Demon Core Memes Are My Fault?
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
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Just a few years after the Internet discovered the tale of the deadly Demon Core, the cursed criticality experiment became a meme…with anime girls. Why? Well, it's partially my fault…
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*Thanks for watching.* This is a surreal impact to have, but I'm glad I (partially) had it.
Do you have the stl for the wizard pondering the demon-core?
I Highly recommend Qxir! great channel for fans of this channel
It's pretty hard to find anything or any event that represents recklessness better than the demon core.
@UCXrBQLSFUpvN6AbcnDWMM5g Chernobyl's anatoly dyatlov
Demon Core meme review when?
Imagine if Kyle was a supervillain with the ability to influence the masses... oh wait. Also, the blue light illuminating your face throughout the video is a nice nod to the demon core.
(He has died from excessive radiation exposure)
The best part is that he does not know, and when after discovering he does not want it, however the more he does not want the more powerful his influence grows.
kinda ruining the original plans he had and liked so much.
well, that is my imaginative take on it.
@@FalloutProto thats what he wants you to believe
I blame Kevin. I always blame Kevin. You should too. Shame on you, Kevin.
It's really interesting how colored lighting makes as much of a difference as it does to the emotional effect of a video. My husband (an engineer who also does some corporate videography) calls it his science light.
I think part of the reason why that specific part of the story became so meme-able is because having the only thing stopping nuclear material from going critical is a _screwdriver_ is beyond reckless. That sounds like something only a fictional idiot would do, but reality can (and often is) be stranger than fiction.
Stopping it go critical... until it went critical!
But yeah, "SCREWDRIVER!!??" is pretty much anyone's reaction I think.
The Homer Simpson of the 1940s. Except without the luck.
The best part his Slotin was told _multiple_ times "hey bro don't do the screwdriver thing"
@James Black Oh, fine, be judgemental...and I suppose YOU'VE never poured spilled Plutonium solution down a floor drain and then got fried when it went critical in the S-Bend? Not even ONCE?
Really looks like a comedy routine
@@ranchoth any zelda for that??
"Koakuma" is the Japanese word for "small demon" where "ko" = "small" and "akuma" = "demon"; it is also noted that the "Koa" in "Koakuma" is also the same "koa" when "Demon Core" is transliterated into Japanese. So it's not about her personality, just a joke on her name as a literal "Demon Koa/Core".
Oh wait, you're right "koa"="core" "akuma"="devil/demon". So it's quite literally Core Demon or Demon Core
Huh.... wait... that makes so much sense!
AHAHAHAHHA
japan, where puns arent considered dad jokes
Touhou?
7:50 koakuma demon core image is literally a pun. her name is literally means "small demon", and the fans nicknamed her "koa" which is how you spell "core" in japanese.
which one was koakuma?
koakuma fans when they approach a nuclear device going supercritical and getting lethal doses of radiation
@@terigonUSAS12 *okuu fans
Glad to have played a part ;)
Excellent video!
Love your videos!
Love how he says “didn’t make a dent” while showing your vid with 1.2 million views. Your video was actually how I initially found out about the demon core soooo 🤷
@@griffins750 Love how Qxir doesn't dance around singing "♪ I am the lord of the memes said me! ♫" just because he made a video about it. BEFORE the memes were created.
I was genuinely proud to see you and Plainly Difficult catch a credit for your work on the subject! You are a phenomenal creator, man. Keep it up!
you deserved more credit man, you put demon core onto youtube
What I find so endearing is the fact Louis Slotin, one of the most brilliant scientist in the field, literally watched Daghlian die and learned nothing from it. He would continue haphazardly doing the same experiments until he suffered the exact same fate. It sounds like something out of an ancient cautionary tale like King Midas. It's hard to believe someone so brilliant could act so cartoonishly foolish in anything other than children's tales.
Just goes to show that having one kind of intelligence doesn't mean one won't be incredibly stupid in some other way or make some grand mistake even in our area of expertise.
Classic Wizard build; high Intelligence, low Wisdom.
You'd be shocked how often intelligence and wisdom do *not* intersect. It's the reason they're two different stats in D&D.
@@OniGanon Typical glass cannon build...
I wonder if in a thousand years a barely recognizable version of the Demon Core story will be told as a cautionary tale.
