@@ianpopp87 I don't think the video is anti-capitalist. It reads more anti-greed to me. Greed is the cause of much tragedy and suffering, and you may say that is enabled by capitalism, but I disagree. I think the fault can only be laid at the feet of individuals. Capitalism has enabled countless advancements in technology, medicine, and allowed millions (if not billions) of people to be lifted out of poverty. People just need to stop being so damn greedy imo.
I can't be the only one who remembers the "paperclip generator" game from a couple years back, right? I mean, before THIS video showed its very obvious parallels to coronavirus response, that was the first thing I thought of. It was a game I heard about on some message board a couple years back and it seems completely identical to this one. You clicked on your mouse repeatedly to produce paperclips, which you could do at an exponential rate the more you did it, and it also got into some really bizarre, reality-warping lore. I myself never wound up playing it for more than a couple days worth of time, but it was pretty much the exact same setup as this. In fact now I think about it, I suppose it's likely there were other version after the paperclip one and before this cookie one.
"Never let a good disaster go to waste." It repeats. Time and time again. Ukraine, the Hawaiian fire crisis, wealthy mouths snapping up lands and resources, increasing their imaginary numbers for the sake of numbers. But it's okay because I got TikTok dancers and Kim Kardashian is in the new AHS.
When I stop playing other games for a while I usually say, "I got distracted", "I've been slacking", "Oops, I should get back to that". When I stop playing Cookie Clicker for a while I say, "I escaped".
@@Darrk_77 haha bake cookie, cookie get popular, enslave grandma, oh shit the world is worshipping me, oh fuck the grandmas are taking over, I have ended the universe
"You can increase economic production by risking the lives of the elderly. Disaster is actually an opportunity to exploit the vulnerable to make more wealth." - quote from a video about a clicking game
The transition from "The only way we can escape such a game... is to stop playing" and the nonchalant "Thanks for watching this video about cookie clicker". 10/10.
@Sophia Graziani *#video** call incoming#* This is [redacted] from the year 30#2, god help us, GOD HELP US, humanity is doomed the cookies, they took over, the-...., I can hear them they’re coming HEEEEEEEEE- *#video** call ended#*
The beginning: "Click 15 times for a cursor" The end: "Every part of life is perverted to serve the purpose of the economy, nothing is too sacred to be sacrificed upon its altar. And for what? What's the point of a massive global economy if it fails to protect the elderly and the vulnerable? Even those with the most cookies don't really benefit from the system. Once you're past a certain level of wealth, you can never spend that many cookies. And it's not like the game ever ends, you can never win Cookie Clicker. You just keep making cookies until you stop or die, you're just hoarding cookies for its own sake."
Honestly when you disregard the "haha funni cookiez" part this game becomes a pretty good metaphor for how capitalism has warped our society into something that thrives off of pieces of paper that would normally be worthless. Except instead of paper it's cookies.
@@seankrkovich2869 Yeah it is mostly about greed but capitalistic greed and exploiting grandmas and the natural resources of the planet to make more cookies that you don't need
I swear every year this gets recommended to me, I open up my cookie clicker save and I just feel nostalgic, thank you for making this video, and I’ll see you next year.
@@AnonGZ No, American Capitalism more than anything. An economy is required for society to exist; however once that society exists at the expense of itself is when shit starts going south. Balance in everything.
@@AnonGZ not really in capitalism economic growth is exponential punctuated by crashes in communism growth follows the function 1/X and in feudalism it is nearly flat.
Not really, at least not after you buy all the banks. The basic principle of capitalism is the private property as a right, once every single mean of production and every single resource becomes a extension of the cookie production machinery for the sake of some divine entity, it becomes as far away of capitalism as possible.
“ video games cause violence” Kid playing cookie clicker: lol how can this game make me violent? Him after hours of progress: *sacrifice.... more.... grandmas....*
The Beginning: I own 5 farms! Cool! The End: What is the meaning of life? What are feelings? All your memory will be lost like tears in the rain. Live life while you can because it's not long.
This is basically a in-depth critique documentary at how dangerous a pure unregulated capitalist system is, disguised as a review for a mindless clicker game. ...then again the similarities are too obvious to ignore, so I can't really blame him.
no its 37 trillion prestige and heavenly chips. Yes it is a ginormous amount of cookies he earned, but it is possible to hack in cookies as he said so maybe he hacked in the cookies as playing this game to that point takes over a year.
I love how they always have a look of shock, disbelief, and horror when I tell them a number of cookies that I have witch is a number they’ve never even heard of
In the end, the final joke is that there is no joke... The game successfully made our reality into cookies and money into cookies by connecting cookies to philosophy of life.
@@ebk7073344 he's talking about the proposal that people go back to work soon despite the ongoing pandemic. Boosting economic production while putting peoples lives at risk, particularly the elderly
Maybe, since the world’s economy seems to be held up by hand sanitizers and surgical gloves. Both of which the elderly, need even on a non-apocalyptic day.
Grandpa: So you want to know what happened to grandma? Let me tell you something kid... (Sits down on chair) Grandma, she tried to find the truth... She almost found out what happened before the cookies. On one day the cookie agents came to our house. Asked us some questions. One day she just didnt come home... Kid: Grandpa? Where is she now? Grandpa: I suspect that the cookie agency has her... She might be dead or is in a cell somewhere underneath. We might never now... Kid: ... Grandpa: Thats enough story time. Go back to bed...
At the start of this video, I was laughing my ass off about how absurd this game is. By the end of the video, I'm legitimately perturbed by how absurd the whole world is.
This needs to be required viewing at every house of worship, played before the beginning of all company board meetings, workdays at the Fed, and days at school. If you're not going to teach reading or math in the remaining 5 hours and 50 minutes, this ten isn't going to to turn the tide but maybe we will have adults who will care about it. As opposed to the (most recent)th congress.
