lowkey manifesting a video essay that's just 30 minutes of a person watching paint dry, and the meta narrative is just their existential dread of watching paint dry.

Mike Bithell

It’s very cool seeing a generation of video essayists doing meta narratives, bits and running gags, but with the talent to do it without the cringe of nostalgia critic era stuff. A maturing art form, and I’m not being sarcastic or hyperbolic.