What if Raccoons Ruled the World?

[@Raster_Rasper]

The thought of racoons in space conquering the galaxy just for shiny rocks is not something i knew i needed

[@cas3yarttv]

😭

[@dylans0630]

That sounds awesome, actually.

[@Raster_Rasper]

@@dylans0630 thanks :D

[@onionero]

Deep Rac Galactic

[@callibor3119]

But what’s crazy is that humans are not the only ones adapting to modern society. Tones of animals have cognitively adapted to modern lands and way better than the average human beings, too. Even in cages adapt quickly. But for them to be sentient isn’t exactly to have a bigger brain, because there are bigger brains than the human mind that still are not sentient. They need the parts that we have to be sentient. But we have to advance that to animals if that is the reality humanity is taking.

[@DerpDerp3001]

Because them having fur, them adopting clothing as the norm would be unlikely. 1. Clothing can make them overheat. 2. Making it is not worth it because they have fur. 3. It makes relieving themselves more tedious.

[@derpherp1810]

I still could see them wearing jewlery, dyeing their pelts, and wearing hats or protective gear when scavenging or mining.

[@DerpDerp3001]

@@derpherp1810 Also shoes because of them actually being practical. Also, hey we share similar usernames.

[@cas3yarttv]

I agree! I actually shortened the video down by taking out a section on clothes😅in summary, the only reason I’d see a hairy creature adopt clothes is practicality. Originally, jewellery and “bells” may be worn by males to make sound, since that was their way of impressing mates. Tools and mechanical attachments might slide off easier with cloth, like “moving blankets”. Also as they move south and need to keep cool, kelp mats carried on backs to be sold at market might evolve culturally into a symbol of wealth, as well as functionally keeping them cool like Herbert’s “stillsuits”. Orangutans in nature cover themselves with leaves despite being hairy, and octopuses often wear clams despite communicating with their skin. But I love your question! Glad we’re thinking the same thing

[@DerpDerp3001]

@@cas3yarttvInstead of clothing, fur dye would be popular.

[@myevilplans]

Wearing belts, suspenders and harnesses to attach tools, pouches and personal items.

[@carafurry7862]

I know this is probably over done, but ants, termites or bees as a dominant intelligents on earth is always a fun thought experiment. You could always do moths or butterflies, I'd be interested to see how one could justify higher intelligence in something like a butterfly.

[@Train_lizard]

After they move to a different planet, they decide they want to fuck over earth after learning about 10 million years later that somebody just invented tiktok, so they create the scariest thing they can think of: a 60 foot tall anteater dinosaur, and then give it a mech suit and send it to attack earth. They name it Gigan

[@greatikechukwu4032]

@@Train_lizard 🤣🤣

[@rinrinsparkles1986]

This is fantastic! If you mind I just want to add something on raccoon civilization. Since raccoons are nocturnal and relied on more on they're hands for sensing their surroundings and texture of things. They would probably create a braille like language basically night writing to read in the dark. Also next animals could it be be pigs they are very intelligent or bears.

[@cas3yarttv]

Oh my god😳that would totally happen that is genius

[@rinrinsparkles1986]

@@cas3yarttv Oh thank your work is real inspiring. Can I ask you what are exactly are the things they on they're backs? Like what is tumblr and the strings attached them?

[@edmonblackmouth2743]

I love this kind of speculative evolution, hypothesizing how a pre-existing species would develop human level intelligence and culture. Personally, I'm interested in roach intelligence seeing that they're social insects that need to learn from each other.

