The Top 10 Greatest Hoaxes of All Time
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- We like to pretend like we're hard to fool...but we're not. The entire world has been fooled lots of times. All it takes is a good story and some clever staging. I don't think we should worry about it so much.
Alien autopsies, moon people, mermaids, and more, we get fooled a lot.
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When I first saw this, I thought it said "The Top 10 Greatest Horcuxes of All Time".
You've been reading/watching too much Harry Potter and/or need glasses
What is horcuxes
@@michaelwalker8145 it's a Harry Potter reference
When Hank said the thing about perpetual motion i remembered a joke my brother told me a few years ago. Here it is "if a cat always lands on its feet and toast always lands butter side down then to create infinite energy all you will need to do is attach a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat and drop it from a significant distance it will spin endlessly creating infinite energy" or so it goes.
If you say "gullible" slowly it sounds like "oranges".
orrrraaaannngeeeessss
Oh my goodness! It's true!
Ha I see what you did there
gllloorranngaaabllles sounds like a weird mix between sunny d and lunchables. mm tasty ☻
Stephanie Hardy Nah mate, just did it aye, didn't sound like oranges at all bae. You must be gullible as aye to think it does man.
Have a good one aye Stephanie.
Haha I get it
What if this video is a hoax and all those hoaxes were real O_o
O-o !
No
at the beginning of "the war of the worlds" HG Wells said that it was just a reenactment but people tuned in late to the radio station and thought that the war was really happening
With normally scheduled breaks for ads... you know exactly what would happen during the end of the world. Scores of deaths all around, but now a word from our sponsor.
@@patrickmccurry1563 I thought they didn't have commercial breaks on radio back then?
Either way, I think 1930's people were smarter than they seemed.
The famous radio play of The War of the Worlds was broadcast by Orson Welles, H.G. Wells wrote the book.
I can't help but fear that one of the hoaxes he talked about didn't actually happen, and Hank's pulling a fast one on us.
OMG those hands though. Someone's arms need to take a chill pill.
Yeah, thought I felt his hands slap me in the face at one point.
he's so passionate
I'm guessing the chill pills were in the giant prescription bottle on the desk behind him.
My family is from Ecuador, I remember my grandpa told me about the radio transmission of War of the Worlds, the 20 people that died were due to riots once everyone found out it was all a fake and not an actual event going on.
What about the spaghetti trees!
Was just about to comment that when I saw yours
Wasn't that an April fools joke?
"We're easily fooled. Accept that and trust people anyway." Awesome stuff! Nicely done, sir.
I learned about War Of The Worlds in school. We listened to part of it, too. It actually sounds like a news broadcast.
I think the most disturbing thing about the Fairie Photos is that the young girl looks like Michael Cera.
Wait wait wait wait wait! What was that in the end there? That was awesome! =O
+和ァ独 Back in 2009 they asked people to send in clips of them doing that sign so they could add it to the end of the video.
I guess it was a fan that send them that and they put it in the end of the video because it was awesome.
Am I the only one who hears dishes/cutlery/random demolition in the background?
WotW is my favorite because it's not even a hoax, it was just people being really dumb.
That was the best ending EVER!!!
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DanielVidz Award for most desperate and off topic pick up attempt goes to...
Well, unlike what most people say, only ~300-400 people actually thought it was real (War of the Worlds), at least in the U.S. at that time. The only reason news media said it was "millions" who thought it was real, was, of course, just the media overhyping things. Either way, Orson Wells still apologized for the disturbances.
what's that medication on the table behind you?
Probably IBS meds.
That's not a lazy poop joke either, Hank Green has IBS.
I respect the fact that your wife is washing the dishes in the background, but man, is it annoying.
"Perpetual motion machine hoax going on since the beginning of time" - excellent :D
Ummm...Orson Welles, not H.G. Wells, did the 1938 broadcast.
War of the Worlds was written by H.G. Wells. So his book= his podcast
He was talking about the radio broadcast, not the book. Were you not paying attention?
H.G. Wells wrote the book in 1898. He himself never did a radio adaptation of it. Orson Welles (spelled differently) adapted it for the radio in 1938.
You say that like it's not easy to mix up, they have the same last name and fairly obscure first names :p
Kevin Finkbeiner Did you not see the annotation that he added in the corner? It clearly said that he mixed them up.
Allison Jones If he's on mobile like me he probably didn't.
what medicine is in the medicine bottle hank
HG Wells "war of the worlds" radio broadcast. I just finished typing this before I got to the end...
