Illusions of Time

[@SolarSands]

The return of the king.

[@kimsama5274]

hi

[@kimsama5274]

bye

[@kimsama5274]

or is it? que music

[@andyc9902]

Back

[@princetamrac1180]

Of course you also like Vsauce. You are one of my favourite channels :)

[@SoCloseToToast]

Don't even need to hit the bell, KZbin just knows everyone needs to see this video by default

[@JamesSheldonUnofficial]

Vsause moment

[@iamverybigsad]

it's how vsauce videos are

[@jacrispy9703]

Yep

[@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper]

@@JamesSheldonUnofficial V sauCe

[@JamesSheldonUnofficial]

@@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper ahh yes

[@shawnwasabi]

VSAUCE IS BACK IM SO HAPPY

[@royaldoggo497]

I'm a baguette

[@theguywhoasked6104]

I am too

[@nibsin]

Ikr

[@miguelobando451]

bless you and your midi fighter

[@honesimodioneda3451]

Bruh. 32 minutes ago

[@AleksanderKazecki]

I remember seeing a quote that went something like this: "Everything that was invented before you were born is a perfectly normal stuff, everything that was invented when you were a teenager is a fun, new thing and everything that was invented after you're 30 is a madness that disturbs the natural order of the world."

[@ShsvCchdi]

now the 2020 effect exist huh

[@vitoc8454]

It's probably Douglas Adams “I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.” -Douglas Adams, "The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time"

[@kristoffersonsilverfox3923]

​@vitoc8454 Now it seems like the world is being taken over by the later world view...

[@lyricusthelame9395]

For the life of me I can't tell if technology is advancing faster, slower, or the same as a decade ago and it sucks.

[@PomsonGamingII]

​@kristoffersonsilverfox3923 Yeah people just don't understand what they're asking for

[@thesourcefinder]

Other KZbinrs: "Hey guys, sorry for the long break" Michael: “Time is an Illusion”

[@jhoja628]

Underrated

[@tour1st736]

that made me laugh lol

[@TrainedByHarper]

soooooo acccurate

[@otakujb1111]

lol

[@janaahmed3415]

HHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH PLSSSSSSSSSSSSS I CANT THIS MADE ME WHEEZE-

[@markstevenmorton]

Michael is ridiculously gifted at presenting and explaining. He's an educational treasure.

[@barrylongden7]

I find it hard going myself despite his knack of communicating ideas simply but I'd like to try and come to grips with this kind of thinking. It takes time for the new concepts to sink in and become familiar

[@Alkis05]

Not to mention his showmanship and artistic creativity.

[@cirea3932]

And how can he learn so much in so little time

[@2004helloWorld]

I like to think of michael as a modern day carl sagan, alan watts, bob ross.

[@DeanRiches]

no he is not

[@KyleAllenMusic]

Hey my comment is on here! THAT WAS 4 MONTHS AGO?!?

[@DanteAlighieri585]

@Luke Steiner loooool

[@JackTheChappers]

Who else thought this was real as a kid

[@ivang3021]

4 months ago? No way!!

[@kennarajora6532]

nice man.

[@hts9060]

*Ladies and gents, Kyle has hit the big time.*

[@landronsc]

That picture of the man smiling with the bowl of rice is now one of my favorite pictures ever. Idk why it brings me so much joy

[@regpett3730]

Same, I discovered that picture on Reddit years ago and whenever I stumble upon it during my surfing of the web; I'm reminded that no matter the period of human history, humans would inevitably find some sort of joy in their lives where they can't help but smile and laugh. Joy and laughter are some of the most human emotions as it separates our lives from being bleak, meaningless and overall apathetic to instead hopeful and longing for the next smile/laugh.

[@DolanDarker]

Your beard growing skills are unmatched

[@fahmiakbar1454]

Ah good ol' Dolan Dark :)

[@piyushudhao8683]

how do you feel about the fact that the memes you make now, will someday be an "old people" thing, a day and age where "memes" will be associated to the people of the past, and your content will be used to study these "memes" in "schools"? Imagine some future kid saying, "Jeez i hate dolan dark's memes, they ask so hard questions on it and i can't relate to any of them". Chilling.

[@astrending]

Pog

[@harrybadass8228]

Beardie

[@ductranviet893]

Lmao bruh:)

[@TheMilitantHorse]

"It's okay, shaved Michael doesn't exist, he can't hurt you." Shaved Michael: "Or can I?"

[@AM23.]

Lol

[@BeyondThePines0]

‘Music starts playing in background’ 😂😂

[@JNSC_18]

here before this gets 1000likes

[@ruffles886]

@@JNSC_18 here before your reply gets a sexual amount of likes.

[@giannawild9904]

@@ruffles886 ...... pardon...?

[@LegoAnimations6370]

Ironically, this video itself is a great example of illusion of time. For an example, 30 minutes of studying boring subject feels like an eternity. 30 minutes of Michael explaining feels like a brief moment.

[@JDthegamer209]

That is very true.

[@couchpotato4082]

@@JDthegamer209 i disagree

[@PulseAlwaysEdits]

@@couchpotato4082 then it didnt catch your interest things that you are interested in usually feels quite brief like Michael said

[@iamsheel]

@@PulseAlwaysEdits its interesting. But it felt like 50 minutes to me

[@PulseAlwaysEdits]

@@iamsheel yeah time is relative, but same thing applies

[@Wolfiyeethegranddukecerberus17]

One of many illusions of time is that I could've sworn this video came out only 2 years ago

[@tristantheoofer2]

dude i think it came out like a year ago. its 3. i also keep thinkin 2016 was 5 or 6 years ago, it was 8.

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

@@tristantheoofer2 Its about to be 9 now, and I still feel like its more of a 5 year old year.

[@chmtech]

Ludopsychohyperchronoentropia - the distance in time between two consecutive Vsauce videos

[@rr18630]

@ you have a permit for that license? 🤔

[@mycraft4370]

@ You will never catch me alive!!!!

