Hiring this guy was a mastersroke for Crunchyroll. If I wasn't already a paid-up subscriber to their service, these video essays would have won me over.
@@BothHands1 His recap of the entire storyline of Neon Genesis Evangelion was my first introduction to him. NGE was my first favorite anime back in early late 90's, 2000's and until that video, I still had basically no idea what was actually going on outside the original series. He CRUSHED it.
@@BothHands1 there are you go, happy? I corrected which their is the correct they're in this situation. Sory i was watching their video, and half heartly wrote the post and put the wrong their there in my my sentence. Though im sure the rest of the commenters dont even care, they're to busy watching the video.
Tim should ask...no demand for a raise. This is some quality content and analysis that I've never...ever seen given to anime (on youtube or otherwise) before. All long time fans of anime (90s to present) know exactly what I'm talking about.
This is the most slept on series of all time. I say that because if you ask most modern anime fans about GITS they will look at you like you have 3 heads. The animation and even use of CG looks better than most every show nowadays.
Because when you nowadays say "Ghost in the Shell" people remember the pretentious arthouse anime by Mamoru Oshii and not much more entertaining and coherent detective anime series Stand Alone Complex.
This was actually a much better analysis than I expected. I really like the host too. He's cute and smart :P Love the Serial Experiments Lain shoutout at the start ^_^
Good piece, well thought out but somewhat brief analysis of history of Memeology, and well paired with Ghost in The Shell, which is a very good analogy for the development of technology and social media over the past 20 years. What's amazing is that The Selfish Gene, came out in 1976, well before the internet, and yet the idea of Memes was immediately accepted and adapted as the term describing such pieces of culture/information. There is even scientific articles on the subject dating back to the late 1980's and early 1990's. These articles show that the scientific community was predicting how the internet community would develop well before the internet community itself existed.
I've watched G.I.T.S. sac 2nd gig so many times. I'm watching now in 2023. So ahead of it's time. The soundtrack is superb and the animation is just something I'll never stop loving. Great show
Stochastic Terrorism and "lone wolves" are the real world terms for a stand alone complex. love ghost in the shell.... hope we finally get a live action movie. that'd be awesome.
Snow Crash came out in 1992 and had an whole interesting thing around language being the original meme while also being the way that people are programed through the language that they learn. I think the whole deal with memes just kind of get dragged through the general cyberpunk tropes and stuff. It's a super common element in a lot of cyberpunk fiction. Though I think the older fiction generally used memes in the way of corporations taking their advertising to the extreme.
11:36 "The only thing this episode got wrong about live stream debates are the lack of slurs" Actually they kind of got that right. If you read the text flowing by in front of the major you see some semi-lewd comments about her body, etc
Very nice job on this show! If I were comment on anything, it would be that you failed to identify the source of the laughing man logo, while I did hear you mention "Salinger" I believe the it comes from "Catcher in the rye". My favorite Meme is the ones made of the USA gymnast who got robbed of the gold metal in the Olympics and it has here saying "I'm not impressed" about the judging.
This video was completely awesome. If you can do more videos in this vein, that would be amazing. I really appreciate this examination of social phenomena.
Fun story, the first time I had heard the term Meme was a sidebar in Cyberpunk v3. For those of you playing the countdown to April 2020, yes that Cyberpunk has had three editions with the the fourth one, CP Red, on the way. Here is a quote from that sidebar: "A meme is an idea. An idea that replicates itself. It’s an idea that travels from mind to mind, kind of like a virus; sticking into your consciousness and becoming part of your worldview. An infectious thought. "Here’s an example of a meme. Every hear someone humming a catchy tune? And even though you don’t recognize the tune, you find yourself, hours later, humming it. Eventually, you hum the tune around your friends, and eventually they all start humming it. "That tune is a meme-the idea of a particular way of arranging notes. You got “infected” by that tune/meme when you heard it. By humming it, you passed it along, infecting others. Eventually, the whole world could end up humming that tune. "And before you laugh, remember back a few years ago when everyone was humming the Macarena?..."
