the burning person episode i'm guessing? lotta significant crystals being lost atm
― imago, Friday, 8 September 2023 18:55 (seven months ago) link
Maybe having a resurgence because you can watch it on Max now?
I tried showing some to my wife and her opinion was that it's very much of its time, lol.
― 50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Friday, 8 September 2023 18:55 (seven months ago) link
could be, also seems several people have uploaded it all to YouTube which I'm sure has helped a lot. previously you could only find clips and compilations.
I agree the show fits into the Tim & Eric/YTP stuff that was popular in the mid-00s but it also sometimes reminds me of those Vine/TikTok compilations where it's just a bunch of really strange/unpredictable humor coming at you really quickly and there's no way to really describe what's going on or why it's funny
― frogbs, Friday, 8 September 2023 19:06 (seven months ago) link
xra's energy is still to be found in the work of, say, podel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_n8toR4Bxo
― imago, Friday, 8 September 2023 19:10 (seven months ago) link
hell yes, more of this stuff please
pilotredsun maybe fits too though his stuff is less funny and more downright unsettling
― frogbs, Friday, 8 September 2023 19:16 (seven months ago) link
another podel while i think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLJiIZt0FEY
the key isn't just weird shitposting, it's weird shitposting that's had loads of effort and paralogical thought put into it
― imago, Friday, 8 September 2023 19:18 (seven months ago) link
maybe conner o'malley speedrunning southland tales in 10 minutes counts too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm6VOgmv9-c
― imago, Friday, 8 September 2023 19:23 (seven months ago) link
yeah a lot of my favorite things are ideas that are incredibly stupid or insane that regardless have crazy amounts of effort put into them, it's why I love On Cinema and Lasagna Cat and even Neil Breen films. XRA just makes you feel like a pure observer, there's some internal logic to how it works but nothing you can figure out or predict, you can't discern a thing about the writers' views, and you can't identify with a single character outside of maybe Popo the Gorilla
― frogbs, Friday, 8 September 2023 19:27 (seven months ago) link
hah yes "Rebranded Mickey Mouse" definitely fits especially the second half which in pacing and plot basically IS an episode of XRA
― frogbs, Friday, 8 September 2023 19:29 (seven months ago) link
all happening so quickly, and so inaccurately
― imago, Friday, 8 September 2023 19:30 (seven months ago) link
great show
― flopson, Saturday, 9 September 2023 22:59 (seven months ago) link
i have bad news and a snack for you
― frogbs, Monday, 11 September 2023 14:54 (seven months ago) link
Computer, explain!
"Xavier, according to my research, something very weird has happened here"
― frogbs, Friday, 6 October 2023 13:39 (six months ago) link