Mikaeli Hitting Metal Lore (Days 1-71)

Every day, for more than a month Mikaeli hit metal 17 times then got arrested for owning a photograph of a motorcar. Then something changed.
#mikaeli #fairenough #series

[@AdrianGrayComedy]

Hey guys! If you aren't aware, this series spawned out of someone making an Instagram account where they posted the original Mikaeli meme every day. After a while, I decided to get involved and change things up a bit. There will be more Mikaeli content to come (and I'll start putting it on KZbin), but as the most recent episode felt almost like the end of 'season 1', I thought I'd post a complilation of the eps so far to kick things off on here.

[@ISoldBinLadensViagraOnEbay]

*I EM HEPPI* *I EM KNOTT HEPPI*

[@seanlol0928]

Fair Enough

[@rachmatt5082]

Yeah, you did the right thing by taking over the crowds from those meme pages who clearly just do it to farm followers and view, and create your own spin to the meme since you're the original creator of that comedy clips. However it is still very funny, that your meme account has more follower than your main Instagram account

[@Scientist19exe]

Ok but dont get stuck...

[@thomasgortemaker]

I was wondering if you had something to do with that account

[@bobsaget9170]

"I guess you are still trapped" "Fair enough" Me when I wake up every morning

[@user-es9do9yk8t]

So relatable

[@ethanrocket430]

1:00

[@SonOfKerro]

He seems a bit too okay with the fact hes trapped in a time loop and takes around a whole month to finally get tired of hitting metal every day and only then he wants two picture instead of leaving.

[@namyiu7448]

You successfully hit the metal 17 times

[@tobiturbo08]

Fair enough

[@machinegunkorok4509]

Mikaeli seems weirdly okay with his eternal punishment

[@sans9350]

Fair enough

[@shtrohdoof2769]

One must imagine Mikaeli happy

[@yonghong4832]

@@shtrohdoof2769 nooo you just beat me to it

[@quickened200x]

He must've committed an innocent sin for such an eternal punishment. /ref

[@loveiswar8246]

@@quickened200xpersona reference

[@darkjapan]

Man took a very amusing sketch and turned it into existential analogue horror with a musical number. Pure genius.

[@Frost3z]

Fair enough.

[@BluMndy]

I am happy

[@tron_nemesis2789]

you should watch "Turning a sphere outside in"

[@tubed332]

is it genius though i feel like anyone with access to editing software and bandlab could do this

[@Tophat-Turtle]

​@@tubed332not at all no

[@austinthesan-antonian3932]

The fact that a random 50 year old looking guy on an old gameshow with big 80s Soviet aesthetic banging a hammer onto a thin piece of metal on an anvil gave me so much adrenaline, hope, dread, happiness, sadness, a whole cinematic experience on Day 66 is sublime.

[@darkcrow125]

funfact the show is/was called "wetten dass" its a german tv show where people make bets that they can do things like hitting the metal 17 times in 30 seconds or that they can jump above a car

[@namyiu7448]

You successfully hit the metal 17 times

[@ABW941]

​@@darkcrow125Oh the car part, that was horrible. That man ended up in a wheelchair.

[@thebakedtoast]

He hit the metal until it heats up to red hot, not 30 seconds ​@@darkcrow125

[@EdgyShooter]

"Anyone that is trying to investigate this, be sure that you, will be kept in the loop" Perfection

[@bonehead7642]

OMG I DIDNT THINK OF THAT PLAY ON WORDS

[@dorukerol1927]

Huh?

[@dorukerol1927]

Oh wait by kept does that mean they are in a loop aswell

[@bonehead7642]

@dorukerol1927 yeah I think it was a subtle way of saying if you dig too deep you will end up stuck in a loop as well

[@dorukerol1927]

@@bonehead7642 oh wait ı thought it meant they were still in the loop and if you investigate you will be kept in the loop but that does make more sense

[@SpyrosKoronis]

04:02 "we take quality control inCEdibly seriously" This touch has been noticed and appreciated.

[@koplogame]

i dont get the joke

[@SpyrosKoronis]

@@koplogame If they took quality control incredibly seriously, they wouldn't spell the word "incredibly" wrong.

