The Couple That Still Hangs Out at Your Hometown's Playground
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2020
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"Not cheap $35, like, I was going through some shit $35"
Fucking hell that's relatable.
His face and intonation at that moment, also the little laugh and the whole scene in general filled me with sadness. But a good kind of sadness, like when you watch a well directed movie.
When I heard him say that, I felt it so hard.
I didn't want to understand as much as I did.
Oof. Yeah I felt that.
fucking felt that but hey used it on weed, now im high
This is the bad kind of nostalgia where you realize how much worse things were
I would say that’s good nostalgia. It makes you appreciate how far you’ve come 😳
And how bad they could still be
Yeah.. I remember sitting with my then girlfriend on the swings after bombing my fifth job interview because I was just a super awkward kid. Now I'm 25, single and have a steady job and I look back on that time with bittersweet feelings. Shit sucked but we made do with what we had
ie almost all of my nostalgia
It's even better when you realise that, as bad as things were, they're even worse now.
This is like when you're playing on a multiplayer server that is completely empty apart from you and your childhood-friend that doesn't like you anymore
word
OOF this hit something deep and forgotten
Sounds like my japanese animes
And they probably never liked u in the first place. U just lived nearby.
Woahhh
Good job I forgot that was a feeling
Not everyone is a parent, but everyone is someone's child.
Accurate
Woah
are
All trucks are cars but not all cars are trucks
🤯 Reading that made me feel like Neo saying "I know Kung Fu."
How do you capture that self conscious awkwardness so well?
Literally doe
Well you see, um, first you . . . uh . . . yeah so that's about it.
That’s his secret, Cap. He’s always self conscious and awkward.
he uses camera device i think
Because they are actually that weird
I’ll give you this: you’re really good at recognizing and then portraying very specific archetypes of people
Needs to collaborate with PsychicPebbles, together they can break all our psyches.
Best comment. This is so true.
That's quite the gift. You give good giving. Relatively.
I'll give you this: you're right.
My question is only this: What is it that makes those archetypes so stupid? Why are they so stupid?
Can we all just appreciate the gorgeous camera shots and the seriously cinematic feeling? VERY well shot. Thanks
exactly what i was thinking
3:16 the composition is just lovely
I was thinking the same!
Literally all of his videos are like that
Ikr, it's finally not crap, unlike other impractical youtubers.
I actually feel like I'm watching a movie; a high quality, high rated Seth Rogen movie when I'm here lol. 🥂
It's weird how touching this is. You should make a movie like this, it screams "cult movie that every critic will love, only 20 years from now".
Thats way too real. Its one of those movies where you watch it and feel absolutely empty and somehow its like 100% on rotten tomatoes
Gummo
Superbad
I haven't watched it yet, but he does have a film on this channel called Pretend That You Love Me and judging by the comments section it's pretty close to what you're looking for
@@colelogelin omg that’s so accurate, because I know this is just a comedy sketch but this is kinda soul crushing, definitely accurate that it leaves you feeling empty but it was still a good experience
I loved the mood on this one so much. The light slowly fading away, the sound of the wind, the chirping of crickets. Really well shot!
I was the 1k like 👍 here
I was the 2k like 👍 here
@@wrarraven nope this is a lie let the record be aware.
How does everyone who shows up to cameo in these share the same awkward energy
I'm an incredibly awkward person myself and often times I feel like other people tend to just sorta pick up on it, making the whole conversation awkward.
@@machination2166 I feel you, but you should learn to enjoy the awk, embrace it
@@TickleMeSenpai I'm really awkward. How do you embrace it?
@@cocolover13579 it’s hard to describe, but it’s starts with not taking things so seriously. I mean, if you’re interacting with your boss, or authority figures, or just in a situation where you can inwardly tell you should be being serious, do that. HOWEVER, for the rest of this life, just try and relax. Use gestures and speech to your advantage (rubbing the back of your neck, snapping to emphasize a point, boisterous laughter). Idk I’m not sure this is good advice, but my main point would be to relax, understand when the stakes are low, don’t be afraid to admit your awkwardness, and remember that there’s really no such thing as “failure” in social interaction.
