Hexagons are the Bestagons

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David Sheard
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[@CGPGrey]

Behind the Scenes of making this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aoOWf2SlmrCVe5Y

[@aidenzorn8322]

"because bees." Ladies and gentlemen, this is what your english teacher means when they say to begin your essay with a strong hook

[@TheBluePhoenix008]

I'ma use that next time

[@SovietWomble]

This video pleasures my eye hexagons.

[@jonavanderpal]

As did it for me.

[@SigmastormBeheHunter]

Tell Cyanide he has square ass.

[@ajinkyaghule2198]

i love your content about csgo bulshittery

[@tensorflow5777]

Now that was r/unexpected

[@styrofoamcow6996]

wth ur in this cult too?

[@xaviermakesthings]

5:28 I’m actually surprised he didn’t talk about the wood on the pencil being shaped as a hexagon

[@kaiwilliams2181]

**Grey intensifies**

[@thereinthetrees_5626]

That’s what he was teasing. It was a bait and switch

[@BatataJoey]

Too predictable probably

[@GameristicForce]

This guy has more popularity on this comment (in 13 days) than my best did in like 8 months

[@BatataJoey]

@@GameristicForce i got more

[@blokcy8805]

Organic chemistry teachers: *visible happiness*

[@jadentonkin466]

He should of said michael faradays best invention benzene

[@iNoToRiOuS]

"Sir, this is a Wendy's"

[@picklecookieniblets799]

OH MY GOD THIS IS GOLD

[@bcunningham3718]

omg INUT is alive

[@wesleyjones4036]

wot

[@RSD_Knight]

Perfect

[@RoomInArles]

Fix your upload schedule

[@DPadGamer]

I... I think I just joined a hexagon-based cult...

[@MiguelPereira-yw8rg]

your dpad reminds me of squares.... grrrrrrrrr.....

[@423adriana]

HEXAGON CULT

[@thetzeentchianrepresentati5547]

WHAT WAS THIS FANTABULOUS FEAVER DREAM!

[@Voltorb1993]

I mean, I already joined a cult of lobster god on facebook this year. Might as well...

[@LinkEX]

It's not a cult if you have science to back up your grand claims °U°

[@Ultrevolous]

Me at the start of the video: Oho, how cute, the bees make hexagons Me at the endagon of the video: MY GODAGON, THE BESTAGON HEXAGON CAN NEVER BE GONEAGON

[@Tay10rd]

Thought you said “Ohio, How cute”💀

[@jungle003]

Niceagon itagon happenedagon toagon meagon toagon

[@hrishikeshharitas2456]

@@jungle003 *meagon tooagon

[@noaha6185]

And thus one of my biggest neurodivergent hyper-fixations was born. Now I look for hexagons everywhere I go, every day. You would be shocked how common they are once you start keeping an eye open for them. Every time I see one I get a little happy boost of dopamine. Thank you CGP grey, thank you Hexagons :)

[@thepjup4507]

hexagons are just multiple triangles put together. sorry.

[@caramelldansen2204]

@@thepjup4507 Triangles are just cowards who don't want to admit they need to be hexagons to function efficiently. Did you not watch the video?

[@HappyGardenOfLife]

Dopamine is made of hexagons, so you get a boost of hexagons every time you see a hexagon.

[@theeclipsemaster]

This vid did the same for me

[@iamme2739]

@@caramelldansen2204 Triangles as hexagons are better than hexagons because they leave clean edges and you dont have to get the saw out to cleanly and efficiently fit them to something else.

[@bacn_]

Imagine you're just playing a game of chess and this man just breaks out in a nine minute rant on why hexagons are cool

[@letsmessup648]

Lol I play hexonia

[@rathernotsay8157]

You don't know why I got this like

[@tiredcoffee9801]

Not just cool but; _snaps fingers into finger guns_ *the bestagon*

[@eos5273]

All while,he's beating you

[@Caw5050]

@@eos5273 lol

[@Jombo1]

Now I'm confident that I can win an argument that I will probably never have.

[@troll3332]

Just start an argument

[@bmulholland98]

Oh damn, its Jumbo. The man who holds the world record for fastest pet of a living animal.

[@NicGarner]

@@troll3332 That's an option but it's a whole lot more impressive when you win an argument you didn't start deliberately because you knew you could win it. Organic ftw.

[@chieuleyang6768]

I disagree with this video. The most efficient way decrease the surface area to volume ratio is to increase the size of the shape rather than change it to a hexagon. For shapes of the same size, however, the hexagon would be the best shape to use, but I do not see why the bees don’t just make their holes bigger

[@NicGarner]

@@chieuleyang6768 Each hexagonal cell contains an egg which develops into larvae, which in turn spins a cocoon and pupates into a bee, all within the cell. So making the cells any bigger than necessary for that purpose would be wasteful.

