The Tragic Truth of The Oldest View

[@yeetdude7560]

13:54 now all I can think about is the giant absolutely racing on the freeway while being chased by the police with the free bird solo playing in the background

[@norar.2439]

oh my lord i LOVE that mental image

[@kandycult]

i need to find out how to edit so this can become a reality

[@yeetdude7560]

@@kandycultif you do pls reply to this comment I need that in my life lmao

[@greenberrygk]

😭😭😭

[@TheoGarza]

Freebird sucks

[@SPACECATIZZY]

"we're living in part 4" and the explanation that followed really struck a chord. Kane is clearly very talented and knowledgeable at telling touching stories through memorable media.

[@BestCupid]

Blows my mind that he's only 18 and he's come up with some seriously high quality videos

[@willatom]

part 4 is the life of a giant.

[@deysiing7385]

"we don't see him hurt his shoulder" my man he rammed into like 3 doors to try and open them and a few walls while sprinting away , yes we do

[@KittyChibiWaifu]

The map scene was a dead giveaway he was in an alternate timeline. The fact he looks around at his surroundings not for the monster, but to try and remember if everything looks the same. I only caught that fact after reading the comments. Its such a small thing to miss haha.

[@KlirickAK]

I damn right broke up crying at the end. The very idea of a ghost that is scared of being forgotten, struck me to the heart. And i love how how the creepiness just dissapear when you rewatch the video with this new mindset.

[@MaxOrDieYT]

We are only scared when we dont understand.

[@GoldenBloks]

Womp womp

[@wheresthecandy2019]

cool maybe its something called a opinion​@@GoldenBloks

[@Walts69]

@GoldenBloks Blud really said womp womp 💀

[@Walts69]

Ikr like The Life Of A Giant Did the same to me bro

[@neru5839]

I vividly remember Valley View Mall, as a Dallasite myself. Seeing it fully recreated is astounding to me

[@Jarethenator]

With regards to Wyatt's injured left arm. There was a brief moment where he slammed his right arm into a wall during his sprint through the hallways. If he is a mirrored/flipped version of himself, that injury would now be to the left arm.

[@daxfax4387]

i was thinking about the same thing, that was put there on purpose 100%

[@theepicmonke1314]

My theory is that when Wyatt is running away from the Rolling Giant in part 3, at one point he gets cornered and eventually busts down what looks to be a piece of plywood or something by slamming into it with his shoulder, so I think he injured his shoulder in the process of busting it down, but your theory also makes complete sense.

[@PseudoSamurai]

@@theepicmonke1314 Accumulated stress. Could be both of those situations! We all know repeated trauma to an area and repeated usage will wear it down quickly.

[@Hanoveur]

I never thought the giant was bad. I mean, exactly what would it do to Wyatt if it caught up to him? Branch him to death? It can’t even move its “arms”.

[@ExpertContrarian]

It’s very clearly bad and dangerous. It tries to sneak up on him, it ambushes him, and has strength enough to burst through walls

[@Hanoveur]

@@ExpertContrarian watch out. The evil Botanist is gonna get you. I think it’s more trying to warn him about the mall itself…but if you’re trapped in something that looks like that, it’s naturally going to be hard for anyone to understand that.

[@ExpertContrarian]

@@Hanoveur its tactics say otherwise. If I was the giant I could easily get them out and be able to communicate. Unless you want to say it’s intelligence is impaired, it’s malicious

[@gabrielandriel8960]

It can't move its arms, just as it couldnt move if someone was looking and just as it couldnt use the stairs.

[@milenatomanic25]

It can break through walls, but it does look like it was trying to help in some wierd way.

[@sitraahra1979]

There are things that you are missing I think. Wyatt died and did get out. He got to the same place that the naturalist was and is. I don't think this is about "snapshots". I think everything might be happening all at once. This feels like we're looking at higher dimension events but without the ability to actually see the higher dimensions. He experienced both events at once, which is why his arm is hurt. Not having reception doesn't mean he's not from this world. It means he did not make it back "home" any more than he did when he died. He's been dispersed. He is many places and times at once, like the botanist, who may exist in the Giant, the past, and elsewhere at the same time.

