Today was an insane day

[@evrfreez]

Hatsune Miku suddenly appearing in a quaint English countryside, surrounded by confused villagers, is definitely an isekai

[@KoeSeer]

hey, she managed to get a kid hooked and who knows? probably he will be a renown vocaloid producer, like hachioji-p or livetune.

[@paulbenbrook5542]

I like to describe moments like this as "it's like a train hitting a clown car. They just keep flying out and it's horrifying but you absolutely can't look away"

[@enbe3188]

🤣 i dont know why, but i laughed really hard at this comment.

[@user-c4b9b]

It's not quite this bad - he tells the story in a way that makes it seem like it, but in essence the 'joke' seems to be, "England is awkward, pompous, and intolerant of other cultures". The whole build up of "the boys" you could tell he wanted us to expect racial slurs and beer being thrown... none of that. Just Josh peeling on about how dumb English people are apparently.

[@Ralathar44]

If your audience is too entranced to look away then you still did your job as a performer. Keep that 100% commitment to the very end. It may not have worked on the level intended, but it worked, the audience was entertained and that above all else is the reason you're there.

[@AAROG00]

how hatsune miku managed to make her way into a quaint english village is simply beyond me

[@Rogue-a-Pogue]

And after she said she doesn't care for british people. Another celebrity caught out in their hypocrisy.

[@Mug-Red]

Oh no, oh no no no no no

[@Primsicle]

Well for the local Leek growing competition ofcourse.

[@TorIverWilhelmsen]

Through a portal of course. By the power of Isekai!

[@MALITH666]

Because there is an idea of Miku but Miku isn’t actually a character, there’s no personality or story, no one you could truly connect too realistically because every emotion you’ve felt towards Miku is actually towards someone else’s idea of Miku. All she has is her design which was created for her and her voice which is someone else’s. She’s a mascot character playing hundreds of thousands of roles with hundreds of thousands of masks and the fact is if you peel away her many masks, you’d find nothing. She simply is not there.

[@Seinglede]

I wish that one day I can be as powerful as the woman who was paid to dress up as a fake anime character and say "Konichiwa, England" to a group of British people who are so confused about what is going that they just stare blanky at her for the full 60 minutes of her performance as though she was an eldritch thing from outside the universe, terrible to behold and beyond all human comprehension. Her spirit is simply stronger than mine, and I bask reverently in the divine light of her immortal soul. If only I could be so grossly incandescent.

[@Jzolago]

"Konichiwa England" is one of the lines of this year

[@ralgomes]

"Konnichiwa, Cowthorpe!"

[@sldoma]

The first time it did nothing to me. Like it didn’t register. The second time he yelled it out I doubled over

[@levijonathansix]

This reminds me of the time my grandmother went to our local small town Civic Center to see Alice Cooper in the late 60’s. Our local civic center was well-known for hosting country shows for the nearby nursing home on Sundays. Never anyone big but some breakout artists and people wanting to cut their teeth on the stage. Anyways, through a booking error by Alice Cooper’s manager looking for a civic center in a much larger city about 40 minutes away, and the assumption from the civic center event organizers that Alice Cooper was surely a local country girl’s stage name, they went ahead and booked the venue. As a young fangirl, my grandma was over the moon. Alice Cooper live in concert for a dollar? What an incredible deal. What ensued was described as absolute mayhem. She arrived in shock to find that 90% of the crowd were geriatrics. Oxygen tanks and wheelchairs/ walkers abound. You could tell Alice Cooper was equally as stunned. But Alice Cooper is a showman, and a damn good one at that. So Alice screamed, he blasted pyrotechnics into the crowd, he took off his shirt, and at one point he began to spit blood into the audience. People left in droves. They were loud and aggressive and they played the hell out of that stage. My grandma has seen Bob Dylan in his prime, David Bowie, The Beatles, all sorts of the most prestigious rock acts of the time. That being said she asserts to this day that it was one of the best damn concerts she’s ever seen and it truly galvanized her love for Alice Cooper as a performer. The Civic Center, to this day, has formally banned Alice Cooper from ever playing live at the venue. The civic center has gotten quite a bit bigger and even in the last 5 years was remodeled and has hosted some pretty big names in rock and country. Despite this, Alice Cooper remains banned from ever performing again.

