Cookie Clicker Explained

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  • Опубликовано: 20 ноя 2024

Комментарии • 14 тыс.

  • @Cathowl
    @Cathowl 3 года назад +7392

    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".

    • @evandelck8541
      @evandelck8541 3 года назад +15

      Bruh

    • @Darrk_77
      @Darrk_77 3 года назад +43

      me who doesn't know what cookie clicker is: [laughs]

    • @microooo
      @microooo 3 года назад +205

      @@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

    • @phantom8699
      @phantom8699 3 года назад +21

      @@Darrk_77 have u lived under a rock or are you just 12? Everyone knows cookie clicker??

    • @Darrk_77
      @Darrk_77 3 года назад +5

      @@phantom8699 idk if you're stupid or something, but i said that as a joke.

  • @KingAwesome8218
    @KingAwesome8218 4 года назад +6885

    I think I speak for everyone when I say pivoting to this content is truly the best direction for this channel.

    • @Parenegade
      @Parenegade 4 года назад +85

      You joke but I bet ASX would dominate if they made informational gaming videos.

    • @BikesTrainandAuto
      @BikesTrainandAuto 4 года назад +40

      @@Parenegade Agreed. Imagine him with Dark Souls and Bloodbourne analysis videos.

    • @ianpopp87
      @ianpopp87 4 года назад +110

      You mean anticaplitalist content? Couldn't agree more.

    • @KingAwesome8218
      @KingAwesome8218 4 года назад +22

      @@ianpopp87 You damn well know what I mean ;)

    • @dirtypure2023
      @dirtypure2023 4 года назад +17

      @@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.

  • @giobrach
    @giobrach 4 года назад +2755

    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"

    • @nicholasdragomanovits9284
      @nicholasdragomanovits9284 4 года назад +4

      Right?!?

    • @feargalohagan6510
      @feargalohagan6510 4 года назад +1

      Well, I guess they just showed you lolol

    • @Agora13
      @Agora13 4 года назад +18

      google: a marxist analysis of potato salad

    • @kevinw712
      @kevinw712 4 года назад +4

      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.

    • @wybo2
      @wybo2 4 года назад +8

      @@kevinw712 FYI, Cookiclicker was released in 2013, Paperclip universe was released in 2017.

  • @DanneJackie
    @DanneJackie Год назад +3960

    "Disaster is actually an opportunity, to exploit the vulnerable, to make more wealth" Wow. Speechless

    • @hazukichanx408
      @hazukichanx408 Год назад +112

      Hang on, feels like I've seen this one before... seems really familiar for some reason!

    • @ВикторФирсов-е9ф
      @ВикторФирсов-е9ф Год назад +35

      Disaster is a ladder... Made of cookies.

    • @stevenhetzel6483
      @stevenhetzel6483 Год назад +38

      "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.

    • @born2ryde1990
      @born2ryde1990 Год назад +1

      Hi

    • @crisrufo6988
      @crisrufo6988 Год назад +3

      Covid be like

  • @derekrequiem4359
    @derekrequiem4359 3 года назад +2403

    "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

    • @distinctloafer
      @distinctloafer 3 года назад +35

      Corona

    • @jolt745
      @jolt745 3 года назад +7

      @@distinctloafer virus

    • @redacted-19
      @redacted-19 3 года назад +5

      @@jolt745 is

    • @siggi556
      @siggi556 3 года назад +4

      @@redacted-19 the

    • @tasse0599
      @tasse0599 3 года назад +12

      The GDP goes up when natural disasters happen

  • @sumlem
    @sumlem 3 года назад +13309

    The line "disaster is actually an opportunity to exploit the vulnerable to make more wealth" hurts extra hard

    • @ironvicho20
      @ironvicho20 3 года назад +104

      Chaos Is a ladda!

    • @alyaar6072
      @alyaar6072 3 года назад +373

      companies a year ago raising the price of sanitiser be like

    • @MuddafukhingdisKUST
      @MuddafukhingdisKUST 3 года назад +277

      @@alyaar6072 grid companies hiking the price of electricity several hundred times during a deadly winter storm be like

    • @callum5209
      @callum5209 3 года назад +41

      covid moment

    • @susamogus8331
      @susamogus8331 3 года назад +78

      Well I mean just look at the America hospital bill

  • @kariem6998
    @kariem6998 4 года назад +15389

    Season 8 really messed him up didn't it

    • @fps8786
      @fps8786 4 года назад +66

      Which show?

    • @heisenberg2712
      @heisenberg2712 4 года назад +415

      When you play the cookie game you either win or you die

    • @stfnknbb
      @stfnknbb 4 года назад +7

      Heyo!

    • @larl07
      @larl07 4 года назад +19

      Actual LOL at this

    • @TwelveK
      @TwelveK 4 года назад +8

      😂😂😂😂

  • @mikkel1
    @mikkel1 Год назад +1044

    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.

    • @vhanzesp
      @vhanzesp 5 месяцев назад +2

      Kinda how my teacher goes from "stop hurting people's emotions" to "ok so today we will learn lesson 6"

  • @cryo311old
    @cryo311old 3 года назад +10593

    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."

    • @desk1235
      @desk1235 3 года назад +292

      Change cookies to money and you got the irl economy

    • @froggie610
      @froggie610 3 года назад +76

      @@desk1235 Same applies, you are just watching a number increase.

    • @burritowyrm6530
      @burritowyrm6530 3 года назад +18

      I chose Cookies

    • @2fleekgeek
      @2fleekgeek 3 года назад +15

      dude this is one of the best comments i"ve ever seen

    • @ss-bq2ee
      @ss-bq2ee 3 года назад +4

      to lonj

  • @potatorecipe742
    @potatorecipe742 3 года назад +6287

    Did not expect to leave with an existential lesson

    • @averagehuman8452
      @averagehuman8452 3 года назад +22

      i am so tired of people fucking replying "first" to a verified youtuber's commment

    • @averagehuman8452
      @averagehuman8452 3 года назад +13

      like what the fuck does it provide to you

    • @shikupo
      @shikupo 3 года назад +13

      @@averagehuman8452 it doesnt provide you anything but hate, and stuff. It provides others the knowledge of you bein first

    • @averagehuman8452
      @averagehuman8452 3 года назад +1

      @@shikupo yeah

    • @unbleed1337
      @unbleed1337 3 года назад +1

      e

  • @dasoon0220
    @dasoon0220 4 года назад +17453

    I know it’s April fools and all, but this was unironically a great video.

