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[@MissFeatherstone]

The "put your trash out Wednesday morning not Tuesday night" rule fills me with such primal rage

[@putinmahcochin1636]

Yeah, if someone started something like that with me, I'd just let the trash pile up. Couldn't make it Wednesday morning.

[@oriongurtner7293]

Agreed, if someone tried to tell me not to put out the trash bin on Tuesday night then they’re gonna end up in that bin on a Wednesday morning

[@limeslayer]

That was the rule where I grew up, but it was because leaving trash out all night would attract bears.

[@ma.2089]

Lol I’d just assume it meant “bad” things come out at night

[@smrodan]

@@limeslayer I know a guy who grew up in Alaska and they had similar issues with moose! Not as persistent at rooting through trash as bears but just as dangerous in some ways!

[@fortismine]

"no fewer than one pillow" and "maximum of one pillow" combined is the exact level of precision i want from all instructions in my life

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

At least it's not contradictory.

[@merrowtooth]

I'm fond of "Duvet or comforter - Duvet" myself

[@brkh96]

@@merrowtooth = Comforter

[@bscorvin]

Well buddy have I got the neighborhood for you

[@clay-pidgeon]

Id move out straight away. my 7 pillows are IMPORTANT

[@dkpsyhog]

Very clever, my personal favourite bit is the "I cancelled your subscription; why pay for the news?" while handing the viewer a homemade local "newspaper". Love it when cult-related media reflects actual cult tactics instead of just being vague nonsense about human sacrifice. And the comparison of HoA's to cults is in itself very novel!

[@matthewwalker3131]

wait is that a real thing?

[@catkittycatcatkittycatcat9652]

@@matthewwalker3131 i would assume that to maintain control over people in a cult the cult leader would prevent as much news from the outside world getting to the person, so the news being cancelled as they were finding out too much and being replaced with approved news would make sense

[@fatcat1414]

@@matthewwalker3131 Several religious organizations like Jehovah's Witnesses create their own news sources and discourage people from consuming 'worldly' news sources.

[@Logansaurus01]

@@catkittycatcatkittycatcat9652 I actually spent some time in a cult and this is a legit tactic. You divide information up in to 2 categories: inside and outside. Then you find ways to demonize outsider information and make them seem unreliable, which then leaves the only trustworthy sources to be the insiders: the group approved ones

[@sixthdragoness9874]

@@matthewwalker3131 Yeah, I used to be in a cult and they do everything they can to discourage and discredit information from outside their controlled channels while making it clear that anything they produce is far more truthful. It's a control tactic to ensure you don't ask questions that could help break you away from the cult.

[@cubonefan3]

A nice detail is that the HOA neighbor cancels your newspaper subscription right after the newspaper runs a story about HOA members stealing $10,000 from the Christmas Fundraiser Gala last year. The neighbor then replaces the newspaper with the standardized HOA-approved news pamphlet

[@jiffylou98]

The story after that was about a scientist (Who looks like brian) drowning in a nearby lake

[@ChestersonJack]

I love how at the end, there’s a full trash bag in the inventory. It may or may not contain the body of the previous neighbor, but at least it’s going out on a Wednesday morning!

[@otherDante2]

So many likes but where are the comments

[@ChestersonJack]

@@otherDante2 Thank you for being the first to comment. I didn’t even know my comment had so many likes. This really boosted my day.

[@dafthappiness1327]

My parents told me about the time a neighbor tried to build a wooden playhouse in their backyard for their children and the HOA had to get together to vote on whether or not he was allowed to keep it because it too closely resembled a shed, which was against the HOA guidelines. They also ban vegetable gardens and above ground swimming pools. I find it baffling that you're just not allowed to use the land you own however you want because [checks HOA booklet] the neighborhood is worried a single unsightly chain link fence will drive their property value down.

[@Inanedata]

@@leezard7696 wait, what? Legally I can fight being forced to join an HOA to buy a home? How? What?

[@ma.2089]

Why does any of it drive property down? Can anyone explain lol

[@twinostrich8045]

@@ma.2089 It reduces interest in the neighbourhood by stuffy rich types if the houses look too different or “ramshackle.” It’s about snob and almost nothing else.

[@lilr6199]

@@ma.2089its the white middle class American vibe, where the appearance of stability and cohesion matter very much, if someone’s worried about property value, they’re gonna make it everyone’s problem

[@iamover9000yearsold]

@@ma.2089 Because brown people and the poor might move in. No joke. That's what kickstarted HOA's back in the early 1900's

[@oggyreidmore]

I once got a letter from the HOA because during the pandemic my son lost his home and came to live with me so there were two cars in the driveway not inside a garage. After six months I got a note from the HOA that the houses were single family and he would need to move out. I went to the next meeting and asked them how much HOA dues would go up after they lose the lawsuit to determine whether your son counts as part of your family. I also explained that it was very strange that any of the HOA board members would make such a complaint, especially since it's public knowledge where each of them sleep. The issue was dropped.

[@blueboltshrimp]

a legend your wording is hilarious

[@schoo9256]

Still can't tell if you were threatening to a) kill them in their beds or b) blackmail them because they don't always sleep in their own homes *eyebrow waggle*

[@Shikamaru747]

@@oggyreidmore little bit too edgy there, but that first comment was gold

[@oggyreidmore]

@@Shikamaru747 Agreed. Comment deleted.

[@Schandy]

A HOA can determine who can live in your 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[@jackdog06]

I love how the clock shows the player kept trying to put the trash out later at night to try and avoid him.

[@MandrakeHorse]

And the second time it happens (0:44), there aren't even any bins next to the Neighbour, so chances are that he waited for the player to leave the house just so he could tell him off for putting the bins out at the wrong time!

[@john-yc2lu]

@@MandrakeHorse Late reply but you can actually see a bin before the newspaper slides in

[@aliyakrebs8754]

There's so many details! :0

[@TECHNOJESTER]

I like that the comments are split between "woah this is so scary" and "yeah this is exactly what being on a HOA is like"

[@tabikat]

HOAs are inherently scary

[@pipedream2556]

Did he just give us an entire indie horror game experience in the space of 1 and a half minutes?!

[@DominePiger]

Including a banger soundtrack!

[@matthewleonmartin]

BDG already made one of the most legit scary horror shorts just by making jean shorts.

[@lastnamefirstname8655]

yes, and it was amazing.

[@pixelsbykris5494]

Have you seen the video about wanting to wear hats? That one’s my favourite alongside the vid with Jake and the camcorder, but this one is veeeery close.

[@Vallam23]

Harvester speedrun: bad ending in under two minutes!

[@sorio99]

For those looking for lore, right before the newspaper subscription is cancelled, it shows a picture of “Brian” in glasses, with the caption “Scientist’s body discovered in lake”

[@amoureux6502]

I think the scientist made a cloning vat and the clones went rogue and killed him

[@hulkminer1942]

Also whenever a "Brian" dies they get resurrected in the blue bath, as shown in the pamphlet (with the quote "revitalizing liquid" and before "The Slimy Brian" shows, another thing to note is that before "Brian" dies he hesitates at saying "Moved in" this detail and the body floating in the lake leads me to believe that this isn't the first "Brian" with glasses

[@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwsyz357]

Where?

