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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2024
- For months I have been getting these random ads on Twitter telling me about Aquelleum, a place in Neom that is the future of...the future? I wasn't really sure so thats why I made this video doing a nosey little investigation into their site and some of their claims. Let's look into Neom and their claims for the future.
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I did a bit of research on Neom to help with an essay my sister was writing on Saudi Arabia's recent push towards tourism, and felt the need to say this: Neom was advertised as being built on a "virgin" area, but part of the site has been the home to the Huwaitat tribe for generations, and now at least 20,000 of them are being forcibly evicted and displaced to build this flashy tourism trap. Abdul Rahim al-Huwaiti was a strong advocate for the tribe on social media, and was killed by Saudi police after he refused to give up his home. Human rights groups have labelled his death as an extrajudicial killing done to set an example.
Edit: More recently in 2022 and 2023, 3 people were sentenced to death for resisting eviction and many others were arrested
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@UTubeTrollPolice298 don't look behind you.
Oh HELL no. I'm over thinking that this is some kind of dystopian nightmare from a movie like the giver or something when it's actually a REAL life nightmare where the truth is more harsh and evil than fiction. FAWK this place, they are deadass a settler colony.
😢
My dad knew the then-head of the tribe and his son 40 years ago... he said they had a palpable sense of dignity and power, despite the chief being jailed repeatedly for refusing to acknowledge the Saudi king as his head of state.
"It's a metaverse you can physically experience"
Are we sure this isn't a cult because that sentence meant absolutely nothing.
I was gonna say, you mean real life???
I think the idea is like, hologram projections? A lot of smoke and mirrors, but it's digital@@Cilibi
Sounds like some kind of weird parable where one brother wants to build a Red Sea resort and the other wants to build an underground bunker but their dad says they have to work together.
@@ville__you have no content, and every content has it's niche so there's no 'better then'
but is there a "better than" though? @@princessmanitari4993
@@princessmanitari4993don't engage with ville. Just report and ignore because they thrive off of engagement
@@princessmanitari4993 don't bother babes it's a bot
@@ville__ shut up
"Discover history and culture"? They're talking about digging out a mountain and making an entirely new place. It has no history or culture.
This really makes me think of the kind of stuff Adam Something talks about: vanity projects for ultra-rich people to waste money on.
And it's displacing a lot of nomadic groups from the area, so destroying history and culture more than anything
Hasn't Adam already made a video about NEOM?
The only difference seems to be the shape..
The line, the octagon and so on
Every time she says "NEOM" I kept thinking of the sound racecars make when they speed past. And then she said that McLaren was involved lol
As a racing fan, I thought the word Neom sounded familiar
I said the same thing.
I wont call it NEOM anymore, it's NYOOOM 😂
as soon as Saudi Arabia is mentioned you just know its some project touted as the next big thing, that will likely never be built (or at least no time in the near future), that was just created to try and get rich people to invest in the country. Part of the whole image rehabilitation thing.
FR, this has strong Abu Dhabi "Sphere" energy.
_[angry Adam Something noises]_
*diff country obv, same idea
How did you write a comment 3 hours ago when this video was posted 20 minutes ago?
It's not even about rehabilitation. It's about them know humanity is going to move pass oil at some point in the future and them needing other ways to make money.
I don't get how can you say an opinion as a matter of fact. There are so many projects that the kingdom has announced and officially finished with them. One of the latest ones was the Kingdom arena (a football stadium that was built in 3 months and held two games in so far and the finale is Thursday) and the biggest most influential project was with the Holy Mosque that you can see so many space photos taken that show how much work has been done and thats FREE there is no money made from sales of water or cost of electricity or fees for bathrooms and wages for employees literally none, you pay for transportation and hotel and thats goes to the business and even with taxes the Gov would not recover more than 5% of the costs. The thing is, there are projects by countless countries that has not seen the light of day (e.g CA bullet train that was announced 15 years ago and not single mile of the track laid). Honestly, I can't unsee the elitism that some people from "1st world countries" have when talking about projects that they would have want to have if their countries weren't in major political battles with financial issues. I didn't finish the vid yet but eventually will.
