Every YA Dystopian Series

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[@TheRepublicOfUngeria]

He forgot to mention: The Town he lives in used to be a coal mining town before the mines shut down when they opened up the tooth processing facilities, so the town is called Coal Gate.

[@snichelsticks8653]

take my like and leave

[@o0Scarrow0o]

God dammit this comment is amazing

[@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45]

The main character also has heightened senses and psychic abilities for some reason They call this superpower the Senso Dyn

[@TheRepublicOfUngeria]

@@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45 He got them from the fiendish mutant witch. Her mutation caused her to grow her eyes out of her toes, so they call her "Floor Eyed".

[@WTFisTingispingis]

GET OUT

[@sneeznoodle]

You're laughing. His rebel dad is in Mega Jail™ and you're laughing.

[@serenegenerally]

It do be funny tho

[@NoNameTbh4]

Why is it trademarked 💀

[@RushWheeler]

You're laughing. Everything's about to change and you're laughing

[@SandwichGlitch]

​@@NoNameTbh4 Because it's not regular jail, it's mega

[@broblerone413]

You're laughing. His mom is going to die in six pages and you're laughing.

[@hydqjuliilq27]

“I’m described in the book as a plain-looking 15 year old, so naturally I’ll be played in the movies by a 20-something supermodel.”

[@tatehildyard5332]

Child labor regulations. Actual teens cost you more only to end up shooting less

[@samuelbenhardt4230]

Oh me? I'm kinda plain. What the hell does that mean you ask? People come in all different shapes and sizes? Oh it means I'm thin, have dark hair, shy. It'll be expressly stated that I'm not conventionally attractive like Titssica, but every hunky guy and my childhood best friend will have a thing for me. Who do I choose??

[@WetSaucySlommy]

They should use reverse makeup for characters like this. Make the actors look 50% worse

[@livcaitbff]

@@tatehildyard5332 sure but it’s still funny that characters who are described as plain are played by literal models who are conventionally attractive in every way

[@Pukeprincess]

I’m 14 and I hope I never age again

[@TheAmityElf]

This was like a public execution of the Divergent series.

[@drackar]

I thought that was the movies.

[@johnwhite1534]

@@drackar They were based on equally shitty books

[@thomaskole9881]

those movies didn't have enough public executions. At least Hunger Games had some balls to make their cookie cutter authoritarian goverment seem ruthless.

[@peggedyourdad9560]

@@thomaskole9881 I honestly really like the book series, I just need to read the last book, lol. But, I can understand the criticisms towards it.

[@JayImahara]

Divergent was a public execution of Divergent.

[@dhiibvulk9036]

"I hate the government, but I also have a crush on it?" Is like the title of those ""real"" animated stories

[@Jess-jt4zf]

That's every single one of those "poor rebel boy falls in love with the rich villain government official's daughter" lmao

[@Maybe_a_Spoon]

The fact I had to read a book for class that followed that exact plot is making me cry with the accuracy

[@snivythefencer2898]

@@Maybe_a_Spoon Drop the title

[@alondraisabel4979]

basically red queen

[@keithgawain3614]

Sounds like an anime or Japanese light novel

[@EdgieAlias]

"I'm strong and quiet." One... one of those things, maybe.

[@jellyfishjames3504]

"and."

[@sandroselladore3506]

yeah lol

[@kal9728]

SIGMA MALE LMAO

[@ingvarsuigin609]

I'm strong and I'm quiet, LET'S GO!!

[@christopherverhoef9112]

"He's gonna be that shy, beefy boy I over-described on page 5." I once deduced who the villain was in a mystery story solely by the length of his introductory paragraph.

[@ms.moronic9165]

Good for you, Chris.

[@golzaye3393]

Which book?

[@highviewbarbell]

@@golzaye3393 all of them

[@veryangryduckpl2122]

​@@highviewbarbellMeet the Detective

[@azariyelvarro6271]

Me: Reads a book Character: Dies Another character: It must have been a traitor! *Get introduced to dead character's grieving girlfriend the next chapter* Me: Geeze, who could it be? One of the characters we've know forever... or this new addition who is directly connected to the smuck who blew up last chapter?

[@bluevelvt]

we’ll split the last book into two movies, but the first part will be such a flop we just give up on the second

[@okayokay602]

its okay you can just say divergant

[@revimfadli4666]

Too real

[@gem9535]

@@okayokay602 S H O T S F I R E D

[@edmdotmp3]

I love ur pfp

[@aSmallGreenDot]

@@okayokay602 and hunger games

[@juriepica1174]

"My name? Crest" gets me every time

[@maxwelljacobs961]

Really missed an opportunity to use "Cole...Cole Gate".

