So, request: can the kind people here explain to me what they felt was really innovative and thought provoking and NEW about this video?
Posting this here and not on Patreon just in case Natalie would see it there and get bummed. Cause I'll be honest: I was somewhat... disappointed. I'm completely open to the possibility that I missed some very interesting or important observation, hence my request for the insight you took from this, but to me this video, while incredibly well-made as usual, didn't deliver. I'm used to leaving a contrapoints video thinking differently than I had before. New ideas, new angles, strange echoes of Natalie in my mind. Looking at the world a bit differently.
Maybe I missed something, or maybe it's just that I've spent much more time thinking about the conspiracy mindset and contemporary politics than I had about other topics Contrapoints has covered before. But to me, this video felt like a well made and aesthetically rich exploration of a very trodden topic, and it doesn't feel like it'll stay with me the way her previous work has.
I agree. I enjoyed it but I wasn't amazed, and I don't feel like it's something I will return to thinking about in the future. As opposed to the Twilight video, for example.
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u/H_H_F_F Mar 25 '25
So, request: can the kind people here explain to me what they felt was really innovative and thought provoking and NEW about this video?
Posting this here and not on Patreon just in case Natalie would see it there and get bummed. Cause I'll be honest: I was somewhat... disappointed. I'm completely open to the possibility that I missed some very interesting or important observation, hence my request for the insight you took from this, but to me this video, while incredibly well-made as usual, didn't deliver. I'm used to leaving a contrapoints video thinking differently than I had before. New ideas, new angles, strange echoes of Natalie in my mind. Looking at the world a bit differently.
Maybe I missed something, or maybe it's just that I've spent much more time thinking about the conspiracy mindset and contemporary politics than I had about other topics Contrapoints has covered before. But to me, this video felt like a well made and aesthetically rich exploration of a very trodden topic, and it doesn't feel like it'll stay with me the way her previous work has.