i don't know how the hell someone can clickbait >500,000 people into watching (or at least starting) a two and a half hour long video essay let's play with an analog horror-ass thumbnail and title like "LOL DON'T PLAY THIS GAME!!!" about a japan-only nintendo DS horror game, where the video seems to be just wholesale condensing and describing what happens in the game with very little extrapolation or opinionizing or... anything? beyond just reading the book out loud to the class? if my boyfriend didn't put it on the TV i wouldn't have even watched any of it, and we stopped watching very quickly
i went back and skimmed through the video on my own, and there's nothing to it? no extra context of the game beyond wasting my time saying "square enix made it, you know final fantasy seven? yeah that square enix" for the meme reference? no saying who even made the translation patch? no opinions at all? like i... figure the uploader likes the game because they made a two and a half hour long video on it but come on man, put more love into it
i wouldn't even be talking about this, because i love the people that upload commentary-less longplays, if not for the fact that playing the algorithm with huge clickbait energy for a video that would ultimately say nothing seems like it's doing this whole thing just to try to go viral for your own sake
swing and a miss, dude