Thank you so much for giving my work the best YT treatment possible! This is a much better narrative artefact than my original pdf e-book... I'm so happy! :)
Thank you for your fascinating work! Everyone go check out Kosemen's UA-cam channel and website cmkosemen.com/ Here's an interview with Kosemen on the Alt Shift X Podcast! ua-cam.com/video/_1DUeMbesM8/v-deo.html And here's another Kosemen story read by Alt Shift X! ua-cam.com/video/GTkCGSG3L54/v-deo.html
Qu 1: "These humans fought bravely and persistently, facing us with all they had, we should respect that." Qu 2: "W A L L P E O P L E." Qu 1: "Fair enough."
@@MilkIsTheOne just like human to creature that less significant than us, Qu is really higher being that concept of human morality is irrelevant to them
Qu #1 is the type of species that doesn't survive when faced with a species composed of guy #2 who will be merciless no matter what. There probably were a Qu subspecies of #1-like guys, and they didn't make it.
Memo Kosemen's art is amazing indeed. From the saliva technique to the creative design of two-headed animals where the first head is actually the genital(yes)
i love how the narrator is usually serious and monotone when talking, but at some points they're just like "then the Qu fucked off to look for their next victims", and it hits you so hard.
It's kinda scary though. Especially the ones who were very much aware of what happened to them. Being made flesh floors and flesh walls made to witness what your species have become is one of the most terrifying things I imagine you could be put through
@Miles man I think you’re in the wrong place, I mean no disrespect but you aren’t gunna convert anyone in the UA-cam comment section. Also I think you misunderstood that this was a joke and not a vulnerable person for you to convert.
@@deepblume6611 no offense but you need your “edge radar” tuned up buddy. I’m a 30 year old who works a pretty chill desk job, who gardens and paints in my free time... Probably the furthest thing from edgy. The name is my childhood nickname (that I did not choose and did not like) and the picture is because “Nasty” is slang for sex, I thought the curtains should match the drapes. Obnoxious? Maybe. Rude? Probably. Edgy? Nah man.
@@The.Nasty. @miles is fine. They aren't hurting anybody. This is a comment section where people are free to say whatever and interact however they wish. Your hostility does far more harm than them preaching about their religion which they love so much. And saying "none care about your fictional nonesense" is hilariously ironic considering the mind fuck we all just listened to. 😂 Unless they are actively hurting people or spreading awful hatred and negativity like you just did, I strongly advise and implore you to just ignore it.
I’m not sure I would say the ending is sad. Sure, it’s melancholy, but all lives must end at some point, and the story of humanity in all tomorrows is the story of life as well. Through all their suffering in twisted humans maintained their drive to expand, connect, and understand. The life of every human told as one. And the fact that another alien race saw the value in that long after humanity was gone from relevance is the lesson. We may amount to dust in an unforeseen amount of time, but our story is still etched into the worlds we lived in.
Actually should humanity ever achieve space flight capable of reaching and terraforming other worlds and star systems then it’s incredibly likely that you wouldn’t see an extinction event for man until the heat death of the universe. For every planetwide massacre, every collapsing star, and so on youd have plenty of humans elsewhere that would be thriving. Think the Imperium of Man from Warhammer. It’s a bit like trying to exterminate every fly with a fly swatted or a flame thrower. Sure you’ll kill many. But you’ll never, ever kill them all.
Seems like a parody of how human paleontologists got some fossils wrong. In another book the author parodied the "skinny dinosaur" trope by applying it to present-day mammals, after all
@Mikołaj Dujka some where lmfao, not to mention dogs were mixed with wolves too and that would make it that some wolves were changed by humans fucking dumbass
Right? I knew Snaiad critters (DeviantArt) before and some arts from "All Yesterdays" but I had no idea they share the same author and I didn't know about "All Tomorrows"... But I'm glad I could read and see something so wonderful.
This is probably one of the most distressing “dystopian future” works of fiction I’ve ever heard of. It isn’t as simple as “humans nuked each other and they all died the end” it’s way more complex. Humans would survive….maybe too long. Survive to be enslaved, morphed, and tragically would become unrecognizable, physically and mentally.
Isn't it strange that utopian reality is only experienced by a communistic order of modular creatures.... mindless and careless beings. We are doomed.....
I clicked on this because of the thumbnail and thought “let me stay for a few seconds to see what this is about” then stayed for the whole video without skipping through. Loved the narration and the ideas!
Tbh probably Gravital. I have a tendency to get drawn into grand narratives & I'm a bit too enthusiastic about the prospect of transhumanism (although I am skeptical as to whether many of the innovations posited by transhumanists are possible).
@@shgjjj2879 They clearly had both opposable thumbs and the brains to used them, so they Qu gave them enough of a chance. And even if somehow they couldn't use tools, give a sampient the body mass of a grazer and there's pretty much nothing a horde of them wont be able to trample beneath their hands
@@marceloantunes998 did you watch the video and just missed how insanely powerful the QU were? If i tied you and made you walk in all fours with your buddies in constant anguish you think opposable thumbs would win?
Imagine if the qu actually seen the human history and how human males simps and even hurt themselves for the female humans so they did this on purpose as a joke
The mantelopes are especially chilling to me, the idea that humanity could lose sentience one day simply because it is no longer necessary for our survival is interesting and also terrifying
“ So when you look on the remains of the long gone human species, remember it’s the present that matters, not the past or future, what you do today shapes tomorrow, not the other way around. So love today and seize All Tomorrow’s “ This ending note is such a comfort that it echoes through my head, it was something I needed after having a little bit of a freak out from listening to this incredible story of the human species
Same. "Love today and seize all tomorrows" I had to listen to this phrase twice. Im still thinking about it, and im sure it will echo through my life. What a phrase man, what a phrase.
The first time I saw the video I thought it was the channel's decision to not describe the battle between the United Galaxies and the Qu, so I went on and read the book to see if there were more details, but the book describes it in the same way. I am still curious about this epic battle.
@@andrestangue_tamojunto my best guess is the qu lost due to shear numbers they had been a stagnant galactic nomad species for billions of years meaning there population was also probablt stagnant so all the galaxies they tormented when given acces to one another with galactic travel would have enough numbers to surrond the qu in every dierection and they could no longer run as there enemies had intergaltic travel just as fast as theres
It's only normal bc it's our normal, also we don't experience most of the f**ked up stuff that actually happens in nature. There's prolly an alien species out there that would look at our world and be completely terrified and think we're all monsters. All about perspective I guess.
Finished my crochet blanket, thank you. 100% Recommend having this in the backgrounds Since it's always a lovely surprise after zoning out for 10 minutes
This is legitimately the coolest thing I have ever stumbled upon in my history on youtube. Having no prior knowledge to the work in question I found myself captivated by the terrifying possibilities and narrative that we could face as a species. Thanks for a well spent forty minutes, and keep up the great work!
speculative zoology my good friend, one of my favorite science fiction themes! theres a bunch of cool stuff like this out there to make your brain happy
What I love about this is that unlike alot of other speculative evolution, its optimistic. Even after the human appearance has long disappeared, there is still “humanity” in our descendants. There is culture, language, emotions, drama and a driving force beyond just survival. And this is with so much time passing inbetween chapters that individual generations could feel pretty insignificant.
Yeah, I don’t care what our descendants look like. I don’t care what colour they are, what shape, whether they’re made of flesh or metal. I just want them to know curiosity, joy, friendship, beauty, mirth, determination, compassion, and all the other feelings and experiences that make being a human wonderful.
@@NoConsequenc3 I mean like, of course the Q have a "weird form". Did you think they would look human? They have a "weird form" because they're aliens. Would you genuinely expect a species with a completely different evolutionary lineage to earth animals to look... not weird?
