Evaluating Photos & Videos: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #7

[@BThings]

This is quickly becoming my favorite CrashCourse series ever! Not only is it really useful, but each episode seems to be building upon the previous ones in a way that makes it really easy to remember what we've learned. I only wish I could have had this when I was taking AP Lang & Comp 8 years ago…Thank you so much, and keep up the great work!

[@rikkinijigen]

Subs to Captain disillusion, you will understand how special effect in fake video works (and how it is greatly inferior to captain's skill). A very underrated youtuber (and a superhero).

[@mathewrichey5268]

I thought I was only one here who knew about Captain Disillusioned!

[@LordofBroccoli]

A good word to learn for this video is "contextomy": the practice of misrepresenting someone by shortening the quotation or omitting contextual information.

[@WeyrSingerMWT]

I definitely pronounced it Her-Me-Own When I read Harry Potter aloud to my little brother before the movies existed. Glad I wasn't the only one!

[@tommyboyer3104]

It is pronounced like that in French

[@alexandreboutaudvalarini5638]

Didn't the author add a scene of her teaching Krum how to pronounce it because she was tired of people mispronouncing it all over the place? You where most definitely not the only one.

[@MusicalRaichu]

I'm pretty sure when I watched the movie it was pronounced Rrr-moy-nee.

[@MyPisceanNature]

A common problem for readers of lots of books. Do you have any idea how difficult it was to learn how "Daenerys" is pronounced? When talking to anyone about the books, before the show came out, I referred to her as Dany, ALWAYS.

[@coralee5628]

I pronounced it Her-moyne (rhymes with groin). Her-me-own / Her-my-own seems like an honest mistake but mine doesn't even make any sense phonetically -_-

[@MysticMindAnalysis]

I love that John has done his hardest to be politically neutral in these videos, because I feel that being skeptical about all politics, even ones we agree with, is critically important. I'm a pretty radical leftist, but I agree that faking videos and images does us no favours. There is plenty of real evidence to show Trump being a climate denier, or the unethical treatment of ICE on the border. So we shouldn't be distracted by arguing over fake evidence misrepresenting reality.

[@cjc363636]

Absolutely. There are plenty of 'real' political facts to discuss. Mucking up the dialog with fake stuff just prevents people from forming real opinions.

[@hiddenhist]

I think the video is clearly a joke, given how bad the mouth is, but it's disgusting to me that an organization would promote this bullocks anyway.

[@thomas.02]

no matter your leanings, the problem with faking stuff is that everyone thinks everything is fake eventually (except when confirmation bias saves your day) and discourse just breaks down

[@i_smoke_ghosts]

wats a radical leftist entail?

[@MysticMindAnalysis]

@@i_smoke_ghosts Workers owning the means of production, universal basic income, opposing all unjust hierarchies, advocating for community-run governments instead of the state; that kind of stuff.

[@RangerRuby]

A picture is worth a thousand words. A Crash Course video is worth a high school education.

[@alexismisselyn3916]

Ranger Ruby not a single video, but if you’re actually listening you can learn a lot more than you’d expect!

[@leo-hao]

Here here!

[@joewilson3393]

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. They dont say that any of those words have to be true.

[@sonofGod846]

bull...

[@MrARock001]

I think in 20 years, kids are going to be floored to learn there was a time when you could reasonably assume any photo or video was just true at face value.

[@1TW1-m5i]

As someone with digital editing skills, I'm already floored. People accept scanned signatures, when I could very easily fake some given the right records, if I was actually evil.

[@LordofBroccoli]

I would also like to add that reserve searching images is good when checking for scammers, for example on dating sites. Sometimes the site is stupid enough to recycle photos.

[@cjc363636]

I cannot express fully how awesome this video lesson series is. Going forward, I hope millennials and especially their kids learn by habit to pop a new browser tab and double-check stuff, eventually becoming muscle memory.

[@caetanorodrigo17]

I've watched a few crash courses. This one is definetelly the most relevant and vital. Thank you, Complexly team.

