Something about knowing that people out there find this kind of content compelling is so depressing it feels me with utter dread. Like to add insult to injury of course the person reacting to the video essay is gonna be constantly pausing throughout it so it should take at LEAST twice as long to finish the video.

So… if someone is reacting to THAT reaction it’s gonna take like 8 hours to get to the end of the video like jesus christ WHAT on earth are you people doing.

  • notceps [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Conceptually sure there's nothing wrong with longer videos and leftist content does have to be longer than liberal videos because it often also has to fight against public perception.

    BUT anything over 1 hour is just made worse by its length, I could right now find some lecture on Marx by some german professor that clocks in at 1 hour and maybe 10minutes and it only goes over the hour mark because he's taking questions from a crowd. To me there's no reason a youtuber can waffle on about a subject for longer than some old philosophy professor.