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“Who should pay on a date? This depends on if you made a YouTube video that month or not.” Casually Explained offers up some of his typically sage advice on dating. In addition to some of the things you definitely shouldn’t do when you meet someone new, he’s actually got some good pointers on avoiding awkwardness.

(PG-13: Language) Ah, youth. When you’re a teenager, life is full of possibilities. But after watching Casually Explained’s sarcastic video about life during high school, we’re reminded just how much we’d never want to go back to those awkward years of insecurity, peer pressure, and uncontrollable hormones.

Wherever you may hail from on this planet of ours, you’ve gotta eat. Casually Explained offers up his rudimentary and culturally-insensitive understanding of global cuisine from IKEA’s Swedish meatballs to Ayahuasca. Also, we are dying for some butter chicken and naan now.

(PG-13: Language) The stock market can be a great way to make money. But it’s not without risks, and valuation shifts are often at the expense of the people in the trenches. Casually Explained offers his snarky take on people who just can’t get enough buying, selling, and manipulating other people’s puny lives.

“Limit yourself to one sourdough bread recipe a day, and absolutely no YouTube videos.” After taking the first three months of quarantine creating exactly zero videos, Casually Explained is back to offer his guidance on how to be productive while telecommuting, and then gradually reacclimating to the outside world.

You might be freaked out about using plastic straws, but it takes a whole lot of them to have the same environmental impact as producing other things we buy and consume. Casually Explained provides a comparison of various CO2 producers, and thanks the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for sponsoring this episode.

(PG-13: Language) If you’re reading this, there’s an overwhelming chance that you can speak English. In this casual explanation, we learn what makes our language different than others, and why in some ways it’s easier to learn, and in others, much harder. Then there are the local accents and dialects…

(PG-13: Language) Casually Explained breaks down the person who is simultaneously one of the most famous and infamous CEO’s on the planet. Elon Musk is a genius, a creep, a Twitter troll, a kid with life-size construction toys, Tony Stark, and Thanos all rolled into one.

Casually Explained takes on the borderline illegal encouragement of tipping in the United States and Canada, where you are expected to tip to make up for low staff wages, regardless of the quality of service you got. Plus it makes you have to do math.

(PG-13: Language) Casually Explained has some legitimate advice this time. He talks about how to manage our fear of missing out. First by comparing it to past experiences, then lowering our expectations. Of course, there will be times when you do miss out.

“If you look at FIFA 18 and compare it to this year’s version, you can see that they completely changed the number.” From sports to RTSes to RPGs to MOBAs, Casually Explained provides a brief and not very useful overview of some of the many types of video games.

(PG-13) “That train has sailed.” Casually Explained’s guide to American idioms will confound the heck out of anyone who isn’t already familiar with the phrases. Watch as he comes up with increasingly ridiculous scenarios that take idioms literally.

Are you getting cabin fever as winter’s icy grip sets in? Then consider reserving yourself a ticket and going somewhere new. Casually Explained offers some advice on how to pick your destination, some tips for negotiating your way through the airport, and more.

Coming up with creative ideas can be quite challenging. Casually Explained is here to show us why that is, and provides a series of tests to help you determine your own personal level of creativity. We passed that final test over two years ago.

Now that individual humans don’t need to forage or hunt for food, or build their own shelter, we really don’t need to do much to survive. Casually Explained goes over modern humankind’s general lack of motivation, along with some of our other wonderful traits.

Casually Explained guides us through the simplest form of comedy, which is writing a joke. He is surprisingly straight and educational for most of the video. Then he goes and applies everything he said at the end. Well done man, well done.

(PG-13: Language) From the Hamster Dance to Advice Animals, Casually Explained looks back at the history of the internet meme, and why we find ourselves so fascinated with passing on such inane and random things to our online friends. The meme lifecycle chart is spot on.

Once you graduate from school, the opportunities to make new friends outside of the workplace drop off a cliff for most of us. Casually Explained offers some of his typically tongue-in-cheek advice on how to break that cycle and expand your circle of friends.

Want to make a quick buck playing the stock market? Perhaps you should check out The Motley Fool rather the advice of a guy who has made his money from bad stick figure drawings on YouTube. On the other hand, his point about buying extra monitors is spot on.

(PG-13: Language) Casually Explained takes a video game-style approach in analyzing the differences between millennials and baby boomers, such as their education, social circles, technological advances, economy and access to memes.

Here’s another life lesson from YouTube’s most crudely-drawn adult educational series. This time, you’ll learn about the challenges that face you as you grow up and eventually have to move out of your parents’ basement and get your own place.

(PG-13: Language) If you can believe it, YouTube has only been around since 2005. Lots of things have changed with the service since then, and Casually Explained is here to casually explain the history of Google’s video juggernaut, and what its changes have meant for creators.

(PG-13) Casually Explained gives some tips on going out on a first date. He talks about asking someone out, coming up with a fun activity – something plus alcohol – how you’re supposed to act, what girls and guys are thinking when on a date, and the post-date flowchart.