@@AltShiftX "The problem is that, a system designed to make cookies is not design to make wellbeing or justice or hapiness, any system of endless growth, of singular purpose, that warps the whole world around one goal can only grow until it self destructs. And the only way we can escape such a game, is to stop playing." yeah sure just good ol' cookies :D
Cookie clicker starts with you trying to build the best cookie factory by hiring grandmas, building farms, hiring miners to mine cookies, create a factory, hire bank tellers, rebuild cookie temples, make wizard towers, going into space, hire alchemist, create portals, condensing cookie using antimatter condenser, reflecting lights into cookie, make cookies out of thin air using luck, breaking the dimension and cheating using a script, but the grandmas enraged from one specific device, cursing them, making you feel panic and get more research because you need to, until the grandmas awoken and wreak havoc on the city. This game tells you about riots, politics, and theories.
Ya know, I wasn’t expecting a cookie clicker video to be a critique of capitalism and pandemic response, but now that I’ve watched it I don’t know how I could have expected something else
Illuin DB Then again, this is Alt Shift X we’re talking about. For an encore, let’s see what analyses he can make from I Am Bread or Random Goose Game next year
@@christianfarren1179 Untitled Goose Game is cheating, as it has a surprisingly deep reading any day of the year not just the first of April. ;-) What is the village? How many bells *has* the goose stolen and why is nobody *really* doing anything about it? What primal urges does being a goose give a player? My headcanon is that the village is an undercover SCP containment site, designed to keep the goose occupied. There's a continual debate about if the success of containment means they should reduce its class to euclid, but that's a trap. The goose is always keter. Never feel secure.
I remember in grade 5 everyone was obsessed with this game to the point where friendships were broken because people had less cookies. It was crazy. I gave up as soon as I got the first "you make me sick-Grandma" because I immediately got deeply unsettled, and slowly realized how messed up some of the headlines were.
I think games like these are so pointless. In other games like subway surfers, at least you're actually doing something instead of just mindlessly clicking the screen, waiting for the next upgrade.
As someone who played cookie clicker because it was the only thing I could play on my schools blocked computers I can tell you that that game is something more, something much more
Can we all just appreciate that this man spent months, possibly years, grinding out cookie clicker, learning the meta and the lore all just to make a really interesting connection to the real world, giving a commentary about the state of our society and really making us face reality.
@@pxpsiperson Yeah, all of this could have just token a few days, I restarted recently about 6 days ago and haven't even gotten 1 trillion cookies yet, it takes some time that is something that's true
@@justarandomdragonontheinternet I don't see why not, it's not like all game titles are literal. Or did you think Metal Gear was a game series about an actual gear made of metal....
I remember everyone getting hooked on clicker games in HS and some kid suggested that all our clicking was contributing to free labor for somebody for some monetizable purpose. We all thought he was weird for that, and the story of Cookie Clicker helps me to finally understand what he was getting at..
Me: *Reading comment before video is done* Also me: ha, well I figured out the near end of the video so I'm not like y- *checks video* 2. m i n u t e s - h a v e - p a s s e d
As much as I enjoy GoT lore... GoT's lore doesn't even scratch the surface compared to the depth and scale of the Cookie Clicker universe. Very ambitious of you to start a video series on such an in-depth subject. I look forward to seeing more and finally deciphering its secrets.
9:35 "The problem is that a system designed to make cookies is not designed to make well-being, or justice, or happiness." His final assessment is such a clear and a damning indictment.
@Jonas Åström Hugh... At a certain point you gotta document yourself about the practices of the biggest companies all over the world. This is not a shorcut you're taking its a whole teleporter to deduce that since people need oil, oil companies will work towards whats best for the people. Same for banks, the fact you can put your money there isnt exactly the whole money making scheme. Most of their practices are not beneficial to most people. Sure some rich people benefit from it when investing but even them are getting fcked by the banks.
@@garlonschuman1014 what a great meme. Let’s never try to make things better ever because there’s a chance it could be worst, never mind the fact that it will end horribly anyway if nothing changes. Let’s just do nothing and stick with the status quo.
The thing that brings me back to cookie clicker so many times as opposed to other idle games is that it has all this crazy stuff going on in the background that builds very slowly until eventually you start to notice your grandmas are turning into demons and you've made portals to some hell dimmension. At the end of the day it IS just an idle game, but it has a lot of charm and care put into it and i love that.
@@lux7264 Your horse is so high it's hard to hear you. It's almost sounds like you assumed I wasn't aware of the obvious commentary that the game about maximizing profits is trying to convey about capitalism when all I said was that I liked the demon grandmas.
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"Na"-Signed: The USA, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Sweden Iceland, Philippines, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan, South Vietnam, Taiwan, Middle East, 100 others
He is a corporation, sadly, however, plankton has an inferior product to Mr. Krabs. there was an episode where they tried to one-up each other with fried foods, it ended when everyone got too sick to eat anymore. One may say, "that's exactly what capitalism is about, endless profit with no concern for human life", and they'd be right, it falls upon the individual who will do transactions with a company to make the right choices as companies are morally grey. I know you don't care, I just thought I'd put my belief of what capitalism is out there.
nunyo biznez communism isn’t any better though. Communism shows itself as a system where everyone is equal, in reality it’s not. Everyone’s equal except the government. The government can do what it wants because they have more power. They control your wealth, food, happiness, and more. Economy isn’t made for people to be happy, it’s made because we need something that will link people and make a society (wether or not that society works is different though).
nunyo biznez Capitalism isn’t made to exploit people and have no concern for morals, the concept of capitalism is to reward you for hard work and trying to be better than your competitors
Yeah the game gets wild, I’ve gotten to infinity cookies before which is rough because you somehow still don’t have enough to buy upgrades, essentially ending the game for you
@@apairofpliers8565 "infinity" is simply where the game runs into 2^1024, which is the largest number Javascript can handle. As such, that's the hard cap for cookies, and if a building cost reaches that, you cannot buy more.
