CGP Grey

CGP Grey

CGP Grey's logo
Personal information
Born New York, U.S.
Nationality American
Irish
Residence London, England, United Kingdom
Website www.cgpgrey.com
YouTube information
Pseudonym Grey
Channel name CGPGrey
Years active 2010–present
Genre Edutainment
Subscribers 2 million
Total views 187.5 million
Associated acts Brady Haran, Relay FM
Subscriber and view counts updated as of 26 January 2016.

CGP Grey is a web-based producer of educational entertainment videos on YouTube. Grey has dual American and Irish citizenship.[1] The channel features short explanatory videos on varying subjects, including politics, geography, economics, and British culture. The channel's first popular video was an explanation of the terminology of the British Isles, which went viral.[2] Since then, Grey's videos have received increasing attention, having been covered by several publications, including Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Forbes, and The Washington Post.[3][4][5][6]

The channel has also spawned several spin-offs, including a secondary channel, CGPGrey2, and a channel with playlists of Grey's favorite videos called greysfavs.

In addition to video production, Grey is known for creating the podcast Hello Internet with Brady Haran, creator of many well known educational YouTube channels. In 2015, he started another podcast titled Cortex with Myke Hurley of Relay FM.[7]

Videos

The channel CGP Grey features, among other things, Grey Explains, a series of explanatory videos[8][9] on a range of subjects, including politics, geography, economics, and British culture. The videos feature Grey narrating over animations and still photographs. While nearly all of Grey's videos feature his voice, his face has never been shown in his videos, and Grey always has his face obscured when appearing in other people's videos;[10] he generally uses a stick figure with glasses to represent himself.[11] His videos also often include hidden links,[12] often leading to Monty Python videos.[13] Grey has stated that the presentation style of his videos is influenced by that of Yahtzee Croshaw's Zero Punctuation series.[14][15]

Grey uses Final Cut Pro X to edit and add animations to his videos, and records his voice over the music playing in the background on Logic Pro X.[16] The backing music is usually credited to Kevin MacLeod. Videos are released on the channel significantly less frequently than other YouTube channels; Grey has said that this is due to thorough research and script writing, with the majority of videos never being finished.[17]

Grey's video debunking popular misconceptions has been featured on CBS.[18] Two videos differentiate London, England and the City of London, while explaining certain oddities that arise from the ancient customs of the latter.[19][20] Another two videos explaining copyright law and The Electoral College have been featured on Mashable.[8] The channel has also explained the economic disadvantages of U.S. one-cent coins, in another viral video, Death to Pennies.[21][22] The video How to Become Pope also went viral.[6][23]

Several videos, under the collective name "Politics in the Animal Kingdom", explain some differences between various election procedures, and are critical of first-past-the-post voting (gerrymandering, minority rule, lack of Condorcet winner, two-party system, spoiler effect) and discuss the relative advantages of the alternative vote, mixed-member proportional representation, and the single transferable vote.

Grey's videos have been described as explanatory and sobering, especially Humans Need Not Apply, a video not included in his Grey Explains series.[3] Humans Need Not Apply was positively covered by several publications, including Business Insider, The Huffington Post, and Forbes.[3][4][5]

Podcasts

Hello Internet

Hello Internet

A gray square with the letters "HI" in white

The Hello Internet logo
Presentation
Hosted by
Genre Discussion
Language English
Length 40—180 minutes
Production
No. of seasons 5
No. of episodes 56
Publication
Debut 31 January 2014
Related shows Cortex
Website www.hellointernet.fm

In January 2014, Grey launched the podcast Hello Internet along with co-host Brady Haran, another YouTube content creator and educator. The podcast peaked as the #1 iTunes podcast in United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Canada, and Australia.[44] It was selected as one of Apple's best new podcasts of 2014.[45] Grey reported a podcast listenership of approximately "a quarter million" downloads per episode as of September 2015.[46]

