that thing youtubers do when they want to sound smart. 

Fr 😂😂😂

my man how you doing

Long Man Bad...

this

Like that 7 hour long video essay on skyrim xD

That's exactly the sort of thing to say when you want to appear smart! Also shameless plug, I'm hoping some of you might like the music that I make :)

@@PaintingWinterMusic let me listen real quick

@@PaintingWinterMusic your music is really good!

@@PaintingWinterMusic it’s not my type of music but it’s nice

@@Apoenzyme Thank you very much!

Dare I add, mystery is what makes life mysterious! But this can't be proven until a video essay is made on the topic.

literally exactly this lmfao

And midwits and tik tokers praising the video as if it is a masterpiece

Lemmino Still love his videos, though. Production quality is top notch.

Part 3: Thatcher and the Rise of Neoliberalism

Part 3.5: The fall of the Modern Byzantine Empire

Part 4: The Beginning of World War III

Part 5: The Art of Obama

Part 6: Saudi Arabian boogaloo

sorta does though doesnt it 🤔

@@IjwPetersen Yes, it was a direct reference.

CAPITALISM

@@D.S.handle One manifestation of society's aversion to criticism is the rise of political correctness. While political correctness initially emerged as a way to promote inclusivity and sensitivity, it has morphed into a form of dogmatism that suppresses dissenting voices and stifles open dialogue. Under the guise of protecting marginalized groups, political correctness often becomes a shield that shields dominant ideologies from scrutiny, making criticism almost sacrilegious.

The moral is we ourselves, through our endless desire to regress into childhood and make-believe whilst being full grown adults, have become teletubbies. The narrator says "say hello". They say eh-oh. Our children say eh-oh and we want to say eh-oh too. You have no idea what is about to happen but you are along for the ride, immersed in a world unbound by logic or rules or authority, in the happy horror of the unknown.

literally the funniest part lmao

Most replayed part comes in clutch to skip the ad part

its always nordvpn

__/\__ my beloved

raid shadow legends!

I read this in spamton voice lol

Holy shit spamton

and then they show stylized black and white footage from 2006

Ah, yes... 1997.

kromer

Just shove em in rough like 8tracks.

No what they'll do is put a blank CD in a computer disk drive and it boots up GTA IV on the PS2.

right 💀 I was looking at the tape player like “it’s literally just for playing videos why do this”

"It all started when the cold war ended" *Places a DVD on top of an AoL disk thus damaging the disk drive*

It all started near the end of 2023. - pastes file into folder and double clicks it

"What happened to" "the rise and fall of" "how (CHARACTER/PERSON) did (THING)" devolving into how terrible corporations are as if the literal invention of workers unions 100 years ago didn't already put that idea into our countries heads

And the over used safe words.. “degenerate” , “pedo, pdf file” , “ regard” “looser” 😂

What happened to mister shit?

​@@diegovargasdiego he got flushed

​​​@@davecorns7630 looks like this shit is about to go down the drain, literally

"It's thing-carrying time!"

"what are we, some kind of man carrying things ?"

one joke

to rule them all

Sorry man, it's been a day since the vid came out, he won't see this comment and you won't get a heart. However, you did get 1k likes which can be traded in for 3/4ths of a heart.

Maybe he just had it or it was trash week

I would assume he already had it and made a sketch from that

Try recording some audio without your phone. What will you use? Oh yeah haha ...

@@sumofat4994 my ears

@@sumofat4994 A microphone and a digital to audio converter and Audacity.

Katy Perry would like that

FR FR

Ah the exurb1a way

not bad, not bad at all

American Beauty

Fr😂

hate?!

@@Jdpoz i hate current youtube state, i clicked on the link fearing my life thinking about the chance of you being a bot with a fake link but then i clicked and was actually a video related to your comment, relieved me

@@SirWhitez I love this channel even when it cuts close, and as cringe as it is... I feel obligated to call myself out when he hits the bullseye. Honestly probably not going to do the "VHS tape" thing anymore as a result of this. Once the thing you thought was fun and novel becomes a joke, I guess it means it's time to move on from it. :D

​@@Jdpoz smart way to spam

That's what I'm saying! XD

I don’t own a clicks block-key keyboard. No wonder I’m such an idiot!

im the same but the other way

*Presses 1,000,00 buttons loudly* What's your social security number? Asking for a friend.

@@inferiormoralsmoralsupport2389 4

With a lot of awkward pauses in between every word

Supereyepatchwolf?

Oxhorn

why are so many of them like that?

​@@stacklysm Did someone say Nexpo? The most annoying RU-vidr pausing to date.

