Selling My Childhood Home and Getting Kicked Out of My Apartment

Sometimes. On real quiet nights. Some say you can still see ol’ Joel up there in the old Haver house. Up all night drawin’ naked ladies.

It's so strange, this channel. It's like you're a friend I never knew. Such a real person in the sea of fake personalities on youtube.

Joel Haver: The Best KRplusr
you hardly see videos like this anymore, films this intricate and intimate and funny, this well-crafted and engaging and personal, so it's a real treat when something like this comes around

You really are a true talent, man. Not just funny, smart, original, etc. Genuine. As you get bigger and bigger, cling to that as hard as you can. It's what's pulling all these people into your orbit. Thanks for all the great content.

quite divine timing how all this happens and a few months later your channel gets the attention it deserves

Joel is somehow forever 5 and 50 years old simultaneously

"If you move a lot, you kinda get used to leavin' places." Oddly profound and sad.

Joel: "I hosted the biggest party. They called it Party at the White House."
Me: "Cause the house is white."
Joel: "Cause I was class president."
Me: "Oh, yeah, makes perfect sense."

It was a pleasure sharing this part of your life with you.

you're so great at sitting down and telling such captivating emotional stories.

discovered your channel only yesterday night through your animation, then watched some of your live sketches, and then stumbled across this video expecting another comedy sketch but was really pleased to hear a genuine story from another human being
thank you so much for sharing this, you have such a refreshing view and it stirred a lot of emotions for me. I've shared your channel with a lot of my friends and I hope good things find you in the future :)

My dad died last week. He was fucking hilarious and I'm so angry with him right now. Thank you for these videos, it's really helping me go through the motions.

You will absolutely become big some day your content is just so high quality I’ve spent all night binge watching your videos

The part where he goes out and sits on the roof for the first time is my favorite. There's something so odd about experiencing something for the first time when it's wrapped in the lens of it being most likely the last time you'll be in that place. It's like how in my last day of living in the dorms we broke into an unused room and hung out for like an hour. It was kinda fun, but the whole experience had a cloud of regret over it because we hadn't broken in sooner. Love the video Joel, it's a great little window into your life and captures a lot of difficult-to-explain emotions.

you have a sort of realistic appreciation towards life. it feels very genuine and heartfelt. You definitely gained a follower.

I was drawing naked woman last night until 5 am, weird how I found this channel now and all.

Hey man. My first comment to you. I stumbled upon one of your videos once on reddit and been following ever since. Every time I watch you one of your videos it feels like I am watching some big youtube guy with a new sketch. Me and my friends have put so many of your videos on our tv enjoying the strange and interesting approach to comedy you take. love your content, and you have supporters here in Norway. Well, especially when we are drunk watching youtube videos at 3 in the morning.

I'm an art historian and I've been binging your videos the past two weeks, and I kept noticing that painting in the background. I immediately thought it looked like a Moyses van Wtenbrouck, but every time I saw it I kept wondering if it was real. Like, who would have a reproduction of a Van Wtenbrouck painting? Does anyone even make repros of his work? Who would order a custom repro of a Van Wtenbrouck? Eventually I found the original listed in a Christie's sale from 2007 (it notes that it is signed dated 1624). Still, I kept wondering if yours was this painting... And how might this 17th c. painting come into your possession?! Glad to finally know. Also, good vids.

This was done really well. Ur a good story teller

14:47 "as far as the KRplus channel goes: nothing is going to change"
It's kinda nice watching past Joel, totally unaware of what was around the corner for him.
This video made me feel good, thanks Joel.

