The Rabbit Hole Iceberg Explained 

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On the Grape-kun story: They took the cut out down to try and get him to court real penguins, but he got so depressed they put it back up, and he went right back to trying to court the cut out. When Grape-kun died, they replaced the original cutout to one with him in it too.

My favorite thing about that I love bees ARG, is that one guy who answered a pay phone during a hurricane, and the character on the other end literally broke character and said something like "Dude- hang up the phone, you are literally in a hurricane."

Honestly could not imagine watching a baby be born on shrooms, I was completely sober when seeing my son being birthed and I was so overcome by emotions that I almost passed out

17:38 just imagine reading through a book of gibberish and seeing "i am in your walls" and then the book goes back to absolute gibberish

Finally, the long awaited rabbit hole of rabbit holes

to be fair, that ugandan film is impressive as hell. man built his own computer to make that film and the budget was less than 200 bucks. i definitely couldn’t do that.

The story of Grape-kun was amazing, it sucks he died. I really love penguins, may the legend rest in piece.

If no one has said it yet, the Who Killed Captain Alex with that "Video Joker" is the original. There isn't really a version without that, basically what happened was pirates would put a track like that on stolen movies so they could legally call it transformative work and sell it internationally but, people were used to seeing movies that way in Uganda, so when the director and his neighbors made that movie they decided to include one themselves. It also starts immediately upon putting it in your DVD player because in his words, many people in his home town have lost their remotes so that makes watching the movies easier. Also for clarity, Fyre did offer that 12000 dollar ticket but there's nothing to indicate anyone bought one. The majority of people were there on the cheapest pass available for the full week. The media did clown on the guests by suggesting everyone there was ultra rich but most people involved were just like, normal middle class couples and families suckered in because the lowest price package was actually cheaper than going to Great Exuma and staying in a big hotel. Supposedly this was part of their downfall, because Fyre planned to pay for everything using ticket fees but they didn't actually charge enough to pull it off.

As someone who was on tumblr during the whole dashcon debacle, I feel like I need to mention that someone actually urinated in the ballpit, making the 'free hour in the ballpit' vouchers even more pathetic.

I’m a YuGiOh player, so I can offer a very specific piece of knowledge. The guy who brought in the 2222 card deck was a judge, so it was absolutely done in order to create a rule change

The Library of Babel is actually based on a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. It explores this society that lives within the Library and has never known anything but the Library. It's an extended thought experiment, and the devs of Library of Babel have done a great job visualizing the world Borges describes! I'd totally recommend the short story :)

As goofy as it is, I think doing something like "making Uwu a language" would be an incredibly unique and fun way to spend your masters thesis

I find it hilarious that even after skipping the Chris Chan entry you end up having to talk about him like 3 times

A lot of these rabbit holes aren’t even particularly that disturbing. It’s just the word “Iceberg” that switches my subconscious into one of alertness and fear.

Lucid dreaming worked for me. I kept a journal and took melatonin and 5htp and kept the doces marked in my journal. My reality check was trying to make a ball of flame in my hand. I would wake up every morning and do it, while listening to a lecture or whenever I felt odd. I actually stopped because my sleep schedule started to become bad and one month in I started to up the dosage of 5htp. I would sleep super good but felt tired when I woke up. Definitely controlled my dreams and it was awesome.

Im a lucid dreamer. It’s legitimately sick!!!! Dream journals, reality checks and looking out for nonsense is a big yes. I recommend anyone who wants to try not to hold back!

We're really just 1 step away from having an iceberg iceberg. Assuming that one hasn't been made already.

these icebergs are just too good, you always go so in depth about the topics and make it worth an hour and a half lmao

52:20 Garry's Mod, when pirated, comes up with the error message "unable to shade polygon normals" which isn't a real error, meaning when people asked Garry what it meant and how to fix it, they got the Ban Hammer

Thing about Masao is he didn't get DOXed, he just kinda moved out of his old place. The guy doesn't share much personal info but has disclosed in a few that he had a really dysfunctional upbringing and that for the majority of it he basically raised himself and the places where we see him cook are away from his daily life. He has a partner, but uses the shithole apartments we see as a getaway from daily life when he feels that he's struggling. He's kind of an oddball, but the guy can afford to rent 2 places so he's doing better than me!

I think the Ugandan action film is actually hilariously cool. Some guy wanted an action film to come from his country, so he made one. Human ingenuity and perseverance is just, cool. Makes sense that it didn't end up becoming a blockbuster, though.

