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That meta verse one is so fucked holy shit. “Yeah, we know you feel like you’ve lost everything and hate your job. Come live in this fake world where you can just forget. What? No, it’s totally different from disappearing into drugs or alcohol. Just don’t don’t think about it too much.”
It’s like the execs read “Ready Player One” and were thinking it was inspirational, and not a horribly depressing dystopia. Maybe the Zucc saw it and thought it’s ideal to be the OASIS.
Something I noticed with the commercials is that they never tell you what the product is, how it functions, stats, any of that. They just do some feel good message. Not “this car has good gas mileage” now it’s “look at the cute little robot dog who was somehow saved by the electric car lmao”
Tbh that's been that way for a long time. Like those tear jerking santa coca cola ads where the whole family reunites to idk, drink cola. Like who cares? It's a drink 😒
@@lanac5793 yeah this is literally what they teach when you study for an ad degree... you are totally right we are taught to sell feelings and emotions, not products
Because that works far better. Advertisers have long since realised that advertising should not try to convince someone to try a product; that doesn't work at all. Associating your brand with positive imagery? That works way better as it subconsciously influences consumers at the point of purchase
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My sister and I were terrified during the first part of the meta commercial because we thought it was for fnaf, especially when the place was closing down, that was terrifying
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Good to know the feeling of exhaustion, frustration, and feeling like we've peaked isn't just from being in college. Everything feels so fucking tiring and its hard not to be pissed at how shitty everything is getting
I've been pissed for over a decade now... Ever since I got out of the Military. Now I have kids and I'm so effing over it all I'm about to move to a cabin in the woods haha
Humanity peaked in the 90s and early 2010's tbh, and i'm not saying that bc I grew up then. The world was relatively peaceful. Politics was still shitty, but was way more respectful. Pop music was varied in genre and had plenty of creativity and indie still in the mainstream. TV shows were feel-good, and original, and not everything had been done to death. Movies had new blockbusters always coming out and starting new beloved franchises instead or rehashing or rebooting the same old tired IP's. Minorities were still very unambiguously underdogs, so this retaliation against "wokeness" or SJW's wasn't such a popular sentiment. The fashion was fun and crazy, normal people weren't obsessed with plastic surgery, teenagers didn't look twice their age... The 90s were our peak.
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no appeal for the average person until their lives have been turned to crap and they have lost all autonomy so they resort to an internet fantasy land that slowly drains them of the things and experiences that make them human just to capitalise from all the misfortune that they continue to perpetuate but won’t stop because money 😏
@@Zoe-tg4dl "resort to an internet fantasy land that slowly drains them of the things and experiences that make them human" That is what you are doing now Zoe. Metaverse actually has social interaction and is a huge step up from where you are at now.
Abram Carroll and the metaverse will be better than that? it’s not people interacting through a virtual wall? if youtube is bad, then metaverse will be better right?
I’m SO glad you decided to make a video about this, and specifically the “mEtAvErSe” commercial. That shit was SO dystopian and I felt SO BETRAYED and genuinely disgusted watching it. What a fucked up commercial. Genuinely so unnerving. And so fucking sad we’re at this point. That commercial shook me to my core and not in any kind of good way.
Tbh yes its crazy. But thats just America and La in general. Being from India the things ive heard is already dystopian level crazy if you think about it from an outsiders perspective.
The thing i hate about the superbowl more than anything is this idea that people get excited about seeing fucking commercials..no one should EVER be happy about seeing an advertisement. That very concept is just absurd to me.
I don’t know if you were around, like, 10-15 super bowls ago, but the ads used to be hilarious. Like, genuinely funny or outrageous. The GoDaddy example he gave in the video didn’t really even register to me. I didn’t care about the game, I barely understood the game itself, it was just an excuse to socialize. The commercials, though, would get rooms full of people laughing their asses off. It never got anybody to buy anything, it wasn’t even really about whether or not you bought that, but they stuck in your mind because of that humor. The sentiment around wanting to see super bowl commercials specifically comes from that. The ones this year and in the last few years haven’t matched up. The fact that what the commercials are peddling now is so much more obnoxious or toxic makes it worse.
Yo I feel like this is some of the most meaningful commentary on events he’s done in a bit would love to see more honestly maybe even serious journalistic commentary i feel like that would be a cool area to see you in
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It’s already been happening for a while. The episode Nosedive is a commentary on social media, in making this false persona of yourself so everyone likes you. It’s also a critique about political correctness. I can draw many other comparisons long before metaverse came out. But the further decrease of entertainment quality is not just a result of the slow collapse of capitalism or the advancement of technology (a.k.a the metaverse and VR) but also the deterioration of culture. People can’t relate on anything anymore so what is it that brings us together?
im a marketing major and in every marketing class my profs will talk abt how the superbowl is the one shot for ur product to really make an impact but i simply cannot imagine being on a marketing team for a company that scored a superbowl slot and then okaying half the shit that was put out there this year like theyre not even marketing the product anymore lol theyre just trying to get the most ppl talking and not in the way they should be
You got some self-awareness. Most people would not have the ability to point out the deterioration of culture as evident through entertainment and media... it’s sad.
