This is another case of a large creature being impractical due to the square/cube law - trying to deal with all of those issues as a large creature (a hypothetical human vampire) is not realistic when using the strategies of the other insects and animals that consume blood.
I’ve always rationalized that fictional vampires don’t _actually_ metabolize blood as food for a living (or rather undying), but rather use it’s “magical spiritual energy” as sustenance. More as lifeblood rather than plasma and red cells. It would be hilarious tho to imagine a sparkly twilight vampire peeing all day all the time.
I don't remember where but I remember seeing that take before! I think the vampire in question started to look old and withered without food, but drinking blood kept them young-looking and active.
Of fucking course that is the case, I don't remember reading in the Iliad "and the warrior fell and evil spirits from the underworld sprang out to drink their blood, but it has low nutrient value so they had to pee all over the battlefield and made a mess of things"
@@MinuteFood I, for a split second, thought that this channel was fake because of not seeing the tick mark until I saw the subscriber count which is sadly, kinda low for good people like you.
While crazy conspiracy theorists have come up with irrational and baseless accusations against Gates, there are plenty of real reasons for dismissing his so-called philanthropy. I understand that SciShow needs money, but so people know. Bill Gates spent half a billion dollars, that's $500 million, just in the decade up to 2015, to develop a numerical rating system for teachers. They then admitted they failed, but not before the measures have been almost universally adopted across educational systems in the whole country. Untold thousands of schools were shut down and teachers laid off or denigrated on the likes of New York Post. Now, every state is short of teachers, which has never happened before, and the pipeline for teaching certification programs is at historic lows. Youth mental health is at all time low, as well (although there are other causes there obviously, like social media). Another example of Gates' influence is on the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine. Oxford University was about to license their vaccine for free, especially to poor countries. Gates doesn’t like purely public enterprises, so his foundation convinced the uni to partner with the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to market the vaccine. AZ had little vaccine experience and made a mess of the trials, so much so that its vaccine’s still not approved by the FDA (disclosure: I’m one of the first trial participants in the US). And many countries found its license fees prohibitively expensive. If you’re still appreciative of Gates, look up his name with Jeffrey Epstein, and about his divorce and trips.
maybe just because he love this channel and he have money to maintain this channel working,tho I still think maybe more budget source will be better...
It's abundantly clear that's the case. Bill Gates is the leading force behind research into anticoagulants, because they are necessary to prevent sudden cardiac arrest when the tracking device got put in with the covid vaccine. Can't track dead people. Disclaimer: This is a joke.
His foundation probably sponsored the video because it raises awareness on mosquito biology, since a lot of their work deals with controlling populations and treating malaria.
My favorite version of a vampire is from The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross. It's a Lovecraftian cosmic horror setting (complex math = ritual magic) where vampires don't actually gain anything from the blood, it's just used as a sympathetic link to the victim for an extra-dimension "virus" to piggyback off of. The virus "eats" computational energy (ie brain matter) and grants what we think of as traditional vampire powers (long life, strength, persuasion, glamour,...). If the vampire doesn't "feed," and there's no link to another victim, they become the victim to their own virus.
The part at the one minute 20 second Mark about either being able to store all the excess water or get rid of it somehow, I've only seen one book that I can remember that actually dealt with that. I think it was the Generation V series. They took a page out of the vampire bat and after drinking a pint of blood, the vampire in question would get rid of the excess water in exactly the same way. Makes vampirism a whole lot less romantic that's for sure.
This video is both fascinating and hilarious. I love it when people take a ridiculous and fictional idea such as vampires and then evaluate it seriously. Now I'm actually assessing whether I should become a vampire... uhhh anyway, entertaining and highly researched content as usual, keep up the great work guys.
So for what you love. Because Science Fact Feind Exurb1a (I am not certain this qualifies for what you said, however informative and distinctive humor ) True Facts
I understand that SciShow needs money, but so people know. Bill Gates spent half a billion dollars, that's $500 million, just in the decade up to 2015, to develop a numerical rating system for teachers. They then admitted they failed, but not before the measures have been almost universally adopted across educational systems in the whole country. Untold thousands of schools were shut down and teachers laid off or denigrated on the likes of New York Post. Now, every state is short of teachers, which has never happened before, and the pipeline for teaching certification programs is at historic lows. Youth mental health is at all time low, as well (although there are other causes there obviously, like social media). Another example of Gates' influence is on the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine. Oxford University was about to license their vaccine for free, especially to poor countries. Gates doesn’t like purely public enterprises, so his foundation convinced the uni to partner with the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to market the vaccine. AZ had little vaccine experience and made a mess of the trials, so much so that its vaccine’s still not approved by the FDA (disclosure: I’m one of the first trial participants in the US). And many countries found its license fees prohibitively expensive. If you’re still appreciative of Gates, look up his name with Jeffrey Epstein, and about his divorce and trips.
It would make more sense for a larger vampire (human size) to consume food and blood instead of being exclusively blood drinker. It actually sounds it could be interesting to see how we can make a vampire work with the limitations of science.
My favorite take was, that blood basically is just a replacement for Vitamin D generated during exposure to the sun. So, vampires eat normally, but there's just some stuff they can't get into their bodies efficiently.
@@Arkios64 I could never make enough vitamin D even when I was exposed to enough sunlight. Instead of resorting to vampirism I just take a pill every day.
@@limiv5272 well , i guess vampires could do that too , remember that vampire thingy originated in like the middle ages (if bit after) and well , technology have developted ALOT between that era vs modern era
Perhaps they could use uncooked (with blood)to get rid of atleast ONE of the problems while simultaneously having features of a vulture or another wild animal that could digest uncooked meals without really getting sick?or have some sort of wisdom teeth that deals with uncooked meat? Now you may be asking or arguing that blood would go old easly; but what if it was fresh or stored?it's a hypothetical theory if they ever did exist, and ofc if there was no technology, they would have to go quickly or fight off invaders. I'm just thinking of how long it would take to transform your body; but in the end, it could be possible, if the insects doesn't get to your body first.
Hmm, well the issue with nutrients could be resolved by the vampire metabolism, which is basically one of a dead human, so we can assume that he produces almost no heat and his cells division is almost non-existing unless he heals. They also sleep for long periods of time, and since we don't know if they dream, maybe their basically in a coma consuming as less brain power as possible. Also, their saliva might work like some kind of poison that make your cells split out their contents into the blood, transforming you into a vampire and making your blood more nutrient at the same time.
