Cousins Explained

What's a third cousin twice removed? Do great parents exist?
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[@archle1169]

“Parents can have children That are not you” If that ain’t poetry Idk what is

[@lolpufferfish1129]

because of how he worded it when i heard that i was like bro wait what :o and then i realized that was a perfectly normal thing KSdhksjf

[@RobinFlysHigh]

Hahahaha

[@sadcena7761]

@@lolpufferfish1129 I was so lost and then I remembered that I have 6 siblings

[@allthingslexi6046]

@@sadcena7761 lmao

[@xiao5641]

I read this EXACTLY when he said it 😂

[@samuelthecamel]

"No one will ever be a great parent!" -Micheal

[@robsongaitsantepaulus2398]

Gonna make citation of this when arguing with parents.

[@tamino27]

actually this is not true: just call your grandparents in german Großeltern and voila there it is groß=great and Eltern=parents. Btw hasn´t the English grand ist origin in French?

[@oko_161]

@@tamino27 grand could also be translated as groß

[@avito502]

@@oko_161 my grob parents?

[@jappa4977]

That symbol is pronounced as 2 s’s

[@SomeDudeNamedCarl]

Thanks for the Alabama math so you know which cousin is safe

[@user-qu9fk5jh8j]

@Jonathan Lumbreras same

[@kittycat-sc7je]

@@cop-killer- no u

[@insanitycubed8832]

Cousin? Yeesh! A little distant, don't you think?

[@Tatusiek_1]

Meat Butt in alabama the family tree is a tumbleweed

[@top10bruhmoments67]

@@cop-killer- but alabama has more black people than white.....

[@saivikas9580]

"My mom is not my cousin". Thanks for confirming Micheal

[@GalaticHunter]

or is she

[@bluewhale2846]

Are my siblings my 0th cousins? And my nieces/nephews are my 0th cousins once removed?

[@magical_blue]

my 7th grandfather from my father side is my mom 6 grandfather from her father side 😂 so what does that makes us I'm arab and both my parents are from the same tribe but different clans

[@sakyosekai3438]

I don’t know any of my removed cousins myself, but I personally have some first cousins I’d like to remove.

[@thestrivingone2367]

SakyoSekai hahaha ure acc funny😂

[@josephclegg3562]

Really? How would you remove them, and where would you remove them to?

[@comradeurod9805]

@@josephclegg3562 heck probably

[@ajddavid452]

I'm pretty sure the feeling is mutual

[@robot2374]

SakyoSekai call thanos to snap them outta existence

[@andreaspapandreou2485]

Other people:My sister Me,an intellectual:My Zeroth cousin

[@depstein3847]

0th Cousin Nonce Removed

[@sgtruru]

Other people: myself Me: my negative first cousin.

[@devizee]

Other people: my grandpa Me, an intellectual: my negative first cousin twice removed

[@ruskiiz8315]

Cousin't

[@agentc514]

I read it as mean intellectual

[@kenmendoza6932]

In the hood, everyone is your cousin.

[@Saronite]

in soviet russia, your cousin is everyone's

[@RougenTCG]

Wuz poppin' cuz? What's happening cousin? How goes it grandparent's children's children? How are you feeling my parent's parent's lineage's lineage?

[@pablosalazar812]

All bees are cousins

[@Tensho_C]

Are you doing the Tpose on a cliff? Respect

[@lechequemada1661]

NotKenM

[@michaelo8342]

Me explaining how human families work to my alien from area51

[@katipunan4212]

This is also how an Alien would explain how their families work

[@svenlauke1190]

@@katipunan4212 depends. generations are easy in animals, much more complicated in lets say, plants, or fungi, or bacteria. so depending which of those the aliens are closer too, it might be a very different discussion

[@abuzzedwhaler7949]

"Now, parents can have children that aren't you." *preposterous*

[@minglunshao3873]

A Buzzed Whaler iuibuigibuiub

[@minglunshao3873]

A Buzzed Whaler iuibuigibuiub Mj

[@fluffymassacre2918]

And the Nobel price goes to...

[@hedgeearthridge6807]

Kids without siblings be like:

[@mjelves]

...or CAN they??

[@awakenedape1052]

"But their children will be removed."

[@BM03]

ONLY THE STRONG MAY PREVAIL

[@thesauce2031]

NATURAL SELECTION FTW!

[@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574]

BM03 lol

[@frostythesnowbob607]

Wanna meet my 1- cousin?

[@cerealsop]

Mr. Michael... I dont feel so good

[@DamaKubu]

Plot twist Michael is adopted.

