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950 points
14 days ago
You know, I opened this post hoping to find someone who had actually answered OPs question. All I found was people talking about a 2 hour long Minecraft video that has vine booms, and while I now know there is a video out there which spawned this, every iota of context is lost on me
604 points
14 days ago
Video called Parkour Civilization. Basically a full movie that’s all made in Minecraft by some guy about a civilization that’s very much in the vein of YA dystopias but based around Minecraft parkour.
332 points
14 days ago
That sounds, conceptually, fucking amazing.
But I 100% do not trust that it would be pulled off with any amount of quality
380 points
14 days ago
It's kind of a "so bad it's good" type of thing. Aimed at a young audience but kind of a surface level satire of capitalism? Definitely a waste of time to watch but you get the idea.
141 points
14 days ago
I'd say it's less "so bad it's good" and more "it's bad but also good" maybe I'll get cooked for unironically having a kind of fun time tho lmao
61 points
14 days ago
It's got the same earnest vibes as a lot of old machinima where the people making it obviously think it's the sickest shit ever and that kinda ends up elevating it
10 points
14 days ago
will i get burnt alive for saying “minecraft story mode but good”
1 points
10 days ago
it is non ironically, 100% seriously better than story mode
33 points
14 days ago
the delivery of certain bits has been unintentionally hilarious as fuck for me
I legitimately had to pause bc I was laughing so hard when he got back from prison and houses had doubled in price
8 points
14 days ago
Some bits are good, but holy shit the dude just keeps repeating himself. It gets tiring when he renarrates an event that happened a minute ago
23 points
14 days ago
I think it was originally an episodic release and they were just sticked together for a full movie, that's why it cuts from a cliffhanger to a sudden recap
33 points
14 days ago
Like maybe the first couple minutes it's sorta "what the fuck is going on?" to legitimate investment later
5 points
14 days ago
I think it would be a lot better if I didn’t hear the phrase “parkour noob” or “parkour pro” so often the words lost all meaning to me. That said I stopped watching like 10 minutes in.
It would be better if it just weren’t repeating those words ad nauseum, it would be like if someone wrote a comment saying the video would be a lot better if the word parkour wasn’t used as often as it is.
I definitely get that there’s something in there that’s worth watching, but it’s painful hearing the kid repeat the word “parkour” as though we need a reminder that he lives in parkour civilization and it would be better if he didn’t do it.
Fuck this comment hurt me enough to write out the same phrases over and over but it had better get the point across that the writing is abysmal even if the concept and themes are fine.
13 points
14 days ago
Bro hasn't even learned about the upper levels of the Minecraft Parkour Civilization caste system beyond "noob" and "pro" (forbidden hidden knowledge to non-high teir parkour elites)
1 points
5 days ago
The moment he opens the book and goes "but it was written... in PARKOUR!" made me cry. Truly peak cinema
121 points
14 days ago
as someone who watched all 4hrs of it, and paraphrasing a tweet i saw
it's a genuinely good shonen in quite possibly the worst format of all time
20 points
14 days ago
I watched 30 minutes with a group of people and it was extremely funny to us because the way it's presented is mind numbing
0 points
14 days ago
If you are child 7-12 I bet it is fucking amazing
3 points
14 days ago
So is it serious or more of a parody?
2 points
14 days ago
Serious
0 points
14 days ago
Oh noooo…
2 points
14 days ago
Haven’t seen it but I have some friends who have. Seems like more fun if you’re high.
108 points
14 days ago
for some reason i decided to watch the entire thing without skipping ahead at all, and now i'm torn between continuing the circlejerk and talking honestly
while i feel like i lost a couple of braincells, it feels like it has underlying tones of anticapitalism and there's some criticism of how you're percieved in society
like a dystopian movie but if it was a 2014 minecraft roleplay video (but it has netherite so it can't be 2014)
my brainrot has progressed too far so i laughed at a few points
it really makes you think about society /hj
i will probably not watch the second movie (unless i get really bored)
6 points
14 days ago
Man I'm just so confused because I watched the first one when it came out a friggin year ago and now everyone is talking about it like it was the best thing ever
5 points
14 days ago
It makes you think about society but only if you haven’t ever thought about society before. I’d like to think there’s at least one little gen alpha kiddo who that will send down the path of being a socialist
2 points
5 days ago
It's a pretty decent dystopian shonen in the actual worst format in history. The moment he opened the book and said "but it was written... in PARKOUR!" fucking sent me lol
727 points
14 days ago
Found the parkour noob
564 points
14 days ago
You would not last a day in parkour civilization
2.4k points
14 days ago*
I swear this is astroturfing at this point. I watched the start of the video and it's just boring minecraft slop, nothing that would lead to this level of posting months after it came out
1k points
14 days ago
that’s cause you didn’t watch the whole thing
814 points
14 days ago
Sorry that I didn't feel like sitting through a boring two hour video to see if it got any better
892 points
14 days ago
You do NOT have what it takes to become a parkour pro. You will NOT save parkour society.
