Joel has an uncanny ability to make the most simple of concepts profound. He's the embodiment of: "To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour."
@@yesno7889 To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep, No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to.
Only meta stuff makes no sense at all. There is no deciphering this because it's paradoxical. It's just the hand of the author pointing at the medium and telling us to laugh. This is not funny.
Sure, but how many times did you help move in the two months that this video was out, and have you helped since? If so, have you continued your weirs, new, tradition?
I once argued with a dream character about who between us was real we even rock paper scissored and we drowed So we came to the conclusion that we were from different universes in a shared consciousness
@@breakmeoffapiece8404 I have these dreams where I'm hanging out with my best buddy only to wake up and realize that he doesn't exist, like the characters in the short film, they don't know who they are or why they're even interacting with each other, they only live in the moment.
@@breakmeoffapiece8404 And until know those guys want to convince me that I am awake and this is not a dream, instead of just accepting it. Completely lost those guys xD
The parallels to life, one moment you exist, the next your gone. Leaving only the scenes of your life in others, and when they remember you, its like your alive again. You can relive these memories, but its not the same anymore.
The whole "Longing Embrace" scene is perfect. It's such a mixture of comedy, tragic, and existential horror that you can't help but nervously smile. The acting is so unnecessarily great in that scene.
@@ImTheWarlock64 That’s right! In fact he’s here right now. It’s where he’s always been and always will be…..(taps your chest where I assume your heart is located)….right here. As long as you remember him fondly, he will stick with you. Keep your chin up, champ.
He was never alive. Joel fooled your eyeballs. It’s been Joel all along, fooling our eyeballs. The post credit scene is two short vertical lines, two triangles, and an arrow curved in a circle. The arrow is pointing counterclockwise. The ultimate mocking F.U. to all our eyeballs.
@@N0V-A42 It is all because of this 'neo' at the end. Neo is a prefix that means 'new', and also it sounds freaking cool, thus you could interpret insaneo as a portmanteu of insane and neo - they blend well greatly and the idea of insanity is in intself opening to the usage of a prefix as a suffix, birthing in itself an insane word that expresses the new level of insanity, a higher level of something truly groundbreaking. Truly an insane-e-o word
My Mother is Kentempolous, I am Sorcia, she sent me here to find you... It took me awhile to figure out that the video was over and that I was listening to an ad that played afterwards.
Props to the balcony scene and those two actors!!! I don’t know whether to be embarrassed at how sensitive I am or impressed at how good their acting is, or both but I teared up a little at the hard cut front he balcony to interior new apartment. Also the composition was so clever in using shots that never had both of them on screen at the same time. It showed that they weren’t in it together like they think, and they’re more alone than they think too.
What's so striking about this is how accurate it feels to when someone does move away, they just kind of vanish into the aether and it becomes like they never really existed at all.
Shit, yes, and trying to keep in contact with them is like trying to revisit a video game you once loved, but when you do it's like "I can't enjoy this game anymore, I can only enjoy my memories of playing it before" or something like that.
I feel that. I moved away and ironically I ended up going to an expo at the city where I used to live. Met up with some old friends. Felt like I basically died to them because one day I was in their life, the next I was gone.
As someone who has moved around a lot, often starting from scratch and reinventing myself, I always feel like my previous life was a work of fiction, or a totally separate existence lived by a different person. Every time I leave my life behind and start over, I'm born again as someone else.
The idea that these characters can barely create new sentences and all they can do is repeat dialogue and script directions because that's all that they know is terrifying
I want this as an actual plot for a movie. Where the edits and cuts from the director are the cause for the characters suffering. And then there'd be a pre/sequal the first of it's kind where it's the continuation of the past and they'll regain consciousness again within the same movie just reacting with prior knowledge of what had already occurred. It'll be called "THE Director's Cut" and it'll be the greatest thing we've ever seen....
The idea that the characters aren't only self-aware that they are in a video, but also only have the same information that the audience knows from their own vapid, expository dialogue is pretty interesting. In any other sketch like this it would be one character that is totally self aware with everyone else being like "What are you on, dude? Haha." Until it goes too far and comedy ensues, But by making every single character self-aware, it creates this deep existential dread that is shared by all the characters in this little world. In reality, even though we know it's a joke, and these actors will move on from the video itself, the characters themselves won't. They won't exist anymore after the video ends. Each character then has this little motivation to get the most out of each scene where they "exist." It's almost a little metaphor for the moments that you "exist" in other people's lives. When others go away, leave, disconnect from you, all that's left is the memory of you, just like characters in a video. You have to make the most out of the little time you spend on the "screen" of another person.
Well said. It felt like these characters were alive when I first watched this video. When I replay this video and see that others have watched this video to, they don't feel so alive anymore. Why is that? Anyway, .... I believe the nature of reality is quantum.and that time is spherical and spiral....so I'm not so sure if what exists in memory is unchangeable?...
@@EktoplazmMusicit wasn’t really a piñata, that’s the joke. You’re supposed to think it is from the buildup scene prior, and then the misdirection happens. Hope to have cleared this up for you!
