Fieldtrip

[@pollo6689]

Erik is at the same time one of the most friendly and most intimidating thing i've ever seen

[@Hat-]

I know right

[@ToadManJon11]

Was literally about to post this comment almost verbatim lol

[@tr_aux]

uhm

[@helenastenvislavskovic]

It's the feet, isn't it? It's the feet.

[@silenteye9547]

"Thing" no. Erik is a living being with thoughts, feelings and emotions, they are more human than you or I would ever be

[@Flugmorph]

this is what "normal" conversation feels like to me. very relatable.

[@Zachiderp]

Did he leave us in the middle of nowhere with no address alone to test his bird being lost hypothesis on us... ?

[@John_winston]

Prolly,since he already went mad

[@Eriee.3]

I- I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT-you have a beautiful way of thinking

[@catoticneutral]

@@Eriee.3 and thinking is DIFFERENT from doing

[@IndieLXXVII]

@@catoticneutral OH NO YOU’RE BECOMING ERIK-

[@romaniac205x7]

@@catoticneutral I've been thinking is this doing?

[@goldenpggie9788]

Erik needs to have his house searched, the police might find a missing "bird" or two.

[@eh_xx]

"i've been doing stuff latley, like a bird"

[@camera2178]

"What’s the differences between doing.. and thinking?”

[@smorebob2418]

This is the type of video that will have a totally different meaning to every person that sees it

[@SomeBody-fq3ss]

To me it means all birds are SHEEP

[@thegreatandterrible4508]

And what a deep meaning that is

[@abd-animation-22]

For me it confuses nonsense And uncomfortable

[@Nathanatos22]

It’s hentai to me

[@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth]

I think it's a cult indoctrination and we're just missing the context.

[@soupo-sandwich]

this feels like a dating sim w no dialogue options

[@osamaaj3019]

What are you talking about, there's dialogue options

[@chummycult]

I have found another asexual in the wild

[@soupo-sandwich]

@@chummycult 🎂🍞

[@Colopty]

@@chummycult There are dozens of us!

[@tr_aux]

u

[@thereall7149]

Some birds fly in flocks to save energy while traveling large distances. Others to increase the chance of surviving an attack. Animals aren‘t as illogical as one might think. Animal behavior, just as human behavior always has some reason. Even this awkward one sided dialog has a reason.

[@regirayquaza]

How does it save energy?

[@leewseea]

they probably studied some aerodynamics in their school, thinking it would be better to fly in flocks

[@jakobsonesson145]

@@regirayquaza the guy/girl bird in front absorbs wind pressure so the homies in the back do gets it easier. And then they take turns And they fly in a V formation, like this: V

[@ChadwellJ]

@@regirayquaza They're surfing the vortex created by the bird in front, lifting the side birds without as much flapping. You can't see it, but it would look something like how boats make a v shaped wave behind them.

[@godkarkat6600]

holy shit L

[@sirtontonolous2283]

This felt far longer than three minutes.

[@nicholas_plaksin]

That’s cause it’s three minutes and 21 seconds

[@kaamilsaib9039]

@@nicholas_plaksin yeah

[@maxshul3591]

I agree and im a minute in

[@alex.g7317]

@@maxshul3591 yeah, this 1 min, if feelin like a whole THREE mins!

[@official-obama]

time slows down when you learn

[@amugglewatchingmugglething6585]

Mattias out here flexing his feet drawing skills

[@NonisLuck]

Agreed! ...also *his

[@amugglewatchingmugglething6585]

@@NonisLuck yeah right sorry I'm dumb

[@Auriacularia]

lol damned muggles…

[@shazani18]

this feels like it was written by an AI

[@danisob3633]

shhh they cant know we noticed

[@TheAechBomb]

came here to say this

[@LucTemetNosce]

Same

[@knownunsoldier]

I thought it was cleverbot at first but Ik cleverbot can't keep conversation themes

[@SupperScubaSoldier]

Same

[@cthrugrl]

Erik speaks entirely in pokemon npc dialogue but we love him anyway

[@MD-mh7bp]

this is just how i talk after quarantine

[@Nathanatos22]

This is how I look after quarantine

[@nexalcorp2323]

