1,204,986 Votes Decided: What Is The Best Thing?
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- Опубліковано 18 тра 2024
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Thanks to Graham Haerther for the main audio mix, and for recovering the terrible sound in my echo-filled flat!
(For the folks asking: I'm not planning to release the ranked list -- partly because "ranked list of major world religions" sounds like the sort of thing that'll cause trouble, and partly because I can't guarantee there aren't some other nasty things still in the list. Apologies!)
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Every Thing
04:35 How To Rank Everything
05:45 What Is The Best Thing?
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Thanks to all the people who voted! The results were definitely not what I'd have predicted.
_6 hours ago_
Hi
Hi tom!
Eeee
Comment: *_Not a week ago_*
Channel: *_Tom Scott_*
Me: *_Wait. That's Illegal_*
Hotel: *_Trivago_*
Wait did I just get tricked into watching a Top 10 video?
By Tom himself
By watchmojo
yes
Yup
bamboozled again
"I'm a privacy advocate!"
"I'll give you a slice of pizza in exchange for your email password."
"Deal!"
My password is 8 characters long, so I demand 8 slices ...
Hagen von Eitzen people with long passwords will never have to starve again
If I offer a new mattress instead, there's no way they'll turn me down!
@@HagenvonEitzen my password is 26 characters long, I demand 26 slices of pizza
@@HagenvonEitzen one pizza coming up!!
I LOVE that Space and Time got the exact same number of votes. That's poetic.
That, and that they were in 42nd place - the answer to life, the universe and everything, containing all those things
hearing things like orgasms being number 69, sleeping being the best, and tom's hold on the bi community make me love the internet
There is no community. That's like saying there's an alcoholic community
@@puppergump4117 Do you know what a community is?
@@ShrekPNG Any group of people that live and work together. It severely pisses me off that people try to describe some aspect of an individual, like their race or preferences, as a "community", as if they're all the same.
If you don't treat someone as an individual rather than a characteristic, you do not value them, and instead you further all aspects of segregation and the trouble that comes with it.
@@puppergump4117 is the internet a community
@@puppergump4117 if you don't want to be a part of a community, you don't have to, it doesn't change who you are
"Orgasm" getting ranked 69 is pure fate in action.
An event foretold in the elder scrolls
nice
It was voted exactly to be in that spot, not fate but action by men
@@duckmeat4674 its a blind study, so no one knows what exactly ranked where.
Fate works in a weird way
Ah yes, the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse: pizza, flower, bisexual, and windmill
Walter Clements more like turbine
bro that's a wind turbine, but ur close
all anyone that watches tom scott knows is pizza, flower, bisexual and windmill
Windmill
@Khaffit no, take your politics and go back to your hobbit hole
I'd love for Tom to periodically re-run this quiz for 5 hours at a time with the same data, perhaps annually. Eventually he could take the top 10 results from every session, pit those against each other to find his audiences ultimate best thing.
The biggest problem with something like that is when you start predictably repeating something like this, eventually someone will be ready with a bot to automate and control the results.
@@hamsterfromabove8905 that is a fair point. I just didn't have it in me to think about someone actively ruining some perfectly good data collection. 😒
bisexuality
@@ghostmelon64 tied with pizza
As a sleep-deprived bisexual English-speaking nerd myself, I consider this list to be extremely accurate.
hello fellow sleep-deprived bisexual english-speaking nerd
@@shackman7356 there's three actually
the three musketeers
@@skrimp44 we can start an army of fellow sleep-deprived bisexuals
@@shackman7356 im all for this
I’d like to imagine everyone’s collective internet hive mind subconsciously balanced the win and losses for “orgasm” to be 69th place
*Whip noise
_NAIIIIIIIIIIICCCCE_
Nice.
Noice
Additionally the collective consciousness of nerds unify space and time
Nice
'The best thing is: sleep."
Me watching this at 6 am: Interesting.