Man, that was a whole epic saga, a tale that seemed to be about speculative, existential body-horror on the surface, but is about the resilience of the human spirit at it's core, about how no matter what comes our way humanity will keep evolving and societies will always seek to improve. Great video.
why does this seem both completely unreasonable but completely believable at the same time? my brain hurts, i will never think of life the same way again, and i wish i could un-know all of this
@@the_Googie Some people can't handle the harder questions of existence, some recoil in fear yet others find solace in the way life prevails despite the universes best efforts to extinguish it. The one thing we cannot escape is the inevitability of evolution, unless you're religious and just write it off.
@@pacco1737 It's only those that refuse to evolve to changing conditions that doom a species to extinction. There are species that go unchanged in specialized niche's but humans are constantly changing their own habitats and let's not forget evolution is every bit as cultural and technological as it is natural. One could say such things are merely an extension of natural evolution. It goes from the quantum to the cosmic level, maybe even to godlike levels, who knows.
@@Gnomelander1400 Unnamed alien author: All things considered... I am after studying all your peoples have to offer that Yes, the Universe is, Truly a Wonderful Place... I wish you could have seen it.
I like how the subspecies all represent the components of what makes up a human. For the hedonists, it’s desire for pleasure. For the bug facers, it’s a fear of the unknown. For the gravitals, it’s the sense of superiority above less Sophisticated beings etc. This was one of the most interesting 40 minutes of my life
They also represent what humanity can do to animals and to the world. How we can warp animals beyond recognition into something we use as a tool or as something to make our lives easier, how we can turn a cow into a chair or a tree into the very frame of our houses
I don’t know how to put this into words, it was fascinating yet terrifying, it feels like it would never happen, yet it feels like it could happen, whoever made this has an incredible imagination, I love it, and I feel inspired, thank you for making such a masterpiece, that I will probably come back to from time to time. Just incredible
This reminds me of how we breed dogs and other living things to look a certain way but it messes with functions like their breathing, physical structure and ability to reproduce.
There's something weirdly uplifting about this story- I just think it's nice that the humans hit several different horrific rock bottoms and still manage to not only persevere, but in many instances, thrive and rediscover happiness.
@@thundersaur1237 Not exactly, he said that they may have ascended to a higher plane (though that may be a hopeful thought LEL) But as he added at the end of the video, it doesn't matter if they did or didn't go extinct, as everyone dies eventually, but that they were able to find their happiness and humanity during their lifetime in spite of the horrible things that happened (at least that is what I admire.)
Every other species: “Even with our deformities and handicaps we’ll evolve back to greatness!” Ruin Haunters: “FROM THE MOMENT I WAS BORN I UNDERSTOOD THE WEAKNESS OF MY FLESH.”
i mean when you think about the fact that humans have only been around for like .0001% of the universes existence. it’s crazy to imagine what the 99.9999% had going on
@@jdtv50 I know, it seems farfetched.. but what if I told you about.. People people... Even I myself find it a bit hard to believe, but I swear it's true. People people are people but people.
This has got to be the weirdest, most out-there story I have ever heard of, the art itself is like what happens if Picasso, Salvador Dali, and Lovecraft get high on mushrooms together and decided to make a story from the insane visions they had over an entire month of vision quest. So thanks Alt Shaft X for showing me how weird Sciifi can be.
I don’t really understand how people view this as a scary story, i think it’s quite beautiful seeing the indomitable spirt of life, that no matter what it adapts and survives,there is no such thing as the end as something somehow will always exist
I consider this story to be the foolishness of human beings themselves, even though I am the one who changed them, but in the end they still fight like humans who are still on earth.
How dare you assume that they'd have thumbs!? That's quite spiecist of you, assuming that one needs thumbs to be classified as humans. I suggest to change your thumb-centric ways, otherwisely my fellow twitter users will cancel you out of existance.
Doofenshmirtz: “If I had a nickel for every time the descendants of mankind were used for genetic experimentation and as bioengineered slaves by a powerful, speciest race, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?”
The specis that eventually got the universe and it's lifeforms organized were the ones that were able to use their farts in a constructive manner. As I sit digesting my dinner watching my tablet I take comfort Knowing my genes of gastric discharge will steer the universe to it's natural state of balance.
@@Firestar19 Or maybe the contrary. Our species would go mad trying to find extraterrestrial life, our curiosity and ambition are unrivalled after all.
this is quite possibly one of the most disturbing works of horror I've scene. Literally every species unlocked the uncanny valley, and made me deeply uncomfortable beyond belief. Paired with the continual casual use of mass world destruction and genetic modification to continue to meld worlds and people alike is just....wow....but still, amazing work in it's own right.
I personally think that each species in this series protrays a certain trait in modern humanity, and the qu just gave form to the worst and best parts of humanity itself. i love that while modern humans today may find these creatures repulsive it reminds us that these were once human, like you or me and that good people who are intelligence dont always look attractive or appealing. this really personifies that we as a species have an amazing capability to grow, to evolve and to care for ever changing selves. the qu were not our destruction, they gave us this horrific thing that over millennia, we turned into our greatest strengths.
20:37 That would make a good story. Realizing what was done to the ancients they now use for transportation, realizing the humans were once like them… god, that must have been a terrifying revelation!
"So how bad is the world?" "How bad? The world's truth constitutes a vision so terrifying as to beggar the prophecies of the bleakest seer that ever walked it. Once you accept that, then the idea that all of this will one day be ground to powder and blown into the void becomes not a prophecy, but a promise. So allow me in turn to ask you this question. When we and all our works are gone together with every memory of them and every machine in which such memory could be encoded and stored and the earth is not even a cinder, for whom then will this be a tragedy? Where would such a being be found? And by whom?" - Cormac Mccarthy, The Passenger
@@siregg8528 to give you the rundown of the story, basically all but five of humanity has been wiped out by a supercomputer ai (this predates skynet and other ai overlord shit) the ai extends their lifespans and spends 109 years torturing them, at the end of the story all but one of the humans survive as the only one left mercy killed the others but he couldnt kill himself in time before the ai returned, and when it found out abt what the last human did it was super pissed and turned him into a sentient soft jelly thing who's perception of time has been so fucked up that one word takes 10 months to be said or thought of and it lacks a mouth, the closing words of the story is the title.
Imagine how cool it would be if this ended with repopulating earth, the evolving back into modern humans and ending now in modern human history. If this cyclical trajectory of human history had repeated more than once ,the calcium boned creatures found before the qu took over would be explained. Humans expanded and took over the universe more than once.
Imagine the sheer terror the saurosapeints must of felt, after so long, generation after generation dedicating their lives to studying the ancient husks left behind on their world; to come to the realization that the very thing you rode to work this morning had once been the people that came to this world from light years away. But despite their technology and power, despite their mastery of being able to travel entire galaxies, were still powerless against the Qu. Imagine having such a breakthrough that would shake the very foundations of your society, with so many waiting to hear you break the news about the truth of the visitors whose ruins serve as the basis of your civilization. The visitors who had weapons that could level entire solar systems were turned into nothing more than mindless beasts on your world; and if the Qu ever came back, there would be absolutely nothing anyone could do to stop them.
That's truly horrifying. To think that they probably allied with the other empires for that fear of the Qu, but they all fell against The Gravitals nonetheless. As you said, sheer terror.
Imagine a more intelligent alien species observes how we communicate with the internet by sending and receiving data and thinking that's equivalent to shitting on each other
The creativity here is amazingly terrifying. Whats even more terrifying is the fact that this could be happening halfway across the universe as we speak...
The idea of humans being talked about and researched like dinosaurs, based on the artifacts left behind, is something I'd never thought about before now, and it makes me unreasonably terrified. I absolutely ADORED this and will be obsessing over it for quite a while...
