Alexandria's Genesis: The Internet's Fakest "Disease"
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- Опубликовано: 17 мар 2021
- Today we dive into the mystery of Alexandria's Genesis, one of the internet's oldest and most prolific hoaxes. The disease supposedly gives the inflicted purple eyes, sparkly skin, super-strong immunity, and a lifespan of over 150 years. Where did this strange rumor originate from? Let's find out!
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You can say it's fake but my dog has this
my pet snail does too
A dog entirely hairless except its head? Work
my mom does so i actually carry the genes
fake
My pet bird has had this since Birth. It's a real thing!
the "pale skin", the "never overweight" and the "no body hair except for the head, eyelashes, and eyebrows" just proves that this is literally a culmination of all the beauty standards for women.
"gENeRaLLy GoOd BoDy PrOpOrTiOnS"
It also grossed me out ab the "light never tanning skin" "mainly found in American/Europeans"
Glad I’m not the only one that noticed
I feel like this whole fake disease was just a way to pretend to be a vampire without the hurting people thing that comes with vampirism
The author said the made it around when they were struggling with their body image, still kinda weird why they made it a disease or genetic
“alexandria’s genesis” sounds like a fantasy book targeted at preteen girls
It does-
I bet it is
It sounds like it’d be a very boring generic fantasy story too
Ehh close enough-
sounds good tho
Basically a "genetic mutation" that makes you perfectly fit euro centric beauty standards 💀💀💀
Mary sue virus
"Eurocentric" gtfo please
Fr 😕
A Genetic Mutation that turns you into a Mary Sue/Gary Stu
I can’t get past people calling Alexandrias Genesis a “disease” meanwhile it has no harmful symptoms or processes. That’s not a disease, it’s just a mutation.
Yeah, like… I have an ACTUAL rare genetic disease and it SUCKS :(
@@mildlymarvelous don't mean to pry or be rude, but what is it called?
@@katharineball585 No problem, I’m very open and like bringing awareness to it! It’s called hypermobile-type Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. It’s a connective tissue disorder, so my body can’t build that type of tissue properly. Most notably it makes my joints super loose, forcing all of my muscles to work extra hard to make me move correctly and causing me chronic pain and fatigue as well as increasing my risk for dislocations. However, there are other effects as well, like the related condition POTS (my veins are stretchy so it is hard for my body to keep my blood properly pressurized and get it to my brain in certain conditions) and even acid reflux. It’s very much a spectrum- some people are ultra flexible with few adverse symptoms, while others have to use wheelchairs to prevent constantly getting painful dislocations. If you’re interested I suggest visiting the official Ehlers-Danlos website to learn more about EDS overall as well as the different types and some related symptoms and conditions!
@@mildlymarvelous I see, thank you!
@@katharineball585 No problem!
The fact they believed that a woman could have kids without a period it’s legit part of the process
Some animals can. They just absorb the tissue that forms in the uterus instead of expelling it.
Eh, once in a blue moon it happens, but as a general rule no period=no children. When combined with all the other stuff, it's obviously fake though...
@@aaaah540 ok but we’re humans
I'm more shocked to hear that people actually believed the "no waste" part 🤣 what goes in must come out!
Some women can have their period while pregnant. That one is like a cruel joke.
No it’s real. My aunt has it. She works on a farm growing Japanese moon melons and she’s married to a Nigerian prince who discovered the secret of infinite chocolate
🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I dont give a shit about anything else JUST GIVE ME THAT INFINIT CHOCLATE
Oh so my aunt isn’t the only one in the same situation
@@gummilatte1618 about 1/10 aunt's have it happen to them in their life.
Tru dat
I'm conflicted. Do I applaud the fact that this person literally fooled so many people with fanfiction? Or do I be baffled that people actually believed it?
Both
Not even believed there are literally people in the comments suggesting that it may have been real just not recorded 💀
Since the original author didn't intend to fool anyone, I'd say we can at least applaud the misinformers that were adding stuff to the story for absolutely no reason other than trolling.
I believed it when I first saw the post all those years ago lol. Of course I was like 12 years old at the time.
Friendly reminder that if your skin turns this incredibly light color and isn't explained by albinism or you weren't born with it, CHECK IT OUT. Especially if your face doesn't have as much red as others.
I have a severe iron deficiency, and me and my family managed to catch it sooner because my health teacher pointed out that my face doesn't seem to be as red as it should be (Cheeks, lips, etc, were still super pale when I should've had more bloodflow there). Did a couple at home tests, and it was definitely anemia. Now I'm on iron pills.
Moral of the story: If you're usually a little pale but suddenly realize you are now the same color as cream cheese, see a doctor or you die.
It happened to me quite a few times, didn't check, and nothing really came out of it. I believe it was just me running out of air in the shower (it was a very cold day) or just doin that weird thing that your body does when you stand up too fast for a bit too long.
yeah im iron anemia to
I was thinking TB
Imagine writing a "fake scientific article" for your OCs so well, people think it's real.
Honestly dude should have made an scp lmao,
I love the dedication.
@@Fisinocean I would love this
Every worldbuilders dream
Imagine writing a "fake scientific article" for your OCs so well, morons think it's real.
I love the: ‘no body hair’- but they do have eyebrows, eyelashes, and hair because it wouldn’t be hot if they were bald
the hottest disease xD
SAME,LMFAO
I mean I would rather be completely bald than have to deal with cramps (also I like your profile pic)
Bald people looking at this: *saddness*
Not most of my OCs being hot bald people because I'm too lazy to draw hair.
I love how, like much on the internet, this started out pretty reasonable and potentially believable. Purple eyes? Weird, but yeah okay I could believe that a rare condition could cause that. No menstruation? Yeah okay there are plenty of conditions that can cause that. Lack of hair except it on your head and eyebrows? That seems too good to be true. Disease immunity? Yeah okay no. Life span in the hundreds and no shit? Okay yeah we're well into the realm of fantasy now
whats funny is that I have the hair thing. only hair I grow is eyebrows/lashes, hair on my head, and a tad bit of hair on my armpits but exfoliating takes that away, but thats bc I won a genetic lottery between my bear of a dad and my borderline hairless mother. and recently I started taking biotin to strengthen my nails (brittle af) and guess what? it started making me grow body hair bc it turns out I was vitamin deficient in a way I didnt know. This whole disease thing is just so fucking funny bc technically these things could happen in someone but its definitely going to be bc of a punnet square fluke or a genuine flaw in health.
