Did a Nuclear Accident Just Go Viral?

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  • čas přidán 15. 05. 2023
  • In late 2022, a video of an apparent nuclear accident spread rapidly on Twitter and Tumblr. Was it modern history’s first “viral” nuclear accident? Or was it faked for the lolz? This [HALF-LIFE HISTORY] attempts an investigation.
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  • @kylehill
    @kylehill  Před 11 měsíci +5937

    *Thanks for watching.* This was a slightly different [HLH] -- one where we attempted the first investigation of an incident -- so I hope you enjoy it. As always, I tried my best and I take these stories very seriously. I hope that shows. There's a fine line to walk between educating and fear mongering, meme-ing and investigating (as you can see from my merch). *NOTE:* A few of you have emailed me that the Tumblr account in question was posting some clear anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in their messages shown here. Obviously, I in no way support this or the accounts, and was unaware at the time of recording.

    • @justaguy6100
      @justaguy6100 Před 11 měsíci +114

      Kind of reminds me of David Hahn. I read the book, "The Radioactive Boy Scout," some years ago. I wonder if they'd ban this book from schools, it's one that NEEDS to be out there as a cautionary tale, perhaps with some of the techniques redacted, anyway.

    • @markrunner2975
      @markrunner2975 Před 11 měsíci +65

      I admired your investigative process my man! I want to ask, since it’s so crazy, what was your first reaction when you saw it led to Rye’s rather…interesting account?

    • @Canineblock
      @Canineblock Před 11 měsíci +7

      30 seconds

    • @ShumaiAxeman
      @ShumaiAxeman Před 11 měsíci +41

      @@justaguy6100 For years after I'd read that story in an old Reader's Digest I wondered what ever became of Hahn. I thought he would've gone on to become a nuclear researcher or something, but unfortunately due to depression after the incident he kind of fizzled out. Such a shame.

    • @justaguy6100
      @justaguy6100 Před 11 měsíci +33

      @@ShumaiAxeman True. Bright kid that overran his brilliance, and sadly paid a price for most of his life, and subsequently became a fentanyl statistic, apparently.

  • @Religion0
    @Religion0 Před 11 měsíci +31673

    I am terrified of radioactivity. Not in an anti-nuclear-power kind of way, but in a "staying clear of shit like this" kind of way.

    • @blazernitrox6329
      @blazernitrox6329 Před 11 měsíci +1733

      That's the correct response. I ain't having my skin melt off any time soon

    • @blakemcmillan5680
      @blakemcmillan5680 Před 11 měsíci +1297

      I think you mean, you have the correct and appropriate reaction and feeling towards radioactivity.

    • @rookie4619
      @rookie4619 Před 11 měsíci +225

      I used to have nightmares about radioactivity as a child. Crazy!

    • @thrall898
      @thrall898 Před 11 měsíci +350

      Yeah it's a terrifying thought that something can be so dangerous to you and completely invisible until after you're already royally screwed. As a power source, we've seen from this channel time and again that it can be handled perfectly safely, in fact safer than some other more common power sources, but as a potential danger to encounter in the wild, it's particularly terrifying because you'll never know it hit you until after the fact. Just walking by a 'Drop and Run' tube without seeing it there is enough to put your life in danger.

    • @zeekeno823
      @zeekeno823 Před 11 měsíci +187

      I've known people who were terrified of electricity that still use light switches. The unrestrained power of a natural force is always scary, but the utility can be safe and common place

  • @pleaseuseOdysee
    @pleaseuseOdysee Před 11 měsíci +4292

    "I searched iFunny's website"
    This constitutes a hazardous exposure far more deadly than any demon core

    • @jeaton1224
      @jeaton1224 Před 4 měsíci +49

      At least he didn’t have to go into collective since it was in featured for a while.

    • @nikostalk5730
      @nikostalk5730 Před 4 měsíci +14

      @pleaseuseOdysee
      Darwin predicted all of this, you know, ALL OF THIS.
      Let the fools take their rewards.

    • @pinkythreat
      @pinkythreat Před 4 měsíci

      @@jeaton1224happy to say ive been off the app for two weeks now

    • @bigbossgaming9129
      @bigbossgaming9129 Před 4 měsíci

      Ifunny is the superior social app

    • @chiefmonrovia6691
      @chiefmonrovia6691 Před 4 měsíci +35

      I took in a lungful of air like a drowning man when he said the word ifunny

  • @HereNikoIs
    @HereNikoIs Před 3 měsíci +796

    So you're telling me people thought this was real because of the film grain being introduced on the camera sensor due to the radiation, but then in the second follow up video at 2:42 when he uses the Geiger counter to prove high radiation, nobody noticed that there was no film grain this time? (Even though the lid was open again?)

    • @homeland1128
      @homeland1128 Před měsícem +93

      Finally, someone with brain

    • @bartink
      @bartink Před měsícem +91

      I'm less concerned that people were fooled than some nuclear safety expert who didn't notice this.

    • @homeland1128
      @homeland1128 Před měsícem +22

      @@bartink and even after all that obvious bs u still convinced that he's a Real nuclear safety expert? now u sounds like a real concern to me

    • @lorenzobuero7115
      @lorenzobuero7115 Před měsícem +5

      ​@@homeland1128 what do you mean that there is not any real safety nuclear experts?

    • @KrazyIndeed
      @KrazyIndeed Před měsícem +8

      So you're telling me when I watch a random video I have to go watch the entire series and subscribe to every single video they make? maybe people only saw one video and never saw the follow up, as what usually happens with viral videos.

  • @onlineuser1990
    @onlineuser1990 Před 3 měsíci +507

    The most normal STEM major

  • @megasquidd
    @megasquidd Před 11 měsíci +8565

    Someone needs to send this to "mainstream media" so they can see what real journalism looks like. Well done, Kyle.

    • @wodensol5000
      @wodensol5000 Před 11 měsíci +374

      They wouldnt know what real journalism was if it slapped them in the face

    • @patricknez7258
      @patricknez7258 Před 11 měsíci +32

      💯

    • @theonewhouploadsnothing1704
      @theonewhouploadsnothing1704 Před 11 měsíci +209

      Real journalism doesn’t sell. Mainstream follows the most amount of money and actual investigation like this being short and sweet? They’d be fired for trying to air this.

    • @neuralmute
      @neuralmute Před 11 měsíci +105

      @@theonewhouploadsnothing1704 Exactly! Nobody wants actual facts, they just want the next source of hype and/or outrage.

    • @orektez
      @orektez Před 11 měsíci +48

      after watching the internet historian's documentary on Floyd Collins i realized they've been like this since the 1800s.

  • @jackalvarez7428
    @jackalvarez7428 Před 11 měsíci +9644

    I never thought static would be so scary

    • @Humongous420
      @Humongous420 Před 11 měsíci +358

      That made me shudder...If it's not a staged effect it is sheer terror inducing vibes. Caesium is nasty stuff

    • @manboy4720
      @manboy4720 Před 11 měsíci +305

      *click click click click click click*
      man, this meter is making some funny sounds!

    • @Charles-7
      @Charles-7 Před 11 měsíci +35

      @@manboy4720 why would you think it's funny?! it's high amounts of radiation that's being detected by that Geiger counter, and high means you should NOT be expose by what it's detecting or you'll face surgeries like this guy did that is easily avoidable in the first place.

    • @nitehawk86
      @nitehawk86 Před 11 měsíci +59

      Scotch tape will make a crapton of xrays when its unrolled quickly. Its not dangerous, but it is unsettling. Action Lab has a good video on it. Theres a bunch of other youtubers that have captured it on camera too.

    • @michelebenedetti7507
      @michelebenedetti7507 Před 11 měsíci +13

      My man never played Slenderman

  • @Shonji_Ikori
    @Shonji_Ikori Před 3 měsíci +94

    I just want to say "she metal on my gear till its rising" is an incredible username

    • @KebboStar
      @KebboStar Před 13 dny

      True, lets make out
      But only if you want to

  • @nextgenerationbeardcut
    @nextgenerationbeardcut Před 3 měsíci +75

    I like how Lucas was all like “Yeah, bro. People sell Caesium at the side of the road all the time.”

  • @ReelRai
    @ReelRai Před 11 měsíci +3948

    If you see your camera go crazy like that when filming something, you probably don't wanna be near that thing.

    • @siriax1691
      @siriax1691 Před 11 měsíci +1

      You just know a 4channer would use it as a buttplug.

    • @manboy4720
      @manboy4720 Před 11 měsíci +243

      high-level radiation is known to fuck up electronics very easily. it will literally melt circuit boards and wires on the inside.

    • @genericscottishchannel1603
      @genericscottishchannel1603 Před 11 měsíci

      unless it's just lasers and the dipshits running the venue thought it'd be funny to level them at the crowd

    • @RedRavenRuler
      @RedRavenRuler Před 11 měsíci +108

      So basically ghost hunters are half right?

    • @fy4370
      @fy4370 Před 11 měsíci +42

      ​@@RedRavenRulerlol that's pretty far fetched

  • @Peptuck
    @Peptuck Před 11 měsíci +843

    It's rare indeed to have "I searched through NRC documents for an orphaned source of deadly radiation" and "I slid into a rubber pony's DMs for an interview" in the same video.

    • @warped_rider
      @warped_rider Před 11 měsíci +98

      I was watching this video at work, Kyle started saying "pony play fetish" and it was at that moment the manager decided to start listening and ask me "what's a demon core?" I gotta stop watching videos on speaker...

    • @patricknez7258
      @patricknez7258 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Lol tru

    • @patricknez7258
      @patricknez7258 Před 11 měsíci +10

      ​@@warped_rider Rotfl! It's moments like that which convince me we are entertainment for someone or something, somewhere.. Whether reality show for aliens or personal comedic ant farm for God or a God, whoever or whatever it is, we must provide them w some funny moments I feel 😂

    • @neuralmute
      @neuralmute Před 11 měsíci +11

      @@patricknez7258 Perhaps this unintentional humour is proof of the whole "Universe is a simulation" theory?

