DEANDEMOCRACY | The Monument Mythos

[@gabrieldantas1179]

“He concluded his speech with bongos” That’s my president

[@Robloxity_News]

@@OfficerHotpants good beats

[@oldladmanmp4]

That part fucking got me

[@sola_is_chilling]

there should be prresidents like that lol 2024

[@jsXanatos]

@@sola_is_chilling lol!!!!!!!!!!

[@llewelynshingler2173]

He was a performer in our timeline, so he could have been one in the Other World as well.

[@Scallycowell]

Nixon: “James, we have to talk…” Dean: “About racing cars?” Nixon: “About national security.” Dean: “Of car racing..?”

[@guillermorolandoferradaven9]

Hahahhaa great one

[@craftynest3435]

Dean is just sienfield

[@talesofthe_deepsealilly]

Fun fact James Dean died in a car crash in real life

[@stuff4826]

@@talesofthe_deepsealilly and everyone who ever touched. even the cars made from its parts killed ppl. its the legendary death car

[@midgematic8659]

Dean: this country is in dire need of *S P E E D*

[@nooble9021]

*Becomes President* *Immediately Races a car* *Plays Bongo after giving speech* *Refuses to elaborate*

[@elongated_musket6353]

Absolute gigachad

[@gamingmoyai3950]

Not gigachad, OMEGACHAD!

[@venusngigi]

LMFAOOO

[@horseohmother4621]

And I won’t elaborate further

[@horseohmother4621]

@@elongated_musket6353 my name isn’t Chad. It’s dean! Have you gone mad? Come race cars for a bit and if you win you can call me that all you want

[@SpaceManRD]

This puts me in the mind of a time traveler fucking something up, with this _wrongness_ permeating everything. Like this isn't how it's supposed to be, and the universe can't repair itself.

[@chopchunk7573]

Time Traveller: *accidentally steps on an ant* The timeline: James Dean for President 1968!

[@trimmien]

as the universe attempts to 'fix' itself, ethereal beings, eldritch horrors, and GOD knows what seek refuge in the broken down reality.

[@ballsdeep7056]

@@chopchunk7573 time traveller: *eats hotdog * The timeline:

[@BillSmello]

literally Sound of Thunder

[@tristanband4003]

Seems fine to me.

[@FourOf92000]

Cons: unstoppable cognitohazard with a self-generating cult of personality Pro: absolute bro

[@wilmagregg3131]

dean is basically what dr bright would do if the foundation didnt give him the 100 rules he wasnt allowed to do

[@thewolfPrince]

The problem is that he's legitimately a competent and compassionate president.

[@Mate_Antal_Zoltan]

@@wilmagregg3131 >100 rules >100 *>100*

[@Mate_Antal_Zoltan]

@Jonathan SG but, he didn't? I've only seen Bright's personality explored in joke posts other than that, he does show up in other SCPs (the only one I can think of right now other than the obvious, is SCP-5000) but he's not a mad scientist lunatic manchild in those

[@doxiedaddy7784]

Jonathan SG to me,the Pre-Normification and Post-Normification SCP universes take place in the same multiverse,but different universes

[@williamj056]

Ok this was fucking hilarious! Seriously, Dean just starts playing bongos during his Inaugural address then races Nixon again. Legend!

[@Robloxity_News]

True chad

[@jasonthefates7311]

I mean, how fuvking cool.

[@DoktrDub]

“Sir America is under attack from the Russians!” Dean - “just tell them to relax.. I’m down at the track with Nixon”

[@artsyrache]

“Wait, actually, ask them if they want to go down to the track with me later, I can show them my new bongo piece”

[@theguylivinginyourwalls]

@@artsyrache HEADLINE *"War called off. Russians invited to barbeque cookout at the White House, citizens also invited for 25 cents per person."*

[@Tinlion09]

@@theguylivinginyourwalls President James Dean doesn't shake your hand. He passes you a tall bottle of Bud, fresh out of the cooler. (He also keeps some Dr Peppers and bottled water in there, in case you don't drink. James Dean recognizes that being the designated driver doesn't mean you can't enjoy the party.)

[@coolant09]

"Стоп! Надо есть шашлык!"

[@Donutella13]

@@Tinlion09 im not even american but I know damn well that he is my president

[@unionman1328]

Dean be like fuck this: fixes the power lines himself.

[@angelguerrero7655]

mans couldn't wait on no power company. just called 3 homies and a neighbor with a ladder

[@starstudiosRPG]

Dean best president wtf

[@redenginner]

Well its good to see that sentient cognitohazards can win the nation’s highest office.

[@jelly434]

You already knew that.

[@Gh0st652]

I'm glad I got to witness the first anomalous president.

[@Robloxity_News]

What do you mean.

[@pedrocarvalhodarocha6947]

@@Robloxity_News it’s a thing from the the collective writing community, the SCP foundation. Cognito hazards are supernatural anomalies which interfere with the cognitive mind, and affect it in some way. So in this case Dean caused anyone who saw/ heard him to be compelled in agreeing with him.

