mbt whining about """""video essays""""" for 20 minutes
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man the train part of the stream gets more unhinged daily
Bro you GOTTA put a train playlist on the channel. Shit actually helps me sleep
Hey you could write a video essay about this 🤔
Slowly but surely we move towards a train-only stream
Not mentioning Dan Olson/Folding Ideas just proves that you'r a HACK and a FRAUD and not a true video essay connoisseur.
You will never be a terminally online trans women that watches Hbomb videos on a loop to keep the voices at bay.
Isn't your video about "killing your darlings" (great video btw) a video essay though?
I think at least we can all come together to agree that Lemmino is the king. He has transcended the genre of video essay
So if I’m hearing correctly MBT is mad that bigger channels are doing what he wishes he could do and are being way more successful?
Maybe the problem is not YGO. Maybe it is you.
Dude, why tf you so mad? He's talking abt how a lot of video essays have so little effort in them. He's not complaining abt bigger channels, he's talking abt how much essays have been overly farmed. Mbt is one of the highest performing ygo youtubers. There is no way you're claiming he's the problem with the performance. Hate to tell you, none ygo players don't watch ygo videos
I know what MBT is talking about saw a channel like this it was so bad I had to go back and make sure youtube never reccomends that channel again.
abcdefghijk penis buster dragon is such a broken card, hope they ban it soon
>Look up video essay about a game
>Ask if it's critique or a plot summary
>They laugh and say "It's a good essay, ma'am."
>Look inside
>Plot summary
I had this experience with a video analysis of Psych (the TV show). I don't want to call them out specifically but I went in expecting some interesting takes but it was just them summarizing the plot, I was very disappointed and stopped like 15 minutes in. It's not the deepest show in the world or anything but you could easily make some interesting points about the roles of each character and how they evolved over the seasons.
It's all plot summaries?
Always has been.
Seriously though, if the video essay opens with a retelling of the first things that happen in the game, I just close it. It's a plot summary.
Just now was about to watch a Pokémon related video essay and dead ass rambling about Trans 20 minutes in.
Idk what video essay are doing rn
GOD this is so true
It is wild to me how I can come across multi-million view videos that are plot summaries. And then some 1k sub channel with five amazing videos making an incredibly convincing argument that the 2005 Hotwheels Accelaracers series has incredibly complex themes that it lays out and expands upon thoroughly putting it in the category of masterpiece that we normally reserve for shows like Arcane and Invincible.
I can't believe Tommy Tallarico said this
His mother is so proud.
I thought it was Joey
>"Analysis" of recent adult entertainment trends
>Look inside
>Review of *Clueless*
because i had gotten this video recommended to me too, my brother. the lab-manufactured bait guy was so off the point. he mentioned how WESTERN culture is the perverted one and how adult entertainment trends in the east are much more normal, bringing up JAPAN as an example of a 'normal, healthy' country. bro really made baby's first video essay within 5 minutes of seeing something and a few google searches 😭
I feel like this MBT guy could really make a cool RUclips career talking about Yu-Gi-Oh.
Too much of a niche market
What’s Yu-Gi-Oh
I heard that game is dying.
This is a video essay about: trains -> Rhystic studies needs to branch out -> video essays suck now -> Incest -> 9-11 -> A-Z energy load. This is true art.
It's kinda a shame that his conclusion is "Man, it's a shame Rhystic Studies only writes about magic." When it's the subject they care to write about.
As someone who loves video essays, I think the disconnect is that people actually love a casual rant that lasts for hours, but RUclips titles do best with phrases that have the aesthetic of a well researched and structured essay
THIS
The other issue is RUclips favours long videos vs quality. Meaning when you upload an 11 hour review of oblivion that functionally boils down to nothing more than a summary of everything IN the game, without critcism, comparison, or critical thought, it'll still get pushed to people because it's THE FUNNY 11 HOUR OBLIVION VIDEO
@@willsoe your comment made me realize I probably turn off my brain way more when I watch a video with more than 3 hours, but I guess most of them are actual critiques
@@F3XT yeah I had that realisation too and it just made me mad at myself for being swindled into listening for hours without realising very little of value is being said. I'm very very picky about video essayists now.
