Damselfly and Beetle

[@blue.lagoon00]

"Oh beetle, you know you can't leave the muck." That hits so much harder when you realize that neither would Damselfly.

[@playdoughmaster808]

They’re both dead.

[@timexyemerald6290]

@@playdoughmaster808 nah beatle is still alive and actually can fly

[@m____w____6981]

That line hit hard. I've been told that before.

[@danielbenner7583]

@@m____w____6981 but the truth is, beetle can leave the muck and not damsel fly. Shit’s deep.

[@ASHA-jk2pf]

Pretentious Bitch❗(Damselfly) Smug.😏😊😇☺️ I felt sorry for Beetle until I saw🪚that her career as smug little bitch didn't take off. ...Then I was great full for Beetle. & sad for Damselfly. Like a bird who's wing's we're no more😢 I was choking on my own bile of hatred of Damsel before the end🤮🤢 What an Emotional Journey. Deserves an award from Cannes & IFC

[@shroom3228]

describing how the beetle is thinking about whats it like for damselfly up in the sky paired with damselfly's wings getting devoured was true poetry

[@Azubjourni]

And horror.

[@neszi3]

It's such a beautiful tragedy. I watched in horror as its fresh wings got eaten while we heard the beetle's longing thoughts, thinking the damselfly flying free in the sky.

[@ampulsuper]

Why would you fck your kind wingsss

[@TheDoc7]

@@ddobry21 Not the beetle.

[@Mold-a-bond-XXIII]

As one might say, bwah, bwah, bwah...

[@eowynsisterdaughter]

Aside from crying from laughing at how tragic it is while Zefrank's soothing voice narrates us through loss and stifled dreams, the very ending made me feel sorry for the actual bug. Damselfly crawls back into the muck. She just had her wings chewed off, and after wandering around the chestnut until she realizes she won't be able to fly, she returns to the only home she's known to try to survive, where she presumably drowns since puberty just kicked her out of that habitat. I was not expecting this level of emotion while I waited for my shower to heat up.

[@kevincrady2831]

Welp, guess Damselfly is just a Damsel now.

[@martintlaskal8441]

@@kevincrady2831 more like Damseldrown

[@Aslanreturn]

@@kevincrady2831 Yes, in distress

[@Zaxares]

I hadn't thought about it that way at first, but you're right. Adult damselflies no longer have the gills they had as nymphs and would promptly drown if they tried to return underwater. Damselfly's big dreams about soaring away and becoming a star ended when the dragonfly who she thought would be her agent used her and then dumped her when he was no longer interested, leaving her to die in the swamp she'd tried to fly away from. Truly, a tragedy for the ages. :(

[@apateon18]

What a coincidence, I'm also waiting for my water heater.

[@rivaltz]

It's been 7 months and I still come back to this video from time to time. What a masterpiece.

[@CNS7272]

same.

[@747appro3]

I'm from another dimension and I can't agree you more.

[@alditory6621]

It's been a week and I have been here 3 times...

[@MrLFJ7]

I miss my damsel fly but I know she's OK

[@Mr.Smiley_J]

@@MrLFJ7 agh! My feels!

[@Romalac]

Well that was a soul-crusher of an ending twist.

[@masterplanet420]

The way it gets it’s wings just mangled and then walks back into the muck

[@rowanbun3162]

I almost cried.

[@bluenine85]

... I'm going to go pet the cat.

[@kerylorbsmultidimensional4214]

I felt so bad for laughing I almost cried.. 😭 Damn dragonflyfkr

[@greatbrandini3967]

Agreed, I must go pee on the bed for comfort

[@MrWalksindarkness]

"they didn't have much to talk about, and soon they were married" cut straight to the bone with that one

[@sonarata]

Well insect lives are pretty short. :,)

[@goodun2974]

@@sonarata Interesting to note that these 2 insects , Beetle and Millipede, had no problem with interracial marriage! 👍 Actually it was interspecies marriage if you think about it.

[@laughoutloud7844]

A little too relatable 😮‍💨

[@shinybird5204]

great now im crying MORE😭😂

[@davidvento5481]

Describes pretty much every marriage... ever.

[@thesupershivs]

I was not prepared for the emotional sucker punch this delivered. unexpected and beautiful.

[@Moona1966]

@@imthisguysotheraccount3260 Spam. Spam is what's finally here from these damned bots.