    • @DocBree13
      @DocBree13 Před 11 měsíci +1

      😂

  • @NoOne-uo6em
    @NoOne-uo6em Před 3 měsíci +68

    Kinda crazy how you went down a rabbit hole just to figure out a kink account posted the video mad props to you for figuring it out gained your self a sub

  • @Chickie_Tendie
    @Chickie_Tendie Před 3 měsíci +206

    hi! surgical tech here! skin grafting isn't usually that perfectly rectangular, this looks more like a donor site rather than a recipient site. the rectangular shape comes from the dermatome which is a straight blade and would explain the shape. also, recipient sites would have a "fish net" appearance to them for recipient sites even when healed it is still noticeable in majority of scarring

    • @diamondcreeper28
      @diamondcreeper28 Před 3 měsíci

      It's a phalloplasty scar the OP ripped from a bottom surgery database to shit on trans people

    • @Kcthetransgirl
      @Kcthetransgirl Před 3 měsíci

      It is a donor site. That photo is from a phalloplasty, revealed by the OP going on to talk about a "mystery surgery" that "41%" of people dont survive. The OP is a transphobic POS, and the whole "41%" is the sewer slide rate of trans people. OP is just trying to fear monger about Gender-Affirming care, and used the radiation thing to try and scare people.

    • @foogriffy
      @foogriffy Před 3 měsíci +37

      it's definitely a phalloplasty donor site. i'm not a surgeon or anything but i am a trans man that's spent hours looking at pictures of scars just like that one.

    • @joe____
      @joe____ Před 2 měsíci +11

      ​@foogriffy My guy really tried to pass his phalloplasty pics off as radiation damage. A good a use as any for them I suppose.

    • @hreckward
      @hreckward Před 2 měsíci

      @@joe____apparently his account was found to be filled with anti-lgbtq content, so i’m guessing it was someone else’s phalloplasty scars and he used it in order to show the “horrors” of gender affirming surgery by passing it off as a surgery necessitated by a radioactive injury

  • @DillJosh007
    @DillJosh007 Před 11 měsíci +2528

    I can easily see how "strange warm rock", "glowing sand" or "pebbles that mess with my camera" would go absolutely viral both on Social Media and in the local area...until it's too late. Especially now that knowledge of what nuclear accidents look like is starting to fade from the public consciousness

    • @MH-mj5qe
      @MH-mj5qe Před 11 měsíci +79

      Don’t forget about glowing dust. Or salt.

    • @inkel8314
      @inkel8314 Před 11 měsíci

      That's basically what happened in Goiânia, if I remember the story well, it was a powder used in X-ray machines or something like that, people took the powder that sparkled and kept messing with it, I don't know if it's true, but I heard say that there was a guy who powdered his dick with the powder and had sex with his wife, and another who gave it to his daughter to play with

    • @inkel8314
      @inkel8314 Před 11 měsíci +73

      I also heard that there was a guy who kept running away from the quarantine zone and pissing on the light and power poles there, leaving them irradiated, causing them to have to be replaced

    • @420247paul
      @420247paul Před 11 měsíci +11

      lol fukishima says what about me everyone always forgetting about me.

    • @bytoadynolastname6149
      @bytoadynolastname6149 Před 11 měsíci +7

      I thought it was just Dragon sand from the Eyes of the Dragon!

  • @Weazle13XIII
    @Weazle13XIII Před 11 měsíci +624

    The thought of peeking into a container and seeing a tiny little pebble but knowing that seeing it could mean death is terrifying to me. Its like you looked into Medusa's eyes and then had months to think about your quick dumb mistake as you turned to stone

    • @Weazle13XIII
      @Weazle13XIII Před 11 měsíci +27

      @@cobaltchromee7533 I'd always assumed you were dead once you were turned to stone, I meant it like the process of turning to stone took months

    • @jeffbenton6183
      @jeffbenton6183 Před 11 měsíci +12

      @@Weazle13XIII I was surprised to see that someone misinterpreted what you said. Maybe you could add "instead of the usual seconds" or "instead of the myth-accurate seconds" right after the end of "your quick dumb mistake".
      (Although, maybe I misinterpreted it too, but in a different way)

    • @Tesis
      @Tesis Před 11 měsíci +20

      @@cobaltchromee7533 this is exactly what OP means. Medusa kills instantly. Here it’s as if you looked at her but you turn into a stone very slowly, with no effect at first. Hence slowed down version of dying - you gazed at a pebble, instead of gazed at Medusa 💁🏻‍♀️

    • @Faesharlyn
      @Faesharlyn Před 11 měsíci +8

      As you felt your body start to change as it dies and the cells aren't replenished, while expelling your own guts as they fall apart, knowing that your skin sliding off like a wetsuit was only the beginning...
      It would be a rough few weeks

    • @Weazle13XIII
      @Weazle13XIII Před 11 měsíci +10

      @CobaltChromeE it was an analogy my guy, I know Medusa kills you instantly, but I'm talking about the topic of the video, I wasn't exactly trying to be lore accurate

  • @Endermaximum56
    @Endermaximum56 Před 4 měsíci +26

    The first half kept me engaged, the second whiplashed me so hard I had to step away

  • @bigoljoe1829
    @bigoljoe1829 Před 4 měsíci +21

    I've never been so happy for a creator NOT to include a photo, as I am that you didnt include that welder's injuries.

  • @yoshmartinez6573
    @yoshmartinez6573 Před 11 měsíci +4888

    I don't care whether it is fake or not, prior to my degree in physics, I was trained in nuclear density testing using Caesium-137 pellets. My immediate reaction was to wince and try to run away when he looked inside and the camera became distorted.
    In Australia a Caesium pellet was lost in January of 2023 and it became a national incident for good reason. Radiation is scary! It is invisible, you can be exposed without realising it, and many encounters end in an early death. However, the biggest problem with it is that it doesn't kill instantly and the road to death is excruciating. 💀

    • @zambekiller
      @zambekiller Před 9 měsíci +161

      Yeah I'm currently studying nuclear physics and watched a fellow student brick their phone by playing with a radioactive pellet emitting alpha radiation.
      Edit we were wearing protective suits and they somehow snuck their phone through

    • @NoPrefect
      @NoPrefect Před 7 měsíci +11

      I remember that, did they ever find it?

    • @yoshmartinez6573
      @yoshmartinez6573 Před 7 měsíci +71

      @@NoPrefect Haha yeah, they eventually found it. It took a couple of weeks and a lot of people. 😅

    • @WindTurbineSyndrome
      @WindTurbineSyndrome Před 7 měsíci +14

      And that phone became contaminated by said rad exposure

    • @Melody_Raventress
      @Melody_Raventress Před 6 měsíci

      These people are insane.

  • @benjaminmatheny6683
    @benjaminmatheny6683 Před 11 měsíci +699

    The scariest thing about radiation to me is just how delayed the damage is, and how many of the effects that would warn off an educated person would instead draw attention from the ignorant. People "playing" with radiation without understanding they are killing themselves is horrifying. In some ways the viral video does a better job about showing such a realistic scenario than any demon core memes. As it shows how small and innocuous an orphan source can be.

    • @Silamon2
      @Silamon2 Před 11 měsíci +35

      Absolutely, and it has happened quite a few times.
      Just look at the Goainia incident, a little girl playing with glittery sand... Horrible.

    • @MayaPosch
      @MayaPosch Před 11 měsíci +25

      To be fair, you can replace 'radiation' with 'lead' in that sentence and it'd not really change a thing. Same with 'asbestos' and other happy joy fun things you absolutely don't want to mess with.

    • @Silamon2
      @Silamon2 Před 11 měsíci

      @@MayaPosch True but lead and asbestos don't really do anything to make them stand out. They don't make someone who is clueless actively want to mess with it, like something that glows in the dark or messes with cameras would.

    • @haruyanto8085
      @haruyanto8085 Před 11 měsíci +13

      What's scary is; how inevitable it is, there's almost nothing that can be done and it makes the victim suffer, almost like torture, from just a seemingly harmless and painless entry.

    • @littleman6950
      @littleman6950 Před 11 měsíci +14

      It's Lovecraftian horrifying stuff. Cthulu drives you mad just looking at him, radiation rots you just for being too exposed to it, and bar for "too exposed" is really low.

  • @TommyLikeTom
    @TommyLikeTom Před 3 měsíci +27

    it's crazy that after a physicist told you gamma rays can pass through a hand you went and believed a containment expert who referred to it as a "sniff test"

    • @piffelpaff7297
      @piffelpaff7297 Před 23 dny

      Yep, this video is so shit useless. How is noone aware xdxdxdxd

    • @KebboStar
      @KebboStar Před 13 dny

      Theres many tests with stupid names, plus a contamination expert is a level higher in this degree

    • @kaylus9859
      @kaylus9859 Před 6 dny +1

      In the creators defense, high energy beta rays can be partially shielded by tissues. Partially, which is why the camera slightly cleared up. But, i still know its fake

  • @BringerOfD
    @BringerOfD Před 4 měsíci +22

    I recently heard the story about the few hunters somewhere in Eastern Europe who found a thing that projected warmth and they slept by it. Turned out it to be the core of an old Soviet era nuclear generator that someone had pilfered.
    The eventual cleanup crew could only as individuals be within the vicinity of it for like 20 seconds(?) before rotating out.
    I can't imagine walking by something like that in the woods and never knowing. Just stand in the wrong place, at the wrong time, for a few seconds too many.
    Edit: lol literally a video available on this channel. Nuclear Bonfire.

  • @ectothermic
    @ectothermic Před 11 měsíci +4320

    This incident, real or not, is just another example showing us that we need to start educating people about radioactivity and nuclear power.
    Also Kyle's serious voice is scary.

