Time Traveling Hipster | Explained

time-travel is something that we've all wondered about and something that the Internet is definitely obsessed with our topic of discussion for today is a photograph called the modern man or more popularly the time travelling hipster because you know it's the Internet anyway the picture in question is from the 1941 reopening of a Southfork bridge in Canada the photo is indeed authentic and unaltered and can even be seen from different angles it's actually the property of a local museum and was first made public in a 2004 exhibit called their past lives here in 2010 the museum posted the image online as a part of a collection and the internet promptly responded with numerous claims that it could be evidence of time travel now why is that at first glance it's pretty obvious that one person stands out here you see a man who appears to be way too modern to be in the 1940s many will notice casual attire consisting of a printed t-shirt a hoodie and sunglasses to many the most solid piece of evidence here is the modern-day handheld camera the man appears to be holding six years after its initial spread online the picture is still being brought up and talked about all over the Internet and of course many arguments against it have surfaced for example what many people interpreted as a printed t-shirt could very much be a shirt with a sewn on patch many believe the man is wearing a shirt with a logo of the Montreal Maroons a hockey team that played for the NHL in that period the so called hoodie the man is wearing is believed to be a knitted sweater so what about the glasses actually sunglasses became popular in the fashion world during the 1930s after being worn by various celebrities during photoshoots sunglasses obviously also helped practical uses before then as protection during outdoor activities such as sports if you look at the photograph you'll notice that the man's glasses also have side shields something that many don't associate with 1940s everyday wear well not exactly for casual use side shields came in handy as extra protection for motorists and workers who required them so why did our friend here have them no one knows for sure but glasses like that were definitely available for him no time travel required so this leaves us with his camera which many argue is too small and compact to fit in with the 1940s this is just a classic case of misinformation unless you studied photography or you're some kind of art major it's safe to say that you probably never really did look into the full history of cameras many who support the modern man theory assumed that the early 1940s only featured cameras like this one big clunky with long exposure times and absolutely requiring a tripod to operate actually these types of cameras are more commonly associated with 19th century studios this also being the era of Victorian post-mortem photography unrelated but still interesting anyway by 1888 we had our first handheld roll film camera courtesy of Kodak in 1901 Kodak returned with a smaller simpler and more affordable brownie camera which only costed $1 by 1925 we had 35 millimeter cameras take off thanks to Oskar Barnack for those of you who don't know a 35 millimeter film is the film that were most accustomed to seeing in handheld cameras today that's if you still use film needless to say by 1941 there were countless handheld options available it's hard to make out but he appears to be holding some sort of folding camera something much more common in the 1930s compared to now because this is YouTube people are going to argue that these observations don't disprove anything while this is true I also want to point out the fact that this photograph on the other hand also does not prove anything and that we have no way of knowing why this man was dressed the way he was unless we were there ourselves the point of this video is to take a step back and to consider other possibilities as to why this man is so out of place so I leave you with this question given all the factors at play here could this man be a time traveler or are we simply seeing what we want to see I'll honestly leave that one up to you thank you so much for watching and if you have any suggestions and feel free to go to any of my social media accounts and drop me a line there if not then I'll see you on the next one no idea if that worked I hope it did work I don't have to redo this

Channel: ReignBot

Views: 190,577

Rating: 4.9460845 out of 5

Keywords: reignbot, time travel, matthew santoro

Id: OkXqLYPqTDo

Length: 4min 7sec (247 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 15 2016