[@wormscarf4085]

Yes but it couldn’t have happened all at once because you see his body laying on the ground before he would’ve died😊

[@DarkEssence66]

God this is why I love this series cause it gives me outer wilds vibes when theorized

[@Unplugged7]

​@@wormscarf4085 doesn't disprove anything

[@MrSlime456]

So I just finished the video and I just wanted to say, I'm really glad your hopeful and more innocent take on the Giant lived on through this episode. The first time I had ever heard of or watched anything related to "The Oldest View" was through your first video and afterwards when I went to go look for more videos all of them just had the same outlook of the Giant being malicious or evil, saying that the Giant wasn't letting him leave or wanted him dead. Your videos on this series, where the giant was at first a being who was just trying to help Wyatt out and make him leave and then with new information just a lonely thing hanging out in the mall, are among some of my favorite videos on youtube.

[@justsomelurkerrr]

the fact that every time around is getting more recognition cause of this series genuinely overjoys me cause it's my favorite song. I basically had a heart attack hearing it in Dispersal

[@dymaxion3988]

Personally, I don’t think any parallel universe shenanigans are happening. The mall has demonstrated timey-wiminess inside, such as changing to a future version of itself without Wyatt or the giant being affected, or Wyatt’s body being visible before he falls in part 3. I think the giant (and/or the mall) turned back the clock to let Wyatt leave, but I don’t think it was due to any change of heart. I think it was all part of what it intended Wyatt to see, almost like as in a fairy tale. I think Wyatt ultimately left remembering his own death as well as two conflicting versions of events, and his behaviour after making it back to the surface is due to both being shaken up and experiencing strong cognitive dissonance.

[@Daze..]

dude i just this day watched your original explanation video for the oldest view this was quite the pleasant surprise, glad there is going to be some closure on the new installment of the arg

[@greenberrygk]

I’ve never gotten this freaked out by any horror series. It’s totally haunting and the fact that it’s based on a real mall is not helping 😭

[@Iceyxx123]

And also in part 3 when he went to the back of the mall and when he went outside and plants were grown he probably went to the future and thats when the body appeared in both dispersal and part 3 at the bottom of amc and this all makes sense cause everything aged so he went to the future at that moment

[@Mark.OnEarth]

This video is incredibley well-done and I love how you noticed and managed to piece together things that I didn't even think about.

[@AnxusMalus]

I have no words, wonderfully done video, I love the idea of Rememberance and the fear of being forgotten, so much more of it makes sense in that context, and when you showed Kane's discord post everything clicked instantly, the fact that we are now the carriers of memorys of Julian, its as if he came back from the dead and Kane showing us gave him another chance to exist instead of being forgotten to the gap of unrecorded history, Keep up the good stuff mate 🤘

[@Iceyxx123]

But in the normal part 3 there was also a body below him into he AMC part stating that either Wyatt kept dying and coming back or someone else also met the giant and died

[@Muzzle1300]

Something I remembered from the first video was when Wyatt yelled “what do you want” and suddenly things started breaking apart but at the same time lights flickered revealing bodies, I think these are Wyatt’s from different timelines all converging in the mall all failed attempts to escape meaning the one leaving the clues and hints are actually just Wyatt doing trial and errors until finally one succeeds. My theory is that in this world you take on the image of what you were last known for, in the beginning we see Julian as he was as a normal person but now he’s the giant as the image of him was distorted, and the issue is if Wyatt dies who’s last view of Julian was the giant then all that will leave is the destroyed version the giant to be doomed to watch everything decay. If this is the case then I think the giant can be somewhat guiding Wyatt to actually escape, even though the giant will still be stuck in the “mall” he’ll be able to freely move as the last things someone remembers of him is being a giant moving around, so once everything decays and goes back to the forest the giant is free to move in the world. One thing I would point out is how off the giant is when it’s pursuing Wyatt as it can kill him at any point yet chooses to leave him alone, I think it’s trying to spook him in the correct direction, when he’s at the escalators it leaves him alone as he’s going the right way putting in Wyatt’s mind that upstairs is safe but only when Wyatt is up the stairs knowing about the exit does the giant continue pursuing him, perhaps this is him continuing to spook him as a “there’s no turning back”. The giant also has a big gain if Wyatt escapes with footage of the giant/Julian kind of going into a meta narrative, it guarantees it’s existence further as Wyatt will post the video online getting the giant more attention and even more of his original self

