#he's got contacts at YouTube's top. he's intimately familiar with the algorithm and media cycles and how to perfectly ride these things
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“The reason I dislike [these explainer videos] so much is that they are often a form of anti-intellectualism. Operating on the idea that ignorance is purity, that an understanding of culture that rejects metaphor, that rejects the symbolic and clings to the literal is true.”
Re: MatPat's Hollow Knight video. Man maybe the similarities between The Pake King and Ghost are meant to parallel the decisions they make. Maybe they're meant to condemn The Pale King or point out that Ghost's decisions are also imperfect. Maybe those imperfect circumstances are meant to further condemn The Pale King by trapping Hallownest in this situation to begin with! Maybe you're meant to contemplate this yourself!
“There is no wrong way to consume media”
Yes there is and it’s what ever matpat has been doing
#yes i know it's tired quoting a video essay but genuinely he is very good at breaking down media literacy and expressing his opinions#matpat lost his way as a media analyst when he started doing this as a full-time company#he's got contacts at YouTube's top. he's intimately familiar with the algorithm and media cycles and how to perfectly ride these things#(see: matpat making minute changes to thumbnails overtime to boost video performance)#the easiest kind of content to make in a structure like this *is* hyper-literal#big j rambles#not to mention all the times he's stolen fan theories#or parotting an alternate timeline the characters point out and say “that would've been wild. good thing it didn't happen and here's why”#Youtube
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