I didn't even laugh out loud when he said that, but it is one of the funniest things I've heard recently. I can't get over how stupid and funny it is haha. A man from Medieval times trying to talk cool and hip for the kids.
@@DavidmasPoop honestly yeah W friends he seems like the type of guy that’s weird asf but once you get know he’s actually chill asf you just gotta ignore the weird as fuck part of him. I have friends like that and they chill asf
They were all in on the joke. Just a group of friends hyping one of them up for the laughs. Probably sharing this video now amongst each other and having a laugh.
Man, I did not expect to see this in 2024. It honestly felt immediately wrong and off doing that interview, I was a weird, insecure, deeply cringe human at age 18 and the girl interviewing me was wanting me and my friends to play it up even further. Kind of a good lesson for me ultimately about saying no and not aspiring to be a sideshow, but definitely a tough one at the time and one I really wanted to never see again. This was definitely an uncomfortable watch but I appreciate the goodwill and empathy from Crit and the commenters. If you are ever an awful tiny blip of online infamy, be patient with yourself. Things will get better if you let them
If this is actually the guy and you aren't trolling, I feel for you. Reminds me of my brother when he was younger. We all have our quirks and being asked to play them up feels kinda yucky.
He probably still gets nightmares about his college years. Also--just going to shamelessly plug--I'm hoping some of you might like the music I make too :)
Shno weh Dudes!? It's Totally Plato!!! ☝ That's like some 428 B.C Tubular Wise-man wisdom there Broskis.... Like: _🤘Were not Worthy! Were not Worthy! Were not Worthy! 🤘_
I was a theatre MAJOR and we didnt have anyone even close to this level of unironic cringe. Yes there were moments, but permanent choices like this dude? Holy Fuck.
This man definitely doesn't have any condoms in his coat of many pockets, meanwhile I carry gallons of lube everywhere I go. So whose actually cooler????
I knew a guy in high school that reminds me a lot of Klamer. He always wore a leather jacket, talked with such confidence in his little quirks and tendency to give people nicknames and tell outlandish stories. He was a guy I only hung out with during lunch, and I feel like everyone who hung out with him knew he was putting on an act to feel more confident in himself, but he was fun to eat with. I remember my last year of high school seeing him interviewed on the school news much like in this video, and he was so nervous and visibly uncomfortable, so different than I was used to seeing him. Kinda made me sad
He isn't wrong there is always one or two kids like this every year for people like us to get the pleasure and joy to meet and know of each and every year.
”It’s going chillfully thus far” is the worst sentence to ever register in my neurons. It will embed itself deep into my subconscious, haunting me every night like a constant nightmare.😂😂😂
As a mildly autistic person who went to 5 different school growing up, I feel this. I'm just thankful I didn't grow up in the time of social media and cell phones to record it all.
Mildly autistic is one thing, especially as a kid, but these are college students, this man is an adult acting like a 12 year old with no self awareness..Nothing good usually comes from things like that
Yeah middle school me dry humping the air as a dance move at the school dance while a girl was basically begging to dance w me doesn’t leave a good thought in my head now
Back in highschool I thought I would be cool if I stood in the back of the band room at choir and flipped a coin until they needed me. The truest of cringe happened in those days
...I carried a full sized can of febreze in my blazer most days. I once almost got in trouble because the vice principle thought my bagpipe chanter was a "smoking device" I was one forced accent awake from being this guy.
I was expecting a much stranger plaid coat the way it was being hyped up by everyone than what it ended up being. Also, she was great at interviewing him like there was no awkwardness and keeping the conversation going even though he did sound a bit nervous about it and he was a good sport for being interviewed!
I would also add that it's weirdly inspiring that he has the humility and self reflection to talk about his embarrassing past in the open. It's very easy for anyone to just refrain from ever acknowledging it at all, and yet here we have Charlie taking it like a champ, allowing us to recognize the growth he has gone through.
@@affluenzashot it's not that deep. Everyone has cringe moments they learn from and expect the next person to as well. Charles is diff in that he went hard in the cringe early as a form of content investment. Now look at him. Raking it in, so much cringe he must be a hero.
@@louievazquez5231 Deep or heroic would not be ways I'd describe it either. The point I'm trying to make is that it can be useful to normalize this level of transparency, especially when it's all too common for public figures to try and obscure their past for the sake of something like ego or optics. I remember in the early 2000's when everyone online seemed to avoid being labeled "cringeworthy" like the plague. It however undermines the fact that being cringe is a certain risk for content creators trying to explore their own format, and the age-old stigma against cringe only stifled creativity and prevented new content creators from wanting to continue.
From my experience on my admittedly limited 38 years on this planet: The Coolest adults were usually the cringiest kids, teens and young adults. While a lot (if not most) the the cool and popular kids you went to school with are now boring, out of shape, cringey and making dated jokes. Adversity builds character and drives people to improve themselves (often out of discomfort) - while a lot of the people who had comfortable social lives peaked at the place they were in youth, maybe had families early, and have since rode that plateau. I was the most miserable person I knew, and have had the most interesting life. While most the kids I went to school with now have teenage kids who make fun of them, and ancient social media pages with political memes, dad jokes, and cringy self-help memes (usually with a cat or dog). I'm glad they are happy (no reason to hold grudges). But at the same time: they all ended up becoming their parents... just _'somehow'_ substantially more cringy and socially awkward than them? Though I would be lying if I did not say that I sometimes DO admire, how so many of them are stuck in the same blissful place they always were (must be nice to think you're still in you peak as you post cat memes). But being 'cool' is like a banana. If it ripens early, then expect a bunch of mush at christmas after 30. Cringe by comparison is like a small, smelly Banana seed. It can grow into something great if you can just get someone to help you plant the damn thing.... and then wait a bunch of years when no one cares. But by god: you do that, and you have a veritable field of Banana Tree Planets!
This 100% reminds me of the guy I went to Highschool with. He talked in a British accent and I got to meet his parents one day and I FULLY EXPECTED them to be British...but they weren't. In fact they were from the Midwest and had a Midwestern accent. When I asked why he talked that way they didn't even know either and they laughed awkwardly. The dude wore a Trench coat, and fedora...and I WOULD'VE been good friends with him had he not stollen my Gloomy Bear. Those things weren't cheap and I was trying to collect them. They meant a lot to me and thought I could trust him when he asked to borrow one of them for the day. I saw him carrying it in his own "Coat of Many Pockets" and he had the gall to say he "Lost it". I was really sad.
