/r/videoessay
A hub for video essays, super cuts, and other videos critically observing media texts.
Video Essay Discord
What is a Video Essay?
1: A focused essay read aloud over relevant video accompaniment which seeks to argue a defensible position.
2: A focused essay read aloud over relevant video accompaniment which seeks to explain and interpret a topic.
3: A supercut that serves to analyze a particular aspect of a work or body of works. For instance, a mash-up or Top 10 list are not supercuts.
What is NOT a Video Essay?
• A review
• A response video
• A political or philosophical treatise
• A video featuring the creator on-camera and talking to the audience
• Any submission where the video is irrelevant to the topic being discussed.
• Any submission under five minutes or over an hour. (Supercuts can be under five minutes.)
• Any other video removed under mod's discretion
Browse Categories
Film Visual Art Television Pop Culture Music Miscellaneous Video Games No Filter
User Flair
If you are a video essay creator and wish to have channel flair next to your username, follow these steps
Ensure that you include a reference to your reddit name (even if it's the same as your channel name) in the About section of your channel. You can remove the reference after your flair has been assigned.
Send a message to the moderators requesting the flair.
Include a link to your channel
Indicate what you want your flair to say. Either your channel name or the series name of your video essays (if different)
Specify if you want YouTube flair, Vimeo flair, or both. Currently those are the only options, but if you host your video essays elsewhere then let us know and we'll see about adding it.
Rules
Content: All submissions must adhere to the sub's definition of a video essay.
Conduct: This is a community who shares an appreciation for pop culture, music, art, and analysis. Disagreements are sure to occur, but treat each other with respect.
Self-Promotion: Essayists may post their own content. Currently there is no restriction on time between posts, but don’t go crazy.
Creators are expected to engage with the community, pose questions to the community, leave comments on other creators’ posts, and so on. Esssayists who have a habit of simply “hit and run” posting will likely be considered spam and will be removed.
Titles: All submissions must follow the title convention: [Found/OC] Title [MM:SS]
Do not put comments in the submission title. Leave those for the comment section.
Criticism: Thoughtful and respectful discussions only. Low effort complaints such as "This is bad" or "This isn't a video essay" will be removed. If you believe there is a problem submit a report or message the mods.
Reposts: To keep a link from being posted too soon or too often, a submission will be removed if it has already been submitted in the last three months or twice in the last year. This applies to posts that you, as the submitter, have removed and reposted later. Many times this is due to a need to reupload the video essay for editing, copyright, or other reasons. This is fine, but we ask that you comment on your post stating the reason for resubmission. Otherwise, we will consider this a repost.
/r/videoessay
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[OC]Dark Side History: Mamluks & other Slave Soldiers in Context![16:00]
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[OC] Why Nature is Going Quiet [9:23]
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[OC] How to transform an Ugly disaster into a Beautiful thing[17:21]
15:38 UTC
[OC] The Poppin' History of Popcorn [7:07]
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[OC] In Defense Of Maddie Nolen [6:25]
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[OC] Lofi Girl Full Lore Explained: Making A YouTube Legend [30:24]
01:21 UTC
[FOUND] Auto-Confession - THX 1138 [3:49]
22:05 UTC
[OC] Taxation : An Anarchist Perspective [5:06]
15:21 UTC
[OC] Gladiatrix! The Fierce Female Gladiators of Ancient Rome [8:04]
12:54 UTC
[OC] Looking for feedback here [5:26]
Hi everyone, I’m trying out this new format for a video essay and I would really appreciate anyone who has a few minutes to spare to check it out and just provide their initial thoughts on whether you found it entertaining.
03:00 UTC
[OC] Why I Keep Coming Back To Guild Wars 2 [20:17]
01:13 UTC
Can someone help me find a video essay
I watched a video essay around a year ago about a very unknown metroidvania game where you save children and you cannot see your healthbar unless you press a button and you can only see it once per checkpoint. I think at the end the caves you explored fill with blood. I remember enjoying it and want to watch it and anything else that youtuber has put out
17:34 UTC
[OC]The Donkey Kong Land Trilogy Deserves Your Respect [10:59]
14:32 UTC
[OC] Inside Labyrinth: Silent Hill 2 Remake (2024) [13:10]
06:03 UTC
ISO Good Video Essays about 70s/80s Rockstars and the Rockstar Life in General?
To preface, please let me know if these kinds of posts are not allowed in this subreddit! This is my first time posting here and I'm not a frequent poster on this site at all.
Title is pretty self-explanatory, but I'm looking for anything from anecdotes to analyses on the behaviour of these stars... I just really like rockstars, ok?
02:30 UTC
[Found] I Investigated The Biggest Scumbag On YouTube [59:46]
00:45 UTC
[FOUND] Thanksgiving is the Most Underrated holiday [5:45]
An argument on why Thanksgiving deserves more recognition
16:48 UTC
[OC] Alan Wake 2 Analysis: Trauma, Hauntology, Hope [11:18]
14:21 UTC
[OC] Debunking Thanksgiving Myths: What You Didn't Know! [6:54]
13:44 UTC
[OC] The Real Legend Behind Turbo Granny | DanDaDan Paranormal Encyclopedia [8:39]
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[OC] How The Internet Changed Our Perception of Weird [14:44]
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[OC] The Complex Psychology of Internet Trolls [21:03]
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[OC] Dream Interpretation [4:43]
16:42 UTC
[OC] Religion : An Anarchist Perspective [4:57]
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[Found] no men would talk about this. [11:20]
the visuals are only writing scenes but his script is good
09:23 UTC
[OC] Film is Tymeless [1:05]
00:59 UTC
[OC] What the Worst Reality TV Experience Can Teach Us - The Contestant [23:00]
What happens after the spectacle ends? For Nasubi, the 1998 participant of Japanese reality TV show “Denpa Shonen: A Life in Prizes,” life is much happier now than it’s ever been. Nasubi’s time on a show so exploitative and cruel it led to him eating dog food in desperation taught him to find ways to be happy with the little things in life.
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[OC] Mario Is Nonsense [18:33]
21:01 UTC
[OC] The Immaculate Vibes of Dixie Kong's Double Trouble [10:05]
18:25 UTC
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