How Did the Pet Rock Fad Start?

[@TodayIFoundOut]

Now that you know how the Pet Rock fad started check out this video and find out Where the Term “Rock and Roll” Came From: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2q5iZaCqJV8oq8

[@GummyDinosaursify]

Not gonna lie, I want one.

[@nemtudom5074]

Me too, being a hipster is fun.

[@williambaldwin7190]

TableWrens so do I !

[@drtyslzy]

TableWrens don't listen to them.

[@alexiaimboredsohereiam7370]

Ur Not The Only One

[@jorgetirado3201]

Yeah they're quite fun.

[@hossesarse]

I bought every one I saw and set them free in the wild. Rocks make terrible pets anyway, and thrive better when free.

[@runcibusarse-weasel964]

I worked on a pet rock farm. We used to breed them in cages so small they couldn't turn around, stacked 20 high. The rocks would be deprived of food and water for the last three weeks before shipping, to save on freight costs. The mortality rate was close to 40%, but hey, feck 'em...they're only rocks. Anyway, thanks for buying all those rocks and keeping us and thousands of farms like us in business for a while longer.

[@PlatinumBalrog]

Irresponsible! what if a bird of prey saw all those poor, defenseless rocks and picked them apart one by one. Just you wait till I tell PETA what you've done.

[@hossesarse]

Plat Bro I checked with Peta and they were cool with it. Mother Nature wastes nothing: Birds swallow rocks, fall, and die; then scavengers, worms,bugs, larvae, and microbacteria eat the fallen birds and poop them out, enhancing the dirt; which it turns out is broken-up rocks mixed with pooped birds of prey and other junk. The lesson here is digesting rocks, animals that eat rocks, and rock by-products is good for plants, and therefore animals, which means we need to eradicate all rocks. Also that, counterintuitively, "birds of prey" means exactly the opposite of what it sounds like because the ones that prey on rocks are at the bottom of the feeding chain. Wait, did you mean that you are going to tell PETR? Because I have a direct line to them; you just have to speak loudly into the receiver while caressing it softly. c=8

[@calypso7452]

SiluKidGaming49 ye s they are !🗿

[@lpskitkat411]

Calamari Chris all things in the world all alive

[@DonnaLang42rockglobally]

I was a kid when the Pet Rock fad hit; I remember seeing a display for them in a department store during the Christmas season in 1975 and thinking how cool they were. I never got one, but one of my older sisters did, and the training book was hilarious. I wonder if she still has it?

[@skyearthocean5815]

My pet rock has some behavior problems, it keeps randomly hurling itself at the neighbors dog. Can anyone help?

[@d2cuadrados]

SkyEarthOcean Haha that made me chuckle

[@robertt9342]

SkyEarthOcean you should bring it to obedience training.

[@bradlemke7550]

You gotta put it down can't allow it to abuse dog's. Sorry for your loss in advance it's always ruff losing a pet.

[@CurrentChri77]

You put it’s cage next to the dog, soon your rock will get used to the dog, and it will finally be able to play with the dog

[@fundude6127]

Eliminate the root of the problem... >:)

[@TheUAVpilot]

my pet rock had pebbles.

[@lorierush8205]

Lol

[@asmallphd9648]

Hopefully they grow big and strong.

[@teodoratodorova5108]

Yeah they eat thrm

[@duchessedeberne3909]

Congratulations

[@jorgetirado3201]

Congrats!!

[@RandyLunn]

Well done! Thx, The Mood Ring also came out in 1975 and met with similar success to the Pet Rock.

[@Anarchidi]

Hey, I have a question for you. How did we start to associate a heart with the classic heart shape ❤?

[@dresdi]

No it doesn't

[@cameronsipka3352]

Stelios Kloth it's the Christian heart actually, from like the Renaissance or something.

[@dorissaclaire]

Stelios Kloth it's based off the shape of a woman's behind when she bends over

[@dorissaclaire]

SHANE DEMARS actually, that's a myth, it's really because it looks like a woman's behind as she bends over.

