>7 hour video essay
Why do people do that?
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>7 hour video essay
>7 hour video essay
Why do people do that?
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Autism unironically
longer than the game if you removed the mandatory cutscenes
I remember some anon talking about how it's a weird form of proxy friend that talks about something you're both interested in.
the weird part is people actually watch these things. you gays dont watch these vidya essays do you? it has to be redditors right? please tell me you all are joking, these things are super popular on youtube.
no never haha
Putting some c**t on who hyperanalyzes a game allows me to ignore them and, in turn, all other stimuli while I'm focusing on something.
I listen to hour long "documentaries" about old computers history.
My work has me driving on the road for hours all day and podcasts get boring sometimes so yeah I try them out. Most of these essayist are garbage though so its hard to come across one thats thoroughly enjoyable.
Black person, you're on the internet. People spend hours reading or listening to other people's opinions on a regular basis.
It's good sleeping aid.
>"Talking about your interests for multiple hours is for autistic gays," says random anon who spends his time posting on Ganker.
i prefer the 3+ hour autism videos than 50 videos that are 10 minutes with 2 minutes of plugs for some service i don't care about and 8 minutes of the same stuff everyone else says everywhere
the long videos are the stuff i look forward to watching or listening to
it's really nice to put it on in the background while meal prepping for the week or doing laundry or any of those other things i gotta do during the week to be a functioning human
i don't even have to agree with what is being said but i enjoy hearing someone's stance or ideas about stuff i like even if it differs from my own when it's in a long video like this and decently put together
the only stuff i use those short videos for anymore is if i need a tutorial on something like tearing down a product for repair work
ill bite.
The amount of care/autism required to actually make a 7 fricking hour video means the creator fricking cares. You cant make a 7 hour long clickbait video.
This isnt true in every case, but i would say the majority of the video essays are well thought out and informative, while being highly educational on the topics they chose to cover.
tik tok has burned out your ability to pay attention to anything for more than 30 seconds.
Your also going on the mistaken impression the video is intended to be consumed in 1 sitting.
They are a perfect background for when I do cardio or lift, and one good 7 hour video lasts me almost an entire week.
Thats also kind of the problem I notice where plenty of these "critiques" or "essays" are just sucking the game off for 5 hours because of their nostalgia goggles. Which leads to them not ever really saying anthing of substance.
Ill admit the long form videos i watch typically are people complaining/explaining why something is dogshit (EFAP really)
I have only seen one "nostalgia suck off review" video dude i liked though.
Yes im a morroboomer.
>tik tok has burned out your ability to pay attention to anything for more than 30 seconds.
my ability to pay attention to anything on the internet was low before tiktok even existed
>TikTok is making you unable to watch a 7 hour video essay on Pokemon
Wtf are you talking about
I watched first two Anderson's Witcher videos dubbed "Crtitique" and "Commentary" and came to a conclusion that dude is essentially creating a 4-5 hour recaps of the plot without saying absolutely fricking anything of note.
>creating a 4-5 hour recaps of the plot without saying absolutely fricking anything of note.
That's the entire genre
he's awful in some videos and decent in others
>watch civvie 11 do a "pro" video review thing
>it's just him playing through some old as shit shooter on whichever difficulty he wants while he comments on the levels and where to get the secrets
>breaks it up with a 1:30 long clip of him fumbling around trying to clear a room, preceded by him saying some shit like "WATCH THIS, KIDS"
>he will then replay that clip or some other one like 3 times while talking over it before moving on to any other footage
I've listened to a handful just to pass time at work
Seems kind of hard to find decent ones though. Quite a few I sorted through were basically just recapping the events of the game instead of actually discussing anything about it, just make like 5 minutes review at that point.
Autistic love for what they're talking about
I've listened to the whole thing out of curiosity, it's not just a good analysis of Omega Ruby but of the core pokemon mechanics as well. If he cut the summary bits of the game it'd probably be 3 hours, but it adds a nice storyline to the discussion without overloading on technical details
It helps me sleep at night
I put them on in the background when grinding in games or drawing. Sometimes it's better than music to zone out to. I also usually watch parts of these types of essays when rating dinner.
7 hours is nothing. Beats all so-called 'reviews' though. Guy made something he's passionate abouit without any deadlines or mandates given to him by some higher up suits.
Only 1,7 million views in 4 years. That's absolutely nothing. Just a fringe minority. If you can't watch a 7 hour long essay on a topic that interests you how are you gonna get through 40 hour long books?
Video Essays are utter cancer and on of the worst things to happen to YouTube!
Can’t we just go back to making funny Oblivion Machinimas, Sketch Comedy, Video Games in Real Life, GMOD videos, Parody Reviews or Angry Reviews? This Video Essay shit needs to end!
Video essays are just extremely low effort and fit the current youtube algo that optimizes for watch time. They can be made to fit every interest. They are low risk and low budget.
this
Bad video essays that just summarize something for 5 hours are low effort, but a lot of work is put into some of these. And it's not like they're guaranteed to be successful. Tons of 10-20 minute videos is still the best way to game the algorithm and is still the lowest effort content.
