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.
I was quoting this one as a teen and going into the end of my 20's still quoting it to my brother every now and then. You were the #1 teenager of all time hahaha
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've watched a few Incredibles YTPs in my time, like "The Uncredibles" by EmpLemon and the one by Schafrillas ("The Incredibois"), but I don't recall any that had that joke. Must be somewhat obscure
This video definitely isn't helping the "UA-camrs 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?
A comment like this makes me wish I was still in high school film class, armed with this logic. Take that, Mr Rothman!! Does this mean Skibbidy Toilet is legit too?
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
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 UA-cam 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.
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
ua-cam.com/play/PLtHP6qx8VF7dN2FziRQD5U7XsBnELgpal.html Back when PBS Idea Channel was a thing, they made this playlist which was the only thing I'd previously found doing this sort of analysis of YTPs
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
I gotta know…which volume? I think the hardest thing about liking YTP is having to explain why you like them. Unlike any other thing I like, I find it impossible to explain YTP. Even if I say that it’s cuz it’s utterly abstract and incomprehensible, it doesn’t explain why some YTP are good and others suck
As someone who likes both YTP and RWBY, if you told me another Robotnik YTP dropped, I would gladly take a break between which volume I was watching and the next to see what wacky mishaps happen with one of the best Eggman incarnations. I actually did that between sets of Garfield and Friends episodes with "Robotnik Captures Smiling Friends" and it was one of the funniest Adventures of Sonic YTPs I've _ever_ seen.
@@ma.2089 I think I'm able to articulate why, especially after seeing this video: it's stupid. It's the kind of stupid that hits you in the gut when you're off guard, and that's what's funny about it. It doesn't have a rhyme or reason or a particular setup, if you go with the flow you'll probably get hit with a chuckle out of nowhere at the very least. Even in the video essay he interrupts himself when he gets to fanfiction and that took a bit of wind out of me because I wasn't expecting it. Stuff is just funnier to me with less setup.
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
The day I realized the guy that made Bustin' is also behind the Potter Puppet Pals videos blew my mind. It really is insane how much of an impact one creator could have back then.
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.
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.
I loved your point about teenage art of expression and graffiti. UA-cam 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.
15:00 that’s a really good point. Every once in a while there’s some media I go back to and say “wow I could watch this a hundred times and still be entertained” and that’s when I know it would be a fun YTP material to work on
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.
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
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.
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
This video was a blast to watch. Two things in particular I liked, even though they're supplementary 1 - The reference to those weird Minecraft/Roblox channels you see in comment sections you've never heard of yet have 20 million subs. 2 - The use of VA11-Hall-A music. Instant dopamine hit when I hear any track off that game's OST.
Ytps are definitely one of the main influences that pivoted me into exploring expression and multimedia tools and arts. Idk where i would be if i havent come across Hoh Sis.
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
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 UA-cam’s culture/history has found new depths after watching your 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!
I can’t express enough how awesome this video is. It justifies UA-cam 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!
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
When I learned about "musique concrete" and plunderphonics in university, I immediately compared it to YTP. Remix art has been a thing in the 20th century for a while. It seems to be in decline now, I really miss the work of Imaperson in particular, still watch my faves I discovered in my 20s from time to time.
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.
i got here from your kitchen nightmares essay. im really glad this exists! id also posit that fesh pince and a lot of king of the hill ytps are part of the surrealist, almost dadaist internet humor that developed over the last ten years. theyre Weird to watch and sometimes the stories they tell purposefully get meta or deviate from the "norm" in ways that can be unnerving, like having will look directly into the camera, or having a character suddenly die. dathings is really good at this with the wow! its made series. i like how you compare ytps to graffiti. its all art to someone, isnt it?
An interesting proto YTP worth looking at is "Hoch Der Lambeth Walk" from 1942. The film uses footage from "Triumph of The Will" and clever editing techniques to make it appear that German soldiers are dancing to a popular tune of the 1940s.