[@ForruptedHrek]

Aokis lmao

[@aadityarajbhattarai46]

And infertile

[@Feziboy]

Aokis But he’d still be A cousin

[@helenhamilton2544]

Hahha I thought that was Plot Twist Michael, as opposed to regular non plot twist Michael, is adopted

[@matzanrock]

That't would make him x removed

[@TheMrsansari]

Finally. I have never understood this removed business.

[@theidiotzonexo]

when you're from a big family, everyone's a cousin. doesn't matter if they're your 2nd cousin once removed, they're your cousin.

[@moodswings1433]

Fr I get so confused sometimes, like my niece is a year younger than me and my Aunt is 6 years younger than me??

[@aidrovo89]

Mood Swings it’s possible

[@theidiotzonexo]

@@moodswings1433 yeah i've 20 first cousins on my mom's side, so i'm actually closer in age to my mom's oldest grandniece than to the next youngest cousin

[@katerraxantane7178]

My grandmother's cousin is the same age as my uncle and the children are about the same age as me and my cousins... we still view each other as family but we're sick of explaining it whenever we meet new people so we just say "we're cousins" even though their dad is actually our grandmother's cousin.

[@user-rv9vk8by5i]

Y'all family trees are a hecking hedge maze. Not the maze, but the branches in the hedges.

[@mr_matata]

i lost it when your said " if my own grandchildren gave birth to me"

[@chrisakaschulbus4903]

but technically your grand children could give you a half sibling... when your mother is up for it, that is

[@REALPapaLags]

Chris aka Schulbus sweet home Alabama

[@helldronez]

predestination

[@jennypai3763]

there's a song called "I'm my own grandpa"

[@Funstun-yk7oo]

Philip J. Fry

[@xtroro5672]

This video in Alabama is called Wives Explained

[@skeezerAndo]

😂😂

[@Gia1911Logous]

Austria*

[@Dalrae]

@@Gia1911Logous HAHAHAH LOLOLOLOLOO HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH LOLLoOLoOoLOL

[@juliagrace4405]

Being from Alabama I find that funny and offensive.

[@jade_m23]

No it is not. I will have u know, I am most currently in Alabama and it says something about cousins. So sir, you are wronger than my sister cousin, Beth. She ain't too smart, bc of the whole, sister cousin part. Anyways,

[@v6790]

0:51 for those few seconds that he tried to decide what "e" to use the entire universe collapsed through his mind he saw every combination of everything and he saw many universes, the combinations, abstraction and even the feint ideas of the letter "e" showed how mythical this symbol is. Then, he decided to use 3.

[@1rouxlskaardstan963]

ε

[@austinhixson625]

The anticipation!

[@pitodesign]

Imagine a really big family meeting: "Hi, nice to meet you. What's your removal number?"

[@bobbbbEE]

If you're the same age, your removal number shouldn't be very large because it depends on the difference in generations. The cousin number is more likely to be very large because that is dependent on how far back your common ancestor is

[@emitain8408]

I'MDEprEssEdaNDqUIrkY Same as me. But as in Chinese culture some of the people that Americans would know as cousins (children of aunts and uncles) are known as siblings, I became an uncle to two children (who I know of) by age 10.

[@angelmendez-rivera351]

I'MDEprEssEdaNDqUIrkY That's still just a removal difference of 1. Not that big in the grand scheme of things.

[@E1zzzZ]

Kaleela Edwards bruh you went into the nonillions

[@wise.g]

😂😂

[@FlyingKitty900]

Michael can explain the simplest things and still make it interesting

[@TheAC130Viesha]

Oh hi kitty

[@turnerwang4951]

i know your black

[@papaenchilada7622]

FlyingKitty I know you’re red

[@jalenware4722]

IF YOU DONT SOMEBODY WILL.

[@rybak908]

FlyingKitty thanks for the beauty of despacito 2

[@Manudyne]

0:42 "Let's begin with you. That would be yourself. In my case it's me. Or is it?" *Vsauce cue music plays*

[@miyalys]

But who AM I?

[@scoobydubbynoo5034]

But what does ‘it’ even mean?

[@biliousvicarduds9089]

1:17 "But I, someday...may have children." I think Michael's wife was just behind the camera with a rifle

[@CassandraBankson]

*..... well they didn’t teach me this in school*

[@LozadaPR]

Cassandra Bankson they thought me this is Spanish so ya

[@cheekybum1513]

What class would this be relevant? It’s okay to learn things on your own

[@ShortiesCleverShorts]

How did you make your comment in bold text?