A fun fact about ILoveBees is that the person at the other end of those payphone had to break character one time cause a participant was literally making a call during the Yvan hurricane and told him "Dude, it's a hurricane. Put the phone down". Not that impressive but pretty funny.

29:26 The Elisa Lam case has mostly been solved. Its been stated she was suffering from a severe mental disorder and off her medication at the time of CCTV footage, as well as testimony from her hotel roomates days before she dissappeared. The water tank was found with the lid open, meaning Lisa could have opened it in a state of panic and disorientation and entered the water where she lost her life. Its still a mystery as to how she was able to get roof access and her more peculiar movements during those days off her medication, but this largely explains her dissappearance and death.

So the Tower of Babel library thing is bascially the monkeys with typewriters thing

Its crazy how the Iceberg started out as a fad but it is still going strong almost a year later lmao it is basically its own genre at this point

25:48 Wholesome fact: The man in the picture is Jeremiah Heaton. He has a 7-year-old daughter whose birthday wish was to be a princess. So this guy went to Bir Tawil and has since been trying to claim it so that he can become emperor, the reason is for his daughter to be a princess. Big respect for him for trying to make his daughter happy.

please never stop making these, seriously you are my favorite iceberg creator

ItemLabel isnt as shallow as you describe it here. I wouldn't call their business model "viral marketing schemes" in the sense of relating to #youth but rather that their brand actually appeals to the internet. It's a project by a lady in Japan who makes a lot of weird, eclectic art. The theme song was made by her, and it showcases her off-beat taste. Their staff is equally into surrealist humor, and the main social media outreach guy (Jamz) is a PS2-era styled Vtuber/content creator who also creates his own assets. All of their branding, music, and in-jokes as well as the "universe" theyve created is very clearly brought up through genuine passion and fun, and they love to interact with their community. They don't try to appeal to anything but their own image.

50:04 “He moved to Chile and became a stagecoach” The man has suffered enough, did they really have to turn him into a vehicle?

With the Yugioh thing, that's exactly why he did it. He was a yugioh judge himself that saw a huge issue with the rule so he pulled that and Konami was like "okay 40-60 cards tops you fucking degenerates"

i keep coming back to these videos to watch while i draw because i really like the way you talk about stuff so straightforwardly. theres no dumb effects or spooky voices. its like your dad driving through a snowstorm.

The thing about Viper is that he is actually connected to important hip hop artists from Texas. So he’s definitely not at outside artist in the strict sense. I think he more or less just has a carefree attitude towards his craft which has created the aesthetic he has.

"A hate group in 4chan would have a different culture than a moms group in Facebook" These two are more similar than you think

I wouldn't say people like "Who Killed Captain Alex" solely because it's 'so bad, it's good'. People like the film unironically because its production has more heart and soul in it than some of the highest grossing films of all time. It's a film made with so much unequivocal love and passion for film as a form of entertainment.

Library of Babel was actually based on a short story of the same name where they found an infinite library with random combinations of letters in each book. It talks alot about how people reacted to it, with some throwing their lives into a religious quest to find some meaning out of the nonsense, while others decided to cleanse the library by destroying any test deemed indecipherable or nonsensical. Eventually humanity lost interest in the library, with most leaving, dying of old age, or even killing each other in disputes over what should be done with the library. Very interesting story that is worth the read, and I'm somewhat disappointed that it wasn't brought up in the iceberg.

The Lord Buckethead who ran against thersa may is now known as Count Binface, and ran for mayor of london. He also has a couple of great political songs.

Dwarf fortress is such an amazing game I remember my friend was playing and his dwarf lost a pet and the dwarf got so sad they just sat there depressed and died from heart break like that's crazy

The Library of Babel site is based on a short story of people living in an infinite library with books with the same number of letters, lines and pages. The question is whether meaning can be found in any of the books or if everything in the library is pointless. It's a good read

If you guys haven't seen, Internet Historian narrated and animated the entire My Immortal fan fiction, and its hysterical Edit: RIP Grape Kun. Whang does a great vid on this that i cant finish without crying

13:00 - A fun fact is that the word “bibite” (plural bibites) is an expression in french quebecois that is most often used to describe insects that you can’t identify or just bugs in general. It can also sometimes be used to describe larger animals that you can’t quite make up. For example, seeing an animal from a distance that you can’t see properly because it’s obscured by the environment. It’s always funny to hear someone say it

About the YIIK thing, there's even a part in the game where you go to a water tank and one of the characters starts talking about about how a body was found in there and the people who drank the water from that tank complained about the taste and what have you. His dialogue in that part sounds ripped straight outta Wikipedia and I wouldn't be surprised if it actually was lmao

My favorite Tommy Wiseau theory is that he's D.B. Cooper and survived the fall, eventually making the movie using the stolen money.

