What The Internet Did To Garfield
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- Опубликовано: 11 дек 2021
- Garfield, Odie, and Jon are here. May God have mercy on us all.
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Yes my lord
This may not be the place to ask, but, you don't have any thoughts about/affection for Ed, Edd 'n Eddy, do you?
Bro out here really making up hour-long video about a cat that eats lasage 💀
All hail garf-chan the best waifu
If Eyepatch says it on the internet, IT MUST BE TRUE!
And with our first incredible revelation, there's no such place as Wyoming.
So I was listening to this on public transport and during the "Garfield is everywhere" part a girl got on the bus and sat down next to me.
She was wearing a Garfield shirt.
I almost screamed.
Are you still alive?
You can never escape the garf
He comes, Rakka.
Agreed
I was watching that part with that knowledge that I have a strange Garfield head contained in a lunchbox next to me
I have never thought of depression as a shitty, selfish cat that you constantly feed. That's a genuinely incredible metaphor.
Agreed. That's how I'll think of Garfield now.
It keeps getting fatter and fatter the more you feed it, it’s cries for food get louder and louder.
but, you cant think of yourself as holier then it, thats where it "disapears"
@@candicejokegetanystupider6804 damn
Garfield the cause of misery, depression, torment, and insanity.
Dude gave himself garfield PTSD for our entertainment.
Respect
I think he gave it to me too... Wild
what you talking about, he just ..
INFECTED US ALL
THERE IS NO GOING BACK NOW JON.
that "Calm down, calm down" from his partner as he was yelling at the tv for having said the word Garfield is really both hilarious and frightening XD
GTSD
@@MrJemoederopeenstokjGarfield Traumatic Stress Disorder
Wild how Garfield can be such a pervasive, daily comic for 50 straight years and then less than 10 years on the internet he's transformed into something barely recognizable.
It's been more than ten years for his transformation. Hell, Lasagna Cat was 2008, and then again in 2017. We are almost into 2024. If you go by that timeline alone, we're into nearly 15 years. Add into that the bizarreness and subtle obsession with Garfield just being online in general, and you're getting into well over a couple decades.
...or finally exposed!
Definitely been a good 20-25+ years. I'm 25 and Garfield has always been on the Internet since I can remember.
It’s the internet.. it’s a blessing and a curse
“if an alien race dug through a ruined earth, they would think we worshipped Garfield, and they would be right…” absolutely glorious
the scariest thing is that i scrolled through this comment at the same moment he spoke it, creepy
@@johneltins9822 same bruh wtf
that hit
Jhon is the messiah
it's been 11 days since I first watched this video and I have encountered some form of Garfield-related or Garfield-based media at least once every day, I am *hyper aware* of it now and can never go back
"We all want to be garfield, but we are all Jon Arbuckle."
Damn. Did not expect that line to ever hit
Its the same model they used for SpongeBob, cept wth Squidward.
Man
@@ShinzouKatsune Well except, Spongebob has only an honest admiration for Squidward and has shown more kindness to Squidward than Garfield seems to do to Jon.
not me im Garfield
i could never imagine being garfield. the existential anxiety i get just from saying one bad thing to a friend is bad enough, let alone daily and constant torture of a person like jon...
55:00 since Garfield's head is inside the house, not outside, that means he actually consumed the WHOLE UNIVERSE excluding Jon
...unexpected r/you'rewelcomejon
Garfield Minus Garfield absolutely blew my mind when I first discovered it. The idea of a seemingly innocent newspaper comic being turned into a morbid descent into madness all by simply erasing a single character was something I never considered before and it was just as effective as this video implies at making me see the original Garfield comics in a whole new light.
Yes who could have guessed that if take out the comic relief character the story isn't funny anymore
@@quwae3846like taking the clap/laugh track out of sitcoms. Suddenly they become psychopathic/psychotic characters.
I’ve never felt more relief than when he decided NOT to read every Garfield comic
good job, you are a great person ,you did it ,you are good
all hail your goodness lord soooze
Yeah. I am very glad he didn't take the time to read EVERY SINGLE GARFIELD COMIC. Seriously, that is an impossible task and I'm pretty sure he would've gone crazy.
There is an alternate timeline where he read all of them and became a eldritch god after reading them all and thus destroying the universe
@@shadoworsonic Why destroy the universe when you can become it?
@@pkrockinomega4184 I did as a child. My sense of humor was dogshit because of that
The role of Jon in these always is fun to me; sometimes he’s a slave to Garfield, answering his every whim, other times, he’s the only person standing against Garfield’s omnipotence.
And sometimes he's the entity known as "Jon Wick"
It really kind of alludes to some kind of nonexistent arc of Jon struggling against Garfield's oppression over and over again, usually failing but sometimes holding out for a brief moment, retaining his humanity...
like an actual cat owner
My favorite is when he’s the only thing keeping the eldritch abomination grounded in reality.
I love it when a character can play multiple roles
What people don’t get is just how big Garfield was. And how few options there were growing up. It’s not good like Calvin and Hobbes, but it’s prevalent. And persistent, and syndicated like nothing else in history
I owned many collected Garfield books simply because they got me when I was young. And just learning ennui and to be sarcastic and dislike mondays
People forget how big EVERYTHING was before the internet. Even newspaper used to be a multi billion dollar industry. Now it's free at grocery stores for the one 85 years old man who still reads it
It was below Fox Trot, around Hagar The Horrible
@@galenburghardt3272I guess it depends on the location and which newspaper. Back when I lived in Southern California, back in the late 90's and early 2000's there were 2 comics that dominated both daily and Sunday in the newspaper comics section. Foxtrot was seen, though I didn't see much of Hagar the Horrible if ever. I'm stating my experiences and what I saw from the OC Register back then. I did see others like Little Orphan Annie, Doonesbury, and even a bit of Dennis The Menace. Surprisingly I don't recall seeing Calvin and Hobbes though.
