“What’s up pranksters, today we’re gonna gentrify a neighborhood” was way funnier than any background noise has any right to be.

"Fat, smelly elf bussy" is possibly the most horrific thing I've ever heard

"and if you're upset with me, just shift to a reality where I didn't say this and we're all good" IM FUCKING PISSING MYSELF AT THIS

As someone who's paranoid and struggles with depersonalization, the whole shifting thing made me really worried about all the younger kids who could develop maladaptive daydreaming and become worse and worse because they think it's normal :(

Imagine unlocking the power to breach universes and you go to fucking riverdale

kurtis asking himself 'what am i doing' as he's squishing a piece of egg on his iphone is comedy gold. for once in my life i wanna say 'thank you jake paul'

at a previous job, i asked one of my managers if he was gonna get the vaccine our company offered at the time. he responded with that "do you have an std" bs "ya know, i might have an std or two. so you getting that vaccine?" he stared at me, so i asked "why? you have an std too?" he still stared at me, with a 'i never thought i'd get this far' look

GUYS I WAS EATING A GRANOLA BAR AND IT FELL OUT OF MY MOUTH AND CLICKED ON THIS VIDEO AND LIKED AND SUBSCRIBED OMG

"Instead of stopping global warming, world hunger or...James Charles..." I laughed so hard I accidentally spit a piece of egg out of nowhere, it got mad, vaccinated me, and now...I'm a drone.

“Alex you got me fucked up” is frankly the only real response that matters.

The closest I ever came to shifting (which is just lucid dreaming) was when I went to bed after taking a very strong edible. In the dream I noticed my tattoo, was surprised and thought, "wow, how could I forget that I had a tattoo?", then VIVIDLY remembered sitting in the chair at the tattoo parlor and feeling the pain from the needle. I have never gotten a tattoo.

the saddest part about these “shifters” are the fact that they probably just have maladaptive daydreaming disorder or they heavily lucid dream and need to seek help for either one of these. it’s so frustrating to see people go around and act as if these “realities” are real and convince children to become obsessed with trying to “shift” when there’s evidence of these universes being completely fictional. it’s genuinely upsetting

Therapist: “Hickey Dad isn’t real, he can’t hurt you.” Hickey Dad: (pulling off therapist mask) get pranked!

I like how nobody is talking about "fat smelly elf bussy" because really I don't think any of us should.

“Shifting” has got to be one of the most chronically online thing I’ve ever heard. It’s literally LUCID DREAMING and most people who “shift” are just doing it for clout or they have an unhealthy addiction. It’s like a drug.

i watched this with my dad on the couch and when we got to the “dad gave me a hickey” part he got up and moved across the room. the discomfort is palpable. aside from that great video!

The way Kurtis was speechless after he liked a tweet with egg

I ask my son who works in Detroit as an auto industry engineer if he's ever heard of "Iron" and he said yeah they're using it to create the Chevy Silverado. When i told him that's what was in our blood his jaw dropped...his words were trucks, they are making trucks.

as an atheist, i can confirm we randomly go up to people and harass them on the truth of they're religion

as a shifter myself, it's 100% a form of lucid dreaming and maladapitive daydreaming. if you don't separate reality and the dream, it definitely can be detrimental to your mental health.

The nutterbutter incident has “and everybody clapped” energy

i wish i could shift to a reality where id never heard the phrase “fat smelly elf bussy”

“Our father who art attack in heaven” is permanently engraved in my mind

When the vaccines were initially being released I asked my hairdresser if she was getting it, she became genuinely insulted and said "that's like asking a woman if she's had an abortion." Anddd I haven't been to her since

I will never forgive Kurtis for making me read/hear the phrase: “fat smelly elf bussy”

everytime i watch one of kurtis’ videos, he looks more and more like a 70’s sitcom father

I love how he's so respectful about the things he discusses, even if he thinks it's fucking stupid

The egg thing only works when you're holding it because it's a matter of electric conductivity! the electric current passes through the egg and into your hand (and thus, your grounded body) but when it's just the egg by itself, it's not grounded, so there's no conductivity happening.