Good direction
I wish I could know the serious thing that she wanted to talk to him about.
She was probably about to break up with him.
@@MrAndor982 Haha probably
@@MrAndor982 and he probably knew that, I bet. That’s why he ran away. Running away from your problems. Would have been more effective if he had wheelies tho.
@@romanejerome168 Wheelies on playground mulch, good luck getting those sharp babies out of your wheels.
She's pregnant?
theres a deep and penetrating sadness that permeates this entire interaction. the light slowly fading away as this dude desperately clings to how it felt to be a kid in high school, while Faith is trying to move on, trying to remember why she liked this dude in the first place.
very well said :)
It reminds me of this friend I had named Hank. Growing up we were best buds, but he grew up faster than me and at some point he was just hanging out with me because his parents made him.
At some point we switched positions in life and I wound up making it, whereas he caught a felony charge in his mid-20s. He moved back to his childhood home in our old neighborhood, now run down and void of any familiar faces. His sister had moved on and gotten a good career, his dad died, and his mom was the only one left.
This is what his life has become, minus anyone from the past. It's super sad and this video depicted it very well.
@@jamesc.e.s.4551 thats me.....
@@olgagaming5544 what happened? I wanna hear this story.
@@jamesc.e.s.4551 well, i was always nerdy and stuff and hated my highschool, also living in the middle of the woods etc... and i went to university but I failed and I came back home on the beggining of this year.. rn i help my parents at the farm or smth but im not sure what to do lol, i thought its gonna to be epic but leaving my home to a b ig city was instant depression idk why
If Daniel is in your class you KNOW it's going to be good. Also this couple is very relatable and I can't stand them.
dude were u there the day daniel blew off a fart bag in the class it was so nasty
@@Joel-Haver CLASSIC Daniel bro (Insert frat bro laugh soundtrack)
Sup.
Haha, no.
Daniel gang gang
This is more unsettling than morrowind npcs
You mean Oblivion?
you probably meant oblivion, morrowind npc's were pretty basic
Morrowind npcs just stand around and be racist at you. Sometimes lock you into dialogue boxes.
@@not_sterling them walking. kinda looks like they are in a constant state of needing to shit while also never being able to actually relieve themselves. scary stuff.
Fly in the sky, cliff racer fly so hiiiiiiighhh...or something
It's like being an adult and still live in your boring hometown, too many past memories and the feeling that you don't belong to the place anymore .
That is poetic. That is exactly how it feels.
I was wondering if i'm the only one feeling that way.
And everyone else fucking left. You tty calling and keeping in touch, but it's super awkward because there's no common ground anymore. The days drag on and go by fast at the same time.
@@laurocoman oh my , it's true !
That's me right now, I just wanna leave this cursed town
They are both terrified, knowing that their lives need to move on but they have no idea how.
Edit: I was, too.
damn
can you not call me out like that?
Nice narration dude
God. This was exactly how I felt with my highschool ex. Don't know why. I can't explain it. I miss her, I miss the memories I had with her, but at the same I don't. Ending my relationship with her was both the best and the worst thing I did during my teen years
Gift0r any advice? Im actually lost with no idea how to move on (24 years btw)
Did I ever tell you the definition of a friend? It's the person who shares their I-was-going-through-some-shit-35-dollars with you.
READ THAT AS HE SAID IT AND SCARED MYSELF
@@tynesiastevens6520 you jumped! That’s so funny, I wish someone was recording because that would be a viral video
Hey time how fast it takes me to get to the next video
Came for the couple, stayed for the sound work.
Full of melancholy. He knows change is coming and feels scared.
This gave me a nostalgic feeling to something that i've never experienced
But you experienced it... on the INSIDE..
I got a lot of nostalgia from the park in the evening and at night in the mist
Liminal
you put my exact feelings into words, wow!
