The Video That Failed: The Myth of the Uppsala Scream

[@stationshelter]

Just out of context that's hilarious as like a bad documentary "But at night, in some parts of the city, it can get loud" *Screams loudly* *video ends*

[@EdwardCree]

I thought "Planckstek" would be a steak so small it can disappear in a quantum fluctuation.

[@krashd]

Or something a whale makes after 6 months of saving up.

[@TheRenegade...]

No, it's a steak cooked at the highest temperature

[@FrontalBeep]

This is why I love this channel: we went there, nothing happened, here is 11 minutes of us talking about it :) I love you guys :D

[@ThePixel1983]

It's a thing that should be done more both in filming and in science.

[@bowtieproductions6708]

@@ThePixel1983 Failure is always an option

[@joelottar1103]

The one time I've experienced the Uppsala scream (while visiting a friend) it was a week or two before the exams, and it was fairly intense. So it may be a bit of an overstatement to call it a myth? If your visit was in february or january, there probably wasn't enough pent-up frustration yet. :)

[@OriginalPiMan]

Joel Larsson Better to call it a legend than a myth.

[@undergroundish3135]

Joel Larsson Besides which, in order to be called a myth, gods have to be somehow involved,so it would more properly be called a legend. I am rather surprised that Tom, in particular, doesn't seem to know this. Either that or he doesn't want care, which would at least make more sense. In and case, it doesn't stop me from watching or enjoying their vids. Fluffing my muff, indeed.

[@jakobholm6343]

myth: a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining a natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events. or a widely held but false belief or idea.

[@paulsengupta971]

I've experienced some spirits in Sweden, is that the same thing?

[@codekillerz5392]

@@undergroundish3135 Hello from five years in the future! You sound insufferable!

[@brewandthecrew]

I had a laughing fit watching Tom's post-scream smile fade ever so slowly from his face. This channel is gold.

[@ChaimS]

Am I the only one who wants Tom's scream to be dubbed over by the Wilhelm Scream?

[@acookie7548]

aaaOWh

[@pipsproductions15]

As someone who was there the night after Trumps election, that was the loudest scream I have ever heard. The time you were there was probably between semesters though so a lot of people were not yet moved into Flogsta.

[@wierdalien1]

pipsproductions15 just the post grads

[@Jenniferentrance]

how utterly pathetic

[@supercool1312]

Sneering Briton ?

[@AalbertTorsius]

Having had a five minute look into Matt's mind, I'm pretty sure he didn't _need_ to fluff his muff - he just liked how it would sound when he would say it.

[@ragnkja]

Paul's pronunciation of _Uppsala_ was spot on, right down to the tone, which non-Scandinavians hardly _ever_ get right.

[@RealCadde]

Not spot on but definitely very good.

[@felixjohnsson4566]

His vowels sound a bit weird but the intonation and emphasis is very close to spot on.

[@felixjohnsson4566]

More specifically his u was too long and a bit too closed and to the front, and his long a was also a bit too close

[@Robo0595]

British ASMR would be awesome. "biscuits... jaffa cakes.... sheep.... Shenley... Sheffield...." *softly hums God Save the Queen*

[@the5thaxiom807]

no, no, no, the English national anthem, "and was Jerusalem..."

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

Glaswegian ASMR is even better. Muttered, raspy swearing through the embers of a roll-up, before a really sensually muttered "fitba's oan; I'll be aff, sunshine" at the end.

[@microman502]

@@clockworkkirlia7475 I have no idea what any of that means but that is really funny, for some reason.

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

@@microman502 You should definitely check out Glaswegian twitter memes haha. I'm not quite sure why our local dialect has become automatic comedy, but it's often genuinely hilarious whether one understands the joke or not.

[@spacekii]

Don't know what Shenley is or why we would care about the queen but most of that stuff is pretty British (I'm a northerner)

[@briangarrow448]

And now you know how David Attenborough must have felt countless times when those damned animals he was filming would not cooperate!!

