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Your video is literally on the goonstation wiki for the blob.
I wish my teachers would have talked this way. I absorbed everything in that video so easily compared to weeks of talking and overhead projector nonsense.
Can you do Volcano Snail?
@Ze Frank Just had someone trying to mimic your account claiming I just won a prize and to text a Telegram account! Reported the comment as spam.
You should do an episode about A sexual reproduction in multicellular organisms
As a molecular biologist who worked with DNA for many years, can confirm the way ZeFrank read out the DNA sequence is exactly what we do in lab. All day. Everyday.
Friggin' science hippies.
silly science hippy!
2:28
I was chortling throughout this whole video, but I absolutely lost it at "It looks like a Goth sinus infection..." You are a *TREASURE*, ZeFrank, you truly are.
I loved the very last one xD
"Looks like what happens when my dog gets into the blueberries" 😆
Can I get a ten minute video of ZeFrank just reading DNA sequences? It sounds like ASMR to me for some reason.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
People with polymastia listened to the whole thing :( F
I was taking a drink at that moment
"...but what's _a-maze-ing_ (kill me)" completely broke me down into fits of goofy laughter.
Well, even more so than the constant stream of giggles already taking place.
ZeFrank, you are my childhood. Thank you for being awesome and hilarious for however many years it’s been!
The number of people in the "Teddy" vid comments saying similar is incredible. Man iz genius u huh youbetcha
Hear, hear! I feel we grew up together, he just doesn't know me. Feels weird. Kinda unjust.
so while i regret watching this while eating, this is by far one of the most fascinating subjects you've covered. more molds and fungi!!
Lol, I've been munching through pizza crackers and wine and I didn't even think of that! 😄
It's impressive how it's 100% education and 100% comedy. They don't cut into eachother at all, perfect fusion cuisine of the two.
@theoriginalpauly yep when it's done right it can be absolutely amazing to see
Sometimes I have to go back several times to appreciate all the intricacies of educational comedy.
@Apsoy Pike yep but it can also be equally terrifying
Nature is comedy.
I do a lot of work in the woods in Oregon, and I always love coming across the different slime molds! I've mostly seen bright yellow ones, but occasionally I'll spot an orange one. I always take pictures of them, just in case I bump into the same slime mold again. I've got pictures of the same yellow slime mold from the morning and afternoon on the same day, and it's impressive how much it changed in a few hours!
Is this art, comedy, educational content? Or is this simply awesome? This channel is amazing
@Metal Mama Sue I like the one on celephods.
AND ...check out the Peacock spiders episode with the should be smash hit ..Shiney Hiney. It's true art and you can dance to it...I do...shakin my rear like it could knit a sweater...it's awesome... really...
Check out his video on Killer Surfing Snails and Tree/Leaf Hoppers. They're all so good, but those are personal favorites. Zefrank videos are always a treasure.
Answer ..yes..a thing can be more than just that one thing at any given time. And the best things like this, are..
educomarty?
this whole series was so helpful in my "sex, evolution, and behaviour" course last semester I am so grateful for the oodles of examples to apply when discussing animal sexuality
This is the first time ever I've been able to sit through nonstop images of amoeba because the desire to experience the content is greater than my squeamishness and disgust.
Like, since a kid in school, I could not. Congrats, Ze Frank. Your comedy has cured a life long condition.
Don't worry, the slime-mould can give that back to you! 😄
I've been following Ze / True Facts for close to seven years now. I can't think of any other channel that has done a better job creating content of continually improving quality while keeping the spark that made it so great to begin with. Ze cracks me up just as much as the first video I ever say (True Facts about the Mantis Shrimp), but can now make me go slack-jawed with awe, or even tear up at times. Thanks for the great work you do!
I remember when I was studying slime molds and our professor told us of a case where an intern of hers accidentally left the lab window open during the weekend and the mold "ran away", so to speak. I had trouble believing the story at first, but the more I learn about them the more I am starting to believe...
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This is just the plot of Venom
@kindlin Yep. Watched most of them.
@Zahn Rad Ever heard of The Blob? You basically just called it.
