Sometimes I find the moral of old folk tales a tad convoluted but "adult responsibility is the scariest thing of all" hits WAY too hard 😱

@ohw5306

7 ай бұрын

Oooooooo Dom pleasent surprise 😊

@simritagop

7 ай бұрын

Hi Dom!!!!

@shadowkhan422

7 ай бұрын

Sad thing , that type of person makes the best rulers . What we usually get are elitist morrons who just want to have their power phantasy (and ignore all consequences that dont touch their "rich and powerfull" minority group)

@arueshalaetablebuildingsociety

7 ай бұрын

At least he made 3 good friends he can go hang out with if things get overwhelming.

@blueberry1vom1t

7 ай бұрын

@@ohw5306 Dom is a pretty decently common guest on osp live streams and podcasts. Look around an you'll find him all over this channel! Great chemistry with the gang.

poor kid realized he has responsibilities and immediately got a panic attack

@mirjanbouma

7 ай бұрын

So relatable

@jackielinde7568

7 ай бұрын

This is the same response when I learned I became a father. That was 21 years ago, and she's a good kid trying to make something of herself. So it's not all doom and gloom.

@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369

7 ай бұрын

well anxiety attack buy yes

@wjzav1971

7 ай бұрын

@@jackielinde7568 Congratulations. Seems like you mastered it pretty well.

@Belthazor24

7 ай бұрын

Vibes.

“Mom I found fear.” “How?” “I’m king of the realm now.” “WHAT”

@lukew6657

Ай бұрын

I consider it a crime that this post has so many likes and no replies so Im here to fix that!

@flazzorb

11 күн бұрын

mum they want me to do things! _Well that's not too bad I'm sure-_ and not mess up!

It's a small thing but the "Are you sure you don't want anything else?" "Like a third bracelet?" really got me, so adorable and hilarious

@tudoraragornofgreyscot8482

7 ай бұрын

I thought it was an innuendo.

@beeaggro2593

7 ай бұрын

@@tudoraragornofgreyscot8482 it was nut also like look at everything

@1mag1nat1vename

7 ай бұрын

I just thought to ask for her hand... But I appreciate the 0% simping

@DeathMessenger1988

7 ай бұрын

@@1mag1nat1vename That boy was the original Sigma Male! ALL HAIL THE SIGMA KING! XD

@Megalomaniac_Trans_Lesbian

7 ай бұрын

​@@DeathMessenger1988 Which means he too won't have an heir, so his people will be back to the beginning once he dies Cx

Boy going back to his mom with an army of guards, a horse carriage with immense wealth and power: Mother I found out what fear is.

@christopherg2347

7 ай бұрын

"And all that is nowhere near enough to protect me from it!"

@justadude2377

7 ай бұрын

With the same tone as the "mommy i frew up" kid

@AnhedoniaShoujo

7 ай бұрын

"mom can you unload the carriage? im scared"

@moreplz

7 ай бұрын

In the list you didn't include the several pigeons tagging along

@brittanywetherill472

7 ай бұрын

@@moreplzOMG yes! I just envision one or two pigeons on him or nearby at all times, this like comedically horrifying constant reminder of his responsibilities. 🤣🤣

So the weight of adulthood expectations is what finally gets him throughout his harrowing adventures? Honestly, kinda relatable.

@wjzav1971

7 ай бұрын

for real

@isadoracostahamsi163

7 ай бұрын

Mood

@Wolfiyeethegranddukecerberus17

7 ай бұрын

Same, I personify my adulthood responsibilities through demons

@cartoonistanonymous

7 ай бұрын

That's a vibe

@starmaker75

7 ай бұрын

It reminds me of the song "I don't wanna grow up"

The idea that they weren't sure so they released more pigeons and they all kept going to him until everyone is like "fine he is the king" is just so good. I agree this should be more well known

@slwrabbits

7 ай бұрын

someone needs to re-enact this with rabbits

@Hecatonicosachoron

7 ай бұрын

Weren't the thee ladies pigeons too? Looks like each symbolises a particular challenge

@michelleburgess5643

7 ай бұрын

The pigeons represent his rapidly growing anxiety. 😅

@Megalomaniac_Trans_Lesbian

7 ай бұрын

​@@Hecatonicosachoron Doves actually. Now I have nothing to prove this, but they may be a variation on the widely spread folk tale of the swans who shed their feathers at a lake to turn into women for one night, but then one of them is forced into marriage by a man who steals her feathers. That tale itself being a variation of the seal women who shed their seal skin and then get a forced marriage with the human who steals it. In both versions, the woman usually ends up finding her feathers/skin after many years and goes back to her people, living her husband/abductor lonely and miserable

@SYKRAL1

7 ай бұрын

@@Hecatonicosachoronthe ladies were doves. Still birds though, so maybe some symbolism there

I love the subversion of becoming king in a folk tale. So often it's part of the happy ending, like so often it ends with "He married the princess" or "The king named him as his heir" or "He achieved his destined birthright to the throne" and now we move straight to our "happily ever after", but no. In this story, being named king is still the climax, but actually having to rule is a massive responsibility that usually gets completely glossed over, but here it takes center stage. I love it

@cooltrainervaultboy-39

7 ай бұрын

That... That's actually a good point. How come we don't get more of that? Only example I can think of in modern media where that happens is Fable 3, and that's just me going off of hearsay. What with me never getting around to playing it.