Or they pitch up/speed up what they say as a punchline

@@daveintheAM Freeze frame, tilt angle, zoom in, laugh track, Seinfeld intro bass

There are definitely times where people abuse that but more often than not it is bad dialouge *shivers in Netflix resident evil series* do i even have to repeat the line?

This is unbelievably specific and true

the accuracy of this enrages me

And the game is question is Hello Kitty Highland Adventures

*Part 1: The Big Bang OR *Part 1: In The Beginning

I still can't believe that fucking Vladimir Putin did exactly that in an interview

Part 3: Fall of the Galactic Republic

​@@aeliusdawn he rose in the ranks of the Soviet Union through pseudointellectualism

The upside of the internet is that anyone can publish anything. The downside of the internet is that anyone can publish anything.

In the year of 1XXX, its all started with the friend of of great great grandfather of Y.

@@cbbblue8348 *intro to a video ostensibly about the Great Fire of London* "When I was six, my dad took me to a small petting zoo outside of Kansas City, Missouri. And it was there, for the first time, I ate my first boysenberry ice cream. I had, of course, had ice cream before, but it had always been vanilla - a flavour whose ubiquity has since become a byword for 'common or 'plain' - or, rarely, chocolate or strawberry, but only for a treat, or if my mother had grabbed the wrong tub by mistake in her haste to get through a weekly grocery run at the local Buy-n-Save, a supermarket chain formerly peculiar to the Kansas City are and immediate surrounds, now long gone, it being unable to withstand the sheer eroding force of Walmart..."

This video is sponsored by-

*animus, anima, anime.*

​@@heartache5742 soul, soul, soul

​@@heartache5742 Soul, Soul, Neon Genesis Evangelion

Mauler does one combining various dumb lines from video essays.

@@AgentMaryland That's what I was implicitly referencing lol

Both extremely long and extremely short videos cater to the same tendency people have against committing time and attention. When something is like a minute long, it's over right away. You can watch it in-between beats. It's empty and facile. It's not an activity in of itself. When something is several hours, it gives you license to tune out and have it on in the background while you're doing other stuff. This is why the really long stuff tend to be tedious audio based things such as video essays and personality-driven video game streams and such. It's also not an activity in of itself, because it's only background noise. You very rarely see a seven hour drama that demands full and constant attention.

​@@albertskoften1452the pure stresstest is watching the desert bus full stream by vargskeletor joel. its 8 hours long, and while he does his best to entertain the audience even he runs out of ideas about 5 hours in. I managed to watch the full thing in three sessions and while its literally almost the same screen for 8 hours its actually refreshing watching something this long as an activity. Not because the content is particullary interesting, but more because you become waaaay more self aware while watching long content as an activity

Medium videos are becoming extinct 😢

​@@badly-timed_luck6845RU-vid ad revenue. that's it

The dichotomy of man. You either die watching 10 second TikToks or live long enough to make it through a 6 hour essay on the moral ambiguity of Spongebob.

Teletubbies is the SCARIEST piece of media and here’s WHY

🤙 Determinism is Freedom 🤙 🤙

Dunning-Kruger is real.

Overall, nothing good ever comes out of trying to look like something one isn't. As a wise man once said: "Do or do not. There is no try."

Nothing? You can get a platoon to a small army of people arguing and defending for you whenever someone disagrees with you. Unless you’ve done something real bad, they’re unbelievably loyal.

I mean it does look pretty cool

@@9nikola wrong, yoda is not a man for while he is male he does not belong to the human species.

hey

He truly has become the man carrying the thing

@@alanbareiro6806 hey

@@errorstudioz hey

​@@EnergeticSpark63hey

This is a beautiful and well thought out critique of Capitalism and Spongebob's relationship with God.

If I had a penny for every time a video essay went on a random tangent...

@@corvidcorax As a Game theorist subscriber, i'd be a millionare

Its like how my ELA teacher can tell a random story about his life for like 20 minutes and then somehow connect it back to ELA

@@BillyBob_1177 Why is that so true though-?

My dude, was that your attempt trying to spell Nee... Nit... Nei... uh... Neatshe?

thats what i keep telling people

​@@MGP_editz Do you think he's gonna see that and go "Oh my, you have truly shown me the light with your elegantly phrased correction. God and is alive and shall return, praise the Lord!" I mean maybe he'll say that I don't know.

@@ManCarryingThing GOD is not dead. He's alive.

@@Sudupe16 Why do atheists like messing around with Christians? Why don't they do the same to other religions? Especially Islam.

