Exposing the Fake Science behind Color Blind Glasses (Part 2)
Вставка
- Опубліковано 20 гру 2023
- Support my content on Patreon: / megalag
Part 1: • Exposing the Color Bli...
Follow:
x.com/megalagofficial
Research:
Do EnChroma glasses improve color vision for colorblind subjects? opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cf...
Effects of color-enhancing glasses on color vision in congenital red-green color deficiencies: opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cf...
Adaptive Changes in Color Vision from Long-Term Filter Usage in Anomalous but Not Normal Trichromacy: www.cell.com/current-biology/...
Do EnChroma glasses improve performance on clinical tests for red-green color deficiencies? opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cf...
Discrimination of natural colors in anomalous trichromacy and the effects of EnChroma and Vino filters: opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cf...
Aids for color vision deficiency: introduction to the feature issue: opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cf...
Quality Assessment for Passive Aids in Color Vision Deficiency Subjects (Webinar): www.optica.org/events/webinar...
Credit:
Graphics and Animations: oneinchpixel.com
The views and analyses expressed in this video are based on research and personal interpretation. They are not intended to be taken as definitive facts or absolute truths. - Наука та технологія
Enchroma's CEO has released a video in response to this series: ua-cam.com/video/TBZM2LyU8g8/v-deo.html **Edit: they turned off the comments. Cowards.
Sup
Shit, I've never been this early to anything. Let's see what they've got.
I've never been this early to anything. Let's see what they've got.
EDIT: Nothing. They've got nothing. Nothing in the video is a counter to any of the claims in this thorough debunking.
It looks to me that they have doubled down rather than disproving anything
Dayum
My wife was convinced that these glasses were a magical cure for colorblindness. She was so upset when I tried them on and told her they didn't really do anything for me. She'd seen the reaction videos and expected a miraculous result. I'd love to see these people held accountable for their misrepresentations.
Aw… im sorry for your wife… well CB Can be a little fun sometimes, as it Can be a little game (idk how cb works but if some colours are a different shade from others but you cant See Them properly, you could guess/Learn the shades together, could probably be a fun little thing!) of guessing? Idk tho.
Im into space not vision stuff so please correct me if im wrong (CB = Colour Blindness)
That must have been awful for both of you, bless your wife for so desperately wanting to do anything she can to help improve your vision and experience of life, I'm sorry that these scumbags are doing these things where ultimately they don't care about the buyers or any financial or emotional distress they cause, as long as they get paid 😔☹
My GF got them for me and had her camera going to record my reaction. My reaction was "huh..."
I did cry when putting mine on because I could see color variations in my sleeve tattoo and the grass (dead patches vs bright) etc. things I didn’t know were different. It was very cool. Not a cure, didn’t make me see colors I couldn’t see, but distinguished colors apart.
"You cannot and should not mislead people with a disability." I think a ton of people need to learn this.
You shouldn’t mislead anyone at all
@@alecman95 Yes, and it's especially heinous to target vulnerable people. Our society already tells people with disabilities that they're broken/incomplete and missing out on "normal" life. It is morally bankrupt to market products to these people promising that "normalcy" when that product does little or nothing at all to actually help them.
Leave out the second, third and last three words.
@@shawkorror so ""You should not mislead people with a disability." I think a ton of people need"?
@@sheilaross1449actually society tells many of us that we should just die, or be homeless. Being homeless is the only way I can get help. Can’t get disability unless I don’t work for 12 months, which would make me homeless. But I was disabled before 18, I’ve been working since 16 though, always wanted to work. I struggle working and living every day and I can’t make enough money to survive, and can’t get any assistance, unless I had kids.. which is sickening iMo, I can’t take care of myself
I have a friend with sickle cell who started working and is struggling, lost disability income now, and then his girlfriend left him so he can’t afford all his needs and his dogs, and he is also being asked or pay back 1k in disability money because he started working. They hate us. They rather us be dead. I would rather be dead too, but I didn’t choose to be born obviously
All this to say, yeah, we are VERY vulnerable, and our symptoms make us more vulnerable to things like this, and abuse… we need more protections.
Thanks for saying something for us
When these first went viral, we took my son to go and try them out. To our surprise he said they didn't do anything. The clerk said "I recommend you purchase them and give them 3 weeks to work". Sounded like BS to me. Thanks to your video it's confirmed.
Yes, past the return period or too used to return if at all possible. :)
"i recommend you purchase them and wait out the return window!"
lmao
The whole "the effects take time to develop" claim is fairly universal among scams that involve a token placebo product.
@@PSUQDPICHQIEIWCthe other one I've heard is that when the "cure" makes things worse, they say something like "that's the toxins leaving your body"
@@AlarKemmotar Or sometimes they try to blame it on you by saying that you obviously had hidden something that 'interacts' with their product.
I had a lot of friends chip in to get me a pair of Enchroma glasses my senior year of high school. The glasses did offer more contrast, so I was under the impression I was seeing more shades of green and red than I had before. What touched me more was that I had felt depressed and lonely for a large part of that year, so seeing people cared about me enough to get the glasses was really uplifting. Despite the glasses being a scam, they did help me recognize how valued I was back then, so I still viewed them as a net positive.
Friends can really help getting you out of shitty mindsets
That is probably what 90% of others are experiencing too. Excellent observation.
sweet as hell
@@angelnares9238 he's just stating an unintentional benefit that came from getting the glasses. nothing to have to do with enchroma's intentions.
Awww! God bless you in the name of Jesus Christ, who is the name above all names & the only way to Heaven❤ I used to have chronic treatment resistant depression & only He took it away. I pray He does the same for you, as He is The Great Physician after all. It sounds like you're doing better now, and if so, that's wonderful, and I pray for your peace & happiness to increase in the mighty name of Jesus Christ😊💖🕊
Thank you for making this! I've known these are a scam for years. But since people know I'm color blind, I am always getting emails asking me if I have tried them. Now I can just direct them to your video!
Hi David! Perhaps you can help by mentioning this scam in your next video?
@@thek3743 I remember an older video of his where he mentioned his color blindness, and immediately followed up with a request to NOT email him about the glasses, as stated in his comment.
I think as a colourblind person it can be pretty obvious that they’re a scam. I really do feel for the people though, that spend money they might not have on these things, genuinely believing the misleading marketing. This isn’t just a normal scam, it’s literally a claiming to fix a genetic issue whose effects are present and affecting peoples lives every day. Even if, like me they are used to it, it is still a massive blow to believe that a disability (yes disability, maybe not affecting movement, but still a disadvantage compared to most humans) will be cured by paying a company money, only to find out it doesn’t work and there’s still zero chance (for the foreseeable) that they will finally function “normally” and see what they’ve been “missing out on” according to to these companies. Pure emotional manipulation for financial gain. Crapness.
well at least this is only a scam, and can we assure it dont make a movement of medicine denialism right?
i see many paralelism with the fucking MMR Scandal here.
how in the world did i now know you're colorblind? ive been watching you for years.
I'm colour blind (tritanopia) in one eye only, so I offered to be part of their study. Having near-normal vision in the other eye means I can directly compare vision and what is going on. Multiple times, they never got back to me. You'd think they'd absolutely want someone like me in their tests. (EDIT: Sorry I keep spelling Tritanopathy.... so whenever you see me mention opathy, mentally replace it with opia.)
Fascinating! Would you say that the colorblindness representation images are accurate to what you see in your colorblind eye? Does it look the same in that eye?
@@k-isfor-kristina They are exactly spot on. I didn't know I was colourblind in one eye for the longest time. I actually realized it on the bus once, when I was looking at a sign with a bar basically splitting the image, and the colours didn't match.
Together, there seems to be a mental sort of agreement, because I only notice when the "normal vision" eye is blocked from the view.
My colourblind eye is also my dominant eye, so it's interesting that they still reach a consensus - one is actually focused, and the other is resolving 3d and proper colour.
@@KarstenJohanssonthat’s actually kinda cool. A good way to turn a minor disability into a powerful tool. Fascinating that your eyes work in tandem to allow normal vision
@@jacenolmsted6293 Exactly. And it's my dominant eye that is colourblind. It's the non-dominant eye that gives me proper colour. When viewing with both eyes, I don't notice at all. The brain seems to take both eyes as input, but selective about what parts it believes to make up the mental image. But if I cover my right eye and look around, say for example, at the No Frills grocery store that is absolutely yellow, it looks very white, and some parts are even slightly pink. But then the moment I move my hand to cover the left eye, it's lemon candy all around haha🤣 The same goes for green lights. Our night-time buses have blue lights. From that eye, the green and blue lights are both the exact same colour of cyan. Until I uncover my right eye, then I can totally tell the difference.
It would be actually fascinating if you'd collaborate with this or other creators. And make a video where you'd show how you see a world a accurately as possible. You could also make a review of some popular websites color choices when comparing normal and colorblind eye.
you exposed companies, journalists, scientists, medical professionals. what a documentary we need people like you a lot in this day and age, thank you for the video.
If you mean the tertiary author Knobloch, he problematic interest was declared openly, no need to 'expose' anything. His interest in a private company could have been kept secret, they would not have found it, but he declared, as you are supposed to do. The science itself was solid from my reading (it's not my field though), and, more importantly, from the peer review. Reviewers look pretty close when an interest is declared. The finding is interessting and it requires replication and expansion to confirm it's validity, or otherwise.
I second this. Great effort mate!
My heart is breaking watching this but thank you. My wife had planned on buying these for me for my birthday. Now, I am glad we won't be throwing that money away... bittersweet.