[@Wtfinc]

"its here" is just spam and nothing but stolen footage of nature. Also, what the hell zefrank, what just happen. why that fly get its wings eaten

[@Wtfinc]

@Depp. reported

[@theorganizationxiii9765]

What punch it was just a random shit story

[@Wtfinc]

@@Moona1966 it says there is 5 comments, probably 6 now because i add this one, but i only see 3. i see my old one, depp, and yours. there was another spam account that i wanted to report but cant see it. did "i'm this guys other account" post 'its finally here" too? because imma report them too. i report the spammer then i go to the video and report that too! i doubt it will do anything because it altimatly make youtube money. youtube is garbage anymore. i cant wait till we all decide to hop ship. they dont even let you shave things or message in the platform anymore. wtf? that made no sense. death to youtube

[@PleSeagr]

I moved out on my own to leave my troubled household and within half a year I got hit by a car and broke my spine. I’m currently typing from back inside that household, where I’ve been for less than a day and already gotten into an argument… I feel like the Damselfly getting its wings chewed off and can’t help but cry

[@mintyblossom3930]

I truly mean this when I say, I wish you all the best and hope that in time you’ll be able to break free of them.

[@Pandhuyohanes]

Hope you get better soon and things work out well my friend.

[@GenJeFT]

The like butten is cruel as I don't like this news. I hope you heal up fast so you can get back out of that house.

[@novampires223]

I too went quickly into a wheelchair.. don’t stop fighting to keep yourself. It can get better. Heal first then get the fk out..

[@comaybay]

I'm truly sorry to hear that, I hope you get better and everything will work out

[@Soaring_Penguin]

This man made me feel deeper for a beetle and a damselfly in less than 3 minutes than many movies can for its main characters in 1½ hours. WTF.

[@chezmoi42]

The epitome of poetry, a story distilled to its essence.

[@violet_broregarde]

You just watched a horrifying real-life event, so it makes sense. If the same video involved real-life people you would need therapy.

[@taylor3950]

This was like the beginning of Up. I didn’t sign up for so many feelings so soon.

[@girlbuu9403]

Definitely some "Up!" opening montage energy going on in here.

[@craigrobbins2463]

teh whole deal with, "show, don't tell"

[@slinky_malinki5330]

The way the beetle flipped and then plopped onto the muck was adorable

[@neonice]

And then it got stuck beneath the surface tension and died

[@kennethwilliams543]

@@neonice Story of my f#$%in life!

[@slinky_malinki5330]

@@neonice well that's not very adorable, is it?

[@davidvento5481]

@@neonice I thought of that, he wasn’t an aquatic beetle. The story is flawed in it’s improbability.

[@JcoleMc]

@@neonice Don't worry it can breath underwater

[@TrueUnderDawgGaming]

The scale of my laughter when the Beetle face-planted into the muck can't be measured

[@rivergreen1727]

Same! My poor roommates as I howl laughing at 630am 🤣

[@thomasschmidt1836]

"He was inverted..." ~ Goose

[@Sean_but_Not_Heard]

Came here to say this

[@ADSadachbia]

Is not that the world is crazy. We were crazy enough to create and romanticize an unnatural way of living and now that we forgot our past we just seeing stuff as crazy but Crazy is after all the normal

[@jhsrt985]

Another shiney trueunderdawggaming my luck is thru the roof

[@thespazdragon]

As a beetle who once knew a damselfly.... you're too good at this, Ze

[@mikkelsv4804]

💔💔🌼

[@kde6277]

Same, to be honest. My Damselfly had a much nicer ending, though...

[@SmolKTN]

Don't worry mate, you're someones Damselfly.

[@split8886]

@@SmolKTN Unironically the sweetest thing I've read in years. Thank you for saying that and bringing a beetle some comfort in life

[@nakomtsuu8433]

@@split8886 u mean thanks for helping beetle get out of the muck i think

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

His narration along with the background music made this one of the most unexpected and emotional short videos I've ever seen

[@xerveeon]

there is a quote about seeing someone everywhere meaning that you also go everywhere, but I can't remember the exact phrasing.

[@simtan2418]

Bro, why are you everywhere, also I love the fact that your avatar's a picture of Garou 💯

[@BloodmoonPictures]

AGREED. dang

[@skie6282]

It makes me hope he makes sciencey childrens books!

[@AggresivelyBenign]

I know! I grew to love damselfly and so very quickly mourned their passing. The horror! This was far too emotional for me….espy the last second or two….

[@Rolatii]

Welp. That is definitely the saddest and most horrifying story I've seen recently. Fantastically told and edited.

[@marsupialsofmars3886]

"they didn't have much to talk about, and soon they were married" is such a good, numb line

[@SindyJ37]

That is a reality of far too many

[@veronicamaynard5821]

Oh my 😂

[@Mr.Smiley_J]

I remember the first time I saw this. I saw the beetle flop over and laughed, I thought this will be a fun video to show my wife, she'll laugh. Then I finished the video and decided, no, I don't think she'd stop crying. I haven't stopped crying.

[@jackaguirre8576]

I miss three minutes ago when I didnt see this.

[@robbylava]

I am left perplexed, disturbed, and oddly nostalgic. Such poetry leaves the soul bare and melancholy.

[@Azubjourni]

Bruh the ending f me up.

[@jamesjross]

Thanks for finding the words that escaped me xxx

[@ScumfuckMcDoucheface]

@@DerOrso bro, nobody wants to hear about your bowels.

