Barely Sociable is now a roast channel. Dude roasted every channel that doesn’t even do research on the topic they’re making videos about. You can only trust BS.
I feel your pain on the ‘why don’t they read the article’ bit. The amount of times I’ve seen something on one of those creepy list channels being completely misrepresented even though it would’ve taken two seconds of actual research is infuriating. I’m all for a good spooky mystery, but there’s plenty of stuff out there to talk about without dredging up decades old stuff that’s already been explained or debunked.
I came here looking for a disturbing mystery, but I got something better. An angry Barely Sociable. Also, 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' playing in the background is perfect.
Well good thing you've gotten the recognition you deserve for actually doing research, I hope to see you beat the likes of the infographics show someday!
This is why whenever I see people posting seemingly dramatic or stupid news article headlines, I always search out for the full article and try to read it all. As someone who has no life out of school and only a part time job (before covid at least) I have the time to read these things.
@@neron0va who cares if he said his or her? This is coming from a woman, it's really just fucking annoying seeing people chime in "it could have been a woman!" WE FUCKING KNOW. Most people use He/His is a semi neutral way, and most people use guys/dude in a neutral way. Women are cool, and we're half the population, but goddamn do we not need petty stands like this shit lol.
Lol. Definitely was a man and it would take a lot of mental gymnastics to think otherwise. Women didn't care about computers/programming/hacking/gaming and mocked the men who did until their social engineering told them to embrace and subvert it.
@@dicti0nary_ I would have to reply with the ol' "never say never" In order to keep this lighthearted, I won't list them but I instantly thought up a few scenarios in which both mental and physical harm could/can/does.
@@wxrren1406 thats a good idea, but imagine what would happen if yt added that. we have people who made cringe edits just for getting some likes, and if they were to get something like an award, it would be 10x worse than the type of edits we see on reddit posts when they get awarded. imo adding that is a big yikes for me
It reminds me of a kind of test my chemistry teacher gave the class in high school. She passed out the sheet of instructions and said read the entire page before starting your work. The first sentence on the page said read the entire thing before starting the work. The instructions involved folding up a piece of notebook paper in various ways and just about all of us students were quickly getting after it. Of course the very last line of instruction was "after reading the entire page don't do anything at all" or something similar to that. So if you just read the whole thing you'd have known to just sit there.
If i remember correctly this actually comes from Robert Heinlein's youth novel, 'Space Cadet.' Seriously - in it, the candidates for the school are given exactly the same test - among many others. It came out in 1948.
Funnily enough I’m pretty sure I did something similar at school at least once. I was one of only a handful of people who actually read the whole thing before doing anything, so just sat there laughing at the ones who fell for it.
I did this one time. I got to the point where you were supposed to poke holes into the paper with a pencil. I wasn't provided with a pencil, so I asked for one. Asked for one, she replied "No." When I asked why, she replied "Because it'll embarrass you." It was at that moment, I knew I hadn't followed all the instructions.
Bro when i did that test i thought it wanted me to sit and do nothing AFTER i did all of the stuff on the page. So i started doing everything with like 4 other people in the class not realizing the whole class was just watching me and like 4 other students do everything. Embarrassing af. Its not that i didnt read the whole thing, it was just that i was dumb :c
Hi, Gen X internet user and still breathing here. I believe that's a flood/text DDoS attack from the 90's. Floodbots were the first "script kiddie" process that didn't require any real coding ability so they proliferated throughout IRC (Discord/Instant messaging circa 1996-2000) and Usenet. The fact that it hits almost exclusively Christian channels instantly made me think of my edgy peers from my teens. Trolling Christians and suicide/mental health channels on Usenet or IRC was as popular then as drama channels and rage bait is now.
Wicca was another group that got crosspost trolled quite a bit as I remember. And yeah it was pretty easy to automate posts with Perl in only a couple lines, did it a bit myself for uploading stuff on binary groups.
The thing that throws me off is the word "Denigrate". We could carve canyons unto the ground running in circles trying to theorize what "Markovian Parallax" means, but the word "Denigrate" just doesn't seem to fit at all. So a probability chain that appears to change based on your position, but also fuck that shit...? Anyways, /rant
I'm pretty sure they don't consider youtube videos to be reliable sources, even if they are more factual than the sources they already have on the subject.
@@jeffreyfalcon243 Wikipedia is weird about what it wants to include, what it doesn't, and what their justifications are. For one, they don't allow first party sources, meaning most scientific data is out the window but the news articles that might misinterpret the reports are perfectly fine. And while they try to be objective in what they consider noteworthy and relevant, there is a lot of internal politics that bias what is and isn't allowed. Heck, at one point, a celebrity (forget who) tried to correct some incorrect information on his own page and was told he wasn't allowed to, because he "can't be unbiased" about himself. He was fixing his _birth date._ A secondary source gave an incorrect date, so that had to be the correct one even if it wasn't. Back around 2012 there was an edit war on the F-15 Eagle article because the team in charge of monitoring aviation articles didn't think Transformers was relevant enough to include in the "In Pop Culture" section, but thought a video made for and shown at a single museum in Arizona was. Setting aside what the "Pop" in "Pop Culture" means, it turned out that the people who didn't want the mention of Transformers was dismissing the show because "It's a dumb cartoon only kids watch" even though the majority of fans are in their 30's and 40's. The ultimate solution was to remove the section entirely when someone higher up intervened. So I can see why that might be the case; Wikipedia CAN be an unreliable source.