    • @abailumlerrad1037
      @abailumlerrad1037 4 года назад +59

      I though it was a Cookie 🙃

    • @elsanti4220
      @elsanti4220 4 года назад +5

      truer

    • @ParadoxAll
      @ParadoxAll 4 года назад +253

      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"

    • @abailumlerrad1037
      @abailumlerrad1037 4 года назад +5

      @@elsanti4220 *TRUE ******R*******

    • @coffeedude
      @coffeedude 4 года назад +15

      @@ParadoxAll it's a great idle game

  • @sivander8740
    @sivander8740 Год назад +255

    "Disaster is actually an opportunity to exploit the vulnerable to make more wealth" hardest fucking quote ever for cookie clicker

  • @scripttonight4471
    @scripttonight4471 3 года назад +3921

    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

    • @lukakomarov1014
      @lukakomarov1014 3 года назад +53

      Yeah, makes me think of one old bearded German and his friend

    • @foggyforest2625
      @foggyforest2625 3 года назад +42

      There's a saying by someone:
      Chaos is a ladder!

    • @thesamejackalsniperthatkil117
      @thesamejackalsniperthatkil117 2 года назад +29

      Reminds me of that Applebee's CNN commercial that played during the Russian Ukraine conflict

    • @AJ-vr9hf
      @AJ-vr9hf 2 года назад +5

      Reminds me of a old game someone played, Liberty something…

    • @haidiwu7968
      @haidiwu7968 2 года назад +7

      covid, that you?

  • @arikyuui
    @arikyuui 4 года назад +3562

    “You can increase economic production by risking the lives of the elderly” oh

    • @YellowTailHorse
      @YellowTailHorse 4 года назад +154

      I wonder what parallels can be drawn from this

    • @My-nl6sg
      @My-nl6sg 4 года назад +32

      too soon

    • @jj0493
      @jj0493 4 года назад +56

      Cynthia Chamberlain “write that down write that down”-world leaders

    • @MokuTom
      @MokuTom 4 года назад +12

      i think those scientists in china's lab had the same brainwave.. /s

    • @michaelwaymire2037
      @michaelwaymire2037 4 года назад

      Smart thinking.

  • @thunderclap7154
    @thunderclap7154 4 года назад +17392

    A cookie economy is always gonna crumble

    • @reckzom
      @reckzom 4 года назад +60

      Ong lol

    • @strangwax1020
      @strangwax1020 4 года назад +164

      That's why too much can make you dough up

    • @eivind3263
      @eivind3263 4 года назад +89

      And that's the way the cookie crumbles

    • @ghoulbuster1
      @ghoulbuster1 4 года назад +24

      NOT FUNNY
      DIDN'T LAUGH

    • @senboy9002
      @senboy9002 4 года назад +12

      Nice one

  • @Micha-Hil
    @Micha-Hil Год назад +647

    "...you can increase economic production by risking the lives of the elderly."
    shit got real

    • @Nate9273
      @Nate9273 Год назад +11

      shit got covid real

    • @clasher3732
      @clasher3732 Год назад +3

      valid.

    • @andrewcgs
      @andrewcgs Год назад

      Wait until they introduce child labour... oh wait...

    • @eges72
      @eges72 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@Nate9273 Not just covid-19, climate change can also be comparable, that is also an opportunity for many business owners to make more profit

  • @aliaslispector724
    @aliaslispector724 3 года назад +3339

    Me: *clicks to a random point in the video*
    The Video: "There is no value, no ideology, and no meaning beyond cookies".

  • @stinksorstonks1498
    @stinksorstonks1498 4 года назад +11658

    This is such a high effort shitpost that ive actually started playing cookie clicker again

    • @ZeroutlawRBLX
      @ZeroutlawRBLX 4 года назад +865

      shitpost? This is a powerful critique of the capitalist system.

    • @stinksorstonks1498
      @stinksorstonks1498 4 года назад +424

      @@ZeroutlawRBLX my apologies, i was foolish before i entered cookie crisis

    • @infnub
      @infnub 4 года назад +84

      the thing is this isnt about cookie clicker at all...

    • @johnwagner668
      @johnwagner668 4 года назад +14

      i haven't. i don't get why people find this entertaining lol

    • @MrWiscow
      @MrWiscow 4 года назад +101

      @@johnwagner668 i'd rather have people accumulate imaginary cookies than real currency. also haha numbers go brr

  • @BakedPotato4832
    @BakedPotato4832 Год назад +176

    Gotta love how this game goes from hiring grandmas to help make cookies to pulling in cookies from throughout time and space

  • @memebois6987
    @memebois6987 4 года назад +2103

    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

    • @alextheghost8211
      @alextheghost8211 3 года назад +22

      and then to "how about we stop doing this whole capitalism thing"

    • @seankrkovich2869
      @seankrkovich2869 3 года назад +9

      @@alextheghost8211 Seems kinda meh. Capitalism is ultimately just not taking people's stuff. Closer to greed really

    • @alextheghost8211
      @alextheghost8211 3 года назад +6

      @@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

    • @normalcat7296
      @normalcat7296 3 года назад +6

      Every VSauce intro ever

    • @TheOneGuy1111
      @TheOneGuy1111 3 года назад +4

      The universe becoming cookies is only 3 minutes in; the remaining 7 minutes is going _even further._

  • @OZefiroMusica
    @OZefiroMusica Год назад +2858

    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

    • @DarkzPlaya
      @DarkzPlaya Год назад

      it's finally here ruclips.net/video/2hFUyRR_Kho/видео.html

    • @MiIoTheWizard
      @MiIoTheWizard Год назад +69

      Biggest mistake

    • @dolliethedoll
      @dolliethedoll Год назад +81

      your kid wants to learn how to conquer the world with cookies. Stop them now!

    • @mydasthought
      @mydasthought 9 месяцев назад +3

      Cap

  • @fletch_meyers
    @fletch_meyers 3 года назад +2186

    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.

    • @eyaph
      @eyaph 3 года назад +36

      the early game is a game, the late game is political statement of our captilist society

    • @baboonery3
      @baboonery3 3 года назад +5

      oh if you live in this universe you DoNt DiE

    • @binifff3057
      @binifff3057 2 года назад +3

      @brixk oh my fcking god i just did that, why did I do that, I am heartbroken

  • @BouncingElf10
    @BouncingElf10 11 месяцев назад +30

    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.

  • @Nick.Georgiev
    @Nick.Georgiev 4 года назад +51086

    I feel like at one point we stopped talking about cookies.

