The Art of Psychological Horror: Lake Laogai & City of Walls and Secrets - Avatar The Last Airbender

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  • @Hamzakarim-1
    @Hamzakarim-1 Рік тому +470

    the first time i watched avatar i always thought jet was a crazy jerk, but later i just realized how tragic and sad of character he is, and what happened to him at the end is just heartbreaking, getting brainwashed and dying

    • @loopdee1922
      @loopdee1922 Рік тому +35

      I highly recommend vistarya's video "The Thing About Jet" for an in-depth analysis on him and why he's the most tragic character in the show :)

    • @edgbarra
      @edgbarra 8 місяців тому +13

      That last part was really unclear

    • @Queen-ty1xz
      @Queen-ty1xz 8 місяців тому +20

      "Did Jet Just die?!
      I dont know. It was Kind of unclear"

    • @AozoraUltra2006
      @AozoraUltra2006 8 місяців тому +9

      He did try to drown a whole town pre-brainwash, so I’m not feeling too bad for him

    • @bundevsawhney7578
      @bundevsawhney7578 8 місяців тому +7

      @@AozoraUltra2006 before that he was just a spiteful orphan due to violence - would you have felt bad for him at that point?

  • @iceluvndiva21
    @iceluvndiva21 Рік тому +694

    What always freaks me out is how effectively this shows how brainwashing takes time. Consistent, controlled, and isolated spaces where a person is slowly and methodically broken down and remade.

    • @aglaurakim4068
      @aglaurakim4068 Рік тому +26

      Believe me, living in contemporary China is just like this

    • @Adam-vi4ek
      @Adam-vi4ek 11 місяців тому +34

      Living in America is like that too it's just called social media now

    • @nurainiarsad7395
      @nurainiarsad7395 8 місяців тому +23

      Multinational corporate culture is like this too, albeit arguably not in a pre-meditated way and is a common side effect of being too long in corporate (or maybe I just think that because I never got high enough up to know otherwise... ). It's an erroneous assumption that it only happens in places like North Korea or China.

    • @PolytoxusRex
      @PolytoxusRex 8 місяців тому

      ​@@aglaurakim4068-100 social credit for you

    • @Wmuthoni
      @Wmuthoni 7 місяців тому +4

      I always loved how avatar, the last Airbender made use of lake Laogai as a brainwashing secret base that subtlety made reference to one of Mao’s infamous work rehabilitation camps.

  • @tommyl.dayandtherunaways820
    @tommyl.dayandtherunaways820 7 місяців тому +44

    While season 2 already showed a tremendous leap in maturity from season 1 (starting with the very first episode, where we establish that yes, the “good guys” can be villains too), it was when we got to the Ba Sing Se arc that this officially stopped being a kids show
    The really genius thing the writers did is they spent all of season 2 building up Ba Sing Se as this paradise, the place where everyone wanted to go, and then they finally get there, only to find a dystopian police state where the illusion of peace and happiness is used as a weapon against the populace.
    While the North Pole may have been somewhat of a letdown at first, especially for Katara, it was a worthwhile journey in the end. Here, on the other hand, you really feel the sense of futility, that all of their efforts were seemingly in vain.

  • @Angel-Dust-The-Prostitute
    @Angel-Dust-The-Prostitute 8 місяців тому +197

    I have an case against bloodbending being illegalized if I lived in the avatar last airbender / avatar korra world. That the art of blood bending has actual medical applications. Getting blood flow to the heart when needed, stopping blood flow when an artery in surgery has to be cut, Restoring peoples chakra points, even turning an otherwise fatal wound into a scab across the torso, to stopping an soldier from bleeding out, to reversing the wounds on someone who is near-death being saved last second. Blood bending does not have to be abused, it can in all honesty save lives, and I would suggest villages and cities with waterbending doctors practice said ability.

    • @dakotamartinez8310
      @dakotamartinez8310 7 місяців тому +31

      Maybe one needs a license?

    • @LaCabraAsada
      @LaCabraAsada 7 місяців тому +44

      Bloodbeinding isn't the literal bending of a person's blood, it's the bending of the *water inside a person's body* , Hanma is just an edgy grandma. Our muscle fibers (for example) are made out of 75% water.
      If someone were to actually bloodbend the blood the brute way Hanma and Katara do, the veins and arteries would probably just either burst and/or form really painful bloodclots.
      If this technique you're talking about were to be invented, it should probably be given a different name, since it's so different from bloodbending. Maybe medical healing? Or advanced healing? Something like that.

    • @Angel-Dust-The-Prostitute
      @Angel-Dust-The-Prostitute 7 місяців тому +28

      @@LaCabraAsada there's water content also in our blood cells. It's on a lower scale but still probably abundant enough to be manipulated. Maybe we should call it... Blood-mending?

    • @LaCabraAsada
      @LaCabraAsada 7 місяців тому

      @@Angel-Dust-The-Prostitute Yes, there is also water in blood. Forgetting our bloodcells, plasma (red bloodcell-less blood) is made out of 90% water.
      I think bloodmending works.

    • @yourshoulderdevil5229
      @yourshoulderdevil5229 7 місяців тому +14

      This is kinda like saying that stabbing people shouldn't be illegal because surgery could save a life. Regular blood bending isn't the same as helping someone medically. Blood bending should absolutely be illegal if you're not someone authorized to do it for medical reasons. You're right that it can be useful, but I don't think you thought it through all the way.

  • @Evil0tto
    @Evil0tto Рік тому +354

    13:15 "Just think of that one person you know who put some tape over his webcam."
    Of course I know him. He's me.

