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"Liking things ironically is coward shit" real as hell bro
To me liking things ironically is "I'm not laughting with you, I'm laughting at you"
I don't know how to explain, there's like two levels of engagement when it comes to media, one is superficial (ironic) and the other is profound (unironic)
So true.
"Liking things ironically" is just a way of saying "This is my guilty pleasure". If you'd feel guilty about it you wouldn't be sharing it, lol. Statements void of actual meaning. If you fuck with it, you fuck with it. @@Sorrelhas
I just don’t watch garbage, easy.
Most american media pretends to be all ironic when it really just an excuse to hide dogshit writting. Pseuds and hacks love the irony deflection because if you are ironic you are suddenly never wrong and people critiquing you just don't get your wacky meta irony
Yeah!!!
when you are in your own lane there is no traffic
This comment goes hard as nails
love finding CZcamsrs with literally such well made content it's leagues above everything else
Whoever you are... thanks. I was feeling really bad but your comment made me understand a lot of things about my life. Thank you...
@@danielajimenez5432 wow i am glad i helped hope you get better ❤️
Bespoke & Based.
one of the best things about no-budget creativity is that it doesn't need to make money. you can be self-indulgent and completely earnest because you don't actually need an audience.
you make different content when you're making it for your own consumption, and completely divorced from profit motive
yes yes
I love your definition of consuming media as "smoking it", its weird but it emphasizes the nature of experiencing rather than just witnessing
i came here to say this as well!!! its so compelling lol
i think thorhighheels does that too haha
Hazel and Tim Rogers say it too. Basically all the cool people xD
this was hands down my least favorite part and i found it super unnatural and massively irritating each and every time?? “stop trying to make Smoke happen”
@@leisuredd Eh, unnatural and off the beaten path is sort of the brand of this content though, no?
I love finding people who have climbed the mountain of cringe and have found residence in the valley of cool
Yes
to be fair the mountain of cringe and the valley of cool aren’t all that different
@@gintygaz493in fact, some might say they’re part of the same luscious landscape
Niche, obscure, weird art will always have my heart. There’s something to concise and human in its sheer spontaneity.
You mean stuff like Hylics, Zeno Clash (and Clash: Artifacts of Chaos) or any game by Amanita Design?
YES! EXACTLY!
Yeah because it doesn't have to appeal to a wide range of people, most of the time its self indulgent and someone just creating because they wanna make something and not because of anything else, it's more real, experimental, groundbreaking and interesting, but that doesn't mean it can't be mainstream, most of the most popular media of today started out as underground obscure stuff nobody really cared about, until it found a wider audience, so the lesson to learn is really to just create stuff, you never know what will impact a plethora of people
For like 9 years I have been captivated by the Sluggish Morss games, it just randomly pops into my head when I encounters aspects of post-modernism and extinction in my day to day
fucking love when i put a video on for background noise and just get the most awe-inspiring dose of realness injected directly into my frontal lobe.
Found my new Chanel to binge 🙈 love the CZcams gamble
@@bazgarcia4378 sameeee
I say this all the time: I don't want something to be made for the sake of being good. I want it to be made for the sake of being *itself.* Like, if it *sacrifices* being "good" for the sake of embodying its own spirit more closely, I think that's objectively a better thing for that art, because I think every piece of art deserves to be itself unapologetically. And I think they are always better for that.
That's what's striking to me about art like this. Right? Because if art is against the grain intrinsically--if it is a Thing Made that would *always* look ugly to popular sensibility--then you KNOW that it made that decision specifically for its own sake, you KNOW they cared more about the thing than how well it would do, or how good it would be, or how much anyone but them would like it. You KNOW it is itself. Because it's nothing BUT itself. It sacrificed nothing of itself and everything of the other for the sake of self-fulfillment.
