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(written 2025/9/22 + 9/23 + 10/7 + 10/8)
The time has finally come again for me to release more than nothing! Hooray!
This video has been an off and on project since late July when i'd first discovered Lucas's video. His bluntness and the slightly ridiculous things he says made me know i wanted to make a YTP of it before i had finished my first listen^2. Making people sound casually insane is what makes me laugh, and people talking bold is easy fodder for making them sound crazy (or crazier).
This video - and probably the next few - will be focused on trying to capture realistic feeling dialogue through sentence mixing. I've already been on this path, but i feel like it's starting to come together. For me at least, a lot of things are funnier when i believe that the person actually means the crazy things they say (Michael Scott and Dwight Schrute in The Office really do it for me in this regard). I want to try mimicing that through the medium of YouTube Poop.
I feel self-conscious about the lack of YTP style edits these videos will have, but i think i just need to let my brain work in this style for now. I really worry about people's opinion of me too much and it limits what i do. Very often when i start a new video, i get work done for a bit, but then fall into the same rut: sitting in front of Vegas Pro, replaying the same footage over and over - making easy little tweaks rather than actually building the damn video. And then - like with this video - i often go days or weeks without even opening the project at all. There's a reason i took 50 70 days to get this online instead of 15.
It would be less frustrating if i got why it's so hard for me to just make myself do the scarier bits. I usually dont feel all that afraid, but i often just cannot make my body do the actions i need it to do. If i don't want to do it, then i often just can't. Sometimes being human sucks.
I've been stuck here for a long time, but i can't give up;^3 it's the only way through. Building and publishing videos like this one is part of how i will get out of this rut; sometimes i'm bored with my own work, but other times its one of the few things that is actually just fun enough to put color back into my life; i often laugh really hard while making these. Sometimes coming up with a joke yourself is funnier because it catches you so off guard that this fucking thing just came out of my head. I want to make a future where i spend more time laughing and working and less time fretting and hiding. I hope i can make it.
Now... back to the video itself: As is probably obvious, extended repeats and silences are something i'm continuing to focus on this video. Bowser repeating his scream at 3:25 six times in a row is more intentional than you'd think (even if it is easy to make). After playing through my footage a lot, i've found that six times gives it enough time to sink in and feel ridiculous, without being so long that it's boring. Initially it only repeated four times and that felt both too long and too short: long enough to make you wonder "why tf is this still going", but short enough that it doesn't get to be truly funny. Timing and pacing, it turns out, are fucking hard.
Long silences and repeats can be funny and build anticipation, but they can also destroy the pace if done poorly. In my previous video, i was definitely miscalibrated and had silences and repeats that were waaaaay too long. I'm still learning, and i think this new video is much tighter in this regard. :)
"Peepees" wasn't part of my initial idea for the video; it only came to mind after i had already completed editing together maybe 85% of all of Lucas's dialogue. It really is something that i just stapled into the middle of the video... but i think it works as a fun suprise, and i enjoyed having an excuse to fuck around with this song. I'm mildly concerned that people will see the song as dated... but that's yet more of me bending to fear of judgement. There lies the dangerous rabbit hole of me going, "Oh god, most of the things i will ever make will seem old and lame and passe within my lifetime; only the nerds and the old fucks like me will care about them... and then: MY ART WILL DIE. NOOOOOOOOO!"
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Oh, hey look, i'm getting existential again! INDEED. I thought this post was supposed to be about a dumb video i made for fun, but instead its about my insecurities. And to boot, i feel like after only 3 posts about videos on this site i'm already repeating myself about those insecurities. Why do i criticize myself for repeating myself so much when it's perfectly natural? → HEY LOOK! MORE NAVEL GAZING!:
o <- ITS A NAVEL. LOOK AT IT! LOOK AT IT! LOOK AT IT!
Okay, i think i'm done writing this now...
...Except for the following pedantic shit that i mostly already wrote:
RANDOM NERDY DETAIL:
When Bowser sings the "Your" in "Your Peepee's Mine" it sounds (to me) like AI voice synthesis, but it's not; It's a splice of [a brief "ya"] and [the first half of the word "love"], combining together into a "yooooo" that vaguely sounds like "you're". But then i added subtitles and now it does sound like you're. :p
It might sound like AI because the original mix of the song has so much autotune and god knows what else applied to his voice. At points i wish they distorted it less so that Jack Back Jack Black actually sounded like Jack Back Jack Black.
Note to future me:
STOP WRITING SO MUCH. YOUR LIFE IS TOO SHORT FOR THIS...
BUT I WANT TO WRITE MORE.
BUT I WANT TO WRITE LESS.
SEND HELP!
I thank you for surviving - and possibly even enjoying - the above many many awkwardly worded words.
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