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 UA-cam video of all time, and I’m hype to see somebody dive so deep in on it. Shoutout ✊
Hi! Law student and YTPer here. Your discussion of the potential legal ramifications of YTP was interesting and made me curious to see whether anyone had, in fact, actually gone to court over one. I searched two legal research databases (Lexis and Westlaw), but no reported cases mentioned "UA-cam Poop" by name. I did, however, find an FTC public comment from the Electronic Frontier Foundation in which Kansas State Professor Michael Wesch described YTP as an "original remix" medium that might "unintentionally" violate the DMCA if the footage for it is acquired through DVD ripping. It's a very interesting topic that still, from what I can tell, isn't exactly settled law. Great video!
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 UA-cam 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.
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
fesh pince 2 has been for a long time my favorite youtube video. i think ive watched it upwards of 30 times. its my go to vid for whenever i get high and i quote it all the time, i originally wanted to make a video essay on ytp too but somethings came in the way, but this genuinely puts my idea to shame! amazing video and i really see u going far
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 so happy to see UA-cam 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!
I think it might be more than YTP... There's a lot of focus on single letters (including a hint to ignore e in the second part?), text that shows for a few frames, weird things going on with the credits, repeating elements etc. that are kind of common in ARG's... i guess time will tell
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.
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.
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.
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
YTPs are an art form. My favorite one of all time is probably "Crustal Poopsy Sales Sales Profits Sales" but DaThings is overall my favorite creator. Way underappreciated
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.
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 🙌
You know its really cool to see someone take the time to talk about UA-cam 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.
Some facebook page I follow made a post a few months ago asking their followers what their favorite YTPs were, and most of the replies were stuff like Homestar Runner, Saladfingers, that Badger song, stuff like that. And I just thought, those aren't YTPs, they're just Flash cartoons (great ones, but still). It made me wonder, do people not know what UA-cam poops are any more? So I was happy to find this video and see that there's still plenty of people who know and love them. My personal favorite is "Hank of the Hill", the one that recuts the BOGGLE episode of King of the Hill.
It's not exactly the same obviously but I remember the first time I watched an Edgar Wright film I thought "this editing style (by Paul Machliss) feels like the only movie I've ever watched where the creators have seen (late 2000s/early 2010s) UA-cam editing" because it was so incredibly snappy. They made Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and Baby Driver in particular - the latter REALLY speaks out to me as being relevant to the discussion in your video as the entire film is edited to have rhythm with the music playing in the background.
This is a great talk. YTP is so important to our culture. Countless friend groups, couples, siblings, etc. all speak to each other in what sounds like riddles to the uninitiated ear. Saying everyday words and phrases with suspiciously specific inflection, like “What’s a woman??” or “They do draw stairs”. Perhaps even “That’s a good one, Dr. Huxtable” or “Incredible wed-able women”. So many threads of utter nonsense irrevocably woven into the fabric of our familial lexicons. If anyone wants to learn how to use a video editor, please join me in making more of this art we so diminutively label as “POOP”. We must preserve and build upon the works of our ancestors.
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!
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 ❤
Excellent video, I'm very glad there are people out there starting to do literary analysis of the genre. It's a crime I'd never heard of Passage a L'acte, so thank you for that as well.
The combination of good free editing software and filesharing philosophy has made the internet as a whole a hotbed for sample art. Part of why mashups and YTP go hand in hand is because they fundamentally operate on the same ethos. It's beautiful how this has allowed people to experiment and express themselves, even if it's making TV characters say curse words.
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
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 has officially achieved its goal. thank you sweetheart!
we love you dad
I was quoting this one as a teen and going into the end of my 20's still quoting it to my brother every now and then. You were the #1 teenager of all time hahaha
So pince
@@melpmaz7041we miss you
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.
Gotta be my favorite video essay of the year, how did I only find it now
Just got here from your BlueSky post ❤
fesh pince has done irreparable damage to my vocabulary
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snisherbobberson, snisherbobberson, SEYEAYEAYEAYEA
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@@drewp.weiner5708 ya happ-E?
Correction... erection
This video essay is better than having a leg in one hand, and a brerb in the other! 10/10 (seriously).
But is it better than Chicken and Winnegish?
@@EK24z Pizza Hut in the garage?
Hey G, can you make me a sandwich?
@@EK24z Yes.
@@Overcrox No.
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've watched a few Incredibles YTPs in my time, like "The Uncredibles" by EmpLemon and the one by Schafrillas ("The Incredibois"), but I don't recall any that had that joke. Must be somewhat obscure
I love when I'm snooPINGAS usual and I come across a gem like this
you pooped off with this one
i laughed out loud
@@LowercaseJaimore like POOPED out loud aha
hi
This video definitely isn't helping the "UA-camrs 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?
