"Model Citizen" | Dystopian Animated Short Film (2020) 

Brave New World! I think you'd like it

Utopia *is* dystopia. Or are you telling me you want to live in a world where everything is perfect?

The Giver

@@alexschmidt443 My Utopia is to live in a society that is forever improving. Perfect is not a destination, it is journey.

No shit that's what a dystopia is

And it wasnt even jon it was a random robot

He was looking for validation that his life was worthwhile, it’s mostly a lie, but it comforted him

I see it like this: he genuinely like the robot, and the robot most likely likes him to, but as he said, “duty calls”, he was ordered to kill them

@@aaah3234 BUT look at joe when he comes into the house. LOOK AT HIS CHEST. IT HAS A SCRATCH ON IT! And look at joe when he has the axe. ITS GONE! Which means thats not joe!

Zombie Gacha but the whole premise of this is that there all connected by the same hive mind, even if thats not joe, he still has the same memories

I believe it’s even beyond simply accepting this cycle; but rather, they all embrace it and agree with what it entails and aims to achieve.

That is just how brainwashing works, it's stable if everybody believes in it. Also quite similarly to how propaganda nowadays goes to work..

When they get brainwashed since childhood They have never seen anything different ot better than this They are taught that this is the onky perfect way Thats simply hpw propaganda, idealogies and religions work

I first watched this about 3 years ago... I was actually wondered many times over the years what would happen if someone said "No, I'm not doing that."

@@thedocdodge they would have simply killed them and then show in news how bad they were calling them terrorists

Apparently that was very intentional (according to the making of video) it seems that he was trying to convey a dystopia not through the suffering of the citizens but rather the elimination of all deviation via propaganda and when that doesn’t work, force. Also funish fact, the life they are forced to live is based of the nuclear family, hence why so many people in this comment section are saying it doesn’t seem like a dystopia. Because they have been exposed to actual propaganda (very meta I think)

A problem with this society is that the population won’t last very long because only one kid is being had and two adults die so half the population just dies

@@StarHuman-bi9ln pretty sure not wanting to be unhappy is the very thing making us pursue solutions to our problems

*monotony

​​@@fishHater It's the epitome of Blissful Ignorance.

Lizz Hannsz What a dark joke

Yeah she was 30 gramma was 30☹️

._.

What’s a grandma?

Why would she want to see Grandma? She knows her grandparents are model citizens. Why would she need to see them?

"you're talking mad shit for someone within duty calls distance"

@goatnorth Swearing is a no, no I’m AutoDale. Duty calls.

@@confusedasian2212 oh no

you have been sentenced TO THE PIT *villager music*

@@isabelliss3234 for a swear word? ...completely in character can i do a swan dive?

After living a perfect life the end price was too low for me.

This is why dictatorships are so stable. The people are brainwashed to the point where the state is the only thing they love.

I thought he was going to push him off.

Fun fact: that’s not even Joe! Joe has two scratches on his body plate and that robot at the end does not.

I automatically hate you because you used emojis.

u can only have one child, or u arent a model citizen

​@@liv_bear that seems very unsustainable. So every generation the population halfves.

@@Titancameraman64maybe the goverment is simply trying to replace the working and middle class with robots and the remaining citizens are simply just there to be wiped out without any backlash

That’s not very model citizen of you 🤖

@@dylanworboys7321 what if I am the model city creator🤖

True

Hoooly

Ever heard of the entire town that contributed in making the Hiroshima bomb without none of the 7000 citizens in said town knowing. They only found out about it after two days it happened in Japan. Then again not even the vice president knew about it as the town was kept from the map. [All those citizens were aswell prisoners of war] go figure

Yup

Very true

Oof

Ohhhhhhh SNAP

That is scary

YO BRO NO

Yup

Not really.

i'd disagree with this philosophy

​@cranimation2133 Yeah, this kind of philosophy is so depressing to see. The idea life is only worth anything when it's gone, turnt to death, is a very solemn and gross outlook on a world where everything you do does matter. The truth is, the kiss is only interrupted for a moment; there is time to kiss. The idea that responsibilities existing means you can't seek out pleasure until the end is so bleak with no real reason for it to be. There is so much time. Have fun with life. You only get it once.