“I should say with something like this, it highlights how many of the internet mysteries you see today are brought into existence. This entire subject was basically nothing until someone revived it with a sensational twist on things. What starts off as a simple coincidence from one person over the years spirals into a spooky narrative that’s meant to entertain.” - This very channel's own model. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Wikipedia's policies are garbage. You aren't allowed to use primary sources to get accurate information, but the bias of a secondary source is perfectly fine?
@@BlackGateofMordor It's by design. Can't do idea washing or smear campaigns if primary sources had precedence over secondary sources. Want to fabricate something have it written on a blog "the blog Buttmad360 says Phil likes to put pencils up his nose", the somebody from a friendly paper use the blog as a source in a hit piece "Joe Rentagob from the New York Bugle writes that according to the influential blog 'Buttmad360' Phil likes to put pencils up his nose. We also have on good authority from an anonymous source he shouts 'Gabbagoo' at the same time". Now the wikipedia article for Phil will state that he likes to put pencils up his nose while shouting Gabbagoo.
@@christallh24 it's based on a cliché used mostly in film. The idea that there's a big journey to find some "treasure," only to discover that the treasure isn't there or isn't what you thought it was, and that the real "treasure" was the friends that you made along the way. The internet has started using this sentence, replacing the word treasure with whatever they'd like. In this channel's case, for whatever reason, we've started commenting on each of his videos, replacing the word treasure with whatever he's talking about. It's just a running gag
The downwards spiral into madness because people simply cannot read a single article until the end was absolutely amazing. If only all mysteries were that easily solvable :D
The funny thing is that if people actually did that they would realize that the majority of internet mysteries in general have very obvious, mundane answers.
@@edvfya9922 well, except for the Toynbee tiles. likely, that guy rode around in a car with the floor cut out and placed those tiles when he stopped. mad lad
One of Wikipedia's biggest flaws is that it doesn't rely on factual information, it relies on information that can be crossreferenced. You can post a claim on wikipedia that is 100% true, but the source is not widely accessible, your edit will be deleted. But if you post nonsense that has plenty of articles written about it, the editors will let that stand. It's a major issue with that website and its editorial standards
This is the only channel I genuinely get excited to watch. Your channel is super well thought out and articulated. Good job bro keep up the amazing work.
While I love your more serious, documentary style videos, this has got to be my favourite video on the channel. It was so fun to hear you drop the narrator and laugh with you about something so strange and stupid. Wonderful video, Barely Sociable!
I am now convinced that all misunderstandings and misinformation in the world comes from people not reading the whole thing or just reading the headline....it’s an absolute pandemic.😑
I think it’s hilarious they said all the posts were lost to time, and then you just casually find them. Everything on the Internet is forever, never forget that people
@Jake Cremer get out of my comment replies, you could have easily scrolled past my comment like the people in the video who didn't bother to scroll to read the rest of the article
@@insaniicandee8836 Mans really deleted his comments lmao basically he said "wah how do u silently cackle wah" and I wasn't gonna take the bait and argue so I told him to fuck off and he did
Barely, are you afraid to release Part 3 in all honesty? You seemed pretty confident you new who it was that's a bold statement coming from you, A few weeks ago you said you just haven't got around to doing it hmm something this good and you didn't "get around" to it yet? I find that hard to believe Part 3 is probably going to be one of you're most viewed videos.
Spooky spam: "Purple monkey dishwasher." Translation: READ THE ARTICLE. I see that Barely's editing skills have improved YET AGAIN. Loving the light comedic elements in this one, too! Looks like we got another LEMMiNO on the rise, folks. (I'll never complain about quality over quantity.)
@Ryan Rafter Rooster Teeth says it in a podcast, I think? They were joking about how maybe secret phrases will trigger instant death or whatever in people, but we just don't know what the phrases are until someone says them.
I've never laughed so hard as I have while listening to a man spiral into existential exasperation in time to the soundtrack of what I can only assume is the music that plays while your call to hell has been placed on hold
rzeka yeah! It’s only like third on the compilation album, “Songs to Listen to While You’re Waiting for Your Personal Demon”. It’s right after that one Depeche Mode track.
That 'Hall of the Mountain King' tune still gives me flashbacks. Had a crazy teacher when I was about 12, he'd put on classical pieces of music on the record player that the whole class had to listen to and attempt to follow the printed the score with our fingers (we had no idea). Whilst he stood at the front of the class with a baton, 'conducting' the orchestra. He used to get properly carried away and I sat next to a kid who'd get the giggles and that would set me off. If the teacher caught us he'd smack us over the hand with his baton. That piece was one of his favourites, I can still see him giving it beans as it reaches its crescendo. With me and my class mate having to bite our tongues to stop us from LOL and getting a smack on the back of the hand.
My music teacher gave everyone a cutout of a troll and had us all go on the board and stick it to the surface at the end of each musical phrase and we would have to increasingly rush to get there. It was supposed to be like cave troll guards were chasing an intruder out
Playing a song without knowing what's really ahead, whether you listen to it beforehand or not, is called "sight reading." It's like the basic method to learn a new song
@@theGagarianplanet I did vocal graded exams and omg I hated that part of it. The examiner plays a vocal line on a piano then plays the backing while you follow the music...then you have to sing it just like that.
