Filip Zieba Debunked - TikTok's Worst Conspiracy Theorist | Pt. 2

Howdy friends. In this video we continue our deep dive into the prolific misinformation TikTok account run by Filip Zieba. Filip posts content discussing the worst takes on just about every pseudoscientific topic you can imagine. From pyramids to antarctic civilizations to hollow earth to lost advanced ice age civilizations. Parroting most of his work from more notorious psuedohistorians like Graham Hancock, Filip doesn't have too many new theories, but laces all of them with a layer of personality that is rarely seen from other creators. In this video we continue our dive into his work where we will discuss topics like ancient stone moving technology, theories suggesting that the Great Pyramid was really a power plant, and the widely shared claim that the Smithsonian Institute destroyed Giant Skeletons. Finally we will tie this whole two part and four hour long video together with my final piece of advice to Filip, in hopes he will take this as a chance to turn his channel around and use it for good. Join me as we begin our final dive into the misinformation of Filip Zeba.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Last Time on Filip Zieba Debunked
01:21 Go Googledebunkers
02:40 Round 11: Masonry
12:00 Round 12: Precision
31:22 Round 13: The Pyramids Aren’t Tombs
46:44 Round 14: Pyramid Numbers
51:13 Round 15: Pyramid Power Plant
1:00:00 Round 16: Giant Obelisks
1:06:13 Round 17: Ancient Egypt in the Grand Canyon
1:12:16 Round 18: The Smithsonian Destroyed Giant Skeletons
1:15:27 Round 19: Lovelock Cave
1:21:32 Round 20: Back to the Smithsonian
1:31:35 Round 21: Why Haven't We Found Giant Bones?
1:37:34 Build Me Up Buttercup
1:51:05 Thank you and credits
CITATIONS AND REFERENCES:
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17. [www.si.edu/spotlight/ancient-... Greek historian Heroditus reported,tend to be much smaller](www.si.edu/spotlight/ancient-....
18. www.sciencefocus.com/science/...
19. [www.sciencedirect.com/science... Egyptian artisans were able,was needed to process them](www.sciencedirect.com/science....
20. www.brown.edu/academics/archa...
21. www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...
22. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
23. www.hallofmaat.com/giza/the-w...
24. www.nps.gov/deto/learn/histor...
25. pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1021i/repor...
26. [grcahistory.org/history/loggi... in 1908%2C with Roosevelt's,permitted within the monument's boundaries](grcahistory.org/history/loggi....
27. www.wbur.org/endlessthread/20...
28. www.ancient-origins.net/ancie...
29. digitalassets.lib.berkeley.ed...
30. www.reuters.com/article/idUSL...
31. web.archive.org/web/201412250...
32. www.bbc.com/news/world-europe...
33. dubioushistory.github.io/arti...
34. hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Sa...

[@therealwulf]

You should name your recording area "The Googledy Bunker"

[@LongLegend]

Underrated comment

[@erinyes3943]

Seconded

[@haydenj4738]

I would love to see this

[@Ray_Conner1234]

its just a bunker a few hundred feet underground with the fastest wifi on the planet and every device running chrome OS

[@andyhu9542]

Maybe just generally, 'The Bunker'.

[@mccoy2294]

I put a one-ton rock over my coffee machine, and it immediately broke. Clearly, modern technology wouldn't be able to recreate the pyramids

[@yuvalne]

lmao

[@kidneydealer9938]

the best handsaw in the world could barely make a dent in the 1 ton rock they used, even we can't recreate the pyramid with our current technology, so how can the dumb and primitive ancient egyptian?

[@nyxession944]

@@kidneydealer9938 for the love of god please tell me you're being sarcastic

[@RedcubeYT]

He obviously is​@@nyxession944

[@junova7503]

@@nyxession944 Don't worry, they are. That's why they said "The best handsaw" and emphasized "how can the dumb and primitive..."

[@flavianebbia2819]

Did I just cry at Filip Zieba's corruption arc while watching his very first video about how all of us are made of stardust? Yes, yes I did.

[@trs4184]

Me too 😢. I have so much hope for him. There're so many interesting conspiracy theories that are probably true and have good evidence. Plus, there are so many interesting historical mysteries.

[@jacobtrapp3772]

Yes, yes I did as well.

[@ScootDogLive]

I did too. I just love when i see people passionate about something and he clearly was.

[@sirdanielsmalley9657]

Same

[@zephyrmiv9661]

Literally! I was not expecting the conspiracy debunking video to bring an actual tear to my eye but goddam if I didn't actually have to sit down when the stardust video came on. There's a level of enthusiasm & honestly in it that honestly brought a smile to my face

[@Ilovepolygons]

"Where the mummies just stolen by theifs?" Well, that's one pretty accurate way to describe the British empire

[@retropulse03]

Bastards even ate the evidence

[@okwaho3746]

Didn't they eat them as well or is that just a myth.

[@neso_stars]

​@@okwaho3746 Yeah, a quick Googledebunking search shows MANY articles about the how and why. Short version, someone misread something and thought mummies had magic cure-all powers. You know, like uranium.

[@Ilovepolygons]

@@okwaho3746 they did, that's why they are so rare, they also used them for paint

[@ProfessorSnitch]

Actually a lot of them were stolen by graverobbers in the centuries following their own, eh... burial? Entombment? Is that how you write "Entombment"? Anyways, ancient egyptian graverobbers were a thing, and the problem increased once Egypt's Classical Ptolemaic era came (roughly the same cultural period of Cleopatra), and Kemetism started to wane and disappear - which meant the pharaohs were no longer holy. The problem became even worse when the Ayyubids came - not only were the Pharaohs no longer holy, they were now downright diabolical in the locals' eyes as they had required their people to worship them instead of God. Thus, for a while, although not officially supported by the Ayyubids, it was almost holy to deface and desecrate the Pyramids.

[@wastemind]

"He doesn't even seem interested in Aliens, he just seems absolutely bewildered by the thought of rocks being stacked on top of each other." - my wife

[@brianu2229]

"Why did so many different civilizations make pyramids?" BECAUSE A TRIANGLE IS THE SIMPLEST FUCKING SHAPE POSSIBLE, FILIP

[@thestoneskipper3377]

I absolutely love that response, I'm really surprised I've never heard it before.

[@linpittsburgh2375]

Nobody tell him about stone balancing.

[@RegularFlyGuy]

How much humans like to pile rectangles and squares on top of each others? THERES A LITERAL TOY EMPIRE THAT SELLS SQUARES AND RECTANGLES

[@mossfrog9720]

I literally keep accidentally building pyramids while stocking shelves at work it’s such a simple shape even round products stay in a pretty solid pyramid

[@isaacthered]

i'm a pyramid denier. they're actually domes, and what we see is just the low poly model used to save rendering costs when the main characters aren't around.

[@DangerB0ne]

Based and LoD-pilled

[@BLET_55artem55]

Zamn bru, that's a conspiracy that I'm signing in for

[@Rats136]

the whole world will know the truth when a pharaoh logs back into the server and renders that area again

[@TheDarrinmcarter]

OK, you owe me a new kindle, laughed so hard I blew coffee all over and shorted it out. Lol joking.

[@markgallagher1790]

Who's the main character then?

[@Twd_Turtle]

When I was Googledebunker I was kidnapped taken to hollow earth and was shot with Egyptian lasers

[@kozie.probably]

What Filip thinks will happen when the feds come to him after yapping about false information

[@ilsignorsaruman2636]

Did you see the bird people? Otherwise, i'll not believe you.

[@DireBowser]

It's funny how people tend to think Ancient Egypt was the same for 2000 years when someone from 2024 would be completely lost in the 1980's which is only 40-ish years ago.

[@forstuffjust7735]

I mean yes and no. Talking about all of ancient egypt as one entity is silly. But since the industrial revolution, change in society became exponential

[@fabior.castillo5168]

I dream of a world where Filip just turns to KZbin and says "yo, it was all bullshit, I was doing it for the views" and starts making quality educational content about ancient history or archeology and they become friends with Milo and it all ends like a movie

[@spoonyhitman1053]

still would never trust him, if you blatantly told lies for money and views.

[@robson1566]

Reframing his tiktok channel as a gotcha experiment would absolute genius PR. He could own his audiência for being "sheeple" and get himself back on the track of his first video

[@robson1566]

Own his audience* my keyboard corrected it to another language 😂

[@shigeminotoge4514]

"It was just a prank, bro"

[@freshhands9461]

Ironically, in the sequel their friendship will be tested, when ancient aliens arrive to reclaim their pyramid-tech :D

[@IAmBene]

I'm a stonemason, and this whole "That could only be done with modern technology" is so fucking hilarious. I use modern tools and machines a lot, but when I started my apprenticeship, I first learned how to do everything with noting but hammer and chisel. This shit is like saying "How did people get anywhere before we had cars?"

[@UponThisAltar]

Horses aren't real, there's no way people could travel great distances.

