That’s so original. Good comment. 4.8 thousand people saw this and decided that they thought it was a good comment. It’s your joke now. Enjoy the only time in your life where people find you funny
Fun fact for anyone wanting more info about the study he's referencing, it's not even just mice! These two researchers collected over 12,000 video clips over several years, and while mice were definitely the most common animal that was seen enjoying the wheel, they also saw rats, shrews, frogs, and slugs as well! They also documented the behavior often seen in domesticated mice where several want to run at the same time and they can't wait turns and they send the other flying 😂 (It was called "Wheel Running in the Wild" by Johanna H. Meijer and Yuri Robbers, and yes, they did share several videos that you can now find online!)
Did they have a hypothesis for this study? I'm wondering if like michael said, it's not so much the wheel, but it is a somewhat unnatural contraption, and pretty much all animals are curious and enjoy playing. Just makes me wonder if other toys and "rides" wouldn't be picked up just as much.
isn't that the mouse wheel experiment where they found out that not only mice but a plethora of other small animals also loved the wheels? there are a whole bunch of snails who were wild for those wheels lmao
@@NofxthepirateThe video was about how the internet is analogous to hamster wheels. That was just a continuation of the analogy. Hamster wheels let you run without consequences the internet lets you communicate without consequences
@@AdeleiTeillana it's just a common joke with slightly weird internet celebrities where you just act as though they're a serial killer and you don't mind. Like jerma. He's not actually a serial killer, it'd just funny to insinuate that he is simply because he acts strange sometimes.
@@Softlol he always says that every question is one that can be answered. You might not figure it out and it might not ever be figured out but it has an answer.
I think you cycling on your own modded charging exercise bike attached to many dynamos can generate more power than letting random wild animals do the deed in the wild. And I want to include solar panels but those things are half scams because of the absurd pricing and probably tax scams too
@@checkm8rr not quite. Videogames are interactive stories so adventuring without doing. Not really a action befitting a Sisyphus urge. Stories are about progressing without moving as you follow the characters but Sisyphus and a mouse wheel are to move without progressing. They are opposites sides of the same coin.
In France there is an archeology project where they are building a castle using period appropriate technology. To lift the stones to the top of the walls they use a crane powered by a human hamster wheel. If you go there you can have a go in it and lift some stones. Tom Scott did just that! Take a look in his past videos, it wasn't too long ago.
Deep? How? Americans and other HS love to gossip. Sure. Axiomatic. Undoubtedly started before cuneiform, papyrus, printing, telegraph, telephone, Teletype, radio, tv, facsimile, internet. What's his special insight? As far as drawing an analogy between running in place and gossiping, it strikes me as a false analogy. Wheeling is a type of endorphin-induving repetitive behaviour: drumming fingers, worry beads, running anywhere, stationary biking, and so on.... Gossiping isn't CAUSED by the Internet, but merely facilitates it, doesn't it. Gossiping is a passive aggressive attack on others which has multiple functions: using others' lives to make ours appear more important, passively attacking and gaining (imagined) dominance over others, bonding with others of the same aggressive ilk.... I doubt this guy is an ethologists. Judging by this brief look, he seems more like a superficial charlatan pandering to the GollyGeeWhizReally? folks. Regards
As yes, Minecraft, the game with nothing else in it but mining- but like on another note, children in actual mines don’t get armor, and they actually died instead of y’know just respawning (Cough *sounds like a skill issue* cough cough (I’m adding a joke to indicate I’m not trying to sound serious or negative in reply to OP’s comment))
“Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage.” - Smashing Pumpkins, 1995 “Despite all your run, you are still just a mouse having fun.” - Michael, 2023
I always assumed even the bigs cats, like house cats, enjoy boxes because they only have one opening. So your back and sides aren't exposed to any threats, but what draws the wild mice to the wheel?
Okay I looked it up apparantly all that is known is that mice are exercise nuts lol. What was inferred by another study with wheels in the wild is that wild mice and other animals enjoy running in wheels because they get the exercise they want minus the risk of exposure to predators.
@monkeybrain014 Interestingly, a study was done in the 90s involving lions and refrigerator boxes. Even though Lions live their entire lives out in the open and would presumably have less of an evolutionary drive to find enclosed defensible spaces it was found that lions will sit in a refrigerator box. While wild lions will sit in a refrigerator box that has its top cut off (so that it is long with a small opening) they will spend more time in and will exibit more play behaviors when given a refrigerator box that has had its largest side cut open. So a less defensible and more exposed box is more appealing to them. And we have NO IDEA why.
This was a study done in the Netherlands in urban and semi urban spaces. When scientist tried to replicate it in wild forest (I think in remote areas of Peru?) they didn't get the same result at all. But they did get possums turning the wheels manually, using them like stirring wheels.
I think what's more hilarious is the fact that I remember hearing a scientist describe an experiment where they left empty boxes in a habitat with big cats... And they climbed in... Cats are cats ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If I’m not mistaken, they’ve done studies and found that rodents like running on wheels because of the visual stimulation of the bars of the wheel moving past them
Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote: "Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people" ~ Carl Jung
I watched the full video and this was the idea that resonated with me the most. If we could harness this "short attention span" and point it in creative ways to ideas that help people grow we'd see humanity voluntarily accelerate themselves.
I'm surprised nobody's made a human-sized hamster wheel. I assume that unlike a regular treadmill it wouldn't need electricity so that would be a bonus.
Michael has such a fresh perspective of everything, It's honestly quite comforting, Even if sometimes his takes are trying to make you uncomfortable on purpose, but in a way it shows how we're all the same
@@DeltaOmaniac not really. when people bring up short attention spans, we compare it to people in the past, way before the internet or even the printing press. by proving that we're just this way no matter what we try to blame it on means we're not getting worse over the years and people just overreact to new technology like we have always done
@@imalright48 i think that is a bit different. Peoples attention spans have decreased over time, but my guess would be that the amount of gossip hasnt really increased.
@@finice1142 imo I think its the reverse. Our attention spans are the same, but the amount of gossip in our world has exponentially increased due to the internet. Because we have such a global access to all this gossip worldwide, its a bit of an info overload, so what may seem like shorter attention spans could really be our brains just trying to catch up in processing all the info being thrown at it...tho im no expert thats just my two cents on it...
How to become a millionaire in 3 easy steps: step 1: buy a whole bunch of hamster wheels and put them in the forest Step 2: attach power stuff to them so the creatures that use them are generating power Step 3: sell that power Boom you are rich now
