I'm sorry, but I _need_ those specifics. If my partner can't explain to me how bug language works so that I can understand them as a bug, I'm not comfortable answering the original question. (Loving these videos!)

@ChrisHallbeck

20 күн бұрын

Thank you so much! That is very generous

@crusty_ladybugs

20 күн бұрын

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@ray5131

19 күн бұрын

@@ChrisHallbeck why don’t I have special super cute heart emojis? 🥺

@ChrisHallbeck

19 күн бұрын

It’s a channel member perk

@ray5131

19 күн бұрын

@@ChrisHallbeck I’ll think about it after finals next week

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@phasedcloak2835

19 күн бұрын

Fission Mailed!

@aayanscreativelab1786

19 күн бұрын

@@phasedcloak2835FISSION IS DNAGER-

@mla734

18 күн бұрын

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@aleksandrakaranovic9577

13 күн бұрын

​@@phasedcloak2835we'll net them gext time!

Definitely would be a dealbreaker if the bug was a praying mantis

@xomvoid_akaluchiru_987

20 күн бұрын

I would be terrified

@KiryuSeiran

20 күн бұрын

I'm willing to deal even with slugs, because the question is about one transformation and the other staying human .. but cockroach is LRD effective the moment the transformation happen... Love you, I know you are clean but I need to get over the feeling of scream and hitting you with my platform shoes.

@shorpee4165

20 күн бұрын

When you’re so bad she doesn’t even want to eat your head * sad mantis noises *

@lilliematthews7922

20 күн бұрын

A male or female preying mantis?

@MMuraseofSandvich

20 күн бұрын

"Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is we're postponing those tests indefinitely. Good news is we've got a much better test for you: fighting an army of mantis men. Pick up a rifle and follow the yellow line. You'll know when the test starts."

See, I'm with the partner asking all the refining questions. Doubly so once the original asker says, "What?! Ew, no!" Like...this is clearly a fishing-for-compliments or hoping-for-drama kind of question, which is annoying. The asker wants "serious" thought, but hasn't thought seriously about the question at all. They want more than just a firm straightforward yes, but instantly give an unconsidered "no" when asked the question. It just speaks of a fundamental asymmetry: "You are here to love me. I am here to enjoy being loved by you."

@leddivah

20 күн бұрын

Exactly. I agree with refining the hypothetical situation if I’m forced to weigh in on these dumb scenarios. I had an ex that was exactly like the “ew no” person. These people exist. They are out there. It’s scary. This is why I can’t sleep at night.

@juliagoetia

20 күн бұрын

Real

@Kat-dp4rh

19 күн бұрын

Sounds like a toxic relationship. The person on the right should consider breaking up

@minor_2nd

19 күн бұрын

​@@Kat-dp4rh It's toxic behaviour sure, but one signal usually doesn't warrant immediately breaking up, especially when you can still communicate about issues and work on them. Be careful with giving advice like that

@Kat-dp4rh

19 күн бұрын

@@minor_2nd which is why I said they should consider breaking, I didn't say they should immediately break up. Of course, you should talk first. But don't worry, I don't think people are going to break up because a random comment on KZread said so.

I mean, he is asking the right questions.

@Chris-hx3om

20 күн бұрын

Yep, she asked for 'serious', and he went full 'serious'...

being in that kind of relationship would definitely bug me😂

One of the few skits you've done that end in a negative and not wholesome conclusion

@ChrisHallbeck

20 күн бұрын

👀

@DarkGope

20 күн бұрын

@@ChrisHallbeck how could you =(

@ChrisHallbeck

20 күн бұрын

@@DarkGope It’s not as rare as y’all think it is 😂

@LibertyMonk

20 күн бұрын

Seriously. Sure, some have wholesome twists, but a decent chunk are the other way around

@susanne5803

19 күн бұрын

I think it's wholesome. As a partner I would want someone imagining this intricately: how could we make this work because of course we would continue loving each other as bugs. As a parent I laughed tears. Because a teen would want to be loved under the most devastating and love killing conditions possible. But a teen would almost never imagine loving someone back unconditionally - and what that might take ...

"Why can't you take my question seriously?!" Proceeds to not take it seriously themselves.

My BFF informed me of this trending scenario and I had the same questions right out of the gate 😂 If she was bug-sized, I'd make her a nice home.

@HelpMeGet100kSubsWithNoVideos.

20 күн бұрын

Lincoln Log Mansion

@ChrisHallbeck

20 күн бұрын

“Would you love me if I were a bug?” “You already are bugging me, so yes.”

TBF, if my partner answered yes so fast... I will over the moon because there was no hesitation on their love.