No not really? Most people live another 35 years after their kids have grown up. Death usually isn’t that sudden.

Found the brainwashed people. Gross sex addicts. Maybe try a pet instead of kids.

this is by far the best meme reference in this comment section so far

@@urielectricstudios5946 Agreed

Clever joke boyo

@@jaydenslaptop6548 Extremely Except Joe called em true model citizens at the end even if they old so that ruins the joke making it bruh

Watch Logans Run. That came out decades ago about this

People who are in the line choose to be there but they are brainwashed into thinking this is the way of society

God bless

I think in some of the older Autodale animations you can see people trying to escape

@@brilliantchaos5397 The video shown here is propaganda

Oceantale Roleplay Sans 3.0 I realize that, my understanding was that the original commenter was under the impression that everyone in Autodale is completely brainwashed though. Which would be understandable if this was the first Autodale animation you watched.

Having to do something every time gets to you. I don't think I'd make it to adulthood. Besides, dying with "ugly" written on your face is not very dignified. There's some truth to it, though.

Contented happiness? To you maybe. That life seems incredibly depressing to me. I would like to do something with my life and have actual purpose. And that death was anything but dignified.

@@sassyqueen9739I'm sure if you asked them, they'd say their lives were full of purpose. Mr. Robinson had a son, a loving wife, and a job, and Mrs. Robinson spent her time raising their child, cherishing her family, and finding joy in smaller things such as dancing. They worked "in service of the cycle." They don't know that there's more out there, so they don't wish for more. They were content with their life, as seen when Mr. Robinson thanks Joe before dying. He's grateful for the life he led, even if it ends shorter than he'd like. However, this is the kind of life that only people who are naturally "model citizens" can enjoy. A family-oriented straight couple with a man who enjoys being a provider and a woman who enjoys being a caretaker are the only ones supported by this system, and only for as long as they're raising a child. In other videos we see that many people AREN'T happy with this system, but in this one we see that for a select few... it's the ideal life.

@@sassyqueen9739 No where in the original comment does the OP specify "contented happiness" = "having no purpose and doing nothing". Literally everybody has to do something to be able to survive and majority of humans seek purpose. I think by "contented happiness" they mean fufillment or "self-actualization" in one's life overall.

Best comment ever.

I love this book so so much

1984 was such a good book.

That really struck a cord in me

@2028 JC It seems likes china takes the whole world over. Stay strong.

Particularly topical today... As the last free people are trying to retake our nation from the collectivist authoritarians that stole the most recent election. Either we stand against leftwing tyranny, or we will die to it.

the only colour they find is red and seeping form their now crushed skulls....

Oh shit thats deep

@@nnavejas85 well you see the person in front of you, if those eye holes are real

It's cool how you noticed, nice catch! But for real that's sad as hell, but also very symbolic

Holy macaroni... What an observation.

I am Michael. I am ai. Hello.

4*, now.

Closer to what?

@@saraspivey1129To this being our lives

@@saraspivey1129 Closer to this being our lives

Ahhhhh soo realtable

Just like keep it up guys I want to love more

I bet they were like, "wtf man? I just wanna die.." relatable indeed 😔

LET'S GOOOOO !!!

@@newblue2468 Oh my god I'm just gonna kill myself right here and save them the trouble, ffs

That is because it is the only type of living they are familiar with, they don't know that there are better living conditions out there. And even if they did they would probably be so brainwashed they would see it as a dystopia.

Every utopia sews the seeds of a dystopia. My comment isn't an empty platitude. Look up "Behavioral Sink" - researcher John Calhoun's studies on mammals under utopian conditions. Mammals, and particularly primates, don't fare well in utopia because it removes all need for normative behavior. The result is a descent into violence and decay. Horrifying.

Tom Noordermeer yeah but they’re humans, if they’re not sociopaths they’re gona feel empathy for others, and somewhere down the line there’s gona be someone who realizes the terrible dystopia they live in, whether they act upon this realization though, is something that’s not easy to do

@@Anny-me9ny Good point.

@@Anny-me9ny It could also be that they aren't brainwashed but that they rather have a collective understanding that they can't resist the authorities, ore maybe they realize that if they rebel everything could fall into chaos. Perhaps they are forced to choose between safety and freedom.