What makes the Austin McConnell video extra funnier was when, in an interview, he said the point of the video was not about Shudderwock (nor about card games in general) but about patch preservation...
Ya know that random bit at end that's barely a minute long? When he basically asks "do we own our games when companies can patch them without our consent?" That part is what he claims to be the ENTIRE point of the video.
It's like if the teacher went on a rant about his EX wife which leads to crashing his car, taking it to a mechanic, then asking the class to use calculus to figure out if he's getting scammed on the repair bill.
Becoming a video essayists is the same as becoming a podcaster except you do not have friends to start a podcast with
I remember when the Shudderwock video came out and I was still really heavily playing hearthstone. I just remember seeing it and being like "... Shaman isn't even the best thing to play this format, why pick out this one card in particular?"
Because Shudderwock is a recognizable meme i guess, its like that news site that got tricked into writing about a classic wow character that didnt exist and was just a reddit meme
@cowabungaitis9319 god remember "what is this 4chan"? What a time that was
Wasn't it the one where they just wrongly assume that a duplicated shudderwock from one of the battlecries it copies casts its own set of battlecries? I couldn't sit through the whole of it
Edit: I have alzheimer's
Yeah. I was just sitting there enjoying all the meme Shudderwock combo videos going "man if only this was actually good"
Is this what Nirvana High Paladin of Hearthstone
Jenny Nicholson doesn't just make video essays, she makes NUMBERED LISTS.
"this is a good essay, but why is it a video?"
consider: i DON'T wanna read an essay, but i DO wanna watch or listen to a video
I think Dan Green said in an interview that 9/11 happened right before they started recording for the Yugioh dub. He said it was the reason he put so much effort and heart into the role of the Pharaoh, so that kids could be inspired and filled with hope. Something like that.
Rhystic studies is actually what got me into looking into a lot of mtg artists. I've always loved the art on magic cards, but they got me to start recognize that "oh wait, this is an artist and they have a really cool style that I love", and honestly makes me start to miss the fact that other hobbies I adore don't credit artists, namely Pathfinder and Warhammer (though paizo is much better at it, I'd just love to see a breakdown of who drew what in each book)
Did he just improv all that?
Holy shit
I can absolutely believe this video went from real criticsm, to the hardest self report known to man, to funny towers jokes. Joseph is just like this.
it's very funny to see MBT say "if (youtuber) put effort into expanding beyond (specific card game) content they could be so huge" when that's what I've been saying about MBT for years
Mbt definitely would be a million view channel if he played more popular games. His scripts, humor, editing, and skits are always so well done. It just sucks yugioh is kinda niche.
@@galaxyvulture6649Yu-Gi-Oh is huge. Fact is MBT still doesn’t produce the kind of videos that get those numbers. He doesn’t even make the kind of conteny he says Yugioh needs or that he wants to make.
@@mrbubbles6468 The only videos I've seen that get a lot of views are the boomer nostalgia or those meta slaves vs some obscure deck (like beating tear 0 with elemental hero clayman) duels. They wont get that much attention in general unless it's from a person who doesn't regularly upload yugioh videos like rhymestyles or penguinz0. I still love the game, but that's just how it is. I know I rarely upload, but I swapped over to anime and memes instead (mainly stopped since I have no idea how to download anime videos to speak over).
@@mrbubbles6468 the biggest pokemon channel, wolfey, has just over a million subs. pokemon is like...the most ubiquitous nerd IP in the world. now i know that there are other nerd IPs that have million sub channels so this isn't a 1:1 *proof* that yugioh channels can't balloon into multimillion sub channels...but it is evidence that, at the very least, it's super fucking hard to do. i think fair to claim it probably can't happen with any amount of effort.
