I tried 2 different devices - it happened to me THREE TIMES on different videos today - just couldn't believe it, and yet here we are... they could at least give us the courtesy of keeping the damn (auto) subtitles when the audio got slashed due to copyright... :/ Bloody DMCA
i hope you reuploading the video soon enough, i am intrigued by this video explanation of nostalgia and i wanna hear what you talking about on the muted section so bad lol
The mourning of your pizza and youtube having removed the audio coinciding made it look like a prolonged moment of silence for the pizza. lol Good video, sorry for your childhood pizza loss.
I feel like media made it worse. Reboots and remakes were rare. It was something to be excited for. But now, I feel like it's just reminding you of the past. Preventing you from moving forward by pulling you backwards. Reminding you that things will never be the same.
Even more to add to that: No shows or movies are really special anymore. We have so many choices at our fingertips now and yet it takes hours to figure out which movie or show you’ll pick tonight sitting on the couch. Its because there’s too many options and its become so easy to get whatever we want that nothing is allowed to be special. I did something last month where i stopped all watching youtube tv and movies for 30 days (havent had social media in years) and it definitely brought the liveliness back into my life. Things seems special again if you dont take part in the modern way of doing things
If there were remakes, they would be a generation apart, as has been done with "A Star is Born". Now there are live action versions of things just to cash in on nostalgia that fail because they aren't close to the original.
@@toddjohnsoneveningnews8870 This. I actually feel like life is more enjoyable when I limit my time on media consumption. It becomes much more enjoyable once I do. It does feel like it may be connected with how our brain manages dopamine. In nature, it should be "a reward hormone", produced after a successful hunt, social interaction or breeding attempt (Of course food, good company and sex aren't the only enjoyable things, but you get the point). It shouldn't be produced all the time, otherwise it just stops working.
As weird as it is, the strongest I feel this melancholic nostalgia is for Minecraft. I started playing in pre-alpha. I got a lot of my friends into it. We'd play after school a lot (it wasn't the game we played the most, but still). And now the enjoyment is just gone because my friends don't play it anymore all these years later. I can get a couple people to get on every few years, but they never want to play more than once or twice in a world before they don't care to go back, and playing solo just doesn't hit the same as no project will ever be impressive enough to myself to make it worth it. The worst part is the music. Any time the original songs start playing, I feel like I have to stop myself from crying. My mind immediately gets slingshotted back in time, and it hurts. The nostalgia isn't for the game. It's for the time spent with friends. Life changed, and it doesn't feel like it was for the better.
I'm so nostalgic for the good ol' days when websites were simple, fast, and didn't leave me waiting forever for them to load thousand kilobytes of multiple javascript.
hey internet stranger, just wanted to say this comment almost made me teary eyed due to how real it is. is t a quote from something? (i haven’t watched the full video yet)
I think we can all agree that the site of a grown adult playing with a baby toy, or mourning the joy they once derived from playing with said toy would be an odd and sad sight. Now if that same person were playing with their child with that same toy, not only is this a happy sight but they would most likely experience a similar and satisfactory joy that they once had at that same age, but now live it vicariously through their child. If you find yourself unable to derive the same joy you once experienced in live it might be A) an indication for you to grow up a bit and progress to "bigger toys" or B) take on the responsibility of caring for your own children and in doing so you will once again experience the joys of youth, but through a different perspective.
Nostalgia really brought back the good times in the past, but it's also an aching realization that you can't go back. No matter how intense our old memories have become, the world just keep moving forward. Glad that _Night in the Woods_ finally got more love it deserves. Greg rules OK.
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I feel the need to point out that Possum Springs isn't in the Midwest. It's specifically based on the dying mining and steel towns of Pennsylvania, where Scott Benson grew up.
I am glad someone else has felt that stagnation in capitalism. I have been feeling crazy thinking everything seemed like nothing has moved forward in decades.
