I prefer nuanced porn, with a girl who does not look like the typical pornstar and the scene feels organic and natural. My GF likes hardcore yaoi though, LOL.
I get the feeling. I listen to intellectual stuff while on the job too. I seem to absorb the subject matter better when my body is preoccupied with labor
noxabellus Look around online man. There are a shit load of trade companies willing to hire unskilled people. Ive learned a lot at my job and l started out not knowing how to even use a drill. Now lm helping trouble shoot and find ground faults
@Azo Zyten Yeah I got this Kind of problem too. It's kinda informative but sometimes he goes on about one smaller aspect of the meme but not communicating any point. But he seems to lead up to one only to not adress it. Also the bad side of his biases shine through sometimes like generalizing all of anime into that idea he presented. I mean in this Video with ahegao yeah the aspects he talks about ring true with them cartoony harem Animes but what about shows like cowboy bebop or Marvel Anime or Black Lagoon? How are those suppose to fit the mold? What actually bothers me more is the way he talks about the philosophy around a meme. Don't get me wrong I like interpretations but there is an underlying idea, like when he talks how the meme reflects tue state of affairs and he talks about a state that should be strifed for instead. He never really puts this in more coherent words sadly, I'm curious about his worldview at this point. But I'm also afraid of Memeanslysis' turn to more dogmatic sounding rhetoric, it's one thing to interpret a meme but its something else what you make of that and you could say a lot of things drive by own perspective; like becoming prescriptive, talking about the people and their circumstances behind a meme. And then forming conclusions around those people. From my experience with the videos I've watched his underlying view was: "We have lost our connections to our parents figure, we should enact the archetypal struggle to find our anima. The worlds cruelty is visible in our dramatic struggles while growing up. Nowadays we fail to go through hardships and struggle etc." At the end it's my personal mind and gut feeling speaking and frankly I am grasping for useful applications to my personal life. That's what we have philosophy for, it's supposed to help us forming our mindset, Moral compass and actions. That's why MA says that Memes matter. In any case I'm just at a loss here at how many I should and shouldnt take seriously and how valid the perspectives on some larger subjects are.
your speech is so delicate and measured. you have this feeling that you're restrained, and you are being as precise as you allow yourself to be. it is really captivating.
Watching this, I was struck by how it correlates with Baudrillard's conception of 'hyperreality'. We become so wrapped up in artificial creations and distortions (such as ahegao) that we begin to relate more to the creations than to what was concretely real in the first place. The next step would be the complete inability to determine what the original reality is...or in this case, viewing something like ahegao as 'real sexuality', indistinguishable from traditional sexuality. Food for thought, about what the future could hold.
...But what once was is not what "should be". Human condition is a transient thing, we are not "losing", we are "changing", which is not necessarily a negative thing.
Virtual reality technology is only getting better and more emersive. I wonder how soon it will be before people begin to go inside and never come back.
Not to mention that he didn't even put much effort into justifying his stupid claims. They are just passing remarks because it's ideological and he can't actually justify them. He's not based.
@@Metalbringer92 All of this is the cause of entertainment media Not a bad thing but what was once bad is noe becoming normal. The acceptance of many weird stuff is creating more degenerates and promoting this fake Personalities that sends a wrong message to the viewer thinking actual people act like that Id a big mistake especially for young people
It seems people always strive for the unachievable, which has pros like the advancement of society, though also has the cons of making us constantly discontent with what we have, and our lives in general. Sincerely, you seem to make actually insightful commentary based off of memes, looking at them as an expression of societal constructs and our ways of living, thinking, instead of being like, "haha funny image get it?" Keep up the good work!
This is a sexual stimulus which is taken to the extreme. It has boiled down the essentials of the emotion and amplified them. With that it is a caricature, but it also produces a bigger dopamine rush.
S41GON, my dude have you listened to MemeAnalysis? Infinitely more coherent and intelligent than a weeaboo. He has transcended his stereotyped appearance
Drawing a line to The Cave really clicked. Clever and strong use of the reference. I enjoy your channel what you say makes a lot of sense and I respect your dedication to philosophy. Glad I found this channel! Better late than never.
I agree with you when you say the simplicity is actually in the animes/hentai's. Real people are far more subtle, and we fantasise about the archetypes that are usually wholly predictable with a set of values visible upon meeting them. Keep up the analysis, its really interesting.
Loved the 'kernel' and 'image' descriptions. I do remember, as I do not read them anymore, philosophers being fond of mathematical terms. This was a superb analysis, as you said - "different" sexual meme, but excellent work nonetheless. You did seem a little bit nervous bringing up some... other terms, but one thing I did fancy was it almost seemed that you 'relaxed' when the respective meme showed up on the screen. Anyways, good job!
9:05 "...common critique of people who are weaboo really into anime is that they are autistic and in some ways I think Ahegao perfectly shows this." Oh the great Meme God, what destruction have you plunged us into?! Everyone hear the truth! If you dare wear the Ahegao face on your body, you are making a statement: "I AM A DEGENERATE AND I AM PROUD OF IT"
So, if I understand this correctly, people infatuated with ahegao become desensitized to natural human expressions. They do not utilize that portion of their social brain for other humans, but with the hentai. This is a flag to other people of this if they encounter someone wearing this in public. My first thought when I saw the shirts, is "oh this is different from what I am used to", "oh this personal thing that I would be ashamed to reveal is being worn by this person", "that person must be passionate about that, that means that they probably watch this all the time. That's too much information revealed to me. Why would they want us to know this?" That is why it turned into a socially awkward situation in my eyes.
