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  • Опубліковано 20 гру 2022
  • The Babylon Bee Podcast decided to take a look at some edits that Wikipedia editors have inserted into its pages over the years that seem to merit some scrutiny.
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  • @HughJorgan1
    @HughJorgan1 Рік тому +145

    “The first law of thermodynamics is you don’t talk about thermodynamics”. Lol that’s brilliant.

  • @tallguygreg
    @tallguygreg Рік тому +250

    My favorite Wikipedia edit of all time was when Tim Howard, the USA men's national soccer team, broke the US record for saves in a game. His page was edited to say that he was the US Secretary of Defense! 😂😂

    • @robbielewis4740
      @robbielewis4740 Рік тому +1

      Thats Reggie White

    • @tallguygreg
      @tallguygreg Рік тому +5

      @@robbielewis4740 I know he played football, and perhaps that was his nickname. I'm talking about Tim Howard, the old keeper for the US Men's National soccer team...

    • @robbielewis4740
      @robbielewis4740 Рік тому +2

      It was a joke

    • @ballcappaul
      @ballcappaul Рік тому +5

      @@robbielewis4740 Reggie White was the "Minister of Defense" 😅

    • @siriusBhive
      @siriusBhive Рік тому +1

      Seeing America's Soccer team has the most shots fired towards it, Many saves will happen. Just no upshot here

  • @jamsum7215
    @jamsum7215 Рік тому +38

    "A microwave is the head chef at Olive Garden" remains my favorite one

  • @oakhades5478
    @oakhades5478 Рік тому +21

    There was one for a soccer player with the last name Lasagna and the entry said he has many layers to his playing

  • @itsamindgame9198
    @itsamindgame9198 Рік тому +12

    Years ago there was an advertisement for an Australian ISP, which featured a father covering his ignorance making up a bunch of stuff about the Great Wall of China when his young son had a school report on it. Key was that the Great Wall was built by Emporer Nasi Goreng to keep out rabbits (which are a feral pest in Australia) and had the line "Too many rabbits in China". The Wikipedia page for the Great Wall was edited so many time with this false factoid that it got locked for a while and many non-Australian editors were completely flummoxed by the oddly specific and often repeated vandalism.

  • @jimfite1684
    @jimfite1684 Рік тому +15

    I recall once in college arguing with a classmate about using Wiki for anything other than a good starting point in research. She said it was a trustworthy source. Our topic was the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The Wiki page had it as the Stop Online Privacy Act.

  • @ianprice2298
    @ianprice2298 Рік тому +54

    It’s great when you all get the uncontrollable giggles.

  • @DCG909
    @DCG909 Рік тому +20

    They once edited the president of Turkey's page to show a roach with a turkish "desk" (flag on some cardboard).
    it took maybe a day or 2 to fix.

  • @ChrisSmith-rm6xl
    @ChrisSmith-rm6xl Рік тому +25

    Every previous version of every Wikipedia page is avaialble by clicking on view history at the top of the page. (a few versions are hidden from view because they contain -personal info, but you are unlikely to run into that). Way better than the wayback machine.

  • @kimberlywiederhold627
    @kimberlywiederhold627 Рік тому +30

    When I was in high school we had encyclopedias.

    • @Meisha-san
      @Meisha-san Рік тому +6

      Britannica & others have been online for ages. Even Reader's Digest is a great resource for research. They've all evolved wonderfully with vetted current world news & blogs.
      I'm perplexed as to why Wiki occupies such a prominent position when the others perform significantly better and are strictly moderated.

    • @charlytaylor1748
      @charlytaylor1748 Рік тому +4

      I use brittania, too.

    • @NiennaFan1
      @NiennaFan1 5 місяців тому +1

      @@Meisha-sanbecause Wikipedia covers more topics maybe?

