Cousins Explained

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  • Опубликовано: 13 янв 2025

Комментарии • 7 тыс.

  • @archle1169
    @archle1169 5 лет назад +3562

    “Parents
    can have children
    That are not you”
    If that ain’t poetry Idk what is

    • @lolpufferfish1129
      @lolpufferfish1129 5 лет назад +140

      because of how he worded it when i heard that i was like bro wait what :o and then i realized that was a perfectly normal thing KSdhksjf

    • @RobinFlysHigh
      @RobinFlysHigh 5 лет назад +9

      Hahahaha

    • @sadcena7761
      @sadcena7761 4 года назад +41

      @@lolpufferfish1129 I was so lost and then I remembered that I have 6 siblings

    • @allthingslexi6046
      @allthingslexi6046 4 года назад +6

      @@sadcena7761 lmao

    • @xiao5641
      @xiao5641 4 года назад +3

      I read this EXACTLY when he said it 😂

  • @SomeDudeNamedCarl
    @SomeDudeNamedCarl 5 лет назад +10534

    Thanks for the Alabama math so you know which cousin is safe

    • @user-qu9fk5jh8j
      @user-qu9fk5jh8j 5 лет назад +40

      @Jonathan Lumbreras same

    • @kittycat-sc7je
      @kittycat-sc7je 5 лет назад +145

      @@cop-killer- no u

    • @insanitycubed8832
      @insanitycubed8832 5 лет назад +266

      Cousin? Yeesh! A little distant, don't you think?

    • @Tatusiek_1
      @Tatusiek_1 5 лет назад +163

      Meat Butt in alabama the family tree is a tumbleweed

    • @top10bruhmoments67
      @top10bruhmoments67 5 лет назад +78

      @@cop-killer- but alabama has more black people than white.....

  • @samuelthecamel
    @samuelthecamel 6 лет назад +3034

    "No one will ever be a great parent!" -Micheal

    • @robsongaitsantepaulus2398
      @robsongaitsantepaulus2398 6 лет назад +44

      Gonna make citation of this when arguing with parents.

    • @tamino27
      @tamino27 6 лет назад +11

      actually this is not true: just call your grandparents in german Großeltern and voila there it is groß=great and Eltern=parents. Btw hasn´t the English grand ist origin in French?

    • @oko_161
      @oko_161 6 лет назад +6

      @@tamino27 grand could also be translated as groß

    • @avito502
      @avito502 6 лет назад +7

      @@oko_161 my grob parents?

    • @jappa4977
      @jappa4977 6 лет назад +3

      That symbol is pronounced as 2 s’s

  • @saivikas9580
    @saivikas9580 2 года назад +377

    "My mom is not my cousin". Thanks for confirming Micheal

    • @GalaticHunter
      @GalaticHunter 7 месяцев назад +5

      or is she

    • @bluewhale2846
      @bluewhale2846 7 месяцев назад +3

      Are my siblings my 0th cousins? And my nieces/nephews are my 0th cousins once removed?

    • @magical_blue
      @magical_blue 6 месяцев назад

      my 7th grandfather from my father side is my mom 6 grandfather from her father side 😂 so what does that makes us I'm arab and both my parents are from the same tribe but different clans

  • @sakyosekai3438
    @sakyosekai3438 6 лет назад +5909

    I don’t know any of my removed cousins myself, but I personally have some first cousins I’d like to remove.

    • @thestrivingone2367
      @thestrivingone2367 5 лет назад +53

      SakyoSekai hahaha ure acc funny😂

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 5 лет назад +32

      Really? How would you remove them, and where would you remove them to?

    • @comradeurod9805
      @comradeurod9805 5 лет назад +102

      @@josephclegg3562 heck probably

    • @ajddavid452
      @ajddavid452 5 лет назад +31

      I'm pretty sure the feeling is mutual

    • @robot2374
      @robot2374 5 лет назад +19

      SakyoSekai call thanos to snap them outta existence

  • @andreaspapandreou2485
    @andreaspapandreou2485 5 лет назад +2789

    Other people:My sister
    Me,an intellectual:My Zeroth cousin

    • @depstein3847
      @depstein3847 5 лет назад +125

      0th Cousin Nonce Removed

    • @sgtruru
      @sgtruru 5 лет назад +94

      Other people: myself
      Me: my negative first cousin.

    • @refresh730
      @refresh730 5 лет назад +24

      Other people: my grandpa
      Me, an intellectual: my negative first cousin twice removed

    • @ruskiiz8315
      @ruskiiz8315 4 года назад +13

      Cousin't

    • @agentc514
      @agentc514 4 года назад +2

      I read it as mean intellectual

  • @awakenedape1052
    @awakenedape1052 6 лет назад +1962

    "But their children will be removed."

  • @michaelo8342
    @michaelo8342 5 лет назад +548

    Me explaining how human families work to my alien from area51

    • @katipunan4212
      @katipunan4212 4 года назад +15

      This is also how an Alien would explain how their families work

    • @svenlauke1190
      @svenlauke1190 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@katipunan4212 depends. generations are easy in animals, much more complicated in lets say, plants, or fungi, or bacteria. so depending which of those the aliens are closer too, it might be a very different discussion

  • @DamaKubu
    @DamaKubu 6 лет назад +1417

    Plot twist Michael is adopted.

    • @ForruptedHrek
      @ForruptedHrek 6 лет назад +10

      Aokis lmao

    • @aadityarajbhattarai46
      @aadityarajbhattarai46 6 лет назад +16

      And infertile

    • @Feziboy
      @Feziboy 6 лет назад +9

      Aokis But he’d still be A cousin

    • @helenhamilton2544
      @helenhamilton2544 6 лет назад +6

      Hahha I thought that was Plot Twist Michael, as opposed to regular non plot twist Michael, is adopted

    • @matzanrock
      @matzanrock 6 лет назад +3

      That't would make him x removed

  • @kenmendoza6932
    @kenmendoza6932 6 лет назад +7552

    In the hood, everyone is your cousin.

