Influencers Are Faking Mind Powers For Clout 

i used to think i was psychic and had telekinetic powers, but it turns out i'm just autistic.

I find it funny to think the woman is 100% sure that she’s teaching kids to see while blindfolded and every one of the kids believes the other kids are doing it, but they’ve just found an absolutely killer way to cheat the test.

I just love that Danny decided to tape two needles together instead of cutting the paper. That has to be the most Danny thing he ever did, it has a nostalgic, lifehack video vibe

The woman who was losing her vision and these people just... Convinced her that se could cure it by doing these stupid holistic training is being so exploited, I seriously hope for the best for her and that she realizes this is just taking advantage of her :(

I like how Danny is almost 30 years old and yet by simply sitting on the ground in a wizard hat he gives off the strongest small child vibes

When I was a kid, I loved Matilda so much that I literally had some minutes slotted on my day routine to check if I suddenly "got" telekinesis.

i made a telekinesis roleplay account in tiktok when i was 13 and i really thought all others were roleplaying too and everyone knew it was fake

I can move objects with my mind. I tell my hand to pick something up, then boom, it moved

So crazy how Danny is already so powerful in telekinesis that he can duplicate small objects like circles

In high school I used to play a game with my friends called "useless superpowers" where you'd take turns coming up with superpowers that had some sort of limitation that made them way less cool. My favorite example: You can summon bears but can't control them. Anyway, I think "you have telekinesis but only on aluminum foil" would have been a strong entry for that game.

I think the kids sort of know it's fake, but they don't say anything because they all think they figured out how to cheat while most others "genuinely" have the power.

The "expose as much skin as possible while practicing mind-sight" seems like a cheat. Like, your skin is a sensory organ, it gathers information through touch. If you're blindfolded and naked, your skin can help you tell your surroundings by just slightly brushing against things.

i was fully convinced i could control smoke and had like psychic spiritual powers and shit but i was actually experiencing what they call psychosis lol

I personally love the idea that telekinesis is a totally real phenomenon, but the limitation is that you can only use it for things that are useless.

I'm bipolar and I get manic delusions that tell me I can do things with my mind that others can not. I once convinced myself I could put out flames with my mind and I almost ended up burning my house down. Please be careful with these things

I feel bad for those kids. Why're people telling them they have powers? Just let them go to school.

It only took him like 2 years, but Danny finally became the level 100 wizard he advertised

"don't use telekinesis as a tool to fill your insecurities or as a way to think that you are better or more special than other people around you" is literally the main thesis of mob psycho 100

The thing is, its absolutely possible to learn how to do basically anything blindfolded with enough trial and error. People speedrun entire games blindfolded effortlessly. The difference is they don't do it to scam people, and they definitely do not indoctrinate kids into their scams.

6:50 when i cast foam everywhere spell on Danny Gonzalez using my evil wizard powers

I feel like we need to further address how fucked it is that that lady was giving someone going blind hope that she could see without her eyes. That just feels more cruel

Conspiracy theory: Danny does have psychic powers, but he wants to hide it from the general public so is trying to make it look stupid.

That edit at 16:16 was brilliant. You said, “Which makes what happened next… even more f*cked up.” And obviously I was like, “Ooh, what happened next?” And then the second she said that she suffered from a rare disease, I thought, “OOOH, I see where this was going,” and immediately it cut to your face like, “Yeah? You see where this is going?” It was the most interactive I have ever felt in a RU-vid video lol like your face was directly responding to my realization. Amazing work

This honestly reminds me of when i thought shifting was a real thing, when its actually just a bunch of teenagers saying random bullshit. I was in a bad place mentally, so the idea of being able to run away to whatever world i thought would be better sounded great on paper. Then of course you learn its a bunch of bullshit after humiliating yourself for about two weeks trying to do it. I was sad that i wasted all of my time doing something just to learn it wouldn't change anything, but it did also teach me a lesson on trying to find better ways of coping. These types of things are either kids just trying to have fun by pretending theyre magic, or teens and adults being assholes to people more vulnerable than them by making them believe in things that ultimately hold no merit.

Danny taping 2 needles together really shows how 5 min crafts has truly educational content. Keep crafting Danny!

