“Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared” is an animated short musical video produced and co-written by Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling. The video features a notepad teaching the three protagonists to be creative. The song is an excerpt from the British surreal comedy series “Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared”. The video is available on desktop and mobile platforms, with over 320 million tracks available for free on SoundCloud. The Creativity Song is a song from the first episode of the YouTube series, featuring the Sketchbook teaching the protagonists to be creative. The song is a catchy tune that encourages listeners to think creatively and not to be afraid to be creative again. The video is available on Spotify and can be accessed through the channel link https://youtube.com/c/donthugmeimscared. The song encourages listeners to listen to their heart, listen to the rain, and the voices in their brain, encouraging them to get creative and not to be afraid to be creative again.
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My friends in high school were singing this song all the time and I finally asked what it was and they showed me this without warning me what it was and it seriously scarred me to my core, I was not the same person. I was terrified of this article for a decade and now I finally got up the courage to watch it again and I feel like a complete idiot for ever being afraid of it.
one thing i’ve noticed is the episodes go in order like a day. in the first episode they are at the table with fruit, so it’s like breakfast, in the third episode they are on a picnic, so it’s like lunch, in the fifth episode they are at the kitchen table, so it’s like dinner, and in the sixth episode yellow guy is in bed.
Coming back after 13 years ago when I was a kid in high school, listening to this article when it came out.. and now, I have a theory: This is pushing the objective of creativity. You imagine an object that comes to life. But guess what – we all have a choice. Will we use our imagination for good? Or for evil? And depending on which one you choose, the good or the evil, well… They chose to turn it evil and all of a sudden the article changed from normal and good – all things happy, to – Phycotic. Insane. Scary. Hypnotic, Traumatizing. Deceitful, hurtful, etc. DHMIS reflects the aspect of life as a human being. We are all put on this earth with existence to make something good for ourselves in life and ability to make a choice: to stay on for Good side or accept and ignore and keep living in delusion, keeping your mind with the bad.
Finding out the meaning behind “Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared” is very confronting. Its so true. We’re being raised as puppets. The world has a “routine” where everyone is taught the same thing. Everyone follows the same sort of curriculum and we’re puppets. We try to do something on our own and it’s just taken away and we have to use what everyone else does. It’s taking uniqueness away from society. As well as when the puppets ate the heart and the guts etc, that’s using the guts/heart as a metaphor for “emotion and creativity”, saying that media and people are eating away at emotions and creativity in children especially. It comes off innocent, with the songs and mood and childlike approach, but deep inside is pure evil. That scares me.
Came here after finishing the new TV series. It’s interesting how different this original short was from everything that came after. I had forgotten how little actually happens in it and how different the puppets and the set looked. It still holds up and it’s arguably scarier than the show or the later shorts, but I’m glad we ended up getting to see so much more of the characters’ personalities and lore
Has anybody else seen the episode of “The Amazing World of Gumball” that’s a massive reference to this by the way?.. if anyone’s curious, it’s season 5, episode 36 “The Puppets” Edit: I’ve noticed a few replies saying that the cast had the animators and such for DHMIS actually help with that episode, it makes a lot more sense now lol, for me and I’m sure for others who see this comment!
Wow, today at class this girl was googling articles for creativity to show the first graders… this article popped up like 5th and she clicked it when she saw the muppets…. I died inside since I saw this b4 but I let her play it, her face went blank at 2:30 and at least 5 kids cried… made me pretty happy, whats wrong with me
Have you noticed that the notepad says: “Listen to your heart, listen to the rain, listen to the voices in your brain!” Now, if we take that sentence and fast forward a bit when everything get’s all wibbily wobbily, we see the puppets have grown up (the duck and the yellow one), another noticeable thing is the part around 2:25 but before that… we have an obvious one at 2:24 At 2:24 we see the red puppet pouring glitter on a heart, why? Because the notepad said so, well, she didn’t exactly say : “Hey, ya know what? pour glitter on a heart because reasons!” She said: “Listen to your heart,”. “Pretty obvious but doesn’t quite add up”, I hear you say! Well, she tells them to listen to their hearts at a young age, (as we see they grow older once the set moves) that means that the puppets, at a younger age, could have misunderstood what the notepad said, and took it literally. At 2:25 we see the yellow puppet doing some weird dance, and, all is normal, I mean, he’s dancing, nothing too bad! But right when the camera zooms in on the window and it shows the horrible thunderstorm outside… the puppets go completely bonkers. Sounds familiar? Remember what the notepad said? “Listen to the rain…” And they did, they listened to the rain and they went completely mad! And we have the final sentence of the notebook that says: “Listen to the voices in your brain!” and that refers to the notepad, telling them over and over again to be creative that they hear her all the time, in they brain.