Watching video essays about downfalls of youtubers you’ve never heard about is like the Gen-Z equivalent of mindlessly tuning into soap operas 200 episodes deep without seeing any previous ones

@Kango234

5 ай бұрын

This is the most accurate comment on youtube.

@realdragon

5 ай бұрын

Sometimes I just like to listen to random dramas in communities I didn't know exist before, the names are dropped like we know exactly who these people are. My favourite find so far is knitting dramma

@NikoPeludo

5 ай бұрын

@@realdragonknitting dramas? What’s that?

@Ydubber777

5 ай бұрын

downfall of ManCarryingThing coming soon from SunnyV2

@Balsiefen

5 ай бұрын

I prefer Hbomberguy's chad _causing_ the downfall of youtubers I've never heard about.

Gen Z either watches 4 hours of 10 second tiktoks or a 4 hour analysis on a 22 minute episode of a cartoon they've never watched with no in between

@mommalion7028

5 ай бұрын

Omg getting Gen z to watch an episode of anything is like pulling goddamn teeth 😂

@Slipstream317

5 ай бұрын

as someone in the latter category, yes

@lordtette

5 ай бұрын

​@@mommalion7028 what are you trying to get them to watch?

@user-i9z

5 ай бұрын

@@mommalion7028 I have a friend who straight up doesn't watch TV or movies or read books. Strictly doesn't like long-form media. Super frustrating when he complains about not seeing certain themes or whatever explored in media but it's like, JUST LISTEN TO MY RECOMMENDATIONS! I AM HANDING IT TO YOU ON A SILVER PLATTER! but he just refuses because it's long-form. I understand just having preferences, but you have got to have more reasons for limiting yourself like that other than "I don't like change"

@Some_Siren

5 ай бұрын

Hey don’t attack me like that

Gen X essays be like: "Here's 40 minutes of gruesome details about the real murder of this real child, spaced out in between silly ads for men's shaving kits"

@karlkarlos3545

5 ай бұрын

Gen X: Red Letter Media Milenial: Drawfee GenZ: Not knowing what lapell mics are for.

@luigiwiiUU

5 ай бұрын

​@@karlkarlos3545RLM is really that old?

@-Eternal-Damnation-

5 ай бұрын

Which ones Gen X again? I can't keep up. Im starting to feel old now 🙁

@darkswabber2

5 ай бұрын

@@-Eternal-Damnation-the parents of late millennials and early gen Z.

@-Eternal-Damnation-

5 ай бұрын

@@darkswabber2 thank you kind sir

Plankton farts and dies: A Retrospective (4:26:02)

@atoucangirl

5 ай бұрын

"so it turns out that Plankton was actually plagiarized from a youtuber by the name of Man Carrying Thing, being originally named Frankson. when confronted, the creators of Spongebob deleted every trace of the ripoff and reposted the episodes, but with a replacement name: Plankton."

@ErrorNumber404

5 ай бұрын

@@atoucangirlbut we need to ask the question: what does that mean?

@YourCapyBruv_do_u_rmbr_3Dpipes

5 ай бұрын

@@atoucangirl I ALWAYS KNEW THEY STOLE HIM! Let's hope MCT sues for IP theft

@Just-a-Metalhead

5 ай бұрын

Part one: “Adolf Hitler and the Teletubbies: is there a connection?”

@gl0ry07

5 ай бұрын

Pinkerton ⁉️ Weezer reference ??

GenZ's overt use of vine booms is just a clever editing trick to disguise the sounds of his landlord nailing an eviction notice on the door

@CidGuerreiro1234

5 ай бұрын

Come on now, no Zoomer has ever left their parents' house.

@elise205

5 ай бұрын

​@@CidGuerreiro1234 in this economy? Pfft, no chance! Although speaking fr, I'm desperately trying to get the funds to flee the UK and move to Ireland before being trans is illegal here. Rent prices are ridiculous. I get why we all live with family.

@bone6495

5 ай бұрын

@@elise205 What do you mean being trans will be illegal in the UK?