[@redwiltshire1816]

Wait till these people discover gem crafting actually in fact the probably think gems look polished straight out the ground 😂

[@firstnext5482]

@@UponThisAltar Legs aren't real, there's no way people could travel great distances

[@TurbopropPuppy]

ok but these same types of conspiracy whackadoos literally do drive (ha) themselves crazy over cultures that didn't use wheels too

[@ryanmack99]

​@@firstnext5482 actuating muscle tissue wasn't invented until the 16th century, before that how did people get around?

[@noahmeadows6400]

13:05 concrete worker here. A taught string is literally how we do a LOT of leveling. lasers arent a necessity even today 😭

[@mogscugg2639]

Wait until we find definitive proof of Atlantis and it turns out it was just cyprus

[@skidspace2452]

Gonna be honest, I put off watching part 2 because Part 1 made me realize how legitimately angry I get about these kinds of conspiracy accounts. The unashamed spread of blatant misinformation is something I can only take so much of. But the ending section honestly made the whole experience worth it cuz I know there are creators and educators like Milo out there who not only speak up against misinformation like this but genuinely wish to see people learn and become better. I truthfully hope Philip Zieba makes that pivot because I agree that he has the potential for it.

[@glorifiedonion6676]

I just report them now, this can potentially be dangerous

[@borderlinblue]

One of his newer videos he says there is going to be a new tallest building in the world that’s going to be suspended from a meteor in orbit around earth.. I pray no one believes that.

[@sekritdokumint9326]

Wait until Filip finds out the middle ages lasted for roughly a 1000 years and the culture, customs and art changed at least 600 times

[@jochi8874]

He would probably believe that because it was white people doing the culture

[@DamienDarkside]

He's the kind of guy who thinks everyone fought with swords instead of spears, and that gambesons can't protect against cuts.

[@IwasFRAMEDiTELLyou]

Psudohistorians don't understand that cultures are literally changing constantly. Culture is evolving right now and has been since culture exsisted. Every single time an event occurs that affects more than one person, culture is changed to some extent. So weird that people think it was so static

[@mann9664]

That is because ancient white person is smart and good, and ancient brown person needed aliens and Atlantis to show them how

[@Aeivious]

wait you mean it wasnt just knights and castles until one day it was factories?

[@skywalkerchick]

I’m an art student, and one of the conspiracy theories that annoys me the most is “giants are real because this large figure in this piece must be literally 15 feet tall!” Like, one of the first things you learn in art history is the “hierarchy of scale.” Why is this guy so much bigger than everyone else in this composition? Because he’s the fucking pharaoh, so he’s the most important guy here.

[@hunterspears9168]

Yeah it just indicates that someone is important and nothing else

[@TheCapitalWanderer]

that reminded me of ULTRAKILL, in that game, the important the person gets the bigger their physical form in hell gets.

[@theflamedragon2508]

MMOs all believe in giants because important npcs are slightly bigger

[@danthiel8623]

yes

[@watchrsj]

Literally learned this in my first art history class. "They knew how big cows were, but this guy wanted us to know his cows were even bigger than a regular cow, and much more valuable as a result". Simplest form of propaganda.

[@Crusader1089]

The Aztecs believed their land was previously populated by giants, and they had the proof - giant femur bones that would make a human tens of feet tall. They proudly showed them to the conquistadors. They were mammoth bones. They were making up stories to explain the presence of mammoth bones.

[@josephking3782]

I think it was less making up stories and more simply the aztecs didnt have a fucking clue what a mammoth was

[@Crusader1089]

@@josephking3782 did not want to imply that they were making up stories. It's an entirely logical assumption to make when you have something that looks like a human bone that is massive and have no concept of archaeology or prehistory. That's no different in my opinion than early paleontologists reconstructing iguanodon to look like an actual iguana.

[@ethan2090]

The Greeks got the idea of the cyclops(giant one eyed man) from mammoth skulls

[@josephking3782]

@@ethan2090 understandable

[@Sephirajo]

we also have a story that humans are different sizes today because Quetzalcoatl dropped our bones on the way out of the underworld. Hi, Mexica mestiza here, we are still around :D

[@danya_2d]

This quote by Carl Sagan: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" - helps a lot with debunking shit

[@eugenmaas4121]

Googledebunkers? I was googledebunkers once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. And rats make me googledebunkers...

[@apollobravo7654]

Googledebunkers? I was googledebunkers once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. And rats drive me googledebunkers...

[@zaknork9282]

Googledebunkers? I was googledebunkers once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. And rats make me googledebunkers...

[@silverpotato4272]

Googledebunkers? I was googledebunkers once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. And rats make me googledebunkers...

[@user-qw7iw6cm2i]

Googledebunkers? I was googledebunkers once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. And rats drive me googledebunkers…

[@DangerVA]

Googledebunkers? I was googledebunkers once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. And rats make me googledebunkers...

[@grandpaix3992]

i live near lovelock cave, and i am SO FUCKING SICK of the giant theories, man. this area has some of the most well preserved native culture, and we're lucky enough that the local paiute tribes enjoy teaching about their history, and _no one fucking listens to them._ they just want giants

[@evankimori]

I hope the tribes get a part of the tourism money from those mooks. Nothing better than teaching with passion and someone spent thousands of dollars to come to your lecture/country for OMGIANTS that some Tiktok scammer told them existed and you get to watch them be terribly disappointed. There's gotta be some satisfying catharsis in that as a tribal history lecturer watching their faces fall when they realize they're in for AN ACTUAL HISTORICAL LESSON. XD

[@LadyViscera]

The erasure and demonisation of Native history is honestly just disgusting

[@DukeofRizz]

Hey some people have a giant fetish alright. Don't kinkshame them.

[@sherlocksmuuug6692]

Yeah this actual history is real fascinating and all, but see this wendigoon fella wants there to be half-angel giant people really badly so that he can convince himself the bible is literal. Sorry native people, but a weirdo and his followers have to gaslight themselves and your actual history is kinda inconvenient for that. The needs of the cranks outweigh the needs of actual archeology I guess.

[@miniminuteman773]

Wow that must be an awesome site to live in proximity too. I would love to do a video there and be able to work with members of the Paiute community to share there stories on the channel rather than letting these clowns suck up all the air in the room

[@parasharkchari]

Oh, the buried obelisk theory for the pyramids was something I first encountered about 35 years ago. But... here's the thing about it. At that time, it was a gag from an issue of Mad magazine. And the joke was that when the dig was completed, they found not just a stone obelisk beneath the pyramid; they found the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Mall and basically the rest of D.C.

[@Tetragramercy]

“the weight of two 737s” incidentally, how do we move 737s when they’re on the ground? wheels and horizontal force! kinda like rollers and draggers!

[@FTZPLTC]

I swear, half of these "ancient aliens" theories are literally just "I can't fathom someone spending more than a second thinking about what they're going to do before they do it"

[@PhoenixdiCorvo]

Maybe, just MAYBE, we’re actually dumber than our ancient ancestors???? 😳😳😳

[@Saunderabovo]

Also "that would take so long without power tools, there's no way ancient people could dedicate time and effort to their craft"

[@sanity1433]

​@PhoenixdiCorvo we're evolving... just backwards

[@hatless6056]

And not just any someone, non Europeans specifically. No one ever questioned how the catholic chapels were built, but the moment some indigenous people started pile rocks in a different continent it's suddenly marvels that can only be built by aliens

[@omkartelang1064]

You don't understand people, ancient aliens are carrying on a long legacy of ideas. Legacy of Nazi ideas.

[@CleverClovers]

"we don't know why it was abandoned" Me, an artist: they got another higher priority commission and forgot about it

[@startdale5547]

Occassionally they would think on it. Get annoyed that commission was cancelled halfway through and they had to get another commission lined up before his Mum reminded him about his cousin who makes bank as a plumber.

[@CleverClovers]

@@startdale5547 I'm in this picture and I don't like it omg

[@lordarthur2165]

You didn't have to remind me of all the WIPs I have and I occasionally think about finishing but I never will.

[@chrishorobin1751]

@@lordarthur2165 This entire thread is an attack on all the pictures I have never finished

[@sillyjellyfish2421]

How about "the guy who ordered the piece has actually never send the money he was supposed to send so i dropped the project halfway done, called that a sunk cost, and went on doing other stuff"

[@GoodPintOfAle]

As a Pole I can say we are sorry for this guy. In Polish language zięba is actually a bird - finch, pronounced “ziemba” where you take “zi” from “zebra” and “em” like in “feminine” And Milo, thank you for all of your hard work

[@ourtalechara9341]

Where does the "ba" come from/genq

[@christopherdelaney6263]

That was the best two hours I've spent on KZbin, probably, ever. Not just for the fact that you gave more dunks than Shaq, but also because i learned a ton about every topic discussed. It was a journey. I'm really glad I had the time to watch both episodes. I'm looking forward to seeing you on the road again. Best wishes and best of luck making more content that we can all really sink our teeth into, and learn a lot about things we probably didn't know existed. Not sure if you'll ever read this. But, from an older guy who sees the enormous opportunity in someone younger, with so much energy and devotion, I hope to see you at the top. I hope you never stop learning. I hope you never stop teaching. It takes a great student to become a great teacher. It takes a great teacher to become the greatest student. Be well. And congratulations on your success. You have earned every sub. Safe travels. Best.

