Casually Explained: Group Projects
The Selective Group Memory Paradox: Every individual believes they’re the only one who did any work.
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@anthonygerace332
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
Great advice! My own experience of working in groups in an I.T. office, is that there's an additional important step — blaming all of the other groups for causing my group to fail.
@thecorrectgarlic7987
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
I always put my name second to last!
@zeppelin69.19
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
2:56 as someone in the 1994 project, I would like to mention that for the last 8 years, the misalignment of your stick figure bothers me. It's distracting and makes me think of something else 😅👀😉
@l.o.v.edrive3466
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
I always do everything on my own just in case ahead of time. I don't trust no one and when I see no one is doing their part ,I'm "safe" . I make sure to keep everything on record. This is my grade we talking about 😂
@ahmedchowdhury3391
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
Buy sens stock
@Robert399
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
3:22 If you try, you’ll quickly realise you’re the only one who felt this way
@nunothedude2
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
My group projects: doing them alone cuz people hate me lol
@balllover4253
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
The teachers never learn, I can’t work with a partner because i get stressed and can’t think which gets my group mad at me which stresses me out. I also try asking
My group what I can do to help and they just say nothing and just get mad even more 😔
@BrandonTrueCubing
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
Me watching this as I write our Senior business capstone group project myself the morning its due .-.
@garyhoward4064
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
Modern Dilbert …
@thae1532
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
The worst group project I have ever done was a movie skit for French class. It is very hard to get all 5 of us to meet up outside of school but we have 3 people that are very slow at moving to each film point and 1 person who really cares but is slow to remember their lines. When recording we kept getting interrupted by other groups passing by or my group members just messing around. But what made it bad was that it is not something you can just do 99% of the work in because it requires everyone to be there and play their part. I would rather do 99% of everything that needs to be done because at least then, I can have things be done and the class is pretty easy for me which means it is not going to take very long to do either. But the teacher isn't going to let me solo the entire project because she needs to hear everyone speak and have everyone write part of the script.
@pontericky3506
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
Ive had a group project to do over the last couple of weeks. I divided all the work out fairly and evenly, but ended up doing a lot more than others. Some work came back was just appalling and despite several attempts to get that person to improve the work i basically ended up finishing it for them. I legit would be a lot less stressed ane anxious if i did the whole project alone and the work would have been finished days ago
@eatnplaytoday
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
I miss my nursing group. They actually were a very dedicated bunch. We got all A’s
@mageminx7551
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
Currently in a "group" debate project which entails me doing literally everything and my partners sitting around because my teacher did that thing where she tries to balance the groups and because im the most knowledgeable in science in that class i got paired with two of the stupidest and laziest people in the class. Would have rather just been my own group to begin with
@BlueDemon927
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
Bro, Peter is Spider-Man! He is always busy
@Continentalmunkey77
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
(App) slack jokes
@momixer1
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
In Germany we say TEAM stands for Toll Ein Anderer Macht's
@abdelkrim6317
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
After i didn't sleep all night because my colleagues did their part the group project so bad that it didn't even work so i had to fix it ,
The problem is that whenever i asked they tell me they're doing fine in the end they didn't do shit .
Whish me luck tomorrow i will ask the professor to let me work alone if it didn't work i will need to fake having social anxiety and panic attacks until he let me do it alone
@fontenbleau
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
The first on which everyone will need to agree is of course how to write list of authors. Maybe it will cool down some from trying hard if their name by alphabet are always in the end of list.
@connermccaughey3911
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
That "ill let you up" line was fantastic
@Punk_Pat
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
2:32
@zsomborszigeti6797
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
VPN's are so stupid. People always complain that the government doesnt listen to the public and when they actually do they block them. Like just decide what you want.
@Lol.Lmao1000
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
Haha. In highschool we had an investigation group work on a random subject. The catch was that they were gonna rank the presentations in terms of quality, and number one "got" to present it in front of all school at the end year's exposition. For 6 hours in a row.
I asked my group if they wanted to win. They said no, but they wanted second place. So i offered to do it all alone and get us second place. We agreed.
I tryharded that paper so bad. We got second place and walked away with the glory of having the best quality work without having to present it any further.
Core memories
@arroe8386
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
Am I the only one who always writes the names in alphabetical order?
@jaedanb
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
I enjoyed this video.
@jannetteberends8730
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
I studied econometrics. There were 3 girls in my year, including me. During the first two years of our master we did all group projects together. It worked fantastic.
@ELMolliez
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
Group projects teach how to communicate and work with others.
What group project actually teach
Trust….fucking….no…one
@edex59
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
Everyone be talking about when you have to do everything in the group, but no one be talking about when you want to contribute but all your ideas are pushed away over some other guy who isn’t even focused on the project and is just goofing around. It has happened more times than you may think.
@freshprince5633
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
I was the person that did nothing but presented it in front of everyone
@bluesillybeard
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
This is so relatable!
Well, except for the last 2 stages, because they always seem to vanish in any project I'm part of…
@Purple_Craig
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
Sums up my capstone
@Apple_Beshy
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
I despise group project since highschool, because they always pick me as a leader + and almost make me do everything because "YouRE JuSt THaT GUy". That carries till I graduated from uni.
@Jake-oz5mg
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
you could have a drink to celebrate success, or a drink to cope with what just happened. case by case basis
@ayrtontv6025
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
1:17 anyone else notice MATLAB on the computer
@Keronthesloth
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
This is so damn accurate (at least from my experience and I have at least been 3-4 of those roles in my live) 🤣
@Tservator
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
I had done the whole project by myself and wanted someone else to read it. One of them asked to practice loudly (it in class). He developed a mental disability while reading and destroyed my project. Highschool🎉
@otaku-chan4888
April 21, 2026 at 3:41 am
Statistically, if the average number of members in a project is six people, and 4 out of those 6 actually do work (this is not an optimistic estimate, nope not at all) then one in every three comments (this is totally how probability works) in this comment section is lying their ass off about actually slogging while their group slacked off. The impostors are amongus- * gets stabbed *