Giants Built Atlantis with Tree Goop | Armoured Skeptic Rabbit Hole

[@ErreErregon]

You either die a skeptic, or live long enough to become spirit science

[@n0etic_f0x]

It is the weirdest arc. He went from a conspiracy theorist to a skeptic to a right-wing chud and then threw it all away to become a conspiracy theorist once again. He learned from both sides only to ignore both sides.

[@Grace-tg4oy]

Armored Skeptic was never a skeptic. He likes the feeling (keyword: feeling) of being the most correct person in the room.

[@andrerey29]

Not exactly "correct" but the one that *appears* as more knowledgeable. He just likes to look clever.

[@saininj]

More like sniffing his own farts. Dude always came off as a pretentious D-Bag.

[@zenbear9952]

Have ancient alien guys never heard of ramps, pullies and levers? It is absolutely possible for people to lift those big rocks without heavy machinery. It's completely possible to do it with rudimentary technology. It just takes longer and requires more effort

[@daraghokane4236]

Also animals are stronger than humans use a horse to move them

[@zenbear9952]

@@daraghokane4236 Hell you could do this on your own. Look up "AMAZING VIDEO! Man Lifts 20 Ton Block By Hand?"

[@daraghokane4236]

@@zenbear9952 I'm guessing he's a strong man above average at lifting. But I'm guessing before TV people were more fit anyway

[@zenbear9952]

@@daraghokane4236 Nope he's just an old contstruction worker and a grandpa that learned how to move things gradually by spinning them, using a see saw with counter weights and letting gravity do the work for him. He doesn't physically lift the blocks with sheer strength. It's physics and a bit of ingenuity

[@thrillhouse4151]

They’ve never moved a fridge before apparently.

[@seraphonica]

when Greg cited Graham Hancock, author of such works as "Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind" I think he officially lost his skeptic card.

[@MrBell-iq3sm]

I once read the concept of Atlantis became a symbol for outlandish myths no one truly believed in back in antiquity. It was more of a rhetorical tool than a rumor or story.

[@packpowerfan]

It's an allegory written by Plato. The fact that anyone with more than soup in their heads take it seriously is insane.

[@joshuahensley9395]

I actually love the idea of the most advanced people, the most intelligent, a people beyond us, that taught us all that we know, building some great structure with liquid rock from tree acid extract to upon finishing their work to just smash their foot into it like a toddler and say "I DID THAT"

[@Piterdeveirs333]

Fuck, he is like the bizarro miniminuteman

[@damejanea.macdonald2371]

Listening to him quickly summarize the videos leading up to this is such a surreal experience, because I was just letting the wild theories wash over me without really paying close attention, so getting the strange conclusions rapid-fire is like OH. WOW. HE'S ALREADY THIS DEEP AND THERE'S SO MANY MORE VIDEOS LEFT IN THIS PLAYLIST.

[@debrmck]

Greg is in the age that schizophrenia can start showing up. I am starting to wonder if that’s what’s going on here

[@ConsciusVeritasVids]

I have schizoaffective disorder and I wouldn't be surprised if that's true for Greg. If he needs help I hope he gets it, otherwise he's in for a rough time ahead of him. I hope he doesn't go full Kanye as this conspiracy stuff leads him into some esoteric Nazi cult stuff.

[@FrancisR420]

So mini skeptic and mini believer are still characters on the channel they're just inside his head

[@kenshin4113]

Stage 1 armored skeptic:Basic rebuttals of religious fundamentalists others have done before Stage 2 armored skeptic:"ThE SjWs wAnT tO tAkE AwAy YoUr PeNiS" Stage 3 armored skeptic:"ok, there is this crackpot theory cooked up by Europeans in the 19th century about how ancient arya-, I mean Atlantans basically built everything! Sounds legit, don't it?

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

I stop following him when he starts with stage 2, I wasn't even aware that he go full conspiracy theories route.

[@TheVeryHungrySingularity]

A guy in a corn suit is way more reasonable than a guy who thinks Atlantis existed. At least corn is real.

[@jaymorgan7728]

Nothing is more real than corn!

[@thrillhouse4151]

He left out the part with Thomas Edison, Reincarnation, and Niches. And GOD EAGLE.

[@saintbrush4398]

Everyone grab your crotch and stick out your arm at an animal. It's time to do the Green Man Dance! 🍏🕺

[@Akmundra1]

As an iron worker (welder), slag is the impurities that are separated from the metal while in molten form. Slag “rocks” are just that and are what slag piles are made of. It should be needless to say, but slag is god-awful for you. Kids in the early/mid 1900s used to play on them (according to my Grandma 1916-2011).