[@wrpro7495]

This also tracks with the headline that claims a genetic cure for alzheimer’s implying their genetic sciences would be/could be on the level of cloning

[@maxxmittelstadt4798]

@@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwsyz357 Timestamp 0:42 read the requirements for a bathroom.

[@jeremytewari3346]

The thing that makes the neighbor character really unsettling to me is how he just… never gets upset. He briefly cracks the third time you put the trash out but instantly brushed it off and jokes about how you keep sneaking past him. It almost doesn’t dawn on him that you two aren’t friends, and even when his head is lying on the floor he remains positive. He was annoying and controlling but didn’t seem physically threatening at all. The second neighbor though, gives you a look of unbridled rage, which suddenly makes you seem a lot less safe.

[@peterwatt9219]

The second neighbour was completely drenched. Part of me is wondering if the body was thrown in the lake(apparently the newspaper had an article about a scientist's body being found there) and they just came back to life, but angrier.

[@mangaprofilepicture5820]

@@peterwatt9219 i think what it is is that the scientist was found dead in a lake (for whatever reason) but he invented a cloning machine out of his bathtub. The second neighbor that greets us at the end just got out of some soggy bathtub cloning goop

[@moonray0108]

I thought the second neighbor was the first neighbor

[@ilexdiapason]

it's the same guy - he came out of the lake when you put him there, and while he can't remember who he was or what you did, the hoa binds him and keeps him there no matter what you try. that's why he mentions it despite logically as a "new neighbour" not being already part of it! it brought him back :)

[@peekaloo12]

I'm most unnerved by the fact that he didn't just look wet at the end, he looked *slimy*

[@WD_Gaster66]

Cause he's a recent clone thanks to the cloning machine that is his bathtub. Also, he was a previously a scientist that was found dead in a lake

[@h2o848]

@@WD_Gaster66 that makes more sense i was thinking robot bc no blood and the axe broke

[@NickHunter]

recently "hatched"

[@wyvernscale9634]

He slimed

[@brandonnguyen6718]

@@h2o848 Well, you get a trashbag too, so I'm assuming they put the body in the bag, so them being a robot is a bit odd.

[@Kaktanternak]

The "since I... Moved in" is such a good line. It suddenly hits when you see the ending.

[@mustacheman529]

What does the ending even mean? I get that it's something to do with the creepy bath thing, but what exactly?

[@h2o848]

@@mustacheman529 The last frame of the newspaper before he kinda takes it away shows "Scientist body discovered in lake" with brian's picture might be related? update like 5 seconds later after checking some stuff: so i think it's safe to say that the viewer decapitated brian and put him in the trash bag? the brian we talk to for most of the video might be a robot or something? it would be odd for a normal human to break an axe while dying to it, and there was no blood when he was decapitated (also still talking) so i think real brian came back to life somehow (1:15 plays a sort of emerging from water sound, and the "blue" motif is strong but idk what it's about) and that's the brian we see at the end tl;dr brian that dies is a robot or something and new brian is a scientist that was in a lake and got out at the end??

[@pearlyp9898]

@@h2o848 i think the new brian is a clone, and the bathtub was a cloning pod. Maybe the scientist dying was an attempt at faking his death...?

[@RandomDude647]

@@pearlyp9898 i think EVERYONE in the neighborhood has cloning pods in their bathtubs, since it's in the HOA pamphlet. maybe every neighbor clones themselves whenever they die, so they can live forever?

[@cosmologicalturtle9528]

@@pearlyp9898 The bathtub is almost definitely a cloning pod. His wet appearance after coming back, and the whole “revitalising liquid” bit.

[@141Flyman]

Some of my favorite details I haven't seen mentioned: The sound effect at the start of the video is identical to the one played when the clone wakes up from the vat. It sounds like the listener is rising out of a viscous liquid, so has this happened before and we're starting a new loop? How long has this gone on? We hear the severed head say "I wasn't lying when I told you that it was" and then trail off before the clone cuts him off with "nice to meet you!" However, this is the first time anyone in the video has said "nice to meet you," which leads us again to the question of how long have you been meeting this neighbor? The newspaper is named the "Aletheia Times," which is noteworthy here because Aletheia is the Greek word for memory. More specifically, it comes from the river Lethe, which ran through the underworld and the dead were forced to drink from it to forget their lives. The word Lethe doesn't just mean to forget, it means the loss of the self, oblivion, and the destruction of truth. Conversely, Aletheia is the negative form of Lethe, so it means enduring truth, being saved from oblivion, and the preservation of the self through memory. In the same vein as the previous note, Greek philosophers believed that a soul would only be REINCARNATED after it drank from the river Lethe and forgot its past life. The scientist being found in a lake, the clone rising up from water, and all the blue water imagery seem like subtle references to this, especially since they're supposed to be in a drought. Love the seemingly random tidbit about researchers finding a genetic marker for Alzheimer's too, the depth to which this is all intertwined with the whole scientist and memory stuff is incredible. Oh, also the river Lethe ran by the cave of Hypnos, and in the HOA Pamphlet it's curious how sleep and bathing are both heavily focused on and have the exact same language describing them.

[@freyastuchbery7130]

This is top-notch! I didn't catch this despite knowing the mythology, you've got a keen eye.

[@javasiege]

Interesting!

[@kevinchen8325]

wow, that was really interesting! really good eye

[@batnacks]

Wait, clone?

[@gungle2595]

@@batnacks yeah, the general lore consensus is that the HOA guy, new neighbour, and POV character are all clones of the scientist who died in the lake, because of the new neighbour looking the same as the hoa guy after he died, and because he was sopping wet (from the cloning vats viewed in the bathroom page of the pamphlet as well as the end of the video)

[@MandrakeHorse]

Fun fact: there's actually no benefit to buying bed sheets which have a thread count greater than 400, so the HOA is basically pressuring residents into buying more expensive sheets for no reason

[@jamzee_]

Tf is a thread count /s -a guy who sleeps on a quilt/comforter

[@RhysezPieces]

@@jamzee_ It's something folks like to do in their free time when they have too much money and too little control over their lives. They count threads and compare. I slept under a fluffy bathrobe instead of a blanket for like two years and I was just fine. Little cold in the winter, though.

[@jamzee_]

@@RhysezPieces mate i dont even understand how people use the comforter in the first place, the small burrito throw blanket i use is warm enough as is

[@alejotassile6441]

what is a thread count?

[@MandrakeHorse]

@@alejotassile6441 It's a measure of the number of threads contained in one square inch of fabric. It's irrelevant to the actual quality of the bedding and mostly a marketing tactic.

