Grey, any time you need to talk about Tiff just give me a call.
@WarlordofWarren3 жыл бұрын
Neat
@tobias62493 жыл бұрын
Nice to see you here!
@Hydan163 жыл бұрын
The greatest minds gather themselves on places you would never expect
@kman60043 жыл бұрын
You two should do some kind of colab where you make/prove some kind of physics claim and Grey has to dive endlessly into the historical significance
@PeterPhillipsVaycent3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha I legitimately hope Grey gets back to you. This is the collab we need
@Burntheguitarist3 жыл бұрын
The scottish history section being located in a perpetually unlit section of an English library is the most beautifully poetic thing I think I have seen
@Ok-lu8gx3 жыл бұрын
ok
@jospinner11833 жыл бұрын
Presumably the Irish history section is just a pile of self-congratulatory texts by an assortment of Englishmen.
@Xentillus3 жыл бұрын
@@jospinner1183 It's a baked potato stall
@salvadorgiron55273 жыл бұрын
Truth
@thericepotato58473 жыл бұрын
@@jospinner1183 It would be, but the books went to war and all but the most important texts got burned in the ensuing scuffle
@RJRJ3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for developing unhealthy obsessions with obscure topics for my entertainment
@MrCommentGod3 жыл бұрын
Yee
@gnatdagnat3 жыл бұрын
Agree
@SortingFarmer3 жыл бұрын
I feel the same
@reentrysfs63173 жыл бұрын
Agree
@walmartiancheese49223 жыл бұрын
OUR
@scientificconsideration8294 Жыл бұрын
I love how Alexander Pope's message was essentially "Thomas Hearne is a hoarding prick" and Grey, after months of excruciating work, basically confirmed it.
@speakertomeat3 жыл бұрын
I love how centuries later Grey finds himself in agreement with Pope's despise of Hearne
@huhwerami44173 жыл бұрын
Pope despising hearne was not unwarranted
@Lumberjack_king3 жыл бұрын
@chula chalupa it wasn’t pointless
@FroggerbobT2 жыл бұрын
@chula chalupa Wasn't pointless. It proved that Hearne was a shithead that couldn't do his job right.
@ashtar38762 жыл бұрын
@chula chalupa yeah no hearne definitely deserved that from making grey go insane from this poem
@LiveFreeOrDieDH2 жыл бұрын
Alex Pope wins again...
@TammyJerkChicken3 жыл бұрын
I love that this channel is just “proper research is agony”
@kennedytheretard9753 жыл бұрын
Because it kinda is
@timspoor3 жыл бұрын
Yes!
@svchineeljunk-riggedschoon40383 жыл бұрын
Here's a research hole for you - look to see if the late neolithic tribes in western France migrated to central Algeria (a wetland at the time) and later were the source of the Atlantis myth after a mud volcano to the south erupted. That's enough to start on, oh, here's a clue to get you going - look to see where the Clovis point stone spearhead migrated to around that time. Obviously you'll need to read the Plato mythology on it too, the Pillars of Hercules were considered to be between Sicily and Africa at the time the original myth was written, not Gibraltar. There's also gentic data on Europedia that can help, it's the later (post 30,000bce) mtDNA X that you'll need to follow. If you assume that the population in Africa got mostly wiped out in roughly 9850bce (aside from a few Berbers that have mtDNA X) you can see that the survivors migrated to the Levant and Greece. Old Sparta was certainly one of those colonies. And Gobekli Tepi as well. Only do this is you enjoy the torture though, it's a very deep hole. Just ignore anything written after the Greek about it though.
@IamOutOfNames3 жыл бұрын
"DON'T GO LOOKING."
@ArmaliteSpade3 жыл бұрын
How many cows did that guy own? I don't know! It's just numbers you prick! Write them like a normal person!
@odhgkg3 жыл бұрын
Grey’s willingness to dive absurdly deep into the most seemingly simple topics just shows how incredibly complex and interesting our world really is
@cloudybookcase91893 жыл бұрын
Indeed
@Skemmm3 жыл бұрын
and this is making me want to do it myself
@Kirasque3 жыл бұрын
"Everything is a universe unto itself"
@cloudybookcase91893 жыл бұрын
@@Skemmm make a video about it
@riddyrid3 жыл бұрын
Who?
@Color_Splsh2 жыл бұрын
Grey has just done the real, actual, unironic job of a historian.
@TokuNorth3 жыл бұрын
I love how Grey just casually brushes off the earliest known reference to Robin Hood in order to search for Tiffany
@Dave-ks9fi3 жыл бұрын
She was well known to his men around the camp.
@destruct05033 жыл бұрын
Thats because the Robin hood reference has been well researched multiple times (its not the one in the scotichronicon) and his topic was Tiffany, which hasn't been researched
@karolkozik59183 жыл бұрын
And insists on reading roman numerals as letters.
@TokuNorth3 жыл бұрын
@@karolkozik5918 Well, that IS how you read them
@karolkozik59183 жыл бұрын
@@TokuNorth Well I know, but... Alright, you win. I just think reading it the "normal" way would at least lead some non-historical people towards trying to learn Roman numerals. Of course they're as useful in modern times as Latin itself, sed sicut Brianum Davidus Gilbertus dixit, "Scientia potentia est". - written on X.IX.MMXXI
@AnimeFan-wd5pq3 жыл бұрын
I love the fact that a 35 page letter roasting a person’s documentation book survived the annals of history and managed to be shared to millions of people to become remembered for ages past its prime.
@shieldanvilitkovian95413 жыл бұрын
Past it's prime? No sir, it's been aged well, and can probably stand for another 300 years.
@conorstapleton31833 жыл бұрын
If he would have had more time, he would have written a shorter letter.
@bencalvin82583 жыл бұрын
There's nothing more CGPGrey than "I thought I had someone I could finally talk to about this, but he died 100 years ago"
@ellemourto15273 жыл бұрын
Yeeah, that made me laugh out loud xD
@Slash0mega2 жыл бұрын
cgp grey, exasperated: "I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF ANYONE IS STILL LISTENING AT THIS POINT!" me, being entranced by the centuries old drama about Hearne while eating a Klondike bar: "ya, I'm with ya"
@mateo_sid2 жыл бұрын
😂
@Wobby2663 жыл бұрын
"Is anyone still even watching?" Yes, me. And loving every second of this batshit crazy journey through minor points in history.
@green05633 жыл бұрын
Yup, me too.
@godsdj73163 жыл бұрын
"Is anyone here?" Yup, me too!
@tekbox79093 жыл бұрын
Same
@melanieodhner46863 жыл бұрын
Same!
@rktt96193 жыл бұрын
“Anyway, snap out of it, carrying on.” broke me :D
@the_flying_airplane53353 жыл бұрын
I love the “being held hostage” vibe in this video like he just kidnapped us all to rant about a historian with bad memory
@JoshSweetvale2 жыл бұрын
9:00 Alexander Pope literally wrote down: *"To future historians:* This guy's a hack." And here *we, future historians,* goggle at his spiteful, beautiful foresight.
@chadcuckproducer10372 жыл бұрын
You mean google?
