Why are young gamers so attracted to long vidya essays?

Why are young gamers so attracted to long vidya essays?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because their brains are so fricking friend by algorithms that they need background noise, even if it gives them nothing, to enjoy anything.
    Also
    >young
    The oldgays here do it too.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm a bit of an oldgay and I put music on as background noise whenever I draw shit. Get fricked

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        you sure showed him with your single case

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You sure showed him with all that malding and b***hing

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This.

      I'm a bit of an oldgay and I put music on as background noise whenever I draw shit. Get fricked

      >haha I said get fricked you are now owned
      Suck a shit log out of my butthole.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm a bit of an oldgay and I put music on as background noise whenever I draw shit. Get fricked

      me too
      Get fricked twice

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm a bit of an oldgay and I put music on as background noise whenever I draw shit. Get fricked

      also me, get fricked to oblivion, zoomer trash

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >their brains are so fricking friend by algorithms
      the frick is that even supposed to mean
      when I fried my brain, I sought piece and quiet, not the fricking opposite

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        He probably meant that kids need constant stimuli for retention nowadays. Saw a TikTok video that was a family guy clip but had some temple run game on the side and a video of someone scooping ice cream above the family guy vid, it's mental.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah I saw that too, and I know for a fact that those videos exist to circumvent copyright mechanisms. The only other people who watch that are low IQ parents who want to watch adult cartoons with their kids and they honestly believe the second video is a distraction for their kids.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      humans like hearing something going on, before computers it was tv, radio, phonograms

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        phonographs*

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >background noise
      So you're too much of a brainlet and with AHDH so high you can't sit for 2 hours and watch something enjoyable?
      Cope zoomer

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    they arent

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What the frick is a 'video essay'? Just any video where somebody talks about something?
    Isn't that like 90% of all content ever released on youtube?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      a video discussing a topic that isn't just a review or walkthrough

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That would include documentaries

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      it's a forum post, but for some reason zoomers record themselves reading them out loud and put it on yt

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Anon, forums don't (practically) exist anymore.
        The only real exception in massive numbers would be like... forums for specific games, or Ganker. Yes, I know those are a lot of exceptions, but forums for specific games don't allow other games, and Ganker likes to go "not your blog" in the most cases when people pour their heart out over something they love, so neither are constructive for what the video essay has become.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Almost all of them just retell the game they're talking about scene for scene and speckle in the most basic commentary about it in between. Bonus points for reading off a rewrite of the wikipedia article or game joruno articles for the game or its developers. Imagine reading game magazines for 2 hours but stretch it out to 12 hours with video basically.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't mind long game reviews if they're less than 2 hours, but I hate that shit if it's about a single movie. Just watch the movie at that point.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I honestly love that shit especially if it's about a movie. I refuse to support the zog by even looking at their dogshit propaganda, but I enjoy people ripping into it like no tomorrow.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Zoomers are incapable of independent thought

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Some interesting ones about old PS1 jap shit i will never play can be entertaining.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Everybody nowadays seems to think the longer you talk the smarter you are and I have no idea why

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Honestly most of them suck. They're poorly edited (both in terms of script and video) ramble about shit for too long and are often just the guy describing the game without offering any interesting insight

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >often just the guy describing the game without offering any interesting insight
      This drives me up a fricking wall. I know it gets memed on but egoraptor’s sequilitis thing was the only analysis I’ve seen that doesn’t spend 80% of the video runtime recapping the game beat by beat

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Then stop watching them. Fricking homosexual moron.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Stop reading my posts if you think I’m a homosexual moron, moron homosexual

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it's just the modern day equivalent of having a TV on in the background
    only morons did that too but it's not like it's unique to the age-based horoscope group you hate the msot

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because young gamers don't know anything about games from 15 years or older and watching a video can instantly make them an "expert" on reddit, twitter and discord

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    background noise
    nobody actually pays attention to these things

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    you can act like your an old pro at a video game and collect gamer cred even though you've never played it because you dont play video games. Just look at fallout 3, everyone talking about it has never played it, they just watched a couple 5 hour long youtube videos.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It legitimately bothers me that so many ill informed morons out there lecture others as if their incorrect moronation or moronic opinions are objective fact, and then these other homosexuals absorb that shit and parrot it out as the gospel truth. Form your own fricking opinions.

    The only, singular person I've found that does this correctly is Decino, and that's because he backs up absolutely everything he demonstrates with documented proof.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I always wanted to have a friend to listen to my favorite obsessions for hours, video essays is like finally having that friend even if I'm the one listening

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't know, I just want something to make work go by. I'll be like "I'm interested in resident evil 7 at the moment" and watch anything that looks interesting, but now I'm getting algorithmed into this type of shit.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    So are zoomers low attention span spazs, or do they enjoy multi-hour videos about a single topic? You can't be both of these things.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    When I really like a game, and I've played it many times and I'm invested in the lore and learning all the secrets and theories, I love watching lengthy videos discussing the game and of course longplays. Keeps me immersed. I watch while eating dinner.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I love something so I like watching subhumans wipe their ass with it for money