@@theGagarianplanet Yes, I realise that now and what that teacher was trying to do was laudable. But as kids that hadn't even been taught the rudiments of music theory, it was a pointless and disheartening exercise in futility. We had no idea how the dots on the page related to the music we were hearing. Or even how different instruments were playing different notes.
What's very interesting is that as I type this, it's now almost the end of 2024 and I still see new examples of this same spam? technique. I wonder why that is?
When ever I get really frustrated with my co-workers...who cant do a simple task...I send them a 9:44 timestamp of this video.......they never get what I'm trying to tell them....but I know....I know the frustration.
There's a good possibility that several people read the entire article and willfully omitted the important parts. They need to sell the story after all. You approached this very optimistically.
I think it was just a prototype spam bot someone was experimenting with using copy pasta. edit: May have used the wrong term "copy pasta". What I was referring to was a bunch of random words strung together to appear as text. If you've ever seen a comic book where someone is reading a newspaper, and if you look closely, none of the words make sense... that is what I'm writing about. Like lorem ipsum, but with randomly generated words. There is a terminology for this but unfortunately I don't remember what it was lol.
@@stuartd9741 I'm not sure I'd even go that far. Machine learning requires algorithmic loops which there definitely wasn't enough processing power back then. We're talking the days before 56K modems. I think it's something more akin of mass email bot but for BBS's.
@@JadeZaslavsky In terms of the ranom word generation Markov chains could be the how. But i was referring to the actual term for random copy that I can't remember lol. It may be a term that someone who works in graphic design or editorial may know.
Thanks for putting this “mystery” out of its misery, lets throw some sand and flowers on it, sing somber songs and bury it deep, may it rest in peace now. I was quite enthusiastic usenet user back in the day, so this case intrigued me, just not enough to research it on my own. You rock, hard :)
"Loosing" (up) one's mind is always gonna be better than "losing" one's mind. Assuming the person in question has a mind to lose in the first place, that is.
it always makes me laugh when the internet detectives come out to play, they really think everything on the internet is a secret code. i could probably spam a picture of a random childs drawing on 4chan or reddit with some sort of weird story and they would go crazy ^^ (in fact i really thought about doing something like this since i watch a lot of explanations to arg's lately just for fun)
Hi, I believe i have enough info to debunk this video and will upload a counter video on the subject myself soon to prove it. You see, I only needed to watch this video to about half way and then I got bored and felt over worked. I took a long break and came back exicited and rejuvenated eager to get started on the research once more. Next I did extensive study on the subject, throughly skimming all the website title results that google had kindly brought back. Consequently, I found myself getting bored once more so I decided to reach out to a friend who would look instead so I could wiggle my mouse around and browse reddit. So, I have attained enough knowledge to believe it was a lady called, "Susan Lindauer" that created these posts. Did you even read the full wiki article?
The spam title gives a clue as to the motivation behind the spam and what is really going on here. Markovian Parallax Denigrate was probably chosen to convey a meaning. Denigrate means to unfairly criticize. Parallax is the difference between what you see and what actually is. Markovian is the method used to generate text. All of these relate to the purpose of the messages I believe. The fact that he only targeted Christian forums indicates he was probably an atheist that thought the Christian message was bogus. In other words the Christian message is skewed from his perception of reality and just mindless words with no meaning. The spam words in the messages were his parody of the Christian message. Why would he do this? He probably posted to one of the groups and didn't get the reception he liked so this was retaliation, hence the Denigrate in the title. I think he was saying that the people were closed minded and he was unfairly treated. He probably posted what he thought was a good argument in favor of athiesm and instead of a discussion he got shut down. I was around during the Usenet era and some groups didn't tolerate that sort of thing since there were groups specifically for debate. He was probably told to take is argument there and he didn't like it. Am I just reading into the title here? Maybe but I had something like this happen to me. I posted some criticism of a mod for a game a person posted on UA-cam. My criticism was mild and I was just pointing out some flaws but the author did not take kindly to my words. The author followed me around on UA-cam for a couple months posting spam responses to my comments. He finally got bored and moved on but this type of thing happens a lot. I can see this as possibly a similar situation.
This is an interesting yet simple explanation. I would add as the OP points out this whole thing has been blown out of all proportion. There are ALOT of conspiracy theories on the internet and most of them evolve around ignorance but more importantly lack of information to an odd occurance/situation (See 9/11 or anti - vaxxers) When there is a lack of information to a subject people make up or _fills in the gaps_
@@olbluelips Yes the words are random, but the groups he targeted were not. If he had spammed random groups I would agree with you but he only hit groups within the Christian domain. It had to be intentional which leads me to believe that he wanted to send a message.
@@RiotD3v Well, the question to answer is the the time sequence of the posts. If the posts to the Christian sites were the first, then you may have a case of someone capitalising on the accidental "mystery" they inadvertently created. Of course this is all speculation, but I am basing it on the few facts we know. The timeline of course is a crucial part of this and I don't have that information.
I'll tell you, this reminds me of the "retro encabulator" This looks like someone with even less technical knowledge than the makers of that joke tried to do something similar.
I'm in tears with your distress why won't people READ the ARTICLE
beepo lol
The music made it that much better as well 😂
They won't because that would kill the thrill for conspiracy theorists.
@@raymundlogo3521 It's shit like this that makes me want our extinction.
i hate when my humancentipad wont read the terms and conditions
Barely Sociable is now a roast channel. Dude roasted every channel that doesn’t even do research on the topic they’re making videos about. You can only trust BS.
