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Youtube personalities - some notes
Mar. 2nd, 2021 11:12 pmContrapoints and Lindsay Ellis are great. They make long ass videos about social justice issues with some film criticism thrown in and I can watch them from beginning to end without pause. Except for the Game of Thrones one. I get it. Everyone (but me) hates how Game of Thrones ended. I don't need Lindsay Ellis explaining it in the context of Robert Moses. However, I can't really stay subscribed to Storied, Ellis' PBS show because even though Ellis is still ok in small doses, she's not nearly as entertaining. Those videos are too slick and polished.
Also she followed up a video on Stephen King (fairly insightful) with a video on Anne Rice (FUCK YOU).
And I know that this is because she's friends with Maven of the Eventide - whose name I should know. Hell, I was on a panel with her at Convergence. And I like Maven. Hell, she even mentioned my book on her show. But as much as I like Maven as a person, I find her youtube channel rather annoying for two major reasons. First, she's way too enamored with Anne Rice. It's a vampire channel so that should be expected. I would argue that it's worse because of all the vampire media in the world, she had to focus on fucking Anne Rice. Woman only wrote one decent book and two kind of ok books in her life. It's almost as bad as the channel Comics Explained where he doesn't explain comics so much as gives recaps of old stories. Actually the equivalent would be a channel on Comic Books that PRIMARILY talks about the X-Men, the 90s run.
The second reason is that damn voice she uses. She talks normal in real life. In the videos she uses Sexy Baby trying to sound Spooky voice.
Moving on to other former Channel Awesome producers, there's Folding Ideas. At one point I liked Folding Ideas. Actually most of these entries are things I once liked. Folding Ideas rarely comes up in the algorithm anymore but when he does it's always a fucking miserable time. Granted, the last time I watched him he was doing a voiceover concerning the movie Contagion with the main picture being him on a couch.
But the thing is that they are always like that. He's always looking just fucking miserable in front of a white screen. Sometimes he's drinking and I don't think it's one of those affected "oh look at me, I'm doing the fun drinking schtick". No it's that total alcoholic composing a suicide note in his head drinking. The one time he seemed ok was when he did a post-movie response to THe Book of Henry where he just jabbered about all the WTF moments in that movie. Then he went and did a serious video on the movie. And it was fucking brutal.
Seriously, insights about how that one scene in Rent is confusing because it seems to make Roger the Bad Guy for not wanting to do heroin are so not worth the effort of watching Folding Ideas being miserable.
Patrick H Williams is like Folding Ideas without the didactic bullshit. The one issue with Patrick is the fact that he's too in love with the skits. I think that he is sad because he was never in Channel Awesome so he didn't have to do those fucking skits that you sometimes see in Channel Awesome producers if you go back far enough.
Speaking of annoying, Musical Hell finally made me realize why I hate the channel. It's basically CinemaSins but for musicals. That isn't just the way that the narrator goes "Sin 1: the Opening Number" but there's a lack of insight into the musicals she's talking about. She complained about a Canon movie "Mack the Knife" (Three Penny Opera adaptation on the cheap) starting with a version of the song that isn't peppy like Bobby Darin, as if she doesn't know that the fucking song is supposed to be grim and nasty because it's Kurt Weil. For the most part, the rest of her criticisms are often just "well that's weird" or "well ok then" as if that's all she needs to say.
I like Kurt Smallwood because he refuses to do sponsorships in the normal youtube way. In fact, he mocks the hell out of the usual sponsors, including Audible and SurfShark. I appreciate that a great deal. I like other channels, but I'm really not enamored with these youtube content creators like Dominic Noble or Ryan Hollinger stopping to do a 1950s television type sponsorship.
Especially bothered with the fact that Ryan Hollinger keeps taking money from "Manscaping". I come to the channel to see a Scottish dude talk about the themes of horror movies. I don't want him to turn around and tell me to shave my balls.
There are others but those are the ones I'm thinking about at the moment.
