Whenever I've played telephone with a large group there's always that one person who didn't understand the assignment and changed it intentionally rather than trusting the process. Incentivizing the group based on how close they can keep it and going around the circle to hear what people heard helps.
@@deaconblooze1 Hmm... This could be an interesting social deduction game. One (or several) player is assigned the role of werewolf/impostor/mole, and their goal is for the end result to be as different as possible from the original. The others want it to be similar. And then the group needs to figure out which is which :)
This was a fun idea! I don't think anyone did a terrible job considering, they were mostly all within a certain tolerance of the previous one, it just compounds quickly, and it's interesting to see how things get reinterpreted over time.
No. There were several iterations that were obviously the work of people who did not give a single rat's fart what they were doing. I want the names of these people so that I can be sure to never hire them for any kind of work I may need done. Absolute failures of effort.
This reinforces the theory that, whenever you find homo sapiens near a drawable surface and some drawing media, you will find a dick pic. It never fails.
#6 begun the snowball. That's when it made the cat different enough to be misinterpreted. It also feels different enough, it's almost like that was a logical change, but seems like there should be something in between 5 and 6. It's a shame the change came so early. It was still cat-esque, especially if you know the og image, but it's different enough to be misinterpreted. It's also not that different from a cat, but different enough to fall.
I think this could be a good visualisation of how an accumulation of tiny changes can become a very big change − which is what happens in evolution of the spieces. Many people have difficulty grasping that small changes from one generation to the next can generate very different animals after hundreds of thousands of generations…
the drawings sort of tell a story: 6:07 hula hooping cat 6:14 grows arms, but at the cost of a hula hoop 6:23 acquires balloon (the balloon slowly deflates) 6:28 cat begins to melt 6:31 cat becomes depressed as he realizes he is melting 6:38 starts praying 6:42 his life starts to fade away as he morphs into an unrecognizable scribble 6:47 the cat’s final form
This is why if I have to cut a bunch of pieces of wood or something I always use the original, not the most recent piece I cut, to check if the piece I’m about to cut is going to be the right size
I can’t believe it devolves that much when they get to use the previous drawing to make the next one. If they had less time or couldn’t look at the drawing once they put their own pen to paper I’d get it, but this was so unexpected and unbelievable. My goodness
They only got one attempt. So that leaves a lot of room for mistakes. It probably wouldn't be so bad if everyone got one free do-over. I'm also curious what would happen if you do the same experiment but people use tracing paper instead.
I would like to remove the people who did poorly and try again with a different picture. I think it is probably about 10% of the people who accelerated the changes and without those people it could stay much more consistent.
@@4saken404nah I don't think it would make any difference. Most alteration happened from 2-3 outliers who don't have as good object/spacial comprehension when it comes to sketches. Like when between two pictures a ring was completely gone and turned into a bulbous growth.
This is fascinating. You basically replicated the entire path from drawings to hieroglyphics to letters in a few minutes, as opposed to a few thousand years.
What a wonderful demonstration of entropy. The drawing can only simplify; even the most skilled artist can only reproduce what they see, and (by the rules of the game) never reintroduce the original detail.
This is a game we play at home with one variation. We start with a drawing, then the next person writes a description of what they see. The next person draws the description and so on. Things deteriorate way faster.
This is very interesting, the same thing essentially happens with writing. All of the letters of the latin alphabet used to be depictions of real things, for example "A" used to be an ox's head. These were based on a word which started with that letter in a Northwest-Semitic language. This is also true for the Chinese characters, almost all of those used to be visual depictions of things, or made up of visual depictions of things in a rebus fashion. Over the generations, the original form is lost, and the pronunciation, meaning, and form no longer seem related. Edit: This also leads to the simplification of shapes, to make them nore memorable and faster to write (such as replacing the complex nose on the cat with a little loop!).
It'd be cool to see this done with artists. Everyone's style would be in the style of the next person and they would each be adding their own signature flair as it goes. Me and a buddy used to do drawings where we'd pass it back and forth and each add one thing to the drawing. It could be a character, object, design, background, add on to an object, etc. It made some really fun stuff.
