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  • get a haircut

  • This is the same thing i go through on a monthly basis... then I find some clothes I lost 2 months before, put those on and try to act differently... then the cycle repeats, never really changing, always thinking, this isn't me, maybe the next one.

  • i just noticed that he writes backwards behind the paper

  • I loved this video :)

    First of all we are all trying to figure out ourselves until about we reach adulthood (around our 30's or even further in life). And we are who we choose to be and we are who we feel good being.

    The sec. u feel that what you're doing now it's right for you, that's exactly who you are. And yes, people evolute and change during their whole life.

    A guy I really like said:People are like plants. If they don't grow, they die.

    So we're constantly changing :) it's WHO WE ARE! :)

  • I don't exist.

  • i go between country guy and fresh dressing womanizer

  • I don't know if it's ever occurred to anyone but just perhaps every single person has this exact problem and it's only a few of us that over analyze this and panic because of it.

  • In the words of Bill Hicks:

    "We are all one subconscious experiencing itself subjectively"

    so yes

  • You, sir, are a very intelligent person.

  • write a book.

  • we're just a mutual conciseness experiencing ourselves....

  • I am me and I know no more.

  • Life is like a dream that you will forget when you wake up. It doesn't matter was it a nightmare, or some nice dream cause you will never know that you saw it. It's same with life, only difference is that there is not waking up. You just don't exsist anymore, and no matter what kind of life you lived, it was pointless. Thats my life philosophy.

  • I was like this, but then I decided to just give up on fitting into a type or whatever. Just dress in a way you think works for you, live a way you think works for you. And anyways, your personality and the way you look is incredibly insignificant if you think about it. It's what you do that counts. Stephen Hawking, Einstein, they're remembered for what they did, not who they were as a person,

  • I'm pretty sure we're not everyone.

    Cos I'm definitely not them... I don't like them.

    In a completely different way to the way I don't like me.

    And the people I like, I like because they're more like me,

    but in more of a way I like....

  • You're handsome!

  • You are one of the funniest philosophers I've ever run into!

  • You're the guy who draws on baking paper on the internet.

  • Lol I enlisted just to have definsion really and I guess it's ok don't know if I like it though I find it funny how civilians will asume so much about you if your in the military and either like you and walk and talk to you or dislike you and boo you or giv eyou dirty looks really werid I don't really fit into the soilder charecter at all so I find them odd boots to fill basic really sucked lol. But after awile go assimilated into and have pretty much lost my personal indentity =/.

  • By the way, I love your eyes, man :3

  • Now, I am what you say I am. I wear black, so I`m basicly a goth. How would you know what I like, dislike, love and learn? You don`t. That`s the point. I want to give people mixed sings. I would, for example, wear a black shirt where it says "Evil", but in glitter. What would that say about me with my other clothes? And I`m just stuck on clothes.

  • very interesting and highly informative about the concepts of being human

  • Dude, I'm a Marine and I still feel that for all intents and purposes, I'm just some guy... fuck.

  • I found that, when I truly am "myself," I end up sitting around all day, messing around on the internet. I don't really have a true goal for myself (the closest being "don't fuck up any one else") and I don't really feel that I have a place among the others. I'm sort of okay with this, but from time to time it gets to me, and I get depressed for a while.

  • I know exactly what you mean, but I don't try to fill roles. I just kind of absorb bits of other peoples' personalities, and it freaked me out when I realized that I did so.

  • We are water poured in different glasses.Different factors and events mold our personality.My individuality is shaped by events,people and experiences that i encounter due to choices i made at some point using a judgement altered by other factors.I also cannot be truly unique because i have similar needs with other individuals,i just fulfill them differently,since modern day is giving the same rules,standards and conditions our needs are alike,and each generation is more alike then the last.

  • Mirror neurons. Look up "Athenes Theory of Everything".

    I can relate to this video so much...

  • There's only one Lev Yilmaz! But, why do I relate to you so much?

  • It's strange that a theme as central to human existence as this one is rarely illustrated with such accuracy. Oftentimes the foremost truth of identity crises is needlessly buried under a festering pile of embellishment and self-aggrandizing wankery. Refreshingly, your exposition broke the mould.