Don't get "Paris Syndrome" about lucid dreaming, guys. It's not life-changing or psychedelic. I have lucid dreamed since childhood. When I was an older kid, I found it kinda interesting, but the appeal wore off really quickly. It's like if you were acting in a play and suddenly started being like "oh, this is fiction, isn't it?" It's awkward. On the other hand, I ended up lucid dreaming the other day by accident. I was dreaming about a sort of mystery plot and was talking to my (in real life, estranged) brother. He had nothing more to say beyond what he had already told me, like a video game character, but I so desperately wished he would act like the real him that I became lucid. Sure, I could control myself, but I couldn't hang out with my big bro again because I knew this wasn't him. I couldn't play along with the plot anymore. I don't think straight while lucid dreaming, so I just kept trying to talk to him over and over. I woke up totally heartbroken. I did such a poor job of hiding how bad I felt that my partner chose to push back his work schedule to comfort me. Also, the sleep quality is very poor. You don't feel like you got a full rest, probably because it's a part of your brain being woken up when it's supposed to be asleep. It's not awful, it's cool to have an unusual experience, but don't dope yourself with dodgy pills over it. Go to a rave or climb a mountain or something, it'll give you a way deeper experience than becoming aware that you're sleeping.

Super surprised to see Phantom Limb Syndrome on here, I am an amputee and I experience Phantom Limb Syndrome. It is a really interesting phenomenon to be sure. My personal theory is that being that we are born with said limb we have neural pathways to accept stimuli to and from the limb. Once we lose the limb we still have those same pathways and (possibly) in an effort to not lose them, as that could lead to those pathways dying, our brain randomly triggers them so they are still being used and therefore staying alive. That may sound weird but that is my theory, though I know from experience that even bad weather can effect the phantom limb so I don’t think it is an airtight theory. But I was surprised it was on the iceberg especially because it looked like it was a bit far down, but isn’t really *disturbing*

Correction for the “my immortal” fanfic. The main character is called Ebony Darkness Dementia Raven Way (Ebony), and the author is Tara Gilesbie Don’t ask why I know that. I totally didn’t read the entire thing while I was bored.

Who killed Captain Alex is GENUINELY a great movie. It’s such a sweet, and cute collaboration of love from the small bit of the Ugandan community who helped make it.

>"I'm not gonna bore you with things you already know" >"So anyway here's Pool's closed"

Omgggg not the rabbit hole starting with HABBO HOTEL!!! 😂😂 I was ADDICTED to this back in 06’-09’

I use to have Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. it typically only happen at night and I remember that specifically dressers and furniture like that would appear bigger or smaller then i knew them to be. there was also a weird time dilation kinda effect that would happen some time. i believe i was between the age of 8 and 10 when it happened. I would just lie on the bathroom floor and breath until it stopped. something about the cold tile helped bring me back. all in all a pretty weird time of my life

On Pool's Closed: it goes a bit deeper. The habbo pool was specifically closed because it was infected with aids and that's why people blocked it. When it gets weird is someone posted an image of the black guy in an afro and a suit (the habbo character) on a local swimming pool somewhere with the caption "pool's closed due to aids". Some woman went there with her children a week prior and thought that someone put up that poster because her children were black (not the case it was just a meme). So there was a big local news article on it, and so later someone photoshopped that woman in an afro with the caption "pool's open" which again attracted media attention. Also the raid wasn't because of the mods banning dark skinned characters. The raiders would constantly say nigger and stand in swastika formation, I can guarantee they weren't concerned with habbo's supposed racism.

50:38 trans woman here, of course maps are welcome!!! uhhh, dont question why i have a chainsaw :3

The issue with tweetdeck had nothing to do with the heart emoji. That's not how codes work. It was a regular cross-site scripting vulnerability. The guy added a red love heart at the end just because he had an extra character left over and thought it was funny

felt an absolute pit in my stomach hearing about dash con on a youtube video that isn't solely about it or being talked about by someone who was personally invested in it, like it feels like it only happened and exists in the memories of people who are on tumblr but something about hearing other people say "extra hour in the ball pit" to other people outside of tumblr i cant explain it it just feels visceral

My favourite thing about this guy is his ability to informatively address strange / questionable topics without being disrespectful.