    • @MayaPosch
      @MayaPosch Před 11 měsíci

      I agree. Instead the popular media, especially here in Germany, teaches us that radioactivity is scary and nuclear waste will kill us all, if the NPPs don't explode first like Chornobyl. The children in German schools are being forced to read 'The Cloud', which is a book that contains basically all anti-nuclear power lies you can imagine, leading to the people rather accepting having a few more thousand people die due to burning coal each year than letting NPPs run longer.
      There's also a lot of fearmongering about cesium-137 in the forests from Chornobyl, even though the dose you can acquire from even mushrooms isn't any concern. But hey, radiation is scary :)

    • @Nickle_King
      @Nickle_King Před 11 měsíci +46

      Absolutely.

    • @bycoolboy823
      @bycoolboy823 Před 11 měsíci

      Like it or not, it is the inevitable next stage of human civilization, as we demand more and more energy sources. Hush hush about it and think it's just for the scientific people is definitely harmful. The unknown produces fear.

    • @sevenseven7990
      @sevenseven7990 Před 11 měsíci +144

      You give humanity too much credit. People even when properly educated will tend to do dumb and dangerous things because they just can.

    • @neociber24
      @neociber24 Před 11 měsíci +13

      A lot of people do things for the lols

  • @mistingwolf
    @mistingwolf Před 11 měsíci +1208

    Kyle, thanks for spending hours of your time to research this thoroughly! Thinking that someone could just post a video about an orphaned source and _putting their hand right on it_ is absolutely terrifying.

    • @Bacopa68
      @Bacopa68 Před 11 měsíci +37

      I figured the video was fake. I've seen radiation "grain" effects on digital cameras and it's usually more sparkly. Also, I figured if the video was real, this story would end up on the news in a week or so after I first saw it on Tumblr.

    • @BelindaShort
      @BelindaShort Před 11 měsíci +1

      This exactly, but I bet some people would :(

    • @willinwoods
      @willinwoods Před 11 měsíci +1

      Recalling the story about the "Nuclear Boyscout," I wouldn't be too surprised.

    • @silverhawkroman
      @silverhawkroman Před 11 měsíci +6

      @@Bacopa68 i dont like how rye was thinking everybody knowing it was fake, he's way too optimistic to think people are that smart... I mean he even fooled someone as educated as Kyle or even higher. On the topic of finding him, I'm surprised there wasn't a 4chan campaign to find him from just his hand shape and stuff on the table

    • @thecursed01
      @thecursed01 Před 11 měsíci

      Read about the Goiânia accident. This happened. Even a lot worse

  • @c.ostillas
    @c.ostillas Před 4 měsíci +3

    What i've just seen is awesome. Honestly, what a rollercoaster! From the fear of this actually being an event that happened... To hearing a kinky leather guy talk about his nuclear background
    Great video dude, i enjoyed watching it a lot.

  • @opencarryenjoyer
    @opencarryenjoyer Před 3 měsíci +54

    long story short its fake

    • @Toutel
      @Toutel Před 21 dnem +6

      THANK YOU u just saved me so much time

    • @Uglier.
      @Uglier. Před 21 dnem +2

      Read this after 15min of watching fml

    • @bedeckt
      @bedeckt Před 18 dny +4

      "some guy in the flea market parking lot"
      already sounds made-up, its like "hey i bought this thing under suspicious circumstances but i am absolutely not suspecting anything at all"

    • @tyscott2420
      @tyscott2420 Před 16 dny +1

      Thank god

    • @blankwavemessiah
      @blankwavemessiah Před 2 dny

      At least it was a good video. Chill

  • @panasclepias2937
    @panasclepias2937 Před 11 měsíci +1011

    When Kyle does his quiet serious voice, I pay extra attention. So imagine how shocked I was to hear serious Kyle talk about pony play in an orphan source video.
    Strange world we live in.

    • @TylerTMG
      @TylerTMG Před 11 měsíci

      .

    • @markuslouw3727
      @markuslouw3727 Před 11 měsíci +9

      Thank you for the warning

    • @JasonLihani
      @JasonLihani Před 11 měsíci +17

      Boy, this comment sure was confusing until most of the way through the video.

    • @Zorro9129
      @Zorro9129 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Pony play is serious business, apparently.

  • @KriminalKat
    @KriminalKat Před 11 měsíci +1941

    "I think everyone understands its fake" Meanwhile, Kyle's informant was like "YEP 100 PERCENT REAL DEFINITELY NOT FAKE" lmao. Good on you Kyle putting in the effort to make sure people see that it is a fake though.

    • @laner.845
      @laner.845 Před 11 měsíci +265

      Well, the guy was a nuclear expert, not a photoshop expert, so he's at least understandably concerned.

    • @ererbe
      @ererbe Před 11 měsíci +4

      offtopic but nice pfp

    • @MeanBeanComedy
      @MeanBeanComedy Před 11 měsíci +2

      Spoilers!!!

    • @kadenk9298
      @kadenk9298 Před 11 měsíci +98

      @@MeanBeanComedy stop reading the comments and watch the video and u wouldn’t be spoiled

    • @MeanBeanComedy
      @MeanBeanComedy Před 11 měsíci +4

      @@kadenk9298 I do both.

  • @Magistrella
    @Magistrella Před 3 měsíci +5

    The credits gave me the chills...
    "Until next time." I wish there wouldn't have to be one.

  • @Hatecrewdethrol
    @Hatecrewdethrol Před 11 měsíci +237

    My first reaction was "theres absolutely no way someone would give themselves radiation poisoning for the lulz" but I remember I had the exact same thoughts about people eating tide pods back when that was a thing

    • @smtmonke
      @smtmonke Před 11 měsíci +12

      Clout is one hell of a drug, and modern humans are addicted.

    • @lastwymsi
      @lastwymsi Před 11 měsíci +11

      Theres a sad, viral 4 chan post about a russian Stalker who was chasing radiation and secured some old RAW uncased radiation sources from soviet era systems. Posted an image with his geiger counter going extremely hot along side it, and then vanished. And unfortunately what was in the image was verified. I forget the exact number, but it was the kind of "you wont be alive next month" level of nukage. Everytime I see it, its a mix of memes and just sombre realisation that that dude is certainly dead.

    • @seguaye
      @seguaye Před 21 dnem

      it was only a handful of teenagers that actually ate tide pods, and then a fucking tidal wave of news coverage making it out to be some epidemic

  • @PhantomSavage
    @PhantomSavage Před 11 měsíci +1095

    In defense of Lucas, the Nuclear Contamination Expert, he's probably seen shit like this all the time that's 100% legit, so he probably has plenty of reason to have no doubts at all something as stupid as that can actually happen... which in itself is a terrifying thought.

    • @ooghaboogha4362
      @ooghaboogha4362 Před 11 měsíci +4

      Hmm

    • @ungabunga7879
      @ungabunga7879 Před 11 měsíci +70

      Yep, reminds me of the houseMD episode where the kid picks up the radioactive piece from a junkyard his dad works at and dies as a result, which is almost certaintly based off any amount of actual cases where someone takes something radioactive, with no idea of its horrific dangers. this certaintly happens often enough for it to be a recognized issue

    • @TastiLead
      @TastiLead Před 11 měsíci +13

      @@ungabunga7879 Almost certainly based on the Brazilian incident

    • @ungabunga7879
      @ungabunga7879 Před 11 měsíci

      @@TastiLead never read anything about it, but a good amount of stuff in the show is based off real incidents so, yeah

    • @thrandompug2254
      @thrandompug2254 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Yeah, dumb shit just kind of happens sometimes

  • @jeffrowisdabest
    @jeffrowisdabest Před 22 dny +3

    This takes "the toxicity of social media" to a whole new level.

  • @panamapapertiger1720
    @panamapapertiger1720 Před 3 měsíci +3

    The noise really does look like fake noise added by editing software. When you add a small amount it just looks like legit film grain, but adding more and more you start to see shapes in the noise, which you can see in the video.

  • @midnightprince30
    @midnightprince30 Před 11 měsíci +869

    I was an industrial radiographer. We used Iridium 192 and during training we were told the horror stories of people like that guy whom put a source into their pocket. Like the Yanago incident.

    • @sirgeorgioalastrata4104
      @sirgeorgioalastrata4104 Před 11 měsíci +6

      what is so dangerous about this? its just little dots

    • @D9526328443789
      @D9526328443789 Před 11 měsíci +46

      @@sirgeorgioalastrata4104 go test it and find what’s so dangerous. Tell us what happens afterwards.

    • @stevenrodriguez763
      @stevenrodriguez763 Před 11 měsíci +52

      @@sirgeorgioalastrata4104 current industrial radiographer. If you’re at the point holding this and having some sort of digital video affect your losing a body part or probably getting cancer in the short to mid future. Your allowed 5R legally a year as a radiographer. Most company’s allow only 350MR a month short of the 500mr your allowed legally a month. It’s potent enough basically to make a dirty bomb that could kill a city, with the radioactive fall out. The sources we use for industrial stuff like weld inspection, or radiographing concrete to take a look at concrete stress cables could range from selenium, iridium or cobalt. Cobalt sources or insanely radioactive, the housing for them is a couple hundred pounds of pure depleted uranium or other dense metals. You hand crank the source out and run like the wind.

    • @camdt456
      @camdt456 Před 11 měsíci

      @@D9526328443789 if you can't explain why just stfu lmao

    • @happycakes1946
      @happycakes1946 Před 11 měsíci +31

      @@sirgeorgioalastrata4104 The radioactive particles can be absorbed by human tissue and react causing DNA damage. This will make it so that the cells cannot reproduce and thus this has been described as rotting from the inside out. It's horrific.

  • @_ElisDTrailz
    @_ElisDTrailz Před 11 měsíci +1374

    I used to operate a cyclotron in a nuclear medicine pharmacy and we had cesium-137 and cobalt-60 sources that were in trace amounts. Regardless of them being reasonably "safe", we had to do rigorous spot checks throughout the day, everyday, to make sure this stuff was still contained. This story was scary as hell, glad it's fake.

