Video Essay
Video Essays (aka Video Documentaries) are a type of video, usually on JewTube, that disseminate large amounts of information about a certain topic. These topics can be as broad as history about a country, or heavily focused on why a certain enemy from a videogame was ruined by the latest entry in the franchise. The most popular video essays are 10 minutes in length, but can span as long as over 14 hours. Soy boys are the biggest fans of video essays. Chuds can also enjoy video documentaries, and share Europa: The Last Battle with fellow chudcels on /pol/.
Types of Video Essays
Normieslop
By far the most popular kind of video essay, and easy to produce. Normieslop essays mostly use Corporate Memphis as the art style, or something otherwise simple. The topics are usually not political. Normieslop is most often shorter than 20 minutes in length. It is also common for Normieslop creators to reupload existing content in compilations, which is when it exceeds 1 hour length. Creators include: Kurzgesagt and Today I Learned (very annoying btw).
Political Essay
Comes in three subgenres: Normie, Trooncel and Chudcel. Normie political essays focus on less controversial political issues, while Trooncel political essays talk about why X person is le bad or why term that was made up last month is le bad. Both subgenres are left-leaning.
Chudcel political essays are less common, and usually can't be found of YouTube because of how right-leaning it is. They are more likely to be shared by anonymous hyperlinks than spread by an algorithm.
Mega Essay
Mega essays are over 3 hours in length. Unfortunately, this genre seems to be filled with the most autistic Shit Nobody Cares About. A common trope in mega essays is how much they pad length by including topics that have little to do with the video's title, but are somehow tangentially related. Calling them video "essays" is rather inaccurate, because the script could probably be put in a novel and sold if it didn't contain copyrighted material.
Common Titles
- Today I Learned [X]
- Why [X] Isn't As Bad As You Think
- The Death of [X]
- [X] Is Garbage, Here's Why
- In Defense of [X]
- The [Y] of [X]
- Why I Hate [X]
- [X]: - A Complete Analysis
- [X]: How To Kill A Franchise
- How [X] Is Brilliant
- How The [X] did [Y]
