[Weekly Update] August 2nd, 2020

Welcome to August. We are already 2/3 of the month through this year, yet February feels like three years ago.

Oh well, at least there's fireworks in Animal Crossing.

ABOUT THE CHANNEL

• YouTube is taking down community captions starting the end of September, meaning that viewers can no longer submit their own subtitles for others to see. This is a major problem for channels like ours, where my accent is decently thick, and our viewers are diverse and global.
• It is also a problem for many other major channels, such as Game Maker's Toolkit, as well as the Vtuber community. As stated on Twitter by GMTk, while it is true that only 0.2% of viewers used community subtitles when available, that still amounts to nearly  90k Korean viewers, 80k Chinese, 35k Germans and many more.
• Thomas Game Docs says it best: It's like a wheelchair ramp. Sure, very few people uses them. But those who uses them requires them!
• While I never know how effective this is, please consider signing the petition. We are currently at 228k signatures. Let's hope this is enough to make YouTube Team reconsider.

• Back to our channel. It's almost the 7th month of the Chinese calendar, which means the gates of hell is gonna open soon. What a perfect excuse I mean time to cover some horror films. 
• That is right, I have a series of horror films planned for you. Coming next, is a J-horror film that I kipped over during our J-Horror overview videos.
• I also thought about doing hangout live streams, where we can chat about non-film topics. My current living condition, however, doesn't really offers the best streaming environment. So it's still just a though.
• It'll be one more content that remains accessible only to patrons. Meaning while it's live, everyone can see it, but it'll be set unlisted, and only patrons with links can watch it later should they miss it.
• Anyway, that's the current plan, kinda vague, but we'll see where it all leads.

ABOUT MEDIA

• Truth be told, I'm running low on stuff to say. Media consumption is at an all time low, and it seems like everyone is in a mood to rewatch stuff.
• Either that or Artemis Fowl out of morbid curiosity.

• Anyway, let's talk about Western posters, since we didn't talk about them in our last video.

• I already highlighted the moth in Silence of the Lambs. That is one of my all time classic, because of just how small that detail is. It takes a bit of effort before you realize it is a skull shape made out of human figures, bodies of the victim in the film. The same concept would be used by The Descent.

• Into the Spider-verse remains one of my all time favourite film, and its pretty much flawless. Even its poster, of Miles falling into the sky perfectly encapsulates his journey of ascension, growing up, rises to the challenge.

• By an large, the poster for Rocky is really nothing special, just a very processed screen grab of the most iconic shot of the film. But it's basic design, monochrome color, and almost newspaper level of image quality feels appropriate. There is something humble about it. It feels grassroots, just like rocky.

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• Anatomy of a Murder is a classic now. The abstracted and simple human body shape somehow managed to look life-less. Just one glance and you realize this is supposed to be a corpse. The gaps left between the body and the lips, as well as the neck, feels gruesome without actually looking gruesome. It sells you the idea of a grizzly murder instead of the image of it. What a way to get pass the censor.

Annnnnd that's it. Yeah like I said, posters from the new world and especially those in Hollywood are usually not that good. Indie hits tends to fair better. The Lobster has a pretty good one. But for the most part, American posters tends to focuses a lot on the look rather than the meaning.

And in our current age, where media consumption happens in milliseconds... Maybe that's just a necessary quality.