Hey everyone, since this video has been out for awhile and has the most views of any of my others by a mile I’d like to address the inclusion of the creator Peter Coffin. I do not endorse the decisions and ideas that Peter Coffin has espoused. I understand that other creators have had trouble with them and their most recent defenses of harmful ideas and figures is disappointing to say the least. Their work was helpful to me when learning about various leftist ideas but I do not want my work to send people towards them.
I’ve never liked the idea of having clothes, posters, or any other merchandise of shows I enjoyed. It never set well with me and I never really knew why. One day my brother talked about consumer identity and I feel like maybe something clicked then. I think I just never wanted to define myself through things. The idea felt so cringy or materialist or whatever. I want to be defined by my actions alone.
Hot dang this was amazing! I always knew there was something underneath this comic, but never realized it till now. I hope your channel grows even more!
Calvin's dad is literally my dad, glasses, it builds character, loving the outdoors and waking up early. Also he told me story when I was young and songs, like "the itsy bitsy spider went crawling up your back, sunk in its fangs and had a little snack, when it was done you collapse upon the floor and the itsy, bitsy, spider, went crawling back for more" that was my childhiod
It's situations like where Calvin and Susie are talking about why he didn't join baseball that convince me that the two of them have the potential to be great friends.
Theory; Hobbes always seems to have great time when he's with Susie and generally has no problem hanging out with her. Hobbes is a product of Calvin's imagination. A manifestation of his subconscious, if you will. (Whether or not that makes him real or not is unrelated, to me at least.) Some part of Calvin desperately wants to be Susie's friend. All his pranks are subliminal attempts to get her attention, by a boy who doesn't know how to actually make friends. His constant failure to befriend her fuels his dislike of her and other girls. G.R.O.S.S. is his method of protecting his ego.
Honestly, the part about connections is so true--especially when I think back on how desperately I wanted my stuffed animal to be like Hobbes in a childhood where I felt misunderstood. I connected with the comics core theme so much...plus I was a nerd for the social commentary even as a kid I felt seen by Calvin aka Watterson
I study visual communication, one could say that im the enemy for making advertisements and making products more appealing for people and i just cant deny it. We learn that a brand is just 10% different and 90% similar to others, consumers buy brands, not products. I truly believe there is another way of thinking and producing and consuming, pieces of media like this keeps your feet on the ground. Loved the video!!
Thank you for the comment and I would never call you an enemy just for working in advertisement (especially as someone that’s worked in advertisement myself). It’s all about being critical of the systems and culture that perpetuate this type of environment.
WOW. Just... Wow. I've never heard the philosophies of this comic meaningfully put into words until now, and it's making me realize how much my favorite comic since first grade significantly shaped my views on advertising and masculinity, and I didn't even notice it! Best video I've seen on C&H, I'd sub twice if I could
I used to sneak into my parents’ room to read their Calvin and Hobbes collection, now that I’m older I’m starting to see the deeper topics addressed. Thank you for the video!
I straight up named my first cat after Hobbes, this comic means so much to me. It's so nice to see it being given the love and depth it deserves by videos like yours! Amazing work!
I love that Calvin and Hobbes exists within its own ecosystem, Bill never allowed his work to be taken away by anyone else and putting their spin on it like they have done with Garfield. This makes it purely timeless, something you can revisit at any time and recontextualise how you see it as an adult compared to how you saw it as a child.
I first came across Calvin and Hobbes in The Stars and Stipes newspaper while stationed in Korea (mid 80's). Really helped get me through that year away. Loved the innocence and imagination of that kid, and the companionship of the two. Favorite strip was the one about the wonder and fascination with the toaster - making toast! Found the complete collection in three bound books at Costco many years ago; now a prized possession 🤓. Thanks for this video, really enjoyed it and appreciate all the effort you put into it!!
In between our schools scholastic book sales where I used to get the full books, I would get the Stars and Stripes for that purpose only haha (grew up on a military base in Japan). Glad you enjoyed the video!
