"art, furries, god" sounds like the best rock, paper, scissors variant.

Oh! You get it! It's stupid, it's so incredibly stupid at its core. It definitely couldn't have worked any other way. I'm glad you understand!

"The furry aesthetic, as a whole, is a consession towards the symbolic, the sensory, the ever so slightly autistic." This really brings together the whole reason why I've stayed in this fandom for so long. The self-aware but completely invested love of something so dumb and so meaningful all at once.

this hits hard... like, its a 24 minutes straight explanation on why "im cringe but im free" is the best mindset with which art may be done. i have always been afraid for my artwork to come as stupid or non sensical and be shamed for it. but this video inspired me to think about this and now i want to become truly cringe but free. thank you, beautiful dog musician

"My name is Avery. I'm a dog. What are you?" In three sentences and ten words you somehow managed to perfectly summarize and drive home the point you were making throughout the entire video. A completely absurd and completely sincere statement and question. Beautiful.

You managed to explain the rubber-band-breaking-point tension between dumb joke and genuinely sublime piece of art that these works have. The “I am cringe but I am free” of it all. But no cringe. Just the free.

The fact that I found you cause my professor pulled me aside in a meeting about some shows I was writing/producing for my final semester and university and told me to look at your stuff cause we are similar in our writing styles kills me inside a bit. To know my professor clocked my trans autistic ass as a furry and said, "I know just who she could learn from!" I'm dead lmao. 💀

Growing up online deeply hurt me. I feel that I fall on the opposite side to what is conveyed in this video, and what a lot of people are discussing in the comments; I grew up on the side of the internet that laughed at 'cringe' content, the side with trolling and rage bait and furry hate and OMG FEMIZAZI GETS DESTROYED WITH FACTS AND LOGIC!!! Thankfully, I barely needed to hit puberty to recognise all that for what it was, but it still affects me even now. I remember one day when I was 12 years old - my first day at a new school. I was a smart kid who always asked lots of questions, went above and beyond the syllabus, and was always a pleasure to have in class, but the one thing I couldn't do was be myself. I got given a little sheet to fill in about myself, and it was the first thing I couldn't do in school. Putting pen to paper and writing out my interests, favourite TV shows, and favourite food felt instinctively wrong because I was broadcasting a tiny sliver of my personality, which put me at risk of being 'cringe'. Even my handwriting. Even my *name*, although there's now a trans-related explanation for that too. I was scared to be a person. All I wanted to be was good grades - if I could strip the person away from that then I would be perfect. I still struggle with what I call "auto-embarrassment", in that I don't let myself do things in case *I* think it's an embarrassing, cringe thing to do. Even thinking about certain things used to make me worry that I might express those thoughts and feelings, that my expression might be witnessed, that the witnesses would laugh. I'm getting over it. All the facets of my anxiety have added up, over time, to constitute a gaping void between my mind and my means, as in what I say and what I do. Self-expression, creativity and self-love are excruciatingly difficult for me, in ways that made it take longer for me to recognise my sexuality and my gender and in ways that have taken away any chance of being my authentic self at any time in my childhood. There's so much I didn't do. That's why I can't quite process just how much I love the idea of being unashamedly dumb and silly as an expression of humility and self-acceptance. Five, even three, years ago, that would've been such a nightmarish, horrible, no-good concept to me, that I would've cleared my browser history to hide the fact I'd even watched this video from nobody in particular. I'm getting better! Me, the person who would've hesitated to even put a fucking exclamation mark in this comment, to make sure I didn't sound too excited! I'm deprogramming myself and it is the best, most liberating thing I've ever done. I have a pride flag being delivered. I have new friends; even if I'm not always open with them, I do that by choice and not because I feel it's a necessity. I stopped forcing myself to like normal things, even in private (internalisation is the most powerful form of influence, after all) and I genuinely feel like I'm just getting to know myself after quite a lot of years of being the person that I am, just squished down and put on mute. You in particular, Patricia Taxxon, played a big part in all of this. Hearing your music, the experimental, innovative sound of Spiral Staircase and several dozen other tracks helps me feel like myself. The emotion in your voice is so real and so beautiful, and I hope that I can sing in my own, tangential way someday. There's a tiny little voice in my head that tells me not to listen to you, that you and listening to you are wrong, and with each loop it gets smaller and recedes further into the horizon. Also, you put me onto Echo and my brain has been totally consumed - that's definitely a less serious note but a genuinely important one nonetheless. I'm re-learning how to express myself and be imperfect, and that may or may not be starting with an Echo fanfic, and building to an entirely original VN that I'm 20k words deep into planning. I'm a writer who's still deciding on a name. I'm genderfluid and I'm demisexual and I'm happy to be here. I also want to get around to designing an owl fursona. It still stings a little bit, writing in the first person and acknowledging myself as any kind of person, but I'm getting there. Hi.

