"On the second of March, the Evergiven got stuck, like a Dorito, in the throat of the global supply chain" This was the line that got me the most. All around the most solid segment, as far as writing goes.
@@laurensa.1803 I became aware of Grimes, well before Elon or really even before she was known as Grimes, like when she was an unknown artist who sailed the entirety of the Mississippi river in a Huck Fin styled raft. She's been doing big things long before Elon. Elons all smoke and mirrors.
Did anyone else this year realize how thin the veneer is between sanity and insanity? How easy it would be to fall right through the gaping, tattered safety net into oblivion? Good times. Happy new year.
Gonna Timestamp this video because I'm bored Introduction: 0:00 January: 1:45 - U.S. Capitol Riot 1:47 - Return of Alexei Navalny to Russia 2:28 - 2021 Ugandan General Election 3:30 February: 4:28 - Hot Tub Twitch Streams 4:30 - Jeffery Bezos steps down as CEO of Amazon 4:46 - Anti-Tech Legislation passed in Australia 4:58 - Subsistance Farmer Protests in India 5:19 - 2021 Myanmar Coup D'etat 5:52 March: 6:46 - Stimulus Checks given to all U.S. Citizens 6:48 - Joe Biden trips on Air Force One stairs 6:55 - Price of Bitcoin breaks above $60,000 6:58 - R/WallStreetBets Investors Short Squeeze Gamestop Stocks 7:08 - Roblox lists on the American Stock Market 7:21 - Beeple Art & NFT sold for $69,000,000 7:29 - Evergiven gets stuck in Suez Canal 9:10 April: 10:16 - Elon Musk tests Neuralink technology on a Monkey 10:21 - Bored Ape Yacht Club sells 10,000 NFT's 10:31 - ScamCoin Season 11:15 May: 12:30 - LiveLeak shuts down 12:32 - Bill and Melinda Gates divorce 12:49 - Elon Musk Stuff (Rocket Testing/Dogecoin/SNL Appearance/Aspergers/Starlink) 13:02 June: 14:29 - Charlie Bit My Finger video gets sold as an NFT 14:32 - Delta Variant of COVID-19 appears 15:06 - Legacy Media Declines 15:19 - British News Veteran Andrew Neil creates GB News 15:42 July: 17:47 - Mexican Ocean lights on fire due to Oil Drilling 17:50 - TikTok extends videos to 3 Minutes 17:58 - Vaccine Passports rolled out in EU 18:13 - The Big Quit and rise of R/AntiWork 18:42 - Lie Flat movement becomes popular in China 20:28 - Angela Merkel resigns as German Chancellor 21:05 - UK Job Vacancies Reach 2.7 Million 21:25 - Kellogg's Strike 21:36 - First Starbucks Unionised 22:08 August: 22:27 - Special Guest Appearance Internet Historian 22:30 - Taliban retakes Afghanistan after US Military Withdrawal 22:38 - British Tourist Lord Miles Routledge documents his escape from Afghanistan 23:37 September: 25:19 - Korean Netflix Series Squid Game becomes massive hit among audiences 25:21 - El Salvador's Bitcoin Loving President Nayib Bukele 26:26 October: 28:05 - Denis Villeneuve's Dune adaptation releases 28:08 - Dave Chappelle's Controversial Comedy Special "The Closer" releases 28:28 - Facebook (Congress/Ivermeticin/Teenage Abandonment/Meta) 28:58 November: 34:00 - Ordinary Things gives Ted Talk in Vienna 34:04 - Games of 2021 34:18 December: 36:03 - Jack Dorsey steps down as Twitter CEO 36:10 - Twitch bans popular streamers Vaush and Hasanabi over use of "Cracker" 36:16 - Omicron Variant Surges 36:24 - Chile elects Gabriel Boric (+ Ordinary Things cat incident) 36:30 - NFT market reaches 22 Billion (+Celebrity Endorsements) 37:11 - RUclips hides dislikes 38:46 Epilogue and Outro 40:33 Note: I hope this becomes a yearly thing from your channel especially from how crazy 2022 has been so far
It's amazing how funny and engaging your videos are, whilst being informative to the point of including details that even i wasn't aware of about the farmer's protest in India, that happened in the State I reside in. Then again, maybe i'm a bit slow lol. Big fan, top channel on yt.
And randomly demonetizing people for videos that were posted years ago and even got manual reviews the first time around and were deemed advertiser friendly
As an ex con, i absolutely love a good scam. Pyramid schemes, ponzi schemes, difficult thefts, unwinnable bets/games, etc, if it's good, it makes me wet. And NFTs are so old school "i gotta bridge ya sell ya" that i am unhappy about it in every way and i struggle to have empathy for it's victims as much as i loathe it's lazy perpetrators. There is no art to it. If you have money and clout, it's easy.
@@OrdinaryThings right?! I loathe NFTs and the sad sacks buying them. I think the schemes i ran were better than this and my schemes were BASIC. Steal shit. Trade for gift card. Sell gift card. BASIC. I mean at least there was something to the emotional manipulation involved therein. And the only ones who (barely) got screwed suck, (Corporations). the end buyer gets something out of it. Btw, you can tell who gets it with this shit. I almost did a decade for my "crimes" because steal from rich bad. What do the people doing this shit get? Rich. No one cares about the victims of this because they aren't rich. I also realized that it's the bastardization of art that irks me.
I spent this morning doing my yearly purge of channels I don't watch, and I saw Ordinary Things and was wondering if he'd do another video. So glad I didn't purge this one!!!
Fr. It’s like time has felt drawn out, and some weeks I don’t even know what day or date it is. Can’t believe this year is almost over. I’m hoping 2022 is better for all!
"Nft's are all about ownership" Actually! Its worse! Most of the time you dont actually own the image, most of the time the artist or random machine feed by tears and human souls keeps the copyright. Most of the time, what people get is a link which leads them to a page wit the image. Ita aboslutley ridicolus, but it ends up causing that screenshotting no longer does anythin, which is why I believe we should head into our next form of protest, cyberbullying 2.
@@MintySweetea It would work on those that are just new and out, however those arleady do sometjing similar called "Pullin the rug". Once the Nft is bought, they just replace it for a picture of a rug. Both with the big "companies" like those ape and lion people, are the msin assholes we should focus on. So hacking wont work, sadly.
While the world has been saturated with evil business practices and political events with consequences beyond human comprehension, I’ve found a lot of good things (online or otherwise) this year. The chance to take my life into my own hands has been a great gift, and I’ve realized a lot. I’m so excited to pursue paths and content and art on my own, and focus on myself and supporting individuals and the community. The internet is not a hellscape unless we let it be.
There's a guy who blindfolds himself and writes things like "if you've ever felt like nobody listens to you hug me and tell me why". He also pretends to be homeless and when someone finally gives him money, he instead gives that person about 100 dollars for being a good person. And since those people are empathetic they usually say "no please take it," and he says "give it to someone who really needs it". It's so wholesome.
@@damyzs It was a kind of inside joke among viewers who had discovered IH's Story Mode channel (back when he did not openly admit any relation to it) to keep the existence of that channel a secret. So what he meant was, your only job was to not snitch on the other channels. But the whole joke has been outdated for quite some time since IH has openly acknowledged the existence of the Story Mode channel.
I mean, he is kind of a bastard. He reminds me of a contemporary Colbert. Can only make fun of clips of people who have a different view of things he doesn't recognize because he's too social Clingy. Tim Pool would destroy him in an argument. I like how his RUclips is his own archangel of capitalism while stealing 5 secs of non-context from another capitalist
I actually downloaded the original "Charlie bit my finger" video after learning it was being sold as an NFT. I still smile knowing I have conceptually invalidated the NFT by making it my own.
"Conceptually invalidated" haha trying a bit hard to sound smart mate. Your analogy is the equivalent of buying a print of the Mona Lisa and saying you've "conceptually invalidated" the original because you have one that looks the same. What's your pseudo-intellectual term for right clicking and saving a jpeg? Digital heisting? 🤦🏼♂️
It's been around even since the 2014s and the Arab spring. One of the actual good things that I see nis that many people are now willing to actually observe the world around them, and realize the untrueness not only of the corrupt politicians themselves, but the entire structure around them, and how it was built to keep them caged. Quite literally in some cases.