I knew an animated guy like this in HS, but since we were in an artsy school he was seen as more adorable and the type to be friends with everyone. Don’t worry, Charlie, cringe pasts aren’t always as cringe as they seem. They’re just wacky chapters in a wacky life.
@@doms4885 Don't take everything that society dictates as gospel. If you enjoy it, you need not care what others say. (obviously none of us are that immune to others opinions, but to the extent that we can)
I feel like we all have our own cringe pasts that we try to forget, but it's comforting to know that even someone as successful as Charlie has moments that haunt him. It just goes to show that we're all human and nobody is immune to cringe.
I've been divorced and lost my mother to cancer, and one of the most painful experiences I've ever had was finding the flyer for an anime club I tried to start in freshman year of college.
Sometimes, when I'm lying in bed peacefully, something insignificant I did or said 15 years ago will pop into my head and I cringe so deeply I feel it in my soul. I have no idea why, but it sucks
I can relate. I'm on the autism spectrum, and sometimes, my most awkward, cringe memories come back to haunt me as intrusive thoughts. Makes me think "Oh God, why did I say/do that?" over and over.
As someone who is also autistic, I used to (very poorly) parrot everyone around me, and literally begged for friendships until around high-school. Something hit, and I turned out fairly normal. Still not "neurotypical" presenting, but at least likable and friendly. I think I can still be a bit socially oblivious, but I'm not judgmental and mad at the world.
"coat of many pockets" feels like a DnD item akin to the "bag of holding", but it would have like a second effect that every now and then you'd have to roll a d20 before pulling something out and it'd give you a random object in your possesion instead of the one you wanted if you failed
Lol yea speaking of using DnD for cringey naming conventions.. as a bisexual man with a promiscuous past I used to tell my intimate partners that I called my member the "D!ck of Many Things".. how I walked away with out an STD and lifelong friends will remain a mystery to me
he actually seems so nice and cool. genuinely would’ve loved to be one of his friends and as a former theater musical kid i have met my fair share of Clamer’s. rooting for this guy and hope he’s happy and living a good life
Well I knew a guy at my college who was just like this. At first I thought it was an act but it turns out that was really and genuinely him. He would wear a long black trench coat and talked in poetry even when he was mad. Turns out he had autism and he sadly passed a few years after college. RIP Henry. A great guy, indeed.
No use? Bah, it's in the name, laddy! You get many pockets! Never again will you need to leave home without your handy dandy Nin Tendo Switch, or 200 piece puzzle by your side!
He reminds me of when I first went to college back in 2005/2006 and one student was known as, "chainmail guy" because he spent his breaks linking chainmail together and would exclusively discuss chainmail related activities. I don't even think he was part of a larping group, he just really enjoyed chainmail. He came as a chainmail Twilight Princess Link for the campus Halloween party one year. I hope he made a career out of making custom chainmail for cosplayers or something related.
I knew a guy who made chain mail back in the 1970s. It was cool. Very heavy to wear though. We wore it on the NYC subways and got a lot of strange looks and people moving away from us. We were members of a club called Society for Creative Anachronism. It was a sort of medieval club with magic and legends. We’d all dress up for a party or picnic. Again, we got a lot of strange looks but at the time it was really fun. Now at age 66 it’s beyond cringe.
Ngl that is pretty badass. Chainmail isn't easy to make! It also functions as great weight training gear, and top tier stab/slash protection if you are so inclined...
Not necessarily, it just means you've changed perspectives. Someone could very well cringe at "being nice" but that's not maturing. Same with idubbbz, he hasn't matured if anything he de-matured, being as whiny as all the people he was talking about on content cop.
I like to imagine that immediately after this interview, he asked the girl out and she immediately let out an involuntary chuckle. In that moment, he had the most intense, burning clarity of his entire life and at all at once he saw himself for what he actually was.
@@Ethan-wr2os Got any reason to believe that? He only talked about and pulled things out of his pocket that the last guy talked about. Also the "coat of many pockets" has 2 pockets. It feels like a school acting assignment.
Klamer is more relatable than most normal people. We all were cringe, we all have weird shit in our pockets sometimes, we all have metal fragments wrapped in a Norwegian flag in those pockets
Most people care way too much what other people think about them. It’s always been a little strange to me to care so much about what someone is doing, especially if it’s something harmless like collecting rocks lol
Okay but “it’s going chillfully thus far” is pretty good. I’m going to have a hard time not answering with that every time someone asks me how I’m doing from now on.
After getting diagnosed with high-functioning ASD, I've started to be able to spot people like myself. Not saying this guy is autistic, but he's definitely "spergy". But these are the nicest people you will ever meet. They also tend to be more accepting compared to others. I love people like this. We can do cringe things and be happy together!
@@shiruotakuno28dude Donald trump has a college degree and that man is literally stared at an eclipse and thought he was standing next to Frederick Douglas.
The reason we feel cringe is knowing we were in a similar position once, or if not, that if we were in that position, we'd be embarrassed. So people who aren't able to feel the cringe emanating from themselves are low-key the strongest. They make US feel THEIR embarrassment for them.
I'm just glad that I had those years before social media, I made all cringey and non-cringey mistakes known to every generation of teenagers, and none of it was recorded. Mistakes make us who we are, and I often feel people today can't grow to their full potential due to having a chilling effect of camera's.
Well said. I agree 100% and I believe many older millennials are very uncomfortable with the constant filming and social media stuff for this very reason. We know by this age that we evolve as we learn and grow and don’t want to held to who we were a decade or two ago. 😬
I kinda think we need more people like this, i love interesting unique fellas that arent afraid to be cringe. Be cringe be free. Act however u want, he seems like a nice guy too. Love this guy
Exactly. The internet shot themselves in the foot when they started calling stuff cringe. People should be allowed to express themselves however they want. We have one life and to hell with the naysayers.
These stories are why I subscribed. I legitimately think they are sociologically and psychologically important. Few people, male or female, can admit to these sort of cringe growing pains. The fact you can shows growth and the embrace of a change in world view resulting in a positive outcome and I think thats very significant.