[@cas3yarttv]

I’m always afraid to evolve cockroaches any further since they’re such a cliche in nuclear post apocalypses😭but I didn’t know that! That’s sick

[@Ocelot835]

Still waiting for the Crow civilization! You mentioned in the last video about dogs evolution how they coexisted with them and helped to "ascend" but didn't elaborate any further. Would be awesome to hear your thoughts about how they may get inteligence on their own and what kind of relations they might have with othet species

[@cas3yarttv]

I love crows🫣you know there’s a book called children of memory, where they evolve intelligent crows

[@CiaranEldrett-vp8yz]

@@cas3yarttv I wonder how the desert night lizard (Xantusia vigilis) and Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) might competitively evolve together if they introduced onto the Ascension Island

[@samanthabronder9861]

speaking of birds didnt you make a short epsiode a while back talkign about crows and those bird spikes and how they use it

[@ElishaMorgan-dt9cm]

What if weasels ruled the world

[@cas3yarttv]

They already do

[@ElishaMorgan-dt9cm]

What do you mean

[@SnubbyDaArtist]

b i r d s​@@cas3yarttv

[@ElishaMorgan-dt9cm]

Are you all just setting up metaphors and besides politicians are more like wolves and foxes

[@xavierwalko4175]

Make a longer video about your realistic Godzilla kaiju!

[@cas3yarttv]

Oh man that’s so much more opportunity to get science wrong hahaha

[@BestOneEver247]

@@cas3yarttv I have this idea for a Planet of the Apes project taking place after the Matt Reeves trilogy

[@InvasionAnimation]

You should do intelligent ants.

[@AmozMedia]

I would read a novella series about this world. Feudal civilization of raccoon-people beating each other up with hammers and war-clubs, like a Game Of Thrones x Warrior Cats

[@cas3yarttv]

Bahahahaha

[@ej2u545]

I got a suggestion for an animal that you could try making an animal sapient. Try doing seals. Specifically sea lions. They’re very smart and have been known to have very close family structures. If not sea lions, then do otters. I think a semi aquatic sapient species would be really cool

[@cas3yarttv]

Otters do construct tools already😳they might fare well

[@ej2u545]

@@cas3yarttv cant wait to see it man :)

[@M3GG1RL]

Or penguins please (Totally not because of club penguin)

[@viniciuscampos4504]

Great video man! i Would love to hear more about intelligent futuristic animals, especially snakes, crocodiles, lizards and insects! hope you do well!

[@cas3yarttv]

Oohh the tough ones haha😂

[@theotheseaeagle]

The Qu from All Tomorrows are basically super advanced intelligent insects lol

[@JohnCamisa-v7t]

Next you should make rats and/or dolphins super intelligent

[@SwiftKey_253]

i saw the title and thumbnail and i can't lie, i clicked as fast as i could i am a sucker for raccoons

[@benjamingesinski9170]

It'd be interesting to see what other animals you could explain how they could rule the world. An obvious choice would be cats, but I would like to see a video on Crows/Ravens because of how smart they are, and it'd be interesting to see how birds could be an intelligent species.

[@inzyniertv9305]

Fallout 1 had racoon people

[@cas3yarttv]

Just looked it up! That’s sick (though they were uplifted more than evolved but still woulda been cool to see haha)

[@inzyniertv9305]

@@cas3yarttv FEV is one hell of an virus

[@inzyniertv9305]

​@@cas3yarttv yeah too bad the devs runed out of time and werent able to add the S'lanter but maybe modders will readd them one day

[@ArmadilloHat]

R.I.P old swamp (they got rid of everything that made it fun)

[@B1ue_fruits]

Have you considered biologically accurate Ben ten aliens?

[@Rabiosis_The_Rabid_Menece]

I had the same thought too

[@TroyTheCatFish]

I second this

[@cas3yarttv]

I mean there are so many😅

[@DinoGoofHybridHero7531]

@@cas3yarttvwell you could do the original 10 to make it simple XD Wildmutt, Four Arms, Grey Matter, XLR8, Upgrade, Diamondhead, Ripjaws, Stinkfly, Ghostfreak, and Heatblast! X3

[@horse9722]

@@TroyTheCatFish Troy the catfish!??!

[@joshuahaynes5604]

"If squid ruled the world" would be fun and so would "If whales ruled the world"

[@stevenlallamant8967]

Raccoons in 3024: THE ECONOMY IS IN SHAMBLES!

[@Lalaloopsies_United]

Idea: What if Corvids Ruled the World?

