Sorry for being so careless with my question, thanks for putting me in my place!

@RockTundra8515

2 жыл бұрын

You're an expert in cutting fingertips!?!

@purpleboy4949

2 жыл бұрын

woah a funny guy commented here?

@youtubehandleorsomething

2 жыл бұрын

Don't be so careless the next time, Joel

@SpeedKing..

2 жыл бұрын

This comment is gonna get big

@theodensuhrie7915

2 жыл бұрын

you own no joels, your life is a lie

I like how theres an expert in the field of cutting your finger prints off.

@boxofspoons8867

2 жыл бұрын

Probably a forensic scientist. In my forensics class, we learned about how some criminals would either cut off their fingerprints or burn them off with acid, which was a very bad idea because, like the expert in the video said, it actually makes your prints *more* unique, and there's still your palm prints too. Also, your fingerprints will grow back in the same pattern.

@cozelli7176

2 жыл бұрын

@@boxofspoons8867 Dillon?

@nomecriativo8353

2 жыл бұрын

@@boxofspoons8867 so you can burn them before doing crimes and they will grow again, good to now.

@moosesues8887

2 жыл бұрын

@@boxofspoons8867 now I know how to hide the bodies

@BlooCollaGal

2 жыл бұрын

A little dip in some sulfuric acid will take care of that

I remember in middle school I was in a woodshop class. The woodshop teacher had often told us a story about how when he was very young his hand got stuck in a sanding machine. Luckily he didn't lose any fingers or fingertips, but it had actually sanded his fingerprints on his left hand off. He told us that when he applied to be the woodshop teacher for that school, the school had called him asking for him to redo his application because there was just a black blob where there was supposed to be his fingerprint for his left thumb and they assumed it was an error.

@billysbigworld6166

2 жыл бұрын

That can't happen because if you sand off your finger print you will still heal it back. There was this criminal that didn't want people to identify his fingerprint so he cut them all off and he still healed perfectly.

@billysbigworld6166

2 жыл бұрын

Your fingerprints will always grow back the same

@epicgamer-ny4fj

2 жыл бұрын

@@billysbigworld6166 which is super crazy when you think about it. Like, like the DNA in your body speicfcly has genes for recreating finger prints

@billysbigworld6166

2 жыл бұрын

@@epicgamer-ny4fj I know its so weird but crazy lol

@mlgsamantha5863

2 жыл бұрын

@@epicgamer-ny4fj It doesn't, identical twins have different fingerprints and they have the same DNA. Fingerprints are determined by the conditions of the womb while you are a fetus, not by your DNA.

The mood when you're busy falling down The Spiral, insanely obsessing over your fingerprints, and somebody points out that you could double how much pointless madness you wallow in by revealing to you that you also have toes.

Identical twins, despite having the same genetic makeup, have different fingerprints. An anatomy teacher once told me it was due to the way the two embryos move around in the womb and shake up the amino acids in each cell, causing this phenomenon. An oddly specific fact for an oddly specific video

@oldmanlogan9616

2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting!

@isaacyu5520

2 жыл бұрын

Oh hey, I'm an identical twin. Yup, we do have different fingerprints. The more you know!

@OffSatan

2 жыл бұрын

once in class we were talking about identical twins(a term I dislike cause they are not) and someone asked if they had the same fingerprints. The teacher could not answer since he didn't know, I answered that I found it unlikely as you don't even share fingerprints with yourself. Like, just look at your right and left index fingers right now, do they look the same, the answer is no(or at least it should be acording to probability, or you could have Adermatoglyphia, I don't know you)

@legallypumpkin

2 жыл бұрын

@@OffSatan adermatoglyphia?

@OffSatan

2 жыл бұрын

@@legallypumpkin also known as "immigration delay disease". It's a disorder that causes you not to have fingerprints or toeprints, obviously your prints are identical if they don't exist.

I can feel the allegory, but I don't really know what it is.

@deon6045

2 жыл бұрын

I suspect it involves discarding a part of who you are to satisfy others, hence the talk about roles in the latter half of the piece.

@donatodiniccolodibettobardi842

2 жыл бұрын

@@deon6045 Or it's just a red herring.

