Final Fantasy XIV Players Have a Unique Sense of Humor (Masterpiece) | Xeno Reacts

[@WROYourBoat]

For those trying to put the lore together. The idea is that there are 2 worlds, one is the "game" world where Lyon and everyone stupid lives, and the other is the "lore" world, where Shadowcleaver (black shirt lyon) and Cinder are from. The lore world they speak eorzean and hingan as those are the lore languages. So the "lore" world is very serious, much like how the story of FF14 is, but then the "game" world is very stupid much like how all irl humans interact with the game. The earings are how Shadowcleaver and Cinder got transported to the "game" world, I believe by that weird looking short monster with the deep voice who might be god. When Cinder references Shadowstalker's forbiden magic, its in reference to the red eyed cat girl that no one else can see. The worlds are reflections of each other, much like how there are reflections in the game with the first and the source. These reflections have the same looking characters that are reflections of each other, Lyon is stupid Shadowcleaver is mostly serious and cool. They look they same but have opposite personalities. Source: I watched all of Suffer's videos

[@ArchieGamez]

holyshit LMAO

[@grayfarron5077]

Youve nailed most of it ngl. The lore in this shit is sick. Couple of cool notes The Troll is a reaccuring character that just likes to break shit but also keep balance, he causes mischief and fixes things in mayhem. With Cinder and Hayate's Reflection fighting in Gridania, it had to intervene, due to the fact that one of them would of likely killed the other, and to keep balance, there must be the players character, and a proper reflection to match in the "Lore" world. Hayate is busted as fuck, but literally only cares about his parses. He's depressed all episode until he gets unbanned, and then gets his powers back and pops off on Cinder. Homie is just the most busted person in the entire series. Nihilyon got transported from "Lore" world to "Player" world through some fucky shit that happened in the Garlean Battle Royale episode. One of the Linkpearls that Lyon used, was dropped and when Hayate summoned a fuck all meteor to wipe out everyone (Through the power of anime or some shit), it somehow glitched the linkpearl through. Nihilyon happened to find it, im guessing the borderline mini-cataclysm weakened the border between the two "Reflections" and forced the linkpearl through, and then Nihilyon being in posession with it and next to the aetheryte in Gridania, was dragged into "Game" world. Theres tons of other lil cool lore tidbits or running jokes through all of the episodes. The lore is fucking GOOD. The jokes are LAYERED as HELL, and you will catch some shit you never noticed before if yo uwatch it multiple times. Also the dudes editing is just beyond cracked and insane, this episode took 5 months but is by far the best animated, the best written and he seems to only be improving.

[@rociosilverroot2261]

Yoshi P is god

[@mckidney1]

@@grayfarron5077 The troll is a reaper Sovereign in charge of molding races (characters) for future harvest. Hence all the Mass Effect VA, Sound effects, Background music and ability to overcome barriers between worlds and even the void-sent/succubus spell. There seems to also be a third reflection used for Chinese server :) Search for "I am beyond your comprehension. I am Sovereign!"

[@grayfarron5077]

I think youre taking the references a bit to directly with the voice clips.@@mckidney1

[@RingoFreakingStarr]

Jumping into this video without watching the others before it is like jumping into Game of Thrones season 4 as your first episode.

[@gothlord77]

Pretty sure he has watched the previous ones but he's got a massive case of WAR brain and just forgets the plot in the time between episodes because its longer than an Inner Release window

[@justwithpaper]

Even if he watched the rest, he'd fppong so bad.

[@ugxsan]

Can confirm, I have not watched any of the others and I'm just kinda going with it. Not even gonna try and assume outside of "oh is it *that* anime trope? Ya prolly"

[@thed4rknss673]

@@ugxsan it's basically a bunch of jokes that got too big and now is his own Cinematic Universe, the first video are like 3 minutes long, if you want to understand all the jokes you have to be on this side of internet for a long time

[@ugxsan]

@@thed4rknss673 I’ll probably understand them if I bother to look through. I just didn’t bother thinking that hard about the plot.

[@crust9889]

This is like watching an in-joke of someone's small Discord server.

[@wyfyj]

The lore in all his videos have just been I feel like it is even more entertaining seeing Xeno just be lost as shit. Last episode or two it started to all make sense. And this one really brought everything together.

[@theshadowthie1]

Tldr pls?

[@WROYourBoat]

@@theshadowthie1 the idea is that there are 2 worlds, one is the "game" world where Lyon and everyone stupid lives, and the other is the "lore" world, where black shirt lyon and cinder are from. The lore world they speak eorzean and hingan as those are the lore languages. So the "lore" world is very serious, much like how the story of FF14 is, but then the "game" world is very stupid much like how all irl humans interact with the game. The earings are how black shirt lyon and cinder got transported to the "game" world, I believe by that weird looking short monster with the deep voice who might be god.