One thing I learned as an artist is values are everything. Lights, and darks. You can make a super realistic giraffe with just shades of black, purple, and white- so overall just one color represented in different shades of itself, because the details are correct in values via photo reference. And the one upside to colorblindness is their perception of values are greatly enhanced, which means, you could be enjoying works of the greats in a way us color people cannot. Ya'll can also see the whole picture all at the same time, and color seeing folks are literally lead by a sort of 'line of sight' trail to whatever tends to be brightest or sharpest, so we sometimes waste time or miss things.
At least it's not all bad!
@@meganfisher831 Thanks for your response! Being a "moderate deuter" I am thankful that I can still see a wide variety of color. My color vision is mostly impacted by the shades of colors making them appear to be others (light orange looks yellow, dark orange looks red, some reds and greens appear brown until I compare or someone corrects me) as well as the ambient light throwing off some as well. All in all, you do da don't know what you don't know and I don't stress much about it. I only think about it when it gets noticed by someone else and we have a little laugh, or when I am seeing those colorblind glasses reaction videos and think, "can I experience a whole world of color Im not aware of?"
Me too buddy, me too..
@@MJS-PS144you can’t experience anything you’re not aware of
If you are red and green deficient you should go to an eye doctor have them diagnose you I bought a pair of glasses they were not Enchroma also I had a contact lens called (X Chrome) and they enhance color for me. I was allowed to see bright colors for the first time everybody is different do all your research not just part of it good luck.
Close to 12 years ago, my wife ordered me a set of Enchroma glasses, complete with my daily prescription. I am Red-Green color blind, have never been able to do the hidden number tests, and constantly mistake certain colors in certain contexts. That last point is key... I CAN see red, green, blue, brown, yellow, orange, purple, etc. I have little to no issue discerning colors on their own. Its only when those colors are next to other colors that things can blend together in my brain. Unexpected issues between Red and Brown, or Green and Grey, or Blue and Purple... there isn't enough contrast at times to distinguish one from the other when the colors are right next to each other.
The Enchroma glasses promised to help distinguish those colors from one another. My reaction was certainly not emotionally fueled, but I'd always explained my color blindness to others as a lack of contrast, because that was the easiest thing to explain, and avoid the 'what color is this' mindless loop of questions. The glasses did make certain colors 'pop' for the first time. Green traffic signs on the highway, and orange cones on a soccer field were two that I noticed.
The glasses did help me sometimes distinguish between some colors, but they also gave a false boost in contrast in others, while muting other shades entirely. Like you mention in the first video, I figured 'these probably just don't work for MY exact color blindness', and stopped wearing them after a couple days. Mind you... I wanted these to work. These were well over $500 with prescription lenses.
Years later, I started my UA-cam channel, and began doing color editing on my videos. I had a couple videos, as you described, where people complained of hue shifts that I couldn't see. I remembered I had the glasses, and figured they might actually help for this task. Again, I wore them for only a couple videos, and found they hurt my color accuracy more than they helped. I still wasn't able to see green or magenta shifts, nor did my work benefit in any way from wearing them, even with a color calibrated monitor.
My gut told me these were too good to be true. My brain told me they weren't working as advertised. But there was always the self doubt in the back of my brain that told me 'maybe you just don't know what real colors look like. Maybe the glasses work and YOU'RE the problem.'.
Thank you so much for this video series. It confirmed what a lot of us suspected, while not being confident enough to call out ourselves, mainly because of 'scientific studies' and viral marketing told us we were wrong.
Hello.
I'm sure you hold yourself in high regard... yet you allowed Enchroma to continue their scam. Congrats!
You should have immediately demanded a refund.
When not refunded, go to your bank and reverse the charge.
Maybe even write a "Notice of intent to sue".
Why do you people think some "random person" is going to solve all the problems?
*THIS IS HOW SCAMS WORK! LAZY PEOPLE UNABLE TO BE BOTHERED TO SUE OR FK THEM UP.*
I reversed over 10 grand this year. I bust scammers. Actively. But I can't buy everything. Some of you people people are going to have to do some sht.
But I can already tell... YOU are Enchroma's favorite sucker.. I mean customer. Nah... sucker.
You let them keep the cash, because you make enough money, where modifying your lifestyle even trivially, is a hassle.
Thanks! People with money fkn everyone else over again.
That last part you mentioned is really important, people like dr. Boland are basically gaslighting people saying stuff like "you just memorized a color differently, it's you who is the problem" which, is honestly despicable.
The last person I was expecting to see in the comments. This is a wonderful story of your experience with these and I would have never guessed any of that.
@knot_AyUsername it is interesting, but dyslexia is more a problem with how your brain is processing text while the colorblindness is a physical defect in the cones of your eye. Another difference is that dyslexia can be significantly improved by color coding words using special fonts. So if people can't distinguish between b and d, make the b's green and d's blue. This helps trick your brain into reading correctly, but colorblindness cannot be fixed by tricking your brain, just in the same way you can't regrow an amputees arm by convincing them their arm is still there
I'm honestly surprised they've gone this long without anyone calling them on their scam. This is some next level content.
It is like the emperor's new clothes. After a "disabled" person has a reaction like they do in the videos, you can't call them out on it, and tell them it was faked or that they are over-acting.
They were called a scam long time ago. This guy is just the latest copycat to rip off people smarter than him.
@@masterpassword2 Are you talking about @MegaLag being a copycat, or someone else?
@@masterpassword2I thought the company assassinated anyone trying to expose them
Why aren't the authorities getting involved? The FDA should sue them for pretending to be FDA approved.
When I was about 14 or 15 these I found out I was colorblind and went on to thoroughly learn the biology and physiology of how our vision works. A few months later is when these staged glasses videos started to pop out and I would get asked all the time if I want to get them. I was convinced these were a scam from the get go and told people as such but it would fall on deaf ears more often than not for the last 8 years. So thank you for popularizing this knowledge and making it a lot easier to convince people to not spend hundreds on this product
Have you tried them?
@@JPSO1677 I feel if this was believable on the internet you'd get more fan fare and people posting they believe you. Did your comment achieve what you wanted?
@@seanothepop4638 if somebody wants to leave a comment on any of my videos they can do so. I don't edit nothing but this is all new to me and my videos are put up recently only one is a year old, and I didn't have comments on, I guess but if somebody wishes to leave a comment they can do so whether they believe me or not I really don't care I know the glasses work for me and that's all that matters I'm just telling people to try also tell people to listen to all the critics but to at least try before you make up your mind.
My jaw hit the floor when the interview with Dr. Ken Onion started. That’s journalism baby!!! The guts in this fella are through the roof
garlic.
Dude basically admitted he knew Enchroma were misleading people, but he gave up trying to correct them.... but was happy to sit back as a shareholder and benefit from the scam
He's a passive scammer. He knows the scam leans on his research and he did nothing about it because he has his finger in the pie
At least he was honest (stupid) enough to admit it
As a colorblind guy I’ve been saying the reaction videos were staged for years and people always say I’m wrong. Thank you for making this video.
People are so rude and dumb. It's not the place of people who have typical colour perception to teach people who are colour blind about colour blindness while knowing about it barely from hearsay.
Yeah I agree, ya can tell because ya never see them wearing the glasses again if they have some kind of persistent online presence.
@@SianaGearzYou know, unless those people actually know what they're talking about. Are you saying that a doctor with regular vision shouldn't explain the nature and reason behind colourblindness to their patient? Just because they're not colourblind?
@@dominickeijzer5844No, he's saying the average person, not doctors
The more time you spend on UA-cam, the more you realise people in general have absolutely zero critical thinking skills and will have an opinion based purely on biases while refusing to change it when presented with real evidence and basic logic.
What you described at the end is EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED to my brother (we both have colorblindness). People at his job, which is a restaurant where nobody makes any money, all pooled their money together to get him these glasses. It made him wish he never told anyone he was colorblind. He felt like he had to play up the reaction or say they were working when he knew they weren’t. I don’t even tell people I have it any more either because of this exact situation. SO messed up
The unethical and misleading advertising by these companies have to be stopped or banned, or this heartbreaking incidents will be happening 😢
I've had a similar experience without being colorblind.
The first time I discovered that I needed glasses was at a party, where someone did the usual gag of passing around a pair of glasses for everyone to try, and everyone makes funny faces to show that they are surprised by how the glasses twist and blur their vision. When I put on the glasses I was super confused, instead of going blurry, my vision cleared up completely! I could see details that I didn't know existed, it was like I suddenly had binoculars mounted on my face, the blurry river in the distance suddenly had crisp and detailed waves.
But I didn't reveal my sudden realization, I made the faces and pretended to get dizzy and passed the glasses on, to be a part of the gag that others in the party were participating in.
@@thorbear its amazing what social pressure can do. i have anosmia, which means i cant smell anything, and i remember pretending to smell things when everyone around me said they could just to not seem weird.
That was terrible to read, I'm so sorry. I can't imagine that. These scammers need to be held accountable. It's like receiving an unwanted Christmas gift but 100 times worse and based on an uncurable genetic problem :(
That's sad but also warm that people care about him. I'd be crying even if they bought me a rock
So here's a fun fact, news organizations, especially small local ones, have the opportunity to purchase slots for their products to be "reviewed" on the news. These are more or less temporary sponsorships. Likely, if you're seeing the news talk about a specific product, its probably paid for by the company. WNEP includes my area when it comes to coverage, its sad to see they too have stooped so low.
