Yes I mispronounced the name "Kurzgesagt" sorry. For the record I did look up how the channel narrator himself pronounced it and I thought he said it in that way clearly I didn't listen closely enough sorry. Also a small note at 7:25 I fail to mention that the New Yorker has been using flat illustration characters for a while but I think there's still a slight difference between these covers and the kinds of characters they usually have.

@kraftwels

3 жыл бұрын

This is a pinned comment by the creator of the video, yet after 7 hours it only has 3 likes. The yt algorithm confuses me sometimes

@peepnox7747

3 жыл бұрын

:)

@radiance2826

3 жыл бұрын

Neat

@dumpsky

3 жыл бұрын

phonetic: courts-ge-sagt ( 2x hard 'G' ) ;-)

@algs5483

3 жыл бұрын

Kursgeskakt? Wth dude?

In an attempt not to offend anybody, they relate to nobody.

@glitchedartistx7964

3 жыл бұрын

Well put :)

@hubguy

3 жыл бұрын

Are you saying you’re *not* a blue person with a tiny head?

@simpleman8883

3 жыл бұрын

NintendoHub wut?

@apttewly

3 жыл бұрын

@@simpleman8883 That's what they always draw people like, some weird purple or blue skin color and completely messsed up proportions

@marcel1372

3 жыл бұрын

Yup

This art style just screams “we don’t sell your data”

@jonathantan2469

3 жыл бұрын

"We just monetize it. Honest... it's NOT the same thing!"

@tc5915

3 жыл бұрын

"we didn't sell your data, we promise!"

@jonathanrealman8415

3 жыл бұрын

Very nice comment, anyways we just updated our privacy policy and want to remind you that we value your privacy

@amyb3020

3 жыл бұрын

I’m crying

@KidCorporate

3 жыл бұрын

"we" "don't" "sell" "your" "data"

This art style feels like it was designed to be emotional by someone incapable of feeling emotion

@Roin_robin87

Жыл бұрын

Yes. YES. YES

@hansgunnoo5159

Жыл бұрын

God these comments are spot on

@thecatladytm7172

11 ай бұрын

Alegria was made for Facebook. Have you seen a picture of Zuckerberg? His wax sculpture looks more human than he does.

@teamobi3327

11 ай бұрын

Ah, a Vulcan tried to follow a Bob Ross tutorial.😅

@s1nistr433

4 ай бұрын

It was

So inclusive it's exclusive So universal it's alienated So unique it's homogeneous Don't be confused, these juxtapositions are done by purpose.

@AdventuresAwait123

Жыл бұрын

Yikes and I agree with you

@fandroid6491

Жыл бұрын

This comment is so good it's great

@saschagrusche1573

Жыл бұрын

Overall: So false it's infallible.

@brunomenezes9011

Жыл бұрын

Wtf you just described left-wingers (or democracy as a whole)

@paradox9551

Жыл бұрын

Slavery is freedom. War is peace. You will own nothing and you will be happy.

corporate art feels like it just spawns. like i can’t imagine an artist sitting down and drawing this lol

@Gameprojordan

3 жыл бұрын

It's like they have a bunch of basic templates then use an AI to mix n match the templates together to mass create generic advertisement art

@HaxxorElite

3 жыл бұрын

@@Gameprojordan We'll get there too

@gorkyd7912

3 жыл бұрын

I think you art critics have no understanding of anything, hence the lack of imagination. You don't realize if someone actually sat down and spent 48 hours coaxing a visual masterpiece out of Illustrator to adorn a page that most viewers scroll past in less than 1 second it would not be appreciated, in fact it would be ridiculed even worse. It's trying too hard. Do you want to navigate a lengthy Shakepearian diatribe when you try to find information about your latest medical worry online? This is just visual communication, it's not trying to be art. It succeeds at giving people a vague feeling but if you sit and think about it that's missing the point entirely so of course you'll be disappointed.

@winterandspark9985

3 жыл бұрын

Yea to me it just feels fake like it’s somehow like made in some sort of factory like how those cheap toys from the dollar store are made or something like that

@arnitheguy

3 жыл бұрын

@@gorkyd7912 this is a pretty nice take ngl

The official art style of "Trust us we are totally not going to use your data for any unethical purposes"

@worldexecuteme129

3 жыл бұрын

_holy crap_

@imaperson9582

3 жыл бұрын

holy crap

@comradepancakes956

3 жыл бұрын

Holy crap

@LancesArmorStriking

3 жыл бұрын

holy crap

@torpid5092

3 жыл бұрын

holy crap

The style has a strange… indescribable feeling. It’s like they are trying to fool you into thinking they care about their individual customers.

@ObamaTron

2 жыл бұрын

@Boom bow Factual

@Patrick-857

Жыл бұрын

Toxic positivity and rigid conformity is the hallmark of the modern corporate world.

@themenacingpenguin.7152

Жыл бұрын

This artstyle makes me feel like I'm a lifeless city of marble granite and glass, it just looks Gentrified.

@yeethittter1285

Жыл бұрын

The problem is it has the _conventions_ of a lively and unique style, but with absolutely no personality behind it. It's basically just a more evolved clip art

@TsovoaLevone

Жыл бұрын

I know. It’s really creepy, take us back to frutiger aero please.

It’s not that the art is inherently bad, it’s that it represents something much darker. The soulless feel of it all. It feels like a mask that the suits put on to appear human. Skinwalker behaviour.

@justanamericandoggo6725

Жыл бұрын

Which makes it inherently bad.

@johnwolfe7058

Жыл бұрын

"Skinwalker behavior" Cool it with the anti-semitic remarks.

@briansonof

Жыл бұрын

I'm sick of the apologies constantly assaulting my mind while watching this video. The art is inherently bad. It's fine to say that the corporate stink tanks don't know what they're doing and are leading everyone blindly off a cliff.

@yipperskipper

11 ай бұрын

Oy Vey!

@krunkle5136

11 ай бұрын

A lot of it is bad, with its goofy proportions like giant arms and small heads. Would imagine the creator of that style has brain damage.

I can't explain it, but this art style gives off a huge toxic positivity vibe. It's like that one person who will plot to kill you if you're not smiling and having a good time.

@karkat4493

3 жыл бұрын

theres something off putting about it. other than the fact that its simply annoying to the eye, its just unsettling to look at.

@Isokatmydydecsf

3 жыл бұрын

They all look fucking dead inside with their little eyes and blend smiles. They don't look natural, they don't look human. It's like they're trying to appeal nice and soft to then nicely grab you by the neck and make you do what they Want. To attract you in their trap.

@karkat4493

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheLTprod what

@User-md3ul

3 жыл бұрын

it's art style of: we like you very much, untill you want to cancel your subscription or are unsatisfied, then you're a bad dog

@myrylth

3 жыл бұрын

we happy few

this art style is just visual representation of what a spotify ad feels like.

@sumvs5992

3 жыл бұрын

I remember the one I think you're talking about. Most everything was green and there was a stereotypical striped beach ball.

