• @[email protected]
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    -207 months ago

    ‘video essay’ is such a cringe attempt at re-branding. You’re too lazy to fucking read and won’t consume any content unless it’s effortless and entertaining.

    • @[email protected]
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      127 months ago

      You’re too lazy to fucking read

      Incorrect.

      won’t consume any content unless it’s effortless and entertaining.

      Correct. I’m trying to enjoy my leisure time, not write a thesis paper.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      37 months ago

      You’re right. I should listen to audiobooks instead.

    • @lugal
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      27 months ago

      Some people don’t real all the books in the sources?

    • @psud
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      17 months ago

      I call a class of video video essays, and I think the term has value. Those videos have the form of an essay, they follow an essay structure. Lindsay Ellis makes video essays

      That’s different to a video lecture, which is a much more common type. A video lecture tries to teach you something. Lindybeige, and Astrographics and many others do lectures

      Then there are a dozen other genres. I think it’s the lectures that get long.

    • K0W4L5K1
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      7 months ago

      I watches a four and half hour video on string theory I can tell you it was not effortless. it was entertaining but holy fuck I had to stop a few times to even wrap my head around some concepts