Ah, my father told me a story about how it once escaped a laboratory and then met some cheese. So romantic
It's great how the humor in these never fails. It hasn't grown old, become outdated, zefrank is just naturally funny. And you always learn something new!
I'm sorry, did you just call a DNA strand a book of spells?!! Ze Frank has officially become the mythical science side of Tumblr and I'm here for it ❤️
this is Clip-Share
I have to say, you are truly brilliant! You have the most incredible way of teaching through humor! Thank you, Sir, for what you do. I haven’t laughed while learning this much in my entire lifetime! God bless you!❤
So happy to see you do a video on slime molds! Such beautiful and fascinating little blobs
ZeFrank’s way of describing things is better than any nature documentary I’ve seen
@Raymond Fagan genius
Now imagine a script written by Ze Frank but spoken by David Attenborough
now thats a cross over the world just isnt ready for
Dear friend, believe in Jesus. If you follow the Bible you will know that most all of the 1,800 prophecies has come to pass. Once the final few happen Jesus Christ will return. Jesus say, "But when the Son of man comes, will there be any faith on earth?"
It's Jerry's work
Oh hey, i've seen you in a meme compilation or something before, I remember your name lol
Wow. I love slime moulds and I've seen quite a few videos on them, but you summed up pretty much everything in one video; and with extra information on their full lifecycle and great visuals. That plus comedy in under 12 minutes! Bravo
8:35 I think I watched this part 10 times over. What an angelic, beautiful sound to grace my sound holes.
Close tie to the hummingbeyrd episode for me. I have a serious fascination with slime mould - black slime mould to be exact.I have so many pictures of different mould in my phone, probably more than I have of my family. If I'm not rockhounding, I'm spore hunting. I already knew much of the information in the video, but zefrank, my man, you make me laugh out loud, and never disappoint. 😍
The snail in the nursery (before it started eating) was one of the cutest Alice in Wonderland looking shots I've ever seen 😍🤩 so cute!
People learn at a faster rate if said learning is entertaining. I am in awe of you, because you figured this out and ran with it. I bet most of us who follow you hold you in a top position when it comes to videos we wait for.
I did science fair projects with slime molds back in the early 2000’s, including seeing if they could navigate mazes for food. Unfortunately, my ability to build slime mold proof mazes was not good enough and the dang things cheated and just grew over the walls to go straight over to the food. I love these bizarre and wonderful little things.
@Kiara Smith One of the photos in this video, where he first show a wall, was labeled Acetate Trap.
@The Master of Blu Slime molds need to be held accountable for their behavior! 😂
Believe in Jesus Christ. He's coming soon
@Kiara Smith basicaly water proof it. seal off everything but the input and out put
@Sam Miller They aren't magic blobs that can devour everything. I'm fairly sure they aren't able to "eat" eg. cyanoacrylate (super glue; it basically turns into acrylic glass when it hardens/polymerizes) or epoxy. If they could we wouldn't have nearly as many problems with plastic pollution.
Hey, Ze, could you do something on rats? I always found it truly impressive how these mfs are everywhere, and they've adapted to every corner they're in (and they accompany us, humans, wherever we go)
2:27 I laughed so hard at this. I replayed this part way more times than I'd care to admit.
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In middle school I would watch zefrank videos and get excited to learn so much about animals, annoying my friends to death with fun facts. Now I’m getting a PhD in biomedical science, I thought I pretty much had the low-down on fungi (though it’s not what I study), and I am still in awe at how much I just learned and laughed from a zefrank video. Thank you! And sorry to my labmates who will learn about slime moulds against their will today.
God, i've always loved slime molds, but i never knew some of the things here, so, added with the absolutely beautiful and poetic ending, i almost cried. Yes, at zefrank of all people talking about slime molds of all things.
@Warded Thorn I feel like bees and ants would make great videos.
That's cute lol
I'd probably do the same thing if he did a video about bees, I love them SO much
You should have got HBO Max to sponsor this video. You've just made that show even more horrific and scary! Well done!
7:14 "But what's amazingkillme is that the solution it settles on..." the way that line is so smoothly spoken is wonderful
@Kira Marie "butt what"
😂I thought I miss heard too.