@spk11212 жыл бұрын
*giggle
@therobloxiangang32182 жыл бұрын
*gaggle
@disrespecc96782 жыл бұрын
*wiggle
@JoshSweetvale2 жыл бұрын
ETYMOLOGY-MAN, HEEEEEEEELP!!!!
@Lanfairya3 жыл бұрын
"Provided nothing of value" - actually, I will be sending this to a friend who is a history teacher who will most likely use it as a way to demonstrate to students how misinformation can take root and be passed down through the centuries and why checking the original source material is so incredibly important. It may actually provide far greater value than you realize.
@EcceJack3 жыл бұрын
Certainly! One could go so far as to say that highlighting these difficulties is even more important than ever before in *gestures broadly* _these_ current times! Showing how doing proper research might take a lot of time, and not lead anywhere
@TheDramacist3 жыл бұрын
But the lesson here is not to obsess over the source until you check that the content of the material is of any factual accuracy to begin with
@roryschussler3 жыл бұрын
Grey is relatively lucky here. For a researcher, you'll often be frustrated by sloppy scholarship that allows inaccuracies to be written down as truth. It's rare that you'll actually find the direct source of the misinformation *and* get the schadenfreude of watching him get brutally dunked on by one of the greatest satirists in the English language.
@StoryTeller7963 жыл бұрын
Yeah, this is one of the best videos that I have seen that depict misinformation.
@link_team38552 жыл бұрын
check the sources of your source's sources
@MathsOwl29503 жыл бұрын
Grey: "The poem didn't even make it into the -main video-" The "main" video: 2.4 million views This video: 3.3 million views
@ChaoticEnigma923 жыл бұрын
That .2 million is me. I've come back here a lot...
@zyaicob3 жыл бұрын
Holy mother forkin' shirtballs- this is the main video
@dallarian86873 жыл бұрын
Tbh when I browsed the channel, this video is way more interesting than author's stories about his GF. [that's the feeling about videos' content I got; note: English isn't my main languange]
@nothernstar25763 жыл бұрын
3.2 m already
@LeoStaley3 жыл бұрын
@@ChaoticEnigma92 The Tifanny video is now showing at 2.3 million. WTF??
@lahusahah19943 жыл бұрын
Alexander Pope would probably love how much trouble Hearne's mistakes have frustrated Grey's research. I'd imagine he'd write an open letter to the public criticizing Hearne for causing so much hassle.
@AbsolXGuardian3 жыл бұрын
"This scholar and writer of pamphlets for the education of the public was driven to madness."
@tolman44973 жыл бұрын
alexander pope sounds like a hilarious guy
@bulldozer89503 жыл бұрын
“His misinformation and inclusions of useless misquoted works cost true researchers of valuable time”
@hrolvnir3 жыл бұрын
he would've written an open letter *praising hearne for "inducing in others so much scholarly effort and doubly admirable for doing with so lightly of his own"
@vigilantcosmicpenguin87213 жыл бұрын
I think Grey might have been possessed by Pope's spirit for a bit.
@EbonMaster2 жыл бұрын
I think this is important as it shows how a single person's incompetency can spread misinformation for literally hundreds of years. This is a small thing but how many of these small things are there out there that end up changing the total narrative either through this same level of incompetency or intentionally? The idea is so fascinating to me that it almost makes me wish I took up history.
@mrahzzz2 жыл бұрын
Right!!?? Makes me really interested in theory of information and communication. We see it in things like childhood games of "telephone," in common misconceptions, etc, but we give too much credit that things will get shaken out and that sources speak from a place of professional practice or well studied confidence, when in reality misinformation is so easy to spread... Suuuper interesting.
@greywolf75772 жыл бұрын
So do we know anything about history? Should I question the truth of anything that happened before I was born?
@twincitiestara2 жыл бұрын
@@greywolf7577 "Know" is probably too strong a word for it. We are "relatively confident" that Hannibal crossed the Alps and a couple of his elephants survived the journey. Okay, maybe we just suspect it, but we're relatively confident that the Punic Wars happened. Probably.
@whyplaypiano28442 жыл бұрын
@@greywolf7577 Yes, isn't that obvious? You have the power to test anything you want within reason. If you have skepticism, then by all means, attempt to debunk whatever it is you're skeptical about.
@toddalexander5015 Жыл бұрын
I want a netflix series about this just so we can see some character acter gnashing his teeth into the scenery playing these historical people
@bongosmcdongos41903 жыл бұрын
I love how hundreds of years later Hearne is being dumped on by YET ANOTHER popular scholar.
@StarDude13 жыл бұрын
A. Pope is amazing
@st12203 жыл бұрын
@@StarDude1 yes he is
@Josearnaldomanuel23 жыл бұрын
Well, based on what we've been shown he clearly deserves it.
@DavidJoh3 жыл бұрын
Also I'm never ordering copper from Ea-Nasir. His customer service was dreadful.
@Iron-Jupiter3 жыл бұрын
Hearne is rolling in his grave that people still haven’t let it go lmao
@sevenaries3 жыл бұрын
The fact that Grey was actually able to track all this down is insane.
@vaclav_fejt3 жыл бұрын
You can also leave out the words "The fact that was actually able to track all this down" and it's also true, by now.
@vaclav_fejt3 жыл бұрын
@@dmpmomof3 1) I'm not saying Seven's writing is wrong 2) I did mean "by now", that was not a goodbye. Or was that comma superfluous? I can't always tell in English.
@fii_896393 жыл бұрын
@@vaclav_fejt Given that one of the books in question is the Scotichronicon, I can totally believe that.
@WittAllen3 жыл бұрын
To me, a lot of the fascination stems from being able to convey it all back to an audience cohesively. I have no problem following rabbit trails all day; thanks, Wikipedia! Realizing I'm on a rabbit trail, orienting myself, document where I am, where I've been, and where I need to go are all incredibly difficult for me.
@MandosSez3 жыл бұрын
"Ardent STEM stan slowly discovers the Humanities, descending into madness" has been a wonderful plotline so far. Can't wait to see what's in store.
@charliespinoza19663 жыл бұрын
+
@vortex_master3 жыл бұрын
It's been the antithesis of my past 6 months, which has been "Ardent Humanities stan slowly discovers STEM, descending into madness."
@imnotahippie223 жыл бұрын
I fell asleep twice while watching this. But i did rewatch it after waking up more. Was hard but wanted to watch the whole thing to be supportive in my own way
@casey65563 жыл бұрын
As someone who studied Math and GRSJ (Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice) in university and is now studying Law, this comment is deeply accurate and insightful. I feel Grey’s pain in my soul.
@rsaylors3 жыл бұрын
A return to the question of truth.
@IsamBitar2 жыл бұрын
Watched this with my fiancée. We're both PhD researchers and this was just perfect.
@EEEEEEEE2 жыл бұрын
E
@loganfaucher2 жыл бұрын
That's awesome! What's your PHD in?
@rafaelfigfigueiredo29882 жыл бұрын
That's sweet man
@IsamBitar Жыл бұрын
@@loganfaucher mine’s in autonomous vehicles and game theory. Hers is in clinical research and patient reported outcomes.