YEAH ALL MY ENGLISH TEACHERS SHE REVEALED THE THESIS IN THE LAST 90 SECONDS AND IT WORKED BETTER THAN ANY SAMPLE ESSAY YOU EVER WROTE LLLLLLLLL

I got lured in by the title of this without context and spent the rest of the video yelling across my house "BABE THIS PERSON IN THIS VIDEO ESSAY IS TALKING ABOUT HHH GREG DAFT PUNK REMIX. BABE. NOW THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SPOOKY COMPUTER SCREEN PARODY SONGS. BABE. NOW IT'S OUR NEW FAVORITE MOVIE. BABE THIS PERSON GETS IT" And indeed you do. Silliness enhances every other human emotion and experience.

That final line broke me. After the video ended I just sat and stared for a solid 10 seconds, contemplating that little question, “What are you?”. Ive called myself a furry since early middleschool, pretty much once I found out about the fandom I was hooked. I proudly made my first fursona, a lynx named Pixel with bright purple hair who was definitely a mary sue. She may have been cringe but as an overweight little kid who grew up in a small town where nobody liked them it felt like I had a sense of self. I wrote a self insert story about her called Paper Butterflies, and it was the first time I had ever shown my personal writing to anyone. Now the person I let read it was my grandmother, who is a lovely woman but she definitely doesn’t like things that are too “different”. Well she read it, and I was so terrified she’d hate it that I just wanted to tear my ipod out of her hands. But then she asked me “Are you going to write more of this? I like it.” And that was the moment I think I felt the most proud of anything I had written. Over the years I used Pixel less and less (got a different fursona now, named Cheddar) but she was important to me, without her I don’t think I would’ve ever had shown off my writing and part of me doesn’t think I would’ve ever came out of the closet as Bi and Nonbinary if I hadn’t continued writing and making art. It was cringe and silly and unabashedly childish, but it is a part of my life I could never take for granted. So to answer that question? My name is Cheese and I’m a cat.

This is perhaps the most thorough assassination of cringe culture I've ever seen and it's not even explicitly about it. To me, cringe is exactly what makes life worth living. If you're cringing that means you're seeing something new, different, unique and away from the norm. To look cringe directly in the face and embrace it is to embrace the new and novel. I totally love the idea of silliness or cringe acting as a disarming mechanism. I totally feel that way especially with furries. There have been so many aspects of life I was too scared to interact with for being too scary or serious, like socializing or sexuality or experiencing new art or experimenting with new hobbies or exploring my identity beyond those things. But being able to do those things with a silly veneer of furriness took a lot of that edge away and allowed me to experience these parts of life without feeling like it's too serious. It's exactly like what's described with album album art but it goes so much further than just that for me. I've watched this video at least 4 times now and I will probably come back to it several more times. This is just such a perfect description of a very specific and very real effect that a certain type of art can have on someone and it's totally incredible. This kind of thing really needs a word beyond "disarming." Every time I rewatch this video I come away totally inspired. I have struggled with personal sincerity pretty much all my life and figuring out how to inhabit my silly and honest self without restraint has been a battle. I struggle to view myself from any angle other than what I think others view me as. But this video continues to inspire me to find new ways to be myself and experience life without taking it too seriously. Thanks

Subscribing to a remix channel was not the outcome I expected from the furry video. I also cried a bit the moment you talked about the emotional complexities of Adastra because I just finished recording THE SCENE a couple days ago and I guess I'm not over it again. What a beautiful, almost irresponsibly affective game.

video of all time

Its always forgotten what the furry fandom even is: *an art community* Not just any art community though, but the biggest online art community there is- It's a large group of talented and creative artists of all mediums. There's artwork, music, writing, and so many more- Even fursuiting is just cosplay/costume work and acting. It has its flaws for sure, but looking past the stereotypes and bad apples, its one of the most creative and inspiring groups out there, and even if its silly, its inspired me to find my own love for art, and now I'm studying to advance to a professional level and make it my career. It's a place of talented artists all inspiring one another, and that's something quite special.

“What are you?” Still trying to figure that out to this day, in a furry sense and gender sense and sexuality sense and emotional sense. I truly don’t know what or who I am for certain. All I know is what I can do, or at least will try to do. My name is North, I don’t know what I am, but I do know that I’m here to help.

actual made me smile ear to ear hearing someone recognize and represent the artform that is clentence mixing, cledits, ss, sos

im not a furry, i dont even personally know anyone whos a furry (afaik at least) but holy fuck do i have nothing but respect for yall. as an outside observer, genuinely some of the most incredible, transcendental shit ive witnessed, came from yall (patty's music is absolutely included in that, Gloria is the album of all time). i can only hope to one day produce something that could maybe hold a candle to the art furries seem to be pumping out all the time. yall are on the bleeding edge of something truly special

Harassment against someone for being part of a peaceful, compassionate and welcoming community due to their difference from the norm and baseless stereotypes is bigotry and marginalization. I will always champion rights for life for my fellow furries, against discrimination and threats of violence. It might be a sort of counterculture, however that doesn't warrant any of the flak or intense hatred we receive. We're people too, and of a community that isn't all that weird in the grand scheme of things.