This video hit me really hard. I'm 32 and everything already feels different. I miss the late 90s early 00s computer version of Zoo Tycoon. I miss spending hours figuring out how to place the damn orca and dolphin exhibits lol I miss being 17 and sitting out on the roof with my sister smoking Prime Times and sharing a can a beer every great once in a while. Smoking and drinking aren't things I even do anymore, and if I did, they don't have the same appeal. I miss weekends being free, and being excited when my phone rings. I miss staying up all night to watch the sun rise and somehow not being tired the next day. But now I'm living days that future me will be nostalgic for. My 9 year old daughter has brought her math grade up from an F to an A- since I've been tutoring her and instilling math confidence in her. My 11 year old dog is still alive and healthy. My pet mice turned 1 this month. I look forward to The Last of Us each week. I'm a trauma nurse, and I get to see more beds empty than get filled now. I was bedridden with chronic illness this time 2 years ago, and woke up crying every day because I was so tired of being alive in constant pain. I'm not in any pain anymore. Both of my parents are alive and thriving. My sister has a stable job. My daughter is independent, thoughtful, kind, and fiercely intelligent, but for some reason she thinks I'm the best mom in the world. I'll be nostalgic one day for the random times she snuggles on my lap and tells me she loves me for no reason. She and I recently played Diablo 1 for ps1 because it's a nostalgic memory from my childhood. She got us killed while fighting The Butcher because she panicked and couldn't get through a door lolololol I KNOW I'll be nostalgic for that moment alone. Overall, I think nostalgia is great in it's own right because it's proof that we were here, and we were happy. I also think it's important to be present enough to appreciate what you will miss in the future, and to look forward to all the moments that haven't even happened yet that you will someday be nostalgic about :)
Huge congrats to you and your daughter for the math grades! That's amazing! I was listening to a podcast and one of the guests was a guy who became disabled after an accident as a young adult. He had absolutely no regrets and says that some of the coolest stuff he's experienced has happened after the accident. As someone who has quite a lot of trauma and tends to get very nostalgic, this made me rethink my perspective. Your comment reminded me of that. There's good stuff to look forward to in the future and it's important to remember that.
Kinda sums up the "sick" I've been feeling since my camping trip a month ago. I didn't have cellphone service out there and just being out away from it all was nice. the moment I got signal and was suddenly bombarded with advertisements, it was like the pit opening up again. it all just feels hollow, like attempts at our souls as they vie for our attention and energy.
Nostalgia will sometimes nearly bring me to tears, but it’s the knowledge that the days I’m living now, with my twin toddlers and amazing wife, will be the days I’m truly nostalgic for in the future. Sometimes, when I’m outside and my boys are discovering the flowers in our yard for the first time, or studying the rocks in the driveway, I take a mental picture. I slow down, and I live a year in those seconds. Nostalgia for the 90s makes me feel like I didn’t appreciate it when I had it, and I don’t ever want to feel that with my family.
I thought I was going crazy!! This kind of thing keeps happening to me in a variety of different video essays from different creators. I'm starting to wonder if it's some weird copyright thing UA-cam is doing now instead of getting rid of entire videos they just silence the audio
This is one of the reasons I really like to watch video essays. It's about the experience of diving so deep inside a subject that you start questioning yourself if you even absorbed anything from it. Something I personally like to call "imemorable otomania", a term that I defined myself a few months back. It came to me while watching a video essay and I define this concept by the sentence "I might not remember much of what you said, but I could listen to you saying it over and over again and never get bored". This feeling excites me. And it's why I keep watching video essays. And I have to say, dude. This one deserves a repeat.
@@br0wning I've been seeing it in my to watch list for a while now but wasn't really able to fit it in my free time, thanks for the recommendation tho, I'm definitely watching it before the end of the month
“Teddy told me that in Greek, nostalgia literally means, ‘the pain from an old wound.’ It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone.” -Don Draper
I tried going back to my home town and did after several years had passed. Walked through the same forest paths I use to do. I was much older at that time and thought maybe I'd check it out to move there once again. To much had changed. So just packed my bags and went back to my home elsewhere. There just wasn't no going back home any more. I had changed throughout the years I was gone and so had my small town too(it's smaller now). It was childhood memories where I grew up. I still call it my hometown and state. I live and had lived many years in another town and state. Nostalgia drove me there .
