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Scratching The Surface of YouTube's Flaws

YouTube Rewind, the most hip, cool compilation that the entire site has to offer. It celebrates the most viral and trending videos of the year; an insight to what people have been watching. A trip of nostalgia for the past year that really does bring you back to some great moments. But what about the bad ones? And are all of those good moments really the best, or does the fact that what they have highlighted compared to the gravity of what they missed in the YouTube year in summary bring on a cringe felt by millions. Here’s the thing: YouTube Rewind is simply a very long ad. It’s a 6 ½ minute video that is meant to be shown to the advertisers putting their ads on the site to show that the platform is a nice friendly place where millions of people can share their ideas with the entire world. And, though that may be true to an extent, YouTube has definitely had some very low points. YouTube may believe that they can brainwash Mr. Money with fidget spinners and slime, but w...

Critique: Execution of The Ghost Speech from Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

As the sole member of my review outlet, I take on the task to evaluate various film adaptations of the Ghost’s speech from Hamlet by Shakespeare (Act I, Scene V), I take said position of a critic. To you, the reader, I will present my point of view and give my opinion of which film adaptation of the famous scene was most well executed while comparing and contrasting the given examples. I write this review for the purpose of entertainment. We start with the oldest iteration. In the 1948 film adaptation of Hamlet , we can see a Wiseau-like form of production before even the birth of Wiseau himself. Directed by and starring Laurence Olivier as both Hamlet and the voice of the ghost, this adaptation provides a very slow-like pace. Here, the ghost is quite mysterious, as very little physical detail of him is shown other than a silhouette. Though in this form, the ghost provides little dramatic character with his face mystified and speaking with a very soft voice, flashback...