Strangers Cure My Fear of Abandonment 

damn, "Don't worry about being abandoned, worry about abandoning nobody."

This is the type of art that can only exist in a dystopia lmao

made me realise how much i miss humans and genuine interactions

The editing feels like something off of 2000s Adult Swim late night programs and bumpers. Absolutely love it, it reeks of something deeply human.

Dude this editing is sick, love the narrative x documentary style. This is the content youtube needs.

Tilek misunderstanding who was supposed to be Michael Jordan in that analogy is peak comedy lol

I love the conclusion, there’s people in the world that are willing to abandon you and those who aren’t, you need to surround yourself with those who won’t instead of those superficial friends who will. In the end the superficial friends would’ve abandoned you anyways, they are spilled milk and don’t deserve you investing your time into them and you don’t deserve to be wasting your time investing in them.

typa shi to rewatch when im sad

PLEASE send this to film festivals they will guaranteed except this work of art.

LOVED THE BREAKCORE

Joji walked so you can run 😂 This is like a love letter to the internet I grew up with. The aesthetic is completely new yet distinctly nostalgic.

Oh... 5 minutes in and I'm crying, lost a friendship recently. It's been really hard and this helps.

Jeez the musician guy at the park 😢 he got through to me. I didn't learn anything new, he just reminded me what I already new.

8:37 anonymity filter's supercooool + loved what she had to say

woman at 8:52 has BARS. this video also came at a really good time for me. thank you for making it, its wonderful art

the video style just kinda embrace the crappiness and i love it

I love the sincerity in the people’s voices when they talked about abandonment

right now people are more connected than ever, yet more people now feel the most isolated. it's hard to move on when it feels like they were the only person that helped you cling to reality and you just want to feel that sense of normality again. it's hard to try and connect with new people when you're looking for someone who is not in your life anymore.

I dont know if i have the words to describe this correctly, but this whole video is satire and comity, but the underlying messages actually envokes very strong feeling about navigating friendships and brotherhood. It both entertained me and also made me think hard about my current friendships. Awesome video 👍🏼

Being vulnerable enough to make space for others to share their own vulnerability is a big risk. Thanks for doing it and sharing what you found from it.

This made me feel emotions I didn't know I had

"She's out there still hugging somebody" Very tasteful. The chaotic interactions with strangers linked together with a general over-arching story reminds me of 'Nirvana the band the show the webseries' from 2007

This video feels like it was made in the 80s but with footage from today.

I've been utterly alone for the past three years, and I'm just feeling the consequences of being abandoned for most of my life. It really gets bad especially when you endure it from a young age, makes you so indifferent and misanthropic but I feel like that's the only way I've learned to cope with it, its just an emotional barrier you create to make yourself believe that you'll feel better without the help of anyone else, when in truth I acknowledge how desperate I am for any connection, but it's this thing where you don't want to get better because you'd rather stay in this little space you've created for yourself. Video struck a nerve in a good way, been thinking a lot about abandoning the very few people I have close to me for good, but that would make me just as bad as those who abandoned me, and they don't deserve the shit it'd dump on them. Thank you for this.

"you should see a therapist" that shit hit hard

Friendship is as universal as abandonment.

Person at 8:35 had wise words like poetry!

I love this so much, I was getting tired of all the professionalism in every RU-vid video these days but this was exactly what I was needing. Everything felt a lot more natural to watch and that had a lot to do with the editing. The teachings were also great too especially the concluding one because we really do have to appreciate the people who we’re left with :)

I think theres a difference between abandonment and moving on in life. And I think your perspective on it can say a lot about your inward facing feelings, past trauma, and concepts inside yourself which are tangled up.

Dude this is fantastic youtube needs more indepenedent creators like you. This is what the algorithms should be promoting!

This channel just screams: "is going to blow up and have a 500K subscribers by the end of next year". Glad I can finally be part of the type of ppl who say I was here before it was popular

i love advice coming from all walks of life, this is beautiful

dude this shit makes me cry so hard, you've inspired me for sure.

Just wanted to say thank you for all the support this video has gotten :) It means the world to me and I’m real real appreciative 🫶💛💛💛

Loved the video! I struggle with this sort of thing, still working through it all. It's tough, especially since the more afraid you are, the worse it all gets. I am starting to appreciate the passing of time and relationships, though; I'm beginning to feel grateful for the experiences I went through and learning from them. It's still a long road ahead, hell, maybe one without an end, but progress, even minuscule, keeps me going forward! Watching this has given me more motivation for learning to move on and not focus on trying to see if I'm living in my good times. Times only get good with time, and I find a certain beauty in that. Knowing that sometime in the future, I will appreciate the effort I put in makes it all more worthwhile. More on the topic of the video itself: I loved the editing, choice of soundtrack, and substance! I'll probably come back to this in a while and think back to this time...

This video became my favorite on this platform. The editing, the music, the message, everything just makes it one big piece of beautiful artwork.