[@mckidney1]

​@@theshadowthie1 Each video is left open-ended introducing new elements or characters to the next one. What started as jokes and sketches now includes Xeno, Arthas, Asmongold, Final Fantasy 14/16 voice actors. Turning his channel into a concept of continuous lifestream (core idea of all final fantasy games) and there are also phones, tvs and streams to introduce short sketches that characters enjoy. There is a blue pearl version that represents source (players) and you can also see a red pearl that comes from a ARR-styled version of the game. These characters are not aware it is a game. Now two characters and 1 void-sent are transported from one to another while still wearing a red pearl. I believe this is a Matrix reference with red pearl = red pill and those characters are roll-playing. These 3 views (Gamers, RP, Short-form content) all in one timeline giving us opportunity to laugh about the community that surrounds Final Fantasy 14. Red shirt (Lyon) is wearing a blue pearl and represents gamer stereotypes. Hayate is honor-bound to him as a brother and represents weeb stereotypes. Black/Emo (Nihil[yon]) is wearing red pearl and it is the Lyon character from base game ARR linking to a voidsent and becoming dark knight. Blue-eyed bunny boy was a cat girl obsessed with Lyon and changed in an episode making fun of Fantasia and the new starter guide for FF14. Red-eyed catgirl into Nihil is the voidsent linked to him. New character is a hound from the red world seeking Nihil for what has happened with the voidsent. That would be my tl;dr and should be enough to sit and enjoy the videos out of order.

[@zeten]

The ending: Hayate was protected by Lyon back in the day, as we can see in the flashback, and now it's Hayate's job to protect Lyon. Classic trope. This usually involves some sort of sacrifice. However, in a reversal of expectations, Hayate is closer to One Punch Man -- in other words, he's practically a God. But that works because the "fight" is basically a throwaway joke. The weeb pieces of the story he's telling are fun, but they aren't the main feature.

[@thed4rknss673]

I spended my whole afternoon/evening watching all Sufferhymn videos to understand this universe. best day ever

[@HezrouDhiaga]

Context: Kingsglave is an FC of higher OP assassins or whatever. Nile(?) is a former member, possessing of a Voidsent (that red eyed girl) and friends with Hayate of that server. Leon and them are actually considered in "The Empty" aka the Oceanic server where everything is just dummer xD And Leon and Hayate of that Oceanic server are basically mirrors of the others. Nile got sucked into that server (that beach episode where he shows up mute like the typical mute WoL protagonist) and the Hellhound girl is a member of that guild that's hunting him down. But now that she's there, she just sounds like a barking dog and that's the meme xD Tl;DR: Lyon's world is the "Game" world version of everything, everyone is stupid and it's just hilarious. Shadowcleaver and Cinder are from the Lore-side of the "Game" and mirror their Oceanic counterparts. So, Serious meets Not-Taking-Itself-Seriously-At-All But basically to understand the lore of these videos, you have to have watched them all, or binged them in one sitting to actually understand wtf is happening half the time xD

[@hunterchristensen228]

I watched this vid when Mr. Suffer did the premiere. first i was there for the crazy randomness of it. but now i only see a dedicated artist, painting with big miqo'te tittys. nuthin but respect for his vids. Also his version of warrior of light Meteor is the best.

[@MrBigsmallguy]

I need a compilation of all anecdotes of Xenos Hair Chronicles

[@mckidney1]

Free Wifi or "whiffy" because she is a hound :) Sufferhymn did improve his attention to jokes :D

[@Sufferhymn]

Thanks as always for the react, Xeno. I'm always really grateful and enjoy it so much when you do. 🤩I was there a few minutes after it started and seeing your reactions to the filth coming out of Sophia's mouth was gold 🤣I totally get not understanding what was going on, as Ringo said in another comment, this is like jumping into season 4 of Game of Thrones as your first episode. 🤣 But to put it as simply and as shortly as I can, for others as well, Lyon (Iconic Red Shirt, Black Haired Viera) and Hayate (White Hair, Weaboo Viera) are brothers and live on an Oceanic server where they are aware they live in a video game. Whereas Nihilyon (Black Shirt, Deep Voice Viera) and Cinder (Black Hair, Orange Eyed Miqo'te) are from a European server and are Vanilla NPC's that don't know they are in a video game that have been transferred to Lyon and Hayate's world. Cinder is hunting down Nihilyon who got transferred in an earlier episode. And when she arrives on the Oceanic server, she gets the two mixed up because the servers have copies (reflections) of the same character. Nihilyon in his world was an edgelord with a cool backstory and used to be in Cinder's Free Company called Hellglaive, and Lyon in his own world is an alcoholic gamer. There's more but I won't write an essay 🤣 But I'm also really glad you liked the more serious parts because it was your reaction to the Silver Samurai segment in the last video that finally made me decide to go all in with the action and the so-cringe-it-becomes-cool bits. 😎

