The Truth About the Charlie Charlie Challenge
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- We may not be sure who’s behind it, but we can tell you that the Charlie Charlie Challenge doesn’t really work. Because physics.
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2:25 As a teacher, I can tell you that ghosts do communicate with us via school supplies. My pens keep going missing. I take this to mean that those in the afterlife are working on a killer essay and keep running out of ink.
LOL. as I student that steals pens I can relate to this HA too funny
Nolan Thiessen Waiting for the people who take this seriously.
Nolan Thiessen "those in the afterlife are working on a killer essay"
hah i see what you did there.
KILLER ESSAY.
DEAD PEOPLE.
That would be one hell of an essay.
As someone whose pens always go missing regardless of whether there are people around or not... WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY!? I just bought a pack of 20 and they dwindled to 8 in less than a day! WHY?! Is it gremlins? Do they sprout legs? Are they teleporting to another dimension along with all my left socks and the screws that hold my glasses together? Please explain this phenomenon to me scishow.
Sassy Hank is favourite Hank.
emmablackery Emma I never expected to find you here!! :) - not in a mean or anything
emmablackery any hank=favourite hank
woah emma watches scishow
Emma Blackery hello sexy
Emma Blackery I have a question though. What if you actually don't blow on it and it moves back and forth? You can't make it suddenly erratically move in another direction that easily by blowing on it.
For extra amusement, once he starts explaining how it works, mentally add: "You idiots" to the end of his sentences
It's hard to imagine him NOT thinking that, to be fair. Hank sounds pretty disappointed in the fact that he has to explain this! lol
Fervidor This comment is genius haha!
Your so weird
@@ayaanmahamed631 *you're
Hank in a rage.
I KNOW, RIGHT? About as 'negative' as Hank can be, it seems. lol
This had to be explained?
Flying Spaghetti Monster Apparently it was more important to explain this than it was to answer my thoughtful questions.
Flying Spaghetti Monster Yes, along with that dress thing. People are stupid.
Flying Spaghetti Monster Touch me with your noodly appendages, oh mighty one. May I sip from your crimson sauce of nourishment. Blessed be thou. R'Amen.
Flying Spaghetti Monster Yes. That's how low the society has come
Professor Catus oh yea? lower than it was when it was accepted that diseases come from bad/smelly air(300 years ago!!)?? fuck off. the world is only becoming better.
Hank looks so disappointed in the internet
In humanity
***** I expected him to flip a table at some point.
***** he should be lol
Nearly everyone here shares that feeling
He look disappointed in the American Society
i have literally never heard of the Charlie Charlie Challenge. how long has it been going around?
Quite a few weeks. Urban you tubers who have been doing this challenge to either prove that it is false or have acting that's so terrible it's hard to miss that they know the challenge is fake. My favorite was pewdiepie's video doing the challenge.
CPLCraft "Charlie, Charlie, do my parents love me?" -Pewdiepie, 2k15
Romandy Dimaranan lol
Shannon F there was a riot in a school in Brazil because of it, which ended in many stomped children....it really happened...you can look it up
Shannon F The reason you've never heard of it is because you don't have moronic friends.
You should do an explanation for the Ouija Board
Sapphire Shard its already explained by countless other people
Such a lovely science that goes behind that one
Sapphire Shard in short, from what i know, there is movement from at least one person that causes everyone else to follow. That movement is initiated for some reason that is beyond me (subconsciously or something) but in an experiment where people did a Ouija board blind folded after seeing the board they formed words, but then again when the letters were unknowingly changed around they made gibberish
I think they do... Either that or D News
Sapphire Shard yassss
Was... this really a mystery to people?
-_-
UnknownXV Yes. Mostly among the kids though, so its not as bad as it sounds, and that's mostly because people attached a ghost story to it to freak out gullible kids.
Nick Baynes i wish that was true, as a joke some boys were doing it in class (im a junior in high school) and one girl got SOOO SCARED that a demon was entering "our world" that she started crying.
Katti Sandra Yeah that kind of thing is what I was talking about.
I didn't just mean kids as in 10 and under though, just kids in general as in those that are still going to school and whatnot.
Nick Baynes ahhh i got ya. i suppose 17 is still considered a child im some ways
UnknownXV Yep. Read an article on Christianity Today talking about some exorcist saying it was a devil and whatnot and that it should be banned from all schools.. I assure you it was not a satirical article. LOL
The truth is that I learnt more Physics from a year of CZcams than from 7 years of school.
True
Max Đỗ Then you have missed the point of those videos. Their main purpose is to generate genuine interest so that hopefully you get more out of school, not be a replacement for it.
