- (Wurtz) "Hey," said the Romans. - I feel like I need to write this down.
- If only I had this when I was in high school.
(mouse clicking) ♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
- (FBE) So today we're going to show you
one of the most viral videos of the past week.
- Oh, cool.
- (FBE) However, the video is over 20 minutes long,
so we're going to show you a cut down version of it.
- Okay, that works for me.
- Is it the History of Everything?
I haven't seen the whole thing, (giggling) but what I've seen, I like.
(silence)
- (Wurtz) Hi, you're on a rock, floating through space.
Pretty cool, huh?
♪ How did this happen? ♪ - Oh, I saw this on the trending tab!
- I feel like I've seen some version of this.
- I've seen the Japan one, and I fell in love with it.
- (Wurtz) A long time ago, actually never, and also now,
nothing is nowhere.
When? Never. - What?! (snickering)
- (Wurtz) Oh! I paused it.
I think there's a universe. - All right, and now the acid is hitting me.
- (Wurtz) What's it made of? ♪ Quarks and stuff ♪
Great news! The quarks are now happily married
in groups of three called a proton, or a neutron,
and there's something else flying around too that wants to join in
but can't because it's still too... (explosion)
- I wish this was my science class. - Yeah!
- It's so fast-paced.
- This is the craziest way I've ever seen science presented ever.
This is insane.
- (Wurtz) Some stars burn out and die.
Bigger stars burn out and die with passion
and make some brand new, way crazier shit:
♪ Space dust ♪
- This is clever animation. I like this.
- (Wurtz) Like this ball of flaming rocks, for example.
Weather update. It's raining rocks from outer space.
Weather update.
Those rocks might have had water inside them...
- These guys did their homework.
- (Wurtz) And now everything's huge, including bugs.
- What? (laughing) Everything's huge now!
- (Wurtz) Oh [bleep], now everything's dead.
Just kidding, here are the survivors.
Keep your eye on this one because it's about to become the dinosaurs.
- There is so much going on, I can't even think right now.
- (Wurtz) Here comes a meteor. (explosion)
♪ And the dinosaurs are gone ♪
- Aww, RIP.
- (Wurtz) It's mammal time. ♪ That's a human person ♪
- The music is fantastic.
- (Wurtz) And now there's more people and they invent things,
which makes things better and more people come
and there's more farming and more people to make more things
for more people and now there's business,
money, writing, laws, power...
♪ Society ♪ - (singing along)
- Mesopotamia! - I love the jingles.
- (Wurtz) Let's check in with the Indus River Valley civilization.
They're gone.
Guess who's not gone?
♪ China ♪
♪ New arrivals in India ♪
♪ And they wrote some hymns and mantras ♪
- If only I had this when I was in high school.
- (Wurtz) ♪ And they wrote some hymns and mantras and stuff ♪
You could make a religion out of this. - (snickering)
- (Wurtz) Ah, the Buddha was just enlightened.
Who is the Buddha?
This guy, who sat under a tree for so long that he figured out how to ignore
the fact that we're all dying.
You could make a religion out of this.
- I aspire to be like that,
to sit under a tree so long I just forget that we're all dying.
(glass shattering) - (Wurtz) Whoops, China just broke,
but while it was breaking, Confucius was figuring out
how to have good morals.
Hey, China put itself back together again with good morals as their main philosophy.
Actually, they have three main philosophies.
- "Go with the flow!" - "[Bleep] you, obey the law."
- (Wurtz) "Hey," said the Romans. - I feel like I need to write this down.
- (Wurtz) "Thanks for invading our homeland," said the Jews,
who are starting to get tired of people invading their homeland.
"Hi, everything's great," said some guy who seems to be
getting very popular, and is then arrested and killed
for being too popular, which only makes him more popular.
You could make a religion out of this. - (laughing) Jesus!
Jesus Christ!
- I was wondering when Jesus was gonna show up.
- (Wurtz) "Hi, I live in the Roman Empire and I was wondering...
♪ Is loving Jesus legal? ♪ - (giggling)
- (Wurtz) No.
Actually, okay, sure, said Constantine, moving the capital way over here
to be closer to his... ♪ Main rival ♪
Don't worry about Rome. It won't fall.
♪ It's the Golden Age of India ♪
♪ (muzak) ♪
- That intermission was very needed.
♪ (muzak) ♪
- That intermission was not long enough.
- (Wurtz) On the top of a mountain, the real God whispers
in Mohammed's ear, so he goes down to the cube
where everyone worships gods and he tells them their gods are all fake.
