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** She believes that part of the reason the Once-Ler fandom proved so durable was that it proved to be the introduction, to many of its fans, of the sort of character dynamics those stories involved. The "innocent guy/bad boy" pairing is pretty classic in fanfiction, but it sees almost no portrayal in television, and most fanworks that would explore such a pairing trended a little mature. She also argues that part of the reason it fell apart was that people realized they could get those kinds of stories in a fashion that didn't involve pairing the villain of a mediocre children's movie with a future version himself.
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** She believes that part of the reason the Once-Ler fandom proved so durable was that it proved to be the introduction, to many of its fans, of the sort of character dynamics those stories involved. The "innocent guy/bad boy" pairing is pretty classic in fanfiction, but it sees almost no portrayal in television, and most fanworks that would explore such a pairing trended a little mature. She also argues that part of the reason it fell apart was that people realized they could get those kinds of stories in a fashion that didn't involve pairing the villain of a mediocre children's movie with a future version of himself.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: She notes when doing "The 'Author' of ''My Immortal'' Emailed Me, and Then It Got Worse" that the most likely apparent motive was that the person wanted attention and for their story to be heard. And they did get their intentions widely broadcast... but not in the way they wanted, because Sarah pretty much poked their story full of holes and went on to reveal to the world that they had created dozens of sockpuppets writing Bible-themed poetry in an attempt to get their own attempted TrollFic some attention.
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* EndOfAnEra: Her video on the infamous Dashcon heavily involved the idea that it was, in many respects, the end of the "cringingly enthusiastic" era of Website/{{Tumblr}}, where people talked about a "Tumblr University" as an ideal situation or created maps of all the different communities or mashed various fandoms together to create chimeras like Superwholock. After Dashcon bombed out, there was a clear shift away from that; merged fandoms died out almost completely, and the term "hellsite" being used to describe Tumblr went into fashion, with the site taking on a notably more pessimistic tone.
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* RunningGag: In "The 'Author' of ''My Immortal'' Emailed Me, And Then It Got Worse", every time she points out that an account associated with the various Tobys writes '''Bible-themed poetry''', the phrase is base boosted and accompanied with a close up to emphasize how ''all'' of these sock-puppet accounts are doing the same thing.
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* GatewaySeries: [[invoked]]She believes that part of the reason the Once-Ler fandom proved so durable was that it proved to be the introduction, to many of its fans, of the sort of character dynamics those stories involved. The "innocent guy/bad boy" pairing is pretty classic in fanfiction, but it sees almost no portrayal in television, and most fanworks that would explore such a pairing trended a little mature. She also argues that part of the reason it fell apart was that people realized they could get those kinds of stories in a fashion that didn't involve pairing the villain of a mediocre children's movie with a future version himself.
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** She believes that part of the reason the Once-Ler fandom proved so durable was that it proved to be the introduction, to many of its fans, of the sort of character dynamics those stories involved. The "innocent guy/bad boy" pairing is pretty classic in fanfiction, but it sees almost no portrayal in television, and most fanworks that would explore such a pairing trended a little mature. She also argues that part of the reason it fell apart was that people realized they could get those kinds of stories in a fashion that didn't involve pairing the villain of a mediocre children's movie with a future versionhimself.himself.
** She argues something similar about the Once-Ler himself, noting that the character has a lot of traits associated with appealing villains (a sympathetic backstory that leads to a redemption, a cool design that gets played for fanservice a few times, and the mere fact that he's a VillainProtagonist) but is still made very approachable by the narrative. She notes that this was mostly the result of bad writing trying way too hard to make him sympathetic to the point of undermining the message, but that it did work, because it made him an easy introduction to the "sympathetic villain" archetype for a mostly tweenaged audience.