[@liamfoxy]

Apparently the 'No, don't touch that' when Grey was talking about the Ice9 is a reference to the book Cat's Cradle. From what I found online.. "In Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle, a central plot element is called ice-nine. The substance, created in a lab, was made up of familiar H2O molecules, but they were locked in a novel crystalline structure that froze solid at room temperature. Because ice-nine crystals could spontaneously convert normal water into more ice-nine, the material was dangerous-just licking it would cause all the water in a person’s body to freeze solid. At the end of the book, a piece of ice-nine is accidentally knocked into the ocean, causing all of the Earth’s water to freeze and ending nearly all life on the planet in an instant."

[@rowenaquebral5567]

Woah"0

[@Racoonma392]

From what I read (about 5 minutes of google/wikipedia reading), Ice 9 (or Ice IX) is a real ice structure, but in real life it's nothing like the novel and is pretty similar to regular ice. Feel free to correct me

[@andrewquintal1251]

@@Racoonma392 I figured it was a reference to the metal band Ice Nine Kills

[@Racoonma392]

@@andrewquintal1251 Maybe? We'll never know

[@hyzmarie]

Oh I thought it was radioactive

[@thunderflare59]

Now I want to make a hexagon cult for a DND campaign.

[@kathleenlestrange6932]

Do it would be fun

[@hiepdoshin7846]

After the End Fan Fork, a mod for Crusader Kings 3, feature a Hexagonal religion.

[@pippen1001]

make the dungeon map with squares

[@thunderflare59]

@@pippen1001 blasphemy!

[@Jedidaily]

Gosh, that would be the best, but I already have this thing with flying pickles for my characters

[@flavvsdasilver6442]

Glucose is a hexagon. Your body literally runs on hexagons as a fuel source.

[@SkyTheGuy8]

The nitrogenous bases that make up your DNA are also at least partially hexagons.. the arrangement of different types of hexagons decide all of your genetic traits!

[@hallowillkommengutenmorgen5175]

oh interesting

[@Mossmuncher]

@@hallowillkommengutenmorgen5175 THEN IS IT THE BESTAGON

[@abox1942]

I *w h a t*

[@thejellyguy]

Interesting

[@jarrodfreeburg979]

When he said “the humble bumble” and it had the bee with a hard hat and blueprints, I thought that was the cutest thing I ever saw.

[@miniskitproductions6955]

Very yes

[@Xelaria]

With the music too

[@someoneidkyeahok]

Except bumblebees don’t make honey :^)

[@dagurtheone3969]

@@someoneidkyeahok you . . . . . W H A T

[@simonbadura2265]

@@someoneidkyeahok *w h a t*

[@maskofmany9208]

In diamonds, their molecular structure is based on squares, which causes it to be extremely hard, even to the point that it is considered the hardest material ever, but there was actually a material found from a meteorite called Q-carbon that, while extremely similar to diamond, is actually even harder than diamond. Why? Because instead of having their molecular structure based on squares, Q-carbon’s molecular structure based on, you guessed it, *hexagons* *Hexagons are the Bestagons*

[@MrBattlecharge]

This is actually just an audio clip of Grey ranting to Civilizations 4 about how they should use hexagonal tiles instead of square tiles so Grey can get the most nearby resources per city. They listened and Civ 5 has hexagonal tiles. Years later, Grey decides to animate it.

[@altruistic_eagle3709]

source, please.

[@MrBattlecharge]

@@altruistic_eagle3709 it was merely a joke, friend. There is no truth to my comment.

[@Markstrosity]

I just realized that the reason Grey uses a few French phrases is because France is, famously, a hexagon.

[@raymondvargas9783]

Lmaooooooooooo!!

[@rudibarre8684]

L’hexagone mon ami 👌

[@gaetanlesingechannel9496]

exact

[@ballerbalgruuf]

Idk, looks pretty pentagonal to me.

[@artilire]

Yes but he could have made those English because Sierra Leone is also a hexagon

[@thebookworm5048]

I love how Grey is so obviously excited. I can only imagine him smiling all while recording this

[@emberswords]

I can imagine

[@isapu1948]

With lightning and thunder in the background

[@survivalextraordinaire3572]

perhaps he is excited because the initiation to the hex-a-cult is dunking into cold but fluffy snow for a bit of honeycomb much like a college attendee at a party is almost religiously compelled to dunk their head in water for what may or may not be an apple.