[@markverdaguersantafe3886]

SpiteDISCOVERY with these * * at the *beginning and the end of the phrase*

[@Fiery-Arctic]

Cheeky Bum Biology Class I assume?

[@kerzid]

"There is no such thing as Great Parents" - Michael Stevens

[@zekt98arius]

rather, "great parents" do not make technical sense, they make communal sense

[@alexfreeman2883]

Alabama: *this sign won't stop me cause i can't read*

[@legomeister6966]

This made me laugh not because of the joke but because of your profile

[@mrfaysal2485]

@@legomeister6966 haha

[@rapmastac1362]

You're cousin me a frustrate

[@josephclegg3562]

Alabama is home to all the removed cousins.

[@Itsbully06]

the jokes funny but the profile pic is funniest

[@alexandrialambert2507]

i went from being like "aww yes this is cool information" to "wtf your cousin grandchildren gave birth to you, so you are negative 1, huh"

[@angelmendez-rivera351]

Alex Tayla I don't think that last idea made any sense at all. I think the only solution that is capable of preserving the consistency and simplicity of this systematic scheme is to simply not consider yourself a cousin of any kind relative to yourself. There is no reason to do otherwise. It makes sense to talk about everyone else who is not you as having a level of cousinality relative to you, but it makes no sense to talk about your level of cousinality relative to yourself, because, well, for obvious reasons.

[@BeardFaceSuper]

"Their children will be removed"

[@josephclegg3562]

I feel sorry the children that get removed.

[@macanaeh]

Stalin: *Laughs in Gulag*

[@Jun.Suzuki]

*Casually deletes Tommy.chr

[@RaydeusMX]

Michael... please tell me this wasn't just a very convoluted way of calling us "fam".

[@jodinha4225]

This *is* Michael we’re talking about, of course it was!

[@DaybreakPT]

Raydeus Hello fellow 50th cousin! Where is my birthday present you deadbeat?

[@BM03]

Yes it was, but don't be mad at him, he's family, fam.

[@alantonix213]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Want to get some drinks fam?

[@minamesparkletits6714]

Nah fam

[@kentarrow3471]

“There are no such things as great parents.” “No one will ever be a great parent.” “But their children will be removed.”

[@futurestoryteller]

I really don't see what's so great and grand about any of these parents, they're WAY slower and have a lot less energy than my regular parents.

[@josephclegg3562]

But what level of CUSSIN' will they be?

[@a.l.michael6240]

I feel like this video was made for a specific specific reason

[@Pxxnks]

Always blow my mind, cousin

[@alexm.2960]

So... you can say that your cousin blows you?

[@remytherat1357]

alex oland 🤠🤠

[@pvic6959]

hes my favorite cousin :)

[@wolfinthedepths]

alex oland yee yee

[@SirLumpyBottomThe3rd]

You mean cuz

[@seanbarry1757]

Noone will ever have great parents - Michael Stevens 2018

[@albertcazares9092]

"It'll cause gosh to send you down to heck" got it

[@FireyDeath4]

What cringe... (>»«

[@topseller8147]

Vsauce: Explains family cousin tree Alabama people: Write this down! Write this down!

[@kevinbroussard3803]

As if they could write

[@apoorrvs]

what is it with alabama? everyone is mentioning it in their comments is it an incest joke?

[@topseller8147]

APOORV SHUKLA yes

[@barbara-annemcgregor1769]

I thought I understood how cousins work but this may have confused me more.

[@josephclegg3562]

I know, right!

[@rayma66]

He explained it in the most complicated, yet accurate way. I learned a very simple method.

[@michaelgray1803]

Keep going by what you know

[@Japinoyboi2004]

I only thought the cousins I have are the children of my aunts and uncles. I never thought that my parents' cousins were also my cousins. I just called my mom's cousin an auntie. Now, for me, it's too late to accept. So anticlimactic.

[@lauralagier9404]

I never realized cousins were so complicated

[@josephclegg3562]

Me neither.

[@CaveyMoth]

My cousin is complicated AF, man.

[@Japinoyboi2004]

Just called my mom's cousin as auntie :)

[@moharexx3128]

"funny observation" creepy music starts playing.

[@91DevilDriver91]

so glad I wasn't the only one noticing. I had to pause the video to look up what tab would play the creepy drone music and it turned out to be this video.

[@emptyricebowl]

KZbin telling me to end my relationship with my *cousin*

[@axelle.youakim]

Savage Yoongi Ew 🤢

[@t-rex9809]

Once remove them!

[@paolovincedelgado559]

Damn wtf is Suga doin here?

