Except for the part that NFT doesn't mean what people thinks it means. Even this video is making a mockery based on homo sapiens understanding of what an NFT is. It is a lot more than just owning some jpg.
It's even worse than the video depicts. The images aren't even the NFTs. They're just tacked on. An arbitrary representation. The actual NFT is just... a number. A series of digits. That's it. Even the blockchain doesn't say they own any image. When you buy an NFT you're literally buying nothing. Not even pretend-rights to a shitty image like most people seem to think.
@@mikaylamaloney9753 Exactly. People wanted NFTs for the same reason they wanted beanie babies. Because they thought other people would want them more later.
''It kinda just sounds like a buch of people playing make believe'' ''Yeah but the same could be said about a lot of social constructs'' That's the entire point of this channel
quite a lot of things society is built on is ultimately make believe. laws, morality, how we measure time and other important things, language, writing systems, all forms of communication, power structures, government, money
back then we still believed that timetravelers wanted to visit us and wanted to accomodate them, so when they disorientedly walk past a TV store with a wall of functioning TVs or go into a bar when the game isn't on to eat nuts and pay with cheap labour because they don't have "nowtimedollars".Today we just assume nobody wants to visit us and have left our proverbial livingroom uncleaned.
The crazy part about this series is they don’t want to bring him back. It’s because, even though the time machine is broken, they will eventually fix it; and with time travel, it really shouldn’t be a prob to go back to when he first said he wanted to go back and pick him up.
The only person capable of fixing might also be the guy who dies in 2004, thus it never gets fixed. Either that or corporate found out it would be too expensive to fix and decided having a permanent reporter stuck 28 years in the future might prove useful to them...
I've always assumed that the time machine was more like the one in Looper. You know, where it sends *you* to the designated time, but it doesn't travel with you. Otherwise, wouldn't it be *his* time machine that's broken? Not theirs?
If we think about this realistically they really shouldn't bring him back with Covid going on. Imagine if he would have it and that's how Covid started 30 years earlier lol
The commentary about social constructs "teetering on the brink of collapse" is very clever, topical, and frightening. I love the subtext you so easily manage to slip into your videos! Well done!
The beauty of Crypto being just Capitalism 2: Electric Boogaloo is that it really brought to light just How Fucking Fake and Fragile our current economic system, and several other Social Contract Systems really are and how all it takes is for enough people to say "Yeah im not sure if I wanna participate in the scam" for it all to collapse And then someone tries to do it again because Why The Fuck Not
Im 70 lectures into a 97 lecture series on the Russian revolution and I got super depressed today cos we are so teetering on the edge of collapse - only we don't have the clever guys with vision to build a new society as they did in 1917, and what's even more horrifying is the reasons things were sh!tty is communist Russian is mostly the west didn't want n them having happy workers cos then the west would have to be nice to their workers, its all as dystopian as hell...
It's actually worse. You don't own the copyright of the digital file associated with the NFT. An NFT is just proof that the copyright owner gave you permission to use the file. The person that owns the copyright can legally make infinite NFTs associated with same digital file.
I had about a tube of random pogs, but a really nice slammer to go with them. No clue what happened sadly. Probably in whatever hole my Tamogachi fell into. Farewell purplez!
Technically the NFT is the "token" and NOT the image. The NFT is merely associated with the image. That's why you can copy the image but the token is non-fungible. Hence this entire thing is even more stupid.
A custom Pog is a physical object you can hold and cherish. An NFT is a JPG. My computer is full of JPGs of pictures I have taken and memes I like that cost me zero dollars instead of some overpriced ape art.
The fact that people are genuinely freaking out of natural technological development is the greatest proof of human stupid. Any new idea is always treated with unnecessary outrage despite all the evidence from the past
@@blowc1612 Uhhh no they don’t? 3 came out in 2018 (or was it 19?) with another 3 in 2020, sure there was only 1 in 2021 but I just assume he couldn’t think of many topics for that year
'Well the same thing can technically be said about money & a lot of social constructs all of which feel like they're teetering on the edge of collapse PLEASE BRING ME BACK TO THE 90s' 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I felt that lmao
Future Ryan, "And people are wondering if WWIII would really be worse than what's going on already..." Past Ryan, "OH! ...my god..." Future Ryan, "But we have a GOOD Sonic the Hedgehog Movie Franchise!" Past Ryan, "Wasn't that in a Mayan prophecy forecasting the end of the world?" Past Ryan, "It is!"
It would be funny if this series concludes with the host learning how he is going to die and then instantly showing up next to the reporter as an old man saying "I finally fixed the time machine"
"What's an NFT?" "Unclear." "So why do people buy them?" "I'm going to need you to get all the way off my back." "Alright. Let me get off of that thing."
This could have all been explained to someone in the 90's as "It's like digital Beanie Babies, but much more expensive and anyone can duplicate them." As dumb as this current trend is, most of it has it's roots in a LOT of 90's trends actually.
