Snarkleupagus
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They all do this, but boy am I sick of the shocked face hand over mouth YT thumbnail. It’s click-bait adjacent in my mind.
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That or the shushing thumbnail on any "Secrets" videos.
Love_the_kitz
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I'm also tired of the auxiliary "do" and "have" verbs streamers add when trying to add emphasis. Using it very sparingly is fine, say if there's something of such importance you need to stress it. ("I HAVE read that it is unsafe to walk a monorail beam.")
More examples:
I DO believe ... "I believe..." is proper.
I DO want to stress... "I want to stress..." sounds more concerned and less full of one's self.
I DO really love.... "I really love..." comes across as more real and softer.
I equate this poor form of grammar with the college drop out PCDev who used it constantly, and now they're all using the same, Molly included.
Drop the "Do" in the dog waste bag and be done with it.
AliceSpillstheTea
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I was just thinking of this the other day.. They've done this how many times now?
The one that irks me anymore is using "a" in front of a vowel. "A apple", "a egg", etc. This just started in the last year and is widespread now.
Love_the_kitz
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I have not heard that one yet and am cringing already.
Playing with the sound, it would sound more acceptable if they use "A" with the short "uh" sound verses the long "A". Still wrong.
Reminds me of pirate speak, or something out of My Fair Lady.
As someone who started majoring in English in college, neither sounds correct to me.
I might get flack for this but one thing I find really annoying about their channel is the blind love for Disneyland. I know it’s the original, but that doesn’t make it much better than WDW. (Walt himself built WDW because he thought Disneyland wasn’t immersive enough). I find every video of Disneyland to be so mediocre - but maybe that’s just me
I don't know that I'd call it "blind love." Having been to both DL and WDW 3-4 times each, I prefer DL. It's much more ride dense, smaller and easier to navigate, Fantasyland is far and away better at DL, and just about every ride that's in both places is better at DL (Pirates, Small World, Indiana Jones vs. Dinosaur). But WDW does have better theming, more non-ride entertainment, and better food. So which one is better depends on what you prefer. I like DL better, my spouse likes WDW better.
Yeah, it seems plenty of things sort of make the rounds with the YouTubers. Disneyland better, WDW better, Epcot's the best park ever, this place's food isn't that good, Current Newest Restaurant is the best place to eat on property, go early, then back to your resort, then back in the evening, and on and on.
By the way the Coast to Coast video, their title said "Holidays at Both Magic Kingdoms". No Disney expert calls Disneyland Park Magic Kingdom.
chaplinesque
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I watched the best and the worst video at DCA and don’t get how it was the worst? From what I could see they just picked their favourites and had a nice day hanging out instead of running around. The title was kind of click-baity. I was hoping to see a Molly-rides-almost-everything type of video from California but I guess we won’t be getting it from this trip.
Snarkleupagus
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They did a draft and picked some good things and some bad things to troll each other … and then gave it a click-bait title.
The Best/Worst I can’t stand is the hotel ones All Ears has been doing. It ends up just being kind of a muddied review of each resort. I’d rather they just to a “Best and Worst Hotels for families/Disney adults/tour groups” or whatever.
I know, they all seem to have it and change designs etc. I've never seen one in real life, though a couple of folk on the Tracker thread have said they've seen one or two of theirs.
KingPrawnOkay
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This is so off-topic but I’m so interested to know who Lily Aldridge is and how she knows Molly haha. I’ve not heard of her before but famous on Instagram by the looks of it!
Also very curious to know (although completely none of my business) how they split the money. I assume they’re all equal co-owners but you wouldn’t even know Max is involved if you only watched the videos and not the streams/podcast. I don’t know how many people watch the streams live but they only get a couple of thousand views posted on YouTube, so I assume not really that many? I imagine that’s caused a bit of friction. Max is either hugely overpaid, or he’s seeing all that Patreon cash go to M&A’s bank.
Also very curious to know (although completely none of my business) how they split the money. I assume they’re all equal co-owners but you wouldn’t even know Max is involved if you only watched the videos and not the streams/podcast. I don’t know how many people watch the streams live but they only get a couple of thousand views posted on YouTube, so I assume not really that many? I imagine that’s caused a bit of friction. Max is either hugely overpaid, or he’s seeing all that Patreon cash go to M&A’s bank.
chaplinesque
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Splitting it equally is hard to believe, especially when Max is phoning in the trivia by copying questions from other creators. The last time I attended trivia, the numbers were way down compared to when Molly co-hosts.Also very curious to know (although completely none of my business) how they split the money. I assume they’re all equal co-owners but you wouldn’t even know Max is involved if you only watched the videos and not the streams/podcast. I don’t know how many people watch the streams live but they only get a couple of thousand views posted on YouTube, so I assume not really that many? I imagine that’s caused a bit of friction. Max is either hugely overpaid, or he’s seeing all that Patreon cash go to M&A’s bank.
They emphasized in the California videos that the best of what they do is when they’re together, but Max is only in a handful of their total videos. The rest are just Molly, or Molly and Alan. If the “club” is the three of them, they need to get together more often. Otherwise yeah, Max seems like a potentially overpaid supporting character. I’m so tired of his Mr Toad bit. He also has the lowest Instagram following of the three of them. I struggle to see what else he brings to the table.
It seems from what folks here are saying that he doesn't really want to do this. It seems like he's the person you know who's always around and you feel like you have to include them in everything.
I still don't understand why they couldn't be bothered to set up their own Twitch account if that's the route they were going for lives.
I still don't understand why they couldn't be bothered to set up their own Twitch account if that's the route they were going for lives.
Snarkleupagus
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It seems like he was there for financial support in case it was slow to be profitable. It sounds like they all brainstorm content together, but I’d have to guess that Molly is the main one driving what they post on YouTube. Max seems to lean really hard into the “villain/troll” role which gets grating after a while and having a contrary opinion just to have one … esp when that doesn’t seem to be authentic to who he is.
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