[@reesofraft4166]

sounds like Trump booking a gardening companies' garage instead of a 4star hotel for a press conference and going through with it. I guess your granny had the time of her life being up close to the stage once most elderly left. :D

[@ralk7048]

What a damned professional Alice Cooper was. Thank you for the great story.

[@HiddenEvilStudios]

Did he also do the beheading or did that come later? We need more shocking and obscene things these days.

[@dermannmithut31]

I've seen Alice Cooper live twice The man is an absolute Monster regarding his level of performance And now I want a time machine to be able to witness that concert Thank you so much for this story ♥

[@DaBase333]

I was at an Animecon that was right next to a "high class" Opera concert, the queues were next to each other. It was like two worlds colliding and both queues were taking pictures with each other and engaged in conversation. It was beautiful.

[@Tehinstrumentalist]

Similar happened to me at a Ghost concert in London, it was at the same time at the O2 arena as an ABBA event... It was quite a pair of crowds, but I think the abba lot were scared of all the metalheads everywhere..

[@hanneskarlbom6644]

You know, there are a certain type that would fit in both those lines and no one would be ableto tell which one they belong to...

[@guilhermemoreira6535]

"Hatsune Miku impersonator in the middle of an english field surrounded by british people" this is the closest we're ever going to get to having FFXIV irl

[@tlrdgg]

What a story! But you know..."Hatsune Miku in the English Countryside" sounds blender/elevator pitch for an Edgar Wright movie!

[@Arrowatch]

This story did not disappoint. At no point was a really ready. And Josh tells it with perfect level of detail and joy.

[@eadlindobbs]

I am genuinely so happy for the two kids who were into it. Like, living in an area as a kid where you don't really get to participate in your fandoms can suck and you just know that made their entire year 😂

[@sS0ulSs]

this is a true British classic. sounded like a lovely afternoon.

[@mythicdawnist]

Josh unknowingly walked into an Eric Andre episode

[@roughlyadequate6165]

He actually did, that is the only explanation.

[@professorhaystacks6606]

Bird up!

[@FatalKitsune]

"I could have fought through that crowd of children" - Josh Strife Hayes

[@hoozzahgames9209]

At the beginning of the dog show segment I was repeating in my head "please dont be furries please don't be furries please don't be furries" and then he went "it was a poodle" and I tell you I could not have been more relieved to hear those words... Then he said the next sentence 💀

[@maxinefinnfoxen]

I did the exact same thing except I was saying "please be furries please be furries... oh. OH HECK YEAH"

[@chilbiyito]

Possum

[@benjamincarlson6994]

I would have been getting out the popcorn as soon as he mentioned "dog show" and "you don't advertise a show as one thing, and have it be another" because I knew *exactly* where it was going, and the disaster was going to be amazing

[@Loot-Loot]

Unstoppable hatsune miku meets immovable British audience

[@daemonfox69]

Cringesplosion - when the entertainment is so cringe, the audience won't leave out of utter disbelief while the act implodes spectacularly.

[@Ralathar44]

TBH, IMO you still succeeded as an entertainer. Ideally they are with you and love the performance. But if it comes across so poorly that they're baffled and can't leave, you sitll entertained them. You still did your job. The only way to fail as a performer is to leave your audience bored or angry.

[@khinzaw77]

This does sound like a British sitcom. Everyone just extremely uncomfortable at all times.

[@klonvomhaus]

12:00 I know what was coming and yet cackled loudly at the revelation. You're a great storyteller.

[@SyntheticFuture]

Watching this stuff from the sideline is always a good time. Knowing you are not involved in it and merely observing. Great stuff. That "not wanting to be the first to leave so you rather suffer through it" is such a weird thing that humans do. It's so much easier to just leave. Especially at the start of a thing 😂

[@Langenbacher]

When you mentioned the dogshow, I audibly said, "Oh, no," and it was everything I feared it would be. This needs to be made into a sketch!

[@GEB_Rosee_PPS]

8:45 "Sack the juggler" is an amazing phrase ive first heard just now, but will use it always now

[@Cjmacj]

Ireland too celebrates clumsy wait and bar staff. I worked in a terrible place with a terrible boss and one busy night there were two breakages, this wonderful person said very loudly the next breakage will come out of the wages of the one responsible. She broke the next one and the place erupted and those closest who heard her tantrum made sure she remembered her threat. And because everybody clapped, nobody is going to believe my story.