[@Pie.278-_]

You should make a small short of a accurate looking skull crawler from king skull island

[@InvasionAnimation]

Yup I am subbing for these animal kingdoms!

[@cas3yarttv]

THEN YOU SHALL HAVE MORE!!

[@InvasionAnimation]

@@cas3yarttv Woohoo! Thank you!

[@Mammalmage]

I'm not sure if you knew about this, but there is a fantasy web comic about a race of inelegant raccoons. "Tales of the Questor."

[@alexacevedo3732]

I was wondering if trying something challenging like if horses or any equestrian species evolve to an advance civilization. It would be a very interesting concept especially if they lack fingers like the other future animal's previous videos. Some options I suggest would be that they could evolve to have more flexible and dexterous hooves, or use their mouths, tails, or other body parts to manipulate objects. Or develop some form of sensory organs that allows them to communicate with other creatures to aid them. Besides that I feel like I want to see a crossover between the dog and racoon worlds

[@Mr-__-Sy]

Please turn this in a build game

[@thisunrealman9639]

This got me thinking, if we're doing Dog societies and Racoon societies, why not Cat societies?

[@BigBossMan538]

What if elephants became more sophont? What would a society of quadrupeds look like? Or crows/ravens?

[@Animusprimalemperor6257]

I wanna see how would crows get more intelligent in the future.

[@Plasmathedeathjester]

can you do a long video on your deers

[@cas3yarttv]

Ooh the OG😂

[@HaloisTight]

If only the Fallout series had included the S'lanter.

[@cas3yarttv]

Right?!

[@RedeemerofDark]

God these are insanely impressive the amount of research and ability to keep so mant different threads in mind and weave them together into a tapestry for an entire setting is INSANE. I'm so jealous. Although if your gonna make some of these based on the need to see happy versions od the animal can we ever hope to see a video on Elephants? As a kid "The Blue Elephant" brought me some great sadness over watching an elephant get passed around and raised into a war mount. And elephants are already so insanely smart and have concepts like tools, graveyards, and adoptions. I'd *love* to see what you could come up with! Maybe they'd be one of the rare ones ro not become bipedal? After all they're already so tall and have trunks which are almost better then hands.

[@volvagianintendo6465]

I recommend watching Keenan Taylor's “manephaunts” (from his own setting named Kaimere) for seeing thy wish mostly come true, for the manephaunts are little sophont gomphotheres.

[@RedeemerofDark]

@@volvagianintendo6465 Sophont Gomphotheres?

[@volvagianintendo6465]

Yeah, thou readest that rightly, @@RedeemerofDark! The manephaunts aren't elephants, but, like elephants, they themselves are proboscideans, which are an order of placental mammalian therapsid synapsids belonging, itself belonging to the superorder Afrotheria (aardvarks, proboscideans, elephant shrews, tenrecs, and hyraxes).

[@volvagianintendo6465]

Yes, @@RedeemerofDark, sophont gomphotheres.

[@RedeemerofDark]

@@volvagianintendo6465 oh that's a scientific name isn't it? I wasn't sure what that was supposed to mean originally.

[@anon9579]

Edit: What if there were sapient monitor lizards.

[@andrewrandrianasulu_]

tbh looking at our trajectory I tend to think that yeah, future will be very much garbage, because there very soon will be nothing else left ....

[@volvagianintendo6465]

How would these raccoons have evolved upright twofeetedness and opposable thumbs? Are their feet plantigrade (like bears, men and the rest of the primates) or metatarsigrade (like dogs, cats, and theropod dinosaurs, both fowlish and unfowlish)?

