I saw this with bojack too! I was sooo hyped to see a 4 h video about bojack because i love learning more about it cus theres always stuff you get only by watching again and again AND IT WAS A FUCKING RECAP OF ALL THE SEASON AND THE MOST BASIC EXPLANATION OF ALL THE EPISODES. NO INPUT. NO DETAILS. NO NOTHING. AND IT HAD ANALYSIS IN THE TITLE.
no fr i keep seeing long ass videos that are like "an autopsy of [popular movie]" or something and then it's just a plot recap! someone will be like "review of [show]" and then it's just telling you what happened in the show. it's ridiculous
I love the "downfall" videos where it treats someone or something that was once REALLY popular and is now merely PRETTY popular or has come to its natural end like it fell off the side of the earth. I saw a "downfall of The Simpsons" video somewhere, which... it's literally been on for 30 years, nothing on earth would stay peak for that long.
Netflix documentaries are like that friend who starts telling a story but keeps adding random details-you’re 10 hours in, still waiting for the punchline
Nah, you've just been programmed by the algorithim brugh. Totes of your rocker if you think the tube can lay beef on the flix. Brugh that bonkers. You are out of your gord homey real talk.
I also hate when people use the excuse “you’ve just fried your attention span and can’t handle slower stuff” when they are clearly dragging stuff out to make a certain time criteria
@@TheCakenukeism most people cannot sit still doing absolutely nothing for five minutes straight, like specifically if you're talking about doing nothing nothing most people aren't going to be able to accomplish that that's just how the human brain works, the human brain is constantly stimulation seeking. it's why if you stare at nothing for long enough, your brain will start to mildly hallucinate. this isn't a younger generation issue, older generations are just as addicted to technology. It's just that the design of these algorithms are to be as addicting as possible
I didnt realize how refreshing it would be to hear someone say "Id kill myself" and not censor it with "unalive". Content and speech being watered down to ad-friendly specifics is just another engineered way social media is controlling our lives.
im so scared of dying not because i will die but because Ray William Johnson will generate an ai image of someone who looks nothing like me screaming and will say “they sadly were unalived with a pew pew”
I miss most people simply adding a small sound over the word or using a * for a letter to censor things. Instead of creating whole new "internet friendly" lingo like unalive/sewerslide/grape etc. 😭
everything he said in this video was what i’ve been thinking this past month and it scared me when he brought up the one game that accumulated it all. He’s really me fr.
EXACTLY! It feels like every time I open my phone and watch TH-cam shorts I end up getting cynical or pessimistic videos, and I end up closing my phone without having gained anything, nor having had fun.
@@great2831Don’t be condescending. You know that’s how entertainment is presented to people as an excuse. OP is talking about that. You’re talking about the real motivation. You’re just focused on two sidesof the same coin.
It infuriates me too because whatever shithead thought of this was probably like "omg hear me out guys, what if we do this and that" and everyone was like "omg this is genius" when it's just absolutely ridiculous.
i think it’s super important to bring these things up and it’s just pushing me even more to abandon the internet soon so i can actually LIVE and MAKE THINGS instead of wasting my time online lol
Same! I feel like as commentary TH-cam has gotten bigger, a lot of it is just people reacting to dumb stuff so that they can say “this is dumb”, but Drew’s vids actually give me new perspective on a lot of topics
these yt videos feel like those articles when you google "how long to cook rice", click on the first link that pops up and the article starts with an analysis of the entire history of rice dating back to prehistoric times, rice's symbolism in literature, it's health benefits and an opinion on rice from the author themselves
"My family came on the mayflower over 6 generations ago. My great great great great grandfather brought the first rice grains to the new world, forming a new relationship with the grain. This recipe -"
not to mention how every company wants to charge $10 a month(or more), just to not see ads, and they make sure to cram in every minute of ads that they’re able to.
They suckered us into switching from cable, bc it was cheaper and had no commercials, then raised all of their prices, made it so you need 5 streaming services to watch your 5 favorite shows, and added the ads back....except more than they used to have on regular cable tv....but you can get rid of them if you pay an extra 14.99/mo each.
@@heronheronhero i’m worried about viruses when it comes to that, so many sites are sketchy nowadays. even when I last looked into it on reddit, a couple of sites people swore by were giving me issues
@@QueenViolet6969 Yeah it's nice that it works well now but man it was basically a scam at launch. Especially the last gen console versions, do they even work now?
@RisingRevengeance not sure I play on PC but last gen didn't get 2.0 update or the DLC so pretty shitty for ppl who bought it on there. I still think the game is worth it just for the writing alone tho
i got really into the story and then a few hours in i couldn't continue because an npc spawned in the ground and i couldn't talk to him no matter what i tried and how often i resetted he was always there xd
@@RisingRevengeance I actually played it on base PS4 after patch 1.6 released iirc. Worked fine, but it had insanely long loading times and barely any traffic because the console couldn't handle too much going on on the screen. There were still a few glitches here and there, but nothing that would break the game. I don't know how it runs now, but I think CDPR stopped updating for last gen consoles.
Making a documentary on Elisa Lam and interviewing the internet sleuths who obsessed over her death is a bit like making a 9/11 documentary and interviewing 9/11 conspiracy theorists.
@@stargold222very true. The thing that didn’t make sense was how she was able to pull the cover over her because it’s heavy and had to he awkward. But it’s basically been proven that she did it.
I so relate to that frustrating feeling when you feel like using social media is actively making you worse and you still can't stop. It really feels like we're not in control of our life and our time anymore
There's something so gross about interviewing a man who found a dead person, an extremly traumatic experience that I'm sure hasn't been easy for him to handle, and then putting that on the same level as "guy who read a Wikipedia article"
yeah this is one of drew's worst IMO. first he disses small creators than he says stuff like this. really disrespectful stuff from drew. honestly dissapointed in him.
Bo burnham talked about this in an interview. We ran out of land to colonize so now we have to colonize time and attention to continue corporate growth.
"The algorithm is teaching me that I shouldn't cut things out of my video if they feel superfluous, or unnecessary, or repetitive, or like I'm just saying the same thing over and over again but in slightly different ways" DREW-😭😭
sincerely so impressed with the direction you've taken your last few videos in, it feels really great to see a creator I love growing with his audience and taking a more philosophical approach to commentary, instead of just sticking with what worked 5 years ago in order to play it safe. the commentary space on youtube has really been feeling like it's in arrested development as of late, and two creators who I feel are doing amazing jobs at moving past it and creating a new pathway are you and Eddie Burback
It seems like every day I click on a video that promises an "analysis" of a piece of media just to end up with a two-hour recap of the plot, and somehow I fall for it every single time
Its a hard ratio to balance tbf. If you dont recap things no only do you lose people who don't remember, but you cant JUST recap the plot without analyzing. Some of my favorite essays include large swaths of recap segments with multiple points of analysis in it. As long as there is a point to recaps im fine with it!
Omg yes this. I've had mant movies or shows that I came away finished and wanted hear other people's thoughts or opinions on the meaning. Only to be met with "ending explained" and recap "analysis" content. Where are people's actual thoughts?
And then they just say how the scene made them feel. Like yeah, I also laughed when Jim hit Phyllis in the head with the soccer ball, I don't need to know you ALSO laughed, the scene was meant to be comedic. That's not analysis, it's react content with extra steps.
@@cleo5090 yeah im glad too, it just caught me off guard considering danny, jarvis and kurtis (might be misremembering on that one) have all had airup sponsors
@@stevenstokes6306 not that i remember, but i doubt it considering he seems to dislike it. at the very least hes probably not in any contracts with them
It’s extra frustrating that Netflix docs drag shit out to make them longer considering they do the exact opposite with other series that have genuinely interesting plotlines because apparently a season can’t be longer than 8 episodes now
Drew's channel has half become "get off your phone please bc technology has become worse today" motivation and I love that he's using his influence to push this message, 100% here for it lol.
He's a king for that. His viewer base is probably young like most of TH-cam so this might reach someone and help them realise what happens before it's too late.
@@wickedlavender - If you or anyone else out there has a dream, I really believe you can do it! My spirit and my mind and my heart are with you all. ^___^
@@ashtons.8501 usually a quiet, reserved, nerdy person that comes more alive and energetic when in their trusted group of people. We typically notice that there are very similar personalities that gravitate towards particular instruments. Just like pop/rock bands certain personalities are more drawn to lead guitar versus drums versus rhythm guitar. I'm a cellist so I'm overly sarcastic, wildly passionate and a giant pain in the ass. We swear like sailors, question everything, and snark constantly. We also have our niche nerdy interests we tend to get really attached to. But Drew being a clarinet player, is the least shocking thing I've learned this year.
@@SieMiezekatze it can actually be quite useless unless we are helping students choose which instrument they want to learn how to play. We also tend to apply it retroactively to people we meet. Like if we have a conversation with someone and they reveal what instrument they play us musicians tend to be like, "I KNEW IT! You're so XYZ."
@@sophiajoson3308 i've had a tab open of these posters for months and they're by Sylvan Design Co.!! they've got ones for other fandoms like Star Wars and Zelda too!!
So often I've watched an hour long analysis expecting and waiting for some substance, and then it ends and I feel empty. It feels like I just ate a fast food meal. And then I feel guilty for being upset at the creator because "ahh everyone starts somewhere!" Wasted my time for an hour saying "this is so good" and refusing to elaborate on WHY Thank you for making this video. I've been craving something like this. Something with ACTUAL substance that doesn't waste my time 🙏 also tysm for the Screenzen recommendayion
The part about scrolling is so real. I will literally be scrolling through a hundred garbage reels and still not exit the app because as soon as I do, I somehow know I'll become conscious of the time I've wasted and start feeling like shit about it
I completely agree, and as a person with ADHD, time blindness and the inability to stop scrolling even though I know I should be doing something else are horribly real, and social media companies are only making my symptoms worse!
God, that happens to me SO MUCH. I’ll go on insta usually to look at a few specific accounts, but i don’t see it on my homepage, so i go to the search engine for their @ and literally every single time, i end up wasting over an hour watching reels. It irritates me every time.
I'm so glad you brought up Defunctland, he just makes such incredible content and I would rather spend a day watching his nearly two-hour long video about Disney's Fastpass rather than bingeing an 8 episode Netflix show that rots my brain
His Kid Cities video is hands down one of the funniest videos I've ever seen on TH-cam while also being incredibly informative on a topic I've literally never thought about.
Jenny keeps me hooked all throughout. I don't even realize a whole hour went by. Glad you talked about the difference between a video like hers and other videos that intentionally make their videos long.
the biggest difference i feel between channels that waste time and channels that don't: it's genuinely a g*ddamn treat when people like you post a longer video, because i know you have more to say and i'll eat up every second of it. also thanks for all the great channel recs, i love knitting while watching ashley norton
Ya it helps when adding context on certain things like for example I want a longer "medevil times" video becuase it was a long stretch of time but the history of toliet paper should be max 30 mins
Yeah, also idk how others feel about youtubers going on random tangents in a video, i can find it funny, but i had to stop watching some people because they'll start rambling about a random (mostly unrelated) thing every few minutes and i can't even comprehend what they're talking about anymore.
Man thank you. I've gotten so frustrated with youtube "video essays" where it's just people talking non stop with no editing or coherent story. Or they do analysis and it's just the most basic and surface level shit ever
What really gets me is the ones that reach no conclusion. If they didn't say "Well, that's it for this video" you'd have no idea you've reached the end. It makes me really appreciate the people who clearly have a strong script, and it's crazy that both types sort of get bundled together in public consciousness. There's some stuff on TH-cam that's truly incredible, like Lindsay Ellis' series on The Hobbit, or Dan Olsen's Line Goes Up. Things that you kind of can't believe you're learning for free. And then you see other channels trying to replicate it but they're just not doing the legwork.
the worst ones are the ones that frame the video to be some deep analysis on a nuanced and delicate subject and the whole video is just them showing videos on tik tok that are kinda related to the topic as if that’s their evidence.
One thing that gets me about the subpar video essayists is that they tend to repeat themselves a lot. Even those who properly edit their audio will still keep making the same point over and over again as if they don't remember the writing fundamentals they were taught in grade school.
Sometimes I miss HAVING to wait to watch the next episode of things back in the 90s and early 00s. As immersive as binging is, I also feel like it doesn't add anything really.
I somewhat disagree. I have adhd so my memory can be really bad, so for shows where there’s a lot details that are important to the plot it’s more enjoyable to watch in a shorter span of time. Like when I watched season 2 for Loki I had to stop and rewatch season 1 and take notes first lol. For shows that are not really linear tho like spongebob it makes no difference.