[@john-paulgies4313]

Can you really imagine him smiling... if you've never seen him?

[@isapu1948]

@@john-paulgies4313 I almost know it comes of a little creepy XD I have a vague idea

[@ActivelyMike]

I absolutely love your content! Keep up the great work!!!!

[@Raz337]

@@yfua Because it's no hexagon :(

[@watchmychannelorelse]

thank you for giving to our glorious hexagon leader

[@birutologo]

Why is your comment pink

[@birutologo]

@@_rd_5043 i don't remember why i said that but i think it was a joke.

[@Alexa-iv7kr]

Did I watch a man explain how hexagons are the bestagons for 9 and a half minutes? Yes. Was it worth it? Double yes.

[@asimo3089]

Me: I wonder if Grey will post an Election Day video. Grey: HEXAGONS

[@TheBetterGame]

As a non american who's already getting sick of hearing all about the president who literally wore clown makeup for 4 years, AND THOUGHT IT LOOKED GOOD, This was better.....

[@Luxuriantsama]

@@TheBetterGame same

[@shivmishra1372]

God i haven’t seen asimo3089 in years lmao

[@Laittth]

Can't wait for another update to the part of the electoral college video about losing the popular vote but winning the electoral college! Ok hopefully that doesn't happen again but there's a real chance it will.

[@gregthorne4292]

HEXAGON 2020

[@_-insertname-_]

Didn’t expect to see the story of a stickman getting lured into joining a cult for a geometrical shape when I clicked on this, but I‘m not complaining

[@Qaptyl]

Hexagonism

[@OrangeC7]

Wait, isn't that just Pythagoras?

[@Qaptyl]

@@OrangeC7 right triangles are the best triangles

[@youzhou3001]

I think we all got enlightened by the hexagon. Hexagons are the bestagons. Hexagons are the bestagons. Hexagons are the bestagons. Hexagons are the bestagons.

[@jamesonrouchbach2853]

You got 666 likes. Is that ironic?

[@fredthepenguin6539]

He spent 9 minutes converting us to a hexagonal cult

[@berserker1340]

You can make a religion out of this.

[@Smitchip]

The more he says “bestagons” the more it sounds like a cult

[@lgmmy5612]

He was trying to say it in a cult-way in order to make it sound funny.

[@isaacbriefer193]

@4 and 9 and more! Waise the woof!

[@leoleo6301]

Yes

[@xyzzyx7812]

cult of hexagons is the best cult ever

[@advika8681]

It was a cult the moment you clicked on the video

[@wabboss4192]

This feels like the monologue of a hexagon themed super villain, before they pull out their mathematically indestructible hexagonal super weapon.

[@saleemdhamna3937]

You could start a web series

[@richardbullick7827]

it's only strong when it has the inner structure, aka triangles

[@tlbcanine3748]

“The weapon will eradicate all square life threatening our universe for the strongest life possible, does that not make it the bestagon?

[@saleemdhamna3937]

And the wise old man says you will need the almighty tridestroyer

[@sprinkleman8103]

Isnt a hexagon just 6 triangles?

[@dwcscca]

"And a little bit of ice nine. Don't touch that." AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!! Dying now. I'm re reading Cat's Cradle now. I laughed way too hard at that. I'm a nerd. Well done.

[@annihilate2479]

Ya late bro sorry

[@justinsommerfeld7027]

That was a great touch!!

[@orange158]

Could you explain that part to me

[@dwcscca]

@@orange158 so yeah, don't touch it or you would instantly freeze as a human being. :-)

[@SuviTuuliAllan]

The real ice 9 isn't as cool as the fictional one.

[@Goatman_Gamer]

I make sure to watch this video every two months to remind myself why Hexagons are indeed the Bestagons.

[@unevenox]

I adore how this video really covers all the bases from literal atomic structure to "6 is more than 4 which is better"

[@hallowillkommengutenmorgen5175]

yes!

[@augustospeziatesta7947]

Wha

[@azteka9692]

Don't forget "squares are boring"

[@wonjaechoi4714]

@@azteka9692 square’s aren’t boring

[@wuberkz1692]

@@wonjaechoi4714 square is are not boring

[@jamesbaum3001]

How to Start a Cult in Less Than 10 Minutes: The Hexagon

[@iamssmrt5298]

Over 300 likes and no comments Me: *its free real estate*

[@DecisionsRQuestionable]

@@iamssmrt5298 Hexagon

[@CarrotAndCo]

Will McDaniel taught me to support the church of the 8 sides.