I’m glad this is still getting recommended to people. I love Autodale.

Dark, so very dark

I was like #666

Who's Joe

Prince Memer Dickson II The robot that checks on the Robinson’s. He also was the one that killed them

@@elmvine joe mama

What’s scary is people are raised to believe crazy things everyday and it’s a real thing but not as extreme as everyone being raised to believe the same thing

@@jellyfishi_ Completely agree, except for the gender part.

I mean, the concept of wrong is extremely subjective, so if they think that something is normal, it's not wrong

@@theblandcharlie822 Well, I don't have anything personally against people that believe in more genders. But I do not like when they force me to call them something that I do not believe in myself without even knowing them. I don't dislike people who aren't straight or believe they are something else than male and female. But I don't want to get confronted and get mad at just because I called someone who I believed was a female (who looked like a female and sounded like a female) a female. If your appearance is feminine I will call you a female unless I've specifically been told that you don't identify as that.

Tric all that reminds me of what the nazi's did they never questioned what they were doing as wrong despite how horrific

Ew. You have serious mental issues. Seek help, sheep. BAHHHH BAHHHH

if anything gets too perfect it gets boring, that’s why mistakes are a thing, and that’s why perfectionism is so hard to achieve. without mistakes nothing would be imperfect, leaving every perfect, so expecting the best thing every day would be exciting until it gets boring. idk why people say they wanna stop all the problems in the world, when those problems are the reason why we do anything to stop them.

EraserWinks Oh, making mistakes isn’t the problem. Making too many mistakes is.

Daniel Kim true, but also being perfect is a problem too.

EraserWinks Also true.

@@memorybackpack I agree, like how too much dopamine (idk if I spelled it right lol) can make you immune to it, making you want more dopamine until nothing gives you enough

I thought the uglies were simply people who actually were unattractive, not just older. This video indicates otherwise, however. Those were some well-aged middle-aged people. This is a lot like the Giver and the Uglies/ Pretties series in that regard (only in Uglies, those are the people before they got plastic surgery; the older people still move to a separate community, however).

If you are interested there is the giver which depicts a very interesting society as well very different though less distopic

I read a book in school called “De Hvide Mænd” by Kenneth Bøgh Andersen or “The white men”, it is very similar in concept. I don’t know if it has been translated to any other languages.

@@zephirrism1128 It still is a dystopia... Spoiler for the Giver They still kill the older people, although it's more of euthanasia and is disguised as a celebratory going-away ceremony rather than a publicized bloody execution.

Yea, just wish the animation made the parents look older.

I love how they don’t question it tho. They just find it normal.

Тупо... Ты точно так же стоишь в очереди у смерти которая может знатно поиздеваться над тобой перед тем как убить, а потом доооолго и мучительно давить морально на родню. Здесь дружественный безболезненный взмах без последствий и вот ты закончил счастливый цикл...и всë

​@@Gerald22222 Do they have any other choice? Isn't death a certainty?

@@aqilkurniawan8294 I mean I guess they have a choice to run the heck out of there. But that would be pointless cus of the robots and the wall. But I don’t think any of them would want to run out of there.

May i ask you a question what is this (ngl )word you guys use so much

Nowadays!

@@v-ziro3671 "Not gonna lie"

@@v-ziro3671 it’s an abbreviation

@@v-ziro3671 no offence but are you boomer

@Heidy Cruz which*

justin no he/she spelled it right

it was edited so im guessing it was witch before he made the edit

@@damiansimpkins8387 I can confirm

aight... imma head out

I professionally kill people but dont worry im a chill guy

I professionally kill Ducks but don't worry I'm a chill guy (Edited) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UDoG_w6Jy-g.html 5:50

Totally

Programming.

I think that’s the point. The robots are meant to seem like they’re on the citizens’ side to prevent mass panic. It’s okay - everything’s okay - this is how everything should be, now keep being a productive member of society and don’t worry about it.

yeah duh what you don't get it?

MrRandomGamers it's in the name too

UGLY

It requires the acquiescence of the citizens to perpetuate the system, as does any authoritarian state. If enough of the population were to resist, the state would fall. Hence the need for continual propaganda to support the system.

