00:00 people on the internet aren't always who
00:11 are hypothetic digital to S the trip up
00:16 the evidence sick and tired wired
00:19 Contraband andar got the order in the bo
00:22 put in my hands Smoke From The Hot Shot
00:26 po the be waiting for the Li
00:37 okay I promise I have a better setup
00:38 later in the video this is just this
00:40 part people on the internet aren't
00:41 always who they say they are I know
00:43 shocking but in all seriousness the
00:45 internet's ability to anonymize its
00:47 users while simultaneously being the
00:49 largest form of mass communication
00:51 humankind has ever seen has led to some
00:54 we'll say extensive consequences in our
00:56 day-to-day this means we just have to
00:58 sort of trust that the person on on the
01:00 other end of the screen isn't lying but
01:02 inevitably some of them will be and the
01:04 intentions of those using the internet
01:05 as a mask to create a new personality
01:07 vary from 9-year-old children attempting
01:10 to intimidate You by claiming to be
01:11 expert hackers to random emailers
01:13 claiming to be foreign princes who are
01:15 just desperate to give you their money
01:17 but with the Advent of video platforms
01:19 like YouTube these personas could expand
01:21 even further and sometimes they are
01:23 intent on tricking you other times
01:25 though people will use their accounts as
01:27 a sort of art piece creating a fake
01:30 person as a means to explore acting and
01:33 writing in a form unique to the internet
01:35 I've been calling this phenomenon making
01:38 up a guy you just create a fake person a
01:41 person who does not exist and let them
01:43 interact with the internet through you
01:45 some of my earliest memories of things
01:47 like this are through tutorial parodies
01:50 I still have Ed Latin video stuck in my
01:53 head okay so let's go first of all start
01:56 with the Jesus balls a channel which
01:58 featured a character with with a unique
02:00 voice giving lessons on how to draw in a
02:03 very interesting way so when life gives
02:07 you lemon balls uh you got you got okay
02:11 here's how you draw a lemon going even
02:13 further back you suck at Photoshop
02:15 genuinely did teach you how to use
02:17 Photoshop my name is Donnie and you suck
02:20 at Photoshop you do you're awful and
02:23 that's why you're here all right let's
02:24 get started it just also happened to
02:26 include an unfurling plot about the
02:28 uploader and his life
02:30 let's just say for hypothetical that you
02:32 really want to do some [Â __Â ] to this
02:35 vanan and I mean the real vanan but
02:38 let's also say that there's a a
02:40 restraining order that prevents you from
02:42 getting close enough to do that kind of
02:43 [Â __Â ] to it so let's have Photoshop do
02:45 the dirty work for us sure parody is
02:48 nothing new but what the internet
02:49 allowed users to do is interact with
02:51 these fake people directly and
02:53 immediately and the users behind the
02:55 fake person could further expand their
02:57 presence having social media accounts
02:59 and leaving comments on other videos in
03:01 that way the fake people become
03:02 semi-real as their presence on the
03:04 internet further cements them alongside
03:06 all the other users who in some respects
03:08 are just slightly more honest masks for
03:11 the person behind them today I want to
03:13 talk about a few different series that
03:15 make up a guy one could argue that I
03:18 talk about that a lot being that I cover
03:19 a lot of unfiction and args but these
03:22 are a little different the running theme
03:24 Here won't be horror instead the
03:25 specific way they characterize and treat
03:28 the people at the center of their
03:30 let's talk about some people that aren't
03:33 real to start I want to talk about
03:34 Henry's kitchen created by Henry
03:36 Phillips Henry Phillips is a stand-up
03:38 comedian and musician he's made movies
03:40 has appeared on Comedy Central and is
03:42 generally a pretty accomplished
03:43 performer and writer his style can vary
03:45 but one recurring theme is a
03:47 self-deprecating slant where our
03:49 Interest really starts though is with
03:51 his YouTube Channel created in 2006
03:53 early uploads showcase what you might
03:55 expect old clips and songs from a
03:57 standup but on August 5th 2011 he
03:59 uploaded a video title to Henry's
04:01 kitchen how to make killer ovenbaked
04:03 French toast interesting career pivot
04:05 but maybe this is just one of Henry's
04:07 other passions and YouTube like it did
04:09 for many people opened up an Avenue for
04:11 him to share it let's take a
04:23 look hello and welcome to Henry's
04:27 kitchen where today we're going to be
04:29 making delicious ovenbaked French
04:34 Toast French toast was originally
04:36 originated by the French in the early
04:39 6th century and they called it pan perue
04:42 Which in English translates to Lost
04:44 bread and then later in the 16th century
04:48 V well let's get started even in just
04:50 the opening seconds we can get a pretty
04:52 clear picture of what's in store here
04:54 throughout the rest of the video Henry
04:56 stumbles his way through creating this
04:57 French toast despite missing many of the
04:59 ingredients ingredents and utensils
05:00 necessary for doing so along with his
05:02 trouble making the French toast itself
05:04 his editing and hosting abilities are
05:06 just as amateur including lots of dead
05:08 space and baffling Cuts I got a little
05:10 bit of shell in there I like to kind of
05:14 it like this okay so now we're going to
05:17 add a couple of items after an oddly
05:19 depressing piano break while he waits
05:20 for his toast to cook he returns to find
05:22 his oven has failed to bake the French
05:24 toast at all moving instead to the
05:25 toaster oven he returns to find them
05:27 completely charred Beyond edibility he
05:29 ends the video just eating a piece of
05:31 plain uncooked bread sometimes the
05:33 bread's pretty good just by itself
05:35 thanks a lot for joining me and tune in
05:36 next week when we're going to talk about
05:38 how to make garlic bread this episode
05:40 out the gate pretty much perfects the
05:42 formula his Henry's kitchen videos will
05:44 continue to have opening with some brief
05:45 information about the food itself before
05:47 diving head first into Henry's cooking
05:49 as he fumbles his way through the
05:51 recipes always seeing them through to
05:53 the end despite the many mistakes all
05:55 with a veneer of confidence that is
05:58 false Henry's demeanor is awkward and he
06:00 has an air of sadness about him and he
06:02 ends most but not all of his videos with
06:05 something completely inedible or
06:07 unrecognizable from what he set out to
06:09 make but you know despite it all it does
06:11 make me kind of hungry I might need to
06:21 myself hello and welcome to Sean's
06:24 kitchen today we'll be making delicious
06:27 air fryer baked French toast
06:29 just like Henry used to make I have
06:31 Henry's cookbook here his list of
06:33 ingredients says a loaf of French bread
06:36 I don't have that but I I do have a
06:38 regular loaf of bread two eggs I I don't
06:41 have any eggs but I do
06:43 have some egg whites in a carton I do
06:48 have milk so I don't have any salt but
06:51 you know salt makes things salty I don't
06:54 want to make my French toast salty
06:55 vanilla extract which I don't have but
06:57 just like Henry I do have some syrup
06:59 so we'll use that and I don't have
07:02 cinnamon but I do have some Kanye pepper
07:05 so it looks roughly the same what we
07:08 need to do first is prepare it by
07:16 bowl we need two eggs I don't know how
07:20 much is one egg so I'm just going to
07:24 guess it that's like an
07:27 egg that's like an egg that's like two
07:30 eggs probably right it's about 1/2 cup
07:34 milk that's about right some of our
07:37 conye Kanye pepper that's about enough
07:41 it says uh beat it beat it
07:50 hard all right now we got to dip the
07:52 bread uh you know I remember when I was
07:55 a kid I asked my mom if I was the reason
08:01 divorced she said no it's cuz Dad was
08:03 having sex with a Bolivian guy he met on
08:06 rabbit and just dip that in here so now
08:10 we need to preheat our air fryer to uh
08:15 400 and when that's done we'll put our
08:19 bread in okay so now it's time to add
08:22 our food throw these in
08:30 there's not really enough room for both
08:36 okay and now according to Henry we want
08:39 to leave these in here for about 30
08:41 minutes he says it goes in the oven but
08:43 I'm sure an air fryer isn't that much
08:45 different so I'll see you then while
08:48 we're waiting for that to cook let's
08:49 talk Henry's comedic voice and stylings
08:52 executed the way they are in Henry's
08:54 kitchen make it genuinely one of the
08:55 most consistently entertaining and
08:57 hilarious internet series out there
08:59 despite being over a decade old with 70
09:01 plus episodes and it's fighting a
09:03 somewhat uphill battle in order to stay
09:05 fresh too as the series is actually
09:07 incredibly formulaic the same beats are
09:09 hit most episodes a history about the
09:11 dish some uncomfortable editing Henry
09:13 getting cut off mid-sentence Henry
09:15 [Â __Â ] up the dish in various ways
09:17 substituting ingredients he doesn't have
09:18 a depressing piano montage and then
09:20 Henry's done usually with a failed dish
09:22 the secret to keeping this formula from
09:24 getting boring is that Henry Phillips is
09:26 very funny as a performance Henry
09:28 captures complete and utter social and
09:30 Camera awkwardness and never breaks
09:32 character his timing and delivery make
09:34 it feel like he's barely getting through
09:35 each sentence we're going to be making
09:39 Henry's holy guacamole with homemade
09:44 chips it's going to be a
09:51 fiesta guacamole the writing also helps
09:54 things stay fresh as the sort of twist
09:56 punchline style keeps you guessing how
09:57 the hell he's going to [Â __Â ] up or what
09:59 he's going to say next my favorite
10:01 example of this is his non seiters
10:03 there's this recurring bit where he
10:04 starts a sentence as if it is in some
10:06 way going to be relevant to what he's
10:08 doing and it turns out to be something
10:10 not only completely unrelated but
10:12 usually dark odd or just completely
10:14 surprising I remember when you used to
10:16 show up to school with new shoes all the
10:18 other kids would be like new shoes and
10:20 then they'd stomp on them and just beat
10:24 pulp put some green peppers on there
10:27 that right there that is my favorite one
10:29 I laugh out loud every single time but
10:32 also as that clip showcased Henry as a
10:34 character isn't ever stale because we're
10:36 constantly learning more about his
10:37 strange sad miserable life he's sort of
10:40 a kicked puppy or maybe a butt monkey
10:43 which is apparently a Trope name I'm not
10:44 just calling him names it's not that
10:46 he's without fault for many of his
10:47 failures but this guy doesn't seem to
10:49 have had a good day in his life the
10:51 editing meanwhile continues
10:52 characterizing Henry as a completely
10:54 incapable host in all aspects of his
10:56 video creation Endeavors the tacky stock
10:58 trans transitions evoke baby's first
11:00 iMovie and the text cards he chooses to
11:02 put in emphasize the strangest things
11:05 they also showcase another Quirk of
11:06 Henry which is his proclivity for
11:08 misspelling and mispronouncing things
11:10 we're going to be making Henry's
11:11 handmade Nookie from the timing to the
11:14 long shots or random Cuts Henry often
11:16 Trails off or is cut off mid-sentence
11:18 either because he realized it was too
11:20 boring it was left in by mistake or he
11:23 just forgot what he was going to say the
11:24 character of Henry clearly has high
11:26 hopes for what he's making but his
11:27 skills are just not there in every
11:29 aspect a final piece of the puzzle when
11:31 it comes to the core of Henry's kitchen
11:33 is the music these Sad Piano montages
11:36 aren't just instrumentals they're
11:37 collections of depressing ballads by
11:39 Jose suicido a stage name Henry uses to
11:42 put out these really odd depressing
11:44 albums help me make it through the
11:56 alone the chill children
12:00 flying through the air from sea to
12:07 shining this music is important both to
12:10 the oddly depressing Vibe of the show
12:12 but also to the character of Henry
12:14 because one of the things that keeps the
12:15 viewers invested in Henry as a character
12:17 is that we feel bad for him he's not
12:20 without his flaws which we'll get to but
12:22 there's something compelling about
12:23 watching this lonely depressed guy try
12:25 his best to teach us how to cook even
12:27 when he doesn't know how we want him to
12:29 get better and though that's likely
12:31 never going to happen as it would be
12:33 contrary to the point of the series it
12:35 keeps us watching and he really pulls
12:36 out all the stops in making this guy
12:38 pitiable one recurring element of
12:40 Henry's kitchen is his themed holiday
12:42 episodes Valentine's Day New Year's and
12:44 there's always a special sadness to
12:46 these episodes as we see Henry not only
12:48 spend all of these holidays alone but we
12:50 also witness his facade drop a little
12:52 bit more than usual in these little
12:53 character moments that highlight Henry's
12:55 utter loneliness my favorite is when
12:57 Henry spends New Years by himself making
12:59 vegan free gluten pizza and he notices
13:01 he's missed the clock turning to
13:02 midnight there is no more chance of some
13:05 surprise party or last minute
13:06 celebration he's officially spent the
13:08 night alone okay everybody it's
13:16 12:03 um happy New Year everybody
13:20 another fairly important part of this
13:21 series that not only keeps it fresh but
13:23 also continues to enforce our pity for
13:25 Henry is all of the other characters he
13:27 comes across in the series he attempts
13:29 to make homemade sushi for a date and he
13:31 films his date for the video much to her
13:33 surprise and discomfort you have a
13:35 camera yeah okay I'm taping it for the
13:39 internet you definitely don't want to
13:41 hear that on a first date later on he
13:42 tries making barbecue fish in the
13:44 company of what appeared to be his
13:45 friends only for us to later realize he
13:47 sort of just slipped his way in there
13:50 who the [Â __Â ] is this guy he does that a
13:52 lot actually I don't know you I didn't
13:54 invite you I didn't hire you it's made
13:55 clear through all of these interactions
13:57 Henry is not without fault for his
13:59 current lonely State he is socially
14:01 awkward overbearing and most importantly
14:03 makes people very uncomfortable but it's
14:05 still sad seeing him try so hard to make
14:07 friends and often people's reactions are
14:09 unnecessarily cruel here take this nasty
14:13 you Henry doesn't just stop at
14:16 infiltrating parties or ruining dates
14:18 eventually he opens up his closet as an
14:20 Airbnb and intermittently within
14:22 episodes guest will appear it's a great
14:24 character choice for Henry you can
14:26 totally understand his thinking here he
14:28 wants someone to share his food and
14:29 Company with and not immediately leave
14:32 what better way than having someone
14:33 literally live in your house his Airbnb
14:36 guests are more often than not made
14:38 confused and uncomfortable by the whole
14:40 situation Henry keeps filming them and
14:42 they are seemingly never aware when they
14:44 arrive that their Arrangements were made
14:45 in a closet and the food Henry feeds
14:47 them is often bad and here is where we
14:49 get to the things that make it a little
14:51 easier to find Henry's predicament funny
14:53 and not just purely depressing Henry
14:55 isn't just socially awkward he's also
14:57 self-important and and self-centered one
14:59 of the best examples of this is an
15:01 interaction he has with his Airbnb guest
15:03 Francisco he makes the brief attempt to
15:05 make small talk and have some kind of a
15:06 friendly connection with this guy but as
15:08 soon as Francisco starts to bore him
15:09 slightly he just up and leaves so what
15:12 do you do um I work in a in finance as a
15:16 an investment firm um and analyze
15:19 companies and see if they're worth
15:21 buying them and then so we try to save
15:24 okay we're going to go check on our
15:25 sauté sure it's sad that Henry's alone
15:28 with no friends but he can't be bothered
15:30 to put in the effort into actually being
15:32 courteous to other people in his in
15:34 character mini do with jash Henry also
15:36 consistently Hypes himself up in
15:38 ridiculous ways this thing look at this
15:40 it's got a clock you know it's got a
15:42 timer you can you know see exactly how
15:45 much water you're putting in I mean it's
15:47 amazing if I asked you how much this
15:49 coffee maker cost what would you say new
15:55 bucks yeah or even more you know it
15:59 I bought it at a uh at a thrift store
16:02 and it was uh $12 he wants to feel
16:06 important and intelligent but often
16:07 doesn't put in the effort to actually
16:09 improve this aspect of Henry also comes
16:11 out in his tutorials too as he
16:12 undertakes recipes he himself admits are
16:15 incredibly difficult making chocolate
16:16 Trum is considered in the cooking
16:18 Community as one of the most pain in the
16:20 ass things that you can make but always
16:22 seems to believe he's capable of it's an
16:24 interesting part of his performance that
16:25 veneer of confidence I mentioned is
16:27 always there even when he met messes up
16:29 terribly it's like he thinks we don't
16:31 notice still despite his flaws he's
16:33 likable and he does attempt to do nice
16:35 things for people and genuinely wants
16:36 the people to like the food he makes and
