This isn't a remaster or a reupload of the original Megalophobia, it's a completely new video! I've explained why I privated the original in my community tab.
@idk-my7js iirc, Crescendex said he didn't like the original that he made, and he deleted it or privated it and announced he would make something new and better. Behold this video.
There’s something about looking at megalophobic photos, like massive statues, building, and other man made objects and such, just fascinate me so much, especially with the knowledge on what we can make
my mom has megalophobia. i thought it was a pretty strange fear of her to have, mainly because i didn’t understand it at the time and why she was so afraid of things that were so much bigger than her. but when i got on a small boat with my family and we rode under one of the largest ships in my life, i understood it. for the first time i understood. it was looming over me, to the point where i just felt so tiny and obsolete. i felt genuinely so nauseous. i never reacted that way to anything before.
That feeling of helplessness and how small and insignificant you are reminds us of how frail we are (comparatively speaking). It’s what turns all those Lovecraft characters mad.
I honestly wonder how much of it might have originated as a sort of vague fear of distant thunderstorms. Those would have been the largest things our distant ancestors would have seen on a regular basis, they could have been dangerous if you didn't seek shelter ahead of their arrival, and they even look like some of the plain, white megastructures common in megalophobia-related art.
Fr I definitely felt werid watching this. My most extreme phobia is arachnophobia like I can get cold sweats but this one just like a curiosity that makes me uncomfortable it's werid. I can stand next to a tall build and feel werid but at the same time not.
Man those Wong painting give a pre liminal space uncanniness about them. The liminal core pool room games,something about big,open deserted places. People want to escape you just cant look at it like a prison.
I live in a valley, and in the background there are big mountains, one that's not all that far away but is really big. I didn't really notice it when I was younger, but now that I'm older and I always notice it looming over such a flat landscape... it freaks me out
same, where im at the valley isnt even that deep, cant really be called a valley tbh, but on one side theres a largish hill about maybe 20miles away, not a mountain or anything, and not always visible, but it stretches over one side of the horizon, its like having your back to a wall and its daunting, especially when you walk up it (about 1hour walk) and can see into the distance, and on one horizon is the sea, and on all others, every other direction, theres dotted mountains far off that dwarf the one youre on now. Never noticed it as a kid but now im older i find just the knowledge that the hills are there around me almost like a boundary wall has formed how i think, whenever i travel and theres areas with just flat land, no hills or the like, it deep down to me just feels wrong like im naked and theres no protection from the world around me, and its only in recent years occurred to me that its because of where i grew up and live, and how just being near this "large"ish hill has altered my perception of the world
I live in Washington State, and Mount Rainier literally looks like a space object in the distance. It has the same kind of look as the moon. That mountain is terrifyingly huge.
Dude i just wanted to say, i absolutely love these videos. Megalophobia has always been such an interesting thing to me. I've never had this phobia, I've had the opposite. It's so damn interesting to me and I'm so glad that I've found a video series that scratches that itch in my brain. Keep it up!!!!
I think i have this phobia, based on the fact that I've been having mini panic attacks throughout the video. Yet I love space, and it makes me so uncomfortable and slightly scared at how large some planets are
I am terrified of being under a cargo ship or a cruise ship, seeing that enormity pass over me or even a few meters away. If they reach you, the propellers of the engines will tear you to pieces. Nuclear submarines scare me the same.
Funny hearing this considering i just told someone about that maybe a month ago, almost the exact wording of the fears. Hilarious but definitely worth fear. I could probably name a thousand terrifying things though
Bro, pleaaaaase make more of these megalophobia videos. Not even because they scare me, for the opposite reason, actually. I love the idea of massively incomprehensible things. Like when you lay on the ground outside and look into the sky. Don't know if thats a common thing, but it is for me. I felt so small, almost like I was falling when I done it for the first time. I loved it. I only felt that feeling again when I visited The Kelpies in Scotland (im Scottish, for context). If you arent aware, The Kelpies are two massive statues of horse heads based off Kelpies from Scottish myth. It was the first time I was in the car, driving down the road and I could see them in the distance. When I actually got there and stood underneath it, I once again felt so small and insignificant. Stuff like that makes me wish things like Fantasy architecture was real.
I wasn't expecting the Blame! reference but I'm so glad you mentioned it... I was in high school when I read Blame! for the first time and it's stuck with me since. There's barely any words spoken, just millions and millions of miles of eerily empty, chaotic superstructures, enough to take up an entire solar system. It's so wild and alluring... I'd take my time flipping pages because the art was so riveting.
I don't know if you've heard of it, but there's a game called Outer Wilds. It's a game where the less you know of it, the better your experience will be. Without spoiling it too much, it is about space exploration. In this game, besides all that it normally has to offer (and it's a lot, it's an amazing game, that changes your perspective in life), it also plays very nicely into the scale of the astral bodies in comparison to your own size. It would be cool if you ever gave it a shot, even if it doesn't become a video. Thanks for the awesome content!
@TheUnarmedPanda it's one of the most beautiful gaming experiences I've ever had. I loved the original game and the Nomai. I'm about to beat the DLC any day now. Aaaaany day now...as soon as I can get over my crippling anxiety in the dark. 😂😭
I've had multiple dreams about a large black monolith, ever approaching and slowly chasing. There are too many details in my dreams to type here. But it's scary how detailed it was and how metallophobia exists
I once had a dream where I was on the top floor of a very tall hotel on a balcony (the clouds were close above me). The hotel was on a large island surrounded by nothing but the ocean. As time went on, the ocean's waves became more violent and larger, until they started to reach more inland. They reached the hotel and climbed higher, at quite a rapid pace until it was almost flooding my balcony. The waves around swelled above the clouds and crashed into me. After that I woke up.