This was a great summary. Can't believe I forgot about so many stuff that happened this year. Have a great 2022, and salutations to IH and your mom. They make a cute couple.
@@SwizzleDrizzl Pft, do you think non furries would be brave enough to do that? They'll let their ego and public image get in the way of being happy. Some people would rather die than be associated with anything furry, I swear... It's pretty sad. I'm at least happy that a lot of the stigma has been breaking down recently and a lot more people are open to it. If you know anyone brave enough to commission furry artists that aren't furries, give em a kudos from me :P
In Brazil, we had a health insurance that specializes in treating old people during the quarantine and they made profit by literally killing the patients so there would be more bed available on their private hospital
Well the government listens when people hang the ones in charge, bring back the guillotines and they'll listen, but if you keep letting the government amass a huge army made up of desperate people who will do anything for food and money, you might not win, because they'll use the wealth they hoarded to dangle a carrot to get people to do whatever they say, and if they don't listen, they always have the stick. I support the second amendment and there should be robust training and education that should come with it... Along with doing more for education than anything else... Want to fix poverty? Educated population. Want to fix greedy companies? Educated population. It's why some contries try and fight education and science in favor of myths, propaganda and religion. Because some people are selfish and only want power and control with no thought about consequences or others, and those types should be in jail if they can't be helped or educated.
@@RSAgility Spare me, that's just a pile of crap militant wet dream...lot of the gun loving are extreme groups pro Christion(might as well be the Taliban) like fuckwits the oath keepers and many many other's wack job trump extremist. and dont even tell me i misinformed ..i am fucking running into these wack jobs in California in person and no where near any special locations, i have two next to me and i have been yelled at in the street having a mask around my neck...in California you just do % statistical possibility+ i don't go out that often and the math of that will i promise you some scary numbers. plus the deranged idea you can fight the biggest military in the world. hey i like gun's I'm a dem i used to own a lot of them then i decided i wanted to live life not prepare for the end of it like some. CHRISTIANS. perhaps my views are skewed because I'm trans but i never value single sources of information or rely on any one without a most basic of checks..i have a access to data bases and programs that have collected every fucking thing that was ever and is ever stored on the web. i have been building and using computer and then the internet since it was a thing so if you doubt my skillset, i know a lot about a lot of things i have had many types of job. (skill based).jack of all trades kind of person but i have not fallen into cognitive dissonance which religion provides by the assload.
@@RSAgility just one little tiny detail most especially the right leave out. education wont fix specials needs people. mentally handicapped, abused, abandoned, I'm a home care provider specifically for the mentally handicapped including and was last job running a group home for them. whenever the issue of homelessness comes up every one forgets this issue and it seems like on purpose maybe avoid saying the so scary socialism word because you still will need handouts(another scary word for the right) taking care of people that cant care for themselves. but other wise i agree with you. 90% the guns i just don't know i still own one I'm a good shot have heavy sense of gun safety. civis just don't need to be running around with assaults' rifles (assault rifles don't need to be full auto so get that out of your head right now)
@@Che8721 I do really enjoy the artwork! And yeah, totally like this portrait the most out of his artwork. I really enjoy both this sense of melancholy, pain and depersonalisation/dissociation that exists in his artwork, which I totally relate to. I also really recommend Anguish and The Orphan by August Friedrich Schenck!
Is there an alternative site to that now?, or is that it for uncensored content? (for people who aren't afraid to see the world for what it is I might add)
21:16 As a german myself I laughed at that! :D This is called a "Zapfenstreich", which is a military ceremonial in the evening, with which in Germany in particular outgoing Federal Presidents, Federal Chancellors, Defence Ministers and generals are honoured. It existed way before the nazis.
Comic Books were the original NFTs. Return of Dark Night went from like $1.25 cover price to $15 overnight. Death of Phoenix issue of X-men was $27. By the time I sold my collection, about 300 comics was $30.
@@skywker1 Studio Mandela Gives a poster size print with ever NFT they sell, He said "so that when the Super Coronal Mass ejection from the sun takes out the power grid in 2026 you will be able to have a physical reminder of your poor decision impulse buys and be cheered up while you cook the last packet of ramen on earth." With logic like that I had to buy one. The art is beautiful. looking forward to the enjoying my ramen.
I was jobless for most of the pandemic and recently started working at a pub. Got in trouble for calling in sick after hurting my back and having spasms, as if I could carry drinks and food just fine. The worst part is I can tell the manager is stressed and under pressure to act like that by the owner, who employed his immediate family as executives and has some.... uhh.... "interesting" views on his Twitter page. Respect for anyone who still works in Hospitality - it's shit, you get the blame for everything, minimum wage and the industry still treats you like it's the 1980s.
I've been left in a kitchen by myself in a bakery after 1 week of training. I've never worked kitchen before and I've been working up to 10 days in a row. This after the whole place had been fucked by incompetent management and no one knows what they're doing lmao. Respect for all of us hospo staff who are working our asses off during this difficult time
This is why my husband and I have increased our tips to a minimum of 35% whenever we go out to eat. We appreciate _everyone_ who has remained in the hospitality industry. It's a job I'm willing to admit I could never do. We recently went to a restaurant and waited for an hour to be seated. When the hostess came to get us, we were astonished to see most of the place was empty. Clearly they were working with minimal staff. When the waitress finally came to our table, she looked like she could cry, apologizing for the wait and all. We told her to relax, that we had time, and the relief on her face was immediate. I guess she expected for us to be grumpy and chew her out. I'm sure there's plenty of people who would do just that. It turned out to be a lovely evening.
Just left a job where my training was just ''Wasn't it in the corporate training video we showed you on your first day?'' for super complex stuff involving peoples money. When I complained, they said I didn't have enough confidence and to ''just try it before you bother me with your problems''.
I've spent the bulk of my 20 year career in hospitality, and I am convinced it is just about the worst industry one can work in. Finally escaped for some much greener pastures recently. Never going to work in another hotel again...I think by now I'd rather live in my car
Just quit a job that wouldn’t allow a lunch or 15 min breaks on busy days, we got 10 min breaks on most days, and we would only get a lunch break on a slow day because they wanted to cut the amount they paid us because we didn’t get paid lunch. Also we once had a break room with a nice AC, Tv, and couch. But the owners decided to turn it into a play room for their kids and loved everyone to the back yard outside even when it rained
"I thought I was supposed to be the robot." Funny, in anyone else's hands, that would be pretty humorous self-aware dialogue, but it seems Mark is entirely incapable of making me like him.
Tight editing, great sound. I'm a sucker for this kind of pacing. I don't know the right technical terms to describe what exactly I like about this unfortunately but love this one. The right amount of chaos in music and changes to costume definitely fit how this year felt.
Imagine the other timeline where religion wasn't a thing and human kind focused on science until we got to the point that people were selling hologram futuristic NFTs
@@EloquentMoves religion has always been a thing, but only as of "recent" (the last few hundred years) it's become a personification of the original concepts based on nature. And also just a cash grab for the sheeple. It also became a false hope for people who are too weak willed to accept that there may not be some reward for being good little sheep their whole life. Word tho. Without religion alone we could've avoided damn near every conflict, and gone much further as a race much faster. Instead of fighting over who's magical sky man is real.
@@STOPSYPHER Don't kid yourself. Wars were started for damn near any reason in history not just religion and it doesn't even make up most of it. Money, resources, oil, family feuds and good old fashioned conquest. Same religion, same skin color, take a look at any country in its feudal era.
I get paid twice minimal wage in my state and yet filling up my tank costs 20$ short of a entire day's pay. The only saving grace is that my parents are kind enough to not throw me out of the house yet
So if youre working full time your saying a full tank of gas in your vehicle is $136? You realize there are more than just trucks? I mean I drive a 2001 Ford Explorer and its $60 for a full tank of gas. Although prices are higher than theyve been in years its kinda on you
Really enjoyed the addition of the overview of what's happening in Myanmar. Most others would avoid or ignore such difficult/niche stuff - who needs Brooker!
There a lot of channels I'll drop everything for. By far, this is one of the most hilarious/informative. Your delivery has only gotten better and better. Love these man. Keep it going!
@@KP-ki8ws I'm sure you're not suggesting we need to wipe out humanity to end human suffering, but... it kind of sounds like you are and I think you should know that.
I've actually been talking about the great resignation looong before it happened, like back in 2016. I obviously didn't know the day or the circumstances, but I could clearly see the growing discontent as well as the sheer illogicality of the difference between wages and cost of living. Japan essentially has the same problem, but much worse; and predictably, you have a pretty substantial portion of the population checking out of society. They have people working 60-80 hour weeks just to keep pace with everyone else, making upward mobility basically impossible because the level of productivity required to set yourself apart from everyone else is beyond human capability; and as a result you have about 3/5 of the country simply choosing not to get a career and start a family. Apply the same trend to America, and it's obvious that this was going to happen; and had already started years ago, really. The pandemic just put it into overdrive and kicked it forward by about 10 years.
Tbh I think things were fine pre-biden admin/pandemic. People would complain about minimum wage jobs because they would barely cover the cost of living, when they are really not supposed to. Unskilled labour's tricky because the wage can't be higher than that of the value that's brought by the position itself, which isn't enough to have a comfortable life if the business is to stay viable, unfortunately. They aren't supposed to be permanent jobs, they are transitory and focused on experience and scalability for the younger generation. Things did change though. Inflation's absurd rn, so NOW I think it's more sane to complain, because it's eating up lower wage jobs first. The pandemic has increased the pace at which everything moves forward, so there's no room to relax and be comfortable for a while anymore which is extremely damaging for common folk. Wages stay the same so people have to race inflation on the daily, it means if they don't increase their economic influx fast enough they'll just get eaten up by dumb political decisions and reckless spending from the current admin. Now it seems like a more sound move to just skip the lower wage job and try luck on other options straight away because one can't take their time anymore... grinding a minimum wage job for a while is just not worth it atm. Point aside, under normal circumstances minimum wage jobs are really a blessing in disguise. I know americans kinda see it as the worst possible case scenario, but you really don't know how essential it is to have jobs that require no experience, and as a trade off they barely/don't cover the cost of living. Many third world countries are just lacking formal options like these, and as a result there's no safe way to make money as a uni student and/or to get some life experience on the side. They are usually informal (which means you aren't ACTUALLY employed) which means your safety's constantly at play. Dealing with your s*tty manager seems awful at the time, but years later it really helps to have gone through that phase lol. I guess my point is having the option for minimum wage jobs is not a bad sign, on the contrary, it's one more option available on the many others you can take to kickstart life and I personally think its wrong to resent them. Welp, I side tracked a bit, but I still think the second's a valuable point to make anyways so whatever.
The other side of the great resignation is while the lower end jobs are garbage, the higher end skill jobs are suffering from a lack of viable employees. I've seen the game shift from engineering contracts, to now companies wanting long term employees. Took them a bit to realize a good worker is not something you can always easily come by with a shrinking market as less people go to college for skilled labor or just not bother with their degrees at all.
@@tpalabra6568 Your argument rests on the assumption that businesses are financially incapable of paying enough to have a 'comfortable life'. This makes little sense to me, since the 2nd half of the 20th century (at least in the US) was full of entyr-level jobs that could provide what we'd now consider a 'comfortable life' (by that, I'm assuming you mean rent is fully paid, along with car insurance, gas, bills, and food- notice that this is also the bare minimum to not be homeless). I think the issue is that the macroeconomic conditions have changed- Europe and Asia no longer need Americans to do their manufacturing for them, so there's less demand, and wages have gotten more competitive in overseas markets. Not to mention the bottom minimum wage hasn't kept up with inflation for 40 years, so a big part of it is just business owners (both big and small) getting greedy lol
I really like the outlook that history tends towards more cooperation. Even tho it doesn’t seem like it we really do live in a time where you can connect and collaborate with groups of people in ways impossible before and it’s amazing
Yeah, it's nice. When you frequently remember what happened yesterday or even a week, months before, it doesn't seem like there's much happening, or much to be optimistic about. But if you look back at years ago, there's a lot of hope and progress to be found.
Mutual aid and cooperation is a trait that's integral to our species success. Rugged individualism is the path that took us to the current hellscape where we find ourselves.
@@Nanook128 socialism for the rich... Rugged individualist unregulated capitalism for the workers ... It isn't even how this country got it's wealth, they first used slaves to get their wealth after first removing the First Nation and taking all their land, gold, resources, etc... The founding fathers are the equivalent of rich CEOs today lobbying government and using the military as mercenaries to steal resources and land because everyone wants more. Bigger houses, bigger families, bigger food portions, etc. We can't keep this up forever and it will eventually collapse, people just need to deal with that fact and that it's coming soon, but life will go on as long as the planet isn't dead, Empires and countries have collapsed time and again, and life was never the same, but yet here we still are doing much better. Climate change might bring out the best in us soon. Bet
This video is amazing. Can't wait for someone, twenty years from now, to look at this and see how jaded and cynical we got by these events... And just hope things have gotten better.
This year was insane, and it either made people go insane, or wise them to a stupid degree. Either way hopefully the pendulum swings back to the center next year (5 hours from now)
I felt bad for the last 2 years because this shit motivated me to get on my glow up and I watched a buncha people that had their shit together already crumble around me as they had the opposite response.
Everyone: “Charlie, please bring back End Of Year Wipe!” Charlie Brooker: “Gotcha! Here’s a watered-down version for Netflix relevant only to Americans and people who spend all day on Twitter.” Ordinary Things: “Fine, I’ll do it myself!”
At the end of 2021, there was found maybe the most dangerous computer vulnerability in java, almost every big company got affected, and it was fun to watch. The vulnerability was hidden for 10 years before it was discovered, and it's name was Log4Shell-
Holograms being projected directly into the physical world is certainly sci-fi flim flam, but you can get essentially the same effect by projecting into lens-screens (like Google Glass).
Amazing year ender video, just goes to show how many “ordinary things” can happen in just a year. Always love your content. Looking forward to more this 2022!
@@OrdinaryThings Your channel and content is cream of the crop in youtube, hands down. Ps. Lol I'm actually quite stoked that you replied to my comment, have a great day today and greets from Helsinki! :D 🎄
I think it's important to mention that when crypto goes down, the "average investor" gets locked out of selling and can only hold or buy. That's what makes it so dangerous.
I just discovered your channel. And I ended up spending most of this weekend doing a marathon of most of your videos. Wow! You do terrific work. And have done a fantastic job of making these serious issue entertaining. I have made sure to at least Like all that I have watched. I'm trying to get my brother & friends hooked on you. Thanks for a well spent snowy weekend!
wow, 2021 was worse than I thought. Its a good thing I turned off the news and decided to focus on personal growth and facing my own fears. Besides, after watching this I feel all caught up now.
Man i missed Ordinary Things!! It feels like Christmas morning, finding a 2021 Year wipe which is over 40 minutes 🤌 Thank you, blessed Ordinary Things!🤗
There is a thing called pen and paper. Or better yet spend some time making a 3d model of the house in something like Blender. Then before moving you can plan where to place everything by just moving it around until you think you know how to do it for real. 3D modeling is not super hard and is like Photoshop a good skill to have. Being good enough to make something look real is one thing. But just making basic shapes and recreate a floor plan is not super hard. The worst part is taking down notes on the measurements on stuff and without a laser it is tricky to take room measurements. And taking the notes right are also not really easy without making a pen and paper model with the measurements on it. How would a device know your furniture/stuff looks like? Would some random sofa be enough to plan your living room? So unless scanning your stuff and then VR placing them down in your new place feels easier then just moving the stuff around the old basic way. Well. What good dose the projection tech going to be? You think it is going to be easier to scan every item? With some rudimentary 3d modeling knowledge and the room sizes written down you can fine tune the move DAYS before even packing up your stuff and starting the move. With a normal measuring tape you can get the size of your stuff and recreate them in 3d for your house in 3d. Dose it take some work? yes. Is it harder then some stupid VR bullshit? No. Using Blender (free) and a computer with very low specs are going to be enough. Think of it like making a cardboard mock up but in a computer. And less cardboard and tape... Having a robot vacuum cleaner scanning your home layout is bad enough you know. Asking a phone app to scan everything in your house is just the next step. This tech companies are making up solutions for problems that tools already have existed for a long time but the average person have no clue exist. And it is really sad to hear people think up "reasons" to make there life better when there is already ways to achieve it if just people knew where to look. It is not gimmicky or fancy. But knowledge like this should be taut in schools. But they don't. ;C Dose not make anyone money.