i am typing this with an uncooked egg yoke and this is true so beat that

imagine: you’re eating eggs for breakfast as a piece falls out of your mouth, scheduling a covid vaccine appointment, thus bringing upon the transformation from human into drone & speeding up your plan of world domination

an old friend of mine claimed that they shifted to Hogwarts and they were telling me the story. They said that I was in it, and they made every single detail some thing that I wanted, or some thing that I asked about it was like the exact same thing that I would’ve wanted and it first I was like oh my gosh, that’s so cool and then I started to realize there’s no way that if you shifted into a different reality for yourself, every single detail went along with what all I wanted there’s no way

I think the thing that makes me upset is people lying about shifting. In my experience, I consider it a form of very detailed lucid dreaming (I have "shifted" before, and it just felt like I was dreaming in a disturbingly real way)

"hasn't jk rowling done enough damage" i literally cackled so hard egg fell out my mouth and liked this video

Kurtis isn’t really real. He’s actually a drone. I shifted to an alternate reality where Draco Malfoy actually told me.

I did a cool backflip the other day but no one saw it except Obama, and he gave me a crisp high five. Then everybody clapped

My favorite lie is the snapping glue one because I was willing to believe it was a lie just by an 8 year old somehow being able to buy nice earrings but then it just keeps going lmao

Part of me hopes Hickey Dad is a recurring character. The other part of me never wants to see him again.

"the group of nonbelievers fell to their knees" has the same energy as "the jock dies instantly"

I remember watching a TikTok about shifters and it said you can’t kill people in those other worlds since they’re real and it would make you a murderer. I thought the comments would make fun of them but they were all agreeing and those who disagreed were attacked. Some people have lost touch with reality.

As somebody who has done EVERYTHING in my dreams (like lucid dream and tell a person in it, it’s a dream, who acted confused) they were definitely just dreaming.

Watching Kurtis press an egg onto his phone while contemplating what he's doing is by far the funniest thing ever

if i had a nickel for every time kurtis has green screened himself into his own room, i’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice

Who’s going to tell the shifters that Americans don’t go to Hogwarts, they go to Ilvermorny

i have participated in “shifting” and its really just maladaptive daydreaming. i have issues with dissociating and i think that ppl advertising shifting can be very dangerous (but it is also a coping mechanism that i personally use so idk man :,)

It's not about whether Kurtis' jokes are corny or not. The *real* focal point is the masterful level of which he commits to the follow through.

I actually went to hogwarts once. It all started when i was getting my drone vaccine and my egg fell out of my mouth while getting nutter butter. Then, a lady flew into me with a shopping cart so hard it sent me to Hogwarts. Then everyone clapped.

Shifting is more popular now than ever and it's scary because I saw a video saying they were going to "permanently shift" and all the comments were encouraging them??? Like they were all "I'll miss my family but I know this is better for me" - uh... That's concerning.

I remember when a while back I got into Shifting, and honestly it really was just a coping method for me at the time, I was basically just maladaptive and lucid dreaming

plot twist: Kurtis secretly shifts to Kurtistown and cries himself to sleep wishing he was really a mayor

my dad is anti vaxx and the 'drones theyre making drones' is so true (id love to be a drone tbh). he thinks there are nanobots in them 😭

10:00 “not again” This implies it happened at least once before

imagine having the power to literally go to any reality you want, and you chose to shift to RIVERDALE of all places.

Just gotta say: if that girl had actually gotten a Hogwarts letter, she would be expelled before she even went for exposing the wizarding world to Muggles