[@teddyfield2164]

Is it 1st or 2nd or third

[@paolovincedelgado559]

@@teddyfield2164 I studied the video and I still don't understand

[@micahphilson]

Things I learned from Vsauce (or its analog) today: There are no great parents. No matter how good of parents you have, they can never be great. Only grand. Then, and only then, can they become great. _Grandness is the path to greatness._

[@micahphilson]

Also, the children of your brothers and sisters are your Niblings. Once my brother has kids, that's all I'm ever going to call them. "Eli brought the Niblings over today!" "Let's go visit Eli and the Niblings!" Eli and the Niblings is my new favorite band name.

[@AbqDez]

if your parents are Great Parents .... they are Exceptional - to the rule!

[@griffinstopani9486]

But you can have great grand parents

[@TheFreakyOne5]

That last sentence is my new life motto

[@cherrydragon3120]

abqdez1 but you can't have great parents... so if you got great parents.... they're not your parents

[@amaniimran3546]

Michael, you're my favorite cousin.

[@MM-hi]

Thanks!

[@Quadrocephis]

0:08 “Gosh will send you down to heck”

[@Corn0nTheCobb]

Gosh dang you to Heck

[@CaveyMoth]

Hecc

[@rosedollll7199]

Not in my Christian household

[@BT_DUBS]

Stop cousin!!!

[@Caaro99]

Roberto god damn you to hell

[@Abcdefg-uw4id]

"So I share 100% of my DNA with myself..." *YoU DoN't sAy*

[@reycamilox]

A Vsauce video disguised as a DONG.

[@LightningSe7en]

Camilo Rey A Vdong

[@_JayRamsey_]

Camilo Rey Ehhh, I didn't hear Jake Chudnow. If it doesn't sound like Vsauce, it's not. Awesome DONG though. Wait...how do I do this online?

[@MatthewSkars]

DONG Sauce™

[@Kamarovsky_KCM]

Matthew if you know what i mean

[@ChristinaMoralesMindfuqed]

Camilo Rey conspiracy theory

[@-saumya-81]

I love watching episodes of Michael Draws in Pieces of Big White Cardstock

[@thetato1273]

what's your fav episode lol

[@abuzzedwhaler7949]

This is one of these things that we all just pretend to understand.

[@abiikr4773]

So I'm negative infinity cousins with myself. Does that make me immortal?

[@angelmendez-rivera351]

You're just negatively first cousins with yourself, not negatively infinite cousins with yourself. Don't get ahead of yourself now.

[@alpha6549]

Neg infinity would be every other you in parallel universes

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

This feels a lot more like a Vsauce video :)

[@bdr420i]

Lawrence Calablaster it is a Vsauce video, Michael started to use D.O.N.G ones he found that Vsauce channel is haunted by curious ghosts 👻👻👻

[@HeShoeTooBig]

This is incest propaganda. He's saying that cousins are "things you can Do Online Now Guys"

[@PTNLemay]

I suspect that KZbin tricked him into signing something that only lets him post Mind Field content on the main channel for the next so-and-so years. It has to be something weird like that... Why else would he avoid it like he has?

[@drewbert83]

it has the vsauce outro

[@littlebig4717]

Nah he just forgot the password to Vsauce1

[@StoopVital]

Here in Alabama we call them our soulmates

[@mememem]

StoopVital was wondering how far I would have to scroll down to find a reference to incest and/or the South

[@karterdavis2732]

Roll tide

[@yugal.prakash]

*Yee-Haw*

[@atlusgoth5000]

Anime must be your favorite

[@JeffN4POD]

Ironically, it's far more likely in highly populated cities.

[@Rwededyet]

14:14 If your own grandchildren gave birth to you, then they should have their time travel license revoked. That's a clear violation of time law.

[@NSMike87]

It's actually called a "predestination paradox"

[@_KingOfCalifornia]

NSMike87 thats why its illehal

[@windhelmguard5295]

here is why a timeline in which time travel is invented, can never persist: when one does indeed travel through time, one changes the future ever so slightly, doing thos once or twice will likely not make any significant changes, but as those changes become more neumerous, the timeline in which time travel is invented stops and can only continue once one such change causes time travel to not be invented, at which point the timeline becomes stable and mostly cohesive once again. some philosophers toyed with the idea that strange phenomena, out of place technologies in archeological finds, doppelgängers and other similar phenomena, are remnants of such self ending time travel experiments.

[@felipevasconcelos6736]

If small changes that time travelers make can mess things up so badly, so can our changes, but we are usually not being extremely careful to avoid accidentally stepping on the wrong ant and preventing time travel’s invention. If time travel is possible, then there is a possibility that it is accidentally discovered in exactly two days, three hours, fourteen minutes and forty-two seconds, and every single action we execute is either contributing or hurting our chances.