Recently I flew in an airplane for 11 hours with my parents. It was during the night, so we were supposed to sleep... Well I slept 2hours and honestly, I think you just recapped what conversation my 2 last brain cells had when I arrived at destination

[@brrobinn]

..I'm so sorry-

[@AWESOMO5]

This feels like what learning English was like. You understand the individual words, but the grammar and context are foreign. Also i felt that at any moment he would snap my neck if i said anything

[@sharky4029]

Oh don't worry, I feel the exact same using other languages. Including that they would snap my neck part-

[@popsleo]

I honestly thought he was going to chuck the rock at person he was talking to

[@manuvillada5697]

That would've made the hole video better haha

[@t.w.7057]

@@manuvillada5697 nah the threat of it’s funnier imo

[@BurloBrandoVonBando]

He was going to kill them but changed his mind

[@TheFuzzyOcelot]

i cannot tell if this is a thought experiment or if these are just really weird bird questions

[@kiwi_bird]

Yes

[@Floof_Factory]

Me neither

[@Maikurshi]

I emailed him 2 years ago about going on the “field trip” he told me to meet him in a McDonald’s in Washington. I pretended to be a pigeon god since I was a stupid freshman/sophomore. We emailed back and forth for a month or so. I forgot about it. I got an email on the 2nd of July stating “WHERE ARE YOU I WAITED FOR YOU” and then gOT THE FUCKING “wha if a bird strays from its flock. I waited for you. I replied to all your emails.” And it hit me like a train. I’m not ok. I’m assuming I was one of a very small amount of people who replied to this due to how god damn specific this is I just got off a 7 hour plane ride that started at 3 am I’m so tired I’m so confused and I’m genuinely unsure if I’m awake.

[@rusticcloud3325]

Thought experiments are made out of weird questions

[@veronikadawson8319]

@@Maikurshi wait, what do you mean?

[@MadAliceInWonderland]

I'd like to imagine that nobody is there. He's just tired of nobody being there and is talking as if the person he waited for finally came. A very relatable character indeed. I too talk to myself as if someone else is there.

[@TheDurk]

"Birds fly in flocks, they don't have to. But i guess a bird wouldnt know that". What an unexpectedly deep line that is, holy shit

[@Colopty]

I was listening intently yet not a single word of the conversation registered in my brain at all. I'm amazed at how well you captured the feeling of listening to a rambler.

[@aliberk3112]

Do the red feet and erik's overall miserable appearance mean that he has been waiting for us in front of Mc Donald's for 2 years? If so I understand why he would took me to an empty field to murder me with a rock

[@cloakdagger4711]

I just stumbled on this kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5PFqYl9lMhlfac Do you think this is Erik’s origin story

[@cloakdagger4711]

Also I now get the 2 year McDonald reference now Due to this kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXaTaoaXo7-dd6M

[@BlooKurby]

This is art, I feel uncomfortable and involved at the same time and it's surreal.

[@tabjl958]

I- gahhhh, thank you? It felt real, like Erik was talking directly to me, it was... Beautiful. Thank you, Mattias. I will never forget this video.

[@anonymeese]

I feel bad for Erik, he was abused by his father because he wasn't Chinese 😔

[@actualchannel4766]

What the fuck dude :D I laughed, that doesn't happen often

[@Kiwi-hv8fg]

@@actualchannel4766 it's an actual video kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5PFqYl9lMhlfac

[@actualchannel4766]

@@Kiwi-hv8fg Oh

[@Kiwi-hv8fg]

@@actualchannel4766 yeah lol

[@gnarlestongnu637]

Why can't he just be nor-mal?

[@pircachupi4771]

It feels a lot like this perfectly stands on the line between the mundane and the profound, and I find comfort in that. Thank you.

[@NullG7]

This reminds me of an infamous Terry Davis quote "What's reality? I don't know. When my bird was looking at my computer monitor I thought 'That bird has no idea what he's looking at.' And yet what does the bird do? Does he panic? No, he can't really panic, he just does the best he can. Is he able to live in a world where he's so ignorant? Well, he doesn't really have a choice. The bird is okay even though he doesn't understand the world. You're that bird looking at the monitor, and you're thinking to yourself, 'I can figure this out'. Maybe you have some bird ideas. Maybe that's the best you can do."