16:38 I think the reason we root for him is
16:39 because it feels like whether he makes
16:41 mistakes or not something bad always
16:43 happens to him which is why it was so
16:45 gratifying to see where the story took
16:47 him next at his lowest point in the
16:49 series he seems to throw in the towel he
16:51 finds himself alone in a bar depressed
16:53 and ready to give up but someone
16:55 recognizes him do you do cooking videos
16:57 I do yeah yeah Henry from Henry's
16:59 kitchen yeah I thought that was you you
17:01 can't cook man there's a song in there
17:04 it's uh to help me make it through the
17:05 night oh yeah absolutely love that song
17:08 do you know who wrote it well I um I
17:11 actually don't tell a lot of people this
17:12 but uh I actually wrote it you wrote
17:16 that song sorry guys I don't I don't
17:18 want you to think I'm e dropping or
17:19 anything but are you talking about help
17:21 me by Jose suido yeah dude that's the
17:24 guy that's you you wrote that yeah tell
17:26 me make it the night that's nice I am
17:35 alone how are you I'm Kevin Robinson
17:38 president of Island Records I have an
17:40 offer for you how would you like to
17:41 write some music for Justin Bieber oh I
17:43 love your music and everyone seems to
17:45 like it even though I don't understand
17:46 it you know I think it'd be
18:05 and so though Henry's story ends with
18:07 him dying 2 years later he probably
18:09 spent those years happier than he's ever
18:11 been before so that's good that wasn't
18:14 really the end though time and space in
18:16 this series aren't of particular
18:17 interest and as that episode showcased
18:19 though the videos sometimes work fully
18:21 in fiction it also pulls out to a more
18:24 film-like third person view at times The
18:26 Show Must Go On so Henry continued
18:28 making recipes and even got a
18:30 masterclass series on thrillist this
18:32 limited run of episodes are produced
18:33 very professionally and at first one
18:35 might think that that would ruin the
18:36 magic of Henry's sloppy DIY style but
18:39 instead the episodes feel more like a
18:41 unique departure as the just deposition
18:43 of Henry's mistakes and demeanor and the
18:45 incredible amount of money and
18:46 production value behind him Elevate them
18:49 in a different way eventually he would
18:51 return to his regular style though and
18:52 continue teaching the world from his
18:54 home the production would change a
18:55 little as the years went on he moved to
18:57 a new kitchen got a nice nice neon sign
18:59 oh and most importantly he introduced
19:01 the world to his cat roast beef he's
19:03 still trying to figure out where he is
19:08 sit he's confused well it seems like our
19:11 food is about done let's give it a try
19:31 it's awesome Henry's kitchen continues
19:33 even to this day he cooked through
19:35 quarantine and has now expanded his
19:37 venture to Twitch where he does live
19:39 cooking lessons so if you think this
19:41 series is up your alley go check it out
19:43 he also has a patreon two cookbooks and
19:45 a signature apron Henry's kitchen
19:47 continues the trend we've seen of
19:48 comedic tutorial series by incapable
19:51 people whether that's their hosting
19:53 ability their skills at what they teach
19:55 or both it's a good format and Henry's
19:57 kitchen does it incredibly well but I
19:59 think what has made Henry's kitchen
20:00 stand the test of time and continue to
20:02 feel fresh and funny over a decade
20:04 running and Counting is its subtle
20:07 performance behind Henry Henry feels
20:09 somewhat real even in his comedic
20:11 amounts of misery as we've discussed
20:13 he's an empathetic character there's
20:15 something there to latch on to that
20:17 continues developing we're laughing at
20:19 him sure but we're also rooting for him
20:21 that positivity though often ironic can
20:24 be seen in the comments of his videos I
20:26 think Henry's kitchen shows just how
20:28 much potential there is in this genre
20:29 for out of the-box Storytelling and
20:32 there is another series that I'm sure
20:34 you're all thinking of when it comes to
20:35 a compelling story being told through
20:37 fake somewhat comedic tutorial videos
20:40 it's a series that would go on to
20:41 inspire many more both in this tutorial
20:44 genre but also the unfiction web series
20:48 general I'm talking of course about Alan
20:53 tutorial people online who are watching
20:56 this if you're watching me right now I
20:58 do feel like I have a certain s power
21:00 over you that that makes me feel big and
21:07 strong my name is Teddy I was created to
21:10 be an exact digital backup of Alan
21:13 Resnik there was a little bug a little
21:16 bug and a snake that lived in that cave
21:17 so I'm going to try my it something
21:19 something a little more more
21:40 this is Alan Resnik probably most famous
21:42 for his surrealist horror comedy shorts
21:44 he created with Adult Swim this house
21:46 has people in it and unedited footage of
21:48 a bear I also really enjoyed his short
21:50 enterings that you can find on his
21:52 YouTube channel and he has plenty more
21:54 uniquely Allen projects under his belt
21:57 but before his time at a Adult Swim put
21:58 his brand of creativity on television he
22:01 worked on what might be an even more
22:03 Niche yet more influential project Alan
22:06 tutorial in June of 2011 the Allan
22:09 tutorial channel was created and only a
22:11 few days later it uploaded its first
22:13 video how to leak on a piece of paper a
22:16 confusing nonsensical tutorial video
22:19 that just well watch uh thank thank you
22:22 for coming to my YouTube page
22:25 um so today I'm going to show you how to
22:29 leak on a piece of paper you're going
22:31 need a pad of paper white
22:33 paper uh you need a
22:36 fork but or or you could use scissors uh
22:41 and I like to use scissors hold on
22:44 where okay fine so we're going to use uh
22:47 the fork uh and the
22:53 Picker you want to um have a small hole
22:57 cuz if it's too big it won't leak it'll
22:59 fall it'll pour thank you the preceding
23:03 videos would continue this trend of
23:05 bewildering howtos slowly building out
23:08 the character of Allan as the story
23:09 progresses things escalate rather
23:11 quickly but we'll start slow Allen's
23:13 tutorials are fascinating to watch many
23:16 of them appear to be made up on the spot
23:18 with Alan trying to come up with the
23:19 idea as he's filming leading to some
23:21 utterly strange Concepts in execution
23:24 today on my page I'm going to show you
23:26 new tutorial brand new how to crush an
23:29 old can of soda with wood you just keep
23:36 wood you it's almost crushed and once
23:40 you get it almost crushed you drop it
23:43 you got it and then you cover it
23:46 up with planks and once it's all done
23:49 you you stop you stop the video and you
23:51 tell everybody to like and favor bye-bye
23:53 the videos feel like someone who watches
23:55 a lot of tutorials and wants to
23:57 replicate them but he has nothing to
23:59 teach so instead he grabs random objects
24:02 from around his room and tries combining
24:04 them in odd ways all while mirroring the
24:06 tutorial voice in his own way or he's
24:08 clearly just copying whatever he's heard
24:10 from other tutorials without fully
24:12 understanding them all these lines get
24:15 erased they're just guidelines and the
24:17 bottom part here especially gets erased
24:21 because that's going to be where the jaw
24:23 goes okay second thing you got to do is
24:25 you got to draw the eyes and the eyes
24:30 big circles it's never made explicitly
24:33 clear but some of the things Alan says
24:36 Hey YouTube my name is Alan I'm a little
24:38 kid and some of his behavior suggest
24:40 that his character is either supposed to
24:41 be an actual child who's simply being
24:44 portrayed by the adult Alan Resnik or is
24:46 an adult who views and interacts with
24:48 the world in a more childlike way in
24:50 either case one thing that becomes clear
24:52 pretty quickly is how unsafe his living
24:54 conditions are Allan has seeming
24:56 unlimited and UNS supervised access to
24:58 dangerous power tools and materials
25:00 which he does not know how to safely use
25:03 you just try to hold it down with your
25:07 feet you hold it down with your feet
25:12 just um what's more it's soon revealed
25:15 that Alan doesn't live alone he lives
25:17 with what are presumably his family and
25:19 once we find this out the picture
25:21 becomes a bit Bleaker Allan is clearly a
25:23 victim of neglect and little details
25:25 start to pop out more obviously his bed
25:27 is just a few mats thrown together on
25:29 the floor he has access to these tools
25:31 because the house is under renovation
25:33 and no one seems to care enough to keep
25:35 them out of his reach no one cares
25:36 enough to keep him safe in one video he
25:39 has accidentally cut himself and
25:41 continues trying to make a tutorial
25:42 despite nearly passing out from the
25:45 loss um it's not a big deal all you
25:53 find okay you find the power switch core
25:58 he also doesn't seem to be allowed to
25:59 leave his room as we see him quickly
26:01 duck inside when his family arrives home
26:03 this isolation is showcased elsewhere
26:05 too take a look at this clip so once you
26:16 yeah once you have your first fold make
26:23 yeah doing tutorial I'll be done in a
26:29 yeah who's there it's okay what it's
26:35 okay you going to once you have the line
26:38 you try to rip the paper you hold it
26:44 stop no stop anyways once you have it
26:48 done you just hold on I'm doing Tut
26:50 almost done with to Toro let me just
26:58 you'll notice the way the camera shakes
26:59 when the door is being knocked on and
27:01 how you never see Alan's other hand when
27:03 it's happening it almost seems like
27:05 Allan is knocking on the desk himself to
27:07 give the illusion that people are there
27:09 to me this suggests two things one that
27:12 Allan is trying to convince the audience
27:14 and maybe even himself on some level
27:16 that he isn't so alone that he has
27:18 anyone to interrupt him in the first
27:19 place instead of leaving him completely
27:21 alone and second that his interactions
27:23 with his family aren't particularly
27:25 Pleasant the knocking is aggressive and
27:27 nerving like when his family does
27:29 interact with him it's with anger or to
27:31 tell him to knock it off none of this
27:33 paints a very happy picture of Allen's
27:35 current situation and one could
27:36 speculate that the reason he started
27:38 this tutorial channel in the first place
27:40 was to have someone to talk to have some
27:42 kind of positive outlet one of the more
27:44 distressing entries in this series comes
27:46 with the video how to pick up a blue
27:48 chair off the ground this video shows
27:49 Allen in tears trying and failing
27:52 multiple times to write a small blue
27:53 chair from the ground
28:00 if you have a blue chair that fell down
28:02 first thing you got to do is you get
28:03 down to the level of the chair and you
28:10 simple first thing you need is just to
28:19 lift if you can't get the chair come up
28:22 you just leave it on the ground don't
28:26 to like it the imagery and dialogue from
28:29 Allan conjure some pretty heavy stuff
28:31 for one the imagery of a kicked over
28:33 chair immediately brings my mind to
28:35 someone taking their own life and
28:36 Allen's interaction with this chair
28:38 almost feels like somebody discovering
28:40 the body of their loved one there's also
28:42 another level of symbolism here I think
28:45 as Allan tries desperately to write the
28:46 chair to undo what has been done but he
28:49 can't it's permanent If This truly is
28:52 representative of someone in his life
28:54 passing away it may explain his current
28:56 living situation we don't know a lot
28:58 about his family but we know he has a
28:59 brother from this clip so today's
29:02 tutorial is how to how to hack her on a
29:04 hard drive to make it glow in the dark
29:07 and trick your brother and his father is
29:09 mentioned but we can see a box labeled
29:11 dad at one point and we hear nothing
29:13 about his mother it's possible the dad
29:15 box is here because they're moving or
29:17 his stuff is packed up because his dad
29:19 is no longer around and if this chair is
29:22 representative of his mother that leaves
29:24 Allen with just his brother which may be
29:26 why he's not being taken care of so
29:28 attentively things in alen's house come
29:30 to a head with the video locked out of
29:32 room tutorial what to do this video
29:34 finds Allan in the middle of the night
29:36 on the Roof near his bedroom
29:39 window hey YouTube thanks for coming
29:41 back to my YouTube page today I'll do a
29:43 new tutorial tutorial what to do if you
29:45 get uh locked out of your room so
29:50 somebody got locked out of my room
29:53 somebody uh packed up all my stuff so
29:57 what how do first thing you got to do is
30:00 uh first thing you got to do is check
30:03 the window check the edge check the at
30:05 the bottom edge of the window and see if
30:07 you can pry it up or push up on top bars
30:10 prevent him from getting back inside his
30:13 stuff has been packed up he has been
30:15 kicked out of his house with no way of
30:16 getting back in we knew his remaining
30:18 family was neglectful but this is pretty
30:21 far what happened well if you pay close
30:24 attention you'll find this may not have
30:25 been so left field many of Allen's
30:27 tutorials involved him messing with his
30:29 brother's computer equipment many times
30:31 very expensive and brand new equipment
30:33 in addition a lot of his tutorials have
30:35 been pretty destructive the house seems
30:37 to be under renovation throughout these
30:38 videos and Allen's contributions have
30:40 not been productive the video right
30:43 before this showcased Allan destroying
30:45 his entire ceiling obviously Allen's
30:47 behavior is only reflective of the
30:49 neglectful conditions he's subjected to
30:51 but it appears his remaining family have
30:53 reached their breaking point and locked
30:54 him out the next few videos from Allan
30:56 are pretty Bleak Alan reappears with the
30:58 video lost survival skills tutorial find
31:01 water so um I got lost I'm on uh I don't
31:06 I don't know where I am cuz I can't
31:08 figure out how to get back to my room
31:10 this video shows Allan on the side of a
31:11 freeway somewhere Gathering water from a
31:13 nearby canal with a makeshift bucket
31:15 he's crafted from an empty jug of water
31:17 and tied to a shoelace Allan is
31:19 completely homeless and his conditions
31:21 are worsening his next few videos
31:23 showcase this further Scavenging through
31:25 trash lighting Furniture Ablaze and the
31:27 woods and eventually building a sort of
31:29 makeshift Camp of things he's collected
31:31 in the middle of the forest his nails
31:32 have grown long he's covered in dirt and
31:34 debris his mannerisms appear more frenzy
31:37 but he's still uploading attempts at
31:39 tutorials how to do a Spanish hairbraid
31:41 DIY weather eyes hole tutorial something
31:44 worth noting here is that even though
31:45 all of Allen's things from the house are
31:47 supposedly packed up and locked away we
31:49 can catch multiple glimpses of the blue
31:50 chair still with him in the woods
31:52 sometimes up close sometimes from afar
31:55 like it's following him this may be a
31:57 long shot but my initial interpretation
31:59 of this keeping in mind the idea that
32:01 this chair represents a family member of
32:03 his that passed away someone who he
32:05 clearly cared about deeply it almost
32:07 feels like this is like their ghost
32:09 following him trying to guide him in
32:11 some way Allan despite his difficulties
32:13 has survived for a full year at this
32:15 point if we follow the upload dates on
32:17 his own it's just a thought things
32:19 change in a drastic way with his next
32:21 upload disc tutorial he's inside some
32:23 sort of stained metal room which
32:25 watching quickly reveals to be the back
32:31 truck hey YouTube uh okay it's
32:37 okay the walls are scrawled with strange
32:40 and ominous writing like the beating
32:42 shall continue until morale improves
32:44 can't put off tomorrow what can be done
32:46 today you're not beaten until you admit
32:48 it do the right thing it will gratify
32:50 some astonish the rest they read like
32:53 evil corporate work posters Allan
32:55 struggles to stand in the moving vehicle
32:57 vehicle but somehow through it all
32:58 continues trying to make a tutorial
33:00 settling on the only other object in
33:02 there with him a loose metal disc this
33:06 tutorial this is a YouTube tutorial it's
33:09 not entirely clear what happened here to
33:12 Alan but it's easy to assume he's been
33:14 kidnapped where he'll end up we can only
33:16 find out by continuing to watch the very
33:18 next upload is simple tape tutorial easy
33:22 and it's strange Ellen is all cleaned up
33:25 in a blank white room he sits on a
33:27 pillow and as he turns around we can see
33:29 a pea bottle and then a table of various
33:31 items Allan attempts to make a tutorial
33:33 with the items but it's clear he isn't
33:35 the one who put them there and struggles
33:37 to come up with a concept in the end his
33:39 tutorial is pretty straightforward
33:41 foring uh fat Max is a measuring tape
33:46 and it first all you got to do is pull
33:48 it out and push back in so that's
33:49 tutorial thingk guys don't forget to
33:51 like subscribe if you like the tutorial
33:53 just comment on it and make a playlist
33:56 and we'll we'll uh talk to you later
33:57 thanks guys bye can't exactly blame him
33:59 for taking it easy now this does start
34:01 to bring into question what his current
34:02 situation is what is the goal of these
34:04 kidnappers to help him make tutorials