Same, but 2.15 am w school today and I have to get up in four hours asfhgjskh
Lmao this is literally me right now
your pp is quite representative of your comment
Me watching this at 1:30 p.m., about 22 hours after waking up because this is how I live:
I'm inclined to agree... =_=
I’m literally watching this now at 30 hours without sleep.
It's interesting that the only physical object that makes it on the top ten list is pizza.
Government: "You can have pizza *or* privacy, not both. Which do you choose?"
Citizen: "Hrmmm..."
*thinks for a while*
Citizen: "I'll take the pizza."
Take my like and leave me alone.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary pizza, deserve neither liberty nor pizza."
- Benjamin Franklin
@@toomanybrews7123 Ah, but what if it's a choice between privacy and *ever having pizza again*?
pizza et circenses
Bread and circuses
I like the way you phrased your conclusion. "This statistic reveals something about the group of people who watch your video". Thats true. Nothing more, nothing less.
That's Tom Scott for you. He makes every attempt to be aggressively accurate. Makes every attempt to tell his audience exactly what the data says, not just what would be easy or convenient to pretend it says.
“Orgasm was rated #69”
Everything about this poll is amazing.
that was it should be
Nice
So the poll was actually the number 1 best thing
Nice
Nice
ah yes, the four most important pillars of life: pizza, pollination, bisexuality, and wind power
I'd like to take away pollination because I have hay fever, but other than that this isn't that bad.
Jonas D Atlas hahah great i was just going by the thumbnail :)
A truly perfect world
@@sophiarubens54 so was I
ngl... most things i care about summed up
Someone needs to do this with a larger group of people, and I want to be part of it this time.
true
And without excluding groups of people from the database so we can see which race is the best
Notify me
@@real_nosferatu No. Just... no.
@@real_nosferatu No.
9:33
We are sleep depreived nerds who like pizza and not many of us are straight.
That's ..... That's accurate..
Yep
Yup
yep
yup
I got "Guillotine" vs "Monarch" when I tried the poll. Real France moment
The Committee of Public Safety hopes you made the right choice, Citizen Jan'ari-asha...
@@Zogerpogger which of course is the guillotine
*the origami king wave battle music intensifies*
Nice
You win
"The best thing is... sleep."
Me watching this at 2 AM: "agreed."
Me watching this at 4am: 'drools, mumbles incoherently in agreement'
me, but 3:41am
the real question is are you bisexual
@@paper2222 Why is that the real question? Surely there are more important ones?
Oh hello, are you me in an alternate universe?
it's been 2 years but every time I think of "dog go fishing" I laugh incredibly hard, what a thing to happen
You should repeat this every 5 years and note any trends and changes over time. It'd be really cool to see what changes and what stays the same over time
Space 80% - Time 80%
Perfectly balanced as all things should be.
Well, as Albert Einstein once said, space and time *are* the same thing
r/expectedthanos
I wonder if there were any space vs time match ups...
Guys that math doesn’t add up
@@hirotanaka
space vs time
ctrl + alt + delete... balance must be maintained.
"also i removed all listings for groups of humans because... yikes"
LMAO
true tho
K-Pop community is coming to Cancel Tom Scott as we speak.
@@user-vr8bn6jb3m a
@@user-vr8bn6jb3m please stop, you're incredibly obnoxious.
@Mycel that's a very big assumption
5:46 The fact that Twilight is at the bottom made me laugh audibly.
I would have expected the top 10 to be something like:
Air, food, water, sex, rest, play, compassion, contentedness, peace, escape, nothing.
I like how shelter and family isn't on this list.
arrogant of you to assume food instead of pizza
@@noone3708 Not arrogant, but sensible.
to be fair, not everyone likes or gets sex. i don't ever wanna have it, im a very sex-repulsed ace. and there's probably a significant enough overlap between tom scott's viewership and the sort of extremely online nerd who just doesn't care about sex (for whatever reason) for it to have an effect.
@@toothfairy10133 Know that you are in the minority. There are also some people who don't like food too.