Imo the line between reality and the digital world has blurred so much that it's one and the same. In 2020 and even more so in the future the real world out there will become optional. This of course creates a crop of socially inept individuals with warped ideas about the world but it doesn't matter because technology has ensured that their survival isn't endangered by that. Fantasies in the form of cartoons, films, books have existed for many years but it was just that - a fantasy. Nobody assumed that you were awkward if you wore a power rangers tshirt in the 90s. You still needed to be socially competent and aware of how the world works if you wanted live and survive. Now you can work remotely, shut yourself in, order stuff and food to your home, only have internet friends and live through interests like games, anime and whatnot.
Cas Perry honestly I just thought it was a cool shirt I mean I wouldn’t wear it on a date (maybe) or to work but if I’m going to school or the park or somewhere I don’t really have to worry about how I look ( fuck it? Fuck it)
People have a tendency to use fillers such as "um" because there is a pressure to speak quickly. We fear if we don't say anything, we may look foolish. In reality, a confident person does not feel this pressure. They take the moment to pause and formulate the thought fully before speaking. A step towards eliminating fillers is to realize speaking quickly does not make you look intelligent. It's okay to take pauses. Get comfortable with momentary silences, and your speech should become much more natural.
Public speaker here: the comments before me are correct, but that's the analysis. The most pragmatic way to get that out of your system is just practicing it :-) keep yappin' yappin', you get better at anything you practice ;}
You hit the nail on the head about girls trying to compete with 2D/fantasy girls. Even though they say they’re doing it for themselves, the truth is, they’re really not. They want to be the bird with the brightest and prettiest feathers.
I think it's also related to the fact that people who watch this stuff probably dont get much in the way of intense sexual experience in their real lives so they exaggerate the fantasy to try to fulfill what they're missing out on. Unfortunately the fantasy has made the reality seem unappealing due to how intensely attractive the fantasy has become after decades of iterating upon the formula. Also advances in graphics, particularly 3d. Imagine trying to have a waifu like tracer in the 80s. With the advent of vr, the fantasy only stands to grow stronger, and with how people tend to neglect their real life progression, the fantasy will only become more appealing. The man or woman who can generate real life scenarios that serve the same purpose as the fantasy will see the fantasy as abhorrent or at the very least unnecessary. I do not mean to pass judgement on others, I am basing all this on my personal life and consumption of pornography from a young age. Perhaps I would have been better off not doing so but it was always easier to watch porn than struggle against my poor social skills long enough to attract a girl.
"Perhaps I would have been better off not doing so but it was always easier to watch porn than struggle against my poor social skills long enough to attract a girl." Shit, man. That hits close to home.
@@GreatNess199X yeah its rough. I talked to a girl recently but my social skills are just so bad she quickly lost interest. I felt so nervous the whole time. The mind always does a cost benefit analysis between two options. Your mind will always steer you towards porn because it's much easier and less risky. The solution would be to make it so that you dont see porn as an option one way or another and then working on your social skills wouldn't seem so bad. Haven't been able to implement this myself but that is one way to go about it.
Meh, I've had the real thing quite a few times ... Juice ain't worth the squeeze for me personally. Fantasy is arguably better if sex and or relationships aren't a big priority or value to you personally.
@@cabinboy5282 yeah I think humans aren't capable of long term relationships unless they force themselves. I think everyone will have their own robot lovers in the future
@@geftep3399 bro but you really seem talkactive. i read seldom comments on youtube that are real comments. it felt like each comment of yours had a beginning and a soft end with a lot of stuff to add. you will get and learn about stuff the more you randomly talk. not the weird way but the relaxed type of talking. as soon as you see some signs of affection from a girl you can go deeper. but remember that silence weights much more than gold. no need to ask silly questions or overthink everything. but the best advice is to be yourself honestly. if you change yourself to much that person is gonna fall in love in another "person" and not "you". btw...if a girl cant keep herself bussy or needs your attention and every look, she is boring and it would become a drag a couple months later. only lying in bed and on her phone the whole day. but in the end everybody makes different experiences and the world is filled with all kinds of characters. its just that there is a distortion currently.
Best content on RUclips. I like to remember what Zizek said in a perverts guide to cinema when I have absurd sexual fantasies [sic] "A fantasy lived *touches face* becomes nightmare".
I dont find it arousing I just like how it's become a universal symbol for degeneracy and escapism, therefore I don the uniform, if anyone did that mid sex I'd check vitals and panic
Great explication. I think that the facial expression is bound to the gender-specific, fantastical idea that this state is what *all* women can be brought to. This is one reason why you hardly ever see the men in the relevant erotica emoting thusly (the other reasoning for this, I believe, stems from a homophobic fear of men passionately emoting and the requirement that the man always remain logical, or rational - “masculinely” in control of himself and the situation). The “ridiculousness” of the ahegao is the “ridiculousness” of women who are understood by the male target audience to be, ultimately, hysterical creatures ruled by their sexuality. In some ways it’s not so different from the conclusive smut trope wherein the woman realizes what she “truly” is and “falls into sin” (while, again, the man remains separate from this; he is at once already sinful and neutral, and so is immune to moral degradation). The ahegao therefore appeals to what you noted: the anxiety of men who want to fantasize about all women as universally sexually controllable objects in the face of the Mysterious Female Orgasm.
It's for reasons like this that I hate porn. Look what it's doing to people. It's getting people attracted to unattainable fantasies rather than actual people and bring them down.
The only male ahegaos I've ever seen have been in yaoi, which, as a genre, often has very regressive ideas about gender roles and typically has very little different from straight hentai when it comes to the smut-focused works. Even the artistic rendering of the couple reflects this in the way that one partner is usually drawn smaller, with more delicate and rounder features. However, unlike hentai, yaoi is catered to straight women, not men.