Sometimes I just want to take a picture or a video of a thing I see every single day and that thing has no special meaning to me at all. Like I almost dislike the thing because of how detached I am from it. Because sometimes I feel like it's something that even if I dont like it or dont care about it, I dont want to forget it. And that's what this video reminds me of. It's not like it's an experience that the next generation wont experience in their way. But it's so rooted in a specific time period, that it feels disingenuous to not keep a record of it. Like the 6 notes I kept from middleschool folded into an origami square.
I love that your Instagram page is just you taking a picture of yourself in the same spot with different friends eating spaghetti. I wish I had friends. And spaghetti.
You can have spaghetti
Friends are harder to find then spaghetti, but once you have one the other comes naturally
@@Joel-Haver are you going to make a time lapse video with them eventually?
SpaghettiMan is a movie I'd recommend to all of you. Thx for the laughs Joel, love the content.
@@Joel-Haver You mean that spaghetti attracts friends?
1:09 He cuts himself off with the "Are you listening?" 😂 I do not miss school at all lol
I still do that😂
This is supposed to be funny but it's so accurate that it's depressing. Especially the 'I wasn't being annoying' in the end 🥺
Maybe you need to stop being annoying
@@missk779 Don't talk to them that way. Only i can talk to them that way. know your place
I don't think it's supposed to be anything, it's art in the eyes of the beholder. Yes it can be satire, or it can mean whatever the watcher feels.
@@PippyPopsSelfHarmMonica oooh got me quaking in my boots.
@@missk779 Dont sass me Miss K
I feel the desperation and the fear of the unknown for the future in his portrayal of this young man. The feeling of this is as good as it gets. So he squashes the feeling with just keeping his head busy with idle chit chat and good memories of the recent past when he thought "I knew", to the slow acknowledgement of I don't know how I am going to make it. (The Midwest Abridged).
Being a highschool senior is such a painful thing.
This is so real it hurts
Stop Bob...STOP IT
exactly how I’m feeling at the moment
Oh God this was me!! still kinda is a bit but dang. I rant alot and am scared of silence , over explain myself, and am constantly afraid of what someone might actually be thinking...I'm just uh...working on it
I love how you didn't even need to find actors, you just had to follow a couple from high school around!
That's pretty hot, Garrit. Can I call you Garrit?
So how about it Garrit, can he/she?
Come on Garrit, he/she needs an answer.
Hey Garrit, are you still there? Come on don't be like that...
Dammit Garrit, is everything a game to you? When are you going to grow the hell up?
Directed by Wes Anderson.
Lmao
Not enough symmetry and flat wide angle shots.
Written and directed by Harmony Korine
No it was directed by Joel Haver. Why do people keep saying his stuff was made by other people? Very odd.
@@kayfrenly5460 i hope this is bait
Do Girls... tell you that an old woman needs your help, so you exit her car, then she drives off, and the old woman didn’t actually need your help?... Do Girls do that?
Do girls... see an underrated comment on a video, and not upvote it? Do girls do that?
@@frankbeans6084 😯
They do.
never heard of it but 🤷♂️
Yes they do it. Every monday.
"like I was goin through some shit $35" is a real dollar amount. I felt that.
My eyes glaze over when listening to them in the same way they do in real life encounters
Absolutely. It's so hard to pay attention to Joel in this one.
This somehow carries the exact same vibe as Napoleon Dynamite
in that it describes an "obscure" set of human awkwardness
obscure in quotes because im sure a ton of people are like this or have encountered it, however its a smaller niche so... yeah
Except it doesn’t, at all.
@@jnnx fr
@@jnnx an opinion on the internet!?
Better disagree with them or what personally do I even have?
Midwest humor is the inspiration for Napoleon dynamite, like Idaho small cities and towns. There’s a very particular experience that you grow up with there, it hard to explain completely what its like-videos like this are nice because sometimes they clarify your perspective really easily.
This is almost beautifully depressing somehow
I like your profile pic
Forgetting the term "son in law" was a good choice.
Used to hang out with a girl that I really really loved in a park similar to this. She couldn't love me and that was that. I still go to that park somtimes and sit on the bench.