This really was beautiful Joel. There is something about the nostalgia of places, the indelible connections we form to those spatial pieces of our lives that we end up carrying with us forever as memories, that deeply fascinates and often haunts me. I feel like we tend to conceive of "life" primarily as a stream of conscious experiences... but in a very real sense, life is also equally as composed of the People and of the Places that come together to form those experiences; and in this way the physical environments embedded within our life's river of experiences really are more than just "places", they are a literal part of the fabric of our lives- forever inextricably linked to who we have become, via the past... A part of us, in the most real, meaningful sense. And this thought, combined with time's unrelenting process of alienating us from our lives' Places (along with their people and their experiences), often feels like a weight which I struggle to capture in my music. But it's something I think you navigated with an admirable balance of effortless humor and honest, unguarded sincerity here... This is life, a little snapshot of it. The joy, the pain, the growth, the loss, the new... all slowly becoming old with the years, passing us forever in the stream of time- but greeting us still like old friends as we turn back to remember again, whenever we revisit the physical places that birthed them. Just, beautiful man. My favorite video of yours so far... If I'm being honest, "I cried here." lol
Keep up the inspiring work bro, I really think you're doing what you're meant to be doing.

I WAS wondering how you got in that house. That was a good prank lol. Love the vid broski

There’s a catharsis to this video.

This is probably the best video I've ever watched. It really was a joy. I've only just discovered your channel yesterday, and I've been watching all your videos. I didn't know your dad had past away and I'm crying over it. I'm not gonna question it, he's worth crying over. You're funny as hell, you're sweet as hell, and I'll be sticking around and sharing every video with my friends. Much love from Belgium Joel ❤️

This is such an amazing film. That feeling of nostalgia, the feeling of a big transition in life, I don't know how you did it but you captured it perfectly. I think the biggest compliment I could give is I clicked on a 16 minute long video on youtube without really knowing what it was, and I full screened and watched the entire thing in one sitting.

Joel is the only person on KRplus that can make me laugh and cry with such emotion.

Thanks for letting me and so many others take part in this chapter of the Joel Haver story. So happy the book is staying open, the videos have been excellent man

Those looked like nice boys, its one of my worst anxiety in my 31 years on this earth to think if or when the day comes when my childhood home is no more,
keep going strong i love your attitude in this video, when things go bad thing will be better

Wow i am just always so happy to see you using all your talents and gifts in the middle of hardship. I try to share your stuff when i can and will continue to do more! . Love ur stuff glad i found your channel! God bless!

i literally am picking my friends phones and subscribing to you when they're drunk

I relate. Summer 2019 my parents got divorced, sold the house I lived in for 26 years, my grandfather died and dad lost his job.

The man, the myth, the legend. Don't ever stop Joel. You are a gift upon us.

Watching this guy makes me a better human being.

Carl had exquisite taste in rugs. Your gratitude is something I appreciate.

It's so cool seeing this now, knowing Joel's hard work is paying off.

This fills a hole in my life that I didn't know was empty

This is probably one of the most crushing videos I've ever seen.
It's not sad, per se. It's just so unbelievably real. Inconceivably close and personal. It's incredible.

This channel is really something. It's not like anything else I've seen, it's extremely personal and the variety of tones it controls is incredible. 10:36 is the perfect example of this, a sweet story that is personal and wholesome, but also sad and at the same time funny because of how abrupt the transition is.

Like they say every good thing must come to an end. Looking forward to all the great films and stories you'll be sharing with us in the new locations you'll be experimenting with. Best of luck

this is art

You told it so well even I got nostalgic for your house

I love your heartfelt videos as much, if not even more than your funny ones, bud. Thank you for sharing

Man, I wish I had memories of a childhood home. I've never had such a place that I can reminisce about. I can only hope that my future kids will have a place they can return to when they reach my age and be rushed with great memories.
That said, I'm happy your bubble is starting to expand and I hope it keeps growing into something much more

I don't know why but this video made me cry, just one person sharing their life with another. Keep it up man.

I really enjoy your candid videos, they're genuinely heartfelt

This was a cute and wholesome vid despite the circumstances. :) Best of wishes to you.

6:49 This hit hard. The crickets, the casual exit, the dog, the peace, and then the headlights on the weight of dealing with a loss.
This brief scene is so ruthlessly real.
I'm so sorry for what you're going through. You express it so well.
I hope it hurts less as soon as you're ready for it.

thank you Carl RIP and thank you Joel for sharing this

I've wasted tens of thousands of hours of my life watching anything and everything on KRplus, but this channel like nothing else I've found before.

