Decoding the Known: Internet Mysteries We Totally Solved

[@UnDead483]

"Stuff we Know About n' Sh*t with Simon" this is the best POSSIBLE name if you ever need a single corporate entity under which to organize all of your channels and other projects. Analogous to the Vlogbrothers' 'Complexly'. As a devotee of most of your channels, I can speak on behalf of your fanbase that we'd be very supportive of this.

[@cnsohm]

Yes, I would TOTALLY watch that!

[@foo219]

I'd watch "Stuff we know about n' shit with Simon"

[@FluxDeimos]

I mean its literally just "today I found out" but edgy lol

[@MrMancreatedgod]

Don't ever speak on behalf of me. You're very pompous.

[@mikemcchesney2555]

or Simon Says: "Because That's What You Do!"

[@KWMQ]

Ah, good old Whistler's Razor again: "When faced with competing explanations for the same phenomenon, the more boring one is likely the correct one".

[@peterh3889]

Brilliant! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😂😂😂

[@bradbrandon2506]

It actually seems to work pretty well unless you're fixing a bmw. In that case, the most correct answer is the most annoying one.

[@lauriejones4507]

@@bradbrandon2506 also the most expensive one.

[@hanster.gun.3438]

@@lauriejones4507 they go hand in hand

[@aharris19104]

Well said

[@AJArciniegas]

Don’t worry if the facts are boring Jen and the imaginary banter between you and the writers has me me laughing. Jen, trust fall was chefs kiss 😂

[@OfficialJamion]

In regards to Tron Simon: "Haven't seen it. Haven't seen the neutron either." Well Simon that's because Neutrons are really small. ... I'll see myself out.

[@patriciadilday447]

(Sorry, I love a bad "Dad Jokes.)

[@blackc1479]

Beat me to it. Kudos lol👏

[@MissJellybean]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@omegatired]

Like Quantum Mechanics and trying to find a mechanic that small. (I owned a Quantum at the time ....Yes ... runs away)

[@amylou7991]

I am going to attempt to steal that.

[@nunavutstonefist5500]

Kudos to Jen for leading the RickRoll in the rectangle graphic! Quality editing as always.

[@sartoriraphaelr]

I was left thinking, is this part of the edit or the real deal.... then we got rick rolled by google... motherfuck....s 😂

[@AaronLitz]

I love how Jen makes pictures occasionally dance and tinkle.

[@deansheets]

Great job Jen 👏

[@TGBurgerGaming]

Now that I know it's coming I win. Thank you I've finally defeated Rick Astley.

[@insertfunnyhandlehere]

You know I think hearing Simon read a book like he reads Scripts, with all the sarcastic comments and tangents, would be kind of amazing.

[@willmfrank]

"The Lord of the Rings -- Really? I'm reading THIS? *sigh* All right...The Lord of the f(naughty word)ing Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkyne...? Tolkeen...? Tolky-en...? Don't care. Doesn't matter..."

[@martianbunny]

@@willmfrank yes, I would pay like $40 per book to listen to him with tangents

[@DahliaVonHellion]

@@willmfrankrolling at how accurate this is hahaha, I love it though

[@pamelamays4186]

Simon who claims he's never seen Tron describes the plot perfectly: motorcycles and lights.🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️🏍️

[@markkarasik2211]

😎 Yep, I saw Tron back in the day and that’s pretty much what I remember…Lights and Motorcycles. Oh and glow-in-the-dark Frisbees. Gotta love Frisbees.

[@andiward7068]

*describes the movie. The plot isn't motorcycles and lights.

[@jphilb]

At least Tron 2 had Olivia Wilde.

[@St.Linguini_of_Pesto]

@Pamela Mays I'm sold!! So, when does it come out?

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

2010 Tron.........Lights, Motorcycles and Menstrual Cycles go brrrrrrr!!!

[@Perzyn]

Kevin: There is a 3rd option, just making something up! Simon: Don't make me go down to the basement to whip you!

[@CommisarHood]

Hey what Simon and Kevin get up to in their own time is none of our business.

[@ilajoie3]

Kevin is the best of us watching Simon's channels, he would never betray us to another channel

[@susinator]

@@CommisarHood hopefully you have heard of the running joke started on his other channel Brain Blaze. He has a Prince of Pesia style basement where he has many writers and editors chained up, constantly cranking out scripts and finished videos. He's just whipping to boost morale. As the old adage goes "beatings will continue until morale improves".

