Art, Furries, God

[@JarrahTarrah]

Oh! You get it! It's stupid, it's so incredibly stupid at its core. It definitely couldn't have worked any other way. I'm glad you understand!

[@IAMFANTROLL]

YO JT SICK SEEING YOU HERE DUDE

[@wren.10.]

The Legend.

[@carbongreen3498]

Love your stuff lad! Like, all of it!

[@wildwaterfowl1086]

MY GUY! Always love seeing you come up in the comments and in video essays

[@jumpsplat120]

It is in the purest sense of the word, a High Quality™ Shitpost. Probably why I've got your stuff stuck on loop in my brain.

[@BasketOfPuppies642]

"art, furries, god" sounds like the best rock, paper, scissors variant.

[@Rleborne3425]

God beats furries-furries beat art-art beats god

[@BasketOfPuppies642]

@@Rleborne3425 As a furry, I can confirm that I have personally killed God.

[@lilyofluck371]

Furries beats god (duh) god beats art. And art beats furries (cuz a furry can't stop themselves from spending all their money on cute creatures)

[@dstyKchp]

I've never wanted to save a comment harder than this

[@llamadrama1090]

@@Rleborne3425 no, art beats furries, furries beats god and god beats art

[@IcestormTundra]

"The furry aesthetic, as a whole, is a consession towards the symbolic, the sensory, the ever so slightly autistic." This really brings together the whole reason why I've stayed in this fandom for so long. The self-aware but completely invested love of something so dumb and so meaningful all at once.

[@beorthwulf7109]

The furry fandom is a beautiful thing while I have my criticisms of it of how we can exclude problematic people better its still amazing it's the absolute perfect mix of what make it what it is you express yourself through art and a character it's also sexually open as a community you can hide your identity through a character safely especially if your LGBTQ+ there's the occasional get togethers with freinds why? Idk because we like furries or just want to make friends but don't know how too it's a group of people that are open to talk about what every person needs acceptance and since we're already a wierd group of animal people we know we're pretty wierd it's a perfect catalyst that makes what furry is it's artists expression through fantasy for sexuality or disability in order to accept that disability maybe you even want to improve on certain traits or get over passed traumas by making a character with traits or personality you wish you had ultimately gradually easing your way into it it's a community that you or anyone can be a part of and once your a part of it your part of an open loving community that understands basic human needs and wants such as acceptance or simple person to person contact like a hug at a con or at a meet and just getting together with other people and having fun those are basic human needs idk it's hard to explain what furry is exactly it's a lot but it's great and the perfect mix of things that strangely came together in a perfect beautiful way

[@Brass319]

"wholly indescribable and indescribably whole" is what I've used to summarize it. Not to mention that simply seeing furry art often makes my day, something that has significantly bettered my life over the past few months after I became one.

[@Lis_448]

Autism Pro Max

[@Wepawnet]

ha so real

[@ouzernen]

this hits hard... like, its a 24 minutes straight explanation on why "im cringe but im free" is the best mindset with which art may be done. i have always been afraid for my artwork to come as stupid or non sensical and be shamed for it. but this video inspired me to think about this and now i want to become truly cringe but free. thank you, beautiful dog musician

[@thegrandnil764]

Idk, I never found it freeing at all. It's an escape tactic too avoid problems... I am more free when I'm just completely honest with myself, then honest with the world. My peices are expressions of me, I enjoy sharing them, it hurts when people are mean but it's worth it just to get my art too the 1 person that truely does understand. Art is an experience, and if your not in the right place to recive that experience, it will seem silly. I'm ok with that. anyway, good luck with your art dawg.

[@Spookatz.]

​@@thegrandnil764that just means you're not doin' it right

[@ISureDont]

Nobody can ever feel what you’re feeling. The closest we can get at the moment is through art. If what you make is good, they’ll still judge you. Nothing will ever make that stop. What changes is how you feel about it. If someone with no dreams, aspirations or even understanding of their language says something to you there’s no reason at all to take it seriously. Do what you want when you want, don’t hurt anyone unless they ask, be kind to all

[@BoyWithTheBugs]

@@Spookatz. there is no wrong way to do art, there is no wrong way to be human.

[@silverhawk4491]

Growing up online deeply hurt me. I feel that I fall on the opposite side to what is conveyed in this video, and what a lot of people are discussing in the comments; I grew up on the side of the internet that laughed at 'cringe' content, the side with trolling and rage bait and furry hate and OMG FEMIZAZI GETS DESTROYED WITH FACTS AND LOGIC!!! Thankfully, I barely needed to hit puberty to recognise all that for what it was, but it still affects me even now. I remember one day when I was 12 years old - my first day at a new school. I was a smart kid who always asked lots of questions, went above and beyond the syllabus, and was always a pleasure to have in class, but the one thing I couldn't do was be myself. I got given a little sheet to fill in about myself, and it was the first thing I couldn't do in school. Putting pen to paper and writing out my interests, favourite TV shows, and favourite food felt instinctively wrong because I was broadcasting a tiny sliver of my personality, which put me at risk of being 'cringe'. Even my handwriting. Even my *name*, although there's now a trans-related explanation for that too. I was scared to be a person. All I wanted to be was good grades - if I could strip the person away from that then I would be perfect. I still struggle with what I call "auto-embarrassment", in that I don't let myself do things in case *I* think it's an embarrassing, cringe thing to do. Even thinking about certain things used to make me worry that I might express those thoughts and feelings, that my expression might be witnessed, that the witnesses would laugh. I'm getting over it. All the facets of my anxiety have added up, over time, to constitute a gaping void between my mind and my means, as in what I say and what I do. Self-expression, creativity and self-love are excruciatingly difficult for me, in ways that made it take longer for me to recognise my sexuality and my gender and in ways that have taken away any chance of being my authentic self at any time in my childhood. There's so much I didn't do. That's why I can't quite process just how much I love the idea of being unashamedly dumb and silly as an expression of humility and self-acceptance. Five, even three, years ago, that would've been such a nightmarish, horrible, no-good concept to me, that I would've cleared my browser history to hide the fact I'd even watched this video from nobody in particular. I'm getting better! Me, the person who would've hesitated to even put a fucking exclamation mark in this comment, to make sure I didn't sound too excited! I'm deprogramming myself and it is the best, most liberating thing I've ever done. I have a pride flag being delivered. I have new friends; even if I'm not always open with them, I do that by choice and not because I feel it's a necessity. I stopped forcing myself to like normal things, even in private (internalisation is the most powerful form of influence, after all) and I genuinely feel like I'm just getting to know myself after quite a lot of years of being the person that I am, just squished down and put on mute. You in particular, Patricia Taxxon, played a big part in all of this. Hearing your music, the experimental, innovative sound of Spiral Staircase and several dozen other tracks helps me feel like myself. The emotion in your voice is so real and so beautiful, and I hope that I can sing in my own, tangential way someday. There's a tiny little voice in my head that tells me not to listen to you, that you and listening to you are wrong, and with each loop it gets smaller and recedes further into the horizon. Also, you put me onto Echo and my brain has been totally consumed - that's definitely a less serious note but a genuinely important one nonetheless. I'm re-learning how to express myself and be imperfect, and that may or may not be starting with an Echo fanfic, and building to an entirely original VN that I'm 20k words deep into planning. I'm a writer who's still deciding on a name. I'm genderfluid and I'm demisexual and I'm happy to be here. I also want to get around to designing an owl fursona. It still stings a little bit, writing in the first person and acknowledging myself as any kind of person, but I'm getting there. Hi.

[@bobothetransdimensionalhob2659]

I'm sorry to say this pal but I don't think that she is going to bang you. Apologies mate how about you and I hop on down to the Alehouse and down a few pints?

[@gabed.2632]

@@bobothetransdimensionalhob2659 sorry what?