@endersquid1132

2 жыл бұрын

My interpretation is it's about the idea of avoiding self confrontation and aknowleding yourself as an individual being that effects the world as much as it effects you, the speaker wants to disconnect himself from his actions and himself, seeing others as if they have a better grasp of the world and themselves, he wants everything to stay as it is he doesn't want to aknowledge change or pursue it and though overthinking it he realizes the truth but rather than accepting it becomes overwhelmed and refuses to move forward, forever cought in an loop of thought which he can never escape, unable, unwilling, to accept help from others and despite aknowledging the problem unable to escape it on his own

@sicuw1773

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not 100% certain so take it with a grain of salt, but I think this video represents a guy obsessed about fingerprints

@annaturell3969

2 жыл бұрын

I think he made it vague so it's up to the people's interpretations to help who it needs to, not just himself

This video summarizes the thought of: Therapy is pricey but, Making art is free

If you aren't sure about cutting off your fingertips, you can always use acid or heat to burn off your fingerprints instead. This is a mildly painful process, but do not fear- the loss of fingerprints is temporary. Think of it like a demo of fully cutting off your fingertips! Of course, if you don't want to go that far, you could always wear gloves for a few days ;)

@marshmallowallen5677

2 жыл бұрын

Is there away to permanently get rid of fingertips without damaging the fingers as a whole

@xxportalxx.

2 жыл бұрын

@@marshmallowallen5677 not really, and I'd also warn that not having fingerprints is so uncommon that it could actually be equally identifying in any context where it's known you lack them

@marshmallowallen5677

2 жыл бұрын

@@xxportalxx. did you immediately assume that I intend to commit crimes

@xxportalxx.

2 жыл бұрын

@@marshmallowallen5677 not exactly, I assumed you wanted to loose them to hinder identification, as that's essentially the only reason one would want to remove their fingerprints. You see not having fingerprints would hinder your grip, so loosing them actually hurts you in a general sense.

@Yipper64

Жыл бұрын

like puberty blockers.

Man, other people's existential crisis sound so strange and weird. Every person has something they obsess over, and while it can be easy to relate to that feeling, relating to the object of their obsession is much harder. In short, this sounds familiar and completely alien at the same time.

@frogfox4287

2 жыл бұрын

I have a re-occurring nightmare about clipping through the floor and falling, (like if you clipped out of bounds in a video game, not seeing the objects from the outside because it didn't need to be textured) only to look up to find my family scared, wondering where I went. Erased so completely. No sign of a struggle. Just... gone... and forced to watch the grief. I think it's been several months since I had this one, but I'm not willing to call it done for yet. It haunted me for years.

@marselo1316

2 жыл бұрын

@@frogfox4287 backrooms moment

@frogfox4287

2 жыл бұрын

@@marselo1316 I hadn't heard of that until after I was already having the nightmare, so it's unrelated but I can see why you would say that.

@isaacdouglas7826

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think it may also me metaphorical. Like it could be using this ‘absurd’ idea to show that sometimes the things we obsess about are not really a big deal.

@elh7149

2 жыл бұрын

@@frogfox4287 I had a very similar recurring nightmare, or just problem with my imagination where the floor would become paper thin and fragile and would break and fall away. The fact that I wasn't imagining the ground underneath my feet meant that it just didn't exist. A lot of the time it wouldn't fall away right away so I would be running through my house or another person's house I remembered really well, unable to retrace my steps because the floor was gone. Like those things in Mario that fall a few seconds after you touch em. For some reason I would always end up going into the basement and realizing I am totally trapped as I wait for the floor to fall beneath me. If I tried to grab on to something, that would break too. I haven't had it in a good six months but the problem with it is that once I get it in my head I can't get it out, to the point where I'll be trying to visualize something for literally any reason at all and I will start falling with the 2-dimensional floor. In daytime. Cause I tried to use my broken imagination and it glitched.

i saw a video once about this family that dodnt have finger prints! it was very cool! (please do not cut ur finger tips off i think it will hurt)

@shely_D7vil

2 жыл бұрын

Where did y see that? I find it hard to believe there's even 1 chance a human (with hands) is born without fingerprints just because yes

@DeathnoteBB

2 жыл бұрын

@@shely_D7vil There is, another comment mentioned it. Bodies be weird

@forgor4410

2 жыл бұрын

I keep forgetting that you're not verified. Must suck being famous, since all the replies are about you and not the actual comment you made.