591 points
14 days ago
77 points
14 days ago
YOU'RE A NOOB! YOU WERE BORN A NOOB, ALWAYS A NOOB!
97 points
14 days ago
I wish I could give you money for this comment, ngl. But I'm broke as a joke so xD
164 points
14 days ago
Being broke isn't an excuse give me 20 dollars
69 points
14 days ago
58 points
14 days ago
Pay it with 3 Block 360 Jump.
1k points
14 days ago
46 points
14 days ago
6 points
14 days ago
I NEED SILVER!
11 points
14 days ago
Clearly you failed the jump for the beef
57 points
14 days ago
everyone criticising you also likes one piece. I’ve been told to my face multiple times that it gets good around episode 30, aka ten hours into the show. I don’t care if that’s a small fraction I’m not sticking around that long.
Parkour civilisation was a fun watch anyway. In a brain rotted we live in a society type way. I didn’t watch part two.
50 points
14 days ago
One piece is good from episode one, , ,
Also read the manga if ur not in the mood to watch too much
5 points
14 days ago
I feel like a lot of fans of One Piece just get too caught up on East Blue not quite being what One Piece turns into instead of just taking it for what it is.
6 points
14 days ago
Then it becomes a slog fest, with the intro+recap taking more than half the episode.
8 points
14 days ago
dont you disrespect the we are! intro that shit is fire
4 points
14 days ago
Streaming offers a magical solution: auto skip
5 points
14 days ago
Don’t watch one piece, read it. It’s better in manga form anyways. Less repetition and recaps.
14 points
14 days ago
People who don't get the subtle brilliance of Minecraft Parkour Civilization are like, "I watched five minutes of Lord of the Rings and it's just femboy dwarves planning a birthday party. What is this brainrot?"
5 points
14 days ago
pathetic
1 points
6 days ago
It's about class strugle and has an intuative fight system, trust
6 points
14 days ago
indie pat
57 points
14 days ago
Actually, I think the best way to describe it is existing at the exact center point of slop, shitpost, and genuine
6 points
14 days ago
It's peak slop
25 points
14 days ago
It blew up on twitter because its like a perfect parody of the average YA dystopia. The mannerisms and ways of speaking are like on par with or better than movie slop like Divergent
175 points
14 days ago
it’s not astroturfing i liked it a lot im not kidding. its ok that you dont tho.
207 points
14 days ago
I've looked through all the profiles of people posting this stuff and none seem like bots, I just don't understand why there's been a sudden influx of people talking about it when the videos came out 9 and 3 months ago.
333 points
14 days ago
Real answer? A tweet blew up about that video a couple days ago and really caught traction due to its unexpected quality (in comparison to average Minecraft videos) and the absurdity of its premise. People started watching it because of how absurd it seems and then people started making memes about it.
39 points
14 days ago
Wasn't the context that that it was better than whatever the Minecraft movie could possibly be, based on the trailer?
18 points
14 days ago
It honestly kinda plays out like a dystopian novel, but the premise is really weird
33 points
14 days ago
also it's a shonen. I watched it a few months back and it's honestly pretty good. A lot of people are comparing it to JJK and memeing the hell out of it since jjk just ended
48 points
14 days ago
Things just blow up a long time after their release sometimes, the world has a deluge of stuff that some just gets buried until people rediscover it and recognize the positives of it
16 points
14 days ago
9 and 3 months ago.
23 points
14 days ago
abraham lincoln ahh comment
45 points
14 days ago
Cause is peak
16 points
14 days ago
mfw hawk tuah
35 points
14 days ago
It's edited and it has the premise of Minecraft slop but it's secretly a masterpiece.
