I made a '90s dimension to fully understand Crash Bandicoot | Unraveled

[@DanielGalimidi]

Friendship over with Brian David Gilbert, David Brian Gilbert is now my new best friend.

[@Lacie9]

Same

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

Yeah Brian David Gilbert is mega lame

[@NerdySweets3]

shytende aka Tamanoir his molding was barely substandard

[@thesadfather1239]

crescent coop yeah hes going to need a virtual 3d dimension to fix that

[@peaceful7610]

David stars with d and so does vin diesel

[@dangelowallaceagain]

i can't tell if this is a masterclass in video production or marketing

[@CateMastro]

Why do I find you everywhere I look

[@doodlecrazydc]

Yes

[@agata-1337]

me in the corner waiting to see you two on the same pannel on a convention on how to spend sponsorship money and be fabulous :'v

[@0life5]

Both

[@DerAykac]

@@CateMastro because you only look at places of culture and enlightenment!

[@Scum42]

"Let's get to the airport like, 30 minutes before our flight. Security shouldn't be an issue." Oh god that one hurt

[@Mantis47]

By taking Brian's pocket dimension away, Crash took the 90s from him forever, hence creating the exact feeling of nostalgia that he needed to appreciate the new game. Genius.

[@LeeeHack]

And he did it in just 30 minutes, as compared to the projected 22 years. What efficiency! Thanks Crash!

[@_lemontea]

calling lunchables 'toddler's charcuterie' is a take i can honestly say i was not expecting

[@OliviaSNava]

Sometimes I’m at Target, and I’ll see a charcuterie thing that I’ll call adult lunchables.

[@pforgottonsoul]

@@OliviaSNava i mean that's literally all it is.

[@AlbertScoot]

I ate 4 this weekend.

[@roxycurless6102]

I second this and am still laughing about it

[@walkerx1813]

I mean, he's not wrong

[@snowyches9886]

“Only 90s kids remember the 90s” should be changed to “only 90s kids and the time traveling David Brian Gilbert remember the 90s”

That's dumb as hell.

[@mr.ravioli6793]

That's true

[@splnrt..50]

That's dumb as hell.

[@aae67888]

uou need to lok that kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJvUnqZ4ed2Eh6c

[@snowyches9886]

Willz __ thats the point of the joke dude

[@Capt_Saicin]

Why is it when we give Brian any quantity of sponsor money he immediately transforms into a crazed supervillain?

[@DanielGalimidi]

Because capitalism's evil, of course!

[@chazaiya]

power changes a man

[@IndigoGollum]

That's his online brand. He doesn't bake fancy cakes or rate hot moose, he does this. And whatever Watermelon Man is.

[@UnlimitedBick]

@@DanielGalimidi based and unravelpilled

[@ezgolf1764]

That moment when bdg purchases scranton reality anchors with activision sponsorship money to maintain late 1990’s hume fields

[@missybarbour6885]

Polygon: Hey Brian, we got you a sponsor! Now you can make a video with really high production value! Brian, pulling out a VHS camcorder: No 🧡

[@dorkork]

Teaching Brian about the camcorder oct. 2020

[@placeholder2586]

@Clarissa Smith "Steady use both hands at all times"

[@eila2635]

Hell yeah

[@MorganEdgy]

VHS camcorders are shitly expensive nowadays so that was probably a yes.

[@totallyreyalfactsfsfs]

Are you telling me this doesn't have a high production value? Are you a madman?

[@Leafpool2]

The airport security joke is all well and good but I feel like "I decided to check in on those welsh royals I had grown so fond of just the day prior" then him screaming in despair is an incredibly underrated gem of a bit.

[@jonahdunch4056]

Absolute god tier bit

[@garrett2439]

Mother Teresa also died that year.

[@venyren]

Under rated -> the video is a day old lmao

[@ill_hex8103]

Leafpool2 timestamp?

[@Zadamanim]

help i dont know anything about welsh history and i may or may not be 12, can someone please explain the joke

[@CabinBoyProductions]

"Let the past die. Kill it if you have to" - Crash Bandicoot

[@benstevenson3270]

“We should get to the airport like 30 minutes early, security shouldn’t be a problem” - normal person from 1996

[@juliuskopald1665]

That shit killed me

[@EpicNerdsWithCameras]

Ah, life in the 90s when not everything was terrible.

[@jayjaythejetplane5390]

EpicNerdsWithCameras I mean... I’m trans and gay so I’d say things were kinda terrible in the 90s

[@nuzzlebit]

**gasp** A fellow trans person? Hello fellow trans person!

[@theboxcaradventurer1874]

David Brian would have known this.

[@kebbopulos6357]

I made the mistake of taking a sip of water right before "EEEAA", I haven't done a spit-take like that in a long time. Thank you BDG

[@alantremonti1381]

2:56

[@wormrotting]

@@alantremonti1381 thank you Alan.

[@justaskeleton9087]

@@alantremonti1381 thank you Alan

[@JoaoAgile]

@@alantremonti1381 thank you Alan

[@ZoeBateman]

@@alantremonti1381 thank you Alan

[@InnuendoStudios]

this video not ending with Brian's opinion of Wild Wild West/Millennium is a Chekhov's gun that won't go off

[@bbhavefun11]

Wild to see you pop up in the wild, yo. Though I'm glad you have great taste in youtubers! Love your videos, you have a really unique style that easily ranks in my top 5. Keep doing you!!

[@basilschuman7159]

It was jammed by all the sour spray Brian spritzed in there.

[@billyweed835]

Wait, why are you here? I'm not against you being here, but still.

[@NZsaltz]

@@billyweed835 Because it's a good video? He has a life outside of being a youtuber

[@billyweed835]

@@NZsaltz PEOPLE ONLY EXIST WHEN I PERCIVE THEM TO! I AM A GOD! Seriously, though, i'm not complaining.