[@Diamond52894]

See fry from futurama

[@paigemoore7433]

I always thought the "removed" meant how many times they were disowned and brought back into the family.

[@ThePolerbearproducts]

Bro SAME!!!!

[@27779253]

Disclaimer: All the information mentioned in this video is 100% correct, true and reliable, unless the person who is watching is somewhere from the state of Alabama.

[@matthewlocke9225]

IGWA HD or Arkansas, we good in Mississippi, Cousins are just fam, not slams

[@loganricherson]

@@matthewlocke9225 am from Arkansas can confirm

[@EsperantistoVolulo]

Me, an non-American who has literally no knowledge about each American state's family culture: *CONFUSED SCREAMING*

[@applescruff1969]

@@EsperantistoVolulo Americans don't slam their sisters. It comes from a stereotype of southern states.

[@EsperantistoVolulo]

@@applescruff1969 Oh thanks Haha

[@vijaykumarreddyalavala3713]

7:08 "One is smaller than three" - Michael, Vsauce 2018

[@burgermasonreal]

mr vsauce michale

[@SylvEdu]

I've been calling my first-cousins (once removed) my second cousins for my whole life. How could this happen?

[@frankoreto4910]

Same.

[@TobiBaronski]

To me I made my mistakes Got nowhere to run

[@isaac_aren]

tbh, if they are younger, once removed makes sense but if they are older, once added makes sense. Generation-wise

[@molly.dog8brooke792]

Azzy Me too. 😀

[@stickyfloor1820]

How could they poshibly do thishh

[@scptime1188]

No one: Not a soul: Not even the alabama kids: Michael: thats alotta nibblings.

[@edaxyn5583]

SCP Time yes c h i l d

[@arsdwalos6840]

"now my mom is not my cousin" he almost had me fooled there

[@agent6935]

XD

[@angelmendez-rivera351]

Arsd Walos well ACTUALLY, she is his cousin. She is his 0th cousin twice removed.

[@angelmendez-rivera351]

Wait what did I say? I meant to say negatively first cousin once removed. I don't even know where I got the twice removed from.

[@Taikamuna]

Just gonna go hang out with my -1st cousin see ya later

[@JeffN4POD]

You going to sing "All By Myself"?? :P

[@want-diversecontent3887]

Taikamuna Your uncle/aunt?

[@StarTheTripleDevil]

Want No, that's a 0th cousin once removed.

[@want-diversecontent3887]

Star the Triple Devil Then I don't know.

[@trobin]

Want they’re going to be alone

[@SEEKINGKNOWLEDGEMIND]

I never thought someone can dig this much deeper into the cousinhood

[@ThugOG30VIPs3rd-T]

Seeking Knowledge i couldnt even keep up wit nomore

[@monkeyballs7853]

Seeking Knowledge You just have to have the size to dig as deep as Michael does into cousinhood.

[@red43rumbl37]

Seeking Knowledge yeah ikr I just came here to see if I can continue having sex with my cousins

[@evergreenxo]

you: my sister and I me, an intellectual: my 0th cousin and my -1th cousin

[@jezmaloan]

negative firth

[@b3g_cry]

oh god, is the comments section just one big family reunion??

[@The_Scattered_Man]

Yes, which explains all the fighting over who gets the last piece of apple pie! :)

[@naiknaik8812]

@@The_Scattered_Man hi mum

[@kindaemotrash8413]

OMG YOURE MY 58th COUSIN 18 TIMES REMOVED IM SO HAPPY I FOUND YOUUUU

[@khatunamezvrishvili6211]

hi, cousin! what's your name?

[@matthiasjanhaska]

hi my 10th mil cousin 10 times removed

[@haidesilva8168]

My brain has left the chat.

[@jasonpakkala9015]

Now that I know we're family, can I borrow some money?

[@ChristinaMoralesMindfuqed]

How much you need and what is it for? Also, you better be borrowing and get my money back by Monday, cuz.

[@arnabsom3251]

No, we are saving it for your birthday..

[@jasonpakkala9015]

FYI. It's in November. I'm so excited!

[@josephclegg3562]

Cuz, can you lend me a couple of G's?

[@skylerdevinraleigh3447]

I can now find out how Count Olaf is related to the Baudelaires!!

[@Deveodev]

From the Unfortunate events

[@pkeric2626]

I wanted to go to sleep but I didn‘t find my Cusin.

[@THEmickTHEgun]

You don't know me, but I'm here.

