It's interesting that the only physical object that makes it on the top ten list is pizza. Government: "You can have pizza *or* privacy, not both. Which do you choose?" Citizen: "Hrmmm..." *thinks for a while* Citizen: "I'll take the pizza."
@@ShrekPNG Any group of people that live and work together. It severely pisses me off that people try to describe some aspect of an individual, like their race or preferences, as a "community", as if they're all the same. If you don't treat someone as an individual rather than a characteristic, you do not value them, and instead you further all aspects of segregation and the trouble that comes with it.
@@frozennbutter6425 I feel betrayed. Your starting line promised so much to me, someone who has absolutely no concept of the universe and somehow thinks someone could live with half, someone making a twisted metaphor that was to be beautifully laid out in the proceeding sentence, perhaps some great scientist here to present a lighthearted albeit not pure science but complex theory that explains the mysterious allure you piqued. Imagine my surprise to read the words that followed, sometimes in life you're better not knowing the truth, its so much worse than our imagination.
Uncle my apologies, fellow intellectual. Although the size universe is incomprehensible To the human mind(much like your female parental figure) it would be amazing if One could somehow understand or grasp the wideness of the universe. I am sorry that I cannot express my knowledge in a paragraph as big as yours and certainly not as big as your mom.
tw// mildly suggestive topics Friendly reminder, if it is at all possible in your current living space or when you have the time, energy, power, and other means to change it around so this is doable, that not having any computers/electronics in your bedroom, period, apparently helps a lot with making it a "sleep/love/masturbating" exclusive area, with nothing else to interrupt or disturb its explicit intended use. I also suppose you can try using computers/electronics for sexual matters in...another room just for...that activity, if you even have such a fancy and specific room, I sure don't, or use other places in the house when no one's around or others are asleep/out of sight enough, private places if possible to have/find them, even, and discreetly finish in and on your clothes, which can hopefully be washed later. Speaking from personal experience, the "no electronics in the bedroom" rule hasn't helped a whole lot, yet, as my sleep schedule is chaotic, nocturnal, and frustratingly difficult to control/direct, plus finding non-digital alarm clocks might be a hassle, I imagine, or may make you seem/look old/outdated, but I'm glad to at least be building one new positive habit recently that can serve me well, especially in the future if and when my sleep gets back to a healthy state. Even now, it's nice to have no, like, phone calls, conversations, virtual appointments...anything in there, though the last one may especially be hard for me someday soon to find a quiet, private room in the house for that. partial tl:dr It gives the bedroom a more "sacred space" vibe, if you can believe that, to leave electronics and computers out, if and when possible. That was a really long paragraph, huh? 😒
I like to imagine there was one guy who got the options "Space" vs "Time" and could have decided it once and for all, but elected to just immediately turn off his phone instead. Maybe Stephen Hawking?
I'd love for Tom to periodically re-run this quiz for 5 hours at a time with the same data, perhaps annually. Eventually he could take the top 10 results from every session, pit those against each other to find his audiences ultimate best thing.
The biggest problem with something like that is when you start predictably repeating something like this, eventually someone will be ready with a bot to automate and control the results.
@@hamsterfromabove8905 that is a fair point. I just didn't have it in me to think about someone actively ruining some perfectly good data collection. 😒
I like the way you phrased your conclusion. "This statistic reveals something about the group of people who watch your video". Thats true. Nothing more, nothing less.
That's Tom Scott for you. He makes every attempt to be aggressively accurate. Makes every attempt to tell his audience exactly what the data says, not just what would be easy or convenient to pretend it says.
Alternative title: Tom reveals the weird inherent bias of active twitter users, and how social programming makes us deny what is natural to us. I am very sure the numbers will skewer differently in different forms of media.
"THIS IS A METAPHOR" and "I closed the poll before anyone wrote code to try and break it" really tell you all you need to know about how many times Tom has been around the block.
You should repeat this every 5 years and note any trends and changes over time. It'd be really cool to see what changes and what stays the same over time
Someday, I hope to develop a petty grudge against a harmless object that is so engrossing I make a username about it. That sounds like a fascinating experience.
@@butwithcats265 Sometimes I wonder. Why would you hate something so passionately you choose to have that very same thing to be a part in your username just for the sake of hating it?
I would love to see the list of items that got in "circles". That when matched against each other, they form a circle of victory/defeat; i.e., rock paper scissors.
"Thanks, brain. Hey, liver! What do YOU think is the best part of your attached body?" Liver: **flops in confusion like a goldfish that jumped out of its bowl and sees the family cat walking up to it**
Hey other brain, I, the brain of this dude, would like to point out it was neither a fill in the blank for "what, nor, statistically, the choice "brain" was pitted against other body parts super frequently, but I still get you. Digital brain high five!
It would be fascinating to see a bunch of creators from all different communities run the same poll to see how different sections of the internet compared to one another. Both the differences and similarities would be fun to speculate about.
