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Cake day: March 5th, 2026

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  • Hey, at least he didn’t read the entire plot summary of a game from Wikipedia for no good reason. I can tell because the video isn’t 30 minutes long.

    Jokes aside, I get the feeling video essays are in kind of a crisis. There’s too much bloat out there. Even among very popular uploads with tons of views. Of course there are fantastic documentaries too but it gets harder to find good new stuff with all this meaningless slop clogging the front page and search results. (As if search wasn’t terrible enough already.)

    But hey, maybe it’s just me. Maybe I’ve become too picky. But as soon as I notice there’s more plot summary than insight in a video essay, I leave midway through. And I swear it’s getting more by the month.