Envy | ContraPoints

🧿👄🧿

"Squidwardian" will be your most enduring contribution to the field of philosophy.

I have heard men say “help I’m being devoured” during sex, but to be fair I am a giant praying mantis who learned how to type

"Also, nothing is less attractive than an envious, resentful, self-pitying person. It's beyond a personality flaw, it's a personality deformity that can ruin whatever chance at happiness you have. So in the short time that you're alive, you have to discover that which is noble in yourself and say yes to it." Sincerely, apolitically, thank you for that Natalie. It was some tough love I needed at an important point in my life.

Contrapoints is so smart. I’ll never be like her. sigh Wait. OH NO.

I’m a psychologist and my one of grad professors used to say “Freud was a great observer of human behavior and a terrible explainer of human behavior.”

if you start appropriating Hunchback memes I'm suing

“Human nature is a toxic person”, love that line and the way Natalie empathetically and graciously responds to the comment.

i know all of Natalie's videos are this well-researched and well-presented, but something about this one feels like the quintessential moment. the effort put in, the research, the jokes, the outfits, the sets, etc etc. love it! always come back to this one

In Hmong culture it is bad manners to tell someone their baby is cute, because if you do they believe a witch will overhear you and try to steal the baby. So it's customary to tell people they have ugly babies. Never thought about it before, but there sounds like a deep cultural understanding of envy.

"She's not even a lesbian, she's Lebanese. Regina got confused." Mind fucking blown

I find it interesting that Jameela's role in the show The Good Place is as a character who's biggest flaw, which is a central plot point, is envy of her more successful sister. I kind of expected Natalie to tie that in, it seemed like such a natural connection to make.

Envy destroyed a lot of my friendships. As a foster kid, then an emancipated minor, I envied my friends because they had non-abusive families who loved them & that's all I ever wanted. Christmases I ran away to avoid the pain of seeing the kindness of families who loved eachother. My friends envied me for those trips. A best friend said she didn't care what I'd been through -it didn't matter because I got to experience things she never had/weren't likely for her. Friends built up their perception of what my life was like & chose not to see my pain. I feel so validated by this video, thank you Natalie 💜

Jealous of how short you managed to make this

Fun fact: I never was allowed to watch Spongebob because it was dumb and bad taste according to my mother. I was however allowed to watch Italian films about drug abuse and incest at thirteen, back when Pokemon was still “too violent”. In my last therapy session I observed how most of our sessions consisted of getting rid of the bitter, envious lense through which my mother tought me to see. It was the squidwardian gaze all along..

This is your best work yet. I keep coming back to it. Maybe the things you're presenting aren't groundbreaking in your circle, being educated and all, but to someone like me who isn't in education, who only has ideas and free audiobooks, this is amazing insight. Every time I rewatch this, a new piece is added to a bigger puzzle I've cobbled together with what I have.

"I wish more people could feel things without rushing to defense them" Yessss

Rather than believing that she's on a set or in her house, I choose to believe that Natalie has actually discovered the way to bring us into her subconscious

The year is 2036. Originally announced in 2025, the new Contrapoints video has just dropped. It is over 54 hours long and has 62 costume changes with 41 distinct catgirl outfits. The topic is Lust, and all major video sharing sites refuse to host it out of obscenity concerns. It will go on to win an EGOT.

As a transmasc who loves your videos, I've started referring to myself as a "biological female" which confuses absolutely everyone around me