I had a Webkinz tiger named Hobbes after C and H. I added more to my collection after, but he was my favorite because of my love for the strip. I always felt like Calvin and Hobbes chose me more than I chose them. My first book was Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, and I just remember thinking. I don’t know who these two are yet, but one thing’s for sure. They’re going to take me on some incredible adventures. In other words I was attracted immediately. The snappy humor, the philosophy, amazing artwork and characters. It’s a gem
As someone who grew up in a very masculine world, every family member having been in the military, growing up in the american south, and so on, it only now occurs to me how much masculinity was baked into my very being. The more I think about it, the more I realize that if I hadn't ever been exposed to the concept that masculinity is not in and of itself an inherent quality of myself because of my genitals, I would never have discovered the world of euphoria and fulfillment I have now. My parents bought me toys and games, and paid for interests that were perceived as unabashedly masculine, and really still are today in a lot of ways. This idea of having my gender 'bought' for me as a child... it really warps the way you think of yourself. I thought of myself as a 'boy/ man' only because I was never presented the option of an alternative. In a sense, I was handed a sunk-cost way of thinking. "mother and father have paid a lot for me to be a boy, so I should be good and be that way, even if I don't really feel like that's true or accurate in any way." The commodification of our identities and the linking of gender norms within these things makes a strange and uncomfortable mask to have to wear as an enby who isn't really fully out. I appreciate your making me think about that more, and maybe I should re-read Calvin and Hobbes, lol. Thanks!
Calvin and Hobbes was.. and WILL remain my favourite comic book of all times. It's so deep, heartwarming, phylocophical and entertaining, I don't think something can ever top it for me. Thank you for this video! I really liked it. Wish you all the best, kind stranger.
I don't think the anti-consumerism message within Calvin and Hobbes was intended to be the main point, though it was certainly on Watterson's mind as he struggled constantly against companies trying to monetize his work through cheap merchandise. I think it comes across more strongly now because it's such a sever problem in the present day.
Like I mention in the beginning, there are a ton of different lenses through which to analyze Calvin and Hobbes. This was just the one I wanted to focus on because I think the comics had a lot to say on matter. Like all art, there is no objective way to understand it and I don’t want to give the impression that I’m telling people “this is what this is about. It’s the main thing to focus on” but I agree that certain topics come into sharper focus during certain periods of time.
This was a wonderful essay! The editing, the music, and the humor all work together to support the powerful argument underneath. I loved Calvin and Hobbes as a kid even though I missed such a large majority of the jokes I'm sure. But maybe it taught me some important lessons I didn't even realize. And in the end, the scenes I remember the most were the ones of the two of them going on their simple, pretty adventures so I think I did get it after all. Instant sub, hope to catch up on everything else youve made soon :)
In some of his book introductions he expresses nostalgia and appreciation for the comics of the first third of the XXth Century. The getting beyond rigid lim ited square panels.
Dude this was the video I was looking for, I searched up Calvin and Hobbes hoping for this and I found it right at the top thanks so much I was so surprised how your not a much bigger creator after looking at your subscriber count, I really loved this video and hope you really take off!!
I just found this video and I have to comment: this is amazing! I’ve been a huge Calvin and Hobbes since I found a complication at a yard sale. I’m glad you created this video because it did one of my favorite comics justice!!! I’m gonna have this on repeat for the next 10 years
Please.. PLEASE make more videos!!Everything about this from the scripting to the editing was some of the best I’ve seen on RUclips and I’ve grown up on this hellscape. I can’t imagine how much effort went into this if my own shit can sometimes take me months and it’s not even half as good. Keep up the great work!!
That one image of Calvin going ballistic with a mushroom cloud over his head just floored me! I forgot just how insanely funny Calvin and Hobbes could be. Just that one image and I couldn't laughing.
Somehow in SOME WAY no matter HOW MANY YEARS PAST this this little CHILD never seems to AGE Ash ketchum: finally, a WORTHY OPPONENT, OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY
I loved Calvin and Hobbes since I was about 9...I'm about to be 36. This is attributed to why I have a great sense of humor, imagination, and am cynical and hate consumer ideology. Long live Calvin and Hobbes, and I hope Watterson is doing well.
Maybe when this comic on insurance was originally written it didn’t mean the insurance company would “hit you with a slingshot.” However if you fast forward to present day, it’s not so far from the truth. Insurance companies have now stuck their greedy little hands into the decisions that physicians make for their patients. Saying what medications are covered and which ones are not, what procedures they will cover and what they will not. Leaving doctors trying to help the insurance companies not the patients (and did you know that all humans are cut from the same cookie cutter), so patients have now lost the connection with their physician. We’re all the same in the insurance games’ eyes. No more being treated like an individual. I could go on, but I’ll shut up now. Calvin and Hobbes was way ahead of its time. I wish Mr. Watterson would get back to the drawing board. There is so much more evil now to expand on … and I so much love Calvin and Hobbes.