Yeah, I completely trust BS whenever I see it. ;)
Great wordplay!
BS isn't a very accurate nickname for this channel, it's an accurate acronym, but not an accurate name.
Dude, that's completely BS
We should trust bull shit! Good Idea!
I feel your pain on the ‘why don’t they read the article’ bit. The amount of times I’ve seen something on one of those creepy list channels being completely misrepresented even though it would’ve taken two seconds of actual research is infuriating. I’m all for a good spooky mystery, but there’s plenty of stuff out there to talk about without dredging up decades old stuff that’s already been explained or debunked.
Yet here you are
I came here looking for a disturbing mystery, but I got something better. An angry Barely Sociable.
Also, 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' playing in the background is perfect.
Well good thing you've gotten the recognition you deserve for actually doing research, I hope to see you beat the likes of the infographics show someday!
keep the videos coming man, these are outstanding
This video is less about "the oldest mystery on the internet" and more about peoples gullibility and reading skills
This is why whenever I see people posting seemingly dramatic or stupid news article headlines, I always search out for the full article and try to read it all. As someone who has no life out of school and only a part time job (before covid at least) I have the time to read these things.
Hey, you made it to the wiki. That's cool.
Not that surprising that the first spamming of the Internet was an advert from lawyers... Better call Saul 😅
"They didn't even read the entire article".
That pretty much describes 90% of Wikipedia citations.
I hope whoever was behind this spam is aware of the mystery and laughing over how people are discussing his trolling over 2 decades later.
supermanboy or her trolling
Oh, he is surely laughing, laughing like mad.
@@neron0va who cares if he said his or her? This is coming from a woman, it's really just fucking annoying seeing people chime in "it could have been a woman!" WE FUCKING KNOW. Most people use He/His is a semi neutral way, and most people use guys/dude in a neutral way.
Women are cool, and we're half the population, but goddamn do we not need petty stands like this shit lol.
Lol. Definitely was a man and it would take a lot of mental gymnastics to think otherwise. Women didn't care about computers/programming/hacking/gaming and mocked the men who did until their social engineering told them to embrace and subvert it.
@@bobbobs4851 Totally true, and not the thoughts of a MGTOW
this is how my professors must feel when i pick a convenient quote from an article i didn’t read and shove it into my essay with little to no context
lol :D
Internet's oldest mystery is actually people's inability to read through entire article on a topic they are researching
Also knowing what’s an ad and what’s not
Who is this referencing to?
poetic
@@gooberius🤣
That's just a reddito shill thing
This isn't the oldest internet mystery, not even close!
The real oldest mystery is where are the hot singles in my area.
Prisoners looking for pen pals
Facts!!
i wanna know why at the age of 10 i would get ads for those things AND the “doctors hate him!” ads on coolmathgames
@@charliewegner that's how they make fat cash
Married women HATE him See how this man found hot singles in his area using this one simple life hack! Tip: it's not what you think!
This is worth it just to hear Barely Sociable get annoyed.
Reminds me of Night Mind when he goes off the rails.
You are 100% right. Most entertaining thing I've ever heard.
Expendable Indigo when was this I need to hear this
Explosion tnt 7 a lot of his videos. Justacquaintences is definitely the most recent example, also Always Watching.
Explosion tnt 7 also in his dhmis video i believe
It's this level of research that makes watching your angle on a topic worth it
Beware of the abyss at the bottom of articles... Some who reach it never return.
That and guys obvious frustration at everybody's sheer stupidity 😂
Smokecall I’m not surprised how fast he blew up, he’s easily the best of the UA-camrs in this niche
yes, reading the entire article
Gobibuh articles end at some point?
I'm just imagining you staying up for days, downing energy drinks and coffee, as you desperately search for *anyone* that read the article
Read the WHOLE article, you mean 😂
I’m getting Pepe Silvia Charlie Kelly vibes
man realizes he is a genius purely because he actually consumes all information present
As Evy once said “no harm ever comes from reading a book.”
As a wise one once said, “google is your friend.”
Fart
@@jacobmarley8350 true
@@dicti0nary_ I would have to reply with the ol' "never say never"
In order to keep this lighthearted, I won't list them but I instantly thought up a few scenarios in which both mental and physical harm could/can/does.
TL;DR: The Movie
Ikr XD
Only if UA-cam had comment awards
@@wxrren1406 thats a good idea, but imagine what would happen if yt added that. we have people who made cringe edits just for getting some likes, and if they were to get something like an award, it would be 10x worse than the type of edits we see on reddit posts when they get awarded. imo adding that is a big yikes for me
Too Long; Didn't Watch
The novelization of the famous movie
I was ready for some crazy plot twist but ended up saving 15% or more on my car insurance.
I'm mad at how loud this made me laugh
That actually got me laughing, good job.
Oh god dangit dude 🤣
What a twist!
i was watching a geico ad while i read this comment
Never thought I'd hear barely sociable get angry
You should join in on his live streams some time ;)
he maybe barely sociable but that does not mean he is barely aggravatable
first looking at your useer name i thought it said onion
@Whyyy Idk Twitch :)
Barely aggressive
The hilarity of 9:45 to 12:30 was worth it alone. The amount of character we got from Barely Sociable is something I REALLY want more of.
15:35 haha
The rarity of it is what makes it so funny
I'm gonna start saying "You needn't be a conspiracy nut to connect the dots."
