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Message: [QUOTE="Octopus, post: 10986, member: 4"] Every week my friend hangout/TTRPG playing session starts off by trying to find some new 'essayist' to watch and complain about, and everything said in this thread is spot on. The repeating generic thumbnails designed to appeal to whatever template is currently popular ("--- broke me", --- isn't what you think"), the fact that the video is taking 3 hours to explain "Silent Hill is purgatory" which everyone knows already, it's all incredibly entertaining in an ironic way. For me it's the fact that it's all this pretense and dressing up for what is usually an incredibly surface level take- that silent hill example was a real video we watched an hour of before moving on, and it was presenting the revolutionary idea of "silent hill is purgatory" like that's not the most bare level assessment anyone would take from the game. They try to make the video seem deeper than it really is by making it incredibly dense and and academic in language. There's also the other common trend they follow of clearly taking a purposefully contrarian stance just to get YouTube engagement. One of my groups recent favourites was one about how Bloodborne is actually terrible. Say what you want about Bloodborne, obviously it's subjective, but his points were just flat out wrong and he constantly contradicted himself. He claimed that the 'parry' mechanic with the guns was bad because the game was designed around that (somehow that makes it bad I guess), then complained about half the bosses saying you couldn't parry them so therefore they shouldn't have been in the game. It was contradictory because I don't think he even really believed in what he was saying, he was just trying to get engagement- it also came to light later in the video that he was using his friends footage instead of his own, and has never actually played the game which obviously enraged all of us, but that's a different problem. Also, I realize the irony of this turning into my own essay- I've become what I hate. [/QUOTE]

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