YAY

Unnyay

@@CyberCenturion NOO

@@CyberCenturion >:(

Hi

I'd expect an even larger relative bump for Theophania.

Which I'm sure Grey would want to be alive for.

I'm putting money on this. Get out your cryogenics, lads, we have a bet to win. I'm betting against the OP, for the record.

Careful what you say everyone. This is now a landmark of history.😉

Very much so! Pretty sure it would become “Teff” or plain “tiff”

It's not even a pun, since it's named after the Feast of the Epiphany. Thus the serpent eats its tail.

At this point, Grey has set up camp there.

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 he is building a Kingdom there.

@@TalasDD With rank choice voting, of course

I love this community!

This is so adorable!!

glad she doesn't have a tiff with the video.

Well that's just adorable.

Aw

Presenting Tiff, Empress of the Empire! The Top Tiff!

Wow this might actually be true. Given how females had basically no say in anything.

@@jennychen1297 certain ones. And certain ones had almost all the say. Whoo!

...this is surprisingly plausible. Movie when Hollywood Oh right, never, because you'd rather fart out C- Marvel movies forever.

Prequel to "Psych"

Well if she said she's a master strategies.. she could have been killed immediately especially in 900s

Pumpkin pie

Makes you wonder what he was actually researching when he fell down this rabbit hole.

Well, let's start guessing. Birbs and areoplane design.

the topic was your mom

@@Blox117 And what about moms?

But do you have a Neon Torch?

Username checks out

@@albevanhanoy of course for I am but a Tiffany

@@internetperson3436 why thank you for your observation

@@internetperson3436 well she already said she is a Tiffany

It’s not completely absent. Look at the books at 8:25, Grey left a reference he alone understood before the poem video.

Sameee

Same!

LMAO SAME

same

In case you are a historian, I have a question: how does one even find potential sources, let alone access them? Are a lot of them replicated or digitized? Grey said that he looked at basically anything and everything that seemed like it could've been a list of names, but how might he have found them, do you think?

@@yuuri9064 It really depends on your subject matter. Generally speaking, the Industrial Revolution with its explosion in literacy and writing made it so that there are many, many sources on, say, WWI. Once you get to the Early Modern period (the time between the discovery of America and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, reading and writing becomes a hobby and means of communication of the church and the remaining other social elite. Even though common people often had some basic understanding of reading, their oftentimes everyday writing basically never got preserved, as you wouldn't preserve your shopping list, for example. So, to finally answer your question. If you are just looking for new information, grab a handbook and check out the sources cited within, working your way down to the originals. If your subject matter is of some interest, chances are someone wrote an index of sources (which is not the case in the Tiffany question). Finally, if you've gone through all of the paper trail that exists and all of the secondary literature, you have to do very basic work yourself. This means going to archives, reading old church records, that kind of thing. However, this is like looking for a needle in a haystack and most historians do NOT do this, unless it is their personal field of highest experience and it has basically become their main source of work. As an example, a naval historian on the Spanish Silver Fleets might have an intricate knowledge on, say, the naval archives of Sevilla, where he personally scanned or transcribed many hundreds of pages from Early Modern ship and freight records, analysing those and publishing articles or even books on it. I hope this helps.

@Love Law Thank you!

@@leagueoflags Thank you for such an in-depth response! I didn't know that there were indexes of sources at all.

@@yuuri9064 You're welcome!

Wouldn't help, the bag is also neon

just saying because if you're reading this and still trapped in religion it's not too late to leave and seek truth

but are you also a divine manifestation?

@@awsomeabacus9674 that's illogical.

I'm halfway through the video and paused it to scroll down and see if there were many tiffanies commenting. There are not. Thank you for speaking up!

Thoroughly researched, possibly after Grey was researching a bigger topic before falling down a rabbithole that was meant to be a small tangent

I Love this Comment 😅

Queen lion is very relevant though

I'll never need to know or will be the pope, but I'm still glad Grey made a video about it

As I type this, your comment now has 4K likes. Before I upvoted it, it was 3.9k. Here's Tom with the weather

Me who come from the "Backstage" video: XD

what

Shu’p

Sertain/ I didn't notice the joke

...but where the chuthlu-like book named "the struggle" go? (Refferrence to :Brexit and Brexit: revisited video).

@@nfspbarrister5681 that was "the troubles"

@@rodlurks66 ah yes. Mea culpa. But grey has to talk about it! Especially now.

