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Help me choose a prop!

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 lol

Leave 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

Help me choose a prop! Help me choose a prop! Help me choose a prop!

Comments

Death Note?

Tim-Tam Toe-Jam

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.

Dave Dorricott

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.

@thiccrat_

New patron here but long-time lover of your videos. I prefer number 1. Keep it classy

Nr. 2 please mr Harris.

Freddy Larsson

I prefer no. 1

Don Friðrik Ólafsson

I liked number 2! I thought it looked vaguely lizard-alien-ish despite being a butterfly.

Hmmmm 1

Thanks for sharing and no preference, sorry XD

Dave

butterfly mask? cosplay as a Mesmer from Guild Wars 2 potential :D

Utomneian

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.

Fool Errand

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)

lil-big-boi

1!!!!!!!!!!!

Mask 1!

go number 1. more culty.

unspun

#1 is very Eyes Wide Shut, if you don’t mind that kind of vibe.

Mara Weber

masque 2 had me laughing so there's my vote

JeMaKat

I like the 1 more

Definitely 2

i think mask one would work bettter, really exited fro the new vid!

Something about 2 just feels more cult-y

luca

Awww yea #2

beesups

#1 for creepy factor

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.

James Russell

Dont outsource your art direction, you bastard... The 2nd one in all the ways is the better one.

The second one is ludicrous so use that one!

Vsevolod Zubarev

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

alexis

Second one!

I’m a #1 fan myself. Seems like it would work better than the oddly over-butterfly’d 2nd one.

definitely go all out with mask 2

Calysto

#1 is SO you!

Ellie B

#1

Ellie B

#`1 the simplicity is in itself creepy

#2 Is certainly very much. I love it

The third one.

Timothy Crittenden

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?

pick #2 m'lord!

TheRoguez

#1

#1

Cyrys, God-king of the Pantry

#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.

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!

Useless Himbo

Mask 1 makes you look like a porn parody strong bad so that's where my vote is going

Much as I adore the silliness of mask #2, my vote goes to #1.

TalysAlankil

Mask #2 is so much and I think it's necessary. #2 gets 2 thumbs up from me!

George Mac

Mask #2 would be perfect with some green gems or something in the holes...still vote #2 as is though.

Timon Pike

#2, being extremely Extra™, seems the best choice; especially if you never bring attention to its extraness in the video itself.

The Doom Merchant

A BIT MUCH A BIT MUCH A BIT MUCH (so yeah, I'm a fan of mask #2)

Ken High

Second one is sillier so I gotta go with that one

I've gotta go with #2 on this one

Occam's Blazer

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.

Mask 1 is more austere and a bit spooky

ThatKat

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.

michelle artbear

I vote mask #1

Andrew H

#2, definitely, it brings out those beautiful eyes

Alex Scranton

Go with the second, Hail Sobek.

Phaos

First one is too classy, more like something you wear to a cult orgy. Go with the second one.

I vote for the first one just because #2 gets a little visually messy with your usual floral background.

Casey Connor

I'm so pumped for the Death Note vid!! 💕 Number one!

Head says 1, heart says 2. #2 it is

Raw Data Analyst

#2 is too good not to use

Definitely the second. The first is more of a regular masquerade mask.

blahmoomoo

Mask #2 Makes you look like you have the most extreme bone structure. It gets my vote

Two is too good not to!

Scaredycrow

The first one.

A_Blinkin'

The second mask!

my vote goes for the second mask!

My vote is for the first, but the second one might end up being funnier, knowing you.

William Heathcote

Voting for mask #2. It’s more ridiculous and silly, and considering it’s a video about flat earthers.

The first one!

Starboi

Use both, wear the smaller one first, and then the second one as a means of humoristic escalation

Subspace Jet Witch

The second mask easily. As Jim Steinman said, if you don't go over the top, you'll never see the other side!

oh definitely the second one

minohoonoo

The first one looks creepy, I like it and would choose that one.