@blackaf1s597

3 жыл бұрын

*laughes in premium*

@diip-ali1228

3 жыл бұрын

@@blackaf1s597 *laughs in broke*

@catattack7639

3 жыл бұрын

@@blackaf1s597 laughs in mp3

@sasmitroy5480

3 жыл бұрын

@@blackaf1s597 *laughs in mod*

it's crazy how an almost indescribable trait like "soullessness" is instantly felt by the majority of people when looking at this kind of art. just empty, unfeeling lines and colors. it's at the point where they don't even feel human-generated anymore, they're like clip art

@wendyngo1999

11 ай бұрын

This! Spots on

@joshua_tobler

10 ай бұрын

"How do you know the soul exists?" "Because its absence is perceptible"

@Drakey_Fenix

7 ай бұрын

This is clip art. I remember having classes in school around 2007 about how to use Word and PowerPoint.The teachers kept pushing the students to use clip art instead of images downloaded from online, and pretty much all of the clip art looked like this corporate adtstyle. Completeley soulless

@headwreak1768

7 ай бұрын

@@Drakey_Fenix i'd much rather use stock images and mash them together into whatever i want.[i made robot godilla hybrid by doing this]

@sanderhackerhd8369

5 күн бұрын

It shouldn't be called "art"!

The one thing that irks me the most with these corporate artstyles is the "optimism" and all the happy smiles with the characters is to appeal to you as 'Hey were just like you here in the Big Corpo' and said art can be visible a click away from them publicly apologizing for the most heinous shit known to man

@bl1zz4rd25

11 ай бұрын

That's called plain folks and bandwagon .

@wisconsinwintergreen6296

3 ай бұрын

Reminds me of American pharmaceutical drug TV commercials where they are describing the various side effects of the medicine that can ruin your life or kill you. And the man in the background is just laughing with his arms around his wife and children in a slo-mo shot. It's so damn creepy and these companies should be forced to cut away to a warning screen when they are telling you that their medicine has a recognizable chance of actually killing you.

@christopherthompson5400

29 күн бұрын

@@bl1zz4rd25 its actually called kitsch.

I get the feeling that this art style is trying so hard to be inoffensive.

@ellejendario97

3 жыл бұрын

inoffensive, cheap and uninspiring. ah yes, the free market

@onionskin3254

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't that a good thing? Edit: would you rather see a semi racist illustration in a website or a boring gray character?

@4nd3rzzon

3 жыл бұрын

@@onionskin3254 by trying to please everyone you please no one

@renookami4651

3 жыл бұрын

@@4nd3rzzon that's the whole point. It's bland enough so people don't care. It's not gonna please anyone but more importantly for those companies, it's not gonna generate any hard rejections. Minimal annoyance at worse. So they're free to continue to use this trend as long as they want, since it's just an "innofensive space filler"

@LukeOrionMarble

3 жыл бұрын

@@onionskin3254 no

This art reminds me of how the airport smells

@meatloafer2762

3 жыл бұрын

Why is this so accurate

@tails183

3 жыл бұрын

I hate how much I can agree with this despite never having been to an airport since I was too young to remember.

@zazzyboy8592

3 жыл бұрын

You mean smells like fake and plastic? Cause that’s what an airport smells like to me

@kevinmundo36

3 жыл бұрын

Is bad or good?

@sitomagus

3 жыл бұрын

honestly i like the smell of airports

Any time I see these drawings, I have some generic loop of ukelele, whistling, and hand claps pop into my mind. It fills me with a *poisonous* rage.

@arabcadabra8863

4 ай бұрын

It's like the style is advertising corporations themselves instead of individual institutions.

@franciscomatte7255

2 ай бұрын

And then some soulless “friendly” voice speaking over telling you some bs

@someguy4405

6 күн бұрын

best comment

Ah, yes, "instead of just putting people of different colors in our art, we opted to just make them blue instead!" very progressive and relatable

@kutiethekat

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes, gotta please the smurf community!

@SpiffingNZ

8 ай бұрын

It unites us all in our disgust for the style.

corporate art: even when the colors are warm, their tone is cold.

@JoePCool14

3 жыл бұрын

Especially when we're talking about monolithic tech corps like KZread and Facebook.

@hellatze

3 жыл бұрын

their tone is soulless like dead body

@kiricappuchin

3 жыл бұрын

damn this is poetic

@anna_banana414

3 жыл бұрын

except most times they don’t use warm color tones, it’s always lots of blues, grays, and greens, but sometimes they’ll throw a red or orange in there

@albertch70

3 жыл бұрын

@@anna_banana414 That bit of warm color gives the illusion of warmth in appearance and movement even when there really is none.

this style looks like how the word "synergy" sounds

@ignivite3592

3 жыл бұрын

Ugh

@callumj1233

3 жыл бұрын

i hate that you're right

@s.j7423

3 жыл бұрын

perfect

@ProGremlinPlayer

3 жыл бұрын

No because Synergy is at least fun to say.

@kaytie420

3 жыл бұрын

KURAPIKA IS NOW DROWNING

I worked for a city council and my departments job was to issue as many fines and fixed penalty notices to the citizens for the most ridiculous, trivial and unfair reasons… and we had all this corporate art on our website and around the building depicting us as this happy smiling inclusive group of conciseness officials always looking out for the well-being of the community, and the implication was that the community wouldn’t even be happy at all if it wasn’t for our caring management…. It was the most condescending irritating thing and I absolutely hated it, and I hate it more now that you have highlighted exactly why I should hate it. 😐

@janos71

Жыл бұрын

yes, that is exactly what this style looks like to me

@markborishnikoff5485

7 ай бұрын

How orwellian

@christopherthompson5400

29 күн бұрын

@@markborishnikoff5485 what is this 40 years ago?

After examining the style, I've come up with a hypothesis on just why we tend to see it as psychopathic. The first thing that stands out to me is that characters seem to exhibit what I'm gonna refer to as "reverse-neoteny". Neoteny describes childlike and appealing features, and as an example, humans are neotenous compared to other great apes. We have very reduced browridges, flatter faces, bulbous heads, expressive faces and much less broad body shapes, making us look more similar to juvenile hominids than adult ones. The "corporate artstyle", however, despite commonly viewed as infantile, is the reverse of these features. Big, disproportionately broad torsos and limbs with tiny heads that, in the half of the time they do have faces, are extremely simplified and comparable to the NPC meme. These unappealing features seem to do a good job at dehumanizing the humans they're intended to represent, and in tandem with the otherwise kiddy style supplementing the grossly proportioned figures, give it the "soulless" and psychopathic look.

@bridgethings4225

9 ай бұрын

Good anslysis

@matthewbadger8685

7 ай бұрын

this is an excellent analysis. I would go as far as to say that it activates fight or flight instincts because we're hardwired to fear these kinds of proportions if we see them in real life.

@cevatkokbudak6414

3 ай бұрын

WOW buddy

@MidnightGreen4649

Ай бұрын

By ignoring human features, they activate the parts of our brain that were designed not to like this?

@Mari_Say

8 күн бұрын

Is it just me or are we looking too deep? Like, I didn't have any problems with this art until I came across this video and comments (I still don't have problems with the art),why should they look realistic? This style is all about abstract shapes and bright colors, so why would we want to make it realistic?

