You’ve Been Fooled! Fake Microscope Food Content | Ann Reardon
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- Fake microscope food content gets millions of views, have you been fooled?
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My default setting with stuff like this is "spooky music detected, video rejected."
If someone's trying to 'get you in the right frame of mind', they're taking you for a ride.
That! Plus AI voice and unclear vague video or article titles does it for me. Also everything starting with "This....[insert MC for the vid] was randomly [insert mundane activity] when suddenly [insert shocking element]. Just...why 🤕
Imagine the feeling of accomplishment as you persuade people to throw good produce away instead of eating it! [sad trombone]
Same with using text to speech. Not saying all videos using it are bad, but the % is very high.
@hashkangaroo: That about sums it up perfectly.
@@Mysticalzelda I'll say it. All videos using text to speech are bad. All of them .
People decided fake recipes are too easy to debunk and thought they'd escape Ann's mighty microwave fact-checking if they use a microscope. Little, did they know, Ann'd actually buy a microscope.
Turns out microscopes are actually getting quite cheap nowadays. You can get one decent quality trinocular (three port: two for your eyes and one for a camera) with three objective lens (interchangeable with universal thread) for about a hundred these days.
@@Moonstone-Redux Yeah, not only these days. My parents got my sister and me a very basic microscope back when we were kids and exploring everything.
It really wasn't expensive - no lab quality either but it did it's job of teaching us, what stuff looks like if you zoom in a lot
@@Nigolasy same - my sister and I still have a microscope hidden somewhere in our old room at our parents' house.
Edit: don't remember how much it cost, though, since I was like 4 when they got it for us.
I don't know about tax law in Oz, but I feel like here if you were buying it as part of doing your job, you'd at least be able to claim it later on as a business expense.
@Nigolasy Yeah, I got one as a birthday gift. It was hours of fun finding things you could put under it and see what you see 😄. Certainly not lab quality but it's a great tool for inspiring curiosity in youngsters.
"If you zoom in, it's the same thing but bigger" important lessons for media consumers.
Look up "Father ted. very small, far away" 😂
@@Rachel_M_very educational
As the actress said to the bishop
Are you telling me CSI:Miami lied?
@@thelaughingman4791 Yes, Zapf Brannagan, they did. 😛
General tip: If a video has horror music in the background, it's designed to scare you, not tell you the truth.
This is oddly specific, but especially that royalty-free slow piano song, that kinda sounds like the Dark Arts theme from the 2nd Harry Potter movie.
Anything in a video with that song is going to be some creepypasta garbage
Agreed!
Pro tip: If a video uses any form of cheesy background music or AI voiceover, you know it's a strong clickbait.
Oh no! I'm a biologist and so spend a lot of my time staring down microscopes, I love being able to see tiny normally unseen worlds. It's such a shame that people are using this amazing invention for misinformation. You can see so many amazing and exciting things down microscopes, I don't understand why people feel the need to fake it.
You should put a vinyl record under a microscope, it’s really cool.
To make money from sites like youtube
To make money because capitalism. Profit motive corrupts all.
@@GuntWastelander tbh people would still do it, just to a lesser degree even if we lived in a post-scarcity society with no money involved just to feed their egos with the popularity.
Fear mongering just for fun I guess
The over-the-top horror music really just shows that they’re trying to scare people, which is just… disgusting. Makes the work that you do all the more worthwhile! The effort you put into every video always blows me away.
Thanks
Music is an easy way to tell if someone is trying to manipulate you
I read this comment before watching the video but it still didn't prepare me for the music omg... it's like jason voorhees is gonna come out of that microscope 😂😶🌫
There's so much fear-mongering on social media, it's really getting old
@@oldcowbbit also works for fake scary videos. If they do that one spooky sound, you KNOW it's fake
This type of misinformation can actually be dangerous. I was speaking to someone recently who told me his wife and daughter refuse to eat strawberries and bananas now because of these types of videos.
Best to avoid the family
i have a strong aversion to bananas because i once saw a video of a spider crawling out of one through the skin and i can't stop thinking about it even though it's been over a decade. thanks internet!
@@fr4nkensk4nkit’s fake though. Just make your peace with that.
@ i've tried man, i've tried
@@enoyna1001Ah yes, family believe something in error. Solution: Leave the family instead of helping them.
The family better leave you
How can someone send something as expensive as a Microscope and mess up with packaging? Like, stuffing two bucks worth of toilet paper in there would have been better.
I wonder exactly how long it took to get the device working again. It doesn't look like something you could fix in just a day or two.
Ann even had to replace some parts!
@@AmyLSacks
Damaged electronics probably need far more technical knowledge than swapping lenses, but parts are also probably cheaper if you really know what you are doing. The lenses are expensive and fragile, her second hand ones had clear flaws.