Scotichronomicon

the crotch gnome what now?

It certainly feels that way!

Call it "The Tiffany Theory"

It definitely feels like the constant alliteration distracts from the actual content. He really overuses it.

@@hOREP245 He did repeat "hexagon is the bestigon" way more often than I was comfortable with 😂

@@miriamrosemary9110 Not alliteration

Grey basically just says "I care about this now, for some reason, and I'm dragging the rest of you along with me!"

I don't think there's a more perfect description of this video

SHARKS!

This one stayed in the I don't care about this category. But had someone not recommended it I wouldn't have clicked on it anyways so oh well

a couple hundred years later is hardly "suddenly".

Oh if only I could punch hearne

@@Trekeyus go punch his grave (when it’s safe to travel)

@@anonymouscausewhynot i might do that too. (When its safe to travel)

The Horror!

What is the pursuit of knowledge but the insane leap into the unknown?

Maybe Tiffany is just his girlfriend

_Sharks!_ is listed as a related video. I'm not entirely sure how you would think those two related, but Grey made the leap.

The pandemic is just letting him make videos on random things he finds on the internet

Let's not forget Grey traveled to another continent just to find a museum of an old dead person closed, then went into a cementery to find an old person's grave.

If he did all names, we'd probably be here for at least as long as Tiffany has been.

spending hundreds of hours gaming fan spending hundreds of hours scouring census books enjoyer

Which begs the question: Why Tiffany? My guess: He's got a thing for a girl named Tiffany. If so, nicely played.

Teophany

@@notmee2388 Yea that'd make sense, my guess he's probably either married to a Tiffany or in need of baby names.

Same.

than*, not then

Science journalism. Most 'alternative' news avoids this frustration by _going by memory._ Which is blasphemy.

Sharks!

I don’t get it *cry*

@@snowleopard064 reference from the sharks episode

Thanks, didn't see it until now :)

Have a look at the barrels on the right ;)

I'm actually very confused about the title

I was expecting a video on a "Tiffany" stereotype lifestyle or something. Not a video on how you trace names through history.

@White wolf maybe so, but its hard to chase relevant topics when it takes a month or even more to finish a single video. And I personally wouldn’t like it if he started talking about current politics like the US election and start a war in his comments. Grey fits in right where he is

@White wolf I really like the random deep dives into obscure topics. There are a lot of other people doing the more relevant topics, but few really excel in Grey's niche.

@White wolf I think its hard to know how much research a topic can require before you've already got your nose in it

@White wolf That will make him no different than any other channel that does trending topics. Grey is doing well staying in this niche so frankly talking about the pandemic or current politics isn't unique at all.

​@@Engieman909 not to say that he shouldn't do this but let's be honest, this isn't reaallly a historical video, it's a fictional entertainment piece based on a few facts of the time, yes it's well researched but you could say game of thrones is well researched... covering different more relevant topics don't necessarily have to be current events. it could be the description of the life of someone living in different areas to give perspective of why certain beliefs are the way they are in certain areas. division is a problem relevant to current day, so a video to address division could literally be a video based on the lives of nobility vs the lives of a commoner in ages past and talk about their different interactions what they heard, learned, society productivity roles. personally though I think it's fine to give entertainment for entertainments sake but I can see why the other commenter would like more relevant videos.

"And here is the Philosopher's Stone, the Godhead of Reason, the Alchemical Heterodyne, the Sacred Hermaphro . . . dammit, Grey, stop taking notes about the Shrub of Tiffany!"

So, he's a Knowledge Hobo?

Aren’t all smart people

Not all who wander are lost

He's become the Rama of the forest of knowledge! 😂

I love seeing you everywhere man, one of the most active ppl on yt

I’m so deep in this rabbit hole that by now I shall never escape. SEND HELP NOW I’VE BEEN STUCK AT MY COMPUTER FOR NEARLY ONE AND A HALF DAYS STRAIGHT

@@TierosIsBetter "Help" will be there shortly ... just close your eyes, count to 10 and power down the PC

Exactly

Seriously how does he decide on his topics? (Not complaining it's just funny)

Hexagon is the bestagon?

@@pafnutiytheartist eh, that's the truth, Ruth

Carol Brown just took a bus out of town.

@Electroboss I think that's an emoji Grey made for channel members

@Electroboss that is only available for people with membership for his channel. Pay up!

