For the uninitiated, that sounds like a paradox. But really, it's a need to be able to complain about something. The more the person has to complain about, the better. Something that was actually good would not allow the opportunity for them to provide their (superior) input on how it was done wrong.
The key give away is the fact that she keeps going back to Disney. If I had experienced half of the slights and snafus she claims [1] to have experienced, I'd never go back to the place.
At the end of the day, I figured I had much better things to do with my time than watch someone complain about theme parks, even assuming the complaints were realistic. I like taking my kids to theme parks on occasion, but I have no desire to become so frequent of a customer that I ever need some kind of "inside scoop".
[1] eeeeh, I don't necessarily disbelieve her. A lot of what she says rings true for my own opinion of Disney. But at the same time, her attitude is nearly identical to that of folks I grew up with, speech patterns that I've come to recognize as over aggrandized consumerist "suffering." It feels like she's leaving a whole lot of context out, context that might reveal the her trials and tribulations were of her own making.
It's all a bit strange because all of her unrealistic expectations are perfectly woven into the realistic ones in a way that makes it very difficult to distinguish what is reasonable about her expectations. Somehow she manages to make it so that something that will genuinely suck for everyone, like standing in line for hours or her app being totally broken, gets mixed up with much more obviously subjective things like the actors not really matching her energy.
Then they should not claim it in their marketing materials that they will deliver it. What happened with the good old “underpromise and over deliver”? Besides she is not demanding her money back. She is making a review where she is informing the public that an experience did not live up to the marketing of it and is not worth the price.
In fact i believe that is the unstated conclusion of her video. Disney should have crunched the numbers and should have realised that the experience they are advertising cannot be delivered.
As a drive-buy observer, it's easy to watch one video and say, "oh, yeah, that makes sense." But when you take them as a whole, you really have to question: why do you (Jenny) keep going back to this hole? You claim to have been burnt so many times. Why do you keep going back to Disney properties, knowing you'll probably not have the experience you are hoping to have?
That's my problem with her. She has clearly identified a problem. Good on her for being so articulate on exactly why the experiences she had sucked so much. But then why does she keep going back for more abuse?
And then, on top of that, why do people keep watching her FOUR HOUR LONG videos about these issues? SERIOUSLY!? People are spending significantly more time than a single Star Wars movie to watch someone complain about a related theme hotel? What the hell is wrong with these people?! You know what I can do in 4 hours? I can watch 2 Star Wars movies. I can make wash all of my laundry. I can drive to another city, have a drink with a friend, and get back in time to put my kids to bed.
I feel like a lot of the zietgeist around her videos are caught up in "we stan women who haven't got what they want." And in most other aspects, I'm there, most women do get a raw deal in life. But Jenny Nicholson... she's just trolling for YooToob likes.
Yeah I totally agree . Her exasperation clashes with the existence of her content. It's like "ludonarrative dissonance" but for YouTube videos. I mean this is very common thing to see, the YouTuber claims to hate having to "subject themselves to more" but they go back for more and more.
That's really my complaint, if she spends so much time being exposed to these issues, surely she should expect it by now? And yet she still acts shocked every time. It's strange
> And then, on top of that, why do people keep watching her FOUR HOUR LONG videos about these issues? SERIOUSLY!? People are spending significantly more time than a single Star Wars movie to watch someone complain about a related theme hotel? What the hell is wrong with these people?! You know what I can do in 4 hours? I can watch 2 Star Wars movies. I can make wash all of my laundry. I can drive to another city, have a drink with a friend, and get back in time to put my kids to bed.
Well, they are entertaining background noise. It's a fun thing to hear her rant about while doing something else. Long video essays are very popular
And I would suggest she's able to go on and on about these particular experiences for so long is that they're genuinely unique experiences with clear flaws and she'd like to thought experiment a way to make them work given the constraints for an audience of interested people, not that she's literally pitching Disney to reopen the Star Wars hotel with her leading the project.
All of their stuff is incredibly well researched and have always seemed to me to be pretty objective; which is why I have avoided Nicholson's reviews - you already know its not going to be very objective.