No, it was originally about a certain virus. I can see why you thought it was what you said, since you americans think corona was caused by 5g towers and chinese spies
He did not learn the whole lore. He didn't even cover the first edition vs it's updates. Also, the grandma's were here before Christmas, and I'm personally upset at the fact that he did the video all out of order lol
Had this not been from you I would have assumed it was just about the game and never clicked but it was & is you so I clicked and was not disappointed. Thx
I remember back in high school, everyone in my class would always have cookie clicker on in the background when at the library computers. Little did we know it was actually a cosmic horror story about the evils of hypercapitalism.
and after that you have to plug the red wire into the socket to make sure the engine boots at launch. Wrap the green wire around it's coil that sits directly beside the A button. After you put the back shell on, place the battery in the slot. Screw the Vr26 Jeeper back up and press the reset button. If everything worked according to plan you're device should show a thumbs up sprite. Plug the HDMI port into a monitor and wait three seconds. If it boots up on TV your in the good side. If it doesn't boot in less then 5 seconds quickly unplug. This can severely damage your TV and possibly start a fire
I think I speak for everyone when I say pivoting to this content is truly the best direction for this channel.
You joke but I bet ASX would dominate if they made informational gaming videos.
@@Parenegade Agreed. Imagine him with Dark Souls and Bloodbourne analysis videos.
You mean anticaplitalist content? Couldn't agree more.
@@ianpopp87 You damn well know what I mean ;)
@@ianpopp87 I don't think the video is anti-capitalist. It reads more anti-greed to me. Greed is the cause of much tragedy and suffering, and you may say that is enabled by capitalism, but I disagree. I think the fault can only be laid at the feet of individuals. Capitalism has enabled countless advancements in technology, medicine, and allowed millions (if not billions) of people to be lifted out of poverty. People just need to stop being so damn greedy imo.
Me: "Pssh, how profound could the lore around a game about clicking on a cookie be?"
Me, a few minutes later: "Wow this guy wasn't kidding around"
Right?!?
Well, I guess they just showed you lolol
google: a marxist analysis of potato salad
I can't be the only one who remembers the "paperclip generator" game from a couple years back, right? I mean, before THIS video showed its very obvious parallels to coronavirus response, that was the first thing I thought of. It was a game I heard about on some message board a couple years back and it seems completely identical to this one. You clicked on your mouse repeatedly to produce paperclips, which you could do at an exponential rate the more you did it, and it also got into some really bizarre, reality-warping lore. I myself never wound up playing it for more than a couple days worth of time, but it was pretty much the exact same setup as this. In fact now I think about it, I suppose it's likely there were other version after the paperclip one and before this cookie one.
@@kevinw712 FYI, Cookiclicker was released in 2013, Paperclip universe was released in 2017.
"Disaster is actually an opportunity, to exploit the vulnerable, to make more wealth" Wow. Speechless
Hang on, feels like I've seen this one before... seems really familiar for some reason!
Disaster is a ladder... Made of cookies.
"Never let a good disaster go to waste."
It repeats. Time and time again. Ukraine, the Hawaiian fire crisis, wealthy mouths snapping up lands and resources, increasing their imaginary numbers for the sake of numbers.
But it's okay because I got TikTok dancers and Kim Kardashian is in the new AHS.
Hi
Covid be like
When I stop playing other games for a while I usually say, "I got distracted", "I've been slacking", "Oops, I should get back to that".
When I stop playing Cookie Clicker for a while I say, "I escaped".
Bruh
me who doesn't know what cookie clicker is: [laughs]
@@Darrk_77 haha bake cookie, cookie get popular, enslave grandma, oh shit the world is worshipping me, oh fuck the grandmas are taking over, I have ended the universe
@@Darrk_77 have u lived under a rock or are you just 12? Everyone knows cookie clicker??
@@phantom8699 idk if you're stupid or something, but i said that as a joke.
Beginning: "Oh cool, a grandma!"
Late game: ⟟ ⊑⏃⎐⟒ ⏁⍀⏃⋏⌇☊⟒⋏⎅⟒⎅ ⏁⍜ ⏁⊑⟒ ⊑⟟☌⊑⟒⌇⏁ ⌿⌰⏃⋏⟒ ⍜⎎ ☊⍜⋏☊⟟⍜⎍⌇ ⏃⋏⎅ ⟟ ⋔⎍⌇⏁ ⋔⏃☍⟒ ⋔⍜⍀⟒ ☊⍜⍜☍⟟⟒⌇
Haha yeah I know that… language…
Totally
@@BoneJuices its the ender man language
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Į HÆVË TRÆÑÇËÑDĘD ŪPŒÑ THË HÜMÆÑ ŚPĮĆĒŠ
I feel like at one point we stopped talking about cookies.
@@ericlee7844 hE sAiD bOoBiEs!😳
*le gasp*
It’s about capitalism
You never stop talking about cookies. Never... Is impossoble... There is always the cookie.
No, no... He's got a point......
"You can increase economic production by risking the lives of the elderly. Disaster is actually an opportunity to exploit the vulnerable to make more wealth." - quote from a video about a clicking game
Corona
@@distinctloafer virus
@@jolt745 is
@@redacted-19 the
The GDP goes up when natural disasters happen
The transition from "The only way we can escape such a game... is to stop playing" and the nonchalant "Thanks for watching this video about cookie clicker". 10/10.
Kinda how my teacher goes from "stop hurting people's emotions" to "ok so today we will learn lesson 6"
The line "disaster is actually an opportunity to exploit the vulnerable to make more wealth" hurts extra hard
Chaos Is a ladda!
companies a year ago raising the price of sanitiser be like
@@alyaar6072 grid companies hiking the price of electricity several hundred times during a deadly winter storm be like
covid moment
Well I mean just look at the America hospital bill
“You can increase economic production by risking the lives of the elderly” oh
I wonder what parallels can be drawn from this
too soon
Cynthia Chamberlain “write that down write that down”-world leaders
i think those scientists in china's lab had the same brainwave.. /s
Smart thinking.
