ONTD ORIGINAL: 5 youtube videos (essay?review? idk what to call them) that I love.

[theemii]

So, I know no one ask for this but I have nothing to do so why not make an ontd original, and at first I wanted to do a top 10 adventure time episode post but then I was like no just post 5 videos of video essay (or reviews or whatever I should call these videos?) because hey, I like to share thing, so why not share this! Okay so why do I re-watch

Comments

[spellmanian]

Love this OP!! Youtube video essays/reviews/whateverevenidek are some of my fave things to watch as long as they're good and the person doing them is charming and funny.

Personally this video gives me life:

[pikapika217]

I LOVE HER

[just444]

i so don't get this faeries trend

[lexification03]

OMG I LOVE CINDY!

[cherhorowitz]

I love anti cinemasins videos. My favorites are all of Shaun’s videos https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB8NXe_on1cV3bJvw_FA1FX-FI7PGZnV_

[bullybreed]

Ooh another good rec. I just learned of Cinemasin from op’s vid and already can’t stand them :D Watching Shaun’s Mad Max video now and he is very genial and enjoyable

[_myaugust]

Oooh I look forward to watching The Cabin in the Woods one.

My favourite YouTube essays are ones that dissect music, especially because my knowledge of music is zero, and ones that dig into the "deeper meanings" of shows and movies.

My fave one:

[juliette666]

I think you would enjoy Charles Cornell's videos: https://youtu.be/zCBiTdFLuh8

[_myaugust]

Oh his channel looks perfect for me! Thank you for the rec, I shall be subscribing!

[mhfromnh]

check out Sideways. he loves leitmotifs.
https://www.youtube.com/c/Sideways440/videos

this was facinating

[just444]

i have been in crazy fandoms, but this is a lot

Re: this was facinating

[cherhorowitz]

I haven’t watched this one, but other videos she’s done about tumblr stuff were really interesting. I’ve been on tumblr forever but I missed out on a lot of the weirder stuff like the onceler fandom

[ponyboy]

ugh she got this so fucking wrong.

[xpirate_queenx]

Oh?

[pikapika217]

Speaking of this, did anyone else see D'angelo Wallace's statement about taking down his long form video essays from the James/J*/Tati trilogy?:

I'm in the process of deleting my three-part series on the beauty community. pic.twitter.com/NDDM4ZdvKx
- D'Angelo Wallace (@dangelno) April 9, 2021

As far as fellow commentary channels I'll just point to Kenya and Amanda's latest videos:

[lolita_applebum]

it's nice to see someone delete a youtube video out of ethical integrity instead of doing something problematic and they're just covering their asses

[itscomicrelief]

Amandabb is legit one of my major favorites. Her Rina video is so funny to me

[spread]

D'Angelo is a dope ass dude.