[@Bread-nx9fo]

@@Robloxity_News he means deez nuts

[@talesofthe_deepsealilly]

I love the inclusion of James Dean racing cars because Dean died in a car crash in real life, and was going fast enough that's it's possible he was racing someone. To me, it gives off the vibes that a time traveler did something to prevent his original death, and the universe keep trying to fix itself by making him want to race, but the races never kill him

[@redactado266]

As someone who likes race cars it's extremely amusing to me to think that the universe trying to kill me in car crash, is reflected in me as a facination for auto races. Also I want to wish that the time traveler saves my man Jochen Rindt and Giles Villeneuve. Both legends that were gone too soon.

[@napwneoenejeod3740]

he was into racing so it just makes sense he’d still be racing if he didn’t die

[@WreedTrimmer]

MJ

[@berdansargol1577]

Maybe he actually died in a racing car crash, then his body used as a vessel.

[@watergamer6446]

imagine if everyone's passions are just the universe trying to kill them in unique ways

[@NitroFury]

So, I will assume that DeanDemocracy is implying that this is some sort of Alternate Universe were James Dean decided to run for President, and his announcement may have some sort brainwashing effect. Keep this in mind that this is an Alternate Universe where James Dean is still alive, likely surviving that Car crash in 1955. This would, in this Universe, make James Dean the youngest President ever elected, at the age of 37.

[@justins340]

Also, it mentioned MLK was still alive in 1969, whereas in real life he was killed in 1968.

[@chasethemaster3440]

I’m your sixtynineth like

[@inkoalawetrust]

@Colin McGrath It means that this series takes place in a different reality from ours where events went differently, such as this James Dean dude having survived a car crash he had apperantly died on (I'm not American so I don't know who he is.) and running for president, another instance of it taking place in a reality where things went differently, is that Martin Luther King was unsuccessfully assasinated, unlike in real liffe where he was killed.

[@dunkaccino6606]

Do you think that the car crash has anything to do with the broadcast's effects?

[@NitroFury]

@Live Fast 35

[@hexdepixel1165]

also of note: Martin Luther King is alive in January 1969 even though in our timeline he was assassinated in April 1968. the narrator mentions an assassination attempt that occured 9 months before January 1969, so in this timeline MLK survived the assassination attempt

[@flores4074]

As well as several failed assassination attempts on Robert Kennedy, whereas he was assassinated in 1968 in our timeline.

[@shmeeble318]

So kennedy and MLK survives

[@crabohato4954]

@@shmeeble318 sounds like a very good timeline. Without the weird paranormal stuff of course

[@shmeeble318]

@@crabohato4954 ik

[@tree_trunkk]

Let's Go!

[@RS-dy3eh]

Thank you Dean for being the easiest president to present a report on.

[@Dr.KarlowTheOctoling]

Thought it was for being the best president but that works too.

[@favoritemustard3542]

Yeah can I have my bongos back now plz&ty

[@2dopington]

My grandmother described her experience witnessing the “silent speech” with her family at the time. She says he was mesmerizing, inspired her to believe that America was capable of something greater. Even her parents, who had sympathies for the Anti-Dean movement (they were privately conservative) admitted after that speech that they’d might vote for him in the next election.

[@sheeloesreallycool]

I remember seeing my family sit next to the tv. It was interesting, to see everyone so invested.

[@kernnysanders1739]

This is ironic right

[@kernnysanders1739]

@@sheeloesreallycool jimmy dean was never a president I thought 🤔

[@2dopington]

@@kernnysanders1739 nope. really happened

[@awesome_barabado]

@@kernnysanders1739 I don't live in the US but how could you not know that?

[@vektorthegreatestvewhoever3117]

One thing I came to really love about these is the absolute casual tone that these alternate universe(s) are portrayed in. Taking AlcatrazAttack for example, it's ending slide merely goes "Today the alcatraz zone expands up to west texas" and that's it. It certainly has a solemn tone, but ultimately the event is not treated as the absolute horror that it ought to be seen as. It's basically talked about like an environmental documentary - "Today the amazonas forest has been reduced to a size of only X square miles." It wouldn't be out of place for that video to just go at the end "Your donation can help fight off Alcatraz". In a similar manner, this is just a historic documentary about a president. Sure, it's weird to us but over there it's just another thing that happened. It's nothing to worry about. And then there's a fact that this is supposedly a 2002 documentary. It talks about the 37th president, implying there were others afterwards. It's not that this dude did something supernatural and took control of the US to turn it into a dictatorship. No, he used it to get voted to be president, presumably served his term(s) and then just left. Democracy still intact. We have conspiracy videos about Biden/Harris that are more extreme and 'panicky' than these are. But over there, this kinda stuff isn't worth a big investigation or scare. It's just a normal, if curious, thing that happened. And that's a kind of dread that's wholely unique and different from how most series would attempt to induce feelings of fear, anxiety and apprehension in it's viewers. Absolutely marvelous.

