(reupload cause filter was wack) Hello again, this one's a little less scary than usual. This is to make up for what I'm subjecting you to on Friday. Good luck lol If you read this, comment "Massive" And if you saw this video already, no you didn't.
Super massive, you should watch Devs, if you don’t want to feel at peace ever again while also feeling sort of powerful. Edit: same director as Annihilation, if that makes it more attractive.
I’ve suffered from megalophobia my whole life, and it doesn’t matter how many times someone tells me the measurement of an animal or structure, I don’t feel fear until I can see an actual size comparison.
Many years ago, there was a discussion on reddit about some proof of concept turbines that we're going to be laid at the bottom of the ocean to test power generation from ocean currents. And someone pointed out that since these were being set up with venture funding, when the money runs out, the turbines would likely just be abandoned at the bottom of the ocean. Imagine scuba diving, and suddenly out of the dark, coming across what looks like the propeller blades of a scuttled ship, except it's just the propeller blades, and they're slowly moving, rusted. Suddenly, the current shifts, and you're being pulled towards the blades in the dark at the ocean floor.
This is factually false. It is impossible to complete a piece of media with a duration of approximately 22 minutes and 20 seconds, within a “10 second” window. This simply cannot be done. We cannot control time nor control ourselves to perceive time other than linear. Within my observation I have proven you in fact, incorrect. You simply cannot watch a 20 min video in 10 seconds. Hope this helped!!!!!!!!!!
Hello! I’m autistic with a special interest in outer space. Did you know there is a gamma ray cluster that is 9 BILLION light years across? It’s so cool!
For those who don't work on a farm or near horses, may not realize just how much bigger even a horse is than a human. I petted one on the head once while it was resting in a stall, and it leaning into my hand like a dog nearly knocked me over. Imagine how big an ELEPHANT is by that comparison Now compare that to a Blue Whale. Some people just don't quite understand just how IMMENSE some things can be.
I have grown obsessed with this channel. Your very intuitive and poetic explanations of things literally speaks the words of how my mind interprets what is being shown.
As a kid I felt that anxiety fishing in a small boat with my dad next to the edge of the dam at the lake, and for my brother it was on a tour of the engine room of the Queen Mary walking around its pistons the size of building columns
idk if u was being sarcastic abt it and i skimmed thru the video so im not sure, but the ISS will burn to nothing during atmospheric reentry, so its never touching the water, maybe a few individual pieces will survive, but definitely not the whole thing.
I think that giant structures are absolutely awesome to look at. The RT-64 is probably my favourite. The photo of it in the snowing background with a mad walking across the foreground is awesome.
Just thought I would mention the deepest humans have ever dug is a third of the way through the crust. The drill got way hotter than they thought it would be and everything broke.
Does being very uncomfortable in a room full of tall or large people count as megalophobia? I’m fine with a few people but being crammed in with lots of them makes me quite uncomfortable. Not scared, just anxious .
Might be more of a fear of crowds thing? Hard to say. But I kind of understand. I'm short, anyone taller than me is scary, especially if they're behind me. Large muscular things scare me too, like horses and bodybuilders. It isn't that I feel that they're actively challenging or threatening me, but that I know I have no ability to defend myself against anything larger or stronger if I had to, and it makes me nervous to put my faith in strange people/animals around me.
@@elkeclark5548 full grown women are about half a foot taller than that on average 😂 you're quite a bit shorter than the average woman, hate to break it to ya
I've had this reoccurring, nightmarish thought since I was a kid. I'll be sitting at my desk at night, just playing games or watching movies or writing and suddenly think about how at that very moment, deep in the ocean, there are hundreds of horrifying creatures just down there, swimming and hunting. Every time I think of it, I feel a chill go down my spine. I know fear of the ocean has become kind of a cliche since subnautica, but there is just something about looking into the expansive abyss of open ocean that is so powerful and hits me right in the gut.
I just discovered that i have megalophobia, it goes hand in hand with my fear of uncanny animatronics and taxidermied animals. I have had nightmares where im in a completely artificial environment surrounded by tall fake trees, with walls and extremely high ceilings painted to look like im outside when im not really. In these dreams, i have to walk through the building or whatever it is so i can get out, but most of the time i am legitimately petrified and cannot move because there will be or taxidermied lions or huge humanoid statues/animatronics along my path while loud sounds are playing. It will either be siren like sounds, a voice that sounds like a man talking on the radio in the 50s/60s playing extremely loud, or fake animal sounds. Usually the lighting is like, fluorescent bright lighting but ive also had dreams like these in almost complete darkness and i honestly cant say which is worse. I usually end up curling up on the floor and just closing my eyes because i cannot bring myself to get close to those things but i also cant accept being in that place surrounded by such artificiality, so sometimes i will try to crawl out while avoiding looking at them, but that has also resulted in me bumping into them before. I think its psychological horror at its finest and even though the dreams feel terrible while im there, i appreciate them once i wake up because its an inspiring kind of fear. Its a horror aesthetic that i very much love and would like to bring to life.
