I really like the symbolism of this picture. Dave is so small compared to Bro in this shot, and just completely covered up by his shadow. Kind of like how he spent a lot of his younger life feeling completely trapped in Bro's shadow. Or maybe I'm just reading way to much into this.
People would like to believe art is meaningless it seems... The themes you pointed out are pretty accurate I think. Even if the artist didn't put it into words the way you did, the picture is still visually thematic and pretty rich with meaning.
To be fair, I think Dirk's strange ability to have to be aware of all of his alternate selves would speak volumes in what he decided to do to prepare Dave. Granted Bro and Dirk aren't completely the same person, but we can see that Dream Dirk has a strange amount of self awareness that most false iterations of other characters don't have of the alpha timeline.
I wonder if the neighbours ever wondered why the hell a grown man is battling his adopted brother on the rooftop and beating his ass with that creepy ol' puppet. like damn theres something majorly wrong with that puppet
Jhon: i don't understand why my dad likes all this wierd clown stuff! Rose: my mom is so wierd! she drinks and likes wizards Jade: ugh! my Grandpa is obsessed with his blue ladies and guns! Dave: oh yeah no my bad rooftop battles are so normal wow you all have really wierd guardians guys
Clockwork It actually is child abuse though. It's a 30 year old man beating up a 13 year old child repeatedly on a rooftop day in and day out. Dave even says it himself later on in the comic that growing up with Bro Strider was literal hell.
I wonder if anyone took into consideration that Bro found Dave in a fucking meteor and thats why he was hard on Dave. Like maybe he thought he was some alien Goku baby. Like he kind of makes me think of how piccolo trained a young gohan.... Really shitty parenting but yeah.
nope! they're by different artists and this was used in homestuck for the first time before megalovania did, though i'm pretty sure megalovania was made first but for another project. they are not related to my knowledge
psycho Doomed Yes, but Dirk is from an alternate timeline where he grew up under completely different circumstances. They might share the same DNA, but they're two separate personalities.
+Joshua Rampersaud Technically pre-Scratch selves and post-scratch selves would have different names because they would have different (Or no) caretakers.
Man I sure love all the people just talking about this being "Child Abuse" the theme..... Christ. And I thought the undertale community goes overboard sometimes.... well i guess I cant blame them much. Homestuck touches on a LOT of subjects that are highly controversial, although I feel like people forget the basis of it making fun of itself. I mean look at Kankri, like the definition of tumblr right there. Everyone talking about child abuse as if it's so simple.... like are we going to act as if none of the other guardians weren't irresponsible/abusive in their own ways? Face the facts people, raising children isn't an easy thing to do. And in Bro's case raising a child that fucking fell to earth on a flaming pony is pretty damn impressive. Like... all my aunt did was give me crippling depression and zero cool ninja abilities.
Vanda Revonl lmao no one is saying they werent plus dave kinda got the most neglect and abuse, along with rose. jade couldnt help thay her grandpap was dead and johns dad was nice to him.
They may not be saying it outright yeah. But I mean we do have to consider what would cause bro to raise Dave the way he did. Like maybe he knew about all that crap ahead of time. When Nanna became a sprite she seemed to know what was up stating things like being at that level or getting to this part of the game. She seemed aware of her other life playing sburb. Not to mention how all the guardians seemed to have reacted to the game in itself. Roses mom and Bro went straight for the denizens. So maybe they were aware of what their kids would have to go through. Considering out of the four beta kids Dave and Rose were the most prepared from what I observed re-reading the comic. Like I'm not saying he didn't abuse Dave, I just hate how everyone talks about it as if Bro didn't care about Dave at all. The whole fandom is full of old and new members all the time and it amazes me how many theories and fandom headcannons become law without anyone actually looking into the comic itself. Also sorry for the long rant, I'm pretty sure most people who look at this will just skim it, pick out one part of it to focus on out of context, get upset, and maybe respond with some general upset tumblr like response.
You're confusing Dave's normal circular glasses with the IShades. The circular glasses were a gift for his birthday from John, and with them he && combines them with the IPhone to make the IShades.
Don't get me wrong I love the bros to bits but dame no matter what way you look at it the relationship was fucke up. Bro messed up dave in a big way and had to deal with his own shit like dame-
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I really like the symbolism of this picture. Dave is so small compared to Bro in this shot, and just completely covered up by his shadow. Kind of like how he spent a lot of his younger life feeling completely trapped in Bro's shadow. Or maybe I'm just reading way to much into this.