I was born with telekinesis, and I’m currently making Danny float to me.

The girl talking about how were all connected was basically just explaining the force from star wars

I have a mind power. My mind can give me crippling anxiety and depression and deter almost anyone from me without me even talking to or looking at them. Some say it’s a mental health issue but I like to think my mind has powers and does this to me, TikTok said that’s how it works and TikTok never lies

i saw a tweet that said "if Matilda (the movie) taught us anything it's that with enough autism you can move stuff with your mind"

Danny has so much dedication for the stupidest and most useless things ever and I respect him for that

I love how one of the forms of supposed telekinesis is just something me and my friends did in middle school Fold a paper, stand it up, and push your hands at it, air knocks it down, you pretend like it was magic.

Blows up pancakes with mind

I like to imagine the multiverse where Danny tries these and discovers that telekenisis is actually real and just goes nuts

Y’know, you’ve gotta admire Danny’s willingness to try things he doesn’t even believe in

I have the ability to read mind. Yes mind, not minds. Unfortunately the mind is can read is my own.

One of the funniest parts of this to me is that you can’t actually perceive color that well in your peripheral vision. All of the parts of your eye that tell you colors are only focused on what’s in front of you… so there’s no way they’re just looking out of the corners of a mask, they’re just keeping it off of their eyes enough to fully see, like in the end of the video.

Imagine Laura just walks in on Danny sitting at the coffee table yelling and gesturing at a sock, staring at some weird paper contraption all while wearing a large wizard hat 😂😂😂

I remember a while ago I was reading a thread about a story of a guy who went to one of those psychic training schools to see if the kids are actually psychic and at first he was amazed that the children could tell what card he was holding while blindfolded but then he realized they masks were too high on their face so he adjusted it and the children suddenly lost their powers lol had a good laugh reading that

I can’t believe Danny managed to film himself multiplying a purple paper circle with his mind and didn’t even realize

anybody else saw the pillow move when Danny moved his hand at 0:55 👀

I'm non-patronizingly impressed that Danny figured out the air current/body heat thing. Nice

I was convinced as a kid that standing in front of the microwave with my forehead pressed against the glass would give me telekinetic powers. So yeah now I'm 33 just waiting for my brain tumor diagnosis or whatever

People really be using air to push paper and tin foil being like "look guys I moved it with my mind" like girl no you just moved your hand so fast it blew the damn thing over

When they say they encountered these kids I just think of like a Pokémon wild encountered. “A wild freak appeared”

regarding the kids thing: if i went to psychic school and everyone else seemed to be able to see with a blindfold, and i felt like i was the only one who couldn't, and THEN i realized I could kinda peek under it? I would peek under it, and go on assuming i was just a bad student.

Props to Danny for making the car fly just for the thumbnail! Just proves how much effort Danny puts into his content.

As someone who watched RU-vid tutorials on how to turn into a mermaid I respect it

What if all the adults at that school are so certain that telekinesis is a thing and simply won't give up on forcing the children to learn it, that the children came up with a way to fake it just to be left alone? It seems like none of the teachers can do it themselves, but they still insist that anyone can learn it. So maybe the kids just found a way to placate the adults.

The absolute audacity of them having a lie so blatant that it can be debunked by just buying a $14 sleep mask from Amazon is so ridiculous that you almost have to respect it

Oh my GOD. I nearly worked for a fencing academy affiliated with that Utah program. I got hired on as an admin assistant but before I could even fill out the paperwork on my first day, I was required to watch a video on the owners with this old man who founded this "science". It was incredibly culty and gave serious red flags. When the owners asked me what I thought, I gave my honest opinion that its not founded in science and in my quick google search (it was a 40 minute long video), I couldn't find any backing. They argued back that the scientific community could not replicate his findings because only the old man knew how to do it?? I walked out after that, I didn't want to be affiliated with whatever absurd teachings they were doing behind the scenes.

8:40 Nah its because paper is neutrally charged and hands/skin is negatively charged so the paper is attracted to ur hands and the corners paper is pulling towards ur hands causing to spin

Full mouth open shouting "HA HA HA!" at a small piece of paper has killed me.

