Cousins Explained
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2018
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I don’t know any of my removed cousins myself, but I personally have some first cousins I’d like to remove.
SakyoSekai hahaha ure acc funny😂
Really? How would you remove them, and where would you remove them to?
@@josephclegg3562 heck probably
I'm pretty sure the feeling is mutual
SakyoSekai call thanos to snap them outta existence
“Parents
can have children
That are not you”
If that ain’t poetry Idk what is
because of how he worded it when i heard that i was like bro wait what :o and then i realized that was a perfectly normal thing KSdhksjf
Hahahaha
@@Lauren-kj5hk I was so lost and then I remembered that I have 6 siblings
@@sadcena7761 lmao
I read this EXACTLY when he said it 😂
"My mom is not my cousin". Thanks for confirming Micheal
or is she
Are my siblings my 0th cousins? And my nieces/nephews are my 0th cousins once removed?
Me explaining how human families work to my alien from area51
This is also how an Alien would explain how their families work
@@katipunan4212 depends. generations are easy in animals, much more complicated in lets say, plants, or fungi, or bacteria. so depending which of those the aliens are closer too, it might be a very different discussion
Thanks for the Alabama math so you know which cousin is safe
@Jonathan Lumbreras same
@@cop-killer- no u
Cousin? Yeesh! A little distant, don't you think?
Meat Butt in alabama the family tree is a tumbleweed
@@cop-killer- but alabama has more black people than white.....
"No one will ever be a great parent!" -Micheal
Gonna make citation of this when arguing with parents.
actually this is not true: just call your grandparents in german Großeltern and voila there it is groß=great and Eltern=parents. Btw hasn´t the English grand ist origin in French?
@@tamino27 grand could also be translated as groß
@@oko_161 my grob parents?
That symbol is pronounced as 2 s’s
So you’re saying my dad is my 0th cousin 0 times removed
Bucks Fan yup
@@anushkasinghgaur1553 yeah I agree. Your common ancestor will be your Gp.
No because it doesn’t skip a generation
The Geek Actually, what I ended up finding out is that it makes more sense to think of your father as your (-1)th cousin once removed. It stays consistent with the system in a way that isn't at all obvious, whereas 0th cousin once removed doesn't quite accomplish that.
Angel Mendez-Rivera 4:38
0:51 for those few seconds that he tried to decide what "e" to use the entire universe collapsed through his mind he saw every combination of everything and he saw many universes, the combinations, abstraction and even the feint ideas of the letter "e" showed how mythical this symbol is. Then, he decided to use 3.
ε
The anticipation!
Other people:My sister
Me,an intellectual:My Zeroth cousin
0th Cousin Nonce Removed
Other people: myself
Me: my negative first cousin.
Other people: my grandpa
Me, an intellectual: my negative first cousin twice removed
Cousin't
I read it as mean intellectual
In the hood, everyone is your cousin.
in soviet russia, your cousin is everyone's
Wuz poppin' cuz?
What's happening cousin?
How goes it grandparent's children's children?
How are you feeling my parent's parent's lineage's lineage?
All bees are cousins
Are you doing the Tpose on a cliff? Respect
NotKenM
1:17 "But I, someday...may have children."
I think Michael's wife was just behind the camera with a rifle
i went from being like "aww yes this is cool information" to "wtf your cousin grandchildren gave birth to you, so you are negative 1, huh"
Alex Tayla I don't think that last idea made any sense at all. I think the only solution that is capable of preserving the consistency and simplicity of this systematic scheme is to simply not consider yourself a cousin of any kind relative to yourself. There is no reason to do otherwise. It makes sense to talk about everyone else who is not you as having a level of cousinality relative to you, but it makes no sense to talk about your level of cousinality relative to yourself, because, well, for obvious reasons.
This video in Alabama is called Wives Explained
😂😂
Austria*
@@Gia1911Logous HAHAHAH LOLOLOLOLOO HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH LOLLoOLoOoLOL
Being from Alabama I find that funny and offensive.
No it is not. I will have u know, I am most currently in Alabama and it says something about cousins. So sir, you are wronger than my sister cousin, Beth. She ain't too smart, bc of the whole, sister cousin part. Anyways,
"Now, parents can have children that aren't you."
*preposterous*
A Buzzed Whaler iuibuigibuiub
A Buzzed Whaler iuibuigibuiub
Mj
And the Nobel price goes to...