The conclusion to this video encapsulates exactly how I feel. I have so much stuff I want to do before I have to start working a regular 9-5 job with no summer break, but I can't help but feel like I'm making the wrong decision every time I choose to do something even when I enjoy it. I overthink everything so much that most of the time I just don't do anything, and I end up screwing around on my phone until 3AM instead of just watching the show that I've been thinking about watching for two days. I constantly feel like I'm wasting my time no matter what I do, and it feels like I've wasted my entire life hesitating to take the first step of doing anything I wanted. I tell myself that I have all the time in the world to do what I want, but that kind of makes me feel less motivated knowing that I have all this time and I'm still somehow wasting it.
Figure out how to get rid of the stuff u screw around on til 3am! I have a time limit on insta so I have to actively make the decision to use it (sometimes I still use it by reflex 🫠). But usually! I actually choose not to use the app and put on a movie I’ve been meaning to watch. Also u could just delete it obvi but i think most people don’t feel like they could bc then ur out of the loop yk. It’s the only social media I have tho 🤷♀️
i’ve been saying for YEARS that not every game needs to be open world. As someone who also is a completionist i HATE when i go through a bunch of pointless side quests that are just “go to this area and give this person a thing that you have to spend 3 hours getting and also it doesn’t give you anything in return :)” Nothing makes me want to stop playing a game more.
Yeah!! And needing to open 50 boxes/chests/etc. in every area just in case something useful is there- I feel like I waste so much time I could be enjoying a story putting things in my inventory
As much as I liked BOTW and TOTK in Legend of Zelda I’m so ready to play a normal Zelda game that isn’t gonna burn me out 😭 I didnt even finish Tears of the Kingdom bc its just too much for someone who wants to do everything
A phrase I've been repeating for years: Games are allowed to end. If you're a completionist but don't want to spend tons of time, there's two genres you really should not play, and I mean this sincerely: Open world games and RPGs. @@DodderingOldMan Yeah, there's a sweetspot. It's not really an open world if there's no diversions. That said, I really liked ER and BotW for the same reason Drew pointed out: less quest markers, more doing what I want to do. It's way more organic than most open world games, and I like seeing the *option* of tons of stuff without that nagging feeling (or worse, the explicit requirement) that I *have* to do tons of stuff.
Honestly this is why I love your content so much and respect you as a creator the most. Your videos have me completely immersed, that I don't feel the need to have 3 other stimuli in the background preventing a thought, or needing to fill any air time. I find your content relaxing, I am able to still enjoy media, without overloading my brain and feeling anxious after. The way you introduce ad reads are always my favourite. Thank you Drew. I hope you know how positively your work impacts us.
when Drew is talking about advertising "a water bottle that smells bad" and the camera is zooming back out I wanted nothing more than to see Danny Gonzalez and Kurtis Conner standing on either side
I remember reading Fahrenheit 451 and one of the things that always stuck with me was just how apathetic rhe characters were. The main character's wife OD and it's treated like it wasn't that big a deal. A mother admits that she sends her children to school for most of the week and sticks them in the TV room when they're home so she doesn't have to deal with them. People like to go for long drives just to hit animals. Everyone wants to stay home to look at a screen.
This also ties perfectly into the destruction of literature. Why would anyone want to read something that makes them feel emotions, especially difficult ones, when they can remain wrapped in that blanket of comfortable apathy?
wasnt the whole concept of that book to be like what the author thought the future was going to look like? because it doesnt seem like they were really far off.
That’s so true bc just an hour ago, my 6 yr old brother was complaining abt how he doesn’t wanna play sports bc he’d rather be on his iPad 🤦♀️ I feel doomed as his big sister 😭😭
Ironically I'm convinced this is a big part of what's destroying people's attention spans, too. When everything's stringing you along and wasting your time, it's just a matter of time before you stop being able to immerse yourself in something in the good faith it's taking you someplace worthwhile, and instead are trained to keep an eye on every loose second something asks of you and immediately cut it loose if it seems like it's dragging too long. Already I go immediately to the comments of any video I'm watching, in no small part so that if they're wasting my time I can find out as quickly as possible, and that is itself morphing into me scrolling and only half-listening to stuff way faster than I know what to do with. I didn't used to be like this, you guys T-T
Bro same, I'm scrolling the comments right now. On Netflix I follow a ten minute rule. That's how long they have to hook me. Cause classic movies like The Goonies or Back to the Future are already incredibly interesting by the ten minute mark
@@MaizeSnallygasterthere were like. Hundreds of ways you could've said this nicely, but for some reason you picked this version. If it's clear they meant unironically, it's not a big deal that they wrote the wrong word (:
In the modern age you can only have 2 attention spans. 1 minute so you can sit through thousands of short Tiktoks, or a entire day so you can watch the longest video essay or documentary known to man. There’s no inbetween!
or you could do neither. or both every so often, it doesn’t have to be a cycle. this topic is soooooo much bigger than just wasting time. i wrote a paper on it just a few months ago, the topic is really really interesting and has some crazy statistics
It's really sad how casual content doesn't fit into either long form or short form content anymore, so now they don't get prioritised by the algorithm anymore.
it’s actually funny how he mentioned screen zen being a big reason he stopped using social media as much. i saw the dopamine video when it came out and downloaded the app soon after, it quite literally makes me feel like im not wasting nearly as much time as i used to on social media. if you’re legitimately struggling to close out social media apps, get screen zen, after it tells me i’ve used up my 10 minutes it reminds me i could be doing anything else, reading, doing homework, checking up on my friends, something so much more productive than the mindless scrolling
@@splendidpheasant9192 I just downloaded StayFocusd after I saw that part of the video - I saw one positive review and have had it downloaded for 1/2 an hour. Good so far. It's on the Chrome web store and possibly other places too.
i always appreciate the subtitles for your videos!! you speak very clearly for me already but they're still very helpful, please never stop doing them!
I am SO glad someone else felt the same way about the Cecil Hotel doc. That was the content that not only made me question what kind of media I was viewing, but the ethicality of the true-crime I was watching. Who is benefitting from me sitting here watching this? Was this information gathered in an ethical way from reliable resources? Why am I watching a "web sleuth" tell me about his Reddit grinding and why does he think he's better than the FBI?
When they spent almost an entire episode saying it was this one guy and then they interview him and he’s like “I wasn’t even there at the same time”. Get out of my face dude my time is precious
Yes! I don’t like true crime (idk if this is part of what you’re touching on but you’re comment made me think of it) but to me, it creeps me out that we have such a strangely obsessive culture around it. Like the person/people being brutally murdered…they were someone’s mom, dad, brother, child etc & we’re watching this horrific crime people actually traumatically experienced purely for _entertainment_ …Like *why* ? and what does say about us as a society that we are so entertained by it & so flippant about it. it’s just so disturbing to me.
I felt that way about Don't Fuck With Cats. How much of that documentary was taken up by the story of web sleuths who made it all about themselves and actively impeded the investigation at times and that one guy they accused of being behind the videos even though he was completely innocent and ended up killing himself. And then at the end of the documentary that one lady had the nerve to be like "you don't actually care about the case, you're just here for the sensationalism of it all" when the documentary itself made no effort to find out anything about the victim. Like, his best friend got interviewed maybe twice. That was it. It was all so bad.
This phenomenon is exactly what led me to stop watching some youtubers I used to enjoy quite a bit. iNabber is the perfect example of this where I recently watched him again and realized he just repeats himself so much that it becomes basically unwatchable and just plain frustrating. I love longform content but its getting so unnecessarily long that it feels like I’m being scammed out of both information and time.
I used to watch inabber YEARSSS ago and recently went on his channel out of curiosity. I was so shocked by how long his videos were because???? He just makes drama videos?? Like why do they need to be an hour plus when he's talking about fucking gabbie hannah lmao it's ridiculous
literally me too!!!! i thought he would have some great insight especially if the video is so long but all he does is repeat himself, doesnt add any new information, and/or goes on unrelated tangents and doesn't cut them out. its so infuriating!!! almost impossible to watch his content nowadays. so glad its not just me feeling this way!!
he was the first person who popped into my mind! nobody on planet earth needs a 7 hour long video on nikocado avocado of all people... and he's quite literally only repeating himself and recapping things that are common knowledge- he adds nothing to what he's doing "video essays" on outside of lukewarm opinions or unoriginal speculation. and maybe this is a nitpick on my end but he's... atrocious at speaking for somebody whose career is speaking. the overuse of certain words/phrases and complete butchering of others in ways that can't just be excused by him being british make him borderline unwatchable these days.
Man, I love that analysis on how YT nowadays isn't about individuals just doing individual things, but a full on algorithm pleasing with the goal of keeping people locked in just to advertise shitty companies like BetterHelp or HelloFresh. And how addictive doom scrolling is, leaving you with the feeling of emptiness and guilt. I really enjoy these critical types of videos.
Drew once said he usually releases videos near the end of the month because that's when the sponsored video is contractually due. He called himself "lazy" for it, but it got me thinking: his "laziness" results in a few high quality videos instead of a bunch of rushed ones.
"I'm a sucker for a comically in-depth review of a piece of media that I've never thought about for more than 2 seconds" And right there, Drew accidentally summarized half the reason I love THIS very channel. The other half is "road work ahead??"
I feel like some shows have the opposite problem where they hyperfocus on moving the plot forward and don't slow down to world build or show us the characters interact with each other. Animated shows used to have 20 episodes a season and now most have 8 to 12 and lately I've been feeling that it's often to the detriment of my immersion it connection to the story and characters
Honestly I don't feel what Drew is describing in this video , seems everything since so fast paced , series have never been shorter like 4 episodes ?? 5 episodes ? On average , and even in school the idea that our attention spans are slower so we cant handle big lessons , everything right now feels made to be catching and fast
I’ve noticed both. Both are ways of trying to maximize monetization: keeping eyes on screens for longer by front-loading the screen time into unnecessarily long videos or keeping eyes on screens longer by having things end just in time for the new thing to come out.
The issue is that shows in streaming sites are built on the binged model. That means a shorter number of episodes with a longer time. That really is bad for passing on both ends.
I really felt this way about the new avatar the last Airbender live action. Visually, the show is stunning. However, they condensed at least 3 plot points into each episode. They altered the story so much just so it could fit into 8 episodes. I would much rather have the origional pacing of the show or just cut some things out. I would much rather have less of the remake than a condensed, rushed version that really falls short of telling a story that I really love.
This video is so cathartic lol, I have been feeling this way for such a long time in regards to our relationship with media and the real world. Especially with how Netflix makes shows with the assumption that their audience is only half paying attention. Good to know I'm not being cynical or crazy - other people ARE noticing the same decline!
Jay from Red Letter Media compared the way some VHS manuals and training tapes showed little circles filling up to this. In my expierience it has helped me with skipping the ad without going too far ahead.
If you don't want to have to skip them anymore, get TH-cam Neuter!! It automatically skips over sponsorships and self promo, along with interaction reminders. It has saved me SO. MUCH. TIME. It's free, just a browser extension. That in conjunction with uBlock Origin and I legit haven't seen ads on TH-cam in yearssss.
I was already skipping ads when it wasn't technically assisted. As a teenager, I had learnt from my father the old zapping during commercial breaks technique: changing channels on TV as the ad break begins and coming back exactly when the show re-started
@@sofiipote7 for example, even when you stream shows that have once aired have a specific run time, bc commercial breaks were set spaces for networks, if you fancy a channel, youll get a feel for how long the breaks are, many 30m shows appear as 22 minutes, =4, 2 minute breaks, in video advertisements will usually run up to a minute, but literally every single video is different on youtube, plus the random pop up ads, or the placed ones, the era of running to the kitchen for a snack before the show starts is over, youtube will soon be just like those sketchy sites we used to come across that have 50 adwalls
hey drew, i’ve literally been thinking about this for a good bit now. it’s easy for me to feel FOMO with my free time. in a way, this video feels validating; i’m not alone in this feeling at all. it’s comforting that so many of us are trying to navigate the commodification of every aspect of being human. it’s frustrating and it sucks.
i’ve been dealing with serious decision paralysis lately because i constantly feel like i’m not using my time correctly. it’s driving me CRAZY. i have diagnosed adhd and this video helped contextualize why some of these dopamine systems are especially egregious for me to deal with. TLDR; i had a similar takeaway from this video. you’re not alone.
yes. and knowing that, with the internet, I *could* be doing/learning almost anything with my time can add a different layer of complexity... my anxiety doesn't need that help I realize this comment seems a bit disconnected, but basically yes. I agree
Drew never wastes my time. Whenever I get done with my monthly 10-hour video binge, I look back on all my hard work and well-spent time with gratitude.
red dead redemption 2 is a perfect open world game. it has plenty of optional and required quests that never feel too awkwardly timed considering the fact that you can, in fact, fuck around for 15 hours straight at any point. also, the story is fantastic, and everything feels incredibly intentional, especially considering it has 500,000 individual lines of recorded dialogue.
