Caterpillars are actually the juvenile stage of the insect, so when M&S shows them marrying and having babies they are entering some very uncomfortable and possibly illegal territory
@@darrengordon-hill some people are taking him seriously and praising him, some people are getting mad and calling him woke, lol. It's not very funny though, I think satire needs to be pushed just a little more for that.
Ermm actually, it's extremely problematic to assume those who don't have hands are unable to speak up for equal rights. Might even say he's being a bit ableist. Real woke this one turned out to be (/s, I am joking, please don't think I'm this brain rotted)
I spent the entire video being unsure if it was genuine criticism/analysis or if it was a shitpost. 10/10, would recommend. The marriage edition is genuinely super weird and also the fact that colin and connie then begin dating themselves after... being cut in half like inchworms or hydras, I guess.
"...they really gave the game away, because they made the cakes half the size of the original ones. This was a Freudian slip that revealed they only support gay right about half the time." Excellent observation, my viewpoint on M&S, a store which I only heard of about 5 minutes ago, will never be the same.
@@Maria7Maria social sciences is a good qualification for journalism and fields in politics, idk where this idea that social sciences gets u no qualifications came from
Neotrogla caterpillars females have a penis, and the males have vaginas… so after a quick google search by me, to find out how to see what sex a caterpillar is I learned this, so your aunty is ok and still a feminist, but you definitely have to analyse what she gets you on Christmas Day, and be prepared to have a go at her, especially if you have drunk to much.
Feminism is a sexist belief system, so it's not surprising she wasn't wise. An egalitarian would be wise enough to not agree with pointless gendering of products, and outdated gender roles.
The more I learn about Ireland the more it seems like an alternate reality of the American Midwest. We had no caterpillar cakes, but I feel like I can almost remember them from my childhood
Do you guys have paddy melts or are they fake Irish? It's like a burger with American cheese on two slices of buttered bread instead of a bun, fried on a griddle
@@stevefurness6303 It's a struggle for sure. Fighting addiction, chronic pain, insomnia, depression, anxiety... All while trying to maintain a committed relationship and raise a child. But hey, it's often a fun journey. Just get's dark out there sometimes. Glad to be alive tho. Bless you. How are you?
All ugly caterpillars of all identities are oppressed by the beautiful bourgeois butterfly who have transitioned into beings that can soar through the skies and kill from above
Literally 4 hours after watching this video i arrive at my parents house to find that my mum got me a colin the caterpillar cake. I hadn’t heard of colin the caterpillar until watching your video and it was released yesterday. what the hell just happened?
This is a beautiful and enlightening assessment of all that is wrong with society. May your wisdom be entwined within the generations to come. Namaste.
Protip: if you like Collin but you dislike M&S (or don't like overspending) you can get a pack of ten cake rolls from Morrisons for £1.70 (or something). That's double the cake for way less (5 Collins is £2.75 near me). They don't have caterpillar faces or the charming bits I'll admit, but they're very similar inside and just as tasty. (Also I don't like the sprinkles on Collin personally, and can't stand the ones on Connie.)
If you bring these beetles to market in the USA and forge your birth certificate to be American, you can surely con yourself a Pulitzer with this excellent investigate and culturally analytical reporting.
I personally can't wait until BDSM is properly integrated into culture. Just like homosexuality it's not inherently sexual and similarly it won't be accepted in public spaces until it sheds this association. But when it happens we will get a BDSM caterpillar. It's the future I crave
not the bell hooks references lmao. also thank you for this especially--i lived in england for a year as a little kid and i remember one of these cakes were like the very first thing we ate when we got to our new house. but then i had no context for why such a thing would exist in my memory unless one of my neighbors went to far too much effort ig. also i had forgotten about it, so thank you for the simultaneous reminder and justification for this caterpillar cake. as a trans woman, i can only dream of the socially enlightened xanadu that would have resulted in my family unit had connie existed at the time. unfortunately no binary breaking swiss rolls for me--socialized male, socialized colin the caterpillar. it was a lot of trauma growing up.
This is masterful 😂. It’s so savage and the social theory is damn good. If you didn’t ace your sociology exam give me your teacher’s email I’d like a word.
