Should I cut off my Fingertips?

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  • čas přidán 30. 08. 2021
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  • @Joel-Haver
    @Joel-Haver Před 2 lety +14757

    Sorry for being so careless with my question, thanks for putting me in my place!

  • @thegreatandterrible4508
    @thegreatandterrible4508 Před 2 lety +7658

    I can feel the allegory, but I don't really know what it is.

    • @deon6045
      @deon6045 Před 2 lety +1042

      I suspect it involves discarding a part of who you are to satisfy others, hence the talk about roles in the latter half of the piece.

    • @donatodiniccolodibettobardi842
      @donatodiniccolodibettobardi842 Před 2 lety +170

      @@deon6045 Or it's just a red herring.

    • @endersquid1132
      @endersquid1132 Před 2 lety +542

      My interpretation is it's about the idea of avoiding self confrontation and aknowleding yourself as an individual being that effects the world as much as it effects you, the speaker wants to disconnect himself from his actions and himself, seeing others as if they have a better grasp of the world and themselves, he wants everything to stay as it is he doesn't want to aknowledge change or pursue it and though overthinking it he realizes the truth but rather than accepting it becomes overwhelmed and refuses to move forward, forever cought in an loop of thought which he can never escape, unable, unwilling, to accept help from others and despite aknowledging the problem unable to escape it on his own

    • @sicuw1773
      @sicuw1773 Před 2 lety +319

      I'm not 100% certain so take it with a grain of salt, but I think this video represents a guy obsessed about fingerprints

    • @annaturell3969
      @annaturell3969 Před 2 lety +113

      I think he made it vague so it's up to the people's interpretations to help who it needs to, not just himself

  • @doctorduck5741
    @doctorduck5741 Před 2 lety +1806

    I remember in middle school I was in a woodshop class. The woodshop teacher had often told us a story about how when he was very young his hand got stuck in a sanding machine. Luckily he didn't lose any fingers or fingertips, but it had actually sanded his fingerprints on his left hand off. He told us that when he applied to be the woodshop teacher for that school, the school had called him asking for him to redo his application because there was just a black blob where there was supposed to be his fingerprint for his left thumb and they assumed it was an error.

    • @billysbigworld6166
      @billysbigworld6166 Před 2 lety +157

      That can't happen because if you sand off your finger print you will still heal it back. There was this criminal that didn't want people to identify his fingerprint so he cut them all off and he still healed perfectly.

    • @billysbigworld6166
      @billysbigworld6166 Před 2 lety +59

      Your fingerprints will always grow back the same

    • @epicgamer-ny4fj
      @epicgamer-ny4fj Před 2 lety +149

      @@billysbigworld6166 which is super crazy when you think about it.
      Like, like the DNA in your body speicfcly has genes for recreating finger prints

    • @billysbigworld6166
      @billysbigworld6166 Před 2 lety +25

      @@epicgamer-ny4fj I know its so weird but crazy lol

    • @mlgsamantha5863
      @mlgsamantha5863 Před 2 lety +68

      @@epicgamer-ny4fj It doesn't, identical twins have different fingerprints and they have the same DNA. Fingerprints are determined by the conditions of the womb while you are a fetus, not by your DNA.

  • @portlandbluewizard2520
    @portlandbluewizard2520 Před 2 lety +132

    The mood when you're busy falling down The Spiral, insanely obsessing over your fingerprints, and somebody points out that you could double how much pointless madness you wallow in by revealing to you that you also have toes.

  • @ampoulgon8716
    @ampoulgon8716 Před 2 lety +10746

    I like how theres an expert in the field of cutting your finger prints off.

    • @boxofspoons8867
      @boxofspoons8867 Před 2 lety +254

      Probably a forensic scientist. In my forensics class, we learned about how some criminals would either cut off their fingerprints or burn them off with acid, which was a very bad idea because, like the expert in the video said, it actually makes your prints *more* unique, and there's still your palm prints too. Also, your fingerprints will grow back in the same pattern.

    • @cozelli7176
      @cozelli7176 Před 2 lety +8

      @@boxofspoons8867 Dillon?

    • @nomecriativo8353
      @nomecriativo8353 Před 2 lety +49

      @@boxofspoons8867 so you can burn them before doing crimes and they will grow again, good to now.

    • @moosesues8887
      @moosesues8887 Před 2 lety +18

      @@boxofspoons8867 now I know how to hide the bodies

    • @the_inquisitive_inquisitor
      @the_inquisitive_inquisitor Před 2 lety +2

      A little dip in some sulfuric acid will take care of that

  • @crumb.crumblet.S.crumbington
    @crumb.crumblet.S.crumbington Před 2 lety +3118

    i saw a video once about this family that dodnt have finger prints! it was very cool! (please do not cut ur finger tips off i think it will hurt)

    • @shely_D7vil
      @shely_D7vil Před 2 lety +20

      Where did y see that? I find it hard to believe there's even 1 chance a human (with hands) is born without fingerprints just because yes

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB Před 2 lety +43

      @@shely_D7vil There is, another comment mentioned it. Bodies be weird

    • @forgor4410
      @forgor4410 Před 2 lety +24

      I keep forgetting that you're not verified. Must suck being famous, since all the replies are about you and not the actual comment you made.