Awhile back I was watching a bunch of those videos where the colorblind person was all emotional, tears running down his face, etc... and the one thing that really floored me was their reactions were very extreme compared to all the videos of deaf people who could hear for the first time, or kids wearing glasses who could finally see the faces of their parents. I was very surprised that the color blind people reacted much stronger than actual sightless/deaf people who finally could see/hear. Now it makes sense to me!!!
Btw, this was an exceptionally well-made expose'
I'm colorblind and I received these glasses as a graduation gift. I felt so bad when I had to tell my family that it basically just looked like a red disneyish filter was just put over my vision and they didn't actually help me see anything I may have been missing. Glad to see your video helping to show others that it is a scam that is not worth buying into.
Man I feel worse that you had to go through that yourself. I’ve seen those same videos where people freak out and act like they see colour for the first time. This is super scummy and sad, unfortunately not a big surprise but still shit
Yea, that's my expectation. I think they'll change a few colours here and there, so you'll be able to identify the number in the colour dot tests. But how useful is it, since they also limit other colour vision? I want to know. I'm colour blind in one eye, and I think that can put an end to the myths if they'd let me try them out hah.
Would've been better to just give you the money. Sucks how these scummy companies get away with stuff like this. Same thing with chiropractors.
Had you worn them for three months, the red would have disappeared. Just saying.
@@bonariablackie4047🫵 industry plant
For future reference, contact the author of the study directly for a free copy of a study - they are generally happy someone wants to read their paper. The authors receive no money from paywall research sites, so it is no skin off their nose to provide their study to someone interested in their paper.
I keep forgetting this is the case. It's a damn shame they see none of that money.
Why is scientific information so exclusive? That's pretty disheartening as someone who wants to go back to school and is planning on seeking a higher education.
@@jevindayThe actual researchers get paid a grant upfront, whoever paid the grant gets publishing rights. They'll want that money back, so they charge for access. It has the greatly unfortunate effect of making research inaccessible to a lot of people.
@jevinday why is it disheartening? If you wanna go the route of higher education you will get access to all material needed through your university library.
I dont understand why paywalls stop you from going back to school
@@ghostoflazloBecause research shouldn’t be available only to those pursuing further education. If your research can’t be read by those who are interested in it for whatever reason, what is the point? Why should university be the only way someone can get access to information? Making research inaccessible can only further inequality and faccilitate the spread of misinformation like, for example, the science behind colorblind glasses, and make it easier to people to fall for these scams.
Colorblind woman here, hoping you read this entire admittedly long comment.
People asked me if I'd heard about these, tried them, thought they would work. What really irritated me was that some of my friends and family actually wanted to get together and BUY them for me. I never actually believed they'd work -- glasses can't actually create the biological features needed to see color. THAT'S SO BASIC. I found it very irritating that at least two manufacturers of these things almost managed to con people I care about -- saved only by me having to explain colorblindness EVEN MORE FULLY to people I'd already done that dance with.
I'll be sharing this video for that and one OTHER huge reason: getting other people to SEE MORE CLEARLY when it comes to EVERYTHING they read. When I was in elementary school back in the 80s, I had a teacher who actually PUNISHED me for telling her I was colorblind. The school nurse had done the basic tests, told me, and I told her -- and she said "girls can't be colorblind". She was an elderly woman, and apparently all she'd taken away from her long-ago science classes was that boys get colorblindness. She actually punished me saying I was dishonest -- LEAVING ME TO THINK I WASN'T COLORBLIND UNTIL 11TH GRADE, when an actually educated health teacher caught it. I CANNOT CONVEY WHAT A HEAD TRIP that was, or what it did to my own confidence regarding trusting my visual input.
Now, TAKE A LOOK AROUND TODAY. This is a 42-minute video that practically walks a person through how to question ANYTHING they read just a bit. Who wrote it? Why did they right it? Is there an obvious bias? THIS is the video that I'm going to forward to anyone who voices anti-vax and other "well, I've done the research" entirely incorrect "scientific" spouting, rather than wasting my breath any more. Maybe with a note that if they're so sure about that garbage, they can buy these glasses to improve their "normal" vision.
You had to take what was otherwise such compelling and salient personal testimony, and shoehorn some political BS about "anti-vax" into it, flipping the entire lesson of both your own experience *and* this video completely on its ass so you could tell people, effectively, "trust the science" and "don't do your own research."
No conflicts of interest, blatantly biased media, or scientists/medical professionals with compromised ethics to see here folks, that's just your brain not being used to seeing true healthcare, right? 🤦♂️
The best thing I did for myself was take a statistics class in highschool. Now, if any family members who have/are going down the pseudoscience rabbit hole, or general marketing scams, I know the correct questions to ask to make them realize ON THEIR OWN what's wrong.
I started questioning my grandfather about something, I have long since forgotten what it was about, but after a few minutes of me pushing for more information about the study, halfway out of curiosity, he stopped. He looked at me and said "Oh, I see what you're doing now. You're right." And then proceeded to introduce me to a lovely phrase, "Lies, damned lies, and statistics."
One of the most mind-blowing things in that statistics class is we were given an assignment to come to a specific conclusion on a data set. There were six of us in that class. After getting into pairs, three different pairs each reached vastly separate conclusions of the same data set. It is actually insane how much I gained from that class, the only "real world" math class I had taken in a long time. It taught me how to catch when people were absolutely bullshitting about statistics, and twisting the numbers blatantly
What does colourblind scam have to do with anti vax and such :D
@@videos4all812 she was trying to point out just how easy it is to manipulate information to serve a certain purpose, so when studies are put out to prove a point(antivax or any other matter) it's important to fact check if there is or not conflict of interest in those "studies". A proper study should be totally independent and in any way related with the subject that it is trying to prove, also it should always have a good size sample, placebo tests, and so on.
People are not awere how the "a study showed" frase is used to manipulate people in to buying thins (fiscal or ideas). Like the Dodot/pampers dippers financiating the study about the time of rediness for childrem to leave dippers when they had a financial interest that children leave dipers as late as possible. A "medicinal canabis foundation" founding studies on how it is good for autistic children, almost like a "cure" praying on desperate parents that want help their children leaving them forgetting the part that it is a drug, and that has a lot of long term effects. (side note, I'm an autistic adult, autism does not have cure or magical remedies because it's not a disease but an neurodevelopment difference, somethings might help in some areas but when talking about children that have their brain still developing any of those should be used with causion)
Once again, as a colorblind person, I cannot thank you enough, this man is exposing an industry that thrives off people just wanting to see the full color spectrum.
evil it is.
Classic scenario of the world we all living.
I guess there is very limited understanding of what colorblindness is - I know it is an inability to distinguish certain colors, but it was only in the comment section of his previous video that I learned more about it. Someone commented "how a pair of glasses will fix the missing cone cells in my eyes" - I never thought about the reason for colorblindness. It's not like bad eyesight needing correction, you're missing the receptors for it. No amount of correction can fix that.
@@ivanpetrov5255 What you say only aply's to 1% of color blind people, most have all color cones, and as a deutan colorblind person wearing those glasses for half a year, I can attest that this glassed are no such thing as a scam. They do wonders for me. Get your medical advice from a doctor and not from a random dude on the internet.
Im colorblind too, why would you want to see differently? I always felt like others see colors in a weird way, not me lol
Y’all, he was as respectful as deserved to “professionals” working under a *clear* conflict of interest, refusing to acknowledge their role in the “research”, and outright backpedaling on things they’ve said. This is serious shit. Conflicts of interest like this in the scientific field are reputation-ruining-career-ending, even-because it’s wholly unethical to skew, misrepresent, or exaggerate findings in scientific research. This isn’t okay, this is a much bigger deal than you think it is. Someone practicing medicine should *not* be okay with his “research” being used to falsely advertise a “medical device” that makes pseudoscientific promises. That person should not be practicing medicine, as it’s clear that money is more important than ethics.
mr garlic was pretty funny
You would be shocked at how common this is in scientific research. Just because someone is educated does not make them into an ethical person.
@@randomnobody9229honestly to distinguish the accuracy of journals is to check the author’s background if it was sponsored or published by a recognizable journal
They are absolutely OK with their "research" being used for anything & everything when they're receiving backhanders to do the research to begin with!!!
Sure, random UA-cam profile with no subs or profile picture, you obviously know what you're talking about. F off
25:42 The fact that he wasn't wearing these glasses during the interview says all you need to know.
Why oh why have I just now discovered your channel!!?? I've watched your entire INDEPENDENT colorblind glasses investigation. Your information is impressively researched and brilliantly presented! I most definitely subscribed. Now, I have a ton of catching up to do. Thank you for the excellent content. WELL DONE! ❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying my content :D
Yes indeed, so glad you found it! :D
The magenta example at 16:35 is absolutely fantastic. Theoretically, if you had magic glasses that completely blocked all green light, you would now be able to 'distinguish' green better than before: everything that looks pitch black must be green. If they advertised that it would be more honest but probably also far less popular because it becomes obvious how unappealing the product is.
Interestingly enough as a non-colorblind person, the 7 is less distinguishable with the filter. It's still very visible but not as different as it is without the filter. Which is funny that they claim it enhances color vision for people with normal vision.
@ Greed made them try target another audience.
Except you won’t be able to tell it apart from stuff that is actually black.
@ On screen? That makes sense, you're looking at RGB light
This is why I was asking those commenting on the first video about how it helped them if they've tried sunglasses with different hues, hunting glasses, etc. I have no color deficiency but I wear polarized amber sunglasses because, in my opinion, they really do improve contrast and visual fidelity (for lack of a better term) outdoors. I'd imagine different hues could have some benefit for affected individuals.