[@MariaThePotterNut]

"This is the worst thing I have ever tasted" Um, hate to remind you, but the Zelda recipe video is sitting in my up next recommended videos, and I have to question how valid that statement is.

[@IncredulousPasserby]

Alternatively, he’s being entirely truthful and now I REALLY never want to have what he’s having.

[@MariaThePotterNut]

@UCyaP-NSO5DyqjTbjy3OMFcQ Yes, but Brian still has the memories and experiences he had before he went into the pocket 90s dimension. He still tasted the egg pudding. Or, "egg pudding."

[@mr.stuffdoer8483]

It’s a Warhead in milk, along with cereal. There is no way that isn’t worse than everything in the BOTW video, possibly combined.

[@miapotvin3396]

The egg pudding...

[@chaosco6462]

What you heard was 90s David Brian, so canonically he hadn't even though about eating that zelda food.

[@TheStrawhatNO]

I love the idea that Brian does these Unraveleds without telling anyone at Polygon.

[@alexp6013]

I prefer the idea of him sending out of context e mails. «Boss, I need the entire osha regulation» «Are... you going to sue us?» «What ? No! I need to blackmail Nintendo!»

[@lucyku13]

That message from Tara "why aren't you at work" sent me flying

[@dreamybluepiecupcake7072]

oH THIs is the food Brian was talking about a week or two back when he said he'd been eating terribly

[@ella-tm1tp]

@@dreamybluepiecupcake7072 when did he say that?

[@avakining]

ella in an stream where polygon people played among us. It’s on twitch

[@kai_roo_ko]

why does literally every unraveled give me major coming-of-age movie feels

[@kjj26k]

Because they all have a moral lesson to teach, communicated via the protag learning it himself.

[@mr.stuffdoer8483]

But more of a Catcher in the Rye type of coming of age that can get super existential when it feels like it

[@kai_roo_ko]

@@mr.stuffdoer8483 EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING!

[@Silverwind87]

@@kjj26k hero's journey

[@thehalfa95]

Because bdg is 12 at the start of every video and still has excitement for life and at the end hes not that

[@Kurokirisu]

"This is Crash Bandicoot 4... There's only 4 Crash Bandicoot games." I see the mental scars from unravelling Kingdom Hearts are still there.

[@azealot-aka-azz]

@Prederick It was probably a lot of things that convinced him not to. Skyrim, Kingdom Hearts, Fire Emblem, & Halo are franchises I’d point to.

[@BradTheAmerican]

@@azealot-aka-azz Ah yes, the Skyrim franchise.

[@azealot-aka-azz]

@BradTheAmerican I haven’t actually played that much Skyrim, I didn’t know it was part of the elder scrolls franchise. (I actually thought elder scrolls was a Skyrim game)

[@BradTheAmerican]

@@azealot-aka-azz Calling it the Skyrim series is actually a little meme I've seen before, but you are the first person I've seen to call it that unironically. Thank you for being my first.

[@Silverwind87]

And reading the Halo novels.

[@garrettbates9124]

Alt Title: Brian David Gilbert tries to escape 2020 with the power of Crash Bandicoot and the Backstreet Boys

[@Ridley369]

Lmao XD This should have been the title

[@jillidan0286]

“Or as it’s better known, *EEEAA*” I’m laughing so hard I gave myself a headache

[@YalelingOz]

I got stomach cramps from it!

[@krazymangodz]

I'm actually crying from laughing so hard

[@jamalgs3388]

Yesss I agree

[@malevolentmango7140]

I was drinking when that happened... BIG MISTAKE

[@icybeverage9276]

EEEAA sports. It's in the game.

[@lucienr514]

If it weren't for Crash this could've slowly turned into a horror movie where he becomes trapped in the pocket dimension forever.

[@darcyhess3666]

Seems like a video he’d make tbh 😂

[@Nobranes]

Teaching Jake about the camcorder

[@dorkork]

Attaboy

[@xeno_phobik]

Is it trapped if he never wants to leave?

[@cecildesist]

I honestly was getting unnerved as soon as I saw those texts from his boss, so yeah, that tracks.

[@AustinJohnPlays]

Brian, why not just play the games now? There's an HD-remaster out. I'll send it to you. WHAT'S YOUR ADDRESS?

[@marincarey3584]

he rightly preferred to exist in a universe where slippery climb doesn’t exist

[@RileyScott]

That's a cop out

[@OfficerFarva]

Go back to playing pokemon

[@scheyeguy2479]

WOAH DUDE DIDNT THINK ID SEE YOU HERE???

[@lookitsm.e]

Hello Austin

[@UltimateBurstLP]

Brian discussing this over with Activision: okay so im gonna need some people to send me some pretty weird and potentially uncomfortable sounding emails and text messages, I promise it’s all for the video, I’ve got this great idea where i create a nostalgia pocket dimension where I lock away all my responsibilities, and then my friend in a crash suit- I’m gonna need one of those by the way if you can just send one my way, oh also I’m gonna send you some emails where I think he’s real and you’re gonna need to play along. Okay cool. So anyway my friend destroys my 90’s cocoon right, and-

[@midknight1339]

I mean it's entirely possible that he just created another email which he saved in his contacts as "Activision" and sent himself emails from it.

[@IcyDragonPolaris]

@@midknight1339 Maybe, but this *is* BDG we're talking about.

[@henriquedominguesjocas599]

@@IcyDragonPolaris I was about to say the same. He once threw himself in the ocean and went to a forest as a "joke" for the videos, sure he most likely didn't stay for long in those but it wouldn't surprise me if he actually ignored those emails for the video

[@RandomTomatoSoup]

​@@henriquedominguesjocas599 so I told BDG to go to the forest and he actually did it the absolute madman hahahahahahaha!!

No, we won't help with your weird ass fetish.

[@ricardorivera806]

Brian: crash bandicoot, my best friend ever Terry the Tangela; ,,, bruh

[@sponge1234ify]

Don't worry, that's just David. He hasn't left Brian completely. Give it one or two weeks.