If vampire metabolism were that of a dead human, then their behaviour would be like that of a dead human, too. As things stand, they're a whole lot more active than your average dead human, and all that activity requires energy, hence a metabolism. Even just keeping their body from decomposing requires resources.
I feel Real vampires, largely due to being undead, don't need the nutrition from the blood, but rather may need the blood to replace their own as perhaps they don't generate it, or perhaps something otherwise unknown to science. Additionally, something in their anti-coagulating saliva is infectious and passes along the vampire curse or "Vampirc Sanguinitis" as the Elder Scrolls would term the disease. Either way, I don't think MinuteEarth is giving the full credit to the highly evolved and mystical processes vampires have developed for dealing with their curse.
Vampires do things that require energy, they maintain carbon-based bodies, therefore they need nutrition. That's how real-world physics works. Whatever the concept 'undead' is supposed to mean, it can't change that fact.
Given the dead flesh still having volition, I always assumed it was less about the substance of the blood and more about the metaphysical "life force" in the blood. Not that that's something this channel could cover, so this isn't complaint or critique of any kind. That thumbnail & the relevant fact about vampire bats sure got me, though. 😵 I guess it's not much different than birds pooping prior to takeoff. Doesn't make it less gross though, lol.
I doubt they have these problems as they’re just demonic beings, possessed revenant corpses or souls damned to Hell. They probably don’t really need blood to survive because they don’t eat. They drink blood to kill in a sacrificial manner and to curse the living into joining them. They’re magical fantasy creatures.
Or Evolution of vampire can become stronger like bat immune system. But only lack of tricks of vampire as Mosquitoes and leeds or bats have special advantages more of that vampires.
The video did addressed it and said it would be nice to see more fictional vampires having adaptations for those problems. Ideas like saliva that keep the blood flowing and even prevent the one being bitten from feeling pain and really good immunity to germs is already being used. In some works of fiction vampires don't feed exclusively on blood and therefore need much less of it which makes it easier to handle the extra water and iron. I would say that I would love to see works of fiction were they also have bigger bladders to hold more water or that they don't drink water at all as they get enough from blood. It would be also fun to explore what purpose would blood play in their diet. The best incarnation of this would also try to weave those adaptations with symbolism and vampire folklore which can create a very interesting version of a vampire and I think it's fun to look at all those 'problems' as opportunity for creative writing. Obviously, if you don't want it to be too much about science you can simply not deal with vampires from this perspective, fantasy don't have to be scientifically sound.
I remember hearing a legend of a type of vampire that drains the fat away from its victims. I would love to see a video about them and if there are any real life counterparts. 🙋🏼♀️
Did you know that polar bears mostly eat fat. Since digesting protein takes a lot of water and seals are made of ~50% fat, it's better for them to leave the rest behind. Although the seal wont survive this process. :(
Most vampires stories I know of have their vampires have lower body temperature, so they wouldn't waste as much energy on homeostasis, plus the lower temperature already means a lower metabolic rate. So they don't need as many calories as a normal human would. Then there are the most interesting ones, which treat a vampire's craving for blood less like them being hungry for food and more like a drug addiction. Most vampires are immortal, after all, so they don't really need the food, but they do have the addiction, which puts an interesting spin on things.
I never imagined vampires would live solely on blood, but rather have a need for it in addition to whatever else they would eat. Like, say, needing a hemoglobin supplement.
I always figured vamp bites produce anti clotting & anti immune system factors and their own immune systems can deal with the potential toxins & pathogens in blood
Love the concept! You’ve got some logical problems going on. You’re making assumptions about how these nonhuman mythical things function and what kind of energy an immortal shapechanger that can control the minds of humans would require. I think you should use the fiction as a foundation and build assumptions on the other systems. Like the fact that a vampire may need naturally created anticoagulants available for them to feed. Maybe it isn’t that they need phenomenal amounts of blood for nutrients. Maybe it’s that they just don’t require so many nutrients. Do they breathe? They don’t have a heartbeat. Sounds like a lot of calorie burning activities that don’t happen. Would be fair to wonder how nutrients move through their body without a heartbeat. But, they can turn into fog ….. and still think.
The energy required to transform like a werewolf, and the heat that the transformation would produce, would leave you constantly starved for nutrients, always running very high body temps, and in either intense pain or numbness, depending on whether or not to nervous system is accustomed to the transformation
A werewolf must be shedding tons of fur, so there goes extra energy, time, and money to clean your house. Also when you transform, you most likely damage your clothes, so there goes extra money for clothing. And many more along that lines... In summary, its just too expensive. If you are not crazy rich, pls dont be a werewolf 😒
Another minus of being a vampire is that if someone paints your face you will never know about it because you can’t see it in the mirror, but everybody else can
They may be invisible but are their clothes? This asks more questions than it answers as I now wonder if they would just see a float paint mark in the mirror.
This. A vampire isn't trying to keep their body alive. By the logic of this video, one should always remember to make their phones drink enough water every day.
@@Flawaffles Not in the mythical sense. But yes, they are real. The examples given in the video are real. And there are facts on the standard mythical version. Those facts can change with the writer, but there is still a baseline. That is what's being discussed. Why even enter the conversation if you don't understand?
Does that happen to those annoying mosquitoes? I don't mind taking my blood but that buzzing is what drive me crazy. (Also, the decease part but anyway)
I returned to this video with what is basically a shower thought (I wasn't in the shower but it's still exactly like one you may see in places like Reddit) that resulted in a theory I thought of in which, what if vampires/vampirism was actually a fungi? As I was looking back at this video and how it puts logic into how vampires would get sustenance, I was thinking that, since blood has little to no nutrition (but still *some,* ) and that *blood is mostly just water,* and since you don't ever see vampires being comically bloated and/or peeing their pants (or peeing in general,) I began to contemplate if vampires were actually a plant. But then wait, no.. Vampires hate the sun and plants think anything but that, and plants can't turn people into more plants.. *Or is that really true?* That's when I remembered about mushrooms/fungi; a large quantity hate sunlight, and there's also ones - well, more of all one that's somewhat infamous for it - that turns small insects into zombies for it's own benefit. Therefore, vampirism could be a zombifying/parasitic fungi that keeps it's victims (somewhat) alive (which adds onto vampires' supposed immortality in most vampire genres) in order for the fungus to stay alive via blood consumption and spread. Except, since humans have extremely complex minds unlike the ants the real-life counterpart fungus tends to prey on, they aren't completely under it's control. So basically, if someone starts another pandemic and it just so happens to be of vampiric properties, it's probably someone who ate something stupid again, this time a mushroom instead of a bat.. lol
I always asumed vampires have a system that send their blood straight to their blood torrent and replaces the old blod that has no nutrients anymore, instead of digesting it.
