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@frenemymine7/31/2024, 12:56 PM

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@frenemymine7/31/2024, 1:06 AM

One of my least favorite things is when a video essayist I enjoy starts bringing in their lumbering, vacant-eyed boyfriend or girlfriend who can hardly string a sentence together and cannot even bother to comb their hair or put on a clean shirt before shooting to do cutesy bits and sketches with them

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@frenemymine7/31/2024, 12:56 PM

God damn it I manifested it, he keeps turning around and looking at her like “was that good” and she nods like she’s telling him it’s okay to keep talking to the camera or prompts him with questions like “And what did you think about that when you saw the movie with me”

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Looka @lookaloona7/31/2024, 3:01 AM

It lowkey gives off 'new parent that thinks everyone else is as invested in their toddler mindlessly hitting a toy xylophone as they are' energy.

@frenemymine7/31/2024, 3:03 AM

This is EXACTLY what it is, what a perfect comparison. Especially because they pretty much have to hold them up in front of the camera and prompt them sentence by sentence

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@maleviolent7/31/2024, 1:33 PM

we haven't come across this very often but we also don't watch video essays as much as maybe you or other people, so that could be why. this does sound super annoying though.

i wonder if camera shyness is a big part of the problem and if some of the incoherency could be resolved by just putting the camera in the same room and having a discussion normally. but i still don't understand why a video essayist is bringing in their s/o when, and this sounds mean af but it's true, their audience is watching them... for them.

i guess the other way it could work is in a more podcast/radio show format/set-up but like... you can't be incoherent for that? but if you REALLY wanted your audience to hear directly what your s/o thought and god willing they can during a sentence together then maybe. what a weird thing to do. i totally rambled, sorry, i woke up recently.

@frenemymine7/31/2024, 1:38 PM

Right, like I’m not saying I would do any better but 100k+ people are not tuning in to watch me speak. People are watching the videos because YOU are good at writing and performing them! Your boyfriend is a sysadmin whose on-camera experience is limited to Microsoft Teams meetings. It’s like if you were at a concert and the performer stepped off stage so their SO who has never sung outside of the shower could do every other song

@maleviolent7/31/2024, 1:59 PM

exactly.... i feel like their energy is going towards wanting to vlog but they're doing what they know (analyzing & relaying information) instead. so if they really wanted to bring their s/o in maybe they should... vlog. but again, there's the issue of like, is there an audience for that? maybe! who knows. but at least you aren't making your video essay audience listen to THIS.