Over Thanksgiving (y'know, just the other week? No, almost a month ago...) we watched the new Defunctland vid and I think I was the only one who really vibed with it at the time but once I looked at it again in the sober light of day I do hope he gets good feedback from that and takes it to heart. As an addition to his body of work it makes perfect sense - It was most pronounced in last year's Disney Channel theme video, but Kevin Perjurer has always seems to struggle with incorporating his own identity into his videos and seems to want to minimize it - even his recent charity livestream he was masked and behatted to mostly obscure his features.
So it follows that a format that could still tell the kind of story he excels at telling but further reduce his own presence in telling it would be a perfect fit, and in all honesty it was a really enjoyable watch, but there's one part that bugs me: If you don't read the historical guide, it's very hard to discern fact from fiction. This isn't to say that Perjurer hasn't told the story accurately, but the format of the documentary necessitates creating assets that did not exist prior to the documentary, and they range from recreations of conversations that may not have exactly happened as portrayed, crafting headlines that never actually ran in contemporary newspapers, and cutting a whole trailer using concept art that did exist at the time, but was never displayed publicly back then and is dubbed over with a remix of a separate commentary track. If you don't read the historical guide, you will not know which things are real and which are not.
This is, in my opinion, an irresponsible ask of the average person. I struggled to decide if I should say "youtube viewer", or "internet user" there, but I think it's readily apparent that collectively, we as a species simply don't have the media literacy required for such a piece of art to not act as a vector for spreading dramatized, rose-tinted mostly-facts. I'm not saying the guy did anything wrong, he made the historical guide and prefaces the video explaining exactly what he's doing and imploring you to peruse the accompanying reading. But you and I both know that the average person is not going to do that, and I feel like if Kevin Perjurer is being honest with himself he knows his average viewer is not going to do that, and so I hope if he wants to continue with this format going forward he focuses the next one on something that has enough extant material that nothing needs to be crafted whole-cloth from the ether.