I'm watching on the train and we went underground and it froze around 0:20 so he said "be there or.." but since I've seen this video before the silence that followed was incredibly ominous. Godspeed.
By my calculations, the characters have gotten to live for five days from the 12,000 people who've viewed the video. And thanks to Joel's script half of that was spent in existential dread without longing embrace
i love how certain characters know more than others. some seem deeply invested in their roles in life, like joke guy, others seem like they just accept it as reality, like "hard cut" guy, others question, like party guy and protag, but some choose to embrace the moment while it lasts, even knowing their purpose, but choosing that brief purpose over a prolonged existential dread of what's to come, like loving embrace guy.
you realize hard cut guy and longing embrace guy are the same guy, right? and that his name is neither of those. He's guy who help with box and encourage and then party and then talk on balcony
@@longebaneI’m pretty sure it’s help with box. In the scene he’s says he is guy who help with box, and then motions that he helped with box, so now it’s time for longing embrace. The worst part though, is that he never got that embrace…
Just remember... You don't need to focus on the embrace at the end, because you got an embrace at the start! 😁 Big picture perspective and memory, with small, achievable, but meaningful goals, will set you up for life my friend. Even if it's short, you'll be remembered. 🥲
I had a friend when I was in High School that always made fun of this trope, so he started doing it in real life. So for example if we were in a group talking and then someone approached us to talk, he'd just shout out of nowhere "AND TURNS OUT IT WAS HIS EX-WIFE!" and then started laughing in a very loud and obviously fake manner (I never knew why that was always the punchline but it was always that phrase). I don't think many people understood what he was doing beyond our friend group but every time he did it I thought it was hilarious.
this is honestly genius. It feels a lot like how in life we obsess over trying to figure everything out and then in the end its over, and the answer never mattered. We have the option to panic or go along with it and laugh at the joke that makes no sense.
I love how deep of your response is! Its really true... its not about the "destination" (The answers), its about the "journey" (living life for moment and not trying to over analyze everything).
This is exactly what Absurdism claims, and the video reminds me of works from the Theater of the Absurd movement like Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead
Hey samable, hope your mood will improve, emotions are subjective, so what may feel genuine to one person - might not feel that way to another. If you would like to share your experience feel free to do so, but detracting from mine doesn't unload any of the negativity in your life, it only spreads it further.
“Maybe when they play it back, it’s like I’m alive again.” I feel like this was a statement from Joel, who I assume wrote this script. Don’t worry Joel, you won’t be forgotten. I have a premonition you’re going to be remembered for a long, long time. Thanks for these sketches :)
"Maybe when they play it back, it's like I'm alive again." Something about that line just hits me so hard... I've watched plenty of RUclipsrs who have since passed away, and I've been avoiding watching their old videos to keep from digging up painful memories. But somehow I feel like, even though that probably wasn't the intention of that line, that's what it feels like to me.
Be one of the better people on the internet when you go there. Remember that for every single person who thinks that their "RIP Trevor Moore" was a good idea, there were countless others who were just there to laugh and have a good time. RIP Trevor Moore.
Ugh what memories? You didn't know them. They weren't your friends. Why would you cry over some person on the internet who felt nothing for you. Of course, it's sad that they're gone and I feel for their families, but don't act like you were buddies with anybody in that situation you didn't know them
@@ThomasMarnwill Mhm, mhm, I hear you. One question though, who hurt you? I get what you're trying to say, people take para-social relationships too far, but that's not what this is. They don't know you, but you do know them, at least a part of them, and you can grow to respect and admire them for it. So when they pass away unexpectedly, you can grieve for them. You wouldn't do it in the same way that their family would, obviously, but it's kind of ridiculous to insinuate that some RUclipsrs and celebrities haven't changed people's lives just with their content. It's clear to most people that their importance to culture and the communities they foster can reach this level. So while I understand what you're *trying* to say, this whole "UGH, WHY YOU SAD, THEY DON'T KNOW YOU" schtick, just comes off as overly cynical and disrespectful. You don't have to have a mutual connection with someone to feel for their loss.
what the fuck are you talking about? i feel things for stories, people, moments that i am not exclusively a part of all the time. that's what compassion is, that's what empathy is. @@ThomasMarnwill
That part on the balcony was so well done lmao, that longing embrace guy is a great actor. I actually started to feel bad when he said "i dont think so..... i dont think so....."
Now I need to do a part 2 when someone is replaying the video, and they realize that someone is replaying their video, and they get to live again, but they know the end is coming again
i've never felt such a mix of humor and existential dread. Masterfully done Joel. ...but like, you never know if it's the last scene with someone in your life. Or your last scene in theirs...
@@genericname2747 Free Guy but instead of a video game it's about a short movie and all the characters understand they have a limited time left until they don't exist anymore, but MC (Ryan Reynolds) tries to stop it, in the end making a way into real life, escaping the nightmare of playing out 45 minutes of your "life" over and over. The movie ends with them saying, "If we were still in the movie, the credits would start ro-" only to be cut off by the credits rolling, implying that the real life in the movie isn't our real life, and now they're trapped repeating 2 and a half hours of them escaping into one fake reality into another.
