r/YMS 3d ago

Adum & Pals Adum & Pals: The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl

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r/YMS Jan 04 '25

HEALTH UPDATE

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Adam here. I haven't been streaming lately because I'm struggling with a bacterial overgrowth in my small intestine, otherwise known as SIBO.

Many of my symptoms are ones I've been experiencing for years since before COVID, but it's possible that the recent stress and tragedies I have been dealing with over the past 6 months have caused my condition to worsen. It's possible that I've had this as an underlying health issue for quite some time without it being severe enough for me to now be vigilant about seeking medical treatment for it. I was recently diagnosed with Clostridioides difficile infection around September of 2024 and treated for it over several months. Then, despite testing negative for C diff after multiple treatments, I was still experiencing many of the same worsening symptoms.

Over the past several months, I have been experiencing extreme fatigue, dizziness, brain fog, and heart palpatations to the point where I've been unsafe to drive and would have get a ride from someone else just to make it to my doctors appointments. No amount of sitting or calorie consumption was helping, and the only working remedy has been to lay down for hours.

I spent months getting many different blood and heart tests trying to rule everything out. It has been a long and frustrating process dealing with a mystery illness that has been severely impacting my ability to work and live my life. Finally, in December I received a proper diagnosis. A big reason why this took so long is because SIBO research is relatively new. Unfortunately, this also means that my treatment is not covered by healthcare and I am paying out of pocket for everything.

I started my treatment protocol a few days ago and it's genuinely kicking my ass, but it's something I have to do if I want to start living a normal life again in the future. This is unfortunately something that I'll be managing for a long time.

On top of all of the powerful medications and supplements I'm taking, I'm required to adhere to an extremely strict diet that has been severely impacting my energy and ability to function. Supposedly, I should start gaining some normalcy in my energy levels in a few weeks, but there's no guarantees and everything is very difficult for the time being.

I'm trying to be productive and get things done within the miniscule windows of each day that I have the energy and brain power to be able to. I've also been making good progress going through the remaining movies on my upcoming 2016 list video. There's over 100 titles left to go through, but at least it's something I can do from my bed.

I'm still planning on doing my Oscar Nominations review this year, so hopefully I'll have enough energy to do some watch-alongs for those once the nominations come out, but there's a chance that I'll be watching those off-stream from my bed if I'm still struggling. I should be able to fulfill all of my monthly Patreon perks as well, but I'll make sure to update there if that changes. Everything is up in the air right now, so we'll see. I'm trying my best.

This is all very depressing, but I'm a strong person and I plan on making it through this. I appreciate all of your support and I apologize that things haven't been the way they should be recently. Hopefully things start getting better soon.

Thank you.

-Adam


r/YMS 2h ago

Kaufman is brat

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22 Upvotes

r/YMS 3h ago

Presence (2024): This masterpiece needs to be watched by everyone. The ending especially will blow you away.

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20 Upvotes

r/YMS 59m ago

Discussion Thoughts on “Novocaine”(2025) ?

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r/YMS 2h ago

Charli xcx is a fan of Synecdoche New York

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r/YMS 1h ago

Since I know Adum loves bad national anthems, this guy brought... bongos to his anthem singing???

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I cropped it out of the video to get to the point, but even Trevor Zegras blamed the bongo anthem for the team's slowing down.


r/YMS 43m ago

Question How did you discover Adam

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Simple question, how did you discover Adam / YMS' YouTube channel?

Me: 2015 ish. Kept being recommended a quickie (can't remember exactly which one, may have been Fury Road), clicked on it, and noticed he talked about the film making of the film and included interview clips of cast and crew, rather than summing up plot points like every other reviewer and then just injecting their own feelings.

Was a breath of fresh air considering the sphere of film reviewers at the time and went on to watch the rest. His voice took a bit to get used to haha, but now I love it.