Well, see, there's a massive difference. The 90s didn't start collectable trends. Throughout history, humans have had plenty of collections that became valuable over time due to their exclusivity and partly because of nostalgia. The 90s just happened to be wrong about Beanie Babies specifically. The problem with NFTs is that the valuable part of a digital image, is the image, not the code, and the image can be copied an infinite amount of times. NFT pushers want people to believe the "ownership" is what makes them valuable. If they succeed, then yes, NFTs could become the next collectable, but it's extremely unlikely the masses are gonna fall for it, especially since there are a bunch of other problems wrong with NFT's in general.
@@ShadyDoorags Not only are they easy to duplicate, they are far to easy to make. Lot of Celeb's just walking around taking pictures of themselves and selling them as NFT's. Flooding the market so to speak as it takes zero effort to make the things.
@@ShadyDoorags It's the same scam that happened with coin collecting, comics and more recently video games. You and your buddies get a large quantity of a product, set up a place for the buying and selling of that product, sell that product back and forth between your friends to get news coverage of 'this product sold for multiple millions' and 'are product going to be the next big thing?!?' to drum up interest and investors. Then you slowly unload as much of what you have over a few years at massively over-inflated prices. Don't get me wrong, I actually like NFTs and I think they have potential if they're used to prove ownership of tangible items or even as an MFA solution, but the way they're being used right now is almost certainly a scam.
@@kenanderson3954 the blockchain idea that is behind nft and crypto is interesting but both of those things are designed in a way that is much too open to abuse by rich people to be usefull in its current form. Since its worth basically depent on how much trust people have in it, all you need is a billionaire like Elon Musk who buy a bunch of it, artifically increasing the price, and start promoting it online so regular people will buy it believing they'll get rich quick. Then all he have to do is sell it at inflated price while most people will end up stuck with it or loosing money. And the worst part is that the money they put in crypto isn't taxed yet! That's why billionaires love it.
The last line got me: "NFT's lead to a bunch of carbon emissions, there's *still* a pandemic going on an *Eeeverbody's* talking about World War III. Holy shit... world explodes.
"They're one of the most valuable collections." "Why?" "Because people sell them back and forth to each other to artificially increase the perception of value in them." "That works."
He also really hit the nail on the head with the target year. If there was a best year ever, it would have to be 1993.... but if there was a year I would go back to to set things on track because that was when everything started to go wrong, it would be 1996.
This is the only channel I can think of where I actually stick around for the ads. Because not only do I want to reward putting it at the end instead of making me wait through it for content, but more importantly it's actually made fun. I don't understand why that's not more common.
i think a lot of people must get sponsored by companies who limit creativity (like mobile game companies) or depending on who is doing the ad, there could be a lack of time to do anything more than the standard read. there are several sketch channels like this one, sometimes gaming creators advertising VPNs, that always try to breathe a little life and fun into their ads. it’s definitely something to be appreciated - i feel like ad reads are very much moving in the same vein as television commercials - channels like these making the ones you remember ten years later that you don’t even bother muting the TV for
Ryan you are a genius. You’re practiced and spot on. Every joke lands. This is why we (the audience) love you. You show up with all the time and effort you’ve put into everything and it SHOWS!
Can we just appreciate the fact that not only does Ryan make some of the funniest and most creative sketches on UA-cam and has over 1 million subs, but he also basically carries the screen rant channel on his back with one of the best series in UA-cam. It's so good, it got its one UA-cam channel. A lot of people (me included) only really watch screen rant for the pitch meetings. All of this and not even mentioning that he works completely alone. He deserves a lot more subs imo
Everybody thought that ScreenRant will lose subscribers after Pitch Meeting got its own life, but, they actually grew up. The number of subscribers got up!
"Everyone is talking about WW3" Is probably the worst thing you want to hear as a ending/cliffhanger of a Time Traveler News Broadcast. Especially because in the 90 the cold war just ended, and there was a huge Atomic Propaganda (with funny cartoons, safety videos etc.).
I know I'm three months late to the party, but this is the best short summary of how ridiculous NFTs are and I love it. So stupid that even people who get them think they are missing something.
... and sadly. Most consumers have no idea what NFTs are, this video didn't help any explaining it either. If people think NFT are about owning jpg, they missed the marked completely.
I have waited for the time traveling reporter to come back for a long time and the thing with time travelers is, they can come back at any time. Thank you for this, sweet prince.
Worse, apparently NFTs don't actually contain the file they "own". They're a link to an external source for that file. Hence, if the file hosting place collapses, you have a proof of ownership of a thing that doesn't exist anymore. I guess it's like having the title of ownership for a car that was abandoned in a field and has rusted away into nothingness. Except in this scenario, the car is sitting in a field, and you own it, but you're powerless to relocate it or protect it in any way.
Tons of them are already dead links because people put up stuff they didn't own and got takedown requests against them filed. On the NFT sites the image never loads and it just spins a wheel forever now. Seems like a sound investment.