@@marynoble9464 Turns out you had hair all along… it just got destroyed the moment it came out of your skin. ^^
But no longer having nails that easily break/tear makes it worth it. Welcome to the body-hair-haver club. 🎉
@@ArDeeMee my nails are still weak af, I just have body hair now😅 I don't mind though I like it
@@marynoble9464 Oh nooo, fragile nails suck so much!
But, yeah, body hair is ok. Psychologically, it proves to yourself that you‘re a proper adult now… my brother was FINALLY able to grow a full beard at age 30. The poor guy had tried for over 10 years at that point… Hormones are weird, and everyone’s different.
yeah what sold me on it being fake was that when someone told me they had it, it was just purple eyes. no side effects positive or negative. If it was just purple eyes, it would be no secret. We'd have some super famous models and actors with purple eyes who just go famous for having them. I could maaaaaybe buy it if they were real, but it was so dabilitating because it came with stuff that made you severely disabled so you couldn't do things like become a model or act in a movie.
this unlocked memories of me talking about it on twitter and someone with (realistically edited) purple eyes in their pfp popping up saying “hey, i have this!! it’s not all good though, it impairs my vision in a way that can’t be fixed with glasses/surgery 💔” (i had only seen the vague tumblr post at the time) and…. adding a negative side effect to it REALLY reinforced the idea that it was real. if i had known that people were claiming it made you live to 170 with eternal youth and immunity to every disease, i would’ve called bullshit sooner
Especially since having eyes that seem they are purple (as explained in the video it's due to the blood vessels being more visible in iris which lack pigmentation) and also having poor eyesight are symptoms some people suffering from albinism might have (not all obviously, many people with albinism have regular eye colours).
So, at first glance it can seem legit to people who only have a passing knowledge of albinism and other similar conditions. Especially if the stuff about periods, permanent youth and ridiculously long lifespans are left out.
bruh honestly purple eyes just makes it easier to have birds mistake them for grapes and therefore easily pecked out
kinda want purple eyes now
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Speaking rights revoked
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It’s all a conspiracy by the birds
-First woman to have mutation
-Priest has heard about it before
plot holes people, plot holes
I’m glad someone noticed this. We all know damn that woman would’ve been called a witch and burned at the stake 💀
XD
Well it did say “first recorded”. That doesn’t necessarily mean first occurrence.
The priest assuring the parents that her disease was normal in the 1300’s... is a much bigger stretch. I agree that she would have been burnt as a witch lol
@@AnalizaTheSnark i could maybe believe it if it was framed as a blessing from God or something like that. That's where i thought it was going when I was watching the video lmao
Obviously God told him about it 🙄
😂😂
I remember seeing this on pinterest years ago and recalled how my mother told me I had violet eyes when I was born. Of course it was just the melanin in my irises, and they're now dark brown, but I was quite enamored by the idea of not shaving or having period. Turns out I'm not like other girls, I'm a trans man XD
:o
Lovely that you were able to figure out and find yourself! Hope you're doing well dude
I fucking love this
That twist tho… *chef‘s kiss
(Btw, all the best to you.)
Aay! Good for you!
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I remember hearing about this on freaking Quizilla when I was about 8, long before tumblr. I wanted it so badly that I cried about it during ballet class. My teacher listened to what was wrong and explained that Alexandria's Genesis was fake due to the period thing... If a woman who literally believes in Indigo Children can tell it's fake, other adults who think it's real have no excuse.
Indigo Children? What’s that?
@@eskarinakatz7723 I looked it up.
Apparently an Indigo Child (also called Starseed or Crystal Child) is an alien consciousness born into a human body. They're apparently hyper-intelligent and have hidden psychic powers
@@elfilin-to6dh Ah. So some New Age nonsense.
@@eskarinakatz7723 Yeah. Worst part, there's some dudes who scam people by asking for money to basically tell you from which planet/dimension you came from if you believe you're an Indigo
Basically fortune tellers but more cringe
Indigo child this, Indigo child that, WHY DON’T YOU INDI-GO GET SOME BITCHES /lh
I met a guy who, as a kid, had really pale blue eyes and over time one of them started to turn a purple like color. He said he thought it was Alexandria’s Genesis, Plot Twist! It was melanoma. So he had his iris removed. If your eye starts to change color, that’s not a good thing.
Oh god, I did not expect that ending.
LMAO
I know I'm not supposed to find that funny, but xD
actually it can SOMETIMES be normal for your eye color to change as you get older, but you should still see an eye doctor if you notice any changes.
oww :(
when i thought i was straight, i dated a girl who INSISTED that her grandmother had this, so she had a "lesser version" of it. she basically said she had everything but the purple eyes. i completely forgot this existed & now i'm embarrassed for both of us.
the “when i thought i was straight” in the beginning makes this even funnier😂😂😂
I got secondhand embarassment reading this
“Yeah, I know someone who has that.”
"when i thought i was straight..."
Ngl it sounds like she ruined WOMEN for you and that makes it even funnier, you had me rolling for a hot minute there, mate
@@MauZangetsu lets not mantain the stereotype that gay love is an unhealthy reaction to sexual or romantic trauma :/
I'd love to have perfect sight, no shark week and so on...Albinism is a disability though. Right now, it's 32° (upper 80s for freedom unit users) and I can't leave the house because sunscreen is not strong enough to keep my Albino-skin from burning D: I also only have around 15% sight left and am very sensitive to heat and light in general.
Kudos for debunking the red eye myth! I hate that question. Even a Dermotologist wouldn't believe I was an albino, because my eyes are hazel. I had to bring her my genetic test results
Could you please stop lying? I know you don't have this disease. Stop faking it, as having this disease would completely destroy your life.
we legit had a pub quiz at my university bar the other day and one of the questions was 'can someone be born with purple eyes'. They marked the correct answer as true, quoting Alexandria's Genesis - I wasnt happy
How can you be over 16 and believe in this? Like how tf did they get into university?
