If I have to hear about YouTube videos being too long ONE MORE TIME!

Folks we have we worst media takes

We love it folks

There are only two things on which all Hexbearinos agree on

Pee-pee and poo-poo

You forgot cum
- There are multiple Hexbearinos who possess a strong dislike for cum

Look, if you don't want me to complain that a video is too long, then don't post a video essay that would be six paragraphs of content if it were written down but instead has been fluffed out to thirty minutes.

Oh my goodness yes. If something can be presented well in a blog post, it damn well should be.
- The real MVPs will do both a blog post and a video essay
- What if I like there being a visual element and perhaps the occasional comedic aside?
Nobody's making you watch it
- Nobody's making you post it, either
Video essays should never just be someone reading into a screen. Then it is no different from a regular essay. The 'video' part must play a central role for the video essay to have a valid reason of existence.
- Even then too many of them have too much fluff to hit algorithmic length standards.
- Yeah, so many copycats of channels like Nerdwriter and Every Frame A Painting completely miss the point of what those channels do with the medium.

This meme is revisionism. People here are just as ready to shank each other over philosophy, history, economics, etc. as they are to do it over media bullshit.

Those debates can get nasty but at least people generally have something of substance to say and common ground is often found.
The most
and nasty ass comments I've seen here have been in media debates. It often descends into people making mean assumptions about each other based on their media tastes, like people assuming a poster must be white, or cis, or a virgin cuz they liked an anime someone else doesn't.

Andor is doing a heckin Leninism

Andor is good but I do get the vibe it's written by Libs who are also just military history nerds and accidentally made it seem Leninist cuz they read a bunch of shit about Che and the Bolsheviks before hand.
- Accuratly portraying history is doing a communism. You dont have to intentionally do a communism to do a communism.
- That's fine by me cause they're stuck with a cannon where the rebellion is absolutely the good guys. I'm certain it was by accident but it'd be pretty lib of me to judge thebintent behind something rather than the material result.

Wojack is a reactionary, fascist meme template and should be rejected, you lib!

What shall we use?
- We have a few options, someone tried forcing glegle somewhere (can't remember where) if I recall correctly. I found this one by googling glegle, and got on some weird but interesting looking imageboard; brainworm.rodeo:
  But I think it doesn't really solve the fundamental issue of Wojaks, being repetetive and unoriginal.
  We could also return to 2008 and either use rage comics or make original stuff. Or we can use Alunya xddddddd
  As long as it's not Wojaks it's great, it's the one cultural export from Poland that is nothing but a scourge on the internet. Even making something similar to Wojaks (like glegle) would be much better.

Media which packs the same information into a shorter time span time takes more time to produce. So if you think about it, if you say Harris Bomb Man’s 4 hour video is boring, you’re actually saying you’re entitled to free labor

Half-Life series has so much leftist subtext it's just text

Eh, the resistance being lead by nerdy scientists seems a little Reddit STEMlord
- Accurate. A better revolution would be all those poor bastards you see around City 17 leading things instead of the nerds (I say as a nerdy engineer person).
i always got anti-soviet vibes from HL2 personally, especially since the combine cops have gas masks that are almost identical to certain soviet gas masks. that and the dreary dilapidated vaguely eastern european scenery. plus its literally about a great man who is chosen by some magical briefcase guy to be the hero. idk to me it was like an anti-soviet YA novel.
- If anything, I'd say that Half-Life 2 ridicules the idea of the "great man". For instance, the City 17 Uprising was only possible because of 20 years of the resistance building up under the assumption that Gordon was already dead, and the uprising was only triggered by the destruction of Nova Prospekt — which was completely accidental and not even Gordon's fault. And for the first week of the City 17 Uprising, again, Gordon was completely absent and presumed dead, and yet the resistance just kept growing. All of the Combine's focus on hunting down "Anticitizen One" ended up being pointless, because the resistance would just persist without him anyways, as it always had!
  So, Gordon's shoes could be filled by anybody at any point... But that's exactly what you're doing when you play a video game with a silent protagonist, anyways! Any "greatness" that Gordon has is your own. You are the "right man in the wrong place" — "being the hero" was your choice by continuing to play the game. All that the Gman really is is the sort of "middle man" between the real world and the game world — that's my understanding, at least. The Gman is such an enigmatic figure that to me the best interpretations of him are always meta in some way, rather than just taking everything at face value.
  Gordon achieved this sort of messianic status because the Black Mesa Incident had been made into this legend to inspire hope in the resistance. But Gordon Freeman himself remains aware throughout the entire game that his success has always at every point relied on others' help, on the networks already in place, on the enemy's mistakes, on the little coincidences here and there. Gordon just cannot speak for himself — just like the actual so-called "great men" of history cannot speak against their own mythologization.
  I mean, I have a lot more thoughts on this, naturally, including some that touch on aesthetics — but it's late and three probably very pretentious paragraphs is probably enough.

One day soon the "If I have to hear about YouTube videos being too long ONE MORE TIME!" Youtube vid by UrsineShape1000 will be 1,000 hours long. And the post on it here is the most popular thread ever. Although it eventually causes a struggle session and is shut down at a few hundred comments which is far shorter than the hoped for 1,000 comments.

Eating my media slop with Stalin’s comically large spoon

I am so tired of rage comics but racist

Brevity is the soul of wit. A man name Wilbert Shakesman said that.

What if my goal isn't being witty but being encompassing?
willie shook i believe he was called
Bill shakey spear also thought dick jokes were hilarious (they are), so maybe we don't have to treat his words like gospel.

It is reactionary garbage tho

What is?

The longer videos are just nice to listen to when cleaning the place or doing some other menial task

If a video is less than 4 hours long I'm not watching it. You can't force me.

Oh a stryder7x video on how standing still crashes Paper Mario!

im pro-skub

This is regressive garbage you revisionist swine!!!

YouTube videos are too short. 16 hours or bust.

Editors are a thing for a reason. I mean like publication editors not people who put MLG memes into your video or whatever.

I simultaneously despise these videos essays and I will also gladly watch 7 hours of the Gramscian subtext of Pilotwings 64

Makes sense, can be fun to argue about things that aren't super important.

Nobody is making you watch it

That sounds like bullshit to me.

It's hyperbolic but it's still a trend I've seen. People can get nasty in any debate here but the media ones feel a bit more, for lack of a better word, petty.
- Good point, well made.

Literally how do you sit still for 4 hours

You don't have to watch it in one sitting you know
- If it takes a second sitting, I will forget about it
train
Typically I don't. When I watch ridiculously long Youtube videos I have them playing in the background while I do other things, most of them aren't very reliant on the visual aspect of the medium and work perfectly fine as long podcasts with more structure. It's nice to not have to come back to my laptop and select a new video to listen to every 10 minutes.
- I don't have many chores that take 4 hours. Long podcasts at least keep themselves bookmarked better than YouTube if I come back to them. But yeah, generally, a long YT video works as a podcast

Humans have invented writing for a reason. Stop doing youtube videos or podcasts, write a fucking article!