For me ongezellig was one of those shows after watching them had a weird joy feeling after watching it like a cold but comforting one that lasted for like a month had the same experience with Watmote
Dutchie here. Maya is from Dutch Brabant (officialy known as Noord Brabant), not Belgium. People in the story claiming she's from Belgium do this because either they are dumb (Coco) or bigoted towards people from the South (as many West Dutch people are). Also Maya being mixed race Dutch-Indonesian is very likely, I know a couple of people who look just like her who have this background. Also Meymey doesn't wear the Dutch flag, which is red, white and dark blue. She wears the Princeflag which is orange, white and light blue. This is significant because it was appropriated by Dutch Nazi sympathizers during the 1930's and has been frowned upon ever since. There's many, many layers of really intense political commentary in this show which takes advanced knowledge of Dutch history and politics to even see, let alone understand. I personally think Maya and her sisters represent aspects of racism. Coco is casually racist because she's not very educated. MeyMey is a fervent and deeply educated fascist who is in denial of her own complicated origins and lastly Maya represents self hatred by a person of mixed race from a colonial past. Vera is a typical liberal who's smart but also disillusioned with her life and who holds up an unjust system of oppression. This is my interpretation but as I say it's multi layered and really really specifically Dutch. I haven't even started about the fact Coco is from South Africa, which is a former Dutch colony and Meymey being from Nagasaki which had a Dutch Trading Post (Deshima). Etc. etc.
Wow, that analysis went quite deep. I'll admit that I didn't do a lot of research about the geographical details of Brabant, as my video's main focus was to review the series itself, but maybe we need a video to sort out this disambiguation. 🧐 ★
@@Gonicked There's equally as much lore from Massa themselves with many parts of their other videos being referenced in Ongezellig. Also Coco's reaction at least the way I interpreted it was that she wants be a part of this family and Maya saying that she doesn't have any parents is directly putting that in the bin and for someone who lost her parents that might be the reason why she is so focused on making Maya not feel excluded or lonely especially since she's South African and Afrikaners don't have the best reputation which could affect how she was viewed when she first came to Netherlands, but maybe I'm going a bit off topic as I'm not as well versed in Dutch politics.
Studio Massa deserved a big producer's support for this pilot. Heck, even something like Glitch Productions would be enough. Truly tragic that this series won't see the light of day. I hope he's living well after leaving Ongezellig for good.
I, as a person living in Russia, am extremely saddened by the fact that I will not be able to help Studio Massa financially due to stupid sanctions... Maya from the Ongesellig project is literally me. Watching this project, I was pleased and sad at the same time. Sometimes I regret that I discovered Ongezellig late... And thanks to one Russian-speaking blogger (nickname RoSoEro), who, thanks to the review, created a Russian-speaking community. A community that gave some impetus to promoting the popularity of the project. If Studio Massa can find a sponsor for this project and the project gets back into development, then I'll be looking forward to more episodes❤
Amazing video. Glad that the community keeps growing day by day despite it being discontinued. I myself actually believe that Maya is a mixed raced Dutch-Indonisian. Her mom looks like a South East Asian, and for a second in the final episode we can see a more pale man sitting at the dinner table, which we can assume is the father. Who is probably Dutch. Also, there is a region in Netherlands called North Barbant, so the whole joke about Maya being Belgian could be just people confusing the two regions. I also heard that Maya speaks with a Belgian accent, so she could've grown up somewhere near the Belgian border. Sorry for theorizing too much, I'm just so obsessed with this silly Dutch show
The bit about Maya being from Belgium is because people from the west of the Netherlands will think (or act like) anyone with a soft "G" is from Belgium. And although people in the south of the Netherlands speak Dutch with a soft G as the Belgians do, Belgian dialect (Flemish) is very distinct from southern Dutch because they use entirely different words and word order. Maya absolutely does not speak Flemish because she is from Dutch provence of Noord (North) Brabant, which confusingly almost has the same name as the Belgian region Brabant (for historical reasons). I come from the deep south of the Netherlands (Limburg), while being born from parents who came from the West and I moved to the West (Utrecht) later, moved back to the South (Noord Brabant) and now I live in the high North (Groningen) and I have experienced that everybody is bigoted towards people from other provinces. People from the North, South and East hate people from the West (Hollanders) because they act like the world belongs to them and people from the West look down upon those from the other parts because they see them as uneducated rubes (Provincialen/boeren). Meanwhile the Frisians hate the Brabanders and everybody hates the Limburgers (rightly so). So in a country the size of 10 football fields everybody hates each other and this is summarized by calling someone from the south a Belgian, regardless of their origin. Bloody Dutch.