Ridley Scott had to remove a sequence involving merchants sponsoring gladiators from the movie Gladiator because even though it was (as far as we can tell)m a thing that happened, studio execs thought it would be too anachronistic.

Yeah, it seems like a lot of the time people think that the people of the past were idiots, not just ignorant of modern knowledge. They came up with a lot of clever ideas and applications of what they did know that are really fascinating, since even without our modern knowledge they were for the most part just as smart as people today.

@@LordOOTFD yeah, it’s kind of like how people think that people thought the earth was flat till recently, the greeks knew about it and even calculated the circumference with surprising accuracy edit: spelling

Now do it for Karens. I'm pretty sure Homer wrote somewhere "release the Karen" 🤣

Did not expect SAO Abridged reference, but it fits perfectly xd

I watched the video and was going to put this if someone else hadn't. 10/10

Man, this username fits.

Damn how did I not think of this myself… I need to go rewatch all of SAO abridged

SAO Abridged is better than SAO...Fight Me!

There doesnt seem to be anyooooone arooouuuund

"And as I recall, I think CGP kinda liked it."

The beating of our hearts is the only sound

What would they say?

​@@Nerdykid95 I think we're alone now

Wait... *again?*

@@dgreegmdz yes

@@dgreegmdz Staten Island race episode or rather the behind the scenes episode about that.

I'm sad he didn't

Ok now what is all this

You here

I was surprised she wasn’t mentioned.

I had to google to find out who she was, but thanks spotify I find out I've heard her before.

you and I are the only people who remember the singer Tiffany. There were thousands of us, it was once common knowledge. But alas, I think we're alone now

@@munkyphunkable Flying in to say there is a 3rd person who remembers the singer Tiffany.....That song was way overplayed some days.

Don't forget the guy who literally puts out a series called "down the rabbit hole"

@@someguy7412 ???

Except this isn't a internet or UKposts rabbit hole

@@ringostarr6167more of a history rabbithole

@@Raptor810Blue the channel is Fredrick Knudsen, great videos but they stretch out a bit longer then greys.

"Wait... It's all Tiffany...?"

@@Maxoverpower always has been 🔫

And I'm glad it wasn't. This was very interesting.

Man the internet just cant get enough of the christmas sneezing photo

It’s Tiffanys all the way down

all hail tiff

i got to admit, you got a talent where you could answer a question that i wouldnt have asked in a million years and make it interesting, i am sure if you only used 1 percent of your brain in something relevant, you would find the cure for cancer.

How did you put a custom image into a UKposts comment? Oh, is it a custom emoji, which can be used for your stream chat?

@@jaradsmethers3601 The top tiff!

The best tiff, the top tiff

is his wife really named Tiffany?

@@odhynth8404 let's not let facts get in the way of a humorous story!

@@odhynth8404 No one knows

His wife is named Lady Grey.

No, his wife is named Jean. She's super.

Omg I love your sword where'd you get it? Omg thank youuu i got it a Tiffany's

Truer words were never spoken.

already married, he is (he proposed with a tungsten ring)

she'll pretty much have to

*Well, that was a romantic fantasy I wasn't expecting. I'd love for a partner planning to make commitment vows with me to offer a sword*

Which is how I ended up stumbling upon the origin of the word "tarmac" while trying to figure out whether it was, in fact reasonable for an R-2800 to fail catastrophical after 5 minutes at 66" with methanol water injection. Yes, that's a real thing...

@@HarryVoyager wow that must've been a trip and a half

Wooooo

@@HarryVoyager I have no clue what an R-800 is, but I feel you.

I love this kind of "irrelevant" research, because it's totally relevant. It's human history. The fact people call it "irrelevant" is incredibly sad. What else that we consider important today will be called irrelevant tomorrow? It's exactly how history is lost. Every bit of human history is worth holding on to.

I also like the late-Medieval French remake, Dejeuner chez Tiffaine.

underrated comment

GATHER, TIFFANY ARMY, WE FEAST ON THE MORN'

I don't know how safe I'd feel eating breakfast at Theophano's.

If she's Top Tiff... wouldn't that make you Bottom Adam (Not that there's anything Wrong with that)

Unfortunately top tiff was already claimed in the 14 century.

You mean Tip Top Tiff

@@Mark01962 tippy-top tiff!

Not to mention the use of rhyming poetry!

It's a riveting read.

That's what's history is most of the time. Sometimes it's even more tomes and even less knowledge, not to mention the trouble you have to go through to get to see some of them.