Check out the piece that Folding Ideas did recently on NFTs. His thesis was basically that NFTs exist purely to create something to spend cryptocurrency on and thus pull more cash into crypto to keep the market pumped.
Please we need more of these time travel videos. I also love that you're keeping the storyline going of him being stuck in the future. That would make a great movie. You could call it the 90s movie. And it's about him trying to find a way back home.
Ryan, you should have a second segment to this show: the Gossip Time Traveller! Instead of covering general events, this Ryan focuses on celebrities, films and all that. Yes, I was inspired by the whole Will Smith debacle, can't imagine my 90s self hearing about it then. But with things like movie sequels and remakes (Star Wars, Space Jam etc) I think you could have a lot of fun with it! And it'd be an opportunity to make more of this Time Travel segment because I really love the concept and the way you've executed it so far!
I support this completely. "Oh, you mean that young rapper/actor who made fun of a bald guy on the Arsenio Hall show last night, and defended it as "just a joke" actually ended up slapping that new comedian because he made a complimentary joke about a woman who shaved her head?" "Yes, but she claims to have alopecia, which causes hair loss." "Oh, that seems rude." "Well, the thing is, he didn't really know she had it, and now there's people saying she may have been lying, and given her track record, I think it might be a valid claim." "Oh, what sort of track record does she have?" "Well she's started hosting a talk show with her mom and daughter, where they just spew all their personal details. She also uses social media to add even more of that TMI content for all the world to see. I mean, we've been witnessing her break Will down emotionally for quite a few years now, and just totally destroy his self worth." "Oh, my god, I can't even condemn Chris Rock for making a bald joke." "Yeah, she really shaved her head, so she's not actually bald due to alopecia." "So she's been shut down, right?" "Oh, no, she has lots of defenders. Even among other celebs." "Well, glad I won't be alive when that all happens. I honestly feel worse for knowing it will."
Damn Ryan, right in the feels with the "on the brink of collapse" and WW3 and all. But you know what, I am still grateful that I get to live in the same time as awesome people like you, that's something ;)
@Caiden More conscious, healthy and progressive? Donald Trump was still considered a somewhat distasteless clown with a lot of personal problems in the nineties, not a political force that could mesmerize half the country's political powerbrokers. And Russia just emerged peacefully from the Sovjet Union, thus lowering the chance of a nuclear war.
Perfect 90s description; they're digital Beanie Babies. No one actually _wants_ to have one, but they leverage artificial scarcity to try adding value to something that doesn't actually have _any_ so that hopefully someone else will be willing to buy it off them later for more than they paid. Also, spoilers for 90s guy, Beanie Babies were a colossal failure.
Making fun of NFTs is super easy, barely an inconvenience.
hey look it's the professor!
What is super easy to make fun of means it's fun almost by itself at some point
PROFESSOR IN RYAN GEORGE !
Easy as right clicking them
Oh..! really?
Time Traveler: "NFT's? The future is dumb"
Literally Everyone Who's Not a Mainstream Celebrity: "Yes, we agree."
Except for the part that NFT doesn't mean what people thinks it means. Even this video is making a mockery based on homo sapiens understanding of what an NFT is.
It is a lot more than just owning some jpg.
@@Supremax67 cool 👍
@@Supremax67 would you mind explaining what makes them so great then?
@@Supremax67 sure
@@Supremax67 sad.
No joke, this video is the clearest explanation I've heard of NFTs and how they work.
I still dont get it...whoops
@@kennethnwebb whopsie
...Whoopsie
Glad to see I'm not the only one
It's even worse than the video depicts. The images aren't even the NFTs. They're just tacked on. An arbitrary representation. The actual NFT is just... a number. A series of digits. That's it. Even the blockchain doesn't say they own any image. When you buy an NFT you're literally buying nothing. Not even pretend-rights to a shitty image like most people seem to think.
People in 1996: what is an NFT?
People in 2023: what is an NFT?
Bigba
Honestly, the best explanation I have come up with are "beanie babies" but make it more modern
@@mikaylamaloney9753 Exactly. People wanted NFTs for the same reason they wanted beanie babies. Because they thought other people would want them more later.
"How does that happen"
"Fatally"
Your jokes are literally so simple but the delivery and tone elevate it to gold status. Your a legend sir.
don't forget the clear voice
@James Tays *You're
Jokes like this are TIGHT
@@Insanitypants80 Yeah yeah yeah!
Maybe one day we’ll learn how that news dude dies
When we needed him most, our hero Time Travelling Reporter Guy finally returns.
the new episode finally launched after a whole year
NOOOOOOO
Imagine being bi, couldn’t be m- *wait*
No he doesn't, no matter how much he begs
Lmao that future he's covering is so dumb glad it's not mine
''It kinda just sounds like a buch of people playing make believe''
''Yeah but the same could be said about a lot of social constructs''
That's the entire point of this channel
Fantasy sports leagues came first to my mind.