I ordered a MacBook Pro from eBay. At the time, it was 5 or 6 years old, but in perfect condition. The seller put it in a box and sent it to me. That's it. Close laptop, put in brown box, tape closed. I couldn't believe the screen survived! The optical drive did not. But apart from that, amazingly, it was fine. It also had a bunch of files still on it---I think the seller must not really have understood a lot about computers.
@@AmyLSacks The lenses were not broken. The broken glass was broken slides.
Next month - Ann builds an electron collider from junkyard scrap to debunk fake science vids!
Seriously though, I adore your dedication to debunking content and the number of skills unrelated to cooking on display never ceases to amaze.
oh my god the people making those fake videos of mcdonalds food are genuinely putting themselves in risk of serious litigation.... restaurant chains do not take that kind of accusation lightly, and since those videos are just an outright lie, it could be so much worse for those "creators" if they choose to sue. and looking at the comments, it seems some people HAVE changed their eating habits from these kinds of videos. 😬
i usually never find myself on the side of US corporations but... i kinda hope they have a field day with this, im so sick of how many people are lying about anything and everything just for views
thank you for another fantasticly well researched and made debunking video!!! your channel definitely helps keep me sane
Yeah, this will be the first time in history I'll be coming down on the side of McD's and their reliably mediocre, overpriced food. :D
I thought that about Nutella too - surely you'd hide behind calling it 'chocolate spread' rather than showing the brand and opening yourself up to being sued
the mcdonalds one is also extra dumb because the color changes completely from regular fries to this day glow yellow thing. I wonder if they had to use some plastic or rubber toy because the fries kept falling apart.
People need to stop trying to scare other people out of eating, eating disorders are so hard to fight, once they've taken hold and content like this does not help! Thank you for making this video Ann. It might seem obvious to us older people that the videos are fake, but it's the youth who get taken in by these things.
yknow, even if its not an eating disorder (although they can definitely be impacted by this shit), making people nauseous and anxious over fake problems is so cruel and irresponsible.
I also imagine these fake videos would be very triggering for anyone with contamination OCD ... OCD can really negatively impact eating habits and it sucks
@anonymouswitness3835 as someone with contamination OCD i can tell you you are correct it is indeed horrible and all the fake fear mongering is indeed very hard to deal with.
As someone with an eating disorder, 100% these videos suck. I just can’t watch food videos anymore because so much of it is misinformation or purposeful trying to gross people out.
it's called comment/engagement bait. Doesnt matter if its true if it gets people talking.
Thank you again for your approach of "I wont just tell you whats fake, I teach you the basics so you can tell yourself". Especially the depth of field explanation was great!
reminds me of that saying, "give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime".
Applied Science _made his own_ scanning electron microscope at home, that guy is absolutely wild.
Thanks, I'd never seen his channel before - I got distracted watching his videos for a while there. I'd better answer some more comments.
@ yeah his content, like yours, is highly addicting. You both set such a high standard for accuracy, and have carved out unique niches that nobody else could fill.
Oh I don't think I've seen that channel will definitely check it out!
I think that also Breaking Taps has one, or at least has access to one.
i love that channel so much!!
4:53 I’ve taught hundreds of people about depth field, and have used a bunch of different images and tools to show it as I teach, but this is the most succinct, clear explanation I’ve seen.
It often blows my mind (old as I am) to see photos with very large depth of field. I look at every part of the image and can't imagine how it's all in focus. (My dad was a photography hobbyist for years, so I know how photos used to focus.) I often wonder if I'm seeing a photo or AI.
@@freethebirds3578 this is one of reasons why modern phone camera modules include multiple cameras - they take multiple pictures with different depth of field and slightly different angle, then combine images (sometimes using ai as a tool, yes). There is obviously way more about that than just increasing depth of field, and it's not really a main purpose even, but that's the part
Ann is an expert at explaining things for “dummies”
@@Airin258 oh I didn’t know that, thank you
The critters “on” the strawberry actually looked like globular springtails. Mites don’t have antennae. They’re even MORE harmless than mites, as all they do is wander around and eat mold.
Although many mites use their front legs in a way that makes them appear as antennae, these are a species of predatory mites from the order Mesostigmata, not globular springtails
@ Ahh ok, they didn’t specifically look like the mites she had shown but it’s hard to tell exactly what they are from an above shot haha.
Omg the crimes against that poor microscope!! My heart broke seeing all that shattered glass 😭😭
I would not be surprised if the microscope was already damaged and they send it like that on purpose to hide the fact that it was already damaged.
The glass was mostly the little plates you put under the lens, luckily not expensive.
@zyxw2000 Not expensive, but the scope was also broken when it was received, and as @AlaskanHuzky suggests, it may have been broken before it was mailed, and the broken slides are there to hide that it wasn't transport damage.
