The Mad Genius Behind Sea Monkeys

This is the story of how a tiny, magical creature was transformed into a cultural phenomenon by inventor, marketing genius and complicated eccentric Harold von Braunhut. Full of fun facts (both charming and disturbing), Just Add Water is a colorful short film about a half-century of marketing directly to children, the force of nostalgia in pop culture, and an unlikely meeting of flim-flam and hard science. A film by Penny Lane.
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[@ravenlord4]

Well, that escalated quickly.

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

*Meg got Triggered? I now wanna order a 1000 of these.*

[@johanjohansen9133]

no, it did not. People just make nazis into boegymen. Other socialists killed far more, & in far more horrible ways.

[@alvinlam1437]

IM THE 1000th LIKE

[@lerquian1970]

@@johanjohansen9133 ok...

[@cutienerdgirl]

@@johanjohansen9133 Umm...racism and zoinism isn't okay which is why people hate Nazis.

[@goodthingenthusiast9436]

"He put the eggs in packet number one, and blue dye in packet number two." "Haha, that sneaky bastard!" "He was also a racist nazi" "...Oh..."

[@bdoglance]

you forgot self-hating

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

@Colin Feezell A possible Nihilist! This guy was certainly very creative, but he was also probably very deep in self-loathing, hopelessness, and a desire to feel companionship, all of us have that. and, as you know, the combination of these feelings spiralled into giving millions to a Third-Reich wannabe group. Sad.

[@marieantoinettescake9513]

Queen Molly Aren't WE ALL of those things at the end of the day 😄😱😉😈

[@serenegenerally]

also a hypocrite

[@troophWVrrIor]

You mean human?

[@wheeze2429]

Love how every child hood memory has to have a dark past.

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

*"Meg" sounds triggered. Makes me want to order 1000 of these.*

[@luchadorfromthefuture2077]

I agree

[@meliodas5585]

Your pfp 😂😂😂

[@stueygriffith4671]

Stan Lee sold poisoned milk to school children.

[@tonystavola9325]

@@michaelomalley1856 stfu racist pig 🐷

[@Gemma402]

I know there's bigger issues but he should have called them sea fairies.

[@sev9642]

gemma that sounds so beautiful

[@namesaretuff]

Sea Pixies?

[@traftras1687]

Sea flowers??

[@miareanna7533]

less kids woulda bought em

[@yoced8213]

needs to appeal to both *genders* and attack helicopters

[@Deeeeeeee33333]

The invisible gold fish got me Ive never laughed so hard

[@Deeeeeeee33333]

@@vorzky1164 true... Is it?

[@kaseyshay]

Such a messed up scam 😂🤣 I was cracking up too.

[@scottleft3672]

And sad to think of kids at christmas 5 days on....really sad.

[@iepurulbazil2857]

@Danny Walker that was so fire

[@rjrenee4783]

Dyandra Clevia That's like them selling the pet rock 😾😂😂😂😂💀💀💀 My mother told me, " If you want a pet rock, just go outside and take your pick." ROTF 😂😂😂👏👏👏👏

[@cosmicstar1414]

The invisible gold fish... *clap *clap *clap

[@zaya5360]

Cosmicstar1 you will NEVER see it........... or feel it

[@dapperparraper860]

then again the pet rocks were a thing so I question should i really be so surprised, also anyone want to buy an invisible fish I guarantee you will never see, hear, smell or feel it its like ut never existed

[@lezlethal]

At least you could see the pet rock. The invisible fish is just a scam.

[@dapperparraper860]

1. good point 2. You just gave me a great idea the invisible pet rock

[@Somkent]

Totally... How foolish were american kids back then... And the parents let them buy that crap without slapping them for thinking it....Crazy times.. I blame the education system:P Thank god things have gotten better and the planet is smarter as a whole, now where did I put my Pokemon toy.... Have to collect them all!!!

[@spakwi]

OK KZbin ill watch it so you stop recommending it...

[@shadowmyluv97]

Real shit tho

[@ateez_stan777]

Ikr

[@cooolguy2.070]

Omg that is so true

[@enderdrache]

I am just here to trash Artemia. Triops are superior! They can and will eat those ugly back-paddlers.

[@jaydo4545]

literally why I just clicked

[@paulineburrows2417]

Me at the start of the video: harold sound like a nice guy making fun kids toys Me now : .......

[@comic12558]

Yeah but this is pretty sad and dark at the same time but if he had noting to do with that dark stuff he would be a pretty good guy tbh

[@_Shadows__]

@@comic12558 he would still be kind of a scammer lmao but yeah, the sea monkey watch aquarium thing was pretty genious i think, the kids would have their pets everywhere haha

[@tiffanyherridge6032]

I know...my childhood was just crushed. What an awful, horrible thing children's and parents money went to. My heart completely broke when I heard the one man say hate is just like love.

[@mn1q]

Knowledge is both power and burden.

[@burgernthemomrailer]

@@tiffanyherridge6032 care about the art not the artist

[@waywardhero1177]

the voice actor makes me feel like he's either going to shoot and rob me in the mojave wasteland, or trick me into blowing up the underwater city of rapture

[@preludetodemise]

would you kindly give me all your caps

[@sierra6music]

It almost makes me wish for a nuclear winter.

[@ElainaLycan]

"You're nobody 'til somebody loves you, and that somebody is me. I love you."

[@kevindavies5978]

Haha nv ref

[@RandyTwang]

Haha, yes!

[@Vapor_Roads]

1. The voice in the beginning was very nostalgic. 2. This channel needs more recognition. 3. I’m glad I found this channel. Seriously the voice brings back memories.

