Line #3 Trivia/FoldingIdeas


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2	* BuryYourArt: A few of Dan's earliest videos are missing, especially from its very first "season" in 2011, and not just because they were originally uploaded to the now-defunct Platform/BlipTV. While Dan reuploaded many of his Blip-era videos to Youtube in 2015, he mentions in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmonJMjkRro&list=PLgPKmF5rEZ5rpGCzJ0kHwn1YJP1P26Rjj his season playlist intros]] that he chose not to conserve some of them on the simple basis that he just doesn't like them.
3	* {{Corpsing}}: During "The Problem With [=NFTs=]", Big Joel, the voice actor reading out a pitch to have [=NFTits=] support breast cancer research is audibly stifling his laughter.
4	* DoingItForTheArt: Dan assiduously avoids corporate sponsorships on his channel -- forgoing large amounts of money -- so he can maintain editorial independence.
5	* EnforcedMethodActing: In the ''Contrepeneurs'' video, Dan actually commits to writing an entire 25,000 word non-fiction book in 25 days, including all of the research that doing so entails, purely to experience what it's like to be a ghostwriter who get used for the grifts the video is about and to put into perspective how ''awful'' these conditions are.
6	* HostilityOnTheSet: Despite having been on it for less than a year, Dan doesn't look back on his time on Website/ChannelAwesome fondly, sharing the sentiment of many other former personnel that it was poorly managed. The most noteworthy incident to him was how he left -- after writing a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20141223085348/https://medium.com/@FoldableHuman/the-mods-are-always-asleep-7f750f879fc controversial expose about 8chan]] for Medium, a smear campaign was formed against him that reached Mike Michaud, who fired him on the spot without hearing him out, then proceeded to pester and antagonize Creator/LindsayEllis because she was acquainted with him (incidentally contributing to her public departure not long afterwards).
7	* NewbieBoom:
8	** Dan attributes going from around twenty to fifty thousand views a video to hitting at least a hundred thousand per video to the surprise viral success of his ''Film/{{Suicide Squad\|2016}}'' video, which so far has over two million views.
9	** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g Line Goes Up]]" brought a new level of attention to Dan's work, with that video gaining more than 7 million views and leading to him being featured on other channels and podcasts.
10	* RealSongThemeTune: "Raptures" by Spirit Spine was used in some form as the general theme song for videos until around 2019.
11	* ScheduleSlip: According to the description of "An Exhaustive History of Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings", the video was primarily made as an excuse to do the [[{{Rotoscoping}} rotoscoped animation]] of the final minute. Dan didn't intend for it or the actual video essay to be as big as they ended up being -- the video was meant to be done in a few weeks in June, but ended up taking the summer and only came out in August, with the animated segment being "80% of the entire post-production time", [[https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/1428808691327766528 approximately 90 hours.]]
12	* MeaningfulReleaseDate: ''This Is Financial Advice'' released on 30th September, the same day Bed Bath & Beyond's shares were extinguished.

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