What would be more fascinating would be for Tom to have created two separate independent rankings - A and B. When a new user shows up on the website, randomly allocate them to either A or B. Then, at the end of the voting period, compare Poll A and Poll B's top 10 - that'd tell us if all of these were random, or of there's some trend to it.
but I mean it's not like our brains are biased we actually think about it and idk maybe I would say the hand or foot but even then the brain is obviously the best since without it we would be a mindless and floppy piece of meat
I have restrictions set on my RUclips so I can try to fall asleep at a decent hour and well watching this. You reveal the number one item on the list and the reminder to go to sleep pops up on the screen and pause it.
“the bottom of the list is a bunch of nasty diseases and unpleasant concepts. and one of the twilight movies” as someone who likes twilight, fair enough
I hate-watched the twilight movies in the middle of the night (I quite liked the books at the time but had very low expectations for the movies) so I remember none of it - which one would that be do you think?
Could this be a yearly poll where we find what the "world" is into at that moment and maybe see if the polling size could increase. amazing video. lovely concept.
I bet the audience would gladly take part in it monthly for a year, but yearly might not work out. Then again, it'd get hacked easily. And with a lot of work involved in user tracking, would require 3 tries or a botnet.
Once a year I think would be the best frequency. Biggest problem I could see is one that Tom mentioned in the video; it would give those interested a _lot_ of time to work out how to game/hack the poll.
I wager sleep will go undefeated until we discover a way to eliminate sleep but still get rest, then that will be undefeated. I wonder where coffee/caffeine were on the list
There is a simple fix against ppl trying to hack it: give each human an id, preferably of the physical kind like the signing devices banks use. Or, yknow, you could go cheaper and have either a banner telling bots to go away, or a checkbox humans can check to verify that they are humans.
As someone who took part in this, I feel there was a flaw in the process. When I answered each question, there was a response. Green if you voted with the majority, red if your vote went against the majority. I personally felt the colours had an influence on my vote, making me consider what others thought, and potentially impacting the way I voted. Obviously this is minor, but it's definitely not perfect in my view.
ThatsLudacross i heard him say groups of people and i was confused cus like at one point in my life my favourite thing was my chemical romance which is a band whch is also a group of people so itd be unfair not to count that into it so idk
i could watch an hour of this video. idk what it is about people ranking things that makes my brain go bananas. i think just the chaos of trying to rank things is lovely
Pizza > Privacy makes sense, actually, cause you normally order pizza and have to give up a bit of privacy when the delivery person sees in your front door or window.
I wanted to show this to mom when I got home from work. But while waiting to show it to her I took a nap and was out half the night. I finally woke up at like 8, ate dinner and finally got around to showing it to her and….the answer was right in front of me the entire time. The very thing I was doing.
A small moral victory, but hey in these god awful times you've really got to take whatever wins you can from wherever you can get them. Hope you're able to recover and things get a whole lot better for you ♥️
to be fair, not everyone likes or gets sex. i don't ever wanna have it, im a very sex-repulsed ace. and there's probably a significant enough overlap between tom scott's viewership and the sort of extremely online nerd who just doesn't care about sex (for whatever reason) for it to have an effect.
Ahh damn, you should announce these on youtube too, I feel like I'm missing out on too much stuff by not joining the most toxic site on the internet...
Tired? Check. Nerd? Check. Bisexual? Check. Would like a hug (rn or any time)? Check. Generally dislikes Lyme Disease? Check. Less-than-ideal eating habits? Check. I don’t like how accurate that is.
@@samveddeolekar1571 Let me introduce you to the enteric nervous system (ENS). It is not the slave of the brain. More like a collaborator. Though it kind of fails at being an organ part. It controls organs, so that's something that disputes the claim that all organs are slave of the brain. Some are slaves of the ENS.
Thanks to all the people who voted! The results were definitely not what I'd have predicted.
_6 hours ago_
Hi
Hi tom!
Eeee
Comment: *_Not a week ago_*
Channel: *_Tom Scott_*
Me: *_Wait. That's Illegal_*
Hotel: *_Trivago_*
"I'm a privacy advocate!"
"I'll give you a slice of pizza in exchange for your email password."
"Deal!"
My password is 8 characters long, so I demand 8 slices ...
Hagen von Eitzen people with long passwords will never have to starve again
If I offer a new mattress instead, there's no way they'll turn me down!
@@HagenvonEitzen my password is 26 characters long, I demand 26 slices of pizza
@@HagenvonEitzen one pizza coming up!!
I like how some people might have seen air vs. pizza and been like, oof that's a toughie.
Lmaooo
"do i want to die in a few seconds but enjoy this pizza, or do i wanna live?"
decisions, decisions..
No, that question has a clear winner
@@Bullshit_Media yea pizza
Pizza is horrible anyway
Wait did I just get tricked into watching a Top 10 video?
By Tom himself
By watchmojo
yes
Yup
bamboozled again
I LOVE that Space and Time got the exact same number of votes. That's poetic.
That, and that they were in 42nd place - the answer to life, the universe and everything, containing all those things
@@CyreneDuVent dude didn't he say 36th place? 8:41
I got "Guillotine" vs "Monarch" when I tried the poll. Real France moment
The Committee of Public Safety hopes you made the right choice, Citizen Jan'ari-asha...
