My Stupid Meme Saved HUNDREDS of Wasted Monitors 

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I can 100% believe this is the reason people think there's no difference between refresh rates

3:11 LEBRON reportedly mistook SPANISH for FRENCH

I can't fathom buying a thing and not checking if the thing I bought the thing for is actually thinging.

That is why most people "cannot notice above 60fps"

ThioJoe casually saving humanity with a stupid meme is truly a ThioJoe moment of 2024.

4:40 I can't believe how much AI has improved generating text within images!

I did the same thing a few years ago. Got a new T.V., hooked my computer up to it, and ran everything at *30Hz* for like two years before I realized there was a setting to change it.

**Chek monitor settings** _YOOOOOOOOO_

Apparently Windows will recommend 60 hz as a energy saving option

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Same thing goes with color accuracy. Long time ago I met a person who was working as a photo editor, and I noticed some bluish tint she wasn't aware of. It was not a professional grade monitor, but simple adjustments in GPU settings I helped her with, made all reference photos look much more correct to begin with. Later I met another office worker who was using a two-monitor setup, so it didn't even need a trained eye to see that the other screen was very purple, almost like green color signal was running on half strength. Windows built-in calibration tool fixed mostly that as well, to much tolerable level. Both were like, omg it looks so much better now. Edit: And yes, the monitor's own adjustments should always be checked first.

I'm wondering what percentage of people claimed that they see a clear difference between monitors with different refresh rates, while using 60 hertz everywhere.

This must be how you get those people who insist you can't see the difference between 60 and 120.

0:51 That one sent me back. People dont have to hand-delete these META-INF folders anymore, but this used to be required with very old mod loaders back in like 2012-2014

Thousands of video essays are still coming about this exact same thing lol.

Yeah, some "experts" saying 240Hz is not so much smoother than 60Hz might be informed now.

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Great vid. One of my Hp UHD monitors was defaulted at 59.85 Hz. I actually saw its higher settings under Settings / System / Display / Advanced Display Settings, but most devices are now smart enough to recommend optimal settings, so I assumed it was correct (even though I oddly automatically sets a monitor to its highest refresh rate for clients using a gaming system, but that is because the docs for the GPU I am installing for them recommends it). After all, every one of this monitor's other settings have a "(Recommended)" tag on them. As an A+ Certified Computer Technician and still a professional software developer and language designer at almost 70 years old, I love it when I can still learn at least one new thing every day. Thanks for giving me another reason to laugh at myself!

You made a silly meme and people got serious help from it. Sounds about how this channel started 😂

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Love that French guy who commented in Spanish 😂

I hope all these people did further research and understand that now, 60 or 30fps content will not look correct and fluid without also activating VRR/Freesync/Gsync (or picking fixed 120hz instead) Because 144 isn't divisible cleanly by 60 or 30, those framerate won't have proper framepacing, making the motion more stuttery, and a lot of content is 30 fps (youtube) and lots of games at locked to 60fps. To make matter worse Freesync can flicker sometimes on the windows desktop and for some app and rarely some games it's just not gonna work at all. So most monitor let you see on their OSD if the VRR is working properly for whatever content is currently running (the Hz number should slightly randomly change around as it's adjusting the rate dynamically, that's the point of VRR)

It's pronounced gif.

It's not only that. Windows revert it back to 60. Sometimes a new NVidia driver update has the same effect. Not sure why.

So this is how the idea that "high refresh rate doesn't make a difference" originates

What an achievement. Congratulations on making awareness of these problems.

Thanks to your videos I am always keeping up to date to everything that is to know about current software updates and PC tricks. I am so glad I watched this video!

Before flat screens it was even worse as the 60hz default was responsible for countless sick days due to headaches from the 60hz flickering you got on CRT screens...

At least we have copilot on paint

When it comes to Windows, I never assume that everything will work by itself out of the box so whenever I get some new hardware, I always make sure to at least check the settings and see if everything is as it should be.

My man. This just shows that what you do actually helps improve people's lives. Keep on doing you.

It's a Windows or GPU drivers problem, sometimes you update drivers or change other screen options like the resolution and the hz go down to 60. The first time I plugged the PC to my new 4k TV it just looked awful and made me feel sick while playing for a while, Windows defaulted the refresh to 30hz!