[@redenginner]

It could be the horror of some of these situations desensitized people. We are appalled at the living conditions of 18th century cities,but the ones living there would be treating it as a norm. The people in this universe just treat these strange events for the most part as a norm, or in President Dean’s case,a overall good thing because they are common and normal.

[@PaulKar]

It is really interesting that he just probably left after his terms, lol. Something like this is looked back upon as "normal". That's what I love about this series.

[@crunchled]

could not have put it better myself

[@NavidIsANoob]

That's a really good analogy with the Amazon jungle being reduced so much through deforestation. We treat it as just another event happening all the time, while, if you took a step outside of our reality, it's an extremely horrifying event.

[@tristanband4003]

He used his powers for good and that's pretty much it. Even sacrificed his health and hearing for the greater good.

[@enderfire1st_404]

I see that the only horror in this video is that we don’t have Dean as president now.

[@kaimerry1587]

He's an Eldritch Whateverthehell, but i mean quite honestly his inaugural address is something inspiring. His idea of letting the disenfranchised and the troubled (who had a much better understanding of the nation as a whole) speak frankly about America seems surprisingly logical. like, why the hell havent we done that before.

[@mooncrime4998]

I thought the same thing, and am now worried that I am now subject to his supernatural charisma

[@NinjaGodzilla]

Because there has never been a politician that’s as cool as Dean.

[@gamalielvacasolis3484]

@@NinjaGodzilla You think Dean’s so great, huh? Well no one has had a president…like Gaston.

[@gguioa]

see the most worrying part of the video is that you can't really find anything wrong with Dean at all

[@tristanband4003]

@@gguioa That's because fundamentally there isn't.

[@Dry983]

"His good looks and his love for jazz as being clear signs of the devil" how about berry bee benson then

[@waldornprime5567]

Satan

[@Tropical-Aes]

Satan incarnate

[@goobertron9099]

The Dark Prince himself

[@doctabaldhead]

BEElzebub.

[@pandorabox5532]

It's funny how that description fits Lucifer from the Netflix show lmao

[@calebcogan3541]

I don't care if this is a universe with deadly portal trees, murderous statues, boat crabs, literal prison cells, and millions dead, that whole idea of Dean letting other people speak for themselves during the inagural speech is such a power move, and a real damn good one at that.

[@jonas_5190]

Buddy, you're not gonna believe this. Prison cells are real

[@BiggusDickus-zi2te]

@@jonas_5190 he mean Alcatraz island you know prison “cell”

[@td8633]

It says a lot about progressives when they are willing to take half of the country being destroyed and eldritch horror, if the universe has a president does performactive progressive gestures.

[@ccfffvbbbbbffg1774]

​@@jonas_5190But literal ones aren't

[@synkt8759]

​@@jonas_5190nononono, prison CELLS

[@dontfindmeguilty]

"His good looks and his love for jazz as being clear signs of the devil." is like my favorite sentence now lol.

[@WaverleyorCov]

I love how their reasoning for Dean being the devil is “he looks good and likes jazz”

[@forecastlotus3899]

Ya l- y- ya li- ya like ja- ya y- ya like j- ya ya ya ya like jazz?

[@maxtracker2904]

In fairness, both very sus traits… 😂

[@Hugealligator254]

>sexier than me >better taste Pack it up boys that’s satan

[@lorenzosyquia4769]

I wonder who James Dean's chosen Lincolnlooker was.

[@stoplightgaming2302]

an antideaner

[@zekemiller548]

Pat Nixon for sure.

[@gaiusjuliuscaesar9296]

he probably got elected specifically to put someone there

[@joechristo2]

nobody

[@wilmagregg3131]

dean probably either picked no one or told someone to bring him a hat filled with the names of every criminal on eath row and pick one at random

[@JRWells08]

the "james dean is no man" part reminds me of ytps because of the animation

[@greycatturtle7132]

Same

[@maverickREAL]

JaJ. JammaJ. James Dean is _James Dean is_ *JAMES DEAN IS* noon nomamon no mam no nom nom nom *J A M E S D E A N I S*

[@VillagerMan2006]

YOU ARE MAN, HE IS NOT MAN. FOR YOU HE WAITS

[@edwardcumpstey9061]

@@VillagerMan2006 I'm sorry i killed the Nihilanth.

[@dankenstin8803]

If this documentary was real in our universe, then every internet and television historian would say that not only this would be the first TV hijacking/broadcast signal interruption in history (the first one happened in 1977, John Dean’s one - 1968,) but also the first thing that “looked like the first YTP ever, before YTP was even a thing.”

[@WowItsErin]

The most interesting thing about this video is that we're just kind of left to *assume* there's some kind of mind-control going on with the broadcast. The voice-over never outright says it. This only seems supernatural because it's in the context of a supernatural series. To someone in-universe, this would seem like a normal documentary about the 37th president. It makes you think, what things about our own universe would seem supernaturally horrifying if it were viewed from the outside?

