the slow, painful death of TV

[@ManCarryingThing]

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[@Lop44]

Ok

[@Malte12345]

@@Lop44 Ok

[@ManCarryingThing]

ok@@Lop44

[@H3n7yx76]

@@Lop4499th subscriber

[@H3n7yx76]

@@ManCarryingThinglol when you comment with your long username and the minutes counter, your checkmark gets squished

[@journeytotheotherside]

This isn’t a twenty minute video forcing me to read books OR a fifteen second video about Plankton, is he allowed to do this?

[@spacedoutorca4550]

Don’t be silly, man would never carry thing in such a way. This is clearly a test of our faith.

[@ManCarryingThing]

im not but i break rules

[@Naija_Ninja]

No, this is a breach of contract

[@maximebonnet7884]

omg absolut legend @@ManCarryingThing

[@cawsomeaolin]

real

[@TheLittlekuribohfan]

The fun part of subscribing to Man Carrying Thing, is that you never know if the video you're clicking on is going to be a well thought out think piece, a shitpost, or a well thought out shitpost.

[@bobbodaskank]

The Thinker, a toilet, The Thinker sitting on a toilet

[@0FFICERPROBLEM]

Or, a well shitted out thought post

[@SodiumWage]

I'm beginning to suspect that money might not always be a positive thing and that some people can act greedy.

[@_Jay_Maker_]

Money is just a tool. It's the love of money that destroys people.

[@PushBacon]

Love of money is just a pretext. Its actually the normaliation of the love of money that affect people.

[@doughboywhine]

There is the saying "money is the root of all evil" and just now you are suspecting it might not always be good?!?!

[@emilmller1194]

​@@doughboywhine Don't judge. It can take a long time for people to realize some things. Like, for instance, the subtext of a comment.

[@MrJellyman223]

hm... a most intriguing thought... i shall ponder the possibility...

[@AFGuidesHD]

How do you feel about your role in destroying TV ?

[@ManCarryingThing]

its my burden to bear

[@sajanramanathan]

@@ManCarryingThing one might say it's your thing to carry

[@rhythm6161]

@@sajanramanathan man, thats good. you really carried that thing with that one.

[@mcspanky3241]

@@ManCarryingThing one might say it’s your burden to The Bear

[@Pingviinimursu]

​@@ManCarryingThingleave my TV alone >:(

[@benjaminguzman3428]

First books, now TV? This man carries everything!

[@no_name4796]

You could say he is a man who carries... things!

[@onlyfrog]

a man that carries things? i bet he can't carry streaming services! more like "man carries hypocrisy"

[@dagobahstudios3662]

@BeanKing-tm9bh Nuh uh

[@Alienrun]

@@no_name4796 Local man epiphinizes over man not just carrying thing...but...every...thing! :O

[@ExtraQuestionableContent]

6/10 video, the first half didnt needlessly explain to me the history of TV shows starting in 1928 with "The Queen's Messenger"

[@ManCarryingThing]

i will do better. next vid will be 10 hours

[@robertwagstaff1126]

Arguably, the Netflix limited episode serial drama format has roots in "The Vampires" (1915)

[@Noaartetc]

I need that queen messenger shit at the bg to cook. Boring bitches rise up 🤗

[@Chord_]

Guy gets across points in 9 minutes that video essays can't in 2 hours. This is what I'm here for.

[@qasimmir7117]

Patrick Willems. All showy bla bla bla but doesn’t actually say that much for the length of his videos.

[@anierrn6935]

@@qasimmir7117 oh my god i can't stand him, i've tried so hard, but i can't

[@qasimmir7117]

@@anierrn6935 I like what he says but man, soooo long.

[@AFGuidesHD]

MCT is the only guy who can say "KZbin is art" and be absolutely correct.

[@eskimopython2807]

Art of a Dystopian City Nightmare that’s for sure

[@jideon]

Hello, I just read your comment and it appears you said MCT. This creators name is “Man Carrying Thing” but that’s ok we all make mistakes have a blessed day

[@mullinsmcd]

i heard KZbin is Fart. Which vid did you watch?

