I have been chronically online for the better part of the last 10 years now. At a certain point, things stop surprising you. You can only see so many videos of people falling into rivers or having their gender reveal parties jacked up before you’re kind of jaded on it all. It’s how these things work. If you watch enough of it, you have to level up. The next thing you know, you’re watching someone take a butcher knife to what looks like a dog and you’re just hoping that it ends up being cake. Yeah…I’m of that age when you could just see anything in the world you wanted to see on the internet and your parents had no idea how to stop it. Still, even with all of that context provided, there are still times when I scroll past a video that immediately makes me pause and say, “what the fuck?” Today, we have such a video…and it’s either incredibly disturbing, hilarious, or it’s some of the most thoughtful art we’ve consumed on Tik Tok this year.
i have no explanation for this tiktok but i’m in awe of it. it feels like either a tim robinson sketch or A24 horror film. pic.twitter.com/YuT1PRXYy6
— sean yoo (@SeanYoo) September 7, 2023
I don’t think a caption on a Twitter video has ever been so accurate, my goodness. This does have either ‘Tim Robinson’ or ‘A24’ written all over it, which reminds me…Brandon, Sean, and I just dove into A24’s filmography on a recent episode of The Patreon Files, which you guys can go listen to here.
I have to know how this ends. We just see some kids running off into the distance carrying all of these shoes. There’s some indiscriminate yelling (presumably because I’m a redneck that doesn’t understand when someone’s speaking a different language), and then there’s some big ass prison fencing in the background. Where is this?!!? What is going on here!? This is an A24 movie because it gives you a deeply unsettling feeling seeing this stuff while the expressions on the children’s faces are nothing but joyful. There’s something oddly dystopian about it, and it definitely has that feeling of “something is amiss here.” So…like…good job, I guess? I don’t know – like I said, I’ve been on the internet so long that I can’t tell what’s real and what’s not anymore. If aliens can ever give us the secrets of life, this is the first one I’m going to ask for – “hey, that video with the kids and the shoe piñata…what was up with that?”
That’s not the only question I have about this video, though. The fact that they’re hitting this piñata bag and an entire grown human man falls out of it feels like something. That’s definitely a choice that was made, and we never go back to it. That man’s ass just hits the ground and we’re off to the races with all these kids roaming around in shoes that are too big for their feet. What did that guy do to deserve such a punishment? Is he dead now? Did those kids chase him down and kill him? This is so dark. This video is so fucking dark.
Also, as an aside, if this is some Russian holiday activity that is a totally acceptable cultural norm, someone let me know so my mind can rest.
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