    • @Lavendarpanda
      @Lavendarpanda 8 місяців тому +10

      literally me rn

    • @rorykirklnd8957
      @rorykirklnd8957 8 місяців тому +10

      when he said that my eyes just shot up to the band-aid i keep over my laptops camera as if to make sure it was still there

    • @ElNeroDiablo
      @ElNeroDiablo 8 місяців тому +2

      Me who just looked up to see the cover on their Logitech C930e is covering the lens...

  • @kamantariq2513
    @kamantariq2513 8 місяців тому +40

    Regarding the memory part.
    "Did our lives start last thursday."
    I acutally lost my memories. All of them. A tv looked uncanny. My dog who ive known sense a todler was a warm "thing". For about 30 min or so, the me who fell asleep was dead. While my memories did return, I am unsure how much I do remember. How much of my life is lost? How much did my brain congure to maintain its sanity?
    Also during that window, I still thought and spoke in english..... Some how.

  • @saintmeel
    @saintmeel Рік тому +111

    Ko the face stealer was crazy

  • @Edalontzia
    @Edalontzia Рік тому +314

    There's no war in ba sing se

    • @Koroto
      @Koroto  Рік тому +135

      The earth king has invited you to lake Laogai.

    • @crusader2112
      @crusader2112 Рік тому +61

      Here we are safe.
      Here we are free.

    • @Taiga-16
      @Taiga-16 Рік тому +24

      Must serve the earth king !

    • @rudrodeepchatterjee
      @rudrodeepchatterjee 9 місяців тому +43

      I am honored to accept his invitation. ​@@Koroto

    • @carlrogge94
      @carlrogge94 8 місяців тому +23

      Nothing happened on Tian’anmen square in 1989.

  • @thesamuraihobbit
    @thesamuraihobbit 8 місяців тому +132

    Joo Dee was quite literally the tour guide I had in China back in 2000. Subjects like Taiwan, Tibet, or anything to do with the Communist Party were deliberately dodged. Oh, and you didn't think to mention that the name "Laogai" is a direct reference to China's "reeducation" program for dissidents?

    • @maleexile9053
      @maleexile9053 7 місяців тому +16

      Oh and the dai li the organization was based on a person and yes it was his name

    • @baikeiast5255
      @baikeiast5255 7 місяців тому +1

      Like black of usa

    • @baikeiast5255
      @baikeiast5255 7 місяців тому +4

      Like american hiding their past slavery in their country😅😅😅😅

    • @thesamuraihobbit
      @thesamuraihobbit 5 місяців тому +4

      @@baikeiast5255 I don’t know when you went to school, but I went from 1991 to 2005, and every year in history class, we discussed slavery in the United States. Things must have changed since then in American public schools.

    • @Devilcakes
      @Devilcakes 5 місяців тому +7

      They deleted my comment what the hell.
      What I was saying was --
      I think the same avoidant language in those crusty ass books that tried to reframe slavery and the brutalist torture that various enslaved diaspora went through has never changed. I left high school in like 2019. I can swear to you that the info hasn't changed. They have NEVER fixed the books. They never updated any of the language in the books. The only thing I could argue that changed is that aggressively racist and avoidant bills have been introduced to make these crucial units that barely documented the enslavement and torture of innocent people, be OPTIONAL on top of it; and other critical thinking literature to be banned from circulation in the mainstream. It's troubling. They're trying to indoctrinate and forget again.
      I
      gnorance may not be aggressive, but it does bite. Slow, lethal, and dull. The worst way.

  • @beleden1215
    @beleden1215 Рік тому +147

    So according to 23&Me's research, people who are afraid of heights rely heavily on their sight for balance.
    Im afraid of heights, so I tested myself to see if I could walk a straight line with my eyes closed. I can't; I veer. This is an easy way to see if you too are over reliant on sight for balance.

    • @Koroto
      @Koroto  Рік тому +45

      Ohhh, that's really interesting, because I just naturally have an extremely good sense of balance. Literally learned to skii and ice skate in seconds at the age of 4 haha. Now you have me really curious about any other relationships between a person's senses and their fears. 🤔
      _23&Me pls sponsor me_

    • @beleden1215
      @beleden1215 Рік тому +13

      @@Koroto Biology is weird, so yeah!! 23 & Me has so much data that who knows what other things they will find

    • @Evil0tto
      @Evil0tto Рік тому +10

      Veering is very common even if you're not reliant on sight. I've worked with blind students and keeping straight is a problem even for them. It's just not easy to walk in a really straight line.

    • @persephonehades7547
      @persephonehades7547 8 місяців тому +5

      So I'm deathly afraid of heights, to the point I can't even be up 5 ft without being scared. I can walk in a straight line with my eyes closed, but I actually thought about how it didn't really feel reliant on balance. So I tested how standing on one foot was with and without my eyes closed. My balance was so much worse with my eyes closed, and I tested this several times. I tried my hardest to not lose my balance, and I failed every time. I even just grabbed my mom and had her test it out. Same deal. This is actually insane.

  • @NicoParasite
    @NicoParasite Рік тому +123

    ATLA, one of my favorite shows of all time and the fact that you make these videos about the series and it's themes makes me love this channel even more.

  • @lukeketcheson
    @lukeketcheson 8 місяців тому +32

    The last Thursday experiment reminds me of a quote from rtte. “Two ways to be tricked is to believe what isn’t true, or to refuse to believe what is”

    • @ivyinkwell1754
      @ivyinkwell1754 7 місяців тому +1

      Was this a Viggo quote? Or someone else? I haven't seen that show in a while but damn if that doesn't sound like something to come out of his mouth.
      Hang on. I think I remember. Is that the first line of his chess speech? And no, for anyone who hasn't seen Race to the Edge, this is not another "oh, I'm the master and you all are my chess pieces" trope, it's more about the black and white nature of the pieces.