Maybe the reason coke tastes worse when its warm and flat is because it literally is just worse that way. Like its just not the intended way to serve that drink and that makes it physically taste worse. I dont think that relies on an individuals psychological perspective as a consumer or whatever to be true. Maybe they really did change the cheese on your little pizza to a shittier cheese. Maybe were just burnt out on minecraft from playing a lot of it as a kid and we are ready to play something else. Idk man
I’m here to learn how this man does it. Writing an hour and a half worth of information worth listening to from a simple idea. English class must love him
@@clarkelieson Would you be able to share some of these outlines? It sounds really interesting, and I want to learn more about it helped you becoming so amazing at your insights and expressions. Thank you again for this amazing video!
I know this video was meant primarily as nostalgia in media, but everything you said could've been applied to a lot of memories. For me it was an ex that was absolutely amazing at first but changed and became horrible but I still long to go back to those early days when I was so happy and it was perfect, the memories still there, but it's not what it once was and there's no going back even when you try. A lot of this hit home for me
I often find myself feeling nostalgic, I searched for video essays about nostalgia and this video perfectly encapsulated what I've always wanted find whenever I searched
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I felt the same way but didn’t actually get to searching any up but happened to get recommended this video after playing night in the woods and was glad something was able to break down nostalgia and why it always filled me with anger I could t explain
same, I am in the nostalgia rut :") i keep searching 'old' songs that I used to listen to back in 00's and 2010's. it feels surreal that I'm in my late 20's, those songs were released more than 10 years ago, and some are more than 20 years! it's crazy how I could feel the same as it was the first time I listened to it in my teen soul. idk what I want or looking for but somehow, like OP said, it's the sense of homecoming and longing...
To me, nostalgia is a personal memory, something unique to me, so when I feel sentimental for nostalgia it's a memory of what felt like a magical time. This is what is missed by most people, we are told to be nostalgic for something, it takes the form of merchandise from the past, a popular or forgotten TV show, toys and video games, film and cartoons, all under the thumb of big business, that sold these items to us through our parents, now they are trying to make money off of our nostalgia as adults. I do not wish to be nostalgic all the time, there were negative memories too, and no amount of materialism will soothe the hard times I endured, instead I look to the future, hoping to make new memories to be nostalgic for, afterall, if you live in the past, you live alone because everyone else has moved on, this is what I advise to people on nostalgia trips, think of nostalgia as a memory, not as objects bought at the store, nor as content watched on the screen, doing something special to look fondly past.
Objects, places, merchandise, etc are all just the physical remains of part of those memories. But they are not what they were, any more than ruins are the building they came from. Even if you still have the very same gameboy and game cartridge you used for hours on end as a kid, now with all the scuffs you gave it over the years but still in working condition...it doesn't matter. You're not a kid anymore, you've changed just like everything around you. It's okay to remember things fondly and appreciate them for what they were. But you also need to appreciate what is now. Because if you don't, you're only dragging yourself down. Same goes for the future, whatever your plans and aspirations are, don't get so caught up in it that you aren't living in the present. The future you imagine does not and will not exist. The unexpected will happen, for better or worse.
Wow this video is so beautiful. Amazingly heartbreaking and interesting. As a 1st year college student who lost the last couple years of High School to covid, nostalgia plagued my fall semester of school, and made it very hard to do schoolwork.
I have the same thing right now but with college.. covid messed up my last few years of learning and relationships, now im graduated and working for a tech company, which is good, but it feels like i was supposed to have more important memories towards the end of that part of my life. Feels like things just moved on but im kinda stuck in that part of my mind, that prt of my life. I feel exactly like that character in the game
@@RoBoTrOnIc1001001 it was similar for me with 9/11 happening my senior year combined with my mom nearly passing due to breast cancer. I failed my senior year and ended up graduating 6 months later from an adult high school. I then floundered in community college for a few years which I still haven’t finished. All I can say is there’s more experiences to have and memories to make. I sunk all my energy into music and made a good living at it for nearly a decade. Been married since 2010, have 2 kids and a career as a Salesforce consultant since 2013. I do find myself getting sucked into nostalgia quite often though. Collecting old video games and things I had or wanted as a kid. My parents also divorced in 1990 when I was 8 but none of the stuff I buy fixes anything. It’s fun for a few minutes but then I just go hunting for something else. A cycle I hope to break at some point.