[@user-burner]

​@@bobothetransdimensionalhob2659what the fuck dude

[@rydanstone847]

Im relating too hard to this to keep reading at this moment. I do not need to be sobbing before my shift.

[@Trantive]

this is such a beautiful comment wtf. best of luck 2 u bro

[@thrownstair]

You managed to explain the rubber-band-breaking-point tension between dumb joke and genuinely sublime piece of art that these works have. The “I am cringe but I am free” of it all. But no cringe. Just the free.

[@doll1726]

“but no cringe, just free” THANK YOU. i’ve been looking for the words to describe this

[@angeltazdevil]

"My name is Avery. I'm a dog. What are you?" In three sentences and ten words you somehow managed to perfectly summarize and drive home the point you were making throughout the entire video. A completely absurd and completely sincere statement and question. Beautiful.

[@jgjg5182]

I must agree, it was a thought provoking question and it really got me to engage with the video and realize that this crazy nut job is 100% right, because my answer to the question is one that I believe is more philosophically deep and feels superior to theirs, but I know that it's far sillier and dumber because it's a fucking Shadow the Hedgehog reference

[@OviTexhnolyze]

Embracing absurdity's the only way to be in a world like this!

[@beangobernador]

I am viewer

[@malaksafa4074]

@@jgjg5182 I am all I am?

[@jgjg5182]

@@malaksafa4074 More like I am all of me, because it's important to recognize that everything you do and think and experience shapes who you are, even small and subtle things that you think are unimportant, even the parts that you hate or wish you could change or regret, they are a part of you same as the parts you love and identify with

[@adjoint_functor]

YEAH ALL MY ENGLISH TEACHERS SHE REVEALED THE THESIS IN THE LAST 90 SECONDS AND IT WORKED BETTER THAN ANY SAMPLE ESSAY YOU EVER WROTE LLLLLLLLL

[@ForestGreenSharpie]

they more put thesis at the front to make it easier to read. when you have to read over 100 essays that might be trash or might be amazing its good to have the central idea of the essay at the beginning

[@ZombieOfun]

It can be incredibly effective (as shown in this video essay), but it's also more difficult to pull off. Having your thesis at the forefront serves as a guide to the reader and a reference for the writer to stay on track. It makes sense for an English teacher to teach the easier format to do right first, and the students who have the desire to tackle more intricate formats will eventually find the opportunity to do so.

[@dotmp3883]

You gotta learn how to do something right before you can do something unconventional and have it work

[@keegans.969]

@@dotmp3883 Case in point: Cruelty Squad.

[@pwilll]

I think it really works here because of the way the video continues to pull you in with seemingly disparate music, memes, videos, fandoms, etc. It's great to be stimulated with something new every few minutes, but also leaves you guessing as to what the point of it all is. Your brain running a mile a minute trying to process the connections between all these things and just cracking up at the whiplash of each transition. It's so satisfying when all the pieces fall into place all at once once the thesis is revealed and it all starts to make sense. Honestly an incredibly structured essay and something I hope people learn from!

[@LadyMourne]

The fact that I found you cause my professor pulled me aside in a meeting about some shows I was writing/producing for my final semester and university and told me to look at your stuff cause we are similar in our writing styles kills me inside a bit. To know my professor clocked my trans autistic ass as a furry and said, "I know just who she could learn from!" I'm dead lmao. 💀

[@TheOobo]

Cherish that professor lmao, they get it

[@LadyMourne]

@@TheOobo he really is the greatest

[@maagnatism678]

@@LadyMourne holy hell that's incredible

[@tortis6342]

That is... so painfully funny

[@yammez1]

"I know what you are." 🐶

[@pwilll]

This is perhaps the most thorough assassination of cringe culture I've ever seen and it's not even explicitly about it. To me, cringe is exactly what makes life worth living. If you're cringing that means you're seeing something new, different, unique and away from the norm. To look cringe directly in the face and embrace it is to embrace the new and novel. I totally love the idea of silliness or cringe acting as a disarming mechanism. I totally feel that way especially with furries. There have been so many aspects of life I was too scared to interact with for being too scary or serious, like socializing or sexuality or experiencing new art or experimenting with new hobbies or exploring my identity beyond those things. But being able to do those things with a silly veneer of furriness took a lot of that edge away and allowed me to experience these parts of life without feeling like it's too serious. It's exactly like what's described with album album art but it goes so much further than just that for me. I've watched this video at least 4 times now and I will probably come back to it several more times. This is just such a perfect description of a very specific and very real effect that a certain type of art can have on someone and it's totally incredible. This kind of thing really needs a word beyond "disarming." Every time I rewatch this video I come away totally inspired. I have struggled with personal sincerity pretty much all my life and figuring out how to inhabit my silly and honest self without restraint has been a battle. I struggle to view myself from any angle other than what I think others view me as. But this video continues to inspire me to find new ways to be myself and experience life without taking it too seriously. Thanks

[@cylyte2436]

Love this comment

[@empurplednut]

more tips.... i luv your writing...

[@Smidgenism]

I got lured in by the title of this without context and spent the rest of the video yelling across my house "BABE THIS PERSON IN THIS VIDEO ESSAY IS TALKING ABOUT HHH GREG DAFT PUNK REMIX. BABE. NOW THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SPOOKY COMPUTER SCREEN PARODY SONGS. BABE. NOW IT'S OUR NEW FAVORITE MOVIE. BABE THIS PERSON GETS IT" And indeed you do. Silliness enhances every other human emotion and experience.

[@PokeNebula]

THIS IS LITERALLY ME SCREENSHARING THIS VID TO MY BOYFRIEND RIGHT NOW. SAY HI!

[@BobbinRobbin777]

@@PokeNebula HELLO!

[@rocket_is_so_flipping_cool]

THIS 100% THIS COMMENT RIGHT HERE

[@sexygirlmax2019]

i love doin and all of jerry terrys spooky stuff and louie zong's stuff weeooooo

[@bananaman-mp3]

THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT I WAS LIKE BUT IN MY MIND EVER SINCE REDOIN

[@kacyhasthecandy]

im not a furry, i dont even personally know anyone whos a furry (afaik at least) but holy fuck do i have nothing but respect for yall. as an outside observer, genuinely some of the most incredible, transcendental shit ive witnessed, came from yall (patty's music is absolutely included in that, Gloria is the album of all time). i can only hope to one day produce something that could maybe hold a candle to the art furries seem to be pumping out all the time. yall are on the bleeding edge of something truly special

[@lame_lexem]

can you say what avatar picture you're using? i can't find it with reverse image search. thank you and sorry for interruption

[@Spookatz.]

@@lame_lexem i very well might be wrong, but it looks a whole lot like a certain mask in absolver

[@kacyhasthecandy]

@@lame_lexem sorry for the late reply! It's art a friend of mine did of an old TTRPG character I had! Unfortunately I can't seem to find the full image

[@zomboy0818]

You should hear the amazing music p3dos make. R Kelly, Elvis, Michael Jackson…they’re on the bleeding edge of something special

[@theoreticalphysics3644]

Furries legitimately have extreme potential for really good art and I mean just damn, when that potential is met it can be fricken glorious. The older I'm getting, the more I'm realizing that cringe culture is stupid and that a lot of the things that are werid are actually really freaking cool or fun if you find the right pockets within their respective communities. Furries get way too much crap and it's a real shame.

[@KeithBallardA]

Subscribing to a remix channel was not the outcome I expected from the furry video. I also cried a bit the moment you talked about the emotional complexities of Adastra because I just finished recording THE SCENE a couple days ago and I guess I'm not over it again. What a beautiful, almost irresponsibly affective game.

[@AlRubyx]

Jesus christ that game was so good.

[@redriot2115]

You made me download Adastra, 11/10 playthrough you did there

[@KurosakiYukigo]

Oh hey Keith, didn't expect to run into you here.