[@Grgrqr]

Terry Davis is such a goldmine

[@experiment506]

Erik drags you to the absolute most remote part of the wilderness near you and holds a rock at head level and asks "do you think if a bird was lonely it would cry out? Scream?"

[@grax5922]

Erik waited two years just to ditch us in the wilderness.

[@cozycami]

This is the most personally threatening video I’ve ever seen. Was genuinely scared..

[@Freelancer1001]

I can't believe I watched that entire video and made it out unscathed

[@inkylace7045]

his small talk put me on the spot somehow

[@denyraw]

Eric is like vsauce without the learning part

[@kuleCristo]

I havent cried laughing at anything for a long time. The more that went on the more insane I felt.

[@TheAmazingMirror]

I love this so much, this is my genre of horror

[@Liboo52]

“Birds fly on flocks. They don’t have to, but I guess a bird wouldn’t know that.” That’s some deep shit

[@austinobst8989]

It feels like at any moment Eric could perpetrate the most violent acts imaginable on us and there's nothing we can do to stop it

[@AshnSilvercorp]

POV: You accept Bigfoot's field trip opportunity and are abandoned in the forest and must fend for yourself.

[@florenceflo1258]

I keep coming back to this video. I enjoy it a lot and the feelings and questions it gives me are different every time

[@KN-oc7cu]

I've come back to this every few months at unplanned intervals and everytime i feel like i get something different out of it. And maybe that's the nature of abstract stream of consciousness, or maybe you've made a profoundly telling piece about the human experience. Or maybe that's just me. But i appreciate that you made this regardless of the answer. I love all your content, and this one is especially important to me.

[@KN-oc7cu]

July 30, 2024

[@user-momochi]

When he stod there holding the rock i felt genuine fear for my life.

[@terrafletcher1930]

It's always unnerving when you realize that whatever is being said is just a veil on the real conversation.

[@enderhugo]

So Erik brought us to the middle of the woods, showed us a rock and left us there alone...?

[@TheAechBomb]

he did say we were welcome to cone with him

[@Cow-Moth-With-A-CRT-Head]

Timing is one of the most important parts of writing. This video really shows why.

[@disasteriz3766]

the delivery of the lines are so good in this

[@kenneth_romero]

took me two years to finally understand this. glad i do now.

[@Rob-gp6yb]

I don't know clearly how to answer inquisitive, potentially intrusive questions when the asker is holding a large rock above shoulder height

[@Terrahex1]

People not realizing that Erik is just mad because we flaked on going on a trip with him and he arrived all alone

[@willowthewisp8659]

As someone who got a response from Erik, this video terrified me

[@scavor5iq149]

I also like how this video gives you little time to think about the situation, he cuts you off immediately with another thought. Only in tiny intervals.

[@demonkiller8000]

I'm strangely addicted to the way Erik speaks

[@newtrog.367]

"I've been doing stuff lately, like a bird" You've been doing WHAT?

[@blinkingberry9591]

Stuff.

[@niccobarrientos328]

Erik is built like a earthbound enemy

[@daanstrik4293]

I get a different meaning out of this with every watch.

[@spottedflametheflame]

It feels like he's always on the cusp of going into a full on Vsauce tangent but he never does.

[@davidmachado132]

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk There's no better way to describe it.

[@postbuster4093]

Bigfoot made us have a existential crisis about birds and left us in the middle of the woods to fend for ourselves

[@dumpsterfire9847]

“ I’ve been doing stuff like a Bird“ w h a t d o y o u m e a n b y t h a t

[@sodiumfluoridel]

This feels like one of those song edits that remove every other beat

[@roro_is_tired9975]

This makes me ✨uncomfy✨

[@legitgamer8884]

has no one picked up on the analogy of a bird getting lost leading to him abandoning us in the woods

[@RandomGuy03]

I feel like the rocks and the birds are just a ploy to say “I’ve been waiting for you, for a long time, alone”. So intimidating, I can’t explain it. It’s just a rock.

[@Drewbydrew]

This is what it’s like inside my head when I don’t take my ADHD meds

[@confusedcay8845]

This feels like a fever dream I had a similar conversation with my friend when I was hallucinating cause my fever was too high

[@realkingofantarctica]

"Seatbelts, everyone!" "Please let this be a normal field trip." "With Eric? No way!"

[@DarkMagician_55]

This is peak art.

