Take Jacob Geller for instance. While he does usually come back to Video Games as a baseline, all of his recent videos have long sections about movies, TV, and modern art that is related to the subject he’s talking about. Plus even when he’s talking about Video Games he’s very rarely dwelling on the most popular titles (except in his video, Analyzing Every Torture Scene in Call of Duty — All 46 of Them, which uses CoD to reflect on the media’s depiction of Torture writ large) and is almost always talking about small arthouse games instead.
Anyway I love video essays and listen to a shitload of them, but regularly cull my subscription list of people who have run out of things to say.
The best ones always always always branch out.
Take Jacob Geller for instance. While he does usually come back to Video Games as a baseline, all of his recent videos have long sections about movies, TV, and modern art that is related to the subject he’s talking about. Plus even when he’s talking about Video Games he’s very rarely dwelling on the most popular titles (except in his video, Analyzing Every Torture Scene in Call of Duty — All 46 of Them, which uses CoD to reflect on the media’s depiction of Torture writ large) and is almost always talking about small arthouse games instead.
Anyway I love video essays and listen to a shitload of them, but regularly cull my subscription list of people who have run out of things to say.
Haha, I came into this thread to have a “…but Jacob Geller!” moment. I really love his videos.