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Analyzing the art, craft, and skill of narrative on YouTube. Disabled. Alt: @narrativevideos

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So FilmRise has filed a Content ID claim against my WandaVision video on YouTube. While I get that resolved, here it is on Vimeo, if you haven't seen it yet.

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What WandaVision Gets Wrong About TV

WandaVision has received critical acclaim for its "meta" elements. But what does it actually have to say? And is it right? This video cost us over $500…

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@kitten_dumpster What an odd thing to say

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I made this

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@christapeterso Christa have you heard about the special man who makes near-perfect spheres for science

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@JimJarmuschHair He did a great job with a character that could have been just a fun little throwaway.

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@moniza_hossain I love the idea in the second tweet that it was only massively popular for years because no one had read it

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@zacharyhorn @coldhealing The complete opposite of this would be "not reading"

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@Srirachachau bleak

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@_jimmyfranks @KristerJohnson Here's a photo from the day ():

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@thirdsecond @bedabug And she was able to somehow do it differently!

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@GrahamB47 C. S. Lewis sums it up neatly here, I think, in "On Different Tastes in Literature" (a precursor to his book An Experiment in Criticism)

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@mollylambert sharing once again a good line from the British comedian Stewart Lee, about James Corden: "Britain's loss is America's loss also."

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@TheCathyBrown @ihatejoelkim You blog about NASCAR, Cathy. Settle down.

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@MartinNebelong You are not an artist.

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@dscc this is your header image currently

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@ColbyConrad in no way is that tweet illegal or the basis for a legitimate defamation case

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@galelululu I have bad news for you about what the guy who did the popular frog drawing is currently up to

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@BaladineJessa time to upgrade him to Murder on the Orient Express

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@ssimmons1187 hell yeah

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@Ursy153 @MarkOStack @yugiohtas

‘The Iron Giant’: Brad Bird’s Anti-Gun Violence Movie Gains Poignant Power in New Documentary

"The Giant's Dream: The Making of The Iron Giant" chronicles the struggle in getting Brad Bird's vision to the big screen.

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@AquaWolfGod @LEBENFOUR @Fibby1123 @SamoreCake @FOX26Houston Here is an article about people who do that job (warning: heartbreaking):

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I'm just reading bits of Ebert's writing now. Here's his account of Robert Altman responding to some negative reviews Ebert gave his films

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An increasingly ugly facet of the corporate VTuber scene is the way its norms recruit fans into rallying around anti-labor sentiments (under the guise of caring about workers!) by encouraging fans not to "rock the boat." The #WhereIsSelen movement illuminates this. (1/?)

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@JackRedelfs @JohnnyCallicutt What the fuck are you talking about? It's so good it's good.

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@Harpers @WritersofColor @NABJ @aaja @NAHJ @nlgja @DisabledWriters @najournalists @sajahq @womenjournos @studyhallxyz Oh, really? You're really interested in disabled writers and editors applying for this position which pays below a living wage for NYC? You're committed to diversity in the workplace?

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@andyjcarroll you get how that makes it way worse, right?

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@PetreRaleigh I think to show that we need more than $10,000 worth, the first industry should be something MBAs don't really care about and that is kind of coming back already, like film

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@incivilitea I mean,

Joe Biden has his own island on ‘Animal Crossing’ where you can learn about his campaign | CNN...

As Election Day approaches, Joe Biden and his team are exhausting all efforts to reach voters – even taking their campaign to a popular video game.

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This is one of the few specific scenarios in which I feel men actually do get treated worse by mainstream media (though it's not easy to quantify). I'm not sure the pseudo-progressive BuzzFeed would ever feature this article if it were a female celebrity whose nudes leaked.

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@KristinWithAni7 what integrity

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@KrizoSusanna I think Joyce Carol Oates, National Book Award winner, generally knows how to say what she means

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@mollylambert I looked it up again and it's one of three choice slams on Corden in the span of a minute:

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Comedian Stewart Lee gives his thoughts on the Late Late Show host, James Corden, from his new 'comedy vehicle'.