[@Blackmark52]

"and oddly nostalgic" The word you were looking for may be "poignant."

[@selectionn]

@@Blackmark52 maybe they are a damsel fly too, or mayhaps a beetle, in which case nostalgic would be correct. You never know these days.

[@PhilTruthborne]

I absolutely lost it when Beetle tried to demonstrate his flying and _plop_

[@neverthesame7887]

I did, too! I just posted the same thing because it didn't look like anyone else thought that was funny. Zefrank is a genius!

[@tiacho2893]

Reminds me of my middle school self.

[@dacksonflux]

Beetle never mentioned his first love. That was until months later as he got ready for his final molt. I've loved before, he said. Millipede held him closer. She was my Damselfly. Millipede stared into his eyes, would you like to visit her, Beetle? One last time, before you go? Beetle couldn't imagine how Millipede would take him to the sky, but he agreed. ... Beetle stood, his head low, and his legs shaking. "Before I would depart, I belonged in the sky, but the muck had my heart." His eyes followed the words engraved in stone. She never flew, Beetle whispered. Millipede took his hand, you don't have to fly to live.

[@deluxeedition4639]

beautiful

[@chemviembre]

:'( 💔

[@ScoutSarge]

Damn… That’s beautiful.

[@princetamrac1180]

Bro..

[@goodun2974]

That poem was beautifully done. Here is BeesWing by Richard Thompson, a song about "the one that got away" kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6HQq6xsir2ibrs

[@thelivingghost5695]

This was depressing as heck! Damselfly having big dreams only for someone to tear away the opportunity from her, leaving her to crawl away into the darkness of the muck. This is scarily relatable.

[@willho4887]

Beetle will live his life thinking about how freely Damselfly must be living, never knowing that she never made her first flight, got her wings eaten right after he left, and subsequently limped towards her own death in the muck.

[@RyanBlockb5]

Such is life.

[@ruatkevin2142]

Dark souls vibes

[@GiacomoCarali]

will ho do what?

[@pfpublius]

@@GiacomoCarali that's rude, damsilfly wasn't a ho. She just had dreams.

[@GiacomoCarali]

I just meant his name, funny bing chilling moment like 中國早上好！現在我有冰淇淋。我真的很喜歡冰淇淋，但是，速度與激情 9，與速度與激情 9 相比，我最喜歡。所以，現在是音樂時間。準備好。 1, 2, 3. 整整兩週後，速度與激情9，整整兩週後，速度與激情9，整整兩週後，速度與激情9。不要忘記，不要錯過它。去電影院看《速度與激情9》，這是一部很棒的電影！動作很棒，比如“我會尖叫”。再見。

[@Baylow94]

"Beetle took an online course in business, but nothing came of it." Something about that line hurts just a little bit

[@Storm_280]

I feel that

[@CaseyBorders]

For me it was "They didn't have much to talk about and soon they were married."

[@nyanyamero]

@@CaseyBorders my parents in a nutshell. 😐

[@BeigeFrequency]

Being able to create something this beautiful and heartrending takes a level of storytelling that only a handful of people in this world have.

[@jeffreygrajek583]

That is rude, zefrank1 pay no attention to Beige Frequency. Let me tell you the story of a little engine that could...

[@Relaxanddo]

you must have missed the ending...

[@youngiroh5011]

couldn't agree more, i want a whole series of toadstool tails from this man D':

[@melanch0lycat5393]

@dražen g Nah you missed the point here.

[@cirenotloh5662]

It's a bit of both. It's heart-rending but a dark sense of humor heals the wound.

[@TK-ij2xi]

The music, the soft melodic tone of zefrank's voice, and the bit of learning sent me into a memory of sitting on grandma's green shag carpet, sipping milk, and watching Mr. Rogers from my little rocking chair. I appreciate this from the hidey holes of my heart.

[@ALLPANICNODISCO1999]

same here except my grandma's shag carpet was a reddish/marron. looked like someone skinned a bunch of Elmos.

[@mikek7660]

This is beautiful

[@ivechang6720]

Hi, from my cozy cave.

[@tishie42]

Exact same, miss my rocking chair. It played music when you rocked.. Blue mottled shag rug.. Wow... Thank you for that.

[@funforall9741]

That was heart wrenching... just a bit of context changes everything about this clip of nature. The poor damsfly going back into the swap to die was so painful to watch

[@Dualumina]

So did the damsel fly really get their wings eaten? I wasn't imagining it?

[@FuckYoutubeCensorship]

@@Dualumina it got fucking impaled.

[@AStrangeWindmill]

@@Dualumina wings eaten, and stabbed for good measure. She aint gonna make it.

[@dattebenforcer]

@@AStrangeWindmill To be fair, she was asking for it.

[@michellepiazza3251]

@@dattebenforcerMaybe this could be teaching moment about consent.