    • @Saronite
      @Saronite 6 лет назад +545

      in soviet russia, your cousin is everyone's

    • @RougenTCG
      @RougenTCG 6 лет назад +250

      Wuz poppin' cuz?
      What's happening cousin?
      How goes it grandparent's children's children?
      How are you feeling my parent's parent's lineage's lineage?

    • @pablosalazar812
      @pablosalazar812 6 лет назад +71

      All bees are cousins

    • @Tensho_C
      @Tensho_C 6 лет назад +42

      Are you doing the Tpose on a cliff? Respect

    • @lechequemada1661
      @lechequemada1661 6 лет назад +3

      NotKenM

  • @xtroro5672
    @xtroro5672 5 лет назад +1927

    This video in Alabama is called Wives Explained

    • @skeezerAndo
      @skeezerAndo 5 лет назад +8

      😂😂

    • @Gia1911Logous
      @Gia1911Logous 5 лет назад +11

      Austria*

    • @Dalrae
      @Dalrae 5 лет назад +2

      @@Gia1911Logous HAHAHAH LOLOLOLOLOO HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH LOLLoOLoOoLOL

    • @juliagrace4405
      @juliagrace4405 4 года назад +11

      Being from Alabama I find that funny and offensive.

    • @jade_m23
      @jade_m23 4 года назад +5

      No it is not. I will have u know, I am most currently in Alabama and it says something about cousins. So sir, you are wronger than my sister cousin, Beth. She ain't too smart, bc of the whole, sister cousin part. Anyways,

  • @biliousvicarduds9089
    @biliousvicarduds9089 5 лет назад +159

    1:17 "But I, someday...may have children."
    I think Michael's wife was just behind the camera with a rifle

  • @FlyingKitty900
    @FlyingKitty900 6 лет назад +2144

    Michael can explain the simplest things and still make it interesting

  • @mr_matata
    @mr_matata 5 лет назад +1421

    i lost it when your said " if my own grandchildren gave birth to me"

    • @chrisakaschulbus4903
      @chrisakaschulbus4903 5 лет назад +90

      but technically your grand children could give you a half sibling... when your mother is up for it, that is

    • @REALPapaLags
      @REALPapaLags 5 лет назад +43

      Chris aka Schulbus sweet home Alabama

    • @hellz23456
      @hellz23456 4 года назад +6

      predestination

    • @jennypai3763
      @jennypai3763 4 года назад +17

      there's a song called "I'm my own grandpa"

    • @Funstun-yk7oo
      @Funstun-yk7oo 4 года назад +7

      Philip J. Fry

  • @theidiotzonexo
    @theidiotzonexo 5 лет назад +1574

    when you're from a big family, everyone's a cousin. doesn't matter if they're your 2nd cousin once removed, they're your cousin.

    • @moodswings1433
      @moodswings1433 5 лет назад +151

      Fr I get so confused sometimes, like my niece is a year younger than me and my Aunt is 6 years younger than me??

    • @aidrovo89
      @aidrovo89 5 лет назад +14

      Mood Swings it’s possible

    • @theidiotzonexo
      @theidiotzonexo 5 лет назад +45

      @@moodswings1433 yeah i've 20 first cousins on my mom's side, so i'm actually closer in age to my mom's oldest grandniece than to the next youngest cousin

    • @katerraxantane7178
      @katerraxantane7178 5 лет назад +12

      My grandmother's cousin is the same age as my uncle and the children are about the same age as me and my cousins... we still view each other as family but we're sick of explaining it whenever we meet new people so we just say "we're cousins" even though their dad is actually our grandmother's cousin.

    • @Seb135-e1i
      @Seb135-e1i 5 лет назад +14

      Y'all family trees are a hecking hedge maze.
      Not the maze, but the branches in the hedges.

  • @v6790
    @v6790 5 лет назад +178

    0:51 for those few seconds that he tried to decide what "e" to use the entire universe collapsed through his mind he saw every combination of everything and he saw many universes, the combinations, abstraction and even the feint ideas of the letter "e" showed how mythical this symbol is. Then, he decided to use 3.

  • @Manudyne
    @Manudyne 6 лет назад +228

    0:42 "Let's begin with you. That would be yourself. In my case it's me.
    Or is it?"
    *Vsauce cue music plays*

  • @CassandraBankson
    @CassandraBankson 6 лет назад +1604

    *..... well they didn’t teach me this in school*

    • @LozadaPR
      @LozadaPR 6 лет назад +5

      Cassandra Bankson they thought me this is Spanish so ya

    • @cheekybum1513
      @cheekybum1513 6 лет назад +36

      What class would this be relevant? It’s okay to learn things on your own

    • @ShortiesCleverShorts
      @ShortiesCleverShorts 6 лет назад +2

      How did you make your comment in bold text?

    • @markverdaguersantafe3886
      @markverdaguersantafe3886 6 лет назад +6

      SpiteDISCOVERY with these * * at the *beginning and the end of the phrase*

    • @Fiery-Arctic
      @Fiery-Arctic 6 лет назад +6

      Cheeky Bum Biology Class I assume?

  • @BeardFaceSuper
    @BeardFaceSuper 6 лет назад +466

    "Their children will be removed"

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 5 лет назад +2

      I feel sorry the children that get removed.

    • @Jun.Suzuki
      @Jun.Suzuki 5 лет назад +1

      *Casually deletes Tommy.chr

  • @alexandrialambert2507
    @alexandrialambert2507 5 лет назад +176

    i went from being like "aww yes this is cool information" to "wtf your cousin grandchildren gave birth to you, so you are negative 1, huh"

    • @angelmendez-rivera351
      @angelmendez-rivera351 4 года назад +8

      Alex Tayla I don't think that last idea made any sense at all. I think the only solution that is capable of preserving the consistency and simplicity of this systematic scheme is to simply not consider yourself a cousin of any kind relative to yourself. There is no reason to do otherwise. It makes sense to talk about everyone else who is not you as having a level of cousinality relative to you, but it makes no sense to talk about your level of cousinality relative to yourself, because, well, for obvious reasons.

