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@andrewrodgers8596 8 месяцев назад

If 2020 is one of the worst years in human history, humanity clearly hasn't had it as bad as I thought.

@josephaxler492 Месяц назад

What a unique way of saying nothing happened to me so it can’t be that bad

@otgenesis7410 2 года назад

Once again the fact is obvious- *the past was the worst*

@angeloguap6174 2 года назад

Definitely people living to 40 was a long life people were hoping just to grow enough food to survive another year now America throws away billions pounds of food away every year

@lc7ineo 2 года назад

The future: hold my super volcano and solar flare!

@asa9528 2 года назад

existing is the worst if we’re being honest regardless of the time lol

@otgenesis7410 2 года назад

Those are wise words indeed

@bigredc222 2 года назад

@@angeloguap6174 I read something recently that said lots of people lived well into old age, it's just that so many babies died at birth or in their first year, it reduces the average life span.

@brrrayday 2 года назад

What makes 2020 so terrible isn't in the pain it directly inflicted, but rather the stage it has set for the future

@Aeonshield 2 года назад

More like Bezos

@Jen39x 2 года назад

I agree I think it will be a turning point in history; I thought it was interesting the times climate changed thinking so maybe they will call it 2021 in future

@angryatheist 2 года назад

2020 was the best year ever, funnily enough it was one of the years with the lowest death rate ever

@callumfraser4645 2 года назад

That represents 2016 more

@PantheraOnca60 2 года назад

2020?? That was a love tap.

@prudencepineapple9448 2 года назад

"Bring out your dead, bring out your dead!" Monty Python

@CommodoreFloopjack78 2 года назад

"I'm not dead yet!" "Well, you will be soon!" "I feel happyyyyyyy!" THUNK

@OldNew45 2 года назад

I hope there never comes a day when people can't readily identify that quote.

@jennw612 2 года назад

I don’t want to go on the cart! Oh don’t be such a baby 😂

@OC-CPA 2 года назад

@@OldNew45 All people or any people? There has never been a year that all people could readily identify that quote. And someday, no people will be able to identify that quote.

@OldNew45 2 года назад

@@OC-CPA Any people, of course.

@eweccah.k.9996 2 года назад

Me in 2020: At least it isn't 1918. This video: Worst years in human history. #6 - 1918, #4 - 2020.

@whaleymom76 2 года назад

Probably has to do with the death toll (in percentage with adjustments made to equalize the populations) is higher this time and the cascading effects have not even really begun to be calculated ot felt. (As someone living in America currently. I would also like to add the violent near-destruction of our government, the lingering effects of a rising neo-Nazi faction in our country, and a series of the deadliest mass shootings in American history, and now the wholesale slaughter of Ukrainians to the list of unmitigated joys of the 2020s.)

@paulie9483 Месяц назад

@@whaleymom76this is wildly inaccurate. The Spanish flu killed 50 million out of less than a 2 billion world population. Those included otherwise healthy people in their 20s & 30s. Covid killed 7 million out of almost 8 billion, mostly elderly or those with comorbidities. Not to mention the hyperbolic political statements at the end of your post.

@jamesp4132 2 года назад

I think Oliver Cromwell wiping out 40% of the Irish population had alot to do with those numbers you quoted Simon.

@Kevan808 2 года назад

Well that was a jolly cheerful video!

@landofalwayswinter666 2 года назад

Then don't watch. Problem solved.

@tiffinyharrington9307 2 года назад

All of my grandparents were born or toddlers during 1918’s Spanish Flu pandemic. They grew up during the Depression and my maternal grandfather volunteered for the Navy, leaving my grandmother and their twin daughters, born in 1941, and my grandmother was pregnant with my mother, born in 1945. My mother and father both come from very poor Irish immigrants- my mother’s side were from Strokestown, County Roscommon, one of the worst suffering during the Famine. My mother died in 2021 and two grandchildren were born in 2021. Life goes on, through pandemics, wars, economic depressions. Nothing lasts forever, even really crap years that seem to bring out the worst in humanity.

@patrickmccurry1563 2 года назад

Literally survivor bias. It should be obvious that there won't be anyone alive to talk about how fragile life is after it ends.

@JohnnyWednesday 2 года назад

The worst day in human history? will not be reported on.

@Eggmanrocks 2 года назад

Trump wins 2024 be the worst

@theg.c.142 2 года назад

@@Eggmanrocks gonna scream at the sky again? Lemme get some 🍿 ready.......TDS is hilarious.