    • @Meisha-san
      @Meisha-san 5 місяців тому

      @@NiennaFan1 Wiki is the youngest of the online resources & has by far the smallest databank.
      It's the pay wall. Wiki is free & is much more accessible than the very academically laid out Brittanica & others.
      Also, like with the online newspapers, these pay wall publications badger visitors with those subscription pop-ups. Looking things up on Wiki is just easier & not as annoying as when you don't have a sub for Brittanica.

  • @eduardojud56
    @eduardojud56 Рік тому +29

    We have in Brazil a satyric version of wikipedia, called desciclopedia (something like uncyclopedia)

  • @filmandfirearms
    @filmandfirearms Рік тому +13

    I had to look up Missouri once for a video I was doing, and I could've sworn the state was too big on the map. Good to know I wasn't just hallucinating

    • @kendra_t
      @kendra_t Рік тому +2

      I like how the state language is listed as "Missourian"

  • @kpd3308
    @kpd3308 Рік тому +14

    No matter how horrible things get, I am always so glad to see that there are still people with sharp minds and wonderful senses of humor. Thank you everyone.

    • @darlenesmith5690
      @darlenesmith5690 Рік тому +1

      These are the same people who claim that memes are not funny, yet they are laughing and saying "that's really good" or "that's really funny" to Charlie Sheen, Mariah Carey, Janis Joplin, Sarah Silverman, The Sherlocks, Paul Ryan, and Snakes.
      Those were only funny if they were smoking or drinking something before the show. The fact that they are laughing out loud at some of these is telling. SMH
      There were a few funny ones here, but the vast majority were lame.
      If snakes as long frog tubes is the sign of a sharp mind and a wonderful sense of humor, our society is sad.

    • @kpd3308
      @kpd3308 Рік тому

      @@darlenesmith5690maybe you aren't smart enough to have a good sense of humor. I bet you're great fun at a party.

  • @derekcyhawk5481
    @derekcyhawk5481 Рік тому +16

    I believe that at one time the example given under Genetic Screen involved introducing a mutagen into a population of turtles, then successively selecting for individuals that showed ninja traits.

  • @therealdonnawagner
    @therealdonnawagner Рік тому +11

    "When I was in high school, we always used to look up weird stuff on Wikipedia..." :::cries in 90s graduate::: Thanks. You made me feel ancient with that one phrase. 🤣 When I was in high school, we were technologically advanced if we were using MS Encarta. Wikipedia wasn't even a thing yet. 😭😭😭

    • @IwatchFilm
      @IwatchFilm Рік тому +2

      Encarta...holy shiz, there's something I haven't heard in awhile. I admit being a user of Encarta.

  • @YoungGandalf2325
    @YoungGandalf2325 Рік тому +25

    I've read a few science-themed books that made references to Wikipedia articles. I have a feeling those books won't age well.

  • @patriciaeverett5001
    @patriciaeverett5001 Рік тому +25

    Kudos to my 14 yr old grandson who told me uh, 5 years ago that his Dad discredited Wikipedia as utterly unreliable.

    • @Threedog1963
      @Threedog1963 Рік тому +6

      Whenever I see someone on the internet site Wikipedia as their "source". I immediately doubt whatever they're saying.

    • @FlopgamingOne
      @FlopgamingOne 8 місяців тому

      @@Threedog1963 Wikipedia is a good source

  • @pskarts20
    @pskarts20 Рік тому +6

    Kevin Conroy was a live action Batman once unfortunately. He was on Batwoman and they made him evil only to have Batwoman kill him and be set up as the best ever. Rip the best Batman you deserved better.

  • @astrobuck7023
    @astrobuck7023 Рік тому +5

    “An ocelot is a rare turnip grown on pine trees in the Mediterranean Sea. The turnip taste like charcoal and has the consistency of a rock. The ocelot is most commonly known for its use as toilet paper.”

