Joseph Paterson it's probably a bit too time consuming for them

I think I recall Simon saying it was something they were going to try to do every day during June and then would see how to proceed afterwards.

That was a trial run to see how people liked it / how the algorithm would react to that much content. The analytics and general feedback definitely indicated that people did very much like it, but we need to make it a separate channel. (Very unfortunately because had we been able to keep it on the current one, it might have paid for itself from the start, instead of a separate channel which will be operating at quite a loss for a year or two.) Also, if people liked it, we always planned to ramp it up a bit to a nice set and better production and all that, which we are presently working on. On top of that, yes, as Faizal F said, it was way more work than we can presently handle with the current team, which we knew at the outset, but just sort of worked double time to make it work for a few weeks there. So long story short, it is still going to be a thing, just some administrative/organizational/financial stuff (drumming up the money for it) that needs sorted out and which we've been working on for a few weeks now. Hoping to launch the new channel sometime later this month or early August. :-) -Daven

It's been a quiet fortnight in history is all.

Keep them short and simple, I preferred them over regular TIFU videos. No extra fluff, just info in a clear and concise way.

Karl Smallwood (the co-author of this piece and one of the people behind the excellent channel Fact Fiend) wrote that particular line and is very much a treasure. :-) -Daven

Walter Clark THIS. There's a reason it's called supply and DEMAND

My point is deeper than that. Anna Jarvis thought that when you make a profit you spoil everything. That money makes things bad. No it is a sign that things are going well. Another example is endangered species. The fix is easy from an economists point of view. You make it legal, not illegal. That way people can raise the creatures for food or horny-medicine whatever. But no. What they really want it to hate people who make money off of what they love. They prefer poachers because you can kill them. Or lock them in cages. That is much more fun than those same people making money commercially.

Walter Clark Jarvis was upset with people not understanding her desire for them to take the time out to appreciate and consider their mothers instead of just buying a mother's day card or a box of chocolates.

If the business doesn't make money, it goes bankrupt. yes, that's why business must make money.

Yes it has. But only in like 00000.7% of cases lol. But they know that, and that's why they send out so many. They also intentionally word the email as if they are of low intelligence. It's actually more thought out than people think.. because it's designed to only fool a certain type of person.. not everyone. There's a good bit of psychology involved. Especially the further along you get with the replies. Once you're in too deep. This would make a pretty interesting video I think. It's intelligent.. but also intentionally stupid in other ways.. and doesn't fool well over 99% of people. As expected. Because they aren't interested in fooling anyone other than their very specific intended target. They actively avoid other people, even if they initially bite.. the e-mailer will cut it off. Not that they're geniuses or anything either lol. Just a bit more interesting than people realise. Not that I know too much about it.

gghouck - Obviously a tad exaggerated lol. It was a tinyyy number though. I'm mainly just saying that there's a good bit of intentional psychology involved, and specific targeting. It's more intentional than people think. I even clarified that they're not geniuses. Another exaggeration lol.

Yes, it happens all the time. Stupid people exist and lose hundreds of thousands of $.

Part of what they target is stupidity.. like if you take the bait, but appear a little too smart in your speech.. or asking the wrong questions.. they often run away. As soon as they sense you are the wrong "type", they're wasting their time. But there's heaps of really "stupid" people who would neverrrrr fall for such a thing. Like what gghouck said, there's a few traits it takes.

I think it's included in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNGEgcSIut7JiY0.html

Mark Hooper Way better than Imagine Dragons. That names is so weird.

mechasentai but they made you remember the name because how weird it is.

Disinterred is a better band name. Or Disemboweled...

CrazyBear65 🤘💀

Actually what happened was this was supposed to be Today in History, but due to the amount of work doing that trial run of that series took, we launched it a few weeks later than originally planned. But still an interesting enough piece to do anyway as a normal video. :-) -Daven

Is that the excuse you told your mother Daven? :D

Yesss, it's the first thing I thought!