[@michaelkochalka3251]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJmumqSlYtOko5I

[@ChanupaBellGrande]

This channel is headquartered in New York and has two locations in Europe. They have a million subs and views in similar volume. This isn't exactly some hidden gem it's pretty mainstream

[@claroquesi471]

I thought this was a subdivision of CNN because I always see these on the CNN app.

[@ChanupaBellGrande]

Mr.SlappyMcgee i just went by their about section but yeah they're owned by CNN films. Not exactly a grass roots voice of the people

[@rachael6823]

well that escalated quickly

[@GodfatherGoomba]

xD

[@ruthhammond4198]

rachael J

[@333dae]

and deescalated and reescalated again when you find out he's jewish too

[@DancingSpiderman]

Yer momma named you Rackl ? Cool

[@cloudinfantrytrinity7166]

rachael n v

[@HughWalenski]

I know it's too easy, but I really did Nazi that one coming.

[@raaw4407]

LoL

[@danielm.1599]

OMG that was a good one lmao!!

[@jordanleng204]

well played

[@misterkaos.357]

Anne Frankly, I am Fuhrerious

[@gregloftus778]

Ugh

[@ward61898]

That went from 0 to 1945 real fucking quick

[@koikat3708]

FUCK I CAN'T

[@kirbyis4ever]

How does one KZbin Went from 0 to +6 million real quick

[@bryanmartinez6600]

ZaPhobos more like 80 million

[@emawerna]

When she said the story goes dark and referred to the patent for the "spring whip," I was fully expecting her to say that his next big toy idea was the whip and that it killed a bunch of kids.

[@lonestarlibrarian1853]

That Specific Gentleman If you are going to troll, just do it less obviously please.

[@Momo-bu3le]

“The second packet actually only contained blue dye!” Me: Whaat? That’s crazy! “Oh and he was also a nazi and member of the KKK.”

[@thorntails]

_wHEEZE_

[@xember6697]

KKK? Lyk the Philippine's Kataas-taasang Kagalang-galangang Katipunan ng Anak Ng Bayan?

[@iberis361]

Bro, that's a different kind of KKK

[@IkeOkerekeNews]

He was just a Nazi.

[@theobnoxiouslycharming1747]

@@IkeOkerekeNews they're the same thing lol. Same ideologies, same insecurities pretending to be pride. Just a different word lol

[@doncheeto8343]

this shit went for kid friendly to sham to white supremacy then back to kid friendly. great animation i especially like the von brauhn voice actor sounds like stan lee.

[@ihavenoclevername8300]

BlG Smoke yep

[@Revelation6_7-8]

Sounds like Larry King.

[@bobbyslater1198]

I thought he sounded like Sheldon Leonard.

[@miasiayup3091]

bruh it went to "look at the sea monkeys" to " he was a member of the KKK" Edit: wow I come back a year later and They're having a whole argument. Edit: interesting though

[@billcipher2467]

And a Nazi :(

[@lad9071]

he's jews and nazi, that kinda irony

[@Angel_Billy4-30-23]

I know, that shit was crazy.

[@copeharder7554]

and whats bad with that?

[@sistershook1397]

@@copeharder7554 uhhhh

[@BethyCaraBethy]

I’m almost 25 and have had sea monkeys since I was 19, I’ve never replaced the eggs, rarely buy the treats and rarely change the water fully. I genuinely think they’re amazing, you can see when the females are pregnant, the babies are cute. I’ve had multiple tanks so can vouch that a good 40% of the eggs don’t work - i always buy a few of the egg sachets for one hatching.

[@jub8891]

did you feel a little clucky when you saw the baby sea monkies

[@lucashiroshins]

You could vlog about that

[@kayosensei]

BethyCaraBethy they still havent died since u were 19????

[@painkillerjones6232]

You've never replaced eggs, bought treats or changed the water, yet you have multiple tanks where 40% of the eggs don't work while buying a few.....aahh, screw it! Anyone who's had sea monkeys for 6 years should have it looked at. Could be contagious.

[@angelofdeath8739]

You made them live for 19 years! Now isn't that magic! What code did you use? I know you cheated through the source code!

[@XXxJustNikkyxXX]

Lmao jeez, when they said “things get weird” I didn’t think “racist nazi” was gonna be up there

[@CookiePieMonster]

Don't forget self-hating.

[@madchemist5926]

Racist JEWISH Nazi

[@roylanabrewton4639]

God

[@PhoenixRoseYT]

Hey, you can’t just go around calling people Nazis because you disagree with them! (sarcasm)

[@Money_Shot-j8u]

@@PhoenixRoseYT shut up, Nazi.

[@dare2554]

You win KZbin. You kept showing this damn video in my recommended list and I finally watched it even though it's almost a 2 year old video.

[@slowdriver6868]

Same... FUKOFKZbinALGORYTM

[@ericmendenhall2867]

Lmao ive been thinking the same thing for months

[@dyslexiuh4558]

Lol same

[@jessicadasher2898]

sounds like hank hills dad

[@briceidaloya2339]

Same

[@Greendragon434]

show me one kid ever who was fixated on their watch, counting down the hours until they could get home to play with their beloved sea monkeys

[@MissTique247]

I think it was pretty standard that after that magical moment of putting in the, what we now know was only dye, amazing & mysterious 2nd packet, the fascination immediately started it's downslide. Within a week, tops, we were well on to the next thing!

[@gojistopmotionguy8171]

I wait to come home...

[@rachelgroth7108]

It really was good marketing. It worked but they are not entertaining enough so they die. They were magical anyways so the deaths were no tragedy and you could always buy more and try again in a few months

[@user-ye9bc7nw2c]

@@rachelgroth7108 wanna do the se

[@user-ye9bc7nw2c]

@@rachelgroth7108 x

[@alyssaa6925]

i'm supposed to be studying for my senior year final exams but here i am... watching a 16 minute video on the history of sea monkeys

[@stephcurry8725]

Hope you pass 👌

[@lofarm7290]

Good luck! Hope you found some focus!