[@FordMustangFoxbody]

There was a horse lying on the ground as well.

[@spookmeyer970]

Kane took something doomed to more or less being forever forgotten, and has more or less immortalized it into the memory of the internet. The imagery of the hole opening and exposing the Giant to light is exactly what happened with the Giant. If you watch Wendigoon's first watch stream of Part 3, kane joins in, and after Wendigoon is done watching it, he shows him a lot of the source footage used in Life Of A Giant, and tells the story of how he found out about the Giant in the first place, and how, amongst a small circle of his friends, they had become extremely fascinated by the Giant and how it became the centerpiece of this story. Wyatt 'dies' on the day the mall is destroyed. This is the truth; the mall is dead, Wyatt is dead. But a snapshot of the mall will live on; in archival footage of it, and in the Oldest View. While Wyatt is dead, he lives forever in this story. So does the Giant. And as Kane unburied the Giant, the Giant now can take Wyatt's Kia for a spin and go flying down the highway, to intrigue and fascinate us all. In the end of Dispersal, Wyatt is the Giant and the Giant is Wyatt. Look again at wyatt again when he resurfaces. He's not even walking right. This Wyatt isn't anymore the actual Wyatt than the Giant was the actual Giant in the actual Mall. It's a piece of that 300,000 years of unknown mystery escaping out again. I don't think Kane is likening himself to an Archaeologist making a breakthrough discovery setting the timeline of humanity further back than we thought. I don't think he thinks he's discovered Gobleki Tepe, he's just likening them. He made his own discovery, and while it isn't the same thing as helping establishing the longevity of humanity, it is going to get it's own wikipedia page. The purpose of this was the immortalize the Giant, immortalize Julien Reverchard, immortalize a piece of Dallas, hell, two pieces of Dallas, immortalize the feelings these liminal spaces give us. I think that's the purpose of the whole project. I think you're missing the point when you go on about entities or alternate timelines or realities. Kane has said TOV isn't an alternate reality. It's our reality.

[@ContrastComparison]

Kane’s music is legendary too. such a talented young lad

[@LDT2001]

That's one thing that I thought when I watched the original video; that we never actually see the giant get violent until the end, up until then it was just following Wyatt but he ran away because it looked "uncanny as f*ck".

[@prod.s0dda]

yeah and Julien was in the rolling giant cuz it was the only thing that can move on wheels in the mall and he could not change his look but he just wanted to have someone with him and didnt really want to hurt wyatt so he didnt want him to leave cuz that would leave him all alone tho wyatt's mindset was that julien wanted to kill him. That makes a lot of sense...

[@bonoskate]

imagine being one of those youtubers that explore abandoned places after watching the oldest view

[@concernedandequal1928]

Makes sense. Dispersal means something gets spread around. I thought maybe the giant had "changed" the sequence of events to in some way "inhabit" the main character's mind or even body.

[@quentinreeves4291]

i honestly think you are one of the most underrated youtubers your video have always and will always have me on the edge of my seat

[@Eazy_is_hizname88]

As your typical Dallas resident, I can confirm that this is what happens on a day to day basis 🤷

[@aidanwilliams6489]

“OR his arm was just tired from recording for 45 minutes” this made me laugh but it really could be why hes clutching his shoulder 😂

[@BERRYBEEMSTER]

bro i just realized you are the dude from tiktok. didn't think you'd ever make these kinds of videos, but it's nice to see since they are really good! keep it up!