[@lazer1036]

Epic

[@HeRoisDreamin]

E

[@Doctor_Straing_Strange]

oh god

[@Taifun_TV]

This video took so long to make because he needed his beard to grow

[@dillontan5644]

intelligence 100

[@SteveInLava]

I know it only took a short while because of the time illusion

[@SharkyQt]

Beardless Michael looks weird now...

[@FireyDeath4]

Usually people doing this kind of thing multitask and don't spend all their time waiting for one project... oh r/woooosh

[@streetfood7568]

@@envalence450 how much sleep did you get last night

[@soundslikepizza]

I missed you Michael

[@TrustyJameo]

Hmm..sounds like pizza to me.

[@enjoji]

I love you Michael

[@BAZZAROU812]

Mike Obama...?

[@theatticaddict]

SMELLS LIKE POWER

[@zylnexxd842]

Same

[@estieFa]

Speaking of time, I'm new to this channel, and I'm disturbed by how much time has passed without my knowing such a brilliant youtuber exists.

[@rioman6006]

You‘re in for a treat friend

[@jumentoqueanima]

Better late than never! :D Enjoy dude! :D

[@khiyabarrett1459]

It’s okay you will watch all of his videos in a week and then wait what feels like a lifetime for the next one and you’ll be on the same page as the rest of us

[@ShsvCchdi]

I literally used to watch mindfield with my family as like a 10 year old

[@jumentoqueanima]

@@ShsvCchdi That's Awesome! :D

[@meows_and_woof]

Michael shaving his beard for the sake of making a 2 seconds point in the video- definition of determination

[@THE-NC2]

Ohh that’s why he takes his time making the videos lol

[@replynotificationsdisabled]

I wish I had a woman that didn't want me to shave mine, so I could shave it and see what happens.

[@mynamesjudge]

Maybe he just wanted to shave his beard.

[@electron3114]

Yh

[@socorpios99]

he shaved it as a goal if a certain number of people registered to vote for the elections back in nov

[@chubbyemu]

baby michael: he... h parents: aww he's about to say his first word 🥺 baby michael: HEY vsauce, michael here

[@theredbastard]

Lol I used to watch your nuclear throne vids

[@minky2396]

It’s chubbyemu

[@burgerwarts]

Lol

[@happychair4880]

Hmmm medicine

[@samtheman9000]

Vsauce4

[@hankjwimbleton6204]

Bro imagine if Micheal died and at the funeral he jumps ups at says "or am I" and goes to explain why circle aren't round

[@MuddafukhingdisKUST]

this is so fucking funny

[@danielsayre3385]

On point

[@graham4520]

lmfaoooo

[@Smokeydrag669]

I can see this 100% omg

[@thesunskimmer5348]

I love this

[@oldopexpert6869]

This video genuinely changed my perspective on life lmao I first watched it about a year ago, and I became determined to stop doom scrolling and instead spend my time online doing things I have a "connection" with. I've felt so much more fulfilled and happy since I made that change and I am forever grateful to Michael for that

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

I'm lucky I'm so easy to entertain and so grow a fond obsession for the littlest of things. Maybe that's why my memory is constantly noted to be great by my classmates and friends, Michael says stanning can give you your life back, but when you stan as much of everything as possible the short short just doesn't happen, or at least doesn't end up being that short retrospectively as you still hold it dearly in your memories.

[@sUmEgIaMbRuS]

Holy hell, this _short short_ thing being described so accurately is *scary*

[@someonehere4380]

the short short is watching youtube with entertainment purposes and scrolling through Instagram.... man it makes time fly by but still we dont remember much

[@tonysoprano4883]

We can't seem to avoid the x short thing. Either it's long short or short short. We've just made it more comfortable to be bored.

[@davidzwitser]

@@tonysoprano4883 You can avoid long short or short short by learning to be stimulated more easily. Lower the amount of dopamine inducing stuff you do and try to extract interesting observations out of normally uninteresting seeming situations. That way you will not only be more observant and overal more excited, but you will also feel like you are doing something with your time.

[@jilliantroumouhis773]

I agree

[@jilliantroumouhis773]

this is kinda scary

[@ryanmatson8078]

Michael is a master of bringing you to the brink of existential crisis, and then pulling you back just far enough so that you've gained wisdom

[@henrycavalierkingcharlessp6064]

Your name is wisdom, mr “son”

[@theredbird5407]

This is why I watch the entire video.

[@nitromiyazaki]

I appreciate the fact that this man spent literally 130 days to make a joke that lasted 10 seconds.

[@greatsupper]

I mean he and his goons had a lot of research to do for the vid

[@Hoghiderrr]

@@greatsupper “ *his* *goons* “

[@xoTaken]

@@Hoghiderrr" his henchmen "

[@nothomebutnotreally3782]

@@xoTaken his subordinates

[@yernan4067]

@@nothomebutnotreally3782 “his minions”

[@paladin_bloodmoon1948]

I just realized, in the time travel segment of the video, if people in the past viewed their present as a continuation of their past, then that explains why they had a tendency to scrap things that we today would've tried to desperately preserve in a museum, so many old locomotives, tanks, and cars were never preserved other than by photograph, and I always wondered why that was, but now that I understand their worldview on the present, it makes sense now that actively preserving the past is as recent of a trend as it. thank you Michael, you open my eyes to so many things I had only wondered about in passing

[@sego4125]

The thing is, we still do the same. We want to preserve something because it is old and acts as a window to the past, but most people don't care at all about things of the present. How many people keep their phones, cars... to be preserved for the future ? We look at the past and wonder how we would like to see things that have disappeared but are still remembered in texts, like Alexandria's lighthouse or castles or anything else, but barely think of how people in the future would wish the same with us. But as time goes by, we tend to preserve things from less and less old times so maybe one day we'll preserve the things of the present.