@@ville__ thats really cool , no one cares, dont beg on others videos
I find it absolutely WILD that some consider using a ton of resources toward (potentially) creating a green city (when?) instead of working with what we already have and rehabilitating green spaces in existing cities…
It’s essentially a publicity stunt, same kinda shit the Chinese government does when they announce a new modern megastructure.
Like when China built their own mini-Paris with a mini-Eiffel Tower, that is now essentially in a state of disuse and decay…
It’s to draw in investors and stimulate the economy… They know this project isn’t feasible.
Like by putting in more public transportation and public housing. And making cities more walkable!
@@thebumpercar1344 For sure! 🙌🏻
It's a lot harder to design more public transportation and green spaces in a already existing city, since you have to take into account everything already there, and there isn't a lot of empty spaces so to create all of that, so you need to expropiate more things to create those (and therefore need a lot more money than to create the same in a empty space!!) for a solution that will never be perfect (for preexisting transport, historical buildings, etc) ... So I understand why it's easier to create on a "blank slate" like they did in Brasilia..
But it's true that just because something it's easier doesn't mean that it's the more worthwhile decision....
Source: I'm an architecture student.
@@larisa2184 : I majored in Urban Geography, blank slate cities are great on paper but always end up ballooning in budget and not being nearly as populous or dense or attractive to residents as organic cities. It is in fact more practical and a better return on investment to improve existing cities than to go build a new one. Brasilia seems to be the most successful of all the blank slate cities, but everyone else who's tried it has ended up with a ghost city or an overpriced potemkin city.
An important thing these “trailblazers” forget to include is staff. Think about how many people it takes to run one restaurant. One parking garage. One mechanic shop. You could boil it down real simply to for every 1 customer there’s at least 3 employees assisting them. Where will the employees live. In the illustrious complex? I doubt it.
Yeah, this project gives me massive Cryptoland vibes, where everything was seemingly designed from the top down, with the least effort spend on the foundation and fundamentals.
Sewage? Food sources? Employment/Employees? Medicine?
Who cares! We have these snazzy mockups of restaurants and we've already planned out where you can drive your boat inside!
I guarantee they designed the idea before figuring out architectural feasibility. I know I wouldn't trust this place to cave in on me, given they didn't think structural supports were worth including in the concept art 😂
So I am an urban planner and climate resiliency is a big thing we are tackling, but that's about making currently existing places better suited to stand up to the effects of climate change. Building entirely new cities instead of investing in the ones we have now is pretty wasteful.
NEOM is smoke and mirrors. The amount of desalinization needed is more than exists in the world now. It would take more power than a city to run. There's nowhere to grow food nearby, so it would be worse than an island like Hawaii. It's still in Saudi Arabia so it would need massive cooling.
Probably less on the cooling, considering its proximity to water as well as being built inside a mountain. Food? Yeah, that's undoubtedly an issue. They could build something like vertical farms inside; however, those are notorious for not being particularly green while also being expensive. There's a lot that can be seen already that simply can't be considered particularly green from the presumed construction itself, then operations add on yet another layer to that.
I'd say it's within reason of possibility for them to build the structure, but... they are undoubtedly not going to fulfill all of the promises they've been making, especially with being "green"
@@gaerekxenos I'm talking about NEOM the city, not this Aquaforce hotel complex inside the mountain. The city claims to be kilometers long running from the sea inland on what is essentially desert foothills. No matter what, they're building on the equator, it's going to suffer from most of the same problems you see in other big construction projects in SA and UAE.
One thing they never mention is labor. Their record on workplace comfort and safety isn't great, even when they're building in established cities. Imagine what it will be like shipping tens of thousands of workers into the middle of nowhere for years. No matter what they do to make the final product 'green', nothing they've shown so far indicates they'll be able to build it without massive pollution and environmental disruption.
@chrisblake4198 Oh, NEOM is the linear city name? My bad. That design makes a bit more sense with what they claim with environmental friendliness. There are ways to reduce the necessary cooling through exterior materials and insulation, but that ends up with issues of natural light instead. The issues I've been hearing about the linear city is movement. There are ways and methods for that as well, but I guess I'd have to take a look at the designs before deciding how much of a trainwreck that is. Power from renewable sources also makes more sense here considering proximity to resources, but idk how much that really is and how much that'll provide. Desalinization I'm not sure about, seems like a bit of a mess to sort out. They can't be thinking of it as the only source of water, can they? =_=;; vertical farming would resolve the space issue, but then there's water issues instead and maybe energy problems
I guess they can have fun with those problems if they do manage to finish building
I heard desalination and giggled. Desalination for an entire populace's water supply is a HUGE red flag. This whole thing is a sci-fi film being sold as a viable reality.