[@luciekulhankova7278]

Captain here: Sooo, this video is shot right infront of my building :D. The scream is very real but the intensity differs a lot depending on a day. Since mostly students live in these houses the scream is usually less intense around holidays or in summer. If you want to get some really nice screaming fridays or national holidays are a safe bet :D. (Or when Trump was elected, there is video of that one, that was intense) I am guessing you caught one of the days not that many people bothered to scream :).

[@theoskyllerstrom9882]

@Teamgeist Yes. Last summer the temperature went up to like 34 degrees (Celsius).

[@elizataylor1726]

@@theoskyllerstrom9882 34 celcius? Bloody hell.. i'd cook.

[@brianartillery]

"Hey, Bjorn, there's another tourist screaming into the dark, thinking that they'll get a reply!" "Tourists are so gullible, Thorvald, they will believe anything the internet tells them." "Shall I scream back, just for fun?" "No. Let them freeze. They'll get bored and go for a beer."

[@RealCadde]

As cool as that would be. This is actually a thing. And it's not just in Uppsala either. Nor is it at a set time of day.

[@Carewolf]

So it just the sounds Swedish people make when they die a little inside for being Swedish?

[@Handles-Suck-YouTube]

@@Carewolf Pretty much, yeah. I don't indulge in it personally, I just listen to heavy metal instead. And then I scream.

[@thecrazything95]

@@RealCadde In uppsala its a set time of day. Lived in one of the houses Tom was at literally when this was filmed. It's even mentioned in the "moving in" pamphlet you get.

[@neophoys]

"hupsala" actually means something along the lines of "whoops" in German! So every time you mispronounced it you actually perfectly relativated your mistake in German which is quite funny imo ^^

[@abcabc-oh9gc]

True!

[@dragonick2947]

What IS the correct pronunciation? I want to know so I can mispronounce it.

[@skerigyttorp]

Could it be hoppsansa? It’s like a old word for whoops in swedish too

[@Halozocker104]

@@skerigyttorp we also have hoppala here in germany

[@iseceepcool2]

@@Halozocker104 I've heard this used in Sweden as well

[@JasonWMorningwood]

Fluffing the muff you say? :D

[@skoobydoofus5997]

Please tell me you end all of your comments with that face. I hope you end them all with that face. :}

[@FunnyQuackers]

Well he begins them with that face :P

[@JoshIdstein]

Why does your profile pic add so much to that commend xD

[@revolver265]

It took me a moment to get it because I'm an America and "muff" reminded me of the Top Gear segment in India where they put up banners on the trains. Only then did I have the "oh-- oh wait oh noooo" moment because then I figured it out.

[@ncc74656m]

Matt should do an absurdist ASMR video with Tom just giggling and making goofy noises, with maybe an occasional witty remark in response. :D

[@MetaBloxer]

Matt Gray's folder of Scream ASMR

[@MetaBloxer]

It's 11:15, and I just liked my own comment...

[@fakjbf3129]

If Matt's house is ever raided and they find that hardrive, they might think he's a serial killer

[@Steaphany]

"Fluff my Muff" sounds a lot better than "Fluffing my Dead Cat"

[@sebbejohansson]

Paul was really good at saying Uppsala.

[@RacingStripeAV]

3:00 "Can't have a good uni without ducks" - Pfft, I went to Lincoln; we got swans. (Of course on the other hand, I went to Lincoln...) Also I like how "Shenley" has become somewhat of an injoke.

[@filblo503]

Racing Stripe A/V well the place that most ducks are in is called the swans pond. But since the swans are dead i guess they should rename it the duck pond or just rename ducks to swans

[@Coentjemons]

I went to university in Amsterdam. They had a lot of low ceilings and im 190 cm. There were a lot of ducks.

[@patrickvietor8988]

My university does a scream at midnight when Finals week official starts. It was rather terrifying when no one had informed me of it and I'm just sitting in my dorm room and screams just art echoing around campus

[@chibani-]

Holy hell, that must be feeling like eldritch abominations invaded this reality.

[@crazyt1483]

can't remember when it was but i heard the british equivalent of this. what happens is someone down the road from me broke their kettle. a few days later when he was returning home, across the road out of the living room window was someone shouting over to him "want a cuppa". he and 3 other people responded with something along the lines of yes

[@marinagalytskaya3478]

Flogsta scream is at its best during exam seasons. And yes, the ducks are adorable, much more friendly than the ducks in Moscow. My kids love feeding them.