@elise205

5 ай бұрын

@@bone6495 government hates us, every major political party in England has either said they want to take steps to essentially ban us from public spaces or turn a blind eye to politicians who want to do that, whilst also illegally blocking the Scottish government from protecting trans rights. They're restricting access to life-saving medicines even further (and it's already notoriously restricted to the point of violating the UN human rights act and is bordering on the legal definition of genocide). The UK is, according to several human rights organisations including but not limited to the EU and UN human rights watchdogs, a serious area of concern regarding queer rights, especially trans rights - considered to be as concerning as countries like Poland, Russia and Hungary. Torture against trans children to force them back into the closet is legally protected here, when it should obviously be banned. The only two parties likely to win the next general election are both openly and violently transphobic, and both have promised to ban us from public bathrooms following the GE. Shit's really dangerous here, I risk getting killed every time I step outside - that sounds like paranoia, but it's the unfortunate reality of being trans in the UK nowadays. There's a reason it's been nicknamed "TERF Island"

@zano4140

5 ай бұрын

@@bone6495it’s unlikely. But a banning transitioning, or making GAS impossible to access for the average person without waiting a decade? Plausible and real, respectively. Furthermore, the Trans community is the new scapegoat, just behind immigrants. The equality act 2010 is - I think - the only codified protection, and it’s been under attack ever since its inception. I’d recommend Philosophy Tubes Video on the matter of transitioning in Britain if you want to know more.

The millennial part is missing the host having a bunch of unnecessary physical paper for some reason

@tellmeimpretty7462

5 ай бұрын

johnny harris?

@camelopardalis84

5 ай бұрын

@@tellmeimpretty7462 It must be Johnny Harris.

@karlkarlos3545

5 ай бұрын

Nope, that whould be GenX.

@camelopardalis84

5 ай бұрын

@@karlkarlos3545 Johnny Harris is not Gen X. Or are you saying that the unnecessary physical paper is Gen X?

@karlkarlos3545

5 ай бұрын

@@camelopardalis84 my response was to the original comment.

I’m upset that I know both these essays and enjoyed both of them.

@fudgen.a1249

5 ай бұрын

Don’t worry mate, I do too.

@wolfwhitman1961

5 ай бұрын

which ones?

@hayk3000

5 ай бұрын

you enjoy CIA Harris? *bruh*

@ianjackson9852

5 ай бұрын

These sound like generic essay templates but if they’re actually based on two specific ones I’d love a link to em

@welcome2wyzard

5 ай бұрын

Johnny Harris and Pinely

I dread to imagine what a Generation Alpha video essay looks like.

@marshallgrey2159

5 ай бұрын

Same gen-z shit, but in vr

@TSZatoichi

5 ай бұрын

Nonononononononononono.

@oreohunter7798

5 ай бұрын

“Today we will be discussing my favorite sponsors, all of which are sponsoring this video, and if one drops out, I will have to move again.”

@James-vw9yy

5 ай бұрын

I am not calling them that

@CharlieBrown20XD6

5 ай бұрын

"Money. Gimme money. I need money dude. Gimme. Gimme gimme gimme"

The CIA released crack into inner city Bikini Bottom.

@billbill6094

5 ай бұрын

Then blames it on the nemotodes while the Squilliam's of The Bottom popped the economic bubble, buddy.

@ReeseChown

5 ай бұрын

Crack Rock Bottom is the roughest town

@saccorhytus

5 ай бұрын

the drug wars of Bikini Bottom

@YourCapyBruv_do_u_rmbr_3Dpipes

5 ай бұрын

"then denied any involvement while they hoped its various marine residents would kill each other off through turf wars"

@kevinalamo4250

5 ай бұрын

Before 1982, Partick Star was a chemical engineer living in a sprawling, palatial estate mansion in the Great Barrier Reef with his beautiful wife and 3 children. Fast forward to '91, and he is slumming it in Bikini Bottom, unemployed, and living under a rock 🪨 --an allegory for the crack rocks that decimated his once vibrant, illustrious, existence. The CIA, in combination with Plankton, is systemically and methodically trying to exterminate all anthropomorphic sea critters, and no one seems to care... word at Krusty Krab is that tranq has begun to infiltrate Bikini Bottom... and Patrick hasn't been heard from for the past 72 hours.

But did they learn how to make a website using Skillshare????

@gocuk95

5 ай бұрын

no, but now i know that they shave their balls using Manscaped

@allegravet

5 ай бұрын

bruh that's Squarespace

@n0xure

5 ай бұрын

I don't usually do sponsorship deals but this weekly assortment of hotel soap bottles is something I actually use...