This art style be like: Tiny head, 9ft and and giant arms and legs

@am32074

3 жыл бұрын

Only animals look good

@userseveneleven

3 жыл бұрын

Google be like

@cdwell3810

3 жыл бұрын

AZAN PogO?

@JohnFortniteKennedy_

3 жыл бұрын

9ft eh? *it reminds me of some lady ;*

@HosKaetan

3 жыл бұрын

Tarsila do Amaral's Abaporu did it before it was cool

It feels like something a government would use excessively in a dystopian world to convince you that nothing is wrong.

@itsdokko2990

3 жыл бұрын

mark my words, it will happen like that

@MLBlue30

3 жыл бұрын

It's already too late. Welcome to Idiocracy.

@riograndedosulball248

3 жыл бұрын

With the agravant that governments MAYBE can be held accountable for their wrongdoings. Corporations, speacially Big Tech, can do whatever they want to us without repercussion

@maxalaintwo3578

3 жыл бұрын

It's exactly that. The corrupt people in big tech and the corrupt people in government are cut from the same cloth and interact with one another

@MLBlue30

3 жыл бұрын

@@maxalaintwo3578 Sadly yeah, politics is just a facade to hide that fact that everyone worships money. While we fight, they get all the cash.

I feel that this art style is most prevelant among companies that want to be seen as “progressive” too. Since it represents a wide range of different looking people, I often see it in a context of “look guys, we’re not racist!”… which just makes me question their choice of non-existent skin tones even more.

As an artist, I want to feel when I look at art. When I look at corporate art, I feel nothing, and feeling nothing makes me begin to ask questions.

two words: "insidiously friendly"

@orbismworldbuilding8428

3 жыл бұрын

Oh god yes it matches the feel too well

@MutualSOUL

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, like siren song pulling sailors into a watery grave.

@LeeroyPorkins

3 жыл бұрын

Forcibly Friendly Nanny Approved

@IgnisWings

3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't have said it better

@maxalaintwo3578

3 жыл бұрын

How do you do fellow multicultural offensive audience?

This ad literally looks like what fake bad comercials look like in movies

@sonicroachdoggjrraven3263

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@Brigadium75

3 жыл бұрын

In GTA we can watch TV and the ads is good and funny

@Neo_Geisha

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@dylanbertucco5664

3 жыл бұрын

this ad is literally that ad for air in the lorax movie

@hellatze

3 жыл бұрын

or like that souless mobile game ads (i also sad that we actually got souless meme )

I think it's just the clear attempt at manipulating the audience that makes me so unnerved about the corporate art styles. There's nothing inherently wrong to me about pictures of simple, purple or green people, laughing and having fun together - in fact I kind of artistically value art that focuses on every day enjoyment of things, and i really like creative simplicity. It's the knowledge that this is done because the app is trying to play some kind of mind game with me, to make me associate happiness and smiles with the app in some kind of genuine capacity, that it's placed on top of data mining and stealing, that it isn't GENUINE, which fucks me up. The context of where the art is placed is just as important at what the art looks like. It comes off as inherently ironic because everyone knows Facebook is shit.

@krunkle5136

11 ай бұрын

Nah, the simplistic art style on its own screams of "take care of yourself" culture of not trying hard ever at anything. It looks sterile of any deep feelings and emotionally immature. Like, any secure person doesn't need vivid colors in their designs to make them feel a certain way. Anything to avoid scaring off potential customers.

@fishlordusername891

11 ай бұрын

@@krunkle5136 eh yeah, I mean it's definitely simple to make it more easily relatable and marketable. But I do think simplicity can also have its own beauty to it, and there are some emotions that are simple and portraying them that way is pretty cool.

@michellematthews671

11 ай бұрын

I mean, advertising has always tried to manipulate our impressions...

@krunkle5136

11 ай бұрын

@@fishlordusername891 idk, I see the simplicity as a flattening of culture and a coralling of human emotions into a few manageable categories. It reflects the risk averse nature of multinational corporations which on one hand can be a strength, but also a contributor to keeping culture and life in general boring. I think people should even within the market be presented with unique, more niche things that reflect the subtle differences in culture that still exist.

@fishlordusername891

11 ай бұрын

@@michellematthews671 oh yeah for sure.

I believe it's not about the art anymore... It can be a flat cartoon, a 3D animation, or real actors, what is annoying us is publicity EVERYWHERE all the time! I agree with you, sometimes would be more nice to just have a text, maybe a single picture.

@queendiamond770

Жыл бұрын

Other than that, personally, I think what bothers most people is the type of ads. A lot of ads like the grubhub one are annoying and make the audience feel like complete idiots with catchy tunes and cringey acting/animation. I often find myself watching old ads out of nostalgia and most don't give me this feeling :(

@gemstonesparkle7915

Жыл бұрын

Yes, maybe this is what changed... Ads used to be glamorous, but people complained because, apparently, it was some sort of lie. Now all ads feel the need to be loudly positive and cheerful.

Basically, it's offensively inoffensive.

@Fisinocean

3 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU. CANT WORD IT BETTER THAN THAT

@Fordandra

3 жыл бұрын

Just like KZread's KZread Rewinds

@maxbamberger4934

3 жыл бұрын

so true

@cinialvespow1054

3 жыл бұрын

@@Fordandra amazingly true

@angelikaskoroszyn8495

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly! Like the skin colour. Race has always been controversial. Who gets more represented in advertising conveys who is more important for the corporation (who the corporation panders to). Let's not confront the strange societal dynamic - let's create a world without race and so racial tensions

Remember that spongebob episode when he tries to become “normal”? That’s exactly what this art style reminds me of.

@Dmce_1900s

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, how are ya?

@largeboi4678

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, how are ya?

@biddy5106

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, how are ya?

@largeboi4678

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, how are ya!

@amarib.700

3 жыл бұрын

Nice weather we’re having 🙂

I absolutely love the old school flat art. They put a whole lot more into it than flat art of today. Also, the fonts in use with a lot of Art Deco art pieces add much charm to those pieces.

Mascot and logo are probably more desirable than this because it’s the corporation representing ITSELF in its infographics rather than representing US. When it’s their interpretation of how we’re supposed to feel, it’s like they’re telling us HOW we’re supposed to feel. If it’s a representation of themselves, it feels more honest

its not that the artstyle is hated, its what it represents. which is the bloated, monopolistic, corporations that uses it. it personally feels like a horrifying, shapeshifting monster pretending to be something trustworthy, only to gut your wallet and privacy for their own profit

@7shaz790

3 жыл бұрын

Hmm sounds kind of familiar

@e.s.r5809

3 жыл бұрын

Are we... are we suggesting that corporations are the mimics of the capitalist economic system?

@fders938

3 жыл бұрын

@@e.s.r5809 NAHHHHH

@mollofistraye5164

3 жыл бұрын

@@e.s.r5809 suddenly.. "ROLL INITIATIVE"

@randomalienfrommars0567

3 жыл бұрын

@@mollofistraye5164 the bard seduced the dragon so now he's facing off against the real big bad... capitalism

The Grubhub Commercials literally look like those advertisements for bottled oxygen in the Lorax.