[@theicecreamninja101]

Wow 15 hours ago

[@nikofromtheamazinggameoneshot]

@@jideon Its abbreviation. The M is for Man, C is for Carrying and T is for Thing. Man Carrying Thing = MCT

[@bigbone18481956]

I clicked and thought it was another 28 sec scetch, lol, you conditioned us man. What an absolute legend, never stop carrying the thing.

[@Samuel_Kabel]

Yup. Have to save to watch later, because he's usually a filler vid for me.

[@superbadisfunny]

This is 28 seconds. It's just a looped version with him talking for almost 10 mins

[@minerman60101]

If only all of us were so brave as to passive aggressively express ourselves through skits

[@mycollegeshirt]

I really like this. Usually on KZbin it's blind nostalgia for the past Ignoring the huge amount of dumpster fires we just accepted. I always feel like I'm gaslit when people talk about how great tv used to be. I remember the most popular shows for the most part weren't good, they were just fun and comforting, shows like Saved by the bell Sabrina, and MightyMax, sonicSatm. I loved these shows but I was aware they were not high-quality shows. They would tell you to stop being a couch potato, actively call you an idiot for watching them, and how their current show was making you dumber. We forget that we used to treat watching television as a sign of incurable ineptitude. All this to say, when I hear someone acknowledge the reality of the past it makes it so much easier for me to trust their analysis of what's going on right now.

[@cormano64]

That's precisely why is frustrates me to no end to see people on mass complaining about animations taking too long while using older cartoons as examples of productivity, as if their lower quality wasn't the defining evidence of the negative impact of a assembly line style of production for art.

[@LinktoSonic]

Idk about those other shows, but Sonic SatAM was and still is an amazing show. Also, there were dumpster fire shows back then and a bunch of incredible shows back then too, just like it is today. Every era has its hits and stinkers

[@SuperPal-tr3go]

Crap television has and always will be a thing regardless of the era. The only difference between now and the mythic past is that most of the crap shows back then have been forgotten and so we in the present can deluded ourselves into believing Sopranos and the Wire were the only shows that existed back then.

[@futurestoryteller]

Yeah, you were a _child._ Even by the standards of 90's television, "Sabrina" and "Saved by the Bell" were not the "Mad Men" of their time, get a grip dude.

[@muffin7784]

I think Netflix and KZbin real tour de force is to have us believe, for a while, that watching it was not a waste of time. I mean, of course if you're watching the bad youtube or netflix, you are wasting time, but the good youtube and netflix? This is you learning. This is you getting cultured. This you enjoying art. Which would be a waste of time, even if it were true. And it's fine to waste time, it's okay, but you have to be aware that this is what you're doing.

[@dudethedude1220]

Man, sometimes I can’t tell whether this thing you’re carrying is an actual video essay or sarcasm

[@PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN]

Dude is that good with sarcasm to the point it's like that for me as well lmfao

[@jpickens189]

I, for one, support the notion of making television cheaply again. The ability to render a cgi army doesn't make art, achieving your goals in an interesting way despite limitations makes art. I just wish people wouldn't take this as a signal to return to the same, cheap, easy, marketable shit they have always made.

[@Badficwriter]

"same, cheap, easy, marketable shit" Scripted reality tv never went away.

[@IkeOkerekeNews]

A little undervaluing the artistry of CGI there.

[@jpickens189]

@@IkeOkerekeNews There are some things that can only be achieved through CGI, but no amount of production value can turn a bad series idea into a good one. If anything, a really impressive and expensive scene is a great way to distract people from the quality of your storytelling.

[@mr.e7541]

Is likely everything will just be written by Ai and just be cookie cutter bs with no originality. Majority of it is like that already with all these shity writers. Of course that's because of the mentality it's based on the false spell popular idea that everything's been done before. And stealing ideas of what was popular before.