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB Před 2 lety +50

      @@forgor4410 Literally 2/3 of the comments were about what they said though? Idek who they are 👁👄👁
      You’re one of the two comments talking about them and their fame?!

    • @jamesmoore7755
      @jamesmoore7755 Před 2 lety +16

      fun fact: my dad had a friend that was part of a really weird family and they were kinda blue tinted? and so this kid had no fingerprints. dont take my word for it tho i don't remember it perfectly

  • @Neo20481
    @Neo20481 Před 2 lety +82

    This video summarizes the thought of: Therapy is pricey but, Making art is free

  • @codexcracked1482
    @codexcracked1482 Před 2 lety +665

    If you aren't sure about cutting off your fingertips, you can always use acid or heat to burn off your fingerprints instead. This is a mildly painful process, but do not fear- the loss of fingerprints is temporary. Think of it like a demo of fully cutting off your fingertips!
    Of course, if you don't want to go that far, you could always wear gloves for a few days ;)

    • @marshmallowallen5677
      @marshmallowallen5677 Před 2 lety +12

      Is there away to permanently get rid of fingertips without damaging the fingers as a whole

    • @xxportalxx.
      @xxportalxx. Před 2 lety +49

      @@marshmallowallen5677 not really, and I'd also warn that not having fingerprints is so uncommon that it could actually be equally identifying in any context where it's known you lack them

    • @marshmallowallen5677
      @marshmallowallen5677 Před 2 lety +6

      @@xxportalxx. did you immediately assume that I intend to commit crimes

    • @xxportalxx.
      @xxportalxx. Před 2 lety +36

      @@marshmallowallen5677 not exactly, I assumed you wanted to loose them to hinder identification, as that's essentially the only reason one would want to remove their fingerprints. You see not having fingerprints would hinder your grip, so loosing them actually hurts you in a general sense.

    • @Yipper64
      @Yipper64 Před 2 lety +8

      like puberty blockers.

  • @anselric8933
    @anselric8933 Před 2 lety +4265

    Identical twins, despite having the same genetic makeup, have different fingerprints. An anatomy teacher once told me it was due to the way the two embryos move around in the womb and shake up the amino acids in each cell, causing this phenomenon. An oddly specific fact for an oddly specific video

    • @oldmanlogan9616
      @oldmanlogan9616 Před 2 lety +30

      Very interesting!

    • @isaacyu5520
      @isaacyu5520 Před 2 lety +103

      Oh hey, I'm an identical twin. Yup, we do have different fingerprints. The more you know!

    • @OffSatan
      @OffSatan Před 2 lety +48

      once in class we were talking about identical twins(a term I dislike cause they are not) and someone asked if they had the same fingerprints. The teacher could not answer since he didn't know, I answered that I found it unlikely as you don't even share fingerprints with yourself. Like, just look at your right and left index fingers right now, do they look the same, the answer is no(or at least it should be acording to probability, or you could have Adermatoglyphia, I don't know you)

    • @legallypumpkin
      @legallypumpkin Před 2 lety +7

      @@OffSatan adermatoglyphia?

    • @OffSatan
      @OffSatan Před 2 lety +20

      @@legallypumpkin also known as "immigration delay disease". It's a disorder that causes you not to have fingerprints or toeprints, obviously your prints are identical if they don't exist.

  • @axelprino
    @axelprino Před 2 lety +1055

    Man, other people's existential crisis sound so strange and weird. Every person has something they obsess over, and while it can be easy to relate to that feeling, relating to the object of their obsession is much harder.
    In short, this sounds familiar and completely alien at the same time.

    • @frogfox4287
      @frogfox4287 Před 2 lety +47

      I have a re-occurring nightmare about clipping through the floor and falling, (like if you clipped out of bounds in a video game, not seeing the objects from the outside because it didn't need to be textured) only to look up to find my family scared, wondering where I went. Erased so completely. No sign of a struggle. Just... gone... and forced to watch the grief.
      I think it's been several months since I had this one, but I'm not willing to call it done for yet. It haunted me for years.

    • @marselo1316
      @marselo1316 Před 2 lety +11

      @@frogfox4287 backrooms moment

    • @frogfox4287
      @frogfox4287 Před 2 lety +9

      @@marselo1316 I hadn't heard of that until after I was already having the nightmare, so it's unrelated but I can see why you would say that.

    • @isaacdouglas7826
      @isaacdouglas7826 Před 2 lety +4

      Yeah, I think it may also me metaphorical. Like it could be using this ‘absurd’ idea to show that sometimes the things we obsess about are not really a big deal.

    • @elh7149
      @elh7149 Před 2 lety +4

      @@frogfox4287 I had a very similar recurring nightmare, or just problem with my imagination where the floor would become paper thin and fragile and would break and fall away. The fact that I wasn't imagining the ground underneath my feet meant that it just didn't exist. A lot of the time it wouldn't fall away right away so I would be running through my house or another person's house I remembered really well, unable to retrace my steps because the floor was gone. Like those things in Mario that fall a few seconds after you touch em. For some reason I would always end up going into the basement and realizing I am totally trapped as I wait for the floor to fall beneath me. If I tried to grab on to something, that would break too. I haven't had it in a good six months but the problem with it is that once I get it in my head I can't get it out, to the point where I'll be trying to visualize something for literally any reason at all and I will start falling with the 2-dimensional floor. In daytime. Cause I tried to use my broken imagination and it glitched.