    • @that_one_guy934
      @that_one_guy934 4 года назад +292

      @@ericlee7844 hE sAiD bOoBiEs!😳

    • @that_one_guy934
      @that_one_guy934 4 года назад +516

      *le gasp*

    • @jacobweber9768
      @jacobweber9768 4 года назад +1771

      It’s about capitalism

    • @TheDiazDarkness
      @TheDiazDarkness 4 года назад +544

      You never stop talking about cookies. Never... Is impossoble... There is always the cookie.

    • @maeveheart7464
      @maeveheart7464 4 года назад +185

      No, no... He's got a point......

  • @brridk9296
    @brridk9296 3 года назад +4922

    “what radicalized you?”
    “....cookie clicker”

    • @_boykissa
      @_boykissa 3 года назад +11

      type all info of that messages and all the achievements

    • @LavaCreeperPeople
      @LavaCreeperPeople 3 года назад +2

      nostalgia

    • @uly22
      @uly22 3 года назад +6

      Cookie clicker is the reason we got all the world wars and the cold war

    • @KingFloch88
      @KingFloch88 3 года назад +7

      Based

    • @eges72
      @eges72 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@uly22 We click the cookie since 16th century

  • @Pwop_
    @Pwop_ 2 года назад +3827

    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..

    • @wykon6700
      @wykon6700 2 года назад +253

      He was ahead of the Curve.

    • @sonicatyt1082
      @sonicatyt1082 2 года назад +14

      I only played dogeminer

    • @itzyaiden
      @itzyaiden 2 года назад +14

      Cool math games

    • @TheEuropeanFox
      @TheEuropeanFox 2 года назад +71

      If I were in your position and still remembered his name, I'd try reaching out by sending this video.
      Kinda weird? Probably.

    • @RealRainbowBlox
      @RealRainbowBlox 2 года назад +1

      shush

  • @BlockyHead_BLUEYFAN
    @BlockyHead_BLUEYFAN Год назад +62

    "Cookie Clicker Is a Game About Clicking A Cookie" Famous Words Said

  • @breezeshooter42
    @breezeshooter42 4 года назад +2020

    Damn I didn't think a video about cookie clicker would be this relevant

    • @AltShiftX
      @AltShiftX  4 года назад +592

      What are you talking about man, this is clearly just about cookies 🍪

    • @Tioy0
      @Tioy0 4 года назад +137

      @@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

    • @avian8778
      @avian8778 4 года назад +3

      Breezeshooter, это что мэддисон на аве? xD

    • @JimtheOtter
      @JimtheOtter 4 года назад +2

      Or this terrifying.

    • @AkariInsko
      @AkariInsko 4 года назад +2

      @@Tioy0 i reached that part of the video while reading this

  • @illuindb
    @illuindb 4 года назад +9044

    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

    • @Diepvries11
      @Diepvries11 4 года назад +343

      That's because you haven't read the Cookie Clicker books.

    • @Hevvvyyy
      @Hevvvyyy 4 года назад +15

      This reminds me of the Billy Madison industrial revolution analogy

    • @christianfarren1179
      @christianfarren1179 4 года назад +29

      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

    • @illuindb
      @illuindb 4 года назад +3

      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?

    • @jessielefey
      @jessielefey 4 года назад +44

      @@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.

  • @ArkayeCh
    @ArkayeCh 3 года назад +17553

    When you walk into a political studies class with zero context.

    • @beesechurger7799
      @beesechurger7799 3 года назад +146

      @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#*

    • @bhavneetkaur5883
      @bhavneetkaur5883 3 года назад +48

      Don’t worry we are sending help.. the cookies shall PERISH

    • @Belete5000
      @Belete5000 3 года назад +17

      @@beesechurger7799 💀

    • @Belete5000
      @Belete5000 3 года назад +5

      @@bhavneetkaur5883 DESTROY THE COOKIES!

    • @bhavneetkaur5883
      @bhavneetkaur5883 3 года назад

      Im to late…

  • @Flightkitten
    @Flightkitten Год назад +159

    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

    • @honeybee45678
      @honeybee45678 5 месяцев назад +5

      mmmm yes *O R T I E L* and definitely not orteil

    • @PerfectPyro217
      @PerfectPyro217 3 месяца назад

      ​@@honeybee45678toriel and ortiel

  • @IlBalivoDiUzhitz
    @IlBalivoDiUzhitz 4 года назад +13936

    you are laughing, the grandma's are merging together into one mass of flesh and you are laughing

    • @slk7376
      @slk7376 3 года назад +392

      How about another joke, Grandma?

    • @DCcopter
      @DCcopter 3 года назад +166

      R/cursedcomments

    • @jf2801
      @jf2801 3 года назад +131

      You fool! He's laughing, because he's the mastermind behind their fusion into an Eldritch Horror!

    • @hatkid5252
      @hatkid5252 3 года назад +10

      Lol

    • @sr.deathglare4636
      @sr.deathglare4636 3 года назад +45

      it all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down~

  • @lordlem
    @lordlem 2 года назад +2929

    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.

    • @fgwag3fgwag398
      @fgwag3fgwag398 Год назад +43

      158 likes and no replys? let me fix that

    • @CharcoalMarsh
      @CharcoalMarsh Год назад +42

      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.

    • @kendisnauss
      @kendisnauss Год назад +9

      @@fgwag3fgwag398 2 likes and no replies? Let me fix that

    • @bruteng836
      @bruteng836 Год назад +257

      @@CharcoalMarsh bro missed the whole point of the video

    • @CharcoalMarsh
      @CharcoalMarsh Год назад +1

      @@bruteng836 then please enlighten me on the point of the video

  • @AgentM124
    @AgentM124 3 года назад +7506

    "This site uses cookies"
    *Accepts*
    The website:

  • @invalid_user_handle
    @invalid_user_handle Год назад +16

    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.

  • @schizoamphibian
    @schizoamphibian 3 года назад +16286

    "I promise I won't get political"
    3 drinks later:

    • @krystofdayne
      @krystofdayne 3 года назад +85

      Haha that hits way too close to home 😂

    • @Mikelica69
      @Mikelica69 3 года назад +13

      XD

    • @MechanicWolf85
      @MechanicWolf85 3 года назад +90

      More like 3 coockies later

    • @parxalot
      @parxalot 3 года назад +14

      This is my favorite comment

    • @ikethethotslayercertifiedw5782
      @ikethethotslayercertifiedw5782 3 года назад +135

      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.

  • @TheSabrist
    @TheSabrist 3 года назад +11511

    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.

    • @fatalos6855
      @fatalos6855 3 года назад +55

      You've seen nothing yet !

    • @karmatraining
      @karmatraining 2 года назад +195

      Cookie Clicker is art. Real art makes you question your existence.