[@niamhleeson3522]

@@IkeOkerekeNews there is *potential* for artistry of CGI BUT the companies usually won't give vfx studios the resources or production value to actually reify that artistry. they basically always go with the lowest bidder. and that's besides the issue that CGI allows lazy directing and planning because you can fix so much in post these days. on balance CGI makes movies worse

[@Blizzic]

Putting “footage unrelated” over footage that is obviously related is an absolutely hilarious bit

[@gilliangilliangillian]

really liked this one! I appreciate that you talk faster than most video essayists, and you know that's a genuine compliment because it makes me sound impatient and stupid as shit

[@genericyoutubeaccount579]

Man Carrying Things covered more ground in 9 minutes than most video essays cover in 30 minutes. Straight and to the point. no fluff, no bullshit, no long diatribes about the nature of man, or tangents that go nowhere. Good stuff.

[@fubarecognition]

Love hearing you talk at length about anything. I'm sure I'm not alone in saying we'd love more.

[@bencarlson4300]

My dad literally watched Suits while doing laundry whenever it came to Netflix a few months ago. I would watch a few minutes every now and then… it’s essentially a “prestige” soap opera where “prestige” just equals higher production value.

[@fredericksmith7942]

Tbh I wish it was a Soap Opera. That’s be kinda interesting in this day and age. It’s more a procedural with prestige trappings; a combo that only really worked for Elementary.

[@arthurvalladares5451]

We have a good example of this decline lately with The Curse, a Nathan Fielder, Benny Safdie, and Emma Stone show that is very interesting and feels like it should be huge, but it’s getting no attention because it’s not on one of the like 2 streaming services people actually watch. With the streaming fragmentation right now it feels really hard for anything not on Netflix/HBO/Disney+ to take hold, and we have a less diverse and interesting TV landscape because of it.

[@ManCarryingThing]

yeah, landing a show on peacock or paramount seems more like a curse for your show

[@camelopardalis84]

This reminds me of what happened with German t.v. You used to have very, very few channels, especially national ones, that did show a bit of everything. Very few shows for children, for example. So they could pick the two or so best ones available. Eventually, there were several channels that specialised on one type of show, for example children's shows. A whole channel just for children's shows. Of course the average one of those is worse than the two that used to be shown on the two main national channels.

[@khodges72]

Oh shid thanks for reminding that exists!

[@TheNewton]

why does it have to be HUGE, that's part of the problem.

[@M_CFV]

@@TheNewton he means fame, not the scope of the filmmaking being huge

[@Alex-cw3rz]

As someone who watches too much Tik Tok and KZbin, there will be days where the most eventful thing that sticks in my head is going to the shops or glancing the tail end of Four in a bed or something else random on TV. Somehow 8 hours of videos on a myriad of topics, that cause so many different emotions in me at the time, by the end of the day the impact will be virtually nothing. Seeing a stray kitten with it's mummy cat in the garden for less than a minute will be something that I think of more than 8 hours of content.

[@sirdogegd9567]

Maybe watch less tiktok and youtube. Kinda sounds scary

[@jatzi1526]

Yeah your brain kinda shuts off when you watch tv and skits and shit. Which leads to your brain not considering that stuff essential so it dumps most of it from your short term memory and only saves a little bit to long term. Which when done en masse leads to like entire periods of ppls lives being kinda forgotten lol. That sounds worse than it is but VSauce made a video about our perception of time changing in the modern era due in large part to tv and media. That was just like one part of the video naturally but yeah. I think it was VSauce anyways

[@Alex-cw3rz]

@@jatzi1526 that's the the thing though my brain does not switch off when I watch TV

[@elokin300]

Have you commented this before on another video? I swear I’ve seen this exact comment before

[@Naija_Ninja]

CHOSE YOUR FIGHTER Man carrying... -Your Mom -Pain -The legacy of TV -The Earth is Flat

[@Merecir]

@@liquidsky7-bb8pc It is clearly donut shaped.

[@varsoonhks3211]

I was worried this wouldn't be as digestible as it was but your comedic sensibilities and editing made these 9 minutes go by in a snap. I really want whatever future lets us just have more good stuff. And cartoons.

[@ManCarryingThing]

thank you

[@bobbobertson9325]

I liked it too, but he could have carried more things. That's just me, though.

[@hagros93]

😭9 minutes is long now

[@varsoonhks3211]

Compared to the usual less-than-a-minute comedic short bits,@@hagros93, yeah. 9 minutes can feel especially long if it's spent with something that's not great. So I was pleasantly surprised that the Man carried the dang thing

[@DannerBanks]

I'm being kind of pedantic, but tech companies don't usually get "debt", they get funding by selling equity, and then they have to make their company worth more so the funders can sell their ownership to someone else. Regardless, I think your analysis is still accurate.