Joel Bierman Well, that's just not true.
What kind of shit school did you go to?
Max Đỗ You probably went to a terrible school
it's funny because as Hank said "objects at rest stay at rest" my computer froze and i had to reload the page
Unless disturbed by some other force
*Your computer need some rest*
[Ok] [No u]
Murphy's law: when nothing can go wrong, something does.
I learnt about this in English class. We had a supply teacher who, when she heard the chanting, cried, "are you trying to summon the ghost of Charles Dickens?"
I feel like Hank was so mad that he had to spend time to explain this haha
Never heard of this challenge and I am astonished that there are people who didn't understand how it works. The moment he said what the challenge is, it becomes instantly obvious that you simply blow on it. There have been studies showing that the average IQ of the human population is growing. This makes me doubt that.
It's growing? How is that possible?
Blaze Taleo people in poorly developed nations such as those in Africa receive more education
Blaze Taleo IQ is based on skill testing.
People who are more educated tend to have better reasoning skills, so perform better on IQ tests.
Raul Iacoban It is literally impossible for the average IQ of humanity to change, since it is always 100 by definition.
***** IQ is what IQ tests measure. The populations tested are simply getting better at doing the tests.
How else am I supposed to communicate without your pencils?
3spoky4me
CZcams comment sections, obvs
HalcyonSerenade
I use pencils to type on this keyboard
Duh pens
I need more of Hank's anger in my life, this is awesome
I'd like a weekly or monthly series where he just gets pissed about BS psuedo science
I love how you can just tell how much Hank is saddened by the fact that he has to explain this to people.
Haha you can just tell he was thinking the same thing as me "how the Fuck did people not work this out themselves?" XD
My bottom pencil moved... top didn't move a nanometer...
+Simon Seal much wow
+Simon Seal PLOT TWIST: You were upside-down
say charlie charlie come out and play charlie charlie eat and stay then blow it it'll make your friends freakout
5 years later and it's trending again: Grab your tickets here
Favourite part of this episode was the news clipping
wikithefish I'm looking for a translation in the comments
***** Apart from the heading, which is obviously in English, the rest looks like Lorem Ipsum. It's meaningless but looks like Latin. Google it.
joelproko that makes more sense... I thought it was nonsense written in Latin as a private joke for those who could read it
***** thats basically what lorem ipsum is. It's a bunch of Latin words that probably had an original meaning at some point, but has been so misconstrued, mistranslated, and so many facetious additions have been added to it that it hardly means anything anymore, and serves only as filler text.
Basically, it's nonsense written in mostly existing Latin words
wikithefish Hey Wiki! Didn't expect to see you here! (I'm John9n from Jordan's twitch streams)
you seemed particularly ranty in this video
ashley beaumont woudn't you? Most people are incredibly dumb...
Skippa1986 i would dumb ppl are annoying
Skippa1986 Ikr fucking dumbass going around CHARLIE CHARIE HUEHUEHUEHUE. I cant believe people believe in this stuff like God, Demons, Thor, etc. lol
Luis R. Hey HEY Thor is totally real! just like the unicorns that hide with the Irish behind the rainbow making sweet sweet love to each other XD
The unicorns, the Irish, or the unicorns and the Irish? Because that last one's more of a Wales thing.
So far, 204 people have declared themselves allergic to science and fact-based reality.
astrophonix
they disliked it because it's a lame video that has nothing to do with science. Only morons believed that something like that isn't a trick. Are morons scientific?
551.
+astrophonix 595, it's getting sadder and sadder.
+AZpeasy Yup, that annoythefish is a failed one among us.
601...
But none of us were near the pencils when it moved...
Magician's string.
Wait, this isn't Charlie the unicorn...
Wait, were people _really_ getting worked up about this? gj Internet.
I was expecting this to be covered bu SciShow! Thank you so much!
Thank you for this one, SciShow. My little sister was going crazy about this 'ghost summoning'. I told her it would only be a matter of time before SciShow did a video explaining it
Who is here in January 2021 after seeing this creepy challenge ✋🏽😅
Me
Me. Back to the normal world. Now my life can move on.
No! I want to believe that The Universe wants to answer my yes/no questions through pencils. Because the Universe wants my success and to let me know I should indulge in a Tim Tam slam. Because yumminess and happiness.
Honestly it's the first I've heard of this.
Now to ask the pencils if I should make Milo or Coffee for the Tim Tam slam.... Maybe I should just flip a coin.
You're a fellow Aussie aren't you?
It's good to a friend in this wildernesses.
G'day! ;)
Yeah, QLD at the mo. You?
I actually chose vegemite on toast and a mug of tea. Cause I feel like Tim Tams are more of an arvo thing.