I'd postulate slightly differently about how men are represented in more distorted h-doujins -- specifically, the two notable features, the "fat bastard" and the faceless man. Both of these point towards an objectification of the male, albeit for different reasons. The fat bastard exists for the purpose of layering further degradation on the female subject of the doujin; he's not meant to act as a legitimate sexual partner or even a stand-in for the male viewer, but rather as a tool to further emphasize and exaggerate the degree to which the woman is being dehumanized in turn by the sex acts. The faceless man does the same thing to a lesser degree, but more importantly is meant to distance male participants from even the slightest veneer of humanity. They might as well be automata, because they express no emotion and rarely speak beyond whatever rote dialogue is necessary for any kinks present in the work. They aide in the concentration of focus on the female as much as framing which excludes as much of the male anatomy as possible from the frame. From the perspective of a large portion of h-doujins the ideal male is a disembodied penis, a living dildo. You can see the contrast when you draw comparisons to vanilla h-doujins. They not only make no use of these two archetypes, they also tend towards simpler and more realistic expressions, a larger volume of dialogue, less extreme physical contortions, and perhaps most notably a much lower ratio of sexually explicit panels to overall length. It's like the difference between a porno and a romance film. Perhaps the most damning evidence for this is how the patterns repeat exactly in trap, tomgirl, and MtF h-doujins. The primary sexual object in all cases is or was male, but the various expressions of the form remain functionally unchanged. I use this for an example rather than yaoi because the former are typically aimed at men of some description while the latter tends to be aimed at women (in much the same way that "lesbian" porn is mostly aimed at men). That renders the line of argument that this the objectification and distancing of the male is rooted in homophobic fear questionable at best (indeed, the closest equivalent expression you see in live porn is disgust over camera angles focusing on the male; there's a notable lack of this around h-doujins with similar framing). While I certainly agree in part (or that for some artists and readers) the absurd exaggeration of the female is a fantasy of control and domination, I suspect that for others it is one of self-worth. The implication of ahegao and related expression is unmistakable sexual gratification on the part of a woman. Modern sexuality, particularly for generations born from the ~80s on, has had a stark awareness of the female orgasm -- men are *aware* of female sexual pleasure on a much broader scale, and even if they lack the empathy necessary to care about bringing a partner to orgasm, they often base their *own* self-worth on the ability to do so. Ahegao removes all ambiguity for both -- in the fantasy a man doesn't need to be concerned about whether he has satisfied his partner, whether for the sake of her pleasure or his ego. *That*, I would argue, is why there has been this extreme distillation of erotica targeted at men down to a near-total removal of the male component and simplification of the female component to a single exaggerated expression: because what most men desire is affirmation of their own sexual ability.
I've never really understood hentai. Even pron is of vague interest at best. Then again. I'm a very odd potato. There's many things I don't follow or understand.
Thank you very much for this analysis. I'm starting to open my eyes to how my media consumption has skewed my perspective on what form of feminine beauty I admire which is probably based on an unrealistic ideal. Time to come back to reality. FYI Azula was my waifu.
Sexual revolution is okay. The real problem is that in reality, in our world/society, sex is still in a cage, a different cage, but still a cage. Sex, in all the good things it represents and the value it has in creating a special communication and connection with another human being, has become another product being sold to our consumistic behaviour.
I was talking about something different. Sex as an act, since it is a natural act,is free. But sex in society had always to play the part of the prisoner. Or the slave. We in the 2020 have still difficulty in talking about fetishes in an openly manner for example. Being sexual is, at the same time, a value and a sin. It is one of the great contradiction of modern times. You have the right to dress sexually, you are supposed to do so in contrast to the "old, pudic times", but you end up being objectified, you are still considered a threat to decency. And it became worst in media representations: a character designer nowadays can be attacked on the net because the character he/she drew is dressed scantily. Porn is the worst sex teacher one could have, but boys and girls still can only count on it. And it is a mess because porn should remain fiction, not a good representation of the sexual act. No one wants to take the burden to speak and teach about sex: is a world way bigger than inserting a penis in a vagina. Taboos, prejudices and the like kill sex, transforming it in just a mean to make money at the right time.
The true meaning of sex in this day of age is now somewhat lost. Sex was supposed to be something you do to someone you are truly in love with or truly intimate. Yes it gives us pleasure, and I think anyone person would want to feel pleasure rather than to feel discomfort. But it is supposed to be second when you want to have sex with someone. Love should always comes first, not because you want to treat someone as a sexual object just to release your own personal desire. But in the advent of modern technology and the easy access of porn in the internet, we are now desensitized to it.
Held my heart throughout the video waiting for it to become pseudo-intellectual reactionary bs, it never came. Excellent points about the sexual revolution never have provided a true freedom other than yet another space of commodification. I feel like this opaqueness results in a deeper sense of oppression because it's not easy to rebel against something when you have no idea it exists. If the church says you can't fuck that's actually kind of sexy. If you can't fuck but you're surrounded by porn and everyone seems to be obsessed with sex, that can get rather confusing. I will be watching more of your videos, thanks for sharing your thoughts good sir. Maybe there will come a time when I'm less afraid all my old peers from 4chan have become nazis (one can dream) :D
holy shit there's some quality memes in this video I don't know if they're just so good or if it's the contrast between the hilariousness and your serious and down to the point attitude, but I don't remember laughing out loud this much recently
This is the content I force myself to watch, far too often I take my attitude of not caring too far needing true reality checks to take me out of the holes I create helping me reorganize the isolation I create for myself even when I have constant connection with others
I can personally see the use of the ahegao shirt as a signifier that one views themselves as being above the shallow judgements of their peers by intentionally provoking those judgements. That said, this use probably has a massive overlap in the Venn diagram with ‘sweaty awkward weeaboos’
you put into words things we naturally feel in the back of our collectrive heads - it's such a noticeable overexageration that ir circles back around and becomes the reality based on standards based in fiction and back around and omfg my BRAIN
The Ahegaolian dialectic... Joking aside, do you have a patreon we can donate to? I'd like to be able to show my support and More than Just words and throw you some shekels my dude 👍
I think the first five seconds of this video scarred me for life. I missed the 30 seconds ago when I still haven't seen that imagery. I feel scarred, its gonna be in my head forever. Screw you youtube for showing me something like this.