The podcast features discussions pertaining to their lives as professional content creators for YouTube, as well as their interests and annoyances. Typical topics include new gadgets, technology etiquette, workplace efficiency, wristwatches, plane accidents, vexillology, and the differences between Grey's and Haran's personal mannerisms. As a result of their conversations, Haran has been credited as coining the term "freebooting" to refer to the unauthorized rehosting of online media.[47]

Cortex

On 3 June 2015, Grey launched his second podcast, Cortex, co-hosted with Myke Hurley of Relay FM. Cortex is mainly centered around Grey's workflow and personal management systems. The podcast began with a 10-episode test phase,[48] scheduling one episode per week, after which Grey and Hurley extended it for an unspecified number of episodes.[49] These are released every two weeks.[50]

References

  1. ↑ CGP Grey [cgpgrey] (24 Sep 2012). "CGP Grey on 24 September 2012." (Tweet).
  2. ↑ C. G. P. Grey (January 30, 2012). "One Year & 100,000 Subscribers Later (Thank You!)". CGPGrey. YouTube. Retrieved January 20, 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 Kasanoff, Bruce (August 18, 2014). "If 'Humans Need Not Apply,' Will All Our Jobs Disappear?". Forbes. Retrieved August 21, 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Why Robots Will Steal Your Job, In One 15 Minute Video". Huffington Post UK. August 18, 2014. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  5. 1 2 Love, Dylan (August 13, 2014). "Not Even Doctors And Lawyers Are Safe From Machines Taking Their Jobs". Business Insider. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  6. 1 2 3 Aaron Blake (February 25, 2013). "Why is the pope always so old? (Video)". Washington Post. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  7. ↑ Hackett, Stephen (June 2, 2015). "Introducing Relay FM's 2015 Summer Pilots". Relay FM. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Allegra Tepper (July 24, 2012). "These 10 Videos Turn Tough Topics Into Child's Play, 7. C.G.P. Grey: Copyright: Forever Less One Day". Mashable. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  9. 1 2 Laura Hibbard (December 20, 2011). "Santa Claus: A Brief History (VIDEO)". Huffington Post. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  10. ↑ Veritasium (June 28, 2012). "Science YouTubers Unite! feat. ... CGPGrey". YouTube. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
  11. ↑ "Numbers confuse Americans - Numberphile". Numberphile (YouTube). 25 July 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
  12. 1 2 3 4 Godless Mom (August 18, 2014). "Every Atheist Needs: CGP Grey". Godless Mom. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  13. ↑ "CGP Grey: Government of the City of London". Politics is Stupid. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  14. ↑ Haran, Brady; Grey, CGP (2014-05-28). "Nobody Owns the Facts". Hello Internet (Podcast). Hellointernet.fm. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  15. ↑ Grey, C. G. P.; Hurley, Myke (August 14, 2015). "Cortex #10: Zero Artistic Skills". Cortex (Podcast). Relay FM. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
  16. ↑ "Twitter / cgpgrey: Finally getting the hang of...". April 6, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  17. ↑ "Q&A with Grey #2 (One Million Subscribers)". YouTube. CGP Grey. November 20, 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  18. 1 2 Bailey Johnson (January 24, 2012). "Eskimos do not have 100's of words for snow, and other myths debunked". CBS. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  19. 1 2 Kieth Shaw (July 23, 2012). "Learn about the London inside London". IT World. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  20. 1 2 Sam Gibbs (September 20, 2012). "How to Become the Lord Mayor of the (Secret) City of London". Gizmodo UK. Retrieved September 21, 2012.
  21. ↑ Mary Beth Quirk (January 13, 2012). "The Case Against Pennies Might Make You Want To Send Yours Back To Uncle Sam For Something Useful". Consumerist. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  22. 1 2 Bailey Johnson (November 30, 2011). "Death to Pennies". The Feed Blog. CBS. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  23. ↑ Lindsay Jolivet (February 21, 2013). "How to become pope instructional video goes viral". Yahoo! Canada. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  24. ↑ Paul Caridad (February 3, 2011). "The Difference Between Great Britain, England & the United Kingdom (and a whole lot more)". Visual News. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  25. ↑ CGP Grey (March 9, 2011). "The Problems With First Past the Post Voting Explained". CGPGrey. Retrieved April 15, 2013.