[@aurizzistic]

RIP grandma

[@overlookers]

Imagine thinking the pyramids were batteries or cognate of a nuclear silo because they quote: "look similar."

[@theonetruefishboy3239]

Do I need to point out how his "ancient giants ruled Atlantis" theory echoes Nazi conspiracy theories or are we already up on that shit?

[@FrancisR420]

I mean we've been through the phrenology arc, I think we get it

[@ThatCanadianGuy-e1p]

I do wonder what made Greg go down that crazy rabbit hole. I recall watching a video of him chatting with his new girlfriend from Australia, and they were talking about the possibility of miracles. I wonder if she influenced him to some degree?

[@mahmutcankaya3321]

Maybe he didn't take the breakup with Shoe that well?

[@ThatCanadianGuy-e1p]

@@mahmutcankaya3321 That's possible.

[@andrerey29]

Greg: "Is not a phase, mom!!"

[@TheCow-j1l]

nah, he was just those type of atheists that liked going "nah, actually" on other people and when atheism stopped fulfilling this purpose he went to prehistory pseudo-science, so he can continue going "nah, actually" on other people

[@mahmutcankaya3321]

@@ThatCanadianGuy-e1p Btw, I just remembered. Back when I was a reactionary in 2017-2018 I used to watch his videos because I had just become an atheist ex muslim. But the one video I watched was very odd to me even than. He and Shoe were going around town trying out ghost hunter gadgets. Than, one of the devices said a word or something. He said something like I don't believe in ghosts but this is very freaky, I am gonna look into this. Shoe also mentioned in one of her videos back then that Greg was super into conspiracy theories, but he was just having fun he doesn't actually believe them. My guess is that Shoe was the last thing keeping Greg sane and he went full conspiracy theorist after all. Really sad actually.

[@lrose5522]

"I promise you, Atlantis was real" well I mean since he PROMISES

[@naniaunruh1312]

The irony of a guy calling himself a sceptic believing in the most far fetched conspiracy theories ever

[@suburban-vampire]

"Hey guys! I don't know anything about geology at all! WHEE!"

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Therfore Atlantis and aliens!

[@bobbybooshay5388]

Greg out here thinking hes Milo from the disney movie. Except Milo had actual evidence.

[@alexk.1109]

When he first got popular Greg did a series of videos about the kind of person he used to be and he described the person he is now. He lurched into atheism as a reaction. Buuut, like a perfectly stacked stone, he has returned to his foundation.

[@CampingforCool41]

Honestly starting to think it’s a mental issue pushing him around

[@Shinji_Dai]

13:49 Yeah, because the outside would be exposed to air, hence solidifying first and keeping the interior hot. Fucking wow.

[@daraghokane4236]

Meanwhile history class on the alien planet. Then our ancestors came to earth and thought humans how to make fire a technology we learned from fairys because it would be impossible for us to figure out without interference

[@seansteele6532]

I dunno, there's a giant skeleton on Mount Shan in RDR2...

[@Elysium_the_Bard]

Geez, how Armored Sceptic has fallen so far. I remember watching and enjoying his stuff, when he was criticizing woo peddlers. Now he's become one himself? What the hell happened?! Was he always like this and I just didn't see it?

[@WackyJack322]

Greg: "I'm not racist... but there's no way these brown people figured out how pots work on their own!!"

[@AriesCorinthier]

All I can think of, as he goes over the walls, is that "maybe all these walls exist in these various areas b3cause THEY'RE THE ONLY ONES THAT SURVIVED". Like it's just math Greg, it's just math.

[@scruggs108]

I'm surprised he hasn't jumped on the "mountains are petrified trees/giants" band wagon

[@StaticCling99]

Soon

[@kiddragoon15]

As funny as this is It's also genuinely sad to watch Greg preach ideas that he once debunked and mocked as the absurdity they are. He knows that the story of Atlantis is only allegory. He literally said it.

[@harlander-harpy]

He's literally just reiterating the Nazi foundation story about the ancient giant Aryans

[@sworddemonboggle1491]

It’s vids like this that make me think “this all has to be some intense, meta narrative. He can’t really believe it” but it’s so much effort to produce videos like this…does he really?

[@curiouspeanut]

He had a series where he'd look at a cryptid and make it sound legit, but would then show why it's bunk in the next episode, giving good examples of how to apply skepticism. But then I think he just fell down the rabbit hole.