    • @Bob-bs9ok
      @Bob-bs9ok 2 года назад +21

      @@sudanemamimikiki1527 universal paperclips is the best with this

    • @Persun_McPersonson
      @Persun_McPersonson 2 года назад

      @Sick Disgusting Freak
      Bro, get a life.

    • @BiggestAmerican69
      @BiggestAmerican69 2 года назад

      @Sick Disgusting Freak r/woosh

  • @Alexander-NA
    @Alexander-NA 3 года назад +12250

    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
      @pxpsiperson 2 года назад +572

      No, because there is an extremely easy way to cheat, you can literally give yourself anything, he even shows it at the end

    • @gmdhealth
      @gmdhealth 2 года назад +281

      @@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

    • @karmatraining
      @karmatraining 2 года назад +21

      Now imagine the dude(s?) who wrote it.

    • @texugo_branco
      @texugo_branco 2 года назад +14

      @@pxpsiperson That is not the point dude

    • @pxpsiperson
      @pxpsiperson 2 года назад +22

      @@texugo_branco then what is?

  • @CoeGr
    @CoeGr Год назад +24

    It's been years, but I just love this video.

  • @Sterben1269
    @Sterben1269 2 года назад +4876

    this dude spent most likely months getting lore out of Cookie Clicker. Mad respect.

    • @Jo-Heike
      @Jo-Heike 2 года назад +75

      You did see his cheat engine, right?

    • @Sterben1269
      @Sterben1269 2 года назад +11

      @@Jo-Heike oop

    • @runningsolojr
      @runningsolojr Год назад +40

      @@Jo-Heike he had like 850 sugar lumps, u get one a day...

    • @Jo-Heike
      @Jo-Heike Год назад +49

      @@runningsolojr cheat engine can give you as many suger lumps as you want.

    • @CharaDreemurr_TheyThem
      @CharaDreemurr_TheyThem Год назад +12

      And I spent 5 minutes (there is a hack/glitch programmed in)

  • @TheSowut
    @TheSowut 3 года назад +3528

    now i finally understand the economy.

    • @robertagren9360
      @robertagren9360 3 года назад +33

      How can it be that every year the economy increases in size but the planet hasn't

    • @lyrimetacurl0
      @lyrimetacurl0 3 года назад +5

      It will when they unlock space mining.

    • @miguelgo4039
      @miguelgo4039 3 года назад

      TRUEEEEE

    • @prodpexxos
      @prodpexxos 3 года назад +1

      Economy made me talk alien i mean Ecomoney tade le me to tlacc aleeen

    • @msmegaserga2228
      @msmegaserga2228 3 года назад

      Spore?
      You the True gamer

  • @theonlygate
    @theonlygate 3 года назад +6676

    It's not about the journey it's about telling people at school how many cookies you have

    • @guccisnek2454
      @guccisnek2454 3 года назад +79

      Its not always about the cookies schpidaman

    • @marcworkout2484
      @marcworkout2484 2 года назад +3

      Samee

    • @RealRainbowBlox
      @RealRainbowBlox 2 года назад +1

      shush

    • @majorvonstroheim151
      @majorvonstroheim151 2 года назад +41

      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

    • @RealRainbowBlox
      @RealRainbowBlox 2 года назад +1

      @@majorvonstroheim151 shush no need for paragraphs here

  • @Terlinilia
    @Terlinilia 3 года назад +8635

    Beginning: "Oh cool, a grandma!"
    Late game: ⟟ ⊑⏃⎐⟒ ⏁⍀⏃⋏⌇☊⟒⋏⎅⟒⎅ ⏁⍜ ⏁⊑⟒ ⊑⟟☌⊑⟒⌇⏁ ⌿⌰⏃⋏⟒ ⍜⎎ ☊⍜⋏☊⟟⍜⎍⌇ ⏃⋏⎅ ⟟ ⋔⎍⌇⏁ ⋔⏃☍⟒ ⋔⍜⍀⟒ ☊⍜⍜☍⟟⟒⌇

    • @BoneJuices
      @BoneJuices 3 года назад +76

      Haha yeah I know that… language…

    • @BoneJuices
      @BoneJuices 3 года назад +32

      Totally

    • @karl3814
      @karl3814 3 года назад +41

      @@BoneJuices its the ender man language

    • @G0nz4x
      @G0nz4x 3 года назад +1

      Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

    • @bullymaguire2402
      @bullymaguire2402 3 года назад +34

      Į HÆVË TRÆÑÇËÑDĘD ŪPŒÑ THË HÜMÆÑ ŚPĮĆĒŠ

  • @elanasilverman4468
    @elanasilverman4468 Год назад +7

    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.

  • @oozetube4204
    @oozetube4204 3 года назад +2111

    Are we not gonna talk about how he has 37 trillion ascensions ready

    • @lykaeon8082
      @lykaeon8082 3 года назад +167

      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.

    • @regulatormachine2788
      @regulatormachine2788 3 года назад +64

      @@lykaeon8082 except playing this game for over a year is typical...

    • @lykaeon8082
      @lykaeon8082 3 года назад +20

      So he played this over a year for a single video?

    • @lykaeon8082
      @lykaeon8082 3 года назад +8

      Cos he filmed it from the start

    • @millenity9245
      @millenity9245 3 года назад +9

      @@lykaeon8082 how could any computer hold that much video information without making what the video is completely unrecognizable

  • @okboomerbutitsacat8050
    @okboomerbutitsacat8050 4 года назад +1387

    Me, who played cookie clicker for fun and didn't actually do most of this:
    WHAT

    • @zooeyhill6006
      @zooeyhill6006 4 года назад +11

      At this point I'm making 345 decillion cookies a second and I've ascended like 7 times.

    • @volly910
      @volly910 4 года назад +1

      How do I find this game all I find is dumb scratch I want this one

    • @stockimagedog7382
      @stockimagedog7382 4 года назад +1

      yeah... that's possible

    • @toughpuff1799
      @toughpuff1799 4 года назад +1

      @@volly910 the link to the game is in the description

    • @volly910
      @volly910 4 года назад +1

      @@toughpuff1799 ok

  • @C.L.Hinton
    @C.L.Hinton 2 года назад +1145

    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.

    • @andieallison6792
      @andieallison6792 2 года назад +2

      Why?

    • @cheburekman696
      @cheburekman696 2 года назад +90

      @@andieallison6792" a system designed to make money is not designed to make well-being or justice,or happiness"
      Does it make more sense now?

    • @abdullahimran4624
      @abdullahimran4624 Год назад +31

      @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

    • @molikeur
      @molikeur Год назад +13

      ​@Jonas Åström That is true for your local shop, not for oil and energy companies, not for supermarkets, not for banks...

