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  • @ManCarryingThing
    @ManCarryingThing  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +179

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    • @Lop44
      @Lop44 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Ok

    • @Malte12345
      @Malte12345 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@Lop44 Ok

    • @ManCarryingThing
      @ManCarryingThing  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

      ok@@Lop44

    • @H3n7yx76
      @H3n7yx76 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Lop4499th subscriber

    • @H3n7yx76
      @H3n7yx76 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ManCarryingThinglol when you comment with your long username and the minutes counter, your checkmark gets squished

  • @journeytotheotherside
    @journeytotheotherside 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5982

    This isn’t a twenty minute video forcing me to read books OR a fifteen second video about Plankton, is he allowed to do this?

    • @spacedoutorca4550
      @spacedoutorca4550 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +535

      Don’t be silly, man would never carry thing in such a way. This is clearly a test of our faith.

    • @ManCarryingThing
      @ManCarryingThing  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1378

      im not but i break rules

    • @Naija_Ninja
      @Naija_Ninja 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +111

      No, this is a breach of contract

    • @maximebonnet7884
      @maximebonnet7884 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      omg absolut legend @@ManCarryingThing

    • @dankmemester1066
      @dankmemester1066 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +161

      legally, it's questionable. morally, it's disgusting. personally, i like it.

  • @SodiumWage
    @SodiumWage 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +996

    I'm beginning to suspect that money might not always be a positive thing and that some people can act greedy.

    • @_Jay_Maker_
      @_Jay_Maker_ 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      Money is just a tool.
      It's the love of money that destroys people.

    • @PushBacon
      @PushBacon 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Love of money is just a pretext.
      Its actually the normaliation of the love of money that affect people.

    • @doughboywhine
      @doughboywhine 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      There is the saying "money is the root of all evil" and just now you are suspecting it might not always be good?!?!

    • @emilmller1194
      @emilmller1194 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      ​@@doughboywhine Don't judge. It can take a long time for people to realize some things. Like, for instance, the subtext of a comment.

    • @MrJellyman223
      @MrJellyman223 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      hm... a most intriguing thought... i shall ponder the possibility...

  • @TheLittlekuribohfan
    @TheLittlekuribohfan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +360

    The fun part of subscribing to Man Carrying Thing, is that you never know if the video you're clicking on is going to be a well thought out think piece, a shitpost, or a well thought out shitpost.

    • @bobbodaskank
      @bobbodaskank 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      The Thinker, a toilet, The Thinker sitting on a toilet

    • @0FFICERPROBLEM
      @0FFICERPROBLEM 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Or, a well shitted out thought post

  • @benjaminguzman3428
    @benjaminguzman3428 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1536

    First books, now TV? This man carries everything!

    • @no_name4796
      @no_name4796 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      You could say he is a man who carries... things!

    • @onlyfrog
      @onlyfrog 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      a man that carries things? i bet he can't carry streaming services! more like "man carries hypocrisy"

    • @dagobahstudios3662
      @dagobahstudios3662 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @BeanKing-tm9bh Nuh uh

    • @Alienrun
      @Alienrun 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@no_name4796 Local man epiphinizes over man not just carrying thing...but...every...thing! :O

  • @ExtraQuestionableContent
    @ExtraQuestionableContent 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +169

    6/10 video, the first half didnt needlessly explain to me the history of TV shows starting in 1928 with "The Queen's Messenger"

    • @ManCarryingThing
      @ManCarryingThing  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +83

      i will do better. next vid will be 10 hours

    • @robertwagstaff1126
      @robertwagstaff1126 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Arguably, the Netflix limited episode serial drama format has roots in "The Vampires" (1915)

    • @Noaartetc
      @Noaartetc 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I need that queen messenger shit at the bg to cook. Boring bitches rise up 🤗

  • @Chord_
    @Chord_ 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +141

    Guy gets across points in 9 minutes that video essays can't in 2 hours. This is what I'm here for.

    • @qasimmir7117
      @qasimmir7117 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Patrick Willems. All showy bla bla bla but doesn’t actually say that much for the length of his videos.

    • @anierrn6935
      @anierrn6935 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@qasimmir7117 oh my god i can't stand him, i've tried so hard, but i can't

    • @qasimmir7117
      @qasimmir7117 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@anierrn6935
      I like what he says but man, soooo long.

  • @AFGuidesHD
    @AFGuidesHD 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1747

    How do you feel about your role in destroying TV ?

    • @ManCarryingThing
      @ManCarryingThing  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +950

      its my burden to bear

    • @sajanramanathan
      @sajanramanathan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +443

      @@ManCarryingThing one might say it's your thing to carry

    • @rhythm6161
      @rhythm6161 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +94

      @@sajanramanathan man, thats good. you really carried that thing with that one.