Even more than this, take a look at Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. He discusses memes in that novel as well. Plus, its a great cyberpunk story to begin with.
In defence of the live action movie, the production values and overall effort placed into the props, environments and costume design were pretty god damn perfect. It’s just the writers that really threw it under the bus by creating a horrific amalgamation of about 5-6 different plots and then wrapping it up in a generic “corporations are bad” plot twist.
I remember playing MGS2 back in the day. Reading online analysis's of memes and its origin as an almost throwaway thought experiment in a Richard Dawkins book back in the late 70s... and seeing how that radical idea about how ideas spreads has now devolved into being a synonym with what used to be called lol-cats... It's kind of a bit saddening... :/
Nanao A actually wasn't the one who made the death threat, I think that was the original Laughing man. But true, either way the police just tried to use the situation to their advantage.
It's so weird! I was thinking about this just this morning, And it popped up on my feed! But this wasn't even that deep compared to Kazundo Gouda's scheming to take advantage of the SAC to trigger a nuclear attack.
I would add the novels Innocence after the long goodbye and the the 3 volumes also novels that parallel the stand alone complex story, the lost memory, revenge of the cold machine and white maze. there are likely more than I do not own. Otherwise really well researched and i'm glad there are others that think the move did not happen much like there are no cannon resident evil films staring Milla Jovovich, but 2 high budget fanfiction ones. XD
meme or "mime " in French, is a prefix of the verb that means imitation, it also a type of comedy... you know the guy dressed in black in white that follows and imitate you ... yup that's it, that's a mime or meme XD ... but Also you can laughing man, ANONYMOUS in real life ...damn you said it too...
Have you ever accidentally rickrolled yourselves? Like you are scrolling through an old conversation with a friend and don't remember what that super interesting video was about and... rickrolled :(
What's the first meme you can remember?
IT'S OVER 9000!...classic
Forever alone guy.
Doge
the trollface
Keyboard cat
I like this guy. Crunchyroll, I like this guy. Keep him, nurture him, protect him from fans of the non-existent 2017 live adaptation.
Live adaptation? Never heard of it.
The live adaptation starring Scarlett Johansson was good
@@TCMECH79 get out
@@TCMECH79 prove it.
Tim, I gotta say you’re the best host Crunchyroll could ask for
Hiring this guy was a mastersroke for Crunchyroll. If I wasn't already a paid-up subscriber to their service, these video essays would have won me over.
This comment still brings me so much joy
i actually did it because of him tho
I really like this Tim Lyu guy. I might catch up on all the videos he's in.
Please do!! He's wonderful
Yeah, he's pretty cool. This is the first time I've seen him, just randomly got linked from CrunchyRoll lol
Same here!
@@BothHands1 His recap of the entire storyline of Neon Genesis Evangelion was my first introduction to him. NGE was my first favorite anime back in early late 90's, 2000's and until that video, I still had basically no idea what was actually going on outside the original series. He CRUSHED it.
James Touchette I'll have to check that out, sounds awesome :D
0:40 "One thing I am glad about is no nuclear world war 3."
*Reddit:* _Laughs in Area 51 raid_
Oh boy, I like this guy, he's pretty funny. I also like the interjection by the camera man, haha, he's great too.
brave of crunchyroll to be talking about ghost in the shell when they don't even have ghost in the shell on their website
Still a classic anime though, even if they don't own the streaming license to it.
winnkey
their? there? they're? which one might it be, nobody knows
@@BothHands1 there are you go, happy? I corrected which their is the correct they're in this situation. Sory i was watching their video, and half heartly wrote the post and put the wrong their there in my my sentence. Though im sure the rest of the commenters dont even care, they're to busy watching the video.
i accidentally wrote two my's in my sentence worrying to much about there XD but i dont want to edit i will be shilled as a heretic.
winnkey what are you even saying? I can't understand you. Where did your first comment go, i can't see it? Sorry I'm drunk af
"A live action movie of Ghost in the Shell does not exist and has never been made." That get's you a thumbs up right there.
