"Don't Feed the Freaks" | Apocalyptic Animated Short Film (2018)

“That pile of bones next to it is probably me” This has already gotten to a start

"Sounds like a paradise" Wanna test that theory?

Him: "Sounds like paradise." Me: Who gon' tell him?

1st year of high school: "Oh this isn't as bad as everyone makes it out as." 2nd year of high school: 4:56

Dude: Why would they want to leave this paradise? Robots: You wanna find out?

The “freak” at the end wore the kid’s scarf. The monsters aren’t literal. They are an illusion, a metaphor for people different than you

My theory is that he was a "freak" the entire time, but viewed himself as human. He awoke outside a destroyed city having no memories of his life prior to waking up, just making assumptions. He seems to be at peace with everything around him, including the other freaks, who, by the way he describes them, seem very at peace themselves, just traveling and surviving. At the end when the other freak approached him, it was calm and peaceful towards him, were all the books he read told him that the freaks are very aggressive. All this would explain the last seen where the children see a freak approach them wearing the MC's white scarf. I dont think that it is figurative, but the wasteland beyond the walls transforms people into the freaks. In a world with giant hive minded beings ruling cities, i don't think its a very far off theory. If you watch "Friendly Shadow" you will learn that these freaks can also draw and make beds for themselves, and know how to start fires(candles). So possibly those that venture into the wilderness become these freaks but retain parts of their humanity. The one that showed the MC the direction to autodale was carrying what i believe to be its own mask from when it had once been human.

For those of you returning after Immortal Machine- I’m pretty sure the freaks are the result of the disease around the world, and that’s what infected humans turn into

I like how he doesn’t hate the freaks. He just thinks their misunderstood.

“It sounds like a paradise” Yeah, how about no.

WAIT A MINUTE At the end i realized that He is a monster but he sees everyone as a monster but not him

“Dont feed the freaks” My parents: you can’t have a snack Me: hold up

“Why would they leave?” Because perfection can’t be reached and whenever someone thinks they’ve reached it they’ve only reached madness.

Him: * Talking about Autodale and how it sounds like paradise * Me: NOPE NOPE NOPE

What's odd is the fact is that they have their masks still. It really shows how crazy people will stick to their cause even when their organization has fallen. It's scary.

Did anyone else catch at 5:34 where the Freak's large claw went in front of the black space, almost like it was breaking the 4th wall? Idk why but that gave me a bit of a spook.

The “freaks” are survivors of the “old autodale” because the survivor when he reached current Autodale, the freak had his scarf.

The “monsters” aren’t literal, they’re human just like the boy narrating the video. At the end, we see a monster with the same exact scarf the boy wears. We see them as monsters though, which is trippy, because everyone else sees them as monsters too, or “freaks”. Humans are what killed their own town and were so violent.

I watched this after seeing Friendly Shadow and now everything makes a lot more sense, it seems autodale is just another repeat of something thats happened everywhere else on the planet already, humans attempting to build mechanical gods but then everything goes wrong, and everyone dies. HIVE is just another one of these mechanical gods, doomed to failure one day when she finishes that giant body in the tower and tries to activate it, somehow, its going to kill her and everyone else in autodale, just another failure.

"Take me down to Autodale city, where the children are safe and everyone is pretty!" -Axl Rose, 1987