Cookie Clicker Explained

This is a video about clicking cookies.
Cookie Clicker: orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclic...
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Special thanks to Patrons Cameron Weiss, Michael Appell, Ryan Steele, Eric Louis-Dreyfus, Triangle Wine Company, Harry, Shane Veglia, Nikos Moraitakis, Zach Gordon, Steven Placencia, Joel Soucy, Ali Almuhanna, Trace Mychal, Ria McDoodle, Tim Cunniff, Livesundersink, Joshua, Travlis Hallingquest.
0:00 Cookie Clicker
3:41 Cookie strategy
6:46 Cookie apocalypse

[@schizoamphibian]

"I promise I won't get political" 3 drinks later:

[@krystofdayne]

Haha that hits way too close to home 😂

[@Mikelica69]

XD

[@MechanicWolf85]

More like 3 coockies later

[@parxalot]

This is my favorite comment

[@ikethethotslayercertifiedw5782]

Honestly when you disregard the "haha funni cookiez" part this game becomes a pretty good metaphor for how capitalism has warped our society into something that thrives off of pieces of paper that would normally be worthless. Except instead of paper it's cookies.

[@Terlinilia]

Beginning: "Oh cool, a grandma!" Late game: ⟟ ⊑⏃⎐⟒ ⏁⍀⏃⋏⌇☊⟒⋏⎅⟒⎅ ⏁⍜ ⏁⊑⟒ ⊑⟟☌⊑⟒⌇⏁ ⌿⌰⏃⋏⟒ ⍜⎎ ☊⍜⋏☊⟟⍜⎍⌇ ⏃⋏⎅ ⟟ ⋔⎍⌇⏁ ⋔⏃☍⟒ ⋔⍜⍀⟒ ☊⍜⍜☍⟟⟒⌇

[@BoneJuices]

Haha yeah I know that… language…

[@BoneJuices]

Totally

[@karl3814]

@@BoneJuices its the ender man language

[@G0nz4x]

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

[@bullymaguire2402]

Į HÆVË TRÆÑÇËÑDĘD ŪPŒÑ THË HÜMÆÑ ŚPĮĆĒŠ

[@DanneJackie]

"Disaster is actually an opportunity, to exploit the vulnerable, to make more wealth" Wow. Speechless

[@hazukichanx408]

Hang on, feels like I've seen this one before... seems really familiar for some reason!

[@user-te7rf8ik7z]

Disaster is a ladder... Made of cookies.

[@stevenhetzel6483]

"Never let a good disaster go to waste." It repeats. Time and time again. Ukraine, the Hawaiian fire crisis, wealthy mouths snapping up lands and resources, increasing their imaginary numbers for the sake of numbers. But it's okay because I got TikTok dancers and Kim Kardashian is in the new AHS.

[@born2ryde1990]

Hi

[@crisrufo6988]

Covid be like

[@DieysonGomesCC]

I saw my kid playing this game and I got curious, so I decided to watch this video. I wasn't expecting anything past the first 30 seconds

[@DarkzPlaya]

it's finally here kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJmphqyIh8R-ntE

[@ThatOneCatGamePlayer]

Biggest mistake

[@Ineedanameguyshelpme]

your kid wants to learn how to conquer the world with cookies. Stop them now!

[@mydasthought]

Cap

[@brridk9296]

“what radicalized you?” “....cookie clicker”

[@_boykissa]

type all info of that messages and all the achievements

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

nostalgia

[@uly22]

Cookie clicker is the reason we got all the world wars and the cold war

[@baseddepartment1645]

Based

[@eges72]

@@uly22 We click the cookie since 16th century

[@AgentM124]

"This site uses cookies" *Accepts* The website:

[@aaronjoshua8964]

LMFAO

[@stefanivvan959]

👏👏

[@dylancreations4934]

Pog

[@pileoftoysroadto100sub6]

COOKIES

[@TinyDeskEngineer]

"Unsurprisingly, Cookie Clicker uses cookies to save game data"

[@mikkel1]

The transition from "The only way we can escape such a game... is to stop playing" and the nonchalant "Thanks for watching this video about cookie clicker". 10/10.

[@Misurji]

It's the web game that you think is for 30 minutes of clicking, but once you play for a little bit longer you discover how fricking complex this game is. I mean even Clicker Heroes isn't that complicated and extensive.

[@JustAJosuke]

And to think: The ascension system alone took the devs of cookie clicker a few YEARS to make it as good as it was, of which it came out at about march of 2016.

[@louiserbn7689]

​@@JustAJosuke isnt orteil the only dev?

