• shneancy@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    to talk about something for even an hour requires much more than just “i like this thing”, and an analysis of why you like the thing does make the script of a video an essay. It could be a critical essay, it could be an opinion essay, but it’s an essay nonetheless

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      7 months ago

      IMO YouTubers are great at spending hours explaining something that should and could have taken 10 minutes