@@farwest9218 me? I wasn’t referring to myself, I was praising him on something I’m already well aware of. If not, already saw the signs long before metaverse was announced. I would say probably most of Gen Z, the younger ones, have their head in the sand. Just a guess.
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stop. don't fucking join. please. the more people who give in the more money is invested. the more money the more they can improve. the improvements they make them more appealing and advanced their technology becomes until virtual reality is everywhere. please, please please do not choosee to be ignorant. this is a bad thing, not good. it was not meant to improve our lives. it was made to create money and turn us into self-obsessed and isolated puppets. phones seemed all great at first but now look at us... addicted, the most lonely and depressed and anxious the world has been in a while.
@@justforfun3283 I agree, except VR is awesome. Meta is what's bad. Anyone that wants to try the Metaverse should instead just try VRChat. It's like metaverse, but people can make the maps, and they don't put a force field around you, and it isn't some sterilized corporate bs. Come on people; Facebook is dying. Let's deliver the death blow by ignoring Meta completely.
this video was actually really interesting to me. normally i love watching noel’s videos because it doesn’t take much thought to watch someone talk about a funny video and it’s just a fun way to consume media. but this video actually made me stop and think. i had to literally pause about four minutes in because my brain was running in circles trying to put the thoughts i had into words. i think that regardless of whether or not these ad agencies and the halftime show intended to spread this sort of message doesn’t really matter because either way they did, and they did a great job. and watching noel cover this felt like reading an academic paper that actually was enjoyable. a 7 minute video about the super bowl literally just changed my whole day. forced my mom to watch some of it too, and we got into a deep discussion about generations and generational trauma, with her having been a teen/young adult in the 90’s and me being born on 2003. it was really interesting to see how the commercials and half time affected us differently. it’s also interesting with the point noel borough up about music and how we think every song and artist is so revolutionary but at the end of the day we all look to people from decades ago to trigger any sense of real appreciation for music. the nostalgia for music really does end with the 90’s and that is something that is both incredibly fascinating and incredibly horrifying at the same time. this was a great video and i know it wasn’t supposed to invoke such a large response i felt like i should share this
my sister and I were nostalgically entertained with the QR code bouncing around commercial but as soon as we scanned and saw it was for crypto our faces dropped to this :| lol
@@constantsmile3370 I agree, Crypto is positive. But the way they went about advertising it was still weird and depressing. Like you could advertise anything in a way that seems dystopian, and unless you're seeing, say, a game with a dystopian-setting, that means you're doing it wrong.
"Things are getting worse and they are changing only to stay the same in a more intense form - and that’s what capitalism is. So you have this kind of sadness or depression that is basically a consequence of adjusting to such things." - Mark Fisher
"Workin so hard like a soldier Can't afford a thing on TV" - Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant, the song used in that advertisement for fucking BMW, yaknow, the famously expensive car
now imagine not being able to feel nostalgic from this stuff cause you were born after everything good in the world had already died and your childhood was an existentialistic nightmare of the failures of a dying species
The fucking 20-30 second crypto commercial of just a qr code bouncing around the screen like the DVD logo had me and my friends HOT, We were like WTF bro
not necessarily a fun video but at the same time thanks for articulating what we're all already feeling. i can count the amount of commercials that i remember and enjoy on one hand. idk anyone who has positive views of brands/advertisers anymore. when we talk about ads, it's about how annoying it was, like any liberty mutual ad, the shitty amy schumer tampon ad, FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE, etc. sometimes i like the really weird youtube ones, but i'd never get the product and a lot of them feel intentionally bad now. the only ads i unironically enjoy are movie trailers, and even then it's only some of them. we've all gotten so cynical towards advertising that when companies try to use nostalgia or emotions it just feels so weird and manipulative (which is fair bc ads are legit supposed to manipulate you into buying a product). companies seem stuck between that type of advertising and personifying their brands on social media, but at this point both seem hollow and fake. maybe we're all just depressed, maybe we've gotten so desensitized to ads bc we see them on every app we use & irl basically 24/7 that marketing will never be as effective as it was before, who knows
not to be a dang nerd on here, but even the trailer for the new lotr series did this. it’s using something from a simpler time but taking away any of that comfort (and even altering the lore itself) by modernizing the aesthetic and overusing cgi. i think the cast itself looks awesome and its diversity is its one win, but any social good feels undone by the fact that it’s all going back to benefit amazon. it’s incredibly disheartening to see a story about corruption, greed, and power go into the hands of the very people in power that it warns against.
this is one my favorite videos of yours. Really enjoyed your observations, and I think you should really make more mainstream media commentary. I think you have a great perspective on the bigger picture, the life span of a piece of media as well as how that is influencing the context of now. You say a lot of cool things while still maintaining to entertain, great work!
noah if ur reading this thank u for doing that thing where you use end a clip when noel is doing a solid post-sentence pause and then start the audio of the next clip while on the old frames. idk why but it cracks my shit up. love ya bud
I just finished watching Eddy Burback’s New Metaverse video where he brought up the dog ad during the intro, and now you just dropped a proper video about it😭
Noel, I was watching the SB live and thinking "This is it. The dystopian society we've feared is unfolding right before our eyes." I am so glad that you could capture all that thought in a perfect video. Thank you for showing me I am not crazy.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who absolutely hated the Rocket Mortgage Barbie commercial. The only commercials that actually hit were the Black community commercials. Everything else was an acid trip.
