What The Internet Did To Garfield

Garfield, Odie, and Jon are here. May God have mercy on us all.
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HBO talk to Jim Davis
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Cardinal Cinema Garfield Documentary
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Suction cup Garfield:
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Message to artists
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[@supereyepatchwolf3007]

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[@xXHuntereyeXx]

Yes my lord

[@conor.3875]

This may not be the place to ask, but, you don't have any thoughts about/affection for Ed, Edd 'n Eddy, do you?

[@cursedalmondcookie5880]

Bro out here really making up hour-long video about a cat that eats lasage 💀

[@AnthonyDaFox]

All hail garf-chan the best waifu

[@memeolade9079]

If Eyepatch says it on the internet, IT MUST BE TRUE! And with our first incredible revelation, there's no such place as Wyoming.

[@arandomyoutubecommenter728]

The role of Jon in these always is fun to me; sometimes he’s a slave to Garfield, answering his every whim, other times, he’s the only person standing against Garfield’s omnipotence.

[@eririspencersawamura5291]

And sometimes he's the entity known as "Jon Wick"

[@wynsonrao5177]

It really kind of alludes to some kind of nonexistent arc of Jon struggling against Garfield's oppression over and over again, usually failing but sometimes holding out for a brief moment, retaining his humanity...

[@bloodwingblade639]

like an actual cat owner

[@SomeFreakingCactus]

My favorite is when he’s the only thing keeping the eldritch abomination grounded in reality.

[@yaboi9183]

I love it when a character can play multiple roles

[@AsiniusNaso]

I have never thought of depression as a shitty, selfish cat that you constantly feed. That's a genuinely incredible metaphor.

[@0nullnil]

Agreed. That's how I'll think of Garfield now.

[@Shrikespeare]

It keeps getting fatter and fatter the more you feed it, it’s cries for food get louder and louder.

[@אדרששון]

but, you cant think of yourself as holier then it, thats where it "disapears"

[@laurocoman]

@@Shrikespeare damn

[@Muffled_voice]

Garfield the cause of misery, depression, torment, and insanity.

[@Churee]

So I was listening to this on public transport and during the "Garfield is everywhere" part a girl got on the bus and sat down next to me. She was wearing a Garfield shirt. I almost screamed.

[@000Krim]

Are you still alive?

[@Cati_Offical]

You can never escape the garf

[@themyofmy]

He comes, Rakka.

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

Agreed

[@LucaGlitchy]

I was watching that part with that knowledge that I have a strange Garfield head contained in a lunchbox next to me

[@fred-not-me]

Jon reminds me of myself in a strange way. As someone who struggles with major depression and maladaptive daydreaming, it can be comforting to be in your mind, but eventually it gets harder and harder to pry yourself away from your mind.

[@FunkyCheshire]

"We all want to be garfield, but we are all Jon Arbuckle." Damn. Did not expect that line to ever hit

[@ShinzouKatsune]

Its the same model they used for SpongeBob, cept wth Squidward.

[@BlackerSpaniel]

Man

[@clipboss8052]

@@ShinzouKatsune Well except, Spongebob has only an honest admiration for Squidward and has shown more kindness to Squidward than Garfield seems to do to Jon.

[@disposablehero1235]

not me im Garfield

[@spacey_432]

i could never imagine being garfield. the existential anxiety i get just from saying one bad thing to a friend is bad enough, let alone daily and constant torture of a person like jon...

[@realkingofantarctica]

Just remember, when walking through the tunnel of horrific, surrealist Garfield imagery, there is always a Jon Arbuckle Dance at the end of it. Never give up hope.

[@AxxLAfriku]

should i skip school for youtube video making? i making good stuff but i need much time to making. maybe replace school with making videos. i have two girlfriends. thanks for your opinion dear king

[@TheManWithSteelBalls]

God...Please..GIVE ME THE POWER TO DESTROY...The Internet.

[@angelsander6178]

There's also the take that Garfield hates mondays because Jon has to leave the house after the weekend is over and secretly misses him.

[@steve.s8495]

@@angelsander6178 Garfield doesn't love Jon that much

[@grogu9215]

@@AxxLAfriku stay in school.

[@thedeadtheory]

I love how "the forgiveness of jon" is basically "st michael defeating satan". It works on so many levels

[@somuchtocook9159]

Well I know someone who might be interested

[@somuchtocook9159]

@ModernNetMonk777 it’s actually really similar in fact it seems more emphasized by the lack of color

[@frob9852]

Jon: “I did it… I finally defeated Garfield!”

[@Dadhj.]

“The forgiveness of Jon” of actually insanely well drawn so is everything made by the artist (which for some reason is mostly gorefield)

[@SteeIStar]

Who is the artist, I forgor💀

[@alastorlapid2365]

​@SteeIStar Rojom

[@JC-fk8kc]

A thing I like about a good chunk of the Gorefield genre is the fact Jon is depicted as being brave enough to try and fight back, normally drawn with his shotgun or another type of weapon, Jon is face to face with a being beyond his understanding that wishes nothing more then to torment him, and it doesn't break his will to try and kill Garfield, the pieces that depict him as almost the last spark of humanity and existence really speak to me.

[@janefkrbtt]

the unstoppable force of entropy and rot vs the pure indomitable, immovable spirit of man

[@thatmimetuber585]

You could think of Gorefield as A mental illness even if you win...have you really? You could have just "escaped" for a time being but it always knows where you are what to do to harm you how to harm you, and who to harm even if you beat it you haven't beat it's MAIN CORE you still exist YOU still didn't take the medicine YOU still haven't woken up so wake up already friend.Wake up.

[@TheWanderingTaco]

Me too buddie.

[@kristen8954]

It’s just a huge contrast to what his character truly is so it’s kinda jarring to me. Plus, we all know a mere human would do nothing against an Eldrich being, so honestly it looks kinda sad. It’s foolish, rather than brave, to think weapons crafter by man would kill something akin to the world eater

[@redblushinrose]

@@janefkrbtt this line is raw as hell and it's being made about a orange cat who likes lasagna

[@Redbaron333]

Imagine Jim Davis passionately writing back fan letters from genuine garfield enjoyers, then going onto youtube and stumbling across this kind of stuff

[@catkittycatcatkittycatcat449]

I'm quite a fan of the Garfield comics and I actually wrote him a fan letter when I Was little. He responded with a hand-written letter thanking me for being a supporter of the Garfield franchise. I'd like to believe that he does care about his fans and work.

[@alecperdeau650]

.....Someone needs to send him a link.

[@Shocked_Joe]

oh lordy WE ALL ARE DEAD NOW BRO!

[@NanashiCAST]

I'm sorry, Jim.

[@janesmith9219]

Got to feel bad for em at that point

[@Tomahawks360]

The concept of Garfield being "hidden in plain sight in every aspect of our lives" is both incredibly hilarious and completely horrifying, at least to me.

[@sirsnausages2164]

Wasnt that a Disney creepypasta plot?

[@TironaBloodspiller]

When I was a teenager there was a discount book store that I would walk past weekly. Being a teenager I could not afford much of anything except stuff on sale. 15 years ago I bought 3-4 garfield comic books at about 2 australian dollars each. I still have them. They're on my bookshelf. Staring at me. Every day.

[@dawulfsupporttherapyforall813]

Gonna ask random peeps I know too keep count on how many times they hear or see anything about Garfield without intentionally looking for ot just for fun now due too this video.

[@gooper3644]

51:20 I feel like I’m somewhat hard to unsettle, but his realization that he owned a Garfield plush and didn’t remember genuinely gives me goosebumps

[@jodagondrago8293]

Man really turned the Necronomicon into Garfield

[@CavishBeka]

I watched this video so many times I lost count. I also made a lot of my friends watch it since it aired. Some of them still send me Garfield pictures whenever they encounter him in the wild, some of them still curse me. It's hands down one of my favorite things on the internet. The power of transformative (fan)art is astonishing and beautiful.

[@_Fern]

“if an alien race dug through a ruined earth, they would think we worshipped Garfield, and they would be right…” absolutely glorious

[@johneltins9822]

the scariest thing is that i scrolled through this comment at the same moment he spoke it, creepy

[@outofseason5735]

@@johneltins9822 same bruh wtf

[@gabrielandrade9237]

that hit

[@legodragon2363]

Jhon is the messiah

[@wellybelle]

it's been 11 days since I first watched this video and I have encountered some form of Garfield-related or Garfield-based media at least once every day, I am *hyper aware* of it now and can never go back

[@halcyondreams1132]

"The Forgiveness of Jon," given all the context about Garfield that was brought in the video, makes it one of the most beautiful and emotional piece of art I have ever witnessed.