@@miobiuscrimson2828 Tome: the sound my brain makes when it realizes that in it's quest for the grail of knowledge it must suffer a journey through perilous caverns of dry verbiage.

@@erinmcdonald7781 I'm not sure what you are getting at exactly.

*Gilbertine

imagine being a dude and named tiffany lmao

@@soulsidejourney2693 Imagine not being named Theophanus

Imagine having no mustache

hey

UKposts LITERALLY PUSHED UR COMMENT TO THE TOP LMFAO

Comfort Tiffany was shown on screen.

@@calunsagrenejr But that was Charles Lewis' father. Zachary Taylor was talking about Charles Lewis' son, evidently named Lewis Comfort after his father and grandfather.

Thank you, Mr President

wait is THAT why they're called "Tiffany Lamps"??? wow

MenloMarseilles Yes

That’s exactly what Grey would do

I swear his next video better not be about turnips because of you. though it would probably still be amazing

Uzbekistan turnips are the Best-i-stan turnips?

How about planting turnips on a moon?

Why Uzbekistan is the Bestistan?

*+*

That's a Tiffany epiphany right there.

And even more alliterating.

I love the rhymes 💖💖

So much alliteration

You just summed up exactly why he does it. "There are no uninteresting topics"

I wonder what encouraged him to made video about Tiffany 🤔🤔🤔

@@soghitankoiko6059 No idea, but my head canon is he has this enormous partial dyson sphere a few systems over that has only 1 purpose: Spin a planet sized roulette wheel with every conceivable topic in existence on it. Next week: *spins wheel* The origin of mashed potatoes.

There are videos on this channel about really important topics, like "Rules for Rulers" or "How the Electoral College works", and then there's this... Pirates, tumbleweed, and now Tiffany

@@kysier6015 Now I want to know the origin of mashed potatoes lmao

I'm thinking it's more likely that they use "Theophanus" and call 'em "theo" for short.

*their

yeah im going to do it. but its going to be spelled tifanny and is going to be pronounced like fanny pack

@@dave2.077 just make sure that they don't go to England then; fanny means something different over there....

@@RainbowFlowerCrow i dont know what you mean by that but i am already scared of the english

ok tiffany

ok theophania

You aren't alone now...

Go get your neon torch, and be top tiff!!

Children Behave...

Tiffany wasn't that bad

Come on, she had at least one great song. :)

@Male 09 Yup. Born 2002. 19 years old.

tiffany was a great singer

day 510 of "15 days to flatten the curve" will do that to you.

that made me laugh

Spaceship Grey is sailing smoothly.

Yea I'm named Tiffanie with a "ie" on the end, and I live in Sweden so I can relate

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.

@@maddie9602 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"

SHARKS!

I feel betrayed... He went on and on and on about how it must always be spelled _Sharks!_ And then he just.. doesn't?! My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined! Ruined I say!

Sharks!

in this picture there is a shark hidden in the background

@Patrick Chang ever heard of a joke

Did you mean 'fact'?

@@paulbelanger7383 Didn't you watch the video? English spelling is whatever

@@rolosfriend7553 tat es uh phakt

Now if only there was a Pope Tiffany... The Pon Tiff

"The Top Tiff" with the top stiff?

But where's the chuthlu-like-tentacled book titled "the struggle" (ireland history) go?

3:35

@@fazdoll thank you for that

Damn you got eagle eyes!

Wait, Thats A Shark?

Nope, INJUNCTED!!

Sharks!

SHARKS!

"The Diamond Age" is kinda close, but it's like Snowcrash explores nano-assamblers and everyone's very into Victorian styling (it's a sci-fi).

Cyber-steampunk.

@@eyesofthecervino3366 Ok, scathing, but not uncalled for. I guess what I saw before me was really more a neon-lit Belle Époque or something. Cthulhu Gaslight but the gaslight in question is a neon sign.

@@orCane Oh. Well, I definitely wasn't going for scathing. More like a glory-days-of-Doctor-Who zany mashup.

ima already happy with the slew of neon noir movies that came out this year.

lets be honest. He is lost there. he even used the doomsday book this time. he is slowly becoming part of the Forest and someone will have to save him.

A Tiffanologist if you will.

Theophanologist since ology is from greek

The Second* Although by far the supperior one

Unless someone out there is really interested in high-end New York jewelry.

That's worse than "Keightlynne"!