In all seriousness, TikTok misinformation is kind of a big deal, so thank you for tackling some of it in your own very funny way

I feel the kids could easily believe that they are the only one cheating and the other kids are actually magical.

This is child abuse. This should be made illegal. The parents and "teachers" should be held liable.

When I was a kid I would show everyone my powers to control wind but moving my hands to the wind so it looked like I was moving the trees 😭🤣

I'm lowkey jealous of how fast Danny's hair can grow and how it looks good at every stage

Just imagine how the neighbours would feel about seeing Danny on all fours in front of his house talking to a camera and acting like a baby then turns the other way and stays there for a couple of seconds then starts screaming IM STUCK BETWEEN TIMES. truly an awesome experience to see

the "recommendations" at 20:55 are really funnier if you think about them in relation. i really hope that they just mean that this guy practices mind tricks while fully naked for absolutely no reason, then "got results" so he just starts telling everyone you have to be naked while practicing.

As a kid my parents sent me to one of those mindfold programs (not that exact program but mine had the exact same premise basically) because they thought it would help with my adhd (spoiler alert; it didnt). And i can confirm that me and everyone else cheated by peaking through the blindfold the entire time we were there. Everyone would always put the objects way too close to their face but just ever so slightly below the blindfold

Danny casually doing magic making 2 circles from one and doesn't even know how. Truly a level 100 wizard

I love the fact that Danny is wearing Kurtis’ merch 😭❤️

Frankly I find it really great and thorough that you figured out exactly how that school of 'psychokenesis' kids worked through buying the exact same blindfold.

I learned telekinesis 1 year ago and I sent my best friend to space, haven't seen him since. I think I did a pretty good job.

The evil wizard after turning me into paper: 7:47

Disclaimers are probably there cause they know it doesn't work and neither does using it for an ego boost. Basically saying "don't do this to make yourself feel better cause you'll look like an idiot when it doesn't work"

My favorite type of Danny's content is when he goes to great lengths to see if something he saw on the internet works, it never does but how can you not admire the dedication?

can we talk about how danny risked making a tornado in his living room for this video? round of applause 👏

6:26 actually got me, I gasped and started laughing histerically when I realized that it was the editing and not danny lmao

It's no use. Only Silver The Hedgehog can do Psychokinesis.

Danny buying floral foam and then being disgusted by how crumbly it is is so funny. Welcome to my tactile nightmare, friend.

I love that the explanations for telekinesis are “we are one with the universe, we are connected, so we can manipulative the environment” … like, yeah of course we can manipulate the environment. That’s why I can walk over to an object in my environment and move it by picking it up?

Danny wearing a Kurtis shirt is so real and so wholesome

8:14 Me staring at the spider I just made bite my dad but he didn’t become Spider-Man instead he fell over and began foaming out the mouth then had a seizure.

I'm so glad tiktok wasn't around when my best friend and I were middle school-aged. Our imagination was way too active, and we would look up online how to cast spells, how to become mermaids, you name it. 😂 God we were embarrassing. We would've been all over this telekinesis shit.

i was not expecting danny to be the skeptic and science communicator of this generation but i am so glad that he is, and that he manages to do it in such a funny and non-aggressive way. also he looks adorable in his wizard hat lmao

9:45 DAISY BELL! I love that song!

Hi Gonzalez! I know this comment is going to be buried under the other hundreds, but i just had to say it. That school that had uniforms similar to karate, red-white and logos and everything, that martial art is called Merpati Putih. And... I'm a member of it! You dont know how exciting it is to see a martial art from my country, Indonesia, let alone one that i join, in one of your video! Oh, this is truly unexpected. As for the Merpati Putih, yes, other than the swishy wooshy magic of it, we also learn self-defence. And meditation. So, three hours of practice, one hour of those spent on breathing exercises. I gotta say, one of my favorite exercise of the "telekinesis" (I dont know how to translate it to english, sorry) would be guessing the origami colours. I guess the exercise by our brothers and sisters overseas is more extreme? Cause we certainly couldn't guess the colors that fast. We had to feel around the origamis first (blue feels cold, green feels heavy). I used to always get them right. Unfortunately, school had catched up on me :(. But anyways, even if you dont believe in those kind of things, i had to say that the community has some of the best people i have ever met. We have a teacher that is strict during class, but very kind after the hour is over. A senior that show magic tricks to the kids when the teachers arent looking, a friend that passionately talks about her favorite books while we were sparring, and a kid who cant stop making capcut edits everytime she made a new friend. I gotta say, spending my after-school hours with them in the park, our eyes closed, trying to arrange our breathing back to normal after running 700 meters, feeling the cool night wind greeting us, is something that cant be recreated. That, and also the running frantically to the post when it starts to rain. Erm, sorry for rambling. Told you guys this is coming from my chest ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and i apologize if my sentences are inconvenient, english isnt my first language 😋 thank you for reading this mess of a comment! Xoxo