@a_can_of_soda 2 года назад

@@theg.c.142 At least the Democrats didn't attack the Capitol due to an election not going their way. Biden Derangement Syndrome is hilarious.

@Bubbaist 2 года назад

Looks like the Great Depression has been surpassed. I hear that the horrendous depression in Lebanon right now is the worst depression since the 19th century, according to the IMF.

@mackenziedrake 2 года назад

But has it gone global?

@d.c.8828 2 года назад

@@mackenziedrake Yes, but the elite don't want to admit it yet.

@annaturgeon83 2 года назад

Catching this one early on! Love the content !

@theodoretekkers 2 года назад

The past holds a lot of regrets and worse but it’s up to us to make the future better. Mainly to learn from our past mistakes. Especially, not repeating the past.

@patricko9170 2 года назад

Well....we're screwed.

@ThomasCallahanJr 2 года назад

Yeah, except that’s literally all we do. People actually believe communism will still work.

@lonnieclifton8307 2 года назад

only problem is that people these days would rather fight than work together to solve problems.

@tanyaknox2263 2 года назад

Well said!

@elirothblatt5602 2 года назад

Another high quality video. I thank you! 🙏

@JuliaHarrisx 2 года назад

Absolutely fascinating!

@toaga8358 2 года назад

Great list! Amazed the year 536 didn't make number 1 though

@owenshebbeare2999 2 года назад

It did.

@RByrne 2 года назад

@@owenshebbeare2999 it was #7

@WayneKitching 2 года назад

Agreed. It was much worse than 2020.

@MrJjones543 2 года назад

You know I really love when Simon puts out these super cheerful videos. Really makes my day. Really it's hard to think of something more cheerful than this video

@vanrozay8871 2 года назад

who made you watch it?

@landofalwayswinter666 2 года назад

Then don't watch it? Its not like the title was misleading, I don't understand what you're bitching about.

@MrJjones543 2 года назад

@@landofalwayswinter666 you must be from one of those places where everyone is serious and jokes aren't made, like Finland, Vietnam, or Rotherham. I was being snarky.

@MrJjones543 2 года назад

@@vanrozay8871 I was being snarky. Now, go purchase yourself a sense of humor. They're on sale.

@chimp4225 7 месяцев назад

@@MrJjones543that’s so funny I forgot to laugh

@davidlucey1311 8 месяцев назад

This video made me grateful to be alive today and not during the periods described, except for 2020. It also depressed the hell out of me 😢

@margaretfiester3689 8 месяцев назад

This is positively cheerful compared to some of dark rabbit holes to hell I have found myself in lately. I should learn that Warning - Graphic Content is actually a warning that I'm about to view something vile.

@anyawillowfan 2 года назад

'We've come along way since war and famine' in some parts of the world (unfortunately much of the world is still struggling with famine and war among other things).

@patrickmccurry1563 2 года назад

Yeah, this video was a bit Eurocentric. There have been arguably worse ecological disasters in other regions of the globe. The one knocking out the great Mayan empire, for just one example.

@chrysoz9031 Год назад

@@patrickmccurry1563 I agree, at least 3 of the years only affected the European population of the world

@raptorfromthe6ix833 Год назад

we have not only have enough food to feed entire worlds population and nations not only are far more diplomatic than before but they are also organizations that make sure wars arent as they destructive as they were in the past

@ram2412 2 года назад

Another great list!

@twocvbloke 2 года назад

If only people would look to the past to prevent repeats in the future...

@btetschner 2 года назад

Excellent. Thank you for the video.

@btetschner 2 года назад

I am just starting to watch the video....I have always thought Simon has made great videos but recently he is just killin' it! The videos I have watched recently are just so high in quality.

@jphhilpott26 2 года назад

No mention of the Australian wildfires for the 2020 entry? Why?

@michaelpipkin9942 2 года назад

That's one of the first things I thought of when I saw this video. Weird, huh.

@callumfraser4645 2 года назад

America have forest fires all the time and they don’t hate years because of it

@wilting_alocasia 2 года назад

I can hardly cope with this pandemic, can't imagine coming out of a war and being thrown into the depths of the Spanish Flu!

@donaldwert7137 2 года назад

It's almost like the planet keeps trying to throw off an infection, it's just that the infecting organism is so darned resilient.

@overdose247 2 года назад

That infection is us!