The interesting part is that humankind probably would leave behind very little traces of its tech, since our machines, especially microelectronics, wouldn't last for millions of years. At least, if we wouldn't make a dedicated effort to preserve some bits for future civilizations. The archeologists of the future would be studying bits of broken plastic trying to figure out whether it was clothes, ritual objects for shamans or pieces of machines.
just like our current humans discovering atlantis and roman empire and lost technologies we found, it will happen in the next few hundred maybe thousands of years our descendants will find our ancient afrtifacts doesnt know about smartphones or tablets they will its made of alien technologies
@@gooeygo2515 I feel the Mantelopes actually have a kind of heartwarming ending, they chose happiness, even if it meant to give up their sentience and lose their humanity, they may ended up being dumb as rocks, yet they lived in bliss
@@maitequilla But they didn't choose it. Evolution just said "you guys aren't using your brains for shit except being edgy nihlists I'll just get rid of that for you"
It wasn't just the lizard herders that died off. So many other races were said to have died off even prior to gravitals, and many others just evolved into regular herders, like the mantelopes
My favourite part is how the Qu engineered these posthuman monstrosities to be either nonsapient, or sapient and suffering eternally, and in a few million years so many of them were like "WELL GUESS WHO'S BACK MOTHERFUCKERS".
yeah thats the problem the Qu never expected they never though another species COULD be as great as them and master intergalactic travel but when some did what do you know all the neighbouring galaxies had a common enemy they all hated more then any other what better way to create a galactic federation
@@ThatCreeNative1 The Reapers are actually pretty fair. Let life take its course, reset it, and watch it go again anew. Because eventually, one single species would come out on top and enslave/destroy the rest of the known universe. The Reapers are benign gods in the grand scheme of things; something none of the ME species could understand (obviously, no one would just sit and let aliens exterminate them). At least the Reapers never had any hatred or need to be superior; they WERE superior and never wanted anything during the quiet eons, dudes just hibernated until it was time.
This is honestly one of the most interesting and disturbing books I’ve heard of in a while. Props to the author and the illustrator; it’s clear immense amounts of talent and effort went into this book.
I think what makes this so disturbing is that you see these distorted forms of humans (which to them is normal) and imagine yourself being in their bodies as you are now. It feels alienating and violating, but to them that's all they know and they would think we look weird.
Yeah, since they acquired the knowledge of humanity's fate, they must have thought it in their best interest to join. Also can you imagine a coevolution like that. Its kinda wholesome
@@Sigmacoolboy1729 that a grey alien or the grey alien actually are star peolpe 🤔(i'm just jokeing about this but if the grey alien are species of star peolpe.....well, You know XD)
I think this is even crazier than lovecraft, and also smarter, most of lovecraft's horror was based on things he didn't understand, some were undiscovered at his time, most where because he was a narcistic xenophobic racist idiot
I don't know why, but at the end when Humans . . . if you could still call them that . . . returned to earth, I felt something deep, there. Throughout the video, it's easy to lose the fact that all these species and machines were at one point, hundreds of millions of years in the past, humans, stranded on our homeworld, gazing curiously into the night sky. When it brought it back to earth, it hit me like a brick.
You can call them humans. Our designs are not what makes us human. It's our behaviour, our emotions and acts. These species are all nothing but humans.
@@frankfranksen7467 well that and the fact that’s what species we are, you can call a sentient wall of flesh in eternal pain or ball of metal human it would only make sense philosophically, I’m pretty okay not being a wall of flesh or a antelope personally and I’d like to remain this way.
if i had seen these images randomly accross the internet i would have guessed it to be some dudes nightmare that he drew, but now whenever i see these creatures, i will think of their links to humanity and their persistence along with their history that made them a successful civilization despite their hardship. i feel proud after seeing this story. and terrified how a creature from another galaxy could potential arrive tommorow, and change us for the best or the worst.
As many people had already said, there is something addiciting about this video and this whole concept and I'm catching myself coming back here. The story has it all: the horror, the sci-fi setting, it reads like a real history mixed with religious elements. I guess humans are really attracted to the concept of some god-like beings having power over us and abusing it, it has been like that for thousands years with all those scary gods.
"See, this is the island syndrome, a phenomenon where a species changes it behaviour or pysichal characteristics due to a lack of threats, dodo's lost their wings, and with nobody to bully them, human's create shit like this"
Her friend: "I bet he just wants sex." Me: "I'm really impressed with those post-humans being able to welcome in the Saurosapients, despite the lack of familiarity."
I mean at that point the similarity between the post-humans is like the similarity between all mammals. Common ancestors become sorta arbitrary after tens of millions of years and a freak bout of extreme genetic engineering
Thank you so much for giving my work the best YT treatment possible! This is a much better narrative artefact than my original pdf e-book... I'm so happy! :)
Thank you for your fascinating work! Everyone go check out Kosemen's UA-cam channel and website cmkosemen.com/
Here's an interview with Kosemen on the Alt Shift X Podcast! ua-cam.com/video/_1DUeMbesM8/v-deo.html
And here's another Kosemen story read by Alt Shift X! ua-cam.com/video/GTkCGSG3L54/v-deo.html
Hats down you have a very big imagination to make such work
Can anybody recommend good yt videos about Snaiad?
Your art is an inspiration.
It's so crazy to see you in the comment section, your work has been very inspiration to me and inspired me to go after an art degree.
“They ruled over the human worlds for 40 million years, then fucked off”. Best thing I’ve heard all day
haha! Totally!
This entire video is writen so well, so much one liners and insights
Me like hmm oh yeah I remember something like that in humanities stupid past
Also, Qu be Amon clones.
So million years of evolution before and after the qu no one had a TV except the tool breeders
Qu 1: "These humans fought bravely and persistently, facing us with all they had, we should respect that."
Qu 2: "W A L L P E O P L E."
Qu 1: "Fair enough."
P O O P W A L L P E O P L E
I do not think they knew honor or mercy. They sounded cruel and unfeeling. Seeking amusement in suffering.
@@ArbiterofTruth
They treat Humans like animals.
@@MilkIsTheOne just like human to creature that less significant than us, Qu is really higher being that concept of human morality is irrelevant to them
Qu #1 is the type of species that doesn't survive when faced with a species composed of guy #2 who will be merciless no matter what. There probably were a Qu subspecies of #1-like guys, and they didn't make it.
The illustrator deserves so much praise, I feel like this story wouldn’t have the feel it has without these haunting artworks
Pretty sure the author = the illustrator.
the illustrators mind must be fun
The author has another book or two on speculative stuff as well I believe. it’s all very good.
@@Iianator body horror is a staple in sci-fi. Please dont make the cliche "TRIPPY ART = DRUGS AND MENTALL ISSUES" point
edit: misunderstanding
Memo Kosemen's art is amazing indeed. From the saliva technique to the creative design of two-headed animals where the first head is actually the genital(yes)
never felt so happy to be a normal human before
True
Normal only because we are humans.
Are we normal tho ? Or we could’ve been better?
A normal human so far
Dude we could be some "posthumans" unknowingly
*My ass would've stayed in the primordial soup if I knew there was gonna be days like this*
Gianni reference
-The colonials
@@oofy_emma1072 - Reject Humanity.
- Return to Primordial Soup.
I would've stayed is the sack if I knew there was gonna be days like this
*P R I M O R D I A L S O U P*
This guys just got recommended to everyone and singlehandedly revived a 15 year old series
litterally, i kept seeing this obscure shit get recommended and knew it was gonna be one of those
This is 15 years old???
2006 was 15 years ago??????
@@alterrastudios2387 the book
The fucking algorithm is busted man. But i like it anyway!
i love how the narrator is usually serious and monotone when talking, but at some points they're just like "then the Qu fucked off to look for their next victims", and it hits you so hard.
yup same thing at 26:46
"Got their shit together"
I thought he said “flocked off”
abiola folaranmi me to cuz he was so serious didn't think he'll swear
Had to check the captions to make sure I heard right
It's cool how human they stayed even after being anything but human. They still had love, goals, passion, and fun. It's so cool.