what’s horrifying is that if you shrunk earth to the size of pool ball if you touched it you wouldn’t feel any of the major landform as the groves that make you finger prints would be far deeper than the difference in height between the tallest peak and the lowest trench
Honestly I’m perfectly fine with this bc I can understand why we have this fear, it’s not like the uncanny valley where the fear being needed at all is scarier than the fear itself
I feel like Daniel would really like the Magnus Archives if he likes podcasts. there's so many little details and the soundscaping is insanely good! This video is very the Vast coded lol
Fun-but-kinda-not-fun fact: my husband’s high school mascot was a mushroom cloud. The Hanford site was where parts of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki were created and played a major role in the rest of the Manhattan project. They now pretend it’s because the Boeing B-17 was built in Seattle, but they’re nowhere near Seattle. A lot of Richland residents are oddly proud of it, it’s a really weird and scary place tbh.
Appreciated the special shout-out to my mom 8:42 😂 Also, my favorite big squid is the Magnapinna! Their body is much smaller than the giant or colossal squid, but their length is comparable because they have SUPER LONG TENTACLES
i think the only time i felt *dread* was just this last semester for my astronomy class. learning how massive all the planets are, how huge our sun is, other suns nearing their ends becoming absolutely gigantic, huge and brilliant supernovas, massive black holes swallowing anything that accidentally gets too close. but i think what really made me feel this way was seeing a picture of earth from one of the voyager spacecraft. just seeing this tiny lil pale blue dot just vibing amongst billions and trillions stars twinkling in the background. it was beautiful but ive never felt so tiny and worthless. and tge thing that set that feeling off even *more* was learning that everything in the universe is moving away from us, zooming away faster and faster each second. it freaks me out so much, but it makes me wanna learn more about the cosmos, no matter how small it makes me feel i think the only thing that kept me from having a full blown existential crisis was that we we're writing notes and listening to our teacher teach us. idk why, but those two things managed to make me calm down enough to not have a breakdown
I really don't get it when people hear or see that and have a breakdown or existential crisis. Like what did learning that possibly change for you in your life? That you're small? Insignificant? Humanity is insignificant? Earth alone can teach you all of that and more. I just really don't understand it. For me, I found it fascinating and humbling, and also sad that I would never get to actually see or explore any of it myself. The universe is absolutely beautiful, horrifying for sure, but beautiful without any doubt. Sorry if I came off rude, just genuinely curious why this would cause one to have a breakdown/existential crisis.
When he did the face reveal @1:20 I had the opposite of Megalophobia, dude is slight and looks like a kid, from the voice I expected a 50ish guy with a jolly build! 😸
12:33 I think mountains with a lot of perpendicular edges like this are giant ancient buildings that were melted during some kind of biblical cataclysm and the bricks they were made out of were the size of small houses
As a Transformers fan, I can't help but amp up the horror for myself even more as I imagine: "What if that giant dish in the thumbnail suddenly started to stand up?"
I've had this fear for as long as I can remember, but the triggers are quite specific. Very large structures don't entirely freak me out unless I'm at their base looking up and/or there's an obvious incongruity between size and form or some other disproportion. Colossi of any sort trip me right out. Anything big underwater is pure nightmare fuel as I'm also terribly thalassophobic. But just as you describe, underneath the desire to run I get a stim-like electric thrill and a weird sort of coziness in the presence of these things, which is absurdly contrary.
Two things truly terrify me. The idea of a wave of water so immense that it touches the sky, heading my way. And thinking about whats in all that black in space.
Don't worry, there's nothing in the inky black darkness of space. It just a dead empty vacuum, with a few rocks scattered throughout. Mostly just nothingness, the absence of anything.
@kazumahazeuzumaki I beg to differ. There are planets teeming with life yet to discover. As far as life is concerned we have centuries before we will know all there is to know
@Lupinotuum66 Alpha Centari is 40 trillions kms from the edge of the solar system. The closest thing to our star system, would take us 20,000 years to reach with current technology. That's the closest thing. Human history doesn't go back more than a few thousand years. Hypothetically, Anything that set out for Earth would go through so much technological and sociological change, and evolve so far from current biology that any negative intentions would be long forgotten before it arrived, if humanity even exists in 20,000 years. We genuinely never have to worry about almost anything in space. It is so incredibly far away that it's hard to fathom.
