[Anime~ish] Youtube Reacts to ME! ME! ME!

[wowaccounttom]

I was surprised one girl was actually pretty cool about it. As for the guy that talked about Otaku, while yes, it is mostly that, there are plenty of people outside of that "negative" definition that are also Anime nerds that have regular or beyond normal social lives.

Technically not an Anime but with Anime as part of the PV

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97 views.. surely one person watched their reactions... i could not stop laughing

[Independent voter]

How did this get no replies? lol

[wowaccounttom]

How did this get no replies? lol

I know.. they are all crazy

[Crimbobbin]

This is going to come off as me being a Markiplier fanboy, but he basically has the same reaction as I did. He is one of the few people that seemed to want to find out it's actual meaning and saw that it was beautiful without completely understanding it while also being able to add humor to it.

[Aori]

Eh Markiplier was more describing a hikikomori not an otaku. While many hikikomori are otaku's or gaming nuts, the reverse is not true.

On another note, I have no idea what this show is or its purpose. Do they just find random videos on youtube and just make comments?

[Mifuyne]

Me!Me!Me! is really epic.

[Aori]

Otaku is someone obsessed with something. Doesn't necessarily have gamer connection.

Eh I never said there was a direct connection between the two. You didn't read what I said. Even though there are many types of otaku, it is fairly defined in what the obsessions revolve around.

I was saying he was more describing a hikikomori. You can be a hikikomori and not an otaku. You can be an otaku and not be a hikikomori.

[Ryme]

How did this get no replies? lol

No one cares about anime

[Mifuyne]

It really isn't.

Opinions opinions.

[eschatological]

Eh Markiplier was more describing a hikikomori not an otaku. While many hikikomori are otaku's or gaming nuts, the reverse is not true.

On another note, I have no idea what this show is or its purpose. Do they just find random videos on youtube and just make comments?

The Fine Brothers is one of the largest channels on YouTube. They do "react" based stuff, where they have Kids React, Elders React, Teens React, and Youtubers React.

Based on what those demos might find shocking is what usually dictates what the group is reacting to, so Youtubers React is usually about Youtubers reacting to some crazy internet thing. Kids React tends to be about old stuff, like rotary phones, and Elders React often reacts to things like Vine, etc.

[Mandrace]

No one cares about anime

Says you.

OT: The meaning is pretty clear to me, but that's probably because I'm a japanophile myself.

[Shuji V2]

Where exactly can I find the uncensored version? For research purposes.

[Deleted]

How did this get no replies? lol

'cause it's just some wannabes pretending to be shocked watching a video?

[Mandrace]

Where exactly can I find the uncensored version? For research purposes.

I'd give you a link, but the website it's on has a 71% chance of malware. :\

[wowaccounttom]

YES!~!

after 5 months since I first posted, I finally got some replies...

I feel fulfilled and stuff

[Orby]

I remember seeing this video, I still don't know what to make of it! Altohught Markiplier was pretty spo t on to what I thought when I first sa it lol :P

[Shinzai]

My analysis of the video.

We start off with the main character (our male protagonist, referred to as the MC or he/him from here on) staring at us, with seemingly dead-eyes. It's the vacant stare of someone lost, or unsure of why they're doing anything. An introspective moment to start the video on as the next shot shows us a bird's eye view of his room. He's a young male, nothing particularly wrong with him, in a very small room, surrounded by garbage, model figurines, a desk dedicated to their crafting, a messy bed and a poster of the anime girl of his dreams.

The desk with crafting tools on has got a number of pieces of equipment and it seems that he takes it very seriously. Off to the other side of the room, there's a small table with cans and what looks like some half eaten food. These are all the hallmark signs of someone who's just given up on themselves - there's no self respect for himself in that room, but his hobbies are given display cabinets, while he just accepts what little space he has left to himself.

There's potentially a real girl that he is infatuated with, but he doesn't get her attention, so instead, he lusts after via his escapism in the form of games and anime. It starts out as a minor infatuation feeding his pastimes - displayed as the girls dancing at the start of the video. The dance is innocent, the girls are cute and cheerful. The girls point at their faces and place their hands in a 'blocking' position at their mid-riffs; he's still looking at them as cute characters for entertainment purposes. This is a commentary on the devolution of the male-gaze as men become more lustful. Cherries spinning around in the background point directly to him being a virgin, though he is smoking, presumably legally, which points towards his potential age range (minimum smoking/drinking age in Japan is 20).

At the start, he's just fascinated by the characters themselves, he probably doesn't think much of it past that - he's not particularly interested in what's under their dresses, though he is aware of its presence. The colour scape is vivid and captivating - it's fresh and new. As the video continues, the dance rapidly becomes more teasing, with the girls unveiling more flesh, flashing their panties and their 'bikinis'. There's an obvious growth in his lust for them as they take up revealing positions and the dresses they were wearing drop away altogether: He's reached the next level of fascination/interest and is actually seeing them less as characters and more as sexual objects. The girls themselves literally guide him to the next stage of his descent.

