Video taking off 7x its usual first day

Drew Durnil asks how much of the map memory keeps

His border-drawing Short has viewers taking attendance for island nations and considering what thousands of imperfect maps might add up to.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 217,165 views a day, 7 times a normal first day on this channel (31,133).

3,000 People Draw Borders From MEMORY?!

Britain, Australia, New Zealand: viewers are giving island nations a roll call beneath Drew Durnil's latest Short, pointing out the places they think the map has missed.

"3,000 People Draw Borders From MEMORY?!" has passed 200,000 views before its first full day is over, already far beyond the roughly 31,000 a typical Durnil Short draws on its first day. The comments have also gone well past their usual first-day total.

The premise fits his history, geography and world-memes channel, but changes the question. Rather than imagining a deliberately strange alternative world, as in his recent "What If This TERRIBLE Map Became Reality?!", this upload turns to the world people can reconstruct without looking.

The replies make a geography lesson out of the gaps. Some viewers contemplate the effort of drawing Indonesia's and the Philippines' many islands; another jokes that Canada's border was apparently enough work. One offers a more mathematical thought: perhaps combining imperfect recollections lets individual mistakes cancel out. That's a viewer's interpretation, but it gives Durnil's memory-map question something to discuss beyond which country got forgotten.

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What viewers say

Imagine drawing all that islands in Indonesia and Philippines
@UTorrent52See it on YouTube
I like how people gave up with Canada. The border was enough lol
@The-Roman-VikingSee it on YouTube
I mean you can see the rough outlines but it’s crazy that they didn’t do the island nations.
@GHoPLAYZ69420See it on YouTube

3 more comments

Love how Australia and New Zealand are just completely missing from the map
@yaboizettsSee it on YouTube
I draw Indonesia (my country) map alot during 2nd grade class. I might ace the Indonesia border
@ZenizhivGreenSee it on YouTube
I think the ones who drew lines in the ocean were trying to account for the islands of that said Nation far away.
@Flowers_Cursed_Side_ViewSee it on YouTube

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