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@jimbarchuk
October 16, 2024 at 8:35 am
That bought you an unsub.
@brockwidmann9210
October 16, 2024 at 9:22 am
Why? It’s just a Ted X. They are always less curated than regular Ted talks. This one, It’s cinema history basically.
@jimbarchuk
October 16, 2024 at 12:23 pm
Drivel. Literal. By definition.
@brockwidmann9210
October 16, 2024 at 12:26 pm
Is Literary history or cinema history drivel? Liberal arts? I don’t see it much different from a video essay on a movie trend.
@janiekilkelly
October 16, 2024 at 8:45 am
Surpringly engaging.
@tiavor
October 16, 2024 at 8:50 am
mirrors were coated with silver back in the days, and what is most effective against vampires? silver.
@jasondiasauthorpage615
October 16, 2024 at 9:05 am
This was almost an epigraph in my vampire novel:
Q: Why can’t vampires see themselves in mirrors?
A: Because they don’t exist.
@8PurpleSquirrels
October 16, 2024 at 9:07 am
It’s not a politician that fits in that picture, it’s “the politician”.
The only lives that truly matter are those who respect the lives of others.
@abubakerbarenis
October 16, 2024 at 9:19 am
Is he Vampirologist? ????
@JohnSmith-uy9dx
October 16, 2024 at 10:12 am
All vampire movies suck? No they don’t. Weirdo.
@TheMrfrodough
October 16, 2024 at 10:15 am
Because they are fictional characters and written that way……
@ANGÉLIQUEBELR
October 16, 2024 at 10:22 am
Twilight
@rosecoloredchloe
October 16, 2024 at 10:37 am
so i’ve learned that what i fear is the french
@CecilCeceRobert
October 16, 2024 at 10:42 am
The Fun Police are out in full force in these comments.
@teruphoto
October 16, 2024 at 10:59 am
????➡️????
@Phatxual
October 16, 2024 at 11:07 am
9:30 and we fiiiinally get to the topic at hand..????
@geekjokes8458
October 16, 2024 at 11:08 am
last thing i would have expected from TED but would 100% watch a video from this guy
@DreadPirateRobrt
October 16, 2024 at 11:22 am
I thought this was going to be like 15 seconds long. “Why don’t vampires cast a reflection? Because, they don’t exist!”
@SuperRetroid
October 16, 2024 at 11:23 am
The reflection in mirrors was supposed to be the spirit world or souls, that’s why there’s the myth about breaking a mirror (harming your soul) or scrying, which is staring into a mirror to ‘see’ that world.
Hence: Vampires don’t have reflections in mirrors because they don’t have souls.
@malachiteofmethuselah9713
October 16, 2024 at 3:38 pm
Mirrors were absurdly expensive, and the servants were fed superstitions to keep their grubby hands off of difficult to replace objects. Irrational fears work far better than beatings to prevent theft of damages.
@super_terram
October 16, 2024 at 11:49 am
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
@Regirs
October 16, 2024 at 12:54 pm
We’re oft to blame in tis too much proved that with devotion’s visage and pious action we sugar over the devil himself..
@Hoju3942
October 16, 2024 at 12:54 pm
Blatant Vampire Hunter D erasure.
@RampinRabit
October 16, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Lost Boys is my all time favourite vampire movie
@DarkZeroHero
October 16, 2024 at 6:41 pm
“It’s just noodles, Michael.”
@pw.70
October 16, 2024 at 2:14 pm
Best vampire movie = Lost Boys.
@psydrone8
October 16, 2024 at 2:16 pm
Hey! He just made a middle of the road video essay onto a TED talk!
@Korradoar
October 16, 2024 at 3:26 pm
“vampire movies are not good movies” I already know I don’t like you.
@Longstride458
October 16, 2024 at 4:31 pm
Because they’re made up…
@protocol6
October 16, 2024 at 8:42 pm
Huh, I always though it had to do with silver’s association with magic.
@AceKiller9000
October 16, 2024 at 11:18 pm
Surely the video title is incorrect. It should read:
Why can’t Vampires cast reflections?
@claytonkennedy4187
October 20, 2024 at 3:22 pm
I think it’s a clever nuance choice: the “don’t” implies the explanation of outside agency (writers) vs exploring the self-agency of the vampire itself.
@kelvinedits9471
October 17, 2024 at 12:05 am
Forget about vampire!! This was too deep to understoor by common people ????✋
@hiephailua
October 17, 2024 at 4:31 am
❤❤❤❤Respect
@mariaantoniettamontella9173
October 17, 2024 at 4:50 am
Trump
@July_-
October 17, 2024 at 10:56 am
9:27 in the TVD Universe they cast reflections
@kamaldatta1
October 17, 2024 at 1:15 pm
Rosie O”Donnell, that you?
@gamias3664
October 17, 2024 at 11:33 pm
Jesus christ, what have they come to. Vampires? This used to be the place that would teach you that if you brush your teeth with your non dominant hand twice a week, you’d probably end up being ceo before next christmas.
@pondholloworchards
October 18, 2024 at 8:04 am
Their blood is red mercury that’s the reason
@TheMagicLemur
October 18, 2024 at 5:56 pm
Is it just me, or is this great talk more a Zombie, in that it keeps coming back to life every few months as a notification…? ????