@DeathnoteBB

2 жыл бұрын

@@forgor4410 Literally 2/3 of the comments were about what they said though? Idek who they are 👁👄👁 You’re one of the two comments talking about them and their fame?!

@jamesmoore7755

2 жыл бұрын

fun fact: my dad had a friend that was part of a really weird family and they were kinda blue tinted? and so this kid had no fingerprints. dont take my word for it tho i don't remember it perfectly

I have never been so moved and inspired while not understanding the message whatsoever.

Hey, if you want even more of an existential crisis: Even your tongue has a distinctive print that can be used to identify you! And also, in the opposite direction, fingerprints aren’t entirely your identity - it is very possible (and multiple instances have been documented) for 2 or more people completely disconnected from one-another to be born with identical fingerprints.

@darkbrotherhoodassassin7642

2 жыл бұрын

So a lightening do hit the same spot two times 🤯

@gageschlueter2949

2 жыл бұрын

Actually it goes a step further than this. There isn't actually any evidence that we all have unique fingerprints. A lot of scientists now believe fingerprinting to be a pseudoscience at best

@angelerror4086

2 жыл бұрын

Well it is at least better than nothing

@wegner7036

2 жыл бұрын

@@darkbrotherhoodassassin7642 Yes and very often. Electricity always follows the path of least resistance. The path of least resistance is unlikely to change, so it makes sense for lighting to hit the same place more than once. Saying lighting never hits the same place twice is like saying a river never ends in the same riverbed twice.

@olive4097

Жыл бұрын

I should cut off my tongue

As absurd of a topic cutting off your finger tips is, I can definitely relate to the thought process. Something so oddly specific and abstract can easily lead down mental rabbit holes relating back to meaning, purpose and direction in life. I'm not sure the intended purpose or message behind this video, but I can't help thinking that the thought patterns presented are much more important than the desire to cut one's fingers.

@kyliefickle7063

2 жыл бұрын

Often I feel the urge to live life without toenails specifically.

@npc6817

2 жыл бұрын

@@kyliefickle7063 I do not recommend living without toe nails. One day when I was 9 I had this bright idea to play soccer on asphalt wearing flip-flops. Tore off my smallest toenail clean off in like a second. Of course it hurt at first, but as soon as the pain stopped I immediately thought "oh well, it was just a toenail, who cares if it doesn't grow back? It's not like I miss my bail clippings, how's this going to be any different?it was never useful to me, no one will ever even know it's gone." But I knew. Cut to me a week later. I've spent hours looking at my feet. Unable to think about anything else. I only lost a toenail, but felt like someone just chopped of one of my arm. It didn't really matter but it was still a part of me. And it was gone. Luckly some scrap of something was apparently left stuck in my toe so I was able to grow back like three quarters of my toenail, but every now and then I still find myself thinking about that missing quarter. So in short 0/10, would not recommend.

@MrAkaidu

2 жыл бұрын

This sounds like a type of OCD

@marlonyo

Жыл бұрын

​Its like when you kill and eat someone and then you start think everyone around you knows and care about it but they dont.

@oxymoron02

Жыл бұрын

@@marlonyo Nice attempt at being edgy on the internet, but we've seen and heard worse stories-- ones that are true.

This is a nice backstory for an antagonist; some dude who achieved Revelation and now wants to cut everyone's fingertips.

@oldmanlogan9616

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, very cool

@definitelyreal.

2 жыл бұрын

Isn't that what happened with John Lennon?

@key37raminus

2 жыл бұрын

New super villain, someone copyright this

@thewatcher9237

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like something out of one of Junji Ito’s stories

@caocaoholdingaplushie6022

Жыл бұрын

Thats actually a character from buddhism angulimala that kills people and collects their finger as a necklace

I think this is about how following a passion or career goal in life can narrow your perspective, leading you, ironically, to become further estranged from it. When you choose something to be your identity, you tend to introspect far more about it, and without anything to ground you, there is a tendency to come to conclusions that are detached from reality, that would seem silly to people who look at it from the outside. This man has spent so much of his life thinking about his fingerprints, he is unable to see the bigger picture without a layperson's perspective. As someone who is studying to become a game developer, this feels too real to me.

