Small Mall Review - Food, Shopping, & More! 

I would watch him review paint drying.

@@kelseylynnmac seriously though. would love that, or a grass growing review.

💯💯💯

Ian is a very cool man

My favorite is the public market center review

That is very cool seeing Mr. Ian visit a real place you have many memories of, with you even working there. Thank you for sharing

It's crazy how much that mall has changed. Hello fellow long term Everett person :) it's pretty rare to get us all gathered here

I worked at the PetSmart across from the movie theater

Well maybe one day I’ll get to visit too 😉

It looked like a mall to me.

Love to see it tbh. RU-vid has really lost its unique feel when it got too corporate like but Ian remains a really entertaining and fun channel

I stopped chasing the RU-vid one note years ago and feel world's better. Creative types should just make whatever the hell they want to make and Ian embodies that.

It's honestly one of the main things that makes brutal moose one of my favorite RU-vidrs. He has an insane variety of content but yet you still get the same brutal moose vibe and always get the same enjoyment no matter what video you see.

The only other channel I feel this way about is atomic shrimp. He makes videos about so much, and they are all entertaining

Hell probably searching them on Roblox might have exist

Right there in Ian's Magical Land Of A Shitton Of Pizza.

are you in the everett area?

@@vitzel33 its a reference to the end of the vid

More of these and more of the blank vhs reviews.

@@vitzel33 Whether or not that matters depends on how loudly he screamed.

I 100% Agree with ya there. I also enjoy these type of vids ian makes. Its like a nice hangout with a friend vibes. :)

Hey Dan huge fan hope you're well

Nice to see you here. Didn't know you were a Brutalmoose watcher.

"Iyashikei (癒し系) is a genre specific to Japanese works, primarily manga and anime. It is a sub-genre of slice of life, portraying characters living out peaceful lives in calming environments, and is intended to have a healing effect on the audience."

Fully agree. Some of my favorites.

Ian is the only person that can make this interesting

BrutalMalls sounds so good

Yes! A BrutalMalls series would be awesome

brutalvloogs?

funny seeing you here

That’s really cool, thank you Bo

I knew people that worked at that Zumiez like 15 years ago.

awesome

He kinda doesn't need to cause of his hello fresh sponsorship Though his are pretty good

To be fair I don't think RU-vid is Ian's Primary source of income. Making a livable income on RU-vid is very difficult. Even with game/film/food theory which is one of the biggest channel groupingss on the block Matt patt has claimed that his wife's job typically brings in a better income for their family then his youtube and merch profits although he also has a lot of employees so that might be a bad example.

@@angrynoodletwentyfive6463 It's so weird because some RU-vidrs say that RU-vid is more than enough to live on with 200,000 subscribers and other with like a million will say they are just getting by. It must depend on how many people you employ, where you live, stuff like that. But it's honestly confusing trying to sort things out from behind the scenes

@@Hajilex and on top of that Ian always makes his sponsorship bits on his videos fun to watch, so it doesn't feel like you are hearing a youtuber you like read the same product script just for the sake of supporting them.

@@misteryA555 I think it’s just how big they want to be. Some RU-vidrs probably live in a modest home and live a little more modest but some RU-vidrs have employees or live in a area that is expensive to live in but that’s just my guess

nice patterz

Bruh Patterz.. we legit watch all the same chsnnels lol. I find that so cool for some resson.

Wow I've been seeing you in the comments section a lot lately. I didn't know you watched brutalmoose.

It’s weird seeing everyone here experience this mall that has been in my life for aslong as I can remember. Amazingly mediocre. It always felt like it use to be better when I was younger, but that’s probably cause I was young

@@deaconpostle6883 I think a lot of people resonate because it's pretty similar to most malls we went to as kids

That's why I threw Matthew in the lake. he's a goddamn whino saying strange shit like pootin'.

Considering my local mall is around 150 miles away and I miss it, it was a good video. Reminded me of all the things I enjoy about it.

As do you, Luke. I hope you and Ian make another collab this year!

@@rudeboyspodcast agreed

It's his vibes, swag, hair, and his great editing.

He really does. Some of the best editing and vibes in the business.

Grammian!

9 years left!

Hard agree.

You put my feelings into words

S-tier comment. Really great stuff. Thanks for sharing. And thank you too Ian.

It's been a year since your comment. I hope you're doing good!

Yeah these kinds of videos I think are my favorite from Ian, he just works so well for these chill videos, it works so well and its relaxing but also very engaging and enjoyable too, its a very nice blend.

Yeah thats why i go out and eat random mushrooms without identifying them when i get a craving for fresh mushrooms

It's like the craving for cheap spaghetti you get from an all you can eat

I feel that way about school pizza. It's a nostalgia thing

yeah like i really like cheap like chewy ice cream

The Sbarro effect.