Especially the p*nis tower

In the short about the exceptional lady she wears no mask either

Amazing Username I felt like it humanized them a bit more. It definitely hurt more to see them die when I saw them without a mask.

The mask stays ON during sex.

@@crusader-yv9zr nice

I guess as of this video, it can be generally assumed that all citizens take of their masks every day to talk, eat and other various activities. However, most of the time they are ordered to keep them on.

Probably because they don't know any other way of life; obviously Auto Dale doesn't allow anyone to have knowledge or education on things like government or history (which is full of ways that humans have governed themselves for centuries like democracy, communism, monarchy etc), so the citizens living there have no idea that society can be governed by human beings and make their own choices rather than living as dictated by machines and then thrown to die when they lose their usefulness. If you ever read Lois Lowry's book "The Giver" and the main character's reaction to learning about different ways to live than what society forces onto him, you'd get a better understanding of it. If you gave these "model citizens: a history book filled with knowledge on how human governments and societies were run before the apocalypse that gave rise to Auto Dale, they would be *1)* floored that there are other ways people can live and be governed, and *2)* enraged at the cruelty Auto Dale puts them through compared to nations like the U.S, U.K, Canada and Japan where people can live and choose as they see fit (not saying any of those countries I named are perfect but they're clearly better places to live than Auto Dale).

yeah but to them, they lived a happy life probably more happy than most humans now and they wouldn't even dare to think the robots who gave them this perfect life would be bad.

It is like real life tho

Enter China

Just like in our world, we see those who suffer and we don't care because we are good model citizens

no, its just life.

That’s not how it works?

Such as life

sem...

What are they supposed to do? Clear the area and put a gravestone right there and eventually turn the place into a graveyard?

Who’s Joe?

Nope No joe mama

@@aaaaaaaaaa7862 It's what the Robinsons nickname the robot that comes in their house every day.

@@apocalypticpotato8795 You should be a comedian. I'm surprised you haven't gotten any girlfriends from your comedic genius.

Robert Avery I’m not gay but thanks for the compliment

Lol

Lol dude (or girl) 😂

who tf is Joe?

Oonakin joe Biden haha got em

JOE MAMA

Timestamp?

@@satriamarshall312 0:25

oooo thats so cool haha

:O

yesss

I hope I get to see it in shcool

@@Gerald22222show it to your English teacher. Made they’ll incorporate it into class. My teacher did!

I also find it disturbing how they thank the robot. They’re thanking their killer which is very messed up.

@@lulusmith780 he was a "friend" of the family. They thank him for all these years of "friendship"

Ah~ propaganda at its finest.

true model citizens the robinsons were. in life and death.

Acceptance of futility. Theres nothing they can do, and they'll die more slowly and get everyone else killed for rebelling, and the only reasonable course of action is to just accept it. Human nature is survival, and when it's clear that there is no chance of surviving a rebellion, we submit. Every dictatorship runs on this principle.

Well not everyone because in some of the other episodes there trying to escape, but yes I get what your saying and it’s very sad I didn’t really think about that 😢

It is sad, but it reminds me that the world isn't perfect, people are different and we're still fighting for our safety and no matter what happens we're still human and they can't take that away from us

1984 ending vibes...

It has 666 likes and I’m leaving it here

Tch, the American life is worse than this.

Right? Robots could at least provide suicidal booths for model citizens with 'Thank you' note.

or they are old and old people are considered as uglies and nothing more nowadays when in old times they were considered as wise people.

Bad Luck Uglies might just be an interchangeable word for “Not suitable anymore”. Think about it, it’s a good way to dehumanise people, as Uglies are not fit for life anymore and thus killed, which is easier to accept once you dehumanise the person dying. It’s a tactic used in the military as well, dehumanise your enemy and their death will be easier to cause and accept

@@edwardzero9275 what sort of stuff would they say in the military?