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@nronharris I urge you to extend your imagination just a little farther

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A lot of the worst takes on the internet in "progressive" spaces come from the same basic thought process, which we might call "the quasi-transitive property." A short thread of my unpolished thoughts on this!

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@AnotherTheri @queerflowrchild The man virtually single-handedly rewrote the code for Mother 2/EarthBound. Absolute legend.

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I'm so glad Daniel Craig has a working relationship with a director who understands that he's funny

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@Nicole_Cliffe They say all authors need a website, but you may be the first author who needs a website specifically for an FAQ section entirely about your dog

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@e1n Wow... I feel like I know their relationship, even though I have no idea who this is about. It really speaks to your grasp of visual language and eye for details which characterize people. (Which isn't surprising, considering your job.)

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Just... a shockingly "what the fuck" detail about OceanGate and Stockton Rush's attitude that I haven't seen people talk about in the whole Titan/Titanic situation.

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@ebruenig "Our records indicate that you already have a baby"

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@kurtruslfanclub rendered shot in here, along with some other incredible stuff:

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坂野友軌 | BANNO Yuki

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春風と体温 #blender #b3d #indie_anime

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@FujikakeRin I have had similar thoughts about this hyper-association of concepts and this is a PERFECT example of it

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A lot of the worst takes on the internet in "progressive" spaces come from the same basic thought process, which we might call "the quasi-transitive property." A short thread of my unpolished thoughts on this!

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Here's an example of the kind of simple thing I believe most people using #WhereIsSelen are asking for. In fact, as long as what it describes is true, Anycolor Inc. can use my version themselves if they need to, gratis, to inform fans worried about Selen.

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One more point: I see people disingenuously asking "What do you want?! The company to share all her personal medical info?!11111" The company could release a short statement about being eager to support her through her recovery and when she returns to streaming. (18/16)

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@Noahpinion @JuniorMinton man, what the hell do you call whatever it is *you* do all day?

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@impliedChoppy really puts this tweet in a new-ish, even worse light

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If we lived in a world with any remotely robust sense of collective morality, this would be the way every single person treated Bush when he stepped outside his house

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This prompt is shameless engagement farming, but I still must answer:

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what’s the worst tweet of all time

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@AdamWeinstein It reminds me of what Anthony Bourdain said about Henry Kissinger.

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@BongBong Around 90%, apparently!

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incredible power from @Trungles here

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Oh wow I really upgraded my ancient iPad--that, I shit you not, could no longer run APPS as a concept--juuuuuust in time for @Trungles ' Marvel Love Unlimited comic release. THAT'S WHAT WE CALL KISMET.😻

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@PetreRaleigh or the one Dan Harmon chose

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@dylanhendricks you have one of the most annoying Twitter bios I've seen in a while

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@BudrykZack The government changed the formula of Capri Sun in the late Nineties to prevent us from being able to turn into weird metal liquid people. This is what they took from you.

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@talitr3s I think you should explore the uncharted personal territory of learning to care about people.

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@lpolgreen what's it like having a comfy media job and blithely writing off swaths of the population

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@winstonsmithO You just named two war crimes

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@clown_depot Your rendering was pretty accurate... respect

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@Nicole_Cliffe "Critics are hailing Cliffe as 'a bold new talent in the field of American poesy.'"

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@RioStover @JeffreyASachs You're right. No one who agrees with you would do this, because you are de facto the good guys. It must be a mistake or even a dreaded false flag

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@marysuewriter Yeah, this was 100% ethical to do, and anyone who doesn't see that needs to grow up

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@JKV1979 @_FleerUltra why is it that you think the voters are the ones to blame for the failure of the powerful leaders

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@RobdanPistov That's a lie. You are a death cheerleader.

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@ohjustshootme He has really long legs and a relatively short torso, according to himself.