I'm calling it now- if this ever makes a comeback, it will be through TikTok. TikTok has a way of reviving old internet legends and believing it's true.
Apparently, it's HAPPENING.
@@arandomidiot1593 Wait, seriously? Goddamnit, TikTok.
Ah heck.
Because basically everyone on TikTok is an infant?
I’ve seen tiktoks of albino creators reminding people that Alexandria’s genesis isn’t real and that they do have periods and body hair. The symptoms are turning into a stereotype for people with albinism and it’s sad
12 year old me was really jealous of non existent people with this made up disease... also your makeup always looks amazing but this look is ELITE
I love that lip stick color
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holey shit !!!!!!!! mario moking we'd!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@MrWorsterLike superkia64
Fr love how this is literally just the culmination of racism and fatphobia in tumblr mary sue type circles where everyone was OBSESSED with being a super pale super skinny "ethereal" typically goth typically dark haired vampire girl
Also the fact they had to specify it usually affects ppl w european descent or whatever is really the beautiful violet cherry on top
Racist Disease
By fat phobia you mean that being fat is unhealthy, right?
@@idontreadorreply I don't see how that's related to what I said at all??? Do y'all just see the word fat and immediately type out "unhealthy" regardless of context
@@jsfjfsjfsfj5886 because it is?? By fat I don’t mean a bit chubbier than normal, I mean unhealthy fat. Being fat is a risk to health, it’s a fact
@𝘗𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘈𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 Ok? I didn't ask if being fat was healthy what I ASKED was how that had anything to do with my comment. You know where I didn't bring up health at all. I was literally talking about trends in peoples vampire OCs?? Genuinely are you not reading any of what I'm saying? Did you just see the word fat and black out?
ok im gonna rewrite this as if it was an actual disease (that i may or may not use in a story)
symptoms of real alexandria genises include
-purple eyes with poor eyesight
-no body hair including eyebrows or the hair on the persons head
-lack of mensuration in women along with infertility
-increased risk of being underweight
-very pale skin that is prone to sunburns and an increased risk for skin cancer
-lifespan is a little longer than normal because of a strengthened immune system (about 110 years on average)
Honestly this sounds great, not too op, but still not too bad
High metabolism and aging go hand in hand. Animals which have naturally slow metabolism are among the ones with the longest known lifespans. Tortoises and some species of shellfish are good examples.
Meanwhile animals with a very high metabolism tend to live shorter lives.
However being able to fend off infections could be realistic due to a higher body temperature which you could argue comes from the more active metabolism. Bats f.ex. have a very strong immune system since flight requires so much energy that their body temperature is fairly high. This is also the reason why pathogens which have adapted to bats are so difficult for other mammals to fight off (rabies practically thrives in a human fever).
So, your ideas could work in a story without needing to suspend disbelief all that much 😊
Might take that class honestly. I'm a guy and I'm likely going to bald anyways, any my eyesight is not that good. I can trade a few sunburns and risk of cancer (which I already have bc I'm very white) for like 35 extra life years.
Might take that class honestly. I'm a guy and I'm likely going to bald anyways, any my eyesight is not that good. I can trade a few sunburns and risk of cancer (which I already have bc I'm very white) for like 35 extra life years.
you could push the immune system thing even further, adding a sort of autoimmune property to the disease
this is the definition of "source: just trust me bro"
or "Google is free" (despite the fact that Google uses algorithms and it's designed to show you what Google wants you to see)
Source? I was there.... *REINCARNATION* lmao
This doesn't pertain to anything in the video but I love your Strawberry Crepe pfp/g
This reminds me of the video I saw about dreams that said there was an 82% chance that whoever you're dreaming of is dreaming of you. That seems very unlikely except if you're dreaming about someone that lives in your house, because then seeing each other is such a regular occurrence that you'll show up in each other's dreams often. One of the most common characters to appear in my dreams is one called the "dream genie" and he's basically an invisible creature that's somewhat omnipotent and watches and speaks from above, but he's definitely not God considering his hobby is sending me on quests, being annoying and arguing with me and sometimes making bad stuff happen on the quests like flinging away objects I'm trying to collect and then laughing maniacally. I do not know anyone in my day to day life who is an invisible levitating telekinetic dude, I really do not think he exists other than as a facet of myself. So he literally cannot dream of me - he only exists at all because I dream of him! Lol.
Bro I thought it was my comment because of the pfp lmao
Damn, even mutations are adhering to euro-centric beauty standards 😔
Ikr 😭😭
Riiight? 👀
This is a bit of a jump but tmnt 2012 had a good example for me, there was this character that was a fan of the turtles and was basically theirs dedicated fanboy, and he thought if he got mutated he’d turn into something cool like an anthro cat or something. However when he finally got himself covered in mutagen.. it didn’t go as planned and he was basically immobilized and basically just a blob that couldn’t do anything. Kind of gave a realistic idea of what would happen if you actually tried to get yourself mutated or wished you were.
I don't have medical training but I am currently in an AP Bio class so I can say with certainty that if you were to get a random mutation there's a 99% chance it would either go unnoticed or make your life notably worse, possibly even causing death. Look up Tay-Sachs disease. It destroys lives and kills around the age of 4, and the entire thing is cause by one wrong base in the DNA.
@@victoriat8922 My genetics teacher described mutations as being like poking at a car's engine without knowing anything about how engines work. Just poking stuff probably won't hurt anything, but it's still a lot more likely to break something than it is to improve something
10:23 Oddly enough, many elements of Twilight were based loosely on Stephane Myer’s own My Chemical Romance fan fictions. Maybe the sparkly pale skin thing was an obscure yet common fanfic trope in the late 90s/early to mid 2000s before it became forever associated with the Twilight Saga?
This just gave me an idea for a d&d character, an aberrant mind sorcerer whose Alexandria’s Genesis manifests not in skin beauty but more in body horror
Oh? Like a monster girl take on the disease?