@loganfaucher Жыл бұрын
@@IsamBitar that's do cool
@mabimabi2123 жыл бұрын
"I didn't come to this library to look the earliest reference to Robin Hood." Something tells me he will someday
@Superhrnet3 жыл бұрын
HE DID! Just after he hinted at it! So he fell down a rabbit hole while down a rabbit hole.
@vigilantcosmicpenguin87213 жыл бұрын
But that's a story for another time.
@johnkieth45373 жыл бұрын
@@Superhrnet so while down in a hole he found a cave, poor guy
@bretterry83563 жыл бұрын
I would love to hear his historically accurate take on Robin Hood, with all the romance and mythology stripped away.
@childofnewlight3 жыл бұрын
I'd say throw the man a rope, but we'd probably end up with a video on the history of rope making.
@TheRekabNivek3 жыл бұрын
When people say "I've done my own research", this is the level you have to go to to over turn the experts
@TheNerdySkier3 жыл бұрын
If they do this level of research, they ARE the expert. Grey is the world’s foremost expert in Tiffanys, there is no doubt in my mind
@mcflugglemuffin45483 жыл бұрын
I feel like in 300 years some historian will look back, hopelessly researching some random topic, and find Grey commenting on Hearn and Pope, then spiral even further, seeing Grey as one of the great 21st century historians.
@nanszoo30923 жыл бұрын
Revenge of the Grey
@notmwangi3 жыл бұрын
It's interesting how these ancient historians were probably exactly like Grey - hopelessly curious random ppl, and that's the same way he'll be seen. That's why I like your use of "21st century historian"
@kittykat4903 жыл бұрын
I was having this exact thought while watching... he is now a member of this long line of historians and archivists producing works that show the path back to other older works
@angelwhispers20603 жыл бұрын
I hope that KZbin or some of its successors has ported forward these videos by then. Because by their mere existence it will be inferred to some future historian chasing down the same rabbit hole. And in that distant day in the future somebody will write a textbook saying how cgp grey is the most awesome historian of industrial / post-industrial America. And some poor school kid will have to sit around watching video after video of Grey's research that we presently do for fun.
@aidendouglas80233 жыл бұрын
I hope to remember grey as we remember Thomas Hearne, as a semi-crazy dude who loved random papers and just put stuff in cause why not
@madelinegolding49692 жыл бұрын
I’m a PhD student and I just got back from a 7 mile hike turned 16 miles by a wrong turn and, suddenly, the forest of all knowledge analogy just got 1000% more relatable
@TheDramacist3 жыл бұрын
There once was a researcher named CGP Grey, Who whilst hunting Tiffany lost his way. A poem's date he did chase, it's source be erased, Hearne's antiquarian ways did dismay.
@furretar64843 жыл бұрын
I love limericks, thank you
@Fightre_Flighte3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Senpai.
@lesscringeymapperdude3 жыл бұрын
Wow he must be in love with this Tiffany girl
@carzman353 жыл бұрын
Fricking Limericks are awesome
@peaceheis3 жыл бұрын
Now time to re-edit it via bad editing and call it out via shade.
@spikeslobodian3 жыл бұрын
man from 1700s: "learning more about this poem is a waste of time" grey: "better go deeper"
@emilyminteer47673 жыл бұрын
🤭
@farhanahmed25083 жыл бұрын
He is a man of 'Deeper Penetration'
@ausburne52653 жыл бұрын
Grey coercing the viewer to join him in the back rooms is absolutely terrifying.
@aturchomicz8213 жыл бұрын
Yeah...😔
@SuperHothead143 жыл бұрын
And then they keep scooting back.
@DMDarren3 жыл бұрын
So Grey is the only one capable of entering and exiting the backrooms at will? Pretty selfish of him to be leaving the tens of thousands of people stuck on the various floors of a very inhospitable and dangerous place I must say
@ArtIsMySin193 жыл бұрын
Terrifying yet totally on brand
@LittleGoblinBoi3 жыл бұрын
What do you mean terrifying? I'd be 100% down for that! I'll either get shanked, or get told a story, a win-win situation!
@qyasar80462 жыл бұрын
This took the butterfly effect to the extreme. A few hundred years ago some guy made a fanfic about the scotronomicon and a few hundred years later some random guy is going insane wondering how someone lived 89 years before he was born
@Ailorn3 жыл бұрын
This is what "did my research" actually looks like. Snark aside, this journey was incredibly fun to hear about!
@sirjoey31373 жыл бұрын
Did you do it? Did you do it? Did you do it, huh? Did you crunch the numbers?
@JD-jl4yy3 жыл бұрын
Grey has truly made "Sir this is a Wendy's" into a genre.
@TheHorrorDevotee3 жыл бұрын
This comment made me so happy
@TheHorrorDevotee3 жыл бұрын
@Just JAK uhm... indeed?
@juliefarrell66883 жыл бұрын
Yes
@mochi37643 жыл бұрын
grey: *TIFFANY POEM RANT* guy: sir this is a wendy’s
@JeremiahsChannel11173 жыл бұрын
sir this is a wendy's
@MikMoen3 жыл бұрын
Grey shouting in a high screechy voice: "WHEN WILL YOU LEARN, HEARNE, THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES??"
@mathewhill55563 жыл бұрын
Alexander Pope is rolling in his grave right now!
@LunaMapping_KR2 жыл бұрын
Reading beef between historic writers is the most entertaining thing ever, I would have never knew about this EVER without you Grey
@3srs5U3 жыл бұрын
"This path went absolutely nowhere, provided nothing of value, and drained many hours of my sadly finite life." My research mentor said almost exactly the same thing to me years ago, talking me out of pursuing a PhD. Not all heroes wear capes.
@wizzotizzo3 жыл бұрын
Damn.
@TheWickedWizardOfOz12 жыл бұрын
Was he the world's foremost expert on anteaters, by any chance?
@smth.something2 жыл бұрын
@@TheWickedWizardOfOz1 Ahhh, I see you're also a person of culture
@t_ylr2 жыл бұрын
There's truly no worse feeling than wasting an afternoon looking thru a pile of dusty old books just to not find what you were looking for. Or even worse to find out that the thesis for your paper is wrong and you have start all over.
@mega173 жыл бұрын
It wasn't for nothing. It is a story about citation, erroneous historians, and your passion for knowledge! Thank you, CGPGrey. :3
@iamverita3 жыл бұрын
It's not for nothing. It teaches a sense of the fragility of information. You can't read a description of the problems a fact check runs into and understand it in the level you can after this video
@AdfasSSBM3 жыл бұрын
Still, though. It was for nothing
@aaronbulmahn38173 жыл бұрын
It‘s not for nothing. It teaches about research and how important it is to be accurate for a singly, small mistake might go down in history for hundreds of years.
@il66053 жыл бұрын
Still, though, It was for nothing
@michaelblevins3463 жыл бұрын
Yes!! I teach a research class and will be using this video to show the frustrations that come from tracking sources.
@jackjennaway17273 жыл бұрын
This really makes you appreciate just how much knowledge is out there, perhaps published in only a single book, just waiting to be lost forever.