[@kalliope420]

"OBVIOUSLY giant people are real. but a giant sloth is just fucking ridiculous"

[@Edmund-od7mv]

That skeleton didn't even look remotely human though 😂

[@jsosa4566]

@@Edmund-od7mv what do you mean? Do you not have 3 fingers and a tail?

[@Edmund-od7mv]

@@jsosa4566 Do you?

[@ghifarbruh]

@@Edmund-od7mv don't we all?

[@Edmund-od7mv]

@@ghifarbruh Ah, of course, silly me.

[@watsonwrote]

The "precision argument" drives me nuts. Lasers weren't invented until 1960. We had already invented trains, cars, and airplanes at that point. Computers existed. How incompetent does this guy and his followers think humans were before the 21st century? Oh, how could people ever create precise structures before modern magic?

[@mancubwwa]

The first satellite predates the first laser. Yes, we were capable of puting shit to space without laser tools.

[@joshk.6246]

With Ancient Magic instead. 😂

[@Victoria-rb4oo]

I think it's because he is so stupid he cannot comprehend what normal people are capable of.

[@FB711_]

How does he think we even got to modern magic? Oh, right, aliens or Atlantis.

[@theBestElliephant]

As an engineer, the wilder thing is that we still don't use lasers for most precision manufacturing operations lol.

[@julianjensen2624]

I can't describe how happy i was, when i heard him say "sauropods is a clade, not a species"

[@slump2p]

my own theory as an indigenous person is that the elder paiutes began telling their young of the lovelock cave people being cannibalistic giants as a way to justify the grim "us vs them" massacre that took place, as it was probably a dark stain on the people as a whole and the warriors involved. i believe that depicting the massacre as a heroic triumph against giants was a way to "wash" the dark deed that shamed the elders

[@anthonyniemiec9409]

Never underestimate the human ability to stack rocks. We fucking love doing it. It’s our oldest hobby.

[@TotallyNotIceOwl]

Yeah and people who disagree with your comment are completely googledebunkers

[@blackhat4206]

Yeah, stacking rocks as a hobby is probably even older than the oldest profession.

[@comradewindowsill4253]

@@rishisaaptacha well, developmentally, maybe you're right, and stacking blocks is the first hobby. but all things considered I would bet that historically, the first human hobby was less about making buildings and more about making those babies and toddlers

[@gitchx9593]

@@comradewindowsill4253 1. Banging 2. Stacking rocks Very complex creatures we are.

[@gitchx9593]

If you go to national parks, you’ll find stacks of rocks along trails. Partly as a guide, partly as a way to say ‘I was here’

[@oliveravenstrike8578]

This has the same energy as someone saying “How come every new Minecraft player makes their first house out of dirt/cobblestone/wood” Because it’s the most readily available materials “Why do they all look similar” Because a rectangle is the easiest structure to build in a block game

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

'How do they all know what a phallus looks like, and always make it out of gold or diamond?!? In this video essay I'll tell you how Herobrine is secretly telling them how-"

[@MisterPogman]

@@gratuitouslurking8610I tended to make mine out of dirt... The explanation to that is: Only metal phallusus tend to survive through time and not disintegrate back into dirt or be mistaken for naturally generated

[@-THE-CHICKENMAN]

That’s a really good analogy.

[@georgedincu1776]

Are you expecting me to belive day 1 steve could collect dirt without the technologywe have today such as shovels? Nice try

[@killermetalwolf2843]

@@gratuitouslurking8610 "in ancient times, the inhabitants of Minecraft used to find monolithic E's made from a glowing stone, purportedly made by Herobrine. However, in recent times, sightings of these statues have drastically decreased. In this video essay I'll tell you how the secret government has secretly been cracking down on Herobrine-related activities-"

[@xenit7837]

Its weird to think that conspiracy theorists completely deny the idea of dragging rocks. Ive been wondering, how do conspiracy theorists move their refrigerator? Do they lift the entire thing? Dragging or pushing it is clearly out of the question.

[@salemtyphonos]

i know some construction workers and tradees that not only have done masonry and carpentry but dropped out of school that avidly dislike the notion that aliens built the pyramids

[@curseyoujordanshow]

My 1 year-old nephew was playing with some alphabet blocks. He arranged some in a stacked formation. I then saw on social media my cousin posting pictures of his young child stacking blocks IN THE SAME WAY. Clearly, the babies are communicating with some ancient form of telepathy adults cannot perceive.

[@Lohi42]

It's *obviously* alien brain chips made by giants in Atlantis and given to the babies from The Government duh 🙄

[@SugarandSarcasm]

Per the movies: Look Who's Talking, Look Who's Talking Too, and Look Who's Talking Now

[@it_must_be_love]

​@Lohi42 Nah, I've got my third eye open, so I know it's actually Bill Gates working with the lizard people to breed a new species to undermine humanity

[@alyssa7014]

And Baby Geniuses!

[@stepper997]

This is clear evidence of reincarnation as the children still have remedial memories of their past lives as construction workers on monumental buildings before they were unfortunately abducted and sacrificed by devotees of Zorp the Surveyor (may His passing cleanse the world).

[@LISHAI94]

"Modern humans are incapable of building a pyramid" crowd really tries hard to ignore the Wonder of the 20th century that is the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid in Memphis

[@EX7RUD1CON]

Or the Luxor hotel in las Vegas

[@jamesmerkel1932]

​@@EX7RUD1CON was just gonna say this lol

[@rebeccarichar4091]

The Louvre has a few glass pyramids.

[@BriarLeaf00]

That pyramid was also home to the Tennessee Grizzlies NBA team before becoming a BPS.

[@Cailloumax]

​@@rebeccarichar4091They must have been drunk building them, one is inverted

[@impp18]

The ProZD reference was totally unexpected and fucking hilarious. Great stuff as always, Milo

[@Reid-mv4ll]

"Only achievable with today's technology..." Very frustrating. What magnificent and dynamic cultures are being so casually dismissed with this tripe.

[@GLUBSCHI]

I can feel it already, this video is gonna contain some incredible googledebunking

[@ash_from_youtube9387]

Waiting for this video is gonna send me googledebonkers

[@J0yceJ0star]

​@@ash_from_youtube9387 we truly are googledebunkers

[@dr-Dork]

​@ash_from_youtube9387 we shall all go googedebunkers!!

[@rustycaplinger8036]

My new favorite word lmao. 😂

[@Auttpoffic3r]

I completely agree

[@mageofchaos]

The fact that he thinks that saying there were no mummies in Giza is a "gotcha" is fucking hilarious when you know that the main reason mummies are so rare is that PEOPLE ATE THEM FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS.

[@kylothow]

Crunchy snacks for the travel back home, don't be judgemental!

[@samuelmellars7855]

Hey, we did NOT eat most of them! We... um... we burnedthemasfuelforsteamengines *but anyway!* We didn't eat _most_ of them

[@ExplodingIce]

Don't forget the paint we used to make out of them. What was that color again? Oh yeah,mummy brown...

[@ViewingChaos]

We can't forget the whole craze of shipping them around europe so that people could watch them get unwrapped! Im sure they were handled with the uttmost care and we certaintly didn't loose, damage or destroy any of them....... Im sure.......

[@cha0sniper]

I'm dying 😂😂

[@Yog-slagunar]

Being an electrician.... I am unsure how the pyramid is made from copper or gold. While I was not an electrician for long, I never ever used limestone in my work. And yes, we have evidence of early "batteries" made of various metal plates, stacked, with a chemical in between to facilitate electron movement. I did public school physics on it ages ago.... While you CAN create a capacitor or battery in this manner.... it is HORRIBLY inefficient compared to what we do day, If they were more advanced than us, I am pretty sure they would have figured out rock is not exactly a Chad material to make it from

[@drummerboycroy]

50+ years old, on KZbin since day one, and this is literally the first piece of merch I have ever considered buying. Perfect.

[@matiaspereyra9392]

Did he just dare me to Google something so that when I come back he can just scream "googledebunker" at me?

[@kandikidmusic9033]

He's meta gaming it now

[@Cracker_Smacker]

he got us it's over

[@matiaspereyra9392]

@@Cracker_Smacker **he can't keep getting away with it!!**

[@rainbow_vader]

"haha made you look" ahh tactic 💀 as if we needed any more evidence Filip is just a 4 year old child trapped in the body of a late 20's dude

[@thegreatmajora5089]

He’s cleared the matchup, we have to move on to other search engines

[@raneemacintosh6842]

A compilation of trucks failing to haul rocks as proof that it's impossible is like putting together a bunch of videos of waiters falling and dropping trays and being like "see? food is impossible."

[@yalllookweird9609]

Yeah 😂 and just because we don't build pyramids today clearly means we can't either.