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Im sorry, but you keep mispronouncing the word. Please look up how to pronounce it correctly.
I prefer nuanced porn, with a girl who does not look like the typical pornstar and the scene feels organic and natural. My GF likes hardcore yaoi though, LOL.
That should be a meme dude: "Bro should I try to have sex with that cutie af over there"? "We have titties at home" titties at home. It's porn.
I have never seen someone so intelligent speak of such a "dumb" subject and somehow make it extremely in-depth and educational.
it's only dumb if you want it to be
@@transsexual_computer_faery ehh... Naw. Naw, it's dumb.
@@TheJanitorIsIn so you've made your choice then, David 🎂
@@transsexual_computer_faery I choose to strengthen the already very thin tether to sanity, Everytime.
@@TheJanitorIsIn Dumbity?
Post-nut clairity is a weirdly real thing.
more like chronic masturbation
Theophrastus Bombastus It does bring one to the enlightenment of reality.
No life.
@@James-bl5gr thx homie.
I thought people were pulling my leg about this. There are also a lot of men who cry after sex.
“What does the pornography we view say about us”
God I feel disgusting
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:(
@Bruno Mieter Images of...the true love tag
I know, I'm a sicko
Damn
Calamari
That i need to get better at drawing to keep up with the competition.
I am listening to this while on a construction site pulling wire through a filthy cieling. I am sweaty and dirty. Life truly is an absurd nightmare
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Thank you keus
I get the feeling. I listen to intellectual stuff while on the job too. I seem to absorb the subject matter better when my body is preoccupied with labor
Are you hiring
noxabellus Look around online man. There are a shit load of trade companies willing to hire unskilled people. Ive learned a lot at my job and l started out not knowing how to even use a drill. Now lm helping trouble shoot and find ground faults
Look at the action figures on the bottom left
Classy 👌
Thanks
+1
it needs an analysis video of it's own
Da teacher is a coomer okno
In your livestream you said something about helping people through meme analysis. Your videos have definitely been helping me in my life.
@Azo Zyten Yeah I got this Kind of problem too. It's kinda informative but sometimes he goes on about one smaller aspect of the meme but not communicating any point. But he seems to lead up to one only to not adress it.
Also the bad side of his biases shine through sometimes like generalizing all of anime into that idea he presented. I mean in this Video with ahegao yeah the aspects he talks about ring true with them cartoony harem Animes but what about shows like cowboy bebop or Marvel Anime or Black Lagoon? How are those suppose to fit the mold?
What actually bothers me more is the way he talks about the philosophy around a meme. Don't get me wrong I like interpretations but there is an underlying idea, like when he talks how the meme reflects tue state of affairs and he talks about a state that should be strifed for instead. He never really puts this in more coherent words sadly, I'm curious about his worldview at this point. But I'm also afraid of Memeanslysis' turn to more dogmatic sounding rhetoric, it's one thing to interpret a meme but its something else what you make of that and you could say a lot of things drive by own perspective; like becoming prescriptive, talking about the people and their circumstances behind a meme. And then forming conclusions around those people. From my experience with the videos I've watched his underlying view was: "We have lost our connections to our parents figure, we should enact the archetypal struggle to find our anima. The worlds cruelty is visible in our dramatic struggles while growing up. Nowadays we fail to go through hardships and struggle etc."
At the end it's my personal mind and gut feeling speaking and frankly I am grasping for useful applications to my personal life. That's what we have philosophy for, it's supposed to help us forming our mindset, Moral compass and actions. That's why MA says that Memes matter.
In any case I'm just at a loss here at how many I should and shouldnt take seriously and how valid the perspectives on some larger subjects are.
"signifiers of Inhuman expression" is now the name of my technical death metal band
"My drummer can hit the floor tom, snare, ride and crash cymbal and the kick at the same time"
Sounds like it could've been an album by Death like 'Individual Thought Patterns' hahahaha!
@@brandontadday6288 It really does.
your speech is so delicate and measured. you have this feeling that you're restrained, and you are being as precise as you allow yourself to be. it is really captivating.
His speech reminds me of Data from TNG
Watching this, I was struck by how it correlates with Baudrillard's conception of 'hyperreality'. We become so wrapped up in artificial creations and distortions (such as ahegao) that we begin to relate more to the creations than to what was concretely real in the first place. The next step would be the complete inability to determine what the original reality is...or in this case, viewing something like ahegao as 'real sexuality', indistinguishable from traditional sexuality. Food for thought, about what the future could hold.
...But what once was is not what "should be". Human condition is a transient thing, we are not "losing", we are "changing", which is not necessarily a negative thing.
@@Sulq We have a problem the moment someone drops "this is not what humanity should be, we changed too much we must aspire to become [X] again"
Virtual reality technology is only getting better and more emersive. I wonder how soon it will be before people begin to go inside and never come back.
“The idea that women are subhuman”
*shows roast beef*
That absolutely cracked me up
He's covering his tracks but also leaves hints that let us know that he's based.