I'm so glad he's a good sport about it cuz it's important to not forget your cringe beginnings. But also, people who talk like this stress me out so much
Take small steps to being comfortable with yourself. Try wearing something in public that is out of your typical style. Try making a good conversation at least twice a day. Try new hobbies.
It reminds me of me in my freshman year of high school. I heard this man opening his mouth and speaking, and I literally screamed into my pillow. I made so many wrong choices in high school and being reminded of them was very uncomfortable. Thank you Charlie for once again gracing my eyes and ears with more drivel from the human race.
Dude this guy is a legend. Just be who you want to be and don't care what anyone thinks. Even what you think yourself 10 years later. Own it. Look back with pride man.
Why add „weirdo“? Just call it a pervert. „Weird“ is odd, eccentric, strange. That’s not what comes to mind when it comes to a pervert. A pervert is a sick, depraved fuck. Sexual harassment and assault is not a „weird quirky teehee“ thing. Please don’t spread it as such.
It's good to be in a place where you can just accept yourself as you are and just not care what others think of you. It would be better to be friendless than to have people "like" me for someone who I truly am not.
tbh this guy kinda rules. Yeah, late teenage peer pressure would’ve probably made me avoid him but a few years later I’d regret not being cool with him
We need kids like this. We are all cringe to some degree, and this brave fellow is willing to be the person we can all point to and say "yeah I was cringe, but I was never that cringe".
It's quite brave how you transformed yourself from being socially shy to modeling your personality after anime protagonists. We've all been there - those moments of trying to fit in yet also wanting to stand out. Keep growing, keep evolving!
Bro, my cringe past haunts me to this day. I’m thankful I wasn’t any kind of famous or popular in high school, bc I would implode into a blackhole of cringe if I was ever recorded back then and it surfaced today.
The whole class heard me say that I thought our teacher was just fat after she announced her pregnancy. She cried. I’m still haunted from 7th grade and always will be.
I was in 3rd grade art class, our teacher had been out for a couple of months (apparently on maternity leave) and my friend asked about the teacher to which I decided to say "she probably died" (idk why I thought that was appropriate) and from behind me this exact teacher scolded me explaining "I am very much alive, thank you!". I had never been so mortified in my little life! Idk where she came from or why she decided to show herself at that very moment but it happened and I still wake up in a cold sweat thinking about it 😅
@@manuelsputnik I like to believe I’ve done my time with all the sleep missed over the last 9 years lmao luckily she forgave me on the spot, the sad part is, I don’t even remember her name. She made a pretty big impact on me academically, too.
"Chillfully thus far!" Brilliant bruh! 😅🤣 dude is like an oblivion npc! The girl interviewing is quite cute and has insane patience. He also does remind me a bit of my dumb mannerisms! 😂 the coat of many pockets is great!
I'm not afraid of my cringe past anymore but only because I live a cringe present and still have some cringeworthy plans ahead of me. I remember torturing myself, wanting to be normal to fit in for the longest time and whilst I still haven't found my swing, I've learned that trying to be normal is about the most boring way to live your life.
Hey, as long as you’re happy with what you’re doing and it doesn’t hurt anyone, more power to ya. Nothing wrong with being weird, and I agree, it’s a lot more fun than being “normal”.
"It's going chillfully thus far" is a wonderful phrase
The second I heard him say that I had to pause the video, it was too much 💀
Pretty sure it's "cheerfully" but yeah even still, it is a wonderful phrase, indeed I suppose
I didn't even laugh out loud when he said that, but it is one of the funniest things I've heard recently. I can't get over how stupid and funny it is haha. A man from Medieval times trying to talk cool and hip for the kids.
He's like the real life Newman
_Why do we cringe? Is it not because we recognize some aspect of ourselves in these poor, goofy souls? Mmm.. Food for thought…_
The fact that his friends were willing to hype him up that much is pretty touching
Unless he cast a spell on them
MOST definitely he wrote those lines himself and put a spell on them to say it
I thought that was cute and even if people are pointing and laughing I’ll say that
@@DavidmasPoop honestly yeah W friends he seems like the type of guy that’s weird asf but once you get know he’s actually chill asf you just gotta ignore the weird as fuck part of him. I have friends like that and they chill asf
They were all in on the joke. Just a group of friends hyping one of them up for the laughs.
Probably sharing this video now amongst each other and having a laugh.
“Cringing at your past is just proof that you’ve grown as a person.”
-Some meme I saw with Kirby on it.
i read it brother not bother so i it's taking me the whole vid trying to figure it out
Damn you beat me to it. I just saw that the other day. Sublime advice
i cringe at things i said a few minutes ago. we really do grow up so fast
add another one to the cringe bank
Powerful.
Man, I did not expect to see this in 2024. It honestly felt immediately wrong and off doing that interview, I was a weird, insecure, deeply cringe human at age 18 and the girl interviewing me was wanting me and my friends to play it up even further. Kind of a good lesson for me ultimately about saying no and not aspiring to be a sideshow, but definitely a tough one at the time and one I really wanted to never see again. This was definitely an uncomfortable watch but I appreciate the goodwill and empathy from Crit and the commenters. If you are ever an awful tiny blip of online infamy, be patient with yourself. Things will get better if you let them
If this is actually the guy and you aren't trolling, I feel for you. Reminds me of my brother when he was younger. We all have our quirks and being asked to play them up feels kinda yucky.
Did you take any inspiration from Frasier Crane?
Hi, how did you love this down?
I feel this hard
It's usually better to take this route in youth than some of the horrid things I see too much of youth doing now.
You grow up by aging, you mature by looking at your past and cringing.
I'm at the part of my life where I can look in a mirror and cringe
You are the 21st century Genghis Khan with those fire quotes
@@leonniyawski3929thats a fire reply bro😂
@@Smasher_1004 i concur, fire
Lmao
From Charlie's constant blank stare at the camera, you can tell that his cringe past has never stopped traumatizing him.
He probably still gets nightmares about his college years.
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We all have nightmares of his college years
He looks tired too 😭😭
@Dont_Read_My_Picture kay why ess
your cringe never leaves you, it just keeps quiet til the worst possible moment to reappear
Everyone has a cringe past, absolutely everyone, don't lie guys.
