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Video Essays

Long-form essays on internet culture, media and society.

• Defunctland: The History of Toys "R" Us Times Square
• The Painter Who Revolutionized Landscapes
• everything you need to know about the corset trend
• My Favorite Things Summer 2023
• The Handwich: Disney's Failed Sandwich of the Future
• My Favorite Things Halloween 2021
• Ranking Terrible Life Hacks with My Wife
• The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
• MTV's Weirdest Dating Show w/ Danny Gonzalez
• Time, Tarkovsky And The Pandemic
• This Anti-Masker Christian Movie is Even Worse Than You Think
• What Gordon Parks Saw
• let's discuss: the obsession with marilyn monroe
• What is Rick Lax doing?
• Games that Aren't Games
• The Online Gambling Epidemic
• The Cruelest Video Game
• How Humphrey Bogart Became A Legend
• Riverdale: The Show That Went Completely Insane
• Time Loop Nihilism
• Netflix's Awful Christmas Movies
• WATERTOK: The Strangest Community on TikTok
• Canada's Worst Driver: A Very Dangerous TV Show
• Dead Space 2 Still Feels Like A New Game
• The False Evolution of Execution Methods
• Ridiculous Safety TikToks
• These "Alpha Males" Were Banned From TikTok
• How Matisse Revolutionized Color In Art
• Defunctland: The Abandoning of Celebration City
• My Quest to Find the Weirdest 90s Toy Ever
• The Bizarre World of Pointlessly Gendered Products
• The Future is an Empty Room
• Checking In With Sebastian Bails
• What The Internet did To Undertale
• Returnal is a Hell of Our Own Creation
• When The World Became A De Chirico Painting
• the history of dieting is crazier than you think
• Shenmue 3 is a Terrible Game and I’ve Wasted My Life
• Defunctland: The History of Disneyland's Adventure Thru Inner Space
• What's Jazz Doing In A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms?
• DefunctTV: The History of Mousercise
• The Vikings of TikTok
• Defunctland: The History of Tomorrowland 1955
• Defunctland: The History of the 1964 New York World's Fair
• An Uncanny Reality
• Are the Twitch Beggars Baiting Us?
• Instagram Boomers
• My Favorite Things 2025 (One Piece, Mouthwashing, Other Stuff!)

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