Extremely Long Videos Are Awesome (and here's why)

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1. I wish this video was longer

2. So this is an altogether so you will have to pick all four parts individually, but if you want a good video to listen to I do suggest my Star Wars The Clone Wars video. It’s in my top five favorite videos I’ve done. My Journey of Star Wars The Clone Wars: Season 1-3 Review (Spoilers)
   https://youtu.be/_FT_XGWstng please enjoy

3. 🎶chk chk chk chk ch through the mirror of my mind🎶THE SERIES THAT BROUGHT

4. oh my god???????? being able to withstand the emotional energy of watching something you like???? that was the absolute perfect way to describe that whole phenomenon I had no idea why I resisted topics I really enjoyed and that’s exactly it

5. This is a wonderful take. I'll have to give 4+ hour videos a try. When did you start making this video? Did you see my tweet about Quinton and the topic of long videos? Or just a coincidence?

6. The Iron Dice by Three Arrows

7. ADHD when

8. I also have the Time Blindness

9. felt very called out when you said that you use long videos to make up for feeling lonely, i do that a whole lot and am currently trying to break my habit of not being able to go about my day without music or a video playing in my headphones to distract me from the void in my soul…great video though, this was a brilliant and really thoughtful analysis, i'm so glad you're gaining more traction, you really deserve it!

10. Long videos are my bread and butter, love putting them on in the background while I do other things. Keep up the great content!!

11. i hate long videos. most ive watched, i think they could write the video better/edit it better to cut down on unessisary stuff

12. We have the same brain it's crazy, I feel so seen

13. If you're into leftist content, Some More News puts out really good ELAVs weekly

14. I really like Fredrik Knudsen videos

15. Highly recommend James Somerton! His videos are on the shorter side of long ass videos, usually around an hour, but the structure of his videos are phenomenal and he is an amazing creator.

16. I would absolutely recommend any and all videos by CJ the X. The narration and storytelling ability is just so deeply enthralling.

17. i noticed she constantly switches between looking through her glasses and looking over the top of her glasses. not necessarily bad but once i noticed that's all i could focus on

18. I love extremely long ass videos while I am crocheting. Most shows, movies, and other videos need to be watched and most podcasts are not structured enough to keep me entertained, so these long form video essays are that perfect sweet spot for multitasking!

19. God there's some creators that I have stamped in my head as "Will watch regardless of length and topic". The second an Hbomberguy video drops it's like Christmas come early, and if Lindsay Ellis were to upload again I'd drop everything in a heartbeat to watch that as well

20. I've found my people 🙌

21. It's weird hearing so many of my thoughts, quirks, and preferences about media consumption coming out of somebody else's mouth. I'm glad this video exists and that you laid it out so clearly (and, surprisingly given the subject matter, concisely).

    I'm coming at this, though, already feeling a little weird and wary of the patterns I'm in right now. I've been pretty defensive for a long time about how much of a hump it is for me to start something I know I'll like/get emotionally invested in, but even among my longterm friends who get it and are used to it and will defend my time from people who don't… we don't have that many interests in common anymore. I'm only just now starting to dip my toes back into fandom again, and it's happened for 2 of the 4 TV shows I've gotten myself to actually watch in the past 2 years. I feel like overdosing on stable, approachable, secondhand-experience content has had a negative impact on my relationships and my creativity–it just doesn't invite the same follow-up, the same responses, the same sustained community.

    I also just finished a PhD program, though, so maybe there are some deeper issues at play for me.

22. I'm getting deeper in my copium, I can't play videogames without a long video anymore. But I kinda like it since I can dive I depth into a game while not being too bored thanks to the video.
    We all should probably get out, but it's a nice cocoon tbh

23. I absolutely love this breakdown of why Extremely Long Videos Are Awesome, because the last months I've just been watching Sarah Z, Quinton Reviews and sometimes even commentary YouTubers like The Right Opinion while playing Stardew Valley and it's the best. Absolutely the best.

    I appreciate this video a lot, I feel seen and the comment section makes me feel at home

    Edit: the recommendation of hbomberguys Pathologic video is simply great. My boyfriend showed me the video and it made me watch further videos about Pathologic – 2h, 4h, I honestly still can't get enough of this game I won't ever play but I just want to hear people talk about it. It's grand.

    Second Edit: My boyfriend just told me about a video called "The FULL STORY of Five Nights at Wario's | Part 1/2". Yeah I guess we can relate.

