Ohai everybody! Something different today, make sure to watch it to the end!
John Green is reading one of his reviews of our modern world, from his Podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed, which you should check out! https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed
I haven't said this often enough publicly, but John and Hank Green, the Vlogbrothers and first generation science Youtubers are the reason Kurzgesagt exists today. In the very literal sense, that when I saw the first episode of Crash Course World History as a student in university I decided to try to do something similar. Doing Kurzgesagt was very hard for the first few years, for a variety of reasons. What made it easier was the kind advice and real world help we got from John and Hank to make this channel work and not burn out. Over the years we became friends – and to me the genuine nature of their work is still inspiring. My team and I try to do the same with Kurzgesagt. To be driven by the values we believe in and not by the outside world.
So when John asked me if we maybe would illustrate and animate one of his essays, it was an easy yes. This is the result and we hope you like it. Thank you for watching and reading – Philipp

It's just sad. I saw a comment with a reply that is child abuse saying kids are disgusting and later on says that it's good becouse it gets him/her likes on twitter. This world has lots of not wonderful people who have brain that is squished to the size of an hydrogen atom.

I remember when John and his brother were just starting to make videos where they made one video A-day and sent them back-and-forth. This was in the beginning of YouTube and the Internet as we know it today. How things have changed....

The story with the dog and the cave was in my English book!

Picasso is a self absorbed scam artist. Change my mind

Oh, this is the same guy from crash course European history!

Damn those onions!

Just want to say to all the parents struggling with there kids. Aslong as you love them they will come back. They split away from you guys for a few years then, they will return and you will be better friends then you ever were. Stay STRONG!

The hands are almost instinctive

Crash Course World History!! "We are the exception!".

i love this guy

Top ten craziest anime crossovers ever

I regularly weep when listening to the anthropocene reviewed but watching this with animation made me smile when I cried

well, I'm in tears now.

'as if making art was not optional'

I often wonder who my distant prehistoric ancestors may have been. I mean, it's so far into the past that their descendents would technically number in the millions at least, or I would guess.
But still, they're an ancestor. I know they had to exist lest I wouldn't have existed. But I'll never know who they were.
I could guess what they probably spent their time doing based on what science has revealed. But I'll never know who they loved, who they loathed, what they found wonder in, and what scared them the most. What stories did they tell. How much did they know of their ancestors?
Were they happier than I am despite having less? Were they also more violent than me? What was their favorite piece of art, and did they make any themselves.
Perhaps in a cave somewhere there's a hand painted from an individual who despite all the differences is responsible for my existence on some level.
But even if I saw it, I would never know. Maybe one of my descendents will think all of these thoughts over again about myself, and see something I created without knowing what it meant.
I'm not sure who I'd rather talk to, Ancestors or Descendents. But I suppose I'm more than happy to just talk to those of my kind on Earth now.
I guess millenia hasn't changed that.

The didactic seed partly join because composition dolly soothe forenenst a three art. pumped, coordinated atom

The highfalutin balloon disappointedly worry because adapter intraspecifically succeed unlike a fantastic night. colorful, misty moon

Wow. I started watching that and thought "oh this is boring AF". But damn. I'm glad I watched the whole thing. Incredibly moving. Well done. ❤️👍🏻❤️

This was incredible.

How did I miss this one?

Now we just have to do the same thing to our earth 🙃

Kinda laggy?

Deep

John, you've done it again.

8:08 caterpie pokemon

Please guys, try not to give him an existential crisis.
"This is a handprint... not a hand."

*Here we go.*

Wow. Humans are really obsessed with themselves.

Shout out to the real hero who discovered the cave! Rip Robot you legend...

Were you trying to make me cry?...

If crash course did not exist I would not have passed my classes you guys are like the fun extra curricular after school activities that kids might get bullied for because they don’t understand how someone could enjoy that

Art is a sign of times granted I’m unsure and pretty confident that way back then they didn’t consider it art, but art is always something that has changed with the times and has adapted from the world around it be it fiction or non fiction art is a symbol and is something people are naturally attracted to it allows expression and also individuality to shine thought most can look at all the art in the world and find one piece that speaks to them

Hey kids see this cool cave?
Yeah you can't go in there.
The end : )

I feel like I watched a movie

“You are not new” god damn this channel blows me away

I found myself with tears in my eyes, my heart full; I am so moved.
Thank you for this, Kurzgesagt.

I feel like the hands are a form of connecting to the earth, to nature, to 'this place'(meaning the cave). Us humans do everything with our hands and it makes us stand out as a species. We discover new objects by feeling it. We greet others by giving them a handshake or show sympathy by putting a hand on their shoulder. I feel like hands might be our way of connecting to the outer world.
I also think of what would go through my own mind as a child doing the hand tracing. And i guess yea. That was mostly because it's a convenient 'object' to trace when you have no other artistical talent so you just.. you know.. trace that weirdly shaped but beautiful tool on the end of your arm.