  • @arceuspower1018
    @arceuspower1018 Před 2 lety +33

    I have never been so moved and inspired while not understanding the message whatsoever.

  • @Rum-Runner
    @Rum-Runner Před rokem +3

    This is a monologue worthy of being performed on the stage. No joke.

  • @genghisjon7288
    @genghisjon7288 Před 2 lety +2080

    As absurd of a topic cutting off your finger tips is, I can definitely relate to the thought process. Something so oddly specific and abstract can easily lead down mental rabbit holes relating back to meaning, purpose and direction in life. I'm not sure the intended purpose or message behind this video, but I can't help thinking that the thought patterns presented are much more important than the desire to cut one's fingers.

    • @kyliefickle7063
      @kyliefickle7063 Před 2 lety +17

      Often I feel the urge to live life without toenails specifically.

    • @npc6817
      @npc6817 Před 2 lety +28

      @@kyliefickle7063 I do not recommend living without toe nails. One day when I was 9 I had this bright idea to play soccer on asphalt wearing flip-flops.
      Tore off my smallest toenail clean off in like a second.
      Of course it hurt at first, but as soon as the pain stopped I immediately thought "oh well, it was just a toenail, who cares if it doesn't grow back? It's not like I miss my bail clippings, how's this going to be any different?it was never useful to me, no one will ever even know it's gone."
      But I knew.
      Cut to me a week later. I've spent hours looking at my feet. Unable to think about anything else. I only lost a toenail, but felt like someone just chopped of one of my arm. It didn't really matter but it was still a part of me. And it was gone.
      Luckly some scrap of something was apparently left stuck in my toe so I was able to grow back like three quarters of my toenail, but every now and then I still find myself thinking about that missing quarter.
      So in short 0/10, would not recommend.

    • @MrAkaidu
      @MrAkaidu Před 2 lety +6

      This sounds like a type of OCD

    • @marlonyo
      @marlonyo Před rokem +1

      ​Its like when you kill and eat someone and then you start think everyone around you knows and care about it but they dont.

    • @oxymoron02
      @oxymoron02 Před rokem +2

      @@marlonyo Nice attempt at being edgy on the internet, but we've seen and heard worse stories-- ones that are true.

  • @joelkang9550
    @joelkang9550 Před 2 lety +2634

    I’m taking a gap year in college rn and it’s really hard seeing people move on. And I relate a lot to this guy. I also wanted to find the “right path” and be honest with myself. But I got too caught up in “roles.”
    I don’t regret my decision, but seeing people make progress sometimes makes me feel like I must force it on myself. Leading me to consider making drastic changes that sound good on paper, but in reality I probably wouldn’t be happy with it (like cutting off your fingertips).
    I had to learn was that although people and their opinions are valuable, as soon as I take their approval as gospel I lose myself. I’m still figuring things out and taking one step at a time but just wanted to share this part of my journey.
    Thanks for reading this. And thank you Matthias for the great video as always.

    • @craptasticp1521
      @craptasticp1521 Před 2 lety +38

      Damn im taking a gap year too and i feel you, jumped into a field/degree because i thought they sounded good in the long run and people told me i was good at it but never considered if i could be fulfilled by it the way following what i really want could. You arent alone, I am figuring it out too through the awkward conversations with family and friends on why im not in school right now lol, but I know that all of us taking a break rn can use the time to either come back refreshed and stronger or persue something more personally fulfilling.

    • @Yipper64
      @Yipper64 Před 2 lety +24

      I finished college, just an associates but im proud of it, its a full degree... And I dont want to go back.
      The problem is, I cant just get out of college and then do nothing, I had to get a job. And I have that now, its not what I want to do, its just pushing carts around at walmart, but its a job... I just... Dont think im very good at it. Sure its only been a week but how long until I am good at it? Or at least when am I expected to be good? Two weeks? A month? Is it even worth getting good at this, I dont even want to do it... And if im not good at this simple thing, how can I do anything else? How am I ever going to be able to do anything? That.... Thats my fear right now.
      I think that was only tangentally related but its been on my mind....

    • @WouldntULikeToKnow.
      @WouldntULikeToKnow. Před 2 lety +11

      Don't rush it. I wish I had taken some time and went to get my associates from a community college before I went for my BA because I was still lost. I ended up finding a major I loved but I'm not using my degree.

    • @Praecantetia
      @Praecantetia Před 2 lety +1

      I getcha.

    • @codernakul
      @codernakul Před 2 lety +12

      Taking a gap year is not easy You have to be more brave to take a gap year than the one who moved on.
      I also took a gap year I lost that one year but in that year I found myself now I know what to do in my life and I am happier than ever sometimes you should just have to give yourself a little break. Dont worry everything will be fine.

  • @NedInYaHead
    @NedInYaHead Před rokem +10

    I think this is about how following a passion or career goal in life can narrow your perspective, leading you, ironically, to become further estranged from it. When you choose something to be your identity, you tend to introspect far more about it, and without anything to ground you, there is a tendency to come to conclusions that are detached from reality, that would seem silly to people who look at it from the outside.
    This man has spent so much of his life thinking about his fingerprints, he is unable to see the bigger picture without a layperson's perspective. As someone who is studying to become a game developer, this feels too real to me.