@@Zogerpogger which of course is the guillotine
*the origami king wave battle music intensifies*
Nice
You win
y'all like "tom scott calling out the sleep-deprived bisexual nerds" forgetting that you guys voted for this. you called yourself out.
well i didn't vote for it so as a bisexual sleep-deprived nerd i AM getting called out
@@jamesgaming7198 Same
what if i am a bisexual sleep deprived nerd
Hey is your profile picture a pie chart of a pyramid
Sleep-deprived bisexual nerds represent!
"There are a lot of things in the universe"
[citation needed]
Because it is really big
[citation needed]
*sigh*, I miss that show...
Yes, they are in the universe too.
[citation needed]
There's actually just one electron
“Something I didn’t expect to be so high, gravity.” I see what you did there
i guess people quickly “gravitated” to it
@@Periii_ Da Dum Pshhhhh
@@Periii_ "Do you believe in 'Gravity'? That there's a reason two people meet?"
@@Periii_ *ba dum tsss*
@@maxinesenior596 i can’t escape it
I can just imagine some of these matchups:
"Snakes vs Yellow"
Uh...
"Melanoma vs lyme disease"
UUUHH
Definitely yellow
Snakes
One of the match ups I got when doing it was sex toy vs herpes. Another more in line with your comment was Crohn's disease vs ionizing radiation.
@@steven44799 Well, what did you choose?
snakes vs planes
Space 80% - Time 80%
Perfectly balanced as all things should be.
Well, as Albert Einstein once said, space and time *are* the same thing
r/expectedthanos
I wonder if there were any space vs time match ups...
Guys that math doesn’t add up
@@hirotanaka
space vs time
ctrl + alt + delete... balance must be maintained.
It's interesting that the only physical object that makes it on the top ten list is pizza.
Government: "You can have pizza *or* privacy, not both. Which do you choose?"
Citizen: "Hrmmm..."
*thinks for a while*
Citizen: "I'll take the pizza."
Take my like and leave me alone.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary pizza, deserve neither liberty nor pizza."
- Benjamin Franklin
@@toomanybrews7123 Ah, but what if it's a choice between privacy and *ever having pizza again*?
pizza et circenses
Bread and circuses
"And the best thing is... sleep"
*checks time : 3:19am*
100% agree, just one more video
Have you made it yet, bröther?
@@thekingoffailure9967 I never did :(
omg i just read this message at 3:19am..
TheKingOfFailure always have been
Sleep is terrible, we waste a third of our lives doing it. I wish that we weren't dependant on it.
"haha the brain called itself the best organ, brains are so biased amirite?"
-the brain
Nah there just following there heart
-the heart
-the soul
-the brain
@@AZArnoldPalmer “haha the brain called itself the best organ, brains are so biased amirite? the brain -the brain” -the brain
@@kawaiipotato2505 "haha the brain called itself the best organ brains are so biased amirite?' -the brain -the brain -the brain" -the brain
-the brain
-the brain
@@TinNguyen-rl2xr -the pe
“The best part of the body... the brain”
The brain voting for itself is very wholesome
basically the Obama giving himself a medal meme
Also, electricity voting for electricity. Maybe no human even took the poll at all.
Biased much?
But also entirely self-serving.
The only organ to name itself
hearing things like orgasms being number 69, sleeping being the best, and tom's hold on the bi community make me love the internet
There is no community. That's like saying there's an alcoholic community
@@puppergump4117 Do you know what a community is?
@@ShrekPNG Any group of people that live and work together. It severely pisses me off that people try to describe some aspect of an individual, like their race or preferences, as a "community", as if they're all the same.
If you don't treat someone as an individual rather than a characteristic, you do not value them, and instead you further all aspects of segregation and the trouble that comes with it.
@@puppergump4117 is the internet a community
@@puppergump4117 if you don't want to be a part of a community, you don't have to, it doesn't change who you are
'The best thing is: sleep."
Me watching this at 6 am: Interesting.
Same, but 2.15 am w school today and I have to get up in four hours asfhgjskh
Lmao this is literally me right now
your pp is quite representative of your comment
Me watching this at 1:30 p.m., about 22 hours after waking up because this is how I live:
I'm inclined to agree... =_=
I’m literally watching this now at 30 hours without sleep.
"There are a lot of things in the universe."
I'm gonna need you to cite your sources on that one, Tom.
Source: The universe
You should know this because half of the things in the universe live with you. You may know those things as “mother”
@@frozennbutter6425 I feel betrayed. Your starting line promised so much to me, someone who has absolutely no concept of the universe and somehow thinks someone could live with half, someone making a twisted metaphor that was to be beautifully laid out in the proceeding sentence, perhaps some great scientist here to present a lighthearted albeit not pure science but complex theory that explains the mysterious allure you piqued. Imagine my surprise to read the words that followed, sometimes in life you're better not knowing the truth, its so much worse than our imagination.