Daniel Dulu We always made our mother something. Cards, poems, breakfast, Or if there was something she was longing for but couldn't get because we kids needed things, we would all pitch in and get her what she wanted. Mostly she wanted yellow roses. Lol. Can't appreciate them when I'm dead, she always said.😂😂

and you work for a card company or maybe flowers.

I'm in rental real estate. Thanks for playing though!

Yeah I blew it.

@Daneil Dulu Same here.

And that makes you feel valued which is why you don’t understand why she started Mother’s Day. 🤷🏽‍♂️ everyday is mother’s and Father’s Day

No, rich people that support socialism or communism don't believe it will be their wealth that gets redistributed (otherwise they'd just give their money to the poor instead of trying to take everyone else's money)

Well, if you get annoyed by other people having more than you, that's your fucking problem.

What or who, in your initial comment, cause you such personal butt burn that you felt the need to express your views on "people who are wealthy, but did nothing to earn any of it"?

Zundfolge yeah but she died penniless; what's your point?!

Another ass-burnt "socialist" who thinks it's evil to be rich

Oh God... I can’t unsee that

Medical Meccanica If you're too busy to pen a letter every year, why bother with the card? A card you were too lazy to write? Just give your mother a call; she'd appreciate it more.

scottieman2 There is a difference between taking your mother to see a movie *she* wanted to see on mother's day and sending her a simple box of chocolate you bought last minute at the dollar store.

Some mother's actually don't care if you get something from the dollar store. Just as long as you you took the time to remember.

scottieman2 You clearly seem to skip over the part where I said "last minute."

lunayen my bad

Because that's how language works. Japanese in the middle ages hear Portuguese calling that piece of bread "pão" and from then on call it "pan" since that is closest spelling that they know. Same thing happen's to names. Actually it's funny that you mention Caesar as example. It is an obious case of New Latin messing with the original pronounciation that changed his Title's spelling in most languages today. Cesar was originally pronounced Kesar (English/German Kaiser - title of imperator) thus all of today's languages spell and pronounce it wrong.

It certainly is a busy day but preparation makes it chug along. At least on Mothers day you expect to be super busy.

savagedragon79 a good businessman will be happy if their business is bustling with activity. Also you don't shit on other holidays and all weekends.

TheLoganSir But seriously why is this song relevant to this lady?

COUNTRY ROADS

You sound like every movie in 2017

mechasentai Anna Jarvis was born, lived and taught in West Virginia after college. Jarvis held a memorial ceremony to honor her mother and all mothers at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, today the International Mother's Day Shrine, in Grafton, West Virginia, marking the first official observance of Mother's Day. Philly can try to take credit but Grafton, WV is the home of Mother’s Day.

West Vagina

Justin Y. Did she write the sing too?

Take me home

country roads

Stop it! You guys sound like every movie in 2017

Kimberly Cooper If you had an abusive mother why in the hell would you care about "keeping up the facade?"

PyroNinja713 , I didn't say that I had an abusive mother. I've just met people who had abusive mothers. The mother was abusive enough to cause problems, but not abusive enough to trigger someone calling the authorities. Or the person lived in a conservative area where that abuse was accepted as ok. Children keep the facade going because: (1) The child is not yet old enough to leave home. (2) The child has grown up and moved out of the home. The child needs to maintain a facade to keep contact with younger siblings so that, when younger siblings are old enough to move out if the mother's home, the younger siblings can get help from the older siblings. (3) Since the community is as warped as the mother, the grown child maintains a facade to prevent being shunned by the community. (4) etc.

Kimberly Cooper ah, good points.

"Grandparents Day" 😂

cockneyse that's in Britain, for some reason it wasn't mentioned but it is celebrated at different times so maybe they didn't connect the two?

@Justine Yates Yes; Mother's Day in the UK is derived from an earlier holiday known as Mothering Sunday, in which people traditionally returned to the churches where they grew up, otherwise known as their "mother churches." I don't know for sure, but I suspect the commercial success of Mother's Day in the US is what transformed Mothering Sunday into the British equivalent of the American holiday.

