That Time the World Ended

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Following up on last week's discussion of History Channel and its decline, today we remember that time the world ended: December 21, 2012... Or rather, the date that networks like History, Discovery, Sci-Fi and others became OBSESSED with saying that it would, creating numerous 2012 Documentaries to profit off it. From Planet X and pole alignments, to asteroids and Bible Code... This is the end.
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[@theblackletterdetective4825]

Make a video on Dan Ackroyd alone, there’s enough shit there to fill two hours -

[@hiropon2985]

this video is bomb ngl, Church of the SubGenius is my new favourite thing

[@robiking011]

I think the reason people of every generation make end of the world predictions is because people have a desire to feel ''special''. People don't like to think that they're just part of another generation that's going to die off someday and is going to be followed by another generation and another generation. People want to believe instead there there's something special about their generation and the times that they are living in. If the world ends during our lifetime it gives our actions, lives, beliefs and decisions greater meaning because it will be within the context of being the last se of actions, lives, beliefs and decisions to have ever occur. If the end of the world is something some unknown, undetermined, future generation will have to deal with, it takes away from someone's own significance in the present.

[@sonikmuff]

I'm a card carrying member of the Church of Subgenius since 2006. Praise Bob.

[@MegCazalet]

I think it’s hilarious that last week, because the Easter Island stuff made me think of it, I wondered if you were a fan of the Critic (as I knew you would be) and this week you confirmed it! No such thing as coincidences - I’m freakin’ Nostradamus over here!

[@UnnamedVibesTree]

Fun Fact: these apocalypse prediction shows gave me straight up anxiety attacks as a kid. History channel used to be considered reliable enough to use in classrooms, so when it started saying the world was going to end, kid-me believed it.

[@J-BiRTH]

Kid me cried cause I thought the world was gonna end in a week, thanks History Channel.

[@MySamurai77]

@@J-BiRTH kid me knew it was b.s.

[@Star-pl1xs]

@@MySamurai77 🥇

[@AndorianBlues]

I had a very similar experience about a decade earlier. I read a book that claimed that Nostradamus predicted the end of the world on a specific date in 1999. I firmly believed I wouldn’t live past 13 right up until the day it was supposed to happen.

[@donotresuscitatetrampstamp]

HOLY SHITTTT I JUST MADE A COMMENT ABOUT THIS AHAHA THIS SHIT TRAUMATIZED ME

[@Kamila-ey5vi]

My favorite 2012 conspiracy was the one where Nostradamus predicted the world would end when Gangnam Style reached 1 billion views

[@mr.e330]

I need to know more about this

[@Kamila-ey5vi]

@@mr.e330 Basically someone said that nostradamus had predicted the world would end when the dancing horse reached 9 circles and people were like "omg gangnam style is a dancing horse and it has a billion views, a billion has 9 zeros, OMG" and then never mentioned it again, also no one talked about this before 2012

[@remove_marko]

That's the most early 2010's thing I've ever heard of

[@clarab325]

@@Kamila-ey5vi that’s sending me lmao

[@kittyfangz5262]

fuck i remember that shit

[@piercerands3276]

I just remember this era and my second grade teacher who was going to retire sitting down with us and having an “End of the World Day”. Basically he went through all the times where people thought the world was going to end in the past, and how it was completely fake. Then he proceeded to tell us that all rations and stuff run out or expire anyways in the end of the world, so there’s no point in prepping for it. Finally he gave us some bookwork and told us that if we made it through quickly, we’d get to watch/ make fun of 2012 history channel propaganda about the world ending this week and get loads of popcorn. Literally was the best way to take the fear out of all the 9 year olds in the class, and whenever I think of 2012 I think about that teacher.

[@FirstnameLastname-he1ov]

Aw, that was really sweet of him. I think that was a good way to handle that.

[@IMINSIDEYOURMUM]

That dude rules.

[@aturchomicz821]

Insanely based

[@marissa7085]

What an amazing teacher tbh

[@TheEldritchHyena]

That teacher sounds like the coolest guy ever. I was also in the second grade around that time but I don't really remember anything about the world ending besides the fact that it didn't happen, so you got a good story out of it too XD.

[@DragonNexus]

It's utterly fascinating that "We must track down the crystal skulls before it's too late!" is treated as a matter of deep importance but "We must stop climate change before it's too late!" isn't a big deal, really.

[@kaiyote7924]

its proof that weve been watching too many "chosen one/few" movies where the act of saving our planet is only on the shoulder of one man/people countable on the fingers of one hand...

[@equalssign44]

90+% of the population is going to die, and too many idiots firmly believe they're the ones that are going to live.

[@edgarallenhoe3518]

It's because climate change is too complicated, especially in terms of who is to blame. Life and your place in it are so much easier to process if everything that's wrong with the world is the fault of a small group of evildoers.

[@johngreenaway1472]

It’s probably because “we only have ten years left” has been the talking point for fifty years now and people aren’t buying it anymore.

[@DragonNexus]

@@edgarallenhoe3518 Or we could just stop caring about blame and sort the problem out.

[@craigtrautmanjr9393]

The fact that a whole phenomenon of media history is almost completely erased from history scares me with how easily lost media happens.

[@charles_6592]

Thats why you download media

[@sardaukar99]

In the future we'll know more about the Roman empire than AOL

[@eepiestgirll]

recently been discovering a large portion of popular casual pc games are gone now (especially if they involved a licensed property)

[@cademiller5229]

This is how I'm feeling rn about thr flash plug-in being removed from most internet browsers come December... like so many games that formed a significant portion of my childhood will be lost forever

[@mattwolf7698]

It's Lost Media, most people probably watched this stuff live or DVR'd it and deleted it when they were through. These documentaries probably just came off as stupid to non-conspiracey theorist at the time as well, they were but they are interesting to watch regardless. Almost nobody probably still has the same DVR they had back then if it somehow amazingly hasn't failed yet or hasn't had the recording erased. Because of this, lot of the VHS era stuff is probably actually better documented. Still, I wish History would re-release these.

[@Ashl33129]

“90% of humanity is dead, but as long as I’ve got my coffee who gives a damn” sounds like a line from a gritty Garfield reboot comic

[@autobotstarscream765]

Pole shifts won't work, Jon...

[@leiram8833]

Sooo you mean from Garfield: Judgement Day?