[@curvingfyre6810]

@@curiouspeanut I loved that cryptid series. This stuff? this is sad.

[@How_Is_This_A_Name]

that's because he doesn't lmfao, this whole series is a "what if" sorta thing, where he explains stuff from the perspective of someone that *DOES* believe it like, he even explains this IN his first video in this series so it's weird that jake keeps trying to push that armored skeptic has become this huge conspiracy nut

[@sworddemonboggle1491]

@@How_Is_This_A_Name which episode is that cause from all the clips and vids I’ve seen of him I’ve never seen him saying he doesn’t believe any of this

[@Spectra651]

​@@How_Is_This_A_Name Yes, all these insane conspiracy videos presented without a hint of irony or satire. But really he's just memeing, guys, trust me. I mean it couldn't possibly be that he just adopted the facade of a non-believer doing a parody series as a cover, and then dropped that facade once he started getting a good response from the conspiracy nuts in his audience. Also his "parody" series kinda loses some of its novelty when it's indistinguishable from videos by actual conspiracy theorists. He's not "parodying" the thing, he's *just doing the thing.* Seriously, guy, huffing this much cope can't be good for your brain. And I say this as someone who used to be a fan of AS and was happy he seemed to be going in a good direction with his videos where he'd present a conspiracy in one only to debunk it the next. He still does that now, only without that second part.

[@seraphonica]

I can't even. Greg posits that people were able to artificially manipulate rock... and his evidence they're giants is... manipulated rock in the shape of large body parts? Gee Greg, do you think the people artificially manipulating rocks might have artificially manipulated these rocks somehow?

[@Kimandjohn]

Sorry guys I let Greg hit a bag of Ketamine once and this happened

[@SpacersChoice]

greg's been watching too much grahamcock

[@EVedEevee]

I'll admit, I used to watch their video particularly because they poked fun at the conspiracy stuff. (Eventually unsubscribed because of hints of bigotry every now and then) Seeing him now fully embrace that conspiracy is really jarring??? Were they always like this???

[@666FallenShadow]

I can think of a few possibilities. 1 he always believed in this stuff but he knew he would sound insane to his mostly skeptical audience. His earlier conspiracy debunk videos were just him preparing his audience for his conspiracy theories something like "see, I don't believe every insane conspiracy theory, but this one I believe in is totally legit" 2. He doesn't believe in this stuff and is just doing it for the views/it's a really long troll 3 he fell off the deep end when shoe broke up with him and during covid he fell into the rabbit hole. From what I recall he was a member of a cult before at some point so he's prone to falling for bullshit and is less skeptical than he presented himself as

[@lizzyrose6494]

Myself personally, I believe that these cultures had far more advanced technology than we give them credit for. The skills were lost for one reason or another, like Greek Fire, Roman Cement, or Damascus Steel. We just recently rediscovered Roman Cement. So, who knows all of the skills and techniques that have been lost.

[@nicholaslewis8594]

Skills and knowledge have definitely been lost, but that doesn’t imply they had things like airplanes and nukes (not saying you’re implying that).

[@FrancisR420]

There's "more advanced than we give them credit for" and then "more advanced than any modern civilization" Most of the technology you mentioned is largely just burning and mixing various dirts in different ways.

[@lizzyrose6494]

@Nicholas Lewis Oh, of course, I would never be so insane to claim they had modern levels of technology.

[@s0nnasauras630]

Especially considering the library of alexandria was burned who knows what information was lost in there that we will never get back

[@gogecka9717]

Never ceases to amaze me lmao

[@joshuahensley9395]

Its all about attitude, you own that corn suit and are completely self aware, this bozo brings up spirit science to say all those assertion are wrong, but me and my big brain got it figured out.

[@sworddemonboggle1491]

Can I borrow a brain cell, I lost mine

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

"So today Imma explain why rocks are magic."

[@nobo1982]

Its hard to imagine how he could be more annoying and embarrassing than he used to be but look at him go.his cringe continues to grow by leaps and bounds!

[@LowRentLefty]

I love how he lists all these walls, built in places that probably have some earthquake activity (Japan, Greece) and doesn't come to the conclusion that these societies all independently came up with a way to mitigate the damage caused by them, and instead thinks super human god people did it. Way to live up to the "skeptic" in your screenname, Greg...

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Different cultures come to the same conclusions how to build something? It must be aliens or giants, it can be because they were dealing with similar problems.