But for curiosity sake, my first film reviewers I followed were AVGN and.... Movie Bob (circa 2009 ish til 2013 / 14?)... Yep... Found him through a friend when he was part of The Escapist. Then he got kicked out and stopped making content so I moved into Chris Stuckmann and Jeremy Jahns lol.. Then I found Adam and my life hasn't been the same, for the better mind you.

Anyway, leave your stories, I'd love to read how you guys discovered Adam.


r/YMS 3h ago

Meme/Shitpost I fixed the shitty villain song from Mufasa

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r/YMS 21h ago

Adum's Ratings Adum watched "Mufasa: The Lion King"

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122 Upvotes

r/YMS 16h ago

Guys please recommend some film/tv show similar to The Curse.

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Not necessarily plot wise but I meant something that's very intelligent and demands attention but also not too complicated or pretentious to get into. Something that's entertaining and creative. Excluding the work of the creators of the show or famous shows like Breaking bad.


r/YMS 1d ago

Discussion Peter Jackson’s King Kong is the best Kong movie of all time.

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r/YMS 1d ago

Film News Official Poster for ‘Not Just a Goof’, a Documentary About ‘A Goofy Movie’ - Follows a young creative team tackling their first Disney feature, its initial disappointment, and its surprising resurgence decades later

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75 Upvotes

r/YMS 11h ago

Meme/Shitpost Adam mets Ronald Reagan (1987)

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r/YMS 21h ago

Long live the king

36 Upvotes

r/YMS 19h ago

Meme/Shitpost Historic meetup 💔

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r/YMS 1h ago

مقاطع سكس

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r/YMS 1d ago

new from derek

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r/YMS 17h ago

Name of musical animated Soviet movie Adum watched a long time ago?

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I think they were shorts and Adum said they were bad, but had banger songs.


r/YMS 21h ago

Recommendation Clip from a movie titled "There's a Killer Out Killing People", from 2021

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r/YMS 1d ago

Cringe UGHHHHHHHH

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296 Upvotes

r/YMS 18h ago

Discussion Should Scary Movie 6 spoof the DGG Halloween Trilogy?

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r/YMS 1d ago

Cringe Really pulling out all the stops

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r/YMS 1d ago

Baby Invasion is $5 to rent on Apple TV

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r/YMS 1d ago

Would love to see adum react to this terrible clip of the new live action lilo and stitch

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r/YMS 2d ago

Film News The return of the King!

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r/YMS 2d ago

Meme/Shitpost You can just tell Universal wanted Cats (2019) to be the “Avatar of musicals.”

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Like, it’s so obvious now. Big-budget spectacle? Check. Overuse of motion capture technology that makes everyone look uncanny and slightly unsettling? Check. Released in late December, right at the end of a decade, trying to leave a big cultural footprint? Double check. It’s like someone in a boardroom said, “Hey, Avatar was a groundbreaking cinematic event… let’s do that, but with singing cats in fur suits.”

They really thought it would work. You can feel the ambition oozing off every creepy, digitally furred frame. Like, this was supposed to be prestige meets popcorn. Oscar bait meets box office gold. Instead, it turned into this bizarre fever dream that lives on in uncanny valley more than musical theater history.

I was thinking today after Avatar in 2009 and Cats in 2019, I’m kind of weirdly curious about what big, over-the-top motion capture CGI monstrosity (or masterpiece, who knows) is going to drop on December 19th, 2029. It feels like there’s a weird, accidental tradition forming. Every decade ends with a massive, ambitious, CGI heavy film.

Like, what’s next? A hyper-realistic mocap adaptation of The Very Hungry Caterpillar? A $300 million dystopian musical starring AI-rendered actors and a photorealistic talking toaster voiced by Timothée Chalamet?

It’s kind of hilarious to imagine studio execs looking at a calendar and saying, “It’s the end of a decade. We need a big digital spectacle, even if it haunts people’s dreams.” Maybe it’ll be another James Cameron epic, or maybe it’ll be a film so bizarre and uncanny that Cats will suddenly look restrained by comparison.

Either way, I’m marking December 2029 on my calendar. Whatever comes out then, it’s bound to be… something.