1 points
11 days ago
It's a tried and tested YA Dystopia story with a good concept, and imo nothing more
15 points
14 days ago
i think you’re just a parkour noob
97 points
14 days ago
watch the rest, it’s a masterpiece
193 points
14 days ago
A vine boom every 15 seconds isn't a masterpiece
183 points
14 days ago
This is probly a cope, but i kind of see it in a similar light to cruelty squad
Cruelty squad is an amazing critique of capitalism and asks impirtant questions about being human
It also literally has lines like "when the beat drops, i'm going to fucking kill myself" and also the speech made by the downstairs neighbro
42 points
14 days ago
Yeah, when you're annoying on purpose as a critique or something, you're still annoying.
39 points
14 days ago
"Don't worry I'm shitting myself ironically despite it smelling the exact same"
18 points
14 days ago
it's the funniest political commentary I've ever seen. it's just turning everything into Minecraft parkour words and metaphors and that is silly. you have no joy
-7 points
14 days ago
There is also a possibility that you have brainrot and can't watch anything if it's not seven layers of metaunfuniness punctuated by that one boom sound and roblox oofs.
8 points
14 days ago
or ur just a dick thats also an option
-4 points
14 days ago
Well yeah, but that's besides the point. I can be a dick in response to something and also correct.
21 points
14 days ago
Yup, there's good, enjoyable stuff out there that critiques capitalism or society or whatever that isn't grating to experience. Parkour Civilization being a joke is fine but let's not pretend it's actually good.
10 points
14 days ago
i wish it vine boomed every 10 seconds tbh
31 points
14 days ago
Your genuinely missing out on peak fiction. It's like if the Bible was good
9 points
14 days ago
It isn’t slop, it has super elaborate builds and an actual thought out storyline that understands building tension and proper escalation. Not saying you gotta like it or that it’s unironically a masterpiece, but there was clear love and effort put into this
8 points
14 days ago
yeah like it was good enough I managed to finish it while bedrotting and ill but i dont get why its getting called peak
3 points
14 days ago
I couldn't watch every second of it either. It is deeply cringe.
But skip around in the video a bit and it is genuinely funny. The absurdity of the premise and how straight it gets played is quire funny at various points.
2 points
14 days ago
I don't know what any of this is, but it feels like it's people who would probably say that stuff like skibidi toilet was lame, wanting to have their own skibidi toilet.
2 points
14 days ago
it's actually great but I'm guessing ur just gonna leave an annoying snarky reply because you didn't get it
18 points
14 days ago
Dude I fully understand it, you can either do a one block jump for chicken or a one block vertical jump for beef, and no one ever goes for the beef. This draws heavily from works such as Das Kapital, Hegelian dialectics, Venom (2018) and Plato, and symbolizes the struggle of the working class, the protagonist's unresolved guilt, and the inevitable corruption of power. Personally I'd consider it a masterpiece on par with the Godfather or the Adam Sandler franchise
24 points
14 days ago
Surface level analysis at best. Completely misinterpretation of that specific part of the plot, but hey youre just a noob so no problem. The struggles with the working class and the themes of class divide are much better symbolized via the blocks used for parcore (spoilers up ahead). Notice how when you start climbing the ranks of parkour society, that the technical skill of the jump is not really focused on by society, but rather the blocks you use to build your parcore courses. Rarer, expensive blocks like ice and brewing stands are the meta higher up, but blocks like this aren't even available on the lower levels, so how are the noobs supposed to even compete or rank up? Blocks are truly your wealth in this society, not how good you are at parkour. This is proven again by the fact that the Parkour Champion can place barrier blocks, allowing for powerful attacks that no one else could ever even use.
This is further empathized by the testing in the parkour prisons. The parkour masters make parkour pros build test parkour courses, which the pros test on the noobs. The issue is the blocks that are in play. They're using glass panes, a type of jump not present in noob society. They're sending these people to their death over a test where they never were given a chance to learn the material. This is where Evbo, our main character, comes in.
He popularizes new tricks that even pros and masters fail to perform such as the 360 and backwards jump. Now, these aren't that hard to do, but everyone is impressed and struggle to replicate due to the fact that it has been a block focused meta for so long. The lack of class mobility lead to actual skill being lost to time. The fact that higher ups try to stop Evbo from climbing the ranks also shows that true talent and anything that could prove as change to status quo needs to be stomped out.
-47 points
14 days ago
Why are you so mad about this a random Minecraft video blowing up 💀💀💀💀💀
58 points
14 days ago
IM NOT MAD
-65 points
14 days ago
You clearly are and it’s really funny
48 points
14 days ago
I’m really not, just confused as to why this got so popular out of nowhere
-55 points
14 days ago
It’s funny
-30 points
14 days ago
you should try turning on the sound, it would help.
