New Video: Early Preview for Bonnie Bees!
Added 2025-08-15 16:49:56 +0000 UTCHello Bonnie Bees,
Trying something new today: a really early Sneak Peak at an upcoming video. Usually I only share previews right before release to catch glitches or Errors Catestrophagus. But this time you're seeing it way in advance - early enough that your feedback could shape what (hopefully) millions see.
Fair warning: That means nothing is finished yet. Temp audio, no music, no sound effects, lots of animation still to do. But that's the point - you get to see what videos look like in the works.
Thank you for becoming a Bonnie Bee, supporting these videos big and small, and helping shape this one with your feedback.
Comments
0:10 I like how Russia's binoculars are toilet paper tubes! 0:27 What's the pattern behind which regions of the map are colored white and which are green? Some of the Canadian islands are white and some are green. I guess you have to draw the line somewhere if you're cartoonifying a map with solid colors, but it makes me curious what was special about Ellesmere Island and Axel Heiberg Island that made them but not Canada's other northern islands qualify to be drawn in white. 0:57 Wait, now *all* the Northern Canadian islands are white? I guess you haven't picked a consistent meaning for your colors. 0:49 Where does this photograph come from? The narration goes "instead giving Greenland the grandest grand canyon" and it's not obvious to me what it's a picture of (is it an artists rendition of what such a Greenlandic canyon might look like, or a comparable canyon from another country or the existing landscape or...?) 3:27 I'm guessing you looked into this, but the internet seems confused about whether the correct pronunciation of Nuuk, ought to be "nook" or "nuke". Wikipedia's sound sample on [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuuk ] seems to agree with you and sound like "nook", however its adjacent IPA text says [nuːk] and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Greenlandic lists the vowel as `uː kuuk cool (long) `, which would imply a sound more like "nuke". Also the Cambridge dictionary seems to think it's "Nuke" rather than like "Nook" in both US and UK English. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/nuuk
Marcello Herreshoff
2025-12-09 20:02:20 +0000 UTC"So say we all!"
Joseph Raphael
2025-11-13 15:25:52 +0000 UTC@4:00 - "Greenland has the lowest population density on Earth..." Antarctica?
Brian Kelly
2025-10-15 17:05:48 +0000 UTCI never saw this one pop up in my feed? Might want to get in touch with Patreon Support?
Leo G.
2025-10-14 16:23:09 +0000 UTCI’m kinda late, but wanted to echo what lots of others have already said. You’re one of two YouTube channels I support financially, and it’s because when I watch your videos, they completely capture my attention, and I recognize the extreme level of detail and the attention you dedicate to every moment. Thank you for making such a fantastic product, and for being so consistently fantastic. I’m going to use that as my excuse for not having great feedback - your video really enthralled me, as usual, and I couldn’t focus on feedback cuz I was too busy learning. Reading some of the other comments, I think there’s some great things others have pointed out that are very insightful. The only thing that stuck out to me was the “+5 agriculture” and “+10 polar survival” felt abrupt, though I did like it. Maybe it could be introduced with a couple introductory words? Obviously not a big thing. Thanks again! Love your work
Noah Lipshutz
2025-09-16 00:30:15 +0000 UTCThough I should also mention that this is the first CGP grey video I’ve watched while pregnant and this baby is eating my IQ points so this might be a skill issue on my part haha
Liberty Fuchs
2025-08-21 00:53:39 +0000 UTCLove it! Makes me want to visit Greenland. I’m a Bonnie Bee so I can listen to you explain anything for hours on end, but this /might/ be dense for more casual fans. Maybe cut some lines (like the etymology of metropole?) or slow down your speech occasionally. Or don’t; I’m not a professional YouTuber.
Liberty Fuchs
2025-08-21 00:49:50 +0000 UTCyay Greenland! I like the video. The only thing that threw me off (aside from no music, which is pretty bizarre!) was the clipboard/checklist around the 6:30 mark. It doesn't show up anywhere in the video, so it seemed a bit out of place to show up just then. You'd made all the points that were on the clipboard, but maybe seeing it earlier/with every point? I feel like you've done something like that before.
EMILY GRISWOLD
2025-08-19 23:52:04 +0000 UTCWe like that idea of including Greenland's perspective.
Jenny Krishnan
2025-08-17 19:38:51 +0000 UTCI didn't spot any major errors as I am not a sme on any of this, but there are quite a few more references to current political stuff than is normal in your videos, is this intentional? I worry partially because, while you did it tastefully some might just not want to deal with politics and thus stop watching; or it dates the video a bit in future (much like Brexit got dated). Just a thought?
Phoenix Ryzing
2025-08-17 15:08:24 +0000 UTCFive points for you Grey: 1. Early preview is fun, because it's a chance to think about the difficulty of making a story from a set of facts. Usually we see the final, where all the difficulty is gone. Thanks for trying this. 2. The opening framing is "under the eyes of super powers", but that framing disappears for almost 4 minutes, to be reintroduced with the question of since-Greenland-is-so-small-why-do-superpowers-care. And the reason for super power interest was already hinted at in the proximity apparent in the two-binocular visual, which spoils part of the ending and makes the explanations of Greenland's smallness seem beside the point. Also, lots of the story is about Denmark and the EU, which makes the story lopsided to the east. Perhaps just having the super power visual appear later would smooth this out? But you might want to wrestle more with how superpower-interest and Greenland-is-small relate to one another in the story. 3. More generally, I'm not clear on the main point. Some options I see: (a) Greenland used to be unimportant enough to be left alone but may become too important to be left alone; (b) Greenland's isolation has always been in tension with outside interest; (c) Greenland is more important than you thought; (d) Greenland's relationships with the outside world are more interesting than you thought; or (e) Greenland's situation is precarious (this is my favorite option, and also see the next point). 4. The list of factors for Greenland's precarious position don't seem to hold together well enough. In particular, some of them are more to-the-point than others. "Resources might become accessible to outsiders" is a stronger factor than "huge island". "Small population" is a more a sub-point of "resources inaccessible" and "ice". If your thesis really is "precarious position",I think it will help to organize and prioritize the factors more. 5. Here is a radical option for the story structure. It's told from a kind of global third-party perspective, both narratively and visually. Would be be more effective if it could be told from Greenland's perspective? Same points, but presented in terms of Greenland's own history and current relationships, and allowing for Greenlander's opinions to be in the story. If the thesis really is that Greenland's position is precarious, perhaps a Greenland perspective can let you get in some of the emotion of the people in the precarious position.
WDW
2025-08-17 02:42:21 +0000 UTCGreat subject. What a great they have. I have not seen it before. My father-in-law was stationed in Thule at the Air Force base there in the 70s. All of the illustrations in the video of what the towns look like are perfect - small group of buildings; mountains.
Glenn Johnson
2025-08-17 01:14:04 +0000 UTC