[@anonym1984]

The ancient french put all the courses on the table at once. We couldn't do that with modern tech, our waiters couldn't carry all that food and our tables aren't big enough. The ancient french obviously had robotic waiters and quantum hyper-tables.

[@gentlemans7579]

Wait, are you telling me food is possible? I'm going to need some proof.

[@navalinfantry2009]

Nothing impossible about it. Ancient giants made food possible. With lasers.

[@gentlemans7579]

@@navalinfantry2009 Gosh! That's so amazing! I don't think we can even do that with today's modern technology.

[@nicolasmonteverdehorlent7712]

These conspiracy theories are a weird mix between underestimating the cleverness and practicality of ancient people while overestimating and mystifying their technology and thinking that it must be something else

[@michaelmcgovern7911]

I'm not going to lie, that ending was so sweet I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes.

[@donniejefferson9554]

I love that this dude simultaneously believes that the Great Pyramid is so impressive that it couldn't be built by people while it is also so unimpressive that there's no way a king could've been buried in it.

[@Bread-nx9fo]

He’s so stupid, capstones that had gold on them and limestone covering pyramids existed, but guess what? Over TIME stuff withers so it doesn’t look the exact same 1,000 years later. It would’ve looked way more impressive in its heyday visually

[@Thatguywhosnameyoudontremember]

Lol

[@jiraffe9600]

This hypocrisy is probably from that he doesn't actually believe these , and he is just pushing these ideas because it gets views.

[@NoahWanger]

@@jiraffe9600 Nah if you look at how these conspiracy theorist type people talk and interact, they don't fully rationalize what they believe in or theorize.

[@rubywest5166]

Likewise "It's so boring it couldn't have been a tomb" and "Why would they bother to drag stones so far to make it look shiny, it's just a tomb!"

[@markjacobson4248]

I work in manufacturing. Believe it or not, the cornerstone of high precision manufacturing remains, to this day, taking some rocks, throwing an abrasive between them, and rubbing them together. It's called the 3-plates method, and it's more than capable of producing granite slabs that are within a thousandth of an inch of perfectly flat, roughly the thickness of a human hair.

[@sawyerblossom7244]

That's awesome! I have a friend who works in a similar field. The precision that it takes to pass the equipment he makes is intense.

[@clockworktri]

Thank you for sharing this! It's cool to know that one of the first ways we figured out to do something precisely is still the best way to do it. I assume we just figured out more efficient and technical ways to implement it.

[@markjacobson4248]

@@clockworktri Yeah. Specifically, the three plate method is the best way to get precision from nothing. Meaning it's a method that is capable, with sufficient time and effort, of producing 3 extremely high precision reference planes for measurement without needing to already have calibrated precision equipment. Most surface plates you would buy aren't made with this method, but manufacturing them in other ways requires already calibrated equipment. In general, anything made by some machine reaches at best the same level of precision that the machine has already been measured against and calibrated to. In practice, the end results are usually not as precise as the components that went into the machine that made them. The three plate method is one of only a few things that can get a more precise end result than you already had before doing it.

[@markjacobson4248]

@@sawyerblossom7244 Most of the machine shop work I have done would consider 1/100th of an inch to be "semi-precision" or "low precision" but it depends on the type of manufacturing being done. I've been working on moving into extremely high precision tool making, where a lot of measurements would be made to a few "tenths" aka a tenth of a thousandth of an inch.

[@miniminuteman773]

That’s an excellent piece of expertise! Something I forgot to throw in is how lasers would be an objectively terrible tool to cut stone with. Your point that abrasive can produce such precision results is another great point in this discussion. There seems to be a misunderstanding that more “simple” methods produce more crude results 100% of the time.

[@hermanvee2475]

everyone I'm gonna take a shot of mercury every time Filip says something dumb wish me luck

[@Russian_engineer_bmstu]

Rip

[@Lomecron]

Modern Architects: "Am I a joke to you, Filip? Let's see how you do with one of your stairs being 2mm higher than all the others."

[@benevans1073]

Ok, I have a degree in Egyptology so I just wanted to give a couple small corrections and some more evidence to help out your argument. Firstly, the claim that slaves did not build the pyramids needs an asterisk as there is a lot of nuances in this point which your citation doesn’t mention. Though the workers were treated well (excavations at Heit el-Ghurab suggest they ate really good quality food for their social position), these workers were not there voluntarily. They were drafted for either construction or into the military (Wadi Hammamat graffito and Biography of Weni) and were punished if they were found in deficit of their required contribution (P. Berlin P. 10023A). However, the Egyptians called these forced laborers, “royal dependents” (nswtiw mrit) so we don’t call them slaves but corvee laborers. There are also other considerations but there is clearly nuance in the definition. When you mention the black pyramid collapsing as evidence that the Egyptians had a few hiccups while building pyramids, that’s is a little inaccurate. The pyramid of Amenhemat III was built in the middle kingdom, about 600 years after Khufu, and collapsed long after it was built not while building it (Herodotus 2.148 mentions it as a grand monument even 1000 years after it was built). It was made of mudbrick and cased in limestone (differing from the old kingdom which just used limestone, which is a separate interesting question of why they changed building practices), once the limestone came off due to earth quakes and stealing, the mudbrick was exposed and over time disintegrated. Next, when discussing the idea of transporting these large stones by boat down the Nile, this claim isn’t just intuition, we have evidence like in Deir el Bahari where we have a literal image of an obelisk being transported on a barge. What Zieba forgets to mention is that we do have Old Kingdom pyramids with texts. The best example, and the earliest, being that of the Pyramid of Unas (we also have them from Teti and fragments from Pepi I). These texts are distinctly mortuary in nature, we can even see a direct evolution from the pyramid texts to the coffin texts to the Book of the Dead (some spells being copied nearly exactly). For your point about tomb robberies id suggest citing the Papyrus Mayer A/B and P. BM EA 10052 which is a Late Egyptian legal document from Deir el Medina which specifically dealt with tomb robberies in the Valley of the Queens. Tomb robbery was and still is a major problem in Egypt Though a lot of emphasis is placed upon the large granite stones sourced from Aswan, the vast majority of building blocks for the Pyramids were sourced from the limestone quarry of Tura, which is just a few miles away from Giza (The diary of Merer which you cited is actually a log book of a captain transporting limestone from Tura), it's a small point but an important one given Zieba's pension for hyperbole. Finally, Zieba's inane point about the Pyramids of Giza being giant obelisks is stupid, but the iconographies are technically related. Both pyramids and obelisks are seen as representations of the Heliopolitan mound of creation called the Benben. Which again, is something interesting Zieba could of talked about instead of his insane giants theory. Love your work @miniminuteman !

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

That still is more a labour-tax like the French Courvée (forced road repair work every year) and not "slavery".

[@hedgehog3180]

All of the logistics around how the pyramids were built and the entire workers village next to them is so fascinating, I don't understand why people ignore it. So much of it frankly sounds kinda familiar in the modern world and I love stories like that, that lets us feel a connection with ancient people.

[@justme-qd6qb]

If there's one thing I love more than knowledgeable passionate people teaching me stuff, it's knowledgeable people adding more nuance and information to that conversation. Thank you :)

[@Richard_Nickerson]

So well spoken & perfect until "should of" 🤦‍♂️ It may sound that way phonetically, but it's "should've" because it's actually "should have"

[@mushspore3865]

Based!

[@joshuaroefs9279]

ok, I'm a welder and i hate hearing these "it's so precise" bullshit arguments because I can fucking EYEBALL a thousandth of an inch gap in my material when I'm working. It's not hard, a couple months/years of practice and just about anyone with working eyesight can do it.

[@bobthegamingtaco6073]

Lol exactly, if you get paid to be precise, it's not surprising when you learn how to be precise. It's like saying an author couldn't possibly describe an event, like, of course they could, they get paid to figure out how describe things in an interesting way

[@Lumberjack_Linnie]

My craftsmanship level is at -3 and even I can hold up a frame at the wall and see if it is straight or not. Just today I did that and when my wife used the spirit level to check it was perfect. If I can do that, I'm sure professional craftsman like you and the guys back in the olden days could eyeball things even more precise than I ever could.

[@FTZPLTC]

I think the underlying problem (besides all the patronising shtick about how primitive everyone was and how the evidence that they weren't must be proof of aliens or whatever) really is that a lot of people, especially younger ones, just find it really hard to conceive of work being done this way. I sound like an old fart when I say it, but I've seen the videos they've seen, where how a thing is made is compressed down into "Take thing, dip it in thing, wait 30 seconds, and it comes out as a different thing, everyone claps!" I can imagine it being hard for someone to get their head around the idea that, when making stuff took a lot of time and work, people would make the effort to learn how to do it well. A lot of these arguments seem like they rely on the idea that if a total amateur can't knock together a pyramid in an afternoon, it can't be done.

[@raleighpreston1902]

Same here. I've worked in construction for 10+ years and I've called out alignments 1/16" off from over 60' away by just looking intently for a few seconds.