@googleprofiel6814

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly this, it looked so "Illumination". Meaning: soulles, and cashgrabby.

@andrewhunt7791

3 жыл бұрын

lmao you’re actually right

@astracrits4633

3 жыл бұрын

grubhub's gonna need a burn heal after that one lmao

@kelpforest23

3 жыл бұрын

abhahahah

@jam._.156

3 жыл бұрын

AAAAAA

It's supposed to be ambiguous and I think it shows what these corporations actually think their customers look/act like: cartoonish walking bank accounts that just exist to spend money. That, and the art style looks like in belongs in a children's book. Like we're idiots or something. No wonder people hate it. It's akin to a faceless corporation that tries to say that you're family instead of a customer. Intrusive and cringe as all hell, has the exact opposite of what they want.

@arabcadabra8863

4 ай бұрын

Agree. I also find being referred to as a "consumer" incredibly condescending. And the family thing too. It's like they don't know the meaning of the word family.

I feel like this art style has creeped into everything now and days. Everything from music to cars feels like it's made without passion

@craigwillms61

Жыл бұрын

Kids cartoons. Ugh. When I babysit the grandkids and watch them, I feel my brain cells dying.

@Khotetsu

Жыл бұрын

We've hit the portion of late-stage capitalism where companies are just seeking further ways of turning the human experience into new profit generating schemes. It's all about numbers on a spreadsheet now, things like culture and the arts (or making a "good" product) are just numbers to be crunched to maximize gains.

@varahunter68

Жыл бұрын

​@@craigwillms61same, i know the feeling all too well

@craigwillms61

Жыл бұрын

@@varahunter68 cartoons in the 60s and 70s were so much better.

@Aquarius8862

11 ай бұрын

*nowadays (not sure if AC or typo?)

The weird thing about this art style is I don't like or hate it, it just exists.

@ahokay2668

3 жыл бұрын

Same. Can’t really feel any hatred for that...

@durratulaishah3703

3 жыл бұрын

Same. And also I do not care it exist, doesn't drawn me to it. It just...exist like it have no function..

@ShozubonGG_2426

3 жыл бұрын

This.

@kawayananazioly

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@meetwheatpodcast9078

3 жыл бұрын

I would describe it as bland

It’s simple Kurzgesagt = has ducks Corporate = has no ducks

@baranxlr

3 жыл бұрын

ducks good

@TrulyAtrocious

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated imo

@Mark-Wilson

3 жыл бұрын

krusgesagts artstyle looks so much better and uinque tho

@Tuberex

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mark-Wilson how do classy pigs oink "uinque"

@DNDpaintmichigan

3 жыл бұрын

He speaks the truth

For any book nerds: This art style reminds me of the planet Camazotz from A Wrinkle in Time. Just unsettlingly perfect, to the point where you know something’s wrong.

Here in the middle of the US, there's a grocery store chain called Kroger. They use this art style in their commercials, and I remember seeing it (a hundred different times) and just hating it. I've noticed this in many different places, and your analysis of it is spot on.

@TylerWardhaha

7 ай бұрын

Kroger also owns Fred Meyer on the west coast, so we haven’t escaped them either.

@markborishnikoff5485

7 ай бұрын

They own fry’s too, and holy cow they have so many commercials on KZread i

I don’t know why, but the phrase,”Grubhub lore” absolutely killed me

@elektra81516

3 жыл бұрын

In the beginning there was the word and the word was Grub. And Grub made the Hub. For millennium the Kings of Grub ruled over their Hub. In the following centuries the Grub Hub empire rose to power, their might surpassing the thousands of others who dared to concour the mighty Hub of Grub.

@luciendelaney8975

3 жыл бұрын

Okay but please don’t say “The hub” Bc that has been ruined for me by ppl calling P-hub “the hub” lol

@violethill4454

3 жыл бұрын

@@elektra81516 In the beginning there was nothing, and before nothing there was GrubHub

@daeryk6424

3 жыл бұрын

Globglogabgalab.

@spongebobmiscellaneous

3 жыл бұрын

@@luciendelaney8975 boi shut up 😂

i love how every time a corporation tries to seem like a human, the more and more it feels like it doesn't have a soul

@the_hhhh

Жыл бұрын

well discord isn't falling with it... yet

@user-un8hy5dd3j

Жыл бұрын

@@the_hhhh because they don't care (pretend to?). They feel like random furry lol

@brunomenezes9011

Жыл бұрын

I mean, they don't

@defaulted9485

Жыл бұрын

How about stop pretending to be human and actually fixing the product. Laptops now exhaust heat through the bottom case, which melts the plastic holder by trapped heat on its bottom and then it affects every other part of the product if not supported by cooling pad for example. Being human is more than just looks like one. Only consider human - those who actually tries to fix something without denigrating it.

@evilemuempire9550

Жыл бұрын

Sort of an uncanny value effect

It kinda reminds me of clip-art from Microsoft office. A lot of the images in them had this 90s minimalist cubist look to them. I think that association with office software has also reinforced its sterile, corporate feel. And with clip-art in mind, it can feel lazy and fake. Typically when I see clip-art, I'm aware that the picture wasn't actually made for the document, but is instead a kind of stock image that was included with the software, or grabbed from Google images.

4:19 I'm just surprised how the older icons look considerably more pleasing to the eye (or in some cases more readable and/or quickly identifiable - the things you want as an app icon).

holy shit imagine if someone made a horror game in corporate art style... that would be insane

@Halloween_Central

3 жыл бұрын

BLOOBER TEAM YOU MAKE WEIRD ASS HORROR GAMES WRITE THIS DOWN

@calamitychaela1994

2 жыл бұрын

The bright cheerful colors are too happy to be in a horror game.

@enbyfrogz6766

2 жыл бұрын

@@calamitychaela1994 well to be fair, it would probably rely on a lot of surrealism and derealization

@gatoloco3949

2 жыл бұрын

@@calamitychaela1994 I mean if you think about, if something looks too cheerful or happy, it will began to look off. Kinda like those strange liminal spaces.

@QuipyGirbo

2 жыл бұрын

Ok.

The corporate art version of "Saturn Devouring His Son" is fucking hilarious.

@foolishkai1822

3 жыл бұрын

Joshua Brinton Autry why do I keep reading comments right before it happens in the video

@st4rdyy

3 жыл бұрын

I hate it so much AAAAGHH I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT IT IT'S BAD IT'S JUST SO FRICKING BAD

@chudcel88

3 жыл бұрын

if you think that's funny wait 'till you've seen the flat art floyd or hitler or jews. good stufd

@visage331

3 жыл бұрын

It really shows the lack of emotional depth that corporate art has

@briancooley8777

3 жыл бұрын

Week

I think it represents the androgynous life that the world is headed toward. Everyone needs to agree. Everyone needs to like or dislike something. Everything has to be combined to please everyone. If they make you faceless or generic, you have no identity and can be shaped into whatever society wants you to be. No original thoughts? That means you can't disagree. No identity outside of what society says makes up one's identity. They don't want you to be an individual. "If everyone's special, no one will be."- Syndrome and (loosely) Dash

@MiguelMedV

Жыл бұрын

You, you just made the Best comment of this video in my opinion. Congratulations 👏🏻💯🌟...