Damn... I really didn't think of it that way about the halftime show. But you're right. I mean nostalgia has always been a thing and always will be but its strange to feel like we've been defined by nostalgia for so long and largely stagnant for years now. I mean. Obviously there's great artists doing great stuff in all mediums but there's so few things that have come out that really feel like classics. It's been like a decade now since there has been a really massive influential book series. That's crazy.
Conspiracy theory: Everything bad that's ever happened since 2016 (the celeb deaths, the downfall of political discourse, the killer clowns, the terrorism, the coups, the pandemic, the rise of social media)... Was all in preparation for Meta. It was all done on purpose to make us so depressed and jaded with our lives, that we'd accept Metaverse with open arms.
i love being so used to ads that i can immediately block them out with my mind, i have no idea what theyre selling to me. i am completely unable to be advertised to.
I'm glad I accepted the world was ending back in 2019 because everything we've seen after that year has clearly been the downfall of humanity. So I find the phrase "we've peaked" absolutely hilarious because it is so ridiculous yet so true!
Noel sat there staring for a second after talking about the Meta Verse commercial and it reminded me to like the video. His Pavlovian experiment has succeeded
I fucking love this video and I don't completely know why. Maybe it's knowing that other people feel this apathy towards where the world seems to be heading. Maybe it's knowing that other people don't get the same kind of hype around certain things that other people do. Maybe it's just being able to look at the whole situation under the lens of it being like a TV show, and breaking that disconnect between reality and the fiction that once seemed so far away. I dunno. For some reason this video just made me feel a bit more content? I dunno it's 12am and I'm tired af so I'm probably just spewing bullshit
there’s this movie/game/tv show I don’t quite remember well right now, of a man in the future that was stuck/prisoner in VR and he didn’t quite know and for some reason it broke or something and he found out the reality of his surroundings to be a complete nightmare so he went back to the VR world, don’t know why I felt the need to say this but I kinda reminded me of that
Today I saw an add during the Winter Olympics, it had Mathew Mconohay(sorry I can’t spell his name) and the premise of the add was “Fuck going to Mars and the Metaverse. Plant trees and care about people.” It made me happy.
1:03 - this guy is actually ‘the extra that appears in everything’ - he’s been in hundreds of TV shows, especially if they have a school/geeky setting (like Chuck). Respect to the guy, but he overacts like hell so I really don’t like him as an extra.
Noel hit that barbie doll commercial spot on. The sense of nostalgia that I got when that commercial came on because it reminded me of like the early 2000’s commercials was awesome. Then they completely fuckin ruined it.
Thank God the beloved LA Rams from LA won in LA. I bet you no notable celebrities were rooting for them. What an underdog story full of courage, brings tears to my eyes.
This is exactly what I was thinking! All of these commercials were really fucking weird and scary. It’s like seriously black mirror, with random QR codes throughout everything. That one kid is literally wearing a QR code in the Barbie commercial
I tried the metaverse (Horizon Worlds, not really) last week. I'm a college student who likes partying and crashing into different friend groups, but the metaverse/horizon worlds made me feel very socially anxious. There is a ratio of 10/1 dude/woman and I walked into this group of dudes circling around this poor female user and for 15 minutes straight they were saying things like "Broooo she's so f cking gorgeous" while staring at her 3D legless avatar. I thought our campus had creeps but this place was heaven for them.
the thing that cracks me up is that we were all in quarantine and everyone was actually sad they werent able to go outside and they still get shocked people are not that interested in putting their life completely online all the metaverse and other stuff is so disingenuous compared to VRchat and silly things people used to post on social media that i actually started using social media less because it was so depressing. i think im trying to say that its weird they expect people not to want better lives just because they made a vr you can play pretend in
"we've peaked, there's nothing left" what a beautiful way to start the day
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reminds me of mark fishers quote “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”
I don’t know if that was the point I’ve the video but I can see where you’re coming from
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“we’ve peaked, there’s nothing left” YUP! literally
Watching people trash the meta verse is my new favorite thing
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10/10 my new kink
And NFT trashing and shaming
check out eddy burbacks video from today he just came out with one on that theme
@@supernovamimosa I just watched his before Noel’s! It’s pretty good!