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@jourdayen The West Wing, if only because of all the episodes which treat a minor error in wording as if it were capable of ending a president's time in office

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Ice Cube calling up WB and saying he has a great idea for their next Superman movie

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@dread_davis then just say "pedestals are the part of the problem," don't bring up something vague acting like other people should take action on nothing

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@Nicole_Cliffe this is Wisdom For The Ages

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@HoneyTongueMuse This is so true, Father Ambrose! I am reminded of the family story of the Irish priest who babysat for my grandma Magdalen while she went to the laundry. I think if you Google, you'll find some local news articles about it from when he retired

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I see "Anne Frank" is trending on Twitter! I'm sure this means people are honoring her memory. In the previous sentences in this tweet I was playing the character of someone who is unfamiliar with Twitter

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@SquizzRadical That would require people in power to think genocide is bad.

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@ScottGreenfield @JohnBoudet You seem to get off on it, frankly.

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@BalrogNevaeh @georgetakesajob @FlamesJane @IsaLeeWolf @smashbaals Damn, they politely clarified what they meant and you're being pissy about it

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@realswtheory @quinlanbossig

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10 Hours of Jingling Keys

After four years, with a much better camera, and on a much more dead channel due to copyright. The sequelMore 10 Hour videos on my channel, all content is en...

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@OwlexanderH You're not the bad guy here, don't worry.

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@xtinatucker The Weeknd: "Well, you won't feel so smug when you see what my badass rapist cult leader character says about you in the TV show!"

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@PetreRaleigh when the embargo went up they started talking about Spider-Man 4 and all their wonderful other, different movies coming out soon

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@dangolding Check out Blackbeard's Ghost, which is a real gem from the Dean-Jones-and-company era.

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@meganroseruiz "same reference, different artist" isn't bad, honestly

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@JSTOR That's pretty good, but they should all be free

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@lavandatea If you think she's right, you probably don't know anything about linguistics. Being multilingual doesn't give you objective insight into how language works.

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@Nicole_Cliffe One of the things I like about your Twitter is that it is Sesame Street for various levels of knowledge/age-appropriateness, from "THAT'S how you blow your nose?!" to "Go Ask Alice is fake?!" to "I didn't know people used poppers for that."

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thinking about the film term "filoni" today

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"Adults are writing sex between underage characters. Pedophiles enjoy thinking of underage sex. Therefore, writers of teen drama shows are basically pedophiles." The word "basically" kind of encapsulates the whole pattern of thinking here.

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reading an interview with Rian Johnson and this is one of the healthiest things I've ever seen anyone say about the creative process, regardless of results

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@nielsen_holly In Link's Awakening, the kids who give you tips finish by saying that they have no idea what the tips mean, because they're just children and they heard it somewhere

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@sassilewie @KnowNothingTV @nytimes are you under the impression that it is more efficient to raise a human for food than a chicken or an ear of corn

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@AssociatedPress @IWMF hey what happened to this one, guys? maybe you should rethink this whole thing?

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@saturninus You can absolutely solve (almost all) Christie novels by yourself! She belongs to the "fair-play" genre.

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@HeheWaitWhut Just a polite comment: I know doing alt text for photographs and the like can be overwhelming (at first), but doing it for screenshots of text is really easy, because you can just copy and paste! It helps include everyone.

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@MattWalshBlog only the best tactical minds get shot by their own team

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one of our nation's most useless magazines every year since its debut

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Sam Altman is TIME's 2023 CEO of the Year

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@realXXwoman Where is that quote from? Because I'm not sure of any geneticists who'd argue such a thing.

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@greatestjubilee did not expect it to feature Lucy in this way

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@BaxelRose That's the most charitable reading and I hope you're right.

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@DJJazzyJ2Real Her projects massively benefited the company, too, and were huge sources of outreach! Absolutely ridiculous that they coasted off that.

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I really enjoyed this fanfiction (?) in a Polygon comments section about @jasonschreier 's incredible journalism skills (source: )

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@CoryDobbin How is that "simply good for consumers"? They wanted one thing, but were forced to buy two things.

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@Nicole_Cliffe "Banana split" is a very chaotic good answer to "what is your favorite ice cream flavor?"

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@PetreRaleigh Let's all try to hypothesize about which executive producer on his show he is afraid of for some reason. Lorne Michaels

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