The Most Boring Video Ever

The neuroscience of boredom is slightly interesting.

Produced, and Edited by Vanessa Hill
Written by Teagan Wall

Thank you to Prof. James Danckert for providing us with the video of men folding laundry. It's really great.

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[Dixavd]

When a BrainCraft video appears, my skin's electrical conductivity increases.

[Ermude]

I think boredom is very important. Sometimes it is during moments of boredom that my best ideas come. Our brains will try to avoid getting bored at any cost, and that can be a very powerful tool to use!

[AnnikaVictoria]

This title is like the opposite of clickbait ;)

[UltraBatshift]

So in the opening of One Punch Man we see Saitama getting struck by lightning, but he's so bored that his body's not conducting electricity and he's fine.

[Charles-igfr]

1:32 - skin electrical conductivity decreases? Hmm. Wonder if this affects capacitance. IOW, next time my touch screen doesn't seem responsive enough, maybe I can say: "I am *so* bored my phone is ignoring me." Having to explain that remark to a confused listener would be a nice short diversion from boredom.

[lollard]

I laughed so hard when she said one man shocked himself 190 times. It's just like... Dude... be patient. It's actually kind of sad that someone can't sit quietly in a room for 15 minutes without resorting to sadomasochism.

[AvailableUsernameTed]

Trailer: From the makers of "Fireplace Log IV" and "A Life of a Toenail" comes a new experience of two men who .. FOLD CLOTHES. Coming soon, "The Folder Guys". In a world where the dryer is not working, two men take their time taking clothes from a rack and mutter inaudible words to one another in front of featureless drywall. "Snnzz-- Huh?" says Peter Snood. "Yawn" - Gillian Jones.

[StaticR]

Boredom also has a good side. If I'd watch the full laundry clip and get bored I'd start analyzing and examinig the things in the video, like the mirror in the background. Though, I'm not sure what exactly this means, I boredom might be able to spark curiosity... so you stop being bored.

[JoeBob]

The image of somebody sitting in a room, bored, and shocking themselves just for something to do.. is just fantastic!

[Redhotsmasher]

2:23 "Boredom sucks so much that even pain may be preferable"? For some reason I'm reminded of that bizarre old British sitcom, The Young Ones.

[ZweiZombies]

I could watch 4:37 over and over again

[Chet]

"the skin conductance level is the level of the skin"s conductance"

[jordankloosterman]

Watching at X2 speed helps fight the boredom.

[piratevampire]

mostly due to my having ADD i have an absurd propensity for boredom. nothing escapes its enormous gravitational pull. nothing necessarily keeps my engagement for long;friends, reading, writing, music, sex etc. At the most extreme I've felt so bored - so detached and unable to engage in just Being- i start to feel as if suicide is the solution. i don't feel hopeless perse or depressed but like a Death or a decaying can return me to a part of the whole Universe. it becomes the only way by brain thinks to defend against this hellish level of detachment -this- Bored

also, i was watching a few of your older videos from 2014 and i gotta say, you've improved quite a bit since then. i mean specifically the way you speak and move, your rhythm, your tone et cetera. not to mention the technical mechanics have improved quite a bit as well. Good Job!

[boc]

I love how the "most replayed" part is the ad.

[nhdtjwx]

I can skip videos very easily but here on this channel I don't want to..and I cannot !!

[thegreatreceitatingplatypu]

Boredom is said to be the sublime emotion, as it shows that there is a whole world of entertainment, but none of it interests us, or something like that

[YoungTheFish]

One thing good about being an art student is that you know how to look for interesting things and don't get bored as easily...

[drizzlingrose]

hey! i just discovered your channel via Scishow, and ive been watching your videos a lot over the past few days. and i was wondering if you have or have been thinking about making a video about self hate and low self esteem? what are the things happening in your brain when you dislike and devalue yourself

[hornetluca]

Is there a 4K video of that boring video ?