[@MrAntieMatter]

Those ducks just sit there, even though the lake has frozen over?

[@matildas3177]

Yeah, that's what ducks do in the winter. They don't migrate so they continue on living life as normal. Only difference is that they are fluffier than in the summer and they walk on the ice instead of swiming in the water. Most of the acctually refuse to come up from the water until they are in imediate danger of being frozen stuck.

[@GlassCurtain]

Their feet are frozen into the ice. They literally can't go anywhere. :)

[@Epinardscaramel]

They wait.

[@Adumb_]

MrAntieMatter hey. You are the guy who comments on every yogscast video.

[@sirBrouwer]

xXMinniNinJaXx if that was the case they would say that they were waiting for fishboy to join them.

[@lennartquerelle243]

A few years ago we tried it at a student campus in Amsterdam. It was such a huge succes, that within a few minutes the police arrived with multiple cars and a helicopter, thinking there was a terrorist attack or something....

[@shantanusinha2828]

That totally happened

[@chelsey8737]

Tom's laugh is great because his whole body shakes and Matt's is great because it sounds so happy

[@abhiinair]

The Flogsta scream is something that DEFINITELY happens daily at 10 pm. You need to be around the buildings of Sernanders Väg and you'll hear it for sure 😄 The only time one might not hear it is during the summers when most students leave Uppsala and perhaps even during the Christmas break. The place Tom was standing at wasn't the best I'd say because it's outside the building "loop". Have a look at Google maps :) It would have worked at 6:02 If anyone is interested, "flogsta" is pronounced "floogsta"

[@SpartanMJO12]

"Shenley" aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand I've jizzed

[@louisbarrass611]

ive been to uppsla its pretty and my dad crashed thr rental car there thats why i remember it

[@Fopppyable]

Louis Barrass your dad sounds like a legend 😉

[@HP3Lover]

Louis Barrass that went from 0-100 real quick

[@eldafint]

Uppsala*

[@gregspencer3225]

The emotional whiplash I had reading that sentence was intense.

[@kale.online]

OK I need a matt ASMR channel NOW

[@jm40004]

*whispers* "beef"

[@Tarantio1983]

Kyle Ross whispers cheese... whispers Shenley...

[@Valentina1312]

_fffinchley_

[@error.418]

*STAT

[@MetaBloxer]

Matt Gray's soggy cardboard cutout ASMR

[@kasane1337]

I would love to watch 300 voiced by Matt and co.

[@najeyrifai1134]

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore!"

[@mod321]

They could feel that you were not Swedish and decided that you were not worthy of an answer-scream

[@stumbling]

Paul is what you get when you set the character creation sliders half way between Matt and Tom.

[@ezekielmartin4323]

3:17 "proper ducks" is such a profoundly British phrase

[@mlewis359]

Also, botanist Carl Linnaeus, "father of modern taxonomy" taught at Uppsala University. There's a museum but probably not very visual.

[@thatnerdbird6051]

Tom Scott: Waterfowl Critic

[@heather19515]

ThatNerdBird like weratedogs

[@dorithegreat6155]

I love that every time Tom sees a duck he's geniunely amazed

[@goffffret]

I wonder if they knew that it was supposed to be at 10 pm? XD Because I'm from Uppsala and that's the time for the scream from what I heard and it's just in Flogsta where the students reside.

[@kempoficht]

They clearly said at 10pm and that they waited until 10pm

[@sarahwyatte9554]

I've never seen a frozen lake that close before. Freaked me out when I saw the duck walking on it, thought it was like a mallard messiah.

[@Handles-Suck-YouTube]

Mallard Messiah would make for an interesting cover of Metallica's Leper Messiah.

[@robertjacobsson727]

It was Fyrisån which is a river, so a frozen river.

[@archerymidnight3422]

He's not the messiah, he's just a very naughទា boy. It took me two years to think of this joke that nobody will understand please laugh

[@linasuperdina994]

2:17 that was perfect swedish pronounciation omg, and it sounds exactly like a swedish accent (cant remember which) oh my god I was shook. Kudos to you Paul

[@ThatGirlWithTheCoffee]

I would subscribe to a channel which was just Matt doing ASMR videos with the word Shenley....

