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Why are there so many goddamn video essays about 'muh vidya games' on YouTube now? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by FearsomeJoeandmac@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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Video essays about games used to be cool. Now it seems like thats the only video essays new people put out.

Why?

I'm assuming just because it's low hanging fruit and an easily accessible from of pop culture?

Regardless it's getting to be too much. It's no longer interesting if every other video is trying to be deep and analytical about video games.

I really like playing games, just there's too many video essays on them now.

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[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Video essays about music can be corny. Usually it’s just a documentary recapping someone’s life (full of inaccurate info) or “analysis” about why a rapper or singer is failing and it’s just based on vibes and 3 twitter screenshots and nothing factual

[–] FearsomeJoeandmac@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

All of its corny at this point. Video game essays included