OOOF. I feel quite slow, I usually try to be the one who catches stuff like this and WHOOSH right over my head. I didn't even catch the pun. Thank you!
Whoa
Delivered with all the lack of hope that Spy's head does in Valve's TF2 Meet The Medic video.
There's an old documentary called 'The Creeping Garden' where this is covered that you might find interesting. Incredible creatures!
these are always so entertaining, and informative, to watch. Thanks
The timing on the end with the "unless you're eaten by a snail" was so good.
Best videos on Clip-Share. Seriously so awesome that you teach us a ton while making us laugh so damn hard. Keep up the great work brother.
This episode was quite fascinating. I also rather dislike ads in general, but you manage to keep me interested. I hope you make millions.
“Butt food isn’t always plopped in front of you.”
I swear, this joke never gets old. 😂
@Anti - Ethnic Cleansing 😂
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Had me choking on my breakfast
@Kelsey Williams
My big brother would clown me all the times where he’d intentionally mispronounce dirty words so that I’d ask him or my mom what the word meant. “What’s a Pen-Is?” (Instead of “pee-nis”)
oh THAT'S what the joke was, thank you
I'm watching the Last of US rn and it's all I can think about. The slime molds going through the mazes??? So fucking dope, if you covered a video on how realistic the fungi are in the show/game I'd absolutely watch it
It really isn't realistic in any way. Adapting to a vastly different host species would take cordiceps hundreds of thousands of years. Every species has its preferred host species and can't even infect and control a slightly different ant species. Yet it somehow skips millions of more closely related animals and goes straight to humans, perfectly adapted in a few years (after it had already adapted to a higher mean temperature on earth).
Add to that how it seems somehow mixed with slime molds, which is very very distantly related, all kinds of magical abilities, apparently not controlling living humans but killing and completely replacing them from the inside while retaining most functions, surviving dozens of rounds of assault rifle fire through its body (of that ridiculous multi-corpse mega zombie)...
Just suspend your disbelief, accept the setting and enjoy the show (and game). It's not meant to be a realistic vision of a dystopian future. It's basically just the fantastic idea every single human that ever read or watched a video about cordiceps immediately had. I bet even cordiceps scientists had such a thought go through their heads, no matter how unlikely. It's just fun to imagine!
@Andnl ohhh! Thank you very much!
@Grace Yeah You misunderstood the temperature "theory". Human body temperature wasn't changing, their idea was that the warmer average temperature could cause the fungi to adapt to warmer temperatures similar to human body temperatures, allowing them to infect people without burning up
The show uses the imagery of slime molds but the mind control fungus that the premise Draws from is not actually a slime mold.
The fungus is so much more realistic in the game!! Mostly because the show decides to add fantasy elements but also try and explain it with real science? So it doesn’t totally add up. The game leaves a lot to the imagination! But in the show, the fungal network is as fast as Wi-Fi which isn’t how it works, the fungus has its own motor function & manages to grow its tendrils in under a day (??) totally fantasy! In the very first scene they say global warming would allow it to survive in humans, but global warming doesn’t change our core body temperature; there are no spores in the show despite the fungus clearly having sporangia??? Then in general there’s how mammals would be far harder to control from a engineering perspective with our internal skeletons, etc etc. There are so many things to expand on and go into the science & explore comparing the show to how things could happen IRL; I’d love to learn more about it too. Sorry for the big reply, I’ve been thinking the same stuff as you and got excited to see your comment!
Thanks for an entertaining, educational and excellent video as always Ze Frank.
I never understood slime molds, and now I do. Thank you!
Props to one of the best Clip-Share channels, always providing the utmost entertainment.
Before i used to eagerly await his upload and watch them the second it's uploaded. Now ill go weeks restraining myself cause it's such a treat to watch! Man's a scientific & comedic genius.
I really like Ze Frank's model of quality over quantity, you may have to wait, but when he uploads, it is ALWAYS a treat.