Big up the jabbing of critical assemblies with a flat head screwdriver crew
Figured I'd see you on this one mate
I'm sure you are just as shocked as I am that he's taking credit for it
Wasn't expecting a plainly difficult reference in this video, but nevertheless it's cool to see you here! Keep making the awesome, apparently influential videos, mate!
You didn't just create a meme.
no...
you did something much more impressive.
something much more elusive.
You reached into the Japanese corner of the internet.
I've always wondered what hilarity lies on Japanese internet, they based af lmao
@@dayshon124 you will not believe it.
No, really, their "internet culture" is really peculiar.
@@r.daneel.90 lol what is "normal" and what is "peculiar" ? Remember, no one is normal. Everyone is weird.
@@r.daneel.90 did'nt they make a meme out of the kid who stabbed her friend to death with a boxcutter?
@@dayshon124 I mean, Japan's pretty infamous for how unique and insular its culture is.
The wizard pondering his demon core got such a laugh out of me :') Knowing that the demon core is still out there is not the plot twist I needed for 2022 KYLE PLEASE!
Kyle: "i have a 3d printer and 3d printed memes"
Still Kyle: *confused screaming*
One meme fresh out of the printer
Which video is it
I’ve heard it described that comedy is a combination of “cosmic absurdity” with good timing.
In the Demon Core memes, I see a bit of something else, too. Besides the absurdity of staving off nuclear death with a screwdriver, besides what could be seen as the ultimate contradiction in seeing some of the smartest people in history, nuclear scientists, performing the nuclear equivalent to “hold my beer…”
There’s that dramatic irony. We KNOW about the accident these characters are ignorant of. We learned about it and just how reckless it was to tickle the dragon’s tail. Now seeing chaotic, naive and reckless characters in the same absurd circumstance gives a dark chortle or two.
As Einstein once said: “The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.”
Now with this being said, pass me that screwdriver. I wanna show you something.
That's a good Einstein quote.
I will add it to my list of "Things Einstein may have actually said but are really just fun to attribute to Einstein".
@@cameron7374 Einstein does seem to be the one that brings most of the quotes huh?
Comedy = Tragedy + Time
It’s also that comedy is a coping mechanism. Such a deeply sad, dark tale that didn’t even need to happen is pretty hard to swallow. It’s a lot easier when you make light of it with anime girls and memes
@@DraconisV2 Time - Comedy = -Tragedy
Like they always say: “tragedy + time = comedy” In this essay I will…
when will AIDS be funny ?
@@woltews It always has been.
@ve5vv
When we will create a working vaccine and eradicate it
@@woltews hahhaaha AIDS Lmao
Probably not about the Khmer Rouge. At least, not yet. Maybe in 30 years.
You literally left your mark on history by making people learn about nuclear physics.
That's freaking awesome man.
I think another aspect of these memes is that it plays into the subgenre of "Images taken moments before disaster". These also often have an element of "if you know, you know", and I would wager that for these, obscure is better.
This is a good example of how memes can be used to spread genuinely important information. More people than ever now know about the Demon Core, and the stories behind it. That's a net positive.
How is that important information?
@@germen343 because someone might have a large sphere of plutonium encased in beryllium that someone might be adjusting with a slotted screwdriver, and these memes might help educate then
@@germen343 damn, imagine learning history.
but in a really shitty way because now everyone thinks light hearted things about an unnecessary tragedy
@@germen343 how is it not? in the least, it's a great piece of historical information that enriches our understanding of people and events past, which, by itself, is already valuable if merely for adding another brick to our wall of understanding of our world. At best, it's a gripping cautionary tale of recklesness, ego and overconfidence, with, depending on the storyteller, a dash of unveiling the mysticism around a very misunderstood part of science.
It's great.
"Isn't that kind of, morbid?"
A little, but it's fitting because the most iconic thing about the accident is when, after putting the screwdriver back in to stabilize the core, Slotin turned to his team and said "gentlemen, it's morbid time"
Amazing 🤣🤣🤣
One of the moments of all time
Element Morbtonium is highly radioactive and dangerous!
No.
I didn't see that coming 🤣
Never thought I'd hear Kyle talk about memes and anime girls.
Also that "Pondering my orb" is like 3 levels of memes and it's fucking amazing.
*Kyle quickly hides his 40000000GBs of hentai under a random orb that was on his desk*
"Ah, hey guys. How are you........does something feel strange in here to you?"