It's such a good line.
Ironically actual conspiracy nuts usually fail to connect the dots that would debunk their theories.
The internet: “SHES A COUNTER 911 SPY WHISTLE THISTLE!”
Barely Sociable: “bruh, just use your eyeballs.”
It reminds me of a kind of test my chemistry teacher gave the class in high school. She passed out the sheet of instructions and said read the entire page before starting your work. The first sentence on the page said read the entire thing before starting the work. The instructions involved folding up a piece of notebook paper in various ways and just about all of us students were quickly getting after it. Of course the very last line of instruction was "after reading the entire page don't do anything at all" or something similar to that. So if you just read the whole thing you'd have known to just sit there.
If i remember correctly this actually comes from Robert Heinlein's youth novel, 'Space Cadet.' Seriously - in it, the candidates for the school are given exactly the same test - among many others. It came out in 1948.
Funnily enough I’m pretty sure I did something similar at school at least once. I was one of only a handful of people who actually read the whole thing before doing anything, so just sat there laughing at the ones who fell for it.
LOL I've watched in amusement as my classmates did this, while sitting there grinning at the teacher.
I did this one time. I got to the point where you were supposed to poke holes into the paper with a pencil. I wasn't provided with a pencil, so I asked for one. Asked for one, she replied "No." When I asked why, she replied "Because it'll embarrass you." It was at that moment, I knew I hadn't followed all the instructions.
Bro when i did that test i thought it wanted me to sit and do nothing AFTER i did all of the stuff on the page. So i started doing everything with like 4 other people in the class not realizing the whole class was just watching me and like 4 other students do everything. Embarrassing af. Its not that i didnt read the whole thing, it was just that i was dumb :c
Hi, Gen X internet user and still breathing here. I believe that's a flood/text DDoS attack from the 90's. Floodbots were the first "script kiddie" process that didn't require any real coding ability so they proliferated throughout IRC (Discord/Instant messaging circa 1996-2000) and Usenet. The fact that it hits almost exclusively Christian channels instantly made me think of my edgy peers from my teens. Trolling Christians and suicide/mental health channels on Usenet or IRC was as popular then as drama channels and rage bait is now.
Jay Pride commenting on this in the hopes that barely sociable will see it lmao
Thanks, this was informative
Oh gosh I used to go on IRC all the time in the mid-late '90s!
Wicca was another group that got crosspost trolled quite a bit as I remember. And yeah it was pretty easy to automate posts with Perl in only a couple lines, did it a bit myself for uploading stuff on binary groups.
Jay Pride I remember the good old days of IRC
I’m gonna tell everyone I’m studying the Markovian Parallax Denigrate so they think I’m a scientist or something
The thing that throws me off is the word "Denigrate". We could carve canyons unto the ground running in circles trying to theorize what "Markovian Parallax" means, but the word "Denigrate" just doesn't seem to fit at all.
So a probability chain that appears to change based on your position, but also fuck that shit...?
Anyways, /rant
You should’ve just titled this video: “Read the freaking article!”
Wikipedia Edit Source: "Barely Sociable"
I'm pretty sure they don't consider youtube videos to be reliable sources, even if they are more factual than the sources they already have on the subject.
@@thenew4559 Ironic isn't it? Many consider Wikipedia as an unreliable source.
@@jeffreyfalcon243 its relative. Wikipedia is fine to use l. Just cite the sources theyre citing, otherwise it actually is unreliable
@@maxluong2 How is it unreliable if it is made up of reliable sources? Although I understand what you are saying from a scholar standpoint.
@@jeffreyfalcon243 Wikipedia is weird about what it wants to include, what it doesn't, and what their justifications are. For one, they don't allow first party sources, meaning most scientific data is out the window but the news articles that might misinterpret the reports are perfectly fine. And while they try to be objective in what they consider noteworthy and relevant, there is a lot of internal politics that bias what is and isn't allowed. Heck, at one point, a celebrity (forget who) tried to correct some incorrect information on his own page and was told he wasn't allowed to, because he "can't be unbiased" about himself. He was fixing his _birth date._ A secondary source gave an incorrect date, so that had to be the correct one even if it wasn't.
Back around 2012 there was an edit war on the F-15 Eagle article because the team in charge of monitoring aviation articles didn't think Transformers was relevant enough to include in the "In Pop Culture" section, but thought a video made for and shown at a single museum in Arizona was. Setting aside what the "Pop" in "Pop Culture" means, it turned out that the people who didn't want the mention of Transformers was dismissing the show because "It's a dumb cartoon only kids watch" even though the majority of fans are in their 30's and 40's. The ultimate solution was to remove the section entirely when someone higher up intervened.
So I can see why that might be the case; Wikipedia CAN be an unreliable source.
“I should say with something like this, it highlights how many of the internet mysteries you see today are brought into existence. This entire subject was basically nothing until someone revived it with a sensational twist on things. What starts off as a simple coincidence from one person over the years spirals into a spooky narrative that’s meant to entertain.” - This very channel's own model. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Can 3 people unlike this post so it has 666 likes again? I'd appreciate it thank you.
right when i read this he started saying this part
I had an unreasonable amount of fun pretending I was the piano player in the background as ya boi lost his patience.
That's the irony of Wikipedia, a published article full of speculation counts as a reliable source while the subject matter itself does not.