Though the titanic king of newspaper comics was Peanuts by Charles Schultz or was regularly placed at the top of the comics section, Garfield would be in second place. The Sunday comics basically proved that as Peanuts was first shown and taking up the most space.
@@copenormcbrokelegsproperra2909 Calvin and Hobbes only ran for about 10 years, from 1985-1995, so it's not that surprising that you didn't see it in the paper
Honestly, “The Garfield Phenomenon” should be used as a term for the experience of seeing something everywhere in everyday life once you start thinking about it
Agreed
I think it already has a name though
It's usually called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon/frequency illusion, but you're welcome to try and get Garfield Phenomenon into common lingo
That's called synchronicity
The concept of Garfield being "hidden in plain sight in every aspect of our lives" is both incredibly hilarious and completely horrifying, at least to me.
Wasnt that a Disney creepypasta plot?
When I was a teenager there was a discount book store that I would walk past weekly. Being a teenager I could not afford much of anything except stuff on sale. 15 years ago I bought 3-4 garfield comic books at about 2 australian dollars each.
I still have them. They're on my bookshelf. Staring at me. Every day.
Gonna ask random peeps I know too keep count on how many times they hear or see anything about Garfield without intentionally looking for ot just for fun now due too this video.
51:20 I feel like I’m somewhat hard to unsettle, but his realization that he owned a Garfield plush and didn’t remember genuinely gives me goosebumps
Man really turned the Necronomicon into Garfield
Just remember, when walking through the tunnel of horrific, surrealist Garfield imagery, there is always a Jon Arbuckle Dance at the end of it. Never give up hope.
should i skip school for youtube video making? i making good stuff but i need much time to making. maybe replace school with making videos. i have two girlfriends. thanks for your opinion dear king
God...Please..GIVE ME THE POWER TO DESTROY...The Internet.
There's also the take that Garfield hates mondays because Jon has to leave the house after the weekend is over and secretly misses him.
@@angelsander6178 Garfield doesn't love Jon that much
@@AxxLAfriku stay in school.
Since watching this video for the second time, I have come to realise how right you are. Garfield really is everywhere. It has floored me some of the unexpected places he had turned up.
What's the theme in 51:15?
@@aaronaaron2405the video says all of the song names in the corner
@@zyourzgrandzmaz not during that part. It only lasts 3 seconds. Still found it though.
@@aaronaaron2405What is it?
@@Baconator2558 ruclips.net/video/neUrVNxDqG4/видео.htmlfeature=shared
I keep coming back for The Forgiveness of Jon. Its so stupid that such an absolutely incredible piece of artwork is garfield fanart but at the same time it makes it so much better. The entire "Im sorry Jon" saga gives me "I have no mouth and I must scream" vibes. Trapped by something that has unconcievable amounts of control over you. The idea that Jon at the end not only wins, but forgives Garfield is horrifically beautiful.
When a Garfield historian is a real thing you realize how big the community is.
I know most Garfield lore, even though I've never set foot in the fandom.
I am garfield real
Its not real per se,but that if you reseach enough and become an expert on it, at last thats th theory, plus qunting did go through archives and did ak th norm th gnome strips aviable thats very historian like work?!
Its a joke or meme more than anything, there is no verified garfiel historian, more a meme, an sign of rspect for tht dedicated research thing.
If you think Eyepatch Wolf’s deep dives into strangely specific media franchises are bottomless and Pepe Silvia-like, you have not lived until you’ve seen Quinton catalogue every single solitary crime committed by the cast of iCarly throughout the show’s entire run, in what feels like real time.
Isnt Quinton the guy who lost his mind trying to defend TLJ?
Imagine Jim Davis passionately writing back fan letters from genuine garfield enjoyers, then going onto youtube and stumbling across this kind of stuff
I'm quite a fan of the Garfield comics and I actually wrote him a fan letter when I Was little. He responded with a hand-written letter thanking me for being a supporter of the Garfield franchise. I'd like to believe that he does care about his fans and work.
.....Someone needs to send him a link.
oh lordy
WE ALL ARE DEAD NOW BRO!
I'm sorry, Jim.
Got to feel bad for em at that point
Jon has one admirable trait, no matter how much shit life throws at him he keeps on going
I thought this was going to be a ironic video but man the amount of emotion in this is insane never knew that my childhood had such deep lore and this is just amazing one of my favorite videos on the internet
OH GOD IT REACHED YOUR PROFLE PIC
@@blankcanvasstudios3463He's been infected!
For me, Garfield Minus Garfield is what sent me down the rabbit hole of bizarre fan takes.
Anybody seen Dilbert without Dilbert? FUCKING SCARY!
Gaijin! The hell you doing here?
That shit makes me laugh every time.
@@Klonoahedgehog shit makes me laugh everytime (too)
Garfield Minus Garfield is what got me too, it fascinated me.
There is actually a comic where Jon says to himself "sometimes i wish you could talk garfield" thus proving that Jon doesn see or hear anything that wee see garfield say.