Women are very ambitious but most of them are also lazy and entitled. So when they see their partner is not progresing (even tho they aren´t progressing neither) they look for something better (economic or status way) to not feel stuck. Funny thing they end up stuck with men they dislike, just for the status or economic progres
@@enmemoriamedia4957 Alls fair in love and war. It's essential to have your heart broken once or twice. Probably good for you. Taught me alot about communication, introspective thinking and how to conduct myself in relationships now.
@@enmemoriamedia4957 lol that's incredibly sexist and also untrue
@@lizzie31 bro got hurt
@@Must_Do_Better i agree, i got my hearth broke after a 6 year relationship. And what i learned is that. Women after a couple of years start to feel stuck if you progres too little. So they blame feeling stuck on you not progressing. Even tho they don´t do anything to progress themselves.
Because they know that as long as they are young they can progress by getting a sucessful guy just with a few months on social media or dating apps
This reminds me of things I've never experienced.
That's a blessing and a curse all rolled into one.
There's something really emotional about this. Like, if it were tweaked ever so slightly or maybe just had a sequel and prequel, it could be a great story about childhood friends who fall in love, but then fall apart. Like, the guy never really grew up and is still in love with her, but she begins to realize that she needs more maturity in her life.
This and “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” have the same uncomfortable energy
yep, and both made me nostalgic about things I've never experienced
Man that movie is built different. This is like normal stuff. That movie was both confusing and...sad
@@gabrielcross1062 It was! I swear I couldn’t stop re-watching, though, because if the feelings it gave me
@@ambientsentient not gonna lie my friends and I had to look it up because that ending scene really has us bent. After we looked up some answers from the writers about common questions we understood it and love it
@@gabrielcross1062 Nothing to be ashamed of! Curiously makes the film that much more intriguing😁
It is PAINFUL how relatable this is.
@@charleee666 and replace them with who?
@@charlesmiv3842 bees
@@jamesklark6562 k
@@charlesmiv3842 the best part is that you can make money off their honey
@@jamesklark6562 k
Those are some serious moves
IKR!!
"You can yell at mom all you want, but you yell at me and we're gonna have trouble."
Genius, this joke almost went right over my head.
That line was hilarious. It took me way too long to find a comment mentioning it.
I can't figure if he's clueless or he's afraid of to listen to her.
Because he's always changing subjects, trying to start as many conversations as possible, something so relatable and sad at the same time.
Great video ❤️
This has "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" vibes and it's sending me for a loop
The guy in that story was also rejected for being an open minded genius who understood the universe
This video was so unexpectedly relatable that it prompted my wife and I to have a real, introspective conversation about our goals for our kids’ futures and the road we’re paving for them.
Nowadays a kid needs more than 30 moves.
@@n2bfw884 yes, at least 50-69 moves. And that’s just to scrape by
the way she says "...no" after he asks if she thought the teacher was hot is just subtle enough to convey the fear and regret of admitting that out loud
This feels like the modern version of waiting for godot
Underrated comment.
This gives me bad nostalgia how is it so true
Now that's a reference
Unfortunately I can't like this twice, so here, have a comment
tfw waiting for godot 4.0
"Are you listening?"
*Continues*
You got the playground to yourself all day that is epic
The one next to my house is like that most days. However I only go there like once a month and for 5-10 minutes xD for the swings
It feels awkward being age inadequate for it.
"Can we talk?"
Literally runs away
This guy is smarter than he let's on
Why does this video carry an air of profound sadness with it
Feel like the backstory of this is interesting
The problems all started when her dad didn't buy him the Nascar gloves
@@spencechan what happened next??
My guess is that they're a couple from a small town that peaked in high school. They've been out of high school for years and they still cant move past "the good ol' days"
backstory is they never grew up and they're in silent drowning panic about it.
The answer seems to be weirdly depressing
Just imagine the human capable of completing that infinite climbing wall thing at 3:47
There's always one kid
i visited a park/playground i used to go to as a kid recently, they had removed all the steel climbing structures and so on that anyone could possibly fall off and hurt themselves.