@arsenalfanatic093 жыл бұрын
a thing we take for granted about internet information is that someone put it there out of the goodness of their heart/archival instincts. Wikipedia is a large collaborative project. Even mentioning info is a huge deal. I was trying to find the source of an obscure quote I thought i heard from a sports commentator, and I only found one forum post from 2004ish on it, from a now defunct forum about TV. Sidenote: i don't like that forums have gone away. it's useful to have conversations between random strangers preserved and web-crawlable, and it's not as easy to do with external tools with twitter or facebook.
@fawkestheplotphoenix9643 жыл бұрын
You sir are depressing
@Rhannmah3 жыл бұрын
And then you remember about the Library of Alexandria
@Pensive_Scarlet3 жыл бұрын
@Marci Schneider You must be trolling. .__.
@ntsazazel2 жыл бұрын
As someone who recently fell down a similarly niche rabbit hole of research, this video entirely encapsulates the feeling of being possibly the only person who cares about X subject/question in the modern world. We take Google for granted until it turns up zero results, or when the Wikipedia footnote trail runs dry or lacks any page to begin with. It’s genuinely fascinating to me
@jrggrop2 жыл бұрын
What hole did you fall down?
@kjw792 жыл бұрын
Or days of searching 1400 pages of microfilm on each of a hundred rolls microfilm to find that one land record sentence that proves when your ancestors came to Canada. ❤️ It
@ntsazazel2 жыл бұрын
@@kjw79 This is the sort of stuff I love to see!
@kjw792 жыл бұрын
There were a few photos of great great grandfathers headstone, brown and covered in lichen on the ground. Online cemetery websites shared the same few photos that cropped off the last line. There is seemingly no paper records in all the land regarding his origin place in Scotland. But behold, one distant cousin found on Ancestry took a snap in the 80s and scanned it to me 40 years later. The last missing line? “Native of Kirkcudbrightshire” Makes me feel like Indiana Jones
@politenonparticipant4859 Жыл бұрын
When tracing back the roots of knowledge, inevitably we will either reach bedrock or find the root end snapped, its origin separated by a long forgotten incident or oversight creating a gap in the vast time abyss.
@TheModernMartialArtist3 жыл бұрын
Thomas "The Chronological Order Hitman" Hearne.
@vercingetorixsonofavernia65983 жыл бұрын
Gotta say, one of the the funniest comments I’ve ever read. Love your channel
@ayyguevara84483 жыл бұрын
Please do more Marciano breakdowns I beg you
@HS123410003 жыл бұрын
Basically a written chopping right 0_o
@totheendandbeyond3 жыл бұрын
😭😭😭😂😂😂
@THE_ODOUR73 жыл бұрын
This comment is absolutely legendary
@kazzar8313 жыл бұрын
One day, I hope Grey writes a book called "The Chronicles of a mad man and his less than auspicious journey through the Forest of All Knowledge" where he documents all of these stories. I would cherish such a book. It would be taught in colleges.
@user-svqmbiv3 жыл бұрын
That is genuinely something that I would love to have.
@anegwa3 жыл бұрын
And then another person 300 years later can go through a mountain of research and use his book. This is a great idea
@JamesDavis-qk4hr3 жыл бұрын
A book like that would be invaluable for teaching people how to research.
@cvillan353 жыл бұрын
THIS. THIS IS THE BEST THING IVE EVER SEEN
@themudkipmando41253 жыл бұрын
Hexagoneth art thy best-agoneth
@geoffreydesena5873 жыл бұрын
I completely disagree, Grey. This was not at all a waste of time. This was an incredible adventure for you and for all of us. Getting lost in the world's largest library over the course of a year sounds like one of the most fulfilling adventures one could embark upon. After years of freeloading this wonderful content, I'm happy to be able to contribute financially for once.
@guest_informant3 жыл бұрын
The moral of the story is "Life is a journey not a destination, " and/or, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." Yes, basically this is a fable.
@billcipherproductions17893 жыл бұрын
@@guest_informant Exactly.
@TheWinglessHawk3 жыл бұрын
Loved that too and don't forget the sweet sweet roast. >:D Have to look up Alexander Pope. I like his style and sass.
@mehranhodiwala12733 жыл бұрын
@@guest_informant ah, a John Lennon fan I see
@fii_896393 жыл бұрын
Indeed, the thought that 50 years from now, Grey's video (and it's AI-written auto-transcript no doubt) will be one more stone in the path surrounding the bibliographies of these ancient people quoting each other.
@stevenbuck3753 Жыл бұрын
I did watch all the way to the end of the "Someone Dead Ruined My Life... Again." video because I felt a certain shared frustration. I've gotten a lot of laughs from your videos and appreciate all @CGPGrey has done to inform the world.
@1943rfagan3 жыл бұрын
Let's be honest, if Alex pope watched this video today he'd probably be laughing his ass off at Hearne continuing to fail 300+ years later.
@TheBluePhoenix0083 жыл бұрын
Honestly smh
@inthe_a.m.3 жыл бұрын
truly 😭
@tfflus85723 жыл бұрын
Personaly i have watched the video 10 times becouse it is super funn to listen to grey spiral into madnes
@lostboytwo17343 жыл бұрын
True
@MLarce93 жыл бұрын
Best comment ever!!! I busted out laughing 😂😂😂😂
@LegoEddy3 жыл бұрын
"This path went absolutely nowhere, provided nothing of value, and drained many hours of my sadly finite life." - An honest conclusion of every other phd thesis
@MrDrPfrPatrick3 жыл бұрын
WHY THE POEM IS A JOKE: It's a pun based on "coming out of Britany". William's mother was named Britany. The poem is implying that his mother gave birth to the man, his wife, his maid, and his dog. It's an ancient "yo mama" joke.
@clickthisforawsomnes3 жыл бұрын
I’m 99% sure your 100% right
@jacobarcher10973 жыл бұрын
I think your right and I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse
@kyokyodisaster48423 жыл бұрын
...Ah, a yo-mama joke... Truely worthy of baseline of Tiffany.
@MissPoplarLeaf3 жыл бұрын
That's hilarious, and I hope it's true
@CMF4123 жыл бұрын
That's awesome.
@botondstrauss94102 жыл бұрын
A detailed list of every time Grey mispronounced Scotichronicon: 5:26 Scotchinomicron 5:54 Scotchicromicon 6:05 Scotchironomicon 7:36 Scotchichronicon 15:11 Scothrinomicon
@sharkvinny2 жыл бұрын
Scothrinomicon
@N.Nocturne2 жыл бұрын
Scotcrhiconormicron
@dubioustheatreyt80962 жыл бұрын
Scrotumommicon
@jenniferkemp23372 жыл бұрын
???
@benjamincotton17342 жыл бұрын
Understated comment
@SheKnives3 жыл бұрын
What an interesting rabbit hole to fall down in.
@Iceglorp3 жыл бұрын
Yes
@KudosK423 жыл бұрын
The pains of making a video about a topic that some people or even noone has made before.
@fignewtonbar85873 жыл бұрын
I love your channel btw, your vids with merk are great
@chrisbabbitt42023 жыл бұрын
Fall down? CCP Grey swan dives into rabbit holes.