That probably runs in some problems with blood types. Unless all surviving vampires have specifically AB+ type, or hunt down only people with O- type. (Not an expert on the topic)
@@hebl47 Out of the blood, our food becomes nutrients that go to our own blood torrent were it gets distributed to the body. Look it like getting blood transfussions everytime, they would need the entire blood of the victim and would basically change their blood torrent everytime they feed.
@@TemporarySolution I think it might be more like they aren't able to produce blood at all, so I wouldn't say they have a blood type. They just need new blood to replace the old one once it runs out of nutrients and the functioning blood cells.
@@jonathanherrera9956 My biology is a bit rusty, but I don't think our blood really has that much energy. Isn't most of it stored in cells via ATP (and of course fats), both of which can't be harnessed just by swapping blood?
The whole sunlight thing came from the 1920s silent film Nosferato, where Count Orlock turned into a puff of smoke when expoed to sunlight. Prior to that, such as Bram Stoker's Dracula, the sun was more of an inconvenience. Vampires weren't at their full power, but it was hardly a death sentence, and Dracula walked around in broad daylight no problem.
Thanks! I’ll think twice before becoming a vampire, very good things to consider before switching to the live-human-blood-only diet I’ve been considering.
0:25 Vampires are supposed to suck on arteries and take most of your blood quite fast... They don't really have to suck actually: your heart does the job!
Genuinely thought this would talk about the 'other' major issues with vampires, being their innumerable weaknesses and rules. Not being able to cross over running water must be a nightmare with all this modern plumbing (Yes, it counts. They can't cross over rivers via bridges, or areas with underground rivers, so active plumbing should also apply). Silver and Gold are both used in a lot of modern electronics, so a vampire would find themselves either very outdated, or constantly in a weakened state due to proximity. Most annoying of all is how nowadays most activities take place within enclosed spaces, in which vampires need to be invited into, which is hard when most don't have a greeter. The jury is undecided on automated doors though. Also wanting to clear up some common misconceptions. Sunlight doesn't actually burn them. Just removes their vampiric powers and leaves them drained and weak until they're in the shade. They do sunburn easily though due to this lack of exposure and pale white skin. And the 'no reflections' is actually because mirrors back then used silver. Their reflections appear in any other substance. This is also why they wouldn't show up in photographs at the time either, due to old fashioned cameras using silver nitrate
Yikes to the blood drinkers, I definitely will never think of them as misunderstood, though I definitely would say they are better than normal predators, they are infinitely better because they do not kill their prey.
Why don't vampires wear white clothes? Doesn't that reflect more sunlight that black (which absorbs all the light)? Isn't white colored clothes more useful than black colored clothes for vampires?
You'd want your clothes to absorb as much sunlight as it can, so as little light as possible would hit your skin. White clothes would scatter the sunlight everywhere - including your face - whereas dark clothes just get hotter. Vampire clothes could include white, or even mirror designs, but the positioning should be carefully considered so as to not just reflect the sunlight back on you. Overall, It's simpler to just avoid sunlight and wear multiple layers of blackout shades - capes, cloaks, ridiculously high collars, etc.
@@FernLake I mean... shadows, especially at night, are meant to be absence of light right? So it doesn't really matter if it's white or any other color as the vampires would not be "visible" anyways
@@mannav1466 Hm. You actually got a point. When vampires were invented, it was much, much darker in cities at night then today. So 'the shadows' would probably have been pitch black. I think, it has more to do with symbolism, though. White stands for light and good. Black for darkness and evil. Red for blood and passion.
What if the ancient people were looking for a suitable and monstrous meal for a vampire, and found blood could be an appetizer, and got bored making this diet, leaving the vampire to survive on just the appetizer...
Actually the creators of vampire might have thought nobody know these things but even if someone knows it they might have thought that they will contradict all this by themselves.
Vampires originate from old slavic folklore, nobody really "made them up". The story goes that Russians would see blood flowing from the lips of the dead [due to various processes] and their hair & nails appearing longer [due to their skin contracting], so, they assumed that the dead were alive... and drinking blood. Ergo, vampires. Originally called Upir.
@@nicreven some vampires have that origin, yes, but blood sucking human(oids) are pretty prevalent worldwide in very unrelated cultures. Bram stoker himself may have taken inspiration from Russian folklore or Romanian folklore or Indian folklore or a mix of all 3.
@@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat I see! From what I understand, European vampires mostly originate from the upir. Dracula most definitely does. Also, would you count the chupacabra here?
fair points *if* vampires were living beings simply infected with a sanguine disease. but since they are fictional and considered undead they obviously negate that. fun video none the less and amazing thumbnail lmao
in some variants of vampires, they actually need the blood for some very specific protein they can't produce themselves, not actually for sustenance. I wonder how that changes things, if at all...
No, mosquitoes and ticks are still awful. And the fact that vampire bats (which already carry rabies) pee on you as they drink from you doesn't make them anymore appealing either. Though their saliva can be considered venom, which makes them fascinating as one of the few confirmed venomous mammals in the world.
I’m just imagining that fictional vampires might have all of that and more! (And I’m also imagining that vampire bathrooms are always very coated in urine from all the blood they’d have to convert into nutrients for themselves!)
Uhh. A lot of vampire facts left out. 1) They are no longer human. Comparing a vampire to a human doesn't work. 2) They are immortal. OR undead. They might spend most of their time resting. 3) Feeding isn't an issue. In most cases, they create a sort of legion of followers. Works a bit like an ant colony.
That's just lore, though, not facts. The point was to look at the biological feasibility of the common vampire trope and learn about how actual blood-feeding species solved the issues that lifestyle raises. Those lore points, if taken into consideration, open much different cans of worms. How would "immortality" manifest itself (extremely slow metabolism? extensive DNA repair? all the stories just lazily make it magic) since there is no such thing in biology as simple immortality, how their enthralling powers even work, etc. All very interesting questions leading to other real-life examples, I am sure, but quite off-topic given the subject was specifically the issues of a blood-only diet.
@@felixmervamee7834 Facts within the talks of vampires. Facts are facts. It's like saying Harry Potter doesn't go to Hogwarts bc, he nor it exist outside the realm of literature. I would have loved if they touched on those topics.