@donaldwert7137 2 года назад

@@overdose247 When you look at what we've done to the biosphere, the parallel is almost inescapable.

@mgtowdadYouTubeSucksCoxks 2 года назад

There are people right now who don't understand that the only better day to be alive than today, is tomorrow.

@charliescene786 2 года назад

Unless tomorrow is a mass nuclear war. Then I'd be satisfied with now.

@rnedlo9909 2 года назад

In India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and much of Africa tens of millions of people have died/will die without ever being counted.

@wmlukepriest8012 2 года назад

What an excellent video for perspective in the scope of human suffering. To riff off of one of Simon’s most loved quotes, “the present is the best.“

@Jesusholmes64 2 года назад

1492 , you forgot that Columbus brought back Syphilis to Europe from Cuba too lol

@Tommy-5684 2 года назад

that may not be true as archological evidence from a friery in Hull showed that bones dating to 1475 may have had the desese

@emmarichardson965 2 года назад

@@Tommy-5684 I recall watching a documentary about some skeletons found in Pompeii that showed signs of congenital syphilis too.

@Tommy-5684 2 года назад

@@emmarichardson965 i think those monks was confermed as far as im aware but it still sugests it may have been in the old world prior to the descovey of the new.

@whaleymom76 2 года назад

That is actually debated now because there are archeological and historic records that pre-date Columbus' flipping adventure that indicate the disease already existed in Europe and the surrounds. I think there was even reference to a similar disease in either ancient Greece or Babylonia.

@reggiep75 2 года назад

01:27 - That kid, having a mammary meal, looks pretty damn strong for starving. 😂 I had to google the pic in question and he looks like a little bodybuilder!

@emarm100 2 года назад

I cannot believe how fast he is talking!

@squishtheprodigalson9298 2 года назад

“Cocaine is a hell of a drug” -Rick James

@i-am-evil-morty6710 2 года назад

I can't believe how slow he is listening!

@johno30197 2 года назад

@@i-am-evil-morty6710 doesn't make sense lad..give up..

@markthetrois420 2 года назад

When you ask factboy what that mouth do

@christineparis5607 2 года назад

You should hear the narrator for DARK 5. He talks like he has 30 seconds to finish because he's in front of a firing squad. I had to stop listening to him because his hysterical, breathless delivery in an auctioneer's speed gave me an anxiety attack, no matter how interested I was in the subject...I always wonder if channel operators have ever heard of timing and pausing to build suspense and give people time to react to what they are hearing...

@mringram 2 года назад

Informative

@duanemartin7742 2 года назад

Great Video as always.! We love black plague and North Korea as well for a subject matter. Also Chernobyl. But (yes it's alright to start a sentence with a conjunction now) being a yank we never really learned about Prohibition. Obviously they made alcohol illegal. Some say it was started by the LDS church..? Would make a cool video. Thank you for doing what you do!

@whaleymom76 2 года назад

FTR, according to the currently accepted modern history records, Prohibition was the end result of what began as the Temperance Movement in the mid-1800s (This time period is specific to America. There were various Temperance movements in various countries over the span of centuries. I only use the American timeline because Prohibition, the Volstead Act-this is the actual name of the law that detailed the specific restrictions during Prohibition, and the rise of wide spread, large scale, organized crime on a national level that was spawned by Prohibition are laws and situations specific to America in this time period. As an amusing side note, in an interesting nugget of timing, cocaine was removed from Coca-Cola about 6 months before the Stock Market crashed. I can't prove causation, but...

@ravenhill_the_cryptic_of_1968 2 года назад

great video.

@Wump4Fruit 2 года назад

What year was Mark Zuckerberg Born? That’s gotta be on the list 🤔

@mgtowdadYouTubeSucksCoxks 2 года назад

Born or hatched?

@leemarie414 2 года назад

I approve this message.

@knifetex 2 года назад

Appropriately enough, he was born in the year 1984.

@Erin-Thor 2 года назад

Let’s not forget Trumps BD.

@ericwarmath1091 2 года назад

Lets go zuckerberg!

@btetschner 2 года назад

I graduated elementary school in 1992 and I remember that we recognized it as the 500th anniversary of Columbus's journey.

@TheBruceKeller 2 года назад

Not to downplay global warming too much, but it's interesting that almost all the worst times ever coincided with cooling and more ice.

@brianfergel2229 2 года назад

That's nature saying, "chill out!"

@maconp1119 2 года назад

Climate change is real. Man made? No.

