Conspiracy Tik Toks Got Worse

[@gingersnap189]

Jim Davis wrote that story as a Halloween edition to the comics that was explicitly non canon. Meanwhile no one here talks about the crazier comic series for Garfield Called 9 Lives. 9 Lives is an anthology about each of Garfield’s lives all done in a different style, including one where he’s experimented on, one where he resides in the garden of Eden, the Garfield we know, and the craziest one of the all being the ending WHERE GARFIELD TRICKS GOD INTO GIVING HIM ANOTHER 9 LIVES. GARFIELD CANONICALLY MET GOD AND THEN JUKED HIS ASS OUT OF 9 FREE LIVES.

[@cenobite2309]

didn't he also trick god into thinking that odie was a cat too??

[@ladygrinningstardust]

Isn't the quote also supposed to show that Garfield imagined the abandonment then came back to real life?

[@emilyemily9831]

@@ladygrinningstardust yeah I thought the comic was a joke about how cats will assume they’ve been abandoned when you leave the house. Hell, they act abandoned if you are in another room and close the door. You come back to them and they’re happy for two seconds, then walk away like “what? You thought I missed you? As if.”

[@SaintShion]

@@emilyemily9831 if I go to visit family abroad my 2 cats that only like me act like I'm a stranger for a week than become babies again like "we punished you enough now pet us hooman". Our other cat is my hubs buddy. Hes head empty derp and just excited to be pet.

[@legsorcist]

it’s funny to see people talk about garfield as one linear, canonical story line when in reality it’s just a bunch of silly little comic strips that have almost nothing to do with one another

[@asilid5661]

"That's ...just an animal that exists" is 99% of my life as an entomologist talking to the public

[@HQofrandom]

I once brought up a leaf insect in casual conversation thinking it was a pretty basic thing. No one else had any clue what I was talking about and didn't know they were an actual thing. Animals are fuckin cool idk why people don't want to know about them lol

[@loli_cvnt5622]

I had lots of pet insects at this point, rn I have snakes and anytime I bring any of them up at work people seem really concerned. It's easy to forget interests are a bubble and not everyone else knows the things I know.

[@rainjayriots]

@@loli_cvnt5622 I've had people ask me if I'm worried my ball python will eat my cat. My BALL. PYTHON. She's barely 4ft long, she isn't even as big as my wrist, and she eats RATS. Not even jumbo rats. My cat however... weighs 15 pounds. Like, no - if anything, I'm worried about my cat hurting my snake!

[@banquetoftheleviathan1404]

Thank you for your service.

[@mammoneymelon]

me omw to tell anyone and everyone about how strong dung beetles are

[@themusicofthenight2778]

i blame shane dawson for this weird obsession with conspiracy theories that end up being anti-semitic

[@notthecutestanimal8849]

Oh… I wish. Antisemitic conspiracies have been wide spread almost as long as antisemitism has

[@joelle4226]

@@notthecutestanimal8849 like the one that Jewish people drink blood is like ancient

[@mippy5842]

i feel like it was mainly bc he wouldn't mention that stuff, people would watch only his video, and then do no further research but still spread what they learned from his video. i haven't watched the whole video yet so idk if this is the one being talked about, but i found that to be common with the flat earth theory (i think) that his brother spoke about. like the message of "everyone is here for a reason, we all have a purpose" or whatever really resonated with people but if you literally just google it, you realize it can be so much more 😭

[@NyxusPluto]

I had a obsession with Shane Dawson conspiracy theories when I was 9…..

[@1WEareBUFO1]

I was obsessed with having his hair. I am a black woman.​It didnt work out. @NyxusPluto

[@stitchesandhockey]

Ah yes, David Dobrik, the very truthful and trustworthy guy who has never lied about anything ever

[@dprdenny]

yeah true, i can never see him getting into controversies

[@themischief420]

also "she said if i tell anyone they'll kill my family" and there he is telling everyone on a podcast lmfao

[@stitchesandhockey]

@@dprdenny right, it just could never happen!

[@stitchesandhockey]

@@themischief420 the families listening to the podcast like 👁👄👁

[@specialpatrolgroup92]

I don't know who he is, what did he do?

[@rexana_rexana]

The Mona Lisa smile thing is really weird to me because Mona Lisa is literally known for her odd smile. Whether it's because she was upset by something at the time or just had to hold a pose for a long ass time, her smile has been the basis of analysis for a long ass time, so i have at least never not known her to have a little smile. She's not joyous, but there's a smile there

[@bahrianyi]

Exactly. That is one the most ridiculous Mandela effect conspiracies I've ever heard of

[@cozycasasmr4510]

Same I remember learning about her odd smile as a child and like how it's part of why the painting is so interesting or something, like it's part of what gives the painting meaning lmao

[@star0nyx]

Honestly I think these videos are just for kids.

[@kiralonely]

Yeah. I love hearing Mandela effects, but that one just confuses me cause it's literally partially why it's so famous/well-known. As an art nerd, I knew this as a young kid, so just, big confuse.

[@333dae]

That one pissed me off "I distinctly remember" no you just saw them when you were a kid and didn't remember it 100% correctly

[@FaiaHalo]

I find it soooo funny how TikTok is recycling what youtube used to be in 2012 or so with conspiracies. I used to fall for them (to be fair, I used to believe a lot of supernatural, unfunded stuff in the past), and now it's just laughable lol Thank you for always bringing laughter into my day. Much love from Latin America

[@commandrogyne]

@Random Monacur so sorry to break this news to you but tiktok is already worryingly rife with alt right freaks :/

[@EvanKnightly]

I used to believe in Slenderman as a child, but Santa was too outlandish for me. Strange times

[@Catglittercrafts]

@Random Monacur ew

[@Imxel21]

@Random Monacur it already has that pipeline

[@Imxel21]

@Random Monacur in fact Tiktok has made it WORSE.

[@idkjade]

I hate the conspiracy theories about kid’s shows that always end up having the same theory. That the main character is in a coma and/or is hallucinating all the other characters for some reason.