[@YakovDub]

You know the whole thing with putting our ancestors down by stealing their technical achievement and pure fucking skill and putting it in some fairy hands is so disappointing

[@Ayjrin]

1:36:15 that’s the Game of Thrones world book “The World of Ice and Fire” explaining how the 700 foot tall, 100s of miles long wall of ice was made by people and giants working together.

[@croissant2882]

The part about actual history of Lovelock cave and Native storytelling was SO interesting. Nobody ever talks about the mythology and history of Native Americans outside of the genocide (and americans even try to not talk about *that* like EVER) So to suddenly be blasted with so much fascinating information was just thrilling for me Youre completely right that Filip is wasting his and the viewers time spewing all this bullshit when he could talk about the actually incredibly interesting cultures he clearly knows about! Keep going with the amazing content, i wish i could be even half as passionate about literally anything as you are about human history

[@ob2kenobi388]

Arguing "The pyramids couldn't have been tombs because they look nothing like the tombs from the Valley of Kings" is like saying "Brill Palace couldn't have possibly been the place where the King of England lived 1,000 years ago, because it looks nothing like Buckingham Palace today!"

[@madelinefalke5584]

I like your profile picture

[@ob2kenobi388]

@@madelinefalke5584 Aww, thanks! I like yours too! 😊

[@DneilB007]

My favourite comparison would be that the long barrows of England weren’t cult centres because they don’t look like medieval churches. For those who don’t know, the long barrows were made around 6000-7000 years ago by people across Western Europe. They are long earthen structures that contain either one long central chamber or a long central chamber with one or more stone or timber chambers branching out from the central chamber. They often contain one or more sets of human remains, although many have not had any human remains found in them (either because the remains were dissolved by the natural environment of the local soil or because they did not contain human remains in the first place). Sometimes the remains were found to be older than the mounds themselves; in other cases, “newer” remains were interred inside pre-existing mounds. Sometimes the remains are a collection of bones from multiple individuals, mixed together; sometimes they are the remains of a single person. Sometimes the remains were separated by age or sex, with male or female children separated from their adult counterparts, and sometimes not. There is evidence for ritual feasting at some sites, although there’s no conclusive evidence that the feasting was linked to any particular burials, or if it was independent of the burials themselves. Some of the sites seem to link up with other indicators of regional areas, acting as a kind of territorial marker. In other words, they seem to serve fundamentally the same purposes as medieval parish churches, despite having very different construction methods and materials. We are literally 7000 years younger than the long barrows, and their local cult centres look nothing like our modern local cult centres (churches, mosques, temples, etc.) but the evidence suggests that long barrows served the same purposes as a modern rural community church.

[@DebatingWombat]

@@DneilB007 Or a more direct comparison in timescale being that churches from the early Middle Ages clearly cannot be churches because they look so different from baroque churches that are a thousand years younger.

[@ob2kenobi388]

@@DneilB007 Wow, that was very interesting-thank you so much for sharing! I always like hearing about ancient people doing something we still do today, but in a different way!

[@yvaincallipso84]

I hate the word primitive because of how much it dehumanizes people that are literally just like us. There's medieval parchment of a little kid drawing himself as a knight on the edges as he practiced writing. There's graffiti in Pompeii of people writing their names+ their girlfriend and saying "Polonius is a dick". There's Egyptian hyroglyph graffiti in the great toombs of tourists complaining about not being able to read the even more ancient hyroglyphs. There's uniform tablets from ancient mesopotamia of customer complaints for a copper merchant that scammed them. A lot of these conspiracy theorists seem to think that a people where only capable of speak, reason and empathy after the reneissance and could not have possibly been exactly the same type of humans as us now.

[@Penguinmanereikel]

"There's uniform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia of customer complaints for a copper merchant that scammed them" Heheheheh. Ea-Nasir

[@ironminer888]

Ea-Nasir mentioned🎉

[@lacucaracha111111]

Also dont forget that people back then as now, put dicks on everything cause " haha funny dick"

[@Keenath]

I always tear up at the Roman inscription where a guy buried his favorite dog and left a message to the future just to say: she was a good dog and I loved her.

[@artsyscrub3226]

@@Keenath Humans being human is amazing, i hate conspiracy theorists because they can't fathom the beauty of humanity, the marvel that is their anchient minds figuring out complex problems and passing that knowlage down to their children and their grandchildren and so on so forth

[@arnaldoteodorani277]

Shout out to Gianfranco for the great editing, and for Shahar, too, for the research. The last minutes deserve a standing ovation.

[@sunnysolaire6565]

honestly the end of this character break down and “google debunking” of these conspiracies was very strangely uplifting when you showed his first video and all the passion behind it, it’s nice that you never actually attacked him as a person just wanted him to do better and i hope we keep getting content like this, thanks for the content minuteman

[@ob71vion]

man, seeing his first tiktok at the end made me really sad. you can literally see in his eyes how genuinely, wholeheartedly passionate he was about the topic. you can even see a shift in his attitude as he started making conspiracy videos, he went from using a soft voice and uplifting language to the current smug, lowkey aggressive attitude he has in his current videos. from "you my friend are a star" to "explain that, idiot googledebunkers!1!1!1!" like it's genuinely so sad to watch

[@Sirairas]

Make me really sad too.

[@caitlinanzovin1146]

Yeah... :(

[@daanwilmer]

It actually makes me hopeful that there's some passion in him, and I hope we can reawaken that ❤

[@mnk9073]

No worries, he can be saved. That guy is still in there, he just got jaded by the video he cared for getting 100 likes while the next "aLiEnS"-BS video got 100k likes.

[@369destroyer]

I only listened to the video, and even his voice. Hearing it so many times it was surreal to hear it change from smug facade to genuine excitement. It was really heartbreaking.

[@LucanVaris]

Gotta love how Filip's argument against the Pyramids being tombs is "we didn't find remains or treasures in there." As if, over the course of thousands of years, nobody discovered the pyramids. _Especially_ not tomb robbers, treasure hunters, desperate thieves, and/or the _British._

[@katesclabassi3857]

The Victorians ate a LOT of mummies and used them in a LOT of "medicines". I feel like someone should tell Filip

[@andyghkfilm2287]

@@katesclabassi3857 mmmMMMmmm! Yummy yummy mummy! Love to munch on the human jerky as a rich British aristocrat

[@vicenteabalosdominguez5257]

The amount of mummies that ended inside a brit's stomach is disturbingly above 0.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@katesclabassi3857 and don't forget to buy mummy brown for painting. But yes, most tombs were raided in ancient times. There was never a chance for any treasures to remain.

[@LathosZan]

I like how you repeated the word "British" at the end there 4 times with slight different spelling.

[@terrensical]

How did he know I was cleaning my house? Coincidence? I think it's aliens

[@rainymeadows3447]

"Every ancient civilisation around the world has stories of giant humans" Every ancient civilisation around the world also has stories of huge creatures such as dragons It's almost as if they were finding lots and lots of very large bones with no easily identifiable explanation. I wonder what could have been the cause of that? /s

[@zachhaarz2340]