Yoooo I have never been part of an analysis and it is SO WELL DONE! Lots of love❤️❤️

I did NOT expect Ween to be the first 5 minutes when talking about furries but I'm highly appreciative holy shit

If I had a nickel for every time a youtuber I've never seen before showed up on my feed in a coming-out video as a furry and then proceeded to sing the praises of Adastra, I would have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's strange it's happened twice this year. If I had a nickel for every youtuber I've never seen before who convinced me to subscribe to them by coming out as a furry and sing the praises of Adastra, I would have an additional 2 nickels.

I had so many points where I went “where is she going with this” and then proceeded to get hit so hard that I dropped my bass on the ground. This video is the very thing it’s describing and I love it so much

The way you built up that last verse of Kiss Me (Kill Me) made it give me actual chills. I GOTTA see this.

Felt this on an unreasonably deep level. My favorite art is always the stuff that’s unafraid to be both incredibly stupid and soul-baringly genuine. Zero fucks given over whether it’s “cringe,” just absolute barely-contained passion for the medium. And as usual, the furries have lapped everyone else ten times over.

This. This is it. This is what I want my art to be. This is literally (and I'm not exaggerating) what i feel every time I watch one of my favorite movies. My favorite games. Songs. I love media that is dumb and funny and silly, but has some of the most indepth and complex messages and themes. The evil dead franchise. Edgar wright's movies. Everything everywhere all at once. The Postal series. Silent Hill. System of a Down. Resident evil. Undertale and Deltarune. They're dumb, they're silly, make no sense, sometimes are fucking stupid but they're also amazingly enjoyable and funny and horrifying and artistically incredible and make me want to cry out of seeing something so beautiful. They *mean* something, they have something to say, and they don't care to be silly, because you're gonna get it you're gonna understand it, because this is what it is to be human. To be taken seriously, to say some of the rawest shit, and also make a funny man say a funny thing, god FUCK.

20:07 Patty's monologue being supplemented by an entire shot of a man staring straight ahead while TimesNewRoman text with three exclamation points slowly crawls into view just slayed me for some reason

honestly tj’s ending broke me too, i understand why the writer needed a break lol. (my name is sasha and im a hyena and this video essay is something ive been struggling to put into words for a while- thank you)

As a person who is both queer and a furry, i have been closeted really hard my entire life and having people talk about what being a furry is to them and like genuinely talking about what meaningful things you can find in the fandom is just super validating.

I'm glad you brought up Adastra, because that was a major part in why I came out as a furry earlier this year. It was a surprisingly well-written piece of art that made me re-think personal projects I put aside or never started because they were "too niche." Loved this video, Pat!

I am cringe, but I am free= This is so dumb, but it’s so sincere about it. and that’s beautiful

Just wanted to say your fursona/character portraits are so unbelievably adorable omg

I'm a furry and think I we t through a similar process when developing my fursona. It started out as a joke character; an intentionally overbaked pastelle cutesy OC you'd expect from a middle schooler - blue hair, studs, slushy shirt, an X over one eye for no reason (directly inspired by Vaggy from Hazbin Hotel) that I then made kind of offputting with a gangly and sickly body as though the character were a drug user, facial hair, and lots of body hair. It was supposed to be a dunk on "cringy" design tropes I "used" to like, but also dunking on me because "lol, I'm white trash!" It was just a character; a costume to put on and take off at will. But, as I had art of the character commissioned and fleshed out the backstory (again, their entire existence was steeped in irony) I started unironically connecting to the character and the universe I had created for him to inhabit. It made me realize that the "tackyness" I was parodying are aspects of character design I unironically enjoy. I think this video finally made that whole process click for me.

