Cinema Sins attempted to nitpick Best Picture nominations. It did not go well.
MoviesWithMark provides a detailed critique of CinemaSins’ recent coverage regarding Academy Award-nominated films. The analysis examines how the channel’s signature style of nitpicking and humor applies to more serious, acclaimed cinema, while questioning the effectiveness of their editing and commentary choices on these specific high-profile titles.
Are YOU an aspiring content creator?
I’m building a YouTube channel from scratch, while working a full-time job, to prove that anyone can become a successful content creator.
One thing I’ve realized is that most YouTube advice isn’t made for working creators. It’s made for people who can spend hours every day filming, editing, and optimizing content. But what if you only have a few hours a week?
If you’re building a channel alongside a job, business, family, or other responsibilities, you’re in the right place. Join me on this journey and lets grow our channels together.
►YouTube is no longer removing sub bots on our channel. We are being sub botted by ViewBotRDP/PikoSMM. We got sub botted up to 350k subscribers, as well as being sub botted and view botted on Twitch. We also got follower botted on Twitter as well. Someone is trying to get the DeepHumor channel banned. Subscriber bots, follower bots and viewer bots are all against the terms of service of pretty much every social media platform, so someone is spending thousands of dollars to bot all of our social media channels in an attempt to get us banned. Let me know what you guys think about this situation in the comments below.
Where do AI personalities come from? The training process is secretive, but in this video I lay out what we do know.
I’ve been online long enough to realize I don’t think the men on here like fictional women to be like real women. At all. From the reaction to Invincible to God of War: Laufey, from Tomb Raider to Stellar Blade, a lot of these reactionaries online seem to hate when women look or behave in a manner that isn’t idealized.
The Way Of The Force Episode 9: Star Wars Wasn’t ‘Saved In The Edit’, That’s Silly aka. Investigating The Marcia Lucas Problem aka. The Marcia Of It All
Since day one on this series, commenters have been demanding that I talk about the behind the scenes of the editing, in particular about the idea that Star Wars was ‘saved in the edit’, and that Marcia, George’s first wife, was responsible for so much more than that the history books say. If I was going to do it, I wanted to do a really thorough job. What I found was a fascinating 40-year mess of anecdotes, interviews, gossip, and speculation. I’ve done my best to piece it together in a clear way, and offered my own opinion supported by the facts I could verify.
This one is for the deep deep Star Wars boys. You know who you are.
►YouTube updated the YouTube Partner Program requirements. Beginning February 1 2027, You must have 1000 subscribers and 8000 hours of watch time in 365 days, or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days, to be in the monetization program. Creators who have 10 million qualified Shorts views over the last 90 days will be eligible for ads and subscription revenue sharing on Shorts. Let me know what you guys think about this situation in the comments below.
Science Fiction with Damien Walter explores Iain M. Banks’ Culture series, analyzing its origins in British science fiction and its depiction of a post-scarcity society managed by benevolent AI. The series is examined as a profound exploration of intelligence, power, and political imagination.
Devin Stone aka LegalEagle recently posted a YouTube video titled “’I’m Suing Meta, TikTok, Snap”. He is taking part in furthering a moral panic with indissoluble homophobic roots that is currently being used to obliterate our rights.
Mass surveillance and censorship laws DO NOT harm Big Tech.
Meta is currently using the “Social Media Addiction” Trial verdict to destroy anonymous internet access for everyone.
This lawsuit is backed by the Heritage Foundation and Morality in Media. Far-right Christian fundamentalist hate groups!!I was actually in the room for the “Social Media Addiction” lawsuit.
Kaley’s mom made her life a living hell. Her mom was weighing her every day, telling her she’s fat. Her mom physically abused her. Her father physically abused and abandoned her.
Yet, her unhappiness is solely blamed on her making fan edits on Instagram and Instagram messaging the few friends she had.
When you put that liability on Instagram, you abdicate everyone else’s responsibility. They don’t have to prosecute these child abuse cases because they can just blame it on Instagram!!Ironically, this girl currently works in social media marketing. And her abusive mom has now been rewarded with millions of dollars.
And it’s so harmful because they’re continually telling children that social media is causing their problems. And then when these kids quit social media and they become even more isolated and depressed, they blame themselves.
The whole point of this lawsuit is to punch holes in Section 230.
Taylor Lorenz
This whole thing is just a complete racket. It’s horrible. It’s rewarding abusive parents and scam lawyers who want to push this moral panic and set a legal precedent that is being used to obliterate our rights.
In this video essay, we dive into media literacy and media studies to explore why audiences can watch the exact same story and walk away with completely different interpretations. Through franchises like Superman, Star Wars, and Star Trek, we examine how storytelling, ideology, and audience interpretation interact, and why some of the most openly anti-authoritarian stories in popular culture continue to be embraced, or rejected, by different viewers.
Along the way, we’ll explore Stuart Hall’s Encoding/Decoding model, Reception Theory, Cultivation Theory, and the ways media shape public perception over time. We’ll also look at the work of Gene Roddenberry and George Lucas, the evolution of the Man of Steel from his earliest comics to James Gunn’s Superman, and how ideas about empathy, representation, power, and heroism continue to influence modern political and cultural debates.
Whether you’re interested in Superman, Star Trek, Star Wars, media literacy, communication theory, film analysis, pop culture, storytelling, media studies, political communication, or the relationship between entertainment and society, this video explores how the stories we love don’t just reflect culture, they help shape it.