[@PhunkDumpOfficial]

As far as I know there is a Plant growing, with leaves looking like hearts. somehow these leaves got into symbology and eventually ended up as a symbol for love for some reason...

[@monicamullins8962]

this guys is honestly a fucking legend

[@MrJest2]

Indeed he was. It rather struck me when he died... the end of an era.

[@slipknotboy555]

Monica Mullins Absolutely, the pet rock was an ingenious product, and a brilliant way to make money. Of course, it's also awesome that he made so much money on what people looked down on as a stupid idea. I don't think it's stupid at all - it's hilarious, and genius

[@JerryEricsson]

I recall the pet rock from my early days on the police force. We shared a wing of the county court house with the Sheriff's office, and we also shared a dispatch/reception office. It was in the dispatch office where we gathered to drink our morning coffee, the Sheriffs office was a sort of family affair, the Sheriff was the uncle to the dispatcher, and his son-in-law was his deputy. At any rate, I sat there drinking coffee with the receptionist, and the court house janitor when I noticed two rocks on the top of the radio cabinet. When I asked her if they were pet rocks, she said, well yes on is a pet rock, the other is a SEX rock. I looked at her sort of quizzically, then she said, "you know just another fucking rock!" The janitor spilled his coffee laughing, and so did I!

[@hifijohn]

my pet rock loved throwing itself through peoples windows , so I had to get rid of it.

[@shadowdragon2122]

🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Reebert02]

I'm trying to make the connection between the "Pet Rock" and Liam Neeson and I'm failing so hard...

[@nemtudom5074]

I dont get it either

[@nemtudom5074]

Anira Pixell You overreact this. They put in extra content that ruins the rest. Yea, sure. Thats stupid, also, why are you so upset by an extra ad? You just hit the X and you're done, or adblock. I dont get it. So basically in your mind a 9 minute video is great if its content is great, but if they add extra facts that are unrelated then you flip a shit and call them money whores. Where did the world go so wrong.....

[@liamhaddon7526]

Anira Pixell Having a video over ten minutes long allows the KZbinr to put an ad in the middle of the video. If they haven't put an ad in the middle they didn't increase the length for more profit.

[@TodayIFoundOut]

"This channel deliberately makes their videos as long as possible" We literally have never once done that. Our content is as long as we think it should be for a given topic and we like to include a random interesting bonus fact for those who watch to the end. The so called financial incentive for going over 10 minutes is a myth that many KZbin commenters seem to mention a lot, but is not a reality in our use case. People binge watch more when you make short videos, and we have ample evidence of this in the stats. We'd make a lot more money if we made four videos that were each two and a half minutes long than one ten minute one. (The production cycle would be drastically quicker for us too.) And as Liam Haddon said in this thread, you actually have to enable a second ad to potentially get the benefit of two ads in one video after the ten minute mark. We don't do that.

[@liamhaddon7526]

Anira Pixell They most likely have some facts that arn't important enough to include in the video, so instead they put them at the end as a little treat for anyone that watches until the end. The Liam Neeson facts were most likely just some facts they had that wouldn't be enough for a whole other video.

[@treed5953]

At 9yrs old I couldn't afford to gift the humor of a pet rock, so I didn't know about the care instructions. They were still pretty funny though

[@jogmas12]

The fad only lasted 6 months in 1975. But this was enough to make the founder rich with a few million dollars.

[@DoveLady]

i like the sentiment with the liam neeson bonus fact, but oml i was waiting through the whole story because i thought he was going to say he attributed his dedication and perseverance with boxing to his pet rock.

[@SidneyChism]

Same here. On another KZbin channel I read a comment about that video being one second over 10 minutes in length so KZbin would pay. When I realized that the Liam Neeson trivia wasn't going to tie into the Pet Rock trivia I looked at the length of the video, over 10 minutes. So, the random trivia at the end was probably some filler to get a KZbin payout..