[@missybarbour6885]

I'm just appreciating his Buzzfeed Unsolved mug

[@maknchill7980]

Or an early wilkins coffee commercial

[@zackmnr19]

Lasagna

[@SpiralSine6]

“The Soviet Union, and the United States… will be friends.” *the good ending*

[@thunderspark1536]

*Russian invasion of Ukraine happens* Good??? Ending

[@MsScarletwings]

@@thunderspark1536 russia bankrupts itself and implodes because it’s in denial that it’s catastrophic invasion isn’t quite working out as planned *best ending*

[@xcjsmith5310]

@@thunderspark1536 still good ending, we are still alive

[@g_y.rtz420]

Time for a vodka big tittied party -funhaus

[@catiec3020]

In December of 2012 I was 16 years old and had just undergone open-heart surgery, and I spent three bedridden weeks watching almost nothing but doomsday programming on the history channel. Just seeing some of those opening graphics made me astral project back a whole decade.

[@JBOboe720]

"All the FBI does is arrest you for downloading movie, send death threats to MLK, eat hot chip, and lie" Underrated line

[@cluckbucketz]

Another underrated one is "It's like Freaky Friday but everyone died"

[@hoze1235]

all FBI after 1993

[@erikdaniels0n]

My favorite was “according to the skeptic website NASA.gov….”

[@marcferretti]

Did you know that MLK is the greek translation of the ancient god Molech? MLK also means to sacrifice, or a gift. Molech wants sacrificed children burned by fire and the elite pray to him at bohemion grove every year in California. And by elite i mean government officials, Mark Zuckerberg, Actors, CEO, etc. This is 100% real and you can research it and see video of it. We are in an evil demension right now. This is real, people accended to this realm at different times. Alot say 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2016 is the latest ive seen. It happened to me in 2012. I woke up in a panic and knew I was dead, then i woke up as if i had a dream and nothing was ever the same again. I know multiple people this happened to that ascended/descended with me. Everything is being covered up by the big guys. Spirituality is way deeper than anyone knows. This is the real purpose of the hydron collider. They are researching dimensions. There are CIA documents on possible interdimensional travel, and how everything is a simulation and how our brains are just machines that read the code of the world around us.

[@endyxander4521]

The "did we just discover ATLANTIS??" Sounded so much like me and my friends when we where 8 seeing a broken bottle and a chicken bone on the ground and going " was there a MURDER here?? Let's investigate"

[@peppinoandweskerfriendsfor3450]

My life long friend was like that. We had this neighborhood behind us with snobby rich kids and for whatever reason she, my life long friend, thought that they were evil and stuff? Like, she treated them like a rival group thing. Every time they were remotely loud, she would get sticks and nerf guns because she thought that they were going to attack us.

[@Hamun002]

See when I did this on my own, at least I was like "OMG TREASUREEEEE"

[@CorvusCoraxification]

Me, discovering Atlantis: "Rocks? Just rocks? I was at least expecting Milo and Kida. Helga and Audrey hopefully. But no, it's just rocks that go clang when I stick my knife in them?"

[@jblue1622]

I think if any of us ever find a pile of rocks that doesn’t look completely random then we have a moral obligation to repeat this quote, even if you are all by yourself, you know what especially if you are by yourself, again the phrase is “dId We jUsT DisCoVeR AtLanTiS??”

[@stephaniewozny3852]

@@CorvusCoraxification , Apparently "Atlantis" is native for "great,big...ROCK!"

[@RaphBlade7]

Fun Fact: Both the Nazis and The Allies printed there own editions of Nostradamus' prophecies which where essentially propaganda that predicted their side would win the war.

[@MrSinthan]

That "Have we stumbled onto the remains of Atlantis?" really caught me of guard. I understand why the current world is the way it is, when you realise people actually watch this stuff.

[@cumcumcum148]

Watching it isn't bad. But watching it and believing holy fuck

[@jdowney688]

The Duality of Quinton: -Nazi Documentary Analysis -Garfield

[@gilbertosantos2806]

I C R A V E L A S A N G A & A N T I F A S C I S M *J O N*

[@EPWillard]

When did he cover a nazi documentary

[@jdowney688]

@@EPWillard it hadn't been done yet but he says at the end that it's his next vid and then a Garfield one follows aha

[@tomfrazier1103]

IT ALL COMES TOGETHER....

[@nabongobong9155]

- blues clues

[@Jessie_Helms]

“Let’s use the Bible to make predictions that contradict the Bible.”

[@Jessie_Helms]

@Siboniso Buthelezi I don’t really see how *that* is a reason to be agnostic. Some idiot twisting a legitimate scientific paper to push chakras doesn’t weaken the original paper. I mean by all means, you can be agnostic, I just don’t see how what I said could be a reason lol. That’s kinda the point, if the Bible is trustworthy then predictions that contradict it (such as a completely different end of the world) must be false, and if the Bible isn’t trustworthy then predictions made based off it is no more valid than one based off Dr.Suess.

[@Jessie_Helms]

@Siboniso Buthelezi I still don’t see how my comment is “why” but again, I can’t stop you from believing what you believe bro, at the end of the day that’s up to you. I will say this, though. It’s pretty unfair to judge a group which has fundamental texts that, by definition, is how the group is supposed to act based off of the insane people who don’t even follow the definition of that group. I mean, I’m not sure if New Aged Spirituality has hit SA yet, but it takes real science and twists it so severely that it’s equivalent to taking the Bible and trying to prove Scientology (they completely contradict on many points). In my opinion, it’s absolutely ok to judge groups by their behaviors, but it’s not fair to judge them by their outliers. And it’s better to judge an ideology- whether it’s a religion, economic theory, political view, etc... based off actual sources (the holy text, the economics paper which originally proposed it, etc...) than people who’ve partially implemented it or even who’ve completely twisted it to their own ends.

[@third-ratedude4234]

Idk mate, "Let's use the Bible to do something that the Bible told us NOT to do" seems more appropriate here

[@n-aera]

All this fake pastors would really never exist if people actually read the Bible

[@929er13]

that's literally religious people in a nutshell. everyr religion, not just one.

[@KBReal870]

"But it takes a true man, a true legend, a legetimate HERO, to say the world is going to end, but also:" *PragerU ad*

[@lastetaslocas69]

Having been 13 in 2012 often makes me feel like the world DID end back then, and that I've been subjected to eternal torment by witnessing an increasingly absurd reality and society. Crazy how entering adulthood does that to you.

[@just.a.guy522]

I was 10 in 2012, I've always had Schizotypal traits resulting in doubting that any of this increasingly absurd existence is real, and one of the first instances of this magical thinking I remember is when I wondered if the world really did end in 2012 lmao Looking back to it it's kinda funny cause everyone thought of that but I'm still entranced by these thinking patterns and can't seem to let them go,, I'm holding on to my critical thinking for dear life

[@Niobesnuppa]

I love how the Bible code stuff only seems to predict modern day American events like Watergate and 9/11. Kind of curious considering the Bible was written in the middle east, huh?