  • @01nmuskier
    @01nmuskier Рік тому +4

    When middle age men are laughing about using Wikipedia in high school, and I didn't have internet in high school. 😣

    • @johnshaw6702
      @johnshaw6702 Рік тому +1

      I had books. A computer was something in a movie.
      FYI: I've been a software engineer for over 30 years. 😂

  • @titusrogers3146
    @titusrogers3146 Рік тому +8

    I can handle the mountain breeze

  • @robertthompson3447
    @robertthompson3447 Рік тому +7

    I have received Board Panda's highest honor. I have been banned from commenting on their website.

  • @jason1carnley
    @jason1carnley Рік тому +2

    I edited stuff before that was inaccurate; original author immediately changed back.

    • @NedJeffery
      @NedJeffery Рік тому +1

      Yeah I've done that too. Kinda spoils the illusion doesn't it.

  • @dougshaw9701
    @dougshaw9701 Рік тому +5

    Sarah Silverman the photo is of a frog croaking so i assume it means she croaked at the DNC convention .

  • @dunyacaliskan7495
    @dunyacaliskan7495 Рік тому +2

    Someone recently changed the Babylon Bee WIkipedia page to say, "It has been referred to as a Christian, evangelical, or conservative version of The Onion. Except unlike The Onion the Babylon Bee is awesome."

  • @abstrusejay
    @abstrusejay Рік тому +7

    Oh you sweet blessed child. Good on you for not knowing Kevin Conroy did play a life action version of batman on the batgirl TV series. It was an uncomfortably disrespectful version of batman.

  • @patriciaritter4090
    @patriciaritter4090 Рік тому +2

    Oh, the silliness, the hubris, the inanity, the disrespect. This crazy, nutty display of riotous disregard of decorum must NEVER stop. Keep it coming; we need it like life supporting medicine. Come to think of it, it might be just that!

  • @MrManueleh
    @MrManueleh Рік тому +1

    The Janis Joplin post was part of a joke in 30 Rock.

  • @orange_cat
    @orange_cat Рік тому +10

    Nice one on thermodynamics. I totally aced all the tests in college. Then I intentionally forgot all of it, like nearly all of my college classes, since I know I'll need 0% of that information in my brain.

    • @ajb.822
      @ajb.822 Рік тому

      Hmm. I didn't go to high school at all ( long story, but my education was basically only about up to an 8th grade level), but learned the basics of the laws of thermodynamics by my 20s, and it's actually very helpful. It is evidence for Creation and against Darwin's theory of evolution, for one, and knowing them at least helps one understand scientific publications, discourses. Understand and weigh the evidences presented. My husband uses the knowledge of chemistry from high school all the time, at work and home, as he's a Deisel vehicle technician and all around mechanic with a lot of experience and knowledge with AC systems and electrical as well, and it can also come in handy in just about other typically guy area of interest. For example, at work, he knows what chemicals react in what way with others or with temperature or whatever, and can use that information in his approach or decisions. He is always running into kids ( young men) who are stumped, or about to do something dangerous, or who aren't able to figure out a much easier or better solution than what they're doing with a problem, due to their ignorance or thoughtlessness ( and granted, some inexperience plays into that too). I have a terrible memory for this kinda stuff and am on a lot of antihistamines currently so one I almost just had, slipped my mind right away, but his knowledge of this stuff, often just basic high school stuff, has been super interesting, helpful or neat at times.

    • @chrischris4827
      @chrischris4827 Рік тому

      @@ajb.822 Where can I get what you are on?

  • @peartree460
    @peartree460 Рік тому +7

    I take this as an invite to edit the ᗺB page

  • @RedwolfDogrocket
    @RedwolfDogrocket Рік тому +3

    I too, can handle the Mountain Breeze!

  • @dawndelosmuertos4025
    @dawndelosmuertos4025 Рік тому +6

    My favorite Wiki edit is about the actual Viking, Ivor the Boneless, all of a sudden it is now basically the script from the TV show Vikings. All the real info is gone, all these actual vikings are now Ragnor's sons despite the fact that they weren't alive at the same time. I had to laugh. I've seen dozens more changes but this one cracked me up the most.