I don’t have megalophobia but do you want to know what kind of creeps me out? The thought of me seeing a bunch of abandoned stores on a random field in the middle of nowhere. It feels like a ghost field.
I've always thought that _"We've only mapped 5% of the ocean"_ seemed like an outdated statistic, surely nowadays we must've pushed it up a notch or two. And as it turns out yeah, as of the 21st of June 2024, the Seabed 2030 Group have mapped out 26.1% of the entire ocean, using sophisticated tools mounted to ships cruising through the world. Gotta say, even if 73.9% ain't as impressive as 95% it's still pretty wild how the ocean is just that huge we still haven't mapped out most of it, although I'm glad they're upping the percentage every year. Maybe someday we won't have the biggest unexplored place on earth, but the biggest map ever of it instead
Your comment about the whale calls is so REAL!! When I was little, in summer camp, the councilors would play whale calls during nap time. Actually terrified me so bad I had to nap in another room lmao. :D
Honestly you could make a whole megalophobia video on aquatic creatures. Japanese spider crabs, manta rays, mola molas, lion's mane jellyfish, oarfish, giant Pacific octopus, sperm whales, etc. Also, don't think that reference to Quint's "you know the thing about a shark, chief, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a dolls eyes" line from Jaws. You can't pull a fast one on me.
For me, I love titanic things, makes me feel humility, but if there is one thing I’m scared, it the abyss/ emptily vastness of the ocean. Which is scarier than space for me.
Do you mean the section on space or the bit of creative liberty I took describing an atomic mushroom cloud? My videos are fully scripted so I can totally just copy and paste sections for you!!
@ "Nuclear Explosion/Mushroom Cloud" Mushroom clouds. It might be because they generally are associated with bombs but the shadow of a massive cloud of poison actually terrifies me more that most other things on the list I made. Like, planets are just minding their own business, but these fuckers are going to give a region deformed children for generations. Look at this image of the Trinity Atomic Test taken July 16th 1945. The explosion actually burned through the film. The atomic mushroom cloud, an obscene parody of nature's own creation, blooms upwards with an unholy yet strangely symmetrical grace. A monstrous birth from the womb of destruction, it ascends, a grotesque parody of a living thing, pulsating with the afterbirth of a thousand shattered atoms. Radioactive ash rains down on the land below. Each snowflake of fallout carries a silent, deadly curse, and a promise of suffering. An endless decay. Nothing will grow here for a long time. The earth is ruined, all because we decided to invent our own annihilation. PART 4: Space Space might be my favorite way to give examples of the cosmic scale. There is very little way for our brains to visualize the vastness of the "space" in space, but by examining specific points of interest in our galaxy and wider universe we can find some really cool big things that make me dizzy in the head...
This is the first video of your's I've seen, and while I found it vary interesting, I'd also like to compliment you on the language used for describing some of these things. As someone who writes on the side, I can honestly say that I know that describing things with such poetic language is fucking hard. Good work.
Very random comment on my part, but if you haven't indulged in the content already. I would like to suggest a channel called "Daisy Brown". When I was younger the videos posted on that channel were disturbing, yet I couldn't help but be intrigued. I thought you would be interested considering the content you do video essays on. I don't exactly remember any major plot points of the series, but was very popular when I was a kid. Love the content bro. Keep up the good work, and I will be keeping an eye on your music channel👀👀!
I was physically unable to play the game no mans sky because the fear i felt whenever i had to leave a planet and float around in space. The most terrifying thing was when i went hyper speed, and a planet suddenly materialised in front of me. Same thing when i was flying through a planet and a mountain loaded in front of me. Felt silly because of how scared i was but this video really put it into words so thanks !!
As someone who has astromegalophobia and a sligjt fear of space, the scale of stars, galaxies, and nebula terrify me more than anything. The idea of being out in the emptiness of space, not a single thing being near me for hundreds of thousands of miles , fucck that. I don't know how astronauts do it,,
See I had absolutely no problem watching this video until we ventured into the ocean. I have megalophobia's water bound's cousin Thalassophobia. I hate whales and I especially hate those photos of divers swimming next to them to show just how big they are. I am absolutely staying out of the ocean, whatever's there can stay there and leave me the hell alone. Deep sea gigantism is my least favorite thing EVER. I'll stay where everything is nice and small and where I an actually see the ocean floor thanks. But anywho. Thank you Daniel for more amazing content to unsettle me right before bed :) Until next time folks "Massive" We are legion Like bats from hell we will rise. We are inevitable -Cookie
Whales are scary and everyone makes fun of me for being scared of them so this makes me feel a little better. Also, unrelated, but I would love to hear your take on they might be giants songs. They are my favorite band and remind me of jack stauber because of their combination of dark themes and humor.
you could also have said about the Great Attractor wich may as well be a black bigger than phoenix A to the point of attracting Galaxies towards it in a 300 Millions Light-year radius.