[@Sandux930]

TERRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYY

[@sickfitz4256]

Rest in spaghetti, never forgetti.

[@allisonhomiak2336]

Wait a minute. Is Terry still alive and unstolen in the 90s dimension???

[@finnpearce-zuazua340]

The BDG lore is expanding

[@edslushie570]

The fact that Brian got a text from Tara asking why he wasn’t at work makes me question if these unraveled episodes are even part of his job, or if he just naturally does something like this once in a while and happens to be filming.

[@jessi411]

The texts and emails were all fake, I'm pretty confident, these are (were) a major part of his job

[@nefarious_seraph13]

It’s a bit

[@nettogames4268]

​@@jessi411 You would have to be a hospitalized type of stupid to not realize this is fake, clearly. Ed Slushie was probably refering to the fictional scenario revolving around the clearly abnormal antics portrayed by BDG in his Unraveled series. "Canonically" he sacrifices his sanity and worries those around him. In reality, he isn't working alone. I mean, in one of the Unraveled episodes, Pat outright mentioned from behind the camera that he had written one of the jokes. You wouldn't look at a game of thrones character and say "It's fake, no point looking deeper into this"

[@norp_1790]

@@nettogames4268 "clearly"

[@danielcorrigan8805]

A friend of mine has a theory that since this is one of his last videos with Polygon that he was fired over it and he made Pokemon in his last 2 weeks.

[@mageless8192]

“Let’s get to the airport like, 30 minutes before our flight. Security shouldn’t be an issue!” *Takes 1d4 psychic damage*

[@colixnaia6512]

So glad someone commented on that! We used to fly up every year to family in another state for the Holidays, and hearing BDG say that HURT!

[@princessmaly]

ugh, I know x_x

[@sadboy-dn1pc]

1d4 psychic dmg is vicious mockery right

[@Silverwind87]

Never forget... the Patriot Act.

[@mageless8192]

@@sadboy-dn1pc yeap

[@jamesabdullah4334]

BDG: “I know very little about crash. What he is…” Me: he’s a bandicoot, Brian.

[@reedoei3059]

I didn't even know that was a real animal until I google your comment, assuming it was a joke...

[@rga8895]

@@reedoei3059 same

[@romanes_eunt_domus]

Me: goes to like comment Comment: 666 likes Me: 😖 next time...

[@bigmcchickenmcsloppyjerky]

What the fuck is a bandicoot

[@connorskudlarek8598]

Brian: "That might be the worst thing I've ever tasted." Also Brian: *Makes every food from Breath of the Wild*

[@lindseylichtman]

Warheads are dubious food

[@Ericbomb]

His videos give me heartburn. Like how can he eat anything at this point?

[@philipthirtyone2923]

To be fair, it could've been worse.

[@Corbomite_Meatballs]

@@Ericbomb Because he hasn't turned 30 yet, and gone through "The Change".

[@darwinn2219]

Have you gone to Asia?

[@deathnoteKIRA40]

The best joke in this whole thing is the bit about going to the airport 30 min before the flight because at first I was like "now that's just reckless" and then I REMEMBERED

[@sarahp6512]

Me too! It took me a sec, then I was like ...oh

[@justindorthewonderwizard645]

Same I was like well that's just irresponsible. Then I physically died.

[@apollohoundd]

im lost what does it mean

[@javiertorres5187]

@@apollohoundd Before 9/11 airport security was much looser and you could get to your flight faster.

[@apollohoundd]

@@javiertorres5187 OH

[@pedroscoponi4905]

When Brian David Gilbert looks me in the eyes and tells me he is going to "create a pocket dimension that simulates the 90's" I don't even blink - of course that's within his power. What a trifle reality is compared to sponsor cash and a healthy dose of obsession. There is nothing this man can't or won't do for knowledge (and preferably also money).

[@razornz007]

*Wipes happy tears from my face with dollar notes* "That's beautiful"

[@screamsformemes]

This is the best comment I've seen so far

[@saturdaynightmikey]

This is the ONLY man who uses sponsorship money correctly

[@lichtheimer]

"JUST KIDDING I HAVE SPONSER MONEY, NOTHING IS OUT OF MY REACH!" Including but not limited to: Time travel.

[@kieran.grant_]

It's just endgame all over again

[@LeRoiJojo]

Through sheer charisma, you've made me watch a cheesy 18 minutes long commercial, and I kinda resent you for that.

[@razbuten]

very good totino's pizza rolls ad. will buy.

[@christianschweda2530]

You? Here? Cool!

[@sci_pain3409]

He? There? Awesome!

[@KELMER-ns3pw]

Me too

[@Kuukeksi]

Will you share them with the lady you live with?

[@ethiopiop]

a razbuten in the wild... a rare sight

[@pthanthinel]

I love how “Crash Bandicoot” is literally Pat Gill in a rumpled crash suit - what a true friend

[@NachoMist]

I mean, the voice is Pat. More likely that the person actually on screen is Karen

[@gemstonegynoid7475]

What are you talking about that's crash

[@aimelle3]

@@NachoMist The person in the Crash suit is likely Brian (and Karen is filming). If Karen were in the suit she probably would have been credited as such. Also, the person in the suit has a flat chest.

[@matthejamman]

That's immediately what I thought! He called him his best friend! It's so sweet.

[@amyyost7022]

@@aimelle3 The suit wouldn't fit in his apartment. That's Crash

[@br9377]

In a world of shitty, overly intrusive advertising this is really cool to see. I just watched an 18 minute ad and loved every second of it.

[@FabriSlv]

BDG ad is best ad

[@NerdySweets3]

@@FabriSlv DBG*** Brian David Gilbert is mega lame

[@jskuzma]

@@NerdySweets3 good catch!

[@pedestrianwolf]

No hate to this vid, loved it. But I prefer knowing when something is an ad and what is part of said ad

[@NerdySweets3]

@@pedestrianwolf i mean. he Literally says at the beginning that it’s a sponsored video.

