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- Dec 11, 2016
Oh boy. Todd in the Shadows. Always the controversial figure here since he rides the line of lolcow pretty closely without really being lulzy enough to be considered one.
For what it's worth, I respect Todd as a creator and genuinely enjoy his content, far more than Anthony Fantano's. I see some people here saying that he still has an "angry reviewer" shtick, and the odd thing is that over time I've noticed him mellow out a lot and since the dawn of his show he's gone less for the low-hanging fruit and has actually gone for some variety in his jokes and writing, and for the most part tries to be fair to the things he's reviewing.
Obviously, OHW and Trainwreckords are probably some of his best content, but I do enjoy his top/bottom 10 and his Pop Song Reviews when he's talking about the cultural background of songs and such. Overall I believe his strengths lie heavily in the journalism aspect of his reviews and not in his actual personality (although he does take potshots at himself sometimes, and I find his self-deprecation some of his best jokes he does every now and then).
Regarding his twitter obsessions and the crowd he hangs out with, even though he used to hang out with Lindsay Ellis' crowd I think he's pretty bog-standard liberal compared to that group which is a bit too far left for my taste. Sometimes his politics get in the way of his reviews (Rick Derringer's OHW is a particularly egregious example), but other than that his politics don't really get in the way of his content too much. Even the most obvious political video he's done in a while, the review of Am I The Only One, is pretty fair to the Staind guy and even chooses to attack him for his daddy issues moreso than for his politics.
Overall I enjoy him a lot. I respect his music journalism greatly and find his content pretty rewatchable.
With that being said, here's video of his face:
(starting at the marked time, goes until around the 5 minute mark - you can see him both side profile and front. You can tell why he usually shows himself from the side.)
For what it's worth, I respect Todd as a creator and genuinely enjoy his content, far more than Anthony Fantano's. I see some people here saying that he still has an "angry reviewer" shtick, and the odd thing is that over time I've noticed him mellow out a lot and since the dawn of his show he's gone less for the low-hanging fruit and has actually gone for some variety in his jokes and writing, and for the most part tries to be fair to the things he's reviewing.
Obviously, OHW and Trainwreckords are probably some of his best content, but I do enjoy his top/bottom 10 and his Pop Song Reviews when he's talking about the cultural background of songs and such. Overall I believe his strengths lie heavily in the journalism aspect of his reviews and not in his actual personality (although he does take potshots at himself sometimes, and I find his self-deprecation some of his best jokes he does every now and then).
Regarding his twitter obsessions and the crowd he hangs out with, even though he used to hang out with Lindsay Ellis' crowd I think he's pretty bog-standard liberal compared to that group which is a bit too far left for my taste. Sometimes his politics get in the way of his reviews (Rick Derringer's OHW is a particularly egregious example), but other than that his politics don't really get in the way of his content too much. Even the most obvious political video he's done in a while, the review of Am I The Only One, is pretty fair to the Staind guy and even chooses to attack him for his daddy issues moreso than for his politics.
Overall I enjoy him a lot. I respect his music journalism greatly and find his content pretty rewatchable.
With that being said, here's video of his face: