[ SECRET POST #1556 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1556 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 040 secrets from Secret Submission Post #222.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - ships it ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

That's not really always true, since a lot of reviewers on TGWTG don't JUST do reviews, they also do plots, commentaries, crossovers, and other stuff where their sexuality and gender identity actually COULD be relevant.

Besides, a lot, if not actually a majority, of people don't watch reviews on TGWTG ONLY because they care about how good or bad something is, if they even care at all -- they watch them because the reviewers are entertaining and interesting. You don't go to TGWTG to get an impartial and insightful review of something. Not all the reviews on there are supposed to be serious reviews. Sad Panda's "Forget About It" series is nothing but absolute nonsense. Doug's shows are more about comedy than about giving reviews that are meant to be taken seriously. And even when you DO get a reviewer whose series is about giving honest, balanced reviews -- like Linkara and Apollo Z. Hack -- people still watch them more because they have interesting characters, not because anyone would necessarily specifically seek out reviews of whatever they choose to cover (especially in Apollo's case, as his focus is largely on obscure sci-fi/fantasy films no one's ever heard of... or even Cinema Snob, who reviews 70's films no one even fucking knows how to FIND).

Now, Blistered Thumbs does seem to have a much stronger emphasis on providing reviews of games that are intended to be ultimately real insight into the reviewers' opinions on the games, but even on there, some reviewers still do plots and characters and things that definitely are there just for entertainment and may have little to nothing to do with whatever they're reviewing.

The point is, for the most part, these "reviews" are done by creative people who are providing entertainment with a similar theme of being critics -- and there's a good reason for that. Even reviewers of obscure and relatively unknown shit will get more views from people who google stuff they review than they'd get if they were just producing independent sketch shows, and reviewing stuff gives you a lot of material to work with, since movie clips, game footage, and music can all be included legally under fair use laws by people making money from their videos IF that stuff is used in the context of a review or parody. It's called a loophole. A deliciously exploitable loophole that does a lot of good for people who want to be part of the entertainment industry but don't want to go through the wringer of Hollywood bullshit just to have their material edited, censored, and sponsored to death.