Like the Cyberman in that one episode of Doctor Who!!!
I wish I could have been there for the War of the Worlds reading!!!
Am I the only one that remembered that episode of Doctor Who where the Cyberman playing chess is controlled by a guy underneath??
Exactly what I thought of.
why didnt religion make the list??
You really can't prove there isn't God either, which is why you can't put religion on the list. All 10 of the hoaxes on the lists were indeed given further explanation as to why they weren't real, and they weren't the simple trite reasoning of 'you can't see it.'
We are all god
Joy flows in my veins. Happy -.- 5 hours straight of John and Hank.
Your energy level is very good :)
what about Global warming?
Don't be a fucking idiot. Bringing up a topic like the legitimacy of global warming in the comments of CZcams is the most idiotic thing you can do, regardless of if you believe it or not. You're just trying to start an argument which will just make other people angry.
I think it's fucking idiocy to not question global warming.
ven #sdase
Or he is looking to start a legitimate debate over something that falls in line with the topic of the video he commented on. How does that make him an idiot at all. It's rather immature of you to write him off so quickly simply because you are afraid of the topic
Cameron Crittenden This is the Internet. It's sad but true, you cannot have a civil debate on a topic like this in the comments of youtube. If you hope to do so, bring it to a place where people can have a legitimate debate without random people having the ability to put their uninformed two cents in (I'm not saying he is uninformed, I'm just saying uninformed people could easily ruin the conversation).
Greve VonBrun And I respect your thought, but this is not the place to express it.
This is really interesting.
Do you have any links to somewhere that I can read more about this?
It's a little hilarious how Hank's glasses start falling off when he starts getting really excited about something he's talking about.
My first vlogbrothers video....sometimes its nice to go back and watch it and think of when I discovered, and thought how funny and awesome Hank was (and is). :)
I thought it was hilarious when Hank (IIRC) said:
"Perpetual motion! It's been going on since the beginning of time..."
LOL.
The Sun got the hit story from an astronomer about moon-people. *grins at the unintended joke.*
My god look at how much enthusiasm he puts all over his videos
"In 1770 a mechanical robot THAT CAN PLAY CHESS" dude this piece is so stuck to my mind I walk around saying it
That hand motion on number 5 was Great XD
There isn't a link I can read that moon paper at is there? I would love to read it
I wanted to look up a song, but I wanted to load this video as well, so I just opened another video on the sidebar, Then, I saw the title, and decided it was too awesome to close. This repeated itself six more times. Vlogbrothers rule.
Yeah, that HG Welles/Orson Welles thing tripped up my tongue once or twice too!
Hank Green does not need coffee. Hank Green runs purely on awesome.
I can't listen to this guy for more than 5 seconds
to quote a fantastic movie, "a person is smart, people are dumb panicky dangerous animals and you know it"
The best part of The War of the Worlds is that in the beginning they announced that it was a fictional story
In the Netherlands there once was a news story on April Fool's Day that the government would impose a tax on watching television. The only way to prevent the government from knowing that you were watching tv would be by wrapping your television in silver foil. That night the silver foil was sold out.
That freaking thing at the end. It's 2:30 am and now I can't go to sleep. Thanks a bunch.
"They were all angry at the Sun for getting the scoop on this moon story," is a funny sentence.
My brother-in-law convinced his kids that the movie Independence Day was a documentary. I don't think they have been correctly informed yet.
My dad told me about The War of the Worlds incident, some people in New York tuned into the broadcast late so had no idea it was a story and thought it was a genuine news report about an alien attack.
"I don't know what to do with my hands"
I was expecting The Great Moon Hoax to be that if you went outside tonight, Moon would look the size of Mars.
was #5 not a Dr Who episode set on the moon with cyber men and kids and stuff ? :P
You need to lay off the coffee so much...and that's no Jo-Hoax! :D
There's some really magnificent hand gesticulation in this video.
Fun fact: Orson Welles, the guy who directed and starred in Citizen Kane, was the dude reading War of the Worlds. And he knew exactly what reactions it was getting.
Typo on "Fairie Photos" should be Fairy Photos. Love the Vlogbrothers videos.
One of the many things I love about this community. Hank calls perpetual motion and free energy machines hoaxes (as they are) and no one is in the comments spouting ass hattery, and let me remind you it is not swearing if I am talking about the animal.
I would think that the hoax where people were convinced that spaghetti was grown on trees would be a good.