Skorch88 The point is that she'd prefer you honor your mother with actions rather than a gift. Look at all of the people who scramble to get a basic gift at the very last moment. How does that make you feel as mother, knowing how you're nothing more than an afterthought? Why would Illiterate people need a card anyway? They can't read. The best gift you could give to an Illiterate mother is to teach her how to read.

BUT if she ever learned how to read, she'd know all those T-shirts we bought said "World's meanest bitch"!!! Except for that one... "From 0 to bitch in 3.5 seconds"... ...and the one... "I might be a cruel, heartless bitch, but I'm good at something!" ;o)

Sleepydog Probably sitting in her room fuming. She used to be a big name especially in comedy movies. But now she's just a TV actor for a c grade sitcom. Her divorce with Chris Pratt doesn't help either. Pretty sad tho I think she still quite attractive and funny.

Except Mother's Day didn't directly result in the incarcerations and deaths of thousands of innocent people.

To whom is that addressed? Personal attack against?

Nah, feels like an undeniable fact to me

She made it for her own mother, which in my view makes her creation more heartfelt and less of an 'irony'.

perhaps, but if she had been a mother she may not have resented the way the holiday turned out. Then she would be the one getting flowers and candy.

In countering that, my own mother greatly prefers more 'home-grown' tokens of appreciation on the day as opposed to store-bought stuff; with which Ms. Jarvis would agree, by the sound of it .

Raydeus I kind of get where she was coming from. The entire point of the holiday was that it was supposed to be an extremely personal expression of gratitude. Instead it became a holiday focused on commercialism and profit. However, as Simon already pointed out in the video, had it not become so commercialized it likely wouldn't have gained as much traction at the time.

I see you are a man of culture as well my good sir

Its crazy what lengths anti-feminists will go to put down both women and their ideas If you don't like feminism, you probably haven't taken the time to actually learn about it, instead relying on memes and "SJWs." Social justice and feminism are actually great things for all groups of people

J Girl it's actually true that feminism, as from the days of Liz Bloomer and of the suffragettes, was about empowering women, not emasculating men. I grant that there are extreme feminists who hate men, but the quest for equal rights, as espoused by the average feminist, is not a wrong proposition. It is true that many men who equate all women with the rabid extremists, are actually seeing the world through their own eyes, rabidly anti-female. I can conceive of no balanced man who could feel threatened by a woman having an opportunity to exploit her own talents, unless he has let his own be lapsed, because he did not have to compete against a pool of determined female humans. Women do not want to supplant men, they just do not want men to suppress them. As to those who say the Bible says man must do and woman must be silent, I take us back to Genesis, where the woman was referred to as a "help-meet" and "companion", not as an inferior or a slave. A companion shares your bread and everything with it, including pitching in to earn it. And help-meet clearly implies, a man is not going to hit the mark without someone to cover his gaps. In short, the Word itself says a man does not have it together, and woman is necessary to get things finished right. Men wouldn't depend on women if they weren't dependable, and no man living can say he got where he is without a woman. He couldn't have started life without one, and without that, all else is moot. Honor mothers, respect women, and people in general. It's that basic.

Oh fuck you, wingnut.

fcukugimmeausername How is that in any way hypocritical? I never saw the part where she said all women had to become mothers...

Well, she doesn't what being a mother would be like... and yet...

I hope English isn't your first language...

It's my 643th.

She wanted to honor her *own* mother. Last time I checked you didn't need to have kids to honor the person who popped you out.

I wouldn’t call it feminist, moms do deserve respect (if there good). All this merchandise is no way to thank them though

How is this satisfying to you? Is honoring your mother such a heinous act? Why do I get the feeling that you treat your mother like she's a slave?

It you need some whack job feminists to remind you to be nice to your mother once a year, then you are in fact the worst person.

I wish we killed the myth of the universal saintly mother already