Fun fact, those two tiny red dots on either side of the two-spotted spider mite's body are the eyes! You would expect mite eyes to be on that small head-like structure considering that's what most arachnids are like, but it isn't even really a head. Mites don't really have a defined cephalothorax vs abdomen like we see in spiders; they still exist, they're just merged together rather than segmented. While many mites are blind, those that do have eyes typically have them on the "abdomen" like seen with the two spotted spider mite! Personally I find this really endearing, it makes them look very goofy when you really think about it.
I wonder what the world must look like for such a mite.
what i find funny is that we inhale sooo much in from the air. so eating something with microscopic things in it is just part of life. I believe that our body defends itself quite well with established systems.
@ It's true that (at least here) those who regulate food allow for a certain low level of impurities in our processed food, like bug bits that only professional inspectors or science types could see without help. But that's part of the problem. Many laypeople know this *vaguely*, so that makes it easier for this type of deception to take root. :(
They would be more endearing if they weren't such destructive little stinkers in my garden lol. Thanks you for the info tho, super interesting!
What a fun fact!
The worst part is that people ARE fooled by this, and then earnestly spread it to all their friends-- and then double down when any of them question it.
People would rather lose their life savings and suffer in silence before admitting they got scammed.
@@johnracine4589 whar
@@durdleduc8520 nobody wants to admit they got duped so they’d rather push back against the person who tells them they got scammed instead of the person who actually scammed them.
I feel like, at some points these videos eventually have the opposite effect.
If literally everything, according to them, has microscopic creepy crawlies in them, then, well, what can you do but stop worrying about it?
The horrible thing is. People shouldn't be scared of MICROSCOPIC species. Yes, wash your fruit and veggies. But remind yourself, that humans have been eating things from dirt and the ground for centuries.... As one person already said, this is how eating disorders start. When it's completely natural.
The scary music in the fake microscope videos is a dead giveaway! The first question I ask myself watching something like that is if it feels like they're farming engagement. It's not always the case, but things I look out for are dramatic music, hyperbolic wording, the thing in question being something we assume is perfectly safe, and the amount of tags on the video. Generally if it looks like they're trying to bait people into reacting to their content, I trust it a lot less.
Fr! It’s just basic critical thinking, and the fact that so many adults seem to entirely lack that ability is terrifying 😭
1:55 That's actually dead microbes on the lens. Taking apart the lenses and cleaning them should get rid of it. But you need to do it somewhere with filtered air so new microbes don't land on the glass.
Being a skeptic often means you’re cast as the wet blanket. I appreciate your videos for validating those of us in the Wet Blanket Club!
😂
Welcome to the thinking club!
Well, there are skeptics and then there are Skeptics. Don’t be in the last group, those are the ones that give babies measles 😠
Being a skeptic means you can think for yourself. People would rather believe quick lies than search out truths.
I know! My mother has started introing with "I don't care if this is fake. Just enjoy it with me." 😂
If she doesn't intro, I ask "Am I enjoying or assessing?" I feel a bit bad because in that second scenario, I know I've 'ruined' it anyway.
I'm definitely sharing this video with my mom. She has shown me many of those microscope TikToks where there are tiny bugs crawling in food. She has bad anxiety and these have made her feel nervous about everything she eats. I'm glad I can show her that these aren't even real. Thank you so much for the wonderful work you do, Ann!
Maybe help her tackle the root anxiety. Everyone consumes some number of small critters and it's perfectly fine. Food processing standards allow, up to a limit, insect bodies. It's part of being alive on earth and is OK.
@gedelgo3242 I have actually told her this. It's why I personally never was scared of these videos. But anxiety is a diagnosed mental disorder, it's not logical nor do anxiety-driven thoughts listen to reason. These microscope videos exaggerate the bugs in the food and are presented in way meant to scare people. It's nice to have something that I can point to that shows "hey these videos are fake, so there is no need to watch them at all." And her no longer watching something that's making her feel afraid is what better helps her start eating fruit again.
@@gedelgo3242 as someone with anxiety i can promise you, without a doubt, that this approach would make it worse lol. "you're worried about eating bugs? you're actually definitely already eating them." think about how little comfort this offers. think about the alarm and heightened paranoia you might encourage. you cannot logically argue people out of emotional distress in the first place, but you really super can't do it when your logic is both reaffirming *and* dismissing their fears.
@@gedelgo3242 this is a foolish comment.
Your mom should be off Tiktok altogether 😢 Instagram & RUclips are better
It is very concerning that videos like these don't get flagged as disinformation. There should be a system in place to prevent these videos from possibly causing eating disorders when someone that can't tell the difference sees them.
"It's only for entertainment and should not be taken seriously"
Just like 5-minutes crafts that have this line somewhere in description of their channel.
There's SO MANY of them, it's an avalanche of slop so that even if the majority are filtered out, there's stil a ton left over. This goes for anything else really.
