Aye Mr. DudeMan, I think they relate because they kinda analyze the world in a way similar to that. Not saying stuff like "Life here" and other kinda stuff but kinda like noticing the smallest things or the biggest things in smaller detail. ADHD kinda stuff
I fell like the aesthetic try so simulate how people over analyze things, but with an robotic visual, kind like anxiety i would say, or adhd, or mental illness in general
I don't know if this is related to ADHD or not, or if I have it, but I can of get why people say "they relate to" Many times, when my mind gets bored in the street, I start to see the world like this, not like, red circles or words, but, the way of analyzing the surroundings, like, counting trees, analyzing movements on dog's legs, counting lights by color and searching for reflections, comparing patterns with other things, like, clouds at sunset that look like a ocean at morning in the sky, and thinking "agartha?" because that makoto shinkai movie, or looking at some cotton bush aligned with a window and thinking "its growing inside that house" smelling something and asking yourself if that girlfriend ten years ago was real, and, if she was, why she could be around? listening birds and wondering if that’s how angels sing or seeing someone walking by and smiling and overthink if he was smiling with you, of you, or by some deep memories he remember, and so on and so on... this happens to me A LOT, more that I realize, and honestly, it wasn’t till this video that I noticed that I do this XD, so... probably it could be related to some type of autism, maybe TOC.
dude i have adhd and a lot of other stuff i dont get this but i might have an idea on it so like how the cars lights right it said other world so i think its more find 1 thing thats there an this of it in another light so like the car lights the lights from it on the road if you took the car out an left the lights it would have been a flipped world where the lights are coming up from the ground kind of thing but most of this just dont add up at all some of it yes but i think the one making these is going to far with them an then its more or less just junk with some stuff in it still
I don’t think anyone means they are literally seeing the world with the lines and boxes, but I felt like I could relate to these because it does reflect in a very specific way how I collate data around me. If I see something that reminds me of stars, I might think to myself “they’ve come to meet us here,” but it’s like personal poetry, it isn’t that I think stars have really landed on earth and want to have a coffee. Details and expression of internalized feelings, relating to disjointed and seemingly ostensibly unrelatable things. We all make memories and recall them in our own way with our own points of reference.
Yeah. It reminds me/feels like my constant hyper-fixating mixed with my internal dialogue and random thoughts. I’ll notice all sorts of random things and start thinking wild things about them, and imagining weird scenarios. It’s kinda nice seeing that put onto the screen, even if it’s a bit of an exaggeration of what it looks like in my head.
Yes! I relate to it as well in that it's that random thought that takes something pedestrian and sees the magic or strangeness in it. Like cloud watching and considering how that exact arrangement of water molecules is unique to that moment and is one of a kind, and won't ever be seen exactly like that again, even though we see clouds everyday and wouldn't necessarily consider them special events. Something like that...
Very much agree! and with the other 2 in the replies as well. I love the phrase "Personal Poetry"! Some of the stuff in the videos I don't think I'd say or internally think, since it seems a bit exaggerated but I definitely had fleeting moments of other thoughts that were probably weird anyways.
It’s just a visual representation of what their eyes perceive and what their brain picks up on at a minute level at any given moment. Some odd captions over objects could reference personal memories that come off as nonsense to someone else. Some things do resonate with people, like the pathway in the snow. Personally, I also think about how a pathway is warmer due to feet recently walking in the melted footsteps. The physical “art” in it is their approach to creation being to literally visualize what exactly is on their mind. I find it very raw and real, which must resonate with many people in this day and age.
It's very raw indeed. I also feel like these videos resonate with this feeling I have as someone who just graduated high school. That feeling being absolute confusion. I feel like I know nothing about the world around me makes sense, just like how the comment/annotation things make no sense. Also, having the vision look like what a computer might see might be a reaction to the common feelings these days of burnout and emotional numbness. These videos seem like a super raw expression of the mind of a neurodivergent young adult in 2024 trying to understand the world around themselves, but also I could be projecting lmao.
Idk, as an ADHDer (possibly AuDHD) I think the people saying “this is how my brain works,” “my ADHD brain when I’m on a walk by myself” are saying more that their thoughts go everywhere all at once and at a million miles an hour. The way the text changes so fast is a lot like how fast a new thought comes through and disappears. I get it and have to agree that my dumbass brain does in fact work like this lol
Definitely. Although for me personally as an autistic person I mainly relate to it because of the notion that autistic people "can't see the forest for the trees". I.e. If you have autism you are great at analysing the finer details but often have trouble putting them altogether into a bigger picture. For me this visual style perfectly encompasses that feeling of going on a walk and analysing every little detail of your environment but never seeing it as a whole. Especially when combined with the weird annotations that feel almost disconnected, that kind of represents to me how the autistic brain can often interpret things in completely wacky ways that leave neurotypical people confused.
Same. Like my eyes would trace around the wheel like one of the vids showed, I quickly analyze everyone around me and my surroundings bc I’m paranoid, and I have intrusive thoughts that I ignore. I’m diagnosed with OCD
@@BBB-to4ccyes, I have ADHD and while I never identified with that “parkour guy” that everyone saw on road trips and stuff, I always trace the tops of the trees or follow the power lines with my eyes.
Hey! It’s the man himself. You are… definitely one of a kind. Looking forward to more of your stuff. It’s pretty overwhelming to try to interpret, but the visual are really interesting. Beautiful chaos sorta thing. Awesome work! ✨👏🏽
why doesnt this have more likes, it should be pinned😭 also this whole style art thing is very interesting, mix of weirdcore traumacore idrk, its very interesting and it describes a lot of peoples thoughts including mine, in a way as you glance at things and think certain things and look at other things and its just really interesting i like it!
I just gotta say man, you are genuinely the most entertaining TH-camr I have seen in a long time. I don't know what it is, but my wife and I goddamn love watching you, dude. Please never stop making these videos.
Bro I’ve watched probably all of your Subnautica videos but I never would’ve guessed you watch me 😂 Thank you so much man, it means more than you’d think. And don’t you guys worry, I’ll be making these videos for as long as there is weird stuff on the internet.
This feels a lot like traumacore in it's vibes. It really evokes this feeling of struggling of mental illness either alongside or as a result of trauma. Sort of like a "why can't I comprehend the things that happen in this world? Make it make sense" kind of things.
@@slaveNo-4028 Not an aesthetic- just a buzz term to help label things easier. You should try being more sympathetic towards the idea some people have to rely on the internet to cope with their problems/trauma in the first place. Please remember everyone has a safe space.
@@slaveNo-4028well its been around a while. Also it helps a lot for people with real trauma to express feelings that are very difficult to express in words. Some people romantice it yeah, but personally i just keep my own edits to myself and use them like a journal of my feelings.
As someone who has multiple nuerodivergencies, including acute schizophrenia, this is, the closest interperatation of how I see the world. The highlighting and red boxes are just what i notice and the texts are the thoughts and voices. Most of my nuerodivergencies stem from childhood trauma and I find the traumacore genre so eerily relatable, but it also feels comforting and safe, but also horrifying.
@@lethalparasocial9562My issue is the word. Why are we using trauma and core simultaneously? Core is often associated with aesthetics, and I don’t think it should be even in the same sentence as trauma
this reminds me of how my brain connects thoughts during an anxiety attack. just rapid fire fixating on random shit and having totally arbitrary conclusions about it
@@ZestonN ад does actually mean "hell, underworld; Hades" in Russian. it is a borrowing from Old Church Slavonic which borrowed the word originally from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs)
Since a lot of these are quite liminal, these feel to me like someone wrote an AI to try to interpret the feeling you get when you look at liminal spaces, but it just got confused and threw in some computer jargon for good measure
I find this interesting, because we often think of the feeling that liminal spaces give us as something that is distinctly human, but this aesthetic analyzes them in a very non-human way
its like a stream of thought. it feels like how i think in a more poetic way. not the red boxes and lines but the drawn focus to them. the red, i think, are just guides on where to focus to immerse yourself in the way the artist thought, and how many people's attention is drawn and how its processed. people saying, "this is how i think" doesnt mean they see red boxes and lines. they dont mean it in a literal sense. i have a multitude of trauma based mental disorders so the sort of somber texts mixed in with the other random text hits really hard. because thats how things like my ptsd work in my day to day life. sometimes im looking at a random scene in the world and something will lead me back to what happened and i'll think on it for a second or two and i try to kick it out of my head through thinking more of other things. at 4:22 what you said is also kinda how my brain works too. i think its how most people's do. sometimes theres such a large sensory overload that the streams of thought become a river, to the point where i immediately forget what i thought a second before.
Seconded. It's well made and has great attention to detail. If you see a dog with a red box around it with red text it's meant to imply. Here is my random thought while looking at the dog.
I think he got that, he was more wondering do people say things that are quite that random? And I'd guess some do and some don't. I'm more like you in that I am often reminded of other things, so it's not quite as random. Yet I'll also forget what I was just thinking. But people's brains work differently, some people have very organized thoughts.
As someone who actually has OCD, the closest this comes to what I experience is sometimes noticing the shapes of things like houses or other architecture (not those random boxes around people, animals, and leaves lmao) and having the trace the outline with my eyes or pretend to color it in like it's a coloring book or smth. Actually, the weird words are pretty triggering (like the "he's coming" definitely sets off all my paranoid intrusive thoughts). I actually think this aesthetic is pretty cool looking, like you said it reminds me of how an AI or a robot would look at the world, which I enjoy thoroughly as a Sci-Fi nerd. Again, I just wish it didn't have all the weird words. They make it more ominous and I think that might be why some people enjoy it so much.
It feels like a way to visualize hypervigilance to someone who doesnt understand it. Of course its not necessarily the visuals but the feelings it gives you.
