I had this in my Watch Later for years. In that time I acquired and left several jobs, reached my 30s, shared 5 years of my life with a lovely woman, lost her, became mortally dependent on alcohol, and have been sober for over a year now. I'm getting ready for work at a position I was promoted to several weeks ago and I thought myself when this video popped up again: "Today is the Day"
This video is like looking into someone else’s dream. It all probably makes sense to them but to us onlookers it feels like a random stream of consciousness
UA-cam is weird, it keeps old videos until it suddenly recommends it to everyone at the same time, or sometimes it recommends everyone random videos from hours or even minutes after it's upload
From what I gather, the story goes something like this: The foam man is not happy with his life, so he carves out a new version of himself in the shape of a tombstone to symbolize the death of his previous self. His new self is much happier with his life, but parts of his old self still linger around him, he then notices the old parts of himself and indulges in them, essentially watering the thoughts. as time passes, he adopts those thoughts into his new self, letting his old self slowly take over. Eventually the parts of his old self rips his new self apart, and in that moment the foam man realizes that he can only be himself and comes to accept who he is.
@@juckya9660 that gives it a new meaning! And I think this is actually what the creator was going for. The foam man tries to rebuild himself and come to terms with his past self, but kinda fails. I now feel exposed. It's too similar to me.
This was uploaded on the 4th of February 2008. The song being used in the video was released on the 25th of January off of the album "Deathconsciousness" by Have A Nice Life, who were at the time virtually unknown, as it was their debut album. Since then, the album has seen immense underground success. The uploader of this video was WAY ahead of the curve. Respect.
I came to comment exactly this. I was so weirded out when I saw the this video somewhere else with the HaNL music, even more when I saw the date lmao And I even knew the video because of a gif but didn't know A Quick One was the soundtrack for it
The fact that this is 13 years old makes it so much better. It's like living in a house for 13 years and then one day discovering a secret room. It's been here the whole time, but you've somehow only just found it. There's something really unsettling about that to me, which adds even more creepiness and intrigue to the video.
@@isaiahp.4609 if we could make the trash videos invisible so we could see the good ones, just like those minecraft videos with the invisible cobblestone
@@nathanmcgill7249 If you look at it like that UA-cam may as well be the bureau from Control with how unfathomably massive it is and with the way it changes its policies every now and then.
I just came across this today for the first time ever. It's frickin 16 years old. I'm old enough to remember a time before UA-cam or the Internet. Wtf UA-cam?
"Why is this in my recommended?" Look man, you were the one who clicked on it, so the recommendation worked. Clearly UA-cam knows something about you that you don't.
I remember seeing this video many, many years ago but had no idea about have a nice life, when i finally got around to listening to deathconsciousness something got a strong hold over me telling me this album was one that'd stick with me forever. i didnt know itd stick because of a video of a foam dude though
Back then, albums would leak ahead of release dates. I mean I don't doubt that still being the case today but streaming music has really made me not force myself to look for music leaks.
@@johnchambers3312 time is something humans made, so without us there would be no time and there for no one could ever come to late anywhere. So for al the animals that get too their work late now, pls go back to monke or get ya ass out of here, cause your confusing everyone.
@@succulentravioli954 first, something that is cursed doesn't mean that it can't have meaning. Second, this has literally no meaning apart from intending to creep you out. i dare you to try and think of a valid metaphor that all of this video represents without any holes. some things are meant to simply exist y'know. look at the forums this was initially posted in.
@@earthpcCHClS What I said may have been ambiguous. I meant that it is not cursed from my opinion, not that it is not cursed because it has meaning. I am no literature expert, but there can be many metaphorical things that can pulled out from this, even those that aren't intended by the author. The eerie music paired with the scenes isn't something you'd find with conventional comedy. We can conclude that this piece's context isn't for humor, but for some other purpose. Did author take their time to make this to express some kind of emotion or message? And what kind of emotion or message? I'm not someone who is good a metaphors, but I can surely justify that this video has other meaning than to portraying cursed emotions.
"First we see a man, but it's not just any man, rather it's a man..." pause for 5 seconds to pad the length "...made out of foam... Next we see him in a different place, but... foam can't move on its own... right? But he had to get here somehow... We just don't know enough yet, but keep this in the back of your mind for later..."
a goated comment i found. From what I gather, the story goes something like this: The foam man is not happy with his life, so he carves out a new version of himself in the shape of a tombstone to symbolize the death of his previous self. His new self is much happier with his life, but parts of his old self still linger around him, he then notices the old parts of himself and indulges in them, essentially watering the thoughts. as time passes, he adopts those thoughts into his new self, letting his old self slowly take over. Eventually the parts of his old self rips his new self apart, and in that moment the foam man realizes that he can only be himself and comes to accept who he is.
when this video comes back into your recommended, you just have to click on it because its that compelling. it seriously beckons you into its house, but instead of its house its your finger making contact with your screen to click the video. think of it as modern hypnosis.
i had a dream yesterday about how people send their consciousness across the ocean in electricity by wires to be put in different bodies but then some wires leak and the consciousnesses mixed together and all the souls were destroyed
UA-cam for no reason: "We know that this video isn't related to anything you've watched over the past 5 months, but here is it anyway, Today is the day."
If I were to interpret a message from this it would be “coming to terms with the parts you don’t like about yourself, and accepting them”. “Today is the day” perhaps is the big foam guys day that he decides he’s going to change and be a different person (for whatever reason) so he literally cuts the pieces of himself he does not like. emerges a dopey looking foam chunk that is smoking and stuff, and then the other bits of foam. Then he is dragging himself into the woods perhaps meaning he is lost. In the end he combines with his traits he does not like and even though it looks weird, he comes to accept those parts of him and moves on..or it could just be a random thing someone decided to make hah.