[@crowonthepowerlines]

Matt doing asmr gives me the same feeling as stepping into a room where someone has just been cooking sausage.

[@Littaly]

I'm not the kind of guy who turns up his nose or gets annoyed when people fail at pronouncing words in my language. Or confuse Scandinavian countries for each other for that matter. That said, it's always really nice to see people going the extra mile to try and get the pronunciation correct and treat your home country as something other than some godforsaken, frozen wasteland in who-cares-where ^^

[@noahs.4694]

Shhenley! Utter poetry.

[@mrJLJ66]

My university also has a scream like the one you described. It was called the "Midnight Scream", and happened twice a year right before finals each semester.

[@Bass_Guy]

2:16 perfect pronunciation by Paul

[@josephkoester3217]

They detected the britishness of your voice and rejected you

[@JG-gg7fb]

Tom in glasses

[@nokatsallowed]

Love these uploads! One of the highlights of my week

[@BrutalOddball]

If you wanna go to Uppsala again, go towards the end of May, when all the student associations "nations" have their spring Balls, you'll find tons of students all dressed up, all night! I had the opportunity to go this year, despite not studying in Uppsala, and it was amazing

[@haraldlindohf4032]

I'm studying in Stockholm, and have only ever been to uppsala once, but I've always had the impression that it'd be a nice place to study.

[@snowfloofcathug]

It is!

[@benwood97]

Am I the only one that has just realised the pic for this channel isn't a map of Britain?

[@jamesbeanmachine857]

There are many myths surrounding the Flogsta scream, but it's real all right. I miss it alot.

[@toralundin5869]

I lived in Flogsta for one semester, and there was a lot of screaming! I had periods when I thought it was really spooky. I guess I am quite easily frightend. It was really fun to see you in Uppsala. I have lived six years in Uppsala and I love that town. Great for students!

[@darkfuji196]

3:00 "You can't have a good uni without ducks" We don't have ducks, but we have ibises, does that count?

[@AishaDracoGryph]

No the way to make it look good in post is to add the Wilhem scream to it XD

[@Zizzily]

I love the look on Tom's face after he screams and very little happens.

[@cityuser]

So THAT'S why people keep creaming outside my window.. legitimately didn't know.

[@supercool1312]

cityuser creaming?

[@peppersalt]

​@@supercool1312 Yeah, a dominatrix lives in the neighborhood, and on certain nights whipped creams gather and echo in the distance.

[@JonatasAdoM]

Tom has a lovely scream! Seriously you don't wanna hear that in a night.

[@wcbranitly0692]

"Steaks one a Plane" - you can see Matt taking pleasure in a pun that no one else picked up

[@lopsided75]

"CAN I SCREAM?" Disappointed to discover that Refused are from Umea, not Uppsala. So nearly a home run...

[@IAmBrownThunderOfficial]

7:43 you're welcome.

[@HansPeter-qg2vc]

But, but ... Celsius didn't invent the scale today commonly called "Celsius". His scale was the other way around.

[@jesusgonzalez6715]

Christoph Michelbach your point being?

[@HansPeter-qg2vc]

Jesus Gonzalez By calling the scale "Celsius", the wrong person is credited for it.

[@dliessmgg]

Eh, close enough.

[@snowfloofcathug]

Christoph Michelbach Fahrenheit didn't invent his the same way it is now either!

[@HansPeter-qg2vc]

Lucas Snowball_Cathug​ I don't know about it, had to read up on it. But no one wants to be given credit for that scale anyways, so it's more like an insult than it is an honor.

[@stevoclarke94]

The University project Matt mentions is still done on the course, and 300 (I assume Matt's one) was used as an example when I did the module a few years ago...

[@panda4247]

The scream that refuses to be a scream

[@Hdtjdjbszh]

don't make me get Uppsala your head!

[@SOLAR_WillToWin]

So then... The video didn't fail, because of this video right here!

[@tg509]

ahh memories of screaming in the recording studio at uni. iirc, most people's voices had gone after about take 3...