I have limited experience with psychosis, but i do get that vibe a bit when it comes to the pattern recognition, like, he's making things seem significant when they're not, and also how he's making things seem like they're connected to you, like the one that says "this house NEEDS YOU"
I don't know about psychosis but I got the feeling that it was purely emotional and devoid of rational thought, which is my opinion of most poetry. But it's not necessarily bad, just not relatable to me.
This aesthetic feels like you’re viewing memories with rose tinted glasses. Everything felt alive in that moment and the constant references to “I was here” keeps making me think they might be memories. The narration seems as if it is a mix between a child’s viewpoint and seeing magic in the world like the snow being stars and an adults where everything has passed and they don’t want to leave the memory. The great leader and such might refer to the awe and wonder of being a child.
This is a commentary on our digital reality and how, despite the many tools available at our fingertips with which to understand and navigate the world around us, an objective understanding of reality remains as maddeningly elusive as ever. That's my assumption, anyway. Edit: Lain refers to Serial Experiments Lain, which may explain a lot to you if you look into it. Or it may simply introduce yet more unanswerable questions.
I also thought of Serial Experiments Lain when I saw the Lain tag. I haven't watched the anime and don't really know what it's about, but it always looked interesting to me. How good is it?
Without getting too deep into it, it's about man's hubris in the face of forces we don't understand, especially regarding new technologies like the internet and AI. It's very good, but it's also very mind-bending and may require multiple viewings to make any real sense of it.
As someone with autism and ADHD, the one way I relate to this is noticing small details and seeing magic in ordinary things. Especially as an artist, I would have noticed the reflection of the green light on the gas station ceiling. But I wouldn’t have made a connection to the aurora. I’m kind of jealous of Drezzden in a weird way. To have all of these scraps of poetry about ordinary things floating around. There is definitely something weirdly emotional and beautiful about it.
I'm am artist too and I would have had the same observation of is this white? Meaning it's cool how green light can reflect off a white surface but it's still objectively white. Just with a green reflection and it kinda looks like (aka reminds you) of an aurora borealis. Not that it literally is one.
I have no idea what this "style" is, but it reminds me of the whole "in the future, humor will be randomly generated" line. Either that or it's about people with autism ect. visualizing how they think and look at the world.
As an autistic person the only part I personally relate to is the hyper focus represented with the red boxes not any of the phrases and shit That could be just me tho idk
I personally find it unsettling because it reminds me of how China tracks its people with AI. I imagine this is what it would look like if the AI tracking these people became sentient. I'd call it something like CCPcore, or AIcore.
@@El_moooo me personally, I feel similarly about it, though I don't have autism. I relate to the analysing part and thoughts forming around it as my brain tries to figure it out, but it's not outlandish things, like snow looking like falling stars.
@@El_moooousually when we analyze something, we focus on it and it becomes clearer than what's around it (also because of the way the eye works) and all the info gets in our brain. Except in the case where someone is deaf but even then the interpretations and words are in someone's head. It doesn't appear as words. (Unless they're some special snowflake teenager trying to sound interesting)
so obviously i don't see red boxes and stuff popping up, but as someone with a lot of neurodivergences (you named ocd, but also adhd and autism play into it) this really does feel like how my brain processes information. something about the frantic intake of as many details as possible, the almost desperate way it categorizes everything, even picking up on patterns that may not actually exist... it really is familiar to how a traumatized/overstimulated brain works. at least mine. it's not exactly how my brain functions, of course, but the incessant and constant flickering "thoughts" and - as you noted - the overactive pattern recognition really line up with The Symptoms.
@@oceanexblve884 i'm not, i have been diagnosed with everything i listed. but it's still none of your business. see how assumptions make you look like a shitheel? maybe don't do this.
This is how the mind analyzes its surroundings while also having a bit of thoughts mixed in. Also when people say they see the world this way, they don't mean it in a literal sense like that they see the squares and red lines. Those are just used to label stuff and show the viewer what the person behind the camera has seen and some thoughts about whatever they saw or just random thoughts at some points which are the random words.
EXACTLY, I was getting kinda pissed off with his interpretation this is just a visual representation of how a brain processes stimuli at multiple levels of consciousness
i have ocd and adhd and this is a good visualization of how my thoughts can bounce around at the same time that my pattern recognition motor is running on high especially in high sensory stimulation environments like many of the ones in this video. the combination of logistical data gathering info, with whimsical fleeting thoughts and feelings, and then noticing little things that may fuel paranoia or excitement, all at once lol. some of it is kind of corny but i do get why people relate to it especially being neurodivergent
this aesthetic is quite relatable to me, because as an autistic person your brain sees every detail, every noise, person, animal etc all at once. While bigger thoughts of anxiety rail through your brain.
I told this to someone else in a comment already, but you should watch Inside Out 2 if you haven't, it's about anxiety coming up with all possible situations that could happen in her brain and it's subconsciously affecting her behavior. It's also just a great movie.
I'm 80% sure its a representation of ADHD. I don't see red outlines but I kinda get what it is getting at. Tracking cars, almost predicting where they're going, noticing details in the background and noticing things that line up well while also thinking abstract thoughts. I feel like these videos almost always. Not focusing on anything but also focusing on like 15 different things at the same time.
I was thinking the same thing. The clutter and quick thoughts, along with the lines going around the patterns made me feel like this was a representation towards how I process everything. Him not understanding the videos also fit into the quote that my father made: “People don’t understand it unless they experience it”.
I'd be curious with those who relate to what they are seeing if they have done MBTI and it's related to introverted vs extroverted sensing (seeing the world). Same with introverted vs extroverted Intuition (seeing the patterns of the world).
If you haven't seen Inside Out 2 you should, that's similar to what it's about because she's anxious about all the possibilities that could happen in the future and of course it's affecting her behavior. But generally I think being observant of a lot of details and thinking about a lot of things can be positive and it can make people more creative and funny because they notice things that others don't. There are times when you do need to focus on one thing and I'm guessing there are ways to get better at that.
I totally get this. I think a lot of people with adhd and autism relate to this because of their heightened senses of everything going on and so much sensory intake at one they're just thinking about everything all of the time
I have autism and that’s not how autism works. Probably ADHD only. People with autism very very very likely only focus on one specific area we like with sensible thinking and ignore majority of other things. We don’t imagine all those weird things.
@@user-bi8ko7kc6h Oh, I said that cuz the autistic people I know experience a lot of sensory information at once, like while people usually can ignore background noise, they hear everything at once and it makes it hard for them to focus cuz they can't tune things out on demand so it would be like them trying to process all the things they're hearing at once and being distracted by a lot in a public space
@@user-bi8ko7kc6hSpeak for yourself, not all people with autism see things the same way. As someone who also has autism, I agree with Luminty, bc I related to these videos.
I'm surprised people are confused and taking the red text and boxes it's highlighting at its most literal. It's about thoughts and observations that can overlap with different things in your field of view.
@@Luminty99 lmao I have autism and it is nearly the exact opposite. I hyper focus so hard someone can be next to me saying my name and I won't even register it so I have to reel myself in or I'll just get completely lost in thought. I usually forget I have an actual body because I spend so much in my own head that I forget I'm actually connected to the real world to the point looking in a mirror feels uncanny because it doesn't fully register that I exist at all beyond thought.
I'm no brain expert, and I myself don't really relate to how information is "processed" or shown in these videos, but for the people who _do_ relate, it might be less so on actually seeing the red squares and text as... well, red squares and text, but more so the red squares are stand-ins for their brain focusing on what they see and the text is the stand-in for their thoughts. And it could be a thing where they're still focused on the bigger picture as a whole, but the red squares and text are just fleeting thoughts that grab their attention for just a second. So it's less so a "quirky, I'm the Terminator" thing, and more so a "I focus on things in a similar fashion" type of thing.
This is actually how the brain works, it highlights things, it shows details that probably aren't there but exist in context, this is just representing that, it highlights things with red cause it catches your attention, it uses the personal dialect that the brain uses, which is much, much different from what we use to speak, this is how the brain sees and stores things, along with how it memorizes, it just correlates things with other things and finds differences. Its especially impressive to me.
As someone with ADHD, this is kinda how I percieve things. Obviously not with literal red lines and boxes, but the thought processes of seeing one thing and thinking about it in that kind of way is relatable
I kind of get it. Not completely, but kind of. I have autism (amongst other mental health issues like severe GAD and also OCD) and I have said for years when I'm trying to explain how my brain works that it's like a quantum supercomputer. It's everything everywhere all at once (not the film, the phrase just fits nicely!). I notice every little thing, all the leaves on the trees, all the lights, all the shadows, the feeling of my hair and my clothes, the sounds, everything. And then on top of that, my brain makes completely random connections. I can see something and in like nanoseconds my brain and make a really random and loosely related link to something else, which makes perfect sense to me because I can follow my train of thought, but to someone else it'd seem like my thought train had gone off the tracks and then fucking exploded. I don't see stuff with the red lines or whatever and the words are nonsense to me. I might make the aurora connection though because that did make me think it, not in a way that I'm convinced that's an aurora, just in a way that it kind of looks like it and that's cool. The sense of wistfulness is not something I have with this, though, and I'm not like looking at houses and imagining I lived there with someone or that it's ~full of life~. I think it's accidentally resonating with autistic people or people with other mental issues, but I don't think it was meant to be that way. I think people are relating to different parts of it, and I think some people are just pretending because there's always a significant proportion of them, too. Some people probably relate to the wistfulness or want to relate to it, and there's a kind of childlike thinking around some of it that I can see some people either relating to or wanting to relate to. There's people like me who can relate to the categorisation and the overwhelming "everything"ness of them. I think it is accidentally an interesting autistic art piece, almost. I don't think it was meant to be that at all, but it kind of works like that in a way. I think it was just made to look cool mostly idk. I don't even know if the creator has autism or if they just managed to hit on something that a lot of people could relate to for different reasons. It's not an accurate representation of autism, but as an artistic analogy? (I can't think of the word I wanted to put here but it wasn't analogy but it's close enough I guess) it's not bad.