I couldn‘t be a bigger Calvin & Hobbes fan and I not only respect his views, I fully agree. It is so amazing that he not only created my favorite comic characters but also has such a wonderful view on these topics.
Hello God, it's me, RomanBear. So I took this free overlay: ruclips.net/video/hX_rhsbFET4/видео.html and brought it into after effects where I slowed it down, looped the footage (you right click on the footage, hit interpret, and change the number of loop times in the menu) and inverted the channels so I ended up with black specks on a white background. After that, I created a new solid for the background which I made the yellow color, and put that underneath the overlay layer. The last step is to change the overlay layer's blending mode to darken. Hope that has pleased you, lord. It feels somewhat blasphemes to be instructing God. Do not smite, please.
Godwin's Law, RUclips corollary: Whenever a video compares someone or thing to the Nazis, it's officially entered the WTF zone. At this point the video producer either says "crap!" and backpedals furiously back out of the WTF zone, or sells his video to Alex Jones.
19:10 please, for the love of god do that for me too. Maybe a comic of Fight Club in the style of Calvin and Hobbes... duuuuuude, DUUUUUUDE HOLY SHIT YEAH MAN!!!
And all of this is why one day I thought to myself: when I adopt a dog, I'm gonna name him Calvin. Later that same day I helped a stray dog who followed me and I ended up taking him home. I was going to try to find him a family, but I had already chosen a name for him that morning and everything, so he stayed! Been with me for 10 years and he still acts like you'd expect a Calvin to act. :)
Obligatory mention of Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Machine. I'd higly recommend a listen! Welcome my son, Welcome to the machine! Where have you been? It's all right, we know where you've been You've been in the pipe line filling in time, Provided with toys and scouting for boys. You bought a guitar to punish you ma, You didn't like school, And you know you're nobody's fool. What did you dream? It's al right we told you what to Dream!
The only part I disagree with is the propeller beanie example. Calvin wants the propeller beanie because he actually believes it will give him the ability to fly. We see him imagining his travels through the sky with said beanie. Calvin frequently dreams of leaving his home & family and escaping the numerous irritants of his life, and his obsession with the beanie is based on that; the beanie is the first thing he's encountered that promises that escape. But he has no grasp of aeronautics and we can see from his fantasies every reason why his dream will fail before the beanie even arrives. Consumer identity has little to do with this example. It's pure desperation-based escape fantasy.
As a man that didn't do sports until 18, when I found climbing, I wish someone would've pushed me to do more exercise before that. Because life will demand a certain level of competition (if anything, with yourself), and you don't learn discipline and effort by playing by yourself all day. There's a reason sports are an ancient thing: it's a controlled competition, in order to prepare a man for the actual competition of life. (Most jobs require teamplaying, btw...). It's a much lesser evil to force sports on a kid (reasonably, obviously), than it is to allow him to be sedentary. The problem is, taking the kid to sports requires time and gas, and having him in his room with a console doesn't. And in nowaday's families where both parents work full time, well... guess which one is the more common. Also, it's never been true that women have to be 20 pounds underweight as Susie claims. If anything, that's imposed by other women, just like the importance they put on accesories and clothes. Men are perfectly fine (the vast majority prefers it) with a woman that is in her optimal weight. Sure, ads and films portray the ideal body, but that's as true for women as it is for men. Susie doesn't really have a point there (16:34). There's other things she could've counter with, but not that.
I was about to start taking this video with a grain of salt when you started to go into the ‘gender identity’ stuff, but then I watched the rest and realized you weren’t pushing some sort of ideology, just analyzing the work as you saw it. Good job on staying objective, even better job on editing, and fantastic job on the video. Edit: Syntax
One problem I have with your reasoning is that brands AREN'T fully in control of their image. People ascribe their own meaning to products/brands, which may be radically different from the age/meaning marketing may strive to present. Yes, are purchases reflect who we are/want to be, but we determine the meaning of that purchase, which may be radically different, even in opposition to, the image and ideas producer's/marketing may want.