The wikipedia talk page is hilarious now. They're so mad at him
Wikipedia's policies are garbage. You aren't allowed to use primary sources to get accurate information, but the bias of a secondary source is perfectly fine?
@@BlackGateofMordor It's by design. Can't do idea washing or smear campaigns if primary sources had precedence over secondary sources. Want to fabricate something have it written on a blog "the blog Buttmad360 says Phil likes to put pencils up his nose", the somebody from a friendly paper use the blog as a source in a hit piece "Joe Rentagob from the New York Bugle writes that according to the influential blog 'Buttmad360' Phil likes to put pencils up his nose. We also have on good authority from an anonymous source he shouts 'Gabbagoo' at the same time". Now the wikipedia article for Phil will state that he likes to put pencils up his nose while shouting Gabbagoo.
@@Tazzie1312 Who, exactly? The guy who made the edit, the guy who deleted the edit, or BS?
@@dj-murlock The wiki talk page. As stated.
Maybe the real Markovian Parallax Denegrite are the friends we made along the way. Lol I love that you acknowledged it in this video 😋
What's "the friends we made along the way" thing about?
@@christallh24 it's based on a cliché used mostly in film. The idea that there's a big journey to find some "treasure," only to discover that the treasure isn't there or isn't what you thought it was, and that the real "treasure" was the friends that you made along the way. The internet has started using this sentence, replacing the word treasure with whatever they'd like. In this channel's case, for whatever reason, we've started commenting on each of his videos, replacing the word treasure with whatever he's talking about. It's just a running gag
😆 Lol!
You're funny af!
Maybe the real friends we made along the way were actually the Markovian Parallax Denigrate. Really makes you think.
life is not about the destination, it's about the journey
This says a lot about our society, bottom text.
Sometimes you just got to [redacted]
powerful stuff
What did we learn today?
_Read the whole article._
I'm gonna need some more of these.. just saying. Binged watched all of em and I want moooore! 😭
Internets oldest mystery uncovered: its ... spam
yes
or isit
I translated it to "This is how you can make $2000/mth from home once we invent the clickable link"
When the In The Hall of Mountain King started playing in the background I knew it was time to get hysterical lmao
The downwards spiral into madness because people simply cannot read a single article until the end was absolutely amazing. If only all mysteries were that easily solvable :D
The funny thing is that if people actually did that they would realize that the majority of internet mysteries in general have very obvious, mundane answers.
DOWNWARD SPIRAL?!?!
@@edvfya9922 well, except for the Toynbee tiles. likely, that guy rode around in a car with the floor cut out and placed those tiles when he stopped. mad lad
One of Wikipedia's biggest flaws is that it doesn't rely on factual information, it relies on information that can be crossreferenced. You can post a claim on wikipedia that is 100% true, but the source is not widely accessible, your edit will be deleted. But if you post nonsense that has plenty of articles written about it, the editors will let that stand. It's a major issue with that website and its editorial standards
The problem is: How to prove your 100% true claim? I say Psychokinesis is 100% true, there are just not many widely accessible sources for that...
@@prometheus9096 it's called academic rigor. if psychokinesis was real there'd be scientific consensus
Oh my god did Barely Sociable just roast The Infographic Show
Also I love the long segment of Barely Sociable crying about people being stupid
I love how your voice gets less and less deep the more exasperated you get. Another great video!
The illusion slowly breaks and the insanity comes in to fill the void.
This is the only channel I genuinely get excited to watch. Your channel is super well thought out and articulated. Good job bro keep up the amazing work.
587180 same
I’d like Barely Sociable to have a separate channel just to critic dEbUnKiNg vIdEoS hahahah
While I love your more serious, documentary style videos, this has got to be my favourite video on the channel. It was so fun to hear you drop the narrator and laugh with you about something so strange and stupid. Wonderful video, Barely Sociable!
I am now convinced that all misunderstandings and misinformation in the world comes from people not reading the whole thing or just reading the headline....it’s an absolute pandemic.😑
I think it’s hilarious they said all the posts were lost to time, and then you just casually find them. Everything on the Internet is forever, never forget that people
naa, you are forgetting about ELE, or something comparable like a total global societal collapse due to some colossal catastrophic event.
weirdboo your last sentence just isn’t true.
Late but there does exist lost media, look up the wiki on it
You've clearly never tried to find that one porn video. Things can totally disappear.
@@ERPP8 My heart still breaks for those. Also, PH has gotten stricter with their content 😢
I laughed for a full minute when you were playing the music having a breakdown. Humans aren't perfect, but holy hell this is unbelievable hahahahaha
Hall of the mountain king is great breakdown music.
You freaking out at people not reading the article made me cackle silently at work holy shit
@Jake Cremer get out of my comment replies, you could have easily scrolled past my comment like the people in the video who didn't bother to scroll to read the rest of the article
What happened?
@@insaniicandee8836 Mans really deleted his comments lmao
basically he said "wah how do u silently cackle wah" and I wasn't gonna take the bait and argue so I told him to fuck off and he did
Actually read an article? What is this the 20th century?
WHAT DID I JUST WITNESS BS GETTING ANGRY? 👁👄👁
Barely, are you afraid to release Part 3 in all honesty? You seemed pretty confident you new who it was that's a bold statement coming from you, A few weeks ago you said you just haven't got around to doing it hmm something this good and you didn't "get around" to it yet? I find that hard to believe Part 3 is probably going to be one of you're most viewed videos.