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I question why those allegations are a bad thing tbh
@@spencerjames9417 fr I live on this stuff. My bread and butter baby.
A comment like this makes me wish I was still in high school film class, armed with this logic. Take that, Mr Rothman!!
Does this mean Skibbidy Toilet is legit too?
@@Jersh. it probably unironically will be in 15 years, for better or worse
Finally, now we know the answer to
'What can you say about *Phillip Banks?* '
Yeah, but what can you say about Carlton?
@@DannyDog27he’s Carlton.
@@hphollandit’s Carlton Banks you’re talking to. Carlton Carlton Carlton it’s Carlton Carlton Carlton Carlton…
…….sex
@enlongjones2394 Carlton, are you by any chance, Carlton?
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
that rules! i honestly never thought you'd see this. i'm glad you liked the video!
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 UA-cam 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.
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
Happy to say i was in the room for the fesh pince ytp panel
It always makes me smile a little to see you in random places.
this rules, ive been really wanting a video that takes ytp seriously and examines it as art movement
ua-cam.com/play/PLtHP6qx8VF7dN2FziRQD5U7XsBnELgpal.html
Back when PBS Idea Channel was a thing, they made this playlist which was the only thing I'd previously found doing this sort of analysis of YTPs
are there subgenres? I think there's a random-coherent axis - Fesh Pince leaning random, DaThings' videos leaning to coherent
@@RandomExtremity aw damn, i hadn't seen that before. thanks for mentioning that one. gonna give it a watch.
I still miss the Idea Channel, man.
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
As both a YTP and an ex-RWBY fan, both of you are insane unfortunately haha
I gotta know…which volume?
I think the hardest thing about liking YTP is having to explain why you like them. Unlike any other thing I like, I find it impossible to explain YTP. Even if I say that it’s cuz it’s utterly abstract and incomprehensible, it doesn’t explain why some YTP are good and others suck
@@ma.2089 I honestly don't remember, if I had to guess it was probably volume 2?
As someone who likes both YTP and RWBY, if you told me another Robotnik YTP dropped, I would gladly take a break between which volume I was watching and the next to see what wacky mishaps happen with one of the best Eggman incarnations.
I actually did that between sets of Garfield and Friends episodes with "Robotnik Captures Smiling Friends" and it was one of the funniest Adventures of Sonic YTPs I've _ever_ seen.
@@ma.2089 I think I'm able to articulate why, especially after seeing this video: it's stupid. It's the kind of stupid that hits you in the gut when you're off guard, and that's what's funny about it. It doesn't have a rhyme or reason or a particular setup, if you go with the flow you'll probably get hit with a chuckle out of nowhere at the very least. Even in the video essay he interrupts himself when he gets to fanfiction and that took a bit of wind out of me because I wasn't expecting it. Stuff is just funnier to me with less setup.
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
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.
Fesh Pince is unironically high art. It's totally abstract but so is instrumental music. Fesh Pince is very musical.
Orchestrated/synthesized music that exhibits entire emotions without need of vocals: GURL
I WAS MINDING MY DEE DEE DEE DEE-DEE MAH DEE DEE DEE DEE-DEE
The “Jazzy NYC” needle drop to introduce the section on graffiti blew me away what a perfect track choice
YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE
Alright, that’s cool
This was awesome! Thanks for the shoutout!
Real recognize real
very happy to hear you liked it!
I’ve always thought YTP was anti authoritarian, anti logic, anti… anti corporate art
I think vaporwave has a similar ethos behind it
I would put Neil Cicierega's name forward as another teenager who was very influential in the early internet.
He still is. His albums are seriously great. If you ever wanted to hear We Will Rock You and the Spongebob Theme mashed together, he's your man!!
Bustin' is great
@@TheFaceSoap it also makes ppl feel good
The day I realized the guy that made Bustin' is also behind the Potter Puppet Pals videos blew my mind.
It really is insane how much of an impact one creator could have back then.
@@JoeChianelli*WHAT?* _HE_ MADE THAT?