Never realised it was a thing! Had my monitor for a year and a half and the refresh rate was on 60hz when I could've had it on 120hz. Thanks for the advice 👍

i love seeing these memes around and the quotes you got lol

3 years..... thank you

I wonder how many stores have all their expensive gaming monitors set to 60

the reaction to how smooth it looks when they finally enable the refresh rate is equally as funny, every time I play 30FPS games on console and back to play on my 280 Hz monitor and everytime I feel the same as these people after the figure it out.

I saw this meme on Instagram once and rushed straight to my settings, fortunately it automatically had it at 144 but this meme seriously is a life saver for some people. Genuinely hilarious how people are finding actual help from this because it could've easily been me.

Just goes to show that memes are an easily digestible, engaging form of communication, and you used it to solve a problem for a lot of people, great work.

My monitor lists 2560x1440@60 as the first mode, followed by 2560x1440@144 and 2560x1440@120. Of course, the actual settings UI sorts them, but maybe Windows just default to the first mode? I'm sure there's some stupid compatibility reason the 60hz one is first.

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I love how 2015 and wholesome Thio's videos feel

I sure love finding out extra functionality, and setting I thought would be fine tuned by default, through silly internet memes. Fun!

It indeed would be nice if manufactures would put in a little note explaining to do this or windows itself could detect it and give a notification asking you if you want to change it

3:09 THATS OOMF

Wow, Joe. I saw the thumbnail and went "A-ha! I already know this and my 75hz monitor is running at full speed!" because I saw the internal FPS counter in Geometry Dash say "75". But then I decided to double check in Windows settings and lo and behold, 60 Hz... Thank you for making this video. I know the difference isn't big, but it is noticeable.

Bruh this meme was so utterly relatable i was using my 144hz laptop for 2 years and only after looking at your meme i realised it was at 60 hz the entire time 😭Lol love the memes and the videos

Freaking had this monitor for like a year and a half without enabling 144hz How come I be all this time with... 240

That is cool and all but what happened to the April Fools videos you always make? 😢

When I replaced my CRT television years ago, the exciting new flat screen didn't look much better. I soon learned that channel 5 was plain old NTSC resolution, and channel 705 was the same content in High Definition.

Nice to see how it wasnt Lebron who told me this but a random teammate I got in Overwatch, been rocking my 144hz for 5 years now and I can say it really does make a difference.

0:53 not META-INF inside custom rom android btw

3:10 BRO SAID FRENCH 3:07 Based

3:11 Also note: The translation of refresh rate here is actually "update frequency" when translated back to English; meaning the frequency of your computer monitor display updating pixels every second.

Hearing him say Jif felt like a flashbang 💀

1:21 endermanch

I could never have heard of this on Twitter before today. Never heard of the meme either. I learned of it, and the meme, on RU-vid just now.

I didn't even knew how to do this, i just learned to change on this with this video thank you Thio

I actually learned about this from another meme video on YT. But I had to set it back to 60 Hz soon after. Having 2 monitors - one at 144 and one at 60 doesn't work well. When you have YT open on one and twitch (for example) open on the other, some "bleed" effects happen - the high refresh rate monitor flickers with frames from the other video and it looks awful. Games I play automatically set the refresh rate to 144 Hz tho, when they are played in fullscreen :P

4:03 THIOJOE SWEARING??!!??!!??!? HOLY MOLY!!!!

Heck, just a few days ago my computer decided "hey what if we dropped the refresh rate from 144 Hz back to 60 Hz" and I immediately noticed how awful scrolling looked and put it back. I really wish Windows (or the graphics driver updates) would stop doing that.

I had it stuck for 3 months. This meme helped me!

“This tweet blew up. But thats not what surprised me.” What a chad

Does changing your refresh rate work in India?

4:53 Mine was set correctly, but I still don't notice a significant difference. I often just set my games to cap at 60fps and bump up the beauty!

Didn't expect to see an Undertale meme with that format, what a pleasant surprise

this makes me so happy

This was a big deal on CRT-based monitors as the flicker of a 60 Hz was unbearable. I never really paid much attention to this on newer monitors.

0:45 Did you just call a GIF a JIF??????

