CGP Grey was WRONG 

This is the only important point in the whole video^^ /s (where the 's' stands for seagull)

@@jordandeshan8020 but the seagull keep pokin' my head, not fun but the seagulls, mmh, stop it now [music]

@1224ChrisNg my stick is better than baconnnnmmm

@@1224chrisng That log had a child.

Actually, hootis8 was that owl. So he did get attacked, technically.

RU-vid really does like promoting wrong people, at least it gets to be CGP Grey this time!

D C what, you scared of spelling it?

@@boopsboops7692 You're much too kind to YT. I would've started my expletive with a capital C.

RU-vid loves Cancel videos. I just wanted to know what CGG was

Ninja Ethan Ah yes my greatest fear, spelling the dreaded ass word

Lmao true

@ASMR Tforter 4:24

Lol

@@aaronmellado3570 Also on 2:46 and 5:41

Fake

Said calmly

@@blueeye2281 XD

if i had more time, i would have written a shorter letter - Joseph Stalin, Macbeth

@@yeboi1887 wait till kids come and woooosh you.

@@yeboi1887 r/woooosh

Such politicians would get voted out of office faster than you can say “potatoe”

Andrew Farrell sadly that’s what happens

Someone didn't watch "The rules for rulers"!

So what you are saying is: Gray for president?

We *kind* of got that here in Norway, and from what I've heard there might be *something* like that in Canada (correct me if I'm wrong). It's of course going to depend on the political climate in a country, the political tradition, the electoral system, the party in question and it's voters (the voters of some parties are way more accepting of mistakes and humility then others) and of course the individual politicians.

“ Grey is string theory in a persons body “ - cosmic forces

Bernardo Costa seizure?

Held onto that nugget like a starving coyote.

@@acebalistic1358 My vote is on Butt Text. I got similar messages from my dad while he was doing yard work. Had to call because I was concerned. It was good for a right laugh.

@@acebalistic1358 unlocked phone in my pocket... I never learn...

Same

Probably says a lot about youtube's system, correcting videos tanks its visibility

👍

Same

Same lol

"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and misattributed quotes." -Spiro Agnew.

That does sound like something he would say

"If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter." -Albert Einstein

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet" -Abraham Lincoln

"If I had more time, I would have a shorter letter." -mick wachowski

Grandayy hey

Not enough mid-roll ad breaks tho

its grandayy

Eyyy it's grandayy!

Man the fact that grandayy actually watched this video means he is interested in historical which tbh I would not think he would be

Didnt know he revived himself to live in the internet age. Interesting

LMFAO

@@zed95 He used to go to chariot races with Twain and Pascal. Fun fact.

I always seem to miss his live streams.

"Most citations on the internet are completely mande up. Not this one though, I promise" - a talking dog

nice your here

Ew your here

wow epic history is here nic

@@handl3d u really gonna do that to him

@@Staminokka ouch

I guess you could say he's grey-t

@@callmeishmael5742 Grey would be proud of you

But, mostly/only for MAJOR mistakes...minor errors certainly don't need an elaborate mea culpa.

@@kenc2257 oh no, i ate an extra pretzel, let me make a 2 hour video on it to apologize

I wish CGP Grey was like this about the pro-monarchy video he made that was just stuffed with monarchist propaganda and misinformation.

This.

The world need more of this.

Something made by a person with these qualities is a rare and beautiful thing.

Why will he not address the America Pox video where he follows guns, germs, and steel? Guns, germs, and steel was written by someone who isn't an expert in anthropology and academia completely disagrees with his conclusions.

@@nightbringar7558 Not to mention (although a lot less serious a topic) the "True Cost of the Monarchy" video. In it, some claims are objectively wrong and others use faulty logic. It is an older video, but it could still use fixing.

Well it wasn't really a small mistake given that it was what the entire video was about. Since the video was about What is Tekoi and saying that it is one thing when it is another would be wrong. For the average audience like me it is not a big deal but if you are a content creator trying to be factual it is a huge deal, if you say something that is just out right wrong and a thing that you could have caught.

@@Mahons some humans see a big error, some don't at all!

@@Mahons i really don't care if the content he's making its true, i just want a relaxing voice talking about stuff like Grey's

@@jamesleather7524 ​"For the average audience like me it is not a big deal but if you are a content creator trying to be factual it is a huge deal, if you say something that is just out right wrong and a thing that you could have caught."

