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July 9, 2024 18 mins
(checking a box checks it for everyone!)
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(00:00):
Diane, are you a checker oran unchecker? I don't know what you're
talking about. Okay, I'll rephraseit. Are you an unchecker or a
checker? It doesn't make any moresense in the last ask do you know
what I'm talking about? No?The game? No, Kristen, are
you a what is that face?Hey? Pop yourself on real quick?

(00:29):
Yes? Hi? Are you achecker or an unchecker? Are we like
playing checkers for the sake of theargument, Yes, we're playing checkers.
What is a checker versus an uncheckerin checkers? Oh? I don't know.
I was thinking of Maybe I'm missingup mixing up my games chess like

(00:51):
checkmate. Okay, so again,I'll even I'll go down the chess road
with you. How am I achecker or an unchecker in in chess?
Oh? No, I've never playedchess. No? Do you do you
have any idea what I'm talking about? No? The one million Checkboxes?

(01:14):
You haven't played that yet? It'sthe what? Oh my god, no
it is. Have you tell meyou've heard of it? Go to one
million Checkboxes dot com Ma. Igot to it as well, Please do
I too? Am not familiar withit dot com. I think it's a

(01:34):
dot com if I'm not mistaken theYeah, okay, now it looks what's
wrong, Diane? Do I haveto keep this open? The No?
I want you to play? Whatam I either? Okay? Based on
my questions and what you see infront of you, you can either check
a box or uncheck a box.And what's the point of this the So

(02:00):
that doesn't give you anxiety? Lookingat that gives me a headache? Ye,
no, not at all. I'lltell you what. It's easy to
feel overwhelmed. It's very easy toget frustrated. Next thing you know,
you'll find out you've clicked a couplehundred times, like without even trying.
Does it tell you how many peopleare on the site a right time?

(02:21):
Okay? So there's a million boxesthat should be clear in the name of
it, one million checkboxes? Right, there's a million boxes, right,
Yeah, six hundred and fifteen Thenumber keeps moving, but six hundred and
fifteen thousand boxes are checked. Yeah, so people want to try to get
to a million. So, well, I'm checking it. Somebody else somewhere

(02:42):
in the world is unchecking it.Well, here's the problem people have turned
into dicks, right, oh,because their aim is to not get it
to a million. Well, sayagain, they're they're blocking people. Well
no, even if you told me, you're somebody who, like I don't
want there to be any checkboxes.I want it to be zero. I'm

(03:04):
fine with that. It's the peoplewho, well, there's people that didn't
do a bunch of stuff, likethey'll sit here like this one's empty right
right here. There's people that willsit and wait and the second that gets
checked, they'll uncheck it. It'snever ending, it's never ended. And
then there's people. Then there's peoplewho are creating bots who have it set

(03:24):
up so as soon as a boxgets checked, the bot unchecks. No,
it's not who created this. Wouldyou know them from other software they've
developed? I mean I didn't likethese right here, tyler, you see
these four in this hole? Yeah, click on one of them. Click

(03:45):
it, Okay, leave it.See what happens. So my little thing
says you have checked one box,There you go check another one. I
got right next to it. Thereyou go check it. I'm up to
three, baby again four. Isn'tthat weird how those four were the only
ones open in that whole area.Now they're closed in well to people,

(04:08):
I scrolled down so far to see, well there's a million boxes. Yeah,
but just I wanted the visual representationof a million and there's a lot
of scroll. Yeah there's a millionboxes, and says I've checked ten and
I'm still minus one. So nothingI've checked has worked. No, that's
not true. You've checked. You'vechecked ten, but all ten of yours

(04:29):
have been unchecked, right, soit isn't a minus one. Yeah.
Oh I'm getting unchecked like crazy nowyeah, right here, so this is
time well automatically going away. Yeah, see this rope because there's somebody either
either there's some dick in Bahrain rightnow who is just sitting and watching these
five blocks, and they go anytimethat gets checked, I check it,
I check it, I check it, I uncheck it, I uncheck it.

(04:51):
Or there's somebody who has created abot that follows it and unchecks it.
So what was this games in tent? Just to bring everybody together and
do something simple and easy. Howdo you win? You fill it all
in, but then people had tostart going in and creating designs. So

(05:12):
like in one part of it,you look and made out of checkboxes is
a great big penis Kristin. Kristindid that? This PhD student at Carnegie
Mellon has checked more than twenty thousandboxes fighting for the cause. Yeah,
so people, by the way,bless summer break. It's easy. No,

(05:33):
I'm telling you what how many?How many of you checked? Now,
Diane, I have checked forty one, but it still says minus one
next to it. But what doesthat mean? Nothing I have done has
gained. You're not helping the cause, the the But Diane's not even trying,
and she's up to fifty. Sheseems addicted to it. It's so
easy to just sit there and go, wait, you know what. These

(05:54):
three are available. I'm going toclick these three. Can you play on
a mobile device? Say again,I've only tried on my laptop when you're
driving. I don't know if youcould play on a laptop or on a
mobile device. That's a good question. My guess is you could play on
an iPad. I don't know ifyou could play on a phone in this
day and age. You have to. I mean, it's a website.
It's awesome. It's the dumbest gamein the world. I yet see anything