@@Contra7311 It’s why VR in my opinion is boring, majority of games and apps I’ve seen come from people who have 0 creativity or just some greedy company.
Or you could use that interesting feature in your brain - imagination. Tech dependence starts this way. With how dependent we already are on our phones, they’re already an extension of ourselves. Practically cyborgs when you think about it.
I'd love to see this kind of video recapping the year as an annual thing! though that is a lot of work, nevertheless... loved it! and yes, you did survive to see 2024
”Or the russian oil war”
Well that was some nice foreshadowing
Nailed it
Oh no i edited the spelling from nive to nice and now my heart is gone :(
@@OrdinaryThings thanks
though the literal same thing lmfao, indeed nailed it
@@OrdinaryThings oof, too soon mate XD
Hearing you call the Suez Canal a “tight, wet, slutty little passage” was not something I was expecting to say the least.
"On the second of March, the Evergiven got stuck, like a Dorito, in the throat of the global supply chain"
This was the line that got me the most. All around the most solid segment, as far as writing goes.
The absolute overreach of english language means there would be a growing trend to sexualize everything.
Funniest part of the video
There's rule 34 of the Suez Canal.
I know it's the rule, but mate.
@@wecare838 This. Sadly he's conforming to this for views and support
Please do this every year. I feel like this helped me realize and process all the insanity that happened this year. Great video.
Check out sir swag's monthly news without the bullshit, its a great slow trickle version of this throughout the year
better version of RUclips rewind
Congrats on surviving to 2024. I am so proud of you. Nothing has gotten better.
I didn't want to survive to 2024, I wanted to stay in the 90s. And I wasn't even alive in the 90s!
@@I-did-September-11th epic!!
@@I-did-September-11th pre 9/11 were much different times.
Was it supposed to?
Untrue, the number got bigger. To the moon y'awl.
Truly amazing content. The upper echelon of youtube year-in-reviews.
Ok we get it you played fallout 3
I concur
Christ! Talk about damning with faint praise!!!
Wow this is hilarious th world is a funny place 🤣😂 I'm so glad I found this channel
@@d.w.stratton4078 ok.....lol
Referring to Elon Musk as “Grimes’s ex-boyfriend” is a real power play
Grimes' work is way better that the bouncy castles Elon produces.
Have they split?
@@-xirx- yessir, a while ago. it's also rumoured someone else knocked her up already lmao. But that's just speculation
@@STOPSYPHER lol! Thanks for the info, I couldn't imagine how utterly icky it would be to have to share a bed/life with that guy 🤢
@@laurensa.1803 I became aware of Grimes, well before Elon or really even before she was known as Grimes, like when she was an unknown artist who sailed the entirety of the Mississippi river in a Huck Fin styled raft. She's been doing big things long before Elon. Elons all smoke and mirrors.
Did anyone else this year realize how thin the veneer is between sanity and insanity? How easy it would be to fall right through the gaping, tattered safety net into oblivion? Good times.
Happy new year.
It was indeed, paper thin
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I think I may have fallen into oblivion already based on the shit that’s happened this year, but I remain optimistic from this side of the line.
I only hope that when that happens I'm one of the laughy ones, not one of the screamy ones
next year might be even worse tbh
Happy New Year
Gonna Timestamp this video because I'm bored
Introduction: 0:00
January: 1:45
- U.S. Capitol Riot 1:47
- Return of Alexei Navalny to Russia 2:28
- 2021 Ugandan General Election 3:30
February: 4:28
- Hot Tub Twitch Streams 4:30
- Jeffery Bezos steps down as CEO of Amazon 4:46
- Anti-Tech Legislation passed in Australia 4:58
- Subsistance Farmer Protests in India 5:19
- 2021 Myanmar Coup D'etat 5:52
March: 6:46
- Stimulus Checks given to all U.S. Citizens 6:48
- Joe Biden trips on Air Force One stairs 6:55
- Price of Bitcoin breaks above $60,000 6:58
- R/WallStreetBets Investors Short Squeeze Gamestop Stocks 7:08
- Roblox lists on the American Stock Market 7:21
- Beeple Art & NFT sold for $69,000,000 7:29
- Evergiven gets stuck in Suez Canal 9:10
April: 10:16
- Elon Musk tests Neuralink technology on a Monkey 10:21
- Bored Ape Yacht Club sells 10,000 NFT's 10:31
- ScamCoin Season 11:15
May: 12:30
- LiveLeak shuts down 12:32
- Bill and Melinda Gates divorce 12:49
- Elon Musk Stuff (Rocket Testing/Dogecoin/SNL Appearance/Aspergers/Starlink) 13:02
June: 14:29
- Charlie Bit My Finger video gets sold as an NFT 14:32
- Delta Variant of COVID-19 appears 15:06
- Legacy Media Declines 15:19
- British News Veteran Andrew Neil creates GB News 15:42
July: 17:47
- Mexican Ocean lights on fire due to Oil Drilling 17:50
- TikTok extends videos to 3 Minutes 17:58
- Vaccine Passports rolled out in EU 18:13
- The Big Quit and rise of R/AntiWork 18:42
- Lie Flat movement becomes popular in China 20:28
- Angela Merkel resigns as German Chancellor 21:05
- UK Job Vacancies Reach 2.7 Million 21:25
- Kellogg's Strike 21:36
- First Starbucks Unionised 22:08
August: 22:27
- Special Guest Appearance Internet Historian 22:30
- Taliban retakes Afghanistan after US Military Withdrawal 22:38
- British Tourist Lord Miles Routledge documents his escape from Afghanistan 23:37
September: 25:19
- Korean Netflix Series Squid Game becomes massive hit among audiences 25:21
- El Salvador's Bitcoin Loving President Nayib Bukele 26:26
October: 28:05
- Denis Villeneuve's Dune adaptation releases 28:08
- Dave Chappelle's Controversial Comedy Special "The Closer" releases 28:28
- Facebook (Congress/Ivermeticin/Teenage Abandonment/Meta) 28:58
November: 34:00
- Ordinary Things gives Ted Talk in Vienna 34:04
- Games of 2021 34:18
December: 36:03
- Jack Dorsey steps down as Twitter CEO 36:10
- Twitch bans popular streamers Vaush and Hasanabi over use of "Cracker" 36:16
- Omicron Variant Surges 36:24
- Chile elects Gabriel Boric (+ Ordinary Things cat incident) 36:30
- NFT market reaches 22 Billion (+Celebrity Endorsements) 37:11
- RUclips hides dislikes 38:46
Epilogue and Outro 40:33
Note: I hope this becomes a yearly thing from your channel especially from how crazy 2022 has been so far
Thank you
You guys maybe know what is the song right before the August segment.
Ah yes, the most important event of 2021: The Cat Incident
I want a "making art is hard, but any idiot can own something"-NFT
Ehh nfts arent much different than the modern art market
@@dogguy8603 In the sense that they are tax evasion schemes?
@@ArcturusOTE in evey sense, low effort work, used for money laundering, and tax avoidance (evasion is illegal)
@@dogguy8603 isn't money laundering... also? Illegal?
@@kinnoyu8448 yes but tax avoidance is not
NFTs are a money launders dreamland. They never had it so easy.
It just screams money laundering! A perfect digital screen.
I would like, but you have 420 likes, so yeah.
Was gonna like but it's at 420 likes
i liked cause n you got more than 420.
500th like
I enjoy when Internet Historian nearly breaks into laughter from the silly things he has to say but he never does entirely because...dignified accent.
i enjoy when he releases videos on his main channel.
any day now......
@@ShogunateFTW Did he ever find the password or resolve whatever issue it was? The side channel is pretty fun too.
@@FreyaEinde he also has a moderately hidden, still quite active, side side channel.
@@viderevero1338 also a side side side channel & a side side side side channel but neither are terribly fun
@Plot ded Part of the fun is finding it yourself 🤫🤐
It's amazing how funny and engaging your videos are, whilst being informative to the point of including details that even i wasn't aware of about the farmer's protest in India, that happened in the State I reside in.
Then again, maybe i'm a bit slow lol. Big fan, top channel on yt.
Give everyone a voice while aggressively removing any financial incentives to any voice that doesn't sound exactly like we want it to.