@@Ozukai ​okay

aong us

OH.

“My dear student twilight, Wether your letter be short or long, I, as your Teacher would’ve read it. Only if the attribution of this quote was correct” -Princess Celestia, My little Pony

@@jf17thunder63 FINALLY

For some more broad stories I recommend Oversimplified

Welcome to the community!

Hear, hear!

And me still feeling late on this channel while I've been here for years and years. Because yes you said it, once you know it, you really wonder how you can have survived THAT LONG without it. This question still needs an answer.

Welcome to the Grey Viewership Society! We swear it’s not a cult!

And still he doesn't correct the one about the monarchy.

@@lopez.jacinto.6726 curious, what was wrong on that?

Gabriel jacinto lópez Which mistake?

I think this is a big part of why millions of people watch CGP Grey instead of the garbage clickbait that permeates most of the internet. Attention to detail and intellectual integrity are rare and valuable things. Also research is hard.

@@sirduckoufthenorth Well, for starters he didn't include the travel and security expenses for the monarchy in the numbers he presents in that video.

Why do you comment on (almost) everything that I watch?

Ayy Cody likes grey

Again, it's super cool that all the awesome internet people are aware of eachother!

eating uranium when

:)

I think you just proved their point lol

@@jacobmetalcrafter6259 I think you just missed their joke lol

@stockart whiteman I see what you did there.

👆well actuallly....

Jacob you have been bamboozled

Certain media corporations should get some inspiration. Factual publications is incredibly important in today's day and age.

That's so true! In fact it even makes them more trustworthy! They show they care a lot! :) (And it's also really nice to see they are not, in fact, superhuman, and make errors as well! Errors are never bad if you learn from them! :))

*COUGH COUGH* Infographics scp videos *COUGH COUGH*

Facts *sometimes* matter here. Can't really say that as an absolute when he has so much disinformation in his voting videos.

@@SymmetricalDocking Would you mind to explain what you mean?

Many dads are.

@@viviblue7277 facts man.

Think his dad is a mathematition

His dad is (or was) a lawyer.

^Lawyer.

I like to think he made a bunch of AI’s like Jarvis

Lol Yea we need to stop them

I'd love to know more about his team, tbh XD the behind-the-scenes work is always really impressive, and always way more than I ever expect.

They reminded me of the kursgezat birds

100% agree! I’d love it if the robots could get names or designations. I figure the people may not want their real names revealed, so fun code-names would be funny 😆

That’s not true! You’re wrong

Made my day!

@@AFrogInTheStars no you are

My 27 PhDs gave me the right to say you are totally wrong

whatever ye say, buckaroo

I read this in a CGP Grey voice.

@@Beretsquid I read it in Brian of Nazareth voice

He's not the Messiah, he's a very nerdy boy!

That’s so religiously accurate

@@RU-vid_username. true. Don't know how I missed it. ^^

Even that is better than one example I have from a creator I used to support on Patreon. They used the same stat twice in a video but with a different number, it was obvious they mis-spoke so I wanted to let them know. I jumped on Discord - "Hey great video, but did you notice.. yada yada...." I get a reply from the creator - "Well shit, I guess I'm just terrible at my job!" Que mass "no, you're wonderful" from the rest of the chat and me feeling like an asshole. I don't support this person anymore.

He's an educator

18 minute video + a reuploaded/edited video of the original one that had a mistake

It reminds me a lot of a couple of videos Tom Scott did - definitely a sign of a creator who cares about their craft.

editing the description would have been a better use of his time.

"That would require a lot of time" -Edison

A 20 minute video... with new custom animation.

Honest to god his hyperactive OCD be worse than mine 😂

I don't think there's anything wrong with that either

@@ethanomcbride I think we've instantly become friends. Should I bring out the Ceremonial Measuring Equipment?

Well, they were also quite a bit later to the game then ICBMS, which were even later than basic bombs, so there's a lot left that's still classified, comparatively. ;)

As an SLBM, I'm just glad to finally be getting some attention.

@@neildutoit5177 You're a missile?

Nice catch! I was too mesmerized by the quote itself.

