Yes, this is a 4 hour long review of a hotel that’s already closed.
I watched the first few minutes just to see what it was about, and then 4 hours had passes.
The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel — Jenny Nicholson
Submitted 6 months ago by ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com to videos@lemmy.world
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mySFWaccount@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
TheFriar@lemm.ee 5 months ago
lol I had never even heard of her before yesterday, clicked on that video because I’m a sucker for deep dive video essays that are probably unnecessary about weird topics. I didn’t see it was a 4hr video until I was like 20 min in and now I haven’t stopped watching her stuff. Love finding a new YouTuber to watch endless hours of their back catalogues.
Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m not a huge Star Wars, Disney, Hotel, Vacation, or fan of this person, and I still watched all 4 hours of this. Really good break down. She’s also very quirky and charismatic.
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Her doing an entire section with the porg mask and not mentioning it once is top tier content.
Cornucopiaofplenty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t get how her mic quality was still so clear with that big ole helmet on
cerement@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
what makes it so much worse is that Disney has the history, Disney has the knowledge, Disney has the engineering, Disney has the know-how and so little of that was on display here – I cannot see any way that Disney fans, Star Wars fans, or theme park fans wouldn’t be absolutely livid after experiencing that …
TheFriar@lemm.ee 5 months ago
That’s exactly the conclusion she comes to late in the video: it’s that they cashed in on their deep supply of goodwill with their fans and betrayed them for higher margins. And then wrote the whole thing off by shutting it down suddenly right at the end of the quarter. We are living in a time of animal-backed-into-a-corner, hostile capitalism. The bubble on this system that was literally designed to pop, seems to be popping. So the capitalists are gathering up everything they can, faster and faster. Capitalism as a concept is inherently flawed. You can’t have infinite growth in a finite system. As has been pointed out innumerable times: that’s how cancer works. Not a sound financial system. But here we are, in what is essentially the “going out of business” mad dash by these leeches to grab as much as they can. Our water supply, our natural resources, the climate, the system of capitalism itself are all on the outs. And people feel that. And we’re getting angrier and angrier. This won’t end well, and it seems to be ending faster and faster. They know that. What they plan on doing with all that money after the collapse is unclear. But they’re winning. And that’s all they can conceive of.
zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Didn’t the CEO during that phase get replaced?
YaksDC@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Thank you for posting I am definitely going to spend 4 hours on this. ☺
If this is your cup of tea as well you might enjoy her review of a theme park that didn’t make it either.
mynachmadarch@kbin.social 5 months ago
Evermore makes me so sad. All that potential and a dream that just wasn't. It's planned theming was much more my speed too.
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
She has a great followup to the evermore video on her Pateron that I highly recommend just getting a month for.
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s a crazy experience of her telling this story. I’ve watched 3 of the 4 hours so far and might do the rest today. You can tell the desperation in her voice on day one, when you can see the boring games and faction quests didn’t work, or her role playing was simply ignored, but some things are even worse, like the used emergency measures in place, in case of fire or the really bad app or extra paying for drinks on a $6000 trip. Nightmarish.
cerement@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
(not even complimentary Disney+ on the in-room TV)
PotatoKat@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Okay that is actually crazy
zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
She points out that paying for drinks is the norm for all Disney cruises. The food is free and infinite though.
Audacious@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
What’s up with this video? I’m not interested in watching it, but YouTube keeps recommending it to me, and every time I see it the views on it keeps exponentially growing.
ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
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Jenny is very popular but hasn’t uploaded to Youtube in a year, so this a big comeback.
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Star Wars is a popular franchise but has had mixed success recently, and Disney’s perceived mismanagement of it is a popular topic.
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It’s organized as an Internet-friendly numbered list!
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I, and apparently a lot of other people, could listen to Jenny talk about theme parks all day.
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raptorattacks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Jenny Nicholson is a really popular video essayist. She only releases like one of these essay videos a year because she spends so long working on them. (She’s got a patreon where she releases a smaller, lower effort video every month.)
The big videos routinely pull in millions of views, so I’m not surprised the algorithm spams it in people’s feeds. She’s got a lot of followers that watch it right away because they’ve been waiting for a year to see it, so it shoots to the top of the recommendations for other people in that niche. Then there’s a snowball effect where YouTube starts recommending it, more people watch it, so it gets recommended more, etc. You see the same thing on Hbomberguy’s yearly video.
As one of her subscribers, I can tell you that this video has been in the works for years, so we’ve been hearing about it for a long time and were hyped. I just finished it today - broke it up into three different viewings. She breaks all her essays down into chapters so it’s easy to watch just a portion of it at a time.
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I had never heard of her. I do not watch influencer videos. I do not like influencer videos and suspect I would not like them personally. The 4 hour long runtime clearly indicated I would not be watching it.
I am now a subscriber and big fan of her work!
The cascade of bad decisions by Disney was so enjoyable to hear about and her experience with ‘Disney magic’ was so very relateble. I too have been placed behind inexplicably large columns, felt the arbitrariness of the ‘experiencing the magic’, and spent far too much money for the privilege of standing in sweaty lines in the Florida heat.