vitali Well, for an example. There’s a term known as Haiji, now if my knowledge serves me correctly it’s based around the fact that people who go the Mecca are Hajs, but I’m not sure. It’s origins is regardless though, what matters is who used it and how. The US marines coined the term as a racial slur to use when they invaded Iraq. It was a racial slur made to dehumanise the enemy and make it so killing them would be easier. This tradition dates back to WW2 when a US I wanna say Military Intelligence personnel made a report that dehumanising the Japanese made their own troops more effective, and that as the enemy was going to be brutal, so must they too adapt to that and be brutal to their enemy by giving them no mercy and seeing them as a less then human light (the Japanese went a different way about this, they dehumanised the Americans but also romanticised the idea of dying for the Emperor). They’d do this by taking them through hospitals and showing what they did, inventing racial slurs, making negative comments about them, blaming stuff on them, seeing them in a overall negative light. It should be known that not all Military personnel are like this. But it is a tactic utilised by the Military to make it easier to get the job done

*_Joe_*

Blu ?eoJ esohW

@@BioCraftHero *_amam eoJ_*

it makes them both more human and....not.

Maybe they're just all called joe

Ikr it's awesome

mama

*Karate chops him*

Joe mama

@@jordan3574 Who's joe mama?

*Vibe check*

Angel MacIntyre copied

They get an early vibe check if they ask who Joe is.

b3pSu Time *late

Um. The parent's masks said ugly, like everyone else's. So wtf are you talking about? You need to "notice" better.

No more lonely virgins, right?...

二千八 I guess that’s one of the positives of living in a dystopian society.

I’m in trouble

No no, they have a point

Oops 22v here that would mean I'd be gone, this some lobster shit

True

I'm sure some have two wasn't here the one video where there was a little boy and girl watching the TV

In Autodale you can have 2 children, but it's rarest

They might have a very slight over population issue, and are curbing it with a one child policy. Not a bad idea given that there is complete loyalty to the system, and unlike in china there isn’t a preference for men over women.

I think it means there is a place where people are not model citizens and are breeding like rabbits, but are still used by the machine.

But in previous episodes they have two kids

The dad was just shooting blanks....

Population control maybe?

Kinda like real life, except more honest and less horific.

Honestly, this is what we need. Humans have overpopulated the world. It's not very sustainable. A law such as not having more than 2 kids could drastically lower our population and relax our natural resources quite a bit more.

"And hope this cycle will never end"

This video is fake opposition. The system don't want model families in nice comfy suburban homes, the system is anti-family the system wants atomized childless individuals that slave their whole life away.

And your families are juice.

The way I see it, it's implied that if the machine dies, so does everyone inside the city eventually. So in a way the population is sacrificed as they grow old in order to keep humanity from going extinct. A compromise, and well yes a very messed up one at that.

@@user-jy5qm8nc9m there is more than one system at play, my friend..

Brainwashing at its finest tbh. Although it makes me wonder how many generations of "defective" humans it took to reach the current model of "use and disposal" (although there still seems to be those that realize the system is fucked up/get singled out and attempt to escape). As well as it makes me wonder what new adults are told about their parents after they leave the house tbh. How the hell do you spin "oh they were killed and dropped into a pit" in a way that's not horrifying and would make anyone emotionally attached to his parents nope the fuck out? How deep goes the brainwashing go, that people will happily walk into their deaths and even thank their murderer? So many questions. Autodale keeps managing to fascinate and completely horrify me lmao

@@katsucandy Agreed. They 'taught' them meanwhile they're young and managable; along with the inclusion of ''special'' people; those that are 'bright' enough to realize they live on the butcher farm. Maybe the adults've told that their parents're... ''retired'' ? Akin to the blade runner's retiring of used replicants

Well, it's a propaganga film, of course they'll be happy.

@@SakiNaoko I mean; this is more of a documentary/documentation. We see the life cycle; the explaination. Not a strict propaganda

@@thedoruk6324 True. But it's still played.

People has always seen Human as tool and mechanical things since the beginning of civilizations. Slaves, Forced Labor and etc

There is no choice but to endure it patiently

Joe: *yeah i'll dance with your wife since y'all passed the 50th vibe check in a row*

*bonk*

This is soo sad like if agree😥😭

Ree Boii The robot at the end is not Joe, he does not have the scratch on his breastplate...

@ManiX LoneWarrior cool

[ Content ] [ X ] what a chad

I guess they finally failed the vibe check

Love the man

what if we vibed in the death pit......unless ?

