Absolutely loved this. I can see your channel growing significantly if you keep this sort of content coming. The production quality was great, and I felt you had some intriguing commentary about the nature and impact of Fesh Pince and YTP as a whole - especially when it came to the graffiti comparisons. However, my biggest takeaway from the video was that I was once the #1 teenager of all time, putting all other teenagers to shame. The undisputed champion of former teenagers, if you will. I'll wear that title with pride.

This video definitely isn't helping the "KZfaqrs will make a 30-minute video essay about literally anything" allegations, but I've gotta say: you sold me on this one. The comparison to Passage à l'acte is what cinched it for me. Yeah, if that's an experimental short film that's worth academic analysis, why isn't Fesh Pince?

fesh pince has done irreparable damage to my vocabulary

This video essay is better than having a leg in one hand, and a brerb in the other! 10/10 (seriously).

you pooped off with this one

Fesh Pince is unironically high art. It's totally abstract but so is instrumental music. Fesh Pince is very musical.

oh my god. the comparison of ytp to graffiti is absolutely inspired. i always feel like a total nutjob whenever i try to explain to people why ytp can be and is a genuine art form (which has happened...numerous times) but that example conveys so much of the idea so well, i'm obsessed. also the point about a lot of ytp being made out of love for the source material is a particular favorite of mine; intimate knowledge of a poop's source can often make way for some of the best and most layered bits/gags. your own affection and respect for the subject comes through in spades! great insight, and awesome work. i can assuredly say this has reached its target audience lol

I love when I'm snooPINGAS usual and I come across a gem like this

this rules, ive been really wanting a video that takes ytp seriously and examines it as art movement

I would put Neil Cicierega's name forward as another teenager who was very influential in the early internet.

Finally, now we know the answer to 'What can you say about *Phillip Banks?* '

1:17 “there are some people who definitely won’t find this funny” I remember when the third one came out, one of my friends was forcing us to sit through RWBY but me and the only other friend in the call who care about YTPs told him to watch fesh pince 3 instead He called both of us insane and went back to rwby

Comparing YTPs to experimental film was mind-blowing. I've heard it be called digital graffiti before, but comparing it to Passage à l'acte really threw me for a loop. Hearing how young Krobo was is incredibly inspiring too, as a young adult trying to break through the mold. I've always been fascinated by how KZfaq Poop is so underground and yet so popular, it feels like everyone in the know of the internet enjoys YTP, but everyone outside of that shell has no idea what you're talking about. To use the iceberg metaphor, it's at the very thin line between the surface and under the water. I'm so glad it persists to this day.

Happy to say i was in the room for the fesh pince ytp panel

there was a The Incredibles YTP i watched years ago as a kid with a specific joke that has been burned into my psyche ever since, where Mr Incredible says to Syndrome "let me go, or i'll break a toothpick" and then we cut him hanging defeatedly from his chains in the BG as Syndrome in the foreground says "i knew you couldnt do it"

I received a message today from a friend who was delighted to unexpectedly hear me namedropped in a youtube video essay. Thanks for complimenting my old (non-video) essay -- you're too kind! And I appreciate the work you've done here (lots of good observations). Fesh Pince brings people together! - Jarrod White

The “Jazzy NYC” needle drop to introduce the section on graffiti blew me away what a perfect track choice

this starts incredibly strong and i think you really elevate it as the vid progresses. i actually thought "it's like grafitti" halfway through so when you got there i went "OH" out loud

DaThings mentioned. very good.

This was awesome! Thanks for the shoutout!

I can’t express enough how awesome this video is. It justifies KZfaq Poop’s existence so well and even elevates it into a rogue art form. I’ve been watching YTPs since I was in high school and I’m 30 now. I have a juvenile sense of humor, so these have always been funny to me. But now I can appreciate them on a much deeper level, which is something I didn’t even know I needed. 😂 thank you! Fantastic work!