"we made the whole thing up"- George Carlin
quite a lot of things society is built on is ultimately make believe. laws, morality, how we measure time and other important things, language, writing systems, all forms of communication, power structures, government, money
I will never not love the way Ryan turns around and smugly says “It’s the nineties” in these bits.
Not all of us had calendars back then. 😂
of course he's smug, he's safe back in the 90's.
won't be so smug in 2004.
With that fabulous theme music too
"Oooh my god how does that happen?"
"Fatally"
90s Talk Show Host Guy's upcoming death might lowkey be my favorite running gag in the Ryanverse
I'm starting to feel he was the lucky one.
Got his neck snapped?
@@dtkedtyjrtyj He's never going to get Covid-19.
@@josheike3543 Unless they repair the time machine in 2004 and that is the gruesome fate that awaits him.
"You die in 2004"
"Oh my God, How does that happen?"
"Fatally"
🤣🤣🤣
That's pretty common for deaths
Why does he keep avoiding how it happens
@@neaosmt1562 that's part of the joke of this series.
What a way to go
I'm looking forward to getting past that date so I know what happens.
"Why would you want to have one"
"To have one"
NFTs in a nutshell
status symbol
I still love how this series legit started just before the pandemic, it REALLY adds to the time travellers desperation
What are you talking about, this series started 4 years ag-oh my fucking god 2019 was 4 years ago how is that possible
@@Sam-Cain the passage of time is the most reliable and consistent source of suprise.
@@Sam-CainHalf a decade ago now
Every word in this is literally 100% accurate. You don't really need satire when reality is that ludicrous. :-/
the best explanation about NFTs
Time bucks better website
thanks i like
"The year is 1996..."
I miss the days when news programs would announce the current year before speaking to field reporters.
have you seen Bojack Horseman? the way they do it in that show is absolutely hilarious
Some news shows in my country start off with "Good morning it's April 5th 2022 and these are today's headlines" type stuff, so they kind of do.
back then we still believed that timetravelers wanted to visit us and wanted to accomodate them, so when they disorientedly walk past a TV store with a wall of functioning TVs or go into a bar when the game isn't on to eat nuts and pay with cheap labour because they don't have "nowtimedollars".Today we just assume nobody wants to visit us and have left our proverbial livingroom uncleaned.
I love the way the host says "two-thousand and twenty-two". It puts a really nice emphasis on the t's.
The crazy part about this series is they don’t want to bring him back. It’s because, even though the time machine is broken, they will eventually fix it; and with time travel, it really shouldn’t be a prob to go back to when he first said he wanted to go back and pick him up.
The only person capable of fixing might also be the guy who dies in 2004, thus it never gets fixed. Either that or corporate found out it would be too expensive to fix and decided having a permanent reporter stuck 28 years in the future might prove useful to them...
depends though what if picking him up doesn't matter because it's actually a multiverse so you pick up a different version of himself
I've always assumed that the time machine was more like the one in Looper. You know, where it sends *you* to the designated time, but it doesn't travel with you. Otherwise, wouldn't it be *his* time machine that's broken? Not theirs?
If we think about this realistically they really shouldn't bring him back with Covid going on. Imagine if he would have it and that's how Covid started 30 years earlier lol
Yeah, content
The commentary about social constructs "teetering on the brink of collapse" is very clever, topical, and frightening. I love the subtext you so easily manage to slip into your videos! Well done!
Yup. So much of society is built on trust and here we are squandering it all away because we want to appear virtuous.
The beauty of Crypto being just Capitalism 2: Electric Boogaloo is that it really brought to light just How Fucking Fake and Fragile our current economic system, and several other Social Contract Systems really are and how all it takes is for enough people to say "Yeah im not sure if I wanna participate in the scam" for it all to collapse
And then someone tries to do it again because Why The Fuck Not
@@thomaslacroix6011 What do you mean by this?
@@thomaslacroix6011 way to prove the point while simultaneously missing the point
Im 70 lectures into a 97 lecture series on the Russian revolution and I got super depressed today cos we are so teetering on the edge of collapse - only we don't have the clever guys with vision to build a new society as they did in 1917, and what's even more horrifying is the reasons things were sh!tty is communist Russian is mostly the west didn't want n them having happy workers cos then the west would have to be nice to their workers, its all as dystopian as hell...
This is actually the best explanation about NFTs I've ever seen.
then I hope it's the only explanation you've seen lol
@@hiimjustin8826 Either way, all explainations can be summed up as: Dumb scam, don't get into it.
How can this video make me understand NFTs both more and less at the same time, wow, lol
Check out folding ideas for a thorough explanation
It's actually worse. You don't own the copyright of the digital file associated with the NFT. An NFT is just proof that the copyright owner gave you permission to use the file. The person that owns the copyright can legally make infinite NFTs associated with same digital file.
"How do I die?" "Oh fatally" Love it.
Actually got a good description of what NFTs are from a sketch - wish Ryan had been my economics teacher
But you didn't tho.