@samuelmelcher333

7 ай бұрын

@@cooltrainervaultboy-39 I think probably because it’s a) very hard to make it work, and b) even harder in modern media. People like it when stories have a tidy conclusion, but this is essentially the lack of one: he’s basically fine the whole story, then we learn he’s going to have a lot of challenges to deal with going forward, the end. In a regular story, that would be an incredibly unsatisfying and open-ended ending, but it works in this very specific case because the story isn’t about the boy - it’s about his unnatural lack of fear, and this ending resolves the question of “well if none of that frightening stuff is scary, then what will find frightening?” in an unexpected yet satisfying way, so the story is resolved even though the boy’s personal story is only beginning. This would be even harder in a modern story because those tend to be more centered around their characters, and they ask us to believe in them as people rather than mere archetypes/the roles they play in the story - for instance you almost never see a modern story without a single named character, including the protagonist “boy”, but that works perfectly fine in the context of a folktale. In a modern story the audience would implicitly wonder, “Well what happens to Johnny Smith now that he’s king?”, but in the context of the folktale, that question doesn’t really make sense. “What happens to the boy after he becomes king?” Nothing happens; he doesn’t exist outside of the story about his fear. You could make up another story to follow it, but it would be just that - something new. You could argue that this is true of all characters - that they don’t exist beyond their story - but that doesn’t seem to be how most people think of stories. Modern authors generally ask you to believe in the world they are telling you about, but you don’t have to imagine for a second that this boy actually existed in order to enjoy the story and appreciate its meaning.

@short-m7598

7 ай бұрын

​@@samuelmelcher333 I wish KZread has a save option for comments

@samuelmelcher333

7 ай бұрын

@@short-m7598 Unfortunately I can't suggest anything better than a screenshot, but I'm glad you found it interesting! I often end up writing short essays in youtube comments sections that are essentially shouting into the ether, but I'm glad occasionally people find them insightful. As a side note, the reason I qualified that "you **almost** never see a modern story without any named characters" is because of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. The first line is "The boy's name was Santiago", but other than that he is referred to simply as "the boy", and most other characters are referred to likewise: "the crystal merchant", "the Englishman", "the gypsy", "the alchemist". In many ways Coelho is constructing a modern story with the feeling of something much older and deeper, and in so doing he creates something that is at once incredibly simple and wondrously complex. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it. It's a very good book that can be appreciated on many levels

@equidistanthoneyjoy7600

6 ай бұрын

It's a little similar to the Sword of Damocles in that sense, although in that story the guy wanted to be king and only understood after having gone through it

Honestly, that the only thing that this crazy little boy who thinks he's invincible actually fears is power and the responsibility that comes with it is a brilliant twist.

@user-jl8td7tb9y

7 ай бұрын

With great power comes great responsibility

@ichdu-fk6xc

7 ай бұрын

@@user-jl8td7tb9yin a way he wasn’t just fearless he was irresponsible the entire time but it only threatens him he rightfully sees himself as utterly unprepared for kingship

@smithjack1741

7 ай бұрын

​@ichdu-fk6xc you can also look at it like a child who hasn't "grown up" yet.

@h0m3st4r

7 ай бұрын

Everybody wants to rule the world until they get the chance to actually do it.

@DrakeAurum

7 ай бұрын

Is he scared of responsibility in general though, or just of taking responsibility for a society that thinks royalty-seeking pigeons are the solution to good governance?

So he wasn't scared by literal ghosts, zombies, mermaids, bandits and the legal system... but was scared by responsibility. Relatable!

@masanomchannel9436

7 ай бұрын

and thats why i think spiderman is the best superhero

@fluffydragon1525

7 ай бұрын

He just like me fr

@AnInsideJoke

7 ай бұрын

I absolutely loved that chaotic little shit, I want to adopt him! ...wait...but that's a child...which is a huge responsibility.... *OH* *OH NO*

@okuyasuniijimura

7 ай бұрын

Literally me

@ALunarLight

7 ай бұрын

@@AnInsideJoke nah don't worry he meander off after a couple day, heck he become king it is then his job to take care of you

At first I thought this would be a version of a Brothers Grimm fairytale, of the youth who journeyed to learn what fear was. It ends quite differently, but the outcome of that story was hilarious to. There, after a similarly fruitless journey to find fear, the man de-cursed and won a haunted castle and married a resident princess . However, having failed to find fear increasingly depressed him, which increasingly annoyed his wife. So one night she filled a bucket with cold water and fish, and dumped it on her sleeping husband. Who woke screaming, and finally knew how true fear felt.

@dracuella

7 ай бұрын

That's the version I've been told, too. I always found it weird that he was afraid of little fish and water but I just figured it was the shock treatment that did it

@gyrrakavian

7 ай бұрын

Also the version I know. Red did say that this was a Turkish version of the German folktale, so a few hundred years of telephone and at least two languages are in play.

@tornielsen2888

7 ай бұрын

@@dracuella This is also the version im familiar with. I do think its better. The joke about the bucket ending is that it wasnt actually fear. Just what he had been told fear felt like. A chill cold sensation down the back. But it gave his wife peace. So all is good.