** She believes that part of the reason the Once-Ler fandom proved so durable was that it proved to be the introduction, to many of its fans, of the sort of character dynamics those stories involved. The "innocent guy/bad boy" pairing is pretty classic in fanfiction, but it sees almost no portrayal in television, and most fanworks that would explore such a pairing trended a little mature. She also argues that part of the reason it fell apart was that people realized they could get those kinds of stories in a fashion that didn't involve pairing the villain of a mediocre children's movie with a future version
** She argues something similar about the Once-Ler himself, noting that the character has a lot of traits associated with appealing villains (a sympathetic backstory that leads to a redemption, a cool design that gets played for fanservice a few times, and the mere fact that he's a VillainProtagonist) but is still made very approachable by the narrative. She notes that this was mostly the result of bad writing trying way too hard to make him sympathetic to the point of undermining the message, but that it did work, because it made him an easy introduction to the "sympathetic villain" archetype for a mostly tweenaged audience.
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* GatewaySeries: [[invoked]]She believes that part of the reason the Once-Ler fandom proved so durable was that it proved to be the introduction, to many of its fans, of the sort of character dynamics those stories involved. The "innocent guy/bad boy" pairing is pretty classic in fanfiction, but it sees almost no portrayal in television, and most fanworks that would explore such a pairing trended a little mature. She also argues that part of the reason it fell apart was that people realized they could get those kinds of stories in a fashion that didn't involve pairing the villain of a mediocre children's movie with a future version himself.
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* InNameOnly: The Once-Ler fandom, in her view: the mixture of TransplantedCharacterFic, an overused FandomSpecificPlot, and a metric ton of {{Recurring Fanon Character}}s resulted in a fan community that was almost entirely unmoored from the original story.
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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: She argues this was a lot of the reason "Oncest" became a thing: in the original film, the Once-Ler's jump from "goodhearted EndearinglyDorky hipster" to "pure evil cartoonish supervillain" happens over the course of a single musical number. Because of the rather squashed development arc and his radically altered design, mannerisms, and personality, it made it seem less like he'd been corrupted by greed, and more like he'd been abruptly swapped out with a different character. So that was exactly how the fandom handled it: treat them as two distinct characters. And then ship them.
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* OldShame: [[invoked]]Mentions a couple times in the Once-ler video that she actually was in the fandom for a couple months. That said, while she acknowledges it was stupid, she defends it as having been basically harmless nonsense that actually ''did'' make sense if you were on the ground at the time, even if the final result was kind of idiotic.
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* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Well, "crime" is perhaps a stretch, but the video "The 'Author' of ''My Immortal'' Emailed Me, And Then It Got Worse" is built around this. Initially, she thought it was just a random idiot, then it turned out that they were one of the people who had claimed to be the writer of ''FanFic/MyImmortal'' before--and then it turned out that, based on some detective work, said person had also written ''FanFic/ThePrayerWarriors'', and [[SockPuppet run many other accounts]]--including multiple ones that wrote Bible-themed poetry on FFN.
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Her clever, in-depth, and thorough videos have amassed her a considerable following, and she has been compared to other so-called "BreadTube" video essayists like [[WebVideo/HBomberguy H.Bomberguy]] and [[WebVideo/FoldingIdeas Folding Ideas]].
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Her clever, in-depth, and thorough videos have amassed her a considerable following, and she has been compared to other so-called "BreadTube" "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BreadTube BreadTube]]" video essayists like [[WebVideo/HBomberguy H.Bomberguy]] and [[WebVideo/FoldingIdeas Folding Ideas]].
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* TakeThat: When going over fan community nicknames, Sarah states that "Doctor Who fans are called 'Whovians', Glee fans were called 'Gleeks', Star Trek fans are called 'Trekkies' and K-Pop fans are called [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers 'terrifying']]".
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* DeathOfTheAuthor: [[invoked]] Discussed extensively in her video on Creator/JKRowling and authorial intent. She finds it inherently hypocritical that JK Rowling has been supportive of fan fiction and different interpretations of characters, but has been quick to resort of WordOfGod to debunk theories she doesn't like (like responding "no" to a fan asking if Sirius was gay).
* DesignatedHero:[[invoked]] One of her biggest complaints about the show ''Series/{{Insatiable}}'' is that both of the main characters are unlikeable and very hard to care for.
* DesignatedHero:[[invoked]] One of her biggest complaints about the show ''Series/{{Insatiable}}'' is that both of the main characters are unlikeable and very hard to care for.