[@gunnaryoung]

Do you realize that from the perspective of someone from the 90s it looks like a man playing video games in his room with a box of items from the future in the corner that he barely acknowledges?

[@maddieagne8565]

"let's get to the airport, like, thirty minutes before our flight. security shouldn't be an issue!" took me OUT

[@SlayerSeraph]

What was he referring to? I didn't get the joke.

[@gl00myharvester]

@@SlayerSeraph airport security checks were very minimal before 9/11 which happened in 2001

[@ysucae]

man i remember having my pocket knife and a huge water bottle in the cabin for an international flight when i was 12

[@SlayerSeraph]

@@gl00myharvester Oh I get it. I didn't get the joke until someone wrote it. Very different situation here, as someone from Israel. Our security regimes and protocols were always very tight, thorough and extensive. Also heard that IL airline flights have secret service security on them. But what's certain is that they do quite a lot, head to toe search and in depth search. Also asking you how/who packed your stuff, and more. If I'm not mistaken US and other countries in the world took some notes and training from our country about security stuff after 9/11.

[@Prederick]

God, watching him re-enact the years of my teens as if they were part of an archaeological find is killing me.

[@renee6411]

Homie I don’t even know what kind of animal crash is supposed to be. I’m 18.

[@BKStarlet08]

@@renee6411 he's a bandicoot

[@rubyrouge5703]

im 13 it was 2007 when i was born and i think the rainbow loom year of my life in the early 2010's was old.

[@ahobbit1273]

@@BKStarlet08 lol until this very moment I didn’t even know a bandicoot was an actual type of animal

[@zoestorms3537]

@@BKStarlet08 bandicoot is a real animal???????

[@inkyblack9824]

This man calling himself "David Brian Gilbert" is almost the worst thing for me because I accidentally get his name wrong like all the time

[@y9y-f9q]

I've come to know him simply as Beedeegee.

[@jejemiados1947]

You got it wrong, he's Brian Gilbert David

[@smokee1325]

To help, his name is in alphabetical order

[@iammehowru]

When he said that I was like "wait that isn't his name?"

[@OrcaIguana]

I've come to know this man as Bavid Dian Gilvert among others. He has the "Benedict Cumberbatch" property, where as long as you have like 2-3 letters right in some order, people will know who you are talking about.

[@E3kHatena]

Imagine getting paid by Activision to say “They caught the Unabomber!”

[@Totasfunnynumber]

And something about those welsh royals he got so invested in

[@bLexi57]

Watching BDG’s hair evolution throughout quarantine has been such a treat

[@lunarheavens2819]

bLexi57 DBG*

[@katuni08]

I’m loving the long hair look!

[@r3dstoner3quired27]

Imagine being a person in the park where Pat had to throw out the trash dressed as Crash Bandicoot. Actually, it's New York City, people have definitely seen weirder.

[@orangeaurora]

i mean, if people saw someone with a camera theyd probably turn a blind eye, but its still a lil strange

[@aimelle3]

It's probably not Pat inside the suit, he just did the voice over (remotely, because... you know). It's probably Brian inside the suit and Karen is filming.

[@aika1313]

There is no suit, that's the real Crash Bandicoot.

[@GlennBRust]

@@aika1313 gets it.

[@zealotoftheorchard9853]

@@GlennBRust gets it

[@astronau__6971]

His hair is getting more and more bountiful he’s slowly becoming 100% hair now

[@elainebenes5256]

astronau__ His hair reminds me of Arrested development when Tobias suffers from GBH, graft before host

[@DetectiveMekova]

The hair just adds to the immersion really.

[@siennahartle9069]

Oh my god he was cousin it all along

[@wilhelmina3053]

A tangela, full circle

[@shootingstarbit]

In remembrance of Terry 🥺

[@danielprieto3563]

"Just kidding I have sponsor money nothing is out of my reach" - when a scientist gets funding

[@kevingrace108]

imagine being a new york resident casually taking a walk and seeing a guy in a crash bandicoot costume throwing giant trash bags into a dumpster

[@eleveri11]

That's just what New York is like

[@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong]

Just the one?

[@yonatanbeer3475]

That wouldn't be the strangest thing I've seen walking the streets of New York.

[@dancingpen3558]

No one is going to be surprised, but the tourists might get a kick out of it!

[@drewheller7400]

That's just Tuesday

[@BL_._]

“Just kidding nothing is out of my reach I have sponsor money!” BDG

[@BuoyBase]

Except retirement, apparently.

[@NerdySweets3]

BuoyBase kskskskska

[@icetones6706]

@@BuoyBase well, obviously. Retirement means no sponsorship money

[@adamm6290]

Actually it’s *DBG* now

[@pforgottonsoul]

screw the rules, i have sponsor money.

[@sirderpington7704]

"Security shouldn't be an issue." thats some real 90s edge right there. 10/10

[@blarg2429]

'9/0s

[@Mirogniew]

more like 9 out of 11

[@AuntBibby]

Gniewomir Kosiacki 9 out of 11 doctors smoke Flintstones-brand cigarettes

[@edwardelric3505]

As someone born 1990, I can say you’ve perfected the 90’s dimension you created. You got the authentic experience of being a 90’s kid. You are a true 90’s kid and you make us so proud.

[@Wyrmshield]

The sour spray and warheads really took me back. I can still taste them (though maybe that's just the lasting acid damage)

[@Drekromancer]

The biggest shock was how many of those 90's objects were familiar to me. I saw the Warheads and PS1 coming, but I didn't even realize those city carpets were a 90's thing! I just thought we had this weird carpet in our house 😂 He succeeded in recreating the 90's. It really takes me back.

