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Trent playing even a mildly unlikeable character is the most unbelievable thing I've seen in a video for months.
frrrr
I thought the same. He seems like such a nice guy!
I just couldnt suspend the disbelief.
It made it even more uncomfortable lmao
Unlikeable? He’s unquestionably the hero of this vid
Ngl my favorite part was when Trent thought Matt was having a bad day because of where he chose to sit
SAME
So was that another freak out bait? Did Trent have a camera on Matt? Hmm
It's even worse, because he knew exactly what was wrong while he was doing that,
@@DrAmazing true ahaha
Character motivation
This feels just like a Black Mirror episode - or perhaps a pastiche of one. I love how Joel constantly innovates and invents new styles for his videos.
Def. For some reason it gave me vibes of that episode where the woman has her memory wiped by an entire town every night so they can psychologically torture her for killing her daughter.
I came here to say this. Definitely black mirror vibes.
definately, this was dark, but possible, thats what made Black Mirror the best horror show. These guys defo got the minds to take these concepts forward (esp. as Black Mirror have sadly stopped, for some reason)
Kafka my nibba
@@TGIFrank It wasn't her daughter; it was a little girl her boyfriend had kidnapped (she helped), and it's strongly implied that he...did things to the kid before murdering her...
Dang, now this is a horror short. As a formal postal worker, the anxiety was WAY too real. Holy shit, Joel.
Real Black Mirror vibes
OMG man, you know what, I can imagine. Worked in Customer Service for 3 weeks and it was painful. People are ready to threaten you, expose you, offend you any chance they get and you're just a CS agent 😭 Here's a pat on the back. Trust me there are a lot of good kind people out there. Hug.
As a current postal worker, I saw my worst fear come alive
Cringe pfp
@@LittlePenguinHouse Sounds like the machines can't take over customer service too soon. If there is one menial task humanity needs to be liberated from, it is that.
This one hits hard. I can't count the number of times my friend has hired actors off of craigslist and then created a situation where I freaked out in front of those actors only for the video of that to go viral and then for me to lose my job because of it and then I find out later he was the mastermind behind it all. Very relatable.
Dead ass, my standard Tuesday
Happens to the best of us, my friend
@@Gyooz you're his friend? the one that made the video? omg, I'm such a big fan!
Oh shit, you're Jeremy? The Popeyes employee who shit his pants and freaked out on a customer?
The _Popeye's_ Jeremy?❣? OH. EM. _GEE._ Can I ask you a question? My friends and I were having a debate.... Is your last name real or did you create it for the project?
Thank you joel for educating me on who to hate this week, I was really worrying about not hating enough people this week.
*starts recording*
Whom
I don't know which is more exhausting cooling: the hating or just figuring out to hate. BTW, I use Google voice dictation utility, and it wanted to capitalize The Hating, like it was some sort of b-list, teen-angst horror movie: _The Hating,_ now in junior high schools - EVERYWHERE.
You've gotta hit those quotas, man. Nothing is more important than hitting your quota.
You can always hate the FedEx guy. FedEx sucks
Holy crap that turned really dark in the end. Like a dystopian nightmare where all your emotional reactions are recorded, replayed and forever preserved, used and abused for the entertainment of others...
Yeah, it's Corecore
Somewhere between Truman Show and Black Mirror
This is such an insightful commentary on how to internet allows us to publicly shame people for little reason and without consequences
This actually brings up a really good point. In many of the 'freak out' videos, the thing we often lack is context. We see the results of someone snapping, but not the buildup that brought them to that.
I would go as far as to say 95% of freak out videos would not go as viral as they do if they had proper context.
Kind of how I feel about any of those kind of videos. What's the context? Why do people feel so justified in villifying or debasing someone else. It's all really messed up. It lacks compassion.
Not only that but even the ones that don't need context, they're people too man. We don't know what was going on in their lives. They might have been having the worst day ever and we just feed off of that miserableness?
"Get out of my f$@%ing car!"