[@alyssaa6925]

thank you so much

[@istillcantbelievetheseahaw7963]

Alyssa A You have final exams in october? School just started for me lol.

[@alyssaa6925]

IStillCan'tBelieveTheSeahawksDidn'tRunTheBall lol, i live in australia btw so our schooling system works differently to the rest of the world :c

[@sobbski2672]

> Does class presentation about Harold von Braunhut >do a kickass slides about him being a bright inventor of happiness >ask class to raise hand if they like this dude >wait for EVERYONE to raise their hand >immediately switch to the nazi/confederate flag >"He was actually a high ranking KKK member" I say

[@jeepsa2051]

How did it went

[@steelingcable6350]

This Isn't 4chan

[@missMichellePower]

LOL. Hilarious but ya this isn't 4chan get outta heyyaa

[@teenyverse7707]

that was Jewish.

[@bonquiquihgii6836]

Gay

[@doublechin8088]

you deserve a lot more respect and views considering how well done your videos are made

[@Mr.Welton]

yes you do

[@JaehyunLim1]

Isn't this CNN?

[@ComboMon-]

Bryan Arevalo same

[@ComboMon-]

Bryan Arevalo it's like a history documentary

[@mr.hihi2291]

Bryan Arevalo AQ

[@OfTheiAm]

LOL Me as a chid: *used already purified water* Also me: *Always skipped packet one* Me again: *Wonders why the egg packet never worked...* 0_0 Me: _Omg I killed them._ --->2019 Me: _Everything I knew was a LIE_

[@mirangames6642]

haha thats how life works :D

[@MissTique247]

LMAO! 😂🤣😂🤣😂 Now...THAT was funny AF!

[@seka1986]

Stop wondering, you left out packet one.

[@WeaMiner]

s o r r y

[@patricialynnmoore]

Boy, ain't that the truth. Everything was a lie! But why? The truth is so much more easier. It teaches a new generation life lessons that help in navigating this whole dream we are in. Contemplate that ~ we think we are doing life, good choices, bad choices, etc. and then find out down the road that we were actually someone else's dream. Yea, so all this shit doesn't matter, does it?

[@NatorNoah]

Wait did this guy invent clickbait?!

[@69weinerdog]

yessss

[@yoshipilot]

Always knew the inventor of clickbait was a nazi

[@casperd2100]

Millennials/ Generation Zs that think ads to scam are called "clickbait"

[@off-whiteangel3429]

no

[@natearw]

Actually no, in the late 1890s the yellow papers did

[@Sara-uz1rz]

this video showed up in my recommendations but i’m so glad i watched it, so interesting and well made

[@jordanreid7076]

I gave you a thumbs up cuz your pic is Alaska ThunderF*ck 5000. Right on! Luv her!

[@amaezbotany4101]

I stan your profile pic omg

[@yukiko5819]

Same

[@itsqueerinhere]

I love seeing Drag Race fans pop up in random videos :')

[@TanTan-ni4mg]

But someone somewhere came along and made people buy "pet rocks" .

[@feartheghus]

Tan Tan admittedly, no one “made” people buy pet rocks, people did it all by themselves, all the inventor did was provide the pet rocks.

[@PerplexiaX]

Tan Tan I just made my own Pet Rock! Why buy one!?! hahaha :-)

[@justanotherhappyhumanist8832]

My mom went to school with the guy who invented them. She said he was a huge slacker, and no one thought that he would ever do well, but he came up with the idea and bought all these adds in magazines. Everyone thought he was crazy, but he did well!

[@PerplexiaX]

Christine Moeller I knew someone who knew him too... can't think of who it was though... I remember something like that though, he was a lazy kid (with rich or well to do parents), and just started buying ads after ordering up a good stock of the boxes... amazing what people will buy... oh, sorry, my Furbie is calling me... gotta go! LOL :-)

[@AaronDuck]

Christine Moeller lol

[@officialnezquick]

My sister boiled my sea monkeys once when I ate the last clementine

[@boyu6421]

Wut

[@dissmo706]

that's hilarious

[@woodyisnotdead8470]

WTF

[@ITZREEFYYT]

Not all kids R evil... Never mind

[@itsmejournie4226]

A queen 😂

[@MissJ619]

I had sea monkeys when I was a teenager, I got them from Toys R Us, and mine lived for years, they even grew kinda big, they mated and had babies. It was crazy....lol.

[@rickvalentino6920]

I had these as a kid. They were interesting, but I always wanted them to look just like the cartoon drawings of them in the comic books. So I was a little disappointed. you really had to use your imagination as a kid.

[@coqui917]

What did they eat?

[@MissJ619]

@@coqui917 this food that came with the kit. And it lasted for a few years bc you only needed a very little.

[@jayjordan5555]

I had Sea Monkeys as a kid, and I was disappointed that they didn't look like little people with crown shaped heads!

[@guslook3184]

I got em through the mail in the early 90s an they didn't work. Got em from Walmart ten years ago an they were like yours.

[@lizzyfrizzle8986]

Many years ago I once bought sea monkeys and they worked ,and there were actually a few generations of them and in one of them there was an absolutely massive one and I watched it eat the others and when it laid its eggs and they grew they eventually killed or waited for the big one to die and then they ate it ,so that's something I guess ,hope you liked that short story

[@aaau8742]

the darkness within I did like that short story.

[@tasteyfoood]

That was great, thanks.

[@Nayradharma]

the darkness within what a touching little story

[@mustanaamiotto3812]

i wish we had them in finland...

[@theliveing]

That's the kind of thing I was expecting to hear in the video, but unfortunately they wanted to remind us that white supremacists have bad opinions.

