He should have named the video "Youtube plagiarists(these specific guys)" instead!
Huldra
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Im just some fuck on the internet but my main idea for how this could have been paced better is to center the whole thing around the specific ways that they plagiarize, then use examples for each of that.
Like both Illuminaughtii and Somerton do the bisexual lighting to avoid copyright detection thing, so instead of one segment about the former then one segment about the latter, have a segment about bisexual copyright dodging, point out where each do it, then go to the next method of plagiarism.
The length isnt the problem, the problem is that its like 8 videos of the same concept repeated one after another without a framing device or throughline besides "and heres this other plagiarist!"
It wouldnt be better if its was just half the length cause then its just a shorter badly paced video, it either should just have been a series of videos about each individual plagiarist, since each segment is paced individually, or it should have been one video about the broad trends of plagiarism in youtube.
A good video essay never feels too long while a bad one can never be short enough.(adapted from quote about film I read once)
The research is genuinely good but fuck me this is literally like just a full video about Filip, then a full video about Cinemassacre, then 3 segments about Illuminaughtiiiiii, and then a full video about Internet Historian, and then presumably theres gonna be several more full videos about individual cases.
This shit needs a throughline.
Edit: Finished it all and this is 4 better than average yet still relatively petty drama videos, then one 2 hour documentary about James Somerton that is much better but also is fucking exhausting because you've had the exact same pattern and pacing repeated 4 times just before it.
None of the non-James segments are actually particularly critical to the core point that gets made at the end except for just indirectly making the point that this is a trend.
Watching the new Hbomber video makes me appreciate that guy who makes 12 hour videos on Elder Scrolls more, cause this one is just 4 hours and the one single hour I have gone through so far has been fucking miserably paced by comparison.
Its like I put on a playlist of independent videos about specific people doing plagiarism rather than one overarching video about youtube plagiarism.
I guess possibly tighter/slimmer clothing might work? Depends a lot on exact body shape and such.
Maybe combine slimmer pants with sort of a poofy shirt/sweater? Mostly just spitballing but thats my first idea at least.
Earrings or other facial jewelry can help give that effect too I think, but might also give the impression of like a metalhead I guess.
This really just is a kind of passive and mild liberal statement that if he were actually around to say it today he would be rightfully called out for using media cop speak instead of actually naming what the Palestinians have been victims of as genocide and ethnic cleansing.
I can see very few reasons that this guy is enshrined as some sort of martyr rather than a spicy liberal who picked the easiest target in American politics to dissent on then more or less was passive or in support of every Kissingeresque action that was taken afterwards.
Sorry, he doesn't get to be on the team, he thought bombing Libya and raping Gaddafi to death was fucking awesome and hoped the same would be done to Iran, that motherfucker can greet Kissinger in hell personally.
Reminder on this day that Anthony Bourdain thought bombing Libya back to slavery was fucking sick(positive), said he wanted the same thing to happen to Iran, and if he were alive today he would absolutely support flattening Gaza to get Hamas.
Another hot food take, saw a tweet that was volcanically angry about a clip of a fine dining etiquette guy peeling a banana with a knife and fork, and tbh fine dining is just so marginal in that way that to me its like getting angry about gnomes or something, aristocratic fine diners may as well be fairytale guys to me.
Worse is upper middleclass people who get fascistically icked out if any food has the slightest resemblance to the natural state of the ingredients, like whole animal roasts or some shit like that getting posted on twitter and 500 bri'ish tech consultants quote tweet it with genocidal proclamations about immigrants. Not even like the Habsburgs tweet about fine dining, they tweet the worst thanksgiving slop of all time.
In essence he was subjected to traditional interrogation tactics, he was never dosed with any hallucinogens or other drugs, the actual experiment he was part of was that he had to write an essay on his ideological convictions under the false premise that he was going to debate other students, then instead in regular sessions a guy came in and ruthlessly mocked and belittled every aspect of the essay.
He himself dismissed the alleged effects of this and I'd be inclined to agree that I think the main effect of it would just be radicalizing his already held views and positions.