Underknown
is a digital media company known for their educational YouTube channels What If?, How to Survive, Your Body On, Crazy Creatures, and Origins of Food.
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What If?
- Asteroid Miners: Discussed in "What If We Started Mining Asteroids?".
- Butter Face: The thumbnail for "What If Everyone Lived for 150 Years?" has the face of an elderly woman photoshopped onto the body of a young woman wearing a bikini.
- Colonized Solar System: Discussed in several episodes.
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Several episodes discuss planets being destroyed in this manner.
- Educational Song: "What If Presents: The Solar System Song".
- Musical Episode: "What If Presents: The Solar System Song".
- Powered by a Black Hole: Discussed in "What If We Could Harness the Energy of a Black Hole?".
- Sole Survivor: Played for Laughs in "What If Presents: The Solar System Song".Astronaut: Uh, Houston? We have a problem.Mission control: What's that, Peter?Astronaut: Uh, well, um, all of our astronauts died. Except me.Mission control: Oh, dear. Well, that's a story for another What If?.
- Synchro-Vox: Used in "What If Presents: The Solar System Song".
- Uranus Is Showing:
- "What If Presents: The Solar System Song" points out that Uranus smells like farts, and uses the pronunciation "yu-RAIN-us", instead of the "YUR-in-us" pronunciation that the channel normally uses.
- The thumbnail for "What If You Lived on Uranus?" is an image of Uranus overlayed with an image of a human anus.