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* OffendingTheCreatorsOwn: [[invoked]] Discussed in her video, ''Double Standards and Diverse Media'' which opens by explaining a story on Amelie Wen Zhao and how her planned trilogy of books as part of a series called "Blood Heir" was canceled due to heavy criticism of the first book's content on slavery (which could be interpreted as offensive by some people). She then explains that media that is made by diverse creators will often be held to higher standards due to perceptions that because they are in the same minority they are in, they would be able to avoid making the same mistakes those from non-marginalized groups make, when that's far from the truth.
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* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers: In her video exploring the rise of "Doomer" culture, Sarah points out that letting oneself become so convinced that the world's problems are so terrible that they can't be fixed will only lead to [[DespairEventHorizon the utter loss of hope]] and with it, the drive to ''try'' to fix those problems.
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* MST3KMantra: She subscribes to this as long as the medium makes it clear that it's fantastical in nature. It's impossible for her to feel this way with one that's deliberately grounded in realism.
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* UnnecessaryMakeover: She touches on this trope and applying it to real life people in ''"How Fans Treat Creators"'', and how fans can sometimes feel ownership over a person's image the same way they might over a fictional character's. In her view, this is over-stepping a boundary, as a person has the right to do whatever they want with their own appearances - relating a message she once got from a subscriber who didn't like her haircut (at thirteen no less!).
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* UnnecessaryMakeover: UnnecessaryMakeover[[invoked]]: She touches on this trope and applying it to real life people in ''"How Fans Treat Creators"'', and how fans can sometimes feel ownership over a person's image the same way they might over a fictional character's. In her view, this is over-stepping a boundary, as a person has the right to do whatever they want with their own appearances - relating a message she once got from a subscriber who didn't like her haircut (at thirteen no less!).
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* SequelEpisode: ''"Does JK Rowling's Transphobia Ruin Harry Potter?"'' is one to her previous video ''"JK Rowling and Authorial Intent"''. The video is technically a response to Rowling's well known bouts of transphobic behavior on Twitter getting worse and resulting in her releasing a manifesto online she nicknamed "TERF Wars", and subsequently makes another analysis about Authorial Intent and Death of the Author of how Rowling's views has influenced her writing and just saying "Hatsune Miku wrote Harry Potter" may make people forget that. The video makes multiple references to the previous video, which also referenced the behavior of fans towards JK Rowling's troublesome tweeting.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: One of her most notable qualities is her ability to see both sides of the argument she's presenting, helped by her background in debate.
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* FranchiseOriginalSin[[invoked]]: As pointed out in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjov-gt6YCw "Why Friday Was Made"]], ARK Music Factory originally made pretensions towards being a legitimate record company as opposed to a [[VanityPublishing vanity label]], recording pop songs that, while not great, were more or less acceptable... until "Music/{{Friday}}" by Music/RebeccaBlack, the worst song they ever recorded, became a smash hit in 2011 on the strength of BileFascination. From that point forward, ARK tried to make lightning strike twice with songs that were designed to be SoBadItsGood by copying the "Friday" formula, to diminishing returns that culminated in the label folding in 2013. Moreover, Sarah Z also argues that the impact of "Friday" reached beyond just music, marking a negative turning point for internet culture as a whole. The massive controversy that swirled around the song demonstrated that anger and outrage could be very effective drivers of conversation and engagement, creating a template for later companies, celebrities, and influencers that engaged in publicity stunts designed to court controversy in order to build brand awareness.
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* FranchiseOriginalSin[[invoked]]: As pointed out in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjov-gt6YCw "Why Friday Was Made"]], ARK Music Factory originally made pretensions towards being a legitimate record company as opposed to a [[VanityPublishing vanity label]], recording pop songs that, while not great, were more or less acceptable... until "Music/{{Friday}}" by Music/RebeccaBlack, the worst song they ever recorded, became a smash hit in 2011 on the strength of BileFascination. From that point forward, ARK tried to make lightning strike twice with songs that were designed to be SoBadItsGood by copying the "Friday" formula, to diminishing returns that culminated in the label folding in 2013. Moreover, Sarah Z also argues that the impact of "Friday" reached beyond just music, marking a negative turning point for internet culture as a whole. The massive controversy that swirled around the song demonstrated that anger and outrage could be very effective drivers of conversation and engagement, creating a template for later companies, celebrities, and influencers that engaged in publicity stunts designed to court controversy in order to build brand awareness.
