And notice that he died from the ‘rich guy’ who influenced people in the beginning and waited until the end to do what he really wanted

​@@heatherv3417 so Sir Circle is evil

@@frankwest018 the square guy is portrayed as evil, when really he just needed guidance (hence him turning good) but the guy in the top hat is the evil one

@@heatherv3417 ohhhhhh

​@@heatherv3417 but Sir Circle IS the Toppat man

I agree

Yes,i agree

@@tomok3733 dude, the world is crappy enough right now, we don't need anymore people like you, screwing it up more.

@AboveAverageCat44 Holy shit dude,you didn’t need to kill the man,can’t say you’re wrong though...

@@Man...715 oops

Not decades years we have been like this for years

@@supe-9999 Decades are years

For all of humanity I’d wager.

Maybe in your isolated judgmental world don't use "we" that's on you if you partake in hysteria

@@calebsellers4385 probably not

@furriesfuckanimals weebsanimetrash why :(

@@andromedacollapse561 no, stay

*Gunshot*

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you sir get the message to the point. Congratulations i showed this to my friends and they didn't care you have a BRAIN and understood the message. Thank you so much

In my opinion, what made it worse is the fact that the bodies are cencored. We can only imagine what happend to the guy

@Mister Peeebody That's what she said...

I am 14 and this is very deep

@@universal8264 Do you always make jokes about deep stuff😂💀

*plays game that has violence*

@@MittensWichen Cried really hard during 8 million sub special

@@Tabby3456 wait what

YES

then 2020 came...

Persona 2

I absolutely recommend Not For Broadcast, it expands on this mechanic a lot and is a really good game and story.

It exists in a game called Headliner

😮

Also Nicky Case has a website it might be there too

The Mad Ginger Not only the media but the constant cycle it creates and how dumb and stupid it is

Exactly.

Humanity in general, really.

And in the end we all watching this media -> media creates more of this content because of us

mediaception?

"I was elected to lead, not to read."

feenyx blue. I, too, have seen Nightcrawler.

IF SHE BREATHES, SHES A *THOOOOOOT*

Reminds me of that spongebob episode

Kevin Person Yeeeeeeee GRIAN

That is why you must always be wary of anybody who tells you to hate others.

Cool it with the antisemitism

@@Damocles1 cool it with the assuming everyone's an asshole when this is more than likely a well-meaning comment.

Everybody calm your tiddies

media

Sam Dog Owner it's destiny, alright.....

Sam Dog Owner 😂😂

I was literally speechless

Sam Dog Owner I wasn't prepared for that

i laughed so hard😂

Good for you man.... Good for you....😌😌

Howd you, and by that metric, everyone at your school get through the censors?

lol that's so cringe

That didn’t happen but ok

This is actually a good teaching ways, especially to fulfill free time during class, it does not courage violence but spreadin awareness of how dark things can turn despite our selfishness

...That seems contradictory. If the media is the one that makes the power, then why would the people in it be the driving issue?

@@strangevol5264 They're the ones who create and publish news that may influence the mind of the other viewers in the first place. ( and what I actually meant at the comment section is the people BEHIND the media lol )

@@katieeelin6633aren’t they just doing their jobs though ? I feel like the message is more just don’t hate

​@@myprofilepictureisafish The people in the media deliberately pick out the stories that will drum up the most amount of interest in their viewer base and make it as inflammatory as possible because they need their viewers to be outraged or scared so that they will keep tuning in and listening to the media group's agendas. Like look how in the game the media words the incidents, where it is worded in a way that either exaggerates situations (like labelling the square who was screaming as attacking a circle, despite the square only yelling at the circle and the circle not being a particularly important part to the story), ignores happy things happening, or straight up lies about what is happening (like when they say that squares hate circles when only one guy was screaming at people).

@@myprofilepictureisafishyou're all correct! Systems have many parts and the system should be changed, and we can start with ourselves and what we give our attention to!

I’m here because of the riots. This game is so accurate.

But what if the world actually *is* horrible?

Bethany Angelov if you believe it is and always look at the negatives of life. Then it will be.