I play shitty grindy MMOs, I usually put something random on the background to listen to.
patriciantv makes the only good ones. all the rest are garbage or are nostalgia baiting for views, they recite the game's plot and the video's over.
It's good background noise. I'm not really paying attention to it.
Theres something cathartic about a person explaining in detail what all you like/dislike about a game.
Problem is 90% of video game essayist spend most of these long ass videos just explaining what happens in the game in the most boring and dry way possible.
If I had more time...I would have written a shorter post.
The youtube algorithm heavily favors watchtime, which means a 7 hour video is as good as 14 30 minute videos.
Until the algo begins taking "watch" time into account and not "listening" time then videos like these are fricked.
Depends they're always tweaking and adjusting it.
Tik Tok is the new hot social media app, YT is back to favoring goldfish tier watchtimes to capitalize on it8tgxh
Nah algo is ass for super long concent you get fricked if someone stops watching things on youtube after your video and guess what happens after someone binges 2-7h of autism?
8-14, 10 being the general average is still the best for the bot. For every autismlord with long analysis vidoes you will find 50 channels chock full of daily "why x is good/bad" uploads. Those people are in it to game the bot, the autists are there for the autism/patreon dollars
>BU-BUT THEY'RE GOOD FOR BACKGROUND NOISE
buy a fricking fan
1.7 MILLION VIEWS
and yet its the sjws killing gaming
7.8
Too much blabber
because underage morons like you shill them
Cause homosexual moronic zoomers like you keep on talking about them
I've ran out of essays and just listen to some random uploads of streams
The always deliberately speak really slowly in these and use lots of filler sentences and statements
guys here is a novel idea: you dont need to hear people talking while you do stuff. you can just do it in silence.
>I like spending my time doing menial tasks with no thought
Move to china and become a factory worker there
you are hooked on stimulation just like this guy
who thinks hes not because he uses long videos instead of short ones. you can do your cringe task in silence and youll be just the same as you came out of it. you didnt really gain anything by hearing some nerd on youtube talk about the psychology of zelda or whatever.
No, I just like thinking about things. Used to listen to audibooks a lot more but burned out since there is almost no good sci-fi anymore.
There is nothing wrong with being an unthinking robot but no need to get bad at actual human beings for it.
>claims to like thinking
>needs external stimuli to fill out the parts of his day where he can actually think without being disrupted
No, you don't like thinking. That's okay, as the average person doesn't, but don't confuse it for some type of enlightenment or cognitive complexity. If you can't spend an hour in thought thoroughly thinking something over and challenging your own viewpoints/interpretations you're little more than an insect. It's only slightly related, but funny: this is also why psychedelics are often confused for "spiritual tools" that "teach" you things and why normalgays rave about needing a few months "to process it all". They don't do anything but force the normalgay to sit down and listen to his own thoughts for more than ten minutes. And because they - i.e. people like you - never do this in their daily lives, they suddenly realize the most obvious things such as the fact that their job kinda wack and that nature be bussin'.
Also let's not forget that a 7 hour video won't offer more insight than one a third as long (or an essay that takes 30 minutes to read), so even if you had a point it wouldn't be valid for shit like long videogame video essays. It's pure fastfood for your mind.
you got a big brain Black person
i tried explaining to my friends a hundred times that psychedelics do not introduce new profundities into your knowledge base
psychedelics are tools, they create spaces that you can take your own information and look at it without bias, it's the only fricking time you are able to be an impartial observer or the third party to yourself and that's what makes them so valuable not lmao dude colors
i work for about 7-8 hours a day in silence so it's nice having something to listen to when i'm at home
i tag trees and bugs in arcGIS for the state
>with no thought
he said in silence you fricking NPC
>>7 hour video essay
don't you mean, 'only 7 hrs?' you vidya people have a lot to learn
frick off Mauler, critical drinker is better because he can say the same shit as you but keep it in a 10m range.
you know that critical drinker is on the majority of efaps right?
yeah whats your point
>One day this will happen to armored core
It has already happened to zone of the enders but that included the DS game and anime+ova
Look at the archive. These threads are identical
Most Ganker threads are
First time on Ganker?
>Calls hbomberguy "venerable" halfway thru the review
The town made him stupid.
LONG=SMART
Real kino
>That virgin neckbeard voice in the first 2 seconds
DROPPED
>watch video essay
>presenter talks about the history that leads up to the subject of the video essay
>the actual subject is less interesting than the history that leads up to it
>stop video, research the historical topics mentions
Why are video essays like this?
longer videos make more money
>duuude they do it out of le passion for le game!!
No you fricking moronic cattle, they do it because they get more ad revenue the longer people spend watching the video. You have to be the absolute lowest-of-the-low subhuman to watch these videos, let alone make excuses for doing so.
I watched it after it was skilled her for weeks a year ago.
It was fine, it's a detailed run through of the entire game, it's Gen 3 version and Pokemon as a whole. There as some socialist shit in there too
Has that anon dropped in with his YouTube channel yet?
What do you think this thread is? Subtle YT shill bait
Mental Illness, virgnity, etc. Society failed him.