i do agree with this but i think phrasing this as an artwork sacrificing being "good" for being itself does reinforce the idea of whats canon and whats conventional as the standard or whats "objectively" good. the thing with art that is "bad" or has certain "bad" aspects to it is that those qualities not only make the artwork what it is and the purest form of itself, but that they can also be innately *good* qualities of it. you really need context to be able to deeply understand an artwork and that context is what also shows that something that might make another work worse can also deeply enhance another work under the right context. for example, out of tune ""bad"" playing or singing isnt actually necessarily bad. sure if you put those things into a mainstream pop song it wouldnt make sense and it would make it worse because it goes against the actual vision and established aesthetics of it (since generally mainstream pop tries to sound very clean, conventional and professional), but if you put these things into some lo-fi, indie and less conventional song those things not only make sense in the context but they also enhance the work by adding the exact sort of rawness and atmosphere its striving for. these qualities become *genuinely* good while also letting the work be a purer form of itself. idk if this makes sense or if i might have misunderstood the comment my brain is kinda scrambled but i wanted to add onto the conversation 😵💫
@@nugget3167 totally agreed on all counts
i realised something similar after listening to a bunch of covers of songs, that the technicality of it isn't really relevent and more the pure real emotion is what's important. I find i actually enjoy some covers of pop songs for example whereas normally it'd probably sound awful to me.
THIS MADE ME CRY CAUSE SOMETIMES WHEN IM MAKING MUSIC ILL DELIBERATLY MAKE IT UNCOMFORTABLE TO GIVE IT MORE IMPACT LIKE TENSION BUIKDING IN WAYS YOU NORMALLY WOILDNT I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!
@@AlfonzTheGratefulI do the same thing and just wanted to say that it was so cool to see your comment and know that there's someone else out there who does it too. 🙂
the way u use language is so insane it makes me feel some kinda way its actually crazy and i mean this in the best way possible
the way u think is also prty refreshing
It itches the same part of my brain that the lingo in a movie like hackers (1995) but way more sincere!
I actually don't like but I like it idk it's charming??
I dont like but appreciate them being unapoligetically yourself. And video itself is revolutionarily good. Like i gotta watch this again and take notes.
It took me a little to process how she was talking as normal. After that man she stored great words and use them with excellence, she created a vocabullary to call her own, like the way profanity and sophisticated words mix, never seen someone like that neither in my native language or english.
One of my favorite examples of mixed media/art styles being used really well in art is the anime Madoka Magica. The dramatic shift in artistic style when the characters enter a witch's labyrinth works on several levels, imo. The labyrinths impart a surreal feeling on the audience, making it clear that the girls are in danger. At the same time, dropping into the universe and putting myself into the shoes of an inhabitant of this world increased the fear I experienced. If we take the usual art style as how this world normally looks, the idea of walking into the labyrinth stops being just weird and surreal. It is literally like nothing you have ever seen in reality before. Nothing in your waking life has EVER looked like the geometry and entities that exist within this witch's world. The implications of just a simple change in art style in the show become horrifically Lovecraftian.
You should check out the rest of what Shaft was working on in that era. Pani Poni Dash, Zetsubou Sensei, and Hidamari sketch (Season 1 at least) crank the dial up tenfold. Also Hidamari was made by the character designer for Madoka
@@patricklewis9787 Oh, rad! I'll definitely look into those, thanks!
Another pmmm fan!! I luv madoka magica its prob my favorite anime ever :]
Man, i love this channel, few minutes in and this feeling of knowing there is actually someone who understands and likes media the way i like them is very liberating, fascinating and calming at the same time. Thank you
Lately I’ve really been embracing how weird I am, how weird my interests are, how niche my fixations are, and it’s so freeing. I love anything weird, abnormal, absurd, anything that makes me question it.
Love to see it; Embracing the oneness of your self irrespective of those looking out-in feels as if your constricted breath was unbuckled into freedom. Our experiences are the defining variables that dictate our logic. Take the reins to dictate those variables and the degree to which they effect you for yourself. bruh soz im high
Everyone is either embracing their cringe, or lying to themselves
i thought, I was a freak, nice to know other people have interest in the Weird and Uncanny
Do you have a discord? I'd love to make some friends who are into the weird shit lol
@@dyingwaffle95 I do, yeah. :) Just not very active on it, but feel free to send me your username and I'll add you! (If you're above 18, lol, I'm 22)
To quote good bad flicks “its better to make a cheap box office bomb sometimes then to make a expensive disaster” i don’t know if I am miss quoting or if I have miss remembered
in other news: the water is wet
I highly appreciate when creators have a list of the media they used for the background footage in their videos. Even more so, I wasn't expecting you to painstakingly write down at which specific time they appear, especially for something of this length. But I'm happy you did.
As someone who wants to get more into studying the creative potential of video games, this is legit a solid bibliography to dive into. Huge respect to you for being 'self indulgent' enough to share with us this ocean of imagination and joy!