Some of the biggest culprits of this are those youtube 'documentary' channels that basically just regurgitate different celebrity and rappers wiki pages with some animations overtop. Sunnyv2 type channels. Literally contribute nothing but noise and wasting my time.
Design Constraints are an essential aspect of Game development. It used to be that the limitation of the console itself forced us to get creative, but now machines are so powerful they arent limiting anymore. We have to make our own constraints.
I think that's why indie games end up being a lot better than many AAA games bc they're usually constrained by the small size of the team and are forced to get really creative . On the topic Open world games as drew discussed one of my favorite games is a Short Hike, which is a tiny indie game you can best in an hour but feels more open world and filled with life than many others
@@idontneedaname318 I've heard these kinds of game maps described as "closed open world games" and I think they're my favorite version of an open world - big enough that it feels like a living breathing area and affords the player freedom in where to do and what to do, but small enough that there are things to do in every corner. These maps are well-designed throughout with unique features/activities rather than the same 5 missions copy-pasted across a massive map. A Short Hike is a great example of a bite-sized open world type game, but there are some great examples from games with a slightly bigger scope that still manage it too imo (some of my favorites are Yakuza's Kamurocho [even tho trying to get completion in those games very much falls into that 'we made it as long as possible for no reason' design flaw imo even as someone who's completed a fair few of them] and the Town-On-Gorkhon in Pathologic, though obvs those are tonally very different games from A Short Hike lol)
god everything in the videogames segment is so accurate. the worst thing is when every one of those tactics gets combined into a live service, open world, microtransaction, grinding RNG hell,, and on top of all that it's also a gacha game
And then when you complain even a LITTLE bit about how crappy certain things are, a bunch of people will get mad at you saying “ You don’t HAVE to spend money to play it!” Even though they’ve made it damn near impossible to play without money
@@catsarebeans8298 not really since you don't need to spend anything to do basically everything in the game. There's no reason to have super strong built teams, but you'll get strong ones anyway just playing a little.
Something that has bothered me personally is how many people seem to be ripping off mike's mic these days. He started the trend of doing really funny, in depth videos about the plot of a TV show, with cool visuals aids and memes, and now I feel like every other day I'm seeing a new 'unhinged recap' that is like 7 hours long and nowhere near as good. I don't have anything philosophical to say about that it just annoys me as a fan of his work and this reminded me of it.
Just a gentle reminder that Mike himself has said multiple times that he was initially inspired by Jenny Nicholson's videos and formats, so while it you are right to be frustrated, ya gotta remember he wasn't the first
@@catchthesehans yeah no Jenny erasure here love her, just her vid was more essay like/exploring the background of the show whereas as far as I'm aware he started the plot recap trend & acknowledged in his first one that he was doing that differently!
This honestly explains why I’ve become a “boring” person. I don’t game anymore. I ended a bunch of subscription services. I watch maybe a movie a year. There’s a realization that my time is too precious to waste on things I barely like or even hate. I’m just grateful for TH-camrs still being people and not money machines. Yeah, it happens, but it’s much easier to find someone relatable, passionate, clever, etcetera on here than anything Netflix puts out. Thanks for the insightful take. Also the contractually agreed ad bit made me laugh-
@@crimsonlightbinder Because I don't keep up with conversation about pop culture. "Did you watch this?" "Have you heard about _?" No, I haven't. So people have a hard time keeping a flow
I’ve always loved your videos but your latest work on this channel is becoming more and more compelling and relevant in a much larger sense than just some like, social media fads. You’re the best creator on the platform
My full time job is being a relativel small solo travel TH-camr. I only release 10 videos a year for this very reason of quality being more important than quantity because i value people time. I’ve certainly lost out on revenue for doing this but my work life balance is great and my viewers appreciate the work i put in, learning about new places to travel to. It can work. It’s just harder. 😊
I love how Drew just talks about what my anxiety has been terrorizing me over for the past, like, four years. The fear that you're just wasting your time and you need to be doing everything at once. I think it's a common way that anxiety disorders manifest themselves, especially when they're presented with other issues like OCD or ADHD that might make one feel like they're not good enough/doing enough already. Anyway, the video really made me feel seen and I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way in an era where everything is demanding our attention at all times. It's good to single-task sometimes, actually.
"Or I'll die" was the real punchline - if you don't watch this thing then you could miss out on critical knowledge that will be the difference between a future life and death scenario (this is me for financial TH-cam)
i saw a video recently of somebody making a joke about how she started multitasking/overstimulating herself with media in 2020 to disengage from the fear and stress of quarantine. i feel like that's probably true for a lot of people, and hasn't stopped because shit continues to get more stressful. people are in survival mode and trying to avoid avoid avoid
If you’ve got ADHD like me one thing I can tell you is to ditch all forms of social media. It’s incredibly liberating not feeling like you need to be up to date on anything and everything ALL the time.
This video was so validating. If I have to choose to watch a subject from a TH-camr I regularly watch versus a Netflix documentary, I'm going to choose the TH-cam video every time. There's no tense or startling editing with fast camera shots or scene reenactments and incessantly repeating information which bloat out the episodes; it's just someone sharing their thorough research about a subject in a concise runtime. Additionally, I can put the TH-camr on x1.5 speed if I feel like they're talking too slow. I can't do that with Netflix.
100% agree I love watching long, well-researched videos and often speed them up actually, Drew is about the only creator I don't speed up, since I want more time to enjoy his words
Thanks man. I've been feeling down lately. Yesterday I saw a tweet about spending your time daily is how you end up living your life and it pricked me. I never have any energy to do anything outside of scrolling. I sit down to scroll thinking I'll take a break and it turns into an hour. That hour feels productive but it doesn't affect my real life. I'm not really a motivational video person but somehow this video motivated me to do something. Anything. Thank you.
When Drew described the completionist mentality I felt so seen. This is why I avoid playing video games because I get tunnel vision in my obsession with completing tasks
@@da3855 games that give you just way too many options to approach their gameplay stress me the hell out; if I can't at any one point know for certain whether I'm taking a sub-optimal approach or not without having to dissect every minute morsel of mechanisms that could be used to turn the gameplay to my advanantage, I'll probably not have a good time because that's exactly what I'll waste hours of my time trying to figure out rather then just embracing any unknown ignorances (run-on sentence ftw). I like games that give you options, but not the entire damn sandbox, because I'll inevitably assume I should make sure to use every damn grain of sand to my advantage. I don't actually know if this mindset resonates with you, because I find completing lists of linear tasks pretty therapeutic, as long as those tasks aren't vapid as all hell.
i played assassins creed syndicate recently and even though its not enormous by today's standards i still got bored after i 100%'d everything except the main story. it felt like if i didnt do everything perfectly then i might as well have not done it at all. its taken a lot to let myself play a game 'poorly'. and still im playing spyro rn trying to 120% it. god save me. at least the levels are self contained. i find myself preferring small indie games i can finish in a few hours anyway. i just wish the little dopamine monkey didnt clap his hands whenever i get those fucking blue ribbons on steam.
I noticed this a few weeks ago with one youtube video on why King Candy from Wreck it Ralph was the greatest disney villian. I forget who created it but it was a recap of the entire movie from when Ralph enters Hero's Duty (which is a time King Candy wasn't even introduced) while having said recap last longer than the movies runtime. The video was kinda worth the watch, but the youtuber only got into the meat of the subject they set my expectations for near one and a half hours into the video just to see a breakdown of a really good scene that shows off the power of manipulation and how it can blindside you, and then it got right back to talking about the loads of theories that aren't related to the villian on Tumblr again.
hey, Drew, just wanted to say, i really needed to see this today. the ending especially. the soul crushing feeling, that you've "not done enough fun things in your free time" and always feeling like you have to catch up to something, while simultaneously entering doomscrolling loops CONSTANTLY in exchange for minimal-to-no dopamine, has been hitting me very hard lately (along with general severe depression and burnout and emptiness and all that "fun" stuff) and somehow this video at least to some extent helped snap out of it a little bit - not the mental illness ofc, but the feeling of helplessness or lacking control, thanks to your words kinda validating/reminding of what we all know deep down, on how the platforms are designed as well as the content on them. while the reality itself is bleak, a step back and a shifted perspective can really change the intentional actions we can take. so, thanks 🖤 and hope everyone reading this (yes, YOU!) has a good, or at least easier day. be kind to yourselves and stay hydrated 🖤
Hopefully this doesn't come out as dismissive, but I'm in a similar boat as you. Wishing you the best, it is though to get out of this "setting" but you've got this. 🖤
I think you might need a media Detox. Throw your phone away for a week and if you can go on a technology free vacation or something. I think that would help a lot (also limiting access to instant gratification entertainment helps you appreciate the delayed reward of other stuff)
I’m working on my anxiety disorder and one of the main things we start on is relaxation. I was recommended to get 1 hour of rest per day. Rest is not recreation; you are literally doing nothing, at most reading a light magazine. Slowing down is a skill we learn and practice. I think the constant stream of content makes us all a little anxious and giving ourselves space and our brain time to rest can be very beneficial. I personally like to make some tea and sit outside. It’s a total reset for my mood and inner monologue!
Appreciate the bit at the end there where you talk about the constant pull towards feeling the need to have every moment occupied with something entertaining, something to do, something to learn, rather than to just exist in a quiet moment. Makes me feel better about my own experience with this
When he said "And as someone who goes into games with a completionism mindset" just to give up after a number of hours because of the never ending tasks and repetitive missions because everyone must do a open world I felt it.
this is why i love escape room games!! most of them only last a couple hours, and after a few months you can replay them!! i personally enjoy the rusty lake and dark dome games and their storylines
have you played the dont escape games? theyre like reverse escape room games and the dev even made a bigger game on steam with multiple routes. its great.
The half-attention thing also seems to apply to certain novels, which you can't really "half-read" but you could "half-listen to." I always thought it's because editors are demanding everything be spoon-fed because they themselves can't remember what happened two pages ago, but I wonder if it's actually because they're planning for the audio book and assume people will not really be listening, so we have to be told the woman has red hair every time she appears.
That's actually a pretty interesting point. I'm studying literary editing and creative writing in university and I'm legit curious about publishing standards regarding that. Unfortunately most of my profs work in reputable publishing houses that specialize in books that are a bit more "high art", so I can't tell yet.
I heard it’s for physical books too. Like Colleen Hoover’s books are mostly catered to middle aged women with busy lives, who will likely pick up a book for a few minutes a day, so there’s a lot of repetition to recap the plot.
@@handitover. I notice it in recent light(er) fiction usually aimed at women (see the comment from da3855). The classic genres of this would be romance-fantasy (the infamous "romantasy" genre) and romance-mystery. I pick up this stuff because I don't like reading heavy/literary books all the time, and I'm not into action/thrillers. So often I'm disappointed that "not dark and depressing" or "a bit fun" or even "not super long" seems to be interpreted as "written as if readers can't remember from one page to the next what is happening." I think a side-effect of this kind of writing is that it doesn't actually _matter_ what happened a few pages ago, so things like pace are not important, because there's no such thing as pace if the book is written to be read in fragments. It doesn't matter if the book is a series of similar events with an action sequence at the end, for example. The issue has emerged over about the last 20 years, but is getting worse. Before that, similar genres of books are written simply, but do seem to operate under the understanding that you will be reading it over just a few days. I mainly read older "silly" books for this reason, because they're light, but not disappearing into froth in my hands. I also think it's just part of the falling standards for books in general.
As someone who had to watch a Netflix documentary for a college class once, I am so glad you are bringing this up! It was so damn repetitive and included people that clearly knew nothing about the topic. I also really felt your vent about video games. I stopped buying modern games from big companies because I just found them too stressful. I want a game I know I can and will finish, not one that constantly pulls me in a million directions whenever I play.
The Netflix documentary thing also borders on being deceptive and spreading misinformation because like you might not even start to talk about what really happened until five episodes in, so if you stop watching halfway through you don’t even find out that like actually this dude was running a sex trafficking ring and this thing we’ve been presenting as a mystery isn’t a mystery at all we just omitted important context for four hours that we will only tell you now
I 100% related when he talked about missing the sense of accomplishment from actually finishing a game Complex worlds, stories, documentaries, etc. can be good, but they need to be relevant and realistically completable to not just waste time
I sympathize with his comments but i feel like his focus should have been on the annoying side quests used as map filler instead of larger maps being inherently a problem. There are many modern games with (semi-)open worlds that work well, like RDR2 and the Witcher 3, as well as games whose developers/publishers prioritized having an open world without considering how they would fill that world with meaningful content, like DA Inquisition and Fallout 4. The issue isn't the worlds themselves, but the use of cookie cutter, "radiant quests", etc. to fill them. (there's better examples but I've played these particular games)
Damn, nothing hit me harder than the part at the end about "min-maxing your free time". I've been doing that constantly for the last 2-3 years and it's so exhausting. I literally watch almost every youtube video on x2 speed, while playing a game on my other monitor just to feel like I'm "catching up", would be really nice to not feel like I have to do that kind of thing and just sit down and actually enjoy the free time. Why free time not feel particularly "free" anymore?
on the youtube part - I've always appreciated how the ad reads are in the middle of drews videos and while they intercut a point, i dont usually skip them because they have some type of comedic value, as opposed to someone vaguely introducing me to a topic and then advertising to me for 2 minutes
@@AngelOfRukoit’s funny, I feel like that used to be the standard, that most channels would put it at the end. But now that seems to be rarer and rarer.
