@@taodude Morrowind Analysis | A Quick Retrospective by PatricianTV. My bad. That video is only ~8 hours long ... but their TES4: Oblivion Analysis | A Quick Retrospective is 12 hours long. Between them, 20 hours, averages out to 10 hours per video, blah blah excuses blah.
Unironically i think a huge part of why Sowell is so popular is that his main work is called "basic economics". It's basically just, "basic economics completely disproves socialism and proves my far-right beliefs about society, and you can find all of basic economics in the book called 'basic economics'". When he's paraded around as a public speaker he never says anything interesting, it's just all the same stuff every single time, trickle down economics is good, regulation is bad, black people have it too good in society, etc.
i read basic economics and there are significant arguments that are fairly opposed to the mainstream right wing, and certainly the far-right. he talks about how global trade allows for greater efficiency, given inherent advantages to different regions. also about cultures with greater distribution of knowledge produce greater social capital, and vice versa. he generally presents cultural exchange as a win-win social boon. if a rightist is using him for talking points, they're probably cherrypicking, or don't really understand him.
A 5 hour podcast is great. I listen to it on a drive or doing chores until I need to go do something else. I pick up where i left off later. Spread out over days. more content is always better. but if i was a content creator it would make sense to split it up into multiple videos released a week apart so i can give the audience their 1-2 hours of content and I can get the views and subs on multiple videos. this seems like a fair compromise for everyone.
I really don't know where people creating modern media get the idea they have to worry about length once they've already broke the, say, 15 minute mark. If someone has the attention span to make it through a steady 20 minutes of explainer, they're giving the green light for a lot more. There is a TTRPG show I watch/listen to where they keep acting as though going over the alotted 3 hour time box is some kind of problem. Seriously, if people are interested in 3 hours, 3 hours and 15 minutes is not a problem. It's bizarre. No one is going to eat an entire chocolate ganache fudge cake and then say no to the addition of a dollop of whipped cream on the basis of the calorie count.
I love 40-60 mins of a video of someone explaining something ........actually enough time to properly explain something and maybe add in a joke or two....it's very appealing to those of us with the time or long term interest for videos like that.
9:00 it‘s funny that you say that… I‘m starting with my bachelor‘s degree (Vienna uni of economics and business) and the set of slides for my very first lecture on economics had 3 Thomas Sowell quotes and 1 bib reference to Basic Economics (which prompted me to rewatch your video on him haha). I‘m attending that lecture tomorrow, gonna have to see what they say on him…
Do a separate collab vid talking with SD Signifier about the race and economics stuff. He's a sociology academic, so I feel like the gap won't be too big to bridge. I beg of you, it would be so good
3,5 hrs is about the max I'd want to watch. any longer than that and I'll for sure have forgotten the beginning by the end. don't be afraid of making multiple parts!
To chime in I've read pop economics stuff for a long time and never heard of Thomas Sowell until I deliberately went out to read conservative apologia.
like I had heard the name mentioned here and there, but I didn't realize he was supposed to be an economist until he was mentioned in George Guilder's book "wealth and poverty"
There is a trend on RUclips to release super long-form content which apparently does really well for monetisation as people fall asleep watching and then they get recommended the long-form video and it gets 100% retention
Do whatever works best for you. I do like getting first part sooner rather than later but a super long video is fine as long as it has chapter markers.
5 hours is okay as long as it has timestamps in the description and chapter breaks in the video. We can always consume the content in multiple sittings
if you also upload it in podcast form on, say, spotify, it makes it more accessible for people who dont have time to watch long videos... I have no time ever to watch vids, but listen to podcasts 12 hours straight at my 2 jobs
Imo it would be great to include the racial context if you can collaborate with a black American (or multiple I guess). Just for example, I’m sure you and FD could have a great conversation and learn a lot from each other, both in general and regarding Thomas Sowell. And if it’s actually not a good idea to tackle that topic in your video, he will tell you 😝
Honestly i think of really long essays more as books than films which might be helpful. Im a big audiobook guy and a serious novel is going to be about 8-9 hours long, and an epic-style novel could go up to 20, while a "thin" book is gonna be 1-3 hours. There really isnt any point to watching a youtuber's lips move while they talk, and your videos arent graphic-heavy at all so maybe consider yourself in the audio frame of mind. But yeah if you wanna talk classic visual production 4-5 hours is just too long. Imo
Just my two cents, I watched a 6-hour video by Tim Rogers (Action Button Reviews) about a Japanese video game I will never play, and a 4.5 hour video about a Star Wars hotel. I love those videos, but as a busy adult, watching that amount of content at once really can kill my day. I wouldn't ask those videos to be split apart because they weren't made that way, but if you can, I would say breaking a super video into more digestible chunks that are between 60-120 minutes is probably easier for an audience - or at least folks like me.