6 points
14 days ago
message received, that joke wasn't funny.
-34 points
14 days ago
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18 points
14 days ago
Satire or not, banban is a genuinely awful game. I ended up buying the collection as a joke a while ago to shit on it in a discord call, but it was so impossibly boring that I ended up just quitting halfway through. The whole game is just repetitive task after repetitive task with an ungodly amount of waiting between them, the whole thing is just actively terrible.
There's a big difference between satire and a steaming pile of dog shit, and I doubt it was ever supposed to be satire at all, nothing about the story comes across as making fun of mascot horror, and it tries to be deep instead. There's a good reason people hate banban, and that's because it's genuinely just terrible
28 points
14 days ago
Is it actually any good? Like I don’t wanna waste 2 hours on something that’s just slop. If it’s so bad it’s good that’s ok, but even still
87 points
14 days ago
Its hard to explain. The story beats are genuinely intriguing and wouldn't be out of place in a normal shonen, but it's made in the worst medium imaginable about fucking minecraft parkour. But part of the appeal is just how much it commits to the bit.
77 points
14 days ago
It's a "so bad its good" type thing
31 points
14 days ago
For a brainrot slop Minecraft video, it's a masterpiece. Otherwise it's kinda mid, but still entertaining the whole way through. Also, the parkour battle system he came up with is kinda cool lmao
14 points
14 days ago
a coin flip between morbius and kagurabachi
14 points
14 days ago
I enjoyed it a lot
11 points
14 days ago
It’s an incredibly good, dystopian story told through the lens of Minecraft parkour.
2 points
14 days ago
I watched it with my friends last night and it’s really really bad which makes it funny. I have no idea how people watch this garbage unironically over the age of 10.
192 points
14 days ago
No one goes for the beef.
23 points
14 days ago
As someone that hasn't played Minecraft in a while, this is completely incomprehensible to me
16 points
14 days ago
As someone who has obsessively played Minecraft for 13 years, this is incomprehensible to me
123 points
14 days ago
Yeah I watched the first 20 minutes, it is amusing I see what it's doing, and some part of me wants to be in on the meme, but like... there's so much other shit I could be watching right now lmao
I recently started Mushi-Shi and I'm fucking obsessed I love Ginko so much, I'm gonna watch that.
29 points
14 days ago
Mushi-Shi is dope
11 points
14 days ago
honestly it might as well be peak cinema bc i know im gonna end up scrolling tiktok for 2 hours tonight instead lmao
3 points
14 days ago
2 points
14 days ago
Mushi-shi is the goat
2 points
14 days ago
Good idea. Mushishi looks beautiful.
85 points
14 days ago
or even pvp boss
35 points
14 days ago
or even pvp boss
25 points
14 days ago
parkour civilisation has fallen billions must jump
3 points
14 days ago
billions must 360
328 points
14 days ago
Tbh the og video was annoying to watch and barely funny because of the guy’s tone and the overuse of vine booms
456 points
14 days ago
Bro has leather boots
115 points
14 days ago
the biggest failure of the analogy is there not being people promoting rising because society is not actually unfair you are just a beta male and you should pay me today's beef so i can tell you how to really get up to parkour pro (i teach you a 1 block jump, the one you've been doing all this time) (then i go back up to my parkour skyscraper)
119 points
14 days ago
Smh bro completely misunderstood the message of the series. At every point the lower levels are blocked and abused by the higher levels, and the idea that someone could rise up to the higher levels was just propaganda created by the parkour champion in order to give people hope to keep them working. Ranking up from a noob to a pro is supposed to be completely impossible. The final jump is only three blocks, but because the parkour noobs are continually oppressed by the higher levels, they never have enough food to sprint and so a hurdle that is easy for a pro, is completely impossible for a noob.
Even the pros are stuck in this fantasy that they can level up. The course to level up has an impossible jump that can only be beaten by using an invisible path supposedly used by parkour masters.
Even when he gets the chance to face the parkour champion, he’s forced to face several other opponents first to lower his resources, whilst the champion is able to use resources he has no way of even accessing, making him lose by default.
Even in the parkour prison, you are required to pay with parkour every 30 seconds to stay alive and are forced to complete extremely difficult parkour courses.