Hi I'm from Brazil, I remember that back in the day YTP's were very popular here, It was one of the first big style of video content that I got into on KZfaq, even years later I still find the old videos by people like Mestre3224, Bomberpooper, Tecraudio, RudeboyProductions, and others hilarious as hell, and I'm not the only one. The community here was very active, collaborative supportive and certainly one of the most talented Unfortunately, YTP's stopped receiving that much attention here around 2017-2019, the reasons vary a lot: These videos take a lot of time and effort and the access for editing programs or computers in general is very low, and since here there is a higher demand for easily accessible content YTP's weren't very viable. Also alternate "meme pages" and reaction channels started stealing videos and profiting out of it, most of the time without giving credits. Both these things alongside a political crisis and the Elsagate controversy culminated in low effort meme videos being uploaded constantly with "YTPBR" slapped in the title, most of it were made with only views and attention in mind by people who felt like the classic Poops with niche based inner jokes and style were "too weird and vulgar for KZfaq". This got to a point where to the general public, YTP's were another trendy style of "funny video compilations" that just fade away like any other fad, meanwhile classic YTP creators started quitting or following other paths, some became streamers, musicians, animators, etc. Some people still make YTP's, with some even trying to archive and document old channels and videos, but mostly these are made with no intention, expectation or target audience behind and thus they don't receive that much attention. Probably it's better like this, I will still check out old dead channels just for the nostalgia and check out whatever some of these people are doing nowdays.

Ytp artists are a different level of comedian. Shoutout to Krobo and all the real OG's. Stand up comedians are just public speakers. You guys are the true heroes behind the curtain, I mean I grew up idolizing guys like Seth MacFarlane. But to be real it was the people making youtube poops that always made me laugh harder than any media that exists in the world. "Can we just take a minute to appreciate" doesn't do it justice. Kroboproductions, Deepercutt, Walrusguy, DurhamrockerZ, Cs188, those are names that will go down in history. Laughter is the best medicine. Thank you for your service.

Michael Rosen has said many times he doesn't mind people chopping his videos up. He's worried who will find them and think it is him doing it.

YTPs are really just Internet graffiti.

Man King of the Hill YTP is a big reason why I love King of the Hill and even why my pfp is a small edit of Hank with the Saiyan scouter. Those early day of YTP were peak youtube.

"Oh my God, he's God"

This is a fantastic video, thanks for making it! A while back I came across an audio post of just the 'Uncle Phil you've got to kick that man's BUTT' clip and it sent me into an absolute fit, I've gone back to listen to it multiple times whenever I needed a pick me up, but I'd never even heard of Fesh Pince, much less knew that's where it came from. Wild that a piece of art can evolve and transform and spread in ways that the artist never intended and make people feel so strongly even when it's so disconnected from its original context.

Really kind of amazing the way the people who were invested in the YTP community are /still/ invested. To this day I can still rattle off the entire intro cut scene from Hotel Mario, the Faces of Evil intro, and that anti smoking Sonic Sez. Such an incredible time to be on the platform

The comedy of YTP is fascinating. You cannot explain verbally why some parts made you laugh, you just know they did. It's like surrealism.

I loved your point about teenage art of expression and graffiti. KZfaq was a much different place in 2009, for better or worse. Everyone was trying to carve out their own little corner, trying to figure out who we were. I was a stupid 15 year old who barely understood the world around him when I first discovered YTP through smash bros content. It massively shaped my identity in the years to come. Tangibly related, I massively fucked up by parasitically claiming an audience I did not deserve. I ran the first memorial channel, and turned it into a me show. The things I liked I featured on the channel to claim my corner of the world - instead of just reuploading the videos. I still cringe about it and wish I still had the password so I could fix my mistakes, but you live and learn. All part of youth's mistakes. (Especially seeing it kind of referenced in the later half of this video brings back the shame years later.) As for a final point, the graffiti example reminds me of a man I think was called David Bradley Bailey, a researcher from somewhere in the southern US who rose to prominence around 2011 in the community. His main point as a scholarly outsider was that YTP was a reclamation of commercialized culture, by those outside of the cultural mainstream. (As predicted in which I remember to be Remix: reading & composing culture by Catherine G. Latterell.) Just for a second, I did not feel like an outsider everywhere, but a part of an avantgarde artist collective ready to take on the world. An online Basquiat if you will. We were going to burst into the mainstream, something was brewing. But as always, the man won. Maybe it did go mainstream after all in the form of modern day meme culture, just with 10 years internet hyper evolution tackled on top of it. Apologies for all the disjointed thoughts, this was a great video and I can't wait for the next one.