@@Minisoderr that's true, but to improve the bad parts of yourself, you have to accept them as a part of yourself first. Plus, not everything you dont like about yourself is automatically a negative trait or even can be worked on
the song used in this video is " A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut" by Have A Nice Life, which trips me out because this video was uploaded exactly 11 days after that song was released.
truly the definition of ‘art should comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable’. don’t know why youtube decided to recommend me this, but it feels like some sort of checkpoint. might stay here for a bit
Idk how "up to interpretation" this is supposed to be, but to me, it reminded me of how much of my life has changed since becoming a dad, and how overwhelming it is when you realize that your whole being has morphed beyond recognition in an attempt to bring to life what your mind conceptualizes as the ideal parent figure, whilst failing miserably to reach the expectations you've set for yourself. It's like an added layer of failure and self loathing which is heavier than the previous layer that ends up being trapped deep inside you but somehow is able to crawl back outside for mere moments, forever tormenting you at the most unexpected times.
@@Desyrel.I'm sorry my friend. I know I'm just a stranger and this will likely be our only interaction over the course of the trillions+ years the universe has been, but just so you know I feel for you and I wish you the best. If you're ever up for reading a book, maybe give "peace is every step" a chance. I think everybody could benefit from taking some time to practice getting in touch with one's breath, enjoying a nice walk, or just sitting and doing nothing and feeling the restless internal energy slowly come back together and whole from a scattered state. Hope that's not too preachy or something, that book got me started 13 years ago on proper self care that changed me.
I know right, like why am I being shown this, am I getting something from this, or what's the deal. Maybe when I understand the message I'll become a transcendent being.
Dunno if the uploader still sees comments but i think this is a lovely project and it has moved me to tears. Reminds me of the poem “The Morning After I Killed Myself” by Meggie Royer The morning after I killed myself, I woke up. I made myself breakfast in bed. I added salt and pepper to my eggs and used my toast for a cheese and bacon sandwich. I squeezed a grapefruit into a juice glass. I scraped the ashes from the frying pan and rinsed the butter off the counter. I washed the dishes and folded the towels. The morning after I killed myself, I fell in love. Not with the boy down the street or the middle school principal. Not with the everyday jogger or the grocer who always left the avocados out of the bag. I fell in love with my mother and the way she sat on the floor of my room holding each rock from my collection in her palms until they grew dark with sweat. I fell in love with my father down at the river as he placed my note into a bottle and sent it into the current. With my brother who once believed in unicorns but who now sat in his desk at school trying desperately to believe I still existed. The morning after I killed myself, I walked the dog. I watched the way her tail twitched when a bird flew by or how her pace quickened at the sight of a cat. I saw the empty space in her eyes when she reached a stick and turned around to greet me so we could play catch but saw nothing but sky in my place. I stood by as strangers stroked her muzzle and she wilted beneath their touch like she did once for mine. The morning after I killed myself, I went back to the neighbors’ yard where I left my footprints in concrete as a two year old and examined how they were already fading. I picked a few daylilies and pulled a few weeds and watched the elderly woman through her window as she read the paper with the news of my death. I saw her husband spit tobacco into the kitchen sink and bring her her daily medication. The morning after I killed myself, I watched the sun come up. Each orange tree opened like a hand and the kid down the street pointed out a single red cloud to his mother. The morning after I killed myself, I went back to that body in the morgue and tried to talk some sense into her. I told her about the avocados and the stepping stones, the river and her parents. I told her about the sunsets and the dog and the beach. The morning after I killed myself, I tried to unkill myself, but couldn’t finish what I started.
how i see it, i cut a part of myself out pretending to feel new and whole, feeling the past is behind me and stopped existing, but it’s still there and alive, it’s never gone. and no matter how differently i try to look at my past and deal with it, it’s still there. it’s always there. the part of me that i cut away is still always me, and i’ll come to terms with it.
He thought his life would be better if he changed himself. When he did, he lost a part of himself he couldn't live without, and one night he realized that. He slept with the memory of what he was, and it haunted him. When he couldn't bear it, he looked for himself and he found it. The key was there and it was time (you can see these literally in the video). And so he came back to his senses.
His children helped him find the pieces. His facade broke after they'd grown up, when they seemed so alien to him. when he was reunited with them, everyone wore a mask, but they were shed after some time. Then he was able to become whole again and free his children from their alien nature.
what about his children turning into monstrosities? What about him tearing himself in two pieces? Cutting legs off? Small, paper humans? Face turning into a clock?? Many eyes appearing on your neck??
@@dawidek4267 It's hard to say if the children are even his offspring, they could just symbolize something else completely. Notice how they're gone as he's restored or that could even symbolize the innocence from children and parenthood restores something in you. Paper humans may be tied into theological meanings (angels?). Face turning into clock representing time troubling you, time is of the essence and you're changing with time. Many eyes appearing on your neck may be goosebumps, a telltale sign of worry.