  • @abuzzedwhaler7949
    @abuzzedwhaler7949 6 лет назад +1214

    "Now, parents can have children that aren't you."
    *preposterous*

  • @RaydeusMX
    @RaydeusMX 6 лет назад +493

    Michael... please tell me this wasn't just a very convoluted way of calling us "fam".

    • @jodinha4225
      @jodinha4225 6 лет назад +21

      This *is* Michael we’re talking about, of course it was!

    • @DaybreakPT
      @DaybreakPT 6 лет назад +21

      Raydeus Hello fellow 50th cousin! Where is my birthday present you deadbeat?

    • @BM03
      @BM03 6 лет назад +12

      Yes it was, but don't be mad at him, he's family, fam.

    • @alantonix213
      @alantonix213 6 лет назад +2

      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Want to get some drinks fam?

    • @minamesparkletits6714
      @minamesparkletits6714 6 лет назад +1

      Nah fam

  • @kentarrow3471
    @kentarrow3471 6 лет назад +155

    “There are no such things as great parents.”
    “No one will ever be a great parent.”
    “But their children will be removed.”

    • @futurestoryteller
      @futurestoryteller 6 лет назад +2

      I really don't see what's so great and grand about any of these parents, they're WAY slower and have a lot less energy than my regular parents.

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 5 лет назад +1

      But what level of CUSSIN' will they be?

  • @TheMrsansari
    @TheMrsansari 5 лет назад +95

    Finally. I have never understood this removed business.

  • @kerzid
    @kerzid 6 лет назад +159

    "There is no such thing as Great Parents" - Michael Stevens

    • @zekt98arius
      @zekt98arius 10 месяцев назад

      rather, "great parents" do not make technical sense, they make communal sense

  • @albertcazares9092
    @albertcazares9092 6 лет назад +145

    "It'll cause gosh to send you down to heck"
    got it

  • @alexfreeman2883
    @alexfreeman2883 5 лет назад +785

    Alabama: *this sign won't stop me cause i can't read*

    • @legomeister6966
      @legomeister6966 4 года назад +16

      This made me laugh not because of the joke but because of your profile

    • @mrfaysal2485
      @mrfaysal2485 4 года назад +1

      @@legomeister6966 haha

    • @rapmastac1362
      @rapmastac1362 4 года назад +1

      You're cousin me a frustrate

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 4 года назад +3

      Alabama is home to all the removed cousins.

    • @Itsbully06
      @Itsbully06 4 года назад

      the jokes funny
      but the profile pic is funniest

  • @a.l.michael6240
    @a.l.michael6240 5 лет назад +34

    I feel like this video was made for a specific specific reason

  • @Pxxnks
    @Pxxnks 6 лет назад +1350

    Always blow my mind, cousin

  • @micahphilson
    @micahphilson 6 лет назад +816

    Things I learned from Vsauce (or its analog) today:
    There are no great parents. No matter how good of parents you have, they can never be great. Only grand.
    Then, and only then, can they become great.
    _Grandness is the path to greatness._

    • @micahphilson
      @micahphilson 6 лет назад +28

      Also, the children of your brothers and sisters are your Niblings.
      Once my brother has kids, that's all I'm ever going to call them.
      "Eli brought the Niblings over today!" "Let's go visit Eli and the Niblings!" Eli and the Niblings is my new favorite band name.

    • @AbqDez
      @AbqDez 6 лет назад +4

      if your parents are Great Parents .... they are Exceptional - to the rule!

    • @griffinstopani9486
      @griffinstopani9486 6 лет назад +1

      But you can have great grand parents

    • @TheFreakyOne5
      @TheFreakyOne5 6 лет назад +1

      That last sentence is my new life motto

    • @cherrydragon3120
      @cherrydragon3120 6 лет назад +1

      abqdez1 but you can't have great parents... so if you got great parents.... they're not your parents

  • @barbara-annemcgregor1769
    @barbara-annemcgregor1769 5 лет назад +233

    I thought I understood how cousins work but this may have confused me more.

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 5 лет назад +6

      I know, right!

    • @rayma66
      @rayma66 4 года назад +12

      He explained it in the most complicated, yet accurate way. I learned a very simple method.

    • @michaelgray1803
      @michaelgray1803 4 года назад

      Keep going by what you know

    • @Lysol-2004
      @Lysol-2004 Год назад

      I only thought the cousins I have are the children of my aunts and uncles. I never thought that my parents' cousins were also my cousins. I just called my mom's cousin an auntie. Now, for me, it's too late to accept. So anticlimactic.

  • @Abcdefg-uw4id
    @Abcdefg-uw4id 5 лет назад +25

    "So I share 100% of my DNA with myself..."
    *YoU DoN't sAy*

  • @moharexx3128
    @moharexx3128 6 лет назад +240

    "funny observation" creepy music starts playing.

    • @91DevilDriver91
      @91DevilDriver91 5 лет назад +12

      so glad I wasn't the only one noticing. I had to pause the video to look up what tab would play the creepy drone music and it turned out to be this video.

  • @seanbarry1757
    @seanbarry1757 6 лет назад +90

    Noone will ever have great parents
    - Michael Stevens 2018

  • @lauralagier9404
    @lauralagier9404 6 лет назад +174

    I never realized cousins were so complicated

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 5 лет назад +1

      Me neither.

    • @CaveyMoth
      @CaveyMoth 5 лет назад +7

      My cousin is complicated AF, man.

    • @Lysol-2004
      @Lysol-2004 Год назад

      Just called my mom's cousin as auntie :)

  • @topseller8147
    @topseller8147 4 года назад +71

    Vsauce: Explains family cousin tree
    Alabama people: Write this down! Write this down!