Couple of things:
1) Thank you SO MUCH for listing the media and music used in this vid. I know its probably because you always get asked, but its appreciated all the same.
2) Since you mentioned PiroPito, were you aware they're developing a full-on game rn?
3) Have you ever heard of the animated movie We Are The Strange? I think it's right up your alley if you haven't.
1) np, ye i get asked a lot for that so i figured i'd cut the middleman right away lmaO
2) ye ! i didn't mention it in the vid but i've been following its development pretty closely
3) yep, i have it saved on a storage hard-drive, haven't watched it yet but i'm aware of it ; w ;
@@maraganger Awesome! WATS is also freely available on CZcams from the creator's channel if you ever just wanna throw it on over dinner or smth.
I love your raw enjoyment for these strange ass media pieces, I subscribed originally from Eurothug4000's suggestion and after watching your videos from Planet Laika, to Flowers, Sun, and Rain, and even my favorite game Hylics 1&2 I immediately vibed hard on that whack shit you're smoking. Niche shit that people find "surreal" or "weird" usually gets covered as a "wtf did I just watch???" kind of video, but you talking about the love and enjoyment you get from them really makes me happy because it's not just talking about how weird it is, but how super fucking cool the weird shit is.
Aside from Hylics, perhaps the Zeno Clash game may be of interest? They're a series of brawlers (1, 2 and the recent prequel Clash: Artifacts of Chaos) set in an absurd prehistoric monster world called Zenozoik, with rarely a pure human in sight.
It's full of sapient freaks and chimeras that can have their inspirations from medieval monster woodcuts and prehistoric animals, or looking like they could have been Jim Henson studio puppets befitting for The Dark Crystal. And within the world is a sub-group of people who have willingly left all sanity behind and do their goobery in the forest.
It's not because of some Eldritch god or forbidden truth that they went mad, they just decided that there is one singular thing in life that they wanted to do and that nothing else matters, not even pain as a deterrent.
Can range from deciding you want to be invisible, so you tear out the eyes of anything that can see you, to only walking forward in a straight line and dying from starvation and exhaustion because at some point there's a tree in the way.
Beautifully absurd title.
im a little tipsy right now so i'm sorry if this is weird but i am so in love with this video; it feels so tailor-made to my own artistic interests that i kinda wanna cry
It's great when someone else understands the feelings you get when you understand certain specific art styles. It's not too common to find other people who enjoy or understand this, so getting emotional is understandable.
There’s this certain type of inspiration I feel when I see unconventional art flourish. Just the reality that people can share such personal, intimate parts of their reality and I can see and appreciate it from hundreds of miles away fills me with hope. Despite how hard life is and difficult communication can be, we all can make something beautiful from our unique hearts.
The end of this video hit me like a truck and took me in a journey where it dropped me off at a deserted gas station in the middle of nowhere and It filled me with the sudden urge to go over my stories and tell them how I wanted to from the beginning instead of worrying about if I’m following the proper story structure or caring if my ideas may come on to strong, so thank you.
I'm happy I found someone like me! I was a DA kid, rpg maker kid and now adult. I was a Vocaloid kid and now adult. There is so much variety in Vocaloid. Many dark topics and horror just for the sake of horror. I was a Tim Burton kid. Huge on crashbox, laika, rpg maker games. I was recommended a tiktok about a game, endacopia, and it got me so giddy. I found a channel, virtual carbon, and they covered Discover My Body. It's fascinating. Now, i love the horror projects and just webseries coming out. Welcome Home, Walten Files, Mandela Catalog. Shipwrecked 64 was incredible. I need to get back into the games I love. Happy I am getting a lot of recommendations too! Stuff to research and experience.
Really love this whole compilation of strange media. It isn't super obscure but as far as claymation goes 2 pieces of media are sealed into my brain: Gumby, and Wallace & Gromit. Something about that just felt so unique as a child.
I like how even your dialect vibes with your mixed-media artistic and philosophical sensibilities. Chef's kiss. I like this thing you got going on.
looking at "tomorrow's my birthday" hit me in the soul. me and my sisters made a lot of those moviemaker videos where we copy/pasted irl photos and drew over them in MS paint. takes me back!!
i remember when i showed a bunch of my friends kota hoshino's music and how it changed me and is one of the most beautiful music ive heard and they all looked at me so weird like i was suddenly creepy to them. i am so happy to know there are more people with the same taste as i have.
