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Hi, u missing another one :>>> (The shoes may mean how strong and steady they mind is mind. And Teto wears normal shoes. and Miku wears roller skates This means that Miku's mind is not strong enough to handle the hypnosis. Because you can't stand for that long in roller skates. But you can stand perfectly normal with normal shoes ;) )
i also noticed that at 3:07 teto stops staring at us for a quick second to look at miku or off the camera, prolly this is part of the resisting stuff?????
2:01 After researching _phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide,_ is a disorder that causes visual disturbances, epilepsy, deafness, etc... makes sense that Teto knows those languages
Oohhh so that's the reason why she endure the hypnosis for days, she sometimes can't see nor hear (like in the song itself), and maybe the greenscreen part was "cut" because Teto got an epilepsy attack
Smth else I noticed is that Miku's dressed as one of those 50's waitresses and Teto is dressed as a bellman. These two jobs are often associated with serving people and obeying orders. Which is curious because of the "hipnosis" topic, and it makes me think that whoever who tried to hypnotize them both is also commanding them to hypnotize more ppl, as if it was some kind of contagious desease
Btw me go I little lore thing what if they were like kidnapped or something cuz Teton was doing 3 sos signs and the camera when black after Teton made she was try to get out of there or past out so the people had to another method of hypnosis ( I think idk I'm just a dumb person on the Internet) :D
@@aperson_6 I think that star in the middle separating Miku and Teto is the one that they were staring at along with the consistent confetti, and that's perspective of us, the viewers, that's why Teto was trying to constantly not give into the hypnosis, and we don't even know what she and Miku were hypnotized by so it's safe to assume they were both looking at the star that appears in the middle of their chorus, also I think the song's name is mesmerizer because of the themes of escapism and hypnotism present throughout the song because it's obvious, and maybe because the star in the middle including the weird spiral form that it has near the ending *IS* the Mesmerizer.
"This will be even worse" imo reads as Teto explaining to Miku that giving up and falling into hypnosis to make her feel better is worse than just going through the boringess of life
Is it really more boring when you are virtually unconscious and don't even experience boredom or thought? Its like sleeping while alive, doesn't sound that bad to me
notice how teto is looking at miku while singing this as well, as though worried about her and trying to explain how the path she’s going down is not the answer
A detail someone mentioned was: After Miku gets hypnotized she moves like a doll, as of there's someone pulling on strings and her skin turns white, just like a doll.
There was a Japanese comment on the original video that I think might be the most accurate interpretation. Basically Miku and her lyrics repesents the Blue Pill way of thinking. She buries herself in fiction and then gets completely annihilated from ignoring reality for too long. Teto on the other hand, represents over-dosing on the Red Pill side of things. So while on the short term, she can handle problems slightly better than Miku's way. Teto also has the ability to ask for help from those around her. Since she's honest with what she lacks and reacts accordingly. But because taking in reality nonstop with no breaks, no fun, leads to problems in it of itself. It will lead to burnouts.
i firmly believe this song is about corporate slavery; -their outfits are that of waitresses, a job that notoriously pays low and has little to no unions -all of teto's body + spoken language for help (my guess is she knows she can't get out of this?) -teto standing still while days and nights pass behind her, showing that the days are so monotonous that her life is passing her by -"durability wearing down" could mean you're doing too much and your body isn't getting enough rest -miku saying "it's unrewarded everyday" referring to busting your butt daily and getting no reward for it (dealing with rude customers is what first comes to mind) -"it's a bot-like cycle" = the 9-5 lifestyle being notorious for being boring and monotonous -praise has no meaning anymore + fake charisma, yeah = "good jobs", "you're doing great"'s from your boss with no substance behind them, just to keep you content -miku hangs herself in the final chorus (pale skin, broken neck, dead eyes, tongue sticking out, before the chorus she had a choker on). i believe throughout the song she was tying to delude herself into thinking it'll get better one day, but eventually gave up. this is something we're seeing a lot of lately; suicides among workers are increasing staunchly with each generation as it gets harder to survive. teto tries to resist, but is shown at the end to have given in to an extent -most people who come home from 9-5s nowadays are so exhausted that all we can do is pop a microwavable dinner in and doomscroll on tiktok for hours on end, which is what the hypnosis is (trying to distract you from the fact that it's borderline impossible to survive in this world nowadays) ties to the line about how you can't live sanely in this world anymore and need something to take the edge off
Everyone always says that Teto also got hypnotized at the end, but I think she is pretending. See, right before she gets "hypnotized" she closes her eyes, and does something that kind of looks like a gulp. I think that was her collecting herself and getting into character. Otherwise, how would she get hypnotized right when she closed her eyes? After all "if you look too much at reality you'd go blind". This implies closing her eyes would in fact help her keep her "sight" as in sanity, rather than hypnotise her.
this is very interesting, but i also had a theory that blinking makes me more likely to be hypnotized since miku blinked during her hypnosis scene and teto didn’t, plus teto doesn’t blink at all during the whole video. either theory is on the table though
There are various theories that at the end they are not hypnotized, but BROKEN, but they're in normal hypnosis to handle daily life at first before they break... I think there's a breaking hypnosis and a safe hypnosis...
i noticed that when it tells us, the viewer, to "FOCUS!" the second time, the area that we were supposed to focus on turned into a hypnosis type thing, meaning miku is inviting us to get swayed by the hypnosis????????
i dont really think that miku's the one inviting to do this. during the hypnosis part it's very obvious that someone (not teto) is swaying a coin left and right for miku, which is what got her hypnotized. I believe that whoever hypnotized miku is the one who is trying to hypnotize the viewer. /gen!
what you missed about that one chemical in the quiz is it’s a growth hormone that grows brain and lung tumors, i’m assuming it’s used as a symbol of a deteriorating mental state because of the brain tumor physically obstructing how you function
To have not 1 but 2 words of similar purpose hidden in the same way within those few shown words is honestly very impressive and hard to pull off, the amount of searching to get the right words to make both fit
THERE AFE A FEW INTERESTING THINGS NOT MENTIONED HERE: Teto's first few verses that were capitalized are about escaping or being saved. Miku's dance also gets less "human" after the hypnosis, her movement seemed less natural even before her face goes wild - pay attention to the poses, one of them has her left arm twisted way farther than normal Another cool thing, I got this from another source: -Miku's outift is somewhat similar to a maid or waitress, which in general takes orders from others or does what they are asked for -While Teto's outfit is similar to that of a train conductor, may seem to symbolize how Teto wishes things to be in her control
Also another thing I noticed are Teto's white circle pupils are much smaller than Miku has, meaning that she was slowly getting hypnotized throughout the whole vid. (Just a quick detail I found out after rewinding the video a couple of times lol, hope people noticed this XD)
in my mind this song is about being depressed about the state of the world, yet still being too afraid to die so you surrender yourself to quick serotonin boosts in the form of positive feedback from social media comments (possibly social media reference because of the TikTok- like format they’re dancing in??) and sort of become a mindless zombie only living for those boosts because hey, that little bit of happiness is better than accepting the world right? (The shape representing immortality helps with this theory too)
I would also note how they're both wearing outfits associated with the service industry! So that feeds into the "state of the world" idea quite well. No one knows how fucked capitalism is like the people at the bottom rung. (Good catch on the tiktok format, too!)
I think Miku was "mesmerized" the entire time, but was able to hide it, while Teto had resisted it up until the end. That's why Teto asks for help, while Miku doesn't. I think that's what the scene with Miku "shutdown" is trying to tell us. Miku's mental state was more fragile and therefore she was more easily controlled
i like to think that teto is self aware and has been through this before. every time someone replays the video she asks for help, but the viewer wants to watch it and lets the video continue, allowing teto to watch miku become hypnotized and get hypnotized herself over and over again.
there's a darker theory where, miku hanged hrself, which explains why when shes fully hypnotized, her neck moves around weirdly (when you hang, your tongue sticks out if you didn't know). Usually black ties can also be used when someone is mourning. 2:50 the hypnoticing thingy is not visible when miku sings 2:59 it slowly becomes visible when teto sings. I believe in the quiz time both of them were asking for help. For some reason their pupils seem to have stars when they dance (They are both hypnotized when dancing and singing, but Teto seems to try to resist and calls for help before it's too late) 2:59 miku closes her eyes to not show that she's hypnotized. The excesive confeti might contribute to the hypnotization, 3:53 teto probably knew this so kept eyes half close to resist the hypnosis, but it was too late. So in my theory, I believe they were being hypnotized into hanging, thats why the lyrics are so depressing. also noticed, 2:45 maybe a past conversation they had? where Miku is finally giving into the hypnosis but by the lyrics teto tries to stop her from doing it, but as you can see in tetos face at 3:09 , it didn't work
2:54 I can't be the only one who finds the last poses that Miku does to be really unsettling, like, before Teto begins dancing, her 4 final poses before closing her eyes are SO exaggerated, at that point, missy girl was already gone
You're not the only one, a thread on twitter pointed that out too! Her poses(?) seems natural before--well, as natural as an animation can be--but her poses at this point was kind of... marionette-like...
!! i thought of it similar to like a marionette or when ur a kid n (stick with me here) make your doll dance. like focus on her hands- and her facial expression rarely changes for the rest of the song compared to before where she was very animated
and also 2:55 i don’t believe this pose shows up at any other point of the song! but do correct me if im wronggg its just very interesting that after shes hypnotised her poses lack any sort of…life, really
!! I learned this from twitter!!!! !! the long word at the end of quiz time (2:00) relates to a metabolic disorder that affects hearing, this may explain why the music goes quiet during teto’s hypnosis part and maybe why Teto doesn’t get hypnotized at first
2:43 1- Shows them in a green background Which means that the background is fake. 2- Miku is standing still, like nothing happened while teto is shocked/startled and her hand is in her mouth. Miku is already hypnotized in here. In 2:59 , once teto is singing the blue parts of the background starts to become darker to the point that it's black and also the exact same symbol we see in the MV 3:10 Miku's dance in this part seems to be the same as a Marionette. In the start, their eyes are all shiny but as the song progresses, they begin to lose their shine. "Phosphoriboslaminomidazolesuccinocarboxamide" is apparently used in hypnotization The fourth letter of every quiz spells "SOS". Both Miku(when she's hypnotized) and Teto's face(in the end where's shes hypnotized) are pale. Edit: this is just what I've also noticed🤷
I don't know if someone else made this point already but the way they are closed in a rectangular space and dancing to the camera looks a lot like a tik-tok or a reel, the "green screen" too telling you everything is fake. This video is so interesting, I find new things every time.
because the kind of people that get to the point of life that "I want to make an hatsune miku song" are nerds that haven't touched grass in a decade, that is the target audience ain't judging, we are both
also i think a tiktok comment mentioned this once, one of the lyrics is "if you stare too long at reality, you'll go blind!" and the whole time during the 'fill in the blanks' part miku was staring at us, or i guess the fourth wall, while teto was looking else where.
I think this symbolizes escapism and how bad it is if we delude ourselves with it. Procrastinating, escaping reality all together instead of facing it, and changing things for the better. Most of us can't seem to escape escapism (ironic). I think the reason they're in a vertical box is to symbolize a form of escapism, like watching TikTok dances, CZcams shorts, Instagram reels, etc. (The character shots are all in phone aspect ratio.) This whole song is a commentary on phones, the internet, and screens and how they "hypnotize" people into using them all the time with bright, flashy graphics and continuous stimulation. And also about toxic work culture in general. People get stuck in an endless, unrewarding, bot-like cycle of work, not doing anything to change it, and seek temporary escape and happiness. They get *mesmerized* and hypnotized by it *Like a swinging coin.*
You have a point. Constantly I’ve been looking at how depressing society has become, social media isn’t socializing, texting and calling isn’t being there in person. Taking photos to show a false image of yourself to project onto others that your life is Together when it’s not. Always comparing yourself to what others have and what you don’t. The words and depictions in this song are hella catchy but have tons of meanings. Glad it blew up, Miku and teto are a crazy duo
Funny how it also reflects to the current generation (that being gen alpha) filled to the brim with brainrots, content farms and more awful things that can do to the young audience.
just a thought, but when teto resists the hypnosis, she squints her eyes (see no evil), the music gets blurred (hear no evil), then she shuts her mouth (speak no evil)?