Fun fact: Psychokinesis is actually the proper term for being able to move something with the mind specifically, while telekinesis is a broad term for any ability to interact with things from a distance without physical means.

Hi Danny, that "karate" school is actually a pencak silat school from Indonesia. It's called Merpati Putih (meaning white dove) which you can see on the logos in their gym and badges. I immediately recognized it because I used to train in that school in Indonesia lol. I'm actually surprised they have a branch in the USA, but I can confirm that the blindfolded stuff is something they make us do because spirituality is a huge component of pencak silat as a martial art. But usually, it's to train your focus, spatial awareness, and hearing. Merpati Putih primarily focuses on self-defense, not to arbitrarily become psychic 😂😂

I thought psychokinesis was an independent thing to telekinesis. I thought the difference was telekinesis you gotta see the object, and psychokinesis you just had to picture it in your mind.

*1:35** NEW TIKTOK DANCE ALERT*

Holy shit, the look Sean gives Rachel's foil at 12:56 is so hilarious. She moved her hands away from the jar and the foil still moves, and he looks like his sanity has just snapped. Man has been doing this for YEARS and this lady not only replicated his result but arguably did it BETTER on her first day! I'm surprised Rachel left that house alive.

This man really does try everything. From making fun of a family with a fridge with the saUces inside, trying tactical products, and now trying to become a wizard.

I have the superpower of fucking up every time I try to succeed.

as a brit, I can confirm that we do indeed go through all of preschool blindfolded to introduce us into telekinesis

It's so funny to see this. There was a door in my house growing up that I knew for certain I could open with my mind. Turns out, it was just an old house and stepping on one of the support beams a certain way caused it to unlatch.

I can just imagine Danny’s neighbours looking over there fence and seeing Danny bending over his front door screaming 😂

i can move most of my body parts with my mind

Did anyone else run into that one "mermaid spell" instruction video that told you to go to the ocean at midnight during a full moon and slowly walk deeper and deeper into the water (while chanting something) until you were fully submerged and trust the process and not come up even if you felt like you were about to pass out? Thankfully i wasn't THAT stupid as a kid but part of me did honestly wonder if it would work if i were just committed enough. Hopefully no one actually tried.

From a magician to a wizard, keep it up Kurtis!

"It actually makes you feel kind of sick" Tsk Tsk, you're breaking the first rule

saying it is easy to make then waving your hand and having that pillow move is a top tier bit. thats what im here for lol.

The heat from your hands thing with the paper and needle that Danny was talking about is 100%. That same concept is why the smoke from a campfire really is following you. There are some great videos about that.

Danny is more consistent than 50% of US marriages

Big shoutout to Danny for opening my eyes to the incredible potential within me. Before watching, the idea of using my mind to move things seemed like pure fantasy. But through his guidance, I've unlocked a skill I never thought possible. This has been a life-changing experience, and I cannot express enough gratitude for the confidence and abilities I've gained. Thank you, Greg, for showing me the true power of belief and focus. Your teachings have truly transformed my perspective and capabilities.

I love how you said they had education documentaries “like the history channel” but with conspiracies instead when the history channel has become full of conspiracy theory “documentaries” too the last few years

PLEASE do one of these "to see if its real" videos on reality shifting. its so fascinating how millions of people think they can do literal magic lmao

i love the needle and paper one because it's literally just basic physics i can't believe anyone thought it was magic

You are so gifted! Thx for the smiles’