Imagine all the trucks coming in and out of it every day. Same with the Line.
Whats driving me crazy is NO GUARD RAILS. NO GUARD RAILS ANYWHERE TO BE SEEN!!! Just me casually tripping and falling the height of a mountain because your """physical metaverse""" needed to be aesthetic
Everyone of these renders of "future cities" have really high up shit and NO BARRIERS!
That's because they hire artists to render this shit, instead of actual architects and city planners.
There is not a single architect involved anywhere in this scam of a "project".
In one of the renders you see elevated walkways over other elevated walkways, all of which are made of solid concrete, and not a single support beam anywhere in sight. How well do you think that would turn out in reality?
Also, they claim to be "harmonious and at one with nature", and yet there isn't a single garden bed to be seen. No dirt of any kind ANYWHERE. Just a bunch of random greenery thrown haphazardly around the scene.
And this quartyard area that Amanda is saying is a "third space" (which is a stupid marketing term for a hang out spot.) Seems to literally just be a big open concrete slab with a bunch of people loitering in it. What is there supposed to be to do in this "third space?" What is drawing people to hang out here? They make tons of claims in the text, but couldn't be bothered to render any of it. What does that tell you? They clearly haven't thought that far ahead.
The whole thing bullshit. This is never going to be built, and frankly I'm disappointed that Amanda has so thoroughly fallen for it. Didn't think she was that naive.
Also there are always just people standing around in the renders, literally just anywhere - like no sir, I’m pretty sure all the rich people would be inside their multi million dollar homes and not just hanging out by the subterranean aquatic port….
The great tragedy of neom is knowing with certainty that magic isn't real, because if it was this town would be spitting out monsters of the week and two or three supervillians a year
Give em time
Just wait till some genetic engineering companies move in. :)
I’m in the architecture field and it’s less often that things can’t be built in more sustainable ways, it’s that the people paying for it don’t want to spend the extra money to do it. I can only really talk about it from a North American Perspective, and my training is specifically in Canada but unless we see a massive shift in legislature and grants not just lining the pockets of developers looking to make the biggest buck we will not see the large scale infrastructure changes that can and really do need to happen.
An example a lot of people are used to is Green Roofs. Soil is heavy, Water is heavy, and now you want to fully incorporate that on a structure that typically tries to shed water and has not taken that extra weight into consideration for its structure. You cannot simply slap a green roof onto an existing building without structural adaptations or without severely limiting the size and output of that kind of green system. Designing a building with a green roof incorporated is an extra expense that many see as extraneous and is often one of the first things to be cut when construction goes over budget, and it almost always goes over budget. It takes not only a visionary but someone with money and drive to see these changes manifest and so far our most vocal billionaires are more concerned with social media platforms and space😒 There’s a lot of people with some great ideas, and some are managing to manifest them on a small scale but I wish we’d see less bullshit cities of the future pipe dreams that will only benefit the 1% and more smaller but large scale changes that will make a difference for more.
Canada... or rather polar climates make those 'green roofs' even more of a hassle/burden. Snow? Yeah. That's a thing. It's one thing if green roof is implemented somewhere like Southern California and closer to sea level since water can still be dealt with by having drainage systems so it can run off. Snow would require a whole 'nother thing that is a mess and a half
Good thing NEOM isn't actually near the poles, and presumably not built into a high altitude mountain where it gets snow. But I can't imagine this project being green even if they added all sorts of vegetation to the construction. They're digging out a mountain, right...? That's almost inherently not green with how much fuel is going into the machines to do all the excavating. Alternatively... they build the mountain up as an enclosure, but that raises a question on structural stability for the slopes and is another headache and a half on top of how much longer it'd take
the discord notification sound in the background gave me work anxiety lol
Lmao same.
@@ville__self advertising isn’t the way man
@@accordingtomadison5231 it's a bot. just report it
@@accordingtomadison5231 don't engage with them, just report and move on
@@ville__If you're gonna self advertise, do all of us autistic people a favor and don't put down other creators works in the process. Dont self advertise at all but yknow.