[@TheRogueAdventurers]

This thing is 10 years old. It's trash

[@vitoc8454]

I remember reading something about collectibles like toys and comics being rare and valuable because people played with/read them so much that they eventually got lost/destroyed. Plus, the *experience* of enjoying those things eventually gave them their sentimental (and thus monetary) value as collectibles. However, trying to preserve *new* things as "future" collectibles doesn't work as well because people don't interact with them as much. (e.g. those comics with "Collector's Edition" on the cover; new toys that go straight to storage in original packaging)

[@TheCarPassionChannel]

My mind is actually blown, I don't know how you keep making better videos year after year. And yeah the first time I saw videos of my parents, while being older than them, was weeeird

[@o1syt]

Congratulations on 113k subscribers I have now 1.31k subscribers (:^( 😅

[@decla00]

Hey ya

[@cedricrust9953]

tbh, this knowledge can be found in popular books. I have actually read aout the same examples he gives, too. So it really isn't all that amazing. Not to say it isn't good content

[@robertomarin]

Yeah. It happened to me when I made 32 years and 3 months then I was older than my father never was. It was a really strange feeling. (He died when I was a baby with only 3 months). Ir is really strange, I’m 39 and still think my father is older on every picture I see from him 😢

[@robertomarin]

Hahah great illusion of time!

[@NecrosVideos]

I missed you Michael!

[@bobbobson7882]

It hasn't been that long... Has it?

[@sinistralhydra]

@@bobbobson7882 He hasn't posted since last year

[@SquadTwelve12]

Christmas has come early this year

[@freethemuslimworldfreepale3112]

ALLAAAAH

[@-muthana-]

@@freethemuslimworldfreepale3112 bruh

[@jeppess1423]

This type of "good old days" Vsauce is exactly what I needed right now.

[@pmcomte]

I feel that

[@rose_d_mary]

i got insanely high one night and watched this and from 11:00 onward i didn’t listen to what he was saying i was just thinking about how it sounded like spoken word over the smooth jazz beat

[@rose_d_mary]

that being said michael is the goat of youtube teaching

[@ilakyamathialagan6230]

This gives a whole new perspective to “living in the moment”

[@iforgorowl7590]

-

[@emmyhicks]

Yo Same

[@MrBern91]

Meh... Not really... I have always thought of time as the clock only to see which hour and minute I am on the day. After that, just let things happen and see where you end up. It is the most basic meaning to "live in the moment" and doesn't need to be more complicated than that. :) We all know that the "concept of time" is merely an illusion, it is a man-made thing. But do you think that wild animals, and the people who lived before this concept was concieved thought about it? No - they trusted their instincts and adapted, there's really no need to lose your brains over it.

[@raphaidris5645]

IM SPEECHLESS

[@taicunmusic]

@@MrBern91 Go to a psychologist my friend. You really seem like a broken person.

[@brocknelson5521]

Imagine being his daughter and asking a question about life

[@ICM0n3y]

He better upload that response everytime so I can tune in and learn more information I didn't know I needed to know.

[@clovercarroll8285]

"Hey, daughter, Dad here. What is life..."

[@prttyodd]

I imagined it. Cool

[@Ashwagur]

She would never ask a question again

[@maryjoygelizon4268]

@@Ashwagur maybe but if she liked ut then shel start asking questions 3 times a day

[@kimberlykenyon9440]

Michael without a beard makes me think he will try to steal chipmunks and force them to sing

[@zylnexxd842]

Lol...

[@crusty_cookie3099]

He looks kinna jeff bezos

[@Pussmash]

He's a much much cooler David cross tho.

[@lilyjr.1384]

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness

[@Nugcon]

lmao

[@destrygriffith3972]

One of the most fascinating things for me in the last decade has been the discovery of memories of FEELING. Do you ever remember not what happened or what things looked like or who said what, but how things FELT? I mean, of course you do. I'm assuming that you do too. But it blows my mind to become conscious of it. Because one of the things I realize is that you really can never step in the same river twice. Each time in my life, each era from months to years, to even days or weeks, feels completely different. And so in terms of memory what rocks my world the most is when I suddenly get triggered back into the feeling-vibe of what it was like to exist as me long ago. Not what happened. Not how things looked. But how they FELT. The whole vibe of that time of my life. I believe it's a completely unique concoction for every period and every time. And most crazily, for every person.

[@TheGameChallenger]

Damn I get that, "People may forget what you do or say, but they won't forget how you made them feel."

[@sophicutler1492]

I especially can relate to that when it comes to meeting someone special and that connection made between myself and another person when I I initially knew there was no chance in hell that she would want to have anything to do with me, she was out of my league,whatever. It was almost, no wait, it was magic and every memory of those times brings that feeling back and I flyer to feel a bit of that magic again. For each of the major, most important relationships in my life this far, I get those same feelings and the almost synchronicity like vibes that the universe was giving me a gift of “it’s me, I’m on top and can’t be brought down” feeling. At least that is how it is for me and I think it’s along the lines of what you were describing.

[@Pleiades00]

Everybody gangsta ‘til Michael invents his own scientific terms

[@psyakaun377]

xD loved this one

[@i74r]

haha

[@sirBumpyCase]

At this point, I think he deserves it

[@Enes-zv7lt]

16:56

[@Yixins-Study-Corner]

yes.

[@AuthenTech]

Sooo trippy, the brain is amazing! "Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end the faster it goes."

[@wesleymercer4536]

Dang

[@maartenbondt9600]

The toilet paper illusion

[@Yasuovic]

@@maartenbondt9600 😂😂

[@alxjones]

This is actually a pretty oft-discussed thing in the weight loss community, not as a temporal effect but a physical one. Usually called the "paper towel effect" or something of the sort, the idea is that losing the same amount of weight/fat will look like a more drastic change when you're smaller, and less when you're larger. This leads to many feeling like they don't get any smaller for a few months, but then all of a sudden start dropping pant sizes every few weeks, despite their records showing a consistent and constant rate of weight/fat loss.

[@coreybrittliffe7362]

Plateaus at 50 mate

[@astraiosss7620]

The whole short long and long short goes along with how quarantine feels. every day of quarantine felt long because nothing was happening but all of 2020 seemed to be like a month

[@carlbea]

yeah

[@brapa1190]

Yea because Quarantine days is just so similar and repetitive

[@pietroalessandrini]

Weird for me it's the opposite, every day goes by very fast because I built a precise routine and yet to think that 12 months ago there was no covid, people could gather without masks and taking a fries from your friends didn't feel dangerous. It feels like ages ago

[@deluxx7]

S o true

[@bubblecheese3756]

I remember watching this right when it came out. It still feels new like it came out yesterday. So cool.

