r/Iamverysmart | only 0.1% of people are this smart 

that moment when Robin, who definitely admits of not being the brightest guy in the room, is actually smarter than anybody who claims to have 42069 IQ in that subreddit curation.

Respect for this guy for being homeless until age 19 and still getting *multiple* college degrees by age 16

An actualy smart person dosen't brag about it as they know the one and only thing it does is make them into jerks

Robin dumb + other people dumb but trying to be smart + emkay video = high quality entertainment

I'm so glad I didn't have social media like it exists today when I was a teen. I most definitely would have been one of those annoying book gatekeepers. It hurts to see what teenage me could have shared. On a more positive note: these are most likely teenagers who will look back in 10 years and be ashamed of the things they said.

Fun fact: in germany "tuna" translates into Thunfisch which literally means "tunafish" if somebody said "Ich möchte Thun essen" nobody would know what they mean lol

I've started using "Explain it to me like I'm 5" unironically because I have moments where I will know something, but it's so far back in my memory that the explanation helps jumpstart my ability to be smart. Or I'll learn something. Either way, it's a phrase that, if used correctly, can be very helpful for both parties.

I picture Robin saying "I'm going home" only to close out the recording program, stand up and yell to his gf sitting 10 ft away "OH, HONEY, IM BACK FROM THE OFFICE!"

I know the line was probably 'never enter a battle of wits with a Sicilian' - a reference to the Princess Bride - but Robin's pronounciation turned it into 'caecilian', and I don't know if that was intentional or not but I am giggling about the idea of trying to argue with a tiny worm-like amphibian.

As someone in the mental health field, compulsive liars are some of the worst people I have ever had as patients. They refuse treatment, blame it on something insignificant (such as the place they are getting treated at) and refuse treatment all the way up to the time the court said they were required to stay or the two weeks is up and they can and will make multiple various complaints to hire ups about them not getting treatment but when referred to notes, voice recordings and supervised visits they are proven wrong. I work at a drug center as an LCDC, aside from narcissists, compulsive liars are some of the worst patients. Especially when they're there due to a CPS case that involves very very young kids. Though patients lying isn't uncommon in my field, you get lies that range from "I'm a therapist myself." To "I'm in the army and I can have you killed." Compulsive liars are the terrifying part of my job due to just how unpredictable they are and admittedly before getting my certification I was almost positive a compulsive liar is someone that would be on the lower tier of dangerous people, boy was I wrong.

5:27 my IQ is 80, that's twenty below average and I'm Autistic but I still got all A's in math and science. I'm a Herpetologist now and mainly study wild snakes in the area and some times submit my findings to our local Nature Center. IQ doesn't matter as much as some people think it does.

I like how that guy in Q&A section misunderstood 'astronomy' and 'astrology'. Didn't know that in order to juggle tarot cards you need to have a PhD

As I've said before, this subreddit just screams "No one cares" energy and I'm loving it.

The dunning-kruger effect is strong with many of these. Although some, I think, were meant to be tongue-in-cheek jokes, others are just super insecure.

I am a self proclaimed bibliophile... That does not mean I read "smart people" literature, like only classic stuff. Honestly had no real interest in classical literature aside from Oscar Wilde. A bibliophile is someone who just loves books, which I do. Books make me happy. That's what that word means!

The whole "how did you study question" is one i get a lot too. or more like "how long did you study" when i was taking my bachelours, and my awnser was always "like 10 min right before the test". I than always had to explain that the whole 30 person class had like 2 people that actually payed attention to the teachers during the lectures and neither of us rly studied outside of class

I get the feeling Robin is a looooot smarter than he lets on

Actual science boys and gals are pretty humble creatures because their jobs require having a network of people you can ask to explain stuff to you because you can only really become a expert on a tiny slice of a tiny slice of science, so behaviour like this would just lead to you being cut off and incapable of doing work because you'd stumble on a problem your toolkit can't help you solve and have no one to ask for help because you basically antagonized anyone willing to help you.

