Persepolis
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- Dec 12, 2017
You should make a single kiketube 'analysis' video just explaining what you explained here about how all these videos and reviewers are pure dogshit, but with all the pervasive editing and bullshit that makes goys watch those videos.i tried to get into the youtube content gravy train for a while since it's kind of what i went to college for (lmao) and gave up a long ass time ago, and i made like half of a video about the wu-tang clan and just kind of disagreed with what i was trying to say halfway into making it. it was instrumental to my realization that these long-form video essays really aren't essays at all, they use filmmaking techniques to hammer in a point that may not even be remotely true, but it sure sounds convincing. people understand a lot of the tools of film are used to manipulate the viewer into constructing a narrative about the characters on-screen but it's really no different from a talking head doing a critical analysis of a topic that uses dramatic editing techniques to hammer their point in. it's still a narrative, but dressed up as intellectual critique that appears to hold more water than an individual's opinion, made worse by a bloated runtime
plus 'critical analysis' is just a semantic obfuscation for 'critical theory' which is commie horseshit of the highest order, and gives you the tools to pretty much argue whatever the fuck you want while sounding intelligent. it's motte and baileys and trolls truisms all the way down, and most people mistake those as salient points. the very medium of youtube itself is part of the problem too because videos are monolithic and difficult to split up unlike paragraphs in an essay. even an effective refutation of a video point-by-point is going to fall on deaf ears because you're still beholden to the runtime of video - it's not like anybody is willing to get linked to a 14 minute timestamp in a video essay about why another video essay is bad, and especially not True Fans. it's pretty much the perfect platform for people who have overdosed on cultural marxism because it effectively immunizes you from any real criticism that could threaten to topple your ivory tower, and why those people inevitably go off the deep by gassing themselves with their own farts
This video is the closest thing we have to something like that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhSJp34wOeo