Yeah. Honestly videos like this analyzing conservative media are good lessons in how some people can be terrible at original storytelling? Not because they're copies, but because when you break down the substance of the text, they come off so... flat.
Storytelling beats they flub. Jokes they tell that are barely jokes. Characters with no sense of an internal world.
Using symbols that only mean things on the surface level and have no metaphor behind them. The subtext and the text of the plot in argument with itself.
I don't really want to watch a lot of videos about "bad" media because honestly it's fricking BORING after a while, especially if the person talking about it doesn't have a lot to say past "this is wrong, that is wrong" without explaining whys and hows. But sometimes it's actually a good lesson for my own storytelling, for things not to do and pitfalls to avoid.
...and sometimes it's a little bit of that rubbernecking appeal. "Wow what a mess." sorta gawking.
>>Honestly videos like this analyzing conservative media are good lessons in how some people can be terrible at original storytelling? Not because they're copies, but because when you break down the substance of the text, they come off so... flat.<<
Apparently most people write (or draw) from the surface in, not the core out. The results are usually bad.
>>But sometimes it's actually a good lesson for my own storytelling, for things not to do and pitfalls to avoid.<<
I often enjoy comparison-contrast resources that show how things can be done well vs. badly, with examples.
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Thoughts
Date: 2026-01-31 05:39 am (UTC)* The figure on the left has sharp corners (look at the ears and nose especially) while the right is more soft and rounded.
* The figure on the right has pronounced neoteny (big eyes, small nose, big head in proportion to the body).
One is obviously copied from the other, but the style and message are quite different.
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2026-01-31 03:26 pm (UTC)Storytelling beats they flub. Jokes they tell that are barely jokes. Characters with no sense of an internal world.
Using symbols that only mean things on the surface level and have no metaphor behind them.
The subtext and the text of the plot in argument with itself.
I don't really want to watch a lot of videos about "bad" media because honestly it's fricking BORING after a while, especially if the person talking about it doesn't have a lot to say past "this is wrong, that is wrong" without explaining whys and hows.
But sometimes it's actually a good lesson for my own storytelling, for things not to do and pitfalls to avoid.
...and sometimes it's a little bit of that rubbernecking appeal. "Wow what a mess." sorta gawking.
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2026-01-31 07:09 pm (UTC)Apparently most people write (or draw) from the surface in, not the core out. The results are usually bad.
>>But sometimes it's actually a good lesson for my own storytelling, for things not to do and pitfalls to avoid.<<
I often enjoy comparison-contrast resources that show how things can be done well vs. badly, with examples.