[@autobotstarscream765]

The stuff happening in the area at the time is what the actual words are for, with the modern-day America stuff in the codes ostensibly intended for advanced computer technology supposedly being there for modern-day Americans going "where's the SPECIFIC prophecies that are actually MEANINGFUL to US TODAY?"...as for the results on both ends, your mileage may vary. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpayZqibbKefb7c

[@SethDaMeth]

I think what theyre forgetting was that the Bible was originally written in old Hebrew, so what theyre saying could be translated in multiple different ways. In turn making what they are spewing complete bullshit.

[@reinjouke9743]

Also the fact that the word "Muslim" is supposedly in the Bible, even though Mohammed lived around 600 years after the New testament was written

[@yourfavoritegames4971]

It’s probably to link all of this to Jews and Reptoids and other anti Semitic conspiracies.

[@autobotstarscream765]

@@yourfavoritegames4971 No no, aren't Hebrew Bible Codes supposed to be proof that the Jews are God's chosen people specially selected to receive His Truth and bring it to the world?

[@kenzie1256]

As an archaeologist, "archaeology is my passion" SENT me. Can confirm, shoving a machete into things is not generally the go-to technique.

[@connorrowe8787]

But still a usable technique, eh?

[@notnotkavi]

So that's why I failed that intro archaeology class!

[@sophiaseth2769]

Can you explain to my dad why the aliens didn't build the pyramids

[@Fanimati0n]

"Graphic design is my passion!"

[@onlookerofthings6029]

Generally? What else do you use to get through walls and floors, dynamite?

[@brit6979]

The only thing I really remember about December 21, 2012 was how my mom was so worried that she kept me home from school that day. She was worried about the potential of school shootings- not that the world would end- but it was the only time she willingly let me skip. Even staying home sick was hard to get her to agree to.

[@HH-lr2zt]

Did the people who made the Bible into a crossword puzzle code not know that the Bible was originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek? What made the English translation THE ONE other than the fact it was the only one they could read? Sincerely, a seminary student.

[@pinkertonbyweezer]

You'd have to analyse the authorial intent of the author of the translation! And the translation of the translation! And so on so forth until you get back to the source! It's understandable to think these people simply are so stupid they haven't recognised it. But, the people who are putting it on TV, profiting off it, et cetera? They know exactly what they're doing.

[@g_y.rtz420]

White people moment

[@croissant2882]

What made the english translation THE ONE is the same thing that made a snow white pale European shaped Jesus the official picture 💀

[@starshard5754]

having learned some rudimentary Hebrew as a child it absolutely baffles me that the crossword puzzle code people didn't consider that you can't just use Hebrew letters as equivalent to English letters, and if you do you'll either make words with completely different meanings in Hebrew, or ones that are gibberish. or maybe they did consider it and just didn't care because heehee huhu funny conspiracy end of the world stuff on TV makes money

[@DxAxMxD]

Bruh you’re a seminary student. Not much more credible to talk about history IMO. Go worship your demon (Yahweh) on some other planet. Seminary student… lol I might as well get a degree in the Star Wars canon.

[@BigrthantheBoogieMan]

"Who kept rebooting until they got villagers who weren't ugly" - I almost spat out my cereal, well played.

[@jeanne-emerycoleman214]

This is what animal crossing players are doing, it's plausible.

[@PineappleLiar]

I really just reset until I got fruit different from what my friends already had.

[@user-io9hj9ip2d]

i have to admit i reset about 5 times until i got peaches or apples the fact that i got Dom was a lucky coincidence

[@PeterGriffin11]

@@jeanne-emerycoleman214 I'm not well versed in Animal Crossing but to my knowledge the only Villager you can create is your own so you wouldn't need to restart. I know this is a joke I'm just looking to deep into it.

[@insanityv2]

@@PeterGriffin11The word villager applies to both the PCs and the NPCs. They're not talking about the PCs.

[@WestPictures]

The Crystal Skulls are stronger than the dragonballs and the chaos emeralds combined

[@anisomniac5931]

@D_West That's the first thing that made me think of! 🤣

[@ccricers]

13 skulls beat 14 emeralds and dragonballs? Impossible!

[@EvilLobsterKing]

emerald deez nuts

[@FriskyD.]

What if they're just the balls and emeralds in a different shape?

[@hadriandwyer2191]

*THE* CHAOS EMERALDS?

[@edgarallenhoe3518]

Hearing Quinton worry that KZbin won't recommend an hour-long video is so funny in 2022, when Future Quinton is putting out 5 hour videos because that's ALL youtube will recommend anymore.

[@kyrakun]

When you were laughing about them "finding Atlantis" you sounded so much like shaggy from scooby doo and I rewatched that part pretending it WAS shaggy and it was perfect thank you

[@viktorthecreator4458]

My favourite quote abt the 2012 hysteria is "The thing about living like there's no tomorrow is that there tends to be a tomorrow" - Will Wood

[@McDinkle69]

I love Will Wood, GOD what a great musician

[@toolazyforthis3164]

I can’t like this comment it’s at 666 likes and I just can’t bring myself to do it

[@notapplicable6985]

Like will wood from will wood and the tapeworms?

[@buzzsawenthusiast1756]

God I love that dude's music!!

[@viktorthecreator4458]

@@notapplicable6985 nah, Will Wood the accountant from rural Ohio

[@vylbird8014]

Strange... how does the bible code, in ancient Hebrew, include words for 'president,' 'muslim' and 'airplane?'

[@ChaseBlackmoon]

This is so weird, I was reading your comment right when it was at that part of the video, my ESP must be working well today. Your comment is right, by the way.

[@autobotstarscream765]

Same way Japanese has a system to allow for the use of loanwords, when Hebrew was revived it was based on Ancient Hebrew but they added mechanisms for adding new words and loanwords.

[@vylbird8014]

@@autobotstarscream765 Hence why I specifically said 'ancient' Hebrew.

[@autobotstarscream765]

@@vylbird8014 That's the whole point though, the Bible Codes are so irrational and nonsensical in terms of concept and how they're supposed to work that the only way they could possibly work is #Goddidit, or at least some higher being with such intelligence and precognitive ability that they can foresee the future of language and write something in an ancient language so that it's only readable in a modern language, like if Odin engraved a message on a runeblade in Old Norse thousands of years ago that was nonsense to the Vikings but if read in the modern day would immediately be recognized as a modern Japanese idiom about Pokémon or something, as a code to pass a message in plain sight under the noses of the ancients to deliver it to intended recipients in the modern day, to prove that Odin has unfathomable intellect and precognition and is therefore the one true god of magic and wisdom.