[@eggman1586]

My guy managed to tell a touching coming-of-age story in less than 3 minutes without losing any of the emotional impact.

[@lloydredman5170]

How the hell did you just break my heart AND inspire me at the same time...With a Vidya about a beetle and a damselfly!? You sir are a MasterCraft at what you do. A comedic David Attenborough and a gift to the platform.

[@jonathaniyere3203]

The music does most of the heavy lifting

[@charlsgti1943]

@@jonathaniyere3203 and his, velvety voice

[@Wtfinc]

@Locked just spam for views, footage of pigeons

[@Wtfinc]

@ТеIерhone 🅥 spam aswell

[@floccinaucinihilipilification1]

Zefrank is an OG of the platform. Took quite the hiatus but thankfully he's back and created nothing but gold as always.

[@rowan2103]

watched this high, got super invested, saw the twist in the end and now i’m absolutely crushed… good job, Zefrank. You are one hell of a story teller

[@shekinahgonzalez3904]

"How beautiful things must be from the sky, he thought. Everything looks better small and far away," just DESTROYS me. How Damselfly's rejection must have stung Beetle. How he loved Damselfly enough to still think her, to look up at the sky or at his phone, aching but nevertheless happy knowing that she is someplace where she can see beautiful things and be the best version of herself she can be and finding some semblance of warmth from that. And then that small moment of love (because what is grief but love enduring), juxtaposed against the harsh reality of Damselfly's wings (the thing she left Beetle for, the thing that was going to finally make her whole) being eaten and brutalized, and Damselfly dying? Returning to the muck, alone, without even Beetle there to welcome her back? Fucking brutal, man. I love ZeFrank's True Facts series, but it's always these short, poignant videos like the Human Test series or Teddy's Operation that really gets me.

[@helpfuldrawing9510]

Well put

[@nguyenxbj]

I didn't get what was happening at the end. Was that another Damselfly? What was it doing to ZeFrank's Damselfly?

[@C0wy_]

@@nguyenxbj it ate her wings, so beetle never knew she never made it to the sky

[@techclay39]

@@nguyenxbj it was eating off its wings

[@jeffersonderrickson5371]

Is it a true full life, lest we live as both the Damselfly and the Beetle?

[@C0wy_]

The message I take from this is that your loved ones can't be with you forever and ignorance is bliss. Even though Beetles life was boring, he was happier thinking that Damselfly made it out into the world

[@duckman12569]

careful, those little white lies will hurt you in the end.

[@sown-laughter4351]

Um No it didn't the dragonfly ate her wings ..

[@RotaAbyssian]

@@sown-laughter4351 key word: *thinking*. Hence, ignorance is bliss.

[@generalblack2335]

From a beautiful children story, to a Stephen King novel in under 3 minutes! Only ZeFrank make the writers of Game of Thrones jealous 👍🏻

[@RKroese]

Nature wrote this one. Ze's narration was on point, tho!

[@RyanBlockb5]

This was a more satisfying ending. The Dragon flies away. And Bran the Broken, becomes King WTF.

[@Xbalanque84]

Given what George R. R. Martin said about the state of the book series and the way the HBO series ended, that's really not much of a compliment.

[@erikgilson1687]

Not even Stephen King or Game of Thrones that was full on The Road disturbingly beautiful and awful

[@TheMatmann]

There are kindergartners who could make the writers of GOT jealous

[@rumdiculous7990]

Zefrank, you can't just hit me with these emotions this early in the day. I'm sobbing over a damselfly.

[@dragoncubes1074]

That proves you are a good person.

[@missykim510]

The beautiful, peaceful music and the soothing voice awoke a primal fear inside me. I knew there was something dark on the horizon, but felt soothed at the same time. Like a lullaby a spider would sing to a fly before eating it's face.

[@quota3734]

I thought it was gonna be something funny but the story he told made it so dark and real😭

[@davidvento5481]

Such beautiful imagery... ahhh.

[@infinitejest441]

How poetic.

[@mikek7660]

Beautiful

[@AK-jt7kh]

It’s probably because you watched teddy get an operation!

[@jenjei]

I didn’t see the “sad story” part of thumb nail art till after I had my soul crushed by the weight of this story. I’m glad there is still art like this being made in this day and age. Thank you.

[@cynthiasoolihua2410]

I didn't see that part too. this was unexpectedly absolutely heart wrenching.

[@NeonAnt]

I didn't even know it was a story. XD I just thought it was a video of damselflies and just kept waiting for the comedy. :')

[@dwirandypradhika6752]

This hits way too hard for what I was expecting to be a quick midnight laugh. It felt like you just stabbed my heart where it hurts, then twist the knife. I love my millipede, but this story made me think of what happened to the damselfly I left.

[@lumosyob]

i thought the same ... oh fate have its ways for sure . we just tend to hope that our current is the best outcome because we humans fear the unknown the most ! ...

