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Yes. I even wrote up a list of video topics, such as “Madoka and apotheosis-as-suicide”, “Happy Sugar Life and anxiety’s generational effects”, “Erased and radical trust in a society where accusation is the same as conviction”, “Gargantia and the Verdurous Planet and the re-integration of war veterans”, “School Live and how fantasy life is used to cope with tragedy”, “Rei Ayanami and how her personality is pretty normal for child abuse victims all things considered” and “Elfen Lied and how entirely by accident it became deeply evocative to 13 year old girls”.
It would never do well, lmao. Strategically, what I would need to do to even try to make it work is a combination of focusing first on the big names that people like hearing about, while sprinkling in more obscure anime that nobody talks about but which I have Feelings On later on and throughout.
The main strategy would have to be “two-to-one”, with a pair of a super popular current seasonal anime, and a big historically popular anime video, then one less popular show I actually like, and have these 20-25 minute video essays come out bi-weekly at the latest. In actuality, for the sake of brand and viewership, any given month would need like a new video every week. If people expect a new video and don’t see months between, it might be more stable. Smaller, low effort side videos might help as well.
But that just leads to questions: do I have anything meaningful to say about fucking Solo Leveling or whatever is popular today? How long until “giving my feelings” becomes performative and not genuine? What’s the point of expressing something empty?
And I have a full time job, if I were to do this -and I can do video editing well enough to do a rudimentary job even without an editor, so I *can* do this- I wouldn’t have time to sleep, and I have an actual pension at my day job so throwing that away to chase viewers is insane.