Hey, physicist here, and I wanted to clarify that the power plant physics is also complete nonsense. Like, it just straight up doesn't mean anything - a "crystal edifice [that] created a harmonic resonance with the earth and converted earth's vibrational energies to microwave radiation" does not refer to a thing that could exist. Here's what goes through my head as I try to parse it: 1) a "crystal edifice". Hmm. Edifice is a weird choice of words, but it's fine. In the context of energy generation and vibrations, this could plausibly be referring to a piezoelectric crystal. I happen to remember that quartz is one of those, and you mentioned quartz. Seems like it's probably one of the topics involved. Piezoelectricity is a really cool phenomenon where certain crystals, if subjected to pressure differences (e.g., they're pressed on, or exposed to sound waves) gain a voltage differential (become little batteries). It can also happen in reverse - this is the premise behind crystal oscillators, which are used in all kinds of cool stuff, including watches and radios. And get this - they even use quartz a lot of the time, because it's good at the job and easy to find. You should check it out if you think quartz is cool! Anyway, it sounds like we're talking about a crystal that would convert vibrations into electrical energy. 2) "[that] created a harmonic resonance with the earth" okay... that doesn't mean anything. A "harmonic" resonance is one with multiple harmonies. Any given vibration has a frequency, which describes how quickly it oscillates - how many times per second it returns to the same position, or pressure, or any other value. A harmony of some frequency is an integer multiple of that frequency, so if the fundamental frequency is 10 times/second, then the first harmony is 20 times/second, the second harmony is 30 times/second, and so on. Now, a resonance is a frequency favored by the geometry of the thing oscillating. Certain shapes and lengths and materials and so on will naturally encourage certain frequencies, while causing others to die down. For example, a wave trapped in a pipe which is about as long as that pipe will be significantly more stable than waves which are a little bit longer or shorter, so it will end up lasting a lot longer, because it loses less of its energy each time it bounces back and forth. You should look up "timbre" if you think this concept is cool! Maybe you'll even make an entirely new instrument that can create sounds no one has ever thought of before, or get really into synthesizers! So a harmonic resonance just refers to multiple harmonies resonating in the same geometry. Almost all resonances are harmonic, because the harmonies of a given frequency usually behave a lot like that frequency itself, but the use of the phrase could just be some clunky prose. The part that really throws me off is "with the earth", because it implies that the earth is also oscillating at that resonant frequency. The word for a wave traveling through the earth is a seismic wave, or colloquially, an earthquake. If the earth's resonant frequencies could be excited at that sort of energy scale, we would expect to feel earthquakes many times over as they travel around the globe again and again, but we don't. We're also told that the crystal edifice created this resonance, so it must be the thing driving the earth's motion. Put another way, that means this crystal edifice would be sending out seismic waves with more energy than earthquakes, constantly. Ignoring whether that's a reasonable amount of energy (there's a great xkcd on the richter scale), that also seems like a pretty dangerous sort of power generation. On the other hand, if you think seismic waves are cool, there's a whole world waiting for you to explore it! It's really amazing what we can figure out about the composition of the earth just by measuring how seismic waves change at different points along the surface. 3) "and converted earth's vibrational energies to microwave radiation". Earth does not have vibrational energies. Earth does have Schumann Resonances, an incredibly cool magnetohydrodynamic effect (google that one), but they don't store very much energy and they're also light waves, not acoustic ones. Again, the word for when the Earth is vibrating is an earthquake, and we have a fairly good detection network (our feet) for when they're occurring. But you should absolutely look into atmospheric and earth sciences if you think this stuff is cool, the real world is so fascinating. It also does not make sense for this crystal to convert energy into microwave radiation, but 4) this part is one of my favorites. The Nikola Tesla connection is legitimate: later in his life, he was fascinated by the idea that we could create, and then recapture, microwaves to transmit energy wirelessly. The basic idea is sound: the atmosphere doesn't interfere with microwave radiation, so if we could create and capture them with high efficiency, we might have a more efficient energy transport mechanism than stringing wires everywhere. I really love this concept, and I still think it could, some day, maybe go somewhere. If you think it sounds cool too, maybe you could help try to make it a reality! There really is a space for amateurs in physics, as much as the field can seem uninviting. Piezoelectricity, however, does not produce light. One of my favorite things about science is that it's willing to tell you that you're wrong. In conspiracy thought, your theory never gets proven wrong, it just becomes more and more tenuously connected to the truth forever, or until you get bored of it and jump to something else. A slow rotting of the idea, of every idea, until the pretense that it was ever believed in at all can finally be shrugged aside. There's no tension to coming up with an idea, no thrill that this might finally be the one, and no great excitement that it really is, and you've bested the problem laid out before you. Just the dull foreknowledge that you're already right, no matter what, forever. The best part of science is the opportunity to discover something that no one else has ever thought of before, and to have the entire universe agree with you that you really did figure it out. Come explore with me : ). To the video author, I imagine you have dozens of comments about this, and I'm sorry to add to the pile. I hope I've contributed something unique. Best of luck to you, anthropology gang forever.

[@catherinemontrose2102]

Thank for for the science! Remember the "harmonic convergence" that was supposed to happen in the sky some decades ago? Harmonic is definitely a word that doesn't mean what people thinks it means.

[@Edmund-od7mv]

I have learned science.Googledybunking time (not saying what you just said "needs to be debunked" or anything BTW)

[@VulpeX2Triumph]

Thanks for this highly detailed comment! I love every part of it and how much excitement and information density it carries.

[@marsh1020]

the theoretical utility of microwaves is really cool, I've never heard of that before!! Gonna look that one up when I have some free time :D

[@bobthegamingtaco6073]

The idea that I could dial my microwave into someone else's microwave and I guess burn their frozen dinner sounds like a prank in a sci-fi comedy lol, but being serious for a second, I'd be worried about containing the energy, for it to be useful we'd be sending enough energy through the air to potentially boil a human, or at least heat them rapidly. I'm fine if we don't pursue this one, Nikola was already known for wanting to build a death ray, and I feel like this is how you build a death ray

[@lizfraiser3993]

I'm a teacher and I send my high school students to your channel when I hear them talking about TikTok consipiricies. They may not listen to me, but they listen to you.

[@evanc.1591]

Honestly, it's a really smart application of a principle that St. Paul talks about in the context of evangelization. If you're trying to convince people of something, you've got to meet then where they're at. You have to speak their language. As he says, "be all things to all men." If you're talking to someone who's into conspiracy theories dipped in Gen Z sarcasm and snark, give them a guy who uses the same cultural idioms, but is actually conveying truth.

[@EM-iy2nk]

That's really cool of you! My dad believes everything he sees on ancient aliens...I think he may be too far down the rabbit hole to be saved at this point

[@m.streicher8286]

@@EM-iy2nk wish my dad was into ancient aliens, there are more harmful conspiracies

[@kyle9401]

​@@EM-iy2nkancient aliens?! That's goobledybonkers

[@spiraboy]

I am a teacher in China. These kids here have no idea about these conspiracies

[@BaconDragon-yr5vf]

The Lovelock cave system moved me. You literally managed to make 6 minutes more interesting history than all of Zieba's video

[@IPODsify]

"4mm per hour" shows them cutting at 4mm per minute

[@Lenape_Lady]

My ex’s brother came to visit us one winter. We lived on a top of a mountain in the Poconos, Pa and he was coming from the Jersey Shore. He came with a bag full of shorts and tank tops. Nary a coat in sight. When I asked him why he packed for a Florida vacation to visit a mountain…in the Poconos…in the middle of winter….his answer was: “Well you live up here on top of the mountain so it’s closer to the sun. It should be warmer up here than the beach.” This was a 29yo grown man with a job and car and apartment. And I felt EXACTLY like how you looked when the “giants cut down the giant trees and those mountains are stumps” line was uttered. The look and feel of absolute despair at the enormous stupidity right in front of us. A kind of awe inspiring stupidity.

[@freeloading_toad]

I want whatever that guy was smoking during his 4th grade science class. Or literally any time he has seen a depiction of a mountain ever since birth

[@wayfaringspacepoet]

I'm curious now, how did he respond to the reality of mountain weather conditions?

[@comradewindowsill4253]

well, at least he learned his mistake firsthand.

[@Javierm0n0]

That level of sheer idiocy to believe that a mountain is warmer cuz it's closer to the sun i

[@wesleyharrison9014]

But mount Kilamanjaro in Africa has snow on it 😂

[@rinhays4523]

"Shut the fuck up, and stop drinking mercury" is now my go to response when someone says something incredibly stupid.

[@tubeTreasurer]

When someone says or does something incredibly stupid in germany we ask(translated) "Dude, did you chug paint?"

[@Valigarmanda]

It has layers because apparently some dumb people in the past tried injecting mercury in their blood because they believe it gives them immortality or superpowers. Some people ingested mercury because it has pharmaceutical applications.

[@hibana_oonana728.psn.9]

Dont think we forgot about the Atlantis video. we crave it. we need it

[@TwinPhoenix666]

Having watched both parts of this, I did not expect for you to end it the way you did. Respect AF!

[@PrototypeB16]

Googledebunkers will forever be the meme of the Miniminuteman channel GOOGLEDEBUNKERS RISE

[@silverpotato4272]

At last Milo fans have a name

[@aidenjessop-df2cf]

Googledybunkers are here

[@nerdygraves]

​@@silverpotato4272The fact that we didn't was driving me googledebunkers

[@DopaminedotSeek3rcolonthree]

I actively want Googledebunkers to end up in the dictionary fr. "The feeling of frustration when presented with someone so willfully ignorant and deluded that you know there is no hope of pulling them out of the hole they've dug for themselves."

[@MrFlarespeed]

It truly is the perfect everything word.

[@muntuku]

"10,000 likes and I'll start a homesteading channel" Well, you're at 43k likes. Where's the homesteading channel?

[@Faoiltierna]

He's at 77k now :D And yes, I clicked immediately after he said that! LOL

[@herbivorousTombstone]

Yes! I wanna see him play with cute farm animals and have a nice, relaxing time after all that hard work of debunking stupid videos!

[@BreakYourBubble]

​@@Faoiltierna same 🤭

[@MaVerik1727]

I would actually really like to see a homestead channel, as I think it'd be great to see. Plus Milo can make it funny and educational

[@thestoneskipper3377]

Even if he meant "In the live premiere", I was there, it hit over 11k. We should be getting it soon XD

[@Azguella]

Should we tell Filip that reason why so many of mummies are missing is because British ate them?

[@tonyabettridge1128]

It occurred to me in watching this series how much the conspiracy theorists rely on what is left as evidence of all that used to be. Maybe what we have left and see as “common” pyramid or mound structures all have similarities because that design was what lasted over time. Maybe many other types of buildings were originally built, but those designs just didn’t weather the elements over time as well.

[@eeveetrainer4849]

When he said electricity, I said to myself, "Don't say Baghdad Batteries," and then I picked up the pillow I was sitting by and threw it towards my wall.