Thank you for censoring Po*p, I don't know what I would've done if you hadn't

i sent fesh pince to my film teacher as an example of an experimental stock footage film

not only the best video essay ever made on YTP, but one of the overall best video essays i've seen in a long time. thank you for making this

Goated to blur the thumbnail on the first video, always the most difficult part of showing it to new fans. The video itself has no slur usage which is practically unheard of for good YTPs but then those words just sit at the bottom… menacingly…

Hearing you breakdown what makes a YTP work reminds me of my own realization I came to about them years ago. That being. If a film is like a novel. Then a YTP is like poetry.

Your point comparing YTP to graffiti was absolutely spot-on, especially relating to the aspects of legality. Which brings us to milk. It's legal.

I cannot describe to you the moment at which this video has come into my life. Weeks of trying to figure out how to make fesh pince palatable to my friends and family. “There has to be a way to get them to see the genius in this, there’s something so uniquely compelling here.” Thank you for your excellent work, I’ve found that even my own appreciation for fesh pince and KZfaq’s culture/history has found new depths after watching your video.

I'm glad there are people who really appreciate YTPs. Not just watch them, of course there is an audience for YTP, but people who understand them. Great video

i also love seeing how former YTPers develop their skills. case in point being EmpLemon, who uploads some of the best video essays out there. great video man!

as someone who's watched ytps since they came out and continues to go back and watch my faves, i love this. they really do stick with you

Haha lmao this is excellent. Troubling how many filmbros I meet who don’t have respect for ytp meanwhile you got it on the dot, it’s the finest experimental filmmaking. I hope this genre lives forever

I’m so happy to see KZfaq poops not only still be around but now being analyzed and appreciated so well! My friend from Brazil let me know about part 3 a few days ago and I almost cried of laughter and joy! It’s like seeing an old friend!

Dunno why, but Jeffrey's line of "I've been saving that to calm myself lest I get too giddy from rubbing my CoC" had me in stitches the first few times i watched it lol

Wow, that was amazing! This video actually made me reflect on how YTPs played a role in my life as a creative. I remember the day I actually discovered YTP, I was around 10-11 years old, it was 2007-08 and I was sleeping over at a friend's house. We were watching KZfaq and I wanted to find this audio clip I heard my brother watching, where someone was voicing Barney the Dinosaur taking a massive dump. I typed in "Barney Poop" and though we found the clip, we also found a YTP that edited clips of Barney, SpongeBob, and WWE. The video is probably lost to the copyright void now, but back then , we thought them looping SpongeBob saying "It's amazing how-" was the funniest shit ever. Days later, I sought out the video again, then noticed other videos with the YTP title, and soon enough I was quoting remixed CDI and Billy Mays clips all throughout school. I even made a new friend over our shared love of the genre. Fast forward to now, and I've graduated from film school, have a love for weird experimental films, and write horror stories and screenplays that often try to build atmosphere with weird and trippy imagery. Funny what paths life takes you down.

9:06 I wonder if OrpheusFTW will do some high art today.

Thank you Tim Rogers for sending me here.

I grew up making YTPs and YTPMVs. Deepercut, Walrusguy, and captpan6 were all creators who really pioneered the field at the time (late 2000s, early 2010s). Insane to think the staying power this genre had. Some of the funniest videos I've ever watched are YTPs.

Incredible retrospective. I've been a YTP fan more or less since it started getting popular, sometime between very late 2006 and the spring of 2007. And holy crap, I completely forgot about Waldfield, I'm definitely going to check out that book.

Since high school, my friends and I have watched and quoted these videos more times than I could possibly count. It can somehow be so all over the place, but still cohesive enough for us to quote almost beginning to end. The videos have such a special place in my heart because of how I've bonded with people because of them. My reaction to Fesh Pince 3 being uploaded was bigger than any movie announcement in my life. Reading the comments made it even better because it told me that my experience was actually much more common than I would have thought. I just want to say thank you for making this video. It really warms my heart to see other people out there that care about it as much as I do

How interesting this video came very close to one Tumblr text post that got very popular talking about how ytp's should be valued as art. Is it just me or there has been an explosion of appreciation of art these last couple of years? I've seen more and more people classify more stuff as art, and honestly? I couldn't be more happy

