#saw a video titled ‘why kung fu panda is a masterpiece’ and saw red | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

seldomsee · 2 years

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I feel like every other media analysis video essay is titled something like “why [x] is an underrated masterpiece” or “[x] is absolute garbage and here’s why” like can we please just say we liked/disliked something without making it a black-or-white objective fact. can we please think of media analysis as something more than saying if something was good or bad. can we please go back to video titles that tell you what kind of analysis is happening in the video rather than a snappy opinion that will get you views. Also I blame Youtube’s algorithm for this

#i’m so sick of this trend sorry.#saw a video titled ‘why kung fu panda is a masterpiece’ and saw red #like okay we don’t need a review of a series of movies that finished 10 years ago and is already a cult classic #like what are you analyzing? the plot? the themes? the characters?#honing in on what exactly you’re trying to communicate gives the essay more focus and allows for more elaboration than #defending the argument ‘x was good.’ like reviews are fine but they’re NOT really a good format for analysis #bc at the end of the day their central argument is evaluative rather than analytical #it also gets me how the titles are always one extreme or the other. everything is either a masterpiece or a garbage fire #with absolutely no nuance. like that’s not even in good form for reviews

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