    • @mcspanky3241
      @mcspanky3241 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      @@ManCarryingThing one might say it’s your burden to The Bear

    • @Pingviinimursu
      @Pingviinimursu 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@ManCarryingThingleave my TV alone >:(

  • @AFGuidesHD
    @AFGuidesHD 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1357

    MCT is the only guy who can say "TH-cam is art" and be absolutely correct.

    • @eskimopython2807
      @eskimopython2807 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Art of a Dystopian City Nightmare that’s for sure

    • @jideon
      @jideon 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      Hello, I just read your comment and it appears you said MCT. This creators name is “Man Carrying Thing” but that’s ok we all make mistakes have a blessed day

    • @mullinsmcd
      @mullinsmcd 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      i heard TH-cam is Fart. Which vid did you watch?

    • @theicecreamninja101
      @theicecreamninja101 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wow 15 hours ago

    • @nikofromtheamazinggameoneshot
      @nikofromtheamazinggameoneshot 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jideon Its abbreviation. The M is for Man, C is for Carrying and T is for Thing. Man Carrying Thing = MCT

  • @minerman60101
    @minerman60101 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +183

    If only all of us were so brave as to passive aggressively express ourselves through skits

  • @bigbone18481956
    @bigbone18481956 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +257

    I clicked and thought it was another 28 sec scetch, lol, you conditioned us man. What an absolute legend, never stop carrying the thing.

    • @Samuel_Kabel
      @Samuel_Kabel 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yup. Have to save to watch later, because he's usually a filler vid for me.

    • @superbadisfunmy
      @superbadisfunmy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is 28 seconds. It's just a looped version with him talking for almost 10 mins

  • @dudethedude1220
    @dudethedude1220 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +591

    Man, sometimes I can’t tell whether this thing you’re carrying is an actual video essay or sarcasm

    • @PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN
      @PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Dude is that good with sarcasm to the point it's like that for me as well lmfao

  • @jpickens189
    @jpickens189 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +410

    I, for one, support the notion of making television cheaply again. The ability to render a cgi army doesn't make art, achieving your goals in an interesting way despite limitations makes art. I just wish people wouldn't take this as a signal to return to the same, cheap, easy, marketable shit they have always made.

    • @Badficwriter
      @Badficwriter 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      "same, cheap, easy, marketable shit" Scripted reality tv never went away.

    • @IkeOkerekeNews
      @IkeOkerekeNews 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      A little undervaluing the artistry of CGI there.

    • @jpickens189
      @jpickens189 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      @@IkeOkerekeNews There are some things that can only be achieved through CGI, but no amount of production value can turn a bad series idea into a good one. If anything, a really impressive and expensive scene is a great way to distract people from the quality of your storytelling.

    • @mr.e7541
      @mr.e7541 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Is likely everything will just be written by Ai and just be cookie cutter bs with no originality.
      Majority of it is like that already with all these shity writers. Of course that's because of the mentality it's based on the false spell popular idea that everything's been done before. And stealing ideas of what was popular before.

    • @niamhleeson3522
      @niamhleeson3522 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@IkeOkerekeNews there is *potential* for artistry of CGI BUT the companies usually won't give vfx studios the resources or production value to actually reify that artistry. they basically always go with the lowest bidder. and that's besides the issue that CGI allows lazy directing and planning because you can fix so much in post these days. on balance CGI makes movies worse

  • @Blizzic
    @Blizzic 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

    Putting “footage unrelated” over footage that is obviously related is an absolutely hilarious bit

  • @Naija_Ninja
    @Naija_Ninja 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +351

    CHOSE YOUR FIGHTER
    Man carrying...
    -Your Mom
    -Pain
    -The legacy of TV
    -The Earth is Flat

    • @skibidigyattrizzler1000
      @skibidigyattrizzler1000 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Earth is hexagonal... I have proof. SO, if we live on Earth, and hexagons were made by us, that means hexagons are on Earth, and if you are on something, you are it. So, basically, the Earth is a hexagon

    • @Merecir
      @Merecir 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@liquidsky7-bb8pc It is clearly donut shaped.

  • @mycollegeshirt
    @mycollegeshirt 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +227

    I really like this. Usually on TH-cam it's blind nostalgia for the past Ignoring the huge amount of dumpster fires we just accepted. I always feel like I'm gaslit when people talk about how great tv used to be. I remember the most popular shows for the most part weren't good, they were just fun and comforting, shows like Saved by the bell Sabrina, and MightyMax, sonicSatm. I loved these shows but I was aware they were not high-quality shows. They would tell you to stop being a couch potato, actively call you an idiot for watching them, and how their current show was making you dumber. We forget that we used to treat watching television as a sign of incurable ineptitude. All this to say, when I hear someone acknowledge the reality of the past it makes it so much easier for me to trust their analysis of what's going on right now.

    • @cormano64
      @cormano64 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      That's precisely why is frustrates me to no end to see people on mass complaining about animations taking too long while using older cartoons as examples of productivity, as if their lower quality wasn't the defining evidence of the negative impact of a assembly line style of production for art.