34:07 Allan attempts to make one more brief
34:09 tutorial before his next video Senate
34:11 ends budget debate rant video the table
34:13 has new items slightly more unnerving
34:15 than the last zip ties a staple gun
34:18 Allan seems agitated and just before he
34:20 goes into what his tutorial is he
34:22 changes his mind um so these are
34:25 tutorial these are things you need to do
34:27 tutorial and if you don't know what a
34:30 tutorial is uh tutorial is
34:33 basically um a stupid little thing that
34:36 little kids like and I don't like
34:38 tutorials tutorials are uh are stupid
34:43 and uh I hate them so news flash I'm
34:47 never going to do tutorial again and now
34:49 on YouTube I'll probably do um a
34:54 news a news YouTube channel
34:57 Alan has now fully rejected making
34:59 tutorials and seems quite upset knocking
35:01 paint over and trying briefly to open
35:03 the locked door as weird as it sounds it
35:05 almost does seem like his capts are
35:07 trying to get him to continue making
35:09 tutorials and his switch to News videos
35:12 is his way of fighting back his videos
35:14 continue to be news-oriented and he
35:16 reinforces that he won't be doing
35:18 tutorials anymore we also see that he
35:20 has painted the table a similar shade of
35:22 blue to that of his blue chair and we
35:24 even see some drawings of said chair on
35:25 the walls as the videos continue though
35:28 the items that appear on his table
35:30 become more dangerous and Sinister razor
35:32 blades and screwdrivers things continue
35:34 this way until the video titled $1 us
35:38 this video shows Allan trying to make
35:39 news out of an umbrella in his room but
35:41 what he's really preoccupied by is that
35:43 he's been given a dollar financial
35:45 report just got in turns out uh guess
35:50 dollar that's taste top stor is a dollar
35:54 as the video continues he seems to
35:56 forget that he has trying not to make
35:57 tutorials anymore and once you realize
35:59 he's accidentally made an umbrella
36:01 tutorial he becomes upset so thanks guys
36:04 if you like my new tutorial it's uh you
36:13 um this new story is brought to you
36:17 by this umbrella so check it out if you
36:21 are going out this weekend you should
36:23 expect poor weather and you should bring
36:26 an umbrella wasn't not it was just
36:29 showing you how it was a howto kind of
36:31 thing okay bye guys don't forget to like
36:33 And subscribe if you don't like it then
36:35 don't subscribe it is your choice look
36:39 how big it bye guys in his next video he
36:41 shows off that he's earned another
36:42 dollar and is very excited about it
36:46 what R and weip you guys
36:52 uh-oh big big big guys in tan got $2
36:57 those are my dollars I earned two two
36:59 bucks two fatty dollars that I get to
37:02 keep so those are my dollars I'm pretty
37:04 excited to keep these dollars um two two
37:06 bucks one $2 that's
37:10 uh that's money you spend that this is
37:13 good news good news top stories Good
37:18 it's I don't care this is my
37:21 dollar this is two bucks $2 $2
37:28 I got two bucks this is old dollar you
37:30 can tell it's new dollar is good old
37:33 dollar is good $2 boom $2 T $2 and just
37:40 like the last one he continues
37:41 accidentally slipping into making a
37:43 tutorial in the end he knocks on the
37:44 desk and declares loudly tutorial's done
37:48 and reaches over to find another dollar
37:50 has slid under his door so now it's
37:52 becoming a bit more clear despite his
37:54 reluctance to continue making tutorials
37:56 each time he does slit back into making
37:58 one he's rewarded with money the first
38:00 dollar was given to him after he
38:01 released a video that again was adamant
38:03 about not being a tutorial but he still
38:05 did slip up here and there his next
38:07 video how to make a terrarium tutorial
38:10 simple is a full-blown tutorial and one
38:12 that is clearly orchestrated by his
38:14 capts as he has all the items necessary
38:16 to create said terrarium there's not
38:18 much of note here except that at the
38:19 start of the tutorial his hand begins
38:21 bleeding and he wipes it off on the wall
38:23 nearby a drawing of the blue chair at
38:25 the end he is yet again given a dollar
38:27 and ends on an ominous note um if I
38:29 don't get about 1,000 subscribers in the
38:32 next 2 days I'll probably going to take
38:33 my own life bye guys Allan continues
38:36 making tutorials and being paid and his
38:38 room continues to get a little more
38:39 disheveled eventually he has enough
38:41 money to make a dollar man there's my
38:49 man my man hi hi well uh what's your
38:54 name my name me yeah yeah you my name is
38:58 Alan tutorial what's your name my name
39:06 well do you like do what do you like to
39:09 do I do do you like the news no I do
39:14 tutorials my do you do do you like
39:17 YouTube yes bye okay
39:22 bye uh wait what what do do you want to
39:27 uh subscribe we you subscribe to my
39:30 channel I'll subscribe to your channel
39:33 uh yes okay so goodbye bye where where
39:38 you going I'm going back I'm going
39:41 online check check check it out check
39:48 okay you're my little man bye you're my
39:51 guy okay you're my best friend what one
39:54 odd moment in the video how to watch
39:56 YouTube clips in HD 720p computer
39:59 tutorial is as Allan watches a seemingly
40:01 random video for this tutorial it
40:03 switches to a video of him it's his
40:05 terrarium video but filmed from a
40:07 different angle like a camera on his
40:09 head and the audio is distorted he seems
40:12 confused but ends the video without
40:14 pontificating much further on it my
40:15 immediate thought seeing this is that
40:17 this is what his capts are doing him
40:19 continuing to upload to his own channel
40:21 isn't the point they're filming him from
40:23 their own perspective and uploading this
40:25 separately SE unknowingly some kind of
40:28 entertainment for these people we're
40:29 getting close to the end of the videos
40:31 uploaded here and things quickly begin
40:33 to escalate the video four bad Cups has
40:35 Allan drinking various liquids from
40:37 paper cups some of them are digestible
40:39 like a cup of coffee but others cause
40:42 him to choke like the cup of glue and
40:44 the cup of blood the next one showcases
40:46 Allan hanging from the ceiling above his
40:47 room rambling nonsensically if you if
40:50 you guys got a go do chew do eight of
40:54 Mor Mor and and torn Toren it you put
40:57 the Toren online you get two two Cedars
41:00 and if you guys want to check out my
41:01 Cedars go tutorial tutorial going to
41:05 probably eat eat up tonight go get mace
41:08 mace what you call it but I don't call
41:10 it that I just get uh left in the dust
41:14 okay guys so you get Ching you you
41:16 forget what you did don't forget me I'm
41:18 part of the team so team players get
41:20 double points on extra rounds so see you
41:22 on on tornadoes got you his next video
41:25 arm tutorial shows Allan with his room
41:28 in much further disarray stains
41:30 splattering every surface Allan himself
41:32 is covered in stains as well looking
41:34 much closer to when he was living in the
41:36 woods his demeanor and dialogue are
41:38 incredibly frantic and erratic in the
41:40 rest of the videos after this the lights
41:42 are out and the videos are only lit by
41:44 alen's phone flashlight the door is
41:46 still locked the room nauseatingly
41:47 soiled if his captors were taking care
41:49 of Alan before this they've stopped
41:51 combined with the lights being shut off
41:53 it's almost like they've just left him
41:55 here and who knows for how how long as
41:57 is pointed out by Rody 2707 on the Allen
42:00 tutorial subreddit the break between the
42:02 last video before things go dark is
42:03 literal months the videos here are only
42:06 a few seconds long entitled either
42:08 nonsense or just a non-descript file
42:10 name it's hard to make out much of
42:12 anything aside from filth but we can
42:14 catch some glimpses of some pretty
42:15 disturbing stuff like these rotating
42:18 Almost Human looking pieces of meat the
42:20 final video to toy roll clocks in at
42:22 just under 2 minutes long it appears at
42:24 first to be similar to the previous
42:26 enturies but things take a slightly
42:28 hopeful turn when Allan breaks a hole in
42:31 the wall and begins to climb out through
42:33 the crawl space behind it and that's
42:34 where it ends that is the final upload
42:37 of Allan tutorial so what just happened
42:41 so just as a brief recap Allan begins
42:43 uploading videos from his room
42:45 attempting to replicate tutorials his
42:47 living situation appears to be
42:48 neglectful and his parents May no longer
42:50 be in the picture his abusive family
42:51 eventually becomes tired of dealing with
42:53 him so they kick him out and he lives on
42:55 the streets and in the woods for around
42:56 a year before being kidnapped by a
42:58 mysterious group who seemed to want him
42:59 to continue making tutorials locked
43:01 inside a small room and seemingly being
43:03 recorded externally by his captors he
43:05 tries to fight back by changing his
43:07 channel to a news channel but his
43:09 captors bribe him with money setting him
43:10 back on the path to make tutorials the
43:12 videos his kidnappers coers him into
43:14 making become more upsetting and harmful
43:16 to Alan as they let him and his room
43:18 slowly deteriorate until they eventually
43:20 seem to shut the lights off and leave
43:21 him with nothing but darkness and some
43:23 kind of spinning corpse or meat and
43:25 though Alan's fate from here is not
43:27 entirely clear I like to believe there's
43:29 some hope for Alan as he finally breaks
43:31 out of his prison and presumably escapes
43:34 so sure that's a surface reading but I
43:36 think it's clear there's a lot more
43:38 going on with these videos and though
43:40 this video isn't exclusively about Alan
43:42 tutorial and I do have some other things
43:43 to get to I'll try my hand here at
43:45 breaking down a few of the Thematic
43:46 angles this series seems to be
43:49 presenting hey tutorial heads today
43:52 we're going to do a new
43:54 tutorial uh tutorial about how
44:01 tutorial so the first thing you got to
44:04 do the first thing you got to
44:07 do is you got to hit record oh got to
44:13 off and then you got to hit record
44:16 firstly I'd like to touch on what is
44:18 probably the most accepted reading of
44:19 the story like many of you I'm sure I
44:22 first heard about this through night
44:23 mind's video back in 2015 so obviously
44:26 credit to that video and the decade plus
44:28 of discussion amongst the community this
44:30 portion is not entirely my own original
44:32 thoughts to really understand this
44:34 perspective we have to Circle back Allan
44:36 tutorial is a series created by Alan
44:38 Resnik an independent artist what became
44:41 pretty clear to people through watching
44:42 this series especially in the latter
44:44 half was the commentary and parallels of
44:46 Allen's Journey throughout these videos
44:48 to that of the struggles of Independent
44:50 Artists balancing artistic vision and
44:52 integrity with the need to make a living
44:53 off your art and work with corporate or
44:55 business ventures in order to do so Alan
44:57 starts very simply making videos for fun
45:00 out of his bedroom he's clearly taking
45:01 Inspirations from others work and is not
45:04 the greatest at it but he's enjoying
45:05 making the things that he wants to make
45:07 unfortunately for Allan it's not
45:09 sustainable it leaves him destitute but
45:11 at his lowest point he almost seems to
45:12 be saved some powerful faceless group
45:15 pick him up from off the street and give
45:17 him opportunities he didn't have before
45:19 not just much needed shelter and food
45:21 but also the resources to make his
45:23 videos but this is stifling for Alan now
45:26 he's being forced to do it and he
45:28 doesn't seem to have any other option
45:29 but to continue making what people know
45:31 him for doing the same thing over and
45:33 over again so he fights back he tries
45:35 making something different he tries
45:37 striking out on his own again but that
45:39 is not what pays the bills his captors
45:41 clearly painted as a sort of deranged
45:43 corporate entity offer him something
45:44 hard to refuse money and so he continues
45:47 albeit reluctantly and the money does
45:49 make him happy for a little while but it
45:51 doesn't stay that way this environment
45:53 sends him on a spiral his life
45:55 deteriorates ating he has everything you
45:57 think he could want shelter resources to
45:59 continue making his projects money but
46:01 that isn't what makes him happy and in
46:03 the end the people providing him with
46:05 these luxuries leave him behind but in a
46:07 way this is its own kind of Freedom
46:09 Allan is seemingly right back where he
46:11 started before they found him and yet
46:13 even in this low there's a ray of Hope
46:16 Allan has escaped what truly made him
46:17 miserable and though it's not entirely
46:19 clear where he's ended up now that is a
46:21 choice that he will be able to make I
46:23 just hope that wherever Allan is he's
46:25 doing all right now so along with the
46:27 general story arc aligning with this
46:29 reading of the story there's a lot of
46:31 little details that you can gather from
46:33 Individual videos that help build this
46:35 case and add some depth to it for
46:37 instance the use of color in the series
46:39 the baby blue we see throughout seems to
46:41 be attached to Allen's old life and
46:43 something that at least at one point
46:44 comforted him it's something that is
46:46 taken away from him when he's moved to
46:48 the corporate headquarters it's
46:49 representative of something core and
46:51 true to Allan and it's why he repaints
46:53 the red table to Blue specifically when
46:55 he stri strikes out on his own by making
46:57 the news on the other hand the red of
46:59 the table seems to represent the
47:01 opposite the corporate influence which
47:03 is why Allan begins to bleed when he
47:04 finally gives into making tutorials
47:06 again the red overtaking the blue again
47:09 I am not the first person to point these
47:11 out night mind goes into a lot more
47:12 detail about this particular angle in
47:14 his video but I think any discussion of
47:16 this series would be incomplete without
47:18 pointing these things out with this view
47:19 of the series you can begin to read
47:21 moments from the videos in different
47:22 ways for instance when Allen is unable
47:24 to pick up the blue chair instead of or
47:26 I suppose along with reading this as the
47:29 passing of a loved one we also know that
47:31 blue represents an element of Allen's
47:33 creativity you could read this video
47:35 like artist block he's unable to
47:37 complete the tutorial he set out to make
47:39 he's unable to finish a project because
47:41 he feels he can't write himself he can't
47:43 access that which gives him his Creative
47:45 Drive which is a common problem among
47:47 artists writers block creative burnout
47:49 whatever you want to call it this could
47:50 also begin to explain why the chair
47:52 follows him out into the woods even in
47:54 this dire situation he continues making
47:56 tutorials and so that Creative Drive
47:58 follows him there too even when he is at
48:00 his most desperate it only disappears
48:02 once he's been taken in by the
48:04 kidnappers in addition to this more
48:06 General parallel with an independent
48:07 artist experiences there's also
48:09 definitely a more specific bit of satire
48:11 going on as it relates to YouTube the
48:13 series ran through 2011 to 2014 being a
48:16 YouTuber was an emerging thing when it
48:18 started we were barely breaking out of
48:20 the age of viral videos so much of
48:22 Allen's dialogue feels pointed at the
48:24 growing obsession with online relevancy
48:26 and what we' now call being an
48:28 influencer or whatever the constant
48:30 plugging to like And subscribe the focus
48:33 on your online stats and many of the
48:35 general pieces of the artist experience
48:37 we see here could be mirrored especially
48:39 in the emerging world of making money on
48:41 YouTube being forced into doing what
48:43 you're known for especially in the era
48:45 of the viral video star trying to make
48:47 it into a career for scraps of AD
48:49 Revenue I don't think the series is
48:51 exclusively about YouTube but there's
48:53 definitely a lot of comparisons to be
48:55 drawn here here um if I don't get about
48:57 1,000 subscribers in the next 2 days
48:59 I'll probably going to take my own life
49:01 bye guys do you do you want to uh
49:03 subscribe we you subscribe to my channel
49:06 I'll subscribe to your channel uh yes
49:09 where where you going I'm going back I'm
49:13 online check check check it out check
49:16 out my stats online okay so I do
49:20 eventually have to talk about some other
49:21 series but I still have one more angle I
49:23 wanted to discuss when it comes to this
49:25 series something that immediately leapt
49:27 out to me upon a rewatch for this video
49:30 something that feels very relevant to
49:32 the themes I'll be talking about with
49:33 future series and something I haven't
49:35 seen very many people point out in a
49:37 deeper analysis of alen tutorial again
49:40 for this analysis we'll have to take a
49:42 step back and we'll have to do a little
49:44 bit of reflection on the series itself
49:46 what is it about these videos that is
49:48 compelling to us as an audience
49:50 especially in the first half of the
49:51 series they're not particularly useful
49:54 tutorials in the traditional sense
49:56 they're not very good videos at all
49:57 Allan's choice of topics are often
49:59 nonsensical he's not a great speaker or
50:01 narrator the sound and visual quality is