@@urd3adnowwolfey is not the biggest Pokemon channel, there's shiny hunting channels with multiple times his viewership. No Pokemon fan gives a shit he won the world championship or whatever
My biggest problem is that video essay became this very popular label to ascribe to things, so nowadays any kind of long form video that is even slightly scripted either calls itself or gets called by audience a video essay.
lost all respect for austin when he made a promo video for his upcoming novel that was all animated by AI with AI voices and then he rightfully got shit for it and then went full damage control and made a video defending himself just to end up looking worse.
Feels like people are just getting needlessly hung up on the label of "video essay" because they can't call it "a one person podcast where you just listen to someone you like talk about things you're interested in".
thats what i was thinking most of the time watching this
You dont need to like the person
Most video essays are just a tightened up, semi-scripted version of the first hour of an MBT stream. Which can be entertaining! However, putting them in the same bucket does not do the truly great video essays of the world justice.
(Shoutouts to Jacob Geller and BobbyBroccoli, probably the two best video essayists IMO not already talked about by Joseph. Also a big fan of Raycevick and The Geek Critique when it comes to video games specifically, though it's worth noting they take far less advantage of the video medium and are instead just... good essayists)
The problem is that algorithmically they are being put in the same bucket, so the same audience that likes video essays are getting these videos where people like to talk about things they're interested in. That's the main reason people don't like this trend.
This is sometimes called the Big Yellow video
An essay needs a thesis. I think that's what most of these people making 3 hour long videos don't understand.
Counter point: Super Eye patch Wolf.
Sometimes fun topic like fake video game and other time seeing him losing his shit on Simpson is funny
the Garfield video is amazing and his videos are well researched.
@@dogsachu TRUE
On the topic of Video Essays, I reccomend the channel Bobby Broccoli. He does really engaging, detailed essays on various scandals, largely focussed on the sciences, like physics and chemistry. The way he does visuals is especially great and often helps keep track of all the pieces.
a four and a half minute rant parodying youtube 'essays', by segueing from post-9/11 america into how a particular trap card is bad. and you ad-libbed it. what the actual fuck.
It's the theater kid in him taking over. Improv acting translates very well into riffing for untold amounts of time
oh yeah "when card games break" have been bothering me forever, he state at some point that the devs overlooked the fact that shudder could replay it's own battlecry and go infinite that way, which is completely incorrect and that just break the whole video
like even if it wasn't supposed to be a more general videos and just specifically a video about shudder in HS (which it is, dunno why he didn't gave it a better title) it just doesn't work because he is incorrect on what are the issues with shudderwock
"When card games break" was so bad it gave me a mini existential crisis about video essays. Like, how many utterly dogshit video essays have I just watched and accepted? The only reason I caught the errors in "When card games break" was because I actually understand the subject matter
@tabbune most of them , lol
maybe it's just the ipad baby brainworms, but a big problem with video essays is that they hate getting to the point. they LOVE doing cheeky lil bits for like the first two minutes of a video as they explain the most basic ideas that everyone that clicks already knows.
that incest epidemic video is one of the worst videos i have watched in a while
"Please, I'm getting somewhere with this!" -> proceeds to get nowhere for 30 minutes
He even gets the premise wrong in the setup. The huge spike in incest porn could be attributed, at least in part, to a huge range of potential factors.
After a brief google: it has been suggested that incest is the only porn to consistently feature any narrative element and the spikes in consumption and demand were due to increases in women consuming porn. Others have attributed the spikes in growth from 2011 and 2014 to be in part due to the popularity of Game of Thrones.
Maybe it goes back further. It could be that youth media from the 1990s to 2010s primarily depicted characters in same sex friendships, with opposite gender friendships being more common between siblings and so making for a setup that seems more approachable.
Also noteworthy data point: blood related incest remains relatively low popularity, with the majority of incest porn being step-sibling or similarly separated. So here's a neat idea: The 1980s featured the highest rate of divorce the US has ever seen, at nearly 50%. 2011 is about 20 years later, so another possibility is that a huge number of step-siblings actually did want to bang (or at least thought about it) but didn't, and were just reaching their mid to late 30s in 2011 (and thus starting to have meaningful economic influence as a block) and the market provided. Additionally, maybe so many children from that period knew divorced and remarried families that it was actually a common fantasy lingering in the societal background, furthering the economic block theory.