Still don't understand what an NFT is but I definitely have a better idea than I did before.
@@monsieur_onion “good” is pretty non-specific and subjective. While not thorough, I’d say he was basically accurate.
I agree! It was pretty helpful
Haven't watched the sketch yet... but I'm actually hoping to be educated from it...
i will forever imagine NFTs as custom pogs. also, i very literally still have a small container of actual custom pogs from '94. not even kidding.
found my pog tube full of craziness while cleaning out the basement! had to show my nephew what they were (he's 13). he was not impressed...
Priceless
My 1/2 lb brass slammer would take all ur shits
I had about a tube of random pogs, but a really nice slammer to go with them. No clue what happened sadly. Probably in whatever hole my Tamogachi fell into. Farewell purplez!
@@estibon3872 Yeah my sons neither. They'll just never understand!
Ryan makes the best videos and I am so happy this series is back
@Braty sis chanel 9 sad...
If you haven't figured it out yet, these comes out once a year.
@@blowc1612 they used two come out more often guess it’s yearly now
@@blowc1612 Bets yes, bathtub full o wrenches. TIS truth TIS truth.
(Yhat thing what you were when was speakun.) NO WORRIES!!! 😁😁😁
Ryan needs a netflix show.
This video made me realize I'd not heard anyone talk about nfts in months. It's a nice realization
“Is it hard to copy someone else’s NFTs?”
“Actually it’s super easy, barely an inconvenience.”
Technically the NFT is the "token" and NOT the image. The NFT is merely associated with the image. That's why you can copy the image but the token is non-fungible. Hence this entire thing is even more stupid.
@@Shuizid so the image in the token is pointless?
@@muhammadthariqhumaid6830 yes
@@muhammadthariqhumaid6830 It's like how your profile avatar isn't actually your profile. It's just a random visual representation.
Ohhhh ..okay .I still dont understand..the why...
A custom POG is such a great analogy for what I still feel like an NFT is.
An NFT is a digital picture that anyone can have, but only stupid people can own.
@@MAGAMAN 😂😂😂
@@MAGAMAN HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Awesome lol
Custom Pog has more value then an NFT.
A custom Pog is a physical object you can hold and cherish. An NFT is a JPG. My computer is full of JPGs of pictures I have taken and memes I like that cost me zero dollars instead of some overpriced ape art.
FINALLY! The time traveller returns after so long to witness quite possibly humanity’s stupidest idea.
These comes out once a year if you haven't figured it out yet.
@@blowc1612 Judging by your pissy attitude… somebody’s an NFT fan. Don’t blame others for your stupidity little buddy
The fact that people are genuinely freaking out of natural technological development is the greatest proof of human stupid. Any new idea is always treated with unnecessary outrage despite all the evidence from the past
@@blowc1612
Uhhh no they don’t? 3 came out in 2018 (or was it 19?) with another 3 in 2020, sure there was only 1 in 2021 but I just assume he couldn’t think of many topics for that year
@@luisandrade2254 I think your grammar is the greatest proof of human stupid.
"I would love to come back to the 90s right away, please."
Yeah, me too.
'Well the same thing can technically be said about money & a lot of social constructs all of which feel like they're teetering on the edge of collapse PLEASE BRING ME BACK TO THE 90s' 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I felt that lmao
That ad-stronaut skit was gold 🤣 I especially love how he stayed in his suit at the therapist's office 🤣
You know how hard it is to get in and out of one of those?
Doctor’s* office. But I agree, it was awesome.
@@stevenloube6784 oh funny...I don't know why I thought therapist...
Didn't know the adstronaut had brain damage 💀🤣
MOO
I'm so glad Ryan is old enough, or at least experienced enough, to know what pogs are. Good times.
I still have my pogs!
@@hendrikscheepers4144 I remember pogs, but I was too old to think anything other than, "What's wrong with kids these days?"
If he makes a time machine to go back to the 1990s, I hope he will take me with him.
Hell yeah, one less furry in the world.
I actually wouldn't. I choose to hope the future gets better and enjoy the more advanced technology we have today
@@birdmcturd1626bring the technology to the 90s so the 90s is tech of 23* and 23* is 63*
@@thegamingworld8871 You make a fair point
@@thegamingworld8871 unfortunately technology sits at the root of much of the problems of the modern age, you would just make the 90's worse.
I can't overstate how happy I am you're continuing the Time Traveler series
Always been my favorite series!
Bout time you brought this series back
heh, about "time" it was brought back.
Past Ryan: "How bad can the future be?"
Future Ryan: "World War 3 is now a serious topic of discussion..."
Past Ryan: "Holy S..."
are the weapons lazers and robots going beep beep boop pshhh?
I mean, it was a serious topic of discussion for about 45 years there in the past.
Future Ryan, "And people are wondering if WWIII would really be worse than what's going on already..."
Past Ryan, "OH! ...my god..."