[@poppers7317]

@@DanLyndon the dumpling industry is infamous for accumulating a huge amount of debt.

[@ShuckleShellAnemia]

@@DanLyndonto be even MORE pedantic but also completely off-topic, ATM machine is redundant as the M already stands for Machine. Carry (thing) on.

[@robertjenkins6132]

"so the funders can sell their ownership to someone else" Could they also hold onto it (instead of selling it) and take a cut of profit flows, theoretically?

[@KtonV]

This man is carrying my entire attention span.

[@lizardwomanfromearthscore]

I'm a film major and we were learning about the oversaturation of television recently. Really sad stuff, because the quantity from all of all these streaming services drown out the quality of any of them.

[@futurestoryteller]

Weirdly though could we say the quality would exist without the quantity? Does the fact that a "small" streamer like Apple made Severance mean you can focus on quality over quantity, or do you refuse to take the chance on such a (relatively) weird show unless you're throwing everything at the wall in a highly competitive, highly saturated environment?

[@Topcatyo.]

This was great and I enjoy your perspective on things. I would be happy for you to continue making videos like this, on KZbin, where art always flourishes.

[@Jed_Herne]

I loved this video essay style - feels like an awesome throwback to the earlier days of your channel when you did essays on Dune's writing and other deep-dives! Would love to see more pieces like this.

[@JMMF698]

Thought this was a skit but its actually a real video

[@ManCarryingThing]

same

[@Andythedrew1]

Lol I was expecting this to be 20 seconds. After a minute I was so confused that it was still going 😂

[@e.keough2975]

You’re watching the wrong tv Man Carrying Thing. Lego Ninjago still goes hard.

[@ManCarryingThing]

true, gonna delete the vid

[@e.keough2975]

@@ManCarryingThingcurses I think I lost the most valuable currency in the world by editing my comment. A man carrying thing heart. Or I never received one to begin with. Either way I have brought great shame upon my house.

[@wesreleases6346]

My biggest problem with huge streaming series is, as you mention, getting 6-8 episode seasons that tell a decompressed story with 3-year waits between seasons. When you need to have every episode finished at once AND every episode is high-budget and heavy on special effects, the post production takes so long. With the strikes of this year delaying everything that was shooting by at least 4 months, I think we’ll see a lot of shows coming out after the audience has already forgotten about them, and then delivering a weaker product on top of that.

[@robertjenkins6132]

I had to go to Man of Recaps for House of the Dragon Season 1, because I didn't remember _anything_ from that season.

[@ian_b]

TV was always cost-efficient (cheap as possible) but there was a heyday in the 70s where shows like Kojak did virtually a short movie every week. Sci-fi was always bad looking because of the SFX costs (but it mostly looked bad at the cinema too, until Star Wars revolutionised the technology), but more Earthbound shows could be fabulous, with tight, effective writing and directors working hard with what they had. The detective genre (my above example) was an exemplar. And hey, even The Incredible Hulk was a classic. Those writers told more story, effectively, in a single episode than we now get in an entire season.

[@tedpilledtonysoprano5512]

I feel like everyone either suddenly started loving Columbo or they all secretly loved it. I'm more of a Kojak man, myself.

[@BrendanJSmith]

Correction: 2001: A Space Odyssey. Not Star Wars.

[@ian_b]

@@BrendanJSmith 2001 was an outlier not a game changer. Look at Logans Run, which won the SFX Oscar in 1976, to see how bad the standard was until ILM.

[@ian_b]

@@tedpilledtonysoprano5512 Yeah, I'm a Kojak man too.

[@CoracaoAcidental98]

​@@tedpilledtonysoprano5512 Tbf the memes helped gen z get into Columbo, I say because I'am one of them.

