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

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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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[–] Poogona@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tbh while video essays have definitely exploded and plenty of them are low effort, I don't think this is something I can bring myself to consider a problem. At least at the core of even the lamest video essays, they are writing something, trying to convince me of something, trying to express love of something, etc. As time passes I have a feeling this kind of content will disappear as it becomes more and more incentivized for a place like YouTube to stop offering to host your 3 hour essay about "Why Barney Was Darker Than You Remember" and shifts towards denser and smaller content forms to compete with its peers.

[–] FearsomeJoeandmac@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

I mean.. thats fine. There's just enough people trying their hands with low effort video essays regarding video games, that to me, it's saturated now.