I'd like to watch a movie with this concept, where throughout the movie the characters try to regain consciousness and try to make sense of things but at every new scene they lose awareness and have to regain consciousness and memory and have to continue their quest of trying to make sense.
I'm working on a screenplay for a shitty Hallmark movie where the main character goes through a psychotic break and starts to think they're in a shitty Hallmark movie and then they get thrown in a shitty Hallmark sanitarium. Very similar vibe to this short.
I think the ultimate mind blowing arc is they get extremely close to full consciousness/4th wall break and then slowly go back to being oblivious but there’s one character who realizes if he doesn’t he’ll be written out of the universe by a maniacal writer who wants to keep them in the dark.
Now that I've finished watching this I feel like it's my moral duty to keep replaying this video so they stay alive. But now I feel trapped in my own loop, playing this video over and over again. Is this really what you wanted Joel?
This is genuinely horrifying and a smart way of breaking the fourth wall. I like how none of the characters made it overly obvious that they were doing so and that they reacted how people IRL would react to world shattering information like that. The subtlety makes it a lot more emotional and funny. Great work!
I know nothing about Jim and have no connection to him whatsoever, yet I start rooting for him until the end of the video and feel sad for him. Amazing storytelling all in just 6 minutes!!
Watched this video as a break from studying interpersonal psychology about the human agency and I feel like I learned more from this than the contents of my curriculum. Great job as always!
lmao the acting in this is too good. when they are in character you can tell they're acting but when they start questioning their existence they aren't acting any more and just sound like a real person. Very well done.
How did they set the joke up is my question. It's the editor's fault we didn't know, or maybe because it's really not that important to the plot at all?
Man, this just hits home. No agency just floating through life one scene to another. Life does feel like a hard cut sometimes. Where did all the time in between go?
@@KLondike5 Great suggestion, Adaptation is definitely one of my all time favorites. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Vanilla Sky (Abre los ojos) are also well worth watching if you enjoy similar concepts.
this is why I keep tabs on your vids, you always think of the funniest specific things like this that are just so on point and I can't trust anybody else to really get it like you do "I'm jim.. I help with box, and I encourage" HAHAHA
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This is simultaneously a 6 minute comedy sketch, and a feature length life long horror movie
Joel has an uncanny ability to make the most simple of concepts profound. He's the embodiment of: "To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour."
DAN BULL!! woah
blast from the past right here, cool to see
it's got that adult swim energy
Well it's not horror, it's existentialism.
I have this video on repeat so you guys will never die
Is it really worth being alive, when everything repeats meaninglessly, endlessly?
@@yesno7889 To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to.
Hello Ben
You're killing them over and over.
You monster.
@@kdiggity4802🤓
"Maybe when they play it back, it's like I'm alive again."
Man
thats the plot for unbelievable gwenpool ending
and I just got recommended this again even though I saw it before
its especially meaningful since this is the 7th+ time this video has been recommended to me
The fact that he didn't get his longing embrace actually made me feel so sad.
A lot of it just hits way too close to reality and it pisses me off lol.
The moment the scene switched to the apartment, I cried "NO! INTERIOR APARTMENT!"
That was it for him. All he wanted was that moment.
Start the video over, he did
Only meta stuff makes no sense at all. There is no deciphering this because it's paradoxical. It's just the hand of the author pointing at the medium and telling us to laugh.
This is not funny.
You know it's a Joel Haver video when you don't know whether to laugh or to cry from existential dread.
High quality content,
Joel is a hero.
i am currently in tears and im not sure why
why not both?
I love it but that existential dread is real lol
I feel like this could be a full movie.
I literally say “I help with box and encourage, Jim” every time I have to move something for someone
did you keep your promise
sure you do
no you don't...
Sure, but how many times did you help move in the two months that this video was out, and have you helped since? If so, have you continued your weirs, new, tradition?
And here I am, just a small town boy. I've got a box I can't handle on my own, and I am borderline discouraged.
This feels like gaining consciousness during a dream and realizing that nothing makes any sense
and then you tell the other people in the dream that they dont exist but they dont believe you
Philip K. Dick level mind blowing.
I once argued with a dream character about who between us was real we even rock paper scissored and we drowed
So we came to the conclusion that we were from different universes in a shared consciousness
@@breakmeoffapiece8404 I have these dreams where I'm hanging out with my best buddy only to wake up and realize that he doesn't exist, like the characters in the short film, they don't know who they are or why they're even interacting with each other, they only live in the moment.
@@breakmeoffapiece8404 And until know those guys want to convince me that I am awake and this is not a dream, instead of just accepting it. Completely lost those guys xD
Joel just casually drops a cinematic masterpiece
Actually tho
Facts
It's so fucking good
This is actually genius if this concept was played differently it could be a full movie
Scrolled down before watching and thought you were exaggerating. You weren't.