@JaxontheOkay

5 ай бұрын

@@allegravet skillshare is a learning site, you would learn how to make a site there probably

@Chachixo

5 ай бұрын

They didn’t need to because they have the sponsor of this week’s video, Squarespace, the all in one platform that *poof*

I can confirm the CIA did in fact kill the Fairly Odd Parents

@realdragon

5 ай бұрын

But they're not that bad after all

@DullEyes100

5 ай бұрын

Can confirm. Am fairly odd

@billbill6094

5 ай бұрын

_Dinkleburg_

@LuisSierra42

5 ай бұрын

Are you still alive?

@manboy4720

5 ай бұрын

and this is where i would keep all my confidential files... IF I HAD ANY!!

"These aren't just maps. These are images that display the geographical location of things that exist on Earth." Truly one of the most sentences of all time.

@RAFMnBgaming

5 ай бұрын

this isn't just a sentence, it's large.

@jingle1833

5 ай бұрын

I hate it when people do that😭

@manoknowfish

5 ай бұрын

I hate you😅

@FolkOutThere

Ай бұрын

Honestly this isnt for the teachers, it never was. I have a dark sadistic sarcasm screaming to escape & the page is the most diplomat place to do it 🥰

First part is straight up a Johnny Harris hit piece lol.

@barmanitan

5 ай бұрын

My immediate thought as well haha

@internetguy7319

5 ай бұрын

CIA being not so bad dead giveaway

@josearturo6169

5 ай бұрын

I was looking for this comment hahaha

@pacorka9943

5 ай бұрын

Lol yep

@DomRiccobene

5 ай бұрын

100%. The title of his channel in my head is “Millennial Discovers Things About the World”

Finally someone is taking the Pacino-to-Elmo pipeline seriously!

@article10

5 ай бұрын

Al walked so Elmo can run

@joramun_2744

5 ай бұрын

It's not Al anymore, it's Elmo!

@redlightmax

5 ай бұрын

0:25 Pacilmo.™️

@coriander_sun

5 ай бұрын

Maybe the real little friend you should say hello to was Elmo all along

@ihatethatyoutubedisplaysyo8106

5 ай бұрын

​@@joramun_2744i thought it was dunk... dunkachino

My favourite thing about that Fairly Oddparents line is that it implies that it is already common knowledge that the CIA killed the Fairly Oddparents, its just that they don't know how they managed to do it.

@icephoenix2470

5 ай бұрын

like greg heffley being a clinical psychopath!

@blueninjakick5387

5 ай бұрын

Reminds me of conspiracy theorists like 7 layers deep being like "Everyone knows the Mario Bros faked the Mars landing, but where did they get the money?"

@theharshtruthoutthere

5 ай бұрын

@@blueninjakick5387 An easy search: BIBLE + FREEMASONRY, through which lies and truth becomes easy listed. So far i have listed 28 lies and 28 truth. Have you started to dig? What have you found? What do you know about masonry club? About the evil rulers of this world, masons, what you know about them? The 2 that rule this world, can you name these?

this video really opened my eyes (they were closed so i had to open them so i could see it)

@victuz

5 ай бұрын

Both literally and metaphorically.

"I bought this tiny clip-on mic so that I can hold it awkwardly with two fingers for the entirety of the video"

watching Lindsay Ellis’ diatribe on Iraq war protest music nodding to everything she says because she was 19 in 2003 VS watching Quinton Reviews’ fifth 8h analysis on Sam & Cat nodding to everything he says because he’s clinically insane

@chrissiep7363

5 ай бұрын

I'd never heard of Quinton Reviews until I saw your comment. As soon as I went back to my home page to look for things to watch, a Quinton Reviews 9 hour Sam & Cat video essay popped up in my recommended

@martineeniz9671

5 ай бұрын

​​@@chrissiep7363 9 hours?! I remember a 4 hour video about Victorious that I managed to watch until the second half but 9 FUCKING HOURS? Sam and Cat just doesn’t have a lore that deep girl

@avawetzel3408

5 ай бұрын

@@martineeniz9671 it's about so much more than Sam and Cat and i genuinely think his latest video is a masterpiece

@jkid1134

5 ай бұрын

​@@martineeniz9671it's on part 3/2 and we're expecting at least one more. of course it's sort of a spiritual successor to his other series,...

