Trap streets and paper towns 

"None of these things exist." **THIS EXISTS**

I use the canary trap, I write my address slightly different for each time I am asked when purchasing online. That way I know who is selling my address when I get junk mail.

ZZXJANW is not even a Maori word. Maori does not contain Z or X. One would only have to look at their language briefly to see that.

...Wouldn't this lead to problems with GPS and self-driving cars, or something? "Turn left into Notarealstreet."

Some people have too much time on their hands making paper towns. If it rains, they are royally fucked lol.

A friend created a Wikipedia entry on a fictitious character we created with some friends inside a videogame. We took a screenshot of it before it got deleted and we post it in forums or conversations sometimes if the context calls for it. People buy it.

I'd hope a GPS won't try to have you take a fake street. We already have people driving into lakes when their GPS tells them to.

I'm from Germany.... Love your show! There is a not so well known Student in a town called "Jena" (its close to my birthplace) where the students of the local university invented a fake student to cash in on the "BaföG", wich is the german gouvernment support for students (similar to student loans). The fake Student was never dissmissed by the university so people thought it would be funny to take exams in his name. 15 years later the nonexistent person actually graduated from the university XD I wonder who would take the time to pass exams for somebody else! ^^

my favorite paper town would have to be atlantis.

Oh damn that canary trap is kind of what Tyrion did in Game Of Thrones to catch who was selling him out to Cersei.

Thanks for saying "what do you think?" in every video so i know when to stop watching

Favourite thing that doesnt exist? The best marketing stunt in existance. Everyone SWEARS Shaye Saint John exists. Her creator died in 2010, only leaving behind the weirdest youtube channel ever (named after Shaye) and the creepiest website ever, also named after the weird woman. You should research on it a bit, This Exists super interesting, you're gonna love it.

For the TV show "Columbo", the character's name is "Frank Columbo." It's shown on his badge and name plaque. However, when Fred L. Worth wrote his "The Trivia Encyclopaedia", his name was written as "Philip" as a copyright trap. The game Trivial Pursuit later used it and was sued by Worth. But the case didn't go anywhere. The verdict was "The truth cannot be copyrighted."

Too many random cutaways, chill, this ain't family guy

On a side note: The picture of Jakob Maria Mierscheid was used for a fictional character named "Karl Ranseier" in the german late night show "RTL Samsatg Nacht" (think of it as a german version of Saturday Night Live) during the 1990s. They had a (parody) news segment where sometimes they announced that Karl Ranseier is dead ("Karl Ranseier ist tot"). In those announcements he always had a weird job, talent or invention, but was the most abortive person in/with it. Word plays were used to describe his life and in most cases his job, talent etc. was also the cause of his death For example (very short since most of the word plays only work in german): Karl Ranseier is dead. The most abortive cook of all time was teased for his mayo-nose since kindergarten [...] Later on he lost all his money at the roulade tables [...] He lost his life yesterday in the former capital city at a Bonn-duel. (Bonn was the capital city of west germany during the cold war)

Video suggestion, how did rap go from "let's change the way we treat each other" to "got an ass make a nigga' wanna buy a ring."

Back in the pre-internet days I was on a couple of roads that on regular state maps showed as standard roads. One was across a very rural area of Eastern Oregon. The road started out as a fine two lane road, then one, then lots of pot holes, then dirt, and I am just in a regular mid-size street car. Should I turn back, no I have somewhere to be and possibly not enough gas to turn around and make it to civilization. Decided to go on, then there came wash-outs to pick through. After several miles, paved road returned and we made it. Many drivers would not have had the skill to negotiate their way through. The second time was a road that connected I-5 to the Oregon coast. It too lost it paving and became a narrow winding forest service road that I traveled in the dark at about 10MPH. Needless to say I was hours late to my destination. Several years later I read in a newspaper a family was caught in a snow storm and several of the family died. They too thought that it was just going to be a regular paved road. Neither road was marked as a "unimproved" road, which was in the key to the map. Moral of the story, even if the item is on a map, doesn't mean that the conditions of travel are going to be as you expect.