So in the end of it all, Jon really is struggling and what we see gets so much more depressing.
That was in the early days and in some depictions in many comics and animated series, plus the live action movies, they do understand each other.
And most of his speech is represented in thought bubbles.
There's also been several comics where Jon has supposedly heard Garfield. It's also a pretty common gag where Garfield says something to Jon to insult him or whatever and Jon gets this "are you kidding me?" look on his face. It's whatever would be most funny for that particular strip.
@@immortalfrieza However a select few strips portray Jon as saying, "That's your [insert clause] look!", meaning that perhaps Jon is simply reacting to Garfield's expression.
Nice try bro
When I was a kid, I occasionally stayed at my grandma's house overnight. I stayed in my mom's old bedroom, and she had a 6 inch tall Garfield statue. She doesn't know where she got it, or why she had it, since she knew barely anything about Garfield. When my Grandma moved house, she was going to get rid of the statue, but I held onto it for nostalgia's sake and it still sits on a shelf in my bedroom. Only after watching this video, did I realise that Garfield watched my mother sleep, and to this day, every single night, watches me sleep...
did not expect myself to cry about a video on garfield but damn it was emotional. when you were talking about the forgiveness of john and how he finally rises above everything and you say that he might fall again, you add on that it's fine because for now he's okay, and that just broke me. it's a really realistic take on life and it hits deeper than saying that you'll overcome everything and become strong forever because in reality life is a lot of ups and downs and achievements and failures. you really have a talent for timing humor and horror and conveying it so well in all of your videos, and this goes beyond a deep dive and into a great perspective on life as a whole. thanks for the great video!
Me:
Garfield is far too complex for mortal minds to comprehend
My Mom:
“What was the name of that orange cat from Garfield?”
same energy as "What animal is the pink panther?"
@@rozhsoh-muh But the animal from Black Panther is a Homosapien. So it doesn’t always follow
"Heathcliff, mom."
Oh cmon,
It's obviously Odie.
What is Obama's last name
"The comic has always been about a man being endlessly tortured by a cruel and unfeeling being."
Yes, it has always been about what it's like to own a cat.
Depends on the cat
We had an orange street cat named Garfield, he was kind to us. Wish I knew him more. Always caught mice, that smart cat.
It makes me so sad when people have this misconception about cats.
@@punkuke It makes me so sad when cat owners have no sense of humor
@@punkuke I own a cat and found it funny
the fact that "Garfield is hidden in plain sight in our lives" is both funny and terrifying and the same time
Not gonna lie, I like how simple the line 1:26:23 “I take my hope where I can get it” goes so hard. It’s now on my battle jacket phrase list. Cheers!
You got the timestamp wrong
Jon Arbuckle is truly the Guts of the Garfield world. No matter what he went through, he still prevails. Truly aspirational.
r/BrandNewSentence
a very poetic observation, given that super eyepatch wolf said he wanted to make a berserk video and ended up describing a very guts-like version of jon anyways
I NEVER WANNA SEE THIS COMPARISON AGAIN BECAUSE IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE WITH SO LITTLE WORDS
You can see this sortof manifested in "Fist of the borf star". It's like the foregiveness of john but not as fully realized and 1000x more shitposty and crude. it's one of the few garfield shitposts where John rises up and literally beats the shit out of Garfield. It's a fun watch.
It was too big to be called a tray. Too thick, too heavy. It was more like a slab. A slab of lasagna.
Small brain: "People who think they're a Rick are actually a Jerry"
Big brain: "We all want to be Garfield, but we all are Jon Arbuckle"
Galaxy brain implosion: "You either die a Spongebob, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Squidward"
@@Katyamuffin Damn...
Unity Particle System brain: we are all boners, and we are all billys
Terraria
or you become immortal and go insane becoming SpongeBob again
Jon reminds me of myself in a strange way. As someone who struggles with major depression and maladaptive daydreaming, it can be comforting to be in your mind, but eventually it gets harder and harder to pry yourself away from your mind.
I love how in the original "I'm sorry, Jon", it's not Jon who was consumed by Garfield, but everything else
Everything from the floor at his feet to, for all Jon will ever be able to tell, the infinity of the cosmos itself, has become Garfield.
Fantastic video. It's not easy to pace videos like this properly so they don't devolve into just listing "stuff that exists".
A thing I like about a good chunk of the Gorefield genre is the fact Jon is depicted as being brave enough to try and fight back, normally drawn with his shotgun or another type of weapon, Jon is face to face with a being beyond his understanding that wishes nothing more then to torment him, and it doesn't break his will to try and kill Garfield, the pieces that depict him as almost the last spark of humanity and existence really speak to me.
the unstoppable force of entropy and rot vs the pure indomitable, immovable spirit of man
You could think of Gorefield as A mental illness even if you win...have you really? You could have just "escaped" for a time being but it always knows where you are what to do to harm you how to harm you, and who to harm even if you beat it you haven't beat it's MAIN CORE you still exist YOU still didn't take the medicine YOU still haven't woken up so wake up already friend.Wake up.
Me too buddie.
It’s just a huge contrast to what his character truly is so it’s kinda jarring to me. Plus, we all know a mere human would do nothing against an Eldrich being, so honestly it looks kinda sad. It’s foolish, rather than brave, to think weapons crafter by man would kill something akin to the world eater
@@janefkrbtt this line is raw as hell and it's being made about a orange cat who likes lasagna
I can't believe I just spent an hour watching a video about how Garfield is actually a psychologically horrific representation of nihilism and severe depression
Yeah I guess he's never raised a cat before but this is pretty standard stuff.