[@the_imm8rtal_1]

I like this format, Jake. It’s refreshing and still funny where you intended it to be. I’d love seeing this type of content like once a week or once every two weeks, depending on what you want to do with it

[@Pietre115]

This man be carrying everything. But let’s be honest though, this is really good. I’ve been noticing a sudden lack of video essays in the past few months. Even a video that’s 9 minutes long is refreshing at this point. I hope he does this more often every once in a while

[@HornetSilksong1232]

first video essay (if thats the right term for this) ive seen in a while that didnt feel unnecessarily dragged out, and instead was concise and to the point

[@lundylow]

I only just noticed that you're not at a million subs, which surprised me. Your new uploads are like the only ones that show up in my feed.

[@MercurySG3M]

This is such a great format for you, need more of this

[@Alex-cw3rz]

I think one of the biggest issues is decision paralysis, causing people to not seek out new content and just watch re-runs of their favourite shows. Meaning TV has less money and less programming required to make originals hurting quality, making the offerings less attractive, causing re-runs to be watched more and TV then has less money again and again reduces it's programming. For example Inside No.9 cam e out in 2014, I heard about it in 2017 and it took me till 2021 to watch Inside No. 9 and it's become one of my most favourite shows. But the plunge to just watch something new meant I had waited years to "invest" 30 minutes of my time, which is huge when you are inundated with so much content from everywhere.

[@ravenwilder4099]

Yeah, the thing about the streaming landscape is, when a new show comes out, it's not just competing with other currently-in-production shows, but with EVERY SHOW EVER MADE.

[@brockfordjunktion]

It doesn't help when so much new content out there is dull reshashed old content.

[@Darth_Niki4]

Almost a 10-minute long essay? On this channel?? The folk hero! He never drops the ball!

[@petertellsstories]

0:33 I did have fun wasting my time to pause the video to read. In fact, I think the jump cut added some hot emphasis!

[@TheLegoPerson]

I loved this style! It felt well paced and unsurprisingly very well written, and i would definitely watch more like this

[@taylorbruceehlert9067]

Big fan of your longer videos. Thanks for keeping it concise and to the point, another KZbinr would’ve made this video an hour and a half.

[@erixperience4050]

As someone taking a TV writing class this semester, the title alone gives me a renewed sense of dread (but also I definitely can see how bad things are looking so I'm bracing myself) ETA: This is a common sentiment, but goddamn I miss when shows could have long seasons. 15-25 episodes where we just get bottle episodes or character moments, but when you have 8 episodes (sometimes to adapt a very large book) you're slaved to the plot. I watched each Stranger Things season in a day and I just felt *tired* at the end. That also gets into the 'dropping seasons at once discourse' though so I'll leave it for now.

[@cormano64]

No no, do get in the "dropping seasons at once" discourse, please. Also, what are bottle episodes?

[@erixperience4050]

@@cormano64 Basically something that's self-contained in one place and doesn't really impact the larger plot. Standalones, if you boil it down enough. But as for the season disk horse, I like the ability to sub for one month and get everything, but deluging really does kind of kill discussion. Why would I read an episode by episode discussion thread and theorise when I can just wait and read the full-season ones instead?

[@Badficwriter]

@@erixperience4050 The AV Club reviewer did a thing on a Netflix series that dropped at once, but decided to watch one episode per day so people could get their speculation on. It was painfully difficult to stop watching, engage with the website and then walk away from the series. Fun to speculate, but agonizing to wait through.

[@futurestoryteller]

Stranger Things is legitimately amazing. Maybe don't watch it like a freebaser

[@erixperience4050]

@@futurestoryteller "Dumping entire seasons at once incentivizes bingewatches to avoid spoilers" "Cokehead" Thank you for your valuable contribution

[@yis8fire]

I kinda wanted you to make a video like this, talking about anything but in a more short version, amazing video Keep making skits and (maybe) more videos like this

[@EinDose]

I've been watching Deep Space Nine recently, and it's fascinating to see how cheap it can be. It's not a low-budget show for its time by any means, and they don't skimp on the stuff that's really important, but if you want to pay attention you can see the cost-cutting; all the datapads are cheap plastic props, they depict a new spaceship interior by just lighting and shooting an existing one differently, they follow up big episodes with obvious low-budget bottle episodes so they can balance the books, they just have Odo stand around and be intimidating most of the time because it's really expensive when he does any shapeshifting. And it's FINE. I don't actually notice that they cut corners and cheap out, because it's a good show regardless! And yet, I don't even think modern Strar Trek knows how to be Star Trek in the ways that still make old Star Trek shows worth watching.