  • @MikeInOregon
    @MikeInOregon Рік тому +28

    Y’all should do these kind of shows as a series called Babylon Beevis and Butthead.

  • @1Nida
    @1Nida Рік тому +2

    There is a Rock musician with the same name as my son's. In middle school my son would edit the page and put in his grades and sports stats.

  • @quinnbarnett8968
    @quinnbarnett8968 Рік тому

    Didn't realize Ewan McGregor hung out with the Bee people

  • @johncoe929
    @johncoe929 Рік тому +1

    I wish I could remember the specifics: a few years back, some lefty news outlet published a story with some absurd claim (as if that ever happens), and Ted Cruz tweeted the perfect comeback. Someone edited their Wiki page to say they were a newspaper owned by Ted Cruz 🤣

  • @shazam6274
    @shazam6274 Рік тому +3

    Emma looks somehow different. It's not the glasses though......I got it! She shaved off the beard & 'stash! 😂

  • @lemonstealinghorsdoeuvre
    @lemonstealinghorsdoeuvre Рік тому

    Search Wikipedia edits and the first video, by spoon, is this list in the exact order. Great job, we are so proud

  • @nalaka3488
    @nalaka3488 Рік тому +1

    Kevin conroy was actually a live action Batman on the tv show gotham

  • @leemastro9904
    @leemastro9904 2 місяці тому

    Actually, Kevin Conroy did appear in live action, on the WB, during Crisis on Infinite Earths, as Bruce Wayne, in Wayne Manor, with the suit present, but he didn’t wear it. On that earth, Batman had killed Superman, but was crippled in the fight, and needed a powered exoskeleton to walk. He actually tried to kill Supergirl with kryptonite, and talked about how he’d lost count of how many people he’d killed.
    So, it was totally unlike the DCAU Batman that he brought to life, and which was the best Batman, of all time.

  • @derdeolifant
    @derdeolifant Рік тому

    I know a guy (lol) who edited some page for some technical thing, and changed all the "design" to "evolution".

  • @en5788
    @en5788 Рік тому +1

    This needs to bee a new weekly segment!

  • @NoDrNo
    @NoDrNo Рік тому

    Joe Lycett changing his name to Hugo Boss to fuck with them was great

  • @Sketch-Motion
    @Sketch-Motion Рік тому +1

    1:11 As someone who edits Wikipedia, This is something that can easily happen.
    Edit: Wikipedia has it's own wayback machine of sorts so you probably could find it if you looked hard enough.

  • @chrischris4827
    @chrischris4827 Рік тому +1

    Firesigns first law of motion, if you push something hard enough it will fall over!

  • @johnmcclain3887
    @johnmcclain3887 Рік тому +1

    I always have to check in for my moment of truth, or is that a moment of fiction, well I don't know.

  • @charlytaylor1748
    @charlytaylor1748 Рік тому +1

    I just don't get wearing baseball caps backwards

  • @skyhawk__
    @skyhawk__ Рік тому +1

    One time, the class above me got our high school banned from Wikipedia because they made a fake religion called the “Larsonites” centered around the author of our calculus textbooks Ron Larson. He was the god figure and the Bible was the textbook, it was horrible but also INCREDIBLY hilarious.

    • @skyhawk__
      @skyhawk__ Рік тому +2

      Every IP address associated with the school was banned for 10 years from editing Wikipedia.

    • @skyhawk__
      @skyhawk__ Рік тому +1

      Edit, more info: it got so bad because they had also set up some kind of pilgrimage system to his house as part of the holiness of “larsony” that Wikipedia became concerned for his safety and banned ye IP addresses.

  • @scotto9448
    @scotto9448 Рік тому

    Kevin was, in fact, on screen as Batman once. One of the TV shows, the multiverse ones. Batwoman maybe? He was an older, very grumpy, Bruce Wayne.

