History Trivia / FoldingIdeas

* 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 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).

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/c/FoldingIdeas/videos 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.

* 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 Website/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.

* 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 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).

* DoingItForTheArt: Dan assiduously avoid corporate sponsorships on his channel -- forgoing large amounts of money -- so he can maintain editorial independence.

* DoingItForTheArt:
** 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.]]
** In the ''Contrepeneurs'' video Dan actually commits to writting 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.

* MissingEpisode: 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 Website/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 [[OldShame he just doesn't like them]].

* OldShame: 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 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).

* DoingItForTheArt: 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.]]

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/c/FoldingIdeas/videos 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.

* NewbieBoom: 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.

* OldShame: 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 controversial expose about 8chan for Medium, a smear campaign was formed against 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).

* OldShame: 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 controversial expose about 8chan for Medium, a smear campaign was formed 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).

* NewbieBoom: 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.

* NewbieBoom: 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/SuicideSquad video, which so far has over two million views.