Kids without siblings be like:
...or CAN they??
My brain has left the chat.
Finally. I have never understood this removed business.
when you're from a big family, everyone's a cousin. doesn't matter if they're your 2nd cousin once removed, they're your cousin.
Fr I get so confused sometimes, like my niece is a year younger than me and my Aunt is 6 years younger than me??
Mood Swings it’s possible
@@moodswings1433 yeah i've 20 first cousins on my mom's side, so i'm actually closer in age to my mom's oldest grandniece than to the next youngest cousin
My grandmother's cousin is the same age as my uncle and the children are about the same age as me and my cousins... we still view each other as family but we're sick of explaining it whenever we meet new people so we just say "we're cousins" even though their dad is actually our grandmother's cousin.
Y'all family trees are a hecking hedge maze.
Not the maze, but the branches in the hedges.
Plot twist Michael is adopted.
Aokis lmao
And infertile
Aokis But he’d still be A cousin
Hahha I thought that was Plot Twist Michael, as opposed to regular non plot twist Michael, is adopted
That't would make him x removed
I feel like this video was made for a specific specific reason
UA-cam telling me to end my relationship with my *cousin*
Savage Yoongi Ew 🤢
Once remove them!
Damn wtf is Suga doin here?
Is it 1st or 2nd or third
@@teddyfield2164 I studied the video and I still don't understand
"But their children will be removed."
ONLY THE STRONG MAY PREVAIL
NATURAL SELECTION FTW!
BM03 lol
Wanna meet my 1- cousin?
Mr. Michael... I dont feel so good
Imagine a really big family meeting: "Hi, nice to meet you. What's your removal number?"
If you're the same age, your removal number shouldn't be very large because it depends on the difference in generations. The cousin number is more likely to be very large because that is dependent on how far back your common ancestor is
I'MDEprEssEdaNDqUIrkY Same as me. But as in Chinese culture some of the people that Americans would know as cousins (children of aunts and uncles) are known as siblings, I became an uncle to two children (who I know of) by age 10.
I'MDEprEssEdaNDqUIrkY That's still just a removal difference of 1. Not that big in the grand scheme of things.
Kaleela Edwards bruh you went into the nonillions
😂😂
"So I share 100% of my DNA with myself..."
*YoU DoN't sAy*
Vsauce: Explains family cousin tree
Alabama people: Write this down! Write this down!
As if they could write
what is it with alabama?
everyone is mentioning it in their comments
is it an incest joke?
APOORV SHUKLA yes
i lost it when your said " if my own grandchildren gave birth to me"
but technically your grand children could give you a half sibling... when your mother is up for it, that is
Chris aka Schulbus sweet home Alabama
predestination
there's a song called "I'm my own grandpa"
Philip J. Fry
*..... well they didn’t teach me this in school*
Cassandra Bankson they thought me this is Spanish so ya
What class would this be relevant? It’s okay to learn things on your own
How did you make your comment in bold text?
SpiteDISCOVERY with these * * at the *beginning and the end of the phrase*
Cheeky Bum Biology Class I assume?
So I'm negative infinity cousins with myself. Does that make me immortal?
You're just negatively first cousins with yourself, not negatively infinite cousins with yourself. Don't get ahead of yourself now.
Neg infinity would be every other you in parallel universes
We can consider uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces (one's parents' siblings and one's siblings' children respectively) collectively as their "siblings once removed", one's granduncles, grandaunts, grandnephews and grandnieces (one's grandparents' siblings and one's siblings' grandchildren) as their "siblings twice removed", etc. I prefer to think of it that way.
Michael can explain the simplest things and still make it interesting
Oh hi kitty
i know your black
FlyingKitty I know you’re red
IF YOU DONT SOMEBODY WILL.
FlyingKitty thanks for the beauty of despacito 2
0:42 "Let's begin with you. That would be yourself. In my case it's me.
Or is it?"
*Vsauce cue music plays*
But who AM I?
But what does ‘it’ even mean?
I can now find out how Count Olaf is related to the Baudelaires!!
From the Unfortunate events
I always thought the "removed" meant how many times they were disowned and brought back into the family.
Bro SAME!!!!
Alabama: *this sign won't stop me cause i can't read*
This made me laugh not because of the joke but because of your profile
@@legomeister6966 haha
You're cousin me a frustrate
Alabama is home to all the removed cousins.
the jokes funny
but the profile pic is funniest
"Their children will be removed"
I feel sorry the children that get removed.