I have a cringe present…
@@Yarf.McBarf stole my comment :(
I am cringe past, present & future
If you don’t think back at the past and cringe at at least 1 thing in your past you haven’t grown as a person
Truth
@@Yarf.McBarf i felt that 😥😥🐔😴🥚🥑🩲
Thief: Empty your pockets!!!
Klaymer:🕉️🔗🧸🔮📿🦠🛢️🐤
😂
yep
I’m crying
+🪨
+🇳🇴
Those who don't have cringe pasts, are living in cringe futures.
-Plato
- Plato, probably
Shno weh Dudes!? It's Totally Plato!!! ☝ That's like some 428 B.C Tubular Wise-man wisdom there Broskis....
Like: _🤘Were not Worthy! Were not Worthy! Were not Worthy! 🤘_
-Play-Doh
0:40 😂
@@FreddyKruegerRealEstate I feel like I had a stroke
Don’t worry Charlie, our cringe past bothers us all.
Better a cringe past than an empty one.
@@returnedtomonkey8886bro what
I am _so_ glad I grew up when people were still taught to be anonymous online.
I read 'Your cringe past bother us all' which was pretty funny.
@@returnedtomonkey8886 yeah so u can laugh on it during a lonely night at 2 am
As a former theatre kid, this physically hurts to watch
I was a theatre MAJOR and we didnt have anyone even close to this level of unironic cringe. Yes there were moments, but permanent choices like this dude? Holy Fuck.
Once a theatre kid always a theatre kid
Glaze wats yo intsa?
Theatre is gay 😂
@@Pack_Watchand?
Our cringe phase shapes us into upstanding people. Embrace the cringe phase as a cocoon
Embrace the dark side anakin!
"it's going chillfully thus far", great way to start an interview
i'm gonna add "chillfully" to my vocabulary now lmao
Chillfully thus far kinda goes hard ngl
@@mckinleyostvig7135w Blacklight pfp
that line is legit hilarious omfg i need to add this to my vocab one day
Yeah, I guarantee you this dude is autistic. I know because I’m autistic myself.
"His name is almost as much of a mystery as the things he carries around in his pocket" is NOT a good way to be described 💀
This man definitely doesn't have any condoms in his coat of many pockets, meanwhile I carry gallons of lube everywhere I go. So whose actually cooler????
😂
Oh geez....In his pocket. We don't want to know that info.
Next on “To Catch A Predator”
@Dont_Read_My_Picture eat shit, bot
don’t forget how penguinz0 was deathly afraid of a band poster in his room
For reasons related to masturbation too
Wasn’t afraid, he just felt weird jerking off near it because it was a group photo of BFMV.
Bro, I would LOVE an example of that! 🙏
@Dont_Read_My_Picture So, I hate to admit that I started down that, admittedly creative, rabbit hole. But I stopped before opening the video 😅
@@xavierg808W H A T
I knew a guy in high school that reminds me a lot of Klamer. He always wore a leather jacket, talked with such confidence in his little quirks and tendency to give people nicknames and tell outlandish stories. He was a guy I only hung out with during lunch, and I feel like everyone who hung out with him knew he was putting on an act to feel more confident in himself, but he was fun to eat with.
I remember my last year of high school seeing him interviewed on the school news much like in this video, and he was so nervous and visibly uncomfortable, so different than I was used to seeing him. Kinda made me sad
Wait what school did you go to dawg?? I knew a guy just like that 😭
@@generalsubs1359 Every school has a guy just like that.
Damn man that was a sad story
He isn't wrong there is always one or two kids like this every year for people like us to get the pleasure and joy to meet and know of each and every year.
Lesson: If you're so 'quirky' that you're getting a news interview you've gone too far
The thought of Charlie walking around campus with a psychonauts disc on a chain never fails to crack me up
That is actual Chris Chan behaviour holy
Don't forget the Fedora
@@voicedtunic charlie was so close to becoming chris chan.
@@voicedtunicEvery dumpster-fire has its cheap imitation
We gotta put him in containment
He seemed like good people, never a dull moment. Cringey but harmless.
You know when no one else is enjoying life Klamer is out there picking up metal trinkets and putting them in his norwegian flag
Yeah I’d like to be friends with him. Weird people are to be treasured.
7/10 would conversate again, not a good date spot though.
Until you check his laptop
I don't really get second-hand embarrasment from watching this. It seems like he's embracing the cringe and I think that's admirable.
Man, I hope this guy is doing well for himself. This would haunt me in my sleep
I mean dude seems harmless. It's not like he was going to shoot up a school or pull an Elliott Rodger.
Look up “rap god with banjo kazooie music”. That’s what he was doing back then
Perhaps he is just being himself and not worrying about your ability to sleep at night. Good luck!
@@IdeaGrazer by that haunting me in my sleep I meant that if I were him the memory of this would haunt me.
@@MrBad993 I know him, he's doing very well.
He’s so kind and welcoming, love his vibe so much
I am less haunted by my cringe past as I am by my cringe future...The fear of the unknown, yet inevitable.
God, I’m probably gonna be cringe today
@@tmsplltrs same 😂
very edgy
this is cringe too
saying this is cringe is cringe@@blackspider4
”It’s going chillfully thus far” is the worst sentence to ever register in my neurons. It will embed itself deep into my subconscious, haunting me every night like a constant nightmare.😂😂😂
Ive quoted that way too many times also with “oh my oh my” the end
Nah I'm stealing it and putting it next to Insaneo Style.
I thought he said "cheerfully" lol
Living rent free in my head for the rest of my life now, unfortunately
It's actually kinda funny lmao
As a mildly autistic person who went to 5 different school growing up, I feel this. I'm just thankful I didn't grow up in the time of social media and cell phones to record it all.
Mildly autistic is one thing, especially as a kid, but these are college students, this man is an adult acting like a 12 year old with no self awareness..Nothing good usually comes from things like that
Being mildly autistic is a bitch
As a mildly autistic person I’m glad I also had anxiety to shut me the hell up. Those emo bangs spoke 1000 words tho…
You’re still doing it with the mildley autistic shit. That’s not a thing.
@@BettiePagan Yeah, no matter how many times I tried to re-invent myself, I always ended up as the weird kid in the back.