And randomly demonetizing people for videos that were posted years ago and even got manual reviews the first time around and were deemed advertiser friendly
Have a great fkin new year
I can’t stop watching Seven Hunnid on RUclips lol
Thanks dude!
Hi Papa Flammy have a good new year! Same to you Ordinary Things!
@@faithyfaith2206
🧭happy 2022, your art is therapeutic, thank you beyond what a digital whisper could ever be, or had been before ✨
As an ex con, i absolutely love a good scam. Pyramid schemes, ponzi schemes, difficult thefts, unwinnable bets/games, etc, if it's good, it makes me wet. And NFTs are so old school "i gotta bridge ya sell ya" that i am unhappy about it in every way and i struggle to have empathy for it's victims as much as i loathe it's lazy perpetrators. There is no art to it. If you have money and clout, it's easy.
at least with the old school grifters there was an art to it. they earned it. What you say about people just using clout is so true.
@@OrdinaryThings right?! I loathe NFTs and the sad sacks buying them.
I think the schemes i ran were better than this and my schemes were BASIC. Steal shit. Trade for gift card. Sell gift card. BASIC. I mean at least there was something to the emotional manipulation involved therein. And the only ones who (barely) got screwed suck, (Corporations). the end buyer gets something out of it. Btw, you can tell who gets it with this shit. I almost did a decade for my "crimes" because steal from rich bad. What do the people doing this shit get? Rich. No one cares about the victims of this because they aren't rich.
I also realized that it's the bastardization of art that irks me.
Your take of ‘NFTs are bad bc they’ve got no FLAIR, I’ve seen and done better scams” is the funniest take on NFTs I’ve ever heard
the fact that I can't tell if you're serious makes this a great shitpost!
@@corncob4627 aw, that's sweet. I'm dead serious. Truly the highest compliment
Boy oh boy I really want Ordinary to do a year in review for 2022. Shits gone even more wild as of late! 👀
So what did you think of the video?
He's back! It's a (slightly late) Christmas Miracle
ruclips.net/video/2sy1CuSzCOY/видео.html
Finally..
I spent this morning doing my yearly purge of channels I don't watch, and I saw Ordinary Things and was wondering if he'd do another video. So glad I didn't purge this one!!!
Or an early New Year’s miracle
Or a very early Russian orthodox Church christmas (they use Julian calendar)
Or maybe its a very very VERY early Christmas miracle
Needed this recap as this crazy year felt like it lasted a decade.
Fr. It’s like time has felt drawn out, and some weeks I don’t even know what day or date it is. Can’t believe this year is almost over. I’m hoping 2022 is better for all!
Weird for me time went 10x faster than normal
For me it felt like 2 years in one man. But a friend of mine said that it flew past like nothing
The days feels longer, but the time goes faster
Next time you realize, its 2020 part 3
@@bigbadlara5304 true. It flew by for me.
This channel never disappoints me
Personally I find it never disgraces me.
Unlike the last few years.
Thats one of us
"Nft's are all about ownership" Actually! Its worse! Most of the time you dont actually own the image, most of the time the artist or random machine feed by tears and human souls keeps the copyright. Most of the time, what people get is a link which leads them to a page wit the image. Ita aboslutley ridicolus, but it ends up causing that screenshotting no longer does anythin, which is why I believe we should head into our next form of protest, cyberbullying 2.
I mean you could just hack the website it's on and do whatever
@@MintySweetea It would work on those that are just new and out, however those arleady do sometjing similar called "Pullin the rug". Once the Nft is bought, they just replace it for a picture of a rug. Both with the big "companies" like those ape and lion people, are the msin assholes we should focus on. So hacking wont work, sadly.
@@creditsunknown7974 Darn. Well at least NFT value has dropped really hard. Maybe they'll finally die out on their own
I propose we elect officially Ordinary Things & Internet Historian as the New Years' reviewers of the internet trends and social events.
Exponentially better than RUclips Rewind 😅
While the world has been saturated with evil business practices and political events with consequences beyond human comprehension, I’ve found a lot of good things (online or otherwise) this year. The chance to take my life into my own hands has been a great gift, and I’ve realized a lot. I’m so excited to pursue paths and content and art on my own, and focus on myself and supporting individuals and the community. The internet is not a hellscape unless we let it be.
This person knows ^
While we all grrr at politics, they aren't made equal. For one, I'm happy for LGBTQ+ advances this year... and not happy for any backtracking.
@@internetguy7319 very well said, thank you
While skimming the comments, I only read the part about "The chance to take my life [....]" from your comment and was SERIOUSLY concerned.
There's a guy who blindfolds himself and writes things like "if you've ever felt like nobody listens to you hug me and tell me why". He also pretends to be homeless and when someone finally gives him money, he instead gives that person about 100 dollars for being a good person. And since those people are empathetic they usually say "no please take it," and he says "give it to someone who really needs it". It's so wholesome.
I just realized that Internet Historian released only *one* video in 2021. Glad you found him, wherever he's been hiding!
He has a ton of side channels, which are more active - story mode, incognito mode, stream vods channel etc, he released a buncha more stuff
@@damyzs I’m reporting you, you HAD ONE JOB and FAILED
@@WalterTheWalrus whut
@@damyzs It was a kind of inside joke among viewers who had discovered IH's Story Mode channel (back when he did not openly admit any relation to it) to keep the existence of that channel a secret.
So what he meant was, your only job was to not snitch on the other channels. But the whole joke has been outdated for quite some time since IH has openly acknowledged the existence of the Story Mode channel.
that maybe its 2024 comment caught me offguard
Always love when you end with
"Don't let the bastards grind you down." Leaves me optimistic.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum
I'd also append it with: "And don't let anyone tell you who the bastards are."
Same brother
I mean, he is kind of a bastard. He reminds me of a contemporary Colbert. Can only make fun of clips of people who have a different view of things he doesn't recognize because he's too social Clingy. Tim Pool would destroy him in an argument. I like how his RUclips is his own archangel of capitalism while stealing 5 secs of non-context from another capitalist
@@sammadison1172 dude, you are aware that you're talking about a youtube satire channel, right?
I actually downloaded the original "Charlie bit my finger" video after learning it was being sold as an NFT. I still smile knowing I have conceptually invalidated the NFT by making it my own.
"Conceptually invalidated" haha trying a bit hard to sound smart mate. Your analogy is the equivalent of buying a print of the Mona Lisa and saying you've "conceptually invalidated" the original because you have one that looks the same. What's your pseudo-intellectual term for right clicking and saving a jpeg? Digital heisting? 🤦🏼♂️
@@SmoltingWassie ah, wait, so if I bought the nft of Mona Lisa I'd be able to take the original home with me then?
@@SmoltingWassie bro it’s called a joke
I hope
@@SmoltingWassie haha right click on an nft go brr
Good to see the Internet Historian is still kicking.
He uploads more frequently on his 2nd channel
He died five seconds before you posted that comment 😢
although still can't find the password for the channel
Happy 69th like & merry new year
@@randomduck8679 Well, frequently" as in every 1-2 months :^)
this is the first time in my life i've heard of shutting off the internet as a means of overpowering unrest.
this video is eyeopening and concerning.
It's been around even since the 2014s and the Arab spring. One of the actual good things that I see nis that many people are now willing to actually observe the world around them, and realize the untrueness not only of the corrupt politicians themselves, but the entire structure around them, and how it was built to keep them caged. Quite literally in some cases.
@@ethanstump Was gonna say - first time you have heard of this? Your Internet must be down...
You living on Mars?
They'll probably do it during civil unrest in American too.
IH is so dedicated to not working on the main channel, he is literally working on other people's main channel. Brilliant
Hearing him say "don't take internet access for granted" while people over in Kazakhstan get it shut down because of protests is kinda surreal.
That’s the case for numerous parts of the world
Evil corporations never disappoint as great Ordinary Things material.
Nailed it with the "Russian war" line. Hope you survive until 2024 mate.
Ape uprising should be starting soon , I hope
Oh boi, can't wait for the ape uprising
Stay alive to get that sweet 1p income tax reduction
Even the natural resources part was nearly spot-on, it's just he said oil instead of gas
This was a great summary. Can't believe I forgot about so many stuff that happened this year.
Have a great 2022, and salutations to IH and your mom. They make a cute couple.