@@sinisterthoughts2896 ok, Devil's advocate here. By the same token, there are many people who go around being a garbage person to every human they meet, generally making everyone's life worse. So I disagree that context would make 95% of these kinds of videos feel different. Unless you want to take the context all the way back to, like, the day they were born, which yeah, I suppose compassion for a crappy life would be nice. The fact that people get no social punishments for being awful to their fellow humans makes these videos appealing. You can't hit people anymore, you can't shame them in the public square. I think we all feel the world has a distinct lack of justice. But not being a Devil's advocate... Enjoying the suffering of others is probably not good for anyone. And will continue to alienate us from one another
Please don’t turn me into a corecore video 😔
Matt! You made it big time pal I hope this blows up!
Outstanding work, Matt. Are the Shavers distantly related to the Havers?
woah you need to calm down and stop freaking out there buddy
*starts recording secretly, very badly* So this is what you do? You come into comment sections to freak out about corecore videos? I bet you love being in corecore videos huh
Wtf is a corecore video
And one time I did have a complete mental breakdown in my car, hitting myself and all, because I have PTSD and panic attacks. And the guy in the car next to me was smiling talking to me making fun of me. And even tho I am pretty sure they weren't recording me the thought did enter my mind. It was just so weird I was having a breakdown from trauma, and look over to see a person just laughing at me like it's a fucking joke. That kind of thing can make a person break.
Well, f-k him anyway, right? At least a friendly stranger in the Joel Haver comments section is here to say, "I'm sorry you went through that, and you didn't deserve it," and give you a high five for being you. I hope some day soon, all the people who are sick of seeing people treat other people badly, will reach a critical mass. Here's from one blob in that mass, to another. 😊
I remember when I was 17 I was really messed up in the head (I was coming off antipsychotic meds and having a panic attack) and I was freaking out screaming in the car because my mom was driving me to school and I just kept screaming for something like 20 minutes. My mom pulled up to a red light and the people in the car next to us stared in horror. I'm assuming. I didn't actually look but my mom was like trying to tell them I was okay or something. Jesus christ, I haven't thought about that day in so long but your comment reminded me of it. People in my case weren't bad but shoot, it's awful that someone would laugh at you in that state. It's not like you wanted to be seen like that... yet they were looking. I'm sorry that happened to you, and I hope you got through it okay.
@@ccl1195 why such a wholesome comment it made me cry thank you blob ❤️
@@LittlePenguinHouse You are welcome friend blob. ❤
One time I was walking to my car from a bank and I was upset about something, I forget what. I was kind of cursing to myself and a little animated. This douchebag in a truck with a Boston accent had his windows down was just like "Look at this frickin guy!" Pointing at me and laughing. He was talking to a younger kid sitting in the front seat, maybe his son. The kid looked embarrassed. Anyway I may or may not have told him I was going to get my pitbull out of my car to bite his balls off.😂fvck people like that man
Honestly hate how these small moments have ruined people’s lives. Thanks for putting this out there Joel
at the same time then can provide insight into what a person really is like.
@@Decenium not really. Only dumbasses think that
Considering the moments in the video were especially engineered to make him look bad, omitting the part where the people egg him on and push him to his breaking point, sure. I find a lot of times people lie by omission to make themselves look better, cutting out the preceding bits where they were being a complete bunghole and leaving in a sanitized narrative. Like just the other day when I saw a video of a lady complaining to a Hispanic cashier about the shop she was in playing a Spanish speaking drama, talking about how long her family had been in the area, how he needs to learn English because he's in America. Then when she realizes she's being recorded, she starts recording saying they're discriminating against her and all she wanted was her refund for her food and now they're harassing her. Interestingly, no mention of anything else she said before she started recording. I used to know people who would say things like, "I don't know why they don't want to talk to me." Or "They always give me these dirty looks," or, even better, "I don't like seeing them because they always seem to get bad at me," when the people they're talking about are minorities that they constantly make fun of. Turns out that when you meet an Asian person, most of them don't appreciate an immediate response of "I speak that!" F followed by eye squinting and hoi-hawing. I'm not saying people don't have bad days, but more often than not I've found people just have zero awareness or problem with saying stupid, entitled, and ignorant shit all the time, so when someone finally catches them on camera it wasn't a fluke, it was a matter of time.