Where..? Because the sign in asl for please is a small circular motion by the chest…and Miku doesn’t do that in the video from what I saw. She doesn’t do it in JSL either lol
I remember an optical illusion in which you have to focus on a point in the middle of the screen, with two faces on each side, thing is, if you focus on the point you will not realize that the faces on each side changed features, like upside down eyes, mouths, crooked noses, weird eyebrows, etc
yeah, but its not really so much an optical illusion as much as it is an experiment to make it harder to recognize human faces. This has actually been shown to cause nightmares in some people!
I really like to think that the song is about existential crisis and too much reality awareness (and the consequences, like mental inestability, mental illneses, and others). The first part where they start talking, when miku says "no think about real feelings! pretending not to notice, absolute truths and one's heart" she maybe refers to ignoring the feelings of inestability and fear that cause questioning our existence, and by absolute truths she could mean the awareness of life being totally meaningless and that this may all be fake or not real (specially since she's a voicebank, she's not really "real"). Then "and the safety zone is shrinking" may be a reference to the mental inestability and insecurity that causes existential crisis. Teto refers to "ultimate escaping" to not pay attention to your questioning neither your bad state, to pretend you do not know, and to just ignore it and distract yourself from it with positive things "now can't live sanely in this world anymore, to pretending to not know and give oneself up is the optimum solution...?". I like to think both teto and miku struggle with the same problem, but teto is trying not to get too much into it while mike is just too sunken into it by now, trying to convince themselves that they're not fake neither reality and "sugarcoating" their ignorance for their existential questioning. "you'll be fooled by the real deal" that they'll convince themselves not to know anything and just believe they're happy. "my durability wearing down" that it is hard to continue ignoring it and not fall insane. As I said, I think Teto is the one who's trying to not too get sunken into madness like miku, she's the one seeking for help, because of her suffering of being too aware. Miku following the camera might be her being hypnotized into madness, completely losing it (and also the sky being just blue might be her trying to ignore and pretend to be happy, not facing the night which could be reality, slowly believing that she is truly happy and falling insane) , "shut down", while teto seems to zone out trying to not get hypnotized into madness like Miku did and also trying to stay still and strong at the truth (they sky changing might refer to the “bot-cycle” routine, and she’s trying not to pay attention at how the days pass meaninglessly, confirming that life has no other mean than dying soon or later), that's why she gets interrupted and she does not sing "shut down" like Miku, she's still aware and did not go mad like MIku, but slowly going in a worse state. "if there is no luck or hope, this will be even worse" may be referring to the fact that people who do not have "no hope no luck" might notice more the "bot-cycle" life that they get, that life has no more meaning than dying, and more existential doubts, and by this awareness worsening in mental stability, while the people who have "luck and hope" pay no attention to this doubts because they focus on their luck and hope. Then, Miku completely getting hypnotized by insanity and Teto being startled and frighten by this ( 3:08 ). The confetti might represent the positivity and ignorance that kept them safe, now going in a big amount in a try to ignore reality and not become insane as Miku did "if you look too hard into reality, you will become blind! (hypnotized, with no control)", as "fake charisma". "okay that's a bit too much" realizing she's over-reading it all and clearly afraid of starting to lose it too. this might be too much of me analyzing the meaning, and even a boring text, but the problem is that I really like this song and the lyrics and symbolism... so yeah, thanks for reading if u did, and also, really great analysis video! you said everything I wanted to say, genuinely great skills
i feel like this song could symbolize losing yourself in your life, repeating the same routine over and over again until you go slowly insane. I feel like Miku and Teto could represent workers at an amusement park or which basically have the same routine of operating the same machines over and over again, talking to the customers about the same thing over and over again, saving kids from accidents etc... I feel like in this case Miku basically goes insane from the same repetitive routine while Teto tries to keep her sanity but ultimately failing in the process (i can theorize that the scene where Teto doesn't get hypnotised could actually be her trying to endure and keep the same routine while Miku getting hypnotised could mean her finally having enough), the scene where Miku starts dancing strangely before getting hypnotised and after getting hypnotised might be her "way" of trying to change her life into something she wants for herself which would result in Teto getting "hypnotised" too because she can see that despite the creepy face, Miku is happy and so decided to let go of her old routine too. This song kind of reminds me of factory workers, who have been known to having worsened mental states because of their monotone work routines. Of course, this is only my interpretation of the song and I'm sure there's a lot more explanations!
The enzyme described at quiz time is a very important enzyme that is a pathway for not only regular human DNA, but also cancer cells, especially gliomas (brain tumors) and it allows for them to be sent to (matastocized) other parts of the body. I'm better with regular medicine, biochemistry is extremely difficult to understand for a layman, but I think this song is about losing to brain disease. As someone with mental illness, it can certainly create a level of hopelessness, but I think this song goes a layer deeper into a sort of helplessness that the average person just can't understand, falling apart at the seams of a disease that most professionals would struggle to address To me the biggest hint is when the 13 pointed star turns black, looking like a teratoma or similar tumor
isn't it just an intermediate form of purine. looking at both Wikipedia and pubchem there no other info about, it's got chosen most likely because it's have really long as name, btw the name in quiztime is wrong. it's Phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide (saicar)
@raisofahri5797 I thought it was the other one on the same gene which ends in -carboxylase but I might be wrong. Honestly this isn't up my alley at all, but while i was trying to figure the song out I found a report on NCBI about the gene those two enzymes share, with several references to other reports linking this gene to having a role in glioma growth and travel. I might be way off base, I just wanna float theories because I love song analysis
I find it strange and cool how this song is one of the very few pieces of media to genuinely creep me out with its visuals. I hardly ever feel a sense of uneasiness viewing such mediums and somehow this music video got me
I also collected my thoughts after listening to it probably 10+ times, so here it is. "The ultimate escape" isn't about hypnosis, it's about running away from the person who holds Miku and Teto and tries to hypnotize them, that's why Teto says next "If even fall into a sweet trap, can be saved". Teto most likely understands that they both, even if resist as much as they can, in the end will anyways be hypnotized. But there's a way to escape this person and place. "Now can't live sanely in this world anymore, to pretending not to know and give oneself up - optimum solution?" This can be Teto's thoughts. Before this, she says that there's a way to escape person holding them, and this phrase can mean that she thinks, whether she should try to escape openly or pretend that she doesn't know about person's intentions and behave like she falls into hypnosis. Or maybe, since she talks with Miku, this is Teto's way to give her a signal to behave like she also 'doesn't understand' what's going on. If that's true, then later Miku really starts behaving like she doesn't understand anything. But eventually this gets out of her control and she ends up being hypnotized. Teto asks for help of viewer. We aren't one who hypnotizes them - no point in trying to hypnotize ourselves by video. So, viewer isn't person who holds them, and Teto signals that she needs help as much as she is able to - ASL gesture, SOS signal, "HELP" in quiz, at P also 3 times she does sign that people do when they need help but can't say it out loud. The only thing here that Teto tries really hard to resist is set up of the video. You see, in quiz, there could be easier ways to choose an object that starts with P. And the chemical choosen, phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide, is a protein coding gene. It's responsible for several diseases, such as Phosphoribosylaminoimidazole Carboxylase Deficiency and Spinocerebellar Ataxia, X-Linked 3. First one is an autosomal recessive disorder associated with multiple congenital anomalies and early neonatal death. It is an inborn error of purine metabolism. Second one is rare form of spinocerebellar degeneration that typically begins in infancy. It is characterized by symptoms such as hypotonia, ataxia, sensorineural deafness, developmental delay, esotropia, and optic atrophy. The disease follows a progressive course and often leads to death during childhood. So what's the point of showing this to us? I think Teto tried to point that either Miku, she or they both has problems with this gene, leading to deafness and problems with vision. If it's so, then whole set up means 2 things. First, mesmerizer knew about problems with vision and hearing, and used it to confuse Teto and Miku with lot of bright colors and loud noises - this way, they'll unconsciously focus on part with hypnosis, when place suddenly changes to steady and quiet. Second, mesmerizer could predict Teto's behavior and tried to focus us on center of the video instead of Teto's signals. I think Miku was hypnotized so quickly because she didn't really know how to behave at the start - most likely she got Teto's signal to pretend be unknowing, but that's it. While Teto had to be in sync with Miku, ask for help and 'look away' from mesmerizer - it's hard, but she must have known more than Miku, so that's why it took 10 days for her. My conclusion: there wasn't any way for viewer to save them. The only way to stop this torture is to close the video. And even in lyric, sadly, Teto understands that she is constatnly fighting and is already left with nothing (Miku was hypnotized), so it's easier to just give up. That's why at the last part she also starts looking right at 'reality' to get hypnotized too.
1:24 Miku wears roller blades whilst Teto does not, and we might be matpat levels of insanity with this one but I THINK Miku's roller blades represent how she's easily more taken control of by the mesmerizer whilst Teto took till the end of the video to give up
I think the rollerblade is part of her costume design. I believe Miku is supposed to be dressed as a carhop. They’re essentially diner waitresses with roller blades, which was a popular thing in the 1930s-1950s. People have said that Miku representing a waitress, and Teto representing a bellboy (coincidentally known as bellhop) are dressed as occupation that follows order. It is interesting that Miku is dressed a specific type of waitress instead of a regular waitress tho.
also, teto is wearing sneakers and miku is wearing rollerskates.. theres an article where rollerskates are easy to be hypnotized and sneakers arent.. mesmerized is scary.
i noticed that at the start the shine in teto's eyes were shaped like stars, then changed to oval, then teto lost the shine in her eyes afterwards and her eyes get progressively darker throughout the song
I think the confetti might be used to intentionally blur the video as the characters minds get blurrier, having a ton of confetti on screen on CZcams makes the quality drop drastically
I also realized something, might not be accurate, but notice how the yellow badge things on their chest. Miku has it on the right side, while Teto has it on the left. Probably symbolizing the logical left brain (teto) trying to convince the emotional right brain (miku), sort of like an internal conflict, but instead of succeeding, the left brain also falls for the hypnotising.
Some jp bros in the og video suggested that when miku "transformed" ,she basically Наng Herself because the tongue is sticking out(1 attribute), neck is loose like it doesn't have a muscle hardness (2 attribute), and the "dilated pupils" (3 attribute). And the amount of confetti is like saying "Congratulations, the game of over. Good job."
1:53 I noticed that in the quiz time, if you use the second letter in each word (for example "a", "r", "e", "h") and use Caesar cipher shift 4 it spells out "evil". Idk if this is intentional or not but I found it really cool
1:40 according to google a semicolon is a hope for people who have battled depression, anxiety, addiction, and other mental health issues. It is also a symbol for someone who has lost someone to suicide. So maybe Teto is trying to comfort miku bc she already lost someone or battled depression herself? Idk
I haven’t seen anyone else mention this yet but I believe the spinning star in the middle which is labelled with “focus!” In different parts of the video is meant to serve as a “distraction” for the audience to ignore Teto’s signs. This also coincides with the song’s name, ‘mesmeriser’ as its almost trying to hypnotise the audience, and also is a visual component to the line “IF YOU LOOK TOO HARD INTO REALITY- YOU BECOME BLIND” or something like that. It could also potentially be broader symbolism for when being depressed, you can focus in on being happy so much that you miss the greater point, or that you get stuck in the same cycle that ultimately doesn’t help.