[@Nova-tr4fd]

i love how the change to rhyming is gradual, and starts with just sentences that rhyme instead of specific lines that rhyme, before going completely to a rhyming song. and if you look at the newspaper article, it mentions a scientist who rhymes without meaning to!! it's got the horror game vibe of things starting out a little odd, before gradually getting more and more insane as the game continues

[@hitrapperandartistdababy605]

the change to rhyme is so well implemented

[@aconcerninglilguy]

also a random scientist unintentionally rhymed and shortly after disappeared as seen in the text of the newspaper, i think that gradually everyone in the neighborhood is being replaced by clones that rhyme and have a linked brain with the original, causing the original to start rhyming too

[@breanna5763]

It’s the starkid musical The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals nooooooooooooo

[@thornprick2645]

​@@breanna5763oh i thought the same thing

[@Edd_Harr]

We now know it takes them roughly 10 hours to grow a new Brian. This will be important information later on when exploring out in The Neighborhood.

[@wildwolf8505]

For exact timing, though, we need to know if the cookies were already baked or if he got up and immediately started baking. Fresh cookies are always better... but he's still wet.

[@ArrowOnionbelly]

It'll definitely come in handy in the DLC

[@ReddCrystal]

Ehhh we don't know that. Could've been growing as a backup beforehand.

[@placeholder2586]

Where are you getting 10 hours from? He kills the original at 12 on Wednesday then meets the new Brian at 10 on a Wednesday. Given the trash bag it's probably been only a single week and since the new clone is wet he was probably just finished Edit I need to stop making comments at 2 in the morning

[@suppeccnole6787]

@@placeholder2586 ? I’m confused, he was killed at midnight on Wednesday and they met the new one at 10 am on a Wednesday, hence 10 hours

[@jeremytewari3346]

The sheer audacity it takes to tell someone their garden needs fixing when they just moved in and clearly have no control over that fills me with rage.

[@BlairWasTakenAlready]

I love that that the HOA member says that they're always in bed by 10, but they know our light is often on past 2 👀 Wonder if it has anything to do with how they know what shows we watch

[@psyducktective]

or know the thread count of our sheets

[@SweetCaroline11]

I mean, Mr. In bed by ten doesn’t seem to have any problem being out on New Neighbor’s curb at almost midnight checking for garbage cans! I don’t think we can take anything he says at face value.

[@lilyk3734]

just put camera's in their house and watch it when you wake up

[@limediamond4595]

They also catch us putting our trash out Tuesday night very close to midnight

[@foonghost]

how does bdg consistently turn the weirdest ideas into such amazing songs

[@OctagonalSquare]

Talent, practice, and being an incredibly powerful Demi god

[@Crdavis1996]

Him and Jazz Emu have an uncanny ability to turn anything into a killer tune

[@henrymars6626]

Life experience

[@karakurie]

It looks a lot like Harvester which Game Grunps have been playing recently and he's a game grumps fan so I am just assuming he watched it and was inspired by it like the rest of us being shocked and dumbfounded by that game. There are cookies and axes and violence and scary deaths and creepy neighbors who act like nothing happened in that game too.

[@IAmSwagg007]

Existential dread

[@spookymanlistens]

'"The world is getting dryer," said Dr. Erica Grattleston, head precipitation expert at the Howle Weather Research Laboratory, "and that means fire." When asked if she meant to make that last sentence rhyme, Dr. Grattleston looked both confused and a bit startled. It was clear she had never had this line of questioning before." I love this video.

[@Xaphii]

Quote at 0:45

[@DavidSartor0]

Hamish misspelled 'sentence'.

[@oofadoofa313]

The word "wildfires" is also misspelled as "wildfirest" at some point in the article. Also, the doctors name changes in the last few sentences.

[@DavidSartor0]

@@oofadoofa313 Thank you.

[@KoyasuNoBara]

I'm also enjoying the article about the former Mayor that put an Olympic size swimming pool on top of city hall for no apparent reason.

[@Hikaru1468]

having the first neighbor stumble over some of his words like when he says since I ... moved in, like he doesn't remember is a really nice touch.

[@ReddCrystal]

I think he was gonna say something like 'Since I was made' on accident, being a clone and all.

[@drflaggstaff9008]

I think it's a small point about arrogance, and on both sides. You don't want to hear him even though he has experience making a better community, while he simultaneously has the audacity to pretend as if he was never your age.

[@Whatlander]

I thought he was reacting to the cloning vat appearing on the screen.

[@souptart5284]

i'm surprised no one's mentioned the "no memory foam" requirement in the bedding section of the pamphlet, fitting in with the hoa's cultish focus on memory and erasing cracks in the facade

[@yoshifan33]

This also works on a literal level - as the lack of impressions on the bed would stop the subsequent clones from realizing they hadn't, in fact, just moved in.

[@jeffreys473]

Oh my god. You have solved it.@@yoshifan33

[@gardensnails12]

nothing like a psychological horror to start the morning

[@joshuasgameplays9850]

@p o p Begone bot.

[@cramerfloro5936]

Or to end the day

[@ShapezPuller64]

Look, I love BDG - but calling this psychological horror is a bit rich. It's a song with dark themes, man - chill.

[@_Mike_Omega_]

There's something VERY sinister about how the Protagonist FINDS the axe within the cookies that were given to them by the Neighbor. And that in some bizarre twist, the Protagonist is now putting the garbage out that Wednesday morning, about ten hours later, perhaps after a rejuvenating and important sleep?

[@clay-pidgeon]

A rejuvenating and important sleep, with no memory! Pillows, that is.

[@kirbo7184]

The two ideas on how the axe got there is 1: memory wiping happened at some point, probably based around their sleep. Second, it was placed there by somebody else, but there's only one person in the neighborhood thats interacting with the protagonist. Which we kill with the axe, so why would the rejuva-brian give them the axe.

[@_Mike_Omega_]

@@kirbo7184 I mean how can an axe be within a cookie anyways, if we were to take this literally? And the first of three cookies at that. That itself is also an intriguing thing to mull over. By (perhaps unintentionally) indulging in a gift given by the Neighbor, the Protagonist simultaneously falls in line with what the HOA wants (to give a gift of cookies for the Protagonist to eat, possibly affecting the Protagonist in some way) as well as provides the means for the Protagonist to kill this first Neighbor. The Axe in the Cookie has got to be what the HOA wants. Why wouldnt their gift be extremely regulated?

[@the_panos]

I took it as him getting so annoyed by the speech that he turns and grabs an axe

[@TheMadwomen]

I like to think of it as "oh, you want the trash taken out Wednesday morning? Alright, asshole!"

[@sleepingguard01]

I really like how it’s like… *almost* rapping. The meter is always just a bit off, and it gets so close to rhyming but then doesn’t… It really makes the whole thing a lot more unsettling! Like your neighbor just isn’t quite right. 10/10

[@noesunyoutuber7680]

What's worse is that at several points it does rhyme, but it never rhymes in a way that fits the emphasis of the words. Any time you would expect a rhyming punchline there isn't one, but there are rhymes scattered throughout in a way that suggests there's almost a flow if the beat just started on a different syllable.

[@mylahobbit1815]

and it starts rhyming more and more as the video goes on! like the HOA member is becoming less of a real person and more of an NPC

[@alexipembrooke3510]

It’s a pattern song!