[@nicestpancake]

@@Drekromancer Honestly I feel like anyone born from 2000-2005 should be considered an honorary 90's kid bc we share a LOT of the same things, and I feel like that's undervalued in the community. I was born in 2002 and I identify with a lot of this stuff, I know how to use and have watched VHS, that little car rug was basically the ONLY reason I liked my friend's house so much- just. _Idk I hear 90s kids talking about all this and like. I feel left out bc I RECOGNIZE it dammit!!!!_

[@jetstreamattano4176]

@@nicestpancake let's just extend the definition of a 90 kids to the early 2000's case all the early 2000's were just the 90's 2

[@alexanderhorter1287]

@@nicestpancake me and my friends call from 2000 to 2003 the "trash 90s kids"

[@Yoarashi]

BDG is thirsty for Crash Bandicoot? Finally some validation for 7-year-old me who wrote a love letter to Crash and asked my big sister to mail it to him and she laughed so hard I can still hear it over two decades later and I got so upset about her lack of understanding for our love that I ran away from home but came back before anyone could notice I was gone because I realized a couple hours in that I couldn't take Crash with me into the forest I was hiding in. Anyway,

[@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong]

Hey, Yoara? Quick question for ya. _What the fuck??_

[@Yoarashi]

@@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong Growing up in pre-broadband Lapland was apparently so boring that having something as exciting as a PS1 at a new friend's house unexpectedly introduced to my life immediately fried my young brain

[@aisyarnr]

Good for you for eloping! Even if it didn't work out in the end :(

[@gabrielchapman5753]

Nothing quite like heartbreak

[@doubtful_seer]

I fully empathize. Realizing that I couldn’t join Belle and the beast in a polyamorous relationship broke my young heart. To the point I wouldn’t shut up about it each time we drove past the trees I had planned to marry them in front of.

[@stuffyfilms]

I like how this series went from “which enemy can bone the best?” To deep dives into the human psyche while somewhat relating it with video-games.

[@blarg2429]

As if the boning question weren't a psychological deep-dive in its own way.

[@revoltrebeldestroy]

Next is a list of crash bandicoot enemies by bangability and how our physical lust is really just a manifestation of our emotional lust for simpler times.

[@MassayukiSama]

I was not expecting to laugh and feel miserable at the same time at 7 am

[@yphre]

"or as it's better known: EEEAA!" I'm still laughing

[@marinaferreira2456]

Tessa Maritha I literally drooled on myself

[@dsgowo]

E E E A A Sports Sports Sports Its in in the game game game.

[@fishboi1891]

I replayed it so many times

[@SiriPsychopomp]

Same, omg 😂

[@icelandia4]

I am ashamed that this got the best chuckle out of me.

[@ValueNetwork]

I can’t believe he managed to buy all those 90’s items by earning 20K a month working from home, with his own hours and by being his own boss, and you can to!

[@dinosaurk]

Sponsor money

[@pikksen7905]

But that's not even the wildest part!

[@valgranaire]

I love how BDG and ProZD/SungWon are in similar wavelength but also polar opposites. Video game company: "Here's some sponsor money, do whatever you want" ProZD: a 30-second on-point parody of the game BDG: an 18-minute borderline masochistic video with elaborate props and increasingly insane self-destructive methods, unravelling his mental well-being in the process

[@seabassthegamer6644]

BDG is an eldritch being from another world masquerading as a human and trying to understand our culture. Not to take over or anything, he just wants to know what the fuss is about. ProZD is another member of that species with a much better understanding of humanity, meaning that A. he looks a lot less insane And B. He can condense his alien perspective on our culture into short skits, as opposed to creating an entire 90s dimension just to process Crash Bandicoot.

[@nicestpancake]

@@seabassthegamer6644 **Slams Non-Existant Desk** FANFIC _PLEASE_

[@8lec_R]

Link to ProZDs vid pls. Cannot find it

[@seabassthegamer6644]

@@8lec_R here's one about animated movies: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmLCq319q81nmKM Here's one with a sponsor: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qICkh4Sgr6ihj7c

[@edthemammoth4175]

@@seabassthegamer6644 that is totally a webcomic I would read. Just those 2 types of characters occasionally interacting and experiencing human culture

[@charlathehuman6476]

He lost all of his impulse control when he started working at home without Pat

[@RandomNickname1234]

Imagine if the Sonic video had been made in quarantine... I dread just to think about it.

[@roguepsykerhaaker4813]

@@RandomNickname1234 he would've made a church

[@confused_reader]

Roguepsyker Haaker I think you mean a cult

[@roguepsykerhaaker4813]

@@confused_reader no he already started a cult

[@luckistr]

wdym, pat was the one in the crash suit. (who ironically enough, was this videos version of impulse control)

[@GJERocks]

I think that the word that best describes these Unraveled videos is "clever", because they always take a somewhat stupid idea and elevate it to reveal a deeper understanding of a concept that always comes full circle.

[@DAHIESTABUNNE]

Mostly. Sometimes the deeper understanding is that Sonic the Hedgehog either is God, or can kill God, though I can’t really care if there’s a difference

[@beckstheimpatient4135]

I like the Kirby one a lot. It digs for deeper meaning and just when you think that BDG has uncovered some deep, existential truth... NOPE. Same with the one about the 5.3 billion characters in... *insert JRPG title with lots of characters whose name I totally forgot*

[@unblorbosyourshows9635]

@@DAHIESTABUNNE I always interpreted Unraveled S1 as "obsesive fan goes insane", almost every video there is like that, but in S2 there's much more variety and each video explore a different idea

[@nicog8062]

transcendant might be a better word.

[@tatltails3923]

@@DAHIESTABUNNE sonic's video's theme was about how letting your passion for fandom go too far can be detrimental to yourself, the people around you, and the media you were so passionate about in the first place. it was a clever diss on rabid sonic fans who argue to the ends of the earth over how the stories are handled.

[@madanotap6492]

One of the best things about ‘Crash’ getting Brian to come back to reality is that since he wasn’t answering his phone, no one could have known that this is what happened. They just know Brian well enough to expect this kind of thing when he drops off the map.