[@CommisarHood]

@@susinator (In Takai Voice) Oh my!

[@thejason755]

@@susinator kevin’s showing a bit too much independence. Simon should throw him into the angry-dome for a few hours. (The angry-dome literally just being a burlap sack that simon will kick an editor/writer once thrown inside of it)

[@TerryLawrence001]

The worse solved videos are when they show a person who was missing for 30 years being found in their car, submerged a drainage ditch 500 feet from where they lived.

[@mgcnashville6615]

They aren’t YOUR writers Simon. You are THEIR factboy. Get your facts straight. 😂

[@sciencenate]

Get “their” facts straight….

[@charleswindsor7835]

Apart from Danny

[@St.Linguini_of_Pesto]

LMMFAO

[@stephen3164]

Insert iRobot clip: “No.” 🤣

[@AnonEyeMouse]

So they pay him?

[@awkwardllama0509]

These videos consistently brighten up my day. The editing, playful jabs between Simon and the writers, everything is just a good time

[@nugboy420]

Lol all of simons channels are interesting. I still say he needs a Gamographics channel where I write stories about weird video game things I guess. Then I can make Simon elated with an hour long script about Raid Shadow Legends.

[@awkwardllama0509]

@@nugboy420 I know that last part about Raid was a joke, but I'd watch it still lol

[@nugboy420]

@@awkwardllama0509 :D at least we’re on the same page

[@syyneater]

The hacker in me is happy to hear you talking about not plugging untrusted media into your machines. When we’re doing penetration testing, leaving random thumb drives is almost a guaranteed win. I’d also add not scanning random QR codes, there’s been an uptick in malicious QR codes over the last year or so.

[@thundercookie3214]

I didn't know about malicious QR codes. Thanks for sharing that information. :)

[@itstoxicqt]

I do pentesting etc. Funny I was on my way home from the doctors the other day and found a 256gb SD card at the light rail stop 😂

[@syyneater]

Sounds like the perfect time to fire up that spare machine and do a little bit of forensics.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

@@itstoxicqt You probably already know this... BUT we're not the only ones to be looking at this thread... SO just turn auto-play features OFF... Don't even let the computer automatically open stuff plugged into give "slot"... and then sand-box the slot before you start. You do pen-testing, so you either should know how to do that, or have a particular arrangement as such "sandboxed" already. ;o)

[@itstoxicqt]

@@syyneater yup! My spare has arch linux on it

[@the-chillian]

Wait. Simon doesn't watch his own videos? So he has no idea what they look like after they've been edited? That explains more than just a few Brain Blazes.

[@ONEDVSDVIT]

Yup... he has no idea how much exploitation goes on... especially that science channel... cringe... he says he reads the comments... but it's all BULL SIHT

[@DahliaVonHellion]

@@ONEDVSDVITIdk if you're being serious but just in case; reading some comments doesn't involve sitting and watching an entire video of yourself for 20-40 minutes, I doubt he’d have the time to even if he wanted to. He does indeed reply to comments here and there and sometimes mentions comments in later videos lol

[@ZOB4]

“Stuff we know about and shit with Simon” is essentially the subtitle of almost all of your other myriad channels

[@blackc1479]

Dammit, that's 2 different observations I got beaten to, and I'm only 6 mins in ...👏😁

[@laurabustos6560]

Just came to make the same comment!! Also possible foreshadowing for Simon's next channel as he continues completely taking over YT?

[@engineeringvision9507]

sounds almost half as interesting. Someone should make that, and then as a plot twist put transport and brick easter eggs into the content. Just joking, that would be dumb!

[@SomeGuy4245-f1v]

"Stuff we know about and sh** with Simon" is basically every other channel Simon does.

[@jerard1979]

"Don't be inserting random..." also good advice for other situations that also gets ignored by way more people than seems realistic.

