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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,

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.
  - yifanl 2y ago
    I don't recall anywhere in her video where she didn't bring up expectations without also bringing up an example of when the Disney company had already implemented the idea.
    - bowsamic 2y ago
      That doesn’t really relate to what I say. Just because a company did something once before or even promised something doesn’t make it realistic to expect it
      - jorams 2y ago
        It's been a few months since I saw the video, but from what I remember all of her expectations should have been realistic when taking into account the price of the experience. This was an extremely expensive experience, and she was comparing it to things done way better at way lower price points.
        bowsamic 2y ago
        It’s not realistic to expect the experience to be that good even if the price is insane, though, because it was obvious Disney wouldn’t be able to deliver on that
        krisoft 2y ago
        > because it was obvious Disney wouldn’t be able to deliver on that Then they should not claim it in their marketing materials that they will deliver it. What happened with the good old “underpromise and over deliver”? Besides she is not demanding her money back. She is making a review where she is informing the public that an experience did not live up to the marketing of it and is not worth the price. In fact i believe that is the unstated conclusion of her video. Disney should have crunched the numbers and should have realised that the experience they are advertising cannot be delivered.
- kevin_thibedeau 2y ago
  Chronic complainers get validation from expressing negativity because it garners more attention.
rafabulsing 2y ago
This video (which might be my favourite from her) on a particular church annual theater productions is positive. Still poking fun at it and taking it apart, as she's wont to do. But I do believe she genuinely enjoys how kish and over the top it is. https://youtu.be/ZK4gM7RC1M0?si=Je-NhLKBATelhcYq https://youtu.be/ZK4gM7RC1M0?si=Je-NhLKBATelhcYq
- halostatue 2y ago
  I think you meant `kitsch` (it's a hard word to spell, and I misspelled it once while posting this).
  - rafabulsing 2y ago
    D'oh, yes, thank you! Damn German loan words always get me.
mnky9800n 2y ago
i find that in videos of her being critical of something she describes something she likes and then explains why she likes it and then describes why the thing she is criticizing isnt that.
- actuallyalys 2y ago
  She also does mention things she did like about the thing she’s criticizing. For example, she liked the themed food at the Star Wars hotel, as I recall.
DamnInteresting 2y ago
I've subscribed to her channel for a long time, and my impression has been that she loves these kinds of things (otherwise why keep exploring the space?), but she finds it interesting and potentially productive to talk about the flaws, as a way to strive for better. It's like she's acting as an editor to an author--sure, editors are technically criticizing, but they do so intending to improve the original.
burningChrome 2y ago
I had the same reaction. I got hooked on Bright Sun FIlms and several of their other channels like Bright Sun Travels which do similar reviews, but always seem to give positive and negative feedback and are honest about resorts being a good deal or not. The majority of Bright Sun Films cover abandoned places which go into great detail about a resort's history and why a resort or property failed and what led to its downfall. All of their stuff is incredibly well researched and have always seemed to me to be pretty objective; which is why I have avoided Nicholson's reviews - you already know its not going to be very objective.

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.
- yifanl 2y ago
  I don't recall anywhere in her video where she didn't bring up expectations without also bringing up an example of when the Disney company had already implemented the idea.
  - bowsamic 2y ago
    That doesn’t really relate to what I say. Just because a company did something once before or even promised something doesn’t make it realistic to expect it
    - jorams 2y ago
      It's been a few months since I saw the video, but from what I remember all of her expectations should have been realistic when taking into account the price of the experience. This was an extremely expensive experience, and she was comparing it to things done way better at way lower price points.
      - bowsamic 2y ago
        It’s not realistic to expect the experience to be that good even if the price is insane, though, because it was obvious Disney wouldn’t be able to deliver on that
        krisoft 2y ago
        > because it was obvious Disney wouldn’t be able to deliver on that Then they should not claim it in their marketing materials that they will deliver it. What happened with the good old “underpromise and over deliver”? Besides she is not demanding her money back. She is making a review where she is informing the public that an experience did not live up to the marketing of it and is not worth the price. In fact i believe that is the unstated conclusion of her video. Disney should have crunched the numbers and should have realised that the experience they are advertising cannot be delivered.
kevin_thibedeau 2y ago
Chronic complainers get validation from expressing negativity because it garners more attention.

rafabulsing 2y ago

This video (which might be my favourite from her) on a particular church annual theater productions is positive. Still poking fun at it and taking it apart, as she's wont to do. But I do believe she genuinely enjoys how kish and over the top it is. https://youtu.be/ZK4gM7RC1M0?si=Je-NhLKBATelhcYq https://youtu.be/ZK4gM7RC1M0?si=Je-NhLKBATelhcYq

halostatue 2y ago
I think you meant `kitsch` (it's a hard word to spell, and I misspelled it once while posting this).
- rafabulsing 2y ago
  D'oh, yes, thank you! Damn German loan words always get me.

mnky9800n 2y ago

i find that in videos of her being critical of something she describes something she likes and then explains why she likes it and then describes why the thing she is criticizing isnt that.

actuallyalys 2y ago
She also does mention things she did like about the thing she’s criticizing. For example, she liked the themed food at the Star Wars hotel, as I recall.

DamnInteresting 2y ago

I've subscribed to her channel for a long time, and my impression has been that she loves these kinds of things (otherwise why keep exploring the space?), but she finds it interesting and potentially productive to talk about the flaws, as a way to strive for better. It's like she's acting as an editor to an author--sure, editors are technically criticizing, but they do so intending to improve the original.

burningChrome 2y ago

I had the same reaction. I got hooked on Bright Sun FIlms and several of their other channels like Bright Sun Travels which do similar reviews, but always seem to give positive and negative feedback and are honest about resorts being a good deal or not. The majority of Bright Sun Films cover abandoned places which go into great detail about a resort's history and why a resort or property failed and what led to its downfall. All of their stuff is incredibly well researched and have always seemed to me to be pretty objective; which is why I have avoided Nicholson's reviews - you already know its not going to be very objective.