    • @LinktoSonic
      @LinktoSonic 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Idk about those other shows, but Sonic SatAM was and still is an amazing show. Also, there were dumpster fire shows back then and a bunch of incredible shows back then too, just like it is today. Every era has its hits and stinkers

    • @SuperPal-tr3go
      @SuperPal-tr3go 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Crap television has and always will be a thing regardless of the era. The only difference between now and the mythic past is that most of the crap shows back then have been forgotten and so we in the present can deluded ourselves into believing Sopranos and the Wire were the only shows that existed back then.

    • @futurestoryteller
      @futurestoryteller 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Yeah, you were a _child._ Even by the standards of 90's television, "Sabrina" and "Saved by the Bell" were not the "Mad Men" of their time, get a grip dude.

    • @muffin7784
      @muffin7784 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I think Netflix and TH-cam real tour de force is to have us believe, for a while, that watching it was not a waste of time. I mean, of course if you're watching the bad youtube or netflix, you are wasting time, but the good youtube and netflix? This is you learning. This is you getting cultured. This you enjoying art. Which would be a waste of time, even if it were true.
      And it's fine to waste time, it's okay, but you have to be aware that this is what you're doing.

  • @bencarlson4300
    @bencarlson4300 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    My dad literally watched Suits while doing laundry whenever it came to Netflix a few months ago. I would watch a few minutes every now and then… it’s essentially a “prestige” soap opera where “prestige” just equals higher production value.

  • @arthurvalladares5451
    @arthurvalladares5451 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +86

    We have a good example of this decline lately with The Curse, a Nathan Fielder, Benny Safdie, and Emma Stone show that is very interesting and feels like it should be huge, but it’s getting no attention because it’s not on one of the like 2 streaming services people actually watch. With the streaming fragmentation right now it feels really hard for anything not on Netflix/HBO/Disney+ to take hold, and we have a less diverse and interesting TV landscape because of it.

    • @ManCarryingThing
      @ManCarryingThing  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

      yeah, landing a show on peacock or paramount seems more like a curse for your show

    • @camelopardalis84
      @camelopardalis84 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      This reminds me of what happened with German t.v. You used to have very, very few channels, especially national ones, that did show a bit of everything. Very few shows for children, for example. So they could pick the two or so best ones available. Eventually, there were several channels that specialised on one type of show, for example children's shows. A whole channel just for children's shows. Of course the average one of those is worse than the two that used to be shown on the two main national channels.

    • @khodges72
      @khodges72 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh shid thanks for reminding that exists!

    • @TheNewton
      @TheNewton 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      why does it have to be HUGE, that's part of the problem.

    • @M_CFV
      @M_CFV 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TheNewton he means fame, not the scope of the filmmaking being huge

  • @Alex-cw3rz
    @Alex-cw3rz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    As someone who watches too much Tik Tok and TH-cam, there will be days where the most eventful thing that sticks in my head is going to the shops or glancing the tail end of Four in a bed or something else random on TV. Somehow 8 hours of videos on a myriad of topics, that cause so many different emotions in me at the time, by the end of the day the impact will be virtually nothing. Seeing a stray kitten with it's mummy cat in the garden for less than a minute will be something that I think of more than 8 hours of content.

    • @sirdogegd9567
      @sirdogegd9567 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Maybe watch less tiktok and youtube. Kinda sounds scary

    • @jatzi1526
      @jatzi1526 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Yeah your brain kinda shuts off when you watch tv and skits and shit. Which leads to your brain not considering that stuff essential so it dumps most of it from your short term memory and only saves a little bit to long term. Which when done en masse leads to like entire periods of ppls lives being kinda forgotten lol. That sounds worse than it is but VSauce made a video about our perception of time changing in the modern era due in large part to tv and media. That was just like one part of the video naturally but yeah. I think it was VSauce anyways

    • @Alex-cw3rz
      @Alex-cw3rz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@jatzi1526 that's the the thing though my brain does not switch off when I watch TV

    • @elokin300
      @elokin300 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Have you commented this before on another video? I swear I’ve seen this exact comment before

  • @DannerBanks
    @DannerBanks 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +198

    I'm being kind of pedantic, but tech companies don't usually get "debt", they get funding by selling equity, and then they have to make their company worth more so the funders can sell their ownership to someone else. Regardless, I think your analysis is still accurate.

    • @poppers7317
      @poppers7317 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@DanLyndon the dumpling industry is infamous for accumulating a huge amount of debt.

    • @ShuckleShellAnemia
      @ShuckleShellAnemia 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@DanLyndonto be even MORE pedantic but also completely off-topic, ATM machine is redundant as the M already stands for Machine.
      Carry (thing) on.