(06:20):
about this. It looks like it'svery popular. A lot of people are
playing. Where did you learn aboutit? Say again, buddy of mine
told me was he a checker oran unchecker? And for this question,
I'm not talking about checkers or chess, I'm talking about this game. Uh
No, he was a checker.He started as a checker. But then,
like people, like I said,people are doing designs, people are

(06:43):
writing words out somebody and I didn'tsee this, but I've read about it
now like some people will do.Like some people, somebody wrote out a
slur and that got everybody all firedup, so they immediately unchecked it,
and then they tried to do anotherone. So it's it is causing some
problems. And again it was justmeant to be a hold on. Yes,
Kristen, Okay, So I havechecked seventeen boxes, but in parentheses

(07:06):
seven or gold five or green?One is purple? What are those?
Oh? I don't know. Well, if you scroll through, you could
see what happened with the what happenedto the machine. They randomly scattered a
few colorful boxes throughout to see ifthey would be checked more frequently. Oh,
oh, are you checking only thecolored boxes? And I got a

(07:27):
red one, so now I havetwo red right, I'm just checking checking
you out? So you haven't uncheckedanybody. I don't want it like that
feels wrong to unchecked. Why wait? What I was hitting getting mixed up
with a bot because I'd check itand then they unchecked me, and I
checked the box again and they uncheckedme again. I don't know if that's

(07:48):
a bot though, that could justbe some dick somewhere else in the world.
Don't they have anything else to do? I don't know, Diane.
Why don't you uh what number youoff? I got to sixty and I
bailed? Why'd you bail? Isit still it's frustrating? Why is it
frustrating? It's what is this accomplishing? Nothing? Yeah? What's the purpose?

(08:09):
There is a game at hand,Like what's the highest they've gotten?
How many boxes had been checked?What do I get a T shirt if
I check the millionth one? Doyou everything you do in your life is
based on whether or not you geta T shirt? No? But it's
just to me, this is pointless. When you were playing Angry Birds back
in the day, I never playedAngry Birds, Candy Crush, whatever name
it. It doesn't matter. Flappybird, flappy birds? What are you

(08:31):
getting that was a time waster?Where you are achieving levels? What is
this stupid hold on? Yes,Kristen, so what if this is around
the world? Yes, what timeof the day does it start for everyone
to be like I'm going to bethe first one that check a box when

(08:52):
the website went up, so ithas never been taken offline, not that
I'm aware of, Not that I'maware of. And what did you know
or did you answer? What's thehighest number of boxes they've gotten? Oh?
You know what, I don't knowwhat. I don't know what the
number is. I don't know whatthe highest number is. A science fiction
author in Ann Arbor began checking boxeson Tuesday because he thought it might be
soothing. He still noticed someone elseworking behind him. Next thing you knew,

(09:13):
he was at a thousand. Herewe go. Oh, by the
way, the guy who started it. Okay, Diane's holding your head like
she's uh, she's getting ready topass out. What number? You know
I've stopped. I'm still at sixty. I don't understand. Kristen was talking
about different like color notifications. Igot none of those. I have role
I have one that says minus onenext to me. What does that mean?

(09:37):
It means you've done nothing, Diane? Is what it means? You've
wasted your time? Yes, yeah, you don't see that. There's no
no no boxes green boxes. Yeah, but I mean I just see.
I don't. I don't see likethe number of them scroll scroll because you
haven't checked one, go up,go up right here the green one a

(09:58):
check it? Check it? Whatdoes that do? There? You have
minus see I don't understand what thatmeans. I have minus one golden minus
one green. Now right, becauseyou've unmarked a green box, go me
here, unmarked the red Oh whenyou click at the same time as someone
else, so you could inadvertently uncheckit? Right, Diane is a big

(10:22):
unchecker. Now I'm gonna go throughan unchecked the Oh no, Diane,
Oh, run home and check yourmail. The T shirt probably just shure
y'all had to waste time. Canthey track where the checks are coming from?
Like it's one part of the globemail much so you've been unchecking.

(10:43):
I'm gonna have to arrest you ifyou don't send me an Apple gift card.
Boy, I better do it.I have security clearance. Consider No,
I don't mean for legal reasons,but have they been able to graphically
demonstrate part of the globe that's moreinto checking the globe that unchecked. I'm

(11:05):
sure Nolan Royalty would know. NolanRoyalty. Last week, Nolan Royalty unleashed
upon the world a website with amillion empty check boxes. The thirty two
year old, who is a gamedeveloper in Brooklyn, New York, created
the site in a fit of inspirationand shared it last Wednesday with very low
expectations. He is now renting serverspace because of how many people are playing

(11:31):
at any given moment. When's theNew York Times going to buy this?
The Yeah? No kidding? Sothey think this is the new wordle I
don't know. I am playing this. Say again, I am playing this?
Why say again? It's not agame. I'd rather waste my time
building words and looking for words thanchecking a box. How many are you