This video just makes me think of the old mantra, “never argue with an idiot, they’ll just bring you down to their level” and also the word “Sesquipedalian” since its the word for people who use large words unnecessarily

It's been five minutes and I give up. This subreddit is so terrible that I almost wish the covid I'm currently going through will develop a completely new symptom and erase this video from my memory. I'm very very glad that there are many amazing other EmKay-videos that will cheer me up again :D

You know, there was this kid at my high school who was kinda a douche. He insisted he was so smart, and apparently tried to sign up for the mensa magazine (the smart people thing), but accidentally signed up for men's swimwear magazine. I imagine all these people are like that. He was also super into anime, but in the stereotypical bad way. He was like the picture of classically annoying internet guy.

8:11 the highest iq ever recorded is 263. Makes sense that this person would think their iq is 298, they probably misread 29.8

You know, my optometrist told me that the reason I have have blurry vision isn't because my eyes don't work, but because I have weak eye muscles so they don't focus together very well. This is relevant because these posts made me roll my eyes so hard I think they're going to develop six-packs. Thanks "smart" people for correcting my vision! And I didn't even get past the first 10 minutes!

I’m terrified of coming off like that. I speak like an old man, and am obsessed with rare fish. It’s random crap that I love, and I fear it makes me sound like a jerk. On that note, hilarious video, good job!

My biggest nightmare is saying something dumb and being put onto a subreddit like this

That one about that vanity plate has me visualising Robin with a top hat and monocle as he reads it.

9:20 this had me laughing “Are you *ASKING* if you have a PhD in astrophysisicisisiphisis?”

I hate when people ask me "what are you doing to my car?" I'm stealing your catalytic converter so i can sell it to buy crack. Don't waste my time with such feeble minded questions. It's rude.

Ohh gosh this is going to be fun! This subreddit is crazy EmKay, y’all rock🎉❤

For some reason when Robin mispronunces a word and then tells us he did it on purpose because, "I'm trying to be funny" it always makes me laugh.

''The ability to speak does not make you intelligent." And yet, these people are "answering" to others in the longest way possible.

My brother started learning C++ when he was around 14 or so. He is actually pretty smart and he's still learning C++ 28 years later. Oh yeah, he's a programmer who programs in C++.

Me so smart, me go to place and brag about it, must use big word to sound smart, me am best. There we go I summed the whole video for you.

I am very smart and nobody can tell me otherwise. Posted by a person who has set themselves on fire twice Let me just add I was using flint and steel.... striking it on my pant leg..... Like a moro- I mean genius. Side note: Also just saw the post about Philly dude has obviously has not been in Philly long enough we are mentally insane here.

I listened to this knowing it would make my head hurt hearing what these people wrote, but I always love hearing Robin's responses because they honestly make sense.

I can assure you that at least one person that is featured on the r/iamverysmart subreddit(person A) agreed with someone when the person B said person A belongs on the subreddit because person A thought it was a subreddit for smart people. Only for them to realize that the subreddit features people who tried to make themselves seem smart and being very obvious that they are not that smart.

0:28 It has happened to me in maths. I accidentally ‘invented’ a theory that we learned in grade 7.

“when i was seven i could already read highly difficult literature, identify every element on the periodic table, speak fifteen languages, play ten instruments, and i made a very complex video game”

So, I actually am in a lot of ap classes (going to be a senior in high school), and it has taken a huge mental toll on me because my parents are always pushing me to “be better” and “work harder” when I already get low A’s and high B’s. If these people actually *were* as smart as they say they are, I highly doubt they would brag about it on the internet. Hell, this is the first time I’ve mentioned this on the internet. Being smart isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, for me at least, it has lead to me developing depression and anxiety (both professionally diagnosed). Think before you type, people, and don’t brag about shit you don’t know about ❤

Thank you EmKay for making my day better

At 7:47 - “I got AN simple office job” ….I call bs that he’s as much of a genius as he says with grammar like that. 😁

Like, I am smart (not by a lot but enough to get onto a PhD program) but these conversations make me feel dumber and dumber by the minute. Not because they are smarter than me, but because they are the google translate of "intelligence"

