CGP Grey

Um, whereas if you were just having an AI crap this stuff out for you, and you basically just have like, you know, an agent running in the background monitoring your back catalog of videos, finding anything that dips below some view number, and it just like sharts a new title or thumbnail idea based on a more current meta and j-

Okay, this is gonna be really controversial maybe, um, but have you seen what's going on with CGP Grey?

No.

Um, ooh, I don't...

As far as my understanding goes, that's what's happening to this channel, is that all these titles and thumbnails are being rapidly recycled to try to get them reboosted in algorithms.

Really?

I've, I've heard this, and as I'm scrolling through, someone who's watched a lot of CGP Grey stuff, I don't recognize a lot of these.

I recognize the art style.

There's a really good video and it's old as dirt now, but I do recommend everyone go watch it.

It's by CGP Grey on YouTube.

It's called This Video Will Make You Mad.

And it goes through the whole works on how out of all the different impulses that there are for engagement, anger sits number one.

yeah not grisly ones but like stick figures i have no i'm just pitching this i i

Are you, Steven, are you also thinking of the CGP Grey video?

No.

Okay.

CGP Grey did a live stream a good while ago.

There was 24 hours of death and it was like stick figures, like walking up to a pile being killed and then being thrown into like a pile that grew over, over 24 hours.

Yeah.

I covered foldables for so long without understanding why A4 paper is the shape it is.

I feel like I've been like, I should disclose, I'm not paid by CGP Grey, the YouTuber, I don't know any, but he did a, or they, I don't even know, did a video on the magic of A4 paper, the golden ratio for paper, and I've referenced it in so many videos because it's like, it gave me a real existential crisis.

You fold it in half and it's the same exact aspect ratio.

You keep going and you can go down, down, down,