Season 8 really messed him up didn't it
Which show?
When you play the cookie game you either win or you die
Heyo!
Actual LOL at this
😂😂😂😂
"Disaster is actually an opportunity to exploit the vulnerable to make more wealth" hardest fucking quote ever for cookie clicker
Did not expect to leave with an existential lesson
i am so tired of people fucking replying "first" to a verified youtuber's commment
like what the fuck does it provide to you
@@averagehuman8452 it doesnt provide you anything but hate, and stuff. It provides others the knowledge of you bein first
@@shikupo yeah
e
you are laughing, the grandma's are merging together into one mass of flesh and you are laughing
How about another joke, Grandma?
R/cursedcomments
You fool! He's laughing, because he's the mastermind behind their fusion into an Eldritch Horror!
Lol
it all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down~
When you walk into a political studies class with zero context.
@Sophia Graziani *#video** call incoming#* This is [redacted] from the year 30#2, god help us, GOD HELP US, humanity is doomed the cookies, they took over, the-...., I can hear them they’re coming HEEEEEEEEE- *#video** call ended#*
Don’t worry we are sending help.. the cookies shall PERISH
@@beesechurger7799 💀
@@bhavneetkaur5883 DESTROY THE COOKIES!
Im to late…
"...you can increase economic production by risking the lives of the elderly."
shit got real
shit got covid real
valid.
Wait until they introduce child labour... oh wait...
@@Nate9273 Not just covid-19, climate change can also be comparable, that is also an opportunity for many business owners to make more profit
This is such a high effort shitpost that ive actually started playing cookie clicker again
shitpost? This is a powerful critique of the capitalist system.
@@ZeroutlawRBLX my apologies, i was foolish before i entered cookie crisis
the thing is this isnt about cookie clicker at all...
i haven't. i don't get why people find this entertaining lol
@@johnwagner668 i'd rather have people accumulate imaginary cookies than real currency. also haha numbers go brr
I know it’s April fools and all, but this was unironically a great video.
I though it was a Cookie 🙃
truer
I didn't even realize, I was just like "Hum, may I judge this game to quick, this game ins't that bad, it has a story and all"
@@elsanti4220 *TRUE ******R*******
@@ParadoxAll it's a great idle game
The beginning:
"Click 15 times for a cursor"
The end:
"Every part of life is perverted to serve the purpose of the economy, nothing is too sacred to be sacrificed upon its altar. And for what? What's the point of a massive global economy if it fails to protect the elderly and the vulnerable? Even those with the most cookies don't really benefit from the system. Once you're past a certain level of wealth, you can never spend that many cookies. And it's not like the game ever ends, you can never win Cookie Clicker. You just keep making cookies until you stop or die, you're just hoarding cookies for its own sake."
Change cookies to money and you got the irl economy
@@desk1235 Same applies, you are just watching a number increase.
I chose Cookies
dude this is one of the best comments i"ve ever seen
to lonj
Gotta love how this game goes from hiring grandmas to help make cookies to pulling in cookies from throughout time and space
"I promise I won't get political"
3 drinks later:
Haha that hits way too close to home 😂
XD
More like 3 coockies later
This is my favorite comment
Honestly when you disregard the "haha funni cookiez" part this game becomes a pretty good metaphor for how capitalism has warped our society into something that thrives off of pieces of paper that would normally be worthless. Except instead of paper it's cookies.
A cookie economy is always gonna crumble
Ong lol
That's why too much can make you dough up
And that's the way the cookie crumbles
NOT FUNNY
DIDN'T LAUGH
Nice one
he went from
"Cookie Clicker, is a game, about clicking a cookie."
to "the universe is now cookies. and only cookies" in less then 10 minutes
and then to "how about we stop doing this whole capitalism thing"
@@alextheghost8211 Seems kinda meh. Capitalism is ultimately just not taking people's stuff. Closer to greed really
@@seankrkovich2869 Yeah it is mostly about greed but capitalistic greed and exploiting grandmas and the natural resources of the planet to make more cookies that you don't need
Every VSauce intro ever
The universe becoming cookies is only 3 minutes in; the remaining 7 minutes is going _even further._
I swear every year this gets recommended to me, I open up my cookie clicker save and I just feel nostalgic, thank you for making this video, and I’ll see you next year.
Me: *clicks to a random point in the video*
The Video: "There is no value, no ideology, and no meaning beyond cookies".
"a hive of mutant grandmas rise"
@@Bubiquemado looks like a terraria boss
But cookies taste good
666th like
"To be sacrificed on it's altar"
"is cookie clicker a metaphor for capitalism?" was the last thing i thought i would think about today
exactly!
it applies to any kind of economy in the end
I don't think any actual capitalist system involves any money printers going brrrr.
@@AnonGZ No, American Capitalism more than anything. An economy is required for society to exist; however once that society exists at the expense of itself is when shit starts going south. Balance in everything.
@@AnonGZ not really in capitalism economic growth is exponential punctuated by crashes in communism growth follows the function 1/X and in feudalism it is nearly flat.
“our website uses cookies-”
*GET IT OUT OF HERE*
this deserves to be the most liked comment
Hidolok lolol thank you 😂
lol
That was so hard to make/format on a phone (・∀・")
"Cookie Clicker Is a Game About Clicking A Cookie" Famous Words Said
8:02 "disaster is actually an opportunity to exploit the vulnerable to make more wealth" This is probably the line that got me the most
Yeah, makes me think of one old bearded German and his friend
There's a saying by someone:
Chaos is a ladder!
Reminds me of that Applebee's CNN commercial that played during the Russian Ukraine conflict
Reminds me of a old game someone played, Liberty something…
covid, that you?
“what radicalized you?”