[@TodayIFoundOut]

As I said in another comment thread: We literally have never once done that. Our content is as long as we think it should be for a given topic and we like to include a random interesting bonus fact for those who watch to the end. The so called financial incentive for going over 10 minutes is a myth that many KZbin commenters seem to mention a lot, but is not a reality in our use case. People binge watch more when you make short videos, and we have ample evidence of this in the stats. We'd make a lot more money if we made four videos that were each two and a half minutes long than one ten minute one. (The production cycle would be drastically quicker for us too.) And as Liam Haddon said in this thread, you actually have to enable a second ad to potentially get the benefit of two ads in one video after the ten minute mark. We don't do that.

[@enochmundall]

@@TodayIFoundOut Thanks for clarifying.

[@treed5953]

We can be fairly sure a pet rock never rescued him, or anyone else, from a well. Would've been heartwarming tho

[@DoveLady]

@@treed5953 i choose to believe somehow, there is a pet rock out there saving lives from wells on a thankless mission.

[@southernwaytransport]

Very informative video about such a clever marketing gimmick that was about 10 years before my time. When I was a kid, the fads would come and go. In mid 80's it was a different fad every year. It was bmx bikes with "mags and pegs", skateboards, nintento entertainment system, "jelly bracelets and friendship bracelets", "Barbie" (I have a sister), rc cars "Turbo-Hopper", "Omnibot", and others, including an ingenious black and white camcorder that used cassette tapes to record on (PXL1000?). There was never a shortage of new things to put on the "wish list".

[@justmechanicthings]

I can't believe you found more than ten minutes to explain this topic.

[@XxXNOSCOPEURASSXxX]

gotta get that yt money

[@petrocksgarage]

Always wanted to know this. I used to frequent Carry Nations a lot and never knew its connection to the Pet Rock. Pretty cool, IMO.

[@rparl]

Pet Rock's Garage When I saw that bar, there was a split "window" in the shape of a hatchet spanning the two front doors. Nice, if subtle, ref.

[@petrocksgarage]

Yeah, inside it has an Irish/English Pub type feel. Lots of natural wood, nick-necks on the walls, standard bar stools & tables/chairs. On weekend nights its basically a college bar.

[@MrJest2]

I used to work at Carry's in the early 90s. We were well aware of Gary Dhal and the "Pet Rock Connection" as the bar had just then been purchased from him. He owned it from opening until the late 80s. I still go by from time to time just to reminisce. Had a lot of fun working there, and for that reason I just had to watch this video. I was pleasantly surprised he spent so much time on it and the history of Carry Nation.

[@aussiebloke609]

Better than the Pet Rock is the navy version - the "Pet Can of Soup." Same idea, but if you put it on the floor, it also rolls back and forth as the ship moves in the swell, so it's (barely) more interesting - and if you get really hungry, you can still eat it. :-)

[@Aftertaste_]

It's not just a boulder, it's a rock!

[@MacDeth]

The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles.

[@lucheyang4423]

MacDeth SPONGEBOB!!!!!

[@underarkduke9172]

+Potato Man Now your telling me they thought they could drive *gets ran over by rock* ......rocks?

[@benw9949]

I was given a pet rock as a present when I was a kid, but alas, some years later, when I wasn't looking, it ran away and has never been seen or heard from again.

[@sulmaalvarado7895]

Did you actually find it?

[@dankmachine]

Learned a bit of history about the Pet Rock and it is the most fitting thing that the guy was from North Dakota

[@afrikasmith1049]

If only there was a pet Rock Type Pokemon for sale....

[@PrincessAshley972]

id buy a Rockruff!

[@Shicksalblume]

It was the 1970's and cocaine is a hell of a drug. Don't do drugs, kids.

[@nizzy64]

Amazing that Moby is able to release a new album, do concert and this KZbin channel

[@slipknotboy555]

Unknown User Heh, perfect response

[@krouac]

My favorite Christmas gift of 1975: I cannot lie.

