I Finally Found This 'Banned' Empty Book

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Vsauce

Жыл бұрын

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@bigpapi6688 Жыл бұрын

Vsauce has some of the most wild out of context thumbnails dude💀

@deloxlox1635 Жыл бұрын

@InstagramUser69no.

@jacobwestbrook9527 Жыл бұрын

He does, and that's why we love him 😂😂

@time2132 Жыл бұрын

@InstagramUser69 You suck at gemometry dash!

@Cyfra Жыл бұрын

He even could’ve put his bold head above the chest of the cover, and it wouldn’t have chocked anyone, since we know it’s Micheal

@nolnap Жыл бұрын

@InstagramUser69 bro shut up

@shojokenji Жыл бұрын

"what page are you on?" "oh I'm on the light gray page"

@Okusar Жыл бұрын

I'm on page: #C8C8C8.

@OddElephantLTU Жыл бұрын

You mean #c2c2c2

@nenoman3855 Жыл бұрын

Pantone wants more of your money.

@Okusar Жыл бұрын

@@OddElephantLTU Ah, good point. It's only 50 shades, not 256.

@nocbvideos6458 Жыл бұрын

gosh be a professional and youse rgb to state the page youre on

@BoinglyThe3th 2 ай бұрын

"No, officer I dont have any illegal substances...or do i?"

@JammerMate Ай бұрын

Underrated

@akeyscoot9546 Ай бұрын

>Proceeds to unpack the most arbitrary assortment of substances that were illegal at certain points in time or the strangest substances outlawed in different countries.

@CT-1035 23 күн бұрын

@@akeyscoot9546coffee during pre-enlightenment era Great Britain

@bhjay2k872 22 күн бұрын

i mean your brain does produse opioids so

@alexfright8217 19 күн бұрын

W comment

@graysonrogers-barnes6302 Ай бұрын

This should have been protected by parody laws.

@ansemvanverte 17 күн бұрын

the cover image probabled dashed any hopes of defense tbh

@alexanderthegreat4103 14 күн бұрын

@@ansemvanverte i was thinking the same thing. I'm bummed though because I want that book on my shelf now

@MythicByrd 14 күн бұрын

It is, but the author probably wouldn't have been able to afford to defend it in court

@musictomyshears 12 күн бұрын

@@ansemvanvertebut that's like the entire point of parody?

@CrazyQuilman157 9 күн бұрын

The legal fees in the states are ridiculously high. Wouldn't have been worth it. And E. L. James is a trashy, ligitous person.

@Fr4nk4000 Жыл бұрын

I can't imagine the look of utter confusion looking through fifty shades of gray and it's actually just shades of gray 😭

@kuau_Queen-kiki-4652 Жыл бұрын

Fr imagin being the security guard looking through all his books

@PiXie232 Жыл бұрын

Probably got a good little laugh;)

@randomas8634 Жыл бұрын

If its a banned book, couldn't they have taken it off him?

@Arkouchie Жыл бұрын

@@randomas8634Nah, banned doesn’t mean from ownership, it means from distribution. If he was trying to sell it, *then* he’d be in trouble

@HopeGrasser 11 ай бұрын

The guy who made it is an absolute genius

@YummyCracker Жыл бұрын

I started to tear up on page 14 when it said “⬜️”. Has to be the saddest quote I’ve ever read, absolutely inspiring 😔

@eklhaft4531 Жыл бұрын

My favourite is #eeeeee

@eklhaft4531 Жыл бұрын

Fun fact if you click the hash tag in my other answer, there actually is a video that shows the exact shade of gray in hex notation 😂

@DarkJusn2020 Жыл бұрын

Ah yes, my favourite shade of gray. *B L U E*

@AxolotlQueen Жыл бұрын

@@DarkJusn2020thats not blue? 😅

@DarkJusn2020 Жыл бұрын

@@AxolotlQueen Hold on what-

@MrInitialMan Ай бұрын

Reminds me of an album called "Best of the Beatles." It had absolutely no song by the Beatles on it--but the artist responsible was Pete Best, the first drummer of the Beatles.

@alexcisneros2980 12 күн бұрын

😂

@therandomelite0 10 күн бұрын

lmao i had no idea about that

@akeem2983 8 күн бұрын

I hoped this would have been an album of sounds made by literal beetles

@CaseyDplays Ай бұрын

It's so sad that he had to comply, likely didn't want to go through a lawsuit over a clear parody.

