Help me choose a prop!
🕑 Added 2018-12-11 07:00:40 +0000 UTC Hey folks! Working on the Flat Earth vid (I'm working on this and Death Note at kind of the same time, hopefully I get one or both done during the rest of this month!) and I couldn't decide between two prop masks I was thinking of using, so I thought I'd get you to do my art direction for me lolLeave a comment letting me know what you think!
Also attached is the example of how awful my lighting and colour balance was before I fixed it in post. Lol I just put the camera down and hoped for the best making this
Comments
Tim-Tam Toe-Jam
Death Note?
Dave Dorricott
Number one is better cos it looks like the one that it is from the video where you decided to use it months ago. Wait, why am I commenting? To amuse myself? Oh, okay.
@thiccrat_
this thumbnail made me cry out in recognition at seeing the very image of a drunk slavic man sitting outside of an apartment building on a small wooden bench.
New patron here but long-time lover of your videos. I prefer number 1. Keep it classy
Freddy Larsson
Nr. 2 please mr Harris.
Don Friðrik Ólafsson
I prefer no. 1
I liked number 2! I thought it looked vaguely lizard-alien-ish despite being a butterfly.
Hmmmm 1
Dave
Thanks for sharing and no preference, sorry XD
Utomneian
butterfly mask? cosplay as a Mesmer from Guild Wars 2 potential :D
Fool Errand
If you're willing to do a bit of finicking around with mask 2, you could probably make that look vaguely crocodile-ish. Either way though, it looks hilariously much and thus I vote for that as-is.
lil-big-boi
if you want it to look like a butterfly go with the 2nd one, otherwise i would advise you to modify the 1st one a bit to make it look less like a butterfly (i dont really like the vagueness)
1!!!!!!!!!!!
Mask 1!
unspun
go number 1. more culty.
Mara Weber
#1 is very Eyes Wide Shut, if you don’t mind that kind of vibe.
JeMaKat
masque 2 had me laughing so there's my vote
I like the 1 more
Definitely 2
i think mask one would work bettter, really exited fro the new vid!
luca
Something about 2 just feels more cult-y
beesups
Awww yea #2
#1 for creepy factor
James Russell
Another vote for #2. #1 looks like Abbath's face paint, so if you ever wind up doing a video about black metal, it'd be excellent for that.
Dont outsource your art direction, you bastard... The 2nd one in all the ways is the better one.
Vsevolod Zubarev
The second one is ludicrous so use that one!
alexis
the first mask is probably better but I also like how much the second one is EDIT given the essential "very brief joke", I agree with brice pullan who said if it's dark and real go with the first one, but if it's silly and srs do the second. I vastly prefer the second one personally so I hope you go with that
Second one!
I’m a #1 fan myself. Seems like it would work better than the oddly over-butterfly’d 2nd one.
Calysto
definitely go all out with mask 2
Ellie B
#1 is SO you!
Ellie B
#1
#`1 the simplicity is in itself creepy
#2 Is certainly very much. I love it
Timothy Crittenden
The third one.
The first one
#2 😎
I like #1 better. Also, I was not very amused watching you eat blue, just alarmed. I am always a bit distressed seeing you shovel down stuff that looks outright toxic. I wish you did more healthy and wholesome things for our amusement instead. Like doing regular exercise and eating a healthy plant-based diet. Those are very amusing, yes, I promise. Please?
TheRoguez
pick #2 m'lord!
#1
Cyrys, God-king of the Pantry
#1
#1
#1 is #1 just looks like edgy slimeman man please wear it. and jesus christ i hate the second one so much. it's got these exposed blocky stiffy thingies and they clash so much with a butterfly concept in a bad way pls ignore all the votes for it and just give it to a kindergardener or something.
Useless Himbo
I love the second mask so much, but the first one would probably fit better. Please make sure you use the second mask in something else though, it's beautiful!
