My favorite version of this meme is the one where he says "straight lines" and it's just a bunch of pictures of state borders
I see a lot of the 'make fun of video essayists' jokes coming from twitch debaters, which is the funniest shit to me.
Like, yeah, video essayist are generally long-winded dorks talking about unimportant media treats, but like, the twitch crowd is if anything longer-winded and dorkier.
Read books
At least video essayists script and structure their videos, it's impossible to digest any sort of information from twitch debaters because it's impossible to pay attention to 4 hours of miscelaneous rants.
Nonono, you took him out of context! Please, watch this un-bookmarked 4 hour long twitch transcript, or maybe was it this one? And if you don't, you admit that you don't know the context and I'm actually right!
twitch dorks be like: let me make $50,000 from superchat in 1 day while simply reacting to a video essay 10 seconds at a time and loudly munching chips
I've tried to watch a few of those, legitimately the most frustrating content imaginable. You'll be listening to the video the streamer is watching, but they always pause to react in the middle of a thought or right before the main point. like at least pause and react in between video segments jfc.
Yeah it sucks that this is the content the algorithm favors, but as long as internet communication is funded by advertisements this is how it will be.
Yes I'm a cracker, yes I'm writing a video essay because I don't have enough white male friends to start a podcast, but at least it's about the core issues of Marxist soil ecology. This is a CARTOON-FREE ZONE.
that sounds cool actually
i think the format is fine if it's a subject that's interesting. but why tf do they care so much about children's media?
Because in depth critical analysis of children's media is subversive. You would never expect someone to think so hard about something we all watched as kids right?
Video essays are obviously worse than written articles for academic topics, but I think they're fine, even ideal, as a modern way to curate audiovisual mediums like games and movies, because you can state an idea and instantly exemplify it. You can even talk over the example. That being said, you shouldn't feel guilty about watching lame shit online, even if it's a 6 hour video of iCarly lol, it's your leisure time.
it’s your leisure time
exactly someone might say to you that if you instead read a literary classic it would be more entertaining and enrich your mind. They might even be right but they can't actually make you and feeling guilty while watching a video essay is worse than either activity
ah to still be able to tolerate book reading. :deeper-sadness:
still waiting for a breadtuber to actually make What Scooby-Doo: The Cyber Chase has to say about Parasocial Relationships
It'll be an opus of the whole genre!
This is a hilarious meme, and certainly rings true to me. But I have to admit I do love a good video essay.
that nick cage one is particularly offensive, 3 fucking hours to reveal to... ?babies? that nick cage is an esteemed actor with a coatful of awards?
thats literally longer than just putting on Adaption or Raising Arizona and gesturing at the screen "yeah so he's actually talented"
I watched it, it's good actually. It examines every film the guy did and what cage said about that film.
:fry: i dont believe you (that its good)
what makes such a project necessary and the thesis valuable? :lenin-sure:
Things don't need to justify their existence by being necessary or valuable
I hate people who just go "isn't this children content weird?" and kinda forget yeah, a lot of things for kids are wacky, because kids generally like that and are more open to it than adults.
I also despise every children's movie being held up as the apex or worst possible film. Like, some of them are worth talking about, but it speaks to the stunting of the american mind and hollywood that the most impactful films were ones for toddlers. Megamind is pretty good and worth discussing once or twice, but the glut of content around it is absolutely insane. Watch something with a little more depth.
when your entire career is a simulacra of a chinese classics major (is that a thing? idk) writing one article about the history and traditions ATLA drew from
articles are better than really long video essays. you can use tts and change the speed to whatever you want.
Allows for better comprehension.
i've done the whole "use TTS to listen an article" rigmarole.
The mispronunciations and other robotic hangups are very distracting. Sure you can control the speed but it's not nearly as practical as a video.
Also true. Who even needs the article at that point?
(Alright I'll turn myself in :gulaged: )
until the technology is there for embedding images into articles I will stick to podcasts with slides thanks
I love In Praise of Shadows but no goddamn way was I going to sit through a three hour Nic Cage video
Do people actually dislike long videos?
Personally, I want my slop to come in the biggest servings possible. Means I don't need to stop what I'm doing to put on different slop
If your video is less than 15 minutes long, don't even publish it. I can't even get dishes done in that time
For video essays, there are three correct lengths. 12-15 minutes, 20-25 minutes, 55-65 minutes. All else is a mistake.
Pathetic. Can’t even imagine a world of 7 hour Yakuza 5 video essays. Smh my dick head
The fight with Masato Aizawa represents the futility of his dreams to absorb the Tojo-kai into the Omi-rengo, as throughout the battle Kiryu draws him further from the Tojo headquarters as the brawl turns away from Aizawa's favor. Aizawa is denied both of his dreams, the other being fighting Kiryu at his peak, as Kiryu had recently been shot in the stomach. I'll be discussing how this relates to Derrida's concept of death cultures and cultural cannibalism.
Also Majima is gay or something I don't know
Yeah, but I was pretty sure that Action Button's videos are deliberate shitposts; so if I'm correct, the length & subject matter are part of the joke.
my time is mine to waste, not the essayists'. edit or die :chavez-guns:
Long videos are great for putting on in the background for a workout or while you're doing some work but don't want to listen to music.
... Or when you're high and it's a topic you're interested in and just want to chill
And here I was thinking video essays may be a way for me to escape the oppressive hell that is daily broadsheet reporting :deeper-sadness:
The only good video essay is the one from SBN3 where it starts off as a Last Jedi review then turns into a scathing critique of the whole youtube movie reviewer format.
But I'm a white nerd and I like my psuedo intellectual slop :Hoggers:
His content on microphones and voice acting is straight to the point too. Come to think of it his parody dubs are also really dense and short - his entire style is just completely antithetical to adsense which is why he has to make his money teaching classes lmao.
can't buy self respect (or ig he does by forfeiting youtube as a revenue stream lol)
Death to video essays. They are unnecessary. Reject modernity, retvrn to tradition by writing down your ideas in a real essay or a book
Death to America
You will pry my subscription to Noah Caldwell-Gervais's video essay channel out of my cold dead hands.
Probably because I died while watching a 10 hour analysis of the Dark Souls series, BUT STILL.