I think similarly to this sometimes. I just notice connections in the world and forget about their literal meaning. Things just sometimes feel more abstract and connected on a different level.
I have autism and OCD (among some other disorders), and I feel like I can really understand the fellow neurodivergent people who comment claiming to relate to these videos and images. I do not have the words to explain it, but I feel a connection, I can get and relate to it in a specific, deeply personal way too and it does give me some comfort as well. Also reminds me heavily of traumacore, which I like and find comfort in too.
I've never really understood where the comforting part comes in tbh. It gives off a similar feeling to liminal space where it makes me feel alone and like nothing will ever make sense. It's kind of like a Rorschach test that is looking too deep into you
I have ADHD and I wanna say that these videos are a pretty good way for someone without ADHD to experience it. Maybe not with the red text though haha. It’s why people like me get distracted by the littlest things, and why we get bored so quickly of doing the same thing. Because there’s always so much going on in our heads.
I appreciate a Sunday upload. A lot of channels, at least the ones I follow, seem to upload exclusively mid week and I have nothing new to watch on the weekends when I actually have time 😢
as someone who's (very likely) autistic and has adhd, i do resonate with this style. i don't think ppl are saying they literally see things like this. i believe it's more an abstract interpretation or whatnot. the tracking, pattern recognition, honing in on details, the bizarre descriptions/associations reminds me of how i process my surroundings. kinda robotic but also abstract and all over the place.
I dunno about the name but it's like- animated classic weirdcore stuff. The outlines with odd captions, the music, the disorganized visual style... man, I haven't thought about this style of art in while. Good stuff when you're in the mood for it.
To me, this feels like a visualisation of the edge right between the subconscious and the conscious mind. Like, some filters we apply to have less information to process already took care of most of what we intake, but a lot of it still feels like "unprocessed" subconscious intuition. It's what wouldn't directly bubble up to the conscious when looking at the raw video footage of the videos, but almost. In addition to that, its super overwhelming to look at, maybe just to emphasize what our brains do is more than go "brr lamp here" but it interprets things emotionally. That would close the bridge between the people that think it looks like AI in the process of learning and people who think its based on random personal memories.
As someone who has multiple nuerodivergencies, including acute schizophrenia, this is, the closest interperatation of how I see the world. The highlighting and red boxes are just what i notice and the texts are the thoughts and voices.
3:58 as someone with ocd tho i think "this house needs you" and "i think it's alive" and the other kind of "uncanny" (?) sentences are more in line with a lot of people's obsessions and intrusive thoughts than the neatness of the lines. Which makes it even more interesting, considering all the other people who come from many different walks of life in the comments saying the videos relate to them in some way too
Agreed. I have a lot of intrusive thoughts over these things that sound quite similar. No matter how wild or unrealistic they are, with the “I think it’s alive” especially it sounds like something I could’ve really thought at some point.
this kind of reminds me of trauma core (an aesthetic used to vent about being traumatized), especially with the short phrases that pop up focusing on a bunch of tiny details in your environment that trigger traumatic memories and flashbacks
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme first of all, thats just a name that people online gave to artwork that expresses trauma. second of all, its not a white person thing lol. tiktok has a diverse community of people that think everything needs to have a trendy name
I have borderline with comorbid schizoaffective and as someone who has had psychotic episodes, this does kinda *feel* like how my brain works when I'm not "all there" so to say. I obviously don't literally see the red squares and everything, but it's like... a multitude of *almost* nonsensical intrusive thoughts, tenuous connections between random details, and paranoid thoughts. All happening so fast you can only really get like a vague idea of what's going on in your head, nevermind the world around you. Like seeing some random lights and having the thought of "fairies" or "northern lights" Is definitely something that would happen to me during an episode, and I'd be too out of it to question it. I do think this is just a cool art project but, assuming they're not being hyperbolic, i do worry about the number of people who seem to relate to this...
I totally get it. It’s an over-analyzation of the physical realm by adding a “text to speech” effect to the real world from the perspective of a person who may be experiencing derealization/depersonalization or a general separation from what we consider reality. I LOVE it.
it brings to mind videos i've seen that claim to simulate mental illnesses, ocd schizophrenia etc. with comments that sound like they're from some obtuse analog horror, or a softer world or something. it's pretty interesting.
not the random red boxes and shit, but some of the text feels pretty schizo to me. Paranoid stuff like she saw you! and hes coming!, and making connections with whatever flavor of the week rabbit hole thoughts ive been chewing on, thoughts and voicings layered on top of each other and tied together so im engaged in like three conversations at once in my mind. 2:17 ive definitely had my circles moments where the world sorta stops and yes the cycle goes on and yes of course everything is connected were all trapped in samsara together and if you look through this circle you can see the otherside but not comprehend it yet, etc. But I dont think most schizpohrenic people would find this "comforting" or "inspiring" as much as just scary as shit. I had to put this one on in the background today and just enjoy gregs voice lmao
I can see what they’re saying with “this is how adhd is like” bc i feel like any time im just taking a stroll or im sitting on a bench just observing, i tend to notice every little detail and almost like create a little storyline in my mind for it. Or ill like question why it is this way or how it ended up being that way. Or ill see something that looks familiar and it will bring me back to a childhood memory of some sort. But this is a pretty cool way to visualize it.
i can't explain it either but this is such an !!!!!! alive in a digital way !!!!! that divine in the machine !!! a bit neurodivergent !!!! the whimsical look in a strictly computer-logic way !!!!! none of the phrases in these videos felt nonsense to me. i'm so happy you made this video bc as someone who's not on tiktok i might have missed it even tho i feel like we're kinda doing something similar on tumblr - there's posts about streetlights and power lines being angels. it's so good and it speaks to me
9:35 "lain" refers to Serial Experiments Lain, which is an incomprehensible horror anime from 1999 about a shut-in who gets just a little too obsessed with computers.
To me, this feels like how an AI would see the world. It very closely reminds of how an AI named Klara from a book called “Klara and The Sun” would see. Her vision would her split into these different boxes and she would analyze these boxes to try to understand the situation.
9:36 “lain” refers to the techno-horror anime series “Serial Experiments Lain.” I highly recommend watching it (repeatedly because it won’t make perfect sense the first time around.)
The aesthetic feels like the very back of your brain if that makes sense? Like, half formed thoughts, nonsence that is usually filtered out, tracking everything, things that remind you of other things ect.
Being someone with major ADHD and anxiety all the time you tend to get distracted very easily for me at least and my eyes are darting around when I’m not on my phone and watching the smallest thing like a light on a lamp or just a pebble on the ground and with the red boxes it’s like how my eyes dart around to smallest things I don’t measure things n it like the smallest details catch my eyes.
i have had a psychotic episode, this deadass feels like psychosis brain to me imo. it feels like every little part of the world is trying to tell you something, at least in my experience also lain is referencing the anime serial experiments lain, which has central themes of transhumanism and internet-related psychological technohorror
As someone with ADHD, these videos really feel like what my brain is like. So many weird thoughts all over the place, just trying to process everything.
i think what i like about this is that i don't relate to it when i feel fine, but when im upset i like making strange and complex patterns and things that people dont understand because it feels comforting having something more confusing and complex than what im upset about (maybe its an OCD thing idk) Theres just something about how it doesnt make sense that just, makes me on my own feel more rational. I might not feel like I make sense, but seeing something more confusing makes you feel more normal. I don't know how to describe it, but I think the fact that I can't describe it proves that it works.
This is like an art experiment,like when an artist paints a line and the viewer tries to act more intelligent than they are. None of these people understand this they just claim too to be “different”
I think the best way to understand it is an aesthetics mix between the early adult swim bump in video form, 2010's tumblr melodrama abstract quotes/ poetry , and the terminator/ai wall hack graphic design rolled into one lol
I kinda get this. It’s like thoughts, realizations and unconnected fragments that float in and out of my mind when I look around. I think it’s a neurodivergent way of perceiving reality and it mixes with other stuff that floats up from the non-reality areas of thought. It’s mind blowing to see it portrayed like this.
when people say “this is how i see the world” i don’t think they mean they actually SEE red lines and random crap like that, but it’s more of how their *thoughts* work. like, idk how to explain it. my thoughts do this as well, like random brain signals and voices and noises firing around me. i’m not actaully diagnosed with anything 😅 i might have ADHD. but it’s more of a brain thing i think.
So, as someone who has an artistic eye (meaning, I look at things in the world and I’m already visualizing how I’d draw it and what shapes I’d use to make it) and as someone who has a very active constant flowing mind; I wouldn’t say I see red squares and lines, but, seeing waves in a puddle makes me think “ocean, beach, wave, tsunami” and the rain above makes me think “it’s raining, water, dark clouds, ufo, space, rain drops racing on window” and so on until everything around me is some form of stimulate that activates something in my brain that tells me red light means stop, green light means go, anything of that nature. I do find this new thing to be extremely interesting, as it does remind me of how my own headspace perceives the world around me, when I see a wheel, a thousand things come to mind…and I never knew someone could capture what it looks like to have a million thoughts running through your head at all times could really look and feel like. Even now, it reminds me of how I remember how to spell things because I recognize words like I do a skyline of a city, but, anyways, I’m super excited to see where this new thing leads, it oddly feels refreshing and I’m very interested in seeing more interpretations in the future
This. I'm am artist too so deconstruction of why something looks cool in case you want to recreate later is almost automatic. The text "is this still white?" Was very clear in its intent of musing.