[@tfabian2846]

Yeah, huge security risk 🤦‍♀️

[@dmclayton4031]

I was thinking the same thing when he said that lol

[@smgarwood]

Hey Simon, The story you are recalling about the USB drives wasn’t a company, it was a joint operation between US and Israel to damage Iran’s ability to create Nuclear Material. The problem was that their facility was “air-gapped” meaning it had no internet access and thus couldn’t be hacked remotely. So after making the malware we now know as “Stuxnet”they used old fashioned social engineering knowing that most people that find a random flash drive will plug it in out of curiosity. So they sprinkled several around the facility that housed Irans Nuclear Centrifuges, and sure enough someone did plug at least one of them into a system on the internal network. Shortly after the Centrifuges that enriched the uranium one by one started spinning faster and faster until they physically broke, but they made the malware tell the controller look like it was operating fine. It’s a rather devilishly genius plan, because unless you were physically watching the machines you would never know as all your machines were lying to you. This is an amazing story for those of us in the tech field, but more people need to know about it. This is the first time a computer virus had ever done physical damage, and the worrisome part is that any network connected PLC (Programmable Logic Controller - Which is essentially a very basic computer, which never needed virus protection) is vulnerable. And I can’t understate how worrisome that is because they’re controlling everything from our electrical grid, to our water and sewer systems, dams, traffic signals, they’re everywhere. This might have been something that was swept under the rug as is was a secret operation, and I’m sure Iran wouldn’t have said anything out of embarrassment. But somehow, the malware got online and spread like wildfire, though it didn’t really do much damage. So when researchers were trying to figure it out what it was, they saw that it was designed to only affect those specific machines at that specific facility. And now, not only is the story out there, but the idea for the type of attack and the cookbook for how to do such a thing is all there. And attacks on infrastructure across the world have been increasing ever since. So, even though you didn’t have the story, I appreciate the PSA to all your viewers. Because if we don’t have proper basic security education in this world, then I appreciate everyone with a platform doing what they can. 👍

[@rash15]

Yea but there's also a group of people that stick usb all over the place... With shareable data.. on em...you can look it up... They are often placed in random areas around the globe apparently

[@Spacemongerr]

Thanks for the info

[@rashkavar]

As I recall it took quite a while for Stuxnet to actually get into the facility. Hadn't it already infected something like 90% of computers in Iran and a good chunk of computers worldwide by that point? (Actually the version I'd heard suggested it was someone using their home USB on a facility computer because they have to get files transferred in and out somehow and that was so much more convenient than actually following the facility's data security procedure.) Of course, I can't verify any specific version of the story. The thing I've never understood about this sort of thing: why are the computers that control this kind of infrastructure networked with anything that does general computing at all. Air-gapped or not, you should have computers at the facility for general computing work which have full internet access and thus email, and you should have computers that are only there specifically to run the displays on how things are working which are networked to the controllers themselves exclusively. That way someone just plugging in a USB to their work computer only compromises the general computing workstations and you have the computers that you need to keep 100% locked away in a room that only the dedicated IT people who actually know what data security is can access it, and have those hooked up to monitors that everyone else who needs to see them can see.

[@belewda]

Just to be a bit of a stickler, this definitely wasn't the first time a virus caused physical damage. There were earlier viruses that would make printers go nuts and sometimes break.

[@grabbity]

@@rash15 they're dead drops. They seem random. They're usually very carefully chosen in less we're (whoever is setting up that particular one) in a hurry for some reason. Take a look at the data on a machine with a live cd in it sometime. 99.9999999% of us would put anything harmful in one, but there's always 1 asshole. Anything from files to 3D print a plastic Glock to an ebook about creating a new identity (legally, not the old anarchist cookbook stuff lol). Tons of fun to find and look for, feel free to add something interesting to them. Portland has dozens of flash drives built into brick buildings, little battery powered file servers on portable networks with small to medium file repositories etc.

[@Petri-]

Another KZbinr (Justin) Whang! Has a series called, Tales from the internet: Geedis. I think it’s a three part video where it discusses the history and goes into a little more in-depth on how it was solved. I think it started in a subreddit. It’s been a while since I’ve watched it. But it’s pretty interesting, in my opinion, for anyone interested in another perspective of the story. As always, this was another awesome episode. Looking forward to the next future episodes. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@andreakoroknai1071]

do we need a crossover/collab? yeah, he goes into more detail about how it was solved

[@Petri-]

@@andreakoroknai1071, omg that would be so awesome! I can only imagine what that would look like. But I’d enjoy it.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

6:10 - Chapter 1 - Webdriver torso 7:50 - Chapter 2 - 11BX 1371 12:15 - Chapter 3 - John titor 14:25 - Chapter 4 - Geedis 16:20 - Chapter 5 - Dark web red rooms 18:55 - Chapter 6 - Literally everything by thetekkitrealm 21:35 - Bonus facts

[@finneire1282]

Simon, the USB story you're probably thinking about is Stuxnet. Used to mess up the Iranian nuclear program. I'd be surprised if none of your channels had a video on it by now 🤣

[@JM-wu8bh]

Yep! Luckily they didn't lock down USB access. 2 registry key changes pushed by one of their Domain Admins could have stopped us

[@lohwenli]

And here it is kzbin.info/www/bejne/haHCnqR_YtiEkMU

[@ipellaers]

It's a well known hackers' tactic, Stuxnet is just one instance.