@Marquis-Sade3 жыл бұрын
@@RIPToot Why?
@sanstheblaster26263 жыл бұрын
I can almost picture Alexander Pope mocking Thomas in the afterlife about how he polluted history for the future generations, screaming "THIS GUY GETS IT" every time Grey critiques Hearne.
@KQuinTN3 жыл бұрын
"Look at this scholar sent on a goose chase because SOMEONE couldn't fact check their work." Alexander Pope.
@chrishale52133 жыл бұрын
When he dissed dude right after he died, I suddenly had more respect for Drill music. Post mortem disrespect has been around a while.
@daniwalmsley6113 жыл бұрын
I like the idea that pope just starts watching this whenever hearnes about
@brettwood13513 жыл бұрын
If nothing else, this video saves anyone else who ever finds Thomas Hearne as a source a lot of time.
@expansivegymnast10203 жыл бұрын
@@chrishale5213What Alexander Pope did was the 18th century equivalent of putting coin sound effects over the names of every op who died.
@happiestgamer22693 жыл бұрын
"So what brings you to the biggest library in the world?" "It's a long story."
@sharissasterling37203 жыл бұрын
@soiung toiue Seahawk?
@Override96363 жыл бұрын
The longest story about the shortest poem.
@Billy_McBigballs3 жыл бұрын
Literally
@jacobmonica55583 жыл бұрын
do you want the short version or the long version
@NAGleader3 жыл бұрын
I see a fan of Off.
@alittlebitd3ad2 жыл бұрын
02:58 I love how it says here that a blonde Tiffany is "practically unknown" but cgp always draws Tiffany as a blondie
@max-zv7sf2 жыл бұрын
Tiff is the type of girl to dye her hair.
@TheRadicalOneNG3 жыл бұрын
The *SASS* of Alexander Pope is the most amazing thing ever. Roasting dudes even after they're dead
@DuranmanX3 жыл бұрын
If he were alive today he could be a rapper
@bjrn-oskarrnning27403 жыл бұрын
I think that's called "cremation"
@OwnFall4203 жыл бұрын
Announcer: Thomas Hearne is dead Announcer: BUT WAIT HERE COMES CGP GREY FROM THE TOP ROPE
@maicoxmauler28253 жыл бұрын
@@DuranmanX If Hearne was alive he'd run a drama channel with a cartoon avatar
@MattsAwesomeStuff3 жыл бұрын
Alexander Pope is my spirit animal. My life is surrounded by a plague of Hearnes.
@RagaarAshnod3 жыл бұрын
When the Necronomicon of Scotland is in a section of a library where the lights are incapable of turning on, you know it's a bad omen.
@COLDCHEMICALpresents3 жыл бұрын
“But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
@OriOfTangleWood3 жыл бұрын
@@COLDCHEMICALpresents this is exactly the passage I thought of when he said the lights were out!!
@0Clewi03 жыл бұрын
I thought that was usual English humor about Schotland.
@knz7303 жыл бұрын
That book 1000% has a demon bound to it. I don't make the rules.
@nanachichi10443 жыл бұрын
I'm still at the 4th book, but I miss those early humour
@drizzle78763 жыл бұрын
When you said: "This script is so long. Is anyone still here?" I nodded and said yes, then forgot you can't see nor hear me. I don't know how to feel about that.
@richardbloemenkamp85323 жыл бұрын
How could anyone leave such a fantastic story. I had to watch it a second times right after finishing just to make sure I captured all the fun.
@elylozada95763 жыл бұрын
Me as well.
@rbitrary3 жыл бұрын
Online work really did a number on us, huh?
@vanord3 жыл бұрын
Love it when I read the comment section and someone refers to a section of the video at the same time that part is playing
@tieshaunntanner68463 жыл бұрын
@Drizzle I did the exact same thing :D
@exachixkitsune56552 жыл бұрын
I have only just discovered this channel, watched this before the other Tiffany videos, and I am enjoying it so much I let out an exasperated cry at 16:30. Thanks, Hearne.
@g_vost2 жыл бұрын
the drama is real, hearne reached through the ages to specifically troll Grey
@Harshiahaha2 жыл бұрын
Exactly! I have just discovered this channel, well not 'just' but about some 10 days ago, and felt as if I watched a thriller movie. Again revisiting this video!
@jaspervanheycop97223 жыл бұрын
Hearne was so bad at his job that he literally would've done less harm if he just preserved all the stuff he hoarded and did absolutely nothing else? That's impressive, almost aspirational.
@bcubed723 жыл бұрын
I knew a guy like that. He was a government employee, and a horrible worker who screwed EVERYTHING up, especially when he was loaded, which was most of the time. It was almost impossible to fire him at the time, so they kept getting promoted, to jobs were he did less and less, and ultimately was responsible for nothing. The premise was, "if we can make him useless, it will be a huge improvement."
@titusjames49123 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of Arthur Dent.
@EtsuMatsuya3 жыл бұрын
@@bcubed72 Oh man, I want that job. Getting paid very well to do nothing is a dream. Getting promoted due to incompitance also a dream. Though, this makes sense assuming it is the US government. Our tax dollars at work. >.>;
@djeity3 жыл бұрын
Hearne was far from alone, and his practices and attitude persisted until at least the early 1900s. I have made a minor study of armour (the kind you wear) and quite a few of the most popular Victorian-era sources are, shall we say, hilariously wrong. I suspect that at least part of this is because, these days, we have much readier access to information than at any previous time in history. I am speaking of the free availability of public museums and libraries-of-record, not the Internet, although that too is a combined boon and curse. Many of the worst Victorian sources are tertiary sources (at best), which should underline for you Grey's insistence on primary sources in his research.
@scottwilliams8953 жыл бұрын
Really gives me hope, as I glance around at all the sh1t laying around my place
@Niilomaan3 жыл бұрын
Most people would be proud to dig up hundreds of years old source. You go on further and manage to fact check it. Amazing work.
@CCNYMacGuy3 жыл бұрын
Main takeaway: The "Scotichchronicon" sounds like what you might use to conjure up an army of zombie Braveheart cosplayers.
@eliserieke93083 жыл бұрын
Or something from D&D
@jaken63353 жыл бұрын
It looks like it too
@Sarsol19893 жыл бұрын
Or some eldrich Scotsman... im imagining Cthulhu in a kilt
@jamescampbell23533 жыл бұрын
This is an excellent idea
@tmurrin19793 жыл бұрын
"Did you speak the exact words?" "Look, maybe I didn't say every single little tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah." 😂
@VoicelessRabbit2 жыл бұрын
I keep rewatching this from time to time. This and hexagons are the bestagons are my favorite grey videos for pure enjoyment factors.
@rocknikhil59052 жыл бұрын
I love the bestagons video.
@matgeezer20942 жыл бұрын
Hexagons are the bestagons is a great video
@Inkay2572 жыл бұрын
I also love those 2, the bestagons are a religion now 😂, but Capt. Billop also deserves a place, it seemed Grey was going to use a oujia board to get an interview with Disoaway
@teggplant15392 жыл бұрын
Airport codes squad, where art thou?