[@vermilisix]

One thing I've noticed is that Brian #1 says "I'm just down the street" whereas Brian #2 says "I'm ALWAYS just down the street", which sounds much more threatening given context

[@Vallam23]

should never have thought "oh I have time to fit in a two minute video" with bdg cause you gotta immediately watch them like 10 more times

[@Vallam23]

the way he cancels your subscription as soon as you start reading about the missing scientist? and replaces it with hoa news? brilliant is the mayor installing a swimming pool to create more clones? is the drought because the cloning operation is taking up so much water? maybe! will you turn into a bdg after being forced to set up the blue light bathtub? or will one spawn from it and get rid of you? impossible to know and why does everyone keep talking about meat? wait, no, that's a different game

[@fernando47180]

man, I feel called out

[@maxcasteel2141]

that really is the bdg way

[@glngrbread6363]

yeah, the fact that you have to slow it down to get the whole story w/ the cloning sci fi baths and wow

[@recon441]

And then you may or may not sleep soundly the rest of the night 😂

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Fifty years ago, this would have been an episode of the Twilight Zone where the protagonist realizes that everybody else who lives in the neighborhood are all exact copies of the man from the HOA, and that he is about to become the next victim of the HOA bylaws. But Brian can somehow turn it into a catchy spoken-word rap with video game graphics. Incredible.

[@amatalefay]

Now I have a desperate need for a BDG-hosted reboot of The Twilight Zone.

[@StaySafeDontDie]

@@amatalefay only if he also plays every character

[@thebagofsalt]

sounds like the stepford wives

[@alexipembrooke3510]

Like a combination of the Stepford wives meets The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

[@matthewpettyjohn8532]

When you're cementing yourself as a hostile force in someone's life singing in rhyme at them, never end a sentence with a word that rhymes with any popular weapon. It's just common sense.

[@Dmasta48ls]

I haven’t seen anyone else point these out yet, but heres a few details I noticed: -around 0:34 and 0:51, you can see the smoke and flames from the wildfires in the background. In the scene between that, the sky is clear -The bathroom recommendations in the HOA pamphlet show basically a cloning vat in the bathtub, which not only shows us what “Brian” is doing to come back, but also implies that they want every person in the neighborhood to be making perfect copies of themselves in the event of their untimely demise BDG youve done it again

[@popeval6654]

I think the dark appearance is just because it's night time in those shots

[@Dmasta48ls]

@@popeval6654 The shots im talking about take place at 2pm and 5pm, and you can see orange in the background on the right side. Plus, the surroundings aren’t dark like they are in the definite nighttime shots

[@MarkoIronFist]

Another interesting thing to note is that the flames have been burning for at least 3 months after the newspaper since the news of 25% of the Pacific Coast being on fire happens August 14th, and the HOA news does not cancel the subscription until Nov 25th.

[@humanperson2375]

The night after the fire shows up the viewer reads the newspaper, in the morning the sky isnt on fire and perfectly blue. Then after the paper is destroyed its back to fire and smoke. As if covering up the outside world so you can't put 2 and 2 together

[@MrRedstoneready]

The image of the cables going into the glowing bath seen on the pamphlet is also overlayed on top of the scene of the neighbor in the blue liquid toward the end

[@syszee]

This is exactly what it's like

[@frogfox4287]

Funny seeing you here. Did not expect that.

[@Flamme-Sanabi]

Like what? Getting a new car? Travelling to the moon?

[@jan.akisa.]

SHOE!! SCRAM!!! BEAT IT PUNK!!! GET OUT OF TOWN!!

[@jaymieskye]

i did not expect you here, love your videos!

[@archsteel7]

The comment above this says “As someone who’s never been in an HOA, I imagine this is what it’s like.” I couldn’t help but laugh seeing this right below it.

[@treadmillgaming5963]

"I'd like to make videos that someone could make unraveled videos about" You're killing it bdg

[@ericzielinski9396]

Analysis of a few things: The primary theme is the "cultishness" of the HOA. Always checking in always telling you not just how your house should look, not just telling you how to live your personal life, but they KNOW your personal life, how well you're sleeping, the shows you watch. Canceling your news subscription and replacing it with the HOA news. But there are also a few oddities. It's implied that bath tubes are used as "cloning devices" which have back ups for if one member dies. This is probably best interpreted as unescapable horror: the HOA cult isn't just one person, there's always another person coming to take the last person's place. You'll never be in control of your own life, the HOA will always be there. Other weird things are include "We haven't watched things like that since since I (pause as the HOA member makes a confused/pained expression) moved in." I feel like this implies the HOA member is a victim of whatever weirdness is going on? This could be supported by the fact that the cookie, which came from the very same HOA member, contained an axe. But then this same HOA member was surprised by the axe. So now I'm wondering, why is the main character taking the trash out so late? Is it simply a way to try and get around the HOA... or is it because there's a clone in each bag?

[@thebuddercweeper]

I imagined the reason they put it out at night is because their light is always on past 2, implying they don't go to bed until that time, which means they likely don't get up early enough to put it out in the morning, but since the neighbour always seems to catch them, they start putting it out later and later in an attempt to avoid them.

[@c0rpsecloown]

i think the reason that the neighbor pauses when he says when he moved in could be due to him being a clone! then he would have no memories of moving in due to being created there!

[@mimisezlol]

The pov character is also a clone. You can hear them emerging from a bath in the beginning.

[@miles8677]

I thought the "We haven't watched things like that since since I... moved in." was meant to imply that no one on that street has watched stuff like that since he moved in because if they do he'll come bother then about it

[@fish37truther]

I love the constant mentions of blue (like with the duvet options and door colours) leading into brian's death and rebirth scenes being tinted blue.

[@fish37truther]

you could make the argument that all the houses visible are shades of blue as well

[@meliponalord8892]

This is related to the fact that the bathtub (And likely cloning chamber) requires a blue light.

[@nanoreo7098]

Also the blue bath

[@candiidoggii1360]

also the cookies being brought in a blue plate, the axe having a blue handle and just the whole game interface being tinted blue. its a nice choice since blue is known for being the color of trust and the opposite of red (the ending being tinted in red + the color of blood etc etc)

[@liamsgreatbitgaming]

Brian didn’t even need the horror undertones, HOA’s are scary enough

[@MorningMeasure]

Alternatively: if you're making a video about HOAs and it's NOT horror, you're just being dishonest

[@wowacat5932]

heh 666 likes

[@caramac7636]

The seamlessness of Neighbor’s interaction with New Neighbor’s inventory was so well done that it took me a moment to understand why I was suddenly angry. It’s such a good way to show the insidious boundary crossing inherent in this kind of Nosy Neighbor. Very, very well done.

[@rianantony]

I'm particularly fond of the commentary on American suburban culture, between the text about the streets being most beautiful when empty and minimum one pillow maximum one pillow, highlighting an individualistic isolation intrinsic to the lifestyle.

[@sivanneu]

Let's take a moment to appreciate that 0:35 "Is it your sheets? I saw the thread count is low" means that he had already broken into your house and been to your bedroom.

[@justanobody7374]

I cant believe BDG has successfully done something Hello Neighbor never will, and that is making a horror premise based over the concept of living in an unsettling neighborhood.