@@air6448 I laughed so hard to this
@@air6448 Someone truly based would not go out of his way to talk about "incel misogyny" and whatever other bs he mentioned.
Not to mention that he didn't even put much effort into justifying his stupid claims. They are just passing remarks because it's ideological and he can't actually justify them. He's not based.
Otaku: *ahegao*
Philosophy PhD: step aside kid...
Its a Stone Luigi!
While the topic is silly, I genuinely believe this discussion is important
life is silly yet most of us think it's important
It is. Younger generations are literally closing themselves in a world of fantasies, and I don't blame them.
@@Metalbringer92
All of this is the cause of entertainment media
Not a bad thing but what was once bad is noe becoming normal.
The acceptance of many weird stuff is creating more degenerates and promoting this fake Personalities that sends a wrong message to the viewer thinking actual people act like that Id a big mistake especially for young people
*sees video
"Ooh, ahegao"
*sees first 10 seconds
"Ew, ahegao"
>*sees first 10 seconds
I know this is really autistic, but given your name, is that a JoJo reference?
"Anime was a mistake" - Obama Goldstein
Obama Care
@@fauux3872 does he really?
"Japan was a mistake"
@@podente2 Nahhhh. He's probably just Netflix and Chilling with his waifu body pillows.
Locust are superior
The male version of it is the dudes face just going limp like a stroke
Unless I'm wearing a gag and blindfold
@@totallynoteverything1. kinky bastard
@@echothewanderer112 I like vanilla too though
tf u talkin bout
@@negomires2745 ya know when you bust an exceptionally good nut and you just 😫😴🤤
It seems people always strive for the unachievable, which has pros like the advancement of society, though also has the cons of making us constantly discontent with what we have, and our lives in general. Sincerely, you seem to make actually insightful commentary based off of memes, looking at them as an expression of societal constructs and our ways of living, thinking, instead of being like, "haha funny image get it?" Keep up the good work!
Did I just see an 18 minute long documentary about hentai??
_nice_
@@nomad639 moon
no, it was about memes.
*watch
you don't see a video
@@111paolo2 maybe, maybe
Lol I guess I just did too
Ahegao Elon Musk is something that is now firmly imprinted in my mind forever, only his Neuralink can save me. I
What if Neuralink downloads Elon Musk ahegao nonstop 🤔
This guy must’ve been going through the most surreal post but clarity before making this video
Lmao
the proximity of the 'n' key and the 'b' key on a standard qwerty keyboard created a beautiful thing
I always wanted to see a chunky john wick with a huge pentagon on his desk talking about hentai
Pentagram?
Legit
This is a sexual stimulus which is taken to the extreme. It has boiled down the essentials of the emotion and amplified them. With that it is a caricature, but it also produces a bigger dopamine rush.
How long until MemeAnalysis is a meme and ends up discussing himself?
He's already a meme, just look at him - the neckbeard; he's mylady personified, he just needs the fedora and the katana.
S41GON Is this a bad thing or a good thing?
S41GON, my dude have you listened to MemeAnalysis? Infinitely more coherent and intelligent than a weeaboo. He has transcended his stereotyped appearance
@@sassypuddin8226its a joke, he looks way better now
Happy i found this channel, no one wants to talk about the dark side of memes.
Drawing a line to The Cave really clicked. Clever and strong use of the reference. I enjoy your channel what you say makes a lot of sense and I respect your dedication to philosophy. Glad I found this channel! Better late than never.
I agree with you when you say the simplicity is actually in the animes/hentai's. Real people are far more subtle, and we fantasise about the archetypes that are usually wholly predictable with a set of values visible upon meeting them. Keep up the analysis, its really interesting.
Loved the 'kernel' and 'image' descriptions. I do remember, as I do not read them anymore, philosophers being fond of mathematical terms. This was a superb analysis, as you said - "different" sexual meme, but excellent work nonetheless. You did seem a little bit nervous bringing up some... other terms, but one thing I did fancy was it almost seemed that you 'relaxed' when the respective meme showed up on the screen. Anyways, good job!
9:05 "...common critique of people who are weaboo really into anime is that they are autistic and in some ways I think Ahegao perfectly shows this."
Oh the great Meme God, what destruction have you plunged us into?! Everyone hear the truth! If you dare wear the Ahegao face on your body, you are making a statement: "I AM A DEGENERATE AND I AM PROUD OF IT"
Yeah Sam, you can’t socialize cuz of ur ahegao shirt
bruh you made me realize so much, it's even scary that it makes sense now
So, if I understand this correctly, people infatuated with ahegao become desensitized to natural human expressions. They do not utilize that portion of their social brain for other humans, but with the hentai. This is a flag to other people of this if they encounter someone wearing this in public.
My first thought when I saw the shirts, is "oh this is different from what I am used to", "oh this personal thing that I would be ashamed to reveal is being worn by this person", "that person must be passionate about that, that means that they probably watch this all the time. That's too much information revealed to me. Why would they want us to know this?" That is why it turned into a socially awkward situation in my eyes.
Imo the line between reality and the digital world has blurred so much that it's one and the same. In 2020 and even more so in the future the real world out there will become optional. This of course creates a crop of socially inept individuals with warped ideas about the world but it doesn't matter because technology has ensured that their survival isn't endangered by that. Fantasies in the form of cartoons, films, books have existed for many years but it was just that - a fantasy. Nobody assumed that you were awkward if you wore a power rangers tshirt in the 90s. You still needed to be socially competent and aware of how the world works if you wanted live and survive. Now you can work remotely, shut yourself in, order stuff and food to your home, only have internet friends and live through interests like games, anime and whatnot.