@jurajbury995

7 ай бұрын

this is the version i know. i am from slovakia

@spookysun

7 ай бұрын

I also read this Version when I was kid, didn´t like it back then though because kinda killed a man in at one of his stops and didn´t seem to care much. It just seemed a bit cruel to me that he´d get to be married to a princess afterwards

The idea that he basically got cuddle-piled by pigeons and that's how he got over his first time experiencing fear is too precious for words.

@catbatrat1760

7 ай бұрын

Ikr? 🥺

@slwrabbits

23 күн бұрын

after working with birds for many years, I don't think this would help me get over fear. on the other hand, my first instinct with birds is being simultaneously terrified that they will die and also try to kill me, so ... perhaps I am a terrible comparison.

The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself. And weasels, those little bastards will get you

@MahiMahi-yu5jo

7 ай бұрын

Maybe cockroaches too. Those monsters are everywhere

@johnnygyro2295

7 ай бұрын

Is that a reference?

@theanimeunderworld8338

7 ай бұрын

@@johnnygyro2295 osp egyptian vines

@DragonflyMind

7 ай бұрын

​@@johnnygyro2295Yes it is! :D

@joaomrtins

7 ай бұрын

​@@MahiMahi-yu5jothey are not harmful, chill down a bit

The bandit boss crying beause he's not scary is one of the most hilarious yet weirdly wholesome things I think I've ever seen.

@MURPHYCHACHO

7 ай бұрын

And one of his underlings trying to cheer him up and get him to enjoy some cake!

I heard a version of this story, but the ending was 100% different. After going out and having all his adventures, the boy finds out his mother is getting older and experiences the fear of losing her before he gets to see her again. So he travels back, and helps take care of his mother, finally understanding what fear is, in his case the fear of losing a loved one.

@generalzeta7000

4 ай бұрын

I wonder witch one the boy prefers.

The best part of Red's art for this video is the fact the boy keeps jumpscaring everyone else. Just casually pops in like 'hey, what's going on?' and everyone else freaks tf out. 🤣

The Bandit leader being sad after not being able to scare a literal kid is so hilarious and wholesome at the same time

@arturoaguilar6002

7 ай бұрын

"No Boss. You're still totally terrifying" I was dying with that scene.

@hiddenshadow2105

7 ай бұрын

"Really, you should try the cake"

Not scared of monsters or dying... But responsibility and failure? Oh boy, I just found the most relatable folktale yet

@Acudit

7 ай бұрын

666 likes. It is an omen. Also I completely agree.

3 mystical women: try to scare the young boy to no avail A single pigeon: hold my birdseed

I read somewhere that when you're very young, your nightmares are very primal and basic (being chased by animals, falling from heights, etc.) But as you get older they get more modern and realistic (being fired, running late, eviction, breakups, etc.)

@AntediluvianRomance

7 ай бұрын

Well, you have to experience school first to get nightmares about forgetting all your homework at home. That's experience at work.

@jakerelind5577

7 ай бұрын

Aren't quite a few of those primal fears also realistic? Especially during the time this story is set in.

@bencox3641

6 ай бұрын

As someone who had a nightmare where I lost all of my money because of a hacker, I can confirm this to be true.

He was completely terrified by the idea of taking responsibility and actually caring about trying to make things work...probably a better leader than quite few IRL people would be!

@yellowcoat4498

7 ай бұрын

anyone able to willingly take the throne is in no way fit to rule. probably an outlier if a pidgeon picks you

@Scarshadow666

7 ай бұрын

I dunno if that means he'd be a better leader just because he's terrified of the position, but granted, I'll admit I'm biased and don't fully believe there's such a thing as a completely good leader (humans are flawed and power often corrupts people anyway). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@_shadow_1

7 ай бұрын

​@Scarshadow666 Leadership doesn't universally corrupt people. That's ridiculous. A leader can be put into power for reasons that have nothing to do with a lust for power and openly reject even the idea of taking power themselves. The democratic system most countries use today however does often attract the worst kind of people into power.

@sophie3869

7 ай бұрын

The pigeons chose wisely 😋

@kjarakravik4837

7 ай бұрын

​@@yellowcoat4498 I never really got this way of thinking. Shouldn't people who want to change world for the better want to be in a position to do so? Like I get there are a lot of awful reasons for why someone would want to be a ruler, but influencing large scale systemic change seems like a pretty noble reason

Kid isn't scared of monsters or dying but he's scared of responsibility. Relatable.

@xhagast

7 ай бұрын

Reasonable.

Honestly was not expecting for the fear the boy found to be *Adult Responsibility* and yet, it makes perfect sense

This reminds me of the, “The Cry Fairy.” A story where, fairies don’t understand why humans cry and honestly don’t care. But one fairy does care, and they launch an expedition to discover why humans cry. He returns with the knowledge that, “Humans cry when they want something that they do not have, or they have some thing that they do not want.” Incredibly simple, but true if you dig deep enough. I don’t know why, but this stuck with me since 5th grade and is comforting when I want to cry.