[@BitchChill]

Oh shit

[@mrwednesdaynight]

I remember some of those History Channel shows about 2012. One that sticks out in my mind was a husband and wife team going through rural Mexico looking for evidence about 2012. They met a person claiming to be a "Mayan Princess" at what looks like a tourist trap. She said the world wasn't going to end. Then we got to see the couples travel pictures. It was pretty anticlimactic.

[@notjamin]

This stuff made me so anxious when I was 11. I knew logically that the world wouldn't end, but I was also a child with the beginnings of an anxiety disorder, so I was very relieved when the date ended up passing.

[@raycearcher5794]

Quinton: "Pretty wild how the work of a bunch of ironic pranksters would become serious beliefs with harmful impacts to society, huh?" Me: *nervously eyes 4Chan* "Yeah, pretty wild."

[@yassharthmanitripathi5980]

*QAnon Intensifies*

[@theexaltedlt8222]

this aged well

[@clayxros576]

@@theexaltedlt8222 This aged too well...

[@16floz]

I legitimately think that the whole 2012 thing ruined my life. I grew up watching the history channel with my grandfather, who passed away in 2009, and continued to watch it after he passed because it reminded me of him. That was about the time they started airing all of these shows-- and without my grandfather there to explain anything to me, i was convinced the world was going to end. The anxiety I had about it and the existential dread it gave me made me depressed and left an impression on my psyche that I've never recovered from.

[@thedarknessthatcomesbefore4279]

Sorry to hear about your suffering. Hope things are getting better? Good luck for the future.

[@929er13]

same. lmao. i was so scared I'd die in 2012 because i had been watching that stuff for years.

[@obsidian1612]

Your not alone my dude. These stupid documentaries ruined a good cunch of my childhood. Thankfully I'm slowly starting to recover, so if I can you can too. Piece of advice keep it simple and take it one day at a time. It's hard at first, but when you do it everyday it gets just a little bit easier.

[@HoldMyBlade]

Feel so bad for you, really sad. Hey if this makes you feel better remember don't believe any end of world claims. Feel so sad to hear that, best of luck to you in future. ❤️❤️

[@clarab325]

I’m really sorry to hear that

[@caziis13]

I just love the dude who straight up quoted Star Trek as his reliable source

[@ladybirdg5658]

"It was like freaky friday but everyone died" is such a great line. I'm devastated I can't use it more often.

[@muja_bunny]

"Kept resetting till they got villagers that weren't ugly" I'm cry laughing

[@julianbell9161]

Out of the loop: what is this referencing? A lot of comments are laughing at this line and I just don’t get it.

[@nick-playercharacter8583]

@@julianbell9161 Animal Crossing.

[@felipe21279]

@@julianbell9161 actually, the mayan creation myth, which is basically The Sims and Animal Crossing combined.

[@CambieEverdeen]

THIS IS THE FIFTH TIME IVE WATCHED IT AND I JUST REALIZED IT WAS AN ANIMAL CROSSING REFERENCE IM DYING

[@robiking011]

Televisa still thinks the villagers are ugly because they still won't cast mayan villagers in their telenovelas.

[@ryanthefilmmaker2574]

Scientists: The world is being slowly destroyed by human greed and capitalism and we need to stop it before it's too late People: meh Conspiracy theorists: The world is gonna end in the year 2000 I mean 2003 I mean 2012 because of comets or aliens or something People: Oh my god this is so true

[@dexdrako]

this hurts it so ture

[@ryanthefilmmaker2574]

@Víctor Fernández "capitalism good" someone here doesn't know about economy or history

[@ryanthefilmmaker2574]

@@levelmake7758 wow, that's good for you. I hope that rock you live under is comfortable

[@ryanthefilmmaker2574]

@Víctor Fernández The industrial revolution The colonization of Africa The mass destruction of the Amazon The fact that our oceans are being pumped with oil, plastic, and chemicals The fact that people are starving to death while others sit atop mountains of wealth that they wouldn't feasibly be able to spend in 1000 years Boy, this sounds like a GREAT system! You might be defending it, Victor, but there's a 90% chance you're being exploited and oppressed by it too

[@mauricio9564]

@Víctor Fernández Mexico never had a fascist regime lol,and fascist economies have been capitalist

[@nickolihatcher9701]

I remember having to convince my best friends that none of the 2012 stuff was going to happen. They were raised by a HUGE conspiracy nut and fully believed everything without question. I finally got through to them when I pointed out that the Mayans didn't use Leap year so their calendar would've ended way before 2012.

[@theletters9623]

I remember kids in my class telling me about how the world was gonna end (probably because of these shows) and little 9-year-old me was like "nah. Nope. Aint happening." and GUESS WHO WAS RIGHT

[@thefury770able]

There’s a Chilean puppet show called “31 minutes” where there’s an episode where someone say the world will end, so at the end when it doesn’t end the guy who predicted it would end says “the world did end but then a world exactly like ours began at the sane point we were”

[@randomshyte9989]

they were right the world did end.

[@jacobtuley2573]

That sounds kinda like "last thursdayism"

[@ulisesguerrero1822]

Tulio estamos al aire

[@Bollibompa]

Let me guess, you think the makers of the puppet show invented this idea?

[@koboldcatgirl]

@@Bollibompa The makers of the puppet show invented it. I'm glad we were able to introduce it to you.

[@gobilla2124]

December 21 is my birthday and I remember in Fourth Grade thinking how badass it was that the world was going to end on the day I turned 10 lol

[@naostuff6455]

My birthday is also on the 21/12 and I was scared af

[@kaylandra]

MY BIRTHDAY WAS LITERALLY A DAY BEFORE IT... dude i was so disappointed i probably wouldn't get any presents or ice cream since my parents celebrate my bday on the weekend

[@VoltaMagica]

That's also my birthday and I turned 19 that year... welp I feel old

[@brb.8962]

THIS IS THE REUNION OF THE DECEMBER 21 BIRTHDAYERS

[@littlemau1360]

My 4th grade class had our Christmas party the day before, while the younger kids had theres on the 21st. So many little kids were upset they wouldnt have their Christmas lol party

[@zephyronthewind]

All this video is teaching me is that I somehow watched so many of these as a child, and that I am grateful for my Great-grandfather explaining how the Mayan calendar is cyclical and everyone else was just losing their minds

[@friedchickenfetus]

As a neurotic seventh grader when this happened, I got so sucked into this 2012 BS it’s scary, crazy how most of if is gone now I remember at the exact date and time the world was supposed to end I made my dad sit with me in the car outside of a bookstore and just wait for 15 minutes in silence until it was over. To this day I’ve never told him why we did this

[@GiovannisDaedra]

"Kept rebooting until they weren't ugly" Imagine not only being reject by your crush for being ugly but also by your Gods.