Finally, it could be that "putting yourself out there" has acquired more passive stressors over time, so the relative safety of the incest premise, where individuals are operating in what is implied to be a personally comfortable environment and around someone who isn't a complete stranger, is more attractive as a viewing option.
There's actually a surprising amount of literature out there, this is barely scratching the surface. This is a genuinely interesting question, and the guy just abandons it in favor of boringly generic movie analysis.
Another huge factor I've seen is that it's the least offensive "taboo" we currently have. People like their taboos in porn, but as society has become more liberal both socially and sexually, many things that were once seen as taboo are now accepted as normal. And while there are a lot of taboo fetishes that cross many lines, there's nothing technically wrong step-relations it just has bad vibes.
@@TheWrathAbove good point.
Strange but appreciated write-up.
It was my impression that step "relationships" are more popular than blood simply because 'step' isn't actually illegal most places so studios and creators are much more likely to add it to the title to avoid controversy or censorship even if it doesn't substantively alter the work.
I also assumed that 'step' gets an extra boost algorithmically because it can be used as a modifier on any familial scenario, not just sibling, so it's representation as a search term is increased significantly more than other niche tastes. This could further create a feedback loop wherein a studio produces, for example, 4 'step' videos with different family members in each title and which cater to different audiences but all fall within the 'step' umbrella. Then every other studio sees the success of 'step', makes their own 4 videos and now it's become all the content being produced at scale and audiences adapted accordingly. But that's just the nature of content creation in general.
Will not tolerate Jenny Nicholson slander especially since she does the editing herself.
Not slander if it's true
She's better than some but not great. It's just true.
Jon Bois is the video essay goat
That freestyle from 14:26 on, was diabolical and is one of the reasons why MBT's goated with the sauce
As a Fire Emblem fan, seeing how the internet has been reacting to incesm recently is very funny since for FE fans it's like "haha, funny EphraimXEirika" and "haha, you can manufecture RoyXLilina as incesm by making EliwoodXFarina and HectorXFlorina or Farina".
And then there’s FE4, which is just “Incest: The Game”
@@mudkipofdespair1684that's a false reputation. The game makes the case that incest produces the Antichrist of the FE universe - it's heavy on "incest bad" if anything. The non-canon manga is the only thing that glorifies incest
Quality of the games aside still find it very funny how they made extra sure for all the S-supports for the royalty in fates to go „Oh no we aren‘t actually related by blood, this isn‘t incest :)“
But they kinda forgot that there is still a character directly related to the main character, and she is marriageable in all 3 routes.
When is the incest epidemic video about Arc-V.
I’d argue the reason they make video essays when they don’t have anything intended for the video aspect is simply that you’ll attract WAY more engagement with a video essay than a traditional one.
If YGO has taught me anything, it’s that most people will stubbornly refuse to read, no matter how interesting the subject.
HBomber is the pioneer of this exact type of content but even he's put out a few stinkers
Video essays requires a solid balance of "an appropriate amount of research" but also "an appropriate amount of investment". You need to not only know what you're talking about but convince me that you've taken the time to genuinely engage with what you're talking about
Oh! So like marketing
I think the man himself is the stinker based on his tweets.
HB's media essays are some of the worst video essays anyone has ever put out. Dude _cannot_ understand what creatives are going for, and is unable to see things outside of his own, incredibly limited, reading of their work.
Yeah I love Hbomb as much as the next neurodivergent white boy, but I'll be the first to admit that his DS2 and Bloodborne vids aren't great and ramble too long (something he ironically got better with, even with the superlong vids)
@@najawin8348 oooh someone's butthurt because the youtube funny man said thing they like is bad
CJ the X has a great video essay about Folger's coffee, for those interested
just about to comment CJ the X. The very normal takes he have in his very normal video is indeed very enjoyable in a family friendly kind of way.
His videos are less videos essays and moreso just a genius ranting about random stuff.