@spingleboygle Жыл бұрын
hexagons are the bestagons
@rhythmaich39403 жыл бұрын
"...provided nothing of value and drained many hours of my sadly finite life." CGP Grey is one of the people who deserve to be made immortal.
@hellomonkeymiller3 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure if that would be a blessing or a curse for him. :p
@jacksonstarky82883 жыл бұрын
The only problem with immortality is that the human mind really isn't equipped to comprehend its implications. Even our sun has a finite lifespan, and we can't live without it. What happens when the sun goes red giant, possibly incinerating the earth (and definitely making it uninhabitable) in the process? I'm not sure he would want to make that a video topic, though; it sounds like he might find it depressing... but then, after making this video, maybe that wouldn't be an issue for him, given the line that has been quoted above.
@kurumi3943 жыл бұрын
@Alex Munz with an exit option.
@trans_eater3 жыл бұрын
For what purpose? He does nothing important.
@lordadamantium12103 жыл бұрын
@@jacksonstarky8288 Well, even if we become Immortal, that doesn't mean we can't die. Let's say you become ageless and immune to disease. Let's also say you leave the house everyday for you're job, or on a walk. Eventually, probably within a thousand years you're going to trip and break you're neck. Or die in a car crash, or hell struck by lightning. When you're Immortal, the small percentage chance of dying by any of those things steadily increase until it eventually happens
@Xp_Iggy3 жыл бұрын
0:57 The way Grey says "Don't go looking" is filled with such tired agony, you just know how many hours he has lost because he went looking.
@joed5273 жыл бұрын
Those lost hours give us hope that our own "quests" can be fruitful.
@malistraja59442 жыл бұрын
That is called a rabbit hole
@majoukrahe14373 жыл бұрын
"I'm not a hoarder, I'm an antiquarian!" needs to be a shirt.
@sethhuff86573 жыл бұрын
next wave of cgp grey merch?
@majoukrahe14373 жыл бұрын
@@sethhuff8657 That would be pretty cool! I know at least three people who would buy it (including me).
@YeOldeKamikaze3 жыл бұрын
DRM gives us a reason to become data hoa... err I mean antiquarians :)
@lizzyamaranth41412 жыл бұрын
I felt like I was on the verge of dying of laughter for around 5 minutes straight at the beef between two writers from the 1600-1700s
@WantEpicMusic3 жыл бұрын
"This book hasn't been checked out since 1995" -- I don't have the words to describe how that makes me feel, but it sure does make me feel it. Taking these treks through the forest of all knowledge would be that much more difficult in any other place, but then access to so much of written history is totally why you live in London, isn't it! :P
@blessedmomof83 жыл бұрын
Never having been in a library without the Dewey Decimal system, I imagine myself looking for one book in that library and coming home with 27, and needing to find a castle wherein to hole up and read them all!
@thomasdalton92113 жыл бұрын
+
@oliversissonphone61433 жыл бұрын
1995 was when they digitised the library system and stopped stamping the due date in the back of the book.
@samuelsudhof80363 жыл бұрын
@@oliversissonphone6143 Plus, many more people may have read the book without checking it out.
@lvlupproductions24803 жыл бұрын
No he moved to London mainly just because he felt like living abroad no really that's it.
@dub-jscrub-j27623 жыл бұрын
There's something so cozy and _nostalgic_ to research someone that no one cares about by yourself, knowing that you are the only one that will ever have the experience, and to think about how you revived a person's memory from the dead for just a little bit longer.
@LeadTrumpet13 жыл бұрын
“I’m here to find the Sconichicronomicon… In the Scotland history section, Which is in the dark” The irony of English-Scotland relations reflected in a London library.
@CraftyChicken913 жыл бұрын
I said out loud "Of course..."
@TheDramacist3 жыл бұрын
I'm sure the Scots can bring their own light bulb, since they're such an independent bunch. Oh wait
@dpatts3 жыл бұрын
you mean the scotchycomiccon
@DarthBoolean3 жыл бұрын
@@TheDramacist No lights, no problem. They'll just invent the lightbulb.
@madmike1592 жыл бұрын
This video explains Grey's obsession with immortality, it wouldn't be such a waste if his life wasn't finite 😂
@FRDinaMechSuit3 жыл бұрын
Whenever someone says, “do your own research” I’m going to show them this video.
@fds74763 жыл бұрын
To be fair, I've come across _so_ many people sealioning me that I might consider this fate sufficiently schadenfreudig.
@saikgamingproductions3 жыл бұрын
@@fds7476 Schadenfreude?
@fds74763 жыл бұрын
@@saikgamingproductions Ja.
@thebiggestcauldron3 жыл бұрын
@@fds7476 Sealioning?
@fds74763 жыл бұрын
@@thebiggestcauldron Basically when your conversation partner spams you with demands to provide evidence for every little thing you state, and then demands evidence for _that_ evidence, in bad faith - not because he wants to get to the truth of a matter, but purely to annoy and then discredit you.
@jewboi21373 жыл бұрын
WHY, PLEASE WHY, GREY'S RESEARCH PROCESS IS EVEN MORE FASCINATING THAN THE ACTUAL VIDEO
@Alex_K2213 жыл бұрын
I know. If I knew where to start, I’d like to go on my own maddening journey into the forest of all knowledge just to track down a footnote.
@suvl3 жыл бұрын
This. Exactly this.
@vigilantcosmicpenguin87213 жыл бұрын
Anyone can make a video. Not everyone can make a video about making a video.
@outofdarts3 жыл бұрын
We all have our rabbit holes. You're not alone. Great video!
@daroldcarold34433 жыл бұрын
Hah lorl
@kinseylise85953 жыл бұрын
You're right, but I wish mine were as varied and broad as Grey's! As it turns out, there exist only so many articles, books, and papers on the history of Taekwondo...
@sirBrouwer3 жыл бұрын
@@kinseylise8595 there is always a rabbit hole to go deeper in. the question is how deep is deep enough. Like you could dive in to the production of the sports equipment and who make them and why in that (exact) way. just keep digging until you don't even know that the start was Taekwondo.
@giovanni-cx5fb3 жыл бұрын
Not everyone, just people worth talking with.
@GpOg-j3v3 жыл бұрын
How deep is your rabbit hole?
@katieevans44442 жыл бұрын
I really do love videos like this, they show passion in a way people don’t get to see from creators all the time. Also thank you for telling us to take care of ourselves before taking care of you. Idk I guess I just needed to hear that
@IntetDreamer3 жыл бұрын
I don’t think I ever actually understood how historians do research until watching Grey. Truly insightful and fascinating. Thanks for all you do to teach the world.
@JonatasAdoM3 жыл бұрын
I still don't think I do but Mike Duncan does a great explanation of his process somewhere in his Revolutions podcast. I don't think I have ever seen someone else explain it.
@TheNord063 жыл бұрын
we historians do have rules and methods, until we hit the decisive madness that is humanity. after that fact we write down is whatever that makes sense chronologically in a cause and effect relationship.
@Hallowed_Ground3 жыл бұрын
@@TheNord06 That sentence is very difficult to read.