[@cadebuhrer148]

I love these longer video essays of yours. Keep ‘em coming!

[@longboy5639]

No creí que gustara tanto cien años de soledad, bien por ti hombre que le gusta cargar cosas. Saludos desde Chile, el país con forma graciosa

[@luispradilla9297]

Como un Colombiano que estudia literatura tengo que admitir que es la cosa que siempre cargo. Saludos al hombre cargando cosa

[@drakonid]

No sabemos si le gusta cargar cosas, solamente que carga cosa

[@thebeingdestroyerofworlds8690]

La casa de los espíritus es mejor, bro

[@Ardefisty]

Que bueno ver weones acá con buenos gustos

[@DISMOTRON]

Él nunca falla, la leyenda absoluta!

[@genericytprofile852]

I first came for the skits but I really enjoy your further in depth stuff. Please keep making it!

[@sampigg7933]

He never misses! The absolute legend!

[@dougdumais7457]

What a thoughtful, concise, and well-researched analysis of the TV landscape (based on some of the comments I read). I hope to have 9 minutes to watch the whole thing someday.

[@Noodlyk18]

Ah yes, the beautiful land of Silicon Valley, where anyone can achieve their dream of disrupting an industry, forcing out the competition, operating at a loss for a few years until the investors panic and you slowly just start doing things like they've been done before you came along, but more expensive.

[@simonlegosson7082]

1:04 ManCarryingThing is such a beast that when he makes a video with Babbel he sponsors them, not the other way around.

[@IceSpoon]

As a latino, I am humbled that you want to read "Cien Años de Soledad" on its original language. All the power to you, y buena suerte. (Also, no shame if you need to read it with a english-spanish dictionary next to it).

[@jrightly]

let me save you 100 years of reading : ANTS

[@Ale-Y]

Hablo español como primer idioma pero igual lei las partes en español de tu comentario con acento en ingles xd

[@IceSpoon]

@@Ale-Y hahaha las wonders del espanglish my dear amigo.

[@DanielBurkeMakesGames]

Can confirm the only show I'm watching on Netflix right now is Suits. I'm also starting to root through charity stores for DVDs.

[@gaming2ebbrell136]

This is why you don't judge a *book* by its cover

[@shan4680]

Well, not publicly, anyway. Is silently judging still OK?

[@alexanderthegreat-mx5zu]

​@@shan4680nooooooooooooo o o. O o o o o o o oo. O o o o o o o oo o o o o o o o o o

[@trionyxking1318]

Or a man by the thing he's carrying.

[@sophiaisabelle027]

I used to watch a lot of television as a kid. That was like my type of ride and die back in the day. Even Netflix had to step back.

[@joshualopez9175]

Thanks Babble, I appreciate you making this video

[@bradenwagstaff1234]

This is the only youtube channel I have notifications on for. I watch every video as soon as it comes out. Keep carrying the things

[@yiannchrst]

This almost felt like a fever dream. Genuine, yet sarcastic and ironic in tone. Longer in length, with the feel of a short. Deep, yet not one hour long. The list goes on. This feels like a mix of your older and newer content. I think I enjoyed it!

[@koolaid33]

That last line where you state that you watch KZbin, where everything is made for artistic purposes, is something I severely wish was true still. One day at Christmas, hopefully old KZbin will return.

[@Badficwriter]

I hate the "KZbin is my job" trend. Every channel is a mini-corporation, complaining about other corporations.

[@IkeOkerekeNews]

​@@Badficwriter Life is a job.

[@EnvolSideral]

I like this format, I love that you're able to juggle between this type of analytical content and short comedy skits, I'd love to see more! Well done

[@_Jay_Maker_]

Given the amount of legitimate art I've seen on KZbin (I'm looking at _you,_ Umami,) that's a pretty accurate assessment, Man Carrying Our Weight in Imagination.

[@TheKaijuKing54]

I actually would really like it if you made more of these types of videos. It’s nice to see you expressing yourself more and giving out your input on these types of situations.