- How long would it take to make these videos?
- (Wurtz) You could make a religion out of this,
and maybe conquer the world as well.
- I couldn't watch this for 20 minutes.
- (Wurtz) Somehow, the Pope is still the Pope, plus there's...
♪ New kingdoms all over Europe ♪
I wonder if there's room for moors. - (cracking up)
- (Wurtz) Here's all the wisdom. - Oh, it was a pun.
- (Wurtz) The Pope is ready to make some more emperors
of the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire.
It's actually Germany, but don't worry about it.
New kingdoms!
(robotic voice) Christianize all the kingdoms!
- Whoa! Where did that come from?
- (robotic voice) Christianize all the kingdoms!
- (Wurtz) The Christians are doing a great job of re-conquering Iberia,
which will soon be called Spain. - Oh, the Christians are back.
- (Wurtz) "Please remain Christian.
We will check in later to see if you're still Christian
when you at least expect." - (laughing)
- (Wurtz) Whoops, half of Europe just died.
♪ Bing ♪ China's back.
- (chuckling) "Bing!"
- (Wurtz) Oh, Italy's really rich.
Time for them to care a lot about art-- - Oh, art!
- (Wurtz) It's kind of like a rebirth.
Here's a printer! Let's make books.
"Wait," said Christopher Columbus, probably smoking crack.
- (spluttering) - "If the world is round,
let's go this way to India."
So he sails-- - Oh, we're about to head over to America!
- (Wurtz) ...and Japan.
Let's draw a line to decide who gets which half of the world.
The Aztecs and Inca empires are off to a great start.
I wonder if they know that Europe just discovered their continent.
Guess where all the sugar's made?
In Brazil! Stolen-- - Well, thank you, Brazil,
for making sugar.
- (Wurtz) Britian and France are having a friendly discussion
about who should control the entire world, more specifically, Ohio.
And that escalates into a seven year discussion...
- Why couldn't my school be like this?
- All the classes I've skipped in history class,
it's really hitting me right now.
- (Wurtz) Guess who's broke? Also Britian.
So they start taxing the hell out of America.
"[Bleep] you," says America, declaring their independence--
- (cracking up) Oh my god.
- (Wurtz) And France helps them win. Now France is broke.
Britain will have to send their prisoners to a different continent.
Wait, if France is broke, why do the king and queen
still wear such fancy dresses? - That's a good point.
- (Wurtz) "Let's overthrow the palace and cut all their heads off..."
- That's the Revolution.
- The French Revolution!
- (Wurtz) ...cutting everybody's head off until someone
eventually got mad and cut his head off.
You could make a reli-- no, don't.
- (cracking up)
- (Wurtz) ♪ Technology is about to go crazy ♪
The United States finally figured out whether slavery is good or bad.
"It's bad," they decided. - Oh my god.
This is extremely fast-paced.
- (Wurtz) "I know, let's rape Africa," said Europe, scrambling...
- Oh my god!
- (Wurtz) ♪ They never got Ethiopia ♪
- Except Ethiopia. - That's true.
- (Wurtz) "I know, let's rape Africa," said Europe, scrambling...
- Dang!
Everybody attacked Africa like that?
- (Wurtz) Europe hasn't had a war since the last war,
so they start World War I.
Look at those guns. It's gonna be a Great War.
- Wow! The research for this.
- (Wurtz) Germany's back, featuring Hitler,
the angry moustache model, and he's...
- (amused) "Angry moustache model."
- (Wurtz) Hitler's out of control,
so the international community tackles him
and tries to explain why killing all the Jews is a bad idea,
but he kills himself before they could explain it to him.
♪ That's World War II ♪
- ♪ That's World War II ♪
- We just ran through World War II.
- (Wurtz) Bonus round! Pacific showdown.
- I love the air horn.
- (Wurtz) United States versus Japan. Fight!
- This is freaking awesome.
(explosion) - (Wurtz) Finish him.
- Whoever did this did a very, very good job.
- (Wurtz) Oh, it's the two global superpowers.
They're having a friendly debate over which economic system is good...
- Space race.
- (Wurtz) ...evil virus of Satan.
And they both have atom bombs.
Fight!
Wait, no-- - Street Fighter.
- (Wurtz) Fight!
Wait, no, that would be the end of the world.
Let's just keep it cool and spy on each other instead.
- (chuckling) "Let's spy on each other instead."
- (Wurtz) Let's check the mail.
Surprise! It's on the computer.
Wanna learn everything? Surprise! It's on the computer.
