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New Video: Early Preview for Bonnie Bees! (Patreon)

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2025-08-15 16:49:56
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2026-06

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Hello Bonnie Bees,

Trying something new today: a really early Sneak Peak at an upcoming video. Usually I only share previews right before release to catch glitches or Errors Catestrophagus. But this time you're seeing it way in advance - early enough that your feedback could shape what (hopefully) millions see.

Fair warning: That means nothing is finished yet. Temp audio, no music, no sound effects, lots of animation still to do. But that's the point - you get to see what videos look like in the works.

Thank you for becoming a Bonnie Bee, supporting these videos big and small, and helping shape this one with your feedback.

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beantown

the video is great! I did notice the leftmost building at 3:54 has what I imagine would be an unusable door, as it's well above the snow and has no stairs

John Söderholm

Your videos have usually felt pretty apolitical to me, maybe occasionally lightly touching on and weigting on current topics like Brexit. So when even yours hint at the current doom, you know things must be bad :D Love the video, if I add something it would be why Greenland don't want to become a state (aside from wanting to stay independent, edit: come to think of it nevermind, it's obvious)?

BunnyG

🐝❤️

beantown

The list at 6:28 starts with 2 capitalized notes and follows with uncapitalized items for the rest of the list

Hans Cathcart

Fun aviation facts about Greenland: Up until they extended Nuuk’s runway, you had to land over 100 miles away in Kangerlussuaq in order to transfer to a small airplane to get to Nuuk and other ‘cities’. Air Greenland flies a single A330 to and from Europe, and occasionally due to bad weather at Nuuk it has to fly back to Europe to divert. The number of transatlantic flights that cross Greenland or just south of Greenland on a daily basis is staggering, around 2,500 flights a day. So depending on the jet-stream, you almost could have more people above Greenland than on Greenland on a given day. The importance of Greenland during WWII for ferrying airplanes to Europe cannot be understated. And, it appears their runways are marked as magnetic not true, but I couldn’t confirm that. You’d think they would want to follow Nav Canada on that.

Peter Zawistowicz

1:04 "When Greenland really was Greenland-er" -> "When Greenland was Greenerland"?

Jonas Torgersen

I only have a small nitpick. Regarding Danish currency, I would either say kroner or krones (or crownes). The suffix -er implies plurality, like the English -s. Saying kroners is therefore a double plural. My preferred way is to say kroner

Simon Priisholm

Great video. 3 things. 1. Denmark are also responsible for foreign policy along side military and fishery control. 2. The subsidy (Bloktilskud) is around 4 billion danish kroners. 3 The 1000 kroners bill is no longer valid and is out of cirkulation.

Dawn Earp

What about St. Maarten's/Sint Martin's? I am pretty sure it is part of the Danish Kingdom and only half an island.

Kraken Artificer

That was fascinating. Very exited to learn all that. 5:11 -- not sure what "pot" means in this context? (Clearly not marijuana, in that climate, lol). Further context at 5:29 suggests it means "concentrated source of valuable good", and anyway incredibly tiny in the overall video, but noting it as a potential point of confusion you can do with as you like.

Kraken Artificer

Adore the blank infrastructure map that works for everything XD The Mercator size note is great, and the polar view is so useful for understanding how it all fits together! I understand intellectually that opposite ends of the Mercator map are close together, but this makes it so much clearer. "Very big. Very Ice." LOL "Just in case what?" "Just in case" Such a menacing smile OMG

Daniel Nakash

Great video, as always :) Having mentioned greater geopolitical powers, you may want to talk also a bit about China. A few years ago a Chinese company bid an offer to build 3 airports in Greenland. I'm not sure about the details, but either Denmark, the US or both made sure this wouldn't come to pass.

Przemysław Chojecki

This is great video, greatly put and described. For me, the most eye opening Denmark - Greenland relationship information was, that Greenland does not have the jail, but sends its prisoners to Denmark. This has changed in 2019 and now (according to Wikipedia) there is six prisoners in Nuuk.

Parker Bond

This video had UK explained vibes

Holly L

This is great! I do have to ask, why is one item ("location to isolated") on the list at the end in green when the rest is in red?

Bryce Davenport

It's always a happy day to see a new video from CGP Gray

Alžběta Šťastná

I love it! Would you consider referencing the internet fact (no idea if it's true or not) that Greenland and Iceland switched names to confuse everybody?