Whale sharks are one of my favorite fishies ever and my second favorite on my list. Wolves are my first. I find it astonishing how we don't know enough about whale sharks. and honestly I think it should stay that way. i had a hyperfixation of them, finding any documentaries I could haha.
I would like to mention the Vaiont incident in northen italy, where a landslide fell into a dam water reservoir and the water destroyed a whole city... The dam is still there, empty
The second you brought up the radio dish in Russia and whales (my literal worst fear) I was freaked out, but all the rest of the stuff I was just super interested in. Which I was surprised by, I’m usually horrified by megalaphobia stuff
I don't have megalophobia but the images or things people show for it, I find interesting. But the fears I do have are a fear of heights and something called Anticipatory Anxiety ( fear of things that COULD happen. Thats what the internet told me )
eh, you'd be surprised how well life can handle nuclear fallout, Chernobyl and the Bikini atoll have surprisingly healthy ecosystems despite their *lingering* radiation (like cuz the log term absences of humans is more positive then radiation is negative) granted they consist of largely *new* plant and animal life
(reupload cause filter was wack)
Hello again, this one's a little less scary than usual. This is to make up for what I'm subjecting you to on Friday. Good luck lol
If you read this, comment "Massive"
And if you saw this video already, no you didn't.
MASSIVE
@@crowmmm Absolutely massive
Massive. I'm talkin' MASSIVE, baby!
Super massive, you should watch Devs, if you don’t want to feel at peace ever again while also feeling sort of powerful. Edit: same director as Annihilation, if that makes it more attractive.
massive ✨
I’ve suffered from megalophobia my whole life, and it doesn’t matter how many times someone tells me the measurement of an animal or structure, I don’t feel fear until I can see an actual size comparison.
Ratos e baratas quando se trata de humanos sentem megalofobia
Many years ago, there was a discussion on reddit about some proof of concept turbines that we're going to be laid at the bottom of the ocean to test power generation from ocean currents.
And someone pointed out that since these were being set up with venture funding, when the money runs out, the turbines would likely just be abandoned at the bottom of the ocean.
Imagine scuba diving, and suddenly out of the dark, coming across what looks like the propeller blades of a scuttled ship, except it's just the propeller blades, and they're slowly moving, rusted.
Suddenly, the current shifts, and you're being pulled towards the blades in the dark at the ocean floor.
Yay! How fun!
wait till he finds out about rust 🤫
I've watched this entire video in 10 seconds and I just wanted to let you know that I think you're wrong and I'm right!
Impossible
@@danielprofeta Nuh-uh
This is factually false. It is impossible to complete a piece of media with a duration of approximately 22 minutes and 20 seconds, within a “10 second” window. This simply cannot be done. We cannot control time nor control ourselves to perceive time other than linear. Within my observation I have proven you in fact, incorrect. You simply cannot watch a 20 min video in 10 seconds. Hope this helped!!!!!!!!!!
@ I've read your comment all in 2.2 seconds I disagree
I think this guy disagrees ngl
Hello! I’m autistic with a special interest in outer space. Did you know there is a gamma ray cluster that is 9 BILLION light years across? It’s so cool!
Holy shit I did not
I definitely could walk around that
So am i, and yes i did, ty for reminding me 🙂
ok
I am too
Ok apparently I DO have megalaphobia, but specifically giant things under water.
you got thalassophobia
megalohydrothalassophobia!!
@@calci66 careful you might get the Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia people
Yea, that's real. Enormous things you can't quite see all the way.
I’m really enjoying your videos, I gotta say your writing and speaking is on the same level as Jacob Geller, keep up the spooky beautiful words.
That’s who I keep thinking about! Thankyou! He very much reminds me of Jacob Geller..
For those who don't work on a farm or near horses, may not realize just how much bigger even a horse is than a human. I petted one on the head once while it was resting in a stall, and it leaning into my hand like a dog nearly knocked me over.
Imagine how big an ELEPHANT is by that comparison
Now compare that to a Blue Whale.
Some people just don't quite understand just how IMMENSE some things can be.
Clydesdale horses strike me as huge when by them.
Rip my sleep schedule 😅
Mine too lol
Real
0:19 and you know what else is massive???
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After the static tone in the intro I can only assume the lead-up joke is "My mom!"
21:19 im glad i stuck around to find out what was behind the paper
I have grown obsessed with this channel. Your very intuitive and poetic explanations of things literally speaks the words of how my mind interprets what is being shown.