[@vigeoh7827]

*Cousins The “s” is important

[@benparker2321]

You should stop causin’ and go sleep

[@josephclegg3562]

I haven't heard from my CUSSIN' either.

[@Miqolivia]

Michael calling me his family makes me feel good things

[@glodafister5427]

Neuroghastly cousins make you fell better things

[@novaskyzero]

I mean technically we are related to him to some degree.

[@phil5cents98]

The music change at 12:45 put me so on edge for absolutely no reason.

[@manantank]

Because now you contemplate that your girlfriend is also your cousin

[@rohitjudo]

Haha, joke's on you. I don't have a girlfriend. Wait..

[@AlmightyBeing]

Haha jokes on you, I already knew my girlfriend was my 1st cousin...

[@phil5cents98]

eamon butler Wait a second, this comment was originally my 0th cousin.

[@AlmightyBeing]

Phil5cents shhh

[@brfisher1123]

We can consider uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces (one's parents' siblings and one's siblings' children respectively) collectively as their "siblings once removed", one's granduncles, grandaunts, grandnephews and grandnieces (one's grandparents' siblings and one's siblings' grandchildren) as their "siblings twice removed", etc. I prefer to think of it that way.

[@lampshademuncher5316]

So you’re saying my dad is my 0th cousin 0 times removed

[@noname-mu6kn]

Bucks Fan yup

[@ophirwesley4424]

@@anushkasinghgaur1553 yeah I agree. Your common ancestor will be your Gp.

[@lilimo1384]

No because it doesn’t skip a generation

[@angelmendez-rivera351]

The Geek Actually, what I ended up finding out is that it makes more sense to think of your father as your (-1)th cousin once removed. It stays consistent with the system in a way that isn't at all obvious, whereas 0th cousin once removed doesn't quite accomplish that.

[@lilimo1384]

Angel Mendez-Rivera 4:38

[@JingleJoe]

"I'll see you next time, family" that was nice. Anyone else feel simultaneously connected to everyone but also crushingly alone and depressed? haha

[@crystalbreaker947]

Namek Fusion

[@xxironwitherxx6557]

Omg yes

[@fezii9043]

haha

[@idkidrc6541]

Yeah Joe. Family sticks together. We're all here for you

[@Jzombi301]

🙋‍♂️

[@JerryLiuYT]

In the South, you just call them cuties.

[@jamesfordham7633]

SWEET HOME ALABAMA

[@gunceler7535]

roll tide

[@thegadsdenguru4368]

you know that in most of the south it's illegal to marry your first cousin right, but not in Europe. thats right, in europe it's completely legal, infact in 2005 a study was done on 1st cousin marriages in the UK and found that 55% of Muslims were married to their first cousins and despite only being 3% of the population they made up 33% of all people with birth defects Let That Sink In.

[@juvnal]

Ernest J. Rutherford: The Father of Nuclear Physics progress!

[@aquarianfirehorse667]

Jerry Liu you brought me here

[@atomicfault3972]

If your siblings are your zeroth cousins, and you’re your own zeroth cousin. You are your own sibling

[@angelmendez-rivera351]

AtomicBreakdown Yes, technically, in a way, at least if you were to assume that that makes sense. However, I would argue it doesn't quite make sense anyway. You see, your siblings, a.k.a your zeroth cousins, have zero removal from you, and share 50% of their genealogical DNA with you. You share 100% of your own genealogical DNA. As Michael argued, you could be considered your own 0th cousin as well, but then this means your level of removal would have to change in order for the genetic mathematics the system is based on to be consistent. So, would you be "negatively once removed" from yourself? Would that make any sense? It is just unclear to me how that could work out.

[@angelmendez-rivera351]

After thinking about it longer, I realized you would end up having to be your own (-1)st cousin in order for this all to work. Actually, to be more accurate, you are your (-1/2)th cousin. Yeah, get a load of that. But I guess that's just how the maths work out.

[@alansun70]

The lowest degree is 1st. The higher the degree, the more distant the relation. Siblings aren't cousins of any type.

[@pookini4836]

How's your day cousin? Are you drinking enough water?

[@nicogreyna]

Youshouldseethemovieinmypic yup

[@acidclouds2547]

Hey, George! How's your mom's leg?

[@antonanairamendoza7193]

Ok po

[@leafeater1227]

No I'm stuck in the sahara

[@CallieSqueakz]

Man, I am HUNGRY.

