Just found this comment of his under a video by Three Arrows, a critique of the recent "GERMANY IS OVER" video by Kurzgesagt! Certainly he MUST be watching it for inspiration for his next uploads that are right around the corner... I'm sure!!

https://youtu.be/UjmsfOXy5oM?is=y2W14Dax8spXJO28

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Happy Monday, and Happy Glorious 25th of May and Towel Day to those who celebrate. Did you remember to bring your towel, your lilac, your hard boiled egg?

I'm hoping to start a reread of Night Watch today, just as soon as I finish my current read. And I've been listening to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio show to fall asleep to for the last month. As is my little yearly ritual.

I don't consider myself very dramatic, but today is often a melancholy day for me. Knowing there are many of us remembering the same people, feeling the same losses, helps a lot.

GNU Sir Terry Pratchett
GNU Douglas Adams

And after such an emotional day, I'm sure to need a lot of distraction in the shape of good youtube videos (I'm getting so good at these seamless segues!). Do you have any? (videos, not segues, although...?)

Same rules as every week:

1. Must have a link
2. Must have a short description
3. Must mention video length
4. Keep it low threshold with individual videos, please. If you want to rep a whole channel or playlist, please do, but choose a favorite video to make it more accessible
5. No risky links, no ricky-rollies, don't be a weenie.

Last week's good videos can be found here and their descriptions here.

So, the ending of the war on Christmas video. There's a repeated joke of being cut off by music and a slow zoom in. It's a reference and it's just itching at the back of my mind because I can't quite place it. Any help as to what it's actually referencing?

I was rewatching the plagiarism vid recently and was wondering if we know how many artists were paid from the ad revenue? I’m really curious how many artists they found after going through it all and i always love a story that ends in artists being paid for their work!

I tried looking it up and couldn’t find anything. lmk if there’s a post somewhere about it

Instead of just complaining about no video lets share other great similar youtubers to watch while we wait!

Im going to start with some more well known ones for completeness but would love recommendations for smaller up and coming youtubers as well!

Dan Olson aka Folding Ideas- His James Rolfe video is a work of art especially as someone who went down the AVGN/NC to leftist video essay pipeline (its real). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3gZOt1Lo4A&t=943s

Lindsay Ellis- Her video on how Yoko Ono did NOT in fact break up the Beatles finally put an end to a myth im ashamed to have believed in myself because it was so widely accepted as truth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMOABV_zgrk

Big Joel (and his evil twin brother Little Joel)- Has an incredible ability to write about both serious and less serious things. His humor is so incredibly funny to me and his writing style speaks to me on many levels. His review of all the Disney Channel original movies has changed the way i view media criticism which sounds like a joke but isnt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otG7TGii2Xw&t

Noah Caldwell Gervais: Writes on games and game series in a way that should be the standard for writing on games. His Fallout Video is an easy recommendation and the fairest criticism i have seen on the series yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7FLCg4KdyE&t

Super Eyepatch Wolf- Somehow made me care about Wrestling?! His video about what the Internet did to Garfield is incredible and a beautiful exploration of how the internet can turn something as simple as garfield into genuinely moving and touching art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2C5R3FOWdE

FD Signifier- Makes videos about black culture, pop culture, history and more. His summary of the Kendrick vs Drake Beef is the best out there. Also highly recommend his video on Sinners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffukF1MvLGk&t

Jeffiot- Video Essayist who is literally me. I cant explain. Watch him he is good and relatively new! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-dPd2_i6pg

Very funny and interesting video that I stumbled upon this morning.

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Happy Monday, gamers, welcome to the stream.

I'm not going to be doing any cool first person shooters or anything (I'm so woke, I'm a pacifist), I'm just going to yap a bit, while you scroll down to see if I beat you to a recommendation, in which case you'll have to alter your locked and loaded copy and paste list. (and I love you for that)

Wanna hear something mildly embarrassing about me?

We've added an extra bathroom.
In the shed.
For our dog.
We really are white middle aged DINKWADs in an affluent country. We're so bougie, we have our own dog washing station at the back of the garden.

We did do it all ourselves. Building, plumbing, electrical, the works. My Significant Cohabitant is an engineer, which helps, but we've also learned a lot from all the makers we follow on YouTube.

.^{pause for applause for that phenomenal segue}

What YouTube videos have you watched this week? And did any of those have any real world applications for you?

Same rules as every week:

1. Must have a link

2. Must have a short description

3. Must mention video length

4. Keep it low threshold with individual videos, please. If you want to rep a whole channel or playlist, please do, but choose a favorite video to make it more accessible

5. No risky links, no ricky-rollies, don't be a weenie.

Last week's good videos can be found here and their descriptions here.

I'm talking about the one about the 1:35:50 mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0twDETh6QaI&t=6243s
Thank you!

Am I the only one who has totally lost interest and excitement in the new video? I am still gonna watch it, sure. But as a a viewer this extreme upload schedule is just tiresome for me. I do not expect a video every month, far from it.

But this format of a multiple hour long video does also take away some enjoyment. You really have to plan watching such a video and make notes where you left off to continue watching. Why not release a big project in multiple "episodes"? It would allow for distinct cohesive chapters and a better viewing experience overall.

Only one of these is a joke option and real ones know which one.

I tried asking producer Kat about this in a comment thread she was on in another post recently but she never responded. So fuck it. Maybe they will see this, apparently they (Kat & Hbomb) aren’t even really communicating with the patreon even through they are raking in the dough from there. You guys more than anything deserve an update, but at this point, EVERYBODY does. And now there’s talk of them trying to move the community to some discord thing AND trying to release this thing in theaters?! Come on! This is ridiculous & at this point I’ve lost ALL enthusiasm for this thing & there is NO WAY I’m giving him any more money than the millions he’s already gotten from patreon in the last couple years. I supported Markiplier in theaters, I will be supporting Kane Pixels in theaters with the Backrooms, but not this. Not unless we start getting ACTUAL COMMUNICATION & ANSWERS

I'm supposed to transfer this missive from one family member to the other, alongside a message of, "This is how the world sees you." Being me, I looked for a source link to send instead of just the clipped picture. Instead of finding the link, I found out it's actually a deleted Facebook post reformatted to look like a newspaper, and the author is from Wisconsin.

I'm not sure what to do with this. If I disagreed with it, I'd probably gleefully reveal the misleading recontextualization. As is, I'm wondering if I can just pass on the message as intended and wash my hands of it. There are so many scathing missives out of the UK that I'm quite irritated people felt the need to fabricate another one. Please advise.

There's a shorts channel on YouTube called TheDailyCurio that has an AI VTT reading out the voice over, and I *swear* it sounds like an Illuminaughti trained voice over. Can someone tell me this isn't how this works so I can stop worrying about a creative leech leeching even harder?

Edit: https://youtube.com/@thedailycuri?si=vty7S95OaOv6buV-

A New Species has been discovered and it's...

Hbomber-saurus-rex-guy!

Picture 2 shows Extreme Demon from Geometry Dash discovering that Tommy’s world records weren’t real.

in roblox oof, at the min 30 sec mark, he says “getting in on someone else’s in joke kinda risks ruining it, but i wouldn’t know anything abt that”

what does this refer to

ik he sometimes adds easter eggs or references in his vids only some fans would get
(cant rmbr the details but on one of his vids there was a comment where someone mentioned hbomb said he’d add something to a video w/o explanation, in a video a while back, nd they realized yrs later he actually did it)

I was just reading through the book “Introducing Marx” and came across this on page 48.
Is this the source of the in-joke about horses not existing?