This sounds like the "chosen one" female main character in a novel that's supposed to empower women but it's written by a man.
I mean, it was?
And despite being a 'feminist icon' has unreasonable rivalries with every other woman in the book
the ''written by a man'' part is irrelevant. Have you read "Handbook for mortals"? The author is a woman, but the main character is exactly that type of cringe.
@@voilvelev6775 The written by a man part is absolutely not irrelevant. Men consistently write women through the male gaze, and Alexandria's Genesis is the male gaze disease if there ever was one. A woman writing women badly is just a woman writing women through the male gaze.
@@ScreamingDucksShotMyMother Sorry, I dont usually use ''feminist theory'' when it comes to art critique. Im not disregarding it, but thats only 1 way to analyze things. I gave absolutely valid point that women authors do the exact same thing about female characters (Twillight is another horrible example) and you choose to ignore it instead of discussing it. So Im done here, I do not desire unnecessary fighting (and Im afraid that where this could be headed). Have a nice and productive day/night. Goodbye :)
Honestly, props to the author for admitting it, if I had written a fake cringey disease to give to my Daria OCs when I was 14 I would honestly rather die than bring it up.
alas, it said 19, so i imagine they ... probably haven't improved that much unfortunately
Eh, it's been some time they've probably improved writing wise at least
@@oldaccount746 you say that like 19 year olds aren’t basically still children
@@oldaccount746 like after you turn nineteen you suddenly can't improve 😁
@@minakoshiomi749 no not at all!! i don't want to discourage older people from exploring their artistic potential !! but if your writing's that, not even just bad but *immature* at that age you don't have much to improve on and your brain has gone through most of its developing. /-:
Even if Alexandria's Genesis was real, it wouldn't be referred to as a 'disease', diseases are developed conditions with negative signs and symptoms, of which are absent in this supposed condition. It would be most likely classified as a genetic syndrome with collective mutations, as syndromes are a collective of abnormalities/mutations and symptoms that may develop into harmful conditions or diseases. Not that it would happen, since somehow a condition like this itself somehow makes one immune to all other conditions, very weird and illogical but sure. BTW Not a doctor, just fussy about using appropriate terminology, if I'm incorrect let me know :)
Gotta give her credit- if I’d created AG, the main characteristics would have been an almost supernatural knowledge of all things Genesis (The Book of Genesis, The Sega Genesis, the band Genesis) and so on
what about sacral agenesis
Well i already know too much about the band Genesis, so i guess i’m a third of this.
"Does not mensturate"
"Is fertile"
As a medical professional this... is far more terrifying than they have any idea. Like... menstruation serves a purpose. It's not just some random flaw.
Lol imagine if evolution fucked up so hard that periods served no purpose.
You can tell this disease was made up by a teen with no knowledge of biology. They just know they get periods and they hate them.
@@luviana_ I'm taking this from a major in the comments, though they embryo would die since the lining of the womb would be too thick and it hasn't been shed as needed.
@@luviana_
Most likely, there wouldn't be anything for a fertilized embryo to implant into.
That's, like, a major part of why we have periods.
The blood that is shed during a period is the uterine lining - which is exactly what an embryo needs to implant into.
So if this hoax of a medical condition was real, the woman in question would actually be straight-up infertile. Or, at least, unable to carry a pregnancy herself.
I think. I'm definitely not an expert.
Isn't it kinda true that periods are pretty much useless?
I saw on some biology sorta video that most animals don't have a monthly blood shed, they just kinda absorb the period blood back in
So humans have painful cramps and all that while most animals are just fine
I never heard the "no periods, no waste, no getting fat, no body hair, live to be 150" thing, I once read online in like 2009 that Liz Taylor had that kind of mutation and it gave her an extra row of eyelashes (making them naturally fuller and thicker), flawless clear skin, and violet eyes. Hearing the way it grew into a giant elaborate, farfetched hoax makes me think this whole thing grew as a game of telephone.
yeah i remember seeing the post that said that Elizabeth Taylor had it when i was like 12 lol. I had no idea that the hoax got this big.
The extra row of eyelashes thing is real. I have it. The extra row is below the normal one, and can actually cause all sorts of fun issues.
@@AdamantErinyes I think my little sister has something like that too. Her eyelashes are really thick, she never has needed to wear mascara and people compliment her lashes a lot. But she has ordinary brown eyes and a normal tan complexion.
i dont know much about this stuff but
arent periods healthy
I just know Elizabeth Taylor as the lady who's name is on my White Diamonds perfume bottle (ironically my grandmother has one by her called Violet Eyes)
I watched about half of this video before I had to stop. It reminds me so much of what it felt like growing up in the early 2000s as a mixed girl. The beauty standard was always so clearly pale skinned and skinny and I remember stuff like this being all over the internet that just proved it without a doubt. I was always so jealous of my pale white sister because she came out with purely our father’s coloring and I was even darker than our mother. I know that this was honestly a well intentioned mistake and I’m sure continued by just a lot of white kids pursuing the beauty standard but I will never be able to explain the effect this stuff had on me as a kid and still now when I’ve finally accepted what I look like. Remembering this is just so uncomfortable and painful
I'm sorry to hear that, colourism can really suck
Not to be a d!ck but i allways Been complimented on the curls and skintone that comes with it.. you know what you should swing by!
@victorlolxd7347 this was super unnecessary.
@@abbyelectrici know thats why i Said “not to be a d!ck” but like here its a beauty standard
@@abbyelectricbut yeah god Damm it i need to learn to read the room
as a kid I was completely obsessed with the idea of dark blue eyes (specifically "midnight blue eyes") and in every story I wrote, the main character had dark blue eyes. so the source of this idea makes total sense to me.
i had the same thing for orange eyes, except it is a thing that actually happens and isnt that rare (hazel and brown) so idk what i was on.
@@BrainoConfi mean, *bright* orange eyes would be freaking cool. Maybe that's because orange is my favorite color though- plus I already have hazel eyes so..?
"The first recorded case..."