It's kinda scary though. Especially the ones who were very much aware of what happened to them. Being made flesh floors and flesh walls made to witness what your species have become is one of the most terrifying things I imagine you could be put through
@@HyphyJuice916ah but consider this... over generations, those squares were still able to fall in love despite it all
I found this book a few years back and i like to read it every once in a while when I'm feeling too emotionally stable and happy
@Miles man I think you’re in the wrong place, I mean no disrespect but you aren’t gunna convert anyone in the UA-cam comment section. Also I think you misunderstood that this was a joke and not a vulnerable person for you to convert.
it has a physical copy i can buy ?
@@The.Nasty. no offense but you reek edgy😂 from your Profile pick and Name, you have self awareness
@@deepblume6611 no offense but you need your “edge radar” tuned up buddy.
I’m a 30 year old who works a pretty chill desk job, who gardens and paints in my free time...
Probably the furthest thing from edgy.
The name is my childhood nickname (that I did not choose and did not like) and the picture is because “Nasty” is slang for sex, I thought the curtains should match the drapes.
Obnoxious? Maybe.
Rude? Probably.
Edgy? Nah man.
@@The.Nasty. @miles is fine. They aren't hurting anybody. This is a comment section where people are free to say whatever and interact however they wish. Your hostility does far more harm than them preaching about their religion which they love so much. And saying "none care about your fictional nonesense" is hilariously ironic considering the mind fuck we all just listened to. 😂
Unless they are actively hurting people or spreading awful hatred and negativity like you just did, I strongly advise and implore you to just ignore it.
This starts off horrifying and slowly becomes strangely beautiful, then sad. This is incredible.
I’m not sure I would say the ending is sad. Sure, it’s melancholy, but all lives must end at some point, and the story of humanity in all tomorrows is the story of life as well. Through all their suffering in twisted humans maintained their drive to expand, connect, and understand. The life of every human told as one. And the fact that another alien race saw the value in that long after humanity was gone from relevance is the lesson. We may amount to dust in an unforeseen amount of time, but our story is still etched into the worlds we lived in.
It’s so incredible I’m absolutely consumed. It’s absolutely beautiful, especially the ending sentence
Actually should humanity ever achieve space flight capable of reaching and terraforming other worlds and star systems then it’s incredibly likely that you wouldn’t see an extinction event for man until the heat death of the universe. For every planetwide massacre, every collapsing star, and so on youd have plenty of humans elsewhere that would be thriving. Think the Imperium of Man from Warhammer. It’s a bit like trying to exterminate every fly with a fly swatted or a flame thrower. Sure you’ll kill many. But you’ll never, ever kill them all.
Yeah
kinda like lovecraftian space horror
I think one of the nicest touches is the "author" holding the skull upside-down. You can never get everything right, no matter how hard you try.
I noticed that, and that they were just holding it weird.
This makes more sense.
Seems like a parody of how human paleontologists got some fossils wrong. In another book the author parodied the "skinny dinosaur" trope by applying it to present-day mammals, after all
@lil_atb at 37:39 !
@lil_atb 39:06
@@revimfadli4666 are there any drawings of that?
It’s surprising (seemingly) none of the human species were made into crabs…
The Qu were scared of how powerful we’d be as crabs
@@teethcoat4274 Crabs will soon rule.
WHY WOULD U THINK OF THISSS😭
Obviously some would evolve into that eventually, almost like any crab in nature
@@k7t1e A lot of creatures naturally evolve to crabs
Is this what wolves feel when they see a chihuahua or pug?
It's the other way around I think
Is this what you feel when you see a chimpanzee or a gorilla?
@Mikołaj Dujka some where lmfao, not to mention dogs were mixed with wolves too and that would make it that some wolves were changed by humans fucking dumbass
@@johnmcswag5980 Just like there are still monkeys, there are still wolves. I don't think it's an equivalent comparison.
@Mikołaj Dujka Dogs were changed from wolves, they can breed and have viable and fertile offspring mking them the same specie.
This is some “I have no mouth and I must scream” sort of shit
U just described the whole feel of this thing
That was legit my first impression of this
Mantelopes "All I can do is scream".
literally my first thought when he got to the part about punishing those that resisted
@@ellasedits_ the colonialls
It’s amazing how this book was made in 2006 and nobody talked about it much but when this video came out, it blew up in popularity!
It's been popular in speculative evolution youtube channels over last few years as well. But ya this is biggest video I've seen on it
How is the book called?
@@seppetheunis3506 all tomorrows
I remember when i was 6 i saw it at the library and checked it out and thought it was neat
Right? I knew Snaiad critters (DeviantArt) before and some arts from "All Yesterdays" but I had no idea they share the same author and I didn't know about "All Tomorrows"... But I'm glad I could read and see something so wonderful.
poetic how the Gravitals became the very thing that destroyed their great ancestors and were punished for it
It’s like Magneto becoming a supremacist after surviving the Holocaust
@@j.i.nthenobody54 Oh.
Those colonial who are made to only suffer but actually evolve into modular people are the true MVP's
Gravitals: Oops! I stepped on some flesh bags again!!
....yeah they're fucked. The thought of their existence made my skin crawl..it was such an intense and disgusting visual. Those poor things.
Damn champions is what they are. "I have no mouth, and I must Scream... So I'll grow a few hundred on the other side of the planet."
at least they evolved
We are the colonials.
This is probably one of the most distressing “dystopian future” works of fiction I’ve ever heard of. It isn’t as simple as “humans nuked each other and they all died the end” it’s way more complex. Humans would survive….maybe too long. Survive to be enslaved, morphed, and tragically would become unrecognizable, physically and mentally.
@@avocado5387 thank u avocado👍😊
Perhaps death IS better in this case...
Isn't it strange that utopian reality is only experienced by a communistic order of modular creatures.... mindless and careless beings.
We are doomed.....
@@mariapower9979 no I was right, DEATH is better then
Quite disturbing
I clicked on this because of the thumbnail and thought “let me stay for a few seconds to see what this is about” then stayed for the whole video without skipping through. Loved the narration and the ideas!
same man
same here, was just scrolling down the feed and this pop out so glad it did
Thumbnail us creepy
I remember watching this when all tomorrows was first popular, now rewatching this because it’s popularity is rising again, I genuinely loved this
Really looking forward to the Buzzfeed quiz "Which Post-Human Monstrosity Are You?"
Tbh probably Gravital. I have a tendency to get drawn into grand narratives & I'm a bit too enthusiastic about the prospect of transhumanism (although I am skeptical as to whether many of the innovations posited by transhumanists are possible).
Hedonist sounds like the most fun. Asteromorphs seems to be the most op tho
I wish i was an asteromorph, just farting and thinking all day long, god what a life
Im a Killer Folk uwu rawr
@Miles Nice LARPing, nerd.
Me and the guys going off to become Mantelopes.
Me as a colonist: “👁”
So messed up to leave intelligence on some creatures that have no chance, I'm going to be having nightmares tonight
@@shgjjj2879 They clearly had both opposable thumbs and the brains to used them, so they Qu gave them enough of a chance.
And even if somehow they couldn't use tools, give a sampient the body mass of a grazer and there's pretty much nothing a horde of them wont be able to trample beneath their hands
@@marceloantunes998 did you watch the video and just missed how insanely powerful the QU were?
If i tied you and made you walk in all fours with your buddies in constant anguish you think opposable thumbs would win?