[@lefu87williford55]

I want to put it on my wall to help me keep going

[@iamlucidess]

Truly a masterpiece, the tears really bring out Jon's forgiveness. Like after all that suffering, after transcending to what looks like an angel; is still human.

[@lefu87williford55]

@@iamlucidess the tears really tops off the catharsis.

[@mechamedegeorge6786]

Anime pfp

[@frob9852]

Jon: “I finally did it… I killed Gorefield! After everything he put me through, it’s finally over!”

[@joadarium9605]

Jon Arbuckle is truly the Guts of the Garfield world. No matter what he went through, he still prevails. Truly aspirational.

[@SanctuaryADO]

r/BrandNewSentence

[@strangewigglytuff]

a very poetic observation, given that super eyepatch wolf said he wanted to make a berserk video and ended up describing a very guts-like version of jon anyways

[@lorenjorgenzzz]

I NEVER WANNA SEE THIS COMPARISON AGAIN BECAUSE IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE WITH SO LITTLE WORDS

[@Drbeckerproductions]

You can see this sortof manifested in "Fist of the borf star". It's like the foregiveness of john but not as fully realized and 1000x more shitposty and crude. it's one of the few garfield shitposts where John rises up and literally beats the shit out of Garfield. It's a fun watch.

[@caseysghost8161]

It was too big to be called a tray. Too thick, too heavy. It was more like a slab. A slab of lasagna.

[@SkippertheBart]

An artist puts a bit of their soul into everything they make. And for a man who has been making the same thing for forty years, that's a lot of soul.

[@andistansbury4366]

Jim ran out and now steals souls from people who read garfeild

[@Dinnyeify]

the Garfield comics are a sort of dark amulet

[@manwhoismissingtwotoenails4777]

When a Garfield historian is a real thing you realize how big the community is.

[@thegrandnil764]

I know most Garfield lore, even though I've never set foot in the fandom.

[@Cat_Garfield]

I am garfield real

[@marocat4749]

Its not real per se,but that if you reseach enough and become an expert on it, at last thats th theory, plus qunting did go through archives and did ak th norm th gnome strips aviable thats very historian like work?! Its a joke or meme more than anything, there is no verified garfiel historian, more a meme, an sign of rspect for tht dedicated research thing.

[@randomjunkohyeah1]

If you think Eyepatch Wolf’s deep dives into strangely specific media franchises are bottomless and Pepe Silvia-like, you have not lived until you’ve seen Quinton catalogue every single solitary crime committed by the cast of iCarly throughout the show’s entire run, in what feels like real time.

[@jaypeterman9721]

Isnt Quinton the guy who lost his mind trying to defend TLJ?

[@naamah420]

just spoke with my 60 y/o mom and made a comparison between my cat and Garfield, and I said that he is very much like Garfield, because they're both orange, fat, both are very lazy and they kinda look similar, and my mom said that they are nothing alike, because my cat is dumb and harmless, and Garfield? well she said in a very serious tone that Garfield is evil. my mom has no idea about the phenomena of Garfield on the internet, she only knows Garfield from the comic strips back in the 70's. So I guess that Garfield has been possessing some dark forces for the last 40 years.

[@erickurquidez8944]

That's interesting

[@seannolan9857]

@@danjoredd By reading the comics? Garfield's sadistic streak has always been highly obvious, he's just likeable enough to get away with it.

[@Founderschannel123]

@@seannolan9857 well its the author's creation that makes him special

[@davejacob5208]

@@seannolan9857 i never thought of him as likeable. never understood people liking sadists in movies etc.

[@rozzie3701]

this makes the Garfield “you are not immune to propaganda” image somehow more profound

[@Rpglover456]

😮

[@bensoncheung2801]

555👍

[@YouW00t]

👁🐅👁🧠

[@8pierrot89]

Just yesterday; I asked my future mother-in law - in tears, hopelessly, what would I do with my despair if I didn't keep it down with a dependency on food. For context, I am type 1 diabetic and have been _potentially_ a majority of my life but have only been diagnosed in 2022. My relationship with food, particularly foods that contain carbohydrates has been torn asunder as I was (and have been) subconsciously using food to sorta cope with major depression. Nothing to look forward to all day except... what I would be having for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. In that way, perhaps Garfield and I aren't too dissimilar. So, when I reached the end of the video, and saw Jon forgive this, embodiment of his despair and torment (particularly connected to gluttony and sloth) thus vanquishing it from him.... I guess, I feel like I wish I could be that strong. Find a way to forgive my emptiness and let my need to fill it go. Maybe it'll hurt for a long time, but I'll find something healthier to fill it with eventually.

[@kingoftrashbabies]

It does get easier over time, therapy helps. it's a long and difficult road you walk but I promise you that in the end you will be glad you fought and struggled to become a healthier happier version of yourself. Just try not to get too down on yourself if you slip up and find yourself falling back into bad habits. You're only human and we all stumble and make mistakes and even regress along the way but as long as you never give up and hold on to your goal with white knuckled determination you will succeed one day. If nothing else please know that, though we are strangers and may never know each other, there is at least one person out there in the world rooting for you.

[@Narusasu98]

Hang in there, I believe in you

[@purplehaze2358]

I would like to point out that Garfield is so product-friendly that even the best fanart for it, _The Forgiveness Of Jon,_ has official merchandise. Edit: Managed to score a shirt for it as a Christmas present.

[@raindmcgasman]

Wait, really?

[@purplehaze2358]

@@raindmcgasman Yup.

[@blackholeguy1529]

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[@minus4951]

@@raindmcgasman I’m calling the MTF

[@TarlukLegion]

so what's the merchandise?

[@NightmareCryptid]

Honestly, Garfield Minus Garfield is what made me see just how depressing the comics are/how sad Jon's life actually is

[@jazzbee9857]

Yeah, or just remove Garfield’s speech bubbles and he’s just talking to an ordinary cat

[@robotpanda77]

You could say the same thing for a Dilbert strip. Take out his office coworkers and he is just a sad lonely guy talking to himself. You took two characters talking to each other, took out one and went "look how sad and alone this one is". LOL wtf? It's like photoshopping the wheels off a car and going "look how shit this car is".

[@Arrzarrina]

@@robotpanda77 The point is that Jon never actually hears anything from Garfield. Look at the middle step where Garfield is still present but his speech bubbles are removed. That doesn't work for Dilbert because the idea that this engineer is the only person in universe who communicates to anybody doesn't gel (especially considering that Dilbert uses a lot more dialogue). Silent Garfield or Realistic Garfield do a much better job of getting the reader to understand Jon than the vanilla Garfield strips as they show the absolute disaster of a human being that Jon is without the intended punchline.

[@SamtheBravesFan]

Eh, I get why that came about, but that is just reading WAY too much into things for my taste.

[@ClementinesmWTF]

You can achieve similar results by removing the laugh tracks from all sitcoms

[@Cp-71]

Small brain: "People who think they're a Rick are actually a Jerry" Big brain: "We all want to be Garfield, but we all are Jon Arbuckle"

[@Katyamuffin]

Galaxy brain implosion: "You either die a Spongebob, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Squidward"

[@dip4898]

@@Katyamuffin Damn...

[@scottishfewl9608]

Unity Particle System brain: we are all boners, and we are all billys

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

Terraria

[@Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1024]

or you become immortal and go insane becoming SpongeBob again

[@mashleyelliott4668]

This may be the greatest piece of content ever created. Thank you for this. Thank you.

[@davetheguy_708]

i agree, first channel on earth that i actually liked and subbed because of one video

[@MissAshley42]

Can we take a moment to appreciate that the rights-holders of Garfield seem to be pretty chill about how the internet has treated Garfield? Meanwhile, Toei can't even stand fans of its works plainly and passionately describing why they're fans at all.

[@shadow_shine3578]

Who's toei and what's the work?