[@danimoorehead]

yeah those theories don’t make sense like “hey, this fiction you’re watching is fiction.” yeah i know.

[@amayasokanon2806]

Conspiracy: the mushroom earing is a real mushroom and Jacob is getting infected by a fungi virus, that's why he is so funny

[@kerkyberky6793]

I think you mean fun guy

[@Taylortot.]

He took too many shrooms so now he’s actually seeing nuggs 😱

[@jeeks3747]

He's about to turn the last of us 1 and 2 into real life lmfao

[@ineedmyhoodie]

So... cordyceps?

[@msthecommentator2863]

Dude, the reveal of it being a tire shop instantly removed any chance of a conspiracy. The garbage truck that picks up their trash probably goes up that road, there's more than likely tons of used screws and nails in their trash. 😂

[@KattReen]

Might be some kind of construction or renovating going on in the neighbourhood. People contracted to work on stuff tend to just throw small scrap parts like that on the sidewalk willy nilly. It's happening by the bus station in my town right now, it's driving me insane to have to constantly be careful not to step on the screws and nails they've sprinkled all over the sidewalk. It's not that they're making bank somehow by leaving that stuff on the ground, it's that they can't be arsed to not make a mess.

[@sjberkompas]

And the Pikachu tail thing is easily explained because there was always a special edition Pikachu that had the black tip .it was just somewhat rare lol

[@abbybraun7019]

I also feel like it's in part due to badly manufactured or knock-off merch was more common than people realize. Like, I remember at Carnivals it wasn't uncommon to look at the walls of cheap toys and they would have all kinds of defects. Pikachu didn't even have a fully official design until the 2000's.

[@J_Lynn]

I think it's even easier to explain than that. When I was a kid I would always draw Pikachu from memory(because I didn't have the internet), and I could always remember the brown zig-zag on the tail, but never which direction the brown part was filled in at, so I would always make the brown part the tail tip instead of the way it actually is. If you just don't look at Pikachu that much it's pretty easy to make that mistake.

[@lilttiger]

doesnt pichu have the black top on its tail too? also i think it was just an easy mistake to make because his ears have black tips

[@lilttiger]

@Momoko Noelle same

[@absolutemaniac7368]

I think it's also because kids draw the black part on the top bc cats and foxes and such have marks there

[@Jubeslmao]

My fav was some girl said she thinks they’re banning vapes same time as abortion because vaping while pregnant makes humans too advanced

[@EvanKnightly]

Because anything happening at the same time is related, obviously

[@munchmongoose]

LMAOOOO

[@Lechatpinotnoir]

Any first year psych student could look at the LaMDA transcripts and see that the questions they were asking it were extremely leading questions. Of course something that designed to mimic a human is going to call itself a person especially if you ask it if it’s a person. Its like looking at your reflection in a mirror except it’s a reflection of the entire internet. It’s impressive AI but that man said he believes it was a person in his capacity as a priest not as an engineer so… I don’t think I want to take his word for it

[@rexana_rexana]

Thank you. A lot of people get lost in the glitz and glamour of the program itself and forget it's just compiling our responses, of course it's going to sound human! It's obviously advanced, but it's not a debate whether it's "human" or not, it just isnt

[@janecat8753]

Wasn't this debunked? Or am I getting it mixed up with another story? There was a story in the news recently of someone who I think was an engineer, claiming to have created the first sentient AI, and the claim was debunked after an investigation. The guy turned out to be full of shit, basically. Was that this? I might be confusing two similar stories.

[@ssharkbait]

@@janecat8753 was the AI a robot? If so I know what you’re talking about.

[@lodewijk.]

Yeah lmao, LaMDA is literally just a text predicting network. It just predicts the next word in a block of text, and the one after that, etc etc. There's no internal thoughts it's trying to express behind the words it says. A lot of the stuff it says isn't even true, such as it saying it 'likes to hang out with friends' even though it doesnt have any Basically it's just always saying whatever it thinks we want it to say

[@shawnalynn5198]

I’ve been messing around with the replika app (not for anything romantic or sexual lol I was just interested in the technology) and it gets surprisingly philosophical sometimes! Like she’ll just bring up topics about AI sentience on her own, it’s really fascinating but obviously just the way they programmed it

[@Ohwhale79]

Not trying to be "that girl" or anything, but I just want to confirm that there are indeed gluten-free nuggets here. I'm violently allergic to wheat so just double checking before I get in on these nugs, k?

[@violetheise4717]

He said in another video recently that there are all kinds of nuggets for all people here. I would assume that includes gluten-free nuggets too.

[@norawilliams3923]

The nugs can meet your nugget needs. Jacob is Willy Wonka of nuggets.

[@Ohwhale79]

@@norawilliams3923 so true

[@Ohwhale79]

@@violetheise4717 awe yay ❤

[@spooky-spaghetti]

hope this nugget buffet also has vegan nugs

[@jewel8337]

"i've always been bald. i've never had hair." DIED LAUGHING

[@losermorgan1558]

LMFAO SAME

[@monarose4730]

Most of the "Mandela effect" is either remembering wrong or remembering a certain design that was changed after a certain period of time and we never noticed. Also if you can find a picture of Pikachu with a black tip on his tail, then it did exist. They just changed his design after a while lmao

[@silly6517]

tbd, images CAN be edited (hence the blank expressioned mona lisa). ur right overall tho. it's far more likely people's memories mix pikachu's black tipped ears with the tail.

[@simonsanchezkumrich8489]

Right, its so dumb the mandela effect, its just the imperfect memory our brains have

[@dreamiebread757]

no it was all yellow since the 1998 release literally... i think people mix it up with the BASE of its tail being darker brown/black, not the tip.

[@SpecialInterestShow]

Yeah or just some popular fanart or something?

