Making Cryptids for our Own Hometowns
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ต.ค. 2023
- Nathan, Jacob, Karina, and Julia each draw a new cryptid to represent their hometown.
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I love that Julia doesn't need a costume for her intro image
For Julia, it's always Halloween
under the bag shes wearing things so horrifying she preemptively hid it under the bag
Right because her paper bag avatar is basically a ghost
It would've been funnier if she had like a semi-realistic self-portrait for Halloween
she's always spooky
Jacob: Demon
Nathan: Vampire
Karina: Grim Reaper
Julia: Already horrifying
Na Jacob's just cosplaying rubberross
Edit: Julia - always horrifying
already on theme, not horrifying.
Jacob looks like Rubber Ross to me 😂
@@JulianLurain EXACTLY
Nathan's refusal to 'yes and...' anyone or anything while he was drawing was fucking hilarious
The crawb master takes no suggestions!
It was a familiar mood to when he had to draw Mewobiba
@@LifesNeverHumDrum The pained resignation could be neither seen nor heard, and yet, it sure could be _felt._
julia has never resonated with a character so fast as that damn crab
merobiba is a close second
Anybody down for some tennis
I'm dying at the exasperated delivery of this sentence
im getting STEAMED
It’s a very Julia character-a strange creature with a handsome face
I love when Nathan straight up ignores a joke
if you asked nathan how he felt about merobiba's crawbtids, he might lose touch entirely and ignore everything for all time
It’s a real power move
2:22
Nathan gave "show me those crahbtids" exactly the acknowledgement it deserved.
Granted, I also ignored that joke, but mainly because of the nose Nathan started drawing right then
I enjoy how incoherent Karina's description of the Houston mall is. The part of the Galleria is empty, but people go there, but there's stores open, but none of the stores are open, and you can't access it except through the Macy's, except actually you can. I completely believe these are all simultaneously true.
Honestly that just sounds like every mall lmao
It’s accurate. The Galleria is pretty huge. And her description is pretty spot on. I forget about that part of the Galleria in fact.
Jacob saying "I have an OnlyFans" right as I took a sip of coffee was the ultimate test of self control.
did you pass!?
Saw this comment before it happened in the episode and I was terrified of what the context could've been.
as a person from maryland who went to school on long island and is currently living in downtown brooklyn, this was a big episode for me
What are the odds omg
as someone who just found out from this episode that jacob is from the exact same suburb as me, i feel you
@@thefinalfrontearhell yeah me too! I drive past the goddamn big chicken every time I go to work
All this inside the big city of Houston
Fellow marylander here! M.D is actually the home of the cryptid Goat Man!
"This is Texas Gothic" is so true. It's night. You can smell the rain coming, it's hotter than it was two hours ago, and there are lights reflecting back at you from the access road. There are too many of them. None of the street lights are the same color.
poetic, specific, and existensial, 10/10
I'm from semi-rural Britain and, whoah, I've never been anywhere like that but I just was just there.
Except it's Houston so they'd call it a feeder road
I love how Julia is just Julia it has balanced with the time she had to make her avatar twice cuz the first one was "too spooky"
it was more because the first one triggered everyone’s latent trypophobia worse than a freaking Suriname toad
@@IsaacMayerCreativeWorkstrypophobia is still a phobia. Julia’s icon still inspired fear
I get that people can't control their phobias I just feel really bad for her cuz she clearly gave it a lot of love and she is always overworked so making another one was just another nail in the coffin
Even though I am not sure if it's fully trypophobia that shes triggered since she didn't really made enough of them for pattern and let's face it comparing human with six eyes to frog that shoots babies out of holes in their back is a little cruel if you want to make case for phobia I would rather go with Ommetaphobia cuz it's literally fear of eyes
@@harpeowl not that it matters much in this context, but people can seek treatments for phobias. I’ve personally significantly benefited from exposure therapy.
Okay but imagine if Julia's sprite had the Soulmon hat on
Yes. That would have been the only way to make it more perfect.
Omg missed opportunity
I thought just a ghost bedsheet instead of a paper bag, but your idea is funnier
BRILLIANT
@@genericname8727counterpoint ghost sheet overtop of the paper bag
For those saying that Julia's avatar didn't changed, she bought a new bag 🛍️ this one is cleaner inside 💕
Julia would never ever wear a dirty bag
😂
That's self care!
I’m thinking of that Vine where the person had multiple bags on their head with the anime face and took them off one at a time
First episode I've watched in over a year and Jacob immediately losing the cadence of the intro instantly told me that nothing has changed. This show is perfect.
welcome back :D
Welcome back friend!