[@CChissel]

It pisses me off when idiots say that you can’t sculpt rock (granite, diorite) with copper tools. You can do it with STONE tools, it just takes longer, certain,y you can do it with copper. It’s like they all forgot stone masons exist, or they think no one does it by hand anymore, but they do, a lot of them do. Shit, Indians were contracted in Hawaii to build a temple the same way they used to in antiquity, sure it takes longer, but the work is so much more detailed and beautiful when done by hand.

[@AGrayPhantom]

Wow, so different civilizations figured out the optimal way TO STACK FUCKING ROCKS?! Whoooooa 🙄😮‍💨

[@Abrasive-Heat]

Dude got lost in the sauce with ancient history. Physics and math have always been the same. Some civilizations figured it out sooner than most. It wasn’t giants or the big brain people. It was regular people with nothing but time on their hands.

[@LordZeebee]

It'd be so fucking funny if it turns out Plato basically wrote about Atlantis for the same reason dictionaries used to print with entirely nonsense words made up by the editors in order to catch other people stealing their work.

[@jadedtwin]

Plato used Atlantis as an allegory for the hubris of nations. It's just a metaphor for bad regimes.

[@IXAX15]

He’s literally talking about Cyclopean architecture a known and understood building technique

[@QuantumTelephone]

Thank you, Cornchild Jake

[@1jotun136]

I think it's just a years long troll and I applaud his patience in pulling it off.

[@Rokreder]

Nubs on the pyramids? Proof that aliens invented LEGO

[@pollywogapocalypse7432]

Giants sprayed their tree juice all up in them rock cracks and made Atlantis… okay…

[@castro619a]

I like how this quick overview is supposed to debunk established science lmao

[@sorryifoldcomment8596]

How does he know the giants were "albinos?" 🤔

[@Onychoprion27]

Greg being like “The pyramid foundations from 3000 BCE and Khmer of 800 CE and the Inca of 1400 CE all used Atlantean architecture that we, and by we i mean humans of post 400 CE, forgot all about”

[@ToaOfFusion]

Remember when Greg would clown on flat-earthers and had an ounce of self-awareness? Man, that felt like ancient times.

[@smileyp4535]

Ngl his dinesovin and geopolymer stuff is kind of interesting

[@jennanyx4968]

It is really fucking funny that dudes like "they stacked rocks all over the world! Must be giant albino humanoids from Atlantis."

[@dandoll4405]

I am ashamed to admit I can't get high enough to believe this crap. But don't worry, I'm gonna keep trying.

[@FrancisR420]

They say the ancient Giants had trees that grew super weed and helped them believe all this bullshit

[@camerabox1]

holy shit greg, rocks make good walls, want tall wall stack rock high. its basic human instinct that we like stacking shit

[@torpidentree5722]

Greg just thinks that people in the past were stupid af. like our ancestors didn't have the same needs, wants, behaviors and motivations as we do. they monke, they no brain. greg all the brain

[@quorryraphael9980]

I don't think satire works well over an extended period of time when it's not obviously comedic. This is Poe's law, like it's so hard to tell if he's actually becoming spirit science

[@VRSVLVS]

Wait what? Armoured Sceptic became peddler of Hancockian pseudo-archeology? Is this real? I mean I knew that he wasn't the most progressive of thinkers, jumping on the anti-SJW bandwagon... But he still seemed to still do some solid debunking of pseudoscientific BS over all. What happend to his brain? Are you all sure that this isn't some extended bit?

[@gabriellavedier9650]

Denisovans don't have a holotype yet. Technically speaking, there is no such thing as a Denisovan.

[@ahmaudarberywasaviolentkle8094]

What's with the corn?

[@jonathondorow3395]

Okay while armoured skeptic has turned into a whack conspiracy theorist that was spouting nonsense, it is a little insulting that you called the architecture "just stacking stones on top of each other" because there's a lot that goes into architecture that you're basically just dismissing outright. It's not "oh ancient people stacked rocks good" it's "ancient people built their homes accounting for the local natural disasters similarly across different areas" which is actually a really good argument against race realists because so many cultures all had the same ideas around the same time to deal with the same problem. Again, Armoured Skeptic has become a quack but it would have been nice if you actually addressed the architrcutal nuances at play

[@SecularFelinist]

Plated Woomeister more like. Yikes.