[@koplogame]

@@SpyrosKoronis ah lol

[@dolphin1418]

Also Michael Lee is pretty funny

[@strokey5284]

​@@SpyrosKoronisfair enough

[@procrastinationexpert9320]

YOU CAN'T SAY FAIRER THAN FAIR ENOUGH

[@chloroplast8611]

You cant say fairer than fair enough

[@NXE212]

You can't say fairer than fair enough

[@chloroplast8611]

Ya cant say fairer than that...

[@briangolrick4195]

oh drat…

[@ilsignoredellaluce2234]

🎶🎶🎶

[@cytus5468]

This entire thing was legitimately one of the most innovative storyline concepts I've seen in a long time. Turning the overdone and lazy follower farming format of "[video] every day" into a legitimately compelling ARG existential horror is brilliant.

[@blalhber5447]

I completely agree

[@WhereNothingOnceWas]

Is it an ARG though?

[@RandomDude647]

"Was"? It's not done yet, it's up to day 94 on instagram

[@LucIndustries]

@@WhereNothingOnceWas i hope not, just analogue horror comedy would be amazing

[@petrblaha8806]

​@@blalhber5447 fair enough

[@prometheus7387]

Dude has managed to create lore from a single joke

[@EEEEEEEE]

E

[@failfiend6007]

Take a bong rip everytime mikaeli hits the metal and you might be able to astral project yourself back in time and save him before the loop begins

[@KaydenceBernard]

Theres not enough pounds to do that tho

[@ST.lantor]

Fair enough

[@ale-fp4it]

holy shit this is so underrated, my man made a better movie of eight minutes with old footage then marvel will in the next 100 years

[@guyincognito8909]

THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@willneeb1952]

This comment is so underrated, Marvel is so dogshit.

[@gazhevski]

Not setting the bar very high there

[@ale-fp4it]

@@gazhevski touché

[@ethoatom668]

The part where he wakes up and (who I assume is) Samantha asks him for the passcode for vault 3 before putting him back to sleep was so strangely unnerving.

[@EEEEEEEE]

E

[@Awesomium3]

it's like me waking up from a literal scary nightmare and somebody forces you to go back to it. think about it. sounds the same, eh?

[@larrybird6860]

I just found the lore and I will say, it’s so engaging

[@facade7672]

1:49 i cant believe everyone missed that

[@wolfninja11111]

Took me a sec but it's home with a medical breathing mask and nerual monitors on his head

[@Tison993]

@@wolfninja11111 What he has on belt? xd

[@YahiamiceLIVE]

Imagine if this was a looping twitch stream of the first short playing 24 hours a day but it'd randomly play one of the other vids, then go right back to the original vid. It'd drive people insane & ARG solvers mad

[@TateyWateyMateyYT]

Yoo it’s internet funny man™️

[@flyingbanana2288]

Fair Enough

[@wiiprocontroller6471]

This made me go insane on just 3 minutes, holy shit

[@chloroplast8611]

I was here

[@Arc_5]

woah it is the yahimice

[@mikhailkrasnenker373]

beats like 90% of analog horror on yt, another proof that the best horror-writers are comedians

[@thenotsodemocraticrepublic7731]

Can't wait for the 16-hour-long Wendigoon video essay that breaks down every detail in this

[@2yoyoyo1Unplugged]

He only does horror, not comedy lmao

[@JimTheCurator]

HELLO, ladies and gentlemen and welcome, my name is Wendigoon--

[@gudmansal3468]

@@2yoyoyo1Unplugged this IS horror

[@PeachiPrism]

This is insane. Really well done, don't know how you managed to make all this up with that footage. Easily tops comedian Hitler as your best work yet.

[@Krabbeify]

"Even tops comedian Hitler" 😂😂 For anyone not well versed in Adrian Gray comedy lore, that will not make any sense.

[@PeachiPrism]

@@Krabbeify I have had it up to here with people who haven't seen that video.