    • @nicksurfs1
      @nicksurfs1 Před 11 měsíci +10

      What’s it like working in a nuclear medicine pharmacy? Sounds interesting. Are you a pharmacist, pharmacy tech, or something else?

    • @_ElisDTrailz
      @_ElisDTrailz Před 11 měsíci +40

      @nicksurfs1 I was a cyclotron tech/operator (which is basically a circular particle accelerator). It was incredibly interesting, but because of the short half-life of f-18 (radioactive fluorine, used in PET scanning) it had to be made 3rd shift to be ready for hospitals in the morning. Takes a toll on you.

    • @XenocideNeckerchief
      @XenocideNeckerchief Před 11 měsíci +4

      @@_ElisDTrailz no you weren't

    • @newagain9964
      @newagain9964 Před 11 měsíci +2

      They should have jailed the person. There’s numerous laws that would allow for it.

    • @Richjack3
      @Richjack3 Před 11 měsíci +21

      @@XenocideNeckerchief How would you know? Do you know these person?

  • @MicroRC87
    @MicroRC87 Před 3 měsíci +4

    3:59 The horse magazine on the table makes so much more sense now ;)

  • @Deeveeaar
    @Deeveeaar Před 3 měsíci

    That was an amazing story and fun video. I wouldnt worry about people faking such, in fact it make people more aware about the danger of orphan sources.

  • @seeps9353
    @seeps9353 Před 11 měsíci +304

    The horse mag in the background was a clue nobody looked at twice. Fake videos are usually something I don't find funny, but this man upgraded it to an art.

    • @ExceptionallyUndersizedThanos
      @ExceptionallyUndersizedThanos Před 11 měsíci +8

      the person who uploaded this video originally is a horse-themed degen the mag isn't really anything extraordinary or out of character for this guy if anything the entire video was out of character

    • @randomjunkohyeah1
      @randomjunkohyeah1 Před 11 měsíci +9

      @@ExceptionallyUndersizedThanos
      “Horse-themed degen”
      Is this English?

    • @TlD-dg6ug
      @TlD-dg6ug Před 11 měsíci

      ​@@randomjunkohyeah1 degenerate

    • @petcatt
      @petcatt Před 11 měsíci +5

      @@randomjunkohyeah1 yes

    • @GoErikTheRed
      @GoErikTheRed Před 11 měsíci +3

      @@randomjunkohyeah1 "degen" being short for "degenerate" or "degeneracy"

  • @Monothefox
    @Monothefox Před 10 měsíci +2047

    Last month or so on Reddit, a user posed a photo of two strange metal objects he had found in the estate of a late relative, asking what they where. They were quickly identified as naked radiation sources, but so old that they were not THAT dangerous. I think the OP sought medical care (with no injuries recorded) and that the sources were taken care of by authorities.

    • @NoPrefect
      @NoPrefect Před 7 měsíci +95

      Hot damn that's some Western States shit

    • @Ikxi
      @Ikxi Před 4 měsíci +34

      So the halflife on those must have been quite high to not post danger anymore

    • @nikostalk5730
      @nikostalk5730 Před 4 měsíci +48

      @@Ikxi yes, in theory. But in fact - they can be still dangerous, even after 20-30years and it is very depends of a radioactive material

    • @Renoh74
      @Renoh74 Před 4 měsíci +34

      ⁠@@Ikxi High? You mean low, a long halflife would be dangerous for a longer period

    • @spaceghostmiid
      @spaceghostmiid Před 4 měsíci +36

      @@Renoh74nooooo, low half life means it decays faster, which means you get exposed to more radiation in less time.

  • @josh6pack
    @josh6pack Před 4 měsíci

    The video with the meter (Geiger counter?) had none of the static. I didn't catch that until you had done the entire dive into finding the dude and the original video.

  • @a-randomfloof
    @a-randomfloof Před 9 dny +3

    Immediately knew it was fake because that camera static wouldn’t have gone away if he put his hand over it, Gamma radiation can pierce through 6 feet of concrete and 1 foot of lead, even that container wouldn’t realistically be thick enough to prevent the radiation from escaping.

  • @kaylinhendrich4673
    @kaylinhendrich4673 Před 11 měsíci +399

    Definitely one of those “I’ve seen enough fake tumblr stories to have significant doubts, but holy shit this could be monumentally serious” reactions when I saw the video. Thanks for doing the due diligence, Kyle!

    • @spvillano
      @spvillano Před 11 měsíci +5

      If the radiation is significant enough to effect the video, it'd also be impacting the memory and CPU equally.
      A crashed camera makes no video.

    • @DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWii
      @DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWii Před 11 měsíci +2

      It was obviously fake IMO, you just add a cheap video effect and that's it

    • @mitchellspanheimer1803
      @mitchellspanheimer1803 Před 11 měsíci +12

      @@spvillano Not necessarily, there have been examples of invisible radiation affecting the CMOS sensor while still making usable video data. It really depends on the intensity, direction of the source, location of the camera's memory and CPU, and whether or not those electronic components are protected by metal shielding. I imagine alpha or beta radiation would not ruin the camera, but gamma may.

    • @spvillano
      @spvillano Před 11 měsíci

      @@mitchellspanheimer1803 metal shielding is even worse, especially with beta. Remember, Cs-137 is a 0.5 Mev beta source and a 0.6 Mev gamma source. Bremsstrahlung radiation will be emitted by metal when a particle impacts the metal atoms, which can then ionize a path through the chip itself. Some plastics would be far more effective in protecting the circuitry than metal.
      In space, one faces mostly protons and beta, along with x-ray and a touch of gamma, all save the EM generating bremsstrahlung radiation from the spacecraft hull. Thankfully, one doesn't have neutrons or protons to really foul the camera in the case of Cs-137, but damage from gamma should be minimal to absent at that energy level. As a hint, thunderstorms can generate gamma in the 100 Mev range, we don't see cameras failing from that. Pair production is quite unlikely at that flux and energy level.
      Oh, another tidbit, I-131 is used in nuclear imaging, had such testing done for my thyroid. It puts out around 0.364 Mev, which goes clean through the body to be easily detected. The Cs-137 is harder by a little, but magically was blocked by a hand that should've only barely attenuated some of the beta and not a lick of the gamma.
      Were such an offer real and I ran into it and could verify it as a source of some type, I'd buy it and call a friend who's a nuclear health physicist to verify by a proper survey. Then, if it was something like Cs-137, call the NRC and the military installation he works at to see who wanted to take custody of the damned thing. Better to get it off the street and market and into proper custody than pray it doesn't turn up used in some terrorist attack or irradiating a neighborhood.
      I'd also get the tag number of the seller and if possible, the VIN from the dashboard. The NRC would certainly want to have a conversation as to where such a hazardous source originated.

  • @furiouskaiser9914
    @furiouskaiser9914 Před 11 měsíci +160

    "Atomically twisted wounds" is a new terrifying phrase that now exists.

    • @cassyh.2603
      @cassyh.2603 Před 11 měsíci +5

      Pretty bitchin' band name too.

  • @dr.jenskuhnemann3411
    @dr.jenskuhnemann3411 Před 15 dny

    Thank you for updating my knowledge with this absolutely essential bit of information

  • @josie8824
    @josie8824 Před 3 měsíci

    when he said " I wonder if there's any other way to help me" I knew it was a play at a gofundme. I also imagine they got shaken up by someone saying they shouldn't be making this shit up.

  • @nahuelgonzalez2709
    @nahuelgonzalez2709 Před 11 měsíci +436

    A nuclear accident went WHAT

  • @pikmaniac2643
    @pikmaniac2643 Před 11 měsíci +990

    I can appreciate the fact that the person behind this was actually willing to answer your questions about it for the sake of getting a clear understanding. Good on you for both bringing attention to the facts and the morals regarding the scenario, as it definitely falls into that gray area.

    • @hughcaldwell1034
      @hughcaldwell1034 Před 11 měsíci +14

      Yeah, though the voice distortion made the final conversation a little hard for me to follow, unfortunately. Also rather unnecessary, given it wasn't the person's actual voice.

    • @zartexkrontaculys1097
      @zartexkrontaculys1097 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Just like me

    • @michahogelo
      @michahogelo Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@hughcaldwell1034 for me it was very helpful as im too lazy to read. so rather necessary

    • @carlbrenston8436
      @carlbrenston8436 Před 11 měsíci +1

      yeah and I got a new fetish out of it so big plus there

    • @hughcaldwell1034
      @hughcaldwell1034 Před 11 měsíci +6

      @@michahogelo I meant the distortion on the voice was unnecessary, not the voice itself. I'm blind, so for me the audio really was necessary - I wouldn't use "necessary" in your case, if you're admitting it was pure laziness.

  • @jenn_willey
    @jenn_willey Před 19 dny

    Great investigating! I really enjoyed the video - thank you!

  • @AnneIglesias
    @AnneIglesias Před 3 měsíci

    The way the film grain just bubbles through the footage like a lightning-fast noxious gas made me shudder!

  • @BertLensch
    @BertLensch Před 11 měsíci +519

    I think the fact that it was done well enough to make people question: "is this a fake?" is the worrying part of this meme. I remember seeing it blow up on Imgur and even I wasn't sure if it was legit or not. I am glad that it is a fake, but to Rye Pony's point, it has sparked a broader discussion about orphan sources and the need to be careful of them out in the world. I am grateful that both you and Plainly Difficult do cover and discuss these accidents in order to educate the masses on how dangerous they can both be, and how innocent they can look if you are not paying attention.

    • @Hamstray
      @Hamstray Před 11 měsíci +1

      I think Plainly Difficult does just too much disaster porn.

    • @angrydragonslayer
      @angrydragonslayer Před 11 měsíci +5

      I mean, i just assume people don't get a hold of orphan sources aside from 4chan

    • @gabepatton9851
      @gabepatton9851 Před 11 měsíci +8

      @@angrydragonslayer might wanna watch the whole video then. He talks about how plausible it is to find them abandoned.