My critique is not about the process by which people ascribe meaning onto the products themselves, this is fairly common behavior. Our buying habits, even without the influence of the seller, can be just as much about the identity we want to project as the utility of the material item. It’s an important part of the human experience. The real critique comes from the way in which this behavior is co-opted and morphed within a capitalist framework. In a system that demands endless growth, these behaviors are weaponized for the purpose of expanding markets or creating an even more insatiable consumer base. Of course people can ascribe their own meaning (it doesn’t matter to the company so long as they are profiting) but consumption doesn’t happen in a vacuum and the ramifications for this weaponized conflation of identity and consumption can and are frequently harmful to culture, the quality of goods and services, and the physical environment itself. I appreciate the constructive criticism though! Thank you
Brand over quality, consumers can mature above this but it requires deliberate focus. Is identity over quality relevant to personal choice or preference? Only if you want it to be.
Huh. I never realized that his existed. I guess I don't identify with politics and products enough to do so. I have never felt the urge to buy fan merchandise.
Hey everyone, since this video has been out for awhile and has the most views of any of my others by a mile I’d like to address the inclusion of the creator Peter Coffin. I do not endorse the decisions and ideas that Peter Coffin has espoused. I understand that other creators have had trouble with them and their most recent defenses of harmful ideas and figures is disappointing to say the least. Their work was helpful to me when learning about various leftist ideas but I do not want my work to send people towards them.
Consumer identity: see the subscribe button. Hey Roman say Hi and I'll do so. already liked. Singed the old man gamewink.
I think this is the highest production for lowest subscriber count I've ever encountered. I hope you take off!
Funny seeing you guys here - love your work!
Same here
Holy serfs!
genuinely blown away how low the view and subscriber count is on the videos from this guy... They're greaaat
I know right?! this is extremely well put together!! So my absolute faves making their living on RUclips aren't this slick
I loved this comic so much as a kid, and it has only aged better since then. Bill Watterson has my eternal respect!
I’ve never liked the idea of having clothes, posters, or any other merchandise of shows I enjoyed. It never set well with me and I never really knew why. One day my brother talked about consumer identity and I feel like maybe something clicked then. I think I just never wanted to define myself through things. The idea felt so cringy or materialist or whatever. I want to be defined by my actions alone.
Hot dang this was amazing! I always knew there was something underneath this comic, but never realized it till now. I hope your channel grows even more!
Calvin's dad is literally my dad, glasses, it builds character, loving the outdoors and waking up early. Also he told me story when I was young and songs, like "the itsy bitsy spider went crawling up your back, sunk in its fangs and had a little snack, when it was done you collapse upon the floor and the itsy, bitsy, spider, went crawling back for more" that was my childhiod
It's situations like where Calvin and Susie are talking about why he didn't join baseball that convince me that the two of them have the potential to be great friends.
It’s one of the more frustrating parts growing up because they really do vibe well together if Calvin could only get over himself
@@RomanBearProductions Agreed.
Theory; Hobbes always seems to have great time when he's with Susie and generally has no problem hanging out with her.
Hobbes is a product of Calvin's imagination. A manifestation of his subconscious, if you will. (Whether or not that makes him real or not is unrelated, to me at least.)
Some part of Calvin desperately wants to be Susie's friend. All his pranks are subliminal attempts to get her attention, by a boy who doesn't know how to actually make friends.
His constant failure to befriend her fuels his dislike of her and other girls. G.R.O.S.S. is his method of protecting his ego.
@@MrSamulai I support this theory with everything I have.
@@RomanBearProductions I hate that boys in media are all made obnoxious while girls are perfect little angels.
"Every read-through is like a gift I get to keep opening." My thoughts exactly. Great video, RomanBear.
Honestly, the part about connections is so true--especially when I think back on how desperately I wanted my stuffed animal to be like Hobbes in a childhood where I felt misunderstood. I connected with the comics core theme so much...plus I was a nerd for the social commentary even as a kid I felt seen by Calvin aka Watterson
Dude, this is excellently put together, love me some Calvin and Hobbes, very excited to see more!
I was right, you’re cool
Thanks! 😊
I study visual communication, one could say that im the enemy for making advertisements and making products more appealing for people and i just cant deny it. We learn that a brand is just 10% different and 90% similar to others, consumers buy brands, not products.