I’m so tired of ultra-wealthy people being so transparently profit-motivated while trying to say, “but I’m doing it for You! It’s going to be the Third Space you’ve been missing, and Green…” If they _actually_ cared they would be improving the infrastructure and quality-of-life within existing cities, towns, etc. But instead it’s a decade-long, hundreds of billions of dollars project which will only ever realistically be available to the wealthy. Like they might as well be doing it on the damn moon, it’s the same unwillingness to tackle real and current issues instead of coming up with new things with new, fancy issues to hypothetically solve instead.
“Saudia Arabia”
“You’ll have no idea what will happen once you enter”
Jamal Khashoggi would like to have a word with anyone considering making the move to this place 😒
Also where are the employees going to live? There’s going to have to be healthcare professionals, sanitation workers, food service workers, retail workers, etc.
Do those people just get shipped in/out of this 1%’ers utopia for their shifts?
Or are there going to be essentially servants quarters ?
In the basement with no light out of sight obviously. Saudi Arabia only abolished slavery on paper.
Most employees there are immigrants in near slavery so, yup
It really seems similar to a resort/cruise business model, so I would assume that yes, there will be servants’ quarters
Well you see, the workers had their passports taken and can't go home :)))))
@@the_newt_nest it's so fucking scary that they do that
I just can't think of "NEOM" as anything but the sound of a car zooming by lol
Same! Neeeeeoooommm!
Me too
In the future we won’t need guard rails keeping you from falling to your death
Honestly their claims on being harmonious with nature while also being a luxurious digital haven are laughable. Also, if this is so high end, where are the workers going to live. Are they going to be able to afford to live near their shitty tourism service jobs, or do they have to row in every day through this underground canal? It sounds like theyre building a distopian nightmare, and it'll become yet another failed empty city until the mountain its under collapses in on itself.
This city is never going to be built.
No one has any intention of even attempting to build it.
The whole thing is a marketing ploy to siphon money out of Saudi oil barons. (And/or a money laundering scheme operated _by_ Saudi oil barons.)
I'm always a big fan for something huge and expensive in one particular spot that tries to fix something that could be fixed all over the world for half the cost
The amount of times I've been checking my discord through this video is a lot :D
Thank God, someone else heard it I thought I was going crazy 😂
hank God, someone else heard it I thought I was going crazy
Loving the video, I'm being gaslit by your Discord notifications that my friends are trying to be social with me.
Also I hate the phrase, "It's a metaverse that you can physically experience." It's not meta then is it? That's just brutalist architecture dressed up as a green space! It isn't an upside down sky-scraper; It's a bedrock-scraper with a large inner courtyard. That is nothing innovative or new except that you are limiting this to the ultra-rich to stay in a James Bond villain's home.
There's a Discord? :o I assume that's for Patreon or something >
Hahaha, same! I was furiously checking servers only to realize it's coming from the video. 😅
I came here to also say this, both the discord sounds and the points you made about this project.
@@UTubeTrollPolice298 Just because she doesn't have a public discord for the community, doesn't mean she doesn't use discord in her personal time. The notifications sounds going off in the back of the audio track were discord notification sounds.
@@cavernsofdarkness you're reading it wrong. When they say "she doesn't have a discord" they mean specifically a community server. Not that she doesn't use discord period.
Oh man, I haven’t heard the name Neom since Riot Games announced a few years back that Neom would be their new Esports headquarters. If I remember that plan lasted less than a week after nearly every single person even tangentially related to League of Legends pushed back
Qiddiya is going to have most of the major Esports Teams HQs and Game Studios there
@@UTubeTrollPolice298 BE LESS OBVIOUS BOTS, YOU WASTES OF ELECTRICITY
@@facetioustitan3900just report them as spam and move on, replying to them is a waste of time
@@facetioustitan3900 When you tag them, they win
Yeah, they tried to bring it in as a sponsor on the LEC, and the entire broadcast crew was just like ok so we're not making your show for you then
I forget just how dystopian is until you mention things like the dorm pods.
My first thought was how much of an upgrade artificially lighted windows would be from my windowless bedroom last year.
There's only so much a grow light/SAD light can do for those kind of spaces. My dorm was so miserable to be in with the lack of windows. My mental health definitely took a hit from it
From the rural countryside here 👋🏼 sunlight and experiencing the outdoors is very important for mental and physical health!