@karoshi2

19 күн бұрын

Yup. Have gotten into trouble a few times for taking time to think stuff through first. 🤣 Personal favourite: "Would you marry again after I died?" Reasons for trouble: - I thought for too long - I imagined them being dead - I was inconclusive - I wouldn't rat who the next would be - next is "definitely" in queue already 😐 Such topics can be dangerous.

@confusedredditor1660

19 күн бұрын

​@@karoshi2 sheesh

@rivenrime

18 күн бұрын

​@@karoshi2 If I die, my husband better find someone else eventually. I don't want him stuck in place for the rest of his life. Even if I don't like to think about any of that.

Every time I hear this question I think about Kafka's Metamorphosis. The original human sized bug 🪲

My first thought...no problem, my husband is an amateur entomologist!

@ChrisHallbeck

20 күн бұрын

😂

@yxx_chris_xxy

19 күн бұрын

But would he put a pin through your heart to mount you in his collection?

@suzettehenderson9278

19 күн бұрын

@@yxx_chris_xxy No, he doesn't do that anymore, just photography.

"Would you love me if I was a worm." "Depends on the size of the bass I can catch with you."

"Ew, no" is the correct answer unless you carefully inspect every bug you encounter to determine whether it is your partner in disguise.

Now the one asking all the questions has got the right idea. The discussion would be so much more fun if both engaged in the details of the silly imaginary scenario and seriously considered a world unlike our own. Then it's an adventure of the imagination together 🌈

"Well you asked me to take it seriously-"

Itsy bitsy spider climbed up the waterspout. Trapped my insect partner, and quickly bled her out...

Okay, but what kind of cute bug? Can you fly? Are you a jumpy bug?

The guy literally answered yes so fast and he didn't think about it meaning that he wouldn't have cared what kind of bug, he just would have loved them the same, but they were clearly fishing for compliments. Genuinely don't like when people are like that. The guy who said yes was ready to be like ride or die like yeah you're a bug now? Let me ask questions to figure out what kind of bug you are so I can take care of you and the other dude was like oh my God you're a bug now? Gross.

there is a possibility of being bug-zoned "babe, do you love me?" "sorry i just see you as a bug"

After that conversation, she better be sleeping on the couch.

@jasondads9509

20 күн бұрын

you're no fun

So real!! I understand this so much! From both sides of the conversation! In both perspectives of the information and whatnot!

Bro really asking the important questions

Would you love me if YOU were a bug? Or would you dump me for a bug boy friend?

All I learned is that the between the object in the back yard and the the bet I lost with a wizard I'm probably going to be turned into a bug.

The amount of "luove" or "louve" inside jokes that couldve been slipped into the subtitled

Should of expected the last part, but still caught me off guard and I laughed 😄

@ChrisHallbeck

18 күн бұрын

I honestly dont expect any other possible responses to a question like this except for the 3 in this video. All of them are terrible. Why would you ever ask this? How did this catch on?

the first time i was asked this i asked these same questions but then someone reminded me of karma’s metamorphosis and the whole thing about how men will often leave their WIFE if she gets cancer or some other debilitating illness. so it sounds like a weird and stupid question at first but i do think there are deeper sides to it that make sense for people (esp women) to ask

0:54 It might be possible. After all, the brain of a portia spider is able to come up with a plan to take down bigger spiders for food.

0:09 That is such a fair point. I'll use this in case my (imaginary) girlfriend ever asks me that (inside my dreams)

@riithewordsmith

17 күн бұрын

The only point I'd say is that in some cases, it is a real question - in that the ACTUAL question is, "would you still love me if I became helpless/disabled/very sick" but the person asking doesn't know that's why they're actually asking because they didn't think about why the question appealed to them or just lacked the introspection to reach that conclusion, and imo probably a lot of stupid questions about loving worms or whatever could be avoided if the answer ran along the lines of, "is this (would I still love you if you were rendered helpless) what you're actually asking?" And it is a valid question - the rates for guys dumping their wives and girlfriends when they receive like a cancer diagnosis or even just are temporarily disabled due to pregnancy are uncomfortably high. It's not something directly addressed a lot which is why any given woman might not realize that's what she's thinking about when she asks, would you still love me if I was a bug? And it might not be. But there's a good chance it is.

No no no, as a guy you need to ask "Would you love me if I was completely broke?"

"Gregor, go to bed."

N O T P A S S I N G T H I S U P

I love it that she wants him to take the question seriously, and then gets mad when he does.

If a girl asks this question, she's probably feeling afraid you only like her for a particular reason. For example, she may be afraid you only like her for her body or for her money. Bugs are tiny disgusting, and insignificant creatures by most standards. This isn't necessarily always true but odds are the girl is really asking "Do you love me for me or for the things you get from me or do you love me specifically as a person beyond the utility it has for you."