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Please post some, I feel like I've ran out of youtube videos to watch

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    More entertaining than the slog of mobile-inspired nuGames

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    because its something interesting to do with the skillset they've been taught in high school and college

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I watched all of this at work lel

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Is it worth watching even as a background noise?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's a bit drawn out and meandering but OK

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because they're stupid and they're too scared to form their own opinions.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i'm not young
    i'm 28

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's pretty young, I'm closing in on 40.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Mfw 29
      >Want to have children
      >Financially fricked
      >By the time I'm stable women around my age have a high chance of having potato kids
      >It's taboo to date someone 5 years younger than you at this point
      I fricking hate this world.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Taboo
        Don't do online dating and move somewhere that isn't a lib shit hole. My bro just married a girl 9 years his junior and no one gives a shit

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Most of the people I dated were from Tinder and OkCupid back when I was in Cali and Texas, but considering where I live now it's dead as frick and the majority of people here are rednecks.

          >>It's taboo to date someone 5 years younger than you at this point
          Literally no one cares.
          My plan is to find a 25-27 yo once I'm in my mid 30s

          Women in their 30s have a 40% chance of birthing potatoes anon, that seems dangerously close.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Get you a redneck b***h

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I am not cleaning up after that, frick that.
              I have a roommate who keeps buying food and leaving it in the fridge for months. We just threw out two to-go boxes that were 2 months old and 3 whole rotisserie chickens that were a month old. He buys raw chicken and throws it in the fridge, not the freezer, and just leaves it there.
              I think there's a filipino community around here though.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >>It's taboo to date someone 5 years younger than you at this point
        Literally no one cares.
        My plan is to find a 25-27 yo once I'm in my mid 30s

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        lmao when I was in Romania for vacation, I found out how common it was for 20yo girls to be in relationships with 40+yo men

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    My personal pet peeve is when something is labelled as a review and they just tell you the plot for 9 out of 10 minutes. That's an overview, not a review. Give me some insight or a reaction at least. If I wanted a synopsis I would have searched for one.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      When Omori came out it was fricking horrible for this, all the big 'theory' YouTubers skipped it and it didn't hit the same audience that makes super in-depth analysis, so all you had left were ESL's and 12 yo's restating the plot dramatically

      I legitimately believe I have more in-depth thoughts about the game than any essay on youtube because all I did was replay it and make some basic connections

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >these people watch short-form videos!
    >grrrr today's youth has no ATTENTION SPAN anymore!
    >these people watch long-form videos!
    >grrr today's youth is MENTALLY DEGENERATE AND NEEDS BACKGROUND NOISE!
    What's an accepted video length? 9:59 like in the good old days?
    Signed, 33 year old fossil who watches whatever he fricking wants

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      10 minutes is a pretty good time. Unless you're showing off the ENTIRE GAME, you really shouldn't need more.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      ABSOLUTELY FRICKING NONE Black person FILTH

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Stop talking about yourself homosexual.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Again, it's like radio with bonus images compared to a podcast, i don't think anyone is supposed to sit like this and watch the video and your eventual boredom is your fault for doing so.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Official Video Essay tier list
    > Actually good tier
    MrBtongue, Matthewmatosis
    > Okay tier
    Raycevick, Ross Game Dungeon, Mandalore, Gemsbok, Ludo Lense
    > Tolerable tier
    Extra Punctuation, Examined Life of gaming, Nakey Jakey, Superbunnyhop,
    > Meh tier
    Gamingbrit, Tehsnakerer, Shillup, Face Full of Eyes, Turbo Button, Indigo gaming, Mauler, Running Shine
    > Bad tier
    Hamster Anderson, Boulder Punch, Chris Davis, Gmanlives, Ahoy, Warlockracy, King K, Nerrel,
    > Shit tier
    Neverknowsbest, Salt Factory, HBomberGuy, Critical Nobody, Aesiraesthetics, Max Derrat, ThorHighHeels, Errant Signal, PatricianTV
    > Abyss tier
    Games as Literature, Writing on Games, Gamemakers Toolkit, Jacob Geller, Grimbeard, Downward Thrust, Luke Stephens
    > The Nadir
    Noah Caldwell-Gervais, Whitelight, Action Button

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Official Video Essay Tier list
      >Good
      Nobody
      >Bad
      All of them
      >Secret God Tier
      Playing the game yourself and forming your own opinion.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        cringe

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Official Video Essay tier list
      >Actually good tier
      Ross
      >Tolerable tier
      Tim Rogers
      The rest can go get fricked

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I like DoshDoshington too. He mostly does Factorio videos but he's dipped his toes into video essays on a couple of games.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What's wrong with GMT?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        surface level takes
        commiefornia brainworm
        "Gamemakers Toolkit", never made a game

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Running shine makes me lawl
      Mangalore is a Black person tho

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      > Tolerable tier
      >Extra Punctuation

      Opinion discarded

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I just like seeing the mechanics of games I've played broken down into the little tiny details.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Video essay
      >Mario 64
      >useless small details are interesting
      Autistic?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Probably.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Don't forget to enable double play speed on the videos. That way your 3 hour video only becomes one and a half, giving you more time to watch other videos.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Why are young gamers so attracted to long vidya essays?
    Only way they can get lectures from a man.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >from a man
      Debatable.

