How Cousins Work

[communistpropagandist]

I used to think "twice removed" meant they had been kicked out of the family twice.

[captainpalegg]

“i smell cousins” was 200% just michael throwing the “vsauce out of context” compilers a bone.

[Jack-blbj]

You know Michael was weirded out by “I smell cousins” he had to take a break for a bit 😭

Thank you all so much for the support. Keep being cool people and spread the love. 🫶

[nts]

"I smell cousins" was so absurd he had to take a break in the middle of the video

[stacl]

I literally had no idea how any of the cousin terminology worked until now so thank you

[YaboyAJ_NG]

Tom Hanks and Abraham Lincoln being related is something I did not know I would learn today

[YoungGandalf]

Michael is everyone's crazy uncle.

[_kyt_]

This'll come in handy at the next family reunion. We've got nearly a hundred members in our Facebook and get together every four years for a weekend at a lodge. Our shared ancestor is my great grandfather on my mother's side. The youngest attendee last time was my sister's daughter's son. I spent the entire time with my niece and a fifth cousin around the same age putting stickynotes on the wall with everyone's names to form the tree. The family loved seeing it at breakfast.

[jackschieferdecker]

Michael has ascended to the plane of existence that allows him to smell relationships

[amdan]

My wife educated me on all this. She has deep Southern roots on one side of her family, and they live this stuff.

[Shadow_Coat]

Someone please send this to Tom Hanks.

[MasterArkannor]

"I smell cousins!"

"Sir, this is a Wendy's"

[yelljal]

Some random person at a family reunion:

"I'm your father's, mother's, brother in law's, daughter's, ex-wife's, dog sitter's, boyfriend's aunt, "

You: "Oh, so cousins!"

[mydowidoipowido]

Oh okay, as a non-native speaker I never really understood how it works, but also I didn't come across the term enough times to look it up. This was genuinely helpful, thanks Michael

[abdullahmaqsoodhere]

Vsauce isn't socially awkward, he's aWkWaRdLy sOcIaL.

[chasem]

As someone who has studied intestacy and the law of familial connections and estate passing, this is perhaps the best straightforward explanation of this I have ever seen. And I think it actually works…

[Andrew-rmqd]

Michael never recovered from the isolation room.

[kinglyon]

Chet Hanks being related to Abraham Lincoln is hilarious

[thatsruffdog]

Finally! Someone explained it in a short 1 minute video format.

[Papigrimm]

Nigga I’ve been watching your YouTube for so long everytime I hear the music it makes me so happy man when I’m old and can’t remember anything anymore I’m gonna be jus saying random facts about shit driving my grandchildren mad