[@emilyplunkett6034]

If you combine this series with your series on Media Literacy, you have a great foundation for Crash Course: Journalism. Thank you all and, please, keep up the good work. :)

[@AvgJane19]

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[@donniehdea9281]

Google informally sucks at visually similar images (best to use other software for that) also you can sometimes get more info by checking the metadata about a file, a lot of them contain GPS coordinates and stuff

[@gardenhead92]

Wait until John finds out the Star-nosed Mole is an elaborate hoax

[@PlebNC]

Turns out it was a naked mole-rat with a starfish photoshopped onto its face.

[@AncroKT]

Two things: thank GOD someone else pronounced Hermione's name that way, and I absolutely got the pixel counting meme, I don't care if that makes me old, it was a fine meme.

[@markdimmitt5149]

John - those flowers are FASCIATED, not fascinated.

[@sarty]

I love this series and I thank you all for taking the time to help us learn how to find truth in this ever more complicated digital world.

[@ianrbuck]

I wasn't expecting a Wilhelm Scream in an episode about images!

[@coralee5628]

Reverse image search is also a valuable tool for reattaching attribution to illustrations and webcomics that have been separated from their creators. Artists rely heavily on social media followings to make a living - so it's heartbreaking how often I see out-of-context art/comics posted by a random person, with hundreds or thousands of likes, none of which will end up reaching or benefiting the creator. We can all help artists by doing a quick reverse image search and linking to the original creator in the comments whenever we see this happen.

[@Meganopteryx]

This whole series is fantastic.

[@LordofBroccoli]

I used to read Harry Potter to my Dad before I saw any of the adaptations, and I kept reading Hermione's name wrong. My Dad was always like "No, that's not how you say it!"

[@alexiswelsh5821]

I tried to get my Grandma to read laterally, and she said she didn’t need to, although it was a good idea. She also thinks she’s an alien, along with other stuff.

[@zachheilman784]

4:39 are we now going to have to relearn how to pronounce Imgur also? "Image-ur" is how I always thought of it.

[@TheAgamidaex]

John also pronounces gifs as gifs, so you know...

[@roryokane5907]

Agamidae did you ever watch PBS Idea Channel? Zhaif 4 Laif!

[@roryokane5907]

I was waiting for a “many shops in my time” meme from the start, and I was rewarded within 90 seconds. Am I old? Is just-about-to-turn-29 old?!

[@burrito-town]

It's pronounced 'imijer'. I know, it's a confusing name.

[@dahawk8574]

...and if he read a bit further than the very first line, he could have learned about the Imguraffe.

[@fluffy6923]

8:44 Convington kids is a good recent example.

[@luisfdconti]

I wish this series included a video or at least a mention about meta fake news, which is when someone shares a very obvious fake image for instance, arguing someone else is trying and not succeeding to fool others.

[@pipe2devnull]

I liked Nicholas Cage in 'Raising Arizona'. He is not a bad actor.

[@MiketheMadness]

This video looks shopped, I can tell by some of the pixels, and by having seen a few shops in my time

[@opheliabawles9646]

All the video shops around here disappeared ages ago so l can't tell.

[@ceedeeb]

I was very much hoping the pixels were mentioned, glad to see it was.

[@JoshuaHillerup]

I hope there's an episode that covers what to do when the evidence for something is fuzzier. Like, there's lots of fairly reliable sources on it with mostly reliable sources they have, and most of the evidence against it is absolutely unreliable, but there's also some questionable stuff for it.

[@theengineer9050]

Sharks tails don't move up and down, they move side to side. 6:32

[@antivanti]

John: How do we decipher what is real and what is not?... Me: You can tell by the pixels hahahah! (actually laughing) John: ...well it's easy you can tell by the pixels. Meredith says that meme is so old no one is going to get the joke. Me: *feeling old intensifies*

[@culwin]

I hope he does an episode that talks about dating sites. I would say the bulk of profiles there are fake/scammers. Reverse image searching is an easy way to identify a lot of them. Depending on the site, some of them are happy to have them there.

[@dj586858]

It is terrifying how easily we can be manipulated by all of this. Seeing is believing? Not anymore!