[@WCBProductions]

@@maxwelljacobs961 I audibly cackled like a fkcin witch, good job

[@fulana_de_tal]

@@maxwelljacobs961 like how in the selection the mc is named America

[@tiredfrog308]

I admittedly didn’t get the joke because I’ve never heard of that brand before (I do not live in America), but the context makes it hilarious.

[@BeazerProductions]

@@maxwelljacobs961 True, but Cole is a normal human name on its own, while Crest is exactly stupid enough to be a YA name.

[@AydenGraceMusic]

“By a woman with two first names, a hyphenated last name, and very sad eyes” 10 seconds in I’m already dead 💀 😂

[@professorhazard]

she IS going to buy a horse with her movie money

[@FishDrinkLightGreen]

Lmao

[@andreasanchez1453]

Me who’s writing a YA novel with a pen name Gabriella DeWitt

[@thetaaaa]

@@andreasanchez1453 Mkay but how sad are your eyes

[@livtastic3971]

@@andreasanchez1453 How much do you like horses?

[@ChristmasPterodactyl]

Honestly, the rebel leader and the government itself being the two ends of the love triangle is an actually clever idea.

[@noahsvirsky9962]

"kid who grew up loyal to the government and would never dream of betraying them, but falls in love with a rebel/rebellion leader and the government is evil now" has also been done to death

[@frogfish1567]

Alternate idea: kid grows up loyal to a rebellion and falls in love with the evil government. Corruption arc time

[@josephdavis9234]

I think Marie Lu did that in Legend.

[@dvf1736]

@@josephdavis9234 Legend is more about changing the gov for the better and how everyone is in a grey area rather than classic YA protagonists overthrowing the government. Young Elites does a corruption arc with the main character turning from a rebel to a warmongering tyrant once she's in power

[@thisisausername9356]

Read this wrong and I thought you meant the rebel and government leader being the same person (like they claim to be a rebel but ultimately end up being revealed to be a government leader) just disguised enough to look like two different people and the protag thought both of them was hot

[@jadagastia6945]

It's the guy in the background disappointedly going "oh" after realizing Eric's 230 pun that really does it for me

[@gem9535]

Right as I was reading it 🤣

[@hx5525]

I don’t get it

[@randomduck8679]

@@hx5525 Tooth Hurties

[@flipflopzthreeonethree1873]

2:48 for anyone who didn't catch it lmao

[@SeppelSquirrel]

So on this popsicle, there's a joke: "When is it time to brush your teeth?" And the answer is, "Tooth-thirty." I thought that was neglecting the fact that it could be improved to be "Tooth-hurty" and I'm so happy this guy is on the same wavelength as me. 😁

[@Jess-jt4zf]

That's literally that one book where food is illegal and a poor boy from the slums and a rich girl who's parents work in the government discover they both can experience hunger so they run away together and like a 1000 things happen in the span of two days.

[@josephcowan6779]

That's exactly what I thought of too. Except in that book, she switches things around by making the main character rich and privileged, so she slowly finds out (in 2 days) how the world REALLY is.

[@Grace-hw7zt]

What book is that???

[@Jess-jt4zf]

@@Grace-hw7zt It's called Hungry by author H.A. Swain. Alizee (youtuber) did a good review, you could watch that if you want to understand what the book is basically about and hear some quotes. I wouldn't recommend reading it unless you are really into bad YA books. Some parts are definitely "so bad it's good" but there's not a lot of them tbh and it gets pretty boring at some parts. It's like 400 pages and it's too long and too rushed at the same time lol... There's a lot of things that get brought up and are very detailed just to never appear again or to get killed off later with just a few sentences. You think "oh, this is probably going to come up again and there is going to be a major plot twist" but there never is lmao The reviews about the book are usually better written and more entertaining than the book itself lol

[@thatcatholicgirl5675]

wait hol'up if food's illegal how do people live?

[@josephcowan6779]

@@thatcatholicgirl5675 Glad you asked. A big company provides nutrition pills which fill all their caloric needs and also suppresses hunger. Idk if it even even says how it works or what it's made out of since most of the plants are destroyed?

[@EtherealAmoeba]

A dystopian YA novel that is secretly a dental hygeine ad? Oh gosh now I can only think about the time when Wendy's did stories on wattpad. .

[@mynamejeff3545]

Wendy's did what.