[@EaseeCheesee]

That final line broke me. After the video ended I just sat and stared for a solid 10 seconds, contemplating that little question, “What are you?”. Ive called myself a furry since early middleschool, pretty much once I found out about the fandom I was hooked. I proudly made my first fursona, a lynx named Pixel with bright purple hair who was definitely a mary sue. She may have been cringe but as an overweight little kid who grew up in a small town where nobody liked them it felt like I had a sense of self. I wrote a self insert story about her called Paper Butterflies, and it was the first time I had ever shown my personal writing to anyone. Now the person I let read it was my grandmother, who is a lovely woman but she definitely doesn’t like things that are too “different”. Well she read it, and I was so terrified she’d hate it that I just wanted to tear my ipod out of her hands. But then she asked me “Are you going to write more of this? I like it.” And that was the moment I think I felt the most proud of anything I had written. Over the years I used Pixel less and less (got a different fursona now, named Cheddar) but she was important to me, without her I don’t think I would’ve ever had shown off my writing and part of me doesn’t think I would’ve ever came out of the closet as Bi and Nonbinary if I hadn’t continued writing and making art. It was cringe and silly and unabashedly childish, but it is a part of my life I could never take for granted. So to answer that question? My name is Cheese and I’m a cat.

[@thegrandnil764]

For me it's my demonic draconic shapeshifter Wren, which represents both my mentally healthy state, and also takes the form of my state of consciousness. It's the opposite of an escape for me, Wren is a tool for understanding myself, a mirror I can use to analyse myself at a distance. Wren is half character, half mental health tool. I have started going by the nickname too as it's associated with good things, while my real name has nothing but negative associations. I love my big old monster.

[@docopoper]

I'm glad you had Pixel. You shouldn't cringe about her. Fursonas are in part tools to help us grow. And she was a tool for a certain point in your life, and she helped you grow. She can remain important to you as a part of the journey and as a character forever close to your heart. I've got old some characters who for a long time didn't carry the same meaning for me as they used to, but more recently they've started to take on a new life for me, as if they represent facets of who I am as a person. Maybe some day the story of Pixel will be continued for you like I've had happen with my old character.

[@NUISANCE_ANIMAL]

aaaAaAAA goddamnit seeing people enjoy their lives makes me so passive-aggressively angry for no good reASON

[@A_Silly_Fella]

My name’s Acer and I’m a Liger, but can also be Row the lyena

[@21bucks]

i don’t even know what i am.

[@CerberusConstellation]

“What are you?” Still trying to figure that out to this day, in a furry sense and gender sense and sexuality sense and emotional sense. I truly don’t know what or who I am for certain. All I know is what I can do, or at least will try to do. My name is North, I don’t know what I am, but I do know that I’m here to help.

[@liamwhite3522]

If I had a nickel for every time a youtuber I've never seen before showed up on my feed in a coming-out video as a furry and then proceeded to sing the praises of Adastra, I would have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's strange it's happened twice this year. If I had a nickel for every youtuber I've never seen before who convinced me to subscribe to them by coming out as a furry and sing the praises of Adastra, I would have an additional 2 nickels.

[@lorebiter]

Who's the other KZbinr?

[@liamwhite3522]

@@lorebiter Keith Ballard. Check out his beastars video essay.

[@blinkfilms1]

oh my god it's adastra all the way down

[@Mrcake0103]

Regardless of literally everything else in the video, and his was what convinced me to play Adastra.

[@zealouslyCantankerous]

homestuck

[@l4ureleye]

actual made me smile ear to ear hearing someone recognize and represent the artform that is clentence mixing, cledits, ss, sos

[@d3vitron779]

Soooooooos

[@mayamayhemmusic]

SaaaaS MereM 1und1 LeeeeeL

[@PiercingSight]

I must know what this means. I see it every once in a while, but no amount of googling gives me anything. Is this some kind of secret club signal or something? A quote from a long lost niche music video lost to the depths of time? Utter nonsense that was once an inside joke to a small group of friends?

[@DoomGuyPictures]

@@PiercingSight Hoh Sis

[@zachn.2608]

@@PiercingSight It's pretty much typically how sentence mixing was always done back in the day. You always threw in a mirrored word with S. DaThings has plenty of videos like that back in the "golden age" of YTP. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mn7EoaCiityYqNk

[@alexandrafraser1354]

I did NOT expect Ween to be the first 5 minutes when talking about furries but I'm highly appreciative holy shit

[@joeyrony2887]

I did not expect to listen to the full album today because of a video titled art furries and god

[@TrilobiteTerror]

Again and again, I discover that artists that I appreciate... also appreciate Ween (my favorite band). This has happened like 5 times now, lol.

[@JuKayVid]

Yoooo I have never been part of an analysis and it is SO WELL DONE! Lots of love❤️❤️

[@Patricia_Taxxon]

You did incredible!! I heard that part of the intention was to make it initially seem like he'd directly sampled the original song and you played the part perfectly.

[@rusted_ursa]

I was fooled until "wait, wait," and now I'm going to go see the whole video.

[@tortis6342]

You did such great work on Kiss Me (Kill Me)

[@XerxesTexasToast]

The way you built up that last verse of Kiss Me (Kill Me) made it give me actual chills. I GOTTA see this.

[@XerxesTexasToast]

IT'S REALLY GOOD. And so is this analysis

[@Su47Berkut-z3m]

As a person who is both queer and a furry, i have been closeted really hard my entire life and having people talk about what being a furry is to them and like genuinely talking about what meaningful things you can find in the fandom is just super validating.

[@goodoldelrey]

I'm glad you brought up Adastra, because that was a major part in why I came out as a furry earlier this year. It was a surprisingly well-written piece of art that made me re-think personal projects I put aside or never started because they were "too niche." Loved this video, Pat!

[@samranda]

it's the first (and as of now, only) piece of furry media i openly talk about having interacted with and enjoyed & i think how fucking good it is played a big part in that for me

[@socialjusticemonk7183]

It’s a movie with brad pit

[@NIHIL_EGO]

_THERE'S PEOPLE THAT LIKE THAT BORING PIECE OF GARBAGE WITH C*CKSHIT ?!_

[@HBMmaster]

video of all time

[@the_Fisher_King]

the Lord of the dark polyhedrons

[@mopishlynx2323]

You are quite honestly the last person I would expect to be in this comment section. I only know you from your amazing video essays and your linguistics stuff. How'd you get *here*?

[@jessehunter362]

@@mopishlynx2323 Video essays about art

[@windowbar]

Think they've worked together on someone stuff

[@luckythelucklesswolf1419]

Misali????????

[@looooo24]

22:58 this hits very hard to me for some reason. i've lost count of how many times i was afraid of enganging with something due to not being "smart enough" for it, it's a really dumb idea but it's hard to shake off and engaging with stuff so silly but so sincere and free of that tension feels much more comforting

[@Ihopinthegrass]

God the second I heard the beginning of The boys are back (to kill you) I suddenly had my full attention on the video, that song and Kiss me (Kill me) have been rattling around in my brain for so long and to have people actually recognizing my interests is just genuinely crazy to me- you're telling me that *my* interests actually matter to others?? impossible. illegal, even.

[@korvasound]

Felt this on an unreasonably deep level. My favorite art is always the stuff that’s unafraid to be both incredibly stupid and soul-baringly genuine. Zero fucks given over whether it’s “cringe,” just absolute barely-contained passion for the medium. And as usual, the furries have lapped everyone else ten times over.