[@DarkzPlaya]

it's finally here kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJmphqyIh8R-ntE

[@shanggosteen9804]

​@@louiserbn7689Orteil and Opti, their friends and roomates and their the devs of cookie clicker

[@CerealExperimentsMizuki]

Clicker Heroes is a bigger and longer game and thr income you can generate goes well past the Googolplex and into the 4\⁴⁷⁶³ numbers which is absurd but there is less to do in it and less things to upgrade and all that.

[@kariem6998]

Season 8 really messed him up didn't it

[@fps8786]

Which show?

[@heisenberg2712]

When you play the cookie game you either win or you die

[@stfnknbb]

Heyo!

[@larl07]

Actual LOL at this

[@TwelveK]

😂😂😂😂

[@thunderclap7154]

A cookie economy is always gonna crumble

[@reckzom]

Ong lol

[@strangwax1020]

That's why too much can make you dough up

[@eivind3263]

And that's the way the cookie crumbles

[@ghoulbuster1]

NOT FUNNY DIDN'T LAUGH

[@senboy9002]

Nice one

[@sivander8740]

"Disaster is actually an opportunity to exploit the vulnerable to make more wealth" hardest fucking quote ever for cookie clicker

[@Micha-Hil]

"...you can increase economic production by risking the lives of the elderly." shit got real

[@Nate9273]

shit got covid real

[@clasher3732]

valid.

[@andrewcgs]

Wait until they introduce child labour... oh wait...

[@eges72]

@@Nate9273 Not just covid-19, climate change can also be comparable, that is also an opportunity for many business owners to make more profit

[@Cathowl]

When I stop playing other games for a while I usually say, "I got distracted", "I've been slacking", "Oops, I should get back to that". When I stop playing Cookie Clicker for a while I say, "I escaped".

[@evandelck8541]

Bruh

[@Darrk_77]

me who doesn't know what cookie clicker is: [laughs]

[@microooo]

@@Darrk_77 haha bake cookie, cookie get popular, enslave grandma, oh shit the world is worshipping me, oh fuck the grandmas are taking over, I have ended the universe

[@phantom8699]

@@Darrk_77 have u lived under a rock or are you just 12? Everyone knows cookie clicker??

[@Darrk_77]

@@phantom8699 idk if you're stupid or something, but i said that as a joke.

[@IlBalivoDiUzhitz]

you are laughing, the grandma's are merging together into one mass of flesh and you are laughing

[@slk7376]

How about another joke, Grandma?

[@DCcopter]

R/cursedcomments

[@jf2801]

You fool! He's laughing, because he's the mastermind behind their fusion into an Eldritch Horror!

[@hatkid5252]

Lol

[@sr.deathglare4636]

it all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down~

[@BakedPotato4832]

Gotta love how this game goes from hiring grandmas to help make cookies to pulling in cookies from throughout time and space

[@semiii4403]

this game is social commentary at it's finest and i'm **living** for it

[@chessman88]

*clicking

[@Nick.Georgiev]

I feel like at one point we stopped talking about cookies.

[@that_one_guy934]

@@ericlee7844 hE sAiD bOoBiEs!😳

[@that_one_guy934]

*le gasp*

[@jacobweber9768]

It’s about capitalism

[@TheDiazDarkness]

You never stop talking about cookies. Never... Is impossoble... There is always the cookie.

[@maeveheart7464]

No, no... He's got a point......

[@stinksorstonks1498]

This is such a high effort shitpost that ive actually started playing cookie clicker again

[@ZeroutlawRBLX]

shitpost? This is a powerful critique of the capitalist system.

[@stinksorstonks1498]

@@ZeroutlawRBLX my apologies, i was foolish before i entered cookie crisis

[@infnub]

the thing is this isnt about cookie clicker at all...

[@johnwagner668]

i haven't. i don't get why people find this entertaining lol

[@MrWiscow]

@@johnwagner668 i'd rather have people accumulate imaginary cookies than real currency. also haha numbers go brr

[@BouncingElf10]

I swear every year this gets recommended to me, I open up my cookie clicker save and I just feel nostalgic, thank you for making this video, and I’ll see you next year.

[@BlockyHead_BLUEYFAN]

"Cookie Clicker Is a Game About Clicking A Cookie" Famous Words Said

[@ilect1690]

Beginning: "click 15 times for cursor" End: Capitalism must be abolished

[@carnatpocait8633]

@SPONGEBOBMEBOY communism is bad. It failed everywhere.