Once I was showing a friend some things I like that I'd say are super tame ( popee the performer, lemon demon, happy fun Vocaloid songs, Tomodachi life ect.) and she randomly said "you know your kinda creepy sometimes".. like oh! Lovely!
Been in a real creative slump lately, but this left me feeling hella inspired. Thank you!
absolutely one of the best videos on this platform.
Thanks for the dozens of recomendations, uncanny vallley and weird art is what made me pursue an artistic carreer, and this video made me fall in love with weird aethetics all over again.
Fantastic video. As someone else who is into claymation, stopmotion, weird games, horror, tokusatsu, and grew up with more or less unrestricted internet access around the same time period you did, a lot of this resonated with me. Lain, Anno, Lynch, Hausu, Noroi, Suda51, Possibly in Michigan, Marble Hornets, Godzilla NES creepypasta, Tetsuo the Iron Man, Ben Drowned, Kamen Rider ZO, Aphex Twin, Daft Punk music videos, yeah a lot of this hits home for me. Also found a lot of recommendations from this so thank you for being so passionate about what you like and why you like it. Also, totally appreciate the praise of Angela Anaconda because I liked that show when I was a kid and thought it looked cool and hate how the discourse around it online is almost entirely "IT LOOKS WEIRD DUHHHHHH"
I'm so so impressed by the ridiculous volume of weird shit I've never heard of that's on every frame of this video. Thank you for making this.
This video genuinely means so much to me, and i haven't even finished it. As a kid who's favorite thing ever is to create and recently have been worried about college and pursuing a career in art, this really made me think about what i want to do. Absolutely amazing
this video rips. you keep dropping lines ive just actually said before to my friends, or to myself while making things i care about. you're awesome
love this! i love Mixed Media, experimental art. creating art of my own, i've always thought of it in a collagecore kind of way no matter what medium. my love for textures, layers, and contrast transcends medium and is what i like about all arts.
Having spent a lot of high school getting increasingly curious about the weird corners of anime and digging through the bottom of MyAnimeList charts to find interesting stuff, I loved hearing someone gush about about Keita Kurosaka, Takena, Popee the Performer, Utsu Musume Sayuri, Bessatsu Olympia Kyklos, the Re:Cutie Honey live action film, and all the neat idiosyncracies that left me so wonderstruck with them when I watched them. You also showed me a lot of cool art here that I'd like to check out too.
loved this video, but i subscribed specifically because you posted a link to the media list. thank you i lov you
aw ty ty, gonna go back and do that for my older vids as well since folks seemed to like that i included it for this vid
Thank you for this! What a lovely collection of weird ass shit. I grew up around professional artists and have trouble shaking the perfectionism that comes with the traditional "one way to be good at art" mindset. You're so right about what an impact the weird stuff makes. I kept returning to watch Jack Stauber's Opal six times a day for a few weeks after I first smoked it. That sticks in my head way more than it would if it were a traditional disney animation type storybook thing. Love that weird shit.
THANK U FOR DEFENDING ANGELA ANACONDA
There is so much cool looking stuff in this video. I'm gonna have to come back to this VERY often to get more recs and weird things to watch or play
gosh, this vid is only a third of the way through but it captures that goddamn energy that is exclusive to growing up in the digital 1900s!! definitely fuck with this vibe
*especially* going over the lore of the video game glitches. Like, that empty feeling just reached out and grabbed me by the shoulders and firmly held me. A feeling of unease that just permeated thinking about my favorite games... Like, Ben Drowned always creeped me the fuck out and even though I knew at the time it was gameshark fuckery that lingering "....but what if?" just dwelled on my shoulders- it was only intensified by other creepypasta stories too. I remember genuinely being worried that thinking about them would "draw their attention," heh.
ahhh... someone who gets it! even with "mainstream" games, they're still partially obscure because of how you see it. i was really happy to see NARRENSCHAFFE even for a second... i love rpgmaker and all sorts of games... they all make me happy and understand my brain! thank you for smoking with me, mara!
i'm not really that far into this video but man thank you so much for making this. i've been at an impasse of sorts when it comes to my own artmaking and this just. makes me feel so much better haha. i love this and this video just feels so liberating, if that makes sense
This video feels so creatively rejuvenating like I can't stand it.