[@elroyscout]

Nobody suspects the brine shrimp guy

[@Ashes2Ashes_Blush2Blush]

Christopher OBrien nobody

[@lamp1515]

Lol

[@lamp1515]

TakeAmericaBackfromISRAEL trying to start a fight are we? 🤔

[@frankiebigrings7048]

TakeAmericaBackfromISRAEL shut up you bigoted piece of shit

[@lamp1515]

TakeAmericaBackfromISRAEL just ignore this guy, he wants attention

[@mjinme]

My son, as a 4yo, after we ordered Sea Monkeys: Tim: Mama, can we buy a leash? Me: A leash? For what? Tim: So I can take my Sea Monkey for a walk!

[@ElPinguinLoco]

Silly Timmy, that's what the Sea-Monkeys Aquarium Wristwatch® is for

[@TheNamesSpencer]

@@ElPinguinLoco why the actually fcuk did you add the r bit

[@minekid4624]

@@TheNamesSpencer lolllll

[@barryblanchette7826]

@@ElPinguinLoco ok kk

[@thacow7603]

No wait until these tiny cell organism evolve into a lizard then a monkey ur son will be happy

[@vizthex]

God level marketing skills

[@user-fq1ig3uy3q]

IKR!

[@xmikemillsx]

Kind of like Hitler lmao

[@bazoinker]

Also, vizthex. Btw I love the profile picture.

[@aeis3007]

@@bazoinker So in a way you supported the Nazis and the KKK. You make me sick!

[@KCN8er]

Like our president.

[@choptopjo]

I had sea monkeys as a kid and I loved them, I became insanely good at growing and breeding them to insane sizes and numbers and I would scoop up a little container of them, take them to my babysitters and feed them to her collection of guppies. I learnt very quickly what they were and I thought it would be really cool to supply a live diet to the fish. The guppies loved it, they were so healthy and thrived. I think I was 10 when this all happened.

[@morefilms04]

You raised them as their parent and then sacrificed them 💀

[@internetmonkey8326]

How do you breed the, to make them big like that

[@CallyWasHereOfficial]

Bro….they were supposed to be pets wtf…. 10 yo minds r dark

[@user-ye9bc7nw2c]

Ew

[@Fr0zenNightmare]

@@CallyWasHereOfficial Why "Bro"? Name and picture looks like a female, bro would be a term for brother, which is male...

[@stephaniejoobern1001]

3:25 Shoulda gone with "Sassy Shrimp" tbh

[@bobbylawrence3517]

I agree !! Sounds cooler

[@Famously5518]

Would have made the general disappointment a whole lot less

[@lilmissmonsterrr]

@@Famously5518 he wasn't worried about disappointment, he was focused on the hook. And he sure hooked a lot of kids with that catchy name.

[@Famously5518]

AssaultedPeanutt You right you right

[@marianadelgadopease3031]

Sassy shrimp will be my new tumblr url for sure

[@EpicGamerEG]

Not gonna lie, they had us in the first half.

[@romeysiamese6712]

I really thought they would look like little sea people with crowns.

[@hustlebunny7740]

Me too 🤦😄😄

[@day2day4kids]

Me too wth? Why bother showing me a happy family wearing crowns?

[@michelleadams474]

Lol, I'd thought they'd look like the Whos in Dr. Seuss! Boy was I a disappointed kid.

[@Thewildlifeenthusiast123]

When i was a child i love animals i do not believe that and i have a book about inverts i found them as brine shrimps

[@_chifalafel]

Back then i thought sea monkeys eats eachother until 1 survives into a monkey

[@keeweefroot2692]

I often find myself thinking "everyone in those old black and white films are dead. Including the dog"

[@francogiobbimontesanti3826]

Keewee Froot all dogs from the 90s are dead

[@CommandLineVulpine]

*notices ur icon* owo I know that character

[@canofspam4337]

You are just shiting rainbows all over the place Jesus Christ

[@Chris-ek1uh]

Especially the dog.

[@Bishka100]

So do I. But...... If you are over 17 years old, you are older than every dog in the world If you are over 4 years old, you are older than every Robin in the world If you are over 3 years old, you are older than every butterfly that has ever lived. if you are over 2 DAYS old, you are older than every Mayfly that has ever lived.

[@cognitohazard3]

at first i was like 'why is this a dark past he seems like a genius' then she goes 'the aryan nation" and i'm like 'i see'

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

Well I mean it doesn't really had snuff to do with SeaMonkeys themselves

[@slow71971]

So do you..listen to yourself.

[@cc3184]

The fact that they didn't look like they did on the box truly disappointed 1970's child me.

[@jessstuart7495]

I remember pouring in the 1st packet, and a day later seeing little white things swimming around in the plastic container and being really confused.

[@Funnyfish66]

Kids love pets. Just pour water, and watch them eventually starve to death!

[@deespot3]

I was thinking theee same thing? No starter food packet? Gotta buy THAT seperate...plus s&h...sad

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

*Hit a baby bird with a hammer and drop him in. Instant food!!!*

[@jyll1608]

MummyChunks I fed mine thankfully haha

[@merume5199]

I bought fish food separately and fed mine, they would never die, they lasted for 1 year

[@brandonwachter2264]

I had them when I was a kid. You DID get a starter packet of food equal in size to purifier/egg packet. As I myself bred guppies, I had plenty of "aquatic" food stuffs onhand. My sea monkeys did well. They even mated & had new generations of offspring. You would see a little, dark, egg mass toward the tail end before they were released. 😊✌

[@ash4783]

The biggest scam was the invisible goldfish lol

[@re-upb4now920]

Right lol feeding the water gold fish food 🤣

[@cal505]

Did you read his autobiography Brine Kampf?

[@Laughing_Dragon]

how the fuck did I know someone would say this? XD!