@twotruckslyrics

5 ай бұрын

man i love when people discover crazy video essays for the first time 😭

Holding the small microphone instead of attaching is one of my worst pet peeves about these video essays

@CiCodiCadno

5 ай бұрын

Tom Nicholas' video "Why KZreadrs Hold Microphones Now" is genuinely fascinating. I was initially incredulous at how he managed to milk a straight hour out of the subject, but it kept me hooked the entire time.

@Grinalbi

5 ай бұрын

God, same... I especially fucking HATE the popping that happens as a result of not using lav mics as intended or otherwise any mics being way too close to the mouth. There are so many video essays I straight up can't/won't watch because it's auditory murder (which sucks especially when the essay is something I'm genuinely interested in).

@mydadshowering2978

5 ай бұрын

​@@CiCodiCadnohigh-quality millennial video essay

@cloudycolacorp

5 ай бұрын

@@CiCodiCadno I tried to watch that video but the audio quality was so horrible i couldn’t understand it

@CiCodiCadno

5 ай бұрын

@@cloudycolacorp with respect, there was nothing egregious about the audio, so I don't know how you think that. Unless there's something wrong with the speakers of whatever device you're using to watch

i appreciate the unhinged, exhausted, and flippant tone of the gen z video essays

He never Gen Z's, the absolute Millennial!

@muffinadrianweber

5 ай бұрын

hes gen z but okay

@JamesLawner

5 ай бұрын

@@muffinadrianweberHe looks too Millennial to be Gen-Z 😂

@peter19426

5 ай бұрын

@@JamesLawnersome gen z were born in the 90s

@sentel140

5 ай бұрын

are you having a stroke?

@eneco3965

5 ай бұрын

@@peter19426 No

You just gonna bring up a bombshell of Al Pacino being connected to Elmo and not explain!?!?

@ManCarryingThing

5 ай бұрын

it would take at least 7 hours to explain

@kenswords

5 ай бұрын

@@ManCarryingThing That's not a problem, plus you already have the intro. Start the script.

@Slick_Tails

5 ай бұрын

Elmo is his little friend.

@Murderbits

5 ай бұрын

I fucking hate myself that I read that as Artificial Intelligence Pacino.

@botanivich

5 ай бұрын

@@Murderbits 😂😂😂

Johnny Harris vs CJ the X

@adalynnj

5 ай бұрын

The first thing I thought of for Gen Z was CJ the X, I love their videos sm. Perfectly encompasses what is shown in the video too, lol.

@hambor12

5 ай бұрын

Sarah Z(ed) falls smack dab in the middle stylistically

@Stormthorn67

5 ай бұрын

​@@hambor12 The balance.

@Emma__O

5 ай бұрын

@@hambor12 Is she a cusper?

Can’t believe Man Carrying Thing is the first Generation Beta essay KZreadr

@TheRealLegoDocOck

5 ай бұрын

Gen Beta when Gen Complete walks in

@joosepher9435

5 ай бұрын

Gen complete when gen early access walks in

@Blu-Lab

5 ай бұрын

@@joosepher9435 Gen early access when Gen Paid DLC walks in

@yuantron3K

5 ай бұрын

Gen paid dlc when gen sequel walks in

@bombercbc9431

5 ай бұрын

Gen sequel when gen spinoff walks in

Nah you can’t diss Elmo like that 😭

@ManCarryingThing

5 ай бұрын

#teamlarrydavid

@weather_master708

5 ай бұрын

@@ManCarryingThing LOL 😂

@SanctumOfDreams

5 ай бұрын

Elmo is a cringing little milksop of a puppet

The more old I grow the more I notice some youtubers are extremely young and like... You go kid those people are going places. There was this random out of the blue hollow knight essay which was so jampacked with passion and hollow knight was a teen memory for the guy, how cool is that. Both styles are doing great!

@TheHopperUK

5 ай бұрын

@@namelessliberty9869 I'm 45 and the hilarious thing about getting older is how young everyone else gets. That's how it feels to you for some reason - not that you're older. You are the exact right age, and everybody else is for some reason now tiny babies.

@randomtinypotatocried

5 ай бұрын

⁠@@TheHopperUKI've been feeling that one now being in my thirties

Gen Alpha essays will be something 20 sec long, fast talking about why TikTok isn't what it used to be, while playing a game, and a video of something smooth being cut by a machine.

@electrorage4158

5 ай бұрын

Peter Griffin will also be dancing in the corner

@Weppi4

5 ай бұрын

only real ones remember musicly™ 😔✊

You forgot the will shopping channel music in the gen z essay.