[@labibbidabibbadum]

Come on... what about comedian Winston Churchill? "Anyway... genocide." Bwaahhhhhhh. Makes me weep.

[@super_real_mari]

@@PeachiPrismgonna have to go to burundi and give em a piece of my mind on how good that video is

[@ichliebebaeumeweilbaum]

​@@Krabbeify I am definitely not well versed in Adrian Grey comedy so someone pls help me out there and give me the title to the video xD

[@BoubeTheCat]

Really puts the name Adrian Gray "Comedy" into question.

[@AdrianGrayComedy]

There are jokes.

[@BoubeTheCat]

@@AdrianGrayComedy Adrian, you have successfully posted 101 videos, so, you are now proud owner of this comment.

[@Impositivelygay]

​But property is theft​@@BoubeTheCat

[@spurstx2]

But commenting is against ToS, so you are banned.

[@thegamingcephalos9412]

​@@spurstx2I guess it's fair enough.

[@dan-sl2oz]

2:00. If you watched the whole series, you'd know that Sasha, the host, sold his life away to veil, that phone call could have been his sick mother (who might have gotten better) telling veil to waske Sasha up. This is just a theory, I have no access to the patreon and I'm in an African country that doesn't use dollars, so I'm working with what I have

[@gudmansal3468]

the phone has the same voice as jia so that would probably be her

[@plastican]

This is better than 80% of analog horror on youtube

[@craz2580]

Facts

[@JakeSig]

Fair enough

[@talkman950]

4:28, this song is a banger

[@skullrevenant9573]

Tru

[@Yourlocalwordrobe]

it bangs as hard as mikheli bangs the anvil

[@wafflez_courtney]

Mikaeli, you are die, you will never escape, we will play hit metal forever and ever Mikaeli: fair enough

[@specil-k]

Mikaeli is a simple man. One picture of motorcar is well worth one year in Time prison.

[@isaacvandermerwe744]

not the Grammerly Ad interrupting right after Mikaeli says 'this is not real life' at 3:13 😭😭😭😭

[@livingcoconut1417]

I never knew we would need Miakeli's lore yet here we are

[@DillanV]

Jia needs to hit metal now, fair enough

[@elampersick]

No that's Samantha

[@eluci2700]

That’s Samantha you two ingrates y’all didn’t even watch the video huh?

[@evilgoose6768]

Jia saved him, Samantha now has to hit the metal

[@Yourlocalwordrobe]

was samantha the one that put him into a coma?@@elampersick

[@elampersick]

@@Yourlocalwordrobe i think so

[@dreamcorebastard1127]

I accidentally found the page in instagram reels, thinking it was just one more random page with the same video over and over again. and then I spend the entire night trapped in the page like that Pikachu meme.

[@dreamcorebastard1127]

plus I was high so it was a really NICE experience watching it.

[@sydneyhearst]

when i saw this go down on instagram i screamed and had to show my sister and she did not care but i loved it

[@anonymousweeble2224]

This is a masterpiece. The emotional investment I had in this shouldn't be possible from a video spawned off a 10 second bit. I was just looking for a laugh and you gave me an existential thriller on the level of a Meow Wolf production. Excellent work!

[@ChaffleWadapon]

Holy moly, I would've never expected a goddamn lore drop for my main metal-hitting man Mikaeli.

[@Thefrontdoorscientist]

7:56 Mikaeli was able to take that iron from cold to red hot. That’s an impressive achievement

[@bloodybladenum1920]

It's called cold forging it's because the metal is so thin that the friction and force generates heat and can't cool down fast enough Or something to that accord

[@dasamont8274]

I just realized that I know what Mikaeli is doing. He's doing an blacksmith-trick where he hits a piece of metal enough times that it heats up so he can use it to light a fire.

[@animeeagle8648]

Dude you are talented both at writing comedy and psychological horror

[@borntopwnyou]

"Anyone who is trying to investigate this, be sure that you will be kept in the loop" I love veiled threats.

[@Jinglethealmighty]

“You cant say fairer than fair enough” 🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[@jessicag1535]

"gambling cube." -Mikaeli

[@theogbeaver]

"Fair Enough" is such a banger! ❤

[@KALIMONINGRAD]

Motorcar.

