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I'm really not a fan of the trend for really long video essays, especially since it's almost always padding and repeating similar points.
Anything up to 25 mins is usually fine, but 35+ is in the realm of 'I'll add it to Watch Later but never bother watching it' and over an hour I'm just going to keep scrolling
Kind of a dumb take, just say your attention span is too short to watch long form analyses lol
ChadCat is a channel I discovered recently that does "ADHD versions" of different popular YouTuber's videos. They're all under a minute with a quick text recap of what was talked about in the video. I honestly really love this channel and it's quickly become one of my all-time favorites.
I'm not trying to advocate for short form content/media, but this person takes 10 minutes+ long videos and cuts them down to about 20-40 seconds. They'll do video essays too.
I guess you and I just have different tastes. I don't think I've watched 1 hour+ videos that were just repeating, but the only ones I've watched that are that long are Dan Olson and Super Eyepatch Wolf.
With those I intend to watch half now and watch half later, but end up engaged enough to just watch them through in a single sitting