What’s up ladies and gentlemen of YouTube, Knowing Better coming at you live once again
through the power of the internet.
And today I’d like to talk to you about something that’s very near and dear to my
heart…
how to get people to like you.
You suck at Knowing, yeah you totally suck.
So before we can talk about how to get people to like you, you have to figure out how attractive
you already are.
Luckily there’s a pretty easy experiment to figure that out.
To perform this experiment, you will need 20 or 30 friends, coworkers, or students,
a deck of playing cards, some tape, a totem of your spirit animal, some pepper pepper
pepper, and to turn the onion on 350.
You’ll only need two suits, preferably a red and a black one.
Then you’ll want to take the tape and attach it to the person’s head so that they can’t
see what card they have.
You’ll then want to line up all of the boys or girls on one side, and the attack helicopters
on the other.
It’s important that you tell them they cannot talk to each other yet.
Shhh.
Or tell each other what card they have.
The goal is to get matched up with the highest card possible.
They can only match up once, and they can only say one of three things.
Would you like to match up?
And Yes.
Or No.
Once you’ve explained the rules, you set them off and see what happens.
Usually, the Kings and Queens will quickly figure out that they’re holding the high
cards because of the amount of thirsty people trying to slide into their dms.
But let’s follow one card to see how this works.
Like everyone else, their first instinct is to go for a king, but when they look around
at everyone going over to them and see nobody is coming to them, they realize that goal
may be a bit too high.
So they ask a 10.
No.
Then a 3 comes up to them.
Ew, no.
Gross.
They see a six standing over in the corner not talking to anyone, but decide there’s
probably something wrong with them and decide to try asking an 8.
No.
Whatever, that person needs to get over themselves…
and now that you have the moral high ground you decide to show some charity and ask the
six.
And by some miracle, they say yes.
Congratulations, you’re a 7, you sold yourself short.
Every time you run this experiment you’ll find that people tend to end up with a card
only one away from whatever they are.
Now you may be thinking that this experiment is impractical, because people don’t really
walk around with cards on their faces, but they do walk around with faces on their faces.
So you can run this experiment in real life.
And in all likelihood, you already have.
You’re probably saying that you definitely have not participated in this experiment before…
unless you’re talking about the normal everyday asking people out… and getting rejected..
thing.
But no, I actually mean the experiment itself.
If you’ve ever been to a junior high school dance where the boys line up on one side and
the girls line up on the other…
preferably when you were still in junior high… then you’ve participated in this experiment.
Or at least…
watched other people participate.
Before you lose all hope and resort to drastic measures to try and fix your face, there are
a few behaviors you can do to trick people into thinking you’re more attractive.
So before we’re able to talk about how to properly and respectfully increase your rating,
let’s start this lesson off by sending a tweet to Ted Cruz.
@tedcruz I used to think I was a failure, then I saw you lose to a tomato covered in
cat hair.
Thanks for setting the bar so low.
#Covfefe Ah!
So look when you’re the only man working somewhere, right?
You get all the attention… and you must be finking “Hello hello, I’m the bees
knees I am.”
Except, no!
Because as soon as some other guy starts working there, you find out you’re not actually
a king, you’re a two!
“Ohmigod Knowing Better, I can’t handle it.
I can’t live like this mate.”
Alright calm down mate, Imma sort you out.
There are two ways to increase your standing, step one is pretty easy, right?
Now listen!
You can’t just go around telling people not to think he’s hot right?
That’s not gonna work.
So the only thing you can do is cut down his reputation right?
The good thing is, you’re probably already doing it, you just didn’t know what It’s
called, mate!
It’s called Derogation of Competition.
You’ve gotta make people think less of him right.
Now listen, you can’t just go around starting rumors.
No!
You’ve gotta be sneaky about it!
Start off by talking about some minor stuff right?
“Oh my god did you hear about how lazy he is ohmigod.”
“He also chews with his mouth open!”
So these are things that most people don’t like, right?
They’re already gonna start thinking less of him.
It helps if he actually does this stuff – so try to find the annoying things he does and
tell everyone.
But now, you can crank it up mate…
“Has he started flirting with you mate?
He’s been flirting with everyone I hear.”
“Hey, I heard he’s got the herpes.”
Ooo… that one might be pushin it mate.
But whatevah, let’s see how much progress you’ve made.
Success!
Now everyone sees him as a bit less attractive, right?
But bonus!
Since you’re participating in gossip, you appear to have more social connections, which
also makes YOU more attractive!
What, I didn’t promise a miracle!
No but seriously you guys, there are some ways you can stop being so cringe and actually
get people to like you.
Oh hold on, let me turn my facecam on, sorry.
Okay so without further ado, let me explain to you how to get people to like you.
So the first one is pretty obvious, like I mean duh right?
But no okay seriously, the first way you can get people to like you is pretty simple.
And it’s called, and hmph, I can’t believe I’m the one who has to tell you this, but
okay, it’s licherally called, and again, I shouldn’t have to explain this to you
but I will.
Most of you are 25 to 35 year old grown men and I have to explain this.
I can’t believe it.