50:03 low many times he doesn't even finish
50:05 the tutorial so why do we keep watching
50:08 it's not in spite of any of these things
50:10 it is exactly because of them it's
50:12 because of Allan and the way Allan is
50:14 bad at these things I mean how can you
50:16 not like Allan I've included a lot of
50:18 just straight dialogue in this video so
50:20 far because I find his character and
50:22 mannerism so endearing and this is
50:24 intentional the character of Allen as
50:26 written and portrayed by Alan Resnik
50:28 seems to be intentionally humorous
50:30 outside of all the deeper analysis the
50:32 first half of the series does function
50:33 pretty well as a comedic satire on poor
50:36 quality YouTube tutorial videos the idea
50:38 of a person who has no real concept of
50:40 how to make a decent video and doing so
50:42 in a ridiculous way is entertaining but
50:45 the thing is this idea is not an
50:47 entirely fictional one it is not an
50:49 uncommon occurrence for some online
50:51 personality to gain a sort of cult
50:53 following because of the unique way that
50:55 they are bad at what they do anyone can
50:57 upload anything to the internet and
50:59 anyone can then find those things so you
51:02 find people who try their hand at
51:03 running a blog or uploading YouTube
51:04 videos and aren't very good at it and
51:07 just the same way you'll sometimes find
51:09 that their unique brand of strangeness
51:10 gathers a following people who are
51:12 entertained by their oddness or
51:14 incompetence at times these followers
51:16 can be kind and encouraging helping them
51:18 improve or they just find their work
51:20 Charming but just as if not more often
51:23 this following will be an ironic one
51:25 people who gain entertainment from
51:26 making this person a subject of mockery
51:28 I would say it's a reasonable angle to
51:30 view Allan as a sort of fictionalized
51:33 version of such cases and if we try to
51:35 understand the story of Alan tutorial in
51:37 this way I think it might change the way
51:39 you understand some of the things we've
51:40 gone over so far firstly I think it's
51:43 important to specify how Allan fits into
51:45 this Allen is not just an inexperienced
51:47 Video Creator Allan is clearly a
51:49 vulnerable party who isn't able to
51:51 properly take care of himself and his
51:53 safety on his own we see this with the
51:54 trouble gets himself into making these
51:56 videos often hurting himself or getting
51:58 very close to it and unfortunately he
52:00 lacks the support structure to assist
52:02 him there are many possible explanations
52:04 for Allen's Behavior maybe his character
52:07 actually is supposed to be a little kid
52:09 there are other explanations that the
52:10 Allan tutorial audience has caught on to
52:13 the series makes multiple hints to Allan
52:14 being on the Spectrum quick note so I
52:16 went to find the video I'd remember
52:18 seeing where this footage is from where
52:20 it shows Allen on YouTube during Autism
52:22 Awareness Month I found the link through
52:24 this TV TR article but clicking on it
52:26 led me to this message so I was able to
52:29 find it through this 2022 all Allen
52:31 tutorial videos video but yeah it's gone
52:34 from his channel seemingly pretty
52:36 recently I would assume this is because
52:38 he does some YouTube video downloading
52:41 stuff in it but yeah anyway that he is
52:44 suffering from schizophrenia or has one
52:46 or multiple learning disabilities or
52:48 some combination of or all of these
52:51 things in any of these cases the point
52:53 Remains the Same Alan is in a vulner
52:55 able position as a person with
52:57 unsupervised access to the internet
52:59 again a situation like this is not
53:00 entirely fictional you'll find that a
53:02 lot of the people who find themselves as
53:04 subjects of mockery are not neurotypical
53:06 in ways that make them more vulnerable
53:08 and often times lack a functioning
53:10 support structure and this is where
53:11 things get more Sinister many times
53:13 their issues or difficulties are part of
53:15 the entertainment for these ironic
53:17 followers their suffering or obstacles
53:20 are a part of the spectacle and that can
53:22 make them even more of a Target as they
53:24 lack the guidance to Ste them away from
53:25 the online environments where they're
53:27 mocked I'm avoiding using any specific
53:29 examples of people in this predicament
53:31 because I don't want to even
53:32 accidentally send more people their way
53:33 and singling someone out is missing the
53:35 point but if you've been on the internet
53:37 for a decent amount of time you probably
53:38 have some people in mind while I'm
53:40 talking about this so Allan may fit this
53:42 bill at least as someone who this could
53:44 conceivably happen to and as Alan
53:46 creates videos in his house the parallel
53:48 seems pretty clear but what about Allan
53:51 going homeless and then being kidnapped
53:53 by a mysterious group who force him into
53:55 continuing making tutorials how does
53:57 that fit into all of this well I'll be
53:59 honest I do think this section of the
54:01 series probably fits more into the
54:02 initial reading of the series we did but
54:04 I do think there's something there when
54:06 it comes to this analysis see there are
54:08 levels to the way that these ironic
54:10 followers will interact with these kinds
54:12 of people at times it's just detached
54:14 Amusement leaving these people to their
54:16 devices and enjoying whatever they make
54:18 even if it is from a place of mockery
54:21 other times there is a more active
54:22 attempt at bullying and leaving mean
54:25 but other times there is an even more
54:28 involved approach to this entertainment
54:30 people will say things about these
54:32 people specifically to elicit a reaction
54:34 from them their anger or distress at
54:37 mean comments is a part of the
54:38 entertainment and being the cause of
54:39 that even more so sometimes this takes
54:42 the form of catfishing pretending to be
54:44 someone who genuinely likes their stuff
54:45 in order to manipulate them from the
54:47 inside this direct approach can go as
54:50 far as doxing real life harassment
54:51 blackmail and manipulation very nasty
54:54 stuff and this can even be a more
54:56 organized effort planning and executing
54:58 this manipulation or harassment again
55:01 all of this with the specific goal of
55:02 gathering entertainment out of this
55:04 person's reaction it's not quite the
55:06 same as trying to deplatform somebody or
55:08 bully them off the internet they want
55:09 them to stay it's about extracting
55:12 entertainment or in layman's terms
55:14 trolling so how does this relate back to
55:16 Alan tutorial well I think you can see
55:19 the people who kidnapped Allen as a
55:21 standin for this audience at the start
55:23 Allan was just uploading videos and
55:25 people watched on in passive Amusement
55:27 but as Allen's life became more
55:28 vulnerable and he lost his only support
55:30 structure albeit a bad one I think you
55:32 could see his kidnapping as him falling
55:34 fully into the hands of his followers
55:37 completely engulfed into the
55:38 manipulation of his audience trapping
55:40 him in a facade of his real life coaxing
55:42 him into continuing to suffer for their
55:44 entertainment and then escalating
55:47 whether it's the razor blades or leaving
55:48 him in his own filth or the rotating
55:50 meat sticks they set him up to fail
55:52 because that is the spectacle I find the
55:54 most compelling piece of evidence for
55:56 this reading in the how to watch YouTube
55:58 clips in HD 720p video we see Allan come
56:01 across a video of himself filmed from a
56:03 sort of third person view a camera
56:05 that's placed on his head that's filming
56:06 him making the video to me it feels
56:08 symbolic of what people are getting out
56:10 of Allen's videos they're not in it for
56:12 the value of the tutorials themselves
56:14 they're looking past that they're there
56:16 for the idea of somebody in his position
56:18 with his difficulties trying and failing
56:20 to make tutorial videos in that way the
56:23 entertainment isn't the tutorial itself
56:25 it's the idea of it being made and the
56:27 person making it in another way it feels
56:29 to me like it's representing this
56:31 manipulation for entertainment they have
56:33 him trapped in this box making tutorials
56:35 but they're not there to watch the
56:37 tutorials they're doing this so they can
56:38 watch him make the tutorial that is
56:40 where their entertainment lies Allan
56:42 being trapped in and eventually
56:44 succumbing to his captors who use him
56:46 simply for entertainment is exactly
56:48 reflective of some of the worst case
56:49 scenarios for these online personalities
56:51 especially if they have no support
56:53 structure to look to for help or for
56:54 help healthier social interaction
56:56 unfortunately many of these people fall
56:58 into the Trap they can't stop responding
57:00 to the comments they are consumed by
57:02 these masses their lives become
57:04 metaphorically very similar to Allen's
57:06 surveilled and followed by an audience
57:08 who seek to encourage their worst habits
57:10 and prevent them from ever getting
57:12 better in an attempt to create their own
57:13 entertainment and again many times it's
57:15 the most vulnerable people who fall into
57:17 this people like Allan who don't have
57:19 the social instincts to protect
57:20 themselves and don't have the support to
57:22 help them learn this is all pretty D but
57:24 I think Allen's story can be interpreted
57:26 as a sort of happy ending in the end it
57:29 appears his audience became too bored of
57:31 him to continue their torment they left
57:33 him alone and though things seem pretty
57:34 gruesome in those last few videos he
57:37 uses this opportunity to escape and he
57:39 ends up doing the one thing that would
57:41 break this cycle he stops uploading he
57:43 stops feeding the audience or so goes my
57:46 interpretation as a little postcript
57:48 that I'm writing here near the end I
57:49 wanted to mention that this is a fairly
57:51 nuanced and sensitive topic when it
57:53 comes to harassment and bullying on line
57:55 specifically as it relates to autistic
57:57 people people with learning disabilities
57:59 or someone for instance with
58:00 schizophrenia I think you could easily
58:02 point out that people with
58:03 unconventional interests or just neurode
58:05 Divergent people are in general more
58:08 often targets of online harassment not
58:10 because they're doing anything wrong or
58:11 anything like that just because they're
58:13 on the Spectrum or neurod diversion in
58:15 some other way that's an important topic
58:17 to discuss but the analysis I'm getting
58:19 at here with alen tutorial is more so
58:21 related to the specific type of
58:23 harassment that typically finds with
58:25 people who have a more difficult time
58:26 self- abdicating which isn't the case
58:28 for all neurod Divergent people Allen's
58:30 case which for the record is left fairly
58:32 vague specifically his extreme naivity
58:35 and unsupervised access and difficulties
58:37 using the internet parallel how that
58:40 naivity can be taken advantage of in
58:41 some of the most severe real life cases
58:43 of online harassment even with some of
58:45 this clarification I'm sure that I'm not
58:47 100% spoton for one this is one
58:50 subjective reading of alen's character
58:52 and story and I'm not an expert in this
58:55 at all and so I'm being as sensitive as
58:57 I can here but my main point is that I
58:59 think this series can be viewed with the
59:01 lens of this internet phenomenon in mind
59:04 and I hope I've done a decent enough job
59:05 portraying that without getting things
59:07 totally wrong or disrespectful one thing
59:09 of tremendous value I got out of this
59:11 series was a deep sense of empathy for
59:14 Allan and I think the audience in the
59:16 comments of that final video hoping for
59:18 a happy ending for Allan shows that a
59:20 lot of people watching did too sure
59:22 Allan's videos were funny he wasn't
59:24 great at making a tutorial but you root
59:26 for him the whole way you're scared with
59:28 him you're sad with him you're hoping
59:30 for the best for him I think it shows
59:32 that though there is cruelty on the
59:33 internet from the likes of those we
59:35 discussed in that second analysis there
59:37 are many more who value happiness and
59:39 health and empathy for people and if
59:41 you're seeing a running theme here with
59:43 this and Henry's kitchen good we'll get
59:45 to that but Allan tutorial did a lot
59:47 more than just create a compelling story
59:50 it reached millions and inspired many to
59:52 pursue the at the time burgeoning world
59:54 of alternative storytelling via the
59:56 internet web series args unfiction it
59:59 sits among night mind's most popular
01:00:01 video topics just below what might be
01:00:03 the king of modern horror on fiction
01:00:04 Marble Hornets Allan tutorial's
01:00:06 influence may not be calculable but you
01:00:09 can see it everywhere in the modern day
01:00:10 of the genre and inhabits and what I'd
01:00:12 like to talk about next might be one of
01:00:14 its greatest successors the stock
01:00:26 patreon.com Hawks commentary tracks and
01:00:28 more oh my God Early Access exclusive
01:00:30 reviews names in the credits of two
01:00:32 tears to Cho on to help me decide like
01:00:35 whatever you choose you might break a
01:00:37 tie support this [Â __Â ] if it's what you
01:01:07 let's take a trip back to the start of
01:01:08 2020 in the US tech startups propped up
01:01:11 on vaporware promised The Impossible
01:01:14 cryptocurrency was in a limbo following
01:01:15 bitcoin's crash in 2018 but concerns of
01:01:18 war in early January began to fuel some
01:01:20 to reconsider it online gurus and
01:01:23 Hustlers promised a clear path to
01:01:24 becoming a millionaire secret tricks of
01:01:26 the stock market it was nothing new but
01:01:28 as a pandemic began its devastating
01:01:31 sweep across the world their Promises of
01:01:33 passive income and stability became more
01:01:35 tantalizing enter a channel called stock
01:01:38 roach in early 2020 a true Visionary of
01:01:40 the crypto roller coaster that
01:01:42 threatened to infest social media and
01:01:44 the worldwide psyche in the next few
01:01:45 years but behind his viral videos was a
01:01:48 darker secret a convoluted series of
01:01:50 lies and half-truths that would
01:01:51 eventually cause TS roach to say his
01:01:53 final St stad dooodle do to properly
01:01:56 understand TS roach I think it's best to
01:01:58 let him introduce himself yo what's up
01:02:00 money grubs this is the stock Roach
01:02:02 coming at you on January 2nd 202020 to
01:02:07 say stocka dooodle Doo to the new year
01:02:10 uh I'm here to give you some money
01:02:12 advice talk about how to infest your
01:02:15 Investments so I was just thinking you
01:02:17 know it's a new year it's a time of new
01:02:19 beginnings we've got we got New Year's
01:02:22 Eve and then they put New Year's Day
01:02:24 right next to it which is cool we got
01:02:26 the Lunar New Year we got um we got the
01:02:29 Martin Luther King New Year we got all
01:02:32 kinds of new stuff has happened you know
01:02:34 I've made I've made so much money in my
01:02:36 career and I thought it's time for me
01:02:39 now to give something back so you know
01:02:41 I'm basically created this channel to
01:02:43 like teach you how you can be successful
01:02:47 like me you know get a little coin on
01:02:49 your back maybe if you're lucky do some
01:02:52 thought bubbles you know makes just make
01:02:54 some money in general so let's see
01:02:57 what's on the agenda for episode num um
01:03:01 sorry let's see what's on the let's see
01:03:04 what's on the episode today TS roach is
01:03:07 a master ordor from his well-designed
01:03:09 PowerPoints to his intriguing writing
01:03:11 style but pause at the right time and
01:03:13 you may see something unintended this is
01:03:16 a series I feel is best enjoyed
01:03:17 firsthand so I want to encourage you to
01:03:19 check it out for yourself it's genuinely
01:03:21 one of the funniest series I've seen so
01:03:23 far and if you're wanting more
01:03:25 afterwards you can come back here to see
01:03:27 the hidden details you might have missed
01:03:28 and my analysis of the series episode
01:03:31 one of stock roach was uploaded January
01:03:33 4th 2020 within it stock roach offers an
01:03:35 overview of Cash Money its pros and cons
01:03:38 and its fatal security flaws I didn't
01:03:40 know about this until somebody told me
01:03:42 about it so a lot of a lot of people
01:03:43 don't know about this but
01:03:48 criminal uh looks at the number on the
01:03:52 bill they can memorize Mize it and if
01:03:55 you memorize the
01:03:57 number you can actually go to the bank
01:03:59 and you can get a new dollar bill
01:04:01 printed of that number as a
01:04:04 replacement which makes the original
01:04:07 dollar bill invalid he never explicitly
01:04:09 mentions cryptocurrency but his personal
01:04:12 conclusions are made quite clear but
01:04:14 what if I told you this stock roach
01:04:16 wasn't all that he seemed that there are
01:04:18 details hidden Within These videos that
01:04:20 only the keenest Discerning Eye will be
01:04:21 able to detect hidden within stock
01:04:23 roaches otherwise airtight presentation
01:04:25 are search results revealing a crippling
01:04:27 fear of dolls satanic symbolism even a
01:04:30 diary entry mentioning a girl named
01:04:31 Ashley and insinuating that stock roach
01:04:34 is hurting for money wedging his future
01:04:36 on bitcoin this is how the true story of
01:04:38 stock roach is told this is how we will
01:04:41 uncover the truth behind stock roach's