I used to be really into shifting and I attempted it over the course of several months. I like to write, so one of the strategies I tried was to anticipate one of my characters meeting me and helping me travel to my desired reality. One of the times I tried, I saw my character come to meet me and he grabbed my hand, like I decided he would. But instead of helping me, he scowled at me and yelled that I didn't deserve to go. I remember my vision becoming clouded over, almost like tv snow. Another time, I decided I would simply wake up in a bed in an apartment in my desired reality. I was lying on my back in my bed, focusing on shifting, and after maybe fifteen minutes I realized my ceiling looked different and the walls around me were a different color. I tried to look for the other details I had planned for the apartment, but it was difficult to focus and eventually everything switched back to my real room. A lot of people have said that shifting is just lucid dreaming, and I can see why. However, I don't think I've ever had a truly lucid dream; I've become aware that I was in a dream while dreaming, but have never had complete control over a dream. Can you really do whatever you want in a lucid dream, or does everything stay within a range of logic/believability? Can unexpected things happen in a lucid dream, like the impression I got from shifting, or are you completely aware of and deciding everything that happens? I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this, since I have no experiences I can compare with what I believed was shifting. What happened to me felt a little bit like sleep paralysis, except I didn't feel like I had been sleeping when I stopped. Also, each time I've had sleep paralysis has been very similar with one another, and these shifting attempts didn't fit the pattern. Finally, all the information I got about shifting was through UKposts. Many of the sources I pulled from criticized "ShiftTok," so I've never looked at any tiktoks about shifting. I felt kind of embarrassed that people who didn't believe in it always referenced Tiktok as if it were the main forum for the community.

Let me tell you, I was hardcore into shifting my freshman year of high school. It never worked but I was doing the whole shbang. I was scripting, drinking “moon water”, dream journaling, meditating. My ass was convinced

“Fat smelly elf bussy” is not a sentence I ever expected to hear, and I hope I never have to hear it again

Anyone else excited for the drone transformations to begin? I hope I have good battery life

Of all the realities to "shift" into why go into a middle class power trip with horrid writing

So I didn't know people used shifting like this. My epilepsi gives me an experience I started calling "shifting" before I found out about my disease. This can happen on its own or in combination with a full attack. My breath becomes harder to accomplish, my body feels more heavy like gravity is stronger, my vision becomes more sensitive to light, smells and hearing change, my body gets hotter and I'll start sweating profusely. With my sci-fi writer brain I explained it as if I was being pulled in to another universe and called it "shifting". And I'll tell you, that feeling is so overwhelming and terrifying. Finding out from the doctors that this is something that can come with epilepsi made things so much less terrifying for me. Knowing about these people I'm now really embarrassed for calling my experience "shifting". What if other doctors and nurses knew about the actual term for shifting think thats what I was talking about... oh the cringe I feel now.

Hi Kurtis, I cried laughing at "just shift to a reality where I didn't say this" that is a top tier comeback and I'm obsessed with it thank you

I love that Harry Potter canonically has an American school but these people still pretend that if they existed in that world they would go to British school

15:50 his dad has to be an alien, he actually apologized for making his kid uncomfortable.

Ok but i need someine to explain when the girl at 21:47 meant by "we know Hogwarts is real bc we saw it in the sky", like what?

Your gradual development into the 70’s/80’s dad aesthetic is the biggest reason I keep coming back.

You can literally buy personalised hogwarts acceptance letters. So yeah, she might not have printed it out, but she spent money on that lie. Embarrassing.

Shifting is just maldaptive daydreaming and you can't convince me otherwise. I maldaptive daydream quite a lot during certain periods as a form of escapism and to process my emotions, but I'm very well aware of what's real and what isn't. (I've also discussed this with my psychiatrist and how it may help me as long as the lines aren't blurred. I'm also never "myself" but rather like the director playing out a movie with other characters from a 3rd person view. It helps keeping the distance very obvious). People calling this some cute little thing instead of what it is is very harmful. Even if maldaptive daydreaming can be a great tool, the lines between reality and dream needs to be very clear. If not, it's very dangerous. The brain is very sensitive after all.

I developed maladaptive daydreaming in like elementary school. Im sure some of these people are lying but I believe most of them have trained themselves to develop this struggle

The best/worst thing about these Hogwarts is that even if Hogwarts were real they wouldn't be getting letters since the majority aren't 11y/o British children.

Kurtis has the most Toronto moustache I’ve ever seen, represent my brother

13:42 i feel like being given a hickey by your dad doesn't make you white trash, and more makes you a victim lol

Would also like to say that when I was into "shifting" I was a impressionable and suacydal teen, it is QUITE LITERALLY ESCAPISM AND DISSOCIATION 😭

Kurtis looks straight out of the 80s nowadays

“hasn’t jk rowling done enough damage” is the best quote of the video

21:50 Its weird that that lady got a letter not just because Hogwarts doesn’t exist but also because she’s an ADULT that just got excepted into a middle/high school. Sure it’s a magic school, that doesn’t mean 20-something year olds are allowed in. Harry was literally 11 when he got his letter lol.

about shifting, its not like real its just training ur brain to lucid dream with meditation but some people r so weird about it

Funniest HP shifting story is that person who shifted to Hogwarts and killed Draco Malfoy, and everyone in the comments was calling them a murder. I think about it all the time and cry laugh.