Mask 1 makes you look like a porn parody strong bad so that's where my vote is going
TalysAlankil
Much as I adore the silliness of mask #2, my vote goes to #1.
George Mac
Mask #2 is so much and I think it's necessary. #2 gets 2 thumbs up from me!
Timon Pike
Mask #2 would be perfect with some green gems or something in the holes...still vote #2 as is though.
The Doom Merchant
#2, being extremely Extra™, seems the best choice; especially if you never bring attention to its extraness in the video itself.
Ken High
A BIT MUCH A BIT MUCH A BIT MUCH (so yeah, I'm a fan of mask #2)
Second one is sillier so I gotta go with that one
Occam's Blazer
I've gotta go with #2 on this one
omg the 2nd one tho. it is a bit much. but the perfect amount of the fucking most.
No Skull mask? Mask 1 then.
It's a hard choice but i'm going to support the eyes wide shut look.
If the bit is played dark and real go for #1, if it's supposed to come off really goofy go with #2.
ThatKat
Mask 1 is more austere and a bit spooky
michelle artbear
Mask #1 is more regular-sinister, but my vote has to go to mask #2 because it looks like some form of ridiculous armor with its various ridges.
Andrew H
I vote mask #1
Alex Scranton
#2, definitely, it brings out those beautiful eyes
Phaos
Go with the second, Hail Sobek.
First one is too classy, more like something you wear to a cult orgy. Go with the second one.
Casey Connor
I vote for the first one just because #2 gets a little visually messy with your usual floral background.
I'm so pumped for the Death Note vid!! 💕 Number one!
Raw Data Analyst
Head says 1, heart says 2. #2 it is
#2 is too good not to use
blahmoomoo
Definitely the second. The first is more of a regular masquerade mask.
Mask #2 Makes you look like you have the most extreme bone structure. It gets my vote
Scaredycrow
Two is too good not to!
A_Blinkin'
The first one.
The second mask!
my vote goes for the second mask!
William Heathcote
My vote is for the first, but the second one might end up being funnier, knowing you.
Voting for mask #2. It’s more ridiculous and silly, and considering it’s a video about flat earthers.
Starboi
The first one!
Subspace Jet Witch
Use both, wear the smaller one first, and then the second one as a means of humoristic escalation
The second mask easily. As Jim Steinman said, if you don't go over the top, you'll never see the other side!
minohoonoo
oh definitely the second one
Raboute
The first one looks creepy, I like it and would choose that one.
I like the second one better- it looks WAY more out of place
The 1st is more culty, the second looks like you should be a prop in a Contra video. And I also enjoy the smell of paint just a tad less than the smell of vehicle exhaust fumes. Ah, sweet pollution.
2nd
Sol
Second one by an absolute mile
William Edwards
Easily the second one
Tristan
Second for sure
Also, as someone who plays a ton of miniatures games, I've never worn a mask while spray painting. That might explain a lot about how I've turned out at this point in my life.
The first one looks good if you are planning to be just generic cult member 37, whereas the 2nd one looks better if you plan to be the cult leader.
Has to be the second one.
CS Drennan
I like the first one, it looks more likely to be on a crowd of faces than the second one.
Irony is always a person's best friend so the second one is the best one !
Allyson M. Holley
Be extra! Second one.
Abbey
The first one!
willow H
2nd, no contest
ruru
1st one! Or both lol
Do both
Bikzimus Maximus
Use both on top of each other.
Penny Gotch
First one, I say. Also nice dressing gown.
Sara Hjertkvist
First one. I think it gives more off a vibe of "creepy mask" while the second one instantly makes me go "oh butterfly"
Marvin Just Marvin
Second mask!!!
Siegfried Pinzer
the first one
Second!
the second one omg
Greg S.
The first
Melody Williamson
2nd
I think that most mask is best mask so it's got too be the second one
Garrett Mitchell
The first one
definitely second mask
the second one looks like if you were in a butterfly worshipping cult, you'd at least be getting some of the profit. go with that one.
