Wow, people are dumb and can't joke. And take politics too seriously. This song isn't political. It's ripping on the self pitying crowd that think they have it so bad but had a sweet life. Chill out.
People imagine things, more often than they actually SEE them. I mean, you gotta be delusional to see something political here. That particular crowd has always been notoriously non-poltical, for one thing. As far as I remember, the author is quite the anti-war progressist, tolerant leftie. But you wouldn't guess that in a million years, from such a video. He just happens to be able to see things from more than one position.
You know... one the one hand, some of the youth in fortunate, well developed areas really are spoiled and whiney. They really are. BUT. Youth mental health isn't a fucking joke, and I see songs like this as a product of their time. They haven't aged well and can be quite damaging. Not because I completely disagree with the message. Far from it, in fact, since Ive known a lot of Emos who complained about having nothing to complain about, but just because some one is white and living in a suburb doesn't mean there's nothing there. Even some one who is the most privileged looking on the outside might have major familial issues, be dealing with mental and emotional abuse or rampant neglect that their parents try to smooth over with gifts, leaving them confused, angry and feeling completely alone and isolated. They could be suffering from major mental or chemical imbalances that are going undiagnosed and untreated because their parents don't care, don't believe them or, maybe, even have the same kind of thinking as this song, saying "you've got nothing to be sad about, so grow the fuck up and deal with it." That's not everyone, obviously, and some of them are just hopping on trends because their friends do it or whatever, but I think it's important to differentiate between the two, because lumping every case together as "emotional trend hopping teenager" is dangerous. That's how we get kids breaking down, hurting themselves or others or growing up to be unbalanced and dangerous adults. I know this is a long comment and many wont care what I've had to say, but I wanted to get it out there regardless. I used to love this song when I was 18-22 and came back to listen to it again tonight and realized how much of this kind of dismissive shit I heard growing up. I lived in a tiny space in the basement from the ages of 14 to 18 because my moms boyfriends kids took all the other rooms but the master bedroom. I had no heater in my space, no light in my space except a lamp I attached to an extension cord I ran under my door. I was neglected, yelled at, abused, talked down to and ignored all my life, but because I was white and lived in a big house, no one cared. I was whiney. I needed to grow up. So, by the time I was 18, I felt every "Emo" was just being whiney. I didn't understand. I didn't even start to understand until mid 22 when a high school friend who never seemed to outgrow the emo phase hung himself. I had always told him to grow up, it wasnt that bad, everything would be fine. I never stopped to listen, just like every one else. I joined the military shortly after that. I had been applying for about a year and my background check finally went through and I got in. A couple years into my service, I was crippled in the line of duty. My left leg had been pretty fucked up and even doing logistics work was quite difficult as a result of my injuries. Eventually, I was medically released, seen as unfit for service. During the long release process, I tried twice to take my own life and failed both times. It wasn't until I started getting therapy after going back home that I started to realize the horrible shit I had lived through, that no one had listened to or cared about. I was diagnosed with severe clinical depression due to chemical imbalance and prescribed several medications to help that I'm still on today. If I had listened to my friend and talked to him instead of at him, maybe he would still be alive. If some one had listened to me and helped me earlier, maybe I wouldn't have tried to follow suite. So yeah, maybe some kids are just trend hopping. Or maybe, just MAYBE, we need to listen to what they're actually saying and try to help them, instead of brushing them off as whiney emo hippies. Sincerely, a crippled vet.
Also, it is a self-fulfilling prophesy. By being so self-pitying, they often get targeted by people for being as such, and so continue down a spiraling vortex of angst and depression. If they chose to do something about their problems, they would have less people ragging on them in the first place, and so could attempt a cheerier outlook on life. It doesn't matter what happened to them in the past. The here and now is what matters. Remember the past. Prepare for the future. Live for the moment.