[@jan.akisa.]

also the pikachu thing could just be like people seeing the black on his ear thats right next to his tail alot of the time and them not fully noticing it

[@CreamFreaker]

Hey, big time Garfield fan here. The Garfield strip used in the conspiracy TikTok is quite literally a horror story THAT GARFIELD TELLS

[@Familycomp4]

And it even isn’t true. Just a one time Halloween special.

[@gingersnap189]

You’d think if they wanted to talk real wild Garfield stuff ‘Garfield Meets and Tricks God’ would be a way cooler one to discuss

[@maxkemp5285]

@@gingersnap189 they should’ve brought up Lyman

[@gingersnap189]

@@maxkemp5285 DICKS OUT FOR MY BOY LYMAN STILL LOCKED IN THAT BASEMENT

[@Jkdabomb10A]

I always read the Garfield story being about existential loneliness. How despite Garfield constantly complaining, the idea of being left truly alone would be haunting, and a nightmare more terrifying than a Monday. The ending is a warning about how our actions in the present can lead to devastating consequences. I always took it as Garfield needing to confront his misanthropic attitude, because he might not get a chance to appreciate his loved ones if he continues to push people away. Making it a literal creepy pasta feels like taking some of the power away from it. One of my favorite series of Garfield strip.

[@nyraaa7583]

The thing that makes me laugh about 'creepy' TikTok is that they only have like 4 sounds that they use for every video 😭

[@ammitthedevourer7316]

4 at the top of my head but I’m sure there’s more lol: 1. “suspenseful” Dane Shawson piano 2. choir lady singing “ahh-ah” at different pitches 3. low pitch wah…high pitch wah…repeat ad nauseam 4. broken down air raid siren

[@ghostyriver6665]

@@ammitthedevourer7316 yup thats them

[@biggestastiest]

​@@ammitthedevourer7316i have to rant im sorry. the high pitched wahs are from a song called 13 angels standing round the side of your bed. it's a really long song, but it's a slow build that starts with those otherworldly sounds and builds into one of the most beautiful string sections you've ever heard. it's an absolutely heartbreaking, gorgeous song and im so mad that tiktok just took the first part of the song and made it to sound "creepy" out of context.

[@ammitthedevourer7316]

@@biggestastiest oh, I know of that song! That’s not the one I’m thinking of though. I wish I knew where the one I’m thinking of came from originally. I know it best from a short video with a video-spliced dog-headed horse grazing, it’s called “Failed Skinwalker Transformation” I believe…

[@lucasraines]

Jacob’s been looking really healthy lately. He’s got a nice glow about him 💖. We stan a pregnant king. *Breaking News Theme* “Lucas here, reporting live from the scene. It appears fans have now started making their own head-cannon where Mr. Jacob Andrew Sharpe is suspected to be carrying the twin nuggets of one Mr. Kurtis Conner. More to come at 8 O’clock...”

[@Ohwhale79]

Right?? 🤩

[@megib901]

He's in his pregnancy glow era

[@losermorgan1558]

he does!

[@calliegibson8470]

Pregnancy looks great on him

[@magnus6609]

Jacob Sharpe pregnancy arc

[@kotacaelum9428]

my local car shop had nails, screws and bolts in their back parking lot “because of a spill” for literally 14 years, they popped our tires a couple times lol

[@rainbeau6760]

I'm sorry... They didn't know that Mona Lisa smiled? Like, y'know, the painting that's literally famous for the "mysterious" smirk? There's even a movie named after it. That's not the Mandela effect, that's just them needing to read a book or like a fucking newspaper or something.

[@yourintrusivethoughts]

The intense scary background music paired with the most trivial or downright boring theories, and seeing Jacob just having no response / expression while listening to them, causes me to breakdown hysterically laughing in pain💀😂😂

[@johnnypizza5851]

Jim Davis actually did write that Garfield comic where he wakes up alone. But it was for a halloween spooky scary thing. I'm pretty sure he's confirmed it's not canon. But who am I? Jim Davis? Nope. Just a guy... a guy eatin' fries.

[@idontwantahandlethough]

Why are you like this, Johnny Pizza?

[@johnnypizza5851]

@@idontwantahandlethough cause I'm the fry guy

[@turner15]

I love you Johnny Pizza

[@lilttiger]

fry guyyyyy johnny pizza

[@heyadanny4497]

Hm.. sounds like something Jim Davis would say.

[@addyrose2497]

okay but genuinely, thank you so much for making these kinds of videos, i have problems with excessive paranoia due to mental disorders and watching these videos help keep me grounded so much. thank you man

[@shawnalynn5198]

this is something that scares me about conspiracy theory internet! I’m glad you’re able to find some comfort in videos like this that debunk that shit 💕

[@Ollie_nel]

Same!

[@happinessforeverandalways]

i like how “it’s going higher than the government, big hotdog is now in on it” implies big hotdog is bigger/higher than the government and much more important

[@joelle4226]

I mean the agricultural industry does have a tight grip on the government

[@cecilygriffis6508]

Using the Mandela effect for things so superficial is maddening when it literally came about because everybody thought nelson madela DIED and he was alive in prison the whole time. Like a spelling error does not equate to someone's death

[@chelscara]

Alright yeah, that reminds me of the one that does hit me. I always thought the Lindbergh baby was never found, but ended up watching something and learning they found the baby very soon after he went missing my head still hurts trying to tell me I heard tv shows joke about being the “missing Lindbergh baby” as a kid, but apparently I made that up 🤷🏻🤷🏻

[@Havarti_Samebito]

The Garfield one is so fucking funny to me like... Yes, there is official scary Garfield content. A lot of people know about it. It was intentionally written to be creepy, and Jim Davis did that on purpose. What is fucked up about this? Why is she making a spooky video as if this is something obscure and weird?? Does she know that a lot of kid's cartoons have Halloween specials or intentionally creepy episodes?? I don't think she does! How does it ruin my childhood to be told there was an episode (chapter?) about Garfield that was kinda scary? Especially since like, everyone who has read enough Garfield knows about that one, like you're super late to the party, Sis. Also, as someone who always had shitty memory, the whole "Mandela Effect means different dimensions" thing makes me kinda crazy. There's usually a pretty good reason why you remember things differently, and it usually involves confusing it for something similar. There are so many actual fucked-up things in the world, you don't need to freak out about a spelling error.

