Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Thinking of doing YTP style videos, uploading this to gauge interest.

Hey guys, so I'm uploading this as an experiment. I know a lot of you wanna see more movie reviews, but I got a very frequent and understandable criticism with them: your jokes are good, but your pacing isn't. I spent too long setting up each joke, and with the Toy Story review in particular, I made so many 'edited jokes', I could basically cut them out of the 31 minute review and upload them as their own video; essentially turning it into a YouTube Poop. I find it crazy how I took 5 minutes worth of jokes and stretched it out into a 31 minute video. Talk about wasting people's times (and the watch time on my YouTube analytics confirms this as 50% of viewers click away after the first 30 seconds).

And people generally are not interested in this review format anymore. I know! Maybe you are! But one of the top comments on the Toy Story review was someone saying:

"The only case in which I'd watch a 30 minute toy story review is if Suspect made it." (this got over 70 upvotes!)

So that doesn't bode well for getting new viewers huh?

Yeah, "reviews" (especially reviews of singular movies/games) don't do well on YouTube anymore, and many critics have had to make changes (e.g. Caddicarus, who no longer does reviews of singular games, but instead, picks a theme and does mini-reviews around that theme). It's done wonders for his channel.

I'm thinking, scrap the Nostalgia Critic format, and just make YTPs (which do much better view-wise on YouTube than reviews do). It would allow me to just have fun making jokes, rather than making surface-level nitpicks and using them to springboard into jokes. Why spend 30 minutes wasting time with setups, when I could just get straight to the laughs?

I get that you guys might enjoy hearing my thoughts, but honestly, everything I say in my reviews has already been said by countless other critics. And that is incredibly demotivating. It's the reason why I haven't made many reviews lately. It's cause I feel as though I have nothing interesting to say about them. With video games, I feel a bit more confident in that regard, as there's a ton of mechanics to talk about there. But with a movie, it's more about 'artistic expression', and reviewing that is something I can't do well.

In short, I get a much bigger kick out of making you guys laugh, not so much with sharing my opinions on things anymore. I'm not saying I'm gonna stop doing opinion-based content, but I would only ever do it if I felt I had something to say on a subject (e.g. the video on what I'd change about the Star Wars Sequels or why I hate movie theaters). These were so much more fun to make as I had actual strong opinions on a subject. But going through a movie a la Nostalgia Critic, essentially means you have to have thought-provoking thoughts on every scene in a movie. And many times, I go blank (notice how in my Matrix review, I never even talked about the bullet time sequence, it's cause I had nothing to say about it, but it felt very wrong to skip it). So I ended up having to force myself to have opinions on pivotal moments of a movie, and it makes some jokes in my reviews feel very contrived and forced.

I apologize about how experimental the channel's been lately. Honestly, it's been maddening; figuring out what direction I wanna go. Just wanna thank you all for sticking with me over the years. Hopefully I can find my footing sooner than later.

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