[@aj4waffles]

God told me i was ugly and also a horrible person in my past life when i took 8 hits of acid and forgot my gummybears had weed in them and ate extreme amounts of edibles on 8 hits of acid. it also said he rebooted earth countless times and never did it right and just decided to stick with this one till we destroy it ourselves before restarting again

[@grimmreaper5349]

They turned humanity into monkeys, melted the sun into the earth, unleashed a plague of snakes, and created the day-night cycle in the proccess of turning off the sun; so uhhh yeah, mesoamerican gods were uhh...not beyond resetting until they rolled proper humanity

[@zaberfang]

Evolution in a nutshell.

[@thunderspark1536]

@@zaberfang Man's not wrong, being attractive to one's species does tend to learn to more young being born

[@TheDeadmanTT]

1994: The soviet union. So close.

[@johndanes2294]

I mean it didn't last long but the Russian Federation and the US were "close" under Yeltsin.

[@Anubis415]

John Danes that don’t count

[@MrPooleish]

I remember both the 2009 end of the world (religious fundamentalists) and the 2012 end of the world (Mayan Calendar). Both were work days where I had opening shifts. On both days the roads I took to work were completely quiet and the sidewalks devoid of normal pedestrian traffic. But then the store opened and everyone wasn't dead. Huge disappointments, both of em.

[@amptaxman]

I still say: “Bob is God, God is Hope, God is Bob Hope.” It stuck with me after I saw it on Mtv in the ’80s. 🤣

[@renyakbeayek5043]

It really is true what they say: everyone wants to be the last generation.

[@karonneevits513]

let me translate it for you; everyone wants to be irresponsible and end of the world would be good excuse to be so

[@robiking011]

People of every generation want to feel special. They want to think that all world history lead to their generation and will culminate with their generation and there'll be nothing else after their generation.

[@mariaquiet6211]

I've lived to see 25 years of kids being berated about their generation being the worst in history. I'm old enough to do it myself now but fuck all that bullshit.

[@ImTheMan0fSteel]

I dont think that's true at all. They just want to be important.

[@bobsaget8791]

Help me make the most Of freedom and of pleasure Nothing ever lasts forever Everybody wants to end the world

[@papabless790]

I remember when all this hysteria was going on, and someone explained to me that it was all bullshit because the date had already passed. I asked what he meant and he explained that the Mayan calander did not include the concept of the leap year, which was a Gregorian Calander concept which was established in 1582. Due to the different calander systems, we were actually behind the Mayan calander by 107 days, approximately a little over 3 months. Meaning that these quacks theories were already debunked 3 months early. That's what I remember the most out of all of this, people just not realizing we used a different calander system than them because of the leap year.

[@PersephoneDarling28]

My brother and I both knew that there were other calendars that went past 2012 so we always joked that the conspiracy nuts were comically missing the calendars sitting next to the apocalypse one

[@Richard_Nickerson]

Calendar* But right!? Everyone who spoke of it seriously was a joke from the first word.

[@phi1215]

I knew it was wrong when I went to the market and picked up milk, the Best Buy date was for 12/26 and cows are never wrong! 😂

[@Wolfpaw754]

The actual truth about it, was its not even the end of the calender, it was the end of a buktun, the calender goes like century, decade etc, it was just the end of it like decade 9 and it changed to century 1

[@lorddashdonalddappington2653]

Ah yes, because it's well known that the gregorian calander's leap years literally bend time and create new days from the ether...

[@lev4234]

the pole-shift thing in particular is so fascinating to me because polarity of the earth DOES change and HAS changed - had to write a paper about mantle convection and how that creates patches of reversed polarity over the earth, and that eventually adds up to "flip" the poles. we have evidence for this bc of metallic minerals in ancient lava! its strange how actual science gets twisted by pseudo scientist grifters like this

[@whowantstoknow2967]

"Is this Atlantis?". "No this is Patrick!".

[@THATGuy5654]

I have the mental image of someone actually finding all 13 skulls, and as 2012 approaches, they scramble to figure out what alignment they're supposed to be in. At some point they're sobbing in panic, one person in the foreground frantically knocking skulls together, another in the background with a skull in each hand spinning in place.

[@itsnotpaul8548]

"another in the background spinning with a skull in each hand spinning in place" The image of a guy getting rotated 360 degrees in blender just sounds funny to me

[@thunderspark1536]

@@itsnotpaul8548 He's just tposing while floating there

[@duncanm4061]

Fun fact: The world did end in 2012, and this is hell.

[@orgluzman561Peace_IL_PS]

actually yes you are right this is hell

[@McRaylie]

This explains WAY too much...

[@TwistedEgg]

MY GOD

[@DanMcLeodNeptuneUK]

Checks out...

[@Maxrepfitgm]

That explains Cardi B...

[@LDrosophila]

Funny not one Coronavirus prediction. I would have even accepted beer virus

[@cjharshman9234]

I think one of the interesting things about this phenomenon is its effect on children at the time. Now I'm only speaking from my own experience here and would love to know if anyone went through the same, but this shit RUINED me as a kid. I already had anxiety problems but 2012 ramped all that up to 11. I remember having crippling panic attacks all the time about the impending doom. I don't think it helped that the first time I learned about 2012 Mayan calendar bullshit was while I was actually in some Mayan ruins on a tour and our guide mentioned it, shortly after this shit was everywhere (especially on the history channel) which made it have a real validity and authority in my already anxious 12 year old brain. I can't emphasize enough the pure dread I felt all that year leading up to 2012, especially during the "final" days of December.

[@bugandrews]

The whole history channel is highly reminiscent of walking around with a toddler. "This foot print is from big foot!" "That pile of leaves under a tarp is big foot!" "This wall was part of a castle" "look i found Atlantis!!" Except it has real life repercussions and they keep fucking around with actual ancient sites

[@Nerdgirl9853]

The wall being part of a fort or castle actually isn't all that absurd. That is an actual possibility. The other things tho, yeah, those are absurd.