@@WolfCage123 what
Uncle my apologies, fellow intellectual. Although the size universe is incomprehensible To the human mind(much like your female parental figure) it would be amazing if One could somehow understand or grasp the wideness of the universe. I am sorry that I cannot express my knowledge in a paragraph as big as yours and certainly not as big as your mom.
“I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.”
--Emo Phillips
What does this mean? "I like my spleen the most, it whispers sweet nothings about it being the best part in my body before I go to bed"
Well it’s the only organ that can tell you that
@@Mikey-zk5wc wait how does your spleen speak
fattipotato 79 wait your’s doesn’t?
@@Fattipotato79 what do you mean how does your spleen speak?
As a sleep-deprived bisexual English-speaking nerd myself, I consider this list to be extremely accurate.
hello fellow sleep-deprived bisexual english-speaking nerd
@@shackman7356 there's three actually
the three musketeers
@@skrimp44 we can start an army of fellow sleep-deprived bisexuals
@@shackman7356 im all for this
"Given the expected audience, it's no surprise that the #1 thing is..."
"It's internet."
"...sleep."
"I need to get off the internet."
sleep is highly valued when you spend all of your time skipping it by being on the internet
i said internet as well bcs like,,, without the internet this poll wouldn't have existed
tw// mildly suggestive topics
Friendly reminder, if it is at all possible in your current living space or when you have the time, energy, power, and other means to change it around so this is doable, that not having any computers/electronics in your bedroom, period, apparently helps a lot with making it a "sleep/love/masturbating" exclusive area, with nothing else to interrupt or disturb its explicit intended use. I also suppose you can try using computers/electronics for sexual matters in...another room just for...that activity, if you even have such a fancy and specific room, I sure don't, or use other places in the house when no one's around or others are asleep/out of sight enough, private places if possible to have/find them, even, and discreetly finish in and on your clothes, which can hopefully be washed later. Speaking from personal experience, the "no electronics in the bedroom" rule hasn't helped a whole lot, yet, as my sleep schedule is chaotic, nocturnal, and frustratingly difficult to control/direct, plus finding non-digital alarm clocks might be a hassle, I imagine, or may make you seem/look old/outdated, but I'm glad to at least be building one new positive habit recently that can serve me well, especially in the future if and when my sleep gets back to a healthy state. Even now, it's nice to have no, like, phone calls, conversations, virtual appointments...anything in there, though the last one may especially be hard for me someday soon to find a quiet, private room in the house for that.
partial tl:dr
It gives the bedroom a more "sacred space" vibe, if you can believe that, to leave electronics and computers out, if and when possible. That was a really long paragraph, huh? 😒
@Repent to Jesus Christ Repent to Jesus Christ no
@Repent to Jesus Christ Repent to Jesus Christ we need to get you back to bed grandma
Me waiting for #1: I don’t need sleep, I need answers!
Also me, 10 minutes later: oh
I can not even tell you how underrated this comment is
It appears we all needed sleep, in more ways than one
@@user-vr8bn6jb3m Ě
@@Gussyboy06 Ê
@@toast2300 Ə'^
"The brain is the best part of the body." -the brain
I'm surprised it wasn't another part of the body was voted the best part of the body!
@@BryTee I guess the other part of the body you thought of has 2 "variants" and therefore split their votes.
I do like the spleen, though.
I think this "body part" may (for some) fall under the category "brain"
Someone needs to do this with a larger group of people, and I want to be part of it this time.
true
And without excluding groups of people from the database so we can see which race is the best
Notify me
@@real_nosferatu No. Just... no.
@@real_nosferatu No.
"The best thing is... sleep."
Me watching this at 2 AM: "agreed."
Me watching this at 4am: 'drools, mumbles incoherently in agreement'
me, but 3:41am
the real question is are you bisexual
@@paper2222 Why is that the real question? Surely there are more important ones?
Oh hello, are you me in an alternate universe?
ah yes sleep. That thing everyone says they love, while at the same time doing absolutely nothing to actually get enough of it.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
truth
@@xmlthegreat ok im about to do something
XDXDXD
i feel attacked
>_>
I like how we science nerds so firmly insist that space and time are one thing that we even put them in the same place.
I like to imagine there was one guy who got the options "Space" vs "Time" and could have decided it once and for all, but elected to just immediately turn off his phone instead. Maybe Stephen Hawking?
@@stephenderry9488 hes dead
@@niamarwaha4060 pffft linear thinkers
Arceus Legends tldr
@@niamarwaha4060 alive elsewhere?
I'd love for Tom to periodically re-run this quiz for 5 hours at a time with the same data, perhaps annually. Eventually he could take the top 10 results from every session, pit those against each other to find his audiences ultimate best thing.
The biggest problem with something like that is when you start predictably repeating something like this, eventually someone will be ready with a bot to automate and control the results.
@@hamsterfromabove8905 that is a fair point. I just didn't have it in me to think about someone actively ruining some perfectly good data collection. 😒
bisexuality
@@ghostmelon64 tied with pizza
I like the way you phrased your conclusion. "This statistic reveals something about the group of people who watch your video". Thats true. Nothing more, nothing less.