Such a sustained look at a profound mental space. I'm surprised and impressed you managed to keep that narrative consistent. I can't remember the last time I've watched such an involved artistic side-eye into feelings surrounding identity and change.

Eyyy you’re not drawing stick figures anymore, love to see the progress!

@Someone-kg8cc

2 жыл бұрын

lmaooo don't forget this guy is actually a really technically skilled artist, i remember subscribing to him 4 years ago when he was making more complex stuff, but I love the newer stuff too tho, like that door video was so good. Ride of a channel progression.

@AdskyLR

2 жыл бұрын

Just curious, since this video is about fingertips how would you draw a stickman with fingers lol

@kasyfi5546

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdskyLR with stick fingers of course

I’m taking a gap year in college rn and it’s really hard seeing people move on. And I relate a lot to this guy. I also wanted to find the “right path” and be honest with myself. But I got too caught up in “roles.” I don’t regret my decision, but seeing people make progress sometimes makes me feel like I must force it on myself. Leading me to consider making drastic changes that sound good on paper, but in reality I probably wouldn’t be happy with it (like cutting off your fingertips). I had to learn was that although people and their opinions are valuable, as soon as I take their approval as gospel I lose myself. I’m still figuring things out and taking one step at a time but just wanted to share this part of my journey. Thanks for reading this. And thank you Matthias for the great video as always.

@craptasticp1521

2 жыл бұрын

Damn im taking a gap year too and i feel you, jumped into a field/degree because i thought they sounded good in the long run and people told me i was good at it but never considered if i could be fulfilled by it the way following what i really want could. You arent alone, I am figuring it out too through the awkward conversations with family and friends on why im not in school right now lol, but I know that all of us taking a break rn can use the time to either come back refreshed and stronger or persue something more personally fulfilling.

@Yipper64

2 жыл бұрын

I finished college, just an associates but im proud of it, its a full degree... And I dont want to go back. The problem is, I cant just get out of college and then do nothing, I had to get a job. And I have that now, its not what I want to do, its just pushing carts around at walmart, but its a job... I just... Dont think im very good at it. Sure its only been a week but how long until I am good at it? Or at least when am I expected to be good? Two weeks? A month? Is it even worth getting good at this, I dont even want to do it... And if im not good at this simple thing, how can I do anything else? How am I ever going to be able to do anything? That.... Thats my fear right now. I think that was only tangentally related but its been on my mind....

@WouldntULikeToKnow.

2 жыл бұрын

Don't rush it. I wish I had taken some time and went to get my associates from a community college before I went for my BA because I was still lost. I ended up finding a major I loved but I'm not using my degree.

@Praecantetia

2 жыл бұрын

I getcha.

@codernakul

2 жыл бұрын

Taking a gap year is not easy You have to be more brave to take a gap year than the one who moved on. I also took a gap year I lost that one year but in that year I found myself now I know what to do in my life and I am happier than ever sometimes you should just have to give yourself a little break. Dont worry everything will be fine.

This type of surreal and thoughtful content is what I have been needing to fill the void and so I have subscribed.

such entertaining and thoughtful content. awesome stuff

I feel like this the kind of video an English Teacher would make the class watch and write a paragraph on.

@kewlman5417

2 жыл бұрын

*essay with citations

@kiddbusiness

2 жыл бұрын

Legit

@Snoo29293

2 жыл бұрын

I wish it was, because it's pretty interesting to say the truth

@astick5249

Жыл бұрын

Well it least its something way sillier than most things you have to do

Even if the fingertips are gone, the rest of the finger and palm prints can still be used to identify a person. They're not as easy to collect and aren't in as many databases, but they still can be used. Also koalas have fingerprints so similar to humans, it can become difficult to investigate crimes in Australia. The koala can leave fingerprints that match a human's and make it look like they were at the crime scene, even if they were actually on the other side of the continent. And yes, I have a short story rotting in my drafts based around someone falsely accused of murder because of koala fingerprints and a lack of an alibi.