Krobo is an absolute legend. Not only for the Fesh Pince videos but his MLP ytps are the best out there too

You know its really cool to see someone take the time to talk about KZfaq poops. Its seen as childish and real "bottom of the barrel" humor at times but it really does bring entertainment at the simplest level that a lot of people can enjoy and we have since the early days of Zelda-CDI. I never see people talk about this but it gets referenced from time to time in other youtube poops and its amazing to see. People referencing the frozen cave man from the misadventures of skooks. For whatever reason it just appears from time to time and I would love to see people remember this and enjoy seeing it as much as I do.

fucking phenomenal video, it's really nice to see the people who watched all these older youtube videos reflect back on them and realize that they hold a lot more meaning than we realize

I'm particularly fond of King of the Hill YTPs. The best ones, in my opinion, still have some semblance of a plot to follow.

0:34 the part right after this when carlton comes in and is like✋😬🤚was probably the hardest I've ever laughed at a YTP.

algo recommended me this one and i'm so glad i took a chance on it - i'm going through your whole backlog now. the quality, depth, and originality of your videos are really refreshing. i hope this one blows up and i hope people check out your non-shitpost analysis as well!

I’m working on a video about the whole “spingebill” subculture surrounding ytp and it’s really awesome seeing people talk about ytp. Krobo’s stuff was legendary

i’m so brainbroken by YTPs that i involuntarily yelp “SoS!” whenever i hear it

I didn't even realise how small of a channel this was until i finished the video, this is insane quality. keep it up :))

awesome video, thank you

This is amazing. Please do a video on Durhamrockerz, or the Akira Kurosawa of YTP’s. Their King of the Hill videos are the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

Learned about Fesh Pince for the first time thanks to randomly stumbling upon this video, and now I ADORE Fesh Pince and am now subbed to you. Cheers!

I don't think ive ever seen an essay take YTPs so seriously, nor one that was written so well. Regardless of if you think YTPs are juvenile or immature, you have to admit it is an artistic medium that people can be creative through. They're just yet another way people talk about the things they like (or dislike), by making their own works on it. YTP is art, and I hope it never dies.

3:02 DaThings spotted???????

"I used to think KZfaq Poops were stupid; just unintelligible garbage flashbanging your senses in order to get a cheap laugh from the dumb. It took me while to realize that they were taking a scene and straining it- removing all the dialogue, all the acting, all the narrative, leaving you with nothing but the distilled emotion of the scene. This is why so many YTPs are made from sitcoms and children's cartoons- the only thing left is the raw comedy." -Me, circa 2016, while absolutely out of my mind on LSD.

Oh my god i cant beleive ive been put in a youtube video 19:44 Awesome video man, hope this takes you places!

Oh my god! That OrpheusFTW video. Yes! Thank you for contextualizing that! I've been a fan of YTP since before 2010 and I have seen it evolve in so many ways over the years. Thank you for this video, I was literally thinking someone should do something like this 🙌

Absolute banger video. I never thought fesh pince of all things would get the video essay treatment like this, but I’m super glad it did. It’s probably my overall favorite KZfaq video of all time, and I’m hype to see somebody dive so deep in on it. Shoutout ✊

And in the world of ytp's, let's not forget the colossal subgenre that is YTPMV where, instead of writing new stories with those clips, they write literal music. Some ytpmv's are genuinely fantastic, and creators like iteachvader even go so far as to make completely original tracks

I havent read the Screen Rant article but i know It is not true there was only one shot of Jazz being trown out of the house, as far as I recall there is a shot for every entrance of the house, early in the show he was expelled through the main door, when Aunt Vivian changed then it was through the kitchen door but there are at least 2 other shots that are different one of them being the guest house. So your point still stands but i just wanted to comment that. Subscribed, i really like your Passage à l'acte reference is it shows this was researched beyond internet itself (at least i could belive that was the case). YTP are definitely Dada and there is huge conversation around it in which Passage à l'acte is definitely an important argument.

this video has inspired me to be vulnerable in group therapy about YTP’s affects on my mind

YTPs got me into dadaism and I think that's all you need for proof that they count as art

Our Tim Togers gave y'all a nice shout out on the Insert Credit pod ❤

ive literally been wanting an essay video on ytps and the genre for a while, you just made my year oml

I was expecting this video to be padded out to be as long as it is and kind of a joke but you honestly came up with some genuinely interesting commentary on this stuff. I’m very impressed!

