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Who Owns The Statue of Liberty?
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I love how much personality these videos give different government bodies, it's such a fun and accessible way to learn history
Yeah! That's what makes me love these videos. I particularly love this video because New York radiates such sassy twin sister energy that's so entertaining.
I was literally thinking that to myself as I was scrolling through the comments; and then I see this comment.
they are government bodies after all
I like to imagine that if the world's oceans all dried up, New Jersey would technically own all of it as part of this pact and become a megastate as the ensuing apocalypse began.
oh my god
@iliveinasquare my thoughts exactly
New Jersey just figured out how to become the biggest state
“Not so small *NOW,* am I?”
@iliveinasquare global warming plot......
Only grey could make the civil war look like an argument between two Girl Scout troops
😂😂😂😂
It wasn't?!?
Clearly, you haven't seen anime. They made the Japanese Imperial Navy look lovable.
This realization makes the video more fun to watch.
alice li I thought it was!
"You know what would be on the New Jersey side? The gift shop."
Grey... You could have very well plunged all of New England into civil war if any body with actual political power had been watching the video in that moment.
Breaking News: Civil War between New Jersey and New York uprising, the reason is due to question of who own the..... gift shop or liberty island????
Breaking News: New England breaks into civil war over land dispute completely outside New England
@NateStorm12
Am I missing something?
Are NY and NJ not parts of what's considered "New England"?
@hhiippiittyy Yeah neither of them are New England. New England is Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
@NateStorm12
Cool, ty. I always thought it went all the way down to Pennsylvania.
TIL otherwise.
I only now noticed but the subtle hand movement of America towards her holster at 3:24 onwards - and New York getting the gist of it with a very quick look - is genius!
That one is really tricky to get
Omg I didn't even notice
America gun
@JellyAntz gun america
Nicholas Natale guneria
4:59 The US calling France a bitch is my favourite CGP Grey easter egg yet.
Grey: You know what would be on the New Jersey side?
Me: oh no
Grey: The gift shop.
Me: *oh no*
Last time i was there they were building a new gift shop
BRO NOTHINgS BAD ABOUT THE GIFT SHOP. I LIVE IN NJ >:(
@Kowciller bringing in the heat
I just Googled and found that the sales taxes from the gift shop go to New York.
Do with that as you will.
@King Nothing Ugh, Can’t NJ and NY just go to war already?
Ah yes new york logic, the Hudson totally doesn’t flow out to sea like every other river in the world, it just takes a quick detour around Staten Island
logic is contextual when you have the power to state what logic means.
I'm assuming that electricity in New York follows the path of highest resistance.
@Cenentury0941 in New York escalator rides you!
…what?
@Max Soto We’re reaching fetish levels that shouldn’t even be possible!
may pog
I just think the little animation of Grey glaring at liberty island as the fireworks go off for a 4th time is this channel’s peak
3:41
“If you don’t share the doll I will guarantee both of you that I will take it back”
Love: Aunt France 🇫🇷
@A-E what
@A-E There is no stronger military in countries that own thermonuclear bombs just 2 devastated countries
@Ψ Воинomme that didn't make sense bruv
@CommanderDoom91 I think he meant "Between 2 countries with thermonuclear bombs there is no stronger military just 2 devastated countries" basically if countries have atomic bombs both of them can destroy the other so neither of them have a stronger military.
@A-E Vietnam enters the chat.
'England said, "Whatever, your problem now," and left the colonies to 300 years of squabbling.'
Haha that is so like England.
England: am I forgeting something.
New Jersey and New York: my Islands! (Add verbatum for 300 years)
Brits draw bad borders
Nathaniel Tesfaye that's the point
British Dennis the Menace > the US one :-P .
Not really. The Indians were squabbling over everything before the British came, and resumed as soon as they left.
With all those caste & religious problems, it was inevitable.
Your videos are so perfectly hilarious! I love all the little hints and nudges to *major* problems in history. People like you make me want to learn history rather than avoid it :)
That moment when you realize cgp grey made a 7.5 minute long video just to start an argument between New York and New Jersey over who owns a gift shop
What would we do without him?! :]
+
To be fair, it’s a pretty important gift shop
@MitchLmitten / I bet you it's less than 1/10 of NYC's gift shop revenue. As for the State... less than 1/100.