    • @robertjenkins6132
      @robertjenkins6132 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "so the funders can sell their ownership to someone else"
      Could they also hold onto it (instead of selling it) and take a cut of profit flows, theoretically?

  • @e.keough2975
    @e.keough2975 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    You’re watching the wrong tv Man Carrying Thing. Lego Ninjago still goes hard.

    • @ManCarryingThing
      @ManCarryingThing  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      true, gonna delete the vid

    • @e.keough2975
      @e.keough2975 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ManCarryingThingcurses I think I lost the most valuable currency in the world by editing my comment. A man carrying thing heart. Or I never received one to begin with. Either way I have brought great shame upon my house.

  • @varsoonhks3211
    @varsoonhks3211 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

    I was worried this wouldn't be as digestible as it was but your comedic sensibilities and editing made these 9 minutes go by in a snap.
    I really want whatever future lets us just have more good stuff. And cartoons.

    • @ManCarryingThing
      @ManCarryingThing  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      thank you

    • @bobbobertson9325
      @bobbobertson9325 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I liked it too, but he could have carried more things. That's just me, though.

    • @hagros93
      @hagros93 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      😭9 minutes is long now

    • @varsoonhks3211
      @varsoonhks3211 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Compared to the usual less-than-a-minute comedic short bits,@@hagros93, yeah. 9 minutes can feel especially long if it's spent with something that's not great. So I was pleasantly surprised that the Man carried the dang thing

  • @genericyoutubeaccount579
    @genericyoutubeaccount579 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Man Carrying Things covered more ground in 9 minutes than most video essays cover in 30 minutes. Straight and to the point. no fluff, no bullshit, no long diatribes about the nature of man, or tangents that go nowhere. Good stuff.

  • @KtonV
    @KtonV 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +93

    This man is carrying my entire attention span.

  • @gilliangilliangillian
    @gilliangilliangillian 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    really liked this one! I appreciate that you talk faster than most video essayists, and you know that's a genuine compliment because it makes me sound impatient and stupid as shit

  • @JMMF698
    @JMMF698 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Thought this was a skit but its actually a real video

  • @fubarecognition
    @fubarecognition 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    Love hearing you talk at length about anything.
    I'm sure I'm not alone in saying we'd love more.

  • @lizardwomanfromearthscore
    @lizardwomanfromearthscore 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I'm a film major and we were learning about the oversaturation of television recently. Really sad stuff, because the quantity from all of all these streaming services drown out the quality of any of them.

    • @futurestoryteller
      @futurestoryteller 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Weirdly though could we say the quality would exist without the quantity? Does the fact that a "small" streamer like Apple made Severance mean you can focus on quality over quantity, or do you refuse to take the chance on such a (relatively) weird show unless you're throwing everything at the wall in a highly competitive, highly saturated environment?

  • @ian_b
    @ian_b 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    TV was always cost-efficient (cheap as possible) but there was a heyday in the 70s where shows like Kojak did virtually a short movie every week. Sci-fi was always bad looking because of the SFX costs (but it mostly looked bad at the cinema too, until Star Wars revolutionised the technology), but more Earthbound shows could be fabulous, with tight, effective writing and directors working hard with what they had. The detective genre (my above example) was an exemplar. And hey, even The Incredible Hulk was a classic. Those writers told more story, effectively, in a single episode than we now get in an entire season.

    • @tedpilledtonysoprano5512
      @tedpilledtonysoprano5512 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I feel like everyone either suddenly started loving Columbo or they all secretly loved it. I'm more of a Kojak man, myself.

    • @BrendanJSmith
      @BrendanJSmith 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Correction: 2001: A Space Odyssey. Not Star Wars.

    • @ian_b
      @ian_b 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@BrendanJSmith 2001 was an outlier not a game changer. Look at Logans Run, which won the SFX Oscar in 1976, to see how bad the standard was until ILM.

    • @ian_b
      @ian_b 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@tedpilledtonysoprano5512 Yeah, I'm a Kojak man too.

    • @CoracaoAcidental98
      @CoracaoAcidental98 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@tedpilledtonysoprano5512 Tbf the memes helped gen z get into Columbo, I say because I'am one of them.

  • @wesreleases6346
    @wesreleases6346 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    My biggest problem with huge streaming series is, as you mention, getting 6-8 episode seasons that tell a decompressed story with 3-year waits between seasons. When you need to have every episode finished at once AND every episode is high-budget and heavy on special effects, the post production takes so long. With the strikes of this year delaying everything that was shooting by at least 4 months, I think we’ll see a lot of shows coming out after the audience has already forgotten about them, and then delivering a weaker product on top of that.

    • @robertjenkins6132
      @robertjenkins6132 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I had to go to Man of Recaps for House of the Dragon Season 1, because I didn't remember _anything_ from that season.