@@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat Well, they exist within talks of vampires. Why even talk about non-existent being without trying to explain their existence with real world logic? Take Master Chief of the Halo franchise Or Harry Potter. You discuss them while trying to explain the inner workings of their respective worlds. Another take, Why did you name yourself the Clockwork King when you are not the Clockwork King? Why not just go by your own legal name?
@@Honeneko. Those are called a canon. A collection of somewhat cohesive elements that are held "correct" by a central authority (the Pope, the story's author, etc.) or a community. It is an important distinction as facts cannot contradict themselves, whereas canon elements may very well -- that is called making a new canon (see Christian schisms, or the different takes on vampires that exist all throughout literature and cinema). As such, it is no disservice to these canons to talk about the wizards of Harry Potter without talking about Hogwarts, nor is it to talk about one aspect of one canon of vampires without mentioning the others aspects. Heck we might very well write our *own* canon without any wizard school or vampires being immortal, and those versions wouldn't be any less "true".
I get it, getting nutrients from blood is hard, but I have an ACTUAL SCAR from a tick. I don't know how. I also get scabs over wounds really fast, but don't grow skin there for a really long time. I hate this.
The vampire to the left is likely meant to be Dracula, and the one to the right has “Twilight”-style sparkles, but who are the two vampires in the middle?
This is another case of a large creature being impractical due to the square/cube law - trying to deal with all of those issues as a large creature (a hypothetical human vampire) is not realistic when using the strategies of the other insects and animals that consume blood.
They’re immortal and sunlight harms them sucking blood isn’t the crazy thing.
i feel like a nerd because i know this
@@hoodout16 Mood.
@@hoodout16 I mean hey, we have animals in this world that have each of those traits individually. What is so crazy about it?
@@Tinil0 imagine asking a genie for long life and being turned into a North Atlantic clam that lives over 400 years hahaha
While I love the new insight, this video will not garner any new sympathy from me for ticks, mosquitos, and leeches haha.
Kill on sight.
I absolutely agree
How is this almost a day ago?
@@tjtheknowledgeseeker7878 channel's supporters has an early access to new video.
100% I will still squat that mosquito when I see it.
Bite me all you like, but zero tolerance for buzzing around my ears while im trying to sleep
I’ve always rationalized that fictional vampires don’t _actually_ metabolize blood as food for a living (or rather undying), but rather use it’s “magical spiritual energy” as sustenance. More as lifeblood rather than plasma and red cells. It would be hilarious tho to imagine a sparkly twilight vampire peeing all day all the time.
I don't remember where but I remember seeing that take before! I think the vampire in question started to look old and withered without food, but drinking blood kept them young-looking and active.
The idea of “vampire diapers” is hilarious!
Yeah, it's more about what the blood means in the culture. Even so, biology is fun too!
Any superpower we see in movies would be impractical or an actual nightmare without magic being involved, vampires are no different
Of fucking course that is the case, I don't remember reading in the Iliad "and the warrior fell and evil spirits from the underworld sprang out to drink their blood, but it has low nutrient value so they had to pee all over the battlefield and made a mess of things"
The worst part is not being able to eat garlic toast
Obviously!!!
EXCELLENT point!
I dont like Garlic or any garlic at all .
@@MinuteFood I, for a split second, thought that this channel was fake because of not seeing the tick mark until I saw the subscriber count which is sadly, kinda low for good people like you.
That's a lie garlic doesn't harm vampires
"Maybe we should have empathy for vampires. Anyway, this video was sponsored by Bill Gates..."
this is what they call foreshadowing
While crazy conspiracy theorists have come up with irrational and baseless accusations against Gates, there are plenty of real reasons for dismissing his so-called philanthropy.
I understand that SciShow needs money, but so people know. Bill Gates spent half a billion dollars, that's $500 million, just in the decade up to 2015, to develop a numerical rating system for teachers. They then admitted they failed, but not before the measures have been almost universally adopted across educational systems in the whole country. Untold thousands of schools were shut down and teachers laid off or denigrated on the likes of New York Post. Now, every state is short of teachers, which has never happened before, and the pipeline for teaching certification programs is at historic lows. Youth mental health is at all time low, as well (although there are other causes there obviously, like social media).
Another example of Gates' influence is on the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine. Oxford University was about to license their vaccine for free, especially to poor countries. Gates doesn’t like purely public enterprises, so his foundation convinced the uni to partner with the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to market the vaccine. AZ had little vaccine experience and made a mess of the trials, so much so that its vaccine’s still not approved by the FDA (disclosure: I’m one of the first trial participants in the US). And many countries found its license fees prohibitively expensive.
If you’re still appreciative of Gates, look up his name with Jeffrey Epstein, and about his divorce and trips.
Billionaires hoarding resources are the real monsters to humanity’s way of life. Eat the billionaires that are ruining human civilization? 🤑🤔
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Glad I'm not the only one who thought that
I wonder if Bill Gates specifically demanded to sponsor a video on the physiological challenges of being a vampire
Because he is vampire himself.
maybe just because he love this channel and he have money to maintain this channel working,tho I still think maybe more budget source will be better...
It's abundantly clear that's the case. Bill Gates is the leading force behind research into anticoagulants, because they are necessary to prevent sudden cardiac arrest when the tracking device got put in with the covid vaccine. Can't track dead people.
Disclaimer: This is a joke.
@@Grigoriy_Tumanin yes. you understood he joke 👏
His foundation probably sponsored the video because it raises awareness on mosquito biology, since a lot of their work deals with controlling populations and treating malaria.
Now I want a video about which fictional vampire is the most realistic, like the one you made on dragons.
Do it, do it, do it...😅
Morbius?
Do it
This, definitely.
(It surely can't be the sparkly ones, right?)
My favorite version of a vampire is from The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross. It's a Lovecraftian cosmic horror setting (complex math = ritual magic) where vampires don't actually gain anything from the blood, it's just used as a sympathetic link to the victim for an extra-dimension "virus" to piggyback off of. The virus "eats" computational energy (ie brain matter) and grants what we think of as traditional vampire powers (long life, strength, persuasion, glamour,...). If the vampire doesn't "feed," and there's no link to another victim, they become the victim to their own virus.
The part at the one minute 20 second Mark about either being able to store all the excess water or get rid of it somehow, I've only seen one book that I can remember that actually dealt with that. I think it was the Generation V series. They took a page out of the vampire bat and after drinking a pint of blood, the vampire in question would get rid of the excess water in exactly the same way. Makes vampirism a whole lot less romantic that's for sure.