Feeling real sun on your face and grass under your feet can affect things like blood pressure and heart bpm.
Make sure you guys get plenty of sunshine if you feel blue, outdoor study spaces are the best! Maybe there’s a small park or a quiet green spot near you 😊
There's a lot of words that sound like bullshit that would benefit greatly from being explained in a glossary
@@ville__ and none of those skills are learning spamming like this is bad.
The "it's a metaverse" was a dead giveaway of pure bullshit.
shoutout to the discord notification sound that keeps playing in the background
i was going insane thinking it was my discord
@@peachmazesame lol
@@ville__ I'm sorry but advertising like this is only going to result in you getting reported and probably your channel deleted
@@blurobinssdon't engage with ville in any way, btw. Just report and move on. They thrive off of rage
@@blurobinssthey've been making comments like that on videos for a few weeks now and I report them whenever i see them and their account still hasn't been deleted yet :/
the line is literally set up for a class system to develop - it's so crazy to me. Also the transport??? begging for backups
Getting rid of the almond farms in California would do a lot in securing drinking water for that state. 🤷♂️
Getting rid of avacado farms would too.
And getting rid of golf courses.
The idea of cube-shaped things being a red-flag for future Swell Entertainment topics is pretty hilarious
Basically, a gated community deigned by someone who just LOVES dystopian fiction.
The sheer audacity to read a dystopian novel and decide that you can make it work.
Walkable/bike friendly cities, community minded activities, mandatory home economics classes in schools to teach life skill (ie sewing, cooking, basic home owner/car maintenance skills), decreasing over all human greed,( this includes fast fashion shopping, tossing everything once we are over it ect.) That’s gonna do a lot more for our earth then some fancy tech cities.
Also let’s be so for real some heritage buildings, bridges, and roads are nothing more then an earthquake hazards. It’s okay to want to show our history but when a bridge is literally so unstable that they have to block it off because it can sustain itself it’s time to make a new one. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, but if it is broke do fix it.
1. "Walkable" and "bike friendly" cities solves absolutely nothing. That is a completely pointless endeavor.
2. What the hell are these "community minded activities"? And what the hell do they allegedly solve?
3. I agree that basic life skills course should be mandatory, but that wouldn't really solve anything either, because so few people can be bothered to actually do any of that stuff. I know full well how to change my own oil, but I still go to a shop to do it for me, because I care less about the money than I do about the time and effort I would need to dedicate to doing it myself. 90% of people feel the same way about a lot of skills. That's why they aren't taught in schools anymore. Because no one cares.
4. Not sure what fast fashion has to do with greed. Fast fashion isn't greed. It's vanity. The entire luxury industry isn't about greed. It's about vanity. Greed would be refusing to pay workers a decent wage while giving yourself millions in bonuses. Not buying your fifteenth Gucci bag because you got bored with the last fourteen. That's just pure vanity.
@@GeneralNickles I don’t think nihilism solves anything either. Out of curiosity, what societal changes would you suggest instead?
@@strawberrycola39 the housing crisis would be solved almost entirely by enacting legislation to limit the number of properties any one entity can own, with careful attention to avoid loopholes that allow for shell companies to buy up everything anyway.
Other than that, society is kinda fucked, and really nothing can be done about it. The poverty problem, the healthcare problem, and all the other big issues quite literally can't be fixed. If they could, then it would've been done by now. A LOT of incredibly smart people have dedicated there lives to fixing these problems, and it's amounted to literally nothing. There's really only one conclusion that can be drawn there.
The environmental crisis is too far gone to be fixed. If humans just blinked out of existence right now, then climate change would still happen, and it wouldn't be notably different than it would be with us still here. It's just too late to do anything about it. That is, unless we learn a way to reverse terraform earth to force climate change to go in the other direction (like when Neil degrasse Tyson said "if we could turn mars into earth, then we can turn earth back into earth"), but then we have the same problem in the other direction. Global temps getting too cold.
Sure, being less wasteful is a good thing. We should strive to be the best we can, but to think that it's actually going to make a difference on a grand scale is naive at best.
