Responding to My Last Slashdot Troll, Part 2
Chris’s channel blurb says “C.D. Reimer makes videos about comic cons, pop culture, Silicon Valley and technology”. He hasn’t made a comic con video in months, yet it’s the first item in his blurb. Pop culture? Telling people you’re going to see a movie is pop culture, I guess?

My YouTube content strategy has four buckets: comics cons, pop culture, Silicon Valley, and technology. Each bucket does equally well in gaining views during a normal year. Toss in the coronavirus pandemic and government shutdowns, comic cons and pop culture—two industries that rely heavily on in-person events — were no longer viable. Silicon Valley and technology videos have gotten more views this year.

My last comic con video was on October 7, 2020, “Unboxing Interactive Maker Workshop Bundle — SiliCon With Adam Savage.” My eighth comic con video for the year. That’s well under the two dozen or so comic con videos I typically make from attending three to five comic cons per year. I’ve lost interest in all the virtual cons this year, except for that of my hometown SiliCon With Adam Savage (formerly Silicon Valley Comic Con and Big Wow ComicFest).

Going to the movies is very much pop culture. With the AMC Stubs A-List program ($25 USD per month), I saw 48 movies last year. Many movies provide topics for my videos.

My most popular pop culture video to date was, “Where Was Cindy Lou’s Father In The Grinch?” That movie leaves unanswered why Cindy Lou’s mom was a single parent raising three kids and working a night job in a town where every Who was related to every other Who in Whoville. Except for Mr. Grinch, being a What and not a Who.

My last movie a week prior to the first shutdown was Bloodshot in early March. Social distancing — keeping six feet apart — was the rule. When the theaters reopened so ever briefly in November, I saw Tenet, Goldfinger, and Freaky. Social distancing and wearing a mask were the rule. Like many people, I missed going to the movie theaters.
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