Unless they are into water sports.
I'm just imagining how much the drama of a scene of a vampire feeding would get deflated by him peeing his pants the whole time.
@@ScytheNoire Or golden showers
@@limiv5272 That's what water sports means, in a pornographic setting. Don't google it.
We should have sea vampires
Bill Gates wants us to understand how hard it is for him
😂😂
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No wonder he's tried so hard to rid the world of certain viruses & diseases, he just wants more tasty food. I'm all for it.
@@AndyGneiss You are "all for" blood suckers?
This video is both fascinating and hilarious. I love it when people take a ridiculous and fictional idea such as vampires and then evaluate it seriously. Now I'm actually assessing whether I should become a vampire... uhhh anyway, entertaining and highly researched content as usual, keep up the great work guys.
There are real vampires out there. They suck the life out of you.
So for what you love.
Because Science
Fact Feind
Exurb1a (I am not certain this qualifies for what you said, however informative and distinctive humor )
True Facts
You should watch the whole vampire biology by thought potato it's a whole another level of analyzing vampires
Energy vampires are real…. Some people need to feed off of others energy to survive. Vamps need multiple supply to sustain
@@kekecampbell812 Those are the bad kinds.
Plot twist: Bill Gates is a vampire and he paid for this episode to prepare the world for his coming out
Or, Bill Gates is considering to be a vampire, so he paid for this research
That'd explain a lot.
I understand that SciShow needs money, but so people know. Bill Gates spent half a billion dollars, that's $500 million, just in the decade up to 2015, to develop a numerical rating system for teachers. They then admitted they failed, but not before the measures have been almost universally adopted across educational systems in the whole country. Untold thousands of schools were shut down and teachers laid off or denigrated on the likes of New York Post. Now, every state is short of teachers, which has never happened before, and the pipeline for teaching certification programs is at historic lows. Youth mental health is at all time low, as well (although there are other causes there obviously, like social media).
Another example of Gates' influence is on the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine. Oxford University was about to license their vaccine for free, especially to poor countries. Gates doesn’t like purely public enterprises, so his foundation convinced the uni to partner with the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to market the vaccine. AZ had little vaccine experience and made a mess of the trials, so much so that its vaccine’s still not approved by the FDA (disclosure: I’m one of the first trial participants in the US). And many countries found its license fees prohibitively expensive.
If you’re still appreciative of Gates, look up his name with Jeffrey Epstein, and about his divorce and trips.
He’s friends with Epstein what is wrong with you, is the biggest bloodsucker of them all. Minute Earth, why?
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I love the idea that vampires have to just poop out an iron ingot once in a while
Only about once a month or two if they feed on 1 full human(only blood) per day.
An average human has around 3.5 grams of iron in their body.
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It would make more sense for a larger vampire (human size) to consume food and blood instead of being exclusively blood drinker.
It actually sounds it could be interesting to see how we can make a vampire work with the limitations of science.
My favorite take was, that blood basically is just a replacement for Vitamin D generated during exposure to the sun.
So, vampires eat normally, but there's just some stuff they can't get into their bodies efficiently.
@@Arkios64 I could never make enough vitamin D even when I was exposed to enough sunlight. Instead of resorting to vampirism I just take a pill every day.
@@limiv5272 well , i guess vampires could do that too , remember that vampire thingy originated in like the middle ages (if bit after) and well , technology have developted ALOT between that era vs modern era
Perhaps they could use uncooked (with blood)to get rid of atleast ONE of the problems while simultaneously having features of a vulture or another wild animal that could digest uncooked meals without really getting sick?or have some sort of wisdom teeth that deals with uncooked meat? Now you may be asking or arguing that blood would go old easly; but what if it was fresh or stored?it's a hypothetical theory if they ever did exist, and ofc if there was no technology, they would have to go quickly or fight off invaders. I'm just thinking of how long it would take to transform your body; but in the end, it could be possible, if the insects doesn't get to your body first.
This episode was incredibly good, I did not know what to expect from the thumbnail. I would say it was BLOODY good!
Cliche! Mate
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Hmm, well the issue with nutrients could be resolved by the vampire metabolism, which is basically one of a dead human, so we can assume that he produces almost no heat and his cells division is almost non-existing unless he heals. They also sleep for long periods of time, and since we don't know if they dream, maybe their basically in a coma consuming as less brain power as possible. Also, their saliva might work like some kind of poison that make your cells split out their contents into the blood, transforming you into a vampire and making your blood more nutrient at the same time.
Solovr? Did you mean saliva?
@@limiv5272 yes, fat fingers small phone, thanks!
@@danielclv97 I hate typing on my phone so so much for that exact reason
If vampire metabolism were that of a dead human, then their behaviour would be like that of a dead human, too. As things stand, they're a whole lot more active than your average dead human, and all that activity requires energy, hence a metabolism. Even just keeping their body from decomposing requires resources.
I'm burdened by the knowledge that a constantly peeing vampire bat or an inflating tick are 100% somebody's fursona
It's not like peeing in the shower is unheard of.
No sanguivorism without consent.
@@TildaAzrisk shower in pee
I feel Real vampires, largely due to being undead, don't need the nutrition from the blood, but rather may need the blood to replace their own as perhaps they don't generate it, or perhaps something otherwise unknown to science. Additionally, something in their anti-coagulating saliva is infectious and passes along the vampire curse or "Vampirc Sanguinitis" as the Elder Scrolls would term the disease. Either way, I don't think MinuteEarth is giving the full credit to the highly evolved and mystical processes vampires have developed for dealing with their curse.
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Vampires do things that require energy, they maintain carbon-based bodies, therefore they need nutrition. That's how real-world physics works. Whatever the concept 'undead' is supposed to mean, it can't change that fact.
@@dumupad3-da241 I do believe every ounce of humor has wooshed over your head when you’re attempting to apply physics to a mystical being.
3:03 Thanks for ruining vampires, Bill.
Still hate mosquitoes though...
Given the dead flesh still having volition, I always assumed it was less about the substance of the blood and more about the metaphysical "life force" in the blood. Not that that's something this channel could cover, so this isn't complaint or critique of any kind.
That thumbnail & the relevant fact about vampire bats sure got me, though. 😵 I guess it's not much different than birds pooping prior to takeoff. Doesn't make it less gross though, lol.
How do we know vampires don't have their own creative ways to combat all these problems?