  • @Andythedrew1
    @Andythedrew1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Lol I was expecting this to be 20 seconds. After a minute I was so confused that it was still going 😂

  • @Alex-cw3rz
    @Alex-cw3rz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    I think one of the biggest issues is decision paralysis, causing people to not seek out new content and just watch re-runs of their favourite shows. Meaning TV has less money and less programming required to make originals hurting quality, making the offerings less attractive, causing re-runs to be watched more and TV then has less money again and again reduces it's programming. For example Inside No.9 cam e out in 2014, I heard about it in 2017 and it took me till 2021 to watch Inside No. 9 and it's become one of my most favourite shows. But the plunge to just watch something new meant I had waited years to "invest" 30 minutes of my time, which is huge when you are inundated with so much content from everywhere.

    • @ravenwilder4099
      @ravenwilder4099 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Yeah, the thing about the streaming landscape is, when a new show comes out, it's not just competing with other currently-in-production shows, but with EVERY SHOW EVER MADE.

    • @brockfordjunktion
      @brockfordjunktion 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It doesn't help when so much new content out there is dull reshashed old content.

  • @erixperience4050
    @erixperience4050 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +81

    As someone taking a TV writing class this semester, the title alone gives me a renewed sense of dread (but also I definitely can see how bad things are looking so I'm bracing myself)
    ETA: This is a common sentiment, but goddamn I miss when shows could have long seasons. 15-25 episodes where we just get bottle episodes or character moments, but when you have 8 episodes (sometimes to adapt a very large book) you're slaved to the plot. I watched each Stranger Things season in a day and I just felt *tired* at the end. That also gets into the 'dropping seasons at once discourse' though so I'll leave it for now.

    • @cormano64
      @cormano64 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No no, do get in the "dropping seasons at once" discourse, please.
      Also, what are bottle episodes?

    • @erixperience4050
      @erixperience4050 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@cormano64 Basically something that's self-contained in one place and doesn't really impact the larger plot. Standalones, if you boil it down enough.
      But as for the season disk horse, I like the ability to sub for one month and get everything, but deluging really does kind of kill discussion. Why would I read an episode by episode discussion thread and theorise when I can just wait and read the full-season ones instead?

    • @Badficwriter
      @Badficwriter 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@erixperience4050 The AV Club reviewer did a thing on a Netflix series that dropped at once, but decided to watch one episode per day so people could get their speculation on. It was painfully difficult to stop watching, engage with the website and then walk away from the series. Fun to speculate, but agonizing to wait through.

    • @futurestoryteller
      @futurestoryteller 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Stranger Things is legitimately amazing. Maybe don't watch it like a freebaser

    • @erixperience4050
      @erixperience4050 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@futurestoryteller "Dumping entire seasons at once incentivizes bingewatches to avoid spoilers"
      "Cokehead"
      Thank you for your valuable contribution

  • @IceSpoon
    @IceSpoon 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +93

    As a latino, I am humbled that you want to read "Cien Años de Soledad" on its original language. All the power to you, y buena suerte.
    (Also, no shame if you need to read it with a english-spanish dictionary next to it).

    • @jrightly
      @jrightly 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      let me save you 100 years of reading : ANTS

    • @Ale-Y
      @Ale-Y 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hablo español como primer idioma pero igual lei las partes en español de tu comentario con acento en ingles xd

    • @IceSpoon
      @IceSpoon 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Ale-Y hahaha las wonders del espanglish my dear amigo.

  • @gaming2ebbrell136
    @gaming2ebbrell136 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

    This is why you don't judge a *book* by its cover

    • @shan4680
      @shan4680 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Well, not publicly, anyway. Is silently judging still OK?

    • @alexanderthegreat-mx5zu
      @alexanderthegreat-mx5zu 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@shan4680nooooooooooooo o o. O o o o o o o oo. O o o o o o o oo o o o o o o o o o

    • @trionyxking1318
      @trionyxking1318 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Or a man by the thing he's carrying.

  • @petertellsstories
    @petertellsstories 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    0:33 I did have fun wasting my time to pause the video to read. In fact, I think the jump cut added some hot emphasis!

  • @Darth_Niki4
    @Darth_Niki4 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Almost a 10-minute long essay? On this channel??
    The folk hero! He never drops the ball!

  • @Topcatyo.
    @Topcatyo. 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    This was great and I enjoy your perspective on things. I would be happy for you to continue making videos like this, on TH-cam, where art always flourishes.

  • @longboy5639
    @longboy5639 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +162

    No creí que gustara tanto cien años de soledad, bien por ti hombre que le gusta cargar cosas. Saludos desde Chile, el país con forma graciosa

    • @luispradilla9297
      @luispradilla9297 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Como un Colombiano que estudia literatura tengo que admitir que es la cosa que siempre cargo. Saludos al hombre cargando cosa

    • @drakonid
      @drakonid 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      No sabemos si le gusta cargar cosas, solamente que carga cosa

    • @thebeingdestroyerofworlds8690
      @thebeingdestroyerofworlds8690 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      La casa de los espíritus es mejor, bro

    • @Ardefisty
      @Ardefisty 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Que bueno ver weones acá con buenos gustos

    • @DISMOTRON
      @DISMOTRON 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Él nunca falla, la leyenda absoluta!