@FauxFaFox

2 жыл бұрын

My suspension is that they hired the koala to do the crime.

@kaleidoscope5054

2 жыл бұрын

I want to read that

@kingoreo7050

2 жыл бұрын

Fingerprints grow back, basically exactly the same as they were before you removed them.

@Chaosrunepownage

2 жыл бұрын

@@jessh4016 There actually are cases where koalas falsely implicated people! It's impossible for fingerprints to completely match, sure, but most of the fingerprints at crime scenes are partial and/or obscured. You're really lucky if you get a whole, unobscured fingerprint so there are times that partials match up perfectly with humans.

@JG_Wentworth

2 жыл бұрын

@@kingoreo7050 The power move then is to just cut off your fingers lmao.

This entire video is like the thoughts we have in a split second.

This is surprisingly deep and makes so much sense... I thank you, friend

This type of meaningful content, usually if someone makes things like this they explain the deep correlation it has to someone else, but I really like that he just leaves it at that, you understand but you don’t really know exactly what it means, but things I believe are best conveyed when not made obvious. For that, I love this.

@Georgechic

2 жыл бұрын

I completely agree, I actually learned about this today at the university. I definitely need to see this video again to grasp everything he tried to convey though. But that might be a good thing. This is so good😄

@dollymix5

2 жыл бұрын

At the beginning he literally explain fingerprints is identity. But I believe if he didn't make that clear most people wouldn't understand the deep meaning of it on KZread (myself included)

@firebal6129

2 жыл бұрын

Rabuzens recent video “I hope this video doesn’t suck” kinda goes with this video, or at least my interpretation of it

@mikethegoo

2 жыл бұрын

... I get what you try to say... But I still don't feel like I completely get what this is supposed to be... I feel like I know just too little, even for whaf I am supposed to get from this. So... Is this just about not wanting to have a set identity, partially connected to privacy, but mostly just in general?

@moosecannibal8224

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikethegoo the fact you're able to figure out that it means "something" means you have enough knowledge to be able to make your own conclusions, that's what everyone's saying and it seems to be the comments that he's liking from what I can tell. The trick is to stop relying on other people to give you the answer for this kind of thing, and be more confident and deciding your own outcome if the outcome is made optional.

I like your finger prints. Keep uploading them.

@slishslash9202

2 жыл бұрын

🧐

@NiyaKatz

3 ай бұрын

I eat finger prints for breakfast

Ever since I got recommend one video from this guy, it just never stops and I swear I'm learning something new and unique in every video I watch.

rlly like ur coloring and artstyle here!!

Toe prints. *INSIGHT GAINED*

Me going in: "Yeah man go for it they'll grow back " Me coming out: "Erasure of the identifiers of a person, erasure of what a person leaves behind, to become the kind of person who would no longer want to leave anything behind... Don't cut off your fingertips, they're fine. :/"

@leejerrett8268

2 жыл бұрын

Fingertips only grow back if you are a very small child.

@philcollinslover56705

2 жыл бұрын

Yes but i know, I know that if I did, I would be so much happier than I am right now. I love it and I hate it. I am stuck.

It’s videos like this that make me love this channel

These videos are so interesting to me- I’m sick right now and on vacation which sucks but these videos help alot

My grandfather lost his fingerprints, he used to be a tailor and worked with lots of wool, the wool ended up scrapping his fingertips away. So I leave a warning: wann keep your finger prints? Avoid wool, or maybe look for wool if you want to lose it.

@brokenlegs8431

2 жыл бұрын

the fingerprint texture goes deep enough the point where he would literally have to skin his finger tips to permanently remove them

@frogfox4287

2 жыл бұрын

@@brokenlegs8431 I think it's that it got so covered with micro cuts and scars that discerning any prints would be nigh impossible. Yeah, if they were entirely removed, then it would grow back but with no need and no sign that anything is wrong, nothing will fix itself.

@lordfelidae4505

2 жыл бұрын

@@brokenlegs8431 as frog said below, it isn’t that the fingerprints were removed, it’s that they were covered by micro scars, abrasions, and other damages. If he were to more thoroughly scar his fingers, like from a burn, after healing his fingerprints might re-emerge. I dunno though, I’m not a doctor.