    • @kingkarlito
      @kingkarlito Před 11 měsíci

      we're about to hit the age of AI produced CGI, governments are going to explode if people don't start to get a handle on the fact that video's are not proof without additional supporting evidence

    • @Bacopa68
      @Bacopa68 Před 11 měsíci +5

      @@Hamstray Why else do we watch it? He has a second channel about recording music with some good tunes.

  • @jackiedoherty1716
    @jackiedoherty1716 Před 10 měsíci +3024

    Yeah, after seeing the surgery scars and then the "41% suicide" comment it was pretty clear to me the person was just a troll. Also, I love how the most replayed moment for this video was when Kyle mentioned "Pony Play" for the first time. Love it.

    • @Sy1vi3
      @Sy1vi3 Před 9 měsíci +92

      yeah it was fairly obvious at that point 💀💀

    • @SATURN-ow
      @SATURN-ow Před 8 měsíci +451

      Came here to say this. I think it deserves some more attention because it’s just glaringly obvious to me, as a trans person, that the phallo scar image poster is probably not op but also just a transphobic troll. “after I’ve done this to myself […] walking around looking like a freak”, “41% of people who go through this surgery don’t make it long term”, “makes you wonder if there’s another way to help me”…. Like come on!!! That’s definitely just a terf being an ass off the back of a viral post just for the sake of it, no f*ckin shame 🙄

    • @SATURN-ow
      @SATURN-ow Před 8 měsíci

      @@Sprite_real_ assuming you’re genuinely asking :
      - 41% is a figure often touted by transphobes, it’s the suicide rate of trans people. people waving it around often complete wave off the fact that this is inflated by the hostile environment we live in.
      - “i’ve done this to myself [and I’m a freak now]” is pretty self explanatory. common point among transphobes that trans people are ugly, don’t pass and look disfigured.
      - “makes you wonder if there’s another way to help me” common argument among gender criticals and terfs ; trans people shouldn’t transition according to them and their point is conversion therapy should be the answer to every instance of gender dysphoria/incongruence.
      - “I’m just following the science” is just an expansion of the last point, it’s pretty much the idea that “science” got it wrong and trans people are delusional and the scientists working on gender reassignment therapies just don’t want to hurt our feelings and are after the money of what they deem to be an expanding “market” regardless of the fact that many healthcare professionals not only often refuse us healthcare a lot but also make it purposely difficult for us to access it in the first place. this whole idea is often linked with antisemitic conspiracy theories linking trans healthcare to affluent jewish people supposedly funding it.
      If you’re genuinely curious about how deep this sort of thing goes I suggest Shaun’s video on a british transphobic activist whose relationships within that sphere span closer and closer to antisemites trying to etch themselves into mainstream politics.
      All these dog whistles serve an important goal of plausible deniability when we point them out. On the surface, it does all seem to be possible coincidences but to a trained eye they are very blatant. I didn’t catch them on my first watch, either, I only noticed it when showing the video to my fiancé and catching the 41% mention and then everything just fell into place. I also noticed the mention of them being a transphobe by a random reddit account on a screen cap a little before that segment.

    • @jjju3
      @jjju3 Před 8 měsíci

      @@Sprite_real_ the surgery is a photo of a skin graft taken for FTM transitional surgery, and "41%" is a transphobic joke regarding a statistic from a few years ago regarding rates of suicidal ideation among transgender people.

    • @jjju3
      @jjju3 Před 8 měsíci +176

      "makes you wonder if _anyone should be doing this at all_ or _theres another way to help me"_ "whatever im just following the science" is a very very nonsensical thing to say about their situation?? it literally only makes sense if you realize what theyre talking about. so genuinely annoying

  • @iplaystudiosoc
    @iplaystudiosoc Před 4 měsíci +7

    My question is how did this random sketchy guy get nuclear capsules

  • @nathanapplegate5374
    @nathanapplegate5374 Před 2 měsíci +2

    As soon as I saw the fuzz, I instinctively said “CLOSE THAT LID IMMEDIATELY!”

  • @Couldnt_let_J.Marston_die
    @Couldnt_let_J.Marston_die Před 11 měsíci +2086

    Did Kyle just become a journalist? Hearing about a story, wondering about its validity and then hunting for the truth, following leads, locating a source, interviewing the creator of the original story and then publishing the story for people to see... Yeah I think that qualifies Kyle as a journalist, hell thats more work then the media does now a days.
    Well done sir. 👍

    • @BMohantyone
      @BMohantyone Před 11 měsíci +45

      He's in fact a science journalist.

    • @blahblahgdp
      @blahblahgdp Před 11 měsíci +1

      Im a journalist now too

    • @JohnnyTromboner
      @JohnnyTromboner Před 11 měsíci +14

      ​@@blahblahgdp Do a journalism for us plz

    • @AmocideB
      @AmocideB Před 11 měsíci +14

      Actually, Journalist dont do that. They run with the headlines and assume their fact for clicks. Kyle in fact did not do that and I appreciate him for it.

    • @Couldnt_let_J.Marston_die
      @Couldnt_let_J.Marston_die Před 11 měsíci

      @@AmocideB No no Kyle did what journalists are supposed to do. These "journalists" now a days are little more then propaganda peddlers

  • @mattm7798
    @mattm7798 Před 11 měsíci +2282

    The thing that stood out to me was Kyle's nuclear contamination friend seemed convinced despite the previous expert saying that gamma radiation would go right thru your hand. I would expend a nuclear contamination expert to know this...kinda worrying.

    • @arcanedame3015
      @arcanedame3015 Před 11 měsíci +83

      Agreed

    • @VoltisArt
      @VoltisArt Před 11 měsíci +380

      I don't recall Kyle saying the two sources talked to each other or had been told what the other said. Assuming both interviews were blind to each other, (benefit of doubt) there are many types of experts and they're not all schooled or trained the same way. The video fellow, for instance, (don't remember his name, sorry,) might be one of just a handful of people doing the kind of work he does, so his knowledge of the video interaction _may be_ relatively unique.
      I don't know/remember Lucas' history beyond being one of the Chernobyl tour guides that Kyle worked with. His experience with contamination and accidents may be limited to larger, more newsworthy events. I don't know the schooling of either person.
      Nuclear science has a broad range as any other energy subject, but unfortunately a shallow history due to public phobia preventing energy from being more prevalent. There aren't _that_ many experts out there for this stuff and Kyle's level of academic and journalistic knowledge on the subject is rare, despite him not knowing "everything." (Hence deferring to others on specific details.)
      Just because info is out there, doesn't mean everybody does or needs to know it. Lots of people doing jobs only have the info they need to do their particular job at that particular company, plus a little more they pick up from coworkers. Even very technical jobs don't always directly rely on one's schooling.
      ETA: It is worrying that the info can be compartmentalized so much because the knowledge base is relatively small for how important and potentially dangerous nuclear science is. I'm not saying that's not a problem, just that it's not necessarily a fault or deficiency of any given person in this broad field. If anyone is to blame, society and people like coal lobbyists are worthy of scrutiny. We need more people doing nuclear jobs, because we need more nuclear power. (And yes, more study of it to know all the weird crap that can happen when things don't go right.)

    • @homuraakemi9556
      @homuraakemi9556 Před 11 měsíci +183

      Cs-137 is primarily a Beta emitter, and beta can easily be attenuated by a hand. I also don't believe it is correct that gamma radiation is needed to create the static effect in a camera, as anything that interacts with the sensor in the camera at a high enough energy is basically going to turn that pixel white.

    • @blackdragonxtra
      @blackdragonxtra Před 11 měsíci +99

      ​@@VoltisArt To add to the defense of Lucas, I wouldn't be suprised if Dr. Seltzman needed to look up what type of radiation Cesium-137 produces.
      Also, a small correction: Dr. Seltzman (as far as I know) wasn't interviewed. A screenshot email from him was part of the tumblr thread.

    • @Lithane97
      @Lithane97 Před 11 měsíci +128

      One was speaking from the perspective of evidence, while the other was speaking on the believability of the post. Evidence wise, the guy thought it was clearly impossible for it to be real. On the side of "believability" making an assumption that something is real just because "who would go so far to fake this?" is a realllly bad approach, especially when looking at things on the internet.

  • @aermotors
    @aermotors Před 3 měsíci +1

    Anytime one is analyzing something as being real or fake, if you ever hear them say something like "why would they do it in the first place" or "what's their motivation for faking it" you know they are Mulder-they want to believe. Confirmation bias will win and you will never come to a logical answer. I love that Kyle kept digging. And I love more that this was 10 mins in Premiere and so many thought it was real lol.

  • @thesturmvogel6359
    @thesturmvogel6359 Před 3 měsíci

    This felt a little different to your usual schtick but i quiet liked it. you always have good presentation

  • @fp9204
    @fp9204 Před 4 měsíci +1077

    The most worrying fact in this entire case is the nuclear physicist saying that orphaned sources are often found at flea markets... Even if the video was fake, enough orphaned sources are out there to convince an expert that it might as well have been real 😰

    • @irregularassassin6380
      @irregularassassin6380 Před 4 měsíci +85

      Yeah, returning to that point would have made an excellent conclusion. Yes the video was fake, yes it educated people, yes it may have also been slightly harmful for a variety of reasons, but the true horror is that it's an apparently highly plausible story.

    • @bassplayer2011ify
      @bassplayer2011ify Před 4 měsíci +28

      If I were a betting man I would say in most cases it comes in the form watches. As they used radium paint as luminescence for decades. Toys are another source but they are incredibly rare. It could also tritium if you are looking for it in the form of gun sights and there are a few watch companies that use tritium tubes for luminescence.
      My point is yes you can find orphan sources at flea markets. What you won't find are hunks of cesium in homemade containment units.