You should look up the cognitive functions, they're related to the Myers Briggs personalities and they explain a lot about how people think. Look up "Dear Kristin 8 Cognitive Functions".
It's also funny to imagine that they were just messing around with a concept and it blew up because here you are trying to "figure it out" This is what every single artist wishes for with their own art, is for someone to want to figure it out. To "get it" I kinda hope they didn't mean to and now get to feel what every artists wants to feel. lol
to me it just conceptualizes the millions of thoughts that could go through any kind of processor at any minute, our brains are processors just like an AI learning. The thing that is resonating with people is how well they have thrown the confusion of feeling into weird thoughts. Like when you think of a really weird thought and it reminds you of something and then you feel like you did then. I get this for sure.
Fun but very depressing fact; theres people who don't actually feel any need or want to think about their surroundings in detail. Theres people who will only pay attention to what they're there for, or any loud noise that might be a danger. A lot of people are relating to the very neurodivergent urge to hyperanalyse everything around them, either out of mild anxiety or pure fascination. I don't think anyone was relating to seeing the red boxes lol.
It’s not sad but how human brain works. It automatically removes stuff that we don’t need, otherwise everyone would get crazy and overloaded. Our brain also sort outs and deletes things we need or don’t need every night when we are asleep.
This is how I see it. Amazing ideas can be born out of just imaginative perception. The way it was pointing at the reflection of the cars headlights, for example, and saying that it could be a different realm. It’s literally just an idea that can flash onto your mind as you’re walking down the street; much like a child pretending that the light tiles on the mall are safe and the dark tiles are danger. But all of these ideas, possibilities and musings flashing on the screen at the same time gives the videos a scary, overwhelming feeling. I can almost imagine this is how overstimulation feels for someone with autism. So many different thoughts you could have and no way to laser point on to a single one… I kind of love this.
I'm a computer. I'm a computery guy. Everything made out of buttons and wires. I'd like to show ya inside my digital life. Inside my mind, there is a digital mind.
These are definitely adequate ADHD simulations. A barrage of random intrusive thoughts triggered by every tiny little detail around you, overstimulating you with too much to focus on.
honestly this is just what it feels like to have adhd. ofc we dont see red squares and have these nonsensical thoughts. but thhis is what sensory overload feels like. you just notice everything in hyperspeed.
its also what just resting can feel like for me where all of the things in a place feel of equal importance so my brain is jumping between everything and I'm not really zoned in but im not zoned out either
Look, I've only been subscribed to you since February this year, and every time you post, of course I'm like "Gregbrodudeman? Heck yeah!" You're a vibe and you're awesome!
I don’t have OCD to my knowledge, but I do have ADHD and anxiety disorders, which kinda manifest together as obsessive-compulsive behavior. Which mostly just makes me pretty paranoid and superstitious, and gives me panic attacks on bad days. I don’t see red squares and arrows and sans serif text floating around, but the way my mind bounces between things when I’m losing my grip can definitely feel like that, where I’m thinking so fast it don’t matter if my thoughts make sense. These videos are weirdly unsettling for sure
I see the world this way. My brain is so overactive and I see so many things. I definitely have mental issues. In public I often get overstimulated by how it's like this. No red boxes or lines..just constant noticing everything.
Alright, the only thing that I can relate to this is how sometimes my brain makes me see things as if the area around me was a laser grid. Makes me feel like I am a computer running around through the laser grid world trying to put things together. I also sometimes imagine I’m looking through a sniper scope and the crosshair locks onto someone.
@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 Janitor: Hey, buddy. You got a dead cat in there or what? [The Terminator HUD listing possible responses:] Yes/No Or what? Go away Please come back later F##k you, a$$hole F##k you Terminator: *F#**#k* *you*, *a$$hole.*
This reminds me of word association, where one person (e.g. the psychiatrist) says an arbitrary word and the other person says the first thing that comes to mind. I wonder if this creator watches videos and simply notes down any thoughts prompted by the footage, trying their best NOT to think about it, but essentially let their brain auto-complete thoughts.
The red boxes, arrows, and text remind me of both AI object/facial recognition software and clickbait thumbnails. The content of the text reminds me a lot of, genuine, schitzo-posting (like gangstalking vids). I think the aim is very likely to create a juxtaposition between the way an AI computer algorithm views the world, and the way a manic/psychotic person detached from reality views the world.
Dissociation, that’s what these videos remind me of. Those times when you drift away from reality and your mind starts analysing everything, kinda like an apathetic robot.
This new Aesthetic really caught my eye! I always create music or levels in a game called Geometry Dash, and i have a style in which i would add seemingly the most random text, but not completely, just like greg said in the video. It feels like those red captions have extremely deep meanings and i'm here for it! I'm happy i can relate to this, thx drezzdon and greg! 🔥
these videos do look super comforting. I have had a dissociative disorder since i was like 13 so i process reality in a jagged, disordered way. So when you said "this looks like how a computer would think if it thought it was human" that is almost a perfect description of what it feels like: processing the world in an automated way, like a computer, where in place of cohesive trains of thought, everything is taking up ram and being observed all at once, very quickly. For me these videos are comforting because it makes me aware of how much work my brain is constantly doing to help me navigate the world. In dissociative episodes, it feels like being watched over. It feels like a personificaiton of the tiny bridge connecting me to the real world.
1:35 I think it's like it's the brain interpreting what is being seen. The "ew bugs" and light counting seems like something I'd do when watching a random video
So what i think people mean by " i identify with this video " or stuff like that ADHD often causes you to be VERY distracted very easily and the viewers kind of think all of the red squares and analyzing data stuff is representing distractions or things that could cause their mind to wonder off Obviously as a person with ADHD ( which is very common I'm not going to stretch out that fact ) this isn't how we see the world its just representing the distractions and everything around us Also i can obviously tell that the creator of this aesthetic definitely wants this to represent machine learning and not mental conditions
to me, it seems like they're just trying to be "deep" and "different" when it REALLY is just an edit of a video with red text and squares, I do enjoy the videos for the aesthetic though (:
Im a huge fan of drezzdon and i discovered him early, back in december, it reminds me a lot of the game watch dogs. Also about people relating to the videos, its (for me at least) more of a way that your brain takes in information, not seeing actual red boxes.
I kinda relate to what the words are. The random sentences and words are similar to things I say or think of, for whatever reason. "Eyes are gleaming at me" is something I've said about patterns on a blanket or "These questions are related" to the sound of the ice maker. So that kinda how they could be relating to the sorta thing
I have OCD and to be honest, I think I'd focus on the alignment of objects way less than the fear of something watching me/being alive. I actually thought I was schizophrenic or something because I grew up being told OCD was needing things to be aligned, clean, and neat. But nope, turns out I don't have schizophrenia, just OCD. I don't see stuff this way, though. If I had to relate this aesthetic to something it'd probably be like those horror scary videos where big red circles zoom in on faces in windows in the thumbnail or something. The comments might be people trying to be quirky, bot comments, or jokes. I think you might be right on the money with people relating because of the overactive pattern recognition, but I don't think people are literally seeing things exactly like this
this is very much liminal space mixed with dreamcore. it's like, everything is weirdly nostalgic, but so weird in a way that no one can really describe why
Links to Drezzdon in the description!
For as wacky as this aesthetic is, I kind of love it.
Aye Mr. DudeMan, I think they relate because they kinda analyze the world in a way similar to that. Not saying stuff like "Life here" and other kinda stuff but kinda like noticing the smallest things or the biggest things in smaller detail.
ADHD kinda stuff
I fell like the aesthetic try so simulate how people over analyze things, but with an robotic visual, kind like anxiety i would say, or adhd, or mental illness in general
I don't know if this is related to ADHD or not, or if I have it, but I can of get why people say "they relate to" Many times, when my mind gets bored in the street, I start to see the world like this, not like, red circles or words, but, the way of analyzing the surroundings, like, counting trees, analyzing movements on dog's legs, counting lights by color and searching for reflections, comparing patterns with other things, like, clouds at sunset that look like a ocean at morning in the sky, and thinking "agartha?" because that makoto shinkai movie, or looking at some cotton bush aligned with a window and thinking "its growing inside that house" smelling something and asking yourself if that girlfriend ten years ago was real, and, if she was, why she could be around? listening birds and wondering if that’s how angels sing or seeing someone walking by and smiling and overthink if he was smiling with you, of you, or by some deep memories he remember, and so on and so on... this happens to me A LOT, more that I realize, and honestly, it wasn’t till this video that I noticed that I do this XD, so... probably it could be related to some type of autism, maybe TOC.
@@InsomniacSwallow "Sir....what is your order?"
dude i have adhd and a lot of other stuff i dont get this but i might have an idea on it so like how the cars lights right it said other world so i think its more find 1 thing thats there an this of it in another light so like the car lights the lights from it on the road if you took the car out an left the lights it would have been a flipped world where the lights are coming up from the ground kind of thing but most of this just dont add up at all some of it yes but i think the one making these is going to far with them an then its more or less just junk with some stuff in it still
It feels like a mix of analog, weirdcore and dreamcore
40 years ago James Cameron decided Terminators see the world like this. It’s a decades old gag.
I just commented that it looks like weirdcore. It’s like it’s cousin
THE STARS ARE FALLING
@@zivamayne Yeah it's like someone say a specific part of weirdcore and said "Yeah, this is it"
Yeah AI core
What the English teacher expects you to get out of one story:
and then the stories "the dog barked" or something
I don’t think anyone means they are literally seeing the world with the lines and boxes, but I felt like I could relate to these because it does reflect in a very specific way how I collate data around me. If I see something that reminds me of stars, I might think to myself “they’ve come to meet us here,” but it’s like personal poetry, it isn’t that I think stars have really landed on earth and want to have a coffee. Details and expression of internalized feelings, relating to disjointed and seemingly ostensibly unrelatable things. We all make memories and recall them in our own way with our own points of reference.
exactly how i feel
Yeah. It reminds me/feels like my constant hyper-fixating mixed with my internal dialogue and random thoughts. I’ll notice all sorts of random things and start thinking wild things about them, and imagining weird scenarios. It’s kinda nice seeing that put onto the screen, even if it’s a bit of an exaggeration of what it looks like in my head.