I'm not a completionist but when I played Black Myth blind, by the end I found out that I completed about 80% of everything. That's how interesting the world was and everything made sense. I could go back to points of interest easily... WITHOUT A MAP. Now I'm playing another cycle to get all of the achievements.
Kevin Perjurer needs to quote you forever that "Shapeland" and "Who Wrote The Four-Note Disney Channel Bump?" are better than any Netflix documentary. Fully agreed. Had to pause on you showing the Disney Bump one because even just seeing that screencap makes me feel all the emotions again.
The Disney Channel jingle video is one of my all-time favorite TH-cam videos and will remain in my favorites forever. An instant classic of independently produced media.
truly, the disney channel jingle documentary is the golden standard for a documentary imo - not just on youtube, any documentary published ANYWHERE ought to aspire to. bobbybroccoli is another creator on youtube who produces incredibly well produced, written, and engaging documentaries. creators like these and the content they make are what made me rather ticked off with the whole Watcher debacle, specifically that phrase they kept repeating: "TV quality(?) content" (i may be misremembering the precise quote, but this is close enough), in reference to improving production quality and the like. the implication clearly being, content on youtube is lesser than what you can find on TV. this just rubs me the wrong way so thoroughly, because it's entirely out of touch with what's available on youtube right now, entirely for free, often produced my independent creators either solo or with a small team: content that blows anything you can find on TV COMPLETELY out of the water. youtube is not a lesser platform, you don't need the kind of budgets television productions have access to in order to make masterpieces that honestly deserve awards for what they are. i don't know if documentaries can win awards, but if they can, then Defunctland and bobbybroccoli deserve at least 1 or 2 each. every year, some bigwigs through millions of dollars at a project only for it to flop harder than single-ply toilet paper in a monsoon, meanwhile there are 1-man shows operating on a shoestring budget who are out here putting out banger after banger on youtube, and all they ask for is a like and subscription to the channel, both of which are free. buuut i'm going on a tangent. suffice to say, Netflix wishes it had half the talent you can find on youtube, and i'm glad there are people here who recognize these masters of their craft for the geniuses they are.
Honestly the video about the Disney channel theme song made me cry. It was some of the best film making I’ve ever encountered. It was clearly a labor of love, and its length was not just an arbitrary decision made to game the algorithm. Every moment was intentional, every frame had purpose and narrative. It was perfect. And sometimes, yes. I do want something for background noise. Like when I’m playing a game without much dialogue or story. Like a farming game! I just want to hear some interesting things while I water my virtual crops. But it feels like there’s this assumption that people only ever want background noise, and longer background noise means they don’t have to switch videos as often(or more likely a single channel gets more ad views)
I honestly thought I had developed some sort of pathological paranoia, because all of a sudden, and for the last 4 years, every single person on a screen has been patronising me, and talking to me like I’m some goddamn idiot. Now I know it’s actually all just padding. Now those voices telling me to adopt the pigeons from the garden and keep them in my house in little outfits? Those are coming from the tv remote, right?
The structure of the internet, in general, feels like a constant stimulating mess, crowding our screens with ads to make sure we do not have any time to think deeply about the content we are consuming.
+1 to the feeling that our time is so wasted by everything in life that we feel we have to "make the most" of down time, which ultimately leads to it being equally as exhausting and then we feel like we have to do even more. Always less time and more stuff to do. For me it really helped to deprogram the maximalist instinct. I've stopped worrying about getting the most out of things and have just accepted that good enough usually is good enough.
"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter" Highly relevant to most youtube videos these days. They're not long because of effort, they're long because of the lack of it
yes i was so thrilled to see her featured!! i first saw her video on the dan and phil fandom a few years ago and then her bachelor videos got me completely hooked! i also love mike’s mic’s recaps of pretty little liars
I really can't deal with video games these days. The exploitative transactions, the time wasting, the bugs, and also the fact that purchasing a game doesnt really mean you own it anymore, doing away with the physical CD, the ads... it's ridiculous.
Literally everything you complain about here can be fixed by your own actions. Hate ads in games? Dont buy it. Dont wanna go digital? Buy games physical then. Everything i own, i own. The onlything u cant fix is the bugs they come with.
one GOOD netflix docu-series is "The Movies That Made Us." They're 40 mins per episode and each episode is focused on behind the scenes of a different classic movie. The narrator is a bit annoying but they have a LOT of info and it's clear it was well-researched & as a movie buff, I love it.
I saw a couple episodes of that but there is another netflix documentary that my family really liked called the toys that made us and it’s basically the same premise but it feels even less stretched out.
As a content creator it also confuses me what the people want, some of them say it's too long and padded out and others that it's pure adhd Brain rot ON THE SAME VIDEO. I honestly just try to be satisfied with the video myself and hope there are people like me who enjoy that stuff. Anyway, great Video Drew! I never feel like I waste my time with your videos!
not a content creator but an artist, and what you said is exactly the mentality that i think is good to have- if you make your art worrying about what other people want to see it may be “good” or “satisfying” to the viewer but will it be fulfilling? did you enjoy making it? keep up the good work and do it for yourself!!!
Imho I don’t know if you want it to be adhd brain rot?? When the tide inevitably turns against long form content, it’s most important to have your content be what is best for you at its best presentation. Oftentimes, editing down and other constraints lead to more creative and clear execution.
you will never satisfy absolutely everyone. there are people out there who simply just want to complain! like you said, make content that you are proud of and the right audience will follow :)
It's so true. Absolutely everything feels like it's trying to use up my most finite resource--time. Time=money, and I can literally SEE them trying to monopolize as much of mine as possible. The anger of realizing I was falling for it has helped me so much.
Who are you, why are you on my screen, im trying to have a skype with my grandson please LEAVEQ
okay
@@bastiensignoret7058 grandpa?
he’s drew
can you be my grandma
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"The Devastating Downfall of The Office" and then it's just a 5-hour recap of the entire show and its ratings with no personal input
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I saw this with bojack too! I was sooo hyped to see a 4 h video about bojack because i love learning more about it cus theres always stuff you get only by watching again and again AND IT WAS A FUCKING RECAP OF ALL THE SEASON AND THE MOST BASIC EXPLANATION OF ALL THE EPISODES. NO INPUT. NO DETAILS. NO NOTHING. AND IT HAD ANALYSIS IN THE TITLE.
@@zamfiratun11037Was it schaffrillas productions
no fr i keep seeing long ass videos that are like "an autopsy of [popular movie]" or something and then it's just a plot recap! someone will be like "review of [show]" and then it's just telling you what happened in the show. it's ridiculous
I love the "downfall" videos where it treats someone or something that was once REALLY popular and is now merely PRETTY popular or has come to its natural end like it fell off the side of the earth.
I saw a "downfall of The Simpsons" video somewhere, which... it's literally been on for 30 years, nothing on earth would stay peak for that long.
Netflix documentaries are like that friend who starts telling a story but keeps adding random details-you’re 10 hours in, still waiting for the punchline
adhd lol
cinco de mayo
Nah, you've just been programmed by the algorithim brugh. Totes of your rocker if you think the tube can lay beef on the flix. Brugh that bonkers. You are out of your gord homey real talk.
@@diluelizabeth that would be me 😔🙏
I’m that friend
finding out drew played clarinet feels like finding out fish have to stay in water
I'm glad to find out I wasn't the only bullied clarinet nerd 😄
he's so squidward coded
So my goldfish goldie didnt like to get a tan with me?
@@Inexpressable hes much more expressive i feel
Maybe it's the blonde hair but if you asked me what Drew played in a band, it'd be flute but also wearing like 17 bracelets.
Good video guy!
Great comment eye!
Hello Jack who seems to have a septic eye
It's you
Good gamer guy!
guy and eye...?!
I also hate when people use the excuse “you’ve just fried your attention span and can’t handle slower stuff” when they are clearly dragging stuff out to make a certain time criteria
Both things can be true, younger folks nowadays literally cant sit still for 5 minutes.
@TheCakenukeism who is "younger folks"? Have you ever just sat for 5 mins doing nothing?
i genuinely cannot watch kdramas because there are always like 20 episodes and they’re all an hour or more, and NOTHING is happening the entire time
@@TheCakenukeismwhy do yall always generalize younger generations so extremely lmao
@@TheCakenukeism most people cannot sit still doing absolutely nothing for five minutes straight, like specifically if you're talking about doing nothing nothing most people aren't going to be able to accomplish that that's just how the human brain works, the human brain is constantly stimulation seeking. it's why if you stare at nothing for long enough, your brain will start to mildly hallucinate. this isn't a younger generation issue, older generations are just as addicted to technology. It's just that the design of these algorithms are to be as addicting as possible
I didnt realize how refreshing it would be to hear someone say "Id kill myself" and not censor it with "unalive". Content and speech being watered down to ad-friendly specifics is just another engineered way social media is controlling our lives.
maybe it controls your life but i dont let it control mine what are you on about
im so scared of dying not because i will die but because Ray William Johnson will generate an ai image of someone who looks nothing like me screaming and will say “they sadly were unalived with a pew pew”
WAKE UP SHEEPLE, USING DIFFERENT WORDS IS RUINING MY LIFE
I miss most people simply adding a small sound over the word or using a * for a letter to censor things. Instead of creating whole new "internet friendly" lingo like unalive/sewerslide/grape etc. 😭
Right?! I mean, you cant even say midget or tranny anymore. Sad.
I am so here for the NBA 2k slander. It's the most exploitative game ever created, and it doesn't get nearly enough criticism.
oh shit the first channel I ever subbed to is here
Thankfully Arthur would never waste anyone's time.
oh my god its that one guy
everything he said in this video was what i’ve been thinking this past month and it scared me when he brought up the one game that accumulated it all. He’s really me fr.
HOLY SHIT PBG IN THE DREWNIVERSE
the worst part is all this “entertainment” thats *supposed* to make you happy just ends up making you miserable
EXACTLY! It feels like every time I open my phone and watch TH-cam shorts I end up getting cynical or pessimistic videos, and I end up closing my phone without having gained anything, nor having had fun.
You think Is supposed to make you happy? Have under a rock lately perchance? Is supposed to keep you ocuppied
Happy people don’t spend as much money.
@@great2831Don’t be condescending. You know that’s how entertainment is presented to people as an excuse. OP is talking about that. You’re talking about the real motivation. You’re just focused on two sidesof the same coin.
U might just be miserable and blaming the media you consume instead of looking inward
you’ve been wasting my time for the last ten years. But I’ve stuck by your side.
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Felt that
Yeah
time is fleeting, drew gooden is forever
my favorite love poem
That mr beast progress bar is actually insane
It’s so intentional like wow
It infuriates me too because whatever shithead thought of this was probably like "omg hear me out guys, what if we do this and that" and everyone was like "omg this is genius" when it's just absolutely ridiculous.
Yeah seriously! Its so deceptive I'm almost angrier about that than all the other stuff he does
About time people actually took notice of this stuff. "But he donated to charity, so it's all good, right guys?"
I'm so happy it's becoming more and more normal to dunk on Mr breast
jokes aside, i love the slightly cynical and self aware philosophy direction drew's videos have been heading in lately
yes!!!!!!!!!!
Hell yeah! I hope he keeps it up!
i think it’s super important to bring these things up and it’s just pushing me even more to abandon the internet soon so i can actually LIVE and MAKE THINGS instead of wasting my time online lol
same
Same! I feel like as commentary TH-cam has gotten bigger, a lot of it is just people reacting to dumb stuff so that they can say “this is dumb”, but Drew’s vids actually give me new perspective on a lot of topics
these yt videos feel like those articles when you google "how long to cook rice", click on the first link that pops up and the article starts with an analysis of the entire history of rice dating back to prehistoric times, rice's symbolism in literature, it's health benefits and an opinion on rice from the author themselves
too accurate LOL i aleays wonder who its for
yea they also describe each step of the cooking process with a 300 word essay
Internet Shaquille taught me how to make quick chickpea based recipes and it didn't take 20 minutes and a story about how canning was developed
"My family came on the mayflower over 6 generations ago. My great great great great grandfather brought the first rice grains to the new world, forming a new relationship with the grain. This recipe -"
They do that so the recipe doesn't get copyright claimed
not to mention how every company wants to charge $10 a month(or more), just to not see ads, and they make sure to cram in every minute of ads that they’re able to.