What's with all the songs in the video?

yeah... those "transitions" are just annoying cutting to music.... it is kind of disconnecting from the video, and stops the connection between the video and learning the information being given.

Quit cutting to music for no reason. Quit cutting to shitty rap music too, while you're at it. Even if it were music I like, there's no reason for it to be in here. Stop it.

Why did you make a This Exists for things that don't exist you deep fry.

Māori is not May-Ori. Think of Chairman Mao, It's said like that. Mao-ri with an elongated a (that's what the dash above the a tells you) & a rolled r (like in Spanish; rojo, rabioso, pero, etc). Also, the Māori alphabet has no Z,X, or J. Furthermore, drums and string instruments weren't used by Māori until after the arrival of European settlers. Even now the use of drums in Māori music isn't very common. The closest thing I can think of to a percussion instrument would be poi or rako.

As a Maori i laughed when i heard about the Maori drum. Traditional Maori instruments are mainly wind Instruments, though the Guitar is primarily used for Kapa Haka these days

It's not quite a paper town, but back in the 1927, British soldiers surveying an area of the Gold Coast (now Ghana) got bored and drew a 300 ft elevation contour in the shape of an elephant on an official British Army map. It went unnoticed for some time and reappeared on several other maps years later.

I grew up near one of those. It was a joke for people in the area. We would go through the intersection where this town was supposed to be and "ooh and aw" about the "beautiful town". When in actuality it was farmland and woods. Nothing else.

The original Trivial Pursuit used a "fact" that was made up by a trivia book writer about Columbo's first name. They were sued but it was ruled that "facts" can not be copy written.

A company that I worked for used canary traps to confuse the situation more than track leaks. When the information was shared, it would eventually lead to people hearing 2 or 3 different things. Then few people could not piece together the truth. Many even gave up trying.

The Trent Reznor connection makes sense. His film for the album “Broken” has drop outs so he knows who’s copy of the film circulated on the internet, since he had copies he sent to people he knew.

Apparently Ordinance Survey maps are far more subtle, they will add an extra building to say a farm, rather than a whole street.

There was a reverse trap street in my neighborhood in Philadelphia. I tried for ten years to *get* it on a map. . Labeled Fishers Lane at the north end and "I" Street at the other it has a historic stone bridge dated 1756 in the middle. For most of the 20th century it was a popular shortcut with thousands of cars a day using the tiny two lane road.The north end was recently demolished for safety reasons, making it a cul-de-sac. Ironically, Google Maps now has it listed, including the missing "I" St.

I love how Doctor Who explained trap streets in the last season.

I love that you end your show with "be excellent to each other".... probably the best ending line on any of the shows I have seen or subscribed to... Just saying :) Much love brother

everyone who read "paper towns", don't watch this

I'm reading Papertowns right now. (I'm almost done with it, highly recommend it since it's being made into a movie soon) when the book mentions the "town", the article the main character is reading says how the mapping company who made the town was about to sue another company for having the town name in their map, when it turned out that someone opened up a shop there with the name "The Agloe General Store", making it impossible for them to sue.

I love it! A channel dedicated to talking about astonishing things that exists talking about astonishing things that don't exist!

"Thumbs Up For Gucci" - You Caught me off guard with that one. Get Up The Good Work. Great Vids. -I'm Subscribing.

3:36 WOW, you posted the original. Thumbs up. The Nerves are a great power pop band.

Make some soap in a Trap House on Paper Street

This reminds me of Ben Franklin misspelling Pennsylvania on the money he printed so people who were forging assumed they were working off of a a forged bill and correct the spelling. Source: www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/revolutionary_money/introduction.html

I want to put up an ad for a house i´m selling on one of those fake streets, so when the buyers arrive there´s nothing there but a field.

I've seen Canary traps used in work schedules between companies competing for contracts.

I never even heard of trap street or paper towns before. That's crazy. I'll definitely be looking into it now

I like how this video was constructed, I like the end and then the post show!

Personal Fav. There is a Toshiba RMA Center address is an empty lot with a trailer in it somewhere in the Midwest. No buildings, no people. It is said to be a UPS transfer station specifically for Toshiba products. You have no idea where your laptop is actually being repaired.