@brokenlegs8431

2 жыл бұрын

@@frogfox4287 I am not a finger scientist so I can not confirm any of that but in retrospect you're probably right

@frogfox4287

2 жыл бұрын

@@brokenlegs8431 After a bit of google, it seems that it IS possible to remove fingerprints completely, but it is very difficult and requires deep, substantial damage. Most burns , heat or acid, wouldn't typically do enough damage. It is completely possible to temporarily remove fingerprints but without enough damage it will grow back in a month or two. The wool probably did remove the finger prints and continuing to handle the wool kept it worn down, keeping them from growing back. However, as you so succinctly put it: "I am not a finger scientist"

This work reminds me of Don Hertzfeldt films. I can't explain how eloquently but the pacing and playful sense of humor on the surface that holds much deeper, if sometimes unclear meaning all wrapped up in the package of a man deciding to cut off his fingertips. This is art

@marr.3276

2 жыл бұрын

huge agree- this video reminded me of It’s Such a Beautiful Day. nice to see another person in the comments bring up Hertzfeldt!

Honestly thank you, this was an actual eye-opener for me

This is a monologue worthy of being performed on the stage. No joke.

So I see you've gotten a hold of whatever drugs Exurb1a is taking.

@juliapazosmaidana2929

2 жыл бұрын

Omg yeeess xD

@georgiarushanov2210

2 жыл бұрын

Weed

@robinvanderpal372

4 ай бұрын

@@georgiarushanov2210 this sounds more like shrooms to me

Heavy: "Fingertips... Fingerrrtipsssssssss"

@robo1540

2 жыл бұрын

i was thinking the same

@SomeFreakingCactus

2 жыл бұрын

They Might Be Giants!

Been really struggling not to sh lately (haven't even made it 3 weeks yet) this video hits hard in so many ways. Thankyou for your amazing animations/art

Loved this, I think of this topic quite a lot.

This was an emotional rollercoaster that left me wondering if I should laugh or cry.

I relate to this completely, and not at all. The anxiety, the unsure nature, the constant contemplation, all of it speaks to me in a voice that seems both familiar, yet strange. You may want to cut off your fingertips, mr cartoon sir, but you left an impression on me. A mark. And I wouldn’t say its a bad one.

This open ended interpretation, while leaving room for self-affirmation, enables a larger group of people to all collectively (for their own reasons) appreciate and agree with this. Very cool.

Man, this hit home. I'm currently in the middle of a change in perspective and what my role in the world should, or even can be. I've been working in research for years, but as the clock ticks on, I just want to find my way back to art, music, animations, and videos, and I have started posting my attempts at grasping for these goals. I guess my fingertips will be useful for said grasping, so I'll hold back from cutting them off.

It's awesome to watch something like this and feel like it was made specifically for me. I wonder if our fingertips are similar. Discovering that cutting them off might not be the right decision is terrifying, especially because at one point it was everything. Hope you're good.

I don’t even remember subscribing to you but I’m so glad I did

@giulianoaaronfrancoynsfran4858

2 жыл бұрын

X2

@Monkinkin

2 жыл бұрын

probably the monkey video, most of us got here because of the monkey video

@winstonthepooh9388

2 жыл бұрын

SAME I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE

@ZoroTheBlue

2 жыл бұрын

Same here!!!

@wawatchdog89

2 жыл бұрын

Same

I wish I could think like you do, you have very interesting thoughts. I love it!

Your videos feel like the ultimate form of modern art: philosophy represented by absurd subjects YOU ARE AWSOME!

I love how I never know what im getting into when I click on one of your videos. Also very interesting to read how many different interpretations people have 😅

So... I kinda accidentally cut the fingerprint of my middle finger off, about half a centimeter deep. It grew back in a couple weeks almost entirely, and now months later I can barely see a line around where I had cut a piece off, but it really looks just as it was before otherwise.