We're all Sons of the Patriots now!
Maybe now that TikToc had the audacity to argue in front of the US Supreme Court that their chosen algorithm is their "protected speech" we'll see some consequences for not having warnings and more careful curration and maybe some flags on garbage. I think it will take successful lawsuits in the US against TikToc to start a precedent here, but maybe if companies start getting sued (and losing) in my lawsuit-happy country some changes might start happening everywhere. A girl can dream.
In the US, the president lies without much push back, so there's no chance videos will be marked as disinformation/misinformation /lie
Tiktok never cared about misinformation.
There's an old saying: "If it seems to good to be true, it probably isn't." Today, on the internet, I would amend that to read, "If it seems too outrageous or extraordinary, it probably isn't true." Always question anything that you see online that seems crazy or outlandish. Because it probably is not true.
Not to be a grammar Nazi but the saying is "If it seems too good to be true, it probably is." As in "Yes this is too good to be true therefore it's not".
Other than that nice comment 👍
6:55
I actually did some student research in college with fruit fly larvae, and I am almost 100% confident that is larvae wriggling around in food media. It’s usually yellow or brown and has the exact same texture. Also yes I can confirm we never used an objective microscope to view them, they are clearly visible when fully grown. We only dissecting scopes which are much less powerful and had space for us to work with tweezers. It’s definitely just stock footage
I'm a medical lab scientist and use a microscope in my daily work of helping the hospital's doctors diagnose and treat patients. Among other things, I prepare slides from patient specimens, stain them, and look for bacteria and fungi. I really appreciate how well you have explained the function of a microscope in a way that is accessible to many people. I enjoyed it too! I almost died laughing when they put that GIANT banana slice under the lenses. All you'd see is a dark field!! 😂
I'm sorry your microscope arrived in such bad shape, but I appreciate that you were able to fix it up and save it from the landfill!
Most of my PhD involved using a microscope since I worked with C. elegans and they are microscopic so handling them in any way had to be done using a scope. When I saw that GIGANTIC banana slice under the scope it made me cringe so hard. I've used confocal and DIC microscopes to capture early development of live C. elegans embryos so that banana slice made me want to scream lol.
@@S_K23 I mean, my microscope experience is limited to biology classes back in school decades ago, and even I cringed hard at that giant banana slice. It makes literally 0 sense. Anyone with even rudimentary experience with microscopy like from a primary school demo with $30 microscopes should understand how silly that was haha
I’m considering MLS as an undergrad (sophomore), would you recommend it? Your description of your duties really aligns with my interests.
But there are also 'better' microscopes out there. Some weeks ago I got a showcase of a digital microscope, which eg could magnify up to 5000x and had - for a microscope a pretty big FOV. (But pre FOW-Scanning)
But that's also a microscope, where you have to pay something starting from 35K or 50K€.
@@Tinil0 So true haha
I’m now noticing she always mentions who sent it vs who made it, which is a nice touch to stop the spread of misinformation via negative exposure, but also lets her attribute her content to people actually willing
I really hate these kind of fake videos, because, they're absolutely the kind of thing that could potentially trigger voulnerable people, and make them paranoid about the food in their kitchen.
Which could like, do some actual real damage, if you think about it.
I have psychotic symptoms sometimes, and I saw a video where I saw someone show a video of tons of bugs on the surface of a cool ranch Dorito.
If it wasn't for the comments talking about the terrible microscope technique and how obviously fake it was I could have spiraled worse.
Especially for people with contamination OCD! These videos could very easily cause someone to spiral.
@@wildrosetarot222 Exactly, I would be so uncomfortable eating and thats super unhealthy
YES i just commented about this! I have OCD and contamination anxiety and even knowing these were fake, they’re SO distressing
My coworker refuses to eat certain things because of this
I'm in my thirties but I've been showing your videos to my stepdaughter for years now. I really appreciate how you not only debunk viral videos, but break down the logic as well. Helping to teach critical observation one viral video at a time!
This episode made me nostalgic, because the microscope you bought is the same model in the same box that I had since I was a child.
Ann, I'm a neuroscience student and an online reseller OTS, I can't believe that seller did you like that! I can't believe the seller did that microscope like that! No excuse! Anyways, I love microbiology so I'm glad you decided to fix it tho, this is going to be a great one! I also follow Projectsinflight and immediately thought of his electron microscope repair vid I think it went from like $80,000 to free lol. Now that's a good deal!
My jaw dropped when I saw that. That's so wildly and wilfully negligent for a seller.
I know! I had the same reaction when I saw that! Clearly, that person didn't deserve to have that microscope in the first place!
The spooky scary music is enough to tell me it's fake, but I also don't have very many issues with anxiety or phobias that might otherwise be triggered by videos like these.