To me, this tells a story of a person who is unhappy whit himself. So one day he decides to start over and be a different person. So he cuts out his core and throws the rest away. Be he starts missing parts of his old life so he takes those parts back and cuts of the leg from the old body. But these parts of himself (his old habits) start to take over with the help of the little paper people (his subconscious thoughts) and kill his new self, and he eventually goes back to the way he was stuck in a neverending cycle of self-loathing and guilt.
i think its about big man cut himself to make little man and then big man make littler men and they kill medium man and big man kills all of them and absorbs them
@@hat4621 but when big man cuts medium from little just when medium get bigg, then what if absorbing is just for littler man and none of big???? then is a draw
@@crazyBelluz wait big man cut into small men and small men get big in water but small men get absorb in big man so shouldnt big man be bigger man since little men got bigger
I'm pretty sure he's trying to talk about how when an integral part of you disappears, like the giant hole of foam in the body-like torso, it never fully comes back, like in the end of the movie, where all the bits and pieces are there, just not magically reassembling, forever changed.
Here ! I made a comment that describes how it made me feel.... It’s sorta like, clinical depression, going into a deep dive of paranoia and dementia, and general insanity, and the toilet paper telling them what to do was a metaphor for corporate America telling people what to do, at the expense of there own sanity and life...... foam man will follow whatever the paper tells him...... he has become something other than himself.... he has split his mind and body.....
It makes me feel, that is all. It gave me a feeling I have never felt before, one of confusion, but deep understanding. I felt the pressure the foam had undergone in the video, though I don’t have a clue what it was stressed about. I felt the strongest feeling I know, the understanding of the misunderstandings you have about what you just saw.
God I remember this. Shit man I miss being a kid on what was a dark and lonely ocean of the internet, playing halo with my friends. Talking about all the shit that happened at school and how much teachers sucked...damn man I miss those days
I can second that. I used to be so carefree and the clasclown. Now I'm a private first class in the united states army, persuing my career and working hard to feed my family back home.
Part 1.5? ua-cam.com/video/vepRCchx9r0/v-deo.htmlsi=7m0azcyn1huTO18X
MF took 16 years to release a sequel
@@Chicken_2000c hang around til 2040 for the complete trilogy
is sad that not enough people have seen the sequel. amazing job man
CÓMO??????????
ok bet
I feel like I discovered something I shouldn’t have seen
Soon~
Same
Out of bounds
9/25/2043
Existing where nonexistence is reality
I bet the person was getting rid of a memory foam thing, and was like
“Might as well make some use of it”
PLEASE I THOUGHT IT WAS CHEESE
Oh boy, art time
Bro. What the fuck you stole my face
Doesn't explain the talent it takes to edit all this. Definitely thought out before hand. He had to look for the foam.
This is a video about divorce
This looks like something you would find on a usb forgotten by time
What an apt description for the UA-cam algorithm
Yeah
Time crumbles so it isn't hard to care for the ones we will allow to hurt the hardest feeling of being lost.
@@johnchambers3312 What
@@johnchambers3312 visible confusion
I had this in my Watch Later for years. In that time I acquired and left several jobs, reached my 30s, shared 5 years of my life with a lovely woman, lost her, became mortally dependent on alcohol, and have been sober for over a year now. I'm getting ready for work at a position I was promoted to several weeks ago and I thought myself when this video popped up again: "Today is the Day"
Good on ye pal. Sobriety is a winding road I've seen too many people lose their way trying to walk down. Thrive on ✌️
Today is the day 🐣
shut up loser
Same with me
Being sober is not so bad when you give it time
This video is like looking into someone else’s dream. It all probably makes sense to them but to us onlookers it feels like a random stream of consciousness
Today is the day
yeah ……… yeah
Today is definitely the day
Deathconsciousness
@@yFxLvPvrrEaEzoPlPOLIVWsQxNFdQM what a name
Some people's talents are to do maths or understand science, mine is staring at whatever this is a few times and go "yeah i get it"
Tell us what did you get
Tell us what it meant? Enlighten is
Time crumbles so it isn't hard to care for the ones we will allow to hurt the hardest feeling of being lost.
Icecream sandwich can do that to
Please tell us
This is something I would've watched as a kid and could never find for the rest of my life.
This is something i did watch as a kid and forgot about until now. Unlocked a forgotten memory.
This feels like something I've seen, even though I know I haven't.
TIME TO FORGET THIS AND FIND IT IN MY KID'S RECCOMENDED IN 19 YEARS BAHAHAHAHA
That literally (almost) was my case here
That's crazy. I have nothing more to say.
It is November 23rd, 2024. This video is 16 years old, older than me and yet, I still saw this in my recommended, today is the day
Today isnt the day yet.
BURPS INSANELY LOUD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
real bro,I didn't understand the video, but here I am
@@laurarexroad4521 real
Today is the day.
It's so strange reading comments from people who have never seen this. How has it been 13 years already?
Nice leopard gecko pic
UA-cam is weird, it keeps old videos until it suddenly recommends it to everyone at the same time, or sometimes it recommends everyone random videos from hours or even minutes after it's upload
My first time ever seeing this and I love it, there's a lot of great relics I've seen but this is one I haven't seen.
@@MemeMorto can yall shut the fuck up about recommendations for once in your life
@@MemeMorto yess
Its strange how this video is having a resurgence.
The algorithm loves old videos
I didn't even know this video existed.
What does it mean?
It just got reccomended to me too
This video made me rethink my life choices on religion because god definitely doesn’t exist if this is real and Unironic
16 years ago
youtube: today is the day
I found right now
Just pops out my home page
Fr
Oh yeah, today _is_ the day
Оу еа ай фаунд итс нау
I love getting stuff recommended 15-16-18 years later
From what I gather, the story goes something like this:
The foam man is not happy with his life, so he carves out a new version of himself in the shape of a tombstone to symbolize the death of his previous self. His new self is much happier with his life, but parts of his old self still linger around him, he then notices the old parts of himself and indulges in them, essentially watering the thoughts. as time passes, he adopts those thoughts into his new self, letting his old self slowly take over. Eventually the parts of his old self rips his new self apart, and in that moment the foam man realizes that he can only be himself and comes to accept who he is.