Tim should ask...no demand for a raise. This is some quality content and analysis that I've never...ever seen given to anime (on youtube or otherwise) before. All long time fans of anime (90s to present) know exactly what I'm talking about.
I love GitS: SAC, but I think the Meme Culture was predicted in Metal Gear Solid 2. Just 1 year before this masterpiece was released.
We almost included that clip and now regret not!
@@CrunchyrollInsideAnime everyone stays in their own little gated community leaking out whatever "truth" suits them
Solid Snake's Meme prediction skills are dummy thicc
Explain por favor
The memes, show them to me.
"Let me know if I've missed anything else"
ME: Um the live action--
"It was never made."
ME: "2019 now has two silver linings."
Two? what's the other one?
I didn't care for the movie. No surprise there. I DID like seeing Vic Romano as Aramaki. Not even trolling on that one.
@@skarn6633 That we averted another war, unlike the Ghost in the Shell universe, which he pointed out in the video.
@@shonenbag6478 Year's still young my dude! ->->
Crap it's the Mendella Effect. Same thing happened with the Tsukihime anime.
So glad you mentioned the chat room scene, I had literally been looking for that exact scene when I found your video. Great analysis 👍🏻.
This is the most slept on series of all time. I say that because if you ask most modern anime fans about GITS they will look at you like you have 3 heads. The animation and even use of CG looks better than most every show nowadays.
Because when you nowadays say "Ghost in the Shell" people remember the pretentious arthouse anime by Mamoru Oshii and not much more entertaining and coherent detective anime series Stand Alone Complex.
Great job crunchyroll, you hired an extremely like-able host!
Literally every anime I love has been given this deep dive analysis. This is some unique content Crunchyroll. Keep it up!
That Richard Dawkins to RickRoll meme connection totally changed my idea of the internet and memes in general.
This was actually a much better analysis than I expected. I really like the host too. He's cute and smart :P
Love the Serial Experiments Lain shoutout at the start ^_^
Thanks!!!!
2:28 Makoto?
2:45 Isikawa?
Is Crunchyroll changing Ghost in the Shell names now too? Wasn't JoJo enough for a sacrifice?
Americans just have tendency to butcher foreign names. They also butcher english names too... Dolores from Westworld is always butchered as Delores.
Great video man! This is my favorite series and this is an excellent analysis on it.
Wow I stanned after the Evangelion video, but now I am truly in love
Amazing series, and I love that you gave a shout out to Serial Experiments Lain at the beginning :)
The fact you ignore the 2017 live adaptation shows u are a man of true culture 👍😂
what live adaptation?
Dude you crazy that doesn't exist
Tim Lyu ooo yea I forgot I was high forgive my stupidity
What timeline are you living in?
@@Stavvy0 According to Crunchyroll, the Pachinko Evangelion one.
Why doesnt Tim have a twitter or sumn so i can dm him memes at 3am
Yeah ok sliding into his dm's just to send him memes....
omg your pfp is Punpun
oh he does! @tlyudacris Send him all the memes
@@CrunchyrollInsideAnime Wait I didn't know that this was T-TIME OF THAGODSQUAD
New hair, no sunglasses, glad my boi is eating.
@@dilbin97 I AM EATING GOOD.
That Meme episode makes a lot more sense now! Great vid
Your prof pic tho. Making it ironic but also make this videos message clearer
Good piece, well thought out but somewhat brief analysis of history of Memeology, and well paired with Ghost in The Shell, which is a very good analogy for the development of technology and social media over the past 20 years. What's amazing is that The Selfish Gene, came out in 1976, well before the internet, and yet the idea of Memes was immediately accepted and adapted as the term describing such pieces of culture/information. There is even scientific articles on the subject dating back to the late 1980's and early 1990's. These articles show that the scientific community was predicting how the internet community would develop well before the internet community itself existed.
Tim seems to be an expert in every major anime franchise 🤔
Brilliantly done video. Would love to see more in-depth video discussions of Stand Alone Complex.