@dcook9252 22 күн бұрын

Or was it over a gray line?

@timtom4300 20 күн бұрын

Gaaaah@@dcook9252

@wingedfeline5379 17 күн бұрын

Sounds like a moral gray area

@matery77 Жыл бұрын

"The further you get into it, the darker it becomes" 💀💀

@EEEEEEEE Жыл бұрын

E‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

@mamadz Жыл бұрын

My life in a nutshell

@Aditya-vu4ey Жыл бұрын

@@mamadzLMAAAAOO! SAME STUFF HERE!😭🥺😂❤

@RBH69 Жыл бұрын

Just like a hood

@FreddieHg37 Жыл бұрын

Like the E.L. James one

@HungryBones Жыл бұрын

“No officer I didn’t put a bomb on the plane… Or did I?” - Micheal Vsauce

@amadeosendiulo2137 Жыл бұрын

To a fellow passanger: I'm sure we will land safely... or will we?

@GreyGorillaG59 Жыл бұрын

Oxygen masks on planes deploy when the plane begins to loose altitude. Let’s explore how this works..right now 😏

@TZACHI9 Жыл бұрын

😂

@jerryleganker4630 Жыл бұрын

“You see- bomb actually wasn’t a word until the 1850’s so what I have is actually a completely different device”

@EEEEEEEE Жыл бұрын

E‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

@justanotherhappyhumanist8832 2 ай бұрын

I love the author’s sense of humour, and how even the guy’s pecs on the cover are drawn on. Lmao.

@me-ob7yw Ай бұрын

Simove knew what they were doing with that cover

@SamanthaSloth Ай бұрын

IKR! Like, why a shirtless man🤔🤨

@Synaw97 Жыл бұрын

Fifty shades of Gray dialogue > Fifty shades of Grey dialogue

@isaacnelson4503 Жыл бұрын

Some times nothing is better then something.

@newdivide9882 Жыл бұрын

I don’t think I’d ever heard cringeworthy dialogue before I watched Krimsonrogue review Fifty Shades of Grey. I can’t help imagining how many first drafts of unpublished novels are sitting, in barely open drawers across the world. Probably with better dialogue than that published, critically acclaimed book with a whole movie adaptation

@xsanguine8 Жыл бұрын

That's a low bar, and you can clear that by writing down the sounds you hear at a daycare center.

@user-yg6ki7ou2y Жыл бұрын

L take

@user-yg6ki7ou2y Жыл бұрын

W take

@NickAndriadze Жыл бұрын

''The further you get into it, the darker it gets.'' One of the best wordplays I've ever heard.

@luke14946 11 ай бұрын

*becomes, not "gets".

@Tekkenandgaming 10 ай бұрын

@@luke14946same difference

@Voiddity 10 ай бұрын

@Signodan thats cool

@_hrzn 10 ай бұрын

@Signodan👍

@purpleabyss2587 10 ай бұрын

@Signodan ong

@EducatedNation2 Ай бұрын

The fact that the woman who turned her fanfiction into a novel sent another artist a cease and desist is so sad.

@Spacecadet3890 12 күн бұрын

The publishing house did, recording studios do stuff like this too

@EducatedNation2 12 күн бұрын

@@Spacecadet3890 but she was cool with it. She could have stopped them or said something publicly. I know other authors have actively encouraged fanfiction.

@Cyromantik 2 ай бұрын

This is why we can't have good things! Perfect parody like this getting C&D'd is the real crime.

@YoungGandalf2325 Жыл бұрын

I'm not surprised that you were selected for further security screening. The TSA agents probably recognized you and figured you'd have some bizarre stuff in your luggage.

@PedroPedro-sm9oy Жыл бұрын

They were not wrong 💀

@TheTrueXaver Жыл бұрын

they knew who he was, wanted to see what knick knacks he carries around on his person

@EEEEEEEE Жыл бұрын

E‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

@grimsyx6225 Жыл бұрын

TSA: "okay what do we have here? A tungsten cube? 13 soggy cheerios in a plastic bag, 3 books, and a yoyo?"

@prathamkataria7570 Жыл бұрын

Nah he said, "yes I'm Michael... or AM I?"

@F_Man_7822 Жыл бұрын

"the further you get into it the darker it becomes" and he meant it literaly

@johnmartinez7440 Жыл бұрын

Yes, that was indeed the joke.