I knew it was something like this, i just needed someone to put my thoughts into words. Especially the last part. Thank you!
I had the same thought, you explained it beautifully 🙏
Your explaination is perfect
He doesnt actually put himself back together. Hes incomplete.
@@juckya9660 that gives it a new meaning! And I think this is actually what the creator was going for. The foam man tries to rebuild himself and come to terms with his past self, but kinda fails.
I now feel exposed. It's too similar to me.
He ripped apart his own identity and eventually put himself back together once he found the confidence and forgot the fear he embraced the change.
This video is probably older than me because I’m 13
@@jaredsabatelli2459 same
Nah he's just foam when
What the duck is that name
Thanks for telling me the moral of the story because my dumbass couldn't figure it out LOL!
This is new levels of art school the human mind can’t even comprehend
Cringe
@@tylerdurden629 damn, who asked though?
@@tylerdurden629 ua-cam.com/video/bPirvZzGFBE/v-deo.html
Maybe this was made by hitler
Nah it's just weird. Like shock rocker weird.
i did not expect ‘a quick one before the eternal worm devours connecticut’ to be the song in this video, it’s one of my favourites lol
fr
The whole thing got hyperlinked😭😭
whatever emotion this guy is trying to convey doesnt exist yet
See you when this gets thousands of likes
Me when the
It's not that it doesn't exist, rather...
...It's been forgotten
@@stee5157 When the
Teeth
This was uploaded on the 4th of February 2008. The song being used in the video was released on the 25th of January off of the album "Deathconsciousness" by Have A Nice Life, who were at the time virtually unknown, as it was their debut album. Since then, the album has seen immense underground success. The uploader of this video was WAY ahead of the curve. Respect.
thats really weird
I came to comment exactly this. I was so weirded out when I saw the this video somewhere else with the HaNL music, even more when I saw the date lmao And I even knew the video because of a gif but didn't know A Quick One was the soundtrack for it
original video was uploaded even earlier on a forum on Sep 21 2007
@@ryelee5163 whats the name of that forum?
@@sametsu1259 check the description lol
Mesmerizing. This was the longest 2 minutes I've experienced
I felt like I just watched a feature length film
I didn’t even realize how short this was until I see this comment
@@K9OK_ i thought it was like 10 minite little film :)
I was the 666th like gang
THIS WAS TWO MINUTEZ?!?!?!?
November 30. 2024, after 16 years the video finally found me. Finally my life has meaning.
To think the majority of people on UA-cam are younger than this relic.
I want to go back
Hello Justin.
I just went on your Playlist to find this thank you.
yer a little late bud
Justin y???
The fact that this is 13 years old makes it so much better. It's like living in a house for 13 years and then one day discovering a secret room. It's been here the whole time, but you've somehow only just found it. There's something really unsettling about that to me, which adds even more creepiness and intrigue to the video.
I love the idea of UA-cam being a massive house with loads of secret rooms. Shame that the living room is filled with garbage
@@nathanmcgill7249 it’s like a diamond in a rough, but there’s still more diamonds to look for.
@@isaiahp.4609 if we could make the trash videos invisible so we could see the good ones, just like those minecraft videos with the invisible cobblestone
I somehow find that very comforting and I have no idea why
@@nathanmcgill7249 If you look at it like that UA-cam may as well be the bureau from Control with how unfathomably massive it is and with the way it changes its policies every now and then.
UA-cam after 16 years of this video’s existence: “Today is the day”
Lmao
Right. I can't even
The day for what?????
Today is the day youtbe shows people this video fot no reason
FR ONG
I first watched this video like 10 years ago, every now and then it pops up on my home page and I watch it again.
One day will be the day.
I've been searching for this video for literal years, to the point where I was convinced my younger self just dreamed it up, holy shit
Well, here you are :)
@@lthedestroyer9427 feels good, I won't lie
Congrats on finding it.
Today was the day
como dice mi compañero de arriba, hoy fue el dia!
Ether this has a deep message or the creator just had alot of free time and a lot of unused foam
I’d love to have that foam man, it’s so cool looking
@@gustavwood0064 looks like upholstery foam to me. very useful crafts stuff, it's what fursuit masks are made of
@@gustavwood0064 I think its just simple memory foam. Maybe not though.
I feel there's definitely a story here. A very deep one
Yes
Whenever you find this video again your moving to a new phase of life .
Today is the day
Oh shit it's my bday-
@@ProfessorMemes HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!1!1!1 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎺🎺🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎉🎉🎉
Might be onto something here
Wait you actually might be right
Nobody:
UA-cam recommending me this 16 years later:
Fr
Yeah
youtubes been holding on to this one for me since 2008
You watching this video is the culmination of world history.
Fr
Yes 😰
Wow now i realised that is from 2008 😂😂😂 sorry for bad english if any ❤
I just came across this today for the first time ever. It's frickin 16 years old. I'm old enough to remember a time before UA-cam or the Internet. Wtf UA-cam?
This is so surreal, we feel cursed and ascended at the same time.
Time crumbles so it isn't hard to care for the ones we will allow to hurt the hardest feeling of being lost.
Who's we?