Hearing different people pronounce ‘Touhou’ brings me a feeling that cannot be described by the English language.
@@corneliusmcmuffin3256 yeah, houseki no kuni pronounce as huseki no kuni by the vid per page in its own wiki is something
also i dont know why am i not suprised that it was touhou started the memes XD
"Anime girls" SOME OF THEM ARE NOT ANIME. LIKE TOUHOU GIRLS😕
When the demon core said "It's critical time" and went super critical on those brave physicist, I couldn't stop crying.
"Its demon memein' time."
Truly one of the supercritical moments of all time.
It’s morbid time
never expected to see koakuma on a kyle hill video as a thumbnail
Never expected Aunn of all 2hus to kickstart a meme too
I wonder if we try to make some genuinely terrifying things into cute things so they're a little easier to think about.
Like a Cthulhu plushie.
Already a thing
Or blahaj
Where's my demon core plushie.
@@Niskirin It's over there, behind that wall of lead. Free for the taking!
*hugs Cthulhu body pillow*
The fact that Touhou memes, of all things, was where the first meme art of the Demon Core is certainly not where I expected this to begin.
The pun really works. Koakuma (little demon) and demon's core, koa pronounced same with core, really punny in Japan's meme.
Unexpected, but not surprising
I am recommended Kyle's original take but haven't seen that yet.
Now that I saw "Koa" in this thumbnail, I shall follow "the DNA of the soul".
TOUHOU HIJACK LOL
It's always touhou
I'm surprised the first meme was a Touhou character, but even more surprised they didn't use Utsuho first. She not only fits the bill of being cute and dimwitted, but also incorporates a nuclear energy theme down to the elephant's foot being an element of her design
This fact puzzles me as well, her entire thing is nuclear fission / fusion!
My guess is Utsuho's not susceptible enough to the radiation, given she's basically an anthropomorphized nuclear reactor. Koakuma, if going by fan lore, is an assistant to a researcher of sorts, so a bit closer to the original situation.
Despite being dumb, Okuu is a savant in terms of nuclear knowledge, so she would know how to properly handle the demon core.
Who the fuck cares?
It should be cirno because she is the strongest 2hu and has the brain the size of a peanut
I noticed in your discussion of the 'anime girl' memes, you consistently included Osaka (from Azumanga Daioh) in that line up, but did not mention her or acknowledge her presence. Intentional or not, it made me laugh out loud--it's actually perfect for the character!
Sata andagi~
I see Koakuma working on the demon core, looks like Pachi doesn’t wanna touch it ether.
I imagine Kyle in 40 years with his family being all like "back in my days i made a meme trend based of off a nuclear disaster"
do you remember the phrase "never nuke a contry twice" ?
"Back in my day, i became the creator of a meme!"
Touhou playing a subtle yet massive role in shaping internet culture once again.
Its crazy to think that without this one series made by some drunk guy from japan the internet would be a completely different place than it is today.
Okuu would be proud.
okuu presses random buttons in cirnobyl nuclear reactor number in 1986
2hu hijack too strong
2hu hijack lol moment
Marisa stole the precious plutonium
The movie “Fat Man and Little Boy” was released in 1989 and had the scene where the accident with the demon core occurs. It was very dramatic and included the physical effects af the massive radiation dose and death of one of the physicists. It’s a powerful movie. Obviously it’s about the Manhattan Project and the first detonation.
I have not heard of that movie. I will go find it.
I think I watched that movie in HS chemistry class, back in the early 2000s, I remember the scene where they were messing with the "demon core" although we didn't know it was called that back then, or at least I don't think we did, unless our teacher explained it, but I just don't remember.
@@kc8bdr watched it a few months ago, will totally recommend. grab urself some snacks and a screwdriver, this movie is ideal for a saturday night
@@prodigypenn I know I saw it in my AP chemistry class, I didn't realize that it wasnt rather common knowledge. My dad also works in the field so I've heard about it as a kid a few times.
@@kc8bdr another good one is Trinity and Beyond: the Atomic Bomb Movie. It’s less informative but very cinematic, basically mushroom cloud porn with an impressive musical score.
Disrespectful?
Dude has a sphere of plutonium, wants to know just how close he can put a reflector to it before it goes critical, knows full well what will happen to anyone standing close to it if it does go critical, and decides the best way to perform these experiments is by standing right next to the thing and using a screwdriver to prop it up?