From time to time, I saw 1 or 2 videos of people reacting and crying when they used the glasses, and I felt happy for them. What a fake world we are living in.
im sure some of these reactions are genuine. I would cry too if I was promised normal vision, and then realize along my whole family waiting a miraculous result that I was scammed
@@sovtha actually you can see their body language and expressions, the videos might be missinterpriting because of the audience but, you can see gestures like the moment they realize they don't actually work but most go on with the show.
It's really horrible, especially when they manipulate kids into this.
what's wild is i had a high school biology teacher who was given them at an assembly and broke down crying looking at his kid lmaooo what a clown. Granted i'm pretty sure he got fired for saying racial slurs like 2 years later lmfao mega clown
dying light man
This needs to be sent to every news station to warn the public!
27:48 the eyebrows speak for him, he realized how big time screwed up exposing his colegue that he haves since graduates lol
I bought these glasses back when they were first going viral, was disappointed and stopped wearing them. Recently my family mentioned them and I brought up the first video you made. My dad's response was, "Well then why did you get scammed?"
The reason: I wanted it to be true, so badly. I think the response to many scams is just like this, victim blaming, instead of holding accountable the scammer who is meticulously manipulating people. And that's exactly why they're able to get away with it.
quite a dick move from dad tbh. sorry you got scammed
let's be real here, there won't be any scammers if people just at least use their brains when hearing some bullshhttt that is too good to be true.
Same goes with money scams. There have been soooo many that has happened simply because people are just too stupid to understand that any get money quick scheme is fake or a scam that at this point, blaming the "victim" is not "wrong" and should be pointed out so that people would be more educated in their choices next time.
In short, people should be just as responsible as those who scammed them.
@@dickmelsonlupot7697 every single bit of their marketing material is constructed, these poor people had no idea what they were getting themselves into, have some soul.
well, if you know something is a piramid scheme and pullout before the scammer starts collecting you can gain money, nowadays people fall into scams becacuse they think they are being smart, NFTs were obviously scams but the people getting in first did make money regardless@@dickmelsonlupot7697, that is why attitude towards this kind of "opportunity" is " if I know about it is probably too late to benefit from this since im not activelly searching for this"
@@dickmelsonlupot7697"it's your fault somebody crafted lies specifically designed to take advantage of your good faith", horrible take man. Firstly, being dull isn't a moral failure, it's not your fault if folks take advantage of that, it's theirs. it's like saying if somebody breaks into your home it's your fault because you didn't have a gun
I think the emotional response from the weather man was because he was “finally” able to distinguish the numbers on the plates that he hasn't been able to distinguish his whole life… because it changed the contrast which is part of the illusion used to identify the colorblindness itself.
Then, later, when _not_ trying to read the illusions specifically designed with light and contrast to be indistinguishable to him, he started realizing that he wasn't actually seeing new colors… or some colors at all.
That was always my assessment of these things too. It might help see certain Shades but they're praying on the fact that people who are color blind don't know better. They can tweak it six ways to Sunday and they wouldn't know better because they don't know what the colors are supposed to look like
33:50 he is aware of that part of the news article
I can't wear 3D glasses and watch 3D movies because for some reason, the 3D effect causes me to cry. I have no idea why.
You watch 1,000 people faking reactions and go, well I bet that guy was real. Like bruh. Most reactions are, at best, "I saw on TikTok how I'm supposed to react so if I just go meh people will think I'm weird".
@@folkloreofbeingI can't generally see 3d or VR. Crying could just be a brain issue but maybe it's just your eyes hurting. In which case you could fix that. So for me it's astigmatism. Same reason I can't do magic eye. It's really difficult and takes time. But you can learn to adjust your eyes. Get a cheap 3d setup like Google Cardboard which should still exist in some form. And do the old tips for a magic eye like "relax your eyes" aka look toward infinity. With some practice. You may be able to learn to trick your eyes into adjusting. Now I can get my eyes to do 3d at least for quick demo stuff. It's not comfortable for a full VR session. But most VR stuff, like museum experiences, only do the "big" 3d stuff for a few bits.
I feel like if this technology was real, you’d need multiple versions of different glasses, like one designed for oranges, one for yellows, one for purples, etc. not one pair that solves the entire issue.
Good on Kenneth for being willing to talk openly about it. We can often subconsciously bias ourselves when we think we've found something interesting, and just leave out important sources of doubt in our excitement of finding something new. I don't think anything he has done is malicious, just falling into a trap a lot of scientists can fall into.
Well said
I bought these for my father and son years ago thinking I was going to film this amazing reaction…they both were like “meh”. My father was 73 and my son was 7. I returned them immediately.
I'm sorry I only trust the opinions of 74 and 6 year olds
@julief8777 Sorry the company is so misleading. *Glad you returned to get your money back*
That's why their marketing is so effective. They don't sell you a fix for a medical condition but a potential emotional rush.
Did you get your money back?
@@bpark10001 yes
I think some of Ken's bias is really a hesitancy to say anything that they could construe as slander/libel and sue him for. Though I'm not denying that there is definitely what sounds like a monetary conflict of interest involved too.
It did sound like he was trying to avoid making a commitment to a statement of fact one way or the other, the way someone avoiding liability does more than the way a scientist does. Which, in his shoes, is understandable.
@@collin4555 You'd be surprised about how hesitant a lot of Scientists are to make "statements of fact".
I work on R&D and most of my people absolutely *never* make an absolute statement unless there's a bunch of research supporting our point.
It's actually a major problem in Politically sensitive things like Evolution, Climate Science, and Vaccines, because anti-science Lobbyists have learnt to grab "politically correct" Scientists and push the dialogue to "scientific maxims" with impossible burdens of proof.
" _Is it impossible to cure Color Blindness with glasses_ ?" The Spanish researcher is absolutely right at saying it's not possible, according to all science *avaiable* and, may indeed be impossible.
But It'd be a bit irresponsible to say *anything* is impossible.
Who knows? maybe filtering certain ranges of light would fry certain cones and stimulate new cones, and if people had STEM cells in their eyes for some weird genetic reason?.... MAYBE by pure coincidence they'd discover a magical cure with a mechanism we don't understand yet?! There's tons of approved pharmaceuticals in the market where we don't fully understand the mechanisms.
Indeed, would talk but say nothing for or against, but to talk expand the issues of the study, not just to get sound bites.
It's both that and potentially being liable himself if a fraud case was ever made against the company. Frankly, I'm surprised he did this. While his answers weren't great, I have to respect that there was really little benefit for doing it other than saving a bit of face when it all hits the fan.
He was definintely unwilling to even speak on what was included in his own study, not just about the company’s claims.
This is sad. I wish I could say I was surprised about this level of corruption in the medical field. Thank you for your diligent work in uncovering the truth! New sub.
New sub here too. It makes you realize it goes on in many fields regularly. I'm a layperson in the field of Pharmacy and I once had to correct a medical student on the subject of enantiomers, I found it a bit disturbing that someone close to getting a doctorate had failed to understand their teaching in something I had learned with little difficulty as a hobby. To be fair she took it well and thanked me for the correction.
Conversely I remember someone saying there ought to be a word for that feeling when having listened for years to someone you respect on topics you're not well versed in they talk about something you're a subject matter expert in and get it dead wrong and it changes your entire perception of that person and makes you wonder what else they might have been dead wrong about.
This is something I totally didn’t expect to see come up, that’s insane.
I had absolutely no idea about all of this.
I know! Being in an era where technology gets on its peak every year instead of every century or decade makes it easier to believe this kind of thing would exist when there's already way more crazier stuff, for me it was a "oh that's cool! Can't wait what technology will look like for health in the near future"
For a while I worked as a UI designer and came up against the problem of designing for color blind individuals. Naturally I learned absolutely all I could about it to the point and delved into enough research that my non-science brain could barely comprehend in order to create shaders that would simulate any form of color blindness and allow me to see and use my designs as people with color blindness see them. When someone described these glasses to me, telling me that my efforts had been for naught as "color blindness has been cured" by them, I straight up told that person that it made no sense for the glasses to work and that they were probably a scam... but that I'd be happy to be proven wrong. After that I never heard another word about them until today. I feel astonishingly vindicated to know that the gut instinct of an art nerd who did admittedly super basic research... was correct. Thank you.
thankyou for putting effort in for accessibility !
its like a restaurant, if someone doesnt complain, it doesn't mean youre right, they'll just never come back again
I appreciate your efforts to accommodate us colorblind folks. I cannot tell you how obnoxious it is that red and green are used as commonly contrasting colors in things like line graphs etc. I don't expect the whole world to bend over for a minority of people, but at least having a bit of consideration for an issue that is very easily addressed for all parties is a nice thing for you to have done. Cheers.
This is the UI designer I can actually agree with. So many of them are so concerned with making UI "modern" by sacrificing accessibility. Thank you.
I’m an accessibility consultant for UI design (mostly dyslexia & screen readers) and thanks for putting in the research & effort to make things more accessible!
I'm not colour blind but back in the late 70s I bought a pair of cheap sunglasses that I felt looked really cool. They have a mirror finish and the frames looked really modern. When I put them on I was blown away by how much better everything looked. It was as if someone had turned up the saturation control on the world, even though, everything was slightly darker. These glasses were not sold as anything other than cheap sunglasses.