[@bean8672]

More crazy Greg plz. V funny

[@garrgravarr]

"Skeptic" 😂

[@danielkorrmann5467]

I realy dont like that this Conspiracy nut and jake both discount the incredible things these people did. One is like " god like superhumans showed them " the other isblike " its just stackung Stones. " Some of these walls are biuld by fitti g every stone exactly ! Into the next one. We know how ! And its realy realy a slow and impressiv process.

[@666FallenShadow]

Sure, but the whole point of jake saying "it's just stacking stones is that it's not something so advanced that it's beyond the capabilities of the people at the time. It's like the difference between someone saying the mona Lisa was made by aliens because it's soo impressive and someone else going dude, it's just a painting

[@danielkorrmann5467]

@@666FallenShadow That does not change that both discount the works of these people. This includes incredible smart methodes took a long time to rediscover. Southamerica is full of walls that need no concrete to hold together and are incredibly old. We just figured out why roman concrete is so much better than the modern stuff. " You just take a stone and put it on an other stone " is also not cool. This is incredible interesting shit even without aliens. And he did stuff like that far to much. Enough to give nutjobs like Armored idiot amunition to attack a lot of real errors in his response.

[@tinycrimester]

oh nooooooooooo not mudfossil uni

[@luispelozo]

"Skeptic"

[@laze_dybo]

Is he OK? For real? Does he need help?

[@kermitthorson9719]

@1:49 omg how can he be sooooooooooooooooooo crinhge, like im glad im only half listening while working because its just so sad, like watching a train wreck but in slo mo guys what actually comes out of the cameras, its sooo slow and still happening and the end is still months away yet but its going to happen and you cant stop it and no matter how many times youve seen it, this ones end is going to surprise us. seriously i think greg ultimately wants to be a cult leader, the way he's building up the "only i could see this, only i could bring this out" bullshit

[@kermitthorson9719]

jake, id vote for corn suit guy for office years before id vote for a guy that made that transition

[@Lordvoivod]

Oh, Greg.... What happened to you?:(

[@burdenblossom9484]

DO YOU GET IT

[@kermitthorson9719]

greg got me nubbing

[@hunni2968]

I just can’t bring myself to think he is joking because there is not only this series of videos but also his podcast on his armoured media channel going into these same topics for sometimes 2 hours. It’s sad to hear. Listen to the episode titled full meta tuxedo it’s him being much more transparent about.

[@heinz57channel39]

Someone has played too much assassins creed .

[@kermitthorson9719]

greg is totally just playing, he definitely hasn't Howard Hughes himself in his house since 2020 started, growing out his hair since he think its needed for his totally real final form he thinks he's about to ascend to, does he think that humans can again become teh all white giants? does he want to be one? doe he think they are around and will choose him?

[@edwinrollins142]

This dude can't even get his pseudoarchaeology "facts" right. He talks about Denisovans as if they were giants, and "three times" bigger than humans, but that's just not true, and neither is their "cone heads". The Denisovans seem to have been somewhat similar to Neanderthals in their size and stature, so actually somewhat shorter than modern humans, but broader and more robust, and their "sloping heads" were like Neanderthal's, that is, they didn't have a high flat forehead like we do, but instead sloped back a bit from the brow ridge, like many other ancestral human subspecies, because their brains weren't as big. I'm wondering if he's confusing the Denisovans with Gigantopithecus, which were much bigger, and did have more sloping pointy foreheads, like gorillas. But even Gigantopithecus wasn't "three times" bigger than humans. They would have been about 9 feet tall if they stood upright, but they may not have even walked upright. And they were actually an offshoot of the orangutan family, separated from the other ape lineages by over 15 million years, and there's no evidence whatsoever that they used tools.

[@TheAntlionGuard]

Goddamn what happened to him? I used to watch him back in the day when he would debunk Flat Earth stuff

[@theraggingscorpion]

DO YOU GET IT DO YOU GET IT DO YOU GET IT DO YOU GET IT DO YOU GET IT DO YOU GET IT ... HISTORY IS A LIE

[@donaldmarcato7003]

GEOPOLYMER

[@erikklumpp3464]

You do the DMT and everything is possible…Joe Rogan is god.

[@stefankane852]

Greg is so smug about his utter ignorance about the topic. Archaeology and geology has answers to these thing, but they don't fit his idiotic narrative, so he makes things up, the Denisovans were archaic humans that has much more primitive technology. They bred with humans and left some of their DNA in modern humans but were replaced by modern humans who had better technology.

[@aabrightlove]

Jake you desperately need to fix your audio. You're like 1/3 the volume of skeptic here, I can barely hear anything you're saying

[@LiarJudas666]

first? nice