Dude thanks for explaining all this...like it's a news update. I watched GITS decades ago but it's hugely complex.
I've watched G.I.T.S. sac 2nd gig so many times. I'm watching now in 2023. So ahead of it's time. The soundtrack is superb and the animation is just something I'll never stop loving. Great show
He fell off the hoverboard lol
Stochastic Terrorism and "lone wolves" are the real world terms for a stand alone complex.
love ghost in the shell.... hope we finally get a live action movie. that'd be awesome.
Snow Crash came out in 1992 and had an whole interesting thing around language being the original meme while also being the way that people are programed through the language that they learn.
I think the whole deal with memes just kind of get dragged through the general cyberpunk tropes and stuff. It's a super common element in a lot of cyberpunk fiction. Though I think the older fiction generally used memes in the way of corporations taking their advertising to the extreme.
lol at you trying to click on miru tights then switching to dr stone at last second
11:36 "The only thing this episode got wrong about live stream debates are the lack of slurs"
Actually they kind of got that right. If you read the text flowing by in front of the major you see some semi-lewd comments about her body, etc
Shout out for Miru tights, Top Tier anime.
Very nice job on this show! If I were comment on anything, it would be that you failed to identify the source of the laughing man logo, while I did hear you mention "Salinger" I believe the it comes from "Catcher in the rye". My favorite Meme is the ones made of the USA gymnast who got robbed of the gold metal in the Olympics and it has here saying "I'm not impressed" about the judging.
True!! Yeah we should have mentioned more about that moment and source
It's been NEARLY 20 years, and i still see "Laughing Man" stickers and throw-ups around town. The meme continues.
Tim your videos are the only reason i subscribe to crunchyroll's channel. keep it up. Also i wasn't expecting you to say "Me Me" haha
Thanks! Tell your friends about the Good Word of Tim
This video was completely awesome. If you can do more videos in this vein, that would be amazing. I really appreciate this examination of social phenomena.
Thanks for the quick recap of SAC, might rewatch it some time
“Thats where we’ll insert the powerful Shaggy Meme, right there. Thats another maemae for you”😂😂😂
Fun story, the first time I had heard the term Meme was a sidebar in Cyberpunk v3. For those of you playing the countdown to April 2020, yes that Cyberpunk has had three editions with the the fourth one, CP Red, on the way. Here is a quote from that sidebar:
"A meme is an idea. An idea that replicates itself. It’s an idea that travels from mind to mind, kind of like a virus; sticking into your consciousness and becoming part of your worldview. An infectious thought.
"Here’s an example of a meme. Every hear someone humming a catchy tune? And even though you don’t recognize the tune, you find yourself, hours later, humming it. Eventually, you hum the tune around your friends, and eventually they all start humming it.
"That tune is a meme-the idea of a particular way of arranging notes. You got “infected” by that tune/meme when you heard it. By humming it, you passed it along, infecting others. Eventually, the whole world could end up humming that tune.
"And before you laugh, remember back a few years ago when everyone was humming the Macarena?..."
Even more than this, take a look at Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. He discusses memes in that novel as well. Plus, its a great cyberpunk story to begin with.
In defence of the live action movie, the production values and overall effort placed into the props, environments and costume design were pretty god damn perfect. It’s just the writers that really threw it under the bus by creating a horrific amalgamation of about 5-6 different plots and then wrapping it up in a generic “corporations are bad” plot twist.
Oh is it Tim again, imagine not watching this video
Hey Tim, I care about Borma and Pazu🤨
We all do.
they were the most op operatives in the ghost in the shell game,
too bad it got shut down cuz fuck nexon
My first meme was the saxophone guy 😂😂 still love it
why do these essays make me wanna chill with tim and pick his brain?
Because he's great!!! He'll be at CRX!
I remember playing MGS2 back in the day. Reading online analysis's of memes and its origin as an almost throwaway thought experiment in a Richard Dawkins book back in the late 70s... and seeing how that radical idea about how ideas spreads has now devolved into being a synonym with what used to be called lol-cats... It's kind of a bit saddening... :/
Laughing Man: *AYY GUISE LET'S RAID AREA 51*
This is the only video on youtube that perfectly summarises the laughing man case, why aren't more people analysing gits sac?
good stuff. looking forward to more from this guy!