    • @minitea4315
      @minitea4315 Před 3 měsíci +11

      Could a cesium pellet have been sourced from the inside of an old x-ray machine? If so, think of how many x-ray machines there are, and therefore how common this threat could be.

    • @VeritasEtAequitas
      @VeritasEtAequitas Před 3 měsíci +3

      Often means almost never.

    • @GardenisLife
      @GardenisLife Před 3 měsíci

      thats what terrified me too... crazy. that new 100$ bill tho...... eek

  • @Khiswow
    @Khiswow Před 11 měsíci +318

    I sincerily think that Kyle's Half life serie should be seen in school. They're highly educative, easy to understand, and Kyle's voice and delivery carries just the right amoubnt of seriousness.

    • @lettuce7378
      @lettuce7378 Před 11 měsíci +8

      I agree. If I had seen some of these videos in high school physics it would have been super cool

    • @patricknez7258
      @patricknez7258 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Well said

    • @tex_the_proto2880
      @tex_the_proto2880 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Maybe cut out the part about them being a pony play account and this video is very school friendly

    • @eval_is_evil
      @eval_is_evil Před 11 měsíci

      Are you crazy? The teachers' unions would go batshit. To teach kids is not their goal anymore.

    • @maujo2009
      @maujo2009 Před 11 měsíci +2

      As part of my modern physics course, I showed my high school students the Demon Core video.

  • @To-mos
    @To-mos Před 4 měsíci +2

    The warmth, it tickles.

  • @gear_impact6707
    @gear_impact6707 Před 2 měsíci

    Damn I’m so glad. Mad props for goin dis in-depth

  • @jeffwilson1394
    @jeffwilson1394 Před měsícem +1

    Goosebumps. I hope and pray I never see a cobalt-60 drop & run IRL.

  • @chromedog68
    @chromedog68 Před 11 měsíci +837

    After Australia's recent "orphan source" incident (it "fell" out of a truck convoy carrying equipment) - I've become a LOT more aware of the potential dangers of these things.
    Love the video, Kyle. I just wish more actual journalists would exercise at least a modicum of the due diligence that you do.

    • @luichinplaystation610
      @luichinplaystation610 Před 11 měsíci +8

      Oh Aussies

    • @johndeaux8815
      @johndeaux8815 Před 11 měsíci +4

      Some sources say we were creating an orphan source every 3 days back in 2021

    • @gabbyn978
      @gabbyn978 Před 11 měsíci +5

      He had more time than your average journalist, and could make good use of it.
      That is the crux of modern information. You recieve an endless stream of it, and even deciding which of all that is supposed to become part of your output, takes more time than you have to do your work. As a result, the quality of journalism deteriorates, and this in turn makes the work of common journalists so superficial that the confidence in what they are doing, is declining as well. With dire consequences to our political landscape.

    • @mikeoxmall69420
      @mikeoxmall69420 Před 11 měsíci

      I remember thinking "yeah some dumbcunce are gonna find it, play with it and die from rad sickness"

    • @hellblazer275
      @hellblazer275 Před 11 měsíci

      At least it was out the back of bumfuck nowhere 🤣🤣🤣

  • @redjaypictures4528
    @redjaypictures4528 Před 11 měsíci +575

    As someone who’s been trained with adobe premire and after effects, i have to say that the radiation grain effect is INCREDIBLY easy to make, its kinda concerning to me that something i can do in two or three clicks could fool the world like this

    • @raidermaxx2324
      @raidermaxx2324 Před 7 měsíci

      wait- how was the world fooled?? I'm pretty sure nobody in the biden administration or any of our NATO partners took it seriously, i neglected to see even one article reporting on it in the real news media like WAPO or the TIMES, so if people were fooled it was just kids and gullible people on social media, right? I mean "fooling the world" would require the world being aware that this even happened, and it was completely a new thing for me, and i'm even more addicted to social media than anyone in my family(who also had no idea this even happened)

    • @dish9849
      @dish9849 Před 5 měsíci +24

      Is not fool the world but is better to be safe then sorry and if it even smells like radioactive material run away.

    • @irishbruse
      @irishbruse Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@dish9849 So no more bananas then?

    • @eg0zb
      @eg0zb Před 4 měsíci +5

      Sure but it looks fake af

    • @raidermaxx2324
      @raidermaxx2324 Před 4 měsíci

      @@eg0zb what looks fake

  • @steveshu5817
    @steveshu5817 Před 3 měsíci

    Haha, I am that szl0834 who posted the video on electroboom subreddit, and I just found that I'm on your video. What a coincidence!

  • @marlberg2963
    @marlberg2963 Před 3 měsíci +1

    This video harkens back to the 2000 Samut Prakan Cobalt 60 incident in Thailand. Fascinating read. Horribly painful injuries and 3 dead due to ionizing radiation from exposing the Source. Incidentally the Cobalt 60 rod that was the source of the radiation exposure was clearly marked with what was at the time considered to be the universal descriptor for radiation along with the phrase (in English) Drop and Run.

  • @PokeRedstone
    @PokeRedstone Před 11 měsíci +559

    Radioactivity is one of the few truly terrifying existential threats in my mind. If you stumble across something (or worse don’t even see the object) and are around it for even an hour, you could very well die and there is nothing to be done about it.

    • @rossstewart9475
      @rossstewart9475 Před 11 měsíci +14

      The mind comment is most prescient: Statistically, this isn't going to happen - and yet...

    • @robertsneddon731
      @robertsneddon731 Před 11 měsíci

      There are a lot of chemical threats out there that are just as deadly as radioactivity and most of them don't give any perceptible indication of smell or taste that they're present. Unless you're line-of-sight and quite close to a radioactive source you're almost always safe, not so much for being near a leak of, say, phosgene.
      The US Chemical Safety Board posts videos on chemical and industrial plant accidents, what went wrong and what the results were. They're a useful rebuttal resource if anyone ever suggests to you that some business is "over-regulated".

    • @ijustneedausername6742
      @ijustneedausername6742 Před 11 měsíci +27

      This and Prions are my two ‘it’s probably fine but I’m still going to worry’ fears lol

    • @YounesLayachi
      @YounesLayachi Před 11 měsíci

      It is only terrifying if you are irrationally afraid of it.
      At worse you can get a Geiger counter or similar cheap instruments and voilà.
      Now compare that to real, commonplace poisons that you can't detects and that are actually slowly killing you.

    • @ATBatmanMALS31
      @ATBatmanMALS31 Před 11 měsíci +9

      Death from radiation really just means "forced suicide," no point in dying that painfully.

  • @bashkillszombies
    @bashkillszombies Před 4 měsíci +1499

    I've been using Cesium 137 to add film grain as an in camera special effect since the advent of digital cameras, and all six of my arms are perfectly fine.

    • @flux0841
      @flux0841 Před 4 měsíci +141

      Cesium 137 cured my erectile dysfunction! I mean… his name is Richard and he wants to be an artist but at least he works.

    • @phanlee4621
      @phanlee4621 Před 3 měsíci +10

      ok, Peter Parker

    • @boblynch2802
      @boblynch2802 Před 3 měsíci +19

      @@phanlee4621 No he would need 8. With six he would be an ant man.

    • @copycatlyn
      @copycatlyn Před 3 měsíci +4

      lol only good comment in th is video

    • @richard7199
      @richard7199 Před 3 měsíci +9

      @@flux0841You’re damn right I do. Too bad all my paint is white and salty.

  • @samuelcontreras9248
    @samuelcontreras9248 Před 4 měsíci

    LMAO the life magazine Pony I mean horse in the background plays a whole other level to the video of trolling.

  • @-BUGZ-
    @-BUGZ- Před 3 měsíci +1

    He definitely wasn’t wrong about bringing this information to light to more people, with all of the back and forths in the replies and of course, your video and other bigger channels like yours making videos on it. Heck, I wouldn’t have known about most of this stuff had he not made that video. I know about the demon core and whatnot but my knowledge on this stuff is extremely shallow and this helped me and made me want to learn more about it all. I was surprised at how knowledgeable the guy was in the subject himself as well. The only issue I have with it were the update posts about injuring himself. That’s where you can make people worry. But hey, it is what it is, and people are out here doing crazier, WAY less scientific things to make videos these days so this was refreshing, honestly.

  • @ganymedemlem6119
    @ganymedemlem6119 Před 11 měsíci +366

    I think we should take a moment to realize just how scary it is that Kyle was able to dig up that much information on a person to track them down about a video they had posted years ago. Reminder to be safe with what you post online!

    • @tparadox88
      @tparadox88 Před 11 měsíci +50

      If RyePony hadn't still been active enough on Twitter to answer a DM, or had chosen not to answer, I think the trail would've gone cold for good there, and I'm satisfied with that.
      Though the metadata scrape didn't turn up the kind of identifying or locating information Kyle was hoping for, it's still a good reminder to consider turning off location tagging on your own photos and videos.

    • @RaiokIncaris
      @RaiokIncaris Před 11 měsíci +7

      That is a good point from a privacy and security standpoint, though in this case, I believe that this information was used in a positive way. If you're really looking for good information about how to make your devices more secure and private, there are youtubers like TheHatedOne and Mental Outlaw that go way more in depth than just "get a VPN." I highly recommend those two channels, there's a lot of knowledge between them, and they both explain things so even people without a background in IT can understand.

    • @hetmanjz
      @hetmanjz Před 11 měsíci +1

      If you enter the public square, you're accountable for what you say and do there.

    • @pyrommph
      @pyrommph Před 11 měsíci +2

      i mean... yes, always, but what he found is the account that posted the video on twitter. Nothing about the person

    • @vanzwho854
      @vanzwho854 Před 11 měsíci

      digital footprint

  • @adamgipson4959
    @adamgipson4959 Před 11 měsíci +340

    In a world where people may just be dumb enough to post a real orphan source, I feel like videos such as this one you've made make a major difference in the grand scheme of things. Huge respect to the effort that went into this.