  • @benjaminkingsley-jones7832
    @benjaminkingsley-jones7832 Před 2 lety +274

    Hey, if you want even more of an existential crisis:
    Even your tongue has a distinctive print that can be used to identify you!
    And also, in the opposite direction, fingerprints aren’t entirely your identity - it is very possible (and multiple instances have been documented) for 2 or more people completely disconnected from one-another to be born with identical fingerprints.

    • @RaminousPolacious
      @RaminousPolacious Před 2 lety +10

      So a lightening do hit the same spot two times 🤯

    • @gageschlueter2949
      @gageschlueter2949 Před 2 lety +13

      Actually it goes a step further than this. There isn't actually any evidence that we all have unique fingerprints. A lot of scientists now believe fingerprinting to be a pseudoscience at best

    • @angelerror4086
      @angelerror4086 Před 2 lety +1

      Well it is at least better than nothing

    • @wegner7036
      @wegner7036 Před 2 lety +10

      @@RaminousPolacious Yes and very often. Electricity always follows the path of least resistance. The path of least resistance is unlikely to change, so it makes sense for lighting to hit the same place more than once. Saying lighting never hits the same place twice is like saying a river never ends in the same riverbed twice.

    • @olive4097
      @olive4097 Před rokem

      I should cut off my tongue

  • @cf8415
    @cf8415 Před 2 lety +848

    Eyyy you’re not drawing stick figures anymore, love to see the progress!

    • @Someone-kg8cc
      @Someone-kg8cc Před 2 lety +74

      lmaooo don't forget this guy is actually a really technically skilled artist, i remember subscribing to him 4 years ago when he was making more complex stuff, but I love the newer stuff too tho, like that door video was so good. Ride of a channel progression.

    • @AdskyLR
      @AdskyLR Před 2 lety +9

      Just curious, since this video is about fingertips how would you draw a stickman with fingers lol

    • @kasyfi5546
      @kasyfi5546 Před 2 lety +3

      @@AdskyLR with stick fingers of course

  • @winstonthepooh9388
    @winstonthepooh9388 Před 2 lety +2537

    This type of meaningful content, usually if someone makes things like this they explain the deep correlation it has to someone else, but I really like that he just leaves it at that, you understand but you don’t really know exactly what it means, but things I believe are best conveyed when not made obvious. For that, I love this.

    • @Georgechic
      @Georgechic Před 2 lety +20

      I completely agree, I actually learned about this today at the university. I definitely need to see this video again to grasp everything he tried to convey though. But that might be a good thing. This is so good😄

    • @dollymix5
      @dollymix5 Před 2 lety +14

      At the beginning he literally explain fingerprints is identity. But I believe if he didn't make that clear most people wouldn't understand the deep meaning of it on CZcams (myself included)

    • @firebal6129
      @firebal6129 Před 2 lety +4

      Rabuzens recent video “I hope this video doesn’t suck” kinda goes with this video, or at least my interpretation of it

    • @mikethegoo
      @mikethegoo Před 2 lety +5

      ... I get what you try to say... But I still don't feel like I completely get what this is supposed to be... I feel like I know just too little, even for whaf I am supposed to get from this.
      So... Is this just about not wanting to have a set identity, partially connected to privacy, but mostly just in general?

    • @moosecannibal8224
      @moosecannibal8224 Před 2 lety +1

      @@mikethegoo the fact you're able to figure out that it means "something" means you have enough knowledge to be able to make your own conclusions, that's what everyone's saying and it seems to be the comments that he's liking from what I can tell.
      The trick is to stop relying on other people to give you the answer for this kind of thing, and be more confident and deciding your own outcome if the outcome is made optional.

  • @eatsleepplayrepeat
    @eatsleepplayrepeat Před 2 lety +4

    This entire video is like the thoughts we have in a split second.

  • @liamp6491
    @liamp6491 Před 2 lety +2

    Such a sustained look at a profound mental space. I'm surprised and impressed you managed to keep that narrative consistent. I can't remember the last time I've watched such an involved artistic side-eye into feelings surrounding identity and change.

  • @brandont5264
    @brandont5264 Před 2 lety +512

    This is a nice backstory for an antagonist; some dude who achieved Revelation and now wants to cut everyone's fingertips.

    • @oldmanlogan9616
      @oldmanlogan9616 Před 2 lety +3

      Yes, very cool

    • @definitelyreal.
      @definitelyreal. Před 2 lety

      Isn't that what happened with John Lennon?

    • @key37raminus
      @key37raminus Před 2 lety +2

      New super villain, someone copyright this

    • @thewatcher9237
      @thewatcher9237 Před 2 lety +6

      Sounds like something out of one of Junji Ito’s stories

    • @caocaoholdingaplushie6022
      @caocaoholdingaplushie6022 Před rokem +2

      Thats actually a character from buddhism angulimala that kills people and collects their finger as a necklace

  • @zombathinlostleghackercat5233

    I feel like this the kind of video an English Teacher would make the class watch and write a paragraph on.