[@Bobberation]

I enjoy the implication that Crash also took Brian's phone, since nothing was left except the game and the pizza rolls.

[@yaboicolleen]

Also the bills, I guess?

[@IcyDragonPolaris]

How *did* Brian get that footage back, anyway?

[@kieran10202]

He was transmitting it to a PC by thr cutting edge magic of BlueTooth

[@mikehowey6185]

I love that Polygon has to go to the Crash team at Activision and be like: "yeah, so you know that sponsored video about your game... This is what DBG made..." Activision: "You mean BDG, we hired BDG right?" Polygon: "It's complicated."

[@christianschweda2530]

He'll soon be reaching the point where sponsors just shrug and say: "Take the money, do whatever you like, it'll be fine". This man is brilliant and the level of detail and depth in his videos are amazing. And funny, he's funny.

[@Feasco]

Isn't that what happened here

[@christianschweda2530]

@@Feasco Hmm... yes. Maybe he already reached that point. Speedrunning?

[@jouxlskaard]

"or as it's better known: EEEAA" caught me off guard and i made an unholy cackling noise

[@clownmeister]

I WAS NOT EXPECTING THE EEEAA OHMYGOD

[@snork_games]

I actually lost it

[@tobistein6639]

@@thaumaTurtles Thank you for this gift

[@michelekoh9875]

This moment needed to be preserved, here is the timestamp (including the intro to the sound) 2:45

[@TMThesaurus]

"Crash had taken everything from me. My perfect youth, evaporated. Now there was nothing but the cold hard truth of modernity." This video is a metaphor for 9/11 as viewed through the eyes of a child in the 90s.

[@derrilazkia1002]

@@owowowdhxbxgakwlcybwxsimcwx Awesome! But you missed: 0 towers

[@dianalondono5599]

the "lets go to the airport 30 min before the flight. Security won't be an issue" reference had me cracking

[@LabraDoodleDraws]

THAT TOOK A DARK TURN OKAY WOW. I mean you are right, that is scary

[@gregatkins1866]

The moment he said: “...in 1996 when I was two years old.” I felt the shocking realization that BDG is just one year older than me but is charismatically, financially, and hair-stylistically more advanced than I’ll ever be.

[@cyclesofstrength]

same, except BDG and I are the same age.

[@nvrndingsmmr]

Time to kick it into overdrive and speedrun life! You can do this!

[@cyclesofstrength]

I did play the 3rd one on the PS1 as a kid, but it must have been a few years after it was released

[@gregatkins1866]

otherworldXotherhalf Funny enough, the first consoles I had growing up were Nintendo NES and a SEGA, a neighbor gave them to my dad. My first games were made for people a few years older than me. Later, me and my sister got a PS2, so we skipped the whole Bandicoot craze. Instead, we grew nostalgic for Jak and Daxter and Ratchet and Clank games.

[@Leafpool2]

literally same

[@laurenbastin8849]

how did a video sponsored by activision turn into a compelling reflection on the potency of toxic nostalgia and the deeply flawed manner in which we construct idyllic pasts?

[@eldritch_midnight6007]

"but they said you were busy! here's a pouched juice!" makes me happy.

[@regretsin8502]

Spending sponsorship money like this is why you can’t retire.

[@psyducktective]

That sounds like a BDG problem not a DBG problem

[@anthonynorman7545]

🤣 too true

[@sarahsant6248]

I hope this is a joke bc this is the most "avocado toast is why you can't afford a house" thing i've heard all week lmao

[@crimsoncat8244]

@@sarahsant6248 It's a reference to an older episode of Unraveled ("When can Mario retire" or something along those lines)

[@sarahsant6248]

@@crimsoncat8244 I understood that, lol, you don't need to explain that to me

[@UnfinishedCombStudios]

"I'm sponsored by..." *war flashbacks to brian in a green screen suit in a cardboard fortress drinking milk out of a computer while eating toast out of a horse feed bag.* oh no. UPDATE: Oh no, now Brian David Gilbert is pretending to be David Brian Gilbert: 90s kid extraordinaire. He is also threatening to stay in the 'Crash Dimension' complaining about Pizza Bagels with only a Playstation 1 and Lava Lamp for entertainment.

[@katcc21]

god i had the same thought

[@IrishNinja95]

What does this refer to?!

[@UnfinishedCombStudios]

@@IrishNinja95 the PC gaming episode... Oh god the PC gaming episode

[@johnosfirewalker8517]

It is now canon that Brian David Gilbert holds the Late 90's Speedrun World Record.

[@aimelle3]

Here's some deep cut anachronism you missed: Backstreet's Back was not available in the US at the time. It was released internationally as Backstreet Boys' second album (hence the "back"), but since their first album never came out in the US, it didn't make sense to release an album with that name for that market. So what was actually released in the US at the time was a self-titled album that contained the singles from their first two albums. And Set Adrift on Memory's Bliss was track 11 on it, not 8. Source: am a 90s kid who was way into BSB.

[@blackshirts_and_breads]

wow

[@Gloomdrake]

Brian FAILED?!

[@blazerchocobo]

Brian is officially a POSER Smh

[@MrMarton7]

It's almost like Brian doesn't even care about being period-correct

[@5ManaAndADream]

@@blazerchocobo whats more 90s than being an actual poser?

[@VisibleNinja5674]

"By creating a perfect replica of the years 1996-1998..." Is Brian gonna create Ska again?

[@notAshildr]

If I had a nickel for every time Brian accidentally reinvented Ska, I'd have 2 nickels. Which is not a lot, but it's still weird that it happened twice.

