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Jenny Nicholson is one of the best YouTubers, incredibly thorough research, and one of the funniest people on the platform. I just wish she posted more.

simonw 2y ago
Her Star Wars hotel video was effectively just her talking to a camera for four hours (2 hours at 2x speed), occasionally sharing a photo or clip, and somehow it was genuinely compelling viewing. Really impressive.
- Sebb767 2y ago
  > (2 hours at 2x speed) This is such a strange note. It's far too obvious to be meant as a genuine hint, but a snide remark would not fit your otherwise positive comment. Genuine question, why did you put this in?
  - aoanevdus 2y ago
    Some people watch/listen to everything in sped up mode. It may not be intended as a slight against the content.
  - marcellus23 2y ago
    Maybe he just included it because that's how fast he watched it? Doesn't have to have a purpose beyond informational.
  - ethbr1 2y ago
    She does talk a bit slower than average, but I tend to YouTube at 1.5-1.75x, so 2x wasn't much more.
  - simonw 2y ago
    Because it's important context. I didn't spend to give the incorrect impression that I found the content so compelling that I spent 4 hours watching it when I actually watched it for 2 hours. I also like to remind people that you don't have to spend 4 hours of your time to watch a 4 hour video.
MPSimmons 2y ago
I enjoyed her Star Wars hotel review enough that I watched a ton of her other videos. The thing that bugged me about her channel, and the reason I unsubscribed, is because I couldn't see any evidence that she ever really liked anything. She never had a positive review of a thing. Every video was taking something apart and criticizing it. I think her take down of the SW hotel was probably just, but it's exhausting hearing from someone who only finds flaws in things.
- moron4hire 2y ago
  This is an issue I noticed about her, too. It's an archetype of person I've noticed in others, especially back in the small town I grew up in: they get enjoyment out of not enjoying things. For the uninitiated, that sounds like a paradox. But really, it's a need to be able to complain about something. The more the person has to complain about, the better. Something that was actually good would not allow the opportunity for them to provide their (superior) input on how it was done wrong. The key give away is the fact that she keeps going back to Disney. If I had experienced half of the slights and snafus she claims [1] to have experienced, I'd never go back to the place. At the end of the day, I figured I had much better things to do with my time than watch someone complain about theme parks, even assuming the complaints were realistic. I like taking my kids to theme parks on occasion, but I have no desire to become so frequent of a customer that I ever need some kind of "inside scoop". [1] eeeeh, I don't necessarily disbelieve her. A lot of what she says rings true for my own opinion of Disney. But at the same time, her attitude is nearly identical to that of folks I grew up with, speech patterns that I've come to recognize as over aggrandized consumerist "suffering." It feels like she's leaving a whole lot of context out, context that might reveal the her trials and tribulations were of her own making.
  - bowsamic 2y ago
    The Star Wars video was a bit strange to me. On one hand, it did absolutely suck, but there also were many times in the video where she obviously specifically chose expectations on purpose knowing that the park would not live up to them, and then acted like she was just totally surprised that it happened. I found it even more egregious for her Evermore park video, where she seemed genuinely shocked to not have an absolutely perfect roleplaying experience there. It's all a bit strange because all of her unrealistic expectations are perfectly woven into the realistic ones in a way that makes it very difficult to distinguish what is reasonable about her expectations. Somehow she manages to make it so that something that will genuinely suck for everyone, like standing in line for hours or her app being totally broken, gets mixed up with much more obviously subjective things like the actors not really matching her energy.

simonw 2y ago

Her Star Wars hotel video was effectively just her talking to a camera for four hours (2 hours at 2x speed), occasionally sharing a photo or clip, and somehow it was genuinely compelling viewing. Really impressive.

Sebb767 2y ago
> (2 hours at 2x speed) This is such a strange note. It's far too obvious to be meant as a genuine hint, but a snide remark would not fit your otherwise positive comment. Genuine question, why did you put this in?
- aoanevdus 2y ago
  Some people watch/listen to everything in sped up mode. It may not be intended as a slight against the content.
- marcellus23 2y ago
  Maybe he just included it because that's how fast he watched it? Doesn't have to have a purpose beyond informational.
- ethbr1 2y ago
  She does talk a bit slower than average, but I tend to YouTube at 1.5-1.75x, so 2x wasn't much more.
- simonw 2y ago
  Because it's important context. I didn't spend to give the incorrect impression that I found the content so compelling that I spent 4 hours watching it when I actually watched it for 2 hours. I also like to remind people that you don't have to spend 4 hours of your time to watch a 4 hour video.

MPSimmons 2y ago

I enjoyed her Star Wars hotel review enough that I watched a ton of her other videos. The thing that bugged me about her channel, and the reason I unsubscribed, is because I couldn't see any evidence that she ever really liked anything. She never had a positive review of a thing. Every video was taking something apart and criticizing it. I think her take down of the SW hotel was probably just, but it's exhausting hearing from someone who only finds flaws in things.

moron4hire 2y ago
This is an issue I noticed about her, too. It's an archetype of person I've noticed in others, especially back in the small town I grew up in: they get enjoyment out of not enjoying things. For the uninitiated, that sounds like a paradox. But really, it's a need to be able to complain about something. The more the person has to complain about, the better. Something that was actually good would not allow the opportunity for them to provide their (superior) input on how it was done wrong. The key give away is the fact that she keeps going back to Disney. If I had experienced half of the slights and snafus she claims [1] to have experienced, I'd never go back to the place. At the end of the day, I figured I had much better things to do with my time than watch someone complain about theme parks, even assuming the complaints were realistic. I like taking my kids to theme parks on occasion, but I have no desire to become so frequent of a customer that I ever need some kind of "inside scoop". [1] eeeeh, I don't necessarily disbelieve her. A lot of what she says rings true for my own opinion of Disney. But at the same time, her attitude is nearly identical to that of folks I grew up with, speech patterns that I've come to recognize as over aggrandized consumerist "suffering." It feels like she's leaving a whole lot of context out, context that might reveal the her trials and tribulations were of her own making.
- bowsamic 2y ago
  The Star Wars video was a bit strange to me. On one hand, it did absolutely suck, but there also were many times in the video where she obviously specifically chose expectations on purpose knowing that the park would not live up to them, and then acted like she was just totally surprised that it happened. I found it even more egregious for her Evermore park video, where she seemed genuinely shocked to not have an absolutely perfect roleplaying experience there. It's all a bit strange because all of her unrealistic expectations are perfectly woven into the realistic ones in a way that makes it very difficult to distinguish what is reasonable about her expectations. Somehow she manages to make it so that something that will genuinely suck for everyone, like standing in line for hours or her app being totally broken, gets mixed up with much more obviously subjective things like the actors not really matching her energy.