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Video Essays

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

• all the pixels in new york are freezing
• The Men Who Couldn't Stop Crying, and Other Unbearable Realities
• Max Payne, Kane & Lynch, and the Meaning of Ugly Games
• "toxic" femininity: what's up with girlbloggers, female manipulators, and femcels?
• Greed is Destroying the World
• My New Favorite Bad Movie
• The best and worst show on every streaming service
• I am addicted to buying weird ads
• I Lived Like WeWearCute For A Day
• in defense of the femme fatale 🚬
• The Beauty Of Old Hollywood In One Scene
• Two Ways To Film The Same Scene (#2)
• the messy rise and fall of Victoria's Secret
• I Found the Best Actor on TikTok
• Nothing Ever Stops Existing
• explaining the gen z maximalism trend
• Defunctland: The Awful Wiggles Dark Ride
• This Anti-Woke Christmas Movie is Awful
• We Ate the Squares
• The Scooby Doo Movies Are Insane
• Pointless Ai Products
• Why Monet Painted The Same Haystacks 25 Times
• booktok & the hotgirlification of reading
• The "Faceless YouTube Channel" Plague
• The Convention for Women...By Men
• I ate like Tom Brady for a month
• TikTok's Obsession with Dark Humor
• How Bruegel Invented A New Genre Of Painting
• Why Scavenger's Reign Actually Feels Alien
• why do all book covers look like this now?
• Space Jam 2 is a Lie
• the circus of celebrity house tours
• Trying Relationship Life Hacks
• I Lived Like a Billionaire for a Week
• WHY IS EVERYTHING SO UGLY: The Curse of Modernism
• I bought every ad I saw on instagram for a week
• I am become Fancy: Theatre
• The Art World Couldn't Understand William Blake
• TikTok's Worst Dating Coach
• 2 Fancy 2 Furious: Wine
• TikTok "Interviews" are Insufferable
• Snapchat is so dumb
• YouTube Couples Are Getting Out Of Hand
• Trying to find the worst horror movie
• DefunctTV: The History of Dumbo's Circus
• Analyzing Every Torture Scene in Call of Duty — All 46 of Them
• This Low-Budget Horror Movie is Terrifying...For All The Wrong Reasons
• The Music Industry is Broken

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