[@RyanFribble]

Nah, Ska came before Reggae

[@willbfls]

Ska was invented in the 50s

[@ryco9669]

@@willbfls third wave ska was big in the 90s

[@meetu_]

@@notAshildr that reference is fantastic and on point and your name is way too long

[@spinakker14]

Just imagine the meeting: BDG: I will play the Crash Bandicoot games. Polygon team: okay. BDG: while wearing, eating, and listening to stuff from the 90s. Polygon team: okay... BDG: And at one point Pat will come in my room, wearing a Crash costume, pretending that he is Crash himself, and while he distracts me, he will throw out all the retro stuff to rip out my alterego from the pocket universe I created Pat: I'm doing what??

[@skrevel]

The credits say that Pat is the *voice* of Crash so it was probably just. You know. BDG doing BDG things.

[@SonicluNerdGamer]

I actually feel Pat would just be like "Cool"

[@MobiusPeverell]

@@skrevel They're both in the shot at once, so someone had to be wearing it. They'd credit anyone from Polygon, so I'd imagine it was one of BDG's roommates.

[@NoChance18]

Pat only dubbed Crash. That was the real Crash Bandicoot on screen but humans can't understand his native language.

[@razornz007]

I could so see this happening hahaha

[@scottydog6713]

the first time i watched this video i was peaking on an acid trip. at points i legitimately couldnt tell if what i was seeing was video editing or a hallucination, and the experience made me so confused i started laughing, and i laughed so hard i cried. thank you brian

[@TuckyBlue]

You will enter the pocket dimension of 90s

[@alexread6767]

@@TuckyBlue is that a prediction or a demand

[@rosiegaymer]

@@alexread6767 yes

[@thelastcube.]

that is unravelled, welcome to the cult

[@jonnnnniej]

What went through your mind when Crash crashed the Crash Dimension?! That costume made me a bit scared and I'm sober haha

[@mr_girr3488]

funnily enough, BDG making a time cocoon where he takes on the alternate personality of DBG and refuses to leave the year 1997 is fairly mild by unraveled standards

[@lucaspeixoto975]

after the kirby video I think everything is mild by comparison

[@HonestlyJustSomeGuy]

Mr_Girr you see, the joke is, he doesn't just unravel ideas; he unravels his mind, maaan!

[@pascusrex4152]

David Brian Gilbert: "Dear Parents, may I purchase glowing stars for my room to make the dark nights less frightening and to let my mind ponder about the infinite universe?" Dad: "I dunno David, are you gonna try and eat them again to make your eyes glow at night?" David Brian Gilbert: "Most certainly yes, father." Dad: "Well then the answer is no." David Brian Gilbert: "Curse you father, but at the same time have my respect for giving me boundries. I shall retreat to my room now and sulk."

[@esmeeyre6396]

this is the best youtube comment i’ve ever seen, on behalf of the roughly 300 ppl that liked this, thank you

[@doubtful_seer]

I don’t know which writing award this comment should get, so I’m going to go ahead and say all of them. Congratulations.

[@everytimeilookforu]

his hair, for some reason, seems to only expand horizontally, and not vertically. like as his hair grows its not going down, its going out. please tell me someone else understands what im saying here

[@theunreal_TOEBEANS]

Kind of. I have a buddy and his hair doesn't go down or out... But UP. It's the scariest thing. He looks like he's getting taller every week of not going to the barber this lockdown. He's several years younger, but he's miles taller than me now.

[@nicestpancake]

I get it

[@rhodosu7937]

This is exactly what my hair does and it’s the bane of my existence

[@inbako9855]

My hair refuses to grow out longer than my neck, yet all it seems to do is grow out more and more.

[@doubtful_seer]

V O L U M E

[@DarthGardens]

Pros of making an advertisement with Brian: he gets crazy and its impossible to look away. Cons of making an advertisement with Brian: he gets crazy and its impossible to look away.

[@RheasRubix]

"Just kidding I have sponsor money" is now my favorite quote of 2020

[@starwhale3070]

The raw emotion from that line scares me everytime i hear it

[@eothamec2427]

My god he gets more powerful the longer and more voluminous his hair gets.

[@prophet3091]

Samson

[@bgttgb100]

we have to fucking cut his hair before we wake up one day and hes the ruler of the universe...

[@noizepusher7594]

HE CAN CREATE POCKET DIMENSIONS ON A DIME!

[@helltubejackie1086]

Samson

[@neonxvices]

@@noizepusher7594 probably cost him more than one dime though :/

[@EmissaryofWind]

So all of this time Link was trying to tell us about EEEAA and we mocked him, not understanding his lessons

[@oxfordshoes]

this comment made me laugh extremely loudly, probably worrying my family

[@8bitsokomame]

You know, Ocarina of time link would know best about anachronistic nostalgia...

[@miapotvin3396]

😂😂😂

[@bu_lai_ke]

Anyone else read that in the OG link voice when you read "EEEAA" 🤣

[@czarnyakafrancuz5192]

Next video: "I founded a country to better immerse myself in Age of Empires"

[@jul_li]

So, basically, Brians friends were really worried about him standing in 90's-land and hiding from reality, so one of them (Pat, wasn't it?) found a costume of Crash just to fit in in David's world and break it from the inside. So, basically, it's about friendship again

[@amberlee4536]

He's credited as the voice of Crash, so

[@ignaciogmartinho]

I prefer to think that Karen wanted her office back.

[@momo-yv6lj]

the real crash bandicoot was the friends we made along the way 😿

[@ZvelHaj]

God, the 90s would love that speedrunning is such a thing now. I can see the time-traveling 90s kid coming to our time. The teenager that acts as his guide has sat him down in front of Fortnite, Gears 5, etc. and the 90s kid gets a melancholy smile and says "man, these games are so rad. Nobody probably even remembers the games I played." The gen-Z kid goes "nah, dude, you've got it all wrong. People still play your games, but only to BEAT THEM AS FAST AS POSSIBLE!" "Woah..." "Yeah, bruh, like here's Sonic 2 in under 19 minutes." "EXTREME!!!"

[@silveirona]

This comment about a hypothetical friendship between a Gen-Z kid and a 90's kid was the most wholesome thing, thank you for making my morning happier internet stranger!

