Internet reviewers

At least once a week I sit down and watch a new episode or review posted by any of my favourite internet reviewers. These people have gone from being nobodies to be recognised as internet phenomenons. Most of them first posted their review clips on youtube as a joke. But more and more people watched and requested new clips. As the view count exponentially grew to a notable level by youtube-standards, the smell of “money opportunity” started to spread. Eventually the smell reached the noses of internet publishers who gladly would invite them to the family. And so was the missing links in the world of reviewing found. Their names will be remembered by many. They will not forget “The Angry videogame nerd”, “The escapist” and the “Nostalgia critic”.

These reviewers are not the regular stale and formal people who usually work as reviewers. The have gotten to the point where they are today by being different. They don’t follow the formal guidelines that the televised movie- and game-reviewers have to do. They take reviewing to a new level. A level where foul language and graphic nastiness is the way to go. When they think something is wrong they express their feelings without the boundaries of family values and proper manners. When something sucks they say it sucks, if it sucks a*s they say it sucks a*s. That’s the way it should be.

The three reviewers that I mentioned have their own style and genre. The angry videogame nerd reviews old Nintendo games, the escapist dose new games and the nostalgia critic reviews movies and cartoons. All different, all brilliant. If you haven’t seen them and have that special type of humour, get your butt to google and search them up!

Writing for Posterity

Blogs, graffiti, inscriptions, paintings, monuments and so on has one main purpose. To distribute the thoughts of the persons who felt that they needed to share their revelations and experiences with more people than themselves. From the first cave paintings to the internet blogs of our time the purpose is basically the same, sharing. But why do we humans feel the need to share our thoughts and experiences with other people (or being in some cases, religion you know…)? Well, I guess it’s just human to have that feeling. The feeling of unaccomplishment, the felling that your life and actions has to make a difference. And the best way of doing that is to compile whatever you wish to share onto something that people unmistakably will se in one way or another. Luckily there are several ways of doing this and some of the most common methods are already mentioned in the beginning of this text.

The cavemen who lived tens of thousands of years ago used paint to illustrate the thing they experienced on the walls in caves. No one really knows the purpose of the paintings and maybe there isn’t any except the wandering mind of a caveman. If that’s the case us humans haven’t changed much in 30 000 years. We just swapped the cave wall for a computer and the paint for a keyboard.