It feels like you just need some one to open your eyes or be brave enough to open them yourself and that when you see what you are and what the things around you are everything changes
It appears I’m immune to nostalgia so all these concepts don’t… really make sense to me. I had a nice and happy childhood, but every stage of life has its own ups and downs. I’ve never dreamed of going back to how it was before, because it would be impossible to. Why feel bad for something I can’t obtain
It's wild to know that at sixteen I spend my days pining for the past, when at 30 I'll be pining for who I was now. Sometimes it just feels hopeless. Like chasing the empty romanticization of what once was. I hate myself right now, but I just know I'll long for these days. How stupid is that?
Oh dear, why did this go unlisted?
Also don't know
23:00
If you’re reading this I still need to reupload the video but until I do the corrupt version is still available
@@clarkelieson thats wild
Oh no… I’ll have to fix my play list.@@clarkelieson
@@clarkelieson Oh what?? -- thats... thats weird.
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This video really is no longer what it used to be. (imsorry)
Anybody else audio go out at 22:55?
Yeah, mine did.
Odd, it's obviously not intentional, so why?
@@kazuyakenzaki1320 someone probably lodged a copyright takedown thing for some audio used would be my guess
Comes back @ 24:58
I tried 2 different devices - it happened to me THREE TIMES on different videos today - just couldn't believe it, and yet here we are... they could at least give us the courtesy of keeping the damn (auto) subtitles when the audio got slashed due to copyright... :/
Bloody DMCA
FYI there is a weird part where the audio just completely cuts out from about 22:58-24:59
One word: copyright
😂, yeah I thought my headphones had died!
Anyone else's audio cut out for a few minutes.
Yep happened to me thought it was a glitch
I go afk for a bit with my headphones off, and when I come back there's some otherworldly music playing. Truly a video of all time
Im nostalgic for the old version of this video when there wasn't a completely silent section and a low audio quality bit T-T
i hope you reuploading the video soon enough, i am intrigued by this video explanation of nostalgia and i wanna hear what you talking about on the muted section so bad lol
The mourning of your pizza and youtube having removed the audio coinciding made it look like a prolonged moment of silence for the pizza. lol
Good video, sorry for your childhood pizza loss.
I remember nostalgia... Those were the good 'ol days.
im nostalgic for the old nostalgia 😔
Im nostalgic for being nostalgic about the old nostalgia
@@beangobernador I'm nostalgic for being nostalgic about being nostalgic for the old nostalgia.
_And_ now I forgot how it feels to experience Nostalgia.
@@MrGermandeutsch abscence makes the heart grow fonder, yet that's not what we feel anymore
Underrated comment honestly
Who else up longing, pining, and yearning right now
I feel like media made it worse. Reboots and remakes were rare. It was something to be excited for. But now, I feel like it's just reminding you of the past. Preventing you from moving forward by pulling you backwards. Reminding you that things will never be the same.
Even more to add to that: No shows or movies are really special anymore. We have so many choices at our fingertips now and yet it takes hours to figure out which movie or show you’ll pick tonight sitting on the couch. Its because there’s too many options and its become so easy to get whatever we want that nothing is allowed to be special. I did something last month where i stopped all watching youtube tv and movies for 30 days (havent had social media in years) and it definitely brought the liveliness back into my life. Things seems special again if you dont take part in the modern way of doing things
If there were remakes, they would be a generation apart, as has been done with "A Star is Born". Now there are live action versions of things just to cash in on nostalgia that fail because they aren't close to the original.
the 24/7 news cycle reallllly did a number on us all
At least there's Arcane season 2 to look forward to @@toddjohnsoneveningnews8870
@@toddjohnsoneveningnews8870 This. I actually feel like life is more enjoyable when I limit my time on media consumption. It becomes much more enjoyable once I do. It does feel like it may be connected with how our brain manages dopamine. In nature, it should be "a reward hormone", produced after a successful hunt, social interaction or breeding attempt (Of course food, good company and sex aren't the only enjoyable things, but you get the point). It shouldn't be produced all the time, otherwise it just stops working.
As weird as it is, the strongest I feel this melancholic nostalgia is for Minecraft. I started playing in pre-alpha. I got a lot of my friends into it. We'd play after school a lot (it wasn't the game we played the most, but still). And now the enjoyment is just gone because my friends don't play it anymore all these years later.