i have yet seen an emo that hasnt had an i-pod, new cell, and brand name clothes. my god their lives are so hard *rolls eyes* this song speaks the true
thats when i just loose it i mean people have killed themselves for been call fat i mean life is fucking hard like way more that some punk ass kid trying to make you feel bad about yourself probably he is trying to project his anger and resentment towards you i think all this anti bulling carp is a pipe dream sure it would be nice but sometime i feel these people just need to grow a back bone and start to stand tall for themselves i know life has given me the back soo many times and many times i have been depressed to but need to move on stand up and at least try to make something out of your self i know it sounds like something that a father would say while scolding his child but its just the fucking truth no one and nothing will change if you don't change yourself and that's just a fucking fact of life
Dear Syzergy06, You're so right! I like your way of thinking man! Awesome! "Life is only as bad as you make it" that's a catch phrase I'll use later ;-)
He's expressing his feelings towards those teen's who think they have it bad when mommy and daddy buy them whatever they want, just so they can get attention. Also... This is hilarious, so lettuce bask in the greatness that is LICD, LFG and of course... BLIND FERRET FTW
thats basically what it is and why this song was created, for those who are taking away from the real depressed people and just trying to get noticed. No one wants anyone to commit suicide and no one wants anyone to snap and kill 43 people for no reason but also no one wants someone to sit around and take away from those who really did have a hard up bringing or rough patch in their life. Time spent wishing is time lost.
Yeah, I was thinking about commenting on this string even though it's months old. Apparently Mr. Pie Man didn't read his own wiki link, because it specifically says on there that the draft has not been used, you just have to register your name so that IF the draft is ever reinstated, they will know how many people they have available and who to look for.
One thing, even though I don't 100% like how people with problems are depicted here, I really really don't like how emo's can turn anything into a negative thing circling around themselves. Nicely depicted (I like that word) with the iPod, Myspace stuff etc.
@Shiruvi I agree completely on the fact that things beyond out control can in fact cause depression. I also acknowledge that medication can fix this. But it's fairly obvious, and has been proven time and time again, to -not be the best solution-. Ant-depressants can numb your other emotions as well. There are countless cases of people becoming more depressed after taking them, even. All of this -can- be solved on your own. In the end, medicating yourself is not and never will be the answer
dude trust me i have nothing against emos hell i used to think i was one then i saw through either a rlly bad dream or many constant thoughts and in all honesty i take pity on emos because they don't know... they just don't know how bad it actually is.
The way I see it, there are two classifications of "emo". One is the style, i.e. the clothes, hair and music. If that is what you're into, ok, fine by me. The other is the personality, i.e. "Oh woe is me, my life is sooo horrible". That is the one which is a load of crap. The concept of "emo" as an outlook on life is so mindbogglingly retarded that I really do just want to throttle anyone who thinks that way. There is no reason whatsoever to hate your life that much. Someone always has it worse.
Hot damn, you guys did it again, I love these video's hope you keep up with the good work. P.S would be awesome to see some more I love these parody's.
There are thousands of people in the world that are often in the same situations as them, if not worse, and yet they don't resort to self-pitying as a mode of expression. They do something about it, or at least try. We've all had bad times. I, for example, recently totaled my car, am being laid off, and am having a piss poor time at school trying to keep my grades up enough to keep my funding. But I don't start hating the world and complaining that my life sucks. I accept it and move on.
Amen, Sohmer! It's about time that emo teens put their woes into perspective and realized that they're not being persecuted because Mommy and Daddy wouldn't buy them a pony.
@hybridpsycho when you have absolutely no one to hang out with when you see everyone else having a great time, even negative attention like this is worth it
It still doesn't excuse them when they claim that "noone in this world is worse off than me". There's a difference between emotional fragility and plain out ignorance and stupidity.
it's not praticulairy about emo's it is about people who have a warm home, family and not really problems but still complain about shit while other people have been trough greater things.
because the actual episodes are planned to air on television, teletoon i think sohmer said in one of the newsposts, think of the musicals as a bonus while some legal crap gets worked out
@ometta7 Electrons move. They have a force, like gravity, but is in all cases except for black holes stronger. That makes them repel and pull other objects. That's pretty much it. The reason why not everything isn't as magnetic as other objects is because of the way the atoms are in that materia. In some, the electrons are more free, and then they move in a certain direction. That's pretty much how it works.