You have to buy like 2 subscriptions to get rid of ads and then a third for premium content
Me when I'm trying to watch the handmaids tale on prime and they give me 10 ads every episode
They suckered us into switching from cable, bc it was cheaper and had no commercials, then raised all of their prices, made it so you need 5 streaming services to watch your 5 favorite shows, and added the ads back....except more than they used to have on regular cable tv....but you can get rid of them if you pay an extra 14.99/mo each.
I just pirate a lot of media nowadays, and if I want it on TV, I just hook up my laptop with a dual HDMI cord
@@heronheronhero i’m worried about viruses when it comes to that, so many sites are sketchy nowadays. even when I last looked into it on reddit, a couple of sites people swore by were giving me issues
drew not being able to finish cyberpunk because the npc just starts giving him the silent treatment is so funny😭
fr takemura just decided he doesn't get to play the game anymore, I love cyberpunk but man it was rough on release
@@QueenViolet6969 Yeah it's nice that it works well now but man it was basically a scam at launch. Especially the last gen console versions, do they even work now?
@RisingRevengeance not sure I play on PC but last gen didn't get 2.0 update or the DLC so pretty shitty for ppl who bought it on there. I still think the game is worth it just for the writing alone tho
i got really into the story and then a few hours in i couldn't continue because an npc spawned in the ground and i couldn't talk to him no matter what i tried and how often i resetted he was always there xd
@@RisingRevengeance I actually played it on base PS4 after patch 1.6 released iirc. Worked fine, but it had insanely long loading times and barely any traffic because the console couldn't handle too much going on on the screen. There were still a few glitches here and there, but nothing that would break the game. I don't know how it runs now, but I think CDPR stopped updating for last gen consoles.
Making a documentary on Elisa Lam and interviewing the internet sleuths who obsessed over her death is a bit like making a 9/11 documentary and interviewing 9/11 conspiracy theorists.
For real. That seemed really insensitive to her and her family.
I think I saw that conspiracy documentary on the history channel
People will do backflips to ignore the fact that mental illness can make you act very oddly and lead to tragedy man
@@stargold222very true. The thing that didn’t make sense was how she was able to pull the cover over her because it’s heavy and had to he awkward. But it’s basically been proven that she did it.
And then there's a video game based off it called Yiik
I so relate to that frustrating feeling when you feel like using social media is actively making you worse and you still can't stop. It really feels like we're not in control of our life and our time anymore
There's something so gross about interviewing a man who found a dead person, an extremly traumatic experience that I'm sure hasn't been easy for him to handle, and then putting that on the same level as "guy who read a Wikipedia article"
I thought you meant Logan Paul for a sec but then I realized you meant the maintenance worker
Before watching this video, I also thought that this was some kind of satirical thing about Logan Paul😂😅@@dirtpig02
@@dirtpig02 a part of me wishes people would stop talking about that shit, but the other part wants everyone to remember and shame him forever
yeah this is one of drew's worst IMO. first he disses small creators than he says stuff like this. really disrespectful stuff from drew. honestly dissapointed in him.
@@oakydoke6202 ?
Bo burnham talked about this in an interview. We ran out of land to colonize so now we have to colonize time and attention to continue corporate growth.
literally my first thought when I read the title was this bo burnham interview
Bo burnman's a big dong though
This is such a good way to think about it
Holy shit I have never thought about it like that. Genius insight.
do you guys know what's the interview called or where we can find it?
"The algorithm is teaching me that I shouldn't cut things out of my video if they feel superfluous, or unnecessary, or repetitive, or like I'm just saying the same thing over and over again but in slightly different ways" DREW-😭😭
Just another example of him being one of the funniest people on TH-cam (who still has cogent, relevant things to say).
drew durnil
The best/worst part is I didn't even notice it when I first watched it
I got suspicious as soon as he said the word superfluous. I love the word, but who uses it that seriously lmao
@@thefluffywaffle8388 Me. I'm who.
sincerely so impressed with the direction you've taken your last few videos in, it feels really great to see a creator I love growing with his audience and taking a more philosophical approach to commentary, instead of just sticking with what worked 5 years ago in order to play it safe. the commentary space on youtube has really been feeling like it's in arrested development as of late, and two creators who I feel are doing amazing jobs at moving past it and creating a new pathway are you and Eddie Burback
Hey, that's the name of the show!
WELL SAID
scott cramer is also good at this
It seems like every day I click on a video that promises an "analysis" of a piece of media just to end up with a two-hour recap of the plot, and somehow I fall for it every single time
Its a hard ratio to balance tbf. If you dont recap things no only do you lose people who don't remember, but you cant JUST recap the plot without analyzing. Some of my favorite essays include large swaths of recap segments with multiple points of analysis in it. As long as there is a point to recaps im fine with it!
Omg yes this. I've had mant movies or shows that I came away finished and wanted hear other people's thoughts or opinions on the meaning. Only to be met with "ending explained" and recap "analysis" content. Where are people's actual thoughts?
Every “retrospective” video essay ever.
And then they just say how the scene made them feel. Like yeah, I also laughed when Jim hit Phyllis in the head with the soccer ball, I don't need to know you ALSO laughed, the scene was meant to be comedic.
That's not analysis, it's react content with extra steps.
I kind of enjoy being able to "watch" a tv series I love through a 2 hour passionate, funny, Mike's Mike summary. But I get what you mean
gasp?? a dig at airup?? this IS surprising considering its the darling of sponsors in the commentary circle at the moment... drews gone rogue
good! it’s such a stupid idea. drew’s scam videos have taught him well
Am I mistaken or was he sponsored by them by some point?
@@cleo5090 yeah im glad too, it just caught me off guard considering danny, jarvis and kurtis (might be misremembering on that one) have all had airup sponsors
@@stevenstokes6306 not that i remember, but i doubt it considering he seems to dislike it. at the very least hes probably not in any contracts with them
@@stevenstokes6306You're probably thinking about the other commentary guys, they have been yeah.
It’s extra frustrating that Netflix docs drag shit out to make them longer considering they do the exact opposite with other series that have genuinely interesting plotlines because apparently a season can’t be longer than 8 episodes now
If they make less episodes they can make more seasons and re-ignite hype everytime a new season drops
@@TeenPerspektivabuy "more seasons" you mean one more season.
@@TeenPerspektiva thats if they dont cancel it, which they keep doing (esp to queer shows.. and fantasy too lol its a weird pattern)
@@biacherrylikeme Fr it's insane. Any show with good queer representation gets cancelled immediately
@@TeenPerspektiva if only that was true lmao
For years i've been saying that we need more 6-10 hour games. At least there's still a huge backlog of such games that i've not played yet.
Drew's channel has half become "get off your phone please bc technology has become worse today" motivation and I love that he's using his influence to push this message, 100% here for it lol.
He's a king for that. His viewer base is probably young like most of TH-cam so this might reach someone and help them realise what happens before it's too late.
😇
Yeah half his videos now are weird preachy shit and the other half are like every other commentary TH-camr in the planet. It’s a weird hypocrisy
I really wish it worked on me 😐
@@wickedlavender - If you or anyone else out there has a dream, I really believe you can do it! My spirit and my mind and my heart are with you all. ^___^
I'm a music teacher, I've always known you were a clarinet player. It's something we've learned in school to feel in our guts.
What a beautiful skill
what gives us away
How do you clock them lmaoo
@@ashtons.8501 usually a quiet, reserved, nerdy person that comes more alive and energetic when in their trusted group of people. We typically notice that there are very similar personalities that gravitate towards particular instruments. Just like pop/rock bands certain personalities are more drawn to lead guitar versus drums versus rhythm guitar.
I'm a cellist so I'm overly sarcastic, wildly passionate and a giant pain in the ass. We swear like sailors, question everything, and snark constantly. We also have our niche nerdy interests we tend to get really attached to.
But Drew being a clarinet player, is the least shocking thing I've learned this year.
@@SieMiezekatze it can actually be quite useless unless we are helping students choose which instrument they want to learn how to play. We also tend to apply it retroactively to people we meet. Like if we have a conversation with someone and they reveal what instrument they play us musicians tend to be like, "I KNEW IT! You're so XYZ."
That shot of him at the table is just him showing off his avatar posters. And it’s working I cannot concentrate on what he’s saying
No Fr I NEED to know where he got these
i think its a big joel reference lol it is really impressive collection
If anyone figures out where he got them, please tell me immediately
Sylvan Design Co. !!
@@sophiajoson3308 i've had a tab open of these posters for months and they're by Sylvan Design Co.!! they've got ones for other fandoms like Star Wars and Zelda too!!
So often I've watched an hour long analysis expecting and waiting for some substance, and then it ends and I feel empty. It feels like I just ate a fast food meal. And then I feel guilty for being upset at the creator because "ahh everyone starts somewhere!"
Wasted my time for an hour saying "this is so good" and refusing to elaborate on WHY
Thank you for making this video. I've been craving something like this. Something with ACTUAL substance that doesn't waste my time 🙏 also tysm for the Screenzen recommendayion
The part about scrolling is so real. I will literally be scrolling through a hundred garbage reels and still not exit the app because as soon as I do, I somehow know I'll become conscious of the time I've wasted and start feeling like shit about it
Oh shitttt epiphany
there is truly the gambling dopamine part of it too where you're like "but the next one COULD be good!"
I completely agree, and as a person with ADHD, time blindness and the inability to stop scrolling even though I know I should be doing something else are horribly real, and social media companies are only making my symptoms worse!
and I doom scroll to escape from the voices in my head, we are not the same
God, that happens to me SO MUCH. I’ll go on insta usually to look at a few specific accounts, but i don’t see it on my homepage, so i go to the search engine for their @ and literally every single time, i end up wasting over an hour watching reels. It irritates me every time.
I'm so glad you brought up Defunctland, he just makes such incredible content and I would rather spend a day watching his nearly two-hour long video about Disney's Fastpass rather than bingeing an 8 episode Netflix show that rots my brain
I have spent multiple days watching that same video and it is worth it every time.
My favorite shirt I own is my shapeland shirt. I love the people going to Disney wearing shapeland shirts 😂
I also love them and expedition unknown
I love learning new things in what I’m watching
His Kid Cities video is hands down one of the funniest videos I've ever seen on TH-cam while also being incredibly informative on a topic I've literally never thought about.
Jenny keeps me hooked all throughout. I don't even realize a whole hour went by. Glad you talked about the difference between a video like hers and other videos that intentionally make their videos long.
the biggest difference i feel between channels that waste time and channels that don't: it's genuinely a g*ddamn treat when people like you post a longer video, because i know you have more to say and i'll eat up every second of it. also thanks for all the great channel recs, i love knitting while watching ashley norton
Ya it helps when adding context on certain things like for example I want a longer "medevil times" video becuase it was a long stretch of time but the history of toliet paper should be max 30 mins
I also made note of the channels he recommended haha
Yeah, also idk how others feel about youtubers going on random tangents in a video, i can find it funny, but i had to stop watching some people because they'll start rambling about a random (mostly unrelated) thing every few minutes and i can't even comprehend what they're talking about anymore.
"you don't have to do it" followed by "i literally do, i signed a contract" before an AD read is so real
Man thank you. I've gotten so frustrated with youtube "video essays" where it's just people talking non stop with no editing or coherent story. Or they do analysis and it's just the most basic and surface level shit ever
What really gets me is the ones that reach no conclusion. If they didn't say "Well, that's it for this video" you'd have no idea you've reached the end. It makes me really appreciate the people who clearly have a strong script, and it's crazy that both types sort of get bundled together in public consciousness. There's some stuff on TH-cam that's truly incredible, like Lindsay Ellis' series on The Hobbit, or Dan Olsen's Line Goes Up. Things that you kind of can't believe you're learning for free. And then you see other channels trying to replicate it but they're just not doing the legwork.
the worst ones are the ones that frame the video to be some deep analysis on a nuanced and delicate subject and the whole video is just them showing videos on tik tok that are kinda related to the topic as if that’s their evidence.
One thing that gets me about the subpar video essayists is that they tend to repeat themselves a lot. Even those who properly edit their audio will still keep making the same point over and over again as if they don't remember the writing fundamentals they were taught in grade school.
and their conclusions are always "this thing is bad.. but maybe it has its good sides too?"
I wish there was a way to evaluate the value of a video without checking every comment, like a thumbs down or smth
Sometimes I miss HAVING to wait to watch the next episode of things back in the 90s and early 00s. As immersive as binging is, I also feel like it doesn't add anything really.
I somewhat disagree. I have adhd so my memory can be really bad, so for shows where there’s a lot details that are important to the plot it’s more enjoyable to watch in a shorter span of time. Like when I watched season 2 for Loki I had to stop and rewatch season 1 and take notes first lol.