@Alexander_Grant3 жыл бұрын
@@Hallowed_Ground Well he's a historian, not an author, cut him some slack.
@TheNord063 жыл бұрын
Also not native speaker, sorry guys.
@Yeraharry.wizard3 жыл бұрын
TLDR: Grey got trolled by someone who’s been dead for like 200 years
@sleepdeprivedstudios80023 жыл бұрын
Again.
@gluesniffingdude3 жыл бұрын
Hearne: we shall perform a miniscule amount of tomfoolery
@thefrub3 жыл бұрын
Grey: There is NO ONE interested in hearing me talk about this drama between two old dead writers 2.7 million people: You sure buddy?
@happysongs4kyrone3 жыл бұрын
meme answer: 2.7m people: am i just a joke to you serious answer: Monthly updates not-compiled in video fashion is probably not an interesting topic to the people Grey knows, which is sad.
@kevinbrown38073 жыл бұрын
I love how this has more views than the original video :D. 2.8 Million for this one vs. 2.2 Million for the original as of time of writing.
@Whiterabbit1243 жыл бұрын
Poor CGPGrey always misunderestimates just how much we enjoy this
@notuxnobux3 жыл бұрын
>and the woman shall be a curse among her people
@dr.huganut8723 жыл бұрын
Ahem... No one: Me: 3 mill ;)
@eggmon420 Жыл бұрын
Imagine someone creating a caricature of you and calling it WORMIUS. Hearne might wanna put some cold water on that huge burn.
@error.4183 жыл бұрын
That was the most well-spoken, balanced, and inviting Patreon pitch I've ever heard.
@vigilantcosmicpenguin87213 жыл бұрын
If there's any research that needs funding, this is clearly it.
@totheendandbeyond3 жыл бұрын
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 what would humanity do if not find the true origin of Tiffany?
@prapanthebachelorette68033 жыл бұрын
Yes, agree
@SamAronow3 жыл бұрын
It’s very yar.
@joelcrow3 жыл бұрын
Imagine the excitement Alexander Pope would be having now knowing that his burns are being shared with millions today. That has to be the ultimate horcrux goal of every author!!
@aidendouglas80233 жыл бұрын
Imagine how Thomas Hearn’s ghost feels right that someone like greys did a deep dive on a random piece of paper he collected. For a horder to have been told that someone cared about the stuff they hoarded hundreds of years ago, bet that’s his horcrucx
@edhamey57373 жыл бұрын
There once was a man named Hearne. A studious man who wanted to learn. With terrible sourcing, and errors discoursing, after 300 years he still makes people gurn.
@magnumsmth3 жыл бұрын
Cut the studious out of the second line and it's perfect Except for the last line don't know what to do with that
@blueblade61743 жыл бұрын
Bars
@elyay72033 жыл бұрын
Spitting bars
@BLiu13 жыл бұрын
@@magnumsmth For centuries he still makes us gurn
@bensoncheung28013 жыл бұрын
269 likes.
@Michael1.242 жыл бұрын
The real Tiffany was the friends we made along the way
@ianpotto3 жыл бұрын
I learned absolutely nothing of importance for 20 minutes and loved every second of it. You and your team are a treasure and I look forward to the next meandering excursion into the Forest of All Knowledge, whether there's a destination or not.
@TonboIV3 жыл бұрын
This is another time for that old Ralpha Waldo Emerson quote: "I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me." Whether or not we learned anything of importance, just how Grey went about finding that knowledge is very insightful about how our history is kept (and often how badly). This and the Staten island video have made me really think differently about written history and recorder knowledge in general.
@inderrai86903 жыл бұрын
I learned a lot. Trying can be video even if you fail and that could be successful.
@BrunoGomes-su1bk3 жыл бұрын
Amen
@SS64DD3 жыл бұрын
Didn’t expect to see you here, great job on the 30th anniversary comic!
@ratoh17103 жыл бұрын
I learned that Alexander Pope came up with the phrase, damning with faint praise, so that's something.
@HelloIAmJo3 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite things is accidentally finding beef between two academics in the form of writing that is ultra-professional. When I was trying to find a citation for a single sentence in a paper that I was writing, I found beef between two scientists about phylocode that had been going back for THIRTY YEARS in PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS. I spent a week reading more into it and ended up not even using anything related to my original idea in my final paper.
@hindenburg20062 жыл бұрын
...who were the scientists?!
@HelloIAmJo2 жыл бұрын
@@hindenburg2006 it’s about phylocode. The main ones that I was referencing were Dr. Kevin de Quieroz and the late Dr. Norman Platnick.
@hindenburg20062 жыл бұрын
@@HelloIAmJo thanks! I now have some nerding to do😊
@irgendwieanders21212 жыл бұрын
I feel you :-)
@baconofthedarkside2 жыл бұрын
If you want a computer science beef, specifically in the field of random number generators, there's a minor feud between Melissa O'Neill and Sebastiano Vigna where they argue *a bit* about whose random number generator is better, and it even ends up with arguments in GitHub repositories in the form of issues raised with the code, where one of them complains that the other's random number generator is being used in fairly popular open source libraries.
@aditiiyer6493 жыл бұрын
I love how he explicitly mentioned “STUDENTS DO NOT PAY”
@-ism81533 жыл бұрын
It feels very… Honorable to guide people towards their best interests even if that means not funding more of your work.
@SecretAsianMan22222 жыл бұрын
I understand your immense frustration, but I absolutely love this. The explination of your research process and the things you find along the way are honestly just as interesting as the final videos you make. Thank you for taking the time to making a video for this rant, totally would watch more of these.
@YaminoMizu3 жыл бұрын
This feels like a quest for eldritch knowledge. It has a forbidden book with notes in it from long-lost authors, a mysterious poem, and a quest. But in the end, it's just. A man.
@ndemers3 жыл бұрын
And Grey went mad from the revelation, so it all tracks!
@varriorar3 жыл бұрын
best part is that the eldritch knowledge is (if you believe one of the other comments on here) an ancient yo mama joke
@jaridkeen1233 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this video. I also think its incredibly important. Someone had to do this research and in the future you saved people time that also might come across the poem.
@Hoxeel3 жыл бұрын
Fifty years from now: "SO MY ONLY SOURCE... OF THIS ENTIRE TIFFANY A-N-Y THING... WAS THIS WEIRD VIDEO ON THIS ANTIQUATED WEBSITE"...
@maxnibler60903 жыл бұрын
I gotta be honest. I don't know if anyone "had" to do any of this. But I'm glad he did
@Junebilation79003 жыл бұрын
1kth like!
@Nukepositive3 жыл бұрын
And there's more evidence about how unreliable a source Thomas Hearne was. That will definitely come up again.
@wiselettuce87153 жыл бұрын
Yep, in the next 200 years, there would've been about...3 people who would stuck on this poem if not for him.
@jmlkinc3 жыл бұрын
The point I broke out laughing is when he got to the Scotichronicon. Which just sounds like a tome used to summon kilted zombies.
@jmlkinc3 жыл бұрын
OK, now I'm at the point where he finally found a historian he could call and talk about this all over coffee with, only to realize he's been dead for over 125 years. Amazing.