"the best part of the body is the brain" Of course the brain would say that.
Except it is the hand that controlled the mouse.
@@feha92 but the brain controls the hand
@@Corey-1232 are you your brain?
*insert obama awards obama meme
but I mean it's not like our brains are biased we actually think about it and idk maybe I would say the hand or foot but even then the brain is obviously the best since without it we would be a mindless and floppy piece of meat
"haha the brain called itself the best organ, brains are so biased amirite?"
-the brain
Nah there just following there heart
-the heart
-the soul
-the brain
@@porknoodles6688 “haha the brain called itself the best organ, brains are so biased amirite? the brain -the brain” -the brain
@@kawaiipotato2505 "haha the brain called itself the best organ brains are so biased amirite?' -the brain -the brain -the brain" -the brain
-the brain
-the brain
@@TinNguyen-rl2xr -the pe
1:15 youtube compression is SWEATING
I would love to see the list of items that got in "circles". That when matched against each other, they form a circle of victory/defeat; i.e., rock paper scissors.
Nobody is talking about how orgasm is in 69th place and space and time has the exact same amount of EVERYTHING
Perfectly balanced as all things should be.
Nerds at work.
Einstein was right, space and time was the same thing afterall.
YESSS, I FOUND THE ANSWER I WAS LOOKING FOR 42 YEARS
I’d like this, but it has 669 likes and I can’t mess that up
"English speaking extremely online nerds"
Tom, I did not come here to get attacked.
@@user-vr8bn6jb3m please stop
@@user-vr8bn6jb3m a
If you interpret that as an attack, then that says more about you than it does about him.
I have never felt more seen.
@@theuncalledfor Dude, I was joking xD
Love that my thirst thought of the best thing was indeed sleep and yet I don't get enough of it
Tom Scott's videos are so well-written and well-researched. Thanks a lot!
"The brain is the best part of the body." -the brain
I'm surprised it wasn't another part of the body was voted the best part of the body!
@@BryTee I guess the other part of the body you thought of has 2 "variants" and therefore split their votes.
I do like the spleen, though.
I think this "body part" may (for some) fall under the category "brain"
I can just imagine some of these matchups:
"Snakes vs Yellow"
Uh...
"Melanoma vs lyme disease"
UUUHH
Definitely yellow
Snakes
One of the match ups I got when doing it was sex toy vs herpes. Another more in line with your comment was Crohn's disease vs ionizing radiation.
@@steven44799 Well, what did you choose?
snakes vs planes
This does not feel like the place I’d expect bisexuals to be congregating, but i am proud to be a part of the herd.
We are white English speaking people watching an informational video while failing to sleep. So HERD MENTALITY!!
What a great video to watch before bed. I'm off to enjoy the best thing!
"I don't need sleep i need answers"
1. Sleep
I don't need sleep i need sleep.
Damn you recursion
when the world forgets to write the exit function
Damn this is a god tier joke
Great joke!
Sheldon Cooper
Sleep is sus!
I like how some people might have seen air vs. pizza and been like, oof that's a toughie.
Lmaooo
"do i want to die in a few seconds but enjoy this pizza, or do i wanna live?"
decisions, decisions..
No, that question has a clear winner
@@Bullshit_Media yea pizza
Pizza is horrible anyway
I love this video so much. It's like a comfort video. I just love it so much.
What we need is not just random matchups, but matchups between things that have a similar score, so you can create an Elo systeem.
ah yes sleep. That thing everyone says they love, while at the same time doing absolutely nothing to actually get enough of it.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
truth
@@xmlthegreat ok im about to do something
XDXDXD
i feel attacked
>_>
Alternative title: Tom throwing shade on his audience for 11 minutes
underrated but true
All our own faults for having shade toward yourselves available to have been thrown
Luckily I'm not the audience he's referring to, everyone else is.