@@abebuckingham8198 to put it to simple words, Jim Davis has created a perfect recreation of a real Cat
Same
I didn't even notice it was an hour long vid until I read ur comment
It's simple. Your mom said that your name is John, right? Your Garfield has finally caught up to you after all these years.
This was genuinely the most emotional and well made video I have watched in months
Honestly, Garfield Minus Garfield is what made me see just how depressing the comics are/how sad Jon's life actually is
Yeah, or just remove Garfield’s speech bubbles and he’s just talking to an ordinary cat
You could say the same thing for a Dilbert strip. Take out his office coworkers and he is just a sad lonely guy talking to himself. You took two characters talking to each other, took out one and went "look how sad and alone this one is". LOL wtf? It's like photoshopping the wheels off a car and going "look how shit this car is".
@@robotpanda77 The point is that Jon never actually hears anything from Garfield. Look at the middle step where Garfield is still present but his speech bubbles are removed. That doesn't work for Dilbert because the idea that this engineer is the only person in universe who communicates to anybody doesn't gel (especially considering that Dilbert uses a lot more dialogue).
Silent Garfield or Realistic Garfield do a much better job of getting the reader to understand Jon than the vanilla Garfield strips as they show the absolute disaster of a human being that Jon is without the intended punchline.
Eh, I get why that came about, but that is just reading WAY too much into things for my taste.
Can we take a moment to appreciate that the rights-holders of Garfield seem to be pretty chill about how the internet has treated Garfield? Meanwhile, Toei can't even stand fans of its works plainly and passionately describing why they're fans at all.
Who's toei and what's the work?
150 DMCA Airstrikes
@@shadow_shine3578 Toei Animation is an anime studio that produces the adaptations of things like Dragon Ball and One Piece, and they're notorious for spuriously copyright striking anything discussing their work in a fair-use context, and most recently _150 entire videos_ from a guy's channel (that were completely within the realm of legality) and putting his career in jeopardy, during the holiday season no less.
@@NezumiVA yikes. Poor guy!
Um, WAT
TOEI, NANI TSURUNDAYO????
“The forgiveness of Jon” of actually insanely well drawn so is everything made by the artist (which for some reason is mostly gorefield)
I haven’t cried since I was 12, even once, worst shit in my life couldn’t bring me to tears, best moments can’t make me shed tears of joy but when I saw “the forgiveness of john” I was sobbing, your videos are art
WITH A VIDEO OF MOTHERFUCKING GARFIELD WHAT THE FUCK.
Are you 13
@@mandymills1031nah man, I’m 20, shit’s powerful
@@darkshark3906You're 13
In the nicest way I can say this, please seek therapy. Not being able to cry means there is something deeply, deeply wrong
this makes the Garfield “you are not immune to propaganda” image somehow more profound
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I love how "the forgiveness of jon" is basically "st michael defeating satan". It works on so many levels
Well I know someone who might be interested
@ModernNetMonk777 it’s actually really similar in fact it seems more emphasized by the lack of color
I'm watching The Abyss (1989 scifi movie) and dead smack in the middle of the movie there is a shot with a Garfield plushie on the windshield. ...of a deep sea rig 5 miles below the ocean.
I love how terrified this man is about "John, I requiere lasagna"
I was not expecting to sit through this entire video but here we are. Great work.
That was one hell of a watch
Goddammit ross
Hi Ross.
it was some wild stuff
Ah, so this is where he gets his title ideas
35:28 God, when you realize Jon can't actually hear Garfield, it makes this comic way more unsettling.
When Jon says, "I have done things in my life i regret." All he sees is his cat giving a sadistic smile.
How is any relationship with a cat?
@@WhatWouldVillainsDomy homie has a cat n he lets it go outside n legit every day it’ll bring back a lil bird or bunny or somethin
@@shalomedome1614that’s so cute :< 💜
@@angelicart.6 that is NOT fucking cute that "lil bird" or bunny is dead, dead as FUCK
@@angelicart.6usually they don’t bring them back alive . So cute 🙄
A detail that jumped out while observing "The Forgiveness of Jon"
Garfield has a Tendril, albeit a weak one, wrapped around Jon's calf. The fight may never end, but there *will be victory*.
I was listening to this while at a vending machine and you can imagine my HORROR when I selected sprite and an ORANGE Fanta came out.
"The Forgiveness of Jon," given all the context about Garfield that was brought in the video, makes it one of the most beautiful and emotional piece of art I have ever witnessed.
I want to put it on my wall to help me keep going
Truly a masterpiece, the tears really bring out Jon's forgiveness. Like after all that suffering, after transcending to what looks like an angel; is still human.
@@iamlucidess the tears really tops off the catharsis.
Anime pfp
John having a picture of him with garfield as a kid is the equivalent to the phone call coming from inside the house in a horror movie.
And I realized I watched the Garfield animated show
Comments like this make my eyes water with terror.
(Remembers watching Garfield as a kid and having completely forgotten about it)…(FEAR)
I think the most frightening fact is being named John in a video about Jon. I'm glad the essay ends at it does.
+ Jojo Jon at the end.
Remember Candle Cove?
This is an incredibly well told story and just the emotions catharsis I needed after a long day. Thank you for this.
I often fall asleep to video essays and I have RUclips on auto play.