@depdava13 жыл бұрын
it (Actually) summons kilted elder gods from beyond time and space. :)
@vigilantcosmicpenguin87213 жыл бұрын
@@jmlkinc Maybe Grey should try using the book to summon his zombie.
@RoundusMongus2 жыл бұрын
3:45 "I opened it, and out fell an old map" A wonderful start to an adventure!
@GambitsEnd3 жыл бұрын
Don't worry Grey, something of value DID come out of your journey. We got this fantastic video and a hilarious mini story of two writers feuding.
@bananaman3563 жыл бұрын
Very true
@TechnoCaveman13 жыл бұрын
Agreed!
@QuarterLifeCrises3 жыл бұрын
As a student who doesn't have my life and finances in any semblance of order, it always warms my heart to hear Grey's insistence that students shouldn't contribute to his channel if they aren't financially stable. Thank you, Grey. Just a couple more years and I hope to join the Bonnie Bee Brigade. In the meantime, I'm watching and re-watching your videos.
@grigorijklymenko31983 жыл бұрын
Dear Sam I could not agree more. People like that are who inspire us to work towards the success and be rich enough to become patrons ourselves
@Soulzzzzz3 жыл бұрын
if you are watching, you are contributing
@deadbzeus3 жыл бұрын
There are a few channels this being one of them who I definitely plan on donating to when I am done school. It's amazing how much some KZbinrs do for students now.
@theyhave2683 жыл бұрын
Same
@kylehardman91353 жыл бұрын
its no better as a museum assistant these tangents are soo easy to make
@legoboy4683 жыл бұрын
Someone in 100 years is going to fall down this same rabbit hole snd be extremely happy that this video exists. Your work is never wasted grey!
@csanadhorvath3 жыл бұрын
no one cared for 300 years prior to this (thus no one fact and source checking this poem), so I doubt that with today's sped up generation, and especially ones that follow, anyone will care about little things like this in 100+ years.
@d3adxb0yxwalk1ng3 жыл бұрын
@@csanadhorvath you're fun at parties aren't you
@ThePrinceofParthia3 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, they will only find this video after finding the truth themselves.
@kaizokujimbei1433 жыл бұрын
@@csanadhorvath Party pooper. -_-
@someplant59713 жыл бұрын
@@csanadhorvath you underestimate the stupidity of the human race
@aschaff3995 Жыл бұрын
Thanks! This was awesome and I enjoyed it once or twice, and showed it to a friend. The Thomas Hearne and Alexander Pope was just the greatest. I can't believe that such smart assery in history.
@Obi-Wan_Kenobi3 жыл бұрын
This entire video is CGP Grey being the living embodiment of the phrase _"Impossible. Perhaps the Archives are incomplete."_
@martiddy3 жыл бұрын
Your username makes your comment even more funny.
@Obi-Wan_Kenobi623 жыл бұрын
gcp grey lost another planet has he now?
@sarahapriliana99933 жыл бұрын
GENERAL!
@Atrueleafshinobi3 жыл бұрын
This might be the best comment I've ever come across. Thank you for the laugh
@cadebedlam51953 жыл бұрын
“One thing you may be absolutely sure of: if an item does not appear in our records, it does not exist.”
@astral67493 жыл бұрын
"Look at what you did to Grey, Hearne. You goddamn monke." - Alexander Pope, probably
@ArthurHLI3 жыл бұрын
Somewhere, beyond the grave, Alexander Pope is indeed thinking and lighting at this
@Sahdirah3 жыл бұрын
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@boseidono3 жыл бұрын
imagine that thousands of years later someone like Grey looking for the word ''monke'' in Pope's writings just because you mentioned this
@GetToKnowNature3 жыл бұрын
This was glorious. The animator deserves a bonus for the incredible range of emotions they can express through stick figures. And yes, I'm one of those people who loves seeing behind the scenes so thank you for the hilarious to us (but agonizing for you) details of the journey.
@miriamrosemary91103 жыл бұрын
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@RenditionLies2 ай бұрын
Thank you for your expedition and all of your dedication into this study. I have as of yet finished watching this at the time of writing this comment but I am completely intrigued and invested. Please do not ever give up and thank you again. Cheers 🍻
@pizzarat50973 жыл бұрын
Grey: There is NO ONE interested in hearing me talk about this drama between two old dead writers *More people watched this than the actual video it's about* Edit: A year later and this still stands true
@antihackerbg2 жыл бұрын
I liked that part so much i actually looked and found the letter of Alex Pope's corrections
@TheRedKing2473 жыл бұрын
Historiography is honestly just as interesting as the actual real history. To figure out how people of the past recorded history and what they got wrong is incredibly meta. Videos like this will always be appreciated.
@herpydepth38493 жыл бұрын
It’s almost like the history version of zoomers going from playing Fallout 4 to playing Fallout 2. It really is fascinating
@anjetto13 жыл бұрын
That is amazing. Do you have any suggestions of videos based around that. I'm fascinated now
@artistwithouttalent3 жыл бұрын
@@anjetto1 seconded
@cameronscott93993 жыл бұрын
@@artistwithouttalent thirded
@Skyfox943 жыл бұрын
and I'd say it's also very important. It's sort of a clean up mechanism for history, figure out what was actually true and not random bs is important if we want to truly understand the past.
@elijahwerner61303 жыл бұрын
Knowing that there is a library that must be explored, at least in part, by flashlight (would that be torchlight in England?) brings so much joy to my life.
@MrWhangdoodles3 жыл бұрын
Kinda brings the idea of fantasy book libraries to life. I imagine Grey as an aging mage looking desperately for an obscure tomb that was though to be lost...I am realizing as I am writing this that I just described Gandalf. Grey is Gandalf.
@MajinOthinus3 жыл бұрын
Do *NOT* use *torches* in a library full of ancient tomes!
@destructivforce28943 жыл бұрын
@@MajinOthinus You can't stop me! *Burns down the library of Alexandria by accident*
@catboygremlin3 жыл бұрын
right? like, all of those old books, all of that information! *nerd time*
@kuehnjakob3 жыл бұрын
@@MrWhangdoodles Gandalf the Grey. It all comes together.
@monnaak2 жыл бұрын
I honestly want you to make more of these "AYO ALL THE PROBLEMS AND SIDE PATHS I ENCOUNTERED WHILE MAKING THE TIFFANY VIDEO" videos. They're so much fun for nerds like us
@leftonred113 жыл бұрын
watching the Hearne/Pope thing feels like that feeling when you read a 300 comment argument between 2 strangers that happened 10 years ago on some music video you found by chance
@iprobablyforgotsomething3 жыл бұрын
*sheepishly raises hand* Guilty. I literally just did this earlier today. I cut myself off way later than I should have, time-wasted wise, yet still before I saw the final comment in the chain.
@ethribin41883 жыл бұрын
Perfect modern comparison.
@bryanp98783 жыл бұрын
like that argument under the paper mario sticker star soundtrack?
@whatever61003 жыл бұрын
@@bryanp9878 which track
@traci_angels35493 жыл бұрын
This video explaining the "side-trails" ended up being just as interesting as the original project. Awesome video. Your hard work is appreciated