[@esbenandersen5706]

If you want good ducks at a university, come by Aarhus University Park, we have the best ducks. They're picturesque, aggressive, possibly heavy metal and/or radioactive, and will assault you if they outnumber you. They attack bikers, runners, students, I even saw one challenge a car at one point. Stop by for the vibe, stay because the crazy mutant ducks put you in the hospital (Which, seeing as this is Denmark, will be free). Aarhus has more of interest than crazy ducks, if you're wondering. We have a very lovely university as well, to provide a park for these ducks. We even have an Institute of Physics and an Institute of Chemistry, both of which used the Park Lake as dumping ground for their waste a few decades back. This may have affected said ravenous, insane Hulk-ish ducks. If you stop by in November, we have our university elections (I know Tom will like that!), and you can meet the dolphin living in the lake as well. At any other time, there are ducks.

[@paulsengupta971]

Are you sure they're not geese? :-) We had geese in our student halls and they used to attack anything that moved, including my car wheels as I drove past them.

[@esbenandersen5706]

Paul Sengupta I'm not a biologist, but I think I'm able to tell the differences between ducks and geese. ;-)

[@Carewolf]

They are just smaller friendly versions of the Danish national bird. So Århus, so go with aggressive ducks pretending to be swans.

[@MiaMulder]

What day did you end up picking? Cause there are like 3 days when it won't work at all. When in doubt, go for friday. If that was a friday it must have been an odd week

[@route2070]

I was hoping after the second someone would have shouted "shut up not tonight."

[@bpery1614]

I'm slightly disappointed Tom didn't yell STOOOOOOOOOOONNNNEEEEESSSS

[@abbelabbe7912]

I live in uppsala and i have never heard anyone scream like that, its more of a thing students say they do but actualy dont, its more of a local myth. And more often its a drunk person having a laugh.

[@petlahk4119]

I'm getting second-hand embarrassment. xD

[@steverpcb]

How about looking at the Kyoto Tachibana scream ?

[@tournedede]

The scream is mostly in the student-concentrated buildings, like Flogsta ^^~

[@StorytellerOfTheDead]

Ssssshenleigh.

[@hitforhelp]

Looking forward to the ASMR episode.

[@UltraPrimal]

My university didn't have ducks. We had Canada geese.

[@rekalty4477]

9:23 Wouldn't that be a... Screamshot... instead?

[@pocketdialmusic]

Great place to do a park bench

[@harrycurtis5129]

Go to 5:56 for Matt saying "silly-billy".

[@scottkenyonteaching]

brilliant standing around waiting for It

[@petergerdes1094]

I dunno I kinda like the face shadows. It's pretty humorous how KZbin translates fluff my muff.

[@jimmyshrimbe9361]

Every time someone walks by I think it's a shadow on my TV and someone's behind me.

[@CanuckJim]

OH MY HEAVENS Thank you for saying Sweden is lovely. We booked a week in Stockholm in late May a few weeks ago because we'd never been.

[@kat369-mine]

I know it would reduce and maybe invalidate the experience, but I would love a park bench more often...2-3 times a week?

[@pauldavis2108]

I used to work for a company that made prison intercom systems that continuously listens for sounds of distress and will alert a guard. Most fun day of work ever was testing it by screaming, slamming doors, throwing chairs, etc.

[@bryanoberholtzer]

This video is unbelievably charming

[@硝酸銀SilverNitrate]

7:39

[@NTecPro]

It is called Flogsta scream because it is students in Flogsta in Uppsala that scream.

[@julia.carino]

As soon as you said "Shenley" I absolutely died laughing

[@filblo503]

I have been in all the places you show. I live there...

[@Theorimlig]

Just woke up in Uppsala and saw this video. Weird. I have never heard of the Flogsta scream before, either.

[@Malusdarkblades11]

did you know they shoot canons from the cassel on the mointan on the university ? :) Maybe they where screaming to loud ^^

[@Mousy677]

well, it seems as though you enjoyed yelling into the void in sweden, at least.

[@casualonion]

This video was uploaded at exactly same time as another.

[@gwenynorisu6883]

I don't know where you are, but it appears to have the world's longest passenger trains passing through it.