So, where does the money (consequently tax as well) from the gift shop currently go to? Is it NY?
I'd love to see an anime series of just New Jersey and New York duelling it out over the Statue of Liberty.
Gotta ask Hetalia lolol. I also think having Columbia, Johnny Reb, and Billy Yank should be in it too. Bascially i want all 50 states. PR and Mexico involved.
Hetaila ghffh
I cannot express enough how much I love the cute stick figure characters, I legit re-watched this video because of how adorable they are
So I'm not the only one.
xenotypos metoo
I agree, gift shops are WAY more important than ANY statue could ever be.
I love that France was about to correct "bffs, forever" being redundent
France actually did correct. :D
Watch again with .25x speed. there's one frame you can only see in slow speed.
@Kashif Khoso Thank you, this has made my day!
I see it as Best French-speaking Friends Forever
@Pallas Athena Yass
I like how fireworks go off every time Grey says "Liberty Island".
I love how you had the fireworks every time liberty island was mentioned. A lesser videomaker would've backed down after making the joke 2 or 3 times but you took it all the way.
🎆Smallpox!🎆
I like how it dialed up to 11 when the fort was built. :)
It reminds me of History With Hilbert, with the Dutch national anthem
Would like but it has 666 likes
@TheManWithNoName Lol thanks for letting me know
wild to think that this is the video that eventually led to Grey, in August of 2020, releasing a video explaining how he mistook submarine-based nuclear missiles for land-based nuclear missiles.
Who Owns Statue of Liberty -> What is Federal Land -> Research for "What are Reservations" leads to Grey bumbling onto the Tekoi site -> multiple videos about Tekoi (+ 3? small asides for tumbleweeds) -> correction to Tekoi explanation, as well as compelling him to release the directors cut
Oh there was also over 34 hours of driving footage, plus a timelapse and -a- two vlogs
I have to say, the stick figures of France and the fledgling United States fighting side by side to carve out a foothold for the new nation hit me right in my patriotic feels. We haven't forgotten our shared history! Vive la France!
Love how Grey made New Jersey and New York like a sisters’ rivalry
You have insanely expressive stick figures.
Riffi the Camel 141st like
It's cause he's added fingers and eyebrows on his models. Even in his newest video, he's added animation.
I’m ur 1k like. Be thankful. 😝
Drew Mckinnon no one cares.
Except himself
I didn't even know that the statue of liberty had ownership. I always just thought it was owned by the state as a whole since you know, the french sorta gave it to them. It never occurred to me exactly what state owned it. Thanks for the video.
I always love the personification of countries and states in your videos. It's amazing.
English Tea yeah
@Smarteverything You don't have to say yeah, you can just Like the comment.
@Rob yeah
Yeah.
Yeah
Love the fact that Grey puts on a second pair of glasses while reading
“Let me put on my slightly larger glasses.” -Maurice Moss from The IT Crowd
As someone who lives and grew up in New Jersey, I've often heard this debate but never truly knew what the answer was. I feel like a life long question i've been asking has been answered, thank you!!!
It should be noted that NY, especially in the late 1700s/early 1800s, was probably so hell bent on holding on to as much territory as possible because they had just lost Vermont and didn’t want to lose more land (likely especially in fear that the rest of its upstate land could leave).
OMG, I just realize the ships in the river at 4:00 are called Gibbons and Ogden, after the supreme court case Gibbons v. Ogden, the court case that gave the federal government the power to regulate interstate commerce. Nice touch, Grey.
Also, even nicer touch with the hidden frame at 4:59.
After 3 years I only just noticed it. Noice
Fund it too😂
As a U.K citizen, this one got me: 'We have yet to talk about the squabble over the land, below the water, yes really.'
“Who owns the Statue of Liberty?”
Me who is incredibly smart: America
America= North America+South America
USA=United States
@CJMapping
The Americas = North America + South America = América
America = USA = Estadounidense
América ≠ America
"América", the continent, does not exist in English. What you're referring to is "The Americas." When speaking English, "America" only refers to the USA.