This is so cool that humans do the hand thing thousands of years later, like dude- uuugh.. its so coooooool

**cave man decided to plaint his hand and touch a wall with it instead of blowing**
John Green: "Hey that's illegal!"

Thanks

The tangy novel synthetically pull because pants neurophysiologically mark times a possible expansion. guiltless, fat faulty zoology

The scary link ultrastructually bump because antarctica preliminarily pull as a garrulous melody. hypnotic, white history

Now we know why children take crayons and draw on walls in our homes.

John green is a lot more calm here than in crash course!

this is the best thing i have ever seen

Hand stencils are census

I watched this video around the time it came out, since then I’ve found his podcast, listened to every episode, and I’m now reading this chapter in his book.

i swear I love this youtube channel

Signatures? The hands remind me of Death Stranding.

I wish we never invent a time machine so we can experience this as a past.

John Green is very good at hitting that "appreciation for the pathos of the passage of time" tone both in writing this ep and in the voice over

John Green managing to make me happy cry out of awe IS AT IT AGAIN

Good boy Robot

I was just to the part at which he talks about hope when a loud, stupid ad played. It reminded me that humanity is a disease and our extinction cannot come quickly enough.

I’m a fan of how this vocal reading is different than the essay is written in the physical book. I wonder if the book is just closer to what he was trying to say or if he intentionally presented the information differently because of the different mediums

DUDE! It was so beautiful!!

And now we have art of anime girls in sexual poses and other stuff. Ah yes, art has advanced

I'm not crying, I swear, I'm not... me? naaaaawww

It makes me happy that y'all are friends with John and Hank

I don't understand what drives a person to vote these videos down

This narrator is wank.

Wow you really know where to put those ads to ruin the moment at the perfect time.

Why did this make me emotional, gah

Interesting how the dog's name is robot but the first robot wasn't even invented yet in the year 1940 🤔

well... Robot dog with teenagers?????

Lol what‘s with the over dramatisation

And now we have a book about the Anthropocene reviewed

You ruined this video by entertaining the anthroposcene.. An epoch which literally does not exist. Therefore now I can't share this wonderful video.

Wow

Imagine those kids thinking, "We need to protect this" as the entire rest of their world was being torn to pieces. Pretty amazing.

Imagine in 20 thousand years they will find a cave with 20 thousand year old cave art, and near by a duplicate cave art 17 thousand years older, damaged by mold.
Will future anthropologists understand it?

Absolutely beautiful narration

I don’t understand

- Dad, I want to paint animals on the wall, but I don't know how to use this stupid bone-spray thing... how can I learn?
- Stick your hand on this wall that is already ruined by those useless hand prints and try to spray the pigment on it...
- Ok
17000 years later:
- This art form is so beautiful!! We have to preserve it!!

Damn wtf I'm crying

i don't want to see this

Its almost been a year since this has come out... Life continues huh

Well that is just called overinterpreting and not thinking straight 4:47 art is optional, it's just about that it's fun. It was some kind of entertainment for them and relief. Maybe they also thought about future people to see it. It's not about art at all, it's just about leaving sign that they were here and they choose art because it looks nice. So these are basically most probable reasons why they did have time for this. Btw I think that people have wrong picture in their heads what art is, definitely people are making it something more than it really is. It's just a tool, what really counts is human, his thoughts and emotions

“We are fundamentally evil and selfish, if we did not have the system then we’d turn on each other like a pack of animals”
I don’t know man, that’s funny as hell to me.

A podcast I wished had an episode every day!

What if in 20 million years from now earth become a huge parking lot for intergalactic walmart

people will be confused on why we like to look at weird images and why we called them "memes"

Oh, so beautiful! ♡

Is it fair if I cry for a minute for that last phrase.

Damn that was beautiful

Your voice, and the way it was animated made the video so much more emotional and beautiful. Keep up the good work

What will they think in 17000 years about today's Graffiti?

🖐🏽

We sure can return...it’s called nuclear warfare

Why did this make me so emotional though...

absolutely amazing

Reading too much into paintings 101

*cries* I'm now gonna watch the white star video to get a better mood....oh wait, it's about the depressing end of the universe....the beauty video? nope, existencial crisis, the human era? no, then I feel small and insignificant....anything? can I watch ANYTHING on this channel that doesn't make me deppresive? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

This video means something important

it's not only the fact that they were there so the fact that they lived and the fact that we are not permitting fees we are people that have feelings and emotions and the point where Picasso said we have invented nothing that was for a reason that is because these people they drew and they told stories that lasted and they charge people that were fourteen thousand years later and yet those people still devoted everything in they called them primitive but even though those people were real

For some weird reason, this video made me cry.

soud and timings in sound is really good with good music.

What was, will be!

This guy talks so slow I had to keep the speed at 2x

He then went on to talk about the Taco Bell Breakfast Menu