"Luckily, the priest had heard of the mutation..."
Wow, these two lines alone absolutely don't contradict eachother.. in ANY way, shape, or form. Nope.
LITERALLY THAT BIT MADE ME SCREAM
@@amoureux6502 SAMMEEEE
Well, I mean, you /could/ argue it was a rumor but not recorded officially but,,,,
The idea of anyone in the 1300s having any idea of what a genetic mutation IS absolutely blew my mind.
@@devent10n ikr!! Back then you could get killed just for knowing how to do math as a woman, a girl born with purple eyes would've been abandoned at the closest woods at best lmao
I write Fantasy stories on Wattpad and people used to tell me every character I wrote with Purple Eyes had this disease and I was like WTF no, this is literally a fantasy story.
I remember when I was younger the first time I heard of the “mutation” was when my friend who was on tumblr like 90% of her lifespan saw a picture of my mom hanging up in my room and was like “OMG UR MOM HAS ALEXANDRIAS GENESIS?!?!?!?!?!” And proceeded to insist my mom had the disease despite her not having any of the other symptoms and her eyes definitely being brown
For context, the reason she thought my mom had it was because the picture of my mom I had was from when she was a teenager and wore purple contacts because she liked the color purple and I had to carefully explain that to her while she continued to insist it was true until my mom got home from work and she saw that my moms eyes were, in fact, not actually purple 💀💀
Y’all laugh but when I was 11 and had unsupervised internet access I cried bc I “wouldn’t be able to have it” bc I was a mixed Latina girl 🚶♂️
Aww, that's pretty dang upsetting 😔 this fake disease should have been more racially inclusive!
Hey, you can technically make up your own tough ;) lol
@@absolutelyridiculous6743 this comment gave me negative energy. I thought about this too, actually. The fact that they included all these “positive” coded sort of side effects, such as hairlessness and periods (something men specifically would find attractive might i ad) and included sparkly white “fair” pale skin amongst the effects. And everyone stating that they wished they had it sort of added to that.
@@absolutelyridiculous6743 No need to be passive aggressive
@@TheFlowerbeast they weren’t being passive aggressive what
@@frenchiestbread4755 I'm glad I wasn't the only one to think this upon hearing the side effects.
The desease in a nutshell: "You will have purple eyes and be stereotypically Beautiful and perfect"
And very white
@@XiaoIsMyHusbandBTW TRUE THO
And for some reason stereotypically beautiful = white and young. Way to be a dick to the people who claimed they had this or took part or whatever, implying that women are ugly as they age or that poc are less beautiful than white people, as if our corrupt society hasn't been saying that bullshit enough already.
@@sarahbarabe8470 do you know what a stereotype is? cause if you do then i fail to understand why you are so angry
@@Kuxt0r im confused about your comment tbh. Theyre saying its an insult to people of colour and basically every other race except white people because the stereotype is white and blonde = pretty, anything else = ugly
one time in a dnd campaign, i cast thaumaturgy to make my eyes look purple and proceeded to roll a 25 in deception, convincing everyone in a town that alexandria's genesis was a real and very important disease and i conned them out of like, 10 gold pieces for "research"
Incredible. Great job. 😂
my sisters have albinism and they don't have purple eyes (just light blue that sometimes look red in the light) and are definitely not immune to all illnesses. they both have nystagmus and are visually impaired because of this and are more susceptible to get skin cancer because of the condition. so yeah, definitely not Alexandria's genesis
Brother your sister might be collecting chipmunks.
@@BrainoConfwhat the hell?
“No body hair”
“Fair pale skin that can’t tan no matter what”
“No Periods”
“ mostly appear in white women”
“Idk but pretty af”
Hmmm I wonder who wrote that
LMAO
Yeah, really makes you wonder white was going through their head...
@@newsystembad LMAOOOO
@@newsystembad LMAO
@@newsystembad BRO 🤣💀
Alexandria's Genesis has to be the kindest and most rewarding "disease" known to mankind.
beneficial mutations exist
Yeah, me and my sister weren't born with wisdom teeth.
@@catfan913 They do exist, but not too this extent.
@@becuaseimbored3481 Lucky. I had to get all four taken out four days ago. I can't even chew 😭
@@becuaseimbored3481 I have 3 wisdom teeth according to an x-ray from a decade ago. Too bad it didn't give me OP side effects like perfectly even teeth by default... :D
I know at least 5 people who made their OCs to have this and the sorrow they were in after realising it's fake will never not be hilarious
They took such a cool name too - Alexandria's Genesis would be a sick name for something in a book.
Indeed
I always thought the name was pretty dumb. "Genesis" means "origin"-so it's supposed to be the origin of Alexandria? It's the origin of something else pertaining to Alexandria in some way?
@@kiyote437 making it even cooler for a book
My condolences to all of my fans but I have Alexandria's genesis and it's why I'm so hot ✊😔❤️ thoughts and prayers
When time gets slow, and rivers freeze
It hurts to be so pretty :(
@@paucalderon8326 a tribulation we must cope with every day ✊😔
@All Mods Are Bas- [AMAB] ngl I didn't know what this meant but I've elected to interpret it as a compliment in which case thank you I love you and ditto
@@mothmanlol6263 it's a reference to your name being mothman and moths flying into flames 👀
This sounds like something created for a imaginary world but someone was like "yo this sounds real rad," and started spreading it, and more and more was added to it
omg hi karl pfp
Lowkey I'm pretty sure it was created for Rose lalonde in homestuck fanfiction
karl pfp my beloved
@@frankoceanlover976 and gogy pfp my beloved 😍😍
@@frankoceanlover976 oh hello george pfp
I had no idea this was such a big thing. I had a friend in elementary/middle school who tried to convince me this was real and I was kinda just like "oh yeah... Uh... Cool" because I didn't believe that crap at all but didn't wanna deal with her trying to convince me.
i used to roleplay as celebrities over various websites and more than once had regular people messaging me thinking they had found that celebrity's personal account just because they found the listing for the game and the names were usually somewhere in the usernames. so i 100% believe that someone saw the fanfic and thought it was real
What makes me really miffed by this is that this is supposed to be a disease that makes you "beautiful and perfect" with one of its symptoms being "having shimmering fair skin" and being constantly skinny... also being most prominent on those with European descent... idk man kinda sus.