Your explanation of how blocking certain wavelengths increase the contrast between similar colours makes perfect sense. I still have those cheap sunglasses (I really like them) and wouldn't mind betting they have all the benefits of enchroma glasses but without the hype.
polarized lenses?
@@careless_daughter Not that I know of. Back in ther 70s polarized lenses were really expensive. These things cost me just a few quid in Woolworths. Super cheap.
I have had a similar experience. I randomly bought a set of cheap mirrored slightly orange tinted sun glasses because I needed some new ones. I picked them as I know that blue and grey tinted sun glasses make my colour perception worse. I realised once using them outside that they actually helped increase the contrast between reds and greens and made things look more colourful. I am sure that the trade off was it messed with other colours and didn't make my colour vision better, but when looking at plants and flowers the colours popped more.
amazing
Hello marketing bot!
Amazing and needed video! Would love for you to tackle the shadiness of Mint Mobile!
Dude, I watched both parts. You are amazing. The time and effort you've put into research and prodution - omg. Keep it up and thank you for the info.
Now this is true journalism! Well done!
Thank you 🙏
😂😂
What?@@jamiesmithinidaho
I suffer from hyperacusis and disability level tinnitus. All the fake products and scams out there saying they cure or treat either are thrown in my face nonstop. No matter what the source of your suffering is, there’s disgusting predators fighting to take advantage of your pain. I would pay any price to get relief from either and they know that. It takes a lot of strength to stay level headed and vet things critically instead of emotionally when you spend every day tortured and barely hanging on. I’ve still unfortunately fallen for some of them and had my hope crushed.
I hope you're getting the support you need for these issues, at least the little that helps. I know they can be severely debilitating and have led many to take the most drastic measures to just make it stop. Some people will take advantage of the desperation of those suffering from this condition to prey on them, it's awful.
Fellow hyperacusis and tinnitus sufferer here. Stay strong. Literally the only thing that does anything for me is ACRN (acoustic coordinated reset neuromodulation). You likely know about this already, but just in case, you can do that with any half-decent pair of budget earphones and free online software. It provides temporary and incomplete relief from tinnitus, but it does work and it's better than nothing.
As for the hyperacusis, noise canceling IEMs (in-ear monitors, earbuds) completely changed my life. I especially recommend the Sony LinkBuds S, though the Apple Airpods Pro (2nd gen) are excellent for Apple devices.
I hope some of this helps.
im sorry to hear that man. i feel pretty "intelligent"/immune to scams but when im in a dark place, some of these blatantly scammy products/practices plant the thought of "what if" in my head. don't feel bad about falling for scams, know that being ashamed and not talking about it only helps scammers, as they can prey on more people due to a lack of communication.
Don't feel bad, in the wake of my post-psychosis I fell prey to lucid dreaming pills that were supposed to help me. That shit was straight up fake as fuck, worst trip of my life. I couldn't even sleep in the first place, and I saw what I could only describe as 'hypnotic colors' and also the pills just made my stomach upset. I was desperate at that time because the return to reality was rough and I wanted to be able to have lucid dreams again like I used to prior to that. If you ever come across anything claridream related, get the hell away from it it's fake as fuck.
This is also the case for basically every mental illness/condition, and it's infuriating.
"have you tried weed/insert thing here?"
Yeah, and it didn't work / No, because it doesn't work
"Oh well you must not have tried hard enough"
37:51 this may sound weird but I actually cried after the first time I wore contacts. I've worn glasses since I was 10ish and so when I got my first pair of contacts at age 17/18, I actually teard up cuz I could see like "normal" without needing a device on my face. So I do understand why some ppl may have cried for different reasons
Thank you for your journalistic investigation 🙏🏼 the world needs more people like you. Keep up the good work. Eager to see what’s next.
As someone who spent a decent portion of their life studying human biology and anatomy I thought it was really absurd that glasses could supposably "give" color vision when the physical receptors for the missing color(s) weren't present. I never expected to come across the same glasses in this way.
Right? I've always questioned what was the point of putting a different lens on when there's no film in the camera, so to speak.
@@spamhere1123 well as the video showed, there are more than a handful of types of cameras (6:05... i'd've said _ten_ but apparently the tier 3 ones are all lumped together), some of them without sensor(s) but some of them with merely defective sensors. As long as they stop making those grandiose claims, the "help you see colour in thousands of hues" (24:33) *_could_* be true, in the sense of differentiating between perceived hues that no longer look similar -- and of course, only for the specific types of CVD that could benefit. They wouldn't be the same hues as a good camera sees, but they could still record a better picture than without the filter.
an active system might work, with hues being shifted and re-presented in a way designed to work better with specific colourblindness, but a passive system is doomed to fail. i guess colourshifting pigments might work, but i don't know many in the visible range
As someone who spent a decent portion of their life studying human biology and anatomy I thought it was really absurd that glasses could supposably "give" color vision when the physical receptors for the missing color(s) weren't present. I never expected to come across the same glasses in this way.
your comment made me think. i wonder if we could use metamaterials to cause frequency shifting passively, using nanoscale meshes, which widen and shrink as the go through the lens. might need R G and B 'pixels' but could then tune the mesh size change / frequency shift to suit each person.@@Theunicorn2012
My biggest fear with this product has been that one day my friends or family members would surprise me with a pair and I would fail acting "cured". The amount of misleading information and fake reactions in those videos make me almost as furious as people leaving comments like "well maybe you are not really colorblind then..." or "you just don't like to see people happy".
wouldn't you be able to tell them not to get them foryou?
My biggest fear with this product has been that one day my friends or family members would surprise me with a pair and I would fail acting "cured". The amount of misleading information and fake reactions in those videos make me almost as furious as people leaving comments like "well maybe you are not really colorblind then…" or "you just don't like to see people happy".
get a new family, where you can be honest ...
@@JeronimusJack Indeed. Give them a hug and tell them that you appreciate the thought, then educate them. I assume you should be able to return the glasses.
Part of the scam is that they run the "reveal" in the same way faith healers do their trickery: The initial response is all that they are interested in. You put the glasses on, and suddenly you can differentiate things you couldn't before. However, until you get more time with them, you don't really have a way to determine if you are actually seeing new colours, or simply "replaced" colours. So they get the sound byte they want every time. But if they asked the same people the same question an hour or so later, I bet they'd have a lot more realistic things to say about the glasses.
The pressure to perform phenomenon that you describe towards the end where the color blind person has to provide the gift giver the reaction they are expecting is also the same way a stage hypnotist makes audience members perform ridiculous things under the guise of hypnosis.
It's hard for me to find words after this, but what you are doing means a lot.. truly incredible work.
watching this again to spite ken heron
As a person with moderate to severe Protanomaly, I've always been told "you should get those glasses so you can see colour." And I have to explain to them that im not paying over $400 for a bit more colour seperation. They seem very surprised after they have seen all of those emotional reaction videos. THANK YOU for highlighting the false advertising and straight-up lies from companies wanting to take your money. Even if CVD isn't a major disability, its wrong to profit on someone's weaknesses and their loved one's good faith. Love this series. Much respect.
your first video really set a lot of the grifters into panic mode, even prompting some to make extremely manipulative and dishonest 'counter-debunking' videos against you. glad to see part 2 come out to put these scammers in the dirt.
re-bunking videos, if you will
He’s the one manipulating people
wait what, can you send a link to that??? Really wanna see this
Lmao, please please tell us one of these ‘de-debunking’ videos or their creators - I wanna see the sad attempt at grifters trying to cover up their grift, it’s always fun to watch the panicked responses of dishonest people after being called out
I think i found one
ua-cam.com/video/TMZvgQ_A6Ms/v-deo.html@@Artyomi
I remember getting to try a pair from my friend- I’m a mono, so while I see in mostly shades of gray, I can decipher colours (warmer colours seem to be darker for me, while cool colours are the opposite).
My friend got a pair of the Enchroma, and they were telling me that their red/green blindness wasn’t necessarily cured, but it helped saturate them. I was hoping that I could see something other than grays, given that I still remember colour. When I tried them on, I started to cry, not because I saw colour, but it just turned everything a darker shade of gray.
All in all, while I’m happy that his perception of the glasses are good, I was devastated. I really, REALLY hope that someone can change this scam
Wow thank you for all the time and effort put into these videos. ❤
I've been telling people about this for years. As a colorblind person who works in medicine, I've had to explain HOW colorblindness works repetitively to explain why putting something on the outside of your eyes will never work.
I do wonder if there's some sort of AI powered colour correction that would be able to exaggerate contrast between, say red and green based on context in the future. It wouldn't be practical with our current technology, but it could be an outside the eye solution
Though it definitely won't help see new colours, just differentiate them.
@@curtishuang5534 I was thinking something similar, like he says repeatedly, nothing is going to actually give "new colors" other than new cones, but it would be interesting to play with LUTs for color correction that try to do something similar to what the glasses do, but more precise.
@@curtishuang5534
For the most part, tier 1 are absolutly fine and the disability has little to none impact on their life.
What you are describing is not quite, but close to 'a solution looking for a problem'.
It wouldn't be any better than putting these glasses.
These glasses are absolutly fine and are doing their job - if properly advertised and sold for like 10 bucks.
@Lizlodude i was thinking the same idea using a color shift based on an LUT or some RGB linear equation. Color video cameras, immage processing software, and good color video screens are readily available. I suspect however this will do nothing more than proove that there is no way to compensate for inadequate color differentiation in a color blind persons eye
@@curtishuang5534 What exactly is the AI supposed to do in this?