@Z130U Жыл бұрын

My brain isn't dirty enough to understand this "joke"

@F_Man_7822 Жыл бұрын

@@Z130U dawg its not a lewd thing

@Z130U Жыл бұрын

@@F_Man_7822 maybe I'm just dumb

@doggod9521 Жыл бұрын

@@Z130U "dark" can refer to a shade of a color or as describing something as gloomily pessimistic. Some books become darker as characters die or face tragic situations as the story continues, but this book physically becomes darker with the color of the pages. Hope this helps. :)

@uchicken_ Ай бұрын

what i actually thought fifty shades of gray was when i was younger

@B1ng0_d0g 3 ай бұрын

The 50th page was so sad… 😞 it said “◾️” so sad right?🥺😭 Edit: OMG TY SO MUCH FOR 2k LIKES IVE NEVER GOT THIS MUCH!!!

@lgtakisnow Ай бұрын

the cover of the book 🥴😮‍💨🥵😫😩😏

@eduardomendez9185 Ай бұрын

@@lgtakisnowfr

@randomguy2418 Ай бұрын

Wait till you get to page 68

@crllAlejandroo Ай бұрын

@@lgtakisnowbruh what

@AlexandreLucianoCarneiroPerusi Ай бұрын

@@lgtakisnow🐄🐮🫡

@handledByHandle Жыл бұрын

"the more you go into the book the darker it gets" he really meant it

@GlidingBoulder Жыл бұрын

I bet that agent had a laugh

@smileorgobyebye6330 Жыл бұрын

He *meant* it

@LeonMRr Жыл бұрын

I really wish I could see the face of the airport agent that searched Michael's bag

@Thenoobestgirl Жыл бұрын

They must have laughed their asses off

@HeriEystberg Жыл бұрын

That can be arranged. Would you like it on a silver platter? The price is non-negotiable, but the silver platter is optional.

@ahumanbeing7531 Жыл бұрын

@InstagramUser69you got one video lil boy

@roymackenzie-jy4lr Жыл бұрын

@InstagramUser69good for you

@benonaru Жыл бұрын

@@HeriEystberggo away

@CodMnoobSniper Ай бұрын

Me thinking I don't have what it takes to be a professional writer. Meanwhile professional writers:

@dangabrieloxales Ай бұрын

“Damn this book is getting dark”

@ToxicTurquoise454 Жыл бұрын

Vsauce is the living manifestation of every possible outcome.

@RaspberryTurtle Жыл бұрын

He is one of every multiverse

@zgaming8721 Жыл бұрын

He is the v sauce

@LARAUJO_0 Жыл бұрын

He's a superset

@FueledFromFiction Жыл бұрын

Vsauce _IS_ a canon event 💀

@Suspendedsamuel Жыл бұрын

He’s the living embodiment of Murphy’s law

@GeoN_2605 Жыл бұрын

Welp, that got dark real quick.

@holdingpattern245 Жыл бұрын

it got dark as slowly as possible

@starlight_garden Жыл бұрын

Depends on how long you spend looking at each page.

@randomname285 Жыл бұрын

Boom

@taintwasher3703 Жыл бұрын

nah, it took forever to get dark, i don't think there even was a black page

@teaareuh Жыл бұрын

It had the darkest ending imaginable.

@agoblin9283 2 ай бұрын

This is off topic but it’s always so fascinating to hear a word aloud for the first time after reading it incorrectly your whole life. I’ve always thought riffle was pronounced “rifle” like a gun. But maybe that’s just the American in me. I also want this book so bad lmaoo

@StormyTalks 4 күн бұрын

I thought it was pronounced like the gun too. I'm so confused.

@komi-sanmustbeprotected5665 Жыл бұрын

That book is infinitely more erotic and entertaining than the original

@FatalShotGG Жыл бұрын

You mean demonic 😂

@LunnaxEmo Жыл бұрын

Ain’t no way 2 bots in the same reply

@falzyyy Жыл бұрын

Poor trees🤥🤥🤥

@stevenverhaegen8729 Жыл бұрын

But no anatomy 😂

@jumpcare Жыл бұрын

Erotic barb

@necrozmoem Жыл бұрын

What did the airport security think 💀

@TheBlakus420 Жыл бұрын

Ikr? 😂

@JohnSmith-om6tf Жыл бұрын

I bet Michael was so excited to talk about the book. 😂

@TheBlakus420 Жыл бұрын

@@Pyler.... Nice try, sir bot

@nebula0024 Жыл бұрын

@@JohnSmith-om6tf When airport security asked him about it, the Vsauce music started playing over the PA. Visibly confused, the screening officers looked up at the loudspeakers, when Michael suddenly popped up from the floor right next to them. Before they had a chance to even speak, he started his monologue - "Funny you should ask! This book is actually quite the *novelty* , heh, you see, even though it contains no words...."