I'm from the town where the Orson Welles radio broadcast was supposed to have taken place. People actually came out and shot at a water tower (which has since been taken down) about a block away from my school because they thought it was a flying saucer. There's also a time capsule buried in a nearby park commemorating the 50-year anniversary of it.
I knew about #9 (thanks to my favorite magazine, Muse). Did you know that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed it, and then wrote a book about fairies and elves?
in Britain sometime near the war the BBC pretended that spagetti grew on trees and people rung up the bbc asking where they could find the spagetti tree
So for #1 I'm just imagining a bunch of people saying "Mars will be unusually bright tonight."
Aw, I was hoping the Shroud of Turin would make this list.
+Kholdilocks #1 hoax is Christianity itself. #2 is Islam. You then have Hinduism and Buddhism. You'd have to go on for quite a while before you have a hoax that isn't a religion.
Kholdilock why do you have to go around knocking what other people believe? When you say "you're wrong, there is no god," you're just showing insecurity in what you believe. Can't we just leave religion out of it?
omg that ending was awesome!!
Is this the last Vlogbrother video of 2009? Where's Nov. and Dec.?
His gesticulations are hilarious.
If you say "orange" repeatedly, it begins to sound like "gullible."
I think we are easy to fool because sometimes other people's reactions do influence whether or not we believe something.
goood good short yet thought provoking this is the best one i've seen today ahha
What about the massive hoax in the UK when a 3 minute documentary on TV pretended that spaghetti was grown from spaghetti trees in 1957? That was hilarious
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What about the spaghetti trees? That one was hilarious!
i was supposed to study but then i went into a nerdfighter youtube rut
If we were all hard to fool, the world would be a hard, cynical, jaded place.
We all need a dose of gullibility to fall in love, the ability to take chances and risk, and to forgive the harsh nature of reality.
I really wanted him to say "the faultiness of our stars" rather than the news.
They were brilliant! I hope they do more acting in the future!
Considering it's an opaque bottle that we never see too closely, I think it's safe to say that it's his Ulcerative Colitis medicine. Weed is not something you just forget to move away from the camera.
Ok so he speeds up his vids and it's bothering me because it's really smart and that's awesome
#5 was in Doctor Who. A "dead" Cyberman was controlled by the emperor of the universe hiding in the table.
0:11 ...I seriously expected you to say "...the faultiness in our stars," because I am apparently that far gone. -.-
I seriously want to start a band called "The Great Moon Hoax."
He's 19!? Watch out guys,we're dealing with a bad ass over here.
I recommend in a future video a mention of Han van Meegeren would be in order
Ballpoint pens were invented WAY before Anne was even born. The original patent is from 1888. The British started making them in 1941. The Dutch Institute for War Documentation determined in that all the materials used in the diary were readily available at that time, and the handwriting matches letters Anne is known to have written. As for the size, there were multiple notebooks and also loose sheets of paper, and the writing is quite small in places (some print copies have photos).
that looks like ground weed in that pill bottle LOL. Go hank my fellow STONER
My sister-in-law has been saying orange for the past half hour, I don't think she's going to stop.
I think a lot of people know creepy pastas aren't real but it's fun to think so.
the pasta grows on trees and the fake olimpic torch were pretty sweet too
1) (sigh) ORSON Welles, dude. HG Wells wrote the story, but ORSON Welles did the radio show. 2) Photography wasn't "new" in 1917 -- it had already been around for over 50 years. 3) Uh, glaring omission: the friggin Piltdown Man?
Because we all know the only thing that contains caffeine is coffee...lol
Just one small quick correction to a really good and entertaining video. HG Wells wrote the War of the Worlds. It was Orsen Wells that did the broadcast.
as a dedicated starkid the moment i saw the words "moon" and "hoax" next to eachother i had to go watch that episode of world's worst musical
the entire time I was waiting for #1
If portals existed, perpetual motion machines would be possible.
my personal fave is "spaghetti farming"
Yes, intelligence is a terrible thing. My PhD in math is essentially sex repellant... oh, wait: no, it isn't.
If you say "orange" repeatedly, it begins to sound like Duran Duran...
thumbs way up.
not for how easy we are to fool, and especially not people making lots of money from tricking others... but for the very final moments.
What about the April Fools Day broadcast in Britain in the 1950s I think, where they convinced the public that they were watching a documentary about how spaghetti was grown on trees, picked and dried in the sun and then flown from Italy to the UK? One of my favourites!
I love that in Doctor Who they give us "Puzzle Piece Facts" we need to put together to understand the whole story. Or in this case, BBC gave us a little bit of research to do :)