It was probably made by a white dude
and no body hair
Well, she was going through gender issues and identity issues, so she obviously would try to make a “perfect” version of herself that is influenced by the beauty standards of white people.
yeah the "this disease only happens to white people" is the part I'm most upset about lol. Early 2000s internet was so damn racist
@@lachelnderhund It was created by a woman fanfic writer
The most shocking part of this is that it come from adaria fanfic of all things. You would think it would be a fic from a more fantasy show.
that's actually how i first found out about it ☠️
I definitely was expecting Final Fantasy or Harry Potter or something. Daria really made me do a double-take
Especially since Daria translates to “upholder of truth”
I was always under the impression that it was from a Star Trek fanfic, mainly because something like that would actually kind of fit in the Star Trek universe. Also because I vaguely remember reading a ST fic with it, but don't remember the fic.
Oh, for some reason, the Daria Fandom was so full of Mary Sue fics. I'm not really sure why, although most people at least made their OCs "better versions" of the main character to make the suspension of disbelief a little more stable.
Speaking of weird diseases of literature (fan or otherwise) hanahaki disease would be a fun one to do next! It's got a lot of interesting uses in fan cultures and a lot of ~~symbolism~~
You say this is fake, but I have blue-grey eyes, and one day, I put on purple contacts. Then…my eyes looked purple!!!
“Lack of menstruation cycle (in women)” does that mean men get to keep their periods?
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take that, men! you still get periods😎
The comment is gold and the replies make it better
imagine blood pouring out of ur dingdong once a month
@@cassiusineuros
Oh no why did you put that image in my head?!
Now I kinda wanna write a character with this but make it realistic: absolutely no hair (including their head!), complete infertility, easily sunburnt skin, very poor vision (assuming eyes are "purple" due to lack of pigment), and a shit immune system because it seems realistic with mutations this "severe".
Now you just need a name for this disease that's a parody of the original name, like say, Alexander's Destruction
Ooooh it actually can be easily a real person when you realized that people with albinism does have purple eyes (blue eyes seems purple when the blood vessel are visible enough), are very sensitive to sunlight, usually are legally blind and could have alopecia or problems with hair growth due to their skin. I had a teacher with almost all these things except for the body hair (she did had alopecia but it wasn't all of her body just some spots on her head).
Sounds like someone with albinism..but with a couple more effects
Kinda sounds like an SCP Idea
So a person with albinism, alopecia and SCID.
Did people really see a lifespan of up to 170 years and go "yep, sounds legit"
i've been binging this channel's videos and it's so interesting how for most of them the conclusion is 'don't believe everything you see on the internet'. like, yeah, that seems like an obvious statement, but it's crazy how many times we have fallen for this and believed in obviously fake things. i guess it proves that our society will never truly learn from its mistakes and will keep making the same ones over and over again
One of Alexandria's genesis less well known symptoms is buying clothes from the soup store
@Mariel Cervantes "it means there's only soup"
@Mariel Cervantes "alright you don't have to shout at me!"
@Mariel Cervantes "there's more soup"
@Mariel Cervantes "There's just more soup"
@Mariel Cervantes "there's just more soup!"
Someone tried to convince me that this was real LAST YEAR. I deadass cannot believe how many believed it, including 12 year old me
I mean, to be fair, you're 12. You don't have a ton of life experiences! Why shouldn't you believe it?
A good question to ask yourself about things like this is "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is". And it's likely some sort of half-truth designed to manipulate you into doing something, if my own life experiences have proven anything lol
@@MissSpaz Moral of the story: kids are fucking dumb
I mean, I did search up "purple eyes" once and Alexandra Genesis popped up but there was none of that "Mary Sue" shenanigans.
@@quitted7276 that’s fair
I’m 28 and have friends in their thirties who still try to convince me it’s real.
I like how they discribe it as a disease (which is usually associated with symptoms that harm you) and a genetic mutation (wont always harm you)
When I first found tumblr at the age of 12ish i fell for this so hard 😭 i wanted to have it so badly because i wanted purple eyes and no body hair but i got over it pretty quickly once i realized it was fake. I wasn't the smartest kid lol
Alexandria’s Genesis sounds like a dystopian romance novel that’s targeted at teenage girls
Random romcom writers: "Someone write that down!"
I would read it
It also released after The Hunger Games. I feel like that goes without saying but still
I wouod read it ngl, the title sounds cool
Or a band. You know, because of Asking Alexandria and Genesis lol
"women with it dont get periods"
"carrier mothers are able to give it to their children"
how the hell did people not figure THAT one out
Right😭 like ppl rlly didnt put 2 and 2 together
I think the wording could have been better, like maybe they do menstruate, but they don't bleed.
@@seaotter4439 2:48
@@IvoryLoaf oop-
LMAO-
I love how this mutation is just "it makes you conventionally attractive"
This really sounds just like a mary sue character I wrote about in a fantasy short story when I was in middle school, dark hair + purple eyes and near immortal. The only big diffence is that I gave my character the superpower of transforming into an alicorn instead of the kinda creepy "no body hair or menstruation yet still fertile" stuff.
“First record case of Alexandria’s genesis was a woman names Alexandria Augustine in 1329”
“The priest had heard of the mutation before and told the parents that nothing was wrong with their daughter.”
ah yes perfect 👌
“According to legend, after a flash of light over Egypt some odd thousand years ago, the people with purple eyes and very fair skin had appeared only to disappear north and were lost till Alexandria showed up.”
LMAO
@@yuy3605 that sounds so fake how didnt they know?? Like a prophecy or sumn
As if the priest wouldn't call it witchcraft and burn her and her parents.
@@gabriel__opazo Right!? It was 1329 ffs, unless they're one of those religious geniuses like Mendel, no priest would ever act like that when seeing a body anomaly in the XIV century.