Not sure if you're a gamer but Cyberpunk 2077 with its crazy unbelievable big buildings definitely help make the city feel looming and creepy. Part of the reason I love it definitely has some megalomania elements to it. Also the manga Blame with abd endless city that goes I to space and covers the world. It's crazy to picture something so big.
I would love hearing you talk about other phobias, like optophobia, apeirophobia, kenophobia, eremophobia, etc. but also more concrete phobias like helianthophobia, spectrophobia or phonophobia. Your points of view and ideas are always so interesting to listen to!
I follow Thrite's channel (the guy who made the Minecraft Megalophobia video) and I'm certain watching his video is what let me recieve this gem in my recommended today. Less than 20 minutes in but you've already earned yourself a new sub, this is incredible.
The monsters in the planet core of Naboo in Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace were terrifying to me as a kid, and still give me shivers when I watch that scene now. That will always be one of my favorite examples of megalaphobia and thalassaphobia combined. And this video reminded me of that quote..."Theres always a bigger fish"
portal 2's underground aperture labs should be on this list - the endless testing courses, the masssiveness of gladOs's control over the facility that we never even see close to all of it. I've never been scared of big things, but jesus, imagining the horrors in there gives me chills, especially the cold brutality of it all.
It shouldn't, since megalophobia isnt about the building itself, or being inside of it, it's an uneasiness you get when looking DIRECTLY at big Objekts. So yeah the Portal facility is huge but it's not the issue, since you are inside of it and the things inside of it are 'normal sized'. Like you said we don't see how big it actually is all at once. Megalophobia also isn't a classic fear like a fear of spiders or drowning for example, it's just EXTREME uneasiness that makes you feel sick in the stomach,,sometimes dizzy even.
I just wanted to say I just love your channel and the work you do. You've brought so many new games and stories to my attention that I never would have been aware of before. Specifically, I started reading "The Electric State" and "Blame". Really enjoying them both, so thank-you for that. Keep up thr awesome content!
11:48 I have calculated how much material you would need. Let’s say the thing is 225 Million Kilometers Long,wide and high and let say only 40% of the volume is made out of metal you would need 3,55*10^34 tons of Metal to build this. Let’s put this into perspective this would be 17769375 Sun masses, or 5,95 Trillion earths.
Id say your channel is one of the most criminally underrated channels on youtube , you have this tallent for explaining that conveys so well to my ear that I feel every emotion you describe, which doesn’t happen easily for me Megalophobia was a fear i never had , I still don’t, but now I have this new appreciation for this fear which ties in to my favorite genre , horror Keep up the amazing work
The part about the architecture reminds me of this one video about the scale in Elden Ring. It's not very apparent when playing it but everything in that game is absolutely enormous: The walls of Leyndell are taller than the biggest dams we have today, the largest tower of Stormveil castle is taller than some skyscrapers, you frequently find statues bigger than the Statue of Liberty, the DLC has this giant triumphal arch-type structure that seems to serve no purpose other than as some kind of monument. Oh, and there's a dead dragon large enough to be a map feature. (Then there's Armored Core VI, which uses the same measurements and has individual bosses large enough to cover most of the Elden Ring map.)
@@matthewboire6843 this is unrelated, scientifically black holes are not voids. They are kind of, the opposite, since they are very large amounts of matter compressed so incredibly that they do their whole black hole thing. A void would be, the universe before it existed. Maybe.
@@Brimmsune as being 7 tall boys down. i do agree to this idea it does make sense to a degree. As by definition a void is an area of lower than expected density of matter expected to be there. tho i will argue with the other degrees. a void could be seen as an area that isn't by the definition we use. it maybe an area that nothing but mass & matter may only exist, and we cannot escape it thus making either us relative to the void so wen cant leave which is still a void, or we exist in the void in the area we will never reach the non-void area......personally its a matter of perspective really
man its vides like this that always makes me think, makes me change my perspective of the world around me for a brief moment and i love that, great job ^^
Portal 2 honestly has some crazy megalophobic moments, especially in the very beginning of chapter 6: The Fall, when you're, you guessed it, falling down a shaft for 2km, possibly more. then in the entirety of the chapter, as well as chapter 7: The Reunion, those big testing spheres in Old Aperture... there's just so much stuff in the entirety of the facility that I could write an entire essay's worth of stuff that it makes me feel when I go back to play it.
LOVING screenshots from The Mist. That movie was such a good example of this phobia. All of the little things that come to kill you are bad, but the incomprehensibly big ones that are so much more vast than you that you're completely beneath their notice... THOSE are the scary ones.
6:48 Well, it is called the Magic City. Perhaps it's on pillars because mages can fly up to the city while potential non-magic enemies couldn't reach it
Looking at that picture, I'm imagining the city can walk like a giant elephant with a big city on its back. Like Zou from One Piece, the city that resides on the back of a 30000+ ft tall elephant named Zunesha!
Here I am watching the pictures in the intro, some pretty spooky stuff and out of nowhere a photo of a bridge (Nuselský most) next to my favorite bar appears. Never thought of the spot in this light but it kinda makes sense.
Still can't believe how underrated your channel is, I think you make some of the best video essays on the platform. I'm excited to see where you go from here
Love these videos! They are so invocative and, as someone producing a horror game, inspiring! Having someone bring so many good points together is very helpful.