Charles Gousha

6:30 typo -- "autonomy dependant on Denmark" should be "dependent". "a" for a noun, "e" for the adjective.

PrinzJuliano

just in case what? no i need to know

Jeremy Hill

Looks great! Love the reference to the airport codes too.

Drew

I love this! It's cool to see the video before the music XD This brings so much important context to this situation! I guess the questions I'm left with are... Why did the weather change? It used to be greener? Why do they want a smaller population? What would happen if someone did try and take it? I assume no one knows for sure.

MexCFood

Great, informative video as always. Was dying to know what the red dot is in the center, motivated to look haha. Summit station - "The population of the station is typically five in wintertime and reaches a maximum of 38 in the summer" Wonder how many other countries would give a dot for 5 people :)

Jake S

Did Grey just say "toss off"?

Jack Park

There is a glitch at 0:11 as there appears to be an orange dot to the right of Iceland. As a side note, the sentence at 0:58, "What started Greenland was greeting her first humans at opposite ends" is a bit confusing.

Jack Park

At 1:51, the "friendship club" banner has an asterisk, but with no explanation. I think the intention was to have an asterisk explanation at the bottom, but either this was forgotten, or the explanation was removed, but not the asterisk.

Jack Park

The Greenland flag for parliament at 2:31 has a different shade than the actual flag.

Jack Park

At 4:40 you could use the "A4" golden ratio animation when zooming in on Greenland

Jack Park

At 6:42, some of the checklist items start with a capital letter while some don't.

IdrilAndariel

5:12, the last sentence in the * text is not complete. "It's rare to find *them* in heir pure form.

IdrilAndariel

6:25 "autonomy dependant on Denmark": Is the adjective not spelled "dependent"?

Nick

Love this video. Until watching this, I'd never heard of the Medieval Warm Period! I feel like that maybe could use a little more acknowledgement and is ripe for a little grey flourish. "Which, by the way, turns out that parts of the earth were just warmer for like, a few hundred years at the end of the first millennium and like... no one really knows why".

Dan M

I love the choice of topic. Considering your production pipeline, it feels timely in a way that I imagine has involved some degree of rushing in a way you've sworn off doing in the past. I can't say for certain, but kudos if you've actually avoided crunching to do so, sympathy if you've felt it necessary to do so. Either way, you never fail to entertain and educate.

Glenn Johnson

Great subject. What a great they have. I have not seen it before. My father-in-law was stationed in Thule at the Air Force base there in the 70s. All of the illustrations in the video of what the towns look like are perfect - small group of buildings; mountains.

WDW

Five points for you Grey: 1. Early preview is fun, because it's a chance to think about the difficulty of making a story from a set of facts. Usually we see the final, where all the difficulty is gone. Thanks for trying this. 2. The opening framing is "under the eyes of super powers", but that framing disappears for almost 4 minutes, to be reintroduced with the question of since-Greenland-is-so-small-why-do-superpowers-care. And the reason for super power interest was already hinted at in the proximity apparent in the two-binocular visual, which spoils part of the ending and makes the explanations of Greenland's smallness seem beside the point. Also, lots of the story is about Denmark and the EU, which makes the story lopsided to the east. Perhaps just having the super power visual appear later would smooth this out? But you might want to wrestle more with how superpower-interest and Greenland-is-small relate to one another in the story. 3. More generally, I'm not clear on the main point. Some options I see: (a) Greenland used to be unimportant enough to be left alone but may become too important to be left alone; (b) Greenland's isolation has always been in tension with outside interest; (c) Greenland is more important than you thought; (d) Greenland's relationships with the outside world are more interesting than you thought; or (e) Greenland's situation is precarious (this is my favorite option, and also see the next point). 4. The list of factors for Greenland's precarious position don't seem to hold together well enough. In particular, some of them are more to-the-point than others. "Resources might become accessible to outsiders" is a stronger factor than "huge island". "Small population" is a more a sub-point of "resources inaccessible" and "ice". If your thesis really is "precarious position",I think it will help to organize and prioritize the factors more. 5. Here is a radical option for the story structure. It's told from a kind of global third-party perspective, both narratively and visually. Would be be more effective if it could be told from Greenland's perspective? Same points, but presented in terms of Greenland's own history and current relationships, and allowing for Greenlander's opinions to be in the story. If the thesis really is that Greenland's position is precarious, perhaps a Greenland perspective can let you get in some of the emotion of the people in the precarious position.

