Why do Billionaires do Super Bowl Ads??? 

Sonic's friend, Jack Harlow

Hehehehehe AHAHAHAHAHA

“I’m vanilla baby” is so funny

Funniest part of the video

We're gonna get past this...

@@hankschannel Honestly I'm not sure about that. *starts cracking his tail intimidatingly* 🙃

The reply speed was real@@hankschannel

​@@hankschannelno. You need to make an apology video

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Lighting is very important (and my brother does that)

lighting dept are my favorite production people, bless you :)

To be fair, he's also a Boston guy, so it isn't like a Dunkies commercial is a hard sell for him. It's a bit of a meme, but they really do go hard for Dunkies up there.

@@drunkenfarmerjohn42 Yeah, with Affleck, Damon, and Brady you could feel the Boston oozing out of the screen lol.

I gasped, and I’m a 34 year old lady who has never actually played a sonic game hahaha

I wouldn’t dare show my 6 yo. He would be so upset with no where to put those emotions 😂

That kid is going to be shown Hank Green talking about some science thing in school 6 years from now and think "that's the guy who said Knuckles was Tails"...

@@wavesofbabies In other news, I'm going to show him Teen Girl Squad thanks to you.

this did so much damage to hank green's credibility, I unlearned microbiology

Yeah, I clicked this thinking, "oh sweet, I got 5 minutes for a vlogbrothers video."

I literally didn't realize until I read this comment. The whole time I was thinking "whys it not friday" and "whys hank not saying hi".

​@@ezrakainz We don't get a hello from Hank. That's reserved for his favorite brother.

I didn't do that with this video but I have before

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I used to help manage one of their HVS call centers. It's wild what they do for their most valued clients.

oh yeah they seem to have. deal going back a few years i think. she has been in atleaat four other capital one ads and always has presales exclusive to capital one cardholders

Yeah Capital One sponsored her tour, and does exclusive Merch with her for cardholders, etc.

It'd be interesting to read their contract IMO? I would be super surprised if there's not an equity earnings component..? Edit: on par with stock-options/front suite equity preference agreements ..

But like, do they need to be in an advert to do that? Like couldn't Arnie could just text his secretary "Ay secretary, would you please talk to Danny DeVito's people and some writer guy and some producer guy and set up a shoot for a short film that's like a parody of that old Twins movie I was in?"

​@@MeNowDealWIthItBut this way someone else is paying for it.

@@MeNowDealWIthIt That's a lot more work and expense than just letting State Farm take care of everything.

@@ryanclark4231 Yeah but Arnold doesn't have to do it and they can actually do more of what they want rather than being bound to a 30 second commercial with someone else directing.

I believe this, and I think another factor is just that it's a tradition at this point. There are many ways to feel valued like Hank says, and there are many ways to alleviate boredom, but the Super Bowl has this reputation for being the thing that celebrities do ads for. With all these reason combined it makes sense I feel.

Omg that's such a good comparison to this video, I didn't even think of that until now.

This whole video all I was thinking was "This is all extremely BoJack Horseman"

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I think also of something Smon Sinek talks about. That context that you mention - the pay, the perks, etc - what's really happening is that people are valuing the celebrity STATUS and not the actual person. You swap out Swift or Beyonce with a different singer, they're still going to treat them with all the perks. And as soon as Swift or Beyonce carry no popular weight, no one is going to treat them with anything. The value of "I am wanted" and the value of "I am being treated well" are two different values. At the end of the day, treating someone well what ever their station and status in life is a more candid form of value because it's treating someone well because it's them not because of what they bring.

That’s too much, man

Which I'm more than happy about!

any Hank content is good content

Edition* 🤓

@@Noah-lj2sg We're lucky that's my only typo

I think Hank is spot on with his reasoning. I'd say almost any of our behaviours are motivated by either fear, sex or ego.

I feel like me commenting this is like a self-fulfilling prophecy for the intention of these cameos ("MAKE PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE THING!!!"), but: The last season of Curb Your Enthusiasm just came out, so that's probably what that cameo was about

That actually makes it sadder that there are not more smaller actor getting the bag instead of these people that don't really need it... unless is to recoup what they donated to the strike found but like.. nah

Haha, yeah, Matt Damon and Jennifer Lopez were suffering tremendously from the actor's strike. I'm glad they made it out alive! I heard at one point their budget was down to just one gilded Kobe filet mignon a week 😢

​​@@HuckleberryHim By doing the ad they created jobs for a lot of people behind the scenes, who would've suffered from the strike. This is similar to Hank's point about feeling obligated to their agents.

@@DueySR More like obligation to contracts and their own personal enrichment, if they were such saints why aren't they giving away their wealth? I'm not talking tax-free "charitable" "foundations", or some genuine good here and there. These people could give away >90% of their wealth (this used to be the top tax rate some decades ago!) and still be just uncomfortably wealthy, instead of disgustingly wealthy. Let's not kid ourselves about the beneficent motivations of ultra-wealthy ultra-privileged elites.