[@BobbinRobbin777]

This is the reason why a current anime / manga darling of mine is *Chainsaw Man* by *Tatsuki Fujimoto.* Its simoultaneously the physical embodiment of every. single. goddamn b-movie ever made, in how almost every character (or atleast, every single "devil", who are this series main... mostly antagonists) represent a subject / theme that has appeared in atleast ONE shitty b-movie before (wether it be as... relatively humble in power as a Tomato or Chicken-Devil, or as potentially devastating as a mighty Gun-Devil or Future-Devil) along with some absolutely hilarious comedic scenes... While simoltaneously having some of the *most... genuinely incredible ideas in world-building & lore, engaging power-systems, masterfully written characters* (regardless of gender, may i add) *and soul-crushingly devastating moments in ALL OF MANGA.* (to me atleast) It is, by all accounts a *MUST-read,* even IF it's also the story of a boy who wants to feel a boob (though he does want it with consent, unlike most other "horny" anime characters **cough cough** Mineta) and his dog (who is also a Chainsaw, and devil, and... spoilers), being written by a japanese man who frequently roleplays as his *NON-EXISTENT* 14 year old sister on Twitter and, at one point, tried to levitate.

[@joseph_arrow]

My furry-infested mind registered "lapped" as "licking," and so it became a cute mental image.

[@thegrandnil764]

I just accepted edge and furryness as amazing and cool, and simply enjoyed it. Irony as it exists in modern culture is a diseased form of self-denial, and a coping mechanism that swallows up everything. Nihilism is junk, life is a beautiful cultivation. Love ya dude

[@megamillion5852]

This is pretty much what I get from Zelda. Quirky and goofy as all hell, but taking it in stride.

[@megamillion5852]

This is pretty much what I get from Zelda. Quirky and goofy as all hell, but taking it in stride.

[@shiverse9868]

Its always forgotten what the furry fandom even is: *an art community* Not just any art community though, but the biggest online art community there is- It's a large group of talented and creative artists of all mediums. There's artwork, music, writing, and so many more- Even fursuiting is just cosplay/costume work and acting. It has its flaws for sure, but looking past the stereotypes and bad apples, its one of the most creative and inspiring groups out there, and even if its silly, its inspired me to find my own love for art, and now I'm studying to advance to a professional level and make it my career. It's a place of talented artists all inspiring one another, and that's something quite special.

[@7swordsinc909]

a degenerated art community would be the appropriate term and thats not a good thing. i had to clarify that its not good, because every serious problem the furries are presented with, they Never try to account for it. they just shrug it off and just pass it as: "teehee owo we are all porn addicts and perverted for rest of our lives" when you present urself and the community as the most ill riddled place and say that its their quirk, why are furries so surprised theyre viewed overwhelmingly negatively. And, its hard to label the furries as genuine passionate artists fandom, because Most of their consumers and creators are porno addicts and prefer endless amount of meaningless erotic content, the only furry artists that DO have Some passion for their Art, only make up 1% of the Fandom, And since they dont cater to the major furry porn addicts, they end up dying out in irrelevancy. not to mention that the most popular artists in the furry fandom, always make rule 34 drawings and also the fact that the most popular furry site is e621 ALSO a porno site. anyways, in short, the furry fandom is a living embodiment of porn addiction. (Not a good thing)

[@ToxikBox]

This. This is it. This is what I want my art to be. This is literally (and I'm not exaggerating) what i feel every time I watch one of my favorite movies. My favorite games. Songs. I love media that is dumb and funny and silly, but has some of the most indepth and complex messages and themes. The evil dead franchise. Edgar wright's movies. Everything everywhere all at once. The Postal series. Silent Hill. System of a Down. Resident evil. Undertale and Deltarune. They're dumb, they're silly, make no sense, sometimes are fucking stupid but they're also amazingly enjoyable and funny and horrifying and artistically incredible and make me want to cry out of seeing something so beautiful. They *mean* something, they have something to say, and they don't care to be silly, because you're gonna get it you're gonna understand it, because this is what it is to be human. To be taken seriously, to say some of the rawest shit, and also make a funny man say a funny thing, god FUCK.

[@jam-the-hologram]

oh my god, you are SO FUCKING RIGHT YESSSSSSSSSSSS Like the Evil Dead franchise is so stupid, and makes so little sense but it’s so good…. like Oh! no Ash’s car is possessed and its killing people!! (it also chopped off a teenagers dick? idk it’s been a while) that’s a stupid premise. But like that Car has been with him from the start- he became THE Ash Williams in that car. he has been through hell and that fucking car is his constant companion and it’s genuinely sad that the car has been corrupted by the deadites….. !!!!!! Also CHUCKY???!!!! Exactly the same.

[@joseph_arrow]

Oh, I know that one well! I think of my favorite film "Arashi no Yoru Ni" when thinking about silly yet serious movies.

[@KnigtyyZ]

Fells like a song lyrics

[@user-xn3rs7tu5w]

Fantastic mr. Fox is one of those movies!!

[@thegrandnil764]

I never had the issue with simply taking myself seriously tho. Like I get the fun, diasrming aspects of sillyness, but personally I just want to be completely serious. I like edgy things with no disarming aspect, no absurdity, just a complete enjoyment of whats happening.

[@lrgogo1517]

20:07 Patty's monologue being supplemented by an entire shot of a man staring straight ahead while TimesNewRoman text with three exclamation points slowly crawls into view just slayed me for some reason

[@LockandKeyHyena]

honestly tj’s ending broke me too, i understand why the writer needed a break lol. (my name is sasha and im a hyena and this video essay is something ive been struggling to put into words for a while- thank you)

[@Vemmmy]

Man, this video has so many layers in it, I think it might be one of the best documentary-type videos I've seen. I *really* want this video to have more views, I saw your channel a few years ago and couldn't find it again, and I think for my re-visit to this channel I couldn't have picked a better video. Thanks for makin' this stuff & stuff!

[@JackedThor-so]

I'm a furry and think I we t through a similar process when developing my fursona. It started out as a joke character; an intentionally overbaked pastelle cutesy OC you'd expect from a middle schooler - blue hair, studs, slushy shirt, an X over one eye for no reason (directly inspired by Vaggy from Hazbin Hotel) that I then made kind of offputting with a gangly and sickly body as though the character were a drug user, facial hair, and lots of body hair. It was supposed to be a dunk on "cringy" design tropes I "used" to like, but also dunking on me because "lol, I'm white trash!" It was just a character; a costume to put on and take off at will. But, as I had art of the character commissioned and fleshed out the backstory (again, their entire existence was steeped in irony) I started unironically connecting to the character and the universe I had created for him to inhabit. It made me realize that the "tackyness" I was parodying are aspects of character design I unironically enjoy. I think this video finally made that whole process click for me.

[@rainfox7983]

okay i genuinely didnt expect to see you made that drawfee smexy supercut

[@mold9158]

I had so many points where I went “where is she going with this” and then proceeded to get hit so hard that I dropped my bass on the ground. This video is the very thing it’s describing and I love it so much

[@jukmifggugghposer]

i hope ur bass was okay

[@bounceysteve]

@@jukmifggugghposersame

[@bounceysteve]

@@jukmifggugghposersame, we need an update

[@davebob4973]

Why were you holding a fish

[@commanderfoxtrot]

Harassment against someone for being part of a peaceful, compassionate and welcoming community due to their difference from the norm and baseless stereotypes is bigotry and marginalization. I will always champion rights for life for my fellow furries, against discrimination and threats of violence. It might be a sort of counterculture, however that doesn't warrant any of the flak or intense hatred we receive. We're people too, and of a community that isn't all that weird in the grand scheme of things.

[@commanderfoxtrot]

I don't remember ever having watched this video but that says more about my memory problems than anything else.

[@shitsec]

He does not know.

[@commanderfoxtrot]

@@shitsec A man? Where?

[@ponky-kong]

I'm back here on my biweekly late night rewatch of this video, and I am utterly BAFFLED that I had not ONCE watched this video before with captions on. As captivating as this video is on it's own, I am begging you- *BEGGING* you to watch this video with the given captions on. *You will not regret it.* I would even go on as to say this is the Definitive way to watch this video, if watching it 2 in the morning in the middle of reevaluating your entire trajectory as an artist isn't in the cards for you. Mad, MAD props to Jaguar314 for their hard work, it was like experiencing the novelty and raw passion of the video itself all over again. (Hi, Avery! My name is Ponky, and I'm a bat.)