Well worth the wait
I prefer to call it the CGP Grey model but plenty of creators do something like it.
but i hope he never makes a 4 year break again
Me too. I would totally eat up more episodes though
They're so good
You must've grown several auxiliary heads by now 😲
When I was a kid my dad told me about slime molds and I was deathly afraid of one crawling across the yard and eating me in my sleep, I don’t know how I came to that conclusion😂
Anyone interested in more of this subject should read Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake, or get the audiobook, it's amazing. Almost as amazing as Zefrank's commentary.
you always make learning about these creatures really fun and entertaining. buried under all those other great comments but if you get to see this then thank you, for making all these great videos!
@ᴛᴇxᴛ ᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛᴇʟᴇɢʀᴀᴍ @CuriousMarc I’m good man but way to ruin my nice comment
I wish I had these videos as a nature series in high school. 😆🤣🤣🤣
I love them.
So funny and your narration makes this so much better. Definitely recommend subscribing
7:15 "What's a-maze-ing, kill me-" got me so hard I lost my ability to take a full breath without it hurting. Thank you Frank, for delivering such good comedy. These documentaries are literally the only ones I can watch because otherwise I get bored.
@Call_Me_Mad it's just that he made a bad pun "maze / amazing" and then he insanely smoothly sneaked in the "kill me" to castigate himself
What was the joke though? Was this funny for a reason or just because random = funny. Asking because I don't know if I'm missing something
it was so damn smooth, a true masterpiece
This video got me so hard too but I'd see a urologist if it was messing with my breathing
I had to go back and listen like three times and read along with the comment to put two and two together. 😂😂🤦♀️
Omw how entertaining is this.....LOVED watching this! These documentaries are 1 In a billion. Keep those videos coming.im doing marathon on your channel xx
I can't get enough of this guy's content.
I was not ready to hear you read DNA sequences like that. I had to pause and laugh for a minute straight :D
Amazing footage, it's unbelieveable how much knowledge is out there that most people are unaware of! THIS is the way you get students intrested on studying differential ecuations haha
I absolutely love how he compares DNA as spells
I love how you use ACTUAL scientific terms such as "touchy touchy" and "food stank"
I seriously hope the science hippies use such terminology 🤣
This is just such a good show. Always looking out for the next true facts :)
The way he read that dna had me rolling! 🤣
I opened the video and thought to myself “these are cool but surely I’ll never see one in nature” and then you showed like 3 examples that I’ve absolutely seen
There's a blob of slime mold growing out of my sink once, unfortunately it's a rusty red and look exactly like dried blood spilling out of the drains.
Later though I found another blob on the floor, and they're actually yellow when not dried, and they grow really really fast too. The tiny smear I found covered two tiles after just a few hours.
I've only discovered this channel today so maybe he already did this, but I would love to see a video like this on humans. :D
Once again, ZeFrank giving all us Dungeon Masters more material to incorporate into our D&D campaigns.
Imagine you venture into the Abyss, to fight Juiblex, Demon Lord of Slimes. Only to discover a forest of stalks, on which rest colorful spheres full of spores. But you better not touch them, lest the spores hatch into slimes that try to eat you. Or, worse, you better hope you didn't arrive when all the stalks dried out, and then the wind picks up. Spores all over your skin, in your hair, in your _lungs._
If you survive all that, then you see, on the horizon, the _pulsing mass._ And it's coming right for you. Run all you like. Hide in the cyclopean structures dotted around the landscape. Juiblex WILL find you.
So where do you take shelter in Slime Hell? Well, on the shell of the Titan Snail, of course. This beastie is more interested in eating the spore stalks to really be interested in humanoids. To the point where a whole city has been constructed on its shell. A moving refuge against the predations of Juiblex.
Bruh wtf did i just read?
Hopefully the ranger brought a giant slug
Better yet! What if Jubilexx and Zugamatoy got married and thier realms combined! Just a hellish fusion of slimes, molds, slime molds, oozes, and creeping fungel beasts. A place where all is a living pulsing *thing* and nothing ever truly dies because nothing is wasted and everything is eaten, digested, and ejected into a new hideous slimy tendriled grosseness. Now that's a hell, all is alive and cognizant at every stage of transformation, from viral host to digested sludge to fractured spores ect.
This sounds fun imma go write this down.