@CJMapping yeah fun fact no. Well sort of yes we are both right but your point has no valid ground. In the USA and most of the English world there is seven continents America not being one of them, instead America is known as the country. In parts of the non English world there is 6 (or less) continents America referring one of them instead of the country. Neither is wrong because continents are arbitrary so people can call the USA America all they wish.
@revil sanjiani no the liberty is on land not liberty Island
It technically belongs to france
2:59 We need more stick figures flipping pixelated birds. 😄 Great video, as always, CGP Grey!
Grey, you are so gosh darn funny. I am a hands-off Tim. I have never driven for a hotstopper, sent you a Christmas card, nor participated in your Reddit community. I want you to know that there is a contingency of people who listen to your podcast and genuinely love your YT channel who exist, and love you, and think you're awesome. Keep up the great work CGP Grey. Long live Flaggy Flag.
"Whoop NO! New York would tell the court to get bent!" I love this
This guy always makes his videos so funny and yet he always gets the point across in an educational way! SNAPS FOR YOU!!
It's ridiculous stories like this that make me love history.
I claim Liberty Island as an overseas territory of Arizona
I claim Liberty island as a colony of Colorado
Lol... Clearly Hawaii owns those islands
I’d say they're apart of Canada.
French statue, French territory.
Vive le France.
??? We all know it's the last remaining part of the ottoman empire.
*Fun Fact:* The Statue of Liberty was initially designed for Egypt to be placed in the Suez Canal in 1867. The Khedivate of Egypt had proposed creating a work as wondrous as the pyramids or sphinxes. Bartholdi then designed a colossal woman holding up a lamp and wearing the loose fitting dress of a "fellah" to stand as a lighthouse at the entrance of the Suez Canal. The Egypt deal fell through, so Bartholdi decided to adventure to America.
*Correction:* The statue wasn't sent to America as a gift, it was constructed in Paris by Bartholdi and was crowdfunded mostly by a man called Joseph Pulitzer, an American newspaper magnate, who helped him finish the job by printing the names of every person who donated to the cause. Which, obviously, made every American donate to see their names printed in the newspaper (so American right?)
It was sent for gift
You got source on any of that?
@Nexus source: bro just trust me
@ShotgunSideshow lmao
@Nexus pure bs, he had to correct his bs
No idea if you'll ever read this Grey, but it would have been cool to paint the Statue of Liberty in its original copper color. The green coating comes from patina, a kind of "copper rust". It's a fun tidbit that probably most people don't know about.
I really like how cute but also simple your characters are
50 years latter......
New Jersey: Since rising sea levels will puts the entire island underwater....everything belongs to us now.
New York: But because The Statue of Liberty still exists above the water, therefore the statue itself is within our borders, despite being federal land
@Frooglet Animations oh yes, the "bigger stick strategy"
I mean if below becomes above is new jersey's then above becomes below should technically still be new york's land under new jersey's water which i don't know if it exists elsewhere or it would be unique to this
NY: Well now I plant 20 million more trees and the water goes back down! Its ours now.
4:53 I mean, unless there is really heavy fog that doesn`t allow you to say further than around 400 meters, and unless you strategically plan your route, it is almost impossible to reach the Statue without seeing anything else of the US.
"Possibly because neither state has noticed"
CGP, Are you trying to start a war with this video...
Maybe
Emmanuel Prado eat your cereal
As a New Yorker, i shall go get the guns ready for war.
The story about New York dumping the dirt dug up in New Jersey's half of the river is just priceless.
thank you so much for explaining things in realistic terms ie those of obnoxious schoolchildren because i cannot take history like this seriously when it tries to take itself seriously
Super late, but I always thought that Liberty Island was federal land...and I think that would be better than having the Statue of Liberty in just 1 state.
I really like how you explained this. I just learned about the colonies but the way you said it made it entertaining as well educational
I find it so fascinating that if you're willing to do the digging, there are no simple answers.
Me: Oh look, an old video of CGP Grey that I have never watched.
Also me: No wait *THAT'S A NEW UPLOAD*
I'm glad I'm not the only one who did that.
wait this is a new upload
same, I ignored the bell
Exactly my thought! :D
It seems like one of his old bideos
Yo Grey your vids are pretty awesome! Really appreciate you and your work! ✌🏼
I love your videos about New Jersey and New York. They always make me laugh because you are showing them like two little kids, having an "it's mine" discussion about two islands and land. But showing the dispute like that actually resembles the truth. The dispute IS childish. (and funny to watch)
Amazing animation! I’m learning a lot!