@@new_ale No true Tom Scottsman
Alternative title: Tom reveals the weird inherent bias of active twitter users, and how social programming makes us deny what is natural to us.
I am very sure the numbers will skewer differently in different forms of media.
Thanks Tom, no idea why I missed this one earlier but this is -the best video!-
As a perpetually online english bi who needs sleep desperately, i wish i voted in this poll.
also these results were actually just gold how did it happen
The fact that "orgasm" is placed 69th is just one of the best things in itself
Agreed, I had to pause cause I was laughing too hard. That and space/time being equal were the best.
Very funny!! XD Still think space and time being the same is my favorite part of this video.
69 is funny
Change my mind
Had to fight the urge to comment nice with time stamp 😂
@@victory1883 the number isn't but the jokes the come with it really is.
" heterosexuality lost to bisexuality among my followers " Can confirm I caught the big gay by watching Tom's videos
69th like
I was going to like you comment but then i saw the number of likes is sixty-nine... nice!
Bro that red shirt made me feel some sort of way
Now my bi-ness it’s making more sense.
Bisexuality isn’t gay. They’re separate things and that heavily contributes to gay erasure
I wanted to show this to mom when I got home from work. But while waiting to show it to her I took a nap and was out half the night.
I finally woke up at like 8, ate dinner and finally got around to showing it to her and….the answer was right in front of me the entire time. The very thing I was doing.
You should run this every year and then consolidate that data, I think it would be really interesting 😊
Might cause bias to be more easy to find then, though...
The guy who doesn't like pipe organs has the username "Frickpipeorgans"...
I don't know why but that puts a smile on my face
Someday, I hope to develop a petty grudge against a harmless object that is so engrossing I make a username about it. That sounds like a fascinating experience.
@@butwithcats265 Sometimes I wonder. Why would you hate something so passionately you choose to have that very same thing to be a part in your username just for the sake of hating it?
Build a totem of what you hate just so you can be angry at it
I just really hate them go away
“dog go fishing” is the funniest thing I’ve heard in months
🎣🐕
@@gmodiscool14 heha it go fishing
time stamp?
@@Person-lk1vs 4:04
@@Person-lk1vs looks like someone didn't watch the whole video /s
i could watch an hour of this video. idk what it is about people ranking things that makes my brain go bananas. i think just the chaos of trying to rank things is lovely
3:00 Great metaphor Tom! Fully agree
"There are a lot of things in the universe"
[citation needed]
Because it is really big
[citation needed]
*sigh*, I miss that show...
Yes, they are in the universe too.
[citation needed]
There's actually just one electron
English speaking
Extremely online
Apparently bisexual
Nerds
Hmm more accurate then I was expecting
that describes me scarily accurately
That perfectly describes all of us.
that describes all of us with 100% accuracy
I feel called out
Everything exept the bisexuality part is me
As a bisexual English insomniac I enjoyed these results immensely.
I have restrictions set on my UA-cam so I can try to fall asleep at a decent hour and well watching this. You reveal the number one item on the list and the reminder to go to sleep pops up on the screen and pause it.
Out of curiosity where did "The Internet" finish
+ PUSH THIS COMMENT UP +
Forty second I believe
Dead center
@@slender1892 obviously since it can answer anything
Bump+
"And the best thing is... sleep"
*checks time : 3:19am*
100% agree, just one more video
Have you made it yet, bröther?
@@thekingoffailure9967 I never did :(
omg i just read this message at 3:19am..
TheKingOfFailure always have been
Sleep is terrible, we waste a third of our lives doing it. I wish that we weren't dependant on it.
I answered sleep as soon as I saw the title.
I'd love to see this run every year or two just to see how things change
"English speaking extremely online nerds"
Never before have I been more offended by something I 100% agree with
James acaster?
English speaking extreamly online nerds who like James Acaster apparently.
@@Metaporphsycosis you'll never get his attention yelling his name. Yell your own name!