Raboute

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

Second one by an absolute mile

Sol

Easily the second one

William Edwards

Second for sure

Tristan

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.

I like the first one, it looks more likely to be on a crowd of faces than the second one.

CS Drennan

Irony is always a person's best friend so the second one is the best one !

Be extra! Second one.

Allyson M. Holley

The first one!

Abbey

2nd, no contest

willow H

1st one! Or both lol

ruru

Do both

Use both on top of each other.

Bikzimus Maximus

First one, I say. Also nice dressing gown.

Penny Gotch

First one. I think it gives more off a vibe of "creepy mask" while the second one instantly makes me go "oh butterfly"

Sara Hjertkvist

Second mask!!!

Marvin Just Marvin

the first one

Siegfried Pinzer

Second!

the second one omg

The first

Greg S.

2nd

Melody Williamson

I think that most mask is best mask so it's got too be the second one

The first one

Garrett Mitchell

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.

The First.

TheGreatMuffin

The second mask, for sure.

The first.

Jan Meyer

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

#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

Jake Erickson

The second one for sure, the more ridiculous the better.

The second one is hilariously over the top, and therefore the only choice.

Ruben Rydell-Sandgren

Definitely the second mask. Is the Philosophy Tube video the one I'm thinking of? So excited!

Second one!

Avery Penn

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

(Gay) Rosencrantz

If the joke is brief and stupid then obviously you gotta go big or go home. Second one!

MyFineAsymptote

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

First mask, in my opinion!

HiroRwar

I feel like the frist one is better. However the other one is pretty funny and pretty.

Rebelgender

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

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

Kathrine Iversen

Definitely the first one

Rebecca Dominguez

First mask.

the wider one

Alina Marquardt

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

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!

Ezra Curry

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

the second one is funnier because it’s so outlandish

Clianthe

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

Anakinfrywalker

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)

Jenny Messer

Going to go for mask one

Vessue

Mask n°2 !

Fabien HILDWEIN

I prefer the first one.

Less is more

The smaller one. Definitely.....

cut them in half and glue them together to have half phanton and half butterfly

Riebeck

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.

Yvonne  ̴ ̮͠ ̴

I definitely prefer the first mask but I literally couldn’t tell you why :/

I love the second one. It's funnier.

Charlotte Sisman

#1! Vague and even a bit intimidating if you don't know it's a butterfly.

Mask #1 because it could be mistaken for something else besides a butterfly while #2 has no choice but to butterfly

Seamus Yossarian (A Serpent Perplexed)

Mask numbah one is neat.

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.

CupidDraws

#2 sir

Allie

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

Mask number one, less inside jokey, more timeless.

Blake McCurdy

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

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

Sam Chammas

The first mask feels very cultish, but the second one has a really funny persona-nyarlathotep vibe

Sebastian Nair

First one, I like how weirdly vague it is

Mickey Looney

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!

Definitely Mask #1

Aaron Anaya

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.

Dean Madden

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.

Naomi Hatchman

Mask 1 for sure!

Michael Pace

please do the second its so flat earther

meggy

#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 &lt;3

First mask! It’s just creepy enough.

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.

Karin Hammarsten

The first one gives me a mix between wolverine and sex dungeon vibes, so I guess I have to vote for that.

Saru

Go big or go home Harris, I'll vote for number 2.

Number one is cleaner I reckon

The first one

The first one for yours. But you should do the second one for the Philosophy Tube spot

Matthew Abbott

the second one. go big or go home!

serenfire

Second one for sure

The second

Kilo Lima Oscar

Go for the one that's a bit much.

Stumpy Frog Records

The omega supreme butterfly mask comrade

Komisarz

mask a definitely looks like something from a sex cult, but my votes on that one

Dammit Joe

First one is definitely sexier. Oh, also, probably better for the video, that too.

Dominic Guilfoyle

"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).

THE SECOND

Alex Mayzlakh

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.

Erin Rumsey


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