I think those videos by Moon Productions are one of the best examples of my kind of megalophobia. Also, I especially like the names of the videos, like "Stay inside as if this were outside". Really captures the vibe of it all.
That's a god tier video as always, can't say something else, it's just fantastic, I love every your video, it inspires me a lot, it's just amazing, that voice, that images, all is beatiful, I'm glad I've found this channel.
It’s crazy nobody ever mentions portal 2 when it comes to Megalophobia in gaming. i cringe every time I fall into a pit, And staring UP into the abyss from the very bottom of the facility is just scary.
Yeah, but it sounds nothing like how the books are. Comments on the trailer are shitting on it pretty hard. Basically it looks like another marvel movie
I've heard of that, it's a good series, I could have mentioned it here but I already had to cut the script by so much just to post the video this year lol
Things like this don't scare me. I thinks it's partly because of the saying "if a problem is to big to solve, what's the point in worrying about it". I can't do anything about a giant monster destroying a city or an ancient megastructure so I don't feel much about them.
One of my favourite pieces of media that evoked a feeling of megalophobia personally is Hellstar Remina by Junji Ito. It's a comic with a plot centering around the approach of a sentient planet and it's consequences. Being media about the end times it concentrates as much on the human effect and hysteria as it does on the harbinger of the apocolypse- but when the lens is on the approaching threat it's framing is supremely unsettling. It's not a long read and it's easy to read online, so if you're going to chance it based on that summary; do so now before I spoil anything. . The scene that sets the crisis rolling is what really creeped me out relating to the megalophobia of it. In an observatory the sole scientist at his post is keeping his eye on a planet 16 lightyears away. Having freshly emerged from a previously identified wormhole this planet has been the talk of the science community; having proved the wormhole's presence outright and potentially being the most alien object in the universe. He is caught, enraptured by the monitors, by the lead scientist. After being pressed for his observations he reveals the planet's lateral movements had stopped last night. And when further questioned on the planet's motionlessness he elaborates. The planet, Remina, is approaching. And he has found it is doing so at near light-speed. In the following conversation the relevant figures are gone over. Having only been spotted yesterday, 16 lightyears away; the light from the planet is 16 years old too. Remina has already been in the universe with humanity for 16 years. Rapidly approaching. So rapidly that she is not far behind the light that reveals her presence and she is already in the solar system, only revealing herself if she slows down. He breaks down now, telling his boss he 'met it's eye'. 'It noticed our existence! S-so it's coming to see us!' The scene ends as he descends into a giggling fit. Altogether the scale and physics bending power of this threat is of course, threatening. But it is that he specifically says he meets it's eye. This incomprehensible force returned his gaze specifically. He was watching when it's attentioned turned to him; to earth. The first time reading this the possibility even that it was his very voyeurism that brought about Remina's attention made my stomach lurch. Destruction as a consequence of scale is scary. But it is natural, an earthquake has no malice for me. A tsunami doesn't hate or want me, I'm just in it's way if it does me harm. Simple as that. It is the idea that the scale of force a solar flare represents might notice me, hiding in my basement. And pluck my house off the ground specifically to get at me. That lens focused malice from something you could not possibly resist or escape terrifies me when it is put in front of me the way it did in this comic. In this video it was the first of @MoonProds videos that plucked the same string, with such a titanic being reaching down to delicately and precisely pluck (presumably) one person off the face of the earth. In other media again, like attack on titan for one, it is the scenes where the giants peer in through a window. It feels wrong for something so powerful to have the wherewithall to search for you. Chase you or grab you for being unlucky enough to be in it's direct sight? Sure, it's malice but its still ignorant. That if you hid you may well be caught by a groping hand through a window is a terrible prospect. This force of nature is not ambivalent *or* dumb. And it's trying to find you. Hopefully this exposition wasn't too long or mouthy and I've framed the circumstance that, for me, squeeze all the fear possible from megalophobia in a way that has helped you relate with me. ✍🙏 thank you for reading!
@KohniHart funny, yeah, I wrote this comment before fully watching this video, and god damn, it made me realise that I'm in fact scared of some huge things
It's kinda ironic because we are, by the average of the universe, GIGANTIC ourselves, every human is a titanic moving ecosystem. We're titans scared of titanic things.
Only if you compare it to very small things. Oddly enough, a human is pretty close to halfway in size between an atom and the sun. The sun is considered small compared to other stars. Stars are not on the bigger side of celestial body's. The reality is that basically everything is bigger than a person. That is essentially the single most obvious result of gravity.
Massive monsters shouldn't be included in megalophobia vids and I'm surprised to see it here. They pose a REAL threat that wouldn't classify fear of them as a phobia.
phobia is just a fear, irrational phobia is one with now base, both monsters of any scale, and scale itself have a rational base to their fears, so they both can work
@@danielhardman234 It's not, most people understandably don't realise that a phobia is considered an anxiety disorder, it's defined by being excessive and irrational.
@@Delmworks That's true, they are the most common phobias. But the vast majority of snakes and spiders don't pose any threat. For something to be a phobia the fear induced has to be excessive and irrational. For example; someone without arachnophobia wouldn't feel any fear of a non-venomous spider, but they might be fearful and careful when around one that's venomous. Someone with arachnophobia would be afraid of it regardless and that fear could manifest in anything from staying as far away as possible to literally shaking in fear and high levels of anxiety effecting behaviour, possibly even having a panic attack.