@hutvagnerandras2194 Жыл бұрын

They have to use the indefinite article "a" weird book, never "his" weird book.

@sachiko6530 2 ай бұрын

We need a physical court of public opinion for matters like these

@Floof_or_Momo Ай бұрын

I can’t take my eyes from the book cover 😭

@Altarior Жыл бұрын

"You ripped me off!" "I literally didn't copy a single word of your story." "YOU RIPPED ME OOOOOOOOOOFF!! ARREST HIM!!"

@linklink3069 11 ай бұрын

"YOU RIPPED ME OFF" says the person who's book is literal twilight fanfiction.

@jennyross6254 11 ай бұрын

@@linklink3069the author’s excuse: the other man isn’t as hot as jacob tho 😂

@aquibaquil2476 11 ай бұрын

They both have no story

@robinhodson9890 11 ай бұрын

Harsh.

@pa4o93ir49 11 ай бұрын

It was intentionally misleading. If someone saw the cover alone they’d think it’s the actual “50 shades of grey” book.

@manning0 Жыл бұрын

I can imagine the situation, in the airport, security going through his belongings. They flick through the fifty shades of grey book and on realising there are no words, they look up and turn to Michael, only to find him intensely staring at them with a creepy smile.

@mrmastergrimmbo Жыл бұрын

He then broke out into the monologue he says in this video to the entire airport.

@ImmacHn Жыл бұрын

This video was taken at the TSA

@jokuvaanoikee242 Жыл бұрын

*gray

@gama3040 2 ай бұрын

i like how the book serves more purpose than the original one

@YOUR_NARRATOR975 2 ай бұрын

"Sir, what is this?" "Can't you read? It's 50 shades of gray"

@theblackunicorn261 9 ай бұрын

I'm just imagining the TSA agent getting increasingly confused as he flipped through this book

@jeromefitzroy 2 ай бұрын

He was already confused when he saw the cover

@dr.anaB777 2 ай бұрын

It's written with invisible ink, officer. *wink wink * --vsauce, probably

@JohnSkao 2 ай бұрын

*15 minutes looking at the book* AAAWWW now i get it!

@juanignacioc994 2 ай бұрын

Kallen

@treymoney1019 2 ай бұрын

I can only imagine he was getting giddy while explaining the book

@eggmon420 10 ай бұрын

E L James is such a wet blanket. The concept of “Fifty Shades of Gray” is HILARIOUS.

@EEEEEEEE 9 ай бұрын

@Looona_fan 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, he should loosen up.

@vladivosdog 3 ай бұрын

El James

@tomokokurokiirl 2 ай бұрын

it seems like it was the publisher, at least the article says so, it's usually the agency funding it behind such legal action

@ALightforAttractingAttention 2 ай бұрын

@@tomokokurokiirl recent comment noice

@Crustywaffle01 22 күн бұрын

Once he said that it had no words I was thinking “it’s probably gonna just be fifty blank pages of grey”

@IratePuffin Ай бұрын

Honestly, it’s written much better than the other version. 😂

@clockwork8968 Жыл бұрын

The Story of, how the copyright to a barely edited piece of fanfiction got an empty book banned, is the perfect encapsulation of the current stare of copyright.

@jacobc8036 Жыл бұрын

I keep hearing it is fan fiction. Heard is is Twilight Fan Fiction. Care to explain how the two are even related?

@salvatoreshiggerino6810 Жыл бұрын

IANAL, but I would guess this was a trademark thing, not copyright. I don't think this has any material copied from the book, and even if it did, parodies are supposed be considered fair use.

@blackroberts6290 Жыл бұрын

@@jacobc8036 Plot twist: it was a fanfiction of the empty book lmao

@TheJcris87 Жыл бұрын

@@jacobc8036the author literally started writing it as twilight fanfiction, but changed stuff after a while until it became the final result.