It's terrible... Trust me haha

Love shopping thrift stores, so I'd be down to see what he finds around town.

Actually he has a tiny bit in the past. Back when this channel used to be primary videogame based. He did mention the fact that he found some of the games at his local Goodwill. He even has a video series about Mystery unlabled VHS tapes. Most of them he picked up at thrift stores.

@@michael1234252 That's true but I'd like to see him actually go to the stores explore. Something like this episode but with exploring thrift stores.

In Everett, I endorse the Assistance League thrift store.

LGR Thrifts is a pretty fun thrift store shopping series, if you haven't seen them already.

i felt so seen with the invader zim comment 🫣…

Hey thanks man! Love your mall vids.

@@brutalmoose I'm surprised we didn't see you play with any coin pushers!

I know right? Pinball machines are my favorite arcade machines and i havent seen an assortment of them in AGES! Sometimes ill go into the coin game just to mindlessly try and top my islandville: the game (the ONLY pinball machine in the coin game) highscore.

Just thinking about you after Ian did this.

Bumpernets at the riverchase galleria in hoover,al has a good pinball selection.

i hope so.

I hear American A&W are mid, but since I live in Canada they're great. Are they any good in the states?

@@sachyriel I havent seen an a&w in years every one around here has gotten shut down

343i has killed halo

Yo, Greenskull! Didn't expect to see you here, and agreed! More!

343 loves Halo

420 hates halo

It#S really crazy thrugh how much different stuff he went with this channel and still be entertaining to watch. Ian is one of those RU-vidrs you absolutely watch for the person and don't really care what exactly he does.

Or his entire second channel for gaming - though half the time it's like 15-20 year old games

Ian is the best 👑✨

3pm on a Monday here. Haha.

Ashens taught me to believe that no sleep pays off. Oh boy, 3am!

Not to shill but check out Retail Archelogy if you love malls since he covers places like that a lot.

I've only gone to a mall twice in my 30 years of life. They just are too far away and I feel like I'm missing out.

Yeah, I'm sad about that too. Lots of nostalgic adolescent hours spent traipsing around those halls. Weird dates that always inevitably ended up in the adult section of Spencer's. Sneaking into R rated movies with my friends. Loitering in Barnes and Noble, chugging coffee and inhaling entire books for free. Even my first successful shoplifting experience. It was a snow obsidian necklace from one of those hippie stores, by the way. I stole a rock. 😑

@@MadamFoogie MAN!! I remember trying my best to pass as 18 on the weekends after curfew with my friends and lying to the security guards saying we left out ID’s at home. I always made sure to get pretzel dogs from Auntie Anne’s, a brownie from this little bakery, and a jumbo smoothie from a smoothie/ice cream place in the middle of the mall. I will ALWAYS love mall culture.

I honestly feel so bad for kids these day who don't get to experience that quintessential, um, experience of going to the mall, reading all the latest manga at Waldenbooks, or if your mall was really nice there'd be a Barnes and Noble connected to it, and then not buying any of the manga you read, feeling up the geodes at Natural Wonders, looking at the latest anime merch at Hot Topic and mentally checking off which ones to ask your mom to buy you later, seeing what new Pokemon toys were in Kay Bee Toys, getting chicken nuggets from the food court, and then hanging out in the arcade with your friends for 30 minutes while you waited for your movie's showtime, and knowing your mom only let you go because your report card was good and because you have this incredibly cheap phone that you can only make like 4 phone calls from each month so it's JUST FOR EMERGENCIES and you better call her as soon as the movie finishes. I mean I do still see groups of stupid teenagers in the mall today, but they're missing out. Last time I was at a mall there was this group of teen girls and you could tell that it was like a Mean Girls situation where one of them was the popular girl and the other three hated her but were hanging out with her for teenager-related reasons. They were right at the table next to us at the food court, so it's not like I was stalking them. Just happened to overhear them and see their faces while eating my pretzel dog.

THEMALL! was kinda a polarising experience to me back in the day. Bad was sitting in a smoky car for an entire hour, and then being dragged around all the stores I didn't wanna to be at to try on clothes I rarely wanted to wear because my mother had terrible taste and oft refused my choices. But good was the movies and getting to loiter in book stores gawking at all the expensive things - there once was a particular mall with a particular bookstore I'd happily book my way towards despite it being on fourth floor and no elevators. And sometimes the cheap thrill of glass floors on the highmost storeys...