For shows that are not really linear tho like spongebob it makes no difference.
The conclusion to this video encapsulates exactly how I feel. I have so much stuff I want to do before I have to start working a regular 9-5 job with no summer break, but I can't help but feel like I'm making the wrong decision every time I choose to do something even when I enjoy it.
I overthink everything so much that most of the time I just don't do anything, and I end up screwing around on my phone until 3AM instead of just watching the show that I've been thinking about watching for two days.
I constantly feel like I'm wasting my time no matter what I do, and it feels like I've wasted my entire life hesitating to take the first step of doing anything I wanted. I tell myself that I have all the time in the world to do what I want, but that kind of makes me feel less motivated knowing that I have all this time and I'm still somehow wasting it.
You do not have all the time in the world. We can go at any second. GO GET IT DONE! We believe in you, and we believe in you believing in yourself!
Figure out how to get rid of the stuff u screw around on til 3am! I have a time limit on insta so I have to actively make the decision to use it (sometimes I still use it by reflex 🫠). But usually! I actually choose not to use the app and put on a movie I’ve been meaning to watch.
Also u could just delete it obvi but i think most people don’t feel like they could bc then ur out of the loop yk. It’s the only social media I have tho 🤷♀️
Ur so real for this, cuz same
what capitalism does to a mf
thats exactly why i cant watch anime and shows for some reason because i procrastinate what i watch for some reason
i’ve been saying for YEARS that not every game needs to be open world. As someone who also is a completionist i HATE when i go through a bunch of pointless side quests that are just “go to this area and give this person a thing that you have to spend 3 hours getting and also it doesn’t give you anything in return :)” Nothing makes me want to stop playing a game more.
Yeah!! And needing to open 50 boxes/chests/etc. in every area just in case something useful is there- I feel like I waste so much time I could be enjoying a story putting things in my inventory
As much as I liked BOTW and TOTK in Legend of Zelda I’m so ready to play a normal Zelda game that isn’t gonna burn me out 😭 I didnt even finish Tears of the Kingdom bc its just too much for someone who wants to do everything
I do get it, but on the other hand... I also really like sprawling open world games with lots of diversions and distractions...
My playing breath of the wild right now, I'm not collecting everything.
A phrase I've been repeating for years: Games are allowed to end.
If you're a completionist but don't want to spend tons of time, there's two genres you really should not play, and I mean this sincerely: Open world games and RPGs.
@@DodderingOldMan Yeah, there's a sweetspot. It's not really an open world if there's no diversions. That said, I really liked ER and BotW for the same reason Drew pointed out: less quest markers, more doing what I want to do. It's way more organic than most open world games, and I like seeing the *option* of tons of stuff without that nagging feeling (or worse, the explicit requirement) that I *have* to do tons of stuff.
That’s my favorite Tears for Fears song
literally read the title to the tune of the song without even hesitating
@@tesscarlson5552Yep! Same.
But his hair is Flock of Seagulls!
@@tesscarlson5552same!!!
The working hour
Honestly this is why I love your content so much and respect you as a creator the most. Your videos have me completely immersed, that I don't feel the need to have 3 other stimuli in the background preventing a thought, or needing to fill any air time. I find your content relaxing, I am able to still enjoy media, without overloading my brain and feeling anxious after. The way you introduce ad reads are always my favourite. Thank you Drew. I hope you know how positively your work impacts us.
when Drew is talking about advertising "a water bottle that smells bad" and the camera is zooming back out I wanted nothing more than to see Danny Gonzalez and Kurtis Conner standing on either side
Air up reference?
@@Lord_foog_da_2st Air Bud reference
Kurtis is a coke user
@@jasminaritchot7772 What?
Not Kurtis :/
I remember reading Fahrenheit 451 and one of the things that always stuck with me was just how apathetic rhe characters were. The main character's wife OD and it's treated like it wasn't that big a deal. A mother admits that she sends her children to school for most of the week and sticks them in the TV room when they're home so she doesn't have to deal with them. People like to go for long drives just to hit animals. Everyone wants to stay home to look at a screen.
This also ties perfectly into the destruction of literature. Why would anyone want to read something that makes them feel emotions, especially difficult ones, when they can remain wrapped in that blanket of comfortable apathy?
wasnt the whole concept of that book to be like what the author thought the future was going to look like? because it doesnt seem like they were really far off.
@@nox1839According to Ray Bradbury, the primary message was "teevee bad" but y'know these days it doesn't seem that far-fetched anymore
That’s so true bc just an hour ago, my 6 yr old brother was complaining abt how he doesn’t wanna play sports bc he’d rather be on his iPad 🤦♀️ I feel doomed as his big sister 😭😭
That book is straight up prophetic at this point. One of the best dystopia imo
This is Drew's "old man yells at clouds" moment and he's very valid for it.
Ironically I'm convinced this is a big part of what's destroying people's attention spans, too. When everything's stringing you along and wasting your time, it's just a matter of time before you stop being able to immerse yourself in something in the good faith it's taking you someplace worthwhile, and instead are trained to keep an eye on every loose second something asks of you and immediately cut it loose if it seems like it's dragging too long. Already I go immediately to the comments of any video I'm watching, in no small part so that if they're wasting my time I can find out as quickly as possible, and that is itself morphing into me scrolling and only half-listening to stuff way faster than I know what to do with.
I didn't used to be like this, you guys T-T
Edit your comment, you wrote ironically when it is very clear from context you meant unironically. Fix your typo
Bro same, I'm scrolling the comments right now. On Netflix I follow a ten minute rule. That's how long they have to hook me. Cause classic movies like The Goonies or Back to the Future are already incredibly interesting by the ten minute mark
@@MaizeSnallygasterthere were like. Hundreds of ways you could've said this nicely, but for some reason you picked this version.
If it's clear they meant unironically, it's not a big deal that they wrote the wrong word (:
Me too. Now I just read a bunch of comments before and after watching any video.
I genuinely think I had a longer attention span when I was 10 vs me being 20 now
In the modern age you can only have 2 attention spans. 1 minute so you can sit through thousands of short Tiktoks, or a entire day so you can watch the longest video essay or documentary known to man. There’s no inbetween!
or you could do neither. or both every so often, it doesn’t have to be a cycle. this topic is soooooo much bigger than just wasting time. i wrote a paper on it just a few months ago, the topic is really really interesting and has some crazy statistics
@@devdev331sounds a bit ironic
It's really sad how casual content doesn't fit into either long form or short form content anymore, so now they don't get prioritised by the algorithm anymore.
it’s actually funny how he mentioned screen zen being a big reason he stopped using social media as much. i saw the dopamine video when it came out and downloaded the app soon after, it quite literally makes me feel like im not wasting nearly as much time as i used to on social media. if you’re legitimately struggling to close out social media apps, get screen zen, after it tells me i’ve used up my 10 minutes it reminds me i could be doing anything else, reading, doing homework, checking up on my friends, something so much more productive than the mindless scrolling
If anyone sees this, do you know of any versions of this for a computer browser? Thanks!
@@splendidpheasant9192 start a 10 minute timer when you open up youtube, no problem
Now I realized how much time I waste scrolling comments here lol
I use it in conjunction with my phones screen time limiter and it's great. I used to watch 2 hrs of yt a day and now I usually can't be bothered to
@@splendidpheasant9192 I just downloaded StayFocusd after I saw that part of the video - I saw one positive review and have had it downloaded for 1/2 an hour. Good so far. It's on the Chrome web store and possibly other places too.
i always appreciate the subtitles for your videos!! you speak very clearly for me already but they're still very helpful, please never stop doing them!
Thanks for interrupting my lunch
Made my lunch miserable.
I got the notification while in school I'm in the school bathroom rn
@@just_a_n0rmal_person its sunday bro go home
Made my supper nice!
This absolutely ruined my lunch.
I am SO glad someone else felt the same way about the Cecil Hotel doc. That was the content that not only made me question what kind of media I was viewing, but the ethicality of the true-crime I was watching. Who is benefitting from me sitting here watching this? Was this information gathered in an ethical way from reliable resources? Why am I watching a "web sleuth" tell me about his Reddit grinding and why does he think he's better than the FBI?
When they spent almost an entire episode saying it was this one guy and then they interview him and he’s like “I wasn’t even there at the same time”. Get out of my face dude my time is precious
I'm shocked they didn't get the YIIK guy in that documentary if they were just going to pull random people from internet forums
@@Flameclaw123 Never thought I would see someone mention YIIK in a Drew Gooden comment section
Yes! I don’t like true crime (idk if this is part of what you’re touching on but you’re comment made me think of it) but to me, it creeps me out that we have such a strangely obsessive culture around it. Like the person/people being brutally murdered…they were someone’s mom, dad, brother, child etc & we’re watching this horrific crime people actually traumatically experienced purely for _entertainment_ …Like *why* ? and what does say about us as a society that we are so entertained by it & so flippant about it. it’s just so disturbing to me.
I felt that way about Don't Fuck With Cats. How much of that documentary was taken up by the story of web sleuths who made it all about themselves and actively impeded the investigation at times and that one guy they accused of being behind the videos even though he was completely innocent and ended up killing himself. And then at the end of the documentary that one lady had the nerve to be like "you don't actually care about the case, you're just here for the sensationalism of it all" when the documentary itself made no effort to find out anything about the victim. Like, his best friend got interviewed maybe twice. That was it. It was all so bad.
This phenomenon is exactly what led me to stop watching some youtubers I used to enjoy quite a bit. iNabber is the perfect example of this where I recently watched him again and realized he just repeats himself so much that it becomes basically unwatchable and just plain frustrating. I love longform content but its getting so unnecessarily long that it feels like I’m being scammed out of both information and time.
I used to watch inabber YEARSSS ago and recently went on his channel out of curiosity. I was so shocked by how long his videos were because???? He just makes drama videos?? Like why do they need to be an hour plus when he's talking about fucking gabbie hannah lmao it's ridiculous
Omg me too!! 😢
literally me too!!!! i thought he would have some great insight especially if the video is so long but all he does is repeat himself, doesnt add any new information, and/or goes on unrelated tangents and doesn't cut them out. its so infuriating!!! almost impossible to watch his content nowadays. so glad its not just me feeling this way!!
was looking for this comment! 7hr videos on small internet dramas are actually unacceptable like there’s no excuse for wasting that amount of time 😭
he was the first person who popped into my mind! nobody on planet earth needs a 7 hour long video on nikocado avocado of all people... and he's quite literally only repeating himself and recapping things that are common knowledge- he adds nothing to what he's doing "video essays" on outside of lukewarm opinions or unoriginal speculation. and maybe this is a nitpick on my end but he's... atrocious at speaking for somebody whose career is speaking. the overuse of certain words/phrases and complete butchering of others in ways that can't just be excused by him being british make him borderline unwatchable these days.
Man, I love that analysis on how YT nowadays isn't about individuals just doing individual things, but a full on algorithm pleasing with the goal of keeping people locked in just to advertise shitty companies like BetterHelp or HelloFresh. And how addictive doom scrolling is, leaving you with the feeling of emptiness and guilt. I really enjoy these critical types of videos.
Thank you for not wasting our time by putting all these topics into one video instead of making four separate videos.
Drew once said he usually releases videos near the end of the month because that's when the sponsored video is contractually due. He called himself "lazy" for it, but it got me thinking: his "laziness" results in a few high quality videos instead of a bunch of rushed ones.
"I'm a sucker for a comically in-depth review of a piece of media that I've never thought about for more than 2 seconds"
And right there, Drew accidentally summarized half the reason I love THIS very channel. The other half is "road work ahead??"
Yeah, I sure hope it does.
Sort of freaky I read this the moment he said it on screen, and realized I’m doing the thing- I’m not paying attention fully.
I feel like some shows have the opposite problem where they hyperfocus on moving the plot forward and don't slow down to world build or show us the characters interact with each other. Animated shows used to have 20 episodes a season and now most have 8 to 12 and lately I've been feeling that it's often to the detriment of my immersion it connection to the story and characters
this is me and netflix's adaptation of yu yu hakusho. the plot revamping is fine but why did they gave urameshi the charisma of a wet tissue 😭😭😭
Honestly I don't feel what Drew is describing in this video , seems everything since so fast paced , series have never been shorter like 4 episodes ?? 5 episodes ? On average , and even in school the idea that our attention spans are slower so we cant handle big lessons , everything right now feels made to be catching and fast
I’ve noticed both. Both are ways of trying to maximize monetization: keeping eyes on screens for longer by front-loading the screen time into unnecessarily long videos or keeping eyes on screens longer by having things end just in time for the new thing to come out.
The issue is that shows in streaming sites are built on the binged model. That means a shorter number of episodes with a longer time. That really is bad for passing on both ends.
