686075149702660097 Depression

*Not to be confused with Team 683780471926292545*

**686075149702660097 Depression** is the eighth episode of series Ostrich Adventures and was released on March 26th, 2020.

The title most likely originates from the channel ID of the Team 683780471926292545 team chat and how since the team only has one member, and thus only one person has access to the team chat (2 if you count Satomi but she doesn't post there) making it depressing.

## Plot

### Intro

The episode opens with an ostrich standing and then doing the Fortnite default dance with text flashing on the screen that reads "OSTRICH ADVENTURES". After a flash transition comes the beginning of the scene with two ostriches facing each other and the episode title "686075149702660097 Depression" on the bottom of the screen.

### The Conversation Begins

The two ostriches begin having a conversation about death. Ostrich B (on the right side of the screen) brings up the concept that there might be an afterlife which he thinks is an infinite ball pit. Ostrich A (on the left side) then begins stating that none of this really matters to her because it's not relevant to her now.

Eventually, she gives in and asks for more information on B's afterlife. Though, as ostrich B explains more about their view on the afterlife, ostrich A makes it more and more clear that she doesn't believe in the afterlife even outright saying "So what if [that ball pit]’s real!? It’s not."

### The Conversation Escalates

Ostrich A asks about the equivalent of hell, ostrich B answers, and A seems to like it as a punishment. But then A asks about how ostriches go is decided and B gives a response which A finds "bullshit" and responds with a wordy paragraph on why his explanation is "bullshit". When B hears this, he quickly rejects it and A calls him out saying that it would "just take some adjusting" and while ostrich B says they don't want to adjust, ostrich A says that's completely okay and they can just keep living out this lie.

After the heavy conversation, ostrich B invites A to come with him to the "ball pit pool" which is revealed to be a method of recruitment for B's religion; as A tries to change the subjects, B claims to not exist and disappears.

### Insanity

The camera zooms in on A and begins an insanity montage; the colors invert and there is heavy use of the animation technique called boiling. Ostrich A runs and falls off a cliff; the camera speeds past A and reveals her to be falling into a ball pit of metal balls matching the B's description of "hell". The camera zooms out to reveal many other ostriches in this same pit and the screen fades to black as the episode ends.

## Meaning

In the description of the episode, there is a message that says "There is no real moral or lesson here, it's mostly just an elaborate shitpost."

Although, the creator has said there is no meaning we can still speculate. Ostrich A very clearly seems to be an Atheist while ostrich B seems to follow a religion of some kind. This could be the creator of the episode making a commentary on religion, but it may also be that she started with the basis of her song "Ostrich" and had the two ostriches meet. This seems evident as B even says "but, maybe not" about his afterlife idea which seems to contradict the fact that he follows a religion.

## Trivia

* Although the title and opening text say that this is episode 8, no other episodes of this series have been released.
* In the past, Sean has made a song titled "Ostrich" that lays out two different ostriches' approaches to death. A doesn't care about it until it's the near future, and B belives in an afterlife.
* For a majority of the episode, noise can be seen layered over the animation.
* In the description of the episode, there is a link to download the source file of the episode. The link takes you to an adobe animate file in google drive. A few things that are different about this version is that there is no static and the section just before the insanity cuts off later, but other than that the file contains about everything.
	+ A link to this google drive document can be found here.
* Throughout the episode text can be seen flashing on the screen for one frame.
	+ The first instance of this is during the default dancing ostrich and reads "This isn't a turkey, it's just how I drew the wings".
	+ At approximately 0:58 there is a bit of text that reads "This bit is probably the smoothest and most fluid I would do the rest of it like this, but that would take too long and there's only a few hours left until the deadline".
	+ At approximately 1:56 there is a bit of text that reads "I hate how I wrote this part".
	+ At approximately 1:58 there is a bit of text that reads "I was also sick when I recorded this, so I sound a bit stuffy".
	+ At approximately 2:00 there is a bit of text that reads "God I hate how this sounds".
	+ At approximately 2:23 there is a bit of text that reads "I was running out of time, okay?".
* At one part of the episode, A quotes CGP Grey and says that she's paraphrasing. Her version of the quote is *"shockingly complicated dice that are really good at convincing ourselves they have control over our actions."* when the real quote is closer to *"shockingly complicated dice that are really good at convincing ourselves that we are responsible for our actions."*.
	+ This quote is from an episode of one of CGP Grey's podcasts Hello Internet.

## Quotes

*"I think after you die you like, fall into a ball pit and stay there for eternity..."* - Ostrich B

*"So what if it’s real!? It’s not."* - Ostrich A

*"It’s like the ball pit, but instead of ball pit balls, it’s metal balls."* - Ostrich B

*"That’s bullshit. That is complete bullshit. There is no bit of truth in that."* - Ostrich A

*"Well, why would you mind me? I’m not even real."* - Ostrich B