That's Tom Scott for you. He makes every attempt to be aggressively accurate. Makes every attempt to tell his audience exactly what the data says, not just what would be easy or convenient to pretend it says.
Nobody is talking about how orgasm is in 69th place and space and time has the exact same amount of EVERYTHING
Perfectly balanced as all things should be.
Nerds at work.
Einstein was right, space and time was the same thing afterall.
YESSS, I FOUND THE ANSWER I WAS LOOKING FOR 42 YEARS
I’d like this, but it has 669 likes and I can’t mess that up
Alternative title: Tom throwing shade on his audience for 11 minutes
underrated but true
All our own faults for having shade toward yourselves available to have been thrown
Luckily I'm not the audience he's referring to, everyone else is.
@@new_ale No true Tom Scottsman
Alternative title: Tom reveals the weird inherent bias of active twitter users, and how social programming makes us deny what is natural to us.
I am very sure the numbers will skewer differently in different forms of media.
“dog go fishing” is the funniest thing I’ve heard in months
🎣🐕
@@gmodiscool14 heha it go fishing
time stamp?
@@Person-lk1vs 4:04
@@Person-lk1vs looks like someone didn't watch the whole video /s
it's been 2 years but every time I think of "dog go fishing" I laugh incredibly hard, what a thing to happen
"I don't need sleep i need answers"
1. Sleep
I don't need sleep i need sleep.
Damn you recursion
when the world forgets to write the exit function
Damn this is a god tier joke
Great joke!
Sheldon Cooper
Sleep is sus!
"THIS IS A METAPHOR" and "I closed the poll before anyone wrote code to try and break it" really tell you all you need to know about how many times Tom has been around the block.
😂
He's so self-aware and protects or explains his choices all the time. I really like this kind of rigour.
@@simonmercier6733 I haven't heard him explain the red shirt thing though
Yes
@@KevinShinwoo its in a video... i think a park bench video... but i'm not certain.
"English speaking extremely online nerds"
Tom, I did not come here to get attacked.
@@user-vr8bn6jb3m please stop
@@user-vr8bn6jb3m a
If you interpret that as an attack, then that says more about you than it does about him.
I have never felt more seen.
@@theuncalledfor Dude, I was joking xD
You should repeat this every 5 years and note any trends and changes over time. It'd be really cool to see what changes and what stays the same over time
I’d like to imagine everyone’s collective internet hive mind subconsciously balanced the win and losses for “orgasm” to be 69th place
*Whip noise
_NAIIIIIIIIIIICCCCE_
Nice.
Noice
Additionally the collective consciousness of nerds unify space and time
Nice
Imagine if he’d used the full database, and the best thing turned out to be “No label defined”
Or some random location
randomly: pillow
@@luuuuzzz That's not that random!
@@minimalgrammar1276 depends very much on your point of view buddy
@@luuuuzzz I-- What?
The guy who doesn't like pipe organs has the username "Frickpipeorgans"...
I don't know why but that puts a smile on my face
Someday, I hope to develop a petty grudge against a harmless object that is so engrossing I make a username about it. That sounds like a fascinating experience.
@@butwithcats265 Sometimes I wonder. Why would you hate something so passionately you choose to have that very same thing to be a part in your username just for the sake of hating it?
Build a totem of what you hate just so you can be angry at it
I just really hate them go away
I would love to see the list of items that got in "circles". That when matched against each other, they form a circle of victory/defeat; i.e., rock paper scissors.
"Orgasm" getting ranked 69 is pure fate in action.
An event foretold in the elder scrolls
nice
It was voted exactly to be in that spot, not fate but action by men
@@duckmeat4674 its a blind study, so no one knows what exactly ranked where.
Fate works in a weird way
"Hey brain, what is the best part of your attached body?"
Brain: "Well, it's the brain of course!"
But who is doing the question? 🤔
"Thanks, brain. Hey, liver! What do YOU think is the best part of your attached body?"
Liver: **flops in confusion like a goldfish that jumped out of its bowl and sees the family cat walking up to it**
@@autumn4442 I like to believe, that family cat walking up to it is not a part of analogy.
@@blinded6502 the analogy was about the lack of consciousness? i think the cat was send by the brain and it's named alcohol
Hey other brain, I, the brain of this dude, would like to point out it was neither a fill in the blank for "what, nor, statistically, the choice "brain" was pitted against other body parts super frequently, but I still get you.
Digital brain high five!
pizza. flowers. bisexuality. wind turbines. long ago, the four nations lived in harmony. then everything changed when tom scott attacked
bold of you to assume tom scott isn't the avatar himself
@@VeryTastySoup87 Why?
@@VeryTastySoup87 I hate homophobes
@@VeryTastySoup87 ok
No one has seen a wind turbine in 100 years. We thought they were extinct.
5:46 The fact that Twilight is at the bottom made me laugh audibly.
“Extremely Online Nerds”
*EONS*
Pention to for tom to name his fans this
Ooh I like this.
We can name ourselfs like this :)
Yup, more proof that we're a bunch of nerds
Imo ExONs would be a better name.