@JillCheese

Жыл бұрын

@@MiguelMedV Preciate it!😊

@Misanthropic_hellhound

Жыл бұрын

In other words the new world order

@callmemackeroni

Жыл бұрын

When I read androgynous, I thought you meant gender androgynous and got excited for a second.

@zerosen1972

Жыл бұрын

​@@callmemackeroniYou're EXACTLY the kind of person he was talking about. Enjoy your miserable future.

This sums it up really well! For a while, I have mockingly called it "Corporate Clean Flat™" where you can see websites, character design, coloration, etc... all feeling the same. It felt boring, thoughtless and lazy. Yet I couldn't put my finger on why they seemed that way for the longest time as like you said: They aren't inherently a bad style. I just knew something seemed off even though traits of them have been seen in far better art pieces throughout history. Then one day it hit me: It's not relatable. Like you pointed about that the illustrated people not really existing, they fail to capture what things are. There have been plenty of characters throughout history with exaggerated body proportions/movements and non-human colors, but they felt alive because of their relatability to each scenario. You aren't getting that when on stuff like seeing a bunch of people happily jumping for joy at a bug fix that took them 4 months to get to or something. People reading that announcement would be more like: "Oh... Took you long enough."

This art direction always rubs off on me as "I'm not like the other companies. Look at me I'm quirky and awkward too!"

@murlocmaster6192

3 жыл бұрын

I agree....but look at me! Im quirky and awkward too..... Soooob!

@calico9046

3 жыл бұрын

This might just be a reflection of my widespread distrust & paranoia but I feel as though it also represents “simplicity for the simple-minded”. It mocks us as being smooth-brained individuals who require the entertainment & services these corporations provide to get by day to day. We can’t think or do for ourselves so we’re simpletons to them

@moddable6921

3 жыл бұрын

Same, and by all these companies copying this stupid art style, that entire idea is basically obsolete now. You can't be quirky and awkward and different if everyone is doing it.

@38zae

3 жыл бұрын

yoo LMAOOOOO

@gummibears5158

3 жыл бұрын

How though? Its an art style not everything is trying to be quirky. I think they are just using it because its more cost efficient or something.

As an artist myself, i dont hate the art style at all. I just hate what it represents. Every time I see it I think of other artists switching to the style to make a client happy.

@thequeertelope7941

3 жыл бұрын

right! its not even bad aesthetic wise and kind of fun, but seeing it everywhere makes me sad that companies wont make themselves stand out

@greenetomphson6164

3 жыл бұрын

To be honest though, if you were working for a heartless corporate entity, would you really be down for putting your own heart and soul into it, or even any effort so not to waste any "good" art on some business?

@OdioEmVideo

3 жыл бұрын

I feel this so much. When I was in college, one of my second year seniors had a very unique art style and I loved it. Since some of the 4th year seniors were getting more and more success with this Corporate Memphis style, he gradually started changing his style to look like theirs. Nowadays, there's like 5 illustrator friends I can't recognize their art because it looks the same.

@nicolle2126

3 жыл бұрын

@@greenetomphson6164 not at all 😔 that's why i say that this art style just makes me sad because i get where it's coming from. Like we all have to make ends meet but it's still just so soul crushing 😔 I've done a lot of stints making logos and brand identities since thats where the clients are and sometimes you just go on autopilot

@PrismTheLoser

3 жыл бұрын

I don't hate the artstyle, but the way it's used is terrible. I don't like it though. As someone who loves digital art, I don't want to work with a big company, because it's just limiting.

Funny, I find these human blobs actually pretty offensive. As in "this is absolutely every single one of you guys: overweight, silly people with a very, veeeery small head, always running or taking selfies". Revolting. Hated it at first sight.

It just feels like that person that critisize you if you don't see superficilly happy

So in essence. Soulless artwork intended to tick off the least amount of people possible. Characters that represent everyone and no one at the same time.

@makzym414

3 жыл бұрын

pretty much...

@hydroxyl5130

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly how a corporation sees us. Minds to manipulate for sales or networking. Minds they just need to convince to keep looking :(

@MrEkirt

3 жыл бұрын

@@hydroxyl5130 does it not fascinate you though? How business can use our psychology against us in order for their gain. Why not use it for your own business. I find this video very interesting as i too wondered why they use that shitty art style. Now I know it’s just another business tactic made up by some of the most brilliant minds on our planet. Evil or not it’s brilliant

@Gentlemenpickleesq.

3 жыл бұрын

Weird because for me it did the exact opposite XD. I want to physically murder these fictional characters with my bare hands.

@billfred9411

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrEkirt Its definitely smart and I guess you could call it brilliant but it soulless and uncreative. Sure it makes the money but who cares when it it can be qualified as basic art that almost anyone could make. Nothing wrong with admiring the logic behind it all but I cant personally admire it when we live in such a capitalistic world that's filled with so many things like this. I just don't see anything to admire about rich fucks hiring very smart people to pinch every penny they can get there hands on.

I honestly find those tiny-headed blocky-body noodle limb people from the corporate art style to be vaguely unnerving to look at. The tiny heads and long large limbs gives me the impression that they're ridiculously tall. I can't help but imagine them as creatures from a horror movie or game. Imagine one of those things steadily pursuing you down a dark hallway.

@doodleroar

3 жыл бұрын

or maybe don't imagine them at all if you want to sleep tonight

@luannarocha2546

3 жыл бұрын

I commented this but it remembers me of a painting called Abapuru by Tarsila Do Amaral. The person in the painting has very big limbs in comparison to it's head, because they need to work much more than they think. I think corporations kinda send that message of with this artstyle.

@AK-lg8fj

3 жыл бұрын

There's definitely some kind of uncanny thing going on with them. Strange when they're supposed to be meant to be as bland and non-objectionable as possible. Stick figures would honestly work better.

@hgarr

3 жыл бұрын

They look like the Goombas from the live action Super Mario Bros movie.

@gumball1872354345

3 жыл бұрын

They didn't watch the Super Mario Super Show and got turned into goombas

As a designer, I have always seen this overused style as ‘Clip Art’ was before the internet. It cheapens any brand and your trenchant critique is spot on! I would rather look at the cheesy stock images before this style was adopted. Besides the body forms on all these are strange, because the use of these stock illustrated humanz would never be considered surreal.

I swear seeing this art style gives me a migraine its too simple seeing 2000s Shiny art style just looks refreshing and nice.

@bluescat581

10 ай бұрын

Yeah

@MariusKennedy

2 ай бұрын

Yes.

@VOMITK0

2 ай бұрын

@@MariusKennedy Fumo

@MariusKennedy

2 ай бұрын

@@VOMITK0 Kept you waiting huh?

These art styles are supposed to gain the consumer's trust but whenever I see them I think, "They are going to sell my data."

