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[Nothing is non-fat]

At first this felt awful once I saw the redneck characters, but somehow by the end of the video, I could see this as an entire low-budget Adult Swim 15-minute anime with comedy/dialogue similar to Cowboy Bebop, but somehow with a slight level of mundane absurdity in a swampy environment. The way the girl was so shallow and willing to change herself for a handsome and random stranger's whims who instantly agreed with her, seemed to clash so much with her personality from when she complained about living in a hick town with bud lite XD.
Him walking off after offering her a yogurt while letting her know that there's no such thing as nonfat foodstuffs was just cool and true, because the way nonfat food works is that it overcompensates with added sugars, which will turn to fat anyways.

[9 Shiro Smooooch!]

Oh God I'm loving it, this music is so wonderful and the animation is so smooth and fluid!

[Excited Patience]

This is beautiful, I loved it!

[Sora Kingdom Hearts Tinkerbell summon]

This is so lighthearted, colorful and fun. I wish the actual series looked more like this!

[BUTCH]

So I really appreciate the level of work that was clearly put in here. You could, at the beginning, see that the people look anything but. And you humanize readily with the bright and cheerful, less creepy looking (marginally less creepy, anyway) Butch. It seemed a lot as if his customers enjoyed his glory days when he could "do it all"- But the moment he meets a limitation is the day he loses his 15 minutes of fame, and attention. After that, he's just... So desperate for attention. I'm personally scared and very easily disgusted by body horror and depictions of meat and viscera, but this was very emotionally poignant as well as it was depressing and sad and a bit frightening for its graphic depictions.
Edit: Ooooh right, I forgot you did Arnold Fossner!
If I may say- You outdid yourself in using a mixed media approach here. It was unsettling and jarring since the beginning, but it absolutely worked and communicated a different kind of 1930's era glamor, right until things got darker later, to where it almost took on a more surreal and grimdark tone.
Your work with these older male characters always tug hard on my pullstrings after they end up becoming screwed over by predictable or natural occurences and stumbling somewhere in their career, but reacting in extreme ways to compensate for their experienced losses (In this film, Butch decides to use an insanely large meat grinder to grind more meat to make a masterpiece, even though no one is around to see it. He becomes disfigured in the process, and recreates a crowd, possibly for.... emotional validation? I don't know, it seems like a lot, but I think it would be understandable that a human being would crave some basic glory while working such a basic job/career.)

I wonder what this theme could be called? Do you have any further insights on your work that you'd like to share with us all so that we won't miss it?

MaxJohnsonINK responds:

Thank you so much for your thoughtful reply! There are a lot of deeper emotional connections I have with the film and it’s creation that I may share at some point, but it’s still very cool to read people’s interpretations like this, so I’ll hold off for a bit. Thank you again, this was great to read!

[Where's The Candy?]

Yeeeeeah, this terrified me. Too much. Only rating because it was objectively good, and I came for the colorful and cute and friendly character... that ending was... too much...

[The Not Really Ghostbusters vs Not Really Garfield]

The best Ghostbusters parody I've ever seen!

[Kirby Literally Dies (Cartoon Parody)]

This feels like Kirby Airride because of the background and the way Tipods generally look.

ShoutOut responds:

truuuuuue

[The Passing Of My son, Ethan.]

OP, please explain what this is. I don't know what to feel except sad.
Edit: No, I'm being serious. I saw you 8bit ant and verb respond within the minute I posted, but I want answers.
Edit 2: Please respond back.

[The Ultimate Showdown Collab]

As a huge Lemon Demon fan and lover of animation, this made me hyperventilate and experiance several deaths and rebirths in the span of the actual video.

When the credits started to roll, I felt like I had finally reached some kind of promised land.