[@temperingtantrum]

Caleb, your videos on this have been amazing. A much more understandable version than the TOV videos alone. Thank you man.

[@nisanoah2543]

Amazing video man great theories, great development, and all-around great writing. Deserves way more attention

[@pyrosnineActual]

My take is he hurt his arm when he fell on the stairs at the beginning of the climb. He could also be having a small heart attack, as he ran up like, a kajillion stairs without taking a long rest. The more interesting thing to me, is that Wyatt is glitching. The distant view of Wyatt showing him "escaping" into the outside world is pixelated- he at first has a low framerate, he then smooths out after a certain distance, but he's always slightly off-key, always slighting poorly clipping. Kane's usually really good at mixing and blending, so these obvious "gaffs" seem intentional, to show that Wyatt is somehow out of sync- or perhaps, isn't alive. My take is Wyatt died, but just as the mall and the giant are a memory lingering, Wyatt too, is a memory- one saved upon a phone, one uploaded to KZbin- and because we remember Wyatt, Wyatt lives on even after he "dies". So this "ghost" of Wyatt has a chance to escape- he has no signal, he has no connection, because he's dead- and thus only exists digitally in a kind of fake world. The drive home, the warping, all look like it's being done a "live" version of Google Maps, the 360 view- not the real road, but a memory of it. Wyatt and the giant live on in memory.

[@theangrygrunt1481]

good theory actually

[@JayjayBorja-hb1lm]

12:07 Wyatt is probably clutching his left shoulder bc when he landed on the stairs he actually landed on his left shoulder. I mean you never know man you never know

[@Ben-g5w9z]

12:21 looks like this is his left hand. his arm, elbow, and hand with the phone are all joined together in his shadow. the sun is at his 7 O-clock (back left side). his body would block his right arm's shadow, but not his left. and his arm is on the left side of his shadow's body. I think it has to be what you said or he got hurt in the mall (like when he fell and died)

[@puppycakes9982]

Bro really said "you will remember me, remember me, for centuries"

[@TopSpeedKertus]

1) 9:30 Wyatt's "original" body is also shown in "The Rolling Giant (The Oldest View Part 3)", aka the version of the video in which he dies. 2) 9:45 In Dispersal, the "A" in "AMC" only comes loose after Wyatt enters the stairwell. Prior to that, it's secured in place just like it is in Part 3 and I'd assume comes loose when the structural support collapses, like it did in Dispersal. 3) 9:52 Assuming we took a screenshot at the exact same moment in both videos, the malls would probably look exactly the same.

[@calliesnotcreative]

my fave video essayist making a video on my favourite indie filmmaker? THIS IS A GOOD DAY

[@CornerArrivals]

the company which owns the mall is starting a project Dallas Midtown as a form of mall revival. This is what brought Wyatt back. If the mall is demolished in real life and what "remains" of it metaphysically is underground and thats where Wyatts death takes place, then bringing it back up will make Wyatt's death impossible. Timey whimey movie mall magic. But it makes sense.

[@butamoe-my7qt]

Just wow… now I understand the meaning of the whole story!! Thanks so much!! Awesome commentary; you must’ve aced in English class

[@spizun]

I feel bad for the Giant now

[@Ben-g5w9z]

9:59 and the horse is still there

[@insmashbaby4347]

Such a great analysis, really think you got everything right here. Love this series so much and this has helped me understand it that much better.

[@carolusa6600]

Absolutely wonderful interpretation! Thank you so much

[@timboslice1979]

Probably just me, but the car noise sounds more like bad shocks than the rolling giant!

[@sofiaabdul2819]

Never clicked so fast

[@funonthebun7662]

If in the car with giant rolling noises the perspective is Wyatt, then that guy needs to keep his eyes on the road

[@sophialillian8508]

Something tells me Kane likes people with the last name "Beck". First, Ivan Beck, then Scott Beck...