I feel bad for the people involved that really wanted to make something great but were crushed under the weight of corporate ineptitude. I personally knew someone who went, refused to say how much they paid, and refused to talk about their experience. Now I know why. Excellent video. She’s like the NeverKnowsBest of theme parks.
Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Go watch her breakdown of The Church Play Cinematic Universe and you will understand.
AsherahTheEnd@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Jenny is one of the best YouTubers around, love everything she makes. Highly recommend, if this is your first time watching her videos, to go back and watch the rest. She makes longform content on a huge variety of stuff and she’s very thorough with her videos.
camr_on@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Jenny is one of those absolute top tier video creators
Summzashi@lemmy.one 5 months ago
There’s absolutely no reason this video should be 4 hours long.
AsherahTheEnd@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve watched a 20 hour 2-part video about Skyrim. Your fear of a 4 hour video is pathetic. I am operating on a completely different level than you. You can try, but I doubt your inferior mind wouldn’t be able to keep up. All this to say, long form content rules.
DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Your reply is almost good enough for short form copy pasta. 👍
I personally like MauLer’s multiple hour and multiple video breakdowns of why the latest Star Wars movies are bad and how they could have been fixed: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBBJXQJJavX2VueOEqGSaB…
Evotech@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And yet I watched pretty much all off it
PotatoKat@lemmy.world 5 months ago
calling everyone who defends a video they enjoyed a simp because said video was written by a woman
Found the sexist
dustyData@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s more like a multipart documentary. Except all the episodes are condensed into a single video. It’s really well written and narrated.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I watched it and enjoyed it all (at 2x speed though), so there absolutely is a reason for it to be 4 hours. I don’t feel like it dragged or was extended for arbitrary reasons. Honestly, it feels like it could be longer reasonably. There’s a lot to cover.
Summzashi@lemmy.one 5 months ago
Is there? It’s a star wars hotel. I’ve read comprehensive scientific papers about years if proving hypothesis that could be finished in an hour. Why would a video about a bing boing Star Wars hotel need 4 times that lmao.
Moneo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There’s absolutely no reason this video should be 4 hours long.
Jenny had 4 hours of stuff she wanted to say and her fans want to listen to it because they find it entertaining. Get a life nerd.
Summzashi@lemmy.one 5 months ago
You listened to 4 hours of talking about a Star Wars attraction for children. The irony.
lemmingnosis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Right, it should have been about 3hr45min. She had a few minutes of slip around the 3hr mark, approx. Complained a bit about a couple NBD things.
Some of the content, you could just read if it were released in text format. The videos she took and those she included from others, and the Disney marketing videos, were impactful and enlightening - crucial to fully telling the story and allowing vicarious understanding. Would still need at least 1-2 or 3hr even if she released her commentary in text form.
Absolutely phenomenal and engaging presentation.
Summzashi@lemmy.one 5 months ago
This was ages ago. She’s not gonna fuck you soyboy.
Ballistic_86@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I haven’t taken the time to sit down and watch this video yet, 4 hours! But I love Jenny’s content and am excited to see it.
Still hoping she will cover the official closing of Evermore
DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Great video and YouTuber. Thanks for recommending her!
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Jenny’s videos are awesome. This has been in my Watch Later since she released it… I need to get around to watching it.
raptorattacks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Might be easier to start it if you commit to only watching a few chapters at a time. I just finished it after breaking it up into three different viewings and I had a great time.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
She’s just mad about the lack of Reylo content.
Caboose12000@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Glad to see jenny back on YouTube =) thought shed stay in nebula/patreon forever after the hate she was getting
raptorattacks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t think Jenny is on Nebula. She’s got a patreon where she releases smaller videos every month, but to my knowledge she’s never “left” YouTube - she just takes a long time to create and edit these videos so she can only release them pretty infrequently. She’s got a comment pinned on this video saying about as much.
Are you thinking of Lindsay Ellis? She’s still Nebula (and maybe patreon) exclusive.
Caboose12000@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh yeah maybe I got a bit mixed up there, thanks!
machinaeZER0@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Jenny’s a national treasure
TheFriar@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Can anyone tell me who she reminds them of? There is something about her face and the way she talks/moves her mouth that really reminds me of someone.
AluGeris@lemmy.world 5 months ago
emily blunt?
TheFriar@lemm.ee 5 months ago
No I don’t see that. My initial thought was Esther Povitsky—and I definitely see that. But even after that revelation, the more I watch the more I’m still feeling like that answer is incomplete.
bazus1@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So worth the time. She had an aweful 2-days 2-nights for thousands of dollars, and did it so you and I didn’t have to lose that money to learn the hard way.
I love that she contextualizes all of this against the backdrop of Disney corporate cowardice and shortsightedness. Also, bless the friggin cast members!
dustyData@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well, we are in no danger of losing money anymore, the thing went bankrupt.
cerement@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
this whole thing reads like Disney was planning it as a tax writeoff from the very beginning …