I actually completely missed the fact that Maya's mother DOES carry the South East Asian phenotype. So she is probably half European and half Asian in that regard. Apparently still got way more genes from her father though. 😂 ★
Well writen, good editing and overall great quality. Subscribed. Good job man. Also im happy that you didnt bring up "that" part of the community. they get way to much attention. I really do hope Studio Masssa in some way continues, maybe through comics. Its up to him fully and respect should be given to him and his choices. Greetings from sweden.
Watching it made me feel seen, but also hurt me because I related to it so much. The fact Maya's own imaginary friends call her cringe, saying no to social gatherings for no good reason, even when she was fantasising about jumping from a building, "No happily-ever-after for me" is something I've thought to myself quite a lot. Hit hard.
I liked the review, as a person who also spoke about this masterpiece, I agree that this is a very beautiful and high-quality project of Massa. He really did something at the same time simple but at the same time very cool. And one more thing petje af Ongezellig is closed because if you want to leave a link to sponsor the Massa, leave petje af Studio Massa
Thank you Fox! I actually watched your review and it very interesting indeed as you did go over some things that I overlooked a bit on my video. I have also added the link of Massa's website as an info card in the video. ★
Fantastic video. Also thanks for the brief mention! As someone who found this series through UA-cam, I was glad to see you focus on the UA-cam community. Also, I know that later on in the series, Massa brought on another animator, Louca Pit, to work on the animation. He also made the “Mymy’s Post” animation independently of Massa. Excellent writing and editing on your video, hopefully this show (and your channel) can get a wider audience in the future.
Thank you so much Henk! I really wanted to give a big shoutout to all of you people who make these epic videos and help promote the healthy side of Ongezellig. 🤗 🤩 ★
@@Gonicked Honestly thank you because I hate having to deal with the more 4chan and soyjack people purely because they're so annoying and make anyone looking to watch the series avoid it which is just unfortunate.
After the latest update 2 months ago (filling gaps in the lore and finally 100% confirming it's completely canceled) they released all the content that was behind a paywall for free drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1Tq8xoVVOL2jcuqKrq40QKzn7tc2J4wEA
There is a card at 10:47 with the link that will take you to the Illustraties folder, but here it is regardless: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Tq8xoVVOL2jcuqKrq40QKzn7tc2J4wEA ★
As a Dutch person I am offended that you had to say that Brabant is Belgian. You are technically not wrong but we still own north Brabant. The better Brabant! Anyway good vid.
Yeah it seemed weird and I had to do look it up but for some reason Wikipedia only showed me the Belgian part of Brabant. If this video were to be focused on the lore I would surely have done more research than just Wikipedia, but I mainly focused on reviewing the series instead. Hopefully I didn't summon the almighty Dutch empire upon me ... 😨 ★
I think the disambiguation is due to the fact that there is a Dutch Brabant and a Belgian Brabant, and there is confusion as to which one Maya is from. ★
With Maya saying she's from Brabant, they mean that she's from the Dutch province called Noord-Brabant. But we Dutchies call it just Brabant. So no she isnt Belgian, she's from Brabant!
Show this to massa. SHOW THE FUCKING PART ABOUT WHAT COULD BE DONE TO MASSA. I dont want to harrass tha man. But he needs to be shown hes in posession of a gem of an amimated seris. If massa opened a global crowd funding campaign it would do so well. This show's potential to exist or chance to die has been semding me in an emotional spiral because, i cannot emphasize enough, this show has given me a reason to live. Without the inspararation this short pilot has given me i would be a lot closer to suicide. This pilot single handedly got me to start studying mythology, focus more of my time on learning another language (being russian), pick up game design and begin learing art. Just its beauty, soul, and quality gave me life and inspiration i needed to get out of an emotional dump, and im desperately needing more of it
The show may be over (at least for now), but as an artist in the community it feels like we're entering a golden age for fan content
that's just it though if enough attention and money go to the studio we will see more
@@lonelyweeb6772 depends, given massa is also experiencing burnout
No sadly it's all been monopolised by the tumblr bait slop like Trashbin Hotel or the circus show appealing to the exact same type of people
@@smtandearthboundsuck8400 meds this never happened
Ongezellig is literally the best thing I have ever experienced in my entire life and I'm not even exaggerating.