[@Deusaga]

Here in Australia we all just shout "TAXI!" insinuating someone is too drunk and must go home.

[@slynt_]

It's absoutely obilgatory in Ireland to clap when bar staff drops a glass, it doesn't matter who you are, you do it

[@Diskhate]

...many years ago i used to play in a stenchcore band ... ya know ... basically punk hardcore with "original thrash metal" influences, and lyrics that touch on topics like the alienation of the self, antiglobalism, pro abortion, the horrors of war ... stuff like that ... we would usually play either in anarchist/communist squats, occupied factories, or simply gathering of anarchopunks... for some reason, without describing to us the details of the event, a person who knew us very well, asked us to "come play at this benefit i'm organizing" ... turns out it was an outdoor event where they distributed food for the poors... in the back alley of a church... keep in mind some of our lyrics were very much antichurch and antireligion in general ... the energy was exactly the same described in this video... i'd have so many anecdotes, but i guess this is enough

[@Dan-sc2pi]

As a DJ who has played events like this, my heart goes out to these performers...

[@factotum218]

Reminds me of a music festival my group was random booked in rural Wisconsin in Midwest US. A fantastic day in the end for similar reasons lol.

[@aereonexapprentice7205]

I was scrolling the comment section since this video starts and spoiling myself, and one particular comment here struck me. "When you really want to leave but don't want to be the first to be seen leaving so you endure" not verbatim of course but my mind immediately snapped like "really? what kind of strength does leaving really needs? i would think enduring cringe would even made the decision easier". And so i immersed myself into the situation Josh described. Walk around the venue. Have the MOST open mind you could ever muster. Even appreciate the craft sellers and be contend with the concept of the event. Then comes the boulders of cultural landslide, tumbling down one by one. The parents bringing their kids that are clueless and visibly looking around. The LADS Josh mentioned often is hammering the image of grown built worker men attending a bloody mock up Japanese (themed) convention. Mfing haybales.... HAYBALES and parasols for Britain's trademark cloudy lukewarm static atmosphere. The space slowly condensing with these elements, and i find myself losing the strength to leave more and more, my knees are IRL buckling imagining these so who says what happens if i was actually there. And I'm actually still at the quarte length of the video, god bless the poor sods involved in this cringe hodgepodge.

[@aereonexapprentice7205]

Oh... The dog show... Welp the only blessing they can get is Tungsten patience and Golden heart because literally every single thing surrounding their fate has gone rotten

[@magnemoe1]

Now the Hatsune Miku show I understand, they are obviously talented and you think you are stupid for not getting it The dog show is trash so here I would leave, look at your phone if you need an excuse :)

[@emptyspider]

I think Josh had more fun at the fete than he ever would have had at Twitchcon

[@snickle1980]

The "fete". I was wondering what he was saying. It sounded like FATE. well now i'll have to google what a fete is...likely a fair.

[@emptyspider]

@@snickle1980 aye it's like a farmer's market with various wee activities and shows

[@rainbowprism6242]

​@@snickle1980oooh, someone did not enter Firmament yet.

[@Sheat101]

@@rainbowprism6242 Completely off-topic, but despite being there to craft and gather my heart out at the Firmament on release, I've only actually attended one fete, and it was at the tail end of the expansion at the time.

[@KoeSeer]

i pray that the kid who were stunned and watched miku cosplayer in awe will be the next vocaloid producer with big hit songs under his belt

[@L1vv4n]

this all sounds like a proper Pratchett scene, somewhere in the Chalk or Klatch, with a comedy theater troupe from Ankh.

[@Hugo_Rvr]

I had the same thing with a death metal band at a medieval fair. Grandmas and children were absolutely traumatized.