[@cartoonishidealism582]

There’s a whole genre of that. It’s called Suburban Gothic.

[@ftrtrjn]

and in less than two minutes

[@madeofcastiron]

the moment i saw the title, i also thought of hello neighbour, and how this 2-min video was way better than the game.

[@tjenadonn6158]

@@cartoonishidealism582 As codified and perhaps perfected by David Lynch with "Blue Velvet," although Twilight Zone episodes like "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," short stories like Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," and novels like Ira Levin's "The Stepford Wives" certainly laid the groundwork.

[@kraiZor]

I'm not sure that a children's game needs to be dinged for not having having strong theming.

[@faeruune]

Time for casual horror let’s go

[@Flamme-Sanabi]

That implies that this is only mild, not a nightmare.

[@SiebenZwanzig]

I prefer competitive

[@StevePelcz]

you've heard of melodrama, prepare for melohorror

[@selenaphobia]

i appreciate the horror vibes without jumping into straight horror. this speaks to a very specific irritation with beaurocracy that i really enjoy

[@writershard5065]

I really want more in this genre of beaurocratic horror

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563]

​@@writershard5065 kafka

[@martin.reviews]

eridan

[@jeffreys473]

Well, kinda.

[@stolenhero6650]

So, i actually had an HOA neighbor right across from my house at one point, and he had cameras set up all throughout the ENTIRE STREET, linked to his house, so he could report and file issues 24/7, my dad had done security at the time, noticed all the camera spots he set up, and then he proved it and reported him to the city, the hoa guy got kicked out and a masssssive fine, and i think he moved out later tht year.

[@ethanlee8307]

BDG's ability for short form horror is unmatched. It's like a totally untapped niche!

[@EverTheFractal]

Home owners association guy cancelling the newspaper subscriptions after the "protagonist" reads it is a very good touch. Those articles are interesting... Especially the one that cuts off just before the cancellation.

[@brooklyn9923]

Love the fact that neighbor guy says he's in bed by 10, yet knows your light is on at 2, and also knows what you're putting the garbage cans out at night, even though if he was going to bed before you put them out, he would have no way of knowing if they were there at night or of you just woke up before him

[@wyvernscale9634]

I can't wait for someone smarter than me to watch this video 100 million trillion times and pick out every detail and go frame by frame to see every minute detail and how this relates to Brian's fear of horses and Jake's camcorder and most CERTAINLY how it relates to the crucial RGSM song, which is, obviously, the most important thread in this lore filled series. Oh and dances moving.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

It's time for BDG, Unraveled.

[@dcdrafts]

rgsm… roasted garlic summer massage?

[@wyvernscale9634]

@@dcdrafts shhhhhhhhhhh don't let them know

[@georgeosborne1854]

isn't it rgss

[@wyvernscale9634]

@@georgeosborne1854 don't let them know

[@ZunkleFunkle]

Love getting a BDG notification and doing the coin flip of "wacky whimsical romp" or "short form indie horror"

[@nathanmcgill7249]

He doesn't warn us what we are whimsically romping into

[@techmage89]

Porque no las dos?

[@foul-fortune-feline]

@@techmage89 Beat me to it (tho ffr it's "los" um. jsyk haha srry if I'm making myself a fool)

[@thewordywarlock7159]

Looks like it landed on the edge! We got both this time!

[@evan7795]

Or long form video essay. Sign me up

[@UltraCheesecakeFace]

As soon as he said "HOA", I was like 'ah, this is one of those things that turn into horror'

[@kacierowlette1664]

I’m moving into a neighborhood with an HOA in less than two weeks. How absolutely terrifying it was for this to show up in my feed.

[@the_cat9568]

Good luck

[@Zarmdthecoolest]

an Omen

[@jmassagetherapist6773]

~~Beware~~ Also know that HOA stuff can't override city laws, but they might have decent reasons for certain rules(like wild animals getting into the trash) so keep that in mind

[@MatthewMarkowicz]

Are you still there? I hope they didn't get you yet...

[@comentingchannel]

Man... the POV character killed him after 2 weeks... the resilience and patience is astounding

[@eleri_theda]

Just spent a couple minutes reading the newspaper and the HOA pamphlet writing on the side. It is all so funny and clever and such interesting worldbuilding for just this little video! Also the full trash bag and broken axe at the end are such great touches. What a fantastic video.

[@pokefire953]

can you explain it? im stupid

[@amoureux6502]

@@pokefire953 I think it's just vague enough to leave room for interpretation but the HOA pamphlet mentions baths being rejuvenating and then the neighbor stumbles on "since I, moved in" and then in the newspaper there was an identical scientist's body found in a lake, then after the ax murder of the neighbor another identical neighbor emerges from a bathtub, like it's being used to just keep growing clones of the scientist. (Also there's sillier details too, u recommend watching the video on half speed and pausing frequently when text appears on screen

[@aemm551]

Just heard the water(?) sound at the beginning, which matches 1:15 when neighbor gets reincarnated/cloned. Since the neighbor said that we “just moved in,” like they did at the end, we probably got reincarnated the previous night before this starts.

[@writerintheory751]