"also i removed all listings for groups of humans because... yikes"
LMAO
true tho
K-Pop community is coming to Cancel Tom Scott as we speak.
@@user-vr8bn6jb3m a
@@user-vr8bn6jb3m please stop, you're incredibly obnoxious.
@Mycel that's a very big assumption
It would be fascinating to see a bunch of creators from all different communities run the same poll to see how different sections of the internet compared to one another. Both the differences and similarities would be fun to speculate about.
Even better idea; seperate by countries. I'd love to see china
@@e2220 and at number one is,
Xi Jinping, what a suprise
@@baremangus3576 😂😂 +20 social credits
Apparently none of these people have eaten a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos while getting some neck.
What would be more fascinating would be for Tom to have created two separate independent rankings - A and B. When a new user shows up on the website, randomly allocate them to either A or B. Then, at the end of the voting period, compare Poll A and Poll B's top 10 - that'd tell us if all of these were random, or of there's some trend to it.
9:33
We are sleep depreived nerds who like pizza and not many of us are straight.
That's ..... That's accurate..
Yep
Yup
yep
yup
"the best part of the body is the brain" Of course the brain would say that.
Except it is the hand that controlled the mouse.
@@feha92 but the brain controls the hand
@@Corey-1232 are you your brain?
*insert obama awards obama meme
but I mean it's not like our brains are biased we actually think about it and idk maybe I would say the hand or foot but even then the brain is obviously the best since without it we would be a mindless and floppy piece of meat
this is literally the ultimate tier list for everything ever.
yes according to _extremely online english speaking nerds_
@@meltedyakkystick3891
Thats great, because extremely online nerds like us can relate to it.
It is Howard from fresh meats wet dream
quite literally not everything, a couple million of things that definitely exist were removed
“Orgasm was rated #69”
Everything about this poll is amazing.
that was it should be
Nice
So the poll was actually the number 1 best thing
Nice
Nice
I have restrictions set on my RUclips so I can try to fall asleep at a decent hour and well watching this. You reveal the number one item on the list and the reminder to go to sleep pops up on the screen and pause it.
“the bottom of the list is a bunch of nasty diseases and unpleasant concepts. and one of the twilight movies”
as someone who likes twilight, fair enough
I hate-watched the twilight movies in the middle of the night (I quite liked the books at the time but had very low expectations for the movies) so I remember none of it - which one would that be do you think?
You can enjoy terrible things. I enjoy Jesus Christ : Vampire Hunter, so I can't judge anyone for movie tastes.
which one was it? :D I don't remember the movies, I think 4-1 could be the worst
@@vxicepickxv Hahah, you must be kidding, aren't you?
I’m going out on a wing and saying it’s New Moon. While the other movies were honestly kind of terrible, New Moon is straight up boring
The fact that space and time share the exact same statistic is just mind-bendingly hilarious
I have to agree
well they are kinda the same thing
Please do this poll every year so we can discover how the needs and feeling about things change in a longer period
nah, its cringy
mo de dealer shut up
known the awnsers it would be increibly biased
Love that my thirst thought of the best thing was indeed sleep and yet I don't get enough of it
Honestly, when the world ends, we need to prioritise the survival of Tom's computer.
we may need to put up a pool to decide which one tho...
@@satakrionkryptomortis ok, i got the hole for the pool
@@nothanks39 ok, I filled it with water
@@user-gf3fc9qv2d great, now we just need to dunk the computer in
i got the computer, wanna put a swimsuit on it or something
That list is like a chaotic version of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
More like "the anarchy of needs" then
@@eltanynn9549 Ha, good one
White people
@@eltanynn9549 Bravo
*4. Gravity*
Newton : They called me a madman...
Tom Scott's videos are so well-written and well-researched. Thanks a lot!
"it doesnt just tell you about the needs and desires of this audience"
what is it.. friendship? minecraft?
"sleep"
ah....
I have a love/hate relationship with sleep. I hate *having* to sleep, but I love actually sleeping
The elusive remedy
I imagined it would be"health"
i so expected it to be face masks
So everyone’s favorite thing is not being conscious
I sleep a lot.
yes. the best thing is so close go death..
capitalism has drained everyone's energy
Sleep is just death being shy
it's good way fewer things
I'm surprised to see gravity so high. it always gets me down, honestly.
I used to be addicted to soap, but now Im clean.
I wonder how 'puns' ranked...
Get out. 🤣
it pushes people down so it can go even higher
Friction is under appreciated too.
What we need is not just random matchups, but matchups between things that have a similar score, so you can create an Elo systeem.
Ah yes, the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse: pizza, flower, bisexual, and windmill
Walter Clements more like turbine
bro that's a wind turbine, but ur close
all anyone that watches tom scott knows is pizza, flower, bisexual and windmill
Windmill
@Khaffit no, take your politics and go back to your hobbit hole
Tom: "The best thing is sleep"
Me, watching this at 2AM: "hmm yes indeed"
australian?