You should do more state disputes! Like the Toledo War between Ohio and Michigan
Needlessly convoluted and pedantic… Brilliant! I love how terrible all of that was
CGP Grey should explain all the “story for another time” parts into one video
That would take a decade to make real in CGP timeline style.
"is another story and shall be told another time"
I can clearly hear Grey's smile when he talks about the gift shop
Great video. I had no idea the boundary dispute was so colorful. Kind of like the ongoing squabble we have in NH with Maine by Portsmouth.
I love the inclusion of Ontario in the “interesting territorial acquisition strategy” at 5:59.
Great videos and concept. PLEASE DO MORE LIKE THIS.
I love this rivalry between the two states. It's like two brothers fighting over who gets to play on the xbox next.
Thanks Gray, if it appears on the news that New Jersey and New York or fighting over the gift shop and liberty Island, we know who to thank!
I can't wait, either. Gonna be great.
Yeah, great move Gray, for real
You spelt Grey wrong
@Nathan Lim no grey and gray are both accepted in the English language. Gray tends to be used more by Americans and grey by the English.
@kellyness Not if it's a name.... It's a name: CGP Grey. :)
I’m a big fan of Grey, and I have watched all the videos several times. This one is still one of the most complicated ones. Is there chart that ranks concept/video complexity somewhere ?
I'm a bit of a stickler for historical accuracy... at 4:42 the battle scene stickfigures depict the French soldier with a republic flag (current French tricolor) but it should have been a monarchist flag (white with gold fleurs de lys). As always, another very interesting and informative video.
But some people won’t understand which flag it is.
wow, haven't thought of that yet. you have good eyes
If we're bringing up period flags, the flag of New York before 1901 also had buff field like New Jersey instead of the current blue one.
CGP Grey: *makes a 7 minute and 29 second long video about who owns the Statue of Liberty*
Also CGP Grey: *doesn’t give an actual answer at the end.*
I love how many easter eggs grey puts in his videos that I don't even notice until I go to the comments
I thought by 1832, it was confirmed that the Supreme Court had authority over interstate disputes. De Tocqueville discusses it in his book Democracy in America, which was written 1832-3.
Turning states into squabbling little girls is something I though Japan would have came up with first, good job. I found it funny and entertaining more than I would have thought.
but japan thought of cartoons having sex first so its even
also they dont have states
honestly they might have states idk do they have states
@Luke Amendolara They do they just use a different name.
they already have just that they turned state states into characters, not us states. (not part of us so irrelevant to japan)
Thank you for making my visit to Liberty Island feel 10 times more absurd
Please keep making videos!!! These are wonderful!!
As someone from New Jersey, I hereby claim the area of Liberty Island that contains just the gift shop specifically as part of NJ. Everything else New York can just have
Such a great and fun video this was, thoroughly enjoyed it :D
I love whenever liberty island is mentioned, the fireworks display goes off 😂
"Breaking news: A video from youtuber sensationalist CGP Grey has just sparked a new legal battle between New Jersey and New York over who own The Statue of Liberty's gift shop"
Soon, Soon.
it doesn't matter who owns the statue. whoever owns the gift shop makes money off the statue and whoever owns the statue spends money maintaining the statue
so does the gift shop have New York sales tax or New Jersey sales tax??
Bruht but multiple parties can profit off a tourist attraction just by being close regardless of actual ownership, a new gift shop potentially means half the profit, though half is better than none.
Wait, let me grab some popcorn.
Love your stuff!!! Your tone, pace and tongue in cheek moments are magnificent!!! Love from 🏴
Never thought a bunch of stick figures could be so cute! You really nailed their expressions
I love how France pointed at New Jersey saying “BFFs, France. BFFs, Forever!”, specifically at “Forever!” potentially showing that France is like “Ummmm actually, technically there was one time I was against you we don’t talk about…. But it technically wasn’t my fault….”