  • @kirilvelinov7774
    @kirilvelinov7774 4 місяці тому

    Poker cards
    "These cards suck"
    😂😂😂😂

  • @jeffpittman9002
    @jeffpittman9002 Рік тому

    Runners experience diarrhea. I think the body stops excepting water and it runs straight out.

  • @patriciaeverett5001
    @patriciaeverett5001 Рік тому

    These are pretty funny!!:-)))

  • @stevenward3856
    @stevenward3856 Рік тому

    And this is why you shouldn't trust in Wikipedia as a source of information!

  • @kalebbruwer
    @kalebbruwer Рік тому

    "The first law of thermodynamics is that you do NOT talk about thermodynamics"
    I mean it's a pretty good rule for first dates. Do not talk about thermodynamics on a first date.

  • @bubbarichard
    @bubbarichard Рік тому +1

    The Female Transformers page, it was taken down after that main editor guy found it but it was foul. It was suppose to be up for over five years and a college project. I don't think youtube would allow you to read it without a constant beep. And there are no female Transformers.

    • @trisk_7398
      @trisk_7398 Рік тому +1

      Actually there are female Autobots.

    • @bubbarichard
      @bubbarichard Рік тому

      @@trisk_7398 Not at the time the article was published and it's mainly about calling them foul names

  • @jantelliquawallace355
    @jantelliquawallace355 Рік тому

    The wiki page for steven Segall horrible music "mojo priest" i believe is messed with to this day.

  • @nathanmaltby3201
    @nathanmaltby3201 Рік тому +2

    0:43 not true he was in an episode of Batwoman as a live action Batman

    • @HartyBiker
      @HartyBiker Рік тому +3

      Batwoman doesn't exist. Batwoman was just a bad dream.

    • @trisk_7398
      @trisk_7398 Рік тому

      @@HartyBiker Correct. Not canon.

  • @josephthomas2226
    @josephthomas2226 7 місяців тому

    I laughed until I cried

  • @geneimprov-uc9pr
    @geneimprov-uc9pr Місяць тому

    THERMODYNAICS comment, I am sure, is based on the Tao: the Tao you can talk about is not the real Tao.

  • @youknowit158
    @youknowit158 Рік тому

    Kevin did play batman on a cw show for 1 episode

  • @WaltzingAustralia
    @WaltzingAustralia Рік тому

    Why no publisher ever lets writers use Wikipedia as a source.

  • @badump_bash
    @badump_bash Рік тому

    i love editing wkipedia

  • @potatokitty
    @potatokitty Рік тому

    I used to edit Wikipedia pages. Then they banned me. Fun.

  • @LostLakeTribune
    @LostLakeTribune Рік тому +1

    I edited the Reggie Miller page to say he won an NBA championship!

  • @I_am_Diogenes
    @I_am_Diogenes Рік тому

    0:46 WRONG . He did appear on camera as Batman . I am told he was on the canceled "Batwoman" series as Batman . Yes , he was "only" the voice of Batman . SO ?

  • @michaelheurkens4538
    @michaelheurkens4538 Рік тому

    Do you think the Janis Joplin "speedwalking everywhere" just might have a bit to do with a slight drug addiction?

  • @sarsimlun
    @sarsimlun Рік тому +2

    Mountain breeze

  • @ididsubmititalreadys7733
    @ididsubmititalreadys7733 Рік тому

    Inflation. Companies hate consumers. Because they need you to stop spending.

  • @rickshorrock6046
    @rickshorrock6046 Рік тому

    Are you hiring? Not a joke.

  • @AdirondackRuby
    @AdirondackRuby Рік тому

    That thermodynamics one is hilarious and sad...because they're genuinely trying to erase/disprove thermodynamics because it is fatphobic. LOL!

  • @sdfett2596
    @sdfett2596 Рік тому

    Oohh, I hope I win.

  • @charlesnavin4482
    @charlesnavin4482 Рік тому

    Baby lawn bee discriminates against Texas. Eat donkey counts (minus o)

  • @Threedog1963
    @Threedog1963 Рік тому

    I always liked the joke along time ago when someone typed into Google, “A white man stole my car”. Then Google responded back, “No results, Did you mean, a Black man stole my car?”
    Turns out it was a fake post, but funny nevertheless.