[@the_pinkerton]

Holy moly, it's not a sketch, I wasn't expecting that!!!

[@MRZ_20]

It's a funny coincidence that you posted this video today because on Friday when I get paid, I am going to order a 4k ultra hd blu ray dvd player with upscaling. The reason for this is so that I can just buy the 4k ultra hd versions of movies and shows that I like, and then be able to watch them whenever I want. Maybe one day when my collection is big enough, streaming services will become unnecessary for me.

[@boobootittleman7299]

“How many completed films do I have to delete for people to watch Renovation Cabin Fuckers?!” -David Zaslav

[@CulturePhilter]

Fleabag is made by the BBC so is less a product of the streaming era and more a product of the unique way the BBC is funded, through the TV license fee in the UK. Not being beholden to either shareholders or advertisers the BBC has always been able to take more risks. They can make stuff to serve underserved audiences without having to worry about how many ratings it gets.

[@flyingcosmograma]

Can’t wait for you to announce the plankton farts and dies TV series where Bob Odenkirk plays the fart.

[@SeldomPro]

Yo! A full vid! I'm all for it!

[@SpazzerMcFly]

I can’t believe at the end of the credits it said “Man Carrying Thing will return”. Insane

[@stormtraitor6545]

He will return in ‘Avengers: The Thing Dynasty’.

[@cartoonfanatic]

This isn't even the end. There's a lot of great shows to watch out there. I can name 15 from the past 5 years alone

[@cartoonfanatic]

It's absolutely is not the end of media. There's still a lot of great, shows, films, music, and games being made epedically from this year. I can lists dozens of great ones

[@AlexanderRobichaud]

I really really love this video and really appreciate you for making this. I feel such a strong and intimate yearning for vulnerable, imperfect television that largely does not exist anymore. Ironically, it's through channels like yours on KZbin that I have found again my love for art, comedy, nuance, silliness, and serious effort. I appreciate you ❤

[@calebricks4890]

4:23 I hope you aren't trying to imply that Wipeout is devoid of artistic expression! Look at that man, covered in dirt and grime, pondering the perilous leap before him. It's clearly a very artistic allegory for...uh...racism or something.

[@sethpolley7999]

We both read the same article!!! I love your work.

[@arthurbriand2175]

A Medium sized video from Mancarryingthing !!! The legends were real !

[@brendanb2982]

The absolute legends were real

[@maxentirunos]

8:05 : Exactly that. My father watch this show while 'napping' and both me and my mother were instantly rememberering of our grand-father watching The Young and The Restless 25 years before.

[@MoronicMinds]

He never seems to not hit, the urban myth!

[@_Calaven]

Really enjoy these types of videos, very engagingly put together, please don’t be hesitant to make more!

[@MrGrimlocke]

I feel like this past decade of TV is the best that it's ever been. The issues with all the different streaming services sucks, but the quality of TV shows themselves has never been better

[@EntrEsprit]

last two decades basically yeah

[@khodges72]

What shows would you recommend?

[@MrGrimlocke]

@@khodges72 Succession, Better Call Saul, Mr Robot, MindHunter, Orphan Black, Beef, The Bear, People Just Do Nothing, The Americans, The OA, Severance, For All Mankind, Tokyo Vice, Ted Lasso, You, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Warrior, Snowfall, American Vandal, Vice Principals, The Righteous Gemstones, Black Monday, Ramy, Pen15, Crazy Ex-girlfriend, The Good Place, iZombie, Altered Carbon, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, Vinyl, The Patriot (2015), Fargo, Money Heist (just the first 2 seasons), Vikings, White Gold As you can probably guess, I watch way too much TV lol

[@khodges72]

Thanks for taking the time to give me a serious answer! Some of these are on my list of favourite shows, some I have tried but not been too sure about, and others I have not tried at all. I will give some a go! I also forgot that Beef was on my watch list, the trailers looked really interesting. @@MrGrimlocke

[@thomasswofford8865]

W vid Man, it has been in the back of my mind for a while how most of the TV shows I watch through are ones that came out a decent amount of years ago and most recently produced shows just don’t catch my interest that often. You should do more longer form content like this