THE FREAKING MONTY PYTHON QUOTE 🤣🤣🤣 Also, the idea that these three sisters are just randomly surprised by the kid who pulled one over on all of them means that unintentionally he probably becomes a cryptid to the magical beings in his new kingdom.

@Aaa-vp6ug

7 ай бұрын

Where?

@bmyers7078

7 ай бұрын

“Strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government”.

@pridelander06

7 ай бұрын

Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical avian ceremony!

@rivkakinney6192

7 ай бұрын

@@Aaa-vp6ug The ending text during the credits is a direct quote from Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail.

@animeotaku307

7 ай бұрын

“No, I’m telling you the truth! A sister of a cousin of a friend of mine was trying to trick some kid into hoisting her onto his shoulders so she could make him fall into the water and instead he threw her off! The No-Fear Boy is real!”

the poor mother, she was in the story for like the first paragraph and then vanished may we hope she had a fairy tale adventure of her own in the search for her son

@rmsgrey

7 ай бұрын

She probably got sent for...

@-ZH

7 ай бұрын

Well, she has less responsibility now, so she has less fear. Happy days.

@NotMeButAnother

7 ай бұрын

...and having now understood fear, for the first time the boy knew how afraid his poor mother must have been at home, waiting for his return. So, as soon as the clamour had quietened, he rushed to see her the very next day.

@isadoracostahamsi163

7 ай бұрын

​@@NotMeButAnotherthank you

@morehero1

7 ай бұрын

She is royalty now. She will be fine.

The faces of the three sisters when they're giving him the second bracelet are priceless 😂❤

I read a very similar yet very different story from Grimm's fairy tales, "the boy who couldn't shake". Long story short, this boy had no fear, and couldn't understand why others trembled. The boy ends up freeing a kingdom from a curse and getting the princess by spending three days in a haunted house. He still never felt fear, but he wanted to understand. His new wife was smart--she filled a tub with ice and kept him in it until he started shivering, which made him happy. The end.

@badger273

6 ай бұрын

I was looking to see if anyone else mentioned this! But in the version I read, I think it was a handmaid who went down to a river in the middle of the night, got a bucket of cold water and fish, and dumped it on him while he was sleeping 💀

I love that the whole moral of the story is childlike whimsy will not sace you from the inevitable encroach of paying taxes and other adult responsibilities 😂

@LilianaKali

7 ай бұрын

To be fair my insomnia didn't start until I was out in the "real world" with real adult responsibilities. Very relatable story

Are we not gonna talk about how Red’s rendition of “Scared of the Dark” is so FUCKING GOOD

@peaceflowerstudios6833

7 ай бұрын

She's so talented and wonderful

@crimsonchaos7224

7 ай бұрын

Her rendition of EVERYTHING is amazing.

@Tyleya

7 ай бұрын

Omg!! I was wondering what that song was!! Bravo!!

@ThatReplyGuy

7 ай бұрын

Who sings it?

@serge1500

7 ай бұрын

BRAD?

I like this almost more than the ending of “the boy who went in search of fear” in the book “the juniper tree” a smaller collection of grimm fairytales. In that one the boy doesn’t find fear until he’s married to the princess, who eventually gets tired of his moaning and dumps a bucket of cold water and minnows on him in the middle of the night! Thanks for showing this version!

5:03 Love the detail of a frowning/screaming face in each of his pupils as he is one with the birbs

So, for those interested, there's a slightly different version of this tale, called something like "The kid with no fear" or sometimes "Generic_kid_name without fear", diffused in Italy and Germany with two scenes that deserve their share of love: -the kid (Giovannino o Gioacchino in Italy) is dared to spend the night in a haunted castle in order to win it, and during the night limbs and pieces of someone's body drop from the chimney but he's so unbothered that the ghosts end up partying with him (for some reason our kindergarten teacher re-enacted this scene, dropping limbs made from paper from up above to make us learn names of the human body, we actually loved it) -in the end he gets happily married to this beautiful girl; however, he discovers true fear for the first time when she glares at him while angry

@kathyjohnson2043

7 ай бұрын

I would have loved that teacher

@eleutheros7216

7 ай бұрын

@@kathyjohnson2043 honestly, she was the best, it takes someone special to bask in a bunch of little kids running around with a disassembled body

@voidempty1125

7 ай бұрын

HAHAHA

@tannemin6758

7 ай бұрын

I love all the different renditions of this tale! In the version my grandfather told me, he gets married to a beautiful princess after freeing the haunted castle but still isn't content without knowing fear. So she jumpscares him by emptying a bucket full of living fish on top of him while he's sleeping :D In German it's "Von einem, der auszog, das Fürchten zu Lernen" (About someone who left home to learn how to fear)

@eleutheros7216

7 ай бұрын

@@tannemin6758 if my spouse doesn't throw a bucket of fish on my head, then it's not true love

When you're so sheltered the only thing that scares you is responsibility

@kryptonianguest1903

7 ай бұрын

Sheltered? Little dude intimidated bandits and fought ghosts and monsters. You could argue for overconfident, but no way was he sheltered by the end of the story.

@littlekuribohimposte

7 ай бұрын

@@kryptonianguest1903 So sheltered he didn't know those things were intimidating

@kryptonianguest1903

7 ай бұрын

@@littlekuribohimposte He was sheltered initially, yes. By the time he was chosen to be king, he had encountered those things and was thus no longer sheltered.