[@tvit]

We are already in era where there is no way to tell if a picture or a video is real. Lateral reading does not always lead to a conclusion, as it is possible to have no evidence of authenticity or vice versa. Fake news, fake pictures, fake videos, gaslighting and other malicious activities regarding the subject (of reliability) are also so popular, that one can only refrain from making crucial conclusions from internet (or other) content, that is not well known as facts by the public. So 1. chill 2. check 3. if not confident of reliability, ignore

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

@1:23 I understood that reference. Am I old?

[@Pfhorrest]

It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out. (I can tell from the pixels, and from having seen some memes in my time).

[@RDPhotoSmith]

Fascination = Fasciation :-)

[@tony2774]

I just want to say as a parent, this series is amazing. It articulates exactly what I’ve been trying to get across to the kids. But I have to strongly disagree about the transformers movies.

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

1:30 - I understood that reference!

[@endrawes0]

This should be a required course for children

[@LuinTathren]

I love love love love this series! Oh, and is it me or is John Green really hot?

[@Ilichburger]

This course should be made in other languages. I really want to share this content with students in latin america!

[@Lemonickous]

It's not just images though. People have believed hearsay mythology as "fact" for thousands of years now.

[@HatakeMelo]

You should thank Professor Huggins at AWC for getting you a bunch of views by making us watch this.

[@lhfirex]

John, I got the meme at the start of the video. But I think I"m probably one of "the olds" even though I'm technically a millenial.

[@vroxxzz]

Nope! The fact you had to use the qualifier 'technically' millennial means you're DEFINITELY one of the olds... But it's ok- there's for more. Come and sit next to me!

[@DaDunge]

9:10 Horizontal stripes? A bold choice I will give you that.

[@dallasfavel4817]

1:30 Tell Meredith that I've seen a few shoops in my time, I can tell.

[@mormegil231]

Interestingly enough Her-Mee-Own is much closer to the Greek accent of the name.

[@SerontTcg]

I love this series 🤟

[@SamNeedsCoffee]

I figured out how to pronounce "Hermione" from the Chamber of Secrets. There's a scene where Ron has a mouthful of food and the book gives a rough phonetic breakdown of how it's pronounced.

[@sporkmaster5000]

I was waiting for the some of the pixels and seeing a number of shops meme from the minute I saw the title. If you'd left it out because it was dated I, for one, would have been sorely disappointed.

[@bsinita_wokeone]

Thank you 👍for this video, i really learn a lot.😊🙆💙

[@TheMostHigh13]

This is the best series on Crash Course, but I still like Hank better lol.

[@roryokane5907]

Roger Garrett CRASH COURSE: CIVIL WAR

[@geoffreywinn4031]

Cool video!

[@nishantmishra6822]

It's kinda weird that even on a course about navigating information, people comment on the video before watching it, I mean I came here 7 mins after and already 15 comments?

[@vroxxzz]

People aren't necessarily commenting BEFORE watching. They can comment on a certain point raised before the video ends. You might not need to have watched the entire thing to comment on one particular point

[@nishantmishra6822]

@@vroxxzz Guess you are right, and I read those comments. They didn't seem like some important interjection. Although I have been wrong before.

[@teehee2900]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, that picture would be filled with a lot of words

[@mrjomee5744]

oh no no

[@emr2425introibo]

Let's get these photos out on to a tray. Nice.

[@johnhoward1181]

Thank you. I've been wondering how you find out if a pic or video is real and this is very helpful. Also if it strikes you as questionable you should double check. And some things are obvious. Sharks are not fresh water fish. Sometimes people don't notice. Got a pic the other day that showed a bridge connected to a floating island. Someone wanted to know where it was at. I'll assume that they didn't notice. At least I hope so. :)

[@WiseWik]

Nullius in verba

[@MrGustaphe]

Wait a minute! In the fourth book, Hermione explains to Victor Krum how to pronounce it (I remember because it came as quite a shock to my father who read them aloud to us in Swedish, and had up until then pronounced it "HermiÅne"). You mustn't have been a very attentive reader. This discredits you as an authority on navigating information, and here I was trusting you blindly.

[@DaDunge]

11:00 You should fairly easily be able to run the video through a program that checks for the fingerprints of deepfake manipulation. Heck KZbin should do that automatically and show a warning label on videos that are detected as having been edited.