[@nix4254]

3:32 The music gives me nostalgia

[@powerchordgamer]

ive always called my parents cousins my second cousins... this changes everything

[@angiek606]

Power Chord Gamer same oof

[@martinaavila285]

I always called them aunts or uncles😂😂

[@taeils639]

Martina Avila me too

[@axelle.youakim]

Power Chord Gamer Well not me. I know someone that thinks like you. You’re not the only one

[@axelle.youakim]

Martina Avila What? 😂

[@Maximiliano4912]

Idk but I'm Mexican and anyone in my family that's twice my age is my Tío or Tia, no exemptions and it doesn't matter what relationship they have in the family. Anyone five years older than me are my cousins and anyone younger than me are also my cousin.

[@jennamedlyn]

Can Michael draws on pieces of white cardstock be a recurring segment?

[@MrCheeze]

Never heard "grand aunts/uncles" before, only "great" ones...

[@buelph5742]

MrCheeze me too

[@__donez__]

That's also what I thought they were called, "great aunts/great uncles"

[@herranton]

The naming scheme is the same as for your grandparents. It's starts at parent-> _grand_ parent-> _great_ grandparent. Aunt-> _grand_ aunt-> _great_ grandaunt. But yes, nearly everyone makes that mistake unless they are into genealogy.

[@MichaelKeaveneyYouTube]

As he said in the video, there are no great parents. Therefore, by logic there should be no great aunts and uncles, just grandaunts and granduncles.

[@brodentripcony3641]

Lord Keaveney it was a joke ffs

[@turn1p839]

Detroit: Become Cousin

[@karisavage3022]

TheLemptyPerson Connor the android sent by nibbling

[@chief2632]

more like Alabama: Become Cousin

[@rachel.doremi6974]

It would be so much less confusing with colors, please invest in a multi color pack

[@LovenLight34]

rachel.doremi fr!

[@studentsteph]

Normal people to their significant other: wanna make a baby? Michael to is significant other: Would you like to produce an infant that would share 50% of each of our deoxyribonucleic acid?

[@randomguy263]

Or would it?

[@awawpogi3036]

underrated

[@DiaJasin]

It's scary how I go even deeper than that in normal conversations O-o

[@dragoncurveenthusiast]

Hello nth cousins!

[@gabor6259]

where n is an integer between 0 and 50 including.

[@ChrisCrash043]

Let's go bowling

[@hammad8707]

well darn how do u do!

[@OrangeC7]

Hello nth cousin oth removed

[@Lambda_Ovine]

I never liked our family.

[@lizzyjamieson2630]

"Niblings" Me: *huhuhuhuhuh*

[@wesmoto2550]

settle down beavis

[@iruyy]

Yoooooo

[@adventurefighter7501]

Hehehehehahahahahahahhhhaahahahhuhuhuhuhuhhh

[@Mythansar]

Very well explained there! I was watching for a video like that in french to explain me how the different degrees were working, but with your video, I have understood the english and french version a lot better. Thank you very much for this Sir and keep doing such videos! 🙂

[@qazzyy]

The definition of cousin just depends on where you're from. EX: In Alabama, cousin can mean your Aunt/Uncles kids, or more commonly your Wife/Husband.

[@thejamister929]

lmaoooooo

[@alexfreeman2883]

Yeshaan Woohoo llllllllmmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooooooooo

[@ImprobableTrexx]

Qaz except literally no one in Alabama ducks their cousin

[@fizzie2301]

Qaz actually that’s called incest... I’m sorry if that’s the joke...

[@fizzie2301]

Qaz I see now that I have been wooshed.

[@StevieDamnit]

You will be doing this a lot when researching your ancestry. My 11th Great Grandparents, John Bayless & Rebecca Stillwell, are also the 9th great grandparents of Ed Norton and Johnny Depp, making them my 10th cousins twice removed.

[@joleigh1816]

Stevie84s cool

[@sebastiansebastian5270]

Nice

[@nevaehlegasse7251]

Show up at their family reunion and say youre a distant cousin

[@doorknobr]

We're all related. Just show up at a celebrity's party and say everyone in the world is related. Hi cousin.

[@danielcubillasvaldez1784]

But, is it safe to make babies with them?

[@ThatRipOff]

Lol at the sudden scary music when talking about 0th Cousins.

[@A2431A]

I'm here from the shorts where he says "I smell cousins". 💀💀

[@AbelJasso]

This video was relatively interesting

[@DlcEnergy]

Ha!

[@billymuffin91]

Alabama wants to know your location

[@JimFortune]

Never heard of a grand aunt. I always heard great aunt.

[@JeffN4POD]

Yep... I don't have any grand aunts either... great aunts... sure. I can only surmise this has got to be a regional thing... much like the pronunciation of "aunt."