I don't know if I need a therapist after seeing this or if I'm a therapist.
This video is the therapist for its own trauma
I thought this was required viewing in order to become one.
I come back to this video every once in a while. Never fails to dissapoint
This is both horrifying and beautiful at the same time
Indeed
100th Like, also I agree
True
this is oddly satisfying indeed
Yep
This is levels of deep even philosophers fail to comprehend.
😂😂
I was recommended this 16 years later
same lol
Same
Me too xD
Excellent 😂
same lol
This was in my Watch Later playlist.
I don’t remember putting it in my watch later playlist.
Years ago, I added this to my Watch Later playlist and I finally watched it today. I have no clue what I just experienced.
Love how the cut out was like “alright guess I have children now” after the just add water part
Lol
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|-/
It really do be like that though
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"Why is this in my recommended?"
Look man, you were the one who clicked on it, so the recommendation worked. Clearly UA-cam knows something about you that you don't.
Lol
Or they just clicked to see why it keeps popping up. At least that's why I did
Hi no data
I can't take someone with a Roblox pfp seriously.
No really lol. If you're reading this then clearly it worked to some degree.
This is weirdly unsettling and comforting at the same time.
Kinda like death.
Ikr
It's so surreal and odd! I love unusual art and films
Wow so I'm not the only one I'm wondering why was it on my recommended and May 13 years to hmm
Fr
Clearly this guys found some answer, we aren't supposed to hear
The weirdest part of this video is how this guy knew about Deathconsciousness only 11 days after its release
ikr lol
Wut?
I remember seeing this video many, many years ago but had no idea about have a nice life, when i finally got around to listening to deathconsciousness something got a strong hold over me telling me this album was one that'd stick with me forever. i didnt know itd stick because of a video of a foam dude though
Back then, albums would leak ahead of release dates.
I mean I don't doubt that still being the case today but streaming music has really made me not force myself to look for music leaks.
That's immediately what I thought too lol. This man's a patrician.
*This guy didn’t predict the future, the future predicted him.*
Time crumbles so it isn't hard to care for the ones we will allow to hurt the hardest feeling of being lost.
@@johnchambers3312 Indeed
_wait what’s this guy talking about?_
@@usernametaken7738 I don't have the slightest idea
@@johnchambers3312 time is something humans made, so without us there would be no time and there for no one could ever come to late anywhere. So for al the animals that get too their work late now, pls go back to monke or get ya ass out of here, cause your confusing everyone.
Bro did not get prophesized no way
It’s not even cursed, just overwhelmingly strange
idk man i think the image of a foam figure gouging himself out is pretty cursed to me
This isn't cursed, it's intended to have meaning behind it
yes
@@succulentravioli954 first, something that is cursed doesn't mean that it can't have meaning. Second, this has literally no meaning apart from intending to creep you out. i dare you to try and think of a valid metaphor that all of this video represents without any holes. some things are meant to simply exist y'know. look at the forums this was initially posted in.
@@earthpcCHClS What I said may have been ambiguous. I meant that it is not cursed from my opinion, not that it is not cursed because it has meaning. I am no literature expert, but there can be many metaphorical things that can pulled out from this, even those that aren't intended by the author. The eerie music paired with the scenes isn't something you'd find with conventional comedy. We can conclude that this piece's context isn't for humor, but for some other purpose. Did author take their time to make this to express some kind of emotion or message? And what kind of emotion or message? I'm not someone who is good a metaphors, but I can surely justify that this video has other meaning than to portraying cursed emotions.
16 years later and I still don’t know what I just watched.
مثلك me too
😅
I love it when UA-cam recommend old vids like this in middle of the night
it's awesome
@@killusrnI know right?
@@Elusive800 u know what? 🤔
@@killusrn That it is awesome when UA-cam recommends old vis like this in the middle of the night
@@Elusive800 uh yea
The amount of foam this guy must have is incredible.
He could easily have done all that using the same piece of foam
It's just one piece of foam.
He used the same piece of foam
I THOUGHT IT WAS CHEESE
theres gonna be a lot of wooooshes here ;-;
This is the kind of thing you’d see on Adult Swim at 4 in the morning
So true lol,
Ima do the thing everyone’s doing
How many subs can I get from this comment
Current: 58
Yeah it feels like a bumper ad
Adult Swim wishes it could be this good
Off the air needs to be this creative
That’s actually the exact time I watched it.
I don't remember ever seeing this before but it's already liked. How strange.
i need a youtuber I've never heard of to explain this in depth with an hour long video
"First we see a man, but it's not just any man, rather it's a man..." pause for 5 seconds to pad the length "...made out of foam... Next we see him in a different place, but... foam can't move on its own... right? But he had to get here somehow... We just don't know enough yet, but keep this in the back of your mind for later..."
Exactly what I was thinking mong
a goated comment i found.
From what I gather, the story goes something like this:
The foam man is not happy with his life, so he carves out a new version of himself in the shape of a tombstone to symbolize the death of his previous self. His new self is much happier with his life, but parts of his old self still linger around him, he then notices the old parts of himself and indulges in them, essentially watering the thoughts. as time passes, he adopts those thoughts into his new self, letting his old self slowly take over. Eventually the parts of his old self rips his new self apart, and in that moment the foam man realizes that he can only be himself and comes to accept who he is.
@@muhammedmuha4846thanks for the explanation, I can finally rest
@@muhammedmuha4846 thank you ❤
This feels like strangely familiar, like a dream I've forgotten.
