It's frustrating trying to find quality content in the writing/film analysis sector of YouTube and other social media. Too often it just devolves into simplistic "Hollywood is dead" tropes, ranting about remakes over and over again, while offering little substantive analysis beyond "this thing bad." It's worse when it gets into the stupid culture war stuff.
What's even sadder though is seeing a creator you had a lot of respect for... someone who even inspired you to make some of your own stuff because he actually provided helpful, constructive advice... suddenly spiral downward in what could be some kind of manic episode, or because he just got red-pilled by AI stuff. Maybe it's a combination of the two. I have no idea, I don't know the guy, but it's sad either way.
The thing that makes it frustrating in regards to general media discourse, however, is that while his dedicated audience is noticing something's up and asking if he's doing ok, newcomers already on the blind "I hate all modern western cinema because blah blah blah" are finding the new stuff and getting that sweet old confirmation bias. So now the discourse circles back to "ya'll just don't get it, he's speaking the truth and you're just butthurt about it."
So yeah. Yet another channel thrown down the toilet of toxic discourse. Yay.