[@macklinillustration]

I screamed into mine

[@ghostofyou9721]

I feel that pain because I too picked up my pillow when he mentioned the Great Pyramid of Giza is not a tomb but instead a power plant.

[@Nightingale_time]

​@@ghostofyou9721honestly, I know it's not true, but it would be really kind of cool if it were... but there are so many cool things that are ACTUALLY true-it's fine

[@pizzasharkguy3807]

Get ready, we gonna have another episode of "Just because it looks like a man-made structure, doesn't mean it IS one"

[@g3m5t0n3]

This is going to drive me googledebunkers

[@angela22778]

Sobbing rn

[@redwiltshire1816]

Wait your telling me the perfectly carved valleys aren’t man made?

[@pizzasharkguy3807]

@@redwiltshire1816 Bro grand canyon is egypt trust me my source is the great filip zieba

[@bloodyneptune]

My _favorite_ it the 'melted buildings' one because like, their 'evidence' is what looks like a melted pyramid (not _really)_ in the Grand Canyon right. But their theory on what melted it was a giant lightning strike that _created the Crand Canyon._ All of that is so stupid but like, guys, that doesn't even make _stupid_ sense.

[@user-wd8re8yc7d]

I’m absolutely obsessed with your long form videos & have watched EVERYTHING you’ve made. I neeeeeeeeeeeeed more

[@Maias-boyfriend]

You sounded like you really wanted to do that cartwheel and I was excited about it

[@schmitz1126]

a drop of water in the river with over 15k comments and unlikely to be seen but this was phenomenal. The debunking, the positive ending, it's inspiration and that's pure gold in my book. Massive hugs from a fellow historian.

[@andistansbury4366]

I can see you.

[@kingbanane8690]

You will be seen

[@LogicSam146]

You are one in 8 billion, you are unique, you are appreciated

[@millo7295]

Humanity is doomed We're done if we're not even using words correctly

[@Obi-Wan_Kannoli]

I think you mean, the googledebunking

[@Pit_Wizard]

That original video of Filip talking about stardust is actually kind of heartbreaking. There's a palpable sense of passion and sincerity that, as so often happens, got trampled by audience capture and The Algorithm™. It reminds me of the science and history TV channels of my childhood, which slowly got bastardized by corporate motives as time went on.

[@auroralilyz]

My thoughts exactly. Filip could use his platform for the things that make him happy, REAL things that could make his audience happy too, but he doesn’t.

[@Nakahat01]

I watched the discovery channel back when it was all nature documentaries before the biker phase. I then moved to the history channel when it was all ww2 documentaries, then came the ancient aliens. Now I just googldebunk

[@Pit_Wizard]

@@Nakahat01 Discovery Channel and History Channel nurtured a lot of curious young minds like mine back in the day. Now they just peddle bullshit for money. Really sad to see.

[@nibblitman]

See the problem with doing research and doing work to really understand stuff is it takes a bunch of time and effort before you can put the video out.

[@shannap.lawnerd125]

💯🎯🤓

[@Thorn773]

I have never been so thrilled to see a two-hour upload. Love your content man, keep it up!

[@lukaspoltera6561]

I love the section where you talk about lifting stones and all i had in mind was those huge rigs that we use nowadays to literally lift container ships out of (into) the water

[@Kingsman-cq9is]

40:55 not to mention that the British actually stole and ATE a bunch if mummies until someone went “we probably shouldn’t eat this” and everyone else went “yeah u right”

[@tuluppampam]

You forgot the rest of Europe and mummy brown in paintings

[@poughkeepsieblue]

​@@tuluppampamthey didnt forget, they just didnt wanna look at their favorite piece of art and remember it.

[@Crowborn]

the British stealing mummies to eat sounds like a thing I'd make up to anger the British its so insanely funny that its real

[@andistansbury4366]

​@@CrowbornMelification

[@tuluppampam]

@@Crowborn fantasy can never be sillier than actual history

[@OfficialNice]

Man said “those pesky thieves” so smugly like there isn’t a whole video game series called tomb raider about doing this exact thing.

[@beoweasel]

Or movies. Or Books....

[@rai4119]

the entirety of the British History museum

[@FTZPLTC]

We do a little cultural appropriation =D

[@huntercarlton724]

Posted this on r/miniminutemanfans, but I wanted to see what people think here too: Following Milo’s 2nd video debunking Filip Zieba, i was interested to see if Filip 1) would see the video, and 2) would react to it, or even change the content he makes. Now it’s a couple weeks later, and I’m not 100% sure he saw the video, but as I’ve periodically went back and checked on his new content, I’m noticing some steps in the right direction. Given some of the trends in his videos I’ve seen (as well as the fact that he reuploaded his first video, which Milo praised, after the release of Milo’s 2nd vid), I’d bet that he has seen the debunking videos, or at least the call to action at end of the second one. As far as I can tell, Filip hasn’t made any drastic changes to his content, and his general “think for yourself and question authority” attitude is the same, BUT I’ve noticed some notable differences in his videos released post-googledebunking: Firstly, I’ve noticed him using many more reputable facts in his videos, including many direct quotes and screenshots of news(?) articles in his “Tunnels under the Sphinx” video, citing a architectural proposal and the date of its release in his “Sky Tower” Video, and raising legitimately interesting points about mineral hardness, with a hardness scale for reference, in his recent “Egyptian Pottery” Video, to name just a couple. Second, he seems to be going back to his roots a bit and talking about science in ways that aren’t fear-mongering, propagandizing or ridiculously conspiratorial. Recently, this can be seen in his “Sky Tower” video, his video explaining Gallium, and (the caption of) his admittedly joke-y video explaining the doorway effect. Thirdly, and maybe most importantly, he honestly seems to be making much more of a good faith effort to be honest, even in videos where he describes pretty outlandish theories. A great example of this is the “Trump Time Traveller” Video. Throughout the video, he does a pretty good job of distinguishing when he is stating facts (even inviting the viewer to fact check him on all of it) and when he’s just speculating or pointing out what he sees as weird coincidences. Other, smaller examples throughout his new videos are instances of him saying things like “THEY don’t want you to know” or making some wild claim like“could this be aliens?!,” which is pretty par for the course for the old Zieba vids. The difference now is he follows those up with “lol jk, that’s probably not true, but it’s interesting to think about, right?” And I think that is MUCH less damaging and untruthful than his old way of pretty unambiguously misleading people. His newer stuff still has the energy and attitude he’s capitalized off of for a while, but I really do think I’m seeing a change from dangerous misinformation to just discussing interesting theories, while acknowledging how outlandish some of them are. Anyway, maybe I’m just seeing what I want to see, but take an honest look, and let me know if any of yall are noticing that too. His antics still are not really my cup of tea, but I really think things are shifting in the right direction :) EDIT: grammar

[@DewDrops-]

I think it is definitely a step in the right direction and It’s good to see because Milo is right, Filip is a great communicator and making it more factual and back to his roots(science) and it’s good to see. Hope he keep this up because it’s nice to see Edit: he also deleted/privated all the conspiracy shorts on his KZbin Channel. Nice

[@harryorangutan1690]

I'm a stonemason to trade and this has seriously made me think about making some videos on traditional masonry techniques to show how the trade works

[@dipsers]

Oh please do! I would definitely watch!😍

[@harryorangutan1690]

@@dipsers let's make it happen! I'd love to tie in with Milo for it

[@BLET_55artem55]

Let's go!

[@panda-peanut]

Yes, please make that video. I will watch it. 😊

[@jessikaaxner6682]

There's 100% an audience for that :)

[@puellanivis]

I like how there’s somehow an assumption that not only did the Great Pyramid constructors know the metric system and speed of light, they just also happened to know that the future populace was going to establish Greenwich as the prime meridian.

[@griffinblades8475]

And used base 10 counting. And they would have to know how much a second was.

[@CrazyDruidCaell]

Nah, it was latitude. Which means they had to know the equator as the middle line AND use base 90 measurements for degrees. While keeping base 10 for the rest of the measurements ... like we do today. But WE have the nice reason of it being historical. His "fact" was merely hysterical.

[@inerkatakan8161]

*the speed of light in a vacuum it is likely that ancient egypts had idead about air pressure i don't believe they have created near perfect vacuums so they can measure the speed of light in there

[@quiestinliteris]

​@@inerkatakan8161 No, but see, they would have had to be able to create a vacuum so the filament in the Dendera lightbulb wouldn't just burn through... XD

[@hedgehog3180]

@@CrazyDruidCaell There's also the issue that the Egyptians didn't use degrees to measure angles, they used the length of the base of a right triangle to measure angles and they measured that length using palms and fingers. I mean degrees as a measuring system is basically entirely a historical coincidence and is really not a particularly obvious way to measure angles.

[@SlyviaElanor]

I love this channel. And personally I would really like to see a video of you explaining and maybe debunking the book on the theory of pyramids being powerhouses. I also really like the character that you play.

[@SnakeEyes327]

"Ten Thousand likes and I'll start a homesteading channel" *looks at the 100K+ likes* I think Milo just wanted an excuse to make a homesteading channel.

