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I know someone already mentioned it, but when you guys were talking about The Heads of Sierra Blanca, this movie is *literally* the first thing I thought of, through reputation alone

thanks for the bisexual gradient in the thumbnail. I feel very represented

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I still just can’t understand why not just watch the originals like why do we need live actions I’m just confused

Gus committed so much to the no presentability bit that he didn't even bring the table.

This video hits home

Peterson is the guy who spreads hate but once he's on the other end he cries, literally in debates where it's not going his way he's on the verge of tears as he says hateful things

Wait this is where dire gentlemen was all along??? Fucking missed this channel

What flavour of Gatorade was that?

FANFICTION AUTHOR GAAAAANG! I unfortunately have been really bad about writing any, but I have some big shit in the tank

Love your videos Gus and have been a subscriber for a long time. What a strange way to aggressively agree with someone under the guise of disagreeing with them

1:10:30 i have no idea why i immediately recognized this but "school drop out rate soars" is the headline on the newspaper that the shady shoals employee is reading in the very first mermaid man and barnacle boy episode way back in season 1. so yeah its just a bizarrely hyper specific easter egg lmao

Changeling was very good, I liked it a lot, replayed it again as soon as I heard the ending the first time.

I have to wonder... If I'm never going to ride the Humungadunka.

"I have no filming equipment and I must screen."

My take away was less that Dan truly believes that Doug is a failed filmmaker, but that James carries himself as if he is first and foremost a filmmaker who is failing. He put a lot of emphasis on how strange it is that his memoir makes next to no mention of AVGN, and how he seems to have an unhealthy obsession with his childhood home movies. I think Dan was trying to point out the disconnect between "filmmaker" (cool and sexy) and UA-camr (lame and gross), and how "filmmakers" never want to call themselves "UA-camrs" because it's a dirty word that means you'll never be the next Scorsese. He clearly thinks its weird that James fancies himself a filmmaker before anything else, and I'd agree.

The eye twitch and fidget thing seemed like a very classic Tumblr rep-for-rep's-sake inclusion of neurodivergent people who have similar quirks. Autistic stims, ADHD fidgets, tics. Even then, I'd probably prefer if a character was more holistically portrayed as a specific neurotype, even if the story isn't About their condition.

Over the past few months, I've gotten to a point, finally, where I'm actively and consistently writing again. It's not every day, or even every other day. But I'm writing stuff I'm happy with. I'm finally at the point where my skills as a writer are starting to catch up to my taste in writing. The critiques I'm making of my work are productive. It's not "this sucks" but rather "I could make this dialogue more engaging" or "this passage doesn't flow well but I know how to fix it". Would I have preferred to be at this point five years ago? Sure. But I'm here now, and in five years, I'll be further along the path I've chosen for myself. I'm getting there. Slowly, I'm getting there

I think a good parallel piece to Dan Olson's video is actually Tom Nicholas' video about UA-camrs and microphones. Something that happens with a lot of UA-camrs is that they don't want that label, because it doesn't have prestige. Saying "I'm a youtuber" has the implications of being like MrBeast or penguinz0 at the same time as being a Jacob Geller or... well, Dan Olson. "Filmmaker", on the other hand, has prestige, has weight in the cultural space. Calling yourself a filmmaker makes you "different". That, I think, is the same insecurity that Tom Nicholas showed in his video. You can add a lot of bits and have a very creative vision, but that doesn't change the fact that UA-cam videos are a much more distinct artform than regular filmmaking. In short, what James and Dan wouldn't accept (in the fiction of Dan's video at least) is that they're not filmmakers, they're UA-camrs. That's not something bad to be, but it has a connotation they don't like, so they try to avoid it by showing the work they do to separate themselves from that label, even though it is unescapable.

James keeps his nose clean, but I don't trust "apolitical" apathetic people, like James just seems sheltered of the world around him, but at least he's focusing on his family than his crappy vids, that's something me and Dan agree on

Life’s just inherently unsatisfying no matter what you do. Chasing ambition as if that will lead you to some Elysian middle age is just chasing the purple dragon.

Wait this isn't spongebob boys. (seriously though it's interesting seeing a creators reaction to the new Folding ideas new video as opposed to the audience)

From your thumbail and seeing thr name "Dan", I thought his was related to Dan Vs.

I can't figure out how to navigate all this :<

Dan Olsens video uses his examination of James Rolf as a reflection of his own fears about himself, that much is clear from the start, but the conclusion he reaches came across to me more about the way in which running from an idea of who you don’t want to be says more about you than them, so to then end this video saying “i don’t want to be you” is just a less literal version of running from a haunted doll of Dan Olsen, its ironically exactly what Dan does, just feels weirdly unreflective to conclude that you want to define you’re creative career by not ending up like Dan because he made a video about not wanting to be James. Except in his case he acknowledges that that says more about him than James and ultimately isn’t helpful. Just feels like the irony of this video is lost on it, what about becoming Dan Olsen is frightening? Im just not sure i get what this video is trying to say to its audience. To say “I vow not to be Dan Olsen when I’m 40” and then immediately saying “we should live our own lives by our own standards and not compare ourselves to others” doesn’t fully make sense to me

Completely incoherent while being 100% emotionally compelling and sincere, gotta be one of my favorite genders

I’m making horror webcomics right now. Are they good? That’s not for me to decide. But I’m going to keep making them. And keep trying to be the artist I always wanted to be. I hope I never get to a point where I feel like I’ve “failed” and should just give up doing what I love because I didn’t reach the level of popularity or acclaim that I wanted.

inspiring video gus

I just watched a man have an existential crises and called it Entertainment

I saw the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in college film class

I hope you don't get this a lot because I wanna be the one original commenter but I want you to know the thumbnail scared me into thinking this was a Little Joel vid

Dan Olson's video was basically the video essay equivalent of the Chewbacca defence. It's an autistic (in a good way) fixation that brings you down a rabbit hole of such trivial little details that stick out so badly, they make no sense no matter how you rationalise it.