Chad Cooley I dunno man, if people are being lynched and murdered for the color of their skin, that isn’t a good world.

Bethany Angelov I’m sorry you think that’s the case. You’re just showcasing the misinformation and cherry picking that’s in this games message.

Yeah... That aged like *milk*

@@williamdunhan341 but in humor it's ages like wine

Oof.

His destiny was death

Ok

Right it’s seems like the only time we are united is when we are trying to destroy each other

@@TacticalDolphin362 damn right you are

If i was a teacher and a paragraph was to be written about this game, you’d get an A+

Im British so ....... A☆

A+ paragraph

I never thought of it like that…

Shut up, you deserve an A+ already

***** Sorry Lucario, but I have my double finger defense at maximum.

LugunaLucario I was so confused as to what you were doing to be honest

to bad I have a Potato gun.

Don't mind me, just passing through.

I will use my ultimate weapon! A piece of bread... *Markiplier remembers playing I Am Bread.* *Mark goes on a rampage!* *Mark destroys the world.*

that's true, there could have been a way to stop it from escalating - but i think then you'd be confused as to what the game was supposed to be, when nothing ever happened in the game!

Simplistic, sure, but that’s the point. It’s such an obvious point that has been going on as long as media and news has existed, and it’s sadly as true as ever.

Give me the t o l I e t paper

This game was an omen for the future

Very y e s

Lol 4? You mean 3

Probably

Jace Gem Very wise, you are young one. In your hands the best future lies XD

Jace Gem I don't see the point of anger. When has it led to good things?

Well, if it's used right it CAN lead to good things... Like the Civil Rights Movement in the 60s. Folks of color were angry and tired of being treated the way they were being treated, but they were never violent with their anger. They just used it to fuel their point and get what they wanted and deserved, equality to whites. But I see your point, a lot of the time anger just leads to violence and that does no one any good.

While I disagree with Yoda that he confuses causation with correlation (a result of... FEAR), I will say that self-fulfilling prophecies do exist, and the media is one of those prophets.

Then again, there are two ways to interpret this. Notice how the news network aired every picture you took, the problem was that the people only showed up when it was a negative story. Maybe the message here is to look out for positive things

my thoughts exactly!

PHANGIRL No. it was slowly getting to 100

Yeah like the media being biased against Trump

PHANGIRL u read my mind

No, it got up to about 40, then ramped up to 100 and just kept going.

yes

Henkil Epsilon do it

You should do that.

Yay, let's study it. *Prepare to bring a gun* heh heh heh heh heh

StygianTraveler141 I get the top hat and nail club

I laughed at that part but the gun shot scared the heavens out of my peep soul...

*Clickity Clockity* "Uh oh..."

Why are you trying to steal a comment?

Comment thief, eh?

Clickity Clockity Your Soul is now my property

Yes, But *violence*

I hardly remember writing this comment, and boy am I a hypocrite. Half of my vocabulary is stuff along the lines of, "People are awful, people should die." Ah, well. At least it was a nice message.

@@etps4444 Hey atleast your normal vocabulary is very agreeable c:

THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT

When this Game from 2008...

Exactly why I'm here

Same here. His outro message is needed out there in the world.

Same

Yeah

Same

Actually, they did succeed. The happy square who was shot was the disgruntled, crazed square who started the cycle of paranoia. They got the square to stop being mad and be positive instead. The problem is that the media feels that people don't want to watch a feel good story about people learning to get along. Instead they'd rather keep the cycle of pain going, so in the end nobody is willing to listen to the happy heart hats.

The game could have had an alternate ending. I tried not to react and let the violent square become happy without starting the paranoia, but that is not possible. Maybe there is something that triggers it without starting paranoia.

GrimFaceHunter the point is to teach us, not give a good ending. you need the truth every once in a while, not a sugar-coated happily ever after, you know what i mean?

Animator X I don't think you understood me. The possibility of changing the outcome gives the player more agency. People might learn more that way.

Ishtarru Humans will never get over their ignorant, self righteous, petty and downright appalling natures. If so then we would have had peace ages ago, but nope it only gets worse, just look at the Trump and Hillary supporters attacking each other.