Future Ryan, "But we have a GOOD Sonic the Hedgehog Movie Franchise!"
Past Ryan, "Wasn't that in a Mayan prophecy forecasting the end of the world?"
Past Ryan, "It is!"
yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
ok
"How does that happen?"
"Fatally."
The funniest line in the skit.
Ryan just keeps getting funnier while keeping his characters similar also HOW DOES HE DIE IN 2004?!
Fatally
He told you, fatally.
Idk, but it's fatal.
Fatally 😄
Fatally.
Easiest way to explain an NFT to someone from the 80s or 90s is "They are like those star registries you buy"
Lmfao. Should have made a #Petrock registration. 🤔🤨🤷♂️😒 that is my thought process in emoji form..
Nah… that at least references something physical. This isn’t even that. It would be a better investment to “buy a star” tbh, at least a star is real.
@@voxkine9385 you don’t actually get the star, though.
@@capturedflame that doesn’t make any sense, buying an NFT also gives you 0 stars.
It would be funny if this series concludes with the host learning how he is going to die and then instantly showing up next to the reporter as an old man saying "I finally fixed the time machine"
I dont want the series to end, though XD
this is pure genius
That's how he dies
"The good news is that i faked my death, so I'm not dead yet. The bad news is we never fixed the time machine."
I paid for it with NFT's!
"What's an NFT?"
"Unclear."
"So why do people buy them?"
"I'm going to need you to get all the way off my back."
"Alright. Let me get off of that thing."
Underrated cmt😂
This comment is tight.
Whoopsie
It must have been really challenging and difficult to come up with this comment!! Was it?
Actually it was super easy, barley an inconvenience
This could have all been explained to someone in the 90's as
"It's like digital Beanie Babies, but much more expensive and anyone can duplicate them."
As dumb as this current trend is, most of it has it's roots in a LOT of 90's trends actually.
Well, see, there's a massive difference. The 90s didn't start collectable trends. Throughout history, humans have had plenty of collections that became valuable over time due to their exclusivity and partly because of nostalgia. The 90s just happened to be wrong about Beanie Babies specifically.
The problem with NFTs is that the valuable part of a digital image, is the image, not the code, and the image can be copied an infinite amount of times. NFT pushers want people to believe the "ownership" is what makes them valuable. If they succeed, then yes, NFTs could become the next collectable, but it's extremely unlikely the masses are gonna fall for it, especially since there are a bunch of other problems wrong with NFT's in general.
Yeh. 1890s (tulip bulbs, colonial empires)
@@ShadyDoorags Not only are they easy to duplicate, they are far to easy to make. Lot of Celeb's just walking around taking pictures of themselves and selling them as NFT's. Flooding the market so to speak as it takes zero effort to make the things.
@@ShadyDoorags It's the same scam that happened with coin collecting, comics and more recently video games. You and your buddies get a large quantity of a product, set up a place for the buying and selling of that product, sell that product back and forth between your friends to get news coverage of 'this product sold for multiple millions' and 'are product going to be the next big thing?!?' to drum up interest and investors. Then you slowly unload as much of what you have over a few years at massively over-inflated prices.
Don't get me wrong, I actually like NFTs and I think they have potential if they're used to prove ownership of tangible items or even as an MFA solution, but the way they're being used right now is almost certainly a scam.
@@kenanderson3954 the blockchain idea that is behind nft and crypto is interesting but both of those things are designed in a way that is much too open to abuse by rich people to be usefull in its current form. Since its worth basically depent on how much trust people have in it, all you need is a billionaire like Elon Musk who buy a bunch of it, artifically increasing the price, and start promoting it online so regular people will buy it believing they'll get rich quick. Then all he have to do is sell it at inflated price while most people will end up stuck with it or loosing money. And the worst part is that the money they put in crypto isn't taxed yet! That's why billionaires love it.
"I gotta say, it sounds like people are funging all over the place" had me rolling
I'm glad you made another episode, i personally enjoy this series alot.
Oh really
Same
Same
You are one of the only channels that I actually enjoy watching your ads at the end! They are just as funny as the sketch itself!
This is literally the most educated I’ve been to date on nft’s thank you
The last line got me: "NFT's lead to a bunch of carbon emissions, there's *still* a pandemic going on an *Eeeverbody's* talking about World War III. Holy shit... world explodes.
"They're one of the most valuable collections."
"Why?"
"Because people sell them back and forth to each other to artificially increase the perception of value in them."
"That works."
"So, you have a scam for me?"
@@theonebman7581 yes sir I do
Art in a nutshell
@@theonebman7581 Is it hard to scam people on 2022?
@@allangumiran8327 Actually, it's gonna be super easy! Barely an inconvenience
Take me back to the 90's with you! PLEASE! Also, finally a new 90's Show. Awesome! THX
YES! The 90's show is finally back!
He also really hit the nail on the head with the target year. If there was a best year ever, it would have to be 1993.... but if there was a year I would go back to to set things on track because that was when everything started to go wrong, it would be 1996.