@@Decenium Only so much though! It can hide just as much. Defining people by their worst moments with no context, is just about the worst way to try to understand someone. I wish people would just be honest about it and admit that they're a little bit entertained by things that anger them, by watching people be the worst they can be. Watching Karen videos is not a deep endeavor in understanding the nature of people and societies. You can't actually know why someone is freaking out because you don't have the big picture of their life. You can condemn the behavior, but you don't know who that person really is to the people around them or what things outside of that moment drive them, so there's only so much meaning in doing that. And frankly, it doesn't MATTER. It's not of much use to you as a judgement. They will likely forever remain a stranger to you. Again, it's just a catharsis to watch. There's no actual growth for you in watching freakouts, no grand takeaway. And if anything, I think the inherent myopicness of it as a medium for viewing people can easily send you down a dark path of stereotyping and just not thinking critically in assessing things. Stare into that void, it stares back into you, and you start to forget what normal people are actually like. You get a better picture of everyday people from reality TV.
The pan down shot to Trent recording with his phone while wearing a shirt that says in part "I can't be trusted" is 👌🏻. Another top quality existential crisis. Thanks Joel
That's the moment it all became hilarious! So well done.
I didn't even notice the shirt! Thanks!
That's just Trent's shirt - it says "I can't be trusted at Target". He's worn it in a bunch of vids.
@@iIliterati Sure, but it does feel like it was chosen because of how well it suits the scene.
this one genuinely made me feel kind of sad. poor guy.
📷Whoa there buddy are you gonna freak out about it?
ikr, you just can't trust people to handle your packages these days.
Don't get me wrong, the video is very funny and fun as Joel's work always is! I think it's just that as someone who's been recorded irl without permission for the sake of being mocked and laughed at, it brought back some unpleasant memories lol
@@BirdboysUmbrella 📷
@@thelaughingman4791 Oh man, we’ve found the ultimate jokester.
The true lesson here is: Hate the people capitalizing on others suffering, not the people suffering
who needs a lesson like that, sociopaths?
@@Corrupted Unless the majority of people on the internet are sociopaths then no
@@Corrupted erm following your logic lots of ppl are sociopaths 😢
This felt like a black mirror episode lol. Thanks Joel
It does lol
This one was infuriating. Beautifully done...but infuriating. And heartbreaking. And somehow a perfect metaphor for current day.
In current day, people get mad on the Internet
@@WhaleManMan Exactly. Hence the "metaphor". ;)
@@WhaleManMan AAAAARG This is so stupid!!! I hate my life NOOOO!!!
we live in a society
@@Doka402 No we don't! Maybe _you_ do but don't think everyone in this world is the same as you! We're all individual! 😤
Honestly terrified that any sincere display of emotion will get cut into a core core video
What is core core
@@TheGoombaslayer yk, "heyy I'm doing a core core video, wanna join?" Or "you ruined my core core". Everyone knows core core videos.
@@Naruto31132 Ah, yes. I do concur.
@@Naruto31132 Yeah my friends are also inviting me to Narbclamp and to make fun botworth videos! I always feel bad when I gotta deny a good ol Core Core sesh tho :(
Welp you got me to look up three separate “core core” videos and I now understand it even less. The internet is so god damn annoying these days, it’s like you suddenly have to deal with a million separate friend groups with conflicting inside jokes
Really makes you reflect on some of the people that freak out and get recorded. Are they genuine assholes or nutjobs or just having a really shitty time? And the other person's reaction instead of walking away or trying to calm down the situation is to break out the phone to get internet clout. A real big brother kind of situation.