There's something to delivering human emotions through supposedly silly or disarming media. Odd comparison, but Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are great examples of this. The former is a 50 year old chemistry teacher cosplaying as a drug kingpin with his abused twink meth-addicted boyfriend as he slowly destroys the lives of everyone around him, while BCS is about a silly joke lawyer doing elderly people's taxes and nerds riding in hummers while desperately clawing for an escape from the issues which plague himself, leading to him drowning in a vortex of his own actions compounded by the hatred of others. The shows also don't try to denigrate themselves for their silly or absurdist aspects. Hank making his own alcohol or Walter gripping the talking pillow are all taken seriously by the shows, allowing them to show Hank having a mental breakdown as his own escape from reality reignites his PTSD, or Walter's inability to speak up for himself and truthfully communicate with others causing him to breakdown as he tries to tell his family that he wants to die. It's really late, so I don't have any grander point to pointing that out. It's just an observation, that when people embrace being silly and over the top, it allows for people to truly express their experiences in life. Trying to scrub art of that and burn down anyone who accepts such a reality, which embraces being a furry, or over the top comedy, or anything, leads to soulless creations which say nothing in their apathy for the human experience. To dig into a piece of media that does this, there's a pilot for a show about robots on youtube. It's 3D and the plot follows a bunch of robots who, in the aftermath of humanity's extinction, are hunted by angel robots, forcing them to live underground for decades. It'd be such a great series if it wasn't for the show being nothing but it insulting itself. Every character points out the exact trope they follow as if its a subversion, each plot point is insulted as being absurd or unrealistic, each and every idea the show portrays is caked in cynicism. I could barely stomach half of its 30 minute runtime. It just feels slimy, immature. Like a 14 year old who insults themself for having interests just to appeal to the perceived cynicism in older friends. Seeing that style of media die out and be spat on makes me more happy than I can possibly admit.

I'm back here on my biweekly late night rewatch of this video, and I am utterly BAFFLED that I had not ONCE watched this video before with captions on. As captivating as this video is on it's own, I am begging you- *BEGGING* you to watch this video with the given captions on. *You will not regret it.* I would even go on as to say this is the Definitive way to watch this video, if watching it 2 in the morning in the middle of reevaluating your entire trajectory as an artist isn't in the cards for you. Mad, MAD props to Jaguar314 for their hard work, it was like experiencing the novelty and raw passion of the video itself all over again. (Hi, Avery! My name is Ponky, and I'm a bat.)

OH MY GOD THIS IS WHY BILL WURTZ MUSIC HITS SO HARD. It's silly but there's still meaning and then it hits you with a line like "I just did a bad thing. I ruined everything. And I've let the things I've ruined ruin me" And then the song just keeps going like it didn't happen but it frames the next occurrence of the chorus in a different light that makes it feel so much more real and brings out feelings from within you that you wouldn't have admitted you felt until they were unsuspectingly TORN FROM YOU by a song that just moments ago had the absolute silliest second verse you've ever heard. I specifically recommend "Just did a bad thing" (the song I just talked about), "Mount St. Helens is about to blow up", "i'm scared", and "La de da de da de da de day oh" if you haven't heard them.

Damn this hit me like a truck, never in a million year did I expect JerryTerry's work to be analyzed in any fashion, let alone critically. It actually put into words why I love YTPMV as an art form. I've been on the internet since I was young and grew up listening to YTPMVs but I never understood why I liked them, I just did. As I grew older I realized the amount of work and artistry that actually goes into these silly little videos. They can be funny, they can be emotional, they can be nightmare inducing and they can be goddamn transcendent, It actually inspired me to try and become an editor and a musician so I could make the kinds of YTPMVs fawn me would love. And I hope I'll be able to achieve that. My name is Red, I'm a deer

Man, this video has so many layers in it, I think it might be one of the best documentary-type videos I've seen. I *really* want this video to have more views, I saw your channel a few years ago and couldn't find it again, and I think for my re-visit to this channel I couldn't have picked a better video. Thanks for makin' this stuff & stuff!

Of all the fandoms furries are inarguably the most emotionally in-tune and naturally expressive

My wish as an artist is to be the type of artist to make a person like Patty proud of me

If there is one thing that draws me towards your art, it's that it feels like it's just unapologetically you. I get the impression that what you care most about in your art and video essays, is to get the thing across that you want to express, without much regard as to what people might think of it. That goes for both your music and videos like this one. If you feel like talking about your furry story, that is exactly what you are going to do, and I respect that. And it seems like thats the direction you are headed. Just more and more of you. Keep it up! Also I am a kitty cat meow

Beautiful essay. Also "it makes you better at watching movies" is a distillation of like ten pages of essay I have lodged sideways in my head about that movie and have been unable to put to words. I'm kinda mad that you unthreaded it so effortlessly. I'm not a furry, but I'm whatever the robot version of a furry is. Sadly there doesn't seem to be a consistent name for it 🤷‍♀️

thank you so much for mentioning Everything Everywhere All At Once, because i was sobbing the enter last quarter of that movie, even through the stupid jokes and the humor. honestly because of it, because it felt so human and real.

Just watched Kiss me (Kill me), and I cried because of just how unsettling it was, it was an experience I will never be able to replicate again

This was fucking beautiful Patty, like... damn. Helps when you talk about pure transcendence in art but thanks for weaving the story.

This is also, (i think) why the Outsider genre music is so touching. It's not like Daniel Johnston didn't know his music sounded "childlike" or "innocent", or that simple melodies with bare-bones lyrics wouldn't be disregarded. Yet, for all the "bad" music boxes he ticks, what made him stand out was his commitment. He said to the world, "hi, this is how i feel, it's kitsch and dumb and cheesy, and it's for you".