[@StarryxNight5]

@@carnatpocait8633 But comrade, we must spread glory of communism so it is truly bad _everywhere_

[@carnatpocait8633]

@@StarryxNight5 i don't know where are you from, but i'm from Romania. This country was a communist country. It was bad

[@dw3yn693]

@@carnatpocait8633 only because caucescu did mistakes and was pretty bad with his austerity and debt management, does not mean Socialism as a system is bad or inherently unfunctional. Many people of former socialist states had way better lives, East Germany, most of the Soviet union, China etc And also Romania many people wish for old times, since they see how capitalism failed them. The goal is not to replicate Socialist Romania the goal is to learn from the mistakes of Socialism and adapt, because we know that the goal cannot be capitalism. Socialism can be better, capitalism cannot.

[@ls200076]

@@carnatpocait8633 Eyo fam, communism must spread fam. *THE COOKIES MUST EXPAND*

[@noahrivera724]

Me: *clicks to a random point in the video* The Video: "There is no value, no ideology, and no meaning beyond cookies".

[@SariffSheriff]

"a hive of mutant grandmas rise"

[@Algorithm_God_Cult]

@@SariffSheriff looks like a terraria boss

[@armyshope]

But cookies taste good

[@lolvapecat4523]

666th like

[@phoenixgods1]

"To be sacrificed on it's altar"

[@__8120]

4:35 you having three active multipliers and then three cookies on screen and then NOT CLICKING THEM drove me insane

[@RuriRurouni]

I firmly believe every single person alive today should watch this video. It is ridiculously effective at conveying the rot at the core of our society. Thank you so much for this. The standout quote, as others have pointed out, is "Disaster is actually an opportunity to exploit the vulnerable to make more wealth." What a ruinously poignant line, after the last several years.

[@ArkayeCh]

When you walk into a political studies class with zero context.

[@beesechurger7799]

@Sophia Graziani *#video** call incoming#* This is [redacted] from the year 30#2, god help us, GOD HELP US, humanity is doomed the cookies, they took over, the-...., I can hear them they’re coming HEEEEEEEEE- *#video** call ended#*

[@bhavneetkaur5883]

Don’t worry we are sending help.. the cookies shall PERISH

[@Belete5000]

@@beesechurger7799 💀

[@Belete5000]

@@bhavneetkaur5883 DESTROY THE COOKIES!

[@bhavneetkaur5883]

Im to late…

[@cryo311old]

The beginning: "Click 15 times for a cursor" The end: "Every part of life is perverted to serve the purpose of the economy, nothing is too sacred to be sacrificed upon its altar. And for what? What's the point of a massive global economy if it fails to protect the elderly and the vulnerable? Even those with the most cookies don't really benefit from the system. Once you're past a certain level of wealth, you can never spend that many cookies. And it's not like the game ever ends, you can never win Cookie Clicker. You just keep making cookies until you stop or die, you're just hoarding cookies for its own sake."

[@desk1235]

Change cookies to money and you got the irl economy

[@froggie610]

@@desk1235 Same applies, you are just watching a number increase.

[@burritowyrm6530]

I chose Cookies

[@2fleekgeek]

dude this is one of the best comments i"ve ever seen

[@ss-bq2ee]

to lonj

[@Malo_Rezon]

I always played this game in class with my friends; I never knew how intense it could actually be; We found a hack to get unlimited cookies, but we never got _that_ far!

[@CharaDreemurrUT]

I remember using it, it was op as Heck and I completed it at a speed like 40 rebirths/ascensions per hour. It was funny because not a single other person knew so everyone was so confused on how I got so many cookies

[@DARKMK-lj4bx]

Crispy saysopensesame dev tools ruin the fun

[@Flightkitten]

I like how this game is just Capitalism It even has a stock market minigame that Ortiel intentionally made dull just to be realistic to the real thing

[@redcharget5894]

“ video games cause violence” Kid playing cookie clicker: lol how can this game make me violent? Him after hours of progress: *sacrifice.... more.... grandmas....*

[@ejradventures3752]

King Jones laugh

[@radilime]

Haha.

[@ionvop]

Lol

[@apocalypticblox2346]

Hehe

[@illuindb]

Ya know, I wasn’t expecting a cookie clicker video to be a critique of capitalism and pandemic response, but now that I’ve watched it I don’t know how I could have expected something else

[@Diepvries11]

That's because you haven't read the Cookie Clicker books.

[@Hevvvyyy]

This reminds me of the Billy Madison industrial revolution analogy

[@christianfarren1179]

Illuin DB Then again, this is Alt Shift X we’re talking about. For an encore, let’s see what analyses he can make from I Am Bread or Random Goose Game next year

[@illuindb]

Diepvries ah shit you right. I was planning to when the series was done but they just take so long to come out ya feel?