That last cutoff just sent chills down my spine the sheer horror while staring at the credits knowing that he won't exist anymore after that
The parallels to life, one moment you exist, the next your gone. Leaving only the scenes of your life in others, and when they remember you, its like your alive again. You can relive these memories, but its not the same anymore.
knowing or believing?
Hey at least you wouldn't see it coming lol no time to react just gone which means you would not suffer in the slightest
As long as you hold him in your memory he exists. Sighhhhh
The whole "Longing Embrace" scene is perfect. It's such a mixture of comedy, tragic, and existential horror that you can't help but nervously smile. The acting is so unnecessarily great in that scene.
“I’m guy I help with box and encourage” killed me
“You’re the guy Jim” got me 😭
You’re Jim! At some point we said that right?
@@Meraxes6 "Give me this moment Jim! This is it for me man."
Mr. Meeseeks existential horror vibes
Box Guy is actually a good actor. I felt his pain.
God, if he had just teared up and that scene was just a bit longer, I'd have let it flow, ngl
All he wanted was a longing embrace. It's quite literally all he ever lived for.
genuinely a great performance from all, this was unironically palpable. kudos to Joel.
I carry box, I encourage, and I party
I like his determination in being willing to hold his box forever. Inspiring.
I love how Joel takes a seemingly impossible to modify cliché and flips it on it's head in the most creative way.
"I'm...I'm...man with box, moves the boxes" - had me howling
I help with box and encourage
@@ArcYT thats the first line in My resume
I love it when people in videos speak in a slightly grammatically incorrect way
So close to saying Guy #1
Gave me Nick Miller vibes
It's so good. I just wish there was a post-credits scene so I could see Jim alive, one last time.
we will keep him alive, don't worry :)
play the video again, and pause it at the beginning of the party scene.
he's there, forever, having fun. Forever.
@@ImTheWarlock64
That’s right! In fact he’s here right now. It’s where he’s always been and always will be…..(taps your chest where I assume your heart is located)….right here. As long as you remember him fondly, he will stick with you. Keep your chin up, champ.
He was never alive. Joel fooled your eyeballs. It’s been Joel all along, fooling our eyeballs.
The post credit scene is two short vertical lines, two triangles, and an arrow curved in a circle. The arrow is pointing counterclockwise. The ultimate mocking F.U. to all our eyeballs.
I'm more of a "Guy who carries box" guy myself.
03:20 Just imagining the neighbors in the balcony below them listening in to this conversation.
This was sad, horrifying, and hilarious at the same time. In other words, INSANEO STYLE
Am I the only one who's bothered by the fact that it's not pronounced "insane-e-o style"?
@@jakek1735 I thought it was "insane-o-style" or "insane-o style". Were do you get the extra 'e' from?
@@N0V-A42 It is all because of this 'neo' at the end. Neo is a prefix that means 'new', and also it sounds freaking cool, thus you could interpret insaneo as a portmanteu of insane and neo - they blend well greatly and the idea of insanity is in intself opening to the usage of a prefix as a suffix, birthing in itself an insane word that expresses the new level of insanity, a higher level of something truly groundbreaking.
Truly an insane-e-o word
@@AHeroWith1000Names in-say-nee-o like a mix of insane an neo
Wow this comment thread is going INSANEO STYLE
I really appreciate the fact that Joel doesn't always make himself the main character and allows others to have the spotlight!
Joel turns into a light, almost a spotlight.
We've been had!
Yeah! I had no idea who The Guy was until Help-With-Box-Encourage-Then-Party-Guy said so. A real twisteroo.
Man, sometimes I wish I was The Guy...
Who's Joel?
I wish there was an actual movie with this concept
Now that Joel is doing a movie per month instead of a short video per day, maybe we'll get something like this.
It wouldn't be interesting stretched out to feature length, there is only so much that can be done with this idea in my opinion.
The closest thing to this concept would probably be The Truman Show which if you haven't heard of it it's about a guy figuring out he's in a TV show
I'm pretty sure there is...like the matrix or something
Free guy
This would be such a good concept for a psychological horror film
You should check out David Lynch's work.
It’s called Truman show
It's called Resolution (2012)
It's called Stranger Than Fiction.
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is also based on the concept
“I carry box, I encourage, and then I party”
Getting that as my next tattoo that is fucking genius 😂
It takes a special kind of sketch to give you an existential panic attack while laughing your ass off. Kudos, guys, very good job
... and then I was like "wait, this isn't a comedy sketch, its a tragedy!" Gets me every time.
comedies and tragedies are disturbingly similar
@@blueninja012 Tragedy is when I cut my finger, Comedy is when you fall through an open sewer and die." - Mel Brooks.
Society
@@MLBlue30 I'm sure we can make cutting one's own finger a comedy.
My Mother is Kentempolous, I am Sorcia, she sent me here to find you...
It took me awhile to figure out that the video was over and that I was listening to an ad that played afterwards.
Jim and Ben are both talented and sincere creators in their own right. Joel has highlighted so many worthy entertainers over the last 18 months.