1:26:10 i guess that, since simpsons were massively popular and culturally significant at the time when lots of internet denizens of today grew up with, i think scenes from it paired with super nostalgic vapourwave are meant to amplify the feeling of nostalgia, uneasy longing, kind of a feeling of content while thinking of a simpler time with a hint of sadness over days lost

1:11:02 you explained it very, very well, and I’m happy that other are able to learn and understand how many teenagers like me feel with the syndrome. The syndrome affects everyone in different ways who have it. Mine makes everything go quick. It’s like time goes faster. Myself, people, everything around me, and sounds speed up. Sometimes at night my room would get bigger and the walls become wavy like waves. I have a way more mild case of it so it’s not as crazy as what people hear about this syndrome. The only thing I think are the downsides to my side of the story is the feeling of someone wanting to hurt you like anxiety, and having a headache, which is common for almost everyone who has it.

the amount of work he puts on these videos is just 🤯

The amount of research that goes into a video like this has to be fucking intense. Great stuff, looking forward to the next one.

30:15 the Westboro Baptist Church is from Kansas, not Massachusetts, but there is a Westborough Massachusetts.

thank you for mentioning matsoukas! I've been trying to remember and find his channel for years but resigned myself to just never remembering it again and it being lost to time. Now I can finally reunite with my subscription

If y’all are interested in the sci-fi ride that is 17776: there’s a sequel, plus another sequel in development. There’s also blaseball which has a similar vibe.

Some additional info regarding some of these factoids: - Jim Davis himself has acknowledged the existence of "Garfield Minus Garfield" and has said that he likes it, considering it an interesting interpretation of his work. Jon's perceived loneliness was later addressed by finally pairing Jon and Liz the veterinarian after several years of a "will they, won't they" dynamic. - Tommy Wiseau has admitted as of recently that he was born in Poland, as people speculated he was Polish because in "The Room" there is a scene of Johnny and Mark's confrontation at Johnny's birthday party where he refers to Mark as a chicken and says, "cheep cheep cheep", which is the Polish interpretation of a chicken clucking. He has also said that he funded "The Room" using money he received by importing leather jackets from Korea. EDIT: An additional factoid about "The Room" is that the HD version of the film is lost media. Wiseau before filming began purchased two professional movie cameras, one in 35mm and one in full high-definition. This goes against standard filmmaking protocol as cameras are usually rented rather than bought as it's cheaper and keeps production cost low. During the movie's development, Wiseau requested that the film be filmed simultaneously on both cameras, but eventually decided to simply scrap the HD camera entirely, making the HD version of the film lost media, as Wiseau presumably threw away the existing footage along with the camera.

1:22:48 i think what this is referring to is the poland ball having many controversies over which part the red of the flag should be, some say it should be on the bottom cause thats what poland's flag looks like but others think it looks better on top, pokeball style.

I can promise you that most of the itemlabel plush videos online are not sponsored lol. I'm a collector and I'm in the discord, people are crazy about these funny looking little guys. I made a dollhouse for mine out of an old bookshelf so they can hang out

The 'Dwarf Fortress' thing about the drunk cats was weirdly cute. Like... Damn we humans really develop the most adorable things. They added cats cleaning their paws in a video game, just because they can. That's what humans are.

imagine your kids ask you "daddy, what did you do when you were younger?" then you just reply "son, i was the infamous 2222 yugioh card guy." then you put on your sick sunglasses and walk into the sunset with your huge case full of yugioh cards

For the biohacking one, I recently tried giving up Friday Night Funkin for a week since I’m having issues with the community. It’s been going pretty well

I really appreciate how he truncated this huge list down to only the truly fascinating stuff.

I found the 17776 thing sorta funny, giant footballs and talking space probes, looked it up and ended up walking away with a existential crisis 😎👍🏻

PLEASE turn this into a series, I think your way of iceberg-explaining is god-tier and your choice of icebergs being explained are so interesting !!

I really don't understand why people put random gameplay footage over commentary that has nothing to do with it

For anyone who asks, the song at the beginning intro was Blackout by LEMMiNO (not the sponsor) Also it’s more than the intro xd

here I was thinking: "when is this legend gonna upload another banger?" and here we are.