Honestly, the final.image is really nice. If you take away the clouds you have a neat new logo or fun tattoo. Feels primitive yet elegant and as the creator of the first drawing you can see the original image through it and connect your experiences to it.
Where are you getting this few hundred generations bit? The last common ancestor with another species was 23 million years ago, and the islands the dodos were on emerged around 10 million years ago. They also weren't small flying pigeons before that, but rather large birds.
Holy crap, didn't expect it to escalate that quickly. 😮 I mean, I am no good drawer myself, but some versions were totally different, and were drawn in the different part of the paper as they used to be. If there were no time constraint and could look the previous image all the time, how that could even happen? 😅
this is so funny and well produced, why doesnt it have more views! also never seen a video like this before, would be fascinating to see more/see the experiment go further to 100+ people
Two important changes can be made. First, let people fix mistakes. Like the guy that made the legs asymmetric, it was not on purpose and it was not just a small imperfection that would eventually compound, it was a noticeable error right there. That would mean that we only get changes based on small imperfection, which is way more fun than a guy sneezing while dragging his pen and completely changing it all at once. Second, and better suited for longer experiments, let people know (but not see) what the original was. Like everyone would start their copy knowing it was a cat, now let see how it changes. Would that still change dramatically?
It's interesting that at one point a third cloud appeared, but after only a few drawings it merged with the character so it was back to two clouds. But the whole developement is interesting. The arms became ears, but those disappeared eventually and later the ring turned into new arms which also turned into ears over time. Then the ground-line formed a new ring...
This was fantastic! I really enjoyed this. It reminds me of the whisper game where we would sit in circle and whisper something in someone's ear. It would go around the circle and by the time it got to the last person the sentence was so far off from the original sentence .
This would be a great flipbook. I would double the pages, but after 50, tell everyone it's supposed to be a dog and they have to slowly reshape it back. I think that would be pretty cool.
When I play art telephone, I like to make it kinda detailed, have the next person take a good look, and then have so they can’t look at it while their drawing, causing the peice to warp a LOT.
Really good video. I love these kinds of videos that you do so It is so cool to see how everything changes like that. I do a selfie everyday so I experience similar experiences to that so this was a fun watch. Great video. Very wholesome amongst the cubing community as well.
Okay next time do the same thing but people use tracing paper instead. Might take 100 people to become interesting. But what's great is that you don't even need 100 people at once to do this. Anyone can just carry a sketchbook around and let people try it one at a time. All you need to do is find a person willing to spend a couple minutes tracing ONE drawing. Rinse and repeat! I love it!
This is a good analogy for evolutionary biology. Every organism looks like its parents and its children, but if you go far enough back you end up finding a fish in your family tree.
You chose a difficult one with the ring around the cat. I think aside from the last ones, were it wasn't a character anymore, the biggest difference was from 5 to 6.
I was hoping to see some more artistic interpretations but everybody seemed to just try and copy. I guess the instructions given to the drawers influences the outcome.
This is a really cool demonstration of how our brains will relate parts of a picture based on how close they are to each other. When a person draws a line a little too close to a cloud, the next person assumes that the cloud and the line are related, and tries to draw them as one entity. Really cool stuff!
It was really interesting how the cloud on the right suddenly split in two, and the cat held one piece until it shrank and disappeared, and there were only two clouds again.
the creature gained and lost ears several times, and not always two at a time
it went from cat ears to human-
Sharpie was a brilliant medium choice for this. It gets rid of being too careful and any mistakes are kept, allowing for fun changes to the place
Agreed. I play this game like twice a year and we always use pencil. Will definitely be embracing the chaos from here on.
HOW THIS CAT TRANSFORMED INTO A BROKEN VASE!?!?!!!?
Whenever I've played telephone with a large group there's always that one person who didn't understand the assignment and changed it intentionally rather than trusting the process. Incentivizing the group based on how close they can keep it and going around the circle to hear what people heard helps.
Yep... this always annoyed me so much.