[@ryanegbert7299]

After watching I can confirm that this man indeed does carry this thing

[@Squalidarity]

Some interesting notes wrt organized labor: 1) The studios will likely, for years after, use the strikes as an excuse for price hikes and failed projects. This is a lie; the price hikes began well before the strikes did, and there have been plenty of projects that were put on hold during the strikes that have since resumed without issue. Labor actions tend to be a response to, rather than a cause of, increases in the cost of living. 2) During times in which their workforce is well-organized, businesses tend to not chase exponential growth as much. After all, why continue expanding the pie if you have to kick a significant portion of it back to the workers, and so be making less revenue off of growth? Business apologists will claim this is unions acting parasitically on the economy, but the truth is the profitability or size of a business- assuming it’s able to remain solvent- has much less bearing on how well a business provides something people need or want than such people would like you to think. Innovation, meanwhile, is much more a factor of expanding access to education and networking, and providing adequate funding, talent, and marketing for experimental projects to succeed (that last one especially has been something that’s fallen by the wayside in the streaming age). 3) Moreover, as we’ve seen with countless examples, companies will often gamble on exponential growth at the cost of long- or even medium-term sustainability. As such, organized labor tends to have a stabilizing effect on its given economic sector, curtailing the worst excesses of the executives who might otherwise act recklessly, safe in the knowledge that they have a golden parachute. It will be interesting to see if the studios’ priorities change in response to the concessions won by the unions, and as new sectors of the film industry (like VFX) unionize.

[@TheAmyrlinSeat]

I am now divorcing Teevee, my wife of over 80 years. Thank you for the advice!

[@thingusbingus8181]

I feel like a major issue thats happening more often, outside of big franchises encroaching into everything, is the constant process of making shows like they're movies. Shows that come out on Disney+ don't feel like a proper show with episodes, they feel like long movies with breaks in between major moments. And studios see the numbers they make and try to replicate it, and end up making things that are poorly paced. Even if it's something that is heavy on plot like Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones, the individual episodes have their own small self contained set ups and pay-offs and naturally flow into the next episode and next season, compared to things from netflix or disney+ where episodes have little plot development until the last 5 minutes and then it hard cuts to black and ends, rinse repeat for a season. They going about it the wrong way.

[@silu_draws]

No way, a 9 minute essay? What are you, Martin Scorcesse?

[@Momin_Azam]

Love the commentary and in the intertwining jokes ❤!

[@itstimefortim]

Wow, a long man video. That's incredible.

[@jaimeerindy4573]

It's super fun to have been a college kid studying the eras of television and the rise of prestige TV and then graduate in 2019 into the fall of the medium altogether 🙃

[@dennis8811]

Absolute legend never misses

[@anotherbooktubechannel]

I watched this video essay at 0.025 speed so that it lasted 2 hours, as a KZbin video essay should be.

[@spacedoutorca4550]

The absolute miss! He never legends!

[@davidwright8094]

Would love to see more content like this. Also still loving the skits and book stuff

[@saverenus]

Man, I know you CARRY things, but I really think this format of yours CARRIES the modern day current KZbin thats loaded with reaction content. Please CARRY on coz we really need that, you're interesting, yes. Bye. 😊

[@pauline6667]

After like 45 seconds I legit got confused about why the video hadn't stop yet and I moved my mouse and I saw that the video was NINE MINUTES LONG? WHAT? I had not anticipated to watch a video longer than 30 seconds, I wasn't prepared.

[@j.b.c.a.]

Guys, watch the bear. It's the absolute Jeff, never misses.

[@deltahalo241]

I can't wait for Man Carrying Thing's first 3 hour video essay

[@Yuusharo]

Going from media essay satirist to legitimate media essayist and doing so in such a sharp, easily digestible way… this channel is going places, Man. Keep it up!!

[@ManCarryingThing]

thanks!

[@mazamonx]

More of these type of videos please Mr. Man Carrying Thing. Thanks.

[@Russian_engineer_bmstu]

It's not a 20 second fake out? As a recent sub (subscriber, not submissive) I didn't know these existed

[@ChrisJEPlace]

you summed everything up perfectly, absolutely loved this