I think the absolute worst part of that Austin McConnell video is that Shudderwock combo wasn't even a good deck at the time!! It had a sub-50% winrate on ladder!! It was just really annoying because Shudderwock's effect took a long-ass time to resolve, so it added a minute or more to your turn every time you used it
Pretty much. The moment they fixed the animation lock, so your opponent didn't rope out instantly, it was kind of underwhelming. Ddos shaman was pure evil as it did literally break the functioning of the game. Shuderwock shaman was just whatever.
Lmao I absolutely didn’t expect him to go on an unhinged diatribe about 9/11 as the “hook” for the worst fucking Union support card they’ve shown. 😂
Joseph anderson has terrible video essays but i still find them enjoyable
i can’t believe mbt would attack one of my top 7 favorite monsters of all time, a-z dragon buster cannon. now his points are invalid.
He doesn’t post very often, but I adore Ahoy’s videos. Every one is just dripping with passion and polish.
I've never seen Joseph be so correct, yet so wrong, at the same time. Like exactly every other point he makes is correct.
ikr? The F35 works.
People just label too many videos as “video essays” now. A long video doesn’t not equal video essay. A video with one person talking about one topic does not equal video essay. Sometimes a video can just be a video and we don’t have to call everything a video essay Jesus Christ
A long video about a particular topic is functionally an essay, considering the script itself is almost literally an essay.
@@fatcat2015That's not true. Essays can be long or short. OP is right, there's no one clear and exhaustive definition of what constitutes an essay, written or otherwise. People have different opinions on what an essay should be, so they take issue with those that don't fit their criteria.
If the Irish psychosis of Super Eyepatch Wolf doesnt return your hope in RUclips essayists. Nothing will.
Man genuinely instilled a comic horror in me when I think of Garfield
Jacob Geller is the best video essayist.
I love his stuff because he seems to genuinely be really interested in what he's talking about and I really like his delivery. I could see people not super vibing with him but his essays are always fun for me and even when I don't necessarily love them I do enjoy going "Oh yeah, that sounds like a good obscure book he mentioned, I want to look it up!"
Geller is a good presenter but often writes a very long essay that just comes to the most obvious conclusion imaginable.
Yeah Jacob I guess I would be fucked up to die in a snowstorm.
Meh
You miss spelled matthewmatosis
@@willsoeno, that one said the n-word because a game wasn't depicting enough racism
I feel vindicated to learn there are others who disliked the Shudderwock essay, because I remember complaining about it after release to people who had no idea what Hearthstone was because I had no other outlet at the time haha
Y'all should check out Jacob Geller, great essay content usually about video games or art, but never limited to those topics, they're not film-length and they actually have clever insight and often times a greater point. They almost come off as a thesis more than a video essay sometimes but share a format.
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Tim Rogers/Action Button. The king of the 3+ hour video game essay retrospective.
HELLO. I was looking for this comment. He’s one of only three people I’ve decided to support on patreon.
Bro, his Tokimeki Memorial video is bonkers good, and super important since it's imo the best way to learn about a very important game that will likely never get an english TL
@@TheWrathAbove It has one, you just install a patch for the Super Nintendo version and run it on an emulator.
The video itself is just "fine" in my opinion. It was at its best when he was going over his gameplay and likening the dating sim mechanics to dark souls. It has helped me explain to people why I find social sim games so engaging and stuff like action roguelikes so dull. It was at its worst when he was leading into the discussion and trying to tie the game to themes of cyberpunk.
Off the fuckin cuff
Summoning Salt and Bismuth have gotta be up there as fantastic essayists.
Tbh if there's parodies of the Essayists, that's a huge plus because they are so recognised among sea of "cassettes tape coffee mug" Essayists.
Okay, just because more people do this style of video doesn't mean it is destroyed. It just means if more people do it, there is a lot more of it out there and since not everyone is as talented as hbomb, jacob geller or folding ideas and some people just want money of course there are going to be really bad creators/"""""essays""""" (calling SunnyV2 an essayist is really stretching the definition).