I can get a couple people to get on every few years, but they never want to play more than once or twice in a world before they don't care to go back, and playing solo just doesn't hit the same as no project will ever be impressive enough to myself to make it worth it. The worst part is the music. Any time the original songs start playing, I feel like I have to stop myself from crying. My mind immediately gets slingshotted back in time, and it hurts. The nostalgia isn't for the game. It's for the time spent with friends. Life changed, and it doesn't feel like it was for the better.
"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters."
32:10 PLEASE NOT AGAIN PLEASE
this video gives big "squidward tentacles: the perfect antagonist" vibes
"you cannot go back to something that never existed." wow. just wow.
Really sucks the algorithm didn't pick this video up
I'm so nostalgic for the good ol' days when websites were simple, fast, and didn't leave me waiting forever for them to load thousand kilobytes of multiple javascript.
*“We don’t miss the past, we miss the way we felt before.”*
hey internet stranger, just wanted to say this comment almost made me teary eyed due to how real it is. is t a quote from something? (i haven’t watched the full video yet)
NIGHT IN THE WOODS, YEAH BABY!
I think its more "We miss how we think we felt before."
I miss both.
@@yunantheobserver6841no one wants to admit that you're right.
Amazing video! Thank you so much for all the work you have put into creating this! Really outstanding!
23:02 - 24:59 The audio is off.
I just wanted a liminal space compilation 😭😭
22:51 Why did the audio just.. cut out here? Am I missing something?
Not sure
Amazing video essay, really made me rethink a lot of stuff
the audio and subtitles cut out at around 22:45 and then come back around 25:00, thats so weird
oxenfree ost in the background gave me nostalgia from 2020...
The audio is beginning to degrade with this video a portion of it is unwatchable
Did anyone else’s audio cut out in the first half for a few minutes
Lol yeah
The disco eleysium soundtrack got me hooked
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and can distract from the world's real issues. Excellent video as always.
what is the worlds real problem, oh wise man
@@captainkidney8577
@@captainkidney8577 pollution, slavery, exploitation, child abuse, political unrest
@@captainkidney8577 our Wendy’s got rid of the vanilla frosty
Disagree. You can say anything is a distraction.
I think we can all agree that the site of a grown adult playing with a baby toy, or mourning the joy they once derived from playing with said toy would be an odd and sad sight. Now if that same person were playing with their child with that same toy, not only is this a happy sight but they would most likely experience a similar and satisfactory joy that they once had at that same age, but now live it vicariously through their child. If you find yourself unable to derive the same joy you once experienced in live it might be A) an indication for you to grow up a bit and progress to "bigger toys" or B) take on the responsibility of caring for your own children and in doing so you will once again experience the joys of youth, but through a different perspective.
Nostalgia really brought back the good times in the past, but it's also an aching realization that you can't go back. No matter how intense our old memories have become, the world just keep moving forward.
Glad that _Night in the Woods_ finally got more love it deserves. Greg rules OK.
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I felt nostalgic for this video and came back to it
I feel the need to point out that Possum Springs isn't in the Midwest. It's specifically based on the dying mining and steel towns of Pennsylvania, where Scott Benson grew up.
Western and central PA are infinitely more midwestern than east coast
Where do I find that game
@@bobbiboyer7065 steam i belive
I'm pretty sure it's a meme at this point to call anything that isnt on the coasts the midwest
@@sookendestroy1 we're on the coast of lake michigan, still midwest
Me personally, I'm nostalgic for the good old days. And I'm 16. That just tells you how shit it's going.
Does audio go silent around the 22 minute mark?
Yep. Nostalgia definitely isn’t what it used to be.
I am glad someone else has felt that stagnation in capitalism. I have been feeling crazy thinking everything seemed like nothing has moved forward in decades.
The title is a banger
This video hit me really hard. I'm 32 and everything already feels different. I miss the late 90s early 00s computer version of Zoo Tycoon. I miss spending hours figuring out how to place the damn orca and dolphin exhibits lol I miss being 17 and sitting out on the roof with my sister smoking Prime Times and sharing a can a beer every great once in a while. Smoking and drinking aren't things I even do anymore, and if I did, they don't have the same appeal. I miss weekends being free, and being excited when my phone rings. I miss staying up all night to watch the sun rise and somehow not being tired the next day.