[@luxill0s]

150 DMCA Airstrikes

[@NezumiVA]

@@shadow_shine3578 Toei Animation is an anime studio that produces the adaptations of things like Dragon Ball and One Piece, and they're notorious for spuriously copyright striking anything discussing their work in a fair-use context, and most recently _150 entire videos_ from a guy's channel (that were completely within the realm of legality) and putting his career in jeopardy, during the holiday season no less.

[@shadow_shine3578]

@@NezumiVA yikes. Poor guy!

[@Ramsey276one]

Um, WAT TOEI, NANI TSURUNDAYO????

[@soooze7367]

I’ve never felt more relief than when he decided NOT to read every Garfield comic

[@אדרששון]

good job, you are a great person ,you did it ,you are good all hail your goodness lord soooze

[@pkrockinomega4184]

Yeah. I am very glad he didn't take the time to read EVERY SINGLE GARFIELD COMIC. Seriously, that is an impossible task and I'm pretty sure he would've gone crazy.

[@shadoworsonic]

There is an alternate timeline where he read all of them and became a eldritch god after reading them all and thus destroying the universe

[@007megaoof]

@@pkrockinomega4184 I did as a child. My sense of humor was dogshit because of that

[@yedffgd]

You’re a good person. I, on the other hand, said “coward” out loud.

[@NormOttdeer]

This video autoplayed while I was taking a nap and it turned my dream into a vivid depiction of living in the far future, digging up bits of history, and having an entire history lesson specifically about Garfield.

[@galacticfeline5047]

HAHA

[@meghanrodriguez2393]

That's epic

[@WinVisten]

I'd love to give this comment a like, but it's maxed out its 8 bit integer value. Meaning, if I give it another like, you will have ZERO likes. Integer overflow! -That's a nerd joke, everyone!-

[@-TwT]

@@WinVisten roflmao

[@michaeld.6885]

Same thing literally happened to me, except I dreamed of a demonic Garfield with immense power

[@LUGG824]

When you put up the picture of kid you holding a Garfield plush, you unearthed a deep memory in me... That I also had a Garfield plush as a kid Garfield is everywhere...

[@zyourzgrandzmaz]

Dude gave himself garfield PTSD for our entertainment. Respect

[@napalmvisine8359]

I think he gave it to me too... Wild

[@xcutionerkera]

what you talking about, he just .. INFECTED US ALL THERE IS NO GOING BACK NOW JON.

[@TheMagicienWorld]

that "Calm down, calm down" from his partner as he was yelling at the tv for having said the word Garfield is really both hilarious and frightening XD

[@MrJemoederopeenstokj]

GTSD

[@andistansbury4366]

​@@MrJemoederopeenstokjGarfield Traumatic Stress Disorder

[@RubberRoss]

I was not expecting to sit through this entire video but here we are. Great work.

[@FlinnyWinny]

That was one hell of a watch

[@psycless]

Goddammit ross

[@anthonyglover4767]

Hi Ross.

[@Krevet_The2]

it was some wild stuff

[@241Cookies__]

Ah, so this is where he gets his title ideas

[@charlottebligh649]

I don't think there is a single other person or company in any medium that could make me spend 80 minutes on Garfield without monetary compensation

[@Ttegegg]

Would watching ads count

[@asei231]

@@Ttegegg there isnt any ads on this-

[@pixel-hy4jx]

@@Ttegegg they meant that they wouldn’t watch 80 minutes of garfield without getting paid

[@nuclearporcelain]

You should really look into quinton reviews 😁😁

[@thisaccountisntreal107]

Oh my god this man has never seen the Garfield sex survey results video

[@redboy1111]

Alternative title: European man decends into a mental breakdown because of a orange cat.

[@GaijinGoombah]

For me, Garfield Minus Garfield is what sent me down the rabbit hole of bizarre fan takes.

[@robertwilloughby8050]

Anybody seen Dilbert without Dilbert? FUCKING SCARY!

[@tylerb5764]

Gaijin! The hell you doing here?

[@Klonoahedgehog]

That shit makes me laugh every time.

[@brickwall8896]

@@Klonoahedgehog shit makes me laugh everytime (too)

[@ThatDangBee]

Garfield Minus Garfield is what got me too, it fascinated me.

[@annana6098]

So in contrast to how some people see Jim Davis, as a greedy capitalist who calculated a very marketable character and therefore cracked the code of tricking people out of their money; he was a struggling artist whose bug comic failed and so he created a deeply personal series inspired by himself and his own struggles, and found that his audience... liked the cat better. I've seen KZbinrs grapple with the fact that people like watching their pets, that viewers stay engaged if their pet appears on screen. Jim Davis grappled with that discovery decades ago, swallowed his pride, and made the cat the title character. And told people he totally designed the cat on purpose you guys, it was all part of the plan. And Jon is a miserable sad sack. Garfield doesn't make me laugh out loud, most comics don't, but it does make me smile. And Jon is relatable often enough that I feel for him. I hope Jim Davis doesn't relate too strongly to Jon these days, he's done a lot of work that's made people smile, and he deserves to be happy.

[@draglorr5578]

This is the perfect comment for this subject.

[@CountDVB]

I mean, Jon as a comic strip did have some… pretty dated humor to say the least.

[@oddlyoz]

Live Harvey to Jordan the Stallion.

[@THB192]

More than that, Jim Davis reminds me of a lot of stories about people who have struggled to find success for a long time, or have been pushed to the edge of failure before, and never want to be there again. That is the kind of place that leads to you pulling some hot merch because you want your success to be sustainable and not to burn out.

[@Also.Landon]

@@CountDVB Jim Davis is pretty dated himself

[@officerspider7996]

I started reading the Garfield strips online during Highschool when I wasn’t doing much. I enjoyed the simplicity of the stories and it was cool to see him doing his thing because I saw the show. Overtime I noticed something I overlooked for my entire life. Jon wasn’t having a conversation with Garfield, he was just talking to a cat that didn’t talk back. It messed me up a little realizing that Jon was just some guy with little to no friends and just talking to a Cat. It’s weird but fitting how the internet shifted this

[@ryanr2949]

In the mid to late 2000s I had an English professor that told us about a website called Garfield Minus Garfield where they removed Garfield and Odie from the strip and its exactly as depressing as what you picked up on. There used to be videos on KZbin where they removed Garfield from the cartoon as well but obviously that took quite a bit more effort so there aren't as many of those vids floating around.

[@antonioscendrategattico2302]

I can't shake the feeling that this wave of horror Garefield art, twisting something previously considered absolutely normal and inoffensive, is tied to the sociopolitical realities of today. In a sense, the post-2010s have been a time of "awakening" of society where everyone, willing or not, has been forced to confront a LOT of evils we have ignored for the past decades. Climate change being the most prominent, but also the numerous celebrity abuse scandals, the Epstein trial, the Panama Papers, the Pentagon Papers... it's the revelation of a deep rot that has always existed at the core of our society, that we have ignored for a long time. And when so many people find out that so much of what was normal to them was hiding something dangerous and horrific that they'd been ignoring for so long... it feels very fitting to apply that frame of mind to everything. Including a comic strip about an asshole cat and his surprisingly dysfunctional owner. It's the same thing: it was there, in plain sight, for so long. And we never noticed, because it was all so normal to us...

[@Danny_WoodenBaby]

I never realized that and now it's sad

[@Quantum_Physician]

i had a weird thing where i was talking with my momand she was like "garfield doesnt talk tho" and my brother started watching the garfield show so i started paying closer attention and... she was right

[@coronato7988]

This might be the best video I have ever watched on youtube, and I have been watching for more than a decade.

[@shaunhurst2595]

Jim Davis has cultivated artists to continue his work after his death. One thousand years from now historians will grapple with the idea that Jim Davis never really existed.

[@Ramsey276one]

Nah Just reincarnate and cultivate more! XD

[@rawquikh0ney710]

He is the gaster of Undergarf. Forgotten and pieces scattered across time and space.

[@monstarpy]

He died? 🙁

[@tophatcat1173]

@@monstarpy he will

[@1sie]

@@monstarpy my guy was old 40 years ago whaddya expect

[@AManOnline.]

I can't believe I just spent an hour watching a video about how Garfield is actually a psychologically horrific representation of nihilism and severe depression

[@abebuckingham8198]

Yeah I guess he's never raised a cat before but this is pretty standard stuff.

[@totallynoteverything1.]