They both make amazing weekly videos, love their stuff, happy you do too :)
@@Joel-Haver this was unironically palpable. thanks, Joel.
Thanks ramen! And thanks Joel! ❤️
That's the whole point of Joel's channel, to let people see the many talented artists out there that go unnoticed
@@victorkreig6089I don’t know if that’s the whole point. Definitely something he loves to do with his influence, though.
Props to the balcony scene and those two actors!!! I don’t know whether to be embarrassed at how sensitive I am or impressed at how good their acting is, or both but I teared up a little at the hard cut front he balcony to interior new apartment. Also the composition was so clever in using shots that never had both of them on screen at the same time. It showed that they weren’t in it together like they think, and they’re more alone than they think too.
This is genuinely Joel’s magnum opus, the cinematography is amazing, the acting is brilliant, everything is perfect.
magnum opuses is an oxymoron
@@StefanCreates You can't have more than one great work? Can there not be a "great works" of shakespeare? only one?
@@hjf3022 magnum opus is generally taken as meaning "greatest work"
@@DougerArt yeah exactly, the single best work of an artist's career
@@StefanCreates I'd say this is his Magnum Opus though, as of yet. that or the hammer video on goodlongpee.
Joel Haver drops an existentialist masterpiece and pretends it's a "weeky short film"
This is one of my favorite videos Joel has ever made. I’ve watched it like 5 times and it’s better every time
I still can't believe it was his vending machine the whole time :D
Thank you for keeping the characters alive.
Facts. This was brilliant.
Me too
Guy who helps with box and talks on balcony for longing embrace nailed it. Rewatching now to keep him alive
I am going to play this on a loop forever, so that these characters never die.
I won't. But because you're doing it I don't have to feel guilty about abandoning then to the void! Thanks friend!
Do you think they want to be stuck going through the same actions unable to change anything for eternity? Sounds like hell let them rest
More like reviving them from death.
No, they can't keep repeating the same stagnant hell over and over. Let them go. What has been can never be again.
Watch it once, they die once. Play it on loop, they die on loop. You're a monster.
"i help with box and encourage" this will be my Tinder profile out of context
What's so striking about this is how accurate it feels to when someone does move away, they just kind of vanish into the aether and it becomes like they never really existed at all.
Shit, yes, and trying to keep in contact with them is like trying to revisit a video game you once loved, but when you do it's like "I can't enjoy this game anymore, I can only enjoy my memories of playing it before" or something like that.
I feel that. I moved away and ironically I ended up going to an expo at the city where I used to live. Met up with some old friends. Felt like I basically died to them because one day I was in their life, the next I was gone.
Then they say they will keep in touch, but you never hear from them again
I agree!
**moves away**
As someone who has moved around a lot, often starting from scratch and reinventing myself, I always feel like my previous life was a work of fiction, or a totally separate existence lived by a different person.
Every time I leave my life behind and start over, I'm born again as someone else.
The idea that these characters can barely create new sentences and all they can do is repeat dialogue and script directions because that's all that they know is terrifying
I NEED this concept to be a full length movie..I didn't know that I needed it but it's so apparent now. Please, someone make this happen 🙏🏿
Rosenkratz and Gildenstern are Dead.
Watch 'In the Mouth of Madness' with Sam Niel.
whyyyy cannn't weeee just enjoy these 6 minutes.
There is a full lenght movie, it's called the truman show
The movie The Game is kinda like this but without the existential horror
I want this as an actual plot for a movie. Where the edits and cuts from the director are the cause for the characters suffering. And then there'd be a pre/sequal the first of it's kind where it's the continuation of the past and they'll regain consciousness again within the same movie just reacting with prior knowledge of what had already occurred. It'll be called "THE Director's Cut" and it'll be the greatest thing we've ever seen....
I have to see that movie
Watch Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. It's basically this but the main characters are side characters from Hamlet
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I know it's not exactly this kind of existential horror scenario but if you haven't seen the Truman Show I recommend it.
There is a k-drama and manhwa called "Extraordinary You" or "July Found by Chance"
The idea that the characters aren't only self-aware that they are in a video, but also only have the same information that the audience knows from their own vapid, expository dialogue is pretty interesting.
In any other sketch like this it would be one character that is totally self aware with everyone else being like "What are you on, dude? Haha." Until it goes too far and comedy ensues,
But by making every single character self-aware, it creates this deep existential dread that is shared by all the characters in this little world.
In reality, even though we know it's a joke, and these actors will move on from the video itself, the characters themselves won't. They won't exist anymore after the video ends.
Each character then has this little motivation to get the most out of each scene where they "exist."
It's almost a little metaphor for the moments that you "exist" in other people's lives. When others go away, leave, disconnect from you, all that's left is the memory of you, just like characters in a video. You have to make the most out of the little time you spend on the "screen" of another person.
So true
wow, well said
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Well said. It felt like these characters were alive when I first watched this video. When I replay this video and see that others have watched this video to, they don't feel so alive anymore. Why is that?