We missed you
Lol so many people have said welcome back! That’s what I was gonna do :)
Please don’t leave us again
When the crabman feeling shy or coy on onlyfans, you can say he's being croquettish 👀
Ooh I like this one. very whimsical, would read again.
He is indeed a Croque Monsieur
isn't that a Nathan joke ?
@@artusartI read it in Nathan's voice 😂
Karina nailed it with the increasingly higher unfinished ramps and billboards advertising things that don't really need to be on billboards
My first impressions of the new avatars: Jacob is a unicorn, Nathan dyed his hair, Karina got a second job, Julia.
“karina got a second job” is so in character for her😂
Karina's avatar kinda looks loke her neopet fonts !
I love that Julia’s avatar didn’t change
Because she’s already spooky enough >:3
Your forgetting how she puts in hours of drawing, only to cover it up as she only needed to know where the corners of the bags were to go
@@pichughost7974 am I the only one not following…
@@pichughost7974 i’ve read what you said multiple times and I still have no idea what you’re saying
@@raccoon_pawzThey're saying that Julia is the kind of artist to draw the whole head, face, and hair just to accurately place a paper bag over
Julia has independently stumbled upon Griffin McElroy's "my name's Bethany Esda joke. Amazing
i'm so glad i'm not the only one who accidentally internalized that one off joke from like five years ago. every single time someone says "Bethesda" regardless of if it's the company or the place, i think "bethany esda lol"
It may have floated up from the recesses of her memory, the Drawfee crew are known McElroy content absorbers.
FINAL PAM SUPREMACY!!
I'm so sorry, I hate to do this, if you're referring to the first episode of the Final Pam's trilogy and not a different time I can't remember, it was Justin who said it and Griffin scolded him for making such a dumb joke when he felt so much pressure to get the episode right for fallout 4
Bethany Esda and Travis' pronunciation of 'straw-berry' have been forever lodged in my mind, like a reverse lobotomy
"Are any cryptids actually named after the place they're from?" "No"
You know, other than the Jersey Devil and the Loch Ness Monster, 2 pretty well known cryptids
Fresno Nightcrawler
As a Houstonian, yah, the city itself is a cryptid. The outer loop cryptid is real and terrifying
I like the idea that a giant chicken themed KFC will just randomly
_be on the other side of the street_
and everyone is just "well, I guess the moon is up to somethin"
and goes on with their day.
As a Texas native, I can confirm that Karina’s cryptid for Houston is painfully accurate. Driving through any big city in Texas is hell. And Texas is already basically hell with the heat. Texans either love or hate Texas. Or they have a mix of both love and hatred due to Stockholm syndrome. We have literal meme pages where we gather together to laugh in morbid sadness that it’s year like 26 of a certain highway being under construction because *they’re always under construction* and most have given up hope of seeing a finished highway in the big city in their lifetime.
"Hometown Cryptid" sound like the name of a dope band I'd listen too! 😂
I heard once that cities in Texas are legally allowed to consume smaller municipalities under fairly broad conditions, and that's how Houston essentially became a cross between a cryptid and one of the cities from Mortal Engines. Literal municipal darwinism 😂
It's a thing, called municipal annexation. Actual incorporated towns can fight it, but there's precedent for Houston being given extrajudicial authority and can prevent surrounding towns from incorporating, leaving them simple municipalities that can't fight annexation. Wooo!
Holy shit Mortal Engines MENTIONED. My favorite book series!
huh. there's a neighborhood in my city that's maintained its status as like a separate town iirc despite being fully engulfed by the city. it's just like a few blocks of houses behind the mall, but i think it's got its own police joint (idk if it counts as a station, it's in a civil-asset-forfeitured house i think) to enforce their lower speed limits. it's gotta be all a big scheme to protect rich ppl's property values or smth
just in case anyone was curious what happens when you do the opposite of Houston. maybe if my city ate its enclave and its richer suburbs it could afford to fund schools. it probably wouldn't, it would go to "encouraging business development" and "inviting investment" but y'know. and we don't even get Bucees.
@@hp8685 lol, Houston has several "cities" that are fully engulfed but still exist separately. Bellaire is one of them. It's a nice area with lots of homes.