At 3:06 Teto was staring directly at the camera. Then to Miku, pretty shocking how much small details was represented in this mv 😭 Edit: in 2:55, as teto dances, she will look at Miku too!! (If her head is turned to the left side of our view)
Miku completely gives up looking into reality and allows herself to be hypnotized into a world where she doesn't have to worry about anything. Teto did not give up so easily, struggling to keep up with reality and begging for help until these screams for help were not answered. She resisted for many days and looked *too much* into reality and broke down because of stress. After Miku succumbed to a happy life hypnotized, Teto eventually followed. Their outfits are a bellboy and a maid. Back then, the ones in these occupations are slaves or people in debt or normal people (leaning more into the former).
3:09 those characters stand for “Hypnosis”. Which hints that Miku was hypnotized by a unknown person. And you can tell because her eyes were blue and it shown as miku getting hypnotized her eyes turn back.
I think the symbolism for the excessive confetti is that it’s supposed to pretend that everything is normal and miku is happy since confetti is usually to symbolise good events happening idk just a food for thought
i think the hypnosis is a metaphor for suicide, i saw a comment saying that when miku is in hypnosis she looks dead, and another talking about their shoes mikus shoes are roller skates that are easy to slip in, which is why she gives up and commits first while tetos shoes are boots, more resistant to falling, which is why she resists the confetti represents them trying to sugarcoat their depression and convince themselves it’s nothing, which is why in the hypnosis part, teto still has confetti trying to convince herself she’s not depressed while miku has none because she’s already given up and in the part where miku goes batshit insane is miku falling from a high place, as seen by her joints being irregular and her being visibly pale, the irregular confetti is teto sugarcoating mikus death
@@kcd715 another theory i have is that miku and teto are self conscious and the mesmerizer music video is supposed to hypnotize the viewer, but the [ULTIMATE SOLUTION] teto was talking about in the start is that they get hypnotized instead to save us teto signs for help to make the viewer think the video is scary and click off, but during the part before miku transforms, teto knows that her attempts and scaring viewers off are futile, so she looks at miku to convince her to give in to the hypnosis and act like a possessed demon so viewers click off during the last scene, teto gives in to hypnosis, knowing that she has seconds left till the video restarts as a summary, teto and miku know they are in a youtube music video, teto doesn’t want us to be hypnotized so she and miku do it instead teto tries to make us click off by signing for help, to make viewers think it’s scary, when it doesn’t work,she tells miku to stop resisting, miku gives into hypnosis and tries to scare us away. at the last seconds of the video, teto gives into the hypnosis as scarring off the viewer doesn’t work
The last prompt of the quiz is phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide (SAICAR), which is an intermediate for purines (e.g. Nucleobases, nucleosides, ATP). Phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase (or SAICAR synthase) is found in all domains of life and vital for energy metabolism (Catalyzes ATP -> ADP and vise versa, and participates in purine metabolism) and DNA synthesis.
2:06 you can clearly see miku's pupils being filled with a dark shade which can mostly likely represent the progress of their hypnotization, teto's is slow meaning the hypnotization for her took longer until hers eventually turned black. 2:54 when miku speeds up her dance, her fingers don't clasp in one part which can mean that she's being controlled like a puppet and most puppets don't have the option to clasp their hands. teto is aware that's she's hypnotized before her moves became lousy. this took kinda long to type so i appreciate if you read it. please take this with a grain of salt!
there’s a theory that miku was actually hanged in the last verse!! her outfit consists of a black choker, which doesn’t really suit the rest of her clothes. her neck’s also broken in the last verse. we can see her pupils are dilated, her skin is more pale and her tongue sticking out, all of which are known to happen to dead bodies
The only few things I managed to spot was Tetos “help” signal, teto resisting hypnosis, Miku losing her mind, and teto getting hypnotised at the very end 😭😭😭
The excessive confetti can be a symbolism for covering all the bad things up with colorful and cheery things, like putting a bunch of frosting and sprinkles on an already burnt cake.
my personal opinion is that teto doesnt "get hypnotized" in the end, but is forced to give in (pretend to be) because its an never ending cycle, she doesnt even try anymore
Long Theory: I bet on my intrepretation that this must be the living aspect of depression. Talking about the dialogues, the two are differed. Meaning, two different mental states. One, drowning in guilt, living in deception, negative-minded, and insane, in the aspect of depression. (Miku) And the other, being awareful, keeping itself sane (by staying optimistic), and desperate on finding help (like the signs for help in the video), in the aspect of depression. (Teto) Miku falling into hypnosis sounds like someone falls into psychological addiction feeling of despair (maybe even connects to the long word enzyme term), bet this is their optimum solution. Miku's drowning into despair like it embraces its own depressive state and goes insane because it thinks that there's no one to help, just deceptive and sugarcoated, or even getting along with the song that seems no one's getting distracted. It seems she proudly says the kind of those pessimistic words. Meanwhile, Teto's resisting upon the fact that Miku's going too much of dumping, symbolizing awareness to itself. Also the shown signs for help, that weren't supposed to be perfected in the music video symbolizes that she knows and its not okay to feel like this. In regards to it, a desperation for help and feeling of a lil bit hopefulnees comes into order. The fact that in conclusion that doesn't make sense because Miku goes insane, meaning in imperfection of the supposed output, means that's the point of the whole concept. Going into hypnosis, just like drowning in despair and towards to insanity. Ok first, the stumble up of Teto into Miku's madness. Every second of their interaction, the feeling of awareness that comes from Teto is uneased with how Miku feels. Also with the introduction of Teto, the background turns into Yellow along with Miku. But alone with Miku, just a blue patterned background. Background Analysis: The backgrounds alone, Yellow means the optimism drive away from insanity, and Blue means pessimism. At the quiz snippet, it has a blue background, which overdrives Teto into signing for help. The starry night background refers to doubt and questioning about it's existence. And the blue sky, idk about it. But it refers to declaration on why they have the right to be on that state. Its like those angel and devil on both of your shoulder. Making your own choice. The fact that them being separated meaning they're completely different mental states. Also the shape that needs attention in the center probably symbolizes complexity of balancing yourself, because these states are already kind of complexed. Another theory about the shape: Someone said that the shape represents immortality meaning this will mostly linger in your mind, like confusion perhaps, or even worse. The exaggeration of confettis and clouds are self-explanatory. Back into the main point: Teto made a sign during the chorus that resembles a tripping hazard sign, "thrice". Doing it instead of a longing stance like Miku did. Resembling the benefit of helping and made for attention awareness. Seeing her doing it thrice meaning of very desperation for help. Teto standing there uneased (i dont have any other terms for uneased lol) while time passes by meaning Teto has struck on listening these pessimistic notes in her head for *days* and trying to resist on going insane makes her into this state of doubt and confusion. At the green screen moment, Teto is in shocking state. And Miku looks fine at all, going well in the depressive concept. The feeling of Teto reading the last lines with Miku has sort of uneasiness to it. Yes obviously, Teto has to go along with the lines but look at it from her physical self, Teto looks uncomfortable while Miku is getting insanely hypnotized and proudly smiles. Sounds like both of them say "OKAY THAT'S A BIT TOO MUCH" but I bet it's only Teto who says it because an insane person couldn't *stop themselves* into agony just like Miku didn't end with a stance with Teto after their last line. But at the last shot, Teto becomes hypnotized or sinks along with Miku. The background between those two are meant for them to be separated but since the confettis trespassed borders, and the over exaggeration of shapes. This symbolizes there is hopelessness to keeping yourself optimistic and accepting the deal of making yourself better through hypnotism, or worse. (EDIT) About Teto getting hypnotized at the end, I guess Teto wasn't hypnotized at all. In fact, Teto's getting along in being a deceptive role to keep itself sane. Teto shut her eyes to avoid the linger of being hypnotized. This might be the fact of getting through much negativity and deceits to accept the problem, but keeping itself not going deeper, by having a positive mindset inside. Like the cliche "Everything's going to be okay..." Also, at the last chorus, it seems like Miku's played by a puppeteer master. It's joints are weirdly in stance. This might also symbolize the acceptance and it should be controlled by the negativity around it. Like... They're right, I should just do the unspeakable. Something like that. Unlike Teto who's strength is still deep inside. (Back to the point) My conclusion is that... Trying to be optimistic to yourself while living with the negative tendencies and conditions of our surroundings can be struggling... Especially if you're, depressed. Depressive thoughts aren't mundane nor similar every day, it depends based on how they're affected. Sometimes they gain affection and a feeling of hope that hope they could get this affection the same way tomorrow. Sometimes, someone pointing out you're irresponsibilities can lower your self esteem and kept it to yourself as your deserved burden thinking won't ever do it again but still on procrastinating and still guilt tripping into your irresponsibilities, something like that. Or even bored out because their life is a no tool, or simply useless. So yeah... I'm confused on what I'm writing about but if it understood you, I appreciate it.
I noticed that after Teto stares at Miku when she goes insane, for a split second she speeds back up and looks at the camera like she accepted it. Also, the confetti NEVER goes in front of the spiral. Not once
Another interesting part of the hypnosis aspect of the video is the star in the middle of the screen and how in some parts it says to "focus" on it. It's the trigger that activates Miku's state at the end, notice how before she loses control the star counts down from 3 and rapidly changes colours before cutting to the black and white animation from the very beginning before being covered by the multicoloured stars. It could mean that the confetti at the start and the end are not just confetti but another way to program the hypnosis, at the end Teto was resisting so they overwhelmed her with confetti until she broke
the shear amount of details that is added into this MV is so admirable, it's one thing to learn these but to animate them as small things which people can miss too 😭😭
One thing I dont see being discussed is how Miku and Teto are framed as if they were in a tiktok, and all the lyrics of they song could be tied to being on the internet to forget about everything that is happening in the world rn... Also Teto's outfit reminds me of McDonald's but I dont know if that has anything to do with what I just said
yeah like internet escapism! also, unrelated but since you mentioned the outfits, someone on twitter said that mikus outfit stands out more so ur drawn to look at her instead of tetos bore boring outfit, maybe so you don’t see her signs for help?
@@sillymako3 Teto's outfit certainly is simpler than Miku's, but her red outfit has more visual weight than Miku's blue outfit, so I'm not so sure about that one. However, Miku's prettier outfit could also be a way to direct your focus on her.