[@estheromoyele3321]

@@mynamejeff3545 they were weird romance fan fiction stories of like- y/n x their drinks. It was surprisingly well written💀

[@mynamejeff3545]

@@estheromoyele3321 I genuinely feel worse for knowing this

[@estheromoyele3321]

@@mynamejeff3545 you’re _welcome_

[@RicketyRails4U]

Please... where? A link? Is there more than one? I've never had to use wattpad before, but I cant deny the draw this has for me.

[@mynamejeff3545]

"I HATE the government! But I also have a crush on him?..." Yeah relatable. I believe I can *change* him, god damn it!

[@endTHEhegemony_Today]

This is a seriously underrated sentiment shared by more current Americans than we ourselves even realize

[@ratosphere]

You can't :(

[@lukejensen9933]

Things are going to *CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANGE*

[@user-zz3sn8ky7z]

@@ThatRipOff The person you're replying to straight up said that thinking you can change the government isn't reasonable, where on earth did you get the "government should control everything!!!"

[@VimyGlide]

@@user-zz3sn8ky7z i'm pretty sure rip was elaborating on moon's point, not saying moon was the sort of person who'd believe the sentiment

[@dvf1736]

To this day, the only YA novel I remember was one where it started off cliche as hell, but then the protagonist rebel girl realized that overthrowing the government meant she was now in control, and the rest of the book is just her hunting down her rebel friends and realize that being a tyrannical dictator is awesome

[@hollow_w33n]

name?

[@blueee0088]

This sounds really awesome. Name?

[@dvf1736]

@@blueee0088 young elites is the name. It's pretty slow at first tho

[@Coffee-hj5di]

Bruh, that actually sounds awesome and original, what the heck

[@grandinquisitor8335]

That seems like a cool subvert on the whole rebellion trope, I would like to see that used more tbh.

[@Cody_Wolf1]

Left out how the clearly evil thing is normally called “The [insert completely normal word but capitalize the first letter to make it ominous]”

[@smartalec2001]

The Dentistry!

[@awelotta]

@@animatorireenie8319 Honestly it is.

[@Alexander-tu3iv]

Instantly thought of the society from red rising

[@tsg_frank]

The Eye The Crab The Cube The Organization The Window The Network I've made all those up but one

[@nekrataali]

They never have abbreviations for organizations, either, unless it's some kind of pun. It's always either something like "the Society," "the Alliance," or "T.E.E.T.H." or "G.U.M.S." Real life has stuff like the IRA, PLO, or the KKK. If an organization isn't abbreviated, it has a name that explains ideology/makes it clear whose side they're on/isn't some generic noun. Groups such as the French Resistance, the Central Powers, Spanish Republicans, Westboro Baptist Church, and so on. Very few organizations have on-the-nose branding. DARE, PETA, and MADD are some examples of organizations abbreviated to be related to what they represent, but it's not on-the-nose like it is in fiction.

[@venisquxxr8214]

as an avid reader of ya, this is so accurate it's painful

[@sophiaschier-hanson4163]

As someone who works at a middle school and has consequently read entirely too much of the stuff, WHY?! 🤣

[@EveningRose_BigRed]

@@sophiaschier-hanson4163 you get to pretend ur the cool main character LMAO. It’s pretty much self-insert

[@GummyDinosaursify]

It's missing the generic love triangle where clearly the asshole guy is the one she likes, but the nice guy is there too to create generic drama of which will be solved in two pages after being hinted at for the entire book.

[@asheiou]

@@GummyDinosaursify the hunger games? 😭

[@semi_enigma]

@@GummyDinosaursify I think that love triangle includes the government?

[@csblakeley]

Where's the love triangle?? It can't be a real YA dystopia without a pointless love triangle between the boy/girl you liked before and the girl/boy/bird you just met who has... *dramatic pause* a mysterious backstory that will be explained after the cliffhanger in the first book.

[@AndreFerreiraGreiskul]

The love triangle is between the main character, the leader of the rebels, and the government.

[@NicholasStyx]

More often than not, the 3rd part of the triangle either isn't introduced or at least doesn't matter until book 2

[@jadejunnie3285]

And then gay love interest gets thrown in briefly in a sequel

[@jchen8902]

One love interest is from the law enforcement/government and the other is a rebel. To save the mc from being a two-timer, one of them will die sacrificing themself for the mc to help make the decision for them.