@wudly9195

3 жыл бұрын

That was beautifully said

@calebr908

3 жыл бұрын

@King of The Zinger the chance is probably like 1 in 100 000. I dont think you actually have worked in food. People will thaw roasts on the counter as a practice, for 30 years, and noone will get sick.

@Kevin-hx2ky

3 жыл бұрын

Fool. They already sold your data.

@politecat4236

3 жыл бұрын

@King of The Zinger FATALITY!

God I hate this art style. It feels so devoid of any personality I can't stand it. There's no uniqueness in the people drawn, there's no personality, no real emotions. Art made with no soul that feels like brain washing material..

@filthykid7069

3 жыл бұрын

For me it feels like it's trying to fake a personality

@SergioLeonardoCornejo

3 жыл бұрын

They should rename it from "alegria" to "crippling depression".

@andreislavikov478

3 жыл бұрын

You're right because this art is used by fake nice wannabes

@papajohn5279

3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of Illumination.. So yeah, that's about right.

@JustJory

3 жыл бұрын

a lot of flat art looks so much better than the corporate art styles

as someone who is planning to major in graphic design, this is good info to help me understand what i may be getting into, great video!

Great video / analysis! From a technical pov: this art style is due it's simplicity a good alternative specially for smaller businesses to tell stories (e. g. for campaigns, newsletters, new products) without spending a lot of money on A. complex illustrations (for every new campaign or newsletter) which are not reusable B. a photoshooting. That's why it's pretty widely used. Clients also often lack on imagination or need some sort of confirmation/safety net. It's way more difficult if not even impossible to introduce an art style which is not common and unique because a client - who's not design affine - needs a proof of concept if you will. Round shapes are also linked to humane/safe/trust/freedom in design language, combined with desaturated colors, you achieve a humane look by the book. The shapes of the people have to be abstract so that a wider range of people can relate to it. Imagine the people would have concrete proportion or would be skinny vs. thick / small vs. large = you would add meanings to them unconsciously. The long legs and arms also help show actions/tasks more clearly, and therefore it's easier to tell stories (that's why the art style is often used to describe a process e. g. a login or registration process too). Due to its simplicity, it's also great to create scenes fast. Like you said in your video, deadlines are always short. The question of »How do we tell stories?« photos or illustrations? Is a common question when developing brands. It's mostly dependent on the brand itself. E. g. if you're a small business and don't have an office OR if you're and big business international business with many people, it's hard to show humanity through photos without being too generic (which we all also hate, right? Think of all the generic stock photos).

"Everything's fine" The art style. Historians will analyze it to death, that's for sure.

@ingold1470

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe it will represent the 2010s equivalent of the "Everyone in the 1950s was a Stepford Smiler" trope.

@stonetoad9668

3 жыл бұрын

more like “Everything’s fine :))” but yeah lol. It’s almost creepy how happy everyone is in them

@clementhilty7239

3 жыл бұрын

Historians talk about "Norman Rockwell's America" representing the art of the 1950s. Well, for the 2020s, we'll have Buck's Alegria to talk about

@somedude6833

3 жыл бұрын

Someone in the future will write how this was a well-dressed dystopia, and then people will realise everything still is a well-dressed dystopia because people will always ruin everything.

@switchblade.saints

3 жыл бұрын

“everything’s fine (:”

I think my teacher said it best, "If you try to make something that everyone likes, you'll lose what makes it special"

@hiffahyphae6707

3 жыл бұрын

Well said

@GalaxyDogenut

3 жыл бұрын

They are right.

@feeno1188

3 жыл бұрын

Meh, if you manage to make something that resonates with a lot of people, I'd say it's pretty special.

@gell2277

3 жыл бұрын

@@feeno1188 yeah but this resonates with nobody

@feeno1188

3 жыл бұрын

@@gell2277 yeah no one likes it, it's an all around failure

As someone who likes minimalism, I actually don't hate the design themselves, I hate the fact it's used EVERYWHERE. They're also "dumbing down" the logos more than they are simplifying it. Look at the old internet explorer logos. They had detail in them if you looked closely, but the main logo could be drawn by a child and you'd still know what it is. *_That's minimalism done right._* Minimalism doesn't mean "saturate the colors and remove any depth or detail."

Great video, I loved it! So much details, and so many great recommendations ❤

I've started realizing how weird it is, it just feels like the company is trying to be relatable but it feels like it was made by some algorithm programmed to churn out happy and diverse noodle people. There's no humanity.

@billnyesmassivethighs3847

3 жыл бұрын

us 7ft purple pinheaded folk need representation too.

@murlocmaster6192

3 жыл бұрын

Never was, never will

@NGRevenant

3 жыл бұрын

yup, it feels like the kind of thing a machine would churn out. sterile and inhuman.

@ARSD219

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds... kind of sad, really.

@calico9046

3 жыл бұрын

@@NGRevenant sounds like you’re referring to Pink Floyd’s:The Machine which is a perfect fit even decades after it was released. We are all just cogs in the system & if we stop working, we’ll be discarded & replaced

That art style is so devoid of any personality or life that it's actually a little scary...

@DarkSymphony777

3 жыл бұрын

i guess that explains why old spice commercials are still remembered. personality

@computeraidedworld1148

3 жыл бұрын

@@DarkSymphony777 that's something that should be noted. There is nothing personal about this style, it's used every where and doesn't really connect to us. Like as a business I'd want to be sperate from others, you don't see this style and think of one company, you think all of them.

@enwurdgibsmedat1517

3 жыл бұрын

They call it globohomo for a reason.

@whatif3271

3 жыл бұрын

That's just life.

@theepicwizard4631

3 жыл бұрын

@@computeraidedworld1148 that's what discord used to be. Back in the day, they used to be edgy and really cool, while looking a bit incompetent (you know, that "we, at Discord, take our work seriosly" while making a completely crackhead ads - thing) they were really personal. And as they grown up, (ironically, they grew up in both ways, they became bigger and more serious) they became more corporate and clean, losing their personality. I mean, I really like that Discord now not only a gamer thing (even though I joined discord back then only because it was a place where gamers can talk to eachother about some particular games) and now basically for everyone, but because they try to appeal to every audience, they lost a good part of their personality

Wow good on you for this. That makes sense. I knew I wasn’t going crazy. I noticed that for a long time

7:46 I love how horribly spelled Kurzgesagt was. The video was going pretty serious and in a single tone until that point. Thanks for making me smile in such a way

We don't hate this art style just because it's bad, we hate it because of what it represents

@mayorgeneralramirez1997

3 жыл бұрын

Amen.

@gray5315

3 жыл бұрын

i hate it cus its bad much more

@archdukemarduk

3 жыл бұрын

Based

@M2ofEMMM

3 жыл бұрын

It's a pavlovian response at this point

@sdjhgfkshfswdfhskljh3360

3 жыл бұрын

Both things actually.

The grubhub ad looks like a future illumination film

@heisvi9317

3 жыл бұрын

GrubHub Cinematic Universe when?

@narnianninja4964

3 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure it was made by illumination

@SergioLeonardoCornejo

3 жыл бұрын

It is. Has the same level of substance.