Exactly. You dress as you feel you wanna dress - not after your music taste. But emos BELIEVES they dress like they feel to dress. But it's just because they are emos they do it.
I never said anything about an iPhone. I don't care what part of America you live in, what part of the fiscal spectrum you're on, or if you're homeless. The worst day that anyone has here in this country is better than most days in many other countries. Because we have shelters, relief programs, counseling hotlines, and a vast number of other resources that makes sure even the poorest of people get what they need to live. Not many other places can say they have something like that.
By that logic IdleChris discriminates against those who discriminate, which means he's one of them, which means he discriminates against himself for discriminating.... *computer breaks from logic loop*
Freedom of opinion also means that people will disagree, and that means they will be critical of others. Freedom of expression doesn't mean "Everyone has to accept what I do", it means "Everyone is free to have a view", even if that view means giving you crap for yours. People need to grow skin and learn to deal with the fact that not everyone is on their side/ As for hate breeding war, so does love. War is just the name we give for a sizeable conflict. Conflict is everpresent, and necessary.
he's father might be violent have scared him for life as a kid, his mom might be an alchololic, he might have been bullied in school, never had any friends or gf. he might be all alone. you dont know. the fact of the matter is that you just asume he's faking it. what if he's not? what if he doesnt enjoy life? what if he's depressed? would you even care? would you feel sorry for him?
man,, one on my friends told me a story once. he and his buddy always hung out. his buddy was emo, and constantly bitched about killing himself. my friend one day got fed up and told his buddy to do it already, and that he would even help. his buddy got offended and stopped being emo.
This song....is the greatest thing ever when it comes to one of the biggest problems in north america, like the people who really have a place being super emo are generally actually really enthusiastic about life. Basically the only kids in North America who shouldn't have this song drilled in is the ones who actually have clinical depression, and hell even they are generally enthusiastic sometimes.
He's pretty good at writing these song parodies I would have to agree...and you know what else is funny? He reminds me of the cartoon Jackie Chan from "Jackie Chan Adventures" that I used to watch as a child....but this guy is just as comical in more adult fashion! :)
After the whole performance all I am saying "You're one to talk"
I literally stopped reading the comics like a decade ago for that reason....literally went from being funny to every comic being political.
@@Darkslayer274 same here
@@joimumu I'm still emo and laughing at this 15 years later. Richard carried LICD while not being in it.
So happy. I think the youtube algorithm is finally starting to show me what I want to see and I havent listened to this song in a while.
This remains accurate after all this time
boomer
I have been looking for this son for over 7 years now. I have never been happier. so many memories
Wow, people are dumb and can't joke. And take politics too seriously. This song isn't political. It's ripping on the self pitying crowd that think they have it so bad but had a sweet life. Chill out.
People imagine things, more often than they actually SEE them. I mean, you gotta be delusional to see something political here. That particular crowd has always been notoriously non-poltical, for one thing.
As far as I remember, the author is quite the anti-war progressist, tolerant leftie. But you wouldn't guess that in a million years, from such a video. He just happens to be able to see things from more than one position.
"Disliking a person on the sole base of what they...do... is discrimination." So you're not allowed to dislike people...ever?
You know... one the one hand, some of the youth in fortunate, well developed areas really are spoiled and whiney. They really are. BUT. Youth mental health isn't a fucking joke, and I see songs like this as a product of their time. They haven't aged well and can be quite damaging. Not because I completely disagree with the message. Far from it, in fact, since Ive known a lot of Emos who complained about having nothing to complain about, but just because some one is white and living in a suburb doesn't mean there's nothing there. Even some one who is the most privileged looking on the outside might have major familial issues, be dealing with mental and emotional abuse or rampant neglect that their parents try to smooth over with gifts, leaving them confused, angry and feeling completely alone and isolated. They could be suffering from major mental or chemical imbalances that are going undiagnosed and untreated because their parents don't care, don't believe them or, maybe, even have the same kind of thinking as this song, saying "you've got nothing to be sad about, so grow the fuck up and deal with it." That's not everyone, obviously, and some of them are just hopping on trends because their friends do it or whatever, but I think it's important to differentiate between the two, because lumping every case together as "emotional trend hopping teenager" is dangerous. That's how we get kids breaking down, hurting themselves or others or growing up to be unbalanced and dangerous adults.