[@blackhat4206]

I heard about John Titor for the first time from Steins;Gate. Awesome way to turn an internet phenomenon into an interesting plot point, even if it did put me on CERN’s radar. /s

[@Fadaar]

AH! THAT'S where i heard the name before! knew it sounded familiar.

[@blackhat4206]

@@Fadaar I love how they handled time travel. As a plot point it can easily become tired and convoluted, but Steins;Gate did it well.

[@iainronald4217]

I remember in 2014 when Seriously Strange first came out and dark content on the internet exploded. Suddenly you had internet mysteries, true crime, and Let's Not Meet stories coming out the wazoo and I've followed them since. For three hours twice a week, I like to shut my brain off and envelop myself in the dark side of KZbin. Yet, the pragmatic university student in me with a logical explanation for everything does also really enjoy watching Simon tear these internet mysteries to shreds😂.

[@jacksonlynch1731]

"Don't put stuff you don't know about into your-" is fantastic advice no matter how you choose to finish the sentence.

[@xerowon3490]

This and BB (am OG blazer) are my absolute favorite channels of yours Factboy

[@bullie86]

FYI Simon, I’d watch sub and like and share “shit we know about with Simon” That is all.

[@laurabustos6560]

Internet humbuggery, best words ever! Now to find a way to work my new favorite phrase into everyday conversation...

[@mikemorris1512]

Great show Whistler. Every day, every day I find another of your videos. Thanks

[@DianaBell_MG]

I remember there was some movie years ago that the plot was basically cops trying to track down something like the red room, and there were so many things they had gotten right about computer tech, that I was screaming how insane the main plot was cuz you can't stream video from an unfindable source that makes no sense at all.

[@nathanrood865]

18:55 was my favorite bit in this episode 😂 Might be shorter but still enjoyed it!

[@na3rial]

I would love to see more things like this! People so rarely talk about the mysteries that were actually solved down the line

[@amandafloyd1617]

Now that I think about it, simons channels are the majority of what I watch, I especially love the in depth research done by his writers and Jen

[@ThePhoenixAscendant]

To tell the truth, I can't really remember any of the stories... All I can recall of this is Simon's fantastic reactions to Kevin's hilarious quips dashed throughout the video.

[@colleennobbs7218]

Love the stories and you Simon 🥳

[@eneria06]

I love Kevins scripts they are always so entertaining :D

[@ThatWriterKevin]

Thanks! I love your viewership

[@almighty3946]

@@ThatWriterKevin I’m a big fan too. I love that one on 5 internet mysteries

[@ThatWriterKevin]

@@almighty3946 Thanks!

[@biofoot7874]

I really love how Kevin comes at DtU from a different direction and it works so well!

[@ThatWriterKevin]

Thanks! I have some scripts that come at it from a VERY different direction coming...eventually. We need to clone Jen.

[@tubensalat1453]

@@ThatWriterKevin I really would have liked a paragraph or two how they played that time traveler thing. Just to understand why people were hooked.

[@groofay]

4:57 Clever Kevin, demanding that the viewers only watch Simon's channels so that Simon shouts out a random non-Simon video.

[@DeeDeeBaldwin]

Am I the only one who would totally watch "Stuff We Know About and Shit with Simon"?

[@manic3385]

Today I Found out that unknown things are more interesting than known things. Id like to see a Top Tenz about that if its not too much of a Mega Project.

[@anarchyantz1564]

Sounds more like something you would want as a side project for your brain to blaze to.

[@waynesteffen8459]

That comment is casually criminal-into the shadows with you, Micah Kline!

[@manic3385]

@@waynesteffen8459 a Geographics about the shadows reveals its actually what Simon calls the basement that Danny is kept in along with a Biographics about his life.