[@sockchen2707]

hexagon is the bestagon

[@rbarua3368]

I think that the honor should go to the triangle for the long game. Somehow the triangle has been integrated so much into our math systems, that for how much we rave about hexagons, we know more about triangles.

[@SmokesKwazukii]

I hope Grey is aware of Boards of Canada. the scottish electronic music duo obsessed completely with hexagons. From their song “Turquoise Hexagon Sun” to their label simply named Hexagon Sun.

[@specialkali]

This never gets old and I get excited every time KZbin recommends it.

[@pezvonpez]

hehe, same

[@kartikkudale721]

5 yo kid: What is your favourite shape? Grey: **cracks knuckles** **cracks neck**

[@peaklongshot7205]

breaks leg

[@user-emily394]

@audwee dismembers body

[@zacharykoplin6543]

And turns him into a hexagon cake

[@courier6402]

@Hand Grabbing Fruits The true ending is to give the cake to the kids family.

[@playdoughmaster808]

The hexagon cake turns everyone into hexagons

[@JPerm]

I've wasted so many years thinking about cubes and squares 😭

[@campfiredude9940]

Wait what are you doing here?

[@flausseur]

@CampfireDudeシ you don't know that jperm watches veritasium and cgp? I'm thoroughly disappointed.

[@campfiredude9940]

@@flausseur im disapointed in myself for not knowing this

[@RedCLR]

Shame! Shame!

[@campfiredude9940]

Oh ples sotp

[@electricairways]

I loved the shape "hexagon" about a year after I learnt the shape. And there's a community about it, making memes too. There is Hexagon (the bestagon), octogan, pentagon and patient-gon (flatline).

[@hyzmarie]

I died inside a little

[@lexterslife]

i didn’t understand this video, but the fact that this guy has so much fun talking about shapes fulfills my faith in himanity

[@hrithik6323]

The passive aggressiveness to squares is amazing

[@henryschulz9940]

Something a square would say

[@ggnkrsfkoqxbk5078]

@@henryschulz9940 that’s something a hexagon would say

[@ikeilledaguy4349]

@@ggnkrsfkoqxbk5078 sounds like a square pretending to be a hexagon to call out another hexagon

[@emotionalavocado2336]

@@ikeilledaguy4349 sounds like a hexagon pretending to be a square to call out a square pretending to be a hexagon

[@abcdefg5686]

@@emotionalavocado2336 Sounds like a square calling out a hexagon pretending to be a square to call out a square pretending to be a hexagon

[@bonzoguy8016]

note: Never play chess with CGP grey or he'll go on a rant about how the chess board should be hexagonal and throw a box of bees on the board

[@lucianite0]

I'm trying to find the part where anything there is a flaw...

[@timtams_6]

@@lucianite0 hexagons have no flaws...

[@Matthi_-wq3hl]

Gex: "This is like playing chess with CGP Grey!"

[@fazdoll]

@@lucianite0 Flaw: The chessboard is wrong. The bottom right corners (facing the players) should be a white square, queen takes her own color. Grey's chessboard has black in the bottom right corners.

[@baertheblader9402]

“This chess board is causing a distortion in the very nature of time and space. It must be destroyed. Can’t you see that the bishop travels farther than the rook, even though they go the same number of spaces? This is madness, madness I tell you! [curls up into the fetal position, muttering] Hexagons are the bestagons, hexagons are the bestagons…”

[@Xanthelei]

This is my fourth or so time watching this video 2 years later and I think it's still my favorite video Grey has ever done.

[@eliyaskiya]

Viewers: Wait, it's all hexagon? CGPGrey: Always has been

[@MarkRober]

This was delightful. I got a shirt to join the order.

[@jamescord2226]

agreed

[@milkman9412]

OH NO HE'S ALSO A HEXAGON

[@sports4eva115]

collab time??????

[@ivory7525]

Your lightbulb to is a hexagon Mark

[@CGPGrey]

What a nice new logo you've got for yourself there, Mark. Glitterbomb shirt ordered: markrober.store/collections/tees/products/glitter-bomb-wireframe-tee

[@JustinY.]

Everyone: _Posts about the US elections_ *CGP Grey:*

[@hebl47]

And that's why he's the best!

