#icarly video essay guy

[buck2eddie]

i am not one to watch video essays but for the past few days i've found myself watching the 2-part victorious video essays and i am so invested rn

[keitheaverage]

my personal rule of thumb is that (typically) if a video essay is longer to watch than the media that it is analyzing, it's not one you're gonna get a lot out of, neither in terms of information nor entertainment. something to have on in the background if that's what you need to sit down and work maybe, but if you're there to get a solid thesis or concise recap of the media in question, 😬.

[cutelilbow]

are we all aware of the Thirty-Eight Hour Video Essay, from the same guy that brought you the Thirteen Hour ICarly Video Essay

[xomoosexo]

least favorite video essayist is probably quintonreviews because he doesnt even analyze anything he just recaps the story i wish he would advertise himself as such. also he was shitty about dream's weight loss

is that the guy who made the unnecessary like twenty million hour icarly video essay that was really just a recap that everyone used as a talking point for why they were so interesting for like a year

[darcyolsson]

can we have a detailed history of riverdale. like the icarly videos

I do have the start of what could become a riverdale video essay lying in my Google docs but I'll never finish it because after like 3 pages i realised don't do things like that. lol.

anyway I did spend time figuring this out so here it is: the riverdale origin story is, more or less, a guy getting a cease and desist from archie comics for portraying archie andrews as gay in his amateur play and then over the course of a little over a decade slowly working his way up to the top of archie comics until he was allowed to make riverdale, which he then slowly and progressively made more explicitly influenced by gay and queer culture. he also consequently turned virtually every character, no matter how minor, queer over the course of 7 seasons, with the last season leaning into those themes VERY heavily and making most of the main cast queer as well. including archie. not including jughead.

my beautiful wife riverdale is more than a tv show, it's also a beautiful story about how every insane gay man should be given several million dollars and the legal production rights to whatever hyperfixation they currently have

[domorebemore]

i harbor a maybe irrational hatred for that youtube guy who makes like 9 hour long "video essays" about icarly or whatever like literally shut the fuck up.

[chipchopclipclop]

Why don't u like the icarly video essay guy

its nothing complicated, I just watched those hour long videos and by the end was kind of just annoyed by them and mostly regretted it god speed 🫡

[sharpenote]

Do you have any YouTube video essay recommendations?

Sure!! Keep in mind, I don't tend to get into super-niche ones, since after watching them once I just cycle them into the sleep rotation, so it's pretty likely you've heard of most of these already.

Pathologic is Genius, And Here's Why - a classic and one of my favorites, partly because i just genuinely love pathologic, partially because i get infinite use out of ARTEMY BURAKH'S TORMENTOUS NIGHTMARE. hbomb has a lot of video essays that i like, so I won't link them all, but safe to say you'll get a lot of mileage out of his stuff (i tend to stick to the media ones though rather than political - i already know shitty people exist so they tend to just stress me out a lot lol)

iBinged iCarly (and the follow-up video, The End of iCarly, as well as The Failure of Victorious and its follow-up, The End of Victorious) - I grouped these together a) because they're by the same guy and b) they're pretty inter-connected, since the shows are by the same showrunner (you know, that one notorious creep who made his fetishes his child actors' problems, among other things). Might be worth checking out The Scandal of Sam and Cat by him as well? I can't actually remember if I've seen that one so I know what I'm doing tonight lol. Anyway you've probably heard of these if not watched them (ie the 8 hour long Victorious video essay). I linked to the videos in a playlist so you can also check out his other video essays if you're interested in them.

The World Record History of Super Mario Sunshine any%, The World Record History of Super Mario Sunshine 100% (120 Shines), and The World Record History of Super Mario Sunshine's Most Competitive Level - what it says on the tin, all by the same guy, but there are tons of speedrunning world history videos out there.

SummoningSalt also has a ton of speedrunning world history videos available and is largely responsible for the popularity of the genre.

The Speedrun Where Link Stares at Rupees for 17 Hours - low% is a pretty niche speedrunning category, and this is probably the goofiest example of it. I love it. A short, 15 min dive into it, which is very funny to me considering the actual run's length. I really love gymnast86's stuff - he's great at explaining stuff for a casual audience, which always makes him fun to watch during his gdq runs, but it also works very well for stuff like this. This video and The Glitch that allows Zelda Speedrunners to time travel - which goes more in-depth into one of the tricks used in the run - are both on LowestPercent's channel, but his actual channel is here - he might have a few similar things there as well? But it's mostly actual speedruns and randomizers.

Why Knights of the Old Republic 2 is Beautiful; An Analysed Playthrough - as the name suggests, this is half-playthrough, half-analysis, but I'm counting it anyway because It's My List And I Want To. SulMatul has a few more video essay-type vids on her channel as well, including Pathologic Analysis; Themes of a Dying Classic and Dissecting Pathologic 2; Why It's The Best Game of 2019 (THATS RIGHT IM BRINGING IT FULL CIRCLE BABEYYY THIS LIST IS A TRICK TO GET YOU INTERESTED IN PATHOLOGIC) and one on We Know The Devil which I haven't watched yet but I HAVE played the game and it's incredible, and knowing Hayley's work I'm sure the video is great as well. Huuuge huge fan of her content, and I think out of all of these she probably goes deepest into the subjects she discusses.

I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting off the top of my head, but hopefully that's a decent start for you, anon!

Also, not a video essay, but I'd be remiss not to link it since I mentioned it in my original post: the 0.5x A Press video

[xbuster]

The iCarly video essay guy has bad Macross opinions

[localvoidcat]

Deep sea Thatcher ash having multiple panic attacks while tryna record a video essay

(hyperventilating) anyways guys that's the lost icarly episode i hope you enjoyed the video if you did make sure t

[headdunk]

source: quinton review’s bee movie project

[vilejpg]

first batch of characters drawn based off of names given to me. here r the names in order from first to last;

blazepeak, blazewing, dancingflight, duskpanther, goldenshadow & lunarfall (you can probably tell which is which lmao), gravesong, icequake, newtspeckle, owlstare, and rotheart

of these my personal favorites are newtspeckle, goldenshadow & lunarfall, and owlstare

[counterspellthisyoucasual]

Everyone go and subscribe to Quinton Reviews (the guy who did the victorious/icarly video essays) so we can have a drake and josh / zoey 101 series of video essays

[luimnigh]

Oh hey, that guy who did the iCarly and Victorious deep dives has put out the second Victorious video.

-sees timestamp-

sweet merciful fuck

that’s not a video essay, that’s a shift at a job

that is 1/3 of a day

no offense to the dude or anyone putting out multi-hour videos, but jesus christ you guys need editors. and not video editors, i mean in the writing sense. to, at the very least, find places to break your videos up into multiple videos. 

still gonna watch it but fuck, that’ll take a week to get through

[ot3]

iirc i recommended you the 8 hour long icarly video essay so uh. anon back here to say that the same guy (quinton reviews) just made a 5 hours long one for the first part of victorious

see victorious is just slightly past my time i dont know literally anythnig about it and its not something i care to learn about via extensive video series. but i am still getting around to the icarly one eventually

[fictionkinfessions]

hey there guys and not-guys guess who binge watched icarly video essays and got hit in the head with a shift??? it's me i did hi everyone - Spencer Shay iCarly (#arsonartist🎨🔥)