[@anthonyC214]

Simon, the Chinese left drives all over the Pentagon retail mall. you guessed it, Pentagon employees picked them up and took them back to their offices. That is why You can not bring in portable drives into the Pentagon

[@button9]

Ethan Hunt hanging from a vent was all in vain

[@stephjovi]

I'd listen to Simon reading Kevin's book ❤️

[@aceundead4750]

I think we'd all watch videos of Simon just reading stories written by his writers in their down time

[@ADGarvey1]

I love all the stuff here and your other shows Mr S.W. Never get tired of your story telling.

[@baalzeebub4230]

“Is there a new Tron?” I’m just burning doing the new Tron dance.

[@ClubsOG]

Just discovered the channel, subbed before even watching the video, purely team Simon Whistler 😂 I know the content will be good, OGBB 🚀

[@VillagerJeff]

Simon mentioned doing g a video on cicada 3301. Is that still coming or did it go up and taken down? I don't see it on the uploads for the channel.

[@ThatWriterKevin]

It's coming. It's REALLY long, so Jen needs time to edit

[@VillagerJeff]

@@ThatWriterKevin awesome. I've been excited for that one and worried it got deleted for some reason before I caught it. Thank you!

[@ThatWriterKevin]

@@VillagerJeff I've been excited as well since it's by far my longest one (26 pages).

[@rhov-anion]

Awesome video, Simon and Kevin. Now I'm off to watch that hacker guy on Wired.

[@jenna2720]

I would absolutely read Kevin's novel about the four horsemen of the apocalypse. It sounds hilarious!

[@ragoonsgg589]

Hey, Kevin, do the Simonverse a favor and write a Decoding the Unknown episode on Tron. And by write an episode I mean email Simon a full PDF of the shooting script.

[@jobassett7395]

Wait. What? What do you mean time travel isn't real? What was the big blue Police Box doing in my living room the other day? LOL Seriously, interesting video, as usual. The title did throw me. I had to read it a couple of times just to make sure my brain wasn't playing tricks.

[@BboyAcademy]

You would LOVE Tron, Simon. Both of them. Old Tron utilized a techniques never used before and will never be used again. The making of Tron is worthy of a documentary. I think there is one actually.

[@ChopBassMan]

Hey Simon, please, please, please do a Casual Criminalist video on James Mitchell "Mike" DeBardeleben. The other day you mentioned that the Secret Service in the US is responsible for investigating money counterfeiting crimes on the Casual Criminalist, which made me think of DeBardeleben. He was a prolific counterfeiter, so much so that the Secret Service gave him a nickname: "the mall passer". When they finally caught and arrested him, the Secret Service agents found a lot more than counterfeit money. Together with the FBI he was charged with a whole litany of crimes (he wasn't even prosecuted for most of them). He was sent to prison for life and the agents who investigated him said that he committed just about every felony on the books.

[@alyssinwilliams4570]

Stegonomotry - the study of using stegosauruses (stegosauri?) for measuring things

[@ZSchrink]

Oh lord; this was still very interesting!

[@partyontheobjective]

Another Kevin script, fantastic! I'm quickly becoming a fan. I know you lurk here, Kevin. Good job! I'm interested in that novel you mentioned, keep us posted how it goes. From the very short description I'm getting Pratchett and/or Gaiman vibes.

[@ThatWriterKevin]

Thanks! Although I don't think it counts as lurking if I actively post as well. Ironically, despite working at a comic book store for 11 years, I have read shockingly little Gaiman.

[@AY-pi8mn]

Really I was thinking more Shayne Silvers and that he decided to get another alter ego and write some scripts for fact boy for fun when he mentioned the 4 horsemen lol

[@onbearfeet]

@@ThatWriterKevin If it helps, the book version of Good Omens includes four bikers who become the Four Other Horsemen of the Apocalypse, with names like No Alcohol Lager, Cruelty to Animals, and Really Cool People. Didn't make it into the TV adaptation, but it's great!

[@IanAlcorn]

@@onbearfeet Good Omens is a fantastic book. One of my favorites.