[@klyx1267]

If there is one thing that draws me towards your art, it's that it feels like it's just unapologetically you. I get the impression that what you care most about in your art and video essays, is to get the thing across that you want to express, without much regard as to what people might think of it. That goes for both your music and videos like this one. If you feel like talking about your furry story, that is exactly what you are going to do, and I respect that. And it seems like thats the direction you are headed. Just more and more of you. Keep it up! Also I am a kitty cat meow

[@redlucia2742]

Damn this hit me like a truck, never in a million year did I expect JerryTerry's work to be analyzed in any fashion, let alone critically. It actually put into words why I love YTPMV as an art form. I've been on the internet since I was young and grew up listening to YTPMVs but I never understood why I liked them, I just did. As I grew older I realized the amount of work and artistry that actually goes into these silly little videos. They can be funny, they can be emotional, they can be nightmare inducing and they can be goddamn transcendent, It actually inspired me to try and become an editor and a musician so I could make the kinds of YTPMVs fawn me would love. And I hope I'll be able to achieve that. My name is Red, I'm a deer

[@RaeIsGaee]

There's something to delivering human emotions through supposedly silly or disarming media. Odd comparison, but Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are great examples of this. The former is a 50 year old chemistry teacher cosplaying as a drug kingpin with his abused twink meth-addicted boyfriend as he slowly destroys the lives of everyone around him, while BCS is about a silly joke lawyer doing elderly people's taxes and nerds riding in hummers while desperately clawing for an escape from the issues which plague himself, leading to him drowning in a vortex of his own actions compounded by the hatred of others. The shows also don't try to denigrate themselves for their silly or absurdist aspects. Hank making his own alcohol or Walter gripping the talking pillow are all taken seriously by the shows, allowing them to show Hank having a mental breakdown as his own escape from reality reignites his PTSD, or Walter's inability to speak up for himself and truthfully communicate with others causing him to breakdown as he tries to tell his family that he wants to die. It's really late, so I don't have any grander point to pointing that out. It's just an observation, that when people embrace being silly and over the top, it allows for people to truly express their experiences in life. Trying to scrub art of that and burn down anyone who accepts such a reality, which embraces being a furry, or over the top comedy, or anything, leads to soulless creations which say nothing in their apathy for the human experience. To dig into a piece of media that does this, there's a pilot for a show about robots on youtube. It's 3D and the plot follows a bunch of robots who, in the aftermath of humanity's extinction, are hunted by angel robots, forcing them to live underground for decades. It'd be such a great series if it wasn't for the show being nothing but it insulting itself. Every character points out the exact trope they follow as if its a subversion, each plot point is insulted as being absurd or unrealistic, each and every idea the show portrays is caked in cynicism. I could barely stomach half of its 30 minute runtime. It just feels slimy, immature. Like a 14 year old who insults themself for having interests just to appeal to the perceived cynicism in older friends. Seeing that style of media die out and be spat on makes me more happy than I can possibly admit.

[@ataraxia7439]

What’s your icon pic?

[@RaeIsGaee]

@@ataraxia7439 No idea honestly, just some art I saved on my portable hard drive when I was like, 13, that I like. Sorry.

[@intergalacticspacewizard1966]

Just wanted to comment that what you've said really resonates with me, I feel like a lot of modern works has this layer of irony or post irony as if the writers are unsure of their own work and so they shoot it down and acts as if it's just silly nonsense before anyone else does. Maybe it's modern internet culture that's at fault, maybe there's more to it, I can't really say for sure but it feels like a lot of people and creatives are afraid of being genuine, even if it is a little cringe

[@RaeIsGaee]

@@intergalacticspacewizard1966 This exactly, I think a lot of it has to do with the culture that people grew up in. Sure, the irony poisoning present in most internet culture since the 00s but especially into the 2010s played a part, but it's a symptom of society's greater distaste for anything perceived as abnormal. Prior to the 21st century, most media depicting lgbtq folks, or people with niche interests, or anyone else on the outside of society was branded as evil and barred from mainstream publication. Art that genuinely expressed such aspects of humanity were forced into the closet, or ran the thin line between what was considered morally acceptable and evil. Post-90s though, I think art in general was given more leeway to express those voices. You started seeing more and more media with LGBTQ characters or experiences, furry media, and cultures surrounding anything perceived as weird got bigger and bigger online. But in response, people who grew up on pre-00s media, or a lot of people who weren't born in the 00s, started pushing back and reigniting that old hateful attitude. In response, you had more and more young kids and teenagers mimick that bigotry and spite, turning it into cynicism against anything perceived as weird or ""degenerate"", especially on forums like 4chan. But now that more and more adults online and in the world have grown up with less of that bigotry (although absolutely still present), media is moving into post-irony to still shield themselves from criticism. Really tired so I'm probably wayyy off the mark and just rambling, but idk. It just smacks me of the toxic attitudes within society that have been around for decades, just retooled into appealing to people who are drifting farther and farther away from those attitudes.

[@halleycapra]

i think the pilot youre thinking of is murder drones???? i feel the same way you do about it but at least n is kinda cute so it has that going for it

[@quilikx6414]

this was the equivalent of 50 video essays strung into one cohesive message despite the fact it melted my brain watching it... it was one of those videos where you gotta' sit back in your chair and squint at the sealing and think to yourself, "why?"... I enjoyed it I think?

[@-chippedstars-2889]

thank you so much for mentioning Everything Everywhere All At Once, because i was sobbing the enter last quarter of that movie, even through the stupid jokes and the humor. honestly because of it, because it felt so human and real.

[@josephhinz6256]

This was fucking beautiful Patty, like... damn. Helps when you talk about pure transcendence in art but thanks for weaving the story.

[@Tesseract_King]

Beautiful essay. Also "it makes you better at watching movies" is a distillation of like ten pages of essay I have lodged sideways in my head about that movie and have been unable to put to words. I'm kinda mad that you unthreaded it so effortlessly. I'm not a furry, but I'm whatever the robot version of a furry is. Sadly there doesn't seem to be a consistent name for it 🤷‍♀️

[@notshardain]

i've heard synthetic/synth as a term used amongst furries from time to time, but i'm not sure that's quite the same vibe you seek.

[@Tesseract_King]

@@notshardain yeah, I've heard that too and it's not quite the same vibe. Idk fuck it maybe I'll just make up a term. How about "zappy"?

[@Corsaka]

@@Tesseract_King have you heard of protogens?

[@katethegoat7507]

@@notshardain synth is a specific species of robot furries invented by Vader San, a pretty popular smut artist who I've had the pleasure to befriend

[@Pacolman]

@@Tesseract_King Oh I love that term

[@munerelibellae8677]

There is nothing better then listening to people passionately talking about something they love. Thank you for making this

[@jam-the-hologram]

I am cringe, but I am free= This is so dumb, but it’s so sincere about it. and that’s beautiful

[@kazuYoshi_]

Just wanted to say your fursona/character portraits are so unbelievably adorable omg

[@kalin2273]

OH MY GOD THIS IS WHY BILL WURTZ MUSIC HITS SO HARD. It's silly but there's still meaning and then it hits you with a line like "I just did a bad thing. I ruined everything. And I've let the things I've ruined ruin me" And then the song just keeps going like it didn't happen but it frames the next occurrence of the chorus in a different light that makes it feel so much more real and brings out feelings from within you that you wouldn't have admitted you felt until they were unsuspectingly TORN FROM YOU by a song that just moments ago had the absolute silliest second verse you've ever heard. I specifically recommend "Just did a bad thing" (the song I just talked about), "Mount St. Helens is about to blow up", "i'm scared", and "La de da de da de da de day oh" if you haven't heard them.

