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Video Essays

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

• How Walter Murch Worldized Film Sound
• This British Reality TV Show is Pure Evil
• Why Henry VIII's Codpiece Is So...Monumental
• How Soderbergh Elevates A (Minor) Scene
• The Reality Show So Bad It Was Cancelled After ONE Episode
• the tumblr girl is coming back
• I Took a Vision Healing Masterclass
• The Bizarre World of Fake Martial Arts
• After a City is Buried
• Horror in Impossible Places: Liminal Spaces and The Backrooms
• Watching whatever my TV tells me to because I don't care anymore
• The Strangest Game of 2023
• the problem with plastic surgery
• Why TV Is Wrong For Tolkien
• Perfect Moments in "Bad" Movies
• DefunctTV: The History of Under the Umbrella Tree
• can we all stop speaking like incels?
• Revisiting Jake Paul's Team 1000 Scam
• Straight People Gotta Stop
• When you accidentally ruin your show
• The JayStation Unraveling
• The Frightening World of AI Generated Content
• Barbie vs. Bratz
• A Deep Dive into Potterheads
• The Cameron Dallas Downfall
• Defunctland: The Craziest Party Walt Disney Ever Threw
• The Manga That Breaks People
• the problem with Cruella's costumes...
• TikTok hates your relationship
• The funniest product placement I've ever seen (w/ Danny Gonzalez)
• The sharkboy and lavagirl sequel that no one asked for
• That Zone Between Area 50 and 52
• How Much More Star Wars Do We Need?
• Why Tarantino Will Only Make 10 Movies
• A Thousand Ways of Seeing a Forest
• Defunctland: The History of the Worst SeaWorld Ride, Submarine Quest
• Head Transplants and the Non-Existence of the Soul
• The Time Travel Movie That Doesn't Move
• NETFLIX'S WEDNESDAY: a meh adaptation of The Addams Family (dont kill me)
• tiktok is kind of bad for fashion
• The Bizarre Modern Reality of Sonic the Hedgehog
• IS 90S THINNESS COMING BACK?
• Performative Males
• The D'amelio Show confuses me
• My Favorite Piece of Stock Footage
• The Strange Reality of Roller Coaster Tycoon
• I took Ninja's Masterclass and it ruined my life
• the luxury of privacy & the celebrity vs. influencer paradox

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