Haha, its cleary a love! I'll be the one who is analysing :D

"Help me! HELP ME!!!" Sorry, but I had to say it. Bonus brownie points for those who get the reference. ;)

This is like suspension of disbelief. Will I enjoy a show about a bug with a person's mind? Of course! But the moment I'm actually supposed to think about it for something to make sense, there better be lots of world building to explain how that's even possible. If there isn't, I'm done, can't love it anymore without going back to "brain off" mode.

@legendgames128

16 күн бұрын

This is why I'm glad to be a fan of Bug Fables, so I can have a base for world building.

Watching this first thing in the morning. Laughing out loud. Good way to start my day.

@ChrisHallbeck

19 күн бұрын

😊👍

That's when the guy reveals he's a level 2 druid and transforms into a tiny house spider.

My girlfriend and I are both both of these people at the same time, and alternating.

I love bugs. I was that weird kid that had Zoobooks and loved weird facts and always wanted pet invertebrates and herps. I'm 38 years old and I am still that kid. I have tarantulas, and snakes and a lizard. If my partner were a bug I would love them. I would keep them in a terrarium and feed them whatever they needed. It would make paying the mortgage more difficult. Not to mention health insurance.

That guy probably read Kafka´s masterpiece "The Metamorphosis" before he started that conversation. Ironically, the story is about a young man who can´t "change" at all - or he feels like he can´t. The absence of love in Kafka´s work is remarkable. But there always is the desire to love.

@chemesp3730

14 күн бұрын

That's exactly what I thought the moment he started reflecting on the question! That said, all of Kafka's works are brilliant. I personally prefer "The Trial"

Wow. I was just saying how lovely these shorts are 😂

Roll a d10 for your answer: 1. I wouldn't love you either way. 2. You are a bug already. You're bugging me right now. 3. That might be an improvement. 4. I'd love you so much I'd eat you. 5. Is this your way of telling me you've been a bug this whole time? I had my suspicions, but why keep that from me in the first place? 6. I'd love you even if you were an annoying hypothetical question. 7. As long as you had a big, thicc abdomen and long, spindly legs. 8. Only if you love me as a bug first. 9. I've been operating on the assumption that you were a bug. 10. Call me "the bug tester" the way I be testing your patience with these puns

Oh I'm so much like that guy. I will ask a million questions to get _all_ of the specifics.

Note to self: Don't give someone like Randall Munroe a hypothetical to gauge the relationship.

Lesson: Questions like that can lead to unnecessary thought.

If I was asked this question, I would answer with an exaggerated “squish!” 🤣

Lol quite funny 😂

@ChrisHallbeck

20 күн бұрын

Honestly the person on the right is the type of people to have good conversations

As someone who has once said to his boyfriend that if he was a worm I'd find a witch to turn me into a worm too so that we could hang out in a little worm house... I relate a lot to the character on the right.

Being a human-sized, anthropomorphic bug would be absolutely fine in this scenario

At least it was taken seriously 😂😂

Hmm. I don’t think a long term relationship with a bug would work. Loving the person wouldn’t immediately stop, but the nature of the relationship would become much more caretaker. We would have to have some serious conversations about their safety, freedom, quality of life, etc. A human-sized bug with a human lifespan might still be viable in a platonic fashion.

If my future partner replied like that with so many questions about it I’d know I’d truly know I love them.

Well to be honest, those are good questions.

😂 So explains the female psyche! 😂

To be fair, people seldom think of the conundrum that arises when trying to communicate with something that small. The sound waves are either too intense for the tiny individual to focus on it, or too minor for the average sized person to comprehend. That was a good question.

This is nothing short of a roller coaster masterpiece

@ChrisHallbeck

20 күн бұрын

the end is so true😂

Considering desert ants can count their steps and their brains are the size of a period ->. I'd say the memory will be intact! But the vocal cords are a problem indeed.

As a nerd myself the way the friend who asked are you in danger of being turned into a bug did you borrow money from a shady looking guy in the woods who's clearly a wizard and it's only a matter of time before they track you down that's how all us nerds would respond lets be fair

I just asked my husband this. He said, " Yes, of course. I would be mortified and wouldn't stop until I had found a way to turn you back to normal." ❤❤❤❤❤ Then we watched the clip to the end and were shocked at her answer! So rude!!!

Awesome. 😆

This one made me laugh twice the first time through

@ChrisHallbeck

19 күн бұрын

Nice 👌

"No." **ignore their babbling** **>:)**

Yeah, that guy has a really great point: that will never happen, so why even bother thinking about it. And if it did somehow happen, how would I know how I would respond? The hypothetical answers people give rarely match their practical actions, for many reasons. First is context. Did I also get turned into a bug? Why were you turned into a bug? What emotions am I feeling right at that moment? Second comes down to "Easier said than done". It is much easier to say what the right thing to do is, than it is to actually do it. It is very hard to take into account the fear factor. I know what I SHOULD do, but my actions fall short of that all too often. And finally, there is character growth. Even if the current you would do one thing today, what about you a year from now, or 5 years from now. People change. They can mature and degenerate. Their feelings for you might be too weak to say "yes" now, but after 30 years of marriage, they would sooner get turned into a bug themselves than abandon you. Or, they might be infatuated today, but in a few months realize they really don't like you enough to date an invertebrate.