Kids these days are wrapped up in cotton wool trying to prevent them from getting hurt, it just means they are unprepared for adulthood as they haven't learnt about limits and consequences.
@@asmosisyup2557 Adolescence keeps stretching more and more into adulthood
God damn the 2006 vibes
Joel's acting has gotten so good I almost thought that there's two actors.
"Can- can you tell... a little, little drippage?" Lmao
10/10, triggered my fight-or-flight response
This actually hits home. This is how I used to court my wife at 20, up to the "she drove away" part, but she came back because of a surprise kid. Now we are happily married with 2 kids, but when we look back at that time we are still like "wtf was that period in our life".
I wish you well on your journey of brain recovery
@@luckysours8397 hello and merry Christmas. Is this supposed to be a joke? Sorry, I didn’t get it :).
I guess it was the phase of thinking "do I settle for this pretty good thing I have or reject it in the hope that this can't be as good as it gets?"
surprise
@@juliapigworthy
That summary made me understand the video better
There needs to be a specific word for the feeling that this video captures so well
midwest
Bittersweet
i think it's a parody of mumblecore movies, which claim to be post-ironic. So Joel is post-post-ironic lol.
“Saudade - A deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one cares for and/or loves”
@@gerunkwon2598
Obscure dictionary to the rescue! 😁
"The hot one?"
"You're a slu--YES!"
I think he was gonna say "slow" but
I think he first said slow and quickly changed it to slu--YES!
I thought he was gonna say “You’re slow” or “You’re sluggish”.
“They don’t want open-minded geniuses who understand the universe”
I’m using that.
Netflix should be giving guys like Joel his own tv series. You know people would eat that shit up.
"No! I wasn't being annoying!" If my girlfriend just abandoned me when we were hanging out, my mom would absolutely accuse me of being annoying lmao
I didn't know I'd never heard a girl say drippage before I heard a girl say drippage just now.
Do girls do that? Drippage...?
You graduate from school, everyone's gone, and you don't know what's you're gonna do in life vibe
Jesus this makes me super sad and I'm not even sure why
same feeling, i cried a little, no idea why
The "we need to talk", and him changing the subject is just gut-wrenching to watch
Why does this video taste like Cherdley's, but spicier?
I felt that.
It feels like pumpkin spice cherdleys
@@wearenumberonebutimaperson darn i wish i thought of that
@@TKR117 thanks babe
Scrolled till I found a comment to point it out!
Those moves are so dangerous they should be illegal
This was legit me and my gf (now wife) when we were just out of high school. Too close to home.
But you haven't been annoying, apparently.
And you guys made it work out? Inspiring
@@stobie9063 well, for now.
He survived boys
The part where she hides her hand, without acknowledging that she's hearing him. So good. And when she responded to calling the teacher the hot one, without confirming that they were even talking about the same person. That whole scene. Great acting.
This is literally how my brain sees myself when job hunting. This was so miserable I couldnt bring myself to laugh at the great humor
When he said "not a cheap $35, but like an I was going through some shit $35" I felt that
I’m not joking here but at the end when he ran towards the car he went F A S T
“Why, I got drippage?”
And here I was thinking I was the only non-geriatric human on the planet who ever worried about that.
swish swish.... I can hear that sound in my dreams now.
Why is everything about that girl something I can recognize, yet I have no idea what specific person it is? I've never met this person, this girl who sits on picnic tables and looks at her phone with her massive keychain out. But I've seen her. I know her.
And I don't like her
Damn bro me too wtf
You’re onto something. I don’t think it’s anything to do with looking like a celebrity or something, I think she just seems incredibly familiar for no particular reason.
Aubrey Plaza
Between the ages of 17 and 19, I always carried 10 dollars with me for emergencies. It was the same 10 dollars, that I never spent, and I never owned anything more than that. I thought it was a lot of money at that time. These 10 "dollars" made me feel so safe (I'm not american, I just converted the amount to dollars). Until I got into my first relationship, and got a 10 dollar bracelet for the guy for his birthday. He didn't get me anything for my birthday, and didn't even call me that day. IT was the most painful day of my life (until then). I spent that 19th birthday by the river, alone, in agonising inner pain. This is the first time, I tell this story. I healed from it, let it go, and moved on. Lesson learned, don't ever put your value into a guy's hand.