@Miles look at this waste of pixels lol
This video is responsible for single-handedly creating a fandom for all tomorrows
ikr
I didn't knew there was a fandom for this lol
Time to join
@@wungadunga5099 welcome to the club , soon people will roleplay as snake people , The Qu , Martians , Mantelopes and many more
tfw you were the only person on earth who knew about it before this video
@@fizzyegg lets hope that people dont make r34 , cringe rp and fanfic of the Pterosapiens and Killer Folk
A story so good it leaves you wanting humanity to finally go extinct or for humanity to somehow survive at every twist and turn
"The male temptors desperately served their queens."
Sounds familiar. I wonder if they've ever been on Twitch before
This is hilarious
Obviously...
Imagine if the qu actually seen the human history and how human males simps and even hurt themselves for the female humans so they did this on purpose as a joke
They breed tho, it’s highly impossible for them to be actual simps
They truly are human
The mantelopes are especially chilling to me, the idea that humanity could lose sentience one day simply because it is no longer necessary for our survival is interesting and also terrifying
Sentience isn't an exclusive human trait. People need to comprehend this basic fact. All animals, insects included, are sentient.
@@Kai...999 I think they meant to say sapience; the two words are often confused.
@@Tasarran I did mean sapience
@@Tasarran Not gonna lie, I had no clue sapience was even a word until today
@@SpinoSam It's derived from a similar sounding latin word that means intelligence. It's also why we call ourselves Homo 'Sapiens'.
“ So when you look on the remains of the long gone human species, remember it’s the present that matters, not the past or future, what you do today shapes tomorrow, not the other way around. So love today and seize All Tomorrow’s “
This ending note is such a comfort that it echoes through my head, it was something I needed after having a little bit of a freak out from listening to this incredible story of the human species
Same. "Love today and seize all tomorrows"
I had to listen to this phrase twice. Im still thinking about it, and im sure it will echo through my life.
What a phrase man, what a phrase.
Yeah tell that to the first generation Colonials.
I'm glad to see someone talking about the real point of the entire story. 💜
@@kamskyresuera true but I wasn’t talking about them
It's mind-blowing to think not changed humans became less human than others
Only physically not mentally
How many nightmares were required to create this universe?
The real question: how many nightmares will this cause?
@Miles k
@Miles Miles.. what the fuck are you talking about??
HP lovecrafts
@Miles (insert "Jesus is My N*)
Good to know, out of all of this, the Qu eventually got fucking mirked
The first time I saw the video I thought it was the channel's decision to not describe the battle between the United Galaxies and the Qu, so I went on and read the book to see if there were more details, but the book describes it in the same way. I am still curious about this epic battle.
Fuck the Qu, all my asteromorphs hate the Qu
@@andrestangue_tamojunto my best guess is the qu lost due to shear numbers they had been a stagnant galactic nomad species for billions of years meaning there population was also probablt stagnant so all the galaxies they tormented when given acces to one another with galactic travel would have enough numbers to surrond the qu in every dierection and they could no longer run as there enemies had intergaltic travel just as fast as theres
@@andrestangue_tamojunto all my boos say fuck the old the old gods
it took humanity for 150 million of years
evolve and take revenge on qu
It's so horrifyingly refreshing how normal everything is when looking outside.
Very true, glad I won’t even get to see Mars finishing its terraformation alive
@@HeidenLam But I guess you can always cryogenically freeze yourself when you die. Assuming that you don't turn into spaghetti in a car crash.
It's only normal bc it's our normal, also we don't experience most of the f**ked up stuff that actually happens in nature. There's prolly an alien species out there that would look at our world and be completely terrified and think we're all monsters. All about perspective I guess.
@@beemelonhead1 That might be ready for war soon if that's their perception of us, that's always a possibility if they actually exist. 👀
hell yeah like 666
Finished my crochet blanket, thank you. 100% Recommend having this in the backgrounds Since it's always a lovely surprise after zoning out for 10 minutes
Sentiment human flesh crochet blanket?
@@annextheupforwisconsin7088 sadly not
Generational mounds of voiceless rebels?
I was doing this while watching playing COD and I just heard "they communicate by defecting on each other"
This is legitimately the coolest thing I have ever stumbled upon in my history on youtube. Having no prior knowledge to the work in question I found myself captivated by the terrifying possibilities and narrative that we could face as a species. Thanks for a well spent forty minutes, and keep up the great work!
You’ll like “Man after Man” by Dougal Dixon
dude check out C.M. Koseman's other stuff. He's awesome.
Sameeee
speculative zoology my good friend, one of my favorite science fiction themes! theres a bunch of cool stuff like this out there to make your brain happy
What I love about this is that unlike alot of other speculative evolution, its optimistic. Even after the human appearance has long disappeared, there is still “humanity” in our descendants. There is culture, language, emotions, drama and a driving force beyond just survival. And this is with so much time passing inbetween chapters that individual generations could feel pretty insignificant.
The best part of "All Tomorrows" is the ending, in my opinion.
"Love today and seize All Tomorrows."
Yeah, I don’t care what our descendants look like. I don’t care what colour they are, what shape, whether they’re made of flesh or metal. I just want them to know curiosity, joy, friendship, beauty, mirth, determination, compassion, and all the other feelings and experiences that make being a human wonderful.
@@lyxandrast0ttr0n1x8
shut up
If you think this is optimistic, then you're either psychotic or severely misinformed
It's almost like humans aren't special - life is.
"They move by farting with their highly evolved sphincters" is a phrase I thought I'd never hear in my entire life!
😂
i mean... its kinda brilliant for an animal in space though
Ok, now that they have propulsion in outer space covered, how do they deal with... everything else?
@@happyslapsgiving5421 ok
This reminds me of South Park
The fact that the Qu probably went though the same thing they did to humanity hence their weird form
They are aliens bro
@@badger6882and you’re mentally challenged, now do you have anything to add?
@@badger6882 alien to what? humanity? nice fucking joke, humanity is alien to humanity in this universe
@@NoConsequenc3 I mean like, of course the Q have a "weird form". Did you think they would look human? They have a "weird form" because they're aliens.
Would you genuinely expect a species with a completely different evolutionary lineage to earth animals to look... not weird?
The qu is always 2 step more than humans, when the gravitals fucked the xenophobic creature genetics, the Qu did to them millions of years ago😅
Man, that was a whole epic saga, a tale that seemed to be about speculative, existential body-horror on the surface, but is about the resilience of the human spirit at it's core, about how no matter what comes our way humanity will keep evolving and societies will always seek to improve. Great video.
Humanity history doesn’t really evolve, we terraform.
my thoughts exactly
We became gene manipulated abominations. I would wish for our extinction before such a fate.
@@Lord-Inquisitor the asteromorphs didn't they simply Changed they were the direct descendents of humans
Yeah societies will always seek to improve... and also cause suffering to others.
why does this seem both completely unreasonable but completely believable at the same time? my brain hurts, i will never think of life the same way again, and i wish i could un-know all of this
I want to know more.
please, this is literally just a very well made sci-fi novel. Why would you wish to forget such cool art?
@@the_Googie Some people can't handle the harder questions of existence, some recoil in fear yet others find solace in the way life prevails despite the universes best efforts to extinguish it. The one thing we cannot escape is the inevitability of evolution, unless you're religious and just write it off.
@@DeathBYDesign666 Evolution is scary yet beautiful
@@pacco1737 It's only those that refuse to evolve to changing conditions that doom a species to extinction. There are species that go unchanged in specialized niche's but humans are constantly changing their own habitats and let's not forget evolution is every bit as cultural and technological as it is natural. One could say such things are merely an extension of natural evolution. It goes from the quantum to the cosmic level, maybe even to godlike levels, who knows.
First half: "Man, this is a huge bummer."
Second half: "Man, the universe is a wonderful place."
@@Gnomelander1400 Unnamed alien author: All things considered... I am after studying all your peoples have to offer that Yes, the Universe is, Truly a Wonderful Place...
I wish you could have seen it.