I have never once cared about making good art, and that has absolutely freed me as a creative type. Everybody’s gonna have something worth getting roasted over as an artist that’s just fucking inevitable dude. When I started to just make art for the sake of it, not overly focused on making “good art” not only did I become more dedicated to the craft but both my art quality and mental health drastically improved. You can critique the impracticality of Rolfe’s setup, but to treat that as an indictment of him not being a “real filmmaker” is frankly horseshit. He makes movies, he made a shit ton of movies. He’s a filmmaker. You can debate if he’s a good one or not, which comes with its own grey area, but you cannot debate whether or not he is or was one based on the quality of said films or if he “made it” when he most observedly did with how he was able to raise a family with his work. Just if he “did his job well” on some abstract, artistic level - and even that comes with very muddy territory.

I feel for you Gus. Maybe this was something strictly for the Patreon crowd… In my own writing, I’ve written something like this. “I recognize a problem. I’m going to overcome this problem. Sorry, my fans.” And it hurts every single time I reread it because it didn't age the best and the cringe is still there. I think about the fans who have read that and it just doesn't sit well. Granted, I have never made anything as creative as you or your team, but I have published garbage that's gotten a couple thousand views and interacted with a “fanbase”.

My personal conclusion to the James Rolfe video was that James is a bad filmmaker but a great UA-camr, and despite his indisputable success, he views himself through the lens of being a filmmaker, so believes he has failed in some way, and because Dan also sees filmmaking as more respectable than being a UA-camr, he dooms himself to the same path no matter how self-aware he is. I think that just goes to show how widely interpretable art and people are, that conclusions both harmful and constructive can be drawn from them.

Ayyyy a fellow creative writing major.

I haven't finished the video but I'm mostly writing this to get the words out of my brain before they return to the ether. To me, at least, "I Don't Know James Rolfe" feels more like a midlife crisis wrapped into this person that Dan Olson feels some sort of intrinsic bond to (James Rolfe) more than anything. What (at least in the universe of the film, based on the date at the bottom left-hand side of the slideshow under "Part 0") starts (again, in the universe of the film--to us the audience it's introduced in the final third) as a seemingly normal video quickly balloons, a rabbit hole that is making Dan Olson dig deeper and deeper and deeper and the end is him realizing -*-why-*- -- because he sees himself in the Nerd, sees himself as this potentially failed filmmaker nearing the middle of his life, surrounded here with this mini-set of the Nerd's set, an army of poorly-constructed camera mounts, a biography, a camcorder, a tape recorder, all of it.

Watching this on a day where I've been trying to chip away at a comic pitch was surprisingly insightful. I've been getting a chunk of the script ready to send to an editor, and working on precisely how I'm going to pitch it to a publisher. I keep making progress and then it gets shelved when a new project comes along. I think those words at the end of just trying and getting yourself out there are really making me feel that I'm going to do this. Thanks Gus.

I don't know...man

Good video, was thinking about how I've not seen one in a while yesterday so this was a nice suprise . I was going to say that I disagree with your interpretation of the video but then I realized that my interpretation is literally that what you see in James Rolfe (or any other creator, be it them or their work) is ultimately a reflection of oneself (hence the references to the Cinemassacre Truthers after the volta where he starts talking more positively of James, alongside the mentioning of Wavelength), and this video in of itself is about seeing a fear in the work of another person you do not know and working to overcome it. And then that's what I am doing without fully realizing it. It's like a never ending Ouroboros of interpretation.

One pervasive thought stuck in my brain during Dan's video...does the fact that james has clearly DIY'd his setup not point to a certain level of guerrilla filmmaking with his work? Do we not all, as creatives, find our little shortcuts? Not all of us have the resources and budget to make feature level quality "films". Sometimes the best youtubers are the ones with a mic and a dream Don't get me wrong, Dan's video was excellent. Well written, shot and edited. A certain journalistic prowess, an editorialised documentary of sorts. But it doesn't speak to all of my experience with James. I found myself agreeing with dan a lot but not all the time, and that's fine I guess. He's clearly a strong presenter and I love his videos, but he's not infallible

I took the skit at the end to be more about Dan himself than YT in general. The concept that you react to someone so strongly because they reflect your own insecurities about yourself.

Men will literally examine their own creative ambitions through the light of another creator in their own field in a public venue rather than going to therapy

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truly indecipherable video

I've always had this thought about Dan Olson's videos after the one about Doug Walker. He seems really insistent on the idea that some people are fundamentally unable to produce art, as opposed to certain endeavors failing.

When he said "all over forever and forever and nevermore and more and never and never ever forever gone bad down UA-cam fell off ratio plus gone dead dead no movies no movies no maidens no nothin' no no ass no tits no nothin'" I felt that.

It’s scary how fast a beard turns Gus into Matt Berry.

I clicked on this so fast

I didn't know Gus was so good looking.