[@kuibeiguahua]

She got eaten by a trucker on bath salts, don't worry

[@anyona19]

And who devoured their wings

[@TruthArrows]

@@anyona19 YEAH!? What the heck happened there?! I am so confused.

[@randangbalado]

@@anyona19 1:52 the black damselfly ate it, then the green one depressed and drown into muck

[@Zebulization]

Edit: Nevermind, I cannot find any information that confirms my memory. Whatever I thought I read, it does not seem to exist. The only thing that seems to be true is the bit about insect wings. The wings have no nerve endings. Once the wing inflates with blood, the blood hardens (there is no blood circulation at all in the wing after that) the bug cannot feel pain in the wing itself.

[@firegator6853]

oh so this male that ripped her wings off mated with her? if thats the case and its supposed to happen its ok then

[@Zebulization]

@@firegator6853 no nerve-endings in the wings so no pain. It seems horrible to us, but not to them.

[@firegator6853]

@@Zebulization its not about pain its about no flight

[@Zebulization]

@@firegator6853 well they don't actually have an urge to fly. The flying is a desperation move when they haven't been fertilized and only have hours left to live.

[@txmits507]

what a lovely existence.

[@jaxsonhammerkawk7436]

dude this was like if Mr. Rogers had told sad depressing stories to children expecting funny stories. Im not complaining tho, this was actually quite beautiful as poetry.

[@psychee1]

Yeah, I didn't expect the feels.

[@davidvento5481]

Like if “Mr Rogers” theme song was a funeral dirge and he lived in a funeral parlor.

[@theoriginaledi]

Only ze can be this quirky, and funny, and sad, and deep, and moving, and beautiful, and even a little bit educational all at the same time. Simply wonderful.

[@KnuckleHunkybuck]

And all that in under three minutes...

[@dragom2009]

Zfreank is life

[@RivetHead999]

His Human Test was really good too.

[@candew8772]

Well, that blows having your wings bitten off as soon as you're out of the water. At least the beetle got a good ending.

[@Azubjourni]

I imagine he goes to his beetle friend for a last swim.

[@clintparsons3989]

@Locked good fucking finally, I’ve been waiting on this for ages!

[@tylervanpeursem7627]

He's in a loveless marriage and a dead end job, ig that's good considering the other died

[@laneslaughter8137]

I was not ready for how wholesome and heartbreaking this was

[@cambelin1545]

Storytelling to absolute perfection. From a simple long take of a damselfly getting spawn camped by her cousin, presumably. To a 3 minute chronicle that most of us can relate to; one way or another. A gift, as always.

[@mmseng2]

omg spawn camped. I'm dead

[@atorius]

@@mmseng2i Said The same thing 😂

[@lullatone]

Thanks for letting our song be a small part of this. We love it so much!

[@SandiL-]

Really beautiful music. Very soothing.

[@rayvnekieron8587]

It was absolutely beautiful. Thank you

[@Darkness19Z]

I can get the name of the song?

[@lukewoodham3477]

Listened to this as I worked on another screen and decided I wanted to see the video part too; that re-watch hit different. Absolutely adore this disparity of tone. I never expected to be made so sad with a less than three min clip of a damselfly nymph emerging.

[@bookworm3005]

Same!! Omg it really hit different

[@Baiano29]

The beetle trying to fly and flipping over, was hilarious.

[@CMZneu]

Everybody saying this is wholesome while not realising that that other damselfly at the end ate off it's new wings so it's definitely going to die. Beetle wondering about damselfly his whole life not realizing he probably died the very next day and never once got to fly. Honestly i was sure the beatle was going to eat it, but it was a nice twist at the end. Still horrifying though.

[@TrickiVicBB71]

I was wondering that. The Dragon Fly ate part of the Damselfly. This isn't a wholesome story

[@anonymousmonkey9491]

no thats a straight up dragonfly.

[@supermilena2846]

That beetle is dead.

[@Webberjo]

its* new wings

[@inalienabletruths]

Fun fact... The way you tell the difference between dragonfly and damselfly is... dragonflys wings are out perpendicular to its body while at rest where as damselflys are along its body while at rest.

[@julesgenrev6574]

This feels like nostalgic to "Teddy Had An Operation" and I want more of this vibe from Zefranky

[@Kickiusz]

@DiIIian Whyte 🅥 kzbin.info/www/bejne/moLaZapvjMyLmbM its here finally

[@KonniWynn]

Please not

[@angiki9988]

Yes, but while that was entirely heartwarming this one was a horror story.

[@SuziQ.]

@@angiki9988 , Roaches inside of Teddy weren’t horrifying?

[@zackfalin7266]

As an entomologist with a dark sense of humor- this is absolutely effing brilliant. Thank you.

[@Limbergem]

Why did the damselfly eat the wings of the other damselfly? Is it like a competitive trigger or for nutrition?

[@hurgcat]

@@Limbergem ¿porque no los dos?

[@JustMarty]

I was thinking the same thing. Seems a very odd form of predation.