[@jessielefey]

@@christianfarren1179 Untitled Goose Game is cheating, as it has a surprisingly deep reading any day of the year not just the first of April. ;-) What is the village? How many bells *has* the goose stolen and why is nobody *really* doing anything about it? What primal urges does being a goose give a player? My headcanon is that the village is an undercover SCP containment site, designed to keep the goose occupied. There's a continual debate about if the success of containment means they should reduce its class to euclid, but that's a trap. The goose is always keter. Never feel secure.

[@spacetaco048]

In the end, the final joke is that there is no joke... The game successfully made our reality into cookies and money into cookies by connecting cookies to philosophy of life.

[@iPodpadphoneWhatever]

This is super inspiring, my heart has brightened up, I am much happier then before!!!!

[@derekrequiem4359]

"You can increase economic production by risking the lives of the elderly. Disaster is actually an opportunity to exploit the vulnerable to make more wealth." - quote from a video about a clicking game

[@distinctloafer]

Corona

[@jolt745]

@@distinctloafer virus

[@redacted-19]

@@jolt745 is

[@siggi556]

@@redacted-19 the

[@tasse0599]

The GDP goes up when natural disasters happen

[@sumlem]

The line "disaster is actually an opportunity to exploit the vulnerable to make more wealth" hurts extra hard

[@ironvicho20]

Chaos Is a ladda!

[@alyaar6072]

companies a year ago raising the price of sanitiser be like

[@MuddafukhingdisKUST]

@@alyaar6072 grid companies hiking the price of electricity several hundred times during a deadly winter storm be like

[@callum5209]

covid moment

[@susamogus8331]

Well I mean just look at the America hospital bill

[@dankerdown]

This video is what introduced me to this game back in 2020. Thank you very much

[@brionreid7316]

Had this not been from you I would have assumed it was just about the game and never clicked but it was & is you so I clicked and was not disappointed. Thx

[@arikyuui]

“You can increase economic production by risking the lives of the elderly” oh

[@YellowTailHorse]

I wonder what parallels can be drawn from this

[@My-nl6sg]

too soon

[@jj0493]

Cynthia Chamberlain “write that down write that down”-world leaders

[@MokuTom]

i think those scientists in china's lab had the same brainwave.. /s

[@michaelwaymire2037]

Smart thinking.

[@giobrach]

Me: "Pssh, how profound could the lore around a game about clicking on a cookie be?" Me, a few minutes later: "Wow this guy wasn't kidding around"

[@nicholasdragomanovits9284]

Right?!?

[@feargalohagan6510]

Well, I guess they just showed you lolol

[@Agora13]

google: a marxist analysis of potato salad

[@kevinw712]

I can't be the only one who remembers the "paperclip generator" game from a couple years back, right? I mean, before THIS video showed its very obvious parallels to coronavirus response, that was the first thing I thought of. It was a game I heard about on some message board a couple years back and it seems completely identical to this one. You clicked on your mouse repeatedly to produce paperclips, which you could do at an exponential rate the more you did it, and it also got into some really bizarre, reality-warping lore. I myself never wound up playing it for more than a couple days worth of time, but it was pretty much the exact same setup as this. In fact now I think about it, I suppose it's likely there were other version after the paperclip one and before this cookie one.

[@wybo2]

@@kevinw712 FYI, Cookiclicker was released in 2013, Paperclip universe was released in 2017.

[@user-ys8bu1li1r]

wow. Did not expect cookie clicker having such social commentary. Great vid

[@acaterpillargivingbirth]

This was relaxing. I loved it. Thank you.

[@potatorecipe742]

Did not expect to leave with an existential lesson

[@averagehuman8452]

i am so tired of people fucking replying "first" to a verified youtuber's commment

[@averagehuman8452]

like what the fuck does it provide to you

[@shikupo]

@@averagehuman8452 it doesnt provide you anything but hate, and stuff. It provides others the knowledge of you bein first

[@averagehuman8452]

@@shikupo yeah

[@unbleed1337]

e

[@KingAwesome8218]

I think I speak for everyone when I say pivoting to this content is truly the best direction for this channel.

[@Parenegade]

You joke but I bet ASX would dominate if they made informational gaming videos.

[@BikesTrainandAuto]

@@Parenegade Agreed. Imagine him with Dark Souls and Bloodbourne analysis videos.

[@ianpopp87]

You mean anticaplitalist content? Couldn't agree more.

[@KingAwesome8218]

@@ianpopp87 You damn well know what I mean ;)

[@dirtypure2023]

@@ianpopp87 I don't think the video is anti-capitalist. It reads more anti-greed to me. Greed is the cause of much tragedy and suffering, and you may say that is enabled by capitalism, but I disagree. I think the fault can only be laid at the feet of individuals. Capitalism has enabled countless advancements in technology, medicine, and allowed millions (if not billions) of people to be lifted out of poverty. People just need to stop being so damn greedy imo.

