The 2000s: Dealing with the Devil

[@whatsinameme5258]

Forgive me if my voice is a bit off. I've been feeling a bit under the weather. Movie/TV clips from: >The Phantom Menace. >Attack of the Clones. >Revenge of the Sith. >Return of the Jedi. >Spiderman and Spiderman 3 >The Office >Spongebob Squarepants >Futurama >Spy Kids 3D: Game Over. >Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. >Lord of the Rings. >Scott Pilgrim vs the World. >American Psycho. >Black Mirror. >Faust (1926) Videogame clips from: >Infamous >Crash Twinsanity. >Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. >Spyro: Ripto's Rage. (Also known as Gateway to Glimmer) Music used: >The Middle by Jimmy Eat World. >Kryptonite by 3 Doors Down. >Fake it by Seether. >Break by Three Days Grace. >Seize the Day, Dear God, Nightmare, and Welcome to the Family by Avenged Sevenfold. >Onto the Next One by Escape the Fate. >Sugar We're Goin Down by Fall Out Boy. >Absinthe with Faust by Cradle of Filth. >Progenies of the Great Apocalypse by Dimmu Borgir. >Anyone who knows what love is by Jessica Brown-Findlay. >Everybody's Fool by Evanescence. (Just the video, not audio) >Chop Suey by System of a Down. (Just the video, not audio) KZbin videos sampled: >Spyro (Doomer Ep 7) by Blazeaster. >How to be Ninja by Nigahiga. >Potter Puppet Pals: The Mysterious Ticking Noise by Neil Cicierega. Let me know if I missed anything.

[@jomppatykkylainen4291]

This is your best video yet

[@whatsinameme5258]

@@jomppatykkylainen4291 Thank you. I've been looking forward to this.

[@JonCrs10]

Do you think the Star Wars viewing order affects its thematic reading as a whole? You know, since the prequels and their Bargaining technically happens in the past of the Denial original trilogy despite that not being how they were recieved in thw audience's timeline?

[@whatsinameme5258]

@@JonCrs10 I have thought about this, but havent come to a conclusion yet. I do think this cycle repeats through history, so ultimately it shouldnt matter what order its in. Personally, I think the prequels do enhance the viewing experience of the original trilogy. So I like to view them in 123 456 order rather than 456 123 order. I think it works best that way. And I say this as someone who saw the original trilogy before Revenge of the Sith was in theaters yet. But I am extremely curious what the George Lucas version of 7, 8, and 9 would have been. And if it would have had a more cohesive picture. Sadly we may never know, since Lucas made his own deal with the devil by selling the franchise to Disney. That all said, I still think the 6 movie saga functions well on its own. But I think people will like certain films more than others depending on what stage of grief they prefer.

[@_-_-_mansher_-_-_3470]

2000-2010 was my favourite year even though it wasn’t perfect it’s still something you can look back at and be happy about

[@th3seek3r60]

Genius level social commentary analysis

[@chbert1373]

After watching this video, I kinda started to see Kanye West early 2010s albums (My Beautiful Twisted Dark Fantasy and YEEZUS) as a thematically a transition between bargaining and depression era. It is like, MTDF’s third song is “POWER” which is literally just talks about how Kanye feels of himself as being great and famous, and then one of the last popular song on that album “Runaway” of how Kanye tries to literally runaway from his problems, from his depression. Then the album YEEZUS which is talks less about bargaining and more of that depression. First 4 songs on that album is literally just about how “YEEZY” parties, do drugs and have tons of sex, with the third song on album literally called “I am a God”. However on the fifth song “Hold my Liquor” he talks about having a hangover after party with also regretting his choices in life. And then lyrically songs start talking about how YEEZY feels guilt and regret, but still tries to unsuccessfully drown it in parting. And then I what strikes to me as interesting is the eights and last songs on this album - “Guilt Trip” and “Bound 2”, which are also the least and the most popular songs in this album. Guilt Trip talks about YEEZY having a mental breakdown which eventually leads him to testing, by doing and talking random shit to kill his grieve. And then the last song on this album “Bound 2” it is also kinda feels like acceptance. Because the whole reason why YEEZY felt grieve in the first place, is because he lost love of his life and tried to numb those feelings in drugs, sex, parting, etc. And at Bound 2 he finally finds his love and accepting his grieve with the intention to start over

