!!! Potential photosensitivity warning for mild flashing lights, forgot to put this in the video !!! also if you dont like the intro id recommend not watching the video 👍
@McLukaZg Жыл бұрын
What microphone do you use?
@iwazhere7077 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the seizure Captain 👍
@satyris410 Жыл бұрын
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse maybe a link as well? 🧐
@TheStuntmanxx Жыл бұрын
I loved the video and editing!
@TheWizard45134 Жыл бұрын
Oof, thank God I read the comments before watching the video. But still thanks for the warning @CaptainKRB
@-yeme- Жыл бұрын
One of my all time favourite internet stories is the drama of the Scots Wikipedia (a version of Wikipedia in the Scots language, a divergent language/dialect of English). It turned out that almost half of it, thousands and thousands of articles, had been written by one American teenager with no knowledge of the language by writing in his imagined version of it, which was basically American English phonetically spelled with a Scottish accent, mixed with a dose of gibberish and invented words.
@TheFaceSoap Жыл бұрын
I speak a particular dialect of Scots (not the one he was writing in) and seeing "also" represented as "an' aw" in every article made me want to spew everywhere
Жыл бұрын
Is that where the ‘Frogge’ came from?
@ambiguousi9075 Жыл бұрын
@ no, that's from the middle english wiki which is supposed to represent english from about 500-1000 years ago
@TheFaceSoap Жыл бұрын
@ no, we call frogs puddocks
@Max._Power Жыл бұрын
there's a woman similar to him who pops up infrequently to edit as many pages as she can to her preferred version of english, which is a combination of old english and grammatically incorrect modern english and welsh, and she insists that the correct spelling of things is via her own incorrect interpretation of how to read phonetic symbols
@preciat816 Жыл бұрын
My school has its own Wikipedia vandals story. One time a couple of students were suspended for making memes about the baldness of the chief administrator. Later that week, in an act of protest, his Wikipedia article was edited to include a "filmography" where he stared as famous bald characters such as Dominic Toreto and Mr Clean
@MrsSurrealista Жыл бұрын
That’s hilarious
@Pepsi_Addicted Жыл бұрын
love that
@ewetwentythree9 ай бұрын
If I was the bald administrator I'd take the jokes and run with them. Bald people tend to be pretty cool
@AFlameofVengance9 ай бұрын
Our school had a similar thing where we edited about us shining a laser off of the VP's bald head like a disco ball for in school raves.
@Gatorade696 ай бұрын
Haha. My friends and I got our school banned from editing Wikipedia. Nothing came from it though as Wikipedia at the time was still a somewhat new concept, at least to teachers as the site was only like 4 or years old at that point. The rest of the time was spent trolling Yahoo answers, making accounts for a specific teacher we didn't like and asking questions like "Is it OK to kiss my students ?" Or "How can I get my students to really like me" The teacher was always giving the cute girls special treatment, he was kind of a creep.
@collinmc90 Жыл бұрын
My favorite was some person who was always editing the wikipedia page for the city of Deer Park, WA. He made a whole fictional history of the town revolving around a giant baby born in the town named Farleif. Who grew up to be a great deer wrestler and the town would celebrate with the "running of farleif" and "deer kicking days". It was quite creative and was up for a long time. There are still a couple weird things that pop up on that page time to time and I'd like to think who ever did it is still out there trying. He even had a whole fake website about the town set up so he could use it as a reference. I really wish I had archived it.
@quokka_yt Жыл бұрын
> "I really wish I had archived it." It has been! Wikipedia keeps an Akashic record, and there's a "View history" button on the top of the page, and you can view past versions. The only exceptions to this are revisions that have been deleted due to libel, copyright violations, or sensitive information.
@collinmc90 Жыл бұрын
@@quokka_yt Oh I've gone back and seen the edits haha it's the fake website the kid had set up I wish I had archived.
@Melody_Raventress Жыл бұрын
Oh man so do I. That sounds ridiculous.
@fabio4805 Жыл бұрын
Was probably my history teacher to catch cheaters. He told us he did this frequently lol
@collinmc90 Жыл бұрын
It was between 2011 and 2015 I believe. just look for "Farleif" or something like that lol. @@Melody_Raventress
@zachariahpoltergeist4516 Жыл бұрын
I love the one guy who edited Ray Romano's wiki page to make it seem like Ray may simply be a hypothetical person.
@@voltageesq. This is funny, it not only made it seem like he will eventually end up existing, but it also got the page semi-protected. I'll post the link in another comment. (oldid=856542416)
My favorite story was one of my teachers editing her sister's wiki page. Her sister was a paralympian athlete, and my teacher would add in random true but unimportant facts. Her sister couldn't edit them out bc you can't edit your own wiki page, so it would take a bit for any additions to be removed.
@ShatteredQvartz Жыл бұрын
I'd do the same if I had a famous sibling lmao Like imagine the brother of a Nobel Prize in, idk physics, just adding "Oh yeah, he peed in his bed up until he was 17" and it being true, but also difficult to remove hahaha I'd do it
@dg3734 Жыл бұрын
How did the website know it was her trying to edit her own page??
@Jernfalk Жыл бұрын
@@dg3734 She wasn't good at making sockpuppets, I suppose
@WK-47 Жыл бұрын
Sounds like a good example of an edge case that must be a pain in the ass to moderate/devise rules around. I mean, it's technically legit since such editors aren't the subject of the article in question, but they're so close to the subject and thus more prone to bias that functionally, they might as well be. I guess it's not a major issue if such edits fall under the (admittedly broad) umbrella of trivial/irrelevant info (unsure what term Wikipedia uses for this kinda thing), so that'd be grounds to remove such things. Then again, that same reason is what allows editors, most of whom with an obvious political leaning that's become much more apparent in recent years, to remove "irrelevant" info on certain political figures that happens to paint them in a negative light... but that's a whole other rabbit hole.
@RT4eva9 Жыл бұрын
@@WK-47probably not allowed because there are no citations, but you could publish something on her and cite it to get around it
@clashblaster Жыл бұрын
"Wikipedia is the last place you'd expect drama or conflict" this made me realize just how few people actually get involved with wikis beyond reading them lol.
@Tomahawks360 Жыл бұрын
I mean, I don't blame them, that's kinda the point of a wiki: easy to access information. But at the same time, I feel it should be non surprising to find that out, at the end of the day anyone can edit Wikipedia and even mods can have their biases.
@shroomie5982 Жыл бұрын
i was literally planing to write something along these lines but like, as an amateur wikipedian, that line made me scoff.
@hyperion3145 Жыл бұрын
Tbh, I don't see how anyone WOULDN'T expect drama from a place where everyone can write anything...
@shroomie5982 Жыл бұрын
@@hyperion3145 well yeah but most of the drama comes from the average wikipedian's pursuit of easy access to information, not trolling.