I'd never heard of caterpillar cake 'til now, but I can say this is a weirdly dystopian marketing strategy. I wonder how much icing sugar traversed the nasal passages of the ad execs who came up with this, in the course of coming up with this. Hope you got good marks for this video essay, btw.
@@NightTimeDay - I've lost track. The part about high marks for his sociology assignment wasn't sarcastic at all though. This is great. :-) Makes me wonder if any of his other videos started as school projects.
@@Liloldliz gay caterpillar marriage (mad because they didn't invite me to wedding) (they will get eaten sooner or later so they should enjoy being gay while they still can)
Your channel is brilliant. I lived in glasgow for 9 years and theres a lpt of ovelap and binging this channel is making me relive a lot of happy moments.
Well we germans elliminate all these issues by having our chcolate covered cake be a ring surrounding a tree (just the ring, no the tree tho) and we call it "Baumkuchen" (Treecake). No gender roles here to be exploited...just the absence of a tree in the middle of a chocolate covered ring. The hole of the ring obviously stands for the nitzschien void that stares back into you . The yummy, empty void
In the Victorian era and through much of the Industrial Revolution parents dressed young boys and girls in dresses. This is mainly due to them being easier to make than pants, but they didn’t really see children as boy or girl, just a small child. This was largely due to the high infant mortality rates which meant it was better not to get attached to children since they weren’t likely to see adulthood. Once they got to the age of 6-8 depending on size they would likely be sent to a workhouse for daily 12-18 hour shifts running a mill, again regardless of gender. Of course gender roles for adults were strictly managed according to the patriarchal tradition but the idea of worrying about a child’s gender is largely a modern concern. After WW2 family life in developed countries stabilized and most importantly people were left with free time, which they choose to waste on finding new and dumber things to be worried about, like the gender of a cake. I’ve always said that all our problems and differences would vanish if we just had some natural predators. If you had to worry about your kid being eaten by a bear on the way to school you won’t have time to worry about all the absolute nonsense people get upset over today.
Before society worried about gender roles, gender roles simply existed as an extension of sexual dimorphism and biological reality. A pregnant or breastfeeding woman can not hunt or fight or do anything dangerous while the men who do the dangerous tasks are easily replaced. Women are not just themselves, they are the entire future reproductive and survival capability of their entire civilisation, the loss of a young woman is far greater than the loss of a man. The structure even if it was built by men, was to protect and venerate the female, that is far closer to a matriarchy. Only the gendered world of strong biological males can make a society so successful that it has the free time to consume itself with neopronouns and identity. Hard times breed strong men, strong men bring good times, good times breed soft men who think they are women, soft men bring hard times. If that predator does show up, society will erase the weak non binary creatures and go back to men are men and women are women, both have a role to play to survive. Or the caterpillar will sprout wings and turn into a chad bourgeois butterfly
You’re the second person who said that, it’s actually my track. Totally get the deru reference though, it sounds a bit like his track 1979, I’m a big fan of his so I take it as a compliment
@@meditationsfortheanxiousmind Oh shoot that's so surreal. I love that type of otherworldly music; it really takes you places. Well done! My favorite off that album is Three Cheers For Existence.
The sign is a subtle joke. The shop is called "Sneed's Feed & Seed", where feed and seed both end in the sound "-eed", thus rhyming with the name of the owner, Sneed. The sign says that the shop was "Formerly Chuck's", implying that the two words beginning with "F" and "S" would have ended with "-uck", rhyming with "Chuck". So, when Chuck owned the shop, it would have been called "Chuck's Fuck and Suck"
i saw this and thought it would be absolutely hilarious if it was a school project i can't believe it is lol also is this a really common cake somewhere like how this one icecream cake is super common in the US and probably other places
Caterpillars are actually the juvenile stage of the insect, so when M&S shows them marrying and having babies they are entering some very uncomfortable and possibly illegal territory
What about their parental status once they undergo their transition? Hopefully the butterfly community will be supportive.
You're not one of these anti-child marriage loons are you?
i thought the woke types were into that
@@jonny_codphilo7809 bait
@@jonny_codphilo7809 what?