One of, if not the very first, video of yours that I watched featured your dad. I noticed I hadn't seen him in any new videos, but didn't learn he passed away until I watched this one. I didn't expect this video, film really, to contain such an raw slice of your life. When you said your dad passed away, something in me shifted slightly. I chuckled when you showed all the places you cried. So relatable, but something no one ever talks about. It shifted again when you talked about the person you first loved, then were left by. I chuckled again when your cat trilled in agreement. A few moments after that had to pause the video because I started sobbing. I'm still sobbing. I think you've captured something with this film. Growing up? Experiencing loss? Nostalgia in it's truest form, not the connotative idea of the word. These 16 minutes and 42 seconds is some of the most precious time I've ever spent watching anything. Thank you for this. I noticed this is one of your least watched videos (after your recent blow up). Without a doubt, if I were to pick one video to save forever from your channel, it would be this.

_awesome_ video and story!

He's like one of those classical artists obsessed with the 'female form'

This was such a beautiful and emotional video! It's amazing to have all those memories, places and people immortalised in your video! I wish you all the best in this next chapter!

Look a those trees swaying outside the house. There is something hard to describe about this.

I cried here. Thank you

I never comment on anything so I like to think when I do it means something, but
Man, I really, really love the vibes you're giving out here. It's so genuine, open and has a tang of melancholy peace I'd feel while watching a cozy nostalgic movie that used to be very important to me. You do a really good job at making me feel like we're friends even though you're a guy I've never met in my TV, just, phenomenal vibes
I know this vid's quite old, so I hope your life situation's gone favourably for you since then!

Is it wrong that I laughed out loud at the “I cried here” part? That was so darling and endearing. I swear I’m not laughing at the actual sorrow, which I’m certain we’ve all tasted in some form in our lives.
This reminds me of when I was last in my Grandmere’s “opulent” (in my kid eye’s opinion) apartment. Visiting her there was such a part of my young life. I felt like a princess. I still have dreams of being there. Some time ago during a street fair on a very hot summer night, I had the chance to peek into the apartment about 20 years after I was last there. The new occupants had revamped a lot of the space, adding a wall and redoing the kitchen with modern cheap appliances, instead of the avocado green and 1920’s appliances, table and sink. Same space, totally different ‘feel’. It was then I realized it was HER, not so much that space, that I loved so much and the way the essence that is HER occupied that space, via decor and personal things. A home is a reflection of the soul that inhabits it. A house is a mere building, a blank canvas, ready to be occupied and filled with whatever the new occupants decide how to care for it and what to fill it with, for better or worse.

10:53 I can emphasize with that feeling so much. I was with my SO at the time in an apartment, when she left the room was just so big and empty, there simply isn't enough "life" to fill it. It was empty, big, echoing, and hollow. I'd wake up and cry in the empty room. It was horrifying

I'm happy you've been able to see new heights of success after the losses you've experienced over the last year. You're a talented individual who is fearless in sharing himself and his life with the world and you deserve it.

The carpet in Carl/Karl's apartment is just like the one in my grandparents house and it's super nostalgic. I almost relate to living in that sorta place it seems really nice

I really liked the editing and format. Held my attention all the way through.

I think what makes Joels videos feel so personal compared to other channels is he leaves in the silence. That eerie wind that permeates through the background. The strange fizzles that the audio leaves behind in your old home movies. Every car. Every memory. Every story.
Thank you Joel.
Thank you.

Hi Joel,
I'm a bit late to the party, but I discovered your channel about two weeks ago and have found myself spending hours at a time watching your videos. They are truly excellent and when I'm feeling down, they never fail to make me smile. Your approach to comedy is wonderful, and short films like this feel so deeply human in a way that you just don't often see these days. Hope you're doing well in these weird times and thanks for making content like this; you rock.

I've been watching many of your videos over the past week (like many others it seems) but this one really hit home.