I've seen GENUINE images of the bits of cockroaches you'll find in chocolate, they love the stuff so much and are so difficult to keep out that legally a certain percentage of cockroach body parts can be found in all chocolate [think it was Nestle or Cadbury who put out the images but they also added that they were ground up and they were cooked so no problem to eat]. That was back in the early 1990s some time though I suspect they used a totally different microscope to the one Ann has.
@@AveCaesar2025 I think you should do some research instead of commenting based on half remembered ideas?
I got a small microscope as a kid and there were some ready-made slides including: onion cells and butterfly wing! You unlocked a core memory for me there.
I love that you just added a microscope to your debunking tool kit. That’s dedication!
I had the Fisher-price toy microscope, spent a lot of time looking at random stuff.
Every video from Ann is even better than the last. How? So much intelligence, education, creativity, good humor, honesty, and wise perspective packed into each one. This is what folks should be watching on-line, not crazy conspiracy theories and fakery for clicks and likes. Bravo Ann.
I love and appreciate your informative yet no-bullshit delivery. Useful, insightful, and trustworthy. It's so frustrating having people continuously put out fake stuff just for views, so I love it when you call them out! Food scientists are so cool.
As if fake hacks and recipes aren't maddening enough; pointless scare-mongering makes me so angry.
The music is a dead giveaway! It’s the score to everything from blurry UFO videos to fake food videos.
*the point of the perpetual lie is not that you'll believe it, but that you'll never know what to believe; that you'll have nothing to refer to. And a peoples so lost are too easily fooled and controlled.*
@@solusmaximus2566 then i would recommend you take a more systemic approach to such perils.
Such is cIass society...
@solusmaximus2566 Need we remind you of the newly inaugurated U.S. president?
Whatever it takes to tear down established society so a new "better" leadership can fix it all.
You mean the man who has been persecuted with false charges and constant lies?
As someone who uses a microscope every day for work, I sometimes forget that microscope lingo and what close up images of things are supposed to look like isn't common knowledge. This was a fun video!
You are such a great communicator! It comes through even better when you're excited about your subject material.
Thank you for being you.
0:50 that poor microscope! When my lab received our new confocal microscope ($200,000), it came in three crates with shock sensors and took the technicians 2 days to unpack. The objective lenses on that microscope cost several hundred dollars each and I was paranoid about scratches 😅
I wasn't even aware this was a thing people were doing. At the very least, I haven't come across anyone trying to make food-related videos with a microscope until now. It's a fairly clear red flag when they're trying to scare you with something that you wouldn't even need a microscope to see anyway, but people going out of their way to degrade food with dirt or bugs for views is just low.
Right? I must have my algorithm trained in such a way that it knows I'm not gullible.
If they wanted to show things wriggling they could just take some sewage from the gutters outside their shacks.
I didn't either, but I don't use TikTok, ever. I've never had this kind of video come through YT, either, so I guess it's not everywhere yet.
I hope you contacted the seller and Ebay about that. You should be compensated for the losses.
I let them know that it was insufficiently packaged and damaged in the post but they didn't even reply. I just won't buy from them again.
You can complain to ebay and they will force the seller to respond/refund @@HowToCookThat
@@HowToCookThathi Ann! Not to butt in but it is probably a good idea to inform ebay about the condition the seller sent the package in. That way more people won’t receive broken packages from that person in the future :)
@@brinncognito Agreed. eBay doesn't know what you don't tell them.
eBay stopped caring about customer complaints, if a large seller is concerned.
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CGP Grey FTW
The news and actions of people on the internet these days are so awful and hopeless, making us so scared and sad. But then ANN REARDON comes to the rescue!! Bringing informative content, debunking the fake stuff and all in all just being this ray of sunshine with her videos! Thank you so much, Ann💖
great video! i really dislike the type of shock factor content that goes viral for negative reasons. Especially videos that make people scared of food, i have a family member with an eating disorder and this kind of content is so harmful to people like him. Props to you for holding these creators accountable !
In addition, they forget that these videos are also watched by children (and of course pre teens and teens), for whom such horrors cause even greater harm than for adults who can already filter such things better. I know, it is the parents' job to take care of what their children watch, but if youtube vidoes are not marked in any way, they can still pop up on the screen of a child's mobile phone/tablet etc., depending on what device they use to watch the videos. Unfortunately, RUclips's search and tagging system sucks. Age systems are of no use if the search and tags do not work, but even using them, some videos pop up on the screen whose content is not suitable for children even though children's videos were originally searched for or other innocent things, such as various train videos, either of real trains or train games.
Love the dedication to debunking and every time "I don't have it" is followed by "so I built/bought it". Always loved the channel, but in the worsening landscape of misinformation and disinformation, you are a trusted and thus invaluable source!