But now I'm living days that future me will be nostalgic for. My 9 year old daughter has brought her math grade up from an F to an A- since I've been tutoring her and instilling math confidence in her. My 11 year old dog is still alive and healthy. My pet mice turned 1 this month. I look forward to The Last of Us each week. I'm a trauma nurse, and I get to see more beds empty than get filled now. I was bedridden with chronic illness this time 2 years ago, and woke up crying every day because I was so tired of being alive in constant pain. I'm not in any pain anymore. Both of my parents are alive and thriving. My sister has a stable job. My daughter is independent, thoughtful, kind, and fiercely intelligent, but for some reason she thinks I'm the best mom in the world. I'll be nostalgic one day for the random times she snuggles on my lap and tells me she loves me for no reason.
She and I recently played Diablo 1 for ps1 because it's a nostalgic memory from my childhood. She got us killed while fighting The Butcher because she panicked and couldn't get through a door lolololol I KNOW I'll be nostalgic for that moment alone.
Overall, I think nostalgia is great in it's own right because it's proof that we were here, and we were happy. I also think it's important to be present enough to appreciate what you will miss in the future, and to look forward to all the moments that haven't even happened yet that you will someday be nostalgic about :)
You sound like a great mother and person.
Huge congrats to you and your daughter for the math grades! That's amazing!
I was listening to a podcast and one of the guests was a guy who became disabled after an accident as a young adult. He had absolutely no regrets and says that some of the coolest stuff he's experienced has happened after the accident. As someone who has quite a lot of trauma and tends to get very nostalgic, this made me rethink my perspective. Your comment reminded me of that. There's good stuff to look forward to in the future and it's important to remember that.
it's so refreshing to see stories of people living happy, fulfilling lives. this video and your comment have inspired to actually try for once
This is my life, except I didn’t have kids. I still have time but I work w kids so that is fun:)
God bless you I hope you all live the best possible life
2010s nostalgia will never be a thing
Is it just me or does the sound go away at 22:50?
The thing about life is that no matter how hard the present is, once we're in the future we always seem to look at the past as a good time.
Is the video silent from 22:50 to 24:57 for everyone else too??? 🤨
39:40, 1:33:33
Capitalism is depressing
Is this video supposed to make us cry cause it worked
I enjoy your content and always follow up on the book listings. Thank you for suggesting The Lonely Crowd, it was quite something.
ehh now I feel like I should experience a full playthrough of night in the woods
welcom to the channel that gives you an existential crisis
and hellishly good sound design
sound died
22:50 ~ 24:57
rip
Kinda sums up the "sick" I've been feeling since my camping trip a month ago.
I didn't have cellphone service out there and just being out away from it all was nice. the moment I got signal and was suddenly bombarded with advertisements, it was like the pit opening up again.
it all just feels hollow, like attempts at our souls as they vie for our attention and energy.
Nostalgia will sometimes nearly bring me to tears, but it’s the knowledge that the days I’m living now, with my twin toddlers and amazing wife, will be the days I’m truly nostalgic for in the future.
Sometimes, when I’m outside and my boys are discovering the flowers in our yard for the first time, or studying the rocks in the driveway, I take a mental picture. I slow down, and I live a year in those seconds. Nostalgia for the 90s makes me feel like I didn’t appreciate it when I had it, and I don’t ever want to feel that with my family.
8:48 OXENFREE SOUNDTRACK
At 22:50 the audio cuts out and I've tried multiple things already to fix it. Audio returns at 24:57.
This is my fault. Gonna need to reupload
My laptop had been doing this randomly for weeks and I JUST got it fixed and I was worried it had broken again
When are you uploading the fixed version??
for me as i grew up nostalgia turned from a bittersweet happiness for what was to a sorrow for what is now gone
i still have a longing for when i left elementry school
“Ah, nostalgia. It’s not what it used to be!”
-Edward Richtofen
Hutcheson
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Yiur saying your lastest teachers needing and fucking Clark on account
I keep watching this video. I can't stop
Why no sound at 22:50?
I thought I was going crazy!! This kind of thing keeps happening to me in a variety of different video essays from different creators. I'm starting to wonder if it's some weird copyright thing UA-cam is doing now instead of getting rid of entire videos they just silence the audio
Nostalgia is sad. Point. Blank. Period.
