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CHUBBY BUNNY...blergh!

2011-02-14 · John · watch on YouTube · Everyday life · reflection essay

Lower-confidence wave

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Caught out by Valentine's Day mid-game of Chubby Bunny, John argues that its gift-giving is economically inefficient and that it symbolises an obsession with romantic love, but allows that gift-giving is an act of empathy.

What is said

00:00:00 — Playing Chubby Bunny, a marshmallow game seen on iDoInternet's channel, until John realises it is Valentine's Day

  • ★ John plays Chubby Bunny, a game he saw YouTuber iDoInternet play: eat marshmallows and keep saying 'chubby bunny'. (playful) — 00:00:00

00:00:42 — Walking the mall to buy a gift: three things John hates about Valentine's Day, and its one good thing, gift-giving as empathy

  • ★★ Realising mid-game that it is Valentine's Day, John goes to the mall for a gift and buys his wife shampoo instead of a necklace. (playful) — 00:00:42 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★★ John says all gift-giving is economically inefficient, and Valentine's Day is the worst because people are given things they wouldn't choose to own. — 00:00:45
  • ★★★ John calls Valentine's Day perhaps the most potent symbol of a weird obsession with romantic love, as if loving sustained relationships were only possible with a sexual partner; why not Best Friends Day? (hedged) — 00:01:07
  • ★★ John warns that a life singularly obsessed with romantic love misses much of what is fun about being a person, and costs a lot in diamonds. — 00:01:22
  • ★★ John likes holidays celebrating service, sacrifice or historical figures who embodied our values, but sees no point in one celebrating romantic love: needing a reminder means you're doing it wrong. — 00:01:31
  • ★★★ As far as John can tell, Valentine's Day's one good thing is that gift-giving, though inefficient, is an act of empathy: imagining what someone else would want. (hedged) — 00:01:45
  • ★★ Being empathetic, John concludes the Yeti wants the video finished and uploaded by the time she gets home more than hastily bought toiletries. (playful) — 00:01:58 · Sarah Urist Green

00:02:10 — Praise for Hank's Your Pants; P.S. pointing to Hank's Valentine's Day Truth or Fail; sign-off

Humor (significant)

  • Mouth stuffed with marshmallows, John realises the date he just said is Valentine's Day. — 00:00:37 > «It's Valentine's Day, isn't it, Hank? ...CRAP!»
  • John buys his wife shampoo for Valentine's Day instead of a necklace. — 00:01:04 > «Good Lord, Hank, I've purchased cars that cost less than that shampoo.»
  • John congratulates Hank on launching the Your Pants forum. — 00:02:10 > «great job with Your Pants! ...is a sentence I never thought I'd say.»

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