I feel this video encapsulates a fear everybody has in the internet era: being recorded while doing something funny/showing actual human emotions and becoming a meme. Really good and unsettling video. Black mirror shit.
Damn. I honestly didn't laugh too much at this. More a biting social satire than anything. 10/10
yeah just had a sad frown the whole time and the end felt really viscerally gross. i've been having a pretty shitty day myself and this genuinely made it worse. 10/10
@@methyod Agreed, this wasn't comedy. Comedy is funny and doesn't make me feel bad for Matt. 9/10
Hi, I'm a representative who looks to hire new employees for a journalism magazine known as IGN, and I love the way you three rate things. Would you be interested in a job about doing gaming reviews? You don't even have to know anything about gaming.
@@hastur-thekinginyellow8115 deal
@@hastur-thekinginyellow8115 Of course Hastur would be behind the hiring process at IGN lmao On a related note, definitely one of my least favorite Lovecraftian entities, too try-hardy and overplayed, not enough water. 9.2/10
I almost felt bad for him, but then I remembered the title told me to hate him.
New Penguinz0 video
Yeah Fck Matt 😂😆
Ayo fr bro I'm a cringe tik tok user
thank you Joel, directing all my hatred at him will take my mind off how unhappy I am for at least 20 minutes
I think the most beautiful thing about this skit is that once you see it all the way through you know why Trent sat behind him in that scene on the couch. He was trying to get a rise out of him so he can make more content. Chef's kiss, masterpiece!
I think this is the first time in the Joel Haver universe that shows people being genuinely awful and that creeps me out.
What about the guy who found public executions where the family watches entertaining?
@@coranbaker6401 yeah... I honestly prefer public execution than social execution tbh.
@alvaroom6775 I mean, preferring one is fine, but that doesn't mean they're not both genuinely awful. There was also that one guy a couple videos ago pretending to be someone's friend and constantly talking behind their back.
@@coranbaker6401 i'm just kidding, who the fuck would prefer being executed in any way or form?
@alvaroom6775 You'd be surprised, some people really don't take social anxiety well. If it becomes too serious it's a mental disorder.
Matt, don’t freak out. I’m definitely not recording this. But you were kinda sitting on my rock back there
I do feel bad for people whos lives are ruined for a small freak out. Stress builds up and comes out at bad times. Someone's worst moment does not define them.
that girl's acting chops are fucking incredible. she's hilarious
I was just thinking about that, Molly is such a perfect fit for these kind of videos, if you haven't seen the Joel video "me; you were in my dream last night. The dream:" with Molly I think you're gonna love it!
She’s like girl Joel
Damn... This hurts me in my inner core. Even though it's a sketch I hope this never happens to anybody.
Oh this 100% happens to people every day.
It happens all the time. That's the age of social media.
New to the Internet? Haha
It already has
What are y'all talking about people get lambasted on social media all their time but none of them are getting gaslit by their roommates
shoutout to molly for consistently mentioning long john silvers in every video she's in
100p
I’m hoping she was telling Joel what was on the menu because she got a job there.
That moment when absurdist humor feels more real than the "real" things on social media.
The Angry Guy We Should All Hate This Week is a modern tragedy disguised as comedy
I realized that the Mat guy’s best friend was wearing a shirt saying “I can’t be trusted”, nice attention to detail lol
Matt is amazing! Too bad he freaks out so much. 😂
Yeah I have a problem 😅
@@MattXShaver You are the problem 😏💛
That's a fake name.
@@Bowie_E he's not a real person, Matt's Haver, he's always been Haver in disguise.
@@MattXShaver You seriously have a problem!
Joel has been a lot more serious with his writing style lately. This was far more drama than comedy.
Man, this guy really freaked the frick out! I really hate him this week!
Joel you have perfected the line between light humor and existential dread, and it really speaks to this generation. Thank you.
absolute terror in my thoughts while watching, this is truman show meets an even more true reality
This is SO true. People like hating on people they don’t even know that they’ve seen in one video.