Isn't...what was it called..."the Meadows" or "The Glen" or something; I remember that being separate, and you have to drive REAAAALLY carefully through it because they (presumably, apparently) get the funding to survive by ticketing passers-through? I once saw a cop car there, and did a double take, it looked like a normal white car, but had "police" written in off-white, like they were camoflaged
I'm glad that the cannon that Julia killed and turned Nathan into a vampire is consistent in this opening
The way I just raised both arms over my head and shouted "IT'S THE BIG CHICKEEEEEN" when Jacob's started and I saw *that shape*.
39:27 Julia telling jacob that the fettucine alfredo she ordered tastes like heavy cream and cheese reminds me of the time my friend who has lactose intolerance ordered a latte, apparently not realizing that this was one of the coffee drinks that would have the most milk lmaooo
Julia saying, “Da speewitts” and generally talking in that voice is so oddly enjoyable to me and just scratches the happy part of my brain every damn time.
Nathan's cryptid: Kills you by exhaustion, forces you to continuously play country club games while hitting you with terrible puns all the time.
Jacob's cryptid: Crosses the street when you look away, confounds your mind.
Karina's cryptid: Blocks the way out of town and redirects your car into an endless maze of construction spots until the only way out is by throwing your car off a bridge into a body of water.
Julia's cryptid: Always sighted at the corner of your sights carrying all the items you wanted to buy, but that are no longer available. Disappears before you can actually look at it, but you might hear them laugh.
As a current Atlanta-area resident, as soon as Jacob said "Marietta Landmark," I knew we were gettin' a Giant Chicken. He did not disappoint! =D
As a Georgia resident this really made me happy as well. I wish he could have animated it’s googly eye
My husband now wants Jacob's cryptid on a shirt because he loved it so much. We knew we were getting a chicken too lmao.
@@whateversam96 oh no, now i want a metal peach mecha and a "corn COBB galleria" kaiju.
i like to think that jacob and karina's drawings are a shot-reverse-shot of each other
Beth Esda is definitely living off a crust fund
This is brilliant
Julia not having a halloween-sona this year is very accurate
glowing figure with a paper bag works for every event tbh
my first thought for a Bethesda, Maryland cryptid was just a Supermutant who works as a game dev, so props to Nathan for creating something original lol
My mind went straight to the games studio too 😅
When I saw the stork eyes I was like "AH! Of course! Bethesda's famous for their Bugs!"
"This is an aged Ojama"
An Oldjama, if you will.
president oldjama...
"The dead mall with the one store that's still there you go to" is such a niche specific, but universal experience.
It's not but it sounds like fun
It's not universal. I speak from experience.
@@cuckoobrain7999 it is in any north america suburb
The return of Julia’s fancy guy voice! I wonder if Clubcrab and William Kerr are friends
As Julia was describing Long Island, I looked it up on Google maps and dropped the little street view guy on a random road and the first thing I saw was a permanently closed diner on the corner of a grey intersection. I see what she means lol
During Jacob's drawing
Nathan: "This is very ominous"
Karina - at basically the same time: "Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww"
I worked the Texas Renaissance Festival North of Houston for four years, and Karina just drew my commute back home at 10 pm every Sunday night. RIP 59 Diner 😔
Julia really did Long Island proud with wolf whitman. truly the best representation of my horrible little home we could ask for
Suggestion: Holidays as Dark Soul bosses.
Hanukkah and Día de Muertos come to mind.
Hamen, Dark Vizier
Judah, Acolyte of the Lamps
Esther, Icon of Coercion
…and of course the final boss…
God, the Lord
Effigy of Joy, Santa Clause
Reaper of the Rio Grande, Senora Muerte
love this idea!!
Moses, Bringer of Plague
Jacob’s jokes being fully ignored by all of them 3 times 🤣
Comedy comes in 3’s
I never understood how lactose intolerant people could eat so much dairy stuff until i spontaneously developed lactose intolerance. now every time i see ice cream i run through speedy calculations in my brain about how far i'm going to be from a toilet and how bad it will be to shit my brains out and the answer is always "it's worth it for ice cream"
I have never met a single human with lactose intolerance that took their lactose intolerance seriously. 😂
@danielled8665 and I only know one lactose intolerant person who avoids dairy. The other ones I know take lactaid and eat ice cream loool
Julia seems to be having fun this episode. Sometimes I worry about her stress levels dealing with the business side of things and some episodes she seems drained. Good to see her giddy and making dumb jokes.
the halloween costumes on the avatars are so cute, vampire nathan fills me with unbridled joy
The idea of a whole city being a cryptid is so cool.
The second Nathan said "crabtid" I immediately thought "...haha crabtiddies" and right on cue Jacob followed suit 😂
My home town also had a Big Chicken! But instead of a stylistic KFC, it was just a twenty-foot tall realistic statue of a chicken that sat outside of PD's Used Furniture Barn.