[@BiodegradableYTP]

@@Limbergem Dragonflies aren't picky eaters. They'll eat any insect, including their own kind.

[@randomweirdstuff4967]

@Biodegradable but this isn't a dragonfly tho, it's a damselfly

[@Limbergem]

I love the way Zefrank continues with his calm rolling narrative during a horrifically savage event. Lol, I do enjoy his enthusiastic and alarmed reactions in his other work though.

[@arthurtaylor2593]

There are some moments in nature that are beautiful, and some that are painful. This video manages to capture both flawlessly.

[@silvershadow4297]

The ending was terrifying

[@OneofInfinity.]

New wings gone 😬

[@Azubjourni]

Got me shooketh

[@Minronis]

Just goes to show the memories we create on our journey follow us through a lifetime, even if the people we made them with aren't there to take the journey with us.

[@scalpingsnake]

I knew beetles are generally bad fliers but that flight failed *so* fast it still caught me off guard.

[@etatauri]

I did not expect to start my morning like this. My heart is broken. As always, amazing content.

[@Azubjourni]

Same that got me for real, mans couldnt even get to fly for the first time. :(

[@thrumbo]

its 1 am. I wake up, check my phone, watch this video, then I feel terrible

[@musicaccount3340]

Hate it, would not watch it again or recommend to anyone, 10/10

[@mohammadjavadsalehi3227]

**My heart is broken As always. amazing content.** I fixed you dots

[@lucg4005]

Seeing the damsel fly's wings eaten off is already sad enough, can't imagine how Linda Bower felt seeing it happen in real time.

[@tracieturner167]

Who is Linda bower?

[@kloclo7922]

The one who filmed the video

[@tracieturner167]

@@kloclo7922 oh! That makes sense now 😂

[@zn4rf]

I'd think see is pretty numb to stuff like that, bc nature is generally unforgiving and uncaring so this is not a rare thing to behold.

[@oleg4966]

Probably "niiiice, you don't get footage like that very often".

[@Agent719]

The narration followed Beetle's life because we all saw how Damselfly's story ended.

[@an.d.m.a]

😢

[@michaelfoxbrass]

And lovely it was. Better for Beetle to have yearmed for damselfly - to have loved her from far away where everything was more beautiful.

[@deb5064]

wow, this comment deserves to be on top

[@tylervanpeursem7627]

It ended before it could even begin

[@moonjellymusic]

The footage, the script, the delivery. This is a beautiful and sad work of art.

[@ObeliskKing]

Scientific Explanation: Beetle simply wanted air, Damselfly grew wings, ANOTHER Damselfly came and ate them due to cannibalism and competition (apparently confirmed in the comments) then it went into the water to die. Emotional Explanation: Damselfly grew her wings, moving away from the beetle now with her opportunities growing. Beetle settled down, got into a loveless marriage and dreamt of Damselfly. Meanwhile Damselfly got into an abusive relationship, got severely injured to the point of being disabled, and ended her once happy, now miserable life.

[@sweetsweet5205]

Maybe

[@jody4210]

i was so confused when the other damselfly tore its wings like wtf

[@toribelle3788]

@@jody4210 eliminating competition in the animal kingdom is wild

[@jody4210]

@@toribelle3788 this is so sad

[@markusgorelli5278]

@@jody4210 I was confused too then I replayed it then realized It was a dragonfly that came by. Edit: ok forget that. I just checked and dragons keep their wings spread out. They do not fold their wings back like that when they have landed. So I dunno. Edit #2 The videographer responded to someone else in the comments. "Hi, I'm the videographer. Yes, I believe it was a competitive move, as opposed to a meal. They were both females. If she was attacked for food, the damsel would have eaten most of the other damsel, not just damage the wings. Brutal. I was shocked! I've also filmed two male dragonfly larvae with one trying to destroy the other."

[@Thenoobestgirl]

It went from a friendship story to a horror story

[@ChaosBW]

The song is "falling asleep with a book on your chest" I love this song and recognized it instantly Such a good choice in music

[@mikek7660]

Everything looks better small, and far away. Don't look too closely at life or the sheer agony of mere existence could wash you right away. ...still. It has its moments. ❤

[@DrCoeloCephalo]

This video really is a great reminder that nature can be beautiful but also cruel, relentless, unfair and unforgiving. However, we can still get a good laugh out of it.

[@nunyabiznes33]

RIP Damselfly. In our memories you will always be the brave girl that dared venture out of the muck we are afraid to leave behind. Soar high in heaven!

[@sweetsweet5205]

I think you missed understood the poem and story by different views

[@Weiner-Worm]

@@sweetsweet5205 It's a personal interpretation, it can't be misunderstood. Once you make art and put it out into the world, people form their own interpretation. That's the beauty of art.