But without further ado, the easiest thing you can do, is called…
The proximity effect is, and again, most of you are fully grown 30 to 35 year old literal
adults, and here I am being the only person on youtube brave enough to say this, but.
Well think about it?
Where do you meet most people you date?
Well assuming you’re not a cringey loser sitting in his mom’s basement eating Cheetos
and watching anime.
But seriously, it’s at work or at school… if you’re a licheral pedo.
You are a grown man.
But I digress.
You usually end up dating someone who is physically, get this, close to you.
Someone you live near, work with, or go to school with.
This licherally increases the amount of times you see each other, which automatically makes
it more likely you’ll get together…
but without further ado guys, let’s get right into the second one.
This one is licherally called the mere exposure effect so I shouldn’t have to explain this
to you but I guess I do.
The more times you see someone, you know, the more times you’re licherally merely
exposed to someone, the more you like them.
It’s really that simple.
You don’t even have to do anything just show up!
It’s that simple!
But is it that simple?
Yes.
Those are just things you do by existing.
What about things you can actually DO to make people like you?
The first thing you can actually DO to get people to like you is to tell people you like
them.
This is called the reciprocity effect.
When you tell someone that you like them, they start to think “hey, this person likes
me, maybe there’s something here worth considering” and they may actually start to like you back.
You have to be careful though, because this might backfire and cause someone to think
of your friendship as a burden.
Another thing you can do is to find out what someone likes and to like those things too.
This is called the similarity effect.
A lot of people give advice saying to fake liking these things, but it always works out
better if you find things that you already enjoy that they also already enjoy.
Make sure to point these things out and start conversations about them.
The more similarities you have, the more likely they are to like you back, you don’t want
to be too similar though.
Most people want someone who likes them, and they want someone who is like them.
I want someone who likes me, and someone who is like me.
Me, me.
Mimicry.
Hey do you still need- What are you doing here?
I… you needed someone to play the other one… the one who doesn’t talk that much.
The girl.
Yeah no, don’t worry about it, this one is kinda dumb *beanie off*
Well we can still do this scene together..
No that’s okay.
I think I got it.
What?
Why?
People like me.
Yeah that’s actually the problem okay.
You know how many messages I got after the last video you were in, from women, saying
that they actually liked you?
Hey I can’t help it if the ladies like me…
Your name is literally scumbag knowing better, nobody is SUPPOSED to like you.
Whatever, I didn’t want to be in your video anyway, your channel is stupid.
Hey do you still need a second person?
Wha, what?
No I’m fine I don’t think I’m going to do any more acting…
Well we can still do it as Knowing Better and uh…
Hey wait, weren’t you the cheater in the gaslighting episode?
No okay that was just a misunderstanding…
Yeah, you know what c’mon in man.
So okay, I’m just going to do this one as me, Knowing Better, with my friend, Cheating
Better- Whoa whoa, that’s not my name dude.
Well… what is you name then?
I dun- WHO’S THIS?
YOU DECIDE!
EPIC NAME BATTLES OF HISTORY.
The hell was that?!
Don’t worry about it.
As I was about to get to, the last thing you can really actively do to get someone interested
in you is to mimic them.
Mimic them?
Yes, mimic them.
Okay…
I get what you’re trying to do and it was funny, but… you can stop.
Okay I get what you- Okay but for real, when you mimic someone,
they subconsciously start to like you and we really have no idea why.
It’s really as- Hey is that why you’ve been mimicking all
those famous youtubers?
You’re trying to get them to like you?
That’s pretty lame…
What do you tell someone with two black eyes?
I…
I don’t know.
Nothing, you already told them twice.
Okay, as I was saying, it’s really as simple as if they touch their eyebrow, you touch
yours… if they scratch their ear, you scratch yours.
You obviously don’t want to do it every single time or they’re going to catch on,
but every once in a while, and they will start to like you.
And this is something you can do on purpose, whether it’s on a date or in a job interview.
Obviously you can’t make them do it, but if they do, that means that they subconsciously
like you – or they saw this video and they’re trying to manipulate you.
But you can also mimic their voice and sound like them.
You can’t just pick up a British accent all of the sudden because it’s going to
be obvious and they’re not going to appreciate it.
But you can let it build over time.
And you will like each other because of it.
When I was in Iraq- Oh you were in Iraq?
Thanks for your service.
Didn’t you see my last video?
No…
Get out.
Okay fine geez…
When I was in Iraq, my driver was Dominican and has a pretty thick Dominican accent.
This is what he sounded like.
I’ve got a feeling, tonight is the day.
Tonight is the day?
Yeah.
And I pretty much sounded like this in the beginning and sound like this again.
But by the end of the deployment, this is what I sounded like.
We’ve got a month left and I’m eating my first MRE.
That’s your second you liar.
Yeah you’re right is it my second…
man, why you gotta ruin my tape?
So those are things you can do once you’re talking to them, but how do you get the conversation
started in the first place?
You need an icebreaker.
Try wearing some interesting piece of clothing like a… *tie* or perhaps try having something
interesting with you, like a *pet*.
That should help get the conversation started, the rest is up to you.
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