CGP Grey

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CGP Grey
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CGP Grey's logo
Personal information
Born
New York, U.S.
Nationality American
Irish
Website www.cgpgrey.com
YouTube information
Also known as Grey
Channel
Years active 2010–present
GenreTemplate:Pluralize from text Edutainment
Subscribers 2.23 million[1]
Total views 219.2 million[1]
Associated acts Brady Haran, Myke Hurley, Relay FM
Last updated: 31 May 2016

CGP Grey is an educational YouTuber and podcaster. Grey has dual American and Irish citizenship.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4][5][6][7]

The channel has also spawned several spin-offs, including a secondary channel, CGPGrey2, a gaming channel called CGPPlay, 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 particular Numberphile and Periodic Videos. In 2015, he started another podcast titled Cortex with Myke Hurley of Relay FM.[8]

Videos

The channel CGP Grey features, among other things, Grey Explains, a series of explanatory videos[9][10] on a range of subjects, including politics, geography, economics, and British culture. The videos feature Grey narrating over animations,stock footage and still photographs. While nearly all of Grey's videos feature his voice, his face has never been shown in his videos, and Grey almost always has his face obscured when appearing in other people's videos;[11] he generally uses a stick figure with glasses to represent himself.[12] His videos also often include hidden links,[13] often leading to Monty Python videos.[14] Grey has stated that the presentation style of his videos is influenced by that of Yahtzee Croshaw's Zero Punctuation series.[15][16]

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.[17] 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.[18]

Grey's video debunking popular misconceptions has been featured on CBS.[19] Two videos differentiate London, England and the City of London, while explaining certain oddities that arise from the ancient customs of the latter.[20][21] Another two videos explaining copyright law and The Electoral College have been featured on Mashable.[9] The channel has also explained the economic disadvantages of U.S. one-cent coins, in another viral video, Death to Pennies.[22][23] The video How to Become Pope also went viral.[7][24]

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 which Grey describes as his favourite video, is not included in his Grey Explains series.[4] Humans Need Not Apply was positively covered by several publications, including Business Insider, The Huffington Post, and Forbes.[4][5][6]

Podcasts

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Hello Internet

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Main article: Hello Internet
The flag of the Hello Internet podcast

In January of 2014, Grey launched the podcast Hello Internet along with cohost Brady Haran, another YouTube educational content creator. The podcast peaked as the #1 iTunes podcast in United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Canada, and Australia.[45] It was selected as one of Apple's best new podcasts of 2014.[46] Grey reported a podcast listenership of approximately "a quarter million" downloads per episode as of September 2015.[47]

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.[48] As a result of their conversations, Haran has been credited as coining the term "freebooting," among other words, to refer to the unauthorized rehosting of online media.[49] The podcast has an official flag called Nail & Gear.[50][51]

Cortex

On 3 June 2015, Grey launched his second podcast, Cortex, with cohost Myke Hurley of Relay FM. Cortex is mainly centered on Grey's workflow, technology and productivity. Like Hello Internet, the podcast began with a 10-episode test phase,[52] scheduled to release one episode per week, after which Grey and Hurley extended the podcast indefinitely.[53] The episodes are released roughly every two weeks.[54]

References

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