01:04:43 identity throughout these videos picking
01:04:44 up the breadcrumbs left in the cracks of
01:04:46 his screen recordings and trust me this
01:04:48 is only the start I'm going to be doing
01:04:50 this every every week for a for for a
01:04:53 couple years of stock roach's Legacy his
01:04:55 next few videos mostly continue the
01:04:57 financial advice though sometimes
01:04:59 departing into feedback or art projects
01:05:01 such as teaching us how to buy penny
01:05:02 stocks very on brand considering his
01:05:04 inclination to speculative volatile
01:05:07 assets like crypto he introduces a theme
01:05:10 song oh sorry that was a that was a bad
01:05:41 yeah yeah that's my favorite part it's
01:05:44 like you can't it's like one of those
01:05:45 songs like you can't hear it without
01:05:46 singing along right and discusses his
01:05:48 channel growth episode one has reached
01:05:51 over 100 views in only two days
01:05:54 uh and that's great whereas episode 2 is
01:05:59 is kind of hovering around the 20s
01:06:00 that's not as good and a lot of people
01:06:03 would be disappointed in my situation
01:06:05 but honestly I'm not I consider this a
01:06:09 success uh I consider myself happy about
01:06:13 what's happening because I think that
01:06:15 failure is actually a kind of success
01:06:19 because it's a step toward another
01:06:23 success his optimism is contagious and
01:06:25 it might explain his heightened risk
01:06:27 tolerance in the face of such risky
01:06:28 Financial Endeavors stock roach
01:06:30 continues painting a picture of himself
01:06:32 telling us that he's in the 30 plus uh a
01:06:36 range of Ages and at first glance
01:06:39 there's not much more here but we know
01:06:41 there's more than meets the eye glimpses
01:06:43 of his diary and Microsoft Word reveal
01:06:45 more of his own personal writing some
01:06:47 more innocent like a fantasy novel
01:06:48 titled magisteria and some of his other
01:06:51 artistic interests but others are more
01:06:52 Sinister like this omous drawing of a
01:06:54 figure in a window watching what we can
01:06:56 only assume is this Ashley person
01:06:58 mentions of Ashley continue including
01:07:00 poems written for her he's clearly
01:07:02 obsessed we also see multiple mentions
01:07:04 of stock roach reminiscing about his
01:07:06 father for instance with a document
01:07:07 called free writing about Dad and one
01:07:10 diary entry mentions he'd been throwing
01:07:12 away pills that he felt improved his
01:07:13 academic performance at the expense of
01:07:16 his creativity but where we can learn
01:07:17 the most about stock roach is when he
01:07:19 shows us how to sign up for an
01:07:21 electronic trading platform he enters
01:07:23 everything social security number
01:07:25 marital status but most interestingly
01:07:27 the roach makes a mistake while entering
01:07:29 his birthday putting the date of a
01:07:31 16-year-old that was a crazy typo I
01:07:33 don't know how that happened it's
01:07:34 supposed to be 1984 I was thinking
01:07:38 because uh sometimes sometimes
01:07:41 I I use a lot of different numbers uh in
01:07:44 my line of work so this isn't a simple
01:07:46 mistake no someone with such skill with
01:07:48 numbers wouldn't easily confuse these
01:07:50 dates Our Hope For answers would be put
01:07:52 on hold however as the the stock roach
01:07:54 would soon disappear from the internet
01:07:56 for a long while so let's talk about
01:07:58 what we know so far I can tell you that
01:08:01 the moment I saw stock roach I was
01:08:02 utterly absorbed his strange tone of
01:08:05 voice his endless aptitude for high-risk
01:08:07 Investments his anime opening I had to
01:08:10 learn more about this enigmatic figure
01:08:12 and what immediately begins to stand out
01:08:13 are his contradictions his dualities
01:08:16 like the titular coin that resides on
01:08:21 stockroom obsession with Ashley his
01:08:24 confidence in the face of volatility and
01:08:26 yet his overwhelming fear of dolls the
01:08:28 only way to understand this man and
01:08:30 resolve some of his contradictions is to
01:08:32 continue watching after eight
01:08:34 devastating months of Silence stock
01:08:36 roach returns and as covid-19 has swept
01:08:39 through the world it seems it is also
01:08:40 swept through TS roach he explains he
01:08:43 ended up in the hospital allegedly due
01:08:45 to co but even that doesn't deter him a
01:08:49 people look at it as an illness whereas
01:08:53 the stop cockroach and uh all the money
01:08:56 grubs look at it as an opportunity so
01:09:00 what is the Corona virus an opportunity
01:09:03 for to do and one of those things is
01:09:06 that when you're lying in a hospital bed
01:09:13 think some really big thoughts during
01:09:15 this uncertain time stock roach gives
01:09:17 Sage advice about the future of the
01:09:19 economy the number of dollar signs when
01:09:21 we get the Corona virus will drop down
01:09:24 to zero this is something all economists
01:09:27 agree on but what all other economists
01:09:32 agree on furthermore is that if the
01:09:36 economy is given a new form of medicine
01:09:39 the strength and number of dollars in
01:09:43 the economy will rise until I am
01:09:47 released from the hospital it's not not
01:09:50 that I'm in the hospital anymore
01:09:54 that's what some people say and it's not
01:09:56 true I can tell you that right now the
01:09:58 video is brought to an abrupt End by an
01:10:00 alarm reminding him to take medicine but
01:10:02 that's not all we learned this episode
01:10:04 there's references to him attending
01:10:06 school a desire to be the same as the
01:10:08 other kids instead of always being
01:10:10 different and needing to complete
01:10:11 homework this seems out of place
01:10:14 considering what we know about the 30
01:10:15 plus range of Ages stock roach more of
01:10:17 his mysterious contradictions that's not
01:10:19 the only Oddities in these entries
01:10:21 references to scabs and bandages needs
01:10:23 to change that don't quite line up with
01:10:25 covid-19 symptoms and his father is
01:10:27 brought up once again while searching up
01:10:29 his various big thoughts list there's a
01:10:31 few morbid entries in list five even the
01:10:33 longest relationship you ever have is
01:10:35 still just temporary because of death
01:10:38 followed by fatherson relationships
01:10:40 through history later on a disconcerting
01:10:42 collection of folders details drawings
01:10:44 of a hospital devil a hospital Angel and
01:10:47 some man who seems to do something at
01:10:49 night but the strangest moment of the
01:10:51 episode occurs in a blinking you'll miss
01:10:53 it gesture so I'm just going to pull up
01:10:56 slid uh sorry about
01:11:02 that I am going to pull
01:11:05 up a special thing he goes to look for
01:11:08 the folder slideshow pulls up the trash
01:11:10 and then Falls silent uneasy by
01:11:12 something he sees there that prompts him
01:11:14 to immediately delete the files notably
01:11:16 in the trash is a folder called memories
01:11:19 of Dad this type of silence is different
01:11:21 from the other times we've seen TS roach
01:11:23 fumble to cover something he hadn't
01:11:24 meant to show this time to me at least
01:11:26 it feels more somber on to the next
01:11:29 video this next video shows the stock
01:11:31 roach replying to an email allowing us
01:11:33 to peek into his account and
01:11:34 interestingly showing us that stock
01:11:35 roach is also signed into another Gmail
01:11:37 account belonging to Jeremy Gilbert and
01:11:40 inside his search history we find some
01:11:42 odd musings past lives while living in
01:11:44 the hospital prettiest anime girls and
01:11:47 puberty side effects male and philosophy
01:11:49 regarding death so it seems like stock
01:11:52 roach has faced some kind of loss
01:11:53 recently presumably his father it's at
01:11:55 this point I want to present a
01:11:57 revolutionary Theory this may be hard to
01:11:59 believe so please bear with me what if
01:12:01 stock roach is a high school aged Jeremy
01:12:05 Gilbert and stock roach is lying about
01:12:07 his age on the internet I I know it's
01:12:09 quite an accusation but I am prepared to
01:12:11 defend it in court if TS Rach intends to
01:12:14 sue so with that in mind let's continue
01:12:17 the next couple videos show stock roach
01:12:19 continuing his interactions with fans
01:12:21 but he seems a bit perturbed by some of
01:12:22 their messages specifically ones asking
01:12:24 about his medicine the hospital angel
01:12:26 and devil and strange tweets on his
01:12:34 stockrooms accusing him of being an ARG
01:12:37 an acronym he appears to never have
01:12:39 heard of these accusations lead him into
01:12:42 a sort of existential spiral what if he
01:12:45 is an ARG a fictional person only made
01:12:47 for this online game the implications of
01:12:50 his reality seem to deeply concern him
01:12:52 will he die can an ARG have a girlfriend
01:12:55 but that isn't all that seems to be on
01:12:57 his mind we can see a new diary entry
01:12:59 with dizzyingly slurred writing stock
01:13:01 roach's spelling abilities have always
01:13:03 been a little spotty but this is another
01:13:06 level I've taken the Liberty in
01:13:07 translating the gist of it dear diary
01:13:10 the angel who used to come for me in the
01:13:11 hospital bed I saw her she's humming a
01:13:14 song If I see the angel again then maybe
01:13:17 that means the big bad devil man comes
01:13:19 again too here the singing Angel saying
01:13:21 I remember she sang the song to me she
01:13:23 said too Jeremy take her name never
01:13:26 again be a Gilbert run away from the
01:13:28 arms of Gilbert and you will find her
01:13:30 sing song that when you say you get
01:13:33 health all again the bad demon no go
01:13:35 away and another dream was that I had
01:13:37 the devil man in the cone he was the
01:13:39 virus give me the virus but the medicine
01:13:42 heal me take away the devil and I only
01:13:44 hear the music from some other place if
01:13:46 I could get rich then she will love me
01:13:48 and take her name to me no never more
01:13:50 not have to be a Gilbert and the devil
01:13:52 he will soon give a dream to me that
01:13:54 when I was little Jeremy with the money
01:13:56 gone when Daddy leave behind no money
01:13:58 and he says the virus comes to bring
01:14:00 back poor poor poor poor Jeremy Gilbert
01:14:03 we get the sense that Jeremy was dealing
01:14:04 with hallucinations while recovering in
01:14:06 the hospital the taking her name May
01:14:08 refer to Ashley and his obsession with
01:14:10 her that the way to escape his
01:14:12 circumstance is through convincing her
01:14:13 to marry him with money and hence his
01:14:15 focus on investments throughout the
01:14:16 series Jeremy also seems conflicted with
01:14:19 his role in his family his father is
01:14:20 implied to have left him leaving his
01:14:22 family in poverty it's also possible his
01:14:24 resentment to taking medicine he doesn't
01:14:26 want as seen pre Hospital Arc in episode
01:14:28 2 may be why he wants to leave his
01:14:30 family name behind but things get even
01:14:32 stranger when he uploads a video titled
01:14:48 2 seemingly recorded in the middle of
01:14:50 the night it starts to paint a picture
01:14:52 of what those prev previous strange
01:14:53 tweets and writings have been presumably
01:14:55 doing this in a half asleep like trance
01:14:57 Jeremy sings and transcribes an odd tune
01:15:00 and writes a similarly garbled diary
01:15:02 entry I am seeing the wings and hearing
01:15:04 with her way she's singing a song and
01:15:06 even responds to a comment in this state
01:15:08 when you and if you sleep that way if
01:15:10 you're awake you can hear the song and
01:15:13 see her his next couple of videos expand
01:15:15 further on the sleeping State Jeremy
01:15:17 sometimes posts from back in his
01:15:19 awakened format he discusses his
01:15:20 covid-19 symptoms sometimes when you
01:15:23 have the version of Corona virus that I
01:15:26 have you get up at night to do various
01:15:30 tasks uh like checking email is one of
01:15:33 them or um uh moving things from the
01:15:38 hallway or deleting files and when you
01:15:41 do some people would call this uh they'
01:15:44 call this sleepwalking I call it an
01:15:46 opportunity because every time you
01:15:48 delete a file in your sleep it's what it
01:15:51 is it's it's an opportunity to be
01:15:53 creative all over again I actually don't
01:15:55 know what this is I'm going to get rid
01:15:58 it if you get Corona virus you may find
01:16:03 senses are heightened personally I found
01:16:06 that my sense of hearing was what was
01:16:08 the most heightened and you will start
01:16:10 to hear things like for example uh
01:16:14 voices of some sort of uh creature or
01:16:19 being uh that echo through the hallways
01:16:22 and they sing maybe one of the most
01:16:27 Melodies uh that you've ever heard in
01:16:30 your life and it's one of those Melodies
01:16:32 that you feel like you've always
01:16:36 known but if you ever try to remember it
01:16:41 it you can't do it I don't know if uh if
01:16:45 if angels for example are real but I do
01:16:49 know uh what I heard so clearly this is
01:16:53 is not CO as the videos go on they seem
01:16:55 to suggest almost an alter ego of sorts
01:16:57 who will call the night roach leaving
01:16:59 messages for him and filling his
01:17:01 computer with halft transposed versions
01:17:02 of what is presumably the Angel's song
01:17:04 to the point that his computer is
01:17:06 suffering severe performance issues and
01:17:08 these Untitled night roach uploads also
01:17:10 continue here and there continuing his
01:17:12 goal of transposing the song and getting
01:17:14 Jeremy's day word attention these
01:17:16 uploads also continue filling Us in on
01:17:18 Jeremy's life uploaded just after Joe
01:17:20 Biden's 2020 election I want to say
01:17:22 congratul rations to America's brand new
01:17:25 President Bill Clinton who uh sorry
01:17:27 shoot not uh not Bill Clinton um to Bill
01:17:31 jodan to President Bill jodan I want to
01:17:32 say congratulations the stock roach
01:17:35 continues his financial advice and
01:17:37 shares some truly inspiring quotes
01:17:39 interrupting the Montage we hear a brief
01:17:41 phone conversation between Ashley and
01:17:43 Jeremy yeah I've always got always have
01:17:46 time to talk to you you know
01:17:51 um yeah so that's uh uh it's not it's
01:17:54 actually it's actually not due until
01:17:55 Tuesday so and see Jeremy add to a
01:17:58 detailed list of information he knows
01:17:59 about Ashley including her favorite band
01:18:01 snakeskin and height normal and we
01:18:04 continue to see his fascination with hot
01:18:05 anime girls and hot anime boys and his
01:18:08 home life is again fleshed out
01:18:10 continuing to reminisce on his father
01:18:11 and attempts to hide and avoid taking
01:18:13 his pills from his mother a note on the
01:18:15 pills actually referring back to the
01:18:17 diary entry in episode 2 where Jeremy
01:18:19 mentioned he'd been throwing away
01:18:21 academic enhancing pills made him feel
01:18:23 zombified I think it's likely Jeremy may
01:18:26 have been prescribed medicine for ADHD
01:18:29 and doesn't feel comfortable taking it
01:18:30 due to his reaction to it however he
01:18:33 also seems to be taking new medicine
01:18:34 related to his illness in the hospital
01:18:36 and his distrust of it seems to be
01:18:38 influenced by that past experience
01:18:42 stockroom next videos seem to focus back
01:18:44 on these accusations of being an ARG
01:18:47 having had ample time to research the
01:18:48 topic stock roach gives us the rundown
01:18:51 so what is ARG ARG is a form of YouTube
01:18:56 channel where there is both a game to
01:18:59 play and a sort of there's a thing where
01:19:01 there's like a mysterious aspect to a um
01:19:06 we're I'm just going to we're going to
01:19:07 look at the definition real quick okay
01:19:14 village a far away
01:19:16 Village in in somewhere called n ner
01:19:21 Reena Reena where the first ARG was
01:19:30 um but I don't see that here on the
01:19:35 page one of the most famous examples of
01:19:38 ARG was the Garfield cartoon which was
01:19:44 done so realistically and with so much
01:19:48 detail that for a long time a lot of
01:19:51 people believed that Garfield was a real
01:19:53 cat and here you can see um that ARG was
01:19:56 referenced in the canonical drawings of
01:20:00 the comic book now another ARG that was
01:20:02 very popular um is something called Pet
01:20:05 Shop a lot of people play Pet Shop it's
01:20:07 a game it's an ARG about getting pets um
01:20:12 and I recently watched the whole
01:20:14 thing and I can tell you that it is very
01:20:19 very boring actually no I'm going to so
01:20:21 the problem the problem I have with Pet
01:20:23 Shop it's it's a pet themed game it has
01:20:25 pets right here in the name but they
01:20:29 don't even bother to reference in any
01:20:31 way or form or shape the most famous pet
01:20:35 in the world who is who is Garfield but
01:20:39 the main point of this video seems to be
01:20:41 to introduce a new ARG one he has
01:20:44 created maybe I made it or maybe uh I
01:20:48 didn't make it maybe it's a real maybe
01:20:50 it's real videos because I watched them
01:20:52 and they looked pretty real to me um but
01:21:05 called adapting his previously mentioned
01:21:08 novel magisteria and is now uploading to
01:21:10 a new channel moving over there we find
01:21:12 that the Animated Hero stario has been
01:21:15 transported to a virtual world and the
01:21:17 players need to help him get home and
01:21:18 this digital Adventure is expanded in
01:21:20 future videos as he takes audience
01:21:22 suggest questions in exploring the world
01:21:24 and solving puzzles but since this is