[@ethr78]

Ocarina of time in 7 minutes lmao

[@L3cargo]

would love to see a Disney Channel Original movie about this

[@yourstruly9013]

this is the BEST idea

[@Iaresnoutube]

We’d be more blown away that you can watch cartoons anytime you want or that you can watch people play videos games period

[@explolsivecake2045]

‘And honestly? I liked David Brian Gilbert better!’ I could feel the sci fi ‘I don’t want to leave this fake world’ chaos inching it’s way here, as chaos does in Unraveled videos

[@ZKtheMAN]

My man wanted to stay in the Lotus Eater Machine, and fuckit, I don't blame him

[@m0L3ify]

As someone who graduated High School the year you were born, I have to say you did a really great job recreating 1996. Very accurate.

[@crpCph]

Okay but Bandicoot with Pat's voice breaking into room was the culmination of this video

[@jalexanderbill]

what do you mean "Pat's voice"? that was Crash Bandicoot.

[@Anafyral666]

@@jalexanderbill Pat and Crash just sound like each other

[@nathanielkirkland6568]

its just one of the zany coincidences that make up our crazy world

[@bcdm999]

I do appreciate where he never actually said that Crash 4 was *good*, just that it was good to play on something other than a 13-inch screen. Well played

[@TheJokerAkaCirque]

In fairness it is, in fact, good.

[@janesmith1840]

@@TheJokerAkaCirque That's your opinion.

[@mxcrayon]

@@janesmith1840 yeah and it would’ve been bdg’s opinion if he did say it lol

[@janesmith1840]

@@mxcrayon Citation needed.

[@mxcrayon]

@@janesmith1840 that,,, makes no sense

[@mebreevee]

“BDG saves his sponsorship money for retirement he will never get” is the title we will never see on an unraveled video.

[@Swordslash]

Seeing that CRT now and knowing what he'll go on to make with it is slightly terrifying.

[@kelsanggyudzhin2340]

Activision: This is ridiculous. We're sending someone to his house. We paid good money for this! Polygon: ...Send them in the suit. Activision: Why the hell would we do that? Polygon: If you don't, the person you send might, just maybe, possibly... be *slightly* in danger. Activision: ...What the hell? Polygon: We call it unraveled for a reason.

[@roguepsykerhaaker4813]

Activision: this is ridiculous, he's under contract Polygon: According to our records there is no contract signed by David Brian Gilbert in the late 90s, perhaps you're mistaken

[@emilyz4104]

I got a Five Nights at Freddy's vibe from this. Well done.

[@mageless8192]

Watching an episode of unravelled is like watching a car crash in slow-motion, you just KNOW the mayhem is gonna start at some point.

[@prestonm-f382]

What do you mean? That was actually Crash Bandicoot.

[@zelg.5551]

Brian is my favourite Batman villain.

[@areosmithwagon9890]

Reading between the lines, we can clearly see here that crash bandicoot is a blatant representation of post-modernism.

[@YOSH1_cs]

I think crash is his roommate in a party city costume getting brian to start paying rent again

[@jacobheaton5135]

That's what he literal is, but in terms of the narrative of the video he is a representation of post modernism

[@vapekatze9714]

"HEY THEY GOT THE UNIBOMBER" was the best line in the whole video

[@gomjabbar5785]

This is "toddlers charcuterie" erasure

[@nicestpancake]

@@gomjabbar5785 no this is "30 minutes before takeoff, security shouldn't be an issue" line erasure

[@thepandali12345]

As he locks the Backstreet Boys CD away, it starts playing... "Tell me why?"

[@Keelytomfoolery]

Okay, can we just acknowledge that the response to Crash not being able to come to Brian-sorry, David's apartment was because he was 'a bit busy'? That's oddly sweet

[@drpibisback7680]

It's like they suddenly realized they were doing a promo with a child in a grown man's body, so they just gave the response they would give to a child sending them the same question.

[@Lynch2507]

"Security shouldn't be an issue" I- damn.

[@juanjuri6127]

too soon, but like, literally

[@acearohippo]

My gosh, the memories and anxiety rushing through airports to catch our flight because we always showed up like 15 minutes before it was sent to take off 😔😔

[@sianvaladian8574]

'Security shouldn't be an issue' I'm gonna lose it this is funny as hell

[@TOsmartFORknowledge]

had to pause the video i laughed too hard

[@ForestGreenSharpie]

me when this video first aired: wow I wonder what hes going to do with the old camera and crt monitor now that the video is over bdg about half a year later: makes a straight up horror video set in the 90s about nostalgia

[@benjaminsmith7133]

Watching VHS recordings of a guy on an inflatable chair in 90s clothing hit me so much harder than I expected.

[@lucascurio8345]

making me so much harder ;)

[@powergannon]

“1996, when I was 2 years old” Wait, Brian is younger than I am?? This is an unsettling revelation.

[@user-ud9xc1hr3g]

If it makes you feel any better he's younger than me too.

[@ClintEPereira]

Brian is baby confirmed

[@ConcreteLogicVideo]

I knew he was younger than me, but when he said that I realized I'm a decade older than him. Now I feel like the middle aged guy hanging out in a high school parking lot. Oh no, do I need to stop watching silly videogame videos and start watching tutorials on automotive maintenance?

[@hq4287]

@@ConcreteLogicVideo 😂😂😂😂

[@drakulamertcan]

@@ConcreteLogicVideo he is two years older than me and yet I feel the same.

[@taylorhancock5834]

I enjoy how Brian manages to turn videos on even fairly basic things into existential dramas about aging and the perils of growing older... Also, the “Lets get to the airport, like, 30 minutes before our flight. Security shouldn’t be an issue.” line absolutely killed me. Anyways, great video as always, and I can’t wait to see what you unravel next!

[@Mushboom37]

He added Warheads (citric acid) to cereal (milk) which effectively gave it the taste of being instantly spoiled. Yeah, I imagine that that would taste pretty bad.