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What were your favorite video essays of 2023?

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Was gonna say, a video essay is almost an entirely distinct form of media from a written essay. And to conflate the two really disregards and diminishes a lot of the creative process that goes behind both.

A good written essay might make a terrible video essay, and vice versa.