What’s the beef with video essays? I don’t get it

@@GWBROHP as a format, nothing. they're a great medium to deliver very long and complex stories and ideas to a mass audience in the digital age. some essayists go really overboard with the artsy theatrics and we're just poking fun.

@@LieseFury honestly seeing these comments are putting me off even making one, i just want to make a video talking about a particular topic i really care about. but based off what the "vide essays be like" videos make me feel kind of shitty for coming up with creative editing ideas to execute said video.... i definitely get there must be video essayist's that come off very pretentious but surely there are people out there looking at these projects as a creative outlet.. idk maybe im overthinking.

@@Desmond-Dark appreciate it, i actually ended up making what i was talking about previously for a film class... the reactions i got were very positive and made me feel really good about it.

Little clear cassetes, big black & White VCR tapes, same difference!

Strange. We had a camcorder that used cassette tapes. At least I think so. I don’t think it was using VHS tapes. Those are a bit big even for a camcorder. I do realize that it’s usually for audio though.

​@@redking36 From my knowledge, audio cassette tapes were not used for capturing video. Video8 and VHS-C were video cassettes that could act like a VHS tape while being about the size of the standard audio cassette. Still, I would believe you if it turns out that your camcorder actually did use compact audio cassettes for recording video. If a company can find a way to combine movie film and 8-track cassettes for an audio visual medium, then it's entirely possible somebody attempted to, and maybe succeeded in, making a compact audio cassette be able to record video.

​​@@TheRealShatterGlasshe audio cassette for video thing has been attempted, it doesn't work, heck even I attempted it as a teenager, the frequency needed to capture video is too high and cassette would have to run way faster. The audio cassette wouldn't hold much video. The reason why Hi8 or 8mm tapes can play video is because the video signal is not linear (like audio tapes), meaning it's not one trail of magnetized densities, but it's a stack of diagonal slits of magnetized trails. Imagine cramming Pringles in a tube instead of having them laid out end to end. Stacked they can fit in a smaller space, laid out they exponentially take up a lot of distance. Same logic with Hi8 tapes.

@@redking36 Turns out that a company did use an audio cassette for a camcorder. Did yours look anything like the one in 8-But Guy's video? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TCXJ5twf5tM.html

If I even saw the word retrospective I’m running away

Analog Horror really got ruined when people just churned out FNAF fan films with switched-out names.

​@channelwithout most fnaf vhs videos I saw were very well made tho. Do you hate them purely because they're five nights at freddy??

@@N.I.A23 I'm referring to the ones that are clearly just FNAF rip offs rather than fan films. Games or short films with a similar premise pop up pretty often in the analog horror scene.

@@PlayzieBum Rise and fall is also a good one to avoid

illuminaughti

hey

I laughed out loud so hard!

GOD is not dead.

@@Aisosahere hey

I came here to post this lmao. I lost it

he truly got his ass with this one

Difference is dan did it as a self deprecating joke. The entire video is about him worrying that he's a pretentious and untalented youtuber incapable of improvement.

@@kyle8952joke missed me because the constant cuts to weird angles with “interesting” lightning while he monologues about some RU-vidr came across as just that: pretentious.

So true, I have a cassette of a bunch of pirated drama films and I'm resurfacing them on a barely working recorder to my kids. They love Andrei Rublev now.

Everybody needs someone. He's not the only one.

Golden memories

Digitize them and upload them to youtube, I gotta hear them

It's because it's mechanical so it's more satisfying to interact with, like how mechanical keyboards are more pleasant than rubber dome ones. I have an old VCR somewhere that I tried to use for nostalgia sake a while ago but unfortunately it doesn't work. I should maybe try to fix it

but then it'll become the new "I'm a relatable and self-aware youtuber" trend

@@xXx_Regulus_xXx you're right and I hate that

⁠​⁠@@xXx_Regulus_xXxthere’s already somewhat of a trend like that with RU-vid shorts/reels/tiktok creators unboxing shit that other creators posted a video about or attempting to accomplish or do something with them failing for 90% of the video

I think a lot of people aren’t realizing this 😂 this video’s humor has got layers to it

Omfg yeah, thought I was the only one annoyed by that

“New audio/video equipment, so things might be different.” Rarely noticeable.

Perception of self-perfection, where they believe a minor issue, such as appearances and their voices, is imperfect and may be noticed by the viewers with an expected response of their complaints; I would assume this derives from the culture within social media that your appearance always matters on camera and you should always look perfect. Despite this, I’m pretty sure no one cares, dumbass RU-vidrs bruh :Joemock: :trollface:.