Phoenix Ryzing

I didn't spot any major errors as I am not a sme on any of this, but there are quite a few more references to current political stuff than is normal in your videos, is this intentional? I worry partially because, while you did it tastefully some might just not want to deal with politics and thus stop watching; or it dates the video a bit in future (much like Brexit got dated). Just a thought?

Chris Hughes

Love the idea of previews/feedback, Grey. I hope you can mentally prefix anything anybody says in this comment section with "Speaking as a Bonnie Bee who dutifully and enthusiastically craves consumption of CGP's creative content with charisma, commentary and comedy combined..."

Ben

If I’m remembering my CGP Grey flight lore correctly this video surely has to open and/or close with Grey talking to someone on a plane flying into and/or out of Nuuk

EMILY GRISWOLD

yay Greenland! I like the video. The only thing that threw me off (aside from no music, which is pretty bizarre!) was the clipboard/checklist around the 6:30 mark. It doesn't show up anywhere in the video, so it seemed a bit out of place to show up just then. You'd made all the points that were on the clipboard, but maybe seeing it earlier/with every point? I feel like you've done something like that before.

Liberty Fuchs

Love it! Makes me want to visit Greenland. I’m a Bonnie Bee so I can listen to you explain anything for hours on end, but this /might/ be dense for more casual fans. Maybe cut some lines (like the etymology of metropole?) or slow down your speech occasionally. Or don’t; I’m not a professional YouTuber.

Liberty Fuchs
>>184623804

Though I should also mention that this is the first CGP grey video I’ve watched while pregnant and this baby is eating my IQ points so this might be a skill issue on my part haha

Noah Lipshutz

I’m kinda late, but wanted to echo what lots of others have already said. You’re one of two YouTube channels I support financially, and it’s because when I watch your videos, they completely capture my attention, and I recognize the extreme level of detail and the attention you dedicate to every moment. Thank you for making such a fantastic product, and for being so consistently fantastic. I’m going to use that as my excuse for not having great feedback - your video really enthralled me, as usual, and I couldn’t focus on feedback cuz I was too busy learning. Reading some of the other comments, I think there’s some great things others have pointed out that are very insightful. The only thing that stuck out to me was the “+5 agriculture” and “+10 polar survival” felt abrupt, though I did like it. Maybe it could be introduced with a couple introductory words? Obviously not a big thing. Thanks again! Love your work

Leo G.

I never saw this one pop up in my feed? Might want to get in touch with Patreon Support?

Brian Kelly

@4:00 - "Greenland has the lowest population density on Earth..." Antarctica?

Marcello Herreshoff

0:10 I like how Russia's binoculars are toilet paper tubes! 0:27 What's the pattern behind which regions of the map are colored white and which are green? Some of the Canadian islands are white and some are green. I guess you have to draw the line somewhere if you're cartoonifying a map with solid colors, but it makes me curious what was special about Ellesmere Island and Axel Heiberg Island that made them but not Canada's other northern islands qualify to be drawn in white. 0:57 Wait, now *all* the Northern Canadian islands are white? I guess you haven't picked a consistent meaning for your colors. 0:49 Where does this photograph come from? The narration goes "instead giving Greenland the grandest grand canyon" and it's not obvious to me what it's a picture of (is it an artists rendition of what such a Greenlandic canyon might look like, or a comparable canyon from another country or the existing landscape or...?) 3:27 I'm guessing you looked into this, but the internet seems confused about whether the correct pronunciation of Nuuk, ought to be "nook" or "nuke". Wikipedia's sound sample on [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuuk ] seems to agree with you and sound like "nook", however its adjacent IPA text says [nuːk] and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Greenlandic lists the vowel as `uː kuuk cool (long) `, which would imply a sound more like "nuke". Also the Cambridge dictionary seems to think it's "Nuke" rather than like "Nook" in both US and UK English. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/nuuk

T R

I only just discovered this had been sitting in my Patreon videos, but ... hoo boy is this timely. Grey, I'm sure you're keeping this loaded and ready for whatever may come, but this week sure seems auspicious (ominous??).

Edwardo

Impressively prescient

hs

Well this aged like wine

Mr Cat

Grey where are you?

Sjoerd Wennekes

Grey, are you okay? It's almost a year since your last update. Hope that you are well.