@larb6314 Жыл бұрын
People should read the talk pages on controversial political topics, such as articles on transgender issues or the Syrian civil war. You can tell some of the articles are guarded by very biased editors, usually but not always with a strong liberal bias, who will ignore reasonable suggestions, cite opinion articles which hold very little factual information, and generally act smug and condescending towards anyone who wants to improve the objectivity of these articles.
@bedgegog Жыл бұрын
There is one legendary long-term troll on Wiktionary (Wikipedia’s smaller sister project). Wonderfool has been editing from 2004 and is known for having become an administrator and deleting the main page twice. Funnily enough, everyone agrees that when not trolling he makes valuable edits, and the community is seriously considering unbanning him (we’ll see where that goes).
@axmoylotl Жыл бұрын
dr.Jekyll mr Hyde
@tikimillie Жыл бұрын
Idk, seems fair to troll a little if the changes are easily reversible, unban my man.
@AtlasKebabfile Жыл бұрын
Definitely shouldn’t be unbanned, disruptive editors that evade blocks for years waste everybody’s time.
@spaghettiking653 Жыл бұрын
I only recently found out about this guy and I find his actions hilarious, my theory is that he's just building trust to be re-accepted and amnestied back onto the site tho, lol.
@alexsander471 Жыл бұрын
Lmao that's hilarious, just an upstanding little guy engaging in diminute amounts of tomfoolery
@asdfasdf-dd9lk Жыл бұрын
I'm surprised you didn't include the Scots kid, who essentially wrote half of the Scots language wikipedia for years, without ever actually knowing the language
@thecrimsonfuckeralucard9500 Жыл бұрын
That's fucking hilarious
@orionfreed6763 Жыл бұрын
Yeah he legitimately disrupted the languages legacy because it’s already in decline and he sabotaged a major online resource for its speakers
@p0k3mn1 Жыл бұрын
That’s hilarious how was something so big not covered in this video
@ImNotReal12345 Жыл бұрын
Didn't he also try to guilt trip everyone after with saying like 'It hurts me most to know that the countless hours I spent trying to help people actually just made things worse' lol
@Eichro Жыл бұрын
If there was virtually nobody who spoke the language well enough to call it out for years i'd say the language was already good as dead in the first place. If I remember the story, the fucking government copypasted from it because even they didnt have ant Scots speaker.
@gromph4 Жыл бұрын
One of my favourite vandalizations of Wikipedia was "Wax house, baby". Someone after watching the 2005 remake of House of wax decided to deface its wiki page. They wrote that the working title of the film was "Wax house, baby" and that this was allegedly because it was iffy if the film could clear the rights to remake the original. This edit was up on Wikipedia for years. It was up for so long that people would quote it on horror movie podcasts as fact. This was until the mischievous editor wrote into a the important if true podcast, confessing to their wiki-crimes.
@oliverwilson119 ай бұрын
Is that supposed to be a reference or joke of some kind? Why add "baby" to the end of the title and not any other word?
@kiwo5799 ай бұрын
@@oliverwilson11just read it outloud lol
@seafoam88457 ай бұрын
@@kiwo579 I still don't get it
@anomalocarisgaming82052 ай бұрын
Yea me neither
@idzidz833Ай бұрын
i guess its an ice ice baby joke?
@itsybitsycherry Жыл бұрын
I’d like to give a special mention to “Ananny”, an artist from Canada who, since late 2006, has repeatedly attempted to create an article on herself and force her inclusion in several lists of Canadian artists, also doing the same to _several_ more different-language Wikipedia versions.
@voltageesq. Жыл бұрын
i looked up her art, and it's SHIT
@sierra991 Жыл бұрын
getting banned from encyclopedia dramatica is genuinely impressive
@grindcoreninja6527 Жыл бұрын
That's a site I haven't thought of in years. I found out about when my girlfriend at the time sent me "shitting dick nipples" and that was like in 2010 or 2011.
@PinxTwink Жыл бұрын
News
@DFX2KX Жыл бұрын
Genuinely, I did not think that was possible. Even my ass, at my spiciest, wouldn't be able to get banned from that place. People have called out specific users *and* dropped some pretty nasty IRL photos in there and not gotten the boot.
@TheAmbasador99 Жыл бұрын
People are convinced that ED is a super far right wiki when in reality they simply mocked everything they could, if you looked up any ethnicity or country on ED, it's always an article mocking it
@louisvictor3473 Жыл бұрын
Sounds rather dramatic of them.
@erichobbs4042 Жыл бұрын
I clicked on this video thinking that it was about actual cryptids, a subject which I have an interest in for the folklore aspects. That being said, this was a pretty fascinating subject, and I really enjoyed it. Thanks for making this video.
@gearandalthefirst7027 Жыл бұрын
Yeah still not sure exactly how these trolls qualify as "cryptids" but oh well
@ProjectRedfoot Жыл бұрын
Same
@urphakeandgey6308 Жыл бұрын
Same, but I figured it probably wasn't about cryptids because IDK how that relates to Wikipedia specifically. Like are we just gonna read pages about cryptids? Idk why they settled on that name. Even just "Wikipedia Vandals" or "article trolls" would've made 1000x more sense. If they went with "vandals," they even could've called false information "article graffiti," since that's what most of it amounts to. It's graffiti on a Wikipedia article.
@alyssumowo Жыл бұрын
According to urban dictionary, it can also mean someone who's "introverted, unpredictable, and otherwise strange". It's mostly used by gen z.
@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy Жыл бұрын
@@gearandalthefirst7027 Technically they are heavily deranged and insane people but these therms are less and less being used with each year, because it's cool to be an idiot ... I guess, that is what I am being told so far ... So I guess people come up with new words for them ... I call them mutants for a long time now since they tend to be that. Most of these lies and sicknesses come from the west, their diet and cities are toxic so their brain is lacking development, nutrition, with other words they mutate into whatever media tells them they are. 20-10 years ago most kids were neglected, no life, grew up in front of a phone, or some sort of online screen being fed with garbage data, today they children on their own and the cicle repeats. They repeat mistakes live unhealthy, they are a burden to others, cause damage not only to themselves, later pull a victim card, many die from cancer or this so called Covid which also is connected to everything. Wikipedia and all these garbage data websites comes from the west too, all connected into a big bowl of mess ran by mutants.
@Lung__ Жыл бұрын
This was posted in the morning and it may come off as sarcastic, but I love how you refer to things in the past terminology as if it's a dug up recording, "this evening", and "tonight". It feels as if I am watching a TV documentary paired with an informational youtube video. I love it.
@May-gr8bp Жыл бұрын
KRB may have taken inspiration from Nexpo, a similar youtuber with very high production quality. He also uses retro themes in his videos. Or not. I don't know for sure.