The real intention of the game is to find out who, in your friend group, is a liar and/or troublemaker.
@@deaconblooze1 Hmm... This could be an interesting social deduction game. One (or several) player is assigned the role of werewolf/impostor/mole, and their goal is for the end result to be as different as possible from the original. The others want it to be similar. And then the group needs to figure out which is which :)
Have each step be done by 2 people, each with the goal of adding 1 thing?
I once actually heard the most out of pocket thing and no one believed me😢😢
I love how the hula hoop slowly turns into a scarf
I love how the cat got squished and cozy
goood video
the cat turned into fire with underpants
That was a hula hoop-?
Lol the two drawings changed so much.
imagine a stand at some convention where anyone can just come up and copy the last drawing.
sanic
Knowing humans, people would probably not evem try to copy the last person, and just draw a dingo
Would need a moderator
K but have it run at the enterance as part of entry fee for the half day lol
TTP would be super short.
7:00 “Corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture”
“They are the same picture”
This was a fun idea! I don't think anyone did a terrible job considering, they were mostly all within a certain tolerance of the previous one, it just compounds quickly, and it's interesting to see how things get reinterpreted over time.
HE NEEDS 2 DO IT WITH 1000 SOME TIME SOON WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT!!! THANKS.
@AidenHaigh-nf7zi I think that might be kind of boring actually, since we already see how details get lost and simplified just within 50.
I think many people did terribly :)
At least 5 were horrible
@@Tlioger Yes, a few really messed it up.
No. There were several iterations that were obviously the work of people who did not give a single rat's fart what they were doing. I want the names of these people so that I can be sure to never hire them for any kind of work I may need done. Absolute failures of effort.
I love how the cat shtinks into a ball at the end and the clouds come together to form wome sort of eyes
I love how the cat stinks into a ball at the end and the clouds come together to form worm eyes. 48 more to go!
I love how cat stinks into a ball at the end and tye clouds come together to form worm sort of eyes. 47 more to go!
I love how the car stinks into a brawl at the end and the clouds come together to form worm sort of guys. 46 more to go!
I love how the crak stinks into brawl and the end clouds come together to form worm some sort of guys 45 more to go!
@@penchopitankata5923 LIGMA 44
Starts out as a cat, ends up as a pair of Underoos, a testicle, and an uncircumcised dangler.
Lmao that’s 100% accurate. Exactly what I saw
This reinforces the theory that, whenever you find homo sapiens near a drawable surface and some drawing media, you will find a dick pic. It never fails.
For me it ended up being like a bridge badge
#36 and #37 heavily altered the trajectory of the experiment lol
So did Number 14 they got rid of the ground and just drew a small line
#6 begun the snowball. That's when it made the cat different enough to be misinterpreted. It also feels different enough, it's almost like that was a logical change, but seems like there should be something in between 5 and 6. It's a shame the change came so early. It was still cat-esque, especially if you know the og image, but it's different enough to be misinterpreted. It's also not that different from a cat, but different enough to fall.
@@cerebrummaximus3762 you're right that is a big change
@@cerebrummaximus3762 Yeah 5 to 6 seemed like the biggest change to me.
#4 made the ground and hoop cross the cat. That really sets up for the drawing to not make sense later.
I think this could be a good visualisation of how an accumulation of tiny changes can become a very big change − which is what happens in evolution of the spieces.
Many people have difficulty grasping that small changes from one generation to the next can generate very different animals after hundreds of thousands of generations…
Yes and it's so cool to observe evolution of separate elements like eyes and ears
the drawings sort of tell a story:
6:07 hula hooping cat
6:14 grows arms, but at the cost of a hula hoop
6:23 acquires balloon (the balloon slowly deflates)
6:28 cat begins to melt
6:31 cat becomes depressed as he realizes he is melting
6:38 starts praying
6:42 his life starts to fade away as he morphs into an unrecognizable scribble
6:47 the cat’s final form
6:42 Cat becomes a crown
my prediction sucked
the mvp
Lol
XD
Do it with 1000!!!!!!!!
nuh uh
I love how the cat gets shorter each drawing
I've seen this done before, and same effect: the drawing shrunk over time.