This song is such a brutal and insidious song, and the video hits it perfect as it's meant to be a trap. Escapism into a colorful yet shallow world to leave your struggles behind and lying to yourself and losing yourself in it until you're a husk.
and the dna on the phospharibosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide represents that miku is not a human anymore(?) also phos... I aint repeating that is a disease
Still heavily under the belief that this song is an allegory for crushing job environments cause of how miku feels like the "overachieving overtimer" Those burn out and go mad EASILY in a job environment
2:57 you forgot that teto was trying to keep an eye on miku while she’s dancing 3:16 miku’s arms flailing in an inhumane way, and her neck breaking, exposed tongue, signaling someone who had committed using a noose 3:17 teto dancing a lot faster (which meaning her being nervous)
I watched multiple mesmerizer analysis. Miku and Teto's pupils change everyline. If you see, Miku is using roller skates, which is easy to trip. Like how easy she's to fall on the "hypnosis" Teto's using normal shoes. Meaning she's more "immune" than Miku to hold the "hypnosis"
yes, and at 3:06 the person that hypnotized miku also tried to technically hypnotize us, telling us the focus in the middle, and also distracts us from miku getting hypnotized
Teto said 1:07 the optimum solution is to pretend to not know and give up, I think at the end teto gave up resisting or forced herself to get hypnotized because she realized to be hypnotized and give up/not know anything is the best way she can be saved from the pain after she saw hypnotized miku or something
Ive mentioned this on the original video but right as the music begins to pick up speed again (around here 2:54) you can notice miku's dancing changes to match how she dances when she breaks
What's also cool is that at no point in the song do the confetti leave Miku's and Teto's windows, only when Miku finally snaps do they start falling in the foreground. At that point Miku completely broke, Teto is slowly losing her mind seeing her friend become a full on puppet and now they finally started focusing on fully hypnotising us, right at the catchiest part of the song which people usually keep rewinding over and over
does anyone else see the outfit resemblances to wendy’s and mac donald’s? teto being mac donald’s miku being wendy’s? not sure if this is related to the message of the video but wanted to point it out
great work but you missed a couple things! teto putting her hand over her mouth is especially a good catch. 1. teto and miku start the song dancing in sync but they are desynced after they are hypnotized 2. tetos white pupils start off big but gradually get smaller until her eyes turn black like mikus by the end. 3. arrows pointing to the star symbol at the center say "focus" right before the chorus, and turns into black and white swirls near the end, the viewer is also intended to be 'hypnotized' by the same or similar force as to what happened to miku. 4. this is more speculative, but tetos and mikus outfits seem to be uniforms of some kind, they dont only seem to be victims of hypnotism, but their "job" seems to be selling this hypnotism to you, the viewer. the english text bubbles would also seem to suggest this.
i love the theming of the mv, the little details and all. i find that apart from the main (obvious) theming of helplessness and hypnotization/manipulation the song to me reads as a metaphor for unhealthy coping mechanisms and dissociation. (and/or self harm) throughout the song miku exclaims of how unbearable her life is, and teto seems to suggest a "solution" despite how it's inadvertently ruining her own life too (she seems aware of this, calling for "help" several times throughout the mv but nevertheless unable to cut herself off from her unhealthy habits) as the song progresses, comes the "hypnosis" scene, i view this as a 'contemplation' of sorts. whether these habits are worth the harm it causes the user, for the brief escapism it gives them. miku gives in eventually, but teto resists for as long as she can. at the end of the segment, shows a greenscreen shot, i believe this to be akin to miku and teto facing their "reality" for a moment, miku is already completely devoid of emotion while teto is shocked and in worry. i read a comment on the original upload from a Japanese commentor, saying that its possible miku's "hypnosis" is her comitting suicide via hanging (her eyes are blackened, skin is paler, limbs are completely limp and her tongue is sticking out as if she was choked to death +the black collar on her costume). adding onto this from my third paragraph, i think miku was contemplating suicide as a final end to her life problems, perhaps the dissociative coping mechanisms weren't enough to drown out the noise of reality. ("if you stare at reality for too long, you'll eventually go blind" (a telltale sign of a corpse is dark non reflective eyes)) another addendum to add to this, right before miku "loses herself" she seems nonchalantly happy and regains the stars in her eyes for a brief moment, whilst teto was concerned and stressed. i notice that a common sign of somebody planning to commit is that they'll suddenly become uncharacteristically joyful for the final time periods before they finally decide to do it. but thats just my thoughts :P id love to see more theories on this mv!!!! I really think theres some hidden symbolism with the hypnosis kidnapping thing
Not gonna lie, I love reading this take that you have on the MV because I too believe that it is about escapism from reality through hypnosis as a 'coping mechanism'. I just love Mesmerizer MV so much because it generates theories like this that I can enjoy reading during my free time, so have a like 😁.
The suicide thing could also be why the background gets so dark in the scene before miku does all that, and teto watches her and seems horrified. The darkening of the background could be the intention becoming more obvious to teto, but miku still acting happy makes her worried so she tries to watch her to make sure she doesn't do anything, but is horrified when miku actually does it because she was so happy leading up to it. Or the darkness could be mikus mental state, and her continuing to be happy is either a reassuring gesture to teto that she's fine despite teto seeing the obvious signs of something being wrong, or is her accepting that she's going to do it, being happy that it'll all be over Edit: And to add to it, the way teto is looking away before the full hypnosis thing, and then gives a very quick slight glance to miku right before, like 'she's happy, I can look away' and then looking back to check on her, just to see her hypnotized/dead(in this theory) I notice teto stares at her in her dance part while the screen darkens, like she knows something is deeply wrong and is scared for miku despite her smiling and acting happy
A few minutes ago I read a somewhat curious comment that said that perhaps Miku was no longer even alive in the last part because his tongue was sticking out and his eyes were dilated. Let's just remember that when a person hangs himself, those two are ""characteristics. main"" also taking into account that of the two it is the only one that had something like a necklace, this theory is not so out of place (I'm using Google Translate, sorry if I wrote something wrong)
That's what I was thinking! Her tilted head and slack jaw makes her seem very unconscious, matched with the fact her body contorts weirdly and out of time with teto. Also, when she is first hypnotized, her neck snaps
@@wellokthen3834 yes! Also before entering this phase (please correct me if I'm wrong) his hands or arms were already a little out of place, like broken, something like that.
I don't if anyone noticed but their pupils slowly becomes smaller and in the end it disappears completely. At the start, it was stars then at the end, it disappears. At the end, Teto's eyes turn pure black like Miku's which means she probably accepted her fate?
3:08 if anyone has noticed, the background is different as it is even faster than before after miku reveals her hypnosis. i have a theory that this might represent teto's head "spinning around" or being in stress trying to find out what happened to miku. i see this as a sign of stress from teto as she's obviously tired of dancing for the public, figuring out why miku is like that and trying to prevent the hypnosis from getting into her head, ALL at the same time. when teto is done dancing the background changes again to a more calm and less chaotic one after they stop dancing, probably meaning that teto is more relieved and has more time to think to figure out whats going on, however i suppose that she was too tired to be able to do that (or had very little time) as she fell into the hypnosis at the end. her being hypnosed at the end may be because the "hypnosis coin" is imnplied to still be going side to side infront of them, probably behind our screen since we aren't able to see it... or its just that the tridecagram in the middle represents the coin. i also believe that the confetti represents the hypnosis hitting on teto, the more means that shes getting weaker and slowly letting the hypnosis control her. at the start teto is fine, miku hypnosis part she's shocked and seems to look tired, and at the end she just... looks even worse i don't know how to explain it 1:52 something that alot of people didint notice is that in this part, not only the first word of each letter spells help, but the FOURTH word of each letter (except hat) spells SOS. i believe also that in this part every word has a meaning, but the only i can think of is eraser representing brain washing, or "erasing your memories" like what probably happened to miku. (im saying "probably" because it isnt confirmed if miku has actually lost all her memory from the hypnosis, she might only be controlled but her memories are all good.) also ill edit this comment if i find anything else or think of more theories
1:11 If you pause at the right time, Miku does the Puppet pose as her moves change slightly. Also for the ending, Teto does look like she got hypnotized too but it’s a 50/50 chance. For me, Teto takes a deep breath before her eyes turned black and she still wasn’t looking at the screen like Miku was. Teto may have a faking it the whole time to avoid being hurt by whatever person hypnotized Miku
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hi, u missed one!! On the help one, the 3/4th letter spells “SOS” (not including hat)
Sosaka
1:01 hm
Hi, u missing another one :>>> (The shoes may mean how strong and steady they mind is mind. And Teto wears normal shoes. and Miku wears roller skates This means that Miku's mind is not strong enough to handle the hypnosis. Because you can't stand for that long in roller skates. But you can stand perfectly normal with normal shoes ;) )
"If you look too hard into reality, you'll become blind." Miku was staring at us the whole time.
WHAT THE HE- thats true because she lost control of herself,
OH THAT'S SO SCARY WHAT
No wonder why teto wasnt looking at the viewer.....
she also stopped bouncing for a split second bc she was horrified at what miku became
i also noticed that at 3:07 teto stops staring at us for a quick second to look at miku or off the camera, prolly this is part of the resisting stuff?????
can't believe teto tried to get the waiter's attention by blinking in morse code
BAHAHAHAH
i love this comment
@@kikiwiinwhy are you blinking so much
@@w0ndrbredd i think shes got something in her eye
@@god_ish here lemme get it out ◉‿◉
2:01 After researching _phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide,_ is a disorder that causes visual disturbances, epilepsy, deafness, etc... makes sense that Teto knows those languages
Oohhh so that's the reason why she endure the hypnosis for days, she sometimes can't see nor hear (like in the song itself), and maybe the greenscreen part was "cut" because Teto got an epilepsy attack
I have epilepsy..
dont you mean chemical? im not sure a disorder would be called like that....
I have balls
Also those words can make sos
Smth else I noticed is that Miku's dressed as one of those 50's waitresses and Teto is dressed as a bellman. These two jobs are often associated with serving people and obeying orders. Which is curious because of the "hipnosis" topic, and it makes me think that whoever who tried to hypnotize them both is also commanding them to hypnotize more ppl, as if it was some kind of contagious desease
I thought is was funny cuz they both look like they work at Wendy's
@@its_snowy_ real
Btw me go I little lore thing what if they were like kidnapped or something cuz Teton was doing 3 sos signs and the camera when black after Teton made she was try to get out of there or past out so the people had to another method of hypnosis ( I think idk I'm just a dumb person on the Internet) :D
@@aperson_6 I think that star in the middle separating Miku and Teto is the one that they were staring at along with the consistent confetti, and that's perspective of us, the viewers, that's why Teto was trying to constantly not give into the hypnosis, and we don't even know what she and Miku were hypnotized by so it's safe to assume they were both looking at the star that appears in the middle of their chorus, also I think the song's name is mesmerizer because of the themes of escapism and hypnotism present throughout the song because it's obvious, and maybe because the star in the middle including the weird spiral form that it has near the ending *IS* the Mesmerizer.
@@florianneacosta987 oh ty :]
"This will be even worse" imo reads as Teto explaining to Miku that giving up and falling into hypnosis to make her feel better is worse than just going through the boringess of life
THIS MAKES SENSE
What? I don’t see at all and no offense but I hope that’s rly not what it means
Is it really more boring when you are virtually unconscious and don't even experience boredom or thought? Its like sleeping while alive, doesn't sound that bad to me
notice how teto is looking at miku while singing this as well, as though worried about her and trying to explain how the path she’s going down is not the answer
@@PerpetualIyTired I kinda think its like drugs. Drugged people gets pleasure from it, just to escape from the cruel reality.
A detail someone mentioned was:
After Miku gets hypnotized she moves like a doll, as of there's someone pulling on strings and her skin turns white, just like a doll.
I don’t think her skin turns white because it looks the same to me but I could be wrong
@@Manha_stuffshe goes paler
I just checked by colorpicking it, yea, she does get paler
@@vampiresscarlet thanc
@@vampiresscarletdoes teto go pale too at the end? cuz seems like she does
There was a Japanese comment on the original video that I think might be the most accurate interpretation.
Basically Miku and her lyrics repesents the Blue Pill way of thinking.
She buries herself in fiction and then gets completely annihilated from ignoring reality for too long.
Teto on the other hand, represents over-dosing on the Red Pill side of things. So while on the short term, she can handle problems slightly better than Miku's way. Teto also has the ability to ask for help from those around her. Since she's honest with what she lacks and reacts accordingly. But because taking in reality nonstop with no breaks, no fun, leads to problems in it of itself. It will lead to burnouts.
So lesson is just stay in za balance?
okay wait this is actually very interesting, where did the blue pill and red pill thinking come from?
@@shiihoho it comes from the matrix en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pill_and_blue_pill
i firmly believe this song is about corporate slavery;
-their outfits are that of waitresses, a job that notoriously pays low and has little to no unions
-all of teto's body + spoken language for help (my guess is she knows she can't get out of this?)