[@StephanieFink515]

This course should be a prerequisite for using facebook.

[@KMO325]

I recognize Ida B. Wells, but who are the people in the other three photos?

[@philadeosincognito9701]

More than just it's 'reliability', I avoid images and videos in general because of their raw emotional impact and ability to bypass normal intellectual filters. Images and videos can 'get in your head' in a way that text simply can't. All visual media has a limited (if not outright deliberate) perspective and you are limited by that perspective in your assessments.

[@unleashingpotential-psycho9433]

Photos and videos are great for capturing memories! 🔥

[@aaaaaaa8058]

As I have said before you are everywhere

[@CCRLH85]

My big worry concerning deep fakes is that there will be a "forty-seven percent" hidden camera style video deep fake. A video that the subject would deny being in because of the potential damage but, when the technology gets good enough, how are we going to tell the difference?

[@drisslaayadi3413]

Awesome..as always.

[@andrewv5104]

Tineye is that a Stormlight reference?

[@sceptre1067]

thank you for saying polo shirts and not golf shirts, this gen x fan appreciates that in an odd way. 😀

[@SwiftrunnerXXY]

DON'T WORRY JOHN I GOT THAT JOKE

[@giraffecat]

Excellent, I get the pixels joke! Not excellent, I'm old :'(

[@BertaRS]

You can tell that those people really don't exist by looking at the pixels.

[@Laura-vv3yu]

Did he wear the same shirt as he did in the clip at 8:56 on purpose?

[@chris24hdez]

maybe you can touch on motives for disinformation, ranging from least to most impactful

[@Keizerrrrrrrr]

Please let John Green do world history again! I miss him doing world history. I could see him very passionate about doing history. I miss the old John Green!!!

[@gauravgoyalfruitarian]

How to make sure that fact checking sites are reliable ??

[@DougTeague]

Getting ready for the politcian videos are we?

[@maralorca6518]

Plot twist: Star-nosed mole photos are fake.

[@JenialB]

Good point in the beginning. You had your Own idea who those characters were, then, someone else put their idea on screen & you slowly lost your idea. Maybe we need to de-program & go back to our imaginations. That were the best inventions came from after all. Just a thought 🤔

[@complimentbotd7232]

I politely disagree.

[@JenialB]

@@complimentbotd7232 I can respect that. Can you explain why?😉

[@jeremiasrobinson]

Feel free to put my images through a reverse image search!

[@Mazaylum]

Crash Course Pls make more video on Psychology

[@kayleedork6153]

2:50 Aww it Surely temple( I did not spell that right sorry)

[@thewwefan57]

Dat shark always goes viral in any flood, ever

[@metalwellington]

what's a new tab and how do I open up one.

[@vegarandreassen1402]

Don't worry, some of us *are* old enough to know a shop when we see one. Shopfronts in captchas however...

[@filipeferreira2355]

I did not know about the deepfake. It really is scary how manipulative our information can be.

[@grahamfinlayson-fife73]

Fasciation! Not fascination!

[@poppypollen4362]

Okay, this deep fake thing freaks me out as hell. As if propaganda wars were not confusing and destructive enough. Now thinking about all the possible implementations makes me paranoid. 👁

[@brendansmith9677]

Captain dissolusion makes good videos about hoax videos that use special effects and how they are made.

[@ransom4734]

Nice video

[@peace299]

Brilliant

[@quatrevingtneuf]

i rely on reverse image search a lot and definitely do NOT believe google's is the best. it does reasonably well, but yandex's reverse image search is far better, for reasons that i don't entirely understand.

[@Pumpim56]

Is this Connect to ads???

[@SoCalFreelance]

“I can prove without a doubt that the Douma Hospital [chemical attack] scene was staged.” ~ Riam Dalati, a well-known BBC producer

[@jakeweston8616]

Hey crashcourse make a video on fake news!

[@jeremiasrobinson]

I see what is really going on here. John's hair is all done up in CGI for this video. He doesn't look this fancy in person.

[@bobfearnley5724]

Man, deepfake is giving me an existential crisis about the truth in visual information

[@TheNeweN24]

I guess in the next time we're going to learn to read laterally for the 8th time?

[@craigfox1572]

This is scary