I think the worst example of this type of content is PointlessTV. Worse still is that it was some morons on Ganker that recommended this garbage when it's just Wikipedia and summary reading.
Mine as well, zoomers watching 7 hours of twitch gays playing games instead of playing them why not watch 7 hours of confirmation bias.
I've listened to 1 hour long vidya essays before while doing other stuff but the trend of 7+ hour vids is fricking insane. What could you even say about the entire pokemon franchise for 7 hours, let alone the 2047284th sequel nobody gives a shit about.
>What could you even say about the entire pokemon franchise for 7 hours
The video is basically structure din that it goes through every pokemon game through each pokemon generation. What the initial games defined, and what the sequels added to it that was new and what the sequels removed or changed. And then he compares all the generations against each other while sharing his opinions on them.
The video may be 7 hours long but he only spends like <40 minutes breaking down any individual game. But the pokemon franchise is huge after all so it adds up.
>What could you even say about the entire pokemon franchise for 7 hours, let alone the 2047284th sequel nobody gives a shit about.
It covers the ORAS main game, compares the upbgrades and downgrades to RSE, and talks about Gamefreak's design trends their modern games.
Give me some decent autism videos to listen to as I drive. I've nearly exhausted Salt Factory's stuff.
most ppl dont even analyze. They just explain events from A to Z which takes the bulk of time
I need them to fall asleep. I'm the kind of tired only Dark Souls 2 video essays can fix.
if you cant talk about something you like in depth for at LEAST an hour then your probably moronic
Saying something succinctly and making a strong persuasive/strong point is hard.
AND, youtube rewards long content more than quality content. Hence why nearly every vidya guy who used to make videos for youtube, maye 5 - 10 - 20 minutes in length, completely gave up on that and just stream on twitch now where they then hire an editor to edit their streams and throw them up on their channel.
>zoomers have no attention span and can only handle 8 second Tik Toks
>zoomers also watch 6 hour long video essays
Which one is it, homosexuals?
as we found out, they dont actually watch them. they put them in the background on top of their tiktok videos and gaming sessions
If you're going to listen to something stupid and long for the sake of background noise, you may as well listen to something entertaining
Like Cum Town
Hell yeah dude
respect
based cum town listener
cum town is shit, I listen to the night podcast or whatever with the small goblin man and his autistic friends
i've listened to longer series on the roman empire
7 hours, that's rookie shit
my course load for college is thrice that on average
It could be for many reasons. Maybe they have a lot to say about an installment they are interested in or maybe they're just following an internet trend. Either way it shouldn't really be an issue if the script is well-informed, covers a decent amount of the subject, and is entertaining.
>7 hours
They got the exhaustive part right at least.
That is at least for a whole game
You can sum up this whole character as "skintight b***hbreasts" lmao
I was autistic enough to (2x speed) watch the video and it is them going through every Miranda cut scene and trying to claim "actually Miranda Lawson is complex you just arent smart enough to see it" and not a product of her being written inconsistently the whole way through.
She also had a rich dad that genetically modified her to have a big ass.
I'd be surprised if all of the cutscenes featuring Miranda combined was half that length
>that part in the video where he talks about a newly added sidequest and starts saying this is why we need communism unironically
that came kinda out of nowhere after several hours into the video.
While 7 hours is stretching it, I'm wondering what the big deal it is for anons to see a 1 - 2 hour in-depth video of a videogame. Those lengths are the norm for any lecture about any topic that's not superficial. This does not mean, that the "lecture" on videogame is automatically good, but that's the point. You can't derive anything from the length alone, except the fact that it at least has the opportunity to look at some details
Why is this thread so popular?
The Pokefricker thread was more popular but it got moved to /trash/ sadly.
7 hour long essays could be good
Unfortunately its just autists saying their same 5 minute point over and over again
This one is actually comfy and isn't some whitetrash weeb who can barely breathe or speak
My brother wants me to make a channel like this with him since we're both autistic about games.
Looking forwards to watching the 1h docummentary after one of you goes crazy and murders/cheats/embezzles the other a couple of years after you make it big.
We keep joking about that too since it's so common.
Why does American media worship school shooters? So much love and attention, bikini pics too.
Because they have nothing else to do and when people grandstand and ramble they think the value of their words equates to the number of them.
These videos can't actually have any discussion of substance though, can they? Everyone always says "I just have it as background noise" so then you're admitting that it's not a good enough video take your undivided attention.
Easy. These essays aren't academic or scientific in their nature, they need to be rambly and go on forever because they orator needs to make sure they've laid enough groundwork for their conclusion to seem infallible. So they are intricate pieces of argumentative work dedicated on the whole to sway its viewer and to make it difficult to go against the inconsistencies found in the main body of the work, this is achieved by laying this extensive and internally coherent ground work and making it so extensive that you cant just point at something said without remembering something said 3 hours before. The same as politicians that talk for 14 hours expecting that the opposition just leaves the debate. Or the leftist memes with 3 pages of text.
This may also happen when the orator has no idea of what he actually wants to say with his assay.