I honestly don't get the appeal of extended Youtube videos. Even philosophytube, which is at least interesting and entertaining, is difficult to just sit through. Like I enjoy podcasts since they can sort of keep my mind occupied during menial tasks, but I don't get the point of sitting through video essays which presumably need your full attention.
I think it's the way YouTube videos are edited. Podcasts are just a continuous thing for the most part, where YouTube videos have those weird quick cuts. I'm pretty sure those quick cuts help keep you focused on the video, but at the same time might harm recollection in the way walking through a door makes you forget why you decided to go into the other room.
Why make it a video then? Every video essayists has yet to figure out the medium they are working on. All the visuals in a video essay are completely superfluous.
I honestly don’t get the appeal of extended Youtube videos.
While I like quite a few of the people listed up there, I do think that they sometimes want to stroke their egos by making more "prestigious content".
For example, I don't see somebody watching Shaun's two hours and 20 minutes video about the atomic bombings of Japan, unless they already agreed with it.
Sometimes, I feel like a lot of Breadtube is like the wise council you see in a sci-fi movie. They (the council) just spend their time discussing trivial topics and end up missing whatever the major conflict is, causing them to get killed.
Really? They're just making content about what's interesting to them, they don't claim to be doing a revolution with it. And yeah, those videos are mainly watched by people who already have leftist views, but may not know much about a certain topic. I didn't know a lot about the bombings but I watch Shaun whenever he posts something. So he might not have converted me to the left but he educated me a bit.
I honestly don't get the appeal of extended Youtube videos. Even philosophytube, which is at least interesting and entertaining, is difficult to just sit through. Like I enjoy podcasts since they can sort of keep my mind occupied during menial tasks, but I don't get the point of sitting through video essays which presumably need your full attention.
I feel like I learn more from an engaging and interesting video than I do from a podcast but thats just me.
I think it's the way YouTube videos are edited. Podcasts are just a continuous thing for the most part, where YouTube videos have those weird quick cuts. I'm pretty sure those quick cuts help keep you focused on the video, but at the same time might harm recollection in the way walking through a door makes you forget why you decided to go into the other room.
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Why make it a video then? Every video essayists has yet to figure out the medium they are working on. All the visuals in a video essay are completely superfluous.
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While I like quite a few of the people listed up there, I do think that they sometimes want to stroke their egos by making more "prestigious content".
For example, I don't see somebody watching Shaun's two hours and 20 minutes video about the atomic bombings of Japan, unless they already agreed with it.
Sometimes, I feel like a lot of Breadtube is like the wise council you see in a sci-fi movie. They (the council) just spend their time discussing trivial topics and end up missing whatever the major conflict is, causing them to get killed.
Really? They're just making content about what's interesting to them, they don't claim to be doing a revolution with it. And yeah, those videos are mainly watched by people who already have leftist views, but may not know much about a certain topic. I didn't know a lot about the bombings but I watch Shaun whenever he posts something. So he might not have converted me to the left but he educated me a bit.
You can do a lot of things while watching, play a game or sth. It can just be in the background.