This was my end of year project for the second year of my sociology degree I made it last April
What grade did you get on this, out of sheer curiosity?
Wait, is this not a joke? I'm around too many people who talk like this in university to tell the difference anymore.
@@NightTimeDay Dude's beyond funny
@@darrengordon-hill some people are taking him seriously and praising him, some people are getting mad and calling him woke, lol. It's not very funny though, I think satire needs to be pushed just a little more for that.
@Angus Not So Young Not edgy enough, step it up to feel more superior. Get on my level nube.
"caterpillars don't have hands which means they can't point out inequality when they see it" so true, so deep, on point
Ermm actually, it's extremely problematic to assume those who don't have hands are unable to speak up for equal rights. Might even say he's being a bit ableist. Real woke this one turned out to be (/s, I am joking, please don't think I'm this brain rotted)
Jazz hands is impossible, they compensate by doing jazz eyebrows. It's the woke version of raising your eyebrows.
This makes me relive the trauma of doing media studies at a-level. 10/10.
it's making me continue living the trauma
It's beautiful
I was going to say it is textbook perfect for a social sciences a-Level answer
as someone whos doing both sociology and media studies, this video would not be out of place in either lesson
I spent the entire video being unsure if it was genuine criticism/analysis or if it was a shitpost. 10/10, would recommend. The marriage edition is genuinely super weird and also the fact that colin and connie then begin dating themselves after... being cut in half like inchworms or hydras, I guess.
Self👏Relationships👏Are👏Valid👏
High effort shitposts are peak internet culture
definitley satire bruh
I also wondered the same, my soft brain
I love your comment, especially the end where you seem to brush off nonsense.
Let's also take a moment to ponder the fact that we anthropomorphise the cakes, only to then devour them whole, including the kids.
I… I killed them. I killed them all. They’re dead, every single one of them. And not just the men, but the women and the children, too.
@@jackalenterprisesofohiothe world doesn't need to know what that is
So you're saying it's a vore cake
You are thinking far too deep about it
"...they really gave the game away, because they made the cakes half the size of the original ones. This was a Freudian slip that revealed they only support gay right about half the time."
Excellent observation, my viewpoint on M&S, a store which I only heard of about 5 minutes ago, will never be the same.
Ugye 😫 same
I can feel the equality leaving my body as I eat the cake
I'm glad you are putting your sociology degree to good use!
I really hope his dissertation was on Colin the Caterpillar
When will the jokes about only social-sciences students being capable of critical analysis stop
@@garshtoshteles when social scientists actually get real jobs and don’t have the time to sit around making jokes? 😅
@@Maria7Maria social sciences is a good qualification for journalism and fields in politics, idk where this idea that social sciences gets u no qualifications came from
@@Maria7Maria Are you thick? It's other people making the jokes. Don't open your mouth unless you know what you're saying
Superimposing yourself in the images like this is maybe one of the funniest ways I’ve seen someone format a video essay
My Aunt was a feminist and she always bought these for my birthday when I was a kid. Was this a betrayal of everything she stood for?
Neotrogla caterpillars females have a penis, and the males have vaginas… so after a quick google search by me, to find out how to see what sex a caterpillar is I learned this, so your aunty is ok and still a feminist, but you definitely have to analyse what she gets you on Christmas Day, and be prepared to have a go at her, especially if you have drunk to much.
Yes, I’m sorry.
she must have been lying to you then
It would appear so. Unfortunately your aunt is a fraud. I'm sorry you had to find out this way
Feminism is a sexist belief system, so it's not surprising she wasn't wise.
An egalitarian would be wise enough to not agree with pointless gendering of products, and outdated gender roles.
The more I learn about Ireland the more it seems like an alternate reality of the American Midwest. We had no caterpillar cakes, but I feel like I can almost remember them from my childhood
great handle.
@@Catonius ♥️♥️ +1000 social credit
Cookie Puss from Carvel?