  • @HornetSilksong1232
    @HornetSilksong1232 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    first video essay (if thats the right term for this) ive seen in a while that didnt feel unnecessarily dragged out, and instead was concise and to the point

  • @EinDose
    @EinDose 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I've been watching Deep Space Nine recently, and it's fascinating to see how cheap it can be. It's not a low-budget show for its time by any means, and they don't skimp on the stuff that's really important, but if you want to pay attention you can see the cost-cutting; all the datapads are cheap plastic props, they depict a new spaceship interior by just lighting and shooting an existing one differently, they follow up big episodes with obvious low-budget bottle episodes so they can balance the books, they just have Odo stand around and be intimidating most of the time because it's really expensive when he does any shapeshifting.
    And it's FINE. I don't actually notice that they cut corners and cheap out, because it's a good show regardless! And yet, I don't even think modern Strar Trek knows how to be Star Trek in the ways that still make old Star Trek shows worth watching.

  • @Jed_Herne
    @Jed_Herne 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I loved this video essay style - feels like an awesome throwback to the earlier days of your channel when you did essays on Dune's writing and other deep-dives! Would love to see more pieces like this.

  • @flyingcosmograma
    @flyingcosmograma 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Can’t wait for you to announce the plankton farts and dies TV series where Bob Odenkirk plays the fart.

  • @Pietre115
    @Pietre115 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This man be carrying everything. But let’s be honest though, this is really good. I’ve been noticing a sudden lack of video essays in the past few months. Even a video that’s 9 minutes long is refreshing at this point. I hope he does this more often every once in a while

  • @thingusbingus8181
    @thingusbingus8181 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I feel like a major issue thats happening more often, outside of big franchises encroaching into everything, is the constant process of making shows like they're movies. Shows that come out on Disney+ don't feel like a proper show with episodes, they feel like long movies with breaks in between major moments. And studios see the numbers they make and try to replicate it, and end up making things that are poorly paced. Even if it's something that is heavy on plot like Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones, the individual episodes have their own small self contained set ups and pay-offs and naturally flow into the next episode and next season, compared to things from netflix or disney+ where episodes have little plot development until the last 5 minutes and then it hard cuts to black and ends, rinse repeat for a season. They going about it the wrong way.

  • @boobootittleman7299
    @boobootittleman7299 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    “How many completed films do I have to delete for people to watch Renovation Cabin Fuckers?!”
    -David Zaslav

  • @sophiaisabelle01
    @sophiaisabelle01 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I used to watch a lot of television as a kid. That was like my type of ride and die back in the day. Even Netflix had to step back.

  • @simonlegosson7082
    @simonlegosson7082 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    1:04 ManCarryingThing is such a beast that when he makes a video with Babbel he sponsors them, not the other way around.

  • @MRZ_20
    @MRZ_20 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It's a funny coincidence that you posted this video today because on Friday when I get paid, I am going to order a 4k ultra hd blu ray dvd player with upscaling. The reason for this is so that I can just buy the 4k ultra hd versions of movies and shows that I like, and then be able to watch them whenever I want. Maybe one day when my collection is big enough, streaming services will become unnecessary for me.

  • @yis8fire
    @yis8fire 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    I kinda wanted you to make a video like this, talking about anything but in a more short version, amazing video
    Keep making skits and (maybe) more videos like this

  • @MercurySG3M
    @MercurySG3M 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    This is such a great format for you, need more of this

  • @the_imm8rtal_1
    @the_imm8rtal_1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I like this format, Jake. It’s refreshing and still funny where you intended it to be. I’d love seeing this type of content like once a week or once every two weeks, depending on what you want to do with it

  • @taylorbruceehlert9067
    @taylorbruceehlert9067 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Big fan of your longer videos. Thanks for keeping it concise and to the point, another TH-camr would’ve made this video an hour and a half.

  • @TheLegoPerson
    @TheLegoPerson 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I loved this style! It felt well paced and unsurprisingly very well written, and i would definitely watch more like this

  • @dougdumais7457
    @dougdumais7457 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a thoughtful, concise, and well-researched analysis of the TV landscape (based on some of the comments I read). I hope to have 9 minutes to watch the whole thing someday.

  • @sampigg7933
    @sampigg7933 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    He never misses! The absolute legend!

  • @SpazzerMcFly
    @SpazzerMcFly 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I can’t believe at the end of the credits it said “Man Carrying Thing will return”. Insane

    • @stormtraitor6545
      @stormtraitor6545 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He will return in ‘Avengers: The Thing Dynasty’.