This speaks to me on some sort of psychological level that I don't understand but I can feel, probably because I too am a furry, and the furry waves are impacting me in a way a non-furry can't feel.

this was the equivalent of 50 video essays strung into one cohesive message despite the fact it melted my brain watching it... it was one of those videos where you gotta' sit back in your chair and squint at the sealing and think to yourself, "why?"... I enjoyed it I think?

Not a furry, but this was a damn good video. I only really know one furry (she's the one who recommended me this video, and she's somewhere down in the comments here) but I can see this video meaning a lot for the community. Yall are definitely over hated and misunderstood. Keep it up Edit: this comment didn't age well, cause I may or may not be a furry now Edit again: this video is hitting me so much harder nowadays Edit again (again): I can't stop rewatching this, it makes me feel so much. actual life changing shit Edit again (again again): ok so when I watched this the first time I was a pretty basic guy, only notable thing about me was I was aroace. I am now a trans aroace furry dog girl and it mostly started here. this video literally changed me

There is nothing better then listening to people passionately talking about something they love. Thank you for making this

I only have one thing to say; Holy crap! I can't even begin to explain how important you explaining this concept was. I love every second of this video and the message you brought with it. When I look closer I can DEFINITELY see this concept in the movies and tv I watch, games I play, music I listen to, and even in my own art sometimes. Glad this came across my feed, this has definitely changed my view on how I make and perceive art from now on. Good luck to ya and happy travels, cause you deserve it!

I’m not a furry by any means, but I totally vibe with your views on art, irony and sincerity. It’s made me totally rethink the way I make art myself, so I thank you for this

I myself have taken the pretense-destroying path of representing myself online _exclusively_ with forms derived from my own ridiculous fetishes. It serves the miraculous double use of guarding against taking yourself too seriously *and* simultaneously forcing you to embrace your true, authentic self. I highly recommend.

This video put a smile on my face, and I can't quite put my finger on why. Maybe I'm just a sap for seeing people be wonderfully, confidently happy with who they are. (Also super happy to see Kiss Me (Kill Me) mentioned, I don't know ow how I found it but it really was a singular experience.) I'm a cow-moth.

“I came to his channel because I liked music from a 5 year old Hbomberguy video, and now I’m staying because of the complex and esoteric breakdown of horror parody songs and furry porn” This is a real sentence I can now say without uttering a lie….. uhhh… thank you?

Hey Im wired so here are the segments of the video Intro/ Album covers 0:00 - 2:00 Ween/ The Mollusk 2:00 - 7:19 HHGREGG/ doin' 7:20 - 9:56 Redoing/ jerrytary 10:00 - 11:13 The boys are back in town/ Kiss me (Kill me) 11:15 - 17:17 Everything Everywhere All At Once/ Why Im a god damn artist 17:33 - 20:43 Echo/ Adastra 20:45 - 22:43 Why I put furries on my album covers/ conclusion 22:44 - 24:11

i can tell this video has already cleared up a lot of like a lot of fog around my relationship to interacting with and creating art having all of these things that were just overwhelmingly powerful to me, but that i never understood why. i think over time, i've grown kind of jaded about art, because i was searching for a certain thing that i hadn't necessarily lost, but that i had a more rudimentary form of long ago i'd lost the ability to be both genuine and happy at the same time. genuine and fulfilled. outward and honest. my best work came from the worst times of my life, but it wasn't the negativity, the pain, the fear, that made that art as good as it was. it was the fact that i was baring myself to it, and allowing it to be what it needed to be i've lost the ability to translate myself into my art, and i'm just now realizing it. i think this has helped me to get back on track. at least i hope. I'm a robot. 10/21/22 Coming back to add to this a bit, about 3 months later. I've gone through the entirety of Echo, and it really fucking got to me. I've started to like, turn things around, at least a little bit. Things aren't necessarily looking up, but I feel better about them.

oh my god the moment you transitioned to hhgregg I knew without a sliver of irony that this is the most important video essay I've seen all year

“Art furries god” Father son and Holy Spirit i guess

this 24-minute video right here is just beautiful. It's not touching but straight up directly stabbed me several times in the chest with all the absurdity of art, and in the end, an extra punch that brought back memories and straight up broke me just because you mentioned those two furry light novels. I have too much to say but not many words to describe it. You ma'am have made something incredible.

this video finally put in words what i found so amazing about Everywhere Everything All At Once but was totally unable to communicate