Congratulations, you ve found a glitch

eh, I recall discussing a major mistake he made, in the comments like a year ago, don't remember him addressing it.

Maybe just don't trust anyone blindly. Everyone you get information from is a flawed human.

I never made and mistakes

There was the whole UK monarchy thing.

Vatican City is more accurately described as a theocracy not a monarchy but absolute monarchy is “technically correct” but still a mistake as mentioned in this video.

I mean, that’s what we should expect from everyone and it shouldn’t be seen as “omg you’re so amazing”, it’s what any decent person does.

He didn't fix Scotland.

Hating without a motive seems nice

UwU k

@@BigMastah79 What's wrong with acknowledging that someone is a decent person? Everyone needs feedback. If you want to reinforce positive behaviors, you give a suitable reward. In this case, it's the compliment.

It’s right next to the Wendover Train Depot and the HAI BrickWorks.

Grey: I'm going to explore this interesting site Owl: O RLY?

johnnypopstar Owl really

@@joeyscerbo7776 how to tell you're getting old: when you're the only one in the room who remembers the "o rly owl" 😔

@@johnnypopstar lolwut

@@johnnypopstar I got your back. It's an old meme, but it checks out.

Nazsiwa Gemelas I want that story told! 😅

But what a marvelous quotation from his father “the cost of perfection is infinite.“ Being too much of that breed, I hope I can inculcate that concept into my life.

True

Woah, are those the elite people that pay for RU-vid premium? I thought it was just a legend.

same

@@gus7814 no, it's people who support Grey on RU-vid kind of like Patreon.

Amen brother

Somehow I read it as GeyVerse I want in.

what?

You mean like a spiderverse for grey? (And also when was this revealed?)

@@neumo5005 9:13

You did not already know?

Techmoan, Databits and Technology Connections are typing...

Sad... They said they removed it due to "being used less." 😢

youtube is getting worst every year

@@aliski768 If there was a decent alternative, I would have switched years ago. Unfortunately, every alternative has points that make them HORRID.

@@GamingWithEgan Not only that, youtube is a social media site. If no one is on your social media, then going there is worthless.

@@lukethekuya Tbh I'm pretty sure that was RU-vid's most used feature.

Idk.. it garnered him another 57k upvote video :D

I mean we should social distance. Maybe a virtual hug. As a we accept the apology.

altrag like* not upvote

im sure that applies to his strong points as well Interviewer: what are your strengths? Grey: I'm a perfectionist Interviewer: and what are your weaknesses? Gray: I'm a perfectionist Interviewer:....

@@TheLPcollector it really is a double edged sword. You work to the best of your capacities and then some. But, you work to the best of your capacities and then some. Which usually means delays and excessive amounts of corrections and modifications, refactoring, making things more efficient and so on. Or at least that's how it is in CS.

Well yes, but actually no. He has made bigger errors in past videos that have gone uncorrected, like the "True Cost of the Royals" video

@@TROPtastic We all err.

I hope grey sees this

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It's all about being concise. Maximum info in minimum words.

@@danielsjohnson Nuff sed

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

small good

> = +

Welcome to newscorpse media

*100%

Absolutely!!

😂😂😂😂😂😂. I swear man i resepct greys hustle to respect the information. But this seems a bit too much. For a switch of names

It’s still misleading. For example, I’ve seen a channel cover the story of Violet Jessop (Check out her story on Wikipedia). In one part of the video, they used the wrong picture of a shipwreck she survived (the sinking of the HMHS Britannic). This was misleading, people didn’t notice it so the channel let it slide. It was a blunder that became a gigantic error. If everybody does this, people will believe that the MV Britannic was the HMHS Britannic and it tarnishes the history of the ships and Violet herself.

For real. Don't get me wrong, facts matter, especially in regards to history. But C'mon, man!

@@AndyHappyGuy My questions are: One, were the ships a completely different class, as in, was one a large warship and the other a fishing boat? Two, were they built in a vastly different period, as in one was a XV century caravel, and the other a XX century ocean liner? Three, do you really think the people who did not pick up on this mistake were the kind of people who would be offended had it been revealed to them? And conversely, wouldn't the people who are really into maritime history not pick up on the mistake and just correct it in the comments section for the interested few anyway, which I'm sure already happened? And finally, following up from the previous question, what makes you say it was a "gigantic error"? If it was picked up and corrected in the comments by the people who are into maritime history for the benefit of other people who are or could potentially be interested in maritime history, while the rest of the viewers just didn't care, what makes you say it was a "gigantic mistake"? Because from what I can tell it was pretty inconsequential - the people who were interested got corrected pretty quickly and unobtrusively, and those who weren't, wouldn't care either way.