I doubt they have these problems as they’re just demonic beings, possessed revenant corpses or souls damned to Hell. They probably don’t really need blood to survive because they don’t eat. They drink blood to kill in a sacrificial manner and to curse the living into joining them. They’re magical fantasy creatures.
Like blood being only part of their diet?
That would make sense.
Or Evolution of vampire can become stronger like bat immune system. But only lack of tricks of vampire as Mosquitoes and leeds or bats have special advantages more of that vampires.
The video did addressed it and said it would be nice to see more fictional vampires having adaptations for those problems.
Ideas like saliva that keep the blood flowing and even prevent the one being bitten from feeling pain and really good immunity to germs is already being used. In some works of fiction vampires don't feed exclusively on blood and therefore need much less of it which makes it easier to handle the extra water and iron.
I would say that I would love to see works of fiction were they also have bigger bladders to hold more water or that they don't drink water at all as they get enough from blood.
It would be also fun to explore what purpose would blood play in their diet.
The best incarnation of this would also try to weave those adaptations with symbolism and vampire folklore which can create a very interesting version of a vampire and I think it's fun to look at all those 'problems' as opportunity for creative writing. Obviously, if you don't want it to be too much about science you can simply not deal with vampires from this perspective, fantasy don't have to be scientifically sound.
I remember hearing a legend of a type of vampire that drains the fat away from its victims. I would love to see a video about them and if there are any real life counterparts. 🙋🏼♀️
omg i want that type of vampire to visit me!
@@gilgabro420 that would be nice, yes
There is an X-Files episode with that premise.
Face mites feed off of oil on your skin.
Did you know that polar bears mostly eat fat. Since digesting protein takes a lot of water and seals are made of ~50% fat, it's better for them to leave the rest behind. Although the seal wont survive this process. :(
Most vampires stories I know of have their vampires have lower body temperature, so they wouldn't waste as much energy on homeostasis, plus the lower temperature already means a lower metabolic rate. So they don't need as many calories as a normal human would.
Then there are the most interesting ones, which treat a vampire's craving for blood less like them being hungry for food and more like a drug addiction. Most vampires are immortal, after all, so they don't really need the food, but they do have the addiction, which puts an interesting spin on things.
And a zombie consuming flesh would be....
Most vampires i've seem have to drink blood to keep being immortal
I never imagined vampires would live solely on blood, but rather have a need for it in addition to whatever else they would eat. Like, say, needing a hemoglobin supplement.
I don't think they have a need to eat anything in the standard stories.
Some vampires i've seen feed on entire humans instead of only their blood, it would probably help
I always thought fictional vampires drink blood because they cannot get some important micronutrient from somewhere else or make it themselves.
Vitamin D basically, you need sunlight to metabolize it so, if you don't take it from something else you are f*cked.
Ah yes, the vampire that starts uncontrollably urinating as they drink from you.
Truly the most fearsome predator.
I never thought vampires went through such hardships 🥺
2:41 the interview panelists are The Count (Sesame Street) (lol), Alucard (Castlevania), Marceline (Adventure Time) and Edward Cullen (Twilight).
Thanks! I didn't even know, the only one I recognized was Marceline lol
1:48 That's the cutest leach I've ever seen!
As a vampire, I can confirm my life is extremely hard.
I always figured vamp bites produce anti clotting & anti immune system factors and their own immune systems can deal with the potential toxins & pathogens in blood
Love the concept! You’ve got some logical problems going on. You’re making assumptions about how these nonhuman mythical things function and what kind of energy an immortal shapechanger that can control the minds of humans would require.
I think you should use the fiction as a foundation and build assumptions on the other systems. Like the fact that a vampire may need naturally created anticoagulants available for them to feed.
Maybe it isn’t that they need phenomenal amounts of blood for nutrients. Maybe it’s that they just don’t require so many nutrients. Do they breathe? They don’t have a heartbeat. Sounds like a lot of calorie burning activities that don’t happen.
Would be fair to wonder how nutrients move through their body without a heartbeat. But, they can turn into fog ….. and still think.
Now do a video about how life as a Werewolf would be hard.
The energy required to transform like a werewolf, and the heat that the transformation would produce, would leave you constantly starved for nutrients, always running very high body temps, and in either intense pain or numbness, depending on whether or not to nervous system is accustomed to the transformation
A werewolf must be shedding tons of fur, so there goes extra energy, time, and money to clean your house.
Also when you transform, you most likely damage your clothes, so there goes extra money for clothing.
And many more along that lines...
In summary, its just too expensive. If you are not crazy rich, pls dont be a werewolf 😒
@@Derpzilla-tw2ox pretty sure the energy for such a transformation would be more than you have at any time in your body and you would just drop dead
@@kingplunger6033 most likely
So we need a vampire that pisses it's pants as it drinks. Sounds like a great scene for Morbius 2.
Another minus of being a vampire is that if someone paints your face you will never know about it because you can’t see it in the mirror, but everybody else can
But what if they use skin colored make up so they can see the structure, though the color would be a little off since no skin is monochromatic.
They may be invisible but are their clothes? This asks more questions than it answers as I now wonder if they would just see a float paint mark in the mirror.
"It's morbin time!"
Start's violently pissing everywhere
This video used to be called
“Can you run only on blood” or something along those lines.
Then it was “HEMATOPHAGY”
Now it’s “Vampire Life is hard”
Now it’s “Vampire life is hard”
I can only assume they went for 1)Sensible title, then 2)Scientific title, and then 3)Clickbait title
Am I the only one disappointed they didn't go for "being a vampire really sucks"
@@angeluslupus algorithm chasing is a bit annoying but as long as the science is good...
Vampires are undead. They don't care about any of those issues.
This. A vampire isn't trying to keep their body alive.
By the logic of this video, one should always remember to make their phones drink enough water every day.
@@Flawaffles Not in the mythical sense. But yes, they are real. The examples given in the video are real. And there are facts on the standard mythical version. Those facts can change with the writer, but there is still a baseline. That is what's being discussed. Why even enter the conversation if you don't understand?
I don't think vampires need to worry about bacteria because of the whole _undead_ thing.
This exactly.
3:02 oh right because Bill is a Vampire who stays young by having frequent blood transfusions with younger blood
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Does that happen to those annoying mosquitoes? I don't mind taking my blood but that buzzing is what drive me crazy. (Also, the decease part but anyway)
I absolutely love the way you said thanks bill! In the end. Like no actual sponsorship? No script? That's amazing.