[@CountGremlin]

As someone born in 93, i felt called out when you started talking about Frutiger Aero. Definitely clinging to "escape reality with the Internet" in a world where now people escape online by touching grass. It's always good to balance both aspects - by being in nature as much as you can while online staying away from anger mob sites like Twitter and Reddit. Also I've been trying to decorate my apt with Frutiger Aero just cause it feels so calming - definitely one of the best aesthetics out there like synthwave. Thanks for the deep dive!

[@ABlueBerry412]

Love this series. Waiting for this channel to absolutely blow up. Your videos are always so well thought out and put together. Keep up the good work.

[@Dutchman451]

Damn, I was just about to make the same comment. I've been wondering what characterizes testing and can't wait to see that video. This is such a good application of theory and analysis to culture

[@thekivster]

This might be the best decade video yet!

[@system32recovery]

the beginning stages of the internet was like any other novelty. The overanalytical schizoid dystopia is its true form. People long for these wallpapers and seek artificial ways of totemic nostalgia is the ultimate despair bargain.

[@hugograndi1708]

I love this series

[@JonCrs10]

Bionicle is very much a Bargaining series. Even from a meta point, it was a Bargain because of its famous (if a tad erroneous) reputation of saving Lego when it was in financial trouble despite being so profoundly Not-Lego it was as a building system with no bricks in sight. It was a massive multimedia franchise that even took advantage of the internet to tell its story with flash games, but not about the main heroes in the toy aisles, but these tiny powerless side characters living quiet, mundane lives of premodern bamboo hut bliss. It had Nu-Metal music in Cryoshell, made on a bargain with some Lego staff who wanted to just have a band regardless and they still are doing music long after Bionicle is gone. A theme of duality through the whole thing of the mystical and the technological, light and dark, running from your destiny or embracing it to be a true hero. Every year having a set of heroes in one half and a set of villains in the other. Transformation to the righteous and mutation for the wicked. And the ultimate bargain as the arch line of the 3 Miramax films from Turaga Vakama: "Now go and make your own legends, for that is the way of the Bionicle." Which really is the bargain of any kind of mythic story, for the listeners to internalize and live it. Which is always difficult because those are stories of failure and sacrifice, the 2 greatest risks in the Bargain of Life. Or maybe I'm just wildly overthinking the funny tiki robot toys, who's to say?

[@VARVIS_]

Another banger 👌 I definitely noticed and am noticing this eternal child nature of lots of my friends. I am 29 and it becomes more and more apparent everyday

[@Kuroo39]

waiting for the skibidi toilet hawk tuah respect era video

[@Outuition]

Can't wait for you to talk about Dark Souls for the 2010s Depression Stage. Especially Dark Souls 3 since it's the most encapsulating of all the previous stages. Which is fitting because Dark Souls 3 came out in 2016 right past the halfway point of the decade, marking the truly deepest, darkest low point. Where linking the First Flame to continue the cycle again is seen as absurd and cruel and letting natural entropy and the end of all things is seen as more rational and corrective.

[@WilcoxA]

Couldn't help but chuckle at the hellicopter/sub line. Well done.

[@k.constantine]

I wrote a big comment under this video about what we're grieving, but I can't see it anymore, weird. Anyway, TL;DR was that we're grieving the handover of societal consciousness to government and corporate money interests across the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

[@jackdonenberg9355]

I want to truly grasp this but I’m having some trouble. Would you mind elaborating a bit ?