It's heart-wrenching that it's already over
If you want more content there’s this channel called GHANSHAN that dose great ongezellig animations +ocs
Same
Billions must watch Ongezellig.
For me ongezellig was one of those shows after watching them had a weird joy feeling after watching it like a cold but comforting one that lasted for like a month had the same experience with Watmote
I wonder why Ongezellig doesn't have millions views now
I'm starting to notice an exponential growth in its popularity as we speak. ⬆ ★
*Ongezillions
Deel 1 and 2 actually does I think
@@mloxard I mean the whole pilot episode not just deel 1 and 2
But it does
Golly gee the videos just keep coming, nice to see ongezellig making a bigger mark on the internet
Dutchie here. Maya is from Dutch Brabant (officialy known as Noord Brabant), not Belgium. People in the story claiming she's from Belgium do this because either they are dumb (Coco) or bigoted towards people from the South (as many West Dutch people are). Also Maya being mixed race Dutch-Indonesian is very likely, I know a couple of people who look just like her who have this background. Also Meymey doesn't wear the Dutch flag, which is red, white and dark blue. She wears the Princeflag which is orange, white and light blue. This is significant because it was appropriated by Dutch Nazi sympathizers during the 1930's and has been frowned upon ever since. There's many, many layers of really intense political commentary in this show which takes advanced knowledge of Dutch history and politics to even see, let alone understand. I personally think Maya and her sisters represent aspects of racism. Coco is casually racist because she's not very educated. MeyMey is a fervent and deeply educated fascist who is in denial of her own complicated origins and lastly Maya represents self hatred by a person of mixed race from a colonial past. Vera is a typical liberal who's smart but also disillusioned with her life and who holds up an unjust system of oppression. This is my interpretation but as I say it's multi layered and really really specifically Dutch. I haven't even started about the fact Coco is from South Africa, which is a former Dutch colony and Meymey being from Nagasaki which had a Dutch Trading Post (Deshima). Etc. etc.
Wow, that analysis went quite deep. I'll admit that I didn't do a lot of research about the geographical details of Brabant, as my video's main focus was to review the series itself, but maybe we need a video to sort out this disambiguation. 🧐 ★
@@Gonicked There's equally as much lore from Massa themselves with many parts of their other videos being referenced in Ongezellig. Also Coco's reaction at least the way I interpreted it was that she wants be a part of this family and Maya saying that she doesn't have any parents is directly putting that in the bin and for someone who lost her parents that might be the reason why she is so focused on making Maya not feel excluded or lonely especially since she's South African and Afrikaners don't have the best reputation which could affect how she was viewed when she first came to Netherlands, but maybe I'm going a bit off topic as I'm not as well versed in Dutch politics.
Bravo 👏
Gem video
Many thanks, Roos! You were surely one of the main inspirations for it! 😉 ★
@@Gonicked Yay
Your welcome 🙏 🤗
"Ms"
Huh, never heard of it... I'll have to check it out!
😏 ★
Studio Massa deserved a big producer's support for this pilot. Heck, even something like Glitch Productions would be enough. Truly tragic that this series won't see the light of day.
I hope he's living well after leaving Ongezellig for good.
We just need to wait...
For a long time since Glitch studios works on 3 series as of right now(MD,TADC and 1 show that i forgot it's name)
I, as a person living in Russia, am extremely saddened by the fact that I will not be able to help Studio Massa financially due to stupid sanctions... Maya from the Ongesellig project is literally me. Watching this project, I was pleased and sad at the same time. Sometimes I regret that I discovered Ongezellig late... And thanks to one Russian-speaking blogger (nickname RoSoEro), who, thanks to the review, created a Russian-speaking community. A community that gave some impetus to promoting the popularity of the project.
If Studio Massa can find a sponsor for this project and the project gets back into development, then I'll be looking forward to more episodes❤
Amazing video. Glad that the community keeps growing day by day despite it being discontinued. I myself actually believe that Maya is a mixed raced Dutch-Indonisian. Her mom looks like a South East Asian, and for a second in the final episode we can see a more pale man sitting at the dinner table, which we can assume is the father. Who is probably Dutch. Also, there is a region in Netherlands called North Barbant, so the whole joke about Maya being Belgian could be just people confusing the two regions. I also heard that Maya speaks with a Belgian accent, so she could've grown up somewhere near the Belgian border.