[@user-ht3tp3uj4v]

You have good tastes Justin Y

[@simonbirrer958]

Hexagons for President

[@accuratejaney8140]

4 minutes to a Justin Y. comment, neat

[@migut]

hexagons are bestagons

[@Occultist_Anonymous]

I love how happy with himself he sounds whenever he comes up with another reason hexagons are amazing

[@zankanotachi_]

The way he is super exited about hexagons gets me everytime 😅😄

[@knuckles.the.hedgehog]

"If you're a game based on squares, I'm so sorry" Mojang: I don't like your funny words, magic man

[@framekixrr]

Minecraft is a game based on cubes

[@grandmasterkurashi]

@@framekixrr a cube is just many squares

[@char.lotte.27]

Minecraft is allowed it dosent matter it has cubes minecraft is the best (my opinion)

[@SquidsINCIsABadYouTuber]

Im going to learn how to code just to make a hexagon based pixel game. Because why not

[@hisirhow3476]

@@framekixrr Aaand cubes have six sides, you know what else has six sides?

[@TheOtherNeutrino]

Bill Wurtz: You could make a religion out of this. CGP Grey: I already have.

[@zeezFPS]

underrated comment xD

[@Sairin13]

Pythagoras wants to know your location

[@dmitrypatuk]

Actually there are some apps that actively use hexagons For example, I use Typewise keyboard, which has hexagon keys instead of regular qwerty - and it's really cool!

[@AkiNoTsuki]

always has been

[@KmiiVC]

i discovered your channel today and it's become one of my favorites. it's a treasure

[@Matthatguy119]

Thanks you inspired me to mathematically prove the efficient perimeter to volume ratio of the hexagon

[@brebeeb]

I love that grey has slowly transitioned to slam poetry and none of us have questioned it

[@SweetSweetVideoBoom]

It’s awful. He needs to stop the rhyming

[@Skystrid3r]

@@SweetSweetVideoBoom Absolutely not

[@undeniablySomeGuy]

It's interesting how he uses the rhyming to easily interact with the tone of the video

[@degummybear]

@@SweetSweetVideoBoom Booooooo!!! 👎👎👎

[@sprucemaroose]

He should never stop!

[@skyregalia5901]

Meanwhile at the Pentagon: "Why do i feel like we are missing a side?"

[@lizcollinson2692]

😆👏👏👏👏

[@alexmaddox8307]

Hexagons are the bestagons

[@cavc9524]

wel u do

[@masteraidan3325]

not anymore, space force up

[@pronounjow]

Well, they could have a 12-sided Space Force-operated Dodecahedral-design space station that will also have the internal volume of the structure to work with. Should actually be pretty structurally sound, methinks. They can call it: The Dodecahedron.

[@tarzaan2603]

This was really fun to watch/listen to! Awesome script for this one Mr Grey!!

[@lohema7827]

CGP Grey: Human tribalism is incredibly damaging for our society... Also CGP Grey: *HEXAGONS ARE THE BESTAGONS*

[@davidbrodecki154]

Is he wrong though?

[@sofivear]

Ok but this is tribalism that I can stand for

[@jayeisenhardt1337]

@Henry Grant "Purge the nonbelievers! They aren't even human." ~ someguy somewhere

[@marekwygnany924]

SIIIIMPS

[@Electric0eye]

I'll let it slide..

[@Maks_M1679]

Hexagons: exist Grey: You could make a religion out of this!

[@elliotzhang2358]

“Try it” “No” “Tryyy it” “Noo” (a bit softer) And so the religion was put into place

[@dionyzus2909]

Well, they already did, a hexagram are the diagonals inside a hexagon, and is used a lot by religions

[@missourian7451]

@@elliotzhang2358 r/billwurtz

[@georgiangelov13]

“No don’t.”

[@junjunagbayani4792]

Is loving hexagons legal yet?

[@Netsuki]

I was hexafan before it was cool. I love hexagons since always. And they were even more exciting when I learned how awesome in nature/physics they are.

[@IssekOfTheJug]

1:57 The way Grey says "deltoid... tri... hexanoggles" gets stuck in my head like a catchy song

[@kmart1396]

CGP Grey: square boards for games suck, hexagon boards for games better Me: this is just secretly about Settlers of Catan isn't it

[@BrianOrEric]

And then he makes a hexagonal chess game. I was waiting for Catan to get a shout out lol

[@vasarat1]

Tigris and Eufrates is a great game and it's in squares.

[@dabambino1861]

@@BrianOrEric and colonist!

[@garthor]

Enter the bad opinion zone: Catan is boring, overrated, and absolute garbage, and the endless expansions for it are completely meaningless... Hexagons are superior its true, but they can't save Catan... >_>

[@vasarat1]

@@garthor You got Twilight imperium, that's in hexagons and really good :D

[@anokiyoussou]

"We can make a religion out of this" -Bill Wurtz

[@ironsheep9867]

“No don’t.” Also Bill Wurtz

[@raymints9583]

I just realized that I would give anything I have in my life to get a Bill Wurtz - CGP Grey crossover episode.