@du64 Жыл бұрын
It might've been recorded at night then posted the next morning
@snark894 Жыл бұрын
@@May-gr8bp I was thinking maybe Disrupt
@misseselise3864 Жыл бұрын
it gives me nightmind vibes in the best way
@melody3741 Жыл бұрын
I KNOW I LOVE IT
@arbodox Жыл бұрын
Wow, this is fascinating! As an active Wikipedia editor myself, I've come across my fair share of unusual incidents like one sockmaster who has an obsession with Croatia, COPPA, and supergiant stars. They keep parroting about letting underage children use social media in the articles they edit, it's honestly kinda scary.
@KOTYAR0 Жыл бұрын
they are right about social networks being dangerous af...
@baconsarny-geddon8298 Жыл бұрын
Wikipedia's OK for ideologically-neutral topics, like "wild flowers of Northern Spain", or "induction of 2 stroke engines"... But for any topics even VAGUELY connected to politics (especially online politics/"culture wars"-related topics), or to obsessive fandoms... or basically ANY topic people have emotional investment in, more often than not it's just blatantly biased, and frequently filled with outright lies. Same as Reddit, Wikipedia is basically run by a small clique of ideologue "power-mods", who control contributions about any political/"controversial" topics, ensuring it only ever conforms to THEIR political biases (and manufacturing reasons to ban editors who DON'T push the "correct" politics). At least two founding editors of Wikipedia have written about this bias, concerned that the site's essentially become an organ of propaganda (on any topic that anyone cares about).
@Hollow_Tim Жыл бұрын
(“Underage children” as opposed to of age children…?) And I’m pretty sure kids already use social media constantly? So that doesn’t even make sense to say.
@SlapShotTakes Жыл бұрын
@@Hollow_Timthe term is redundant but you are also in the KZbin comments section so what do you expect
@Hollow_Tim Жыл бұрын
@@SlapShotTakes I mean it's not really a big deal, I just felt like pointing it out
@JordyPordy10 Жыл бұрын
“Wikipedia is the last place you’d expect drama and conflict” someone isn’t familiar with fan wiki drama like the Silent Hill Circumcision Drama
@BaconLover1007 ай бұрын
wat
@JordyPordy107 ай бұрын
@@BaconLover100 Justin Whang has a whole ass video about this. Tldr a mod of the silent hill wiki kept trying to put any circumcision points into articles where they (quite obviously b/c it’s silent hill) don’t belong.
@MisanthropicOcellus6 ай бұрын
@JordyPordy10 I mean given some of the topics that series covers circumcision isn't too out of place, if done right
@JordyPordy105 ай бұрын
@@MisanthropicOcellus you see unfortunately in this case it has nothing to do with Silent Hill itself!
@z-beeblebrox5 ай бұрын
"wikis" and Wikipedia are two completely different things, keep in mind. Wikis are just collaborative fan sites that use a template reminiscent of Wikipedia, typically run through private hosting companies dedicated to that purpose, or rarely from a person's server. Wikipedia is a nonprofit organization dedicated specifically to the funding and maintenance of Wikipedia.
@nagiros4263 Жыл бұрын
Currently watching this at my dead fast food job and I cannot express how much this has improved my day. Your content is so good and entertaining; thanks so much
@bingonight15042 ай бұрын
can I have some fries
@mrosskne Жыл бұрын
weird how nobody ever believes themselves to be the reincarnation of some normal guy who never achieved anything
@kuman0110 Жыл бұрын
well some do, but the normal guy who achieved nothing in question is often their greatgreatgrandpa or something like that
@hyperion3145 Жыл бұрын
@@kuman0110 Or probably some long lost people or culture. Can't be too normal or unremarkable.
@nxtvim2521 Жыл бұрын
I like to imagine I'm a reincarnated soul of a man who fought and died during Korean War. Hence my love for 50s and 60s tech
@luisvelazquez2967 Жыл бұрын
Actually I would say the silent majority of people who believe in reincarnation (Buddhists for example) believe they could be reincarnated from or to something as simple as a worm. Doing so comes with the understanding that all living things are valuable. Crazies on the other hand can’t see themselves as anything but the reincarnation of something stupendously important, probably coming from an unchecked ego.
@trustytrest Жыл бұрын
Actual Buddhists and Hindus do believe that. It's just Western New Age idiots who use it to pretend they're something better than a modern peasant. The absolutr dumbest ones are "fictionkin" morons, who want to pretend they're the reincarnation of Naruto or whatever 😂😂😂
@Jergling Жыл бұрын
Can't believe you left out the Squidward Vandal. He is an expert computer programmer who knows ALL the codes and cannot be stopped.
@yorick227 ай бұрын
I used to be an active user on a very niche fandom wiki back in 2020 about fake tornadoes. One of the most memorable incidents from that wiki was when Supreme Genghis Khan himself showed up and vandalized the wiki.
@haydenblanford427217 күн бұрын
By fake tornadoes do you mean artificial man made tornadoes, or do you mean conspiracy of a reported tornado being fake?
@noahgolden4381 Жыл бұрын
Wow the story ab Mike is honestly heartbreaking. It’s so sad to see how quickly hatred can truly take over someone’s life
@vinesauceobscurities Жыл бұрын
Shame Willy on Wheels (who also sockpuppet under various other names) was never highlighted. When WP:LONGTERM was created around the start of 2005 as "Vandalism in progress/Long term alerts", WoW had already gained infamy on the wiki for its incessant renaming of articles to end with "on Wheels". No surprise WoW was among the first vandals to be listed on that page. Wikipedia was always been mired in editor drama in the undercurrent. Even in the early years in the 2000s, the arbitration and dispute resolution sections were constantly busy with cases of problem users and conflicts. The chaotic nature of the editor community was one of the reasons Larry Sanger left Wikipedia to form Citizendium, which died an unceremonious death when it couldn't attract editors with its far stringent approval process.
@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy Жыл бұрын
I remember at 1st when I started to use internet more, believing how people actually as being their job actually correct and check these pages but soon I less and less cared to give even 1% of belief to most pages since I kept seeing what is going on. Some pages are fully in control and kept in western bias while the rest kept to the insane to write whatever ... Especially my realization bloomed when my friend and me had a in-depth convo about it all, he told me that his page which btw someone else made on his behalf, sort of like a manager mod of his who took care of his community pages. Anyway he said that his page and people related to him got all deleted one day with a note left as explanation that it was a self made article and not legitimate or something along those lines ... Every time a dispute was present someone would just revert to a deletion with the same note. Imagine being the actual person from the article with 1st hand information provided and written off, labeled as a liar of sorts or something like that, even tho all info was legit. He was a artist and worked on all sorts of media and they be like nah you don't exist ... Image being famous and one day your IMDB or Wiki etc being deleted stating that you are fake or something along those lines, quite idiotic. And this comes from the times before the known "cancel culture". On a related note just last year same friend got banned from a Discord group for him stating how he doesn't buy games nor pays for subscription based services instead he donates all the money to charity, mostly to people in heavy medical need, to hospitals and institutions that cover dealing with illnesses etc. So yeah welcome to the age of "social media" where you are being banned for donating to charity and providing some child another hope to live ... The past 15 years were not fun online but the last 6 or so years and especially current online era really sickens me. Especially the west and western controlled entities are strait up evil and insane beyond explanation which most of these pages are.