The music speeds up and the colour pallet becomes very evocative in this part. The natural progression caused by his lust and desire as he becomes more introverted leads him to darker, more perverse things, porn and a constant need for more and more of it. The number of girls increases again, their dance becoming erotic and their clothing minimal, while their figures become more shapely and perverse. The parts of their bodies that now infatuate him become completely centric to him, as displayed by their piercings. The darker shades of red and black/purple/blue that now coat the video are a direct nod to passion/lust and the innate desires within him.

The girl's cute dance has become a simple gyration of their hips, thrusting obscenely and practically offering themselves to him. Their hips have become wider, their breasts larger, their faces less focused and almost blurring into the background. The MC is basically losing himself in pornography, an interest in a few cute girls has become an obsession to keep finding more and more new girls, less time is given to each girl and the quantity continues to increase.

The symbolism behind the masked woman with four eyes is to represent both the object of his lust in reality and in his forms of escape, showing how the boundaries have blurred for him. One set of eyes for the real girl, another for the fake girls he loses himself to. She is a perverse creation of his subconscious, but there is an honest interest behind it all - the girl that he feels is out of his reach, or that he lost in reality is the drive for her creation. He can't have her, so settles for his imagination, he loses himself in her to replace what he feels he cannot have in reality.

The masked woman's invasion into what appears to be his reality, though is clearly another part of his dream represents what he feels has happened to him. The real-life girl has filled him with these feelings for her, that he cannot express to her. The scene with the 'white stuff' being poured from her mouth to his, representative of copulation, it signifies the feelings she has birthed within him.

The following scene has mixed representations, depending on how you view the MC's life at this point in time, based on what has gone prior. The girl has one of two possibilities - she is either a girl he was with, ended up splitting up with due to his introverted tendencies or due to a lack of empathy. The other possibility is that she is simply a girl that he has loved, or felt deeply for, but never reached out to, due to a lack of belief in himself or again, due to his introverted tendencies.

Which it is, or whether it is another possibility altogether is not a major concern, the point is being able to read into this and insert your own story part way. It seems most people read this differently, the biggest differences occurring between men and women's interpretations of it.

All that matters about this scene with the three way diorama is that it ends in a specific manner - with him 'dead', not literally, but figuratively; emotionally dead. The masked woman is here again, though without her mask, again just driving home the point that she has the face of the 'real girl'. She feeds on his corpse, running away with a part of it, again relating back to the MC being devoured by his lusts and escapes.

The real girl kissing him and reaching out to him has some ways it can be read too - maybe she reached out to him in reality, but he was already too far gone to be helped by her. Maybe he turned her away, maybe he feels that even if she did reach out to him, he couldn't accept being with her because she's too good for him, because of what he has become.

The next switch up, where the MC yells, while crying and armors up has many different aspects to it. The base read is that he's had enough, he can't go on like this and he wants to break out of the shell that he's put himself in. Maybe he's realised he's obsessed with porn/girls that he can never have and wants to fight back. It also could be read that to try and get himself away from his more lusty obsessions, he also uses games as an escape, to try and get away from it all and not think about anything.

Again, this is fairly open to interpretation. The one thing to note is that the fake girls appear even more lusty, no longer even dancing, they're just throwing themselves at him, their bodies even more obscenely over-developed. However, a single petal is all it takes to bring him crashing down again. The petal, followed by a brief image of the real girl causes his gaming world to collapse, his armor to shatter and weapon to be taken from him and his left hand is cut off. Read that as you will.

Even the masked woman's face begins to collapse at this point, as he is drawn into an emotional vortex, where he struggles and tries to reach the real girl, he desperately wants to break free, but they can't quite reach each other. She's lost to him again and the masked woman returns, more powerful than ever before.

There's now a vertible army of the girls waiting for him, with the masked woman at their centre, absorbing the real girl into her fully, we some how know that he will never see her again as the photograph of him with her shatters into pieces.

He is bombarded by the army of fake girls, a barrage that is far too powerful for him to fight against, destroying his armor and body completely this time, he is defenceless to it. He cries, feeling pathetic as he is swarmed by them, his pupil dilating briefly as they flock to him, an admission of defeat, he knows he cannot escape his weakness any longer.

With this final scene, as he is engulfed by the girls, he wakes up from the dream, with the exact same, dead-eye stare that he had at the start of the video. The cycle is complete, the cycle will continue.

TLDR:

Deep down the main character wants to be with a real girl, but he can't bring himself to be with her, so instead, he objectifies her like any other anime girl. Due to this, the mask has two sets of eyes - two faces to represent the reality and the fiction that he wants to love, but instead lusts after fruitlessly.

So he uses porn/anime/hentai and games as escapism, to fill the void in his actual life, that he can't bare to face, living with his regrets, but never really dealing with them. Thus he has become a shut-in, living the same life day in and day out.

The video deals with the concepts of hikikomori, otaku and the beta male cultural status that Japan currently suffers from. There are hundreds of thousands of Japanese men that live exactly as this character does.

Off topic - I've only done a partial proof read of this, as I ended up taking way longer typing it and thinking about it, than I'd initially intended. Let me know if any clarification is needed.

[StayTuned]

Are you serious... you wrote all that yourself?

I'm sort of kreep'd out by the fact that I quite enjoyed reading it.