I feel the same. It's like I watched it before
A dream long forgotten.. or one yet to be experienced fully
You will know in due time but I can assure you this will change everything :)
@furry exterminator not your choice:)
@@titan8019 bro wtf were you high a year ago
@@taco_captain5139 most definitely
You didn't find this video. This video found you.
True
But why??
Yes.
I found it on a playlist
Thats true☠️
when this video comes back into your recommended, you just have to click on it because its that compelling. it seriously beckons you into its house, but instead of its house its your finger making contact with your screen to click the video. think of it as modern hypnosis.
Therapist: there’s a deeper meaning to your dreams
My dreams:...
Then they are correct
@@phantolmao this has a meaning tho
@@henryargeropoulos6039 that's what I said bruv
@@henryargeropoulos6039 i have no idea what’s going on in this video please explain to me. My comprehension skills are really bad
@@parmesan3638 the foam man gives birth and watches his child grow up and then watches him commit suicide and then the video ends if I'm not mistaken
UA-cam after 13 years of this video's existence: today is the day
lol
Yes
Ah, classic.
Hmm... Very suspicious...
@@manjan4670 What is?
The lighting in this video makes it seem like a very old foggy memory
It is indeed
Yea
I much prefer lighting in old 2000s and early 2010s media
For those who don't know, when youtube recomends you this video out of nowhere it means you are entering a new phase in your life
This feels like a weird dream that you would wake up from in a cold-sweat in the middle of the night.
Exactly what I was thinking
i had a dream yesterday about how people send their consciousness across the ocean in electricity by wires to be put in different bodies but then some wires leak and the consciousnesses mixed together and all the souls were destroyed
more like an uncomfortably warm sweat that makes you get up to get a glass of water because your over heated
@@darthvader3465 so cool
UA-cam for no reason: "We know that this video isn't related to anything you've watched over the past 5 months, but here is it anyway, Today is the day."
Hello fellow travelers. What a strange place to find ourselves.
Today is the day
Serendipity my friends the cosmos have aligned
@@GRIMMSEVEN847Today is the day.
Fr
If I were to interpret a message from this it would be “coming to terms with the parts you don’t like about yourself, and accepting them”. “Today is the day” perhaps is the big foam guys day that he decides he’s going to change and be a different person (for whatever reason) so he literally cuts the pieces of himself he does not like. emerges a dopey looking foam chunk that is smoking and stuff, and then the other bits of foam.
Then he is dragging himself into the woods perhaps meaning he is lost. In the end he combines with his traits he does not like and even though it looks weird, he comes to accept those parts of him and moves on..or it could just be a random thing someone decided to make hah.
wait thats actually deep😞🥂 I like that
I like it.
Seems like a pretty bad message if your right. Shouldn't we strife to improve ourselves?
@@Minisoderr that's true, but to improve the bad parts of yourself, you have to accept them as a part of yourself first. Plus, not everything you dont like about yourself is automatically a negative trait or even can be worked on
That’s the best explanation I’ve heard. I’m gonna stick with that. Thanks man.
I remember being on UA-cam so long ago, watching this video. Today, I get to see it again.
today is the day for real
Oh shit Berd in the wild
today is the day i get reccomended me philosophical teachings posted on youtube 16 years ago
Berd is bacc
hi berd
Shit today must be the day if berd here
the song used in this video is "
A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut" by Have A Nice Life, which trips me out because this video was uploaded exactly 11 days after that song was released.
that makes it even more weird
even weirder, this was originally uploaded to somethingawful forums and not youtube
Its kinda creepy
"Bro i heard this sick song, I'm gonna take acid and make a music video for it"
Ngl it sounds like How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead
UA-cam after 13 years later: "Today is the Day"
**Start recommending this to everyone*
right I was like wtf
today is the day.
Yes
Today is the day I feel scared.
Today is the day 😳
Holy crap. I know the music. I found their music last year. It fits perfectly here.
truly the definition of ‘art should comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable’.
don’t know why youtube decided to recommend me this, but it feels like some sort of checkpoint. might stay here for a bit
I don’t know how or why, but I somehow relate to this video. It’s got a strange feeling of comfort
Yea
Idk how "up to interpretation" this is supposed to be, but to me, it reminded me of how much of my life has changed since becoming a dad, and how overwhelming it is when you realize that your whole being has morphed beyond recognition in an attempt to bring to life what your mind conceptualizes as the ideal parent figure, whilst failing miserably to reach the expectations you've set for yourself. It's like an added layer of failure and self loathing which is heavier than the previous layer that ends up being trapped deep inside you but somehow is able to crawl back outside for mere moments, forever tormenting you at the most unexpected times.
@@Desyrel.I'm sorry my friend. I know I'm just a stranger and this will likely be our only interaction over the course of the trillions+ years the universe has been, but just so you know I feel for you and I wish you the best. If you're ever up for reading a book, maybe give "peace is every step" a chance. I think everybody could benefit from taking some time to practice getting in touch with one's breath, enjoying a nice walk, or just sitting and doing nothing and feeling the restless internal energy slowly come back together and whole from a scattered state. Hope that's not too preachy or something, that book got me started 13 years ago on proper self care that changed me.
"art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable" mfs when i show them my chick macerator fanfiction
"Today is the day." - The UA-cam Algorithm
YOuTuBe aLGoRiTHM cRaZY 🤪 uS nO uNDeRsTand. cOmMent fUnNy 🤣🙉🐒🤡
I know right, like why am I being shown this, am I getting something from this, or what's the deal. Maybe when I understand the message I'll become a transcendent being.