I'm gonna say: in a way, you have achieved your goal with this video. I was going into this video not knowing exactly what to expect, but the title and thumbnail made it seem like it was a little silly, not meant to be taken too seriously. Then you started talking about your album covers being furries and connecting it to a weird crab album I've never heard of before - and it was really a weapon to disarm me and to get me to listen to your point. And at the end, you really got through to me with your points, partly because you disarmed me at the start of the video, partly because the video in general is REALLY FRICKEN GOOD and makes good points I'm someone who tends to take furry art seriously, because I know the effort and self-expression that goes into the art form. I've never considered this angle your showing here, and it is truly enlighting My name is Lira, and I'm a hybrid between a Jackdaw and a Millipede. Thank you

coming back to this video to say that i’ll never forgive you for making me play adastra it made me cry a lot and even worse it turned me into a furry how dare you

i love video essays like these, please keep doing what youre doing!! you covered so many things that i love or that ive recently discovered and it genuinely surprised me how much stuff i like is in here, everywhere everything all at once or the boys are back in town. i think the subject you're touching on, the thin line between the ridiculous and sublime or rather the gray area between them, is really interesting

this is my first time watching the video and I had to stop and rewatch the "hhgregg" joke like 5 times. it was just kinda perfect: -it directly follows a big "video essay ambitious cut to seemingly unrelated thing" -it is paced **just** fast enough that you can parse all the elements of the joke (the initial fraction of a second it takes your brain to sound it out, then the image and the muffled sound) but leaves no more space than is absolutely necessary. -it's so funny, the pairing of the image with that sound, I just, I just, omg. it's so funny .

Recently i stumbled upon a review of a game "Death Stranding". Dont remember the exact wording, but it something like "kojima is either a pure artistic genius, or a juvenile hack making poop jokes." And it pissed me off so much! Death Stranding is a powerful story about struggles of humanity. How even though shit sucks, we have to realize our differences and stay together to move forward. How even though we as a species will die, our life isint worthless. But its also a game where you you throw PISS GRENADES at GHOSTS that are detected by A FETUS you carry in a ARTIFICIAL WOMB connected to you by a MECHANICAL UMBELICAL CORD. This game os both these things, and one could not work without the other - it would not be the same experience. Kojima isint either this or that. He is both! He made a touching game inspired by the political climate of post 2016 america becuse thats what he wanted to tell. But he also wanted to make piss jokes and dumb puns. I cried upon seeing the credits. I hate how pepole view weirdness and uniqunes as something negative or "childish". If you want to create something weird, do it. Be geniuene to yourself and what you want your art - and yourself - to be. And yeah, that includes beign a dog. Love your vid Patricia. Keep on keeping on! (Fix typos later)

this essay just makes me happy to watch. every time i say the happy or stimmy expressions on you... it honestly hits me harder than seeing your body in other essays for me haha... it's just so very nice listening back thru your essays and hearing your authentic love for the things you talk about, the focus on how things make you feel and the creative lens you dissect them through

God the second I heard the beginning of The boys are back (to kill you) I suddenly had my full attention on the video, that song and Kiss me (Kill me) have been rattling around in my brain for so long and to have people actually recognizing my interests is just genuinely crazy to me- you're telling me that *my* interests actually matter to others?? impossible. illegal, even.

As a trans woman, I see no difference between my problems and yours. Let’s not stop fighting till everyone can live the way they want without persecution.

I too, am a dog. I'm not really sure why cute cartoon animals just click in my head, they just do. Maybe I'll never know, but I like it and that's what matters. I have to agree that there is something interesting about art that disarms the observer not through deception, but self-awareness. It makes consuming and digesting the content and the questions it asks far easier. Art is about communicating ideas, so the communication is key. Delivering the same ideas through something too concrete can become exhausting. Especially if the topics and themes are uncomfortable and sensitive. I don't like mundane misery porn because at that point I might as well just look into the mirror. Given the chance I will always pick the stupid over the top mecha anime over my own face, even if the message is the same just because it's easier to digest. It's a step removed from the exhausting reality. Furries are probably a good fit for this imho. Anyways, Good video, Good girl.

Thank you for making this It genuinely moved me in a way I don't understand, but I needed this. Previously I felt scared of AI sludge taking over the internet and being forgotten, as this train of capitalism is rapidly derailing straight into a canyon. But now I have the motivation to keep going and creating despite it all

the subtitles look really awesome, I really appreciate the extra work that went into making them so special

Love your work. Great animations on this one for your pov. Never got involved in furry culture but nothing beats watching someone express themselves as themselves. KZfaq is so full of "fake authenticity". This felt authentic.