Joel really snuck the word “serendipitously” in there and thought we wouldn’t notice. What a vocabulary that guy has!
Rather supercilious of him I have to say.
Matt is a good actor. Really believable in all these weird scenarios.
You can always appreciate Joel's ability to create the best sayings like Insaneo style and now, "Shit gets fuckered up"
Shit gets fuckered up reminds me of birds. It's got bird vibes. I like it a lot
We've been saying fuckered up for over a decade to describe getting wrecked, usually on drugs and alcohol but also getting hurt
@@Th3Raz96 Do you mean "we" in a royal sense or "we" in a fuckered sense? Or an insaneo sense?
It's so weird watching content that doesn't try to sell me NordVPN constantly
This freakout is sponsored by RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS
I know. But did you know you can make your own website using Squarespace?
Man when they started recording in the end there, felt like some kind of dystopia. Trapped in a cycle. This took on some suprisingly dark undertones, probably because Trent was playing the antagonist, which almost felt like a personal betrayal in and of it self!
the way joel can ping pong between relatable comedy skit and genuinely moving short films is incredible
Gaslighting like this, but way less "elaborate" used to happen to me all the time, people I used to know would intentionally upset me as much as possible and then when I finally had ANY reaction, crying, anger etc they were always like "haha, omg do you hear yourself?" etc etc Good skit but now I'm sad lol :/
that’s literally just how neurotypical people treat any ND person
Isn't there a term for this? Passive harassment maybe?
Abusive relationship survivor here and yeah dude I'll NEVER understand how/why people get off on shit like this. I'm glad you *used to know* those people. They suck 💜
@@tonoornottono 100000%
@@Bowie_E as I am glad you're also a survivor, not that you went through it obviously but that you survived it I mean 🖤🖤🖤🖤
Social media is a plague, but at least it's not all bad with creators like Joel around
Such a convincing performance by Matt, you could almost think he regularly freaks out for fun
Anyone else notice that the box was opened in the edit? And the voice overs added though it seemed to flow naturally like it all happened exactly that way in the moment? Chef's kiss
I know it's supposed to be funny and the twist was pretty good, but I just feel second-hand emotional pain from the main character, especially when Trent's character gets in it too, his characters are usually a nice safe port in a sea of madness, not this time.
Someone put a lot of skill points in editing. This video is seriously next level in editing. Is this all you Mr Haver? Very impressive.
Thank you so much! I edit all of my stuff :)
@@Joel-Haver It's been a pleasure after over a decade of wasting time on youtube to see my favorite creator come along and rise to a level of success and talent that he can do what he loves to a supportive audience every day. You inspire me.
Damn I feel so bad for him, being dehumanized and put on a stage like that.
Really makes you think twice about wasting your attention on the "freak of the week". This channel is always so honest and human and they've got a good philosophy behind everything.
This was strangely unsettling. Holy cow great work, Joel and crew.
Another absolute banger. Loved the switching shots between Trent and Matt when he walked around the couch after sitting in the funny spot, had me bustin
As someone with an intense fear of failure, these are the types of situations I mentally prepare for every time before I do something
the acting in this was insanely good, from everyone that little smile of trent at the end was so well done!
Yooo, I missed that. That's actually good ;D
I clicked expecting to laugh… but I just had my heart torn apart instead. Loved every second of it.
This felt like a full on feature film
When Matt said Trent is his best friend and Trent said just like a roommate or something that shit made me feel bad. Joel what have you done
I've had a few "friends" that weren't actually friends. Of course I'm an idiot and have ruined things with certain friends in the past. I guess we're all terrible people at some point in our lives. Well most of us at least
Honestly, if I had a friend that hired others to record me, in a moment of turmoil, only to have the video go viral ultimately ruining my life, I'd be better off than I am now.
Uff, doesn't sound good.
I've never seen such fine box-fumbling-at-the-porch artistry since the cinema snob, years ago.