[@k.constantine]

@@jackdonenberg9355 In the post-war period, people in the US and Western Europe were sold a vision of a safe, self-actualized existence for them and their families. However, the private-public partnership of government and coprorations quickly used every opportunity to expand into every possible sphere of life and began radically changing society without the consent of the people, ideologically fueled by wall street money interests, trans-pacific nepotism (US bankers with USSR connections) having their children infiltrate academia to propagate faux-unitarian ideology across the intelligencia and artistic class. This took about 30 years to fully metastisize. Translates to boomers grew up and started families while this was happening in the background, participating in it as useful pawns. Once the 80s hit, it was the first time the loss of societal consciousness could truly be felt, but riding high on a booming economy made it easy to deny and so on. To put it another way, the average western person was successfully domesticated after World War 2, and they only noticed the cage in the 80s, when they noticed it was a comfy cage and not that bad.

[@lebarak69]

Love this series! From what was discussed, one can see why many think the golden age of games/anime was in the 00s. While you have an affinity with early 00s, I resonate more with the late 00s and early 10s will love to see your next decade😊

[@BigBl0ck-r9y]

I never heard about bargenig being a stage of grief befor finding your channel

[@HammyBoBammy]

Second :) I think when you bring up partying and YOLO attitude and pursuing fleeting pleasures I think the career and music of Andrew W.K. is a pretty big and self-aware examination of this. It goes pretty deep, but I think he’s pretty tapped into these ideas and explores them in a very interesting way, even his later records You’re not Alone follows the depression era and God is Partying follows the testing era trends pretty well within the context of his discography. The juxtaposition between 9/11 happening and the release of I Get Wet and The Wolf is just insane for the time. Diving into STEEV MIKE I think is Andrew exploring the bargaining stage of celebrity in his own Andy Kaufman type of way. Excellent video as always.

[@IIIIIlllIIl-t4q]

Brother this has no right being so good. Consider me subscribed.

[@failuretolaunchdrums]

W upload as always. Immaculate content

[@bwzarchive708]

you are fabulously perceptive my dude, i think you will go far :)

[@tenochtitilian]

Are memes so common in this era since the internet was new? Everyone is doing their own thing on the internet now. Or avoiding social media. So memes are fragmented. Also can't wait for the depression stage.

[@dagon99]

I remember this as the GWOT era.

[@th3seek3r60]

i love what goes inside your brain

[@apolloxeon]

Ah yes.. you can escape the fate for a while, but you will likely end up falling in reverse

[@Malum09]

Phil Anselmo perfectly predicted the "Eternal Child" generation with these lyrics: "There is a part of me That's always sixteen I've found the secret Of eternal youth Some get high On life or money But there's an escape Drop out of the race" All of us Millennials Are always feeling like Dropping out of the race any day now...

[@joemahma3017]

Dude you could make a thesis out of this.

[@OverdadeiroIkarus]

Love it

[@Max-jk9pp]

its time to stomp, clap and hey into the 2010s

[@ПётрПавловский-щ1х]

you can’t mention the 2010s without it

[@josiahlong4986]

YEEEAAHHH. I'm currently 18 feet above a warehouse in a drop ceiling balancing on a a 2*6 waiting on my coworker to turn the disconnect on at the condensing unit so I can measure a temperature split across this evap coil in this air handler!!!! 🗣️💥🗣️💥🗣️ New occulturation just dropped Other KZbinrs finna get mopped On they lil heads they fr gonna get bopped

[@colepatrick5433]

Hall of fame video right here

[@cosmicjourneys3359]

what happened to the 90's redpill rage video that came before this? I went back to rewatch and I cannot find it.

[@whatsinameme5258]

I'm not sure, I made an appeal. I know it got an age verification for a silly reason. If you can't access that video here however, all my videos are also uploaded on Bitchute under the same name as a back up. So until its back up, feel free to watch it there.

