Hollywood’s Message Is Dead - Critical Drinker

I guess I just have to accept now that all white men are just awful at everything, and they suck. And myself included, like should just hang my head in shame for the rest of my life. It's a strange sort of offering that they're giving us now, where we're gonna actively hate you as a art form. We're gonna make it our business to make you feel awful about yourself. And if you dare to push back on that and reject the offering that we're giving you, then we just label you as a bigot or a reactionary, or whatever stupid term we label people with these days. (wind blowing)

What is your background? Tell me how you end up getting interested in critiquing movies.

Oh, gosh. Um, right. What's the short version here? Um, yeah, I mean, I guess, like, from being a, a young kid, like, I was always just fascinated by movies, and I was fascinated by, like, the, the way that the stories worked. You know, the way that they would introduce us to the different characters, the way that they were structured so that, you know, you had that, that well-defined, like, uh, build-up of action, and then the, the sort of catastrophe that leads you to the lowest point, and then the big resolution at the end to give you that dramatic high that, that finishes it off. Like, I remember being, even as a kid, I started to recognize that pattern in movies, and it was something that kind of interested me. Um, and it led me into wanting to do storytelling of my own, eventually. And so I got into writing novels, that sort of thing. Um, and obviously YouTube came along, and um, you know, I was interested in the idea of, of starting to break that down and critique things a little bit. Um, you know, my, my early videos were shockingly amateurish, but you know, it was just fun. It was a fun, like, experience to get used to it, get used to editing videos, all that sort of stuff. Um, yeah, obviously I took a break from that to actually focus on my writing career for a good long while. Uh, and then a few years ago, I decided to come back and, um, start doing it again. And uh, gosh, I just, uh, really got into character one time as the drunken critical drinker. Uh, I think it was, uh, after a few glasses of jack, and I noticed I was slurring my words, and I just thought, "What the hell. I'm just gonna, I'm gonna embrace it and lean into it." And uh, that video just went viral, man. Like, within, uh, a few days, it had like a million views, and suddenly my channel exploded. And that's, that's what got me started on the path I'm on now, I suppose. So it worked out well.

What was the first video that, uh, that kicked off?