[@dantereinhardt6911]

This whole thing makes me think about something me, my uncle and sometimes my father do. All three of us are massive nerds and metalheads, and we live in middle of nowhere, Brazil. And on some weekends we go to my uncle's favorite bar. And mind you, we are all upper middle class people. My uncle hates fancy places so he tends to go to the same bar where blue collar workers and the usual poor people go. And thay specific bar has a jukebox. And my uncle will just go there, drink and put on that old school metal to play. Like, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and the like. And thing is, no one in that bar knows a lick of English and obviously they don't like black metal, but there are still quite a few people there that are friends with us even if they dont like metal, but there's also everyone else, usually the workers that go there and you can tell they work in the same place because they go there in their work clothes, and they'll just be there playing billiards and drinking beer while trying not to mid the three extremely drunk metalheads listening to Iron Maiden on top volume with a group of other equally extremely drunk people. And it's just the greatest time. Just glad we've never had a problem. I mean, the most recent time a guy got shot dead there was when we weren't even around.

[@Ebb0Productions]

That ending tho. My collegues from Brazil said leaving Brazil was like moving from a PvP server to PvE server.

[@amperiumx]

Metal keeps evil away.

[@dantereinhardt6911]

@@Ebb0Productions Really depends on your region and standard of living. If you're poor then yeah you're pretty cooked no matter your region, but if you're well off you can just live in a walled condominium in a region with less crime and you'll be mostly good. It's not great but if you're not dumb it's tolerable. Like, I have personally never gotten mugged, and the one time it almost happened a friend of my dad knew the mugger so they just chat for a bit and then we went off.

[@maxinefinnfoxen]

​​@@dantereinhardt6911 the ending tho "Gimme all of your fukin money!!" "Jim? Is that you?" "Oh hey Floyd how have you been? "Oh you know, just on the run for "murder" and such. Heh." "Good good... how are the kids?"

[@user-lk5ud7ux7l]

This story could have very easily happened in Texas lol

[@Kuchhh]

8:00 a part of me feels like if you are a performer who is comfortable and extroverted enough, you could recognize how engaged the crowd seems to be, and just really go for it when you notice everyone is probably only there for their kids 😂

[@Galgamos]

This was a lovely story. Thank you very much for telling it! :)

[@themorellonomicon2757]

I'm in actual tears, incredible situation and really well told. I can feel the humid sun and the scratchy hay bale seats and the cringe is palpable.

[@saunah]

Haha. I'd also go to such a Confuse Fest without hesitation and just study people and their, probably, quite visible thought process manifesting as various physical signs. Wonderfully told!

[@vladtheinhaler9744]

I am glad there were some younger folk to enjoy this :D Sounds like a perfectly whelming experience.

[@algernonsblackwoods5859]

We have these here in the states Josh, every town I've ever lived in does a town fair like 2 or 3 times a year, usually in October. Complete with anime statue stalls, handmade jewelry, and the like. Beer and taco trucks. Good times. I need to go to the British version.

[@MasterOfBaiter]

Mate the clapping and cheering if someone drops a glass is the type of assholish thing the international working class collectively does. Cheers from Switzerland

[@ferinzz]

Was very much a thing in my schools in France as well. The times the glass doesn't break was also a major moment.

[@lgd6619]

It being assholish is a strange way to look at it but hey you do you

[@Kululululululu]

Yeah in Israel when someone breaks a glass or a plate everyone says Mazal Tov (good fortune)

[@MasterOfBaiter]

@@lgd6619 assholish in the teasing sort of way. You can imagine that the person who just had an accident and now has to collect the glass without cutting themselves is usually not super fond of everyone joking about it in the moment lmao.

[@thatguynameddan2136]

we do it here in the states too. pretty sure its one of those very universal human things to do

[@Sidorio]

Listening to this story nearly made me late for an appointment. Worth it.

[@ethandaley69]

As an American, I love to shout: "Joooobbbbb openinnnggggg" whenever anything is dropped or broken 😅 This story is so relatable. Living in a small'ish city in the New England countryside we have lots of similar attempts at doing "things," for locals. They often edge on cringy awkward but goddamn if the lovely nerds who put them on don't always pour their hearts into it. Edit: oh. Em. Gee. They did NOT do a an off-brand furry bit 😂

[@vincentlamarque5777]

I'm captivated. You are so good at telling stories, and you are so articulate that I can understand everything even if english is not my mother tonge. Great video !