Ok I wrote a super long analysis that got deleted from my notes app so here’s some details about the neighborhood and HOA showing their desire for impossible perfection. For simplicity’s sake we’ll call the HOA member Neighbor and the POV character you 0:13 The HOA’s logo seems to be three identical and monochrome houses, showing their desire for perfection and indistinguishabiliality. 0:17 The screen glitches as you receive the pamphlet as yo. have now made contact with the HOA. 0:27 Trash isn’t set out on Wednesday, it’s set out specifically Wednesday mornings. The HOA wants the garbage cans off the street as soon as possible so they don’t taint the neighborhood’s image. It’s noteable that we aren’t told the definition of Wednesday morning. What is the timeframe in which its okay to place it? 0:31 The neighbor doesn’t seem to be disturbed by the light being on so late, but the implications that you are awake so late. We see later the pamphlet emphasizes the importance of sleep, so neighbor has begun to address that concern. 0:34 The sky has turned an odd color. It looks like a storm mixed with a sunset, but I think 2:04 pm is too early for a sunset (but idk where this video is set) 0:36 Neighbor somehow knows your sheet’s thread count. Either the HOA is spying on you and he was informed, he snuck in your house and somehow figured it out or he and/or the HOA have some sort of all seeing power or can detect when something needs to fix something 0:39 Twin XL beds are to be used in this neighborhood. I think this is a reference to when TV shows used to have the husband and wife sleep in a separate bed so sex wasn’t implied in any way. The HOA are doing the same thing by making spouses and partners distance themselves to avoid any possible “bad reputation” You must have a blue duvet. There is no other choice. You can’t have less than one pillow but the maximum is one. The residents are trapped in a paradox in which perfection cannot be fully achieved 0:41 When the neighbor says “grim” the eerie picture of the tub comes into view. The tub is… interesting. Based on the end of the video, it seems to be used to remake or rebuild people. So why do regular residents need to use it? I think the tub calms residents down and makes them more open to suggestion. The HOA seems to put blue everywhere, and blue is considered a relaxing hue. That being said, it may have been chosen because its also a majority of people’s favorite color, leading into the assimilation ideas. 0:43 I think this glitch and neighbor’s brief pause is his brain’s natural conditioning the HOA put him through to stop thinking about that particular memory. 0:44 Now this one is really interesting. We see before this you select the newspaper to read. The date is Tuesday, August 14th. However, when initially receiving the pamphlet you could say it said November 2022. The paper looks a bit aged and we don’t know what year its from. So has it been August this whole time or is it really November? We don’t even technically know how many weeks or months have passed since we’re only given days of the week and not the actual dates. Also, the neighbor is telling you to place the trash can in the morning, but you haven’t made your previous error and placed it early. Is he just reminding you thinking you’ll forget? Why does it feel like you’re being scolded whether you leave it out or not? The HOA cannot be satisfied. 0:47 The newspaper staying the same makes me think, if its new, that papers are delivered Tuesdays 0:50 The HOA infects and censors more of your life, shown by the screen glitching. Its interesting you can’t read the newspaper because of a canceled subscription. Does this mean the paper really was recent? We don’t know if the paper has been the same this whole time, it may have been updating daily or weekly. So it might be August 14th. This is notable since the HOA’s news is November 25th. And for all that its worth, in the HOA’s territory, it may as well be November so long as they say so. The residents are completely under their control. 0:55 Its 11:56 pm, very close to midnight. Does midnight count as morning to the HOA? Are you being criticized for being 4 minutes early or not putting your garbage out at a specific time that you have yet (at least that we have seen) been told about? 1:04 I think this glitch is the HOA possibly trying to cut out the memory from you or the neighbor. (Not sure though) 1:06 We only see neighbor’s head, making me think that part was salvaged and put on the new body 1:11 The tub, being used to revitalize the neighbor into his new body 1:15 Its taken me a few watches to realize, but the neighbor is under water/the solution here 1:16 You now have a full trash bag, pretty much proving you still have the body. You could argue the head was new too, but I personally think its the old one. 1:21 This might be an attempt to repress your memory of the neighbor previously, but again I’m not sure. 1:27 The grim expression shows his anger, signaling to me at least he remembers at least part of what happens. That’s why I think the head was preserved. How could a completely new version know anything? Then again maybe the HOA just made him hostile to you after what you did. Okay, that’s it! Sorry, I veered off into theory territory there. If you have any alternative thoughts or suggestions, please tell me!

[@heylol4363]

this is SOOOO GOOD

[@MandrakeHorse]

At 0:49, right before the subscription gets cancelled, you can briefly see the neighbour's photograph in the paper with the headline "Scientist's Body Discovered in Lake". Did this man invent the bathtub that the HOA might be using to rebuild or recondition their residents? Are they repeatedly bringing the same scientist back to life or are we talking with one of his clones?

[@hansonkerman7286]

I think that the strange sky is the wildfires mentioned by the news. Something I can't understand is the fact that the axe we killed Brian with was *inside* the cookies he gave us. If we rule out the theory that Brian is just really bad at baking/j, this could mean a few things. What I think is that Brian gave it to you so you could do ... something with it? he might have wanted you to kill him (probably not considering the look of unbridled rage his clone gives you), or kill someone else (the axe breaks after killing him), or ?

[@punchingmonsters9846]

It's been mentioned, but yeah, we just bought a house last year and "trash is on Wednesday morning not Tuesday night" is the hard truth horror in these lyrics.

[@ElementWrath]

Alright so Easter Eggs and what I think is going on here: Blue is thematically important: Required duvet cover is blue All the door colors allowed are blue And the revitalizing liquid for the appropriate HoA approved bathroom setup is of course blue Our friendly neighborhood HoA association member matches the appearance of a scientist who was already found dead according to the news (for which our subscription was swiftly cancelled). And once our protagonist snaps and puts him to the axe, even while they're still holding the garbage bag full of his remains, a new HoA association member emerges, dripping wet (presumably from their HoA approved glowing blue bath of revitalizing liquid), and stops by to reassure us they're always just down the street. Always. My current theory is that our scientist stole donation money (also in the news) to fund his research and has managed to clone himself, but the clone revolts and supplants him, hiding his body somewhere. The HoA member appears to bleed blue, and all the other references to blue indicate to me that the revitalizing liquid is the result of the deceased scientist's research, and now spawns clones of him as (probably all of) the terrifying members of this HoA association. It might even be possible that the clones can infiltrate the human body and subsume the original appearance of their host, making them all look like the deceased scientist.

[@amoureux6502]

The former mayor also bought and installed a pool on the roof of city hall, possibly related to the cloning vat?

[@bumblerbree]

i'm not certain the clone killed the original - he made the cookies, right? so a part of him betrayed its purpose to assist the viewer in killing him, which would suggest something torturous about living after 'revitalisation'. the fear when he says he will 'always' be just down the street also implies that he hates being essentially immortal, hence trying to get himself killed. maybe the scientist had the same idea. or maybe the body that was found was that of a clone and the original is still alive somewhere.

[@ReddCrystal]

Yeah, I think it's an HOA entirely comprising of clones of the same guy. That's why he can check up on you so frequently, everyone else is also being taken care of by other versions of him.

[@amoureux6502]

@@bumblerbree I thought the line at the end was supposed to sound more like a threat to the viewer than a cry for help from the clone but then, why not both?

[@melonball9927]

this fills the “wanting to solve a mystery instinct” so bad, I love that it’s short but sweet with plenty of questions left to ponder/theorize

[@Didelphis_]

I love how you can pick apart every little detail from the newspaper name to the subtle color changes in the background and still have a horrible feeling that you don’t know the whole story

[@Blorbo-without-shows]

One of those videos that you need to rewatch on 0.5 to notice headlines, rhymes, exact count of pillows and all that stuff. Thank you as always, Brian and Karen, you did awesome job!

[@Yammenkow]

There are so many cool details I can't list them all, but here's one: I really appreciate how the rhymes sometimes spill over the bar and into the next sentence. Cleverly done.

[@pliable-head]

This is like, hallmark BDG to me, the way he wiggles rhyme and meter around like this, I love how you can always feel him in a song hahaha

[@OnyDeus]

Good rhymes are hard to come by. Definitely front page news above all else.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

@@OnyDeus Yeah, no one could rhyme like that unintentionally.

[@dewydewback1376]

If you read this comment like it's part of a song, it makes the "one" rhyme with "done", which is also on the next sentence in a comment talking about how the rhymes flow over to the next sentence. Bravo Yammenkow, bravo.

[@LanceDrgnt]

But was it intentional? I have to know.

[@apia46]

"I'm usually in bed by ten" "The light, in your bedroom, is usually on past two"

[@Hydro_Waterbottle]

so he’s in bed but he doesn’t sleep

[@cinnabard955]

Literally so relatable. That feeling when your neighbor is being really annoying so you kill him then a wet man moves in in his stead.