Sorry for theorizing too much, I'm just so obsessed with this silly Dutch show
The bit about Maya being from Belgium is because people from the west of the Netherlands will think (or act like) anyone with a soft "G" is from Belgium. And although people in the south of the Netherlands speak Dutch with a soft G as the Belgians do, Belgian dialect (Flemish) is very distinct from southern Dutch because they use entirely different words and word order. Maya absolutely does not speak Flemish because she is from Dutch provence of Noord (North) Brabant, which confusingly almost has the same name as the Belgian region Brabant (for historical reasons). I come from the deep south of the Netherlands (Limburg), while being born from parents who came from the West and I moved to the West (Utrecht) later, moved back to the South (Noord Brabant) and now I live in the high North (Groningen) and I have experienced that everybody is bigoted towards people from other provinces. People from the North, South and East hate people from the West (Hollanders) because they act like the world belongs to them and people from the West look down upon those from the other parts because they see them as uneducated rubes (Provincialen/boeren). Meanwhile the Frisians hate the Brabanders and everybody hates the Limburgers (rightly so). So in a country the size of 10 football fields everybody hates each other and this is summarized by calling someone from the south a Belgian, regardless of their origin. Bloody Dutch.
I actually completely missed the fact that Maya's mother DOES carry the South East Asian phenotype. So she is probably half European and half Asian in that regard. Apparently still got way more genes from her father though. 😂 ★
@@Gonicked Besides her eyes she looks just like her mother but younger.
👏👏now need to finish my video about the cmmunity and it will be a perfect duo of videos
Yes! Can't wait for more Ongezellig community content! ★
@@Gonicked yeah i uploaded it yesterday glad i did it before the 7th (at least in the US as it was the 7th in Europe alread)
YYYYYYAAAAASSSSSS
ONGEZELLIG WILL BE KNOWN
LESSS GOOO! ✊ ★
@@Gonicked FOR THE ZELLIG'S!!! ✊
Well writen, good editing and overall great quality. Subscribed. Good job man. Also im happy that you didnt bring up "that" part of the community. they get way to much attention. I really do hope Studio Masssa in some way continues, maybe through comics. Its up to him fully and respect should be given to him and his choices. Greetings from sweden.
Tack så mycket! 🥰 ★
Watching it made me feel seen, but also hurt me because I related to it so much. The fact Maya's own imaginary friends call her cringe, saying no to social gatherings for no good reason, even when she was fantasising about jumping from a building, "No happily-ever-after for me" is something I've thought to myself quite a lot. Hit hard.
I liked the review, as a person who also spoke about this masterpiece, I agree that this is a very beautiful and high-quality project of Massa. He really did something at the same time simple but at the same time very cool. And one more thing petje af Ongezellig is closed because if you want to leave a link to sponsor the Massa, leave petje af Studio Massa
Thank you Fox! I actually watched your review and it very interesting indeed as you did go over some things that I overlooked a bit on my video. I have also added the link of Massa's website as an info card in the video. ★
Fantastic video. Also thanks for the brief mention! As someone who found this series through UA-cam, I was glad to see you focus on the UA-cam community.
Also, I know that later on in the series, Massa brought on another animator, Louca Pit, to work on the animation. He also made the “Mymy’s Post” animation independently of Massa.
Excellent writing and editing on your video, hopefully this show (and your channel) can get a wider audience in the future.
Thank you so much Henk! I really wanted to give a big shoutout to all of you people who make these epic videos and help promote the healthy side of Ongezellig. 🤗 🤩 ★
@@Gonicked Honestly thank you because I hate having to deal with the more 4chan and soyjack people purely because they're so annoying and make anyone looking to watch the series avoid it which is just unfortunate.
Issa slow burn bone-chilling spine-tingling genre-redefining Gem z
10:56 where can i find those ilustrations?