[@tearsofboredom7956]

No it's never an actual love triangle, it's always just a love angle

[@sarasthoughts]

"It's vaguely chicago and steampunk for no goddamn reason" HELP

[@3Guys1Video]

XD

[@carysk4083]

This is why I'm avoiding Chicago in my story

[@thejuiceking2219]

i get that, but also steampunk is based so i'm okay with that

[@BenHopkins1000]

@@carysk4083Miami has much more character

[@frog731]

​@@BenHopkins1000 I'm actually using Miami for my story

[@lisatarsavage6944]

The funny thing is, when the dude made the joke about the rebel group name being a pun, my mind actually didn't go to any modern YA dystopian novels - it went to Les Miserables. In the book the revolutionary group is called Les Amis de L'ABC. Because they're almost all students. But it's also a pun because in French, the language the novel was originally written in, "l'abaisse " meaning "the abased" aka "the poor and suffering", is pronounced the same way.

[@BeazerProductions]

Quite a pun from the same writer who gave us John McJohn.

[@ashvinvaidyanathan7239]

Seethe harder

[@thesunwillneverset]

@@ashvinvaidyanathan7239 Seethe? Who's seething?

[@NoConsequenc3]

@@ashvinvaidyanathan7239 are you lost buddy? Need twitter?

[@SoWhosGae]

@@BeazerProductions It doesn't make sense when you say it in English but there's nothing wrong with it in French.

[@eruiluvatar5701]

Imagine 1984, but it's dumbed down like a YA Dystopian book. Nothing would change with the thought police, but there would totally be a love triangle between Julia, Winston, and O'Brien haha. Winston's parents are probably still alive somewhere and it would end on a cliffhanger with Big Brother being his actual long-lost brother.

[@aaaaagggggggghhhhhh]

Can we have a ya animal farm, always wondered what the pigs did with them puppies, steamy love triangle?

[@RushWheeler]

@@aaaaagggggggghhhhhh why did you think writing this was a good idea

[@billbilly9485]

@@aaaaagggggggghhhhhh I hope u think about this a year later

[@alienfromlhs1140b]

@@aaaaagggggggghhhhhh danimal farm

[@Books-and-coffee0]

And in the end of the trilogy it is revealed that the Big Brother is actually the misunderstood villain, Winston overthrows the Party, escapes with Julia and they live with eternal love and bliss in the woods 😃😂

[@cryztalqueer]

Imagine this but he is depressed and he talks like a moody teenager.

[@bililac36]

^ But also in a stereotypical fashion that doesn't actually hit anything even sorta plot related

[@The_Sunny_One]

And there’s a love triangle

[@serenegenerally]

Oh god don’t tell me this is twilight 🤢-

[@montag3901]

this sounds like something Starkid would absolutely make into a musical

[@bitrash6364]

YES

[@juliavargas13]

I NEED this musical right now

[@pflasterstrips7254]

Can't wait for one verse of a song from it weirdly trending on TikTok because it's the perfect audio for a joke.

[@Roaring_Lotus]

OMFG YES

[@notsonegative1736]

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

[@mensch79music3]

Should have also put in: "I was wearing my father's old hunting jacket. Fortunately, he was a women's size 10."

[@seinquant]

"my name? crest." i was dead within the first 10 seconds but i think i sunk deeper into the ground 💀💀

[@fancifulbread8040]

Nah Nah Nah, this is a Ya novel. Every name has to be spelled weird as shit so: Kryst Edit: as soon as I posted this I realized the name was a play on the toothpaste. Fuck I'm dumb.

[@descrisleuthy]

2:47 that soft groan of a man who got the pun

[@lynneamackey9990]

You can practically hear the face palm in his voice 😂

[@halodragonmaster]

He's done for the night

[@BirdMoose]

The fact that I don't see many "making sand-soup for my beautiful weak little sister" comments is a crime.

[@omorinintendoswitchedition]

Don’t forget his weak and dying mother!

[@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45]

@ Primrose Everdeen

[@catbatrat1760]

True!!

[@catbatrat1760]

His weak little sister, but also don't forget his mom who's gonna die in 6 pages ^w^

[@christy1819]

“That’s why my teeth are fucked” This isn’t a YA novel, this is just England

[@EZOnTheEyes]

"Except for mine" -The royal family, probably

[@rubyy.7374]

England: where they have free health care, yet somehow can’t afford a dentist

[@mnbvcx66]

@@rubyy.7374 Dentists aren’t free in the UK once you’re an adult. Procedures and other things like braces can get pretty expensive. Not that you asked lol.

[@samkadel8185]

@@mnbvcx66 That and overall people in the UK tend to have slightly better teeth than in the US, it's just that people in the US are more likely to get cosmetic dental procedures, so the rich Americans you see generally have better-looking teeth.

[@nebula541]

@@samkadel8185 also, teeth looking perfect (and more white than it naturally is) is pushed a lot more in america

[@danny8284]

the 230’s joke is UNDERRATED

[@Worgrunner]

Is it tooth hurties?

[@chinezerebel9443]

get it?