I had a pretty intense reaction to the bit with the news presenter in the eye clinic. I knew I was color deficient already by the time I was 7 or 8, but we still had to do those Ishihara tests at school, in front of all our classmates since they didn't have anywhere else to put us. Those tests were a ritual of public humiliation for me as the person giving the test forced me to invent a number out of nothing so they could tell me I was wrong and then tell me I really did have the CVD I told them I did at the beginning. What I'm getting at is that I understand how emotionally satisfying it could be to pass an Ishihara test for the first time in your life, feeling like you've finally overcome something that's been haunting you since childhood, but it's not real. I don't know if those were genuine tears, but if they were I can only imagine how bitter his disappointment must have been when he tried to wear the glasses outside, couldn't see the green light, and realized he had been had. Just disgustingly manipulative
Absolutely. It was cruel to laugh at this man’s genuine response. I had similar experiences with vision tests as a child (although different issues) and I would probably act similarly if I was in a high pressure situation too.
It’s so crazy to me that you clearly have so much suppressed emotion about the color blind tests from elementary school… I can guarantee none of the other kids really cared
@@maddieb.4282 I just wanna say (to the original commenter mostly) that I absolutely do not doubt how distressing this experience was, kids can be really quite cruel and the school shouldn't have highlighted a condition like that in front of all the other kids, nor had the person doing the test do it in quite a mean sounding way. I doesn't even matter how much those kids allegedly did or did not care, your emotional response is still real. No random person on the internet can have any "guarantee" about something they weren't also present for.
I guess as someone who's had my own bullying and hard times from peers as a child myself, it took me a long time to accept that it was valid and okay to feel hurt by those things. You also never know what else someone may be going through outside of the one isolated incident they shared about.
@@jh8320Totally agree, I enjoyed this video but he shouldn't have made fun of that poor guy for getting emotional. I think there's a good chance those were genuine tears.
*Also, the journalist is looking at the number test, not the world outside*
I recently took a journalism class at college thinking it would be an easy alternative to the dreadful “composition 2”. However, it was actually much more interesting than I had thought, and gave me a new appreciation for article videos and exposés like this one.
Great reporting!
I love your videos, very informative and you're a good story teller. Keep up the good work 💪
Thank you! Will do!
It's always amazing when scientists take time out of their day to respond to people who have questions over their papers and research. I know many who at least attempt to respond, even if it's just an email. Some are extremely busy, but are usually humbled when people ask. Consider yourself lucky that you got a full video call!
Scientists love talking about their research lol. It’s super validating when someone shows interest in your very niche findings
I was doing a paper about polymers, and as a little gun enthusiast I email Glock's RnD department about information of the polymer of the guns because I couldn't find it online, turns out it (obviously but sadly) that it is trade secret, yet I was surprised that the technical supervisor replied me in 2 days. I am pretty sure that if they could answer they'd have.
You can really tell that a scientist is into their field of study by that. As a bachelors student I reached out to a history prof for clarification about something in a paper he wrote a decade earlier and he answered my mail within a day going into great detail, it was super helpful for my thesis. To be honest I didn’t expect much reaching out as a mere undergrad student, but I think most of the scientific community is stoked to share their research :)
@@tgime1 I feel the same way when somebody takes interest in my citizen science, aka iNaturalist observations. So that makes a lot of sense.
You're actually recommended to contact scientists who wrote a paper directly, rather than paying those services for a copy. Not only is the scientist allowed to do so, but they also don't see any of the money you pay for access. Much nicer for them to see people be interested and know their work is useful to someone.
I do agree that he was lucky the scientist of a paper with so many warning flags responded though. It's not at all likely to get a response from someone that is writing papers with an N
A while after hearing about these glasses, I realized you could replicate the effect by lighting a room with the right selection of LEDs. It didn't sit well with me because I was pretty sure that would look like shit. Guess I was right!
Red light districts have been using this trick for ages...
@@tobylegion6913I booked a holiday for my friend to visit a Red Light District, I care about his colorblindness so much
This video is sick, amazing job. One note though:
Companies sponsor and participate in studies made on their products ALL THE TIME, they are useful to validate their products' efficacy. If the study is well conducted there's nothing wrong with that.
It is also very common for people from the companies making the products to co-author the studies. This is also very reasonable if you think about it: you invent something, you need to test it, you do the tests, you publish your results.
This is an excellent piece of investigative journalism. Absolutely gripping throughout mate
When I was in high school in like 2018 I did a biology project on colourblindness. I reached out to enchroma and asked if I could use a pair for my research. They said it was their policy not to offer the glasses for studies. I was 90% sure it was a scam back then just from my research on how colourblindness works
5:53 I recently had anesthesia for a dental operation and it temporarily made my vision go away, when it came back at first only my rod cells came back, so it was essentially like monochromacy for 5 minutes. It didn't really look like that black and white filter, everything was either the color white or the color black, it was like the contrast of my vision was boosted up to 100%
That is fascinating thank you for sharing that experience.
So there was no greyscale at all, it was literally black/white, with nothing inbetween? That's so interesting.
but there must have been a grayscale no? Otherwise you see either a black or a white “plain” image (like looking at a piece of paper)
@keylor_cr I'm sure that for people who see like that regularly there is a bit of a greyscale, but for me there was quite literally none at all until my cone cells started coming back and I started seeing color again. Things were either bright or dark, for example my jeans had some bits where there was a shadow, some bits that more light was hitting them. Normally, I'd see the spectrum of how bright those various areas were. But at that time, my jeans didn't even look like jeans, just weird white and black spots literally as if you had turned the contrast setting on a camera way up and then turned it way up again
@@kevincronk7981 Almost like an old comic book or a manga then?
@fangornthewise yeah I guess, with less detail but you can probably chalk that up to the anesthesia
I remember following a relatively small UA-cam channel that bought one of those glasses. The guy with the colorblindness didn't have an immediate emotional reaction, but after he went outside and got used to them a bit, he said it did help him distinguish between some colors better,, like red and green. But i don't think i ever saw him wearing them again in a video, so my guess is he realised they also muted other colors and weren't worth it.
glad the strike is gone, and this amazing video is back up!!
The sad thing is, as someone with CVD, I often struggle to see many colours and I'm open to mockery (friendly banter lol). BUT... I've searched high and low for a solution, and I've always wanted my own "emotional reaction video" to EnChroma glasses... this two part series broke my heart and by the end of this video, I started crying. I realised that for years, it's been a scam and that my dreams of seeing full colour spectrum is an impossibility. Its seriously crushed me.
Genuinely devastated.
I'm so sorry dude, these scams are disgusting because of it misleading both different colorblind people and their friends or loved ones.
I hope that one day, there can be advancements for those who want them to help with forms of colorblindness, until then I hope for more colorblind modes and tools that help colorblind people navigate the world and tech
While fixing/aiding the eyes seems tough, perhaps there may be a way to stimulate the brain, allowing you to see color in the future.
There's a wikipedia article on "gene therapy for color blindness" that talks about injecting actual functional copies of the missing/nonfunctional genes into the eye, which- if successful -would actually cure colour blindness by a genuine mechanism (by granting the eye the same functional cones as an average person's), unlike the filtering approach used by the glasses in this video.
From the looks of the article, it seems its currently in the "works on mice and monkeys, untested on humans" stage of development, but hopefully it pans out, and they can make it as unintrusive a procedure as possible (cost is also an issue, but we're probably too early to get a good idea on how expensive gene therapies will end up being once they become more widespread)
Of course, if it turns out the necessary neuroplasticity is there, cybernetics might also eventually prove to be a viable solution.
In other words: calling it an _impossibility_ is probably premature, but there _currently_ doesn't seem to be a true solution on the market, and the potential solutions I'm aware of are probably going to be at least somewhat invasive (though the wikipedia article did mention primate trials using intravitreal injections were, though "less effective", significantly less invasive: just an eye injection, theoretically something a family doctor could do themselves) rather than just putting on some glasses
Colors are overrated anyway
Theres still a chance, but i feel you, except for me its tinnitus and not colorblindness. I was crushed to discover theres no cure for the constant ringing, but i hold hope with the research being done for it.
Theres ongoing research to see if potential eye surgery can bring back color vision. Unfortunately it may not be a thing in our lifetime, but it could theoretically be possible one day as technology improves.
I lost my vision in one eye due to a neurological condition, and as it returned i was monochrome, protanopia, then protanomaly, according to enchroma tests, even though enchroma doesnt even test monochromacy. The test would just bug and say "too extreme" or something. In a way, im glad i got to experience complete blindness in one eye, partial vision loss, then colorblindness. It was an interesting but also scary experience. It allows me to understand vision deficiencies better. But to be honest, i know im extremely lucky to be able to experience that and have my vision mostly return to normal. Not so lucky to have that neuro condition...
Truely though, i feel you. Ive never known complete silence, the ringing is deafening. We're in a similar boat. May we float to a cure one day.
I am totally colourblind and I have always known those were a scam. Because it's physically impossible to see colour from a coloured lens. Really ridiculous. All my life I have used a piece of red plastic to help me identify red (not see), as it would appear black through the plastic. Nowadays I have an app that can tell what colour something is by pointing the camera. I still have an email I sent to them with questions on the physics - to which I received a bunch of gibberish pseudo scientific crap .... Glad you posted this video.
(Agreeing with you completely) Any material light passes through can reflect or absorb, changing the wave length our eye receives. ...It still won't get you the biological hardware to see those changes just the same as changing the channel on the TV or looking out the window or putting on sunglasses would.