@Fhcghcg1 Жыл бұрын
@@minmogrovingstrongandhealthySee: Wikipedia:No original research Wikipedia:Conflict of interest Wikipedia:Notability (people)
@rushi5638 Жыл бұрын
@@Fhcghcg1 See: WP:TNTTNT
@jht3fougifh393 Жыл бұрын
Omg, I remember that! Shit was hilarious.
@thereisanamegoingon7267 Жыл бұрын
@@Fhcghcg1 Based.
@mikeyswift2010 Жыл бұрын
"Drill is a subgenre of hip hop music that originated in Chicago in the early 2010s." I made an edit on the Drill Music wikipedia page. It said for many years that drill originated in the uk in 2018 (which pissed me off to no end) so I corrected the page to when it actually emerged, which was in Chicago in 2010. It stuck, and no one has changed it. Pretty awesome, greatest accomplishment of my life.
@phutureproof11 ай бұрын
if only it was a decent genre that anyone cared about
@gabet71938 ай бұрын
@@phutureproof grow up
@jdools47447 ай бұрын
Hip hop is trash who cares 🥱
@jwcfive79995 ай бұрын
You might not see this but I’ve read that exact sentence on the Wikipedia page multiple times. It is 🤌
@skoogadoo5 ай бұрын
@@phutureproofbro doesn't like sosa 😟
@xeno-prime7 ай бұрын
I think my favourite was how the ‘All Dogs Go To Heaven 2’ Wikipedia was temporarily locked due to the fact that many people kept editing it to say that Gordon Freeman from Half-Life had died in the film due to a web series making a joke about it.
@archry Жыл бұрын
the weirdest part about this video is that you didnt know there was drama on wikipedia; any online community that takes itself even a little seriously has apocalyptic levels of disagreements
@scrittle8 ай бұрын
'Woman' is a page I recall getting extremely heated and convoluted over one group perceiving 'Woman' as a sociological viewpoint and another being completely biological. Both sides can't condede which extremely diminished the readability of the article. Seriously, when someone has to say 'If we're gonna discuss changing "adult female human" for the fifty-thousandth time', you know it's bad.
@tarotsport1451 Жыл бұрын
This whole thing feels like finding a group on facebook dedicated to making ornaments out of dead birds
@rosebelmahjoubi19325 ай бұрын
straight outta r/suspiciouslyspecific
@skrounst Жыл бұрын
Props to the Alvin and the Chipmunk guy though. I respect the hell out of people with interests so specific that everyone else on the planet takes for granted. There's that ONE GUY that knows every detail of every Alvin and the Chipmunks album covers though, and that is fantastic!
@ataraxia7439 Жыл бұрын
Yeah honestly let them make a page for a list of if Alvin and the chimp muni covers or something like someone will care at some point. I doubt wikipidea can’t spare the server space or anything.
@someguy4405 Жыл бұрын
Made checkuser sound really intricate and complicated when it's just checking an IP, something any website can do with anyone who connects to it.
@nikkiofthevalleyАй бұрын
They didn't really say that, they just said what it does and how useful it is, and that only a few people have access to it
@logopolizer76029 ай бұрын
I respect that the intermission is just an actual intermission instead of an ad/sponsor break
@Estes705 Жыл бұрын
I got banned from Wikipedia for modifying my hometown's page to include the fact that the town council approving dove hunting along main street. I included links to several local newspapers' coverage of the event. During which, over zealous shooters "accidently" shot out several store windows, streets lights, stop lights and blasted away at numerous street signs. One newspaper reporter showed up to witness the event and put in his article that it "sounded like a war zone when the city mayor signalled the begin of the hunt". The footage from the master webcam on main street "couldn't be found" when store owners demanded that action be taken to hold the shooters responsible for the repairs to the damages to their stores.
@kood9955 ай бұрын
What was their reason for banning you? Did they think you made the whole thing up with some kind of super elaborate scheme?
@Estes7055 ай бұрын
@@kood995 No. I checked with Wikipedia and was told their page was sponsored by the city itself so they had the edits undone & then had the page locked to only allow them to make changes.
@kood9955 ай бұрын
@@Estes705 Wtf happened to "anyone can edit?"
@Estes7055 ай бұрын
@@kood995 I guess if you're willing to pay for a particular page you have keen interest in, they lock it so there's no changes made.
@Frodo10000005 ай бұрын
@@kood995 its a myth you've seen always but never bothered to check because almost noone does it coz theyre young and dont know about the topics. i thought so too until recently
@MazzyMalkav Жыл бұрын
I wasn't familiar with your channel, but I gotta' say: excellently documented, edited, and the DNB really hits. Also, the title totally grabbed me: glad to see unique and well-done videos on topics like this. So many rabbit-hole KZbinrs tend to present a topic without a lot of production value and personality.
@thememester1190 Жыл бұрын
Anyone else think the chipmunks one is just genuinely hilarious? Honestly if I was a Wikipedia admin I would want to let them keep doing it. They weren't really hurting anything even if the information they were adding is probably not even mildly useful to anyone.
@zappababe8577 Жыл бұрын
I thought so too! It wasn't disinformation, it was just extra information, so it wasn't doing any actual harm! Finding out that there is a chipmunks cover of a song you like might make you smile!
@Notsussybaka900 Жыл бұрын
While I agree with this sentiment, the main problem was that the information was non-notable and unsourced, there was technically nothing wrong with the edits in concept.
@Nobody-zl3kk Жыл бұрын
I would have just genuinely given the topic of Chipmunks covers its own page, have a little table at the bottom of each artists/album/song's page that directs to places where a cover of them is mentioned and you have a good system right there.
@saulgoodmanKAZAKH Жыл бұрын
Unedited, unnotable info is unneccessary
@quokka_yt Жыл бұрын
@@Nobody-zl3kk Maybe you can start it yourself, if it's notable enough!
@xenonquark996official Жыл бұрын
Brad Watson seems like the perfect subject of a Down the Rabbit Hole episode
@FrogJuiceJustice Жыл бұрын
Hell why don't we make it ourselves
@chillzedd8179 Жыл бұрын
Id love to be able to watch him go about his daily life of banging out tunes on the xylophone and then going home to fuck with the Seven Seals article on Wikipedia
@henrycgs Жыл бұрын
idk. it's just some random crazy guy. he's mostly harmless. I think making an entire episode around him is on the edge of being harassment.
@marienbad2 Жыл бұрын
He doesn't seem to have uploaded anything in ages though.