I love how throughout our conquest, spread, and expansion, we still managed to find earth after millions of years
This would be a cool book to just have fuckin chilling in a bookcase.
"What's that, that's a weird cover man."
"You don't wanna know, dude."
Yeah I wish it was a physical book
@@potatoboooi5168 oh my friend you know they have a few copies still on this earth
@SorryPalButI'llHaveToDiddlyDarnSnapUrNeck the video is a retelling of an online book
I want it really really bad to just leave out places
@@saable8860 Like accidentally leaving your Necrominicon at Walmart lol
I like how the subspecies all represent the components of what makes up a human. For the hedonists, it’s desire for pleasure. For the bug facers, it’s a fear of the unknown. For the gravitals, it’s the sense of superiority above less Sophisticated beings etc. This was one of the most interesting 40 minutes of my life
Also for the temptors they males are simps serving their grotesque queen
Yes...yes, that sums it up...yes, that's about right
What about worms?
They also represent what humanity can do to animals and to the world. How we can warp animals beyond recognition into something we use as a tool or as something to make our lives easier, how we can turn a cow into a chair or a tree into the very frame of our houses
And the Asteromorphs escaped humanity into space and survived everything
I don’t know how to put this into words, it was fascinating yet terrifying, it feels like it would never happen, yet it feels like it could happen, whoever made this has an incredible imagination, I love it, and I feel inspired, thank you for making such a masterpiece, that I will probably come back to from time to time. Just incredible
i can agree
I feel pretty much the same
Nailed it
Yeah that shit was a trip. I was just watching it while smoking a blunt lol
@@F150fx2sporT they caught us all wit a blunt 🤷🏿♂️
"love today, and seize all tomorrows" I JUST CRIED STOP
This reminds me of how we breed dogs and other living things to look a certain way but it messes with functions like their breathing, physical structure and ability to reproduce.
so pugs
@@Aidan-wu2ec yes. Pugs :(
The Qu were dogs all along !
You're talking about hybrids and clones
Sounds about right 😔
Poor pugs and Chihuahuas the latter being bred into crackheads
Im gonna start calling the subway the "breeding tube".
You look pretty subwaymissive and breeding tube today
@Sungindra Setiawan Dont say that
Don’t do that. Stop doing that
Qu: Makes a brick human
Gravitals: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.
Qu: I destroyed and subjugated the Star People in 10,000 years!
Gravitals: 10,000 years?! Those are rookie numbers! Watch this!!
Gravitals: WHAT WILL YOU HAVE IN 50,000 YEARS?
Bug Facers: YOU.......
@@ProtomanButCallMeBlues THINK BUG FACE THINK
The Qu Admittedly were probably just going through the Motions at the time. They'd done this a lot
Qu: *killed and modified humans for their selfish desires*
Gravitals: Write that down, write that down!
The overarching message from all of this telling us to just live in the present is really poetic.
There's something weirdly uplifting about this story- I just think it's nice that the humans hit several different horrific rock bottoms and still manage to not only persevere, but in many instances, thrive and rediscover happiness.
Except for the lizard herder, lol
@@zainiadnan2335 pouring one out for my boy the lizard herder
but in the end, he did say that they are all extinct.
@@thundersaur1237 Not exactly, he said that they may have ascended to a higher plane (though that may be a hopeful thought LEL) But as he added at the end of the video, it doesn't matter if they did or didn't go extinct, as everyone dies eventually, but that they were able to find their happiness and humanity during their lifetime in spite of the horrible things that happened (at least that is what I admire.)
@@anormalhumanboy very good insight
I'm going to need a lie down after that
it's so weird finding youtubers you watch on seemingly niche videos...
Broooo right wtf are you doing this far out?
Oof fancy seeing you here
Same here man. Love your videos btw!
First time?
Every other species: “Even with our deformities and handicaps we’ll evolve back to greatness!”
Ruin Haunters: “FROM THE MOMENT I WAS BORN I UNDERSTOOD THE WEAKNESS OF MY FLESH.”
It's more like biotransference
Late but... it DISGUSTED me
I CRAVED THE STRENGTH AND CERTAINTY OF STEEL
@@Mr.Pancake-7092 *"YOUR KIND CLING TO YOUR FLESH AS IF IT WILL NOT DECAY AND FAIL YOU"*
i mean when you think about the fact that humans have only been around for like .0001% of the universes existence. it’s crazy to imagine what the 99.9999% had going on
A god half had nothing aside from atom soup
I’d live in a world with lizard people if I could time travel that’s for sure
@@screamindog8772 you already do :)
I TabbyCatz I just different insides I assume😂lizard people? Eh maybe but I’d go with jsut different insides and they look like us
@@jdtv50 I know, it seems farfetched.. but what if I told you about..
People people...
Even I myself find it a bit hard to believe, but I swear it's true. People people are people but people.
This has got to be the weirdest, most out-there story I have ever heard of, the art itself is like what happens if Picasso, Salvador Dali, and Lovecraft get high on mushrooms together and decided to make a story from the insane visions they had over an entire month of vision quest.
So thanks Alt Shaft X for showing me how weird Sciifi can be.
The crazy part about it is it could still somehow get weireder
It’s also something that is interesting and pulls you into the story which I find amazing.
This was equal parts horrifying and morbidly fascinating. Your narration was excellent and I quite enjoyed listening to this.
I don’t really understand how people view this as a scary story, i think it’s quite beautiful seeing the indomitable spirt of life, that no matter what it adapts and survives,there is no such thing as the end as something somehow will always exist
so u wouldnt be scared if i turned u into a brick that literally eats shit❓
I consider this story to be the foolishness of human beings themselves, even though I am the one who changed them, but in the end they still fight like humans who are still on earth.
Credit to the Saurosapians for being a honorary humans. thumbs up.
More like honorary hominid
How dare you assume that they'd have thumbs!? That's quite spiecist of you, assuming that one needs thumbs to be classified as humans. I suggest to change your thumb-centric ways, otherwisely my fellow twitter users will cancel you out of existance.
@@crowickedone4037 eww that so 2000
@@kyvilfongkot6372 i love 2000's
@@crowickedone4037 eww this man is still a primitive homo sapien
Qu: so then I turned them into a pickle funniest shit Iv ever done
and so the legend of pickle rick lived on
Then I turned them into AMONGUS
@@agua246 sus
@@meniimya5148 sussy baka daddy 😩😩
@@elvina1622 unfunny 😳😳😳😳
This makes me feel strangely sad. Seeing a different reality in which humanity is destroyed and toyed with, and then left to die.
But they ultimately rise up and warm the cold part of the universe that dealt them such a harsh fate if only for a time.
"Strangely"??? This is literally the most dark and depressing shit I've ever listened to
Imagine being so mad at your ops you turn them into a sentient toilet that live for millions of years
Doofenshmirtz: “If I had a nickel for every time the descendants of mankind were used for genetic experimentation and as bioengineered slaves by a powerful, speciest race, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?”
What was the first?
@@jonathantaman7566 Man After Man
@@kanna-san. Thanks.
@@kanna-san. thanks man, just looked into it. It’s pretty great
What about the Anunnaki legends. They weren't humans, but humanlike, I think it counts.
The specis that eventually got the universe and it's lifeforms organized were the ones that were able to use their farts in a constructive manner. As I sit digesting my dinner watching my tablet I take comfort Knowing my genes of gastric discharge will steer the universe to it's natural state of balance.
Thank you Megatron Motors, very cool.
Thank you Megatron Motors, very cool.
Thank you Megatron Motors, very cool.
Thank you Megatron Motors, very cool.
Thank you Megatron Motors, very cool
This is easily one of the most unsettling narratives I’ve ever heard of.
I recommend "I have no mouth and I must scream" as well.