Of course, there are others. This fucking Covid-19 Pandemic has stuck us all inside watching television for an entire year now. I think we all have about 30 more youtube channels on our subscription list than before (and at least a dozen that we took off). Hell, those React channels have become the only way to come close to hanging out with friends and watching shows.
Also she followed up a video on Stephen King (fairly insightful) with a video on Anne Rice (FUCK YOU).
And I know that this is because she's friends with Maven of the Eventide - whose name I should know. Hell, I was on a panel with her at Convergence. And I like Maven. Hell, she even mentioned my book on her show. But as much as I like Maven as a person, I find her youtube channel rather annoying for two major reasons. First, she's way too enamored with Anne Rice. It's a vampire channel so that should be expected. I would argue that it's worse because of all the vampire media in the world, she had to focus on fucking Anne Rice. Woman only wrote one decent book and two kind of ok books in her life. It's almost as bad as the channel Comics Explained where he doesn't explain comics so much as gives recaps of old stories. Actually the equivalent would be a channel on Comic Books that PRIMARILY talks about the X-Men, the 90s run.
The second reason is that damn voice she uses. She talks normal in real life. In the videos she uses Sexy Baby trying to sound Spooky voice.
Moving on to other former Channel Awesome producers, there's Folding Ideas. At one point I liked Folding Ideas. Actually most of these entries are things I once liked. Folding Ideas rarely comes up in the algorithm anymore but when he does it's always a fucking miserable time. Granted, the last time I watched him he was doing a voiceover concerning the movie Contagion with the main picture being him on a couch.
But the thing is that they are always like that. He's always looking just fucking miserable in front of a white screen. Sometimes he's drinking and I don't think it's one of those affected "oh look at me, I'm doing the fun drinking schtick". No it's that total alcoholic composing a suicide note in his head drinking. The one time he seemed ok was when he did a post-movie response to THe Book of Henry where he just jabbered about all the WTF moments in that movie. Then he went and did a serious video on the movie. And it was fucking brutal.
Seriously, insights about how that one scene in Rent is confusing because it seems to make Roger the Bad Guy for not wanting to do heroin are so not worth the effort of watching Folding Ideas being miserable.
Patrick H Williams is like Folding Ideas without the didactic bullshit. The one issue with Patrick is the fact that he's too in love with the skits. I think that he is sad because he was never in Channel Awesome so he didn't have to do those fucking skits that you sometimes see in Channel Awesome producers if you go back far enough.
Speaking of annoying, Musical Hell finally made me realize why I hate the channel. It's basically CinemaSins but for musicals. That isn't just the way that the narrator goes "Sin 1: the Opening Number" but there's a lack of insight into the musicals she's talking about. She complained about a Canon movie "Mack the Knife" (Three Penny Opera adaptation on the cheap) starting with a version of the song that isn't peppy like Bobby Darin, as if she doesn't know that the fucking song is supposed to be grim and nasty because it's Kurt Weil. For the most part, the rest of her criticisms are often just "well that's weird" or "well ok then" as if that's all she needs to say.
I like Kurt Smallwood because he refuses to do sponsorships in the normal youtube way. In fact, he mocks the hell out of the usual sponsors, including Audible and SurfShark. I appreciate that a great deal. I like other channels, but I'm really not enamored with these youtube content creators like Dominic Noble or Ryan Hollinger stopping to do a 1950s television type sponsorship.
Especially bothered with the fact that Ryan Hollinger keeps taking money from "Manscaping". I come to the channel to see a Scottish dude talk about the themes of horror movies. I don't want him to turn around and tell me to shave my balls.
There are others but those are the ones I'm thinking about at the moment.
Of course, there are others. This fucking Covid-19 Pandemic has stuck us all inside watching television for an entire year now. I think we all have about 30 more youtube channels on our subscription list than before (and at least a dozen that we took off). Hell, those React channels have become the only way to come close to hanging out with friends and watching shows.