Best part in my opinion is his reactions don't even seem enough to go viral, just seems like normal human anger
The look of concentration while raising her camera at 3:38 is pure gold
this feels so much like a psa about social media I'd be shown in school in the early to mid 2010's around the north-eastern part of north america on a tuesday afternoon of a slightly snowy day despite the fact that it's october
Joel, from the bottom of my heart, you’re the best
Wow the amount of people that actively live in Joel's house and sleep in his bed seems like it would be really inconvenient
Or really hot!
You know usually I laugh or just shake my head at the ridiculousness of Joel's videos, but this one bothers me fundamentally. Not in a bad way, but in the same way the others made me feel joy, this made me feel absolute dread. The fact that this character was just a tool for others to use for instant fame, even his friend, when he was just down on his luck and reacting in a sincere way. Too relatable. Bravo Joel and crew, well done.
I think I remember Joel talking at some point about how he doesn't like those public freakout videos because it's just capturing those people's one bad day. Very cool seeing artistic representation of that message
Matt Shaver's portrayal as the delivery-person is only matched by that of Daniel Day-Lewis
❤
Matt is the fucking goat, I mean he sucks, but he sucks goats
I absolutely lost it at "..so you can make videos other people won't watch? I don't understand!"
Amazingly beautifully captured so much
wow thats such an iconic shot at the end with the 2 of them holding the phones with the lights flashing
Happy to see Molly on the channel again, she has this "natural funnyness" to her
My thoughts exactly. She is hilarious. Upvoted for Molly!
The bit where she starts shooting from increasingly weird angles and just casually talking him through it was one of the highlights of the video, hilarious delivery.
Molly is the epitome of heightened reality.
She has a bit on her channel about her boyfriend confronting her about suspicious underwear during an ASMR live stream that lives rent-free in my head on a pretty regular basis
He's clearly not the type of guy to freak out like that.
All I can say is that I'm glad you and your friends exist, Joel. Don't stop being creative geniuses.
Reading between the lines here. Love it. Well done.
I genuinely feel bad for "Matt".
I feel exactly this. Thank you for this video.
What a gloriously composed piece of artistic commentary.
That transition at 4 minutes was really nice. I really appreciate all the cool tricks you’ve been doing. Love the closeup angles too, it adds so much to the comedy.
Wait till he finds out about this one 7 minutes video about him. He really needed to chill out in that one.
wait…
quite the odyssey great job joel keep up the great work, true great film making and commentary of on our time cant wait to see your universe expand
I've been rewatching The Walking Dead all week saying oh poor this character or poor that character and now I'm going to say poor Matt. At least no one is trying to gnaw on you?
This was hard to watch for the right reasons. I felt so bad for Matt.
Creative short as always. Everyone knows these videos, never would have occurred to me to make a video on the life of that person beyond the video. Joel is very empathetic.
This is amazing. The twist that they all loved him for his incredible artistic freak outs brought a tear
As a mailman, this hits a little close to home
Mat's really giving the best performance ever
this is like second hand embarrassment that hits so hard you almost forget it’s a sketch
that's every joel haver sketch
All of your videos give me existential crises. They’re great.
OK this one was GOOD Felt like a real movie production right there.
This is a really funny video while also providing some interesting social commentary in regards to people who film incidents like these for no reason other than to get themselves views. Bravo Joel 👏
I feel your films keep getting better and better!!
this one was seriously next level. I love when your stuff has these serious undertones
MOLLY IS BACK
This be some black mirror quality shit. 👏
This was a masterpiece of balance between funny and uncomfortable. I know its your general "genre" (for lack of better world) but this one was delicate enough to make it very impactful. For me its one of your best work
I'm glad the rumors of Molly being in a terrible cannibal accident were only rumors.
Jesus christ that guy was terrifying, imagine if he freaked out around the children! Somebody think about the children!
I love these videos so much! I discovered your channel 2 days ago after you got a shoutout from Ryan George (the Pitch Meetings guy) in his Q&A about KZhead channels he loves and I'm so glad put me on to Joel! Top tier videos!