[@raylafort6789]

@M interpretations can be wrong though. If I told you that my interpretation of this short story was that it's a retelling of Aladdin, then that would be very wrong. However just telling me it's wrong won't help either. Explaining why it is and what could be a more accurate interpretation(s) would help all the more.

[@Imanplays]

@@sweetsweet5205 did you not see its wings get devoured by the dragonfly, and then it crawls into the water probably to die?

[@Weiner-Worm]

@@raylafort6789 There is no "right" or "wrong" in art, this isn't a math problem. 2 + 2 always equals 4, no room for interpretation there. But how one reacts to and interprets art cannot be "wrong". The intent of the artist and how the viewer interprets are two separate things.

[@icromch9429]

Damselfly crawling off the hickory nut back into the muck was depressing

[@j.k.4479]

Returning from where she came, realizing she could no longer fly...

[@derpychicken2131]

@@j.k.4479 only now, she will drown.

[@pedroluiz469]

I never tought 2:42 minutes of sound and image could produce such a wave of emotions

[@desalex4683]

I like that even though the damselfly’s life is over, it still crawls back to the muck it wanted to escape

[@seanfitzgerald341]

Nothing gives me a bigger smile than a new set of animals for Zfrank to tell us about

[@cynthiatrombetta4655]

And there are so many, I hope he does every one.

[@martineaaahhh7326]

Well you'll not be smiling for long!

[@shethjrebbell]

I am harkened back to the screams of Abigail, the beach snail. I hear them now, in my heart.

[@tednielsen2915]

This has higher stakes and character development than the entirety of the Star Wars sequels.

[@jonathanzabriskie1079]

This was like Reading Rainbow for the jaded adult. And I loved it!

[@SWISS-1337]

Loving the anthropomorphic story between the forbidden love of a bettle and a damselfly.... Until danger damselfly came and killed the new damselfly (effectively) by eating its wings? Like no one mentioned the bit where he was totally destroyed.

[@nocount7517]

That was another damselfly.

[@ratholin]

beetle. beatle refers to a member of an old british band. the easy way to remember is music has a beat.

[@SWISS-1337]

@@nocount7517 thank you, I did wonder, thought the colouring made it look like a dragon fly, but you are correct.

[@SWISS-1337]

@@ratholin ty, auto correct have edited it.

[@nocount7517]

@@SWISS-1337 A dragonfly is much larger with a more muscular thorax and a box-shaped head, as opposed to a damselfly with its bar-shaped head and slender body. Also, dragonflies don't fold their wings flush to their body at rest like damselflies do.

[@CCP_yb]

Well, you know the old saying. If you love someone, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don’t… chances are they were half-devoured by a dragonfly and left to drown in muck. I’m paraphrasing. It sounds better in beetle.

[@diegog1853]

I love your videos, but that might be my favorite. I can't stop thinking about it, I can't stop watching it and getting sad about it. I left an opportunity to be with love of my life to go and study a masters degree abroad. On the final day she asked me to stay and start a life with her. But everything was so in motion that I didn't do it, I thought we could wait until I came back. But that didn't happen... Now I lost her and I feel unfulfilled in love and in my career. I feel so bad for both beetle and damselfly.

[@footwhisperer576]

Consider yourself lucky! No one who cares for you would NEVER ask you to STOP AND CHANGE DIRECTIONS after you put all your hard work and effort just to have that opportunity, love is NOT selfish, plus love could have been letters, visits, calls and texts until you completed your studies abroad! Who ever "she" is, I would say she's the one who was trying to EAT YOUR WINGS! And keep you in the sluge! Unlike this story, YOU have a better ending...wings still attatched!!! 🦅

[@boru3413]

Such poetry! The drama! It puts a tear in my eye.

[@jayantjolly]

Damn that was a sucker/gut punch at the same time!! Brilliant story telling as usual with the backdrop of nature's horror show!!

[@Starman_Dx]

Beetle lived to have a long happy life. Damselfly died 10 minutes after molting.

[@Azubjourni]

Bye Damselfly we will always remember you as a brave warrior who just wanted to live his life in peace, until the very end he just searched for a friend. 😭😪❤

[@notadumbblond3]

Hey zefrank, you should do one on Dobson flies. They are scary looking, and huge, but they are the best indicator of really good water quality in nearby sources of water, like lakes, ponds, and rivers.

[@anthonyjohnson3998]

Iv been holding my tears back for a long time, but this.. This short humanistic video made my existence flash before my eye's and i started to ball, expelling a few truamas in the process. This world can be so cruel yet so beautiful, and if it wasn't for these act's of chaos what would this world really be.. For deconstruction brings reconstruction but at what emotional cost of us conscious beings. Love you Frank please don't leave us!

[@dillonchamberlain]

This feels like a Turing test for humans if they have a soul or not. Depending on the reaction to this video gives your answer.

[@max16]

guess i dont have a soul

[@starlorn5]

This is the most soul crushing thing I have ever experienced. Bravo.