As a Max myself, it brings me great pride to share a name with the fursona of a goddess

God, seeing one of, if not my favorite artist talking about a hobby I love and mixing both of the best worlds is just amazing, I freaking love it !

this is like my favorite video on this site, like damn !! i keep coming back to it, and it always gives me new inspiration for my own art. it reminds me what i love about art and being a furry and how it can all come together and make me feel like i’ve made Something. all that is to say, thank you and i love this

i think, as an artist with a lot of anxiety and a tendency to doubt the ideas i come up with, i think a video like this, a video about how important and powerful it can be for your art to be an unapologetic expression of idea's even when their a bit silly

I just went on a multi month fucked up and stupid self discovery journey where I just embraced the person I wanted to be and this was the final nail in the coffin of allowing me to be who I genuinely want to be, thank you, this video summarizes so many of my emotions anf I love it so much

I have literally looked at every piece of media you mentioned in this essay before seeing this, all except for your own albums, which I now have a desire to listen to. Thank you for making such a video, it really brought me to a subconscious happiness knowing that I was not wrong for enjoying such things.

i love this video so much. you talk about the self aware satire of sincerity, and in a way that's reflected in the presentation of this video. it reminds me of having a conversation with a friend, just diving into one topic, then segway into the next. feels like just listening to someone talk about the things they like and are so passionate about, which you are. then it's like. oh, these mediums, these similar yet different pieces of media reflect what you want to make, what you want to do with creative indulgences. that's the really cool thing about having a human brain and being limitless in potential, there's inspiration everywhere that anybody can twist for their own sake. and the execution doesn't have to be serious either. it can be absolutely ridiculous. recently i've been diving into furry art? i suppose, mainly anthros with skulls for heads. they look a little silly, but there's still an unsettling aura to an animal with everything but the skin and muscles on its face. reflecting my connection to death, to animals, to myself. yeah. this video is good. i admire everything here a lot. my name is Dexi, and I'm a moth!

I am absolutely aware that what I see in furries is not what most people see in furries, and I'm okay with that. I will enjoy the beauty that I see in furries in my own little world

Welp, adding that to the list of "essays that changed my goddamn life". It is my sincere hope that this is the aesthetic the next wave of culture takes, and that I can contribute to it. Thank you so much for making this!

the video essay that just keeps getting better. furries, music, ytpmv, hhhgreg, and as soon as i saw jerryterry i thought of the boys are back in town (to kill you). thats my once a day video. you get it random person on the internet!

saw this in my reccomended about a year ago and stopped watching like a minute through because "ew, furry." here i am, a little over a year later, with an unnamed lizard furry character that im embarrassed to tell people about, rewatching the video because im curious about the title. thanks for the ironic punchline, god.

This was… such a fascinating experience to have. It is always wonderful for me to see someone express with much care and clarity things that I could feel before but not put into the proper thoughts and words. I can't wait to watch "Everything Everywhere All at Once", when it finally comes out here in Italy

I've always found absurd premises way more engaging in art, suspending my disbelief to absorb what the people making it are trying to get out always feels more intimate and like I walk away with more to look back on and appreciate. As someone who likes furry art, Echo and Adastra are both phenomenal and while I wish my friends who aren't furries would play it, I wouldn't want them to change the furry aspect of it to make it more digestible, it being a part of the community they love and the worldbuilding around it makes it what it is.

This video convinced me to play Adastra, which in turn convinced me to come out as queer and a furry. Cringe culture may not be dead, but it may be some day, and we will live our best in spite of it. Cheers, my friend.

This video is enshrined in my brain as one of the greatest videos of all time. I don't know why, but the first time I watched this I followed each rabbit hole that the video led me down and was filled with a sort of nostalgic feeling for something so recent in my mind. Absolute masterclass.

I adore how aggressively furry you can be. I think it's a wonderful expression of who you are and that sincerity comes through so well. Your art is fantastic and your artistic perspective always helps me open my mind to what art can be when it's not constrained by convention.

This is one of the most interesting documentary type videos I have seen, its an insight on the creative processes and aspirations you have, told by many forms of art that have inspired you, while complex and a bit hard to follow at times you manage to explain so many things involved in the making of art that I have never heard before and in a really unique and sincere way, its a bit hard to describe but thats part of why i love it, really cool vid

Seeing this video for the first time has helped me find clarity, in a way. The legitimately autistic topic pinball I use. The collection of “so stupid it’s genius” media I love. The unabashed furry energy I lack. It’s honesty on a level many things aren’t, a bared soul begging the audience to bare theirs in turn. I’ve been comfortably out as trans for several years, now, and I’ve had furry suspicions for about as long, but it’s been hard to quantify what they actually come to. I like furry media, both fluff and ruff ;), but it’s always been this thing where I doubted I was truly a member of the community, rather than a voyeur. “Oh, I think this art’s hot, but I don’t have any concept of how I’d inhabit it.” But this finally tore down that doubt for me. Part of the joy in being a furry is the no-inhibitions freedom in rejecting social conventions. It’s saying “I’m a dog, I’m gay as hell, and I’m proud of it!” Just saying like things like “the fur on my back” is so playfully silly and earnest that it defies insincerity. I’ve been reading a ton of furry visual novels in the past couple years, including Adastra and Echo, and this has given me the courage to step a foot into those games’ Discords, to follow more furry artists, to embrace the idea openly. It’s spurred me on to really think about my self-concept, and actually ask the question “What am I?” My name is Blitz. I’m a cat. What are you?