I vividly remember waking up one night to the sound of an uplifting talk about learning overcome depression amd anxiety, only to turn to my phone to see this essay.
Jim Davis has cultivated artists to continue his work after his death. One thousand years from now historians will grapple with the idea that Jim Davis never really existed.
Nah
Just reincarnate and cultivate more!
XD
He is the gaster of Undergarf. Forgotten and pieces scattered across time and space.
He died? 🙁
@@user-nb1ol6xm3u he will
@@user-nb1ol6xm3u my guy was old 40 years ago whaddya expect
just spoke with my 60 y/o mom and made a comparison between my cat and Garfield, and I said that he is very much like Garfield, because they're both orange, fat, both are very lazy and they kinda look similar, and my mom said that they are nothing alike, because my cat is dumb and harmless, and Garfield? well she said in a very serious tone that Garfield is evil. my mom has no idea about the phenomena of Garfield on the internet, she only knows Garfield from the comic strips back in the 70's. So I guess that Garfield has been possessing some dark forces for the last 40 years.
That's interesting
@@danjoredd By reading the comics? Garfield's sadistic streak has always been highly obvious, he's just likeable enough to get away with it.
@@seannolan9857 well its the author's creation that makes him special
@@seannolan9857 i never thought of him as likeable. never understood people liking sadists in movies etc.
Dont forget the Garfield dark horror theme park ride from a few decades ago. Yes. Really.
I'm listening while hiking and it sounds like this is quickly turning into a CreepyPasta the more I listen lol
Garfield minus Garfield is probably the saddest thing I’ve ever read
Most realistic one...
Yeah. Then you realize that without the context of Garfield, anyone looking at John's life would see that too
unironically made me start reflecting
I remember seeing one where Jon says in the first 2 panels, "I'm depressed. And you know what I do when I'm depressed?" and then vanishes in the 3rd. The implications scare me.
@@watchmychannelorelse what did he do? I already know more or less...
"A person trapped with a cold, nihilistic being that torments them." Wow Davis was right, it is relatable to cat owners!
But that isnt how it is at all. Cats bring warmth and light and joy, albeit with smashed stuff, clawed furniture and constant whining when hungry
That's all I thought too. He's a cat. They love to cause distress to people. They care most about food and pampering. They do things that don't make sense, and drive us crazy. It's just cats. Cats, man. XD
I can definitely say that's true, for the most part. my cat passed away last year, after 18 years on this planet, and she was definitely one to pester for attention lol. but I think there was more to her than that. stop me if you think this sounds insane, but I got a story to tell:
about 7 years ago, I was working on a dairy farm. the hours were terrible, and I rarely had a day off. the pay was shit. the owners were beligerent morons. I was so stressed working there, that I would find places to hide just so I could cry. I was a fucking mess, and so was my life. I staggered home one night, rolled a joint (back when I still smoked the leafy green), and sat in the back of my house, on the verge of tears. my cat followed me to my chair, but instead of clawing my leg or jumping on my lap uninvited like she normally would, she gently nuzzled her nose against my hand. when I looked down towards her, she wasn't looking for the next place to walk to; she was looking me right in the eyes. I think she knew something was going on with me and she was trying to comfort me. I never saw her do something like that before, and for that brief moment, I didn't feel so alone.
so, while cats can definitely act like self-serving assholes, I do think that animals are smarter (or at least more aware) than we humans give them credit for. I miss that cat...
@@pundertalefan4391 That's your cat. My cat loves cuddling and calms me down.
@@jorami4838 Aw, that's sweet. I can't have a cat to find out. My mom's allergic. XP
I love how you came full circle with using the costume to soften the blow of the heavy stuff you were talking at the end, just as how garfield does in the comics, art really.
Just yesterday; I asked my future mother-in law - in tears, hopelessly, what would I do with my despair if I didn't keep it down with a dependency on food. For context, I am type 1 diabetic and have been _potentially_ a majority of my life but have only been diagnosed in 2022. My relationship with food, particularly foods that contain carbohydrates has been torn asunder as I was (and have been) subconsciously using food to sorta cope with major depression. Nothing to look forward to all day except... what I would be having for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. In that way, perhaps Garfield and I aren't too dissimilar. So, when I reached the end of the video, and saw Jon forgive this, embodiment of his despair and torment (particularly connected to gluttony and sloth) thus vanquishing it from him....
I guess, I feel like I wish I could be that strong. Find a way to forgive my emptiness and let my need to fill it go. Maybe it'll hurt for a long time, but I'll find something healthier to fill it with eventually.
It does get easier over time, therapy helps. it's a long and difficult road you walk but I promise you that in the end you will be glad you fought and struggled to become a healthier happier version of yourself. Just try not to get too down on yourself if you slip up and find yourself falling back into bad habits. You're only human and we all stumble and make mistakes and even regress along the way but as long as you never give up and hold on to your goal with white knuckled determination you will succeed one day. If nothing else please know that, though we are strangers and may never know each other, there is at least one person out there in the world rooting for you.
these videos are honestly like anti-clickbait. I see the title, it's a topic that I couldn't possibly care about, but then I watch, and I am in love with the content
for me its quite different, the titles intrigue me but have that clickbait aspect
@@jamm6_514 nothing about it tho is "clickbait" in the slightest.
@@jamm6_514 Its just you mate.