[@agoodname3056]

Very detailed explanation of the game, I gotta applaud your efforts in articulating the underlying message! Nontheless, this game cleverly satirizes the materialistic tendencies prevalent in our society, where money often becomes the ultimate pursuit for many individuals. The game employs cookies as a metaphor, which effectively draws attention to these issues and prompts us to reflect on our own behaviors. Such is truly commendable.

[@CoeGr]

It's been years, but I just love this video.

[@zfoska]

+1

[@cheetopawz8776]

This guys first words. "Cookie Clicker is a game about clicking a cookie." Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.

[@ee3254]

Ya dont say

[@zenixrl_]

wow we watched the same video

[@lupaloops4166]

wow what else 😮 are you gonna tell me he's also human???

[@justarandomdragonontheinternet]

Right like no it’s a game about dogs making cakes

[@imnotacat5299]

@@justarandomdragonontheinternet I don't see why not, it's not like all game titles are literal. Or did you think Metal Gear was a game series about an actual gear made of metal....

[@dasoon0220]

I know it’s April fools and all, but this was unironically a great video.

[@abailumlerrad1037]

I though it was a Cookie 🙃

[@elsanti4220]

truer

[@ParadoxAll]

I didn't even realize, I was just like "Hum, may I judge this game to quick, this game ins't that bad, it has a story and all"

[@abailumlerrad1037]

@@elsanti4220 *TRUE ******R*******

[@coffeedude]

@@ParadoxAll it's a great idle game

[@baconboy69]

I have no idea how many times Ive watched this video. I rewatch it every time it shows up in my recommended.

[@devinvm]

Our world needed this video. As a humble resident, I thank you.

[@scripttonight4471]

8:02 "disaster is actually an opportunity to exploit the vulnerable to make more wealth" This is probably the line that got me the most

[@lukakomarov1014]

Yeah, makes me think of one old bearded German and his friend

[@foggyforest2625]

There's a saying by someone: Chaos is a ladder!

[@thesamejackalsniperthatkil117]

Reminds me of that Applebee's CNN commercial that played during the Russian Ukraine conflict

[@AJ-vr9hf]

Reminds me of a old game someone played, Liberty something…

[@haidiwu7968]

covid, that you?

[@Darthxim]

"You can increase economic production by risking the lives of the elderly" Ah, I see the new coronavirus patch has come out.

[@ebk7073344]

Yeah this corona virus has really boosted the economy and increased economic production.

[@doxiedomian]

@@ebk7073344 he's talking about the proposal that people go back to work soon despite the ongoing pandemic. Boosting economic production while putting peoples lives at risk, particularly the elderly

[@unpapelcascaron7463]

mexico

[@MatsueMusic]

Maybe, since the world’s economy seems to be held up by hand sanitizers and surgical gloves. Both of which the elderly, need even on a non-apocalyptic day.

[@UnderageStrangeGames]

Fwooty but it wouldn’t boost production compared to pre-corona, it would just mitigate losses.

[@fehit1446]

Those were the shortest 10 minutes of my life. Great video!

[@randomplaylistshere6616]

As someone who played cookie clicker because it was the only thing I could play on my schools blocked computers I can tell you that that game is something more, something much more

[@619Gotenks]

Start of the video: haha so silly End of the video: OMFG

[@AliceDiableaux]

My mouth was literally hanging open at the end. Brilliant. Absolutely amazing. This is officially the best video on this entire site.

[@damiandohshinobi8127]

the April's fool's video we all have been waiting

[@hUCK-]

@@damiandohshinobi8127 This is actually an incredibly real/serious video.

[@Generic_Gaming_Channel]

@@AliceDiableaux have you seen the Ronald Mc Donald vids?

[@possiblyend5537]

Grandma: “You disgust me” Also grandma: “Moist cookie”

[@Bismuguy]

lol

[@Toonkir]

"Give grandma a kiss"

[@almondyurh9982]

"call me"

[@dakotasherman632]

It will all be over soon.

[@MichaelMedici61W2]

We're nice grandmas

[@lightningmonky7674]

You got me hooked on this game again

[@derrattenlord2780]

Literally the best youtube video ever made

[@mihaiioc.3809]

"Whatchu got there?" *hides lesson about capitalism* "A cookie"

[@Ken-no5ip]

- written on mihaiio's iPhone

[@khazarhay]

@@Ken-no5ip ah yes the good all socialism no iphone

[@crapfucr6491]

@@Ken-no5ip socialism DESTROYED

[@Jacob-es5tv]

@@khazarhay supporting a system that you don’t like. seems kind of. dumb.

