Internet's Deepest Rabbit Holes

From the recent Schuylkill notes phenomenon plaguing the northeast, to the decades-long rabbit holes surrounding the Toynbee Tiles, and the mysterious man behind them. Join me down the rabbit hole of the internet's deepest mysteries.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro
02:10 Sponsor
04:00 A Schuylkill Mystery
07:08 Note Maker
14:00 Toynbee Idea
18:16 2001
20:42 Suspect Profile
27:19 Minority Association
25:43 Outro

[KalCounty]

It's always remarkable to me that there are people who think that there are powerful people secretly and illegally controlling the government and society when in truth there are powerful people openly illegally controlling the government and society.

[joncrate]

While it's certainly possible they work in logistics, I think people overestimate how easy it is to tamper with product packaging. I work in the food industry, and its all hot glue and heat sealing. If I wanted to get something in, especially if it is just one package, I would buy the package, open it at home, hot glue or re-heat seal it closed, then just sneak it into the store under my jacket and put it back. Even if it looks a little off, when was the last time you even paid attention to an askew seal or slightly different glue?

[Spektator]

I knew this wouldn't be the last time I'd hear of the Toynbee Tiler. I love the detail you've gone into with the Minority Association documents. One thing you missed; a documentary that Justin Duerr created on the Toynbee Tiles was a report from Sevy's neighbor Frannie Seybold. He explained that Sevy drove a car which had a huge antenna on top, with the floor of the car completely removed. This was the explanation for the radio waves being disrupted through people's neighbourhoods, as he would pass houses and interfere with the televisions, broadcasting the Toynbee message. Also, having the floorboard of the car removed, it would allow him to tar the tiles into the road undetected, quickly driving off after planting it. It's almost certain that Sevy was James Morasco, and ultimately the Toynbee Tiler. Great video, your content is top tier.

[alrightinsocal]

Channels like yours are the reason I have very little interest in what the studios or big streaming platforms currently have to offer. Your videos are really produced well and always thought-provoking.

[SmittyDealio]

Dawg I just found the Schuylkill notes subreddit the other day and was gonna look it up on YouTube. Wild synchronicity.

[QuipsterIX]

Good day when there's some new carbon to ingest.

[MrfnordTim]

I'm pretty confident that Verna was the Toynbee Tiler. Between the documentary "Resurrect Dead" and more recent efforts to track his activities, there's too much evidence pointing to him being at the very least the one who placed most of the tiles, and there's a good chance that he made them too.

[snarklar]

I mean toynbee is something that has gotten pretty popular here and there for years. They've been around longer than most people realize. It got underground popular for a while, but as soon as it became mainstream popular, other people started doing them everywhere else. Which is how it usually goes. It's a neat little thing, and good for people to do things like that. People need more mystery and adventure.

[adamgroszkiewicz]

I saw a reddit post just yesterday about people in Pennsylvania finding weird notes like this in bags distributed out on trails.

[_Midnight__]

Another awesome video! On par with Nexpo, Nick Crowley, and other big creators. It's been awesome to watch you grow from 28k to 163k in like a year!

[parkerjoseph]

literally just saw a toynbee tile in Detroit before watching this video, seen them in Toronto as well. These are literally everywhere

[ckampen]

Thank you VC, I was going crazy with nothing to watch! Gimme that existential dread!

[jeremysmith]

Thanks for covering this. I've always loved the Toynbee Tiles. The movie made about it, 2011's Resurrect Dead is fantastic and a great watch. The real shame is how few of these remain. I'm sure Reddit has a list of the remaining tiles, but there can't be many left. It is a shame anytime we lose outsider art, especially when it is this interesting and captivating.

[silverriku]

I did research on the Toynbee tiles as a museum intern in Pittsburgh as they had one in their collection. Iirc, the tiler had a hole cut in the bottom of his car and would drop this tar/asphalt blocks in highly trafficked areas. People would run them over, thinking it was just regular road detritus and it would eventually meld to the roads itself. I never got deep enough into the societies and all that tho haha

[sofia_g]

Amazing video! Never heard of any of these mysteries. Toynbee is such a rabbit hole 👀

[ActualLiteralKyle]

Insane level of props for a non-native, non-local saying the word Schuylkill 100% correct. People from PHILLY can’t get that right.

[AidenRKrone]

Regarding the Schuylkill notes, it's a shame that we live in a society in which somebody who is earnestly and desperately trying to alert their fellow citizens to the corrupt, conspiratorial actions of politicians, elites, and cabalists is labeled as "schizophrenic", "paranoid", and "delusional". Admittedly, the _method_ which the writer chose to spread his message is ineffective and peculiar, but the _content_ of his message is spot-on.

Also, just throwing this in as an addendum: I think most of the notes that have been found in recent years are counterfeits. In fact, I think some of them have even been proven to be reproductions and copies of already-existing notes. As is typical with famous Internet mysteries, people latched onto it and started artificially propagating it. These fakers have an overriding desire to be part of something.

[wyatt]

Finally, a video to eat to!
MY MEAL WILL BE LEGENDARY!!

[supremelylargewaffle]

You cover such interesting topics. You definitely deserve more subscribers. Keep it up

[MikjailG]

Loving the format you portray these stories! Keep it up!