IKEA in a Nutshell

Everybody's favorite famous Swedish furniture store! From decorated showrooms, to their iconic meatballs, or DJUNGELSKOG plushies, and every piece of furniture in-between, we take a look at IKEA in a nutshell.

Second Channel: @JoeseppiToo

outro animation by Pizzajuice
face used for character is popular Twitch emotes 4Head and 4Weird

[Simlo]

Ikea coworker here! The reason why the rooms feel so real is because each room setting has a story in mind and every item in it has been thought of to fit that story! For example a condo for a young couple who both have highley demanding jobs and have a high liking for bougie things would be a story for a condo room setting

[user_hat]

Everybody gangsta until the lights turn off and the faceless employees say "The store is now closed, please exit the building" and you notice there is no exit

[TheWinjin]

Two things
1) There's a great story about guys who set up a warm, friendly sort of party on Christmas Eve in their local IKEA. They took the biggest flat there is with the coziest living room, and they would have board games set up there and invite people who were alone in IKEA on Christmas Eve to spend time with them. Because one of them had this sort of shower thought that whoever would be alone there on this day is just extremely lonely and wants to have at least some sort of social interaction, so they wanted to help these people. As far as the story went, staff quickly caught up on what was going on and there was zero interference and they were only asked to leave, like, five minutes before closing time, so they were allowed to stay there for as much as was humanly possible, because, I mean, the staff also wanted to go home on Christmas.
2) Not sure if they do it worldwide but they also served pork shoulders in IKEA Russia and these were delicious and cost like 4$ per knuckle which is an incredible meat to dollar ratio. And they even had frozen ones you could prepare at home.

[niemand]

Fun story: My parents once forgot me in an Ikea. I was too young to remember but they told me there was a misunderstanding, my mom went to a Toys r us with my brother and my dad went to another store while was just forgotten there. When they met up again after like 2 hours they realized that I was gone. They looked for me for like half an hour until they found me in a Smaland, just sleeping there lol.
Edit: Now that I think about it there's a slight chance they just took the first child they found in Smaland and that the real me is still wandering in the Ikea, lost and afraid.

[frds_skce]

I'm convinced that Joeseppi never actually made it out of IKEA store while recording this video, and he's currently living in this maze, releasing this video and putting cryptic message in it.

[brushtrainreels]

I actually was a intern at IKEA, everything he said is 100% true, except he forgot the part where in the staff cafeteria, you get high class meals and free drinks

[skull-xsyp]

i ordered my blåhaj last week, he came 5 days early and since then he’s cured all my sadness in my life, helped me eat more and tidys my room, truly an incredible specimen.

[whatsthematter]

I'm convinced the only purpose of the wooden mannequin hands in IKEA is so that they can see who's immature enough to make them into middle fingers.

[X-SPONGED]

You forgot to mention the psychic healing properties of cuddling IKEA stuffed animals.

They seem to instantly improve your mood anytime you're near them (the radius of effect varies from person to person. The general rule of thumb is if you can see the plush relatively well, you will feel at least a fraction of it's effect)

[DaddyDellConagher]

Thank you joeseppi for going into ikea and making it out alive to share your experience to the world

[thedragonslayer]

I have no doubt that there is someone out there with a complete collection of every IKEA stuffed animal, and that terrifies me.

[zac]

Ah yes, IKEA, the worst place to lose a purse! Good thing that never happened to me. Ha ha ha…ha…that was a horrible day.

[meatball]

As a Swede this video is top tier and I cant even complain about the pronunciation, in fact I love it so much I think we should reconstruct the Swedish language according to you.

[jmmykent]

As a Swedish person, I can tell you the names are actually pretty self explanatory. For example, the djungelskog bear directly translates to jungle forest. Also blåhaj is just Blue shark.

[henryallsebrook]

This made me realise every piece of furniture in my room is from IKEA. My bed, my bedside table, my desk, my chair, my curtains, my pegs, my clothes hangers, my poster frames, my bed sheets, my blanket, my cork board, my rug, my towel, my lamp, my desk plant, my mini-organiser chest of drawers, my magazine files, my cubes on the wall and my laundry basket. There is nothing that's not IKEA. And my room is pretty small as well. I feel like an IKEA Stan at this point

[blchh]

blahaj is love. surrender all mortal possessions to blahaj.

[thegamehouse]

Ladies and gentlemen, prepare for yet another certified hood classic by this absolute Chad of a man

Edit: Uh

[wangsengsin]

This man is scarily good at promoting these things. Its 9pm on a rainy day and I want to go to an IKEA right now.

[kaasmeester]

Pro tips:
1) If you're in a hurry, you can bypass the showroom and enter the shop directly, though the entrance is usually very low key or even hidden a little
2) You can also just go into the warehouse directly, if you know what you need and where to find it. Huge time saver.
3) If you want to browse the showroom, be prepared to get stuck behind super slow groups, people with strollers, or couples who between the 2 of them somehow manage to block a 4 meter wide aisle. For a much more relaxed experience, walk from end to start, against the traffic. People will see you coming and move out of the way, especially if you look a little to the side and pretend not to see them. You'll be like Moses parting the Red Sea.

[tinyhammertoksvig]

As Swede I have to congratulate you on your pronounciation of Älmhult and Småland. Most english speakers would pronounce them like Almhult and Smaland but you actually got the Ä and Å pronounciations pretty close. At least different enough from just saying A. Kudos!