    • @cartoonfanatic
      @cartoonfanatic 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This isn't even the end. There's a lot of great shows to watch out there. I can name 15 from the past 5 years alone

    • @cartoonfanatic
      @cartoonfanatic 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's absolutely is not the end of media. There's still a lot of great, shows, films, music, and games being made epedically from this year. I can lists dozens of great ones

  • @genericytprofile852
    @genericytprofile852 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I first came for the skits but I really enjoy your further in depth stuff. Please keep making it!

  • @koolaid33
    @koolaid33 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    That last line where you state that you watch TH-cam, where everything is made for artistic purposes, is something I severely wish was true still. One day at Christmas, hopefully old TH-cam will return.

    • @Badficwriter
      @Badficwriter 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I hate the "TH-cam is my job" trend. Every channel is a mini-corporation, complaining about other corporations.

    • @IkeOkerekeNews
      @IkeOkerekeNews 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@Badficwriter
      Life is a job.

  • @j.b.c.a.
    @j.b.c.a. 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Guys, watch the bear. It's the absolute Jeff, never misses.

  • @jaimeerindy4573
    @jaimeerindy4573 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's super fun to have been a college kid studying the eras of television and the rise of prestige TV and then graduate in 2019 into the fall of the medium altogether 🙃

  • @MoronicMinds
    @MoronicMinds 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    He never seems to not hit, the urban myth!

  • @cadebuhrer148
    @cadebuhrer148 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I love these longer video essays of yours. Keep ‘em coming!

  • @_Jay_Maker_
    @_Jay_Maker_ 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Given the amount of legitimate art I've seen on TH-cam (I'm looking at _you,_ Umami,) that's a pretty accurate assessment, Man Carrying Our Weight in Imagination.

  • @spawnpoint111
    @spawnpoint111 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I GENUINELY thought this was a sketch about those stupid in-depth videos of the history of TV. Instead, he's gone full circle and made it unironically.

  • @the_pinkerton
    @the_pinkerton 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Holy moly, it's not a sketch, I wasn't expecting that!!!

  • @maxentirunos
    @maxentirunos 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    8:05 : Exactly that. My father watch this show while 'napping' and both me and my mother were instantly rememberering of our grand-father watching The Young and The Restless 25 years before.

  • @arthurbriand2175
    @arthurbriand2175 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    A Medium sized video from Mancarryingthing !!! The legends were real !

    • @brendanb2982
      @brendanb2982 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The absolute legends were real

  • @CoolCommenter-YesIndeed
    @CoolCommenter-YesIndeed 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Man, he really carried that thing for over 9 minutes.

  • @MrGrimlocke
    @MrGrimlocke 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I feel like this past decade of TV is the best that it's ever been. The issues with all the different streaming services sucks, but the quality of TV shows themselves has never been better

    • @EntrEsprit
      @EntrEsprit 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      last two decades basically yeah

    • @khodges72
      @khodges72 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What shows would you recommend?

    • @MrGrimlocke
      @MrGrimlocke 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@khodges72 Succession, Better Call Saul, Mr Robot, MindHunter, Orphan Black, Beef, The Bear, People Just Do Nothing, The Americans, The OA, Severance, For All Mankind, Tokyo Vice, Ted Lasso, You, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Warrior, Snowfall, American Vandal, Vice Principals, The Righteous Gemstones, Black Monday, Ramy, Pen15, Crazy Ex-girlfriend, The Good Place, iZombie, Altered Carbon, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, Vinyl, The Patriot (2015), Fargo, Money Heist (just the first 2 seasons), Vikings, White Gold
      As you can probably guess, I watch way too much TV lol

    • @khodges72
      @khodges72 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for taking the time to give me a serious answer! Some of these are on my list of favourite shows, some I have tried but not been too sure about, and others I have not tried at all. I will give some a go! I also forgot that Beef was on my watch list, the trailers looked really interesting. @@MrGrimlocke

  • @lundylow
    @lundylow 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I only just noticed that you're not at a million subs, which surprised me. Your new uploads are like the only ones that show up in my feed.

  • @TheAmyrlinSeat
    @TheAmyrlinSeat 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I am now divorcing Teevee, my wife of over 80 years. Thank you for the advice!

  • @pauline6667
    @pauline6667 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    After like 45 seconds I legit got confused about why the video hadn't stop yet and I moved my mouse and I saw that the video was NINE MINUTES LONG? WHAT? I had not anticipated to watch a video longer than 30 seconds, I wasn't prepared.

  • @dankwojak3689
    @dankwojak3689 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    “I want to read 100 years of solitude in its original language”
    - Legitimately the single most relatable thing you have ever said.

  • @sethpolley7999
    @sethpolley7999 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We both read the same article!!! I love your work.