Yeah middle school me dry humping the air as a dance move at the school dance while a girl was basically begging to dance w me doesn’t leave a good thought in my head now
Back in highschool I thought I would be cool if I stood in the back of the band room at choir and flipped a coin until they needed me. The truest of cringe happened in those days
Oh nooo that’s so cute 😂
I imagine you were leaning back on the wall with one leg up against it, slowly nodding & scanning the room like a cool owl
@@CantTellYou it was worse. I was doing tricks like flipping it as high as it could go and turning around and catching it
@@happysauceyoh man that made me viscerally cringe 😂 I’ve definitely done shit like that in my past too though
Lmao
4:42 "Well, it's going chillfully thus far" Oh what a beauty!! A true chad wordsmith after my own heart, bless his cotton socks!!
Yo mama
Bless his cotton socks had me rolling on the sofa while slapping my knees 😂😂
I very unironically love that line
I think i might quote that tbh
I'm so glad my weird phase never got this bad. I have enough to cringe about already.
...I carried a full sized can of febreze in my blazer most days. I once almost got in trouble because the vice principle thought my bagpipe chanter was a "smoking device"
I was one forced accent awake from being this guy.
@@ScareyBuseythat's still bad 😅
can anyone let me know what’s the weirdest phase u can possibly be in before it just becomes labeled as autism?
@@dantepierre1948saying memes from reddit out loud and being unkempt
"How the heck is Klamer gonna protect you with the things in his pockets?"
Klamer probably got a Nine in one of those many pockets 😭💀
😂😂😂
Everyone a gangster until Klamer pulls a piece wrapped in a Norwegian flag
Dread it...
Run from it...
Cringe arrives all the same...
or should i say... i am
AAAAAAH CRINGE IS INEVITABLE
@@AncientAnt3yThanos cringe
Infinity Cringe
That's why you just embrace it
I was expecting a much stranger plaid coat the way it was being hyped up by everyone than what it ended up being. Also, she was great at interviewing him like there was no awkwardness and keeping the conversation going even though he did sound a bit nervous about it and he was a good sport for being interviewed!
Same was expecting some kind of like big overcoat or something 😂
@@minmo2288He just seems like a normal dude on the autism spectrum
Literally I was like there’s no way this is the jacket 😂
I was 100% expecting a trench coat, and maybe a fedora.
Yeah, that was a disappointment.
Not gonna lie, the fact that even someone like Charlie has a cringe past he looks back on with embarrassment is weirdly comforting
I would also add that it's weirdly inspiring that he has the humility and self reflection to talk about his embarrassing past in the open. It's very easy for anyone to just refrain from ever acknowledging it at all, and yet here we have Charlie taking it like a champ, allowing us to recognize the growth he has gone through.
@@affluenzashot it's not that deep. Everyone has cringe moments they learn from and expect the next person to as well. Charles is diff in that he went hard in the cringe early as a form of content investment. Now look at him. Raking it in, so much cringe he must be a hero.
@@louievazquez5231 Deep or heroic would not be ways I'd describe it either. The point I'm trying to make is that it can be useful to normalize this level of transparency, especially when it's all too common for public figures to try and obscure their past for the sake of something like ego or optics.
I remember in the early 2000's when everyone online seemed to avoid being labeled "cringeworthy" like the plague. It however undermines the fact that being cringe is a certain risk for content creators trying to explore their own format, and the age-old stigma against cringe only stifled creativity and prevented new content creators from wanting to continue.
can we just appreciate
From my experience on my admittedly limited 38 years on this planet: The Coolest adults were usually the cringiest kids, teens and young adults. While a lot (if not most) the the cool and popular kids you went to school with are now boring, out of shape, cringey and making dated jokes. Adversity builds character and drives people to improve themselves (often out of discomfort) - while a lot of the people who had comfortable social lives peaked at the place they were in youth, maybe had families early, and have since rode that plateau.
I was the most miserable person I knew, and have had the most interesting life. While most the kids I went to school with now have teenage kids who make fun of them, and ancient social media pages with political memes, dad jokes, and cringy self-help memes (usually with a cat or dog). I'm glad they are happy (no reason to hold grudges). But at the same time: they all ended up becoming their parents... just _'somehow'_ substantially more cringy and socially awkward than them? Though I would be lying if I did not say that I sometimes DO admire, how so many of them are stuck in the same blissful place they always were (must be nice to think you're still in you peak as you post cat memes).
But being 'cool' is like a banana. If it ripens early, then expect a bunch of mush at christmas after 30. Cringe by comparison is like a small, smelly Banana seed. It can grow into something great if you can just get someone to help you plant the damn thing.... and then wait a bunch of years when no one cares. But by god: you do that, and you have a veritable field of Banana Tree Planets!
This 100% reminds me of the guy I went to Highschool with. He talked in a British accent and I got to meet his parents one day and I FULLY EXPECTED them to be British...but they weren't. In fact they were from the Midwest and had a Midwestern accent. When I asked why he talked that way they didn't even know either and they laughed awkwardly. The dude wore a Trench coat, and fedora...and I WOULD'VE been good friends with him had he not stollen my Gloomy Bear. Those things weren't cheap and I was trying to collect them. They meant a lot to me and thought I could trust him when he asked to borrow one of them for the day. I saw him carrying it in his own "Coat of Many Pockets" and he had the gall to say he "Lost it". I was really sad.
My condolences, seems like you’ve got some unresolved trauma.
Wow I’m sure karma got him back sry u had to go through that ❤
I had a friend who looked like him, &his name was Pockets cuz...he pocketed everything. Seems to have a theme here.
I knew an animated guy like this in HS, but since we were in an artsy school he was seen as more adorable and the type to be friends with everyone. Don’t worry, Charlie, cringe pasts aren’t always as cringe as they seem. They’re just wacky chapters in a wacky life.
That was about the most cringe quote no offense
Dude cringe
Nga no
@@doms4885 Don't take everything that society dictates as gospel. If you enjoy it, you need not care what others say. (obviously none of us are that immune to others opinions, but to the extent that we can)
@@GOLD_FEVER cringeeee
I feel like we all have our own cringe pasts that we try to forget, but it's comforting to know that even someone as successful as Charlie has moments that haunt him. It just goes to show that we're all human and nobody is immune to cringe.
how much did that account cost
@@soggyhasclipsbro is asking the important questions.