[@danteackroyd551]

POV: you're an injured bird this man rehabilitated and you're being released back into the wild

[@StellarStarGaming]

He just... Left me there. Thinking.

[@sselim3427]

Scariest date i've ever had. Awesome

[@Driesipops]

glad he's back after 2 years, I missed him

[@stuffedbrains]

At first I was afraid of Erik. I was afraid of what this was leading up to. All that it lead to was a nice conversation in the woods. At first, I only watched. At some point I found myself answering his questions. Since the conversation in the woods, I did feel a warmth with Erik. I thought about his questions more instead of writing it off as random humor. This three minute video did help me understand the way I react to people. The odd thing is that I will likely forget I ever watched it. KZbin does sometimes forget that I watched something as well and fails to notify me with the red bar. I will likely rewatch this and go through it all over again, with the only indication that I have ever seen it is a like and a comment I don’t remember leaving. That is okay. It would be odd for a three minute KZbin video to be forever engrained into my memory. Still, it is a very good video, and I do hope when I rewatch it I will still have the same appreciation for it.

[@Bitholeous]

so ominous, but also comforting

[@caribagazua4104]

Dude just left me there

[@saqvobase4301]

I was anticipating in fear that he would smash a rock into my skull

[@florenceflo1258]

This is so good oh how I enjoyed the silence after he left

[@austin2112]

This is the most threatening video I’ve seen

[@williamliang7572]

why am i crying

[@eduwardohoribe2273]

Lonely ending: You stay in the woods alone with two beautiful rocks

[@catoticneutral]

In case you weren't paying attention: This guy drove us into the wilderness and left us out here.

[@zemowit]

I thought Erik was going to smash my skull in with that rock

[@denisebejarano2905]

The fact that im going on a trip tomorrow, 10/10 🤌🏻

[@user-jl7cz2pe6d]

I like how Erik left us stranded in the forest

[@Blio_]

I was so wary while he had that rock, like he was about to run out and start beating me.

[@hyeon8373]

ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㄱㅋㄱㅋㄱㅋㅋㅋㅋㄱㅋㅋㄲㅋㅋㄱㅋㅋㅋㄱㅋㄱㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㄱㄲㅋㄱㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㄱㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㄱㅋㅋㅋㄱㄱㅋㅋ This made me laugh in my first language huhuhuhuhuhu I hope you are okayyy. it's nice to see a new video!

[@frogfox4287]

This made me anxious all the way through.

[@andrewmartinez8076]

It was like watching someone pulled the unrefined thoughts out of my head and made this. I feel oddly understood.

[@itsfreerealestate3099]

I both love and hate how the music just stops abruptly. Like Eric is trying to have a conversation with us but the thoughts that he keeps hidden suddenly burst out.

[@notreal6762]

The writing in this video is impecable

[@134darklight]

That's the quickest I've clicked on a video in a long time 👌 vvgood

[@koketsok1513]

He drove you to the woods,he was talking in very subtle terms about isolating you,he is having a very load cryptic session about being indecisive about hurting you,their is no way you can out run them.Th real murder here was trust and sense of security.

[@thekrackenx]

The sequel that we all needed.

[@crimsonjf3763]

I relate spiritually

[@kamille286]

This feels distinctly like both an inspirational video and a creepy pasta horror at the same time

[@cezartofan6278]

Me:* just eating* Erik: what are you ? Me:😐😳🤯

[@sincostanman]

i feel like this is a cry for help

[@brrobinn]

It is.

[@nathanZWEl]

This feels like a psychological horror

[@S0nder]

I waited so long and now it's time to stop so I can start doing... stuff. And be just like the birds. Now watch this video about a bird that gets lost, "Penguin, Depressed..."

[@kmsgrafzeppelin904]

This is starting to make me lay awake in bed thinking about how birds think and do stuff damn it

[@osamaaj3019]

real footage of big foot in the wild

[@grudds]

I feel like he’s luring me into a forest to kill me and the confusing patter is just a tactic to numb my conscious and distract me

[@lukechase6346]

HIS EYES ARE HIS EYEBROWS HIS EYES ARE HIS EYEBROWS HIS EYES

[@williamliang7572]

i guess im stranded here now

[@mister.3262]

I like how he rides us there then proceeds to abandon us