    • @kewlman5417
      @kewlman5417 Před 2 lety +18

      *essay with citations

    • @kiddbusiness
      @kiddbusiness Před 2 lety

      Legit

    • @Snoo29293
      @Snoo29293 Před 2 lety +3

      I wish it was, because it's pretty interesting to say the truth

    • @astick5249
      @astick5249 Před rokem +1

      Well it least its something way sillier than most things you have to do

  • @sean..L
    @sean..L Před 2 lety +1

    This type of surreal and thoughtful content is what I have been needing to fill the void and so I have subscribed.

  • @gianniavido2289
    @gianniavido2289 Před 2 lety +3

    I think this video perfectly depicts curing a symptom rather than the actual disease. There is a morbid desire to be unchanging, always right, and then there are fingerprints: the manifestation of the impossibility of that unhealthy desire. So, rather than seeking help, why not just cut off your fingertips, and then your toeprints and who knows what else. Until the Disease finally consumed you, or you anderstood the pain you were into, and did something about it at the right time. Seek help people, sometimes doing the right thing is exceptionally hard. But the only way to get out of a loop is changing yourself, with help possibly.

  • @Chaosrunepownage
    @Chaosrunepownage Před 2 lety +692

    Even if the fingertips are gone, the rest of the finger and palm prints can still be used to identify a person. They're not as easy to collect and aren't in as many databases, but they still can be used.
    Also koalas have fingerprints so similar to humans, it can become difficult to investigate crimes in Australia. The koala can leave fingerprints that match a human's and make it look like they were at the crime scene, even if they were actually on the other side of the continent.
    And yes, I have a short story rotting in my drafts based around someone falsely accused of murder because of koala fingerprints and a lack of an alibi.

    • @FauxFaFox
      @FauxFaFox Před 2 lety +68

      My suspension is that they hired the koala to do the crime.

    • @kaleidoscope5054
      @kaleidoscope5054 Před 2 lety +17

      I want to read that

    • @kingoreo7050
      @kingoreo7050 Před 2 lety +18

      Fingerprints grow back, basically exactly the same as they were before you removed them.

    • @Chaosrunepownage
      @Chaosrunepownage Před 2 lety +24

      @@jessh4016 There actually are cases where koalas falsely implicated people! It's impossible for fingerprints to completely match, sure, but most of the fingerprints at crime scenes are partial and/or obscured. You're really lucky if you get a whole, unobscured fingerprint so there are times that partials match up perfectly with humans.

    • @JG_Wentworth
      @JG_Wentworth Před 2 lety +1

      @@kingoreo7050 The power move then is to just cut off your fingers lmao.

  • @GehennaGates
    @GehennaGates Před 2 lety +152

    I like your finger prints. Keep uploading them.

  • @raindropskeepfallin
    @raindropskeepfallin Před 6 měsíci

    such entertaining and thoughtful content. awesome stuff

  • @rhinuu045
    @rhinuu045 Před 2 lety

    rlly like ur coloring and artstyle here!!

  • @cokeMONSTERps3
    @cokeMONSTERps3 Před 2 lety +52

    Toe prints.
    *INSIGHT GAINED*

  • @ericv2841
    @ericv2841 Před 2 lety +178

    This work reminds me of Don Hertzfeldt films. I can't explain how eloquently but the pacing and playful sense of humor on the surface that holds much deeper, if sometimes unclear meaning all wrapped up in the package of a man deciding to cut off his fingertips. This is art

    • @marr.3276
      @marr.3276 Před 2 lety +2

      huge agree- this video reminded me of It’s Such a Beautiful Day. nice to see another person in the comments bring up Hertzfeldt!

  • @randomfocus679
    @randomfocus679 Před 2 lety

    It’s videos like this that make me love this channel

  • @lolcerditorock
    @lolcerditorock Před 2 lety

    This is surprisingly deep and makes so much sense... I thank you, friend

  • @oldmanlogan9616
    @oldmanlogan9616 Před 2 lety +120

    My grandfather lost his fingerprints, he used to be a tailor and worked with lots of wool, the wool ended up scrapping his fingertips away.
    So I leave a warning: wann keep your finger prints? Avoid wool, or maybe look for wool if you want to lose it.

    • @brokenlegs8431
      @brokenlegs8431 Před 2 lety +5

      the fingerprint texture goes deep enough the point where he would literally have to skin his finger tips to permanently remove them

    • @frogfox4287
      @frogfox4287 Před 2 lety +22

      @@brokenlegs8431 I think it's that it got so covered with micro cuts and scars that discerning any prints would be nigh impossible. Yeah, if they were entirely removed, then it would grow back but with no need and no sign that anything is wrong, nothing will fix itself.

    • @lordfelidae4505
      @lordfelidae4505 Před 2 lety +11

      @@brokenlegs8431 as frog said below, it isn’t that the fingerprints were removed, it’s that they were covered by micro scars, abrasions, and other damages. If he were to more thoroughly scar his fingers, like from a burn, after healing his fingerprints might re-emerge. I dunno though, I’m not a doctor.

