#gen z video essay

[metalcatholic]

watching a video essay on of many shitty dystopian YA series that came out in the 2010s and the creator responds to the fact this dystopian society has its mentally ill and disabled at the fringes of society with what seems like a “how dare the author include this. It’s wrong to treat the mentally ill and disabled as outcasts” sort of attitude. And she informs the listener that there’s “no time to unpack that”.

Is this supposed to be a take? You are surprised that the evil dystopian society is evil and dystopian?

This shouldn’t need unpacking, there’s nothing to unpack. This bit of world building is the equivalent of taking just your wallet, phone, and keys on a transatlantic flight. Dystopian 101 literally.

[iohannesrhetor]

I have made a 30 minute video-- it is 20 minutes of lecture and 10 minutes of essay on the semantic evolution of the word "wholesome" in the last ten years.

I had a lot of fun making it. I hope you enjoy.

Please pardon the excessively link-baity thumbnail.

[acuar-io]

Millennials are annoying because they think because they’re old they are entitled to your childhood nostalgia bc “they watched/did that stuff” first. We do not hate u because ur old we hate u because y’all are annoying asf

[saintfrancesworld]

Video Essays I Appreciate:

• Influencers are a Plague

• MAKEUP & MISFORTUNE: Elizabeth Short | The Black Dahlia

• Candace Owens REACTS to Eugenia Cooney

• The Sickening Impact of Social Media

• The Islamic Roots of Hamas (w/ David Wood)

• The Real Life Blip

• GEN Z IS THE MOST MISERABLE GENERATION EVER. HERE’S WHY.

(Note: Even if you don’t agree with everything said in these videos, or perhaps the angle the essayist takes, I would just say that these are really fleshed out arguments. I also personally found these videos fascinating. If you disagree, that’s fine! That’s great! But if you you are going to be angry or hateful toward any point of view, perhaps you should first strengthen your position. Emotions aren’t intellectually superior: Don’t confuse your sensitivity for goodness! TRIGGER WARNING! YOU HAVE BEEN FOREWARNED!)

[daincrediblegg]

my talents are wasted on being a student I should be doing video essays

[goldrogerstits]

making 50 + minute long videos about tik tok drama is insane and youtube needs to stop recommending them to me just because I wanted to watch a video about current fashion trends

[maplemaplemaplemaplemaple]

oh yeah another downside of my box office hyperfixation is that the only video essays about it online are made by like. the worst people on earth . analysis of badly done film marketing and why it fails to resonate is SO damn interesting to me like the psychology of it all. but every video just goes ‘ummm this film failed because woke 😦🤯’ like shut up!!!!!!!i’m going to eat gravel

[relativelynormalgameshow]

Just made a video essay about the new Silent Hill game. Go watch it, please. Every feedback welcome.

[nolanhattrick]

hot take i know but there are ways of ""healing your inner child"" that don't involve being a bigoted piece of shit and harming others, actually. and they're - get this - even more effective than the methods y'all are currently using. you should try them. i promise it will be okay.

[starlooove]

Y’all boutta gentrify the word hotep too 💀

[oswednesday]

i dont care for stuff like that a lot of the times but i Had an experience just now

[zozoubbb]

i feel like gen z is the generation of being aware but not really. that counts for a lot of things, like being "self aware" or aware of political subjects. we are constantly blinded with information, without actually having time to research the topic, we see a video, scroll, or read a post, scroll and many people start to think thats the true. a 5 second video wont tell you everything that you need to know about your mental health, it is good that we have more acces to information, but we dont have time to actually absorve the information. this moves people alway from actually learning new things, learning things about ourselves, about life, about topics we are interested in. the constant new information that we receive is actually quite drainful.

[thejaymo]

Instead of watching a TV show nowadays, I will instead find an “appropriately unhinged” (a la Mike's Mic) video essay on YouTube that will summarise the show and analyse it within an inch of its life. And I am far from the only one. In recent years, video essays have slowly grown in popularity, becoming one of the major genres on YouTube. Gone are the days of Bye Sister and the 100 Layers Challenge — we are in the commentary era now.

[smallcreepytown]

desperately googling a deeply personal problem to see if there’s a fun video essay on it or something

[crimsonred-hi]

Controversial Age Gap - Headcanons

Pairing: Andrew Hozier-Byrne

• He would be sooo secretive about it in fear of judgement.

• let’s be honest, most of his fans wouldn’t take kindly to him having a conservatively young lass, until they meet her.

• Someone would do an interview of her, and she just acts like she’s a pensioner when she’s actually a uni student.

• If Andrew was gonna date anyone that young she would have to be an old soul. Like already mentally in a nursing home. She would be like super smart and really mature, like he wants a girl he can talk to about literature and poetry, and the fact she’s really young doesn’t mean that much when she completes him.

• Even his friends and band would be find with her, because she acts about 50. She’s always in the corner talking politics with the oldest guy in the pub, because she likes making grown men cry, because she can.

• The Fans would be shocked, because someone would get a video of him getting a quick good luck kiss before he goes on stage, or someone would get a video of them at a festival while she’s fixing his hair for him.

—> Side Rant! Talking about hair! His hair is so healthy now he has her! Like she forces him to sit his arse down once a week so she can deep clean and condition his hair. He’s getting princess treatment.

• I can imagine her running her uni essays through him before they go to her professors, and every time he’s so shocked at how smart she is. Like, he wasn’t this smart, ‘are the younger generation?’ just better he would ask himself.

• We all know he listens to everything, he’s very eclectic. He would love teaching you the blues, he also doesn’t let you play your music, only his. And if you learn his favourite songs and sing them in the car with him, he might cry.

• He’s getting you in any show you want: ya wanna to see Noah Kahan, your going: ya wanna see Lana Del Ray, your going: ya wanna see Taylor Swift, your going. Etc, etc. He’ll get you there, even if he doesn’t like the music that artist makes, he’ll bring his ear plugs and happily watch you enjoy it.

• He would be so careful about talking about you, but it’s a struggle because he’s so proud of you.

• He just thinks you’re incredible. And he wants everyone to know about it, but he’s scared people will judge him for dating someone so much younger than him.

• That jacket in the photo, I bet you think it looks good on him. He thinks it looks better on you. He thinks everything looks better on you; that green jumper he wears all the time, he thinks it looks better when you wear it.

• He loves when your at his concerts, he adores watching you sing and dance along. While everyone thinks he’s winking at them, he’s actually winking at you.

• He loves it when you lay on his chest, you’re so much smaller than him, and watching you distress with the sound of his heart is everything to him.

• She will just spout TikTok and gen z nonsense at him, she once called him ‘submissive and breed-able’ and the look of fear on his face when he turned around to look at her.

—> “what did you just call me…?” He asks his voice cracking with genuine fear, and she just laughs in his face. She just kisses his cheek and runs of giggling.

• He’s probably the first man she’s been with that has a full beard, so she kinda has a little obsession with it. All the other lads she’s dated were her own age and couldn’t grow there pwn full beards, while Andrew is looking sexy as fuck with his beard.

—> He loves when she scratches his beard, because of her obsession with his beard, he practically purrs when she scratches his beard.

—> Also his chest hair, he very rarely goes shirtless but when he does her hands are always desperately trying to get into his chest hair.

• He also gives her beard burn on her thighs and-

• I really like that photo of Andrew, he looks like a god, just me or is he the perfect Poseidon or Hades or Orpheus. Or is he just drop dead gorgeous.