That meta verse one is so fucked holy shit. “Yeah, we know you feel like you’ve lost everything and hate your job. Come live in this fake world where you can just forget. What? No, it’s totally different from disappearing into drugs or alcohol. Just don’t don’t think about it too much.”
It's basically real life Wall-E lol
It’s like the execs read “Ready Player One” and were thinking it was inspirational, and not a horribly depressing dystopia. Maybe the Zucc saw it and thought it’s ideal to be the OASIS.
@@24fretsoffury You just brought back my memories of reading that book, and oh god I don’t like it
@@elitate1609 yeah, it was one of the first books that I bought myself. In hindsight, it was not worth the money.
Something I noticed with the commercials is that they never tell you what the product is, how it functions, stats, any of that. They just do some feel good message. Not “this car has good gas mileage” now it’s “look at the cute little robot dog who was somehow saved by the electric car lmao”
Tbh that's been that way for a long time. Like those tear jerking santa coca cola ads where the whole family reunites to idk, drink cola. Like who cares? It's a drink 😒
To be fair the Christmas Coca Cola ads are pretty iconic in their own right. Traditional sales tactics there
@@lanac5793 on God, like I love coca cola don't get me wrong, but who in the fuck reunites because of a soft drink
@@lanac5793 yeah this is literally what they teach when you study for an ad degree... you are totally right we are taught to sell feelings and emotions, not products
Because that works far better. Advertisers have long since realised that advertising should not try to convince someone to try a product; that doesn't work at all. Associating your brand with positive imagery? That works way better as it subconsciously influences consumers at the point of purchase
The fact that Bud Light felt the need to drop an NFT with their mid zero-carb beer is pure insanity
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Crypto is dead and NFTs killed it
@@patentpending7016 I did it, I’ve peaked
“Anna Kendrick, the cup clapping lady” it’s hilarious that this is her legacy
no i love anna kendrick :(
My sister and I were terrified during the first part of the meta commercial because we thought it was for fnaf, especially when the place was closing down, that was terrifying
i’m so glad i wasn’t the only one who thought this 😭
LMAOOOOO
SAME like you can't bring animatronics into an ad without making me think of fnaf
that shit was weird as hell, even my dad who never really pays attention to commercials was glued to the screen like, "where tf is this going?" smh
@@DARKENINGTIMES yea they got zero traction with that ad.
The ads just made me realize that the only thing that makes money anymore is information reselling or fake money to scam kids
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this comment section proves it lmao
Good to know the feeling of exhaustion, frustration, and feeling like we've peaked isn't just from being in college. Everything feels so fucking tiring and its hard not to be pissed at how shitty everything is getting
I've been pissed for over a decade now... Ever since I got out of the Military. Now I have kids and I'm so effing over it all I'm about to move to a cabin in the woods haha
I've felt this since middle school and it's downhill since. It's been hell trying to get through things esp now in college lol
Humanity peaked in the 90s and early 2010's tbh, and i'm not saying that bc I grew up then. The world was relatively peaceful. Politics was still shitty, but was way more respectful. Pop music was varied in genre and had plenty of creativity and indie still in the mainstream. TV shows were feel-good, and original, and not everything had been done to death. Movies had new blockbusters always coming out and starting new beloved franchises instead or rehashing or rebooting the same old tired IP's. Minorities were still very unambiguously underdogs, so this retaliation against "wokeness" or SJW's wasn't such a popular sentiment. The fashion was fun and crazy, normal people weren't obsessed with plastic surgery, teenagers didn't look twice their age...
The 90s were our peak.
“Everything we love is dead” Perfect thing to brighten my day 😂💜
The zoomers think otherwise. They are having the time of their life on TikTok fame 😂
I love bionicle, bionicle is dead. Noel was right.
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It's so true too 💔💔💔💔
I am in belief that everything we loved is going to come back to life 🔮
I love the fact that in their ad Metaverse shows that their product is essentially useless and has no appeal for the average person
no appeal for the average person until their lives have been turned to crap and they have lost all autonomy so they resort to an internet fantasy land that slowly drains them of the things and experiences that make them human just to capitalise from all the misfortune that they continue to perpetuate but won’t stop because money 😏
@@Zoe-tg4dl "resort to an internet fantasy land that slowly drains them of the things and experiences that make them human"
That is what you are doing now Zoe. Metaverse actually has social interaction and is a huge step up from where you are at now.
Abram Carroll whatever you say, abram
@@Zoe-tg4dl You are on RUclips typing while not having social interactions.
Abram Carroll and the metaverse will be better than that? it’s not people interacting through a virtual wall? if youtube is bad, then metaverse will be better right?
I was fully expecting you to talk about the bouncing QR code hitting the corners of the screen. Peak fucking dystopia imo
We tried it and were very disappointed
We meaning my dad and i
i have to admit it, i actually really liked that ad bc it was relaxing and i zoned out for a good minute because of it
Oh Caleb, so over dramatic LOL.