-teto standing still while days and nights pass behind her, showing that the days are so monotonous that her life is passing her by
-"durability wearing down" could mean you're doing too much and your body isn't getting enough rest
-miku saying "it's unrewarded everyday" referring to busting your butt daily and getting no reward for it (dealing with rude customers is what first comes to mind)
-"it's a bot-like cycle" = the 9-5 lifestyle being notorious for being boring and monotonous
-praise has no meaning anymore + fake charisma, yeah = "good jobs", "you're doing great"'s from your boss with no substance behind them, just to keep you content
-miku hangs herself in the final chorus (pale skin, broken neck, dead eyes, tongue sticking out, before the chorus she had a choker on). i believe throughout the song she was tying to delude herself into thinking it'll get better one day, but eventually gave up. this is something we're seeing a lot of lately; suicides among workers are increasing staunchly with each generation as it gets harder to survive. teto tries to resist, but is shown at the end to have given in to an extent
-most people who come home from 9-5s nowadays are so exhausted that all we can do is pop a microwavable dinner in and doomscroll on tiktok for hours on end, which is what the hypnosis is (trying to distract you from the fact that it's borderline impossible to survive in this world nowadays) ties to the line about how you can't live sanely in this world anymore and need something to take the edge off
Everyone always says that Teto also got hypnotized at the end, but I think she is pretending. See, right before she gets "hypnotized" she closes her eyes, and does something that kind of looks like a gulp. I think that was her collecting herself and getting into character. Otherwise, how would she get hypnotized right when she closed her eyes? After all "if you look too much at reality you'd go blind". This implies closing her eyes would in fact help her keep her "sight" as in sanity, rather than hypnotise her.
Hope this is true; Teto locking in would be a more interesting ending
this is very interesting, but i also had a theory that blinking makes me more likely to be hypnotized since miku blinked during her hypnosis scene and teto didn’t, plus teto doesn’t blink at all during the whole video. either theory is on the table though
There are various theories that at the end they are not hypnotized, but BROKEN, but they're in normal hypnosis to handle daily life at first before they break... I think there's a breaking hypnosis and a safe hypnosis...
@@sillymako3 girl was locked in for a whole 150 seconds god damn
@@sillymako3 she blinked during the . . . / _ _ _ / . . . part
i noticed that when it tells us, the viewer, to "FOCUS!" the second time, the area that we were supposed to focus on turned into a hypnosis type thing, meaning miku is inviting us to get swayed by the hypnosis????????
OMG TRUE
i dont really think that miku's the one inviting to do this. during the hypnosis part it's very obvious that someone (not teto) is swaying a coin left and right for miku, which is what got her hypnotized. I believe that whoever hypnotized miku is the one who is trying to hypnotize the viewer. /gen!
limbo reference
I got hypnotized for a bit with my mouth slightly agape-
@@mayu0512 same-
Teto didnt hypnotize. She actually gave in to guilt for failing to save Miku. Miku has a chocker on, neck unbalanced, and tongue out, hinting at hang.
This^
IT ACTUALLY MAKES SO MUCH SENSE NOO
And if you look closely at mesmerizer miku you can see her skin being pale than before, so you're right.
Teto: “I tried to get the viewers attention by blinking in more code”
Lmao 😭
"Why are you blinking so much?"
"I've got something in my eye!-"
"Here, let me get it out." *shows hypnotizer:*
"No thank you, I don't wanna die"
@@IsabelaisCRINGE "bonjour i saw you were blinking at me is this because your friend is a freak?"
miku: 🤪
"..no-"
"very good then"
God dance
@@grapetapwater6764bon appetit 😗🤌
what you missed about that one chemical in the quiz is it’s a growth hormone that grows brain and lung tumors, i’m assuming it’s used as a symbol of a deteriorating mental state because of the brain tumor physically obstructing how you function
Also the sudden long word may also be Teto’s attempt to keep our attention? She does the hand gesture during the chemical name
also in the quiz, the fourth letter of every word spells out "SOS"!!
you're right, I never noticed that!!
To have not 1 but 2 words of similar purpose hidden in the same way within those few shown words is honestly very impressive and hard to pull off, the amount of searching to get the right words to make both fit
THATS SO CLEVER
THERE AFE A FEW INTERESTING THINGS NOT MENTIONED HERE:
Teto's first few verses that were capitalized are about escaping or being saved.
Miku's dance also gets less "human" after the hypnosis, her movement seemed less natural even before her face goes wild - pay attention to the poses, one of them has her left arm twisted way farther than normal
Another cool thing, I got this from another source:
-Miku's outift is somewhat similar to a maid or waitress, which in general takes orders from others or does what they are asked for
-While Teto's outfit is similar to that of a train conductor, may seem to symbolize how Teto wishes things to be in her control
2:16 Teto really endured the hypnosis for over TEN DAYS.
U RITE
Also another thing I noticed are Teto's white circle pupils are much smaller than Miku has, meaning that she was slowly getting hypnotized throughout the whole vid.
(Just a quick detail I found out after rewinding the video a couple of times lol, hope people noticed this XD)
@@localmilkvendor no, the small pupils indicate panic/bewilderment (its an artstyle)
@@zuzoozuzoozu Ah okay, I understand now, so it wasn't a slow descent type of thing but thanks!
@@localmilkvendor yup, it went from stars (b4 teto realised) to circle (after teto realised) to panic mode (when teto sees how bad it actually is)
in my mind this song is about being depressed about the state of the world, yet still being too afraid to die so you surrender yourself to quick serotonin boosts in the form of positive feedback from social media comments (possibly social media reference because of the TikTok- like format they’re dancing in??) and sort of become a mindless zombie only living for those boosts because hey, that little bit of happiness is better than accepting the world right? (The shape representing immortality helps with this theory too)
OMG I REALLY LIKE YOUR THEORY IT MAKES SENSE
MAKES SENSE AKSJDJDJ❤
I would also note how they're both wearing outfits associated with the service industry! So that feeds into the "state of the world" idea quite well. No one knows how fucked capitalism is like the people at the bottom rung.
(Good catch on the tiktok format, too!)
I think Miku was "mesmerized" the entire time, but was able to hide it, while Teto had resisted it up until the end.
That's why Teto asks for help, while Miku doesn't.
I think that's what the scene with Miku "shutdown" is trying to tell us. Miku's mental state was more fragile and therefore she was more easily controlled
It also took Teto multiple days to succumb to it when you see the section where the screen wobbles back and forth.
i like to think that teto is self aware and has been through this before. every time someone replays the video she asks for help, but the viewer wants to watch it and lets the video continue, allowing teto to watch miku become hypnotized and get hypnotized herself over and over again.
@@kel8937Holy shit if that's made like that on purpose it would be so cool yet terrifying
thats a cool theory
@@kel8937whajdjdidiaishsh makes sense
there's a darker theory where, miku hanged hrself, which explains why when shes fully hypnotized, her neck moves around weirdly (when you hang, your tongue sticks out if you didn't know). Usually black ties can also be used when someone is mourning. 2:50 the hypnoticing thingy is not visible when miku sings 2:59 it slowly becomes visible when teto sings. I believe in the quiz time both of them were asking for help. For some reason their pupils seem to have stars when they dance (They are both hypnotized when dancing and singing, but Teto seems to try to resist and calls for help before it's too late) 2:59 miku closes her eyes to not show that she's hypnotized. The excesive confeti might contribute to the hypnotization, 3:53 teto probably knew this so kept eyes half close to resist the hypnosis, but it was too late. So in my theory, I believe they were being hypnotized into hanging, thats why the lyrics are so depressing. also noticed, 2:45 maybe a past conversation they had? where Miku is finally giving into the hypnosis but by the lyrics teto tries to stop her from doing it, but as you can see in tetos face at 3:09 , it didn't work
sorry if my english is bad!
AND her neck is smaller
I notice how miku's arms bend UNNATURALLY after she gets hypnotized. they move in ways that only broken bones or hyper flexible people could do.
It feels like Miku's lyrics feel a bit more depressing while teto's feel uplifting
2:54 I can't be the only one who finds the last poses that Miku does to be really unsettling, like, before Teto begins dancing, her 4 final poses before closing her eyes are SO exaggerated, at that point, missy girl was already gone
You're not the only one, a thread on twitter pointed that out too! Her poses(?) seems natural before--well, as natural as an animation can be--but her poses at this point was kind of... marionette-like...
!! i thought of it similar to like a marionette or when ur a kid n (stick with me here) make your doll dance. like focus on her hands- and her facial expression rarely changes for the rest of the song compared to before where she was very animated
and also 2:55 i don’t believe this pose shows up at any other point of the song! but do correct me if im wronggg its just very interesting that after shes hypnotised her poses lack any sort of…life, really
she is already gone when her eyes turn fully dark, btw teto eyes get darker each second especially after miku is gone mad.
What I realize is that it’s so exaggerated, it looks like a puppet being moved.
!! I learned this from twitter!!!! !!
the long word at the end of quiz time (2:00) relates to a metabolic disorder that affects hearing, this may explain why the music goes quiet during teto’s hypnosis part and maybe why Teto doesn’t get hypnotized at first
2:43 1- Shows them in a green background
Which means that the background is fake.
2- Miku is standing still, like nothing happened while teto is shocked/startled and her hand is in her mouth. Miku is already hypnotized in here.
In 2:59 , once teto is singing the blue parts of the background starts to become darker to the point that it's black and also the exact same symbol we see in the MV
3:10 Miku's dance in this part seems to be the same as a Marionette.
In the start, their eyes are all shiny but as the song progresses, they begin to lose their shine.
"Phosphoriboslaminomidazolesuccinocarboxamide" is apparently used in hypnotization
The fourth letter of every quiz spells "SOS".
Both Miku(when she's hypnotized) and Teto's face(in the end where's shes hypnotized) are pale.
Edit: this is just what I've also noticed🤷
I don't know if someone else made this point already but the way they are closed in a rectangular space and dancing to the camera looks a lot like a tik-tok or a reel, the "green screen" too telling you everything is fake. This video is so interesting, I find new things every time.
Why so many Vocaloid songs are straight up calls for help? 🤨😥
because the kind of people that get to the point of life that "I want to make an hatsune miku song" are nerds that haven't touched grass in a decade, that is the target audience
ain't judging, we are both
someone should make a whole analog of this at this rate!
Because it's interesting! (and they're Japanese!!!)
but the thing is, many songs are like these too.
@@klibero 💀
Thank you for saying it for me@@klibero
also i think a tiktok comment mentioned this once, one of the lyrics is
"if you stare too long at reality, you'll go blind!"
and the whole time during the 'fill in the blanks' part miku was staring at us, or i guess the fourth wall, while teto was looking else where.
I think this symbolizes escapism and how bad it is if we delude ourselves with it.
Procrastinating, escaping reality all together instead of facing it, and changing things for the better.
Most of us can't seem to escape escapism (ironic).
I think the reason they're in a vertical box is to symbolize a form of escapism, like watching TikTok dances, CZcams shorts, Instagram reels, etc.
(The character shots are all in phone aspect ratio.)
This whole song is a commentary on phones, the internet, and screens and how they "hypnotize" people into using them all the time with bright,
flashy graphics and continuous stimulation. And also about toxic work culture in general.
People get stuck in an endless, unrewarding, bot-like cycle of work, not doing anything to change it, and seek temporary escape and happiness.
They get *mesmerized* and hypnotized by it
*Like a swinging coin.*
You have a point. Constantly I’ve been looking at how depressing society has become, social media isn’t socializing, texting and calling isn’t being there in person. Taking photos to show a false image of yourself to project onto others that your life is Together when it’s not. Always comparing yourself to what others have and what you don’t. The words and depictions in this song are hella catchy but have tons of meanings. Glad it blew up, Miku and teto are a crazy duo
Funny how it also reflects to the current generation (that being gen alpha) filled to the brim with brainrots, content farms and more awful things that can do to the young audience.
just a thought, but when teto resists the hypnosis, she squints her eyes (see no evil), the music gets blurred (hear no evil), then she shuts her mouth (speak no evil)?
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They are also not moving so “do no evil”
2:53 mikus dance is more like a puppet rather than Teri actually dancing
*Teto :3
@@x-x_project_sekai mb lmfao
Miku also does the please sign in ASL! Since teto is doing the help sign, itd make "help me please" :P
when? before the quiz part?