Anyway, .... I believe the nature of reality is quantum.and that time is spherical and spiral....so I'm not so sure if what exists in memory is unchangeable?...
I want a full feature length film based on this concept of self aware characters
I like the implication that in the intended story the video has a one second clip of a guy setting down a box before the video ends
guy who helped move boxes and gave encouraging statement never got longing hug wtf
"that's my vending machine" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sticking with the classics
What is that? Seriously what are you talking about??
@@EktoplazmMusic brother it was his was his vending machine!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@EktoplazmMusicit wasn’t really a piñata, that’s the joke. You’re supposed to think it is from the buildup scene prior, and then the misdirection happens. Hope to have cleared this up for you!
@@The-official-grindel What? What buildup scene? What misdirection? What?
@@EktoplazmMusic Let’s try an alternate punchline. Ready?
“Piñata? I hardly knew her. Oh, it was a vending machine.”
I'm watching on the train and we went underground and it froze around 0:20 so he said "be there or.." but since I've seen this video before the silence that followed was incredibly ominous. Godspeed.
What
By my calculations, the characters have gotten to live for five days from the 12,000 people who've viewed the video. And thanks to Joel's script half of that was spent in existential dread without longing embrace
with 147,000 people who've now viewed this video, these characters have gotten to live for a year and a half
@@subwayslut thats a long time to go without longing embrace 😔
Joel doesn’t write scripts, he comes up with a premise and everything is improvised from there
@@user-yn3qv5vn3i did you not watch the video? It starts with longing embrace!!
2023 UPDATE:The characters have now lived for 2.68 YEARS
Still feels weird to have Joel back after he was gone for so long, we're very thankful
It seems like a part of him remained in the heavens.
Honestly I don't understand how they revived him. I didn't think that was possible.
Oh Joel's back? Ok cool...
Joel 2.0 was a perfect replica. Nobody will notice. Except for the added sass. Too much sass if you ask me!
@@MrJ3 just google it, is the first spell
03:43 “what is this even” has the exact same delivery as “what the hell is even that”
i love how certain characters know more than others. some seem deeply invested in their roles in life, like joke guy, others seem like they just accept it as reality, like "hard cut" guy, others question, like party guy and protag, but some choose to embrace the moment while it lasts, even knowing their purpose, but choosing that brief purpose over a prolonged existential dread of what's to come, like loving embrace guy.
you realize hard cut guy and longing embrace guy are the same guy, right? and that his name is neither of those. He's guy who help with box and encourage and then party and then talk on balcony
We are in a prison.
@@electroshock1021 small correction- he's not guy who help with box, his name is guy who helped with box
This video reminds me of acid tripping lol
@@longebaneI’m pretty sure it’s help with box. In the scene he’s says he is guy who help with box, and then motions that he helped with box, so now it’s time for longing embrace. The worst part though, is that he never got that embrace…
The facial expressions from Longing Embrace guy were so good. Subtle, yet told so much.
Yeah he was so impressive in that scene
Yeah, and Jim in the last scene also did a great job too
as someone who can't for the life of me understand subtle faces PLEASE EXPLAIN
This is not breaking the 4th wall. It is touching it and panicking out of its existence
"I help with box and encourage" is my new self-motivational mantra to focus on the small, achievable, but meaningful goals in my life.
Just remember... You don't need to focus on the embrace at the end, because you got an embrace at the start! 😁 Big picture perspective and memory, with small, achievable, but meaningful goals, will set you up for life my friend. Even if it's short, you'll be remembered. 🥲
I had a friend when I was in High School that always made fun of this trope, so he started doing it in real life. So for example if we were in a group talking and then someone approached us to talk, he'd just shout out of nowhere "AND TURNS OUT IT WAS HIS EX-WIFE!" and then started laughing in a very loud and obviously fake manner (I never knew why that was always the punchline but it was always that phrase). I don't think many people understood what he was doing beyond our friend group but every time he did it I thought it was hilarious.
Great story, I'd play along with him.
One day, someone will play this video one final time, and that is the day this group of friends will truly cease to exist.
this is honestly genius. It feels a lot like how in life we obsess over trying to figure everything out and then in the end its over, and the answer never mattered. We have the option to panic or go along with it and laugh at the joke that makes no sense.
I love how deep of your response is! Its really true... its not about the "destination" (The answers), its about the "journey" (living life for moment and not trying to over analyze everything).
@@AshleyBubbles27 amazing comments
underrated comment
This is exactly what Absurdism claims, and the video reminds me of works from the Theater of the Absurd movement like Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead
The answer does matter though; if a certain religion is true, that changes everything.
Damn, I actually got chills at the balcony scene. A testament to their acting, it feels so genuine.
No it doesn't
Hey samable, hope your mood will improve, emotions are subjective, so what may feel genuine to one person - might not feel that way to another.
If you would like to share your experience feel free to do so, but detracting from mine doesn't unload any of the negativity in your life, it only spreads it further.
@@Gilsworth womp womp, not reading your essay
@@sammxn-w2v your loss, wish you the best of luck, you'll need it.