01:21:26 still stock roach moments of reality
01:21:27 bleed into the videos and we see his
01:21:30 future plans for new videos his mom
01:21:32 forgetting about Thanksgiving and top 10
01:21:34 things I love about my body having
01:21:36 sorted out his feelings towards args
01:21:39 stock roach gets straight to the root of
01:21:40 what it means to be a YouTuber appealing
01:21:42 to brands for monetization only problem
01:21:45 stock roach doesn't actually have any
01:21:46 sponsors vying for his attention so he
01:21:49 decides you should be advertising for
01:21:53 the sponsorship that you want not just
01:21:57 the sponsorship that you have um so that
01:22:01 brings me to my next topic which is
01:22:03 something I like to call a
01:22:07 advertisement um also known as a
01:22:10 hypothetical sponsorship and
01:22:47 something else worth noting while it's
01:22:48 nothing new for stock roach to be
01:22:50 looking for additional ways to grow his
01:22:51 Investments this this particular move to
01:22:53 sponsored content seems accelerated by
01:22:55 some hidden details one entry notes that
01:22:57 his family has run out of money and not
01:22:59 all seems well for poor Jeremy given his
01:23:02 choice in music the next few videos a
01:23:04 mix of night roach posts ARG videos from
01:23:06 the stario channel and daytime stock
01:23:08 roach hyinks only deep in the sense that
01:23:11 something is off a diary entry reveals
01:23:13 Jeremy's mother misled him on the reason
01:23:15 he was hospitalized but it definitely
01:23:17 wasn't Co stock roach seems to question
01:23:19 whether he has a repressed memory
01:23:21 jotting down notes of but he does recall
01:23:23 and there's some other night roach
01:23:25 messages that I've managed to decode
01:23:26 they seem to be Snippets of dialogue
01:23:28 from a video Jeremy has implied to have
01:23:30 filmed for his father but
01:23:37 stockroom but we find this important
01:23:40 announcement has been copyright claimed
01:23:42 and so stock roach begins to prepare his
01:23:44 legal defense and this controversy marks
01:23:46 the start of the free stock roach
01:23:48 campaign a campaign that will forever
01:23:50 change the landscape of YouTube and
01:23:52 especially the stock roach Channel and
01:23:53 ultimately this campaign culminated in a
01:23:55 full 43 signatures gaining the
01:23:58 autographs of notable persons like
01:24:00 Jeremy G himself and while he fights for
01:24:02 his freedom he occupies himself in other
01:24:04 ways a live stream and very excitingly a
01:24:07 real interview with the real snake from
01:24:09 the band snakes skin and of course
01:24:11 Within These videos comes additional
01:24:12 hidden info we find some sillier details
01:24:15 like stock roach's favorite singer my
01:24:17 favorite singer is probably a singer
01:24:20 named chopan uh she mostly only sang
01:24:25 songs on the piano and she was she was
01:24:28 very skinny and she was very sick for
01:24:30 most of her life but they say that she
01:24:33 played the piano so so beautifully that
01:24:36 she was able to heal her body with the
01:24:39 music but other details are more morbid
01:24:42 so let's look more deeply into them that
01:24:44 is uh I actually see I have some files
01:24:46 right now that I can delete and I'm just
01:24:48 going to go ahead and delete them
01:24:51 forever and the thing I love about
01:24:54 deleting them forever is that then you
01:24:57 never you never have to think about them
01:24:59 any anymore you don't even you don't
01:25:01 have to remember them you don't have to
01:25:03 think about them uh vice versa stock
01:25:06 roach's dialogue becomes a lot more
01:25:08 telling here when you translate that
01:25:09 folder's Japanese title nocturn for Dad
01:25:13 in a night roach video Beyond another
01:25:14 Glimpse at Jeremy's questioning of his
01:25:16 own repressed memories night roach also
01:25:18 exposes a Word document called letter to
01:25:20 mom it's a bit tricky to make out but
01:25:22 here's my transcription dear Mom when
01:25:25 you read this letter you will probably
01:25:26 have a lot of questions I want you to
01:25:28 know the decision I made does not mean
01:25:30 that I did not feel loved but only that
01:25:32 I felt there was no other options for me
01:25:34 I don't feel like I have control of my
01:25:36 brain anymore and I think the house
01:25:38 makes it worse and I want to be
01:25:39 somewhere else all the time only I don't
01:25:41 know where somewhere else is so I'm just
01:25:43 going to find it now don't worry I'm
01:25:45 sorry for how you probably feel right
01:25:47 now I took my medicine this morning and
01:25:49 will be okay but my phone is off
01:25:51 probably forever sincerely Jeremy and
01:25:54 based on the files modification date it
01:25:55 seems like it was created February 5th
01:25:57 of 2020 after episode 4 before he
01:26:00 returns from his hospitalization a few
01:26:02 final details stock roach notes that
01:26:04 animations have been appearing on his
01:26:06 computer by themselves night roach is
01:26:07 doing and though he thought about using
01:26:09 them for the stario ARG they made him
01:26:11 think about something he didn't like so
01:26:13 he deleted them but in the same video we
01:26:15 also get the first clearish video of
01:26:17 stock roach AKA Jeremy G he's wearing a
01:26:21 neck brace a interlude
01:26:52 every time I search for Garfield he's
01:26:53 there he's taking up real estate so I'm
01:26:56 thinking to myself what does Andrew have
01:27:00 to do with Garfield uh and I was getting
01:27:04 pretty uh I was getting not angry
01:27:08 necessarily but I was getting I was
01:27:10 getting pretty mad I was getting pretty
01:27:12 mad about it until I looked a little
01:27:17 more deeply into the history and the
01:27:31 Garfield or should I
01:27:34 say Andrew Russell
01:27:47 gar on the note of args stock roach
01:27:49 takes the time to tease the finale of
01:27:51 his ARG series stario then there's a few
01:27:54 miscellaneous things like an
01:27:55 announcement of TS roach's book of poems
01:27:58 that had been accepted by SS Sprite
01:27:59 books there's a moment in one of these
01:28:01 videos where we can see Jeremy
01:28:02 responding to snake about weird messages
01:28:04 he'd been sending snake asks if his
01:28:06 weird Behavior has anything to do with
01:28:08 his dad and so he immediately bailes
01:28:19 stockroom back with some exciting news
01:28:21 about crypto currency it seems like his
01:28:23 plan for the video is to talk about hex
01:28:25 crypto and so he launches into a variety
01:28:27 of reasons why hex crypto is superior he
01:28:29 reveals that when he was younger he'd
01:28:30 actually earn some Bitcoin playing
01:28:32 Minecraft and so he goes to check on the
01:28:34 value of his wallet so I played I played
01:28:36 I played Minecraft all day every day and
01:28:38 I could only get
01:28:39 2.1 Bitcoin 2.1 which is nothing so it's
01:28:45 it's there's no there's no point in me
01:28:46 even even keeping this like I um but
01:28:50 before he decides to delete his wallet
01:28:52 he goes to check its worth and the
01:28:53 realization hits him thinking back to
01:28:55 his family's money troubles his kns left
01:29:29 it's okay I'm okay I'm
01:29:33 okay and with this new Fortune he
01:29:36 decides to call up someone special to
01:29:38 him hey I was just wondering if you
01:29:40 wanted to um oh actually hold on a
01:29:44 sec and all seems well he makes more
01:29:47 videos and plans to take Ashley out to a
01:29:49 fancy restaurant this particular video
01:29:51 is a collection of short short tips on
01:29:52 how to secure Financial assets and stock
01:29:54 roach being stock roach he ends up
01:29:56 showing his passwords for all of YouTube
01:29:58 to see when stock roach comes back he
01:30:00 has an update he's been receiving odd
01:30:02 emails and guesses that they're
01:30:04 malicious intent but he still manages
01:30:06 unfortunately to run it just download it
01:30:08 and take a look so what they're probably
01:30:10 trying to hide is a virus uh you never
01:30:13 want to double click a virus cuz for
01:30:15 example like if you double click a virus
01:30:20 no the result disastrous I just wanted
01:30:24 to let you know that the program
01:30:26 definitely was a virus a somber update
01:30:30 video the next day reveals the
01:30:31 unfortunate truth his Bitcoin has been
01:30:34 stolen you probably don't know this
01:30:36 because I never reveal anything personal
01:30:39 about myself on my YouTube but there's
01:30:44 girl that I'm probably going to marry
01:30:46 one day she doesn't know that yet but we
01:30:51 were actually going to get dinner
01:30:53 together next weekend at a really fancy
01:30:55 restaurant and I don't know how I can
01:30:56 pay for it now that all of my Bitcoin is
01:30:59 gone and I'm not going to tell you the
01:31:02 the restaurant for for privacy reasons
01:31:04 but I've been looking at the menu and so
01:31:06 A desperate stock roach is left with one
01:31:09 final option hi everyone this is
01:31:12 youtube.com the stock roach now you
01:31:16 probably know me as the roach who has it
01:31:18 all and up until a few days ago that was
01:31:22 I cruised around the Sea of Japan with
01:31:24 my favorite celebrities I studied
01:31:27 painting with the ancient masters of the
01:31:29 form I lifted weights made of solid gold
01:31:33 and I made YouTube videos from my couch
01:31:36 which was stuffed full of $100
01:31:39 bills and the reason I could do all
01:31:41 these amazing things was because I had
01:31:43 over a million dollar secretly invested
01:31:47 Bitcoin all that changed on the evening
01:31:50 of August 200 21 when I accidentally
01:31:54 double clicked a virus anyone who has
01:31:56 watched my highly successful YouTube
01:31:58 series about how to become an investor
01:32:00 knows that the number one rule of
01:32:01 investing is never give up and the
01:32:04 number two rule of investing is if you
01:32:06 need money ask your friends I'm asking
01:32:09 all of my best friends to help me raise
01:32:11 a minimum of $57 so that I can take the
01:32:14 love of my life out to dinner and the
01:32:16 campaign goes better than stock roach
01:32:19 would ever anticipate he gives a final
01:32:21 recap the fundraiser yesterday when I
01:32:23 looked at the fundraiser it was at
01:32:25 $163 uh and then I looked again today
01:32:28 and it was at it was at almost at over
01:32:32 $200 uh which is really amazing and like
01:32:36 now I'm trying to think like how are we
01:32:38 going to spend that much money at one
01:32:40 restaurant at one time because like
01:32:42 we're not going to order wine obviously
01:32:44 cuz like we're not 21 or she's not 21 I
01:32:47 am 21 obviously I'm middleaged um I mean
01:32:51 she's not she's she's middle-aged too
01:32:53 we're both uh we're both over 21 we're
01:32:55 both middle-aged um I don't know why I
01:33:01 um I just thought it would be kind of
01:33:03 peaceful to take a look at the water and
01:33:06 just kind of uh just kind of relax and
01:33:09 process and just you know do something
01:33:12 no after drawing off his phone he
01:33:14 promises to give an update from the
01:33:16 restaurant tomorrow he Dawns some fancy
01:33:18 attire I ended up going to Goodwill to
01:33:20 get a tie uh there was a little cheaper
01:33:21 it was $8 um but they have a lot of good
01:33:24 ties there I think that's why they put
01:33:26 uh they put good in the name um but it
01:33:30 looks really good with my watermelon
01:33:32 colored shirt um let me show you real
01:33:34 quick there's the watermelon shirt um
01:33:37 and there's the tie documents his food
01:33:39 pays for the meal and reveals a final
01:33:41 surprise in addition to the $190 $198
01:33:46 that we raised uh on the
01:33:48 fundraiser I also had a couple donations
01:33:51 that came through through on PayPal um
01:33:56 this I will update you on how everything
01:33:59 goes when I get home in like an hour we
01:34:02 don't get an update until the next day
01:34:04 oh stock roach then releases a cover of
01:34:07 Steven stimes I'm not that girl with the
01:34:09 description this song really connects
01:34:11 with me lately I don't know why in the
01:34:13 video of his cover he flubs a line
01:34:15 saying that's the girl she he
01:34:25 know I'm not that
01:34:32 good giving us a good hint of what might
01:34:35 have happened but by the end of the
01:34:37 video we actually get to see Ashley's
01:34:38 point of view of what happened he never
01:34:40 actually told her his feelings but
01:34:42 something she said made him realize she
01:34:44 wouldn't be interested in him after
01:34:46 about a week from the original date
01:34:48 stock roach indirectly explains what
01:34:50 happens uh question that a money grub
01:34:53 asked me recently which was basically
01:34:56 like what should you do if every single
01:35:01 dream you've ever had kind of like falls
01:35:04 apart all at the same time and I thought
01:35:08 this was a really interesting question
01:35:10 as an investor because when you think
01:35:13 about it money is really just a big
01:35:16 dream it's just a dream that we're all
01:35:22 having uh at the same time so if you
01:35:25 have any advice for the money grub who
01:35:28 is in this situation uh you can leave it
01:35:31 in the comments and I'll pass it along
01:35:33 to him he presents a famous myth about a
01:35:35 fisherman Who falls in love with the
01:35:36 moon but when he goes to confess that
01:35:38 love to the Moon with a ring while he's
01:35:40 winding up he's about to throw the ring
01:35:43 the Moon is like
01:35:46 hey by the way I'm actually not
01:35:49 attracted to fishermen
01:35:52 and like she doesn't say at all
01:35:54 dismissive like that uh really she's
01:35:57 more like hey there's actually this
01:36:00 other Moon that I know and you know her
01:36:03 too and I have a crush on her and I
01:36:05 think I'm in love with her and it's not
01:36:08 her fault cuz she didn't know that he
01:36:10 had a ring tied to his fishing stick and
01:36:12 he was about to throw it up into the
01:36:16 sky but the fisherman is pretty cool
01:36:18 about it he's just like cool you know
01:36:22 good for you I'm really proud of you but
01:36:26 then also he has to just like sit there
01:36:27 for like an hour with a ring tied to the
01:36:32 end of his fishing stick stock roach
01:36:34 well Jeremy is obviously the fisherman
01:36:36 and he asks his audience what the
01:36:37 fisherman should do now that this has
01:36:39 happened meanwhile the night roach has
01:36:41 been counting down for a while actually
01:36:44 and that countdown is approaching zero
01:36:46 stock roach releases another video
01:36:48 Reminiscing on the series and decides
01:36:49 friends are overrated when you have a
01:36:51 YouTube channel you can make money from
01:36:53 I guess what I've learned over the past
01:36:55 uh few uh time periods of my life is
01:36:58 that whatever else I have going on in my
01:37:01 life I can just forget about it because
01:37:04 being the stock roach is better than
01:37:06 being whatever else it is that anybody
01:37:09 thinks I am and I also learned from
01:37:11 doing the fundraiser that people want to
01:37:13 buy my stuff so who needs
01:37:16 friends uh and on that
01:37:19 note I'm very proud to introduce to you
01:37:23 uh probably the best thing that anyone
01:37:27 has ever done uh including me so let's
01:37:35 clip sorry that's uh that's a that's a
01:37:38 different uh video that's not the clip
01:37:42 were sorry that's actually not it either
01:37:46 um yeah you know my uh my sons my sons
01:37:50 have been using my computer again
01:37:56 and um let me get these out of the way
01:37:59 sec I'll just tell you I'm opening up
01:38:00 the stocka dooodle store is what the
01:38:02 announcement is uh and I'm going to put
01:38:04 out another video tomorrow kind of
01:38:06 showing you everything uh that we have
01:38:08 for sale and so he reveals he's opening
01:38:10 up a store while ignoring Ashley the
01:38:13 whole time and then finally my movie
01:38:16 Zero is released the next day on the
01:38:18 sakario channel the culmination of night
01:38:20 roach's hard work the facade of stario
01:38:23 AKA stock roach is Stripped Away by the
01:38:26 angel and he transforms back into a
01:38:28 sleeping Jeremy when dreaming can't
01:38:30 forget things I want to take apart out
01:38:32 of me why why I am sorry but it is time
01:38:35 to go to the Vault now it has been too
01:38:37 long listen the angel whisks him away to
01:38:40 the Vault Beyond these Gates ye shall
01:38:42 find the enchanted Ballad of ricus and
01:38:45 so Jeremy approaches the Vault seeing
01:38:47 his stock roach facade in the mirror and
01:38:48 the blocked file in his brain is
01:38:52 unlocked hey I just wanted to make you a
01:38:55 quick little video um I did drop my
01:38:59 phone so it is a little bit broken um
01:39:02 but I found this digital camera in your
01:39:05 closet which I think uh is going to be
01:39:08 better cuz I think it's going to fit
01:39:10 just right on the
01:39:11 tripod uh uh I wanted to let you know
01:39:14 that I dropped your camera a little bit
01:39:17 and it's not really focusing anymore but
01:39:21 uh actually I want to make you a video
01:39:25 so uh so I remember you you told me that
01:39:29 you really you you said I remember you
01:39:30 said you really like the um like the
01:39:33 nocturnos playing the other day um and
01:39:36 so I actually what I'm what this is is
01:39:38 I'm trying I want to to I'm trying to
01:39:40 write my own nocturn basically
01:39:47 um hey there I just wanted to make you a
01:39:50 quick little video and show you
01:39:51 something that I did
01:40:01 uh so I'm working on a new part now and
01:40:04 it's supposed to the new part is
01:40:06 supposed to sound sort of like
01:40:09 um you like healing or getting better
01:40:13 something like that I don't know but uh