  26. ↑ "Coffee: The Greatest Addiction Ever (VIDEO)". Huffington Post. June 27, 2011. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  27. ↑ David Haglund (March 12, 2012). "Did You See This? Daylight Saving Time Explained". Slate. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  28. ↑ Will Goodman (January 3, 2012). "2012 and the end of the world according to the Mayans". The Feed Blog. CBS. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  29. ↑ Chris Higgins (February 2, 2013). "Groundhog Day Explained". mental_floss. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  30. ↑ Geoff Herbert (February 29, 2012). "Viral Video of the Day: Leap year's extra day, Feb. 29, explained". Syracuse. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  31. ↑ Krulwich, Robert (June 20, 2014). "Wrong! Deconstructing 5 Famous History Stories". NPR. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
  32. ↑ Benny Johnson (December 6, 2012). "Could Texas Really Secede From The Union? The Answer Is…". The Blaze. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  33. ↑ Ed Carrasco (December 27, 2012). "What’s The Difference Between Holland and the Netherlands? YouTuber C.G.P. Grey Explains [VIDEO]". New Media Rockstars. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  34. ↑ Aaron Blake (January 22, 2013). "The debt ceiling, explained (VIDEO)". Washington Post. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  35. ↑ Robert T. Gonzalez (14 June 2013). "This is the totally bonkers story of the US/Canada border". io9. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
  36. ↑ Casey Chan (December 23, 2013). "Whoa, this YouTube video will hurt you when you watch it". Sploid. Gizmodo. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  37. ↑ "Your Family Tree Finally Explained (Don't Expect to Understand)". College Humor. June 4, 2014. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
  38. ↑ Klein, Ezra (July 3, 2014). "What maps of America get wrong". Vox. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
  39. ↑ Cellania, Miss (December 18, 2014). "CGP Grey Explains The Lord of the Rings Mythology (Part 1)". Neatorama. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
  40. ↑ Rayner, Tristan (February 10, 2015). "The One Ring Explained: You've Seen Lord Of The Rings And The Hobbit, Now Understand It". Techly. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  41. ↑ Farrier, John (March 10, 2015). "Despite the Title, This Video Will Actually Not Make You Angry". Neatorama. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  42. ↑ Heater, Brian (March 25, 2015). "C.G.P. Grey Explains Which Countries Are Generally Considered Part of Scandinavia". Laughing Squid. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  43. ↑ Dorn, Lori (May 1, 2015). "‘Las Vegas isn’t Las Vegas’, CGP Grey Explains That the Las Vegas Strip Actually Resides in Paradise, Nevada". Laughing Squid. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  44. ↑ "CGP Grey & Brady Haran - 'Hello Internet' American iTunes Chart Performance". iTunesCharts.net. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
  45. ↑ Haran, Brady; Grey, CGP (2014-12-25). "Bumper Christmas Special". Hello Internet (Podcast). Hellointernet.fm. Retrieved 2015-05-15.
  46. ↑ Haran, Brady; Grey, CGP (2015-09-29). "Grumpy About Art". Hello Internet (Podcast). Hellointernet.fm. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
  47. ↑ Oremus, Will (July 2015). "Facebook’s Piracy Problem". Slate (The Slate Group LLC). Retrieved July 2015.
  48. ↑ Grey, C. G. P.; Hurley, Myke (June 3, 2015). "Cortex #1: I Don't Really Like Work". Cortex (Podcast). Relay FM. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  49. ↑ Grey, C. G. P.; Hurley, Myke (August 14, 2015). "Cortex #10: Zero Artistic Skills". Cortex (Podcast). Relay FM. Retrieved August 14, 2015.
  50. ↑ Grey, C. G. P.; Hurley, Myke (August 28, 2015). "Cortex #11: 0% Entertainment". Cortex (Podcast). Relay FM. Retrieved August 30, 2015.

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