This makes me so mad. I feel like this could create disordered eating.
lol, who are you kidding? This won't make anyone "create" an eating disorder, that comes out of years and years of bad eating habits, and a little bit of mental illness(which we all have)
@@ratataran Wdym ? Some peoples are really gullible and if they see those fake videos they could definetely stop eating fresh fruits and vegetables. Or even more extreme case like a eating disorder.
@@ratataranwhat are you talking about? You could definitely develop an eating disorder if you believe all food is covered in bugs and mites and insects
@@ratataran given some folks can develop disordered eating from the strangest compulsions, perhaps saying this won't do anything is a little hasty and in fact incorrect.
Imagine if you have a phobia of mites and larvae and see this content… I wouldn’t be able to eat for a while
Finally someone talks about it, whoever is lying and fear mongering is just so rude
I really appreciate the extra time taken to show how to test and figure things out for yourself. It would be so easy to just say "that's wrong" and move on, but the extra effort to teach viewers how to examine these things for themselves and how to find trustworthy sources is helpful. The internet is so steeped in dogma we all need a reminder to think critically from time to time.
oh my god, I REALLY hope you got some of your money back from that seller. I bought a rare vintage teapot on eBay last year and the seller didn't cushion the spout well enough so two little pieces broke off the tip of the spout (thankfully I noticed immediately after unwrapping and was able to find both pieces in the plastic wrap). The seller was very apologetic and offered to refund some of my money back so I asked for enough to cover a tube of top-notch food safe porcelain glue.
They should have refunded all your money
Hi sorry to bother you but what is this glue? I've been trying to repair some of my cups and every brand and variety I look into ends up not either not being food safe, not being stable at high temperatures, or not being food safe at high temperatures
She says they never replied.
@ Hey! No need to apologize for asking a question, you're not a bother at all. ^_^ I don't remember what it was, but I did some searching in r/Ceramics and found something that was made for ceramics and food safe. Not sure about heat, though. Hope that helps a little!
@@crystalrickett2302you usually get is a partial unless the product is fully unstable. I only got like 30 bucks back after channeling for a broken bakelite handle on antique toaster even though I proved the person didn't even wrap it before dropping it in a huge box.
It is such a pleasure, Ann, to watch videos that are filled with carefully reviewed, calmly presented, factual content, created by someone who is clearly a person of extremely high intelligence and who treats her audience with respect and the expectation that they can understand reason and want honest information rather than sensational nonsense. I always feel reassured by your debunking videos; they leave me with the sense that there are at least pockets of sanity and creativity and reason in the world (even if some are very far from the shores of the US). Thank you so much!
I remember scientists wanted to make a study in the effects of microplastics in our bloodstream but couldn't find a control sample, meaning there isn't a single human being without microplastics in their bloodstream. Microplastics really are everywhere it seems.
They couldn't get a blood sample from isolated tribes, or have something on record from the past to look at?
They didn’t look hard enough.
@careybowden4864 There are a ton of regulations around doing human studies, and the most important is consent: If someone doesn't fully, clearly understand and agree to what will be done to them, you cannot use that person in your study. A remote population speaking a rare language that may or may not have a decent understanding of modern Western medicine and research is not a good candidate to participate in such a study for ethical reasons.
Tldr; researchers can't just roll up on anyone anywhere in the world and take their blood without their full informed consent.
@@TheKinseth @careybowden4864 Also, there can be microplastics in rainwater - so there's still a pretty decent chance any of the remaining isolated tribes has members with microplastics in their blood.
You talking bullshit, there are definitely human populations in places where you can't even find plastic. Sounds more like those scientist din't want to pay the expensive travel to a remote place to get such samples.
Ann, you are doing some seriously important work. Can't thank you enough for that. This may just be a video, but this and your countless other ones help prevent eating disorders, burnt skin, bad injuries and even people dying (refering to the Lichtenberg video).
Keep it up, the internet needs peolpe like you!
Ma'am, why didn't I know this channel before? I've been needing this, like, (science rain + super-subtle-irony + someone-whose-lengths-they'll-go through-to-prove-a-point-people-underestimate ) is so my thing, I can't believe RUclips toom this long to show me! (But thanks, though ❤)
You probably didn't need to buy a microscope to debunk these videos, but I LOVE the commitment to respecting your audience, and taking the opportunity to educate us and also just show us a BUNCH of really cool stuff.
In an internet world that loves misinformation for easy clicks, encourages rage bait for easy interactions, and where the most toxic content creators and the platforms themselves prey on their audience, you and many others are a breath of fresh air. Thank you for always putting in so much effort for your videos, we really appreciate it!!!
The banana shot is actually banana vinegar fly larvae in their feeding medium, probably via a stereo microscope. During a short stint helping to decon a fly lab's stocks, this was a very common image under the microscope for me.
14:54 guessed raspberry 4 times already and finally got it right lmao
Wasn’t just me, then 😆
Same 😂😂😂
Glad I'm not alone 😂
Haha same
Omg sameee haha
great work as always. these fake microscope videos seem like they're just meant to scare people and make them paranoid and anxious about eating, which is so nasty.