2:50no. Mosquitos are Satan on earth
I returned to this video with what is basically a shower thought (I wasn't in the shower but it's still exactly like one you may see in places like Reddit) that resulted in a theory I thought of in which, what if vampires/vampirism was actually a fungi?
As I was looking back at this video and how it puts logic into how vampires would get sustenance, I was thinking that, since blood has little to no nutrition (but still *some,* ) and that *blood is mostly just water,* and since you don't ever see vampires being comically bloated and/or peeing their pants (or peeing in general,) I began to contemplate if vampires were actually a plant. But then wait, no.. Vampires hate the sun and plants think anything but that, and plants can't turn people into more plants.. *Or is that really true?*
That's when I remembered about mushrooms/fungi; a large quantity hate sunlight, and there's also ones - well, more of all one that's somewhat infamous for it - that turns small insects into zombies for it's own benefit. Therefore, vampirism could be a zombifying/parasitic fungi that keeps it's victims (somewhat) alive (which adds onto vampires' supposed immortality in most vampire genres) in order for the fungus to stay alive via blood consumption and spread. Except, since humans have extremely complex minds unlike the ants the real-life counterpart fungus tends to prey on, they aren't completely under it's control.
So basically, if someone starts another pandemic and it just so happens to be of vampiric properties, it's probably someone who ate something stupid again, this time a mushroom instead of a bat.. lol
Finally some proper representation.
I always asumed vampires have a system that send their blood straight to their blood torrent and replaces the old blod that has no nutrients anymore, instead of digesting it.
But where do they get the energy for existing then?
That probably runs in some problems with blood types. Unless all surviving vampires have specifically AB+ type, or hunt down only people with O- type.
(Not an expert on the topic)
@@hebl47 Out of the blood, our food becomes nutrients that go to our own blood torrent were it gets distributed to the body. Look it like getting blood transfussions everytime, they would need the entire blood of the victim and would basically change their blood torrent everytime they feed.
@@TemporarySolution I think it might be more like they aren't able to produce blood at all, so I wouldn't say they have a blood type. They just need new blood to replace the old one once it runs out of nutrients and the functioning blood cells.
@@jonathanherrera9956 My biology is a bit rusty, but I don't think our blood really has that much energy. Isn't most of it stored in cells via ATP (and of course fats), both of which can't be harnessed just by swapping blood?
You think Types O, A, B, and AB taste different? Do things like antibodies, fatty plasma, or high platelet count affect the taste for vampires?
Yeah it affects, as a vampire I prefer to drink A type blood because its more sour, and I hate B type because it feels spicy
Personally, I like high cholesterol types... it's extra creamy!
The whole sunlight thing came from the 1920s silent film Nosferato, where Count Orlock turned into a puff of smoke when expoed to sunlight. Prior to that, such as Bram Stoker's Dracula, the sun was more of an inconvenience. Vampires weren't at their full power, but it was hardly a death sentence, and Dracula walked around in broad daylight no problem.
Another problem with a vampire diet is no garlic bread :(
Thanks! I’ll think twice before becoming a vampire, very good things to consider before switching to the live-human-blood-only diet I’ve been considering.
0:25 Vampires are supposed to suck on arteries and take most of your blood quite fast... They don't really have to suck actually: your heart does the job!
Just imagine a vampire ended up biting someone who had AIDS or an STD
Genuinely thought this would talk about the 'other' major issues with vampires, being their innumerable weaknesses and rules. Not being able to cross over running water must be a nightmare with all this modern plumbing (Yes, it counts. They can't cross over rivers via bridges, or areas with underground rivers, so active plumbing should also apply). Silver and Gold are both used in a lot of modern electronics, so a vampire would find themselves either very outdated, or constantly in a weakened state due to proximity. Most annoying of all is how nowadays most activities take place within enclosed spaces, in which vampires need to be invited into, which is hard when most don't have a greeter. The jury is undecided on automated doors though.
Also wanting to clear up some common misconceptions. Sunlight doesn't actually burn them. Just removes their vampiric powers and leaves them drained and weak until they're in the shade. They do sunburn easily though due to this lack of exposure and pale white skin.
And the 'no reflections' is actually because mirrors back then used silver. Their reflections appear in any other substance. This is also why they wouldn't show up in photographs at the time either, due to old fashioned cameras using silver nitrate
Somehow, I had always known that leeches were miserable... and now I know why! Thanks Minute Earth!😁
Another downside is that vampires do not have reflexions. What do they do all day. no wonder they get up so late.
Red dwarf. Cat.
Mosquitoes are monsters, no matter what.
The rest can stay though.
Yikes to the blood drinkers, I definitely will never think of them as misunderstood, though I definitely would say they are better than normal predators, they are infinitely better because they do not kill their prey.
I haven’t seen a single comment talking about moonlight being reflected sunlight.
Why don't vampires wear white clothes? Doesn't that reflect more sunlight that black (which absorbs all the light)? Isn't white colored clothes more useful than black colored clothes for vampires?
I think it might be to hide in the shadows at night
You'd want your clothes to absorb as much sunlight as it can, so as little light as possible would hit your skin. White clothes would scatter the sunlight everywhere - including your face - whereas dark clothes just get hotter.
Vampire clothes could include white, or even mirror designs, but the positioning should be carefully considered so as to not just reflect the sunlight back on you. Overall, It's simpler to just avoid sunlight and wear multiple layers of blackout shades - capes, cloaks, ridiculously high collars, etc.
@@FernLake I mean... shadows, especially at night, are meant to be absence of light right? So it doesn't really matter if it's white or any other color as the vampires would not be "visible" anyways
@@mannav1466 OK if that's not the reason then idk
@@mannav1466
Hm. You actually got a point. When vampires were invented, it was much, much darker in cities at night then today. So 'the shadows' would probably have been pitch black.
I think, it has more to do with symbolism, though. White stands for light and good. Black for darkness and evil. Red for blood and passion.
I'm just glad this is on the MinuteEarth channel and not the MinuteFood one.
0:56-Why does blood still have pathogens despite being protected by the immune system?
Example- hiv
2:45 from the right, Dracula, Alucard from Castlevania, Marceline from Adventure time, Edward from twilight.
What if the ancient people were looking for a suitable and monstrous meal for a vampire, and found blood could be an appetizer, and got bored making this diet, leaving the vampire to survive on just the appetizer...