29:57Aw man, not the Missing Lynx swooping down in Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 in a rainy day again! O_O Thanks for this video, I love it! I specially love my monsters, even when they're unfathomable!
This Video is a prime example of why a well produced youtube video really has become the gold standard of journalistic expression. Narration 9/10 Writing 10/10 Concept: 10/10 Thematic depth and research done 10/10 Thematic coherence 10/10 Truly a Masterpiece and one of the best Videos i have ever seen on UA-cam.
I think this video really misunderstands what phobias are on a fundamental level. It's not just being "scared" of something; they're a class of mental illness defined by extremely strong, irrational negative reactions to things that don't warrant them on their own basis. If so much as experiencing and being around whatever the subject of your phobia is doesn't set off a panic attack, then it's not a phobia.
just wanted to add on to how BEAUTIFUL your video essays are. I hope that one day in my public speaking classes at uni, I can even hold a candle to this
This isn't a remaster or a reupload of the original Megalophobia, it's a completely new video! I've explained why I privated the original in my community tab.
What happened to the first one?
Wonderful video man, described it perfectly!
So it is...
The two together would have been a block party
@idk-my7js iirc, Crescendex said he didn't like the original that he made, and he deleted it or privated it and announced he would make something new and better. Behold this video.
What other video?
Real Megalophobes will be scared on how long the video is
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nah i love it
Chronophobia?
@HansenGD I guess so! Also thanks for the new dialogue update!
I wish I was still spooked by 45-min videos... T-T
There’s something about looking at megalophobic photos, like massive statues, building, and other man made objects and such, just fascinate me so much, especially with the knowledge on what we can make
Something about those giant statues get to me
you'd lov Qin
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I think the feeling is called "sublime". You're at the same time fascinated in a scary but also wonderful way
You know what else is massive
I love that you talked about cosmic horror. I love the genre and it’s right up your alley.
try playing Elite Dangerous in VR
@@mlembrantbinary star jumpscare simulator
my mom has megalophobia. i thought it was a pretty strange fear of her to have, mainly because i didn’t understand it at the time and why she was so afraid of things that were so much bigger than her. but when i got on a small boat with my family and we rode under one of the largest ships in my life, i understood it. for the first time i understood. it was looming over me, to the point where i just felt so tiny and obsolete. i felt genuinely so nauseous. i never reacted that way to anything before.
It's an unreal feeling. Sometimes, when I think about it too hard, I get that same feeling when I look at the sky.
i think it might be a primal fear residual from the time ancient humans hunted mammoths, like how some people have primal fears of spiders or snakes
@@flannelpillowcase6475 ooga booga :o
Looking at the cosmos and our influence on it, we are tiny and obsolete.
That feeling of helplessness and how small and insignificant you are reminds us of how frail we are (comparatively speaking).
It’s what turns all those Lovecraft characters mad.
Megalaphobia is one of those fears that is so odd that it exists but at the same time it is completely reasonable.
A contradictory fear, in a way
I honestly wonder how much of it might have originated as a sort of vague fear of distant thunderstorms. Those would have been the largest things our distant ancestors would have seen on a regular basis, they could have been dangerous if you didn't seek shelter ahead of their arrival, and they even look like some of the plain, white megastructures common in megalophobia-related art.
Fr I definitely felt werid watching this. My most extreme phobia is arachnophobia like I can get cold sweats but this one just like a curiosity that makes me uncomfortable it's werid. I can stand next to a tall build and feel werid but at the same time not.
100 odd but rational, W pfp btw :3
@ thanks, it’s not my art, I’m not sure who made it.
Man those Wong painting give a pre liminal space uncanniness about them. The liminal core pool room games,something about big,open deserted places. People want to escape you just cant look at it like a prison.
I live in a valley, and in the background there are big mountains, one that's not all that far away but is really big. I didn't really notice it when I was younger, but now that I'm older and I always notice it looming over such a flat landscape... it freaks me out
same, where im at the valley isnt even that deep, cant really be called a valley tbh, but on one side theres a largish hill about maybe 20miles away, not a mountain or anything, and not always visible, but it stretches over one side of the horizon, its like having your back to a wall and its daunting, especially when you walk up it (about 1hour walk) and can see into the distance, and on one horizon is the sea, and on all others, every other direction, theres dotted mountains far off that dwarf the one youre on now.
Never noticed it as a kid but now im older i find just the knowledge that the hills are there around me almost like a boundary wall has formed how i think, whenever i travel and theres areas with just flat land, no hills or the like, it deep down to me just feels wrong like im naked and theres no protection from the world around me, and its only in recent years occurred to me that its because of where i grew up and live, and how just being near this "large"ish hill has altered my perception of the world
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I live in Washington State, and Mount Rainier literally looks like a space object in the distance. It has the same kind of look as the moon. That mountain is terrifyingly huge.
@@loubloom1941my bad, I didn't mean to subscribe to a bitch 🗣️🗣️
@@Melody-to8wg Just Googled it and... woah. Crazy
Giant cliffs: fine
Giant buildings: fine
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The abyss of the ocean where a leviathan could hide: yeah, no.
i think the hole itself is the issue. I wouldn't really mind a leaviathan, tbh. Not seeing the bottom, absolutely fucking not
Dude i just wanted to say, i absolutely love these videos. Megalophobia has always been such an interesting thing to me. I've never had this phobia, I've had the opposite. It's so damn interesting to me and I'm so glad that I've found a video series that scratches that itch in my brain. Keep it up!!!!