Thanks!!
Just wanna say well done.This video was much better than i excepted and genuinely a fun watch,
Richard Dawkins coined the word meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
1:52 If we pretend it never happened it will go away
excelent analys, you gained a follower
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf mutes.
I just love the screens in the background lol.
11:13 buddy that vrchat XD
1:56. Yea that is what I am going to tell myself about the life action of the little mermaid.
Nanao A actually wasn't the one who made the death threat, I think that was the original Laughing man. But true, either way the police just tried to use the situation to their advantage.
So are we not going to act like Area 51 about to become irl laughing man
hell yea bouta get myself some alien cybernetics and log tf in the world wide web.
*M e m e s* : t h e D N A o f t h e s o u l
rain falls, wind blows, YOU CAN'T FIGHT NATURE JACK
The concept of memes predates the internet. As far as memes existing goes, they've been prevalent since the dawn of civilization.
I can't hear that Ted Stevens quote without thinking of Pyrocynical now.
I love the delivery of this content. UA-cam take note.
The first contact I had with GitS was my art history book in secondary school. Two years later I found the manga and bought it.
Great video breaking down one of my all time favorite anime series Tim!
Good analysis. Subscribed!
Just a slight nitpick...It's Motoko Kusanagi, not Mokoto..and Ishikawa, not Isikawa.
I was just scrolling through the comments to see if someone had already mentioned this before commenting about this myself.
And everyone says they're true fans and the live action is terrible but yet they don't care about the butchering of names
0:40 yeah man sure that won't happen.
**Plays [fried_noodles]**
Crunchyroll become intreseted with memes, we should keep an eye on this guy
FBI
1:53 Thank you, sir! Thank you! ❤️
I love these breakdowns
This is some solid content! Please keep this kind of stuff coming d:D
I know this is off topic (great video) but, does anyone know brand/model of the keyboard he was typing on? very solid acton in the keys...
Good video dude. I loved your Eva video to.
The first meme I saw was "Its Peanut Butter Jelly Time!"
1:55 TRUTH!
Finally someone brought this up!
This was awesome, I need him to explain the meaning of life next.
7:22 Lateral gene transfer. It is so mind blowing, and more like memeifcation of genes than stem line transfer. O.o
@2:23 "Chuga chuga chuga chuga, Chuga chuga chuga chuga, Chuga chuga chuga chuga…..CHOOO....CHOOO"
Nice timing with all the area 51 memes
You explain it so well. Crazy I enjoy every minute deep thought. 😊
This guys videos are amazeballs
Most excellent video! 👍
always wanted to flex my French knowledge, but the work for same in French is "Meme." This could have been an inspiration to Richard Dawkins.
It's so weird! I was thinking about this just this morning, And it popped up on my feed! But this wasn't even that deep compared to Kazundo Gouda's scheming to take advantage of the SAC to trigger a nuclear attack.
“This song will never die”
I would add the novels Innocence after the long goodbye and the the 3 volumes also novels that parallel the stand alone complex story, the lost memory, revenge of the cold machine and white maze. there are likely more than I do not own. Otherwise really well researched and i'm glad there are others that think the move did not happen much like there are no cannon resident evil films staring Milla Jovovich, but 2 high budget fanfiction ones. XD
Memes have existed as long as the internet. Even longer.
Lol that Lain reference at 0:23.
Great video!!
"This video is not available at the selected quality." for _all_ qualities.
meme or "mime " in French, is a prefix of the verb that means imitation, it also a type of comedy... you know the guy dressed in black in white that follows and imitate you ... yup that's it, that's a mime or meme XD ... but Also you can laughing man, ANONYMOUS in real life ...damn you said it too...
Have you ever accidentally rickrolled yourselves? Like you are scrolling through an old conversation with a friend and don't remember what that super interesting video was about and... rickrolled :(