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'video essay' is such a cringe attempt at re-branding. You're too lazy to fucking read and won't consume any content unless it's effortless and entertaining.
Is this what I sound like when I complain about tiktok?
Sooner or later we all become boomers
hear hear
You're too lazy to fucking read
Incorrect.
won't consume any content unless it's effortless and entertaining.
Correct. I'm trying to enjoy my leisure time, not write a thesis paper.
You know documentaries existed for decades, right?
Fuck Attentionborough! He ain't read shit!
You're right. I should listen to audiobooks instead.
Some people don't real all the books in the sources?
Who hurt you?
I call a class of video video essays, and I think the term has value. Those videos have the form of an essay, they follow an essay structure. Lindsay Ellis makes video essays
That's different to a video lecture, which is a much more common type. A video lecture tries to teach you something. Lindybeige, and Astrographics and many others do lectures
Then there are a dozen other genres. I think it's the lectures that get long.
I watches a four and half hour video on string theory I can tell you it was not effortless. it was entertaining but holy fuck I had to stop a few times to even wrap my head around some concepts