@brianfergel2229 2 года назад

@@maconp1119 Remember when Al Gore was convinced that Global Warming would soon kill us all? Now we're experiencing the opposite. That short stint of Global Warming (around 2004ish) was in preparation for the Global COOLING we're now experiencing.

@brianfergel2229 2 года назад

@@maconp1119 Also, look into HAARP. There's where to find some man-made weather & hurricanes & tornadoes.

@GrrMeister 2 года назад

*I am not for one minute disputing 'Climate Change/Global Warming' but would contest strongly that is is not caused by Humans, but a natural cycle that has occured over Millions of Years. Where I am sitting now [Midlands UK] a mere 12,000 Years ago was under ½ mile thick Ice Sheet. I kid you not Mammoth Lake nearby. All these **_Measures_** proposed to Halt or Reverse it are pathetic and will not make the slightest difference' The most stupid of all is halting what are now very efficient clean ICE Cars and replacing them with Dirty Electric that only the most wealthy can afford initially and have off road/Garage parking to enable them to recharge overnight (for a full recharge up to several days) Quite honestly I see this as a way to Tax the average person for the benefit of the wealthy who running an EV pay no Road Tax/Fuel Tax and even get a Government Grant when purchasing one. There is a £34 Billion Black Hole set to appear in the future and I dread the future for our Children/Grandchildren after the gigantic **-astronomical-** costs Covid19 has caused. Wait until 98% efficient Gas Boilers are prohibited and have to spend £15-20k on a Heat pump that is most **-useless-** inefficient in the Winter [cold] Months when little or no Solar Power and on a still day Zero Wind Power. Nuclear Fission may be the answer but until that time Quote "UK Government Advisor {Allegra Stratton} on Global Warming will continue using my elderly VW Diesel - say no more !*

@CurrieNerd 2 года назад

"The 10 Worst Years in Human History" *So Far*

@Your.Uncle.AngMoh 2 года назад

When was this filmed? Three days after this was posted on YT, the listed number of infections is a quarter milliard and fatalities have topped five million.

@joelb8653 2 года назад

I think you did all whole video on 536. Wish I could remember which one of your channels it was on.

@sandybarnes887 2 года назад

It was called, "536. The worst year ever." Sideprojects. 2 months ago.

@joelb8653 2 года назад

@@sandybarnes887 thank you.

@sandybarnes887 2 года назад

@@joelb8653 you are most welcome. I'm glad I could help 😌

@whaleymom76 2 года назад

It was also covered on the channel Weird History. The name of the episode is "536: The Worst Year to Be Alive".

@EmmaAppleBerry 2 года назад

Now that youve made this video the universe is gonna laugh and give us a ten year long ww3 or some bs.

@whaleymom76 2 года назад

How prescient of you. We certainly seem to be working on that plan now. 🤔

@makouras 2 года назад

"give 2018 a break..." How ironic

@multiyapples 2 года назад

My heart goes out to those affected in the years mentioned.

@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 2 года назад

Yeah I'm sure the ones that died decades or centuries ago appreciate it /sarcasm.

@joeyr7294 2 года назад

The gene variant Delta32 that fights off plague and HIV would be a interesting vid for one of your many channels lol

@medusagorgo5146 2 года назад

Yes that would be interesting.

@chriscostello117 2 года назад

As I'm watching this the ' Absolute Craziest Stories from the Bible ' Brain Blaze just dropped. Wtf have you been up to Simon?..lol

@epkesel 2 года назад

"The past was the worst" - Simon Whistler

@juliaelrod2154 2 года назад

In the 80s I lived in Montana on a cattle ranch. Out of nowhere, it decided to snow in the middle of summer. It was crazy. Nobody had feed for their cattle as they were in a grazing season. We had a large enough ranch that we didn't really see to many losses. We had enough feed to hold us over. But other ranches didn't fair so well. It really drove home for me how fragile our food chain and supply system really is. We lose our agriculture. We lose everything.

@celticlass8573 2 года назад

Thank you for including 1492 in this list Simon. It's so important that people realize history is written by the victors, and that Columbus "discovering" the American continent should never be celebrated in any form.

@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 2 года назад

I love death and destruction, That should be a global holiday like WW1-3 or any other bad year.

@alyssinwilliams4570 2 года назад

conquest of the americas

@whaleymom76 2 года назад

When discussing the contributing factors to the devastation of the Great Depression, you can't overlook the Dust Bowl and mass migration that happened right before the Stock Market crashed. It added a severe food shortage and huge unemployment rates as existing crises when the Stock Market crashed.