[@danny8284]

@@Worgrunner yep!

[@hellterminator]

@@Worgrunner I assumed it's because humans have 32 teeth.

[@mrbungeealwaysrhymes9023]

I WAS LAUGHING SO HARD I CANT

[@joemullarkey5719]

I just started The Maze Runner series and the slang is painfully accurate. I swear they’ve thrown like 15 different random words that are given no meaning in the first 20 pages alone.

[@endofpixel3712]

Shut it greenie

[@joemullarkey5719]

@@endofpixel3712 oh excuse me, Shuckface.

[@jackson-mq9vm]

@@endofpixel3712 *slint it greenie

[@megl.9470]

if you think that's bad get ready for the worldbuilding. and the capitalization. oh, the capitalization.

[@-Teague-]

Maze Runner is such an incredibly dumb series it's mind boggling

[@emoscotchtape]

Is it REALLY a YA novel if it doesn't have 2 bland male characters for a love triangle?

[@theunholysmirk]

It does! The rebel leader and the government, of course.

[@halodragonmaster]

@@theunholysmirk mother- You are correct

[@whoop6047]

it's like, "oh wow here's my bestfriend who i've known all my life. he's smart, handsome, funny, attractive, and kind but then there's this other guy i know nothing about. he's mysterious, a douche, or both, but he has a troubled past and i'm sure he's gonna get a single page worth of character arc so he's still in the running!"

[@kaykeunil]

@@whoop6047 plz omg I’m always like literally don’t choose any of them you have better things to focus on, and if you absolutely have to have a romantic interest make it the actually decent person that shows care for you

[@orlock20]

The story where the audience sides with the villain because the hero is too bland like Spike over Angel on Buffy.

[@DragonaxFilms]

"Crest" is such a YA main character name too.

[@qwaabza]

NOOOOOOO I JUST REALIZED ITS A TOOTHPASTE PUN

[@VeginMatt]

9/10 dentists recommend this book!

[@redpepper74]

The last one is in mega jail

[@TheZizamie]

Love Square between Y/N, Crest, Beefy Shy Boy Leader, and Government

[@Helloknight]

yes. I approve. I may write this in the future, idk

[@jackiebrubaker1156]

What about rebel dad in Mega Jail? 😏

[@orionbloomcrown93]

@@jackiebrubaker1156 Y/N breaks into the mega jail (and we have no clue on why y/n's in the mega jail but we find out near the end of the book) Y/N and Crest run into each other and he tells Y/N that he's trying to break his dad out of mega jail. Y/N decides to help Crest we they form a bond. How Y/N meets government and beefy shy boy leader is something I don't know yet but I really wanna hear some more ideas for this. I thought way to much on this.

[@jackiebrubaker1156]

@@orionbloomcrown93 ooh, that's good! Maybe Y/N and Crest get "captured" by the rebels, but quickly gain the boy leader's trust (cue lots of tension)

[@jessicamichalsky886]

I have a feeling he thought of the 2:30 joke and woke up in a cold sweat to write this.

[@ASHERUISE]

I don't think he thought of it it's a classic but still good in this context.

[@bumblehoney7206]

I feel like a lot of stories are falling into that "it's not cool unless it's illegal" category

[@fingernecklace4817]

I mean...

[@bumblehoney7206]

@@fingernecklace4817 yeah, I know

[@azekia]

Arson 😎

[@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45]

Public masturbation I don't get it, what's the kick? Why don't you just do it at home like the rest of us? Big flatscreen TV, 50 channels of pay-per-view... In a Starbucks, that's nice.

[@_elevenofspades]

This 4 minute skit unironically has better worldbuilding than the entire “Divergent” series, sorry not sorry Edit: mom look at me i’m famous :3 Also, I meant for this comment to be just a joke, I personally don’t like Divergent but I understand if you’re a fan of Divergent, like, I get the appeal and I’m not judging your taste 🤍 Just don’t get in fights on the comment section please :,)

[@lulusobel8643]

FUCKING DIVERGENT! I WAS FORCED TO READ IT IN SCHOOL!

[@veemie8148]

@@lulusobel8643 wow you had a shitty school

[@endorianentertainment]

as bad as Divergent is at least it was written by an author who cared and not just as a shameless cash grab like a lot of the genre

[@lulusobel8643]

@@endorianentertainment Well, that’s nice to know.

[@thewinter_]

@@endorianentertainment The first book, maybe. the rest of the series, well...

[@deepsea5348]

Missed opportunity to call it “Crestfallen”

[@PsychoSavager289]

I went to the cinema in 2015 and saw back-to-back trailers for the latest Hunger Games, Divergent and Maze Runner films. The only way I was able to tell them apart was that I knew Hunger Games had Jennifer Lawrence in it.