It looks like Nathan's cryptid got slammed in the face with a door a little too much.
Hometown Cryptid is gonna be my new band name. Forget that i dont make music, i just know it in my heart.
the halloween portraits are really cute!! love that julia was wearing hers the whole time in preparation for this! ....right?
It is a great band name, I would listen to their music... probably
I love that despite being directly prompted several times, Nathan never actually explains explicitly that the crahb is country club themed because Bethesda is an EXTREMELY wealthy/bougie suburb of Washington DC
Karina is talking about Aka Manto, who offers you red or blue toilet paper. Red means you get cut, blue means choked. You have to not answer or ask him for a different color in order to survive, according to some versions
Edit: they figured it out lol
Isn’t there another Japanese cryptid that’s a woman who asks you if she’s beautiful? I know both yes and no are wrong answers and I think one of them she cuts a smile into your face?? I think? I could be mega wrong though.
@@yotsuyuyagiyama2443 Yeah that's Kuchisake Onna! You distract her with candy or tell her she's so-so to survive. Or ask if she thinks you're beautiful instead of answering.
Wild, I grew up knowing this legend as being perpetrated by a spirit of a girl who killed herself named Hanako-chan
Fun fact: I live very close to Marietta GA, when the big chicken kfc was being constructed, my aunt unintentionally stole the beak of the big chicken from them thinking it would make a great table. She realized a few days later and returned it lol
As a houstonian, everything karina has said hits so hard, RIP 59 diner indeed
Karina’s drawing is genuinely a little unsettling. It’s very liminal space-y and captures exactly what it feels like driving across a highway alone at night
Highways in Houston are genuinely a little unsettling, so I think she nailed it! 😆
I went to college in Marietta so I knew there was no other choice than The Big Chicken™️ when I clicked this video. So happy to see him 🩷
This may be just because I’m from a small town but Dairy Queen feels like a place that should only exist in small areas where there literally nothing else to do. Like that is the activity. Everyone goes to dq and then go and create chaos and commit minor crimes with fellow teenagers
24:16 truly terrifying to imagine a monster running after you at full speed, his slides FWOPFWOPFWOPing with the speed of a helicopter blade.
"They all hang out in the middle of the road" Hey, like the Beatles!
I love the fact that Julia's portrait doesn't change lmao
Hearing Jacob say "Marietta, Georgia" gave me so much whiplash. I never knew that was where he was from; I literally lived there for most of my high school years with my grandmother, and I've seen the Big Chicken!!
I just never heard anyone mention or know of Marietta when referring to Georgia, it's always Atlanta! Wow ☺️ I feel seen and like... idk I'm just vibing with these new facts right now. Me and Jacob Drawfee have existed in the same place! Wow!
the amount of restraint it must have taken to not make a single todd howard joke. admirable
For some reason, I'm flashing back to the era of Drawfee when they talked about the Rainforest Cafe nonstop.
everyone’s voices for nathan’s sportcrab give me vibes of some uptight royal from adventure time
8:20 I guess that means he could say: “you’re cooking my crab cake”
"Every so often, in the middle of the night, monument is inexplicably on the other side of the road" is actually perfect cryptid/urban legend fodder
As a lactose intolerant person, I am not ready to risk it all because while other people just poop a ton, I have immense tear-inducing pain for an hour+ before that
*Drawing Suggestion:* The Celebrity sketch artist Challenge: Eldritch horror Edition!!!
Each artist picks an "indescribable" horror to "describe" to the other and can only do so with yes or no answers/questions
Q: "Is it big" A: "Yes.... but also No"
Yes! I love this idea
God, haven't they done something like that? Either way that's an amazing idea
@@rianantony They did stuff with Eldritch monsters more than a couple of years ago now but never anything as chaotic as this
is the tentacle scale vaguely standard?
I was going to say they did this already, but they didn’t do it with the celebrity sketch artist *expert rules* (yknow, the ones that they implemented so the sketch artist challenges didn’t keep generating hours of footage each). I approve this idea wholeheartedly
Japan has several toilet-related youkai, the one Karina mentioned is Aka Manto/Ao Manto (red cape/blue cape respectively), though I'm not aware of it being a woman. It's said to offer you a choice of red or blue toilet paper, red gets you beaten to death, blue gets you strangled. The way to escape the situation is to say nothing or refuse. Since it's an urban legend, there are variations to the story.
