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Yes, this is a 4 hour long review of a hotel that's already closed.

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[–] bazus1 75 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So worth the time. She had an aweful 2-days 2-nights for thousands of dollars, and did it so you and I didn't have to lose that money to learn the hard way.

I love that she contextualizes all of this against the backdrop of Disney corporate cowardice and shortsightedness. Also, bless the friggin cast members!

[–] dustyData 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Well, we are in no danger of losing money anymore, the thing went bankrupt.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I watched the first few minutes just to see what it was about, and then 4 hours had passed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

lol I had never even heard of her before yesterday, clicked on that video because I’m a sucker for deep dive video essays that are probably unnecessary about weird topics. I didn’t see it was a 4hr video until I was like 20 min in and now I haven’t stopped watching her stuff. Love finding a new YouTuber to watch endless hours of their back catalogues.

[–] Poppa_Mo 46 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not a huge Star Wars, Disney, Hotel, Vacation, or fan of this person, and I still watched all 4 hours of this. Really good break down. She's also very quirky and charismatic.

[–] Theharpyeagle 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Her doing an entire section with the porg mask and not mentioning it once is top tier content.

[–] Cornucopiaofplenty 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't get how her mic quality was still so clear with that big ole helmet on

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (1 children)

what makes it so much worse is that Disney has the history, Disney has the knowledge, Disney has the engineering, Disney has the know-how and so little of that was on display here – I cannot see any way that Disney fans, Star Wars fans, or theme park fans wouldn’t be absolutely livid after experiencing that …

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

That’s exactly the conclusion she comes to late in the video: it’s that they cashed in on their deep supply of goodwill with their fans and betrayed them for higher margins. And then wrote the whole thing off by shutting it down suddenly right at the end of the quarter. We are living in a time of animal-backed-into-a-corner, hostile capitalism. The bubble on this system that was literally designed to pop, seems to be popping. So the capitalists are gathering up everything they can, faster and faster. Capitalism as a concept is inherently flawed. You can’t have infinite growth in a finite system. As has been pointed out innumerable times: that’s how cancer works. Not a sound financial system. But here we are, in what is essentially the “going out of business” mad dash by these leeches to grab as much as they can. Our water supply, our natural resources, the climate, the system of capitalism itself are all on the outs. And people feel that. And we’re getting angrier and angrier. This won’t end well, and it seems to be ending faster and faster. They know that. What they plan on doing with all that money after the collapse is unclear. But they’re winning. And that’s all they can conceive of.

Edit: lol I literally forgot as I went on writing that, that I was meant to be talking about Disney. But that’s pretty much what’s happening. They’re in the “squeeze harder” phase, where they’re ostensibly done growing and innovating, now they’re just going to squeeze everything they can out of the people that give them money. It’s about cost cutting, more extreme exploitation of their workers and customers, and essentially going for broke on what’s already there.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Thank you for posting I am definitely going to spend 4 hours on this. ☺

If this is your cup of tea as well you might enjoy her 4 hour review of a theme park that didn't make it either.

https://youtu.be/L9OhTB5eBqQ?si=RCadB5T4tVDGlLCe

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Evermore makes me so sad. All that potential and a dream that just wasn't. It's planned theming was much more my speed too.

[–] Theharpyeagle 3 points 7 months ago

She has a great followup to the evermore video on her Pateron that I highly recommend just getting a month for.

[–] SomeGuy69 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's a crazy experience of her telling this story. I've watched 3 of the 4 hours so far and might do the rest today. You can tell the desperation in her voice on day one, when you can see the boring games and faction quests didn't work, or her role playing was simply ignored, but some things are even worse, like the used emergency measures in place, in case of fire or the really bad app or extra paying for drinks on a $6000 trip. Nightmarish.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

(not even complimentary Disney+ on the in-room TV)

[–] PotatoKat 3 points 7 months ago

Okay that is actually crazy

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What's up with this video? I'm not interested in watching it, but YouTube keeps recommending it to me, and every time I see it the views on it keeps exponentially growing.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)
  1. Jenny is very popular but hasn't uploaded to Youtube in a year, so this a big comeback.

