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John Liver
May 4, 2009

So, Jesse Cox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRsyfuchSC8
http://www.youtube.com/user/OMFGcata

I like Jesse because he fucks up a lot, and has fun doing it.

Jesse was actually Retsupuraed at one point, having made a very repetitive, unfunny video of I Wanna Be The Guy. However, I think this is kind of an unfair look at him. That video portrayed him as obnoxious, uncreative and more than a little dumb - and I agree with the third point - but he's not a scumbag. Jesse has no "persona," not really, since most of his videos are just him being himself. He doesn't use scarecams (anymore), he doesn't beg for subscribers, and he doesn't really demand anything from his fans. Jesse's just an earnest, inherently funny person to watch, and his blind playthroughs of new games are pretty good.

Jesse does have a few weak points - he tends to jump early onto new releases, but he gets through them fairly quickly and cuts out things that viewers might not want to see. He has a compulsion to collect/observe absolutely everything in a game, and this can often hang him up and make videos last longer than they should (his Deus Ex playthrough is INSUFFERABLE because of this). However, his on-the-spot reactions to unpredictable things are often hilarious and make up for his poor sense of quality control.

But then, I am known for my terrible taste in media, so maybe I'm just talking out of my rear end.

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