[@jameseames9289]

Ugh I hate when that happens

[@phiter]

I'm in Brazil, and everything I've read about HOA makes it sound like a nightmare, especially in the "land of the free" where you get a fine if you forget to mow your lawn for one day.

[@Lee-fw5bd]

People don't usually get in discussions about non-intrusive HOAs so that makes sense

[@havcola6983]

@@Lee-fw5bd First they came for the plastic flamingos, and I said nothing because I had no plastic flamingos...

[@annoyingkid48]

Luckily most neighborhoods don’t have HOAs, it’s mostly suburbs which are already terrible enough as it is

[@reywashere5284]

If only every HOA member had rhymes this sweet.

[@Muffindustries]

Y'know most linguists agree that people who can rhyme are really talented and cool

[@pumpkin_pants3828]

@@Muffindustries Looks like they didn't respond, I find that very rude and unprofessional

[@NoName-ik2du]

I hope you're happy, Brian. I watched this right before bed and it gave me nightmares. Literally got startled awake by your face in a dream, and then had to turn on the light and look around my room for any suspicious Brians lurking in the corners.

[@loganielsomething7218]

Don't blame Brian. It's because the thread count in your sheets is low. You'd know this if you read page 19

[@apryls5603]

Is it less than 400? Come on, be honest with us

[@mylahobbit1815]

god this is so packed with details and worldbuilding and fridge horror. one thing I only caught on like my 5th rewatch (bc that's what bdg's horror vids always prompt, a bajillion rewatches) is the sky. It's just normal blue when the times are morning to noon, but twice (2:04 and 4:56 pm) it gets dark and weird and there's something glowy and orange on the right that looks kind of like a wildfire. the newspaper talks about wildfires. is this something? idk. but there's just so many cool little connections in videos like this I feel like it's gotta be something.

[@diegodoesstuff86]

The way the flow leads you into thinking hes going to say "when I was a kid," but stops because he's a clone and thus never had a childhood, Is the kind of subtle, something-is-right-behind-you horror I love Brian for

[@jebnordost7487]

Everybody missing the important question: why is there an axe inside the cookies?

[@honeyhannijung]

It's a special surprise that will help us out later

[@inkterp5322]

@@honeyhannijungthe damn briansketools are at it again

[@degg7129]

Maybe Brian without glasses knows that he's supposed to be dead and wants to do it is with external help, so he hides the axe in hope tht he fools himself and that someone gets the message? I dont know, im not up to date with the neighborhoods lore

[@AwesomeWookiee]

It might be a reference to The Secret of Monkey Island's "Open Cake" puzzle.

[@Franatom]

I think the important question is: Did the scientist make that sentence rhyme on purpose?

[@polychrome2838]

The brief glitch of blue when he says "We haven't watched things like that since I...moved in." when referring to violent shows implies that he was killed before and then got revived in the cloning tub. BDG you fucking genius.

[@claudiasturgell3118]

The bathtub filled with cords was genuinely so effective for setting the unsettling tone of this whole video

[@thesoffgengar]

apollo himself is weeping bloody tears of envy that he cant call you his son

[@tibby4503]

I'm genuinely terrified of the fact that this reminded me of a nonexistent horror game I dreamed about last night.

[@alreadynestedhumanwine]

I would be too

[@labbitlord1210]

I'm gonna need confirmation that no Brians, Davids, or Gilberts were harmed in the making of this video

[@shroomturtle5601]

So what's happening is that "Brian" is one of many other Brians in Driscoll Grove which converts others into more Brians. This is implied by the HOA having overly specific rules on what is acceptable, to the point where every house must be the exact same. Same bed sheet fabric, same door color, same trash days, same structure (note all the houses in the background are the exact same) and more importantly same bathrooms. Following the HOA rules would create an exact replica of a typical "Brian home", with the exact same routine to boot. Everything must be the same as Brian, including the residents themselves. We know that others are being converted into Brians and they aren't clones due to the line at 0:39 and the special emphasis on the "moved in" part. The Brian we're talking to was formerly a regular homeowner that was converted, and still has some residual memory left over (similar to the movie Get Out). The line "moved in" is referring to the conversion to Brian, not moving into Driscoll Grove. There is also still clearly a part of the former person still aware of what's happened to them as the axe used to kill Brian was hidden in the cookies given to us by Brian, which leads to the horrifying realization that the people transformed into Brians see everything Brian does, but are mostly powerless to do anything about it. The method of transformation is also made clear by the HOA rules on bathrooms, with required features including "correct cabling", "blue nourishing light", and most importantly "revitalizing liquid". The baths are used to convert others into more Brians and to "revitalize" existing Brians, which we know from the decapitated Brian returning to us covered in "revitalizing liquid" and the line at 1:24 emphasizing the "always". You cannot escape the Brians, they will ALWAYS be down the street. Going into a bit of speculation, we know that the Brians were modeled after the scientist that made them due to the newspaper that was swiftly canceled at 0:49 showing a picture of the original Brian with a headline saying quote: "Scientist's Body Discovered in Lake". It's reasonable to assume that the scientist was attempting to create a machine to revitalize any ill health conditions up to, and including, death (note that the article at 0:47 stating "Researchers Find Genetic Carrier for Alzheimer's" may be related to the scientist's invention). The machine would have worked on the scientist, revitalizing his health and giving the results he wanted, however anybody that he would have tested it on would be converted to an exact genetic copy of him. The new Brian that would be created would have the motivation to kill the original Brian and covert others into himself (whether because of a defect in the scientist's invention, or out of fear of death), which would be how the original Brian gets killed and dumped into a lake while the new Brian starts slowly converting Driscoll Grove into more Brians.

[@ColeGoneCrazy..]

WHATTT TBUS IS SO GOOD NICE JOB

[@meganreilly9944]

People have so deeply unpacked this minute and a half video, but I just wanted to point out that I love how the rules list each neighborhood separately only to write the exact same trash pickup time for all of them

[@spooderman6312]

BDG managed to capture the Ned Flanders energy but made it just creepy and passive-aggressive enough that I suddenly want this idea to be expanded on

[@asher879]

Watch his other videos then. Jorts, work from home, and hats are pretty simillar precursors.

[@sweesbees]

it's like the treehouse of horror episode where ned flanders became supreme leader of the neighbourhood

[@MrRasta3600]

Well great, now I gotta go through the video frame by frame to read the newspaper. Also, "Are you sleeping okay? Is there something I can do?" Feels like a pick up line. 😂

[@SgtLion]

Watched this so many times, I finally get it. The bathtub in the HOA pamphlet looks like a cloning vat, and we see the same picture overlaid while new Brian is getting 'cloned'. They are being made fresh.

[@AR-or8jh]

Every new BDG video is a gamble of whether I'm gonna laugh or have nightmares. But both are so well done I don't mind.

[@EGRJ]

Why not both?

[@mrigaankamuch]

Never been this early so just wanted to say I literally owe this man my college education...I wrote my essay based on his weird ice creams video and got into the same university as him (Johns Hopkins)... BDG you're a real one

[@regretfulraccoon3560]

how the fuck did you write an essay about a cooking video

[@screamsformemes]

YOOO THIS IS SO COOL CONGRATRULATIONS!!!