01:40:17 so I'll play uh the new part for you and
01:40:19 then you can hear
01:40:34 and she told me that she played the
01:40:36 video for you and seemed like you really
01:40:39 um he really liked it uh so that's
01:40:44 really that's really
01:41:38 the night roach who has also been
01:41:40 submitting some poems to soot Sprite
01:41:42 books launches a final attempt at
01:41:44 getting the day roach Jeremy to
01:41:45 acknowledge his videos and uploads the
01:41:47 final composition to Etsy this is last
01:41:50 try we're work is finished goodbye and
01:41:52 now there's one video of stock roach
01:41:55 left in the season finale he shows off
01:41:57 the items on the stock roach store
01:41:59 including 34 sonnets which you can
01:42:01 actually purchase here's my copy and
01:42:04 it's a great read edited by Kevin y who
01:42:06 provides engaging supplementary
01:42:08 commentary in the footnotes I'm going to
01:42:10 avoid spoiling The Poetry but there is a
01:42:12 compilation of night roach's editions by
01:42:14 the end of it so if you want a fun
01:42:16 collection of poetry by TS roach and a
01:42:18 little extra closure on night roach
01:42:20 definitely check that out Jeremy takes
01:42:22 notice of the strange remember
01:42:23 composition on the store downloads it
01:42:25 and begins to play the
01:42:27 composition at first hesitantly playing
01:42:30 the notes there's caution in his
01:42:32 performance but it feels familiar a
01:42:41 pause and now more confident the melody
01:42:43 seeming like one he'd always known
01:42:45 feeling the weight of the song and this
01:42:47 is the climax the moment stock roach no
01:42:49 the moment Jeremy me is able to confront
01:42:52 what he's been hiding from the memory of
01:42:53 the composition he wrote for his father
01:42:56 it's a powerful moment and though I try
01:42:57 I can't capture that power while
01:42:59 narrating the series so please check out
01:43:01 this performance yourself but finally
01:43:06 possibly he finishes the composition he
01:43:08 opens the folder he'd been avoiding he's
01:43:11 remembered and along last he reaches out
01:43:13 to Ashley his best
01:43:31 uh sorry just hold on a
01:44:02 throughout this video I've compiled
01:44:04 definitive evidence that stock roach is
01:44:06 not who he says he is the evidence
01:44:08 speaks for itself beloved TS roach is
01:44:10 actually a high schooler by the name of
01:44:12 Jeremy Gilbert who made the YouTube
01:44:14 series in a fake it to make it esque
01:44:15 attempt at financial success the stock
01:44:18 roach Persona is born at a difficult
01:44:20 time in his life either his father is
01:44:22 already in the hospital or has passed
01:44:24 away by the start of the series this
01:44:26 assumption comes from the early
01:44:27 appearance of an essay called free
01:44:28 writing about dad as early as the third
01:44:31 video on the channel later on in the
01:44:32 series we see a letter Jeremy wrote to
01:44:35 his mother on February 5th of 2020
01:44:37 explaining how he's sorry but he must
01:44:39 run away we don't hear from him for a
01:44:41 while but after significant Hiatus stock
01:44:44 roach returns and explains he's been
01:44:46 away due to catching Co while there is
01:44:48 some reference to his father having
01:44:49 abandoned his family provided I
01:44:51 deciphered the slur diary entry and the
01:44:53 FAQ entry correctly I believe this may
01:44:56 have been his birth father due to how
01:44:57 the incident occurred when he was little
01:44:59 Jeremy and how the videos of him playing
01:45:01 nocturn seem to have been recent thus
01:45:03 most references to Dad in this series
01:45:05 are likely to his stepfather this may
01:45:08 also be a stretch but I have a theory in
01:45:10 the diary entry called I remember
01:45:12 there's references to a series of events
01:45:14 Dad's camera nocturn a freeway at night
01:45:16 beeping the silence I take this to mean
01:45:18 that Jeremy runs from home due to his
01:45:19 desire to escape taking medication and
01:45:21 to escape memories of a household that
01:45:23 remind him of his late stepdad and is
01:45:25 either involved in a car crash after
01:45:27 stealing his mom's car or is struck by a
01:45:29 car when he tries to cross the freeway
01:45:31 he's taken to the hospital and falls
01:45:32 into a coma when he returns his memories
01:45:34 are fuzzy but there's also a part of him
01:45:36 that doesn't want to remember his reason
01:45:38 for fleeing home that's why he tends to
01:45:40 delete folders or files that mention his
01:45:42 father in a blind panic he's not ready
01:45:44 to face what happened eventually Jeremy
01:45:46 organically comes to the conclusion that
01:45:48 he likely didn't have Co but he's is in
01:45:50 no rush to figure out what happened to
01:45:52 him instead taking every Avenue to avoid
01:45:54 thinking about it he skips his
01:45:56 medication and delves more into the
01:45:57 escapism of args and fantasy worlds to
01:45:59 avoid reconciling with the past while
01:46:02 the daytime part of Jeremy continues to
01:46:03 live a life of uneasy ignorance his
01:46:05 night roach or subconscious counterpart
01:46:08 tirelessly Works to get Jeremy to
01:46:09 confront his past through constructing
01:46:11 reminders of his nocturn composition a
01:46:13 composition he'd made to cheer up and
01:46:16 attempt to hasten the healing process of
01:46:18 his late father my movie Z shows the
01:46:21 footage he'd recorded of the composition
01:46:22 in process but it's not clear if his
01:46:24 father was ever able to see the finished
01:46:26 piece by completing the composition and
01:46:28 playing it a final time at the series's
01:46:30 conclusion Jeremy finally makes peace
01:46:32 with the past and is able to at least
01:46:34 talk about what happened with his best
01:46:36 friend Ashley ultimately stock roach is
01:46:38 an incredibly funny heartfelt and Human
01:46:40 series that masterfully tells its story
01:46:43 through the creative details Jeremy
01:46:45 accidentally exposes and his ever
01:46:47 optimistic character The Mastermind
01:46:49 behind this series is a familiar your
01:46:50 name Kevin y editor of the 34 sonnets
01:46:53 who also happens to be a real person he
01:46:55 actually went to work on another great
01:46:57 series of animated shorts called ashap
01:46:59 which I highly recommend you check out
01:47:01 Kevin y recently started a YouTube
01:47:03 channel where he makes short essays on a
01:47:04 variety of topics from literature films
01:47:06 args animation and theater if You' like
01:47:09 to support and get exclusive updates on
01:47:11 more of Kevin's work please check out
01:47:12 his patreon as well I also want to thank
01:47:15 trombone Knuckles and mediocre bottle
01:47:17 and the vem Discord for some additional
01:47:19 help in documenting stock roach while it
01:47:21 was going on theemt is a community that
01:47:24 helps document create and play ARG
01:47:27 unfiction Series so check them out if
01:47:29 you're interested in some other
01:47:33 series speaking more thematically stock
01:47:36 roach does a great job at fostering
01:47:37 empathy towards Jeremy and outside of
01:47:39 the series I think it's an effective way
01:47:41 to encourage more empathy towards people
01:47:43 who've gotten entrapped with get-rich
01:47:45 quick schemes by showcasing how this
01:47:47 ends up happening Jeremy is exagger at
01:47:50 in his naivity and technological
01:47:52 incapacities but he's still someone who
01:47:54 desires money due to living in poverty
01:47:57 he has a single mother who either due to
01:47:59 neglect or lack of money seems to run
01:48:01 into difficulties feeding their family
01:48:03 many of the people who ended up falling
01:48:05 for things like Ponzi schemes
01:48:06 multi-level marketing schemes and
01:48:08 investment scams tend to be people who
01:48:10 are desperate and vulnerable and when it
01:48:12 comes to investment and cryptocurrency
01:48:14 scans their lack of knowledge on
01:48:16 technology and the stock market is
01:48:18 utilized to encourage them to take on
01:48:19 immense risk R and part with their money
01:48:21 Jeremy is a victim notably hex coin's
01:48:24 founder Richard Hart was eventually
01:48:26 charged with fraud by the SEC and has a
01:48:28 long history of running investment scams
01:48:30 but due to Jeremy's fake it to make it
01:48:33 mentality he decides to copy the finance
01:48:35 gurus that con him only he doesn't quite
01:48:38 understand that they're trying to con
01:48:39 him so the resulting series he makes is
01:48:41 fairly innocent so while Jeremy tries to
01:48:43 fake Stone Cold confidence in promoting
01:48:45 hex coin in truth he's desperate for
01:48:48 this scam to succeed in order to have
01:48:49 funds to help out his family and of
01:48:51 course arguably selfish desires to be
01:48:53 rich in order to impress someone he
01:49:00 stockroom to them can succumb to
01:49:02 gambling addictions that harm those
01:49:03 around them or employ predatory tactics
01:49:06 of their own especially in the cases of
01:49:08 mlms while Jeremy is easier to empathize
01:49:11 with due to not really hurting anyone I
01:49:13 still think an empathetic view towards
01:49:16 those who have fallen victim to these
01:49:18 scams is more useful for encouraging
01:49:20 victims who may still be ens snared by
01:49:21 the sunk cost fallacy to escape their
01:49:24 situations and so I appreciate that
01:49:26 angle of viewing this
01:49:29 series stock roach also demonstrates an
01:49:32 interesting impact of the internet's
01:49:33 widespread use making moments public
01:49:36 that would otherwise be kept private
01:49:38 Jeremy's experiences are an exaggerated
01:49:40 look into the coming of age struggles
01:49:42 many teenagers experience but they also
01:49:44 highlight the intensity of how dire
01:49:46 those struggles feel in that time period
01:49:48 to Jeremy his crush on masterfully is
01:49:50 all-encompassing and he's plagued by
01:49:52 uncertainty about his appearance
01:49:54 finances and the repressive weight of a
01:49:56 personal tragedy and while normally
01:49:58 those experiences would be felt in a
01:50:00 more isolated internal way or limited to
01:50:03 being shared with one's family and close
01:50:05 friends the internet opens a window into
01:50:07 some of the most stressful moments of a
01:50:09 stranger's teenage years a window that
01:50:12 can be viewed by complete strangers and
01:50:14 worse a window that can be knocked on
01:50:17 it's Jeremy's exposure to online Finance
01:50:19 Guru that implant the idea that getting
01:50:21 rich off crypto is necessary to win
01:50:23 Ashley's heart and a lot of what he does
01:50:25 on the channel is focused on internet
01:50:27 buzzwords like monetization or putting
01:50:29 on a successful Persona he believes is
01:50:31 the key for his success while Jeremy is
01:50:33 fortunately treated fairly kindly by the
01:50:36 internet had a less empathetic group of
01:50:38 people interacted with the web series
01:50:40 his online experiences could have been
01:50:42 much more negative though with Jeremy's
01:50:45 inherent optimistic Outlook it' probably
01:50:47 take a lot to D his mood but not
01:50:50 everyone's experience online is like
01:50:53 Jeremy and having ones often times in
01:50:55 retrospect a bit embarrassing vulnerable
01:50:58 teenage moments cemented on the internet
01:51:00 can leave scars if anyone who chooses to
01:51:02 interact with the videos intend to hurt
01:51:05 which brings me to the next concept I
01:51:08 explore Jeremy spends most of the series
01:51:11 pretending to be someone he's not when
01:51:13 being sincere on the internet carries
01:51:15 the risk of your sincerity seeming
01:51:17 embarrassing or cringe it's no wonder
01:51:19 the internet is a deeply ironic place
01:51:21 and it's no wonder Jeremy invents the
01:51:23 30s plus stock roach as his internet
01:51:26 Persona while Jeremy's recollection of
01:51:28 what happened to his father is him
01:51:30 making peace with that memory he'd
01:51:32 rather not remember I also like to
01:51:34 interpret it as him recognizing he
01:51:36 doesn't need to utilize the stock roach
01:51:38 Persona to feel okay with himself and he
01:51:41 doesn't need to continue posting on the
01:51:42 channel while I don't see stock roach as
01:51:44 an ironic Persona it still behaves as a
01:51:47 kind of mask for him to conceal the
01:51:49 insecurities has about the real Jeremy
01:51:51 and as a sort of coping mechanism using
01:51:53 the false confidence of stockroom to
01:51:55 internalize it or using the Persona of
01:51:57 an older and wiser and more successful
01:51:59 person to work out how to deal with his
01:52:01 real life situations and while Jeremy is
01:52:04 definitely the butt of a lot of jokes in
01:52:06 the series like with everyone else in
01:52:08 this video I felt myself heavily rooting
01:52:10 for him his perhaps naive but Charming
01:52:13 optimism in the face of his struggles is
01:52:15 admirable the series highlights an
01:52:17 interesting presentation of satire that
01:52:19 doesn't demean its subject but Fosters
01:52:21 empathy towards them and depicts a sense
01:52:23 of optimism throughout its portrayal of
01:52:25 its comedy Joe peris's Comedy feels very
01:52:28 similar to me in that he highlights a
01:52:29 very kind-hearted sincere exploration of
01:52:32 a world in an absurdest fashion his
01:52:34 comedy toes the line between sincerity
01:52:36 and satire seeming to both Embrace and
01:52:38 poke fun at aspects of his character
01:52:42 person and now a brief
01:52:46 message yo what's up everybody this is
01:52:49 Kevin y I am allegedly the Creator
01:52:52 writer director of the stock roach and
01:52:55 uh first off I just wanted to say thank
01:52:56 you to everybody for watching seen
01:52:57 Hawk's super cool video um I actually
01:53:00 haven't seen it yet so technically I
01:53:01 don't know that it's super cool but I'm
01:53:03 just going to take it completely on
01:53:05 faith that it is and that he's saying
01:53:07 lots of nice stuff uh about me and about
01:53:09 the series that I allegedly created so I
01:53:11 thought this would be a good time to
01:53:12 announce a project that I'm just getting
01:53:13 started on with some friends and uh we
01:53:16 have told absolutely nobody about this
01:53:18 so if you're watching this and you look
01:53:20 at the view count and it says like 100
01:53:22 that means that you are literally the
01:53:24 100th person to hear about this um and
01:53:27 if it says like a million to be honest
01:53:29 that's a little bit less exciting but
01:53:31 it's still cool and I think you should
01:53:32 still feel special so the project is my
01:53:34 first ever liveaction short film it's
01:53:37 called Star Girl 27 and we're doing this
01:53:40 thing up so professional we're going to
01:53:41 use cameras we're going to use
01:53:43 microphones we're going to use actors
01:53:45 we're going to spend money on props
01:53:47 we're going to actually build a giant
01:53:49 puppet for one of the scenes um but
01:53:52 that's technically a spoiler so forget
01:53:54 that I said that star girl 27 tells the
01:53:56 story of an upand cominging influencer
01:53:58 in the make contact with real aliens
01:54:00 sphere who gets evicted and locked out
01:54:03 of her apartment and has to figure out
01:54:05 how to survive a night in New York City
01:54:07 all by herself and I should also say
01:54:10 that it's absolutely not an animated
01:54:12 film so like I have no idea why I just
01:54:14 did all those drawings for this little
01:54:15 teaser that was 10 hours of my life that
01:54:18 I'm never going to get back but the the
01:54:19 reason I bring this up is that part of
01:54:21 the impetus behind writing star roll 27
01:54:23 was that I wanted to take some of the
01:54:24 themes and ideas from the stock roach
01:54:26 and see if I could translate them into a
01:54:28 more traditional narrative format so if
01:54:30 you enjoy the stock roach I really think
01:54:32 you're going to enjoy this too and if
01:54:33 you follow my main YouTube channel y
01:54:35 Kevin y uh that's where I'll be posting
01:54:38 all the updates and everything like that
01:54:40 uh as they come through all right that's
01:54:42 all I got for you I now return you to
01:54:45 your regularly scheduled
01:54:57 there's another person I want to
01:54:59 highlight that I feel captures this odd
01:55:00 demonstration of empathetic comedy of
01:55:02 inherently optimistic Outlook towards
01:55:04 the Absurd Human Condition let me
01:55:07 introduce you to Zay Lofton is not Who
01:55:09 You'd think of as a typical successful
01:55:11 game developer he's a controversial
01:55:13 figure prone to lashing out at game
01:55:15 reviewers and starting fights on social
01:55:17 media and his game is shall we say a bit
01:55:20 rough around the edges filled with typos
01:55:22 bugs and juvenile humor it would be easy
01:55:24 to assume Zayn was a teenager when he
01:55:26 made this game and well that's partially
01:55:28 true when I was 16 I designed a computer
01:55:31 game in this notebook and it was awesome
01:55:38 it Zay conceived of the game based
01:55:41 around comics he'd made at the time and
01:55:43 with the help of his childhood
01:55:44 acquaintance Adam Chase released the
01:55:46 game in his late
01:55:54 Slayer and it'd be easy to assume zay's
01:55:56 game comes from a place of pure irony
01:55:58 poking fun at what an edgy 15-year-old
01:56:00 might find cool in the late '90s early
01:56:02 2000s but look deeper into both the game
01:56:05 and Zayn and you'll find a strong
01:56:07 Foundation of sincerity that he
01:56:09 genuinely believes this stuff is still
01:56:10 cool and deeper past the toilet humor
01:56:13 and bad assery of a self-indulgent
01:56:14 boomer shooter you can see Zayn's
01:56:16 hometown of Boise Idaho lovingly
01:56:18 memorialized in retro Graphics a fall
