This is too much for bloons but ngl I enjoy an earnest video essay about something the creator is passionate about, even if it is a bit silly. I enjoy it when people infodump about hobbies or media and (yes I’m using this excuse) it does make for relaxing background noise. It’s nice to have someone talking in the background about something you can tune your focus back in to occasionally.

Now after the golden (oversaturated) age of video essays a couple years ago there has been a notable rise in absolute shit quality “essays” that don’t say anything of value at all and are often just following the trend. Fuck off with that shit, it needs at least a modicum of actual human soul put into it cmon