@MrBrunoUSA 2 года назад

The Bubonic Plague is still a thing. There were two casses of it in Santa Fe in 2019 and there was a lady in Albuquerque who died of it in 2017.

@whaleymom76 2 года назад

The difference is now we have effective medicine to treat it (which is why it doesn't really present a large concern as a pandemic pathogen).

@philpallot4654 2 года назад

2020, you're having a laugh.

@AnimalLover-is2fc 2 года назад

1929 shouldn't be that high but just goes to show you how much we rely on money, actually sounds really sad to me.

@josemiguelfernandezdemarti7799 2 года назад

1945 should have made the list! The only two nuclear weapons used in war were the most atrocious attack in history.

@jonnunn4196 2 года назад

Japan lost far fewer civilians to the 2 bombs than an additional nine months of conventional bombing (including firebombing) + the major invasion (code name: Operation Downfall for the entire operation; subdivided into Operation Olympic planned to start Nov '45 and Operation Coronet in early '46 but would have been delayed by a typhoon.) For reference see the firebombing of Dresden in February 1945 and of Tokyo in March 1945 with conventional high explosive bombs.

@josemiguelfernandezdemarti7799 2 года назад

@@jonnunn4196 That does not make it fair by any means. The people that died were civilians.

@Dank-gb6jn 2 года назад

2021: massive inflation, horrendous government overreach, mass government incompetence, supply chain crises; and deadly viruses.

@ralfrudiger7276 2 года назад

''deadly virus'' yeah are you sure about that?

@theg.c.142 2 года назад

Missing 2019.....before the commies came in and 💩 on everything.

@a_can_of_soda 2 года назад

Government overreach has been a problem ever since the "Patriot" Act was implemented in 2001.

@Dank-gb6jn 2 года назад

@@a_can_of_soda I won’t disagree with you there. It just seems that over the past three Presidents, it’s gotten worse. Especially with the current one.

@Dank-gb6jn 2 года назад

@@theg.c.142 I didn’t miss it, it’s hard NOT to. I just didn’t want to create a long diatribe.

@bryanmcdonald4351 2 года назад

July 4th, 1997, my friend showed up to the part with a keg of near beer

@cl7510 2 года назад

Hope he wasn’t ever put in charge of getting beer again. My condolences.

@grumpyguy2877 2 года назад

Ouch!! 😧😮😲

@daverobe123 2 года назад

Maybe 2020 could be put at number 9 or 10 on this list of the worst years in history (that we know of) and then it can count down to number 1.

@stuartronald9785 2 года назад

The ten worst years in human history.... 2020-2021.

@christineparis5607 2 года назад

@Philip Greenwald Agree! People always think that the worst years are the ones they personally experience, which is understandable, but we have a much better structure for propping up society now than the turn of the century era even, where there weren't the social services, doctors, insurance agents and so on, set up to intervene after disasters. People who volunteer for programs like doctors without borders are really the unsung, almost unnoticed heros of our age...they save thousands who would certainly die horrible deaths without aid...

@philvanderlaan5942 2 года назад

Anything we can joke about isn’t as bad as anything we can’t joke about or anything we can ONLY joke about .

@paulie9483 Месяц назад

Literally every year without indoor plumbing was objectively worse than 2020.

@abk3400 2 года назад

Top ten ways humanity will /has screwed up the planet?

@fishingwithkar4871 2 года назад

You're awesome Simon you completely caught me off guard in the very beginning of the video with number 10 I expected you to have this list you know within the last hundred 200 years maybe but no you're like number 10 13 15 I was like what the f*** that caught me completely off guard that was awesome😂

@MrKenng123 Год назад

2022 will soon be on the list I bet.

@Unknowngfyjoh 2 года назад

2020 wasn't even bad. Don't forget... The past was the worst!

@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 2 года назад

No, the future is the worst, we just don't realize or know it yet.

@slayingroosters4355 2 года назад

2020 is the past 🤣

@SomeAustrianPainter 2 года назад

@@slayingroosters4355 Tell the politicians that

@jaytaylor629 2 года назад

I actually thought 2020 was a great year. But then again, I didn't obsess over the pandemic and all the other events that happened last year.