[@theinternetpolice2078]

@@Ken-no5ip Communism no food no iphone 10 quadrillion dead kulaks

[@AmericanIdiot7659]

"It's simple at first but gets increasingly complex" my autoclicker with 5000 clicks per second: haha click go fast

[@benyt1583]

click go NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWMMM

[@NexusBladeGaming]

Ehem... Mouse goes brrr

[@lei2069]

ha ha click go: *f22 jet plane noises*

[@JohnSmith-wz9cx]

I always just inspect the page, click the “element” tab and type in something like “cookies = 9999999999”.

[@shazboi9841]

wat ur auto clicker

[@HM-rc7nn]

This is now my favourite video on yt

[@LethalPigeon7]

God dammit, every single video of a normal topic I see from this channel is absolute G O L D But all it pumps out is stuff about stupid tv shows that aren't even over. I wish I could forget it existed, gonna mess around with the plugins and block this to stop myself from getting my hopes up before I rememember that *oh* it's *that channel* again

[@deadhookerproductions1068]

"But it's more effective to let the end of the world continue, because it gets you more cookies" I feel like we may have possibly stopped talking about cookies at a certain point

[@susamogus8331]

But you see, cookie clicker is a game all about politics

[@JTL69]

Cookies are *nothing* without *politics*

[@biggiesmartypants]

Everything is political, especially cookies.

[@somestupiddudewithayoutube4676]

@@JTL69 it’s a *metaphor* for capitalism

[@differentgamer2737]

Tbh I forgot half way through and my brain Ever left or started to think it was a cookie(Politics apparently)

[@dfmce]

The Beginning: I own 5 farms! Cool! The End: What is the meaning of life? What are feelings? All your memory will be lost like tears in the rain. Live life while you can because it's not long.

[@eyeover7307]

the early game is a game, the late game is political statement of our captilist society

[@baboonery3]

oh if you live in this universe you DoNt DiE

[@binifff3057]

@brixk oh my fcking god i just did that, why did I do that, I am heartbroken

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

As always, the first piece of art clearly shows what the genre is really about. These kinds of videos included

[@FunkinDraven]

His voice is so calm, I just want to watch this video over and over again

[@evieashton8099]

“our website uses cookies-” *GET IT OUT OF HERE*

[@hidolok3919]

this deserves to be the most liked comment

[@evieashton8099]

Hidolok lolol thank you 😂

[@BeanGeist]

lol

[@autumnanurasys9461]

That was so hard to make/format on a phone (・∀・")

[@holyloli69420]

Cookie Clicker Gameplay: Haha click click go brrr Cookie Clicker Lore: 👵👹💀👽👓🔪💣🍪🌊🌋🌎🌏🌍🕛

[@BoneJuices]

True that

[@bruhhby5024]

Sussy baka

[@aryabintangkalea9406]

But you didn't had to cut me up

[@diddlysheep6690]

*Somebody I used to know- Trap remix intensifies*

[@BlazeBlueY3]

@@bruhhby5024 stfu among us is dead

[@elanasilverman4468]

This needs to be required viewing at every house of worship, played before the beginning of all company board meetings, workdays at the Fed, and days at school. If you're not going to teach reading or math in the remaining 5 hours and 50 minutes, this ten isn't going to to turn the tide but maybe we will have adults who will care about it. As opposed to the (most recent)th congress.

[@tergartcunninghan2013]

Deadass, my first time hearing about this. The first twenty seconds of this video have already blown my mind.

[@artifexmusic]

"the universe is now cookies. and only cookies" the first grandma: So when you payin me?

[@josephslifeinvestingandgen6430]

Oh yeaaahhhh.... About that... Here. A deed for half of my business. You deserve it.

[@emmaisvibing9843]

the 1st cursor: am i a joke to you?

[@theeman2577]

@@emmaisvibing9843 Cookie:

[@maddyg2214]

Nick Wilde productions o

[@yes2.039]

Oof

[@TheSabrist]

At the start of this video, I was laughing my ass off about how absurd this game is. By the end of the video, I'm legitimately perturbed by how absurd the whole world is.

[@fatalos6855]

You've seen nothing yet !

[@karmatraining]

Cookie Clicker is art. Real art makes you question your existence.

[@Bob-bs9ok]

@@sudanemamimikiki1527 universal paperclips is the best with this

[@Persun_McPersonson]

@Sick Disgusting Freak Bro, get a life.

[@BiggestAmerican69]

@Sick Disgusting Freak r/woosh

[@ihavetwofaces]

This video is fantastic, but I think you missed an opportunity at 7:05 to call them "the dentured, indentured workforce". 😂😂

[@bigmanbigplans7953]

This got way darker than I thought it would but I loved it!