This is my favourite video Joel has made
Yes. This one and the video about finding tech support in the forest.
“Maybe when they play it back, it’s like I’m alive again.”
I feel like this was a statement from Joel, who I assume wrote this script. Don’t worry Joel, you won’t be forgotten. I have a premonition you’re going to be remembered for a long, long time. Thanks for these sketches :)
Joe who?
@@namstel9225 Joe L or something, I dunno.
That’s a reach.
@@ShidaPenns Joe mama
@@littleoldmanboy What does Joe's mama have to do with this?
"Maybe when they play it back, it's like I'm alive again."
Something about that line just hits me so hard... I've watched plenty of RUclipsrs who have since passed away, and I've been avoiding watching their old videos to keep from digging up painful memories.
But somehow I feel like, even though that probably wasn't the intention of that line, that's what it feels like to me.
Be one of the better people on the internet when you go there. Remember that for every single person who thinks that their "RIP Trevor Moore" was a good idea, there were countless others who were just there to laugh and have a good time. RIP Trevor Moore.
Ugh what memories? You didn't know them. They weren't your friends. Why would you cry over some person on the internet who felt nothing for you. Of course, it's sad that they're gone and I feel for their families, but don't act like you were buddies with anybody in that situation you didn't know them
@@ThomasMarnwill Mhm, mhm, I hear you. One question though, who hurt you?
I get what you're trying to say, people take para-social relationships too far, but that's not what this is.
They don't know you, but you do know them, at least a part of them, and you can grow to respect and admire them for it. So when they pass away unexpectedly, you can grieve for them. You wouldn't do it in the same way that their family would, obviously, but it's kind of ridiculous to insinuate that some RUclipsrs and celebrities haven't changed people's lives just with their content. It's clear to most people that their importance to culture and the communities they foster can reach this level.
So while I understand what you're *trying* to say, this whole "UGH, WHY YOU SAD, THEY DON'T KNOW YOU" schtick, just comes off as overly cynical and disrespectful.
You don't have to have a mutual connection with someone to feel for their loss.
what the fuck are you talking about? i feel things for stories, people, moments that i am not exclusively a part of all the time. that's what compassion is, that's what empathy is. @@ThomasMarnwill
oh yeah watching dead youtubers does make em feel like they are alive again
You turned the 4th wall into a window without fully breaking it. This was weird. I love it.
This is some of Joel's best work, a silly joke executed flawlessly and with heartfelt emotion.
That part on the balcony was so well done lmao, that longing embrace guy is a great actor. I actually started to feel bad when he said "i dont think so..... i dont think so....."
Now I need to do a part 2 when someone is replaying the video, and they realize that someone is replaying their video, and they get to live again, but they know the end is coming again
Damn it Joel! You gotta stop not making more of these and just... make more.
Please.
"I help with box, I encourage, I party and then I go" me too
This feels like Stanley Parable. This is so cool! Your skits are the best! Keep it up!
THIS IS WHAT I WAS THINKING!!! TOTALLY STANLEY PARABLE
👍👍
I only thought about the stanley parable just bc one of the guy's name was jim 💀
i've never felt such a mix of humor and existential dread. Masterfully done Joel.
...but like, you never know if it's the last scene with someone in your life. Or your last scene in theirs...
Stop, the crisis was already crisis-y enough
Don't do this to me, man
@@WeirdVideoGames It's not your fault
Perhapes both?
they're slowly peering through the veil but not with full comprehension. Enough to question but not enough information to know.
I feel like they could make a full-length comedy film with this concept
I want Ryan Reynolds to act in it
Never knew how much I wanted a comedic existential horror film until this.
@@jubies6286 Probably the best way they can do comedic existential horror, with this template
Watch Truman show
@@genericname2747 Free Guy but instead of a video game it's about a short movie and all the characters understand they have a limited time left until they don't exist anymore, but MC (Ryan Reynolds) tries to stop it, in the end making a way into real life, escaping the nightmare of playing out 45 minutes of your "life" over and over. The movie ends with them saying, "If we were still in the movie, the credits would start ro-" only to be cut off by the credits rolling, implying that the real life in the movie isn't our real life, and now they're trapped repeating 2 and a half hours of them escaping into one fake reality into another.
I'd like to watch a movie with this concept, where throughout the movie the characters try to regain consciousness and try to make sense of things but at every new scene they lose awareness and have to regain consciousness and memory and have to continue their quest of trying to make sense.
Groundhog Day is kinda close to that
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind isn't that but somewhat similar
"The Good Place" uses a similar concept.
Just don’t make a whole series out of it or you get haruhi endless eight
This reminds me of the episode of futurama when time keeps skipping
It’s like a new take of the Trueman Show
Joel just hasn’t been the same since he came back from the dead. He’s went full Plato’s cave on these guys.