    • @molikeur
      @molikeur Год назад +18

      @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.

  • @randomplaylistshere6616
    @randomplaylistshere6616 Год назад +7

    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

  • @redcharget5894
    @redcharget5894 4 года назад +2157

    “ video games cause violence”
    Kid playing cookie clicker: lol how can this game make me violent?
    Him after hours of progress: *sacrifice.... more.... grandmas....*

  • @gooseteeth5455
    @gooseteeth5455 2 года назад +1093

    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.

    • @rocktoo7603
      @rocktoo7603 2 года назад +24

      time to buy a bingo center for my grandmas to increase profit!

    • @lux7264
      @lux7264 Год назад +1

      its a critique on capitalism and the fact you don't see that is worrying

    • @gooseteeth5455
      @gooseteeth5455 Год назад +21

      @@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.

    • @melonnuggetgaming
      @melonnuggetgaming Год назад

      Nah my grandma is already a demon.

  • @PhantomSavage
    @PhantomSavage 4 года назад +895

    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.

    • @warmike
      @warmike 4 года назад +7

      Seriously though, GoT lore is nothing compared to ASOIAF lore. Showrunners had cut A LOT.

    • @OcD_1
      @OcD_1 4 года назад +8

      Ha Amateurs, you obviously never heard FNaF's Lore.

    • @internetidiot9877
      @internetidiot9877 4 года назад +8

      @@OcD_1 no, fnafs lore is nothing compared to the cookie clicker universe

    • @CarlsCozyCorner
      @CarlsCozyCorner 4 года назад +3

      @@OcD_1 ...the mere mention of that made my head start to hurt...

    • @Qxestionable
      @Qxestionable 4 года назад +5

      @@OcD_1 I can’t still hear matpats sobs

  • @spacetaco048
    @spacetaco048 Год назад +39

    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.

  • @chimper7657
    @chimper7657 3 года назад +388

    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"

  • @evieashton8099
    @evieashton8099 4 года назад +1621

    “our website uses cookies-”
    *GET IT OUT OF HERE*

    • @hidolok3919
      @hidolok3919 4 года назад +4

      this deserves to be the most liked comment

    • @evieashton8099
      @evieashton8099 4 года назад +1

      Hidolok lolol thank you 😂

    • @BeanGeist
      @BeanGeist 4 года назад +1

      lol

    • @harukafan07
      @harukafan07 4 года назад

      That was so hard to make/format on a phone (・∀・")

  • @dafina944
    @dafina944 2 года назад +4400

    "What's the point of a massive global economy if it fails to protect the elderly and the vulnerable" my favourite line!!

    • @NobodyssGirl
      @NobodyssGirl 2 года назад +39

      the economy has no obligation to "protect" anybody. family and friends are responsible for protecting their own

    • @EmmaWithoutOrgans
      @EmmaWithoutOrgans 2 года назад +239

      @@NobodyssGirl every thought about the fact that all of us share the same earth?

    • @theotter6279
      @theotter6279 2 года назад

      @@NobodyssGirl gotta be the most brain broken shit I’ve heard

    • @thicc_astley
      @thicc_astley 2 года назад +224

      @@NobodyssGirl i can’t protect my loved ones from being fucked over by the economy bro

    • @wren_.
      @wren_. 2 года назад +153

      @@NobodyssGirl well then we should create a system that IS obligated to protect others

  • @abnormality3345
    @abnormality3345 Месяц назад +1

    By far one of the best videos on YT. Nicely done, guy from 4 years ago.

  • @619Gotenks
    @619Gotenks 4 года назад +1239

    Start of the video: haha so silly
    End of the video: OMFG

    • @AliceDiableaux
      @AliceDiableaux 4 года назад +46

      My mouth was literally hanging open at the end. Brilliant. Absolutely amazing. This is officially the best video on this entire site.

    • @damiandohshinobi8127
      @damiandohshinobi8127 4 года назад +3

      the April's fool's video we all have been waiting

    • @hUCK-
      @hUCK- 4 года назад +13

      @@damiandohshinobi8127 This is actually an incredibly real/serious video.

    • @Generic_Gaming_Channel
      @Generic_Gaming_Channel 4 года назад +2

      @@AliceDiableaux have you seen the Ronald Mc Donald vids?

  • @fadedrelaxation3516
    @fadedrelaxation3516 4 года назад +680

    I came for I don’t know what.
    And left feeling real sad.

    • @Niskiss
      @Niskiss 4 года назад +3

      :(

    • @drog6943
      @drog6943 4 года назад +2

      (°°)

    • @karemare6426
      @karemare6426 4 года назад +3

      bye then

    • @marzarothIV
      @marzarothIV 4 года назад

      Don’t worry, the punchline will come, Right? .....Right?

  • @Darthxim
    @Darthxim 4 года назад +2003

    "You can increase economic production by risking the lives of the elderly"
    Ah, I see the new coronavirus patch has come out.

    • @ebk7073344
      @ebk7073344 4 года назад +21

      Yeah this corona virus has really boosted the economy and increased economic production.

    • @doxiedomian
      @doxiedomian 4 года назад +57

      @@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

    • @Re2001CN
      @Re2001CN 4 года назад +2

      mexico

    • @MatsueMusic
      @MatsueMusic 4 года назад +3

      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.

    • @UnderageStrangeGames
      @UnderageStrangeGames 4 года назад +2

      Fwooty but it wouldn’t boost production compared to pre-corona, it would just mitigate losses.

  • @RuriRurouni
    @RuriRurouni 8 месяцев назад +12

    I firmly believe every single person alive today should watch this video. It is ridiculously effective at conveying the rot at the core of our society. Thank you so much for this.
    The standout quote, as others have pointed out, is "Disaster is actually an opportunity to exploit the vulnerable to make more wealth." What a ruinously poignant line, after the last several years.

  • @ninesalive
    @ninesalive 4 года назад +2300

    "is cookie clicker a metaphor for capitalism?" was the last thing i thought i would think about today

    • @inkblade00
      @inkblade00 4 года назад +9

      exactly!

    • @AnonGZ
      @AnonGZ 4 года назад +37

      it applies to any kind of economy in the end

    • @Kshea44ify
      @Kshea44ify 4 года назад +8

      I don't think any actual capitalist system involves any money printers going brrrr.

    • @raggaeflow
      @raggaeflow 4 года назад +49

      @@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.

    • @vladthecon
      @vladthecon 4 года назад +9

      @@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.