I think how they gimmick the smart people is making the glasses magenta- which is the color our brain interprets anything we lack the hardware to see. Which for normally color seeing people, is still a lot. We'll never know what colors exist that butterflies can see and we can't, because the brain just sees them as magenta. So therefor making the glasses 'colors you can't see' will be like voodoo magic, right??
@@meganfisher831 haha. Precisely.
I'm new to your channel (thanks, algorithm!) This was great investigative journalism with high production value on a truly interesting subject matter. You've got a new sub. Keep up the great work!
This man is the type of people go all out, just for the good. Definitely earning a subscriber for your good values and the unshakable journalism
Thank you. Means a lot.
I’m so sick and tired of “specialists” basically having one job and being completely clueless at it, as I get older I’m horrified at how much it actually happens
To be fair, 2 of the 3 specialists interviewed here were not clueless lol
American local TV is utter garbage. All these channels do is repost some feel-good stories from social media. How the fuck are people actively wasting their time watching this is beyond me...
Think Hunter Biden haha
My absolute favorite is in court cases where the defense and prosecution will both bring in an "expert" and they will come to complete opposite conclusions. That's when you realize how fast ethics go out the door when money is involved.
@@tigeruppercut2000hey look another cult member
Thank you so much for both of your videos. My father was red-green color blind and I wanted to get him these, but they were awfully expensive. Since he passed a few years ago, I have felt a little guilty knowing that he never got these so he could experience true colors. It's such a comfort to know that they wouldn't have made a difference .
I'm sorry for your loss. It's truly despicable how these companies prey on that exact emotional aspect. Their marketing is so misleading and perfectly crafted to lure in people who are colorblind or loved ones of those who are.
duuude u should try boosting the bass in your videos i swear it sounds so much better
also in 13:30 the way he talked initially look like he was actually trying to recall or either he was making up shit then suddenly when he is quoting the scientist it sounded like he was reading a script off camera and the fact his eyes were just so focused towards the direction of camera
When their Free test is better than entire product range.
I remember seeing those glasses all over the internet back when I was a teen and getting so happy for colorblind people... thank you for the courage, money you spent and time you took of your daily life to expose those scammers. its crazy that their logic goes "oh, so you're colorblind? wear these glasses and you'll get another spectrum of colorblindness instead of seeing all colors, but hey! you'll have some more contrast!"
"And make us a butt load richer! Since the glasses are cheap shit from China that we buy in bulk and slap our logo on!"
The news sites blew this up because no one there has a bullshit detector in their brain. Also, hello there fellow captain.
@@Iragashi-Kaito exactly!! they went all that way to just grab a bunch of cheap materials, glue them together and sell for 300 bucks... and hi btw!! always nice to see honkai players everywhere 🙏🏼🙏🏼
I questioned these when I saw the reactions to the balloons. I immediately wondered how they could name the colors correctly if they'd never seen them before. Thank you for confirming my suspicions.
That was my first thought too (as a deutan sufferer). If it was true, I'd be asking the person beside me wth color is that?! I've never seen that before.
I think that these glasses don't work. But if you had color blindness like my kind you know the names of colors. I think it gives the appearance of working by allowing people to distinguish things better. Like purple is nonexistant to me, so if I saw something different than blue as described i'd be like oh that's purple/
What’s the referred to as stage 2 colourblindness in the video, and deuteranopia specifically. Then there would only be two balloons where they could possibly say the colour of it.
If they like the glass manufacturers heavily implies would get normal colour vision for the glasses. Then the red, green, purple and orange ballon would look like something they never seen anything even the slightest like before. Just completely new and different. Or have any reference what the name of the colour it was supposed to be called.
What a fantastic video. listened mostly while working, but excellent content and work! 👏
I have monocromacy and no way a pair of glasses will fix the cones inside my eyes. I knew and told people it was a scam, but they told me I was negative and pesimistic. I'm glad to show them this video.
Even for me who hasn't learned about color blindness in this depth before, the idea of fixing different color blindness types with one and the same glasses is unbelievable. And to restore vision of one's completely missing color, by fixing the incoming light rather then the vision itself, is a claim of outright magic.
But... it's not magic, it's *_physics_* ... The video _shows_ you how they work: 15:09, decreasing the perception of certain wavelengths tweaks the intensity of signals received by the cones, shifting some ratios and allowing for a different perception of the same scene. Sure, this can not work for some of the many types of CVD (shown at 6:05), but it DOES have the possibility to work on others. (Although, i agree the marketing statements were blown way out of the park, and this video was very informative on the multiple aspects of the topic.)
@@irrelevant_noob Problem is that it cannot work fully for any type, because it needs to increase for example the green signal for certain colors while decreasing it for others at the same time. No mere light filter can do this, you need very sophisticated computer software and then you might be able to show computer screen pictures corrected for some types of colour-blindness.
100 years ago, people thought restoring hearing or vision would be magic, but now things like cochelear implants exist and corrective lasik for poor vision.
To have corrective lenses for colorblindness would take years of study and research.
When you go to the eye RX, they run a gamit of tests to see whats wrong with your vision and the best course of action to treat it.
Enchroma is like throwing a pair of glasses at a near sighted person without knowing the extent of their nearsightedness and calling it a day.
@@stoferb876 why does it "need to" increase the green signal for certain colors tho?
@@irrelevant_noob Take the example of the OP. Reddish colors triggers too much green activation while those towards the blue get too little. That's how it works if the peak sensitivity for the green receptors are closer to red than it "should" be.
That interview with the doctor from the news story brought back a memory of one of the best quotes I heard from a journalism professor: "You can't always get the answers you want, but you can make them look stupid in the process and that's good enough"
I absolutely love your investigation, and you have spared me from spending an absurd amount of money (as theses glasses go for about 4x the original price when imported to my country) just so I could wear tinted glasses. I had been seriously considering purchasing these glasses as I work with video production and constantly have to color my edits. I would love if you did a video explayining your workflow and techniques for coloring videos, as this would be extremely helpful for fellow colorblind filmmakers who struggle with this stage of post-production.
Thank you for doing this!! I have been wondering for YEARS how these glasses work, and I just couldn’t make sense of them by reading the websites. I know a decent amount about how color and vision work and none of it made sense to me how the glasses could possibly replace cones
I bought some $10 colorblind glasses on eBay for fun. They do make it easier to separate some colors. But they also flattens other colors. From what I've heard in this video, they do the same job as the $300 enchroma glasses.
Basically they just change what you are hard at seeing? Its kinda like “i mean you cant get rid of it, but you Can make it remove ATTACK instead of DEFENSE” (yes i absolutely just used a video game thing as a reference, and it absolutely works)
@Jake_Gotthard not quite, more like:
They change what you use to differentiate colour.
Instead of looking at the colour information, you just look at the brightness instead.
You see the same colours as before, but some of them look darker than before so it's easier to guess what they are. You still wouldn't actually know.
At 16:30 in the video there’s a pretty good demonstration of what’s going on.
Really for those of us who do have problems we need a filter to help adjust some colors. Really I do think that in the future glasses or contacts could filter out color and change the tint, brighness or what ever to help see something better. For example when he moved the plastic sheet over the color dots the 7 was shown far more clear to me. This is what I would like to see. I could help me adjust the shades better.
For future reference if you see a paywalled journal article if you have a university login (some unis let you keep it years after you graduated) you might be able to access it for free. You could also ask your subscribers or followers if they could get the article for you through their institutions library. (I'm def willing to help). Lastly, most authors will just send you their article for free bc they dont even see the money from people accessing the article, that 40 dollars you paid goes to the journal itself. (I know this last option was probably not something that wouldve worked in this specific scenario though)
Also cough cough scihub cough
also, sci-hub
Or just sci-hub it
@@Shori948 yeah, honestly. The journals are just profiteering off the science that was paid for by governments and research institutions.
That would have been bad enough by itself. But it gets worse. This slows the progress of science, since sometimes you can't access papers, drains additional funds from research (universities usually pay ridiculous sums of money to the journals).
Oh, also, the academics who do peer reviews for journals usually aren't even paid! So the journals literally take a lot of money just for admin and publishing the article to their webpage...
Why is information like this so exclusive?
As far as the doctor in the news goes, he might have been misquoted. If you look at the video, he doesn’t say glasses. They could have asked him about something completely different and then done some editing to add a different question.
I think it is really convenient for him but still that wouldn't be something new coming from the mainstream media.
the entire comment section except this comment: *critical thinking has left the chat*
I mean even without the mention of glasses, the doctor is clearly claiming "he's seeing a truer version of the color", which is a load of nonsense because such a product doesn't exist for colorblind people. He got caught spewing some bullshit.
@@trollisourbriteeggs6282 If you used critical thinking skills, you'd realize there's no convenient explanation for what the doctor said regardless of the question asked. The doctor is claiming "he's seeing a truer version of the color", which is a load of nonsense because such a product doesn't exist for colorblind people.
Any scientist worth their salt would LOVE to talk about their science, you can't get them to stop! If they don't want to talk that's highly suspect
In spite of being frustrated with Knoblauch for being on the wrong side of this, I still have to feel a bit sorry for him, he is clearly deeply conflicted and understands and admits that the company is lying about the results, and feels very bad about the whole thing, while trying to find a non-existent middle position.
Honestly, I find the video author is oversimplifying things and clearly looking for a scandal and fame. He's still doing a good thing by providing more precise information on what the glasses can and cannot do and by scrutinizing the "miraculous cure" narrative.