I hadn't watched any of the vids before, so I did the appropriate thing and went and watched all of them. Thank you for the recommendation. What a happy accident that I stumbled upon. Now I have over a decade of memes to look over.

As much analysis as you've put into it, as much as the human brain is a fantastic thing, and as much as I'd love to see future stuff from you (maybe seeing if absurdism is necessary for Poops to function, or if YTP qualifies as "punk" if it can surpass its source material in terms of view counts/popularity), I still don't think there is a way to truly explain the segue in Fesh Pince 2 from Will being killed to a sudden burst of Popeye the Sailor.

a video about YTP... i am so incredibly nostalgic and thrilled. great work as always!!!!!!!

never did i ever expect to watch a case study on ytps AND ITS GOOD

got this recomended on Twitter of all places haha, and not recommended by a bot, but recomended by a stranger quoting your tweet that got rt'd by an art-talking account I really like and trust, so really it's the human interactions and desire for interesting art that brought me here. And I'm really happy I decided to try this vid out ! Very good watch, thank you for explaining something I was unaware of, in a manner that made it deeply important to me now !

This was fantastic it held my attention the whole time which is a FEAT because i didnt take my ADHD meds today

I literally think of this every day of my life and tell everyone I meet to watch it

You Tube WHAT????

Awesome analysis, it's nice to hear video essay type stuff on things people actually like. Also I'd never heard of Bel Air until now.

Seeing all this love and attention given to these videos that I have watched and loved for over 10 years is so heartwarming

As someone who's been using this website since 2005, thank you for this. This topic is pretty special to me

I generally despise video essays as people use them as an outlet to try and sound smart. However, the connections you made to graffiti and the anonymous analogy with YTP's actually hooked me. Usually, video essays tell people stuff they already know without adding much afterthought, but the Kuleshov effect was something new I learnt, and it's why I watched this all the way through.

It just makes me happy seeing references and screenshots of all these YTPers I've been a fan of for years. Great essay!

subbed for the reference to one of, if not the best nirvana the band the show episode

Thank you for reminding me about Waldfields book. Sat in my cart forever on Amazon, and I finally just bought it. Waldfield is a legend up there with Krobo.

This was a really wonderful video! Thank you for making it, I really appreciate hearing your thoughts and observations about an art medium I've enjoyed since I was 13 years old in 2008, haha.

This video was really incredible man, the point about it being the widest spread form of experimental film was something internet ive wanted to hear for a time. Big ups man, hoping nothinf but success for your channel🙏🏾

I just watched this and your video on Two and a Half Men back to back. It's been a second since I've found a creator who makes shit I have no interest in exploring genuinely fascinating, not to mention the thought-provoking commentary that it comes packaged with. Subscribed and I'll be recommending you to my friends who enjoy similar content. Keep it up dude, I forsee you becoming the next Jacob Geller or HBomberguy.

I clicked on this video expecting a shatpost of some kind, but wow, I am genuinely impressed with the thoughtfulness and academic rigour with which you treated YTPs. I've always found the silliness, experimentation and irreverence of YTPs captivating and this essay gives that captivation weight and voice. Fantastic work!

I've always maintained that YTP's are an artform because the people that make them are hands down some of the best editors on the planet. Communicating a gag, the timing and pacing and such, solely through editing is incredibly difficult.

This video got me to reflect a bit about my own experience making YTPs, the shared experience of *legally* getting Sony Vegas just to make terrible 1 minute YTPs out of wack source material, only for them to grow and get longer as I kept making them. I guess I look back on it and realize that I was just making sample flips of the source materials that I loved or was watching at the time. I look back at making those videos fondly, and I carry that shared experience like Charles Foster Kane remembers Rosebud.

you had me wrapped around your finger at "it's like the citizen kane of internet videos if citizen kane was good"

Damn, wasn't expect to see Jay from NTBTS say sos but I'm glad I did

This video genuinely took me by surprise. What a delight. Also wonderful to see a Nirvanna the Band the Show reference out in the wild. Keep up the good work ❤