@EL-jq1sq Жыл бұрын

@@jacobc8036 Basically it was a modern AU (alternate universe) Twilight fic, James got a book deal and the names were switched. Highly recommend Dan Olson's trilogy on it, goes into more detail and is a very entertaining watch

@spudthechum Жыл бұрын

I really thought Micheal was just really exited to read 50 shades of grey for a sec 😭

@AK_638 Жыл бұрын

I too would be “exited”

@lilsisgay Жыл бұрын

*Michael and *excited

@drflannelxd904 Жыл бұрын

The comment even has misspelled words, just like the published book it references!

@name6953 Жыл бұрын

@@Pyler....Uh f*** you that that's going way too far.

@creativekid473 Жыл бұрын

@InstagramUser69 a bot at a time like this

@Chaos8282 Ай бұрын

Legal action against a publisher does not equal a BAN.

@OwlSyc Ай бұрын

Bout to pull up to a book club with that book 😂

@Mr_Miner_102 11 ай бұрын

Page 50 was heart wrenching, the way he said, “▪️”

@rinsarts9752 11 ай бұрын

😂

@stanleyj9839 9 ай бұрын

but page 27 is more melancholic than page 50, when he said “▫️” I felt it

@angelcoffee1972 9 ай бұрын

Y'all must've over looked page 15 cause I cried when he said "▫️"

@aminthemar 9 ай бұрын

Woooaaah, Spoilers!

@midori7217 9 ай бұрын

It got too dark for me...

@buhnana3092 9 ай бұрын

“Now the guard may have checked it, but under page 27, i had a secret compartment for a firearm”

@tarvoc746 2 ай бұрын

Lmao.

@Jakes_psyche 2 ай бұрын

I could hear a sauce saying this and it would feel 100% normal 😂😂😂

@Tiredchair Ай бұрын

WAIT... THE GUN IS PAPER THIN?!

@remy_ratking Ай бұрын

@@Tiredchair that's kinda a jojo reference lol

@lordzaboem Ай бұрын

I could definitely fit a contraband substance within a book that size.

@MysteryUser18 13 сағат бұрын

The fact that ink and purple aren’t even in the rainbow makes this so much more hilarious

@Chupling 2 ай бұрын

"It gets darker the further you get into it" He knew what he was doing.

@dommoo2 Жыл бұрын

I love how the creator of fifty shades of Gray wrote the book as a Twilight fanfiction and Sue's anyone who tries to take her work and change it

@Sand-Walker13 Жыл бұрын

That's so hypocritical really

@JatPhenshllem Жыл бұрын

Huh.

@TheLegendaryMemeKing Жыл бұрын

Wrong book, you put Gray with an A, which is a banned book that includes fifty shades of the color gray, fifty shades of grey is an award winning novel that I don’t know enough about to continue saying things.

@dommoo2 Жыл бұрын

@@JatPhenshllem kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qd-Fi6ah3tneo3U.html good deep dive into the rabbit hole of how shitt writer of fifty shades of Gray is

@dommoo2 Жыл бұрын

@@TheLegendaryMemeKing also nerd autocorrect changed grey to gray oh also other fun fact If you run fifty shades of Gray through a plagiarism detector somewhere around 80%+ is word for word just twilight she basically just changed the names of Bella and Edward and then when it got to the parts where Edward was going to bite Bella just got really kinky and overly sexual for charicter in a story where they are minors and technically a minor Bella isn't 18 and Edward is 8000000000 but pretends to be under age so it's still kinda gross

@SKPetel Жыл бұрын

I always respect a man who commits to a bit so hard he publishes

@lizard_girl_ Жыл бұрын

fr tho

@ShlanGaming Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@mikek7660 Жыл бұрын

Mans literally published a whole ass book just to troll ROFL

@bobacat26 Ай бұрын

I was looking through your old songs and I didn't expect that a music about a game I had never heard of would hit me like a truck and make me cry, but here we are.

@Futon-chan Ай бұрын

I love this! What a genius 😂

@tristinbell Жыл бұрын

If I was a TSA agent I would go out of my way to check Michael's bags just to see the cool things he's got

@ellendictaan7788 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂same

@maria-melek Жыл бұрын

Exactly 😂😂😂

@TheSacredCowtipper88 Жыл бұрын

Thats we in the buisness would call "a dick move"

@marnenotmarnie259 Жыл бұрын

@@TheSacredCowtipper88is that not the whole business

@pedrolopes3542 Жыл бұрын

And that is why monody likes TSA's...