@@abebuckingham8198 to put it to simple words, Jim Davis has created a perfect recreation of a real Cat

[@CopiedCat]

Same

[@Harukaluin19]

I didn't even notice it was an hour long vid until I read ur comment

[@angelrinoa23]

Wild how Garfield can be such a pervasive, daily comic for 50 straight years and then less than 10 years on the internet he's transformed into something barely recognizable.

[@ElysetheEevee]

It's been more than ten years for his transformation. Hell, Lasagna Cat was 2008, and then again in 2017. We are almost into 2024. If you go by that timeline alone, we're into nearly 15 years. Add into that the bizarreness and subtle obsession with Garfield just being online in general, and you're getting into well over a couple decades.

[@neepsmcfly4176]

...or finally exposed!

[@lordkushsmoke992]

Definitely been a good 20-25+ years. I'm 25 and Garfield has always been on the Internet since I can remember.

[@wezletbullock7424]

It’s the internet.. it’s a blessing and a curse

[@BlueBD]

2 months ago a FnF mod called Vs Gorefield updated. The final boss is Vs Godfield lol

[@ShawnStafford-1978]

I know Garfield is old. Crazy thinking I was born in 1978 too. We found Garfield drinking glasses. Bought at faster food place's in the 80's.

[@ShawnStafford-1978]

The Garfield drinking glasses that look like they're brand new still

[@Nghknifefaster]

How old are you​@@ShawnStafford-1978

[@ShawnStafford-1978]

@@Nghknifefaster I'm 46

[@lalonmallosson208]

How is most of the horror in this video not even stuff like "I'm sorry Jon", but just the reality of how omnipresent Garfield is?

[@leepicgamerbazinga5155]

He’s literally everywhere, it’s actually insane

[@Amadeus451]

My grandmother passed away last year (saint that she was), and one of the mementos I kept from her house is a Garfield plush I remember giving her for Mother's Day in the early 90's when she lived in the backwoods of coastal Alabama. That means it survived 4 major hurricanes, three movings, a divorce, and a marriage renewal. It seriously astounded me she still had it on the chest-of-drawers in her personal walk-in closet. Garfield is...

[@dubuyajay9964]

Garfield can be a good friend too. When he wants to be.

[@doomboi7483]

He is eternal

[@NoTengoDinero69]

Andrew this is beautiful. RIP granny

[@Thraxraganharapollyus]

Unmortal.

[@ForkliftCertification744]

He is his own sentience. A hyper conscious.

[@kristalgic1534]

It's so odd being a person who grew up in the 90s, who had never consumed any Garfield media, but constantly saw Garfield everywhere. How many of us did not care about Garfield, yet had plushies and mugs and t-shirts thrust upon us without question. Garfield was just there. He was just a part of life. The idea of the character had a life of its own, even back then.

[@swordsmanthegamernine7973]

I had to be reminded he had TWO CGI movies on Cartoon Network AND a following CGI series.

[@joeljustjazzing]

Its like when a trend becomes so popular it just turns into a normal part of your life even if you never had any relation to it.

[@OzymandiasWasRight]

I never thought about it, but reading this comment I realized you're absolutely right. Being a kid walking through the mall (that's a big building full of stores. It's like an Amazon or ebay that you drove to) and seeing Garfield merchandise everywhere. Who bought that stuff? Why was there so much of it? It's strange.

[@thelouisfanclub]

I don’t remember ever finding it weird, it was just one of those characters that were always around… kinda like how randomly looney tunes or Hannah barbera cartoons would be around… except I actually watched those cartoons and never read or saw any Garfield comics or cartoons

[@OzymandiasWasRight]

@@thelouisfanclub speaking of Hannah Barbera cartoons, how did one company make SO many awful cartoons?! They look like they're from the early 70s and I can't remember details about any one of the dozen of so shows that were cranked out.

[@lostforwar5619]

"this child is not mine" "this child is something from the darkness" "i have birthed a human curse" always feels great to see your language somewhere

[@piecharb.1343]

Your girlfriend having to calm you down when watching dexter over the Garfield reference was peak humor

[@Oldmanfnaf]

October 1989, Garfield is Alone

[@tomwanders6022]

NGL I bursted out laughing hard the first time I saw this. I don’t care whether it was recorded on purpose. This is to good.

[@BinglesP]

I’m only 5 minutes into the video and now I’m anticipating which “Dexter” show that’s referring to

[@Botchkins]

There is actually a comic where Jon says to himself "sometimes i wish you could talk garfield" thus proving that Jon doesn see or hear anything that wee see garfield say. So in the end of it all, Jon really is struggling and what we see gets so much more depressing.

[@alejandrovallejo6763]

That was in the early days and in some depictions in many comics and animated series, plus the live action movies, they do understand each other.

[@vanilla5643]

And most of his speech is represented in thought bubbles.

[@immortalfrieza]

There's also been several comics where Jon has supposedly heard Garfield. It's also a pretty common gag where Garfield says something to Jon to insult him or whatever and Jon gets this "are you kidding me?" look on his face. It's whatever would be most funny for that particular strip.

[@apostropheliam]

@@immortalfrieza However a select few strips portray Jon as saying, "That's your [insert clause] look!", meaning that perhaps Jon is simply reacting to Garfield's expression.

[@sk8ermGs]

Nice try bro

[@middleschoolreject]

these videos are honestly like anti-clickbait. I see the title, it's a topic that I couldn't possibly care about, but then I watch, and I am in love with the content

[@jamm6_514]

for me its quite different, the titles intrigue me but have that clickbait aspect

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

@@jamm6_514 nothing about it tho is "clickbait" in the slightest.

[@moodyblues1189]

@@jamm6_514 Its just you mate.

[@anarkxi]

@@Gadget-Walkmen technically it is, it just doesnt suck as much as, say, Morgz like here, you can clearly see the focus of the topic in the thumbnail itself, everything blurred in the background besides that grotesque garfield and the subtitle below him (which is short, sweet and to the point). this is the bait of the hour-long vid, which works well due to the simplicity. youre not out here playing CIA Agent trying to figure out the topic of the video, because thats not what youre here for and when you do realize the topic it makes you wonder what the fuck the internet coulda done to garfield what does Morgz offer? over-saturated colours, no concrete focal point, faces that are more terrifying than whatever gorefield offers, long asf title, etc. still does the job with his target demographic though, that being children, and the same can be said with this video and its own range of people its trying to appeal to. which the target, btw, is literally anyone thats outgrown pullups, but i'd say probably the 14 - 22 parts maybe but you also prolly didnt read this so what can i say

[@malfeasantamalgam]

Why would I watch this? Six recommendations later...

[@SaerBear5]

The genius of this video is that every time I come across Garfield randomly in my life, I have to come back here and rewatch.

[@plcthelegacy4131]

35:28 God, when you realize Jon can't actually hear Garfield, it makes this comic way more unsettling. When Jon says, "I have done things in my life i regret." All he sees is his cat giving a sadistic smile.

[@WhatWouldVillainsDo]

How is any relationship with a cat?

[@shalomedome1614]

@@WhatWouldVillainsDomy homie has a cat n he lets it go outside n legit every day it’ll bring back a lil bird or bunny or somethin

[@angelicart.6]

@@shalomedome1614that’s so cute :< 💜

[@awesomesauce-productionss]

@@angelicart.6 that is NOT fucking cute that "lil bird" or bunny is dead, dead as FUCK

[@chuckplaysgames7925]

@@angelicart.6usually they don’t bring them back alive . So cute 🙄

[@OfficialChisco]

I was sitting in a parking lot listening to this video, and tried testing the Garfield Effect trying to see if I could find him anywhere, I gave up after like 5 minutes, and later realized, that I was wearing a Garfield Shirt and had forgotten

[@boio_thedudeman1925]

The prophecy is true.

[@vanillabatcave5677]

This made me remember that I had a Garfield plushie in my backpack lol

[@boio_thedudeman1925]

@@vanillabatcave5677 the prophecy is true.

[@vizzysfizzys]

i have 25 garfield books directly next to me 🤨🤨🤨🤨

[@boio_thedudeman1925]

@@vizzysfizzys the prophecy is true.