@@Gadget-Walkmen technically it is, it just doesnt suck as much as, say, Morgz
like here, you can clearly see the focus of the topic in the thumbnail itself, everything blurred in the background besides that grotesque garfield and the subtitle below him (which is short, sweet and to the point). this is the bait of the hour-long vid, which works well due to the simplicity. youre not out here playing CIA Agent trying to figure out the topic of the video, because thats not what youre here for
and when you do realize the topic it makes you wonder what the fuck the internet coulda done to garfield
what does Morgz offer? over-saturated colours, no concrete focal point, faces that are more terrifying than whatever gorefield offers, long asf title, etc. still does the job with his target demographic though, that being children, and the same can be said with this video and its own range of people its trying to appeal to. which the target, btw, is literally anyone thats outgrown pullups, but i'd say probably the 14 - 22 parts maybe
but you also prolly didnt read this so what can i say
Why would I watch this? Six recommendations later...
I genuinely love that Garfield is now a Lovecraftian Eldritch Horror that represents the abject futility of existence.
And this video is the bit In a cosmic horror story where the truth is revealed
Everytime you watch a Garfield movie you lose 1d6 sanity
@@Itzak15 every time I see a Garfield I lose 1d6 sanity
So this vid is the... Garfieldnomicon. So we have that going for us. Which is nice.
I don't think you genuinely love anything. You're the sort of person who says "the abject futility of existence" as if it were established fact and not an obvious reflection of your own bad premises about life.
Genuinely one of the most profound video essays out there to me and it’s fucking Garfield.
Also, you ain’t slick. I heard that Interface soundtrack in the background. And you’re so real for it. 🤝great work
Watching this in the middle of the night might not have been the smartest thing bc DAMN WHAT A GREAT VIDEO
Hey! Same here!
Your girlfriend having to calm you down when watching dexter over the Garfield reference was peak humor
October 1989, Garfield is Alone
NGL I bursted out laughing hard the first time I saw this. I don’t care whether it was recorded on purpose. This is to good.
I’m only 5 minutes into the video and now I’m anticipating which “Dexter” show that’s referring to
I would like to point out that Garfield is so product-friendly that even the best fanart for it, _The Forgiveness Of Jon,_ has official merchandise.
Edit: Managed to score a shirt for it as a Christmas present.
Wait, really?
@@raindmcgasman Yup.
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@@raindmcgasman I’m calling the MTF
so what's the merchandise?
I watched this video so many times I lost count. I also made a lot of my friends watch it since it aired. Some of them still send me Garfield pictures whenever they encounter him in the wild, some of them still curse me. It's hands down one of my favorite things on the internet. The power of transformative (fan)art is astonishing and beautiful.
This genuinely changed my view on a bunch of stuff, even if it's a bit silly to say about a garfield video.. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!! This is one of my favorite video essays, or just videos in general, and I appreciate all the effort and work out into this. I now like Garfield. A lot.
Lasagna Cat is one of my biggest inspirations of all time so I'm glad someone with your level of writing talent is finally tackling the more intricate sides of this fucked fandom.
Bro love your videos
Eyyy, is this a filling machine or a rinsing machine?
im so sorry
Hello
I can hear your voice just by reading this
I discovered it completely on accident years ago and I could not believe what I was watching. To this day it's the best RUclips channel I've ever seen
i had absolutely no idea that the scariest video i'd watch this year would be about fucking garfield. absolutely insanely good video, massive props - really really great work!
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The scariest video ive ever saw this year was probably one of meatcanyon's videos
The year technically isn't over yet.
@@NodDisciple1 that sounds.... Ominous
47:19 that's Mantecado, and be gentle with him, he just got out of surgery
This was the first video I ever remember watching on your channel. I've seen it like, a few times now. It somehow has great value to me, judging by the amount of time I've watched just this video. Not to mention the rest of your channel. Thanks for making videos
Lasagna Cat: **Has a gag where a guy talks for a solid hour about how Garfield changed his life**
Super Eyepatch Wolf: **Talks for a solid hour and 19 minutes about how Garfield changed his life**
and the fact that he doesn't seem to notice makes it even better.
And practically goes insane over Garfield
Poetic cinema
life imitates art
To be fair, the big difference is that the guy from lasagna cat talks about literally only one comic
The line "When you stare at something for long enough, it becomes... nothing" really hits deeper once I've finished watching this video. Rewatching the beginning, it seemed like a normal video that was going to give a little explanation about what happened to Garfield on the internet, and I would've never guessed that it would be so genuinely emotional by the end and that I would actually think of Garfield any differently from what I did before watching.
After listening and just seeing what Garfield has become, it felt more natural and real, it wouldn't have hit the same way if I just skipped to the end, I would think that is just silly and move on with my day. The video talked so much about Garfield's disturbing reality, that i've accepted that as something normal.
After we've seen something for long enough, it loses meaning. It becomes normal. We learn to live with it without any questioning. Like a 3 panel comic strip that will never stop repeating itself.
that works both ways my freind the more you stare at nothing the more your dumb chimp looks for patterns to escape boredom. which is kind of why i keep coming back to this dumb type of pretentious media.
I was expecting to watch 10 minutes, skip around, and get bored lol but this guy has a serious talent for grabbing and KEEPING your attention. I can't believe I watched a video about Garfield that's an hour and a half long and didn't get bored even once
@@matthew2h2o40
>pretentious
You misspelled "well constructed, and tightly edited, with an engaging through line"
thank you seek
The observation is backwards, it was never nothing or everything, it's just, anything. All this stuff is just the same old, pretended to have a special meaning because Garfiield is injected into it. People looking at all of history and jsut say "it's boring", so "fandom" makes the same shit but with Garfield. Repetition is what organisms DO, and a repetitive comic strip is just the lowest common denominator of that.