  • @sam7741
    @sam7741 4 года назад +3078

    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"

    • @jonty4332
      @jonty4332 4 года назад +4

      🍪

    • @smileguyanimations8776
      @smileguyanimations8776 4 года назад +6

      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

    • @1337w0n
      @1337w0n 4 года назад +1

      Solidarity Forever.

  • @mrregularword4329
    @mrregularword4329 4 года назад +2087

    I like the part when he says “cookie” it hits real hard

  • @amonus69420haha
    @amonus69420haha 4 месяца назад +5

    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.

  • @Nolo-HLM
    @Nolo-HLM 4 года назад +1454

    ..."and the only way to escape such a game is.. to stop playing."
    Couldn't have put it in a better way.

    • @palmerpatel6390
      @palmerpatel6390 4 года назад +32

      "The only winning move is not to play."

    • @raizumichin
      @raizumichin 4 года назад +9

      Have. Couldn't HAVE.

    • @aurelia8028
      @aurelia8028 3 года назад +5

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    • @Nolo-HLM
      @Nolo-HLM 3 года назад +2

      @@aurelia8028 I commend your dedication.

    • @ommzi6428
      @ommzi6428 3 года назад +3

      @@raizumichin Couldn't. COULDN'T.

  • @200131240
    @200131240 4 года назад +1610

    Everyone: Who is Hale?
    Alt Shift X: SEIZE THE DOUGHS OF PRODUCTION!

  • @sevengnomesinatrenchcoat
    @sevengnomesinatrenchcoat 3 года назад +674

    "you can increase ecenomic production by risking the lives of the elderly"
    -alt shift x, 2020

  • @kiannastar2607
    @kiannastar2607 25 дней назад +2

    Came for the Cookie Clicker content, left with an existential crisis. 10/10

  • @cheetopawz8776
    @cheetopawz8776 4 года назад +2928

    This guys first words. "Cookie Clicker is a game about clicking a cookie."
    Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.

    • @ee3254
      @ee3254 4 года назад +10

      Ya dont say

    • @zenixrl_
      @zenixrl_ 4 года назад +6

      wow we watched the same video

    • @lupaloops4166
      @lupaloops4166 4 года назад +6

      wow what else 😮 are you gonna tell me he's also human???

    • @justarandomdragonontheinternet
      @justarandomdragonontheinternet 4 года назад +3

      Right like no it’s a game about dogs making cakes

    • @imnotacat5299
      @imnotacat5299 4 года назад +1

      @@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....

  • @Afish8me2china
    @Afish8me2china 3 года назад +967

    “Grandfather, how did the world start?”
    “Well, it all started one day when one man started making cookies…”

    • @HY-ti4bh
      @HY-ti4bh 3 года назад +50

      “Well how did it end?”
      “The same way it started”

    • @garrettcarr8689
      @garrettcarr8689 3 года назад +29

      "What was before the cookies grandpa?"
      "Nobody knows.... nobody will ever know"

    • @kyvilfongkot6372
      @kyvilfongkot6372 3 года назад +17

      What happen to grandma grampa

    • @anawesomepet
      @anawesomepet 3 года назад +6

      @@garrettcarr8689 it was cookies

    • @hogrider6361
      @hogrider6361 3 года назад +14

      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...

  • @frostcrackle2374
    @frostcrackle2374 4 года назад +706

    "The late game meta has elaborate strategies to maximise cookie production."
    me: Pff...you just click cookies
    my mind wasn't ready.

    • @anon2279
      @anon2279 4 года назад +6

      Cookies from anti matter lmao

    • @Niiue
      @Niiue 4 года назад

      Coffee by Anon on Spotify grandmapocalypse

  • @frankthepug9242
    @frankthepug9242 Год назад +3

    This legit goes from an explanation of a browser game to a philosophical rant about the drawbacks of capitalism. Great video

  • @todd1280
    @todd1280 4 года назад +867

    They should make a sequel called, The Cookie Aftermath where you play as a citizen during the Grandmapocalypse.

    • @evyybr1752
      @evyybr1752 4 года назад +13

      oooohh that sounds cool

    • @dendude2922
      @dendude2922 4 года назад +8

      Yes...Am going o now be a game dev to make that.

    • @yb1741
      @yb1741 4 года назад

      666 likes

    • @rebel6301
      @rebel6301 4 года назад

      great idea tho ngl

    • @clairemurray7469
      @clairemurray7469 4 года назад

      720 likes

  • @evaldaskarosas7822
    @evaldaskarosas7822 4 года назад +605

    I see the quarantine is affecting Alt Shift too

    • @ghostbuddy3106
      @ghostbuddy3106 4 года назад +11

      Affecting*

    • @carterdahl9654
      @carterdahl9654 4 года назад +1

      @@ghostbuddy3106 you're doing God's work

    • @ghostbuddy3106
      @ghostbuddy3106 4 года назад +1

      @@carterdahl9654 it's nothing to do with any concept of god or gods - but yea, i get your meaning...

    • @ghostbuddy3106
      @ghostbuddy3106 4 года назад +1

      @callmecatalyst loool

  • @RoboLamp
    @RoboLamp 4 года назад +1802

    "Disaster is actually an opportunity to exploit the vulnerable to make more wealth"...
    Cookie Clicker is an artform

    • @Antherios92
      @Antherios92 4 года назад +18

      That really hit home with all the COVID stuff

    • @non-inertialobserver946
      @non-inertialobserver946 4 года назад +21

      capitalism be like

    • @Joey_Rhubarb
      @Joey_Rhubarb 4 года назад +9

      sounds like americas healthcare

    • @fodebic5253
      @fodebic5253 4 года назад +1

      Cookie clicker is the second best artform.
      The first best artform is:
      ruclips.net/video/lCl7I7png08/видео.html

    • @RoboLamp
      @RoboLamp 4 года назад +1

      @@fodebic5253 Thanks. I feel like I've cursed my entire family by clicking that.

  • @kimgnassir
    @kimgnassir 7 месяцев назад +3

    alt shift x is the type of guy to post a video about cookies then a fictional alien society that enslaved humanity

    • @stuffz4040
      @stuffz4040 7 месяцев назад +1

      The story of all cookies

  • @AmericanIdiot7659
    @AmericanIdiot7659 4 года назад +4698

    "It's simple at first but gets increasingly complex"
    my autoclicker with 5000 clicks per second: haha click go fast

    • @benyt1583
      @benyt1583 4 года назад +74

      click go NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWMMM

    • @NexusBladeGaming
      @NexusBladeGaming 4 года назад +89

      Ehem... Mouse goes brrr

    • @leitmot1f
      @leitmot1f 4 года назад +31

      ha ha click go: *f22 jet plane noises*

    • @JohnSmith-wz9cx
      @JohnSmith-wz9cx 4 года назад +17

      I always just inspect the page, click the “element” tab and type in something like “cookies = 9999999999”.