Do you guys have paddy melts or are they fake Irish? It's like a burger with American cheese on two slices of buttered bread instead of a bun, fried on a griddle
@@xifamilynetflixaccount7450 that's racist
The title alone cured my depression, if only briefly. It’s been a tough year, ideologically and semantically. You are a language wizard.
Stay strong Nell
How are you doing now Nell ? It's spring here in Manchester and it's still bloody freezing, hope you're doing ok ?
@@stevefurness6303 It's a struggle for sure. Fighting addiction, chronic pain, insomnia, depression, anxiety... All while trying to maintain a committed relationship and raise a child.
But hey, it's often a fun journey. Just get's dark out there sometimes. Glad to be alive tho.
Bless you.
How are you?
wouldn't that be child marriage because adult caterpillars are butterflies?
this is barely watchable and utterly incomprehensible i love it
The entrenched gender binary of caterpillar cake has caused untold suffering to millions.
Caterpillars rebel against this by eventually transitioning.
All ugly caterpillars of all identities are oppressed by the beautiful bourgeois butterfly who have transitioned into beings that can soar through the skies and kill from above
@@quillo2747 So this is what transition is all about, huh?
I've never heard of caterpillar cake. This video feels like a fever dream
Literally 4 hours after watching this video i arrive at my parents house to find that my mum got me a colin the caterpillar cake. I hadn’t heard of colin the caterpillar until watching your video and it was released yesterday.
what the hell just happened?
It any good?
@@Patrick.Weightman is sexism good?
she must be a slave to the patriarchy then
@@user-ln2go4xp6d hell yeah
@@zatchbell5678 you're a plant by marks and spencers
WHY AM I GETTING RECOMMENDED THIS AND WHY IS IT SO GOOD
This is the hard-hitting journalism we need
Thank you for shedding light on the stuff that matters. Things like this just get shoved under the rug
Lol
Or, if you're my nephew celebrating his first birthday with a caterpillar cake, trodden into the rug
This is unironically real asf
This is a beautiful and enlightening assessment of all that is wrong with society. May your wisdom be entwined within the generations to come. Namaste.
Protip: if you like Collin but you dislike M&S (or don't like overspending) you can get a pack of ten cake rolls from Morrisons for £1.70 (or something). That's double the cake for way less (5 Collins is £2.75 near me). They don't have caterpillar faces or the charming bits I'll admit, but they're very similar inside and just as tasty. (Also I don't like the sprinkles on Collin personally, and can't stand the ones on Connie.)
This just goes to show how consumerism further entwines us in the trappings of performative gender rolls
No good for me, I exlusively eat food with a face.
Swiss rolls have been a thing long before Collin the Caterpillar
Blasphemy. The chocolate pieces are the best part!
As an American, watching this video felt like I stumbled into an alternate dimension and witnessed something I wasn't supposed to.
I never knew the caterpillar cake had so much lore...
It all made sense now
this is your magnum opus as far as i've watched your content. thank you for this. namaste.
I have a strange longing to be a part of this man's culture
british?
10/10 feels like an A tier onion news network sketch
If you bring these beetles to market in the USA and forge your birth certificate to be American, you can surely con yourself a Pulitzer with this excellent investigate and culturally analytical reporting.
Who would willingly become American
@@mildlydispleased3221 Probably people with less privileges than us sarcastic bastards, eh?
theyre not beetles, theyre caterpillars
@@lesserdad Are you off your rocker, mate?
This whole video was worth it just for the "Gendered Swiss rolls" pun
It needed to be said, and it was! Nice to see someone doing the real investigative journalism work.
masterful analysis, I'm so extremely upset.
this is the first time I hear about caterpillar cake
Your insights into modern life are what we need right now. Tackling the social and economic problems which no one will touch! Namaste!
Greatest video I’ve ever seen. Thank you for changing my life
I personally can't wait until BDSM is properly integrated into culture. Just like homosexuality it's not inherently sexual and similarly it won't be accepted in public spaces until it sheds this association. But when it happens we will get a BDSM caterpillar. It's the future I crave
Gerald the Gimp caterpillar
ABDL caterpillar.