@_jpg

7 ай бұрын

That sounds awfully familiar-

I definitely feel like this metaphor for growing up and becoming an adult. But I also love how the message is basically ‘responsibility is scary’ lol 💀💀💀

Hey, red! Trope talk suggestion for you; "The incident" or "Noodle incidents" are a literary tool of a trope that gives more literary weight (funniness, scaryness, impact on the audience) to an event or noun than a description would, mostly by context and the reader's imagination. Named Noodle Incidents because of a short series of Calvin and Hobbes comics wherein everyone at school gives the eternally frustrated 6-year-old grief about something he did in the past that is now known only as "The noodle incident." It is hinted at vaguely many times, but the writer ultimately leaves it up to your imagination; which is a strength because whatever the audience dreams up will be way more literarily impactful (in this case funny) than anything he could write down. And that's not even the only time that comic uses a noodle incident, see, there's this kids book calvin always wants read called "Hampster Hewwy and the Gooey Kablooey" and Now I'm ranting. Point is; by leaving the event, place, person or item, open to interpretation, it has more literary weight than the creator could have possibly written. The Legendary Super Saiyan may have looked a lot cooler in your head than just goku+blonde+power. Another instance this trope is used is in an S.C.P. story wherein a certain slime MUST NEVER come into contact with a human corpse. Why? That's classified. A foundation researcher files the suggestion to test the slime on a human corpse because it's never listed what happens, only that it is a V E R Y bad idea, and the researcher is curious. He gets demoted and heavily scolded by an O-5, who states "Just don't." That one of the 0-5's, who have seen untold horrible horrible things, REALLY doesn't want this to happen, forces the reader to come up with something even the 0-5's fear, and is therefore even more terrifying than anything the writer could have written down. A "Noodle Incident" or "The Incident" is a rare trope that involves telling the audience that something exists or happened, but not telling them what it was, in order to give the plot point more narrative weight than a description would give it, partly because of the imaginations of the audience. It is a great trope that I think you should cover. I'm going to keep suggesting it on every trope talk and mythology video untill you do.

@AmbushIntheDark

7 ай бұрын

If it’s anything like that jockstrap incident then Ginyu would have buried them close…

@JackSilver1410

7 ай бұрын

I've done this. When I worked inventory, sometimes our machines would glitch and need a reboot. When they came back on, they would ask "do you want to warm boot the device." I was told to NEVER warm boot the device, but I was never told why. Of course, that meant there was only one option open to me. Whenever a new person asked if they should warm boot the device, I would spin tales of all the horrible and catastrophic things that could occur if a device was ever warm booted. From resetting the entire store to natural disasters and pandemonium. It's important to make your own fun at work sometimes.

@sniccups8390

Ай бұрын

Hey, she actually made this video!

@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606

Ай бұрын

@@sniccups8390 Yes, and I am glad

The fact it was responsibility that made him fearful is neat

I like how his naivety ends and the dread sits in the second he realizes what politics are. Interesting tale about the woes of responsibility.

1:38 "[comforting his crying leader] No, boss, you're still totally terrifying." XD I love this!

I think this might be the first version of this tale type I've ever seen where the boy actually figures out what fear is (a lot of the versions I've seen the closest he ever gets is marrying a princess who helps him learn to shudder specifically by dumping ice water on him to wake him up, which he confuses for fear)

"Hey mom! I found fear!" "We have fear at home, honey."

@Ami-jc2oo

7 ай бұрын

Fear at home: *raising children*

@jonp8015

7 ай бұрын

"Hey mom, I found fear!" "Oh thank god I was worried sic- IS THAT A CROWN!?" "Yep! And these are my bandit bros and monster girlfriends."

@WilczycaCzarownica

7 ай бұрын

"Hey mam! I found fear! Mom?! *his mom died in fear*

I love how at the end the boy’s eyes are little 😧 faces. Also him crying covered in pigeons going “thanks guys I’m good now” would be a perfect T-shirt

@lisacarpenter3787

7 ай бұрын

I'd definitely get it if they made it as one of their stickers

3:52 Fear was not the only thing the boy was happily unaware of

i love this having a large responsibility thrust upon the boy being how he discovers fear is hilarious and mood and so relatable

This whole tale sounds like a metaphor for growing up and realizing you need to adult for the rest of your life

@angel-ke9vs

7 ай бұрын

That's it the fear is responsibility and expectations. Great story.

@kathyjohnson2043

7 ай бұрын

Exactly, told to kids who keep muttering about how they won't have to do what they are told when they are grown

The fact that you didn't even dignify the Anti-Semitism in your narration and relegated it to a sight-only gag is both hilarious and awesome.

@JustforNow-ty5zt

7 ай бұрын

Where is the Anti-Semitism? Edit: Never mind, I found it. It’s at 2:41

@ByzantiumNeon

7 ай бұрын

What antisemitism?

@hamstersandwich9917

7 ай бұрын

Timestamp?