I really felt this way about the new avatar the last Airbender live action. Visually, the show is stunning. However, they condensed at least 3 plot points into each episode. They altered the story so much just so it could fit into 8 episodes. I would much rather have the origional pacing of the show or just cut some things out. I would much rather have less of the remake than a condensed, rushed version that really falls short of telling a story that I really love.
This video is so cathartic lol, I have been feeling this way for such a long time in regards to our relationship with media and the real world. Especially with how Netflix makes shows with the assumption that their audience is only half paying attention. Good to know I'm not being cynical or crazy - other people ARE noticing the same decline!
I hear "progress bar in the ad", and I'm like: I have literally not seen an ad without skipping for 5 years.
Jay from Red Letter Media compared the way some VHS manuals and training tapes showed little circles filling up to this. In my expierience it has helped me with skipping the ad without going too far ahead.
If you don't want to have to skip them anymore, get TH-cam Neuter!! It automatically skips over sponsorships and self promo, along with interaction reminders. It has saved me SO. MUCH. TIME. It's free, just a browser extension. That in conjunction with uBlock Origin and I legit haven't seen ads on TH-cam in yearssss.
I was already skipping ads when it wasn't technically assisted. As a teenager, I had learnt from my father the old zapping during commercial breaks technique: changing channels on TV as the ad break begins and coming back exactly when the show re-started
Hell yeah, my dad taught me that too lol@@sofiipote7
@@sofiipote7 for example, even when you stream shows that have once aired have a specific run time, bc commercial breaks were set spaces for networks, if you fancy a channel, youll get a feel for how long the breaks are, many 30m shows appear as 22 minutes, =4, 2 minute breaks, in video advertisements will usually run up to a minute, but literally every single video is different on youtube, plus the random pop up ads, or the placed ones, the era of running to the kitchen for a snack before the show starts is over, youtube will soon be just like those sketchy sites we used to come across that have 50 adwalls
hey drew, i’ve literally been thinking about this for a good bit now. it’s easy for me to feel FOMO with my free time. in a way, this video feels validating; i’m not alone in this feeling at all. it’s comforting that so many of us are trying to navigate the commodification of every aspect of being human. it’s frustrating and it sucks.
Absolutely agree. Its nice to feel heard
i’ve been dealing with serious decision paralysis lately because i constantly feel like i’m not using my time correctly. it’s driving me CRAZY. i have diagnosed adhd and this video helped contextualize why some of these dopamine systems are especially egregious for me to deal with. TLDR; i had a similar takeaway from this video. you’re not alone.
yes. and knowing that, with the internet, I *could* be doing/learning almost anything with my time can add a different layer of complexity...
my anxiety doesn't need that help
I realize this comment seems a bit disconnected, but basically yes. I agree
Drew never wastes my time. Whenever I get done with my monthly 10-hour video binge, I look back on all my hard work and well-spent time with gratitude.
red dead redemption 2 is a perfect open world game. it has plenty of optional and required quests that never feel too awkwardly timed considering the fact that you can, in fact, fuck around for 15 hours straight at any point. also, the story is fantastic, and everything feels incredibly intentional, especially considering it has 500,000 individual lines of recorded dialogue.
Some of the biggest culprits of this are those youtube 'documentary' channels that basically just regurgitate different celebrity and rappers wiki pages with some animations overtop. Sunnyv2 type channels. Literally contribute nothing but noise and wasting my time.
That one filter that makes them look drawn
Is sunnyv2 making dragged out content in your opinion?
AI generated voices just reading wikipedia pages to us to make money off the algo. It's really depressing.
Internet Historian. And all it's done is to make you feel rage.
@@stevenstokes6306 i hate that filter , it looks so ugly
Design Constraints are an essential aspect of Game development. It used to be that the limitation of the console itself forced us to get creative, but now machines are so powerful they arent limiting anymore. We have to make our own constraints.
I think that's why indie games end up being a lot better than many AAA games bc they're usually constrained by the small size of the team and are forced to get really creative . On the topic Open world games as drew discussed one of my favorite games is a Short Hike, which is a tiny indie game you can best in an hour but feels more open world and filled with life than many others
@@idontneedaname318 I've heard these kinds of game maps described as "closed open world games" and I think they're my favorite version of an open world - big enough that it feels like a living breathing area and affords the player freedom in where to do and what to do, but small enough that there are things to do in every corner. These maps are well-designed throughout with unique features/activities rather than the same 5 missions copy-pasted across a massive map. A Short Hike is a great example of a bite-sized open world type game, but there are some great examples from games with a slightly bigger scope that still manage it too imo (some of my favorites are Yakuza's Kamurocho [even tho trying to get completion in those games very much falls into that 'we made it as long as possible for no reason' design flaw imo even as someone who's completed a fair few of them] and the Town-On-Gorkhon in Pathologic, though obvs those are tonally very different games from A Short Hike lol)
@@idontneedaname318You should check out Lil’ Gator Game if you haven’t already! It really leans into the joy of exploration like A Short Hike does.
god everything in the videogames segment is so accurate. the worst thing is when every one of those tactics gets combined into a live service, open world, microtransaction, grinding RNG hell,, and on top of all that it's also a gacha game
And then people buy all the extras and a battle pass just for the live service to shut down after a week.
Genshin Impact 😞
i remember how bloated with repetitive quests and backtracking old games had, but at least the only wasted money was the initial purchase.
And then when you complain even a LITTLE bit about how crappy certain things are, a bunch of people will get mad at you saying “ You don’t HAVE to spend money to play it!” Even though they’ve made it damn near impossible to play without money
@@catsarebeans8298 not really since you don't need to spend anything to do basically everything in the game. There's no reason to have super strong built teams, but you'll get strong ones anyway just playing a little.
Something that has bothered me personally is how many people seem to be ripping off mike's mic these days. He started the trend of doing really funny, in depth videos about the plot of a TV show, with cool visuals aids and memes, and now I feel like every other day I'm seeing a new 'unhinged recap' that is like 7 hours long and nowhere near as good. I don't have anything philosophical to say about that it just annoys me as a fan of his work and this reminded me of it.
Just a gentle reminder that Mike himself has said multiple times that he was initially inspired by Jenny Nicholson's videos and formats, so while it you are right to be frustrated, ya gotta remember he wasn't the first
@@catchthesehans yeah no Jenny erasure here love her, just her vid was more essay like/exploring the background of the show whereas as far as I'm aware he started the plot recap trend & acknowledged in his first one that he was doing that differently!
This honestly explains why I’ve become a “boring” person. I don’t game anymore. I ended a bunch of subscription services. I watch maybe a movie a year. There’s a realization that my time is too precious to waste on things I barely like or even hate. I’m just grateful for TH-camrs still being people and not money machines. Yeah, it happens, but it’s much easier to find someone relatable, passionate, clever, etcetera on here than anything Netflix puts out. Thanks for the insightful take. Also the contractually agreed ad bit made me laugh-
Instead of consuming, create. That's my advice. Draw, play, sing, write.
why are you boring?
@@crimsonlightbinder why are you like this?
@@Cobalt985 That's exactly what I do 👍
@@crimsonlightbinder Because I don't keep up with conversation about pop culture. "Did you watch this?" "Have you heard about _?" No, I haven't. So people have a hard time keeping a flow
I’ve always loved your videos but your latest work on this channel is becoming more and more compelling and relevant in a much larger sense than just some like, social media fads. You’re the best creator on the platform
don't forget the only one
He has brought a lot of important topics to the forefront, I remember when he released his video on how dangerous cars have become and I was so proud.
I've been feeling like this with Eddie Burback also
Honestly I have unfollowed so many TH-camrs since their content adds nothing to my life
babe wake up new drew gooden
There's a new one? Damn I'm stuck with this boring old one...
Goo Drooden
Finally the old one was so annoying
New Gooden
Can't believe they have to make a new one for every video, so wasteful smh
My full time job is being a relativel small solo travel TH-camr. I only release 10 videos a year for this very reason of quality being more important than quantity because i value people time.
I’ve certainly lost out on revenue for doing this but my work life balance is great and my viewers appreciate the work i put in, learning about new places to travel to.
It can work. It’s just harder. 😊
I love how Drew just talks about what my anxiety has been terrorizing me over for the past, like, four years. The fear that you're just wasting your time and you need to be doing everything at once. I think it's a common way that anxiety disorders manifest themselves, especially when they're presented with other issues like OCD or ADHD that might make one feel like they're not good enough/doing enough already. Anyway, the video really made me feel seen and I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way in an era where everything is demanding our attention at all times. It's good to single-task sometimes, actually.
"Or I'll die" was the real punchline - if you don't watch this thing then you could miss out on critical knowledge that will be the difference between a future life and death scenario (this is me for financial TH-cam)
i saw a video recently of somebody making a joke about how she started multitasking/overstimulating herself with media in 2020 to disengage from the fear and stress of quarantine. i feel like that's probably true for a lot of people, and hasn't stopped because shit continues to get more stressful. people are in survival mode and trying to avoid avoid avoid
If you’ve got ADHD like me one thing I can tell you is to ditch all forms of social media. It’s incredibly liberating not feeling like you need to be up to date on anything and everything ALL the time.
You just described exactly how I feel
yes 100%
This video was so validating. If I have to choose to watch a subject from a TH-camr I regularly watch versus a Netflix documentary, I'm going to choose the TH-cam video every time. There's no tense or startling editing with fast camera shots or scene reenactments and incessantly repeating information which bloat out the episodes; it's just someone sharing their thorough research about a subject in a concise runtime. Additionally, I can put the TH-camr on x1.5 speed if I feel like they're talking too slow. I can't do that with Netflix.
100% agree
I love watching long, well-researched videos and often speed them up
actually, Drew is about the only creator I don't speed up, since I want more time to enjoy his words
the fact that this video is exactly 30 minutes and 30 seconds long makes me so happy
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Thanks man. I've been feeling down lately. Yesterday I saw a tweet about spending your time daily is how you end up living your life and it pricked me. I never have any energy to do anything outside of scrolling. I sit down to scroll thinking I'll take a break and it turns into an hour. That hour feels productive but it doesn't affect my real life. I'm not really a motivational video person but somehow this video motivated me to do something. Anything. Thank you.
im so grateful to be part of a conscious yet the funniest community on internet. this combo is such a blessing
ikr i love this comment section
When Drew described the completionist mentality I felt so seen. This is why I avoid playing video games because I get tunnel vision in my obsession with completing tasks
I wonder if you'd prefer indie games, like you could 100% untitled goose game so much easier than a triple a game 😊
@@da3855 games that give you just way too many options to approach their gameplay stress me the hell out; if I can't at any one point know for certain whether I'm taking a sub-optimal approach or not without having to dissect every minute morsel of mechanisms that could be used to turn the gameplay to my advanantage, I'll probably not have a good time because that's exactly what I'll waste hours of my time trying to figure out rather then just embracing any unknown ignorances (run-on sentence ftw). I like games that give you options, but not the entire damn sandbox, because I'll inevitably assume I should make sure to use every damn grain of sand to my advantage. I don't actually know if this mindset resonates with you, because I find completing lists of linear tasks pretty therapeutic, as long as those tasks aren't vapid as all hell.
i played assassins creed syndicate recently and even though its not enormous by today's standards i still got bored after i 100%'d everything except the main story. it felt like if i didnt do everything perfectly then i might as well have not done it at all. its taken a lot to let myself play a game 'poorly'. and still im playing spyro rn trying to 120% it. god save me.
at least the levels are self contained.
i find myself preferring small indie games i can finish in a few hours anyway. i just wish the little dopamine monkey didnt clap his hands whenever i get those fucking blue ribbons on steam.
That Times Square line is one of the best jokes you’ve ever written.
I noticed this a few weeks ago with one youtube video on why King Candy from Wreck it Ralph was the greatest disney villian. I forget who created it but it was a recap of the entire movie from when Ralph enters Hero's Duty (which is a time King Candy wasn't even introduced) while having said recap last longer than the movies runtime. The video was kinda worth the watch, but the youtuber only got into the meat of the subject they set my expectations for near one and a half hours into the video just to see a breakdown of a really good scene that shows off the power of manipulation and how it can blindside you, and then it got right back to talking about the loads of theories that aren't related to the villian on Tumblr again.