Finally, a sociology degree that was used productivly 😂
“but in 2018, M&S suddenly realized that girls have birthdays too”
I can’t express how hard I would laugh if this cake got canceled on twitter and the company issued an official apologized or something
It’s a pretty good analysis of gender roles through the medium of fucking caterpillar cakes. Bravo!
this is unhinged and i love it, also we need non binary catterpillar cakes thank you for bringing this up
I feel getting into poly relationships in confectionary would be opening a whole can of worms. Or more appropriately a bakery of caterpillars.
the Irish accent makes this 100% better
not the bell hooks references lmao. also thank you for this especially--i lived in england for a year as a little kid and i remember one of these cakes were like the very first thing we ate when we got to our new house. but then i had no context for why such a thing would exist in my memory unless one of my neighbors went to far too much effort ig. also i had forgotten about it, so thank you for the simultaneous reminder and justification for this caterpillar cake. as a trans woman, i can only dream of the socially enlightened xanadu that would have resulted in my family unit had connie existed at the time. unfortunately no binary breaking swiss rolls for me--socialized male, socialized colin the caterpillar. it was a lot of trauma growing up.
What are you talking about?
@@passchen-fail3704 trans ppl be like this sometimes
This ended me mate, absolutely loved it. Me and my sore throat thank you for the surrealist humour and genuine call outs.
Colin , clearly represents the role of the bourgeoisie in our stratified and divided society.....
This is masterful 😂. It’s so savage and the social theory is damn good. If you didn’t ace your sociology exam give me your teacher’s email I’d like a word.
This man is protected by a thick layer of irony.
this is the BEST video on popular culture as a non-irish/non-English person living in the UK....YES
I'd never heard of caterpillar cake 'til now, but I can say this is a weirdly dystopian marketing strategy. I wonder how much icing sugar traversed the nasal passages of the ad execs who came up with this, in the course of coming up with this.
Hope you got good marks for this video essay, btw.
How many layers of sarcasm is this lol
@@NightTimeDay - I've lost track. The part about high marks for his sociology assignment wasn't sarcastic at all though. This is great. :-) Makes me wonder if any of his other videos started as school projects.
i cant believe the marriage edition thing is actually real lol
i can't believe the gay caterpillar cake marriage thing is real what is this
@@Liloldliz gay caterpillar marriage (mad because they didn't invite me to wedding) (they will get eaten sooner or later so they should enjoy being gay while they still can)
I never knew I needed this essay.
Your channel is brilliant. I lived in glasgow for 9 years and theres a lpt of ovelap and binging this channel is making me relive a lot of happy moments.
Well we germans elliminate all these issues by having our chcolate covered cake be a ring surrounding a tree (just the ring, no the tree tho) and we call it "Baumkuchen" (Treecake). No gender roles here to be exploited...just the absence of a tree in the middle of a chocolate covered ring.
The hole of the ring obviously stands for the nitzschien void that stares back into you .
The yummy, empty void
you've left me with a deep, cavernous sadness that can only be quelled by cake.
This is the most Irish video I've seen in a while
In the Victorian era and through much of the Industrial Revolution parents dressed young boys and girls in dresses. This is mainly due to them being easier to make than pants, but they didn’t really see children as boy or girl, just a small child. This was largely due to the high infant mortality rates which meant it was better not to get attached to children since they weren’t likely to see adulthood. Once they got to the age of 6-8 depending on size they would likely be sent to a workhouse for daily 12-18 hour shifts running a mill, again regardless of gender. Of course gender roles for adults were strictly managed according to the patriarchal tradition but the idea of worrying about a child’s gender is largely a modern concern. After WW2 family life in developed countries stabilized and most importantly people were left with free time, which they choose to waste on finding new and dumber things to be worried about, like the gender of a cake. I’ve always said that all our problems and differences would vanish if we just had some natural predators. If you had to worry about your kid being eaten by a bear on the way to school you won’t have time to worry about all the absolute nonsense people get upset over today.
my brother in christ i don't think the video is that serious
This video is satire ya snowflake
Before society worried about gender roles, gender roles simply existed as an extension of sexual dimorphism and biological reality.
