The Problem with Video Essays

11:14 Newton was also wrong with that equation btw. It's a good approximation, but in the end wrong.

I wonder if "metes and bounds" is related to "leaps and bounds"?

Came for yet another essay video, stayed for your personality, a history lesson, and beautiful points. Thanks for the vid 🙂

Wow she is a serious cougar in that hat!!!!!!

Not arguing with hr but love how British women think they know more than rest of world and still have high ego of themselves. Not hating her just calling it out.

Video essays make my brain hurt now. Not because I don’t like learning new things, but because I know I’m getting bombarded by a bunch of people who get their facts and opinions from TikTok. It seems like everyone’s a professional on every controversial topic now, even if it’s for the sake of pretending to be one because hopping on the most trending controversial topic is gonna make them the big bucks. No I don’t want to watch you rant for 50 minutes about why “AI bad 😡” especially if I know it’s going to be you just rambling about your take on it like 50 other people have already done.

We’re information fatigued while simultaneously being bombarded with misinformation lol

We love a video essay on video essays! Jokes aside its great topic to disect the bias and possible misinformation (intentional or not) of video essays. great video keep up the great work!

Does anyone know the name of the music at 15:45 I would greatly appreciate it!

Mavity mention!

Mike Stoklasa being referenced in a Philosophy Tube video was… not on my PT bingo card XD

A video essay about why video essays are wrong. Perfect.

The voice actor is from that animated Game design and History channel, no?

The problem with video essays even those of merit is the same problem philosophy has always had: no one gives a shit and your beliefs are provably worthless if they don't result in something physical, tangible results for the normal person.

All these video essays do almost literally nothing unless theyre AT LEAST like 2 hours long. I watch various categories literally every day, and I cant explain what it is, but Im 100% confident its actually impossible to explain any important subject in less than an hour and even then it would not be useful to anyone with just TWO hours of experience.

And who watches video essays over even 45 minutes usually? Almost no one watches the 45 minute ones, hence YouTube Shorts, tiktok, reddit comments etc.

We need a solution that requires tools we don't have which is an informed, capable populace (in America).

Best of luck to you all Im out this B including Youtube ASAP

Being from a university background where it’s standard to cite references for any factual statement you make, it didn’t occur to me you might only be using a single source for a whole video like this, there are other video essayists who have less of a professional and experienced impression whom I am conscious of this fact with, and take what they say with a grain of salt, but that level of critical thinking shouldn’t just be reserved for those who seem the least professional or put together

great video

As a canadain I think you summed up the Canadian-American relationship the best I've ever seen in those few seconds of smash cut

I love this channel
Ps stop eating survey teams they are hard to replace

ngl was expecting a joke about consistency @ 13:40

America uses a grid as foreshadowing to how Minecraft would later generate its terrain in a grid of rectangular "chunks"

Drinking tea and waving the English flag while saying AT TIME OF RECORDING is wild XD I CAN'T BREATHE

At long last, you've acknowledged what has always been true: your chosen medium and developed style are fundamentally performative – more about delivering validation to the already-convinced than offering the kind of nuanced, thought-provoking insight that lingers. It's telling that this moment of self-awareness arrives more than twenty minutes into a video on a relatively dry subject. This confession deserves its own full video – and, to your credit, a noticeable shift in your approach. Still, it's hard not to reflect on the many polemical, ideology-driven videos you've released on far weightier topics, each amassing hundreds of thousands of devout followers. One can only imagine their discontent when you stop feeding their regular doses of smug, self-righteous indignation and certainty.

Nice try retconning that your Nietzsche vids sucked, and that you almost messed it up again by imagining an explanation of something rather than learning first.