I truly believe there is another way of thinking and producing and consuming, pieces of media like this keeps your feet on the ground.
Loved the video!!
Thank you for the comment and I would never call you an enemy just for working in advertisement (especially as someone that’s worked in advertisement myself). It’s all about being critical of the systems and culture that perpetuate this type of environment.
WOW. Just... Wow. I've never heard the philosophies of this comic meaningfully put into words until now, and it's making me realize how much my favorite comic since first grade significantly shaped my views on advertising and masculinity, and I didn't even notice it! Best video I've seen on C&H, I'd sub twice if I could
I used to sneak into my parents’ room to read their Calvin and Hobbes collection, now that I’m older I’m starting to see the deeper topics addressed. Thank you for the video!
That’s the most wholesome reason I’ve ever heard for sneaking into a parent’s room lol
I think the "I sure didn't buy it for the music" strip was implying that he bought it so that his mom would see it and freak out.
I straight up named my first cat after Hobbes, this comic means so much to me. It's so nice to see it being given the love and depth it deserves by videos like yours! Amazing work!
If I wasn't horribly allergic to cats this would have been my move. Thank you for the kind comment!
Such a nice and deep analysis, entertaining, too! Keep up the fantastic work, comrade!
My cat is named Sprite after Bill Watterson's. Best name ever.
I love that Calvin and Hobbes exists within its own ecosystem, Bill never allowed his work to be taken away by anyone else and putting their spin on it like they have done with Garfield.
This makes it purely timeless, something you can revisit at any time and recontextualise how you see it as an adult compared to how you saw it as a child.
I first came across Calvin and Hobbes in The Stars and Stipes newspaper while stationed in Korea (mid 80's). Really helped get me through that year away. Loved the innocence and imagination of that kid, and the companionship of the two. Favorite strip was the one about the wonder and fascination with the toaster - making toast! Found the complete collection in three bound books at Costco many years ago; now a prized possession 🤓. Thanks for this video, really enjoyed it and appreciate all the effort you put into it!!
In between our schools scholastic book sales where I used to get the full books, I would get the Stars and Stripes for that purpose only haha (grew up on a military base in Japan). Glad you enjoyed the video!
Calvin And Hobbes video essay? I see you are man of culture, an observation solidified by The Producers reference
Hobbes is more real than anything else in this world! Come at me bro!
Amazing video. Fantastic editing. It's such a crime this hasn't gotten more attention.
this is criminally underrated. the editing is top notch. and calvin and hobbes is such an underrepresented piece of media as well.
I always knew thst it was a metaphor for something like this but I never really thought about these examples too hard, thanks for informing us
I had a Webkinz tiger named Hobbes after C and H. I added more to my collection after, but he was my favorite because of my love for the strip. I always felt like Calvin and Hobbes chose me more than I chose them. My first book was Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, and I just remember thinking. I don’t know who these two are yet, but one thing’s for sure. They’re going to take me on some incredible adventures. In other words I was attracted immediately. The snappy humor, the philosophy, amazing artwork and characters. It’s a gem
I enjoyed this video essay so much that I’m actually mad cuz I can’t stop thinking about it.
I guess I should say thank you and sorry. Is there a word that covers them both?
Bruh this might be the best hidden youtube find ever
Oh wow, thank you, just curious, how did you stumble upon the video? I have a hard time promoting my own stuff so it helps to know how people find me.
@@RomanBearProductions i searched up calvin and hobbes video essay!
@@evanniseventy702 Cool cool! thank you
23:23 - PERFECT example from the strip that shows the strip's insight on living in a world surrounded by consumerist media.
As someone who grew up in a very masculine world, every family member having been in the military, growing up in the american south, and so on, it only now occurs to me how much masculinity was baked into my very being. The more I think about it, the more I realize that if I hadn't ever been exposed to the concept that masculinity is not in and of itself an inherent quality of myself because of my genitals, I would never have discovered the world of euphoria and fulfillment I have now. My parents bought me toys and games, and paid for interests that were perceived as unabashedly masculine, and really still are today in a lot of ways. This idea of having my gender 'bought' for me as a child... it really warps the way you think of yourself. I thought of myself as a 'boy/ man' only because I was never presented the option of an alternative. In a sense, I was handed a sunk-cost way of thinking. "mother and father have paid a lot for me to be a boy, so I should be good and be that way, even if I don't really feel like that's true or accurate in any way." The commodification of our identities and the linking of gender norms within these things makes a strange and uncomfortable mask to have to wear as an enby who isn't really fully out.