Yes! I relate to it as well in that it's that random thought that takes something pedestrian and sees the magic or strangeness in it. Like cloud watching and considering how that exact arrangement of water molecules is unique to that moment and is one of a kind, and won't ever be seen exactly like that again, even though we see clouds everyday and wouldn't necessarily consider them special events. Something like that...
Very much agree! and with the other 2 in the replies as well. I love the phrase "Personal Poetry"!
Some of the stuff in the videos I don't think I'd say or internally think, since it seems a bit exaggerated but I definitely had fleeting moments of other thoughts that were probably weird anyways.
Yeah this is what it is i think, less actual lines or boxes but more observing things around tüus
It’s just a visual representation of what their eyes perceive and what their brain picks up on at a minute level at any given moment. Some odd captions over objects could reference personal memories that come off as nonsense to someone else. Some things do resonate with people, like the pathway in the snow. Personally, I also think about how a pathway is warmer due to feet recently walking in the melted footsteps. The physical “art” in it is their approach to creation being to literally visualize what exactly is on their mind. I find it very raw and real, which must resonate with many people in this day and age.
Exactly this.
Thanks for explaining it :)
It's very raw indeed. I also feel like these videos resonate with this feeling I have as someone who just graduated high school. That feeling being absolute confusion. I feel like I know nothing about the world around me makes sense, just like how the comment/annotation things make no sense. Also, having the vision look like what a computer might see might be a reaction to the common feelings these days of burnout and emotional numbness. These videos seem like a super raw expression of the mind of a neurodivergent young adult in 2024 trying to understand the world around themselves, but also I could be projecting lmao.
Its a literal experiment on how people pretend to understand art to make others perceive fhemselves as “other” but they are lying
@@KayMarieD Source? Also can you elaborate? I'm genuinely interested in what you have to say, because this is something I have also thought about.
Idk, as an ADHDer (possibly AuDHD) I think the people saying “this is how my brain works,” “my ADHD brain when I’m on a walk by myself” are saying more that their thoughts go everywhere all at once and at a million miles an hour. The way the text changes so fast is a lot like how fast a new thought comes through and disappears. I get it and have to agree that my dumbass brain does in fact work like this lol
Definitely. Although for me personally as an autistic person I mainly relate to it because of the notion that autistic people "can't see the forest for the trees". I.e. If you have autism you are great at analysing the finer details but often have trouble putting them altogether into a bigger picture.
For me this visual style perfectly encompasses that feeling of going on a walk and analysing every little detail of your environment but never seeing it as a whole. Especially when combined with the weird annotations that feel almost disconnected, that kind of represents to me how the autistic brain can often interpret things in completely wacky ways that leave neurotypical people confused.
I was thinking it feels very neurodivergent. I kind of love it. ❤️
Same. Like my eyes would trace around the wheel like one of the vids showed, I quickly analyze everyone around me and my surroundings bc I’m paranoid, and I have intrusive thoughts that I ignore. I’m diagnosed with OCD
true, as an adhder, anywhere I haven’t been before is capable of making me overwhelmed, and even a few places I have been before.
@@BBB-to4ccyes, I have ADHD and while I never identified with that “parkour guy” that everyone saw on road trips and stuff, I always trace the tops of the trees or follow the power lines with my eyes.
thank you so much for covering my art
i love ur work keep it up
Of course! I love your style my friend, can’t wait to see what you do next!!
Hey! It’s the man himself. You are… definitely one of a kind. Looking forward to more of your stuff. It’s pretty overwhelming to try to interpret, but the visual are really interesting. Beautiful chaos sorta thing. Awesome work! ✨👏🏽
why doesnt this have more likes, it should be pinned😭
also this whole style art thing is very interesting,
mix of weirdcore traumacore idrk, its very interesting
and it describes a lot of peoples thoughts including mine, in a way as you glance at things and think certain things and look at other things and its just really interesting i like it!
Super relatable for me cause I really think random weird stuff like that
I just gotta say man, you are genuinely the most entertaining TH-camr I have seen in a long time. I don't know what it is, but my wife and I goddamn love watching you, dude. Please never stop making these videos.
I love your vids ❤
Bro I’ve watched probably all of your Subnautica videos but I never would’ve guessed you watch me 😂 Thank you so much man, it means more than you’d think.
And don’t you guys worry, I’ll be making these videos for as long as there is weird stuff on the internet.
Omg I never anticipated this Greg IGP mutuals crossroads lol I’m so happy
@@GregBroDudeManyeah this stuff is so fun
IGP jumpscare
This feels a lot like traumacore in it's vibes. It really evokes this feeling of struggling of mental illness either alongside or as a result of trauma. Sort of like a "why can't I comprehend the things that happen in this world? Make it make sense" kind of things.
TRAUMACORE? You've gotta be kidding me with all these *core's lol. There's an aesthetic for everything!
@@slaveNo-4028 Not an aesthetic- just a buzz term to help label things easier. You should try being more sympathetic towards the idea some people have to rely on the internet to cope with their problems/trauma in the first place. Please remember everyone has a safe space.
@@slaveNo-4028well its been around a while. Also it helps a lot for people with real trauma to express feelings that are very difficult to express in words. Some people romantice it yeah, but personally i just keep my own edits to myself and use them like a journal of my feelings.
As someone who has multiple nuerodivergencies, including acute schizophrenia, this is, the closest interperatation of how I see the world. The highlighting and red boxes are just what i notice and the texts are the thoughts and voices. Most of my nuerodivergencies stem from childhood trauma and I find the traumacore genre so eerily relatable, but it also feels comforting and safe, but also horrifying.
@@lethalparasocial9562My issue is the word. Why are we using trauma and core simultaneously? Core is often associated with aesthetics, and I don’t think it should be even in the same sentence as trauma
this reminds me of how my brain connects thoughts during an anxiety attack. just rapid fire fixating on random shit and having totally arbitrary conclusions about it
Yeah shockingly even I relate to this I would hyper examine things and life and experiences
11:16
THE REALITY LABEL SWITCHES TO "АД" WHICH MEANS HELL
DON'T GO THEREEE
Or should you?😈
AД is AD in Cyrillic
@@ZestonN ад does actually mean "hell, underworld; Hades" in Russian. it is a borrowing from Old Church Slavonic which borrowed the word originally from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs)
Since a lot of these are quite liminal, these feel to me like someone wrote an AI to try to interpret the feeling you get when you look at liminal spaces, but it just got confused and threw in some computer jargon for good measure
I find this interesting, because we often think of the feeling that liminal spaces give us as something that is distinctly human, but this aesthetic analyzes them in a very non-human way
@@flawed1 not this is very human
you're brain is absolutely analyzing everything around you like this at a sub-conscious level
@@placeholder3863 You're calculating the fps of your vision?
its like a stream of thought. it feels like how i think in a more poetic way. not the red boxes and lines but the drawn focus to them. the red, i think, are just guides on where to focus to immerse yourself in the way the artist thought, and how many people's attention is drawn and how its processed.
people saying, "this is how i think" doesnt mean they see red boxes and lines. they dont mean it in a literal sense.
i have a multitude of trauma based mental disorders so the sort of somber texts mixed in with the other random text hits really hard. because thats how things like my ptsd work in my day to day life. sometimes im looking at a random scene in the world and something will lead me back to what happened and i'll think on it for a second or two and i try to kick it out of my head through thinking more of other things.
at 4:22 what you said is also kinda how my brain works too. i think its how most people's do. sometimes theres such a large sensory overload that the streams of thought become a river, to the point where i immediately forget what i thought a second before.
I see it similarly!
THIS
THIS.
Seconded. It's well made and has great attention to detail. If you see a dog with a red box around it with red text it's meant to imply. Here is my random thought while looking at the dog.
I think he got that, he was more wondering do people say things that are quite that random? And I'd guess some do and some don't.
I'm more like you in that I am often reminded of other things, so it's not quite as random. Yet I'll also forget what I was just thinking. But people's brains work differently, some people have very organized thoughts.
As someone who actually has OCD, the closest this comes to what I experience is sometimes noticing the shapes of things like houses or other architecture (not those random boxes around people, animals, and leaves lmao) and having the trace the outline with my eyes or pretend to color it in like it's a coloring book or smth. Actually, the weird words are pretty triggering (like the "he's coming" definitely sets off all my paranoid intrusive thoughts).
I actually think this aesthetic is pretty cool looking, like you said it reminds me of how an AI or a robot would look at the world, which I enjoy thoroughly as a Sci-Fi nerd. Again, I just wish it didn't have all the weird words. They make it more ominous and I think that might be why some people enjoy it so much.
Do you also see those random boxes around people, animals, and leaves?
@@zivamayne Lmao, no. I think if anyone sees any random red boxes around anything they might need to start questioning if they are actually AI
Ocd is such a pain in the ass lol, all the intrusive thoughts and paranoia/fear is exhausting .
@@anaccount7923 Most definitely 💀 couldn't even watch this video peacefully lol
@@HappylilDragon Right? I’d give anything to go back to my old self. Luckily, I’m working on it right now
It feels like a way to visualize hypervigilance to someone who doesnt understand it. Of course its not necessarily the visuals but the feelings it gives you.
I have limited experience with psychosis, but i do get that vibe a bit when it comes to the pattern recognition, like, he's making things seem significant when they're not, and also how he's making things seem like they're connected to you, like the one that says "this house NEEDS YOU"
Lol you never know. Everything can be connected if you get abstract enough.