    • @kevinbroussard3803
      @kevinbroussard3803 4 года назад

      As if they could write

    • @apoorrvs
      @apoorrvs 4 года назад

      what is it with alabama?
      everyone is mentioning it in their comments
      is it an incest joke?

    • @topseller8147
      @topseller8147 4 года назад

      APOORV SHUKLA yes

  • @havokshere
    @havokshere 6 лет назад +372

    oh god, is the comments section just one big family reunion??

  • @27779253
    @27779253 5 лет назад +584

    Disclaimer: All the information mentioned in this video is 100% correct, true and reliable, unless the person who is watching is somewhere from the state of Alabama.

    • @matthewlocke9225
      @matthewlocke9225 4 года назад +1

      IGWA HD or Arkansas, we good in Mississippi, Cousins are just fam, not slams

    • @loganricherson
      @loganricherson 4 года назад +1

      @@matthewlocke9225 am from Arkansas can confirm

    • @EsperantistoVolulo
      @EsperantistoVolulo 4 года назад +2

      Me, an non-American who has literally no knowledge about each American state's family culture: *CONFUSED SCREAMING*

    • @applescruff1969
      @applescruff1969 4 года назад +2

      @@EsperantistoVolulo Americans don't slam their sisters. It comes from a stereotype of southern states.

    • @EsperantistoVolulo
      @EsperantistoVolulo 4 года назад +4

      @@applescruff1969 Oh thanks Haha

  • @Quadrocephis
    @Quadrocephis 6 лет назад +602

    0:08 “Gosh will send you down to heck”

  • @abiikr4773
    @abiikr4773 5 лет назад +27

    So I'm negative infinity cousins with myself. Does that make me immortal?

    • @angelmendez-rivera351
      @angelmendez-rivera351 4 года назад

      You're just negatively first cousins with yourself, not negatively infinite cousins with yourself. Don't get ahead of yourself now.

    • @alpha6549
      @alpha6549 4 года назад

      Neg infinity would be every other you in parallel universes

  • @jasonpakkala9015
    @jasonpakkala9015 6 лет назад +245

    Now that I know we're family, can I borrow some money?

    • @ChristinaMoralesMindfuqed
      @ChristinaMoralesMindfuqed 6 лет назад +1

      How much you need and what is it for? Also, you better be borrowing and get my money back by Monday, cuz.

    • @arnabsom3251
      @arnabsom3251 6 лет назад +1

      No, we are saving it for your birthday..

    • @jasonpakkala9015
      @jasonpakkala9015 6 лет назад

      FYI. It's in November. I'm so excited!

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 5 лет назад

      Cuz, can you lend me a couple of G's?

  • @haidesilva8168
    @haidesilva8168 5 лет назад +187

    My brain has left the chat.

  • @-saumya-81
    @-saumya-81 6 лет назад +216

    I love watching episodes of Michael Draws in Pieces of Big White Cardstock

    • @thetato1273
      @thetato1273 5 лет назад +4

      what's your fav episode lol

  • @brfisher1123
    @brfisher1123 Год назад +6

    We can consider uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces (one's parents' siblings and one's siblings' children respectively) collectively as their "siblings once removed", one's granduncles, grandaunts, grandnephews and grandnieces (one's grandparents' siblings and one's siblings' grandchildren) as their "siblings twice removed", etc. I prefer to think of it that way.

  • @Dononut305
    @Dononut305 5 лет назад +2003

    *_If you are seeing this, you are my (1.29 x 10^12)th cousin!_*

    • @greennigga7832
      @greennigga7832 5 лет назад +190

      I don't speak asian

    • @Dononut305
      @Dononut305 5 лет назад +39

      @Ralsei with a gun I definitely miscalculated by a landslide. My bad at not knowing my maths.

    • @Dononut305
      @Dononut305 5 лет назад +15

      @@greennigga7832 oof.

    • @azaleas_x
      @azaleas_x 5 лет назад +30

      Donovann Lorrin Heyya there cuz! Can I borrow $10,000?

    • @Dononut305
      @Dononut305 5 лет назад +24

      @@azaleas_x Sorry, I only have (1.0×(10^4))-1 dollars.

  • @reycamilox
    @reycamilox 6 лет назад +174

    A Vsauce video disguised as a DONG.

    • @LightningSe7en
      @LightningSe7en 6 лет назад +10

      Camilo Rey A Vdong

    • @_JayRamsey_
      @_JayRamsey_ 6 лет назад +7

      Camilo Rey
      Ehhh, I didn't hear Jake Chudnow. If it doesn't sound like Vsauce, it's not. Awesome DONG though.
      Wait...how do I do this online?

    • @MatthewSkars
      @MatthewSkars 6 лет назад +7

      DONG Sauce™

    • @Kamarovsky_KCM
      @Kamarovsky_KCM 6 лет назад +1

      Matthew if you know what i mean

    • @ChristinaMoralesMindfuqed
      @ChristinaMoralesMindfuqed 6 лет назад

      Camilo Rey conspiracy theory

  • @Rwededyet
    @Rwededyet 6 лет назад +70

    14:14 If your own grandchildren gave birth to you, then they should have their time travel license revoked. That's a clear violation of time law.

    • @NSMike87
      @NSMike87 6 лет назад +2

      It's actually called a "predestination paradox"

    • @_KingOfCalifornia
      @_KingOfCalifornia 6 лет назад +1

      NSMike87 thats why its illehal

    • @windhelmguard5295
      @windhelmguard5295 6 лет назад

      here is why a timeline in which time travel is invented, can never persist:
      when one does indeed travel through time, one changes the future ever so slightly, doing thos once or twice will likely not make any significant changes, but as those changes become more neumerous, the timeline in which time travel is invented stops and can only continue once one such change causes time travel to not be invented, at which point the timeline becomes stable and mostly cohesive once again.
      some philosophers toyed with the idea that strange phenomena, out of place technologies in archeological finds, doppelgängers and other similar phenomena, are remnants of such self ending time travel experiments.