[@brandonchapman317]

Born in '82. 2020's are by far the best decade of my life. 2000's were deeply cringe and boring. Different strokes for different folks

[@smaacat]

13:18 it’s almost always a lack of self awareness lol just look at Sonic. Absolutely stagnated in the 2010s bc people couldn’t handle the “edginess” of the 00s and it was such a laughingstock the only way Sega felt they could profit off the brand was self referential humor Post 2020 now we’re having a resurgence with the movies, games, and year of Shadow of all things. They’re referencing the “edgiest” game of all time Shadow ‘05 Think that says a lot about Gen X and Millennials! It’s better to stay in the anger and bargaining phase that actually has some hope rather than settle into hell! Agreed though- it’s hard to talk to anyone nowadays bc goddamn 25:15 hit me hard. yeah, even the escapism doesn’t hit anymore. People gotta move on though and there’s way too much reliance on media and brands for happiness. The next step needs to be a reliance on personal creativity in contrast to the blandness of Brands™️

[@tamasf3465]

i was born in 1994 so i am a millennial, but in Serbia (former part of Yugoslavia) the Yugoslav wars just started, so this mindless consumerist mentality fits more to generations born after 2000. because of the war and other aspects the country become quite poor which is "funny" considering under the socialist era Yugoslavia had a strong economy. the point is i learnt to save money, because i was my parents working hard just to buy me a gift, or something. like you said it depends where you grow up.

[@totallynotdown3982]

What happen to your 90s video?

[@whatsinameme5258]

It got age restricted for some reason. Is it not visible to you?

[@totallynotdown3982]

@@whatsinameme5258 No its not visible

[@whatsinameme5258]

@@totallynotdown3982 Thanks for letting me know

[@whatsinameme5258]

@@totallynotdown3982 Btw my videos are also on Bitchute, under the same channel name. So you can watch it there in the meantime

[@emperorkane317]

And now we Gen Z kids have to deal with Millennials taking over entertainment and shoving their Main Character Syndrome personality into media. Usually with cringey self-inserts and Mary Sues with terrible Millennial Humor which is just as unfunny as Boomer Humor. I also hope when you cover Gen Z for the 2010s and 2020s, you point out how Gen Z is divided into two camps: You have Older Gen Z (1997-2003) and Younger Gen Z (2003-2010). From what I have noticed is that Older Gen Z kids tend to imitate and relate more with Boomers and Gen X, while Younger Gen Z tends to imitate and relate more with Millennials. The difference between the two Gen Z groups is so noticeable that many Older Gen Z kids consider themselves to be an entirely different Generation called "Zillennials" or something. Mostly because they hate it when Boomers, Xers and Millennials lump them in with their more cringeworthy juniors. It makes sense since too since many Older Gen Z kids grew up not too differently than Millennials and even had many of the same social experiences as them such as going to a video store or using dial up internet and using flip phones and much more. If Millennials are the generation that are acting like adult children, Gen Z actually wants to mature and grow up. Unfortunately, we have to do it in a society that is only going to further be run by Millennials.

[@goobertown1642]

Are you familiar with MemeAnalysis? He has the same theory of millennial bargaining in this video: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXKYh5Kqnch-acU

[@BigBl0ck-r9y]

But rock stars maid deals with the devil befor the 2000s robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at the cross roads

[@whatsinameme5258]

Interesting you mention this. I believe this cycle repeats through history. The 1920s was the previous Bargaining Stage I believe. I even used footage of "Faust" from 1926 in this video, which is the definitive deal with the devil tale. It's also fitting, since the 1930s was literally called "The Great Depression".

[@onepersonsomepeoplestumble7067]

Excellent video, I wasn't expecting that many laughs. One caveat though would be how "anti-woke" millenials are. You of course have the prominent figures like "The Quartering," and some other fellows, but I feel like most millenials are party line stooges. That's going off of surveys, real world observation, and observations on the KZbin landscape. But I need glasses so what do I know?

[@PearlHarborReperations]

I think it depends on where you are online and in real life. Most millennials I know are middle-of-the-road democratic types who have slightly more socialist leanings. It’s usually Gen-x I meet that are more “anti-woke” conservative types.

[@ПётрПавловский-щ1х]

first!