[@sirspookybones1118]

I facepalmed pretty hard

[@piotresoule6931]

Spit my coke

[@acolyteoffire4077]

this killed me.

[@tonys2705]

Cal Very funny! Very clever...

[@alanmorris7669]

When I was a kid in the 1970s, I had no idea that my pet Sea Monkey's were actually just a bunch of brine shrimp. One thing's for sure, you can't teach them to do tricks like the comic book ad claimed. I was only 9 years old and it was my first experience in getting scammed.

[@javachup522]

At the end they called it a tiny story yet the title says it is a great big story. Who should I trust?

[@stefanfrunza1697]

Javachup Trust no one

[@byxtremez1831]

pulls out gun *TRUST NO ONE*

[@obamayomama8291]

Javachup It's conspiracy?!

[@liawatson5789]

Javachup Don't trust CNN; fake news.

[@nonyabeeswax]

Remember packet number 1 is incomplete until you add the packet number 2

[@mikespanj]

Yes let me spend twelve minutes bringing nostalgia back from your childhood and then ruin your vision of toy makers

[@mrrobot8973]

SpanJ let me tell you how you supported the Nazi party, when you were 8 years old

[@Jacqthepossposs]

so is the way of CNN

[@lightdark00]

Ruin? It made it better!

[@mrrobot8973]

Jay Eisenhardt the voice acting was incredibly good!

[@jadam.2410]

lightdark00 for you, not for us. Some of us aren’t sick.

[@Eli-akad]

The invisible gold fish is the greatest inventions of all time. Truely one for the pros

[@pmolqrcd3370]

Definitely up there with the pet rock.

[@viveus_]

Don’t forget the money duplicator!

[@samtheperson6863]

I checked at the part where he was vibing in a castle how much time was left in the video. When there was 12 minutes left, I simply braced for whatever plot twist was coming, and godammit a plot twist there was.

[@aliv6321]

Are you happy KZbin? After seeing this for the longest time I clicked it, are you happy now? -,-

[@hayleysharples3060]

😂😂

[@moved5387]

Everyday I wake up to watch a youtube video, I would always find this in my recommendeds.

[@duhanegod1532]

jddsdssjddsds this is me

[@gremlin0890]

Fuckin same.

[@gremlin0890]

Fuckin same.

[@sminthian]

I always figured packet 1 was a dechlorinator. I have non-chlorinated well water, so we just used packet 2, the eggs. I guess this explains why nothing ever hatched...

[@PixlRainbow]

sminthian I was honestly surprised *brine* shrimp could survive in freshwater. I expected them to be specialized solely to saltwater.

[@DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc]

Also, if you freeze-frame the patent text, you'll see that there's a dechlorinator in packet 1 as well. And at least in the original iteration of the product, there were eggs in the second packet too, to ensure "mommy & daddy" sea monkeys _and_ "the kids". But if you were missing out on the dechlorinators and other water-conditioners from packet 1, yeah, perhaps your packet 2 aquasimians were doomed.

[@ghostestwiththemostest]

"This is where things get a bit strange..." A BIT?

[@Yartarb]

Hannah Koufos 😂😂

[@germanboy5392]

Shit..50 frikkin years and I just find out I had to purify water for 24 hours?

[@spiritnc2031]

only 1 dollar ? well now its 15$

[@dphorgan]

Inflation baby...

[@incognito4825]

Trumps tariffs ?

[@aimeemaurer4862]

Yeh and mine didn’t hatch

[@ecosti]

1 dollar that time had more value of 15 dollars today

[@miirxh]

in australia they cost $30+ now ...

[@CoxJoxSox]

Why does a German guy have a Jersey mob accent? LOL

[@gigglesmansonn]

Seriously 😂😂

[@ooferkassl6595]

He jewish and he was born in new york

[@bingbonghafu]

Jews are all over the globe, his recent ancestors probably emigrated to the US from Germany (and that area) or Israel

[@ozstewart7650]

be isn’t german

[@ozstewart7650]

he was born in NY

[@kimchi8022]

Wow..I really did not expect this video to take a dark turn. Keep making these amazing interesting videos. You deserve all your likes and subscribers. Coming from a person that has been watching KZbin videos for years.

[@marshiemellow]

Sassy Shrimp 💀💀 Aqua Fleas Zombie Barnacles

[@Emanresuadeen]

I've got it....Sea Nazis!

[@Dat-Boi]

@@Emanresuadeen brilliant !

[@sackheadjones5407]

Jesus this went sky high instantly.

[@theatlasmoth6580]

Is it just me or is his voice in this video really satisfying to listen too?

The Atlas Moth sounds like somet he’s part of the MOB

[@MagnusTonitrum117]

The Atlas Moth Honestly, whomever voiced him did an amazing job

[@snoopdawg21]

@@MagnusTonitrum117 That man would be Sam Mercurio, my grandpa on my mom's side

[@MagnusTonitrum117]

Petris IRL Noice, he has an awesome voice

[@wendyladybug355laurie4]

@@snoopdawg21 Way Cool!!!👼👼

[@fatcunt4029]

That went from 1 to 100 real quick

[@PetrisDF]

I was looking into the voice acting work that my Grandpa did and came across this! Sam Mercurio is a great man, a wonderful voice actor, and my inspiration to get into voice acting in the first place!

[@Danz009]

is that the voice thank you i was looking for that😊

[@marnsdnfois7006]

First 10 minutes: Wow, this Harold guy was a marketing genius. 1 minute later: Oh shit.

[@Kaff231]

Dartmoorian X IKR Exactly.. As brilliant as everyone said he was about marketing was actually a downright fu*%#+? idiot really.

[@MRafaelDS]

Maybe he knows something you dont...

[@LORDNAG1]

MRafaelDS stupid sells?