[@cas3yarttv]

I think plantigrade! It would be relatively similar to their anatomy today, since it’s only a million years, maybe 2, in this timeline at least. They would most likely run on all fours for speed, switching to upright only to use hands for mechanical complicated things. I’m not a big fan of anthropomorphising animals, but with this I think it’s the best way they can manipulate tools

[@volvagianintendo6465]

​Thanks for answering, @@cas3yarttv, but you still didn't explain how they would develop opposable thumbs, since they are a must when developing a sophont vertebrate animal without trunks nor prehensile tails. Also, I don't care about whether it comes out manshapened (anthropomorphicized) or not since I only care about what are the likeliest, fairest and soundest evolutionary tweakings for an animal to reach sophonce. Remember that upright twofeetedness in a four-limbed animal without a tail like that of an unbirdish theropod dinosaur and a trunk like that of an elephant is ever more advantageous than a horizontal body position. Lastly, luckily for these raccoons, they themselves already have clavicles, right like the primates, which betters the capabilities of throwing objects, itself being handy for hunting with spears and other throwable weapons. This is an upside that raccoons have over the Amazonian bush dogs, which would also have to develop clavicles since carnivorans lack them. Also, they would need such thumbs for being able to make and manipulate tools easily, which would greaten their own cleverness sooner. Lastly, I think 1000000 or 2000000 years is a little bit too quick or soon, thinkest thou not? But, inferring from thy abreasting, I guess they would evolve them as an answer to their own greatening in complexity of the objects they themselves make, which would be an evolutionary pressure. Lastly, remember that upright twofeetedness in a four-limbed animal without a prehensile tail and a trunk like that of an elephant, nor arms with suction cups like those of most cephalopods, nor a long and stiff stabilizing tail like that of an unbirdish theropod dinosaur is ever more advantageous than a horizontal fourfeeted body plot since 'tis more energetically efficient and frees the hands permanently. However, in the case of the sophont dinosaurs, their twofeetedness is as energetically efficient or more energetically efficient than that of the hominins, notwithstanding the fact that their twofeetedness is horizontal or semihorizontal, (hinging on the kind) since they have a long and stiff stabilizing tail or a short tail that has a pelvic girdle that keeps the torso at least in a slanted position.

[@DavidSilva-mn4dz]

What about scientificly acqurate moloids from the Fantastic Four comics?

[@jancerny3657]

Panthera Leo (Lion) I wonder how their ascendence look like.

[@eldritch_moth3191]

You should play rain world. It’s a game with interesting critters.

[@cas3yarttv]

I enjoy watching videos of people play it haha

[@ODJJ-77.83]

(SAPIENS) (ELEPHANT) (CROCODILES) (DEER) (MACAQUE) (CAPYBARA) (SPIDER) (SNAKE) (CAT) (TREE) (DO LT NOW!!!)

[@GreasusGoldtooth]

Hear me out: sapient hippos.

[@emmadavies1246]

Do pigs like in angry birds they have there own civilisation

[@EnneaIsInterested]

Intelligent capybaras!

[@TroyTheCatFish]

How about Crows or Ravens next

[@cas3yarttv]

👀

[@squashbird9426]

Can do the beaver for next episode please

[@maxwellvindman7212]

Fallout 1 mfers be like

[@tesseractxnfts]

i want intelligent bears plz gimmie ..

[@rukkamewmew]

Jerboas! What if jerboas ruled the earth?

[@wyattmazzochette8709]

Rats 🐀 and Elephants 🐘 too

[@lizyfoxXD]

I had an idea: what if smartphones ruled the world?

[@cas3yarttv]

lol don’t they already??

[@samanthabronder9861]

do plase do more this specultive evoltion and makeing longer videos and for a futre one mabye woodpeckers cuz why not and their wood bulding skills are use with beaks no hands neaded and also woody woodpecker that movie

[@arnelquindoza2654]

How about mantises that could be fun

[@the_epipan]

Dolphins, elephants and chimpanzees are the most intelligent and socially complex animals that exist just after humans (and especially elephants and dolphins are especially good at recognizing themselves in the mirror); but dolphins have a much higher encephalization coefficient than the rest (the human has almost 7 while the dolphin has a little more than 5, and the chimpanzee has a little more than 2). But of course... dolphins have the big problem that they are in an environment that does not encourage the development of limbs that manipulate objects... in addition, water makes the discovery and use of fire impossible (impossible?). In theory, a socially complex civilization could be created without developing technology... but it would be a stagnant civilization in several ways by not being able to progress, for example, to populating other planets; which is important because a species becoming interplanetary ensures/improves the probabilities of its long-term survival and permanence. I would like to see what you could do with the dolphins and the ravens, which are the most intelligent birds along with that species of gray African parrot (they use tools, they solve complex problems, they remember faces).

