We Live in the Golden Age of Video Essays

Runtimes are ever-on-the-rise, but quality continues to be a staple of the genre.

Courtesy of Lindsay Ellis, Veritasium and Kat Blaque respectively.

Often slipping our perspectives on the early days of user-generated content online is the fact that the medium is very young, so to have it even remotely figured out this early in its lifetime — especially in contrast to print, radio and broadcast television…