@M3diaHead

7 ай бұрын

2:41

@laurelrhinehardt5160

7 ай бұрын

@@ByzantiumNeonIn case this is a legitimate question: antisemitism is a prejudice against Jewish people. One prominent historical example of antisemitism is the holocaust, but the prejudice is very real and has been pervasive throughout much of history. I believe Blue has a great video on the history of Judaism that talks a little about antisemitism.

My Dad would tell me a story like this one! Same premise, a young boy wandering the world trying to shiver and shake, he ends up marying a princess, but he never learned to shiver, and complains about it so much that she throws cold water on him one night, and then he's super happy about finally learning to shiver and shake. It was also one of my favorites, good choice Red, thank you!!

"Gurgle Burble Glurb," the boy said triumphantly.

So turns out his fear was being a major political figure, which frankly is completely understandable.

@animalia5554

7 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t do it. Edit: Should have said couldn’t

@starmaker75

7 ай бұрын

Yeah as CGP grey has said: if not careful enough, the throne controls you.

@brauliopereira9173

7 ай бұрын

As much as I relate to the fear of responsibilities, I can't help but think this is just another case of "telling the poors how good they have it". Oh no, don't try to achieve actual power! It's terrifying! You wouldn't want it! Just accept your responsibility-free (and powerless) existence and let the ruling classes deal with the "burden" of actual power!

@animalia5554

7 ай бұрын

@@brauliopereira9173 Why not both?

Red: “Every third-born child has a magical adventure in store for them” Me, a third-born child: “Nah that’s just our tendency for excessive drug use”

@tobigrantlbart

7 ай бұрын

As a third born child I just get existential dread and the pressure of being too youg to be taken serious but too old to get any kind of space to still grow It's like "You're 19 you need to grow up" and "You are 19 that means everyone is an adult now act like one" at the same time.

@theanimeunderworld8338

7 ай бұрын

Oh yeah For me, comic cons

@KayclauShipper

7 ай бұрын

Third born child gang!

@MegaGun2000

7 ай бұрын

I must know lol

@GayBearBro2

7 ай бұрын

As a third-born child, I wish I had a magical adventure in store me for me. It'd either remove the basic existential depression and replace it with sparkling adventure depression or it'd end my existence in a terrifyingly gruesome way, both of which are preferable.

The Brothers Grimm have a version of this called "the king’s son who feared nothing" but that one actually never learned fear even after becoming king of the neighboring kingdom. He was really bummed out that he never felt the need to "shiver and shake" like his brothers did when they were scared, so his wife poured a bucket of freezing water over his head. Mood instantly repaired.

this reminded me of a similar story i read when i was a kid. i'm a bit fuzzy in the details but it went something like this: a local lord was forced to deal with a haunted lair and decided that anyone who manage to take care of the monsters that live inside will marry their daughter and become the future king. many try to fight the monsters inside but eventually run in fear back outside, until a teenage boy decides to take care of it himself. as it turns out, this boy is completely incapable of feeling fear, so no amount of scaring off tactics work on him. he manages to scare one monster himself, help and befriend another one, and eventually convince the big boss of the lair to leave. the townsfolk rejoice and the kings grants the young boy his price, but he himself is pretty disappointed, because the real reason he entered the lair was to feel true fear, but he didn't. weeks later, with the princes now officially his wife, she decides to throw a bucket of water at him while sleeping, and wakes up in a complete panic, and then realizing what had happened and the fact he had finally felt fear for once.

Adult responsibility being portrayed as the most terrifying thing in the world is such a mood. Also, I never knew I needed to hear Red sing “Scared of the Dark” from Spider-verse, but I REALLY did!

@catbatrat1760

7 ай бұрын

Wait, that song is from Spider-Verse? I've only seen the first movie, and I don't think I remember hearing that song?

@97Multiphantom

7 ай бұрын

@@catbatrat1760 it’s from the scene where the city learns Spider-Man has died.

Ah yes, responsibility. Can confirm, much scarier than any ghost.

One of my favorites is a little short but sweet. "In the first days of Babylon their first king went out every day to fight and kill lions with his bear hands. Even seeking out the largest lions had grown into tiresome instead of exciting wrestling matches. Thus the first king declared the first law "let the strong defeat the weak, and may the fittest conquer the frailer." The next day he left without his usual hunting party, strode up to a regular lion and was promptly mauled to death."

I saw “boy who learned fear” and got so freaking excited so fast, you have no idea 🤩 Tbh, don’t know this exact version, but know several others, all of them are perfect comedic fantasies. LOVE this story. That and “witty Jack” of the Jack o lantern are so fun to tell to kids.

I am from Austria and this folktale is actually one of my favourites ever. I don't know why it is, but it is such a good one

@starmaker75

7 ай бұрын

Because it shows that being a ruler that trying to do their best keeps things in order is actually the scariest thing known to man.

@durrangodsgrief6503

7 ай бұрын

Honestly the three maidens remained me of the Rhine maidens from siegfrieds story

@sophiaro4593

7 ай бұрын

Ich bin mir grade nicht sicher, aber das ist schon "Vom Jüngling, der auszog, das Fürchten zu lernen" oder?

@hungrymusicwolf

7 ай бұрын

It's about a boy growing up. A naive child that fears nothing and faces the world with those eyes only a child can have, slowly he experiences the world and grows up until he is saddled with responsibility, which then forces him to face adulthood and take the bully (responsibility) by the horns and live the rest of his life with it.