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

This video put a smile on my face, and I can't quite put my finger on why. Maybe I'm just a sap for seeing people be wonderfully, confidently happy with who they are. (Also super happy to see Kiss Me (Kill Me) mentioned, I don't know ow how I found it but it really was a singular experience.) I'm a cow-moth.

[@amyweston4640]

Just keep them away from your pets

[@Pacolman]

I'm gonna say: in a way, you have achieved your goal with this video. I was going into this video not knowing exactly what to expect, but the title and thumbnail made it seem like it was a little silly, not meant to be taken too seriously. Then you started talking about your album covers being furries and connecting it to a weird crab album I've never heard of before - and it was really a weapon to disarm me and to get me to listen to your point. And at the end, you really got through to me with your points, partly because you disarmed me at the start of the video, partly because the video in general is REALLY FRICKEN GOOD and makes good points I'm someone who tends to take furry art seriously, because I know the effort and self-expression that goes into the art form. I've never considered this angle your showing here, and it is truly enlighting My name is Lira, and I'm a hybrid between a Jackdaw and a Millipede. Thank you

[@CallistoCallie]

I only have one thing to say; Holy crap! I can't even begin to explain how important you explaining this concept was. I love every second of this video and the message you brought with it. When I look closer I can DEFINITELY see this concept in the movies and tv I watch, games I play, music I listen to, and even in my own art sometimes. Glad this came across my feed, this has definitely changed my view on how I make and perceive art from now on. Good luck to ya and happy travels, cause you deserve it!

[@norththelaughingfox5244]

“I came to his channel because I liked music from a 5 year old Hbomberguy video, and now I’m staying because of the complex and esoteric breakdown of horror parody songs and furry porn” This is a real sentence I can now say without uttering a lie….. uhhh… thank you?

[@pabloemiliorui2281]

This is also, (i think) why the Outsider genre music is so touching. It's not like Daniel Johnston didn't know his music sounded "childlike" or "innocent", or that simple melodies with bare-bones lyrics wouldn't be disregarded. Yet, for all the "bad" music boxes he ticks, what made him stand out was his commitment. He said to the world, "hi, this is how i feel, it's kitsch and dumb and cheesy, and it's for you".

[@godissecondtome]

he didn't though. watch any documentary about him or read his comics or watch one of his interviews lol. he didn't think his music was "bad", "kitsch", "dumb", or "cheesy"; he literally saw himself as being on-par with The Beatles.

[@iwakeupsad]

Love your work. Great animations on this one for your pov. Never got involved in furry culture but nothing beats watching someone express themselves as themselves. KZbin is so full of "fake authenticity". This felt authentic.

[@ZeDoGiCa]

i can tell this video has already cleared up a lot of like a lot of fog around my relationship to interacting with and creating art having all of these things that were just overwhelmingly powerful to me, but that i never understood why. i think over time, i've grown kind of jaded about art, because i was searching for a certain thing that i hadn't necessarily lost, but that i had a more rudimentary form of long ago i'd lost the ability to be both genuine and happy at the same time. genuine and fulfilled. outward and honest. my best work came from the worst times of my life, but it wasn't the negativity, the pain, the fear, that made that art as good as it was. it was the fact that i was baring myself to it, and allowing it to be what it needed to be i've lost the ability to translate myself into my art, and i'm just now realizing it. i think this has helped me to get back on track. at least i hope. I'm a robot. 10/21/22 Coming back to add to this a bit, about 3 months later. I've gone through the entirety of Echo, and it really fucking got to me. I've started to like, turn things around, at least a little bit. Things aren't necessarily looking up, but I feel better about them.

[@MiloWildfire]

Thank you for making this It genuinely moved me in a way I don't understand, but I needed this. Previously I felt scared of AI sludge taking over the internet and being forgotten, as this train of capitalism is rapidly derailing straight into a canyon. But now I have the motivation to keep going and creating despite it all

[@bunbynoy]

Of all the fandoms furries are inarguably the most emotionally in-tune and naturally expressive

[@conoyl]

I wholly agree, but as a rabbit must also counter with bubnbyuynbyunnynunnbyynnbnnunny

[@randomjunkohyeah1]

I myself have taken the pretense-destroying path of representing myself online _exclusively_ with forms derived from my own ridiculous fetishes. It serves the miraculous double use of guarding against taking yourself too seriously *and* simultaneously forcing you to embrace your true, authentic self. I highly recommend.

[@henryfleischer404]

So you have a rounding error fetish? I don't get it, but I suppose that's cool.

[@randomjunkohyeah1]

@@henryfleischer404 Haha, I guess I do have a “fetish” for math in the jokey sense. But really, this account lacks any form by design. It’s just a blank box where I can stick my subscriptions and write comments in. I was ultimately speaking about the places where I actually, properly socialize with people.

[@galacticpopcorn9981]

I’m not a furry by any means, but I totally vibe with your views on art, irony and sincerity. It’s made me totally rethink the way I make art myself, so I thank you for this

[@EtchJetty]

oh my god the moment you transitioned to hhgregg I knew without a sliver of irony that this is the most important video essay I've seen all year

[@katethegoat7507]

My wish as an artist is to be the type of artist to make a person like Patty proud of me

[@Skeletoonz]

Just watched Kiss me (Kill me), and I cried because of just how unsettling it was, it was an experience I will never be able to replicate again

[@thegrandnil764]

chill SCP vibes

[@savtheartist5423]

LITERALLY I was simultaneously so impressed by the quality and feeling very sick to my stomach

[@Juhius]

I too, am a dog. I'm not really sure why cute cartoon animals just click in my head, they just do. Maybe I'll never know, but I like it and that's what matters. I have to agree that there is something interesting about art that disarms the observer not through deception, but self-awareness. It makes consuming and digesting the content and the questions it asks far easier. Art is about communicating ideas, so the communication is key. Delivering the same ideas through something too concrete can become exhausting. Especially if the topics and themes are uncomfortable and sensitive. I don't like mundane misery porn because at that point I might as well just look into the mirror. Given the chance I will always pick the stupid over the top mecha anime over my own face, even if the message is the same just because it's easier to digest. It's a step removed from the exhausting reality. Furries are probably a good fit for this imho. Anyways, Good video, Good girl.

[@katethegoat7507]

Having anthro characters in stories can also help disarm people when the surreal-y real happens in what might've otherwise been just a dumb cartoon. Usually it's played for cheap shock value, but I think there's value in using it to deliver emotional beats too. It's what I'm trying to do in my own smut comic, draw you in with the premise of a simple superficial story just to subvert that and make you witness to characters who go through their own issues in a way that should hopefully feel real, if not at least plausible. I'm not an experienced writer but I do try.

[@jacobhines5583]

You don't get Eva or you've only seen the rebuild

[@Juhius]

@@jacobhines5583 Not too keen on getting into a fight on a youtube comment section... about Evangelion, but... what? I mentioned that Eva exists and not much else. Why don't I get it?

[@zomboy0818]

The cartoon animals are a marketing gimmick. It makes you easier to exploit emotionally and economically.

[@katethegoat7507]

@@zomboy0818 violence is a marketing gimmick. It makes you easier to exploit financially and emotionally.

[@worm.on.a.string.]

you can't just end the video like that oh my gods i love and hate the way you describe because it's how i describe. how i write. how i feel and express. these long, intertwined run-off sentences mixed with imagery and promises of horror and beauty. i like your channel, i love your channel. i don't even know how to feel each time i feel you send goosebumps down my spine with the same things i write and hide. thank you.

[@trapadvisor]

As a trans woman, I see no difference between my problems and yours. Let’s not stop fighting till everyone can live the way they want without persecution.