1. The 2nd one is CJtheX but without the humor, insightful philosophical ramblings, and precarious glass of wine. 2. Hbomb is somehow both and neither of these. 3. I don't know who Johnny Harris is and I refuse to find out.

@damn_fiddle

5 ай бұрын

Well hbomb is definitely is millennial

@Rossy167

5 ай бұрын

Jokes aside Johnny Harris videos are actually great.

@mr.dirtydan3338

5 ай бұрын

​@@Rossy167some of them

@crazydragy4233

5 ай бұрын

​@@Rossy167 And some of them have misinformation 🫣

@Stormthorn67

5 ай бұрын

CJtheX was the first GenZ video essayist that came to mind for me. Followed by Biz Barclay.

as someone who watches an unhealthily large amount of video essays: yeah this is accurate

POV: You were in the middle of watching a daily dose of internet video when this notification popped up

@ManCarryingThing

5 ай бұрын

reflect on your decision making

@lordjack225pig2

5 ай бұрын

@@ManCarryingThingI was in the middle of watching this video and went to go watch the daily dose of internet video

@shapular

5 ай бұрын

I don't get notifications but I did come from the DDOI video.

@realdragon

5 ай бұрын

@@ManCarryingThing I did and I don't like it

@higztv1166

5 ай бұрын

eugh cringe

Choose your poison, unwatchable due to: Milly: being 5 hours of rambling Zoomie: a new visual or audio effect being placed every fifth of a second

@lexxypillz633

5 ай бұрын

I choose zoomie

@krishadyn5211

5 ай бұрын

​@@lexxypillz633Me, an old. Loses track of what CJ is talking about.

@VEE0034

5 ай бұрын

Neither

@doubleaabattery7562

5 ай бұрын

Both.

@josecarlosmoreno9731

5 ай бұрын

Just watch the millennial at 3x speed.

Not cynical enough for millennial and not seizure inducing enough for gen z.

@Wowowoi1

5 ай бұрын

Pyrochinical refrence😭😫

I was getting a bit anxious around 35 seconds when it was still the millenial essay. You somehow managed to wrap up both with 11 seconds to go. Absolutely masterful.

Honestly, I think CJ the X has nailed this Gen Z style of video essays. Their videos are extremely chaotic but weirdly some of the best video essay content on the platform.

@adalynnj

5 ай бұрын

PLEASE. When I first saw this video, they were the first thing I thought of.

@krishadyn5211

5 ай бұрын

They exhaust me just watching.

@suburbanweekend

5 ай бұрын

@@adalynnj Okay, now who did you think of when you saw the Millennial one because I thought of Nerdstalgic and every Vox video every.

@adalynnj

5 ай бұрын

@@suburbanweekend Yesssss

@totesrandomguy

5 ай бұрын

Yeah even if it's a really random or niche topics they manage to make it engaging through and through.

As a 27 year old I feel I'm in the middle of both generations and I'm proud of growing up with both Rugrats and Hannah Montana

@CharlieBrown20XD6

5 ай бұрын

I grew up right when HERE WE ARE NOW ENTERTAIN US was out and CAN YOU TAKE ME HIIIIGHER was in

@strudelh

5 ай бұрын

You are what ppl call a “Zillennial” 😭

@Zm4rf

5 ай бұрын

ya im 30 and i honestly don't know what "'90s kid" even means

@Kango234

5 ай бұрын

@@Zm4rf Same.

@thedapperdolphin1590

5 ай бұрын

29 year old, and kinda feel the same way. Half the people I went to college with would count as the earliest members of gen z and me and the other half would be the last millennials based on the somewhat arbitrary cutoff for that. I’m more of a 2000s’ kid culturally, but I still remember the end of the 90s’ and am aware of a lot of the culture from my older siblings. And I grew up with the early internet, but am old enough to remember when most people didn’t have it.

Don’t forget to add VHS filters over footage shot in 16:9

And yet somehow both of them would end up talking about how A Bug's Life is Soviet propaganda or something along the lines

somebody’s gonna have to make a video essay about this

@andrewhudson7108

5 ай бұрын

But in order to understand how this video essay about video essays came about, we first need to do an hour long dive into the history of capitalism and the Twentieth Century through Twenty First Century evolution of media.

But where are the Lost Generations video essays?