:/ sorta hit the nail on the head
Spooky spam: "Purple monkey dishwasher."
Translation: READ THE ARTICLE.
I see that Barely's editing skills have improved YET AGAIN. Loving the light comedic elements in this one, too! Looks like we got another LEMMiNO on the rise, folks. (I'll never complain about quality over quantity.)
Stop comparing him to Lemmino lol. Hes his own content creator.
I always hear people compare him to lemmino
@Ryan Rafter no
@Ryan Rafter Rooster Teeth says it in a podcast, I think? They were joking about how maybe secret phrases will trigger instant death or whatever in people, but we just don't know what the phrases are until someone says them.
@@CyhAnide nah man that's "orange monkey eagle"
your mental breakdown over people not actually reading the articles they source was hilarious. great work man
TLDR
Jesus, I don't think I've ever laughed so hard watching an 'internet mystery' vid before. That was brilliant.
You should see the NightDocs video about Eroda... 😂
It’s Terry Davis’ TempleOS god speech randomiser
Didn't have time to watch the whole vid. Good stuff. It was Susan Lindauer all along eh?
I've never laughed so hard as I have while listening to a man spiral into existential exasperation in time to the soundtrack of what I can only assume is the music that plays while your call to hell has been placed on hold
It's In the Hall of the Mountain King
rzeka yeah! It’s only like third on the compilation album, “Songs to Listen to While You’re Waiting for Your Personal Demon”. It’s right after that one Depeche Mode track.
You'd love exurb1a then
Laughing because I think I got a glimpse of the insanity you go through to make these by the 12 min mark. Very good video yet again 👌🙏
*18 minutes of Barely Sociable having a mid-life crisis*
you and nexpo are great 2nd monitor content to listen to while gaming
love it
I like how this one became instead of scary. Very unexpected
That 'Hall of the Mountain King' tune still gives me flashbacks. Had a crazy teacher when I was about 12, he'd put on classical pieces of music on the record player that the whole class had to listen to and attempt to follow the printed the score with our fingers (we had no idea). Whilst he stood at the front of the class with a baton, 'conducting' the orchestra. He used to get properly carried away and I sat next to a kid who'd get the giggles and that would set me off. If the teacher caught us he'd smack us over the hand with his baton. That piece was one of his favourites, I can still see him giving it beans as it reaches its crescendo. With me and my class mate having to bite our tongues to stop us from LOL and getting a smack on the back of the hand.
My music teacher gave everyone a cutout of a troll and had us all go on the board and stick it to the surface at the end of each musical phrase and we would have to increasingly rush to get there. It was supposed to be like cave troll guards were chasing an intruder out
Playing a song without knowing what's really ahead, whether you listen to it beforehand or not, is called "sight reading." It's like the basic method to learn a new song
@@theGagarianplanet I did vocal graded exams and omg I hated that part of it. The examiner plays a vocal line on a piano then plays the backing while you follow the music...then you have to sing it just like that.
I much prefer the Erik Satie tune BarelySociable uses in most of his videos. @12:58
@@theGagarianplanet Yes, I realise that now and what that teacher was trying to do was laudable. But as kids that hadn't even been taught the rudiments of music theory, it was a pointless and disheartening exercise in futility. We had no idea how the dots on the page related to the music we were hearing. Or even how different instruments were playing different notes.
Im genuinely happy you got a sponsor. Your content is way too good.
So basically it’s cause not the best headline and a world of people with low attention spans
11:53 "Guess I shoulda read the whole article!" Barely Socialable, the only guy who could debunk himself debunking others.
Cool
i enjoyed this video so much i willingly sat through your dashlane pitch
The internet’s first shitposter? 🤷♀️
Edit: I was right 😂
I used to see these messages on Craigslist posts. They were written in white text below an obviously fake post.
What's very interesting is that as I type this, it's now almost the end of 2024 and I still see new examples of this same spam? technique. I wonder why that is?
Rocco plane pinpoint crickets underwater werner slip book road
When ever I get really frustrated with my co-workers...who cant do a simple task...I send them a 9:44 timestamp of this video.......they never get what I'm trying to tell them....but I know....I know the frustration.
That transition to the ad read though.
cringey, but the kind of cringe I like
Smooth
That transition thooooo
There's a good possibility that several people read the entire article and willfully omitted the important parts. They need to sell the story after all. You approached this very optimistically.
I think it was just a prototype spam bot someone was experimenting with using copy pasta.
edit: May have used the wrong term "copy pasta". What I was referring to was a bunch of random words strung together to appear as text. If you've ever seen a comic book where someone is reading a newspaper, and if you look closely, none of the words make sense... that is what I'm writing about. Like lorem ipsum, but with randomly generated words. There is a terminology for this but unfortunately I don't remember what it was lol.
Occam's Razor says that is 100% the answer.
I concur.
I was thinking early AI which if you think about it is the same thing?
@@stuartd9741 I'm not sure I'd even go that far. Machine learning requires algorithmic loops which there definitely wasn't enough processing power back then. We're talking the days before 56K modems. I think it's something more akin of mass email bot but for BBS's.
Are you thinking of Markov Chains?
@@JadeZaslavsky In terms of the ranom word generation Markov chains could be the how. But i was referring to the actual term for random copy that I can't remember lol. It may be a term that someone who works in graphic design or editorial may know.