But it's not like there were no bad essayists before the """rise""" of the genre, you just didn't know of them because they were so small.
And people (this is just my assumption) who watch quality essays do not watch the garbage ones. I don't think sunny and hbomb share an audience. So, how are the quality ones being hurt?
And how do the not perfect essays hurt the genre (regarding the comments towards jenny nicholsen)? Are people not allowed to try? Has everyone to start perfect or be perfect? That's just a really weird take that isn't thought through at all and sounds largely like pointless whining for the sake of whining.
I guess the marginally larger number of trash essays compared to the few good ones end up burying the good ones in terms of reach and appeal. The lazy ones about popular topics get recommended more than the good ones and if you get a good one recommended theres a chance you don’t watch it because the credibility of video essayists has been hurt. This is only from my experience, other people’s feed will be different i think.
@@rapalborde5211 this whole concept of a unified genre of video-essays shatters if you look at it more than one second. the content and style of those creators are not even comparable. so you basically create the problem yourself by implying all of those people are part of this "genre".
and yes they are all competing for views. but that has nothing to do with this "genre" (that doesn't exist). that is just how yt works.
the conflict at heart here is basically between quality content and lazy content to make money an has nothing to do with the elusive genre of video-essayists.
@@Lich_V. yeah essays are just a format not a genre thats true. I would appreciate if youtube or creators classified videos by rants,tops,analysis, documentaries, reviews,essays, and such because a lot of creators market their videos as things they are not but i guess is impossible to stop clickbait.
can we get a half hour video essay about aluber the boober of doober
Its prob because they can shit out content using chatgpt and lemme tell you it shows
mbt takes more time talking about video essays than talking in his own videos
Jacob Geller is a good video essayist. Man talks about things that are weird, simple, strangely relatable and *FEAR.* Like seriously, "Fear of Cold" may be my favorite youtube essay ever
Edit: I wrote this before looking at the rest of the comments. Glad to see we are all of one mind on this. But no one else mentioned Super Eyepatch Wolf, so I suppose I should mention him, too
I find Super Eyepatch Wolf is pretty divisive all his video essays down to even the one about struggling with Dell support have the exact same style and either you love it or you hate it.
@@TheWrathAbove Understandable, but I find to be literally all video essayist. These people bring a lot of themselves into their work and we bring a lot of our baggage to them
@@GentleIceZ No that's super valid, I personally love Super Eyepatch Wolf's stuff I just felt I should bring it up since that's overwhleming impression I hear others have of him more so then other video essayists
The Strokes, Arcade Fire, Cage the Elephant vinyl in the back, shit, they engineered this guy in a lab to make *me* mad!
How tf you gonna buy vinyl from bands out of the CD era
like exclusively out of the CD era
Lemmino is one of my favorite video essay youtubers. Makes the some of the music and visuals for his own videos but uploads are very far and few in between.
Ehhh, channels like Lemmino or Defunctland more do documentaries than essays.
The point about some essays being good content that doesn't necessarily benefit from the visual factor is pretty fair and interesting. I love Jacob Geller's essays, for example, but I think the visual aspect isn't always necessarily *why.* And considering how he's now written a book that collects his best essays, it's probably fair to say they *can* function in a written medium.
I suppose the 'counterargument' would be that just because something doesn't necessarily benefit from a visual medium it could just be the preferred way some people want to enjoy that type of content - like how some people prefer audiobooks to ebooks/physical books, for example...but I misuse quotation marks because I think it would be dishonest of me to argue that, since I don't think that's the main point MBT is ranting about in the video anyway. Like I can defend the "essays that don't need to be visual but are fun anyway" take, I just think I'd be fighting windmills at that point.
Essay mills that seem designed to be half-listened to with poorly cited research *suck.* Worst of all, there are a lot of channels that don't really seem too interested in what they're even writing about anyway which contributes to that.
I am sure the 10k sub dude is trying his best. The art of making good RUclips videos is hard to master. If we were just to watch good quality videos, yugitubing wouldnt exist.
