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That smile... that damned smile.

A deep, journalistic investigation into the main topic on everyone's mind these days: emoji. Why are they yellow? And for that matter, why are LEGO yellow?

...Come to think of it, why is everything yellow? Am I dying?

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Huge thanks to Elliot Sang and Foreign Man in a Foreign Land for joining in for this one – highly recommend both their channels, if you're not familiar.

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This cut's nearly finished. The main things missing are some music + a final audio pass (it's a little noisy right now – should be better in the final).

I'll see you next week for the final cut. If anything happens to me after that, please know: it wasn't an accident.

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Patreon Version: Why Are They Yellow?

Comments

kyrr kark

thank you for sharing this! no one has been able to explain the simpsons to me for a long time (i don't know how I got US citizenship without it..... I guess I just pretended well enough), and you may have finally cracked that code. <3 can't wait to recommend to friends and family when it goes live

Brainblame

This was a fun watch Lily and you are making valid observations…it’s definitely worth fine tuning it… and maybe emphasizing a little more some issues you only peripherally refer too with more enhanced creative visuals but from an Edgar Alan Poe perspective you’ve only got 48 hours to live before you become a international phenomenon !!

Fabi Fabiano

this one was really funny Lily, i especially liked the “some mail came for you” bit

frogsmore

Ray Kurzweil; is he The Yellow Man?

Pat Biss

Loved this. The Neoliberalism jar and Maoist third worldist lego took me the fuck out. A work of art. Bravo.

Carson Bullock

Fascinating video, and some great jokes to boot! Personally, I'm a big fan of the two-hearts emoji 💕 because I like to imagine that one of the hearts is me and the other is the person I'm sending it to, or the object of my affections, and the emoji shows the connection between us.

Ora Uzel

Love your videos as always! And another yellow thought is that the Fairy Flag was probably at one time bright yellow with sparse little red "stars": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_Flag I always think of this on the topic of yellow as a symbol.