[@ihatepat66]

This tears my heart out, such aching beautiful tragedy in such a small places. I never want watch it again, every time I think of this video it makes me want to weep

[@brightonkazembe6838]

The world is a better place with Zefrank in it. You always put a smile on my face.

[@shadydaemon4178]

I still love how he narrated as a bedtime story teller. But the poor damsel. 🥺

[@MRLITERALLYEPIC]

I was NOT ready to have my heart smashed into pieces when I thought I was going to laugh. This is a crime, a beautiful crime but still a crime.

[@davidvento5481]

The algorithm may find this story too disturbing (as in; shoulda blurred out the “wing eating.”) I hope ZeFrank doesn’t get banned from YT.

[@sidraMPatty]

@@davidvento5481 🤨 huh? Are u watching KZbin with restricted mode on or something?

[@asdisskagen6487]

WUT? ... How can something possibly be so horrifying and hysterically funny at the same time? I'm so conflicted.... Bravo, Zefrank, bravo.

[@jonkimochi1117]

i never thought i'd feel so broken after watching a couple of insects in a swamp with some narration behind it.

[@maracachucho8701]

He fit his story onto reality, but somehow it feels like it was the other way around and he's just telling us what happened. Ze is the master of his craft.

[@Blues2Dark]

1:52 That's just brutal, it gives all new meaning to the phrase " Your boat just sank before it left the dock"

[@davidvento5481]

Or; “Don’t wear your Rolex on the subway.”

[@asdad123ify]

This is one of the best pieces of art on youtube. Dont know why it didnt went viral. Wonderful

[@ghostsyynx]

Never felt so much sadness and laughter as the same time. This is art

[@julieb3996]

I bet the French have a word to describe it

[@timelordEnder]

Did that damselfly just get it's wings chewed off immediately after getting them?

[@eboniedreamz1371]

Exactly that’s what I’m trying to see how no one mentions it. Damselfly literally died

[@bobby_greene]

Pretty sure it was an SA situation. The audio and video are very discordant

[@crowbar12121]

yes that is exactly what happened. Some other damselfly flew in, ate its wings and left. Unless it was edited out there didn't appear to be any mating so it's pretty horrifying

[@BloodyAngel88]

Yes, it DID just have its wings eaten off.

[@CMZneu]

Yes, yes he did, never flew a day in his life and a ton of people in the comments saying this is wholesome, it's actually horrifying.

[@mr.headcrab31]

I've been online for a long time, seen works that are designed to tug at your heartstrings and remained unaffected. Had those close to me be ripped away by accident and disease with no reaction. But this, this video was a laser guided white hot needle to the center of my soul. This hits way harder than it has any right to I was really not expecting to have this heavy of a reaction on a Tuesday to the butt jokes and animal penis guy. Kudos, you broke me and made me rethink my life

[@footwhisperer576]

It's amazing how fate can change in an instance, and the grass is not always greener on the other side, the beetle settled for less but had more in the end. Such a horrifying tale of two paths!!! Beautiful music ease the pain of tragic violence 😱

[@kamilo4989]

That was an unexpectedly high-level psychological interpretation. Thank you.

[@derjoh1986]

Your comment gave me more of an understanding of the video, initially when I saw the video, I'm thinking to myself, what am I watching (without any documentary narration)?! Thank you !

[@SolaScientia]

...Well...that was a suckerpunch of an ending. Like, I need to go watch/read something cheerful. Poor damselfly. It's probably a good thing beetle won't ever know what really happened.

[@Pineabble]

The whole time I was thinking "Oh no, what awful thing is going to happen at the end?" and I was still surprised and sad. Bugs have a hard life. Your voice is so soothing though. 😌

[@oucyan]

Damn, that other damselfly just divebombing Damselfly and eating her wings. Absolutely savage.

[@BlackisNOTaskincolor]

Nah it's just cowardly. Not savage.

[@LKing-ue2jl]

@@BlackisNOTaskincolor try the original definition of savage...

[@thegoodthebadtheoffended6548]

A bittersweet allegory for life and unfulfilled dreams.

[@amirhaayers2736]

I think this is a valuable lesson that no matter how far you soar or how high you go never forget the precious friends you made along the way.

[@Duros360]

That, and don’t get your wings chewed off

[@TitusReborn]

I’ve never been so moved by idle nature footage with lofi and a voice over.

[@via5315]

Love binge watching these before I sleep. Honestly so calming and funny at the same time

[@cynthiatrombetta4655]

Goodnight.

[@johnwt7333]

Do you sleep at 7pm? What, are you 80?

[@cartoonishidealism582]

@@johnwt7333 Timezones

[@cam4636]

@@johnwt7333 Do you think the whole world is on the same timezone? I'd say "what are you, American?" but you'd have to be in the Eastern hemisphere for it to be 7 pm when you posted this

[@johnwt7333]

@@cam4636 UTC baby

[@catherinegrillos8739]

Wow. That was different. I love this new track. More please