[@TheSowut]

now i finally understand the economy.

[@robertagren9360]

How can it be that every year the economy increases in size but the planet hasn't

[@lyrimetacurl0]

It will when they unlock space mining.

[@miguelgo4039]

TRUEEEEE

[@prodpexxos]

Economy made me talk alien i mean Ecomoney tade le me to tlacc aleeen

[@msmegaserga2228]

Spore? You the True gamer

[@memebois6987]

he went from "Cookie Clicker, is a game, about clicking a cookie." to "the universe is now cookies. and only cookies" in less then 10 minutes

[@alextheghost8211]

and then to "how about we stop doing this whole capitalism thing"

[@seankrkovich2869]

@@alextheghost8211 Seems kinda meh. Capitalism is ultimately just not taking people's stuff. Closer to greed really

[@alextheghost8211]

@@seankrkovich2869 Yeah it is mostly about greed but capitalistic greed and exploiting grandmas and the natural resources of the planet to make more cookies that you don't need

[@normalcat7296]

Every VSauce intro ever

[@TheOneGuy1111]

The universe becoming cookies is only 3 minutes in; the remaining 7 minutes is going _even further._

[@sigh..4372]

I love coming back to this video every once in a while,

[@TheOnlyGr7]

Fr

[@ploopyispro]

did you use saysopensesame in the background footage? if not, how long did you spend grinding all of these cookies?

[@breezeshooter42]

Damn I didn't think a video about cookie clicker would be this relevant

[@AltShiftX]

What are you talking about man, this is clearly just about cookies 🍪

[@Tioy0]

@@AltShiftX "The problem is that, a system designed to make cookies is not design to make wellbeing or justice or hapiness, any system of endless growth, of singular purpose, that warps the whole world around one goal can only grow until it self destructs. And the only way we can escape such a game, is to stop playing." yeah sure just good ol' cookies :D

[@avian8778]

Breezeshooter, это что мэддисон на аве? xD

[@JimtheOtter]

Or this terrifying.

[@AkariInsko]

@@Tioy0 i reached that part of the video while reading this

[@theonlygate]

It's not about the journey it's about telling people at school how many cookies you have

[@guccisnek2454]

Its not always about the cookies schpidaman

[@marcworkout2484]

Samee

[@RealRainbowBlox]

shush

[@majorvonstroheim151]

I love how they always have a look of shock, disbelief, and horror when I tell them a number of cookies that I have witch is a number they’ve never even heard of

[@RealRainbowBlox]

@@majorvonstroheim151 shush no need for paragraphs here

[@Taiki11]

Awesome vid :D very entertaining 🤣

[@Colin-um5tz]

Usually you make videos about the Lore of GOT and Dune but I did not expect you to make a lore video on cookies

[@oozetube4204]

Are we not gonna talk about how he has 37 trillion ascensions ready

[@lykaeon8082]

no its 37 trillion prestige and heavenly chips. Yes it is a ginormous amount of cookies he earned, but it is possible to hack in cookies as he said so maybe he hacked in the cookies as playing this game to that point takes over a year.

[@regulatormachine2788]

@@lykaeon8082 except playing this game for over a year is typical...

[@lykaeon8082]

So he played this over a year for a single video?

[@lykaeon8082]

Cos he filmed it from the start

[@millenity9245]

@@lykaeon8082 how could any computer hold that much video information without making what the video is completely unrecognizable

[@ir0ngamer393]

“For 100 cookies you buy your very first grandma” I thought human trafficking was illegal?

[@bounceb]

Everything is legal 'till the cops show.

[@Talkingworms]

Releasing nameless eldritch horrors is generally considered a no-no, as well.

[@razkanaz]

Well buying it with money is

[@Progeusz]

You can buy your first grandma. You never had one before. Let it sink in.

[@kirbyinhalesjotaro4471]

Not if you have enough cookies

[@d_camara]

Oh, a video about cookie clicker! And totally not about anything that starts with a C and ends with human extinction unless we stop it!

[@That2J]

I won’t get over how you reach insanity at the 2 minute mark and still have another 80% left of the video

[@lordlem]

I remember in grade 5 everyone was obsessed with this game to the point where friendships were broken because people had less cookies. It was crazy. I gave up as soon as I got the first "you make me sick-Grandma" because I immediately got deeply unsettled, and slowly realized how messed up some of the headlines were.

[@fgwag3fgwag398]

158 likes and no replys? let me fix that

[@CharcoalMarsh]

I think games like these are so pointless. In other games like subway surfers, at least you're actually doing something instead of just mindlessly clicking the screen, waiting for the next upgrade.