[@masonsykes2240]

Not so much supernaturally horrifying as societal horror, but [insert country here, any old country pretty much]

[@maverickREAL]

Logan Paul.

[@peterbarry5692]

Covid-19

[@lorenzosyquia4769]

Mass killings? ISIS? I'd like to think that while the people here have to deal with supernatural deities and monsters, their world is relatively more peaceful in the geopolitical sense. As you can see, so many of those who were assassinated in our world are alive in theirs!

[@Goober523]

Maybe dean is not human?

[@trooper_0257]

Man really rolled nat 20s his whole presidency there

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

His opponent was nixon

[@myautobiographyafanfic1413]

This is a fascinating part of US American history. I always thought Dean died in a car accident.

[@reshborder]

It's a false alternate history, Dean did die in a car crash.

[@myautobiographyafanfic1413]

Whoosh

[@doodoofart6763]

@@reshborder Nope, he was actually president

[@whereisdonnie]

@@reshborder no he didnt! he was our president. y’all need to learn your history 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@whereisdonnie]

@M.K.D.S 🤣

[@lofi1coffee]

Part of the genius of this series is how you can take a ridiculous concept like James Dean becoming the President of the United States, playing bongo drums, and repeatedly racing a nonplussed Richard Nixon, without it ruining the atmosphere of the series. In fact, the sheer ridiculousness of it all adds to the creepy tone of this alternate world.

[@Mazapan404]

I like to think Dean is just a red herring and there's literally nothing wrong with him

[@ajcw_]

thats my preferred theory as well

[@elliotmusgrove5468]

yeah, dudes just got a lot of simps and is plain a good president

[@Mazapan404]

Well in the end I don't fucking get it

[@themilkman6969]

he never did anything outright wrong, at worst he was morally grey (e.g. sending anti-deaners, a group known for having caused the deafness of the majority of the nation, to alternate universes)

[@FKD696]

I dunno I mean they committed, like, the biggest terrorist attack in history. Plus better versions of them came back.

[@dmann2152]

I know Dean is supposed to be a sinister figure, but... he's made out to be just really likable here. It's weird.

[@bin4rym4ge]

Verification incomplete. User CRV is not within acceptable limits. User CRV influenced by active cognitohazards.

[@coldhaixx1905]

Can someone tell me who this guy is? And what he did?

[@Johncruel]

That's the point

[@commenteroftruth9790]

Thats the point bud

[@lilkingg82]

Or, perhaps he Isn't supposed to be a sinister figure?

[@shralam-h5v]

- palms off speech to other people - conludes address to nation with bongos - leaves for a car race with nixon - refuses to elaborate what a sigma male

[@dismasthepenitent569]

Oh god. The way how you can subtly tell how he turns to look directly at the camera at 7:38 when the darkness overtakes the screen and then immediately turns back once it goes away was such a good touch (if it was intentional ofc)

[@leszas872]

Maybe Dean was made aware of the ADA hijack and it alerted him to maybe sorta look at the camera to see if he should keep going but he didn't mind and kept speaking, knowing his influence.

[@addwulff]

Bruh this is so emersive that I had to search up who our 37th presedent was

[@kurtomcburto]

It was James Dean of course

[@neutrin0329]

James dean? Did you ever take history?

[@christopherhelton6999]

@@neutrin0329 I know, right? Everybody knows the 37th president was the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

[@JDT-Loadsamoney]

@@neutrin0329 wdym it the it’s a typo it means 137th president, Jarnoodles garbulon V

[@isaacg2008]

It’s James dean💀

[@danielribeiro9678]

Dean: “What are we waiting for? Let’s bring them back home!” Almost everyone: “You son of a bitch I’m in.”

[@cah137-y4s]

This, right here, is the moment the Monument Mythos went from good to great. With this episode, the series does something that so many analog horror series are afraid to do: have an episode where the in-universe mundanity _doesn't_ fall apart, where it stays intact the whole episode. We're not witnessing some cosmic horror from beyond the stars; we're watching a perfectly normal- if slightly unsettling based on the context- documentary about the history of another world. So many of these series convinced that if they keep up the facade of normalcy for too long, even for a single episode, the audience will forget that they're watching a horror series; as far as they're concerned, the horror needs to be relentless, the illusion of normalcy needs to be ripped away as fast and as frequently as possible. But this series understands that sometimes- especially when you've already cemented yourself with the first few episodes- it can be just as effective to brace your audience for the rug to be pulled away, and then to *not* pull it away and let the audience's paranoia do the rest. And it's a move I respect the hell out of Alex for.

[@batfreeze56]

Agree completely

[@pixel5646]

Watching this made me feel, uncomfortable. Like something was off, and the weirdest part is it feels like I’ve watched something like the in a history or government class. I understand that the point was that Nixon lost, Kennedy and MLK Jr survived assassination, but it feels like there’s something else. Like what if the reason why the old conservatives didn’t vote wasn’t because of his policies but something else, how did Nixon give up like that, etc. But the weirdest part is, Dean feels like someone you once knew at one point, like an old colleague or a teacher or just some guy you sat next to on a bus or the subway. He seems so, normal that it’s actually freaky.