I once used Physarum polycephalum (and the real life stories of mass appearances of its bright yellow mycelium and fruiting bodies having triggered UFO hysteria in small US-American towns in the 20th century) in a Call of Cthulhu pen-n-paper roleplaying game. It really freaked my players out. XD Despite the slime mould being just a normal slime mould and not even the Cthulhu mythos part of the story.
Try zuggomoty the demon lord of fungi. Everyone just does mushroom folk, but a crawling mass of fungus is better. A cloud of spores descending on the city infecting everything not sealed off. Little mounds can be found in the streets once people panicking during the disaster now just nutrient nodes. The whole area is covered in a web of slimemolds, and as you fight it any surviving bit spreads the resistance around. There is no getting out from the city. There is no winning a fight only surviving. Sunlight causes the mass to be more dormant, but nightfall comes too soon and with too much of a cost. Bit by bit the areas of safety are lost as a single cell swallows a city and every scrap of protein within it.
I've first seen this series 5 years ago and it still feels the same, I love this series! Keep up the great work!
Brilliant - that perfect blend of education and entertainment. Thank you Ze Frank!
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Thank you for this. I’ve been thinking a lot about slime molds lately
The most amazing thing about these videos amount of research and learning that has to be done just to be cut down into like a 10 to 15 minute video. And yet I never feel like there's any information left out
I was trying to nap and thought I'd listen to this while doing so. Kept giggling and you sir have earned a sub. Great vid 😄
You know this guy is a legitimately good teacher. We actually come back just to eagerly hear what he has to teach us each video. I only wish school teachers had his capability to make it interesting.
I found him oafish and lacking any admiration for the subject matter. And using "spells" as metaphor for DNA is derision.
@Drake Magnum no way! What subject did he teach?
Well, it helps to not be in a life-threatening situation.
-An American teacher
Keep your mind open more and more through your life. You'll only discover further that you are your best teacher. Have a wonderful time.😁
This guy never ceases to make me chuckle and teach me at the same time.
This is one of the best of your videos I've seen in a while. Keep up the hilarity!
Ah I love you guys. Allways make me smarter and happier with every new video. Thanks allot 🍻
PLEASE make a 10 minute video of you reading dna. I need it in my life.
Wow this was one of my favorites so far. This is incredibly interesting to learn about
I'm so happy Ze Frank didn't quit Clip-Share. I remember the hellish state of this platform 5 years ago with his 4 year absence
Agree, but I wish all of his old website was still functioning. The main page is there, but only a small number of the links still lead to pages. I miss the Pre-date Confidence Booster, How to Dance Properly and My Cat Annie, just to name a few... Oh, I just found out that someone uploaded How to Dance Properly. clip-share.net/video/bpRMsOYRQgI/video.html
Hold up... he's gone on Clip-Share about 4 years? Yikes!
Don’t talk about the dark times 😔
@Cen Ciende lmao what
Well it's still full of too many ads and runs on a platform of hypocrisy and sexist content rules. I'm not sure it's in much of a better state.
“Little moving splat”
Oh the joy and humour and education of a ZeFrank video 😄
This is seriously the best channel . Just found it a week ago and I’m hoping he keeps making regular videos . Can’t get enough
ive learned so much from ze frank. just the right blend of comedy to info.
Ze Frank is pure genius, his videos have come a long way from his originals. I now know the little red fuzzy balls on a stump are fungus and not eggs.
yo im so glad this series is back, pls make more! ive been enjoying these for literally years lol
I live near a forest where I often take walks and see slime. Never knew that slime was so smart. Going to take time to appreciate that now. Thanks you Ze Frank for the education.
If you find a good one, take pictures of it every time you pass. Would be fun to see how it grows and changes over the weeks and months
@William Klann You have disappointed me for not understanding a simple word and telling me it is wrong due to your useless statements which have no effect on me, I will stand by the fact that they're smart, because they have a method that works, and they use it effectively.
@Esprero: On-Brand Soap you should look up the definition of smart i think, perhaps there's just simply lingual confusion here and you aren't using the words you think you are using
Snort the slime when you find one🗿
I'm so addicted to your videos now. Best content I've found on Clip-Share in a long time.