[@yndndbehdhdhbs4161]

@@ironsheep9867 probably his mind

[@sirlambchops.]

Hexism? Hexagism? Hexagonism? Hexabestashapagonaligionism?

[@NugrohoAlif]

@@ironsheep9867 how 'bout I do, anyway?

[@thundercookie1741]

The funny (and very interesting for me) is if you play a game called "West of loathing" there's a quest and alot of the structure/items in the game where it's theme is either mystical or futuristic, you can often find.. Hexagons Specially in Dr, Morton's quests and some El vibrator stuff

[@IUCOD_10th_batch]

4:40.... G ... what can cause that to P .... Lets zoom in and C ( CGP ) nice one

[@nandiewolmarans3919]

I now go through life quietly whispering "Hexagons are the bestagons" whenever I see one.

[@corvid_commerce]

It was snowing and I looked out the window with such amazement (I live where it doesn't usually snow), and my friend was like "I know its cool but jesus" and I just whisper "hexagons are the bestagons..." they were very confused

[@AntoineHorns]

I just call them bestagons. Nobody gets it but hey it's their loss.

[@tristanbrewer4523]

@@AntoineHorns I call them bestagons as well. No one seems to care . . . or notice.

[@AmandaPlaysMinecraft]

Omg me too

[@EranBZD]

I just say that randomly. So catchy...

[@silentwolfarena9935]

I am genuinely surprised he didn’t mention that the pencil itself is a hexagonal prism

[@yungyosef]

Probably because a lot of them aren’t.

[@andrewgreenberg1862]

I thought it was a missed opportunity too.

[@Fummy007]

It's a bait and switch

[@gnorung7769]

Yeah that's... kind of the humour in that scene.

[@yousorooo]

That’s the joke

[@bencor4193]

Hexagons are the bestagon, and this video is your best video! It's the only video I rewatch regularly :)

[@hannahlowry503]

You just put into words what I was trying to say to my friends this whole time! Hexagons are the Bestagons!!!

[@cwinship2]

As a hexagon myself, I approve of this message.

[@cwinship2]

@Hexelectron ay a fellow hexagon, nice!

[@thatoctahedronfan8]

As a person who’s Sona is basically a bunch of hexagons, I also approve of this message

[@moonchild8477]

Hexagons are the bestagon

[@ommsterlitz1805]

That's why France is called the most beautiful country on earth, damn smart hexagoners.

[@maxgaming5209]

As a circle i need to destroy you

[@nikodenwietrzykowski2736]

Hexagon: exists Grey: we can make a religion out of this.

[@theeclipsemaster]

Welcome to the hexagonal order!

[@mastersonogashira1796]

That would be a great crossover

[@gajendrayadav8791]

Starting of a hexagon world order. Oh it's already everywhere 😂. Let us all unite & become a part of this cult

[@melancholyflow2956]

no, don't

[@ayoutubechannelname]

Hexagrams are the Bestagrams.

[@SomeCatFromFrance]

Edit: I wanted to put date and time. 12 of december, 2022. original time: about 15:03-ish, edit time: 15:14, Brazillian Brasilia time zone. This is like my 'comfort' video, my internet little sanctuary, every once in a while i watch this video again, just because i like it so much. It's very detailed, but still simple. Very creative, but not out of world. So interesting, so fun, so extraordinary, i love it. I'll update every time i watch this video again. See you later, maybe.

[@Polai010]

5:39 The background is made of trapeziums which are half of hexagons.

[@NilsMoller]

I feel like i've been recruited to a cult of hexagons and i do not resist

[@elled10024]

Welcome to the hive

[@BattlestarMan13]

All Hail Hexagon!

[@dm121984]

Buuuuzzzzzzzzzz

[@VincentMothling]

Along with at this current time 168k others behold the hive to grows in strength

[@dozydude1159]

@Christopher Bell Blasphemy!Hexagons are the bestagons!All hail Hexagons!

[@maxtonlevine7111]

This is the most passionate I have ever seen someone about shapes since my kindergarten's squares-versus-triangles debate

[@gustavokaski]

Where triangles obviously won becuase they're closer to the hexagon of course

[@TheArmyKnifeNut]

I hope you see now why both sides were wrong.

[@moothecow8029]

did squares lose?

[@FeatherWait]

@@TheArmyKnifeNut Heh, sides.

[@TheFifthJack9709]

@@moothecow8029 yes, by a lot

[@JNouveau]

Ladies, find yourself a man who loves you as much as this man loves hexagons

[@Guidus125]

This video is where science and art collide perfectly. Absolutely amazing

[@pioneer_ten]

hexagon spotted

[@andrewsantos4801]

Grey is one tragic event away from becoming a super villain that claims that humans must go extinct because of their imperfections.