[@SkittlesGirl65]

Lucky you. I always wanted one. I was 10 in 1975. I was dropping hints to no avail.

[@Leftatalbuquerque]

I was there in 1975- I was 10! Simon, you are too cool! Love your channel.

[@SkittlesGirl65]

Me too. 10 in 1975.

[@mattjohnston2]

"house training the Rock" ya know, I woulda thought his mother would have taken care of that when he was younger...

[@WhitneyDahlin]

hahahahaha random bonus fact. I kept expecting him to say Liam attributes his success to his faithful pet rock or something

[@neurofiedyamato8763]

At first I thought,"we humans are so stupid sometimes." After the video... "I want one..."

[@ezekielamaterasu3462]

My Dad still has his!!!!!!

[@mymyrrah]

Ezekiel Amaterasu whoa, language!

[@kenp.2293]

whoa. manners! harley obviously insulted the other person's father. (saying sorry doesn't make it any less offensive)

[@TheReviewSpace]

I like the Pet rock box packaging.

[@averagerick9581]

I love rocks, theyre not messy no need for food and no fuss to go through.

[@GoodVideos4]

I remember the Pet Rock craze in the mid 1970's.

[@SlapMehSilly02]

I love this channel. I'm a new subscriber... I'm going to start sharing your videos on fb to help you pick up more subs. great channel

[@walkertongdee]

My dad would pick up small smooth rocks while on vacation and keep them. I now have several of his pet rocks and I occasionally open the memento cigar box and roll them over in my hand thinking of him. I collect driftwood LOL...

[@Entropy3ko]

LOL... I love how sometimes you start with a topic and the talk about something completely different but still related to it! Good job!

[@WIImotionmasher]

He said soccer.... HE SAID SOCCER!

[@dagondagon864]

i love this channel, keep up the good work :)

[@TodayIFoundOut]

Thanks!

[@mimmikyute]

I'm confused why a liam neeson thing was attached to a video about rocks

[@rocketbear1064]

Today I Found Out - Why Black Friday is called Black Friday

[@jimstone3014]

They already did that

[@TheObsidianX]

Rocket Bear it's because black ink is used to indicate profit so businesses use it to get "back in the black"

[@TodayIFoundOut]

Here you go kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnuYZ62BZd12qZY

[@rocketbear1064]

Today I Found Out thanks

[@upyours1256]

well tell me

[@the.abhiram.r]

Where can i get 1

[@RoobehTunes]

A fad? The pet rock will never die!

[@mack4392]

lol i had a pet rock when i was a tod because i loved them...i also slepted with sticks under my pillow..WHAT CAN I SAY I GUESS I LOVED NATURE

[@ericknutson8679]

Ah the Pet Rock I remember this craze well

[@Hdtjdjbszh]

I have a friend who is Petroc Merlin Armitage ....I bought him a pet rock last Xmas

[@dutchik5107]

at the end. people sometimes think they learned it with boxing or any other fight/self defense sport. and even tho it can teach you respect. if you didn't have a sense of discipline from yourself. you quit. that's how it goes. it's nearly impossible to learn. and if you like to do something, you immediately have more "discipline" just because you don't force yourself to do it. you just want to do it. discipline is just doing it no matter what. and never giving up. so determination also is a personality trait. which is easier of you like something of course. but it can't really be learned. especially not in a way that he has that trait. and of course "learning" that is also a little bit part of growing up. it's called maturity. but you have those kids that quit really fast, and those that go on for too long and don't know when to stop (which can also be bad, makes you sometimes some what of a perfectionist, because you need to finish that thing) so sometimes it's even a bad trait that needs to be unlearned in a way

[@greenbag7787]

I had one of these... it died a week later. :(

[@chef7196]

greenbag I'm very sorry for your loss, I my self lost mine after 2 years :(

[@theenzoferrari458]

When I was in elementary school there was a fad for "pet rocket". Everyone had a small rocket in their pocket.

[@starcrafter13terran]

My pet rock was named Tod.