I think trap streets and paper towns would make a great roadtrip. Just because they're fake doesn't mean that the place where they're written is fake, right? Maybe some breathtaking sights to see or a nice little restaurant, for some examples

Mind blown yet again, Sam. I always thought Blondie wrote "Hanging on the Telephone." The Peanut Gallery is being so vocal already. I need to stop reading the negative comments before I get all defensive. Keep up the great work. This is my favorite channel.

I can't stand the video transitions. They're really annoying. I love the content of the videos but they're hard to watch at times with all the obnoxious unrelated content.

My high school's student directory and yearbook had an entry for Harold J. Stukes, a non-existent student. I'm not sure how long this tradition lasted or who started it, but I seem to recall Harold was in 11th-and-a-half grade.

Tyrion used a Canary Trap in Game of Thrones. Neat

Paper towns and trap streets sound more like fictional places criminals use to throw off investigators in 1920s radio shows.

I used to live in Upland, CA! What a trip.

This channel should have way more subscribers.

1:38 -- "Poop on the, poop on the beau-ti-ful laaaawwwwn!"

Do you have any plans to make a video about high BPM music or did you scrap that idéa?

Appreciate the Gucci Mane, mane! started feeling dry. lol

I have the pleasure of living within a half hour of Beatosu and Goblu.

You're the fucking best just for including that audio clip of the nerves be fucking excellent indeed!

I'm glad I checked to see if anyone else had done Philip Columbo.

I remember that there was a Gravity Falls somewhere in Southeastern Colorado sometime last year.

"May-or-ee" hahahhhahaha

How about Martin Lewis and his fictitious Beatles songs, which he mentioned in a New Musical Express article (they were simply titles of songs he himself wrote), and have been mentioned in dozens of Beatles books since as existent tunes?

George P. Burdell who was enrolled every year at Georgia Institute of Technology from 1927 to 1969 (the first year in which registration was computerized which made the process harder, some students still found a way to enroll him that year and then again in 1975 and 1980, and all 3 times he was registered for every single class, over 3000 credit hours). The man behind his creation, William Edgar Smith, would take 2 tests and do 2 copies of each assignment varying the handwriting and details enough to avoid teachers discovering the ruse, and by 1930 George P. Burdell had received a Bachelor's degree He gets paged over the PA system around halftime during Georgia Tech's away games, was a board member for Mad Magazine for several years, and would have won Time's 2001 Person of the year if Time hadn't removed him from consideration (both George P. Burdell (~57% of the vote) and George P Burdell (no period after the P), were in the top 5 when Time learned of his fictional status). For a time he was listed as a production Assistant for SouthParkStudios.com, though he no longer is mentioned in their web credits. He also "flew" a B-17 Bomber during WW2 He has a fictional wife Ramona Cartwight Burdell (a similar prank that came out of the nearby women's college Agnes Scott College), and apparently a son (I just learned of this) George P. Burdell Jr. who has been listed as a proctor for a number of classes over the years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_P._Burdell

this is one of my favorite shows on youtube

TRENT REZNOR IS MENTIONED SO OFTEN :D its those little things what make me happy

My favorite entry on things that don't actually exist? Mormon Horns... People still think that Mormons have horns, and I find it hilarious... The rumor has been found in literature dating all the way back to the 1840's, so it's not like this it's a new thing either. I find ridiculous myths and propaganda about any group of people to be humorous most of the time. Like "all Irish people are drunkards"... which is played with even by the Irish... which I think is pretty great, especially since it has an ounce of truth to it. (Still a fallacy though.)

I can't recall where I first heard about the case that's now bugging the hell out of me, but it definitely involved a copyright trapper. He or she had authored a paperback of interesting facts (like the ones people who thumb through whilst on the crapper in the pre-interweb days), and had inserted a completely bogus fact as a copyright trap. Low and behold, fucking trivial pursuit, the popular board game, included that very BS fact in their prior editions of the game. The author called them on it and took their asses to court only to lose... Poor bastard. The judge ruled that 'facts', regardless of whether they're true or complete and utter bullshit, are not copyright-able... (I think I might copyright that baller-ass word I just made up.....'copyright-able'. Oh yeah, that's all me..)