Stalin: *Laughs in Gulag*
*Casually deletes Tommy.chr
Idk but I'm Mexican and anyone in my family that's twice my age is my Tío or Tia, no exemptions and it doesn't matter what relationship they have in the family. Anyone five years older than me are my cousins and anyone younger than me are also my cousin.
I have cousins who are double first cousins due to my dads brother and mothers sister having children. Not sure how rare that is but I haven't met anyone else who has this. Genetically they are as related to be as a half sibling would be 25%.
Also the removed thing is something i have knowing about but mostly everyone just calls the children of their cousin or their parents cousin their 2nd cousin. Probably cause its simpler and easier to say.
Michael... please tell me this wasn't just a very convoluted way of calling us "fam".
This *is* Michael we’re talking about, of course it was!
Raydeus Hello fellow 50th cousin! Where is my birthday present you deadbeat?
Yes it was, but don't be mad at him, he's family, fam.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Want to get some drinks fam?
Nah fam
"There is no such thing as Great Parents" - Michael Stevens
rather, "great parents" do not make technical sense, they make communal sense
No one:
Not a soul:
Not even the alabama kids:
Michael: thats alotta nibblings.
SCP Time yes c h i l d
you: my sister and I
me, an intellectual: my 0th cousin and my -1th cousin
negative firth
I thought I understood how cousins work but this may have confused me more.
I know, right!
He explained it in the most complicated, yet accurate way. I learned a very simple method.
Keep going by what you know
I only thought the cousins I have are the children of my aunts and uncles. I never thought that my parents' cousins were also my cousins. I just called my mom's cousin an auntie. Now, for me, it's too late to accept. So anticlimactic.
“There are no such things as great parents.”
“No one will ever be a great parent.”
“But their children will be removed.”
I really don't see what's so great and grand about any of these parents, they're WAY slower and have a lot less energy than my regular parents.
But what level of CUSSIN' will they be?
It would be so much less confusing with colors, please invest in a multi color pack
rachel.doremi fr!
Very well explained there! I was watching for a video like that in french to explain me how the different degrees were working, but with your video, I have understood the english and french version a lot better. Thank you very much for this Sir and keep doing such videos! 🙂
Always blow my mind, cousin
So... you can say that your cousin blows you?
alex oland 🤠🤠
hes my favorite cousin :)
alex oland yee yee
You mean cuz
I'm really liking the variety of shows, Michael
First Michael's Toys, and now, Michael Draws On Pieces Of White Cardstock
Penguixia what about MMM
This channel should be renamed DOPOWC
Best explanation I have ever seen! Great job.
"If your own grandchildren gave birth to you..."
I never realized cousins were so complicated
Me neither.
My cousin is complicated AF, man.
Just called my mom's cousin as auntie :)
"funny observation" creepy music starts playing.
so glad I wasn't the only one noticing. I had to pause the video to look up what tab would play the creepy drone music and it turned out to be this video.
You know, this just shows me how some family trees go in circles
13:49 You need to travel from the top of each person you're measuring the relation of to the bottom of their most recent common ancestor. Then you'll see that you are your own -1st cousin.
0:08 “Gosh will send you down to heck”
Gosh dang you to Heck
Hecc
Not in my Christian household
Stop cousin!!!
Roberto god damn you to hell
"It'll cause gosh to send you down to heck"
got it
What cringe...
(>»«
How did this man keep a straight face throughout this video
If your siblings are your zeroth cousins, and you’re your own zeroth cousin.
You are your own sibling
AtomicBreakdown Yes, technically, in a way, at least if you were to assume that that makes sense.
However, I would argue it doesn't quite make sense anyway. You see, your siblings, a.k.a your zeroth cousins, have zero removal from you, and share 50% of their genealogical DNA with you. You share 100% of your own genealogical DNA. As Michael argued, you could be considered your own 0th cousin as well, but then this means your level of removal would have to change in order for the genetic mathematics the system is based on to be consistent. So, would you be "negatively once removed" from yourself? Would that make any sense? It is just unclear to me how that could work out.
After thinking about it longer, I realized you would end up having to be your own (-1)st cousin in order for this all to work. Actually, to be more accurate, you are your (-1/2)th cousin. Yeah, get a load of that. But I guess that's just how the maths work out.