[@Ayalis]

There is something just tasteful in shit post humor. Having over-the-top animation, dialogue and effects is always so cringy but also so satisfying to see that it renders the whole scene into a giant "God this is so bad I can't watch but I also can't take my eyes off of it". All in all, I appreciate how no character gets taken too seriously but the actual "fighting scenes" or at least action were very fun. Keep up the amazing work :nodd:

[@amandalindsey7741]

Good luck when SE sues you for IP theft for using AI on voices especially when the Voice actors have explicitly stated do not use AI to steal their voices. Either hire them via CAMEO or just don't.

[@Sufferhymn]

@@amandalindsey7741 Not gonna start an argument in Xeno's comment section out of respect for him, so this is all you'll get from me. Square can issue a takedown or send a cease and desist on any of my videos whenever they like for any reason. And then the rest is just you regurgitating stuff you've heard elsewhere that shows you have no clue what you are talking about. Cheers though 😎👍

[@amandalindsey7741]

Screenshots are forever my child @@Sufferhymn

[@usagibun7639]

@@Sufferhymn homie everything we know came from you lmao not my fault ur using AI and actors are pissed ab it

[@itsprivate3061]

final fantasy players sure have a unique sense of humor to put it lightly

[@IzzyPR2010]

No one commented on Cinder saying that Sophia must be a courtesan which is another word for prostitute. Also I wish someone would link the mods, the ones for the bathing under boob bathing suits and the dancing ones with the shaking cat butts which I believe is called the zero dance.

[@Irisfantasies]

i believe the dance one is the paid version (from juliext i believe? been a while) cuz it flows too nice to be the free phut hon one, and the bikini is the summer sunset mod by tenshi haru just look it up as gen 3 summer sunset

[@Yookes_]

oh god now that Im watching this a second time, I just realised all the ffxiv influencers Wols this guy put in this video, 27:50 is kougaons character, and theres another wol in there that belonged to the person who called them out for using AI voices. Personally I dont really like this guys content because it gives off "lol random vibes" but making an animation of them being shot/killed for criticizing him, this is just childish at this point lmao

[@usagibun7639]

yeah I noticed this too. hes blocking everyone pointing it out

[@amandalindsey7741]

the manchild has spun glass balls. He cannot take any amount of legit criticism@@usagibun7639

[@eji]

Yeah it's bad enough that this guy's content is "lolz so randum" levels of cringe unfunny content, but he just keeps doubling down on it. And 40+ mins of this garbage? That's some cruel and unusual punishment to put someone through, lol. It'd be so much better if Xeno didn't give this guy any attention.

[@hoisoynono]

bro didn't you used to make rich campbell videos 💀 ​@@eji

[@tyrand]

seek help if you care so much

[@acuteparanoia]

i didn't know wtf was happening at first but now i kinda want more?

[@mckidney1]

Happened to me like 6 videos back. Now I still find it enjoyable knowing which parts are videos, RP and player based :)

[@CrashKaiju]

What in the skibidi tonberry is this

[@Jesper-te2yo]

I didn't realized that the gay Viera was that female miqote from the first episode. Some of this plot makes a little more sense now haha

[@IzzyPR2010]

I saw that after this and as you said it makes more sense.

[@jazelisk]

I watched like maybe 3 of these before this video and on those 3 I didn't know what was going on I thought these were misadventures. But here on this latest video I'm starting to get into the lore of it all. Oh and it helped that Xenos is asking the same questions I am while watching it. Like the name of the Miqo'te etc...

[@NeocrimsonX]

11:06 excuse me?

[@amagifial1876]

this now my new favorite anime so far

[@taiyo4599]

SAAAAAAAAAAAMEE

[@joshpar9402]

The editing times on these must be absolutely insane.

[@zeroblade9800]

20:58 you know what Xeno was thinking LOL. Besides this man this video had me so lost.

[@TheEvilMinion]

LMFAO@ "That's in my search history"

[@xanmontes8715]

I don't understand why the horn dudes are getting beat up

[@mrdarkstar3756]

This was surprisingly enjoyable. U thought it was just going to be fat boob cat girl cringe but I actually laughed at moments.