2:47am and I'm responding 32 mins after your comment. I feel ya
11:50 am where i live
Just working after falling at 3am, we all need it
Doesn't say when is the best sleep Sir/Madam NightBreaker.
Could this be a yearly poll where we find what the "world" is into at that moment and maybe see if the polling size could increase. amazing video. lovely concept.
I bet the audience would gladly take part in it monthly for a year, but yearly might not work out.
Then again, it'd get hacked easily. And with a lot of work involved in user tracking, would require 3 tries or a botnet.
@@zbzbzbzbzb3288 Monthly every year might work out just by keeping people aware
Once a year I think would be the best frequency.
Biggest problem I could see is one that Tom mentioned in the video; it would give those interested a _lot_ of time to work out how to game/hack the poll.
I wager sleep will go undefeated until we discover a way to eliminate sleep but still get rest, then that will be undefeated. I wonder where coffee/caffeine were on the list
There is a simple fix against ppl trying to hack it: give each human an id, preferably of the physical kind like the signing devices banks use.
Or, yknow, you could go cheaper and have either a banner telling bots to go away, or a checkbox humans can check to verify that they are humans.
I love this video so much. It's like a comfort video. I just love it so much.
As someone who took part in this, I feel there was a flaw in the process. When I answered each question, there was a response. Green if you voted with the majority, red if your vote went against the majority. I personally felt the colours had an influence on my vote, making me consider what others thought, and potentially impacting the way I voted. Obviously this is minor, but it's definitely not perfect in my view.
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Good call
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youre not funny
@@bartschaap6236 y
English speaking
Extremely online
Apparently bisexual
Nerds
Hmm more accurate then I was expecting
that describes me scarily accurately
That perfectly describes all of us.
that describes all of us with 100% accuracy
I feel called out
Everything exept the bisexuality part is me
"space and time fought and won the same number of matches"
*Albert Einstein would like to know your location*
and time
Albert Einstein sleeps comfortably in his grave (Except that the best part of his body is not there)
*Heisenberg downloads NordVPN*
*Albert Einstein would like to know your worldline
They are entangled
I love how as creatures who rely on being conscious and fully aware, we really don't like doing that
"What's your favorite thing?"
Hexagons. Hexagons are the bestagons.
take my like and leave
*yes*
_you understand_
TRUE
That and hexa-flexa-perplexagons.
CGP grey fans here
Also don’t forget toroidal polyhedrons and octagons
"Have a good night folk" - Tom Scott
*Stare at the bright sun*
Alright then, to bed it is.
I hadn't realizes being a Tom Scott fan was one of my bisexual traits
lololol same
Same
same
Same lmaooo
You should run this every year and then consolidate that data, I think it would be really interesting 😊
Might cause bias to be more easy to find then, though...
"I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this."
@@user-vr8bn6jb3m Stop Spamming or Else I will give you a Taste of your own medicine...
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@@ocelotlesbian I am not Over yet...
And then I realized that I was myself my own brain, telling my brain that my brain is my most important organ
"English speaking extremely online nerds"
Never before have I been more offended by something I 100% agree with
James acaster?
English speaking extreamly online nerds who like James Acaster apparently.
@@Metaporphsycosis you'll never get his attention yelling his name. Yell your own name!
Not even english and still felt personal XD
I feel personally attacked to be honest
"so, what have we learned from this video?"
"the majority of toms audience is bisexual"
@@Strangerthingsfan426 no,,, :/ you can be straight and not be homophoic.
@@Strangerthingsfan426 Go outside and touch some grass buddy
@@roofogato what did they say?
@@Orpheus_224 i forget, sorry
I feel called out
1:15 youtube compression is SWEATING
"I removed all groups of people because... yikes"
Appreciated. Instant video like for delivery.
Indeed. Things do not have to become toxic to be fun
true
ThatsLudacross
i heard him say groups of people and i was confused cus like at one point in my life my favourite thing was my chemical romance which is a band whch is also a group of people so itd be unfair not to count that into it so idk
Better label for bands would be team than group
@ThatsLudacross A team is a group of people working towards a shared goal
Really wish that this poll could last longer and have a wider range of participants. I'm eager to know what is truly the best thing in the world.
you'd then have people writing bots to submit their answers because people like to destroy other people's work.
It's obviously mutton, lettuce, tomato sandwiches.
Especially given it was up for 5 hours. That’s the time difference between the UK and USA.
Nah, is clearly sleep, we dont need more data. Also, more data could have made thay orgasm wasn't 69 so is better this way
@@whenthedustfallsaway captcha the hell out of it?
As an electrical engineer, I can confirm that electricity is better than air.
But air is such a great insulator...
ah, yes, electronics, where current flows one way and electrons the opposite way
@@gideonmaxmerling204 booooo...... Show yourself out
Electromagnetism _is_ one of the fundamental forces of the universe. Of course it's more important, *Pushes up glasses*
As an air engineer I beg to differ
i could watch an hour of this video. idk what it is about people ranking things that makes my brain go bananas. i think just the chaos of trying to rank things is lovely
Pizza > Privacy makes sense, actually, cause you normally order pizza and have to give up a bit of privacy when the delivery person sees in your front door or window.
this is not privacy
unless you go out face entirely covered
Choosing to not have privacy for life or not have pizza on the other hand...