I forgor 💀
What
Explain??
nice
If it’s any consolation, the art community is just as puzzled by NFTs as everyone else
The art community is puzzled by their own genitals.
@@N0TYALC no we aint bruh
@@N0TYALC I have no idea what this is supposed to mean but I find it funny irregardless.
Yeah like just commission a furry artist lol
@@SwizzleDrizzl Pft, do you think non furries would be brave enough to do that? They'll let their ego and public image get in the way of being happy. Some people would rather die than be associated with anything furry, I swear... It's pretty sad. I'm at least happy that a lot of the stigma has been breaking down recently and a lot more people are open to it. If you know anyone brave enough to commission furry artists that aren't furries, give em a kudos from me :P
In Brazil, we had a health insurance that specializes in treating old people during the quarantine and they made profit by literally killing the patients so there would be more bed available on their private hospital
That's what some american hospitals did too. Not the health insurance just killing it's patients for more room
@@tosutaa It's just good business sense. After all, it's only a crime if you don't bribe the right people! /s(?)
Well the government listens when people hang the ones in charge, bring back the guillotines and they'll listen, but if you keep letting the government amass a huge army made up of desperate people who will do anything for food and money, you might not win, because they'll use the wealth they hoarded to dangle a carrot to get people to do whatever they say, and if they don't listen, they always have the stick.
I support the second amendment and there should be robust training and education that should come with it...
Along with doing more for education than anything else...
Want to fix poverty?
Educated population.
Want to fix greedy companies?
Educated population.
It's why some contries try and fight education and science in favor of myths, propaganda and religion.
Because some people are selfish and only want power and control with no thought about consequences or others, and those types should be in jail if they can't be helped or educated.
@@RSAgility Spare me, that's just a pile of crap militant wet dream...lot of the gun loving are extreme groups pro Christion(might as well be the Taliban) like fuckwits the oath keepers and many many other's wack job trump extremist. and dont even tell me i misinformed ..i am fucking running into these wack jobs in California in person and no where near any special locations, i have two next to me and i have been yelled at in the street having a mask around my neck...in California you just do % statistical possibility+ i don't go out that often and the math of that will i promise you some scary numbers.
plus the deranged idea you can fight the biggest military in the world. hey i like gun's I'm a dem i used to own a lot of them then i decided i wanted to live life not prepare for the end of it like some. CHRISTIANS. perhaps my views are skewed because I'm trans but i never value single sources of information or rely on any one without a most basic of checks..i have a access to data bases and programs that have collected every fucking thing that was ever and is ever stored on the web. i have been building and using computer and then the internet since it was a thing so if you doubt my skillset, i know a lot about a lot of things i have had many types of job. (skill based).jack of all trades kind of person but i have not fallen into cognitive dissonance which religion provides by the assload.
@@RSAgility just one little tiny detail most especially the right leave out. education wont fix specials needs people. mentally handicapped, abused, abandoned, I'm a home care provider specifically for the mentally handicapped including and was last job running a group home for them. whenever the issue of homelessness comes up every one forgets this issue and it seems like on purpose maybe avoid saying the so scary socialism word because you still will need handouts(another scary word for the right) taking care of people that cant care for themselves.
but other wise i agree with you. 90% the guns i just don't know i still own one I'm a good shot have heavy sense of gun safety. civis just don't need to be running around with assaults' rifles (assault rifles don't need to be full auto so get that out of your head right now)
I know this has been said a million times but I can't ever *not* appreciate the amount of effort that goes into your videos
Comment below for videos you want to see in 2022. Thanks for watching!
15 mins to go
I’d love to see a review of 2022 in 2021
Good videos
How and why skype lost to zoom
Still waiting for the history of blimps
A warm familiar hug of "...And don't let the bastards grind you down", like a long lost friend turning up at your door, to end 2021.
Lovely.
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
Do be rich!
@Riobux Wow I thought I was the only Nicola Samori fan on the internet. That portrait is one of my favorites, nice.
@@Che8721 I do really enjoy the artwork! And yeah, totally like this portrait the most out of his artwork. I really enjoy both this sense of melancholy, pain and depersonalisation/dissociation that exists in his artwork, which I totally relate to.
I also really recommend Anguish and The Orphan by August Friedrich Schenck!
@@reginaldsafety6090 I did not see this before, but I appreciate noticing it now. Thank you.
The death of LiveLeak was the biggest punch in the gut I've ever endured
Should be the opposite that shits been out to long
a punch so hard youd end up on liveleak
Is there an alternative site to that now?, or is that it for uncensored content? (for people who aren't afraid to see the world for what it is I might add)
@@Drivaawwrrr profile checks out
@@Drivaawwrrr bestgore
2024 mentioned! ordinary things, you are the goat!
21:16 As a german myself I laughed at that! :D
This is called a "Zapfenstreich", which is a military ceremonial in the evening, with which in Germany in particular outgoing Federal Presidents, Federal Chancellors, Defence Ministers and generals are honoured. It existed way before the nazis.
Heute habe ich etwas neue gelernt 🙂
I did nazi this coming.
@@sorapker07 you did good kid 😂👍 now off to bed 👉🚪
I've missed Charlie Brooker yearly wipe the last few years. Glad to be able to experience a spiritual successor
Thanks Mr. Ordinary. This has been very fun and informative. I hope to see lots more videos on 2022. Please I don't watch the news
keep not watching it. more content coming soon
Watching the news is akin to beating yourself with a stick, a sharp pointy stick covered in nails and a tag - "owned by the establisment".
I hope you do this every year
Poor Stan Lee is rolling in his grave right now. I feel so bad that his life’s work is being turned into something so disgusting like NFTs
Comic Books were the original NFTs. Return of Dark Night went from like $1.25 cover price to $15 overnight. Death of Phoenix issue of X-men was $27. By the time I sold my collection, about 300 comics was $30.
@@iGame3D Anything physical is 100x better than a fuckin JPEG
@@iGame3D Yeah, but comics are physical things, which happen to actually be visually appealing.
@@skywker1 Studio Mandela Gives a poster size print with ever NFT they sell, He said "so that when the Super Coronal Mass ejection from the sun takes out the power grid in 2026 you will be able to have a physical reminder of your poor decision impulse buys and be cheered up while you cook the last packet of ramen on earth." With logic like that I had to buy one. The art is beautiful. looking forward to the enjoying my ramen.
for real though, the man wanted his work SHARED and enjoyed by all gjkfgkjfdgfd
I was jobless for most of the pandemic and recently started working at a pub. Got in trouble for calling in sick after hurting my back and having spasms, as if I could carry drinks and food just fine.
The worst part is I can tell the manager is stressed and under pressure to act like that by the owner, who employed his immediate family as executives and has some.... uhh.... "interesting" views on his Twitter page.
Respect for anyone who still works in Hospitality - it's shit, you get the blame for everything, minimum wage and the industry still treats you like it's the 1980s.
I've been left in a kitchen by myself in a bakery after 1 week of training. I've never worked kitchen before and I've been working up to 10 days in a row. This after the whole place had been fucked by incompetent management and no one knows what they're doing lmao. Respect for all of us hospo staff who are working our asses off during this difficult time
This is why my husband and I have increased our tips to a minimum of 35% whenever we go out to eat. We appreciate _everyone_ who has remained in the hospitality industry. It's a job I'm willing to admit I could never do.
We recently went to a restaurant and waited for an hour to be seated. When the hostess came to get us, we were astonished to see most of the place was empty. Clearly they were working with minimal staff. When the waitress finally came to our table, she looked like she could cry, apologizing for the wait and all. We told her to relax, that we had time, and the relief on her face was immediate. I guess she expected for us to be grumpy and chew her out. I'm sure there's plenty of people who would do just that. It turned out to be a lovely evening.
Just left a job where my training was just ''Wasn't it in the corporate training video we showed you on your first day?'' for super complex stuff involving peoples money. When I complained, they said I didn't have enough confidence and to ''just try it before you bother me with your problems''.
I've spent the bulk of my 20 year career in hospitality, and I am convinced it is just about the worst industry one can work in. Finally escaped for some much greener pastures recently. Never going to work in another hotel again...I think by now I'd rather live in my car
Just quit a job that wouldn’t allow a lunch or 15 min breaks on busy days, we got 10 min breaks on most days, and we would only get a lunch break on a slow day because they wanted to cut the amount they paid us because we didn’t get paid lunch.