I just learned to do this now so thank you

So my computer's been at 75hz for the past three years. I found this video an hour ago, got curious, and looked up my monitor's refresh rate-160. I swapped it over, and watched more RU-vid, and have IMMEDIATELY noticed how there's no desync between the audio in my headphones and the movements of peoples' lips. I'm a new freaking man after this, thanks for the save!

This meme is the funniest shit I've ever seen

3:10 that's not french lol

That METAINF minecraft meme is golden, i remember deleting that folder so many times

This is so awesome! 😂❤ 144hz is so noticably smooth, I'm really glad these people can finally feel like their imvestment was worth it.

I'm just fine with my 60 Hz. But I remember the times when the refresh rate did matter. It was with CRT types of monitors

The proof most people don't actually NEED more than 60hz on their monitors.

I knew but you got me paranoid and I had to double-check.

I love how Thio went from troll tech help to literal tech help

About importing a GIF into Vegas Pro: For whatever reason, even in the more recent versions, not only does it have a high tendency to be awfully slow at processing animated GIFs but it's also very likely to crash. I last used MVP 17 & had that issue, wouldn't be surprised if they still haven't fixed its GIF compatibility lol

This reminds me of an issue I have with my Windows PC where sometimes it will just reset my monitor's refresh rate back to 60, and it only goes up to 75 but I absolutely notice it and it is frustrating fixing it every time.

I had my first laptop for a few months now and this video of a meme got me to change my settings

I just learned this now after multiple years.

Never happened this to me because: I am a freak that has too much time to enter and read EVERY option posible to change in settings.

I don’t remember precisely how I discovered this, but I think fps counters will show you’re running at the lower rate and troubleshooting that issue is how I learned about this. Still so frustrating. It’s more likely Steam would prompt you than windows of course lol

Sometimes i downgrade the refresh rate down to 60Hz or also down to 30Hz, for example for text documents on an USB monitor, so it does not take too much CPU, to read text on screen there is no need for a high refresh rate. But when i need to do modificatins to the text i set 60Hz (as minimun) on USB monitors... for typing text 30Hz is a pain. Mostly if the monitor is VGA with an USB yo VGA adapter.

When building my first computer, I watched so many videos about things to do/ settings to change on your new PC, and I don't think I would have ever known about it otherwise. You would think that a nearly 40 year old software would have incorporated basic things like automatically selecting monitor refresh rate. When a monitor is advertized at a particular refresh rate, you would think you could just plug it in, and it would use that refresh rate. Same for RAM frequency.

4:33 you could also do something on the osd. I've seen something like that for screen resolution not set correctly

A friend of mine had a similar thing, "Lebron James reortedly forgot to click the type-moon logo tsukihime title screen to unlock bonus scenes", his meme blew up and now it's way more common knowledge. He's still hiding another button since then lol

Just learned about this from this video. 4 years of my monster's potential was waisted.

Once trolled the internet, now he's saving it. Thio's redemption arc has been completed.

This is so real though. I got a 75hz monitor and the first two days I was using it I was like "Huh, this doesn't feel any different." Go into windows settings, monitor, and my refresh rate is set to 60hz instead of 75hz.

This video is the exact reason why after almost a year I finally feel like my quality is good. Holy shit.

this just shows that many people don't really take full advantage of the specs of the gadget they buy. Happens a lot in phones too. You have people buying the latest and greatest over a thousand dollar iphones and samsungs but use it basically for messaging and scrolling social media.

Honestly even knowing about that, I got this situation lmao My monitor reseted to 60hz after an update and took me some time to figure out why I was getting screen tearing and limited to 60fps in games. Not only freesync got turned off but thos setting was also at 60hz

what's wild is these guys would be saying "omg this is so much better than 60hz, I can't go back now"

For the Minecraft one 1:00, this was back in the old days of modding Minecraft. The good old time.

I saw a similar meme about a year ago and also realized my refresh rate was never changed. I went from 60hz to 240 hz and the difference was so crazy that my eyes hurt all week trying to re-adjust.

My second monitor that can only do 60hz is set to 72hz. I couldn't squeeze out any more. My main one was set correctly, because when I got this laptop, the first thing I did was go through everything. But it's definitely noticeable if you compare 60hz to 144hz. Probably with higher refresh rates as well, but I don't have any experience with those.