[@aaaaZa100]

What if cats ruled the world? Be cool to see a civilization of obligate carnivores

[@cas3yarttv]

My cat already rules my house😂

[@plushchocobros]

How about foxes? What if they become similar to the Kitsune of japanese mythology?

[@Sugar3Glider]

Didn't Rocket genocide an entire species, just because he didn't want to temporarily relocate a single village?

[@love_and_chaos_uwu4267]

I was making something like this but with a bunch of different animals a long with them

[@MangaGladneerd]

Would love to see ants ^____^

[@igorsenez111]

How they call the humans? They have museums with human bones and human technology?

[@fiddleriddlediddlediddle]

The future is garbage anyway. Nothing changed.

[@fireflyer97]

Tigers

[@tristanthompson8374]

I Love ❤️ This Brilliant Video Cas3yart👏👏👏!!!

[@cas3yarttv]

Thanks so much bud!!

[@brandongovreau9218]

otters

[@okami360]

Can We see what if wolves ruled the world

[@neptunefan-n6i]

what if cats ruled the world

[@tiheshabissainthe8990]

cat world

[@wyattmazzochette8709]

Please do cats 🐈‍⬛

[@kharijordan6426]

Ok how about this. Giants...but they're moose people. Giant moose people the size of T rex...or the long neck ones.

[@stanisawswistek3602]

cats🐈

[@tesseractxnfts]

love the raccoon vid |.> ca3y

[@inzyniertv9305]

Do a episode for foxes

[@Werebat]

Ah, the raccoon test subjects who escaped Mariposa military base… they’re out there, somewhere.

[@Willfaffle]

Ha, I must comment firstly, but this is amazing and giving me a rush of ideas for my own universes (won't outright copy anything, I promise!) I love your videos and they are very informative and creative, I loved learning about bush dogs on the dog video, too

[@cas3yarttv]

Aw thanks so much!

[@RhysLayne-k5j]

What if you did one of these type of videos, but with either octopi or cats becoming the dominant species.

[@Ryuuie]

Oh this is cool! :D Definitely gonna show this to my roommate! I think it'd be awesome to hear about bears! Or cats!

[@calebditch8648]

Gosh you definitely need to make a comic series of this or the dogs one for sure! This is freaking incredible and interesting❤ 10/10 and to answer your question at the end I'd love to see one about lizards &/or snakes if they evolved and ran world 🐍 🦎 because why not! That would be awesome 👌

[@cas3yarttv]

Ooh that’s a great idea lol yea spec evo has so much opputunity for longer stories

[@calebditch8648]

@@cas3yarttv It totally does, and again I'd love to see a video on snake &/or Lizard people it would definitely be interesting 😉

[@Crowstal]

I literally have ideas about this concept in my notes omg. I wrote more about cats ruling the world but raccoons were considered!

[@LegendaryCake-]

Crows and Parrots: *Start crying being forgotten again by speculative evolution fandom.*

[@Mr-yb9zn]

I would like to see intelligent sharks!?

[@kharijordan6426]

did you already do elephants..i hope they get multiple limbs while still being quadripetal.

[@mrviking2mcall212]

What if *sloths* ruled the world? It’d be very different outcomes depending on whether we’re talking ground sloths or arboreal sloths. I’d like the latter just because it’s more interesting. Imagine what cities would look like built by a people with zero fear of heights and who can hang on to railings all day, even sleeping from suspended post-like beds. Oh, and symbiotic algae they use like hair gel.