Not even english and still felt personal XD
I feel personally attacked to be honest
“The best part of the body... the brain”
The brain voting for itself is very wholesome
basically the Obama giving himself a medal meme
Also, electricity voting for electricity. Maybe no human even took the poll at all.
Biased much?
But also entirely self-serving.
The only organ to name itself
For some reason a simple(kinda) video about the best thing in the world, has made me laugh more than most things on UA-cam as of late. Loved this. Could not contain myself when privacy came below pizza
i would love for a version of this to remain live, im curious on my own opinions of a match like pizza vs privacy
Bisexual nerds without love who love pizza and electricity. Tom, where was finger gunning on the list
related: where was 'puns' on the list?
They probably need a hug too
I know!!!
who are also sleep deprived it seems
Eyyy I've never felt so seen in my LIFE
"space and time fought and won the same number of matches"
*Albert Einstein would like to know your location*
and time
Albert Einstein sleeps comfortably in his grave (Except that the best part of his body is not there)
*Heisenberg downloads NordVPN*
*Albert Einstein would like to know your worldline
They are entangled
Watching this while staying up, I should listen to the poll
I would love to see this again, like, updated.
And if one spent way too much time making it, even function like an app possibly? I'd play it on the bus all the time.
"There are a lot of things in the universe."
I'm gonna need you to cite your sources on that one, Tom.
Source: The universe
You should know this because half of the things in the universe live with you. You may know those things as “mother”
@@frozennbutter6425 I feel betrayed. Your starting line promised so much to me, someone who has absolutely no concept of the universe and somehow thinks someone could live with half, someone making a twisted metaphor that was to be beautifully laid out in the proceeding sentence, perhaps some great scientist here to present a lighthearted albeit not pure science but complex theory that explains the mysterious allure you piqued. Imagine my surprise to read the words that followed, sometimes in life you're better not knowing the truth, its so much worse than our imagination.
@@WolfCage123 what
Uncle my apologies, fellow intellectual. Although the size universe is incomprehensible To the human mind(much like your female parental figure) it would be amazing if One could somehow understand or grasp the wideness of the universe. I am sorry that I cannot express my knowledge in a paragraph as big as yours and certainly not as big as your mom.
As an electrical engineer, I can confirm that electricity is better than air.
But air is such a great insulator...
ah, yes, electronics, where current flows one way and electrons the opposite way
@@gideonmaxmerling204 booooo...... Show yourself out
Electromagnetism _is_ one of the fundamental forces of the universe. Of course it's more important, *Pushes up glasses*
As an air engineer I beg to differ
One of my favourite videos you've ever made
THIS IS SUCH A GOOD VIDEO
So everyone’s favorite thing is not being conscious
I sleep a lot.
yes. the best thing is so close go death..
capitalism has drained everyone's energy
Sleep is just death being shy
it's good way fewer things
Pizza.
Bees.
Bisexuality.
Windmills.
Long ago, the 4 nations lived in harmony, but that all changed when the British nation attacked.
The new Avatar sounds awesome
2020's version of Captain Planet.
@@user-vr8bn6jb3m E
beeeeees
Tag which nation you belong to, I'm stuck between pizza and bisexuality.
5:59 as someone who's had Lyme Disease, it sucks. Definitely the worst thing
I super appreciate this video
Tom Scotts audience, sleepy, bisexual, and deeply concerned about the earth's magnetic fields.
so a cartoon character or superhero with those traits would be very popular among this group of likely nerds. Marvel, DC, you have the formula for a hit.
@@mercurywoodrose Oh, well I guess it's time to retcon Magneto to make him bisexual with narcolepsy.
dont forget the pizza
My bad. Half gay
I did not know it was possible to be this deceased
Me waiting for #1: I don’t need sleep, I need answers!