[@akivabarrett8428]

I only have one like to give but it is yours use it well

[@andrewsantos4801]

@@akivabarrett8428 Thank you I won't spend it all at one place

[@gyro2846]

Sounds like a Pokemon game villain.

[@intelhell1712]

@@gyro2846 I mean, that’s literally Lysandre

[@demosth3nes870]

Less than even that

[@yert16571]

People on election day: Anyone: *politics* CGP Grey: HEXAGONS!

[@aarya1467]

Vote for Hexagons!! Because Hexagons are the bestagons

[@JontyLevine]

In the UK (where Grey lives) it is quite common to see electoral maps made out of hexagons where regions are scaled by their voting power, not by land area.

[@tnk4me4]

I squares vs hexagons is extremely political. Right up there with Goku vs Superman.

[@Rabbit-the-One]

So original.

[@rambo64bit82]

but what if politics is based on hexagons

[@HioshimaFried]

The flow of this video and the whole monologue, jokes, and rhymens .. idk why but i can see this entire vid done as a number in a musical or sumthing 6 outta 6 Grey.. 6 outta 6

[@axoodle]

not only are they the bestagons, they look substantially cooler than any other shape

[@CubicDoggo]

"If your a game based on squares, I'm sorry" Minecraft will remember this

[@soapyeggonade5865]

minecraft is made of cubic blocks. when you rotate a cube such that a vertex is at the centre, the resulting shape is a hexagon - HEXAGONS ARE THE BESTAGONS

[@depufull]

Minecraft have bees, bees makes beewax, beewax have hexagon. HEXAGON IS TEH BESTAGON

[@Morningstar_37]

Sadly you can't make a euclidean 3d regular polyhedra with hexagons

[@Jetboi958]

mc got dissed

[@mushroomwizard1175]

@@depufull actually the sprite doesn’t use any actual hexagons meaning you’re at a loss there.

[@joshmiddlebrook239]

Definitely one of the best cults I've been in, 10/10 would worship again.

[@reginaanderson6733]

and how many cults have you been in? this is my third.

[@joshmiddlebrook239]

@@reginaanderson6733 Pretty sure it's my fourth.

[@GaneshKumar-bv2td]

@@joshmiddlebrook239 now we need to know the other cults

[@barryscott627]

@@joshmiddlebrook239 Ametures, this is my eight

[@joeyebert5300]

Have you guys checked out The Human Movie Cult it literally about the bee blockbuster The Human Movie

[@rubixman7x7]

Most honeycombs have circular gaps and are not fully hexagons. But they are packed like hexagons.

[@Er_Guille]

I never tire of watching this video.

[@veritasium]

I mean hexagons are pretty good... but have you seen Penrose tilings?

[@ShirinRose]

I thought of your video while watching this

[@Fightre_Flighte]

Not this again....

[@CheesyMac]

That video was hella confusing don’t remind me...

[@jaicii]

Aperiodic tiling is the best tiling

[@powandwow750]

hey it's the physics man, what's up

[@azealot7112]

1 month ago: politics 3 weeks ago: politics Election Day: HEXAGONS

[@massimookissed1023]

Elexagons.

[@variedreasoning6416]

Your gaining a new like just about every second.

[@jaimeluisi1807]

For they, are the BESTAGONS

[@jlew92xx]

Hexagon 2020

[@jonathanplatt5027]

@@jlew92xx Better than either of the squares running!

[@crystaleidson6042]

I had to pause at 4:15 to read the monolith. it says "all these worlds are yours. except Europa. attempt no landings there" and now I'm heckin curious

[@j.l.hughes-bailey2401]

Absolutely amazing to see, from both ways.

[@markusoliverasagtg9704]

"Hexagons are the Bestagons" Organic chemistry: You just found out?

[@mirkohille8188]

Supported by your local Meth producers

[@mattemactics1280]

"Oh cool a new CGP Grey Video" "Wait, why am I in a cult?"

[@carolinejohnston5545]

Cultagon

[@FluffyOrionlol]

Ikr

[@foxelfire]

_Hexagons are the bestagons..._ Wait, what was I saying? Guess I'm still partially in the grasp of the hexagons... But anyways, if you'd be brave enough to plan on getting out, you should consider that squares are easier to mathematically organize and calculate overall, not to mention that hexagons are the definition of inefficient when attempting to convert into and using as a 3d polygon, as opposed to cubes. But the members of the hexagon order are probably going to see this and do unthinkable things to me for telling you this. I've already said too much...

