What were your favorite video essays of 2023?
Wouldn’t it just be hbomberguy’s yearly video?
He would certainly receive a nomination every year if the category existed
That’s exactly what I came in here to post
My partner and I were tearing up by the end, it was so well done!
Hbomberguy’s 4 hour take down of YouTube plagiarists has been my favourite video of the year
It was such a banger
I nominate Fredrik Knudsen for his 6 hour video about EVE Online
YES
My memory is shot so who knows what else I thought was good this year but Super Smash Bros Melee will always be in my heart, especially when it’s something as insane as a Yoshi for the first time since the game released 20+ years ago, who also isn’t from the strongest region (NA), to win a tourney.
Cant wait to check it out!!
Ahoy should host
He’d get the special fx award for his motion graphics.
I like ButterPrime, who typically talks about entertainment media
Finally someone speaking me language
Then Adam Neely gets my nomination.
No, how about an essay is an essay, no matter if you film yourself reading it or not. The content of the message is what is important, not the medium it’s presented in.
As true as that is, video essays may reach a wider audience due to their visual component that can keep people interested. Most people would rather watch a video than read an essay or listen to one.
Most people who make video essay videos include relevant footage, graphs/charts and diagrams, not just them sitting there and reading.
Was gonna say, a video essay is almost an entirely distinct form of media from a written essay. And to conflate the two really disregards and diminishes a lot of the creative process that goes behind both.
A good written essay might make a terrible video essay, and vice versa.
Do you think a video essay is just someone reading off of a piece of paper in front of a camera?
Yep that’s what it means, a video of an essay. Unless you’re down with El Hombre or the vatos
Are you upset that the Oscars only consider films and not books?