Lefties Wood sit down and watch a five hour video of you absolutely dragging Thomas Sowell. But if I wanted to send that to anyone else outside of our bubble, they would not be able to consume it. I think it would be better to break it up into four one hour videos, which is within reach and an attainable goal for non-economic nerds like us.
I get disappointed when a video essayist releases a series of 1-2 hour videos. I'd much rather have 3-4 hour videos if there's enough on the subject to make a series, I'm sure that's just personal preference though
4 it's too much. 2 hours tops. Everything else, people will lose track of what was in the beginning. From someone who watching 1,5-2 hours lectures for past couple decades. Occasionally there were 3-5 hours videos
For the race/culture stuff, I'd suggest reaching out to several people and seeing if they will speak from their expertise with yours in an interdisciplinary way (for a fee)
Sowell isn't popular, he's useful to certain people. He's an avenue for posting a quote without having to attribute it to themself.
I watched/listened to a 10 hour Morrowind retrospective. Don't threaten me with a good time.
Link it
@@taodude Morrowind Analysis | A Quick Retrospective by PatricianTV.
My bad. That video is only ~8 hours long ... but their TES4: Oblivion Analysis | A Quick Retrospective is 12 hours long. Between them, 20 hours, averages out to 10 hours per video, blah blah excuses blah.
@@aristizle8797 Awesome, thanks! I've actually watched/listened to most of that one and then forgot about it. 😅
Unironically i think a huge part of why Sowell is so popular is that his main work is called "basic economics". It's basically just, "basic economics completely disproves socialism and proves my far-right beliefs about society, and you can find all of basic economics in the book called 'basic economics'". When he's paraded around as a public speaker he never says anything interesting, it's just all the same stuff every single time, trickle down economics is good, regulation is bad, black people have it too good in society, etc.
The last point is a big part of his popularity, however that job is soon to be taken on by deepfakes
"far right beliefs about society", come on.
He has the most basic, generic, null hypothesis default NPC mold views on markets and society.
i read basic economics and there are significant arguments that are fairly opposed to the mainstream right wing, and certainly the far-right. he talks about how global trade allows for greater efficiency, given inherent advantages to different regions. also about cultures with greater distribution of knowledge produce greater social capital, and vice versa. he generally presents cultural exchange as a win-win social boon. if a rightist is using him for talking points, they're probably cherrypicking, or don't really understand him.
Thomas Sowell biblical canon
Sowell is incredibly useful as the "I have a black friend, and he says BLM is racist"
this couldnt be more ironic coming from a random white dude 😂
As long as really long videos have chapter markers, it's pretty easy to watch over the course of a few days.
Wait was I supposed to be doing that this whole time
@@QueenEllouiseit's actually against RUclips rules but I have a rebellious nature.
@jdawg443 I had just never though about doing that for some reason
As a Joseph Anderson fan, I am willing to wait and more than willing to watch
A 5 hour podcast is great. I listen to it on a drive or doing chores until I need to go do something else. I pick up where i left off later. Spread out over days. more content is always better. but if i was a content creator it would make sense to split it up into multiple videos released a week apart so i can give the audience their 1-2 hours of content and I can get the views and subs on multiple videos. this seems like a fair compromise for everyone.
And video essays often operate very similarly to podcasts; put it on in the background and do something else while listening
I really don't know where people creating modern media get the idea they have to worry about length once they've already broke the, say, 15 minute mark. If someone has the attention span to make it through a steady 20 minutes of explainer, they're giving the green light for a lot more. There is a TTRPG show I watch/listen to where they keep acting as though going over the alotted 3 hour time box is some kind of problem. Seriously, if people are interested in 3 hours, 3 hours and 15 minutes is not a problem. It's bizarre. No one is going to eat an entire chocolate ganache fudge cake and then say no to the addition of a dollop of whipped cream on the basis of the calorie count.
I love 40-60 mins of a video of someone explaining something ........actually enough time to properly explain something and maybe add in a joke or two....it's very appealing to those of us with the time or long term interest for videos like that.