    • @felipevasconcelos6736
      @felipevasconcelos6736 6 лет назад

      If small changes that time travelers make can mess things up so badly, so can our changes, but we are usually not being extremely careful to avoid accidentally stepping on the wrong ant and preventing time travel’s invention. If time travel is possible, then there is a possibility that it is accidentally discovered in exactly two days, three hours, fourteen minutes and forty-two seconds, and every single action we execute is either contributing or hurting our chances.

    • @Diamond52894
      @Diamond52894 6 лет назад

      See fry from futurama

  • @evergreenxo
    @evergreenxo 5 лет назад +21

    you: my sister and I
    me, an intellectual: my 0th cousin and my -1th cousin

    • @jezmaloan
      @jezmaloan 4 года назад +4

      negative firth

  • @abuzzedwhaler7949
    @abuzzedwhaler7949 6 лет назад +365

    This is one of these things that we all just pretend to understand.

  • @amaniimran3546
    @amaniimran3546 6 лет назад +91

    Michael, you're my favorite cousin.

    • @MM-hi
      @MM-hi 6 лет назад +3

      Thanks!

  • @SylvEdu
    @SylvEdu 6 лет назад +342

    I've been calling my first-cousins (once removed) my second cousins for my whole life. How could this happen?

    • @frankoreto4910
      @frankoreto4910 6 лет назад +1

      Same.

    • @TobiBaronski
      @TobiBaronski 6 лет назад +7

      To me
      I made my mistakes
      Got nowhere to run

    • @isaac_aren
      @isaac_aren 6 лет назад +4

      tbh, if they are younger, once removed makes sense but if they are older, once added makes sense. Generation-wise

    • @molly.dog8brooke792
      @molly.dog8brooke792 6 лет назад

      Azzy
      Me too. 😀

    • @stickyfloor1820
      @stickyfloor1820 5 лет назад +1

      How could they poshibly do thishh

  • @legendarypft2124
    @legendarypft2124 5 лет назад +18

    I have cousins who are double first cousins due to my dads brother and mothers sister having children. Not sure how rare that is but I haven't met anyone else who has this. Genetically they are as related to be as a half sibling would be 25%.
    Also the removed thing is something i have knowing about but mostly everyone just calls the children of their cousin or their parents cousin their 2nd cousin. Probably cause its simpler and easier to say.

  • @lampshademuncher5316
    @lampshademuncher5316 5 лет назад +316

    So you’re saying my dad is my 0th cousin 0 times removed

    • @noname-mu6kn
      @noname-mu6kn 5 лет назад +1

      Bucks Fan yup

    • @ophirwesley4424
      @ophirwesley4424 4 года назад +3

      @@anushkasinghgaur1553 yeah I agree. Your common ancestor will be your Gp.

    • @lilimo1384
      @lilimo1384 4 года назад +1

      No because it doesn’t skip a generation

    • @angelmendez-rivera351
      @angelmendez-rivera351 4 года назад +7

      The Geek Actually, what I ended up finding out is that it makes more sense to think of your father as your (-1)th cousin once removed. It stays consistent with the system in a way that isn't at all obvious, whereas 0th cousin once removed doesn't quite accomplish that.

    • @lilimo1384
      @lilimo1384 4 года назад

      Angel Mendez-Rivera 4:38

  • @billymuffin91
    @billymuffin91 5 лет назад +225

    Alabama wants to know your location

  • @StoopVital
    @StoopVital 6 лет назад +2088

    Here in Alabama we call them our soulmates

    • @mememem
      @mememem 6 лет назад +257

      StoopVital was wondering how far I would have to scroll down to find a reference to incest and/or the South

    • @karterdavis2732
      @karterdavis2732 6 лет назад +31

      Roll tide

    • @yugal.prakash
      @yugal.prakash 6 лет назад +74

      *Yee-Haw*

    • @atlusgoth5000
      @atlusgoth5000 6 лет назад +8

      Anime must be your favorite

    • @JeffN4POD
      @JeffN4POD 6 лет назад +16

      Ironically, it's far more likely in highly populated cities.

  • @paigemoore7433
    @paigemoore7433 4 года назад +9

    I always thought the "removed" meant how many times they were disowned and brought back into the family.

  • @StevieDamnit
    @StevieDamnit 6 лет назад +412

    You will be doing this a lot when researching your ancestry. My 11th Great Grandparents, John Bayless & Rebecca Stillwell, are also the 9th great grandparents of Ed Norton and Johnny Depp, making them my 10th cousins twice removed.

    • @joleigh1816
      @joleigh1816 6 лет назад +13

      Stevie84s cool

    • @sebastiansebastian5270
      @sebastiansebastian5270 6 лет назад +7

      Nice

    • @nevaehlegasse7251
      @nevaehlegasse7251 6 лет назад +119

      Show up at their family reunion and say youre a distant cousin

    • @doorknobr
      @doorknobr 6 лет назад +71

      We're all related. Just show up at a celebrity's party and say everyone in the world is related. Hi cousin.

    • @danielcubillasvaldez1784
      @danielcubillasvaldez1784 6 лет назад +13

      But, is it safe to make babies with them?

  • @SEEKINGKNOWLEDGEMIND
    @SEEKINGKNOWLEDGEMIND 6 лет назад +118

    I never thought someone can dig this much deeper into the cousinhood

    • @ThugOG30VIPs3rd-T
      @ThugOG30VIPs3rd-T 6 лет назад

      Seeking Knowledge i couldnt even keep up wit nomore

    • @monkeyballs7853
      @monkeyballs7853 6 лет назад +1

      Seeking Knowledge You just have to have the size to dig as deep as Michael does into cousinhood.