I sat there in fear watching the QR code bounce. when i saw it say coinbase i laughed... but like in a painful way. Like "omg were so fucked lmao"
2022 be like let's weaponize nostalgia 😂
Idiocracy by the viewers (easily entertained) and the unoriginality of producers (laziness!).
Every movie franchise ever
Disney has been doing that for yearsss 🤪
@@WoWGirl6 Idiocy is being an idiot, Idiocracy is a movie.
I’m SO glad you decided to make a video about this, and specifically the “mEtAvErSe” commercial. That shit was SO dystopian and I felt SO BETRAYED and genuinely disgusted watching it. What a fucked up commercial. Genuinely so unnerving. And so fucking sad we’re at this point. That commercial shook me to my core and not in any kind of good way.
I think it's very sad that in the next few years, we are going to put our efforts towards the metaverse rather than...you know, actual reality.
Tbh yes its crazy. But thats just America and La in general. Being from India the things ive heard is already dystopian level crazy if you think about it from an outsiders perspective.
@@saswathgopan1543 anything specific you’re thinking of
@@banelerg5289 Im really curious, considering India literally uses the caste system, what he regards as dystopian.
The thing i hate about the superbowl more than anything is this idea that people get excited about seeing fucking commercials..no one should EVER be happy about seeing an advertisement. That very concept is just absurd to me.
I don’t know if you were around, like, 10-15 super bowls ago, but the ads used to be hilarious. Like, genuinely funny or outrageous. The GoDaddy example he gave in the video didn’t really even register to me. I didn’t care about the game, I barely understood the game itself, it was just an excuse to socialize. The commercials, though, would get rooms full of people laughing their asses off. It never got anybody to buy anything, it wasn’t even really about whether or not you bought that, but they stuck in your mind because of that humor.
The sentiment around wanting to see super bowl commercials specifically comes from that.
The ones this year and in the last few years haven’t matched up. The fact that what the commercials are peddling now is so much more obnoxious or toxic makes it worse.
@@mulciber1 That commercial wasn't even an actual joke, just a reference to a joke from 15 years ago.
Remember the Austin Powers movies? Wouldn’t it be awesome if the cast reunited to sell you a car? That’d be so cool
😂😭
So true lol. God I hate advertising agencies
Yo I feel like this is some of the most meaningful commentary on events he’s done in a bit would love to see more honestly maybe even serious journalistic commentary i feel like that would be a cool area to see you in
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Yes he has a great mind.
Rocket Mortgage dropped like 20 mil to have Anna Kendrick talk to children about loans for a minute and a half
imagine Meta Execs going "awwwww" at an animatronic living a digital lie
Jokes on you the writers of black mirror are now writing our reality
It’s already been happening for a while. The episode Nosedive is a commentary on social media, in making this false persona of yourself so everyone likes you. It’s also a critique about political correctness. I can draw many other comparisons long before metaverse came out. But the further decrease of entertainment quality is not just a result of the slow collapse of capitalism or the advancement of technology (a.k.a the metaverse and VR) but also the deterioration of culture. People can’t relate on anything anymore so what is it that brings us together?
im a marketing major and in every marketing class my profs will talk abt how the superbowl is the one shot for ur product to really make an impact but i simply cannot imagine being on a marketing team for a company that scored a superbowl slot and then okaying half the shit that was put out there this year like theyre not even marketing the product anymore lol theyre just trying to get the most ppl talking and not in the way they should be
I feel like a lot of companies just want to go viral, which is such a small target to aim for.
i'm so glad public online sentiment has swayed against nfts and metaverse. we should work on a REAL world instead. real experiences and real people
“the cup clapping lady” shouldn’t be as funny as it was to me and I will now only refer to anna kendrick as such
I was so scared of that Rocket Mortgage commercial I didn’t even know they got Anna Kendrick.. they got her looking like an Anna Kendrick look alike
You got some self-awareness. Most people would not have the ability to point out the deterioration of culture as evident through entertainment and media... it’s sad.
Maybe you've just had your head in the sand?
@@farwest9218 me? I wasn’t referring to myself, I was praising him on something I’m already well aware of. If not, already saw the signs long before metaverse was announced. I would say probably most of Gen Z, the younger ones, have their head in the sand. Just a guess.
@@WoWGirl6 yeah I get and of course, it's mostly the younger folks... sucks for everyone but I don't know what we can do to fix it
Tbh i thought i was making it up but everything just seems so boring lately. Like tv, youtube, even videogames seem repetitive. It's sad
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Nostalgia sells especially how global events are right now (pandemic, economy, possible war, etc.)
I can’t wait to be able to kick a baby in the metaverse, it’s truly going to be game changing!