[@alexanderberrones2165]

I have two (and a half) ideas for some sapient species 1. a society of snails and slugs that see salt nearly as dangerous as uranium to wear the outlaw salt all together 2. a Society of Beatles that are (maybe) gladiatorial and they evolved upside down

[@karathompson1522]

Rocket raccoon would rule the world

[@cas3yarttv]

He would take over immediately 😂

[@volvagianintendo6465]

“Ehh-v'ryy-bɔɔ-dy wants to rule the world” 🎼🎶🎵🎧

[@CameroonKnight]

Planet of the Raccs

[@shanevinzant6935]

For the next sapient animals try something a bit more unusual like the colugo, net casting ogre spider, or, palm civet as a few options

[@tristanthompson8374]

You’ve Made Another Great 👍 Scientific Video Cas3yart!! I Am Really Immersed In These Imaginative Plausible Realities, It Makes Me Wish We Could Get Involved In Sapient Animals Right Now. I Loved Your Planet of The Apes, Real Life Bluey, and Even Your Kaiju Videos😸, Have You Considered Making A Real Life My Little Pony World? Im Wondering How Would Horses Evolve To Be The Dominant Species? What Cultures Would Help Them Thrive? How Would Their Mouths 👄 Change To Maneuver Tools 🛠️? What Would Be Their Relationship With Other Animals 🐴🫏🐂🦬🐄 🦒🦓?

[@cas3yarttv]

Yoooo😳I never thought of horses haha

[@enderionofthenerdherd8551]

I kind of wish there was a ttrpg based around your intelligent animal species ideas.

[@cas3yarttv]

Thanks so much!😂

[@diaborodevil3161]

Hmmm Monkeys: druids Dogs: necromancer Raccoons: artificer

[@CameroonKnight]

I've played a homebrewed Hollow Knight setting and I played a moth folk stars druid, they were so cool and so cool to anthropomorphacize moth and beetle folk.

[@enderionofthenerdherd8551]

@@diaborodevil3161 Those fit really well

[@enderionofthenerdherd8551]

@@CameroonKnight Nice!

[@aidengabriel3508]

If both raccoons and dog were at war.

[@cas3yarttv]

Ooh I think.. hm… well in my videos they’re 4 million years apart, however if they were together fight at their peaks? I think dogs would have stronger drones (organic cancer clones haha)

[@callibor3119]

In your dog video, psychedelics are treated similarly to how natives treat psychedelics in America. They grow them naturally and give small doses than what we see in prescriptions. Indigenous people get high to heal around than to evade psycho traumas like how non-indigenous Americans do. Consume too much there will be withdrawals and addictions that would be very difficult to get rid of.

[@notakiwi7151]

blue and green steampunk post-apocalyptic bartering racoons?

[@jeromiahocasio498]

Awesome video man,would very much like to see a video done on corvids like crows and ravens

[@justinianthegreat1444]

How would these intelligent Raccoons react if they realized an advanced species of apes were their predecessors?

[@thespacedinos4037]

Now what if: Smart birds, amphibians, or even fish?

[@Dinomerlo-j1r]

hi I wanted you to make the titanosarus scientifically correct

[@michaelwalsh9616]

I would like to see the evolution of my favorite trash mammal, the opossum.

[@theprecipiceofreason]

Raccoons also need a longer lifespan. They die tragically quick.

[@deadpoolrlz9685]

what if neanderthals became dominant instead of homo sapiens

[@Daisythepage]

I live this video!! I kinda want to see a speculative future sapient mainecoon cats now lol

[@jdfigs5916]

Maybe you can do one for lizards like iguana

[@MBA.Productions]

casey you uploaded agin 🎊🎊🎊🎊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎆🎆🎆🥳🥳🥳🥳(but can you maybe just maybe start streaming again ?

[@cas3yarttv]

Aw thank you! To celebrate 100k I def will!!

[@unicornpupart]

reminds me of donut canyon? is that what it was called

[@cas3yarttv]

Woah never heard of it😯

[@unicornpupart]

@@cas3yarttv nvm it was called donut county very underrated game with low poly style basically about racoons taking over the world and u playing as a hole unlocking more lore on the game

[@rudidavidson8422]

Do elephants