I appreciate your making me think about that more, and maybe I should re-read Calvin and Hobbes, lol. Thanks!
I’m glad you that you are happy now. Thank you for sharing this.
Just commenting to boost you in the algorithm, because this is great.
Wow. I did not expect such a great breakdown of Calvin and Hobbes! Awesome work! Feel free to do more of these!
Calvin and Hobbes was.. and WILL remain my favourite comic book of all times. It's so deep, heartwarming, phylocophical and entertaining, I don't think something can ever top it for me.
Thank you for this video! I really liked it. Wish you all the best, kind stranger.
I don't think the anti-consumerism message within Calvin and Hobbes was intended to be the main point, though it was certainly on Watterson's mind as he struggled constantly against companies trying to monetize his work through cheap merchandise. I think it comes across more strongly now because it's such a sever problem in the present day.
Like I mention in the beginning, there are a ton of different lenses through which to analyze Calvin and Hobbes. This was just the one I wanted to focus on because I think the comics had a lot to say on matter. Like all art, there is no objective way to understand it and I don’t want to give the impression that I’m telling people “this is what this is about. It’s the main thing to focus on” but I agree that certain topics come into sharper focus during certain periods of time.
This was a wonderful essay! The editing, the music, and the humor all work together to support the powerful argument underneath. I loved Calvin and Hobbes as a kid even though I missed such a large majority of the jokes I'm sure. But maybe it taught me some important lessons I didn't even realize. And in the end, the scenes I remember the most were the ones of the two of them going on their simple, pretty adventures so I think I did get it after all. Instant sub, hope to catch up on everything else youve made soon :)
Like a great band that go by the name of Fugazi once said "You are not what you own"
Geez, I never realized how adult this comic was!
In some of his book introductions he expresses nostalgia and appreciation for the comics of the first third of the XXth Century. The getting beyond rigid lim ited square panels.
Dude this was the video I was looking for, I searched up Calvin and Hobbes hoping for this and I found it right at the top thanks so much I was so surprised how your not a much bigger creator after looking at your subscriber count, I really loved this video and hope you really take off!!
This was a fantastic little video you've made.
I just found this video and I have to comment: this is amazing! I’ve been a huge Calvin and Hobbes since I found a complication at a yard sale. I’m glad you created this video because it did one of my favorite comics justice!!! I’m gonna have this on repeat for the next 10 years
Thank you so much! I used to get mine at Scholastic Book Fairs and would always be so disappointed when they didn’t have any new ones.
Please.. PLEASE make more videos!!Everything about this from the scripting to the editing was some of the best I’ve seen on RUclips and I’ve grown up on this hellscape. I can’t imagine how much effort went into this if my own shit can sometimes take me months and it’s not even half as good. Keep up the great work!!
This is really good! I don’t understand how this has so few views and you have so few subscribers!! Great job 💕
That one image of Calvin going ballistic with a mushroom cloud over his head just floored me! I forgot just how insanely funny Calvin and Hobbes could be. Just that one image and I couldn't laughing.
How am I just now seeing this? Excellent work. Production, writing, animation, all top notch. Keep 'em coming!
Working on it! thanks for the kind comment!
Somehow in SOME WAY no matter HOW MANY YEARS PAST this this little CHILD never seems to AGE
Ash ketchum: finally, a WORTHY OPPONENT, OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY
High, HIGH production value and interesting content! Thanks! Keep up the good work!
Please keep making videos, I honestly loved this one. Great job, will keep tuning into your channel for updates :)
I loved Calvin and Hobbes since I was about 9...I'm about to be 36. This is attributed to why I have a great sense of humor, imagination, and am cynical and hate consumer ideology. Long live Calvin and Hobbes, and I hope Watterson is doing well.
Agreed! The comic began when I was twelve and came to my local paper when I was fourteen. Loved it ever since. ❤
@John Barber I certainly do, for the most part!
@@EverlastingHobnocker oh I'm quite sure he was talking to me haha.
A staggering level of quality
Loved this
C&H has so much depth to it, I don't know if you can really "over"think it
absolutely phenomenal video. Please keep up the work!