“....cookie clicker”
type all info of that messages and all the achievements
nostalgia
Cookie clicker is the reason we got all the world wars and the cold war
Based
@@uly22 We click the cookie since 16th century
Start of the video: haha so silly
End of the video: OMFG
My mouth was literally hanging open at the end. Brilliant. Absolutely amazing. This is officially the best video on this entire site.
the April's fool's video we all have been waiting
@@damiandohshinobi8127 This is actually an incredibly real/serious video.
@@AliceDiableaux have you seen the Ronald Mc Donald vids?
I like how this game is just Capitalism
It even has a stock market minigame that Ortiel intentionally made dull just to be realistic to the real thing
mmmm yes *O R T I E L* and definitely not orteil
@@honeybee45678toriel and ortiel
Not really, at least not after you buy all the banks. The basic principle of capitalism is the private property as a right, once every single mean of production and every single resource becomes a extension of the cookie production machinery for the sake of some divine entity, it becomes as far away of capitalism as possible.
“ video games cause violence”
Kid playing cookie clicker: lol how can this game make me violent?
Him after hours of progress: *sacrifice.... more.... grandmas....*
King Jones laugh
Haha.
Lol
Hehe
The Beginning: I own 5 farms! Cool!
The End: What is the meaning of life? What are feelings? All your memory will be lost like tears in the rain. Live life while you can because it's not long.
the early game is a game, the late game is political statement of our captilist society
oh if you live in this universe you DoNt DiE
@brixk oh my fcking god i just did that, why did I do that, I am heartbroken
"the universe is now cookies. and only cookies"
the first grandma: So when you payin me?
Oh yeaaahhhh.... About that...
Here. A deed for half of my business. You deserve it.
the 1st cursor: am i a joke to you?
@@emmaisvibing9843 Cookie:
Nick Wilde productions o
Oof
This is basically a in-depth critique documentary at how dangerous a pure unregulated capitalist system is, disguised as a review for a mindless clicker game.
...then again the similarities are too obvious to ignore, so I can't really blame him.
Me, who played cookie clicker for fun and didn't actually do most of this:
WHAT
At this point I'm making 345 decillion cookies a second and I've ascended like 7 times.
How do I find this game all I find is dumb scratch I want this one
yeah... that's possible
@@volly910 the link to the game is in the description
@@toughpuff1799 ok
Are we not gonna talk about how he has 37 trillion ascensions ready
no its 37 trillion prestige and heavenly chips. Yes it is a ginormous amount of cookies he earned, but it is possible to hack in cookies as he said so maybe he hacked in the cookies as playing this game to that point takes over a year.
@@lykaeon8082 except playing this game for over a year is typical...
So he played this over a year for a single video?
Cos he filmed it from the start
@@lykaeon8082 how could any computer hold that much video information without making what the video is completely unrecognizable
It's not about the journey it's about telling people at school how many cookies you have
Its not always about the cookies schpidaman
Samee
shush
I love how they always have a look of shock, disbelief, and horror when I tell them a number of cookies that I have witch is a number they’ve never even heard of
@@majorvonstroheim151 shush no need for paragraphs here
In the end, the final joke is that there is no joke... The game successfully made our reality into cookies and money into cookies by connecting cookies to philosophy of life.
Grandma: “You disgust me”
Also grandma: “Moist cookie”
lol
"Give grandma a kiss"
"call me"
It will all be over soon.
We're nice grandmas
"you can increase ecenomic production by risking the lives of the elderly"
-alt shift x, 2020
This needs to be taken out of context
I think you meant "capitalists during the pandemic"
He's not wrong tho
"You can increase economic production by risking the lives of the elderly"
Ah, I see the new coronavirus patch has come out.
Yeah this corona virus has really boosted the economy and increased economic production.
@@ebk7073344 he's talking about the proposal that people go back to work soon despite the ongoing pandemic. Boosting economic production while putting peoples lives at risk, particularly the elderly
mexico
Maybe, since the world’s economy seems to be held up by hand sanitizers and surgical gloves. Both of which the elderly, need even on a non-apocalyptic day.
Fwooty but it wouldn’t boost production compared to pre-corona, it would just mitigate losses.
Came for the Cookie Clicker content, left with an existential crisis. 10/10
I saw my kid playing this game and I got curious, so I decided to watch this video. I wasn't expecting anything past the first 30 seconds
it's finally here ruclips.net/video/2hFUyRR_Kho/видео.html
Biggest mistake
your kid wants to learn how to conquer the world with cookies. Stop them now!
Cap
“Grandfather, how did the world start?”
“Well, it all started one day when one man started making cookies…”
“Well how did it end?”
“The same way it started”
"What was before the cookies grandpa?"
"Nobody knows.... nobody will ever know"
What happen to grandma grampa
@@garrettcarr8689 it was cookies
Grandpa: So you want to know what happened to grandma? Let me tell you something kid...
(Sits down on chair)
Grandma, she tried to find the truth... She almost found out what happened before the cookies. On one day the cookie agents came to our house. Asked us some questions. One day she just didnt come home...
Kid: Grandpa? Where is she now?
Grandpa: I suspect that the cookie agency has her... She might be dead or is in a cell somewhere underneath. We might never now...
Kid: ...
Grandpa: Thats enough story time. Go back to bed...
They should make a sequel called, The Cookie Aftermath where you play as a citizen during the Grandmapocalypse.
oooohh that sounds cool
Yes...Am going o now be a game dev to make that.
666 likes
great idea tho ngl
720 likes
It's been years, but I just love this video.
+1
+1
"you buy your first grandma"
enough internet for today.
You get an achievement for selling a grandma called "Just Wrong" with the added text "I thought you loved me"
@@Gilsworth holy shit im never gonna sell one
>sell grandma
>get achievement (and therefore more milk)
>get more cps based on milk
we truly live in a society
Nice lightning reed pfp
r/cursedcomments
"This site uses cookies"
*Accepts*
The website:
LMFAO
👏👏
Pog
COOKIES
"Unsurprisingly, Cookie Clicker uses cookies to save game data"
At the start of this video, I was laughing my ass off about how absurd this game is.