[@fiddlestickjones]

This speaks to me on some sort of psychological level that I don't understand but I can feel, probably because I too am a furry, and the furry waves are impacting me in a way a non-furry can't feel.

[@k0v4n0v4]

the structure of this video even echoes the sentiment of what is being said, whether intentional or not you put into words what very few have been able to. taking not taking yourself and works too seriously in the most serious and intentional ways that it is not explained or just "understood" but leaving oneself in a moment to say "I get it."

[@brogansmith1342]

this is my first time watching the video and I had to stop and rewatch the "hhgregg" joke like 5 times. it was just kinda perfect: -it directly follows a big "video essay ambitious cut to seemingly unrelated thing" -it is paced **just** fast enough that you can parse all the elements of the joke (the initial fraction of a second it takes your brain to sound it out, then the image and the muffled sound) but leaves no more space than is absolutely necessary. -it's so funny, the pairing of the image with that sound, I just, I just, omg. it's so funny .

[@ThinkingReality]

Welp, adding that to the list of "essays that changed my goddamn life". It is my sincere hope that this is the aesthetic the next wave of culture takes, and that I can contribute to it. Thank you so much for making this!

[@PizzaDeliveryService]

Holy canoli, going from Ween straight to JerryTerry and then Everything Everywhere All at Once, *this is a targeted attack!* Seriously though, when it comes to silliness as a tool to disarm and bring out sincerity, I think you really hit something there. Heck, even with my own music and its many anxious/dysphoric/existential/lost/traumatic themes, I chose and believe in the name Pizza Delivery Service of all things.

[@PistachaBear_]

i started watching this because it came in my recommended, and i was like "oh ok why not?" dude. this was one of the most beautiful video essays i've ever seen. this is truly art

[@Kelsey_Keaton]

The whiplash from praising Ween's masterwork of "The Mollusk" to freaking hhgregg snapped my neck so hard it sent it into orbit in the best way it could have. It's very affirming to have many of these things I was ashamed of sharing growing up spoken about in such a positive and intelligent life.

[@noviatoria2436]

this video finally put in words what i found so amazing about Everywhere Everything All At Once but was totally unable to communicate

[@noahsabadish3812]

amazing movie

[@moosesues8887]

There was a movie??

[@SludgeCorpInCorp]

I just went on a multi month fucked up and stupid self discovery journey where I just embraced the person I wanted to be and this was the final nail in the coffin of allowing me to be who I genuinely want to be, thank you, this video summarizes so many of my emotions anf I love it so much

[@adjoint_functor]

As a Max myself, it brings me great pride to share a name with the fursona of a goddess

[@dexivela]

i love this video so much. you talk about the self aware satire of sincerity, and in a way that's reflected in the presentation of this video. it reminds me of having a conversation with a friend, just diving into one topic, then segway into the next. feels like just listening to someone talk about the things they like and are so passionate about, which you are. then it's like. oh, these mediums, these similar yet different pieces of media reflect what you want to make, what you want to do with creative indulgences. that's the really cool thing about having a human brain and being limitless in potential, there's inspiration everywhere that anybody can twist for their own sake. and the execution doesn't have to be serious either. it can be absolutely ridiculous. recently i've been diving into furry art? i suppose, mainly anthros with skulls for heads. they look a little silly, but there's still an unsettling aura to an animal with everything but the skin and muscles on its face. reflecting my connection to death, to animals, to myself. yeah. this video is good. i admire everything here a lot. my name is Dexi, and I'm a moth!

[@ZiggyTheHamster]

Both this and the first video I watched, "On The Ethics...", have caused me to tear up, for you have put into words the exact intangible feelings I've had my entire life. These aren't tears of regret nor sadness, but tears of acceptance. I am Ziggy. I'm a hamster. I just want to be held and pet, and occasionally stuff more food in my mouth than can reasonably fit inside my body.

[@jamdeluxe7456]

i think, as an artist with a lot of anxiety and a tendency to doubt the ideas i come up with, i think a video like this, a video about how important and powerful it can be for your art to be an unapologetic expression of idea's even when their a bit silly

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

I am absolutely aware that what I see in furries is not what most people see in furries, and I'm okay with that. I will enjoy the beauty that I see in furries in my own little world

[@bluemanblue2316]

this video scares me, so I am not going to think about it. Genuinely made me sit in silence for almost an hour thinking about this video. great video, kinda scary.

[@supportbrah4912]

"the comedy kills the ego, not to turn your brain off, but to engage closer and deeper emotionally" is such a hard bar great video! :) i liked the little gag you did with your tuber blinking really fast in that one bit 😂

[@kakonthebed]

“Art furries god” Father son and Holy Spirit i guess

[@ToastytheWulf]

I've literally never had a video essay make me cry before but something about just hearing adastra's unapologetic nature being described as beautiful and transcendent, just kinda broke me. It felt like 10,000 tons of pressure just lifted off of me and just perfectly encapsulated the beauty of fandom, of being able to unapologetically love something. We are so terrified of being seen as cringy, weird, strange, and I think sometimes that causes us to hide ourselves away out of fear and shame, but it's exactly that unapologetic, unconditional love that makes us human. It is the modern human experience distilled into its absolute. There's something beautiful about discovering a piece of ourselves, and being able to brandish it so boldly with love and joy. Finding sincerity where one expects only irony and deflection. This is love.

[@SKYBROC]

Not a furry, but this was a damn good video. I only really know one furry (she's the one who recommended me this video, and she's somewhere down in the comments here) but I can see this video meaning a lot for the community. Yall are definitely over hated and misunderstood. Keep it up Edit: this comment didn't age well, cause I may or may not be a furry now Edit again: this video is hitting me so much harder nowadays Edit again (again): I can't stop rewatching this, it makes me feel so much. actual life changing shit Edit again (again again): ok so when I watched this the first time I was a pretty basic guy, only notable thing about me was I was aroace. I am now a trans aroace furry dog girl and it mostly started here. this video literally changed me

[@cowdude8948]

Not a furry but nigg-

[@zipmoth]

I agree this video changed my perspective on life

[@charmingnarcisse]

awww

[@SKYBROC]

@@zipmoth yeah this video like, actually changed me in ways I could never have prepared for

[@thegrandnil764]

@@SKYBROC Welcome too the fandom. Personally Ive been a furry since basically the beginning and it's never seemed cringe too me. People just need to chill and love.

[@cramerfloro5936]

This was… such a fascinating experience to have. It is always wonderful for me to see someone express with much care and clarity things that I could feel before but not put into the proper thoughts and words. I can't wait to watch "Everything Everywhere All at Once", when it finally comes out here in Italy

[@real.bingus]

coming back to this video to say that i’ll never forgive you for making me play adastra it made me cry a lot and even worse it turned me into a furry how dare you

[@kizolf]

I had to switch to my main account just to say, this video is absolutely awesome!! From your personal songs, to an album where I had just listened to one song, to YTPMV, to JerryTerry's awesome halloween music videos to a movie I have not yet seen to a visual nover I wish to play now back to the start, encapsuiating how amazingly silly and deeply entrinsicly personal art can be!! oh god this video is such a breath of fresh air~ after searching how to organize myself to not have an anxiety crisis trying to complete every project I throw myself into throughout this week I needed this, even though this video is over a year old thank you for making it :>

[@kikren]

I've always found absurd premises way more engaging in art, suspending my disbelief to absorb what the people making it are trying to get out always feels more intimate and like I walk away with more to look back on and appreciate. As someone who likes furry art, Echo and Adastra are both phenomenal and while I wish my friends who aren't furries would play it, I wouldn't want them to change the furry aspect of it to make it more digestible, it being a part of the community they love and the worldbuilding around it makes it what it is.

[@thecosmicslime6524]

this 24-minute video right here is just beautiful. It's not touching but straight up directly stabbed me several times in the chest with all the absurdity of art, and in the end, an extra punch that brought back memories and straight up broke me just because you mentioned those two furry light novels. I have too much to say but not many words to describe it. You ma'am have made something incredible.