I think i have this phobia, based on the fact that I've been having mini panic attacks throughout the video. Yet I love space, and it makes me so uncomfortable and slightly scared at how large some planets are
I am terrified of being under a cargo ship or a cruise ship, seeing that enormity pass over me or even a few meters away. If they reach you, the propellers of the engines will tear you to pieces. Nuclear submarines scare me the same.
Same, just imagining it wants me to never go near the sea.
Funny hearing this considering i just told someone about that maybe a month ago, almost the exact wording of the fears. Hilarious but definitely worth fear. I could probably name a thousand terrifying things though
Ti's why I stay the fuck on land because I got that deep water phobia too nope to that 😂
same! i always try n explain this to people, although i do find massive things scary, massive things in or under the water is what i actually fear
Bro, pleaaaaase make more of these megalophobia videos. Not even because they scare me, for the opposite reason, actually. I love the idea of massively incomprehensible things. Like when you lay on the ground outside and look into the sky. Don't know if thats a common thing, but it is for me. I felt so small, almost like I was falling when I done it for the first time. I loved it. I only felt that feeling again when I visited The Kelpies in Scotland (im Scottish, for context). If you arent aware, The Kelpies are two massive statues of horse heads based off Kelpies from Scottish myth. It was the first time I was in the car, driving down the road and I could see them in the distance. When I actually got there and stood underneath it, I once again felt so small and insignificant. Stuff like that makes me wish things like Fantasy architecture was real.
I feel you..
I wasn't expecting the Blame! reference but I'm so glad you mentioned it... I was in high school when I read Blame! for the first time and it's stuck with me since. There's barely any words spoken, just millions and millions of miles of eerily empty, chaotic superstructures, enough to take up an entire solar system. It's so wild and alluring... I'd take my time flipping pages because the art was so riveting.
This is why I don't look down my pants.
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Spoken like a true chad
Made me giggle
Do not worry: it is just a fat belly.
😂😂 I can't even
I don't know if you've heard of it, but there's a game called Outer Wilds. It's a game where the less you know of it, the better your experience will be. Without spoiling it too much, it is about space exploration. In this game, besides all that it normally has to offer (and it's a lot, it's an amazing game, that changes your perspective in life), it also plays very nicely into the scale of the astral bodies in comparison to your own size. It would be cool if you ever gave it a shot, even if it doesn't become a video.
Thanks for the awesome content!
I have played it actually! It's an entire section in my video "After a World Dies"
Hey nice I will check it out!
I love Outer Wilds. I have taken to watching supercuts of people playing it just to get a similar feeling to playing for the first time again.
@TheUnarmedPanda it's one of the most beautiful gaming experiences I've ever had. I loved the original game and the Nomai. I'm about to beat the DLC any day now. Aaaaany day now...as soon as I can get over my crippling anxiety in the dark. 😂😭
I've had multiple dreams about a large black monolith, ever approaching and slowly chasing. There are too many details in my dreams to type here. But it's scary how detailed it was and how metallophobia exists
I once had a dream where I was on the top floor of a very tall hotel on a balcony (the clouds were close above me). The hotel was on a large island surrounded by nothing but the ocean. As time went on, the ocean's waves became more violent and larger, until they started to reach more inland. They reached the hotel and climbed higher, at quite a rapid pace until it was almost flooding my balcony. The waves around swelled above the clouds and crashed into me. After that I woke up.
@infinitedeath1384 dreams are crazy things
I've had dreams of stone slabs that are covered in engravings that are light years across being spotted in space slowly moving towards earth
@@frowner_and_co megalaphobia is crazy in dreams
It's my pp
I LOVED the emphasis on megalophobic architecture. I am such a nerd for strange/spooky architecture :3
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If you like Real big architecture then you should check out the architect: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, I think you would like his work
Me too! Specially those uncanny giant buildings with no apparent purpose and no clue on who built them.
Not sure if you're a gamer but Cyberpunk 2077 with its crazy unbelievable big buildings definitely help make the city feel looming and creepy. Part of the reason I love it definitely has some megalomania elements to it. Also the manga Blame with abd endless city that goes I to space and covers the world. It's crazy to picture something so big.
@@toxiczombiewolf5692 YES I LOVE BLAME! One of my favorite mangas ever.
I've never felt megalophobia. Kind of the opposite, huge things are awe-inspiring and beautiful to me.
Another fire video. I was afraid of it being a reupload but after realizing it started off different, i just knew i was in for a great watch lol
I would love hearing you talk about other phobias, like optophobia, apeirophobia, kenophobia, eremophobia, etc. but also more concrete phobias like helianthophobia, spectrophobia or phonophobia. Your points of view and ideas are always so interesting to listen to!
Congrats on 100K dude. High quality videos = subs. Well Deserved!
The thing that I like the most about your channel is that I can watch your videos over and over again and never get bored, keep up the good work
Hey, happy 100k man! Incredibly well deserved!
I follow Thrite's channel (the guy who made the Minecraft Megalophobia video) and I'm certain watching his video is what let me recieve this gem in my recommended today. Less than 20 minutes in but you've already earned yourself a new sub, this is incredible.
I find these large things more beautiful than terrifying. When i see those enormous structures i just feel like im getting lost in it's beauty
my megalophobia is about the sky and moon, i can't look up without getting anxiety
The monsters in the planet core of Naboo in Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace were terrifying to me as a kid, and still give me shivers when I watch that scene now. That will always be one of my favorite examples of megalaphobia and thalassaphobia combined. And this video reminded me of that quote..."Theres always a bigger fish"
0:11 Georgia, Gergeti Trinity Church
I had to really look at the picture to fully grasp what was happening 😂. Wtf?!?!