WOOOO MOUTHWASHING ON THE WAY!!! I just discovered this channel from this vid and i have to say I'm loving it already
As a kid I felt that anxiety fishing in a small boat with my dad next to the edge of the dam at the lake, and for my brother it was on a tour of the engine room of the Queen Mary walking around its pistons the size of building columns
Sooooo we're not gonna talk about holy-crap-why-are-they-coming-my-way-is-that-a-dead-man-walking Tornados in a megalophobia video? Okay
idk if u was being sarcastic abt it and i skimmed thru the video so im not sure, but the ISS will burn to nothing during atmospheric reentry, so its never touching the water, maybe a few individual pieces will survive, but definitely not the whole thing.
I think that giant structures are absolutely awesome to look at. The RT-64 is probably my favourite. The photo of it in the snowing background with a mad walking across the foreground is awesome.
Just thought I would mention the deepest humans have ever dug is a third of the way through the crust. The drill got way hotter than they thought it would be and everything broke.
"this is me on my best behavior" behave worse please
Does being very uncomfortable in a room full of tall or large people count as megalophobia? I’m fine with a few people but being crammed in with lots of them makes me quite uncomfortable. Not scared, just anxious .
Might be more of a fear of crowds thing? Hard to say.
But I kind of understand. I'm short, anyone taller than me is scary, especially if they're behind me. Large muscular things scare me too, like horses and bodybuilders. It isn't that I feel that they're actively challenging or threatening me, but that I know I have no ability to defend myself against anything larger or stronger if I had to, and it makes me nervous to put my faith in strange people/animals around me.
@ yep, I’m all of 4’10” tall as a full grown woman
What are you, a hobbit ?
@@Lupinotuum66 I’d love to live in the shire, but without hairy feet and nasty villains
@@elkeclark5548 full grown women are about half a foot taller than that on average 😂 you're quite a bit shorter than the average woman, hate to break it to ya
there is a very thin line between fear and fascination and i love that about you
I've had this reoccurring, nightmarish thought since I was a kid. I'll be sitting at my desk at night, just playing games or watching movies or writing and suddenly think about how at that very moment, deep in the ocean, there are hundreds of horrifying creatures just down there, swimming and hunting. Every time I think of it, I feel a chill go down my spine. I know fear of the ocean has become kind of a cliche since subnautica, but there is just something about looking into the expansive abyss of open ocean that is so powerful and hits me right in the gut.
Whatever you do, don't read the Junji Ito short story "The Thing That Washed Ashore." You'll have a bit of an existential crisis
@thestraydog oh, I've read all of his stories. I love that one in particular because I like torturing myself lol
Megalophobia is the reason I’m scared of pre historic animals
*humans build the largest space station ever*
“Yeah, let’s just throw that shit in the water. We don’t need it anymore.”
I just discovered that i have megalophobia, it goes hand in hand with my fear of uncanny animatronics and taxidermied animals. I have had nightmares where im in a completely artificial environment surrounded by tall fake trees, with walls and extremely high ceilings painted to look like im outside when im not really. In these dreams, i have to walk through the building or whatever it is so i can get out, but most of the time i am legitimately petrified and cannot move because there will be or taxidermied lions or huge humanoid statues/animatronics along my path while loud sounds are playing. It will either be siren like sounds, a voice that sounds like a man talking on the radio in the 50s/60s playing extremely loud, or fake animal sounds. Usually the lighting is like, fluorescent bright lighting but ive also had dreams like these in almost complete darkness and i honestly cant say which is worse. I usually end up curling up on the floor and just closing my eyes because i cannot bring myself to get close to those things but i also cant accept being in that place surrounded by such artificiality, so sometimes i will try to crawl out while avoiding looking at them, but that has also resulted in me bumping into them before. I think its psychological horror at its finest and even though the dreams feel terrible while im there, i appreciate them once i wake up because its an inspiring kind of fear. Its a horror aesthetic that i very much love and would like to bring to life.
Probably one of the scariest things about the RT-64 is that it can turn to look at YOU.
I know you're not a marine biology channel but can you PLEASE do a video on Magnapinna squid, they're the coolest freakest things EVER
I enjoyed this- especially the sea creatures. Giant squids are so awesome!
what’s horrifying is that if you shrunk earth to the size of pool ball if you touched it you wouldn’t feel any of the major landform as the groves that make you finger prints would be far deeper than the difference in height between the tallest peak and the lowest trench
That's not true at all
@ it is the difference between Everest and the Mariana trench is less the manhattan is long
@theaquaticpoultry I don't believe that for a second
@ you don’t have to but several scientists have stated it’s true
@theaquaticpoultry I'm fooling with ya. 😁
0:19 Massive?