[@NegaRenGenX2gay2lift]

Wallace was also running for president, and really the only political base that had anti-dean sentiments rooted in evangelical southern views. Dean being openly opposed to segregation may have caused these anti-dean people to justify their claim that dean is the "anti-christ"/ "communist". The later part is a common slur segregationists at the time threw at people who were against segregation.

[@goobermcnoober8140]

Dean’s speech was actually pretty moving, but you imagine if a candidate did that today? Everyone would lose their shit

[@commenteroftruth9790]

Would they? It seems like it would be an intrigue, idk bout losing their shit.

[@detomnz2024]

"BiNG b0nG B1dEn B@D H3 MoCKInG DeAF PeOpLE TrEvOr NoAh HeLP Us!!!111!"

[@issabeganovic8822]

Now you're getting it... No matter in which universe you live, or at which time. You can be the best goddamn president in the world, and somebody's still going to hate you for it. As the old saying goes: "You can't please everybody."

[@GenericheroVII]

I wonder how this Dean processed terrifying monuments. "...yeah. Let's go race cars, pops."

[@GenericheroVII]

---december 2020 ...HUH?

[@Glisten456]

"What's that? A "Special Tree"? Plays music?" Maybe it'd like my bongos..."

[@arciks11]

After LIBERTYLURKERS revelation. Deans comment about Washington being found frozen in a lake being "I'm surprised" makes more sense.

[@Gray963]

The real reason this is disturbing... is because of how disturbing the real world is when compared to this simple idealistic scenario. It's too good to be true so it sets off all our red flags. Honestly... I find this more sad and inspiring then anything. One of the weirdest and most subtle senses of unease I've ever had. 10/10 art.

[@coffee4682]

James Dean, Robert Kennedy, and MLK all survived in this timeline, from a car crash and assassinations respectively

[@siobhanmairii]

I’m reading a book about parallel universes, and this is so so good. Incredibly realistic, and I’m sure that it’s a possibility in an alternative universe somewhere.

[@elilettuce]

Which book? Is it good?

[@IBETHISNAMEISTAKEN]

What book is it?

[@drew5219]

i pray for a universe that has to deal with the freedom statue

[@dunno2970]

Plz tell me what book is it…it’s been a year

[@Bowtiethesilly2023]

WAHTS THE FUCKING BOOK BRO 10/17/24

[@GeekFilter]

"...and went on to be the highest rated TV show on television after the conclusion of Star Trek in 1967." At once awesome and also sad, unless in this reality Star Trek started earlier, because that means we would have only got ONE season of Trek!

[@TeamSprocket]

You don't want people to think too hard about aliens in disguise offering goods when they have evil intent.

[@chloskyskies4399]

Or perhaps it was the conclusion of the first season in this universe? And they would film all of season 2 before releasing it

[@GeekFilter]

@@chloskyskies4399 that would be a super weird way to phrase that.

[@chloskyskies4399]

@@GeekFilter perhaps it would be strange, but then again, so would James dean being president

[@Hal9000ize]

On the plus side, no season 3

[@moths_of_doom37]

Weird fun fact, many sign language specialists were hired on into a group called "let the silent speech speak" in 1998 to try to learn what he was trying to say. The experts weren't able to distinguish any English in his speech, possibly due to poor video quality. Thought some say that they possibly recognized Latin, but a week later they all took back the claim and said that they just weren't good enough yet

[@kapatidtomas]

Although it seems like this is showing some dark brainwashing behind Dean and that it makes him look like a person with a cult of personality, it's the reason on why this video was made. Overall I guess we could all agree in a jist that this is lesser dark than the other *videos" of this series, more or less It's more of a startup/starter pack to this hell of a analog horror

[@BknMoonStudios]

I honestly love this more subtle, less horror focused yet still "off" style of videos. Feels like it would make a great alternate history/supernatural mystery story.

[@forecastlotus3899]

I like to think Dean is just a guy, just a stand up guy who wants what's good for the country

[@macdrown3892]

This is such a good MM episode and an absolute shining achievement for Manticore/Alex. The way that nothing is stated to be particularly wrong, but there's a real disconnect from what we hear and what happened, like how people apparently broke down crying at the candidacy announcement. We have no idea why people would react with such elation, and the only conclusion is that there's some kind of mind-control going on, something about Dean which has a cognitohazardous effect on inhabitants of the Deanverse. It's extremely elegant how the only clue that something is up comes from us as the viewers noting the strangeness and hysteria of people's reactions to Dean - the only conclusion being that he has some influence over people in this universe that doesn't affect us as outside observers. Masterful.

[@leszas872]

Oh you know it's --fishy-- awesome when Stanley Kubrick, one of the best filmmakers of the 60s says that a sabotaged glitch of an on-screen James Dean talking is the best silent film ever

[@captaincancer7786]

6:52 The man was so influential that he influenced Nixon's hairline back.