One of the best things I’ve ever watched. Beautiful conversations and just so many moments of awe inspiring wisdom

There are some goodbyes that leave you feeling relieved, while other goodbyes leave you crying. I've been at both crossroads and that's real life lessons.

That skit with the friend punching you made me think you might be the Filthy Frank of Gen Z, but after watching the rest of the video I realised that you're much more than that. The skit was cool tho. You made me realise some things about myself, too. This really is art, and you should keep making it.

Chills, I didn't even think i'd commit to watching this video in full but now that I have I've learned a few things and I hope this video attracts a bigger audience because it was edited and put together extremely well. Loved all the unique interviews and the acting was good as well as the voice overs. Pretty neat lesson

Some tears were shed as I watched. Their words really hit as someone who’s loved and lost here and there, and that shit had me laughing too. Just be appreciative of the good times you got to experience, and move on for the better. It’s definitely difficult, but not impossible. Much love, great stuff you’re making

this. is. awesome. I think I found my comfort channel.

I loved the energy of last man. He put it out so simply and beautifully. That's all we ever need to remember; our present.

This got some 2000 era movies vibes

The visuals, the delivery, the discourse itself, all have that magnetic feeling of something satisfyingly fresh. Interesting and very entertaining. Чоң рахмат, жакшы жумуш

I felt really seen by this, thank you. (I just kind of ending up explaining my struggles below.) Two years ago my friends of 3-4 years left me while I was having a bad mental episode from them repeatedly hanging out without me over the summer when I needed them to help recover from breakup, to help take my mind off it. They would send pictures of them hanging out and screenshots from a separate GC into the Discord server we had together where they knew I could see. They went to a place I talked about wanting to go to for a few years now, a place that is a special interest of mine and I love dearly and was looking forward to going there with them. I was angry and upset cause they never how I was feeling seriously. They told me we were never close, and I can't ever know if they meant that or not. My ex recently apologized for some of the mean things he said to me, and I've learned that my old friends have been making fun of me since we stopped talking. He didn't say what exactly, but from the way he talks about it, it sounds bad. It makes me continue to question if they ever really valued me, when I thought it was the best friendship I ever had. I feel guilty for still being sad about it, whenever I tried to reach out and look for answers they said I just need to move on. I still get nightmares about them and have so much more anxiety being vulnerable with my two new friends I met 5 months ago. It feels wrong for them to want to do something to help me if I feel lonely. I'm working on stuff still, it does get better, even if slowly. Meeting my new friends has helped me finally practice new skills I thought of since I lost my old friends. They're really understanding of me too, seem to actually take me and how I feel seriously. I talk with them when I plan out steps for me to do when I'm feeling unwell. Helps with communicating how I feel and not feeling guilty for it. And if they can't help out at the moment, we plan something for later, it helps me still know that they care.

This is utterly ridiculous and simultaneously soul wrenching. Idk how you managed to tug the threads of laughter and crying so that I oscillated back and forth the whole time, but it touched me deeply, with the message to stop abandoning myself. Thanks for this incredible video and I hope to see more of your future work.

RU-vid needed this kind of content. It feels like everyone has been trying to follow the same formula, but this feels so beautiful and refreshing. Keep it up! 🗣️🙏

This is extrodinary, the one that is put beyond words, this was deeply healing to me. Thank you.

This is art. That man with the guitar reminds me so much of my uncle who moved away. Miss him. Wish you the best on this channel and life's other ventures!

I love this. Silly and deep at the same time. My favorite vibe.

my girlfriend broke up with me about a month ago, maybe more. since then a lot oh thing have been happening in my life and in my head. for sometime now i have had this feeling that things maybe could go back and maybe we could be toghether again, but i know things wont work, because niether of us are the persons that we met in the past, she is different and so am i. loved your video, i think watching it made feel better about somethings, and i appreciate that, thanks.

Really hope the algorithm treats this well. What the guy near the end of the video hit me pretty hard. More people should see this.

Life is an adventure, people and things come and go. You have to explore ♠️

this is genuinely so helping because i have the same fear, too and jsut hearing these people giving some of their advice helps a lot thank you for this video, looking forward to the next ones !

Engaging with multiple strangers for advice can be great for getting input and tackling a problem from a different angle, as long as you can separate the good advice from the bad. Doing this, can potentially be a way to build a sense of community with people around you.

wow that roommate guy is really handsome. I bet he's smart! and funny too!

I watched this video over the summer where I always feel extremely lonely. I had this longing urge to find what I had with a friend that is no longer in my life. This video changed my perspective on things and what I mostly got from this video, you can't cry over spilled milk. It is what it is and things have already happened and they cannot be changed. Instead, I should stay in the present moment and appreciate the friends that I have now. Thank you:)

Last guy's advice hit me real hard. I was trying so hard to not tear up in public lmao. Love this video tho and u deserve a sub for that

If therapy is what you are going for then this video exactly gives that. Love the editing style the vibes are immaculate makes me feel nostalgic even if I didn't live that. Will look forward for more. Keep it up y'all are amazing !!!