That's what I thought
Large, gigantic, Big, are a few words that I think they meant, but I don't know if they meant massive.
Lol
Ninja’s cut gives me megalophobia
yes, thats what the meme is
POV: The truck outside in your neighborhood at 5 in the morning: 8:16
Honestly I’m perfectly fine with this bc I can understand why we have this fear, it’s not like the uncanny valley where the fear being needed at all is scarier than the fear itself
Large Squishable Plague Doctor! Suitable!
I feel like Daniel would really like the Magnus Archives if he likes podcasts. there's so many little details and the soundscaping is insanely good! This video is very the Vast coded lol
This guy doesn't have megalophobia, he has megalophillia
"Imagine, the impact" (Shows a Small ah Rock hitting a Lake as an Example)
Most of the ISS will burn up and disintegrate when coming back into earth’s atmosphere.
Fun-but-kinda-not-fun fact: my husband’s high school mascot was a mushroom cloud. The Hanford site was where parts of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki were created and played a major role in the rest of the Manhattan project. They now pretend it’s because the Boeing B-17 was built in Seattle, but they’re nowhere near Seattle. A lot of Richland residents are oddly proud of it, it’s a really weird and scary place tbh.
Appreciated the special shout-out to my mom 8:42 😂
Also, my favorite big squid is the Magnapinna! Their body is much smaller than the giant or colossal squid, but their length is comparable because they have SUPER LONG TENTACLES
sweet new video. keep up the good work man.
As someone who’s 5’2, I’ve lived my whole life being small, so I guess things being big doesn’t scare me because everything is big to me
Standing right next to a 4MW wind turbing is amazing.
i think the only time i felt *dread* was just this last semester for my astronomy class. learning how massive all the planets are, how huge our sun is, other suns nearing their ends becoming absolutely gigantic, huge and brilliant supernovas, massive black holes swallowing anything that accidentally gets too close. but i think what really made me feel this way was seeing a picture of earth from one of the voyager spacecraft. just seeing this tiny lil pale blue dot just vibing amongst billions and trillions stars twinkling in the background. it was beautiful but ive never felt so tiny and worthless. and tge thing that set that feeling off even *more* was learning that everything in the universe is moving away from us, zooming away faster and faster each second. it freaks me out so much, but it makes me wanna learn more about the cosmos, no matter how small it makes me feel
i think the only thing that kept me from having a full blown existential crisis was that we we're writing notes and listening to our teacher teach us. idk why, but those two things managed to make me calm down enough to not have a breakdown
I really don't get it when people hear or see that and have a breakdown or existential crisis. Like what did learning that possibly change for you in your life? That you're small? Insignificant? Humanity is insignificant? Earth alone can teach you all of that and more. I just really don't understand it. For me, I found it fascinating and humbling, and also sad that I would never get to actually see or explore any of it myself. The universe is absolutely beautiful, horrifying for sure, but beautiful without any doubt. Sorry if I came off rude, just genuinely curious why this would cause one to have a breakdown/existential crisis.
When he did the face reveal @1:20 I had the opposite of Megalophobia, dude is slight and looks like a kid, from the voice I expected a 50ish guy with a jolly build! 😸
12:33 I think mountains with a lot of perpendicular edges like this are giant ancient buildings that were melted during some kind of biblical cataclysm and the bricks they were made out of were the size of small houses
Ngl, “massive” is one of my favorite things to draw. Doesn’t matter what it is, as long as it’s big
You know what else is massive
you know what else is massive
you know what else is massive
Deez nutz are massive.
i tought this was gonna be about sans undertale help
Stealing my joke from the first video :(
Megalovania in real life
Undertale in 2025????
As a Transformers fan, I can't help but amp up the horror for myself even more as I imagine: "What if that giant dish in the thumbnail suddenly started to stand up?"
I've had this fear for as long as I can remember, but the triggers are quite specific. Very large structures don't entirely freak me out unless I'm at their base looking up and/or there's an obvious incongruity between size and form or some other disproportion. Colossi of any sort trip me right out. Anything big underwater is pure nightmare fuel as I'm also terribly thalassophobic. But just as you describe, underneath the desire to run I get a stim-like electric thrill and a weird sort of coziness in the presence of these things, which is absurdly contrary.
Massive love for the fact that video is spot on with the creepy
Two things truly terrify me.
The idea of a wave of water so immense that it touches the sky, heading my way.
And thinking about whats in all that black in space.
Don't worry, there's nothing in the inky black darkness of space. It just a dead empty vacuum, with a few rocks scattered throughout. Mostly just nothingness, the absence of anything.