Where..? Because the sign in asl for please is a small circular motion by the chest…and Miku doesn’t do that in the video from what I saw. She doesn’t do it in JSL either lol
WHERE
1:12
2:12 I also noticed how Miku says “The other person stopped moving”
And then you see Teto standing completely still
Something I've noticed from one of teto's lines is "When you look hard into reality you'll become blind" And then Teto got hypnotized
Teto was hypnotized as the 10 days past, notice how her eyes change to become black too. She only resisted it and lasted longer than Miku.
I remember an optical illusion in which you have to focus on a point in the middle of the screen, with two faces on each side, thing is, if you focus on the point you will not realize that the faces on each side changed features, like upside down eyes, mouths, crooked noses, weird eyebrows, etc
yeah, but its not really so much an optical illusion as much as it is an experiment to make it harder to recognize human faces. This has actually been shown to cause nightmares in some people!
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@@clownshrooms damn I used the wrong words but I'm glad my point was made :D
@@aetri5365 oh no problem!! i just wanted to clarify but i knew what u meant!! :)
I really like to think that the song is about existential crisis and too much reality awareness (and the consequences, like mental inestability, mental illneses, and others). The first part where they start talking, when miku says "no think about real feelings! pretending not to notice, absolute truths and one's heart" she maybe refers to ignoring the feelings of inestability and fear that cause questioning our existence, and by absolute truths she could mean the awareness of life being totally meaningless and that this may all be fake or not real (specially since she's a voicebank, she's not really "real"). Then "and the safety zone is shrinking" may be a reference to the mental inestability and insecurity that causes existential crisis. Teto refers to "ultimate escaping" to not pay attention to your questioning neither your bad state, to pretend you do not know, and to just ignore it and distract yourself from it with positive things "now can't live sanely in this world anymore, to pretending to not know and give oneself up is the optimum solution...?". I like to think both teto and miku struggle with the same problem, but teto is trying not to get too much into it while mike is just too sunken into it by now, trying to convince themselves that they're not fake neither reality and "sugarcoating" their ignorance for their existential questioning. "you'll be fooled by the real deal" that they'll convince themselves not to know anything and just believe they're happy. "my durability wearing down" that it is hard to continue ignoring it and not fall insane. As I said, I think Teto is the one who's trying to not too get sunken into madness like miku, she's the one seeking for help, because of her suffering of being too aware. Miku following the camera might be her being hypnotized into madness, completely losing it (and also the sky being just blue might be her trying to ignore and pretend to be happy, not facing the night which could be reality, slowly believing that she is truly happy and falling insane) , "shut down", while teto seems to zone out trying to not get hypnotized into madness like Miku did and also trying to stay still and strong at the truth (they sky changing might refer to the “bot-cycle” routine, and she’s trying not to pay attention at how the days pass meaninglessly, confirming that life has no other mean than dying soon or later), that's why she gets interrupted and she does not sing "shut down" like Miku, she's still aware and did not go mad like MIku, but slowly going in a worse state. "if there is no luck or hope, this will be even worse" may be referring to the fact that people who do not have "no hope no luck" might notice more the "bot-cycle" life that they get, that life has no more meaning than dying, and more existential doubts, and by this awareness worsening in mental stability, while the people who have "luck and hope" pay no attention to this doubts because they focus on their luck and hope. Then, Miku completely getting hypnotized by insanity and Teto being startled and frighten by this ( 3:08 ). The confetti might represent the positivity and ignorance that kept them safe, now going in a big amount in a try to ignore reality and not become insane as Miku did "if you look too hard into reality, you will become blind! (hypnotized, with no control)", as "fake charisma". "okay that's a bit too much" realizing she's over-reading it all and clearly afraid of starting to lose it too. this might be too much of me analyzing the meaning, and even a boring text, but the problem is that I really like this song and the lyrics and symbolism... so yeah, thanks for reading if u did, and also, really great analysis video! you said everything I wanted to say, genuinely great skills
That's make me understand more about this song meaning, Thanks for explaining!
red it and that’s fucking crazy..
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@@soontoonssmouth shut!!!
i feel like this song could symbolize losing yourself in your life, repeating the same routine over and over again until you go slowly insane. I feel like Miku and Teto could represent workers at an amusement park or which basically have the same routine of operating the same machines over and over again, talking to the customers about the same thing over and over again, saving kids from accidents etc... I feel like in this case Miku basically goes insane from the same repetitive routine while Teto tries to keep her sanity but ultimately failing in the process (i can theorize that the scene where Teto doesn't get hypnotised could actually be her trying to endure and keep the same routine while Miku getting hypnotised could mean her finally having enough), the scene where Miku starts dancing strangely before getting hypnotised and after getting hypnotised might be her "way" of trying to change her life into something she wants for herself which would result in Teto getting "hypnotised" too because she can see that despite the creepy face, Miku is happy and so decided to let go of her old routine too. This song kind of reminds me of factory workers, who have been known to having worsened mental states because of their monotone work routines. Of course, this is only my interpretation of the song and I'm sure there's a lot more explanations!
The enzyme described at quiz time is a very important enzyme that is a pathway for not only regular human DNA, but also cancer cells, especially gliomas (brain tumors) and it allows for them to be sent to (matastocized) other parts of the body. I'm better with regular medicine, biochemistry is extremely difficult to understand for a layman, but I think this song is about losing to brain disease.
As someone with mental illness, it can certainly create a level of hopelessness, but I think this song goes a layer deeper into a sort of helplessness that the average person just can't understand, falling apart at the seams of a disease that most professionals would struggle to address
To me the biggest hint is when the 13 pointed star turns black, looking like a teratoma or similar tumor
This makes a lot of sense and I really like this theory, though I'm a bit confused what you mean by the 13th star, could you timestamp that please?
isn't it just an intermediate form of purine. looking at both Wikipedia and pubchem there no other info about, it's got chosen most likely because it's have really long as name, btw the name in quiztime is wrong. it's Phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide (saicar)
@@shznlei the star at 3:50 vs the one at 1:25 or in the very beggining and stuff!
@@raisofahri5797 I don't think the name is wrong, it looks the 'xamide' is cut off below the screen.
@raisofahri5797 I thought it was the other one on the same gene which ends in -carboxylase but I might be wrong. Honestly this isn't up my alley at all, but while i was trying to figure the song out I found a report on NCBI about the gene those two enzymes share, with several references to other reports linking this gene to having a role in glioma growth and travel. I might be way off base, I just wanna float theories because I love song analysis
i love how it sounds so joyful yet has such a dark meaning
I love you user-xm3gu9yu1l. Will you be capable of carrying my children, you beautiful man.
@@gregtheegg7030 ??????????
@@gregtheegg7030pardon?
this is a beautiful moment
This is a moment beautiful
I find it strange and cool how this song is one of the very few pieces of media to genuinely creep me out with its visuals. I hardly ever feel a sense of uneasiness viewing such mediums and somehow this music video got me
I also collected my thoughts after listening to it probably 10+ times, so here it is.
"The ultimate escape" isn't about hypnosis, it's about running away from the person who holds Miku and Teto and tries to hypnotize them, that's why Teto says next "If even fall into a sweet trap, can be saved". Teto most likely understands that they both, even if resist as much as they can, in the end will anyways be hypnotized. But there's a way to escape this person and place.
"Now can't live sanely in this world anymore, to pretending not to know and give oneself up - optimum solution?" This can be Teto's thoughts. Before this, she says that there's a way to escape person holding them, and this phrase can mean that she thinks, whether she should try to escape openly or pretend that she doesn't know about person's intentions and behave like she falls into hypnosis. Or maybe, since she talks with Miku, this is Teto's way to give her a signal to behave like she also 'doesn't understand' what's going on. If that's true, then later Miku really starts behaving like she doesn't understand anything. But eventually this gets out of her control and she ends up being hypnotized.
Teto asks for help of viewer. We aren't one who hypnotizes them - no point in trying to hypnotize ourselves by video. So, viewer isn't person who holds them, and Teto signals that she needs help as much as she is able to - ASL gesture, SOS signal, "HELP" in quiz, at P also 3 times she does sign that people do when they need help but can't say it out loud.
The only thing here that Teto tries really hard to resist is set up of the video. You see, in quiz, there could be easier ways to choose an object that starts with P. And the chemical choosen, phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide, is a protein coding gene. It's responsible for several diseases, such as Phosphoribosylaminoimidazole Carboxylase Deficiency and Spinocerebellar Ataxia, X-Linked 3. First one is an autosomal recessive disorder associated with multiple congenital anomalies and early neonatal death. It is an inborn error of purine metabolism. Second one is rare form of spinocerebellar degeneration that typically begins in infancy. It is characterized by symptoms such as hypotonia, ataxia, sensorineural deafness, developmental delay, esotropia, and optic atrophy. The disease follows a progressive course and often leads to death during childhood.
So what's the point of showing this to us? I think Teto tried to point that either Miku, she or they both has problems with this gene, leading to deafness and problems with vision.
If it's so, then whole set up means 2 things. First, mesmerizer knew about problems with vision and hearing, and used it to confuse Teto and Miku with lot of bright colors and loud noises - this way, they'll unconsciously focus on part with hypnosis, when place suddenly changes to steady and quiet. Second, mesmerizer could predict Teto's behavior and tried to focus us on center of the video instead of Teto's signals.
I think Miku was hypnotized so quickly because she didn't really know how to behave at the start - most likely she got Teto's signal to pretend be unknowing, but that's it. While Teto had to be in sync with Miku, ask for help and 'look away' from mesmerizer - it's hard, but she must have known more than Miku, so that's why it took 10 days for her.
My conclusion: there wasn't any way for viewer to save them. The only way to stop this torture is to close the video. And even in lyric, sadly, Teto understands that she is constatnly fighting and is already left with nothing (Miku was hypnotized), so it's easier to just give up. That's why at the last part she also starts looking right at 'reality' to get hypnotized too.
The creator, on a community post, the quiz one, patient says invalid.
I think this song is about living forever and them “snapping” is when they reach the point where they can no longer mentally continue
kinda makes sense!
1:24
Miku wears roller blades whilst Teto does not, and we might be matpat levels of insanity with this one but I THINK Miku's roller blades represent how she's easily more taken control of by the mesmerizer whilst Teto took till the end of the video to give up
I think the rollerblade is part of her costume design. I believe Miku is supposed to be dressed as a carhop. They’re essentially diner waitresses with roller blades, which was a popular thing in the 1930s-1950s. People have said that Miku representing a waitress, and Teto representing a bellboy (coincidentally known as bellhop) are dressed as occupation that follows order. It is interesting that Miku is dressed a specific type of waitress instead of a regular waitress tho.
also, teto is wearing sneakers and miku is wearing rollerskates.. theres an article where rollerskates are easy to be hypnotized and sneakers arent.. mesmerized is scary.
i noticed that at the start the shine in teto's eyes were shaped like stars, then changed to oval, then teto lost the shine in her eyes afterwards and her eyes get progressively darker throughout the song
I think the confetti might be used to intentionally blur the video as the characters minds get blurrier, having a ton of confetti on screen on CZcams makes the quality drop drastically
that makes some sense but you can have like 1 quality set and it doesn't change
True
I also realized something, might not be accurate, but notice how the yellow badge things on their chest. Miku has it on the right side, while Teto has it on the left. Probably symbolizing the logical left brain (teto) trying to convince the emotional right brain (miku), sort of like an internal conflict, but instead of succeeding, the left brain also falls for the hypnotising.
Some jp bros in the og video suggested that when miku "transformed" ,she basically Наng Herself because the tongue is sticking out(1 attribute), neck is loose like it doesn't have a muscle hardness (2 attribute), and the "dilated pupils" (3 attribute).
