💖 The Tale of Tiffany 💖
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If you gave 1 million Grey fans 1 million years, there’s no way any of them could guess what the topic of the next Grey Explains video will be
Couldn’t have said it any better
what about a billion years? :>
1 million fans<< 1 Brady Haran
But an infinite number of monkeys could do it.
Well Tbf he did tease the project on the most recent Cortex podcast episode, still a wonderfully bizarre topic though!
Grey got Lost in the Forest of all Knowledge again. This time He discovered the woods of Parish Registers and Familie trees. All because someone made the wordplay of Tiffany epiphany.
Now do it for Karens. I’m pretty sure Homer wrote somewhere “release the Karen” 🤣
Tiffany
Epiphany
Tiffiphany?
You need to work on your grammar and spelling.
But does she sell sea shells by the seashore? I bet she didn’t buy some butter to make the bitter butter better either.
@BigFatWow etiffiny
This weird progression of history for Tiffany has led to the coinage of “The Tiffany Problem”. The phenomena where things which were contemporary in medieval times seem too modern to be believed by audiences, much like a woman named Tiffany in the 1600’s
Fun thing: I was literally reading up on that yesterday. What fun timing!
I remember a post about that going viral a few months back (which I suspect Grey was inspired by). Some other fun examples are that Rome not only had what were basically fast food restaurants — stores where the lower classes could buy cheap, pre-prepared food and eat standing at the counter — but also had athlete sponsor deals, where famous gladiators and chariot racers would be paid to endorse products. They also celebrated birthdays — in a class on Roman history I took in college, we read a translation of a letter from one highborn woman in Roman Britain — presumably an officer’s wife — to another, inviting the latter to her birthday party. It’s one of the Vindolanda Tablets, if you want to look it up; I think the names were Cornelia something or other and something Lepidina.
Yup, he’s talking about that in the director’s commentary! Almost what this video was going to be about. Turns out to mainly be based in Lady Godiva stories though.
@ethreldur I guess I don’t fall for it as a problem.
My favorite I guess not quite example of this is still the graffiti in Pompeii because if you saw it written on a bathroom stall today you wouldn’t bat at an it. We’ve been people the whole time it turns out.
Two “phenomena”, one “phenomenon”
CGP Grey: The man who can monetize going down a Youtube/Internet rabbit hole
Don’t forget the guy who literally puts out a series called “down the rabbit hole”
@Richard S ???
Except this isn’t a internet or YouTube rabbit hole
@Ringo Starrmore of a history rabbithole
The authentic Grey experience: “Well, I have no idea what this is really going to be about, but I know it is going to be interesting”
I thought this would be a video on the Tiffany Problem, where things that seem anachronistic really aren’t and make a piece of media seem unrealistic. Ex: you could write a story set in the middle ages with a character named Tiffany but it wouldn’t seem realistic because it feels anachronistic when it isn’t.
That’s interesting, and it’s pretty closely related to the conclusion Grey came to. Tiffany is, like, totally Medieval.
Exactly what he (Grey) says in his explination video.
I just realized that this channel is carrying the torch of the venerable ‘Connections’ series (hosted and written by James Burke, who is awesome) from years past. Finally, this channel makes sense as a cohesive whole.
[Cracks rickety spine] There was Connections game on CD in the olden times. It was such a great experience. 🙂
I love that the earliest recorded Tiffany is into astrology.
I love the slight derangement in the emphasis of: “IT ALL FITS.”
That should just be Grey’s tagline.
You can hear the red yarn and push pins. 😁
I imagine the second mini explosion in the late 1980s was also because of the pop star Tiffany who was popular in the late 1980s.
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