[@Leszczomen]

Recently i stumbled upon a review of a game "Death Stranding". Dont remember the exact wording, but it something like "kojima is either a pure artistic genius, or a juvenile hack making poop jokes." And it pissed me off so much! Death Stranding is a powerful story about struggles of humanity. How even though shit sucks, we have to realize our differences and stay together to move forward. How even though we as a species will die, our life isint worthless. But its also a game where you you throw PISS GRENADES at GHOSTS that are detected by A FETUS you carry in a ARTIFICIAL WOMB connected to you by a MECHANICAL UMBELICAL CORD. This game os both these things, and one could not work without the other - it would not be the same experience. Kojima isint either this or that. He is both! He made a touching game inspired by the political climate of post 2016 america becuse thats what he wanted to tell. But he also wanted to make piss jokes and dumb puns. I cried upon seeing the credits. I hate how pepole view weirdness and uniqunes as something negative or "childish". If you want to create something weird, do it. Be geniuene to yourself and what you want your art - and yourself - to be. And yeah, that includes beign a dog. Love your vid Patricia. Keep on keeping on! (Fix typos later)

[@felismorsVEVO]

probably the best take ive seen on death stranding and kojima, thank you

[@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943]

Yes, I like to walk and throw shit grenades. (I havent played Death Stranding in a week)

[@doctor-av3621]

i love youtubers who put so much effort into making the subtitle things (annotations i believe theure called? i cant rememebr rn) and make them look so well, like the 3 separate ones you put together to make the glitch text

[@froggutz6645]

Hey Im wired so here are the segments of the video Intro/ Album covers 0:00 - 2:00 Ween/ The Mollusk 2:00 - 7:19 HHGREGG/ doin' 7:20 - 9:56 Redoing/ jerrytary 10:00 - 11:13 The boys are back in town/ Kiss me (Kill me) 11:15 - 17:17 Everything Everywhere All At Once/ Why Im a god damn artist 17:33 - 20:43 Echo/ Adastra 20:45 - 22:43 Why I put furries on my album covers/ conclusion 22:44 - 24:11

[@victoryT_T]

THANK YOU SO MUCH OH MY GOD ♥

[@froggutz6645]

@@victoryT_T Oh goly. I wasn't expecting anyone to this this comment Tehehe

[@victoryT_T]

Tehehe xD

[@doll1726]

people who rewatch this video are the realest ones

[@tyrannosaurusrekt1127]

how seriously a work of art takes itself has no impact on how seriously it is taken by its creators, or its audience. be indulgent. love your work. put your heart and soul into it, whatever it is, no matter how dumb, cliché, or comedically self-aware it ends up being. as long as it means something to you, the world will find meaning in it, and it will find its place in the world.

[@ninefoldrin5507]

I adore how aggressively furry you can be. I think it's a wonderful expression of who you are and that sincerity comes through so well. Your art is fantastic and your artistic perspective always helps me open my mind to what art can be when it's not constrained by convention.

[@mcbonezs457]

I draw the line at sexualising animals

[@fritzyfox3713]

@@mcbonezs457 X3 nuzzles *pounces on you*

[@LAZY-RUBY]

@@mcbonezs457 Alright you draw that. We'll keep drawin' animals.

[@FlareLaunch]

@@mcbonezs457 you should never sexualize feral animals. While I stray away from nsfw as a whole, from what I've observed of those who are they like it for the humanoid anthropomorphism, not the animal species itself.

[@colbyboucher6391]

@@mcbonezs457 But, like... They're cartoon people. That they're animal-ish isn't quite the point, even if that's then turned back in on itself because it leads to fun characterization and interesting questions. Anime fans got hentai, Don Bluth & dark-era-Disney fans got this. We don't want to fuck your cat any more than anyone else does.

[@StudioScheppen]

Such a wonderful video!!!!! I think in a fandom populated more often with the more socially-awkward types (be it neurodivergency, anxiety or shyness in general, or struggling with the fear of "being cringe" (((I'm all of the above))) ) it's bound to have its people forced into a sort of automatic nature of second-guessing themselves. The fear of having what we do/like called out by outsiders as a way to mock or judge us makes a lot of us jump onto saying our artwork, characters, costumes, etc are strange and dumb before anyone else can get the chance. I notice far too often that people with unconventional interests who are longing for sincerity will self-deprecate the things they hold dear, and it's no fault of their own. We have the "wELL ThaT juSt HaPpENed!!!" moment in our lives a lot as a defense from further mockery, and it's something I'm personally trying to avoid with my artwork and stories. If anyone's reading - If you're interested in something, and you feel that warm excitable passion, that a lurch in your heart when you hear music that gives you ideas or lets you imagine a movie scene with your ocs, or just a bolt-from-the-blue idea, do your soul a favor and let the sincerity you feel flow. You have nothing to be ashamed of. To imagine, feel, and express yourself in a way that is really true to you is a beautiful thing, full stop. To you specifically, Patricia, I think displaying furry art on your album covers is a beautiful way to live through the fandom, and seeing something I'm a part of portrayed in such a respectful way is a huge comforting hug on my heart n soul. I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling that! I'll definitely be taking a listen to your work, I'm very curious :^] (I'm a sea serpent, by the way 🐉🌊💕)

[@yipyapfox]

God, seeing one of, if not my favorite artist talking about a hobby I love and mixing both of the best worlds is just amazing, I freaking love it !

[@krill_CO]

the video essay that just keeps getting better. furries, music, ytpmv, hhhgreg, and as soon as i saw jerryterry i thought of the boys are back in town (to kill you). thats my once a day video. you get it random person on the internet!

[@tlblitz42]

Seeing this video for the first time has helped me find clarity, in a way. The legitimately autistic topic pinball I use. The collection of “so stupid it’s genius” media I love. The unabashed furry energy I lack. It’s honesty on a level many things aren’t, a bared soul begging the audience to bare theirs in turn. I’ve been comfortably out as trans for several years, now, and I’ve had furry suspicions for about as long, but it’s been hard to quantify what they actually come to. I like furry media, both fluff and ruff ;), but it’s always been this thing where I doubted I was truly a member of the community, rather than a voyeur. “Oh, I think this art’s hot, but I don’t have any concept of how I’d inhabit it.” But this finally tore down that doubt for me. Part of the joy in being a furry is the no-inhibitions freedom in rejecting social conventions. It’s saying “I’m a dog, I’m gay as hell, and I’m proud of it!” Just saying like things like “the fur on my back” is so playfully silly and earnest that it defies insincerity. I’ve been reading a ton of furry visual novels in the past couple years, including Adastra and Echo, and this has given me the courage to step a foot into those games’ Discords, to follow more furry artists, to embrace the idea openly. It’s spurred me on to really think about my self-concept, and actually ask the question “What am I?” My name is Blitz. I’m a cat. What are you?

[@lunafoxfire]

I... why is this video so good? It's so authentic, like... it made me feel things that are hard to express. The older I get the more I realize how important authentic self expression is, and that art is such an important tool for coming to terms with being human and existing in this crazy-ass world. Just... thanks this really resonated with me. Also your avatar is so cute holy shit I cant

[@arosenbomb]

im UNGODLY thankful to hear stuff about jerry terry. all of those videos have been burned into the rim of my skull. Amazing video Patricia!!

[@miriambrown1863]

this essay just makes me happy to watch. every time i say the happy or stimmy expressions on you... it honestly hits me harder than seeing your body in other essays for me haha... it's just so very nice listening back thru your essays and hearing your authentic love for the things you talk about, the focus on how things make you feel and the creative lens you dissect them through

[@imagie57]

i physically can't put into words how many times I've watched this video, and what it means to me, thank you Patricia.