@katethegoat7507

7 ай бұрын

It's fuckin hilarious

Years later, after he’s well into being Ruler of the lands His Mom: looks at the Sun Dial on her wrist “Well, I’ll give him 5 more minutes. But after that, I’ll have to go start looking for him.”

This is different than the one I thought you'd be telling! The one I'm thinking of he had to stay 3 nights in a haunted castle to save the kingdom. He wasn't scared at all so had no problem, but when he found out the reward was getting married he suddenly discovered fear.

I remember another version of this where the boy grew up and got married, but instead of fearing responsibility, his wife grew sick and he feared she might die.

I never heard this fairytale before, it's awesome, but I LOVE how the sudden dumping of power and responsibiity on him gives the kid his first taste of fear. What a mood.

@JDM-is-my-name

7 ай бұрын

I read it a while back and it's do funny

The real Fear is the friends we made along the way.

@arcanelore3791

7 ай бұрын

If your interpersonal communication and social anxiety are bad enough, this can be completely true.

@FrisbeeGorbeh

7 ай бұрын

Ok, that earned a chuckle from me. Well done lol

Wow this feels weirdly modern. I’ve never heard of this story but it’s fun and supernatural with the unexpected twist being the dread of responsibility of ruling a people and kingdom. This is my new favorite myth.

there’s actually a musical based on this story! it’s called “Chasing Fear”, the story started to sound quite familiar until it realized that i recognized it. a high school in my hometown did the show last year. as with any musical adaptation, there are many changes to the story and setting, but it’s definitely based on this folktale. i believe it’s a pretty new musical so i’m not sure if there’s any recordings online that you could find, but yeah, fun show and great folktale!

At least he didn't cry wolf XD

@theanimeunderworld8338

7 ай бұрын

I wonder how the boy will fair in the world of Chainsaw Man, where the devils are all living personifications of various fears

@Ami-jc2oo

7 ай бұрын

​@@theanimeunderworld8338I guess pretty decently? At least. I haven't wat hed the show or read the manga, but I'm just looking at the evidence in this fairytale for my conclusion. Feel free to correct me :)

*actively having existential panic* Now this looks like a guy who needs some pigeons!!! *crowd erupts in cheers*

Uncle Ben: With great power comes great responsib.... Kid:AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

This would be an excellent Monty Python sketch. "Listen, pigeons landing on on townsfolk is no basis for a system of government! If I went around, saying I was an emperor, just because a hawk landed on my foot, they'd put me away!"

This Story: This guy ditches his mom and is completely obsessed with a keeping a trinket, causally defeats monsters/villains but ultimately dislikes when responsibility is given to him. Tetsuya Nomura (in 2002): Hey guys, I know how to design Sora’s backstory and personality in Kingdom Hearts now.

Ah yes, the most terrifying thing in the world: Responsibility.

I remember hearing this story as a child in school and it was one of my favorites so I’m stocked to see you cover it! I haven’t heard anyone else talk about it.

"Pigeons magically landing on people's head sounds like no basis for a form of government!"

Do I blame this kid for my fear of heights and cockroaches?

@theanimeunderworld8338

7 ай бұрын

I wonder how the boy will fair in the world of Chainsaw Man, where the devils are all living personifications of various fears

@gangrenousgandalf2102

7 ай бұрын

​@theanimeunderworld8338 And the devil's power is based on how much a devil is feared

@meta1587

7 ай бұрын

Me too king fr

@invisible683

7 ай бұрын

Same

@Aaa-vp6ug

7 ай бұрын

@@theanimeunderworld8338so the Devil devil would be basically causing a gigantic natural disaster every time it blinks, right? A lot of Christians fear him, and there are a LOT of Christians.

Kid: Man these super hard situations don’t make me feel fear. (Gets crowned king) Kid: No not responsibility!!😱

"Oh no, my only fear: Responsibilities!" But honestly? Very relatable...

the premise reminds me of a german fairytale that I used to love (reading it now I'm a bit flabbergasted as to how disturbing the tale is.... in hindsight that may explain a lot...) In the story, a father has two sons, one smart, the other dumb. The smart one was afraid to run errands late at night, while the dumb one was not afraid. The dumb one wasn't good at a lot of things and thought being afraid was just one of the things he will never be good at. One day he leaves home to learn fear. He comes across people pointing him to various creepy or otherwise disturbing sights, among them seven bodies hanging from the gallows, which he takes down and sets by the fire, thinking they were cold, but almost immediately hangs back up when they 'are too stupid not to catch fire'. At last he's pointed to a haunted castle and is tasked to spend three nights in it, after which he may marry the King's daughter. creepy shenanigans ensue, all of which leaev the boy unfazed. After the boy marries the king's daughter, he still keeps talking about how he doesn't know what fear is and his wife, utterly annoyed, decides to just dump cold water with fish on him one night while he was sleeping. and the boy was afraid. finally learning what fear was!