    • @lukeketcheson
      @lukeketcheson 7 місяців тому +1

      @@ivyinkwell1754 yeah your right it’s his first line in the show. What a great intro to the best villain

    • @ivyinkwell1754
      @ivyinkwell1754 7 місяців тому

      Viggo blew my mind as a kid. He just seemed so smart, I could never guess what he was planning. And i thought I was such an intelligent kid. I wonder how he holds up?
      Also, it was kinda genius to set him up as the third (fourth, if you count Alvin) villain. First, you have Dagur, who represents the crazy type villain with no real plan, just in it for the emotional gratification and revenge. Then Ryker appears in the second? Third? Season, and he represents a no-nonsense brute. He doesn't play games, like Dagur. Even his weapon shows how much pain he has no qualms about causing.
      But of course, Ryker couldn't be a leader. He was never shown freaking out his subordinates into submission the way the Beserker did, and honestly, it was so obvious that he was following orders. And from who else but his brother? And Viggo represents the cunning villain, who can read you easily and knows enough about how you function and what you feel on a first meeting to get an idea of your entire character and what you'll do next.
      Even though Grimmul is supposed to be Hiccup's black mirror, with how he handled his Night Fury moment, but I've always thought that Viggo promised more of a challenge to our beloved Haddock. Up til now, Hiccup had never had to go up against an antagonist who used his brain. Hiccup could have these badass outsmarting moments any time he encountered them. It really was barely a challenge, if nothing unrelated came up to inhibit him. Viggo was the first to challenge him, and as we see in later seasons, the stress of not being done dealing with this guy after probably a year is starting to take a toll on him, mentally. And that was probably stressful for him, too. Losing grip on his mind while going up against a smarter, wiser, adult.
      Then, in the last or second last season, he disappears for a bit (iirc there was a fakeout death) and comes back and he's weirdly trying to side with Hiccup? But Hiccup's been through this exact scenario before, way way back, (Does anyone remember Mildew?) So he's not letting his guard down. Then Viggo appears to sacrifice himself, and Hiccup and the audience are both like "yeah, this is another fake-out death. Probably another one of his plans." And then he doesn't? Show up? Ever again? And eventually we start to think he actually did legit sacrifice himself. And as the show ends, and he has not come back, we're left wondering... why?
      Unless I completely forgot about several plot points in the show lol, it has been many years since I last watched the show.
      The SECOND thing that blew my mind was Trader Johann. I 100% did not see that coming. I was so hyped when that episode dropped, and then Hiccup revealed that he'd been sus of him for a while and that was why he was so rude to him throughout the entire series? Absolutely floored me. Completely recontexualized everything. Johann, who was originally an unfortunate bystander who had a habit of showing up at the wrong time and being taken advantage of by the villains was actually, behind the scenes, doing it all willingly and playing the victim for a long-game to keep Berk on his side. And he hated it! It was insulting to him! But in the end it turned out one thing about his persona was true, and it was that he could not stfu to save his life. Quite literally, lol.
      Race to the Edge was my Teen Titans, from what ive gotten.

  • @SourSalty
    @SourSalty Рік тому +69

    9:49 as someone with the shittiest overall memory ever. No I can't prove that my life didn't start last Thursday

    • @nottellinganyone6843
      @nottellinganyone6843 2 місяці тому +1

      do you have a phone? did you send any messages before? just saying, this "last thursday" shit doesn't work in the digital age

  • @DraQinn
    @DraQinn Рік тому +40

    The tunnels in Lake Laogai is meant to serve as reference to all the abandoned tunnels under much of the eastern U.S., and also perhaps D.U.M.B.s.

  • @v3ru586
    @v3ru586 8 місяців тому +18

    This is the reason I didn't get help with my adhd as soon as I could. With everyone around me insisting that my problem is being lazy, I was just working harder until I reached my breaking point. Then I got in trouble for being lazy, so I worked even harder, until my own body just shut down. Every time I found a condition that could explain my problems, I got accused of searching for excuses.
    Then my mom told me about my adhd plus treatment plan ("just be strict with her, until she grow out of it"), as an argument against my habit of seeking psychological help.

  • @aspie-anarchist9854
    @aspie-anarchist9854 7 місяців тому +5

    I agree with the dementia fear. I had a psychotic break once during a stressful time of my life. It was nuts, nothing made sense, not only was perception of myself compeltley distorted, I had false memories, completely different interests. After it was over full blown schizophrenia and dementia became my biggest fear.

  • @kgfoster14
    @kgfoster14 7 місяців тому +5

    The pain and frustration in irohs voice when he was yelling at zuko in lake laogai hurts my heart everytime. Hes tryin so hard

  • @ceinwenchandler4716
    @ceinwenchandler4716 Рік тому +67

    I looked up trypophobia. Then I clicked to the images section. It didn't bother me. Thanks for telling me that it bothers a lot of people, though. I'll try to remember that if I ever write a horror novel.

  • @chrissycurtis4152
    @chrissycurtis4152 Рік тому +27

    I have exteme short term memory loss, so I struggle to form memories, its honestly so sad and depressing and a little scary that I can remember very little

  • @AozoraUltra2006
    @AozoraUltra2006 8 місяців тому +30

    idk why anyone bothers remaking this masterpiece

  • @bella_daze3092
    @bella_daze3092 8 місяців тому +16

    1:04 Me nearing this: Ha HA you wish. Horror in all forms in this show baby.
    But in all seriousness- Ba Sing Se fucking freaked me out as a little kid.😭 and I’m glad for that. Psychological horror, my beloved.