I've gotta agree with you there, not really a morning thing. I was lucky I got maccas for brekkie this morning but I think I'll have some milo soon.
Rainefaelyn Man, I love Tim Tams.
MatonMastersound You didn't ask, but I'm going to share any way. Because...reasons.I have a packet of 3 bean Tim Tams in the fridge. Coffee bean, cocoa bean and vanilla bean. Don't how it works. Only that it does.
Now usually I'm a bit of a purist. Original or nothing. I still lean that way.
But I brought home a caffè mocha. Saw an untapped packet of these 3 bean beauties in the fridge and thought. "Yep, Imma slam one of them bad boys.
So I de-lid the mocha, open the Tim Tams and even though a little voice in the back of my head was telling me to be prepared for disappointment. I went for it.
It was a thing of beauty. A mouthful of magic. A party in my mouth and everyone is having an awesome time.
Moral of the story. Buy Tim Tams.
I am glad that I am old enough (as in, not in my teens or younger) to have completely missed this whole thing and never heard of it until this video.
What I got from this episode, "You can actually balance two pencils on top of one another."
I can't believe you actually had to make a video about this... Sorry, not trying to insult anyone, but how dumb/young would one have to be to not figure this out themselves? ;D
UrbanTarzan Duh I must be dumb then.
***** yes you are
***** I clicked on the video because i thought this was about pencils & how you can't balancea pencil on it's head
***** It's sad. A bunch of people in my math class were doing it to see if it worked. Yeah... On the bright side, I kept asking Charlie shitty questions like if he owned a white van or if the kids in my class were seriously retarded.
Hippy Dippy lol
2:41 “Memesphere” is the best word I’ve heard all year
THIS GAME IS REAL!!! DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT PLAY THIS!! I have played it once and it followed me home!!!😢😢😢And this guy that's speaking on the video is stupid I have played it and NEVER EVER EVER AGAIN!!!!After I played this game I started to hear footprints behind me when I went for walks and heard wings behind me and shadows beside my own shadow just like if someone would stand beside me!!! It is very creepy and I just wanted to say...if i could go back and undo the game i would!! At first it was funny till the pencil moved and then we were done!!! And we stood 3 meters away from the pencil...no wind was there....please nobody do this its very dangerous I just wanted to warn you all!!! Thanks bye
This game is not real
we want more explanatory videos like this one guys :)) laughed so hard
I laughed so hard at this. I didn't know about this challenge thingy. Thank you Hank, you made my day ! :D
Will humans ever run out of note combinations so that we cannot make original music any longer?
Wx4Hawk Vsauce made a video on that.
Wx4Hawk Yes we will, there is a limited amount of sounds that combined make pleasing music.
Yes we'll run out of pleasing music, but there is so much of it that you won't get through it during your lifetime. Also we'll forget most of it and keep on reinventing it.
No, because we can always add one note at the end when we 'run out'
Can you believe that my school made so that you get detention if you do the Charlie Charlie challenge?
"Where ghosts are all around us, and can only be summoned through school supplies." XD
Thank you guys for the great videos and helping us learn something new every day.
Looks at comment tally; 0. Refreshes comment tally; 13.
So close.
why do commercials in tv always cut each other off
The company who paid for the ad time didn't pay enough. :P
commercials are pretty much charged based on what time they air, what else is showing at that time, what channel its on, and once that's all figured out they charge by the second. Sometimes to increase initial sales they'll make an ad that's either extra long and airs during a less expensive time or they make a regular ad that plays during prime time. After they have that initial increase in sales during the original ad campaign they'll reuse the same ad and rerun it during less expensive time slots and/or trim the ad down, the last few seconds of ads are sometimes just time to let the ad soak in, they're not usually conveying new information so it's easy to cut the last couple seconds and maybe the first seconds of an ad to make it shorter without effecting the core message and without losing key information. Sometimes the TV channel may raise their rates or may to try and minimize time between ads and that can lead to kind of jarring shifts as two ads ram together.
TL;DR it's to save costs on ads.
My first thought was "surely as you ask the question you'll be shaking the pencil as its so light" and the explanation was ever simpler then that.
Thank you Hank & SciShow, I loooove you!
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snart good comment
This comment moved me tears
10 out of 10
Perfect in every way
-everybody
Too much water
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John Johnson :))))))
snart now you've *dun* it
Let's get a pizza snart, I've got 5 red gems, but watch out for DANGER
*blows on pencil* holy shit must be a spooky ghost
You're back!