@@mikhielbluemon4213 please stop recommending things, we are barely hiding in the shade
24:58 Even the Qu couldn’t stop them from mewing 💀
SIGMA
No way... No fracking way 😭
"Nah I'd win" Lookin Aah 😭
Wtf, this is like explaining lovecraft ._. Still just as depressing.
"Are we really alone in the universe?" *You better fuckin' hope so.*
If we are, we are the luckiest son's of bitches in the goddamn universe.
@@Firestar19 Or maybe the contrary. Our species would go mad trying to find extraterrestrial life, our curiosity and ambition are unrivalled after all.
@@Placeholder333 Ooh, that's a good point. Maybe.
Agreed, let's keep our mouths shut and solar Nuke the shit out of anything that talks to us.
Hello fellow jojo fan
one of the most unexpected and interesting youtube videos i've encountered to date
I feel you
He makes it sound so real
yo wtf is that The Click?
oh I know you 😃
Why you here are you looking for new material
this is quite possibly one of the most disturbing works of horror I've scene. Literally every species unlocked the uncanny valley, and made me deeply uncomfortable beyond belief. Paired with the continual casual use of mass world destruction and genetic modification to continue to meld worlds and people alike is just....wow....but still, amazing work in it's own right.
Think you'd like "I have no mouth and i must scream"
That’s how I felt as well
@@anpan7880 I've heard of that! I'll have to look into it.
flesh bricks moment
I personally think that each species in this series protrays a certain trait in modern humanity, and the qu just gave form to the worst and best parts of humanity itself. i love that while modern humans today may find these creatures repulsive it reminds us that these were once human, like you or me and that good people who are intelligence dont always look attractive or appealing. this really personifies that we as a species have an amazing capability to grow, to evolve and to care for ever changing selves. the qu were not our destruction, they gave us this horrific thing that over millennia, we turned into our greatest strengths.
20:37 That would make a good story. Realizing what was done to the ancients they now use for transportation, realizing the humans were once like them… god, that must have been a terrifying revelation!
Oh my god image if it was like this for horses
@@Wingedjay Flabbergasted rn
This makes even the concept of human extinction look like a more favorable option
i would mind being a floating ball
duh
@@leaf143wellll
"So how bad is the world?"
"How bad? The world's truth constitutes a vision so terrifying as to beggar the prophecies of the bleakest seer that ever walked it. Once you accept that, then the idea that all of this will one day be ground to powder and blown into the void becomes not a prophecy, but a promise. So allow me in turn to ask you this question. When we and all our works are gone together with every memory of them and every machine in which such memory could be encoded and stored and the earth is not even a cinder, for whom then will this be a tragedy? Where would such a being be found? And by whom?"
- Cormac Mccarthy, The Passenger
@@bendaniels1235 wat
Thanks for bringing out a fear of being transformed into a sentient flesh blob I never knew I had
lol
check i have no mouth yet i must scream
@@thomasdeen2099 ...no thanks lol, the name is scary enough
@@siregg8528 to give you the rundown of the story, basically all but five of humanity has been wiped out by a supercomputer ai (this predates skynet and other ai overlord shit) the ai extends their lifespans and spends 109 years torturing them, at the end of the story all but one of the humans survive as the only one left mercy killed the others but he couldnt kill himself in time before the ai returned, and when it found out abt what the last human did it was super pissed and turned him into a sentient soft jelly thing who's perception of time has been so fucked up that one word takes 10 months to be said or thought of and it lacks a mouth, the closing words of the story is the title.
@@thomasdeen2099 oh. Yeah that is kinda horrifying.
Qu 1: "yo watch this"
*turns a human to a creature made to suffer*
Qu 1: "lmao"
Qu 2: "lmao"
I should NOT be laughing at this... That's us!!😭
lmao
lmao
lmao
lmao
Imagine how cool it would be if this ended with repopulating earth, the evolving back into modern humans and ending now in modern human history. If this cyclical trajectory of human history had repeated more than once ,the calcium boned creatures found before the qu took over would be explained. Humans expanded and took over the universe more than once.
We need a movie using the scariest medium possible…claymation.
Ah shit. I also think that's scary.
Now that’s a film where I will pay three times for in theaters to watch and support it
Just have Guillermo Del Toro do it
SAY IT LOUDER
This is like Journey to The Fantastic Planet but on steroids
This book is the definition of the importance of the journey being more than the destination. It makes me want to make something on my own
Go make a paper airplane or something
@@noel6133 then that airplane Will evolute and turn into a Worlds conqueror
You took my profile picture!
this is amazing, i cant wait to become a sentient brick
I'm already there. I am one with the couch and phone 🧘♂️
A sentient brick that eats shit*
We are already that fam
I'm sorry but returning to monke frist
I can make that quick if you want.
This is like a disturbing version of my singing monsters
I like this comment, and I dunno why
At first I was like, “Aw! I wanna see an earth-like Mars!” Then I saw the “Star People”, and was like, “Nope.”
Lol star people is not even as bad as everything that comes after iit
@@Violet-rv1fv Setting the mood for the upcoming Circus of Freaks.
@@Violet-rv1fv they were still bad, they're like a "brace yourself" for the circus that came after
Imagine the sheer terror the saurosapeints must of felt, after so long, generation after generation dedicating their lives to studying the ancient husks left behind on their world; to come to the realization that the very thing you rode to work this morning had once been the people that came to this world from light years away. But despite their technology and power, despite their mastery of being able to travel entire galaxies, were still powerless against the Qu. Imagine having such a breakthrough that would shake the very foundations of your society, with so many waiting to hear you break the news about the truth of the visitors whose ruins serve as the basis of your civilization. The visitors who had weapons that could level entire solar systems were turned into nothing more than mindless beasts on your world; and if the Qu ever came back, there would be absolutely nothing anyone could do to stop them.
That's truly horrifying. To think that they probably allied with the other empires for that fear of the Qu, but they all fell against The Gravitals nonetheless. As you said, sheer terror.
must've, or must have*
Dude I had chills reading your comment
Come to think of it, the saurosapients weren't humans at all, just used them as glorified horses. Why did the Gravitals kill them?
I guess they need to invest in weapon develop
Bro the gravitals really went like "hey, you know what happened to us millions of years ago? Wanna do it again?"
History is always doomed to repeat itself if you never learn from it
@@vorpalweapon4814 or just dont care
@@vorpalweapon4814 Learning history is to learn that nobody will learn from history.
I know! I kept thinking they were a lot like the Qu.
"We Were Born To Inherit the Stars"
The stars in question : LMAO
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asteromorphs : ...
So... The Qu and Gravitals were just having a game of Spore...
Difference being, it is really hard to lose spore.
@@ramendude4062 they were playing spore multiplayer
@@giggoty4926 We need spore multiplayer
They must have been really good at scripting a brand new overhauled space stage and made a new God stage
@@entree48 Basically Grox
"They communicated by defecating on each other" Seems like Twitter has survived well past human civilization.
"Twitter All Form Explained"
Lmao
Wooow excellent
Imagine a more intelligent alien species observes how we communicate with the internet by sending and receiving data and thinking that's equivalent to shitting on each other
Shit posting. >_>
I watched the entire 40 minutes and it was such an interesting ride. Well done!
Didn't expect to see you here, hi there duckio!
I'm scared
I love this guys voice too, I’m watching this for the 2nd time today just because it is amazing
Oh
This was 40 minutes...?
The creativity here is amazingly terrifying. Whats even more terrifying is the fact that this could be happening halfway across the universe as we speak...
an equally terrifying possibility is that the universe is empty and we’re the only ones in it
The Qu seem unlikely to exist. But they're scary
Looking at how massive the universe os this is completely possible to happen, somewhere.
statistically this must have happened or will happen exactly as it was written
@@hellothere-nv8gc lmao someone watched a two and a half minute Michio Kaku vid
The idea of humans being talked about and researched like dinosaurs, based on the artifacts left behind, is something I'd never thought about before now, and it makes me unreasonably terrified. I absolutely ADORED this and will be obsessing over it for quite a while...