The lie is that they get to be called "a fandom". They just include ONE semiotic symbol in their visual lexicon. For reference, EVERY ENGLISH WORD is such a symbol already. It's like, how many people latched onto the particle "the" and became fans of its function at making anything a noun. Suddenly Garfield is MORE original diversion because it's not The Garfield. And it easily could be, because speaking in nouns IS the most braindead way to live as a human being.
Toddlers point at things, and find the one interesting factor about it to be its name, recognizing it as a noun. "look mom, I recognize that visual, it's the Garfield again!" And toddlers cry when something eerie spooks them. So, most toddler-like people like the fact that "oh, it's just somebody doing the garfield thing again", so they don't have to engage with the material any further than that. Not see it for anything more that could possibly be going on. And create it for the purpose to NOT have anything more going on. It IS the exact same as publishing the strip for decades on end. It's THIS GENERATION being calcified, uninspired mass consumer of the new print media, internet.
I started to drift in and out of sleep in the last 10 minutes of this video and when I awoke on the final minute I just start freaking out and questioning my reality; great video ig
One of the best original and intriguing videos I have seen on RUclips. I have watched it every maybe 6 months and it’s great every time. This video made me subscribe maybe a year ago now. Your content is great Sir. Thank you for sharing this crazy rabbit hole.❤
Fun fact: "The Forgiveness of Jon" is actually a riff on one of the more famous depictions of St. Michael the Archangel.
Link please?
@@Ramsey276one if you look up St. Michael the Archangel, most likely than not you will stumble upon said art
@@Eichro will do later, after I decompress from Garfieldritch...
1:14:23
Oh right on time!
I think I have seen the source!
The way he absolutely panics when he hears garfield on the tv and his partner just going “calm down, calm down” like he’s about to go apeshit fucking sent me
It implies it happened before
Yes indeed
This might be the best video I have ever watched on youtube, and I have been watching for more than a decade.
gotta be my fav vid of all time, come back to rewatch it at least 3 times already
"Where will you be, when the cat reveals himself?" -Jim 7:27:78
da fuck?
Amen
WYSI
Nice to see you here :)
I can't wait for your next video and im so excited to see how to expand my mind
As a single 30 year old man who lives alone with my cat and dog, the line "we all want to be Garfield, but we are all Jon Arbuckle" hit me hard.
Mood, fellow single 30 year old man. Maybe I should at least get a dog. No cats, not after this video
I read this as soon as he said it
As depressing as he made that sound in the video for effect, that actually sounds like a good time. Tell your critters the internet says hi.
@@generatoralignmentdevalue It is actually not bad, not as pathetic as in the comic, at least I hope not.
Been a john just as long, but nothing wrong with accepting His first interpterion of Garfield, an acceptance of Depression and Nihilism, or how I prefer to say "getting over it". You don't have to succeed to be happy, that's a toxic train of thought that doesn't get talked about enough. Giving up is 100% a-ok. And don't let a bunch of brain chiropractors or some neurotypicals autism project (that was deep and profound) tell you that you have to succeed to be happy. I could do without the Positive End message of some Neurotypical who probably only went through Brief situational depression telling everyone to get help. Personally I say be a Garfield, let others work hard while you reap and relax in the repeatable entertainment that comes from a bunch of apparently depressed people born on the right side of the spectrum in what is arguably the best time period to ever exist. You don't need to accomplish jack shit, and thinking you have to is not healthy.
Sorry but I'm toxic both ways
never thought i would cry at a fucking garfield meta-analasys but here we are. the ending is so powerful, i physically cried, i cannot describe to you how absolutely /seen/ i feel. as someone who struggles with depression, you are completely right. thank you for this. i think that this might have genuinely changed my life and isn't that silly??
i mean yeah, it is silly.
but thank you. i think i'm ready to get better now
Just read a bunch of Garfield and get a job. That's the only way to stop depression. Also read the Bible
I keep coming back to this video because it's genuinely such an experience and weirdly so deep
Looking for Garfield and finding him everywhere even when he's not there because of pattern recognition is exactly the same phenomena that happened to loss and among us.
The thing about pattern recognition is that it cannot occur if there isn't a pattern to be recognized. And Garfield is chief among those things which have established themselves as firm patterns in our daily lives. There is a very real reason why the pattern is evident in the first place statistically speaking, but the patterns themselves are frequently commonplace enough that we often fail to recognize them. So when we do notice them, it's surprising and odd to think that such a pattern has been so present outside of our awareness.
so Amogus Garfield skin confirmed?
The thing is Garfield actually IS there.
sus
Garfeild: The Father
Amogus: The Son
Loss: The Holy Spirit
I wish my grandmother had lived to see this video. She loved Garfield when she was younger and bought shitloads of merch and even had one of those suction-cup plush Garfields in her car. Eventually she became frustrated and disillusioned with the comic as it became stale and repetitive. But she also had a fantastically dark sense of humor and thought the "Garfield without Garfield" comics were brilliant. As a lifelong fan of Lovecraft and Stephen King she would have loved the existential horror elements that developed later.