01:56:20 Potato Festival perhaps part of a fond
01:56:22 yearly tradition of Zayn's aptly
01:56:24 captured in the style of the game and as
01:56:26 the main character of Slayer X is a sort
01:56:28 of extra cool and Powerful self-insert
01:56:31 of Zayn it'd be easy to think that he'd
01:56:33 want to OV exaggerate every aspect of
01:56:35 his life but instead he incorporates
01:56:37 some mundane truths he works a
01:56:38 low-paying job at a Dollar Saver he's a
01:56:41 famous CEO and comic Creator ingame but
01:56:43 he's also shown living with his mom in a
01:56:45 one-bedroom apartment his mom
01:56:46 sacrificing the bedroom for Zayn and
01:56:48 sleeping on a couch in the living room
01:56:50 and there's tons of tiny details that
01:56:52 add to the life of this world the small
01:56:54 penguin stuffed animals around his mom
01:56:56 bedroom the very genuine photo of them
01:56:58 together zay's inclusion and admiration
01:57:00 of his kids art in an in-game secret
01:57:02 he's likely not in the best financial
01:57:04 terms but he got a chance if the game
01:57:06 performs well to change the life of him
01:57:08 and his son oh my God is my hair looked
01:57:10 crazy like that this whole time I could
01:57:12 go on and on about all the love and
01:57:14 attention to detail that was put into
01:57:15 this game but instead I highly recommend
01:57:18 you check it out for yourself there's a
01:57:20 lot more that I can't cover just in this
01:57:22 video but this depiction of Zayn through
01:57:24 his games and his social media presence
01:57:26 doesn't shy away from displaying its
01:57:27 flaws the game still has its rough
01:57:29 elements and Zayn is a flawed character
01:57:31 to the point his programmer takes a jab
01:57:33 at him and complains he's a pain to work
01:57:35 with ridiculing him for his overly
01:57:37 nostalgic cool self-insert game but this
01:57:40 humanization of him this acknowledgement
01:57:41 that he's a complex human being gives us
01:57:44 a way to enjoy the silliness and
01:57:45 satirical nature of the world he's made
01:57:47 while still recognizing the heart and it
01:57:50 side note the music in this game is
01:57:51 top-notch I would gladly listen to
01:57:53 another cpage album but pulling back the
01:57:55 curtain Zayn also isn't real he's a
01:57:58 character from the game hypnospace
01:58:00 Outlaw another fantastic game by Jay
01:58:02 tholan Jay tholan in reality helped
01:58:04 develop Slayer X and it's his skill at
01:58:06 humanizing the satirical and portraying
01:58:08 his characters with immense empathy that
01:58:10 brings such depth to his games and
01:58:13 whereas hypnospace is never portrayed as
01:58:15 unfiction Zayn is and that commitment to
01:58:18 portraying Zayn greater depth to the
01:58:20 game expanding the story Into His
01:58:22 interactions online and even the
01:58:24 interviews he gives about his game
01:58:25 development process additionally Zayn's
01:58:28 characterization helps to chip away at
01:58:30 the internet's tendency to dehumanize
01:58:31 each other online into one-dimensional
01:58:34 characters fragments of our whole that
01:58:36 come off as edgy embarrassing or ironic
01:58:39 and through literally depicting Zayn as
01:58:41 fictional Jay is able to call into
01:58:43 question the tendency to view Zayn as a
01:58:45 one-dimensional character he's a human
01:58:48 being flawed and nostalgia
01:58:49 but his life extends beyond your mom
01:58:51 jokes and internet fights at least in
01:58:53 his fictional World hypnospace also
01:58:55 touches on a lot of these themes so if
01:58:57 you've never played it and you enjoy the
01:58:59 idea of solving puzzles by digging into
01:59:01 obscure subcultures of the fictional
01:59:02 internet definitely check that out as
01:59:04 well I think I've gone long enough
01:59:06 without talking about it so here it is
01:59:08 cringe culture that term that phenomenon
01:59:11 may have already come to your mind as
01:59:12 I've discussed these Series so far a
01:59:14 reaction parts of the internet have when
01:59:16 they stumble upon something cringeworthy
01:59:18 and embarrassing YouTube clip an unfunny
01:59:20 joke that falls flat a subculture
01:59:22 surrounding an unconventional interest
01:59:25 to some these sorts of things will
01:59:26 trigger a genuinly intense reaction the
01:59:28 need to look away squint your eyes or
01:59:30 back away from the screen you cringe and
01:59:33 for some this reaction leads to spite
01:59:36 anger or a feeling of superiority at
01:59:39 least I'm not like that and so naturally
01:59:41 the internet being the internet that can
01:59:43 sometimes lead to mockery or scorn and
01:59:45 for a time probably peing around the
01:59:47 year 2016 that was a genuine staple of
01:59:50 the internet cringe compilations hell
01:59:52 the commentary genre started here
01:59:54 remember that before Drew Gooden and
01:59:56 Danny Gonzalez commentary channels meant
01:59:58 edgy teens mocking videos of furries
02:00:01 over Counter-Strike gameplay entire
02:00:03 channels dedicated to finding weird
02:00:04 people embarrassing videos or cringy
02:00:07 sjws and turning it into content based
02:00:09 on mockery and the essence of that
02:00:11 subculture still permeates the internet
02:00:13 in many ways the sentence of being
02:00:15 cringe is a fate worse than any other
02:00:17 online I think you could argue that a
02:00:19 sort of connective tissue throughout all
02:00:21 these series I've discussed so far has
02:00:23 been some element of cringe Henry's
02:00:25 complete social awkwardness and terrible
02:00:27 cooking Allen stumbling over words and
02:00:29 nonsense tutorials stock roaches
02:00:31 fumbling into revealing embarrassing
02:00:33 personal information what's interesting
02:00:35 is that there's another one of these
02:00:36 madeup guys that sort of falls on the
02:00:39 other side of the coin in an interesting
02:00:41 way a channel dedicated to destroying
02:00:43 cringe IPS and fan bases Roblox
02:00:45 undertale Five Nights at Freddy's
02:00:47 cringer reviews AK AK Cameron is a
02:00:50 YouTuber who will look very familiar to
02:00:52 those of you who saw the Advent of the
02:00:54 two cool edgy PNG tubers of the 2010s
02:00:57 his character was masterminded by
02:00:58 frequent collaborators Ben silly and
02:01:00 funny Bob he's opinionated terrible
02:01:02 Graphics to garbage storyline it's a
02:01:05 mess now I've never played the game
02:01:07 myself he's critical garbage and he's
02:01:09 coming for cringe let's begin because
02:01:12 I'm showing no mercy on this game it's
02:01:15 not particularly long and doesn't have
02:01:17 too much hidden lore so I won't go too
02:01:19 deeply into it but it functions as a
02:01:21 perfect satire of these kind of channels
02:01:24 what's really interesting though is even
02:01:25 with an almost wholly unlikable
02:01:27 character like Cameron the series
02:01:29 reaches Beyond a few times and shows
02:01:31 that he's a little more than just a
02:01:32 one-dimensional bit all I've been doing
02:01:35 is giving my thoughts on unpleasant
02:01:36 things on the internet give myself a
02:01:37 break every now and then and and in the
02:01:39 end it's always the same I come back and
02:01:42 I do it all over again and if there's
02:01:44 anything I've learned in these strange 7
02:01:45 months is that there's more to life than
02:01:47 this and that's why this video is going
02:01:49 to be a little different essentially
02:01:51 this video is going to be me rambling
02:01:53 about life mostly the good things I
02:01:55 don't plan on being negative in this
02:01:57 video you can see that there's a level
02:01:59 to Cameron that he's mostly shielding
02:02:01 from his viewers he even likes some of
02:02:03 the media he Lampoons but does so anyway
02:02:06 to avoid the Oho terrifying fate of
02:02:08 becoming cringe himself the ending is
02:02:10 too good to spoil but I do think that
02:02:12 that brief interlude is interesting and
02:02:14 continues in the same vein as these
02:02:16 other series on the opposite side of the
02:02:19 Spectrum there's a channel that to be
02:02:21 fair I haven't watched all of but I am
02:02:23 weirdly addicted to Minecraft fan 76 is
02:02:26 a small Minecraft let's play Channel run
02:02:28 by Eugene Howell flats this is Minecraft
02:02:31 76 uh Eugene how Flats here doing my
02:02:34 video dating application while it's
02:02:36 never been confirmed whether or not
02:02:37 Eugene is actually a character or a
02:02:39 genuine person his Bitcoin video so I
02:02:42 was looking up how to spend my money
02:02:45 that I got from YouTube or whatever
02:02:47 apparently what a lot of people do is
02:02:49 they like to put it into uh something
02:02:52 called bitecoin or something Bitcoin so
02:02:56 I I was joking that up and I bought me
02:02:58 one and Dr Pepper tasting video so what
02:03:00 I've got here is a finally aged night Dr
02:03:03 Peppers your age approximately 7 months
02:03:05 because I got it and I put it in a room
02:03:07 and I forgot about it it makes the
02:03:09 flavor around it it activates it so I'm
02:03:10 just going to do that now so okay that
02:03:15 adequate oh God that's horrible I'm good
02:03:19 maybe if I just maybe if I take another
02:03:21 drink it'll be a bit better the second
02:03:25 around I don't know I get the feeling
02:03:27 there's an element of humor here despite
02:03:29 him likely being a sort of parody of
02:03:31 kids making Minecraft Let's Plays he's
02:03:33 also just unironically entertaining to
02:03:35 watch it feels like he's blurring the
02:03:37 lines between satire and sincerity
02:03:40 Eugene just feels like a genuine
02:03:41 portrayal of a kid making gaming videos
02:03:43 and even if he is a little goofy his
02:03:45 portrayal doesn't feel mean it just
02:03:47 feels honest sort of on that note and
02:03:50 kind of the whole reason I brought up
02:03:51 this cringe aspect I want to quickly
02:03:53 make a point here about our reactions to
02:03:55 cringe and how these series can help us
02:03:58 understand them there's a phrase that's
02:03:59 been going around don't kill the part of
02:04:01 you that's cringe kill the part that
02:04:02 cringes it's an understandable reaction
02:04:05 to the overly ironic judgmental
02:04:07 atmosphere of the internet the culture
02:04:09 around deeming things cringe is mspired
02:04:11 and harmful but I think this phrase is a
02:04:13 little overs simplistic in reality we
02:04:16 can't always control whether we cringe
02:04:17 at things person I am incredibly
02:04:19 susceptible to secondhand embarrassment
02:04:21 I cringe all the time and while some of
02:04:24 the time the things we cringe at are
02:04:25 harmless other times it is a genuine
02:04:27 reaction to something harmful no one
02:04:29 would tell Henry to kill the part of him
02:04:31 that cringes while he's filming people
02:04:34 at his house without their permission or
02:04:36 busting in on them while airbn beinging
02:04:38 them in his closet we can't always
02:04:40 control if we cringe and there are times
02:04:42 when it's genuinely a helpful learning
02:04:43 tool for ourselves sometimes we cringe
02:04:46 at our younger selves because we weren't
02:04:47 making as good choic Es as we are now I
02:04:50 think where the problem lies is in our
02:04:52 reaction to cringe cringe is not
02:04:54 pleasant and so I think many people
02:04:55 incorrectly react to it with anger but I
02:04:58 think the source of that feeling is
02:04:59 actually one deeply rooted in empathy I
02:05:01 think we cringe sometimes because we're
02:05:03 imagining ourselves in that situation or
02:05:06 projecting something similar we've done
02:05:07 in the past the sense of mockery comes
02:05:10 from a feeling of well I would never do
02:05:12 that but we're only thinking that
02:05:14 because we've input ourselves onto this
02:05:16 person it's a deeply empathetic
02:05:18 experience where we see ourselves in
02:05:19 someone else's shoes and look sometimes
02:05:21 we should just stop cringing we don't
02:05:23 have to like everything but sometimes it
02:05:25 just comes from a place of being
02:05:27 unwilling to understand other people but
02:05:29 other times it's okay to feel
02:05:30 uncomfortable instead of reacting to
02:05:33 that with a knee-jerk Outburst of anger
02:05:35 I think we should hold on to that
02:05:37 empathy the series we've been over
02:05:39 continuously show us people making
02:05:41 social missteps and doing embarrassing
02:05:43 things but overwhelmingly these
02:05:46 characters are met with support because
02:05:48 these series also choose to dig deeper
02:05:50 than the surface they choose to humanize
02:05:52 and understand them build them out into
02:05:54 people who like all of us have done
02:05:56 something embarrassing or messed up to
02:05:58 varying degrees but it makes them no
02:06:00 less deserving of understanding it makes
02:06:02 them no less human I don't think we
02:06:04 should just kill the part of us that
02:06:05 cringes what we need to do is recognize
02:06:08 that it is just as much a part of us as
02:06:10 the part of us that will go on to do
02:06:12 something cringey in the future because
02:06:14 being cringe is not a death sentence
02:06:16 it's just another part of being alive
02:06:20 here we are at the end you can tell it's
02:06:21 the end because I'm just resorted to
02:06:23 holding my microphone I've been working
02:06:25 on this video for 2 months and I've had
02:06:28 it in the works in the back of my mind
02:06:30 since way before then here I am at the
02:06:33 end and I feel this way at the end of a
02:06:34 lot of my videos where I'm just like
02:06:36 there's no way this can be a good video
02:06:38 I hope that this has been somewhat of
02:06:40 worth I just need to finish it so I can
02:06:41 move on to the next thing you know and I
02:06:43 am really excited for the next thing and
02:06:45 I think a good portion of this video is
02:06:47 good it's just been very difficult to at
02:06:48 the end here and I'm completely
02:06:50 exhausted by it I hope that uh you got
02:06:52 something out of it um anyway let's uh
02:06:56 let's actually move on to what I was
02:06:57 going to talk about the final piece of
02:06:59 the puzzle and the thing that inspired
02:07:00 me to bring all these characters
02:07:02 together for this video are these series
02:07:04 is combinations of parity and Humanity
02:07:07 sincerity and satire all of these
02:07:09 characters could be reduced to simple
02:07:11 caricatures meant to saiz something
02:07:13 poorly made tutorial videos cryptog
02:07:15 grifters and children pretending to be
02:07:17 adults online teenagers of the '90s and
02:07:19 edgy teenagers of the 2010s kids
02:07:22 Minecraft Let's Plays but what makes
02:07:24 them unique is that they choose to go
02:07:27 beyond that they explore these
02:07:28 characters more deeply understanding the
02:07:30 humanity in them fleshing out the
02:07:32 genuine parts of them instead of a
02:07:34 simple deconstruction of a stereotype
02:07:36 these series use satirization to
02:07:38 construct a complicated person a
02:07:40 character filled with flaws and
02:07:42 absurdities like us all but with the
02:07:44 complexity that goes beyond that they
02:07:46 use these sazed caricatures to then
02:07:48 interrogate the internet's proclivity to
02:07:50 Simply poke fun to hide from the genuine
02:07:52 and celebrate the ironic they
02:07:54 simultaneously present themselves
02:07:56 through sincere character exploration
02:07:59 and as an ironic deconstruction of them
02:08:02 the result is a complicated balance
02:08:04 between parity and sincerity I've
02:08:05 touched on it a bit throughout this
02:08:07 video but the internet is a deeply
02:08:09 ironic place I think that's one of the
02:08:10 reasons cringe culture became so
02:08:12 prevalent the fear of doing something
02:08:14 embarrassing or showing any kind of
02:08:15 sincerity being vulnerable in a way that
02:08:17 could open you up to mockery has led to
02:08:19 the only safe mode of interaction on the
02:08:21 single largest communication Network to
02:08:23 ever exist to be through a mask of irony
02:08:26 in turn it's led to some pretty strange
02:08:28 phenomenon how many times have you seen
02:08:30 a message or a video that you are unable
02:08:32 to discern whether it is a parody
02:08:34 engagement bait or a genuine thought how
02:08:37 do you ever know what's real who is real
02:08:39 what they're really thinking our
02:08:41 internet masks built in with all of that
02:08:44 self-protective irony become all the
02:08:45 more ingrained in our personalities as
02:08:47 the internet takes takes up more and
02:08:49 more of our lives but I think that deep
02:08:51 down we miss the sincere the open and
02:08:53 genuine the ability to express ourselves
02:08:55 unapologetically to actually care about
02:08:58 something and I think that these series
02:09:00 reflect that condition they use the
02:09:02 insincere modus operandi of the internet
02:09:04 to express sincerity they are informed
02:09:07 both by the self-awareness and Ultra
02:09:09 self-conscious internet and by the
02:09:11 genuine need to say something sincere to
02:09:13 be Earnest the result are series that
02:09:15 embrace the absurdity of Being Human the
02:09:17 things that are embarrassing that are
02:09:19 humorous but they aren't wholly cynical
02:09:22 instead they Embrace that as a part of
02:09:24 their Humanity letting us recognize that
02:09:26 in ourselves they're a part of the
02:09:28 illogical the Absurd and the human world
02:09:35 experience so uh yeah like many of my
02:09:38 other videos I find myself here at the
02:09:39 end completely exhausted and unsure of
02:09:41 how to end so um check out all the
02:09:44 series look at my patreon if you want
02:09:46 the music is on my Pat to download the
02:09:49 song during the title sequence is up on
02:09:51 Spotify link in the description and in