[@Cane4092]

Dean has such good looks that others’ bodies are too ashamed to try and compete

[@ENKTDeeColon_and_randomnumbers]

This was the episode that turned this series from a typical analog horror with a slight twist into a surreal alternative history trip from a different subset of our own reality, and I wouldn't have it any other way

[@silverfire1248]

Nice to know that even in an alternate universe, the first two things people think of when hearing that there is going to be a big announcement from America is that either the US is declaring war on something or is about to announce aliens.

[@toperotoperoprrrtthanos2571]

>Spreads a cognito-hazard to all of the US >Race with Nixxon twice >Does Unknow things during his mandate >Vanishes after that, leaving other presidents to run the country Absolute trillionaire sigma-grindset

[@tomsmurf4225]

People willfully ignoring the inauguration speeches of presidents they don't like and watching James Dean's speech instead sounds just like the sort of shitpost-y thing people would do today.

[@Bowtiethesilly2023]

Wdym- 10/17/24 its been two fricken years but.. Wdym?

[@tomsmurf4225]

@Bowtiethesilly2023 imagine, Trump or someone gets elected, and instead of talking about Trumps election everyone on Twitter just posts picture of Dean and says, "well, I'm so happy Dean got re-elected AGAIN!"

[@meganelizabethblake]

The way dean walks onto screen in the anti dean psa LMAO

[@anthonyv1971]

One thing weird about this is how it's supposed to be 1968 but the photos and footage look like 1958.

[@ThePhrog714]

there was still black and white in 1968

[@GeekFilter]

James Dean actually died in 1955 so any photos with other people in them not not digitally altered would look like the 50s....because it was the 50s.

[@wilmagregg3131]

in lore its because technology stagnated after the disater of MAIZE. in real life its cause james dean was a real dude but he died in 1955 so theres no higher quality photos of him

[@jonns4694]

For anyone wondering the song during DEANDEMOCRACY anouncement is Music For Night People by The Larry Page Orchestra and it's 🔥🔥🔥

[@russiachan2]

Thank you!

[@mildly_miffed_man1414]

THANK YOU!

[@budakbaongsiah]

130% approved 🔥🔥🔥

[@notfreeman1776]

Thank you stranger!

[@snow2268]

President Dean had his very own approach dealing with the "race topic".

[@friedchicken8440]

He was a profound racist (racing enthusiast)

[@scharlesworth93]

Well done

[@joaquinherrera1403]

As quirky or slightly funny as this might be, this actually irked me as something so accurate of the time. Especially the Stanley Kubrick quote at the end felt like something that he would definitely say, and all around felt like a school report on an alternate universe. Amazing work, Alex.

[@cf5765]

I'm honestly not phased by this. I know it's part of a larger Alt History Horror Universe but I can see this just as an alternate series of events. A what-if. Comical to say the least, but considering other presidents I can believe all this happening. Maybe that's what makes it scary. The fact this could have been how things are. The lingering question of how this happened and what comes next. How foreign is this world from ours? How different could it become? How much longer until it isn't even ours?

[@byzaurum6677]

*looks at how james dean sent a ton of people to be sacrificed to elderly horror deities* sure!

[@cf5765]

@@byzaurum6677 You can probably guess I hadn't seen every video yet

[@byzaurum6677]

@@cf5765 i had spoiled people worse than this. I will got to hell with no regrets in my heart nor my soul.

[@Yolatengo1984]

Spechless... This was incredible. It's like a direct injection of nostalgia right into the vein. Makes me feel like I've been here before even though I haven't, almost makes me feel homesick for this place I've never been. What a cool video, and amazing channel.

[@viscountrainbows6452]

So nobody's gonnae mention that his final silent broadcast was literally on 4/20/69 Mans was memeing into our timeline before the internet.

[@Spliffted]

Not even a joke I can’t stop watching the presidential announcement bit, like I’ll watch it on repeat and then I’ll eventually leave and come back to it

[@prowins1]

First video of the series and I head to google if James dean ever took a shot at office. Very well made, eerie and off putting but serene at the same time. Can’t wait to follow the rest of the series

[@chaseman113]

5:24 Most Photogenic picture I’ve ever seen of Nixon. Fun Nixon Fact, he showed up for the opening The Dalles Dam on the Columbia River in The Dalles, Oregon in 1957.

[@ari-dynamicarchive]

"What're we waiting for? Let's bring them back home." - not gonna lie I imagine he would say this in an ad/speech/etc.

[@ignaciodiazmoore]

Wow, Dean said some really strong things in his life. That's why he was the best president I've ever seen in the history of this country. I still hearing those powerful bongos...

[@j.wilcox3547]

I really hope that someone realizes your talent, and someday you will make feature length movies. Your films are that good. Please keep it up. Your ideas and videos are truly genius.