Given how many plot holes are in an average movie that seems plausible
Thanks for making this vid! I was just looking in how to drink blood. This how-to vid was really helpful❤️
You forget that vampires maybe are heterothermic, commonly known as cold blooded, that means that vampires may not need too many meals.
True but blood is largely iron and decays quickly anyway
Thanks for the informative video, I was getting confused who I wanted to be when I grow up. Now, this is off the list.
0:16 Vampire saliva prevents the wound from healing
If vampires exist, they would have solved all the problems you presented.
Actually the creators of vampire might have thought nobody know these things but even if someone knows it they might have thought that they will contradict all this by themselves.
Vampires originate from old slavic folklore, nobody really "made them up". The story goes that Russians would see blood flowing from the lips of the dead [due to various processes] and their hair & nails appearing longer [due to their skin contracting], so, they assumed that the dead were alive... and drinking blood. Ergo, vampires. Originally called Upir.
@@nicreven some vampires have that origin, yes, but blood sucking human(oids) are pretty prevalent worldwide in very unrelated cultures. Bram stoker himself may have taken inspiration from Russian folklore or Romanian folklore or Indian folklore or a mix of all 3.
@@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat I see! From what I understand, European vampires mostly originate from the upir. Dracula most definitely does. Also, would you count the chupacabra here?
Yeah. Vampirism is a CURSE, which I feel gets forgotten too often.
fair points *if* vampires were living beings simply infected with a sanguine disease.
but since they are fictional and considered undead they obviously negate that.
fun video none the less and amazing thumbnail lmao
Vampires have evolved to process blood quickly
As a vampire i can confirm this is tough
Have you tried milk? Its said to just be filtered blood but is far more nutrient dense. 3 liters a day should get you by.
@@pixelfairy ah but i dont have a mom
If undead I don't need to worry about iron toxicity. I'm already dead
What do I got to lose
Well... If there is one animal we could all live without, it's the mosquitos.
in some variants of vampires, they actually need the blood for some very specific protein they can't produce themselves, not actually for sustenance. I wonder how that changes things, if at all...
I like how someone can transform into a vampire, but not gain an anticoagulant saliva like at 2:00 🤔
i love the thumbnail
(in case it's changed, Vampire on toilet scaring somebody while pissing everywhere)
I want to know how you found out that vampires even needs all those nutrients and dont have the abilities to support drinking blood lol
Duh! The video was sponsored
Why’s no one talking about Marceline the Vampire Queen reference?
that sparkling vampire xD
Oh hell no. I had enough mosquitoes last week in my bedroom! These f**** don’t deserve any compassion.
2:55 Try saying that too A malaria victim
Except that's not the mosquito's fault.
No, mosquitoes and ticks are still awful. And the fact that vampire bats (which already carry rabies) pee on you as they drink from you doesn't make them anymore appealing either. Though their saliva can be considered venom, which makes them fascinating as one of the few confirmed venomous mammals in the world.
I’m just imagining that fictional vampires might have all of that and more! (And I’m also imagining that vampire bathrooms are always very coated in urine from all the blood they’d have to convert into nutrients for themselves!)
Marceline's also in the Vampire meeting. Even though she doesn't drink blood...
"make them uncomfortable enough to dislodge you" Menwhile the giga chad whos comfortable having his blood drank.
Isn't this on the wrong channel? #MinuteFood
And this is how you completely miss the point of fictional vampires...
It's Morbin time!
Bill Gates sponsoring a video about vampires.... ✨SUS ✨
Uhh. A lot of vampire facts left out.
1) They are no longer human. Comparing a vampire to a human doesn't work.
2) They are immortal. OR undead. They might spend most of their time resting.
3) Feeding isn't an issue. In most cases, they create a sort of legion of followers. Works a bit like an ant colony.
That's just lore, though, not facts. The point was to look at the biological feasibility of the common vampire trope and learn about how actual blood-feeding species solved the issues that lifestyle raises. Those lore points, if taken into consideration, open much different cans of worms. How would "immortality" manifest itself (extremely slow metabolism? extensive DNA repair? all the stories just lazily make it magic) since there is no such thing in biology as simple immortality, how their enthralling powers even work, etc. All very interesting questions leading to other real-life examples, I am sure, but quite off-topic given the subject was specifically the issues of a blood-only diet.
I love that none of these facts include vampires not being real and implicitly accepts that vampires exist.
@@felixmervamee7834 Facts within the talks of vampires. Facts are facts. It's like saying Harry Potter doesn't go to Hogwarts bc, he nor it exist outside the realm of literature. I would have loved if they touched on those topics.
@@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat Well, they exist within talks of vampires. Why even talk about non-existent being without trying to explain their existence with real world logic? Take Master Chief of the Halo franchise Or Harry Potter. You discuss them while trying to explain the inner workings of their respective worlds. Another take, Why did you name yourself the Clockwork King when you are not the Clockwork King? Why not just go by your own legal name?
@@Honeneko. Those are called a canon. A collection of somewhat cohesive elements that are held "correct" by a central authority (the Pope, the story's author, etc.) or a community. It is an important distinction as facts cannot contradict themselves, whereas canon elements may very well -- that is called making a new canon (see Christian schisms, or the different takes on vampires that exist all throughout literature and cinema). As such, it is no disservice to these canons to talk about the wizards of Harry Potter without talking about Hogwarts, nor is it to talk about one aspect of one canon of vampires without mentioning the others aspects. Heck we might very well write our *own* canon without any wizard school or vampires being immortal, and those versions wouldn't be any less "true".
Now I understand why there is no apex predator that feeds solely on blood.
0:51 *SMACK*
Awesome video.. I loved how u found a way to empathize with vicious lil things 😁👏👏👏👏👏
Ironic that the literal vampire, Bill Gates, sponsored the video on vampires.
Pfft
Based. Thank you for sharing the truth pogchamp!
@@mfmageiwatch I'm agreeing with you, it's funny and true
@@lyrablack8621 gotcha 😃
what
I'm not one to usually be influenced by thumbnails but that last one was brutal. Happy to see a new one
1:23 is sus
I get it, getting nutrients from blood is hard, but I have an ACTUAL SCAR from a tick.
I don't know how.
I also get scabs over wounds really fast, but don't grow skin there for a really long time.
I hate this.
I finally found this channel again
Edit: vampires do not die because of blood stuff
The vampire to the left is likely meant to be Dracula, and the one to the right has “Twilight”-style sparkles, but who are the two vampires in the middle?
Marceline from Adventure Time and Alucard from Castlevania
@@goddessempulus9253 Thanks.