- Okay, we're catching up.
- (Wurtz) ...which is in your pocket. - Oh my god.
- (Wurtz) By the way, where the hell are we?
♪ (electronic music) ♪
- "I hope I mentioned everything."
- Wow, that was a good video.
- This is all you need before every history final.
- I'm curious to see what the 20 minute version is like
because that was so much information, so I could only imagine.
- It's kind of emotional.
When you watch it all together like that,
you're like, wow, a lot of stuff has happened on Earth.
- I've been waiting so long to have another video from this guy.
Thank you for sharing this with me.
- (FBE) So that video was called History of the Entire World, I Guess,
by creator Bill Wurtz. - Dude, Bill did a good job.
It's a cool video.
- (FBE) This video got millions of views in its first day of being released
and was number one on the trending page the day it uploaded.
Why do you think this video went so viral?
- Why? I mean, it went viral because it's absolutely nuts.
You got to think about how long this guy took to make that video.
- It's so ridiculous. It's so internet humor,
and it's educational.
- It just cuts out all of the stuff you don't,
I guess, necessarily need to know.
This is like super to-the-point highlights.
- His humor style is pretty unique, but it also is very internet to me.
Good use of memes, I would say.
Good meme-ing.
- It hits the education and it hits the humor
and it literally makes the rounds really fast, every few seconds.
- It was interesting to see how history kind of just repeats itself
over and over again, and right now, the world is
extremely politically charged.
Now, with social media, not only are things happening
as they always have, but we're all extremely aware.
- There's a comedic aspect to it, but he broke down
the history of the world, which-- it's long and complicated, let's be honest,
but he simplified it.
It's really good.
I feel like I got to go watch the rest of his videos.
Does he have more videos, or is that the only one?
He does have more videos?
Okay, time to start binge watching.
- As a kid, you learn social studies and history,
and it's such a dreaded course.
Looking back at it, it's so simplified and you understand
cause and effect way more,
and it's fun and it feels like you're on drugs,
and you don't even have to take drugs.
- The way that he's telling it too, with comedy and all this stuff put together,
it just keeps everything interesting.
This is what they should teach at schools,
and they should give this information to babies.
- (FBE) A lot of people are saying that this would actually be helpful
to show to students as a more interesting way to learn
then, say, a traditional lecture.
Do you think you could really learn from this?
- I think kids can learn from it.
Honestly, teachers are showing kids YouTube videos now.
- If it was slowed down and, you know, targeted more specific things,
like more in-depth, then that could work.
- Just replace all of our educational systems
with these videos.
I learned more in two twenty minutes videos
on his channel than I did in the entirety of my high school history.
- It's a really good review, actually,
because I remember in school, they would show you
those videos that were supposed to be a nicer view
and they were so boring that you'd just fall asleep
and any time you can make anything fun,
it's going to be much more-- well, it's going to sink in
because people actually pay attention.
- It almost creates an interest and excitement
to where it was almost like a touch points,
to where there were certain points where he mentioned something like this.
I'm like, oh, I'm more interested about that.
There's always ways to integrate what's happening on YouTube
and online and on the internet into what's going on in the classroom.
- (FBE) So finally, educational content has exploded on YouTube
over the last seven years, and here's an example
of someone doing it in a very unique way,
and it's starting to gain a huge following.
What do you think about the edutainment side of YouTube?
- Oh, I'm a big fan of edutainment.
- Social media is a huge thing right now
and I feel like everybody should be leaning towards social media.
Instead of just reading a big ass textbook,
you kind of watch a video and people will remember it more.
- If you ask anybody how they learned to video edit,
how they learned to do this,
how they learned to change a tire on a car,
99% of the time, what do they say?
It's not school. It's YouTube.
- I follow a lot of channels that summarize a lot of history,
science, all that stuff.
This person is giving their own twist, in their own words,
versus sounding like a textbook,
so I think it has a lot of charm with information.
- When you can kind of tie the learning into the entertainment that's happening,
I think then it's really a win-win situation
because you're learning something, plus you're being entertained by it,
and it's a really great platform where you can really do that
in a very comprehensive way.
- Thank you so much for watching this episode of YouTubers React.
- If you want to be further edutained, check out the YouTubers
in the description and give them a subscribe.
- Au revior!
- Hey, guys, what's up?
I'm Kyle, a producer here at FBE.
- And I'm Alyssa, an editor here at FBE,
and thank you guys so much for watching this video.
- And we hope that this was the best goodbye in the history--
- The history-- - The history of the entire world.
- The whole world!