@jaytaylor629 2 года назад

@Dungeon Master I actually did get Covid last year, I just didn't want to let the pandemic dominate my life. I understand that last year was a bad year economically for billions of people, if not every person in the world, but if you choose to let one event dominate your life, than of course people are going to be miserable. My sister lived in Africa during most of the pandemic and the people there didn't obsess over it. They weren't scared on this disease like the media is, they treated it like every other disease they've faced and continued on life like they usually did.

@therese369 2 года назад

I have the feeling we are going to have to deal with covid for many years yet, seeing how the developed countries cant get their people vaccinated. Like only half of the americans are vaccinated and over here in sweden only 41% are vaccinated. Im ashamed by my people.

@nosuchthing8 2 года назад

@@JamesBiggar The estimated herd immunity threshold for covid is 90%, so. ... Measles was just as bad Remember HI is a function of r nought. Delta spreads much faster than the wild version.

@celticlass8573 2 года назад

@Fascinating Facts Literally no vaccine is a cure. That isn't the intention. The Covid vaccines' primary focus is to reduce the severity of the symptoms for people infected, yes, which is a worthy goal. However, it's thoroughly erroneous to say that the vaccines have no affect on the spread of the virus. Vaccinated people have a much higher immunity than those who are unvaccinated, higher even than people who have been infected and survived. The replication you mention is why we have so many new variations of the virus, and each person who the virus has a chance to get a foot-hold in, is a petri dish to create yet another strain. If everyone who could get the vaccine did, it would vastly diminish the possible hosts for the virus to mutate in. That's how the "Spanish" Influenza finally petered out--so many people who survived, had developed immunity to it, that it had little chance to replicate.

@jonnunn4196 2 года назад

Traditionally herd immunity is from all sources; not just those that got vaccinated but also those unfortunate enough to get covid for real. This is complicated by similar to the flu, covid mutates and also similar to the common cold that the level of antibodies drops over time and so there's a decent chance of catching it in a few months. The UK Guardian though recently had a paper on a UK study where people volunteered to be regularly exposed to Covid; those that never tested positive had T-cell count spikes shortly after exposure even with continuing to test negative for Covid itself.

@celticlass8573 2 года назад

@Fascinating Facts Actually, what you said is that the vaccines don't stop someone from spreading the virus, that vaccinated people "spread it all the same" which is false as it's incomplete information. Those with immunity spread it much less, because the virus has much less of a chance to get enough of a foot-hold, ie can duplicate itself enough to make the host highly contagious. Also, perhaps it's different where you live, but here they report the new cases as vaccinated vs unvaccinated numbers, and the vaccinated are consistently much, much lower.

@samlaine3315 2 года назад

@@celticlass8573 I had covid 2019 my mother is double vaccinated she got covid and spread to everyone in my family but me and I spent the most time with her natural immunity has done me well not so much for the rest of my vaccinated family

@judithslone6472 2 года назад

The message at the end......🤣🤣🤣

@Eastafricangamer98 2 года назад

What's the name of the background music playing? Anyone?

@TomuCow 2 месяца назад

2020 was so bad i am still getting flashbacks to not working and getting free gov money to stay in my house and sometimes break the lockdown rules with 0 consequence. such hardship.

@bjw4859 2 года назад

I recall while doing a course on pre history, & there was a volcanic eruption that put Mt Tambora to shame, from memory it occurred up to 20 000 years ago & wiped out most of all living species on the planet & was only discovered fairly recently in sedimentary records. I have searched online every now & then for a name & a time, but no luck, does anyone have any info on this ?.

@NickMachado 2 года назад

Not a volcanic eruption but possibly you're thinking of the younger dryas impact hypothesis? Its a presumed comet impact that occurred about 12,500 years ago. There was massive, rapid climate change and almost all mega fauna in the americas went extinct.

@brandonm949 2 года назад

Could be the Laacher See eruption, which is the volcanic alternative to the Younger Dryas impact theory, but that eruption only had a VEI of 6 compared to Tambora's 7. Could be the Taupo Volcano, specifically the Oruanui eruption, which happened 27,000 years ago and had a VEI of 8. Could be the Toba Volcano, which erupted 74,000 years ago and was even bigger than the Taupo eruption. This one is suspected of causing a major volcanic winter and causing population bottlenecks in a bunch of different species, which is why I'm including it here.

@whaleymom76 2 года назад

I think Simon said he was only using the time period where they had recorded history. (He didn't specify but I assume he meant some version of a written recod.)