[@pureventrue2357]

Oh we cheer for breaking glasses down under as well! Have to remember "sack the juggler" though, never heard that one before 🤣

[@J.Severin]

"and now one wants to be the first one who leaves so everyone watches it." That is the most british thing i ever heard. 😂

[@marchingteddybear]

I'm a Stage Manager and oh buddy, this sounds like an unplanned fringe festival. Also come to Minnesota Fringe. You want weird and sometimes unorganized? We've got it. Last note, I would fly to England to stage manager for this man.

[@TheRealCeeJai]

Yelling 'waaayyy', 'sack the juggler' in England when someone drops a glass is like the American tradition of yelling "Free Bird" and/or "Slayer" at every rock concert.

[@drewforchic9083]

So what I'm hearing is they basically decided to host AnimeExpo at Bilbo's party in the Shire, and the hobbits had some culture shock.

[@spit.or.swaIIow]

Just imagining the scene already have me a huge whiplash. I couldn't have imagined how it was for Josh, his friend and the rural englishmen in this situation.

[@DrMeisterBabylon]

This is LA Dodgers. Soon. 60000 baseball fans watching a vtuber on the pitch.

[@billyrosco5796]

6:12 THE LADS FROM: Sean Bean's "Extremely Dangerous!"

[@Naterkix]

Hatsune Miku: "Where am I? I thought I was doing a concert in Akihabara... Wait... are those... trees?! GASP! Is Miku finally going to do that 'touch grass' thing all the humans talk about?!"

[@oicmorez4129]

We have those in Poland too, but I've never seen one become an anime convention

[@streamingarchive]

I've had something similar happen to me before, a few years back in Cornwall (south-west of England) And I said to myself "am I high" and thinking no everyone in the show must be high, and very much people watching, especially the older British mothers pulling the "face" (if you're from England you know the face/look) probably one of the best afternoon's of my life

[@Sercotani]

...is that you Womble or some impostor??

[@RuSosan]

​@@Sercotani imposter, obviously. 😆

[@streamingarchive]

@@RuSosan yup i like the logo, never said i was him or pretend to be him that's it

[@streamingarchive]

@@Sercotani yup i like the logo, never said i was him or pretend to be him that's it

[@UltiemeHack]

I got slightly annoyed on the hype-up you did at the start, but god damn did you deliver 😂 at the time of writing I'm at 9 minutes, I get strong flashbacks to when I heard about the pokemon musical finale (heard about it through Oney Plays), where they finished the show, everyone is on stage, and nobody claps or does anything, and after a long long silence the lights just go out.

[@UltiemeHack]

I have reached minute 12... Ouch...

[@allesarfint]

This is 24 minutes of "OH NO!"

[@laszlomiskei9138]

And "I beg your pardon?"

[@lemonZzzzs]

So, whoever was in charge of the advertisement really wanted the entire event to fail or what? This sounds like too much failure to communicate to not be deliberate.

[@Broockle]

There were prbly good intentions sprinkled at every echelon. The town council / major, who ever was in charge of that fair could have been convinced to do something cool for the kids. So these performers all ended up getting hired. The marketing was prbly neglected entirely since good intentions doesn't mean smart decisions.

[@diersteinjulien6773]

trust me, having been on the anime conventions and events organizer side of things.... a lot of good ideas and goodwill can turn things into the biggest trainwrecks imaginable

[@AshAsmodeus]

I don't think so... as a resident of one of those villages Josh describes I honestly believe it's just 2 generations that are 3 or more generations apart trying to organise something both generations can enjoy.... People like Josh (and me) just fall BETWEEN those 2 generations so we can enjoy the old and the new whilst everyone else is just flabbergasted (which we then also enjoy). It actually happens more than you think xD

[@lemonZzzzs]

Oh, the events themselves do sound like trying to appease multiple generations. I meant specifically on how they were _advertised_ ("dog show" for "comedy skit with people dressed as dogs" or "drum show" for "a time to teach some kids the basics of drumming" etc.)

[@czarkusa2018]

@@AshAsmodeus Miku is for old people though

[@hellbreakfast]

I said "No.*Nooooo*." out loud several times over the course of this video. The dog show is so mystifying. I don't even know what's going on. It sounds just... amazing. Also, here in the American deep south, we do the cheering thing when something gets dropped and broken in a bar, too. Warms my heart that we're similarly unruly in such a stupid way.

