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What The Hell Happened to Email Forwards?

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Remember those weird, slightly threatening emails your aunt used to forward you in 2003? The ones that promised good luck if you sent them to 10 friends, but eternal misfortune (and possibly ghosts) if you didn’t? This is a deep dive into the golden age of email chains - when the internet was slower, fonts were brighter, and emotional blackmail came with glittery angel GIFs.

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Written in collaboration with Geoff Haggerty
Edited by Jamie Lightfoot
Produced by Dave Heuff - Hooked Creators

20 Comments

@MinistryOfMagic_DoM 1 year ago

This video is just Ryan forwarding Summers message to as many people as he could to help keep himself from dying and having bad luck for the rest of his life after.

@OldLadyCrinkumCrankum 1 year ago

"YOU MUST TAKE THIS seriously! I never send mails like this!" is my all-time favorite line from a chain email. I just love the idea of a blonde haired, scary-eyed, noseless, earless ghost being extremely judicious with her correspondence.

@GlarrygOfficial 1 year ago

In the river story, the third guy didn't turn into a woman wearing a bikini; he was already wearing the bikini.

@ScaerieTale 1 year ago

lol I couldn't resist. I sent this to my friend circle discord server with the only context being "Acquaintanceship maintained!"

@Alklazaris 1 year ago

That Prince still owes me money.

@brittb1696 1 year ago

I've found my new motto: "Welcome to the Internet. Don't. Touch. Anything. "

@pre-views2014 1 year ago

Even as a kid I was thinking that forwarding emails because something bad might happen was dumb. How did 12 year old me have a stronger sense of reality than some adults in that time.

@FaradayRage 1 year ago

I reached one year of sobriety today and I wanted to share this with Ryan and Ryan's fans. His videos got me smiling when things were dark .

@Τέντωμα 1 year ago

Incidentally, the last recorded person from the 1800's died in 2017. A lady named Emma Morano, born in late 1899, died at 117......honestly that kinda feels like the sort of thing that should make headlines or something. It might not seem particularly important, but the passing of the final survivor of an entire century feels far more news-worthy than most things are.

@BetterLifeAhead35 1 year ago

I remember my mom falling for every word in chain emails. I'd need to go online to research for a school assignment and it would be, "Be careful about sources. You can't believe everything you see online." But a total stranger made the dumbest claim you'd ever heard and she'd accept it without question lol.

@TrustSpiders 1 year ago

10:25 Don't threaten me with a good time!

@rosshalz 1 year ago

Hi there hello

@michaelsraj4783 1 year ago

I love the subtleties you sometimes put in your videos. Like the second smoke alarm beep you put in after you had moved on to something else

@Meraxesgigasfan 1 year ago

“I’m a genie in a YouTube”-Ryan George

@orlandorailfanproductions314 1 year ago (edited)

0:42 that's a train, a N700 Shinkansen to be specific

@altoidsours 1 year ago

I remember when I was like 12 and I got a chain letter about a girl who was alone in her house at night. She was scared and she kept hanging her hand down for her dog to lick and reassure her. The next morning she found the dog dead in her bathroom and it had been dead all night. There was also a note that said "humans can lick too." When I was a kid, this was the height of terrifying to me.

@boblangill6209 1 year ago

Don't know if it hastened email forwards' demise, but Weird Al released a video "Stop Forwarding that Crap to Me." when it was still relevant.

@bryanf6638 1 year ago (edited)

My favorite is when I receive forwarded emails at work with no context other than "See below" and have to read all emails in the chain to catch up.

@johndoe6032 1 year ago

Losing my 3 favorite cousins and kankles is totally worth it for George Ryan to show up at my house.

@Saylor28 1 year ago

At work there was this Anti-union email chain that started over the weekend last week and every one kept replying to it with "Please take me off the list" cause apparently everyone thought that's how email chains work. But every time someone replied to it, it would bounce to the entire organization. By Monday morning, we all had 200+ emails from people asking to be taken off the list. Where as it would have stopped naturally if no one replied to it. Mind you, these are people with college degrees failing to understand what was happening. I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it for myself. It was both hilarious and then kind of sad once you realize that certain people were exposing their true unintelligent colors.