And even without the microscope, we have all these chemists running around social media with their "margarine is only one molecule away from being plastic!!!!" and other things. However, it's more than just the atoms and elements that make up molecules, but the structure as well.
When you get into organic chemistry, things get complicated very fast, so a legit explanation is a bit technical for a Facebook post.
I'm not on social media (unless RUclips counts) but it's kinda horrifying to know that these kind of things are viral. Thank you so much Ann for your debunking contents. They're not only educational but also serve as a great reminder to be analytical and skeptical over contents (especially viral ones) on the internet. You are truly a blessing.
As a plant hobbyist and reptile keeper, I knew immediately that videos were all aphids and mites. None of us should be shocked that micro plastics and little fibers may contaminate McDonalds food- keeping in mind all the steps in processing the food before it gets to us. I saw a particularly dumb video where someone peeled mites off a potato chip- mites that were large enough to see with the naked eye. Some of these people are gonna end up with a slander suit if they keep this up.
Another perfect video from Ann.
Unfortunately it's unlikely that American companies will go after someone in an Indian or Chinese slum, the sorts of places most of this clickbait is made.
@@itspooop The problem isn't really geological location, its more so the absolute insane mass these videos are spammed in.
@@eightcoins4401 On the contrary, the massive overpopulation is part of why there's so much, as well as the fact that their governments clearly don't care. Same for all the scam activity.
For those who want to see some more fun (and not fearmongering) closeups of bugs, there's a technique known as focus stacking, where you combine photos taken focusing at slightly different points, and combining them using specialised software to get a greater depth of field, but with the same detail and magnification
thank you! I'm so grateful I haven't come across these videos before, because stuff like this about food can make me quite anxious and make me not eat them, it has happened before :( you've made me feel more confident and less scared of food, Ann, thank you!
Came for the myth busting, got a science lesson on how microscopes work as a bonus. Ann, you are the RUclipsr we all need and do not deserve! Thank you for making everyone who watches your channel just a little bit smarter and more insightful and just a bit more well-informed with every video. This is fantastic stuff!
I always love how you have a visual explanation about things. Makes it easier to understand than just hearing it with words.
Add lab repair tech to your mile long resume! goodness you're amazing! 1:34 - getting flashbacks to biology class, making onion slides and drawing plant cells.
The timing of this video is stupendous! My mother has been sending me those slasher-music garbage videos asking if I thought they are real. (my graduate work involved confocal scanning microscopy.) You are so much kinder to the videos than *MY* responses were 😣
love the banana microscope video using the oil objective on an absolutely massive piece of banana and without lens oil -an mls (essentially a professional microscope user)
I love how much patience you have, fixing the microscope and cleaning it. Thanks for the great video!
I use a scanning electron microscope for work, so I've always had a soft spot for microscopy videos- at least, real ones. Glad to see you take on the fakes! Also that echidna was super cute, please share any more of the amazing Australian wildlife you come across!
I gotta say, I’m very jealous. I would do damn near anything to get a chance to use an electron microscope.
Im so happy you still make these videos. With so many things that are fake online it’s nice to see a real scientist take on these things and it helps me with my critical thinking skills.
It’s nice to have a RUclipsr I can really trust
Ann just sent me down a youtube spiral about electron microscopes - which are FASCINATING!!! Fellow Aussie Dr. Jack Auty explains it really well in his video 'How do electron microscopes work?'. I had to google some things as I went along, but it's basically accessible to non-scientists like me. Thank you Ann for sparking my curiosity, as always 😇
I work in a shop that repairs food processing equipment and seeing microplastics in mechanically processed meat doesn't surprise me at all. Mechanical systems wear out over time and all of that worn off material has to go somewhere, though usually only a small fraction ends up in contact with food. If you are worried about plastic and metal in your food, buy whole foods that haven't been manipulated very much by a machine.
These aren't usually my type of video but it was recommended to me and I'm glad I clicked it. Very clear information, plus you attributed the footage to the original creator so we can know who is trustworthy and those who care more about personal gain than long term education of the world they live in
Love the part at the end of the video with close up videos of food, Ann's voice and the nice music. Very soothing. There are so many exciting things in the natural sciences, why would someone need to fake anything.
"It looks like oily potato.... what a surprise 🧐" 😂😂
The fact that people can do this and not get sued is astounding. Society is not intelligent enough to question this junk .
Its not because of stupidty, its because those videos are churned out in such a mass most don't get noticed by corporations that could deem it slander.
I love how shady is this genre, knowing microscope cost over $1,000 mean you have no way to proof them otherwise.
Also I would like to point out that its actually hard to focus your camera on ocular lens, thats why there is dedicated camera module that you can put in lens position instead.