    • @GerardMenvussa
      @GerardMenvussa Před 11 měsíci +19

      Thankfully, this person was just horsing around.

    • @PilotTed
      @PilotTed Před 11 měsíci +9

      The thing is, if they don't know its an orphan source, its really not their fault. I can see this happening with a real orphan source that emitted gamma radiation, causing the camera to become fuzzy as it would. Someone with no knowledge of this would think its neat that the item would cause the camera to do this every time it was opened or exposed to the lens. Can you really call them dumb for that? Though in all honesty, there is defiantly people out there dumb enough to do this with full knowledge of what they are about to do and the risks associated, and yet they do it for the clout and 15 minutes of fame. There are prank youtubers who have been shot and killed for "pretending" to mug/rob someone.

    • @neuralmute
      @neuralmute Před 11 měsíci +5

      @@GerardMenvussa I see what you did there. And I don't think the person who made that video is entirely stable.

    • @skeetsmcgrew3282
      @skeetsmcgrew3282 Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@neuralmute Hay, that's not farrier

    • @TheOriginalEviltech
      @TheOriginalEviltech Před 11 měsíci +4

      @@PilotTed Phone cameras have the capability to determine if they are blasted with radiation, what i don't understand is why is the camera app not programmed to warn people if the thing they are filming or shooting is radioactive... It's fairly easy to determine there is something blasting the sensor and circuitry with beta, gamma or X-rays...

  • @electricsuitbatman
    @electricsuitbatman Před 4 měsíci

    The video brought awareness to that possibility and radiation saftey needed.

  • @marta.jaworska
    @marta.jaworska Před 3 měsíci

    A reblog of that video is actually how I found out about this channel a couple months ago :)

  • @ResidentMilf
    @ResidentMilf Před 5 měsíci +2616

    I was an industrial radiographer in the Air Force, and during radiation safety class, we had to do these case studies on people who had acute radiation exposure for some reason or another, and there was one guy who was using a natural source (basically a radioactive rock in a lead box with a door you can open) to take X-rays. He got confused about which position on the switch was open and which was closed, and he was accidentally leaving the box open while changing the film and nuking the hell out of his hands. By the time he realized his mistake, it was far too late to save his hands and they had to be amputated.
    The pictures haunt my nightmares.

    • @gaykidsexisttoo
      @gaykidsexisttoo Před 4 měsíci +93

      horrifying. stuff of nightmares. this is why we need education around how harmful radiation is

    • @user-lj2cb2pj8j
      @user-lj2cb2pj8j Před 4 měsíci +12

      Dude...😮

    • @pepapu7112
      @pepapu7112 Před 4 měsíci +38

      blud was making home-made x-ray

    • @toobig7150
      @toobig7150 Před 4 měsíci +19

      Like they where hacked off right there? I'm confused.
      And dumb

    • @ResidentMilf
      @ResidentMilf Před 4 měsíci +105

      @@toobig7150 No, they started rotting, he had to go to a hospital where they were amputated.

  • @journey_to_chaos7313
    @journey_to_chaos7313 Před 11 měsíci +232

    At least one thing that I hope comes out of this is that more people get educated on what an orphan source is and what to do if they find one.

    • @al145
      @al145 Před 11 měsíci +15

      I hope I NEVER need to use this knowledge of what orphan sources are if I'm totally honest

    • @colbyboucher6391
      @colbyboucher6391 Před 11 měsíci +13

      ​@@al145 Well, personally if someone was like "hey look at this cool sealed, hollow, thick metal cylinder I found" I just... wouldn't screw with it.

    • @al145
      @al145 Před 11 měsíci +11

      @@colbyboucher6391 yeah, that's how you end up as a news article. Like those people that find old WWII bombs in their backyards and stuff.

    • @redfoxtactical8425
      @redfoxtactical8425 Před 11 měsíci +1

      I do bullet casting to shoot old black powder guns (civil war and earlier) and these lead cylinders from radiation treatments are a common source of good lead for bullets. I've never heard of anyone getting one that was still hazardous in anyway, but I can imagine it happens every now and again.

    • @greedyProphet
      @greedyProphet Před 11 měsíci +1

      And at least one person learned what pony play was

  • @Renastarsong
    @Renastarsong Před 22 dny

    Wow, today on 'there really is no universe where I predicted where this video would end up.'
    Also I did put off watching this for almost a full year because I had such anxiety about the thought, but I am very glad it ended up being fake.

  • @RaylinShire
    @RaylinShire Před 9 měsíci +386

    The funny thing is, that meme DID educate me about orphan sources and the danger they pose... I had never heard of them before, had little to no interest in nuclear energy or accidents, but I came across it on Tumblr, the replies lead me to this channel, and now I've watched the Half-Life series and other video essays on similar topics that I never would have thought I'd be interested in.

    • @nlald
      @nlald Před 4 měsíci +10

      I don’t think the meme educated me; Kyle’s explication of the meme did, though.

    • @ImBuanana
      @ImBuanana Před 4 měsíci +7

      @@nlald well it certainly raised awareness which is what the guy said he thought it would do. Same here- never heard of them before this video and without said meme, this video wouldn't exist.

    • @SamBorgman
      @SamBorgman Před 4 měsíci +4

      So memes are not ALWAYS a waste of brain cells!

  • @OfficiallySnek
    @OfficiallySnek Před 11 měsíci +154

    You have no idea how relived I am to know this was just done for the funnies

    • @GrimReaperNegi
      @GrimReaperNegi Před 11 měsíci +2

      It reminds me about those videos where someone had "holes" in their finger, and for some reason the doctor called the police, trying to drum up drama. Long story shot, it was fake, the pictures used were easy to tell that they were photoshopped.

    • @loaflad
      @loaflad Před 11 měsíci +4

      We do a little trolling

    • @noesunyoutuber7680
      @noesunyoutuber7680 Před 11 měsíci +4

      Yeah, this is 100% a story where someone would be dead if it hadn't been faked.

  • @gavooleiva6040
    @gavooleiva6040 Před 21 dnem

    Now I can only see the house magazine I the background of the video lol

  • @darksorceressharuko
    @darksorceressharuko Před 3 měsíci

    Rye Pony's "voice" reminded me of the old NurdRage videos so much that I had to go back and watch to make sure it wasn't them.

  • @Camallunt
    @Camallunt Před 11 měsíci +272

    As troublesome as the potential incident could be, this kinky person has probably raised awareness of how these objects and their spicy air could very well end your curiosity. Many people will have learnt not to play with this sort of item and what can happen while the fascination may have lead some down a rabbit hole of learning.
    Something like this meme made into an actual safety advert could have once been a valuable tool ironically before such a meme could be created.

    • @stanleybochenek1862
      @stanleybochenek1862 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Huh

    • @ManimalMoose
      @ManimalMoose Před 11 měsíci

      I don't ever want to read one of these comments again, begone foul soul. Not the stuff about spreading radiation poisoning awareness just everything before that.

    • @noirekuroraigami2270
      @noirekuroraigami2270 Před 11 měsíci

      Lol you know nothing of the folly of man

    • @peeko_luxx2873
      @peeko_luxx2873 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Spicy air! 😂

  • @OfficialSavean
    @OfficialSavean Před 11 měsíci +190

    Thanks for putting in the work on this Kyle. It would be terrifying to think an orphan source had killed some dummy and was just sitting on a shelf somewhere.

  • @ginomctony6773
    @ginomctony6773 Před 2 měsíci

    Honestly I absolutely hate when people run an image through tin eye and when it finds nothing they assume it’s nowhere else, I have MANY MANY times been unable to find an image through tin eye but then using something else find copies from tons of places.

  • @PrototypePlatform
    @PrototypePlatform Před 3 měsíci +5

    i have a nuclear accident every time i eat a triple-cheese pepperoni pizza

  • @FernandoAlvaress
    @FernandoAlvaress Před 11 měsíci +160

    I was there during the Goiania incident, I used to live just a few miles away from the site and I very much appreciate how much attention you bring to that event Kyle. Thank you so very much.

  • @davidmoore1253
    @davidmoore1253 Před 11 měsíci +375

    It's scary how hard it can be to find out if something is real or not these days. And it's only going to get worse.

    • @Ranstone
      @Ranstone Před 11 měsíci

      If it makes you feel any better, it's always been this hard. We just have mass communication so we as a population can start to see the man behind the curtain.
      Fun fact: AI machine learning has been used by the US government since the 60's. It's been used on the USS Toledo (SSN-769) submarine for a long time to passively interpret sonar, so who knows what crap was faked in the last 40 years...

    • @jerryhook5906
      @jerryhook5906 Před 11 měsíci +16

      The better technology gets at CREATING fakes, the better technology needs to get at DETECTING fakes.

    • @wonder_platypus8337
      @wonder_platypus8337 Před 11 měsíci +8

      @popdewoze not being literal but it definitely feels like some "I have no mouth and I must scream."

    • @alanwatts8239
      @alanwatts8239 Před 11 měsíci +5

      @popdewoze Remember the DCS Ukraine dogfight fakes? yeah...

    • @MrNoot39449
      @MrNoot39449 Před 11 měsíci

      ​@@jerryhook5906 We need DS9 type "IT'S A FAKE" detection, otherwise, photo, video and audio evidence becomes useless in a court of law

  • @Shlankyman545
    @Shlankyman545 Před 4 měsíci

    It’s always the weirdest anonymous deviants that do this sorta thing for “lulz” but are then surprised when it gains traction. They’re the type of people that are perpetually online but also completely unaware of what can happen offline.

  • @Av3rjkRRow
    @Av3rjkRRow Před měsícem

    7:00 the static from these "visual artifacts" look just like my visual snow 😅

  • @swapertxking
    @swapertxking Před 11 měsíci +735

    Nuclear materials are scarier if you don't understand them or how easy it is to get around. information keeps everyone safe, even if we don't think it. Thank you Mr. Hill for keeping this series going, its been a big help to begin explaining to others about the subject.