0:29 I'd believe that one actually because that shit happens to ME. Like I had this idea that the reason why you appear to shrink as you approach the speed of light is because you only have a maximum possible speed through space-time. As you travel faster through space, you do so by changing your direction from moving full speed towards the future, to moving full speed towards another direction in space....which causes you to lose speed in the direction of time. And as a result of turning to face a dimension we can't normally see, your body appears to become compressed in the direction of your motion. Similar to how if you pick up a playing card, say a Jack, and start to turn the card sideways, the character appears to become compressed, until it disappears entirely as you're looking at the straight edge of the card. Aaaaaaand come to find out that's exactly what happens. Just with a lot of math to back it up, so it doesn't sound like a pot-fueled shower thought.

this subreddit is more bearable if you imagine eric cartman saying this

These people got a word-a-day calendar once and they’re making it everyone else’s problem

It's really sad that lots of people with high IQ (granted they really do have high IQ) just cannot apply it to not post such BS and really do something useful for society. Also, 2+ standard deviations can be reached in both directions from the mean, so the joke's on them. 6:24 it's Poincaré, a French scientist's last name.

logan paul's paper on the universe genuinely looks like the rants i would write in my notebook when i had psychotic episodes.

As a test tube goblin with missing arms and 2 spleens, I feel superior to all beings.

Challenge: Try not to cringe or get annoyed. Im impressed to those who can watch the whole video without cringing by these "high IQ" individuals. Yall deserve good fortune

19:37 - the misspelling of soupçon is perfect! 😂

Watching Robin rant to a quora question that is most likely a troll, or written by an AI is the highlight of my day.

I was born waaay back in 1979…we grew up/were taught that the “ATM” is a “MAC” machine. I haven’t heard anyone, even a “boomer”, say “MAC” in many moons. Fun Facts: We called it that because they used to all have a little multi colored stripe on their sign with the letters M A C largely printed and backlit.

3:36 the highest score on the asvab is 99. You also wouldn't take them multiple times unless you failed and they really need the new recruits.

This subreddit should be called "r/thesaurusasaurus rex spotting"

2:55 I also live in Philly and that guy will most likely get shanked if he actually says that to someone

I think we should all start saying "chicken bird" just to piss that guy off. 🤣🤣

the michael jackson HEE's before you say something bad kills me. Not making fun of MJ big fan myself but this is gold!

There have been a _couple_ tines where I've accidently created a math formula/theorem that already exists, but generally they're pretty basic and simple ones

17:25 makes more sense if you read it like an evil supervillain.

9:12 he’s asking himself because he knows nobody else will

When I click on an EmKay video and the very first thing I see is a Princess Bride reference, I have reached peak happiness for the week

You can always trust on stupid people to endlessly talk and boast about how smart they are. Intelligence also shows in knowing when to keep quiet

The only person who is smart here is Robin, he can see through their lies.

Can we all appreciate the fact that the dude at 0:50 describes almost EXACTLY what he himself was doing? Sure we don't know the context but it was funny to me lmao

Reminds me of a line from the song Carry On Wayward Son that says ‘if I claim to be a wise man it surely means that I don’t know’ lol

MORAL TURPITUDE! Ahhhhhhh that takes me back 🤣

I swear these types of people would rattle their own echo chambers with how delusional they are

logan paul's "finguring out the universe" just looks like the notes i would take in science class in my freshman year of high school

30:29 to be fair to the poster, it’s a common joke among online autistic and ADHD communities that we can be totally incomprehensible, especially to neurotypical people, when talking about our special interests, because we use sciencey jargon or fake fandom words or whatever. this post is probably excessively obtuse on purpose as a joke about it.

10:18 Car faster than horse, Car doesnt die from hunger. Now i'm just imagining a world where everyone still uses a horse and instead of scarpyards you just have mountains of dead horses. Your horse malfunctions. To the horse meat pile it goes.

Thank you Robin, keeps me laughing

24:17 that sigh sums up the whole video.

Actual smart people don’t go online to yell at people about how smart they are.