Karina remembering the "no good choice" of at least 10 different Japanese ghost stories (including one of the many toilet ones!) is already peak Drawfee, thank you for this blessing
As someone who grew up in Dallas, I feel Karina on a spiritual level 😅 Large cities in Texas are like cryptids themselves
The deadpan sass on Nathan in this episode is truly iconic behavior
If I were to invent a cryptid for my town I'd call it the "Campus Kraken" and it'd be this spindly humanoid with moose horns and nerdy glasses. "Krake" is Swedish slang for someone who's meek, weak, or otherwise sensitive. I live in a college/university town so everybody here's like a nerd, including myself, and most of us are slim, skinny, or outright spindly. There's no moose here specifically, but given the fact that the moose (Eurasian Elk) tends to prowl the countryside it works. It also happens to be the national animal of Sweden.
Without exaggeration, that's just what houston looks like. karina did a great job.
Nathan Vampire is giving Count von Count vibes, very friend shaped
The two things I love most in the world are Pokémon and drag queens. Could you please do pokemon inspired by drag queen outfits (eg. Yvie Oddly's mushroom look) or drag queens that are pokemon coded (eg. Mawile as an outfit)? I think Willie would be a great guest for the episode, if possible!
Woah Bethesda moment!!!!!!! My childhood home was real close to there! I love to see Marylanders out in the wild, feel like I don't see many
Also shout out to goatman, love that guy
I shared this video with some friends who also grew up near Bethesda and they agreed Nathan's design was spot on: "Oh yeah. That cryptid has strong, sincerely held opinions about steak seasoning, private government contracts, and annual gift tax exemption limits - and literally nothing else."
Finally! Big chicken representation!
Fun fact: there's a cookout right across the road from the big chicken. So I guess that's why.
I love that Julia is the only one not wearing a costume. It’s perfect
My first thought as a Houstonian was for it to be an orange barrel or hazard cone and I’m so happy that is what Karina started off with. H-Town Till I Drown!
Having grown up in a neighboring suburb of Bethesda, this is on point. Rich, self important, and that weird thing where all of us MD natives take pride in crab despite the fact that we have extremely limited access to the crabbing industry in many parts of the state. Gotta travel an hour north to Annapolis for the good stuff.
I'm always delighted to see people learning that the Snallygaster is from Maryland. My little guy!!
SPEED DRAWING SUGGESTION: advertisement posters for a nonsense product, like a yell-powered bicycle or a handheld toaster, idk but I know y'all would have fun, and Nathan would riff SO hard.
I grew up close to Bethesda and went to high school there, so Nathan's cryptid looks like a lot of the guys in high school. It's just missing the boat shoes on every crab foot 😂
i can't believe they missed "only clams"
great episode as always guys 😄
Can’t believe no one took the opportunity to call Nathan’s cryptid a Clubcrabtian horror
As a lesbian Marylander, I appreciated the "let me see those 🦀-tids" joke 😂
As a person currently in the middle of making a red vinyl corset for my lobster Halloween costume, I also very much appreciated that one
As a bisexual marylander I also appreciated it
All three of you are so damn valid oh my god
queer marylanders rise up 💪🦀
I absolutely love Julia's Halloween portrait! 🤌
I am so glad that Jacob, like myself, believes that the big chicken is a god who deserves worship with great devotion and frequency. Also in college I helped a friend make a short film about the big chicken coming to life. I was a cult leader
Speaking of cryptids named after towns, there is the Hopkinsville Goblin which served as the inspiration of sableye
Love all the new Halloween designs and then there's Julia. Never change 😂
I think I know the mall julia is referring to, but like everyother mall on long island also fits that description
Saw the thumbnail, already know there's gonna be an absurd amount of fanart for this one
Do I get to tell the tale of the Chesapeake Bae? There is a fun fact is a six foot tall woman could walk through most of the bay without wetting her hat and tumblr claimed her and made her a cryptid and as a Marylander I would do anything for her 15:25
What happens when an unstoppable object(Big Chicken) meets an immovable object(Houston)?
As a fellow native Houstonian who lives elsewhere now, I agree with all of it. Old Galleria is a weird place. The silent Saks Fifth Ave, the dim lighting in the halls... Houston and all its over passes, neverending construction, and constant long car rides+traffic take me out. Love 'The Outer Loop'.
EDIT: 59 DINER CLOSED?!?!?!?!?!?!!??
i really like the chunky black shadows julia does it makes any drawing she does feel finished
that's such a fun drawing prompt, a bit risky to do online what with being about your own home town, but probably great with friends