I once did the Charlie Charlie challenge to mock the whole thing. And I recall specifically blowing one end of the pencil to bias the results (although you can't see my head in the video)
Thank you for explaining this because now I can take this information and share it with the crazy kids at my school who won't stop freaking out! The light that went out at the exact moment they asked the question was just a weird coincidence... right?
this video was pi long.
I get it
xD
The PUNS! 😂
I thought Pi was 3.14? This video says 3:13 for me.
The sheer force of the frustration exerted from Hank's face onto this video is enough to move ~forty thousand Charlie Charlie Challenge pencils.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS!!!! All of my friends say it's a spirit and me, being the nerd I am, IT SCIENCE!!!!
Most of my classmate believe in this......Oh god how our school system is failing
I've played six pencils, and trust me, it's real. Me and my friend could litterly feel a pull on our hands, and the worst part is that he wouldn't let us leave until we promised to play again, which we did, but the second time my brother was in the room and so we were increadibly unfocused, and i had sprayed holy water in the room about a week earlier, sooo
Thank you very much! I was so scared on that game
Damn it Scishow, you knew some of us would pause at 1:02 to try to read the text so you wrote the article in Latin...Touché.
Wasn't the Charlie Charlie challenge supposed to be some gimmick or marketing thing for some low key horror movie? Then it somehow turned into a meme
When I speak breath comes out of my face. And food. And spit. And some foul odors.
Why can't I get a second date?
I can't believe you even entertained the thought that this junior high magic trick warrants the production of a video explanation.
I now want a T-shirt that says 'Gravity: always exerted on every part of an object'. Just so people are reminded.
Come on, a mexican 'demon' named Charlie!? That's a red flag in of itself! That demon be sounding posh af.
Maybe if it was an actual mexican name like: 'Pedro' or 'Juan', it could have been at least believable...
Dominic Go Or an actual demon name but whatever.
Dominic Go Charlie is his stage name, his actual name was too weird and he would never get famous being called that.
Leandro Montanari Braz Or that it's a made up ploy to freak out idiots who don't know that blowing on a pencil can make it spin.
Darticus the Great Nah, my version is better.
Lawrence Zeng i admit, it sounded better in my head xD
Memeosphere - New word
Goabnb94 I think he ment "Memeosphere"... the O is simply there to pronounce it better :P
***** Typo
I have to insist that it should be spelt "memosphere" or "memesphere." "Memeosphere" looks like it should be pronounced with four syllables.
Hahahaha, can't believe you had to cover this topic Hank!
Did anybody else hear "Newton's first law stimulates..." or do I maybe just have to talk to a therapist about my relationship with physics?
Question for the scientists: If it's 0 degrees today, and it's gonna be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold will it be?
Josef Schwardt around -24. depending on what you consider room temperature.
Josef Schwardt what's "twice as cold" in the first place? o.O
Josef Schwardt I'm assuming that twice as cold means half the temperature of the previous day. Well, if this is in degrees Kelvin (Kelvin isn't measured in degrees but lets ignore that for now), 0/2 = *0 Kelvin*. But if it's 0 degrees Celsius, which is 273.15 Kelvin, ((0+273.15)/2)= 136.58 Kelvin or about *-136.57 degrees Celsius*. If it's 0 degrees Fahrenheit, that's 255.37 Kelvin /2 = 127.685 Kelvin, which is *-229.837 degrees Fahrenheit*.
Since you mentioned a scientific question, let's go by scientific rules. Kelvin is the most applicable measurement of temperature in science because it models how there cannot be negative energy (can't go lower than 0). but since Kelvin isn't measured in degrees that doesn't really count. The next most applicable is arguably Celsius since it's based on Kelvin, so the correct answer is probably *-136.57 degrees celsius*.
There you go.
Well what I would've done is converted Celsius to Kelvin, because Kelvin shows how much energy mass has, multiply that by two and then converted that back to Celsius. Now this is definitely not the way to calculate the temperature of tomorrow but it's a simple way to put it, even though it's incorrect, most likely.
CPLCraft I converted to Kelvin in each of those as well. Why multiply by two? That would make it twice as hot, since the higher the number the more potential energy/heat.
My uncle Charlie used to tell me to blow on his pencil. My understanding of the Charlie Charlie challenge is very different.
Tofu Kingpin lol
I remember playing this in school and would secretly try to blow on it to scare the girls 😂
Thank you! I played the game like 5 months ago and it like work but i think it was because me and my friends where sitting on a bed and like we where speaking really loud and tbh it really freaked me out and i got really scared i mean nothing actually happened to me or my friend-so this video really reassured me that its just my breath. Again thank you i had a lot of sleepless nights thinking that a ghost was after me when it was nothing.