[@Sergei_Ivanovich_Mosin]

The Forgiveness of Jon feels like such a genuine triumph over a mans personal hell that few works of media could ever replicate, a decades long struggle that slowly but surely descended worse and worse into the lowest point of a humans life finally ending with a glint of hope and life. How the fuck did we get this shit out of a comic about a talking cat who hates Mondays?

[@ahabduennschitz7670]

Because the Cat never talked back. Thats basically the whole Answer. Garfield never talked to John and someone noticed that and the demonic Aura that surrounded John, dragging him in the Pits of his Failures and taking away all Hope of his burning Soul.

[@chrimbus3442]

its genuinely beautiful

[@remiscott7759]

Gabriel slays the demon

[@remiscott7759]

@@ahabduennschitz7670 it's allegorical of the biblical revelation, and the beast that haunted John of Patmos, as well as an apology to John the Baptist for allowing him to lose his head on a plate. Saint Michael the archangel slays the beast. Gabriel slays the demon. Let's not forget that toxoplasmosis is a literal cat virus that plagues some to depend on cats, even though they act like they own us. Maybe they do. Can we defeat the virus? It's haunting our dreams with more and more nightmares... I'm sorry John... Cat's eat their owners when they die...

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

Yeah I love that.

[@Maxgooner]

While watching this video I reached to my, side, felt a plushie, and genuinely not joking, it was him, it was garfield

[@OkAlways-tp7lu]

Holy fuck-

[@drphdmd7064]

I genuinely love that Garfield is now a Lovecraftian Eldritch Horror that represents the abject futility of existence.

[@icyskelly204]

And this video is the bit In a cosmic horror story where the truth is revealed

[@Itzak15]

Everytime you watch a Garfield movie you lose 1d6 sanity

[@icyskelly204]

@@Itzak15 every time I see a Garfield I lose 1d6 sanity

[@rodawallace]

So this vid is the... Garfieldnomicon. So we have that going for us. Which is nice.

[@TRIPP5_Shurikens]

I don't think you genuinely love anything. You're the sort of person who says "the abject futility of existence" as if it were established fact and not an obvious reflection of your own bad premises about life.

[@hopscotch1049]

He sounds so lost and distressed when talking about the amount of Garfield jokes and comics he'd read. You're a hero, man. I could never do any of this.

[@sichacha9718]

didnt i see your comment in a ddlc video, or was that someone else?

[@hopscotch1049]

@@sichacha9718 probably.

[@MrZanderson]

As a single 30 year old man who lives alone with my cat and dog, the line "we all want to be Garfield, but we are all Jon Arbuckle" hit me hard.

[@zombieplasticclock]

Mood, fellow single 30 year old man. Maybe I should at least get a dog. No cats, not after this video

[@thegreatjb788]

I read this as soon as he said it

[@generatoralignmentdevalue]

As depressing as he made that sound in the video for effect, that actually sounds like a good time. Tell your critters the internet says hi.

[@MrZanderson]

@@generatoralignmentdevalue It is actually not bad, not as pathetic as in the comic, at least I hope not.

[@timmyman9677]

Been a john just as long, but nothing wrong with accepting His first interpterion of Garfield, an acceptance of Depression and Nihilism, or how I prefer to say "getting over it". You don't have to succeed to be happy, that's a toxic train of thought that doesn't get talked about enough. Giving up is 100% a-ok. And don't let a bunch of brain chiropractors or some neurotypicals autism project (that was deep and profound) tell you that you have to succeed to be happy. I could do without the Positive End message of some Neurotypical who probably only went through Brief situational depression telling everyone to get help. Personally I say be a Garfield, let others work hard while you reap and relax in the repeatable entertainment that comes from a bunch of apparently depressed people born on the right side of the spectrum in what is arguably the best time period to ever exist. You don't need to accomplish jack shit, and thinking you have to is not healthy. Sorry but I'm toxic both ways

[@solinsaurralde5345]

One of the best video essays in KZbin history, my third time watching it

[@atlys258]

Personally, I think all of "I'm sorry Jon/creepy Garfield/Gorefield" works best and is most terrifying when delivered completely deadpan and monotonous, as if Garfield is completely bored and entirely unconcerned, not because he's detached from reality, but because he knows and accepts the truth of their reality, that nothing matters.

[@trystero1729]

My personal favorite type of Garfield horror is the kind that completely embraces Lovecraft’s idea of cosmic indifference. Garfield isn’t malevolent, nor has he achieved some sort of nihilistic epiphany that nothing matters. He is simply trying to eat when he is hungry, and sleep when he is tired, and it only appears horrifying to Jon and the reader because Garfield himself has so much power

[@TheEternaIWait]

I think something super interesting about “The forgiveness of Jon” that I haven’t really seen anyone mention is that given the huge meta narrative being set of Garfield having Jon eternally tormented in different ways makes this supposedly ending scene being named “The forgiveness of Jon” mean so much more. I suppose it can be an interpretation that Jon’s tears come from the overwhelming joy of freedom but I think It might be more tears of sadness and remorse. Jon knows what he has to do, but even after all of the torture, pain, and suffering caused, Jon still forgives Garfield. Even after it all, it’s still his cat.

[@Braxton999Adams]

"I still love you"

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

that's crazy.

[@lilylohmann614]

Going along with that, in Forgiveness of Jon, the two have switched places for the first time: Jon is the one in power, and Garfield finally knows how it feels to be powerless, his life in another’s hands.

[@loganozselcuk6702]

@eternal wait, I do enjoy your interpretation of the image, and i agree that the tears can symbolize freedom. One perspective for me is Garfield is figuratively the manifestation of despair and the title "i'm sorry john", is almost john himself having pity of how much of a loser he perceives himself to be, and the "forgiveness of john" is john finding inner strength to forgive himself, thus conquering despair and his depression. His tears are of the pain he has endured and of beauty in which he has given himself a new look at life.

[@youtubesucksbutts]

Not to mention his creation. I didn't think those tears were about his freedom for even a second. Few things are more painful than having to put down something you created.

[@Ani]

i had absolutely no idea that the scariest video i'd watch this year would be about fucking garfield. absolutely insanely good video, massive props - really really great work!

[@somedudevista]

E

[@birb9501]

E

[@3rr0rsstuff]

The scariest video ive ever saw this year was probably one of meatcanyon's videos

[@NodDisciple1]

The year technically isn't over yet.

[@Clockwerk08]

@@NodDisciple1 that sounds.... Ominous

[@Biolumi_the_guy]

It's my sleepover and I get to choose the movie

[@LJXLVnenchak-yu1qp]

Oh no

[@daigakunobaku273]

How it went?

[@Blaze-27]

"We all want to be Garfield but we all are John Arbuckle" as memey as it sounds it's actually true in a way, and I'm honestly blown away by how a video about a newspaper comic strip can change your perspective on... well, everything. Great work Wolf

[@A_Ducky]

Isn't there a saying that art follows life? This is way way too close.

[@unlimiteddd]

@@A_Ducky The folly of Man is the great/true Garfield™ parasite.

[@alejandrotakahashi9295]

you know, it's like the ultimate answer to the meme of "be a Rick not a Jerry"

[@Blaze-27]

@@alejandrotakahashi9295 indeed

[@jman3247]

Fun fact: "The Forgiveness of Jon" is actually a riff on one of the more famous depictions of St. Michael the Archangel.

[@Ramsey276one]

Link please?

[@Eichro]

@@Ramsey276one if you look up St. Michael the Archangel, most likely than not you will stumble upon said art

[@Ramsey276one]

@@Eichro will do later, after I decompress from Garfieldritch... 1:14:23 Oh right on time! I think I have seen the source!

[@visicircle]

I remember sitting on the toilet as a kid, reading a Garfield collection. And this one comic stood out to me, where Garfield said, "Life has passed me by. Of course I had to hide a couple of times." That was my first inkling that the comic was actually a very dark, depressing thing.

[@ZergleJerk]

I realized that Odie was basically Garfield's "Lenny" from Of Mice and Men when I was about 9, after reading the book for school and going through a Garfield book I got as a gift. That made me pretty sad. And if you have not read about Lenny from Of Mice and Men. You should.

[@Kapeeshy]

@@ZergleJerk that is one of the most accurate descriptions of a character I have ever read wtf

[@Aryc11]

@@ZergleJerk Your school made you read of Mice and Men when you were nine? That seems like grossly irresponsible and potentially traumatizing material to expose a child to.