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stop. don't fucking join. please. the more people who give in the more money is invested. the more money the more they can improve. the improvements they make them more appealing and advanced their technology becomes until virtual reality is everywhere. please, please please do not choosee to be ignorant. this is a bad thing, not good. it was not meant to improve our lives. it was made to create money and turn us into self-obsessed and isolated puppets. phones seemed all great at first but now look at us... addicted, the most lonely and depressed and anxious the world has been in a while.
and i know your just making a joke, i know, but its the people who say "fuck it lets try it" that cause snowball affects in society
@@justforfun3283 I agree, except VR is awesome. Meta is what's bad. Anyone that wants to try the Metaverse should instead just try VRChat. It's like metaverse, but people can make the maps, and they don't put a force field around you, and it isn't some sterilized corporate bs. Come on people; Facebook is dying. Let's deliver the death blow by ignoring Meta completely.
“everything we love is dead” damn noel i’m not disagreeing w u but not even a minute in the vid and you’ve sent me into a mental spiral 😭😭😭
He does that.
this video was actually really interesting to me. normally i love watching noel’s videos because it doesn’t take much thought to watch someone talk about a funny video and it’s just a fun way to consume media. but this video actually made me stop and think. i had to literally pause about four minutes in because my brain was running in circles trying to put the thoughts i had into words. i think that regardless of whether or not these ad agencies and the halftime show intended to spread this sort of message doesn’t really matter because either way they did, and they did a great job. and watching noel cover this felt like reading an academic paper that actually was enjoyable. a 7 minute video about the super bowl literally just changed my whole day. forced my mom to watch some of it too, and we got into a deep discussion about generations and generational trauma, with her having been a teen/young adult in the 90’s and me being born on 2003. it was really interesting to see how the commercials and half time affected us differently. it’s also interesting with the point noel borough up about music and how we think every song and artist is so revolutionary but at the end of the day we all look to people from decades ago to trigger any sense of real appreciation for music. the nostalgia for music really does end with the 90’s and that is something that is both incredibly fascinating and incredibly horrifying at the same time. this was a great video and i know it wasn’t supposed to invoke such a large response i felt like i should share this
my sister and I were nostalgically entertained with the QR code bouncing around commercial but as soon as we scanned and saw it was for crypto our faces dropped to this :| lol
That’s EXACTLY what happened to me lmao I felt so hurt
Crypto actually is something positive though. The metaverse and NFTs on the other hand… no, quite depressing.
Saw that one live, sat there for 20 seconds and ended up with the most disappointing thing ever!
@@constantsmile3370 I agree, Crypto is positive. But the way they went about advertising it was still weird and depressing. Like you could advertise anything in a way that seems dystopian, and unless you're seeing, say, a game with a dystopian-setting, that means you're doing it wrong.
"Things are getting worse and they are changing only to stay the same in a more intense form - and that’s what capitalism is. So you have this kind of sadness or depression that is basically a consequence of adjusting to such things." - Mark Fisher
This
never thought id see a mark fisher quote on a noel video
Glad someone did Mark Fisher quote. Noel even discribed the saturation and ironization of culture of late capitlism as Mark himself did.
Bold of you to assume the Super Bowl was ever good enough to “ruin”
fair point, fair point
It was, nowadays it’s less about the football and more about making money, and the halftime show, which has ruined the sole reason of the super bowl.
"Workin so hard like a soldier
Can't afford a thing on TV"
- Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant, the song used in that advertisement for fucking BMW, yaknow, the famously expensive car
what kind of dystopian self awareness is that 😭 cmon bmw
love these videos where I get to actually hear your thoughts on shit
Growing up is realizing that Super Bowl commercials were never good
True but they haven’t always been straight up depressing
Idk what it is about this video, but Noel sounds like he's on the verge of tears
Hes not the only one :/
@@KristenZianourry2015 I'd be crying too, tbh
I feel like it’s his eyes, looks like mine the morning after a full night of crying
there was life in noel’s eyes in this video and that somehow made these dystopian ads even more terrifying
It really feels like we're hurtling towards the point of no return. Maybe we're already past it
return to what?
@@mtlewis973 good ol days
Whenever Noel claps at the beginning of the video, you know it's going to be good
now imagine not being able to feel nostalgic from this stuff cause you were born after everything good in the world had already died and your childhood was an existentialistic nightmare of the failures of a dying species
i love that noel brings us back to earth and allows us to take a deeper thought than what gets shoved in our face.
Thanks for the recap .. I was picking up dope in Baltimore and missed the super bowl.
