Things get seriously silly in the surreal illustrated world of DalesBits. With buckets of humour, the illustrator has amassed a huge range of daily animations on YouTube and TikTok, the base of which is always a rather tangential play on everyday scenarios or exchanges, like ordering a sausage roll at Greggs or boarding a Ryan Air flight. “Life can be a pretty rough raisin,” he says, “so if I manage to distract someone from whatever they’re going through or brighten up their day or remind them that it’s okay to do what you like doing and have fun, even for a moment, then my job is done.” Simple affirmations or everyday truisms, these kinds of silly illustrations and humorous animated narratives are “an outlet for some weird part within my brain”, he tells us, “I have the freedom to say and do more than regular life allows.” #itsnicethat