A pregnant or breastfeeding woman can not hunt or fight or do anything dangerous while the men who do the dangerous tasks are easily replaced. Women are not just themselves, they are the entire future reproductive and survival capability of their entire civilisation, the loss of a young woman is far greater than the loss of a man.
The structure even if it was built by men, was to protect and venerate the female, that is far closer to a matriarchy.
Only the gendered world of strong biological males can make a society so successful that it has the free time to consume itself with neopronouns and identity.
Hard times breed strong men, strong men bring good times, good times breed soft men who think they are women, soft men bring hard times.
If that predator does show up, society will erase the weak non binary creatures and go back to men are men and women are women, both have a role to play to survive.
Or the caterpillar will sprout wings and turn into a chad bourgeois butterfly
whole essay on a video about caterpillar cakes
i think this rules and you should write more, fuck everybody else
bruh this literally sounds like my Film Studies course
sitting eating my lunch whilst writing my final year uni essay, a day before its due, and this pops up
I actually feel insane
Namaste brother Frankie🙏 what a deep analysis on this controversial topic. Peace to you
Finally someone whose not afraid to speak the truth.
9/10 you didn’t mention the ripoffs
This..this is trolling done right.
I want cake now. Hold the gender roles.
Colin the caterpillar, the only cake I can still visually memorise getting for my childhood birthdays
You know that bell hooks would kick ass as an MMA fighter
I need a safe space after reading this. My world has shattered.
As someone who has never seen our heard of a caterpillar cake before today, I am *screaming* 😂😂😂
this was very insightful, thank you
I'm waiting for Colin the caterpillar and Daniel the Butterfly marriage couple.
This is brilliant. Had no idea about caterpillar cake and its journey. Love to see more videos on other cultural phenomenon.
Bro looks like a lost Brockhampton member
In the other supermarkets where they have rip-off caterpillars, it’s always presented as male. Not sure what to make of this information.
"We have BreadTube at home"
Really eye-opening stuff here. Very well done
Media Studies be like:
Human centipede has never looked more progressive
This made me subscribe.
Brilliant!
Not sure what I was expecting but it's nice to hear Deru being used in a video ☝️
You’re the second person who said that, it’s actually my track. Totally get the deru reference though, it sounds a bit like his track 1979, I’m a big fan of his so I take it as a compliment
@@meditationsfortheanxiousmind Oh shoot that's so surreal. I love that type of otherworldly music; it really takes you places. Well done! My favorite off that album is Three Cheers For Existence.
Why did I just watch this, and why did I enjoy it
"Gender roles = gendered swiss rolls" 😂
The sign is a subtle joke. The shop is called "Sneed's Feed & Seed", where feed and seed both end in the sound "-eed", thus rhyming with the name of the owner, Sneed. The sign says that the shop was "Formerly Chuck's", implying that the two words beginning with "F" and "S" would have ended with "-uck", rhyming with "Chuck". So, when Chuck owned the shop, it would have been called "Chuck's Fuck and Suck"
this is a masterpiece, thank you for teaching me traumas of Irish people
What grade did you get on this?
This really is the shite they get you to do in sociology. So glad I'm done with that A-Level, wanted to off myself after every essay
metamorphosis of late stage caterpilism
Gender roles = Gendered Swiss Rolls
😂
I will never see m&s the same saw again
that was brilliant, i learnt a lot
I had never heard of connie, this blew my mind
When do we step in?
This is the greatest video I've ever seen. It sounds so dumb, but actually makes great points, and I applaud the feminism!
Swiss roles are the only gender roles i believe in
I need that on a t-shirt
ContraPoints is shaking.
You made it as a joke but this is exactly how critical theory works. That's not a parody, that's a valid critique from their perspective.
i saw this and thought it would be absolutely hilarious if it was a school project i can't believe it is lol
also is this a really common cake somewhere like how this one icecream cake is super common in the US and probably other places
MATE YOU ARE AN ABSOLUTE LEGEND. YOUR AMBER LEAF VIDEO WAS SPOT ON. SO IS THIS!!
gender roles = gendered Swiss rolls 😮🤯😱🧠🧐🙏
did they at least taste good
In fairness yes they are class
As a person who works in M&S your completely right