That post made me straight up tear up, it's not often the older generations admit to enjoying that. That's really sweet
its such a shame she didnt see this :c
that's super cool
Dude your grandma sounds fucking awesome
@@ronanegan6529 I agree, their grandma does sound really amazing. 🐈
One of the best video essays in RUclips history, my third time watching it
The Forgiveness of Jon feels like such a genuine triumph over a mans personal hell that few works of media could ever replicate, a decades long struggle that slowly but surely descended worse and worse into the lowest point of a humans life finally ending with a glint of hope and life.
How the fuck did we get this shit out of a comic about a talking cat who hates Mondays?
Because the Cat never talked back. Thats basically the whole Answer.
Garfield never talked to John and someone noticed that and the demonic Aura that surrounded John, dragging him in the Pits of his Failures and taking away all Hope of his burning Soul.
its genuinely beautiful
Gabriel slays the demon
@@ahabduennschitz7670 it's allegorical of the biblical revelation, and the beast that haunted John of Patmos, as well as an apology to John the Baptist for allowing him to lose his head on a plate. Saint Michael the archangel slays the beast. Gabriel slays the demon. Let's not forget that toxoplasmosis is a literal cat virus that plagues some to depend on cats, even though they act like they own us. Maybe they do. Can we defeat the virus? It's haunting our dreams with more and more nightmares... I'm sorry John... Cat's eat their owners when they die...
Yeah I love that.
The "Garfield without Garfield" comics are interesting. Due to the lack of the titular character, we get to see more of John's reality, but it also drastically changes the context of some strips. I recognized a few as ones where he was originally upset about stupid amounts of cat hair, but without the cat, it just looks like he's upset about life in general.
I mean, he literally said exactly this in the video.
This is genuinly one of my favorite videos on RUclips and i come back to it now and again.
This is so so good. I've watched this a couple times on my own, I literally watched it with my mom and am about to watch it with my dad. Thank you for making this!!! It presents a whole new way to think about garfield as a concept that I had never thought about. Thank you!! :DDD
I was in training for The Marine Corps and I had a dude in my unit who created a whole religion based on the idea of ‘Muslim Garfield’ and when he would explain how, just like a 7 layer lasagna, there are 7 layers of heaven. The more he talked abt it the more and more I was intrigued
woahh.. do you remember what else he said? 😅 idk why but its so interesting to me ! i would be intrigued too ngl lol
@@victheclit he said something about how Muslim Garfield wanted to bring death to infidels and Mondays and how he believed in child soldiers. It was fucked buy funny asf. He use to say every time he saw me “Hamdullasagna” 🤣🤣🤣
not funny
@@smthinthisuniverseyeah don't make jokes about muslims, they might blow up
@@smthinthisuniverse nope. it's funny
I started reading the Garfield strips online during Highschool when I wasn’t doing much. I enjoyed the simplicity of the stories and it was cool to see him doing his thing because I saw the show. Overtime I noticed something I overlooked for my entire life. Jon wasn’t having a conversation with Garfield, he was just talking to a cat that didn’t talk back. It messed me up a little realizing that Jon was just some guy with little to no friends and just talking to a Cat. It’s weird but fitting how the internet shifted this
In the mid to late 2000s I had an English professor that told us about a website called Garfield Minus Garfield where they removed Garfield and Odie from the strip and its exactly as depressing as what you picked up on. There used to be videos on RUclips where they removed Garfield from the cartoon as well but obviously that took quite a bit more effort so there aren't as many of those vids floating around.
I can't shake the feeling that this wave of horror Garefield art, twisting something previously considered absolutely normal and inoffensive, is tied to the sociopolitical realities of today. In a sense, the post-2010s have been a time of "awakening" of society where everyone, willing or not, has been forced to confront a LOT of evils we have ignored for the past decades. Climate change being the most prominent, but also the numerous celebrity abuse scandals, the Epstein trial, the Panama Papers, the Pentagon Papers... it's the revelation of a deep rot that has always existed at the core of our society, that we have ignored for a long time.
And when so many people find out that so much of what was normal to them was hiding something dangerous and horrific that they'd been ignoring for so long... it feels very fitting to apply that frame of mind to everything. Including a comic strip about an asshole cat and his surprisingly dysfunctional owner. It's the same thing: it was there, in plain sight, for so long. And we never noticed, because it was all so normal to us...
I never realized that and now it's sad
i had a weird thing where i was talking with my momand she was like "garfield doesnt talk tho" and my brother started watching the garfield show so i started paying closer attention and... she was right
ive seen your vids before, and idk why i wasnt already subscribed, but holy shit my man. this video had me glued to my screen. wonderful wonderful story telling, pacing, research, just everything was so so great.
Incredible work. Really making me question a lot of things rn
I think Garfield has survived as long as it has primarily because it's one of very few boomer comics that doesn't rely on the two tropes of "I hate my wife" and "haha young person doesn't know what ____ is"
It transcended "I hate my wife" to "I hate my life".
@@rightwingsafetysquad9872 and THAT is something every generation relates to !
Makes since "D R P R O F E S S O R"
Peanuts?
@@Duothimir Very few people younger than 30 even know that Charlie Brown came from a newspaper comic strip. Young people only know it for the animated holiday specials, most probably wouldn't connect the title Peanuts with the character Charlie Brown.
If I had a nickel for every time Garfield was suicidal, I would have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
I see what you did there
Nice
I dont think this is at all related, but Jon as a character makes me so happy
okay but that point about "the Garfield Phenomenon" is terrifyingly true... ever since I watched this video I've been seeing him more and more