By the end of the video, I'm legitimately perturbed by how absurd the whole world is.
You've seen nothing yet !
Cookie Clicker is art. Real art makes you question your existence.
@@sudanemamimikiki1527 universal paperclips is the best with this
@Sick Disgusting Freak
Bro, get a life.
@Sick Disgusting Freak r/woosh
This needs to be required viewing at every house of worship, played before the beginning of all company board meetings, workdays at the Fed, and days at school. If you're not going to teach reading or math in the remaining 5 hours and 50 minutes, this ten isn't going to to turn the tide but maybe we will have adults who will care about it. As opposed to the (most recent)th congress.
Damn I didn't think a video about cookie clicker would be this relevant
What are you talking about man, this is clearly just about cookies 🍪
@@AltShiftX "The problem is that, a system designed to make cookies is not design to make wellbeing or justice or hapiness, any system of endless growth, of singular purpose, that warps the whole world around one goal can only grow until it self destructs. And the only way we can escape such a game, is to stop playing."
yeah sure just good ol' cookies :D
Breezeshooter, это что мэддисон на аве? xD
Or this terrifying.
@@Tioy0 i reached that part of the video while reading this
"The late game meta has elaborate strategies to maximise cookie production."
me: Pff...you just click cookies
my mind wasn't ready.
Cookies from anti matter lmao
Coffee by Anon on Spotify grandmapocalypse
this dude spent most likely months getting lore out of Cookie Clicker. Mad respect.
You did see his cheat engine, right?
@@Ranked_Journey oop
@@Ranked_Journey he had like 850 sugar lumps, u get one a day...
@@runningsolojr cheat engine can give you as many suger lumps as you want.
And I spent 5 minutes (there is a hack/glitch programmed in)
Cookie clicker starts with you trying to build the best cookie factory by hiring grandmas, building farms, hiring miners to mine cookies, create a factory, hire bank tellers, rebuild cookie temples, make wizard towers, going into space, hire alchemist, create portals, condensing cookie using antimatter condenser, reflecting lights into cookie, make cookies out of thin air using luck, breaking the dimension and cheating using a script, but the grandmas enraged from one specific device, cursing them, making you feel panic and get more research because you need to, until the grandmas awoken and wreak havoc on the city. This game tells you about riots, politics, and theories.
Ya know, I wasn’t expecting a cookie clicker video to be a critique of capitalism and pandemic response, but now that I’ve watched it I don’t know how I could have expected something else
That's because you haven't read the Cookie Clicker books.
This reminds me of the Billy Madison industrial revolution analogy
Illuin DB Then again, this is Alt Shift X we’re talking about.
For an encore, let’s see what analyses he can make from I Am Bread or Random Goose Game next year
Diepvries ah shit you right. I was planning to when the series was done but they just take so long to come out ya feel?
@@christianfarren1179 Untitled Goose Game is cheating, as it has a surprisingly deep reading any day of the year not just the first of April. ;-)
What is the village? How many bells *has* the goose stolen and why is nobody *really* doing anything about it? What primal urges does being a goose give a player?
My headcanon is that the village is an undercover SCP containment site, designed to keep the goose occupied. There's a continual debate about if the success of containment means they should reduce its class to euclid, but that's a trap. The goose is always keter. Never feel secure.
now i finally understand the economy.
How can it be that every year the economy increases in size but the planet hasn't
It will when they unlock space mining.
TRUEEEEE
Economy made me talk alien i mean Ecomoney tade le me to tlacc aleeen
Spore?
You the True gamer
I remember in grade 5 everyone was obsessed with this game to the point where friendships were broken because people had less cookies. It was crazy. I gave up as soon as I got the first "you make me sick-Grandma" because I immediately got deeply unsettled, and slowly realized how messed up some of the headlines were.
158 likes and no replys? let me fix that
I think games like these are so pointless. In other games like subway surfers, at least you're actually doing something instead of just mindlessly clicking the screen, waiting for the next upgrade.
@@fgwag3fgwag398 2 likes and no replies? Let me fix that
@@CharcoalMarsh bro missed the whole point of the video
@@bruteng836 then please enlighten me on the point of the video
As someone who played cookie clicker because it was the only thing I could play on my schools blocked computers I can tell you that that game is something more, something much more
Can we all just appreciate that this man spent months, possibly years, grinding out cookie clicker, learning the meta and the lore all just to make a really interesting connection to the real world, giving a commentary about the state of our society and really making us face reality.
No, because there is an extremely easy way to cheat, you can literally give yourself anything, he even shows it at the end
@@pxpsiperson Yeah, all of this could have just token a few days, I restarted recently about 6 days ago and haven't even gotten 1 trillion cookies yet, it takes some time that is something that's true
Now imagine the dude(s?) who wrote it.
@@pxpsiperson That is not the point dude
@@texugo_branco then what is?
This guys first words. "Cookie Clicker is a game about clicking a cookie."
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Ya dont say
wow we watched the same video
wow what else 😮 are you gonna tell me he's also human???
Right like no it’s a game about dogs making cakes
@@justarandomdragonontheinternet I don't see why not, it's not like all game titles are literal.
Or did you think Metal Gear was a game series about an actual gear made of metal....
I remember everyone getting hooked on clicker games in HS and some kid suggested that all our clicking was contributing to free labor for somebody for some monetizable purpose. We all thought he was weird for that, and the story of Cookie Clicker helps me to finally understand what he was getting at..
He was ahead of the Curve.
I only played dogeminer
Cool math games
If I were in your position and still remembered his name, I'd try reaching out by sending this video.
Kinda weird? Probably.
shush
By far one of the best videos on YT. Nicely done, guy from 4 years ago.