Joseph Anderson is so so good
Ever since mbt said JJK is for kids I thought “Wow he has a very defined scope for fun”, and hearing him rant about video essays and what goes into what is essentially his culling process reminded me of that
Sometimes it feels like he dismisses a lot of things out of hand almost as a way to cope with being extremely busy and having very little free time.
@@joseph011296That’s possible. It’s a shame he closes himself off from what others enjoy. There was a stream not too long ago where Farfa asked mbt if he wanted to start One Piece with him in earnest and Joseph reacted how you thought he would.
What does this mean? What is Jjk?
@@mysticalquilava Jujutsu Kaisen, a popular anime that I believe is currently airing or otherwise not finished
@@postcaesar4564To be fair one piece is over 1000 episodes. I watch one piece, but it's a big commitment. I do recommend watching it since it's going to probably end in a couple years so Twitter will break.
Shaun has some good ones, Bobby Brocc, Rhystic Studies, some old Contra Points, SB Nation specifically the king Jon Bois, Foolish Baseball, and some of FD Signifier's videos.
i think at the end of the day the reason why there are so many video essays taht don't need a video component is that it's the only way your work can get seen and monetized. way more people watch videos than read essays, which is unfortunate.
yeah some of these videos just feel like theyre getting way too long for their own good.
for something thats a bit more irreverent while lightly being informational, I'd recommend Reverend the poketuber. very entertaining stuff.
Timbah On Toast delisted his videos but the video essay he made about how dubstep became brostep is my favourite YT video of all-time. Thankfully someone reuploaded it so we can all still enjoy it
love cjthex's bullshit
really recommend sunolivia aswell
Now I kinda want to see an ygo essay from you an a few other yugitubers about all the cards to date and show the stack of these are the bad ones and these are the good ones. The bad cards would not even have remotely a 1 combo used with this card. And it would be about hoe Konami is printing actually good cards more or just bad cards and sticking to "komoney"
So weird watching this while on a train that's going the opposite direction
Does Emplemon count as a video essayist? If so he's GOATed
I'd describe him as closer to a documentarian, along with creators of a similar style like Jon Bois. I'd also argue that Emp is a lot weaker when he strays from the straight storytelling and attempts deeper media or societal analysis more in line with the ideal of a video essay. I don't think he's especially insightful or profound when he does so.
AtoZ energy load is somehow legimately worse in every way to union scramble a normal trap that is now searchable for the deck and also came out 8 YEARS AGO.
Adam Neely is an excellent music theory video essayist. Highly recommend
MBT is wrong about how he describes youtube videos. The algorithm is not magic, you don't appeal to it and get rewarded. What the algorithm likes is what the audience like.
He's acting like these guys are Mr beast but they're not, they get a lot of people to click a video but zero retention.
Idk what qualifies as a true video essay but I always liked Lindsay Ellis' videos
Despite what MBT said, she's actually the one who pioneered this whole thing (and I say this as a non-fan.) So, yes, it is fair to say she is (or at least was) an essayist
I'm sorry, but her content is just awful. Her videos seem good on the surface, but immediately falls apart once you notice how shallow her analysis on things tend to be. Her "Cats" video was miserable, the whole thing just fundamentally misunderstanding what made the original play so good just to punp out a video where she can dump on the movie.
@@GentleIceZShe actually still regularly makes content, just only on Nebula (and Patreon).
Gokanaru and Miniminuteman are good from what I've seen from them.
They aren't just copy pasting and saying what's already there. They put some work and effort into digging into and presenting the topic.
I don't know if Technology Connections counts, but he's one of my favorite long form RUclipsrs. He turns mundane topics into very interesting and useful videos, and has amazing comedic timing with his dessicated humor.
Trueeeeee. I’m not gonna watch some dude parrot RUclips opinions on a game for an hour and a half+
when he did the analysis my brain got fuzzy in the bad way
Boby brocoli it's a great essayist
Yeah, that's probably the only way to make the new trap interesting. It's just so irrelevant to anything
The last bit is the most insane thjng ever and yet so mbt
Matthewmatosis is God tier and no one else even comes close. His earlier stuff is a bit ropey though.