However, he is clearly trying very hard to frame Knoblauch and others in the worst possible light, and present the whole thing as an unambiguous scam when it's actually a complicated issue. There are colorblind people who like and use these products. Knoblauch did publish the negative comments from his study, which is how you found them, so accusing him of somehow "hiding" them is ridiculous and disingenuous. Calling a reporter an "idiot" and repeatedly making fun of him for having an emotional reaction to being able to pass a colorblind test for the first time in his life is just cruel. The team even did a followup, where the reporter said he was having doubts about the efficacy of the glasses - but the author of the video framed this as another "epic fail" and focused on framing the poor local eye doc instead. Speaking of which - the guy talked to you despite your clearly hostile tone AND gave you permission to publish his words, and you accuse him of "refusing to take accountability"? My dude, he literally says "publish whatever you want" - if that's not standing behind your words, I don't know what is.
@kathorsees Impressive. You've licked the floor these parasitic scammers walk on so clean, I can see myself in the reflection. If only that were true for you as well, but I guess bloodsuckers can't reflect.
@@kathorsees oh these poor scammers :((
@@fsdfgwe Which scammers was I talking about? The guy Knoblauch, who doesn't get anything out of this whole situation other than bad press? Did you watch the video and read his letter? MegaLag shows that he objects to the false advertising and doesn't get a dime from the company misusing his research and ignoring his advice.
The local doctor, who made an educated guess in an unscripted interview that he didn't get paid for? How is he profiting from the situation, or misleading you, or scamming anyone?
The viral "I can see colors now!" trend is cancer, the false advertising is abysmal and wrong. But that doesn't mean that anyone and everyone who a UA-camr happens to mention in a video is automatically a scammer.
What are going about. Knoblauch has/had share in the Company.... Or did i get that wrong? So He did not Profite from thqe false addvertisment? Copium seems to be really string with you
I hope I will see a lawsuit filed against these scammers by the end of the video.
Ur vids are so worth the wait. Loved the AirTags one, too. Nice job and happy 2024!
First, thank you for exposing this! I love what you said, "you can't put a price on the truth." That's going to be my quote for the day, but seriously, we hope you feel appreciated for this because you are.
First, thank you for exposing this! I love what you said, "you can't put a price on the truth." That's going to be my quote for the day, but seriously, we hope you feel appreciated for this because you are.
I feel like there really oughta be like a "netflix" type thing for scientific, historic, studies etc. papers. Like a monthly cost and unlimited access. That'd make it a lot easier for especially laypeople like myself to look through studies and do our own due diligence. But paying 40$ for a page and a half is just not feasible.
"It's so green. I've never seen this before." I get the overwhelming emotion of such a moment, but stop and think for a moment: If you've never seen green before, how do you know that's what you're seeing now?
This sadly proves the cruel emotional exploitation being used to sell the product (or in the media's case, selling ads).
It's absolutely insane how long they've kept up this charade. Good work, dude.
Dude that ending was awesome. Glad I stumbled across your channel. I would of never guessed color blindness would intrigue me so much. Awesome awareness of un-biased information and Thank-you for being an advocate for the people who do have impaired sight!
I heard about Color Blind Glasses a while ago and simply assumed they worked based on the reactions of people online.
Thanks for making this!
I love mine.
Have you tried comparing their effectiveness to magenta cellophane?
My aunt got these glasses for me (as I'm colorblind) but I didn't really feel its effect. I thought it was just a problem with the specific brand or it doesn't work with my type of colorblindness. Needless to say, I was relieved that tons of people had the same experience as me and it validated my experience. Thank you for making this video
This is such an amazing video, I'm so happy this (meant the 1st part) landed to my feed!
Earned a sub! 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
That’s why it’s so important to find doctors/scientists that will admit when they are or were wrong showing their attempts not just successful hypotheses
As a hearing healthcare professional for over a decade this is fascinating. Hearing Aids are just programmable personal amplifiers that cannot directly fix auditory processing issues. It can enhance the signal that reaches the auditory processing center of the brain but it cannot make the brain more capable of interpreting and contextualizing the signal received. That requires a whole other treatment approach.
My cousin is deaf and I had thought she could hear perfectly with the cochlear implants but nope. My aunt used to have something that could make us hear what she heard and she said it sounds more robotic. When my cousin sings she’s never in tune 😂🩷 and she’ll say how she wonders how thjngs like a heart beat sounds. It’s crazy to think about
Really? I use hearing aids. They are more accurate than just an amplifier, not only are they appropriately equalized to bring hearing up to something nearly normal, through processing they follow speech across the stereo plane. And they also suppress background noise. Are you selling modern hearing aids, or those ancient ones that look like 60's pocket radios?
Incidentally, something you will be able to relate to is that the -omaly colour blindness names are pretty much akin to "hard of hearing" where the -opathy names are outright unable to see certain colour ranges. This is common in profound hearing loss, where some frequencies can be heard, but some ranges are nearly gone.
I have tritanopathy. You can't "amplify" blue or yellow to make them stand out. But if I was tritanomalous, then you could, at least to allow differentiation.
@@KarstenJohansson Read what Joshua wrote a couple of times again. They said exactly the same thing as you: "It can ENHANCE the signal", which is precisely what EQ and noise suppression is.
Despite you both talking about the same thing and fully agree with each other, you still write like you are arguing against them. Makes no sense. But afterall, Joshua also told about brain's ability to process and interpret the received signal, which is apparently something you have some problems on.
@@anteshell You must be having a bad day lol.
@@KarstenJohansson How so? I was merely expressing my disapproval of trying to confidently argue things you do not understand. Please, tell me more how that tells anything about my day?
I'm colorblind myself and I'm so glad I did not buy these.
I find it ironic that the commenter below you has a rainbow profile picture
I haven't seen the video yet, but as a colourblind person these were gifted to me and they definitely help in certain situations! Hope he doesn't say they're a 100% scam because my own experience is enough to prove to me that they are not. Let's see.
30 and 50 % Protanopia in both eyes.
@@croneryveit9070 The issue isn't that they don't work. The issue is that they do something else than they claim. They can for sure help you or make the world look better and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that or you, but they do it through other means than they advertise and back up with their studies and marketing. It's like... imagine someone offered you cure for cancer, but it was just a painkiller that makes all the symptoms go away. And that's where the ethics problem is. You can't advertise something as one thing and deliver another.
@@croneryveit9070They are 100% a scam, but they aren’t products that do nothing. They’re products that don’t do what is advertised- that’s what a scam is. I’m glad you’ve found them helpful, though!
Was tempted so many times, entered my details on their site. Almost clicked buy. So happy I never did.
Honestly, I'm a colorblind person (red/green) and while I don't have any illusions that they magically cure colorblindness, or allow your brain/cones to magically rewire themselves, they DO WORK for me. In the sense that when I wear them outdoors in the sun (got the sunglasses ones) I can actually see and differentiate purple from blue - something I could never do before. The reds in the purple flowers were so clear, it was like the flora was on fire. Suddenly, I was also able to differentiate pink from blue as well. Yellow from Orange, Green from brown, etc etc. And my world suddenly gained a ton of brilliance.
I couldn't suddenly just point at every single color and say "That's chartreuse!" but I could suddenly differentiate and appreciate the beauty of nature around me. It very well could be that they just boosted up the saturation to ridiculous levels with lens filters, or whatever. All I know is that not only was I seeing beautiful enhanced colors, but I could point to specific flowers and ask my wife "Wait, is that purple?" when before they all fell under the category of "...blueish..."
If it turns out that's all they do, then yeah, they are way too expensive. Also completely understand that I may just fall into the very narrow group of people these have an affect on. But I don't regret buying them at all, and they have made my life a lot more vibrant, so I'm calling it a win.
You should return them and buy a piece of magenta cellophane instead. Buy a pair of clear, non-prescription glasses and trace each lens onto the cellophane so you can cut out two pieces to tape over the lenses. Now you have your own cheap version of the same product. Lower quality but saves a few hundred bucks
Yes i thought so. People belivies so much in science journalism it clouds there own thinking. You wont get manny likes or get noticed by the majority of the people because you differ from the rest. Their strong belife makes them judgemental when you proove they might work for some people.
I feel he should like and respond to more of these comments as not to blow off people who aren't getting paid to stage something. Ignoring a base of comments that actually purchased them makes this seem bias. I'm watching the information but seeing his lack of recognition for real individuals is troubling in research honestly
@@stikkzttp887yeah I would definitely agree with that. I was a bit annoyed by the first video that he only showed a clip of Aaron Paul, of all people, and didn’t at least acknowledge the people who DO think they enhance their lives.
Listen, it could be a complete sham, and they may be overcharging me for sunglasses that I could technically make at home - that may very well be the case. But the sheer fact that I was able to see colors and differentiate them (with confirmation from my wife) when I could not do that before means there is SOME merit to these glasses, or at least the principle behind them, and ignoring that side does indeed make the videos come off as biased.
@@JohnJesenskyYou cannot make these at home! If you don't buy that, take them to a lab & run a transmission spectrum on them. You can't make this with a piece of cellophane! It is not a scam, but they don't work for everybody. Company admits that (they don't work for about 25% of patients). That's why they offer no quibble money-back guarantee. I am disturbed that so many are using the word "scam" to describe the product. How can it be a scam when company offers refund?
My family got me these glasses and i felt compelled to tell them they worked. Things do look different but I'm certain I'm not seeing anything worth crying over. I think you 100% nailed it in the conclusion. Thank you!
Damn. That's probably the case in a bunch of those "first time" videos too.