[@petermmm42]

oh my god is that photograph of motorcar?

[@SweeTeasGarbageDump]

I am happy

[@thesnowspeaksfinnish]

I'll be using 'motorcar' instead of 'car' in daily convos from now on. Fair enough?

[@RivuletClone]

@thesnowspeaksfinnish Fair enough.

[@SonOfKerro]

4:01 "the procedure is painless! Apart from phase 24, 6-146, and 3."

[@rentisme]

"neither is your older self" "fair enough"

[@coastersnaps]

1:20 is the greatest scene in the whole lore

[@Ar_sole_hair_fiddler]

That musical number gave "always look on the bright side of life" energy

[@benasgale7723]

I must say, youre extreamly underated, even though youre close to a milion subs I cant help but think that you deserve more. Your shorts were funny and interesting. And I would say that this... Psychological horror 9 minute film is of the same quality. Good luck on your future projects, whatever they might be.

[@marumaru2105]

Jia convincing the intern to disclose classified information by saying she wouldn’t understand it anyway is great

[@ancientstraits9288]

"Anastasiya (Sia), you successfully hit metal 17 times so you are now proud owner of this photograph of motorcar."

[@nicolaspeigne1429]

Mikaeli : "i know what to do" Somehow that hit real hard, much more that it should, just like how Mikaeli is hitting the metal

[@ilistentoshoegazeandimdead8014]

“It’s the Prize Death” ? Even better!

[@sulanec87]

Words can't express how much I enjoy your stuff. Bloody brilliant!

[@souvikrc4499]

I love to see how you embraced your fans in this ARG project. Seems really compelling.

[@germanletskotz]

Finally, I've been waiting for this!

[@Hitman_Agent-47]

⁠ The real lore is: Michael Lee the creator of this dream game show thing abused his employees so an employee called Samantha, or Sam trapped him in his own game. Also the game show host, ‘Sasha’ singed up to test the dream game show, but got trapped in because Sam needed him to contain Micheal in the game. Michaels wife, Jia figured this out and went into the game to tell Michael how to escape, Michael and Jia both have now escaped. Out of rage Michael stuck Samantha in the machine and Samantha is the ogre thing you see. Sasha is still the host. And also; this doesn’t matter, just a joke from the KZbinr but some of the investigation notes imply that we are meant to be the investigators and the comments are investigations.

[@Asura-pw6vo]

The moment i saw the altered video on instagram that day, i went nuts. I got all my friends hooked on this journey of Micheal Lee or Mikaeli. Great work.

[@jamesexplainsmath]

The song and dance bit was surprisingly wholesome

[@Zz.Azalie]

That voice from the person who asked about the passcode for vault 3 is tingling some emotion in my brain.

[@the-sands-of-time]

Is it bad that I want this all to go back to square one with Mikaeli hitting metal 17 times over and over again?

[@wowcow3488]

Fair enough

[@rolandfilip2780]

do it by yourself if you want

[@moonmartex]

Bro this is so fantastic, it even got a musical in the middle. This is the reason why youtube was created.

[@huntersiagames6028]

I like how he remembers the gambling cube on the 3rd day (which implied that this is, in fact, Michael Lee because of his gambling problem)

[@luigidabro]

2:09 ah yes, loop_previous_loop, my favourite instruction in any programming language!

[@asheep7797]

Michael Lee stuck in coma for 58 days! In other news, Mikaeli, an unknown person releases a hit single: "You Can't Say Fairer Than Fair Enough!"

[@X-SPONGED]

"So what kind of music you listen to?" 4:29 *_"...It's complicated."_*

[@theonetrueratman]

The series and lore is actually interesting,and the fact there's more? Beautiful

[@michaelclark6941]

"Long square"

[@blalhber5447]

6:30 "If you have dietary requirements please keep them to yourself. Canteen food is cheap for a reason so please don't complain." It's so fun to jump around frame by frame and find all the little funny bits in parts of the story 8:37 "User: Goodnight Sam :)" eugh that's so creepy and so cool

[@TheGreatest1_]

1:48 seems like a 4th wall break DDLC LORE

[@frogman5991]

This is turning into a VHS psychological horror.