Having also transitioned to furry artwork as of last year, I'm 100% with you that somehow it was the first record I used an animal on that I was like "oh damn, this is the start of what I'm proud of"

I... why is this video so good? It's so authentic, like... it made me feel things that are hard to express. The older I get the more I realize how important authentic self expression is, and that art is such an important tool for coming to terms with being human and existing in this crazy-ass world. Just... thanks this really resonated with me. Also your avatar is so cute holy shit I cant

Another good example of this phenomenon is Robert Wyatt's work. His albums are extremely proggy and deeply indebted to jazz fusion, however, his childish lyrics give his work a deep sense of vulnerability. The lyrics to "Sea Song" are incredibly silly, but it's genuinely one of the most gutting songs I've ever listened to.

Hi I'm Bri, I'm a genderfluid mess. hi I'm Tea (the fox), a character made in my middleschool years to cope with my changing body in ways that I found displeasing. Funnily enough, every time I've managed to create a scenario where Tea ends up realizing who I am far before I did. When I first made Tea, they were a boy. I simply liked his aesthetic. he gave me an added boost of confidence in myself, and it made me feel more comfortable to know how I was changing. Then, as time went on, he started to transition, I wanted to use her as a way for me to understand my own femininity. He was still a boy most of the time, but every now and then I would commission art for her where I would have him "genderbent" to let her appear more. as time went on, I found myself, because of Tea, able to realize I'm not one solid gender. time goes on, and I want to try more things. I want to learn more about myself. I do what I can to understand myself more. taking hormone supplements, doing more socially as a nonbinary person, as a girl, as a man. but I know I wouldn't be here today, if I hadn't had a characterization of myself, who I used as a way to test the waters. every time I was curious, I ended up letting Tea guide me, and letting them do things I was too scared to do. even if it was in ways that is seen as cringe like roleplay, it taught me more about how to feels to be on any part of the spectrum. Who would I be without tea? who would I be without myself? Who cares. I'm Bri, I'm the creator of Tea, and although I don't do near as much as I used to with them, they're my creation, and they're the reason I am who I am today.

oh my god. you get it. you understand why I love so many things that I do. I love things that are totally unserious and serious at the same time and I feel like this video explains why so perfectly

This was so incredible and I’m so happy someone finally talked about JerryTerry in a video essay- their edits have been so so important to me for YEARS!! I’d also like to suggest something that’s a softer more domestic type of Sublime- Joe Pera Talks with You- and largely the works of Joe Pera and Jo Firestone. Their works all these disarming, really awkward character pieces that frequently acknowledge the camera or setting of the show (stand up, commercial, phone call) to make this really interesting snapshot of approaching life and daily errands like a gift and a way to grow. I lost a family member recently and I rushed to S2 of Joe Pera Talks with You because of how honest it is about loss, how it isn’t huge and screaming and dramatic but it also needs support and time and is hard. It spills out every once in a while. I’m getting ahead of myself but this video was really beautiful and i thank you for putting things I really couldn’t link together into words.

Yes. just... Yes to everything. i have to deeply thank you for making this video. I've come back to re-watch it multiple times already because it puts in stunning clarity a lot of thoughts i've been rolling around about my art all year. about authenticity, about unapologetically embracing stupid things, about following what brings you joy. about looking at the most absurd piece of media i've ever seen and thinking, "this is a divine high art masterpiece." i'm more motivated than ever to Create Things after watching this video, and it's pushed me to start working on a project i've been pushing aside for a long time. thank you again

i love youtubers who put so much effort into making the subtitle things (annotations i believe theure called? i cant rememebr rn) and make them look so well, like the 3 separate ones you put together to make the glitch text

I've lived on the Internet since I was about 10. I've been a furry for a long-ass stretch of that time. Back when VLC Media Player was new (around 2009-10?) I used to forget the name of it because I'd mix it up with VCL. I'm 38 now. The Internet in all its ridiculous inexplicable glory has become something entirely different than I ever expected as a kid, but I did love YTMND to death (something unrelated to YTPMV) and I love YTPMV even more. Your dissection of the whole process of the HHGregg "Christmas in July" ad getting mixed into Daft Punk, getting mixed further by HydroDalek, getting mixed further by JerryTerry... "Doin" and "ReDoin" are genuinely the most hilarious, earnest, and lovably stupid marvels that I've ever randomly encountered in the wilds of KZfaq. And I'm only here watching you because I saw a link to this video from the subreddit of Adastra (god I miss Amicus to death ;_;) but after this video you have a new instant fan. Subscribed. EDIT: Oh god, you called "Kiss Me" a classic, I have blown away like Thanos snap dust