    • @red43rumbl37
      @red43rumbl37 6 лет назад

      Seeking Knowledge yeah ikr
      I just came here to see if I can continue having sex with my cousins

  • @lawrencecalablaster568
    @lawrencecalablaster568 6 лет назад +783

    This feels a lot more like a Vsauce video :)

    • @bdr420i
      @bdr420i 6 лет назад +47

      Lawrence Calablaster it is a Vsauce video, Michael started to use D.O.N.G ones he found that Vsauce channel is haunted by curious ghosts 👻👻👻

    • @HeShoeTooBig
      @HeShoeTooBig 6 лет назад +184

      This is incest propaganda. He's saying that cousins are "things you can Do Online Now Guys"

    • @PTNLemay
      @PTNLemay 6 лет назад +51

      I suspect that RUclips tricked him into signing something that only lets him post Mind Field content on the main channel for the next so-and-so years.
      It has to be something weird like that... Why else would he avoid it like he has?

    • @drewbert83
      @drewbert83 6 лет назад +4

      it has the vsauce outro

    • @littlebig4717
      @littlebig4717 6 лет назад +38

      Nah he just forgot the password to Vsauce1

  • @Maximilianorockss
    @Maximilianorockss 5 лет назад +12

    Idk but I'm Mexican and anyone in my family that's twice my age is my Tío or Tia, no exemptions and it doesn't matter what relationship they have in the family. Anyone five years older than me are my cousins and anyone younger than me are also my cousin.

  • @phil5cents98
    @phil5cents98 6 лет назад +61

    The music change at 12:45 put me so on edge for absolutely no reason.

    • @manantank
      @manantank 6 лет назад +10

      Because now you contemplate that your girlfriend is also your cousin

    • @rohitjudo
      @rohitjudo 6 лет назад +9

      Haha, joke's on you. I don't have a girlfriend.
      Wait..

    • @AlmightyBeing
      @AlmightyBeing 6 лет назад +5

      Haha jokes on you, I already knew my girlfriend was my 1st cousin...

    • @phil5cents98
      @phil5cents98 6 лет назад +1

      eamon butler Wait a second, this comment was originally my 0th cousin.

    • @AlmightyBeing
      @AlmightyBeing 6 лет назад

      Phil5cents shhh

  • @vijaykumarreddyalavala3713
    @vijaykumarreddyalavala3713 6 лет назад +70

    7:08 "One is smaller than three"
    - Michael, Vsauce 2018

  • @arsdwalos6840
    @arsdwalos6840 5 лет назад +125

    "now my mom is not my cousin"
    he almost had me fooled there

    • @agent6935
      @agent6935 5 лет назад +3

      XD

    • @angelmendez-rivera351
      @angelmendez-rivera351 4 года назад +1

      Arsd Walos well ACTUALLY, she is his cousin. She is his 0th cousin twice removed.

    • @angelmendez-rivera351
      @angelmendez-rivera351 4 года назад

      Wait what did I say? I meant to say negatively first cousin once removed. I don't even know where I got the twice removed from.

  • @atomicfault3972
    @atomicfault3972 4 года назад +10

    If your siblings are your zeroth cousins, and you’re your own zeroth cousin.
    You are your own sibling

    • @angelmendez-rivera351
      @angelmendez-rivera351 4 года назад

      AtomicBreakdown Yes, technically, in a way, at least if you were to assume that that makes sense.
      However, I would argue it doesn't quite make sense anyway. You see, your siblings, a.k.a your zeroth cousins, have zero removal from you, and share 50% of their genealogical DNA with you. You share 100% of your own genealogical DNA. As Michael argued, you could be considered your own 0th cousin as well, but then this means your level of removal would have to change in order for the genetic mathematics the system is based on to be consistent. So, would you be "negatively once removed" from yourself? Would that make any sense? It is just unclear to me how that could work out.

    • @angelmendez-rivera351
      @angelmendez-rivera351 4 года назад

      After thinking about it longer, I realized you would end up having to be your own (-1)st cousin in order for this all to work. Actually, to be more accurate, you are your (-1/2)th cousin. Yeah, get a load of that. But I guess that's just how the maths work out.

    • @alansun70
      @alansun70 9 месяцев назад

      The lowest degree is 1st. The higher the degree, the more distant the relation. Siblings aren't cousins of any type.

  • @pkeric2626
    @pkeric2626 6 лет назад +328

    I wanted to go to sleep but I didn‘t find my Cusin.

    • @THEmickTHEgun
      @THEmickTHEgun 6 лет назад +6

      You don't know me, but I'm here.

    • @vigeoh7827
      @vigeoh7827 6 лет назад

      *Cousins The “s” is important

    • @benparker2321
      @benparker2321 6 лет назад +2

      You should stop causin’ and go sleep

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 5 лет назад

      I haven't heard from my CUSSIN' either.

  • @studentsteph
    @studentsteph 6 лет назад +222

    Normal people to their significant other: wanna make a baby?
    Michael to is significant other: Would you like to produce an infant that would share 50% of each of our deoxyribonucleic acid?

    • @randomguy263
      @randomguy263 6 лет назад +25

      Or would it?

    • @awawpogi3036
      @awawpogi3036 6 лет назад +2

      underrated

    • @DiaJasin
      @DiaJasin 5 лет назад +2

      It's scary how I go even deeper than that in normal conversations O-o

  • @nix4254
    @nix4254 6 лет назад +52

    3:32 The music gives me nostalgia

  • @ludvigbergqvist
    @ludvigbergqvist Год назад +1

    8:07 If you switched perspective to that of the older 1stC1R, you would see that the place where "you" sits is in the same spot as the younger 1stC1R was before. In other words the older 1stC1R's cousin's child is you, and your cousin's child is the younger 1stC1R

  • @pookini4836
    @pookini4836 6 лет назад +188

    How's your day cousin? Are you drinking enough water?

  • @JingleJoe
    @JingleJoe 6 лет назад +229

    "I'll see you next time, family" that was nice. Anyone else feel simultaneously connected to everyone but also crushingly alone and depressed? haha

  • @qazzyy
    @qazzyy 6 лет назад +832

    The definition of cousin just depends on where you're from.
    EX: In Alabama, cousin can mean your Aunt/Uncles kids, or more commonly your Wife/Husband.