  • @alexf8309
    @alexf8309 Рік тому

    Whooo!

  • @corporalcrimson3295
    @corporalcrimson3295 Рік тому +4

    Guys this was honestly hilarious 😂 I'm dying

  • @MrMartman777
    @MrMartman777 Рік тому

    Hoizer favorite hoizer

  • @glennnile7918
    @glennnile7918 Рік тому

    I think we have been invaded. The sense of humor seems alien to me. Can we go back to the "Moving to Texas from California" skits? Now they were funny.

  • @talpark8796
    @talpark8796 Рік тому

    🤨
    😆

  • @mizzmia4407
    @mizzmia4407 Рік тому

    🤣✌️

  • @Drakemiser
    @Drakemiser Рік тому +4

    These are funny. What I do-and you can steal this idea-is look up political pages, or pages in Christianity and look for blatant propaganda and their references. You can also look up dictionary words and terms and see how they have been altered recently for political reasons(eg the word “reactionary”). There are plenty of examples of “New Speak” to be found.

    • @ajb.822
      @ajb.822 Рік тому +1

      Yes, thanks !!!! I hate that. Like, if u don't want to be a Christian, fine, but at least get it accurate, and state facts without spin, condescension, lies, etc. !

    • @Drakemiser
      @Drakemiser Рік тому

      @@ajb.822 they have to lie. Jesus is the truth, the only counter they have is to lie. They’ll never “play fair” because they would lose.

    • @the_SolLoser
      @the_SolLoser Рік тому

      Like MGTOW. And the editors were even having debates about it.

    • @Drakemiser
      @Drakemiser Рік тому

      @@the_SolLoser I don’t know what that is

    • @the_SolLoser
      @the_SolLoser Рік тому

      @@Drakemiser Men Going Their Own Way.

  • @CherubCow
    @CherubCow Рік тому +3

    I like the stealth edits of the Wiki page for “fascism”. In 2016/2017, some mad lad changed the definition so that it exclusively applied to the right, and he linked to a definition of “authoritarian” which assumes that any authoritarian is also “right”. It’s still there!! Hilarious entry.

  • @garyella1301
    @garyella1301 Рік тому +2

    I remember making edits to the statistics of a football player for my local team as it hadn't been updated for some time and I got banned. Although when I put than hank azaria who voiced apu I added he done voice work for gta iv just because I heard a voice that sounded like apu and thats sonehow still there. Wikipedia is a shit show.
    I mean football and not soccer because im english.

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    @cliffordoscar9043 Рік тому +8

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      @darrenerik7605 Рік тому

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      @kahlanelaine9265 Рік тому

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    • @andremacgregor1396
      @andremacgregor1396 Рік тому

      @Salvador40

  • @idiotproofamerica
    @idiotproofamerica Рік тому

    A contextually specific one: after the Seattle Sounders were eliminated from the MLS playoffs two years in a row by a goal from Diaron Asprilla of the Portland Timbers, someone edited the Seattle Sounders page to list Asprilla as the owner of the Seattle Sounders football club.

  • @joshthxtheContitutionalConserv

    He was on camera as Batman, but in the stupid CW crossover crap so I wouldn’t count it. Plus they killed him in it too so pretty lame

  • @dr.justinspiehs
    @dr.justinspiehs Рік тому

    The men in this video sit like the woman in this video

  • @Tevildo
    @Tevildo Рік тому +1

    If you're intereted, the Mountain Breeze edit is en.wikipedia.org_w_index.php?title=Mountain_Breeze&oldid=47276064. Replace _ with /.

  • @justwatching6186
    @justwatching6186 Рік тому

    Daniel Toshiba encouraged his audience to edit the Tosh.O page. The best was: Tosh.O- pronounced : smegma