Nah, this guy deserves every bit of mockery he gets. He is the perfect example of what not to do.
We used the blood of those two men to write the rules on how to handle nuclear material.
The fact that the two demon core prints he shows off are the two I have had in my print queue for months is deeply satisfying.
Hearing an analysis of anime demon core memes by the person who started them in such a serious tone is such a surreal experience
IKR? I had to check the release date several times to make sure this wasn't an April 1st gag.
And his video will only make the meme go critical even longer
*Until it BLEW UP, like Chernobyl*
Yes they are your fault, and we love you for it
*AND we love you for it
A good achievement. I’d take one on my grave stone, if I could.
You've had a truly huge impact on the internet! Congratulations.
I wonder how much Japan’s history with the horrific power of nuclear technology, both with WW2 and the more recent Fukushima disaster influenced their role in the meme
Listening to Kyle talk about anime with his super serious voice is just absolutely perfect
Congratulations, Kyle. You've now become part of the DNA of the soul.
I understood thst reference
@@brstew_ So did 95% of other people
@@saintariser8507 I didn’t
@@chidorirasenganz I understood and I didn't even play Mario.
@@chidorirasenganz MGR : revengeance. One of the bosses (Monsoon) unironically call memes the DNA of the soul. Even if you're not into hack and slash games I highly recommend the bosses music soundtracks
The name probably also playes a role: it's surprisingly stricking and powerful to talk about a highly dangerous, radioactive object known only as "the Demon Core".
Before the accidents it was called "rufus".
For me it was always about Touhou's weird relationship with Nuclear stuff, there's literally a character that uses Nuclear Energy and wears the Elephant's Foot
Which anime is that? I watch a decent amount of anime and, though I recognize the memes, I don't know any of these shows (except for Girlz und Panzer, which I still haven't watched)
@@jeffbenton6183 touhou project is a video game series
@@0Phantomgmbr0 Thanks for pointing out my ignorance. I did just look that up right before I hit reply (I thought I hit cancel, lol). I was hoping to become more familiar with each of the referenced memes, 'cause I don't recognize any of those characters, much less their franchises.
Nuclear bird
Who will win?
A nuclear physicist with decades of experience
OR
A spicy metal jawbreaker
There's also the fact that the term "Demon Core" makes anime enthusiasts and gamers think about cores/crystals that monsters usually dropped when killed, including the Demon King.
Kyle Hill: "Demon Core Memes Are My Fault?"
Everyone: "Yes."
Kyle Hill: "Is it ironic that there's a parallel to runaway criticality?"
Everyone: *removes screwdriver*
The fact that these memes have caused Kyle to see Touhou completes my life
The full circle
just wait until kyle finds out about okuu
man even went into detail to aunn and koakuma's personality traits
Yeah its something i never expected would ever happen lmao
TOUHOU HIJACK BABYYYY
@@ararararanada Let me fix it, "Just wait until kyle cosplays as Okuu"
The Demon Core is the Ultimate Darwin Award. They all knew exactly how dangerous it was and it's insane they let it happen anyway. Drives me nuts every time I think of it.
They were still very smart men and humans who are more useless to society continue to survive. So so much for Darwin.
@@TheEgg185 yeah thats so true
@@TheEgg185 hahaha he said luck was involved. And being smart or stupid both have bonuses to survival.
If you're smart you do dumb things like play with a demon core.
Soooo. Hes actually still exactly on point.
@@TheEgg185 idk bro every person would have thought "oh the spacers are there so it doesnt go critical" or "if my device tells me not to add another brick or i die i wont do jt" unless you are somehow mentally impaired but then you shouldnt be around the demon core anywa
@@somedude1771 I'd rather have more men like this in the world than Kardashians, AOCs, Joe Bidens, and Nancy Pelosis.
When I started noticing all the demon core memes on Reddit I wanted to say something about it being your fault but I didn't want everyone to think that I was insane
I think if anyone deserves to have a 3D printed version of the demon core, or a model of an elderly wizard contemplating one, it would probably be someone who knows just how dangerous the real one was, and the reasons why. In fact, I think it's a perfectly reasonable memento of-- waaaaittt!
Memento? Meme-ento? Wow, that word just got a whole new meaning for me!
Anyway, it's a memento of both your research and your role in sharing it in such an effective manner. You've absolutely earned it!