Bump
The interesting part is that humankind probably would leave behind very little traces of its tech, since our machines, especially microelectronics, wouldn't last for millions of years. At least, if we wouldn't make a dedicated effort to preserve some bits for future civilizations. The archeologists of the future would be studying bits of broken plastic trying to figure out whether it was clothes, ritual objects for shamans or pieces of machines.
By an evil alien race call Qu
just like our current humans discovering atlantis and roman empire and lost technologies we found, it will happen in the next few hundred maybe thousands of years
our descendants will find our ancient afrtifacts doesnt know about smartphones or tablets
they will its made of alien technologies
We already do that. Ancient Rome, Greek, Egypt, The Mayans.. it's not something crazy or new
Moral of the story: Even if you are changed by big galactic asshats, you can still bounce back better then ever(besides the lizard herders)
Of you can dwell on it, let it fester and dwell and eventually decsend to silence like the Mantelopes
@@gooeygo2515 I feel the Mantelopes actually have a kind of heartwarming ending, they chose happiness, even if it meant to give up their sentience and lose their humanity, they may ended up being dumb as rocks, yet they lived in bliss
@@maitequilla But they didn't choose it. Evolution just said "you guys aren't using your brains for shit except being edgy nihlists I'll just get rid of that for you"
@@bevvvy1374 Nature be like
It wasn't just the lizard herders that died off. So many other races were said to have died off even prior to gravitals, and many others just evolved into regular herders, like the mantelopes
I watched this video back in April I think..? Had to revisit this amazing video!!!❤
My favourite part is how the Qu engineered these posthuman monstrosities to be either nonsapient, or sapient and suffering eternally, and in a few million years so many of them were like "WELL GUESS WHO'S BACK MOTHERFUCKERS".
yeah thats the problem the Qu never expected they never though another species COULD be as great as them and master intergalactic travel but when some did what do you know all the neighbouring galaxies had a common enemy they all hated more then any other what better way to create a galactic federation
"Forcefully evolve me ONCE, shame on you. Force evolve me TWICE?? Shame on me. FORCE EVOLVE ME TWENTY TIMES, NOW I'M MAD
At the weekly "Fuck the Qu" meetings, every race races their hands in the unaminious motto of "Fuck the Qu"
Fuck the Qu. All my homies love The Reapers.
@@ThatCreeNative1 The Reapers are actually pretty fair. Let life take its course, reset it, and watch it go again anew. Because eventually, one single species would come out on top and enslave/destroy the rest of the known universe. The Reapers are benign gods in the grand scheme of things; something none of the ME species could understand (obviously, no one would just sit and let aliens exterminate them). At least the Reapers never had any hatred or need to be superior; they WERE superior and never wanted anything during the quiet eons, dudes just hibernated until it was time.
This is honestly one of the most interesting and disturbing books I’ve heard of in a while. Props to the author and the illustrator; it’s clear immense amounts of talent and effort went into this book.
I believe cm kosemen illustrated it himself.
@@yuujinner5801 Yea he did! its said in the video too
Plot twist: He is both the illustrator *and* the author
@@yuujinner5801 yy etye. Tx
I think what makes this so disturbing is that you see these distorted forms of humans (which to them is normal) and imagine yourself being in their bodies as you are now. It feels alienating and violating, but to them that's all they know and they would think we look weird.
I hate seeing the skeletons. It’s horrifying to think that they were humans, and apes
@@theenclave5332 Ayo, don't talk shot about your descendents
@@ls200076 yeeyee
It’s like the Allegory of the Cave. It is as it is I just don’t want anyone suffering.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
But would you die out?
Symbiotes: nah, i'd evolve
Nice jjk reference
real, why does he look so much like gojo
Bro i just noticed@@joysc06
24:58 he even looks like the panel
I love that the saurosapients were allowed in the post human club.
Well they did take care there human protector
me too!
Yeah, since they acquired the knowledge of humanity's fate, they must have thought it in their best interest to join. Also can you imagine a coevolution like that. Its kinda wholesome
Yeah hoho noteworthy nonhuman members.
Well, to be fair, anyone that wasn't a qu probably would get an invitation
its like lovecraftian futurism. some of this is really chilling
The colonials😭😭
I expected that those that escaped into space got the best ending… boy was I wrong…
Oh look,are those the star people in your profile picture.
@@Sigmacoolboy1729 that a grey alien or the grey alien actually are star peolpe 🤔(i'm just jokeing about this but if the grey alien are species of star peolpe.....well, You know XD)
I think this is even crazier than lovecraft, and also smarter, most of lovecraft's horror was based on things he didn't understand, some were undiscovered at his time, most where because he was a narcistic xenophobic racist idiot
I don't know why, but at the end when Humans . . . if you could still call them that . . . returned to earth, I felt something deep, there. Throughout the video, it's easy to lose the fact that all these species and machines were at one point, hundreds of millions of years in the past, humans, stranded on our homeworld, gazing curiously into the night sky. When it brought it back to earth, it hit me like a brick.
You can call them humans. Our designs are not what makes us human. It's our behaviour, our emotions and acts. These species are all nothing but humans.
A sentient brick. That feels pain. And is a human.
To think that this galactic saga all started with a cosmonaut named Yuri Gagarin and his first flight above the shackles of our world's gravity
@@frankfranksen7467 well that and the fact that’s what species we are, you can call a sentient wall of flesh in eternal pain or ball of metal human it would only make sense philosophically, I’m pretty okay not being a wall of flesh or a antelope personally and I’d like to remain this way.
It feels very existential doesn't it ? But I love it.
if i had seen these images randomly accross the internet i would have guessed it to be some dudes nightmare that he drew, but now whenever i see these creatures, i will think of their links to humanity and their persistence along with their history that made them a successful civilization despite their hardship. i feel proud after seeing this story. and terrified how a creature from another galaxy could potential arrive tommorow, and change us for the best or the worst.
"The Gravitals didnt _hate_ other species; they just didn't see them as people"
Aw shit, here we go again.
Lol, they even have the same excuse.
So, they're colonists.
@@nathancaldwell5443 Hey, don't bring the colonials into this.
Racism.
It took me a second to get it but holy shit...
As many people had already said, there is something addiciting about this video and this whole concept and I'm catching myself coming back here. The story has it all: the horror, the sci-fi setting, it reads like a real history mixed with religious elements. I guess humans are really attracted to the concept of some god-like beings having power over us and abusing it, it has been like that for thousands years with all those scary gods.
AGREED
you would love Half Life
@@mysteryY2K yeah Half-Life has something almost similar to the Qu's, the Gravitals and the Asteromorphs and Lesser one's
Humanity has a cosmic humiliation kink, no I will not elaborate.
@@interface5389 would you care to elaborate
This is the most horrifying space horror I have seen in a while.
Are there other works similar to this that I could check out?
@@Lucky8_Meme_Thief i want to know too!
@@Lucky8_Meme_Thief Man After Man
@@Lightscribe225 what is that
@@Lightscribe225 Thanks, I'll check it out.
"See, this is the island syndrome, a phenomenon where a species changes it behaviour or pysichal characteristics due to a lack of threats, dodo's lost their wings, and with nobody to bully them, human's create shit like this"
Her friend: "I bet he just wants sex."
Me: "I'm really impressed with those post-humans being able to welcome in the Saurosapients, despite the lack of familiarity."
Saurosapien rocks
This is why I'm single
@@kanna-san. then date a modular
I mean at that point the similarity between the post-humans is like the similarity between all mammals. Common ancestors become sorta arbitrary after tens of millions of years and a freak bout of extreme genetic engineering
@Lex Bright Raven we should prepare too in case we have something like the qu in our universe😨