[@einstuhl623]

This is one of the best things I've heard you tell....I also live in a more rural part of the world (albeit in germany) and you described the townsfolk perfectly. I loved everything about this - I would have died cringing :D :D :D

[@calebwidogussy452]

Beautiful story, bonkers to experience first hand. Probably would have been more bearable if done in the fall or winter, or with some warning for Christs sake

[@ItCameFromTheSkyBeLo]

"No one left this festival unchanged."

[@TheClintonio]

As an Englishman in Japan I love this story. It feels like what would happen if I tried to host a quaint English fate here.

[@DirtCheapFU]

Reminds me of getting off work from my 3rd shift in the 3rd Ward of Milwaukee. I was on my way to grab a coffee and pastry on my way to my bus. I saw some 'sights'. Then I processed it. But just as I'm going into the coffee shop. I see this older guy eye banging every girl passing by. I walk past the guy, then I double backed. "There's a... anime convention in town". Blank look. "Most of these girls are guys dressed as girls and some are here with their girlfriends". The color leaving his face when he started really looking around was so hilarious.

[@Paschendale2]

This was a magical story Josh. Thank you for sharing.

[@vidarroo5129]

The glass dropping applause is also a Norwegian thing. Probably some old forgotten viking tradition we exported to Britain. Either that or we both live in boring nations and have to appreciate any entertainment we get :P

[@tylerburton9908]

This is one of the funniest stories i've heard in a long time

[@Retsgonewild]

sounds like going to see DBZ evolution in theatres, as a big DBZ fan, and you get a high school drama, and some guy painted green.

[@heavenly2k]

This is Nathan For You levels of divine comedy

[@Wintercloak]

Thanks for the laugh of the day my man. Hahahaa. Core memory unlocked. I'm still laughing.

[@IndustrialBonecraft]

Oh my God, I can picture this so well. And it's... you know that anecdote about not being able to write truth because the truth will be too insane? It's that to a tee. I could not write this down, submit it to a theoretical editor, because the editor would turn around within a half hour and say "Ok, it could be funny, but tone it way down. This far too far fetched by a mile. Suspension of disbelief is shattered almost immediately. We need to bring some reality back into this."

[@WallChicken]

"So brits will call out and say stuff when someone drops a glass, other people are usually respectable" Brazilian people: HOLD MY CACHAÇA, CARALHOOOOOO

[@Kenshiro3rd]

"That wasn't even the best thing of the day. The best thing came a few minutes later." **sips** LMAO! Oh dis gon b gud.

[@matt1871]

I watched this video on my main monitor with my Josh YouTooz and wasn't disappointed at all. Great storytelling! 😂

[@kesamek8537]

I've been to a British country fair. My dog won the Prettiest Baby competition.

[@zramirez5471]

8:48 In America there is usually one person (sometimes one group) that will give a standing ovation when a glass breaks while everyone else attempts to remain respectfully aloof.

[@MattWey123]

As soon as he said "dog show" I knew how this is going to go, lol

[@professorhaystacks6606]

8:30: In US schools people applaud someone dropping the tray in the cafeteria. In my high school they actually had to make a rule "no breaking into spontaneous applause in the middle of lunch" as people started doing that not just when someone dropped something but for no reason whatsoever, and it started disrupting the lunch line.

[@shannondeville2298]

I was glad I was alone in my area of the workplace when you got to the dog show. I literally shouted "What??" at the air. omg 😂

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

There is a video on youtube of audience expectations. A top tier violinist plays a Stradivarius violin. On the streets of NYC. Busking. With a hat out. The video is of the crowds bustling by paying no attention. No marketing. No warning. On the musician's timetable. For folks rushing through their daily lives, at a time when their time is bespoke. In the video nobody stopped. Myself, I'm more likely to rush by. (Unless its Taeko drumming. That draws me in. Or someone covering a Lady Gaga song) (I've also seen videos of drum performaces in the street where folks stopped and became an audience. )

[@nekomancer105]

Is that the Joshua Bell video? Crazy that so many people just ignored him, but then again, I've been late for work and in a rush before (haven't we all) so I kinda get it.... I think it says more about the pressures modern society puts on us, than it does about people's appreciation for art.

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

@@nekomancer105 Could be. It's been too long for me to remember.