If someone really wanted to make a video essay about what happens when TCG devs dont pay any attention to the interactions between the cards they make, then the entire video needs to be about 2016 Pepe.
Because starting with the release of Duelist Alliance in august of 2014, literally every set released contained some number of cards that had little to nothing to do with each other, until they did.
And they did on precisely January 15th, 2016 with the release of Breakers of Shadow. The set that brought all these nearly totally unrelated cards together to form one of the most powerful decks the game has ever seen that _wasn't_ some cheesy FTK.
And it all happened completely by accident.
Konami just didn't pay the slightest bit of attention to what they were doing when they making all these pendulum cards, and accidentally made all of them work together just a little too well.
That's a video essay worth making, and worth watching.
The Link era in general has a ton of examples of cards with unintended and potentially apocalyptic synergies. Probably because they made a lot of powerful Link monsters too strong for their own good. Heck, a card like Magicians' Souls is a prime example of this and that came out right near the end of MR4
shoutout jacob geller, my favorite video essayist who actually makes video essays
F.D Signifier is a fantastic video essayist if you need to be reminded what a good one looks like
....No? Perhaps the worst of them all.
Everyone kept saying this and I couldn't remember who this was and I just looked it up and LMFAO bro this guy is a moron. Peep his anime vids if you wanna see someone who knows nothing about anything talk.
I think the issue is less that video essays are getting worse and more that several things that are superficially similar grew at the same time.
Synopsis and/or Documentary style videos started growing at around the same time, so of course you might expect one but get the other.
There's a fair bit of crossover of course, but a lot of the above types of videos don't really focus on developing and supporting a point of view, like you'd generally expect with an essay, becauae that wasn't the point to begin with. It was just to inform people on something in the primary sense (More "Who, What, When, Where" less "Why, How" and other forms of analysis or critique)
Also, it's of course the case that all of these tend to suffer from limited or poor research in the majority of cases, because the majority of people just aren't interested in doing it.
That isn't necessarily a problem if people aren't presenting themselves as being an authority or anything, but it does tend to make the videos seem more expendible because it's just the same regularly referenced sources being used over and over.
There's still a lot of great stuff being made in every category, it's just that there are so many people who don't seem particularly interested in making something really quality who see the dollars and do it (repeatedly) anyway.
So this is a 20 minutes video essay about video essays?
Bobby broccoli is the best video essay channel ive ever seen
Wait, I randomly sumble upon Lilly Orchard vidoes now and then. They seem fairly well made with decent points covered with arguments and evidence. Am I missing something.
I think that general analysis focused on a specific medium probably works the best when it comes to video essays. There's a lot of really good literature content from channels like Hello Future Me that I'd still definitely categorize as video essays and even some really good videos on analyzing different aspects of video games from channels like Daryl Talks Games or Design Doc. Not to say more broad analysis can't work, both Super Eyepatch Wolf and Jacob Geller do a really good job of weaving together videos that cover uncomfortable and interesting topics in a very engaging way, but I do think the video and essay parts of these videos generally jell best when a topic's relationships are dissected between similar mediums so as not to dilute its focus, but you should probably avoid covering a single series if you're looking for anything more than a standard review
Im so confused why everyone's sp mad in the comments. I checked to see if anyone had any interesting points and got spammed with "THIS GUY'S SUCH A FUCKING IDIOT!!!" Yall need to chill
Holy shit, that ending bit where he delivers a fake bad video essay script about Yugioh and 9/11 off the dome is incredible. He has too much power.
Love Contrapoints :)
Contra is my queen.
The video will be titled "The Rise and Fall of [insert RUclipsr]" and it's just them being upset that they aren't racist anymore.
>skip to highlight
>"In 2001 the towers fell"
yeah I don't think I need to watch this video...
When an entire video has nothing to do with the title, it may as well end with the guy snapping his fingers and going "The Aristocrats"!
There is thos guy called MBT that keeps saying he wishes Yu-Gi-Oh had that type of content…