@autumnnal

3 жыл бұрын

Grubhub: Revenge of the Chicken Sandwich Never coming to a theater near you

@zeropelli7026

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, yes it does

I worked at Amazon for a “seasonal shift” and it was the most dystopian thing ever. A lot of art like this is used in advertisements or training videos. I hated working there it’s the epitome of corporate and the job is mindless robotic work.

Making a movie with this artstyle is like writing a book with comic sans.

I feel like the art style is the corporations telling me “everything, is as it should be :)” while they gain dirty money

@jackienorris6606

3 жыл бұрын

They’re trying to act down to earth and “hip” as they avoid taxes and bust unions

@unapinarandomdelinternet3568

3 жыл бұрын

Everything is as it should be I saw this before

@dreska255

3 жыл бұрын

It's really just like those propaganda posters but instead of blatantly demanding for your obedience they gain your trust by hiding the "Freedom is Slavery" slogan behind a fake smile

@NightWink129

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! And all the comments here so far remind me of the song "Brave New World" by Kalandra... It is an extremely important red flag we must NOT ignore! Do not allow yourselves to be controlled by the Morning Star!!

@RS-jh2fz

3 жыл бұрын

"Successful hills are here to stay Everything must be this way Gentle streets where people play Welcome to the Soft Parade All our lives we sweat and save Building for a shallow grave Must be something else we say Somehow to defend this place Everything must be this way Everything must be this way, yeah" The Soft Parade, The Doors

Artstyle: Tasteless, soulless, mimicking humans, without any tone, culture or character or gender; exactly how companies sees and treats us.

@ollikoskiniemi6221

3 жыл бұрын

You can see that these globohomo corporations think we consumers are all braindead children on intellectual life support, which ironically seems to be the case more or less.

@MetalArrow

3 жыл бұрын

@@ollikoskiniemi6221 Exactly. And the supporters, the Apple-only, no-brain, macchiato latte drinking types, has also infiltrated the art app community, with their low-effort, vector-only, talentless globohomo art, which is basically mirroring themselves. At least now I understand my hate for it.

@ollikoskiniemi6221

3 жыл бұрын

@@MetalArrow Art and architechture should be created in ways that survive the changing tides, trends and narratives. They should be timeless. That's why classic, neoclassic and romantic styles of art are the best.

@MetalArrow

3 жыл бұрын

@@ollikoskiniemi6221 Funny thing I noticed, for a movie as old as Sleeping Beauty '59. Style, animation and especially backgrounds are so exceptionally well made by TODAYS standard, it's enough to put most modern productions to shame (if they had any that is)

@thegrubhubguy2013

3 жыл бұрын

Yay

This is interesting because I was just hired to make a set clipart for a large corporate and they wanted something generic but inclusive. They don’t want expressions. They want to have characters that can be pulled out by the designers, so they can mix and match to be able to repeatedly use them in different campaigns. It’s really hard to make something unique and feel alive when you are task with something so generic and with so much restriction. The art you like are made for that one single purpose, so the composition and the characters works well in a single piece because it’s meant for just that one piece. Clipart like the ones used in the corporate world are meant to be recycled sadly.

This art style is a the visual representation of the upbeat stock ukelele, whistle music

@happihours7777

3 жыл бұрын

My favorite comment ever

@mchjsosde

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@comradewindowsill4253

3 жыл бұрын

oh god i can hear it now, it’s coming for us all

@redking36

3 жыл бұрын

Video: How to summon the elder god to cause -eternal damnation- a fun time Song:

@izzys8551

3 жыл бұрын

did you mean: spotify ads ?

The corporate art style feels like suffocatingly happy , like it’s smiling while holding a gun to your head and telling you to be happy , kinda unnerving man . But some of this feeling can be attributed towards hate against big corp. The illustrators really need to get paid properly man , their job feels undervalued .

@SatanenPerkele

3 жыл бұрын

That ugly souless art is just forced feminism and political propaganda.

@leskarty

3 жыл бұрын

as a kid I felt this fake happiness in ads strongly , so whenever ad of this kind showed up I'd make fun of it in my head

@jonathantan2469

3 жыл бұрын

The problem is this art style is overused. Familiarity brings contempt. A few tech companies including Facebook started with it, and soon everyone else followed suit like a herd of animals. It's like that UI design trend 5 years ago which shifted from square profile pictures to circular ones, rounded bars & buttons, and minimalist website display (which actually made it harder to navigate & read when done improperly).

@jakepresley1545

3 жыл бұрын

It’s just a commercial

@sairamnarendrababu6107

3 жыл бұрын

Heh i did use hyperbole quite a bit didnt I ,?

I saw this video years ago, and I'm watching it again now. Something about 8:50 til the end is so well done. Something about the subject switch, the music change, and the refreshing focus of this artstyle done correctly. I felt chlls years ago, and I feel chills now. Amazing breakdown.

I don't know, but I always loved flat corporate art. There's was something so optimistic and picturesque about it that was pleasing to my eyes.

@lotus7781

8 ай бұрын

oh no! they've taken your soul i kid of course, i can see why its appealing to some, though personally it feels like im being aggressively lied to, like they are trying to make me forget about some heinous crime with silly shapes and colors

only real fans will remember the original upload😤

@tess7412

3 жыл бұрын

meh 😏👌

@emilyisntapedophile8644

3 жыл бұрын

Hert breakend💔💔💔

@tch7416

3 жыл бұрын

yes

@martaleja9279

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't finish the original 😭

@marfinmendozy5510

3 жыл бұрын

Literally right after i finished watching the original it got deleted

It's an art style that looks like it has something to say, but is also carefully crafted to say absolutely nothing on its own.

@Victoria-so1in

3 жыл бұрын

wow nicely put!

@kaitlyndoucet2151

3 жыл бұрын

Genius

@moritzberg6722

3 жыл бұрын

very accurate. Also its nice exactly because of this haha they serve the same purpose as stock photos. when they would be to exact it would be immensely harder to find the right one for your purpose 😅 interface designer here, sry for being lazy sometimes. they are just quick hahah

@arsarma1808

3 жыл бұрын

It's like fucking dada but without the artistic integrity. x.x

@DeathnoteBB

3 жыл бұрын

@@arsarma1808 Nah this is like the opposite of dada

Great video. I had this idea that my company doesn’t use this type of design on their own, but shares it with a million of others big tech companies.

I love this video. Thoughtful, smart, on point. Thank you!

Their idea of inclusivity: white hipster bro in plaid and beard, skinny white blonde tech guy with glasses, generic girl with medium length dark hair in a dress, hijabi engineer. I see these four so often I can literally write a tv show about them at their google office in San Francisco

@renakunisaki

3 жыл бұрын

You forgot the LGBTQ+ black person and the wheelchair person, you insensitive clod!