@FrogJuiceJustice Жыл бұрын
@@marienbad2 he's working on a ginormous 3hr+ star citizen project i think
@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 Жыл бұрын
My favorite Wikipedia story is the whole croatian pro-ustashe takeover where the whole croation speaking wikipedia was taken over by the alt-right to promote anti-serbian and pro-ustashe sentiment. I first got to know about it over a conversation on a project in school I worked on with a girl from croatia who was confused why I used the german wikipedia to find some sources for the project. In turn I was confused by her suddenly talking about the far right. lol.
@samthenerf Жыл бұрын
Fredda has a great video on exactly that.
@abebuenodemesquita8111 Жыл бұрын
wow and I thoguht there couldn't be a better Wikipedia story than the whole scots fiasco
@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy Жыл бұрын
I stopped going on most social media and these information based pages only to 2020 or so register again at Reddit, Quorra, Wiki etc and all the places are one and the same Nazi glorified mess most pages outright spam hate articles towards Russia and Serbia so as the same people. I reported many but soon as you report 50, 200 pops up, I am not joking it feels like these people are strait up insane or spam-bots ... Safe to say I stopped going back to all of that. It's not healthy at all ... Serbs are one of the oldest people in Europe, they been slaughtered for centuries, like the typical Vatican slaughtering their elders then brainwashing their children into different religion and fake nations, their Orthodox culture spat on etc, half of the world speaks one form of butchered Serbian language and have Serbian history ties one way or another yet Serbs are treated as pests. Like look at what is Vatican, NATO, USA, EU doing all the nazi glorifications etc pillaging of the world yet Serbs are a problem, give me a break and leave Serbia alone, give them back their culture and lands. New information keeps popping up and resurfacing yet these western controlled entities are stuck in their political bubble, spamming their lies and delusions thinking how everyone will believe in them. Sooner or later truth comes out, same as how earth keeps spitting things out that is how truth keeps resurfacing too.
@boblasers2016 Жыл бұрын
Thats fuckin awesome lmao. Good on em.
@paulie-g Жыл бұрын
Anything Russia-related (history, politics etc) on Wikipedia-EN has for nearly a decade now been disfigured beyond all reason by one editor. No one knows who he is, no one has ever seen him, and at times he has edited at frequencies that would be impossible for a single human. Needless to say, the sources are non-existent or mostly propaganda-filled MSM. This wouldn't be allowed anywhere else on Wikipedia, but because it ties in neatly with the new Cold War, "he" is untouchable.
@misseselise3864 Жыл бұрын
in high school, we would get an automatic 0 on an assignment if we used wikipedia as a source, no matter what it was used for (a friend of mine got a 0 for using wikipedia as a source for someone’s date of birth). in college, when someone posted on the discussion board about struggling to find sources for a paper, my english professor was like “why don’t you guys just use wikipedia lol” and was shocked to learn we weren’t allowed to in high school so we assumed we couldn’t in college.
@primejourney946 Жыл бұрын
From what I remember in high school and college, we were taught that, yes, Wikipedia shouldn’t be depended on as a reliable source, but it was a great way to find leads to possible good sources (as long as we, of course, diligently evaluated the trustworthiness of those sources as well). It is also a good way to get an overview of a topic, at least for piquing one’s curiosity enough to pursue it as a topic of research.
@bobjoe3492 Жыл бұрын
In high school if I used Wikipedia I sourced their sources instead of Wikipedia lol
@jannikheidemann38056 ай бұрын
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a source. There is Wikisource for making source material accessible.
@AbyssalSoda Жыл бұрын
I was a long-time editor for Wikipedia under the handle ACT, focusing mainly on refining articles for conciseness and challenging biases. The site, unfortunately, is plagued with excessive drama. At some point, factions indifferent to journalistic standards started dominating, pushing political agendas, and locking up pages, leaving even trusted editors to be demoted or banned over relevancy. This conflict resulted in the removal of crucial information across a swath of the wiki that would have offered readers a comprehensive understanding of events. The language of many pages have since been manipulated to foster a divisive "us vs them" mentality. Larry Sanger himself acknowledged in 2020 that the site has strayed from its values and is now riddled with politics. Though this video doesn't delve directly into that, I thought it worth mentioning. Over the years, Wikipedia has worsened as an information source, marred by significant backstage drama.
@revsnowfox5798 Жыл бұрын
The only people who seriously question "bias" and impartiality on Wikipedia tend to be right-wing or even far right conservatives when it comes to LGBT rights and stuff like immigration and racial crime statistics. Or gun regulation. That's telling. (Ps. I'm European and I even voted for a far right party in the past.)
@AbyssalSoda Жыл бұрын
@@revsnowfox5798 Your comment seems to imply the False Clause fallacy, in that to question bias on Wikipedia indicates a right-wing or far-right political orientation. Although it's logical that the side of the political spectrum less represented on a platform would likely voice the majority of the complaints, that does not seem to be what you were noting. It's not just about who's complaining; it's about the bias itself, the integration of opinions presented as objective truths, deliberate omission of contextually important information, and the censorship of relevant sources, were all, and likely still are, present and tangible issues. What I find more intriguing here though is how readily some can discern which political faction has gained the majority status without my mention, yet instead of advocating for greater impartiality, many often remain complicit or seem to gleefully endorse the bias. That said, I'm not sure why you chose to cite your former political affiliations and geopolitical region, as it doesn't necessarily equate to a comprehensive understanding either right or left-wing politics. As a graduate in Digital Media Studies, I trained to understand and counteract bias, adhering to journalistic standards during my time as an editor. I am a registered independent who has never voted for a right-wing candidate; yet I can admit that neither my left nor right wing ideals have any place on Wikipedia. Political pendulum swings, from one extreme to another, like you seem to have undergone based on your ending remark, are in fact quite common among members of both (far) sides of the spectrum. Rather than proving a balanced perspective, or appeal across the aisle, it might just indicate you hold deeply ingrained ideological beliefs with intersections between two extremes, perhaps signaling an inclination towards suppression of dissent based upon topics you have chosen to identify with.
@rushi5638 Жыл бұрын
@@revsnowfox5798 I mean, I don't vote and am politically a pretty mixed-bag kind of person. The only bias complaint I've ever made was on an article about a right wing individual, specifically with regard to the first line of the article referring to him as being on the far right, while the body of the article only ever went so far as to refer to him as a paleoconservative (which was at the time not a subset of the "far right" *even on the wiki page dedicated to far right politics*, although that might have changed since). It conflicted with wikipedia's own classification of paleoconservatism. This initiated a discussion on the talk page for the article and a referendum on the exact wording. The argument against keeping it, I've laid out here. The argument for keeping it was that the headline of a news article had used that wording, so it was sufficiently well-sourced and grounds for it remaining. In the end, wiki contributors reached the conclusion that: yes, an article headline from the Guardian circa 2016, excoriating a person for their politics, does indeed trump wikipedia's own categorization of which political beliefs fall under the label of "far right". And believe it or not: I was happy with this result! Why? Because I genuinely feared that raising this issue in the first place was going to end in paleoconservatism getting added to the far right politics wiki page rather than a simple re-write removing the conflicting information. Maybe I shouldn't have been afraid of that - that'd probably require a substantial amount of sourcing from academia, and I underestimated the laziness of those involved - but I felt I *had* to be afraid of that outcome, because I definitely hadn't underestimated the community's bias (as evidenced by the fact that they still came down in favor of keeping the existing wording on such flimsy ass grounds).