Oh my god these comments are so fucking annoying
@@zarrowthehorse hi :)
All hail the Algorithm!
Me: When is the day?
UA-cam: Today is the day.
The comments: My time has come
Sometimes tommorow comes today
Yes, it is :)
the eternal worm has devoured conneticut
hello people that got recommended this 16 years later
hi
Hello
Hi
holaa
hi
moral of the story
Where?
@@sonicfon you mom haha
Dont have kids
how did you get here
the the the
The fact that UA-cam recommended this to me this day and to many others too, means that today is the day...
What are you saying?
@@marcogomez-pe6tjread the video's title
The Day for what??!!
When are in the same day@@Walnusskreis
@@Walnusskreistoday
Anyone watching this on New Year 2024-2025?
he lost a part of himself, but was able to find his way back
Hey man didn’t expect to see you here! Love your videos :) especially the ones about the backrooms.
@@fleef69 hey sorry i never replied i just revisited this video, thank u :)
He has created emotions incomprehensible to the human mind
Time crumbles so it isn't hard to care for the ones we will allow to hurt the hardest feeling of being lost.
@@johnchambers3312 That's .... true.
Wouldn't expect someone with an UwU profile pic to say that
"Today is the day" - 13 years ago
But recommend today. So perhaps, it's today that's really the day......woah
It’s been the same day for the past year man
@@abrahamcastaneda3814 felt that man
Those were the days
Woah feeling an existential crisis coming on now
"To you, 13 years from now."
For anyone wondering the song in the bg is "a quick one before the eternal worm devours Connecticut" by have a nice life
Dang. I forgot about this until UA-cam recommended it to me again! It's been a while.
Wait what, actual Bosh? On this channel?
*Today is the day to remember*
Lol
Lmao
I need answers as to what this is. Have there been any theories?
People: "Coraline and Kubo are the best stop motion."
This guy: I'm gonna stop you right there.
Top three Stop Motion Animated films:
1. Today is the day
2. Coraline
3. Kubo and the two strings
watch Blood Tea and Red String
I thought that said Cocaine 💀
Top three Stop Motion Animated films:
1. Today is the day
2. Cocaine
3. Kubo and the two strings
How are you all forgetting about Fantastic Mr. Fox?
Dunno if the uploader still sees comments but i think this is a lovely project and it has moved me to tears. Reminds me of the poem “The Morning After I Killed Myself” by Meggie Royer
The morning after I killed myself, I woke up.
I made myself breakfast in bed. I added salt and pepper to my eggs and used my toast for a cheese and bacon sandwich. I squeezed a grapefruit into a juice glass. I scraped the ashes from the frying pan and rinsed the butter off the counter. I washed the dishes and folded the towels.
The morning after I killed myself, I fell in love. Not with the boy down the street or the middle school principal. Not with the everyday jogger or the grocer who always left the avocados out of the bag. I fell in love with my mother and the way she sat on the floor of my room holding each rock from my collection in her palms until they grew dark with sweat. I fell in love with my father down at the river as he placed my note into a bottle and sent it into the current. With my brother who once believed in unicorns but who now sat in his desk at school trying desperately to believe I still existed.
The morning after I killed myself, I walked the dog. I watched the way her tail twitched when a bird flew by or how her pace quickened at the sight of a cat. I saw the empty space in her eyes when she reached a stick and turned around to greet me so we could play catch but saw nothing but sky in my place. I stood by as strangers stroked her muzzle and she wilted beneath their touch like she did once for mine.
The morning after I killed myself, I went back to the neighbors’ yard where I left my footprints in concrete as a two year old and examined how they were already fading. I picked a few daylilies and pulled a few weeds and watched the elderly woman through her window as she read the paper with the news of my death. I saw her husband spit tobacco into the kitchen sink and bring her her daily medication.
The morning after I killed myself, I watched the sun come up. Each orange tree opened like a hand and the kid down the street pointed out a single red cloud to his mother.
The morning after I killed myself, I went back to that body in the morgue and tried to talk some sense into her. I told her about the avocados and the stepping stones, the river and her parents. I told her about the sunsets and the dog and the beach.
The morning after I killed myself, I tried to unkill myself, but couldn’t finish what I started.
That was beautiful, thanks for sharing.
@@charlatantricayo the legend himself. Thanks for being here
amazing
As one with lifelong MDD, that's actually pretty thought provoking. 😯🤔 I also thank you for sharing, I'm going to screenshot it. 👍
oh my god its YOU@@charlatantric
how i see it, i cut a part of myself out pretending to feel new and whole, feeling the past is behind me and stopped existing, but it’s still there and alive, it’s never gone. and no matter how differently i try to look at my past and deal with it, it’s still there. it’s always there. the part of me that i cut away is still always me, and i’ll come to terms with it.
16 years later and today is the day that UA-cam recommended me this video
me am too
Same.
same lmao
same
today really is the day
Same here
He thought his life would be better if he changed himself. When he did, he lost a part of himself he couldn't live without, and one night he realized that. He slept with the memory of what he was, and it haunted him. When he couldn't bear it, he looked for himself and he found it. The key was there and it was time (you can see these literally in the video). And so he came back to his senses.
That make sense
That's sweet.
His children helped him find the pieces. His facade broke after they'd grown up, when they seemed so alien to him. when he was reunited with them, everyone wore a mask, but they were shed after some time. Then he was able to become whole again and free his children from their alien nature.
what about his children turning into monstrosities? What about him tearing himself in two pieces? Cutting legs off? Small, paper humans? Face turning into a clock?? Many eyes appearing on your neck??