[@anghammarad6279]

go jays amirite

[@shledzguohn]

i moved to baltimore in part because of bdg go jays

[@dawntreader1247]

What did your essay talk about

[@snowflakeserpert6834]

For me, the most unnerving part of this is the uneven blinking at the part just after "What's with the axe?" I don't know why, I just find it so creepy.

[@callmemarcy77]

'I'll always be just down the street' at the end gets me every time

[@jamesamala7371]

hey why does the bathroom recommendations section have a bathtub with electrical wires in it? silly! someone could get hurt by that! just put the toaster or hairdryer in there directly, no wire nonsense as a potential tripping hazard!

[@ReturnOfHeresy]

I think they're pod-people, that's why the new neighbor is wet.

[@felixjimmyleon]

@@ReturnOfHeresy yup, at the end we see the bathtub again before the newbie wakes up.

[@signedoutsorry]

"put your trash out Wednesday morning not Tuesday night." That dude is gonna have a closed casket funeral for that one.

[@mayor3767]

im literally so obsessed with this video i’ve probably watched it 8 times now but on one of those watches i wanted to see if the visuals were the only thing doing the heavy lifting so i closed my eyes and listened to the first minute and it still gave me chills! such a great balance between sounding cordial and sounding unhinged. the affectation brian puts to his voice puts the perfect amt of “threatening” energy to his delivery !!

[@seraph322]

It’s so good, and the off rhyming scheme just adds to the feeling of wrongness. I love it

[@Logan-tinyplanetss]

this does NOT feel like a minute and a half there's so many details to rewind and look for. this is so awesome!!! also the delivery smoothly going between scenes is so awesome and also its just a bop ^_^

[@lognix5060]

fun fact in case you didn't know, when detail hunting you can use the keys to go forward or back by one frame

[@Logan-tinyplanetss]

@@lognix5060 oh thats helpful, thanks!!

[@centipededotgov]

This left me in the typical BDG horror content suspense while watching but at least I could jam out in the meantime

[@infinitytower8957]

Timelines: Assuming the newspaper was from August 2018, and the HOA news is up to date 10th November 2022 11:45 Saturday (0:00): 13th November 2022 19:32 Tuesday (0:22): 15th November 2022 14:04 Thursday (0:33): 20th November 2022 21:17 Tuesday (0:44): 23rd November 2022 10:29 Friday (0:46): 25th November 2022 16:56 Sunday (0:48): 27th November 2022 23:56 Tuesday (0:54): 28th November 2022 00:07 Wednesday (1:00): 28th November 2022 10:56 Wednesday (1:16):

[@edwardnygma8533]

I think it's actually 2018. If you read one of the articles in the paper or says in December 2017 there was a Christmas Gala, and now "months later" they're getting an investigation into the fraud within it.

[@nathanhampton1863]

This timeline is flawed. The news that HOA News that Brian gives out is for November 2022, and the other news article is from 2018 since that was the last time August 14 was on a Tuesday.

[@infinitytower8957]

@@nathanhampton1863 Yeah, gonna update it now. Though it does seem strange to cancel someone's subscription if the newspaper you worried about is years old?

[@meliponalord8892]

@@nathanhampton1863 I, personally think the newspaper is from 2023 and the HOA news is old, as it could be part of brainwashing them.

[@meliponalord8892]

Evidence for the newspaper being accurate to the date and the HOA being wrong is found at 0:34 and 0:51, in which in the background, what looks like a sunset is occuring. However, the times at these timestamps are 2:04 pm and 4:56 pm, which would be too early for sunset, meaning that it's more likely smoke from the fire, which is supported by the fact that this "sunset" is grey with red and orange highlights.

[@babbybobabs8701]

I know it's obvious but I LOVE the way "I'll be just down the street" goes from the neighborhood offering help to a threat

[@OccultCuts]

Wow he did all that rhyming, that's only something cool and talented people can do!

[@amoureux6502]

I thought it was very clever!

[@heathermerhout8775]

You should probably get back to the main point of the video rather than spending so much time dissecting the rhymes.

[@OccultCuts]

@@heathermerhout8775 read the articles that fly by on the screen

[@bassacaglia9434]

@@OccultCuts Haha I think that they were actually making a reference to that article as well! Since the scientist wanted the reporter to go back to the main point rather than dissecting the rhymes

[@st.claretomashek9576]

Anyone else see that at 0:42, the dialogue reads "We haven't watched things like that since I... moved in," with a glitch during the ellipsis, while the HOA pamphlet scrolls down to show what other commenters have identified as a cloning vat? The way that this neighbor came to join this neighborhood must have been a bit unconventional, lol. Loving all the details in this video!

[@anil234ify]

I've been aware of this creator in periphery for a while, but I've never clicked on his channel until now, because I saw his recent collab with Tom Cardy. This is the first video I clicked on to get a taste of this channel, and I didn't look super closely at the video on the first listen, so I was just thinking "oh, a comedy song in a unique style that kind of exaggerates how annoying and controlling HOAs can be, that's pretty fun." It was then quite the shock for me to scroll down and have the first comment read "I noticed that the sound effect at the start of the video is identical to the one played when the clone wakes up from the vat." A very interesting intro to Brian David Gilbert for sure XD

[@adamislost]

“Sitting on the tracks waiting for the night train Looking down the road ain't never gonna go back Listen for the whistle through the wind and raindrop Who's gonna ride the devil's train tonight?” I can’t stop hearing this chorus from Devil’s Train by the Lab Rats as Brian finishes. The cadence of it matches the verse cadence so well

[@wellspokenrambler]

perfectly captures the creepiness of both FMVs and HOAs in one video. Very well done - also appreciate the segue into practical effects with the goop thing you have going on there!

[@jadedisaster]

Ohh this is immaculate!! It starts off like an, 'oh gods HOA' and then very quickly veers into 'OH GODS HOA' as soon as the threadcount is mentioned

[@diamondsx87]

Something I haven't seen anyone mention is at the beginning of the video, we hear a gurgle sound and there's an effect on the camera that looks like water running from the screen. Did we also just come out of a cloning vat?

[@ElwoodSharit]

This is far too real for being so surreal. My HOA told us we couldn't park a vehicle on the side of the road in front of our house and then went on to deny our building request to expand our driveway. :) Thanks, bdg, imma return to playing chrono cross and my depression coma.

[@BearJoyner00]

I'm not gonna wake up super early just to take my trash out; I'm just gonna leave out the night before when I'm already awake.

[@grzegorzha.]

Well they said in the pamphlet that that's not acceptable. They want to preserve the clean appearance of the neighbourhood.

[@pleasegoawaydude]

@@grzegorzha. Which is why being part of an HOA is the evil version of unionizing.

[@foul-fortune-feline]

I'm gonna take my trash out on wednesday morning at 11:59 am just to fuck with them

[@foul-fortune-feline]

Hostile compliance I think that's called? Might be gettin the term wrong. Probably gettin the term wrong. Edit: It's malicious. _Malicious_ compliance. I knew it was something along those lines