@angamaitesangahyando685

3 жыл бұрын

​@@renakunisaki (Gasp.) How dare you! How dare you free yourself from the worship of the weak and downtrodden! Next you say you don't pray to the god of the Galileans! On a more relevant note, this style reminds me of Imago Hominis, a primitive Christian illustration from the Book of Durrow (the 7th ct. Ireland). Once I saw it in The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski (1973), it struck me as similar to modern Alegria style which fills me with resentment. After all, this is what we are to the corporations - primitive and happy dark-skinned figurines, oblivious to any higher thought. The ultimate conclusion of Christianity. - Adûnâi

@sunshineyrainbows13

3 жыл бұрын

@@angamaitesangahyando685 Mate, what? What does Christianity have to do with this? Christianity tends to shed light on humanity's inherent lack of moral integrity, not necessarily our lack of intelligence or curiosity. We are hedonistic self-preserving sinners by nature, selfish; we must all be taught how to share, empathize, not lie, be patient, prioritize responsibility over comfort, etc. It's incredibly hard to deny, even for those who won't believe in God, the truth in all of that.

@oight

3 жыл бұрын

@@sunshineyrainbows13 this guy has been spamming nonsense on multiple comments lol, just ignore

@shawcrow5780

3 жыл бұрын

@@angamaitesangahyando685 only Christ can save us from these inhuman adversaries

They’re like gentrified cave paintings.

@fumomofumosarum5893

3 жыл бұрын

the only defense I have for the style goes in that direction. ancient cultures like the Maya had similar simple styles. so, " it all comes back " , I guess...

8:24 "I would prefer if the internet was designed with diverse art styles and innovation, but that's probably not going to happen." *shows pictures of cartoon network shows from the 90s and 00s* You roasted them man! ROASTED THEM REAL GOOD! 👍

That art style pretty much makes the image invisible to me. I've seen so much of the same thing that I guess I just naturally skim over it.

When you said “there’s “lore?!?” I genuinely laughed out loud

@skellagyook

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. It's so absurd.

@gameseeker6307

3 жыл бұрын

I was mind blown

@st4rdyy

3 жыл бұрын

Omg ikr like *w h y*

@hoodybox477

3 жыл бұрын

when

@shawk1184

3 жыл бұрын

I loled

honestly that kind of artstyle annoys the shit outta me, for literally no reason. every time i see it i just wanna punch a wall.

@mistuide4224

3 жыл бұрын

It's annoying because of the over exaggerated proportions, thats ehy

@bored_person

3 жыл бұрын

@@mistuide4224 um, no, that's just the basics of cartooning. You can complain about the execution of exaggeration, but exaggeration in and of itself is a good thing. Also, the phrase "over-exaggerated" is redundant.

@tylersouza

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe because it looks like something that would be great in a kids book for children, but instead they are used in marketing treating adults as such.

@mariaclara-yd2uz

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@BelleFlower15

3 жыл бұрын

It's the lack of elbows for me. I've always despised characters with no joints

I think something that differentiates Corporate Memphis from other minimalistic or geometric artstyles (see Bauhaus, Art Déco etc...) is the knowledge and experience artists have. For example, it is clear that the artists shown with a more original style have a different base or experience compared to the ones who just make humanoids with weird proportions and noodles arms, proof is how they use colors and shapes.

You have such great videos I love you

This trend, feels like a font. A baseline that everyone can use just to get a point across, without truly expressing much of anything besides the message.

@elialaniz8255

3 жыл бұрын

That's really poetic this comment is gonna be a big boy remember me

@MilMike

3 жыл бұрын

Comic Sans

@pzooka

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing the real answer. Everyone else in these comments are like “I think the art is soulless because our brains associate it with the soulless corporations!” Lol like c’mon y’all life is not a Disney movie

@dycedargselderbrother5353

3 жыл бұрын

webartdings

@imageez

3 жыл бұрын

Yea honestly soul and originality is overrated. Not everyone can make "groundbreaking" aesthetics because of many reasons. It can argued to be classist as well because artistic visuals mostly came from people who either can afford art school, or born with the brain capacity to combine theories, aesthetics, social awareness, to make somethig that wows.

That episode of Spongebob where he became "normal" and it was incredibly jarring and uncomfortable? That's how this art feels

@taytay1597

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, then returns tp the wacky fun spongebob we all know and love

@jeremyotaku2857

3 жыл бұрын

*Hi, how are ya?*

@Idiotic_B_Purcell

3 жыл бұрын

*Wonderful weather we're having.*

God damit i almiost forgor about the grub hub ad

The corporate art style is the reason I am avoiding getting a job in advertising. My style is detailed and unique, I don’t need to get pigeonholed into a style I hate

This art-style makes me think of "There is no war in Ba-Sing Se".

@theodoreandrews4961

3 жыл бұрын

lol. i liked that thanks

@blueteller

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@francescolombardi3438

3 жыл бұрын

the earth king has invited you to Lake Laogai

@blueteller

3 жыл бұрын

@@francescolombardi3438 I am honored to accept his Allegra-themed invitation

@evediby2183

3 жыл бұрын

I've never read a description that is so accurate!

It looks like a bootleg version of “cloudy with a chance of meatballs” and you can’t convince me otherwise

@toomuchtime4896

3 жыл бұрын

yes!!!

@DaMaster012

3 жыл бұрын

I think it looks like it was produced by Illumination Entertainment, which has some irony to it given that Illumination is also notorious for using similar cheap vector art styles, marketing itself like it's first-decade Pixar even though the stories for its films are nothing more than pablum tripe for the mush-brained masses, demonstrably watering down the spirit of the third-party stories they've adapted, and prostituting itself to any and every corporate entity that will pay them to do the bulk lifting for advertising.

@GlitchBunn

3 жыл бұрын

@@DaMaster012 the first despicable me was good, but that was before they learned they didn't have to try.

@DaMaster012

3 жыл бұрын

@@GlitchBunn I agree. The first Despicable Me was very good, in fact. It was simple, bordering on cloche even, but it was hearty, and the portrayal of a good father figure to be commended, especially considering how much they're condemned and mocked nowadays. Unfortunately, they send to have taken the wrong message from being successful with a sweet but safe feature and leaned fully into pandering to the absolute lowest common denominator; the kinds of dullards like the people who harrassed Dave Chappelle by constantly yelling "I'm Rich James, bitch!" at him, without realizing why the sketch was funny or appreciating his more intelligent (and in my opinion funnier) sketches, like the one of the blind klansman who doesn't know he's black. It's said that a fool and their money are soon parted, and Illumination built their entire business on depriving dumbasses of their dollars.

@The2Coolest2

3 жыл бұрын

No it looks like the perverted hotdog movie.

KZread uses that style, too. It's strange how companies so soulless can use smiles like it's natural.

I thought I was the only one having this feeling. I felt like the art is so smug but at the same time soulless. It's very hard to describe

@peiithos

3 жыл бұрын

and it's so easily forgettable. like once I'm not looking directly at it I forget everything about it, even if I'm thinking about it. it also feels condescending and insulting.

@christmasgrinch4017

3 жыл бұрын

What’s the name of your anime pfp?

@coolguy12320

3 жыл бұрын

@@christmasgrinch4017 its a v tuber avatar

@RSWebery

3 жыл бұрын

Pikamee Ch. kzread.info/dron/ajhBT4nMrg3DLS-bLL2RCg.html

@pmml7631

3 жыл бұрын

that it looks so dumb they look stupid and isnt even a talent