Thank you, Joel. This is the first time a KRplus video has ever made me cry. It's refreshing and admirable to see you be so raw and open about such personal topics with us and to let us experience them with you. You have a gift for storytelling and your combination of humor and honestly lets us relate to you on such a human level. It's silly, but it feels like I have gotten to know you and your loved ones through your videos and in this, the influence your dad's character has had on you is clear to see. Know that with each video you create, 387K subscribers are celebrating his legacy alongside you.
Congrats on blowing up - I can't think of a more deserving creator. Hoping for more in 2021.

5:56 Those are great 10 seconds. Just sitting there, wind in the trees...

I love all your videos, but this one is it for me. It feels like I know you, like we’re best friends. You deserve to do this for a living and be fully supported doing it. You have an extreme talent for this, and a captivating energy.

This feels like a really close & personal experience with you the way you tell it so openly. Thank you fo sharing with us!!!

I wanna be friends with you. Haha. It legit makes me wanna cry to see you able to support yourself with this now. Happy for you!!!!

Its nice to see that that the "i have social anxiety and I'm asking for directions" style of speaking is actually how you are and not an act for your videos.

The audio in this was so good at capturing quiet moments in nature. It made the scenes feel so much more intimate.

My life improved since I found this treasure channel. You're very talented, Joel.

Also that cat either fully comprehends the English language or he has great comedic timing, either way that’s pretty impressive.

Good luck, Joel! Can't wait to see where you go and what you make along the way

Something about when you sat on the roof of your old house really got to me. The feeling of nostalgia was palpable. It reminded me of all the memories I had in my 20's that were important to me alone.

very good video
I liked how everytime you "move on" to different place,
you get ready to leave, turn off the lights, and shut the door behind.

This was really beautiful, thanks for sharing with us

Thanks for doing what you do! Pretty cool to see behind the scenes.

Joel, thank you for being so authentic and never giving up. I appreciate what you're doing on youtube and in life. Whenever I can in conversation, I share your name in the hopes that people will check out your channel. The comedic touch you have is one-of-a-kind. The creative cuts, voice over and camera angles are SO entertaining. Keep it rocking dude!!!!

Your mom going “I didn’t say anything!” Was so relatable 😂
Amazing video!

You're such an amazing creative and person. Seriously, a blessing to us all Joel! Love ya, man

Love you too Joel, looking forward to seeing what other great stuff you create

Really touched by this video. Harkened back bittersweet memories of my own. Thank you.

Man he is just so friendly and positive I'd love to meet him or game with this dude be straight up vibeing.

I just discovered your channel recently. What a pleasure it has been to watch, your creativity is brilliant. Thanks for sharing.

I really liked this. So simple and honest. So happy for you for your newfound success.

The final shot where you turn the camera around sent a little shiver down my spine. I used to play soccer there growing up. You capture western mass's spirit so well - the quiet beauty, the subtle absurdity, the calm nature, and the legacy of storytelling. Thanks for your filmmaking!

So very comforting to watch. Thank you 💙

you popped up on my recommended last week and so i just found your stuff out and i seriously hope you can make it further beyond. You're talented :' )

Bro this was so beautiful. I love you. You are so real and you are going to be huge because of how genuine and unique your content is.

I really enjoyed this Joel. Bittersweet, absolutely. But I can’t wait to see the next chapter! ❤️

This was beautiful. I’m so happy for Joel.

This was amazing and beautiful. Best of luck to you!

This is my favorite vid. Keep up the awesome work. Never die.

Weird.. I've never noticed that before, but it's true. Crying in the shower is the exception. Also I agree, showers are awesome!

Loved this. you're officially my favourite KRplus discovery since it's golden days. keep doing what you love, whatever it is.

Hey Joel, like many others, I stumbled upon your work only recently and have been watching all your videos. This one in particular hit close to home (I've moved at least a dozen times in my childhood) and made me cry and laugh, sometimes both. I'm so glad I found your channel - you have an intriguing wit, and a gift for storytelling. Here's to blowing up in 2021!

I just found your channel and I have to say, you’re amazing at what you do.

Its awesome watching your channel grow so fast, you deserve it!

This is exactly what KRplus is all about. Thank you for sharing a part of your journey with all of us. Excellent sketches by the way. Good luck my friend!