I would have gone to school to study slime molds if I had seen this earlier in my life. Truly fascinating.
Had fun watching this with my sibling- I had no idea how cool slime mold is
In college zoology we got extra credit for growing a slime mold at home. I was proud of mine, even though he looked like Big Bird diarrhea. Looks aren’t everything.😊
I literally laughed out loud with the "grow a third nipple" line. Thanks for the educational humor!
I keep a worm compost bin, and I occasionally see little slime mold colonies in it! They are absolutely vital decomposers, just like worms, fungi, bugs, and bacteria. They are everywhere in outdoor environments, and because they're microscopic for 99% of their life cycles, they rarely get the attention or appreciation they deserve. Thank you so much for this video for our little blob friends! ^_^
@Gale Glad you had fun with your nerd brain! You're ALWAYS welcome... I had fun posting and contributing. ;o)
@gnarth d'arkanen this was really enjoyable for my nerd brain to read, thank you
@Pegged Yourdad reminds me of the film 'The Blob'😂✌️
Worm compost…and other first date ideas
@Gandalf the Grey Yep... I'm working my way farther from "fluff" and employing more non-fictional resource material for my D&D habit... and GURPS...
I allow myself the indulgence of TTRPG's because as it turns out, even that the dialogue is clunky and the plot-lines resemble technicolor pasta thrown at walls and piled on the floor... There's a reward system for all the "work", and that makes the "work" seem more like play, even reading something as dry as a field guide or technical manual to get the details right...
Of course, GM'ing for a Table with the likes of Force Recon' retirees or Electronics Engineers' kids has its encouragements about those damn details... haha...
Just an idea... Keep it up, bro! It gets better! ;o)
This has to be my favorite zefrank video, absolutely hysterical
I learn so much from Zefrank's videos and the comedic timing is just excellent.
I WAS LITERALLY JUST THINKING ABOUT MAKING A MOLD D&D CHARACTER. JUST A CLUMP OF MOLD. AND I WANTED TO DO RESEARCH. YOU PUT THIS OUT AT EXACTLY THE RIGHT TIME THANK YOU.
So I recently saw moving yellow slime mold during a walk in the woods. It was visually moving, so much so that I thought it might've been some sort of really weird caterpillar. Apparently the mold wasn't seen before in the "reserve" so I reported it to the people at the desk. Apparently it was non-toxic and not dangerous to the environment, but I was congratulated for finding it nonetheless.
At 7:08 I started to think, "this looks like lightning." Then at 7:18 he starts giving the same explanation that I recently saw about lightning. I find this crazy interesting.
This mans voice is so calming that if he was my doctor and told me that I had 4 weeks to live, I would be like oh sure. And leave with no knowledge of how serious the situation is.
@Chris Ernest Teiabaazaa THAT'S WHAT IM THINKING
Sounds more like the Narrator from The Stanley Parable
@Darren New Feckin same lol
@Erica Kobayashi 🤣
Thanks, Ze Frank, that was a fascinating one. I believe these slime molds are smarter than a lot of people.
oh god damn it Ze Frank, no matter how bad my life is spiraling out of control, you always make me laugh and smile. Thanks for making these for so many years
Oh my God! That was a mind-expanding experience I've always loved this show! Have a wonderful year Jason c
"The scream of the night deamon" is a good metaphor for life and cell division in my opinion.
Never has a video made me ITCH this much before, but I cannot resist a Ze Frank video.
You know… even when life doesn’t seem like it’s worth living, it’s always worth sticking around for another Ze Frank video.
Hahaha best comment 🤣 😆
@LucianCorrvinous Son of Hekaté he always says "bebe's" in any video that calls for baby's....lol
Thats for sure
@SumYun Guy you too😂
@Austin Draa 😂 thanks man. Have a good night!
Wow, how interesting and funny can be a video at the same time?!? So good!!! Well done, keep going! 💪
I died laughing when you read the chromosome "spells." Hilarious! Quite impressive accurate reading!
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I was super nervous waiting for my first ever therapy session to start, then I saw this video
Thanks for giving me smth to calm down and cheer up