[@kendisnauss]

@@fgwag3fgwag398 2 likes and no replies? Let me fix that

[@bruteng836]

@@CharcoalMarsh bro missed the whole point of the video

[@CharcoalMarsh]

@@bruteng836 then please enlighten me on the point of the video

[@lighto1531]

"you buy your first grandma" enough internet for today.

[@Gilsworth]

You get an achievement for selling a grandma called "Just Wrong" with the added text "I thought you loved me"

[@guardianofthetoasters2323]

@@Gilsworth holy shit im never gonna sell one

[@12DAMDO]

>sell grandma >get achievement (and therefore more milk) >get more cps based on milk we truly live in a society

[@sniper9395]

Nice lightning reed pfp

[@DeanwoodBand]

r/cursedcomments

[@Edwin_Gan]

I'm looking for a guide for an idle clicker games, and I left with profound enlightenment

[@straighttothepoint219]

havent seen a better youtube video in years

[@200131240]

Everyone: Who is Hale? Alt Shift X: SEIZE THE DOUGHS OF PRODUCTION!

[@matiasvallejos4943]

wouldn't it be the means of prodoughction?

[@cybutterfly]

200131240 😂😂😂

[@calebhale2515]

I am!

[@ninesalive]

"is cookie clicker a metaphor for capitalism?" was the last thing i thought i would think about today

[@inkblade3115]

exactly!

[@AnonGZ]

it applies to any kind of economy in the end

[@Kshea44ify]

I don't think any actual capitalist system involves any money printers going brrrr.

[@raggaeflow]

@@AnonGZ No, American Capitalism more than anything. An economy is required for society to exist; however once that society exists at the expense of itself is when shit starts going south. Balance in everything.

[@vladthecon]

@@AnonGZ not really in capitalism economic growth is exponential punctuated by crashes in communism growth follows the function 1/X and in feudalism it is nearly flat.

[@xbepool]

Props to the first ever person to eat the first ever cookie you made 👏👏

[@Spunglebub]

I keep coming back to watch this

[@okboomerbutitsacat8050]

Me, who played cookie clicker for fun and didn't actually do most of this: WHAT

[@elizapetrie-nattress9552]

me who played it at school because it was the only game that wasn’t blocked: **happiness noises** Edit: I've found that the school blocks the full one which kinda sucks

[@zooeyhill6006]

At this point I'm making 345 decillion cookies a second and I've ascended like 7 times.

[@volly910]

How do I find this game all I find is dumb scratch I want this one

[@stockimagedog7382]

yeah... that's possible

[@toughpuff1799]

@@volly910 the link to the game is in the description

[@Afish8me2china]

“Grandfather, how did the world start?” “Well, it all started one day when one man started making cookies…”

[@HY-ti4bh]

“Well how did it end?” “The same way it started”

[@garrettcarr8689]

"What was before the cookies grandpa?" "Nobody knows.... nobody will ever know"

[@kyvilfongkot6372]

What happen to grandma grampa

[@anawesomepet]

@@garrettcarr8689 it was cookies

[@hogrider6361]

Grandpa: So you want to know what happened to grandma? Let me tell you something kid... (Sits down on chair) Grandma, she tried to find the truth... She almost found out what happened before the cookies. On one day the cookie agents came to our house. Asked us some questions. One day she just didnt come home... Kid: Grandpa? Where is she now? Grandpa: I suspect that the cookie agency has her... She might be dead or is in a cell somewhere underneath. We might never now... Kid: ... Grandpa: Thats enough story time. Go back to bed...

[@minglau8485]

Thank you for your help! It works perfectly!

[@verarc]

amazing commentary veiled within a review of cookie clicker

[@TheCoolStyle]

Dad: “My diet is starting tomorrow.” Dad:

[@stupidpianoman]

*cookie*

[@pepto-_-]

*becomes cookie*

[@wyattevans1536]

grandma*

[@ZDXNeru]

cookie

[@pleb6261]

"The only way to escape the cosmic cookie machine is DEATH"

[@sam7741]

Beginning: "I cant sleep, this looks interesting" Middle: "Oh it's an April's Fool joke! Hahaha" End: "WE MUST SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION"

[@jonty4332]

🍪

[@smileguyanimations8776]

Me: *Reading comment before video is done* Also me: ha, well I figured out the near end of the video so I'm not like y- *checks video* 2. m i n u t e s - h a v e - p a s s e d

[@1337w0n]

Solidarity Forever.

[@Lucas_Vanes]

I love this video I keep on coming back to it

[@veez4425]

I rewatch this video every single year