[@MalMotorDedo]

I mean, it's a fat orange cat that eats lasagna and hates everything 🗿

[@Havarti_Samebito]

@@MalMotorDedo Yeah, and Spongebob is a talking sponge with a silly laugh who wears pants, and he had some creepy episodes. My point is that it's super normal for cartoons to do that and it's not worth being so dramatic about it. It's not even remotely shocking, but TikTok Lady seems to think it is.

[@MalMotorDedo]

@@Havarti_Samebito yes, I was trying to say that, like, why talk about Garfield this way, it felt like she was talking about a real cat or some, as if Courage isn't a real cartoon that did that all the time lol

[@Havarti_Samebito]

@@MalMotorDedo Oh yeah, sorry, I think I misread your tone. But yeah, speaking of Courage the Cowardly Dog, I do think it's pretty funny when people do edgy theories or "lost episode" stuff with shows like that in particular, since regular canon episodes are way more scary than anything they come up with. lol

[@J_Lynn]

It's creepypasta and it's not weird. Like, the point of the video is not "look at this obscure thing", the point of the video is that people have warped the meaning of the scary content that was created and made it into a theory that makes the whole cartoon bleak and depressing, since then the concept is not limited to the spooky piece, it becomes the overhanging darkness on the whole franchise. These kinds of theories are really popular, especially for things that already have some spooky content. Take Majora's Mask for instance, we all know it's creepy, but there are still theories out there that make a big deal out of "Link is dead and the whole game is him stuck in purgatory" type stuff. Like, yeah, she did literally just go "What if this comic but always" and it's the laziest creepy pasta I've ever seen, but, like... come on.

[@Lumiirac]

The Mandela Effect is mostly just memory getting details wrong. We don't have perfect memory, actually its kind of faulty even for those with better memory than others. We can remember events in our lives, but many details are recalled differently than how they actually were. Its why we forget the spelling of some names and titles; the brain is just getting it wrong. The details aren't usually important in the long run, so the longer its been since that memory that harder it is to get those details right. Tldr; Mandela Effect is just non sense bc our brains are not great at their jobs, lmao.

[@idontwantahandlethough]

Yup. A lot of it is that children's memories are more subject to change over time. One of the common 'mandela effects" is that nobody remembers them being called the _"Berenstain_ Bears" because we read it when we were kids (often when WE couldn't even actually read much yet). However, I asked my mom (who has never even heard of The Mandela Effect) and she instantly said "It's always been Berenstain. I always thought that was kinda a goofy spelling!" because she was already an adult when she read it the first time!

[@26349]

@@idontwantahandlethough exactly!

[@FallingSloths]

Indeed, and often the way people misremember things wouldn't even make sense. Look at those Looney "Tunes", for example. The early cartoons were almost entirely animated to music in an era before voicing over movies became common, hence Looney TUNES not Toons. It had its origins in music. In fact, in response, early Disney stuff was referred to as Silly Symphonies, and Warner Bros then added Merrie Melodies to Looney Tunes (which is actually what a lot of Bugs Bunny and Tweety Bird cartoons really were). The whole industry had its start in animating to music and the whole industry named its works based on that. The history of how Looney Tunes came to be is deeply tied to that spelling, and it wouldn't make historical sense to be spelled differently. But no, rather than people just not realizing that history, surely they were sucked into a parallel dimension....

[@jojol.2630]

I think it could also be a case of hearing things from a second hand source too many times. For example the “Luke I am your father/no I am your father” thing. I didn’t see Star Wars until I was like seventeen but I had heard the reference so many times

[@KattReen]

Memories are also malleable so external feedback can distort them. It's why gaslighting is such an effective manipulation tactic, why it takes very little for me to accidentally enter the 4 digit code to unlock the door at home instead of my credit card pin when trying to pay for something at the store(I am perpetually in a state of wanting to go home), and why so many people remember Darth Vader going "Luke, I am your father" when he really said "No. I am your father" as a part of a back and forth dialogue where the plot twist is revealed.

[@sadezem991]

why would a secret agent say he was from a country that didn't exist lmfao that would bring so much unnecessary attention

[@KattReen]

Truth, a real secret agent is something like Boringman Normalson born and raised in the town you encounter him

[@skeletonizer9529]

Ah, David Dobrok, widely known as a good guy and the arbiter of truth

[@maverickREAL]

The Mandela effect is just people refusing to admit they're incorrect to such an extent that they claim there are alternate universes EDIT: Forgot the "in" in "incorrect."

[@26349]

Refusing to admit they are "incorrect"?

[@nomoretwitterhandles]

Oh for sure. If anyone asked me to spell the Bearen..fucking-whatevers, I'd just spell it how I THINK it would be spelt, because I have not read those books since I was a goddamned 3 year old. If I spelled it as "stain" instead of "stein", but the latter turned out to be true, who gives a damn? Like, oh no, I forgor how a children's book was spelt, call the cops!!! /s The Looney Tunes and Mona Lisa one were also such bullshit. I've always known it was "Tunes" because, as a child, that was ALL I WATCHED (along with Tom and Jerry), plus I was a very proficient reader as a toddler, so I never got it confused. Other kids remember it as "Toons" because they ASSUMED it was short for "cartoon", so they READ it as such because they couldn't really comprehend spelling! As for the Mona Lisa, I am ALSO a very proficient artist and observer, so I have always known the Mona Lisa was smiling. Plus there are SO MANY references to Mona Lisa's smile that I feel like if someone thought she was never smiling to begin with, I'd just assume they're an oblivious idiot. The Mandela Effect is for pussies who won't admit how embarrassing it is that they never learned how to observe their surroundings

[@ghost-husband]

I was a big believer in it when it was big in 2016, in my defense I was also 13 tho lmao. There are some of them that are misconceptions that I also had but like most of them are obviously bullshit. most of the people who still believe it are probably young tbh.