ChatGPT head ass response
You're cringe
This account will definitely be a part of your cringe past
I've been divorced and lost my mother to cancer, and one of the most painful experiences I've ever had was finding the flyer for an anime club I tried to start in freshman year of college.
jesus
Oooof… lol
Lmao reminds me of the time I made some anime painting on this big board and hung it up in my room and thought nobody would notice 😂😂
That wouldn’t be crime nwo
Honestly fair
That “Oh my, oh my” actually made me physically cringe. My god that was rough.
Sometimes, when I'm lying in bed peacefully, something insignificant I did or said 15 years ago will pop into my head and I cringe so deeply I feel it in my soul. I have no idea why, but it sucks
Happens
Same. But It does serve as a painful reminder not to power-drink like an idiot anymore for me.
I do that too.
That talent show in primary school still haunts me 20 years later :|
I can relate. I'm on the autism spectrum, and sometimes, my most awkward, cringe memories come back to haunt me as intrusive thoughts. Makes me think "Oh God, why did I say/do that?" over and over.
It happens to us all you buffoon. Hell, I laugh a bit differently than other people I should blame ADHD on it💀
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oh, good, so I'm not the only one
As someone who is also autistic, I used to (very poorly) parrot everyone around me, and literally begged for friendships until around high-school. Something hit, and I turned out fairly normal. Still not "neurotypical" presenting, but at least likable and friendly. I think I can still be a bit socially oblivious, but I'm not judgmental and mad at the world.
"coat of many pockets" feels like a DnD item akin to the "bag of holding", but it would have like a second effect that every now and then you'd have to roll a d20 before pulling something out and it'd give you a random object in your possesion instead of the one you wanted if you failed
The naming scheme is even similar to other items in dnd, like the cloak of many fashions
Haha! 😂 I was thinking the same thing, however, I think it’s slightly more similar to the Robe of Useful Items.
@@SirdeathvidsIt's a common reference to Joseph's coat of many colors in the Bible. Just replace "colors" with anything and there you go
You're thinking of the "Deck of Many Things"
Lol yea speaking of using DnD for cringey naming conventions.. as a bisexual man with a promiscuous past I used to tell my intimate partners that I called my member the "D!ck of Many Things".. how I walked away with out an STD and lifelong friends will remain a mystery to me
he actually seems so nice and cool. genuinely would’ve loved to be one of his friends and as a former theater musical kid i have met my fair share of Clamer’s. rooting for this guy and hope he’s happy and living a good life
Well I knew a guy at my college who was just like this. At first I thought it was an act but it turns out that was really and genuinely him. He would wear a long black trench coat and talked in poetry even when he was mad. Turns out he had autism and he sadly passed a few years after college. RIP Henry. A great guy, indeed.
Why that happened
@@grddffg i can't tell if this is genuine question or not
A guy ripping out slam poetry when pissed off must have been a sight to see!
Damn
Damn that actually sounds cool af if it wasn't an act
Klamer's Coat of Many Pockets is being added into my D&D campaign 😂😂
bro is klamer 2.0
I gotta admit, “The Coat of Many Pockets” is actually a fire name and makes me feel like I need one even though I have no use for it
Sounds like a DND item.
Fr sounds enchanted
No use? Bah, it's in the name, laddy! You get many pockets! Never again will you need to leave home without your handy dandy Nin Tendo Switch, or 200 piece puzzle by your side!
I was crestfallen when I saw the Coat of Many Pockets is actually just a ratty hoody with shirt pockets.
different hot sauce
"chillfully" goes hard, this guy's just vibing, godspeed
He reminds me of when I first went to college back in 2005/2006 and one student was known as, "chainmail guy" because he spent his breaks linking chainmail together and would exclusively discuss chainmail related activities. I don't even think he was part of a larping group, he just really enjoyed chainmail. He came as a chainmail Twilight Princess Link for the campus Halloween party one year. I hope he made a career out of making custom chainmail for cosplayers or something related.
I knew a guy who made chain mail back in the 1970s. It was cool. Very heavy to wear though.
We wore it on the NYC subways and got a lot of strange looks and people moving away from us.
We were members of a club called Society for Creative Anachronism. It was a sort of medieval club with magic and legends. We’d all dress up for a party or picnic. Again, we got a lot of strange looks but at the time it was really fun.
Now at age 66 it’s beyond cringe.
@@annenelson5656How can having picnics in chainmail be cringe that sounds sweet
Ngl that is pretty badass. Chainmail isn't easy to make! It also functions as great weight training gear, and top tier stab/slash protection if you are so inclined...
"Would exclusively discuss chainmail related activities" is too funny idk why
@@1Peasant Stuff is heavy and will pinch but I was still in college, young, stupid and excited. So at that time it was just something cool.
It’s a vital part of one’s life to come to terms with their past cringe.
That's the same as saying it's vital to be cringe.
@@amanofnoreputation2164 Vital is t the right word for that. It’s inevitable to be cringe. You just have to come to terms with it.
“When you cringe at your old memories, you are maturing”
@Dont_Read_My_Pictureok i wont
@Dont_Read_My_Picturejoke’s on you buddy! I can’t read anyway.
Not necessarily, it just means you've changed perspectives. Someone could very well cringe at "being nice" but that's not maturing. Same with idubbbz, he hasn't matured if anything he de-matured, being as whiny as all the people he was talking about on content cop.
@@xFluing yall idubz fanboys have him living rent free at all times is insane. move on.
@@goodboi3319 based 👍
honestly he seems chill , when he says “because i felt like it/ i just like it” like hell yeah keep doing you, don’t need a reason
I like to imagine that immediately after this interview, he asked the girl out and she immediately let out an involuntary chuckle. In that moment, he had the most intense, burning clarity of his entire life and at all at once he saw himself for what he actually was.
I choose to believe this hahaha
....a genuine dude who isnt afraid to be himself even if it means other people call him weird? lol
@@spimbleshe seems aight but “Genuine” is abit of a stretch.