[@Volksgeist]

This was so good

[@ruubyss1]

Yeah it was

[@Xenomnipotent]

Or was it...?

[@tatojames6204]

it will be

[@kieran6201]

He's literally just going over stuff he's talked about in previous videos though

[@PlanetConner]

They always are

[@mohidtahir5340]

My worst nightmare would be me standing in a dark place when suddenly I hear "Hey Vsauce, Michael Here...How fast can you run?"

[@lonewolf711_]

Reminds me of a joke I made once where I ran at my friend and shouted “Hey, Vsauce, Michael here... how quick can I kill you?”

[@TempoChannel5]

I would listen to him explaining how fast i can run..

[@TempoChannel5]

Or can you

[@misfitcherries]

WWII is now older today than it was to the American Civil War back then.

[@l33g3ndar33]

@@misfitcherries 😱🤯

[@greatbluegamer2394]

Everyone: Where's Michael? Michael: Alright let's just shave my beard for a 30 second intro

[@merlyonwilcoe1006]

He looks so much different without it.

[@ahuman._.4991]

Actually if you don't know He shave because of Mrbeast 2020 KZbin rewind There was a clip of Michael where he loses his face hairs.

[@paul-ye3ut]

I will tell the future to anyone that likes my comment

[@duckietheduck]

Both this comment and the reply are wrong. He shaved his beard as part of a campaign to get people to register to vote. When 10,000 people registered to vote using his link, he shaved it.

[@aceman0000099]

@@ahuman._.4991 he actually shaved his hair months before that, they just added the clip to rewind. He put it on his channel D!NG in like August or something

[@PeteLehmann]

I've always been fascinated by the fact that my parents seemed so much older than I feel when my kid was at that age. The music they listened to was old and corny, "The Oldies", but my kid always loved my generations' music "Nirvana, Snoop, Dr. Dre) and I still listen to the music of his generation (Polo G, Lil' Wayne, Lady Gaga). I still feel that the Alternative music of the 90's is so timeless that if the Nirvana Nevermind album were only just now released, it would be just as massive a success as it was back then.

[@DarthLiam-gd1wc]

I feel as if most pop music dating back to early sixties probably would work similarly, anything before that sounds too foreign for modern ears

[@BronzeSpaceComet]

“You might not have the time of your life, but you’ll have more time... of your life.” I love this.

[@warspyking]

We can't earn back wasted time but we can prevent time wasted

[@Marnige]

I literally scroll down the comments right as this comment became the subtitle of what Michael said.

[@vuks-fj7fl]

@@warspyking yet we all continue to waste time consciously of this... ah, humans...

[@zain4019]

Eckhart Tolle’s ‘The Power of Now’ says exactly this. It’s as easy as listening to the silence. Life transforms this way.

[@paraworldblue]

It's like if Good Riddance by Green Day was a Ted Talk

[@jannis1627]

Could we please appreciate how this guy takes us on some kind of magical journey throughout his videos. He starts with one topic and then seems the end that video with this other, mildly unrelated topic but just as we thought the video is over he somehow closes the circle in the last 2 minutes and seamlessly connects them both. Again, well done Michael, well done!

[@INDIOcomvoce1]

I never know if I'm watching Vsauce or the Simpsons

[@JackTheChappers]

Theory: Michael shaves his beard right after he makes a video, and waits until it grows back to post another video.

[@othembelamndela843]

Makes sense!

[@willfelice702]

I buy it

[@Jakepf]

Believable

[@theblankettruth]

He may have saved, and grown it back for each clip of this video.

[@orgyduster266]

All he has to do is flex his brain and he grows a new beard.

[@Cody98555]

You know, I used to watch long form videos in 2012 because they were entertaining. Now I love watching them, because they are a good way to "slow down" time and appreciate something in this world... also i am still entertained. :D I love this vid.

[@RoofOmnis]

you heard him lads, stan michael to live longer

[@TrossardWasUnavailable]

Vsauce stan gang

[@ooooomygawd]

all my homies love vsauce

[@shinigummyl1586]

Daddy vsauce 😍🤤

[@tr0m]

ok

[@ooooomygawd]

@@shinigummyl1586 stan not simp

[@JohnMushitu]

And when the world needed him most, he came back....

[@jooahukkinen7253]

Copied comment. He was never gone.

[@aaronlittle5478]

Just in time

[@calvingrace2538]

FECAL

[@ShalaJC]

Thats exactly what was going through my mind also, god damn we need vsauce now more than ever.

[@Grotmonster92]

The Vsauce Paradox - No matter how long, a Vsauce video always feels too short.

[@georgf9279]

... and too long ago.

[@v3-schneider560]

This is so true

[@personpeoplepeoplepersons5722]

Yes

[@zakiacanada3468]

surprisingly this one feels long to me.

[@unktheunk1428]

It's not for lack of content, it's because of the fragmented nature of the concepts put forward. differing trains of thought menially subdividing our experience with the content, with the appearance of time passing being attached to other, more distant trains of thought.

[@robbaholic]

Absolute love these videos. Doing 30 days in jail felt like 3 months, while I was in there. Now it feels like a blip in my past, I can’t really remember more than maybe a couple of hours total.

[@SurfacedStudio]

Probably one of the best KZbin videos I've watched in a very *long* time! No wonder these 30 minutes went by in an instant ;)

[@SurfacedStudio]

@GuruTheCoder I live on the internet :D

[@SurfacedStudio]

@ANALFARMER3 Haha, seen that too and that was pretty adorable. This one felt like it had a little more substance to it though :D

[@narieee2543]

Nice Short long experience there

[@zurakun7731]

Only i touched the screen at 2:19

[@bradcarroll3719]

How about looking back at it retrospectively? lol

[@s_lausen3808]

When Michael says "Or will you" There's no turning back

[@DodInTheSky]

Or is there?