DaThings mentioned. very good.
cs188 mentioned. *michael rosen face* VERY good...
she’s truly the queen of ytps
i sent fesh pince to my film teacher as an example of an experimental stock footage film
Whoa, you kind of just changed my whole pov on the medium
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.
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.
I loved your point about teenage art of expression and graffiti. UA-cam 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.
15:00 that’s a really good point. Every once in a while there’s some media I go back to and say “wow I could watch this a hundred times and still be entertained” and that’s when I know it would be a fun YTP material to work on
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.
As someone who's been using this website since 2005, thank you for this. This topic is pretty special to me
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
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.
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
This video was a blast to watch. Two things in particular I liked, even though they're supplementary
1 - The reference to those weird Minecraft/Roblox channels you see in comment sections you've never heard of yet have 20 million subs.
2 - The use of VA11-Hall-A music. Instant dopamine hit when I hear any track off that game's OST.
Ytps are definitely one of the main influences that pivoted me into exploring expression and multimedia tools and arts.
Idk where i would be if i havent come across Hoh Sis.
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
26:56 "Who Will?" He's the main character
Genius
"Oh my God, he's God"
Hallelujah
"Would you make me a sandwich"
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.
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
Thank you Tim Rogers for sending me here.
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 UA-cam’s culture/history has found new depths after watching your 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!
I can’t express enough how awesome this video is. It justifies UA-cam 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!
Thanks! I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it
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.
"RRREEEERRRRR-AAAAAAAAAÆÆÆÆÆÆEEEEEEEE"
Imaperson is another genius YTPer, perhaps the most avant-garde and extreme YTPer of all UA-cam history. Love this video btw
youtube.com/@voidbeyond is a currently active avant-garde YTPer. They're more like art films than the traditional YTP that tries to make jokes.
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
Krobo is an absolute legend. Not only for the Fesh Pince videos but his MLP ytps are the best out there too
When I learned about "musique concrete" and plunderphonics in university, I immediately compared it to YTP. Remix art has been a thing in the 20th century for a while. It seems to be in decline now, I really miss the work of Imaperson in particular, still watch my faves I discovered in my 20s from time to time.
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.
i got here from your kitchen nightmares essay. im really glad this exists! id also posit that fesh pince and a lot of king of the hill ytps are part of the surrealist, almost dadaist internet humor that developed over the last ten years. theyre Weird to watch and sometimes the stories they tell purposefully get meta or deviate from the "norm" in ways that can be unnerving, like having will look directly into the camera, or having a character suddenly die. dathings is really good at this with the wow! its made series. i like how you compare ytps to graffiti. its all art to someone, isnt it?
An interesting proto YTP worth looking at is "Hoch Der Lambeth Walk" from 1942. The film uses footage from "Triumph of The Will" and clever editing techniques to make it appear that German soldiers are dancing to a popular tune of the 1940s.
I didn't even realise how small of a channel this was until i finished the video, this is insane quality. keep it up :))
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 UA-cam video of all time, and I’m hype to see somebody dive so deep in on it. Shoutout ✊
Hi! Law student and YTPer here. Your discussion of the potential legal ramifications of YTP was interesting and made me curious to see whether anyone had, in fact, actually gone to court over one. I searched two legal research databases (Lexis and Westlaw), but no reported cases mentioned "UA-cam Poop" by name. I did, however, find an FTC public comment from the Electronic Frontier Foundation in which Kansas State Professor Michael Wesch described YTP as an "original remix" medium that might "unintentionally" violate the DMCA if the footage for it is acquired through DVD ripping. It's a very interesting topic that still, from what I can tell, isn't exactly settled law. Great video!
wow that’s incredible!!! thanks for doing the research and letting me know!!
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 UA-cam 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.
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
fesh pince 2 has been for a long time my favorite youtube video. i think ive watched it upwards of 30 times. its my go to vid for whenever i get high and i quote it all the time, i originally wanted to make a video essay on ytp too but somethings came in the way, but this genuinely puts my idea to shame! amazing video and i really see u going far
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!
this is incredibly kind of you to say!! i'm glad you enjoyed them!
YTPs got me into dadaism and I think that's all you need for proof that they count as art
I’m so happy to see UA-cam 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!
ive literally been wanting an essay video on ytps and the genre for a while, you just made my year oml
You have such a way with words man. This video has altered my brain chemistry.