I killed four centipedes in my bedroom yesterday so probably not. I didn't even take time to see if they were someone I knew going through a whole Kafka thing

The “if I was a worm” question has always been really weird to me. It never occurred to me that the person might mean that they still had their memories and personality. I took it for granted that it was “if I was a worm by all standards of what it means to be a worm”. And in that case, no, I wouldn’t; you wouldn’t be you; you’d be a worm. And why would I love a creature that had in some way replaced you that possessed none of the qualities I loved about you. Now, if it is a case of transformation, that does complicate things. There is some continuity of identity, and there may be a way to reverse the process. But the question always seemed more like “if I had been born a worm”.

it would have been so easy to just say that they had to pilot the bug from an different place like remy in ratatouille if luigi’s hat was a pocket dimension and luigi was a bug but nooo go ahead with the “ugh forget I asked” you have to be prepared to THINK

Bug Fables fan here! I wouldn't be able to understand my hypothetical partner unless she retained English and it didn't get replaced with Bugnish, but I'd no doubt love her all the same! Especially if she turned into a bee (she would remind me of Vi the Bee). She better not be like the partner in this video, though. I'd want her to love me still if I was a bug (say, a beetle).

at least both parties were honest

If this is true love, then I'm glad I've never been in it

this is too true. when a partner puts these entrapping questions on you its only purpose is to get an anger reaction out of you. If you say yes quickly they'd assume you aren't being serious and when you defend and probe the questions, they get irritated. If you say no, the partner quickly deduces that you are loving only conditionally. The best answer is to pass and refuse to answer because there's no right answer. The partner who would ask something like this and something similar to this ought to check their head first and ask if they still actually want a relationship.

"Why won't you take this seriously?" Bro I just listed several possibilities how it might happen, I am more serious than you.

I'm just imagining the part where a missing person's report gets filed. Things are gonna get weird when they ask why you're failing the polygraph... It's looking like either a trip to jail or the mental ward.

Marvellous :D

Thought he would say you would be my love bug then

It would have to be a LADY BUG. I love lady bugs!!🐞🐞🐞❤❤❤❤

lmao

I think when people ask their partners if they'd still love them if they were a bug, they're trying to ask a sort of "would you still love me if I wasn't of use to you as a partner, or wasn't able to reciprocate in this relationship in a 'meaningful' way?" question, but in a way that isn't quite so dark. Even then, people asking that probably need just as much therapy as the one asking it in this video, because they're equating their worth as a person to what they can do for others, and that isn't a healthy mindset.

Why does nobody ask the question "How would I know it's you in the bug form and not any other random bug?"

😂

this is hilarious

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Nice

If my partner was a bug I’d keep them safe in a terrarium, feed them snacks every day, let them crawl on my fingers but I wouldn’t sleep next to them bc I’d be afraid of crushing them in my sleep 😅💀

This test didn’t end so well. 😬

I wasn't the one who demanded to take this question seriously. Now, would you want to live out your life as a bug or could you turn back somehow so I don't have to figure out what happened to you after you "expired" after being turned into a bug?

I assume in this hypothetical the partner turned bug magically retains their human mind and verbal communication. In this case I would still love them and tend to them for the rest of their life, which unfortunately might be xut short by their transformation into a bug, a creature humans are known to outlive. The situation is very tragic if the bug can't talk to me to tell me how to satisfy their physiological needs. But if they don't even keep their mind in the transformation I'm squishing the bug unless it's a bee and moving on, since then the partner is essentially dead and I don't care about bugs except bees.

Man... Now I'm worried that the bug I squashed on my arm was actually the love of my life kissing me...

Oh, geez, if my partner or even my best friend was turned into a bug, i would put the bug in an aquarium and take care of him or her, either til a cure can be found or the rest of bugs life. Simple, if you love the person. So, yeah still love them. Obviously

Top 10 anime betrayals 1:15

The definition of Kafkaesque.

Chris is the kind of guy who will get into an argument with his girlfriend and then make a skit

So "an actual bug" or a bug that can think and talk like a human? Because I seriously imagined a bug with a bug level of sentience. I think that's a pretty important thing to consider to answer this question. Yeah the one asking the question really didn't think it through.

saw a take on this joke, where he was really into worms. would you love me me if I was a worm? and then he started directing her to websites where she could purchase a worm costume for his fetish. because he was apparently REALLY into that.