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CHUBBY BUNNY...blergh!

2011-02-14 · letter vlog · John · 2:27 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Everyday life · mode: Personal essay · tags: timely hook, community lore, self promotion

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

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

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 · Chubby Bunny

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
  • ★★★ John says the one good thing about Valentine's Day is that gift-giving, though economically inefficient, is an act of empathy: imagining what someone else would want. — 00:01:45 · empathy
  • ★★ 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.”

Threads in this video

Mentioned

Central: consumerism · empathy · romantic love · Valentine's Day

Also: Chubby Bunny · in your pants (“great job with Your Pants!”) · Sarah Urist Green · Truth or Fail · Your Pants

Only in the description or credits: iDoInternet

Also centred on consumerism: November 23rd: BLACK FRIDAY! · November 27th: Eagle's Nest, Blogger's Choice and Shopping · Nov. 30th: A CHRISTMAS RANT · Thoughts from Yachts

Also centred on Valentine's Day: The Puff Pwns Gravity · Your Spying Thieving Valentine: Hank · Happy Third Chocolate Day! · Valentines Candy Taste Test with Hank and Katherine

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