ani !!

2) he’s asking the viewers’ aid, which is a whole can of worms on its own. this is the most obvious problem from the get-go and the worst one, probably.

we all know how the story changes depending on who’s pov you’re watching. hell, it’s one of the most common reasons fans list under why they love the content- this makes it possible for dsmp to accommodate many narratives. when handling a media like this two things stand out to me; referencing the entire content, and the viewer bias.

you need to keep everything that has happened in mind. this makes you understand why matt asked for others’ help, as this is very hard to handle on your own, but that doesn’t guarantee quality. it’s impossible to make an accurate depiction of a character/piece of media without first analyzing everything that took place and made things result in the way they did. you need to fully understand a character’s past to talk about their morals, and you need to know about all the events that took place up until that moment to understand why the outcome of a situation is the way it is. this becomes a cause of concern because no one knows the lore to that extent. people watch some of the povs, read a detailed recap on others’ povs if you’re lucky, and completely ignore the rest/go off of what they’ve heard in a passing comment for the most part. (the amount of people i’ve seen not fact checking things and calling everything canon...) not saying there’s anything wrong with it- it’s just how people consume their media, but you can’t guarantee quality analysis with it. even if you brought together a team of people from everyone’s pov, there can be missing pieces still, and matt would have no way of knowing. (not to mention- with a team like that you’d still have individuals making their analysis based on others’ , which defeats the purpose)

sweet, sweet viewer bias. it’d be naive to think you can avoid it. you may argue that referring to multiple povs would eliminate this, but you still don’t know every single piece of lore, and there are still certain characters you have a better understanding of that shapes your views. for it to be accurate you’d need an equal handling of the povs (whether it’s about how much detail you go into for a certain pov, or what piece of info you refer to) and that’s hard to achieve. not to mention, matt, who presumably doesn’t know much about the dsmp, will be choosing these people. he said there will be auditions, but an analysis doesn’t need to be accurate to look good to an outsider.

while on the topic of viewer bias,

3) he’s asking for help on twitter. that’s where the fandom is most vocal on, so it kind of makes sense, but it’s still not that good of an idea. going more into my own opinions here, whether you find decent users relies entirely on luck. you get noticed only if you have clout (-> only big accounts have a chance at being chosen, not a guarantee on quality) the place is toxic enough to let any kind of opinion take shape and grow roots (-> people are constantly subjected to negative shit and start disliking characters/ccs even before they learn anything about them), and there’s a weird culture on being mutuals where everyone strictly sticks to their own circles and gatekeep the most dumb shit from each other/attack others for even following a certain person they don’t approve of (-> you cant learn anything if you’re in a circle where everyone just repeats the same stuff to each other & having certain opinions is condoned)

suffice to say, hit or miss. when it comes to the actual video:

4) ONE narrative will be marketed as the all-encompassing, exception-less truth. viewer bias, many different povs, seemingly contrary things NOT being mutually exclusive- there is no single narrative. there is no single answer, or a single solution to things. not only is it near impossible to boil everything down to one pov, this will be marketed as the single truth, matt going “yup! this is the answer of the topic of this video :)” and so many people will take this and just run with it.

especially for the fans that mainly enjoy characters that get misrepresented (see: butchered) by the majority of the fandom, this is even worse as not only are the chances of their character being analyzed right very low (viewer bias), this analysis:

5) will reach public masses. if they’re misrepresented, the hate for them in the fandom will only grow. matt has both garnered the attention of almost every fan that uses social media (marketing-this video will have more views), he’s got a massive channel of his own. enough people start believing it, and-

6) it will be taken as a reference point by masses. i’ve seen fans slander characters because of an inaccurate joke another character made. if it alligns with enough people, and of course depending on the actual content of the video, you’ll see people bring it up in arguments to make points. on the worst case scenario that the content is awful for certain characters- you see where i’m going with this.

my final point:

7) there’s no guarantee on the quality until it already becomes published. this also means that before you see any criticism they will all likely drown in the comments, or it might just be too late for it, as millions will see it and take it at face value. the analysis could be completely biased and many wouldn’t be able to even tell.