Fun game: Every time they say something "Smart" take a shot! Or, if you want a more fun version: Play an *_[EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]_*

3:56 a GED is for someone who never properly completed high school, so good for him I guess. ASVQB scores are measured in percentiles, so good job being worse than 120 out of 100 people. The president thing is just a fancy way of saying 95 GPA on a 100 point scale, it isn't possible to earn "multiple degrees by age 16" (not with a 164 IQ, at least. Try >350) Edit: My bad, he said _line_ scores for the ASVAB. Basically, the ASVAB is a military test in the US for certain jobs, I'm not gonna get into it, but the line scores basically add together 2 testing categories to see how well you would fit in a certain job, so 120s in those categories would be 60s in the subcategories, putting him in the low-to-mid 90s for percentiles. Also, I got it backwards, obviously 120s percentiles would be better than 120 out of 100 people, not worse. This is not a significant achievement considering that I, probably the 20-30th smartest person in my ~800 person school, got a 99th percentile in 7/11 categories, and many kids got that in more. Basically high scores in the AS(S)VAB mean jack shit. Unless you're going into the military.

The best part is the flubbing up of the word thesaurus in different ways

My Favorited thing about the vanity plate one. Is the fact that they apparently think horses would offended by some dude driving an asshole car with such a plate, like he was shaming their brethren.

19:17 dude constantly has a thesaurus with him to sound smart

5:36 this exact theory was on futurama. not the specifics on HOW exactly, but in one of the episodes, fry, bender and the professor time travel until the end of the universe. after every planet and star die and every atom disappears, it repeats identically, except apparently everything is a foot to the right.

Alternate title: Robin gets increasingly more annoyed for 35 minite.

i was skipped ahead a grade at one point and even I'M not this full of myself 💀

2:05 "value my time more" typical Karen quote.

The very first line is PURE GOLD

It's like that Game Of Thrones quote, "Anyone who has to say that they are King, is not the true king." The same can be said about these guys or Nice Guys ®.

I remember years ago, I use to be on Deviantart. I went on the forums a few times and it was never a surprise to see a battle of the higher IQ and who can use the thesaurus the best. Someone asked for book recommendations for summer reading and lots just said they read the dictionary. Ok.

29:02 - a "prodigal mind". Did his mind go away, squander its inheritance on booze, gambling and prostitutes and then came back to him? Did he kill the fatted calf when it returned?

I am happy that robin and the background came back fine Hope you are fine Robin ❤❤

16:34 the whole ‘reading harry potter before you turned 12’ thing is actually pretty funny and accurate. I myself read the harry potter books before I turned 12, but I dont use that to brag about ‘how smort i is’, because like- that wasnt uncommon. I usually use it as a way to laugh at myself and how obsessed I was with the series. Anyone who tries to use ‘i read harry potter’ as an argument come off as smart is so silly. Like, wow, you read an engaging story thats meant to be fun- and you had fun? Shocker.

"Did you smoke *Hee!*?" I didn't know Michael Jackson's "Hee-Hee" Became slang for weed, LOL.

These people for sure watched the first season of Big Bang Theory

A truly smart person can explain stuff in a simple manner which others can understand. If you can't explain a subject in a simpler form then you probably don't understand that subject as much as you think. This is why anyone who insult others intelligence for not understanding their subject is probably does not understand it fully themselves. In short never tell someone they are to stupid to understand as it usually just means you lack the knowledge to explain. Best way to see if someone is truly smart is to act dumb and try to get them to explain something to you

Paradigm… I def sounded that out, thanks for teaching me the real way to say it.

this physically hurt's my head.

Diese Videos bringen mich immer wieder zum Lachen

21:45 Guys like this needs to be shown "The Social Network". One quote in that movie absolutely nails their lack of self-awareness.

It took me one whole minute to realize the kid on the thumbnail tried spelling, "grammar." I thought he meant "gamer" or "grandma." 💀

The equivalent of"Who tf asked? That's right! No one! Because as far as I know, people who are actually intelligent, don't brag about it!"

20:02 purveyors of the profane is officially my new band name. Thanks reddit

Gosh darnit I need to know what that "vanity something-something" number plate was!

6:57 to be fair, that’s basically all of philosophy. Just ask Descartes.