And the amount of confetti is like saying "Congratulations, the game of over. Good job."
fyi those weird letters in 3:10 is mojibake which is a result of a decoding error
I don't why but Teto resisting the hypnosis for so long only to get hypnotized at the end makes me think that she gave up on trying after Miku gave in
MAKES SENSE
1:53 I noticed that in the quiz time, if you use the second letter in each word (for example "a", "r", "e", "h") and use Caesar cipher shift 4 it spells out "evil". Idk if this is intentional or not but I found it really cool
wtf that's like so well hidden holy shit
1:40 according to google a semicolon is a hope for people who have battled depression, anxiety, addiction, and other mental health issues. It is also a symbol for someone who has lost someone to suicide. So maybe Teto is trying to comfort miku bc she already lost someone or battled depression herself? Idk
I haven’t seen anyone else mention this yet but I believe the spinning star in the middle which is labelled with “focus!” In different parts of the video is meant to serve as a “distraction” for the audience to ignore Teto’s signs. This also coincides with the song’s name, ‘mesmeriser’ as its almost trying to hypnotise the audience, and also is a visual component to the line “IF YOU LOOK TOO HARD INTO REALITY- YOU BECOME BLIND” or something like that. It could also potentially be broader symbolism for when being depressed, you can focus in on being happy so much that you miss the greater point, or that you get stuck in the same cycle that ultimately doesn’t help.
At 3:06 Teto was staring directly at the camera. Then to Miku, pretty shocking how much small details was represented in this mv 😭
Edit: in 2:55, as teto dances, she will look at Miku too!! (If her head is turned to the left side of our view)
Miku completely gives up looking into reality and allows herself to be hypnotized into a world where she doesn't have to worry about anything. Teto did not give up so easily, struggling to keep up with reality and begging for help until these screams for help were not answered. She resisted for many days and looked *too much* into reality and broke down because of stress. After Miku succumbed to a happy life hypnotized, Teto eventually followed.
Their outfits are a bellboy and a maid. Back then, the ones in these occupations are slaves or people in debt or normal people (leaning more into the former).
3:09 those characters stand for “Hypnosis”. Which hints that Miku was hypnotized by a unknown person. And you can tell because her eyes were blue and it shown as miku getting hypnotized her eyes turn back.
I think the symbolism for the excessive confetti is that it’s supposed to pretend that everything is normal and miku is happy since confetti is usually to symbolise good events happening idk just a food for thought
3:10 also notice how the confetti never blocks the tridecagrams/optical illusion in the middle, probably meant to distract you
i think the hypnosis is a metaphor for suicide, i saw a comment saying that when miku is in hypnosis she looks dead, and another talking about their shoes
mikus shoes are roller skates that are easy to slip in, which is why she gives up and commits first
while tetos shoes are boots, more resistant to falling, which is why she resists
the confetti represents them trying to sugarcoat their depression and convince themselves it’s nothing, which is why in the hypnosis part, teto still has confetti trying to convince herself she’s not depressed
while miku has none because she’s already given up
and in the part where miku goes batshit insane is miku falling from a high place, as seen by her joints being irregular and her being visibly pale, the irregular confetti is teto sugarcoating mikus death
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@@kcd715 another theory i have is that miku and teto are self conscious and the mesmerizer music video is supposed to hypnotize the viewer, but the [ULTIMATE SOLUTION] teto was talking about in the start is that they get hypnotized instead to save us
teto signs for help to make the viewer think the video is scary and click off, but during the part before miku transforms, teto knows that her attempts and scaring viewers off are futile, so she looks at miku to convince her to give in to the hypnosis and act like a possessed demon so viewers click off
during the last scene, teto gives in to hypnosis, knowing that she has seconds left till the video restarts
as a summary, teto and miku know they are in a youtube music video, teto doesn’t want us to be hypnotized so she and miku do it instead
teto tries to make us click off by signing for help, to make viewers think it’s scary, when it doesn’t work,she tells miku to stop resisting, miku gives into hypnosis and tries to scare us away. at the last seconds of the video, teto gives into the hypnosis as scarring off the viewer doesn’t work
The last prompt of the quiz is phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide (SAICAR), which is an intermediate for purines (e.g. Nucleobases, nucleosides, ATP). Phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase (or SAICAR synthase) is found in all domains of life and vital for energy metabolism (Catalyzes ATP -> ADP and vise versa, and participates in purine metabolism) and DNA synthesis.
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-someone that has a fear of long words(I forgot what was the phobia called)
@@CWINN4MOROLL_KIT1736 hyppopotomonstrosesquipedalophobia, i believe
Ironic, as the name of the phobia is long m
@@olegmoki ok thanks
i thought it was the Pyorgean Thoerum (i dont know if i spelt it right) a squared plus b squared equals c squared
2:06 you can clearly see miku's pupils being filled with a dark shade which can mostly likely represent the progress of their hypnotization, teto's is slow meaning the hypnotization for her took longer until hers eventually turned black. 2:54 when miku speeds up her dance, her fingers don't clasp in one part which can mean that she's being controlled like a puppet and most puppets don't have the option to clasp their hands. teto is aware that's she's hypnotized before her moves became lousy. this took kinda long to type so i appreciate if you read it. please take this with a grain of salt!
fun little fact
during quiz time the fourth letters of the last 3 words also spells sos
woahhh
there’s a theory that miku was actually hanged in the last verse!! her outfit consists of a black choker, which doesn’t really suit the rest of her clothes. her neck’s also broken in the last verse. we can see her pupils are dilated, her skin is more pale and her tongue sticking out, all of which are known to happen to dead bodies
Thats very dark
Her neck is also noticeably skinnier as well
This thumbnail of the video also spells out SOS with the star
Huh
@@Angelectric_609their arms,
Teto the whole time: HEELLLLLPP😢😢😭😭😢😢😢😱😱😱HELLLPPPPPP????!?!?!💀💀💀💀😭😭😭😭
haha! funny comment
Why am I hearing a voice from this comment 😭
The only few things I managed to spot was Tetos “help” signal, teto resisting hypnosis, Miku losing her mind, and teto getting hypnotised at the very end 😭😭😭
at 3:09 the kanji says "催眠" which means hypnosis
The excessive confetti can be a symbolism for covering all the bad things up with colorful and cheery things, like putting a bunch of frosting and sprinkles on an already burnt cake.
basically escapism represented by miku in the form of a blue pill, while the red pill is facing reality being teto
@@cansytgames6957 Yep!
my personal opinion is that teto doesnt "get hypnotized" in the end, but is forced to give in (pretend to be) because its an never ending cycle, she doesnt even try anymore
In the word quiz part every 4th letter spells out SOS
woaahhh good eye man
Long Theory:
I bet on my intrepretation that this must be the living aspect of depression.
Talking about the dialogues, the two are differed. Meaning, two different mental states.
One, drowning in guilt, living in deception, negative-minded, and insane, in the aspect of depression. (Miku)
And the other, being awareful, keeping itself sane (by staying optimistic), and desperate on finding help (like the signs for help in the video), in the aspect of depression. (Teto)
Miku falling into hypnosis sounds like someone falls into psychological addiction feeling of despair (maybe even connects to the long word enzyme term), bet this is their optimum solution.
Miku's drowning into despair like it embraces its own depressive state and goes insane because it thinks that there's no one to help, just deceptive and sugarcoated, or even getting along with the song that seems no one's getting distracted. It seems she proudly says the kind of those pessimistic words.
Meanwhile, Teto's resisting upon the fact that Miku's going too much of dumping, symbolizing awareness to itself. Also the shown signs for help, that weren't supposed to be perfected in the music video symbolizes that she knows and its not okay to feel like this. In regards to it, a desperation for help and feeling of a lil bit hopefulnees comes into order.
The fact that in conclusion that doesn't make sense because Miku goes insane, meaning in imperfection of the supposed output, means that's the point of the whole concept. Going into hypnosis, just like drowning in despair and towards to insanity.
Ok first, the stumble up of Teto into Miku's madness. Every second of their interaction, the feeling of awareness that comes from Teto is uneased with how Miku feels. Also with the introduction of Teto, the background turns into Yellow along with Miku. But alone with Miku, just a blue patterned background.
Background Analysis:
The backgrounds alone, Yellow means the optimism drive away from insanity, and Blue means pessimism.
At the quiz snippet, it has a blue background, which overdrives Teto into signing for help.
The starry night background refers to doubt and questioning about it's existence.
And the blue sky, idk about it. But it refers to declaration on why they have the right to be on that state. Its like those angel and devil on both of your shoulder. Making your own choice. The fact that them being separated meaning they're completely different mental states.
Also the shape that needs attention in the center probably symbolizes complexity of balancing yourself, because these states are already kind of complexed.
Another theory about the shape: Someone said that the shape represents immortality meaning this will mostly linger in your mind, like confusion perhaps, or even worse.
The exaggeration of confettis and clouds are self-explanatory.
Back into the main point:
Teto made a sign during the chorus that resembles a tripping hazard sign, "thrice". Doing it instead of a longing stance like Miku did. Resembling the benefit of helping and made for attention awareness. Seeing her doing it thrice meaning of very desperation for help.
Teto standing there uneased (i dont have any other terms for uneased lol) while time passes by meaning Teto has struck on listening these pessimistic notes in her head for *days* and trying to resist on going insane makes her into this state of doubt and confusion. At the green screen moment, Teto is in shocking state. And Miku looks fine at all, going well in the depressive concept.
The feeling of Teto reading the last lines with Miku has sort of uneasiness to it. Yes obviously, Teto has to go along with the lines but look at it from her physical self, Teto looks uncomfortable while Miku is getting insanely hypnotized and proudly smiles.
Sounds like both of them say "OKAY THAT'S A BIT TOO MUCH" but I bet it's only Teto who says it because an insane person couldn't *stop themselves* into agony just like Miku didn't end with a stance with Teto after their last line.
But at the last shot, Teto becomes hypnotized or sinks along with Miku. The background between those two are meant for them to be separated but since the confettis trespassed borders, and the over exaggeration of shapes. This symbolizes there is hopelessness to keeping yourself optimistic and accepting the deal of making yourself better through hypnotism, or worse.
(EDIT)
About Teto getting hypnotized at the end, I guess Teto wasn't hypnotized at all. In fact, Teto's getting along in being a deceptive role to keep itself sane. Teto shut her eyes to avoid the linger of being hypnotized.
This might be the fact of getting through much negativity and deceits to accept the problem, but keeping itself not going deeper, by having a positive mindset inside.
Like the cliche "Everything's going to be okay..."
Also, at the last chorus, it seems like Miku's played by a puppeteer master. It's joints are weirdly in stance. This might also symbolize the acceptance and it should be controlled by the negativity around it.
Like... They're right, I should just do the unspeakable. Something like that.
Unlike Teto who's strength is still deep inside.
(Back to the point)
My conclusion is that... Trying to be optimistic to yourself while living with the negative tendencies and conditions of our surroundings can be struggling... Especially if you're, depressed.
Depressive thoughts aren't mundane nor similar every day, it depends based on how they're affected. Sometimes they gain affection and a feeling of hope that hope they could get this affection the same way tomorrow. Sometimes, someone pointing out you're irresponsibilities can lower your self esteem and kept it to yourself as your deserved burden thinking won't ever do it again but still on procrastinating and still guilt tripping into your irresponsibilities, something like that. Or even bored out because their life is a no tool, or simply useless.
So yeah... I'm confused on what I'm writing about but if it understood you, I appreciate it.
You took the words out of my mouth! This is exactly what i thought about the song^_^ this is well explained!
@@Tofu_Qi Thanks, just stumbled up to this song hours ago and felt like making an analysis. Nonetheless, the song's catchy asf.