@yjy2940

2 жыл бұрын

:v I chew on my fingers(kin). One day, I accidentally (purpously) ripped off some of my middle finger's fingerprint. Took some time to heal and it's quite fine now, the skin before was a little hard, and now it's soft. Downsides is just that my middle finger's fingerprint got dislocated. The tiny spiral was suppoused to be in the middle. But now it's a little on the right :( My right hand's pointer finger also used to have its whole fingerprint part ******, but it healed pretty quickly! Didn't even realise that it healed until I looked at it one day

Such a fascinating and provoking line of thought. It's an interesting take on identity, reputation, and what is socially expected and accepted by any individual. It has added layers regarding one's own mortality, permanence, mental health/wellbeing, and the desire to be happy regardless of wether or not it is considered taboo or harmful to one's self. There's so many layers wrapped up here in such a short amount of time This twisted and strange animation is a wonderful piece of philosophical art and I truly love it. I hope you continue making more wonderful stuff for years to come no matter what form it takes place

Ok this channel is gold

I mean depends on whether or not you want to commit various crimes.

I gotta admit, I subscribed SPECIFICALLY for your Meji Restoration history video and for more history videos after that. I didn't realise I wanted videos like this just as much!

This hits man

I mean this in the best way, but this feels like a monologue I'd hear at a theater workshop

This makes me feel a way I can't describe. I feel acknowledged. I'm at the lowest point in my life, not knowing what I should live for. Not wanting to live, but not wanting to die. I've changed. The expectations from others and the ones I have for myself remain the same, but they don't make sense anymore. My fingertips are the same from who I was then but they've changed. Things aren't the same, they won't be. How do I move forward with the idea of who I am and expectations with that? Should I cut off my fingertips?

It started as a silly question and soon grew into a metaphor for your own life and the expectations you feel. Wow, and now it has new meaning. This is a wonderful video. :3

I think this video perfectly depicts curing a symptom rather than the actual disease. There is a morbid desire to be unchanging, always right, and then there are fingerprints: the manifestation of the impossibility of that unhealthy desire. So, rather than seeking help, why not just cut off your fingertips, and then your toeprints and who knows what else. Until the Disease finally consumed you, or you anderstood the pain you were into, and did something about it at the right time. Seek help people, sometimes doing the right thing is exceptionally hard. But the only way to get out of a loop is changing yourself, with help possibly.

This is a beautiful poem

Something about this channel just makes me question my existence y'all- Also Mattias seems so fun to hang out with- especially their beautiful way of thinking.

Another deep yet interesting video Excellent work

This video makes me feel emotions I never thought I had. I can relate myself so well with this guttural feeling and yet have not a single clue as to what you're trying to point out. At least I learned, because the first time I watched this video nothing really struck me as a thought other than the strange surreal feeling I got when watching it, and that the slight frantic idea bouncing was somewhat relatable. It made me feel uncomfortable. I didn't understand, not even the message it tried to pull from it's short "story". But now? It's clear as to what it meant. Still, scarily relatable, but even then I feel a bit more at peace knowing I'm not the only one out there who feels this way or can peer so easily into the perspective of anyone in a similar situation. Not only that, but I have been slowly improving and the thought of something like this does not seem so scary anymore. I know this is rather- late but, thank you. So much.

This is whole new level of insane to me. I'm here for it.

I don't have to do drugs because Mattias has done them all for me.

Mattis is the only person that can make a 4 minute video feel like 20 and make we watch through to the end

Mattias video's always feel so damn emotional and deep despite probably being total nonsense ;)

This feels profound.. it resonated with me..

dude. I already had enough of an existential crisis. why you gotta give me more?

This suddenly shifted from a funny obsessive rant about something I've thought about to an allegory about suicide and depression for me.

This video seems way too relatable and meaningful for a short funny youtube cartoon.

I like how this video is not what it seems on the surface

"the more honest I try to be, the more dishonest everthing else becomes." damn...

3 weeks ago I went through psychosis and I had these exact same thoughts as you did and it just felt so relatable that me and you had this exact same brain process where we thought things had to be one way and we realized soon after that they can be any way we want them to

I feel like this is about deleting ones past or something, a lot of artists hide or destroy their old work because it's embarrassing, but at the same time it is what made you yourself. Near the ending of the video it seems to be more about something along the lines of a physical trait, like appearance or something, where ones mood can affect how one judges their appearance like for instance I have curly hair, and some days I wish I could permanently straighten my hair because it makes hairstyle choices very limited but other days I revel in its uniqueness,. Very cool video!

