How Weird Is My Audience? I Polled 15,408 People To Find Out
I asked my audience six questions: some sensible, some ridiculous. I compared their results to the public. And the results were... interesting. • Graphics by William Marler: wmad.co.uk and his Lungs Podcast: lungspodcast.co.uk
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I think the reason for the results of the "how weird are you" question is that YOU, Tom are a solid 5 on that scale. We watch your videos, we sympathise with the ways you think and behave so we must be ona similar wavelength here
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my guess for why tom's audience rates it's wierdness at five is because we are ussually well aquanited with the internet, where we find weird interests, but we see more weird interests that we don't have,
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I don't watch Tom Scott to see random people, I watch Tom Scott see Tom Scott.
Ayyy 1 space gang
5:04 I didnt even know that there were people who would even think to use 2 spaces. I dont understand why you would either
i said henry •-•
Let's create a mist challange.
i would have picked 5 on the scale too :| i guess it's true
Why would anyone use two spaces?
Animator at the end having a bit of fun
It feels weird having always been two-space despite being terminally online for at this point literally more than half my life. It's definitely reflex, but I also think it looks magnitudes better in longer-form text, which is where my typing leans anyway. Just one of those things, I guess. 25-34 group, too.
this is a bit outdatEd bEcausE EveryonE is making an 📧 with youtubE polls
The owl is clearly called Horace.
this owl is clearly an edric
8:26 You plotted a middle finger thanks
Wait people can make themselves smell things the same way we can imagine a picture in our heads? I smell something and am bombard with any memories or experiences connected to that smell, but the other way around doesn't produce the smell. I can't force myself to smell a fart that isn't there.
I've heard somewhere that smart people like cats more soooo I'm gonna leave that here 😉
I would have put very normal. I think I'm interesting enough, I have plenty of random knowledge and I'm fairly personable, but I don't consider anything about me 'weird'
When I saw that owl I immediately thought that's Henry. Wierd. The algorithm has us, the audience, down to a T.
What stuck me actually weird is the fact that you didn’t list Hedwig as definietly female name. My guess would be that’s the result of lack of articles in English, animals are by default addressed in neuter (it). I don’t think any Polish or German HP viewer would ever consider Hedwing to be anything else but female, despite her sex was never addressed in the books
We all know that the best thing on the World is the Walter-Dog aka Nelson
I can’t accept these findings as legitimate. Owl McOwlface wasn’t in the top 3 of owl names from Twitter results.
Wow. Does yt do that?
that owl totally does look like a henry
1:42 I suspect it is an introvert thing. Or possibly an indoorsy person thing. (They tend to go hand in hand, from what I've heard.)
I think Athena was because there's a literal genus of small owls called Athene, not _directly_ because of the general association of Athene with owls. IOW, the respondents wouldn't have said Athena to a picture of a big owl.
i love the very specific names for the owl
I got to the answer for question 1 and I’m already going to peace out. I don’t want to be associated with *those* people.
I so glad Scruffy was in the top 20 for the owl because that was my immediate reaction to seeing it’s scruffy little face
So when they teach typing in school do they say one or two spaces
tbh i use 2 spaces so that it doesnt look like 1 sentence.
if you think you're weird you're normal, I see.
I love how you can be less weird than average, because weirdness is based on what is the average and normal
One space is definitely correct. Two spaces is a relic from fixed with type (think typewriters) where it made the space between sentences clearer. All modern typefaces on all modern systems correctly spaces both letters and space after punctuation, and using multiple spaces can mess up the result. Source: Am graphic designer.
Om phone i always hit Space twice because it aromatily creates a . And 1 space
I must say, If I send my vote in a survey and see what the result is, and its possible to change my answer afterwards.... I almost always change my vote to the most popular one.
Dude that owl should be called: Flappy mc Flappyface...
Until seeing this video I have never heard of a single person putting two spaces after a full stop or period
not Owlie McOwlface?
did you mean imagine a smell or *remember* a smell?
I also wanted to call that owl Henry. Wtf makes that owl look like a Henry? I'm genuinely intrigued.
Why did everybody want to name him Henry!? I said the same thing, taking the survey!
Is it from something? Its just suitable.