[@ZergleJerk]

@@Aryc11 Welcome to "Advanced English" back before people complained about "muh offensive material." I may have been a little older. But not much. I read way worse than that when I was a kid for fun. I read Stephen King...Dean Koontz...and some other "horror" authors.

[@Aryc11]

@@ZergleJerk I'm not saying it's an inappropriate read in school. It's a literary classic, and those are necessary reading. I'm saying that nine is too young, much like how I wouldn't give a nine-year-old a copy of The Last of Us, introduce them to Breaking Bad, or have them watch Invincible. The topics in Of Mice and Men are just too mature, in my opinion.

[@vincentpistoia9034]

Your descent into madness into the garlfield lore is absolutely amazing i hope your okay.

[@otooandoh9556]

John having a picture of him with garfield as a kid is the equivalent to the phone call coming from inside the house in a horror movie.

[@user-BadUsername]

And I realized I watched the Garfield animated show

[@thealchemistking4063]

Comments like this make my eyes water with terror.

[@romankotas448]

(Remembers watching Garfield as a kid and having completely forgotten about it)…(FEAR)

[@Kydrou]

I think the most frightening fact is being named John in a video about Jon. I'm glad the essay ends at it does. + Jojo Jon at the end.

[@kimifw58]

Remember Candle Cove?

[@Seeks_stuff]

The line "When you stare at something for long enough, it becomes... nothing" really hits deeper once I've finished watching this video. Rewatching the beginning, it seemed like a normal video that was going to give a little explanation about what happened to Garfield on the internet, and I would've never guessed that it would be so genuinely emotional by the end and that I would actually think of Garfield any differently from what I did before watching. After listening and just seeing what Garfield has become, it felt more natural and real, it wouldn't have hit the same way if I just skipped to the end, I would think that is just silly and move on with my day. The video talked so much about Garfield's disturbing reality, that i've accepted that as something normal. After we've seen something for long enough, it loses meaning. It becomes normal. We learn to live with it without any questioning. Like a 3 panel comic strip that will never stop repeating itself.

[@matthew2h2o40]

that works both ways my freind the more you stare at nothing the more your dumb chimp looks for patterns to escape boredom. which is kind of why i keep coming back to this dumb type of pretentious media.

[@GlorifiedGremlin]

I was expecting to watch 10 minutes, skip around, and get bored lol but this guy has a serious talent for grabbing and KEEPING your attention. I can't believe I watched a video about Garfield that's an hour and a half long and didn't get bored even once

[@clonerstive]

@@matthew2h2o40 >pretentious You misspelled "well constructed, and tightly edited, with an engaging through line"

[@tulipp2p]

thank you seek

[@sboinkthelegday3892]

The observation is backwards, it was never nothing or everything, it's just, anything. All this stuff is just the same old, pretended to have a special meaning because Garfiield is injected into it. People looking at all of history and jsut say "it's boring", so "fandom" makes the same shit but with Garfield. Repetition is what organisms DO, and a repetitive comic strip is just the lowest common denominator of that. The lie is that they get to be called "a fandom". They just include ONE semiotic symbol in their visual lexicon. For reference, EVERY ENGLISH WORD is such a symbol already. It's like, how many people latched onto the particle "the" and became fans of its function at making anything a noun. Suddenly Garfield is MORE original diversion because it's not The Garfield. And it easily could be, because speaking in nouns IS the most braindead way to live as a human being. Toddlers point at things, and find the one interesting factor about it to be its name, recognizing it as a noun. "look mom, I recognize that visual, it's the Garfield again!" And toddlers cry when something eerie spooks them. So, most toddler-like people like the fact that "oh, it's just somebody doing the garfield thing again", so they don't have to engage with the material any further than that. Not see it for anything more that could possibly be going on. And create it for the purpose to NOT have anything more going on. It IS the exact same as publishing the strip for decades on end. It's THIS GENERATION being calcified, uninspired mass consumer of the new print media, internet.

[@anonsfunfactory6993]

"The Forgiveness of Jon" Who's to say Garfield isn't trapped himself? Bound by his devious nature, unable to walk another path. His existence means torment, a torment Jon asked for because he wanted to be punished. Behind the horrible cosmic grins, I believe he wants it all to stop. He never wanted this, he just wanted to give Jon what he wanted. Jon, realizing this in tears in his eyes, ascends. He sees Garfield for what he really is: Not a cat, but a being created by him to justify his suffering. There never was a reason, and Garfield is meaningless. He looks down to the demonic entity he created, heaving foul air and scrapping at the desolate ground, eyes closing in the sickness of his purpose. Jon closes his eyes, and releases Garfield, no longer needing him.

[@anotherwea6692]

Man, that writting was great

[@yphoenix5957]

You just summarized James Sunderland's relationship with the Pyramid Head in Silent Hill 2 lol. But yes, that was great, I agree!

[@_Tzer]

Dude you should become a writer. Such an amazing piece. Comment on the reddit thread about it its still open to comments and upvotes. An artist tormented by existence just turned to a cat said cat overtaken him and consumed the media he was a part of.. eventually replacing him as the main character the forgiveness of jon is jon rejecting it saying no i am the main character once more. Depression doesnt bring demons no it brings far far worse things.. cosmic horrors.. those who surpass it can reach a level of cosmic understanding.. Sidenote: I think jon appearing not as an eldritch angel(cough wheel cough) but a human one shows the fact he has truly regained his sense of self of humanity. Horrors cosmic horrors(possibly from the void the desire to return from nothing brings those made from nothing also lovecraft was depressed when he made his things it's a pattern i noticed depression brings them to you.)

[@L0rdOfThePies]

You're saying jon has a humiliation kink?

[@renharris6504]

Go check out Rojom’s other works, too! I’m particularly fond of their Eldertubby series. :o

[@Suchwerewolf]

I had a math teacher whose entire classroom was a shrine to Garfield. His mug was Garfield, the clock was Garfield, posters of Garfield on every wall, plushies of Garfield on every available surface, suction cupped Garfield is attached to the pane of the glass on the door to the classroom that stares out at you as you pass. The man. Liked. Garfield.

[@cutecentral1930]

"oh yeah my third period class is garf-ed"

[@96next]

I love how every Garfield related deep dive ends up in people going insane.

[@Ikcatcher]

Can you blame them?

[@c-puff]

Stare into the abyss etc etc etc

[@HyperGolem]

Nah, they're just acting. But this is pretty damn creative and thought provoking content though.

[@sturg0353]

I’m considering ”The Forgiveness of Jon” as the canon ending to the crazy ass creepy Garfield story. I can’t believe how much philosophical and deep shit you packed into this video. Great job Eyepatch

[@realdecoy]

My uncle was obsessed with Garfield growing up, and something hit me when watching this video. He was always treated badly by his father, while his older brother "John" was completely idolised, being the first-born, and could do no wrong. Maybe my uncle got pleasure from seeing a character called John be so pathetic.

[@idkhonestlyy]

Heh.. thats called coping, hope ya' uncle is doin well tho

[@realdecoy]

@@idkhonestlyy It depends if you class having a taxidermy cat in your living room as "doing well".

[@Maggot39967]

@@realdecoy I mean... was it at least his cat?

[@realdecoy]

@@Maggot39967 yes, it was his!

[@SuperPuddingCup]

Was it named Garfield?

[@kirgokan]

24:04 the polish woman said „this child is not mine. This child is something from darkness. I’ve given birth to humanity’s curse”

[@syncentral9770]

An hour of life gone to watch someone have an existential crisis about Garfield and I genuinely feel fulfilled because of it

[@smilingipad3044]

If I had a nickel for every time this happened I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

[@taakothewizardfromtv7620]

@@smilingipad3044 what's the other video

[@smilingipad3044]

@@taakothewizardfromtv7620 7/27/1978 by lasagnacat

[@Fleshi_Guy615]

I feel a nihilistic emptiness because of this video. But somehow, I also feel fulfilled. Garfield doesn't even exist. When his creator, Jim Davis, dies, he will persist without any form of inconvenience. Jim has no control over Garfield. He can only continue to feed it, Garfield is now controlled by the masses, an amorphous Lovecraftian concept that ends lives and consumes fantasies. When the heat death of the universe occurs, Garfield may still have some traces of his presence on the earth. I frickin love this video, though. Thank you, super eyepatch wolf, for giving me an existential crisis.