@PoketamaVideos Жыл бұрын
@@AbyssalSoda I am left-wing and have had significant issue with conservative bias on history pages on Wikipedia, especially colonial bias.
@hughcaldwell1034 Жыл бұрын
To be fair, it would be kind of astonishing if Wikipedia had escaped this, given how scientific facts have now become political issues. Someone can be accused of having a liberal bias for reporting indisputable data, or the scientific consensus on climate change. Rather reminiscent of schools being labelled anti-Christian for not "teaching the controversy" about evolution in science class.
@dinosaurpolitician3663 Жыл бұрын
I’d love to see more Wikipedia content. It’s really a goldmine for videos like this, but I can’t think of anyone else who’s done anything with it!
@jediarcherbc709 Жыл бұрын
One time when I was very young I almost accidentally edited the Wikipedia page for tigers... I was mortified for the rest of the week...
@jayjam_ Жыл бұрын
I often forget that autism is the main explanation for weird activity online.
@happydolphin7696 Жыл бұрын
Very true. A lot of productive editors are also neurodivergent, though. One of my personal favorite phenomena would be the many autistic people who are obsessed with changing release dates of movies, TV shows, music, etc.
@Swansong321 Жыл бұрын
That'd explain A LOT!😂
@conarcoin Жыл бұрын
@@happydolphin7696as an autistic person myself i've always been fascinated by the community on here dedicated to uploading hundreds of slightly modified versions of random logos. i don't understand it at all and yet... meanwhile i just get stuck with minecraft flavored autism
@I_enjoy_some_things9 ай бұрын
If you guys don’t want to keep getting made fun of, you need to go after those idiots.
@amog82028 ай бұрын
@@I_enjoy_some_thingsget some help ya piece of shit lmfao, bet you also think black people can't be respected until all black criminals are imprisoned, rather than looking at the criminals and their root issues themselves 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
@0xC2 Жыл бұрын
not sure how relevant this is to the topic at hand but this does bring up memories of the time that I turned my high school's wikipedia page into 'Obama High School' and kept it up for so long that I eventually got my school's ip banned from editing wikipedia
@melodyxwoonax7384 Жыл бұрын
I created a sockpuppet account in middle school. I built it up for years along with my actual profile. I purposefully only accessed it on public computers. All for the sole purpose of defacing Todd Howards wiki, a locked page. I still have my main account and do genuinely enjoy making edits, most just grammatical and mathematical errors
@plebisMaximus Жыл бұрын
and once again, I forget all about your channel, only to get this in my notifications and fall in love with your content all over again. Keep the top tier videos coming, man.
@ethansloan Жыл бұрын
Same. I saw this in my feed and was like, "who is Captain KRB and why did I subscribe to him?" Then I clicked I remembered how awesome his stuff is.
@Dax888 Жыл бұрын
This video is truly great. There was never a moment where I wished to spend my time elsewhere. The view count is downright criminal. Great work man!
@alansmithee6273 Жыл бұрын
The spread of false information in the Geraldine Edwards hoax reminds me of when I added a false tidbit about a very minor fictional character to their wiki article as a joke back in 2011. I checked the page a few years later and not only was the false tidbit still there, someone had added a footnote sourcing it to the show's writer, which is BS because I had just made it up out of thin air. The tidbit showed up on fan wikis too, and a few fanfiction writers had referenced it in their stories. The show also got an official trading card game, and my false tidbit actually got referenced in the flavor text of the character's card.
@BladeNgames Жыл бұрын
What was it?
@paicemaster6855 Жыл бұрын
What character? Aint no reason to keep it secret
@Java_Protogen Жыл бұрын
spill the beans man
@rockyblocky_guy1244 Жыл бұрын
Citogenesis!!!
@littlehorn0063 Жыл бұрын
pics or didn't happen
@enriquekahn94056 ай бұрын
"Wikipedia is probably the last place you'd expect to see drama or conflict" is not a phrase I ever thought would be seriously uttered
@theodorekaczynski8147 Жыл бұрын
Obscure topics are horrible on Wikipedia. Like, some dude on the Kriegsmarine page claimed their ships’ AA gunners used flak vests, probably cause he saw life jackets and couldn’t tell other difference, and it stayed there for years while having no source
@goldenhorde69446 ай бұрын
If you saw it didn't remove or tag it that sounds like a you problem
@pchris Жыл бұрын
That last one reminds me a lot of this guy my Dad would tell me about. My Dad used to work at this dying electronics store and around the time Google Maps started to become a thing and we started having their cars driving around taking pictures, somebody showed up at the store trying to get my Dad's boss to pay to be put on Google Maps. They didn't pay, probably because they didn't think Google Maps would amount to anything, or maybe they couldn't afford whatever the guy was asking since they were already struggling.
@GarageBandSuperheros Жыл бұрын
27:28 "And as far as everyone knows, Brad remains active to this day. Back to his daily grind of fu***ng with the seven seals article as recently as January of this year." LOL, I wish I was even a quarter as determined as Brad Watson is.
@froogsleegs Жыл бұрын
this is what makes the internet really special. opening up all the world's information to all the world's people also opened Pandora's Box of Weaponised Schizophrenia and creates wonderful stories like this.
@ChrisRider98 Жыл бұрын
Wikipedia is literally the first place I'd expect drama online
@nlukenTV Жыл бұрын
I haven't seen a video essay-type video with writing and production this compelling in a long time. Thought the format had gone totally stale but there could be more life in the genre yet. Well done mate!
@mrs.m.unplugged Жыл бұрын
I love, love, looove your script, aesthetics, editing, and bgm choices! Please never stop making content that looks and sounds this good.
@alexsander471 Жыл бұрын
Other comnenters have pointed out how this is a very interesting topic and it was exceptionally well covered, but I'd like to highlight how novel the editing style feels. I really like the superposition of subjects throughout the video. It's a breath of fresh air in the realm of video essays editing
@lagottheblackcat7422 Жыл бұрын
Can I just say I really appreciate the intermission that wasn't an ad read. It was really refreshing thanks 😊
@notyonachos30687 ай бұрын
This video is awesome. My younger brother was once banned from Wikipedia for SockPuppetting too. I can't think of how many alt accounts he made. He was obsessed with editing the COVID-19 Case numbers for Ontario (he has autism). I once read all of the drama about all of his bans, and lmao I have no idea how he just kept going.