(11:54):
up to? Thirty four? It'sthat step. We've come to appreciate it
so much. From Krista, thefree website called one million Checkboxes has become
an unlikely hit that is eliciting verystrong reactions. By the way, and

(12:15):
I don't know If this is true, what number you up to, Diane?
I'm staying at fifty. What happenswith that bottom right checkbox number field?
What does that do? I don'tknow. Does it automatically gets you
to a certain box number and thenyou can decide to check herund check it?
Yeah? Where's the penis? TheI don't know that part. I

(12:39):
don't know. Try it Ooh ohso it did jump me up to box
sixty nine. Oh so it filledin sixty nine for you. Yes,
here's the penis by the way.And I don't know if this is the
case, because I don't how'd youput them all over there? I think

(13:01):
it's breaking my computer? The Ohno, is this a virus? I
would laugh, I would laugh sohard. Oh, fill in that row,
fill in that row, by theway. You know who? They
said this is torture for people withOCD. Yes, totally, I get
that people with OCD are I justwant to fill in this one line and

(13:22):
it keeps ondoing it the what numberyou have to Diane? Eighty? Right?
And I believe two seconds ago youwere like, Nope, I'm going
to stay at fifty because not onlydoes it mess with your completion, wait,
go down, down, go down, go down. Fill in the
row, fill in the row,try filing them up so fast you have
to find like your sweet spot onthe board bottom unchecked them. But then

(13:46):
my computer, you're probably the onlyone that's thought about going to the bottom.
Here you go, No, thereyou go. I'm getting deleted by
well you're not getting delete someone orhere here the console from here there you
go. Oh god, I getit. I get It's just like time

(14:07):
waster app. It's not a timewaster and a study in human psychology?
What number are they up to?How many checkbox? Six twenty eight?
So when we started, was itsix fifty something? Yeah, so it
just it goes up and down?What it was? It was six fourteen
like two minutes ago? What well, I mean you're telling me that like

(14:31):
you've just made like you've just discoveredelectricity. What number you up to?
I stopped at ninety one? Ohcome on, do the freaquencies. I
should just go to one hundred.I do I do, I do checking
unchecking. You mentioned that like thatcompletion anxiety, right, I have that
right, So complete the roads.It's not doing it some jackass and bahrains.

(14:56):
So you're checking. You're not unchecking. Oh what Kristin, welcome,
that's my first penis. I madepenis. You made this? Oh congratulations,
Oh you got boner? Congratulations?God? What is what is?
Why is that one box unchecked?Over there? What's that? What is

(15:18):
that? They must have undone it? Oh okay, Oh Kristen made a
penis. Congratulations. Yeah, soyou're an unchecker. Well I had to
re unstruck to rec I'm are youmaking up words? Hey, she's playing
one million check boxes. We're justplaying chess. She's got a knife.

(15:41):
How many are you up to it? Actually? It must have somebody must
have undone it because it says I'mback at thirty huh. Yeah, it
says I have thirty checked boxes ninegold, six red, five green,
two purple, but at one pointI was thirty four. There you how
many are you up to? Eleven? Stop at the frequencies? Now,

(16:07):
well, I mean here's she hasdone it. They're all checked in the
You like that? Leave it there? That's what I don't like. So
the uncheckers are definitely aggravating me,but it really bothers me that Kristen decided
to make a penis by unchecking boxes. So she did the profane design.
She's hurting our progress. Yeah,but I don't know that you would be

(16:30):
able to find a spot empty enoughto make a penis. The game is
one million checkboxes. I don't wina prize for unchecking. Oh, I
have some bad news for you.Even if you check all million, I
don't think you win a prize waitingfor a T shirt. You check a
million, you win, You winin faction of completing the game. And
you don't think that some kid inBahrain is like new click. Isn't it

(16:57):
fun? Then still check it overthere? It's aggravating. What are you
up to? I'm still at oneeleven? Thank you very much. I've
stalked all the rows are filled inchecking? Are you on checking? Diana
checking? You know I don't dowell at these games. Again, there's

(17:18):
no win, there's no win,there's no you're answering a trivia question.
I know. It just seems alittle pointless. Ninety of your life?
Oh really, is that right?I don't know my life is pointless.
I don't know what is the pointwhen you are watching cats hit a ping

(17:41):
pong ball while you're making a dutydopamine in my brain makes me happy.
That's what this is. When yousit down a row, when you fill
it, I'm going back to Instagram. Wait oh, who wait? Who
just spelled is that Josh? Thatis he spelled out penis? He did
no? Or did he just screencapture that from somebody else? He probably

(18:04):
stole mine, PZ. That lookslike you're picking a seat on an airplane.
That does not look like, well, you know what it is.
He tried to give you some kindof bass, but like somebody unclicked the
balls. I think though he wasreally focusing on the circumcision. He went

(18:26):
to box forty two, so fourtwenty sixty nine. Enjoy it. What
are you up to, Diane?I stopped? What are you looking at
now? Trick talk
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