  • @merivial8661
    @merivial8661 7 місяців тому +11

    I know you ignored the history references, but I LOVED them. I'm majoring in History and the Chinese Revolution is one of my favorite subjects of study. Sorry for my bad English, it's not my first language!
    Long Feng's appearance is what striked me the most in the first place. His hair is in a long braid as Manchu people wore it (at least between 1644 and 1912) and the most popular hairstyle for men during the Qing dynasty (aka the Manchu dynasty). Also, the Dai Li's job sounds a lot like the Cultural Revolution in Mao's China. They did put agents like Joo Dee to watch over citizens that were especially suspicious. They still do this in Cuba, and probably in China as well. And, of course, nothing happened in Tiananmen Squa- I mean, there is no war in Ba Sing Se.
    The Earth King was a clear reference to Pu Yi, the last emperor of China. He was a child when the republican revolution came by (and before that he was controlled by his counselors, of course), but he got back to the throne as a puppet emperor when Japan conquered part of China (the whole Azula passing as a Kyoshi Warrior part reminded me so much of this!!!). He even looks like him.
    I read somewhere that Lao Gai is the word in mandarin for reeducation camp (or that Lao Gai was a reeducation camp, something like that, I don't speak mandarin) in maoist China. To be honest, their practices in those camps sounds a lot like 1984, and that book was published (I think) even before the Revolution started, and long before all of this went out. It's impressive how the most batsh*t insane things can become true.
    Those are the references that striked out the most for me. Xiran Jay Zhao has amazing videos analyzing every reference in the entire show, and they are way better expressing themselves than me in a UA-cam comment, haha. Anyways, before anyone can take my social credits... Glory to the CCP, I guess.

    • @ItsAsparageese
      @ItsAsparageese 4 місяці тому +1

      Yoooo, I love Xiran's videos but I don't think I knew they'd discussed this series! I'll have to look that up, thanks!

  • @Palepetal
    @Palepetal 6 місяців тому +5

    People misremember things all the time, but they're convinced that what happened in the past happened. I have had experiences where I and another person remember an event sometimes completely differently.

  • @hessiankyojin
    @hessiankyojin Рік тому +58

    There are no Titans in the walls...
    There is no live-action movie of ATLA...

    • @phi4721
      @phi4721 8 місяців тому +1

      Hehe

  • @l.tc.5032
    @l.tc.5032 7 місяців тому +6

    This is why I think Long Feng is the evilist villain of the story. Also remember Our Heroes never defeated him, Azula did and only by being out maneuvered and shifting the Dai Li's loyalty, and if we count the Dai Li as a whole as a villain, they're never defeated at all not by the Gaang, not by Azula (honestly if she got on their nerves or found a new leader she'd probably end up like Jet) no one and they're still causing trouble by Korra's time.

  • @SagaciousSilence
    @SagaciousSilence Рік тому +21

    Imo Fire Nation had good cause to capture Ba Sing Se. The city is worse than the Fire Nation.

    • @bottled_leviathan9376
      @bottled_leviathan9376 8 місяців тому +7

      You know it's a well written show when people have genuine political opinions about the different nations and their forms of government.

    • @aspie-anarchist9854
      @aspie-anarchist9854 7 місяців тому +3

      What it doesn't matter they would have just done the exact same. Stalinist soviets vs nazi Germany. Gestapo vs nkvd who cares all terrible.

    • @ItsAsparageese
      @ItsAsparageese 4 місяці тому

      Autonomy matters. I may know someone I care about is harming their health, and I may be objectively correct, but that doesn't give me the right (in either an ethical or legal sense) to force them to change their behavior.
      Most differences of cultural values are just subjective matters of opinion -- but even where objective evidence-based harms are involved, there's still a moral boundary to consider when it comes to intervention.
      This gets tangly when harms against innocents are concerned, but let's be real, the Fire Nation isn't against propagandizing and neglecting their own people, so there's no honorable standing on which to argue that they'd help the oppressed citizens in Ba Sing Se.

  • @flameofthephoenix8395
    @flameofthephoenix8395 8 місяців тому +4

    9:53 Crazy old Bob, every Friday he claims the birth of a new world in which he happens to have memories of doing so just last week.

  • @danielasarmiento30
    @danielasarmiento30 7 місяців тому +3

    My dad has recently developed the scary habit of rewriting events in his memory quite extremely and believing them wholeheartedly. He can say we went to see the eiffel tower on a bike-taxi to see the lights at night, fully beileving we did, when in reality wedidn't go because we didn't know the tower did a light show until after the trip, when a coworker of his showed him videos. And when presented with evidence that we didn't (like him geting scammed of nearly 100 euros because he didn't know/pay attention that the bike taxis charge per person rather than just per trip) he recreated the story again to support the holes in the first story without contadicting it.(like suddenly deciding we went on metro instead of bike-taxi to see the eiffel tower lights, when we never went to see the lights at night).
    But he fully believes he's rights and those things happened, and wih such level of certainty he can make my mom question her own memories and if maybe he's right and she's misremembering things. And he will fight you over the made up memories because he believes they're right and you're wrong. It's anger inducing on the surface but scary deep down.

  • @anaxolotlboi65
    @anaxolotlboi65 7 місяців тому +5

    Ba Sing Se is like the North Korea of the Avatar world XD

  • @crystallight808
    @crystallight808 7 місяців тому +7

    0:47 as a enjoy of disease and infections! (Don't ask)
    there are many sicknesses that make your skin slowly break open into tiny little holes!😊
    and a lot of parasites that burrow into the ground using tiny little holes😅
    so I do not see that phobia as a irrational one!