The lowest degree is 1st. The higher the degree, the more distant the relation. Siblings aren't cousins of any type.
Here in Alabama we call them our soulmates
StoopVital was wondering how far I would have to scroll down to find a reference to incest and/or the South
Roll tide
*Yee-Haw*
Anime must be your favorite
Ironically, it's far more likely in highly populated cities.
Noone will ever have great parents
- Michael Stevens 2018
I love how he gradually gets more and more excited
9:13 “Their children will be removed”
Things I learned from Vsauce (or its analog) today:
There are no great parents. No matter how good of parents you have, they can never be great. Only grand.
Then, and only then, can they become great.
_Grandness is the path to greatness._
Also, the children of your brothers and sisters are your Niblings.
Once my brother has kids, that's all I'm ever going to call them.
"Eli brought the Niblings over today!" "Let's go visit Eli and the Niblings!" Eli and the Niblings is my new favorite band name.
if your parents are Great Parents .... they are Exceptional - to the rule!
But you can have great grand parents
That last sentence is my new life motto
abqdez1 but you can't have great parents... so if you got great parents.... they're not your parents
Disclaimer: All the information mentioned in this video is 100% correct, true and reliable, unless the person who is watching is somewhere from the state of Alabama.
IGWA HD or Arkansas, we good in Mississippi, Cousins are just fam, not slams
@@matthewlocke9225 am from Arkansas can confirm
Me, an non-American who has literally no knowledge about each American state's family culture: *CONFUSED SCREAMING*
@@EsperantistoVolulo Americans don't slam their sisters. It comes from a stereotype of southern states.
@@applescruff1969 Oh thanks Haha
Algorithm: let’s watch this again and understand nothing
Part of my family was adopted by a cousin (car accident leaving 4 kids with no mother or father), so the whole thing has been taken to another level. I was told that my cousins are about my age and my aunts and uncles are about 5 or more years older than me. This helps a lot as that part of the family is LDS and has grown signficantly. The Catholic side of my family has one or two kids (Maybe, if any at all) and are very easy to keep track of. For one reason or another, I tend to hang out and relate more with my aunts and uncles than I do with my cousins.
*_If you are seeing this, you are my (1.29 x 10^12)th cousin!_*
I don't speak asian
@Ralsei with a gun I definitely miscalculated by a landslide. My bad at not knowing my maths.
@@greennigga7832 oof.
Donovann Lorrin Heyya there cuz! Can I borrow $10,000?
@@anyapathak467 Sorry, I only have (1.0×(10^4))-1 dollars.
I've been calling my first-cousins (once removed) my second cousins for my whole life. How could this happen?
Same.
To me
I made my mistakes
Got nowhere to run
tbh, if they are younger, once removed makes sense but if they are older, once added makes sense. Generation-wise
Azzy
Me too. 😀
How could they poshibly do thishh
how many removals before everyone ends up in roughly similar gene pool and therefore silly nomenclature is pointless?
bruh I’m high asf an this jus made my head hurt, like it ain’t roccet science to know who your cousin is
Just gonna go hang out with my -1st cousin see ya later
You going to sing "All By Myself"?? :P
Taikamuna
Your uncle/aunt?
Want No, that's a 0th cousin once removed.
Star the Triple Devil
Then I don't know.
Want they’re going to be alone
Michael, you're my favorite cousin.
Thanks!
I haven't NEEDED a video more than this.
2:50 This is truly a Gamer moment
Now that I know we're family, can I borrow some money?
How much you need and what is it for? Also, you better be borrowing and get my money back by Monday, cuz.
No, we are saving it for your birthday..
FYI. It's in November. I'm so excited!
Cuz, can you lend me a couple of G's?
I love watching episodes of Michael Draws in Pieces of Big White Cardstock
what's your fav episode lol
12:52 Music dramatically changes.
Me: "Wow, this is getting serious." 😟
Thank you for providing the first family tree explanation that has ever made sense to me
7:08 "One is smaller than three"
- Michael, Vsauce 2018
mr vsauce michale
oh god, is the comments section just one big family reunion??