Beginning: "I cant sleep, this looks interesting"
Middle: "Oh it's an April's Fool joke! Hahaha"
End: "WE MUST SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION"
🍪
Me: *Reading comment before video is done*
Also me: ha, well I figured out the near end of the video so I'm not like y- *checks video*
2. m i n u t e s - h a v e - p a s s e d
Solidarity Forever.
“For 100 cookies you buy your very first grandma”
I thought human trafficking was illegal?
Everything is legal 'till the cops show.
Releasing nameless eldritch horrors is generally considered a no-no, as well.
Well buying it with money is
You can buy your first grandma. You never had one before. Let it sink in.
Not if you have enough cookies
Everyone: Who is Hale?
Alt Shift X: SEIZE THE DOUGHS OF PRODUCTION!
wouldn't it be the means of prodoughction?
200131240 😂😂😂
I am!
alt shift x is the type of guy to post a video about cookies then a fictional alien society that enslaved humanity
The story of all cookies
"It's simple at first but gets increasingly complex"
my autoclicker with 5000 clicks per second: haha click go fast
click go NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWMMM
Ehem... Mouse goes brrr
ha ha click go: *f22 jet plane noises*
I always just inspect the page, click the “element” tab and type in something like “cookies = 9999999999”.
wat ur auto clicker
"What's the point of a massive global economy if it fails to protect the elderly and the vulnerable" my favourite line!!
the economy has no obligation to "protect" anybody. family and friends are responsible for protecting their own
@@NobodyssGirl every thought about the fact that all of us share the same earth?
@@NobodyssGirl gotta be the most brain broken shit I’ve heard
@@NobodyssGirl i can’t protect my loved ones from being fucked over by the economy bro
@@NobodyssGirl well then we should create a system that IS obligated to protect others
"Disaster is actually an opportunity to exploit the vulnerable to make more wealth"...
Cookie Clicker is an artform
That really hit home with all the COVID stuff
capitalism be like
sounds like americas healthcare
Cookie clicker is the second best artform.
The first best artform is:
ruclips.net/video/lCl7I7png08/видео.html
@@fodebic5253 Thanks. I feel like I've cursed my entire family by clicking that.
Man I really love this video, which is clearly about Cookie Clicker AND NOTHING ELSE AT ALL.
I have talked to Ortiel (the creator of CC) and when I asked him about CC, he literally just said "Yeah you click the cookie"
You misspelled Orteil lol
@@NgocPham-ux8st -2% CPS
click it
@@anawesomepet -10% CPS! yikes!
As much as I enjoy GoT lore... GoT's lore doesn't even scratch the surface compared to the depth and scale of the Cookie Clicker universe.
Very ambitious of you to start a video series on such an in-depth subject. I look forward to seeing more and finally deciphering its secrets.
Seriously though, GoT lore is nothing compared to ASOIAF lore. Showrunners had cut A LOT.
Ha Amateurs, you obviously never heard FNaF's Lore.
@@OcD_1 no, fnafs lore is nothing compared to the cookie clicker universe
@@OcD_1 ...the mere mention of that made my head start to hurt...
@@OcD_1 I can’t still hear matpats sobs
Dad: “My diet is starting tomorrow.”
Dad:
*cookie*
*becomes cookie*
grandma*
cookie
"The only way to escape the cosmic cookie machine is DEATH"
This video singlehandedly got my dad to buy cookie clicker when he has clearly stated in the past that he hates idle games. Good job!
9:35 "The problem is that a system designed to make cookies is not designed to make well-being, or justice, or happiness." His final assessment is such a clear and a damning indictment.
Why?
@@andieallison6792" a system designed to make money is not designed to make well-being or justice,or happiness"
Does it make more sense now?
@Jonas Åström If the ultimate goal is to make money, it doesnt matter if sometimes the economy accidentally does the right thing. Its not trying to
@Jonas Åström That is true for your local shop, not for oil and energy companies, not for supermarkets, not for banks...
@Jonas Åström Hugh... At a certain point you gotta document yourself about the practices of the biggest companies all over the world. This is not a shorcut you're taking its a whole teleporter to deduce that since people need oil, oil companies will work towards whats best for the people. Same for banks, the fact you can put your money there isnt exactly the whole money making scheme. Most of their practices are not beneficial to most people. Sure some rich people benefit from it when investing but even them are getting fcked by the banks.
I like the part when he says “cookie” it hits real hard
Mr Regular Word shut up
i can’t like this. it’s on 69 likes
anna clara neither can i
You can't lie he's spiting strait facts
Stfu
"Any system of endless growth, of singular purpose, that warps the whole world around ONE goal can only grow until it self-destructs."
if the goal is making the world a better place it can work.
thats when i took a swig
@@paulgotik yeah but the goal of capitalism is maximizing profit, not making the world a better place.
@@connorcriss yes, and most systems whose goal is to “make the world a better place” tend to actually make the world worse
@@garlonschuman1014 what a great meme. Let’s never try to make things better ever because there’s a chance it could be worst, never mind the fact that it will end horribly anyway if nothing changes. Let’s just do nothing and stick with the status quo.
Never in my life have i ever thought that ASX would make a video about cookies
I see the quarantine is affecting Alt Shift too
Affecting*
@@ghostbuddy3106 you're doing God's work
@@carterdahl9654 it's nothing to do with any concept of god or gods - but yea, i get your meaning...
@callmecatalyst loool
The thing that brings me back to cookie clicker so many times as opposed to other idle games is that it has all this crazy stuff going on in the background that builds very slowly until eventually you start to notice your grandmas are turning into demons and you've made portals to some hell dimmension. At the end of the day it IS just an idle game, but it has a lot of charm and care put into it and i love that.
time to buy a bingo center for my grandmas to increase profit!
its a critique on capitalism and the fact you don't see that is worrying
@@lux7264 Your horse is so high it's hard to hear you. It's almost sounds like you assumed I wasn't aware of the obvious commentary that the game about maximizing profits is trying to convey about capitalism when all I said was that I liked the demon grandmas.