    • @brokenlegs8431
      @brokenlegs8431 Před 2 lety +3

      @@frogfox4287 I am not a finger scientist so I can not confirm any of that but in retrospect you're probably right

    • @frogfox4287
      @frogfox4287 Před 2 lety +6

      @@brokenlegs8431 After a bit of google, it seems that it IS possible to remove fingerprints completely, but it is very difficult and requires deep, substantial damage. Most burns , heat or acid, wouldn't typically do enough damage. It is completely possible to temporarily remove fingerprints but without enough damage it will grow back in a month or two. The wool probably did remove the finger prints and continuing to handle the wool kept it worn down, keeping them from growing back.
      However, as you so succinctly put it: "I am not a finger scientist"

  • @Secondary_Identifier
    @Secondary_Identifier Před 2 lety +386

    Me going in: "Yeah man go for it they'll grow back "
    Me coming out: "Erasure of the identifiers of a person, erasure of what a person leaves behind, to become the kind of person who would no longer want to leave anything behind... Don't cut off your fingertips, they're fine. :/"

    • @leejerrett8268
      @leejerrett8268 Před 2 lety +4

      Fingertips only grow back if you are a very small child.

    • @philcollinslover56705
      @philcollinslover56705 Před 2 lety +1

      Yes but i know, I know that if I did, I would be so much happier than I am right now. I love it and I hate it. I am stuck.

  • @limitbreakcake
    @limitbreakcake Před 2 lety

    Loved this, I think of this topic quite a lot.

  • @berhonkusbardledoo
    @berhonkusbardledoo Před rokem

    These videos are so interesting to me- I’m sick right now and on vacation which sucks but these videos help alot

  • @christopheredwards8219
    @christopheredwards8219 Před 2 lety +119

    So I see you've gotten a hold of whatever drugs Exurb1a is taking.

  • @radicool8328
    @radicool8328 Před 2 lety +40

    This was an emotional rollercoaster that left me wondering if I should laugh or cry.

  • @TeaLurker
    @TeaLurker Před 2 lety

    Ever since I got recommend one video from this guy, it just never stops and I swear I'm learning something new and unique in every video I watch.

  • @lavatacoburrito9410
    @lavatacoburrito9410 Před 2 lety

    Honestly thank you, this was an actual eye-opener for me

  • @boggysmalls1181
    @boggysmalls1181 Před 2 lety +80

    It's awesome to watch something like this and feel like it was made specifically for me. I wonder if our fingertips are similar. Discovering that cutting them off might not be the right decision is terrifying, especially because at one point it was everything. Hope you're good.

  • @Excalibur250
    @Excalibur250 Před 2 lety +35

    Heavy: "Fingertips... Fingerrrtipsssssssss"

  • @V1ctoria00
    @V1ctoria00 Před 2 lety +12

    So lemme get the definition of "finger tip" and "finger print" because cutting the pads off your fingers will leave you with a finger print made of scar tissue that will be ever changing as it grows and heals and also still very identifiable. But most people who say finger tip mean only the very farthest bit from the palm and not including the entire nail or even 1/4th of it. Were you suggesting you would remove the entire top of the finger? Or just alter the fingerprint itself. How much dexterity are you willing to lose and how long do you want the recovery to be? Do you intend to cut the tops off your thumbs because they are attached to arteries and they will make you bleed out really fast. We all struggle for meaning because the only meaning is the one we give things even if nobody else agrees. It feels good when others agree though.

  • @Nugget11578
    @Nugget11578 Před 5 měsíci

    Been really struggling not to sh lately (haven't even made it 3 weeks yet) this video hits hard in so many ways. Thankyou for your amazing animations/art

  • @TalkbackTapes
    @TalkbackTapes Před 2 lety +31

    I love how I never know what im getting into when I click on one of your videos.
    Also very interesting to read how many different interpretations people have 😅

  • @kathansen6995
    @kathansen6995 Před 2 lety +31

    I mean depends on whether or not you want to commit various crimes.

  • @bentaphid44
    @bentaphid44 Před 2 lety

    I mean this in the best way, but this feels like a monologue I'd hear at a theater workshop

  • @ChopieTheCat
    @ChopieTheCat Před rokem +1

    This open ended interpretation, while leaving room for self-affirmation, enables a larger group of people to all collectively (for their own reasons) appreciate and agree with this.
    Very cool.

  • @Mixu.
    @Mixu. Před 2 lety +42

    So... I kinda accidentally cut the fingerprint of my middle finger off, about half a centimeter deep. It grew back in a couple weeks almost entirely, and now months later I can barely see a line around where I had cut a piece off, but it really looks just as it was before otherwise.

    • @yjy2940
      @yjy2940 Před 2 lety

      :v
      I chew on my fingers(kin). One day, I accidentally (purpously) ripped off some of my middle finger's fingerprint.
      Took some time to heal and it's quite fine now, the skin before was a little hard, and now it's soft. Downsides is just that my middle finger's fingerprint got dislocated. The tiny spiral was suppoused to be in the middle. But now it's a little on the right :(
      My right hand's pointer finger also used to have its whole fingerprint part ******, but it healed pretty quickly! Didn't even realise that it healed until I looked at it one day

  • @BroDanMan145
    @BroDanMan145 Před 2 lety +102

    I don’t even remember subscribing to you but I’m so glad I did

  • @WalkingandWatching318

    This hits man

  • @yoinked6809
    @yoinked6809 Před rokem +1

    This feels like a video essay of an existential crisis

  • @0215YK
    @0215YK Před 2 lety +252

    I relate to this completely, and not at all. The anxiety, the unsure nature, the constant contemplation, all of it speaks to me in a voice that seems both familiar, yet strange.
    You may want to cut off your fingertips, mr cartoon sir, but you left an impression on me. A mark. And I wouldn’t say its a bad one.