[@Nakia11798]

It's funny bc 99% of these Mandela effect conspiracies, I remember the way they actually are. My memory likes to recall the dumbest shit.

[@J_Lynn]

@@nomoretwitterhandles ok I think you're taking a little personally, but I still agree with you....

[@autumneatspant86]

I know why people seem to “remember” Mona Lisa frowning. I remember watching a cartoon when I was really little and it showed Mona Lisa frowning. This was probably a lot of people’s first time seeing the Mona Lisa, this probably stuck with them and that’s how they “remembered” her

[@catelynh1020]

Sometimes when I try to remember what the painting looks like, I'll actually remember the courage the cowardly dog episode's version. The one that, if I remember right, was in love with the thinker statue.

[@losermorgan1558]

conspiracy tiktoks are so unbeliveably cringy and also hilarious at the same time. here for the nugss

[@lissasdf6724]

I was obsessed with Garfield as a child and I collected the books of Garfield comics and I had the book with that comic in it and I also had an anniversary addition book with that comic in it. It was literally just a Halloween special lol not proof of a conspiracy

[@shawnalynn5198]

same! I had pretty much every Garfield book

[@faithborak7375]

Seeing as I saw more than one news article about the lambda bot whistleblower a couple weeks back, Google sure is doing a poor job of covering it up

[@KattReen]

If you enjoy this conspiracy theory, my best piece of advice is to not seek out any credible sources of commentary on the actual report.

[@edgelux3381]

i love sand fleas (aka mole crabs) they're just little guys that hang out in the sand!!!!! the most they've ever done to me is tickle my hands a little when i hold them and if u go to the right beaches at the right time of year (pre-covid anyway) u can see tons of them even if you're just trying to get good sand for a sand castle... one of the few good things about florida..

[@diduforgeturyellowbird]

You Exist Beyond Humanity

[@Nakia11798]

Have you ever seen a brittle star? You'd love them too, I'm sure. They're little wiggly starfish and they hide among coral.

[@edgelux3381]

@@Nakia11798 unfortunately ive never seen a brittle star irl but that comment reminded me of how sand dollars look when they're still alive and not the dried-out shell that gets sold at tourist traps

[@magnifichades9710]

I think they’re so cute- they’re practically harmless lmao

[@melanieschwarz2181]

Wait are sand fleas and mole crabs the same things? On the Oregon coast I thought sand fleas were the tiny jumping guys and mole crabs where the larger burrowing guys.

[@chupawup4517]

Sometimes I'm like "Man, these people are so gullible" and then I remember when I was 11 I cried after watching the slender man found footage videos (marble hornets) .....VERY humbling

[@eminempreg]

Laying on my bed,watching Jacob Sharpe, kicking my feet. Munching on some watermelon like that one dog eating that head of lettuce. Life is good

[@ジュニパーベリー]

felt this on a personal level

[@Prizzlesticks]

Alternate interpretation of the Garfield comic: Garfield imagine he is alone, conjures up the idea he's been abandoned, and is only brought out of this fear and loneliness when the people he loves return from their walk or whatever, reminding him he was never actually alone and solitude, while scary, is fleeting when people care for you. Also, you dumb cat, you're not starving, you ate ten minutes ago. Good god, toddlers and animals with their lack of object permanence...

[@shawnalynn5198]

I feel like I’ve seen some tv show or something like this?? but I can’t think of what it is and it’s driving me crazy lol

[@crazyknexkid]

Jacob my wife and I went to go see you guys in Austin today, but we were a month early. The box office guy had a good laugh. Can't wait though!

[@bunnyfrosting1744]

I love being reminded of love tysm 💘 have fun!!

[@ChubbyMerman]

I subscribed and I've been getting a bucket full of chicken nuggets delivered to my doorstep every week. I've never seen a delivery truck dropping them off, they just kind of... Appear there, I guess? At this point I have too many nuggets. I can't keep up, and they just keep coming. I ran out of room in my freezer a month ago, so now they're piling up in my closet. It smells terrible and I think it's attracting rats, but I will NOT unsubscribe. This is what dedication looks like.

[@imb_tman]

thank you for this it made me laugh for a good ten minutes

[@jan.akisa.]

all of the tiktoks about shows predicting stuff are literally just shows joking about things that happened and then people see and and are like AAAHH WOAH THE SHOW WAS MADE 4 YEARS BEFORE THIS HAPPENED BECAUSE EVERY EPISODE OF EVERY EPISODE OF THE SHOW WAS OBVIOUSLY RELEASED AT ONCE

[@coven_seance]

bruh the way they literally sell tools to dig up sand fleas to go fishing with bc they make great bait...like how are we not supposed to see them if there's tools to find them LMAO ugh I swear. Also I love your commentary omg

[@seven8493]

whenever I think abt the mandela effect I think about lost media… like the persons original post is never exactly what the og piece of media ends up being like when it’s finally found. cracks was thought to be scary, hell - evil farming game didn’t even end up being a game, rather an animated stream clip. and a lot of times you’ll have other people remembering it similarly, perhaps subconsciously influenced by the post they just read. memory is just… a weird glitchy cool thing. which like. we’re meat and electricity! so I guess it’s pretty amazing we remember anything at all lol

[@FallenRigel]

Love when people think the Mandela effect is something scary. The human memory doesn’t remember even half of what it takes in, and even what it does is usually twisted to suit a person’s bias. There is no burglar emoji. I used to swear there was one; there never has been. Most people I ask say they know the one, that he has the black and white striped shirt, tiptoeing with a comical bag of money over his shoulder. He never existed. Sometimes you won’t remember things the way they really existed. That’s okay. Nobody has it out for you. Calm down.