I don't understand why I should watch new content when I still have my perfectly good Shrek 2 DVD
you havent lived until you watched the only dvd you have 12 times over
You got the movie, you got Far Far Away Idol DVD game, what else could a person need
hey, Drew, just wanted to say, i really needed to see this today. the ending especially. the soul crushing feeling, that you've "not done enough fun things in your free time" and always feeling like you have to catch up to something, while simultaneously entering doomscrolling loops CONSTANTLY in exchange for minimal-to-no dopamine, has been hitting me very hard lately (along with general severe depression and burnout and emptiness and all that "fun" stuff) and somehow this video at least to some extent helped snap out of it a little bit - not the mental illness ofc, but the feeling of helplessness or lacking control, thanks to your words kinda validating/reminding of what we all know deep down, on how the platforms are designed as well as the content on them. while the reality itself is bleak, a step back and a shifted perspective can really change the intentional actions we can take.
so, thanks 🖤
and hope everyone reading this (yes, YOU!) has a good, or at least easier day. be kind to yourselves and stay hydrated 🖤
Hopefully this doesn't come out as dismissive, but I'm in a similar boat as you. Wishing you the best, it is though to get out of this "setting" but you've got this. 🖤
Same here, we're all in the same doom scroll boat 😂
I think you might need a media Detox. Throw your phone away for a week and if you can go on a technology free vacation or something. I think that would help a lot (also limiting access to instant gratification entertainment helps you appreciate the delayed reward of other stuff)
I feel this! I hope you have an easier day too and give yourself the love you deserve
I’m working on my anxiety disorder and one of the main things we start on is relaxation. I was recommended to get 1 hour of rest per day. Rest is not recreation; you are literally doing nothing, at most reading a light magazine. Slowing down is a skill we learn and practice. I think the constant stream of content makes us all a little anxious and giving ourselves space and our brain time to rest can be very beneficial. I personally like to make some tea and sit outside. It’s a total reset for my mood and inner monologue!
Appreciate the bit at the end there where you talk about the constant pull towards feeling the need to have every moment occupied with something entertaining, something to do, something to learn, rather than to just exist in a quiet moment. Makes me feel better about my own experience with this
When he said "And as someone who goes into games with a completionism mindset" just to give up after a number of hours because of the never ending tasks and repetitive missions because everyone must do a open world I felt it.
this is why i love escape room games!! most of them only last a couple hours, and after a few months you can replay them!! i personally enjoy the rusty lake and dark dome games and their storylines
Have you played the zero escape games? Definitely take more than a few hours but theyre really great games where you have to do escape rooms
Oh my god yes!! I love rusty lake and dark dome, theyre so good!!
have you played the dont escape games? theyre like reverse escape room games and the dev even made a bigger game on steam with multiple routes. its great.
@@mpnb2162 oooh no i havent thank you for the recommendation!! i mostly play the free to play mobile friendly ones lol but i'll check this one out!!
@@yjjbii-hm3kc thank you for the recs!! will definitely check them out
The half-attention thing also seems to apply to certain novels, which you can't really "half-read" but you could "half-listen to." I always thought it's because editors are demanding everything be spoon-fed because they themselves can't remember what happened two pages ago, but I wonder if it's actually because they're planning for the audio book and assume people will not really be listening, so we have to be told the woman has red hair every time she appears.
That's actually a pretty interesting point. I'm studying literary editing and creative writing in university and I'm legit curious about publishing standards regarding that. Unfortunately most of my profs work in reputable publishing houses that specialize in books that are a bit more "high art", so I can't tell yet.
what kinds of novels do this? (genuine question because I don't read a lot of recently published stuff!!)
I heard it’s for physical books too. Like Colleen Hoover’s books are mostly catered to middle aged women with busy lives, who will likely pick up a book for a few minutes a day, so there’s a lot of repetition to recap the plot.
@@handitover. the book “No Exit” repeats “it was 3 AM” so many times to the point where I wanted to stop listening to the audiobook
@@handitover. I notice it in recent light(er) fiction usually aimed at women (see the comment from da3855). The classic genres of this would be romance-fantasy (the infamous "romantasy" genre) and romance-mystery.
I pick up this stuff because I don't like reading heavy/literary books all the time, and I'm not into action/thrillers. So often I'm disappointed that "not dark and depressing" or "a bit fun" or even "not super long" seems to be interpreted as "written as if readers can't remember from one page to the next what is happening." I think a side-effect of this kind of writing is that it doesn't actually _matter_ what happened a few pages ago, so things like pace are not important, because there's no such thing as pace if the book is written to be read in fragments. It doesn't matter if the book is a series of similar events with an action sequence at the end, for example.
The issue has emerged over about the last 20 years, but is getting worse. Before that, similar genres of books are written simply, but do seem to operate under the understanding that you will be reading it over just a few days. I mainly read older "silly" books for this reason, because they're light, but not disappearing into froth in my hands.
I also think it's just part of the falling standards for books in general.
As someone who had to watch a Netflix documentary for a college class once, I am so glad you are bringing this up! It was so damn repetitive and included people that clearly knew nothing about the topic. I also really felt your vent about video games. I stopped buying modern games from big companies because I just found them too stressful. I want a game I know I can and will finish, not one that constantly pulls me in a million directions whenever I play.
The Netflix documentary thing also borders on being deceptive and spreading misinformation because like you might not even start to talk about what really happened until five episodes in, so if you stop watching halfway through you don’t even find out that like actually this dude was running a sex trafficking ring and this thing we’ve been presenting as a mystery isn’t a mystery at all we just omitted important context for four hours that we will only tell you now
I 100% related when he talked about missing the sense of accomplishment from actually finishing a game
Complex worlds, stories, documentaries, etc. can be good, but they need to be relevant and realistically completable to not just waste time
@@albertlassiter8608 Same! It's so hard nowadays to find a game I can actually complete. It's why I buy indie games so much.
And very well put!
I sympathize with his comments but i feel like his focus should have been on the annoying side quests used as map filler instead of larger maps being inherently a problem. There are many modern games with (semi-)open worlds that work well, like RDR2 and the Witcher 3, as well as games whose developers/publishers prioritized having an open world without considering how they would fill that world with meaningful content, like DA Inquisition and Fallout 4. The issue isn't the worlds themselves, but the use of cookie cutter, "radiant quests", etc. to fill them. (there's better examples but I've played these particular games)
omg this is actually soo true, every true crime story on Netflix they tell the entire life story of anyone even remotely related
Finding the difference between something being an enjoyable waste of time and an enraging one is one of life's great mysteries.
Damn, nothing hit me harder than the part at the end about "min-maxing your free time". I've been doing that constantly for the last 2-3 years and it's so exhausting. I literally watch almost every youtube video on x2 speed, while playing a game on my other monitor just to feel like I'm "catching up", would be really nice to not feel like I have to do that kind of thing and just sit down and actually enjoy the free time. Why free time not feel particularly "free" anymore?
thats crazy what are you spesifically catching up on
no honestly. how do i stop.
on the youtube part - I've always appreciated how the ad reads are in the middle of drews videos and while they intercut a point, i dont usually skip them because they have some type of comedic value, as opposed to someone vaguely introducing me to a topic and then advertising to me for 2 minutes
And sometimes he puts the ad read at the end of the video! I don't think any other TH-cam channel I watch does that. It feels really considerate.
@@AngelOfRukoit’s funny, I feel like that used to be the standard, that most channels would put it at the end. But now that seems to be rarer and rarer.
I'm not a completionist but when I played Black Myth blind, by the end I found out that I completed about 80% of everything. That's how interesting the world was and everything made sense. I could go back to points of interest easily... WITHOUT A MAP. Now I'm playing another cycle to get all of the achievements.
Kevin Perjurer needs to quote you forever that "Shapeland" and "Who Wrote The Four-Note Disney Channel Bump?" are better than any Netflix documentary. Fully agreed. Had to pause on you showing the Disney Bump one because even just seeing that screencap makes me feel all the emotions again.
The Disney Channel jingle video is one of my all-time favorite TH-cam videos and will remain in my favorites forever. An instant classic of independently produced media.
truly, the disney channel jingle documentary is the golden standard for a documentary imo - not just on youtube, any documentary published ANYWHERE ought to aspire to. bobbybroccoli is another creator on youtube who produces incredibly well produced, written, and engaging documentaries.
creators like these and the content they make are what made me rather ticked off with the whole Watcher debacle, specifically that phrase they kept repeating: "TV quality(?) content" (i may be misremembering the precise quote, but this is close enough), in reference to improving production quality and the like. the implication clearly being, content on youtube is lesser than what you can find on TV. this just rubs me the wrong way so thoroughly, because it's entirely out of touch with what's available on youtube right now, entirely for free, often produced my independent creators either solo or with a small team: content that blows anything you can find on TV COMPLETELY out of the water. youtube is not a lesser platform, you don't need the kind of budgets television productions have access to in order to make masterpieces that honestly deserve awards for what they are. i don't know if documentaries can win awards, but if they can, then Defunctland and bobbybroccoli deserve at least 1 or 2 each. every year, some bigwigs through millions of dollars at a project only for it to flop harder than single-ply toilet paper in a monsoon, meanwhile there are 1-man shows operating on a shoestring budget who are out here putting out banger after banger on youtube, and all they ask for is a like and subscription to the channel, both of which are free.
buuut i'm going on a tangent. suffice to say, Netflix wishes it had half the talent you can find on youtube, and i'm glad there are people here who recognize these masters of their craft for the geniuses they are.
Honestly the video about the Disney channel theme song made me cry. It was some of the best film making I’ve ever encountered. It was clearly a labor of love, and its length was not just an arbitrary decision made to game the algorithm. Every moment was intentional, every frame had purpose and narrative. It was perfect.
And sometimes, yes. I do want something for background noise. Like when I’m playing a game without much dialogue or story. Like a farming game! I just want to hear some interesting things while I water my virtual crops. But it feels like there’s this assumption that people only ever want background noise, and longer background noise means they don’t have to switch videos as often(or more likely a single channel gets more ad views)
I honestly thought I had developed some sort of pathological paranoia, because all of a sudden, and for the last 4 years, every single person on a screen has been patronising me, and talking to me like I’m some goddamn idiot. Now I know it’s actually all just padding.
Now those voices telling me to adopt the pigeons from the garden and keep them in my house in little outfits? Those are coming from the tv remote, right?
Absolutely, those voices are entirely normal.
There’s a new pigeon in your garden. You need to adopt it and put a new outfit on it immediately.
The structure of the internet, in general, feels like a constant stimulating mess, crowding our screens with ads to make sure we do not have any time to think deeply about the content we are consuming.
+1 to the feeling that our time is so wasted by everything in life that we feel we have to "make the most" of down time, which ultimately leads to it being equally as exhausting and then we feel like we have to do even more. Always less time and more stuff to do.
For me it really helped to deprogram the maximalist instinct. I've stopped worrying about getting the most out of things and have just accepted that good enough usually is good enough.
"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter"
Highly relevant to most youtube videos these days. They're not long because of effort, they're long because of the lack of it
One of my favorite quotes!
I love seeing Ashley Norton represented !!! She’s criminally underrated.
yes i was so thrilled to see her featured!! i first saw her video on the dan and phil fandom a few years ago and then her bachelor videos got me completely hooked! i also love mike’s mic’s recaps of pretty little liars
I really can't deal with video games these days. The exploitative transactions, the time wasting, the bugs, and also the fact that purchasing a game doesnt really mean you own it anymore, doing away with the physical CD, the ads... it's ridiculous.
Literally everything you complain about here can be fixed by your own actions. Hate ads in games? Dont buy it. Dont wanna go digital? Buy games physical then. Everything i own, i own. The onlything u cant fix is the bugs they come with.
hi drew, as an autistic person with auditory processing issues, thank you for having subs on your videos! it really helps me understand them lol
This dropping basically right next to an 8 hour Pyro video is hilarious
one GOOD netflix docu-series is "The Movies That Made Us." They're 40 mins per episode and each episode is focused on behind the scenes of a different classic movie. The narrator is a bit annoying but they have a LOT of info and it's clear it was well-researched & as a movie buff, I love it.
I saw a couple episodes of that but there is another netflix documentary that my family really liked called the toys that made us and it’s basically the same premise but it feels even less stretched out.
As a content creator it also confuses me what the people want, some of them say it's too long and padded out and others that it's pure adhd Brain rot ON THE SAME VIDEO. I honestly just try to be satisfied with the video myself and hope there are people like me who enjoy that stuff. Anyway, great Video Drew! I never feel like I waste my time with your videos!
not a content creator but an artist, and what you said is exactly the mentality that i think is good to have- if you make your art worrying about what other people want to see it may be “good” or “satisfying” to the viewer but will it be fulfilling? did you enjoy making it? keep up the good work and do it for yourself!!!
Imho I don’t know if you want it to be adhd brain rot?? When the tide inevitably turns against long form content, it’s most important to have your content be what is best for you at its best presentation. Oftentimes, editing down and other constraints lead to more creative and clear execution.
you will never satisfy absolutely everyone. there are people out there who simply just want to complain! like you said, make content that you are proud of and the right audience will follow :)
It's so true. Absolutely everything feels like it's trying to use up my most finite resource--time. Time=money, and I can literally SEE them trying to monopolize as much of mine as possible. The anger of realizing I was falling for it has helped me so much.