    • @thejamister929
      @thejamister929 6 лет назад +31

      lmaoooooo

    • @alexfreeman2883
      @alexfreeman2883 6 лет назад +6

      Yeshaan Woohoo llllllllmmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooooooooo

    • @ImprobableTrexx
      @ImprobableTrexx 6 лет назад +6

      Qaz except literally no one in Alabama ducks their cousin

    • @fizzie2301
      @fizzie2301 6 лет назад +3

      Qaz actually that’s called incest...
      I’m sorry if that’s the joke...

    • @fizzie2301
      @fizzie2301 6 лет назад +28

      Qaz I see now that I have been wooshed.

  • @Mythansar
    @Mythansar 2 года назад +2

    Very well explained there! I was watching for a video like that in french to explain me how the different degrees were working, but with your video, I have understood the english and french version a lot better. Thank you very much for this Sir and keep doing such videos! 🙂

  • @lizzyjamieson2630
    @lizzyjamieson2630 6 лет назад +360

    "Niblings"
    Me: *huhuhuhuhuh*

  • @turn1p839
    @turn1p839 6 лет назад +326

    Detroit: Become Cousin

    • @karisavage3022
      @karisavage3022 6 лет назад +13

      TheLemptyPerson Connor the android sent by nibbling

    • @chief2632
      @chief2632 6 лет назад +1

      more like Alabama: Become Cousin

  • @RosieEBT
    @RosieEBT 6 лет назад +358

    Finally a good explanation!! This always confused me past 1st cousins and I've always called my 1stC1R (common ancestor of GG Parents) my second cousins so that's interesting haha
    Edit: omg no wait I got confused, I think it was my 2ndC that I was calling my 2ndC ahh why is this so confusing when it seems so simple! Also the zeroth cousin thing at the end was interesting

    • @mazingdaddid
      @mazingdaddid 6 лет назад +4

      Rosie my family and I have been trying to figure this out for ages.

    • @RayRay-zt7bj
      @RayRay-zt7bj 6 лет назад +3

      Don't feel left alone. 1st cousins once removed are often thought of as second cousins. I learned about this a while back when my first cousin explained to me how I was related to her children.

    • @plum3343
      @plum3343 6 лет назад +1

      Rosie I've always considered my parents cousins to be my aunts and uncles.

    • @jessicacollins4042
      @jessicacollins4042 6 лет назад

      Same where I'm from its just first, second etc, none of this removed stuff haha only heard it in America. But it all makes sense still :)

    • @TheDarkToes
      @TheDarkToes 6 лет назад

      Wrinkly Plum aunts and uncles are your parents brothers and sisters...

  • @furqanbooley9476
    @furqanbooley9476 5 лет назад +8

    "If your own grandchildren gave birth to you..."

  • @powerchordgamer
    @powerchordgamer 6 лет назад +150

    ive always called my parents cousins my second cousins... this changes everything

    • @angiek606
      @angiek606 5 лет назад

      Power Chord Gamer same oof

    • @martinaavila285
      @martinaavila285 5 лет назад +5

      I always called them aunts or uncles😂😂

    • @nwsj639
      @nwsj639 5 лет назад

      Martina Avila me too

    • @axelle.youakim
      @axelle.youakim 5 лет назад

      Power Chord Gamer Well not me. I know someone that thinks like you. You’re not the only one

    • @axelle.youakim
      @axelle.youakim 5 лет назад

      Martina Avila What? 😂

  • @JerryLiuYT
    @JerryLiuYT 6 лет назад +1052

    In the South, you just call them cuties.

    • @jamesfordham7633
      @jamesfordham7633 6 лет назад +143

      SWEET HOME ALABAMA

    • @gunceler7535
      @gunceler7535 6 лет назад +17

      roll tide

    • @thegadsdenguru4368
      @thegadsdenguru4368 6 лет назад +68

      you know that in most of the south it's illegal to marry your first cousin right, but not in Europe.
      thats right, in europe it's completely legal,
      infact in 2005 a study was done on 1st cousin marriages in the UK and found that 55% of Muslims were married to their first cousins and despite only being 3% of the population they made up 33% of all people with birth defects
      Let
      That
      Sink
      In.

    • @juvnal
      @juvnal 6 лет назад +6

      Ernest J. Rutherford: The Father of Nuclear Physics progress!

    • @aquarianfirehorse667
      @aquarianfirehorse667 6 лет назад +1

      Jerry Liu you brought me here

  • @blankskyy5867
    @blankskyy5867 5 лет назад +31

    -Michael "I was born."
    -All others "He came from a world of wisdom."

  • @scptime1188
    @scptime1188 5 лет назад +64

    No one:
    Not a soul:
    Not even the alabama kids:
    Michael: thats alotta nibblings.

    • @edaxyn5583
      @edaxyn5583 5 лет назад

      SCP Time yes c h i l d

  • @jennamedlyn
    @jennamedlyn 6 лет назад +33

    Can Michael draws on pieces of white cardstock be a recurring segment?

  • @ly2
    @ly2 6 лет назад +122

    What's up my nib. 2:51

  • @Miqolivia
    @Miqolivia 6 лет назад +29

    Michael calling me his family makes me feel good things

    • @glodafister5427
      @glodafister5427 6 лет назад

      Neuroghastly cousins make you fell better things

    • @novaskyzero
      @novaskyzero 6 лет назад

      I mean technically we are related to him to some degree.

  • @skylerdevinraleigh3447
    @skylerdevinraleigh3447 5 лет назад +13

    I can now find out how Count Olaf is related to the Baudelaires!!