** Insert Thank you meme **
u fockin wot m8
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ClemboyGaming 673
ClemboyGaming IT'S A SIGN!
Speak Of The devil.
I've never heard of this challenge, yet if I had I would have come to the same conclusion rather quickly. Thank you again, *****, for explaining science in an entertaining way that may reach people still trapped in a world of fantasy. Speaking of science and fantasy, I'm loving your work with ***** and the rest of the gang on TitansGrave: the Ashes of Valkana. Keep up the great work!
I'm an elementary school teacher and you just explained my life for the past few weeks. I didn't *think* there were any students named Charlie, lol.
Thank you for posting this, I was tired of debating with people that this wasn't demons. My patreon money is well spent with you guys.
Haku infinite if they are that stupid, any sane person and non stupid person would stop being friends with them.
The meme-o-sphere...
The dankest layer of atmosphere there is...
That is why I have a lot of pencils lying around.
To communicate with ghosts.
I'm disappointed in the fact this wasn't featured on our final physics exam this year.
I still can't believe how something as stupid went viral on the internet. Thanks SciShow for exposing such online hoaxes that are allegedly beyond reason!
its not really an online hoax, it's a fairly old urban legend that was started and mostly spread in classrooms before making its way onto the internet years later. I vaguely remember kids doing similar things in school about 10-15 years ago, back when social media was mostly about sharing your favorite hot topic fashion and your favorite emo music, back in those halceon days when politicians were terrified of computers and didnt blast stream of consciousness posts about every little thought that pops into their head...
I can't believe you had to do this video. Loosing faith in humanity...
Hank, you make my day everyday
And......subscribed. Good channel.
was this explaining even needed? ^^" like gee people, what happen with common sense?
Engel Lucroix
#Trump2016
Did we really need an explanation for this stupid game
Can you explain the wave duality model? I want to know why a wave function collapses on itself when looked upon. Thank you
Can you explain the oujia board then? Because i would like to see your perspective on that.
Your reasons are not correct. I tried to ask questions in my mind, even it works. I think you should do that for yourself and then make a video.
This was... Kinda dumb. And not terribly interesting. Why....? Why is there a video on this?
RadgarEleding Because some people are dumb. This one time i saw a few students at my school sitting at a desk yelling CHARLIE CHARLIE CHARLIE CHARLIE and then saying stuff like OMG , how is this happening , can this be real, is our school haunted. So I hope you understand why an explanation for the dumb s sometimes needed.
Money, they will make lots of money
***** That ..... I actually can't argue against.
***** not really. The smartest, most rational people sometimes have a 'blind spot', so to speak. Some otherwise perfect rational people can believe in stuff like ghosts and supernatural stuff.
RadgarEleding Cause people are stupid. And they believed that there was actually a ghost named charlie moving the pencils.
I love when SciShow tackles pop science!
I was so fed up with the 3rd grade students I was subbing for gathering around the table and doing this, I spoiled it for them and told them to watch this video.
The first time I saw the Charlie Charlie challenge on Instagram, I instantly thought it was because of people's breaths is what caused it to move. I damn well knew I was right.
"by way of school supplies" Man I love Hank
Next episode hank explains how uncles everywhere don't really steal your nose or pull off their thumb. Thanks I haven't laughed that hard in a long while.
The salt coming of this episode of SciShow ruined my perfectly cooked dinner.
And that makes it a wonderful episode in my mind.
Please talk about that new space x thing. I didn't hear much about it at all, but it was something to do with global wifi.
When we exert a force on an object (i.e. pressing your hand against a hard material) is that actually the work of the electrostatic force?
Hey scishow!!
It would be intresting to see a video how memories are stored in the brain! :)
I replaced your primitive blowing method with some fancy magnets and my knee. I don't think our secretary will be coming back next school year. (Yes...some high school kids put me up to this Charlie thing)
That was awesome - ghosts can only communicate via school supplies...lol
Tricks along these lines are fairly classic. It's probably worth pointing out that the mechanical equilibrium is complicated by small irregularities in the surfaces of the table and the pencils, etc. While the system at rest remains so, it only takes a very small amount of alteration in conditions - a small amount of air current or some condensation from exhaled air close to the system - to upset the equilibrium enough to create the observed effects. Mentalists and stage magicians have used the 'blow on it' method for things like these for ages, and when done competently they can create some fairly convincing illusions. :)
Tumbs up for that ending
1:01 What language is that? I tried putting it into translate.google.com and it said, like I thought, that it was Latin, but it couldn't translate much of any of it.
John Smith Software generated templates fill up space by using random Latin words. They don't actually mean anything, it's just a random assortment of them in no meaningful order