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

I'll have to ask my dad when his brother started carrying around a "pet rock," I think it might have predated this. Though in my uncles case it was to keep away the bullies at school because they were afraid of catching crazy.

[@elephantricity]

You need "investors" to sell pet rocks?

[@fivefives8043]

Marketing ain't free.

[@DubSly13]

You are the man and whoever writes these is doing a bang up job! Keep em comin.

[@lindsey.13]

I'm watching this with my pet rock. Seriously

[@shadowdragon2122]

Cool 😂👍

[@SkittlesGirl65]

😎

[@Vedrajrm]

how do you research and edit your videos

[@cameronsipka3352]

Yeah man! how can I copy you!?

[@Vedrajrm]

Cameron Sipka ya exactly, how?

[@Vedrajrm]

Cameron Sipka how!?

[@TodayIFoundOut]

We'll be answering this either in an upcoming Q&A or perhaps do a behind the scenes video soon. :-)

[@jfjoubertquebec]

Whoaa hahaha this guy is a genius!

[@sololo1391]

Dang it, I knew I should have invested all my cash on pet rocks ... Extra profit ain't it? $10+ profit per item... ;( I would be rich...

[@TheDicfer]

had one as a kid also had a water bed for it man the 70s were dimb

[@davidcampos1463]

Shouldn't you say unrelated bonus fact?

[@Turtlezzzzzzzzzz]

the bonus facts are rarely related to the main topic

[@dorissaclaire]

David Campos sometimes it's related....

[@MrJest2]

I think the commenter below has it right - they're "filler" to make the video at least 10 minutes long so it's eligible for monitization.

[@TodayIFoundOut]

"I think the commenter below has it right - they're "filler" to make the video at least 10 minutes long so it's eligible for monitization." Nope, we'd make a lot more money if all our videos were short. Also you have to enable the second ad if you want it after 10 minutes. We've never done that. The random bonus facts are supposed to just be a bonus interesting fact for those who watch to the end.

[@livedandletdie]

Although KZbin's Recommendations favors longer videos over shorter videos. 10 minutes is still however considered short.

[@PeugeotRocket]

I really appreciate how you always give the dollar amount adjusted for inflation! It saves me from looking it up and helps give greater context to those may not look it up.

[@jojopotatoe5563]

(patrick star) its ok rocky just take youre time lol!

[@kingjames4886]

but look how smooth those rocks are! O.O

[@tmmerremont2703]

One of his more interesting inspiration's was naming a bar/restaurant in San Francisco's Haight/Ashbury dubbed Bar Meets Grill. Unfortunately, the locals loved the joke, but not the establishment.

[@mymyrrah]

I know they're inanimate objects, but love those darn things.

[@GODemon13]

I kept waiting to find out what Liam Neeson had to do with pet rocks. I don't get it :/

[@SOEINEGAUDI]

me neither

[@dawsonhooker7480]

When this channel gets huge and people ask how long we've been here. And I say " been here since 100k" this is my proof.

[@mechasentai]

Riddle me this! How is Liam Neeson like a Pet Rock? You'll never figure it out Batman!

[@angrybird29]

random liem Nelson fact?

[@usernameed]

Neeson not nelson

[@vallgron]

and Liam not liem

[@jorgicostava7217]

Aside from the butchering of Liam Neeson's name, though, the comment was spot on! Then again, "random" wasn't capitalized. Also, it was a merely a sentence fragment. Yeah, I suppose he totally botched it....

[@fwengsolutions]

Fully agree, if you mean that you sat through the long boring Liam Neeson bull, thinking it had some sort of connection with the previous story and finally found out it was not connected at all and felt deprived of the lost 1.5 minutes of your time?

[@Acemans]

srivardhan karnic it's so they could hit that 10 min mark

[@MasouShizuka]

'Long distance attacks' Also known as the 'Rockin' Roll'. And 'Close range attack' aka 'Rock's Biter'.