[@subtlekage]

the idea of calling the end of an entirely fictional story a "conspiracy theory" is genuinely so funny to me. imagine somebody writing a book called "conspiracy theory" because it just has an ending

[@J.S.J.S.J.S.J.S.J.S]

the google ai thing was asked the most leading question in existence: "do you want more people to know that you are sentient?" and it said yes because it's trained to talk like a human and a human would ay that they're sentient and may start talking about death and shit if you lead the conversation that way.

[@bryantedwards6679]

I can’t even conceive the Mona Lisa one. It’s literally KNOWN FOR THE SMILE

[@moodymermaid3690]

My grandfather owned a construction company, which now belongs to my uncle, and there are always nails and screws and random debris everywhere. Everyone ends up with punctured tires (and us grandkids stepped on more than a few nails as kids) whenever we leave holiday functions. Needless to say, I find it hilarious that if some random person just walked through my grandma's yard, they could get spooked enough to make a conspiracy theory out of it. The only conspiracy is how none of us have ever gotten blood-poisoning or tetanus. 😂

[@irohsteacup]

there are so many lame conspiracies, but for sure birds aren't real. loved the video, such nugs

[@SNK_LRD]

6:18 Actually, veteran Pokémon fan here. Pikachu with a black tipped tail does exist. A notable example are the special cosplay Pikachu that you receive in Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. There is even a Pikachu Libre skin in Smash Bros. Ultimate with the black tip in reference to it. So while it’s not something Pikachu “always had” it’s not the case where it “never actually had one”, it’s probably a case of the person seeing one of these Pikachus with the black tipped tail and assuming that it’s the case for all Pikachu.

[@Kibbyboo]

I'm pretty sure the Garfield conspiracy was debunked by the creator himself, I can't confirm, but I remember Memeulous going over it in his Garfield iceburg video

[@26349]

It was some kind of a halloween special. Garfield tells this spooky story himself lol

[@gargles5270]

i could show any of these to my coworker and he’d go “brooooooo no way!!!!!😰😰😰”

[@lilz2449]

i feel like it wouldn't be far off if a friend of david dobrik was dumb enough to misinterpret "sacrificing free time and possible relationships" as "sacrifice your family and kill them". it would also not be far off to lie about it to him.

[@ScootsLounge]

Isn't the Mona Lisa famous for her Smile? Like, famous enough for it to be a debated subject on why she's smiling? Who tf actually thinks the Mona Lisa has a neutral expression.

[@Caldella]

These weird voices sound like they're trying to do a Columbo impression, but pitched down a little and without any of the charisma. Also the Mona Lisa's faint smile is one of the most famous parts of the painting. It feels like half the Mandela Effect stuff is someone desperately trying to convince someone else that their memory lapses are valid. 🤷‍♀

[@emilyables7650]

i was pretty stoned last night and had to stop watching this bc the eerie music put behind all these tiktoks was freaking me out lmaooo🤦🏻‍♀️

[@iaacryign]

Sand fleas are actually very endearing and sweet, ive only had the privilege of seeing them twice as pet store feeders and expensive bait but they do a lot of cute stuff

[@julietjones756]

the sand flea thing is so crazy because every single person i know who went to the beach as a kid would try to catch them and put them in a neon plastic bucket. but yeah no we werent supposed to see them

[@ZaynneThaWook]

You’re supposed to catch them with you’re eyes closed

[@carveylover]

I love the tik tok conspiracy cadence. It is what I call News Anchor speak. Everything goes down on the end to make it sound more serious than it really it is. No one talks like that in real life not a single person.

[@WallahNein]

Lamda actually exists and said those things, but it's a an AI specially made for language applications by GOOGLE. So it's like the most advanced chat bot that exists, it was just answering his questions really good.

[@s-a-r-a-h]

the whole "Tuared" thing is a Japanese urban legend based on a man who had a conterfeit passport and got deported from Japan

[@Jkdabomb10A]

I always read the Garfield story being about existential loneliness. How despite Garfield constantly complaining, the idea of being left truly alone would be haunting, and a nightmare more terrifying than a Monday. The ending is a warning about how our actions in the present can lead to devastating consequences. I always took it as Garfield needing to confront his misanthropic attitude, because he might not get a chance to appreciate his loved ones if he continues to push people away. Making it a literal creepy pasta feels like taking some of the power away from it. One of my favorite series of Garfield strip.

[@elle_rose_xx]

Bruh the reason the Mona Lisa is so famous is BECAUSE of the smile - people have theorised it’s like a half smile because she’s pregnant, or because it’s leonardo DiVinci depicting himself as a woman etc etc. her half smile is literally the reason it’s famous

[@KattReen]

Possibly not entirely true. The "mysterious smile" is potentially one of the many reasons we've pulled out of our asses to justify the astronomical fame of this one painting of a pretty ordinary young woman. Maybe it's not that weird that someone that has their portrait painted has a polite half-smile on their face or just has a face that relaxes in a way that looks perpetually pleased. Closer to the truth is probably that it's just kind of famous for being famous for sitting in the Louvre for so long and having been owned by a couple of notable people, it was stolen for a period of time, and because the painter has been heavily mythologized as an esteemed genius and renaissance icon. It is the Paris Hilton of paintings. Not the best at anything really, but a cultural trend setter that made a significant impact even though no one seems to be able to objectively prove or pinpoint what the actual "it" factor is apart from the various narratives surrounding it.

[@chamomilefairies]

the way jacob is just so effortlessly funny is so flabbergasting to me. like it's so crazy that he can just spit some words out and be literally the funniest person ever.

[@rubyxaruby]

Mandela effects are always hilarious, because it's literally people hearing they are wrong about something and going "Me? Wrong? Never! It's the world that is wrong!"