I think it might be more than YTP... There's a lot of focus on single letters (including a hint to ignore e in the second part?), text that shows for a few frames, weird things going on with the credits, repeating elements etc. that are kind of common in ARG's... i guess time will tell
Heh...no E
i’m so brainbroken by YTPs that i involuntarily yelp “SoS!” whenever i hear it
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.
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.
Glad to see WalrusGuy and Deepercut mentioned. There have been so many great YTPers out there and so so so many bad ones
Thank you for censoring Po*p, I don't know what I would've done if you hadn't
UA-cam P**P = UA-cam PP, hehe
we don't wanna encourage defecation, after all. a real upstanding citizen will NOT p**p
9:06 I wonder if OrpheusFTW will do some high art today.
I'm so glad he got a mention.
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.
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.
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
YTPs are an art form. My favorite one of all time is probably "Crustal Poopsy Sales Sales Profits Sales" but DaThings is overall my favorite creator. Way underappreciated
Our Tim Togers gave y'all a nice shout out on the Insert Credit pod ❤
I love the comparison with graff, its internet graffiti! I love it
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.
I always liked that Resident Evil 4 poop from DeeperCutt (iirc), that was one of the first i saw that had a structure and a sense for running jokes.
I still rewatch it occasionally, some jokes haven't aged super well but it's a bit of a time capsule in that way
It just makes me happy seeing references and screenshots of all these YTPers I've been a fan of for years. Great essay!
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 🙌
You know its really cool to see someone take the time to talk about UA-cam 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.
Some facebook page I follow made a post a few months ago asking their followers what their favorite YTPs were, and most of the replies were stuff like Homestar Runner, Saladfingers, that Badger song, stuff like that. And I just thought, those aren't YTPs, they're just Flash cartoons (great ones, but still). It made me wonder, do people not know what UA-cam poops are any more? So I was happy to find this video and see that there's still plenty of people who know and love them.
My personal favorite is "Hank of the Hill", the one that recuts the BOGGLE episode of King of the Hill.
It's not exactly the same obviously but I remember the first time I watched an Edgar Wright film I thought "this editing style (by Paul Machliss) feels like the only movie I've ever watched where the creators have seen (late 2000s/early 2010s) UA-cam editing" because it was so incredibly snappy. They made Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and Baby Driver in particular - the latter REALLY speaks out to me as being relevant to the discussion in your video as the entire film is edited to have rhythm with the music playing in the background.
"And sometimes, he can just do this:"
cue an ad with barack obama telling me to vote. *impeccable* timing.
a video about YTP... i am so incredibly nostalgic and thrilled. great work as always!!!!!!!
Well yea, we all love Krobo and stuff but your inclusion of the va-11 hall-A ost is what showed real good taste. Subbed.
A certain Dehydration Gun Hating Crab sent me here.
This is a great talk. YTP is so important to our culture. Countless friend groups, couples, siblings, etc. all speak to each other in what sounds like riddles to the uninitiated ear. Saying everyday words and phrases with suspiciously specific inflection, like “What’s a woman??” or “They do draw stairs”. Perhaps even “That’s a good one, Dr. Huxtable” or “Incredible wed-able women”. So many threads of utter nonsense irrevocably woven into the fabric of our familial lexicons.
If anyone wants to learn how to use a video editor, please join me in making more of this art we so diminutively label as “POOP”. We must preserve and build upon the works of our ancestors.
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!
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 ❤
we'll make season 3 happen!
oh im so watching this, been a fan of these ytps by krobo for soo long aa
Yours is the best channel I've discovered this year.
I'm so glad this exists cause you've put into words what i've been thinking for a while, and were funny doing it
dude no way i was actually at that magfest panel last year
i believe theyre actually hosting another one this year and everything too
Excellent video, I'm very glad there are people out there starting to do literary analysis of the genre. It's a crime I'd never heard of Passage a L'acte, so thank you for that as well.
The combination of good free editing software and filesharing philosophy has made the internet as a whole a hotbed for sample art. Part of why mashups and YTP go hand in hand is because they fundamentally operate on the same ethos. It's beautiful how this has allowed people to experiment and express themselves, even if it's making TV characters say curse words.
great video! I did not expect to learn this much about film theory from fesh pince
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
never did i ever expect to watch a case study on ytps AND ITS GOOD