Video Essay - Blog Posts

Video essays that make me go "oh, so you're like smart smart"

Elon Musk and Grimes: A Retrospective

Bo Burnham vs. Jeff Bezos

The Systemic Abuse of Celebrities

Lana Del Rey: the pitfalls of having a persona

we need to talk about Call Me By Your Name

MYTH OF THE AUTEUR: Stanley Kubrick vs David Lynch

In Search Of A Flat Earth

Envy

The Commodification of Black Athletes

The Lies Of The Lighthouse

The Green Knight: The Uncanny Horror of Masculinity

Max Payne, Kane & Lynch, and the Meaning of Ugly Games

Time Loop Nihilism

How Bisexuality Changed Video Games

The Golden Age of Horror Comics - Part 1 (Part 2)

Weighing the Value of Director's Cuts | Scanline

The True Horror Of Midsommar

a few more -

You're Wrong About Cyberpunk 2077 | An Overdue Critique (this is such great critique of both the game and the genre)

Disney's Fast Pass: A Complicated History

It Has Come To My Attention You Don't All Love BIRDS OF PREY

Adaptation.

The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize

Music Theory and White Supremacy

Here's the YouTube playlist! ill be adding more but that's all so far pls like and reblog xoxo 💕

also feel free to share your own recs in the notes!

Oh I'm gonna cry

Yall. If any of you are even REMOTELY INTERESTED I'm video essays, args, creepy pastas, petscop, or wendigoon PLEASE WATCH HIS LATEST VIDEO ON PETSCOP!! It's so good and literally the only one that's accurate and well put together enough that I don't automatically hate it!!

Honest to god, this is my new comfort video (the last one was a fnaf theory and I haven't had a new one in YEARS) and my life is so much better having watched this.

does anyone know how to find the tcc side of YouTube and not just news channel after news channel when I look up columbine?, I wanna watch video essays and Dylan & Eric’s videos not some fugly homophobic white guy on his second divorce talk about it from 2018

against my better judgment I'm becoming entranced by video essays that claim to be talking about really pervasive pressing issues that are everywhere 😱 that turn out to be about some shit you've never heard of in your life if you're not on tiktok or insta

Here's a very real & sincere video essay from my friend Alana

I just wrote a 3-4 ish page essay on Pixar cars and their headlights/tits what do I do with this

Finally finished my first video essay! go at it ya heathens

just a short 29-hour binge

One day I really want to make a video essay about the mechasms from wakfu but especially orgonax as of a few months ago he’s become one of my favorite wakfu characters even with his lack of canon content esp because there are a lot of wakfu fans who only know the show (in the wakfu circles im in) so I’ve been thinking of making a video about him for my more casual wakfu likers 🗣️

Also there’s alot of people in these circles who don’t even know what a mechasm is not even knowing lokus was one 😭

In this emotionally exhausting video, I talk to a professional cult deprogrammer about Qanon, how the conspiracy theory spreads and where the movement might go after the Capitol Building attack.

“You couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today!” is an adage I am so sick and tired of hearing that I made a half hour video debunking it. It also goes into exactly why the film is considered one of history’s most disruptive classics, and if you have time, you should check it out!

My channel is tiny, so any subs/shares/likes/comments you have are highly appreciated. Thanks in advance, pardner. 

Here’s a video about Arrested Development! And editing! And the magic of both!

video essays about horror, fear and dread

Films That Feel Like Bad Dreams

The Nightmare Artist

Fear of Big Things Underwater

Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House

House of Leaves: The Horror Of Fiction

Monsters in the Closet: A History of LGBT Representation in Horror Cinema

The History of Insane Asylums and Horror Movies

The Saddest Horror Movie You’ve Never Seen

Fear of Forgetting

Slender Man: Misunderstanding Ten Years Of The Internet

The Real Reason The Thing (1982) is Better than The Thing (2011)

The Bizarre Clown Painting No One Fully Understands

The Little Book of Cosmic Horrors

The Disturbing Art of A.I.

Fear of Depths

Goya’s Witches

David Lynch: The Treachery of Language

The True History That Created Folk Horror

The Existential Horror of David Cronenberg’s Camera

a few more and the youtube playlist are below the cut. as always feel free to share your recs as well!

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Let’s talk about Zuko. And since it’s October, let’s talk about “Creepy Zuko”. And how Ozai’s abuse has effected his children.  

you’ve described 68.3% of YouTube video essays

the opposite of that "orc can't read ulysses" is an elf who smugly delivers a lecture misinterpreting the Very Hungry Caterpillar

amazing amazing amazing "video essay style" youtubers to check out

video essays on queer history and obscure historical stories/events: Kaz Rowe

hilarious book talk on popular (and often terrible) books that tiktok makes famous, complete with full details and spoilers: lexi aka newlynova

deep dive video essays into classic literature, popular shows/movies, crime, and so many other topics: biz

talks on fandom and popular shows/books/movies: uncarly

more deep dives into popular books: shitty book club

deep dive on bluey episodes: pugly

This video is literally a piece of art.

I rarely connect with something on such an intense level, but in this case I can confidently say that I agree with like 99% of the things that were said.

I’m going to be honest here and admit that I was never really interested in The Beatles; that is not to say that I hate their music, it’s just that I don’t actively go out of my way to listen to it. I was also never really into the whole Yoko controversy, mostly because I felt like I didn’t know enough about the whole situation to take part in the discourse or to make my own claims. However, this video still really did it for me, mostly because while it does talk (in depth) about the intricacies of the breakup and assassination, it focuses mostly on the twisted narrative of ‘the evil woman that manipulated and destroyed the genius of a sensitive and accomplished man.’ I never really thought about how often we fall for it as a society or how popular it really is in today’s pop culture.

I absolutely loved the segment about Kurt Cobain and the ‘Courtney killed him’ conspiracy, as well as how passionate the author is about defending women in the industry by calling out those that villainise them without idealising these women in the process. I guess what I’m trying to say is that the overall argument is very cohesive and balanced and doesn’t let it sway too much in one direction.

I wholeheartedly recommend anyone with 2 hours to spare to give this a watch. Even I with my fried attention span was able to enjoy it, and I also just think that it’s beautifully made.

Holding back in tears because how tf am I suppose to explain to my family that I'm crying to a One Piece video essay of all things.