@kazumahazeuzumaki I beg to differ. There are planets teeming with life yet to discover. As far as life is concerned we have centuries before we will know all there is to know
@Lupinotuum66 Alpha Centari is 40 trillions kms from the edge of the solar system. The closest thing to our star system, would take us 20,000 years to reach with current technology. That's the closest thing. Human history doesn't go back more than a few thousand years. Hypothetically, Anything that set out for Earth would go through so much technological and sociological change, and evolve so far from current biology that any negative intentions would be long forgotten before it arrived, if humanity even exists in 20,000 years. We genuinely never have to worry about almost anything in space. It is so incredibly far away that it's hard to fathom.
8:44 basking sharks are the cutest shark to me
I don’t have megalophobia but do you want to know what kind of creeps me out? The thought of me seeing a bunch of abandoned stores on a random field in the middle of nowhere. It feels like a ghost field.
I've always thought that _"We've only mapped 5% of the ocean"_ seemed like an outdated statistic, surely nowadays we must've pushed it up a notch or two. And as it turns out yeah, as of the 21st of June 2024, the Seabed 2030 Group have mapped out 26.1% of the entire ocean, using sophisticated tools mounted to ships cruising through the world.
Gotta say, even if 73.9% ain't as impressive as 95% it's still pretty wild how the ocean is just that huge we still haven't mapped out most of it, although I'm glad they're upping the percentage every year.
Maybe someday we won't have the biggest unexplored place on earth, but the biggest map ever of it instead
That's so cool, my bad for showing outdated information!!
Imagine being a fish minding your own fish business while swimming home to your fish wife and you just get hit by the fucking ISS
My favorite is the Green Bank Observatory Telescope :) it's 100m in diameter and it's 148m tall. I got to go for a radio astronomy camp
And here you go : Massive
I swear to god marine critters make some of the best facial expressions. 09:00 is so me lmao
Your comment about the whale calls is so REAL!! When I was little, in summer camp, the councilors would play whale calls during nap time. Actually terrified me so bad I had to nap in another room lmao. :D
Honestly you could make a whole megalophobia video on aquatic creatures. Japanese spider crabs, manta rays, mola molas, lion's mane jellyfish, oarfish, giant Pacific octopus, sperm whales, etc. Also, don't think that reference to Quint's "you know the thing about a shark, chief, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a dolls eyes" line from Jaws. You can't pull a fast one on me.
you know what else is Massive? A low taper fade
For me, I love titanic things, makes me feel humility, but if there is one thing I’m scared, it the abyss/ emptily vastness of the ocean. Which is scarier than space for me.
9:49 i thought you would be talking about the number of viewers not subscribed
17:47 that was genuine poetry. please write this out somewhere or something, i want to share it with my English class
Do you mean the section on space or the bit of creative liberty I took describing an atomic mushroom cloud? My videos are fully scripted so I can totally just copy and paste sections for you!!
@danielprofeta aw hell yes!!!
both parts i was kind of obsessed with, but the mushroom cloud part definitely stuck with me. Thank you so much!
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"Nuclear Explosion/Mushroom Cloud"
Mushroom clouds. It might be because they generally are associated with bombs but the shadow of a massive cloud of poison actually terrifies me more that most other things on the list I made. Like, planets are just minding their own business, but these fuckers are going to give a region deformed children for generations.
Look at this image of the Trinity Atomic Test taken July 16th 1945. The explosion actually burned through the film.
The atomic mushroom cloud, an obscene parody of nature's own creation, blooms upwards with an unholy yet strangely symmetrical grace. A monstrous birth from the womb of destruction, it ascends, a grotesque parody of a living thing, pulsating with the afterbirth of a thousand shattered atoms.
Radioactive ash rains down on the land below. Each snowflake of fallout carries a silent, deadly curse, and a promise of suffering. An endless decay. Nothing will grow here for a long time. The earth is ruined, all because we decided to invent our own annihilation.
PART 4: Space
Space might be my favorite way to give examples of the cosmic scale. There is very little way for our brains to visualize the vastness of the "space" in space, but by examining specific points of interest in our galaxy and wider universe we can find some really cool big things that make me dizzy in the head...
@@danielprofeta thank you so much!!
Wait till they hear how big the Earth is.
Bringing down a man made structure in space and crashing it into the ocean? The people in Sydney from the year UC 0079 are like, "Oh no.. not again."
mmm that satellite dish in the thumbnail is SO COOL
i think you would really enjoy rojofern's video on mushroom cloud scale
This is the first video of your's I've seen, and while I found it vary interesting, I'd also like to compliment you on the language used for describing some of these things. As someone who writes on the side, I can honestly say that I know that describing things with such poetic language is fucking hard. Good work.
