Why YouTube Loves Video Essays

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3.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Candice Lim is joined by Anisa Khalifa, a podcast producer and host of The Broadside from WUNC. They dissect the phenomenon surrounding video essays, which are not exactly new to YouTube, but finding a captivated audience in Gen-Z and millennial culture. From deep dives into The Hobbit to retellings of Greek mythology, the ability to analyze pop culture, cite sources and listen to spoken essays uninterrupted is creating the hunger for more longform content. This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton. ICYMI is sponsored by BetterHelp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:02.0	I'm Rebecca. I'm Josephine's mom.
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0:04.6	Can I go over to Josie's house to play?
0:06.3	She met a new friend and puff.
0:07.8	She's gone.
0:08.9	An ordinary play date.
0:10.4	The missing child is Lucia Blix nine years old.
0:13.3	Is about to become every parent's nightmare.
0:16.3	The people who took Lucia plund it meticulously.
0:19.9	She's hiding something on her way.
0:21.8	The Stolen Girl, a new original series, streaming April 16 exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:27.5	18 plus subscription required.
0:29.0	Teas and Cs apply. Hey, I'm Candice Lim, and you're listening to Icy YMIMI.
0:46.8	In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:50.2	And this was the week of Justin Timberlake attempting a comeback. Jennifer Lopez producing
0:56.4	a Bob the Builder movie at Mattel. Will this be like her like hustler's redemption? And Deff Battelle
1:02.7	returning to the big screen because he is starring in and directing his first film. It's called
1:07.6	Monkey Man. It's produced by Jordan Peel. And let me tell you something,
1:11.0	I will be sitting in a theater with a Coca-Cola I see on my left and an AMC A-List Stubbs card on my
1:18.4	right. Because Dev Patel Girlies, we're back. So on today's episode, we're going to talk about a phenomenon you've seen and probably
1:30.8	lived with for your entire internet life, and it's called video essays.
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