  2. Star Wars is a popular franchise but has had mixed success recently, and Disney's perceived mismanagement of it is a popular topic.

  3. It's organized as an Internet-friendly numbered list!

  4. I, and apparently a lot of other people, could listen to Jenny talk about theme parks all day.

[–] raptorattacks 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Jenny Nicholson is a really popular video essayist. She only releases like one of these essay videos a year because she spends so long working on them. (She's got a patreon where she releases a smaller, lower effort video every month.)

The big videos routinely pull in millions of views, so I'm not surprised the algorithm spams it in people's feeds. She's got a lot of followers that watch it right away because they've been waiting for a year to see it, so it shoots to the top of the recommendations for other people in that niche. Then there's a snowball effect where YouTube starts recommending it, more people watch it, so it gets recommended more, etc. You see the same thing on Hbomberguy's yearly video.

As one of her subscribers, I can tell you that this video has been in the works for years, so we've been hearing about it for a long time and were hyped. I just finished it today - broke it up into three different viewings. She breaks all her essays down into chapters so it's easy to watch just a portion of it at a time.

[–] MojoMcJojo 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I had never heard of her. I do not watch influencer videos. I do not like influencer videos and suspect I would not like them personally. The 4 hour long runtime clearly indicated I would not be watching it.

I am now a subscriber and big fan of her work!

The cascade of bad decisions by Disney was so enjoyable to hear about and her experience with 'Disney magic' was so very relateble. I too have been placed behind inexplicably large columns, felt the arbitrariness of the 'experiencing the magic', and spent far too much money for the privilege of standing in sweaty lines in the Florida heat.

I feel bad for the people involved that really wanted to make something great but were crushed under the weight of corporate ineptitude. I personally knew someone who went, refused to say how much they paid, and refused to talk about their experience. Now I know why. Excellent video. She's like the NeverKnowsBest of theme parks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I'm curious and confused on the "influencer" part. My understanding was influencers are just people with "popularity" (manufactured users usually) pushing products in a "native ad" sort of way, never attributed it to general youtubers unless there's something about the creator I'm unaware of.

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[–] Theharpyeagle 3 points 7 months ago

I keep thinking "surely I won't watch the entirety of this Vampire Diaries video yet again." 5 hours later...

[–] Bamboodpanda 5 points 7 months ago

Go watch her breakdown of The Church Play Cinematic Universe and you will understand.

[–] AsherahTheEnd 22 points 7 months ago

Jenny is one of the best YouTubers around, love everything she makes. Highly recommend, if this is your first time watching her videos, to go back and watch the rest. She makes longform content on a huge variety of stuff and she's very thorough with her videos.

[–] camr_on 12 points 7 months ago

Jenny is one of those absolute top tier video creators

[–] Ballistic_86 8 points 7 months ago

I haven’t taken the time to sit down and watch this video yet, 4 hours! But I love Jenny’s content and am excited to see it.

Still hoping she will cover the official closing of Evermore

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Can I get the 4 min tl;dr:?

[–] raptorattacks 10 points 7 months ago

Disney opened an incredibly expensive Star Wars "hotel experience", charging $5k plus for two nights. Jenny Nicholson visited (paying full price) and documented the experience, plus background on how and why the hotel was made, some research into what was going on behind-the-scenes, and the spectrum of fan reactions to the experience. The hotel closed down permanently while she was editing the video, and she also goes into why that happened and some larger trends at Disney surrounding the closure.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Great video and YouTuber. Thanks for recommending her!

[–] BoxOfFeet 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Jenny's videos are awesome. This has been in my Watch Later since she released it.. I need to get around to watching it.

[–] raptorattacks 4 points 7 months ago

Might be easier to start it if you commit to only watching a few chapters at a time. I just finished it after breaking it up into three different viewings and I had a great time.

[–] RizzRustbolt 5 points 7 months ago

She's just mad about the lack of Reylo content.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Jenny's a national treasure

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Can anyone tell me who she reminds them of? There is something about her face and the way she talks/moves her mouth that really reminds me of someone.

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