> I find the narrator's intonation unbearably forced and unnatural I'm glad I wasn't the only one. There's a lot of misplaced upward inflection which I assume

> I find the narrator's intonation unbearably forced and unnatural I'm glad I wasn't the only one. There's a lot of misplaced upward inflection which I assume is the narrator's normal speaking voice that they're desperately trying to fight against to sound more "professional". In fact the phrases that don't do this sound like they've been pitch-corrected downwards (maybe they have, maybe it's some weird auditory illusion). > to my mind, poor narration in long-form video essays is no different to printing academic journals entirely in Zapfino I couldn't have put it better myself.