4 hour video about Disneys failed Star Wars hotel

Lord Gonchar:

Middle aged men don't often have four hours to devote to girls in their bedroom feeling slighted by Disney World.

They don't have the time to watch the video but they have plenty of time to tell us their opinion about it.

Plenty? It will take me a hot second to let everyone here know that I think this girl is outta her mind then on to spend four hours of this beautiful day doing something else.
Done.

Jeff:

A rando on the Internet going on for four hours about whether or not a vacation is "worth it" doesn't even enter the realm of something I want to use my remaining time on.

This is the underlying point for my middle-aged man-self ****ting on it. For the record, I recently spent a couple hours each on two YouTube videos where Rick Beato interviewed two of the most talented and prolific drummers of my generation. Of course I don’t expect most people to have any interest in that, but there’s a difference between it and some random person opining for four hours about…well, anything. Rick is an accomplished professional musician and producer, and one of the best interviewers around, and I’ve been a fan of both professional drummers for 20 to 30 years. As such, they were fascinating to me and I learn things that are actually useful to me.

I think Gonch and Vater make the right point. No one here at least is making it personal about the person who made the thing (though the people who want to watch it are definitely getting a little shade). But the criticism of the thing itself seems pretty valid to me, especially in the context of what this audience tends to be into. Her universe and ours have this tiny overlap, sure, but that's as far as it goes.

I haven't watched the video. Fair play to her if she can make money out of YouTube.

However, what I find interesting is that the publishing of a video creates a headline on Forbes. In the UK it's now pretty common to write a 250 word article about a single tweet from a single person. "Mom outraged at the price of milk" etc.

https://www.forbes.com/site...9e828307c3

It's been picked up by NPR, CNN, ABC, etc. What's super crappy about it though is that not one of them actually contacted the woman who made the video. The very thing I accuse YouTubers of is what traditional "journalists" did.

GDdashROM:

It's just not very fun to watch a bunch of middle-aged men **** on someone simply for sharing her experience in a way that specifically caters to the over one-million subscribers she's accumulated herself by saying it isn't worth anyone's time.

FWIW, I agree with you. I have no interest in this person's stuff and have never watched it, but it's clear that she has a following and some of the other communities I'm in were really excited when this dropped. I think it's OK that it isn't for everyone. I know I can't fathom watching something that long when I generally lack the attention span to watch even a good film that is more than two hours long. But, I admire that some people are able to sustain interest that long, because as Jeff said, it's encouraging to think that we're not necessarily going to end up with all content being very short and quick.

I also think people are jumping on you too much for offering an alternative view. I actually appreciated the tl;dr you posted. It's useful to at least have a summary to understand what her main points are. Thanks for that.

And now it has made the New York Times. (free link) I still haven't watched it, don't plan to, but the critic draws attention to some things...

In her frustration, Nicholson becomes a valiant truth teller, clearly articulating how corporate greed betrays loyal fans to sell a cheaper and less emotionally enriching product.

You would immediately lose me if you start talking about greed. Aside from the fact that some segment of the population associated this experience with life itself, I do not believe in any galaxy, far away or otherwise, that Disney's motivation was greed. Greedy people don't focus on low-margin, small consumer base products. Not only that, but it's an entertainment product. No one "needs" it, and I think that changes the math for any value proposition.

Yea. I’m not a fan of the “everything needs to be available to everybody” mentality

every business has the right to price things how they want. In this case, Disney tried and took a loss.

The free market decided