A longer form of this would be incredible I just want more of this sketch Joel please they need to exist again
Sorta like the Truman show
I'm working on a screenplay for a shitty Hallmark movie where the main character goes through a psychotic break and starts to think they're in a shitty Hallmark movie and then they get thrown in a shitty Hallmark sanitarium. Very similar vibe to this short.
I think the ultimate mind blowing arc is they get extremely close to full consciousness/4th wall break and then slowly go back to being oblivious but there’s one character who realizes if he doesn’t he’ll be written out of the universe by a maniacal writer who wants to keep them in the dark.
try Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, it's this but with Hamlet
@@zackquillan7292 cool , are you planning on filming it?
This has some serious Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind energy - and I absolutely love that!
Finally, a realistic answer to a question I've always wondered about.
Ikr I always thought it was a piñata as well...
@@mezzb It turns out the answer was lack of agency all along. Thanks Joel
Sometimes you get to be the main character, Sometimes you just get to moves boxes, but the movie ends for us all.
Jim’s facial expression at 2:38 as he begins questioning things is amazing. This might be Joel’s best video, it’s perfect
Now that I've finished watching this I feel like it's my moral duty to keep replaying this video so they stay alive. But now I feel trapped in my own loop, playing this video over and over again. Is this really what you wanted Joel?
Great acting for character "guy helping with box"!
This is genuinely horrifying and a smart way of breaking the fourth wall. I like how none of the characters made it overly obvious that they were doing so and that they reacted how people IRL would react to world shattering information like that. The subtlety makes it a lot more emotional and funny. Great work!
I know nothing about Jim and have no connection to him whatsoever, yet I start rooting for him until the end of the video and feel sad for him. Amazing storytelling all in just 6 minutes!!
the last conversation between Jim and Joel had an eternal sunshine of the spotless mind vibe. beautiful 🥲
I love that film.
@Pdersey both of those, and a third Jim Carrey movie.
Watched this video as a break from studying interpersonal psychology about the human agency and I feel like I learned more from this than the contents of my curriculum. Great job as always!
@sun diver wanna talk about it?
What did you learn specifically?
Wasn't sold on the title but jeez surprising creativity amaze
lmao the acting in this is too good. when they are in character you can tell they're acting but when they start questioning their existence they aren't acting any more and just sound like a real person. Very well done.
the party music unchanging during the whole scene felt like doki doki for some reason
For real 😂
I carry box, I encourage, and I party. Story of my life
I laughed so hard at that piñata joke, what a knee slapper that was
But, uh, what was the joke?
@@klop4228 they thought that the vending machine was a piñata, from the story
@@klop4228 that it wasnt a piñata, it was his vending machine
It's funny, because I really thought it was a pinata, the entire time, up until the point it turned out to be a vending machine.
How did they set the joke up is my question. It's the editor's fault we didn't know, or maybe because it's really not that important to the plot at all?
This is a disturbingly accurate analogy for life, something I've been struggling to put into words. Joel (and co), you've made another masterpiece.
This is some next level existential dread lmao. Well done.
Man, this just hits home. No agency just floating through life one scene to another. Life does feel like a hard cut sometimes. Where did all the time in between go?
Maybe you should look into "dissociation". We're not supposed to go through life like that.
It does tend to feel like that. One day you are doing what you do and then it all just sto
this is how i live my life
Free will is an illusion
I stole it.
“I help with box” is giving “You gave be cookie, I got you cookie” vibes
Jim would love The Movement from N4Y
This concept is good enough to be its own feature length movie, I'd die to ever get to see that
Just had the same thought
@@KLondike5 Nic Cage was so good at playing 2 versions of the director in that film.
@@KLondike5 Great suggestion, Adaptation is definitely one of my all time favorites. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Vanilla Sky (Abre los ojos) are also well worth watching if you enjoy similar concepts.
@@KLondike5 cool, I will check it out!
not high enough or sober enough to handle this one
10/10
This is like a deleted scene from Inception
There was nothing about arriving train, so have to disagree on that.
Inception is about dreams not sure this matches
And this is why you never ask people to explain the piñata joke
I love the existential breakdown that is this comment section
Hands down the most incredible skit I have ever seen across all media, well done!
Dang! This is a massive compliment 😳
1000% agreed!!!! It's the best!!!!!!
2:53 when someone asks you to talk about yourself and what your life goals and achievements are
I love "What do you mean interior? You mean inside??"
Rewatching this until the end of eternity, for Jim's sake
this is why I keep tabs on your vids, you always think of the funniest specific things like this that are just so on point and I can't trust anybody else to really get it like you do
"I'm jim.. I help with box, and I encourage" HAHAHA
Thanks for sticking around DeSinc! I remember you commenting when I had like 1,000 subscribers. Hope all is well!
@@Joel-Haver cute
Wholesome
Unironically one of the best videos on this website
This feels like Joel’s version of The Truman Show
“And then I said… That’s not a joke- IT’S A VENDING MACHINE!”
Hahahahahaha
Slowly gaining sentience in a never ending sketch comedy
Its like the futurama episode where they keep jumping through periods of time with no memory of the in between
The suspension of disbelief is broken when Trent is not in a video.