Everyone fails, once you dont have a kid, you are gae (bad)

ya your right

You're right 🙁

This is the world Biden envisions..

well in a way doesn't our world work the same

@@pxrple380 nah they show other families with more than one kid in other episodes I think it’s just easier to animate one kid

IKR

Whole(almost)Concept of video In a Message so well Written

The quote about trading freedom for safety has been miss appropriated so hard that it hurts. The sad thing is, the Founders would (after being explained everything to get the context) would agree that there IS such a thing as too much freedom. Welcome to a world of moral ambiguity, where technology has a hefty determining factor for how much freedom and rights you can have...

This is my favourite comment so far. It perfectly sums up this video.

@Sems Fiction an old saying "fuck bitches, get money". Besides it's comedic connotations this saying tries to teach the individual that if you focus on building your career and legacy as a man you'll attract females along the way bur if you focus on attracting a partner you'll never find one. Happiness and meaning have a similar relationship. If your meaning is to ne happy as much as possible then you'll never be happy but if you find your meaning (being a father, and artist, a charitable man, for example) your life will be meaningful and you'l find happiness

Well said

But i think there not only model families

you're RIGHT :o

open borders

Just never stop having children and the cycle will never end

You right

ugh ikr soooo annoying

Yep...Im still here in the line and...THEY STILL WON’T STOP KISSING-

SOMEONE HET THE CHAINSAW IM ABOUT TO KILL MYSELF WHILST IN THE PROCESS OF KILLING THE COUPLE

Speedy Katrina IKR- They still won’t stop kissing huh? Lemme push them off-

WTF- GUYS I TRIED TO PUSHED THEM OFF BUT THE ROBOT SAID TO WAIT THEN-

Im afraid thats how the cycle of model family works😂 Hi btw🖐

Scott Land maybe that’s the idea

It's to prevent and decrease overpopulation

Yes. Otherwise they'd run out of workers. You need a child to replace each parent.

Not if you’re slowly replacing people with automation

I just picture doom guy coming to this little town and seeing the propaganda, and pulls up his shotgun cuz it seems he rolled into a town that was in need of his help

Hence the killing of older people. Those who have time to reflect on the society they live in and perhaps time to break the brainwashing

Binyamin Dragon won't they just kill them then? that doesn't really break the cycle

@@dinodude6992 Doom Guy vs. Handyman. Who wins?

@@ldbonq Given how he's rampaged through the legions of Hell, Doomguy easily.

Ummm yeah.

Actually, if you look at the others, they do sometimes have 2 or more children, just the families focused on didn't

@@cassiel5630 Which others? I didn't see any families with more than one child. And the broadcaster at 0:28 even specified that a model family consits of a father, mother and one boy or girl :3 Edit: True! In "being pretty" and "don't feed the freak" I've seen families with two children.

That’s what I was thinking, like they are literally destroying their population, they should all have at least 2 kids

@@wassermellonie I think they're talking about the other shorts in this series. For example, in the first short, "Being Pretty", there's a family with two children.

Willow Wisp I agree there are indeed families with more than one child

Yep, thats what I thought, crappy design.

I feel stupid but why

Wdym?

Oh wait I think I get it

There are chances the family may have twins

Ethan Gatenby in there eyes they think what we think is fine is horrifying and horrible, its just how you were raised and thought to believe what lifestyle is considered fine

they accept it because its what their masters told them

They are being manipulated into thinking that this is a good way of life but, notice their tones when telling the robot about their day... even in "No Monsters" the uglies obey and point out the girl! it is insane and cruel knowing they are living and dying over and over!

That's what is so interesting about this story, because in theory they are much happier then we are, so is this necessarily a dystopia? After all everyone is happy and even those who are silenced still follow the rules. And we look at this story thinking we have it better, but do we?

It’s supposed to make you question the world around you now. They accept their fate because that is all they have ever known, to their annihilation. What terrible fate have we accepted for ourselves today that we do not even realize because we know nothing else?

Threndor _ or what are the model citizens “jobs” like because autodale wouldn’t have a use for them if they didn’t have a purpose

I don't think they do anything with them. I think its more like a landfill situation?? Once the hole fills up they fill it in and start a new one.

In the video "making of being pretty" the creator said that Uglies are fed to the freaks, but I believe that the story and his vision for it has changed a lot since then because now we know that freaks are actually humans and it'd be weird if they were cannibalistic

I think it provides something for the weird mother thingy

Land fill