@dannymac6368 2 года назад

10. 2020 9. 2020 8. 2020 7. 2020 6. 2020 5. 2020 4. 2020 3. 2020 2. 2020 *1. 2016*

@jaimedavies5931 2 года назад

As much as I love you Simon, you need revision on the Russian Revolution.

@Caelia7 2 года назад

There is one Ze Frank in my recommendations, drowning in a sea of Whistlers.

@rusparr2528 Год назад

I'd like to see something on the time of the Sea People. I know a combination of things like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and war led to dark ages in Mediterranean area. Some cultures were wiped out, like the highly advanced Minoan civilization.

@gentillydanny 2 года назад

The worst year. Like asking what was the worst minute of your day.

@sallyintucson Год назад

The flu of 1918 lasted longer than your sources/writers told you. My G Grandfather died from it in 1920 in Illinois when he was treating a small outbreak. From what I’ve read, there continued to be small outbreaks until about 1925.

@dudepool7530 2 года назад

Simons next channel: The Past Is The Worst

@sandybarnes887 2 года назад

Yes, that is sort of what his latest channel is about.

@HueWanztino 2 года назад

...i mean this bozo still tried to say 2020 was worse than 1918...

@whitemoses7913 2 года назад

2021 - F**king GPU prices

@susanlucia1670 2 года назад

June 14th 1946. The worst day in human history.

@J3nJ3nl0llip0p 2 года назад

The SHIRT.

@seabrightnorth 2 года назад

Seriously? 2020 should not be anywhere on this list!

@brandonm949 2 года назад

Yeah. In the context of this millennium, it was really bad, but nowhere near as bad as the widespread famines that used to happen.

@landofalwayswinter666 2 года назад

If he hadn't included it, there would have 10x as many comments complaining that he didn't.

@papachaps 2 года назад

finally a decent video!

@GrrMeister 2 года назад

10:07 *I always soak my £1 Coin in White [Virgin} Vinegar for 5 Minutes and then use Dettol (or other Government approved) before entering any Supermarket [wearing a Crash Helmet & Approved Mask] what am I doing wrong as have been refused entry at many popular places to grab 100 Toilet Rolls and a bag of Spuds ?*

@russelljackson1985 2 года назад

For real 2020 on this list? Ummm ok then.

@hackler93 2 года назад

The audio balancing on Simon's videos has really gone downhill. He seems to be whisper speaking into the mic to the point where it is unintelligible at times, and then ads come on glaringly loud and clear as day. Please fix this issue as I love the content but watching has become massively inconvenient!

@dereksimpson1284 2 года назад

What ever year hot pockets were invented

@Doc_Tar 2 месяца назад

1932 shouldn't be forgotten. There's the Holodomor in Ukraine along with famines in other parts of the Soviet Union, the dust bowl in America as well as the impact of the Great Depression worldwide. The rest of the list is solid, though I wonder if Genghis Khan may have qualified a worst year alone with his slaughter across Asia.

@user-xp8wk1zt2p Год назад

Cant belive i lived in a year worse than black death, volcanic euroption, ww1, ww2, spanish flu 💀😱

@fabricdragon 2 года назад

1 and 2 need to switch places....

@NR-nf1il 2 года назад

2021 is turning out to be a doozy so far.

@Superdave_Fairtex 2 года назад

1492!?! How dare you!!!

@SomeAustrianPainter 2 года назад

And our ancestors survived every last bit of it.

@brandonm949 2 года назад

Well, some of them did.

@johnsimpson4715 2 года назад

1492 was the only situation in which you made a case for attributing all of the later ramifications to that one moment in time. Not consistent.

@mikestewart7338 2 года назад

Now do the best years in human history. Or, is there any?

@davidmauney4149 2 года назад

Do an episode about yourself. I think that would be very interesting, like a blue bird landing on your finger after you wake up in the morning.

@tanyaknox2263 2 года назад

Yes! Simon should do a video on himself!

@redwatch1100 2 года назад

2011-2021

@rogaineablar5608 2 года назад

Please enable auto-subtitles

@stevenjoy3537 2 года назад

What the world needs to do now is boycott anything Chinese made, including companies that aren't Chinese but manufacture there. It is crazy an employee here spends their money not here nor with friendly places

@theg.c.142 2 года назад

Boycotting those in support of the Chinese is essential too. Hence why I buy local, to ensure I'm not helping those who wish to persecute me for my beliefs. Aka (The left)