[@aasthade0309]

What did I just watch, why was it so trippy, like I was high on something, and why did I like this? I refuse to believe this is not a real documentary

[@TrasherBiner]

7:21 ... I like the indignation with Grigor. "Grigor!? ... No! Stop!" like don't "hit it" with the music , what team are you rooting for here man we are trying for him NOT to overstim!

[@DesiderataSanctuary]

Missed opportunity: "Oh Mikaeli, it's so cute how you think that makes a difference." "Fair enough."

[@samamander_]

I thought this was a comedy channel where you make parodies of historic events, now I feel like I need to lock my door

[@sameehandesai6558]

legends say mikaeli is still entering and exiting the show aand winning photographs of motorcars, 'fair enough' by his standards

[@dippedinsilver_music]

The way it went from a comedy to analog horror to a musical is insane

[@HaiAkuSydney]

This is the most unique daily posting video. Its an unique way to make it stand out

[@ClaytonMathisVO]

I was following the Instagram account for this, and I was shocked when this all started happening. So glad it's an official thing from you!

[@billybutalsonot7899]

He should sell merch thats literally the photograph of motorcar

[@hartebi_]

Adrien i gotta say, this was one of the greatest series ive ever watched and im so proud of being one of the early supporters if i can say that. Im so hyped for season 2 and other things you cook. Cheers Partner!

[@SparshKumarS]

0:41 That's Micheal Lee!

[@The_GuyWhoAsked4]

"Mikali! Your all I have please." I actually started to feel bad

[@craz2580]

This, THIS IS THE KIND OF LORE THAT I LIKE, real footage

[@EdgyShooter]

This is infinitely better than it has any right to be, just amazing, bravo

[@tomoyaitoi6813]

Holy shit another comedic masterpiece and it's LONG

[@Bird_Nugget3000]

i thought this was gonna be a fun-ish video, but instead i got traumatized

[@JoCaTen]

This is quite an interesting concept. Your typical everyday loop or something becoming more and more self aware

[@littled3dx]

How the hell do you go from a meme of a guy hitting metal with a hammer to the most terrifying comedic horror ever?

[@ClownArc]

Now this, is analog horror

[@honeycheerios42]

God that song will be in my head for days. In a never-ending loop.

[@12MyNameIs]

OH MY GOD I DIDN'T KNOW YOU MADE THAT ARG THE MUSIC IS SO GOOD

[@JAMMED_UP]

This was actually a whole trip, hats off to you man this was so good. On a side note what is the original show I need to see it💀

[@thecannonball1000]

This. Is. Insane! Why am I now addicted to your videos? I'm laughing nonstop!

[@mapelaanjakoodaansuomeksi3432]

I thought it would just repeat...

[@alihadizadehmoghadam2398]

6:30 If you have dietary requirements please keep them to yourself.

[@Whalefire2]

Was not expecting Adrian Gray's analogue horror arc but I'm all here for it.

[@JackValeroMusic]

You should've written for Black Mirror, that was a brilliant story. To then also make it engaging and compelling using only old footage and your script takes immense talent.

[@QUAKACE]

This is so good. The decent into disturbing analogue horror caught me really off guard. Had me looking over my shoulder in my house. That go back to sleep bit at 02:53 ......shivers

[@seescethething]

"Lalalala! Ah, what a silly joke!" -Sasha.

[@seescethething]

Gotta feel bad for Sasha though, he seems to be more stuck than Michael.

[@The_NaiveMelody]

fair enough is a song in the same genre as herald of darkness and I love it

[@ebaadrizwan6922]

This is SO sick. Like nothing I've ever seen before. Would love to see more of this.

[@LossBH]

i love your stuff, dude. great work lmfao

[@coolgrass3945]

That thumbnail really looks like one of those essays about a film that's titled like "Mikealie Hits Metal| How to make the perfect twist" or something like that.

[@andreaseveraerts1555]

Grigor deserves his own spin-off.