TheGreatMuffin
The First.
The second mask, for sure.
Jan Meyer
The first.
pls do the second one omfg
The first one looks really good and culty but the second one is really funny so I'd choose that one. Also I wouldn't worry about imminent death too much cause in my first year of uni in chemistry I straight up HUFFED a vial of bromine accidentally (ow, and also probs for the best I'm now an archaeology major) but now I'm totally fine. No permanent lung damage. I'm sure you'll be just fine
Jake Erickson
#2 works better, i don't think that you can really parody flat earthers with anything minimalist, you have to go as big as their imagination is to show them that you mean business
The second one for sure, the more ridiculous the better.
Ruben Rydell-Sandgren
The second one is hilariously over the top, and therefore the only choice.
Definitely the second mask. Is the Philosophy Tube video the one I'm thinking of? So excited!
Avery Penn
Second one!
(Gay) Rosencrantz
so my vote is for #2. I know the first one fits better, but I'm deeply in love with the second mask. Hbomb pls do me a solid and do some kind of content involving it even when #1 inevitably wins
MyFineAsymptote
If the joke is brief and stupid then obviously you gotta go big or go home. Second one!
I’d say the first one works better
That second one is such rubbish and I love it, please use that one.
The first one
HiroRwar
First mask, in my opinion!
Rebelgender
I feel like the frist one is better. However the other one is pretty funny and pretty.
You should use the butterfly one and come up with some stupid pun for it - something something, “butterfly effect”, something something, “spans around the globe”
I think the first one is more creepy and might fit better but the second one... is so stupid i would go for that one for sure
Kathrine Iversen
the first one seems more threatening, but the second one is funnier. so I guess it really depends on context. also, that's a real nice desk you've got there
Rebecca Dominguez
Definitely the first one
First mask.
Alina Marquardt
the wider one
I would say go for the first one.
Yeah the first one carries much more weight than the second.
Without knowing the full context, the first one seems more appropriate, but if youre aiming for straight comedy, then the second one
Ezra Curry
is the butterfly thing like when caimans are seen with flocks of butterflies on them because theyre drinking their tears?? seen here- <a href="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/closeup.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/closeup.jpg</a> my vote is #2 btw!
The first mask looks more cultish. The second mask looks like you’re about to cosplay as the Monarch from the Venture Bros.
#1 looks better, but #2 is more absurd so could also work
Clianthe
the second one is funnier because it’s so outlandish
Anakinfrywalker
I think I like the first one better in general, but the idea of a cult to a crocodile god having a mask of a completely different animal is pretty funny
Jenny Messer
I find the first mask somewhat reminiscent of a vulva so I'm gonna have to go for that one. (don't ask me why, I wish I knew)
Vessue
Going to go for mask one
Fabien HILDWEIN
Mask n°2 !
I prefer the first one.
Less is more
The smaller one. Definitely.....
Riebeck
cut them in half and glue them together to have half phanton and half butterfly
Yvonne ̴ ̮͠ ̴
If the cult thing is a running joke and not just a one-off thing, maybe both? If there's a progression, like you're getting deeper into the cult as the video goes on, the mask could change to reflect that. Or maybe the cult has like senior cultists who get to wear the bigger masks, if there are multiple characters. OR, as the video goes on and you gradually open up to the pure and undeniable truth of the flat earth... so does your mask. Idk, maybe this is just silly.
I definitely prefer the first mask but I literally couldn’t tell you why :/
Charlotte Sisman
I love the second one. It's funnier.
#1! Vague and even a bit intimidating if you don't know it's a butterfly.
Seamus Yossarian (A Serpent Perplexed)
Mask #1 because it could be mistaken for something else besides a butterfly while #2 has no choice but to butterfly
Mask numbah one is neat.