Very much

mmmMMMmmmm

Stephan Kinder I thought it was hate leads to suffering

FUN-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-

Tyler Hagenbaugh It is

rev0lve Eyyyyyyyyyy

Pretty much why I’m here

Chad Cooley same here

Same. Worse I got this in my recommended and I remember watching it for the first time and comparing then to now

I am 14 and this is very deep

go away where...?

don't you love it when a person in a nice hat randomly shoots another person and starts a massacre (also notice that the time stamp says 420 lol)

420😂

Nice

“OOOOOHHHH”

lmaoo 420

TF2 in a nutshell right there

nobody fucking*

No it's the crazy haired square

How the public treats Trump supporters.

OMG YES!!!

El Danko Its so ironic 😂

Ironic as hell

me in a nutshell

El Danko XD

BANG

your 100% right (ya see what I did there?)

Skye Da whatever. Used the wrong "your"?

Brighton Betoit I

Brighton Betoit Yus ikr!

Brighton Betoit ,The best part of his play through was the fact that he is wanting to make the world a better place. …And we all can do that right here.

Seeing your pfp i know what u feel exactly. But try to make bubble for urself, be like the happy square guy, walk unbothered while others yell and scream.

not even ten minutes

Not even 10 min he halfed that time 🤣

What do you mean? It’s finnne

Jonathan Vaillancourt pfffff......*looks at it again* BWAHAHAhAhAhahahHhahhHHAHHhahHa

HOLY..shit...that went wrong real.quick

ppl are just saying that now because they think it gives them a reason to shit on the blm movement tbh

@@fern4753 ... I think it was much more general than the BLM movement. Mind Jan 6th. A lot of people were fully up the hole of “man, wild how things were allowed this time with minimal violence.” While some backbit that as if those folks were claiming every protest should be synonymous with riot, the point (that apparently needed to be said, and was) was that escalation doesn’t _help_ any one side, and that those promoting it in _any_ group are... well, basically, the man with the gun, in this. Whatever he got out of it goes unsaid (in real life, because it varies), but... hell, a phrase that’s been going around the past several months (that I’ve seen, for all I know it’s been around way longer) goes “so and so really just woke up today and chose Violence.” As a society, we’ve been holding tight to “story need CONFLICT” with a deathgrip, and keep going for the lowest of hanging fruit.

@@fern4753 Good.

@@fern4753 BLM proper, no. People using it as a cover to commit crimes, yes.

But now we have the internet where everyone can talk to anyone at anytime and thats dangerous with that mindset

Andrew Wilson true

Andrew, I agree. It's both funny and sad, how a simple game like this share more in common with the world, than any other media. The message was clear and strong... Nice Ghostrick profile pic, by the way.

He said that as I read this.

Andrew Wilson i saw your quote the exact second he said it in the vid...

Clorox Bleach that's a very wise quote. And it's true☺️

+Josh McReynolds Why force people to submit to particular ideas, when you can convince them to submit willingly and with surprising ease?

Lol tru

Josh McReynolds Blame mark zuckerburg

Josh McReynolds yeah ur right if there's some love.everyones going to go do the direct opposite

yeah... #bescaredofhashtags

It's destiny

He has written the fate of man.

"uh oh..."

Wo

Top ten anime plot twists

OK I JUST DISCOVERED THAT ITS MESSED UP

XD

so, you would say that it is not meaningful....?

both

I hate you mark

What do you mean?

@@karatebat5156 This game is trending on TikTok as of recently

I saw that for like a day or two

It is really annoying They act like they just discovered something new

@@melsukiii yeah, same with sally face

No it is not dammit, why are we not taking this to places where women get their privates cut up because of some stupid religion!

@@owlismyfavouritecolorflame2325 oh it's not? :0 sorry!

@@owlismyfavouritecolorflame2325 chill out there mate...

LobotomiteAnimal27 tf are you on?

Testosterone

Stole his hat thunder?