Cas Perry honestly I just thought it was a cool shirt I mean I wouldn’t wear it on a date (maybe) or to work but if I’m going to school or the park or somewhere I don’t really have to worry about how I look ( fuck it? Fuck it)
I was thinking about putting it all over a vehicle as a final farewell to any notion of dating.
John Smith lol if you do may I recommend naming it the pussy wagon or the lewd mobile
@@churrbumlion Lewd mobile would be best since it should not be implied that there is any pussy on it.
Honest question, how did you manage to banish "Uh" and "Um" from your speech? I am frankly extremely impressed.
People have a tendency to use fillers such as "um" because there is a pressure to speak quickly. We fear if we don't say anything, we may look foolish. In reality, a confident person does not feel this pressure. They take the moment to pause and formulate the thought fully before speaking.
A step towards eliminating fillers is to realize speaking quickly does not make you look intelligent. It's okay to take pauses. Get comfortable with momentary silences, and your speech should become much more natural.
I never do it when I have a script or know exactly what Im gonna say (and have practiced it).
He takes pauses instead of filling the pause with uh or um!
Public speaker here: the comments before me are correct, but that's the analysis. The most pragmatic way to get that out of your system is just practicing it :-) keep yappin' yappin', you get better at anything you practice ;}
He didnt banish it from his speech. You can hear him say “um” at 0:43
This man gives me feelings I didn’t know existed
Your self-awareness is refreshing and I love the way your speak- kinda reminds me of bob ross lol
6:41 What you see:what she sees is so full of self loathing.
This is my new favorite youtube channel
You hit the nail on the head about girls trying to compete with 2D/fantasy girls. Even though they say they’re doing it for themselves, the truth is, they’re really not. They want to be the bird with the brightest and prettiest feathers.
I think it's also related to the fact that people who watch this stuff probably dont get much in the way of intense sexual experience in their real lives so they exaggerate the fantasy to try to fulfill what they're missing out on. Unfortunately the fantasy has made the reality seem unappealing due to how intensely attractive the fantasy has become after decades of iterating upon the formula. Also advances in graphics, particularly 3d. Imagine trying to have a waifu like tracer in the 80s. With the advent of vr, the fantasy only stands to grow stronger, and with how people tend to neglect their real life progression, the fantasy will only become more appealing. The man or woman who can generate real life scenarios that serve the same purpose as the fantasy will see the fantasy as abhorrent or at the very least unnecessary. I do not mean to pass judgement on others, I am basing all this on my personal life and consumption of pornography from a young age. Perhaps I would have been better off not doing so but it was always easier to watch porn than struggle against my poor social skills long enough to attract a girl.
"Perhaps I would have been better off not doing so but it was always easier to watch porn than struggle against my poor social skills long enough to attract a girl."
Shit, man. That hits close to home.
@@GreatNess199X yeah its rough. I talked to a girl recently but my social skills are just so bad she quickly lost interest. I felt so nervous the whole time. The mind always does a cost benefit analysis between two options. Your mind will always steer you towards porn because it's much easier and less risky. The solution would be to make it so that you dont see porn as an option one way or another and then working on your social skills wouldn't seem so bad. Haven't been able to implement this myself but that is one way to go about it.
Meh, I've had the real thing quite a few times ... Juice ain't worth the squeeze for me personally.
Fantasy is arguably better if sex and or relationships aren't a big priority or value to you personally.
@@cabinboy5282 yeah I think humans aren't capable of long term relationships unless they force themselves. I think everyone will have their own robot lovers in the future
@@geftep3399 bro but you really seem talkactive. i read seldom comments on youtube that are real comments. it felt like each comment of yours had a beginning and a soft end with a lot of stuff to add. you will get and learn about stuff the more you randomly talk. not the weird way but the relaxed type of talking. as soon as you see some signs of affection from a girl you can go deeper. but remember that silence weights much more than gold. no need to ask silly questions or overthink everything. but the best advice is to be yourself honestly. if you change yourself to much that person is gonna fall in love in another "person" and not "you". btw...if a girl cant keep herself bussy or needs your attention and every look, she is boring and it would become a drag a couple months later. only lying in bed and on her phone the whole day.
but in the end everybody makes different experiences and the world is filled with all kinds of characters. its just that there is a distortion currently.
6:08 He literally has a cumbrain.
No no that is something much worse than a cumbrain.
D E G E N E R A G T G A N G R I S E
You're pfp makes your comment so much better
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No.
I've just been taught by a neck beard and actually didn't care. Genuinely good video! Keep it up!
This man transcends the neckbeard. He is a god
He is shaven in the neck btw
Every one is talking about how their crush dosen’t know they exist.
My crush dosen’t even exist 😔
It's powerful what a combo of intelligence and honest insight can give us.
this is the exact type of guy I want to explain hentai to me
Best content on RUclips.
I like to remember what Zizek said in a perverts guide to cinema when I have absurd sexual fantasies [sic] "A fantasy lived *touches face* becomes nightmare".
That brain meme with Anime > Manga > Hentai had no right making me laugh that much
Thank you for explaining this, I'm only 33 but sometimes I am so lost in "contemporary culture" I might as well be a time traveler from 1933...
29 here, and I with ya. Join the club grandpa.👴♿
Damn man, I wish I had your ability to analyse these things and understand the mechanisms at play.
I really need to start reading more.
I just imagine this guy in the 1800's being like a farmer just breaking down the "memes" then.
I love how like 30% of ahegao faces are from traps, and how i recognize every single one of them
souce? For reaserch purpouse of course
Are you cooming son?
Are you cooming soon?
Oof. At least you're living in the right time.