I'm sad the malls are dying. I had so many nostalgic adolescent hours spent traipsing around those halls. Weird dates that always inevitably ended up in the adult section of Spencer's. Sneaking into R rated movies with my friends. Loitering in Barnes and Noble, chugging coffee and inhaling entire books for free. Even my first successful shoplifting experience. It was a snow obsidian necklace from one of those hippie stores, by the way. I stole a rock. 😑

@@shards-of-glass-man Heheh. _" . . . A particular bookstore I'd happily book my way towards."_ That sounds like some goofy slogan for a Scholastic book faire. But I get what you mean, the mall bookstores were always lots of fun to hang out in. Especially if they had a really good coffee shop. Sadly, even bookstores are dying off these days. But I'm simple like that, I enjoy a good physical book to curl up with. Nothing smells better than a well-loved novel, imho. I also agree, going clothes shopping with a parent was an exercise in pure misery. My mother also had an inappropriate taste in clothes. She wanted me to dress like a thirty-something office worker. And since I had a distorted body-image at the time, thanks to my blooming puberty, it always felt like I was a circus freak on a leash being taken on parade.

That depends on the mall. I was born in 98', and whenever I go to a mall in my city or the neighboring one it's always filled to the brim with young adults, kids and teenagers. The one from neighboring city has a big arcade, two cinemas, three video game stores, a whole floor dedicated to food corners like McDonald's, Burger King, sushi bars, two pizzerias, three restaurants(one vegan only) etc and that floor is always so full you most likely won't be able to find a place to sit at and eat your burger in peace despite the tables being set on two different floors. BaCk In YoUr DaYs argument means nothing here(not to mention that argument is dumb despite what's it talking about.), the malls just have to be set where a lot of people are- that would be places where tourism is big, close to the town square, next to a train station, big cities with a lot of mixed cultures and where there isn't anything more "interesting" around to spend your time in.

But is it Uncle Roger approved?!

@@bvoyelr Probably not! But I know even Uncle Roger couldn't argue with a ton of fried rice for a few bucks 😂

Right? Here I was thinking this was exactly like the rest of his content - excessively random and beautifully chaotic in the best way 😂

true.

Pinball “tables”. 😟

How's escaping Washington? Better or worse

@@abcoatings better in some ways but worse in others. I really miss the trees that stay green through the winter, but since moving I’ve grown to love taking walks outside during rainstorms because the rain is warm and a rare treat. Best thing about WA though is you don’t have to worry about Lyme disease. Ticks really bum me out now that I’m back east.

@@lj8507 Idk if I could ever find a better state than Washington for nature.

@@abcoatings that’s a lie and a half all you have to do is go anywhere in the south because we have all types of nature from the Appalachian mountains running through Tennessee and North Carolina to Louisiana with its swamps to parts of Texas with its desert we have it all besides the jungle we don’t have that

@@suno_grimm1264 considering it’s an opinion...

I agree. I never thought a mall review would be so entertaining but now I want more lol!

Dan Bell

@@Kylehudgins Agreed, but... that's for the other end of things. I do love me some dead malls, but it's refreshing to see one that still has some life left in it.

someone stole your comment, and it was liked by ian 😃

@@snowr4507 Well that's kinda weird. Whatever you gotta do to make yourself feel good I guess?

@@bryanmartin8336 sadly it’s not a person, it’s a spam bot (with a butt icon)

Everett mall used to be the spot. It's not as great as it used to be unfortunately. Surprised to see brutalmoose heading to that one as there's Alderwood right there but I think Everett is a more accurate showcase of Washington as a whole.

Sad to see the closed theater when he first entered. That was where I saw all the classic late 90s/early 00s blockbusters as a kid

@@jaxsongreenwell9777 it looked real cool. i never went to this mall before though, but the setup was just like the mall i used to hang out in. ironically the mall this one reminds me of also isn't as good as it used to be. alot of the good stores including gamestop closed and the arcade did too. but how similar it was just brought back alot of memories.

@@MrRyanCock lol i wish my mall had a theater back then. that sounds really cool. it's a shame to hear that it closed down though.

It used to be a Sbarro?

You might be thinking of Mike Bell. His channel is great fun, lots of dead malls and other urban exploring.

@@lucretiamacevil362 I think you're right

​@@lucretiamacevil362 Dan Bell haha

same here. As soon as he passed trader joes, I was like hold up; ive been there.

So stoked for an even more local mall.

Same! It’s so weird to think he might live in my city or something lol. I want to see him go to the Seattle premium outlets in Tulalip next!

What time could he go to Alderwood when it won't be swarmed, though? Even on Tuesday mornings there's lots of people. Definitely a good mall, though. My only real complaint is the Cinnabon is near the Lego store, and I love legos but I'm allergic to that cinnamon oil they use to make the Cinnabon smell nice.

Seattle Premium Outlets would be great. The Cabelas next door would be a fun spot to feature