The fucking 20-30 second crypto commercial of just a qr code bouncing around the screen like the DVD logo had me and my friends HOT, We were like WTF bro
“Everthing we love is dead” well said for me even though I’m not from America
@Clap Em yeah you are right, I especially said America because I really don’t care about super bowl
Thank you Noel, im glad that as an Empath you can share these insights with us!
the absolute despair in noel's eyes when he paused and the camera zoomed in....chef's kiss mwah
0:12 Noel’s headshot looks like he’s just noticed someone flashing their junk at him.
not necessarily a fun video but at the same time thanks for articulating what we're all already feeling. i can count the amount of commercials that i remember and enjoy on one hand. idk anyone who has positive views of brands/advertisers anymore. when we talk about ads, it's about how annoying it was, like any liberty mutual ad, the shitty amy schumer tampon ad, FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE, etc. sometimes i like the really weird youtube ones, but i'd never get the product and a lot of them feel intentionally bad now. the only ads i unironically enjoy are movie trailers, and even then it's only some of them.
we've all gotten so cynical towards advertising that when companies try to use nostalgia or emotions it just feels so weird and manipulative (which is fair bc ads are legit supposed to manipulate you into buying a product). companies seem stuck between that type of advertising and personifying their brands on social media, but at this point both seem hollow and fake.
maybe we're all just depressed, maybe we've gotten so desensitized to ads bc we see them on every app we use & irl basically 24/7 that marketing will never be as effective as it was before, who knows
not to be a dang nerd on here, but even the trailer for the new lotr series did this. it’s using something from a simpler time but taking away any of that comfort (and even altering the lore itself) by modernizing the aesthetic and overusing cgi. i think the cast itself looks awesome and its diversity is its one win, but any social good feels undone by the fact that it’s all going back to benefit amazon. it’s incredibly disheartening to see a story about corruption, greed, and power go into the hands of the very people in power that it warns against.
Beautifully said!! Felt the same with Matrix too. Truly tragic how voracious these corpos are
I think the diversity is bad white ppl r cool
@@Coleme19454 Yikes
@@shiannafoxx yikes? More like yoinks! Cuz thats what ull be saying when when you when
@@Coleme19454 What
this is one my favorite videos of yours. Really enjoyed your observations, and I think you should really make more mainstream media commentary. I think you have a great perspective on the bigger picture, the life span of a piece of media as well as how that is influencing the context of now. You say a lot of cool things while still maintaining to entertain, great work!
"We've peaked, there's nothing left."
That commercial of a QR code says it all.
the fact that the QR code was ON the kid was really creepy to me.
@@Sarcasmtomasksadness What do you mean?
The fact there was literally an add of metaverse in the beginning of this video makes it even better
Are people barely realizing that they’ve been making money off of wanting to recreating our childhoods
Especially with the metaverse, its a glorified MMO game
noah if ur reading this thank u for doing that thing where you use end a clip when noel is doing a solid post-sentence pause and then start the audio of the next clip while on the old frames. idk why but it cracks my shit up. love ya bud
Interesting choice of lighting today, Noel. Made your eyes look a little more soulless
was wondering why he looked a little more beautiful today
6:20 to 6:50 the way he use and go far with his sarcasm is with I like Noel so much, so good
the Metaverse, NFTs, and Cryptocurrency becoming so prominent in mainstream media makes me indescribably depressed. holy fucking shit.
I hope it means these bullshit things crash hard by the end of the year.
I am really enjoying these videos. I feel like I'm catching up with an older cousin who I only see on special occasions.
I just finished watching Eddy Burback’s New Metaverse video where he brought up the dog ad during the intro, and now you just dropped a proper video about it😭
Noel, I was watching the SB live and thinking "This is it. The dystopian society we've feared is unfolding right before our eyes." I am so glad that you could capture all that thought in a perfect video. Thank you for showing me I am not crazy.
This truly is the darkest timeline. Fuck all this I’m moving to Mongolia to become a shepherd.
"we've peaked, there's nothing left" thanks for the existential crisis man I really appreciate that
I’m glad I’m not the only one who absolutely hated the Rocket Mortgage Barbie commercial. The only commercials that actually hit were the Black community commercials. Everything else was an acid trip.
Saw you this past weekend in SF, you were incredible!! I can’t wait to see another show :)
noel you are genuinely such a profound thinker it amazes me
Damn... I really didn't think of it that way about the halftime show. But you're right. I mean nostalgia has always been a thing and always will be but its strange to feel like we've been defined by nostalgia for so long and largely stagnant for years now. I mean. Obviously there's great artists doing great stuff in all mediums but there's so few things that have come out that really feel like classics. It's been like a decade now since there has been a really massive influential book series. That's crazy.
Conspiracy theory: Everything bad that's ever happened since 2016 (the celeb deaths, the downfall of political discourse, the killer clowns, the terrorism, the coups, the pandemic, the rise of social media)... Was all in preparation for Meta.
It was all done on purpose to make us so depressed and jaded with our lives, that we'd accept Metaverse with open arms.
i love being so used to ads that i can immediately block them out with my mind, i have no idea what theyre selling to me. i am completely unable to be advertised to.
It's like the theme of those commercials, and now this year, has become selling nostalgia
so glad you did this video bc this put all of my thoughts together perfectly
I'm glad I accepted the world was ending back in 2019 because everything we've seen after that year has clearly been the downfall of humanity. So I find the phrase "we've peaked" absolutely hilarious because it is so ridiculous yet so true!
I love how Charlie covered this days before it aired at the Super Bowl and said this was gonna happen 😂😂
Who TF is Charlie lol
penguin7o or moistcritikal
Noel sat there staring for a second after talking about the Meta Verse commercial and it reminded me to like the video.