It is interesting to see how the story of the Demon Core has resonated on the public so critically. It seemed to have slipped into this zone of a modern cautionary tale.
Like the Titanic but for nerds
nice one
yeah i'll make sure to remember this tale next time i have access to a nuclear core
Ahhh, I see what you did there.
it's as if society's collective subconscious decided to give the myth of Icarus a new spin
with cowboys, scientists and and plutonium
Man, didn't expect to learn about demon core memes in the newest Thor movie.
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
Wait what?
@@hayond656 kyle hill is compared to Thor sometimes, this youtube vid is jokingly referred to as “the next thor movie”
Half-life histories is amazing and I love to see the impact that scientific communication has on the internet
Qxir is honestly an extremely entertaining channel and im glad kyle mentioned him :)
The great killer: Rufus.
my favorite video is where he exposed how based that dude who flew into the IRS building was..
There's also the part where some of the anime girls messing with the Demon Core are literal demons.
It's official. Kyle is a memelord.
@@WhiteWingedDarknessX so you're telling me Kyle is a Vtuber?
@@Alberto_Lince_Gan They're not telling you that. They're also not NOT telling you that.
thats the worst title to behold
A Memelord?
You can't end a video like that. Don't dangle forbidden knowledge and expect the internet not to want answers. This is how people end up stumbling into heavily guarded secret labs.
You would think that instead of wanting to storm Area 51 to see the aliens, the Internet would want to know the location of the Demon Core to get as far away as possible.
It's actually public knowledge that the core was subsequently melted down and distributed in smaller and safer pieces to other tests.
@@dustinbrueggemann1875 The way he ended the video would imply that the "public knowledge" may well have been a cover up. That the truth is in fact NOT "public knowledge."
Kyle: "the demon core is probably the best known criticallity story"
Chernobyl: "am I a joke to you?"
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Seriously??
Black Mesa: What about me?
Criticallity, not meltdown! :D
@@jldldr3933 doesn't it have to go critical in order to meltdown though?
@@thetruetri5106 it would be a criticality story if it didn't meltdown, but it did far more than just go critical
Okay, but the wizard pondering his orb but the orb is the demon core is actually hilarious
The first time I became aware of the Demon Core story was in the late 90's watching the movie "Fat Man and Little Boy" with John Cusack in the role of Louis Slotin. The story was not 100% historically accurate, shifting the timeline, taking some dramatic license, and with no mention of Harry Daghlian, but even so it grabbed my attention and simultaneously horrified me and captivated me. I don't think I heard the term Demon Core until sometime after 2010 though, and it's been interesting to watch the development of the story coming further and further into our cultural conscience.
Kyle talking about touhou characters is something I never knew I needed
I didn’t realize this story was considered obscure… I remember reading about it many years ago, and seen a documentary about nuclear energy and weapons that mentioned it as well back in the day.
I hadn’t really given it much more additional thought until these series of videos though.
Same, didn't Feynman talk about it in one of his books?
Yeah, me neither. It was included (albeit bastardized to smoosh the two incidents together) in a pretty popular 80's movie about the Manhattan Project (Fat Man and Little Boy), which is where I learned about it originally.
Yeah, I think he's overselling how obscure it is. Heard about it many years ago now on some TLC, Discovery, or History show. (Y'know back those channels showed things related to their name.)
Same. But it's not like everyone is college-educated in chemistry/physics or interacts with those who care about those things. Even fewer pay attention to the history of said subjects, and fewer still remember them.
I am skeptical but willing to accept I'm a member of a lame group of people who latched on to nuclear accidents like I-131 in the thyroid.
Yeah, from the general populations perspective it is probably obscure.
Contrary to how it seems, most people on the internet are not the type to get into nerdy subjects such as this.
"The explorers checked their meme detectors, they both indicated a high level of background memiation. Thinking their detectors were broken, they went back to get a fresh pair"
"The amount of memiation is much higher than previously reported. It is not 3.6 kilohits per hour ... it is 1500."
@@HBHaga 3.6 mementgen... Not great, but not terrible.
@@HBHaga You DIDN'T see memes on the ground. You didn't. You DIDN'T. Because they're NOT THERE.
Explorers? You mean Stalkers, right?
@@Ixaglet YOU’RE WRONG! YOU DID NOT SEE THE MEME CORE BECAUSE A MEME REACTOR DOES NOT EXPLODE! This man is hysterical, take him to the clinic
A wizard pondering his demon core is joining my list of "future DnD villains i need to make".