[@MRafaelDS]

Nestor Gonzalez stupid buys?

[@jamesoverby5095]

still a marketing genius, just a pos too lol

[@marie-helenemartel7147]

the two paquets trick is kind of genius...

[@IAmTheRainbowDash1]

It’s 2am and I came to watch this to try and fall asleep. Now I’m woke af

[@doxiekitten6526]

3AM And I Am Watching This For The Same Reason. 13 Minutes In And I Am Very Woke And Conflicted. Someone Please Help Me.

[@ryanbashaw4513]

Sheeple living in their webs following the strings

[@outsidercain3038]

next step, go broke

[@mcuserton]

Day later, 2:30am, same situation.

[@commandermeow6790]

Same

[@squoosetiel]

Why was this put on unlisted this is the best sea monkeys video I've seen

[@JLYCCLK]

Also couldnt find it on youtube

[@squoosetiel]

@@JLYCCLK i had to google for a good five minutes to find it

[@Mrgingerdread1]

Mien shrimp

[@omegayeet6183]

*mein*

[@tomatotom984]

matthew brookes congrats have just enough followers to make a cult

[@admiralackbar4487]

Mein Shrimpf

[@assymcnasty1035]

Lol you all. Too funny. Over shrimp? 420 love ya'll

[@thecapone45]

When I first read this comment I didn't understand. Now I do. ):

[@Shortshortsandpizza]

WTF THEIR JUST SHRIMP...I LITERALLY THOUGHT THEY WERE LITTLE WEIRD PEOPLE

[@heidiisvolldumm]

That'd be horrible

[@ThisIsNotADramaChannelFR]

Me too. Sucks

[@sumthintuf3648]

K M they’re***

[@basicbish3444]

but they're sooo cute!!!!!

[@Mothlord03]

I know. Livid

[@kennyman115]

i have my own invention its call the invisible girlfriend :(

[@pdph-kk4ut]

your hand isn't invisible

[@doxiekitten6526]

@@pdph-kk4ut THIS COMMENT AND REPLY NEEDS MORE UPVOTES OH MY ACTUAL GOD.

[@FUSHICHOorKURAYAMI]

*HAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA* YOLO......Yolo Indeed.

[@mitchwrench239]

HA HA HA HA

[@swagduragyt]

Lol same

[@Marzetty23]

Holy shit this video was actually good. Can't believe what the hell they found about him.

[@danielcadwell9812]

What the fuck does it matter if the man who invented sea monkeys was a racist?

[@ran6643]

@@danielcadwell9812 well first of all, it's bad for obvious reasons.. the KKK killed people (as far as I know) I'm not trying to get into an argument with your right of speech, but I'm just saying that i think it's bad

[@viperlife914]

They literaly had no evidence of that this is obviously fake you really believe everything you watch huh this is what wrong with the world now believing everything you see on the internet even if the evidence is ass

[@mariaadeel2423]

@@viperlife914 Well do you have any evidence proving against their accusations? If not then- You have trust issues.

[@ajarofmayonnaise3250]

@@danielcadwell9812 seriously hope your kids are okay

[@ShookOnesTO]

When I was kid we just had these sponge things. They just expanded in water. They were shaped as monkey's and they were called "sea monkey's". They weren't living things though. I've seen them in shows like the simpsons but I didnt know you could actually get the real thing. Im 28 btw.

[@joegreen_]

Oh yeah i remember those! :D

[@nedisahonkey]

J Grizzle I'm 23 and it was still easy to get sea monkeys and another slightly larger brine shrimp that looked kinda like a small horseshoe crab when I was a kid.

[@spooky5762]

Shook Ones I got those too mine was an octopus and it grew really large and then it just crumbled into pieces they were made in china btw

[@richardwu9013]

Those are triops, which use the same trick.

[@xjxnniferx.terraria4239]

Shook Ones i had those to but i had dinosaurs and the dissolving dinosaur eggs.

[@stephaniejoobern1001]

I guess you could say the creator of sea monkeys was... Anti-SEAmetic.

[@illumathoti]

Stephanie Joobern hahahahahah oh god that was hilarious.

[@jakemcmullen4864]

And the best pun award goes to...

[@luciasofia8890]

Well done. Well done.

[@Thomes-Maisling]

...Somebody else

[@jasminekim9987]

🏆 here just take it

[@ChristieMcFit]

I clicked on this video thinking it was going to expose some sort of animal cruelty that went on with the sea monkeys... lmaooooo

[@BradShreds]

ChristieMcFit lol same

[@withche07]

Its animal cruelty anyways.

[@refinedwrath9030]

@@withche07 how

[@SpiritofPoison]

Ness The PK master putting some shrimp in a two inch diameter watch

[@SpiritofPoison]

Ness The PK master once again humans exploit there intelligence and are ignorant to everything else that’s alive.

[@Benny23033]

FINALLY I FOUND IT!!!

[@lauren2480]

*”The Dark Past of Sea monkeys”* alright time to get off the internet edit- 1.5K likes??? This is the most fame I will ever get

[@indigometanoist6475]

Lmao exactly my thoughts

[@monicarosas264]

TIME TO GO OUTSIDE

[@rockabillyrebel8012]

Same 🤦😂

[@zhouhuanyue]

I love your profile pic

[@nunyabusiness780]

It should be called the dark past of American culture

[@TowerMom]

I just bought my 8yro a sea monkey kit. Living in an apartment complex that charges out the butt for pets, they were the best choice for her first pet. They're easy and cheap. I was very open with her about what they actually are, and how long they usually last. Bless her heart, she doesnt care. I think that's the while point. Kids will still love something no matter what.

[@MrMigido]

Kids want to create love. Nurturing animals is important in that process. Then they go to school.

