this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2026
98 points (94.5% liked)
Chapotraphouse
14323 readers
757 users here now
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I feel like that style of video started as a tongue in cheek joke that was designed to educate and inform while being entertaining. But some people probably just thought it was like "Breadtube game theory" or something and started making content like that without any self-awareness.
as in they thought that style of video is the "correct formula for success" ?
Yeah, they saw a formula to imitate without understanding, where you talk at length about nothing at all and then connect nonexistent dots about nothing, but take it all extremely seriously and act like it is "media analysis."
If you do this but make it sufficiently funny, it's actually good, as proven by Brian David Gilbert in his Unraveled series