[@thanos_lols7832]

My rock got a boyfriend and had pebbles :)

[@citizenavatar]

he stole the idea, I have three pet rocks from the late sixties early seventies

[@duchessedeberne3909]

citizenavatar hope they are doing well?

[@animekiller1523]

I liked pet rock I have on I named him chip chip

[@SkittlesGirl65]

Cool. 👍

[@hunteraugsburger7170]

when i realized that the reflection of the green screen is making your glasses have the background color, it was weird, because ir sort of looked like a reflection of the background too.

[@richlaue]

I remember when someone offered. Proper Burial survive was offered. Of course required paying a fee

[@cat-a-berry4951]

pet rocks for life!!!!

[@camillestoxen6572]

My math teacher has a pet rock for her classroom and it has its own cage.

[@willingsas]

Hello Vsauce!

[@ericrotsinger8983]

I was poor boy in the middle of The Great Black Swamp. We had no money and a rock could not be found. On a trip to the big city I found a mutt rock named Liam. He moved back to the swamp with me and after a few years sunk down into the mud never to be seen again.

[@chuckclark4001]

Anyone who liked their pet rock may enjoy an origami boulder.

[@Prestigeairsoft]

came here to learn about a pet rock, and learned alot more

[@Aenima308]

Packing pet rocks in an assembly line; ahh the American dream.

[@CheezeWuz]

the pet rock was a meme.....

[@ammarabdalla5433]

um... isn't the bonus fact supposed to be concerning the video

[@marmalade8915]

i have my own pet rock

[@tolfan4438]

Petrocks mood rings uncandles they were all cheap Christmas presents that everybody wanted.

[@richard1113]

Today I found out a man named Gary Dahl was the marketer of this infamous product. At first, I actually thought you were talking about Gary Kildall a man who bore a striking resemblance but was infinitely more interesting and successful. Oh well. At least I learned something new. In the same vein, can we get a video on mood rings?

[@harpreetkhattra7819]

Black Friday ? Please ? I can't find info

[@xjAlbert]

The Pet Rock was an in-joke; the producer of this series is playing one on his host. See split-screen image at 1:15

[@StarshipPocketFox]

I've started a Pet Anvil business. They've been cruelly abandoned.

[@mymyrrah]

StarshipPocketFox ha!

[@jeffdroog]

What was up with those bonus facts man? Did you just somehow leak that liam Neeson was sexually assaulted as a young boy during his little boxing career? Also,how come it was about liam neeson? Usually they revolve around the idea of your video,but I found that a little shocking.

[@TheBandScanner]

The Pet Rock, was a re-do of an idea I invented a good five or six years ahead of Dahl.

[@birdiemcchicken1471]

But did you have the marketing knowledge to make it work?

[@JaysonScottGregory]

Got “the world’s smallest” version of the pet rock

[@Tselel]

No lie, I audibly chuckled at the "sneaky conquest" of China.

[@NelsonBuck]

QUESTION? Why is my coffee from a coffee shop Green? really there are times that I get a large cup of coffee and it looks greenish. Is it because the coffee went bad?

[@SOEINEGAUDI]

yes, or they either collour it or don't use roasted beans...

[@NelsonBuck]

all I know is it tastes like crap

[@SOEINEGAUDI]

i feel your pain! i think part of the coffee wasn't roasted (enough)... green coffee tastes like weatgrass... have you ever considered roasting your own coffee ? it is not very difficult, requires only a cast iron pot and green coffee beans, which you can get online.

[@siddgaming3322]

Last time i was this early , dinosaurs were still around

[@stevenmalchiodi7757]

silly but to me it's like something you put on a shelf like a knick knack 😂 or you could put the rock in your aquarium..

[@TheLightningZap]

why do dairy products say they used non hormone cows but then state that there is no difference

[@Serai3]

Um, what does Liam Neeson have to do with Pet Rocks?

[@CheckerHut]

rocks have feelings

[@Hemimike426]

The man. The Legend.