@@GeneralNicklesyou really had me w the housing crisis stuff it was a great start and then you just gave up on the world and seem to be resistant to any attempts big or small to make things better
The reason attempts aren’t being made isn’t bc they can’t be made it’s bc we live under the rule of ppl who are greedy parasites who will stand to lose money by trying to make things better, they want to go to space bc they can sell their rockets they don’t want to stay on earth bc then they have to stop selling their fossil fuels
This reminds me of a book I read as a kid called "The City of Ember".
the constant discord notifications had me stressed lmao
THANK YOU I THOUGHT IT WAS IN MY MIND
yeahh i had to check if it was me or the video...
Futuristic square designs that immediately jumped to my head. They made the Borg and also that sci fi horror movie The Cube. The design is also kind of giving Event Horizon as well. It just needs a homicidal AI and it will be set.
"Neom" sounds like the doppler effect. Like a racecar. NEEEEEEOMMM
I feel like this is the result of some rich kids smoking one too many blunts. Or one too many shrooms
Following similar projects like this and that isn't too far off only they're more older
🎶If you want to get down. Down underground…Cocaine 🎱Clapton
All I can think about is that the hole is a giant chimney which would be a massive problem for fire mitigation and supression. Asssuming there is enough water near by which would be useable for sprinkler systems, I think the salt water versus desalinated water would be a massive undertaking on its own without factoring in potable water.
Lots of thoughts about this very deep chimney like hole in the ground 😬
I’ve built many a home in a mountain in Minecraft and you’re right, the top level definitely needs sky access
If you do not, in fact, have a twitch stream where you build Aquelleum in minecraft I will be contacting the Better Business Bureau.
It’s giving Walt Disney’s EPCOT
Unfortunately, Saudi Arabia has been "forcefully relocating" (putting it lightly) the indigenous Howeitat tribe to build Neom.
Aquellum is just another major city being built by Saudi Arabia, but with a lot less of an eSports focus.
Neom is intended as being the home to eSports professionals, having teams relocate so there's less international strength, as everyone is then a part of Saudi Arabia. Players may be put at risk as there have been no changes in laws to legalize homosexuality. I do recommend [eSports] investigative reporter Richard Lewis on more information for these topics if you're curious. It's a rabbit hole.
Now I need a deep dive on the group behind the "Where will Dubai take you now" tourism ads🤨
6:40 "It's a metaverse that you can physically experience."
Who let this woman speak on camera? And is Aquelleum the setting for the next Bioshock game?
Well it definitely should be now
Did someone say metaverse? lol time to get @CallumUpton and @KiraTV1 on the case! 🤣
@@ville__I have to know. Do you post al these comments yourself or are there multiple accounts run by different people because I see you everywhere on UA-cam
local saudi here. been a subscriber for a while..
neom is a physical place lol, its supposed to be a economically advanced city, i have friends that work there but i haven't been there because there's nothing to do there "yet"
but from a citizen pov yes neom is mostly for tourist and investors with big boy money, and the people that live there at the moments are mostly workers on said projects, we anticipate that it might even have separate rules than the rest of the country even tho that is also changing rapidly to match
when it comes to the line and the other si-fi fever dreams. "there's a few"
well i personally question if they will ever see the light of day, because the government is somewhat rebranding / rebuilding multiple cities at the same time
and we're ain't that rich yall...
we never had taxes before covid, then it started with 5% now its 15%...
I got the ads for these and even after scouring their advertised website i still couldnt figure out what it was and if it was real. The wording on the website screamed "I AM A CULT"
The Adam Something video on this is gonna be WILD
He already has videos on all the others projects by Neom, and there is simply no way that any of them will actually be livable, if they are ever built.
@@ville__go AWAY
Zero railings around water features, stairs, or what appear to be high ledges (it is unclear if there are meant to be glass walls there?) in the footage is interesting. I'm sure that's all just concept art to catch attention, but still weird that safety isn't something that comes up even in the form of basic infrastructure.
Does anyone else hear discord pings? Or am I hallucinating?
No, there were a ton and it was pretty distracting.
@@UTubeTrollPolice298 then her editor has it playing in the background for some reason, it’s really annoying.
@UTubeTrollPolice298 It sounded like it only went off when the video she was watching played. Which would be hilarious if they left in discord pings somehow.