  • man your videos are so badass

  • From what I see no one can really tell who they are. You go through a lot of shit in life and slowly find out. "hey. I fucking hate that" and then when you start to find things you like then you start to know who you really are. You might not be all one thing. Like a chefs and all you do is talk about food 24/7. But you would have many different tastes so you can't really say exactly what you are but all you can say is "I'm myself"

  • @88demongurl life itself is a never ending phase of self discovery

  • @Maaguaa that is true

  • My past identities:

    1. Nerdy, super-caring dork who got good grades

    2. Jock 3-sport athlete who worked out everyday and got a six pack

    3. Stoner rebel who stopped caring about everything and everyone

    4. Drug dealing delinquent who always carried a blade and lived in a trap apartment which ended with me getting a felony

    Now, here I am. 3 days after being bailed out...I don't know what to do. I feel like my drug dealing days are over and that I can't assume a previous role. Who the hell am i now

  • Funny sponsor joke!

  • I am a person who doesn't like fitting in. I don't care what people think of me. I rather just do what comes naturally to me.

  • I think we are mirrors.

  • I'm myself. Who myself is? Well, that's the real question...:P

  • I too tried to find who I was. I came to determine that's it's easiest to be nobody. I'm comfterble with the idea of lacking an identity, because it allows me to focus on the little things that make me happy instead

  • oh NO No NO! I'm some guy ,me, there can be only one

  • That's funny. I just am myself and don't have to ask this question. I know who I am.

  • @Subaquatika And that's why, you're boring as fuck.

  • wow 0.0

  • you have awesome hair !

  • I think the same. Who am I?! I usually get distracted with life's issues and social dramas and forget for a second that I'm on an endless quest of self discovery. Someone in an earlier comment said you may need to see a psychologist, but I disagree. This seems like your therapy and it's awesome. Thanks for sharing. You are a great mind.

  • Somebody please help me because i have started suffering from depression..My family don't accept me and my friends and even my boyfriend feels that i am useless..JUST BECAUSE I AM OUTSPOKEN..! I have started losing everyone. one by one. And that is why i have started living in my own imaginary world..is it bad or worse?

  • i actually cancel out the stuff i dont want to be then i look in the mirror and realise that they are who i am. then i set goals that i want to change myself by a said time then said time comes and im still me. then i watch a video and say aahh fuck it!

  • You should really go see a therapist, I'm not trying to be mean on this one (I watched a lot of your vids and can relate) but you seriously need to quit thinking about all these things that way you do it will become an endless cycle.

  • i used to think ur hair was blond because of the way you drew it kinda like i judge the way you probably are even though your definitely a completely different person :)

  • aren't you supposed to look to successful people, figure out the qualities that made them successful and apply them to yourself? wouldn't that in a way be ''playing a role''? (or many roles, which is in my opinion useful and clever'. Or is picking out qualities you find will propel you to success and becoming them not considered ''playign a role'' ...?

  • It sounds like you worry too much about what you look like to other people, and not how you feel yourself. This is sad, because you are adorable and talented, and you always make me smile with your videos.

  • @EmmyArts I dont think he's worried about what other's think of him as much as what his image looks like to himself. I think he wants to have a strong definition of himself and he does this by trying to see if the images of others can fit in to his personality.

  • so if everyone feels the same way, why are we all so hard on each other?

  • why haven't you called?

  • I didn't know my subconscious had a Youtube channel...

  • EXACTLY! How the hell can you "just be yourself" when even YOU dont know who that is? What do you do when you wake up, take a look in the mirror, and realise you dont recognize the person staring back at you?

  • @pntbller14 I remember when I was a teenager and I was told to be myself all the time. Sometimes I just wanted to shout back, "Well YEAH, I mean, who else would I be other than who I am right now?" I wonder if they actually cared about what they were saying and about my problems or if they were just shutting me up.

  • Are you a projection of my subconscious?!

  • you should take all your ideas and the videos that you made till today and make a comic book or try to make an animated tv show. your type of humour is fuckin clever and everyones relates to it so easy... anyway, keep doing more videos : P

  • are you like some kind of mass mind reader?