[@frozenfirenow7485]

This isn’t a fictional Dystopia. This is just what being British feels like😤

[@cellularautomaton.]

sending british people my heartfelt thoughts and prayers 😔

[@nocturnalpisces1299]

@@cellularautomaton. what a sad, horrible disease 💔

[@decornis]

Eww Bri'ish 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@tylercoon1791]

So a real life dystopia?

[@rontheron4807]

Half of teen dystopian books: What if being in love.. was *illegal* ?? Gay people:

[@jfm14]

For real tho. 😂

[@jmvt3]

Just don’t be gay lmao

[@rontheron4807]

@@jmvt3 omg i can’t believe we never thought of that, my bad bud you just saved my life 😫💕

[@jmvt3]

@@rontheron4807 no problem, all things are possible through God.

[@bellac6311]

@@jmvt3 ur....ur being satirical right? this is a joke right?

[@inirafitzpatrick315]

“ I hate the government!!! But I also have a crush on it???

[@neonGawdzilla]

I'm SO FREAKING GLAD y'all have improved the microphones. Fuck yeah! Audible comedy!

[@andybono94]

“Also it’s where my rebel *DAD* is...” Also i got an ad for invisalign right after this lol

[@professorhazard]

I refuse to believe that Rebel Dad and The Government aren't the same guy

[@thefunfactman6098]

Why can't there ever be a YA Novel where the villains actually have a plan that makes sense. Or even better, where the villain has an actual point. All I want is a well written novel dammit.

[@canaisyoung3601]

Well, then, you're better off reading the older classic novels and short stories that everyone says are problematic.

[@queerlibtardhippie9357]

People who say things like this are the same people who literally pick the first book they see on Amazon's self-publishing book page.

[@3Guys1Video]

@@canaisyoung3601 :0

[@therook3008]

Write one yourself! I believe in you!

[@thefunfactman6098]

@@therook3008 I wish, but i can't write for shit

[@Taylor_Lindise]

That long pause to check to see if I got the joke was fucking golden. Also, thank you for giving me that time. I finally understood the joke :P

[@rdtiel]

Do you have sad eyes?

[@fredtwo8347]

The genuine awe from the audience as he pulls out the toothbrush. Legitimately brilliant storyteller

[@Going1outof10]

The sad eyes part really got me

[@Oceloto999]

“I hate the government! But I also have a crush on it?” Literally the book I’m reading for ELA rn lol

[@RealTrey19]

“Add a love triangle!” -J.P. Beaubien from Terrible Writing Advice: Dystopias

[@WTKB82]

The fact that the audience didn’t laugh at two-thirty thing 😂😂😂

[@rubenhumbertoroquesalas2273]

I still don't get it. 🤔

[@AB-ct3ev]

@@rubenhumbertoroquesalas2273 two-thirty... twothirty...toothurty... tooth hurty.. ;)

[@HyperfixationStation]

they did though, each time he emphasized it, too :P It's probably recognizable as the joke "when's your dentist appointment?" "At tooth hurty"

[@pinkbunnypeepsyall8251]

i died at the guy who just groaned “aw fuck” when he said that 😂

[@alexgrey7972]

The pause was calculon levels of excellent

[@tracyh5751]

This has such a quiet humor to it. Eric will just wait on a joke for a bit, you're not laughing yet, and then you can't hold it off anymore and the joke kills you.

[@niamhha9014]

And if it’s a girl, her name is Elisianna Lightning but she goes by “Li”.

[@casachica]

Wtf I was just on a Eric feurer marathon for the last 20 mins and this is the latest y'all uploaded 😭♥️

[@Raindrop_2401]

Currently reading Ready Player One at the age of 19 and it's pretty obvious that this was made for people 5 years younger. The plot radiates "Teens will find this deep" energy thoughout and it hurts my soul. Wade is also just a total fucking incel too. Makes me nervous to go back to the Gone series. Loved those books when I was 13 and I always tell people that they are the exception when it comes to YA books but now I'm really questioning that.

[@hannahcraig6763]

sometimes ya is really good and sometimes it's really bad and actual 13 year old seen to have no ability to distinguish between the two

[@fishactivation5087]

I enjoyed Ready Player One, but only because I was at the right age for it and I love pop culture. The second book was woke trash.

[@Raindrop_2401]

@@fishactivation5087 I've heard about the sequel and how god awful it was. Gonna just not read it and pretend it doesn't exist

[@simona.9730]

Ernest Cline can't go 4 lines without making some ham-fisted 80s pop culture reference, like he's Seth MacFarlane or something.