Also you killed me with the dense joke.
The "I love science" one kind of gets to me, because of the context... it's important to realize that sometimes science doesn't love you back.
Or that science doesn't care.
I think the Demon Core's resemblance to a covered rice bowl may play into the Japanese portion of the meme. It looks relatively normal at first, like they're just going to eat some rice, but they're doing something incredibly dangerous.
The one with Koakuma is supposed to be a hotpot lol. It has a disclaimer that says "*this is just a cooking scene".
You may well be on to something. All of the memes appear to show Slotin's experiment using half-spheres of beryllium rather than Daghlian's experiment using tungsten-carbide bricks. And to mess with the core using something as tenuous as a small screwdriver is somehow more disturbing than just stacking bricks.
@@aetranm: Well, technically, weren't the two OG Demon Core tests also just a couple of cooking scenes?
@@sdfkjgh wow, that's really dark...
but is it "too" dark? Maybe we'll find out.
@@argentandroid5732: Nah. I heard that the flash of light was bright enough to see through one's eyelids.
Interestingly, my first exposure to The Demon Core as a concept was the 2012 Discovery Science show Dark Matters: Twisted But True, narrated by John Noble. I remember watching the show fairly religiously at the time, as Noble brought a very... sophisticated air to the various matters discussed that I would later compare to our own Mr. Kyle Hill (favorably) when his video released. I've always been a sucker for stuff like that, and the show drew me in from it's writing and presentation.
I recommend it.
Thank you! I was trying to remember the name of the show. S2 E4.
I made a report about it in High School, for my Physics Class... which was in 1993... Having somehow stumbled across it while researching something else nuclear-physics related...
BUT Noble, and "Dark Matters" was a favorite show, and my second foray into the "Demon Core" story... Still love to hear or read a new presentation about it... among the many "criticality incidents" and reports from the day... and there were an alarmingly high number of those to be honest... ;o)
@@MikeBucceroni same here! I couldn’t remember the name of the show either.
Kyle: "So did I cause these memes?" *shows off an absolutely amazing wizard figurine pondering his demon core* "I wonder..."
I think you were the spark. The memes had everything to begin thriving, all it took was someone to popularize it once again.
As someone who had an emote made ages ago combining the "Pondering my orb" meme with the Demon core and my artist friend asking A LOT of questions about nuclear physics afterward, this is definitely a top tier meme.
The Demon Core is such a terrifying concept in what it physically is, what it represents and what it did that it's genuinely difficult for most people to comprehend. As with other difficult and terrifying concepts, it's far easier to make it "cute" or "funny" (or both) to help soften the concept and make it more accessible to more people.
I think it’s also the irony of having something cute with something that is the opposite that makes it funny.
@@corneliusmcmuffin3256 "Gap Moe"
@@tyler89557 also the duality of thing meme
they're cute and funny
so basically cunny demon core
@@Pennycilin3 That's... not what cunny means.
The blue light in the pondering my orb meme really hits differently when the orb is the core and a screwdriver is involved.
Pondering my Core
Someone needs to make that
@@Dunkopf Kyle showed a 3D representation of the wizard pondering the core modification of the wizard pondering an orb meme. The blue light is pretty standard in the original orb IIRC, it fitting with Cherenkov radiation struck me as a happy accident.
hearing him talk about touhou characters feels like a dad trying desperately to relate to his weeb kid. also i am so sorry but having you relate the personalities of the girls with that of the scientists feels dangerously close to calling the demon core dudes moe and i cannot handle that
Or perhaps desperately trying to cover up his truly deep understanding to all the out of touch dads watching😋
8:45 Never thought of listening this frase in my life
wait.. March 2009 is when I learned about it. your telling me i knew of this before you?! HOLY CRAP! - I'm genuinely amazed by that. Thank you random creepypasta that originally got me interested in learning more about the actual events. LOL
Kyle, while this may be so, you have started something great. You are tickling the tail of the Memon Core.
(The edit was to make the pun better)
The ability to alter the current meme scene is a dangerous power to have, but honestly, I wouldn't trust anyone else with this kind of power but you Kyle, so this is perfectly acceptable.
i feel having the demon core replica is like an homage to great minds, we made the replicas to inspire and respect, not to demean and ridicule
If I remember correctly the "oldest meme" on demon core was not the one shown in the video, but from a instance of different meme called 現場猫 and it was before the year was 2018. I remember reference to the core had noticeably increased in Japanese internet after that.