  • I know who I think you are.

    I think you're me.

    Then I think I'm you.

    Then I see all the comments below and I start to feel like we're everyone.

    Then we're not so focused on who we want to be.

  • @Vosk21 Its the hive mind

  • "Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem." - Supposedly Ronald Reagan...

    Had a good laugh at "Well, that dude's a Marine."

  • ARE WE ALL THE SAME PERSON JUST AT DIFFERENT STAGES?!?!?!?!!!?!

  • @turkeyguy0 Holy shit...

  • @turkeyguy0 NO!

  • @turkeyguy0 THAT COMMENT IS REALLY FREAKING ME OUT BECAUSE NOW I FEEL LIKE I'M NOT EVEN REMOTELY ORIGINAL IN ANY WAY.

  • @Mustoverus damn that got a top comment? its a scary thought but with 6 billion plus people on earth everyone has to have someone exactly like them

  • @manmythelegend12 So which are you now?

  • dammit now I know what he looks like

  • im glad its not just me, haha

  • I think most everyone is like this, we're all lost.

  • Your voice is so exciting. I'm always... *yawn* staying awake AAAAAH (yawnng)

  • My roles so far (I'm 18):

    Bookish loser who got good grades and was interested in genealogy and history.

    3 sport jock who lifted everyday and threw a bunch of big parties and drank a lot

    Philosopher who detached himself from others and spent all free time reading ancient greek philosophy.

    a drug-dealing delinquent who dropped out of school, delivers pizzas, wears baggy gym shorts/hoodies, carries a blade at all times, and pretends that he doesnt give a shit about anything

  • The raincoat ! :)

  • Looking at all the comments, (the top ones in particular), I'm wondering if we're all just variations of the exact same person.

    or if I actually already knew that.

  • @itssosarahh Good point!

  • One of the nice things about aging is realizing you are defined by many things: It can be your occupation, your hobby, your relationships, your police record, etc.

    We are uncomfortable if we cannot easily 'define' people, "The High School Football Hero" or "The Weird Guy Who Lives in the Green House on the Corner".

    Years later, we notice friends assume they know us according to the interpretation made at the time we met.

    Which is consistent with their view of the Universe.

  • If I end up being like Lev I'm good.

  • WOw.. HOT GUITARIST

  • I just found a hybrid of people from the cast. Made up a character, and became that character.

    Remember kids! It's not about whether or not You're happy, it's if everyone else thinks you're happy!

  • @Morahman7vnNo2 I don't know if you were sarcastic or not here.. But if not, why is it better if everyone thinks you're happy? I mean, I'd rather be happy myself with who I am and so on, than even giving the slightest little rat feces about whether people think I'm happy or not. They don't have anything to do with if one is happy nor sad, it's none of their business. No one should rule the other.

  • @PatrikLarssonRang I go through phases. It's not that I want everyone to think that I'm happy, it's just that I don't want to tell people how I'm doing, unless they ask (in which case I will always ether say "alright" or "okay," you know, for a little surprise). I'm in the middle, I'm unhappy; but I'm happy being unhappy, because I'm not sad. And when I do crash and burn, I...well you you know the rest.

  • @PatrikLarssonRang aah.. Now I understand :)

  • is it strange that I find your brand of negativity refreshingly uplifting, whereas every optimistic "go getter" speech I have ever heard makes me feel like the world is pretty bleak?

    By the way thanks Lev...I can relate.

  • I think we all live in a identiy crisis. Post-modern world made us that way. We don't know where to fit, so we try to create our own individual identity. I think every identity we try to create for ourselves are already made and ready for us to simply get inside of it. Something like "Brave New World", at the end we'll just get drunk and try to forget that we'll never be what we really want to be.

  • @BrunoMarconi1 Finally someone who realized what it's all about.

  • So wait... I'm Not the only one????

  • I feel so fulfilled at this exact moment. You see, I was deeply hoping that Mr. Yilmaz's hair looked like he draws it in the videos, and the only picture I could find of him is the one on Wikipedia in which he is in front of a black background with a light on him, making his hair disappear. Now I know it is true.