Archsteel nah its just a shadow, and i like shadows
I LIVE in shadows.
and then they both end up at the same height later lul
or maybe because hes fucking small and CHILD and dirk is biigg and MAN
People would like to believe art is meaningless it seems... The themes you pointed out are pretty accurate I think. Even if the artist didn't put it into words the way you did, the picture is still visually thematic and pretty rich with meaning.
Childabuse, the theme.
w h y
@@noahfan2719 because
Oh my gosh, his shirt design isn't even scratched yet, you guys remember those times?
It was around this fight when that happened
it was this fight dude
his sword broke
@@oddboa428 when Bro beat his Ass so fucking hard he changed the image on his shirt
@@thesardonicrenegade It was Bro telling him to Scratch all the way back then.
@@majorasmaskguy_8452 no I meant that Bro beat Dave so badly that the image on his shirt cracked
Dave looks so sad. Rooftop dueling surely took a lot away from his life, huh.
To be fair, I think Dirk's strange ability to have to be aware of all of his alternate selves would speak volumes in what he decided to do to prepare Dave. Granted Bro and Dirk aren't completely the same person, but we can see that Dream Dirk has a strange amount of self awareness that most false iterations of other characters don't have of the alpha timeline.
HE LOOKS SO SCARED. SAVE HIM.
Can't abscond, bro!
CHEAP PIECE OF SHIT
i WARNED YOU BRO!
i wARn YOUR DOG!
He better be prepared to get his ass handed to him by Lil' Cal and the staircase on a silver plate.
#SaveDave
I wonder if the neighbours ever wondered why the hell a grown man is battling his adopted brother on the rooftop and beating his ass with that creepy ol' puppet. like damn theres something majorly wrong with that puppet
okay wait so yeah. no theyre real brothers. no adoption. sorry just had to correct myself there. ectobiology is a tricky shit
@@djkfork actually, "adopted brother" is right. bro is his genetic father.
DAVE LOOKS SO SCARED OH NO
f u c k
Jhon: i don't understand why my dad likes all this wierd clown stuff!
Rose: my mom is so wierd! she drinks and likes wizards
Jade: ugh! my Grandpa is obsessed with his blue ladies and guns!
Dave: oh yeah no my bad rooftop battles are so normal wow you all have really wierd guardians guys
At first i thought this was a CANWC comment but i guess not
Tranquil Doll John
*Jhon intensifies
Dirk: Are you ready?
Dave: fuck yeah
Dirk: *Beatdown DX starts playing* Beatdown.
Dave: im fucking ready
His face doesn't look ready in the picture though.
I guess so.
No fucking idea.
No one could be ready for this.
Definitely.
dave is so tiny omg
Yeah, I think he was supposed to be 13 and not 6 during that strife?
Kacper Zamłynny
maybe
+yazshu Yeah, I was just saying he doesn't look like a 13 year old kid. But that's more of a complaint aimed towards The Huss.
no its just the position
bro is taller then dave
illuminantBaegis
I know that
he just looks small
Do-do-do-do-child abuuuuuse-do-do
Now imagine if you will... Beatdown DX... But in Pokemon RSE Soundfonts. Them Hoenn Trumpets, though...
Dave's red shine on his shades makes it look like pupils. It looks kinda goofy, too.
Like, "Oh man, I shouldn't have done that"
The brush you can actually see his pupils in the red shines too. Which makes the shines looks like the whole eyes.
When actually
Every
Single
Recommendation
Is by the same person
Holy hell
Spoopy
SOMEONE CALL SOCIAL SERVICES!!!!
Child Abuse: The Musical.
:o My GOD, you're the one who's done so much of the Homestuck soundtrack! I didn't even LOOK at the UA-camr name until now, god damn!
Lumi, Roof Now. Bring Lil Cal.
*where doing this man
Daniel Otarola I know, I was just spelling it the way SBaHJ does, because that's where the quote come from in the first place.
We makeg it hapen
SMOL DAVE IS SO PRECIOUS
Finnian BlackButler i agree with this
this sounds like beatdown mixed with another medium
looking at art and comments, maybe this song should be called another beatdown?
I know this comment is old, but Beatdown dx came out long before another medium did.