Nah my grandma is already a demon.
..."and the only way to escape such a game is.. to stop playing."
Couldn't have put it in a better way.
"The only winning move is not to play."
Have. Couldn't HAVE.
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@@aurelia8028 I commend your dedication.
@@raizumichin Couldn't. COULDN'T.
Oh, a video about cookie clicker! And totally not about anything that starts with a C and ends with human extinction unless we stop it!
I came for I don’t know what.
And left feeling real sad.
:(
(°°)
bye then
Don’t worry, the punchline will come, Right? .....Right?
Damn, all the time I was playing this game as a child and I never noticed the milk slowly turning red.
Wait what milk?
I'm on day 251of my cookie clicker run and found out the milk can turn a LOT more colors as you go on
I am on day 1 of cookie clicker and milk is white and it doesn’t even do anything because i don’t have bought the cats yet
You can get space milk
The milk changing isn't anything bad, I'd it is red it is cherry milk.
"Seize the means of cookie production" - Kookie Marx
"Na"-Signed: The USA, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Sweden Iceland, Philippines, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan, South Vietnam, Taiwan, Middle East, 100 others
@@Graham226 Norway is social democratic so it would say yes
@@ColinTheFurryYT socialism means workplace democracy, not state welfare
@@samirnodormir3097 what the hell are you talking about
@@ColinTheFurryYT Norway is still a capitalist country, it just has a bunch of reforms and social systems for people in place.
This video is fantastic, but I think you missed an opportunity at 7:05 to call them "the dentured, indentured workforce". 😂😂
“Disaster is an opportunity to exploit the vulnerable for more wealth”
Mr. Krabs: write that down write that down!
He is a corporation, sadly, however, plankton has an inferior product to Mr. Krabs. there was an episode where they tried to one-up each other with fried foods, it ended when everyone got too sick to eat anymore. One may say, "that's exactly what capitalism is about, endless profit with no concern for human life", and they'd be right, it falls upon the individual who will do transactions with a company to make the right choices as companies are morally grey. I know you don't care, I just thought I'd put my belief of what capitalism is out there.
nunyo biznez communism isn’t any better though. Communism shows itself as a system where everyone is equal, in reality it’s not. Everyone’s equal except the government. The government can do what it wants because they have more power. They control your wealth, food, happiness, and more. Economy isn’t made for people to be happy, it’s made because we need something that will link people and make a society (wether or not that society works is different though).
8:04
nunyo biznez Capitalism isn’t made to exploit people and have no concern for morals, the concept of capitalism is to reward you for hard work and trying to be better than your competitors
@@hack_jackjk4134 it's not made to exploit people, but that is exactly what it does.
i have only ever gotten to the wizards tower so the sudden capitalist allegory and cookie/grandma apocalypse was certainly unexpected
Yeah the game gets wild, I’ve gotten to infinity cookies before which is rough because you somehow still don’t have enough to buy upgrades, essentially ending the game for you
I only got to the antimatter condenser before i realised cookie clicker was gonna get weirder
@@apairofpliers8565 "infinity" is simply where the game runs into 2^1024, which is the largest number Javascript can handle. As such, that's the hard cap for cookies, and if a building cost reaches that, you cannot buy more.
@@anerdwithaswitch9686 YE BUT I JUST UPDATED MY JAVA SO IT CAN HANDLE 2^2048 NOW
i have a hack for u
"The only thing we can do to stop it is not play the game"
.....
"So anyways here's the link to the game"
iDuskk where
I think he means it's in the description
and the eldritch horror continue...
Because the cookies....
**{IT N€V€R €ND$}**
@@fezduck8659 cookieclicker.thecrypt.xyz/
This legit goes from an explanation of a browser game to a philosophical rant about the drawbacks of capitalism. Great video
"Disaster is actually an opportunity to exploit the vulnerable to make more wealth"
God, that's so painfully accurate to what's happening right now
Yes speedwagon very cool
SPEEDWAGON SAMA
9/11
@Pikora Animation just ab to say even more so now
No, it was originally about a certain virus. I can see why you thought it was what you said, since you americans think corona was caused by 5g towers and chinese spies
its hilarious to see a man with a great novel narrator voice say
"but the real good shit" in complete serious-ness
Welcome to RUclips
Damn quarantine really got to him he got so bored that he learned the whole lore of cookie clicker
He did not learn the whole lore. He didn't even cover the first edition vs it's updates. Also, the grandma's were here before Christmas, and I'm personally upset at the fact that he did the video all out of order lol
Had this not been from you I would have assumed it was just about the game and never clicked but it was & is you so I clicked and was not disappointed. Thx
I remember back in high school, everyone in my class would always have cookie clicker on in the background when at the library computers. Little did we know it was actually a cosmic horror story about the evils of hypercapitalism.
and after that you have to plug the red wire into the socket to make sure the engine boots at launch. Wrap the green wire around it's coil that sits directly beside the A button. After you put the back shell on, place the battery in the slot. Screw the Vr26 Jeeper back up and press the reset button. If everything worked according to plan you're device should show a thumbs up sprite. Plug the HDMI port into a monitor and wait three seconds. If it boots up on TV your in the good side. If it doesn't boot in less then 5 seconds quickly unplug. This can severely damage your TV and possibly start a fire
Technically just late stage capitalism, all idle games end that way where the upgrades just scale up with your wealth and nothing new can be achieved
I had two people do that next to me and it really annoyed me
@@pattyryopotybuttongamer3063 ok
@@pattyryopotybuttongamer3063 what
I’d say ‘eat the rich’ but seeing as they are made of cookies too, that would only continue the cycle.
"cookie printer go brrrr" meme had me dying
absolute highest level of humour
I died 💀💀
true xDDD
Haha cookie economy go crumble
"Disaster is actually an opportunity to exploit the vulnerable to make more wealth".
We aren't talking about the game anymore, are we?