[@ReyaitheShadowWolf]

Why is this called DEANDEMOCRACY when a much better title would have been Deanmocracy? I KID. This series is so much fun so far! ^^

[@SpoopyChicken]

Honestly dean doesn't even need to mind control anyone. He's just that based.

[@hazmatix3366]

Man was just elected president but instead of giving a speech he decides to show off his sick bongo skills. Why can't we have a president like this.

[@wanderinghistorian]

@Alexkansas you sir are a genius, a genius I tell you! This was another great video and they only keep improving! I'm so impressed because you didn't just keep making scary ones but are now branching out into a whole alternate US universe! I look forward to each and every one of these. Fun fact for those that missed it: Star Trek actually ended in 1969...in our universe anyways.

[@samanthaschultz9814]

I’ve been looking for this comment about Star Trek 👏

[@bunnywavyxx9524]

I would 100% be a follower in this universe, this documentary makes him out to be worth a cult-like fanbase it's off putting and really amazing. This is the most real a parallel/alternate universe has ever felt to me, actually I'm sure this is out there somewhere.

[@fockingreat1125]

Oddly comforting to watch. Like maladaptive day-dreaming about that past.

[@tannakiTV]

*Coming back on this, I've thought of something. It's actually pretty strange, but look at this: all of the early 2000s documentaries on Dean's politics and the strange things that happen almost all had something to do with people. But the more modern ones (2010-Present) are more creature-related. What if Dean's apparent death (2009) caused... something to change?*

[@jaydeng.3029]

"And cited his good looks and love of jazz as clear signs of the Devil" I never thought I'd hear that sentence in my life

[@momowawa447]

This is such a good series, the fact that there are factions within this story and us the viewers can choose freely between Dean's side or the Anti-Dean Association based on how the story develops is amazing. I need more of the monument mythos!!!

[@jackroberts2704]

Anti-Deaners are haters

[@momowawa447]

@@jackroberts2704 nah man but Dean is actually the devil you know right? The man is chill about sending people to the Washington tower and we all know what happened to Virginia, the man is also chill about leaving Freedom statue free after we all know that thing beheaded and skinned hundreds of people, man fuck Dean in that reality!

[@styx7777]

Well, anti-Dean’s literally terrorist’s, and sending they in parallel universe is not a really terrible punishment

[@leticia1346]

Just for everyone’s information, Deans muted 90 day speech was on the date 4/20/69

[@fim-43redeye31]

idk this just seems like a happy ending to me

[@wrestlingpurist9784]

No wonder why. Nixon never became president and with Dean in command, the communist victory in Vietnam would backfire as the Soviet's would soon realize that James Dean saved the unity in America rather than the opposite of what they hoped to achieve with the Tet offensive.

[@TheThing4444]

Sure, everyone's happy, but it's very unnerving how everyone aside from old white conservatives like the guy.

[@neutrin0329]

@@TheThing4444 in the context of this series being “supernatural”, it feels like it’s some sort of brainwash either by some NWO-like group or maybe James dean in this universe is some sort of deity or alien in human form from the “James dean is no man” line.

[@thinglet2478]

@@neutrin0329 Or maybe, just maybe, it's kind of like what would happen if BTS stans were allowed to vote members for the president of the united states. Think about it. If there weren't any limitations on who could be president, then who knows what crazy history we'd all be living in?

[@cr0w342]

You say that but I had to move my entire family out of the Alcatraz Zone as it spread through what was left of Cali at the time

[@jackroberts2704]

I remember hearing my uncle got to go to his inauguration. It's what inspired him to take up the bongos and he's been playing ever since!

[@NeonTailzzz]

I remember my mom telling me about how she saw this as a kid, my grandmother was actually one of the people who thought it was a declaration of war and ended up fainting. Always regretted missing that initial airing, grandma must’ve watched that repeat about 50 times according to mom.

[@adamstele4286]

interesting take at how they ingrained politics into media similar to how we had. I wonder if we would've had the equivalent of internet culture but with their tech at the time.

[@wilmagregg3131]

they never got to devlop internet culture because of MAIZE basically a nationalized american computer company that dean helped create threw the new department of technology it was going great until dean tried to use the computer networks to controll the monument monsters it failed and infected all personal computers which had to all be destroyed meaning technology on the personal computer side of things is 20 years behind us.

[@Bananabread1334]

Even in this strange, parallel universe, George Wallace is still trying to keep segregation. 2:35

[@angelicterrors]

I don’t care how evil James Dean is in this universe, I want a President that plays bongos after the Inaugural address. What an absolute Chad of a man. What an inspiration. I would kiss him without hesitation, that’s true political power dude, friggin bongossss

[@CGFillertext]

The arguably worst thing he did was send a bunch of people to alternate universes, but even then they basically did a nationwide terrorist attack by trying to make everyone deaf. Getting sent to an alternate universe must be sunshine and rainbows compared to stuff that would happen at Guantanamo Bay

[@KevinPDunn]

Been a big James Dean fan for 15 years. This is awesome. Very well done. Thank you.