Wat
6:15 wtf why do I relate to this so much
I really enjoy your videos and analyses. Please keep making contents. Your words are really enlightening and educational.
Personally I don't like ahegao, I like the "her looking into your eyes, lips slightly puckered as if telepathically kissing you"
I dont find it arousing I just like how it's become a universal symbol for degeneracy and escapism, therefore I don the uniform, if anyone did that mid sex I'd check vitals and panic
@@joonerboi if I get a girlfriend (real one) and she ahegao's, I'm gonna pull out, and jump out of the window
Im neutral about it
Idk how i stumbled upon your channel , but i binged so many of your videos and i just love your takes!
thank you for making so much great content
Great explication. I think that the facial expression is bound to the gender-specific, fantastical idea that this state is what *all* women can be brought to. This is one reason why you hardly ever see the men in the relevant erotica emoting thusly (the other reasoning for this, I believe, stems from a homophobic fear of men passionately emoting and the requirement that the man always remain logical, or rational - “masculinely” in control of himself and the situation). The “ridiculousness” of the ahegao is the “ridiculousness” of women who are understood by the male target audience to be, ultimately, hysterical creatures ruled by their sexuality. In some ways it’s not so different from the conclusive smut trope wherein the woman realizes what she “truly” is and “falls into sin” (while, again, the man remains separate from this; he is at once already sinful and neutral, and so is immune to moral degradation). The ahegao therefore appeals to what you noted: the anxiety of men who want to fantasize about all women as universally sexually controllable objects in the face of the Mysterious Female Orgasm.
It's for reasons like this that I hate porn. Look what it's doing to people. It's getting people attracted to unattainable fantasies rather than actual people and bring them down.
The only male ahegaos I've ever seen have been in yaoi, which, as a genre, often has very regressive ideas about gender roles and typically has very little different from straight hentai when it comes to the smut-focused works. Even the artistic rendering of the couple reflects this in the way that one partner is usually drawn smaller, with more delicate and rounder features. However, unlike hentai, yaoi is catered to straight women, not men.
Imagine using the term "homophobic" unironically lmao.
Nice try, George Weinberg.
I'd postulate slightly differently about how men are represented in more distorted h-doujins -- specifically, the two notable features, the "fat bastard" and the faceless man. Both of these point towards an objectification of the male, albeit for different reasons. The fat bastard exists for the purpose of layering further degradation on the female subject of the doujin; he's not meant to act as a legitimate sexual partner or even a stand-in for the male viewer, but rather as a tool to further emphasize and exaggerate the degree to which the woman is being dehumanized in turn by the sex acts.
The faceless man does the same thing to a lesser degree, but more importantly is meant to distance male participants from even the slightest veneer of humanity. They might as well be automata, because they express no emotion and rarely speak beyond whatever rote dialogue is necessary for any kinks present in the work. They aide in the concentration of focus on the female as much as framing which excludes as much of the male anatomy as possible from the frame. From the perspective of a large portion of h-doujins the ideal male is a disembodied penis, a living dildo.
You can see the contrast when you draw comparisons to vanilla h-doujins. They not only make no use of these two archetypes, they also tend towards simpler and more realistic expressions, a larger volume of dialogue, less extreme physical contortions, and perhaps most notably a much lower ratio of sexually explicit panels to overall length. It's like the difference between a porno and a romance film.
Perhaps the most damning evidence for this is how the patterns repeat exactly in trap, tomgirl, and MtF h-doujins. The primary sexual object in all cases is or was male, but the various expressions of the form remain functionally unchanged. I use this for an example rather than yaoi because the former are typically aimed at men of some description while the latter tends to be aimed at women (in much the same way that "lesbian" porn is mostly aimed at men). That renders the line of argument that this the objectification and distancing of the male is rooted in homophobic fear questionable at best (indeed, the closest equivalent expression you see in live porn is disgust over camera angles focusing on the male; there's a notable lack of this around h-doujins with similar framing).
While I certainly agree in part (or that for some artists and readers) the absurd exaggeration of the female is a fantasy of control and domination, I suspect that for others it is one of self-worth. The implication of ahegao and related expression is unmistakable sexual gratification on the part of a woman. Modern sexuality, particularly for generations born from the ~80s on, has had a stark awareness of the female orgasm -- men are *aware* of female sexual pleasure on a much broader scale, and even if they lack the empathy necessary to care about bringing a partner to orgasm, they often base their *own* self-worth on the ability to do so. Ahegao removes all ambiguity for both -- in the fantasy a man doesn't need to be concerned about whether he has satisfied his partner, whether for the sake of her pleasure or his ego.
*That*, I would argue, is why there has been this extreme distillation of erotica targeted at men down to a near-total removal of the male component and simplification of the female component to a single exaggerated expression: because what most men desire is affirmation of their own sexual ability.
@@ikillstupidcomments I love your explanation, I wish this would be more talked about rather than been overlooked as a "taboo" subject.
I can only think of how doomed the future is. If I ever have a child, I will make sure he or she never gets to watch sh*t like this.
I've never really understood hentai. Even pron is of vague interest at best. Then again. I'm a very odd potato. There's many things I don't follow or understand.
The beginning of this video is going to give me nightmares for years to come.
I thought that the whole point of the ahego-shirt was to piss everyone off...
Same. I thought it was a troll manuever that signified that you wanted to be left alone.
8:56 Kojima really fell through
Thank you very much for this analysis. I'm starting to open my eyes to how my media consumption has skewed my perspective on what form of feminine beauty I admire which is probably based on an unrealistic ideal. Time to come back to reality. FYI Azula was my waifu.
@@alessia9328 You know what? Just for that comment Azula is my waifu now, back off Jonathan she's mine now.