You said Maori wrong! I am a New Zealander and it's pronounced like the word mouldy but replace the 'd' with a rolled r.

Hey me again! Breakfast was great I had potatoes. Regardless, I actually had something I could add to this. Did you know that in Fight Club, the house that Tyler lived in was on paper Street, and it's a direct reference to the exact topic of this video?

This goes against the series' name, because Trap Streets _DON'T EXIST._

my fav. store about a paper town is a map maker put a new town on his make and another map make call him up and told he he had coped there map the town was fake. but what happened was so meny ppl saw the town on the first map they moved there fond no town and make it. so it when from a paper town to a real town.

Google Maps gave me instructions to use a bike road that did not exist... Ended up in the middle of the woods close to a burial mound... I felt really stupid at first, but then laughed it off as my summer adventure and learned not to trust GPS while biking :P

I hear Miershied also works for MAD. Or at least, someone with his same 'existentially challenged' diagnosis.

i thought this was gonna be about the "Celebration Town Disney Thing" and plastic towns which might not even exist

A Trent Reznor reference, heck yeah!!

Tyrion uses a Canary Trap in HBO's Series Game of Thrones. I say the HBO Series, because I haven't read the books by Martin to know if he employs the Canary Trap there as well.

Do one on Cicada 3301 PEASEEEE!!!

Bartlett place does exist. It's a fed ex building, it used to be an alleyway years ago, there street sign is still there.. - Kuranoshin

You: ...and none of these exist. (This Exists text pops up) Me: This Exists? More like This Doesn't Exist!

There is a spot in my basement where the location changes to a place called 'Scott'... Paper town in my basement?

It occurs to me that the opening garbled graphic and creaky noise are kinda creepy. And that's cool. I wonder why that resonates as creepy though.

lol, Mayorey drum.

"he twitters and blogs" he *TWITTERS* WHAT IS THAT

I enjoy fictitious words the most myself, like Oxford's esquivalience. I find it interesting that they can reach the point in which they are pretty much considered real.

My brother used to live on Sesame Street and there was an adjacent street called big bird lane

I read Patriot Games and the Sum of all Fears in 4th grade, damn I'm strange.

Don't forget the islands that don't exist that are drawn on maps too.

In the kibbutzim (settlements founded on Marxist ideals in Israel) there are no streets, which often makes it somewhat of a hassle to get mail when they insist on adding a street name. One person decided to have some fun with it and give bizarre street names whenever he needed something delivered. The name that takes the cake would probably be ‘The Flip-flops of Justice Street’.

My favorite false thing is probably the Enron scandal. For anyone who doesn't know, I wont sit here and spill, but the jist is that this company called Enron started in the 80's in Texas, and after royally fucking up their finances several times, they hired a staff of accountants to successfully hide billions of dollars worth of debt for almost two decades before going entirely belly up in 2001.They had everyone pretty fooled, they were listed as one of the top ten innovative companies by professionals for many years, and had thousands of investors worldwide. I'm currently in my second semester of Marketing and heard about it, thought it fit this perfectly

I live north of Columbus but now I'm going to college in dayton. I didn't watch any football this year. Might have been a bad year to make that choice.

You can make any copyright trap if you want to. Quredsamutz, Australia is a town founded on September 9th, 1909.

Background song: "Flip Fantasia" my childhood

Funny story, PhantomAlert (a Waze competitor) is now suing Google and Waze on the basis of finding their copyright traps (fake points of interest) in Waze's POI database.

Is that Cantaloupe Island in the background?

I have a better question, would it be a legal move to use zzxjoanw in hangman?

How about Der Berg, a gigantic man-made mountain in Germany that has its own website, despite not existing?

paper towns was a surprisingly good film

Okay, kinda weird hearing my hometown mentioned in a RU-vid video lmao

This... doesn't... exist? Hehe

Is that German politician just a picture of Friedrich Nietzche with glasses

Oh, Mierscheid? Yeah, I saw him in Bielefeld the other day.