I don't know about psychosis but I got the feeling that it was purely emotional and devoid of rational thought, which is my opinion of most poetry. But it's not necessarily bad, just not relatable to me.
This aesthetic feels like you’re viewing memories with rose tinted glasses. Everything felt alive in that moment and the constant references to “I was here” keeps making me think they might be memories. The narration seems as if it is a mix between a child’s viewpoint and seeing magic in the world like the snow being stars and an adults where everything has passed and they don’t want to leave the memory. The great leader and such might refer to the awe and wonder of being a child.
This is a commentary on our digital reality and how, despite the many tools available at our fingertips with which to understand and navigate the world around us, an objective understanding of reality remains as maddeningly elusive as ever. That's my assumption, anyway. Edit: Lain refers to Serial Experiments Lain, which may explain a lot to you if you look into it. Or it may simply introduce yet more unanswerable questions.
Yeah this gives me AI consciousness vibes
When they show how a Tesla views the world, it looks like this, and someone gave it a red aesthetic. I think that’s it.
I also thought of Serial Experiments Lain when I saw the Lain tag. I haven't watched the anime and don't really know what it's about, but it always looked interesting to me. How good is it?
Without getting too deep into it, it's about man's hubris in the face of forces we don't understand, especially regarding new technologies like the internet and AI. It's very good, but it's also very mind-bending and may require multiple viewings to make any real sense of it.
@@jacobt1279The ending is shit, the visuals are nice though.
As someone with autism and ADHD, the one way I relate to this is noticing small details and seeing magic in ordinary things. Especially as an artist, I would have noticed the reflection of the green light on the gas station ceiling. But I wouldn’t have made a connection to the aurora. I’m kind of jealous of Drezzden in a weird way. To have all of these scraps of poetry about ordinary things floating around. There is definitely something weirdly emotional and beautiful about it.
I'm am artist too and I would have had the same observation of is this white? Meaning it's cool how green light can reflect off a white surface but it's still objectively white. Just with a green reflection and it kinda looks like (aka reminds you) of an aurora borealis. Not that it literally is one.
I have no idea what this "style" is, but it reminds me of the whole "in the future, humor will be randomly generated" line.
Either that or it's about people with autism ect. visualizing how they think and look at the world.
As an autistic person the only part I personally relate to is the hyper focus represented with the red boxes not any of the phrases and shit
That could be just me tho idk
I personally find it unsettling because it reminds me of how China tracks its people with AI. I imagine this is what it would look like if the AI tracking these people became sentient. I'd call it something like CCPcore, or AIcore.
@@El_moooo me personally, I feel similarly about it, though I don't have autism. I relate to the analysing part and thoughts forming around it as my brain tries to figure it out, but it's not outlandish things, like snow looking like falling stars.
@@El_moooousually when we analyze something, we focus on it and it becomes clearer than what's around it (also because of the way the eye works) and all the info gets in our brain. Except in the case where someone is deaf but even then the interpretations and words are in someone's head. It doesn't appear as words. (Unless they're some special snowflake teenager trying to sound interesting)
Thats called thinking my guy@@BlueSpring3
so obviously i don't see red boxes and stuff popping up, but as someone with a lot of neurodivergences (you named ocd, but also adhd and autism play into it) this really does feel like how my brain processes information. something about the frantic intake of as many details as possible, the almost desperate way it categorizes everything, even picking up on patterns that may not actually exist... it really is familiar to how a traumatized/overstimulated brain works. at least mine.
it's not exactly how my brain functions, of course, but the incessant and constant flickering "thoughts" and - as you noted - the overactive pattern recognition really line up with The Symptoms.
YES thank u
Are you actually diagnosed
@@oceanexblve884 that is none of your business :)
@@chromeclaws I figured you were self diagnosed 💀💀😭😭😭
@@oceanexblve884 i'm not, i have been diagnosed with everything i listed. but it's still none of your business. see how assumptions make you look like a shitheel? maybe don't do this.
This is how the mind analyzes its surroundings while also having a bit of thoughts mixed in. Also when people say they see the world this way, they don't mean it in a literal sense like that they see the squares and red lines. Those are just used to label stuff and show the viewer what the person behind the camera has seen and some thoughts about whatever they saw or just random thoughts at some points which are the random words.
EXACTLY, I was getting kinda pissed off with his interpretation
this is just a visual representation of how a brain processes stimuli at multiple levels of consciousness
i have ocd and adhd and this is a good visualization of how my thoughts can bounce around at the same time that my pattern recognition motor is running on high especially in high sensory stimulation environments like many of the ones in this video. the combination of logistical data gathering info, with whimsical fleeting thoughts and feelings, and then noticing little things that may fuel paranoia or excitement, all at once lol. some of it is kind of corny but i do get why people relate to it especially being neurodivergent
this aesthetic is quite relatable to me, because as an autistic person your brain sees every detail, every noise, person, animal etc all at once. While bigger thoughts of anxiety rail through your brain.
I have autism as well but brain sees every detail isn’t autistic but HSP
This! This is how I’d describe it!
I told this to someone else in a comment already, but you should watch Inside Out 2 if you haven't, it's about anxiety coming up with all possible situations that could happen in her brain and it's subconsciously affecting her behavior. It's also just a great movie.
I'm 80% sure its a representation of ADHD. I don't see red outlines but I kinda get what it is getting at. Tracking cars, almost predicting where they're going, noticing details in the background and noticing things that line up well while also thinking abstract thoughts.
I feel like these videos almost always. Not focusing on anything but also focusing on like 15 different things at the same time.
FR BRO
I was thinking the same thing. The clutter and quick thoughts, along with the lines going around the patterns made me feel like this was a representation towards how I process everything. Him not understanding the videos also fit into the quote that my father made: “People don’t understand it unless they experience it”.
I'd be curious with those who relate to what they are seeing if they have done MBTI and it's related to introverted vs extroverted sensing (seeing the world). Same with introverted vs extroverted Intuition (seeing the patterns of the world).
Honestly I got confused when people said they *don't* see the world like that
If you haven't seen Inside Out 2 you should, that's similar to what it's about because she's anxious about all the possibilities that could happen in the future and of course it's affecting her behavior.
But generally I think being observant of a lot of details and thinking about a lot of things can be positive and it can make people more creative and funny because they notice things that others don't. There are times when you do need to focus on one thing and I'm guessing there are ways to get better at that.
I totally get this. I think a lot of people with adhd and autism relate to this because of their heightened senses of everything going on and so much sensory intake at one they're just thinking about everything all of the time
I have autism and that’s not how autism works. Probably ADHD only. People with autism very very very likely only focus on one specific area we like with sensible thinking and ignore majority of other things. We don’t imagine all those weird things.
@@user-bi8ko7kc6h Oh, I said that cuz the autistic people I know experience a lot of sensory information at once, like while people usually can ignore background noise, they hear everything at once and it makes it hard for them to focus cuz they can't tune things out on demand so it would be like them trying to process all the things they're hearing at once and being distracted by a lot in a public space
@@user-bi8ko7kc6hSpeak for yourself, not all people with autism see things the same way. As someone who also has autism, I agree with Luminty, bc I related to these videos.
I'm surprised people are confused and taking the red text and boxes it's highlighting at its most literal. It's about thoughts and observations that can overlap with different things in your field of view.
@@Luminty99 lmao I have autism and it is nearly the exact opposite. I hyper focus so hard someone can be next to me saying my name and I won't even register it so I have to reel myself in or I'll just get completely lost in thought. I usually forget I have an actual body because I spend so much in my own head that I forget I'm actually connected to the real world to the point looking in a mirror feels uncanny because it doesn't fully register that I exist at all beyond thought.
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I'm no brain expert, and I myself don't really relate to how information is "processed" or shown in these videos, but for the people who _do_ relate, it might be less so on actually seeing the red squares and text as... well, red squares and text, but more so the red squares are stand-ins for their brain focusing on what they see and the text is the stand-in for their thoughts.
And it could be a thing where they're still focused on the bigger picture as a whole, but the red squares and text are just fleeting thoughts that grab their attention for just a second.
So it's less so a "quirky, I'm the Terminator" thing, and more so a "I focus on things in a similar fashion" type of thing.
Exactly this
You're correct and I think he understood that as well, he was just confused about what they were thinking, because it was quite random.
This is actually how the brain works, it highlights things, it shows details that probably aren't there but exist in context, this is just representing that, it highlights things with red cause it catches your attention, it uses the personal dialect that the brain uses, which is much, much different from what we use to speak, this is how the brain sees and stores things, along with how it memorizes, it just correlates things with other things and finds differences. Its especially impressive to me.
As someone with ADHD, this is kinda how I percieve things. Obviously not with literal red lines and boxes, but the thought processes of seeing one thing and thinking about it in that kind of way is relatable
I kind of get it. Not completely, but kind of. I have autism (amongst other mental health issues like severe GAD and also OCD) and I have said for years when I'm trying to explain how my brain works that it's like a quantum supercomputer. It's everything everywhere all at once (not the film, the phrase just fits nicely!). I notice every little thing, all the leaves on the trees, all the lights, all the shadows, the feeling of my hair and my clothes, the sounds, everything. And then on top of that, my brain makes completely random connections. I can see something and in like nanoseconds my brain and make a really random and loosely related link to something else, which makes perfect sense to me because I can follow my train of thought, but to someone else it'd seem like my thought train had gone off the tracks and then fucking exploded.
I don't see stuff with the red lines or whatever and the words are nonsense to me. I might make the aurora connection though because that did make me think it, not in a way that I'm convinced that's an aurora, just in a way that it kind of looks like it and that's cool. The sense of wistfulness is not something I have with this, though, and I'm not like looking at houses and imagining I lived there with someone or that it's ~full of life~.