@postalduke Жыл бұрын
this would make a great series. it could be titled “Wikipedia’s Most Wanted”
@penguinsrockrgr8yt216 Жыл бұрын
Chipmunk vandal didn’t do nothin free my mans
@goldenhorde69446 ай бұрын
[[Wikipedia:NOTINDESCRIMINATE]]
@santoast24 Жыл бұрын
I absolutly love that you have a built in intermission, more people need to do that in there video essays
@alexandercolefield9523 Жыл бұрын
I actually recall a review of that obscure Japanese video game complaining that the wiki article was wrong about the number of levels lol
@Mousy677 Жыл бұрын
the wiki drama that i found and then read as though it was a novel or perhaps a shakespeare play taking place solely on a wiki talk page was the eostrix request for admin thing. happened in october 2021 and has occupied a suite in my mind ever since.
@el_fucko Жыл бұрын
Which was itself only a small part of the entire Icewhiz saga, of course, which I assume didn't come up here because it will need its own video to even come close to cover all the shenanigans
@Lagrangeify Жыл бұрын
Man I love your stuff. The subject choice, the presentation style, the pacing, the impeccable diction. This is a pretty wild timeline, it's a relief to have folk like you in it.
@Ender240sxS13 Жыл бұрын
Going to be interesting to see how ChatGPT and the like get used in this regard, could make wikipedia an absolute hell scape :/
@arkhamj8181 Жыл бұрын
Somebody should absolutely set up a wiki-mafia. Imagine selling a similar service as wiki experts, except you make the company continually pay, similar to real world "protection" services. If they don't pay, you smear their name on Wikipedia and the internet in general. This may be illegal and immoral, but it would be funny as hell
@sauerkids92546 ай бұрын
"Ey! Fat Tony! Vandalize that Wikipedia article!"
@Max._Power Жыл бұрын
there are many cryptids even to this day, unless you're pretty much watching ANI (administrators noticeboard: incidents, where all of this stuff starts) daily you miss out on a lot of the really out there ones, like the deus ex guy who only speaks in incomprehensible gibberish and keeps rewriting the deus ex video game page to espouse his bizarre theories. the LTA list is just the tip of the iceberg. ltas like the bkfip are active pretty much daily while others operate on consistent or odd schedules
@Max._Power Жыл бұрын
the bkfip was just banned again yesterday only this time for trying to report someone else.
@chuckblaze5147 Жыл бұрын
I'm so glad you're putting song names in the description, the clicker that be song at 14:00 SLAPS and your music isnt half bad either, you should put yourself out there more!!
@ShellyTheSeal Жыл бұрын
The amount of steps I had to go through to change a tiny thing on Wikipedia now makes sense. I just wanted to change "Rattlers" to "Rattlesnakes" on the snake page
@oatlord2 ай бұрын
Sad how quickly humans destroyed the internet.
@Mistereee Жыл бұрын
Great video! the editing and writing of this video is incredible and really stands out against the majority of content on youtube. The only little thing i have to say is that the intro is a bit long and takes a while to get to the main point of the video, this may cause the video to not reach as many people as it definitely should.
@CaptainKRB Жыл бұрын
I do completely get that, and usually I'd avoid doing something like that, I just felt that for this one it'd help with the atmosphere to have a sort of framing with the intro and bumper segments. But either way I'm glad you liked it, and I'll keep that in mind for the future : )
@zomroxy2458 Жыл бұрын
I’m glad to see your channel getting the recognition it deserves. Learning the creepy parts of humanity/internet is just so nice to watch (plus your voice is very soothing, perfect for this content). Would you ever consider making a video about paintings made by serial killers (or something along those lines?)
@trueKENTUCKY Жыл бұрын
trolls are just normal man imagine how much this happened with real books for centuries. classic
@mikeyjohnson58885 ай бұрын
Happened with a lot of informal texts where authors were trying to hide instructions while seemingly writing on another topic(some alchemical texts were written as a series of poems) and as an attempt to mislead or weed out outsiders would also include encoded misinformation.
@recursiveslacker7730 Жыл бұрын
I’m a little surprised you didn’t mention things like the NYPD deleting mentions of brutality and racism from their own page, or Scientology attempting to remove information on themselves from the site.
@dsnodgrass4843 Жыл бұрын
He probably doesn't want the highly litigious and vindictive CoS filing takedown requests with KZbin and doing other various harassments. Same potentially with NYPD; they've got a very large and active "Intelligence Division ".
@jannikheidemann38056 ай бұрын
Probably not long term enough to land on long term abuse.
@jannikheidemann38056 ай бұрын
Probably not long term enough to land on the long term abuse list covered by the video.
@recursiveslacker77306 ай бұрын
@@jannikheidemann3805 I assure you, these were long term things.
@m.oren-ursa1262 Жыл бұрын
this is the first video i watched from you and i knew i immediately had a new favorite channel-- i've since been catching up on your other older ones and i absolutely love your work, the vibes are immaculate and you have great storytelling and editing skills, 100/10!!!!
@nixel1324 Жыл бұрын
I like the aesthetic of this video! Also, I thought this was going to be about the Quazer beast and related stuff, or maybe the Cabal and its rouge admins. There's a lot of fun stuff hidden behind the factual facade of Wikipedia.
@karnickel-s33d16 Жыл бұрын
The editing is good but a bit masturbatory in my opinion
@wrightnottwell Жыл бұрын
This channel is so underated. The editing, the writing, everything is so good
@egghgfe6116 Жыл бұрын
Right??
@mrosskne Жыл бұрын
it's quite over produced and eyeroll inducing
@cleava959 Жыл бұрын
@@mrossknethe transitions are hilariously low budget looking as well
@happygofishing Жыл бұрын
@@mrosskne its a bit overly quirky zoomerish.
@canobenitez Жыл бұрын
@@happygofishing I think it its pretty funny.
@confusedhuman5151 Жыл бұрын
This was great, first video I’ve seen of yours, already excited to see more
@Old299dfk Жыл бұрын
I'd love to see you do a video on wiki pages owned by large corporations, who spend massive amounts of money to hire people to wipe the slate clean when anything they don't want known is put up.
@davidaustin6962 Жыл бұрын
Will never be substantiated by Wikipedia staff because donations.
@leonwoo Жыл бұрын
@@davidaustin6962 Source: my ass
@nicholasproductions2379 ай бұрын
I don’t really think that’s common, plenty of corporate pages have the evil things they’ve done, at least the stuff that’s accessible form reliable sources outside Wikipedia
@saschamayer4050Ай бұрын
That's actually a pretty good strategy. Let the minor issues and the commonly known issues prevail on your page. Then no one will suspect that there might be more. @@nicholasproductions237
@joelaugustin6407 Жыл бұрын
Your channel has filled the Fredrik Knudsen shaped hole in my brain, in the best way. You deserve much more viewership and recognition sir.