We just talked about this city in my realeste class yesterday. Nobody in my class wanted to live there. MY prof was shocked and
talked about how amazing he thought it was.
Your prof sounds like a moron
if this was a real place they would not be advertising on the internet since an average joe's salary cant afford it. Also, they wouldn't need to advertise, just through word of mouth in the 1% while keeping it exclusive.
Adam Something on youtube has done some videos on the actual feasability of those projects, they are worth a watch
Haven't finished the video yet but my question about Aquellum is this: is it accessible for people with disabilities? Have they even considered disabled folks in their Minecraft fantasy city?
It's Saudi Arabia, so no. It is notoriously inaccessible.
This idea scares me in real life due to all the “no railings. Not enough sunlight. It’s only for rich people” but. I absolutely want to see it in minecraft now. It feels like it would be fun to explore that.
This reminds me of all the man made islands they were going to build in Dubai before 2008, most never got built because of the recession. Hope it’s not a canary in the coal mine type of situation.
I am frightened for a monster mirror because that sounds like they're going to create arid insanity. Just more dry in an area that's already dry. With just a miniscule amount of science background I have, I just see it as causing problems to the ecology around it for the sake of creating some form of utopia. Sci-fi novel asserts, creating a utopia for some while it is a dystopia for many, many others.
No guard rails on those walkways. Imperial design showing through
I think this is the town from Don't Worry Darling....
I love that movie 😂
my idea for fixing the planet is simple : abolish golf courses. all the water and labor that goes into maintaining golf course lawns could be better suited as farmland and we wouldn't be so reliant on factory farming. less emissions too bc less transport time since it's staying local. if i think about it too long i get hot in the face and angry at rich people so i try not to dwell on it too much :'''')
I don't know who needs to hear this but if you swear you could hear Discord notification noises around 5 minutes into the video I believe you, I hear it too.
Looks and sounds like the Aquellum people just really need to play more Dwarf Fortress to get their visions out and stop annoying normal people
This is going to have the problem of not being built. That's not happening.
Dude...I get them on HERE, on YOUR videos.
The uncanny adverts told me it was Saudi Arabia.
Swell, the discord pings are going to make me lose my mind
Thanks, I'm sick and a deepdive into some bullshit is exactly what'll help get me through the day
I thought my discord was going crazy 😭
This sounds like ready player one…with more steps. Idk.
great video but the frequent low volume discord notification cracked me up so much
What's hilarious to me is 1) the excessive use of concrete in the context of an pseudo-environmental techno utopia when concrete is incredibly bad for the environment and 2) how much it's going to be architecture Fyre Fest once rich people enters the chat 😂 like guys? Do you actually believe the ones who can afford this have the morals to sustain it ethically?
Wait that might be great content tho 👀
@@lowwastehighmelanin entertaining? Yes. But I'm kinda sick of rich people drama while we actually have the technology for a true ecotopia that could save our ass with the help of morally sound governments. But no, they prefer their escapism while funding fossil fuels with the other hand 😬 It's more sad than entertaining to me
Spending that much time underground would be terrible for your eyes. Indoor lighting just can't compare with the sun - low levels of light exposure in children increases risk for myopia.
oh my god the discord notification sounds in the background is driving me nuts
Girl your discord had me TWEAKING
Shivered me timbers fr 😭
As someone who works in a dark, windowless building this kind of living is my worst nightmare
As someone with no sailing experience, the idea of putting a big mirrored wall anywhere near the sea feels like a great way to get lots more crashes and/or blind/burn sailors with reflected sunlight
istg the second zak brown showed up on screen i had to pause and take a breather. what the hell is that man doing here 😭
I twitch every time the discord notification happens
your pronunciation of mostaqbal was pretty good. the discord notifications had me looking at my computer for notifs before remembering im permanently on DND for this very reason 😂
1:49 wait does Amanda not know what cubic meters are 😭😭😭
The bfc (brain fart counter) is a whole Fucken vibe and I’m here for it 🎉🎉🎉🎉
I'm only halfway through the video so far but it just gives off dystopian vibes. The promo video reminds me of every dystopian movie/show where they show an idealistic promo video then hardcut to it all being a slum with the 1% in a closed off perfect area
You know when you listen to a cult leader or member try to avoid answering a question by saying the same empty words over and over again in different orders and combinations? That’s what those ads sounded like. Not that it’s a cult, but that sort of “we can’t tell you the secret we’re selling because it’s not at all profound to anyone who hasn’t deeply bought in” thing. Did they say anything specific like. anywhere in any of the promotional material? “We’re working on” or “we’re building towards” but…… kind of a lot of promises without any like. evidence of a plan?