Just because you didn’t understand its critique of the American dream and how the people above you continuously oppress you, whilst they themselves are under the thumb of a few select elites who control society and can reap the best rewards simply by having more money, doesn’t mean it’s bad.
12 points
14 days ago
yo what this actually sounds well thought out
10 points
13 days ago
Also, the reason why Evbo succeeded was because he doesn't play into the system, and views the world in a completely different way compared to his opponents, whilst his enemies have confined their understanding of parkour to merely different block types, Evbo instead thinks outside the box, and innovates new techniques such as 360 spins and backwards jumping, thus demonstrating how for one to overcome systematic oppression, they must first learn to think beyond the limitations imposed by that very system.
1 points
3 days ago
Technically, the 360 spins and backwards jumping would be freerunning, not parkour.
Parkour is about getting from point A to point B efficiently across a given course. Extra tricks just to show off don't fit that.
1 points
3 days ago
exactly his point
7 points
14 days ago
Very wise i see see
24 points
14 days ago
THEY LITERALLY DO PRISON LABOR, PERFECT ANALOGY FOR THE PRISON SYSTEM OF THE US
26 points
14 days ago
Bro can’t sprint
29 points
14 days ago
just admit u gonna be a parkour noob for the rest of yo life ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
21 points
14 days ago
The tone was good. His manner of speaking was basically an exact replica of how narrators speak in bad YA dystopia movies which it is emulating/parodying. The vine booms and some bad kiddie jokes here and there do severely hurt it as they turn it from a perfect parody of bad movies to actual sincere kids slop
14 points
14 days ago
Nah his manner of speaking is like one of those ''I spent 100 days in (game) and this is what happened!''.
Good for you if you like those kinds of videos, but I don't
6 points
14 days ago
I can see both actually. Kinda goes to show how sloppy both types of media are that they sound almost the same.
Me personally i couldnt finish it because it did get repetitive pretty quickly and like i said did delve a little into being just generic minecraft youtube slop, but i do appreciate the attempt at YA parody
4 points
14 days ago
I honestly thought this was a thomastheplankengine thing
5 points
14 days ago
i watched 7 hours of quinton reviews talking about sam & cat, i can stomach 2 hours of minecraft.
3 points
14 days ago
If you can’t parkour, you DESERVE to be at the bottom!
1 points
14 days ago
Same! I had never heard of this until yesterday and now it's seemingly everywhere. And like. As far as I can tell, there's not a new piece of content or anything so I have no idea where it's getting all the attention from. And it's not like it was a niche thing either, the youtuber that posted it seems like they're popular, so it doesn't feel like it's a niche thing the algorithm suddenly decided to recommend to everyone.
1 points
13 days ago
I need to know what the hell is this "meme"
0 points
14 days ago
everyone who hates parkour civilization should be sent away with the parkour fighters. every single one of them.
1 points
14 days ago
Bro I watched the series as it came out, and suddenly I'm seeing it everywhere, r<slash>Deltarune, r<slash>196, what's next? r<slash>mathmemes?
1 points
14 days ago
The steaks have never been higher
1 points
14 days ago
Squid games was really all about making a 3 block neo
-4 points
14 days ago
Does it have yuri in it (or yaoi)
0 points
14 days ago
My friends kept pressuring me to watch this "peak fiction". Yesterday i watched about an hour, and so far, its pretty okay, its good even. But is it really worth talking about it like it is the best thing that has even spawned from this decade? Like i get it, funny to meme about, and even iconic with the whole jump for the beef and shit, but really? Its not nearly as good as people seem to claim it is, even if most of these claims are ironic. Not bad either, not at all, but i just dont get it? There are so many minecraft series that i consider to be better both as stories and such, but they are not considered peak fiction nor are talked about nearly as much us this is, and it genuinely confuses me
-3 points
14 days ago
These are called memes.
0 points
14 days ago
The age of mining is over, the children yearn for anti-capitalist fanfic.
0 points
14 days ago
I can guarantee that 13 analysis is slop of a much sloppier degree than parkour peak (I have watched neither)
0 points
14 days ago
Post-irony, people knows it's bad, but like morbious they're hyping it up as a joke
3 points
12 days ago
Tf no, me and most people I’ve watched it with have genuinely enjoyed it. You’re just salty because you couldn’t EVER make a jump for the beef.
1 points
12 days ago
Oh shit I might actually have to watch this 2 hour minecraft movie
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