[@NoName-xg5xn]

I discovered the series through watching Silent Hill 2 videos. Kane is a genius & his creations need an immediate boost into something LARGER than youtube.

[@HauntHunterOfficial]

Maybe he landed on his left arm when he jumped to the emergency exit

[@Crystal_959]

I figured Wyatt hurt his shoulder pulling himself out of the hole he had to climb through to get out of the staircase

[@MarioPorpor.]

8:10 I'm not sure if it's wyatt's body because i have seen this "body" in part 3 too so idk if its wyatt's body

[@AnChibiIdiot]

Same!

[@AnChibiIdiot]

OH WAIT WAIT HES TALKING ABOUT WYATTS BODY STILL BEING THERE FROM PART 3

[@Frog_Enigma]

man didnt expect it to be this sad

[@WhipperSnapper_463]

At least we were right that the rolling giant would follow road laws

[@shortyportymcmorty370]

This is likely totally unrelated, but i figured it be worth bringing up just in CASE it ends up being something later, but i find it curious how Scott Beck, a real person, shares a name with Ivan Beck, a reoccurring character in Kane' s other work. It may be a coincidence, and I'm unsure if Kane knew of Scott Beck before he chose the name Beck for the backrooms, but it would be interesting if we later found out that these two characters might be connected. Its most likely nothing, but still a neat coincidence to think about

[@Julian_Edits]

I don't know if this has to do with anything but the sound of the giant on the road at the end sounds like those videos, "What does the Earth's magnetic field sound like" I saw the original Dispersal today and then randomly came across one of those videos on instagram and was like "that sounds super familiar."

[@austinrichard8046]

Beautiful video Such a great analysis of the story we have gotten to see This is similar to my interpretation The mall + and giant being lost to time until Wyatt (and us) see it in a "liminal" view

[@LucyWoIf]

I think the reason hes holding his shoulder is simply having a side stitch after all the stairs he was running up

[@Nikodem418]

wyatt: i fear no man, but that thing. the rolling giant: im gonna ram into this wall now :3 wyatt: it scares me.

[@tristanjensen4156]

Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats

[@afonsodeportugal]

The rats is the crazy part. Sanitation is especially important in mental institutions.

[@MasterBotttle]

I think the camera guy just experience quantum mortality.

[@daxfax4387]

another detail; he actually hit the wall with his right arm. but at the end he's grabbing his left arm.

[@hydjryebxgdkajdhf892]

i really think that the vlogger became a giant

[@AS-vv9nt]

I'm not someone that has the right to confront your theory as I only watched and didn't analyzed every aspect of Kane's "The Oldest View" videos (and I remember few things about your latest videos before that one). However, I've never had a good feeling about the Giant; the way it acts is very agressive. I think your theory tries to explain it's behavior very well, but I still get incoherent vibes between your theory with the giant's attitude. For example, how can you explain this part of the last video considering this current theory: when Wyatt asks for the Giant "What do your want?" and then you see some animals's dead bodies before the Giant charged against him. The Giant's way of acting is my main doubt. Cool video though, I really liked.

[@danandtab7463]

I just wanted to point out that just before he gets to the escape in this version of events, he says something like "it's okay...everything's okay". Just interesting that he says that. Anyways great video. I can't wait to see what happens next in this...

[@wormscarf4085]

He says that in part 3 too

[@thebandit6886]

Holy shit! I didnt even notice that his body was on the ground!