[@itsdalion6612]

@@DodInTheSky *Vsauce music plays*

[@clydearrownyvi]

@@itsdalion6612 Or does it?

[@Frantic_FPS]

So the things here that heres the thing

[@LDRAGO1705]

4Head

[@eelkezuidhoek3865]

At last, *He* has returned to enlighten humanity once again

[@papakilo-2750]

they/them people has entered the chat

[@catyasna12]

@@papakilo-2750 what does that have to do with anything

[@bushy2.018]

King

[@colbiebergeron3322]

@@catyasna12 it’s a joke. It’s meant to mock something

[@tsuhohuang2240]

He was waiting for his beard to grow back

[@christyweaver1837]

Very intriguing. Always thought how interesting it was seeing how my dad being born the year the Superbowl came out had pictures in black and white

[@sadbot6611]

I always remember something my dad said: “Electric windows used to be a luxury, but now my car talks to me.”

[@eduardopaderes2018]

Electric windows?

[@MrSir-wl9hh]

@@eduardopaderes2018 I think they’re referring to the car windows

[@janessamartinez5390]

@@eduardopaderes2018 I think they mean rolling the window up and down

[@Fighterofthenightman_]

Aye he ain’t wrong

[@kingofthebums]

Who's car is talking? I'm not doubting that some do. I just haven't seen that yet. Is it a tesla thing?

[@cheeseheadfiddle]

Chronostatic: my older sister died in 1975. I was 11, she was 17. I still think of her as being older than me. Like if she popped back into this reality, she’d be 17, and I’d be “younger than her” but I’d be 58 at the same time.

[@bigfloyd21]

if she did pop back into reality she would be older than you

[@sparkdaudios]

I think that it depends on context, so to say. Based on what they said, they likely mean if she popped back into reality as she was when she died, so she would be 17.

[@vipcreatives]

@@bigfloyd21 He thinks of it this way because in his mind, his last memory of her is 17. Any way of her popping into reality is hypothetical.

[@PolishCommunist750]

@@bigfloyd21 the last memories of her were of a older sibling, so he remembers her like that.

[@ImageRedacted]

Condolences...

[@Cuestar]

we needed this michael. thank you, my love

[@donkeyhobo34]

You should make 10 videos a day

[@bigbootybraxyn9801]

Hi

[@Ryan-et3sx]

my favorite rollerskater

[@cheeseburgermonkey7104]

who are you

[@4eight2]

Hey vsauce micheal here.

[@aspiwri664]

I stumbled upon this video during a time in my life in which I feel like my life is passing right before me. The past 10 years feel so long ago but the size of it feels so little, this feeling of impending doom keeps coming back every night, my life is passing.. Realizations that I will never be a child or a teenager again, hell I'll never be in my 20's and soon I'll never be young again. Its all so weird and scary. Thank you for this video, it didnt quite ease my time paranoia but at least I've found some comfort that what I'm experiencing is.. real. The very nature of life, things choices situations discussions experiences, everything.

[@HorukAI]

Exactly my thoughts and feelings. The only thing I surely know is that my life will pass in the blink of an eye, and in a moment I will open them as an old man. I’m looking my parents going through their old age, and I feel their dimmed despair. I know that perspective is the king, and I’m almost always fine, distracted with everyday life, still always comparing and measuring moments and time, and I believe that scream of ego will persist until I conceive something more important than my own life.

[@natesilvers2166]

One of the strangest feelings for me was the day I turned 28 and outlived my father, I always saw him in photos as a man but at 28 I still felt like a kid.

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

🖤

[@Jesdmalg]

A kid indeed, and a heavy burden to carry on beyond him. Stay strong, my friend.

[@justthatgirl-ct4jo]

Yep, I'm now older than my dad was when he adopted me. He was 35 and I'm now 37. It feels weird.

[@timfagan816]

I know the feeling. When I hit 29 and was older than my dad, I'm 6 years older than him now. It's a very weird. Feeling indeed. I feel like a kid still when I look back at photos of him, or talk to my my mum. But I'm almost old enough to have a midlife crisis. And be old as balls, when I was was the age I feel as a kid taking tk my mum. It's such a weird weird feeling. I can never put it into words. Sorry for your loss big man! Look after yourself mate.

[@Cjs3315]

Probably died of aids from getting butt fucked by too many black dudes lol

[@SoyanOsman]

HE'S BACK

[@senpai-nb6wf]

Lmao u thought you'll get 1mil likes didn't u lmfaooo

[@SoyanOsman]

@@senpai-nb6wf not really why would I?

[@electron3114]

@@SoyanOsman verified

[@harpot678]

He literally waited months to record this video to grow, cut, then regrow his beard.

[@panmanishere412]

or is he?

[@DwijeshDookraz]

Seeing Michael without a beard is like seeing that kid who always wore glasses without glasses

[@biboymasky2647]

I was that kid

[@KevVideos06]

@@biboymasky2647 Oof

[@gracepope4537]

@@biboymasky2647 same 😂

[@brapa1190]

My Classmate forgot his glasses at home I thought his nose got bigger and his eyes got smaller but it's just really his face without glasses

[@biboymasky2647]

@ my friend said I look like a serial killer without my glasses

[@habakaellis469]

The irony of this video is, at a random late night doom scrolling session, in the darkness of my room, i watched this whole video, only to head to the comments and have a bombastic yet profoud realization.... this video was published 3 years ago. What an even more cosmically hilarious moment in time. Unbeknowst to me, my body, and my brain, I legitimately thought this video was only a few months old.... Nope, try 3 WHOLE YEARS. Amazing video 🙏🏾.

[@Grassdia]

😢I can’t stopppppppp

[@97rob97]

I almost forgot about that strange existential feeling after watching Vsauce episode

[@Jowbreak]

It feels good doesn't it? I watched some older Vsauce video's last time. 10/10 would recommend.

[@97rob97]

@@Jowbreak Yeaaah, exactly the same. I watch almost all episodes once a year. It always feels great

[@AManOnline.]