@sulfurical7439 Жыл бұрын
Wow this is one of the most impressive and well created and edited video and KZbin channel I’ve seen in the 7 years I have consistently watched KZbin. You give me hope for this website
@R3mix97 Жыл бұрын
Man I haven't heard Gene Ray's Timecube referenced in years. My friends and I used to read through those pages late at night cracking up. Amazing video, enjoyed every second!
@mox3909 Жыл бұрын
You should do Wiktionary too. The story of the most prolific troll Wonderfool who got adminship 5 times is particularly interesting, especially since he's just about to be unbanned very soon.
@purplehaze2358 Жыл бұрын
Wikipedia as a whole can be described less as a rabbit hole and more as a bottomless pit leading straight to Tartarus. And it's because of things like Long Term Abuse, in addition to the scores of bizarre and out-there articles, that make that all the truer of an observation.
@arizonat1669 Жыл бұрын
Got this in my recommended and added it to my watch later for when I was doing a mindless activity that required some background noise. Needless to say, I was thoroughly entertained throughout this whole video. Very very well done, I almost wish I had 3 more hours of Wikipedia cryptid content! Thank you!!
@Alienmojo Жыл бұрын
Wow. When you said you were eating pretzels... I was ALSO eating pretzels. This means something!!!! New sub for this video. Outstanding research and I hope you consider continuing this wiki-based subject. I looked at that Long Term Abuse page and there are SO MANY! Would love for you to make this a series.
@sarco5138 Жыл бұрын
This is a really fun video, narration and editing are on point! I hope this blows up.
@trajan6879 Жыл бұрын
holy shit top tier content, I love the way you talk, so articulate
@fairlightcmi Жыл бұрын
I love being a wiki editor and internet archiver! There’s SO MUCH drama, y’all have no idea!!
@shmovinnn Жыл бұрын
first video i've seen from your channel, very well made and on a super interesting niche topic, keep up the great work
@dingledonk8027 Жыл бұрын
the quality of your videos is amazing
@mallninja9805 Жыл бұрын
Regarding the "anyone can edit!" objection of teachers. Multiple studies have concluded wikipedia is as accurate as a textbook, so the whole "anyone can edit" is a cheap and lazy excuse that devalues Wikipedia. The reason they're supposed to be discouraging Wikipedia is that they're supposed to be teaching you how to research & synthesize information from primary sources, but honestly given the declining quality of education America it wouldn't surprise me if that doesn't occur to them.
@Slash0mega Жыл бұрын
did you miss the part where the video said that false information stayed up for quite a while before being caught?
@from_no_where Жыл бұрын
@@Slash0mega I think it's just that textbooks are often biased or flat out wrong so they really aren't much better than wikipedia. Some southern schools use textbooks that call the civil war the "war of northern aggression", some textbooks just set a pretty low bar to clear in terms of accuracy.
@w.o.jackson8432 Жыл бұрын
@@from_no_where The "war of northern aggression" is one of the many names for the US civil war, that isn't a good example of incorrect information.
@handlesarecringe9576 ай бұрын
This heavily depends on the topic. There is very frequently outright false information in history articles, particularly military history or minor historical figures.
@_.weezy._ Жыл бұрын
A rare instance of a good youtube reccomendation
@duffman1811 ай бұрын
When I was an idiot kid in the 2000s I was a Wikipedia vandal. On the Wikipedia page for "cummerbund" there was a photo of a man wearing an orange cummerbund with the caption "orange cummerbund". And so I copied and pasted that photo and caption and would just paste it in tons of random Wikipedia pages. That photo is still on the Wikipedia page for cummerbund, though with a different caption now. I just found it hilarious to see it in all sorts of random serious articles about stuff. It'd just be there as a bizarre non sequitur. Like, the history of Goebbels or something, and there's just a random "orange cummerbund" photo in the middle of it. I found it hilarious. And honestly I still do although I'm in my mid 30s now. Back then it took longer for people to revert the edit. Sometimes it'd take days. So people would just be reading all sorts of articles and see the "orange cummerbund" non sequitur. I forgot I even did that, until I started watching this video and the memory came back. I can't stop laughing when I think about it. Maybe it's just me who finds it funny. It's just the fact it's a complete non sequitur and it appeared in articles that have nothing to do with it. And just that cummerbund is a funny word. I think I got the idea when I watched the wedding episode of Peep Show
@ma66ie10 ай бұрын
no this is hilarious thank you
@bruhtholemew8 ай бұрын
Based. Silly and simple trolling is my favorite.
@floatpvnk Жыл бұрын
Lassi time doing different personalities for 200+ accounts is incredibly impressive….
@markcharron Жыл бұрын
Heck, there were cases of trolls who made their way up the ladder into administrative roles within wikipedia itself.
@latewizard301 Жыл бұрын
a nice hack for people who have teachers who doesn't like wikipedia, is to just link the sources that wikipedia uses instead of saying you sourced from wikipedia, no joke, you'll get better grades just from bias. ofc, as long as the wikipedia article hasn't been tampered with.
@risxra Жыл бұрын
I haven’t started this video yet and I don’t know a thing about the topic, but I wanted to say that this is one of the most creative and intriguing ideas for a video I’ve seen in a long time. Thanks for sharing your niche fascination with us!
@siergeplo11619 ай бұрын
The quality of production for a such obscure topic is simply impeccable. I'm definitely subscribing.
@JamesLewis2 Жыл бұрын
I'm surprised you didn't mention Willy On Wheels, Pelican Shit, Wikipedia Is Communism, or even the guy who perpetuated the "Jar'Edo Wens" hoax (whose name was Jared Owens); all of these are quite old, though, with most of their activity pre-dating any of the users you mentioned.
@VoidHalo Жыл бұрын
For some reason I've always remembered this cryptid I read about in the 90's as a kid called the Bunnyip. I can't for the life of me remember what it was, just that it was Australian, and not a bunny. It's one of those things I keep meaning to look up, but never do.
@AC-hj9tv Жыл бұрын
Oh yea lol
@VoidHalo Жыл бұрын
@@AC-hj9tv Heh, isn't it wild when you randomly remember something that happened decades for no apparent reason? Having a human brain is probably one of the weirdest experiences in the universe.
@kilovwdude6457 Жыл бұрын
Once in probably 2009 me and my friend made it a goal to change as many wikipedia pages as possible to a copied version of the wiki page for spoons
@Albertamere2 Жыл бұрын
This video, imo could be a part of the legendary KZbin videos, among "YMS: Kimba the White Lion", "history of the entire world, i guess" and others
@beepboop76354 ай бұрын
your artistic design with the hoarding random tech from multiple eras and the pixelated semi transluant calcs really give your work a vibe i have never seen anywhere else; nice age of empires easter egg with genghis khan unit from the game campaign too. great work!