@thejusmar

5 ай бұрын

They lost em

@nikguimont8546

5 ай бұрын

That’s called npr

@LGrian

5 ай бұрын

Gen x and boomers aren’t really on YT cause they had OG history channel and radio still when they were coming up. The YT video essays that do exist from them follow the same model.

@Murderbits

5 ай бұрын

You realize if there were any of the lost generation still alive, they'd be between 124 and 141 years old, right?

@Murderbits

5 ай бұрын

You mean, the generation that created the web as we know it, the internet as we know it, and youtube?

he never pisses, the absolute detergent

“SpongeBob” -Man Carrying Things

Gen z is trying to not care, just like Gen X. Millennials actually are different.

its not a gen z commentary channel if the character doesn’t cross their arms

@animalcollectiveporn

5 ай бұрын

mr enter isnt gen z

@guyfauks2576

5 ай бұрын

@@animalcollectiveporn mr enter got no arms

As a millennial leftist, my brain can't process any of this information without bisexual lighting in the background

Johnny Harris shade is insane

@salsa83

5 ай бұрын

Johnny Harris = 🤡

_Has lots of desaturated B-Roll footage, copyright-free ominous music, long periods of dead silence from Narrator_ Why are you on KZread, Netflix needs to pick this up ASAP, it's better work than professional documentaries!

Ha, the lapel mic in the hand is spot on.

There was a discussion on Threads yesterday about people holding lav mics wrong which I feel like had to inspire this video. Lots of talk about "old heads gatekeeping" because people don't use lav mics correctly even though it sounds worse to hold them up to your face and looks silly and there are much better mics to hold if you want to hold something.

@mommalion7028

5 ай бұрын

Gen Z essays… I don’t actually know what they sound like because between the bad audio and no/low effort visuals and stoner rambly writing style I just can’t watch any of them 😂

@kenswords

5 ай бұрын

Wow, I didn't know people still used Threads. Anyways, as Gen Z, if I were to do a video essay, I would probably just live stream a PowerPoint or something tbh (I'm lazy)

@davidwuhrer6704

5 ай бұрын

What is Threads?

@kenswords

5 ай бұрын

@@davidwuhrer6704 A social media app, pretty similar to something like Twitter or Instagram. Mark Zuckerberg actually made Threads a few months ago as an alternative to Twitter after Elon Musk had bought it and started making changes to it. It had a lot of hype the week it was launched but there were a lot of issues with the app when it released, so a lot of users had left. I thought it had died out, but I did some research, and it looks like Threads currently has 130 million active users monthly, compared to Twitter having about 370 million. So yeah, it's popular, but since it was created this past October, it doesn't really have the same name recognition as Instagram and Snapchat, or at least not yet.

@spiffymarc

5 ай бұрын

I like that explaining how to properly use a piece of technology is gatekeeping. Like okay go off king it's not like I will be able to hear you

Hank Green vs John green right here

@veronicamcghie5238

5 ай бұрын

How dare. John Green isn't using a lapel mic, he's using a perfectly acceptable mic that just happens to have an 80ft cord

@Murderbits

5 ай бұрын

That's kind of like comparing a shit sandwich and a shit sandwich.

I just want to say, major props for absolutely nailing Johnny Harris' style. That was perfect parody, from the cadence to the minor details in the editing.

an accurate reflection and comparison of post new media video logging styles across generations

@CharlieBrown20XD6

5 ай бұрын

Yeah one actually gave a shit and now no one even edits out the sound issues

Millenial backgrounds: LOOK AT MY LITERATURE. OBSERVE HOW ERUDITE I AM. THAT'S HOW YOU KNOW I'M A VERY SERIOUS PERSON. Gen Z backgrounds: this is literally the one corner of my room that isn't covered in depression clutter.

glad I reloaded the page because I found this.