@@HuckleberryHimI’m not saying they don’t have ungodly wealth, but Matt and his wife, Ben and Jlo were amongst the actors were donated the most amount of money to the strike fund, so it’s not as black and white as it might seem

Also, and it's not important, but there's no way he's a Billionaire. (I know Hank didn't say "Larry David is a Billionaire", but it was implied, based on the direction of the monologue). I'm sure he's stinkin' rich, more than I'll ever have, but it's not a billion. Maybe half that. EDIT: He basically does say it later in the video, lol.

I think Jennifer Lopez has a movie going on, so maybe Ben Affleck being on the news also transfer to her, if they google him and then click on JLo, or am I stretching?

@@rederik99 One site says he has $450 million and lost half of his wealth in a divorce. Which explains why no-one stopped him when he crashed the Elmo piece with his "I am a horrible person" schtick.

Also, I believe he has invested heavily in Crypto so he gets a ROI if people actually use the crypto trader he promotes

@@YoJesusMoralesJ Lo was also in the commercial

i feel like this vid is not at all expecting you to care about celebrities or the superbowl? it's about the psychology of fame and wealth? i guess that is also a topic you don't care about, which is legit.

same!

@@ArtichokeHunterhank is so good and so interesting. i love his little adhd mind. i will follow him down just about any rabbit hole, but sociology is one of my favorite things, so this one was particularly cool.

That was 13min? Oh man ^^

Yes, I usually skip the Superbowls, often catch up on the ad culture stuff after the fact...and find Hank's analysis of celebrity Superbowl ads more interesting.

I will always think of him as that Spanish psychic Prof Javier, despite his speech impediment.

Hey that's Gandalf's bestie right there!

Professor X deserves his cred, but to be fair it was damned near the same dude

i didn’t even realize. i noticed that something seemed off, but i would never have put it together that he used the wrong name. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I preferred him as Sejanus in "I, Claudius"

as my high school us history teacher said, "something's trickling down... And it ain't money"

​@@emersonjakes8119 Sounds like a George Carlin quote, lol

I hope your likes will trickle down to me. Capatilism

Honestly the ads cover the cost of the content, super bowl is PPV because the Billionaires Ads. Same with RU-vid

Things do trickle down. Flat screen tvs were something only rich people had at one point.

I learned it was pronounced Temu and not Temu.

and quite a morally questionable company at that

Buy into the market share

Temu? I guess I'll check it out

@@heartofgoldfish be careful, their app has viruses. I'd stick to their website if you're going to use it

Because people have the memory of a gnat and need to be constantly and relentlessly reminded that sugary brown bubbly beverages exist!

They advertise because if one don’t, the other one still will.

Every year there are new 5 year olds to advertise to create lifelong brand recognition with. The ads aren't aired for the 40 year olds who have already seen them their whole life.

Dr Pepper and Coke need to advertise because I'm back and forth about which is superior and will buy either. I have no clue why Pepsi is burning their money, its not like anyone would choose to buy their product... You know what I could really go for? Feeling like my teeth are sticking together for the next few hours.

@@MimiKe_ correct, I think it was coke that realized in the late 80s they were losing their market share because they weren't advertising to kids. cool world!

Well you don't become a billionaire by spending your own money.

that's how they became billionaires. no one in the history of our entire species has worked hard enough to be a billionaire on their own merit. jeff bezos is not better at what he does than the best scientists, engineers, doctors, athletes, to say nothing of the tradesmen and blue collar workers, or even those working menial jobs, because like all billionaires he doesn't just admit the fact he wakes up whenever, does whatever, and has everyone attend to his whims, he openly flouts it in our faces

Patrick Stewart will show up places just for a good time.

Skipping his name in the title despite reading it, while saying his name, and then FINALLY noticing it a solid 3 minutes later was peak ADHD. I've done the exact same thing hundreds of times.

Isn't that just having developed good online habits of verifying information?

@@567secret I meant more overlooking the name in the title, falling down a slight rabbit hole and only once you've already found the answer noticing you already had it the entire time.

oh the guy who was in that one Lil Nas X song?

If I understand correctly, last year Jesus finally became Superbowl famous.

This made me laugh so hard.

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AMAZING COMMENT

I've heard rappers level some pretty serious disses at Jack Harlow, but none of them were anywhere close to "Yung Gravy, or...no not Yung Gravy, a guy like him, the other one"

You have an amazing memory, it sort of checks out from what I remember. I remember strongly the chain mostly, looney tunes antics in real life.