I think it's accidentally resonating with autistic people or people with other mental issues, but I don't think it was meant to be that way. I think people are relating to different parts of it, and I think some people are just pretending because there's always a significant proportion of them, too. Some people probably relate to the wistfulness or want to relate to it, and there's a kind of childlike thinking around some of it that I can see some people either relating to or wanting to relate to. There's people like me who can relate to the categorisation and the overwhelming "everything"ness of them. I think it is accidentally an interesting autistic art piece, almost. I don't think it was meant to be that at all, but it kind of works like that in a way. I think it was just made to look cool mostly idk. I don't even know if the creator has autism or if they just managed to hit on something that a lot of people could relate to for different reasons. It's not an accurate representation of autism, but as an artistic analogy? (I can't think of the word I wanted to put here but it wasn't analogy but it's close enough I guess) it's not bad.
I think similarly to this sometimes. I just notice connections in the world and forget about their literal meaning. Things just sometimes feel more abstract and connected on a different level.
I have autism and OCD (among some other disorders), and I feel like I can really understand the fellow neurodivergent people who comment claiming to relate to these videos and images. I do not have the words to explain it, but I feel a connection, I can get and relate to it in a specific, deeply personal way too and it does give me some comfort as well. Also reminds me heavily of traumacore, which I like and find comfort in too.
I've never really understood where the comforting part comes in tbh. It gives off a similar feeling to liminal space where it makes me feel alone and like nothing will ever make sense. It's kind of like a Rorschach test that is looking too deep into you
"what core is this?" lmao love that
I have ADHD and I wanna say that these videos are a pretty good way for someone without ADHD to experience it. Maybe not with the red text though haha.
It’s why people like me get distracted by the littlest things, and why we get bored so quickly of doing the same thing. Because there’s always so much going on in our heads.
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I appreciate a Sunday upload. A lot of channels, at least the ones I follow, seem to upload exclusively mid week and I have nothing new to watch on the weekends when I actually have time 😢
as someone who's (very likely) autistic and has adhd, i do resonate with this style. i don't think ppl are saying they literally see things like this. i believe it's more an abstract interpretation or whatnot. the tracking, pattern recognition, honing in on details, the bizarre descriptions/associations reminds me of how i process my surroundings. kinda robotic but also abstract and all over the place.
I dunno about the name but it's like- animated classic weirdcore stuff. The outlines with odd captions, the music, the disorganized visual style... man, I haven't thought about this style of art in while. Good stuff when you're in the mood for it.
To me, this feels like a visualisation of the edge right between the subconscious and the conscious mind. Like, some filters we apply to have less information to process already took care of most of what we intake, but a lot of it still feels like "unprocessed" subconscious intuition. It's what wouldn't directly bubble up to the conscious when looking at the raw video footage of the videos, but almost. In addition to that, its super overwhelming to look at, maybe just to emphasize what our brains do is more than go "brr lamp here" but it interprets things emotionally. That would close the bridge between the people that think it looks like AI in the process of learning and people who think its based on random personal memories.
As someone who has multiple nuerodivergencies, including acute schizophrenia, this is, the closest interperatation of how I see the world. The highlighting and red boxes are just what i notice and the texts are the thoughts and voices.
3:58 as someone with ocd tho i think "this house needs you" and "i think it's alive" and the other kind of "uncanny" (?) sentences are more in line with a lot of people's obsessions and intrusive thoughts than the neatness of the lines.
Which makes it even more interesting, considering all the other people who come from many different walks of life in the comments saying the videos relate to them in some way too
Agreed. I have a lot of intrusive thoughts over these things that sound quite similar. No matter how wild or unrealistic they are, with the “I think it’s alive” especially it sounds like something I could’ve really thought at some point.
@@Reiiven yep i feel you
Lol most people don't look at a house and notice the vibes or imagine themselves living there or what the strangers living there might be thinking?
this kind of reminds me of trauma core (an aesthetic used to vent about being traumatized), especially with the short phrases that pop up
focusing on a bunch of tiny details in your environment that trigger traumatic memories and flashbacks
Oh great white people turned trauma into a core now. Where's an asteroid when we need it?
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme first of all, thats just a name that people online gave to artwork that expresses trauma. second of all, its not a white person thing lol. tiktok has a diverse community of people that think everything needs to have a trendy name
I have borderline with comorbid schizoaffective and as someone who has had psychotic episodes, this does kinda *feel* like how my brain works when I'm not "all there" so to say. I obviously don't literally see the red squares and everything, but it's like... a multitude of *almost* nonsensical intrusive thoughts, tenuous connections between random details, and paranoid thoughts. All happening so fast you can only really get like a vague idea of what's going on in your head, nevermind the world around you. Like seeing some random lights and having the thought of "fairies" or "northern lights" Is definitely something that would happen to me during an episode, and I'd be too out of it to question it.
I do think this is just a cool art project but, assuming they're not being hyperbolic, i do worry about the number of people who seem to relate to this...
I saw photos like these years ago finally this “aesthetic” is starting to blow up
I totally get it. It’s an over-analyzation of the physical realm by adding a “text to speech” effect to the real world from the perspective of a person who may be experiencing derealization/depersonalization or a general separation from what we consider reality. I LOVE it.
Feels like Robocop stopped taking his meds
Beautifully said.
it brings to mind videos i've seen that claim to simulate mental illnesses, ocd schizophrenia etc. with comments that sound like they're from some obtuse analog horror, or a softer world or something. it's pretty interesting.
not the random red boxes and shit, but some of the text feels pretty schizo to me. Paranoid stuff like she saw you! and hes coming!, and making connections with whatever flavor of the week rabbit hole thoughts ive been chewing on, thoughts and voicings layered on top of each other and tied together so im engaged in like three conversations at once in my mind. 2:17 ive definitely had my circles moments where the world sorta stops and yes the cycle goes on and yes of course everything is connected were all trapped in samsara together and if you look through this circle you can see the otherside but not comprehend it yet, etc. But I dont think most schizpohrenic people would find this "comforting" or "inspiring" as much as just scary as shit. I had to put this one on in the background today and just enjoy gregs voice lmao
I can see what they’re saying with “this is how adhd is like” bc i feel like any time im just taking a stroll or im sitting on a bench just observing, i tend to notice every little detail and almost like create a little storyline in my mind for it. Or ill like question why it is this way or how it ended up being that way. Or ill see something that looks familiar and it will bring me back to a childhood memory of some sort. But this is a pretty cool way to visualize it.
i can't explain it either but this is such an !!!!!! alive in a digital way !!!!! that divine in the machine !!! a bit neurodivergent !!!! the whimsical look in a strictly computer-logic way !!!!! none of the phrases in these videos felt nonsense to me. i'm so happy you made this video bc as someone who's not on tiktok i might have missed it even tho i feel like we're kinda doing something similar on tumblr - there's posts about streetlights and power lines being angels. it's so good and it speaks to me
9:35 "lain" refers to Serial Experiments Lain, which is an incomprehensible horror anime from 1999 about a shut-in who gets just a little too obsessed with computers.
To me, this feels like how an AI would see the world. It very closely reminds of how an AI named Klara from a book called “Klara and The Sun” would see. Her vision would her split into these different boxes and she would analyze these boxes to try to understand the situation.
9:36 “lain” refers to the techno-horror anime series “Serial Experiments Lain.” I highly recommend watching it (repeatedly because it won’t make perfect sense the first time around.)
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The aesthetic feels like the very back of your brain if that makes sense?
Like, half formed thoughts, nonsence that is usually filtered out, tracking everything, things that remind you of other things ect.
Being someone with major ADHD and anxiety all the time you tend to get distracted very easily for me at least and my eyes are darting around when I’m not on my phone and watching the smallest thing like a light on a lamp or just a pebble on the ground and with the red boxes it’s like how my eyes dart around to smallest things I don’t measure things n it like the smallest details catch my eyes.
i have had a psychotic episode, this deadass feels like psychosis brain to me imo. it feels like every little part of the world is trying to tell you something, at least in my experience
also lain is referencing the anime serial experiments lain, which has central themes of transhumanism and internet-related psychological technohorror
As someone with ADHD, these videos really feel like what my brain is like. So many weird thoughts all over the place, just trying to process everything.
i think what i like about this is that i don't relate to it when i feel fine, but when im upset i like making strange and complex patterns and things that people dont understand because it feels comforting having something more confusing and complex than what im upset about (maybe its an OCD thing idk) Theres just something about how it doesnt make sense that just, makes me on my own feel more rational. I might not feel like I make sense, but seeing something more confusing makes you feel more normal. I don't know how to describe it, but I think the fact that I can't describe it proves that it works.
This is like an art experiment,like when an artist paints a line and the viewer tries to act more intelligent than they are. None of these people understand this they just claim too to be “different”
I think the best way to understand it is an aesthetics mix between the early adult swim bump in video form, 2010's tumblr melodrama abstract quotes/ poetry , and the terminator/ai wall hack graphic design rolled into one lol
I kinda get this. It’s like thoughts, realizations and unconnected fragments that float in and out of my mind when I look around. I think it’s a neurodivergent way of perceiving reality and it mixes with other stuff that floats up from the non-reality areas of thought. It’s mind blowing to see it portrayed like this.
It should be called: Social Credit Core
That actually works 😁
This is actually brilliant.