[@SplendiferousSteph]

Rick-rolled agaaaiiiinnnnn ! Lol

[@pamelamays4186]

Three Rick Rolls? Thank you Jen.🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@AnimeShinigami13]

Funny you should mention the USB stick incident, I was about to type it into the comments. XD I thought the plague doctor video was going to be an SCP meme. One of their most iconic SCPs is a Plague doctor who views free will as a Pestilence. To be fair, he never outright says what that pestilence is, that it's freewill is inferred from his behavior. Bedtime stories loves to illustrate urban legends. They've actually illustrated the tale of John Titor. Their artwork is beautiful, black and white sketches with the occasional animation or splash of color. I learned about the existence of Scranton PA from a song by Harry Chapin called 10,000 Pounds of Bananas. Chapin's work is great, and he's not around anymore, so make sure you keep the memory alive by checking out some of his tragic 70s ballads. One of my favorites as far as the sound and the effort put into it goes is "Sniper" which is a ballad about Charles Whitman. If you've never heard of him, Charles Whitman was the earliest Mass Shooter I could find. Whitman had some severe and slightly abusive tendencies before, but close to him going on his killing spree he became incredibly abusive and began to obsess about a clocktower at Texas A+M university. He left behind prolific writings used to teach FBI profilers to this day. The symptom he prominently displayed that had nothing to do with violence was Hypergraphia, an overpowering compulsion to write down anything and everything, including a message to the police asking that an autopsy be done on his body. He knew what was going on in his head, including the urge to kill wasn't right but he couldn't stop. When they opened Whitman up, they found a massive brain tumor on his frontal lobe damaging his ability to control himself. At the time nobody was willing to believe Cancer could have caused such a tragedy, today we know better, and Chapin's ballad about him is a CHILLING look into the mind of a killer. Simon if you ever cover Whitman on the Casual Criminalist, I highly recommend looking at the ballad. Somehow Chapin captured the essence of a Mass Shooter PERFECTLY before we even had a word for it.

[@alexandrialucius8351]

The plague doctor video reminded me of the video in the movie The Ring. Kevin you have written another brilliant one.

[@ThatWriterKevin]

Why thank you!

[@alexandrialucius8351]

@@ThatWriterKevin You're welcome

[@robwilkes3351]

The line is actually "we all stay skinny 'cause we just won't eat". He does say "the girls come easy and the drugs come cheap" to set up the rhyme, though.

[@jmanj3917]

Next Video: With the help of some meddling kids,, Simon unmasks the villain, who turns out to be kind old Mr. Jenkins.

[@EnormousPurpleGarden]

It's okay not to have seen Tron, but you really should see the neutron.

[@stephjovi]

No it was we all have a drug dealer on speed dial and we'll stay skinny as we just won't eat. I suppose you mean Rockstar 🤔. Damn I want a Nickelback concert

[@wisteela]

I didn't realise the John Titor one had been solved. Mr Robot nicely demonstrates why you shouldn't use a randomly found USB drive.

[@swampdog1592]

Really enjoyed the loose format today very funny!

[@originalname2709]

Love your channels

[@RayneZerati]

Simon: PSA over.... You're welcome. I thought you were going to say "PSA over... Pay me." 🤣🤣

[@shannon9993]

The story of the red herrings, the speculation, and the actual known outcome-- all that makes solved mysteries very interesting and entertaining to me. Sure, that's almost sociology more than spooky, but it's still fascinating. It also helps enlarge the information at hand, so that if someone wants to loop in a particular thing for spooky narrative purposes, it's harder to pass a solved mystery off as real.

[@CommisarHood]

9:44 Am I the only one that thinks Parker Warner Wright sounds like a lawfirm?

[@joeyr7294]

This should be interesting. Edit: imagine all the glorious content Simon could binge watch seeing as he doesn't watch his own vids.

[@LadyValkyri]

Episode idea: I know you've covered this briefly before in your Sideprojects episode titled Inexplicable Items: 5 Mysterious Ancient Artifacts, however, I really think The Antikythera Mechanism deserves its own 15 minutes of fame here on this channel. Any writers out there up for this challenge? Let's get Danny to do it, since he's already been thrown his bread and water for the day and he hasn't written a word yet.... Hugs

[@666magic]

Simon's next channel is going to called Shit we know about with Simon.

[@TheKalaxis]

There's already the "Learning stuff with Fact boi" intro meme that could become a genuine intro in regular use over on business blaze and Simon does love starting new channels........

[@jessicapease9101]

I would absolutely listen to entire novel narrated by Simon and written by Kevin or David. Bring it on!

[@krisaaron5771]

Everything a sufficiently advanced technological society can produce will be indistinguishable from magic to a less-advanced society.