@@dawidek4267 It's hard to say if the children are even his offspring, they could just symbolize something else completely. Notice how they're gone as he's restored or that could even symbolize the innocence from children and parenthood restores something in you. Paper humans may be tied into theological meanings (angels?). Face turning into clock representing time troubling you, time is of the essence and you're changing with time. Many eyes appearing on your neck may be goosebumps, a telltale sign of worry.
I'm a film major in college and I'm still confused...
Lol 😂
I don't think you need to be one for this.
If anything, we need philosophers instead.
@@HaotoAnimeOnPiano I had a philosophy subject, I still didn't get what the hell is going on 😂
I'm a pineapple and I am also confused.
It looks like it has something with time?
To me, this tells a story of a person who is unhappy whit himself. So one day he decides to start over and be a different person. So he cuts out his core and throws the rest away. Be he starts missing parts of his old life so he takes those parts back and cuts of the leg from the old body. But these parts of himself (his old habits) start to take over with the help of the little paper people (his subconscious thoughts) and kill his new self, and he eventually goes back to the way he was stuck in a neverending cycle of self-loathing and guilt.
so why it gotta talk to me like that
I was wondering what actually it meant and was thinking of something similar. Thanks for explaining it in detail
i think its about big man cut himself to make little man and then big man make littler men and they kill medium man and big man kills all of them and absorbs them
@@hat4621 but when big man cuts medium from little just when medium get bigg, then what if absorbing is just for littler man and none of big???? then is a draw
@@crazyBelluz wait big man cut into small men and small men get big in water but small men get absorb in big man so shouldnt big man be bigger man since little men got bigger
Everyone talking about how this is 13 years ago while I'm trying to figure out the story
Thats me too
Yeah lol
Same
Yeah..
I'm pretty sure he's trying to talk about how when an integral part of you disappears, like the giant hole of foam in the body-like torso, it never fully comes back, like in the end of the movie, where all the bits and pieces are there, just not magically reassembling, forever changed.
so we all just RANDOMLY got this recommended to us ON VALENTINES???
I guess so 😆
Valentine’s Day is a lovely day to have an existential crisis 😊
I guess the holyday for love and romance can be used for self love... Maybe even with a bit of beautiful dread if we trust the algorithm.
youtube recommendations truly work in mysterious ways
fr
I thank God that the youtube algorithm remains hopelessly scuffed. It took sixteen years for this video to finally cross my path.
"Today is the day" after 16 years
I neither understood what I just watched, nor was I able to stop
😂😂😂 same here
FR I was hoping someone would be able to explain, all the while I was intrigued
it's beyond our comprehension
today is the day
Currently watching it through
I’ve never had a longer stream of “what the fucks” in my LIFE
same here
You should watch “End of Evangelion”
this one video is more than the whole evangelion@@endernightthedrokain1770
@@endernightthedrokain1770nah no anime here.
I miss the raw creativity displayed on the old UA-cam. Now it’s a bunch of polished content.
Brain riot content*
This is philosophical brainrot, today we got funny brainrot
@@JustLiving-dg5byLarva is not funny brainrot
@@waled7564brain riot?
well there are plenty but youtube has changed into some weird quality control mode or something, there would be so many good little channels
My comment from 2010 was missing.. wow I can't believe the algorithm reunited me with this video.
POV: Youre watching this ancient treasure in 2021.
Wait until it comes around in another 13 years
Sorry im watching it in my bed, nice try
True
Imagine you found a crazy man taking photos to a fake body in the middle of a forest.
I would be crying so badddd and thinking I’d be next
art
Who else is randomly getting recommended this 16 years later?
Me
♡♡♡
UA-cam is on crack again
Yeah... I dunno.
what a coincidence…
It's just amazing!This is the best video I've ever seen, it has such a deep meaning that not everyone can understand it. Author share the grass
this makes me feel an emotion i can’t describe.
Liminal Emotion is the closest thing I can say
Here ! I made a comment that describes how it made me feel....
It’s sorta like, clinical depression, going into a deep dive of paranoia and dementia, and general insanity, and the toilet paper telling them what to do was a metaphor for corporate America telling people what to do, at the expense of there own sanity and life...... foam man will follow whatever the paper tells him...... he has become something other than himself.... he has split his mind and body.....
Confusion
Banana
It makes me feel, that is all. It gave me a feeling I have never felt before, one of confusion, but deep understanding. I felt the pressure the foam had undergone in the video, though I don’t have a clue what it was stressed about. I felt the strongest feeling I know, the understanding of the misunderstandings you have about what you just saw.
>"my son is not depressed"
>her son
Bro thinks he's on 4chan
@@o1ken_ez I firmly believe that 4chan will last 5000 years and beyond
@@totallynoteverything1. Ofc it will
@@totallynoteverything1.oh no, cringe
@@nomatter444the same can be said about twitter.
If we're lucky enough both things will die
God I remember this. Shit man I miss being a kid on what was a dark and lonely ocean of the internet, playing halo with my friends. Talking about all the shit that happened at school and how much teachers sucked...damn man I miss those days
Fuck the education system
I can second that. I used to be so carefree and the clasclown. Now I'm a private first class in the united states army, persuing my career and working hard to feed my family back home.
It’s crazy to think that we think something is bad but we look back on it we miss it 😔
Facts man I’m finna graduate this year..
@@mudaisbored You and I both.
I don't know, but it's always a pleasure when YT recommends me videos from 2005-2010