@David-wj3qt Жыл бұрын

Not only is the title similar, it also has an erotic cover. Whoever made that book knew exactly what they were doing lol.

@tarod3 Жыл бұрын

Yes, but isn’t that protected under satire?

@unicornkitteh5332 Жыл бұрын

@@tarod3i think for like copyright laws, it only has to be 20 or 30% different.... id say that definitely applies here 🤷🏻‍♀️ they shouldve rolled with the cease & desist and see how far it goes lol

@conorhallahan9625 Жыл бұрын

@@unicornkitteh5332right funny enough the book being empty means it would most likely win the case due to it not being similar enough to the other book to actually break copyright.

@SM-yz4hi Жыл бұрын

@tarod3 I believe copyright law says that if there is a reasonable chance consumers will mistake one product for another (therefore impacting the original product’s sales) then the product is in violation. Since it features a sensual cover AND the exact same title with a single-letter difference (most consumers won’t remember whether the original series was grey or gray) I believe it’s a pretty clear case. I’m not an expert though

@AJayZy Жыл бұрын

@@SM-yz4hiWell as another non-expert, you do make a lot of sense. The gray author would probably just rolled with it if he could have won the case.

@CyborgLord 18 күн бұрын

Even his shirt has math problems on it

@TAGfrost Ай бұрын

I have a feeling that this guy did it as a statement that publications don't even bother to read the contents of the book to figure out if they're similar enough to warrant a cease and desist. The guy proved his point so he didn't fight it.

@greyowlaudio Жыл бұрын

Michael becoming one of us booktubers is maybe the best thing that ever happened to humanity.

@logandunlap9156 Жыл бұрын

he’s not, this is just another curiosity. not unlike the other little trinkets he’s shown in the past. two occurrences does not make a pattern

@greyowlaudio Жыл бұрын

@@logandunlap9156 Deny it all you want. Bsauce is coming.

@mooz420 Жыл бұрын

yes!!! michael please review more books!!!!!

@Connection-Lost Жыл бұрын

wow that's so unusual to see book nerds acting like they're in a special group

@greyowlaudio Жыл бұрын

@@Connection-Lost I don't get the anger. My comment wasn't meant like that, and calling people nerds isn't the best way to get your point across. 😕

@everettkehl8520 Жыл бұрын

Michael the kinda guy to lace his bag with some hazardous chemical so he can get his bag searched and show off his prized book collection

@isaacnelson4503 Жыл бұрын

“Why can’t I move!” “Hey Vsauce Michael here. You’ve been laced with a non fatal paralytic so I could talk about fifty shades of gray a book with no words but the further you go through the darker it gets.” “NOT AGAIN, HOW DID YOU GET IN HERE AGAIN.”

@NPC-nn4qe Ай бұрын

I want this book SO BAD, now!

@GreatAdapter Ай бұрын

Fr I thought it said "fifty shades of gay" 💀

@RedRhys64 Жыл бұрын

The "author" should've fought it, that is 100% protected under parody law

@pa4o93ir49 11 ай бұрын

It was intentionally misleading. If someone saw the cover alone they’d think it’s the actual “50 shades of grey” book.

@reddytoplay9188 11 ай бұрын

@@pa4o93ir49he was ceased and desist on copyright not misleading.

@TimeTravelingFetus 11 ай бұрын

@premiumaccount4166 Is that illegal?

@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive 11 ай бұрын

@@pa4o93ir49 How does The Asylum film studio stay in business with their mockbusters designed to trick unaware parents and children at Redbox kiosks? (And formerly rental stores.)

@sirrowland3397 11 ай бұрын

@@TimeTravelingFetus monster seems to think it is

@XboxNowYT 11 ай бұрын

Vsauce just stares at the front cover all day

@N20006 9 ай бұрын

💀

@wisteria7961 9 ай бұрын

i mean shit i would too

@JacobandTweetyGaming 9 ай бұрын

@@wisteria7961WHAT

@doodoo2065 9 ай бұрын

@@JacobandTweetyGaming They said "i mean shit i would too"

@ryyyyyyn 9 ай бұрын

i would too ;)

@FlwxX Ай бұрын

Wow this is an amazing layout well done

@DJKBK88 24 күн бұрын

"The worldwide best seller" at the top was too much 😂

@Pleasestoptalkingthanks Жыл бұрын

Book design is truly fascinating. They are a treasure, a work of art in their own form and function. We need more books such as this, or House of Leaves, which seek to perform similarly.

