Video Response: Critical Attrition (warning: contains rants!) 

Can we now get a 30-min discussion about the Gawker response article? 🤓

The best medicine to my sore feet after a 7-hour shift in retail: the good ol’ Steve rant.

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Never heard of N+1 sounds like I'm not missing much 😄

I can’t tell, do you agree with them or not?

Thanks for your rants and thoughts Steve. As always, I enjoyed listening.

I didn't want to leave this comment but you know, the patriarchy. am I right? up top! good job! :)

Quality rant.

Love a Steve rant!

I haven't seen this article, but I always enjoy your rants.

You’re back! Goody. And 31 glorious minutes for your favourite watchers :)

I believe this video has reached the maximum number of eyerolls! 🤣An equitable, entertaining, and ethical rant to be sure.

Nothing better than a Steve rant!

Ah my day is now complete. I thought we were going to miss a Steve Rant today. You have one job ..... and you had to rant about it...... and you did your one job expertly 😁

Dinner was late tonight cuz I had to pause prep to watch Steve's rant! It was worth it!

So n+1 has these kind of reviews within its covers and as that is the only option presented can only have that kind of review? Doesn't bode well for the future of the magazine except as Twitter clickbait.

I can always count on a Steve Rant to brighten my day. Thank you, sir.

I love videos that start with “I don’t wanna make this video …”

Up top! This was good for my soul.

It got people talking, which was the intention. Great rant.

I loved it when you said this is a barometer of what currently is going on. Stinky steaming cow poo indeed! Great rant!

So, basically an essay from the "it's hard out here for a pimp" school of argumentation.

Great video, Up Top!

It would be an incredibly funny piece if they weren’t being serious … but they are, and so it is deeply sad. Every line reeks of insecurity. And to try and condescend? Well that’s just terribly embarrassing. Forget it Steve, it’s cow-poop town! (Yes I’m going to keep referencing that one line now!)

Great, great video. Am I right? Up top. 🦟

I had to laugh at their description of the review reading like stenography. The article read like it to! 😂 God knows some book reviews deserve criticism, but they've taken every cliched water cooler rumour they've ever heard and ran with it.

Very fun video, I find I enjoy the rants a lot. BUT let's consider a slightly different 'ethical' take from your hypothetical. Suppose inherited trauma in rural Appalachia is a very niche area. A person is unlikely to go to the bookstore looking for 'one book' about the topic. Instead almost no one goes looking for that topic. The 'review', then, may take that market from 5 sales a week to 20 sales simply because it gets more people curious about it. As a result it's less of a financial conflict and more of a financial alignment between the two authors. Although you could fairly counter this if book reviewing is like a guild, this is a violation of the 'one job' edict. It can also be entertaining. I'd love to see, say, George Lucas 'review' other big budget space opera movies or heck even seeing someone's ex review their work (esp. if they are famous) can be a lot of fun too if you can get them to do it (and not simply be mean spirited about it...unless they are very campy in their mean spiritedness). I do concede this is not something a 'professional book reviewer' should be doing but then there some unprofessional reviews can be fun too.

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