I've been there!
Thanks!
portal 2's underground aperture labs should be on this list - the endless testing courses, the masssiveness of gladOs's control over the facility that we never even see close to all of it. I've never been scared of big things, but jesus, imagining the horrors in there gives me chills, especially the cold brutality of it all.
It shouldn't, since megalophobia isnt about the building itself, or being inside of it, it's an uneasiness you get when looking DIRECTLY at big Objekts. So yeah the Portal facility is huge but it's not the issue, since you are inside of it and the things inside of it are 'normal sized'. Like you said we don't see how big it actually is all at once.
Megalophobia also isn't a classic fear like a fear of spiders or drowning for example, it's just EXTREME uneasiness that makes you feel sick in the stomach,,sometimes dizzy even.
I just wanted to say I just love your channel and the work you do. You've brought so many new games and stories to my attention that I never would have been aware of before.
Specifically, I started reading "The Electric State" and "Blame". Really enjoying them both, so thank-you for that. Keep up thr awesome content!
0:55 show me what you got
IM DEAD
i dont even have to rewind to know what this means
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@@wallbang1687I realized the same thing. I was about to rewind to see what he was talking about, but didn’t even need to.
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Congrats on 100k!! I love your videos so much, they're perfect to watch at 2 am on a Saturday night lol
11:48 I have calculated how much material you would need. Let’s say the thing is 225 Million Kilometers Long,wide and high and let say only 40% of the volume is made out of metal you would need 3,55*10^34 tons of Metal to build this. Let’s put this into perspective this would be 17769375 Sun masses, or 5,95 Trillion earths.
Thank you for this video! It was extremely interesting and fascinating!
I love the photos and pictures you've added. I really enjoyed it!
One of my favorite examples of megalophobia that really got me when I was younger was the Cloverfield Monster.
and Clover was just a lil baby
Oooo I love this example
Love the vids man, amazing work, i dont have the phobia at it is but love to watch stuff about it, and your videos hit just in the right spot, love it
Nice essay, I seldom see this quality essays on YT these days.
Well done! ❤
Id say your channel is one of the most criminally underrated channels on youtube , you have this tallent for explaining that conveys so well to my ear that I feel every emotion you describe, which doesn’t happen easily for me
Megalophobia was a fear i never had , I still don’t, but now I have this new appreciation for this fear which ties in to my favorite genre , horror
Keep up the amazing work
The part about the architecture reminds me of this one video about the scale in Elden Ring. It's not very apparent when playing it but everything in that game is absolutely enormous: The walls of Leyndell are taller than the biggest dams we have today, the largest tower of Stormveil castle is taller than some skyscrapers, you frequently find statues bigger than the Statue of Liberty, the DLC has this giant triumphal arch-type structure that seems to serve no purpose other than as some kind of monument. Oh, and there's a dead dragon large enough to be a map feature.
(Then there's Armored Core VI, which uses the same measurements and has individual bosses large enough to cover most of the Elden Ring map.)
“When you look at war from this perspective, all you see is the bones.”
The void consumes us at all points; a higher mass; the more it feeds; but the longer one permeates.
This is scientifically acurate, black holes spend when they feed or more mass, more mass mean it takes longer for them to devolve away
@@matthewboire6843 this is unrelated, scientifically black holes are not voids. They are kind of, the opposite, since they are very large amounts of matter compressed so incredibly that they do their whole black hole thing. A void would be, the universe before it existed. Maybe.
@@Brimmsune as being 7 tall boys down. i do agree to this idea it does make sense to a degree. As by definition a void is an area of lower than expected density of matter expected to be there. tho i will argue with the other degrees. a void could be seen as an area that isn't by the definition we use. it maybe an area that nothing but mass & matter may only exist, and we cannot escape it thus making either us relative to the void so wen cant leave which is still a void, or we exist in the void in the area we will never reach the non-void area......personally its a matter of perspective really
man its vides like this that always makes me think, makes me change my perspective of the world around me for a brief moment and i love that, great job ^^
This is 100k change my mind. CONGRATS!
Portal 2 honestly has some crazy megalophobic moments, especially in the very beginning of chapter 6: The Fall, when you're, you guessed it, falling down a shaft for 2km, possibly more. then in the entirety of the chapter, as well as chapter 7: The Reunion, those big testing spheres in Old Aperture... there's just so much stuff in the entirety of the facility that I could write an entire essay's worth of stuff that it makes me feel when I go back to play it.
You forgot to mention the War of The Worlds movie! The vibe of horror it gives off is unmatched.
I was just about to comment this
Great video, also happy 100k subs!!
Am I the only one who thinks Cresendex’s videos are weirdly comforting? Just me? Okay 😭
Me too, but probably in a different way.
Me too
Same, they’re just so, peaceful… that’s the best way I can describe the feeling
I love watching videos about phobias I don't even have, especially megalophobia since most of the pics look way more cool than scary
He sounds way too much like Matpat and it bothers me
Wow! This is a genuinely interesting compilation! Thank you for your hard work putting this together! I wish I could find more videos like this.
No, y'all dont know how long I've been waiting for this. LETSSSSS GOOOOOOO🔥💯💯💯🔥
LOVING screenshots from The Mist. That movie was such a good example of this phobia. All of the little things that come to kill you are bad, but the incomprehensibly big ones that are so much more vast than you that you're completely beneath their notice... THOSE are the scary ones.
