Unexpected Absurdity

Wikipedia Clickhole: The Dancing Plague and Game of Thrones, Ethiopia Edition


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🖱In this casual Wikipedia clickhole, we'll start in the epic dancing plague of 1518 and wind up in some insane history in Ethiopia that reads like Game of Thrones. Along the way we'll also explore a laughter epidemic and discover a questionably named missionary group, before wrapping up in Gondar, Ethiopia's old capital.  

Thanks to nnhk00 and XSVIN for starting point suggestions! nnhk00's suggestion of Human Interference Task Force advances to the next random picker round.  👍 Please like or subscribe if you enjoyed!  Leave a suggestion in the comments for next Clickhole Wednesday's starting point. 


 ------------------ 🗓 Itinerary  ------------------ 

  • 00:00 Welcome to Clickhole Wednesday! 
  • 00:52 Random picker time 
  • 01:49 Dancing plague of 1518 
  • 06:24 Tanganyika laughter epidemic 
  • 08:50 Kashasha 
  • 09:13 Muleba District 
  • 09:24 Kibanga 
  • 09:51 White Fathers Missionaries of Africa 
  • 12:06 Charles Lavigerie 
  • 13:20 Sub-Saharan Africa 
  • 13:32 Fasil Ghebbi 
  • 15:00 Empress Mentewab 
  • 17:30 Iyoas I 
  • 20:20 Gondar, Ethiopia 
  • 21:24 Conclusion and summary  

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    • ------------------ 🎵 Music (all licensed through Epidemic Sound) ------------------ 

      Intro and outro music: Kendwa by Jones Meadow Background music: Earl Grey (Dylan Sitts); Nothing Too Serious (Matt Large); The Days of Old (Matt Large); 368 (Jobii); Jacuzzi (Jobii); Believe Me When I Say It (Matt Large); NEAR (SINY); Corn Candy (Guustaav); Dusty Conscience (Matt Large); Waiting For Summer (Matt Large)  


      ------------------ 🎨 Resources ------------------ 

      Select images and other content licensed through Envato Elements, Pexels, Wikimedia Commons, and Pixabay. Memes are... well, memes.   Image of Mentewab in thumbnail: A. Davey from Where I Live Now: Pacific Northwest / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)  

      ------------------ ❤️ Special Thanks ------------------ 

      FIrst and foremost, thanks to nnhk00 and XSVIN for their suggestions. Big thanks to Wikipedia for the articles from which to make content. This video would be quite literally nowhere without it.

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