It's because they obsess over it and have to watch it a zillion times while editing, whereas to you it's just a random video you watch once

about half of them do need to get their sinuses cleared though

Same and it makes sense. Dan Olson makes great videos but he's also the exact kind of smug intellectual who would employ this technique

Thinking about when 3D films became super popular for a while and suddenly everyone in the movie is throwing stuff at the camera

​@@channelwithout2010 movies be like

Or that's just humor?

@@pleasegoawaydude “humor” vs the funny

​@@pleasegoawaydudeexcept it's not funny

Some might say it was his... last... ride *super long pause to make sure you understand it was foreshadowing death*

​@@pleasegoawaydude no, its an annoying thing they do to make themselves seem smart and witty when it just makes then seem pretentious

I was looking for this comment🤣

@きさらぎ Last chapter: Descend from Godhood. Epilogue: Meet everyone in town after reincarnation.

You think too much, it's just an expression. What they say after is what actually matters

@@nile7999 If what they say after is good, then I'll overlook the unnecessary expression, but usually, people who say this say it because they have nothing actually good to contribute and resort to meaningless platitudes to sound more intelligent. That's literally what the video is poking fun at, man.

RU-vid commenters trying to sound smart be like:

​@@GrandDukeBN Are you attempting to mock me or something?

When you watch obscure channels of actual scientists, they talk completely differently than these entertaining "intelligent" channels, which is funny to observe. They're just like: "Hey guys; today we'll be talking about the X Effect. Let's go." No editing, just completely monotone talking in a neutral voice.

I've become aware of this as well and I've stopped giving a damn about many for that reason. Some people just need to straight up tell what they're getting at or my time had just been wasted. The best ones always make their thoughts clear and build an actually interesting script to explain why. They don't cheaply give the benefit of the doubt to a clear asshole. This is also why the movie essay/documentary "F For Fake" is one of my favorite movies. Aside from perfectly engaging editing and being presented by Orson Welles, it clearly picks it's sides. Orson Welles wants to talk about art faker Elmyr de Hory and straight up tells you hes a fraud. I've never seen a documentary be so perfectly blunt!

Insert vhs cassette player sound effect

tf kinda video essays are you watching

​@@nessmarie6044Fr this makes me curious what specific youtubers they're talking about because this doesn't fit the description of any video essay channels I watch.

Which is dumb because picking a side inevitably results in 50% of your audience leaving comments like "THANK YOU glad someone finally said it" and the other 50% telling you that you're dumber than dirt and should feel bad for ever breathing, but presenting someone else's view and leaving a big question mark is like, who cares? But also my favourite video essayist is, without a doubt, Space Ice.

dude that's been me. get out of my basement

as an average computer user, I have never heard of you before

​@@omerzalman-fe2frnow you have

howdy tommo

no one cares

I care, please continue commenting 🙏🏼

Usually when I’m very tired and can’t go to sleep I either pull up a speedrun video, a video essay, or a video compilation

@@APersonThat you heard of summingsalt?

Unfortunately, I get too invested somehow, so I stop them and leave until morning to finish. ..still technically counts at “falling asleep to”, I suppose. Huh.

"But first, let me give my life story and thank everyone for 13k subscribers"

@@MGP_editz It would be impossible for God to die, thus you are correct.

@@MGP_editz yeah, I think that was a joke on how weirdly serious and hyperbolic video essay channels are, even when talking about something as silly as Teletubbies

@@TeamPlant ..Because there isn't one?

@Rob Are you sure the followers of an invisible man in the sky aren't the insane ones?

@@citizeninsane8575 Are you sure the followers of an invisible force that changes a bear into a whale overtime aren't the insane ones? Also, evolution has too many problems to be real. Proteins can't form naturally, which means dna can't form naturally. Modern animals such as birds, lizards, worms, and even plants have been found in "dinosaur rock layers", and they appear unchanged. (If you would like me to point out more issues with evolution I can in another reply, but I get the feeling you will not reply to this out of not knowing how to rebuke my arguments) And God is more than a "invisible man in the sky". He likely lives in a different galaxy, and is very much so not invisible. And can you prove He doesn't exist? Or that the Bible is incorrect? Because I just, essentially, proved evolution incorrect.

*degraded VHS* *black+white* *faux-retro pixel art* *synthwave* *stock footage of arcades* "hm is this enough for the viewers to notice this video about Alf is covering something from the Past?"

@@xXx_Regulus_xXx don't forget to add both film grain and vhs tearing and digital compression errors all on top of each other

Don't see a lot of that, you're either feigning ignorance or deflecting blame from troon-tube (possibly even both) you know well enough which crowd these videos appeal to.

THIS

THIS

Nevermind

​@@inkpendudelmao