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or, How I Learned to Stop Reading Comments and Love the Vid

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Director's Commentary: Art for No One

or, How I Learned to Stop Reading Comments and Love the Vid

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Shot_Trip

I think the idea of 'pretentiousness' is such a bizarre and wibbly-wobbly subjective feeling that it's almost never a really good term to use. Everyone has an incredibly clear image in their head of what is and isn't pretentious, but it's wildly different for different people. I might find Rin's arc in Katawa Shoujo to be incredibly powerful and deep, but someone else who I otherwise share a lot of taste with might find it shallow and without much meaning beyond "lol humans can't communicate"

Tuur Verheyde

More often than not ‘pretentious’ is just a way to dismiss work that didn’t connect or that you didn’t understand. If we all internalised the idea that not everything is for us and some things we can’t understand and that’s ok, then the word pretentious would fall out of usage. It’s an anti-abstraction ego protector most of the time.

David John

That was one of my favorite Geller videos. It's a bummer the reaction to it got you to disengage from YT comments, but I suppose the positive takeaway is that you managed to foster a civil enough community up until now so you could read them all before. Not an easy achievement for a million+ YouTube channel. Something to be proud of.