This is one of the reasons I really like to watch video essays. It's about the experience of diving so deep inside a subject that you start questioning yourself if you even absorbed anything from it. Something I personally like to call "imemorable otomania", a term that I defined myself a few months back. It came to me while watching a video essay and I define this concept by the sentence "I might not remember much of what you said, but I could listen to you saying it over and over again and never get bored". This feeling excites me. And it's why I keep watching video essays. And I have to say, dude. This one deserves a repeat.
I relate to this so much
That's just the result of fast talking and fancy tricks in editing. He's stringing you along emotionally.
u need to watch monumentality by solar sands if u haven’t yet but if ur that into video essays i’m guessing it’s likely u have
@@heinoustentacles5719 lol that’s just the definition of making content put in a weird negative way imo
@@br0wning I've been seeing it in my to watch list for a while now but wasn't really able to fit it in my free time, thanks for the recommendation tho, I'm definitely watching it before the end of the month
22:28 "give me fuel, five me fire give me that which I desire" I got the reference!
“Teddy told me that in Greek, nostalgia literally means, ‘the pain from an old wound.’ It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone.” -Don Draper
I tried going back to my home town and did after several years had passed. Walked through the same forest paths I use to do. I was much older at that time and thought maybe I'd check it out to move there once again. To much had changed. So just packed my bags and went back to my home elsewhere. There just wasn't no going back home any more. I had changed throughout the years I was gone and so had my small town too(it's smaller now). It was childhood memories where I grew up. I still call it my hometown and state. I live and had lived many years in another town and state. Nostalgia drove me there .
why this video has no audio between 22:50 - 24:58?'
audio stops suddenly at 22 min... comes back later?
22:50-25:00 no audio????
Why’d you have to make me cry like that man, beautiful video
Nostalgia seems like a symptom of the bad habit that "things will remain the same" i had as a child
you cant have nostalgia if you had a traumatic childhood
Nostalgia is so old school
"There´s something rotten in the state of Possum Springs."
good one
S tier video essayist channnel
Wow this made me feel horrible! Great video!
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I think this helped me process a lot of the internal issues I've been having lately. Video came out at the right time. Thanks, man
same..
Same, it was recommended to me when I unknowingly wanted it the most.
Damn this good
1.3K views in 2 hours is absurdly low for this amount of work and quality
This video is such an eye candy
This was both beautiful and mind breaking. Thanks for making this
this is the best ad for coke ive ever seen!
Maybe the reason coke tastes worse when its warm and flat is because it literally is just worse that way. Like its just not the intended way to serve that drink and that makes it physically taste worse. I dont think that relies on an individuals psychological perspective as a consumer or whatever to be true. Maybe they really did change the cheese on your little pizza to a shittier cheese. Maybe were just burnt out on minecraft from playing a lot of it as a kid and we are ready to play something else. Idk man
I’m here to learn how this man does it. Writing an hour and a half worth of information worth listening to from a simple idea. English class must love him
He is what English teachers expect all students to right their essay be like
I had a really really great English teacher in Highschool! I still use her outlines
@@clarkelieson Nice!
@@clarkelieson Would you be able to share some of these outlines? It sounds really interesting, and I want to learn more about it helped you becoming so amazing at your insights and expressions. Thank you again for this amazing video!
I know this video was meant primarily as nostalgia in media, but everything you said could've been applied to a lot of memories. For me it was an ex that was absolutely amazing at first but changed and became horrible but I still long to go back to those early days when I was so happy and it was perfect, the memories still there, but it's not what it once was and there's no going back even when you try. A lot of this hit home for me
i have a long road trip in 3 days, im downloading this and watching it on the road. thank you for providing us with great content clark.
Good luck! Been on the road for 25 thousand miles. And will travel another 400 tomorrow.
stay safe
How was it? Are you already nostalgic about the trip you had?
That song from Disco Elysium fits too well for the theme...
I often find myself feeling nostalgic, I searched for video essays about nostalgia and this video perfectly encapsulated what I've always wanted find whenever I searched
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yeh I'll just kiss yr fart
Edit OMG THANSK EVER FOR LIKES 101
Haha funniest comment and f u just said 101 I said it's 200 but shitty Clark on account
I felt the same way but didn’t actually get to searching any up but happened to get recommended this video after playing night in the woods and was glad something was able to break down nostalgia and why it always filled me with anger I could t explain
same, I am in the nostalgia rut :") i keep searching 'old' songs that I used to listen to back in 00's and 2010's. it feels surreal that I'm in my late 20's, those songs were released more than 10 years ago, and some are more than 20 years! it's crazy how I could feel the same as it was the first time I listened to it in my teen soul. idk what I want or looking for but somehow, like OP said, it's the sense of homecoming and longing...