[@doclewis8927]

The Rick (Rick Roll) Astley dancing on the Webdriver Torso made me laugh. I'm so old that I can remember when I first heard then saw Rick Astley and was wondering how a black man's voice was coming out of a skinny, red headed white guy. I expected to see a man like Barry White and got Rick Astley which goes to show that you can't judge a book (or voice) by the cover. I love some of Rick Astley's music. He wasn't a one hit wonder like a lot of younger folks think.

[@stevedaenginerd]

Decoding the Unknown 2 MUST become a thing!!!!!

[@doctorlolchicken7478]

We don’t have USB ports at work anymore. We use specially made corporate machines that have no ports. I never thought much of it, I just thought it was to stop employees stealing company secrets. Now I get it.

[@nosuchthing8]

How do you hook up a mouse?

[@99EKjohn]

@@nosuchthing8 Motherboard mounted Bluetooth probably. Not having USB Ports doesn't mean there's not a USB controller still on the board. I'd bet money the board still has a USB controller hardwired to wireless receivers for the KB/M, and likely some short of TPM too, or it could use the old OS/2 ports, but I doubt that.

[@lavaboatcubesupportsukrain7539]

It could probably go both ways

[@stephen3164]

18:04 “Cocaine! No, flour.” Shoot, wrong channel. This video needs all the memes of Brain Blaze!

[@BeardedKemosabe]

The usb stick thing sounds like Simon was talking about stuxnet. Super interesting.

[@blackhat4206]

So when is the Four Horsemen video coming? I’d watch that.

[@TheFilbert13]

Yes! Last night I had checked and seen it had been more than a week. Was itching for a new video! I absolutely love fact boy talking about mysteries and poking all the logical holes in them :D

[@ThatWriterKevin]

DtU has changed to Friday instead of Tuesday

[@personzorz]

The latest decoding the unknown script went out on the casual criminalist

[@siv9939]

I was recently reminded of a claim that people all over the world dream about the same guy. I want to say Simon made a video about it but didn't see anything on the channel. Could be another good internet mystery.

[@AaronLitz]

It was an advertising campaign.

[@keirangrant1607]

Lol, my old brain cant understand a ton either

[@chaoslord8918]

"Maybe next time you can hear Simon read my novel about four strangers who accidentally become the four horsemen of the apocalypse and destroy mankind!" Shut up and take my money! Where is this and how can I get it?

[@SA12String]

You really should see both the Tron movies, since there's a 3rd one in the making. #1 Was the 1st movie to use digital special effects.

[@FallenRingbearer]

That novel actual sounds like a cool premise.

[@AnneAslaug]

"DECODING THE KNOWN"! Brilliant! :D

[@streather]

The thing about littering usb sticks around an area until some idiot plugs it into their computer. Isn't that reportedly how stuxnet worked?

[@matthewwoods6972]

"Stuff we know about and sh@t with Simon" need that in my life.

[@--enyo--]

I guess Kevin gets to stretch his fiction writing muscles with those ‘Deepest Mysteries of the Internet’ videos. Those are good.

[@sciencenate]

Does Simon own the most KZbin play buttons? Someone pay Guinness to give him another yet another plaque.

[@mattakins3422]

Bachelor Chow. Now with flavor!

[@sartoriraphaelr]

About solved mysteries, I particularly like it, sometimes its something really simple but fascinating, and sometimes its something really elaborate and even more fascinating.

[@somedudesstuff801]

"that's why we call it unknown, because known stuff is boring" -the guy who has a bunch of educational channels about stuff that's known

[@moonflower9403]

No disrespect but do you look beyond google and KZbin? I have offended wondered this while watching your videos. I love them and will continue to watch.

[@bradthechampion]

I would totally watch a fictional channel Kevin writes for

[@SaltyBeach1038]

“Stuff We Know About And Shit With Simon” = all of Simons other channels combined 😂

[@ziggygunz2447]

Personally I prefer solved stories to Unsolved stories because the Unsolved ones just feel like an incomplete story and anything I fill in for myself is just speculation and nothing concrete.

[@Adiscretefirm]

I am going to giggle every time Simon says gadgetzedzed

[@tylerstevens5352]

Just casually dropping a chaturbate reference is wild 😂😂😂

[@73caddydaddy93]

TheTekkitRealm ties in nicely with an earlier part of the video, since he's the king of Rickrolls

[@ItsJakeStuff]

"Stuff we know about and shit..with Simon" - 🤣🤣🤣🤣