  • @inkandpaintsnowleopard5669
    @inkandpaintsnowleopard5669 6 місяців тому +3

    Korotos: “and knowing that you are in some way always being watched-“
    My wall: *creaks very loudly at that exact moment *
    Me watching at 2 am: *soul freaking leaves my body *

    • @Koroto
      @Koroto  6 місяців тому +1

      i a m i n y o u r w a l l s

    • @Someone-lg6di
      @Someone-lg6di 5 місяців тому +1

      Hear a thud the instant u turn off the tv in the living room at 3 in the morning and realize the garage door is unlocked. Sister heard someone banging on the front door. Parents dont see anyone when they look outside (in the countryside). No one found sister is young so they believe she misheard/imagined it. Come morning the cross that is attached to the front door via suction cup is found on the floor in front of the door

  • @filiptrajkovski2198
    @filiptrajkovski2198 7 місяців тому +3

    I did not need to be thrown into my 5th last thrusdayism panic attack today but thank you koroto lmao

  • @mossybeewasteland
    @mossybeewasteland 4 місяці тому +3

    Ive noticed that things like gorey, murderous horror type movies are not really my style. It's the psychological horror that i REALLY love and find fascinating!! Two examples of media that handle psychological horror that I love is the anime Angels of Death and the video game OMORI.
    I watched Angels of Death at around 13 years old and while I was both sort of scarred mentally after the short show, it grew my intrigue into that genre of horror and has become one of my favorite animes of all time. Then there's OMORI that's disguised to be a cute, RPG at the beginning kind of like DDLC (which is another absolute gem) only for it's story to take a very dark turn, darker than I was expecting with the big reveal of Mari's death.
    it's the kind of horror that doesn't get your heart racing or scare you with typical jumpscares. It's the type of fear that's slow and creeps at you, making you uneasy, and the more that you sit and really process what's happening, it's some of the most horrific stuff ever. It's one of the reasons I was so mentally destroyed for a week straight of watching a youtuber play through OMORI.
    Anyway im done lol

    • @artemisblack-g8w
      @artemisblack-g8w 3 місяці тому +1

      Oh my goodness, Angels of Death is so good! Particularly the scenes where Rachel is exploring Gray’s floor, with all the hallucinations. It just feels very creepy. Is the giant snake real? Are the paintings actually there? It’s peak psychological horror.

    • @mossybeewasteland
      @mossybeewasteland 3 місяці тому

      @@artemisblack-g8w AND THE ENDING!! The ending feels so like... a very "happy ending" in a very sick and twisted way i love it

    • @artemisblack-g8w
      @artemisblack-g8w 3 місяці тому

      @@mossybeewasteland I know! What do you think happened? (of all the theories lol)

    • @mossybeewasteland
      @mossybeewasteland 3 місяці тому

      @@artemisblack-g8w well for some reason as a kid i thought it was a happy ending and im like, "Aww cute!" and then im older and rewatched it and im like, "why did i think this was cute?"
      Personally I think with Zack showing up at the end and it appears like they were flying might've just been her imagining things as she's a little screwed up in the head now. And so maybe her jumping out that window towards Zack, the literal angel of death, she killed herself by jumping out the window or something. idk

    • @artemisblack-g8w
      @artemisblack-g8w 3 місяці тому

      @@mossybeewasteland See, I understand that, but I also think that she might not do that, because she wants Zack to kill her himself. And she thinks suicide is wrong, so I find it unlikely. Of course, it's meant to be ambiguous, so I could be wrong.

  • @crusader2112
    @crusader2112 Рік тому +43

    I looked up trypophobia. I instantly regret it.
    In all seriousness great video. 😎👍 Peace ✌🏻

  • @Blobby90
    @Blobby90 8 місяців тому +29

    If the uncanny valley is something we're born with and can understand on an instinctual level, what the hell caused our ancestors to need this?

    • @flameofthephoenix8395
      @flameofthephoenix8395 8 місяців тому +10

      Let's say you walk in your room, and it feels off because all your stuff is scattered around your room like a Tornado blew through localized entirely to within your room, while turns out that feeling of something being off saved your life because a Mountain Lion crawled through your window and is the reason for your room being a mess when it wasn't previously, or perhaps more of a mess at least. It's pretty helpful to know something isn't quite right at a good speed, because if you're anything like me you wouldn't otherwise have noticed the Mountain Lion until it was too late.

    • @normalhuman9878
      @normalhuman9878 8 місяців тому +11

      One theory is other human species that didn’t get along with Homo sapiens

    • @flameofthephoenix8395
      @flameofthephoenix8395 8 місяців тому +2

      @@normalhuman9878 Or you know just any animal that doesn't like us.

    • @mr.dedede1324
      @mr.dedede1324 7 місяців тому

      ​@@flameofthephoenix8395yeah or punctuation.

    • @flameofthephoenix8395
      @flameofthephoenix8395 7 місяців тому +1

      @@mr.dedede1324 Hm, I'm not entirely sure what this comment means, can you please clarify to avoid unwanted misunderstanding? I do have two replies after all, and I am quite prone to misunderstanding other's language.