I watch both of these essays and I love both 😂

All I can ever see in all of your videos is the entire Dark Tower series in the background now that I've noticed it; they're just there, taunting me, as if saying "wow, you own all of these and you're only on Drawing of the Three and here you are, watching KZread." I can never escape--a constant reminder that despite all of the art in the world that I would enjoy, I scroll on this platform for hours just to fend off the ever-encroaching dread of my eventual death without expending any mental energy aside from that needed to move my eyes across the screen to look for the next video to watch. Anyways cool videos, 10/10 this one was dope c:

@rojachan

5 ай бұрын

I have read the series multiple times and to be fair... you don't gotta read them all. Like I genuinely love the dumb SK Dark Tower bullshit and its 100% influenced me as a person (one of the few series I read while in my first major depressive episode at 13ish, before it was even finished, that helped me through) but like... if you're not feeling the drive to read the rest just follow your heart. It's patently ridiculous and purposefully offputting and there's Some Stuff that doesn't hold up at all as well as a lot a lot of pure SK nonsense which I think sometimes you have to be in a very specific headspace for. I dunno, I'm just saying don't feel guilty, some Dark Tower fans may be judgy but fuck em. I'm always impressed if anyone gets through the first book and continues on to read even 1 more (I have read almost every SK book and am a fan of a lot of them, please don't get angry at me, youtube commenters I am imagining getting angry at me right now)

@thelegendofrosetyler

5 ай бұрын

@@rojachan I remember reading up to the stuff with Blaine and was surprised at how much wacky stuff was in these books. They are a pretty heavy read, with a lot of descriptions of the surroundings and the characters but didn't mind that much since it really helps flesh out the world. I got to about the fourth book I think, though I felt like 3/4 of the book was just pure backstory. It wasn't bad, and I was interested to know what happened to him in the past as well as why he is in the current position he is in, I just got bored.

He never gets killed by the CIA, the absolute legend!

augh, this is perfect. their obsession with spongebob and using him for politlcal gain is the funniest thing to come out of genz

Great video. The first part of your reminded me of Johnny Harris’ style of editing. 😊 cheers

It's very difficult to determine which sucks more. On one hand, millennials have never read anything other than Harry Potter. On the other hand, Zoomers have never read anything.

The bad thing about getting older is that you see younger and younger people talking about things that happened when you were a child. It's like... how much can this person from 2005 know of PC gaming in the 90s? The answer is it doesn't matter because all every video essayist do is look up the wikipedia.

@krishadyn5211

5 ай бұрын

When you were there in person but weren't paying that much attention and you're forgetting things so you have to look it up on Wikipedia too 😞

@doubleaabattery7562

5 ай бұрын

W a h

@Weppi4

5 ай бұрын

this is especially noticeable when you watch multiple essays about the same topic

Love the CIA reference with the Johnny Harrisesque guy, definitely on brand.

And I somehow slurp both types of videos up like spaghetti

Johnny CIA harris is not the only millennial essayist what the hell? 😂

Little known fact, SpongeBob works for State Farm. So he's like a good neighbor but not actually a good neighbor.

how are you so good at spotting those patterns, amazing

Wow I never thought of it that way before right now, great video essay.

The partial legend, he sometimes misses.

The "quirky" video essayist is fun but at the same time I genuinely prefer someone being purely factual regarding the topic of the video, I get distracted easily otherwise.

@godminnette2

5 ай бұрын

The first section is parodying someone who is sensationalized in a different way while also just getting heaps of information wrong.

@Jeff_Biden

5 ай бұрын

they arent quirky anymore theyre literally factory made atp

@chikari123

4 ай бұрын

I literally can’t look at a history video of the person isn’t greying hair wise I just refuse 😭

YOU EVEN GOT THE BAD EXPOSURE RIGHT

Love seeing the vlogbrothers Format in the wild

“And by the end of this video we will have learned exactly how many innocent dogs the ATF shoot per hour.”

The CIA didn’t kill the Fairly Odd Parents, they just transformed them into the MCW: Men Carrying Wands

gen Z video essayists grew up on youtube poops, millennial video essayists grew up on sitcoms and it shows. I still enjoy both types

i love that this video doesn't pose either format as better than the other, rather choosing to make fun of them both equally

@Murderbits

5 ай бұрын

It's because both tend to be shit, so there's not much useful comparison he *could* make.

you just forgot the millennial starting by adjusting the camera, then freezing for a second

Editing on iMovie truly is an art

genuinely i like that the gen z ones dont take themselves so overly serious and make it all dramatic lol

I enjoy the dramatic pause at the end.

MILLENIAL -- video essay as short as 30 minutes to as long as 90 minute essay on a topic with some related historical and social context. This is basically my thesis paper in video from GEN Z -- video essay as short as 90 mins and as along as 5 hours on a topic that no one cares about anymore and was popular before I was a teenager, but we need context, visual puns and memes so I can't make it any shorter sorry, I tried but I mean, nobody listens to my rants irl so I've gotta let it out somewhere right? GEN X video -- video essay as short as 5 mins to as long as 20 minutes on a given topic and context that is specifically curated to that topic b/c I was in school when they actually taught you how to write a concise essay.