    • @Deveodev
      @Deveodev 4 года назад

      From the Unfortunate events

  • @Catslug
    @Catslug 6 лет назад +270

    Now i know who to date

    • @Doomroar
      @Doomroar 6 лет назад +18

      Probably a cousin

    • @bernardomoreira
      @bernardomoreira 6 лет назад +19

      A massive Weeb your -1st cousin

    • @zeronova7279
      @zeronova7279 6 лет назад +58

      Sweet home Alabama

    • @BM03
      @BM03 6 лет назад +12

      Nobody, he just told us we're all family.

    • @thecommentnator1621
      @thecommentnator1621 6 лет назад +3

      *Dixie land starts playing*

  • @chasemc69
    @chasemc69 6 лет назад +379

    so to which ever one of you are my 295th cousin 18th time removed.... hey how's the family. I've missed y'all. hope to see you at the next get together.

    • @theunitedsoup9792
      @theunitedsoup9792 6 лет назад +5

      chasemc69 Whats up?

    • @geometrydashbayve5004
      @geometrydashbayve5004 6 лет назад +62

      Almost certainly dead, seeing as you have a difference of 18 generations.

    • @xSkyHigh12
      @xSkyHigh12 6 лет назад +15

      Someone who's born 18 generations before or after you is probably not alive

    • @ShadowMark474
      @ShadowMark474 6 лет назад +52

      Actually everyone on Earth is at least 50th cousins, not only that, but if you're the same race and/or nationality there's an extremely high chance you're at least 16th cousins, and if you're from the same small town you're likely at least 9th cousins. Happy inbreeding :^)

    • @abeljudah6341
      @abeljudah6341 6 лет назад +20

      Geometry Dash BayVe it’s not implausible. It would simply be two siblings creating family lines that reproduced at different rates. If one had children who would have children as soon as they could, and the other had children who would have children as late as they could, after a long time you’d have people who are similar age, but generations apart.

  • @AbelJasso
    @AbelJasso 6 лет назад +72

    This video was relatively interesting

  • @neeevirus
    @neeevirus 4 года назад +4

    6:06
    "Me and my first cousin's children"
    Sweet Home Alabama

  • @dragoncurveenthusiast
    @dragoncurveenthusiast 6 лет назад +539

    Hello nth cousins!

    • @gabor6259
      @gabor6259 6 лет назад +22

      where n is an integer between 0 and 50 including.

    • @ChrisCrash043
      @ChrisCrash043 6 лет назад +10

      Let's go bowling

    • @hammad8707
      @hammad8707 6 лет назад

      well darn how do u do!

    • @OrangeC7
      @OrangeC7 6 лет назад +2

      Hello nth cousin oth removed

    • @Lambda_Ovine
      @Lambda_Ovine 6 лет назад +5

      I never liked our family.

  • @MrCheeze
    @MrCheeze 6 лет назад +232

    Never heard "grand aunts/uncles" before, only "great" ones...

    • @buelph5742
      @buelph5742 6 лет назад +4

      MrCheeze me too

    • @__donez__
      @__donez__ 6 лет назад +8

      That's also what I thought they were called, "great aunts/great uncles"

    • @herranton
      @herranton 6 лет назад +31

      The naming scheme is the same as for your grandparents. It's starts at parent-> _grand_ parent-> _great_ grandparent. Aunt-> _grand_ aunt-> _great_ grandaunt. But yes, nearly everyone makes that mistake unless they are into genealogy.

    • @MichaelKeaveneyYouTube
      @MichaelKeaveneyYouTube 6 лет назад +4

      As he said in the video, there are no great parents. Therefore, by logic there should be no great aunts and uncles, just grandaunts and granduncles.

    • @tripster103
      @tripster103 6 лет назад

      Lord Keaveney it was a joke ffs

  • @james2155
    @james2155 6 лет назад +46

    This clears up so much. Apparently what I thought was my Aunty is now my 1st cousin 1 removed.

  • @yurionabike99
    @yurionabike99 Год назад +1

    You know, this just shows me how some family trees go in circles

  • @verticalisland
    @verticalisland 6 лет назад +280

    Except if your dad is a twin, then your cousins would be as related to you as half siblings.

    • @iciclebandit688
      @iciclebandit688 6 лет назад +10

      Shawn Lecrone no

    • @anthonyorosco1850
      @anthonyorosco1850 6 лет назад +59

      Firebolt 0808 genetically yeah. It’s as if your dad right now would knock up another woman. That child would be your half sibling like normal.

    • @Eylrid
      @Eylrid 6 лет назад +84

      If your mom is also a twin, and your dad's twin had children with your mom's twin then your cousins would be as related to you as full siblings.

    • @iciclebandit688
      @iciclebandit688 6 лет назад +2

      Anthony Orosco but it is his twin not him so it’s your cousin

    • @taylorroberts5095
      @taylorroberts5095 6 лет назад +36

      Firebolt 0808 they’re speaking genetically, not physically. 🤦🏻‍♀️

  • @EugeneWangombe
    @EugeneWangombe 6 лет назад +32

    Why was I waiting for him to say, "...and how much do cousins weigh?"

  • @alexander-it6mx
    @alexander-it6mx 6 лет назад +154

    I love you vsauce michael, long distant cousin.

    • @jjlovessoccer1313
      @jjlovessoccer1313 6 лет назад

      It’s Michael not Micheal lol

    • @alexander-it6mx
      @alexander-it6mx 6 лет назад +1

      Jessica Williams i hope you're happy now, long distant cousin.

  • @mypawfectfamily
    @mypawfectfamily 5 лет назад

    I love how he gradually gets more and more excited

  • @galientdomo454
    @galientdomo454 6 лет назад +27

    Michael stevens on "When is incest okay?"

  • @logical_harm
    @logical_harm 6 лет назад +235

    *nibling*

  • @VegeeMcSalad
    @VegeeMcSalad 6 лет назад +13

    I've always wondered what my cousin's son was in relation to me!
    Thank you for teaching me that he is my first cousin once removed, it's always something I've wondered but never been interested enough to learn. Thanks Michael!

  • @A2431A
    @A2431A Год назад +4

    I'm here from the shorts where he says "I smell cousins". 💀💀