During the Ilovebees arg, many hurricanes were happening in the US and at the time a very big fan of halo in Florida went out in the middle of a hurricane and went to one of the payphones to answer questions, yet the caller on the other side broke character urging him to get back home.

34:25 I love how you just unironically give a quote from a the fanfic after just talking about how the entire thing could potentially be just things added by random people.

The fact that I know almost every rabbithole, that was mentioned in this video, shows that I have to much time for hour long video essays...

Parallel pipes has to be the best person to cover an iceberg. he knows none of us want to here the boring stuff we all hear in every iceberg video

I actually managed to talk to Martin Cabello a few times on his Instagram live. His whole deal is that he claims he has a certain type of synthesia I believe (the one where your senses get mixed up or combined) mixed with severe autism, so he ends up realizing “truths” about the universe and uses cryptography as a way of communicating these ideas. He even acknowledges how difficult it is for him to put it into words, idk tho pretty interesting stuff

33:31 her name was ebony dark'ness dementia raven way, and she got her name from her long ebony black hair, raven was one of the authors along with tara

I couldn't watch this with the background constantly shifting and jumping around.

I can't stress how much this video has helped me, all through my life but especially when I was younger my vision and sound would distort in a way where everything seemed smaller or further away. Like as if my eyes where further back in my head. I never explained this to anyone over seeming crazy. I tried searching for what it could be a few times but the explanation of AIWS is exactly what I would experience.

1:19:24 The timing of you looking sporadically around at suspicious looking structures and talking about an "impostor" has to be intentional I stg

42:49 I believe there were a lot of mysterious songs recorded by tweens back then that never made it online. Source: my dad told me about it, he's old enough to know and we too are from Germany

Scientology's controversies could be a rabbit hole in and of itself

I just live absorbing all this information just to forget it all the day after.

I really wish someone starts a project story that starts off with the same story quality as “my immortal” but gradually increases in depth, character development, emotional weight, all that good stuff, until it becomes an amazing story. Although the issue with this is that if ideas in the beginning were too terrible to properly mold into something good, they’re gonna need to be retconned.

40:22 - Minor correction: the heart emoji had absolutely nothing to do with the exploit. Tweetdeck did not properly sanitize user input, so interpreted everything in the "script" tag as something it should run. The emoji was added because there was space for it, and it would be the only thing that would show up for Tweetdeck users in the tweet.

this is one of the videos I keep coming back to for background noise, its so good

It’s crazy how each of your 10-20 second descriptions leads you to a 72 hour rabbit hole

That supposed “worst book entry” was incredibly fire actually.

Bless you for cutting out all the fluff entries that everyone knows about and not covering them for the millionth time

17:19 I actually booted up the website on my school chromebook with the shitty school wifi I had. Honestly, it took a whole 50 minutes class period for me to get bored. 18:49 also, I can confirm the dream journal works. I've been able to lucid dream since I could process my dreams, but I've been able to control them a tad bit better and predicting what they would be like before I sleep. I currently have a journal with probably over 20 different nights worth of dreams and well over 30 different dreams total.

I’m HIGHLY impressed by iceberg videos such as yours. Going over content for 40-80 minutes all in one video with the editing etc. is insane.

Howdy! I’m actually the person who wrote that comment about vore all those years ago. I’m glad you found what my younger, more naive, and less articulate self had to say helpful. I really do appreciate how non-judgmental you are. This video is really fascinating, and I’m excited to see a follow-up if you have one planned.

I've watched this video like 10 times now. its the perfect thing to put on in the background when you're doing something else.

1:23:17 Analogue horror has become more popular now than back then.

as a person who suffers from DID (dissociative identity disorder), im kinda glad its on this rabbit hole video only because this disorder is very rare. i do hate how romanticised it is, people thinking that alters are "ocs/characters in your head", which is not how it works, its a disorder made to protect the brain from certain traumatic memories. so glad you explained it as simple as possible so people can sorta understand how it works, lmao

whenever I was small and ill, I'd get something similar to Alice in Wonderland syndrome where my depth perception would be completely screwed up. Basically, my depth perception would keep changing as things would appear close then suddenly far, then close again. I would always get freaked out and feel really dizzy. It was weird af and the only way to escape it was to close my eyes.

I fell asleep while watching one of your videos, and this autoplayed and so it was a rather ... interesting experience of being a semi-asleep semi-awake state and hearing about these topics.