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* FranchiseOriginalSin[[invoked]]: As pointed out in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjov-gt6YCw "Why Friday Was Made"]], ARK Music Factory originally made pretensions towards being a legitimate record company as opposed to a [[VanityPublishing vanity label]], recording pop songs that, while not great, were more or less acceptable... until "Music/{{Friday}}" by Music/RebeccaBlack, the worst song they ever recorded, became a smash hit in 2011 on the strength of BileFascination. From that point forward, ARK tried to make lightning strike twice with songs that were designed to be SoBadItsGood by copying the "Friday" formula, to diminishing returns that culminated in the label folding in 2013. Moreover, Sarah Z also argues that the impact of "Friday" reached beyond just music, marking a negative turning point for internet culture as a whole. The massive controversy that swirled around the song demonstrated that anger and outrage could be very effective drivers of conversation and engagement, creating a template for later companies, celebrities, and influencers that engaged in publicity stunts designed to court controversy in order to build brand awareness.
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* DigitalPiracyIsEvil:
** Defied in her video on Theatre Bootlegs. She uses an example of the ''{{Film/Heathers}}'' musical initially closing after a poor run, but developing a large following mainly through people who saw bootlegs of the show online. This popularity led to the show being revived.
** She also points out that theatre bootlegs are not going to harm the industry when the majority of viewers watch them because they can't afford to travel and see the show live, and that unlike film, a bootleg video is not a substitute for seeing theatre in the venue (and thus there will be people who pay to see the show if they get the opportunity).
** Defied in her video on Theatre Bootlegs. She uses an example of the ''{{Film/Heathers}}'' musical initially closing after a poor run, but developing a large following mainly through people who saw bootlegs of the show online. This popularity led to the show being revived.
** She also points out that theatre bootlegs are not going to harm the industry when the majority of viewers watch them because they can't afford to travel and see the show live, and that unlike film, a bootleg video is not a substitute for seeing theatre in the venue (and thus there will be people who pay to see the show if they get the opportunity).
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Her earlier videos were ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' memes, much before she started doing video essays.
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* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy: At one point she goes off on a tangent about how the ''Gnome'' films are the best Shakespearean adaptations ever.
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* DeathOfTheAuthor: Discussed extensively in her video on Creator/JKRowling and authorial intent. She finds it inherently hypocritical that JK Rowling has been supportive of fan fiction and different interpretations of characters, but has been quick to resort of WordOfGod to debunk theories she doesn't like (like responding "no" to a fan asking if Sirius was gay).
* DesignatedHero: One of her biggest complaints about the show ''Series/{{Insatiable}}'' is that both of the main characters are unlikable and very hard to care for.
* DesignatedHero: One of her biggest complaints about the show ''Series/{{Insatiable}}'' is that both of the main characters are unlikable and very hard to care for.
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[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK-GxvzttTnNhq3JPYpXhqg Sarah Z]] (pronounced "Sarah Zed" for you Americans) is a Canadian video essayist dating back to May 2018. She began by covering topics like films and television before focusing more recently on social and artistic critique, such as discussion of the concept of authorial intent and criticism of "fast-food twitter".
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[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK-GxvzttTnNhq3JPYpXhqg Sarah Z]] (pronounced "Sarah Zed" for you Americans) Zed", not "Sarah Zee") is a Canadian video essayist dating back to May 2018. She began by covering topics like films and television before focusing more recently on social and artistic critique, such as discussion of the concept of authorial intent and criticism of "fast-food twitter".
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* RecurringExtra: The mysterious (and possibly omniscient) Great Cheshire appears whenever a line from {{FanFic/My Immortal}} is read aloud.
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* JustJokingJustification: She says that a frequent defence of ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'''s bad faith criticism was that it was merely Doug Walker playing a character, and the opinions were those of a character for comedy. This defence is broken when she shows that The Nostalgia Critic's opinions would show up in Doug Walker's out of character reviews as well.
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* RealWomenNeverWearDresses: In ''I'm Not Like Other Girls?'', she says that a lot of women who ascribe to this trope may have done so out of a rejection of traditionally feminine values that they may have been forced to conform to, or been mocked for not being.