  • Be yourself ... "Can sound like kind of an empty term specially if you're not sure you trust your own judgement " Dude ... That's it.

  • Why not give advice?

  • I don't know who I am. Who can I be? Huh, that guy at the end of the video looks cool. Maybe I should be like him.

  • these videos are insane. my head so wrapped up in the factt that this guy just gets it. he understands all aspects from all perspectives

  • these videos are insane. my head so wrapped up in the dact that this guy just gets it

  • You should try self hypnosis. You can get them in CDS. It's not bullshit, I have a mind that runs all day like you'rs so i do find it hard to go under hypnotysed but i have managed it plenty of times and they do work. I mean it's some dude talking at you forcing you to think positively and in turn tell you what you want and it makes it effortless to do.

    Sounds weird and like you don't have a choice in the matter to do what the guy is saying, but if you picked up the CD then... you do.

  • Im sitting at my computer with less than half an article written, in my lad coat with a bag of microwave popcorn and there is nothing I would rather be doing, except all that stuff that needs doing. I wish i could be lev so this sounds less perfunctory, but doing exactly what i want in the moment, and suffering later seems alright to me

  • How are you not a partner?

  • Ever since i met grandfather I wanted to be a hotshot lawyer. Now that I am a lawyer I still feel like I am a dork in disguise...

  • well, obviously, you could just call yourself a philosopher, a high thinker.

  •  you just summarized my entire life into four minutes.

  • 22 dislikes holy XD

  • wow seeing what he looks like he's a total hottie!!! no shit i date this guy...lol it'd be like the male version of me... on the other hand that'd prolly make him run away screaming... seeing a female version of him with huge tits...lol

  • dude i can literally relate to all your videos except the pot one but where were you when i was in high school

  • 1:15

    i think thats the first time i've seen color in these videos.

  • I wonder if it's bad that I don't give a Ratz Azz what people think about me? As long as they don't think I'm a Nazi or eat puppies, then I'm doing pretty well.

  • My god you've read my mind!!! So others do think like this

  • The male equivalent of me...woah

  • You just explained my thought process!!

  • ive only just realised how e makes these . . . now i cant stop staring at his hand . . . O.o

  • I dont know how reliable opinion is this going to be, because its me talking about myself, but at the high school I noticed that Im trying, either willingly or unwillingly to pick up the characteristics of people I liked.

    I always wodered how someone can say "each human is original". For me it seems that there can be many characteristics, but on the other side, if there would be some crazy guy to count them all, he would end up with some number and each of us is just some combination of these.

  • @KubaZeZlina I've done exactly the same all my life. I've taken a little bit from everyone I've met to the point where I can't tell where I start and others begin. I'm not sure if maybe at this point I am all those characteristics because they do encompass me, or if I really just am empty and hollow. I often feel sad because I don't know what I really am. I guess it's just nice to see that I'm not alone on this.

  • I'm kind of depressed with all the videos because I feel the same. I'm already 27 but i guess I haven't changed. I wonder how come some other people seems to be content with who they are, chatty, social, etc while for the likes of me, still trying to fit in, looking for something but couldn't really find it. I wonder if I would even find it...

  • When I worked in a restaurant, all my coworkers knew me as a busser and the bus boy, but when one day I suddenly quit, they couldn't identify me to any role, and thus knew me as myself.

  • I'd never noticed how these drawings were done until now. Very well done. : )

  • i don't want to sound like a whiny teenager, but i didn't know anyone else felt this way and thought about this. WE'RE NOT ALONE!!

  • I always found your videos interesting but this is one of the few I pretty much identify with. I always felt like I needed to label myself as something. People I knew in high school did so and I felt like I needed to play a role even though I knew it didn't really matter. And even today I still do this to a certain extent because I never feel satisfied with my own life.

  • I think about this a lot.

    It's nice hearing someone feels the exact same way. It feels like almost everyone has chosen a sort of identity and they seem pretty convincing in it. I don't think I could ever do that, nothing out there seems to really define me as a person.

  • Your like Roger!!!