  • @ONEPEAKFRFR
    @ONEPEAKFRFR Рік тому +78

    If the live action avatar gets this far I have a feeling they will do the dark side of the show a lot better because of it being live action, remember we could still get live action face steeler

    • @Koroto
      @Koroto  Рік тому +25

      If we don't get the face stealer in season 1, I'll be very sad 😂

    • @dudeman5303
      @dudeman5303 Рік тому +9

      The live action adaptation will never be good. They're trying to disney-fy everything now - it's just going to be an extremely dull and boring watch and it won't even *look* good ultimately. The fact they're doing THIS instead of just *making a new animated series* is extremely depressing. They're ruining the franchise

    • @ONEPEAKFRFR
      @ONEPEAKFRFR Рік тому +1

      @dudeman5303 The live action was actually very good and has helped many non piece watchers get into the series. The ratings for the show are also amazing. This was in part thanks to oda being heavily invoked in the shows production with the help of many people who cared for and understood the series.

    • @yeahkeen2905
      @yeahkeen2905 Рік тому

      @@ONEPEAKFRFRgood for it. They’re talking about the live action avatar.

  • @ryanc5572
    @ryanc5572 7 місяців тому +3

    Joo Dee is so tragic. I wanted to hug her and save her 😭

  • @leogoncalvesm
    @leogoncalvesm 8 місяців тому +1

    Story, script, callbacks, sound effects... I just love Vsauce references, and this video is full of them, besides the avatar universe analysis. Such a delight!!

  • @asadelfadillah8008
    @asadelfadillah8008 3 місяці тому

    9:30
    That question is like when you first came into awareness. Like that point in time as a kid, you sudden become fully aware of your surroundings, yourself as a person and the memories that you have.
    I got it when I was four, I immediately became aware of everything, but couldn't to remember anything before.

  • @noboddy999
    @noboddy999 3 місяці тому +1

    I think the most creepy thing about Laogai Lake and its facilities is, that it actually exists in China. Under Mao the concentration camps were called Laogai's and they are still in use today by Xi Xinping...avatar makers really thought it through and hinted it in the series. I wonder if avatar is available in china...

  • @TheLloydLightning
    @TheLloydLightning Рік тому +588

    Just a disclaimer. Trypophobia is not a real phobia. Atleast not a recognizing one by any health organization. People who "have" it typically just feel disgust or uneasiness and not true fear.

    • @DutchSimmer1
      @DutchSimmer1 Рік тому +69

      I think most people don’t like the human ones, where hands are with holes and stuff. But those are mostly make-up as much as I can see. It’s supposed to be scary, not like beehive holes.

    • @kelsey2333
      @kelsey2333 Рік тому +38

      Are you sure its just not so new of a diagnosis that most doctors dont know anything about it and it's not in the current DSM

    • @timothygooding9544
      @timothygooding9544 Рік тому

      from how trypophobia images are its likely much more of a aversion to parasites and rot, something entirely rational since getting close to maggot infested flesh is obviously bad.
      There are several insects/larva and parasites that will burrow into flesh and thus we should never ignore it if we actually see it irl, it should invoke an immediate reaction to destroy or get away from the infected thing.

    • @sky0kast0
      @sky0kast0 Рік тому +12

      Nah it's fairly old I believe

    • @SkullQueen_Chloe
      @SkullQueen_Chloe Рік тому +103

      So many people say “Cus phobia means fear it’s not a true fear” hydrophobic surfaces are hydrophobic, hydrophobia doesn’t have to be fear. The definition of a phobia is a fear or aversion to something. All phobias are real phobias, and depending on how it manifest as a minor phobia (slight anxiety or aversion) or a major phobia (fear and severe or crippling anxiety) determines how it should be dealt with. Obviously someone who is uncomfortable in elevators has claustrophobia but it can be managed, where as someone who breaks Dow and has an anxiety attack in an elevator needs serious professional help. All phobias are real phobias, it’s the severity that makes a crippling fear.

  • @nseven1117
    @nseven1117 Рік тому +9

    what are you talking about my friends? there are no liminal spaces in Ba Sing Se

  • @Natalia-jb7vv
    @Natalia-jb7vv 7 місяців тому +1

    On the point of everything coming into existence last Thursday, I don't know if anyone else has this, but I don't really remember things that happen to me, I remember them happening to me. Like, I don't remember what I ate for dinner last night, but I do remember eating it, if that makes sense. I don't remember my walk to work, I remember walking to work. My memory basically replays sections of time rather than recalling events

  • @HeartlessSystem
    @HeartlessSystem 7 місяців тому +2

    The fact that i immediately thought of you description of the woman losing her shit at McDonald's as she lost her phone though, what does that mean for my fears 😂

  • @ItsAsparageese
    @ItsAsparageese 4 місяці тому +2

    As a huge fan of the game SOMA, I was not prepared for the way Last Thursdayism just caused me flashbacks to the month-long existential crisis that game gave me lol

  • @leewoodrough242
    @leewoodrough242 Місяць тому

    Great job with barely spoiling the episode in any way!

  • @flameofthephoenix8395
    @flameofthephoenix8395 8 місяців тому +2

    10:31 Already thought of that and came to the conclusion that it doesn't matter, it's more interesting to just run off of the memories regardless of how accurate they may be.

  • @NeonW55
    @NeonW55 Рік тому +6

    POG POG POG YES YES YES BRING THIS SERIES BACK!!!

  • @Arsenic7533
    @Arsenic7533 3 місяці тому +1

    8:05 LMAO The UAZ rebadged as a Toyota is definitely a clue

  • @yentl
    @yentl Рік тому +3

    I'd love a part 2 about Lake Laogai

  • @nathanshugart5754
    @nathanshugart5754 8 місяців тому +3

    “Laogai” actually comes from the Chinese phrase 劳动改造, which is reform (or correctional) labor

  • @AR-bj5et
    @AR-bj5et Рік тому +11

    Darkness and heights being chosen as examples being the two major devils revealed in Chainsaw Man so far or just coincidental?