[@kingtesttube4996]

I liked it at first, but now I remembered how Wade finished the challenge by memorizing TWO COMPLETE MOVIE SCRIPTS.

[@thecoverclovers5624]

As a YA dystopian writer…this is the best thing I’ve ever seen omg this is amazing. Love this. Just subbed.

[@littlethiefluka]

what about the one trope where the MC bands together with other people like them, such as: - the overly-angsty one who has an overly-angsty backstory - the oddly positive one who actually is either working with the antagonist(s), has an overdramatic death after a few chapters, or is just REALLY depressed and is trying to hide it until that one minor thing that makes them have a mental breakdown - the rowdy, violent one who wants to fight everything but is actually really nice - fanservice character who might be part of a love triangle/square basically the harem trope in every other fantasy anime. another trope could be that the entire story was just a dream and the reader just got trolled big time, or it could be the most basic isekai you could think of.

[@HorneHermit]

You forgot to include the very weird romance plot that occurs when the two free spirited Male and Female decide to start dating and destroy the totalitarian government.

[@orlock20]

Just to set up another totalitarian government because the now freed people don't have the education or lack of corruption to run a Democracy.

[@casperrabbit7254]

I feel like all that's missing is a Harry Potter-esque sorting system for fans to put in their twitter bio and buy merch of 🤣

[@joritech357]

Lmao I never thought of that to be why authors randomly put that shit in their books for no good reason.

[@leahmaldonado8742]

I love the pause to explain the joke “tooth-hurty”

[@xnet_cascade6257]

He’s also kinda dressed up like a stereotypical protagonist in a dystopian YA series/movie

[@EllieC130]

“I hate the government… but I also have a crush on it” me knowing capitalism has a lot wrong with it but knowing I’d literally die if society collapsed.

[@jaustin97601]

Why do you assume society would collapse without capitalism? Capitalism is a relatively recent invention

[@EllieC130]

@@jaustin97601 its more that such an abrupt change in society would probably lead to inter country conflict and collapse. Idk what’ll happen if the western world becomes less capitalist over time but it happening super suddenly would probably be no bueno.

[@scienceandponies]

Capitalism is the cause of the collapse.

[@nyahnyahson523]

@@EllieC130 That's why infrastructure is so important, and why it kinda always has to be the basis of any change. Building a strong foundation should always be a first step for anything, uwu

[@Ze_N00B]

@@scienceandponies Like, no? You can‘t even consider it recent since it‘s just the concept of people being entitled to their capital, which you could trace back all the way to the first caveman. And if you‘re gonna argue „money“, people have been using salt as a currency all the way back 6000 years before Christ. And yes, giant corporations are shit, I get it, but have you considered the damage that the few socialist, or generally non-capitalist countries have managed to cause? At some point you have to consider that we‘re in the billions already, despite animals that are also in the billions are usually fucking tiny and that by the way physiological potencies work we will always have a moderate amount of suffering. Capitalism is just the best choice, even if it sucks. And it did cause the colllapse, but so did socialism, and so did every other form of government, because our rapid reproduction has already pushed us far beyond the limitations of our environment and just now came to realise our effect on the planet.

[@breet9499]

the person wheezing every few minutes improved the jokes by 10000%

[@chaosnoelle]

love that one person in the audience that just wheezes at every joke

[@TheGreatCalsby]

Never have I been so personally attacked by something I 100% agree with

[@angusmarch1066]

"Ive got a job grinding poor people teeth at the tooth mills." *wheeeeeze*

[@20moonkin]

Plot twist this was his elevator pitch to paramount

[@kloop223]

Not the teeth and rebel dad 0-o Edit: NOT THE SISTER AND MOM AJBEBSKSM

[@ranttime8830]

“Which means: he’s gonna be that shy beefy guy i overdescribed on page 5” this is too true

[@max_mittler]

How is nobody talking about “my life is just like yours, except for one dumb ass thing” hahaha

[@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45]

Because that's how these novels work.

[@OrangeDied]

I actually had an idea for a reverse dystopian novel a bit ago, told from the perspective of the people starting the perfect society, and their thought process and stuff

[@canaisyoung3601]

A utopian novel?

[@OrangeDied]

@@canaisyoung3601 well no, the point is to show the process of people starting the dystopia and why they did things

[@tylercoon1791]

There’s already one of those. It’s called the communist manifesto

[@grandinquisitor8335]

I would suggest reading the culture series by Iain Banks than

[@awanderingp3rson]

try animal farm

[@fmcgucket3076]

Is this a new take on one of your pandemic-era sketches? This version is even more painfully on point. Hate it. Love it.