I know this is a long comment and many wont care what I've had to say, but I wanted to get it out there regardless. I used to love this song when I was 18-22 and came back to listen to it again tonight and realized how much of this kind of dismissive shit I heard growing up. I lived in a tiny space in the basement from the ages of 14 to 18 because my moms boyfriends kids took all the other rooms but the master bedroom. I had no heater in my space, no light in my space except a lamp I attached to an extension cord I ran under my door. I was neglected, yelled at, abused, talked down to and ignored all my life, but because I was white and lived in a big house, no one cared. I was whiney. I needed to grow up. So, by the time I was 18, I felt every "Emo" was just being whiney. I didn't understand. I didn't even start to understand until mid 22 when a high school friend who never seemed to outgrow the emo phase hung himself. I had always told him to grow up, it wasnt that bad, everything would be fine. I never stopped to listen, just like every one else. I joined the military shortly after that. I had been applying for about a year and my background check finally went through and I got in. A couple years into my service, I was crippled in the line of duty. My left leg had been pretty fucked up and even doing logistics work was quite difficult as a result of my injuries. Eventually, I was medically released, seen as unfit for service. During the long release process, I tried twice to take my own life and failed both times.
It wasn't until I started getting therapy after going back home that I started to realize the horrible shit I had lived through, that no one had listened to or cared about. I was diagnosed with severe clinical depression due to chemical imbalance and prescribed several medications to help that I'm still on today. If I had listened to my friend and talked to him instead of at him, maybe he would still be alive. If some one had listened to me and helped me earlier, maybe I wouldn't have tried to follow suite. So yeah, maybe some kids are just trend hopping. Or maybe, just MAYBE, we need to listen to what they're actually saying and try to help them, instead of brushing them off as whiney emo hippies.
Sincerely, a crippled vet.
Also, it is a self-fulfilling prophesy. By being so self-pitying, they often get targeted by people for being as such, and so continue down a spiraling vortex of angst and depression. If they chose to do something about their problems, they would have less people ragging on them in the first place, and so could attempt a cheerier outlook on life. It doesn't matter what happened to them in the past. The here and now is what matters. Remember the past. Prepare for the future. Live for the moment.
This hasn't aged well
Ah, this song brings a fuzzy, warm feeling to my heart.
Applies more to right-wing fox news views than goth/emo kids these days XD
To be fair the people who watch Fox usually have jobs.
*chuckle* After reading the entire comic, this is awesome. Rayne be awesome.
song needs an update
This should get an award.
anti emo song ftw
So I see you're living up to your full potential now. Good job. :-)
he kind of looked like jackie chan >.>
i have yet seen an emo that hasnt had an i-pod, new cell, and brand name clothes. my god their lives are so hard *rolls eyes* this song speaks the true
thats when i just loose it i mean people have killed themselves for been call fat i mean life is fucking hard like way more that some punk ass kid trying to make you feel bad about yourself probably he is trying to project his anger and resentment towards you i think all this anti bulling carp is a pipe dream sure it would be nice but sometime i feel these people just need to grow a back bone and start to stand tall for themselves i know life has given me the back soo many times and many times i have been depressed to but need to move on stand up and at least try to make something out of your self i know it sounds like something that a father would say while scolding his child but its just the fucking truth no one and nothing will change if you don't change yourself and that's just a fucking fact of life
SO MUCH WIN!!!! I can't "like" this enough times.
I like how 80% of the people completely missed the point of this video.
Dear Syzergy06,
You're so right! I like your way of thinking man!
Awesome! "Life is only as bad as you make it" that's a catch phrase I'll use later ;-)
He's expressing his feelings towards those teen's who think they have it bad when mommy and daddy buy them whatever they want, just so they can get attention.