  • @audenderksen
    @audenderksen Před 2 lety +18

    This makes me feel a way I can't describe. I feel acknowledged. I'm at the lowest point in my life, not knowing what I should live for. Not wanting to live, but not wanting to die. I've changed. The expectations from others and the ones I have for myself remain the same, but they don't make sense anymore. My fingertips are the same from who I was then but they've changed. Things aren't the same, they won't be. How do I move forward with the idea of who I am and expectations with that? Should I cut off my fingertips?

  • @Roboticwhale19
    @Roboticwhale19 Před 2 lety

    Ok this channel is gold

  • @dungeonmaster217
    @dungeonmaster217 Před 2 lety +1

    This video seems way too relatable and meaningful for a short funny youtube cartoon.

  • @aanshuk
    @aanshuk Před 2 lety +17

    It started as a silly question and soon grew into a metaphor for your own life and the expectations you feel. Wow, and now it has new meaning. This is a wonderful video. :3

  • @toddgreener
    @toddgreener Před 2 lety +11

    I don't have to do drugs because Mattias has done them all for me.

  • @HaleyBoli1
    @HaleyBoli1 Před 4 měsíci +1

    your videos are like watching CZcams in a parallel universe where there are wizards and nice fingerprints are a status symbol

  • @snekk5752
    @snekk5752 Před 2 lety

    I wish I could think like you do, you have very interesting thoughts. I love it!

  • @YourTypicalMental
    @YourTypicalMental Před 2 lety +8

    I gotta admit, I subscribed SPECIFICALLY for your Meji Restoration history video and for more history videos after that.
    I didn't realise I wanted videos like this just as much!

  • @hel2727
    @hel2727 Před 2 lety +3

    dude. I already had enough of an existential crisis. why you gotta give me more?

  • @Christianmtt
    @Christianmtt Před 2 lety

    This is a beautiful poem

  • @MonkeySimius
    @MonkeySimius Před rokem

    This is whole new level of insane to me. I'm here for it.

  • @ryanmccoy8980
    @ryanmccoy8980 Před 2 lety +6

    This suddenly shifted from a funny obsessive rant about something I've thought about to an allegory about suicide and depression for me.

  • @fisherisawesome9547
    @fisherisawesome9547 Před 2 lety +6

    Mattis is the only person that can make a 4 minute video feel like 20 and make we watch through to the end

  • @alexandersmart2429
    @alexandersmart2429 Před 2 lety +3

    A couple things: If you want to remove fingerprints, you can do it with a solid burn, you don't have to deal with the blood that way. Also, apparently, fingerprints aren't entirely unique for each person, though it is unlikely that two people will have the exact same set of twenty

  • @user_disconnected
    @user_disconnected Před 4 měsíci +2

    I have some toes in my phone’s fingerprint ID. Have kept them there for years. Keeps things interesting, neat party trick.

  • @figo3554
    @figo3554 Před 2 lety +10

    Not once did he bring up sanding or burning the tips.

  • @Eriee.3
    @Eriee.3 Před 2 lety +7

    Something about this channel just makes me question my existence y'all-
    Also Mattias seems so fun to hang out with- especially their beautiful way of thinking.

  • @booradleyboo
    @booradleyboo Před 6 měsíci +2

    Man, this hit home. I'm currently in the middle of a change in perspective and what my role in the world should, or even can be. I've been working in research for years, but as the clock ticks on, I just want to find my way back to art, music, animations, and videos, and I have started posting my attempts at grasping for these goals. I guess my fingertips will be useful for said grasping, so I'll hold back from cutting them off.

  • @yonagodmr766
    @yonagodmr766 Před rokem +1

    Your videos feel like the ultimate form of modern art: philosophy represented by absurd subjects YOU ARE AWSOME!

  • @alienweeb1701
    @alienweeb1701 Před 2 lety +25

    "the more honest I try to be, the more dishonest everthing else becomes."
    damn...

  • @prettyboyjeremy
    @prettyboyjeremy Před 2 lety +3

    Another deep yet interesting video
    Excellent work

  • @table2.0
    @table2.0 Před 2 lety

    This feels profound.. it resonated with me..

  • @TheCivildecay
    @TheCivildecay Před rokem

    Mattias video's always feel so damn emotional and deep despite probably being total nonsense ;)

  • @nevreiha
    @nevreiha Před 2 lety +11

    you dont have to cut off your finger tips, you can just press them against an electric hob and there should be comparitivaley less blood. and you can probably still use them after for picking stuff up (your phone may not detect them and your grip will not be as strong as you lose surface area), I dont know the specifics so idk if you wanna use oil and fry em or butter or nothing

    • @custard-bun
      @custard-bun Před 2 lety +2

      Pan fried fingertips work beautifully in a soup, almost like a bacon-crouton hybrid.

