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corvidcall · 1 year

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i keep looking at video essay recs because i love to see how many of them i already watch, and theres one that keeps coming up in rec lists that i tried to watch but couldnt get into bc. ok it was about bo burnham and the essayist started the video by saying that they think dont like comedy music as a genre??

like you can have all the opinions you want on whatever you want. you dont HAVE to like comedy music, and you can have stuff you wanna say about art you dont like, but tbh i just dont understand why you would start off a piece of art criticism by entirely undercutting your own credibility right out the gate???

how can i take your criticism seriously if you wouldn't have liked it even if it was good? you dont even know what a good version of this thing WOULD BE because you think all versions of this thing are categorically bad!!

like, if i was trying to give a critique of. idk. an italian restaurant near me. and i started off by telling you that I think italian food is, as a rule, bad, you're not gonna take what i have to say very seriously, are you? If I made a long video essay about Miles Davis, and started it off by saying that I hate trumpets, theyre the worst instrument and they entirely lack musicality and artfulness, why would you watch to the end of that video?

its just weird!!! I guess its better than saving it for partway through and revealing that ive just wasted my time, but still. it's weird. why do that!!!!

#anime life #its not that i think every video should be positive or anything #theres a little joel video that i thought was really good where he talked abt how actually negative videos are good #people want to watch criticism more than praise. its easier to write criticism.#if he wanted to praise something he would do it in comparison to something he was critiquing #(ex if i wanted to talk abt how dream daddy is the best ever dating sim. the video would be more abt criticising a bad dating sim)#(and using dream daddy as the example of what a dating sim SHOULD be like)#but its weird to try to do criticism about something that you not only dont like. but cant even see potential in it #that you think is categorically inherently bad and not even the deftest hand could make good #'heres my 3 hour video abt why into the spiderverse is bad. i hate animation btw.'

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