animators did was wrong - in most things, the beer was the x and the muscles were the y. In theirs, the cats were the x and the beer was the y,

[@lastyhopper2792]

@@Uwu-hq4bt good god someone noticed that, starting to think that what I thought was wrong wasn't wrong

[@yokab]

"Bartender's Elbow" sounds like something Tom would ask about in Citation needed

[@Kokurorokuko]

13:03 goddammit tom, i had to search up 'bartender's elbow' thinking it is some kind of a common disease between bartenders

[@DarrenAbbott]

I love how everyone's personalities come out with what they see. Seasons become video game powerups. Glasses of ice become tumblers of dice.