Maybe it symbolizes how the big stuff and the stupefying stuff kind of comes out of nowhere. Think about it: before someone shoots up a school, no one knows who you are, and no one cares. Then, as soon as you commit the heinous act, every good deed you have ever accomplished up to that point fades away. Even in the game, the "posh" circle just started a trend, but chances are, no one will remember that because he shot someone. That's my first theory. My second theory is that the "posh" circle symbolizes the sweet kid from down the street that always had the best grades and a good personality and was the last person you'd expect to do something like that.

Perhaps because he was the only one who realized where the problem originated? The happy square guy he killed was the angry square that started the hatred cycle in the beginning. The square guy became happy after he talked to the happy couple but he was still the origin of the hatred. He clearly changed as a person but the negative things he did in his past still had a huge negative impact on the people that surrounded him which eventually spread to even more people. Perhaps the "calm guy" is representative of people with warped logic. A smart individual that knows all the information about the situation but had a very twisted/biased view which caused them to to develop narrow minded solutions that only made the situation worse (aka killing a reformed individual for their past mistake). The "posh" look was probably to make the character stick out and showcase him as an intellectual (or a person that views themselves as intellectual anyways). "Smart" people have seriously suggested -and literally done- mass bombings or killings in the past (and present actually) to resolve issues just as meaningless as the one in the game - being a circle versus a square.

I think it's because the other shapes didn't do what they did because of hate; they did what they did because they were angry. They did what they did because they were afraid. The posh circle, likely a rich individual in this shape community, could afford to kill a shape not out of necessity, but out of pure unbridled HATRED.

All these comments are too deep for me. You people are too smart.

Erik Sever That's what the media does to get views. Before the hat guy shot the square it was basically the media making race relations between circles and sqaures horrible just so it can get views.

Jeez. The media sucks.

Wait is that Hercules?

Yes

@@Dippy__Draws What Hercules ?

😂

Then *BANG!*

I agree

Has Amanda I

It was at this moment that he knew... He fucked up *bang*

Yeah man

It's the moment they realized they have passed a point of no return.

Lol.

Only if you stare at it for long enough.

MoonLight Games I fucking hope so

And it then stares back

MoonLight Games Yes please

MoonLight Games I wish to behold Mark's voice then. especially his Mr. Midnight voice.

tali skyrim actually, the pen

The pen isn't very powerful anymore since people get their news from what people record on cameras.

abc zyx but i has no phone.

tali skyrim no..the most powerful weapon are words...

We may have finally discovered something mightier than the pen....

And the media says that, "ViDeO gAmEs CaUsE vIoLeNcE"

@@kittykittybangbang9367 videos cause violence my ass! How tf is Animal Crossing violent!

@@ghastlygavin tom nook came to my house and forced me to join a criminal organization

@@urbanpretzel That fucking tanuki

@@urbanpretzel he's so evil

I completely agree. The hard part about this game is that it points out a truth and the people that wish to do good in the world, the protesters of love, are ignored and can only witness the destruction. And like the camera told the player, "peace is boring" to the media. We need to come up with some kind of solution, as Mark says at the end. If we could somehow make the media and audiences cheer for the positive stuff that happens rather than glorify the terrible acts, then we could create a happier environment.

Not all politicians and corporations can be bad people. There has to be some that believe the same thing and want the best for everyone, but somehow feel limited or powerless. And if that is the case, then we the people should make a stance to change who is in power or not watch and follow the media that only perpetuates hate.

True.

but saying all that it only takes one or two isolated incidents that get blown up to sway public opinion as the old saying goes a few bad apples spoils the bunch and that doesn't just apply to corporations

I agree. Played on NG. "The _Spec Ops: The Line_ of Flash games."

I know right now before I think you are bueaf and I love you too baby

O my goodnes

You should check out “this war of mine”

Thats real life rn except replace game with media and politicians

Although this is sometimes true, it is also the opposite IRL which I absolutely hate... When I tune in the news channel in the morning I prefer to watch the happenings around the country/world. I absolutely do NOT want to hear and couldn't care less about Celebrity X dating/breaking up with Celebrity Y...

Thats the point

Naaaaah.

Totally wasn't the point at all.