"You die in 2004"
"Oh how does that happen?"
"Fatally"
Spoiling someone's death but leaving room for a third act twist is tight.
exactly like a custom pog but you can’t play with it 😔
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OT!
The Time Traveler is back! I loved these when I first found Ryans channel.
This is the only channel I can think of where I actually stick around for the ads. Because not only do I want to reward putting it at the end instead of making me wait through it for content, but more importantly it's actually made fun. I don't understand why that's not more common.
i think a lot of people must get sponsored by companies who limit creativity (like mobile game companies) or depending on who is doing the ad, there could be a lack of time to do anything more than the standard read. there are several sketch channels like this one, sometimes gaming creators advertising VPNs, that always try to breathe a little life and fun into their ads. it’s definitely something to be appreciated - i feel like ad reads are very much moving in the same vein as television commercials - channels like these making the ones you remember ten years later that you don’t even bother muting the TV for
Internet Historian also does this perfectly
I’m so happy that this series is back. Ryan makes the best videos
Oh really
@@Frankmccluskey Yeah, yeah, yeah
I love how Ryan makes his entire videos, even the ads, hilarious.
ikr right? he is the only youtuber that makes me never skip the ad.
"How many fingers am I holding up"
"W"
Now I'm curious. I have to disable adds skipping in UA-cam Vanced settings to see the add. Never thought that I'll ever do that! 😂
"I would love to come back to the 90's, right away, please..." - that's me!
Good to have the time traveling reporter back. Thank you for jabbing NFTs.
90s guys: The future is dumb.
All of us: Yeah. We know.
Nice to see this series again. It's been a minute.
Ryan you are a genius. You’re practiced and spot on. Every joke lands. This is why we (the audience) love you. You show up with all the time and effort you’ve put into everything and it SHOWS!
Im a fan of this guy who makes a cool noise
I'm a fan of sandwiches with pretty big pickles in them.
Except the dumb 'carbon', 'pandemic', and 'WWIII' 'jokes'?
Can we just appreciate the fact that not only does Ryan make some of the funniest and most creative sketches on UA-cam and has over 1 million subs, but he also basically carries the screen rant channel on his back with one of the best series in UA-cam. It's so good, it got its one UA-cam channel. A lot of people (me included) only really watch screen rant for the pitch meetings. All of this and not even mentioning that he works completely alone. He deserves a lot more subs imo
Everybody thought that ScreenRant will lose subscribers after Pitch Meeting got its own life, but, they actually grew up. The number of subscribers got up!
Such a genius how he makes these videos without upsetting anyone. That's hard to do in today's climate.
"Everyone is talking about WW3"
Is probably the worst thing you want to hear as a ending/cliffhanger of a Time Traveler News Broadcast.
Especially because in the 90 the cold war just ended, and there was a huge Atomic Propaganda (with funny cartoons, safety videos etc.).
Wasn't the atomic cafe from the 1950s?
Oh god I missed this series so much, I hope we get more time travel episodes soon
The sound he makes at 3:06 hecking slayed me XD
love the laughs but sadly the last 5 seconds of this sketch almost made me cry. Thanks for your humor Ryan!
Pretty sure this is the only channel that I even look forward to watching the ads. Thank you for everything you do.
So happy to see you on Trending, Ryan. You've deserved it for years.
Custom Pog seemed like a pretty accurate description.
Except the pog actually exists
0:09 they changed the year! Way to keep up the continuity, it’s a nice touch.
Yeah it sounded so strange but it’s good
THANK YOU, Ryan. Best explanation of NFTs I have ever heard. I never got it. Well, I guess I did, but it was so stupid that I thought I didn't.
I know I'm three months late to the party, but this is the best short summary of how ridiculous NFTs are and I love it. So stupid that even people who get them think they are missing something.
Well he was wrong in saying that you own the rights to the image. You don't.
I don't know why but I am so glad this video was made. just sums up my knowledge on NFTs perfectly.
... and sadly. Most consumers have no idea what NFTs are, this video didn't help any explaining it either.
If people think NFT are about owning jpg, they missed the marked completely.
@@Supremax67 Right. They are about owning nothing.
This is like a quiz show for the '90s guy🤣
Always a good day when Ryan George uploads
I have waited for the time traveling reporter to come back for a long time and the thing with time travelers is, they can come back at any time. Thank you for this, sweet prince.
I’m so glad this series is back.
This is easily the most thorough and accurate explanation of NFT's I have seen yet. And I've seen LegalEagle's.
I love the continuity of the Time Traveling reporter looking more and more stressed with each year. It's painfully accurate 🤣🤣
Worse, apparently NFTs don't actually contain the file they "own". They're a link to an external source for that file. Hence, if the file hosting place collapses, you have a proof of ownership of a thing that doesn't exist anymore.
I guess it's like having the title of ownership for a car that was abandoned in a field and has rusted away into nothingness. Except in this scenario, the car is sitting in a field, and you own it, but you're powerless to relocate it or protect it in any way.