I need this copied and pasted for notes im on mobile rn but omg ty
I noticed that after Teto stares at Miku when she goes insane, for a split second she speeds back up and looks at the camera like she accepted it. Also, the confetti NEVER goes in front of the spiral. Not once
0:17 , 1:23, 1:52 , 2:55 normal confetti!! ^^
3:09 lots of confetti..!!!
3:49 TOO MUCH CONFETTI!!!!!!!
Someone point out that in the quiz session teto isn't looking at us like she avoiding eye contact to someone that clearly not us
4th letter 1:57
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phoSphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarbo
Another interesting part of the hypnosis aspect of the video is the star in the middle of the screen and how in some parts it says to "focus" on it. It's the trigger that activates Miku's state at the end, notice how before she loses control the star counts down from 3 and rapidly changes colours before cutting to the black and white animation from the very beginning before being covered by the multicoloured stars. It could mean that the confetti at the start and the end are not just confetti but another way to program the hypnosis, at the end Teto was resisting so they overwhelmed her with confetti until she broke
the shear amount of details that is added into this MV is so admirable, it's one thing to learn these but to animate them as small things which people can miss too 😭😭
One thing I dont see being discussed is how Miku and Teto are framed as if they were in a tiktok, and all the lyrics of they song could be tied to being on the internet to forget about everything that is happening in the world rn... Also Teto's outfit reminds me of McDonald's but I dont know if that has anything to do with what I just said
yeah like internet escapism!
also, unrelated but since you mentioned the outfits, someone on twitter said that mikus outfit stands out more so ur drawn to look at her instead of tetos bore boring outfit, maybe so you don’t see her signs for help?
@@sillymako3 Teto's outfit certainly is simpler than Miku's, but her red outfit has more visual weight than Miku's blue outfit, so I'm not so sure about that one. However, Miku's prettier outfit could also be a way to direct your focus on her.
the style is so simplistic and cute and they still unnerve me with mikus tongue out face. i dont get disturbed that easily theyre good
This song is such a brutal and insidious song, and the video hits it perfect as it's meant to be a trap. Escapism into a colorful yet shallow world to leave your struggles behind and lying to yourself and losing yourself in it until you're a husk.
Another thing you missed.
On the "QUIZ TIME!" part, the 4th letter of every answer spells "SOS" except hat because it has 3 letters.
and the dna on the phospharibosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide represents that miku is not a human anymore(?)
also phos... I aint repeating that is a disease
Still heavily under the belief that this song is an allegory for crushing job environments cause of how miku feels like the "overachieving overtimer"
Those burn out and go mad EASILY in a job environment
ESPECIALLY since the producer is japanese, and japan has it the worst in these situations
yeah especially looking at the uniform that miku Wear is maid uniform and teto is waiters uniform.
Heard theories that this was about how eviscerating golden week was
Probably makes sense cause of the uniforms
2:57 you forgot that teto was trying to keep an eye on miku while she’s dancing
3:16 miku’s arms flailing in an inhumane way, and her neck breaking, exposed tongue, signaling someone who had committed using a noose
3:17 teto dancing a lot faster (which meaning her being nervous)
I watched multiple mesmerizer analysis.
Miku and Teto's pupils change everyline. If you see, Miku is using roller skates, which is easy to trip. Like how easy she's to fall on the "hypnosis"
Teto's using normal shoes. Meaning she's more "immune" than Miku to hold the "hypnosis"
yes, and at 3:06 the person that hypnotized miku also tried to technically hypnotize us, telling us the focus in the middle, and also distracts us from miku getting hypnotized
Teto said 1:07 the optimum solution is to pretend to not know and give up, I think at the end teto gave up resisting or forced herself to get hypnotized because she realized to be hypnotized and give up/not know anything is the best way she can be saved from the pain after she saw hypnotized miku or something
Also the fact teto gulped before forcing herself to get hypnotized(maybe nervous) which kinda adds more sense to theory idk
Ive mentioned this on the original video but right as the music begins to pick up speed again (around here 2:54) you can notice miku's dancing changes to match how she dances when she breaks
I may be late to this analysis bit but i noticed miku's smile changed from a wide D to just :) after being hypnotized
I noticed something, too. On the part where Teto was doing sign language for help, miku was doing sign language for please. Making c
"help please".
What's also cool is that at no point in the song do the confetti leave Miku's and Teto's windows, only when Miku finally snaps do they start falling in the foreground. At that point Miku completely broke, Teto is slowly losing her mind seeing her friend become a full on puppet and now they finally started focusing on fully hypnotising us, right at the catchiest part of the song which people usually keep rewinding over and over
does anyone else see the outfit resemblances to wendy’s and mac donald’s?
teto being mac donald’s miku being wendy’s?
not sure if this is related to the message of the video but wanted to point it out
Interesting...
The colours do work, in general they seem to be 50s American workers (Miku is one of those roller skater waitresses)
great work but you missed a couple things! teto putting her hand over her mouth is especially a good catch.
1. teto and miku start the song dancing in sync but they are desynced after they are hypnotized
2. tetos white pupils start off big but gradually get smaller until her eyes turn black like mikus by the end.
3. arrows pointing to the star symbol at the center say "focus" right before the chorus, and turns into black and white swirls near the end, the viewer is also intended to be 'hypnotized' by the same or similar force as to what happened to miku.
4. this is more speculative, but tetos and mikus outfits seem to be uniforms of some kind, they dont only seem to be victims of hypnotism, but their "job" seems to be selling this hypnotism to you, the viewer. the english text bubbles would also seem to suggest this.
during the quiz part, theres also an SOS in there, each fourth (or third i cant remember) letter, like this
H
E - *S*
L - *O*
P - *S*
i love the theming of the mv, the little details and all. i find that apart from the main (obvious) theming of helplessness and hypnotization/manipulation the song to me reads as a metaphor for unhealthy coping mechanisms and dissociation. (and/or self harm)
throughout the song miku exclaims of how unbearable her life is, and teto seems to suggest a "solution" despite how it's inadvertently ruining her own life too (she seems aware of this, calling for "help" several times throughout the mv but nevertheless unable to cut herself off from her unhealthy habits)
as the song progresses, comes the "hypnosis" scene, i view this as a 'contemplation' of sorts. whether these habits are worth the harm it causes the user, for the brief escapism it gives them. miku gives in eventually, but teto resists for as long as she can. at the end of the segment, shows a greenscreen shot, i believe this to be akin to miku and teto facing their "reality" for a moment, miku is already completely devoid of emotion while teto is shocked and in worry.
i read a comment on the original upload from a Japanese commentor, saying that its possible miku's "hypnosis" is her comitting suicide via hanging (her eyes are blackened, skin is paler, limbs are completely limp and her tongue is sticking out as if she was choked to death +the black collar on her costume). adding onto this from my third paragraph, i think miku was contemplating suicide as a final end to her life problems, perhaps the dissociative coping mechanisms weren't enough to drown out the noise of reality. ("if you stare at reality for too long, you'll eventually go blind" (a telltale sign of a corpse is dark non reflective eyes)) another addendum to add to this, right before miku "loses herself" she seems nonchalantly happy and regains the stars in her eyes for a brief moment, whilst teto was concerned and stressed. i notice that a common sign of somebody planning to commit is that they'll suddenly become uncharacteristically joyful for the final time periods before they finally decide to do it.
but thats just my thoughts :P id love to see more theories on this mv!!!! I really think theres some hidden symbolism with the hypnosis kidnapping thing
Not gonna lie, I love reading this take that you have on the MV because I too believe that it is about escapism from reality through hypnosis as a 'coping mechanism'.
I just love Mesmerizer MV so much because it generates theories like this that I can enjoy reading during my free time, so have a like 😁.
This makes way too much sense
The suicide thing could also be why the background gets so dark in the scene before miku does all that, and teto watches her and seems horrified. The darkening of the background could be the intention becoming more obvious to teto, but miku still acting happy makes her worried so she tries to watch her to make sure she doesn't do anything, but is horrified when miku actually does it because she was so happy leading up to it. Or the darkness could be mikus mental state, and her continuing to be happy is either a reassuring gesture to teto that she's fine despite teto seeing the obvious signs of something being wrong, or is her accepting that she's going to do it, being happy that it'll all be over
Edit: And to add to it, the way teto is looking away before the full hypnosis thing, and then gives a very quick slight glance to miku right before, like 'she's happy, I can look away' and then looking back to check on her, just to see her hypnotized/dead(in this theory) I notice teto stares at her in her dance part while the screen darkens, like she knows something is deeply wrong and is scared for miku despite her smiling and acting happy
the yellow “tridecagram” in the beginning(specifically when miku and teto start dancing) actually fits perfectly with the pause button
for a spilt second at 3:08 it flashes the Japanese characters for hypnosis, 催眠 (saimin) which is cool
A few minutes ago I read a somewhat curious comment that said that perhaps Miku was no longer even alive in the last part because his tongue was sticking out and his eyes were dilated. Let's just remember that when a person hangs himself, those two are ""characteristics. main"" also taking into account that of the two it is the only one that had something like a necklace, this theory is not so out of place
(I'm using Google Translate, sorry if I wrote something wrong)
That's what I was thinking! Her tilted head and slack jaw makes her seem very unconscious, matched with the fact her body contorts weirdly and out of time with teto. Also, when she is first hypnotized, her neck snaps
@@wellokthen3834 yes! Also before entering this phase (please correct me if I'm wrong) his hands or arms were already a little out of place, like broken, something like that.
oh no...
@@monicareyes2339 yeah yeah definitely her arms definitely looked very broken in a sense
the fact that she's pale and her blush is more purple ish
I don't if anyone noticed but their pupils slowly becomes smaller and in the end it disappears completely. At the start, it was stars then at the end, it disappears. At the end, Teto's eyes turn pure black like Miku's which means she probably accepted her fate?
3:08 if anyone has noticed, the background is different as it is even faster than before after miku reveals her hypnosis.
i have a theory that this might represent teto's head "spinning around" or being in stress trying to find out what happened to miku.
i see this as a sign of stress from teto as she's obviously tired of dancing for the public, figuring out why miku is like that and trying to prevent the hypnosis from getting into her head, ALL at the same time.
when teto is done dancing the background changes again to a more calm and less chaotic one after they stop dancing, probably meaning that teto is more relieved and has more time to think to figure out whats going on, however i suppose that she was too tired to be able to do that (or had very little time) as she fell into the hypnosis at the end.
her being hypnosed at the end may be because the "hypnosis coin" is imnplied to still be going side to side infront of them, probably behind our screen since we aren't able to see it... or its just that the tridecagram in the middle represents the coin.
i also believe that the confetti represents the hypnosis hitting on teto, the more means that shes getting weaker and slowly letting the hypnosis control her. at the start teto is fine, miku hypnosis part she's shocked and seems to look tired, and at the end she just... looks even worse i don't know how to explain it
1:52 something that alot of people didint notice is that in this part, not only the first word of each letter spells help, but the FOURTH word of each letter (except hat) spells SOS.
i believe also that in this part every word has a meaning, but the only i can think of is eraser representing brain washing, or "erasing your memories" like what probably happened to miku. (im saying "probably" because it isnt confirmed if miku has actually lost all her memory from the hypnosis, she might only be controlled but her memories are all good.)
also ill edit this comment if i find anything else or think of more theories
1:11 If you pause at the right time, Miku does the Puppet pose as her moves change slightly.
Also for the ending, Teto does look like she got hypnotized too but it’s a 50/50 chance. For me, Teto takes a deep breath before her eyes turned black and she still wasn’t looking at the screen like Miku was. Teto may have a faking it the whole time to avoid being hurt by whatever person hypnotized Miku
I can’t see the puppet pose 💔
did you use the wrong timestamp or I'm just blind
When teto is signing help Miku is doing the average “please” motion with her hands making “help please” or “please help”
0:37 teto’s capped sentences in a single sentence: “THE ULTIMATE ESCAPE CAN BE SAVED” maybe referencing how if you do get hypnotized you can be saved