I'll check him. I saw the Kula World video.
People should learn to be a bit more synthetic and concise about what they want to convey. A piece of work isn't finished by simply adding the last bit needed but when you remove the last superfluous thing imo.
I dislike the idea that being able to use higher level words systematically makes someone smarter/more professional when in fact even scammers that have 0 scientific knowledge and diploma also tend to use that vocabulary to sell overpriced useless products because they said "it's a quantic tool that will change your life" followed by pseudo-scientific text.
I also dislike that sentiment. Angry reviewers from the 00's were at least ironic in most cases but these people are just confidently claiming that well praised games that got good scores and are often treated as being good by many reviewers even years after that they are actually "mid" or "not good" (if not "overrated").
Pretentious maybe, some essay may be genuine but I cannot tell.
With all due respect, this guy and anyone like him can cry me a river. Can you imagine what one of these vacuous, empty-headed twerps would ever do if they needed to work a real job, and not sit in their bedroom limply talking into a covered microphone about the finer intricacies of Kirby's Air Ride? If any of these people really hated it so much, they'd stop doing YouTube immediately, march down to the unemployment office, and get a job laying brick 8 hours a day. If you want my sympathies, you'll need to sit through this 90-second ad for Manscaped, first.
I would agree with you on literally any other case, but I feel like defending Kevin here because he only started doing YouTube after he couldn't work anymore due to getting run over and needing to pay the bills while he was unable to work due to the never-ending legal battle that followed (the driver, unsurprisingly, claimed no wrongdoing). He actually owned a store before and worked a handful of hell jobs.I know it's unpopular to say it, but I liked the era of Channel Awesome-style review shows way more than all these poorly-researched, excruciatingly-paced, horribly-volume-mixed "video essays" narrated by the most intolerable, annoyingly-voiced people on the planet. At least things like AVGN, the Nostalgia Critic, or Atop the Fourth Wall were comedy series, where making fun of the presenter's own bloated sense of self-importance was half the fun.
Now, in today's ego-first influencer culture, the best you get is Anime Avatar #71892's seventy-hour screed on how he really discovered his latent political opinions when he first played Tony Hawk's Skateboarding Adventure for the Wii. Equally vapid people half-watch this slop while eating their fast food dinner, and it perpetuates like a disease, continuously ruining the Internet and dropping Western literary rates by another few hundred percentiles. Sweet!
With all due respect, this guy and anyone like him can cry me a river. Can you imagine what one of these vacuous, empty-headed twerps would ever do if they needed to work a real job, and not sit in their bedroom limply talking into a covered microphone about the finer intricacies of Kirby's Air Ride? If any of these people really hated it so much, they'd stop doing YouTube immediately, march down to the unemployment office, and get a job laying brick 8 hours a day. If you want my sympathies, you'll need to sit through this 90-second ad for Manscaped, first.
OK, if this happens to you, you're allowed to complain. BUT NO ONE ELSE
Nah you’re fine
By channel awesome era, I presume you mean posts after the yellow-wall era.I know it's unpopular to say it, but I liked the era of Channel Awesome-style review shows way more than all these poorly-researched, excruciatingly-paced, horribly-volume-mixed "video essays" narrated by the most intolerable, annoyingly-voiced people on the planet. At least things like AVGN, the Nostalgia Critic, or Atop the Fourth Wall were comedy series, where making fun of the presenter's own bloated sense of self-importance was half the fun.
Now, in today's ego-first influencer culture, the best you get is Anime Avatar #71892's seventy-hour screed on how he really discovered his latent political opinions when he first played Tony Hawk's Skateboarding Adventure for the Wii. Equally vapid people half-watch this slop while eating their fast food dinner, and it perpetuates like a disease, continuously ruining the Internet and dropping Western literary rates by another few hundred percentiles. Sweet!
With all due respect, this guy and anyone like him can cry me a river. Can you imagine what one of these vacuous, empty-headed twerps would ever do if they needed to work a real job, and not sit in their bedroom limply talking into a covered microphone about the finer intricacies of Kirby's Air Ride? If any of these people really hated it so much, they'd stop doing YouTube immediately, march down to the unemployment office, and get a job laying brick 8 hours a day. If you want my sympathies, you'll need to sit through this 90-second ad for Manscaped, first.
Doug Walker imitators were really embarrassing in that they were literally grown men shouting about children's films rather than a character making fun of the idea that a grown man would care, but Doug and some of the other early contributors (especially Spoony) still hold up pretty well.
That's actually why so many of the early AVGN imitators failed so spectacularly. People saw what James was doing and assumed that being irrationally angry at an old game brought viewers. Thank God we also had people like RinryGameGame making actually relatable (and family-friendly) gaming content on the platform.
I remember Rinry, what a qt3.14. I think she has a family now.
def a lesser of two evils but the TGWTG camp is fun to look back on as a bygone time where people were making videos for the love of the game rather than to keep up a patreon while paying editors slave wages.I know it's unpopular to say it, but I liked the era of Channel Awesome-style review shows way more than all these poorly-researched, excruciatingly-paced, horribly-volume-mixed "video essays" narrated by the most intolerable, annoyingly-voiced people on the planet. At least things like AVGN, the Nostalgia Critic, or Atop the Fourth Wall were comedy series, where making fun of the presenter's own bloated sense of self-importance was half the fun.
Now, in today's ego-first influencer culture, the best you get is Anime Avatar #71892's seventy-hour screed on how he really discovered his latent political opinions when he first played Tony Hawk's Skateboarding Adventure for the Wii. Equally vapid people half-watch this slop while eating their fast food dinner, and it perpetuates like a disease, continuously ruining the Internet and dropping Western literary rates by another few hundred percentiles. Sweet!
With all due respect, this guy and anyone like him can cry me a river. Can you imagine what one of these vacuous, empty-headed twerps would ever do if they needed to work a real job, and not sit in their bedroom limply talking into a covered microphone about the finer intricacies of Kirby's Air Ride? If any of these people really hated it so much, they'd stop doing YouTube immediately, march down to the unemployment office, and get a job laying brick 8 hours a day. If you want my sympathies, you'll need to sit through this 90-second ad for Manscaped, first.
I'm definitely not on the left, but I also don't care for political hot takes about games. I would be interested in seeing a more right-wing perspective on Deus Ex particularly, but I already have it in my own mind and it probably wouldn't be very YouTube-friendly.
Let's not forget that the Nostalgia Critic and Angry Video Game Nerd are both called a Nostalgic and a Nerd respectively, they are aware that these characters are parodies than being real people. The AVGN, being a nerd, would focus even on the more meaningless aspect of something.
I think I may know what breadtube is about but I've never understood why it was called bread.
Basically: attention span has lowered so people put a video while doing something else.
Thanks for the explanation. And yes it's strange (almost as if they want to reclaim a political viewpoint just to make it seems their opinion has more impact than it actually is).
This is an absolutely fair point, a less than an hour video with a good pacing is how things should be rather than bloating it.
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Thanks for that great message! So this is the origin of the term "rock hard".
To add what pickle already highlighted, the algorithm is wholeheartedly onboard with 3-hour videos.
They cracked the algorithm!