I have to check out that stuff, smonk it even
I found this video at the perfect time. I’ve been struggling with a little success with my art financially and it’s hard not to try and appease this new audience I have when making new work. This is the inspiration and pep talk I needed to let my art grow in its own weird way with no boundaries to hold me back.
The Hidamari Sketch (especially the first season before the show had a real budget) is one show that really stands out artistically for using a style that incorporates a lot of real photos as well as low poly models into 2d Animation, I like it. It's fitting that the very first episode is about Yuno making a photo collage.
I'm super hyped knowing I have a lot of things to look for! I'm a sucker for sincere, unconventional storytelling. Thank you so much for making this video!
never heard of you but watching this I just started drawing and drawing heaps of random doodles after weeks of art block so thank you
"they whipped jesus with that shit" made me actually laugh irl, not just nasal exhale. I'm very glad the CZcams algorithm understood that I needed to see this vid so I could subscribe to your channel. You embody all the vibes I want to embody
Also, coming closer to the end of the video, don't worry. You've inspired me, not only to seek out more obscure art and stuff, but also to say fuck it to conventions and embrace my art style to make some hopefully cool shit
Incredible video! Love how passionate you are about your subjects, which are all fascinating to explore. Props for kicking it off with Garage: Bad Dream Adventure btw love that game and was so hyped when the fan translation came out.
Excited to see whats next for your channel :)
stumbled upon this video and this ended up being... extremely my shit. I have unfortunately low attention span usually but somehow this kept me mesmerized all the way through. the amount of interesting stuff you brought to the video and the way you talk about it got me salivating.
also the way you talk about just creating shit for the sake of it got me immediately just making something small and rough and amateurish for the sake of it. maybe it sounds like a simple thing, but having this sickness to want to make things perfect means I will rarely *actually just create something*. it was honestly liberating.
im at the halfway mark but oh my god i cant explain how much i absolutely love and adore this video. this topic, the weird obscure early art, has always been like my biggest inspo and interest. ive never been able to put into words what makes it so fascinating to me but you YOU actually did!!!!!!!!! im not very good with words so im so glad someone else is omg i love this video so much!!!!!!!!!!!! tysm for making this video plz never take it down srsly!!!!!!!!!!
Your vocabulary is wild, but I am enthralled. Love your perspective here.
I may make another comment later as i get further into the video, but one thing I wanna say just off the bat: I love how your style of script writing and delivery is so uniquely your own. It's a blend of casual and academic, so thoughtful but also not getting caught up in trying to sound important, and also just chill as hell. I really love the way you write these videos!
i honest to god love your videos so much. you talk with such love and passion. it makes me feel very happy that there are people out there who appreciate the weirder stuff like i do. and i hope that one day people will like the weird stuff i make :)
I love watching videos like these because I need to be reminded to always be inspired and not be afraid to make weird things. I get scared of people being weirded out or too uncomfortable in what I wish to make and at the same time I hate feeling like I have to water down my art in order to please other's.
But as long as I have warnings and disclaimers in what I'm making then I should be fine. But after all I wouldn’t want to live in a world where everything is perfect and no one expressed themselves ever.
The last part of this video got me real emotional. I can't thank you enough for making this video I wish I had more words to say but all I can say is thank you, this meant so much to me and now I feel motivated to work on my own projects even more.
I love hearing someone with genuine passion talking about literally anything it's infectious, great way to spend an hour or two and I mean that with no sarcasm
I’m glad my recommended lead me to this GOLD!!! thank you for sharing all this awesome shit. The way you describe everything itches my brain as well. Super cool thanks!
I’m not all the way through the vid yet but if it’s not mentioned I HIGHLY recommend Video Diary of a Lost Girl! Suuuuper weird I love it
will check it out, ty ty
This video truly reminded me of why I even began to create art in the first place, and I’m really glad. The nostalgia it brought me was crazy too. Thanks so much, it was an amazing watch.
Thank you so much for the media list in the description, I was about to ask for it before I saw it. Tight stuff!
really appreciate the use of more casual language regarding art, I find that a lot of art related youtube videos take themselves too seriously and lose the viewer with pretentious jargon that we see in arts colleges, though I think these words are essential to exist, they're not essential to use.