The interviewer handled that with grace. She could have been such a dick about the whole thing but she was a good sport and kept it professional
It was fake
@@ItsMeYourRealDadI chillfully disagree
@@ItsMeYourRealDad You ain't so good at reading the room huh lol it's very real
I was waiting for her to say "You sire, draweth thyne mind in no vagueness to the upon thy codpiece in thyne britches."
@@Ethan-wr2os Got any reason to believe that? He only talked about and pulled things out of his pocket that the last guy talked about. Also the "coat of many pockets" has 2 pockets. It feels like a school acting assignment.
I love how Charlie just slaps his most uncomfortable moments online for the world to see
This means he’s past it and furthermore a better person than he was. So it’s a win win
@@John-rn3sv”furthmore” hello claimer
I mean if he puts it out there himself, nobody can ever come out of the woodwork to embarrass him with it
He can't be blackmailed
bro didn't even watch the video
11:06 pov: cavemen after smashing two rocks together
Klamer is more relatable than most normal people. We all were cringe, we all have weird shit in our pockets sometimes, we all have metal fragments wrapped in a Norwegian flag in those pockets
I feel like almost he knows what he’s doing for reactions. I’ve honestly done the same thing in the past. 😅
Most people care way too much what other people think about them. It’s always been a little strange to me to care so much about what someone is doing, especially if it’s something harmless like collecting rocks lol
Nope, not me. I was cool in high school.
@@you-nh8xo jealous of you
@@SpookieSadie you cute shawty 🤤
Honestly i hope Klamer is doing well nowadays, he seems kinda like a chill guy
His name is Jacob Klamer! He seems to be a screenwriter and actor from his imdb and he honestly looks like a great guy!
He passed away 6 years ago@@Syluxer
He literally sounds like Robert Pattinson here. Like RP literally talks like this (without the smolder).
@@23gtrh2_02 Well that link certainly doesn't show anything
I didnt give you a link but you can look it up if you want. His name was Jacob Clymer@@informationyes
Okay but “it’s going chillfully thus far” is pretty good. I’m going to have a hard time not answering with that every time someone asks me how I’m doing from now on.
Im definitely using “chillfully” from now on, that’s so iconic
Don't. You'll try and say it ironically but it'll just sound really cringey and awkward
@@nutmeg0144so true. Chillfully sounds great in the ear but out loud, nope.
After getting diagnosed with high-functioning ASD, I've started to be able to spot people like myself. Not saying this guy is autistic, but he's definitely "spergy". But these are the nicest people you will ever meet. They also tend to be more accepting compared to others. I love people like this. We can do cringe things and be happy together!
I haven't related to something more.
came to write this :)
i want to make many friends who are like this, i just feel like its easier to talk to them too and its true, they all are very sweet :)
agree 😂 they don’t judge
I felt the same way
a wise man once said if you think that you haven’t got a cringe past you are in one.
😂
Agreed. It just means you haven't out grown it yet.
Honestly, I love meeting people like this. They might not be smart in a social way, but they can often offer a perspective that few others have.
i mean the dude is in college, he's likely intelligent.
I like meeting them so i can laugh with my friends about it
@@zachserum1988that’s the dumbest statement I’ve heard in a while.
@@zachserum1988chris chan has a college degree and he's regarded
@@shiruotakuno28dude Donald trump has a college degree and that man is literally stared at an eclipse and thought he was standing next to Frederick Douglas.
"chillfully thus far" goes hard wtf
Remember, if you cringe at your old emo photos, its called PTXD.
The reason we feel cringe is knowing we were in a similar position once, or if not, that if we were in that position, we'd be embarrassed. So people who aren't able to feel the cringe emanating from themselves are low-key the strongest. They make US feel THEIR embarrassment for them.
Sometimes I feel the cringe within and I lean into it even more. Im fine with being cringe if others are entertained. 😂
Hmmm. 🤨 You type like Klamer talks, is the “us” you’re referring to you lol?
Holy shit
This is actually such an enlightened take
I remember this video being posted to Reddit years ago. I still answer “chillfully thus far” when I’m asked how I’m doing
Based and pocket-pilled
I'm just glad that I had those years before social media, I made all cringey and non-cringey mistakes known to every generation of teenagers, and none of it was recorded.
Mistakes make us who we are, and I often feel people today can't grow to their full potential due to having a chilling effect of camera's.
Well said. I agree 100% and I believe many older millennials are very uncomfortable with the constant filming and social media stuff for this very reason. We know by this age that we evolve as we learn and grow and don’t want to held to who we were a decade or two ago. 😬
@CatBandits rare uplifting comment on the internet that i needed to see today. thank you kind soldier :,)
ngl everyone needs a cringebag so openly cringe that it helps everyone to feel less embarrassed about their own cringe, unsung heroes fr
"It's going chillfully thus far" OH JESUS CHRIST NO hahahahaha
I kinda think we need more people like this, i love interesting unique fellas that arent afraid to be cringe. Be cringe be free. Act however u want, he seems like a nice guy too. Love this guy
He seems great but I could not stand the dialect 😂 it’ll drive me crazy
Exactly. The internet shot themselves in the foot when they started calling stuff cringe. People should be allowed to express themselves however they want. We have one life and to hell with the naysayers.
@@japanesecinema6736bohoo we live in a society
These stories are why I subscribed. I legitimately think they are sociologically and psychologically important. Few people, male or female, can admit to these sort of cringe growing pains. The fact you can shows growth and the embrace of a change in world view resulting in a positive outcome and I think thats very significant.
Why does this feel so robotic
Lmfao wow
Believe me Charlie, my cringe past still continues to haunt my head. My brain fr remembers my cringe moments in 8k hd and my best memories in 360p
I'm so glad he's a good sport about it cuz it's important to not forget your cringe beginnings. But also, people who talk like this stress me out so much
Moistcritikal going from that to where he is now gives me hope for myself
Ma boy it's been a minute you don't know what happened
Take small steps to being comfortable with yourself. Try wearing something in public that is out of your typical style. Try making a good conversation at least twice a day. Try new hobbies.
Touch some grass. Maybe that would help
@@justanotherdude_touch some *ass*
(👍 ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)👍
Have you tried DMT?
It reminds me of me in my freshman year of high school. I heard this man opening his mouth and speaking, and I literally screamed into my pillow. I made so many wrong choices in high school and being reminded of them was very uncomfortable. Thank you Charlie for once again gracing my eyes and ears with more drivel from the human race.
