alt Hacker NewsI enjoyed her Star Wars hotel review enough that I watched a ton of her other videos. The thing that bugged me about her channel, and the reason I unsubscribed, is because I couldn't see any evidence that she ever really liked anything. She never had a positive review of a thing. Every video was taking something apart and criticizing it. I think her take down of the SW hotel was probably just, but it's exhausting hearing from someone who only finds flaws in things.
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This video (which might be my favourite from her) on a particular church annual theater productions is positive. Still poking fun at it and taking it apart, as she's wont to do. But I do believe she genuinely enjoys how kish and over the top it is.
I've subscribed to her channel for a long time, and my impression has been that she loves these kinds of things (otherwise why keep exploring the space?), but she finds it interesting and potentially productive to talk about the flaws, as a way to strive for better. It's like she's acting as an editor to an author--sure, editors are technically criticizing, but they do so intending to improve the original.
i find that in videos of her being critical of something she describes something she likes and then explains why she likes it and then describes why the thing she is criticizing isnt that.
I had the same reaction. I got hooked on Bright Sun FIlms and several of their other channels like Bright Sun Travels which do similar reviews, but always seem to give positive and negative feedback and are honest about resorts being a good deal or not. The majority of Bright Sun Films cover abandoned places which go into great detail about a resort's history and why a resort or property failed and what led to its downfall.
All of their stuff is incredibly well researched and have always seemed to me to be pretty objective; which is why I have avoided Nicholson's reviews - you already know its not going to be very objective.
This is an issue I noticed about her, too. It's an archetype of person I've noticed in others, especially back in the small town I grew up in: they get enjoyment out of not enjoying things.
For the uninitiated, that sounds like a paradox. But really, it's a need to be able to complain about something. The more the person has to complain about, the better. Something that was actually good would not allow the opportunity for them to provide their (superior) input on how it was done wrong.
The key give away is the fact that she keeps going back to Disney. If I had experienced half of the slights and snafus she claims [1] to have experienced, I'd never go back to the place.
At the end of the day, I figured I had much better things to do with my time than watch someone complain about theme parks, even assuming the complaints were realistic. I like taking my kids to theme parks on occasion, but I have no desire to become so frequent of a customer that I ever need some kind of "inside scoop".
[1] eeeeh, I don't necessarily disbelieve her. A lot of what she says rings true for my own opinion of Disney. But at the same time, her attitude is nearly identical to that of folks I grew up with, speech patterns that I've come to recognize as over aggrandized consumerist "suffering." It feels like she's leaving a whole lot of context out, context that might reveal the her trials and tribulations were of her own making.