The feeling of pure nostalgia

[@snakeish8667]

Education flavored post nut clarity

[@calholli]

Not this 'time but the other times, like last time we made time to take time to put time in and get more time to do your time timelessly in a timely manner.

[@spencerhart2480]

Doctor: "Your baby boy is beautiful." Michael, fresh out of the womb: "But first, what IS beautiful?"

[@awdamnherewegoagain]

nah, more like "Hey Doctor, Michael here"

[@Qaptyl]

**parents suffer stroke**

[@carlosandleon]

He was born with a full beard

[@joeg5414]

Baby and boy should never be used together. That baby hasn't had a chance to choose it's gender

[@altar8010]

No its has to be *Why things beautiful*

[@jeremybasset9041]

My brain automatically read "1 year ago" I had to do a double take to realise this came out yesterday

[@tx2811]

ME TOO :D

[@lernit9925]

dude same, have we been tricked by youtube? or have our brains fooled us to believing this way. anyways it's a sign that we miss michaels video.

[@stefanoukios]

oh my gosh me too!

[@yuuri_]

appropriate for the subject of this video

[@stefanoukios]

@@yuuri_ most certainly!

[@wesafy]

probably the best 3:00 a.m. watch i’ve had

[@ffflustered9qr]

Vsauce: [posts a 30-min video called "Illusions of Time"] Me, not ready for an existential crisis today: _don't_

[@void6254]

for every vsauce video i need atleast 20 minutes to prepare

[@ramanchalasani2378]

Why you gotta be a hater?

[@kadeaudain6991]

Facts! I feel the same way

[@TheTheorizer]

0:10 ..?! uuuuHHH... UUUU! AAA! AAUUUUUUUUGGGHHH!!!!

[@TheTheorizer]

EVERYTHING’S WRONG NOW.

[@TheTheorizer]

@@PhilipCho it blew me away and gave me ego dissolution

[@ericmcneil1364]

That really screwed me up if we're being totally honest!

[@mr.kitsune1531]

Theories about Michael when?

[@electron3114]

. What to say huh

[@changwanyu4231]

The image of Michael shaved is so unnerving.

[@pafnutiytheartist]

I am in a room. It is dark. I am tied to a chair and my hands are bound with rope. A small light flickers above me. I am hungry. When was the last time I ate? The small doorknob in the corner begins to twist. A door opens; my eyes flick up to meet him. It is none other than Michael Stevens, the host and owner Vsauce. I fill up with questions? Words clog my throat, thickening like honey, and as they smooth out and start to pour the words none can even come past my lips- Michael cuts me off. “I’ll be the one asking the questions.” He goes out of view, “where did he go?”, I wonder. There was a flash in front of me, revealing his face once more. He greeted me. “Hey Vsauce Michael here” my eyes wander and I become Starstruck, for right in front of me was Michael Stevens shirtless. He caressed my neckbeard slowly, he started rambling on. “Where are your fingers?” Sharpening his knife in a good ol’ pencil sharpener. He walks over to me, takes one look and says. “This is easier shirtless because dry cleaners ask questions about stains.” He starts tearing into my left thumb. Slowly chopping down, onto each finger. I was sweating so much that the aroma last nights Taco Bell was starting to fill the room. Unphased he says “Ya toes, hand ‘em over.” I stare into his eyes as he stares into mine. My eyes are filled with pleas for help, and his: lust. A lust which could not be satisfied by normal means. He demanded my toes again, but that were not satisfactory, for he wanted more. I had to get out, but I wanted to know more. My lust for knowledge grows ever greater with each passing second. Why was he doing this? Or rather why to me? I felt so helpless. I felt like I had been left alone in a sea or words, none of which I understand. Perhaps I had gotten lucky, being his choice, being chosen. I don’t know, maybe I’m just the crazy one. I stared where my toes once were. I guess he took them, my toes. I had handed them over, what else could he want? “I will now ask the question, What makes us ask questions?” He knew my question, for he had known it from the start.

[@ezequielcastellanos6919]

@@pafnutiytheartist wtf 😂

[@hairystyles180]

@@pafnutiytheartist i cant stop laughing at this. bravo 100/10

[@Yasi_nzi]

I had a panic attack

[@wewuzkangz93]

@@pafnutiytheartist that was fucking beautiful

[@GenghisClaus]

The way that you warp space around your head is really inspiring

[@softmocha2710]

Vsauce's videos that are 10 years old feel like they're just a month old. The same goes for the videos that just a couple of days old but feel that they're just a 6 years old video that you just didn't watch yet.

[@qvindicator]

I thought this video was 6 years old until I looked at the comments

[@windblazeanims6253]

Illusions of time.

[@AlanaBananaCanada]

Wait. Wut.

[@bluebush8244]

True

[@mr.phoenix8691]

Yup

[@Naxthural]

Beardless Michael doesn't exist. He can't hurt you. Beardless Michael:

[@borctree5481]

Bearded Michael WILL hurt you

[@Litepaw]

Scary

[@theprotato5628]

I had suddenly gotten scared as soon as he lost his beard

[@TrossardWasUnavailable]

Local beardless man educates 10,000,000 people with nostaliga

[@illestvillain1971]

I came to comment this... And one of the first I saw was this. I'm tripping rn ://

[@singularity3724]

Michael has gone from saying "this is what is referred to as..." to "this is what I call...". The student of life has become the master.

[@shantheman9922]

I think it's because he's making up words now, instead of using ones that other people already made.

[@Sunro7]

I noticed this and had to run it back. Vsauce is really giving us video essays to be referenced by people of the future. if this were the 1800s he would have submitted the transcript to some journal of science.

[@MasterJunus]

@@Sunro7 If he was considered an educated man by the intellectual elite, he might do so today. He instead chose instead to educate us simpletons, and for that I am grateful.

[@marcovandermerwe9875]

"You might not have the time of your life, but you will have more time of your life" I like that.

[@bhadreshsoni2160]

Someone: What time is it? Michael: It's now..or is it?

