I noticed my little bell on YouTube had rung today and when I clicked on its notifications it told me there was a new comment on a video I had first posted just over ten years ago.
Now I thought that title of my video, "VHS to TiVo HD Conversion Test" had maybe answered all of the questions raised by my video, and as a terminally online person who paraphrases memes, I was certainly prepared to reply in that exact manner. But as fun as that internet is to live in, it's not actually the internet I want to live in. For someone who is not me, it's not an internet that helps in any meaningful way. So, instead, I was earnest.
I probably got specifics wrong and I possibly even identified the cause of the glitch incorrectly. But I chose to assume good faith on the part of the commenter and reply appropriately because that's how I would want someone to reply to me if I were asking a question. And, selfishly, because I want the results born from that to be authentic. I don't want the answer that they find to be an After Effects plugin that maybe simulates a tenth of what everyone agrees were the common aesthetics of the time. I want it to be real, or at least start from a place of realness.