[@headsgrowback1]

An ancient person: "i have spent my whole life studying, gaining experience and talent in carving stone, look! To show my monumental capability, i have cut this piece of granite into perfect right angles!" Some dudebro on the Internet: "look guys, a perfect right angle in this granite rock, we know that people in that time were too stupid to do something like this, must be aliens!"

[@thunderspark1536]

Never underestimate the human ability to do one thing REALLY well.

[@JeepnHeel]

"We know that **those** people..."

[@aloading444]

"Wow, that's a good sound bite. 'Slaves, bro, they had slaves, bro.' I don't know what house he was in, but his brothers didn't haze him enough." is a perfect line holy moly

[@avwholesomegamer]

My spouse never picked on her younger sister growing up and now that they’re adults I’m constantly like “see? This is what happens.” 😂

[@LostStarzOfTheSky]

@@avwholesomegamer he meant like a frat not actual siblings

[@TheCompleteMental]

He feels like someone who unintentionally idolized his bullies though

[@zeno3630]

Egyptians back then trying to get the pyramid of giza to be 3 pigeons riding a cart and 2 flowers away from the speed of light is insane

[@Watch_Dogg117]

Theres a book called “The twelfth planet” which I think would be right up your alley, you should talk about it

[@fishmansf4573]

This guy was already driving me nuts. But as a biology major, him saying “the bones were given to a dinosaur species called a sauropod. It’s convenient that they made a dinosaur for these” really drive me up the wall.

[@hedgehog3180]

Who fucking does that to the Dinosaurs, they're like the thing everyone loved I thought.

[@joshuawing4766]

these new bones are unique, let's make a new species for it because it doesn't line up with any others.

[@cavramau]

Which guy?

[@maryeckel9682]

​@@cavramauFilip

[@alfaseng]

@@hedgehog3180 Honestly, dinosaurs are overrated in Paleontology

[@TransSappho]

I’m a paleontologist who specializes in dinosaurs and specifically has worked on sauropod femurs: it’s so fucking obviously a sauropod femur. Why can’t it be cool enough that it’s a massive leg from a dinosaur Edit to add: ground sloths are so cool too!!! Why can’t that be cool enough??? Why is it only interesting to him if it’s a giant???

[@Serenity_Dee]

I live in NC, and at the Museum of Natural History in Raleigh they have a life-size recreation of a giant ground sloth that was endemic to this area. (Or, at least, they had one last time I was there.) They're huge with claws that look like they could sever my neck with one swipe and I sure as hell wouldn't want to get anywhere closer than a football field, given the rule that large herbivores are _vastly_ more homicidal than large carnivores. (Seriously, look at what animals kill the most humans.)

[@Pte.Fletcher]

I showed the giant ground sloth remains picture to my younger brother, and he isn't uneducated in this stuff (mainly because the rest of my family love it), he is not very interested in paleontology, or archeology or anything of the like. I asked him "Is this a giant human skeleton", and he laughed as he said "no". When I asked what he thought it was, he said bear, which is fair enough, but a bear skeleton looks even more like a large human than the sloth.

[@JeffreyOller]

@@Serenity_Dee There are more herbivores than carnivores. Are you sure that on average they are more homicidal? It's a tall claim, considering that herbivores outnumber carnivores by about 10 to 1. My cursory research shows that hippos kill people about twice as often a year as lions. But hippos outnumber lions by 5 to 1. Making lions 2.5 times as "homicidal" as hippos.

[@borttorbbq2556]

​@@JeffreyOllerhippos moose herbivores that are considered more dangerous than many of the Predators, I don't remember off hand what the term actually is called by essentially. These are urban wars that they're main. Defensive tactic is to be super aggressive, as most predators won't usually waste their time on a prey animal that is aggressive, mostly just because predators don't generally adapt super well and those are both very large animals that can do it. Is on a damage

[@Serenity_Dee]

@@JeffreyOller Carnivores save their energy for hunting. Large herbivores like rhinos, hippos, water buffalo, American bison, moose, elephants, and many more will charge first and ask questions later, sometimes because they have crappy eyesight and decide it's better to attack when in doubt (rhinos, American bison), sometimes (moose and elephants most notably) because mating hormones make them vastly more violent during that time of year, sometimes because they have a massive size and natural weaponry advantage (water buffalo, hippos) such that predators avoid healthy adults. For a carnivore, attacking is very risky: it consumes a lot of time, it burns calories (cheetahs are often riding the knife edge of starvation because their hunting strategy burns so much energy), and depending on your prey, there's a high risk of injury (see above). There are exceptions; for instance, if you can see the polar bear, it's already too late, and bears that normally avoid humans will rip you apart if they think you might threaten their cubs. Mountain lions are similar. The most deadly animals to humans are, in order, mosquitoes, humans, snakes, dogs, and then things like freshwater snails, assassin bugs, roundworms, and tapeworms. Crocodiles are the deadliest large predator by _far_, and they only kill about a thousand people a year.

[@retropulse03]

I love these long videos SO MUCH. I have fallen asleep watching your long form videos night after night after night. Each time rewinding it to where I last remember. Better than garbage late-night TV.

[@aguywithalotofopinions412]

Ok that ending was genuinely really nice and uplifting

[@WalletWorrier]

34:49 My favourite fun fact about ancient Egypt is that it lasted so long, there were ancient Egyptian archeologists studying even ancienter Egypt

[@samhebrank1903]

🐌

[@PaulMDavidson]

Many if not most surviving cuneiform tablets come from the library of Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, who was basically an archaeologist who collected as many ancient texts as he could find.

[@Gildedmuse]

So it's like a thousand years from now, someone studying ancient France and finding a the remains of the work of a 20th century historian who did the majority of her research on Charlemagne and assuming she was his scribe since they both lived at basically the same time.

[@ethanstyant9704]

Cleopatra was closer to us than she was the building of the pyramids

[@wadespencer3623]

@@PaulMDavidson One of his grand boasts was about how many languages he could read! Dude was SUPER into learning about old stuff.

[@TheArtisticGamer7]

The way these grifters work is comparable to someone stumbling upon some kind of Michelangelo portrait and saying "This is ONLY possible with a CAMERA, NO ONE could paint this today"

[@femkevanwageningen6068]

That's a really good comparison!

[@thezackast2752]

They arent wrong, no human could paint such a masterpiece. This is because Michelangelo is a turtle

[@art_kitty_1190]

@@thezackast2752 yeah. Leonardo didn’t paint the Mona Lisa and the last supper. He’s a teenage mutant turtle who fights bad guys in New York! Must be a camera/s

[@comradewindowsill4253]

i think the funniest thing is, even leaving aside the various small impacts that the brush and paint leave on the final product, you actually cannot reproduce a Michelangelo with any camera. why? because in a renaissance painting, EVERYTHING is in focus. all the way from the background mountains to the very foreground, everything is in focus. a camera can't do that; a human eye, which roves and refocuses automatically on things it finds interesting, can.

[@bryanwendland235]

hol up I'm about to start a tiktok conspiracy channel about painters How did Dali get the melted clocks to look so melty? An early photoshop prototype the American military found in an alien spaceship wreck! How did Michelangelo get all that cool shit on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? Ai. Why are Hieronymus Bosch's paintings so horrific? Because he actually went to hell through a portal that still exists in the Netherlands that the UN has been covering up for 300 years!!!! DO NOT RESEARCH ANY OF THIS THE SHEEPLE WANT YOUR MIND TO STAY CLOSED

[@DavidAlcaldeR]

Finally finished episode 2. Simply awesome. Love the content. Keep it up!

[@jasperhopland8913]

48:00 If anyone has ever taken at least one highschool mathclass before, they would tell you those two numbers are so unimaginably far apart from each other. Just because the first couple numbers are kinda the same, doesn't mean shit.

[@Korochun]

Personally to me, the funniest aspect of the "coordinates of pyramid are equal to the speed of light" arguement is that the coordinate system used here was established in 1800s in England. If the Egyptians were to make their own coordinate system, the Pyramids would be close to...well, zero, because that would be the Egyptian center of the world.

[@doormatthew3995]

I was thinking that! I do arch work using LiDAR and the amount of times my data gets messed up because of the HUNDREDS of different coordinate systems…

[@hedgehog3180]

There's another problem, they're getting those coordinates by using degrees but the Egyptians didn't use degrees to measure angles they used an entirely different system that's actually kinda fascinating and really clever.

[@vylbird8014]

Time travellers! It's the only explanation.

[@serenityphawx]

It's amusing that when people like that think about the speed of light constant, they forget how important the units of measurement are. It's particularly funny, because that number for the speed of light (c) is based on meters (per second squared). But while meters were first invented in the late 1700s, the modern definition of a meter is now technically based on the speed of light! So, it's a sort of weird self-referential thing lol

[@Ziobbe]

It's always very telling which conventions the conspiracy theorists assume to be inherent to the universe. Like a base-ten numbering system, co-ordinates starting at London, the modern English language