    • @cyborgcuttlefish6326
      @cyborgcuttlefish6326 Рік тому

      that’s what i was wondering. that’s quite the coincidence if not intentional

  • @cocoabeans544
    @cocoabeans544 9 місяців тому +6

    I just love these kinds of thought experiments! No, I absolutely cannot prove that the universe wasn't created last Thursday or that reality as we understand isn't just a hallucination by a boltzmann brain type of thing....THAT SAID, if I'm just hallucinating it all, this channel is one of my favorite things to hallucinate about 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @rorykirklnd8957
      @rorykirklnd8957 8 місяців тому

      i personally love the idea that the world we perceive as reality is actually just a hallucination created by breathing in oxygen and isn't really real

    • @Someone-lg6di
      @Someone-lg6di 5 місяців тому

      Double standard u cant prove it didnt happen but they cant orove it did. My favorite was in a book i read where to escape a third world war where bioweapons are used main person escapes into a virtual world. During a later book the person is explaining why there is no life anywhere else in the galaxy due to processing power. The npc then points out its the same situation in the original world the person was from next words in the book was (one existential crisis later...)

  • @Ironbreeze53
    @Ironbreeze53 Рік тому +15

    Earth Kingdom is modeled from Imperial China. There is a lot of political intrigue and power games in the Emperor’s court. Child Emperors and others around them influenced the way information traveled to & from the Emperor. That’s why Kuei didn’t know anything about the 100 year war. Because Long Feng was secretly controlling the kingdom with his secret army of Dai Li agents. It was this type of behavior that motivated Avatar Kyoshi to break off the land that is now Kyoshi Island

    • @Someone-lg6di
      @Someone-lg6di 5 місяців тому +1

      Prety sure kyoshi made the dai lee when the earth king begged her to stop the revolution he was dealing with for being a crap ryler

    • @Ironbreeze53
      @Ironbreeze53 5 місяців тому

      @@Someone-lg6di she did and like many other things ,especially political, it was corrupted from within.

  • @Yethegoat10
    @Yethegoat10 Рік тому +5

    “In shadow the hedgehogs voice” damn, so it’s not attack on titan this video *unsheaths kitana*

  • @SkullQueen_Chloe
    @SkullQueen_Chloe Рік тому +148

    I truly hate gaslighting because… well trauma and abuse, but also because I’ve spent years of my life questioning reality and suicidal because of it. The thought that any day i could loose my mind scares the fuck out of me, to the point where I have contingency plans in place incase I do lose my mind.

    • @Velvet-Vox-v3v
      @Velvet-Vox-v3v Рік тому +3

      Good idea Batman.

    • @bottled_leviathan9376
      @bottled_leviathan9376 8 місяців тому

      How does one follow through with a contingency when they've already lost their mind?

    • @crystal9621
      @crystal9621 8 місяців тому

      @@bottled_leviathan9376if they keep worrying about that they will go mad (i rebuke that)

    • @naturesfinest2408
      @naturesfinest2408 7 місяців тому

      For me, i accepted i would never truly know. You trust, you embrace it anyways. I dont truly know who you are, or who I am. I trust I do.

  • @bubblebrooke3338
    @bubblebrooke3338 7 місяців тому +2

    Toph can feel the people walking underground

  • @Moonstriker2514
    @Moonstriker2514 Рік тому +9

    9:32
    Why did you do this....WHY IS HIS SCAR ON THE WRONG SIDE
    13:45
    Thank you

  • @aliastheabnormal
    @aliastheabnormal Рік тому +5

    Is it scary that when this guy talked about the hysterical woman. I more or less thought that she was just a Karen throwing a fit?

  • @MidoriyamaRArekusu
    @MidoriyamaRArekusu Рік тому +4

    Funny how you talk about loving height and then warning people not to look at trypophobia pictures, and I’m here being majorly afraid of heights since I was a baby because of my poor spatial awareness, but I love all the different trypophobia pictures.

  • @rebekadoczi2136
    @rebekadoczi2136 8 місяців тому +6

    Ba Sing Se was scarier to me than Hama, Ozai or Azula. Just... the whole oppression thing about Ba Sing Se.

  • @Mr_Jolomisan
    @Mr_Jolomisan 7 місяців тому

    That "McNuts" headline is CRAZY😂

  • @vulpinitemplar5036
    @vulpinitemplar5036 7 місяців тому

    The birth of the universe really would just be a random thursday occurrence.

  • @JediDanD
    @JediDanD 7 місяців тому +2

    “Joo Dee is literally a walking red flag.”
    No, a literary walking red flag is a red flag somehow consciously walking on its own :3
    Edit: Yeah, people are not afraid of being alone in the dark, they’re afraid of not being alone in the dark . . .

  • @raynegruber5368
    @raynegruber5368 7 місяців тому

    Is it weird that I think I could accept some of these horrifying things. That even if life is a simulation, even if it started last thursday, I could accept that? It's horrifying... and yet there is nothing to do but accept it if that is true. Better a scary truth than a soothing lie.

  • @Bunny-bk4uv
    @Bunny-bk4uv Рік тому +4

    Did you know there’s a tunnel under lake laogai

    • @user-xt4gh7tn9p
      @user-xt4gh7tn9p 8 місяців тому +1

      there's no tunnel under lake laogai

  • @ansleywimer9873
    @ansleywimer9873 8 місяців тому

    Thank you, my friend, for giving me a fear of the entire government around me, as well as an existential crisis 👍😭👍

  • @near193
    @near193 Рік тому +1

    Loved that vsauce reference

  • @mr.ehlord
    @mr.ehlord 7 місяців тому

    Just for a little warning and closure for the curious, I myself saw a video that mentioned trypophobia and looked it up. There are disturbing images of things like flesh with holes (or at least that's what it looked like to me,) and there are weird and creepy images of horror monsters with holes. I couldn't sleep well for a bit and I don't even have that fear. Just take my word, you won't like what you see if you look it up anyways.