This video was a blast, i love strange or just different art, like that is for me the point of art. Incredible time all around watching this and got some great things to researxh now, thanks for this
absolutely loved your video, the message at the end was beautiful regardless and i think your way of seeing and enjoying these media is inspiring
When you mentioned Bibliomania as an Alice in Wonderland inspired movie project, I was thinking "wait, but that's also the name of a manga from Macchiro with the same theme", denpa grimdark shit, and it happens they're both parts of a bigger project called TRIPS & BIBLIOMANIA, and I want to buy that manga because is gold, so you know 😊
Best video ever btw, I've feel very identified about the unrestricted internet access, even being very careful where I treaded I found very disturbing things, for better and for worse, haha.
CZcams can be really broken but I love when out of the blue it shows me a channel like yours
This vid is revolutionarily good. Like i gotta watch this again and take notes. Your way of interpreting art is inspiring
I started watching your content with the planet laika video and ever since then I’ve been loving every upload you put out. Your topics are always interesting and your personality keeps me coming back for more! Keep being you!!
Really love your videos mara, there's something about the chill music mixed with your voice and the weird footage onscreen that is so relaxing and fun to watch for me. Plus you always talk about the kind of thing I love with so much passion, I've found so many things to enjoy through your stuff.
Love this channel. This channel got me through my shift at Walmart when I worked there
1:15:05 this hit so hard
i constantly have this feeling that i missed out on all the cool shit and now im too old and unchildish to have fun like kids back then on the internet
OH MY GODDDDDD DOT FLOW REFERENCE YESSSSS!!!!! i’m super into weird avant garde stuff like this and .FLOW is one of my favorites of all time! (obviously, it’s my pfp lol) i’m so glad you brought jt up. everyone always mentions yume nikki but no one goes even deeper to find the fangames, let ALONE LOL’s other games like Milya. this made my day.
Bumped into your channel and this is exactly what I needed to see before I start my indie game dev journey after years of art school and design jobs 🙏🤙✨
damn hell of a media list, appreciate you providing it. Ive kinda given up on making art as I lack proper background in actual art study and just like weird things and read about it, but maybe I'll throw something out there. this video made doing that feel more grounded. anyway, ty and amazing vid!
This video is so unbelievably well made, one of the coolest videos i think I've ever seen on youtube
Smoked that video a few times already, it's such a vibe ! So many references I can't wait to dig with homies someday :)
The Mara has spoken and them words spit style
It's amazing to see your channel transforming with evolving quality and an expanding range of themes. I came here for obscure and artistically innovative games and now I feel like you're a curator of weird and singular art. Thank you so much for your work!
Honestly, the final words of the video were really meaningful to me. As someone who has been pushed too many times onto the "right path" of art (espescially the minimalsim bit)- the last part and the entire video reminded me again of what I want. As I have grown up withunrestricted access to the internet, this is simply what I have grown up to know as cool and intriguing. Amazing video and thank you, I feel like this video means a lot to me!
This is such a great video, added a ton to my backlog/watchlist. Hugely underrated channel.
This was absolutely beautiful omg, you really did inspire me to create beauty in excess. I’ve struggled with feeling like i have to pick one form of art, but you’ve really inspired me to just use all the ways of creating that i love to make something that shows people that love. This was an absolutely amazing video, your view on weird abstract art is unbelievably inspiring, thank you for sharing it really changed my view on how I can truly utilize the mediums I use!
38:35 got shown those during a workplace safety unit in one of my classes ToT i needed to leave the room as soon as i figured out what the general contents were. i still remember the screaming im pretty sure from the specific clip you showed
glad this popped up in my rec. This is deadass the vibes I've been on lately. I related to every emotion at an atomic level.
This is such a refreshing video! I've only been getting into the obscure part of the internet for the past 3-4 years and to know that there is so much more art to enjoy that i've never heard about before is exhilarating! Sometimes you kinda drift away from obsucirity and feel like everything becomes more bland, but this video is literally a treashure trove, cuz u not only list media but whole rabbit holes to dive into. + a reminder that its obscure for a reason,and u gotta actually search to find good stuff
this channel just healed my soul at 2am and i'm going to cry, thank you for saving me
the ending really stuck with me - thank you for making the video! it's really handy as a reference point for a bunch of awesome reccs :3
I was raised high key mormon and never realy got the chance to go past safe and popular stuff until later on in highschool, so this video is a vicarious blast of what i wish i couldve gotten into earlier. Thanks :3
Happily giving a thumbs up and a comment to feed the blood thirsty algorithm. Thank you for that visual novel recommendation. I saw Tomorrow is my Birthday and I KNEW it'd be a piece of media I go through that will shape me like good art does.