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* SleeperHit:[[invoked]] She merely made a ranting video complaining about ''Heathers'', and was shocked at how many views and subscribers she got from it.
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* AlphaBitch: Uses this as an example of how a cliched trope can be used well with regards to Cordelia of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' - by putting her in unusual situations that forced her to learn and grow as a character.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: She points out that ''{{Series/Riverdale}}'''s attempts to address this with the Archie/Miss Grundy affair results in a BrokenAesop given how sexily the scenes were framed, and that it was still portrayed as forbidden love - rather than a predatory adult taking advantage of a naive teenager.
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* LampshadeHanging: Points out that having this does not excuse using problematic tropes or lazy writing - namely Cheryl mocking Betty and Veronica's gratuitous lesbian kiss in the ''{{Series/Riverdale}}'' pilot, when the advertising still hyped it up like a SweepsWeekLesbianKiss.
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* PetHomosexual: Is particularly annoyed with how ''{{Series/Riverdale}}'' reduces Kevin to this compared to the original comics - where his sexuality was incidental and he was a rounded character. In the show, he's reduced to being a SatelliteCharacter that only exists to give Betty relationship advice and sassy one liners. And when he does finally get a storyline of his own, it plays into the AllGaysArePromiscuous trope.
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* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: Discussed in her video on Queerbaiting, and how the term is often confused with HideYourLesbians (such as ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' where ExecutiveMeddling prevented the confirmation that the two characters were a couple until the finale) or HoYay (such as ''{{Series/Scrubs}}'', where the characters are clearly straight and their close friendship is PlayedForLaughs).
* CanadaEh: In her Q&A she responds to a question asking if she's Canadian by dropping "eh" and "aboot" in a stereotypical accent. The way she pronounces "about" as "aboot" naturally also fulfills the trope.
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* JerkJock: Feels like indulging in this stereotype is what results in {{Broken Aesop}}s in ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy''.
* MostFanFicWritersAreGirls: Debunks this in her video on authorial intent, pointing out that many fan fiction writers were LGBT fans interacting with media they liked in ways they could relate to.
* NotLikeOtherGirls: Discussed and deconstructed in a video with the same title - where her thoughts on the matter say that it's far from just internalised misogyny or shallow bullying, but representative of a deeper problem where society pressures girls to conform to traditionally feminine traits and both accepting or rejecting femininity can result in a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Doesn't feel that ''{{Series/Riverdale}}'' is bad because of it being a DarkerAndEdgier take on Archie Comics, saying that a dark tone could have worked. In her view it's just bad writing.
* VisualPun: In her video ''"I'm Not Like Other Girls"'', she regularly switches between {{Tomboy}}ish clothes (casual sweater, hair tied back) or GirlyGirl (pink sweater, fuzzy bathrobe, long blonde wig) to better make her point about girls being pigeonholed into one role or the other.
* JerkJock: Feels like indulging in this stereotype is what results in {{Broken Aesop}}s in ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy''.
* MostFanFicWritersAreGirls: Debunks this in her video on authorial intent, pointing out that many fan fiction writers were LGBT fans interacting with media they liked in ways they could relate to.
* NotLikeOtherGirls: Discussed and deconstructed in a video with the same title - where her thoughts on the matter say that it's far from just internalised misogyny or shallow bullying, but representative of a deeper problem where society pressures girls to conform to traditionally feminine traits and both accepting or rejecting femininity can result in a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Doesn't feel that ''{{Series/Riverdale}}'' is bad because of it being a DarkerAndEdgier take on Archie Comics, saying that a dark tone could have worked. In her view it's just bad writing.
* VisualPun: In her video ''"I'm Not Like Other Girls"'', she regularly switches between {{Tomboy}}ish clothes (casual sweater, hair tied back) or GirlyGirl (pink sweater, fuzzy bathrobe, long blonde wig) to better make her point about girls being pigeonholed into one role or the other.
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->''I was driven to start making videos by the same force that has driven me to do everything that I do in life:
->Bitterness.