9:00 it‘s funny that you say that… I‘m starting with my bachelor‘s degree (Vienna uni of economics and business) and the set of slides for my very first lecture on economics had 3 Thomas Sowell quotes and 1 bib reference to Basic Economics (which prompted me to rewatch your video on him haha). I‘m attending that lecture tomorrow, gonna have to see what they say on him…
Do a separate collab vid talking with SD Signifier about the race and economics stuff. He's a sociology academic, so I feel like the gap won't be too big to bridge. I beg of you, it would be so good
3,5 hrs is about the max I'd want to watch. any longer than that and I'll for sure have forgotten the beginning by the end. don't be afraid of making multiple parts!
Thomas Sowell Anthology
5 hours where I don’t have to tab out of the game I’m playing to put something else on? Sounds good to me.
To chime in I've read pop economics stuff for a long time and never heard of Thomas Sowell until I deliberately went out to read conservative apologia.
like I had heard the name mentioned here and there, but I didn't realize he was supposed to be an economist until he was mentioned in George Guilder's book "wealth and poverty"
There is a trend on RUclips to release super long-form content which apparently does really well for monetisation as people fall asleep watching and then they get recommended the long-form video and it gets 100% retention
@Unlearning Economics, please, please, please, please, BEGGING you to make the full 5 hour video that would make my whole entire month please!!!
Split it in two parts and have more content for the main channel.
Agreed. If a video essay is longer than a Lord of the Rings film, it's probably too long.
Do whatever works best for you. I do like getting first part sooner rather than later but a super long video is fine as long as it has chapter markers.
whatever you end up doing, 3 videos or 10 videos, the people of the internet will be in your debt.
5 hours is okay as long as it has timestamps in the description and chapter breaks in the video. We can always consume the content in multiple sittings
I think the first I heard of Thomas Sowell was on "Far-right pipeline with Dave Rubin", probably from a coworker.
I never clicked on a thumbnail so fast
A few longer ones to give a broad painting of Sowells flaws, and shorter ones in depth around his typical flaws.
if you also upload it in podcast form on, say, spotify, it makes it more accessible for people who dont have time to watch long videos... I have no time ever to watch vids, but listen to podcasts 12 hours straight at my 2 jobs
Imo it would be great to include the racial context if you can collaborate with a black American (or multiple I guess). Just for example, I’m sure you and FD could have a great conversation and learn a lot from each other, both in general and regarding Thomas Sowell. And if it’s actually not a good idea to tackle that topic in your video, he will tell you 😝
10 forty minute episodes?
Long content is great, just don't expect most of the masses to watch it.
on cultural issues, sounds like a good reason to do collabs. Reach out to F.D Signfier, he'd be the right person to help there.
Honestly i think of really long essays more as books than films which might be helpful. Im a big audiobook guy and a serious novel is going to be about 8-9 hours long, and an epic-style novel could go up to 20, while a "thin" book is gonna be 1-3 hours. There really isnt any point to watching a youtuber's lips move while they talk, and your videos arent graphic-heavy at all so maybe consider yourself in the audio frame of mind.
But yeah if you wanna talk classic visual production 4-5 hours is just too long. Imo
I've watched Action Button Reviews six hour Tokimeki Memorial video.
And I've watched it around 10 times.
Just release it. Add timestamps. You do know people watch videos in multiple sessions.
2 videos of about the same length sounds good. 4 videos is too much imo
Just my two cents, I watched a 6-hour video by Tim Rogers (Action Button Reviews) about a Japanese video game I will never play, and a 4.5 hour video about a Star Wars hotel. I love those videos, but as a busy adult, watching that amount of content at once really can kill my day. I wouldn't ask those videos to be split apart because they weren't made that way, but if you can, I would say breaking a super video into more digestible chunks that are between 60-120 minutes is probably easier for an audience - or at least folks like me.
You could do 5 1hr videos
What do you mean by "he uses sources sus?"
Lefties Wood sit down and watch a five hour video of you absolutely dragging Thomas Sowell. But if I wanted to send that to anyone else outside of our bubble, they would not be able to consume it. I think it would be better to break it up into four one hour videos, which is within reach and an attainable goal for non-economic nerds like us.
One day I'll find out that he fucking died through a Sowell Update video
What game is this?
Sowell update: still dead
I get disappointed when a video essayist releases a series of 1-2 hour videos. I'd much rather have 3-4 hour videos if there's enough on the subject to make a series, I'm sure that's just personal preference though
4 it's too much. 2 hours tops. Everything else, people will lose track of what was in the beginning. From someone who watching 1,5-2 hours lectures for past couple decades. Occasionally there were 3-5 hours videos
For the race/culture stuff, I'd suggest reaching out to several people and seeing if they will speak from their expertise with yours in an interdisciplinary way (for a fee)