@SneedFeedAndSeed Жыл бұрын

To Kill A Mockingbird: an actual guide to hunting mockingbirds 1984: a review of all major events that happened in the year 1984

@nitebreak Жыл бұрын

love that, house of leaves which is a book with different houses with leaves on them

@colemorgan3356 Жыл бұрын

@@nitebreaknah a miniature house made out of leaves

@colemorgan3356 Жыл бұрын

Also HOUSE OF LEAVES REFERENCE?? IN THE WILD?????

@nitebreak Жыл бұрын

@@colemorgan3356 okay but it has to be in a book tho

@BadgerAmongMen Жыл бұрын

They really missed the opportunity to use the nipple as an O

@TheMobMaster Жыл бұрын

@@goacoa"of"

@amadeosendiulo2137 Жыл бұрын

Now it's Fifty shades ofo gray.

@EEEEEEEE Жыл бұрын

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@meowmeow1248 Жыл бұрын

yoo nice pfp you use the imperium of mankind aquilla!!

@Yusso Жыл бұрын

@@amadeosendiulo2137 Fifty Shades of O 😁 .. Story of O is a similar book for those who don't know

@Dingus888 2 күн бұрын

Gray is one of my favorite colors. I didn't start to appreciate it until my mid 20s but ever since, gray has been beautiful and more present. Teal is still my fav tho

@BobyChanMan Ай бұрын

that'll make for a funny historical anecdote in 2000 years

@ShedSimove Жыл бұрын

You found a rare copy of my book! Amazing! Sending you all my best, Shed 👍⭐️

@shelbylynn9 Жыл бұрын

No kidding! Thank you for this work of art. It is a valued contribution to the culture of humanity. I’m sorry to hear that its life was cut short. Take care, buddy!

@ShedSimove 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Shelby! Where's my kniighthood?! 🤣 @@shelbylynn9

@zanzaboonda Ай бұрын

I wish I could find a copy! So sad. But I imagine those who bought it aren't letting it go, and I can't blame them for that.

@Griefer_Jesus Жыл бұрын

That book is so dumb. I need it

@EEEEEEEE Жыл бұрын

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@Depressed_Spider Жыл бұрын

Monkey brain moment.

@dannyboy_21 Жыл бұрын

Gotta know how to read between the lines to understand the message 😂😂

@iqgamer5085 Жыл бұрын

It’s a marketing strategy that fools people on buying the book! It was a quick buck! Darn it genius!

@lonestar2078 Жыл бұрын

found a similar book "The Real Fifty Shades of Grey." and now I need to buy it for my best friend because she hates the erotic novel xD

@Tiagocf2 Ай бұрын

I FKING LOST IT WITH THE literal 50 SHADES OF GRAY LMAO 😂

@Path6627 10 күн бұрын

They should have teamed up. It’s a great gag gift.

@Luschan Жыл бұрын

I like to imagine that this is word for word the explanation he gave to airport security.

@samevans4834 Жыл бұрын

They heard the music too

@pooplicker889 Жыл бұрын

Michael really tried getting us to stare at a guys nipple for 10 seconds 💀

@donxx1206 Жыл бұрын

tried no he did

@johnmartinez7440 Жыл бұрын

You were the one staring at them specifically

@eelamite 11 ай бұрын

fr Fifty shades of areola 💀💀

@pooplicker889 11 ай бұрын

@@eelamite 😭😭

@ByakuyaKB 11 ай бұрын

@@eelamitethat would be a great book actually, entertaining and informative all while having visual aid

@jenniferh.2150 Ай бұрын

This is technically protected under 1A as satire.

@wieway_yessir_cheezit 5 күн бұрын

“who’s the main character?” “well… uh, its complicated”😭

@dannymartial7997 11 ай бұрын

I suspect it was Michael’s beard that got him “randomly selected”

@iloveboo64 11 ай бұрын

I understand that reference

@thefortnitehiders292 9 ай бұрын

But he's super pale

@rahulvats95 9 ай бұрын

@@thefortnitehiders292 It's never too pale to not blow an aeroplane.

@Tzavaot 9 ай бұрын

@@thefortnitehiders292 Islam isn't a race

@arishachoudhury_ 9 ай бұрын

OMG I JUST REALISED

@lightning_11 Жыл бұрын

Plot twist, the agent just recognized him and wondered what he was reading this time.