[@IzzyPR2010]

I think you can only find fat cat girls in Shadowbringers.

[@xunremosefuldisruptionx2209]

Sufferhymn should make a recap episode for Xeems, but this is always fun to see how lost he is! 🤣

[@HollowiiMarz]

Dude, thumbnail is amazing. Love the eyes edit 😂

[@zuklar]

That was quite the fever dream

[@Zephy_Sky]

Alot of the jokes and random shenanigans fly right past me. But its still entertaining, and some parts do get me good 😂.

[@ForsakenSiren]

Is that kitty girl called Sophia using a modded hairstyle? X_X It's so pretty

[@CeeCeeCaldwell]

a fucking big les show reference in a random ass xenosys video about some random ffxiv content holy shit thats peak

[@Einarr_Wolf]

If ADHD was a FFXIV video.

[@TheKingGrimlock]

Dude has a hard time taking criticism from the shit I’ve seen and read. He literally made fun of another person he had a disagreement with on Twitter on his last video (the scene with the dead dude and graha) and uses some AI voices. We bash AI art till we bleed from our eyes but trained artificially generated voices of established VAs get a pass cause “ha ha he he, funny Aussie XIV meme man”. Shit makes no sense but I have no fucking horse in this race.

[@amandalindsey7741]

Exactly!! When the VAs stated DO NOT take our voices. Voice acting is an art and as Alisae's VA stated she's been in the business for years. THe OpenAI lawsuit shows this crap cannot run without theft, oh oh its so fun for a video that has blatant homophobia in it

[@Ventus1164]

Is sophia's hairstyle in the game or a mod?

[@pikachufanshock8668]

Mod sadly

[@gvenelran6116]

FFXIV players sense of humor isn't unique. Most of the player base is just lacking in any sense of humor at all.

[@Phryguye]

Oh the ironing.

[@TheBpendleton44]

I was on a hunt train with Man Mode

[@bxnaxmxxnaxx1914]

God i hope Sinder finds her place.., itll be so GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

[@feeblemind]

its worse that I actually know whats going on.

[@Jozaros]

You should definitely react to CloudieXIV content.

[@magicalgirlanime]

Healing is for smoothbrains... You're not wrong but I still feel called out :(

[@akatsuki20113]

22:15

[@RexBuyeo]

I saw that thumbnail change.

[@mao4299]

These are the mods Zepla is ok with. These are ok guys! Please don't use zoom hack so we can keep these mods. WE NEED THESE

[@graceangel20]

i actually watched this live. still entertaining to watch on repeat. and the voice of the shadowwalker guy. i recognize that. he does VA for animes. sounds like fakir from princess tutu

[@jo9708]

It's AI voices

[@graceangel20]

then ai has amazingly sound exactly like chris patton@@jo9708

[@graceangel20]

@@jo9708 so i went to the original video,and in the first post/caption by sufferhymn says " Pinned by Sufferhymn @Sufferhymn Because what I make takes me a LONG time, is niche and often non-monetizable, I end up spending a tonne of my own money paying for licenses, assets and by far the most expensive part, voice acting and cameos, in order to create what I love, for a game I love." please note VOICE ACTING

[@jo9708]

Am I supposed to feel bad or something? Dude uses other peoples voices but its chill cuz hes broke. Kinda weird. Great vids regardless.@@graceangel20

[@iamlomanjello1921]

I was lost from start to finish.

[@FingerPuppetSarcasm]

i don't care that i don't understand it all. The humor and booba are on point.

[@juancamole9154]

Warrior is best tank no questions asked

[@CaffeinatedKing]

This guy's videos have all been nightmarishly shit, I mean I know there's no FF14 content right now but goddamn Xeems, this is rough.

[@Phryguye]

What do you want?

[@valkyrise1148]

What did I just watch.

[@toastiebits7513]

Lyon is from this world its the viera in the black shirt that looks like lyon that is not from this world

[@cparty7790]

Dude these videos are always nucking futs!

[@Aboood-Fun]

I have 0 idea what is going on in these videos ................

[@Tigerbro6]

Yknow at least these people enjoy the game enough to make Lil cringe stories of their characters.

[@Abeltestament]

So small in the grand scheme of things but that mother whale theme triggered me lol. Hoooly what an awful fight.

[@Phryguye]

I needed Doro to beat it.