->I watched the first episode of Paramount Heathers and it was just... so bad, and I really like Heathers, so I had a lot of things to say about it...''
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->I watched the first episode of Paramount Heathers and it was just... so bad, and I really like Heathers, so I had a lot of things to say about it...''
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* DesignatedHero: One of her biggest complaints about the show ''Series/{{Insatiable}}'' is that both of the main characters are unlikable and very hard to care for.
* DoubleStandard: She talks about this in her video "Double Standards And Diverse Media", which mostly seems to relate to the fact that media that is already "woke" or progressive is held to a much higher, sometimes impossible to reach, standard, different than other media that aren't judged with the same standards, or even with the same criteria.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Her earlier videos were ''Visualnovel/DanganRonpa'' memes, much before she started doing video essays.
* IconicItem: Her mugs.
* DesignatedHero: One of her biggest complaints about the show ''Series/{{Insatiable}}'' is that both of the main characters are unlikable and very hard to care for.
* DoubleStandard: She talks about this in her video "Double Standards And Diverse Media", which mostly seems to relate to the fact that media that is already "woke" or progressive is held to a much higher, sometimes impossible to reach, standard, different than other media that aren't judged with the same standards, or even with the same criteria.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Her earlier videos were ''Visualnovel/DanganRonpa'' memes, much before she started doing video essays.
* IconicItem: Her mugs.
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Her clever, in-depth, and thorough videos have amassed her a considerable following, and she has been compared to other so-called "BreadTube" video essayists like [[WebVideo/HBomberguy H.Bomberguy]] and [[WebVideo/FoldingIdeas Folding Ideas]].
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Her clever, in-depth, and thorough videos have amassed her a considerable following, and she has been compared to other so-called "BreadTube" video essayists like [[WebVideo/HBomberguy H.Bomberguy]] and [[WebVideo/FoldingIdeas Folding Ideas]].Ideas]].
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* BrokenPedestal: How she feels about ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''.
* CausticCritic: Sarah herself averts this trope but in her video titled "Bad Media Criticism", she demonstrates how the overuse of the trope can lead to nitpicking in place of actual critique.
* DeathOfTheAuthor: In-universe: Discussed extensively in her video on Creator/JKRowling and authorial intent.
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* BrokenPedestal: How she feels about ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''.
* CausticCritic: Sarah herself averts this trope but in her video titled "Bad Media Criticism", she demonstrates how the overuse of the trope can lead to nitpicking in place of actual critique.
* DeathOfTheAuthor: In-universe: Discussed extensively in her video on Creator/JKRowling and authorial intent.
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->''I was driven to start making videos by the same force that has driven me to do everything that I do in life:
->Bitterness.
->I watched the first episode of Paramount Heathers and it was just... so bad, and I really like Heathers, so I had a lot of things to say about it...''
-->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elw1A0O9wkU "Announcement and Q&A"]]
->Bitterness.
->I watched the first episode of Paramount Heathers and it was just... so bad, and I really like Heathers, so I had a lot of things to say about it...''
-->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elw1A0O9wkU "Announcement and Q&A"]]
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[[caption-width-right:261:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6qJXLNL8Ik Did you ever hear the tragedy of J K Rowling the billionaire?]]]]
[[caption-width-right:261:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6qJXLNL8Ik Did you ever hear the tragedy of J K Rowling the billionaire?]]]]
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She don't have no article yet and I says that's a scandal
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[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK-GxvzttTnNhq3JPYpXhqg Sarah Z]] (pronounced "Sarah Zed" for you Americans) is a Canadian video essayist dating back to May 2018. She began by covering topics like films and television before focusing more recently on social and artistic critique, such as discussion of the concept of authorial intent and criticism of "fast-food twitter".
Her clever, in-depth, and thorough videos have amassed her a considerable following, and she has been compared to other so-called "BreadTube" video essayists like [[WebVideo/HBomberguy H.Bomberguy]] and [[WebVideo/FoldingIdeas Folding Ideas]].
Her clever, in-depth, and thorough videos have amassed her a considerable following, and she has been compared to other so-called "BreadTube" video essayists like [[WebVideo/HBomberguy H.Bomberguy]] and [[WebVideo/FoldingIdeas Folding Ideas]].