In my college anthropology class, the professor was talking about eye color and genetics, and some neckbeard "um akshually"'d the professor because she didn't mention purple eyes. The professor looked at him like he had snails coming out of his ears and his justification for bringing it up was, with complete sincerity, Alexandria's Genesis. He implored her to look it up.
I was 17 and even at that age I was embarrassed for him.
Oh my god, I'm burning from second-hand embarrassment now just by imagining it
the "um akshually" got to me lmaooo
Fake diseases aside- there are well known cases of people actually having purple eyes so I am baffled at your professor not going into detail about it once it was brought up.
@@AngelicReverie it’s addressed briefly in this video but actual purple eyes don’t exist; eyes can appear purple in certain lighting because of lack of pigmentation but no one has legitimately purple irises
@@AngelicReverie no one has purple eyes. That’s not a thing. Are you maybe thinking of violet eyes, like Liz Taylor? Because they’re not actually purple (despite the name), they’re just a particular shade of blue. And as the other commenter said, even albinos don’t have pink/purple eyes, they just have light eyes and optical illusions caused by blood vessels/lighting.
Wasnt expecting this totally legit disease to be from a Daria fanfic. Daria is an amazing show.
"Grows stronger each generation." What is stronger? Like it gets more purple? Even less body hair?
I knew a girl in year 8 that thought this was real. She even bought coloured contacts to try to convince everyone she had the disease
She got so mad when no one believed her lmao
Wow, that's just kinda sad. But I hope it at least taught her not to lie for attention.
lol good
well i hope she's doing well now. kids that lie like that for attention generally aren't getting the right kind of attention from their parents at home.
@@moth5560 She got plenty of attention, she was just weird and had Teenage Syndrome. Some people are just odd as kids lol
She was also the girl that hissed at people and would scream "nya" all the time. I found her on Facebook a couple of days ago and I can see that she's a lot better now. Good on her, she was a smart person
@@WobblesandBean She did eventually grow up, but it wasn't her first string of crazy stories. Didn't help that she legitimately thought it was a real condition
"Women with this mutation don't menstruate, but are still fertile."
You don't have menses, which means your endometrium never breaks down, which means it never grows and thickens properly. This means your unfertilized egg cell has _nothing_ to cling to so it can avoid slipping out of the body completely while it waits for sperm, your fertilized zygote has nothing to anchor it in place, and there's nothing that can develop into a _placenta,_ meaning your baby has no means of acquiring nutrients to support the complex, intensive construction efforts within its own body, nor can it even get _oxygen._
But it's _fiiiiiine._ These alleged perma-menopausal superwomen can _toootally_ both get their eggs fertilized _and_ carry their babies to term. Don't worry about it. *LOOK HOW PRETTY!*
God I love comments like these with the science behind them!
Alexandria's Genesis being obviously fake aside, there's a small error here.
Only human and mouse females actually bleed as part of their cycle. Most mammalian females simply reabsorb their uterine linings, they do not menstruate in the way human women do. As such, if a human woman were to not bleed, then with certain biology she could well still be fertile - she would simply be reabsorbing her uterine lining instead of shedding it every month.
So *that* part does have a perfectly valid and real means by which it could theoretically exist. Alexandria's Gensis being obviously fake is more from both the combination of all of what it does and its absolute lack of any real downsides - while genetic conditions can and do exist that can have wide-ranging and seemingly unconnected effects, the majority of effects are practically always negative and by and large, a condition like Alexandria's Genesis would actually be far more likely to cause widespread issues with skin cancer, autoimmune problems (such as the 'powerful' immune system being far more likely to be overactive and thereby more likely to attack the host body), and so forth.
Genetic conditions don't exist in a bubble - change one thing about genetics, and by stars will the effects be wide-ranging, because you've no way of knowing just what-all the body is actually using that bit of genetic code *for*. (Not to mention most obvious genetic conditions are from gene deletions, missense mutations, nonsense mutations, frameshifts, and other miscellany that usually just kill the embryo or cause the person some real problems than anything beneficial.)
What really struck me was that it purportedly gets stronger with each generation. This leads to it likely being at least a repeat expansion (with it probably being more than that, such wide-ranging genetic conditions are rarely just one type of mutation in the DNA string), which is...really, really bad.
@Juniper Jupiter Jr. Thank you for the clarification on how many species have menstrual cycles. I was running off memory, and I very much appreciate the reminder~
And I apparently forgot the term 'estrous' too, whoops.
@@electrowave114 Dogs definitely get periods too, my girl would bleed everywhere.
@@AussieBahstard actually dogs have a hormonal bleed, they do not shed the uterine lining like humans do. So even though dogs bleed, they actually experience estrous.
Love how the dude at 7:14 claims to have it, but his face looks to have hair shadow.
And it seems others who claim to have it also posted pics of them with issues the mutation claims to cause people to not have. Such as too much weight.
The no body hair thing actually sounds like torture
Honestly if Alexandria’s genesis WAS a real thing,there’d probably be a rip-off phantom troupe trying to gouge their eyes out.
Sounds like some hunter x hunter crap XD.
_insert angry kurapika noises_
LMAO
@@lucid_kms
*kurapikaisnowdrowning*
@@yooseul__ inanindescribableemptiness
this 'disease' sounds like something out of a YA dystopian novel
The first thing I thought when I heard this disease was “¿Rose Lalonde?” Haha
It honestly does.
Okay I see that Dirk pfp
@@mfriz5317 BRO I- IWBWHAVSUSH IT WOULD ACTUALLY FUCKING FIT I AM SCREAKING
@@Forlorn_Overseer i see ive summoned the homestucks
i remember seeing this thing online long time ago and even as a kid immediately being like "this was made up by a really insecure person wasnt it" bc it was basically just a disease that reversed every insecurity many little girls would have had at the time
This is canon in Fallout. There is an entire race of people who have purpleish eyes, glowing skin, super-strength, are immune to disease, and can live for over 200 years.
Just the fact it came from a DARIA fanfic. Not like, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, hell even some weird anime I've never heard of.
Just.... Daria.