[@neoqwerty]

@@Nerdgirl9853 It turns absurd real fast when "that wall was part of a castle" turns into "that wall was impossible to build by humans at that time and that's why alien visitors who made humans to mine precious resources from earth exist". Yes, that is actually a thing I heard on Ancient Aliens (about the retaining wall of a temple that they claimed was an "ancient spaceship landing pad").

[@Nerdgirl9853]

@@neoqwerty Yeah, big difference between those two things. Ancient Aliens is nonsense. And most likely motivated by racism, as mentioned in the video. People in history were more advanced than they, or most people, give them credit for, AA are just expecially condenceding. And when historians say they don't know how structures were built. It was less questioning the possibility, and moreso just not having evidence of what method was used out of various possible ones.

[@emerson8523]

I baby sit toddlers, yep. They are the history channel but can't pronounce words.

[@floridaman318]

@@Nerdgirl9853 how on earth do you get racism out of that

[@SailorMaxie]

“That man shall become... a man eater.” *_HALL & OATES INTENSIFIES_*

[@FireBird826]

guess you could say all those theorists are out of touch

[@GreaterSeraph]

It's what I want, but what it's got might be hard to handle.

[@andrejg4136]

@@FireBird826 They keep saying we're out of time, but are we really?

[@NayrAnur]

She'll only come out at night

[@greatestscott6599]

Yes to all this comment tree, and its method of modern love.

[@JamienautMark2]

I like the take that basically the plot of Pokémon Emerald will be the end of the world, but without Rayquaza.

[@steel8231]

Fun fact: The common quote supposedly cited as Nostradomas predicting 2001 was actually a Mashup of random lines from half a dozen prophecies. Fun Fact 2: A pole shift would make every analog compass on the planet be incorrect, but would only mess with computer systems until the next software update with no noticeable effects on life other than maybe messing with pigions, geese and other migrating animals.

[@cjharshman9234]

I'm so charmed by the idea of the most long lasting consequence of this would be huge bird initiatives to teach pigeons how to be pigeons correctly again

[@albertgore7435]

I credit my anxiety to the fact that my pre-adolescent ass grew up in this era where people were constantly talking about and making depictions of the end of the world.

[@tetonic]

word

[@Guimhj]

So basically growing up 7th day adventist

[@albertgore7435]

@@Guimhj oh yeah to compound that anxiety I grew up evangelical Christian 😂

[@curiouscampbell5447]

Same..

[@mattibeata2295]

so... like kids growing up today

[@ryancresawn4726]

"Wandering around Guatemala for 90 minutes, and he doesn't find shit" Let me introduce you to season 6 of Oak Island.

[@ironclad6471]

I remember when that show came out, I watched 2 episodes and it became pretty clear that it was going nowhere. How people put up with several SEASONS is beyond me.

[@sagecolvard9644]

@@ironclad6471 My grandad liked that show. At one point, in one of the later seasons, they find a single gold coin. Actual experts on the island say that this was likely was the treasure *was* before someone else dug it up. And yet, the show continues.

[@xp8969]

I've been searching the History Channel for the past 2 decades and still haven't been able to find the lost treasure chest of history documentaries that the myths say they used to possess

[@jarehelt]

when are they going to get to the bottom of that damn pit!

[@SummerAlleriaWindrunner]

I remember this! My family stayed up until midnight watching TV, my little brother was really freaking out lol. Then right at midnight the ONLY hail storm I have ever seen started up. We were watching as a joke but when a piece of hail smacked against the window we all screamed.

[@Williamfuchs420]

Survived so many apocalypses i feel like a honorary member of Buffys scooby gang

[@austin_bennett]

I'm a grizzled survivor: I was born in the 90s, survived numerous world ending storms, Y2K, 2012, and now the coronavirus plague of 2020

[@KitsuneShapeShifter]

''End of the world? Hmph, another Friday I guess.''

[@tralphstreet]

The thing is, the plague is an actual real threat that nobody predicted, and you didn't survive it, it's not over yet.

[@jeremypedersen6894]

@@tralphstreet wooosh

[@zsin128]

I didn't survive y2k because I was born in 2006. But I'm still surviving man

[@Berzerkarnus]

Little too early to say you survived 2020

[@LFrench]

You gotta cover ‘Hunting Hitler’ that tv show’s been an in joke in my family. We like to imagine the hosts seeing hitler in a shopping isle and chasing him.

[@LFrench]

ElyC West I guess ‘hunting hitler’ is a good start

[@TouchTheShark]

Friend one: "Oh shit! Is that Hitler?" Friend two: "I think so... Lets get him!" Adolf while running away: "Wooop wooop wooop wooop!"

[@stickittotheman3296]

Reminds me of that John Mulaney skit

[@domenicobulzis4397]

I'd like my family to have the empathy level of yours

[@dr-wn9xc]

I got the kind of mother who loves thoses shows and ghost hunting shows fml

[@davidblank420]

"Captain shields are down."- Lt. Worf. "BADDDDD!"- Jean Luc Picard.

[@leekspinner]

Yea.. I was a kid, everyone was talking about the apocalypse, my grandma used to insist taking me to church to pray and I had a couple of nightmares of it.

[@SamA-cw3be]

On that day in 2012 i ran outside and screamed “she did it! She stopped it! Buffy saved us all!”

[@epicremarc]

But at what cost? Was losing Anya and Spike worth it?

[@derpadothebird2106]

I thought that was the guy from blues clues

[@SassyUnicorn86]

Hahaha the Hellmouth!!

[@FSEThompson]

As someone who grew up playing around in Australian bush, the scariest part of this whole thing is watching that dude shove his bare hands into huge piles of leaf litter and just fumble around blindly. I’m willing to bet the local guides had a running betting pool on whether a snake or a spider got him first.

[@sorryifoldcomment8596]

Oh God I didn't even think about that and now I'm so paranoid watching him jam his hands everywhere.

[@thunderspark1536]

That kids, is what we call natural selection. Idiots who shove their hands into random piles of leaves tend to not last

[@TheBluestflamingos]

Or jump down a dark hole without a flashlight. I live in the United States, not many small dangerous animals in my neck of the woods, and even I know random dirt holes are usally made by animals that probably don't appreciate unexpected guests.

[@SpookyDeerArt]

i remember being on tumblr as the clock ticked toward midnight on december 20, 2012. it was just shitposts about the world ending, people asking the australians how the apocalypse was going. i remember one post in particular saying that the kangaroos had spontaneously learned to use firearms.