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25. I adore Quinton; in my personal opinion he's the gold standard of extremely long-ass video creators. His ability to get me to happily watch dozens of hours of video on shows I've never had any interest in is incredible.

26. i love extremely long ass videos. i always draw with them in the background. all of sarah z's works are a great and also very common recommmendation im sure i dont really need to make (but still will anyways). but have you seen RedLetterMedia best of worst? a lil more on the visual side, but its still kind of fun to have as a tiny screen in the corner while you do something else

27. YES Thank you! I loooove to learn or hear about things while I'm gaming, but I don't have the attention span to watch. I love Jenny Nicholeson and Quinton reviews for this reasons specifically.

28. Rifensteine did great history of the beauty community videos

29. the issue is I watch everything exclusively on x2 speed so "extremely long ass videos" are a very comfortable

30. These are on the low end of the long ass video spectrum but Folding Ideas’s In Search of a Flat Earth is really good, in the same way that hbomberguy’s vaccines video is. Also, you should try audiobooks if you haven’t! Kirk Wallace Johnson’s The Feather Thief is fucking fantastic

31. i love long-ass videos because it means i can have something on while i draw without having to constantly switch videos. i mean music is great too but if i have to keep skipping songs thats Annoying so having something thats hours long helps keep me focused

32. Like seriously they're fricking awesome, right now I'm watching Quinton 8 hour victorious video and I'm loving every second of it

33. Youtube suggested this video to me after I just got done watching a 2 part documentary about a Western adaptation of Sailor Moon that totals about 3 and a half hours if you watch them together. I love longass videos because they are engaging enough that I can sit there and watch a whole 8 hour video about Victorious, but I also don't feel like I'm missing anything if I'm just a little tuned out and focusing on other stuff. Meaning I can actually put them on before bed and they won't keep me awake like everything else that I have tried to help me fall asleep like listening to music or watching movies. Sometimes I end up having to watch them over and over again to make sure I caught everything, but I feel like that's both beneficial to me and the creator, because then I'm getting to enjoy the video more than once and the creator is getting more views.

    And for anyone wondering, the Sailor Moon documentary was part of Ray Mona's "Tales of the Lost" series!

34. extremely long ass videos are the videos I get excited for! I think you're so right about it feeling special to spend a larger amount of time "with" a creator on a subject when a majority of platforms promote mostly shortform content.

35. Gotta admit this video about long ass videos isn't long enough

36. i agree and relate with 100% of this video

37. I am extraordinarily jealous of your wooden play button.

38. Had to watch at 1.75x. Lol! But thank you! I now have a better idea as to why my kids watch these long ass videos you're talking about.

39. omg i relate so much to all of this!! thank you for this amazing video <3 we have the same outlook on watching youtube videos, and i’m happy to see that people like me exist because i felt alone in this!
    i also constantly have a video on the background in my life (i don’t want to form a single though ever bc mental illness you know) and i know this is a coping mechanism, but it still helps a lot with coping with day to day stuff
    i would love to see more video recommandations from you because we seem to love the same content haha
    you just gained a new sub! 🙂

40. Videos under an hour now feel so short. The long ass videos are so much fun i watch them for about all the same reasons. Being neurodivergent i need something to constantly occupy my mind. Thank you for linking the videos btw Ill have more to watch I hadnt heard of some of these. Maybe we should exchange long ass video recs lol

41. mikes mics pretty little liars series and his glee eps!!!!

42. Have you watched stuff from Friendly Space Ninja?

43. While I love these videos, some of them just don’t justify the length and I’ve wasted at least 3 days watching videos. Shout out to hbomber for getting me into this rabbit hole tho

44. I love long videos bc it lets me fully experience someone's hyperfocus from beginning to end. It's passive hyperfocus for me, gives me all the positives of it on a very specific timetable. The hyperfocus has a set end.

45. Playhead North is one of my personal favorite long-ass video makers, she has awesome stuff on Pathologic!

46. Totally relatable. Here's a short list of entry level longforms that people might like:
    
    Every Zelda is the Darkest Zelda by Jacob Geller (40:08), How Bisexuality Changed Video Games by verilybitchie (54:13), An Exhaustive History of Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings by Folding Ideas (1:00:37), Yawgmoth: The Scientific Priestcraft of Eugenics | Magic the Gathering Lore by Spice8Rack (1:15:15)

47. Three Hbomberguy videos in the thumbnail looks about right

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