Earliest instance of that image I could find was from Oct 9, 2017 but I suspect that it had been around prior to that.
I cannot let you escape Squidward I am adding another demon core to your confinement until you calm down.
8:55 A part of his soul left the body with that sigh
The demon core represents nature's mystery and humanity's reckless mastery over it, I think. Holding the power of nuclear fission in your hands only to be playing with it by the use of a screwdriver is so on point "human".
Doc Oct: the power of the sun in the palm of my hand.
My first time learning about the demon core was seeing the 1989 film “Fat Man and Little Boy”. John Cusack played the part of a fictional physicist who met his end experimenting on it. I really appreciate the original video you did on it and the memes are not your fault. Or maybe they are. But that’s a good thing. The public needs to know about demon cores how ever they can find out about them. Meme or not, screwdriver safety is no joke when dealing with plutonium.
The Demon Core story is that kind of story that sounds too stupid to be real, like it was done that way for a cartoon script.
Like "Oh yeah I cracked open the warp core with a crowbar and used it to prop it open while I was doing maintenance on it."
I love how Kyle just takes a non-serious topic about a serious topic he once talked about and then makes it serious again! I wish more creators did that, just looking at internet jokes with a more studious view point.
The idea of a Wizard pondering the Demon Core making me laugh, shows that the meme about it has yet to cease it's astounding rise in popularity.
"Three bombs were assembled to be dropped on Japan at the end of the second World War. The first killed 140,000 people at Hiroshima. The second killed 80,000 people at Nagasaki. The third? It killed two incautious scientists working at Los Alamos. And it's that one that earned the nickname 'The Demon Core.'"
-Thoughty2
Kyle is too powerful, we can no longer stop his supervillain plan. As we all know, he who controls the memes controls the world.
never would've thought i would hear the words "rosehip from girls und panzer" out of kyle hills mouth but i did
4:02 Plainly Difficult is a highly underrated channel. I would definitely reccomend a look if you like brief breakdowns of disasters/science experiments.
As a fan of science/educational youtube and a Touhou fan, I was shocked to find the first Demon Core meme was centered off a Touhou character. More than that, though, I was surprised that the Touhou character chosen was Aunn Komano (who, according to Touhou lore, has no connection to anything remotely nuclear/radioactive) and not Utsuho Reiuji (a character who consumed Yatagarasu, the sun crow, and literally has the powers of nuclear fusion, but is very naïve to the powers/dangers that grants her) or Kanako Yasaka (the character who tricked Utsuho into eating Yatagarasu and then it backfiring and quickly spiraling out of her control, which is far closer to the original "flying too close to the sun/playing with fire" story of the demon''s core).
as a fan of science/educational youtube and a touhou fan, i was shocked to find that kyle hill put koakuma in his video thumbnail
Really glad Aunn of all Touhou gain significance in meme history
Then again you'll be surprised how Touhou can sneakily insert themselves into anything, even the unpopular characters
As a friend of a touhou player/fan and having seen a lot of disconcerting demon core memes since I don't know when because of my friend, this was neat.
"Memes. The DNA of the soul." I myself believe that it is a good thing. More and more people are getting educated, at least, i hope so.
More like "Memes the downfall of society". Memes put forward a point in a smartass, "argue with THAT!" way. They claim to be implicitly true, or else obvious. The mountain of assumptions, exceptions, and a very specific way of looking at things, are not shown. You can only fit 10 words in a meme before it becomes so much of an essay you can't see the cute anime girl behind it.
I propose that a person "educated" by memes is stupider and wronger than a person with no education at all. There are people who believe all sorts of crazy bullshit, that were taken there by memes, and reinforced by them.
@@greenaum FYI, that quote was using the original meaning of "meme" as introduced in The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.
Pretty sure that quote was used for humorous effect, too.
Also, the downfall of society are social media platforms with data-driven recommendation engines engineered to maximize engagement.
The things you perceive as the problem are just the inevitable consequences of those systems.
@@greenaum they are our culture, our religion, our everything.
@James Black No really, I was here. I watched it happen. I've been on the Internet since the mid-90s when it was actually good. No idiot public, no megacorps, not much chance of making any money. It was bliss!