[@Dombobaybee]

I remember having history channel on when I was in sixth grade during this era of it and being horrified of the possibility of the world ending. Like I knew it wasn't gonna happen. But my immature brain was also like "yeah but it could, they have a calender or some shit"

[@sycastells1212]

When I was a kid, they told me the world would end in 2000. As a young adult, they told me it would happen in 2012. And 2020 is the first time the world actually ended.

[@IkeOkerekeNews]

The world didn't end in 2020.

[@PimBalpert]

The world hasn't ended, just slowed down quite a bit

[@VaqueroCoyote]

It's not ending, pendejo.

[@sycastells1212]

@David Smith Shh. I've never been called "pendejo" before. I'm savoring it.

[@Junosensei]

@@IkeOkerekeNews - I'm a time traveler from 2059. Around the end of 2020, horses rose up the dead and threatened life on the planet. The fight was brutal, but fortunately, we beat 'em.

[@technocore1591]

Rebooting the world til they got villagers that weren’t ugly? Sounds more reasonable than any widely accepted religion I’ve ever heard

[@MartletBestGirl]

How come this earth is not rebooted yet?

[@pugasaurusrex8253]

Imagine how ugly those villagers that came before us were

[@Avellania]

The world is just one giant game of animal crossing.

[@germanpatino9002]

Yes, the mayan myth of creation. Basically the gods tried to make servants out of different materials like wood, clay, etc, they didn't like any of them, until they used corn to make humans. You can read more of the mayan mythology in the popol vuh.

[@pink1200]

@@Elgnirp damn if people here are such shit imagine how bad the previous worlds were

[@boid9761]

I was in 6th Grade when all of this was at it's peak. We were physically anticipating the end. My friends and I, with everyone else, are literally making bets on what would go down. Hell, I even have a Diary of a Wimpy Kid knockoff that documented everything I did before 2012, and vividly remember the pages. I even saw a movie back to back special in HBO I think, that unironically uses the 2012 song by CollegeHumor, named Bye Bye World. And then the date happened, and my God was I absolutely confused

[@SpunkMonkey]

Mad props for including the One True Church! BTW, when X-Day didn't happen, Stang explained that "Bob" wrote the date on a wet cocktail napkin so the year was unclear. X-Day celebrations continue yearly; perhaps you could come and report back?

[@morgana4488]

Plot Twist: The destruction of the Himmler Skull broke the circuit and actually prevented the end of the world, with the skulls actually having power and actually catalyzing the end times

[@Axius27]

Alien: Oh come on! I head over to the next star for only a few centuries, and the goddamned petrol monkeys *break* my doomsday weapon!

[@explosivemodesonicmauricet1597]

@@Axius27 "Next time gotta build a Planet Cracker Gun that can shoot ammunition in MFTL Speeds"

[@clayxros576]

The funniest thing about that crystal skull hunt to me was that I heard the Mayan prophecy was "Once all 13 crystal skulls are discovered the world will end". This made some sense since 13 is considered unlucky in western culture. I then proceeded to laugh at the guy searching for them, as he completely missed the point he had turned himself into the super weapon chasing villain.

[@thunderspark1536]

@@clayxros576 Funniest part is the whole 13 unlucky part was started because Christians didn't like a goddess of reproduction/sex from some other religion that was celebrated on a 13 day, so they made it a horrible no good very bad number.

[@coryfice1881]

Mystery of the Crystal Skulls sounds like a 90's cartoon series.

[@nukiradio]

Uhhhh, it was an early 2000's movie

[@thecollector4332]

Nuki YT Thats kingdom of the crystal skull.

[@commentcopbadge6665]

Nuki YT Uhhhh... no, it's not. The closest thing to a movie was being the plot for the last Indiana Jones movie Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls. I was obsessed with this subject since my teens which was mid 90s. If there'd been a movie with such a title to come out in the last almost 30 years I would have been all over it. In fact, the only reason I was remotely interested in the Indiana Jones movie was because of the crystal skulls plot.

[@joostin123]

When's Goku coming to collect the Dragonballs

[@AlexYorim]

Amusing is that the second season of American Dragon: Jake Long has an arc on fetching crystal skulls.

[@bradjarvis4963]

We need a sequel to that crystal skull show, I need to know if he ever got that permit

[@jordandino417]

21:18 “Have we stumbled on the remains of Atlantis?” Pro tip: If you’re searching for Atlantis, go to the *Atlantic* ocean. 🤣

[@primusvsunicron1]

IS THIS ATLANTIS?! *machete vs rock sounds*

[@niluscvp]

"all the land and water will swap" Netherlands: Its free real estate!

[@jr8260]

Gekoloniseerd

[@lunapyrope9683]

Also florida

[@hyperion9062]

haha dude such an original meme

[@EdenNeedsAYoutubeHandle]

"they also claimed that our world was actually the fourth created by the gods, who kept rebooting until they got villagers that weren't ugly" im screaming

[@otakurailfan]

I laughed wayyyy to hard at that XD

[@KittyPieVibes]

Pretty villagers gang

[@robiking011]

Televisa still thinks the villagers are ugly because they still won't cast mayan villagers in their telenovelas.

[@somegoodsoup7008]

I liked the one where it rained jaguars; or was it panthers? It was raining felines

[@omega1575]

I’m screaming at “it’s like freaky Friday but we all die”

[@kuri3494]

14:13 gave me major flashbacks to how obsessed my grandma got with this secret code numbers stuff after 9/11. She had a whole binder of this stuff she'd printed out from the internet. For some reason the one that always stuck out to me was that you could supposedly see the figure of Satan in the smoke from the towers. When I was 8 that stuff sent shivers down my spine lol It's so crazy looking back on it...

[@therielle]

I discovered your account by accident due to the victorious videos… after finishing ALL of them I am now doing a semi deep dive 🙈 keep going. You are amazing 💗

[@zenaren]

Mayan calendar carver: Hey boss, the calendar only goes up to one baktun. What should I do? Boss: Just make a new one later. No one's going to freak out about it. Calendar carver: You're right, thanks boss.

[@disgruntledcashier503]

"All the FBI does is arrest you for downloading Movie, send death threats to MLK, eat hot chip, and L I E"

[@ImperiaGin]

Sad thing is they actually did send death threats to MLK

[@seraphinw1]

@@ImperiaGin Assuming that at least one FBI agent has eaten hot chip before, that entire statement is correct.

[@BiologicalXenon]

Little 11 year old me watched a ton of these 2012 documentaries. I remember one where a couple of dudes went to a random island to investigate some Mayan Snail statue that may or may not (and I’m siding with may not given the record of the documentaries) have even been Mayan. Or a snail for that matter. Every five minutes you’d hear something along the lines of “could this ancient Mayan snail statue hold the secret to our salvation on December 21st, 2012.”