The story of the boy who sought fear was one of my favourites. There are lots of versions of the story, but my favourite was one where the boy ends up throwing a priest (who came in an absolutly comedicly simple ghost costume) down the stairs, enters a haunted castle and absolutly confuses the shit out of the ghosts. He finds fear by getting happily married to a princess. When he lies awake one evening, mumbling about fear, his wife sneaks out, takes a bucket of ice cold water and dumps it on him while hes asleep. I first found the version in an old comic book with cartoonish style. I swear, it was hilarous😂

@Vandalieu

7 ай бұрын

In the version I read he didn't find fear he just learned what's it like to shudder because he was freezing cold.

@mukilanselvakumar4927

7 ай бұрын

I read the story you described in a comic book too. Could this comic book be an issue of Tinkle Magazine?

@Max3110

7 ай бұрын

That's the Grimm's Tales version i think. Atleast that's also the version that got turned into a "Sonntagsmärchen" which are fairy tales that the German npr-equivalent show on TV every sunday.

Who hopes Red talks about the Myth where Hera gets beaten up by a Spartan Queen, the Myth about the Chinese Crossdresser defeating the four dragons, or the myth where a Aztec god was tricked into sleeping with their sister

@theanimeunderworld8338

7 ай бұрын

Hera getting her ass kicked by a Spartan Queen? I wonder how Ares will react to that?

@Cooky_McGee

7 ай бұрын

a who getting tricked into whating with their huh?

@leonwinchester9865

7 ай бұрын

Hopefully the next LGBT myths episode. Except the sleeping with their sister one that's just a regular myth.

@andrewollmann304

7 ай бұрын

There was no Chinese crossdresser. That was the Jade Emperor, Ruler of the Heavens.

@MartinG1993

7 ай бұрын

Are you asking that every episode? Seems like i keep seeing this question.

This kid is...just...I have no words. He is so unimpeachably practical that the extraordinary is utterly beneath mundanity to him. Fucking chadlord. I agree, Red, this is my new favorite folktale, too.

Well. Turns out I also suddenly have a favorite fairy tale now.

Having to be a responsible adult is a fear we can all get behind.

as a kid i remember a different version where instead of him becoming king, the pigeon is meant to choose a suitor for the princess. so when he gets chosen as her husband, the prospect of having to kiss a girl strikes fear into his heart for the first time. i always thought it was hilarious, but now i'm wondering if maybe someone changed it to make it a little more relatable for kids haha

@PthariensFlame

7 ай бұрын

This is also unintentionally a bit gayer, if the kid is supposed to be a teen.

Boy: "I fear no man, but that thing" Responsibility Boy: "It scares me"

"I fear no man, but responsibility? It scares me."

2:13 I love the idea that he wanders into a completely different fairy tale for a moment and just pops it like a balloon. Like the concept of a mystery woman asking you to help her get her little brother and their presence being somehow related to a bracelet could be a whole different story, but to him its just an insignificant event

@landofthehazymist

7 ай бұрын

Journey to the west vibes

@kbye2321

7 ай бұрын

@@landofthehazymistAlso Don Quixote vibes as well!

Imagine this kid having PTSD after this thing involving the pigeons.

@Ami-jc2oo

7 ай бұрын

What if he acts like Ellie from Ice Age 2. Ducking for cover at the sight of vultures even though she's huge?

@GreaterGrievobeast55

7 ай бұрын

Kid king: *saves kingdom from assortment of mystical horrors without a sweat* Also kid king: GET IT AWAY NOOOOOOOOO! *runs in circles as a curious pigeon flies towards him*

I think there was a version they did on Jim Henson's The Storyteller where what finally scares the person is when either his wife or son gets seriously ill and he thinks they will die, since, up until then he'd never had anyone he cared about more than himself.

I love this. Truly, the most frightening thing in existence is having responsibilities.

Turns out the real fear was the responsibilities of friendship all along.

I've heard a few different additions involving resurrecting warriors, haunted manors, and the thing that finally shows him fear being the prospect of marriage, I love modular folktales

"Adorable heap of orbularity" is such a good phrase, I will be snatching this one for my own vocab. Thanks!

I really like this story. It's so relatable.

“Boy learns what fear is” is my FAVORITE motif/story in western culture. There’s a story very similar to this in the book of Grimm’s fairy tales my family had when I was little, and the child was playing pool with skeletons and accidentally knocked some schmuck down the entire staircase for a tall tower. It was structured as a “stay three nights in this haunted house to inherit it” if I remember correctly, and it’s stuck with me for almost two decades since I read it lol

@RevyT-js7ui

7 ай бұрын

This was essentially the version on Jim Henson's The Storyteller. My favorite of the bunch.

The weight of the crown is immense and terrifying. Those who recognize that are the ones truly worthy of being king

He really got that great power and thought he'd escape the great responsibility

You’d think being sheltered would make him *more* fear prone, not less.

I remember reading a similar story years ago, only instead of “fear” the book used the term “the creeps” and it ends with him getting married and his wife getting so annoyed with him whining about not knowing what “the creeps” feels like she tosses some eels into the bed he’s laying is and says “you feel that crawling uncomfortable squirming feeling? That’s the creeps.”

I love this "why did I look for this?" sort of ending. Because of course he wouldn't understand how foolish it is to search for fear since he didn't have it.

As a Turk, I never heard of this tale, but it was pretty amusing listening to it from you Red!

That was the Fairytale equivalent of one less step than expected in a stairwell.