[@inwemeneldur2025]

I'd *love* an entire book written in such an ironic tone in the first person

[@bluefalcon6356]

Omfg, I remember reading this book, with a kid, in basically the slums, in a world where books were illegal and there was distinct rich and poor separation via force field. Fits this video perfect

[@komi-sanmustbeprotected5665]

You also missed the bit where 2 characters who live in this world and always have will explain things to eachother that they should already know like what a Tooth Mill is and who the Tooth Police are, that way instead of actually having to write good world building the reader can just have it spoon-fed to them

[@thatonepenguinyoumightsee7191]

“I hate the government, but I also have a crush on it?” God that part was too painfully accurate to books.

[@JackSassyPants]

Your delivery was stellar, big Mikey Day vibes in the best way.

[@insignificantduck313]

This makes me thankful for the fact that The Unwanteds strayed from the dystopian theme quickly.

[@yapflipthegrunt4687]

And then milked itself.

[@dennisdegennaro7459]

The Unwanteds was good. Just pretend the sequel series never happened, because it was so bad it lowered my opinion of the original series by association

[@insignificantduck313]

@@dennisdegennaro7459 I never read the sequel series but I read the back of the first book once and yeah it sounds... there

[@dennisdegennaro7459]

@@insignificantduck313 I gave up after reading the first two, so maybe it got better but every friend I've asked says it doesn't

[@bethanypollard6940]

You’re laughing. Toothbrushes are illegal and you’re laughing.

[@thefaulkness]

I'm so glad you made this work live, its a banger, everythings about to CHANGE

[@CharliMorganMusic]

"crest" is what got me

[@meganchambers8108]

3:42 a MASTERCLASS on intonation in comedy!!!

[@kazzafraz5607]

I remember reading Farenheit51 for school and we had to write a story about a dystopian world and I ended up writing a shitty Detroit Become Human fanfiction that just ripped the plot points from the book

[@Neonbean-]

Well.. what grade did you get? I'm curious now lmao

[@kazzafraz5607]

@@Neonbean- I remember my teacher making comments about it but I literally can’t find any trace of the actual grade

[@Neonbean-]

@@kazzafraz5607 Awww rip... Well, worth a shot in asking lmao

[@realPurpleOrb]

Detroit: become Detroit

[@thedarklrd6714]

​@@realPurpleOrb Detroit: become Chicago (and vaguely steampunk for no goddamn reason)

[@koraichu]

It's either Mega Jail™ or they just kill you in some psychologically scarring way that leaves readers a bit fucked in the head even in their later years.

[@jadenleatham3408]

I was in a play where using the restroom without paying an exorbitant fee was illegal Still my favorite musical ever.

[@Fandomsaremylifee]

“I hate the government…. But I also have a crush on it???” ICONIC LINE

[@peachpetal8152]

Could you give me the timestamp for that line please?

[@TaoScribble]

It's sad that the toothbrushes being illegal thing isn't even as absurd as it gets. There's one where food doesn't exist anymore, and the main character is special because she still gets hungry and her stomach growls. I mean, it _could_ work, but not the way it was approached/presented. And some parts came off as fetish-y, at least to me.

[@sparrow3412]

What book is this

[@zzach_attack4602]

​@@sparrow3412 it's called hungry

[@Briarhoes]

“I gotta go, my mom’s about to be killed by whatever-who-cares” best line delivery i cackled

[@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45]

Excuse me, it's Whatever-who-cares She-doesn't-have-a-name Everything's-about-to-change.

[@vinnythepoet3483]

This is incredible I LIVE for these skits!! Very talented guy too, very good actor! 🌸👏

[@davidclayton1670]

I just finished 1984 and now i see where these tropes come from

[@alexh1313]

This book boutta be recommended by 9/10 dentists

[@J.ay.W]

check out the hatched sketch. it is super great. glad eric expanded the writing. thanks for the quality content!

[@hatchednyc]

Thanks!

[@dorkinabubble7772]

That dying wheeze at 2:08 😆

[@apyrthegreat6708]

That's not a fictional dystopia, thats the united kingdom

[@ultra6671]

I'm surprised this guy didn't call his character "Cole Gate".

[@darknesswithin2667]

The best part is the uncomfortably long pauses. You can just imagine the author patting herself on the back for that joke and expecting it to get applause.

[@The_Sunny_One]

Just waiting for the Netflix adaptation now

[@kitecorbin3914]

I McFreaking lost it at "Tooth Hurties" 😂😂😂😂💀💀💀