  • great videos :) subscribed

  • Wow...I wish I could have dinner with Lev! :D Imagine the interesting conversations you could have with him during dinner x)

  • Weird, I feel like he's speaking my thoughts and we have this connection, yet all the people in the comments feel the same connection.

  • @goodgirl140 I know. He's got this "Certain" target audience and it amazes me at how many people there are that think like me... Or us... Hell this just brings us back to what we started with... Not knowing who we are and whether or not we would like to blend in with "us?" Gah lol this is endless.

  • @spartankiller369 Endless indeed. Makes you wonder whether we can ever truly know for certain who we are, or if anyone can for that matter. Ah well, I guess you just hope you figure it out naturally :)

  • @goodgirl140 he speaks not about him but about our modern society in my oppinion;he is lost and so we are

  • @goodgirl140 thats why we watch these videos, basicly feel the same

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  • @goodgirl140 I think as humans we all have these similar thoughts, we just don't all voice them. We're all the same really deep down.

  • the story of my life

  • man finally someone voicing my opinions and my sort of mentality. great to see others like this. and fantastic animations.

  • I think we get so used to quickly judging and pigeonholing most of the people we see every day into categories that we occasionally worry about how other people are categorizing us. The human brain does sort of organize information that way; it makes it easier to document and recall. But if everybody does it, and we know everybody does it, why do we all worry so much about it?

  • fucking love you so much.

  • HOLY SHIT!! I Never saw your face before. o_o' But I suppose you could be a "thinky" type of person. So...Intelligent. If that helps at all...? o_o'

  • it seems like lev doesn't realize that in a mere matter of 2 to 4 minutes he packs an emotional punch compared to a physical kick from a horse.

  • You, Lev Yilmaz, are a Las Vegas magician. Or at least you look like one.

  • drugs are the answer to overcoming all of this over self analysis.

  • Exactly! It seems to be the Problem of our lives :D

  • @N53715 And mine.

  • Your hair really does go like that! :o But the drawing makes you look blond.

  • ok, now he's creepy looking..... like a serial killer!

  • I wish my handwriting is as good as the script in these videos xD

  • your glasses aren't big enough to be a hipster. ;D love your videos. i saw "a typical conversation with my mom" about four or so years ago and was pleasantly surprised when i rediscovered you today. :)

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  • Holden Caulfield alike

  • This is amazing, I've had the same thoughts as you, your not alone

  • Twilight Zone reference at the end...Fuckn Perfect. :)

  • dont like to see the lev in the videos. don't like the forwarding nor the sort of special effects he just added. other than that. good work.

  • O.O he just explained like, my whole life. I thought I was weird for taking on roles but after seeing this I feel a little bit more normal. =]

  • I think about this all the time, yet have no idea where to begin. I think my entire life has been a similar habit of trying to be someone you admire or just think has it together. Thanks for the videos. :)

  • cogito ergo sum

  • No i know that when i look at someone in the outside world i know they have more of/ a better life than me

    I'm 18 have no life and sit on the net trying to make friends

    i would'nt trade

  • Hey Lev, i've been wondering... since you actually draw behind the paper, how do you manage to write backwards so perfectly?

  • You suck ...

    ... all the juice of life and brew it and distillate it to the point where it becomes only pure knowledge, humor and poetry.

  • I thought I might be schizphrenic for thinking I was an alien for the past 2 years, but I'm starting to think I might be in a perpetual identity crisis.

  • Self Consciousness is a good thing. :)

    Something Robots don't have...

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  • i never thought that a dude with a monotonous voice would sound so fucking cool.

  • these stories are so depressing but at the same time I think, 'wow, that's exactly my life'.

  • Wow. These are really great.

  • well im only 19 but even tought this videos may seem negative i think ..this videos are making me a better person.

  • Im the first thumbs up REALLY

  • Goooshh...your eyes are beautiful...! <3

  • Everything, more precisely, your life Mr. Yilmaz, is fullfiled, since you do whatever you do, with your heart.

  • NOW I UNDERSTAND WHY YOU DRAW YOUR HAIR LIKE THAT '!.

  • same here

    

  • wtf i thought i was unique.

  • The question I've asked myself for the last couple of years. Think I have to see the world to find out.