I can't believe that I finally managed to shift into a reality where Kurtis Conner is real. Please I'm sobbing, I can't go back to my normal reality.

A thing about shifting: If it's real how do we know that it's not 2 way, is every time someone shifts to Hogwarts is 1 step forward to having Voldemort shift to our reality and kill us all

I thought Shifting was real because "I did it" a couple of times. It was a long-term hallucination, induced by depression and insomnia. I even told people I was able to do that , I was so sure that was a real thing (Sorry if I make any mistakes, English is not my first language)

On a genuine note, that salt portrait of Jesus was actually done by a very talented artist and I genuinely think the piece was very well done. Gravity could never.

Actually, Kurtis, shifting is really real, I was able to shift myself into reality where I was an egg that fell on Jake's phone, so it was me, I liked the tweet.

11:56 I don’t think Kurtis realizes the amount of nostalgia he probably just brought us right now.

I had a friend who was rlly into shifting once when I was a kid and when I told her I still played make-believe (I was like 8) she made fun of me bc “that’s weird and not real” and shifting is not weird and apparently very real 💀

"I got my Hogwarts letter yesterday" says the adult millennial woman, holding a letter sent to fictional eleven year olds

i find it hilarious that the girl who claimed to get her Hogwarts acceptance letter didn't realize that you're supposed to get it when you're 11, according to the HP lore

I think shifting is fascinating cause either it’s real and it opens a whole new door in physics, psychology and spirituality or it’s not “real” and is just proof of how fascinatingly complex our brains are where we can dream up or think up realities and situations so complex that they feel genuinely real. That’s so cool to me

Dude your videos crack me uuuuuup. I’m sitting in my cabin in the dead dark of winter in alaska feelin a bit lonely and you are exactly the type of friend I am glad to “have around” so keep on keepin on.

He had the chance to say “Hot boy summer? No, BOT boy summer”

I wanna shift into a reality where Kurtis still does the Extra Greetings

i always listen to calming music or peaceful sounds and i always have strange dreams. from being able to fly to meeting my favorite artists or models. but shi... i guess i have been shifting 💀

Hearing about shifting just makes me feel uneasy. I know it’s different, but it reminds me of my sleep paralysis. I am unable to move, but my mind keeps thinking that I am doing things. If it’s a school day, I’ll keep thinking that I am awake and getting ready to head over to classes. If I have something important to do, I’ll imagine having breakfast with my roommates before heading out. And then I wake up a little bit, still in bed and unable to move. My episodes usually only last 5-10 minutes according to my fiance, but I get more and more panicked because I keep thinking that it’s lasting hours.

The fact that the shifting is mostly centered around Hogwarts leads me to believe that it’s just super Harry Potter fans dreaming about fan fiction.

Kurtis: doesn’t believe a single text post he sees Cody Ko: believes every single thing on the internet he sees

"A group of liberal atheists mocked him chanting 'prove your god is real" as a leftist and an atheist I assure you that every weekend I get together with all my fellow atheist liberals and tell religious people to prove a god that I don't even believe in exists

i remember being THAT level of obsessed with harry potter to the point where i thought i almost shifted and was like way too into all those povs💀 then i realized “hey, the amount of sexualization of these movies is kinda wack” and made the change for the better🙏🙏

One of my coworkers genuinely thinks the vaccine will make her grow a tail. I got my second dose back in June and I still haven't grown my tail. Disappointed

As someone who can't even recall what they've dreamt for the past 2 years, I can't relate to this lucid dreaming stuff

Reality shifting is just daydreaming and I've been doing that as a child to relax and recess from the heavy weights of life and now i use it to write stories wtf are people on 😭😭😭

9:23 wait you aren't a cool flying drone yet?

Kurtis: "I say that like I'm not actually a human. I am." Get out of here, dude, we all know you're a drone by now.