@@YoJesusMorales oh yeah the chain with some sort of call back one liner

Arnold is raised on a tropical island educated in philosophy and the arts. He is sheltered, naive, thinks everyone is honest & trustworthy. And on the road trip to deliver the briefcase they meet and fall in love with two sisters. Arnold loses his v card to one sister. End of the movie the couples are married and each couple has twins. They even found their mom. Synopsis from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twins_(1988_film)

At one point, they’re stealing a car (bad twin’s idea) and the alarm goes off. Good twin just elevates one end of the vehicle until the alarm goes off. It’s something that he read about in a book, so he understands the theory of how car alarms work, but can’t see through bad twin’s shenanigans. And yeah, that was a long time ago. Dude needs to shave.

And not only are they working hard, under military-like structure and regulations, often in jobs that are both mentally and physically taxing, away from their families for sometimes years at a time (a major reason Galaxy class ships were created), they are in an extremely dangerous environment (SPAAAAACE!) and under _frequent mortal peril._ And the best part of this is that we all watch it and have no problem accepting it. If all your needs, including recreation, were provided for, of course people would still pursue such activities. Wealthy people were responsible for much of the research and discovery of the past, because they were the only people who had time and money for education, research, and expeditions. But bring up universal basic income, even as a concept ignoring feasibility, and one of the first arguments against it is, "but then nobody will want to do anything and society will collapse".

@@bloodgain I often think, if we were to implement UBI then anyone who would stop working was 1) Exhausted from being forced to work at something they don't care about to survive 2) Never given the chance to learn the joy and fulfillment of self-motivated work because they have always been coerced to work since school or 3) Both of the above Also, it wouldn't be the most awful thing in the world for a lot of people to quit. We'd need to reorganize a bit, but _so_ many jobs are fabricated to inflate labor and really just aren't needed. Too much micromanaging and squeezing every last penny of potential profit. And of course, eventually yeah, the quitters would get bored and go back to work. Or develop skills and crafts they enjoy... so much they do them a lot... and share them with others... _oops_ that's working they've accidentally made a job for themselves. We could see a lot more entrepreneurship if people had the security of their livelihood not depending on success.

My man, are you ok?

@@derj1981 Hell no! But isn't that life these days?

You think billionaires needs union health insurance?

See all the Monty Python cast who didn't find a proper career afterwards.

this is legit, but once you have a billion dollars (or a bunch of millions), you can just make your money do the work instead. if people grew up without money, they may still have that anxiety that they could lose it all, though, so that could be a reason. but with celebs who grew up rich, i wouldn't expect as much concern about taking gigs out of fear that they someday won't be rich.

@@pattheplanter i'm curious who you're thinking of. graham chapman died young and i feel like the others all had fairly cool careers, although i guess terry jones' was the most niche. (objectively none of the pythons were, even at their height, as famous or as rich as someone like taylor swift or beyonce though.)

​@@pattheplanter didn't they all grow up rich? They met at Cambridge

@@ArtichokeHunter Eric Idle and John Cleese have both said they are still working in their 80s because they have to for the money. Quibbling publicly with each other about how Monty Python didn't earn them enough in the last few days. Gilliam, Palin and Jones all made a good living from their multiple solo projects.

had to scroll back to see that. LOL, Hank. Vanilla, though? Nah, I don't believe it. You're too smart.

Plus, if you are on the spectrum or ADHD, there is this thing called rejection sensitivity…an over the top emotional reaction which is pretty common in neurodivergent groups due to how are brains are wired!

@@cammie49 ohh, ive been reading and watching videos about asd and adhd lately. its definitely possible i have one or both of them from what i understand

it's a lot weirder when laypeople who have literally no allegiance to them, especially ones who do not purchase the product, feel the need to defend the institutions of these god-kings. because that's what they are. they live like pharoahs, emperor, etc

Sometimes this extends just/also to their families. I've heard more than one famous person at some point mention that they'll keep working so their kids never have to want for anything. Working for the sake of someone else is a drive for a lot of people.

P.S. The subject of why people do the things they do is very interesting to me. I like to think about that a lot. So far the ones benefiting from it the most have been my closest friends who get a lot of insight and silly ideas and a great conversation partner from it. Maybe one day I can also publish something great that I can channel all of my thoughts and ideas into. So far I have been working on music. Maybe one day I will write a book. Who knows. I hope I can live that long.

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We don't "pay" celebrities. They create products that make money. That's like saying "We pay coca cola millions of dollars to make beverages while we pay teachers pennies."

Yeah this is a fairly naive comment.

​@@BassLiberators If we pay people according to how valuable the products they create, does that mean teachers arnt producing valuable products? i.e. are they bad at their jobs?

That's the free market, humanity has created whole cultures and complex systems that have turned things like entertainment into highly profitable revenue streams. Quality education for ALL in every nation is not nearly as easy to turn a profit on, but in the long run has immense social value.

Because they are inserted into content on all media platforms

This was all a new world to me, I had never imagined any of those people doing commercials. It's weird.

Some celebrities are also attention addicts Many of them aren't, but those that are will take anything they can for heightened attention

Omg yes! And famous composers too

Calm down Thanos

Yeah you never see Larry Page or any Silicon valley bro in a Superbowl ad but those guys really move the world.