    • @shazboi9841
      @shazboi9841 4 года назад +3

      wat ur auto clicker

  • @teclinsoro4523
    @teclinsoro4523 3 года назад +2515

    i have only ever gotten to the wizards tower so the sudden capitalist allegory and cookie/grandma apocalypse was certainly unexpected

    • @apairofpliers8565
      @apairofpliers8565 3 года назад +137

      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

    • @curseofbinding
      @curseofbinding 3 года назад +37

      I only got to the antimatter condenser before i realised cookie clicker was gonna get weirder

    • @anerdwithaswitch9686
      @anerdwithaswitch9686 3 года назад +95

      @@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.

    • @Abraham-Kaykski-Steinberg
      @Abraham-Kaykski-Steinberg 3 года назад +60

      @@anerdwithaswitch9686 YE BUT I JUST UPDATED MY JAVA SO IT CAN HANDLE 2^2048 NOW

    • @rubyamidar3872
      @rubyamidar3872 3 года назад +1

      i have a hack for u

  • @possiblyend5537
    @possiblyend5537 4 года назад +2089

    Grandma: “You disgust me”
    Also grandma: “Moist cookie”

  • @sigh..4372
    @sigh..4372 Год назад +4

    I love coming back to this video every once in a while,

  • @artifexmusic
    @artifexmusic 4 года назад +2476

    "the universe is now cookies. and only cookies"
    the first grandma: So when you payin me?

  • @haso771
    @haso771 4 года назад +677

    "Seize the means of cookie production" - Kookie Marx

    • @Graham226
      @Graham226 4 года назад +2

      "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

    • @ColinTheFurryYT
      @ColinTheFurryYT 3 года назад

      @@Graham226 Norway is social democratic so it would say yes

    • @samirnodormir3097
      @samirnodormir3097 3 года назад +2

      @@ColinTheFurryYT socialism means workplace democracy, not state welfare

    • @ColinTheFurryYT
      @ColinTheFurryYT 3 года назад

      @@samirnodormir3097 what the hell are you talking about

    • @psyduckismlg9977
      @psyduckismlg9977 3 года назад

      @@ColinTheFurryYT Norway is still a capitalist country, it just has a bunch of reforms and social systems for people in place.

  • @CHARIZY
    @CHARIZY 4 года назад +1456

    "The problem is that a system designed to make cookies is not designed to make well-being, or justice, or happiness. 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.
    Thanks for watching this video about Cookie Clicker!"

    • @yue_mellow6933
      @yue_mellow6933 4 года назад +9

      9:36

    • @colorsofsound4782
      @colorsofsound4782 4 года назад +16

      I love how it turns philosophical

    • @Maxgamer-fd7hv
      @Maxgamer-fd7hv 4 года назад +13

      "You can't have infinite growth in a universe with finite resources." - A climate change researcher I forgot the name of.

    • @Frank_144
      @Frank_144 4 года назад +1

      With growth comes well-being, happiness and justice, compare the living of first world countries, their justice systems and quality of living with those socialist ones.

    • @leandroaraujo9515
      @leandroaraujo9515 4 года назад +2

      "a video about Cookie Clicker, and ONLY Cookie Clicker. no parallels with any conceivable real life phenomenon"

  • @d_camara
    @d_camara Год назад +4

    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!

  • @lighto1531
    @lighto1531 3 года назад +664

    "you buy your first grandma"
    enough internet for today.

    • @Gilsworth
      @Gilsworth 3 года назад +54

      You get an achievement for selling a grandma called "Just Wrong" with the added text "I thought you loved me"

    • @guardianofthetoasters2323
      @guardianofthetoasters2323 3 года назад +19

      @@Gilsworth holy shit im never gonna sell one

    • @12DAMDO
      @12DAMDO 3 года назад +28

      >sell grandma
      >get achievement (and therefore more milk)
      >get more cps based on milk
      we truly live in a society

    • @sniper9395
      @sniper9395 3 года назад

      Nice lightning reed pfp

    • @Summer-p7h
      @Summer-p7h 3 года назад

      r/cursedcomments

  • @irish3641
    @irish3641 3 года назад +530

    Damn, all the time I was playing this game as a child and I never noticed the milk slowly turning red.

    • @jayden.02
      @jayden.02 3 года назад +13

      Wait what milk?

    • @elispiegel7875
      @elispiegel7875 3 года назад +55

      I'm on day 251of my cookie clicker run and found out the milk can turn a LOT more colors as you go on

    • @icantthinkofaname8139
      @icantthinkofaname8139 3 года назад +16

      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

    • @iankuchera8345
      @iankuchera8345 3 года назад +8

      You can get space milk

    • @killianglenney6128
      @killianglenney6128 3 года назад +13

      The milk changing isn't anything bad, I'd it is red it is cherry milk.

  • @Cbas619
    @Cbas619 3 года назад +527

    "Any system of endless growth, of singular purpose, that warps the whole world around ONE goal can only grow until it self-destructs."

    • @paulgotik
      @paulgotik 3 года назад +1

      if the goal is making the world a better place it can work.

    • @alexis_electronic
      @alexis_electronic 3 года назад +2

      thats when i took a swig

    • @connorcriss
      @connorcriss 3 года назад +9

      @@paulgotik yeah but the goal of capitalism is maximizing profit, not making the world a better place.

    • @garlonschuman1014
      @garlonschuman1014 3 года назад +1

      @@connorcriss yes, and most systems whose goal is to “make the world a better place” tend to actually make the world worse

    • @LoathsomeLucifer
      @LoathsomeLucifer 3 года назад +7

      @@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.

  • @willocueva
    @willocueva 4 месяца назад +1

    Man I really love this video, which is clearly about Cookie Clicker AND NOTHING ELSE AT ALL.

  • @EpicDuskk
    @EpicDuskk 4 года назад +1389

    "The only thing we can do to stop it is not play the game"
    .....
    "So anyways here's the link to the game"

    • @fezduck8659
      @fezduck8659 4 года назад +2

      iDuskk where

    • @barryhurley3644
      @barryhurley3644 4 года назад +4

      I think he means it's in the description

    • @titanime3830
      @titanime3830 4 года назад

      and the eldritch horror continue...

    • @damgaronfire
      @damgaronfire 4 года назад +2

      Because the cookies....
      **{IT N€V€R €ND$}**

    • @pearlmason6450
      @pearlmason6450 4 года назад

      @@fezduck8659 cookieclicker.thecrypt.xyz/

  • @Skiivin
    @Skiivin 3 года назад +493

    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.

