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His style is pretty pedantic, narrating clips with a sarcastic “Get a load of this” tone, but the channel is popular, and he uploads more consistently than most, including covering more recent series like Wednesday and Euphoria. ➼ The Canadian YouTuber’s channel began in February 2021 with a 25-minute video essay called “ Emily in Paris: Romanticizing Ignorance.” It blew up in part because it hit at the right time - everyone was looking for ways to inform their hate-watching of Emily in Paris - and in part because Friendly Space Ninja mastered the subtle art of provocative thumbnails with an image of Lily Collins next to the caption “ racism is quirky.” (That “racism,” for what it’s worth, was about Emily being “racist” to white French people.) Since then, he’s released extensive recap videos on all the usual subjects: two hours and 40 minutes on The Vampire Diaries, an hour and 20 minutes on Teen Wolf, and many follow-ups on Emily in Paris. Most-popular recap: “ Emily in Paris: Romanticizing Ignorance” The joy is in watching him attempt to bring some semblance of grid-like order to some of the most poorly-thought out, bonkers series ever created. His series on Pretty Little Liars, Glee, and Gossip Girl upped the production value for this form - he started using elaborate printed-out materials, lending the whole thing a “Pepe Silvia” aesthetic. ➼ In 2019, Mike’s Mic posted his pilot project for unhinged recaps to come: a 16-minute video called “I tried drawing the plot of Riverdale (season 3).” This established his unique visual language for much more extensive, successful recaps to come: plot points and characters laid out in splaying grids, their relationships and betrayals represented by a spaghetti web of lines that maybe only make sense to his engineer-brain. Most-popular recap: “An appropriately unhinged recap of Pretty Little Liars (Part 1)” Home to overarching theories, formal experimentation, and feature-length run times.
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For the uninitiated, here is a canon of the most important creators in the TV recap game today.
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Mike’s Mic has elevated the form to a new level (and yes, the genre has gone full circle and made its way over to TikTok, with creators like Rob Anderson’s painfully funny, hyper-shortform 7th Heaven recaps). People have more patience for longform storytelling than ever before - and they want even longer-form storytelling about the storytelling. Or it’s a good way to nostalgically revisit something from your past without actually ruining it by watching it with your adult critical eye … like Degrassi or Grey’s Anatomy. (Seriously, there are more hours of YouTube videos about The Idol than there are hours of The Idol.) The genre is a good way to catch up on something extremely long running, like Degrassi or Grey’s Anatomy. If you want to know what all the fuss is over a show like The Idol but you have too much dignity and self-respect to make it through The Idol, countless accounts will watch it for you, complete with commentary, Mystery Science Theater 3000–style. It’s now possible to be a fan of a show having only watched it refracted through some kid in a bedroom’s point of view.
In videos that can stretch longer than a Scorcese double feature, content creators are engaging with their favorite (and least favorite) TV shows like they’re open FBI murder cases, breaking down their component parts and rearranging them to find patterns, memes, inside jokes, conspiracies, philosophical lessons, stannable moments of iconicity, and rant-fodder. That platforms for short-form content made it so we all became goldfish-brained, unable to sit through a full episode of a TV show without getting distracted by our second screens - just an entire human race reduced to a buncha marshmallow-test flunkies. There was a time not long ago when everyone was saying the Internet was shrinking our attention spans.
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