It was the audible pfft when they said metaverse. I could just see your face as if saying "ah, it's one of these projects."
This feels like the idealistic view that is held in by the developers of the new capital in Indonesia. I do not remember the name at this time but I know they recently did phase one of the project of moving the government and military to the city.
You explaining that your camera zoom keeps changing cuz it's dying and the camera zoom changing right then is way funnier than it should be
Dude, spamming your “better content” over and over makes people never want to interact with your content lmao. It’s doing the reverse of what you want 😂
@fartsmcgee8700 it's the weirdest spam bot ever, the channel doesn't even have any content 🤷♀️
@@fartsmcgee8700have spambots been getting worse? Are they just putting Chatcpt nonsense in UA-cam comments now?
@@fartsmcgee8700 That just prompts me to go through all of the comments and flag them as spam. Probably need to go look for a way to block them, but otherwise I'm basically looking for and trying to hunt down community violation posts to see if UA-cam will finally do something about the account(s) (which they unfortunately don't for some bizarre reason, despite there actually being blatant community violations in several posts I've flagged before -- may need to report user instead)
My Dad watches a ton of Golf and about two years ago they had the most bizarre ads running on Sky Golf for this place. Nowhere near as professional as these. I looked it up and it is the most unprepossessing port town with a concrete factory. I do not know where they are getting this mountain from, it's flat you can see it on Google Maps. And I don't know if you know but Professional Golf is having serious issues because of Saudi funded LIV golf. Are they related I don't know. Thing is if Saudi Arabia wants tourists why are their visas so restrictive, it is really hard to go to Saudi as a tourist.
I feel like these ads are a way they can legally funnel money to Murdoch, Musk and other media shitheels. Either that or it is some pet project to keep a Prince happy. Look we digitally built your stupid idea, happy now.
Saudi Arabia hates queer people so they've basically guaranteed that 99% of folks with money and desire to travel won't visit 😂
After that Gigi Gorgeous situation and finding out about the slavery I'm good. No thanks.
your discord notifications going off throughout the video constantly made me go check my own, i fell for it every single time
Hearing the discord notifs in the background got me checking mine every 2 seconds LMAO
"Nosy little nosy person"...... i ❤ this. So. Freaking. Much.
Why does this sound like Rapture from Bioshock?
What worries me with how tourist-heavy these ideas are is, the things that make a place nice to visit- restaurants, museums, markets, shops, hotels, tours, everything- requires a large number of permanent residents to actually work and keep the city functioning. You can’t have a city of just tourists. Where are the locals going to live? Eat? Socialize? Are they going to be in the same fancy villas and courtyards and have boats at the marina or is that only for the rich fancy tourists? It feels like they’re either being forgotten or there’s going to be two cities in one, a fancy one for the tourists and the cheap bare bones for the people who work at the restaurants and hotels but can’t afford to actually be a part of this ultra-luxurious city.
I have no expectations for this. Just seems like a resort for the ultra rich and *only* the ultra rich.
This feels like a giant viral marketing campaign for some kind of movie, tv show, theme park or whatever. It gives off those vibes to me anyway.
Tried to Google Earth it but it won't zoom or let me street view enough to see a sense of what is built. Aw.
i can't take this seriously when all i hear is "nyoom"
OMG, it's a silo!
Holy crap you're right 😂
@@lowwastehighmelanin Hugh Howie ftw
The discord notifications had me losing it omg i thought it was me for so long
16:17 Absolutely perfect comedic timing/editing. *chef's kiss*
This city is way more like an art project than something realistic.
Like, common... No advertising billboards, neon lights, or Mcdonalds and shit?
Is the audio super tinny and sharp for anyone else? I haven't noticed other vids having a problem, but given the number of times I drop my earbud within a day, im pretty sure I've messed them up.
“Making seawater drinkable” Desalination? Thats desalination. Isn’t that super inefficient? And ultimately bad for the environment??
Yep! But it sounds cool and futuristic, so they don't care, probably.