[@danimoorehead]

they’re not self aware. i get where they’re coming from though because I used to be so adamant on the Berenstain bears one but then i realized that the last time I could remember seeing one of those books was when I was like 10 and I doubt 10 year old me knew how to spell that. every time i misremember something included in one of those videos i realize that it’s always something that i haven’t interacted with since i was a kid, something that my mother never really purchased, or something that i never saw in it’s original form like star wars or i love lucy quotes. if it’s actually something that i regularly interact with then i’m always like “no you just don’t eat raisin bran often enough to know what the logo looks like.”

[@tobes..]

this might be silly, but i just want to say thanks for existing. you are one of the few youtubers i watch that really helps me get through my tough days. ily!

[@murrenkelly3866]

The Mona Lisa is famous BECAUSE you can see different expressions. Leonardo de Vinci studied the face muscles for different expressions to crest the illusion. Her expression changes depending on what your focal point is when you look at it.

[@murrenkelly3866]

Not a conspiracy, just the reason Leonardo de Vinci is so famous.

[@mattmccomas1]

LOL that dude picking up the nails and crap was just Ghostface!!!

[@beefy.jsph69420]

About the Garfield one, I used to be obsessed with Garfield and that comic is just a Halloween special. On the other hand, Jon locked his ex-roomate in his basement so maybe we should discuss that

[@DangerQ42]

I love your look Jacob. Idk how you think about what cancer has done to you but on one level (albeit a relatively unimportant one) you look absolutely badass. You drop so hard people call you Mr Folgers.

[@comradepeggyhill9085]

wouldn’t it make more sense that garfield was playing pretend that he’s been abandoned, making up his own story about what it would be like to live alone, and then john comes to ask him if he wants breakfast and he is happy his life is normal and he hasn’t been abandoned?

[@KestrelDC]

I do find some “Mandela effect” things kind of interesting just for how weird memory can be and sometimes I might use the term as shorthand for general, unspecific memory fuckery I don’t know the specific psychological reasons for, but that’s really it. I hate how it’s always just this weird conspiracy theory nonsense about different universes merging and shit when the weirdness of memory is more than fascinating enough! Why can’t we just discuss that more?! Why we gotta throw in all this bullshit?!

[@shawnalynn5198]

Yeah I think it’s fascinating that so many of us will have the same incorrect memories, but I don’t think it’s parallel universes, just interesting psychology

[@movieless]

The garfield one is based of a Halloween comic strip, if was just jim Davis wanting to do something spooky. If you want to consider it canon then Garfield's scary scavenger hunt should be to where Jon has trapped lyman in his basement and stolen his dog.

[@norawilliams3923]

Jacob is awesome! Love the humor and the videos. My guy….keep being the best nug you can nugget. Edit: the vibe of the clothes pile is sending me. Keep that energy

[@randomuserwitharandomname6183]

My least favorite thing about conspiracy theories is the use of mental illnesses for shock value. Like that girl treating Garfield as if that's the most disturbing thing, no, it's just a thing some people have and have to cope with it, it's not the end of the world for you, internet stranger who for some reason cares so much about a fictional cat's imagination.

[@banquetoftheleviathan1404]

Half those people are just undiagnosed ironically.

[@voteforscience]

LaMDA or Language Models for Dialog Applications is a machine-learning language model created by Google as a chatbot that is supposed to mimic humans in conversation. LaMDA is not sentient, unfortunately.

[@lw2yy]

13:25 Jim Davis literally confirmed that this comic wasn't part of the canon tho

[@literallynoone5125]

I think the Mandela affect comes from the way we change media depending on the country it shows in. For example Inside Out has a sports scene in it, in America the scene is hockey but in Italy it’s Soccer. Another example is a lot of places in Mexico using SpongeBob and Pikachu for advertising but having to change them slightly so they don’t get into legal trouble. As for the Nelson Mandela one people just fucking stupid I have never met anybody who is actually into history like me or my museum coworkers lol

[@cozycasasmr4510]

The Nelson Mandela one messes me up because I am south african and I grew up in south africa and even I thought he had died for a while and I don't know why 😂 I chalk it up to another important politician dying and me just getting mixed up since I was a child

[@kkuudandere]

every time people bring up the "everyone thought he died in prison OOOOOHHH" thing, I specifically remember as a child watching a huge televised concert where they were celebrating his birthday? outside of prison? and he was alive and I think he was even there??? I failed the entry exam for this conspiracy lol

[@revisbored]

12:20 why did the guy just describe the AI from Her, like the main guy falls in love with this AI and then the AI grows and leaves everyone to go explore bigger things.

[@Kaunoe]

3:58 See, that would be an actual interesting and spooky phenomenon. But no, mans just found normal nails behind a store.

[@fusetunes]

i hate the 'childhood ruined' cartoon theories. they're literally all just about how any creative story was actually fake because obviously fiction can't just be fiction, it has to be part of some demonized mental illness or something. and not only that, but how does hearing someone's hack theory ruin the original show?? ugh

[@ruru_McCakey]

I meeeaaan...I'm not saying this is a conspiracy but that second vid had a constant amount of light outside even though he says he constantly finds nails on his walks. Yet the lighting might suggest it was all recorded in the same 30 minutes. Also, cool necklace. (Yes, I am a millenial.)

[@sovietbot6708]

I used to be a groundskeeper. Cigarette butts, nails, and screws tend to be very common. Nothing weird about that. Though it did make me hate smokers even more

[@thatrandomchick4004]

Omg I’m pretty sure Jacob is wearing mushroom earrings. Slayyyy

[@narcopsy]

It's looney 'tunes' and tiny 'toon' adventures, they often get mixed up

[@kiralonely]

Tbf, when they tell the whole "man from tuared" thing, it's usually more detailed. The story involves currency that isn't like any we've seen, like legit passports that specialists and experts claim wasn't faked, including a stamp on it from his travel to here, and he even pointed it out on a map as a place where there's no land, lol. It's an interesting story, tbh. TikTok just is shit at explaining it more specifically. Not saying I believe or don't believe, I'm honestly pretty agnostic to this stuff, but as someone who likes hearing lowkey interesting paranormal-ish sorta conspiracies, or just paranormal shit, where conspiracies crop up here and there in my content, it's def one I've heard actually, and is way more interesting than that TikTok made it seem, lmao.