Daria wouldnt stand for this
I KNOW
Not daria
@sillyparanoia Daria is a Mtv cartoon that aired through the late 90s and early 2000s. It was about a teenage girl and her life in high school. Its a very grounded show, something you wouldn’t expect a fanfic about it would have something so fantastical in it
*trippy guitar music*
LA LA LA LA LA
Fun fact! Some forms of albinism do result in eyes so devoid of pigment that they appear "purple" because of the red of blood! In reality they are just so gray that they can only reflect the color of the blood vessels of the eyes. The downside is that your skin is pale and fragile, white hair, etc other traits of albinism. So yeah, just stick to color contacts kids!
Edit: makeup mommy mentioned this after I commented and I feel silly, lol. Great video!
Yeah, in most cases things that causes changes in the tones of your eyes are associated with other not-so-good conditions. I have bluish/grey tinted scleras due to a painful systemic genetic disease, but I guess it would be cool if it had other benefits or no downsides.
makeup mommy?
@@darthsparkles551 ya! Izzy!
@@squidnipendleton3765 intereesting name but okay
Not only that but those who have albinism usually have vision problems and some of them end up blind. It's not fun to have eyes like that.
I didn't believe the whole “Young forever” “No periods, but still fertile somehow” But I'm ashamed by how long it took for me to stop believing people without albinism could also have naturally purple/Violet eyes
I've been binging your videos over the past couple days. You've been digging all kinds of memories out of the deep recesses of my Zillennial mind.
*The Internet is the real disease here.*
Although _it also can ironically be the cure because of people like Izzy._
Weird indeed.
Kind of like snake poison in some occasions or alcohol
True.
I thought you were talking about my cat Izzy for a second
This comment is fucking perfect
i love the whole "women don't get periods but they can have children and pass it down to their children" because that makes total sense
Actually most mammals don't have periods. They reabsorb their uterine lining if the egg isn't fertilised. So, humans really just got fucked over by nature.
@@ladymacbethofmtsensk Yeah, but humans aren't most mammals. The bodily structure of humans makes it impossible to facilitate. Humans also reabsorb the lining, but cannot reabsorb all of it, so have to shed some of it as a factor of body preportions. If you want to get rid of periods, that would require changing the human shape and preportions. It's not like cramping and shedding extra material predators can track every month is particularly good for survival, so if there were easy mutations out of it, natural selection would have already done so.
Yes, and you don't have to suffer through that messy pregnancy thing. you can just pop out a baby whenever you want.
Also, somehow every man on can find the clit easily. 😂
Only logical answer: they reproduce asexually, you know, like starfishes! Cut out a arm and ta daa you have one more mouth to feed
@@parrot998 Natural selection works more like a sieve which filters out traits which prevent the genes which cause the traits in question from being passed down. If it can survive long enough to be passed down to the next generation it gets to exist. And that in turn is all dependent on the given environment. There's no such thing as "perfect species or genes" because as the non-avian dinosaurs showed us 65 million years ago: sometimes being big and strong can be an obstacle for your survival, when the environment suddenly changes and can no longer support larger life forms.
Basically evolution operates on the principle of "meh, good enough."
So, with that in mind; since humans live in an environment where we are protected by our kin (us being social animals) menstruation likely wasn't that big of an issue even for our ancestors because most predators would likely be chased off or killed if they were attracted to a human's period blood and decided to try their luck.
If we weren't social animals living in tribal/family communities menstruation probably would be an issue, same with how long it takes for us to learn to walk and fend for ourselves as children (alongside with the fact we are able to carry our offspring). It's no big surprise the only known mammals who menstruate are either primates, bats or sengi mice (who are very small and fast and thus able to evade predators much more easily).
Honestly I NEVER even knew this ever existed, let alone actually believing it...
the person who wrote the second “definition” of that disease literally was just a diehard twilight fan
The power you would have had if you wore purple eye contacts during this topic would have destroyed 13 year old me
She is
As a hairy self-conscious preteen I was so incredibly jealous when I first saw that tumblr post in middle school
Same
6:43 there actually is something close to that but it implies damaging an area in the brain.
There's the case of a 22 years old woman who looks like an 8 years old child, she had a cancerous tumor on her head that was successfully extracted, but while growing up her parents noticed a delay in development, puberty and height, when they took her to the doctor and after some tests they realized the tumor had damaged a certain area on her brain that helps development and helps growing up, ending up in her forever trapped in a 8 years old body. Look for the case of Shauna Rae.
So glad the creator is super mature and self aware. I noticed how they specifically mention how, in hindsight, it comes off as racist and sexist, which I noticed almost immediately.
The year is 1329 and somehow the priest knew what genes were. I love it so much
He’s only about, oh, five hundred years off XD
mendel is such a flop
In AG lore the priest knew the obscure history of the people in Egypt with Alexandria and thus assumed she was one of their descendants. Given that apparently the genes manifest always it's weird af that neither of their parents noticed they themselves had it but ok.
"You stay thin, milky white and pretty forever!" there is far too much to unpack.
i just found your channel, you cover all the obscure things that the young 2000’s internet swept under the rug. i love it.
I don’t know what’s funnier, the fact that people believed this or the fact someone took a Daria fanfic as a legit source of information
5:00 the most unrealistic part of this entire video is a priest from 1329 telling parents nothing is wrong with their child
My thoughts exactly, the daughter would've been excecuted or sth
Also, how come a priest have heard about the disease, medieval priests knew shit about the health topic pls 😭😭😭
@@fenciszka LOLL "yeah uh your son has demons in his blood, I prescribe a daily beating to remedy that"
I was actually told that it reduced lifespan, and only benefit was better eyesight.
Which frankly sounded more believable
i was told that it only would give you purple eyes and everything else would be normal
I thought it just gave you purple eyes 😭
Veeery late reply… but i got told it just meant you’d never hit puberty and would, at most, live to 50. That was why there were no menstruation or bodyhair.
I’ve been binging this channel for a while, and just wanna say I really appreciate the work and effort that Izzzy goes through to make sure their makeup and outfits are always themed for the topic at hand.
There are entire wikihows on how to pretend you have it