Of course, the point is, it's pointless.

The point of the pointlessness is that it's pointless.

Ze Filthiest Of Franks honestly. Like, it isn’t just one side even, it’s both sides doing the damage without realizing it. Both sides just hate each other so much and are growing so polarized that the majority of people(non extremists) are being forced to choose a side.

Property it doesn’t help that the man the Oval Office is acting as a catalyst for this and the rest of the GOP won’t take a stand against him even as he breaks their core values. Republicans have left the party because of it, some have decided that they don’t want to run for office again because of him and what he stands for. Doesn’t help that the younger members of the Democratic Party want to pull more to the left in response to everything but when they’re citizens and told to go back to their countries you can’t blame them for it. The Dems need to quit these impeachment proceedings (in a perfect world the things he has done are impeachable offenses) because the Republican Party and it’s members are too much of a pussy to oust the man who has caused a constitutional crisis and will continue to do so even if he gets voted out of office. We have a half a Democratic Party that wants to pass policy, another half that wants to go through impeachment hearings, and the whole Republican Party so busy trying to keep him in office they won’t pass any policy (see how they struck down a cyber security bill to protect our voting infrastructure) and a man in the Oval Office tearing the country apart and with it, our reputation across the world and even within our country

@@khub5660 considering that this game is all about how media influences us to think and feel certain ways with selective reporting, I'd say you're a classic example of this exact scenario. If the talking heads say "Orange man bad" enough times, it must be true, right?

OneBiasedOpinion if you reread what I said, I’m actually talking about the current political landscape from both points of view with a slight slant towards the left. The Republicans are never going to oust one their own no matter what because then they won’t be unified as a party. It’s sad because if a Democrat did what he and his campaign team did the Republicans would be outraged and calling for their head. Everyone involved in the Trump campaign fell with the exception of Trump because of the fact that it is against Justice Department policy to indict a sitting president, and for good reason. He is our president no matter what until he gets removed from office or voted out. Take this into consideration as well, people like Nunes have been spinning and twisting the events in this country to fit their own narrative as well, so it’s not like either side is innocent of this but when a “(what used to be) respectable and prominent news channel turns into a propaganda channel, that’s an issue and I don’t care which side of the aisle does it, it’s still a problem. This week I was ashamed to call myself an American because of the simple fact that the majority party, the Republicans, said no on protecting what makes a democracy a democracy, our voting institution. And that’s not what a talking head said, that is what happened on Capitol Hill this week even in light of new evidence that showed that other countries have attacked and will attack our voting infrastructure again. Both sides of the aisle are guilty of spinning the narrative to fit them but when it comes down it, the majority party still isn’t doing anything to move this country forward and the minority party can’t pull themselves together to try to force them to focus on policy instead of defending the presidents tweets

Gotta love the media

I mean at least the pain stopped

Fucking... good god. That is horrifying.

Oh fuck that sounds worse than mass extinction of humans race by race

That caption writer is a genius

Holy shit indeed mark

BurningFox 😂😂😂 this is awesome!!!

XDXD

*wink wink*

BurningFox oh my

Jesus christ

Trenton Streator interestingly enough I felt the same way.

-samsara- same

Trenton Streator i like the game as well but it just told us how the future of America will be if we don't heed the warning and change

Trenton Streator I wish you could broadcast peace but because a lot of people tune more into violence, make it so that peaceful stories influence less people than violent stories.

TheElitesnake1 yep

>Today's media As if the media was ever NOT like this.

nenolink Congrats on completely missing the point of the game and perpetuating the hate!

Especially as people find violence "funny." I can assure you someone most likely laughed at the murders but not at the scene where the friends shared happiness. Like alot of "Roasting" channels. Even when the message is shoved in your face and baby spooned into you,you still don't get it. And we'll never achieve that with todays media. Especially with trump haters. I just saw someone push a cameraman and say idiot to them. Violence shocks more,and saying they'll get back on the topic is saying "Watch us now and forever!" It's sad.

HAHA ISN'T IT FUNNY? Your name blends with your comment

MARK Williams I didn't cry but I didn't want KZfaq for five hours