[@thetonybones]

22:02 the moment I subscribed. You’re awesome dude, thanks for everything you do here.

[@divinityd662]

Fun fact: Nibiru ended up becoming a yu-gi-oh card, and is currently one of, if not the most played card currently

[@wakawakatakeover]

Also they based an entire Scooby-Doo series off of it.

[@IanqueParker]

As a Yugioh player oblivious to the reference this is neat as all heck.

[@stardustspark5682]

It's super sick, and the Token's art is super cool

[@HardlegGaming]

True facts

[@kobil316SH]

Neat

[@Scienceboy0]

This is why parody is so risky. People will always be stupid enough to believe it and twist it into something perpetuating the thing being parodies.

[@dragonofepics7324]

Now I’m wondering what it would be like if Robin Hood: Men in Tights was the only surviving Robin Hood story. Also what’s your pfp? Looks cool.

[@Scienceboy0]

@@dragonofepics7324 Oh it's art from a Magic the Gathering card! Stratus Dancer by Anastasia Ovchinnikova

[@neoqwerty]

@@dragonofepics7324 It actually already DID happen, the Robin Hood thing! Robin Hood and his merry men? Never existed. The closest that is verifiable is the usage of "robbynn hudes"... Aka, actual burglars and robbers. Possibly wearing hooded robes to mislead people and pass for monastic dudes. Everything after, no one can conclusively say the people alleged to be Robin Hood were even anywhere near the right areas... when they even had proof they existed at all. Somewhere, someone made up a bullshit story about a dude in green taking from the rich and giving to the poor as a power fantasy of sticking it to the man, and then a hundred years later everyone said Robin Hood was real.

[@eoincampbell1584]

@@neoqwerty People don't tend to say Robin Hood was real, nor did they ever that much. It was always stories and generally recognised as stories. For a breakdown of the history of those stories here's a good video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b57WmYWXjp2aitU

[@clayxros576]

@@eoincampbell1584 England tends to lol

[@greatestscott6599]

I remember in 2012 when a meteor destroyed the Earth. It rocked my world.

[@MoominDoogie]

Oh wow, I actually got an advert for the History Channel while watching this. Great vid, love your content.

[@samland9570]

I’m a Christian and it’s pretty basic that we can’t predict the Second Coming.

[@robiking011]

Hey Hush! Televangelists won't be able to make any money if you tell people they can't predict the Second Coming!

[@nathanielbables8652]

Fellow Christian amen, man these people are annoying 🙄.

[@jaredking923]

Doesn't stop southern evangelical preachers from claiming that interracial marriage, no, gay marriage, no wait, transgender people existing will finally make god destroy the earth like Sodom and Gomorrah.

[@RestingJudge]

The televangelists trying to predict the apocalypse of St. John is almost even more cringe than those "Lost books of the bible" shows that pop up every couple of years.

[@davidnotonstinnett]

Andrea Jane watch out, we gotta bad ass over here. He has seen through all the religion and is ready to tell you that your beliefs are wrong rather than understanding that people need different things than they do to find meaning and happiness in the world

[@Pfromm007]

They could be more humble about their predictions. Ex. By the year 3080, we'll have no longer a need for Fax Machines.

[@PersephoneDarling28]

These are some nice and accurate prophecies

[@Idothinkysaurus]

I dunno about that one. Seems a little ludicrous.

[@DigGil3]

But that won't sell books to crazy people.

[@lcmiracle]

But what about photocopiers?

[@shayposting]

There's always gonna be some boomer that insists on having them around tbh

[@eagc7]

Happy "End of the World" 10th anniversary

[@Excellsion]

21:14 Pffffttttt Atlantis, yes, a rock. 25:35 The straight up clip of Macross/Robotech walkers just gets me.

[@JadeFoxAlpha]

"HAVE WE STUMBLED ON THE REMAINS OF ATLANTIS?!" SMASHED that like button

[@jordandino417]

I smashed it so hard it broke 🤣😅

[@kashiichan]

It's at 21:13, for anyone else looking

[@eat_a_dick_trudeau]

I love those "discovery" shows that find absolutely nothing. 60 minute show, 58 minutes of their life story, what tools they will use, a highly compressed search, "we didn't find anything....yet", "I am not discouraged..", credits roll. Total waste of time.

[@manospondylus4896]

Sir S-Spec That was basically every episode of MonsterQuest. The only time I remember when they actually got results was on the episode about the Rod cryptid, as they found out that the pictures of it were actually moths mid-flight recorded by cameras with low framerates

[@thecollector4332]

The weird-haired dude from ancient aliens had a show like that. He went around the world for 20 episodes looking for aliens and he found absolutely nothing.

[@dirgenmeister4018]

and the best part about it is that actual scientists and historians can do the exact same thing, except theyll use evidence and a broad knowledge of their field to make very specific predictions, and then theyll get them right. thats how we discovered the tiktalik, the first tetrapod on earth. scientists deadass noscoped its location before they had even dug up a single fossil because they were so good at archaeology. we need to make more media about those people, because its an actual achievement

[@manospondylus4896]

dirgenmeister That‘s paleontology, not archaeology

[@WasatchWind]

I like going back to this video as it's one of my favorites. Thought that came to me this time - when December 2012 came and went, I don't remember ever noticing the passing of the 21st. I probably was more interested in thinking about Christmas lol.

[@Shiyounin]

Just found you today. Liked, subscribed, notification bell rung, and commented. Great video, thanks buddy.

[@stevem.o.1185]

Holy shit I think my history of the holocaust/dead sea scrolls/ Hebrew professor was on that Crystal Skulls show! I knew he was on Ancient Aliens as a "Satan Expert" and he liked to dress up as Indiana Jones, but I didn't know he was on that show! He always talked about how proud he was of bullshitting the history channel for money lol. Dr. Hanson, you were a legend.

[@LainVics]

What a fella

[@clayxros576]

A legend indeed. Easiest money of his life I bet

[@pumpkinnecromancer2490]

Fun fact: December 21st is my birthday, and 2012 was when I graduated highschool. I guess high school graduation is pretty apocalyptic.

[@fretnesbutke3233]

Ah ha! There you are!

[@eduarda2534]

My brother was born in december 21st in the year 2012 lol

[@daleundercover3924]

every so often, when i am sad, i come back to this video. i cannot be sad when such mastery of archaeology is being discussed. cant believe i was never taught the Big Knife in a Hole method