[@gfh110]

I wish my grandmother had lived to see this video. She loved Garfield when she was younger and bought shitloads of merch and even had one of those suction-cup plush Garfields in her car. Eventually she became frustrated and disillusioned with the comic as it became stale and repetitive. But she also had a fantastically dark sense of humor and thought the "Garfield without Garfield" comics were brilliant. As a lifelong fan of Lovecraft and Stephen King she would have loved the existential horror elements that developed later.

[@AzureRadio]

That post made me straight up tear up, it's not often the older generations admit to enjoying that. That's really sweet

[@pwn3r1]

its such a shame she didnt see this :c

[@jester9732]

that's super cool

[@ronanegan6529]

Dude your grandma sounds fucking awesome

[@AkilahOsa]

@@ronanegan6529 I agree, their grandma does sound really amazing. 🐈

[@titaniumchief7272]

The fact that wolf behaves like a Lovecraft character-curiosity luring him in like bait, clinging to normalcies like humor and Patreon in order to keep his sanity only to question reality and his very memories, ultimately singing the praise of this incomprehensible Eldritch horror he has accidentally uncovered, willingly or not, but rejecting it at the very end-really brings this video together.

[@oliviapenelopehope4497]

It’s videos like this that brings out the writer in us all.

[@Dudebox64]

Garfield is actually very reminiscent of Nurgle from Warhammer 40k. The theme of giving in utterly to despair and death, but at the same time being perfectly and completely okay with that has a lot of parallels with Plaguefather worshippers. Even the descriptions of Nurgle and his followers being bloated, grotesque masses fits perfectly with Garfield's portrayal as an obscenely fat cat. And just as Nurgle spreads his "gifts" of plague and decay in an attempt to make as many people as possible give up like he has given up, and thus turn to his worship as a way to take away the pain of their conditions, so Garfield abuses Jon and constantly attempts to emphasize how pathetic he really is, because Jon's despair and misery empowera Garfield and makes him ever larger and more nightmarish.

[@Kreyations]

I never noticed how much Garfield pops up in my life until I watched this video a year ago. I see stuffies in peoples car. Memes pop up that have Garfield. Streaming services I’m subscribed to recommends Garfield. And now… they’re making a Garfield movie

[@ArgentLeftovers]

And Hot Topic had fresh Garfield merch this week. Truly a moment of dread seeing it.

[@MatthewChristianMurray]

Not the first Garfield movie, either.

[@dammit3048]

"We have so saturated this earth with Garfield merchandise that even the earth herself has begun to reject it" My absolute favorite line. Made me laugh and cry at the same time

[@Huggbees]

Lasagna Cat is one of my biggest inspirations of all time so I'm glad someone with your level of writing talent is finally tackling the more intricate sides of this fucked fandom.

[@CoolDude-kd1bj]

Bro love your videos

[@keythekreature7651]

Eyyy, is this a filling machine or a rinsing machine? im so sorry

[@sclumge1867]

Hello

[@slashy777]

I can hear your voice just by reading this

[@awsomeman350]

I discovered it completely on accident years ago and I could not believe what I was watching. To this day it's the best KZbin channel I've ever seen

[@AURELIAN-restitutororbis]

Man, this is a hell of a deep analysis. To be honest, I never thought about WHY people were turning Garfield into a Lovecraftian monster, I just stumbled into r/imsorryjon and began enjoying content with no questions whatsoever. It just felt like a natural extension of Garfield, you know?

[@triplepinata27]

Ikr

[@yudi-weiss3827]

Same lol. It makes so much more sense now

[@euclodies1719]

@@triplepinata27 sauce pfp plz

[@euclodies1719]

Beastars?

[@flaco3462]

how the fuck is that even remotely natural

[@Hepheat75]

Holy crap! This is such a well-made video. I had no idea Garfield lore went this deep.

[@umamisoup3335]

You took a character, his author's story, his shitposts, his fandom, his merchandise and remolded them in a narrative that made me experience true dread. And then the motivational finale was fucking GLORIOUS. I just want to thank you for the effort you put in this REALLY EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO. This is not shitpost: is art, there isn't other way to describe it.

[@Guimhj]

Garfield is existencial dread from global warming

[@אדרששון]

you should praise him insted for finding good topics

[@DHunter_47]

The Kingdom of God is at Hand John 3:16 King James Version 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[@RegretfulBirdConsumer]

Shitposts are art

[@Knux5577]

@@DHunter_47 The only true god is garfield

[@PunkExMachina]

There’s times where Garfield does show that he cares for Jon. One time Jon says he feels unloved and Garfield gives him his teddy bear for example. He’s a cat tho so he doesn’t like to show his affection like oddie does lol. Anyways great video this really captures why I love the existential nightmares made out of Garfield lore.

[@euclodies1719]

Sauce pfp plz

[@calemr]

There's also times John succeeds. He managed to get into a relationship with Liz. Which makes that Lasagne Cat video wrong. It Should be "John Arbuckle, 2" "John Arbuckle, 1".

[@danimorgan5378]

Honestly, that is how every cat I’ve had is like

[@PunkExMachina]

@@euclodies1719 it’s just art I made

[@ttd0000]

@@calemr Having a girlfriend does not mean he's had sex.

[@crimsonDestroyer]

The most impressive part of Sex Survey Results is that not only did they individually say "[name], who?" in response to every single caller by name, but they also individualized responses to people who said slightly different things (like the one woman who first asked "i'm supposed to say how many sexual partners I've had?" and Jon responding with "yes, that's right) and even included joke call-ins with individualized responses to those as well (ranging from the person answering the door getting the joke when someone introduces themself as "hugh jass" or "hugh mongous" to specialized, appropriate responses to people who didn't answer the question in the slightest, like one person who goes on a semi-joke rant insulting lasagna cat or the other person who just says "i want to die"). I have a deep respect for the actor(s) of Jon, Garfield, and Odie. The amount of sheer commitment it must've taken to record all of that is staggering.

[@adonailr9667]

and that's why it is the best internet shitpost of all time

[@shi-chan5779]

@@adonailr9667 This whole think is just so insane

[@Katie-ws7xp]

bro the Jesus Christ and 12 is honestly peak comedy idc

[@BlankedOutSlate]

Did someone just say *mongous?*

[@i_garfed_on_the_carpet]

this video was pretty much the start of my downward spiral

[@ddl3718]

Garfield minus Garfield is probably the saddest thing I’ve ever read

[@onerxowns2202]

Most realistic one...

[@MythicBeanProductions]

Yeah. Then you realize that without the context of Garfield, anyone looking at John's life would see that too

[@yellownotmellow]

unironically made me start reflecting

[@watchmychannelorelse]

I remember seeing one where Jon says in the first 2 panels, "I'm depressed. And you know what I do when I'm depressed?" and then vanishes in the 3rd. The implications scare me.

[@diamanteazul85bluediamonts72]

​@@watchmychannelorelse what did he do? I already know more or less...

[@anuraagkumar978]

I love the forgiveness of Jon. Everything else Jon has tried, bullets, suffering, killing himself, running away… none of it has worked. The only thing that does, the only thing that helps finally kill Garfield is forgiveness. He forgives himself for feeling bad and he forgives Garfield. Garfield might not have been sorry, and that’s not what matters, because Jon has finally let him go. Jon felt like he needed Garfield but Garfield actually needs Jon. Because without jons despair… who is he? Who is Garfield. Nothing. Garfield might be Jon’s entire reality but Jon is everything to Garfield, he is Garfields host. Garfield is Jon’s despair and Jon forgives it, and it goes away.

[@dankwitdastank]

Well fuckin said

[@NickMC512]

Holy shit.

[@BennyA-ky6tq]

I didnt watch the video nor do I have prior knowledge about what "the internet did" to Garfield but holy shit I did not know it was this dark lol

[@TheBorwig]

@@BennyA-ky6tq I watched the whole video and it’s a super trip. Beware.

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

woah.

[@greenfolder2437]

"Slightly too many irish stereotype Garfield." He took that one personally.

[@mikebirks2336]

Removing Garfield from the comic is like taking away the laugh track on Friends or Big Bang Theory. Without a manufacturerd applause signal, it's just an insight to a horrible situation.