Lesson 2: Keep like, I dunno, 20 dollars in your pocket so you have another if you spend one on a bracelet or something
The lesson is too narrow! The actual lesson should be: don't ever put your value into a person's hand. A person, not necessarily a male.
"Looks like I have one more ass to kick", knowing he won't fight anyone, is too realistic.
For the past week, this video has given me an existential crisis of my post-high school life, even though I graduated over a decade ago.
How little she participated in the conversation made me think she was sitting this one out.
And this was probably one of the last ones.
This hit home so fricking hard.
And now im kinda sad, melancholy and im feeling cringe about myself
It's ok. Now you know where you are at and see more clearly where you have been. It's hurts, a lot; it's ugly to see us in such a vulnerable and flawed light, but is important. It's important because only the we can build a better view of who we are and start to accept the fact they we are flawed, since we are human, and recognize it and start to work towards a healthy solution, since we are children of God, or have honest potential to become better humans; whichever you chose to believe.
It's hard, but it's worth it; and being moved by a reflection of yourself in a different life, a different light, is just the first step towards recognition and change. And I believe we can change to be good, and then great.
So yeah, have a nice day and life fellow human.
@@francescafrancesca3554 thank you for such beautiful words, man
"The only way to see the light is going through the darkness"
@@mmax0122 Thank you for your time. You are right. When a weakness becomes a learning opportunity and then a strength, I think we are all a step closer to something great.
This feels like 19-20. Yeah, like, just post-high school but pre-actual understanding about responsibility. Like “Huh, it’s already been more than a year since I graduated... when do I turn into an adult? Do I need to change my clothes? Maybe wear a collar and leather shoes? I still just wanna play video games...”
Depending on the economic state of the area/country this can extend well into 20's.
Amazing take, still feel that sometimes, being a 24 year old
Well.... Adults still play videogames even after finishing university, finding a job and making babies
I was thinking this was like 15/16. What 19/20 year old is this immature
@@BakedBeans0 American Millennials.
"That was like $35"
Like going up shit creek in a poo canoe 35
Not the cheap $35 either, man...
I know I'm a year late but that super awkward touch before jump scaring her is priceless at 3:47 followed by the immediate need for approval
This is... Heartbreaking. These characters don't even exist and I feel sorry for them. 😢 My day has been ruined.
@@saintnash1 It's absolutely fantastic.
"I was going through some shit $35" that had me fucking die.😂
I am so glad I stumbled upon this channel. Every vid is gold
The cinematics were breath taking. Seldom do million-dollar movies give me goosebumps but the scene at 3:46 just had a very relatable nostalgic essence to it and you captured it perfectly, well done.
“Not a cheap $35, like I was going through some shit $35” this hits home so hard
Sum 41 is correct answer, ur a catch on the playground
The quality of the videography and colour-grading tho like lowkey impressive
even when driving away at the end she's not going that fast. it's the complete indifference that's the most hurtful
High couple talks in playground for hours and records it.
time how fast it takes me to run to the light and back lmfao
u r killing it lately my man
I'm still wondering why she left him 🤣😂
He was too much of an open minded genius for her.
@Piter DeVries I’m just getting over this now nearly 2 years after lol can relate hard
This is the valuable feeling that drives almost every single one of us to move far away from our home towns as soon as we can. Thank god for this feeling.
These people are relatable in a way that makes you confront some of the worst parts of yourself.
This is like cherdleys with production value
I love the lack of eye-contact :D ..Found out this channel today and am already in love with it, especially the animations. Keep it up guys!
I wish this was a full length movie, the vibe is just *so* there.
is funny at start, cute in the middle part and some sad and confusing at the end. i miss my ex lmao
Same lol
Why is it cute?
@@StefanyDjuba they were playing
@@rymle John hmu please if you have a tumblr write down its name here
@@magicmysticman Uhh why
this could be me someday if i'm lucky