Yes, which explains all the fighting over who gets the last piece of apple pie! :)
@@The_Scattered_Man hi mum
OMG YOURE MY 58th COUSIN 18 TIMES REMOVED IM SO HAPPY I FOUND YOUUUU
hi, cousin! what's your name?
hi my 10th mil cousin 10 times removed
I appreciate the work this show puts into making English subtitles.
glad Michael made a video on this, it's a really interesting topic. I'd like to get to know all of my cousins and make a huge family tree - I bet our family would feel a lot more complete.
yea that’s the reason i’m watching this
A Vsauce video disguised as a DONG.
Camilo Rey A Vdong
Camilo Rey
Ehhh, I didn't hear Jake Chudnow. If it doesn't sound like Vsauce, it's not. Awesome DONG though.
Wait...how do I do this online?
DONG Sauce™
Matthew if you know what i mean
Camilo Rey conspiracy theory
This is one of these things that we all just pretend to understand.
Cussing is when you say bad words, that will cause gosh to send you down to heck.
masterpiece
2:20 danish word for Grandparents could also be translated as Greatparents (or more commonly Bestparents)
14:14 If your own grandchildren gave birth to you, then they should have their time travel license revoked. That's a clear violation of time law.
It's actually called a "predestination paradox"
NSMike87 thats why its illehal
here is why a timeline in which time travel is invented, can never persist:
when one does indeed travel through time, one changes the future ever so slightly, doing thos once or twice will likely not make any significant changes, but as those changes become more neumerous, the timeline in which time travel is invented stops and can only continue once one such change causes time travel to not be invented, at which point the timeline becomes stable and mostly cohesive once again.
some philosophers toyed with the idea that strange phenomena, out of place technologies in archeological finds, doppelgängers and other similar phenomena, are remnants of such self ending time travel experiments.
If small changes that time travelers make can mess things up so badly, so can our changes, but we are usually not being extremely careful to avoid accidentally stepping on the wrong ant and preventing time travel’s invention. If time travel is possible, then there is a possibility that it is accidentally discovered in exactly two days, three hours, fourteen minutes and forty-two seconds, and every single action we execute is either contributing or hurting our chances.
See fry from futurama
Detroit: Become Cousin
TheLemptyPerson Connor the android sent by nibbling
more like Alabama: Become Cousin
This is the video that I didn't know I needed to watch. Very helpful and entertaining!
8:07 If you switched perspective to that of the older 1stC1R, you would see that the place where "you" sits is in the same spot as the younger 1stC1R was before. In other words the older 1stC1R's cousin's child is you, and your cousin's child is the younger 1stC1R
In the South, you just call them cuties.
SWEET HOME ALABAMA
roll tide
you know that in most of the south it's illegal to marry your first cousin right, but not in Europe.
thats right, in europe it's completely legal,
infact in 2005 a study was done on 1st cousin marriages in the UK and found that 55% of Muslims were married to their first cousins and despite only being 3% of the population they made up 33% of all people with birth defects
Let
That
Sink
In.
Ernest J. Rutherford: The Father of Nuclear Physics progress!
Jerry Liu you brought me here
I wanted to go to sleep but I didn‘t find my Cusin.
You don't know me, but I'm here.
*Cousins The “s” is important
You should stop causin’ and go sleep
I haven't heard from my CUSSIN' either.
One reason you have two first cousins, once removed (one older, one younger), is so that, in both of their cases, you are also their first cousin, once removed. The older cousin has you as their younger cousin, while the younger cousin has you as their older cousin (older and younger meaning older generation and younger generation, respectively). If A = B, B = A.
Other people : I went to the shop
Me, an Intellectual: my negative 1st cousin went to the shop
Hello nth cousins!
where n is an integer between 0 and 50 including.
Let's go bowling
well darn how do u do!
Hello nth cousin oth removed
I never liked our family.
Alabama wants to know your location
Your videos I cant get enough of. I wish I made enough to get UA-cam red to watch your other series. Thankyou for the knowledge and for the entertainment. Your the best. Not sure if you will see this.
I was about to lose it at the end with negative cousins and whatnot, thank you Michael
The music change at 12:45 put me so on edge for absolutely no reason.
Because now you contemplate that your girlfriend is also your cousin
Haha, joke's on you. I don't have a girlfriend.
Wait..
Haha jokes on you, I already knew my girlfriend was my 1st cousin...
eamon butler Wait a second, this comment was originally my 0th cousin.
Phil5cents shhh
3:32 The music gives me nostalgia
I absolutely love the amount of math this took to explain
Wow I understand now. It really helps to think of 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc cousins horizontally in terms of generations, and removal vertically in terms of descent.