The last few years, mass Internet adoption, and brand new opportunities for evil companies to prey on stupidity, is a new thing. Society has changed. That's pretty widely agreed on. That it's got stupider, isn't particularly controversial either.
Back in the day, we laughed at Nigerian princes (yes even back then). Nowadays people fucking marry them.
Me too.
That's why, whenever I see someone reference the Demon Core on Reddit, and someone asks what this is, I send them a link to Kyle's Demon Core video.
Comedy is tragedy remembered. I think that's a great factor for how the Demon Core is remembered, these days, and why it is such a strong piece of memetic culture.
To quote GlaDOS: "Comedy = Tragedy + Time"
Odd, I've always though the Idaho Falls testing station curse was more interesting, not only did the Army melt down their SL-1 reactor there, but the Air Force also melted down their HTRE No 3 reactor jet engine there as well.
Comedy is a great way for people to remember things. Important sounding information gets lost but jokes will always be remembered and passed on. We revived an ancient Babylonian bar joke of all things.
I'd say you did well as a science educator.
The Wizard pondering his demon orb actually got me that was hilarious
The memery about the Demon Core might also come from the same place as sailors retelling only the 'horror stories" where something went wrong. That being as a "remember that, let's not do that again"
The thing is, I heard about the Demon Core LONG before I started watching Kyle
I hadn’t thought about how meme-worthy it is, though 😂
In order to be "meme-worthy," those seeing the meme must understand the reference. I'd bet that when you first heard about the Demon Core, it wasn't yet meme-worthy.
@@laurendoe168 just like the elephant foot which is a relitivly mainstream meme nowadays took a long time to get their. The elephant foot meme is a vary old meme to the point i remember seeing it around when rage comics were still a thing but it wasnt till the charnoble miniseries did it truly pop off.
Nowadays on meme sites or places that alow you to comment with gifs or pics if someone talks about a bet, doing something stupid or dangerous theirs a good chance someone’s posting the elephant foot as a comment
@@laurendoe168 no, I think there’s a bit more that goes into being meme-worthy than that, like how well it can be made into a joke or how appropriate referencing it can be.
We’re you on one of those earlier spikes in interest from the analytics? Or just a pre-RUclips nuke nerd?
@@KainaX122 I can agree with that... but if people don't get what you're talking about, it doesn't matter how well it can be made into a joke or how appropriate it is.
I still cannot believe Kyle put Koakuma in his thumbnail
I found out about the demoncore from a Stargate-SG1 episode called "Meridian", and then also a movie I forgot the name of that was made in the 80's and was a partially fictionalized drama of The Manhattan Project. And it contained some demoncore fiction, as a respectful drama element.
Then a few years later I saw your excellently made videos about the DemonCore, Cherynoble, The scientist who stuck his head in the particle accellerator and a few other nuclear science style video essays.
Very interesting and tragic ideas. Specifically, that episode of SG1 still hits me really hard if I think about it. Humor seems like a very rational response for such a hidden existential danger that also includes one of worst and tragic ways to die.
It only took one person to create a meme and look where it got us now.
Good work.
Another part that played a role in the demon core's popularity is the song マーシャル・マキシマイザー (Marshall Maximizer) released in August 2021 which is a song about the demon core. It gained popularity quickly, especially in the Japanese MAD community, though now it is a popular song for the international MAD community too.
This has lead to countless videos being created in parody of the song about the demon core.
Koakuma messing with the Demon Core is just a pun. “Core” in japanese sounds similar to “Koa”. “Koakuma” means “Little Devil”. That is all. It has nothing to do with her personality.
Very interesting, thank you. Jim Mahaffey in his book 'Atomic Accidents' (2014) describes the Daghlian and Slotin accidents in detail and goes on to say: "The Crossroads tests went on as planned, with the Able shot using the bomb core that had killed two scientists. ... The yield was 23 kilotons".
Nice to see QXIR and Plainly Difficult getting some exposure.
As I mentioned in my comment to your analogous twitter post the first time I unknowingly saw a reference was when I was watching Stargate SG-1 and Dr Daniel Jackson knocked some naquadria off of an experiment in a similar way. I might have looked up the episode and came across it there but I feel that I saw it elsewhere between that of QXIR's video in 2017 and the SG-1 episode in 2011 (when I saw it, not when it aired). I'll get back to you on that.