[@isolatedirectorofficial]

7:12 my man Dean really do be speakin’ bout industrial-society & it’s future

[@sp1tf1r33]

Everybody only talking about the lore and I’m here impressed that he subtly snuck in the 4/20/69.

[@darrellscholl1651]

Nobody has ever beat that bongo solo!

[@enocescalona]

*Dean's speech get its audio cut off* Anti Deans: muahaha, take that, demon! *Dean's speech now the greatest silent film to ever be* Anti Deans: wait WHAT?!

[@bernardpowell7255]

WatchMojo's Top 3 US Presidents 3: Jack Ryan 2:Captain America 1: James Dean

[@botmexicanpatriot]

Where's Rockefeller

[@nothere5378]

@@botmexicanpatriot he got cancelled for head slavery

[@mantea3481]

@@botmexicanpatriot Rockefeller was a traitor to the American people, he should be in the 3 worst presidents.

[@GooBomber1]

I think that Dean is some sort of eldritch entity, as his immense and near immediate popularity shows that he isn't quite just a normal human, but he has no destructive ambitions. He just wants to get into office, drive race cars, and chill with his bongos. If there is any connection to the other entities shown in the Mythos, it's likely purely one of similar origins, or where he draws his power from. Other than that he's just some dude.

[@nottherealpaulsmith]

footnote: dean would have been the youngest president in history, at just 37 in 1968 this would have made him younger than even kennedy, who was 43 when he was elected in 1960, and would put him at just barely over the minimum age limit of 35

[@Slickford_IV]

Teddy Roosevelt was the youngest President not Kennedy.

[@nottherealpaulsmith]

@@Slickford_IV True, but Kennedy and Roosevelt were both 43 when they became president. The point stands.

[@Slickford_IV]

@@nottherealpaulsmith Roosevelt was 42. Kennedy was 43. Kennedy was the youngest to be elected while Roosevelt was inaugurated after McKinley's assassination.

[@nottherealpaulsmith]

@@Slickford_IV My mistake, but the point still stands. Dean would be younger than both of them.

[@pavlotretiakov2130]

Damn this really reminds me of current president of Ukraine, Zelensky. An actor, doesn't appear on debates, good add campaign, high support on the elections... Guess we'll have Lavralurkers soon

[@budakbaongsiah]

Giza Glass-powered Bayraktar

[@Finamajig]

Zelensky much like the hypothetical Dean is unreasonably charismatic and cool

[@Bowtiethesilly2023]

​@@Finamajig i see 10/17/24

[@mikhailiagacesa3406]

Sad that Star Trek ended after it's second season with Jeff Hunter as Captain Pike. ;-) Seriously tho, people at the time would not be upset by a countdown on TV...the Emergency Broadcast System was testing all the time.

[@kffire12]

When the footage gets distorted at 7:40, the window behind Dean has what looks like a face or skull. Or maybe I'm just imagining that

[@alexxthenn4889]

Oh yeah it does but its probably a tree swaying

[@mildly_miffed_man1414]

Probably just pareidolia or whatever it is.

[@Logicalporkpie]

I don’t know why I haven’t come across this series until now, for what it’s worth this is beautifully done. You had me at lovecraft horrors hahaha just imagine.

[@otaddiction]

I like to think that this actually happened in an alternate universe, and we're just living in the universe that everyone either laughs at or fears

[@dr.altoclef9255]

"Those poor guys living in the timeline where Dean died in a car accident."

[@forecastlotus3899]

We aren't the scariest, may not even be the most ruthless, but damn do we have some cool weapons

[@Clean_shwipe]

I can’t explain the way this makes me feel, I watch this every for the past year, recently I stoped but coming back too it… man oh man, keep up the good work Alex

[@that_oneguy00]

Cons: Is probably some sort of monster in disguise Pros: is an absolute chad

[@carlcarlington7317]

This is actually an insanely campaign strategy. Building up an insane amount of hype by advertising “something big” for weeks on end before announcing regularly reaching out to voters with weekly fire side chat style live broadcasts, hell even astroturfing a campaign of old people who think you’re literally the devil to make opposition look insane could be effective. Slimy as fuck, but effective

[@nikoelvambuena8094]

I need someone to make a “DeanDemocracy” T-Shirt ASAP

[@TheMilkman-ur5ip]

Ok so as far as I remember, the ‘Special trees’ could send people to different points in time. What if a guy accidentally travelled back to 1955 or prior, and accidentally managed to prevent James Dean’s 1955 death. Then because of this change in the timeline, the universe cannot handle it and creates a tangent timeline where Dean decided to run for president, but because of the alterations, it creates anomalys, such as a living Alcatraz island and that. Then these reprocussions affect the US Presidency, and they decide to do evil shit like put people in the Lincloln memorial and creating a big robot inside the Statue of Liberty that eats people

[@pkthe13th]

Hey Alex, you should look at the JFK Eternal Flame. Seems perfect for this series!