    • @dane1382
      @dane1382 Před 11 měsíci +10

      Idk knowing how painfully and decisively radiation can kill me is a lot scarier than ignorance. The only saving grace of knowing this information is now i know i havent come across any dangerous orphan sources in my life, because id already be either dead or crippled if I did.

    • @swapertxking
      @swapertxking Před 11 měsíci +5

      ​@@dane1382 well if it is any consolation, you recieve plenty of naturally occuring radiation from space and from the nuclear decay happening under our feet, why its important to have well ventilated basements to prevent Radon build up.

    • @MorphingReality
      @MorphingReality Před 10 měsíci +1

      scarier when you understand them, and consider world ending weapon stockpiles, plus every commercial reactor in existence being weaponizable, we've been one decision away from the end at least twice in just a century.

    • @swapertxking
      @swapertxking Před 10 měsíci +4

      @@MorphingReality humans and this planet are far more resillient than you'd honestly ever give credit for. this is the same planet that's had millenia of ash and fire, volcanic explosions and an asteroid slap it. life finds a way, we find a way.

    • @MorphingReality
      @MorphingReality Před 10 měsíci +3

      @@swapertxking on the contrary, i often make the claim that the biosphere is somewhat paradoxically both fragile and resilient in different ways.
      but civilization doesn't survive nuclear war.

  • @sunsetzer
    @sunsetzer Před 11 měsíci +64

    the idea that something that radioactive and is found and sold at flea markets all of the time is genuinely one of the scariest things I'll be thinking about for the rest of my life now

    • @BatteryCoverMissing
      @BatteryCoverMissing Před 11 měsíci +9

      It is not true however, the seller would open the capsule to see if anything of value is inside and they would get sick before they could even take it to the market. It makes absolutely no sense, how do you price something if you don’t know what it even is? Also big searches are conducted when these materials go missing.

    • @AlienDawg
      @AlienDawg Před 11 měsíci +3

      "I'll let you have that static rock and funny tube for $20. This other guy said he would take it for $30 though..."

  • @JJ305JJ
    @JJ305JJ Před 3 měsíci

    The thumbnail had me confused i thought it was the louder with crowder dude

  • @stevefrommars
    @stevefrommars Před 3 měsíci

    Wow what a well constructed video , thanks

  • @aaronfoster5680
    @aaronfoster5680 Před 11 měsíci +229

    The ending can be interpreted in a far more sinister way than usual here.
    “I am at least glad that this isn’t history’s first example of social media literally ‘going nuclear.’ Unfortunately, of course, we might not be able to tell if and when it actually does…until next time.”

    • @Hellsong89
      @Hellsong89 Před 11 měsíci +7

      I start to think about getting radiation detector given number of orphan sources floating around and not just that but amount of just data related radiation from phone and internet antennas. For some just the EM radiation alone from home appliances can cause negative effects to their health, most likely effecting iron in their blood.

    • @ThaBeatConductor
      @ThaBeatConductor Před 11 měsíci

      @@Hellsong89 Bro. Learn the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation please. Antennas and the internet aren't giving you cancer, it's non-ionizing electo-magnetic radiation. If you're so concerned about getting irradiated, never go in the sun again because it is giving you ionizing radiation, and cancer.

    • @nvelsen1975
      @nvelsen1975 Před 11 měsíci

      Oh well, nuclear. I mean, we already have influencers. Something less bad than that, such as nuclear accidents is kind of like a point we've already passed. 😉

    • @nothingtoseehere1221
      @nothingtoseehere1221 Před 11 měsíci

      ​@@nvelsen1975 just like a kitchen knife, one moment of complacency can be dangerous.

    • @drowneymckill-a-listener8923
      @drowneymckill-a-listener8923 Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@Hellsong89 I got a little Geiger counter off of Amazon. Best 100 bucks I ever spent. The only thing it doesn´t measure is FUN. And alpha lol. I wouldn´t worry about phones and stuff though. I have alot of uranium glass and radium clocks, and my levels are still at normal background.

  • @wakrusgumbo
    @wakrusgumbo Před 11 měsíci +185

    All I'm saying is: I knew nothing about Orphan sources, and I'm the kind of person who would buy something like it for some unfathomable reason. So: at least for me, this video has legitimately made me aware of a danger. I had no idea you could actually buy something like that.

    • @PlatypusVomit
      @PlatypusVomit Před 11 měsíci +11

      I'm the kind of idiot who buys oddities, and I don't frequent flea markets, but yeah...

    • @NeonDisciple
      @NeonDisciple Před 11 měsíci

      Bro same, I buy weird random stuff all the time from places like that. I had no idea that could actually happen

    • @avryantoinette
      @avryantoinette Před 11 měsíci +7

      I am the *exact* type of person who would find something like this and be like "is there anything cool inside?" and open it.

    • @Simon-ho6ly
      @Simon-ho6ly Před 11 měsíci +5

      Buying it is one thing, the scarier thing is occasionally its possible to literally find something like this at the roadside or hiking.. fairly rare to find a source that way for sure but far from impossible

    • @kylehill
      @kylehill  Před 11 měsíci +31

      well, it's highly illegal

  • @Nina-us2mz
    @Nina-us2mz Před 3 měsíci

    I recently saw a post on an app where someone found uranium in their stone windowsill. That shit scares me

  • @devilsnightgaming
    @devilsnightgaming Před 4 měsíci +2

    well done Kyle

  • @benjabby
    @benjabby Před 11 měsíci +99

    What had me questioning it was that the static is gray-scale. It seems very odd to me that gamma radiation would elicit the exact same spectral response in the R,G, and B cells of the camera sensor.

    • @KarolOfGutovo
      @KarolOfGutovo Před 11 měsíci +8

      My guess is it's completely saturating a bunch of detectors, so the middle of the affected area is white and only the fringes are colorful, but barely noticable due to converdions/size etc

    • @Dorsidwarf
      @Dorsidwarf Před 11 měsíci +3

      @@KarolOfGutovo Pretty dumb guess since the video confirms that it's a casual hoax lol

    • @freedustin
      @freedustin Před 11 měsíci

      Digital cameras do not have unique sensors for RGB. These sensors only pickup "if light is present." They have 3 of the same exact sensor with a colored filter over the one assigned to that color, so that one color goes to one sensor and all other colors do not go to that sensor. It combines the output of all 3 to make a full color image. A filter will do nothing to radiation.
      Since digital cameras, effects and editing are well understood, this is an easy hoax to make online.

    • @kedrednael
      @kedrednael Před 11 měsíci

      @@freedustin But each colored filter is for one specific sensor. The data from 4 sensors (2 green, 1 blue, 1 red) gets combined into one RGB pixel. If radiation were to activate multiple closeby sensors, the sensors would most often be part of different RGB pixels, leading to colored noise.
      I see now that it is even more extreme nowadays: there are phone camera's with 4 sensor per color filter patch. So data from 8 green sensors, 4 blue sensors, 4 red sensors, from 2, 1, 1 green, blue red filters is combined into one RGB pixel.

    • @freedustin
      @freedustin Před 11 měsíci

      @@kedrednael the sensors are tiny and right next to each other. the radiation will hit them all at the same time producing grayscale results.
      Also there is the fact that these sensors do not even pick up radiation in this spectrum to begin with. Its likely the radiation is causing electrical interference in the wires at every stage of the device so whatever output happens is just fked up.

  • @Hibiscus.Witch.
    @Hibiscus.Witch. Před 11 měsíci +295

    This was a rollercoaster of a story lol learning about how being viral really works, to being impressing by Kyle’s research determination, and laughing about the account.

  • @thedude-sp8po
    @thedude-sp8po Před 3 měsíci +63

    I can't believe someone can make such a big deal out of an obvious shitpost

    • @andrewt013
      @andrewt013 Před 3 měsíci +12

      this is the new content formula waste someones time but make it look pretty

    • @Sarcastitonea
      @Sarcastitonea Před 3 měsíci +15

      fr, this video could have been 30 seconds had he not wanted to pass all the time he wasted to conclude was everyone already knew onto us
      "is this video fake?"
      "well I found the original post and they said it was"

    • @joao34386
      @joao34386 Před 3 měsíci +31

      ​@@Sarcastitonea Did TikTok rot your brain so badly that you'd believe anything people say online without explanations?
      The detailed process of his research with the proof that what he is saying is true, is exactly what makes the video so interesting to watch. The only way to condense it down into 30 seconds is by leaving out the most interesting parts.
      Is this video fake? - "It's fake cause this person said so" - Okay, who is that person? - "They're the original poster" - How do we know they are the original poster? - "Their ponyplay account was the first source of the video I found" - How did you find it? - "I reverse image searched an iFunny post" - Why did you reverse image search that? - and so on and forth. By the time you actually properly prove all your claims, you have an entire video again.

    • @MrEatSomeBrains
      @MrEatSomeBrains Před 3 měsíci

      @@joao34386 Did TikTok rot your brain so bad that you need every obvious faked video explained into miniscule details?
      There was never arguing about the fact that this video is a fake. It was bait and idiots like you obviously fell for it and now you need some kind of explanation to feel better about yourself because you feel like a complete idiot.
      The video above is even worse than the faked video. Because Kyle hill knows that the video is faked but refuses to acknowledge that up until almost the end of the video.

    • @ajax3310
      @ajax3310 Před 3 měsíci +2

      ​@@joao34386 the funniest part is Kyle is clearly speaking for Rye Pony with a filter on. Identical cadence and sentence structure. Bruh 😂

  • @iAgentLu
    @iAgentLu Před 3 měsíci +5

    The most terrifying thing is "experts" like this. 7:47

    • @KebboStar
      @KebboStar Před 13 dny

      Hey, experts can be fooled, no ones fool proof. Plus the traning set is probably more general in the contamination experts set, plus he likley had to assume based on the camera fuzz since Im not sure why he would be constantly aware of something as obscure as camera fuzz near ration