CupidDraws
Mask one joined the cult because it believed in what they had to say. Mask two joined for fuckery and free drinks, it only makes it better that it’s hideous to look at and doesn’t quite fit your face as well. I say mask two.
Allie
#2 sir
ALL HAIL LORD SOBEK! (I like mask 1 best!)
I feel like mask 2 is just extra enough for your comedy stylings.
I like the #2, njust because of how ridiculous it is.
I agree with Sam - #2 is more over the top so would make a better punchline if that is what you are going for. But #1 is the better looking mask aesthetically
Blake McCurdy
Mask number one, less inside jokey, more timeless.
The second one can lead into a really funny joke about how you didn't know what animal the theme was so you went to the dollar store/pound world and picked a random mask
Sam Chammas
mask 1 is the better mask for sure, but if you're going for intentionally and obviously ridiculous and wrong (like flat earthers) then definitely mask 2
Sebastian Nair
The first mask feels very cultish, but the second one has a really funny persona-nyarlathotep vibe
Mickey Looney
First one, I like how weirdly vague it is
Go big or go home, #2!
wear both at the same time. glue 'em together and wear the combined monstrosity.
You already know you're going to use the second mask and you just want us to validate your decision. Which I totally will do, use the second one!
Aaron Anaya
Definitely Mask #1
Dean Madden
I feel like they both have kind of a sex cult vibe which, I guess, works with Sobek. The first one feels more focused, someone who is serious about their cult duties. The second one seems like someone who's really just there for the pageantry.
Naomi Hatchman
The first one seems more appropriate as a cult mask but the second one is hilarious. So are you going for "cult appropriate" or "hilarious"? Hey, what if you cut some bits of the second one? That would look weird.
Michael Pace
Mask 1 for sure!
meggy
please do the second its so flat earther
#1: all praise sobek #2: over the top and perfect for a cameo
I personally think the first on looked a bit better in its simplicity, but when I was looking at a blurry, smaller image of the second one, it momentarily looked like the kind of helmet you'd see in a Dark Souls game and Bloodborne? Both of which would probably include a cult that worshipped a giant crocodile demon boss. So based on what little information I've been given, I would make the second one look more helmet-like then use that. (If you have that kind of time.)
If the joke is so brief it's not clear what the joke is (like, if it's a very short cutaway), mask 1. If it's long enough that it makes sense (ie, more than a second or two), mask 2. For Philosophy Tube, prolly mask 1, unless it's supposed to be VERY silly, in which case definitely mask 2
My vote is for the first one. While the second one is more over the top, I feel like the second one gives more of an eerie vibe. So yeah. First one.
The second one, it has more... Character? Sure
post <3
First mask! It’s just creepy enough.
Karin Hammarsten
I think the second one is funny, but it might be distracting to throw butterflies in with the flat earth and a crocodile god? I think the first one would distract from the general concept of the joke less. You should probably go with that one.
Saru
The first one gives me a mix between wolverine and sex dungeon vibes, so I guess I have to vote for that.
Go big or go home Harris, I'll vote for number 2.
Number one is cleaner I reckon
The first one
Matthew Abbott
The first one for yours. But you should do the second one for the Philosophy Tube spot
serenfire
the second one. go big or go home!
Second one for sure
Kilo Lima Oscar
The second
Stumpy Frog Records
Go for the one that's a bit much.
Komisarz
The omega supreme butterfly mask comrade
Dammit Joe
mask a definitely looks like something from a sex cult, but my votes on that one
Dominic Guilfoyle
First one is definitely sexier. Oh, also, probably better for the video, that too.
"Just a normal amount." Sure Harris. (As fore votes: my roommate says the first one and while I like the ridiculousness of the second I'm inclined to agree that the first one will probably be better).
Alex Mayzlakh
THE SECOND
Erin Rumsey
The first one gives me Eyes Wide Shut vibes. I’m not sure how I feel about that, but I’ll go ahead and give that one my vote.