  • @chipstute5180
    @chipstute5180 8 місяців тому +2

    7:57 what is that in the picture is that a dog????

  • @LetMeFLY649
    @LetMeFLY649 7 місяців тому

    i forgot of Trypophobia, the mere mention of the name has reminded me why i fear and hate it, thnx
    on an unrelated note, how is trypophobia unsettlingly frightening, while the sight of honey combs isn't so bad?

  • @ArhaanKhader
    @ArhaanKhader 8 місяців тому

    Leaves from the Vines falling so slow

  • @THE-PINK-ONE
    @THE-PINK-ONE 5 місяців тому +1

    Don't look up trypophobia
    It's actually terrifying it's not a joke :(

  • @rafidhaque8791
    @rafidhaque8791 7 місяців тому

    I LOOKED IT UP!

  • @jesusibarra1098
    @jesusibarra1098 Рік тому +1

    Is It dab I kind of guessed the fill in the blank 😂 I thought she doesn't like her food

  • @RaspberryCharlotteProductions
    @RaspberryCharlotteProductions 7 місяців тому

    I think the Last Thursday theory would trip people up if they didn't have access to pictures of themselves as children 🤔

  • @sketchyskies8531
    @sketchyskies8531 9 місяців тому +2

    This episode was the first and only time during my first time watch of the show that I felt a physical negative reaction to the subject matter and visual storytelling. I literally felt like I was gonna puke as soon as Joo Dee appeared with her vacant expression, and was nauseous and uneasy throughout the entire episode. I have no idea why.

  • @IgnisFelis
    @IgnisFelis Місяць тому

    10:02 I have hyperphantasia, so half of them actually aren't real and came from dreams/online roleplays

  • @Bella_for_you7
    @Bella_for_you7 Місяць тому

    0:47 I did look it up and did regret it 💀

  • @91AizenSama
    @91AizenSama 8 місяців тому

    >Tells me not to look it up
    >Look it up
    >Depression

  • @zartexkrontaculys1097
    @zartexkrontaculys1097 8 місяців тому

    6:16
    Me whos afraid of the dark itself and not anything that would be in it
    Guess im not afraid anymore

  • @Steindaemon
    @Steindaemon Рік тому +2

    Great I love getting existencial crises from watching youtube videos (:

  • @nerogematria6392
    @nerogematria6392 7 місяців тому

    9:55 Dude, I wasn't born yesterday. (It's friday)

  • @ArhaanKhader
    @ArhaanKhader 8 місяців тому

    We're so lucky to be in the walls

  • @yrbelite8450
    @yrbelite8450 Рік тому

    Nah I’m glad I searched it. It showing the best foods💀

  • @xMaugrex
    @xMaugrex 8 місяців тому +1

    Nah look up trypohobia, but like... do the little kid thing where you're covering your face so you can only see a tiny portion of the screen. Slowly ease your way into seeing the images so you aren't blindsided with them and decide based on the 1/100th of the screen that you CAN see whether or not you have any desire to see more. Better to learn you've got it in your comfy pc chair at home than to see a lotus pod in the wild one day and pass out in a pond.

  • @honaryyhonaryy1353
    @honaryyhonaryy1353 Рік тому +1

    i still didnt get how did apa found

  • @alejotassile6441
    @alejotassile6441 Рік тому

    I LOOKED IT UP, OH GOD

  • @nathanapplegate5374
    @nathanapplegate5374 7 місяців тому

    Everything about Ba Sing Se seems very North Korea. The name “Lake Laogai” even comes from the Laogai system, which was the name of the system of concentration camps used by China during Mao’s rule.

  • @LadyhawksLairDotCom
    @LadyhawksLairDotCom 7 місяців тому

    Anyone watching my webcam would be bored to tears. My thoughts are deep. My actions? Not so much. :D

  • @Jay.T4NA
    @Jay.T4NA Рік тому +1

    Hahaha I love the Vsauce reference

  • @charbo187
    @charbo187 Рік тому +1

    ju dee? jow dai? is agent cooper here?

  • @goombaplaylists132
    @goombaplaylists132 2 місяці тому

    imma be honest, i googles trypophobia, and i completely understand why people would fear that, it is disgusting. i dont have it myself, but i now understand why novels i have read with this type of thing have actively tried to not mention it or even hide it.

  • @McCammalot
    @McCammalot 3 місяці тому

    I already know I have Trypophobia and I would not wish that on ANYBODY

  • @ArhaanKhader
    @ArhaanKhader 8 місяців тому

    We are free within the walls

  • @mgf8683
    @mgf8683 8 місяців тому

    I just thout about something else:
    This is a hundret year war and in this city nobody knows about the war. But what about fierbenders withch where living there bevor the war? Did nobody notis that they are disapeering? What happend to them? They also dont know about the war, right? And nobody is wondering why ther is no fierbender traveling ?

  • @InGovWeMistrust
    @InGovWeMistrust 3 місяці тому

    War is peace, slavery is freedom, ignorance is strength.

  • @ArhaanKhader
    @ArhaanKhader 8 місяців тому

    Aang: I'm taking your bending away for good

  • @prehistoricorchid3455
    @prehistoricorchid3455 8 місяців тому

    9:39 *cue Vsause music*

  • @frenchtoastmafia1
    @frenchtoastmafia1 8 місяців тому

    There is no war in Ba Sing Se