@cattysplat

5 ай бұрын

GEN ALPHA -- Video essay entirely explained through the analogy of memes, with funny memes to keep you watching and random memes because.

@Ranstone

5 ай бұрын

Gen X detected.

@madelinebitts2766

5 ай бұрын

Hbomber guy, Quinton reviews, and Defunctland are all millenials, I can't think of a single gen zer who makes 5 hour long essays lmfao.

The millennial part is literally Johny Harris and I love it

The accuracy of this video is accurate.

Gen Z: Blues Clues, Bluey, and the Death of Media Literacy

Second video essay was fairly odd but good video anyways!

The millennial was not patronizingly smug enough to be realistic, trust me on this.

I'm one of those "edler millenials/baby gen x" and boy am I feeling it because I'm confused as hell here.

@radiskrem

5 ай бұрын

It's ok, I'm Gen Z, and I don't get it either

i’m obsessed with everything about this

Genz is just a more chaotic version of millennials. Change my mind

Wow another book review classic!

Why is this so incredibly accurate on both sides, especially with that Gen Z sound effect? Great job! 😆

i actually despise how accurate this is i may never be able to watch another video essay again-

false. there's no vhs player clicking at the start or poorly edited vhs filter

Second one is literally the average CJ the X video

One of my favorite yters right now is a Gen Zer who just straight up uses an old tube sock for a pop filter, and it's not even a thing. I love it

New Man Carrying Thing *and* Nerd Crew today? Have all our Christmases come at once?

truely art

As a fellow Gen-Z, I feel offended that Spongebob was shown and Patrick wasn't.

@devcrom3

5 ай бұрын

Patrick is a part of the woke agenda normalizing shirtlessness and effeminate shapes.

Brutally on point my guy :)

Going after CJ the X like that is bold.

I hate when humor makes me think about things deeply... Anyway watching this I realized that even though I'm straddling the generation gap, I fall more and more into appreciating the obvious high-effort infotainment on youtube than the hidden high effort/faux low effort (laux effort) "gen z" style... the "hold your lav mic in hand despite using a boom mic for the sound quality" type shit. Besides that all, it also speaks to the media we were raised on. the "Millenial" video essay style is very much based in cable TV style production-we all hate on it, but there are clear parallels to History/Discovery Channel editing styles, as well as some tropes you could have found on "lower-brow" channels like TruTV or A&E or VH1. Even the cultural references tend to be about non-internet memes and media Meanwhile, gen z really shows themselves as the first entirely online generation. The style is meant to mimic the authenticity of vlogging, the content is about memes, the gags/goofs/jokes/japes are just online memes from other popular social media platforms that have been spliced in. Anyway, neither of these styles are superior and both of them rarely are informative in a way that matters to me or my life. Just mindless fun that doesn't add anything more than the soup of memes that's already in my brain, but it *is* fun either way. Also culture is progressing faster than it ever has in history and the generation gap is no longer actually a thing, since you can just immediately look up the cultural references of people who don't share your background. It's just a tool mainstream media uses to divide and isolate us under the guise of providing a rigid identity for your ever changing sense of self to grasp onto. Don't fuel the generational war, people being awful people has nothing to do with their age nor cultural background. Love you all. Like, comment and dubstep if you like this comment and would like to see more great comments like it. Comments made possible by today's sponsor: sludgebox. If you, like me, are feeling left out of the mental sewage stream that is pop culture, then you need a Sludgebox subscription. Every month a new box arrives at your door containing great media and toys based on pop cultural phenomenon (but legally distinct) so you can know just enough to be relevant in the watercooler conversation. To get your own Sludgebox subscription, head on over to sludgebox.com/GreatOpinions. The neat thing I love about Sludgebox is how all the cultural detritus that won't be relevant in 3 years once everyone has moved on is how every individual piece is actually a mashup of 10 o 12 different memes/tv shows/books/and social media posts. Like this playset of Spongenberg Cooking Rizz with his bff TikTok Starr. If you'd like your own framed copy of "Twitter Anti-microceleb heckling in an unintentionally humorous way" make sure to get your own subscription toSludgebox. Once again that's Sludgebox.com/GoodComments. Thanks for watching.