I made wrong choices in college as well. I'm still making them.
@@TibiConstantineas long as you have that realization, and that awareness of your actions you can change them.
chillfully thus far the best way to enter a conversation
Dude this guy is a legend. Just be who you want to be and don't care what anyone thinks. Even what you think yourself 10 years later. Own it. Look back with pride man.
Easier said than done
guys this might be controversial but sometimes it ok to care what other people think
I think the problem is most people who act like this now are super manipulative for some reason, none of them are nice
It takes seriously balls to be as honest and open about yourself as Charlie always is
seriously balls 🫡
@@imobnoxious6629 im not even gonna edit that bc you deserve it 🫡
What one is he?
As long as he isn’t a weirdo pervert, this is tolerable.
Why add „weirdo“? Just call it a pervert. „Weird“ is odd, eccentric, strange. That’s not what comes to mind when it comes to a pervert. A pervert is a sick, depraved fuck.
Sexual harassment and assault is not a „weird quirky teehee“ thing. Please don’t spread it as such.
hardly tolerable
He never revealed all of his pockets so you never know
L
As a person from norway, I am honored.
So you're not going the American way and blowing your stack because he's "disrespecting the flag?" 🤣🤣
same
@@Norwegian_Humanyou’re Norwegian? Could never have guessed
Bro I have to have audiobooks on at night because my mind replays all my cringe moments over and over 😂 you’re not alone man!
Dude same. I can barely tolerate silence anymore and have to have some podcast or video playing whenever I’m alone
Being called a character is as degrading as being called a specimen.
I’ve never heard specimen as a negative lol. That’s interesting. Usually it’s like super athletes being described as absolute specimens.
I’ve only heard specimen be used to describe very athletic people.
@@ProudFilthyCasual Ive heard critter used negatively lol
@@shropski1750Is there even a positive way to call someone a "Critter"? Lol
Specimen is a compliment
Charlie, you’ve scaled from the past and now you’re a celestial being it don’t matter
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It really don't matter 😎🤣🤣🤣
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It's good to be in a place where you can just accept yourself as you are and just not care what others think of you. It would be better to be friendless than to have people "like" me for someone who I truly am not.
Back in high school I would’ve absolutely hated this guy, now I’d totally be this guy’s friend.
tbh this guy kinda rules. Yeah, late teenage peer pressure would’ve probably made me avoid him but a few years later I’d regret not being cool with him
Im in highschool rn and i could confirm i would absolutely adore this guy
Its the exact opposite for me
We need kids like this. We are all cringe to some degree, and this brave fellow is willing to be the person we can all point to and say "yeah I was cringe, but I was never that cringe".
This is literally how all the drama/theater students acted and talked at my college
I'm so glad I watched this video, I've caught myself doing this kind of shit recently😅
this is how you adress something like embarrassing online content right if you do at all. rationalizing it and relating to it. good job
It’s good to look back to our past once in a while as a reminder of how well we’re doing today. Thanks Charlie
It's quite brave how you transformed yourself from being socially shy to modeling your personality after anime protagonists. We've all been there - those moments of trying to fit in yet also wanting to stand out. Keep growing, keep evolving!
Bro is not verified 😂
your whole chanel is cringe
Botting has started using AI, it's all downhill from here 💩
Bro, my cringe past haunts me to this day. I’m thankful I wasn’t any kind of famous or popular in high school, bc I would implode into a blackhole of cringe if I was ever recorded back then and it surfaced today.
“It’s going chillfully thus far”
That man is a living legend
I just heard him say that and I think I took psychic damage the cringe was so powerful
@@justinleonard6183bro said indeed 40 times
A cringe past is better than an empty one.
its the truest dad lore fr
Nope
Klamer is such a gem and I adore him.
The interviewer is actually so hot tho
My past is so cringy I regularly let out audible anxiety noises that resemble a distressed cat while I'm alone!
Bro has the power of cringe and anime on his side.
now THATS a Villain origin story
The whole class heard me say that I thought our teacher was just fat after she announced her pregnancy. She cried. I’m still haunted from 7th grade and always will be.
At least you felt regret, you seem like a kind soul.
Chin up, kid. You're not all bad.
I was in 3rd grade art class, our teacher had been out for a couple of months (apparently on maternity leave) and my friend asked about the teacher to which I decided to say "she probably died" (idk why I thought that was appropriate) and from behind me this exact teacher scolded me explaining "I am very much alive, thank you!". I had never been so mortified in my little life! Idk where she came from or why she decided to show herself at that very moment but it happened and I still wake up in a cold sweat thinking about it 😅
these aren’t bad just funny
@@manuelsputnik I like to believe I’ve done my time with all the sleep missed over the last 9 years lmao luckily she forgave me on the spot, the sad part is, I don’t even remember her name. She made a pretty big impact on me academically, too.
@@frickfrack7075 oof 😂 yeah that one’s bad.
Me too Charlie.
My past hurts me as well.
"Chillfully thus far!" Brilliant bruh! 😅🤣 dude is like an oblivion npc! The girl interviewing is quite cute and has insane patience. He also does remind me a bit of my dumb mannerisms! 😂 the coat of many pockets is great!
I'm not afraid of my cringe past anymore but only because I live a cringe present and still have some cringeworthy plans ahead of me. I remember torturing myself, wanting to be normal to fit in for the longest time and whilst I still haven't found my swing, I've learned that trying to be normal is about the most boring way to live your life.
you’re weird
Hey, as long as you’re happy with what you’re doing and it doesn’t hurt anyone, more power to ya. Nothing wrong with being weird, and I agree, it’s a lot more fun than being “normal”.
Yep, you're weird
@@TheCostan I don't care. I don't try to be, I just am.
@@TheCostan I don't care. I don't try to be, I just am.
This is real cringe not the fake cringe,
absolute cringe the self aggrandizing, the student reporting, his friends as hype men… it’s amazing
w comment
Fake cringe doesn't work. This made me physically cringe. The fake stuff is funny. Intentions are everything. If you're trying too hard, it shows.
6:45 “ i’m not entirely sure actually?” 💀
I love how chill he become when it's about his metal bag.