[@SwankyKitteh82]

Speaking as a child of the 80's; to understand Garfield's popularity, you have to understand the time that Garfield immerged from. It was the late 70's - early 80's. There was no internet. We as a nation here in the US were still coming off of the (largely waning) "jovial sit-com era" of television. Everything prior was a sort of Leave It To Beaver or The Cosby Show sort of formula. You have a happy family > family encounters a (usually moral) dilemma > by episode's end family resolves dilemma and is happier and stronger for having done so. Outside of the nightly news, nearly all television prior to the late 70's followed this formula. Garfield was popular for the very same reason Married With Children and The Simpsons were popular. It showed us all, largely for the first time in the mainstream, that relatable cynicism could be humorous. And incidentally all three franchises took off like a rocket in popularity because of this.

[@PriceAintRight]

Beautiful breakdown.

[@rattis]

THIS! This is what almost nobody seems to realize about Garfield nowadays; Garfield was not some safe middle-of-the-road comedy when it first came out; it stood out amongst the competition because of it's cynical, Bill Murray-esque snarkiness. Jon was a kind of pathetic (though he would definitely grow more pathetic over the years) average Joe, and Garfield was this mean quick-witted little bastard that took joy in breaking his owner down by pointing out his sad state of being over and over again. It was pretty fucking hardcore as far as mainstream comedy usually went in those days.

[@starmaker75]

yeah Garfield was hit hard by what tv tropes would called "old hat/seinfeld is unfunny". To us gen z-er and late millennials garfield is very typical, almost painful typical. but to the people in 1970s-1980s it could be seen as a breathe of fresh.

[@jvanausdeln]

I remember bonding over my first crush in 2nd grade over Garfield (92-93?).

[@SwankyKitteh82]

@@starmaker75 It was indeed. It at that time was all new and had never been done before. That's probably why the 90's were so cringy levels of edgy and "Xtreme!" in terms of media. It was an all-new horizon at the time, and it had a TON of copycats trying to ride those coat-tails. Things like Garfield and Alf were very of their time, but back then it was fresh and even heavily rebellious.

[@crook7367]

Looking for Garfield and finding him everywhere even when he's not there because of pattern recognition is exactly the same phenomena that happened to loss and among us.

[@1tylerq127]

The thing about pattern recognition is that it cannot occur if there isn't a pattern to be recognized. And Garfield is chief among those things which have established themselves as firm patterns in our daily lives. There is a very real reason why the pattern is evident in the first place statistically speaking, but the patterns themselves are frequently commonplace enough that we often fail to recognize them. So when we do notice them, it's surprising and odd to think that such a pattern has been so present outside of our awareness.

[@IHateNumbersOnNames]

so Amogus Garfield skin confirmed?

[@BoxoSpoons]

The thing is Garfield actually IS there.

[@vitorcalazans1412]

sus

[@NotASovietSpy1]

Garfeild: The Father Amogus: The Son Loss: The Holy Spirit

[@thesiIIiestgoose]

Imagine Jim Davis watches this video and says: “You’re too deep”

[@Robynhoodlum]

By using Jon as a self insert. Jim Davis invited the world for a peek into his subconscious.

[@milosbatmanvideos]

@@Robynhoodlum idc

[@pedromeiramendesyoutuberpe7203]

@@milosbatmanvideos then why did you read it

[@milosbatmanvideos]

@@pedromeiramendesyoutuberpe7203 because it seemed interesting, and you use like bots apparently and that's just wrong

[@pedromeiramendesyoutuberpe7203]

@@milosbatmanvideos the first one was me but the second idk

[@sweetpea644]

My nostalgia for Garfield once comprised of the books, animated shows and live-action movies. Now my nostalgia comprises of Minus Garfield, Lasagna Cat, and Gorefield. Jim Davis and Paws Inc are swimming in dosh either way.

[@planetnydro]

The "Garfield without Garfield" comics are interesting. Due to the lack of the titular character, we get to see more of John's reality, but it also drastically changes the context of some strips. I recognized a few as ones where he was originally upset about stupid amounts of cat hair, but without the cat, it just looks like he's upset about life in general.

[@caittails]

I mean, he literally said exactly this in the video.

[@Dylanhero1]

This might be self-evident, but I liked how "The forgiveness of Jon" is a direct reply to the subreddit itself. "I'm sorry jon" is an apology after all and this is Jon's answer.

[@Star_Dropp1]

Damn, I was trying to figure out how the title clicked and now it makes so much sense

[@wisdomwielder]

It's also directly inspired by this piece of art: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Michael_Vanquishing_Satan

[@skooptywooop1030]

tick-tock the clock has stopped

[@rattis]

Let's be honest: When Garfield was announced for Nickelodeon All Star-Brawl, he superseded Spongebob as the most recognizble character in the game. And here is the thing; he is one out of only about five to ten characters on the planet that could ever have done so.

[@BasilWald]

Mario, Mickey mouse, snoopy, superman, spiderman I think are the 5

[@PinClockFuntime]

@@BasilWald Don't forget Bugs Bunny and Pikachu

[@crunchbuttsteak8741]

@@PinClockFuntime batman and uh I think that's it tbh

[@AdachiCabbage]

@@BasilWald Add sonic to that too

[@sirowl2519]

Now you guys are just adding your childhood characters at this point

[@Jurt619]

I honestly believe this is the most entertaining video I’ve seen on KZbin. It’s like the ideal video for me. A super super long video essay so I don’t have to switch videos so quickly, it’s about something I’m mildly interested in but don’t know much about, and it’s written very very well. Good job, eyepatch wolf.

[@MilkoInsano]

i was expecting this whole thing to be about “i’m sorry jon” but it was so much more terrifying

[@SIClongboarding420]

This video sucks

[@enterchannelname3824]

@@SIClongboarding420 somewhat agree as I don’t like how over exaggerated it is at some moments but you have to admit it is a bit interesting

[@benmilne08]

@@enterchannelname3824 also somewhat agree, the foreshadowing was unnecessary and irritating, what is this a reality tv show? the tone was too hyper for me. I think its a youtube style. the content was really interesting though. I respected the collation of the facts I just wanted a less prominent presenter i guess. But I'm old.

[@alexrevolution1]

@@benmilne08 While yes it is very hyper, that is just how eyepatch wolf does his vids. you can always see him going slightly insane by the end. that is what people enjoy about him.

[@mateoremedi4703]

@@SIClongboarding420 imagine being so wrong

[@geoffreyrichards6079]

I find it particularly funny how in the comics, Garfield is pretty relentlessly unremorseful towards Jon’s misery, yet in the animated adaptations, he displays much more empathy and sensitivity towards him. Perhaps not a whole ton, but he did save Jon from a malevolent cougar in that one camping special - something I can’t picture the comic iteration doing.

[@starmaker75]

I think it because in the animated adaptation , writer have put effort then going “ funny fat cat tormenting a loser lol”. When you hear people said they unironically enjoyed Garfield, it comes from the non-comic stuff like Garfield and friends, etc. also with animated you can have voice actors give charm to the part.

[@tabbycat1014]

@@starmaker75 I think you’re right! I had a Garfield special interest growing up and I watched Garfield and Friends OBSESSIVELY. I think when you take in all the content together (especially with the more wholesome comics) you get a much more heartfelt version of Garfield than you can see in the majority of the newspaper strips

[@ProfessorChaos56]

I remember an episode of The Garfield Show where after Garfield takes down a scam of a shopping network channel, Jon is a little down because he had nothing to do. So Garfield had Jon, Odie, and himself pop some bubble rap from. It was a nice little moment.

[@Ttegegg]

@@ProfessorChaos56 oh yea. They also had movies that aired on Cartoon Network movie block

[@Eucep]

Does not help that the format of said comic, never would allow for such a thing. And I think that is why the whole fandom spoken about in this video, ignores the animation too, it's such a different existence.

[@roccogiovannni]

Me: Garfield is far too complex for mortal minds to comprehend My Mom: “What was the name of that orange cat from Garfield?”

[@rozhsoh-muh]

same energy as "What animal is the pink panther?"

[@forzaacmilan36]

@@rozhsoh-muh But the animal from Black Panther is a Homosapien. So it doesn’t always follow

[@SSJ3Tim]

"Heathcliff, mom."

[@karll0424]

Oh cmon, It's obviously Odie.

[@cctinsley67]

What is Obama's last name