6:48 Well, it is called the Magic City. Perhaps it's on pillars because mages can fly up to the city while potential non-magic enemies couldn't reach it
Looking at that picture, I'm imagining the city can walk like a giant elephant with a big city on its back.
Like Zou from One Piece, the city that resides on the back of a 30000+ ft tall elephant named Zunesha!
you're the only channel i know about that has 40+ min long videos that i enjoy watching
is nobody gonna talk about the absolute size of clouds?
Longest 3 weeks of my life, what a megalithic amount of time to wait for this vid (totally worth it though)
Maze Runner is an excellent exemple of megalophobia.
How so?
I got more scared of the giant ass maze then the grievers
@@SMALLCONSTRUCTIONS yeah, imagine just looking at those walls towering over you, yikes >_
your videos always hit diffrent. have a great day everyone
Here I am watching the pictures in the intro, some pretty spooky stuff and out of nowhere a photo of a bridge (Nuselský most) next to my favorite bar appears. Never thought of the spot in this light but it kinda makes sense.
Still can't believe how underrated your channel is, I think you make some of the best video essays on the platform. I'm excited to see where you go from here
CONGRATS ON 100K SUBS 🎊🎊🎊
Your channel is a treat, I believe I originally found it from the Astrophobia, and it's been great watching you grow over the past year or so
Congrats on 100k subscribers.
Love these videos! They are so invocative and, as someone producing a horror game, inspiring! Having someone bring so many good points together is very helpful.
The reason why I have megalophobia is because it feels like it’s going to fall on you
Yes. Or I always feel like I’m going to “fall up”. I notice when I’m experiencing the anxiety, I will sort of squat or lower myself to the ground
I think those videos by Moon Productions are one of the best examples of my kind of megalophobia. Also, I especially like the names of the videos, like "Stay inside as if this were outside". Really captures the vibe of it all.
I have this phobia really bad. It's why i can't look down when taking a piss 😞
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That's a god tier video as always, can't say something else, it's just fantastic, I love every your video, it inspires me a lot, it's just amazing, that voice, that images, all is beatiful, I'm glad I've found this channel.
It’s crazy nobody ever mentions portal 2 when it comes to Megalophobia in gaming. i cringe every time I fall into a pit, And staring UP into the abyss from the very bottom of the facility is just scary.
Thank you for this, I just finished Lorn's Lure because of this video and it was incredible.
The electric state sounded fimiliar, but that's when I realized! Theyre making a movie about the book. You can see the trailer now!
Yeah, but it sounds nothing like how the books are. Comments on the trailer are shitting on it pretty hard. Basically it looks like another marvel movie
This video reminded me of mystery flash pit, another work of art worth looking into!! Amazing video as always
I've heard of that, it's a good series, I could have mentioned it here but I already had to cut the script by so much just to post the video this year lol
Never clicked on a video so fast genuinely the most underrated youtuber
Welcome back! I was binging most of your videos.
Things like this don't scare me. I thinks it's partly because of the saying "if a problem is to big to solve, what's the point in worrying about it".
I can't do anything about a giant monster destroying a city or an ancient megastructure so I don't feel much about them.
This Channel is so underrated ngl. I love the Vibe your Videos give, keep it up ❤
One of my favourite pieces of media that evoked a feeling of megalophobia personally is Hellstar Remina by Junji Ito.
It's a comic with a plot centering around the approach of a sentient planet and it's consequences. Being media about the end times it concentrates as much on the human effect and hysteria as it does on the harbinger of the apocolypse- but when the lens is on the approaching threat it's framing is supremely unsettling.
It's not a long read and it's easy to read online, so if you're going to chance it based on that summary; do so now before I spoil anything.
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The scene that sets the crisis rolling is what really creeped me out relating to the megalophobia of it. In an observatory the sole scientist at his post is keeping his eye on a planet 16 lightyears away. Having freshly emerged from a previously identified wormhole this planet has been the talk of the science community; having proved the wormhole's presence outright and potentially being the most alien object in the universe.
He is caught, enraptured by the monitors, by the lead scientist. After being pressed for his observations he reveals the planet's lateral movements had stopped last night. And when further questioned on the planet's motionlessness he elaborates. The planet, Remina, is approaching. And he has found it is doing so at near light-speed.
In the following conversation the relevant figures are gone over. Having only been spotted yesterday, 16 lightyears away; the light from the planet is 16 years old too. Remina has already been in the universe with humanity for 16 years. Rapidly approaching. So rapidly that she is not far behind the light that reveals her presence and she is already in the solar system, only revealing herself if she slows down. He breaks down now, telling his boss he 'met it's eye'. 'It noticed our existence! S-so it's coming to see us!'
The scene ends as he descends into a giggling fit.
Altogether the scale and physics bending power of this threat is of course, threatening. But it is that he specifically says he meets it's eye. This incomprehensible force returned his gaze specifically. He was watching when it's attentioned turned to him; to earth. The first time reading this the possibility even that it was his very voyeurism that brought about Remina's attention made my stomach lurch.
Destruction as a consequence of scale is scary. But it is natural, an earthquake has no malice for me. A tsunami doesn't hate or want me, I'm just in it's way if it does me harm. Simple as that.
It is the idea that the scale of force a solar flare represents might notice me, hiding in my basement. And pluck my house off the ground specifically to get at me. That lens focused malice from something you could not possibly resist or escape terrifies me when it is put in front of me the way it did in this comic.