@@MK_ULTRA420 sorry but the panzer 4 from panzermadels is my waifu
I love your anthropology lessons. It serves as PSA and aids me in my odyssey through life. Keep up the good work, homie.
all his content fucking lead to incest and surrealism
why did this video seem like a guilty pleasure?
The 👁👅👁 at the start gave off different feelings.
Dude, did you max out your INT lvl attribute? Great analysis.
Int and Str
@@blackpillfitness9136 did this in ds3 with moonlight gw and oracle stuff. Amazing plays
Didn't the pornofication of society and the sexual revolution made things worse.
Sexual revolution is okay.
The real problem is that in reality, in our world/society, sex is still in a cage, a different cage, but still a cage.
Sex, in all the good things it represents and the value it has in creating a special communication and connection with another human being, has become another product being sold to our consumistic behaviour.
I was talking about something different. Sex as an act, since it is a natural act,is free.
But sex in society had always to play the part of the prisoner. Or the slave.
We in the 2020 have still difficulty in talking about fetishes in an openly manner for example.
Being sexual is, at the same time, a value and a sin. It is one of the great contradiction of modern times. You have the right to dress sexually, you are supposed to do so in contrast to the "old, pudic times", but you end up being objectified, you are still considered a threat to decency.
And it became worst in media representations: a character designer nowadays can be attacked on the net because the character he/she drew is dressed scantily.
Porn is the worst sex teacher one could have, but boys and girls still can only count on it. And it is a mess because porn should remain fiction, not a good representation of the sexual act. No one wants to take the burden to speak and teach about sex: is a world way bigger than inserting a penis in a vagina. Taboos, prejudices and the like kill sex, transforming it in just a mean to make money at the right time.
The true meaning of sex in this day of age is now somewhat lost. Sex was supposed to be something you do to someone you are truly in love with or truly intimate. Yes it gives us pleasure, and I think anyone person would want to feel pleasure rather than to feel discomfort. But it is supposed to be second when you want to have sex with someone. Love should always comes first, not because you want to treat someone as a sexual object just to release your own personal desire. But in the advent of modern technology and the easy access of porn in the internet, we are now desensitized to it.
I Remain christian as i need to
I feel like ive heard the same thing from the documentary 'manufacturing consent'
Held my heart throughout the video waiting for it to become pseudo-intellectual reactionary bs, it never came.
Excellent points about the sexual revolution never have provided a true freedom other than yet another space of commodification. I feel like this opaqueness results in a deeper sense of oppression because it's not easy to rebel against something when you have no idea it exists. If the church says you can't fuck that's actually kind of sexy. If you can't fuck but you're surrounded by porn and everyone seems to be obsessed with sex, that can get rather confusing.
I will be watching more of your videos, thanks for sharing your thoughts good sir. Maybe there will come a time when I'm less afraid all my old peers from 4chan have become nazis (one can dream) :D
"Until you end up in wonderland, deep in wonderland."
I'm sorry, but all this made me think of was a lyric from Ram Ranch.
Your background is so well done. It took me awhile to notice the peace sign hand
You're so good at explaining this. Thank you!
this is extremely relaxing
Once they make ahegao into a standard emoji face, I'm checking out of society...
holy shit there's some quality memes in this video
I don't know if they're just so good or if it's the contrast between the hilariousness and your serious and down to the point attitude, but I don't remember laughing out loud this much recently
Just found this channel and it’s really really fascinating the analysis you offer. Good job man, I plan to watch everything
Very insightful! The connections you made were very smart!
Dude what college do you teach at??
Rutgers
This is the content I force myself to watch, far too often I take my attitude of not caring too far needing true reality checks to take me out of the holes I create helping me reorganize the isolation I create for myself even when I have constant connection with others
Porn will never be worth it. The right person is there for everyone, you just have to keep searching.
Amen bröther
Nice Altar. You earned my sub for that alone.
Thi is what i call "A man of culture"
I agree
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I find your insight on internet and meme culture is very interesting. Keep up the good work.
You should be on top 10 channels
Change my mind
A gentleman and a scholar.
I can personally see the use of the ahegao shirt as a signifier that one views themselves as being above the shallow judgements of their peers by intentionally provoking those judgements.
That said, this use probably has a massive overlap in the Venn diagram with ‘sweaty awkward weeaboos’
Ok I just explored your reading list and am now convinced you've at least tried to do a chaos working....
you put into words things we naturally feel in the back of our collectrive heads - it's such a noticeable overexageration that ir circles back around and becomes the reality based on standards based in fiction and back around and omfg my BRAIN
The Ahegaolian dialectic...
Joking aside, do you have a patreon we can donate to? I'd like to be able to show my support and More than Just words and throw you some shekels my dude 👍
I was going to reply to this to let you know we have a Patreon now, but then I read your username and realized you're well aware of its existence.
Damn. I found your channel thinking it was like a joke or something but you’ve actually made me think a lot 💀.
Man you are way ahead of your time.
Ah yes, my favorite manga, "Anime."
Jesus christ this intro will haunt me forever
nice...
oh for a life of sensation rather than thoughts
I see he's a man of culture
David Foster Wallace predicted the snapchat filter kinda thing in Infinite Jest.
🎶"Konichiwa senpai, please notice me.."🎶
Intense imagery literally triggers intense experience such as intense pleasure.
Content i enjoy
Thank you, The Pineapple.
IT went from ahegao to the reality very quick.
I think the first five seconds of this video scarred me for life.
I missed the 30 seconds ago when I still haven't seen that imagery. I feel scarred, its gonna be in my head forever. Screw you youtube for showing me something like this.