We should replace human rights to privacy with human right to pizza
💀💀
i live in a flat
Out of curiosity where did "The Internet" finish
+ PUSH THIS COMMENT UP +
Forty second I believe
Dead center
@@slender1892 obviously since it can answer anything
Bump+
the beatles: “all you need is love”
me, winning: “all you need is cryptography”
Gilbert Blane to the 18th century Royal Navy: “All you need is Vitamin C”
nice pfp
Alan Turing is confused now.
All you need is sleep
I wanted to show this to mom when I got home from work. But while waiting to show it to her I took a nap and was out half the night.
I finally woke up at like 8, ate dinner and finally got around to showing it to her and….the answer was right in front of me the entire time. The very thing I was doing.
Conclusions about the viewers:
-nerds
-tired
-bisexual
-eats like a child
-really hates lyme disease
-needs a hug
👍👍
yep, sounds about right, now can you be quiet, I'm trying to get to sleep.
When you live in a place with alot of deer and ticks, you tend to hate lyme disease.
all a little gay inside
Very accurate
I have Lyme, im glad it got last place, makes me feel like I've won a small battle in some way.
Hope you are able to recover
A small moral victory, but hey in these god awful times you've really got to take whatever wins you can from wherever you can get them.
Hope you're able to recover and things get a whole lot better for you ♥️
Best part of the body: Brain.
as voted for by the brain.
[Insert Obama giving Obama a medal meme here]
The truth is, the game was rigged from the start
It also named itself. And told us that it's the most important organ.
And also orgasm, it did this one too.
@@miigon9117 nice
The whole system is rigged
I would have expected the top 10 to be something like:
Air, food, water, sex, rest, play, compassion, contentedness, peace, escape, nothing.
I like how shelter and family isn't on this list.
arrogant of you to assume food instead of pizza
@@noone3708 Not arrogant, but sensible.
to be fair, not everyone likes or gets sex. i don't ever wanna have it, im a very sex-repulsed ace. and there's probably a significant enough overlap between tom scott's viewership and the sort of extremely online nerd who just doesn't care about sex (for whatever reason) for it to have an effect.
@@toothfairy10133 Know that you are in the minority. There are also some people who don't like food too.
_Doctor walks in with coronavirus test results_
"I have good news and I bad news. The good news is: you don't have Lyme disease..."
"...another good news is you'll get a lot of sleep."
'The bad news is, your sleep is brown.'
@@DomenBremecXCVI "maybe permanantly.. Also you will have lots of privacy"
Ahh damn, you should announce these on youtube too, I feel like I'm missing out on too much stuff by not joining the most toxic site on the internet...
YES IKR
Agreed!!
Yes Me Too!
I have twitter but i dont follow him there :(
Facts
I’m laughing so hard at “wind instrument that causes cancer”
I was wandering if anybody else got this epic joke.
Reminds me of the ol' double bass taking a dip in the river joke. Why are music jokes always so corny in the most wholesome way?
You shouldn't laugh at that, it's a very serious instrument. My uncle was killed by a kazoo :(
Can someone explain, please? I’m so lost...
@@eddylin5098 I'm thinking maybe because of the word pipe? Smoking from a pipe is a very carcinogenic hobby
Tired? Check.
Nerd? Check.
Bisexual? Check.
Would like a hug (rn or any time)? Check.
Generally dislikes Lyme Disease? Check.
Less-than-ideal eating habits? Check.
I don’t like how accurate that is.
Brain: "I am the best part of the body"
" *Fingers! Tell them that I'm the best part of the body.* "
Fingers - Oh! I am just a slave for brain :(
@@shreyashrivastava4840 every organ is a slave for the brain. Even the non voluntary ones. Only the heart is somewhat important I guess
@@samveddeolekar1571 Let me introduce you to the enteric nervous system (ENS). It is not the slave of the brain. More like a collaborator. Though it kind of fails at being an organ part. It controls organs, so that's something that disputes the claim that all organs are slave of the brain. Some are slaves of the ENS.
@@samveddeolekar1571 Cancer is a rebellion
@@boxinabox6608 pepeRiot
time to perish
*"The best thing is sleep"*
Me at 4:15 a.m. with no sleep since two days ago: Oh… I guess so…
LMFAOO its 4:31 for me rn
i sleep like 6 hours per 72 hours soo.. yea
@@Sohlstyce you would be dead so no
How is it even possible?. I drop like a rock after 12:00 p.m.
@@ivannierez7731 12 p.m. so you sleep during the afternoon?..
I got quinoa three times, and one was against gravity. Choosing between gravity and quinoa is quite an easy pick.
Well, sure. When was the last time you made a salad with gravity in it?
@@RobMacKendrick well it's kind of hard to toss a salad if it doesn't come back down
jonathan kydd
Easy solution. Put it in a container and shake really hard
@ until it slips from your hand and form an interplanetery salad