Also we once had a break room with a nice AC, Tv, and couch. But the owners decided to turn it into a play room for their kids and loved everyone to the back yard outside even when it rained
"I thought I was supposed to be the robot."
Funny, in anyone else's hands, that would be pretty humorous self-aware dialogue, but it seems Mark is entirely incapable of making me like him.
I really liked that line
It doesn't help that he looks like a goddamn Auton.
Sometimes i feel a little bad about the shit he gets
@@JustDeeevin He deserves it, he is psycho who thinks his customers are cattle.
He really said: print(selfDeprecating_joke)
40:44 "Did I survive the pandemic / Russian oil war..."
Maybe settle down a bit there Nicodemus :|
40 straight minutes of ordinary things is the best way to start the new year.
Tight editing, great sound. I'm a sucker for this kind of pacing. I don't know the right technical terms to describe what exactly I like about this unfortunately but love this one. The right amount of chaos in music and changes to costume definitely fit how this year felt.
We don't live in the best timeline, we don't live in the worst timeline either.
We live in the whackiest timeline.
We're probably in a below average time-line since looking back at history it can get depressing how different things would have turn out
Imagine the other timeline where religion wasn't a thing and human kind focused on science until we got to the point that people were selling hologram futuristic NFTs
@@EloquentMoves religion has always been a thing, but only as of "recent" (the last few hundred years) it's become a personification of the original concepts based on nature. And also just a cash grab for the sheeple. It also became a false hope for people who are too weak willed to accept that there may not be some reward for being good little sheep their whole life.
Word tho. Without religion alone we could've avoided damn near every conflict, and gone much further as a race much faster. Instead of fighting over who's magical sky man is real.
@@STOPSYPHER Don't kid yourself. Wars were started for damn near any reason in history not just religion and it doesn't even make up most of it. Money, resources, oil, family feuds and good old fashioned conquest. Same religion, same skin color, take a look at any country in its feudal era.
@J Dariel I agree with you, but it seems like people are getting anti-science, regardless of religious status.
Rewatching this in 2024 makes your predictions at the end even scarier ngl
I get paid twice minimal wage in my state and yet filling up my tank costs 20$ short of a entire day's pay. The only saving grace is that my parents are kind enough to not throw me out of the house yet
I'm sorry
are you close enough to bike? or take the bus?
@@oldveryveryoldmanfromthe1900s Ahahahaha pedestrian and public systems in the US!?
Bahahaha not if car companies have anything to lobby about
@@RSAgility not to mention the oil companies that want you to pay for said gas
So if youre working full time your saying a full tank of gas in your vehicle is $136? You realize there are more than just trucks?
I mean I drive a 2001 Ford Explorer and its $60 for a full tank of gas. Although prices are higher than theyve been in years its kinda on you
Really enjoyed the addition of the overview of what's happening in Myanmar. Most others would avoid or ignore such difficult/niche stuff - who needs Brooker!
This guy doesn't upload often, but when he does, it's the shit... Happy new year dude.
hilarious to come back to this in 2023 now with the news that lord miles is most likely dead. guess that whole lord thing didn't work out
i missed most of these events. great to learn about what’s going on in such an engaging way
I love how ordinary things mixes funny jokes and disturbing reality
Or funny reality and disturbing jokes. Either way.
"At least in space, no one can hear him laugh." Now, that's a good joke. This is amazing!
He has no soul, and he must _feel_
Wow, got to this video just in time. Now I'm up to date on all the world's happenings
You're a genuinely fantastic storyteller and comedian, thank you for blessing us with this work!
There a lot of channels I'll drop everything for. By far, this is one of the most hilarious/informative. Your delivery has only gotten better and better. Love these man. Keep it going!
I think a cool thing to cover would be how NFTs are a scam
21:19 "which reminds us not to take our eyes off the germans for too long" Germany just increased it's military spending recently
This is fucking amazing. Can we get this monthly? doubt it, but I'd love this to become a series.
Wow this seriously depressed me by the end. I’ve almost never felt the impending demise of the species this intensely.
If it helps any, the species will probably survive.
Quality of life might drop, but the species is pretty resilient.
You mean you don't feel it gnawing your brain every single second of your existence?
@@scienceface8884 that’s even worse it’s like looking at a bird in pain and knowing you have to euthanize it
@@KP-ki8ws I'm sure you're not suggesting we need to wipe out humanity to end human suffering, but... it kind of sounds like you are and I think you should know that.
@@scienceface8884 i support it
I've actually been talking about the great resignation looong before it happened, like back in 2016. I obviously didn't know the day or the circumstances, but I could clearly see the growing discontent as well as the sheer illogicality of the difference between wages and cost of living.
Japan essentially has the same problem, but much worse; and predictably, you have a pretty substantial portion of the population checking out of society. They have people working 60-80 hour weeks just to keep pace with everyone else, making upward mobility basically impossible because the level of productivity required to set yourself apart from everyone else is beyond human capability; and as a result you have about 3/5 of the country simply choosing not to get a career and start a family.
Apply the same trend to America, and it's obvious that this was going to happen; and had already started years ago, really. The pandemic just put it into overdrive and kicked it forward by about 10 years.
"I'm just not gonna go anymore" - Office Space
Tbh I think things were fine pre-biden admin/pandemic. People would complain about minimum wage jobs because they would barely cover the cost of living, when they are really not supposed to. Unskilled labour's tricky because the wage can't be higher than that of the value that's brought by the position itself, which isn't enough to have a comfortable life if the business is to stay viable, unfortunately. They aren't supposed to be permanent jobs, they are transitory and focused on experience and scalability for the younger generation. Things did change though.
Inflation's absurd rn, so NOW I think it's more sane to complain, because it's eating up lower wage jobs first. The pandemic has increased the pace at which everything moves forward, so there's no room to relax and be comfortable for a while anymore which is extremely damaging for common folk. Wages stay the same so people have to race inflation on the daily, it means if they don't increase their economic influx fast enough they'll just get eaten up by dumb political decisions and reckless spending from the current admin. Now it seems like a more sound move to just skip the lower wage job and try luck on other options straight away because one can't take their time anymore... grinding a minimum wage job for a while is just not worth it atm.
Point aside, under normal circumstances minimum wage jobs are really a blessing in disguise. I know americans kinda see it as the worst possible case scenario, but you really don't know how essential it is to have jobs that require no experience, and as a trade off they barely/don't cover the cost of living. Many third world countries are just lacking formal options like these, and as a result there's no safe way to make money as a uni student and/or to get some life experience on the side. They are usually informal (which means you aren't ACTUALLY employed) which means your safety's constantly at play. Dealing with your s*tty manager seems awful at the time, but years later it really helps to have gone through that phase lol.
I guess my point is having the option for minimum wage jobs is not a bad sign, on the contrary, it's one more option available on the many others you can take to kickstart life and I personally think its wrong to resent them. Welp, I side tracked a bit, but I still think the second's a valuable point to make anyways so whatever.
The other side of the great resignation is while the lower end jobs are garbage, the higher end skill jobs are suffering from a lack of viable employees. I've seen the game shift from engineering contracts, to now companies wanting long term employees. Took them a bit to realize a good worker is not something you can always easily come by with a shrinking market as less people go to college for skilled labor or just not bother with their degrees at all.
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Your argument rests on the assumption that businesses are financially incapable of paying enough to have a 'comfortable life'.
This makes little sense to me, since the 2nd half of the 20th century (at least in the US) was full of entyr-level jobs that could provide what we'd now consider a 'comfortable life' (by that, I'm assuming you mean rent is fully paid, along with car insurance, gas, bills, and food- notice that this is also the bare minimum to not be homeless).
I think the issue is that the macroeconomic conditions have changed- Europe and Asia no longer need Americans to do their manufacturing for them, so there's less demand, and wages have gotten more competitive in overseas markets.
Not to mention the bottom minimum wage hasn't kept up with inflation for 40 years, so a big part of it is just business owners (both big and small) getting greedy lol
Shhhh no, it's all those lazy liberals and communism's fault because no one wants to work anymore 😂
40:39 - It is! It is 2024! We made it, mate!