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Like that one black mirror episode, clever
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Feels like off-putting, unconventional, disassociative, overly-analytical, obsessive compulsive nostalgia aesthetic to me. I greatly relate.
when people say “this is how i see the world” i don’t think they mean they actually SEE red lines and random crap like that, but it’s more of how their *thoughts* work. like, idk how to explain it. my thoughts do this as well, like random brain signals and voices and noises firing around me. i’m not actaully diagnosed with anything 😅 i might have ADHD. but it’s more of a brain thing i think.
yeah just how your brain processes stimuli
So, as someone who has an artistic eye (meaning, I look at things in the world and I’m already visualizing how I’d draw it and what shapes I’d use to make it) and as someone who has a very active constant flowing mind; I wouldn’t say I see red squares and lines, but, seeing waves in a puddle makes me think “ocean, beach, wave, tsunami” and the rain above makes me think “it’s raining, water, dark clouds, ufo, space, rain drops racing on window” and so on until everything around me is some form of stimulate that activates something in my brain that tells me red light means stop, green light means go, anything of that nature.
I do find this new thing to be extremely interesting, as it does remind me of how my own headspace perceives the world around me, when I see a wheel, a thousand things come to mind…and I never knew someone could capture what it looks like to have a million thoughts running through your head at all times could really look and feel like. Even now, it reminds me of how I remember how to spell things because I recognize words like I do a skyline of a city, but, anyways, I’m super excited to see where this new thing leads, it oddly feels refreshing and I’m very interested in seeing more interpretations in the future
This. I'm am artist too so deconstruction of why something looks cool in case you want to recreate later is almost automatic. The text "is this still white?" Was very clear in its intent of musing.
You should look up the cognitive functions, they're related to the Myers Briggs personalities and they explain a lot about how people think. Look up "Dear Kristin 8 Cognitive Functions".
It's all the dissonant thoughts running theough your mind at once when you just take a moment to look.
It's also funny to imagine that they were just messing around with a concept and it blew up because here you are trying to "figure it out" This is what every single artist wishes for with their own art, is for someone to want to figure it out. To "get it" I kinda hope they didn't mean to and now get to feel what every artists wants to feel. lol
its almost like a visualization of the subconscious attempting too process reality.
to me it just conceptualizes the millions of thoughts that could go through any kind of processor at any minute, our brains are processors just like an AI learning. The thing that is resonating with people is how well they have thrown the confusion of feeling into weird thoughts. Like when you think of a really weird thought and it reminds you of something and then you feel like you did then. I get this for sure.
Fun but very depressing fact; theres people who don't actually feel any need or want to think about their surroundings in detail. Theres people who will only pay attention to what they're there for, or any loud noise that might be a danger. A lot of people are relating to the very neurodivergent urge to hyperanalyse everything around them, either out of mild anxiety or pure fascination. I don't think anyone was relating to seeing the red boxes lol.
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It’s not sad but how human brain works. It automatically removes stuff that we don’t need, otherwise everyone would get crazy and overloaded. Our brain also sort outs and deletes things we need or don’t need every night when we are asleep.
This is how I see it. Amazing ideas can be born out of just imaginative perception. The way it was pointing at the reflection of the cars headlights, for example, and saying that it could be a different realm. It’s literally just an idea that can flash onto your mind as you’re walking down the street; much like a child pretending that the light tiles on the mall are safe and the dark tiles are danger. But all of these ideas, possibilities and musings flashing on the screen at the same time gives the videos a scary, overwhelming feeling. I can almost imagine this is how overstimulation feels for someone with autism. So many different thoughts you could have and no way to laser point on to a single one… I kind of love this.
I'm a computer. I'm a computery guy. Everything made out of buttons and wires. I'd like to show ya inside my digital life. Inside my mind, there is a digital mind.
These are definitely adequate ADHD simulations. A barrage of random intrusive thoughts triggered by every tiny little detail around you, overstimulating you with too much to focus on.
honestly this is just what it feels like to have adhd. ofc we dont see red squares and have these nonsensical thoughts. but thhis is what sensory overload feels like. you just notice everything in hyperspeed.
its also what just resting can feel like for me where all of the things in a place feel of equal importance so my brain is jumping between everything and I'm not really zoned in but im not zoned out either
So it's not then. It's called paying attention.
It almost seems like the POV is an angel with AI capabilities. The "be not afraid" line is what solidified this hypothesis for me.
Look, I've only been subscribed to you since February this year, and every time you post, of course I'm like "Gregbrodudeman? Heck yeah!" You're a vibe and you're awesome!
I don’t have OCD to my knowledge, but I do have ADHD and anxiety disorders, which kinda manifest together as obsessive-compulsive behavior. Which mostly just makes me pretty paranoid and superstitious, and gives me panic attacks on bad days.
I don’t see red squares and arrows and sans serif text floating around, but the way my mind bounces between things when I’m losing my grip can definitely feel like that, where I’m thinking so fast it don’t matter if my thoughts make sense. These videos are weirdly unsettling for sure
I see the world this way. My brain is so overactive and I see so many things. I definitely have mental issues. In public I often get overstimulated by how it's like this. No red boxes or lines..just constant noticing everything.
Alright, the only thing that I can relate to this is how sometimes my brain makes me see things as if the area around me was a laser grid. Makes me feel like I am a computer running around through the laser grid world trying to put things together. I also sometimes imagine I’m looking through a sniper scope and the crosshair locks onto someone.
People want so desperately to be quirky they say they have NPC vision.
Sums it up perfectly. They even try to fool themselves by imagining the words themselves.
I am so quirky that I characterize myself as a thing that is commonly known as bland and not unique.
Terminator vision
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Janitor: Hey, buddy. You got a dead cat in there or what?
[The Terminator HUD listing possible responses:]
Yes/No
Or what?
Go away
Please come back later
F##k you, a$$hole
F##k you
Terminator: *F#**#k* *you*, *a$$hole.*
>Terminator vision
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This reminds me of word association, where one person (e.g. the psychiatrist) says an arbitrary word and the other person says the first thing that comes to mind. I wonder if this creator watches videos and simply notes down any thoughts prompted by the footage, trying their best NOT to think about it, but essentially let their brain auto-complete thoughts.
The red boxes, arrows, and text remind me of both AI object/facial recognition software and clickbait thumbnails. The content of the text reminds me a lot of, genuine, schitzo-posting (like gangstalking vids).
I think the aim is very likely to create a juxtaposition between the way an AI computer algorithm views the world, and the way a manic/psychotic person detached from reality views the world.
As a manic psychotic detached from reality person yes. Do the patterns in that tree bark mean something about the fish men? Maybe
Or maybe people have a lot more thoughts when looking at a tree then...tree..noted. It's not sinister.
Dissociation, that’s what these videos remind me of. Those times when you drift away from reality and your mind starts analysing everything, kinda like an apathetic robot.
This new Aesthetic really caught my eye! I always create music or levels in a game called Geometry Dash, and i have a style in which i would add seemingly the most random text, but not completely, just like greg said in the video. It feels like those red captions have extremely deep meanings and i'm here for it! I'm happy i can relate to this, thx drezzdon and greg! 🔥
what's your GD username? I'll check it out jus for fun
@@folddyy omg 7 months later. my user is "itztimayz" or "timayz" i dont remember
Ooooh look at me and how quirky I am jumping on a new thing and letting the world who doesn't care know I see the world like this 😂 Greg nailed it.
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these videos do look super comforting. I have had a dissociative disorder since i was like 13 so i process reality in a jagged, disordered way. So when you said "this looks like how a computer would think if it thought it was human" that is almost a perfect description of what it feels like: processing the world in an automated way, like a computer, where in place of cohesive trains of thought, everything is taking up ram and being observed all at once, very quickly.
For me these videos are comforting because it makes me aware of how much work my brain is constantly doing to help me navigate the world. In dissociative episodes, it feels like being watched over. It feels like a personificaiton of the tiny bridge connecting me to the real world.
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1:35 I think it's like it's the brain interpreting what is being seen. The "ew bugs" and light counting seems like something I'd do when watching a random video
So what i think people mean by " i identify with this video " or stuff like that
ADHD often causes you to be VERY distracted very easily and the viewers kind of think all of the red squares and analyzing data stuff is representing distractions or things that could cause their mind to wonder off
Obviously as a person with ADHD ( which is very common I'm not going to stretch out that fact ) this isn't how we see the world its just representing the distractions and everything around us
Also i can obviously tell that the creator of this aesthetic definitely wants this to represent machine learning and not mental conditions
to me, it seems like they're just trying to be "deep" and "different" when it REALLY is just an edit of a video with red text and squares, I do enjoy the videos for the aesthetic though (:
Couldn’t stop laughing at the “reminder: water” reaction
This feels like AI gained consciousness and we’re viewing the world through their eyes
Im a huge fan of drezzdon and i discovered him early, back in december, it reminds me a lot of the game watch dogs. Also about people relating to the videos, its (for me at least) more of a way that your brain takes in information, not seeing actual red boxes.
Reminds me of tracking ai that door cameras use
I kinda relate to what the words are. The random sentences and words are similar to things I say or think of, for whatever reason. "Eyes are gleaming at me" is something I've said about patterns on a blanket or "These questions are related" to the sound of the ice maker. So that kinda how they could be relating to the sorta thing
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It's basically a visual representation of what it feels like to have ADD.
What this is, is people thinking they are the main character
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I have OCD and to be honest, I think I'd focus on the alignment of objects way less than the fear of something watching me/being alive. I actually thought I was schizophrenic or something because I grew up being told OCD was needing things to be aligned, clean, and neat. But nope, turns out I don't have schizophrenia, just OCD.
I don't see stuff this way, though. If I had to relate this aesthetic to something it'd probably be like those horror scary videos where big red circles zoom in on faces in windows in the thumbnail or something.
The comments might be people trying to be quirky, bot comments, or jokes. I think you might be right on the money with people relating because of the overactive pattern recognition, but I don't think people are literally seeing things exactly like this
This is just like me fr
this is very much liminal space mixed with dreamcore. it's like, everything is weirdly nostalgic, but so weird in a way that no one can really describe why