I love the use of the Omori soundtrack throughout the video.
To me, nostalgia is a personal memory, something unique to me, so when I feel sentimental for nostalgia it's a memory of what felt like a magical time. This is what is missed by most people, we are told to be nostalgic for something, it takes the form of merchandise from the past, a popular or forgotten TV show, toys and video games, film and cartoons, all under the thumb of big business, that sold these items to us through our parents, now they are trying to make money off of our nostalgia as adults. I do not wish to be nostalgic all the time, there were negative memories too, and no amount of materialism will soothe the hard times I endured, instead I look to the future, hoping to make new memories to be nostalgic for, afterall, if you live in the past, you live alone because everyone else has moved on, this is what I advise to people on nostalgia trips, think of nostalgia as a memory, not as objects bought at the store, nor as content watched on the screen, doing something special to look fondly past.
Objects, places, merchandise, etc are all just the physical remains of part of those memories. But they are not what they were, any more than ruins are the building they came from. Even if you still have the very same gameboy and game cartridge you used for hours on end as a kid, now with all the scuffs you gave it over the years but still in working condition...it doesn't matter. You're not a kid anymore, you've changed just like everything around you. It's okay to remember things fondly and appreciate them for what they were. But you also need to appreciate what is now. Because if you don't, you're only dragging yourself down. Same goes for the future, whatever your plans and aspirations are, don't get so caught up in it that you aren't living in the present. The future you imagine does not and will not exist. The unexpected will happen, for better or worse.
::Poke:: ((The sound cuts out from about 23:00 to 25:00)) ((Nice videos though, appreciated subject matter and well put together.))
Wow this video is so beautiful. Amazingly heartbreaking and interesting. As a 1st year college student who lost the last couple years of High School to covid, nostalgia plagued my fall semester of school, and made it very hard to do schoolwork.
I have the same thing right now but with college.. covid messed up my last few years of learning and relationships, now im graduated and working for a tech company, which is good, but it feels like i was supposed to have more important memories towards the end of that part of my life. Feels like things just moved on but im kinda stuck in that part of my mind, that prt of my life. I feel exactly like that character in the game
same.
@@RoBoTrOnIc1001001 it was similar for me with 9/11 happening my senior year combined with my mom nearly passing due to breast cancer. I failed my senior year and ended up graduating 6 months later from an adult high school. I then floundered in community college for a few years which I still haven’t finished. All I can say is there’s more experiences to have and memories to make. I sunk all my energy into music and made a good living at it for nearly a decade. Been married since 2010, have 2 kids and a career as a Salesforce consultant since 2013. I do find myself getting sucked into nostalgia quite often though. Collecting old video games and things I had or wanted as a kid. My parents also divorced in 1990 when I was 8 but none of the stuff I buy fixes anything. It’s fun for a few minutes but then I just go hunting for something else. A cycle I hope to break at some point.
It feels like you just need some one to open your eyes or be brave enough to open them yourself and that when you see what you are and what the things around you are everything changes
You really should do video chapters
It appears I’m immune to nostalgia so all these concepts don’t… really make sense to me. I had a nice and happy childhood, but every stage of life has its own ups and downs. I’ve never dreamed of going back to how it was before, because it would be impossible to. Why feel bad for something I can’t obtain
a part of audio from 22:50 to 24:56 has disappeard. It was there when i watched the video last time a couple of month ago.
Could there have been copyrighted music or something?
It's wild to know that at sixteen I spend my days pining for the past, when at 30 I'll be pining for who I was now. Sometimes it just feels hopeless. Like chasing the empty romanticization of what once was. I hate myself right now, but I just know I'll long for these days. How stupid is that?
"The eternal present of our day isn't just a lost future but the potential for a new authentic future"
22:38 I remember those breakfast pizzas!!! They changed the recipe?! Idk where to even find it anymore and is that desert in New Mexico?