@Anthony-ct1kl 9 ай бұрын

Then the Michael vsause theme song starts playing 🗿

@monicagrorud2225 8 ай бұрын

@@Anthony-ct1klyes

@norrin_falk 2 ай бұрын

I thought the pseudo twist was for them to argue the title was actually "Fifty Shades of Nipple"

@lpsjewel 2 ай бұрын

Man, that would’ve be a great book for swatch matching for wings of fire Nightwing plushies.

@Burn_Angel Жыл бұрын

The book becomes darker as it progresses. That's kinda poetic, if you think about it.

@Burn_Angel Жыл бұрын

@goobelius.gjoobert I know, I know. But "the book becomes darker as it progresses" means something completely different if we were to talk about literally any other book, haha.

@Bout_TreeFiddy Жыл бұрын

Further explanation required. No, please don't.

@Phantom914 Жыл бұрын

George Lucas: It's kinda like poetry, the way it rhymes.

@sebp9882 Жыл бұрын

Bernkastel spotted

@Burn_Angel Жыл бұрын

@@sebp9882 Nipah~

@Mermete8 Жыл бұрын

Such good re-readability. depending on the time of day, the pages are darker or lighter. Especially varied under artificial light sources like a flashing purple neon. so many possible endings to this masterpiece

@gavinhill731 11 ай бұрын

It's truly amazing how many perspectives there are, and each one is heavily backed by sources such as flourecent, led, and natural

@RainbowFlowerCrow 11 ай бұрын

@@gavinhill731How incandescent!

@m23-00 Ай бұрын

His chair is almost a perfect normal distribution curve.

@darkin1484 Жыл бұрын

Walks up to airport security: "Hey Vsauce, Michael here. This book is 50 shades of gray, or is it"

@merlinho0t 11 ай бұрын

The man that wrote this masterpiece knows his audience appreciate sexy male covers and various fascinating shades of the color gray. 10/10, 5 stars on Goodreads.

@kennylux 29 күн бұрын

This is one of my favorite books of all time. To this day I remember the quote:

@JSheerXeno54 Ай бұрын

that book cover makes it apparent that it was making fun of the real thing XD

@ManyArmedMooseDei Жыл бұрын

Finally! A book that’s pleasing to the mind of us who sometimes have trouble with the concept of metaphors!

@EmiMac20 Ай бұрын

Now, THAT’S a neat art project. 🤣

@eshxn4 18 күн бұрын

the music queue right when he pulls put the book is perfect 😂

@musics4me Жыл бұрын

Can't imagine airport security flipping through my yaoi books

@aiaugustine6548 11 ай бұрын

😭

@tooblis 10 ай бұрын

Can't wait*

@kingofcalories 10 ай бұрын

Why do women by yaoi books?

@lartts7483 10 ай бұрын

@@kingofcaloriesWhy do men buy yuri books?

@commander_jat0580 10 ай бұрын

@@lartts7483What is that?

@crispyandspicy6813 9 ай бұрын

"This is my book that's banned and difficult to get a copy" *Pulls out Mein Kampf*

@olgerkhan9331 8 ай бұрын

Not in its full form. There are versions of it with debunk passages but an original is highly illegal. Tbh as a leftist id like to read it to know what it is about but im not interested in a highly censored version.

@birb2330 8 ай бұрын

@@myNameIsNot-Not in my country, actually one person recently rented Mein Kampf from the bookstore, no one has done that since 1962

@thelakeman2538 8 ай бұрын

That book's more or less legal in most places, even in Germany it's only illegal if you are printing it to disseminate any political belief against the German constitution, so just selling it for educational purposes is fine.

@Mika-85 8 ай бұрын

Its not illegal anywhere 🤷‍♂️

@user-pi3ck9hd2x 6 ай бұрын

Wow... Props to the people of your country I guess...@@birb2330

@CzechMirco Ай бұрын

Printing of this book must have been a hell for the printing house.

@bearclaw1480 9 күн бұрын

The fact that you were bringing that monstrosity onto a plane is why you got extra screenings

@nanduschka Жыл бұрын

He is the epitome of: "They had us in the first half, not gonna lie"

@cryptid_cactus Жыл бұрын

imagine the confusion of someone's appalled mother finding a book with THAT cover and then turn the pages just to realize it contains 50 shades of gray paper