Or.... Common sense
Thanks to China you can get a decent microscope for a few hundred euro and a matching USB camera for 50 EUR more.
They're probably using stock videos since the texture of the "microscopes" objects don't even look anything like under the microscope. Especially those with some larvae it's all to farm views smh
Even a decent 400x microscope (you aren't going to use microscope oil, you don't need the 1000x) will only run you maybe AU$500, it's a surprisingly cheap thing to get into.
The way that you break down these videos is brilliant. Presenting all the microscope information first and then jumping into the content was so unbelievably smart - I knew immediately that it was fake. I could’ve been fooled before this video!
Ugh I have OCD and struggle so much with contamination anxiety. Even knowing this stuff is fake, it works its way into my head and causes me so much stress. I can’t shake the images that there’s something crawling around in my food. Thank you for debunking this and showing the real things ❤
2:27 omg Knuckles cameo
Ken Penders about to threaten to sue
Would you be able to see the difference between tempered and non-tempered chocolate? Or something like liquid glucose and a pulled sugar candy? It'd be neat to try to see some culinary things that go through chemical changed and see if those are visible.
Also, I love that you both have a passion for baking and for science. I know you studied food science as well. I have loved baking since I was a child, even learned from you, and worked in a professional bakery as a head baker for 4 years. I’m am now in college studying to be an atmospheric scientist.
Ann is such a good narrator. I thought I would be bored learning about the different types of microscopes but it was actuallly really fun.
been watching you since high school and I'm 26 now. i have such a deep respect for the debunking work you're doing with your platform. thank you for the time and energy you put into this content.
😭😭😭😭I hate how this world perpetuates concern trolling content like this. Its a deliberate attempt to destabilize society.
Thank you so much for exposing the frauds. I can't tell you how good it feels to see someone articulate and with good reason talking about these specific topics. I always feel like everyone wants to be scared because they defend their conspiratorial perspective to death.
I did my undergrad internship at a microbio lab. Spent days looking through microscopes counting Vero Cells with an hemocytometer. Your video was a real tour down memory lane.
Microscopes always remind me of looking at thin sections of rocks in geology classes. They’re so unbelievably beautiful under XPL I would look at them for hours…
Another great video! Not a genre of fake content that I’ve heard of before but people really will come up with anything 🙃
There seriously need to be laws against misleading fake content.
It's fine to make fake content but if you're lying you should have to disclose it IN THE TITLE as well as in the video for a reasonable length of time.
The gentle wisdom of Ann's videos, full of wonder at science and at the world around us, is, by itself, such an obvious force of good against the scaremongering videos with the blushing nervous emoji-- the beauty of research, of actually understanding and being curious about the world.
thank you
I have to say I admire Ann so much. She always goes above and beyond to make a good video for us. "I don't have a microscope either!" so she buys one, it arrives broken, she does everyhing in her power to bring it back to life and then makes a bomb video with it. I have nothing but love for this amazing woman!
Also what handsome men the boys growing into! I watched them growing up, while I was growing up myself. It's kinda surreal, but for some reason I expect them to stay children forever hahaha.
Love from Barcelona!
Picking up a dead insect for content is so australia coded haha, Thank you Ann for making our days better!
Ben Krasnow of the RUclips channel Applied Science actually has a scanning electron microscope in his shop! He does some amazing stuff with it.
Thank you for using your platform to fight disinformation. That is more important now than ever!
Great video, keeping the tone informative while debunking and avoiding the obvious rage bait - while parting with a lighter and more inspirational "what's that" segment at the end - would love to see more microscope videos, I kind of want to get one myself now.
This is a brilliant video, thank you! I already really struggle with food anxiety and these fake video can send me spiralling, it’s good to know how to spot a fake.
Microplastics are usually invisible and go from a couple millimetres (really big) down to nanometres (impossible to see even w/a good microscope) so the plastic in that chicken nugget video is likely planted there.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking too
I agree. The length of the bits shown, along with the colouring, would mean it would be highly visible to the naked eye.
Whilst there are no doubt micro plastics in foods like that, I would wager it was a fake video. It'll be great if she could try putting some McNuggets under the scope and see if she can find any microplastics.
I wanted to comment this, those plastic strings looked like something you would notice, not like they were ground down or anything. Chicken nugget was probably wiped all over the carpet first just like the french fry.
I was hoping someone commented this.
A microscope tutorial as well as a debunking video? Ann, you never disappoint with your extensive knowledge and insights of food and science
Yay! My pregnancy insomnia is kicking my butt tonight, so I'm thrilled to have a new one of your videos to watch :)
I hope it sends you off to sleep, haha
Any mite, maggot, larvae or nanite that can live in the pure sugar environment of Nutella deserves to conquer the world.
These videos are so educational and entertaining in the same time! Ann Reardon should have an own TV-Show.