The first part of this song would make a good ringtone ngl
lumi, i have some bad news, I gotta go to Texas for a while and i-i can't be first.
o: oh no how will you make it in life without being first
+CreatorofJanespeak good luck with that
RIP, the heat is gonna kill ya...that is..if your still there.
mh...I mean I guess. Been livin' in this place for most of my life...so
+Osha Hari :O
I need to fucking sleep.
you don't sleep with homestuck
_Homestuck sleeps with you._
I just got into homestuck and i havent slept in three days
when i got into hs i already had insomnia
:,^)
+CreeperFlower 14 I always have insomnia
Dirk: "Your Fucked."
Dave's Mind: 'Shit shit shit shit shit shit'
Man, It's wonderful livin' in Houston.
"remember kid, dying is gay"
**snrk**
_it’s funny because-_
*_dirk is gAY-_*
I know it's just angles and all... but why does smol Dave make me laugh?
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Me: ARE YOU A TIME TRAVELER LIKE DAVEEEEE?
??
Congrats on 12,900 subscribers. Almost to 13000.
this song is my favorite homestuck song ever
Luckily I won the giveaway so I can listen to this music for free with bragging rights! :D
I still love the extensions, it not the same as listening to the song over and over
you still could put this video on loop..
+Nerdy and I will do that (I forgot about the loop)
'sup bro' in french is 'quoi de neuf, mon frère'
'quoi de neuf, mon frère?' is "whats up my brother?" in english
Whether it's child abuse or not (*cough cough* it is *cough*) can we agree that it's a really good song?
Clockwork It actually is child abuse though. It's a 30 year old man beating up a 13 year old child repeatedly on a rooftop day in and day out. Dave even says it himself later on in the comic that growing up with Bro Strider was literal hell.
wink wonk sorry for being 2 years late but they said it was child abuse
smol dabe
Dabe? Oh you mean Dave
@@devinr.jmckinney1452 no he means dabe
@@devinr.jmckinney1452 r/woosh
@@dreadfulroses as in dabe on them haters?
-sorry-
@@wildfire9280 there is a major flaw in your testimony
what if the haters dabe back? (also I miss when dabbing was funny)
I just turned the speed to 1.5X, and *MY GOD*
This shit's more intense than Touhou's Flowering Night...
more intense than the other timeshifter's theme? lemme take a look
update: your music taste sucks bro
Help I turned up the speed and just started laughing super hard because it just sounded like a really fast ringtone to me
I like bro's glasses.
Me: DONT CHANGE THE SONG (stride was playing)
My sister: (changes song to mogolovonio)
Me: go to the roof... Now (turns on the song)😡
>[S] Cryptic:Strife!
>[S] Cryptic:Strife?
>[S] Little sister: STROOOF
*help my boy.*
great songs as always but sleeeep please
oh my god this dave in the picture looks so cute i can't even right now. i mean, look at him!
He looks terrified
Peridot that to bit still
This video gets me recommended some really weird shit.
has a megalovania feel, but not megalovania! love it!
Which one? Earthbound, Homestuck or Undertale?
it kind of has the base tune in the beginning, i guess.
it must be the chiptune style
@@HandyAlacrity idk, but probably not the smash bros version
I WARNED YOU ABOUT THE STAIRS
IT KEEPS HAPPENING
strider moment
I wonder if anyone took into consideration that Bro found Dave in a fucking meteor and thats why he was hard on Dave. Like maybe he thought he was some alien Goku baby. Like he kind of makes me think of how piccolo trained a young gohan.... Really shitty parenting but yeah.
without dirk dave wouldn't be who he is today.
Upon looking closer at Dave's shades... You can see the shape of Bro's crotch. There's no way that's NOT what that is.
Wtf?
Wtf ?????
I need the source of this picture
+karcat It's the track artwork on the bandcamp page.
it keeps happening
I can't unhear it as a Megalovania remix. was beatdown always a shuffled megalovania?!
nope! they're by different artists and this was used in homestuck for the first time before megalovania did, though i'm pretty sure megalovania was made first but for another project. they are not related to my knowledge
@@bonedoggle Megalovania was in tobyfox's Halloween romhack of Earthbound, then homestuck, and the romhack pre-dates homestuck entirely.
@@therealquade well yeah, it did, but for all i know beatdown could have been in the same situation
Are you gonna do Moonsweater extended...make it like 5 hours long
that was the first vol. 10 extension i did!