In this video it was the first of @MoonProds videos that plucked the same string, with such a titanic being reaching down to delicately and precisely pluck (presumably) one person off the face of the earth.
In other media again, like attack on titan for one, it is the scenes where the giants peer in through a window. It feels wrong for something so powerful to have the wherewithall to search for you. Chase you or grab you for being unlucky enough to be in it's direct sight? Sure, it's malice but its still ignorant. That if you hid you may well be caught by a groping hand through a window is a terrible prospect. This force of nature is not ambivalent *or* dumb. And it's trying to find you.
Hopefully this exposition wasn't too long or mouthy and I've framed the circumstance that, for me, squeeze all the fear possible from megalophobia in a way that has helped you relate with me. ✍🙏 thank you for reading!
This was so well done Cresendex, you easily gained one more subscriber. =)
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Really great video, don’t even watch this kind of content but this was really well done. The references you used were great
Ironically, huge things make me feel good, which I find weird, it's breathtaking
when you keep moaning from huge things then yeah its breathtaking
@KohniHart funny, yeah, I wrote this comment before fully watching this video, and god damn, it made me realise that I'm in fact scared of some huge things
Same. If a trip to Jupiter's orbit was a thing, I'd absolutely go
Amazing selection of subjects you picked here, and each was spoken about in such a thoughtful manner! You're very talented at writing your scripts :)
It's kinda ironic because we are, by the average of the universe, GIGANTIC ourselves, every human is a titanic moving ecosystem.
We're titans scared of titanic things.
From a bacteria/virus perspective we are indeed incomprehensibly big.
Only if you compare it to very small things. Oddly enough, a human is pretty close to halfway in size between an atom and the sun. The sun is considered small compared to other stars. Stars are not on the bigger side of celestial body's. The reality is that basically everything is bigger than a person. That is essentially the single most obvious result of gravity.
I need like a 4 hour video lol love your content and voice. Keep up the GREAT work!!
Congrats on 100k! any chance you watched Solar Sands video “Monumentality” before?
I have! It was a big inspiration for my last video on the topic, and the part about the buildings was also semi-inspired by the start of that video.
wow! another great video from you. You always try to bring the most unheard examples which I find cool.
Hi, I am your 100,000th subscriber. Congratulations !! ❤
Thank you! It's been a journey.
@@Cresendex It's crazy how far you have come. It really shows how good your videos are
This is such a good video, the last part, about Electric State, really reminds of The Fover Winter videogame, and that ending man, congrats.
Massive monsters shouldn't be included in megalophobia vids and I'm surprised to see it here. They pose a REAL threat that wouldn't classify fear of them as a phobia.
phobia is just a fear, irrational phobia is one with now base, both monsters of any scale, and scale itself have a rational base to their fears, so they both can work
In fairness, snakes and spiders are among thr most common phobias and the threat from them is quite real.
Same with natural disasters.
@@danielhardman234 It's not, most people understandably don't realise that a phobia is considered an anxiety disorder, it's defined by being excessive and irrational.
@@Delmworks That's true, they are the most common phobias. But the vast majority of snakes and spiders don't pose any threat. For something to be a phobia the fear induced has to be excessive and irrational.
For example; someone without arachnophobia wouldn't feel any fear of a non-venomous spider, but they might be fearful and careful when around one that's venomous.
Someone with arachnophobia would be afraid of it regardless and that fear could manifest in anything from staying as far away as possible to literally shaking in fear and high levels of anxiety effecting behaviour, possibly even having a panic attack.
29:57Aw man, not the Missing Lynx swooping down in Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 in a rainy day again! O_O
Thanks for this video, I love it! I specially love my monsters, even when they're unfathomable!
I'm not afraid of massive objects. They put me in awe.
Guess this is another fear I don't have.
I still enjoy your videos. 😁
idont think hes actually touching on the phobia.
It's not the big things that scare me, it's the little things, the little things crawling inside me.
you know what else is massive...?
Lemme guess. You're gonna make a mom joke. Here we go again.🙄😒
@kingkaijuboygodjira3116 bro is actually a boomer
Amazing job bro! Loved every second of this video.
cresendex cooking up another banger 🎉🎉
I think this is a remastered reupload he was talking about a little while back.
This video disappeared for a bit. Never ceases to amaze.
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this video is so good i haven't felt this feeling for quite a while
I recently discovered that I have megalophobia when I got chased by this massive 6’5 dude after calling him something not so nice. 😭
i was gonna use this as sleep aid but i kept having to unlock my phone to look at the art you were talking about, great video man!
What game is it at 5:25
Trynna find it too
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This Video is a prime example of why a well produced youtube video really has become the gold standard of journalistic expression.
Narration 9/10
Writing 10/10
Concept: 10/10
Thematic depth and research done 10/10
Thematic coherence 10/10
Truly a Masterpiece and one of the best Videos i have ever seen on UA-cam.
I think this video really misunderstands what phobias are on a fundamental level. It's not just being "scared" of something; they're a class of mental illness defined by extremely strong, irrational negative reactions to things that don't warrant them on their own basis. If so much as experiencing and being around whatever the subject of your phobia is doesn't set off a panic attack, then it's not a phobia.
Sooo close to 100k! glad to be here, thanks for your videos
just wanted to add on to how BEAUTIFUL your video essays are. I hope that one day in my public speaking classes at uni, I can even hold a candle to this
@@doomgongyt7024 Thank you, I wish you luck in your public speaking class