[@Dark0neone]

@Rico Williams that doesn't mean anyone has to like it, and the more aware of it we are, the better off future children will be.

[@TowerMom]

@Mrs. R.D yep. If you look hard enough you can find them. If not online, then at toy stores. 😉

[@alishal.9566]

Mine never worked

[@AndrewHupert]

Bastydragon no;

[@tristanbaravraham6349]

I'M 53 and as a kid read comic books, etc. Remember in "A Christmas Story" how Ralphie felt after the Ovaltine debacle? That was how I felt after I got my Sea Monkeys. It was also the 1st time I was directly f*cked by marketing. BTW GREAT voice acting.

[@zeusmid7980]

Great scene.

[@scientificbrony]

Very good voice acting

[@WanagiAkicita]

I'm 53 too, friend! We saw all the same things at the same age.

[@WanagiAkicita]

Robo Waifu, you're not "on youtube". You're just another pointless commentor. Upload a video, freeloader.

[@dianac.9648]

WanagiAkicita but he has

[@spankytheirishman1408]

I too raised Sea Monkeys. I also noticed the existence of the Sea Monkeys on packet number one. Kinda proud. I was only ten years old. I had the ocean view aquarium too. On my second batch they actually got to the point of mating. I remember some members of the school were happily connected. Makin brine love.

[@JustinJustinBeats]

Damn when you guys said dark past, I thought it was just some bullshit clickbait. But that was totally unexpected..XD

[@nikburton9264]

I wanted sea monkeys when I was a kid. My Pop said he'd get me some. I came home from school and he had a gallon jar of them swimming around on my dresser with a small lamp behind them. I found out years later that he got them from the neighbors who raised brine shrimp for their tropical fish. They were cool for a week till I dropped in couple tiny minnows who ate all my monkeys. Then I got a dog, so who cared?

[@aleeburitz7310]

"who cared" the minnows... They were hoping for seconds and maybe dessert.😝😁😝😁

[@whitehorse1959]

Your pop was a smart guy

[@knowhereman1]

You need to write a book!

[@thethreeoregonchicks2745]

Aww what a nice Dad

[@kappa3667]

Ahahahaha. Thats pretty hilarious this comment gave me a good laugh and I really needed it after hearing how Harold was a Nazi.

[@coreyburns352]

These great big stories are fantastic

[@slainedsoldier1269]

Oh sheit Nazi brine shrimp plot twist

[@chasethecat2399]

Didn't see that coming, like how the first package is the eggs!

[@strangerbynight]

Slainedsoldier o

[@strangerbynight]

Slainedsoldier i

[@bigblackchungus336]

Slainedsoldier wow

[@no1ded476]

Slainedsoldier should have put tiny bombs in the eggs and then they would have exploded

[@chrishammock4544]

So, once I had a fish tank in the back of my classroom. We studied brine shrimp once in the nearby biology classes. I didn't feel like feeding fish so eventually I started buying brine shrimp and learning how to hatch them. DIRT cheap! So, I had some, left them, forgot about them. Put them in the bottom of a plant I was growing in just water. Ignored them for about 6months. Maybe even a year. I came back LONG after any reasonable amount of time to a plant that I had kept watering. Sure it had brine shrimp for a while, but I didn't expect any microbes. One day I see movement in among the roots of the plant. Upon checking it out, I found I had a MASSIVE brine shrimp about the size of a quarter. It had gossamer wings and was a tiny angel living in my plant jar. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen. Lasted almost another year. I would just go back and watch for it and it would glide around with these massive wings. STUNNING how large and beautiful it became.

[@Fae_van]

Omg stop

[@MrMichaeljay1965]

I bought these for my kids and after many, many months, some of them got huge. Not along the lines of what you're talking about, but pretty damn big. I enjoyed watching them grow, along with my kids...Then, our angel fish had babies and I found out that I had to breed brine shrimp to feed the tiny fish. This was the end of my innocence.

[@mastercleanseNOTdiet]

+1up *OR* what the person said is the f*cking truth & it did grow that big. and some complete stranger on the comp just saying "false memory" is diarrhea of the mouth & know-it-all assumption lol

[@fictatiousnameees6752]

I'M BATMAN!

[@GeeaRCee]

You high?

[@Veronica1477]

I'm a teenager now and as a kid these were fucking magic but now knowing that these are just brine shrimp killed me

[@imcmart6037]

Wasikoi 재 I'm sorry for your immeasurably small loss. My condolences.

[@ryanclemons1]

one less furry in the world :)

[@Cyrilcynder1]

Excuse me..... Mutant brine shrimp..

[@zaya5360]

I didint care what they were, they were fucken cool to me

[@postshift19]

RIP Wasikoi 재

[@brittybrad]

Lol a dollar is pretty expensive, it's like the 19.99 $ tv ads now adays

[@halfpint2502]

Tbh I thought the dark part was them only giving you one months worth of food so they'd just end up starving...

[@joeymeyer6956]

Half Pint not the whole “Harold is a nazi” thing?

[@uwumaster3272]

Joey Meyer read it again they said they THOUGHT as in before they watched the vid

[@PowerPunk31590]

You could buy more food for them

[@robotnoir5299]

Wait, are there people who _aren't_ nazis? I thought the definition of nazi was "someone I disagree with on some minor point". Did it have a more sinister definition in the past?

[@bazinga479]

robot noir, a nazi is someone who follows hitler, u seem to have been mislead on that definition there.... look it up on google

[@uncleben1922]

It just goes to show that we shouldnt judge someones morality by their intelligence

[@Maimimika]

Rocky Bearboa theres a lot of truth to this

[@blakecarnes9400]

We get it, you watch Rick and Morty

[@medic8377]

Or vice versa. Lol

[@turtleking7772]

It’s fine, I didn’t need to enjoy my childhood at all it’s fine.