  • @ryangutierrez775
    @ryangutierrez775 Před 2 lety +9

    I lost my finger skin once because exema, grew back

    • @funkuro
      @funkuro Před 2 lety +1

      Skin always comes back. And idk if this is true but I heard that the very tip of your fingers come back (like you know the rings on your fingers? Roughly on the last one)

    • @ryangutierrez775
      @ryangutierrez775 Před 2 lety +1

      @@funkuro no clue

  • @CaffeineCoffeeccino
    @CaffeineCoffeeccino Před 2 lety

    The pain is unimaginable

  • @j4rg0n
    @j4rg0n Před 2 lety

    This video makes me feel emotions I never thought I had. I can relate myself so well with this guttural feeling and yet have not a single clue as to what you're trying to point out. At least I learned, because the first time I watched this video nothing really struck me as a thought other than the strange surreal feeling I got when watching it, and that the slight frantic idea bouncing was somewhat relatable. It made me feel uncomfortable. I didn't understand, not even the message it tried to pull from it's short "story". But now? It's clear as to what it meant. Still, scarily relatable, but even then I feel a bit more at peace knowing I'm not the only one out there who feels this way or can peer so easily into the perspective of anyone in a similar situation. Not only that, but I have been slowly improving and the thought of something like this does not seem so scary anymore. I know this is rather- late but, thank you. So much.

  • @russkiesss
    @russkiesss Před 2 lety +21

    3 weeks ago I went through psychosis and I had these exact same thoughts as you did and it just felt so relatable that me and you had this exact same brain process where we thought things had to be one way and we realized soon after that they can be any way we want them to

  • @timber_linn
    @timber_linn Před 2 lety +4

    I love that half the comments are understanding the meaning of the video and the other half are explaining fingertips in the literal sense

  • @fusionsigh
    @fusionsigh Před 2 lety

    I like how this video is not what it seems on the surface

  • @cyan4864
    @cyan4864 Před 2 lety

    this channel is the equivalent to coming from home or school after a long day and then having the weirdest shower thoughts ever.

  • @authorakanage117
    @authorakanage117 Před 2 lety +5

    Woah, toeprints

  • @realkingofantarctica
    @realkingofantarctica Před 2 lety +10

    Been there. Done that. Wouldn't recommend.

  • @lullabypoppera3914
    @lullabypoppera3914 Před 2 lety

    Good morning to you too!

  • @failuure1134
    @failuure1134 Před 11 měsíci

    why is this relatable, what have you done

  • @tacocat300O00
    @tacocat300O00 Před 2 lety +30

    If you cut off your fingertips, the skin will regrow as scars, and then it will feel weird when you touch things with your fingers. It may even have decreased grabbing ability.

    • @Mixu.
      @Mixu. Před 2 lety +4

      I commented this seperately, but kinda felt like replying here too because why not.
      After cutting about a half a centimeter deep piece off of my fingertip, it grew back to look almost exactly as it was. Took a month or two to completely get rid of the "raw" look, but now there's only a hairline-fracture -looking line on the tip if you look very closely. Otherwise it's perfectly healthy.

    • @superchroma
      @superchroma Před 2 lety +1

      Can affect the natural lubrication functionality of the skin also. This is one component of being able to easily grasp things. Not fun in larger areas of skin.

  • @firebal6129
    @firebal6129 Před 2 lety +3

    Rabutens recent video “I hope this video doesn’t suck” kinda goes with this, or at least my interpretation of this video

  • @bottleoflight.4540
    @bottleoflight.4540 Před 2 lety +3

    I remember having an existential crisis about farts.

  • @IndieLXXVII
    @IndieLXXVII Před 2 lety +1

    This man really turned the question “Should I cut off my fingertips?” into an existential crisis

  • @pancakebatter101
    @pancakebatter101 Před 2 lety +12

    I always preemptively sit on the toilet when watching your videos in case they make me poop myself
    In this case i've been correct

  • @megaoof7184
    @megaoof7184 Před 2 lety +3

    This is the most schizophrenic i've felt since ever

  • @dragonboyjgh
    @dragonboyjgh Před 2 lety +2

    There was a mobster that soaked his tips in lye or something to dissolve off his fingerprints so he couldn't be tracked. The problem is is that fingerprints grow back exactly like they were. You'd basically have to cut so deep it never forms a tip again, and by that point the wound's print is even more noticably unique than the print.

  • @anomorpihus6183
    @anomorpihus6183 Před 2 lety

    I think like this on the daily. It's crazy when you realize that you're thinking about it.

  • @dumplingduppy1502
    @dumplingduppy1502 Před 2 lety +12

    I interpret this as an artist trying to figure out stuff art style etc and how art changed for them as they got older but I could be projecting

  • @mikeksp9177
    @mikeksp9177 Před 2 lety +6

    I have on multiple occasions thought about toe prints, so dont cut off your finger tips, wear some glowes man

  • @DeliveryTruck...
    @DeliveryTruck... Před 2 lety +1

    This is like me with my theories that keep in my head

  • @sterlingbirks9101
    @sterlingbirks9101 Před 2 lety +1

    I feel like this is about deleting ones past or something, a lot of artists hide or destroy their old work because it's embarrassing, but at the same time it is what made you yourself. Near the ending of the video it seems to be more about something along the lines of a physical trait, like appearance or something, where ones mood can affect how one judges their appearance like for instance I have curly hair, and some days I wish I could permanently straighten my hair because it makes hairstyle choices very limited but other days I revel in its uniqueness,. Very cool video!