This video essay feels like a love letter to the weirdo sheltered child who surfed CZcams for hours after school. Dementia anime, RPG playthroughs, underground film, creepypastas, colourful cartoons and fandom cults truly shaped the way I see the world as I've gorged on these forms of media for years. And fuck, it feels like there was a definitive before and after digesting obscure, surrealist content. Watched Paprika in Year 6 after tracing it from one of its songs featured in a Homestuck AU, and after watching the movie it's like my brain blossomed and my thought pattern exploded from linear compartments of my life to an ongoing Shintaro Kago piece. It's crazy, and despite the fact I always wish I could think normally and vibe with normal people, it always comes from a place of convenience and not a place of self hate. It makes me excited to create my own art and hopefully have it revered by my own little cult one day.
the forever kingdom soundtrack on the background tells me exactly you have the best taste in anything ever. thank you for the vid.
This video was AMAZING and like?? really left me with a "I need allow myself to make weirder art" thought and I am going to try to embrace it. Making art is so hard already and then with quickly changing trends and social media making it hard for smaller creators to be seen, it can feel really suffocating sometimes. Like what's the point. but!!! the point is!!! to create!!! that's it!!! putting something out there and bringing something new to the world. and like embracing self. anyways I'm losing the thread of thought and I am very caffeinated but like!! I've been struggling w artblock and feeling like my art isn't enough etc etc. but idk this video really like made me feel like, damn. art good. make weirder art. thank you!!!
I'm only a quarter of the way through and already this is a favorite
These types of videos is like artistic fuel, i can assure you every artist watching this will have a significant boost in inspiration and creativity after watching it
What a gold mine of a channel jesus christ, thank you for linking all the media as well
I love love love surrealism. ENA was my gateway into it, still being one of my favorite pieces of media. It is, for me, somehow nostalgic and comforting, the series going into deeper and darker themes as it goes on. I got into Hylics 2 because of a streamer, whose playthrough I stopped watching to go and play the game myself to then come back and finish the playthrough. This led me to Hylics, to Yume Nikki and so on. I just discovered Disillusion yesterday, so I'm really excited to get that going :)
This one was very inspiring. I'm writing some short stories and I wanted to bring out this vibe of weird media I grew up watching and this reminded me of a lot of stuff I haven't thought about in a long time and exposed me to a ton of stuff I would have totally been into if I was familiar with it back then.
Style is substance, as some Mara sometime said.
Art should always be approached as a challenge; as a hodgepodge of perspectives, questions are made to understand and provide one's own point of view, one's own discourse, not in a finalistic type of way, as a supposed final word on the work. The inquisitive curiosity on display, is but to stablish a dialogue with both the art and the communities that thrive and vibe with it, that expand their own horizons of understanding and open their reach to us.
Glad here is provided the importance of this type of discourse on the internet.
I've seen mixed media a bunch of times and always loved it, but never really knew the name for the genre or what kind of cool stuff exist beneath the surface. Love this topic you did a wonderful job on this video! Thank you for always breathing life into forgotten media.
I’m barely 5min into the video & I already know this will be one of the most unique videos covering avant-garde + experimental arts you’ll find on YT 🎭
Last month I wanted to watch some of your videos so I looked for your channel and for some reason I couldn't find it, I was afraid you deleted it but I'm glad you are still here, amazing content as always
1:20:24 amazing job finding a clip of malice you didn’t have to censor. Finding that and a few other animated shorts by the same guy when I was younger really awakened me to more abrasive art.
This is a stellar video! I really love the way you describe and emphasize what makes ‘strange’ but unique artistic decisions so special. As someone who is just starting to brainstorm and make youtube videos myself, videos like this made by people like you who I share sensibilities with are deeply inspiring to me
I am reminded of my time with Middens and its sequel, Gingiva. Both fantastic RPG maker experiences which stuck to me for the longest time. There is a world in which those 2 took off instead of OFF or Hylics, but I always enjoyed how they played out in my mind and pc within those games' shadows.
This vid is one of the best conveyances of passion for this vibe of media ive come across in 10+ years. FANTASTIC job. & ur a godsend for providing a media list 🙌 I edit insanity on my main
AND theyve got timestamps. ur a real one fr, tysm
this vid just like, touched my heart and reminded me of alot of the art thatd later inspire me to make my own, much love