Also... This is hilarious, so lettuce bask in the greatness that is LICD, LFG and of course... BLIND FERRET FTW
It's about how they overplay the smallest problems they have like it is the worst thing that can happen.
IT IS BRILLIANT!
thats basically what it is and why this song was created, for those who are taking away from the real depressed people and just trying to get noticed.
No one wants anyone to commit suicide and no one wants anyone to snap and kill 43 people for no reason but also no one wants someone to sit around and take away from those who really did have a hard up bringing or rough patch in their life.
Time spent wishing is time lost.
This is why we love Rayne :)
in arguments on the internet, you lose even when you win
my new fav music video on TH-cam
@SusanoTengu actually emo was a type of music, meaning emotional, could mean any emotion, it just got linked to sad and angry due to society.
The sounds like something onision word write ... I love it
oof
Yeah, I was thinking about commenting on this string even though it's months old. Apparently Mr. Pie Man didn't read his own wiki link, because it specifically says on there that the draft has not been used, you just have to register your name so that IF the draft is ever reinstated, they will know how many people they have available and who to look for.
love this vid. i know so many people that fit this description... whining about every little thing and really nothing to complain about at all
One thing, even though I don't 100% like how people with problems are depicted here, I really really don't like how emo's can turn anything into a negative thing circling around themselves. Nicely depicted (I like that word) with the iPod, Myspace stuff etc.
i love this song.
If everyone is equal, noone is unique. We would all be perfect clones of each other.
I refuse to believe that.
Haha xD the end where he gets hit by the mic is great xD laughed so hard
@Shiruvi I agree completely on the fact that things beyond out control can in fact cause depression. I also acknowledge that medication can fix this. But it's fairly obvious, and has been proven time and time again, to -not be the best solution-. Ant-depressants can numb your other emotions as well. There are countless cases of people becoming more depressed after taking them, even. All of this -can- be solved on your own. In the end, medicating yourself is not and never will be the answer
Rayne sounds like his creator because he's a mouthpiece for him.
People that are emo can feel upset inside and are too afraid to express it. So, yes they do have reasons for it.
dude trust me i have nothing against emos hell i used to think i was one then i saw through either a rlly bad dream or many constant thoughts and in all honesty i take pity on emos because they don't know... they just don't know how bad it actually is.
The way I see it, there are two classifications of "emo". One is the style, i.e. the clothes, hair and music. If that is what you're into, ok, fine by me. The other is the personality, i.e. "Oh woe is me, my life is sooo horrible". That is the one which is a load of crap. The concept of "emo" as an outlook on life is so mindbogglingly retarded that I really do just want to throttle anyone who thinks that way. There is no reason whatsoever to hate your life that much. Someone always has it worse.
i love this song
Perfect.....totally perfect.
I love this guy!
dud thank you for uploading this i a good song and makes a lot of sense
Hot damn, you guys did it again, I love these video's hope you keep up with the good work. P.S would be awesome to see some more I love these parody's.
There are thousands of people in the world that are often in the same situations as them, if not worse, and yet they don't resort to self-pitying as a mode of expression. They do something about it, or at least try. We've all had bad times. I, for example, recently totaled my car, am being laid off, and am having a piss poor time at school trying to keep my grades up enough to keep my funding. But I don't start hating the world and complaining that my life sucks. I accept it and move on.
Amen, Sohmer! It's about time that emo teens put their woes into perspective and realized that they're not being persecuted because Mommy and Daddy wouldn't buy them a pony.
Roflmao your atempts of telling someone off are hilarious please continue. X)
I love it.
Here Here, I second that motion.
for those who don't know it, this is based on a webcomic. like it or not, but have a look before you shoot it down.
Each one only knows how hard is fighting depending on how hard were his fights.
I love this guy.
which makes there situations even more tragic.
. . . . Thanks to this video I can't say words
@hybridpsycho when you have absolutely no one to hang out with when you see everyone else having a great time, even negative attention like this is worth it
i have to agree with Rayne. and. awesome song.
Best...
Song...
Ever! :)
I love the high school musical and hello kitty poster in the background ^^P
Thumbs up to the millions!