[@edenwirose]

Someone: How do clocks work? Michael: NOTIHNG IS TEMPORARY EVERYTHING IS ETERNAL YOU ARE AFRAID TO DIE AND ARE PAST DUE TO CALL YOUR MOTHER AND TELL HER YOU LOVE HER

[@AleK0451]

technically the time it takes for light to get to your eyes means everything you see is a few nanoseconds in the past, longer periods of time the further away it is, most noticeable when you look at things in space and you're basically seeing what stars were doing who knows how many years ago so no, the time is not now

[@AgingPurse]

dammit someone bet me to my joke seriously tho good joke man

[@mandud987]

"It is 7 o'clock... but what IS 7?" *music starts*

[@Wuselol]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5Xapmefi6Zkr9E

[@pranavpipariya8556]

The fact that this video is available for free on the internet is insane. It's a legit movie.

[@altnarrative]

How is it a movie?

[@Chipserz]

@@altnarrative probably means with how much work was put in to it and the level of intricacies it has

[@soupypoupy53]

@@Chipserz yeah can agree with that

[@ronwesilen4536]

The fact that you think this video is free is insane (unless you are blocking all the ads)

[@Chipserz]

@@ronwesilen4536 well technically we don’t pay actual currency, we just pay some of our time to maybe a 15 second ad at the beginning

[@borbez]

Vsauce formula: "Hey! Vsauce, Michael here." • Seemingly irrelevant fact/thing • Big question • Meat of the video • Depressing conclusion • Uplifting and optimistic take by Michael Stevens "And as always, thanks for watching."

[@Pascal_Robert--Rc_Creations]

You forgot the "or is it" part

[@willkatching9219]

Its done folks. You never need to watch another Vsauce video again

[@LunarLander31]

Cue creepy questioning music

[@Madmole20]

I read “And as always, thanks for watching.” at the exact moment he said it in the video O-O

[@dj.matexx]

Now make the same for Vsauce2 and 3

[@NDWarrior]

This is still my favorite video on this channel, years later.

[@vicente3j]

Me too

[@annimon2814]

“You watched a vsauce video?” “Yes” “What did it cost” “My existence”

[@nex8165]

Felt that

[@aidanabregov1412]

Cheers bro, I'll drink to that

[@Killuh87]

This is so true, you're basically watching a video that tells you watching a video makes you have less life

[@LeyvanA]

It costed to only remember this video for a week

[@christophernettles4420]

POV: Psychotic Timetraveler shows you his sweater collection

[@MsCtef]

first

[@Ithenna]

Lol - I know, I couldn't help but notice how many times his sweater changed either! 😆

[@deltajee7_org]

Is it a pattern?..

[@sambhav6385]

Beardless Michael is the most terrifying thing I have ever seen.

[@enjoystudying4106]

Hahahahahahah

[@mrbroke7986]

Damn i was gonna comment that xd

[@doctora.snakeman1427]

I agree

[@somanymike]

200th like

[@thegreath.sapiensapien6907]

i start to hate v sauce look like a jerk

[@jasonzervos]

The first 2 minutes are AMAZING! Writing, acting and editing are fantastic! I'm trying to figure out how to present a topic for my thesis and Michael and his channel is a perfect place to learn!

[@Ekvitarius]

In other words, the phrase “I was born in the wrong era” is exactly the kind of thing only a person from this era would say.

[@royisdabest]

its a great time to be alive

[@Fjado]

How typical of them!!!!!

[@EverythingisGoodieBud]

If you count this era starting in the 1880s then maybe but even before then monks were pining to have lived in the times of Jesus in the 1300s

[@amandinehasi-dim5531]

Me too. My mind still 40s until 90s

[@filmwright7188]

that's irony if I every heard it

[@aysdowne6358]

okay 2021 seems to start right. Michael remembered his KZbin password

[@lightsab4675]

Except the riots, things seem to be going okay

[@TheSpecificOcean.]

maybe not for carson, but other than that things are fine

[@Jack29151]

for the first time ever, a confederate flag flew inside the United States capitol, we started this year off right! :D

[@starry_lis]

@@lightsab4675 look on the bright side: those who don't like America rejoice.

[@dakotadad8835]

@@starry_lis if America collapses many other countries will too, then the CCP takes over the globe...that’s far worse for everyone, far worse, considering they currently operate concentration camps which house millions and are full on authoritarian

[@SpicyChickenSammichPodcast]

VSauce is actively pioneering the genre of educational horror

[@SyoDraws]

Lol

[@niduberi]

Don't forget about Kurzgesagt

[@yuanwang9324]

@@niduberi Kurzgesagt is more existential, which Vsauce has too. But Michael is deranged, he wasn't the same man after leaving the white room and doing hard drugs in a foreign country for mindfield

[@Hazztech]

(Lovecraft)

[@tulsanify]

Facts!

[@alazziz1277]

Came here again from your "latest" shorts as of "now" (Size of history). Apparently its feels more relevant now even though this video came out 3 years ago. As a guy living in his 22nd year, the past 3 years felt super fast, like short short. The things I did in the past 3 years affected my "life" more, but affects so little of my self compared to the decade before 3 years ago. I still remember taking my final exam for my previous semester, and yesterday I finished another final exam for my current semester. I know I'm still young but the amount of information being absorbed everyday made me feel I should know more (being wiser/older) than I need to be, to stay relevant to my "life". I'm scared of the things I wanted or needed to know, as I believe my lifespan would either be to insufficient to know all those knowledge or long enough to forget the things I learned or needed to learn. Again thanks for the video Michael. Hoping to see you next time whenever I forget this video existed in my life.

[@adebear7944]

Imagine if VSauce took a 7 month break just so Michael could shave his beard and grow it back again

[@relaxation_and_tax_evasion]

Haha it's unlikely

[@relaxation_and_tax_evasion]

....Or is it?

[@BaxterCash]

@@relaxation_and_tax_evasion you could’ve accomplished that in one comment...

[@francoroldan4932]

@@BaxterCash nah, its more original in two comments

[@binku09]

Yeah he did

[@YoursTrulyMrsMoores]

I remember sitting down to watch this video thinking "wow, a half hour?", and then, just like that Michael is saying "and as always. Thanks for watching". Yeah, time is strange.