[@bramvanduijn8086]

@@foxelfire Pfah squares are infinitely divisible and the repitition of the pattern is exactly it's weakness. The lines are the source of strength but the square pattern aligns the weakest lines alternating with the strongest lines. The square pattern also propagate forces along the lines, never dampening the forces until the squares bend enough to cease to be squares, unlike the hexagon that divides the forces in two again and again.

[@stevena105]

@@bramvanduijn8086 Somehow your answer sounds just like Grey. Like, seriously, I read it in his voice and cadence.

[@user-bc7lk7rt9b]

5:17 I can’t even describe how much joy this Vonnegut reference brings to me

[@angelborbilas2945]

The only thing I can say after watching this video is : Hexagons are truly the Bestagons! Great video!

[@varvaramir]

we all have that one nerdy friend that starts randomly ranting about how perfect a geometric shape is when all you wanted to do was play chess...

[@turtle4415]

Oh don’t worry, it’s just a hologram.

[@thegamingmachine4963]

yh i have one too

[@ancientbaltoy8769]

That's me

[@gigachad36490]

HEXAGIN IS THE BESTAGON

[@FrozenBusChannel]

I wanna play that hexagonal chess.

[@Arlequin___]

"hexagons however have 6, which is more than four, which is better" - I died

[@flowerboogerface]

same!

[@imperatacylindrica8993]

Truer words have never been spoken-about the 6 is more than 4 and therefore better I mean, not your comment

[@Gregory_12]

ðɪs ˈvɪdioʊ ɪz ˈnʌmbər 42 ɑn ˈtrɛndɪŋ

[@NameNotFound-hb5ef]

get alive soon!

[@DarkRedman31]

You died because you made 1 on a hexagon dice, which is called a hexagonal death (or fail) !

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

I was linked this video by a friend after going on a small rant about Hexagonal skill tress are superior to any other shape. I strongly approve this message.

[@JakHart]

So hexagons are the bestagons, and everything evolves into a crab eventually. Crabs are hexagon.

[@thomasking49]

Grey 2019: Yup- stay tuned for a **huge** video on Indian reservations Grey 2020: *TUMBLEWEED = WORSTWEED, HEXAGONS = BESTAGONS*

[@jaysonburke799]

“Hexagons are the bestagons” The rectangular screen that let me see this:

[@spamlucal]

This never gets old

[@johmarie7]

Thank you, I always wondered why round pencils dont hold the led as sturdy as hexagonic do.

[@GeldarionTFS]

Years of organic chemistry has prepared me to learn this.

[@Gluteus.Maximus]

All that benzene ring junk makes total sense now

[@Xerathiel]

Laughs in crystallography and solid state physics.

[@bimyouna]

AKA the Six Billion Secret Names of Carbon

[@Neojhun]

Years of organic chemistry also made me fear Hexagons. Benzenoid s are the sledge hammer of the organic chem.

[@anthi-markellatsiadi2281]

I can’t believe that cyclohexane wasn’t mentioned.

[@JonatasMonte]

Civilization V: "I'm finally being vindicated"

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

Civilization VI will take a while, though.

[@kyled2153]

Catan?

[@anincompetentmoron8497]

weed

[@kerdnerl8588]

Hexer, the xbox 360 game made by the guy behind tetris

[@SphincterOfDoom]

Settlers of Cataan too.

[@surfmb70]

This is the best CGP Grey video. +1 for the Vonnegut reference

[@Utonian21]

Because of this video, hexagons are now my new favorite shape!

[@RandomDucc-sj8pd]

2:43 Fun fact: Bees actually use circles, however when the wax is still soft, nature forms them into hexagons.

[@abigailw7146]

so nature literally forces circles out of the way in order to make room for the bestagons

[@rosibalisong4403]

yeah, and if you take a circles diameter, you can mark 6 marks around that circle, then connect those points, and you get a hexagon. Im not sure, but im pretty sure its also the same length as a circle, just more compact, that could be wrong though.

[@DannleChannel]

@@rosibalisong4403 Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you mean, but you can do that with any polygonal shape… if you evenly space four marks around the outside of a circle and connect them, for example, you have a square, and the diagonal length of that square is the diameter of the circle. You can make three marks anywhere on the perimeter of the circle and draw a triangle, and you can use that triangle to recreate the circle. Etc.

[@Bob12v]

Even is that true how the hell is been hexa why hexa?

[@smoothbraindetainer]

Came here to say this. Biology doesn't prefer hexagons, energy optimization does. It's all physics. (If you look at a picture of a bee hive cut open you'll see there's an occasional 5 or 7+ sided polygon)