{"id":19747,"date":"2023-04-06T11:45:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T19:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=19747"},"modified":"2023-04-06T11:46:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T19:46:19","slug":"video-essay-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/video-essay-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Video essay recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Written by: <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mikayla Coleman <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In an ever changing and expanding digital space of content creation, the video essay has become a staple genre on video-sharing websites such as Youtube.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A video essay is an essay in video form that aims to persuade, educate or critique and analyze a specific topic, theme, person or thesis. This open-ended definition leaves a lot of freedom for creators to artistically express themselves and their opinions in a unique way that can be as academic or as casual as one desires.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Use this list as a jumping off point for getting into the diverse, fascinating and passionate world of video essays on Youtube.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b>Ro Rambdin \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ro Rambdin is a 20 year old Tiktok and Youtube influencer from Seattle, Washington who creates incisive commentary videos on a wide variety of subjects pertaining to present and past youth-cultural events.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDo We Need S*x Scenes? &#8211; Penn Badgley and Intimacy in Media\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cElon Musk and Grimes: A Retrospective\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cChick Tracts: An American Tragedy\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b>Philosophy Tube \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Created in 2013 by Abigail Thorn, a British content creator and playwright. , Philosophy Tube seeks to provide free lessons in philosophy after the 2012 increase of tuition in the United Kingdom. Thorn\u2019s videos are inquisitive, hilariously scripted and visually interesting with different elaborate costumes and sets to match each video&#8217;s contents. Thorn has also documented their story of coming out as transgender and uses their platform to advocate for better health care and treatment of transgender people around the globe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Rich Have Their Own Ethics: Effective Altruism &amp; the Crypto Crash (ft. F1nn5ter)\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI Emailed My Doctor 133 Times: The Crisis In the British Healthcare System\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCapital Punishment (&amp; Prison Abolition) | Philosophy Tube\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b>Mina Le \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mina Le is a Vietnamese-American content creator whose work focuses on modern and historical culture of fashion and film. Le\u2019s unique style dominates her videos, making the viewing experience not only intellectually stimulating, but incredibly visually appealing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cTHE CULT OF CLEANLINESS\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c\u2018toxic\u2019 femininity: what&#8217;s up with girlbloggers, female manipulators, and femcels?\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWHY EVERYTHING IS SO UGLY: The Curse of Modernism\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b>Izzzyzzz \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Internet personality Izzzyzzz, or simply Izzy, is a New Zealand-based video essayist who creates videos on modern and historical internet culture, pertaining mostly to childhood nostalgia. Izzy lightheartedly uses a combination of both subjects to deep dive into niche experiences of growing up while internet usage became more accessible, allowing viewers to be once again immersed in the fun and often-times clunky experiences of early 2000\u2019s computer games and internet culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cExploring the Lore of Purble Place\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Horror of Anti-Piracy Screens\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cA Deep Dive into Animal Crossing\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b>The Leftist Cooks \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Formerly named \u201cThe Leftist Cook,\u201d The Leftist Cooks is a collaborative Youtube channel between Irish creators Neil Farrell and Sarah Oeffler focusing primarily on leftist topics, including but not limited to LGBT+ and gender issues, workplace conditions and personal near-death experiences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis is Not a Video Essay\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cPolyamory and the Family\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCapitalism and the Body\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at howleditor@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":19748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}