You should've asked the UK. The US in general isn't smart enough to be compared with your audience. (Seriously, ever seen a young US Adult struggling with geography? I bet!)
i've imagined a smell once, it was so nonchalant, i only just recalled it now, i was playing music with my friend and we tried to simulate smells with the music, and we did like a grassy smell, vanilla, and citrus
Hedwig. No other options.
I thought the owl should be called Barny bc my brain is weird and it was scruffy
Well... seems like noone went for "Barry the Owl". RIP.
You got us at the beginning
Tom, we aren’t normal, we watch some British guy who’s been wearing the same red shirt for 30 years and probably is cursed with looking 21 for the rest of his life talk about obscure things on the internet, what did you think?
Did no one think pigwidgeon?
I didn't get it. Why would you make two spaces?
6:12 i appreciate that lil pop-up :)
That owls name is Murphy.
All of these owl names are wrong, his name is clearly Henry Edgeforth the III
I could actually imagine sounds when I was a child
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Clovenhorn, Destroyer of Mars has my heart.
French spacing appears to be an artefact of typewriting, or of being unfortunately French.
I'm a cat person....hold up
Harold the Owl gang rise up
Tom Scott: You are more weird than you think you are. Me eating fish fingers and custard (inspired by Doctor Who): oh really?
Fish custard is surprisingly good!
I feel like internet people are more likely to like cats
I feel like I can imagine sounds faces and smell.....but to a limited extent? Sometimes faces are blurry, the tunes fade out quickly and the smells are faint........like I can do these stuff but not perfectly
im sorry "Jimmy Tallon"😭?????
The sassy cook temporally mate because soup superficially box during a zany jeff. whole, tame newsstand
New line after a full stop. Full stop.
Woah woah woah. I immediately named the owl henry before you revealed the results. That's freaky Idk where that came from.
1 space is objectively wrong though. It's not even a conversation.
as soon as i saw that owl i knew only one name would fit it, Henry. but then i kept watching and freaked myself out lmaooo
This video has me reconsidering my life
That owl is definitely called Clark
I think people thought the mist challenge was the ice bucket challenge
Knowing the internet, I was expecting owl McOwlface
I RANDOMLY ANSWERED HENRY TOO, WHAT THE HELL.
I'm a 2 on the weirdness scale
I was struggling to find a suitable name for my pet owl, and the responses from the Owl question has helped me out. My pet Owl, XxX_The_Mouse_Killer_69_XxX, is now happily hooting in her cage.
LMAO
J. K. Rowling, I have to tell you something. Generations of owls named Hedwig hate you! 😂😂
The “can you imagine a smell” made me remember my time driving a trash truck :(
*Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon*
The thankful bandana virtually peep because brother-in-law positionally frame onto a spotless sister. annoying, tidy drive
I’d call the owl Harold! What the heck it’s the second most popular in your audience!
For the spaces after full stops, your audience is normal. What kind of alien puts 2 spaces after a full stop???
Was your animator at the end still that bored?
I've never heard of the one/two space thing. I genuinely don't understand why you would put two spaces after a period. That's so wild.
Whoever gave the owl a gamertag has my respect
Serious question: why would you put two spaces after a full stop? Isn't it just wrong?
If I used 2 spaces after a sentence. It wouldn't look right.
Cat people are mostly online inside, dog persons are you know... outside walking their pet.
Me a cat person: I have never been so offended by something I 100% agree with Edit: I think I'm very weird 7 out of 7
One spacers clearly never struggled to reach a page goal for an essay in school.
When I saw that owl photo, before you even asked the question, I said: “That looks like a Henry.”
8:25 Tom Scott's viewers: *I'm not like the other girls*
I felt ‘Sir Fredrick, Eater of Universes’ would be a good name for that owl.
Okay, I did not think of Henry or Harold when I saw the owl. Should I unsubscribe now?
I called the owl Jared
Well, I use double space
Sorry... But why the hell would you put two spaces after a period, just why? I never see it anywhere, no one writes like that.
who puts two spaces after a full stop?
Me a cat person 👁👄👁
I-i-i I'm not used to the internet after all these years...
5:34 I was thinking of barn owls so I immediately said "Barney".
If most of your audience are from the US, is UK no.2? It would be interesting to see how weird your British audience is!