[@paulie-g]

That also has to do with the audience. If he did that in a Moscow subway/underpass, there'd be a massive crowd

[@MsSarahJosephine]

Holy shit I think I know the Dog people - if it's the group I think it they do some legit entertaining shows at outdoor/family festivals - they have another one in the same vain but a falconry show.

[@Roymantic]

Now i want to see the Zelda Painting you bought

[@RyanNerdyGamer]

That whole dog show bit would be the exact opposite in Australia. No way the average Aussie’s gonna rock up if it’s just dogs doing tricks, but the instant someone finds out it’s a parody, guaranteed the next however many shows’ll be CHOCKERS! 😂

[@ambds1975]

I sprinted in here hoping for something excellent, and you did not disappoint me. I adore English Country Village Drama.

[@brewdog8626]

We had a show in Nottingham which was advertised as being an american car show. It turned out to be monstertrucks and stunt driving/riding. I really enjoyed it but hardly anyone clapped or cheared even when the main stuntman set himself on fire! The advertising really got the wrong croud in for the type of show.

[@justsomejojo]

Coffee and cringe in the morning. I love it. I've been in moments like that, my heart goes out to all involved.

[@shirrenthewanderer414]

This man never ceases to amaze me. Nothing he ever says lacks any substance to it. The way this man consumes content and critically thinks about it is astounding. Everyone should be like this guy.

[@kyrionbookshield2205]

Had basically the same thing in austria, except it was a con, but it was still pretty new in austria, so basically most people were too shy and it was a brutal silence. ^^'

[@scotthoover1568]

Anyone who has performed even a slightly obscure form of art knows that feeling when you hit the stage and absolutely no one is interested. All you can do is your best and let it be what it is 😂

[@lewiskoluk8749]

We went to France as a young teen. My mother was thrilled to go to a local French festival going on in the town that night. We arrive to beautiful Town Square, with hay bails everywhere and everyone in country and western outfits doing line dancing... in English! We are canadian. Was the weirdest culture shock I ever had...

[@questingcrusader]

This sounds like a great reason to visit England from Canada. See our "Heritage" lol

[@HealRD]

Loved the "A weeb was born" silver lining. Peak Cinema.

[@SleepinGriffin]

While he led up to the revelation of the dog show all I could think was, “please don’t let it be a human dressed as a dog” and when he said “poodle” I let out a sigh of relief. Unfortunately he specified it was a human poodle and the feeling of cringe came back immediately.

[@TimHoekstra]

Sounds similar to that time me and a mate had gone to see the 1979 stalker movie and it was not even 1% of what the crowd had expected.

[@Andrewexploded]

I just watched that movie last night. It's fantastic if you go into it knowing it's going to be a slow burn.

[@ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2it]

im surprised guy ritchie didnt use this plotline in his movie. the lads having time of their lives durting japanese convention LMAO

[@trentsims]

When he started to describe what had happened, I was instantly reminded of that video of the K-Pop idol group performing for North Korea where the whole crowed is just stone faced the whole time. That or that scene from the music anime Carole and Tuesday where the girls need to sub in for a major band who aren't even in their genre of music at the last minute, so the whole crowed is against them the moment they step on stage.

[@gamerdweebentertainment1616]

Josh enjoying "misery" "I see you're a man of culture aswell"

[@mitchradle1837]

It’s the total amount of British-isms throughout this entire video that kills me and continues my thought that England is not actually a real place.

[@thomaswf7284]

To add to the "WAY" part, this tradition of shouting it extends to the point where even the barstaff themselves will cheer "WAY" at their colleagues misfortune, the level of shithousery attached to this goes so far I would say if people didn't shout "WAY" you might feel sad that they don't include you.

[@paulie-g]

I think that's a lovely, fun tradition. If I tried it, the maitre d' would probably try to eject me, but still

[@tribalice]

This is probably the most british anecdote I’ve ever seen

[@0WaZen0]

As a man living in the South East of England, working in the service industry for 10 years and seeing all kinds of things and now working as one of the warehouse late shift lads, a lot of the things you said speak to me on a very British level haha

[@Sniperbear13]

when you started talking about the Stalls selling Japanese Stuff; i knew where this was gonna go, although i never thought it would lead to a Miku Tribute Concert.