I really like the outlook that history tends towards more cooperation. Even tho it doesn’t seem like it we really do live in a time where you can connect and collaborate with groups of people in ways impossible before and it’s amazing
Yeah, it's nice. When you frequently remember what happened yesterday or even a week, months before, it doesn't seem like there's much happening, or much to be optimistic about. But if you look back at years ago, there's a lot of hope and progress to be found.
Mutual aid and cooperation is a trait that's integral to our species success. Rugged individualism is the path that took us to the current hellscape where we find ourselves.
History does trend that way - only greater scale cooperation is usually preceded by greater scale conflict first, so, I'm still worried.
@@Nanook128 socialism for the rich...
Rugged individualist unregulated capitalism for the workers ...
It isn't even how this country got it's wealth, they first used slaves to get their wealth after first removing the First Nation and taking all their land, gold, resources, etc...
The founding fathers are the equivalent of rich CEOs today lobbying government and using the military as mercenaries to steal resources and land because everyone wants more. Bigger houses, bigger families, bigger food portions, etc.
We can't keep this up forever and it will eventually collapse, people just need to deal with that fact and that it's coming soon, but life will go on as long as the planet isn't dead, Empires and countries have collapsed time and again, and life was never the same, but yet here we still are doing much better.
Climate change might bring out the best in us soon. Bet
@@RSAgility communism doesn't work
Cry now
The fact that Evergiven was mentioned instead of Evergreen makes me think Monument Mythos has got to him as well
anti-dean association caused covid
The evergreen is owned by a company called the Evergiven
GOD DAMN IT JAMES DEAN
But that's correct. The ship was called the Evergiven
What the fuck are you talking about? evergiven is the correct name of the ship
Only year recap I need. Thanks for all the hard work this year Ordinary, looking forward to another exciting year!
This feeds my hunger for Charlie Brooker's year-end specials
This video is amazing. Can't wait for someone, twenty years from now, to look at this and see how jaded and cynical we got by these events... And just hope things have gotten better.
Living in El Salvador's volcano bitcoin city
This is as good as it gets, buddy. Climate change is irreversible and will wreck havoc on all civilisations and ecosystems.
@@Edible_Kittens who cares, I have no children and we all gonna die anyway
@@thetechfromheaven No children either and not going to have any ... not bothered when it happens it appens ....
"They are disliking things that they don't like, that's a big problem."
One of the highlights of 2021 for me was discovering this channel. Thanks for the informative entertainment and making me giggle. Happy New Year.
40:45 "Russian oil war" not to far from what actually happened. Nice
Happy New Year Ordinary Things!!! Love your channel and your personality, finding your channel this year was awesomeaa
Thanks dude! Happy new year
This year was insane, and it either made people go insane, or wise them to a stupid degree. Either way hopefully the pendulum swings back to the center next year (5 hours from now)
I felt bad for the last 2 years because this shit motivated me to get on my glow up and I watched a buncha people that had their shit together already crumble around me as they had the opposite response.
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@@robertcunningham1695 same, here's hoping they all figure it out too
Cought depression and suicidal ideation est. January 2021✌️
Thanks Ordinary Things! I had completely forgotten half the terrible things that happened this year.
If you pay people money for not doing anything and then expect them to go back to work when you ask… you’ve not got a clue.
Also your Halo review aged like milk.
That game is DEAD!
That is BS. And you miss the entire point that most Jobs, give you shit. The working conditions are pretty bad.
Everyone: “Charlie, please bring back End Of Year Wipe!”
Charlie Brooker: “Gotcha! Here’s a watered-down version for Netflix relevant only to Americans and people who spend all day on Twitter.”
Ordinary Things: “Fine, I’ll do it myself!”
One last time in 2021!!
Thanks for the video mate!
He comes back once more to share his divine wisdom
At the end of 2021, there was found maybe the most dangerous computer vulnerability in java, almost every big company got affected, and it was fun to watch.
The vulnerability was hidden for 10 years before it was discovered, and it's name was Log4Shell-
Holograms being projected directly into the physical world is certainly sci-fi flim flam, but you can get essentially the same effect by projecting into lens-screens (like Google Glass).
Yep, we want to go to gigs that way
While Bezos & rest of em go to the moon (and stay there, hopefully, so we can go to gigs normally)
Amazing year ender video, just goes to show how many “ordinary things” can happen in just a year. Always love your content. Looking forward to more this 2022!
Thank you for your great content in the past year, Ordinary Things! :) ❤️
Glad you enjoy it!
@@OrdinaryThings Your channel and content is cream of the crop in youtube, hands down.
Ps. Lol I'm actually quite stoked that you replied to my comment, have a great day today and greets from Helsinki! :D 🎄
I hope you will do one of these every year. Its fantastic. Reminds me of the Charlie Brooker annual 'wipe'
I think it's important to mention that when crypto goes down, the "average investor" gets locked out of selling and can only hold or buy. That's what makes it so dangerous.
Yes! This year is already off to a better start than expected.
I have no desire at all to be immersed in the internet, looking at it is bad enough
And here we sit a year later, after 2022 told 2021 "hold my beer"
I just discovered your channel. And I ended up spending most of this weekend doing a marathon of most of your videos.
Wow! You do terrific work. And have done a fantastic job of making these serious issue entertaining. I have made sure to at least Like all that I have watched. I'm trying to get my brother & friends hooked on you.
Thanks for a well spent snowy weekend!
My mom died in august. I think part of me did, too.
Thanks for being here to make me smile a little, Internet historian and ordinary things
wow, 2021 was worse than I thought. Its a good thing I turned off the news and decided to focus on personal growth and facing my own fears. Besides, after watching this I feel all caught up now.
This has big Charlie Brooker's Year Wipe energy and I'm here for it.
Man i missed Ordinary Things!! It feels like Christmas morning, finding a 2021 Year wipe which is over 40 minutes 🤌
Thank you, blessed Ordinary Things!🤗
I literally just got rid of my seasonal depression for the year and this is doin one hell of a job bringing it back
as someone who just finished moving i have to admit:
augmented/virtual reality projections of how i'd place my furniture/stuff woulda been nice
This is a realistic application of augmented reality
So they'll never do it lmao. Give it 10 years and maybe it'll be a thing.
This honestly doesn’t seem too hard, I feel like there are apps out there that already do that
There is a thing called pen and paper. Or better yet spend some time making a 3d model of the house in something like Blender. Then before moving you can plan where to place everything by just moving it around until you think you know how to do it for real. 3D modeling is not super hard and is like Photoshop a good skill to have. Being good enough to make something look real is one thing. But just making basic shapes and recreate a floor plan is not super hard.
The worst part is taking down notes on the measurements on stuff and without a laser it is tricky to take room measurements. And taking the notes right are also not really easy without making a pen and paper model with the measurements on it.
How would a device know your furniture/stuff looks like? Would some random sofa be enough to plan your living room? So unless scanning your stuff and then VR placing them down in your new place feels easier then just moving the stuff around the old basic way. Well. What good dose the projection tech going to be? You think it is going to be easier to scan every item?
With some rudimentary 3d modeling knowledge and the room sizes written down you can fine tune the move DAYS before even packing up your stuff and starting the move. With a normal measuring tape you can get the size of your stuff and recreate them in 3d for your house in 3d. Dose it take some work? yes. Is it harder then some stupid VR bullshit? No.
Using Blender (free) and a computer with very low specs are going to be enough. Think of it like making a cardboard mock up but in a computer. And less cardboard and tape...
Having a robot vacuum cleaner scanning your home layout is bad enough you know. Asking a phone app to scan everything in your house is just the next step. This tech companies are making up solutions for problems that tools already have existed for a long time but the average person have no clue exist. And it is really sad to hear people think up "reasons" to make there life better when there is already ways to achieve it if just people knew where to look.
It is not gimmicky or fancy. But knowledge like this should be taut in schools. But they don't. ;C Dose not make anyone money.
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It’s why VR in my opinion is boring, majority of games and apps I’ve seen come from people who have 0 creativity or just some greedy company.
Or you could use that interesting feature in your brain - imagination. Tech dependence starts this way. With how dependent we already are on our phones, they’re already an extension of ourselves. Practically cyborgs when you think about it.
I'd love to see this kind of video recapping the year as an annual thing! though that is a lot of work, nevertheless... loved it!
and yes, you did survive to see 2024