[@datjap8883]

Samee

[@senmetwo42]

... Or is it? Lol jk it is.

[@GetFunnied]

when you are interested in a subject ur brain collects more information than normal when so time speeds up

[@dtraveler3080]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4XQgXeHi5t3kKM

[@alricktostig]

I see Michael and I click, I don't even see the time.

[@typhoon2840]

Therapist: Beardless Michael isn’t real, he dosent exist Beardless Michael:

[@TrossardWasUnavailable]

Default Micheal Skin

[@hoxton_hummingbird]

for me he is always beardless because it's been a while ago when i watched a alot more

[@charlievaughan7823]

Aaaahhhh

[@DaniellaRoselia]

2 minutes and 36 seconds into watching this video I could've sworn I had been watching for 10 minutes

[@PaperPatriot]

I wonder if this will still be a banger in 2030 like it is now in 2016

[@brucehall2877]

Stop confusing people.

[@Soulcubb]

Wha?????

[@Frankcarpg]

please, i beg you

[@miguelsk8119]

Go to sleep

[@Milan-db3uy]

:/

[@Jake-ot8lo]

Whenever I feel like time is moving too fast, I’m abruptly reminded how slow it really is when I’m trying to do a plank for exercise.

[@confuciuslola]

Just plank for life bro!

[@fahadtherandomguy4981]

He really shaved his entire beard and grew it back for a video. Sheer dedication

[@anonanon3066]

Shear lmao

[@fodle1876]

actually he filmed the parts with his beard first then shaved it and filmed the rest

[@cospokot5324]

@@anonanon3066 i was about to correct you and now i feel dumb lmao

[@tomascostaPT]

A

[@bndzmrno]

@@anonanon3066 beat me to it lol

[@shookone568]

This guy’s videos are just brilliant.

[@bennygoat]

my great grandmother was actually born in the 1920s and is still around today at 94!! it's so surreal hearing links to the past where she talks about WW2 in the moment but we know about it from books and history, and her great grandparents could've talked about the mid 1800s to her in the moment as well and what the late Industrial Era was like!! it's all surreal and in perspective of a greater chain stretching back and linking all of human history

[@kjlandon9140]

my great grandmother was born in 1918, and died at 97 She met her great grandmother who died when she was 3 1838-1921 that kinda freaks me out but is also cool to think about

[@BLIZETHLIZCEO]

Mine just passed away age 121

[@skullchimes]

Think my grandmother would be 98 this year, she passed at 95, when i was younger she would tell stories but I didn't care enough to remember anything

[@armstrong.r]

@@BLIZETHLIZCEO My condolences, but that is fucking wild. My great-grandmother is currently 98 and it's weird to think about "the 90s, the 80s, the 70s..." all the way to the 20s and realize she's experienced them all in their entirety. Another 2 decades on top of that is nearly unfathomable.

[@paisenpaisen]

imo living past 90 is torture

[@TheAllstarHunter04]

When vsauce doesn’t know that queen elizabeth lived with both the t-Rex and the stegosaurus

[@gearsofwar2497]

Fucking comedy gold haha

[@c.j.1089]

Wow, this was an emotion rollercoaster of a video. I felt old, I felt young, I felt like I was missing out, I felt like it was too late, I felt like I hadn't even started. I felt like I had been born, I felt like I had died. I felt like I possibly may never die. Good grief.

[@dariusdaguerre3535]

Wow! This is quite poetic!

[@Ty-vj4wg]

@@dariusdaguerre3535And yet it makes absolutely no sense

[@quinn7894]

I like the use of the words "Good grief". I feel like they perfectly literally describe these feelings that you had.

[@cerbcatalin4091]

Boo , scared you from the future♥️

[@piiinkDeluxe]

And that's why this is my favorite video!

[@lukas_mjs]

this has to be one of the best vsauce videos ever

[@oschong6928]

I firmly believe that if the universe is a simulation, Michael is a character specifically designed to help us complete the main quest.

[@ohyeahyeah4312]

Protagonist syndrome

[@Ashwagur]

I mean if the world is a simulation there was evidence to back it up. Like when you just walk through a door and you just blank could be an action being canceled. Or just going to the fridge for absolutely no reason could be a quick save. Vsauce being a guide makes some sense.

[@admiralanonymous9981]

@@Ashwagur now you got me thinking

[@AutPen38]

Unfortunately, there is no quest. You just get switched off when the random number generator picks your number. Your pixels will be recycled to make another simulated character.

[@caoimhinmccann4449]

Beardless Michael isn't real he can't hurt you. Beardless Michael:

[@Ashwagur]

You took my comment!

[@Mo_Real_Official]

Stfu

[@hanss7406]

@@Ashwagur bruh your comment is 19 hours ago while his comment is 1 day ago (1 day = 24 hours)

[@meat_doughnuts3457]

@@hanss7406 your*

[@Jack29165]

@@Ashwagur it’s not like it’s original anyway... or funny either tbh

[@Circlelineartschool]

Great to see a new post, I have been waiting a long time:)

[@nerdnasty6628]

It only seems like you've been waiting a long time. It's actually only been 25 minutes.

[@AfonsodelCB]

or have you

[@Incognito-rb4tz]

@@AfonsodelCB *vsauce music starts playing*

[@fredericchopin6445]

retrospectively you waited for a short time only

[@whitemid7838]

Ahhh I get itttttt

[@redyoshi777]

this video made me think about the fact that the videos of me in my living room as a 1-year old are blue-colored makes it so any time i imagine that year, its blue. for the first time, im now imagining it in a different color, like at nighttime with the lights off. or at sunset with orange coming through the window. its very interesting imagining the state of things back then. to also imagine that my parents were more in a routine than i was and were very used to life. they had already had so many experiences and traumas and best moments. as well as the fact that one of them was older than I am now, despite how far ive come, that long ago, they were still older than I am now, making me pretty young in perspective. i love the ideas this video makes me ponder 🩵

[@lozicrazy]

I love it as well