@@choerim absolutely! I personally love when my conclusions manage to overlap with someone else’s even if they weren’t very obvious or even intended because it’s one of those aha! moments when u feel just a little more justified in your collective understanding (if u don’t mind I’d love to know if u have some specific examples of where we overlapped (or maybe even where we differentiated)? No pressure though, I’m just curious). I imagine you feel this too but such a big part of theorizing sometimes is throwing all kinds of things at the wall and hoping it sticks, this video was a lot of that for me because of how open ooo’s lore is (especially back in the day when their direction still could’ve gone anywhere) and I’m very relieved things actually managed to stick! Really thank you for watching and the compliments 🫶

@@lou2766 I get what you mean with the "throwing things at the wall and hoping they stick" analogy, I definitely felt that way when I was working on my very first theory video about the instinct series. I had all these scattered thoughts and a deep attachment to instinct part 2 that I had to articulate or I would've driven myself crazy, and I was really worried the fandom reaction would be a collective "wtf". The overwhelmingly positive response to that video has made me a lot more confident in theorizing going forward. I hope you feel confident about your own theories too, you have every reason to! Honestly, pinning down specific similarities in our theories - or differences, for that matter - is really hard even though there were moments when I pointed at the screen and went "I said/thought that before!". I think it's because the true similarities lay in our general approach to analyzing their art, so the conclusions we arrive at often have the same fundaments even if their differ a little in the final stage. It seems that we both understand the meaning of their art to lie in a multitude of perspectives, which build a bigger picture, but also exist as separate, smaller pictures, shifting and overlapping depending on how you choose to look at them and which part to focus on. Actually, your mention of cubism in the dOra maar analysis has been a huge influence on how I understand their art, so thank you for that! I think the line in seOul drift "the head won't understand, the more complicated the clearer it gets" has made that cubist lense feel justified as a way to analyze their entire lore. It's not meant to be something intimidating and impenetrable with symbolism too intricate for the average person to grasp, it's a human story about human emotions and experiences, and any approach to it is valid because all that matters is that you felt something. This is also why articulating a lot of my points is difficult in a KZbin comment. Their lore exists as something so abstract, vibrant and non-fixed in my head that explaining my thoughts in a more detailed, cohesive way usually takes a good few hours/days and results in a long essay. The most recent analysis I wrote was a Tumblr post after I saw OOO live in concert, idk if you'd be interested in reading it though. It's mostly focused on how the perspective of us as spectators fits into the larger picture of their art, how it can add more meaning to the themes of putting someone on a pedestal, or the snippets of their idol life we see in the skinz MV etc. Sorry for the already long comment, but something I forgot to mention previously is that the beat and beyOnd storyline chronology you came up with is actually so great! Putting the scene with Mill getting bullied and Nine helping him run away as the first event makes so much sense, I always took it at face value that it happened later into their relationship but you're right, everything makes a lot more sense when you think of it as their very first meeting.

@@choerim interesting thank you! and i can definitely empathize with that, whenever i see some abstract connection I usually note it down so now my notes are a mess of so many ideas that can connect to each other in a bunch of different ways. and sometimes its so hard to decide what you want to emphasize or actually write a whole theory around because its so many moving parts. Even with this video i had so many moments where i thought about savanna's connection to something else like libidO or skinz (in terms of the meta which is a whole other beast, def send me that post if u want btw) and felt so bummed i couldn't explore it in depth without it becoming some huge tangent lol. Also dont worry abt lenghty comments, i love reading. As for the beat beyOnd chronology, it was certainly one of those "i hope this sticks moments" and reading that it resonated for you as well is a WIN! thank you again

@@or0ro this is a beautiful way of looking at it. Thank you

@@aftertake24 brainrot never dies

Thank you

no but actually jisung i love you but who was he tryna pull in that mv 😭😭 especially that helicopter attempt. the only game i see here is the arcade