The Math That Proves Your Friends are More Popular Than You

Video written by Adam Chase

[flyingbaldii]

So if you have technically no friends you would 100% be the most popular person out of your friends.

[pacoramirez]

"Mathematical averages can often lead to misleading real-world conclusions."
The average person has about 1 testicle.

[qifuhyue]

“I don’t have friends, I have family”
-Dominic Toretto

[kawong]

"I'm not lonely, it's just mathematically, I have less friends than anyone"
-Mathmatician, probably

[babyzap]

Cheer up, that also means your average enemy has more enemies than you.

[ezic]

Silly Sam, I don’t need math to know that!

[leejacksondev]

I officially didn’t understand a word of this. 😂

[Amityz]

"Let's pretend like everyone in the world died in a robot apocalypse, except for three people who betrayed humanity to the robots in exchange for their own survival. *And for no particular reason, let's name those three people Bill, Jeff, and Elon.*

I'm dying

[unknown_guy]

Maths: you’re not popular
Psychology: each of your friends is watching this thinking his friends are more popular than him.

[bennetth]

The best part of this video is reading the names of people’s supposed friends

[querube]

Me who has no friends:
"I don't have such weaknesses"

[alejandrosastoque]

I wanna know who "Joey" is and where I can find him. From his friend count can tell he's an absolute blast lmao 0:53

[gaboversta.]

In short:
People with more friends are more likely to be your friend.

[conallmolloy]

I'm gonna go say that math makes them more popular, surely that'll make me more popular

[gabriellewashere]

Technically the thing about this that makes it a paradox is that if you were to ask your friend who their friends are, and ask those friends who their friends are, and ask those friends who their friends are, basically you end up canceling out the fact that the person you asked beforehand will always be less popular. So if this pattern continued until you have asked every person in the world, in the end there is only one person who is indefinitely the most popular. But the issue is that this conclusion is not stable, because of the very thing you mentioned "Names will repeat, but not be excluded".

[bboops]

So, I once made a chart of all my friends and all their friends and we linked how we knew different groups and my husband and I were one of the three big nexus points. So, uh, hi, nice to meet you, I'm one of the people skewing the average.

I should note that I know one person with definitively more friends than me. When we all went to a video gaming con a few weeks ago we had a contact tracking app and we successfully had no COVID-19 cases in our group of 3 rooms of which held way to many rooms parties.

[AshishTiwari-hnzi]

That's why it's a paradox because your friends are having a higher count of average friends since in every addition they are repeating you with every enumeration of your friends. So technically your friends have more friends than you because they have befriended you. I hope this eases your pain a bit.

[Kin-bdvd]

This makes me feel like Half as Interesting had no friends to begin with.

[bomber]

AS A CHINESE MYSELF, THAT CHINESE ACCENT KILLED ME 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

so an accurate pronounciation would be "knee shuh tzen muh duh dao tzhe guh how mah duh"

[acon]

POV: Your looking for a joke that isn’t a variation of “Jokes on you, I have no friends.”