This was brilliant, the editing and the story go perfectly with each other. I see your vision

this video is so new and refreshing, total MTV downtown vibes

This the type of content you watch over and over and eventually know it almost word for word ❤

the world needs more of this. thank you

dude this is so sick. thank you for art

Didn't know I could get so much things from just a 15 minute video. This is pure art, that needs to be recognized by more. I love you Tilek

everything about the two videos scratch an itch in my brain I did not know existed. They are so my style with everything from music to editing. You inspire me like crazy

im unbelievably impressed with the two videos on your account and the youtube alg has blessed me. this is some fine art nostalgic yet dystopian and relatable in a weird dream like way. love this

We are all like puzzle pieces, we try to fit in every place, if you somehow do miss a piece tho, you will eventually find it and put it in its original place, a quote from me

expressing your feelings will never tear away a true friendship

I love just finding beautiful stuff like this just scrolling on RU-vid. Like dude your style of film and editing it such a gold. Keep going please this is enjoyable content

I paused every 30 seconds to reflect on my own life. This video helped me think about things i had long forgotten or pushed down deep inside. Thank you

I really like the humor in this, the rawness... it's great stuff and I love the point you have to all of it and how well you build upon that point!

Love the filmmaking style, giving off Nathan Fielder/The Curse vibes with the 4th wall commentary and humour. Awesome work man!

that guy at the park was so sweet, honestly wishing the best to him, kudos.

The first woman you interviewed was my favorite, I loved hearing her encouraging Tilek to just be honest with his feelings, as well as the way she gently disagreed with the other woman's more indirect approach. Even though the confrontation with his friend was painful and embarrassing, at least it was "the truth" in a sense. (I really wonder which side was accurate about the bear, I've absolutely had friends try to gaslight me at the end of a relationship, and it's so tough to tell if it's intentional or really them misremembering. I know some people struggle to set boundaries without getting angry at the other person, and sometimes the fear of vulnerability is so strong that it's just easier to demonize their opposition.) I could go on all day so I'm going to stop now 😂 tl;dr great vid, really loved it, especially how well scripted the fight scene was.

“All that negativity, just throw it away” Preach it, brother

This is literally a masterpiece, the quality of the video has skyrocketed since your last one. Love the 2000's esthetic, you should keep going with this.

The conflict or dissonance this satire put in my brain by the deep commitment to the character and actually walking through manhattan with the bear, and the genuineness of our strangers…

this felt like watching old friends get together. loved it !!

This video showed up on my feed at very needed time. I've been in this toxic cycle of abandoning people before they could abandon me due to a best friend in high school telling me she didn't wanna be my friend anymore and moving on with other friends. It scarred me so much I isolated for years. But I can't be a victim anymore, I refuse to be like her. I have to choose myself and live for myself. People will always have a life of their own, and now i'm gonna start living mine at my own terms.

I love all the vibes permeating from this vid

11:11 that creep cover hit so hard bro

you getting photos at the end is just so sweet 😭 thank you for this piece of artwork you’ve given to this hellscape that is the internet

This is exactly why I downloaded youtube. Great video man!

love the editing of this one a lot better, the other video felt like it was making fun of the interviewees sometimes, this one really feels like its about them. feels genuine, and that its about their lives

im really surprised at how small your channel is !!! this is really beautiful and i literally aspire to do stuff like this,, i hope your channel grows. this is amazing :]

GOD, I love this, idk why I'm crying but this is FUCKING MASTERPIECE. Keep creating, ur good at this.

This is absolute aesthetic heaven. The editing and vibe is just *chef’s kiss* Im a third of the way through, and can already see the passion and enthusiasm you’ve put into this. Subscribed, and I look forward to watching your other content going forward.

This is incredible. Please make things forever. ❤

"I appreciate the friend I had all along. He won't leave me, he can't, he's not real" The cameraman: "oh"

editing and style is so awesome dude. i luv the juxtaposition between outrageous silly story/real human moments && also u trying to get the friendship back/we werent friends in the first place attitude. thanks 4 this

This is beautiful and really strikes me as someone only just now really putting myself out in the world due to being chronically online /unsupervised internet access since 3rd grade LOL.

Art right here. Incredible creation !!!! Love from Aus❤

-I immediately send a link of this to a friend who is a big john wilson/nathan fielder fan. I think how you play with the camera though is refreshing. Everything looks like fun to shoot, so even though the video is kinda melancholic the camera work makes the video feel like something you had to create to express yourself. Cathartic yearning. anyway, good job!!

keep this up man it fits perfectly into my head and i love it ❤

Make more! I love ur soul. Very precious mind that reflects all of us. We got this

no need to fear abandonment when there's nobody there for you in the first place

This is so good. Wasn't expecting this kind of atmosphere or any atmosphere at all when I clicked on this video. Loved the editing, the music, some people's opinions and occasional goofiness. This feels more like a passion-driven art project rather than another regular podcast or something. And it's also a pretty important topic for me as well, since my best friend will be moving to another country in a couple of months.

i honestly love talking to strangers you can learn so much from them and their perspectives