The "comically snide review" school of blogging may have helped lay the foundation for this nonsense, but there was more craft on display in a single Mr. Cranky or Dave Campbell sentence than in fifteen minutes of this current batch of jokers' youtube vids.
The difference between working a bit and the bit working you.
Hell, what are Trump's rally speeches but YouTube rantvids as politics -- flattery and pandering masking a gnawing void of flop-sweat self aggrandizement.
In fact, I can't think of one of the old snarksters worth a damn (myself included) who didn't eventually branch out and move past the formula.
The ones who did keep leaning into it became the stuff of self-parody.
It's why I gave up on Nobody's Favorites even though it drove a ton of traffic to me site. I ran out of variations of "gee, this [ephemeral style] was goofy."
After covering the context of the various classes, there wasn't more to add.
After covering the context of the various classes, there wasn't more to add.