His Pavlovian experiment has succeeded
I fucking love this video and I don't completely know why. Maybe it's knowing that other people feel this apathy towards where the world seems to be heading. Maybe it's knowing that other people don't get the same kind of hype around certain things that other people do. Maybe it's just being able to look at the whole situation under the lens of it being like a TV show, and breaking that disconnect between reality and the fiction that once seemed so far away.
I dunno. For some reason this video just made me feel a bit more content? I dunno it's 12am and I'm tired af so I'm probably just spewing bullshit
Remember when we used to be able to watch the Super Bowl without having to pay a streaming service? Yeah, me too…
"Everything we love is dead" this has been happening since March 2021 bro 😭
Bro this has been happening long before. Ill say at least since 2012. You right though
@@johnniemurray-monroe5959 Good times were still to be had in the early 2010s. Post-2015 era is when the shit ball rolled downhill socially, I think.
and the only thing we can do is sit back and laugh at this capitalist, dystopian hellscape we live in
lady gaga jumping from the roof like a spider and Beyoncé 2013 are honestly the only half time shows i even remembered
Sooo was it bad I laughed and almost cried at the Rocket Mortgage commercial? I thought it was a dark humor joke.
Because I was watching the Superbowl in England, it was broadcast on BBC, so no adverts, it feels like I missed out.
the moment 50 cent hangs down it went from cool nostalgia to someone put that man down asap or he's gonna drop that mic and faint so quick
“As I’m sitting here watch 50 hang from the ceiling” has got to be the funniest shit 😂😂
had the retirement home and kendrick as the halftime show and people have the audacity to say it was the greatest show ever
the majority of viewers were around when Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg were at their peak not everything has to be the recent shit
idk if it was just Kendrick I think it could've been a banger. I thought he stole the show.
It was still pretty damn good, you can’t tell me Still Dre didn’t make you crip walk😂
Lmaooo Kendrick and Eminem did great. Anderson Paak on the drums was fun to watch.
there’s this movie/game/tv show I don’t quite remember well right now, of a man in the future that was stuck/prisoner in VR and he didn’t quite know and for some reason it broke or something and he found out the reality of his surroundings to be a complete nightmare so he went back to the VR world, don’t know why I felt the need to say this but I kinda reminded me of that
Jokes write themselves at this point, with a little help of socially conscious Noel
Today I saw an add during the Winter Olympics, it had Mathew Mconohay(sorry I can’t spell his name) and the premise of the add was “Fuck going to Mars and the Metaverse. Plant trees and care about people.”
It made me happy.
I was literally dying at that mortgage commercial cuz acc wtf why you using dolls for mortgage
noel putting my exact feelings abt this years supreme dystopian vibes into words is strangely comforting :')
May god have mercy on Zucc’s soul.
He has one?
I watched your SF show, late Sat night!! You were awesome bro! I hope you do more touring soon in NY so my friends there can come with me next time :)
I felt that. Hang in there, Noel.
1:03 - this guy is actually ‘the extra that appears in everything’ - he’s been in hundreds of TV shows, especially if they have a school/geeky setting (like Chuck). Respect to the guy, but he overacts like hell so I really don’t like him as an extra.
Noel hit that barbie doll commercial spot on. The sense of nostalgia that I got when that commercial came on because it reminded me of like the early 2000’s commercials was awesome. Then they completely fuckin ruined it.
Thank God the beloved LA Rams from LA won in LA. I bet you no notable celebrities were rooting for them. What an underdog story full of courage, brings tears to my eyes.
Thank the lord for the great LA fans that will never rob or destroy there own city after winning a game
This is exactly what I was thinking! All of these commercials were really fucking weird and scary. It’s like seriously black mirror, with random QR codes throughout everything. That one kid is literally wearing a QR code in the Barbie commercial
My world changed when I read 1984 in high school, the world will definitely head that route in due time. Sad
It's already there with all the corporate censorship people are okay with.
I tried the metaverse (Horizon Worlds, not really) last week. I'm a college student who likes partying and crashing into different friend groups, but the metaverse/horizon worlds made me feel very socially anxious. There is a ratio of 10/1 dude/woman and I walked into this group of dudes circling around this poor female user and for 15 minutes straight they were saying things like "Broooo she's so f cking gorgeous" while staring at her 3D legless avatar.
I thought our campus had creeps but this place was heaven for them.
say no to pod life
perfomance was dope
the thing that cracks me up is that we were all in quarantine and everyone was actually sad they werent able to go outside and they still get shocked people are not that interested in putting their life completely online
all the metaverse and other stuff is so disingenuous compared to VRchat and silly things people used to post on social media that i actually started using social media less because it was so depressing. i think im trying to say that its weird they expect people not to want better lives just because they made a vr you can play pretend in
Facebook is like that brother that tries to make things worse for everyone