Also me, 10 minutes later: oh
I can not even tell you how underrated this comment is
It appears we all needed sleep, in more ways than one
@@user-vr8bn6jb3m Ě
@@Gussyboy06 Ê
@@toast2300 Ə'^
Ive been procrastinating taking a nap by watching random youtube videos and this one finally convinced me to go the hell to bed
i think the Mazda Rx7 Spirit R Type A is the best thing
bridgeported with aftermarket exhaust, and its perfect
If "stustustu" was on the list it wouldve won 100%
Best part of the body: Brain.
as voted for by the brain.
[Insert Obama giving Obama a medal meme here]
The truth is, the game was rigged from the start
It also named itself. And told us that it's the most important organ.
And also orgasm, it did this one too.
@@miigon9117 nice
The whole system is rigged
"so, what have we learned from this video?"
"the majority of toms audience is bisexual"
@@Globbsterz no,,, :/ you can be straight and not be homophoic.
@@Globbsterz Go outside and touch some grass buddy
@@roofogato what did they say?
@@Orpheus_224 i forget, sorry
I feel called out
"also, I removed all listings for groups of people because... yikes"
Space and Time having the exact same matchup and percent is kinda awesome I've gotta say :D
"What's your favorite thing?"
Hexagons. Hexagons are the bestagons.
take my like and leave
*yes*
_you understand_
TRUE
That and hexa-flexa-perplexagons.
CGP grey fans here
Also don’t forget toroidal polyhedrons and octagons
“Something I didn’t expect to be so high, gravity.” I see what you did there
i guess people quickly “gravitated” to it
@@Periii_ Da Dum Pshhhhh
@@Periii_ "Do you believe in 'Gravity'? That there's a reason two people meet?"
@@Periii_ *ba dum tsss*
@@maxinesenior596 i can’t escape it
Idk why but Tom Scott’s audience being bisexual makes a lot of sense
the big flashing "this is a metaphor" sign in the introduction always cracks me up
“I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.”
--Emo Phillips
What does this mean? "I like my spleen the most, it whispers sweet nothings about it being the best part in my body before I go to bed"
Well it’s the only organ that can tell you that
@@Mikey-zk5wc wait how does your spleen speak
fattipotato 79 wait your’s doesn’t?
@@Fattipotato79 what do you mean how does your spleen speak?
I'm surprised to see gravity so high. it always gets me down, honestly.
I used to be addicted to soap, but now Im clean.
I wonder how 'puns' ranked...
Get out. 🤣
it pushes people down so it can go even higher
Friction is under appreciated too.
Wow! The #1 winner is DEFINITELY not what I expected! That's so interesting 😯
I was thinking that the 1. spot was gonna be like fun or happiness but no. Yet I agree.
Conclusions about the viewers:
-nerds
-tired
-bisexual
-eats like a child
-really hates lyme disease
-needs a hug
👍👍
yep, sounds about right, now can you be quiet, I'm trying to get to sleep.
When you live in a place with alot of deer and ticks, you tend to hate lyme disease.
all a little gay inside
Very accurate
btw, who won between cats and dogs, the internet needs to know
I think cats
this
im with my cat rn
seeing how obnoxious cat people are...
Cat People: Dogs are lovely too, but I prefer cats.
Dog People: CATS ARE DISGUSTING THEY KILLED MY MOM THEY KILLED MY FAMILY AND A CAT STOLE MY GIRLFRIEND AND THEN KILLED HER
I'm on neither side. I like snakes.
His videos are just THE BEST OF THE BEST
Would you mind running this again after the pandemic is over?
I'm curious how things would change
pizza. flowers. bisexuality. wind turbines. long ago, the four nations lived in harmony. then everything changed when tom scott attacked
bold of you to assume tom scott isn't the avatar himself
@@VeryTastySoup87 Why?
@@VeryTastySoup87 I hate homophobes
@@VeryTastySoup87 ok
No one has seen a wind turbine in 100 years. We thought they were extinct.
ELECTRICITY SHOULD BE NUMBER 1
Yess
no
Yes
sleep is actually great that it is on yhe top
Free energy should be number 1!
I was so ready for the vpn ad when you said the 10º place was Privacy