The pain is unimaginable

I love that half the comments are understanding the meaning of the video and the other half are explaining fingertips in the literal sense

you dont have to cut off your finger tips, you can just press them against an electric hob and there should be comparitivaley less blood. and you can probably still use them after for picking stuff up (your phone may not detect them and your grip will not be as strong as you lose surface area), I dont know the specifics so idk if you wanna use oil and fry em or butter or nothing

@custard-bun

2 жыл бұрын

Pan fried fingertips work beautifully in a soup, almost like a bacon-crouton hybrid.

I have kinda been in love with this video ever since I first saw it, in the way u can be in love with a thought that serves no purpose to ur immediate life but yet seems to encompass everything anyways. And I come back to it, every time relating this process of thought presented in the video with different aspects of...idk anything. I do always feel a strange connection to my first interpretation though, and maybe because it goes to show how deep a dark thought can run and turn everything into an allegory for itself. (tw suicidal stuff?) The whole concept of being so attached to the IDEA of cutting off your finger prints that you can't imagine just....not, is so similar to my experiences being suicidal. When you are trying to recover, the deep rooted system of thoughts and ideas u have built around "What if I just killed myself?" or "I should/want to kill myself" is hard to just... abandon all of a sudden. it's weird because when you have dealt with it for a long time, your entire life, every small aspect of it, gets tied into that thought of suicide. idk if this is a universal experience between other ppl who struggle with it but I do think some people may relate a little bit, cuz honestly that has been the hardest part of recovery and moving on for me, a version of me and my life that's whole existence isn't about misery. I'm better now, not perfect, but better and I do hope all of you get better too. And I definitely hope you find the strength to stick around long enough to see yourself getting better, cuz it won't be perfect or easy but it would be, for lack of *better* word,,,, better. (TW over) anyways that's just my experience with this piece if media, I've loved reading other people's versions of how they interacted with it/were impacted by it! fun stuff! good video as always :)

At first I was confused, laughing as I enjoyed the chaos, then I got misty eyed as we thought about meaning, then it got serious... what a wild ride.

Rabutens recent video “I hope this video doesn’t suck” kinda goes with this, or at least my interpretation of this video

Not once did he bring up sanding or burning the tips.

This is like me with my theories that keep in my head

Good morning to you too!

This really resonates with me but likely not exactly for the reasons it was written

I interpret this as an artist trying to figure out stuff art style etc and how art changed for them as they got older but I could be projecting

why is this relatable, what have you done

This feels like a video essay of an existential crisis

So lemme get the definition of "finger tip" and "finger print" because cutting the pads off your fingers will leave you with a finger print made of scar tissue that will be ever changing as it grows and heals and also still very identifiable. But most people who say finger tip mean only the very farthest bit from the palm and not including the entire nail or even 1/4th of it. Were you suggesting you would remove the entire top of the finger? Or just alter the fingerprint itself. How much dexterity are you willing to lose and how long do you want the recovery to be? Do you intend to cut the tops off your thumbs because they are attached to arteries and they will make you bleed out really fast. We all struggle for meaning because the only meaning is the one we give things even if nobody else agrees. It feels good when others agree though.

I always preemptively sit on the toilet when watching your videos in case they make me poop myself In this case i've been correct

bro your handwriting is amazing.

your videos are like watching KZread in a parallel universe where there are wizards and nice fingerprints are a status symbol

Been there. Done that. Wouldn't recommend.

A couple things: If you want to remove fingerprints, you can do it with a solid burn, you don't have to deal with the blood that way. Also, apparently, fingerprints aren't entirely unique for each person, though it is unlikely that two people will have the exact same set of twenty

I think like this on the daily. It's crazy when you realize that you're thinking about it.

This is beautiful and deep in so many levels to me idk why tho

I lost my finger skin once because exema, grew back

@funkuro

2 жыл бұрын

Skin always comes back. And idk if this is true but I heard that the very tip of your fingers come back (like you know the rings on your fingers? Roughly on the last one)

@ryangutierrez775

2 жыл бұрын

@@funkuro no clue

Woah, toeprints

Holy crap I never thought of that

This feels like a fever dream