[@Caspians_Corner]

Another video god bless

[@Deth69Destruction]

If the Backrooms movie really came out, I would like to see some reference to TOV, maybe something about the mall or the Giant

[@jakeblaine2380]

17:28 VANSIRE MENTIONED I liked them in 2020 before they were cool 😎

[@rush2520]

You did say that the exit that “alternate” Wyatt used was like rarely used, but then why was it looking like it was used by the dirt. it looks like it was used alot. stuff like that cant exist if someone walks there once, there needs to be multiple uses of that path. so maybe you are wrong, but i dont know

[@antoniotonyparent123]

Since your going back (and I'm just remembering this from the first time I watched it) but when he gets to the AMC theater that same pov is also the pov when he's leaving also the first time there is a shadow in the front rolling that startled him which looks like the giant. Let me know if this is true q

[@hamburgersteakwithfries]

i like the part where julien was there and started to move it move it

[@Floppa141]

9:59 I think the sound of the breaking is the a

[@Ben-g5w9z]

19:41 what's with the fork? also good video. had so much fun. this gave me many new ideas about the series (I watched this at like 3:00, so what I say may not make sense. sorry)

[@madam-mint]

I’m subscribing just for you using music by HOME, but this analysis is lovely. I interpreted it as the Giant wanting to be around people and be loved by them again…I was only terrified of him for a moment. Those arms reaching out…just always struck me as him less wanting to hurt anyone and more wanting to touch something alive again.

[@kingtrashbag651]

So oldest view is a monument mythos reference 💀

[@Ben-g5w9z]

next time there will be a weird tree in the

[@vanesagonzalez8277]

as helper helpd him build the project

[@thejaded]

I just wanna point out that the clouds don't move as well

[@malignantdentistry8912]

Great video as always. I think probably the reason Wyatt is holding his arm at the end is that he hurt it when he shouldered open that door to escape from the rolling giant.

[@cmd34sback]

I personally think the giant possesed Wyatt

[@vojtadavidtrojan5365]

this is just so sad i feel bad for the guy

[@dino361]

I belive that his shoulder is hurt because he broke the door to scape from the gigant

[@damonvesely3643]

holy shit you are underated

[@PumpkinMan-qe8te]

I watched both of youre videos about the oldest view and you never discussed about the falling planks in part 3 that revealed a pathway. Do you have any idea what that could mean?

[@GenesisStyle]

14:04 May I question, what's the name of the SFX ( or OST ) used here? However; I wish everyone a great day.

[@OliverRoberts-ql2gi]

what does the giant want?

[@reilruiz9465]

Cane pixels:WTF it's not my fault 🖕😡

[@raffiepro]

That wasn't tragic, that was hopeful!

[@fortnight5677]

He is also holding the phone with his left hand when looking at GPS.

[@Demid_martin2013]

How was his corpse there, he's alive 8:18

[@akirasatano]

loop

[@wblansh1104]

Thought your profile was Ozzy Osbourne

[@KyzenEX]

"Falls to his death.. and dies" got me laughing ngl

[@BrunoGatoGooglemúsica]

amc EXE de la sierra es la que está ahí en la sierra

[@Miss_circle99935]

😮

[@ItzIceyVR]

god damn that was a good video

[@WarFoxThunder]

Wow!

[@VincentMendoza-ue8ey]

Looks like wyat is in game situation when he died he goes back where he trapped its called respawn he keep attempting to escape but failed many times until he escapes

[@TooSickToDressVictorian]

I still find the giant on the road at the end strange. Sure, his viewpoint might not move up or down, but we see him looking *sideways* while still moving forward. We can hear his typical rooling too. We have never seen him be able to twist, and so far he was only able to move forward and turn, not swerve to the side, so I don’t know who that‘s supposed to be possible.

[@MusicBird08]

As the video explained, It's more of a emphatic thing by adding the rolling sound but the giant is actually not there. He is said to live inside Wyatt's mind and seeing through Wyatt.

[@Ben-g5w9z]

drifting

[@Sunset_in_a_cave]

1 like=1 rip for Julien

[@Tman-zp3mt]

I have a theory that the drving part us not the giant in a way i think it is the car but we are seeing what the main character sees his warped version if the world

[@MoveFaster]

Result: Your life doesn't matter. You will be forgetten.

[@sjo8851]

4 views in a minute fell off

[@bananabus.]

skill issue on ur part frfr

[@gungulon2347]

Are you and all of the other unfunny runts apart of some hivemind dedicated to spamming this comment everywhere?