I can somewhat relate to this, im scared of 17" and 18" or more laptops, their to damn heavy and makes me shit my pants.
Mr Profeta you’re talking about one of my special interests and I love it so much, oh my god talk about space MORE.
Very random comment on my part, but if you haven't indulged in the content already. I would like to suggest a channel called "Daisy Brown". When I was younger the videos posted on that channel were disturbing, yet I couldn't help but be intrigued. I thought you would be interested considering the content you do video essays on. I don't exactly remember any major plot points of the series, but was very popular when I was a kid. Love the content bro. Keep up the good work, and I will be keeping an eye on your music channel👀👀!
I was physically unable to play the game no mans sky because the fear i felt whenever i had to leave a planet and float around in space. The most terrifying thing was when i went hyper speed, and a planet suddenly materialised in front of me. Same thing when i was flying through a planet and a mountain loaded in front of me. Felt silly because of how scared i was but this video really put it into words so thanks !!
daniel i want you to know that your videos are keeping me sane while in university. thank you😭🫶🏿
We are legion
It is 4:13 am and I am HERE and READY to watch ts
Did you enjoy it? It's 4:33 for me and I can't sleep lol
Bro i started this video thinking we'd get Megaphone jokes. Not a existensial question of our own nuclear destruction.
8:33 basking sharks used to scare me as a kid
Its all fun and ganes until the Ancient One's come home .
As someone who has astromegalophobia and a sligjt fear of space, the scale of stars, galaxies, and nebula terrify me more than anything. The idea of being out in the emptiness of space, not a single thing being near me for hundreds of thousands of miles , fucck that. I don't know how astronauts do it,,
See I had absolutely no problem watching this video until we ventured into the ocean. I have megalophobia's water bound's cousin Thalassophobia. I hate whales and I especially hate those photos of divers swimming next to them to show just how big they are. I am absolutely staying out of the ocean, whatever's there can stay there and leave me the hell alone.
Deep sea gigantism is my least favorite thing EVER. I'll stay where everything is nice and small and where I an actually see the ocean floor thanks.
But anywho. Thank you Daniel for more amazing content to unsettle me right before bed :)
Until next time folks
"Massive"
We are legion
Like bats from hell we will rise. We are inevitable
-Cookie
As someone who probably have megalophobia I have no regrets
Whales are scary and everyone makes fun of me for being scared of them so this makes me feel a little better.
Also, unrelated, but I would love to hear your take on they might be giants songs. They are my favorite band and remind me of jack stauber because of their combination of dark themes and humor.
im not scared of big things but i hate large bodies of water. i dont like how suffocating it feels to swim or be in water
you could also have said about the Great Attractor wich may as well be a black bigger than phoenix A to the point of attracting Galaxies towards it in a 300 Millions Light-year radius.
Whale sharks are one of my favorite fishies ever and my second favorite on my list. Wolves are my first. I find it astonishing how we don't know enough about whale sharks. and honestly I think it should stay that way. i had a hyperfixation of them, finding any documentaries I could haha.
I would like to mention the Vaiont incident in northen italy, where a landslide fell into a dam water reservoir and the water destroyed a whole city... The dam is still there, empty
Blooms has a really interesting video on mega tsunamis, and he covered that incident in it. It sounded horrifying
Off-topic but I love your music
Me too
My Headphones disconnected right than you were about to say mouthwashing
The second you brought up the radio dish in Russia and whales (my literal worst fear) I was freaked out, but all the rest of the stuff I was just super interested in. Which I was surprised by, I’m usually horrified by megalaphobia stuff
We're so back
In a very literal sense
My Headphones disconnected right than you was about to say mouthwashing
massive.
I was about to go to sleep, but that can wait just a little longer lmao
I love the horrors of space
I don't have megalophobia but the images or things people show for it, I find interesting. But the fears I do have are a fear of heights and something called Anticipatory Anxiety ( fear of things that COULD happen. Thats what the internet told me )
1:55 I remember watching this video in school, better times.
eh, you'd be surprised how well life can handle nuclear fallout, Chernobyl and the Bikini atoll have surprisingly healthy ecosystems despite their *lingering* radiation (like cuz the log term absences of humans is more positive then radiation is negative) granted they consist of largely *new* plant and animal life
Not talking about the vajont dam wave is crazy (great video as always tho)
Daniel stay posted up
The grind never stops
@@danielprofetaur so underrated 😵💫
@ Not for much longer, y'all are here for the come up :)
@ fr we gotchu 👊😝
i am afraid of women in real life