Correction: U.S. said it
June 17, 2019- Wow. I am very impressed.. I am glad that you made this video... All these years.. I had read articles and books and never understood anything about it.. Today just now.. I watched and listen.. I finally understand
WHY??? Because your animated really helped me out on everything.. Not only animated and also your narrator helped me out too..
THANK YOU.. soooo much... Now I understand everything.. I loved your video. Two thumps up for you.. I love your other videos too...
Great job dude!♥️🤗😍🥰😄😅😂🤣🤗♥️😍
Your video was an easy history.. books are difficult and not easy history
When you visit New York.. on the cars license plate. You'll see the Statue of liberty. It seems to be it belongs to New York..
Is this the only time CGP has said ”…a story for another time” and actually made another video for it?
Smash the thumbs up button if you’d like to see a multipart video series called “What Is FEDERAL LAND Like What Does It Mean (For real though?)”
georgemachappy Bureau of Livestock and Minerals
With a 3-part segment on America's unconstitutional overseas island territories. Yes.
im not even (US) american and i want to see that(?)
Phil Ad which is the reason I want it.
Reminds me of
"Hollywoo Stars and Celebrities: What do they know? Do they know things?? Let's find out!"
Damn you've gotten really good at making stick figures work
CGP Grey: *mentions Liberty Island*
Firework: Ah shit, here we go again
1:01 At long last: the glasses behind the glasses.
He said that this videois monumental to him, and I absolutely AGREE. It is the most revoutional, and crystallized he current CGP style
One of those things I never thought about. I always was under the impression that all of Liberty Island was Federal land.
i love that you can hear him smiling when he says “the gift shop”
Also, when there was the NY blackout in 2003 and NJ still had power, the statue was still lit up, prompting one newspaper to run a headline questioning who she belonged to. The image of her lit up with a background of a black NYC was striking.
FemGeek anyone have a link to this picture? I wanna see it
@Michael Ryan Here's an article with the picture a bit into it: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2389280/The-day-lights-went-New-York-marks-years-city-sleeps-went-dark.html
Snattlerake ty
Quite big middle finger by the NJers eh?
The very second that the words “the only thing more important than who owns the monument .... “ came out, I burst into laughter, because, OF COURSE it comes down to who owns the gift shop and concession stands!
Well done. Thank you. I love it. It’s like Schoolhouse Rock for the 21st Century.
I always thought of ms liberty as a NY landmark, every time I drive into Brooklyn and past the Rockefeller building i’d see it and never thought of NJ 😅
These political and historical videos are great!!!!
The gift shop moment made me so ridiculously happy!
This video made me realize I want to watch an Anime with all the US states as girls in a small private school and then watch their wacky antics over an entire school year with plotlines drawn from events in US history.
There is an anime like that, but it is countries instead
Let's petition Japan
Yay fo Hetalia! Make a girls version now!
@Existere quo make it yourself
@Sam Bishara What's the name?
If I had a nickel for every time "a story for another time" has been said, I would be a very rich man.
I had always assumed liberty island was federal land considering the statue was a gift to the entire country, not one for New York.
Esta ocorrendo algo parecido agora no Brasil, com o estado do Ceará e o estado do Piauí
It is so interesting that English used to say numbers like "four and twentieth", like German does today. I found a 19th century accounting transcript from my great great grandfather, who was a German farmer, that spelt out numbers like "zwanzig-vier", so the modern day English system.
The museum collection (including the old Torch) was moved out of the Statue base into a new museum building on the New Jersey side of the island in 2019.
Supreme Court: how did the island get bigger?
New York: idk
On trash
New Jersey: uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I mean, how does anything get anything, when it comes down to it, y'know?
I made it 1K
New york: *d i r t*
Wait I thought that they had samples layers from the island and found that most of the land was pretty much made out of dumping trash in rubble from both sides. Both sides I guess had certain markers and their construction material that was dumped there. At least that's what one of the Museum's I visited had said. But I was just a tourist walking through mainly listening to someone else talk about it. It wasn't even the main event I went to sea. But that's what what are the tour guides was telling people.
Grey sounded completely overjoyed when he talked about the expansion of Liberty Island.
As was I
I love how Grey put on a second pair of glasses to read the unreadable cursive