[@TheOriginalGamerdud]

TurtleKing777 lmao

[@lilegg4390]

TurtleKing777 Hey dad

[@sherrifrazier5722]

TurtleKing777 omg right!!!!! I had the glass ball necklace but my lil 💩💩never survived but I loved it!!

[@ReptilianTeaDrinker]

Hunt J. Laurs And you can't even differentiate between you're and your.

[@personalaccount1388]

Unless youre like 60, then this probably wasnt your childhood

[@kristadzive]

Am i the only one vibing to that thermin solo at the end?

[@kristadzive]

Btw, if anyone ever reads this, what's the piece called? I would love to know who composed it..

[@jacktenders]

**sighs** Alright KZbin. I'll watch it now. You don't have to recommend it to me anymore.

[@veelalynne]

Somebody once claimed that you could market anything. Hell, you could bottle frigging water and if you marketed it right, people would drink it up and you could make millions, even if they could get it easily for free out of drinking fountains and their own damn tap. That's brilliant marketing. Yep.

[@OldNavajoTricks]

veela lynne peckham Spring...

[@MrMichaeljay1965]

Or, in the words of George Carlin, "Nail two things together that have never been nailed together before, and some schmuck will buy it."

[@ginnymiller2448]

In some places the water that comes out of the tap is garbage, and the only way you can safely consume water is to get it elsewhere. Bottled water is convenient for this problem. Real spring water tastes better than tap water in many places. Just sayin'.

[@YABBAHEY1]

And if you promote it well to the plastics industry you'll even have instant financial backing !

[@KK-tl4ih]

Lol there are even people selling air in jars. The air is "clean" and "not polluted"

[@Archie0pteryx]

I really wanted these when I was a kid but my parents would refuse to buy them for me because they assumed I thought that they were like the stupid illustrations, but I'd learned something cool about them, that they always swim upside down with their bellies towards the light so if you put them in a dark tank and shine the light from below they would go upside down or to one side they would align and swim in a vertical plane or a horizontal or whatever, so I managed to get some for my science fair project, they were fun :D If you ever get to Salt Lake City, the lake has really pretty brine shrimp that range in colour from a deep reddish orange to sunflower yellow to cream colour. I wasn't able to get them to breed though

[@rosysingh6699]

Nicky Pearson Where in SLC?

[@cherrybansx7398]

I had one till my dickbag friend tipped the tank over and kill them all. I never invited him over after that

[@Archie0pteryx]

Nooooooo. When older and wiser I was better at aquariums I got them again (to raise as fish food) but rather than using the provided "water conditioner" I used my own chlorine remover and aquarium salt because I was raising them in a bigger tank. They never got born! I thought they must have gotten too cold (I was living way up in Canada at the time and they may have gotten zapped with -40 degree weather and I was disappointed but didn't stress over it that bad. Way later I learned that the "eggs" aren't eggs ad the eggs are in the water conditioner (which I had chucked) D'oh! XD

[@Archie0pteryx]

Rosy Singh: In the Lake- the Great Salt one. :)

[@wintrwrld5068]

Cherry Inmato wowwwww I would've did the same thing

[@KermitTheAmphibian]

After seeing the South Park episode I can’t help but call them sea men 😂

[@Backroad_Junkie]

I once gave Sea Monkeys as an Xmas gag gift to everyone in the office. I got more sincere thanks for them in the following weeks than for any thing else. Even more than those flying pigs. It might have disappointed kids back in the day, but they're fascinating to bored adults in offices who never raised any before... Now I want to start a tank. Again.

[@enterprisingcaptian875]

If you added the blue dye to the goldfish could you see them too?!😏

[@user-fq1ig3uy3q]

Nah, just foggy water.

[@orsoncallankrennic7245]

The invisible goldfish are so invisible that they no longer have physical forms, making the dye useless. Even ghost hunters can’t find them.

[@hairycrocs5038]

FBI: DON’T MOVE

[@brandoniv5295]

@@orsoncallankrennic7245 dang

[@ienzio7795]

Not gonna lie the brine shrimp actually look pretty cool up close

[@royepic3504]

But also pretty creepy

[@FlaminGingerbread]

I decided to watch this because my sea monkeys are gonna "come to life" tomorrow. Now I just feel very awkward

[@camgere]

It's a right of passage to learn that advertising lies to you.

[@Lonsoleil]

camgere True dat.

[@Laughing_Dragon]

sometimes, if it sounds convincing enough, its gonna trick people XD! no one really can ALWAYS tell if its fake, unless your THAT good at telling, or well...your a paranoid person so paranoid you think everyones trying to trick you if not most people XD! . . . or their bad at being convincing, but thats obvious... I knew someone who could make ANYTHING sound convincing, he had to TELL you when he was joking XD! he was...rather hard to tell if he was joking, or ""telling the truth"" with, lol.

[@callummarriott7818]

Holy shit, the turn of tide at 11:45 completely took me by surprise. It went from "I actually really want to buy some Sea Monkeys" to "oh my god I might have indirectly given money to the Aryan Nations as a kid"

[@FixedFace]

Callum Marriott oh my god, you might be a boring bimbo too!

[@MaxJ.ProfessionalLilGuy]

I was sitting here thinking “Dude, this guy made millions of off scams and extremely clever deception, I kinda want to be like him! That’s awesome!” I then thought “lay off the Nazi a little, alright? I was enjoying this dude.”

[@callummarriott7818]

Boring, yes but bimbo?

[@SNNetwork]

yep. that dollar funded many shaved heads

[@maxsrebro6072]

Fixed Face who's more boring? The "bimbo" or the guy replying to her

[@nathanielchapman2789]

Top ten anime plot twists.

[@HazzyBae]

Invisible Gold Fish WTF😂😂