@@B3RyL Yeah! What you said!

Journalists are bound by ethics to correct errors of fact. It's a shame though that people are so against the media these days.

CGP Grey for President? I acknowledge this is going to be hard, considering there's always been systemic discrimination against Stickmen.

This is great video! Faults can and will happen, but it needs courage to correct and dissect them as thoroughly as you did! You have earned my respect

@@politereminder6284 Hahahahahahaha. Yeah, ethics m8, cheers to that. There is no actual regulation for big media companies, theres never has been. If there ever was one, it will be labeled as "obstruction of free media". There's a reason people have always disliked media, they often are guided by profit, ethics is treated as just another tool in getting that profit.

@@politereminder6284 Susanne, ethics bind people to alot of things, that doesnt mean people follow them.

Don't read my username.

Plus a good error addendum makes for interesting content

And yet others say they didnt make a mistake at all.

A great example of how to both admit you're wrong and examine how you got there. It's good to admit when you're wrong, but even better to figure out how you got to the wrong conclusions and how you can do better, even when parts of the process are outside your control.

I deeply respect the intellectual honesty in this video!

Also, something like half of it is different. It's an interesting watch, even if you've already seen the first video.

Yeah, I dont think you have to worry about a channel with over 4 million subscribers getting screwed by the algorithm.

@@ripred42 That doesn't mean that a video can't get a _really_ low amount of views, sometimes that happens.

@@TAOEXPRESS He makes 45k a month on Patreon alone, I don't think view count is such a big factor for him.

@@jiminybb Yeah, but it's not about the money. If _you_ made something that you worked on, for weeks, months, something you put your heart into, if it then just got 50k views? When you have 4 million subs? And if you only care about money, then, less views, less new people, less people wanting to donate to you on Patreon, less _money._

It's always so weird to see my favourite RU-vidrs respecting and appreciating each other.

@@marnie4629 One of your favourite youtubers named his dog after a war criminal because he's a war criminal who does bad things in his job but is the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with. Edit: Replaced a "the" with an "a". Edit 2: Deleted superfluous word.

For a moment I thought your channel was "Mr.Beast" and was confused about why you didn't have more likes. I'm still confused about why you have only 367...

@@camelopardalis84, Who?

@@k4four615 Mr. Beat named his dog after George W. Bush.

Check out his podcasts.

​@@oO_ox_O Cortex is literally the multi year live-accounting of a semi-sane (atleast functioning) apple fanboy being driven mad to the point he's as obsessive and unproductive as Grey

Grey's psyche is overall filled with a lot of weird and oftentimes debilitating quirks, to the point that I genuinely am concerned with his coping mechanisms and his insane work ethic... Not even joking it's pretty concerning.

@@redcoat4348 The fact that he puts so much work into being productive that it eats into his productivity isn't really ok

@@redcoat4348 I had to stop listening to the podcast after a while because it started feeling like I was hearing someone slowly go deep crazy.

We are.

And yet this video was made because one of us had something to teach him. He really sees education both ways and I think that's a wonderful thing.

@@cedarsapling absolutely, I agree

It does have "hoot" in it their nickname basically means "the hoot is infinity"

This needs to be top comment

And owls are generally symbolized as intelligent and prideful HMMMMMMMM

@@GeanAmiraku and the cost of perfection is infinite. Therefore, the cost of perfection is the hoot

@@PCspray So, you're saying it all loops back on itself... like a circle, but with a twi... [ Eyes get big as saucers ] [ FRIDGE BRILLIANCE INTENSIFIES ] Ohhh... You MAGNIFICENT bastard! You have my sword.

Hear hear ❣

It really is priceless, and something i feel most of the Science/education RU-vidrs. Tom Scott had a video a while back that was very similar. It says a lot about the person to be able to admit their mistakes

@@rickyarmstrong5945 It is always the small people that tend to ignore or deny their own mistakes.