[@BramVanhooydonck]

Jeff Buffington The Great Ant.

[@aaronfilibeck1794]

Jeff Buffington aw nt

[@faizalf119]

Jim Fortune probably only happens when people marry young.

[@JeffN4POD]

Ack! That's worse than fingernails on a chalkboard! LOL! "Aunt" is a two syllable word.... "a" as in apple, and "unt" as in punt..... it's just said so quickly some incorrectly hear the word "ant" instead of "æ-uhnt." Not sure where the idea of a single syllable came from.

[@furqanbooley9476]

"If your own grandchildren gave birth to you..."

[@blankskyy5867]

-Michael "I was born." -All others "He came from a world of wisdom."

[@Dononut305]

*_If you are seeing this, you are my (1.29 x 10^12)th cousin!_*

[@greennigga7832]

I don't speak asian

[@Dononut305]

@Ralsei with a gun I definitely miscalculated by a landslide. My bad at not knowing my maths.

[@Dononut305]

@@greennigga7832 oof.

[@azaleas_x]

Donovann Lorrin Heyya there cuz! Can I borrow $10,000?

[@Dononut305]

@@azaleas_x Sorry, I only have (1.0×(10^4))-1 dollars.

[@alexander-it6mx]

I love you vsauce michael, long distant cousin.

[@jjlovessoccer1313]

It’s Michael not Micheal lol

[@alexander-it6mx]

Jessica Williams i hope you're happy now, long distant cousin.

[@legendarypft2124]

I have cousins who are double first cousins due to my dads brother and mothers sister having children. Not sure how rare that is but I haven't met anyone else who has this. Genetically they are as related to be as a half sibling would be 25%. Also the removed thing is something i have knowing about but mostly everyone just calls the children of their cousin or their parents cousin their 2nd cousin. Probably cause its simpler and easier to say.

[@chasemc69]

so to which ever one of you are my 295th cousin 18th time removed.... hey how's the family. I've missed y'all. hope to see you at the next get together.

[@theunitedsoup9792]

chasemc69 Whats up?

[@geometrydashbayve5004]

Almost certainly dead, seeing as you have a difference of 18 generations.

[@xSkyHigh12]

Someone who's born 18 generations before or after you is probably not alive

[@ShadowMark474]

Actually everyone on Earth is at least 50th cousins, not only that, but if you're the same race and/or nationality there's an extremely high chance you're at least 16th cousins, and if you're from the same small town you're likely at least 9th cousins. Happy inbreeding :^)

[@abeljudah6341]

Geometry Dash BayVe it’s not implausible. It would simply be two siblings creating family lines that reproduced at different rates. If one had children who would have children as soon as they could, and the other had children who would have children as late as they could, after a long time you’d have people who are similar age, but generations apart.

[@zackfair8762]

cousin aint nothin but a number baby

[@steventrejos3321]

Alabama niggas be like

[@alexsiemers7898]

Words are numbers?

[@ApoLk_]

/r/woosh

[@birdissmall2677]

Age aint nothing but a word

[@tylermustardloooser386]

Age is just a number

[@Catslug]

Now i know who to date

[@Doomroar]

Probably a cousin

[@bernardomoreira]

A massive Weeb your -1st cousin

[@zeronova7279]

Sweet home Alabama

[@BM03]

Nobody, he just told us we're all family.

[@thecommentnator1621]

*Dixie land starts playing*

[@mypawfectfamily]

I love how he gradually gets more and more excited

[@logical_harm]

*nibling*

[@bolson42]

*N I 🅱🅱️🅱️ L I N G*

[@AftermathNihil]

Lmao I died😂

[@caesarsalad1461]

*N I B L I N G*

[@RobinLundqvist]

LSP XXX sup my nibling

[@logical_harm]

Robin Lundqvist greetings *🅱rother*

[@galientdomo454]

Michael stevens on "When is incest okay?"

[@AskAir]

Since we're all related, Michael is my 560th cousin 30 removed.

[@aronmurnane684]

How the hell old are you

[@fitness2947]

A.S.K. Air Probably closer than you think

[@masons2442]

Fitness & Bodybuilding that would mean that them and him are 30 generations apart, as in not born yet or around 700 years old.

[@fitness2947]

Mason S I said way closer than that.

[@abeljudah6341]

Mason S not exactly. Michael’s family could’ve had people who had children as soon as they could. If the OP had a family who had children as late as they could, then after centuries of reproduction you’d have cousins of similar age but also many generations apart.

[@yurionabike99]

You know, this just shows me how some family trees go in circles