[@Zenovii-senpai]

Female highlander helped chemise 😏

[@muovikallo]

Glontch

[@BanksySCII]

please bald american our lord and savior just watch the entire saga soo you understand all the memes,flashbacks and references I know you''ll forget them all by the time the next video comes out but its important to the meme cinematic universe. you can even farm views for it I dont care but its hurts that you don't get all of it. please bald bearded warrior-sama. its not that hard just watch all of them to understand the sufferinghymn universe so i can watch the reacts after i've already watched the videos

[@applejinx5683]

Gotta say this cringe brainrot XIV Twitter coomer humour isn’t for me

[@OathOblivio]

It really is twitter coomer humor. I would know 😂

[@Phryguye]

Sure. Tell me a funny joke.

[@Scerttle]

This is why third party mods are OK.

[@TheSzellin]

Sophia is best girl.

[@Karloss00]

There isn't a plot. I've watch all of their stuff and there's no plot; just a ADHD Visual Spectacle.

[@thed4rknss673]

the adhd is the plot

[@Phryguye]

I had no trouble following it. Perhaps you require an aid to understand it?

[@harmonial7288]

does anyone know what sophia's glam for white mage? asking for a friend and definitely not because gyat EDIT: nvm i found the top :)

[@carbonide1290]

Bro deadass…what in the fuck is this??? 🤣

[@ShikiRyougi05]

Peak fiction

[@amandalindsey7741]

trash, that is what it is

[@MikulFBP1]

Every sense of humor is like belonging to a hive mind. I like this hive mind.

[@LeonV777]

Very over the top but surprisingly interesting.

[@brokendreams5298]

Sophia fans here!

[@WhiteLord890]

this is great :D

[@shadowsage2636]

bro, wtf happen to ffxiv community, is it just all coomers now? those mods, lol.

[@NeocrimsonX]

Always has been

[@jo9708]

It was coomers from the start.

[@ShikiRyougi05]

Literally always has been

[@Phreakazoid_]

Booba 👀

[@suzuya0]

the face and mouth animations made me cringe so hard

[@ShikiRyougi05]

The cringe is part of the appeal imo

[@YaoiKillerProduction]

Says the person who has a chinese cartoon as a profile pic

[@ShikiRyougi05]

@@YaoiKillerProduction and one of the super weird ones aswell

[@suzuya0]

@@YaoiKillerProduction 10 year old dead meme isn't any better buddy

[@suzuya0]

@@ShikiRyougi05 you wack off to your ffxiv character and bad at guilty gear mate

[@broson2480]

this shit is cringe

[@eryft8764]

Just want to put my two cents in that it'd be nice if you stopped giving this guy attention since he has been using AI voices of the official VAs against their direct wishes and also harassed people who called him out for doing so. EDIT: Gotta love the people replying and completely ignoring the fact that he's doing this against *the direct wishes of the voice actors he's using* and harassed someone for stating that much.

[@totalgravityshow2129]

Then don't watch his videos. If you dont support it just don't watch its that simple lol You mean the people he blocked that were going out of their way to dming him insults and death threats? Oh but HES the one harassing people? OK. He already said he doesn't profit from any of it so what's the real harm? Just let people enjoy things. I think his videos are great.

[@timmyjimmy3647]

He's editing his own videos using AI. You have absolutely no right to complain. Just don't watch it and be less stupid.

[@rociosilverroot2261]

One day you'll realize no one cares

[@Phryguye]

I'll just sit. Back and to notice your contribution to anything that anyone cares about.

[@bellamango6708]

meh i dont really care for his stuff

[@ShikiRyougi05]

Your loss

[@OathOblivio]

Ok

[@akatsuki20113]

Understandable. Have a nice day.

[@OathOblivio]

@@russpc9739 bros entitled to their opinion

[@Venosyne]

Okayge

[@dafire9634]

The comments on this vid not realizing that the heavy amounts of cringe are intended

[@Valkoriom]

Jesus, i died of cringe so many times with that lot of weeb shit that i felt that my bones were begging to leave my body

[@Ripcraze]

These videos are so much fking funnier knowing they are Filthy Frank fans lmao

[@Eness64]

very funny lol

[@TheBlaksamuraiX]

First

[@parky669]

that guys stuff is just the worst. just...what the hell do people find funny these days

[@amandalindsey7741]

not only that he got called out for using AI to steal voices. And instead of apologizing and listening to the VAs, he doubled down on his dipshittiness and mocked them. He's going to be singing a different tune when SE sends their lawyers after him for IP theft.

[@Jinroxxux]

“ u know back in my day” okay gramps

[@OvrlordEtna]

FF14 is so much better with mods, makes me wanna resub but I bet Dawntrail will break everything Sadge