This is why if I have to cut a bunch of pieces of wood or something I always use the original, not the most recent piece I cut, to check if the piece I’m about to cut is going to be the right size
I can’t believe it devolves that much when they get to use the previous drawing to make the next one. If they had less time or couldn’t look at the drawing once they put their own pen to paper I’d get it, but this was so unexpected and unbelievable. My goodness
A few small details x 50 is a lot of difference. And with 50 people there is a very high chance some of them are not very good at copying it
They only got one attempt. So that leaves a lot of room for mistakes. It probably wouldn't be so bad if everyone got one free do-over.
I'm also curious what would happen if you do the same experiment but people use tracing paper instead.
I would like to remove the people who did poorly and try again with a different picture. I think it is probably about 10% of the people who accelerated the changes and without those people it could stay much more consistent.
@@4saken404nah I don't think it would make any difference. Most alteration happened from 2-3 outliers who don't have as good object/spacial comprehension when it comes to sketches. Like when between two pictures a ring was completely gone and turned into a bulbous growth.
@timmiller1 which drawings specifically do you think were done poorly?
If you put it on 2x speed it’s kinda like they are creating a choppy animation on paper like it’s a normal cat and it is deforming
Also, as the ground became less obvious, it started looking like a hoolahoop. At a certain point, I watch it imagining a devolving cat hoolahooping.
I put it on 4.5 speed and it looked like the cat got squished :(
I love how careful some people are being, *perfectly* drawing the bean cloud
But everyone makes one mistake that... changes things
I'm a big fan of the peen cloud on 21 and 22.
This is similar to how hieroglyphs evolved into simple letter glyphs. Cool 👍
Shows the importance of small details and how hard it is to get something right first time. Especially when using a sharpie.
So cool to see.
This is fascinating. You basically replicated the entire path from drawings to hieroglyphics to letters in a few minutes, as opposed to a few thousand years.
Henry’s prediction was a little off 😅
Wish he would do it with 1000 soon pls
a bit optimistic, he said 😅
What a wonderful demonstration of entropy. The drawing can only simplify; even the most skilled artist can only reproduce what they see, and (by the rules of the game) never reintroduce the original detail.
Wow it was rly cool to be able to tell who was and wasn't confident drawing just based on the drawings
thanks so much for featuring me! loved watching this hahaha
Can u tell him to do it with 1000 ?! would be so great thanks.
it turned into firey underwear at the end
was gonna say that
He needs to do 1000!!!!
noooo
@@LM_studios16🛑
@@Maskyn18 noway
This is a game we play at home with one variation. We start with a drawing, then the next person writes a description of what they see. The next person draws the description and so on. Things deteriorate way faster.
Telephone pictionary?
@@donut1550 I guess what some call it.
Tsunami Panic! So fun
There's an online website game of this, it's called Gartic Phone!
Telestrations?
This is very interesting, the same thing essentially happens with writing. All of the letters of the latin alphabet used to be depictions of real things, for example "A" used to be an ox's head. These were based on a word which started with that letter in a Northwest-Semitic language. This is also true for the Chinese characters, almost all of those used to be visual depictions of things, or made up of visual depictions of things in a rebus fashion. Over the generations, the original form is lost, and the pronunciation, meaning, and form no longer seem related.
Edit: This also leads to the simplification of shapes, to make them nore memorable and faster to write (such as replacing the complex nose on the cat with a little loop!).
truly poetic that the last drawing looks like a cat's face
6:34 is drawn so clearly its so cool
0:04 CyanSandwich got LORE💀
Do it with 1000 Cyan!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@AidenHaigh-nf7ziwow, you’re replying pretty much the same thing to every comment
@@Mafuyuassahina Yeah lol I prob waste my time. BUT if he did it a thousand times I WOULDNT be wasting my time!!!!
It'd be cool to see this done with artists. Everyone's style would be in the style of the next person and they would each be adding their own signature flair as it goes. Me and a buddy used to do drawings where we'd pass it back and forth and each add one thing to the drawing. It could be a character, object, design, background, add on to an object, etc. It made some really fun stuff.
