Loyal Defender

- Dhar Mann, who makes skit videos that teach absolutely awful life lessons, and doesn't put any research into his videos, resulting in plot holes bigger than jupiter, like a teenager working in agriculture, claiming he's earned over a billion dollars, when on average, farmers get around either 37k or 370k a year. Or a skit of a 6 year old boy cheating on a math test that has the most complex algebra you'd ever see. No child at this time or age would be learning complex equations. The stories are all garbage and too damn predictable, and teach lessons no one should be taught. There's also the 'copycats' who are so into Dhar Mann's work that they make videos just as bad as his.

- The Prince Family. They make videos with clickbait thumbnails and titles, and their videos often have almost no exciting thing in it. They made a video called "Pray for the Prince House" or something, with a thumbnail of a house on fire, police tape, firefighters, the family looking sad.....after over 10-20 minutes of talking, the big reveal of what to pray for happens...a discovered leaky water pipe.

- Morgz. His channel is hard to even go through, because of the videos he does that are just a total cringefest. So many of his videos are staged, and you can TELL they are, due to moments you'd think would give it away constantly happening. 

- This one expands between multiple channels but the way they all do it is pretty hard to watch. YouTube Pranks. These people don't do typical pranks like plastic wrap in a doorway, or a whoopie cushion on a seat. No, we're talking much, much worse things. There's too many examples that I don't feel I can list here, but what I will say is one of them is a sibling hiding her disabled brother's wheelchair, and then when she reveals it's a prank, and he's angry at her about it, she tells him to "not be so ungrateful". Disgusting. A prank isn't a prank if someone gets hurt, personal property is tampered with, or it actually causes damage. You can't do something inhumane or horrible and then say "it's a prank bro". No, just...No. A prank is meant to be a HARMLESS joke. The definition is: a practical joke or mischievous act. There's nothing practical or mischevious about doing something like hiding a wheelchair from someone who was forced to crawl around with only his ARMS looking for it. Or, one video of a girlfriend pranking her boyfriend by acting paralyzed, being so concerned, and telling him not to call an ambulance because it was a prank. If you're ever actually paralyzed, congratulations, the length you took the actual paralysis prank to made him think you're faking it and he likely won't take you seriously.

I've at least learned how to treat people with respect, but these people just haven't. And before you say 'it's just a video, and it's just a harmless prank', then I suggest thinking of how someone would treat you if you did it to THEM. They wouldn't be laughing. If you think justifying how these people act is okay, there's something wrong with you.

Oh, and I'm not saying any of this to be hateful or spiteful - I'm just telling it like it is.

For starters, when Riley is born, I like how they turned the phrase ‘little bundle of Joy’ into a way for the emotion Joy to be created first. The first moments of your life can be happy and joyful, until your needs overwhelm you, and make you cry, which is when Sadness shows up. As you get older, other emotions form and affect the way you think about thinks happening then and happening now. And of course, that’s when memories are made. The console in the movie started out as a simple button, because Riley’s movements and thoughts weren’t as complex, being small and young. 

But as she grew older and had more emotions, the console was enhanced and complicated more and more, but when used correctly, it could help in a situation that needed part of that console’s functionality. And something to note is that depending on the emotion touching the console, it’ll change to that emotion’s color, and however Riley acts will make a memory combined with that emotion. This, we know. But memories aren’t just little balls of emotion. They change and affect how we see the past, the present, and the future. 

For example, Riley has a happy memory of playing ice hockey with her friends in Michigan, and if I recall correctly it’s become a core memory, a memory that makes the person who they are. In the present during that time, Riley felt so happy and at home with her friends and family. But moving away didn’t instantly change that memory to a sad one because she could remember the happy times she had. But when the thoughts that she wouldn’t see them again, and that she would have to adapt to a new place caught up with her, this could be represented by the touch of Sadness, who turned that memory into a sad one, resulting in Riley breaking down and missing her friends. 

The emotions don’t just make that memory a generally affected memory. Sadness doesn’t make the hockey memory completely sad and droopy. Instead it affects how we see that memory when we think of how special it felt, how we hoped  it would positively last forever. But Sadness made Riley realize how much she missed her old home, friends and family, and she broke down crying. The fact Joy couldn’t change the memory back represented the heavy, overwhelming emotions surrounding that memory, and how special it was before could affect how much it affects the person when changed, and how difficult it is to fix if something goes wrong with it. The sadness was too overwhelming to be  undone. It’s also worth noting that in Riley’s mind, Honesty Island could be a part of sadness, because when you break down crying, you’ll likely want to be truthful with how you feel, although it could be out of your control sometimes. Sadness and Honesty Island can go together, and it can work. 

Riley broke down at the end and admitted she missed her old home, and friends and family, finally opening up about how the move affected her. But it then showed in that moment that you truly can’t be yourself without Sadness. The film portrays Sadness as the accidental troublemaker, but in reality, Sadness is a difficult thing to work around. All of the emotions are. They’re not all completely out of control. Sometimes they take the helm for good reason, other times they take action resulting in a positive or negative outcome. And one emotion could lead to a better moment than could be expected. 

We all have emotions in us. They affect how we think, act and, of course, feel. They help us make our own memories and parts of our personality - the islands in our mind. And this movie very well portrays how emotions can affect a situation.