    • @pattyryopotybuttongamer3063
      @pattyryopotybuttongamer3063 3 года назад +7

      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

    • @airplanes_aren.t_real
      @airplanes_aren.t_real 2 года назад +25

      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

    • @ashloye
      @ashloye 2 года назад

      I had two people do that next to me and it really annoyed me

    • @texugo_branco
      @texugo_branco 2 года назад +1

      @@pattyryopotybuttongamer3063 ok

    • @Hummingb1rd
      @Hummingb1rd 2 года назад +1

      @@pattyryopotybuttongamer3063 what

  • @41A2E
    @41A2E 4 года назад +191

    I remember when cookie clicker came out several years ago, and it did have a sort of completion state where you just acquired infinite cookies, but it seems there's been an update or two since then. . .

    • @tornadomash00
      @tornadomash00 4 года назад +2

      maybe a few

    • @Amber7H
      @Amber7H 4 года назад +7

      at a certain point it just says "infinite" on the cookie counter, but there is actually still a number being counted, it's just too lazy to say it

    • @idlesquadron7283
      @idlesquadron7283 4 года назад +4

      @@Amber7H Actually not tho, it just can't handle how large the number is

  • @JustNeutral14.
    @JustNeutral14. 5 месяцев назад +1

    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!

  • @EggplanetNice
    @EggplanetNice 4 года назад +172

    I love how as the video goes on it makes the game seem more and more incomprehensible, yet if you’ve ever played this game it makes you go “Yeah. That’s pretty accurate”

    • @AliceDiableaux
      @AliceDiableaux 4 года назад +13

      I played cookie clicker for a few weeks or months in like, 2013, 2014? And I'm blown away by how much more complex it has gotten. I recently played Universal Paperclips again and I might give the ol' Cookie Clicker another try with all the new stuff.

    • @EggplanetNice
      @EggplanetNice 4 года назад +5

      AliceDiableaux go for it, just keep in mind some of the stuff shown here is gonna take weeks to get. It is an idle game after all

    • @simanolastname2399
      @simanolastname2399 4 года назад +3

      @@EggplanetNice and then come the sugar lumps. It's been 84 years...

    • @EggplanetNice
      @EggplanetNice 4 года назад +2

      Sima Nolastname we don’t talk about sugar lumps. I still remember the pain waiting to upgrade my garden plots

    • @simanolastname2399
      @simanolastname2399 4 года назад +1

      @@EggplanetNice I beat the game many months ago. Now my saves just sitting, *rotting* there, as I wait for more sugar lumps for level 10 achievements. I somehow did get the golden lump and a few months after the caramelized one. I've gotten even single legitimate achievement besides the level 10 ones including shadows. Orteil, why did you implement such a bad game mechanic?

  • @roberte.o.speedwagon2999
    @roberte.o.speedwagon2999 4 года назад +505

    "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

    • @fentshaggy
      @fentshaggy 4 года назад +10

      Yes speedwagon very cool

    • @Emerardo
      @Emerardo 4 года назад +5

      SPEEDWAGON SAMA

    • @bobeinstein3131
      @bobeinstein3131 4 года назад +1

      9/11

    • @curtisfisher5965
      @curtisfisher5965 4 года назад

      @Pikora Animation just ab to say even more so now

    • @roberte.o.speedwagon2999
      @roberte.o.speedwagon2999 4 года назад

      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

  • @ianpopp87
    @ianpopp87 4 года назад +206

    "Disaster is actually an opportunity to exploit the vulnerable to create more wealth"
    *Looks outside, contemplates grocery store job during pandemic, gets depressed.
    I love this video so much.

    • @16m49x3
      @16m49x3 4 года назад +4

      "Chaos, is a ladder"

    • @MrCmon113
      @MrCmon113 Год назад

      So grocery stores should all be forced to close and people should starve.

    • @ianpopp87
      @ianpopp87 Год назад

      @@MrCmon113 yep that's exactly what I meant 3 years ago when I wrote that. Definitely not wishing for a living wage and respect for the people that keep you from starving. You dolt.

  • @the_numb_skull
    @the_numb_skull Год назад +5

    I know this was meant as an April Fools joke but as someone who has played Cookie Clicker for years he is 100% on point with this

  • @ir0ngamer393
    @ir0ngamer393 4 года назад +1914

    “For 100 cookies you buy your very first grandma”
    I thought human trafficking was illegal?

    • @bounceb
      @bounceb 4 года назад +53

      Everything is legal 'till the cops show.

    • @Talkingworms
      @Talkingworms 4 года назад +13

      Releasing nameless eldritch horrors is generally considered a no-no, as well.

    • @razkanaz
      @razkanaz 4 года назад +4

      Well buying it with money is

    • @Progeusz
      @Progeusz 4 года назад +5

      You can buy your first grandma. You never had one before. Let it sink in.

    • @kirbyinhalesjotaro4471
      @kirbyinhalesjotaro4471 4 года назад

      Not if you have enough cookies

  • @124tutt2
    @124tutt2 4 года назад +415

    I’d say ‘eat the rich’ but seeing as they are made of cookies too, that would only continue the cycle.

  • @Falaxuper
    @Falaxuper 4 года назад +516

    I'm currently on fourth year of med school, I still have my active save of the game from back when I was in high school, still opened in an old tab

    • @gamingwithgetti8323
      @gamingwithgetti8323 4 года назад +17

      Falaxuper lol how many cookies u have?

    • @Kmn483
      @Kmn483 4 года назад +124

      @@gamingwithgetti8323 At least 100, probably.

    • @rodneywhiddon3208
      @rodneywhiddon3208 4 года назад +7

      999 Fortnitilion

    • @gearsings2975
      @gearsings2975 4 года назад +16

      @@Kmn483 i mean youre not wrong

    • @garrettcarlson6835
      @garrettcarlson6835 4 года назад +9

      Close it out, and then recycle your hardware in a furnace. Put those transistors out of their misery.
      Don't even copy your data. Re-obtain your data fresh from the internet through your next computer. Photos? I hope you had them photo printed from your camera; before it touched your old computer via usb. Otherwise you'll have to pass your photo data through the servers of the temple of Kosher before they can be reinstalled on your new computer; then recycle your camera in the same furnace. Do this for any data you can't obtain from the internet through servers that didn't touch signals from your old computer.

  • @devinvm
    @devinvm 7 месяцев назад +1

    Our world needed this video. As a humble resident, I thank you.