It's a rare occasion, like a double rainbow, or someone on the Internet saying, "You know what? You convinced me I was wrong."

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 r/UnexpectedGoodPlace

Mhm. He's like a more... robotic? Technical? Something like that. Version of Tom.

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Considering this all started with a comment on his video, this is almost *literally* a case of someone on the internet saying "You know what? You convinced me I was wrong."

Or he selectively implants mistakes into his videos that he can then use to come out and "admit he was wrong" in a ploy to convince millions of people that's he's trustworthy. CGP WAS AN INSIDE JOB

*What is true? dimension portal opens*

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1.2 million views later, the $$ makes it worth his time

Vuntedum Vsauce music plays

@@HeckuleStudios or does it? after all, what _is_ the Vsauce music?

Goddamn this elder knowledge hittin hard today

KingSlimjeezy it really do be hittin hard

Damn right!. Mine also used to say, "they need to pay you because the job sucks"

As soon as Grey said it I was like, "wait, what?"

That channel is soooooo good. I now know so much random crap thanks to it.

I had to pause the video and check the comments to see if anyone else had noticed!

Two nouns when put together is about half an interesting as being apart.

Wendover Productions for the unaware.

This is the difference between us, mere mortals, and, oh so great, Mr. Grey!

Me: worries about potentially making a mistake, skips straight to the depression without getting a chance to actually make the mistake.

@@badlydrawnturtle8484 This is your mistake.

Me, a perpetual optimist: "I'll never make a mistake!" Tries something new, makes a mistake. "Oh, I'll fix it. I sure won't make that one again." Go back to step 1.

Me: *makes mistake* "Oops haha"

they are to be admired

RU-vid compression is a bitch tho. (I like to imagine Grey's inbuilt processor is powerful enough to render a fractal at full definition - i.e. infinite)

@@lucasriddle3431 uh you click the three dots on the side and go to "edit"

@@usernamethenamed Wow I am dumb. Thank you for your help.

Internet rabbitholes are cool to read about. You read something, then something else, and boom, you're 30 webpages and 2 webarchives deep into the topic

Well. I think we found thodd1souts personal account.

"““If I had more time, I’d have written a shorter letter” -CPG Grey” - Michael Scott" - Jorge Goias

- Wayne Gretzky

“”””If I had more time, I’d have written a shorter letter” -CGO Grey” - Michael Scott” - Jorge Goias” - Azariah

"""""If I had more time, I'd have written a shorter letter."-CGP Grey"-Michael Scott"-George Goias"-Azariah"-Alex Cereuceta

""""""""".........""""""""" - some educated fool on the interwebs

😩

Amazing quote, my dearest favourite youtuber, timtom

Putting this here for when this becomes top comment!

Are horses chairs?

Hi TimTom! :D

Or you watch too many Matrix

Which is why we forget about it and move on, it is a very dangerous mind germ

@@cleoking6312 Even if we arent real, that doesnt change anything. What is "real" its just a description of the things we call "real" so as long we ceep calling things real, they are, because we define them to be

@@sdrawkcab_emanresu i agree 100%. We are real, my feelings are real, my experiences are real, but to those who are afraid of this thought germ tend to let fear cloud their judgement. It isnt very surprising considering irational fears dictate most peoples lives, mine included with my fear of heights. To me that fear that nothing we know is real is just as irational as my complete hate for anything involving heights no matter how safe it is.

The better question that you actually want to ask is “what should it take for me to believe something?” Then try to be consistent.

as a person who's really into making animations , i see that as an amazing way to be immortalised .

Ok, but if you watch the next 30 seconds, you realize that it's the animator. They chose their own fate 😆

Luke Gerhard It’s funny that they put that little “easter egg” in there. Light-hearted self-directed jokes like that are funny. ... ... I like the animation style, animator! ;-)

And 5:42

unless you have really low standards...

Also “ if I had more time I would have written a shorter letter

@@ICEknightnine Well no. "Having low standards" means you're more willing to compromise on things. Not that perfection is somehow a finite... Thing.

That's something that the head of the college at engineering at the university I attended made clear. In engineering, there's rarely a "perfect" answer - and it's often very very expensive to get that answer. Sometimes what you have to do is create a "good enough" answer - then throw in a large safety factor, just in case.

It's good, but it's not perfect