Very nice! You were only down the road from me (relatively - I'm in Sydney). Excellent use of your time to get a fun video together. Well done.
He should do it with 1000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TIL if you start with a cat playing with a hula hoop and do 50 iterations, you get the Sacramento Kings logo.
Honestly, the final.image is really nice. If you take away the clouds you have a neat new logo or fun tattoo. Feels primitive yet elegant and as the creator of the first drawing you can see the original image through it and connect your experiences to it.
I noticed #6 is when it goes from legible to out of line, and of course that just compounds on itself.
This is how a small, flying pigeon that landed on an uninhabited island morphed into a massive, flightless Dodo bird over a few hundred generations!
Where are you getting this few hundred generations bit? The last common ancestor with another species was 23 million years ago, and the islands the dodos were on emerged around 10 million years ago. They also weren't small flying pigeons before that, but rather large birds.
I love how at the start it’s just a happy cat in a hula hoop, but by the end it morphs into a face with demonic, empty eyes and a mouth full of fangs.
Holy crap, didn't expect it to escalate that quickly. 😮
I mean, I am no good drawer myself, but some versions were totally different, and were drawn in the different part of the paper as they used to be. If there were no time constraint and could look the previous image all the time, how that could even happen? 😅
honestly the worst mistake they did was making the ears part of the head. You couldn’t tell what it was anymore
Pretty sure #51 is now the official Coat of Arms for Taupo!
This was such an amazing idea, now one of my favourite videos! (also i have a few ideas for animations)
(and well done for 45k subs!)
HE SHOULD DO 1000!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@AidenHaigh-nf7ziyou really want him to de 1000
this is so funny and well produced, why doesnt it have more views! also never seen a video like this before, would be fascinating to see more/see the experiment go further to 100+ people
Damn #5 really threw a wrench in the gears
been staying up watching your videos, got to watch your tornado one before this, seeing this upload this morning makes me happy :D
Do it with 1000 Cyan!!!
Some people simply cannot draw a copy. If you could eliminate say the 5 worst drawers, then do it again with 45, it would be reasonable.
I don't mean this in an offfensive way at all, but this reminds me of the progression of alzheimer's.
This was really cool. Kind of obscure in my video feed, but Im glad I saw it.
Imagine how ancient Chinese characters came into being, evolving from pictures to pictograms and then to abstract logograms.
Well done to everyone who took part. The change from picture to picture slow at first then dramatic as progressed
Yeh they put a lot of effort into that one.
Annoying how some people don't even try to copy it.
I think everyone genuinely tried but not everyone is good at copying lol
I love how he slowly gets shorter and shorter until he compresses into a badge
Ring cat approaches the singularity of a black hole
Awesome! Love this type of stuff!! Always interesting to see how different people interpret different details
Cyan Sandwich is sooo underrated
Two important changes can be made.
First, let people fix mistakes. Like the guy that made the legs asymmetric, it was not on purpose and it was not just a small imperfection that would eventually compound, it was a noticeable error right there. That would mean that we only get changes based on small imperfection, which is way more fun than a guy sneezing while dragging his pen and completely changing it all at once.
Second, and better suited for longer experiments, let people know (but not see) what the original was. Like everyone would start their copy knowing it was a cat, now let see how it changes. Would that still change dramatically?
Since the result is so different from the start, you could loop it infinitely
He should do it with 1000!!!!!!!!!!
It would become simpler and simpler ending with just a shape
Probably the coolest video I've seen on youtube in a long time. Nice!
It's interesting that at one point a third cloud appeared, but after only a few drawings it merged with the character so it was back to two clouds.
But the whole developement is interesting. The arms became ears, but those disappeared eventually and later the ring turned into new arms which also turned into ears over time. Then the ground-line formed a new ring...
This was fantastic! I really enjoyed this. It reminds me of the whisper game where we would sit in circle and whisper something in someone's ear. It would go around the circle and by the time it got to the last person the sentence was so far off from the original sentence .