Thank you and I will!
Calvin’s mom’s face at 14:12 has haunted my nightmares since I first saw it as a kid
OMG! I never even noticed how absolutely terrifying that face is WTF!?
Love calvin & hobbes
music at 3:30?
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Tribute to the algorithm
A well thought out essay, and a great analysis.
Dang this is great! Awesome production values too!
Words of encouragement to help with the algorythm
Maybe when this comic on insurance was originally written it didn’t mean the insurance company would “hit you with a slingshot.” However if you fast forward to present day, it’s not so far from the truth. Insurance companies have now stuck their greedy little hands into the decisions that physicians make for their patients. Saying what medications are covered and which ones are not, what procedures they will cover and what they will not. Leaving doctors trying to help the insurance companies not the patients (and did you know that all humans are cut from the same cookie cutter), so patients have now lost the connection with their physician. We’re all the same in the insurance games’ eyes. No more being treated like an individual. I could go on, but I’ll shut up now. Calvin and Hobbes was way ahead of its time. I wish Mr. Watterson would get back to the drawing board. There is so much more evil now to expand on … and I so much love Calvin and Hobbes.
glad the youtube algorithm has decided this is good now
19:10 This right here is HILARIOUS
I almost consider Calvin and Hobbes a work of classic literature. It's THAT good.
Nothin’ like sucking the joy out of every square millimeter of a cartoon by overanalysing it.
Slurp slurp
You've got MAD research skills!
Thank you! I feel like I’m pretty bad at it but it all seems to come together lol
@@RomanBearProductions I have subscribed and look forward to more in the future!
3:34
I had to pause the video and look my living room around me. Really makes you think
real good video love the editing/production. suprised you dont have more subscribers
Also, I respect Bill Wattersons' views vis a vis merchandising, but, a lot of fans (like me!) Would have LOVED Calvin and Hobbes merchandise!
I couldn‘t be a bigger Calvin & Hobbes fan and I not only respect his views, I fully agree. It is so amazing that he not only created my favorite comic characters but also has such a wonderful view on these topics.
it's insane that you dont have at least 500k subs
Awesome video! Found it from Reddit.
By any chance, could you please tell me how you made or where you got the yellow background?
Hello God, it's me, RomanBear.
So I took this free overlay: ruclips.net/video/hX_rhsbFET4/видео.html
and brought it into after effects where I slowed it down, looped the footage (you right click on the footage, hit interpret, and change the number of loop times in the menu) and inverted the channels so I ended up with black specks on a white background. After that, I created a new solid for the background which I made the yellow color, and put that underneath the overlay layer. The last step is to change the overlay layer's blending mode to darken.
Hope that has pleased you, lord. It feels somewhat blasphemes to be instructing God. Do not smite, please.
Thank you mortal, you will not die today!
(Seriously, thanks, I will 100% be using that trick)
Loved that, thank you and well done. m
Godwin's Law, RUclips corollary: Whenever a video compares someone or thing to the Nazis, it's officially entered the WTF zone. At this point the video producer either says "crap!" and backpedals furiously back out of the WTF zone, or sells his video to Alex Jones.
I don't mind being the target of consumer research. Helps me find what I want or need. Then, I put the brakes on.
The Great Peanut Butter Fiasco shows EXACTLY where and from whom Calvin got his identity from...
Wtf, this production value is like a 1000 higher than your current sub count
It ought to be a crime that the algorithm waited until 2021 to show me this.
I guess after 10,000 views is when the algorithm Gods decide it’s worth anything.
Loved this video, thank you!!
Thank you for watching!
19:10 please, for the love of god do that for me too. Maybe a comic of Fight Club in the style of Calvin and Hobbes... duuuuuude, DUUUUUUDE HOLY SHIT YEAH MAN!!!
Nationalism is not synonymous with consumer identity. Both can be manipulated by people with nefarious intentions, but they are not the same.
And all of this is why one day I thought to myself: when I adopt a dog, I'm gonna name him Calvin. Later that same day I helped a stray dog who followed me and I ended up taking him home. I was going to try to find him a family, but I had already chosen a name for him that morning and everything, so he stayed! Been with me for 10 years and he still acts like you'd expect a Calvin to act. :)
That’s amazing and adorable.
how does this have so little views wtf
Excellent video.