It still doesn't excuse them when they claim that "noone in this world is worse off than me". There's a difference between emotional fragility and plain out ignorance and stupidity.
that was so brilliant
thank you
it's not praticulairy about emo's it is about people who have a warm home, family and not really problems but still complain about shit while other people have been trough greater things.
because the actual episodes are planned to air on television, teletoon i think sohmer said in one of the newsposts, think of the musicals as a bonus while some legal crap gets worked out
@ometta7
Electrons move. They have a force, like gravity, but is in all cases except for black holes stronger. That makes them repel and pull other objects. That's pretty much it. The reason why not everything isn't as magnetic as other objects is because of the way the atoms are in that materia. In some, the electrons are more free, and then they move in a certain direction. That's pretty much how it works.
Bet THAT went into his LiveJournal pretty quickly...
Me too
what he means is that he shouldn't complain about his life when their are people far worse off than him
Really puts things in perspective.
lol love the parody of "welcome to my life"
so very true I love this video.
This is an official video. There is apparently a series being made but Lar and Sohmer have had to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
There are very few teenagers worthy of living long enough to stop being a teenager.
"Get a JOB!!" Luv that line. LMAS. U know, the man does have a point in this song.
Exactly. You dress as you feel you wanna dress - not after your music taste. But emos BELIEVES they dress like they feel to dress. But it's just because they are emos they do it.
They Say that You can See your future in the resulting flash. Most people claim it to be "very breif"
I never said anything about an iPhone. I don't care what part of America you live in, what part of the fiscal spectrum you're on, or if you're homeless. The worst day that anyone has here in this country is better than most days in many other countries. Because we have shelters, relief programs, counseling hotlines, and a vast number of other resources that makes sure even the poorest of people get what they need to live. Not many other places can say they have something like that.
i like this voice for rayne
By that logic IdleChris discriminates against those who discriminate, which means he's one of them, which means he discriminates against himself for discriminating.... *computer breaks from logic loop*
your voice is awsum XD
how do you animate so smothly ? I admire it so much !
brilliant vid straight to favs !
i like how the emo has hello kitty on his wall
This needs to be played over my school's loudspeaker system...
best poem in the comic
Freedom of opinion also means that people will disagree, and that means they will be critical of others. Freedom of expression doesn't mean "Everyone has to accept what I do", it means "Everyone is free to have a view", even if that view means giving you crap for yours.
People need to grow skin and learn to deal with the fact that not everyone is on their side/
As for hate breeding war, so does love. War is just the name we give for a sizeable conflict. Conflict is everpresent, and necessary.
I have never heard a more meaningful and truthful song in my life. kudos to the writer
'Not of the gay persuasion' makes me think the original lyric might not have been 'shit'...
he's father might be violent have scared him for life as a kid, his mom might be an alchololic, he might have been bullied in school, never had any friends or gf. he might be all alone. you dont know. the fact of the matter is that you just asume he's faking it. what if he's not? what if he doesnt enjoy life? what if he's depressed? would you even care? would you feel sorry for him?
Oh man, I've almost forgotten about this comic. now I can't help but wonder what's happened since.
awsome work
We need a re-release of all of these
Wonderful song, mostly true aswell.
Love it!
This is my favorite song ever, I just wish more people could see this. I want this to be Numa Numa status with views.
man,, one on my friends told me a story once.
he and his buddy always hung out. his buddy was emo, and constantly bitched about killing himself. my friend one day got fed up and told his buddy to do it already, and that he would even help.
his buddy got offended and stopped being emo.
This song....is the greatest thing ever when it comes to one of the biggest problems in north america, like the people who really have a place being super emo are generally actually really enthusiastic about life. Basically the only kids in North America who shouldn't have this song drilled in is the ones who actually have clinical depression, and hell even they are generally enthusiastic sometimes.
wow COLD BLOODED....I LOVE IT two fat thumbs up
He's pretty good at writing these song parodies I would have to agree...and you know what else is funny?
He reminds me of the cartoon Jackie Chan from "Jackie Chan Adventures" that I used to watch as a child....but this guy is just as comical in more adult fashion! :)
i love this