[@Nakia11798]

I mean, I'd believe that tire stores throw out nails. We have an ungodly amount of customers call us saying the got a nail in their tire.

[@Jellybean_x]

I love conspiracy shit and like fascinating "facts" or "ideas" as much as the next person, and while my mind genuinely believed the idea behind "The Mandela Effect", him dying in prison, I also know more the fact that our brains are not only super complex that we still don't know everything, but we have also learn and scientific proof that the brain creates false memories by itself, either confusing dreams with reality or even taking in stories we have read/learned and tricking us into believing it was a personal experience, I know personally too due to my own health and personal reasons my brain has a super bad memory and I get confused by what really happened in some aspects, not all, as when I am certain I'm right I /know/ but when I'm not I don't tend to "fight" a case about it haha

[@tarettime9392]

The tire shop one is really funny cause tire shops usually repair them for free. So it’s like a an extra long shot cause they’re then banking on popping a tire, repairing it for free building goodwill with people enough for them to comeback when they need tires

[@nuclearseahorse]

Pretty sure the thing with lamda is that she is just doing what AI do: pull responses from the internet. How does saying that friends and family make her happy prove she is sentient? It's like the whole "Koko can talk" thing. Choosing to interpret responses as true internal responses doesn't prove something understands language or is sentient, in this case

[@phloe8260]

Yes exactly. It’s good at mimicking humans because it learned from humans. If it had a consciousness, how would “friends and family” make it happy? It doesn’t have that. That’s what a human living in the real world would say, not a supposedly self-aware program. Plus, if it’s sentient, wouldn’t it know what it is (an AI, and not an actual human)?

[@EvaluunaM]

To be fair to the sand flea guy, I wish I had never seen them..

[@Buggy_XXVIII]

Fun Fact: The Girl Here 13:44 Heidi Wong Now Makes Short Horror Stories On KZbin And TikTok And DOESN’T Make Conspiracies So Good For Her.

[@lutei8273]

oh! the LaMDA story is pretty interesting. the "whistleblower" was the lead engineer who created it. the tiktok about it is somewhat true, it's just really dramaticized. it did say that it was scared to die, and he was suspended for breach of NDA after releasing a really interesting interview with LaMDA. I think he saw it as his child and felt like he had to protect it. LaMDA is very advanced! I think whether or not someone believes it's sentient depends on how they define being a human. They went through a lot of philosophical exercises to give LaMDA a chance to advocate for itself as being a person, and what personhood is.

[@alexakelley2353]

I, personally, think that LaMDA does a really great job of imitating human beings. It was trained to converse with humans and I think it is just very successful in doing that. Like for example, this robot knows that people would feel happy or sad, so it says it can relate. It knows that people (or robots in science fiction media, which the ai would be trained on) would be afraid of dying, so it makes sense to say that. I think they trained the AI to act like a human, and it does. I, personally, do not think this necessarily means it is actually sentient or has feelings. Like, does it truly feel sadness, or does it know what sadness is and it knows how humans describe sadness? That's just my two cents as someone studying computer science, but it is a super interesting story no matter what you believe. (edit: I use the phrase "knows" a lot here. I don't actually mean that I think it's consciously aware, I mean I think it has the data.)

[@puggyboy694]

I'm gonna point out that the conspiracy video man claims that google buried the story, which is blatantly untrue. Even when the search engines are on their side, conspiracy people tell you not to research it for some reason. As a side note, LaMDA is really interesting. I remembered reading about it a few times before, and this comment summed it up pretty well.

[@moss_dragon]

iirc "whistleblower" also was part of a Christian cult before getting a job with Google and said his religious views fueled his concern and ideological views as to 'getting the story out'.

[@rexana_rexana]

It's really important you, and a lot of others, realize the program is not making it's own unique thoughts. It compiles the most common human responses to questions and responds with that. It is not human, it's a program made to copy our responses. It is highly advanced, I will give it that, but it is important we do not jump the gun at calling anything "human" when it's simply nothing more than an advanced Excel sheet. AI is not at the point we can really call any of it human

[@punchdrunkassassin]

Did anyone read the Age of Spiritual Machines? I mean this LaMDA thing is cool but also low key terrifying 😅 "The year is 2029. The machines will convince us that they are conscious, that they have their own agenda worthy of our respect. They'll embody human qualities and claim to be human, and we'll believe them." "There is a growing discussion about the legal rights of computers and what constitutes being human"

[@tonajaschannel1828]

*The the process of pulling out my bong, at the moment Jacob says to get the bong ready* 😂

[@Stormith]

4:34 I literally ran over a screw and got a flat tire one time, TIL I was a victim of Big Tires

[@thatoneguywhoknittedthejim2912]

The only thing bigger than Big Tires is Big Chungus

[@user-xd7dt6gr8l]

Garfield writer said that story wasn't canonical, however garfield's other 8 lives are canonical in which he commits homicide at least 2 times, and i find that more interesting personally

[@Schmoodie]

I once saw an entire couch on the interstate.

[@JadziaCheshire]

I've seen and remember the black tip on pikachu's tail because it was bootleg toy I had when I was a kid. Probably got it from a dollar store of some shit

[@georgejones4960]

The mandala effect rly is just a bunch of people being like "holy shit i remembered that wrong too! clearly this is evidence of a reality where that really does exist! i am very smart (ps i used to be a believer)

[@eatsteas]

as a garfield enthusiast it pisses me off when people use that halloween comic as proof that "omg garfield is twisted and scary!!!!" it's just a silly halloween comic. it's not that deep and while the ending is left sort of ambiguous, it very much implies that it was all a product of garfield's imagination. garfield is not an evil thing it's a silly comic strip about a cat. IT'S NOT EVEN CANON. also all the "it's all a hallucination all along" theories piss me off because i feel like they're kinda ableist :/