Obligatory mention of Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Machine. I'd higly recommend a listen!
Welcome my son, Welcome to the machine!
Where have you been? It's all right, we know where you've been
You've been in the pipe line filling in time,
Provided with toys and scouting for boys.
You bought a guitar to punish you ma,
You didn't like school,
And you know you're nobody's fool.
What did you dream? It's al right we told you what to Dream!
VERY NICE.
The only part I disagree with is the propeller beanie example. Calvin wants the propeller beanie because he actually believes it will give him the ability to fly. We see him imagining his travels through the sky with said beanie. Calvin frequently dreams of leaving his home & family and escaping the numerous irritants of his life, and his obsession with the beanie is based on that; the beanie is the first thing he's encountered that promises that escape. But he has no grasp of aeronautics and we can see from his fantasies every reason why his dream will fail before the beanie even arrives.
Consumer identity has little to do with this example. It's pure desperation-based escape fantasy.
Bro this video slaps
Thank you!
Found you by the Noah leftist video comment section. Great video.
I loved this video so much! Subbed ^^
As a man that didn't do sports until 18, when I found climbing, I wish someone would've pushed me to do more exercise before that. Because life will demand a certain level of competition (if anything, with yourself), and you don't learn discipline and effort by playing by yourself all day.
There's a reason sports are an ancient thing: it's a controlled competition, in order to prepare a man for the actual competition of life. (Most jobs require teamplaying, btw...).
It's a much lesser evil to force sports on a kid (reasonably, obviously), than it is to allow him to be sedentary. The problem is, taking the kid to sports requires time and gas, and having him in his room with a console doesn't. And in nowaday's families where both parents work full time, well... guess which one is the more common.
Also, it's never been true that women have to be 20 pounds underweight as Susie claims. If anything, that's imposed by other women, just like the importance they put on accesories and clothes. Men are perfectly fine (the vast majority prefers it) with a woman that is in her optimal weight. Sure, ads and films portray the ideal body, but that's as true for women as it is for men. Susie doesn't really have a point there (16:34). There's other things she could've counter with, but not that.
I was about to start taking this video with a grain of salt when you started to go into the ‘gender identity’ stuff, but then I watched the rest and realized you weren’t pushing some sort of ideology, just analyzing the work as you saw it. Good job on staying objective, even better job on editing, and fantastic job on the video.
Edit: Syntax
Ugh fuck off with your transphobic dog whistles
this is like the spongebob skin theory all over again, holy crap!
The...what...?
this was absolutely godlike. im going to reread the comics i have now, ty. music at 13:35 and 19:28 ? theyre just so wavey
iT'S A COMIC STRIP! SIT DOWN!
i liked it because it made me laugh.
One problem I have with your reasoning is that brands AREN'T fully in control of their image. People ascribe their own meaning to products/brands, which may be radically different from the age/meaning marketing may strive to present. Yes, are purchases reflect who we are/want to be, but we determine the meaning of that purchase, which may be radically different, even in opposition to, the image and ideas producer's/marketing may want.
My critique is not about the process by which people ascribe meaning onto the products themselves, this is fairly common behavior. Our buying habits, even without the influence of the seller, can be just as much about the identity we want to project as the utility of the material item. It’s an important part of the human experience. The real critique comes from the way in which this behavior is co-opted and morphed within a capitalist framework. In a system that demands endless growth, these behaviors are weaponized for the purpose of expanding markets or creating an even more insatiable consumer base. Of course people can ascribe their own meaning (it doesn’t matter to the company so long as they are profiting) but consumption doesn’t happen in a vacuum and the ramifications for this weaponized conflation of identity and consumption can and are frequently harmful to culture, the quality of goods and services, and the physical environment itself. I appreciate the constructive criticism though! Thank you
Brand over quality, consumers can mature above this but it requires deliberate focus. Is identity over quality relevant to personal choice or preference? Only if you want it to be.
Great intro, keep that fun personality in your videos; even if you feel wyrd about it sometimes. =D
Dayum, it for real -real- quick though... To be expected given the source, but I'm still curious how your other essays will hit
Here before 200 subscribers.
It may be of interest to you to know that they are based on philosophers John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes.
Huh. I never realized that his existed. I guess I don't identify with politics and products enough to do so. I have never felt the urge to buy fan merchandise.
Supportive algorithm comment.