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Any gamer who is not a zoomer would have been glued to the TV if these "video essays" had been around during the cable/satellite/pre-YouTube era.
    Every single person who grew up with high-speed internet access needs to be forced to live without internet for a year so they can be grateful for what they have.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    My background noise is Cum Town

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You guys are right I should just sit in total silence during my drives and at work, that would be so keyed or whatever the frick
    Frick you Black folk im going to listen to a 21 hour berserk video now

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    For me, it's Budget Museum:

    I really like how in-depth he gets with phylogeny in videos covering long time spans.

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i watch long video essays while getting high and playing star wars: the old republic

    and i have a good time

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw I have to listen to those videos during work because I have no time/energy to actually play them after work
    It shouldn't be that way, but it can't be helped.

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    21 hour Berserk analysis, lasts me for a week or two whenever I need something.

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    idk I like NeverKnowsBest, Joseph Anderson, Noah Caldwell Gervais, and Matthewmatosis

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I just watch them in bed, good way to fall asleep.

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It is basically just a podcast with some pictures.

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    something about short videos makes me brain rot, I went through 5 minutes of youtube shorts and I couldn't tell you what I watched

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Fricking this it has to be some hypnotoad bullshit with how worthless it all is but how hard it is to stop once you start scrolling

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Short videos mean picking something new to watch every five minutes. Three hour essays mean background noise for hours.

    I need to pretend to work for nine hours a day, I can't pick a new video every few minutes.

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >not watching a 3 hour long vidya essay while also keeping a non-stop stream of tik tok compilations on your second monitor
    Bro, do you even zoomzoom?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I thank god about once a week that I don't.

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Youtube literally buries your video if it is short.
    Nobody ACTUALLY likes these boring fricking 4 hour videos but youtube conditions people into habitually watching them because it's better for ads.
    As seen by the fact any video that gets organic traffic outside of youtube the shit people actually want to watch is short, and why youtube is desperately trying to transition into a tiktok clone.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Youtube literally buries your video if it is short.
      It's the complete opposite moron
      they bumped the algorithm for shorts and because of that everyone is doing them, including making channels exclusive with cuts from podcasts

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    At least it's better than short videos. Flipping from short clip to short clip for hours is destroying children's attention spans (tiktok, youtube shorts, etc)
    Consider it a blessing that they can still focus on any single thing for a few hours

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >He thinks people are paying attention to 5 hour analysis videos
      lmao

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >I can't do it therefore nobody can

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yes just because you can't imagine people not actually paying attention to a boring ass 5 hour bloated wiki summary doesn't mean nobody can

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    friend surrogates

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I tried/am trying to make one but I hate the sound of my voice, playing the game is easy enough, writing the script is also not very hard but I hate my voice so much

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >so attracted
    Why do you think young people are watching video essays?

  50. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    let’s them pretend they have an informed opinion about something they have no experience with

  51. 1 year ago
    saucy

    because they have better production values, effort put into them, and content in general. some of them fully dangerously close to being commentary videos, which is fine. nevar forget this is the same fricking board that defends 8 hour long lets plays broken into 50 different parts on youtube, commentators like MisterMetokur, and those shit angry reviewer videos that have zero talent or wit about them.

  52. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

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  53. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >boot up diablo 2
    >youtube on other monitor
    >watch all of Ross's Game Dungeon for the umpteenth time while doing baalruns
    comfy at its comfiest

  54. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >not listening to 6 hour long Dan Carlin episodes about Darius the Great while playing Stardew Valley and making fish ponds for fun and aesthetics over profit
    N
    G
    M
    I

  55. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I like watching ones about games I had never heard of before seeing the video. A lot of those games end up only being enjoyable in the context of watching some other dude suffer through them anyways, you can get fricked if you think I want to play through half of the shit people like Ross play for their channels.

  56. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    90% of the hour long video essay shits could be 20 minutes if there was any editing, and the author spoke like an actual human being

  57. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >youtuber has animated mascot
    just makes me cringe for some reason thinking that someone drew some furry c**t in various poses and expressions

  58. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  59. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >blah blah blah Alek Strauss blah
    >god I hope I didn't BUTCHER and MURDER this foreign name haha, you know how I am guyzzze sorry gomenasai OH NO HERE I GO AGAIN, I'M BUTCHERING THIS ASIAN WORD SO MUCH I CAN ALMOST HEAR IT BARK
    >repeat 10 times in the video

  60. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I wonder how many morons here are 27 and think they aren't zoomers.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm 25 anon, been here since 2016 I'm practically a boomer

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Factually you are not even a millennial however.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          spiritually I am 40yrs old

  61. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    My main problem with video essays is that they are just terrible at making points so they just vomit words until they reach like 2 or 3 hours. You don't need that much time to explain why BingBingWahoo 4 is a good or bad

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