The whole Susan Lindauer part of this video perfectly sums up how I feel many, many, MANY times a week.
TLDR. It's a Star Trek thing. Mystery solved.
So who solved this mystery? Guess we'll never know :/
JUST SCROLL TO THE END
Yeah he solved it quite easily tbh.
Thanks for putting this “mystery” out of its misery, lets throw some sand and flowers on it, sing somber songs and bury it deep, may it rest in peace now. I was quite enthusiastic usenet user back in the day, so this case intrigued me, just not enough to research it on my own. You rock, hard :)
Internet mysteries: 90+% scams, weird named companies that never ended up going anywhere, or attention seeking trolls.
After my deployments in Iraq as an Infantryman pee play was one of the only things that cured my E.D.
I got this type of spam not long ago like half a year ago
You should have titled this video "Listen as I loose my mind."
Maybe he should tighten his mind up if its a bit "loose".
"Loosing" (up) one's mind is always gonna be better than "losing" one's mind.
Assuming the person in question has a mind to lose in the first place, that is.
This video has some of the most savage roasting I’ve seen.
Hope he sent some ice for the burns.
I immediately feel so at peace every single time Gymnopedie No. 1 starts playing on this channel.
This was hilarious!
Friends don't let friends use Google.
it always makes me laugh when the internet detectives come out to play, they really think everything on the internet is a secret code. i could probably spam a picture of a random childs drawing on 4chan or reddit with some sort of weird story and they would go crazy ^^ (in fact i really thought about doing something like this since i watch a lot of explanations to arg's lately just for fun)
please do
Hi, I believe i have enough info to debunk this video and will upload a counter video on the subject myself soon to prove it. You see, I only needed to watch this video to about half way and then I got bored and felt over worked. I took a long break and came back exicited and rejuvenated eager to get started on the research once more. Next I did extensive study on the subject, throughly skimming all the website title results that google had kindly brought back.
Consequently, I found myself getting bored once more so I decided to reach out to a friend who would look instead so I could wiggle my mouse around and browse reddit. So, I have attained enough knowledge to believe it was a lady called, "Susan Lindauer" that created these posts.
Did you even read the full wiki article?
The spam title gives a clue as to the motivation behind the spam and what is really going on here.
Markovian Parallax Denigrate was probably chosen to convey a meaning. Denigrate means to unfairly criticize. Parallax is the difference between what you see and what actually is. Markovian is the method used to generate text. All of these relate to the purpose of the messages I believe.
The fact that he only targeted Christian forums indicates he was probably an atheist that thought the Christian message was bogus. In other words the Christian message is skewed from his perception of reality and just mindless words with no meaning. The spam words in the messages were his parody of the Christian message.
Why would he do this? He probably posted to one of the groups and didn't get the reception he liked so this was retaliation, hence the Denigrate in the title. I think he was saying that the people were closed minded and he was unfairly treated. He probably posted what he thought was a good argument in favor of athiesm and instead of a discussion he got shut down.
I was around during the Usenet era and some groups didn't tolerate that sort of thing since there were groups specifically for debate. He was probably told to take is argument there and he didn't like it.
Am I just reading into the title here? Maybe but I had something like this happen to me. I posted some criticism of a mod for a game a person posted on UA-cam. My criticism was mild and I was just pointing out some flaws but the author did not take kindly to my words.
The author followed me around on UA-cam for a couple months posting spam responses to my comments. He finally got bored and moved on but this type of thing happens a lot. I can see this as possibly a similar situation.
This is an interesting yet simple explanation.
I would add as the OP points out this whole thing has been blown out of all proportion.
There are ALOT of conspiracy theories on the internet and most of them evolve around ignorance but more importantly lack of information to an odd occurance/situation
(See 9/11 or anti - vaxxers)
When there is a lack of information to a subject people make up or
_fills in the gaps_
I disagree. The words are random, not a Markov chain. I would guess “markovian parallax denigrate” is itself randomly picked
@@olbluelips Yes the words are random, but the groups he targeted were not. If he had spammed random groups I would agree with you but he only hit groups within the Christian domain. It had to be intentional which leads me to believe that he wanted to send a message.
this would be a good idea except all of the other spam texts had completely different titles
@@RiotD3v Well, the question to answer is the the time sequence of the posts. If the posts to the Christian sites were the first, then you may have a case of someone capitalising on the accidental "mystery" they inadvertently created.
Of course this is all speculation, but I am basing it on the few facts we know. The timeline of course is a crucial part of this and I don't have that information.
I keep coming back to this video just to watch Barely Sociable's meltdown.
man ive watched a few of your videos, and the nervous breakdown over all those people not even reading the article was fucking hilarious
2:10 Raocow! Cat planet the planet of the cats gots to find all the cats to find the planet!
im surprised someone else has seen that video
Woah never noticed that. Big ups to Raocow
I swear the more that he watches people not read the full article the more he begins to sound like FUNKe...
hes gonna start talking about tf2 now
Maybe the articles we read to completion are the true friends we made along the parallax.
I'll tell you, this reminds me of the "retro encabulator" This looks like someone with even less technical knowledge than the makers of that joke tried to do something similar.
This is still one of my favorites of yr videos. I find it very sympathetic. SCROLL DOWN! Lol...
9:45 - 12:46 had me dying
when you forget the words to “we didn’t start the fire” and decide to wing it.
this made me laugh, but only a little bit
XD 🤘