Those aren't even blockchain-based, there's some that actually are.
At least with tulip bulbs you could eat them.
And everyone else gets to drive an identical car for free whenever they want.
@@asusmctablet9180 Nice reference.
Tons of them are already dead links because people put up stuff they didn't own and got takedown requests against them filed. On the NFT sites the image never loads and it just spins a wheel forever now. Seems like a sound investment.
01:18 Reporter Guy slipped into Screenwriter Guy for a second there - "Sir, ..."
The return of the greatest series of all time!
Bar none, no argument there
Wait wasn't the last episode set in 1995?
The timeline of the show is moving along real world.
Nice consistency Ryan
One of the first episodes had the host learning that Tamagotchis were going to be a thing in a couple years. And now we see that pay off.
I am so happy that you brought back this series back!
i don't even mind that the last whole bit was an advertisement, it was so clever i didn't even skip it.
Ryan: _Makes a video on stupidity of NFTs_
Algorithm : This video seems like an excellent place to put an ad about NFTs
An NFT is a real-life mcguffin. It has no purpose but everyone wants it, which is what drives the plot/economy along.
A position in a queue that you hope you aren’t the last person to buy it. /s
Never heard such a true words about nft literally being one big mcguffin
Check out the piece that Folding Ideas did recently on NFTs. His thesis was basically that NFTs exist purely to create something to spend cryptocurrency on and thus pull more cash into crypto to keep the market pumped.
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You're right about everything except the real-life part. It is the literal opposite of a real-life mcguffin, it is an internet mcguffin.
Honestly, the best explanation I've seen about NFTs. Period. Thanks, Ryan!
Please we need more of these time travel videos. I also love that you're keeping the storyline going of him being stuck in the future. That would make a great movie. You could call it the 90s movie. And it's about him trying to find a way back home.
Ryan, you should have a second segment to this show: the Gossip Time Traveller! Instead of covering general events, this Ryan focuses on celebrities, films and all that. Yes, I was inspired by the whole Will Smith debacle, can't imagine my 90s self hearing about it then. But with things like movie sequels and remakes (Star Wars, Space Jam etc) I think you could have a lot of fun with it! And it'd be an opportunity to make more of this Time Travel segment because I really love the concept and the way you've executed it so far!
Yo I like this idea!
I support this completely.
"Oh, you mean that young rapper/actor who made fun of a bald guy on the Arsenio Hall show last night, and defended it as "just a joke" actually ended up slapping that new comedian because he made a complimentary joke about a woman who shaved her head?"
"Yes, but she claims to have alopecia, which causes hair loss."
"Oh, that seems rude."
"Well, the thing is, he didn't really know she had it, and now there's people saying she may have been lying, and given her track record, I think it might be a valid claim."
"Oh, what sort of track record does she have?"
"Well she's started hosting a talk show with her mom and daughter, where they just spew all their personal details. She also uses social media to add even more of that TMI content for all the world to see. I mean, we've been witnessing her break Will down emotionally for quite a few years now, and just totally destroy his self worth."
"Oh, my god, I can't even condemn Chris Rock for making a bald joke."
"Yeah, she really shaved her head, so she's not actually bald due to alopecia."
"So she's been shut down, right?"
"Oh, no, she has lots of defenders. Even among other celebs."
"Well, glad I won't be alive when that all happens. I honestly feel worse for knowing it will."
Damn Ryan, right in the feels with the "on the brink of collapse" and WW3 and all. But you know what, I am still grateful that I get to live in the same time as awesome people like you, that's something ;)
@Caiden I feel like only one of those things is right...
@Caiden More conscious, healthy and progressive? Donald Trump was still considered a somewhat distasteless clown with a lot of personal problems in the nineties, not a political force that could mesmerize half the country's political powerbrokers. And Russia just emerged peacefully from the Sovjet Union, thus lowering the chance of a nuclear war.
Can't believe this is #7 on trending. Way to go Ryan!
Ryan's adverts are always worth watching..
This is an amazing series. Thanks for bringing us another episode!
Helping Ryan feed his cats is super easy, barely an inconvenience! 🙂
3:42 “Please bring me back to the 90s”
Perfect 90s description; they're digital Beanie Babies.
No one actually _wants_ to have one, but they leverage artificial scarcity to try adding value to something that doesn't actually have _any_ so that hopefully someone else will be willing to buy it off them later for more than they paid.
Also, spoilers for 90s guy, Beanie Babies were a colossal failure.
Glad to see this series is continuing!
This video literally made me understand NFTs more than anything else
A custom Pog has WAY more intrinsic value than an NFT.
Yeah, you can pog with it and it's great for covering your bottle of passion, orange, and guava juice.
the fact that i sit through all of your ads is insane because HOW are they so good!?
This was surprisingly informative 😂 I never knew exactly what NFT’s were nor did I care to ask.