Watching the drawing of the cat slowly turn into a crown with underwear at the end on 2x speed is like a fever dream
Very interesting way to see people's observational skills and how they maybe miss some things, or add some things haha, very enjoyable!
6:21 I like how that piece of the cloud drops down slowly until the cat catches it lol
This would be a great flipbook. I would double the pages, but after 50, tell everyone it's supposed to be a dog and they have to slowly reshape it back. I think that would be pretty cool.
8:21 Yo, cat just grew an extra ear xD
HAHA but can he do it with 1000?!
That was rather amusing. Good job to all who participated!
It turned from a tall cat Hoola-Hooping into a flying crown in underwear
Dude this is such a cool idea!! Imagine what would happen with, maybe 100 people?
Great example why hearsay is inadmissable in court LOL
now do this with professional artists who know how to draw
When I play art telephone, I like to make it kinda detailed, have the next person take a good look, and then have so they can’t look at it while their drawing, causing the peice to warp a LOT.
This guy reinvented image compression 🤣
You are so underrated
yeh but he should do it with 1000!!!!!!!!!!
This is so cool. Tell so much , how ancient artifact's evolved, when they were copied, etc
I actually love the in progress drawing, like around 28/30! It has the vibe of a nice mascot!
This guy just can’t stop drawing dongs
I didnt know you speedcubed I love speedcubing u earned a sub
Really good video. I love these kinds of videos that you do so It is so cool to see how everything changes like that. I do a selfie everyday so I experience similar experiences to that so this was a fun watch. Great video. Very wholesome amongst the cubing community as well.
bro guys we need to get him to 1m subs this guy works SOOO hard on these videos and he get like 4k likes
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Really cool, fun, and great idea! I enjoyed this! 😃👍🏻
Okay next time do the same thing but people use tracing paper instead. Might take 100 people to become interesting. But what's great is that you don't even need 100 people at once to do this. Anyone can just carry a sketchbook around and let people try it one at a time. All you need to do is find a person willing to spend a couple minutes tracing ONE drawing. Rinse and repeat! I love it!
I’m an elementary art teacher. Will definitely be stealing this!
This is a good analogy for evolutionary biology. Every organism looks like its parents and its children, but if you go far enough back you end up finding a fish in your family tree.
It's so sad that bad artists make the drawing go worse but good artists can't make it better, they can only replicate what they see.
Feel its a little bit unfair to include three year old "artists" in the mix.
You chose a difficult one with the ring around the cat.
I think aside from the last ones, were it wasn't a character anymore, the biggest difference was from 5 to 6.
Morphed in a man removing a tight speedo
i dunno if i will never forgive the people who ruined it, even if they are mathematical geniuses who will save the world one day
I really thought the cat mouth was gonna make it to the end. It held strong for so long.
This image sequence perfectly describes my brain getting scrambled from spending too much time at the computer
i think that #28 is my favorite. the asymetric pointed and wavy shape
A forgotten memory is number one. An old one you think about all the time is number fifty.
It actually changed quite a lot😂
I was hoping to see some more artistic interpretations but everybody seemed to just try and copy. I guess the instructions given to the drawers influences the outcome.
3rd *bronze medal* cool video tom imean cyan 😊
Hey Cyan do it with 1000 people!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And that's how Egyptian hieroglyphics turned into the alphabet.
This is a really cool demonstration of how our brains will relate parts of a picture based on how close they are to each other. When a person draws a line a little too close to a cloud, the next person assumes that the cloud and the line are related, and tries to draw them as one entity.
Really cool stuff!
8:32 IS THAT CARY HUANG!?
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@@diker459 BFDI fan Oh My Collagen
Oh yeah, doesn’t Cary do speedcube stuff? Makes sense why he’d be there then
@@teddverres4392 he does
I don't think that was Cary.
Number six is the clubert who start deviating from the original drawing.
It was really interesting how the cloud on the right suddenly split in two, and the cat held one piece until it shrank and disappeared, and there were only two clouds again.
15 to 16 was crazy 💀