This Video Will Hurt

Special Thanks to:

Saylor Fielder

Julian Yap

Ardalan Moazeni

Dr Fabrizio Benedetti

Selected sources:

[manaphy]

"This video will hurt"

Gets a double 30 second unskippable ad.

I got what I came for I guess

[llamamall]

I feel irrationally satisfied with myself for not getting a headache during the video intro.

[delirious_z]

"This vid will hurt"
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[LionTroy]

Bonus: CGP really did put in sub-frequency headache sound just to toy with us.

[justsomeguywithhalfamustac]

I was expecting insults that will hurt me emotionally

[GoHugACactus]

Well that’s just great. Now that I know this, I will never believe any doctor that says “ this won’t hurt” and I will feel all the pain

[bearVshark]

Video title: This video will hurt


6.7 million people: Oh boy, I'm going to watch this!

[dharma]

"Some of you will start to have a headache. Why? The Nocebo effect."

No, Grey, it's cause I'm sleep deprived as hell

[awmeration-animationsandar]

“It’s so high pitched you can’t hear it”

Me: *proceeds to hear the loud high pitched sound*

[greengreen]

the worst thing about this is that i'm still having a headache 5 minutes after you told nothing was really going on

[akabiscuitwaffle]

I got no headache as my first thought was "my headphones aren't capable of producing a pitch that high"

[theletters]

fun fact my mom convinced me I could hear electricity because she could (long story shot, it involved her realizing she had lifelong tinnitus and just only noticed it indoors where its quiet) and then I had psychogenic tinnitus whenever the lights were on for like a year

[ethanholshouser]

"The sounds are too high-pitched to hear, like the one added to this video playing right now."


*immediately plays an audible high-pitched sound*

[trevorx]

Someone invent a drug for backwards Nocebo effect:
"You have cancer."
"No, I don't."
"Oh, never mind."

[diamondinthesky]

"Something uninformative"
*History Channel logo*

[MMOSimca]

I was just thinking - this helps explain why ancient societies believed so much in things like voodoo, magic, or medical treatments that we know from modern experiments are barely effective. As long as they believed it was going to work, it sometimes would, which then proved to others in their society that it did work. This is a kind of self-reinforcing cycle for belief in things that aren't actually very effective.

[hamanakohamaneko]

plot twist: He was actually playing the sound

[ezramead]

Dang it. I felt a headache for the first ten seconds, and it went away once he told me he was lying. My body is so gullible.

[JovanLemon]

"Some of you may feel a headache, why?" Yeah, maybe because youtube recommended me this while i am having a headache

[JackDoThings]

4:08 This actually happened to me once. I was at school and a couple kids threw up. I felt sick too and went to the nurse. She looked me over and had me rest for a few minutes. After she told me I was fine, I felt fine.