  • @bradenwagstaff1234
    @bradenwagstaff1234 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is the only youtube channel I have notifications on for. I watch every video as soon as it comes out. Keep carrying the things

  • @yiannchrst
    @yiannchrst 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This almost felt like a fever dream.
    Genuine, yet sarcastic and ironic in tone. Longer in length, with the feel of a short. Deep, yet not one hour long. The list goes on. This feels like a mix of your older and newer content. I think I enjoyed it!

  • @silu_draws
    @silu_draws 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    No way, a 9 minute essay? What are you, Martin Scorcesse?

  • @deltahalo241
    @deltahalo241 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I can't wait for Man Carrying Thing's first 3 hour video essay

  • @Yuusharo
    @Yuusharo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Going from media essay satirist to legitimate media essayist and doing so in such a sharp, easily digestible way… this channel is going places, Man. Keep it up!!

  • @zaneberry
    @zaneberry 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I loved your “footage unrelated” captain marvel clip bc god dammit my biggest pet peeve in video essays is completely irrelevant visuals/clip selection

  • @itstimefortim
    @itstimefortim 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Wow, a long man video. That's incredible.

  • @f3rny_66
    @f3rny_66 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    as a native spanish speaker funny that you mention 100 años de soledad as your favorite book because IT HAS SO MUCH INCEST and we were forced to read it when I was in school

  • @ryanegbert7299
    @ryanegbert7299 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    After watching I can confirm that this man indeed does carry this thing

  • @WTFG78
    @WTFG78 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    “There is a battle between art and commerce, and lemme tell ya- art is getting its a** kicked.”

  • @robertwild9447
    @robertwild9447 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    And Thing turned to Man and asked "Man, you said that when I followed you, you would be there walking besides me. But looking back on my footprints in the sand, I only see one set of footprints. I don't understand why when I needed you most, you weren't there for me." And Man replied to Thing and said "My precious, precious child. I was always there with you, but during the most difficult times in your life, it was then that I carried you..."

  • @dankmemester1066
    @dankmemester1066 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    4:47 i too like to think that malcolm in the middle was a sequel to breaking bad.

  • @spacedoutorca4550
    @spacedoutorca4550 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The absolute miss! He never legends!

  • @EnvolSideral
    @EnvolSideral 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I like this format, I love that you're able to juggle between this type of analytical content and short comedy skits, I'd love to see more! Well done

  • @dennis8811
    @dennis8811 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Absolute legend never misses

  • @TheKaijuKing54
    @TheKaijuKing54 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I actually would really like it if you made more of these types of videos. It’s nice to see you expressing yourself more and giving out your input on these types of situations.

  • @saverenus
    @saverenus 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Man, I know you CARRY things, but I really think this format of yours CARRIES the modern day current TH-cam thats loaded with reaction content. Please CARRY on coz we really need that, you're interesting, yes. Bye. 😊

  • @joshualopez9175
    @joshualopez9175 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks Babble, I appreciate you making this video

  • @keenanbartlome8153
    @keenanbartlome8153 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    some of the best tv shows ive ever seen have come out in the last couple years. Ted Lasso, Shrinking, The Boys, Reacher. While I think the streaming services do have alot of problems, mainly revolving around greed and not paying the creators what their worth, I also think that people are always saying something is dead/dying. Especially with tv/movies andmusic, people are always complaining that nothing good is coming out currently, I say those people just arent putting any effort into looking for it.

    • @SuperPal-tr3go
      @SuperPal-tr3go 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It's almost as if these people exclusively watch Marvel and Star Wars shit... which yeah maybe they should find other things to watch.

    • @cartoonfanatic
      @cartoonfanatic 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is like the only good comment I've seen from this echo chamber comment section

  • @talkgoodenglish7500
    @talkgoodenglish7500 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Barry and Succession ended on the same day right around when the app got renamed to Max and that's when it felt incredibly over for me

    • @ManCarryingThing
      @ManCarryingThing  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      lol yeah that's actually a very distinct moment to call END

  • @Russian_engineer_bmstu
    @Russian_engineer_bmstu 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It's not a 20 second fake out? As a recent sub (subscriber, not submissive) I didn't know these existed

  • @gizzardlicka
    @gizzardlicka 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Usually I just passive-aggressively express myself through skits"
    That last line came across as *so* passive-aggressive though!

  • @Snapback26
    @Snapback26 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Stopping people from saying first

    • @ManCarryingThing
      @ManCarryingThing  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      first

    • @Snapback26
      @Snapback26 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have failed

    • @itstimefortim
      @itstimefortim 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well I was the first comment and I didn't say first or stopping people from saying first but by not saying stopping people from saying first I did indeed stop people from saying first.

  • @woobharb
    @woobharb 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I watched so many of MCT’s skits that I forgot that he also made long analytic videos 💀

  • @HighLordComedian
    @HighLordComedian 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    What is this content?!?!? Its not about books and it isn't a 2 minute skit about something relatable. I NEED to know how to feel about this.