+luminantAegis oops, my bad😅
christ how tall IS Bro???????
soy un hispano vengo a conquistar este comentario
yeeessss i love this
when you look at the shadow you can imagine baby daVe on bro's shoulders
i've never read/played homestuck but this looks like child abuse
onetimeyeah • It is, Dirk is abusive :v
Dirk 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 not 👏🏼 Bro
Pseudo Saccharine yes, dirk is bro
psycho Doomed
Yes, but Dirk is from an alternate timeline where he grew up under completely different circumstances. They might share the same DNA, but they're two separate personalities.
Free my boy‼️ Get him OUT‼️‼️
Still good
Am I the only one who can kinda hear megalovania in this...
yep
It reminds me of it kinda
dirk-i want you to fight me!
dave-what!?
That's not dirk it's bro
but daves bro IS dirk,i'm just calling bro by his post scratch name
oh ok
+Joshua Rampersaud Technically pre-Scratch selves and post-scratch selves would have different names because they would have different (Or no) caretakers.
@@andrewroberts1508 it's canon that at least roxy have the same name in both universe since hiveswap is out,so I don't see why the other wouldn't ????
the poor boy
Man I sure love all the people just talking about this being "Child Abuse" the theme..... Christ. And I thought the undertale community goes overboard sometimes.... well i guess I cant blame them much. Homestuck touches on a LOT of subjects that are highly controversial, although I feel like people forget the basis of it making fun of itself. I mean look at Kankri, like the definition of tumblr right there. Everyone talking about child abuse as if it's so simple.... like are we going to act as if none of the other guardians weren't irresponsible/abusive in their own ways? Face the facts people, raising children isn't an easy thing to do. And in Bro's case raising a child that fucking fell to earth on a flaming pony is pretty damn impressive. Like... all my aunt did was give me crippling depression and zero cool ninja abilities.
Vanda Revonl lmao no one is saying they werent plus dave kinda got the most neglect and abuse, along with rose. jade couldnt help thay her grandpap was dead and johns dad was nice to him.
They may not be saying it outright yeah. But I mean we do have to consider what would cause bro to raise Dave the way he did. Like maybe he knew about all that crap ahead of time. When Nanna became a sprite she seemed to know what was up stating things like being at that level or getting to this part of the game. She seemed aware of her other life playing sburb. Not to mention how all the guardians seemed to have reacted to the game in itself. Roses mom and Bro went straight for the denizens. So maybe they were aware of what their kids would have to go through. Considering out of the four beta kids Dave and Rose were the most prepared from what I observed re-reading the comic. Like I'm not saying he didn't abuse Dave, I just hate how everyone talks about it as if Bro didn't care about Dave at all. The whole fandom is full of old and new members all the time and it amazes me how many theories and fandom headcannons become law without anyone actually looking into the comic itself.
Also sorry for the long rant, I'm pretty sure most people who look at this will just skim it, pick out one part of it to focus on out of context, get upset, and maybe respond with some general upset tumblr like response.
this has the same sound font and a similar melody to megalovania
*megalomania from lifealife
It sounds better at 0.75 and 1.25 speeds tbh but that’s just me
why i am so small?
go awway you fake
aw two eriidan2 are fiightiing, ii2n’t that ju2t cute
it’s funny because everyone changed their usernames so the only way to tell who’s who is typing quirks.
FUCK I AM FALLING DOWN ALL THESE STAIRS IT KEEPS HAPPENING
I missed Bro
w h y
Dave doesn't get his circular glasses until much later. Art error I presume.
You're confusing Dave's normal circular glasses with the IShades. The circular glasses were a gift for his birthday from John, and with them he && combines them with the IPhone to make the IShades.
woof now bring memes
what the heck is a homestuck?
Beatup when
this week, maybe even tonight
Gasp
Yeah! I'm really -EXCIT----------------ED too!
Don't get me wrong I love the bros to bits but dame no matter what way you look at it the relationship was fucke up. Bro messed up dave in a big way and had to deal with his own shit like dame-
I know Bro is a pretty bad person but man he is cool. Probably my favorite character in all of Homestuck sorry Dave
youre dead to me
You're uploading every song that you used in the stream earlier aren't you...
That was the plan. To give you Vol 10. And you... got one.
+luminantAegis Was that a reference to the bonertown galore scene?
XD
kill me later.
Dave's Dave is like
Biggs whu?
sounds like megalovania..
The PetrarcticWar No. just no.
i hate bro strider lmao