After the latest update 2 months ago (filling gaps in the lore and finally 100% confirming it's completely canceled) they released all the content that was behind a paywall for free
drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1Tq8xoVVOL2jcuqKrq40QKzn7tc2J4wEA
There is a card at 10:47 with the link that will take you to the Illustraties folder, but here it is regardless: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Tq8xoVVOL2jcuqKrq40QKzn7tc2J4wEA ★
Slow burn atmospheric gut wrenching bone chilling character development driven genre defining gemerald gem💎💎💎💎 ZWABAG
🤩🎉💎 ★
I can’t stop rewatching it
As a Dutch person I am offended that you had to say that Brabant is Belgian. You are technically not wrong but we still own north Brabant. The better Brabant! Anyway good vid.
Yeah it seemed weird and I had to do look it up but for some reason Wikipedia only showed me the Belgian part of Brabant. If this video were to be focused on the lore I would surely have done more research than just Wikipedia, but I mainly focused on reviewing the series instead. Hopefully I didn't summon the almighty Dutch empire upon me ... 😨 ★
Wonderful Video! Let’s hope that fan made content will help rejuvenate the interest in Ongezellig
Out all the non Dutch speakers trying to pronounce ongezellig, you did it best.
what's the song in 11:30 ?
This particular track is from the official soundtrack of Ongezellig itself. It is called «Pasfoto (Passport Photo)». ★
Truly a gem, great video 💎❤
I like learning about niche European pop culture and seeing it through shows and vice versa
gemmy therefore 'zellig
Brabant is actually in The Netherlands, the joke is its proximity to Belgium (geographical and customs)
Maya is not really Belgian
I think the disambiguation is due to the fact that there is a Dutch Brabant and a Belgian Brabant, and there is confusion as to which one Maya is from. ★
A gem, if you will
💎 ★
imagine if ongezellig suddenly returned 10 years later like bfdia 6
And underrated "gem" if you will
"gem" is crimespeak
@@NBrioDaZueraRulesCope
@@AnviumBased typical jewish rabbi kciD-riding a yiddish word
@@NBrioDaZueraRulesTypical Jewish marxist cope
@@AnviumBased typical jewish rabbi kciD-riding a yiddish word, also marxism is anti-semitic
Where can you see the monthly illustrations?
Massa has made them all public here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Tq8xoVVOL2jcuqKrq40QKzn7tc2J4wEA. ★
zemmy
Dank! 🥰 ★
So glad that the show is gaining popularity now
>not Animated Hidden Gem
😭
With Maya saying she's from Brabant, they mean that she's from the Dutch province called Noord-Brabant. But we Dutchies call it just Brabant. So no she isnt Belgian, she's from Brabant!
Yeah, people were quick to correct me on that one. It was poor research on my part. ★
'ellig is nas coal that belongs on nate only doebeit
'Zellig is sharty culture
>'ellig is-AAACCCCKKK!!!!
Xhe is such a gem
tsmt
ZWABAG
Waar staat dat voor? 🤔 ★
Zellig will always be a gem, it's just english people saying they love the show and anything about it
Honestly, really happy I watched it
Show this to massa. SHOW THE FUCKING PART ABOUT WHAT COULD BE DONE TO MASSA.
I dont want to harrass tha man. But he needs to be shown hes in posession of a gem of an amimated seris. If massa opened a global crowd funding campaign it would do so well. This show's potential to exist or chance to die has been semding me in an emotional spiral because, i cannot emphasize enough, this show has given me a reason to live. Without the inspararation this short pilot has given me i would be a lot closer to suicide. This pilot single handedly got me to start studying mythology, focus more of my time on learning another language (being russian), pick up game design and begin learing art. Just its beauty, soul, and quality gave me life and inspiration i needed to get out of an emotional dump, and im desperately needing more of it
Mythology?
@@Komundrvm Yes, I'm studying Greek mythology
I really need to make it known by making videos too
7:59 say that again
Very good video
Glad you enjoyed it! 🤗 ★
Buen video capo
gemmy!
ART. (Also Mymy based)
"based" is a shitty slang and this show sucks
@@NBrioDaZueraRules Let's agree to disagree.
@@zaktheinquisitor5769 disagreeing with me is not an option
@@NBrioDaZueraRules Watch me.
@@NBrioDaZueraRules Watch me.
Coco's the fan favorite? Idk about that
Gem
animated hidden GEM*
gemmy
Een GEM, JA?
great video but as a dutch person i have to say the way you say ongezellig is just shit
Thank you and I apologize for pronouncing Ongezellig with my terribly obvious artificial German accent ... 😂 ★