"Adobe Must Die" First 1hr 20min!
Added 2025-11-14 02:16:29 +0000 UTCHello, friends (and enemies)!
Here's how the Adobe video is going.
We've made quite a few changes to the early sections, but if you don't feel like re-watching too much, the really big changes start at around the 25 minute mark, where the new on-set shoot stuff starts coming in.
I'm really happy with these first 80 minutes, although watching this through to test it rendered properly, Kat and I made another 2 pages of notes for little changes.
'Making antitrust law fun' was a nice challenge, but the next, uhh, two hours don't require me to explain legal precedents or lawsuits quite as much, so editing and double-checking facts is going a lot smoother, so the rest of the video should be in a viewable state pretty quickly.
Thanks for the feedback on the previous version! When the whole thing is almost done I'm gonna come back and re-read all the comments on the drafts just to make sure I've thought of everything.
We're thinking of premiering the final version of the video in a movie theatre somewhere in California (since I can't leave until I'm sure we're done, and Kat lives here and she would be organizing it lol). We've worked on this one for so long it might be fun to make its completion feel like more of an event. Let us know if you think that would be interesting. Is it even a good idea to premiere a nearly-4-hour YouTube video like that? We'd have to do an intermission wouldn't we? Oh no.
I just ate 450 calories of M&Ms in about half a second. I tried to pour a few into my mouth from the packet so I didn't get my hands dirty, and I did it wrong and most of them fell in. I'm gonna walk in circles listening to the voiceover recordings for a few hours and then lie down.
-Harry
Comments
i’d go to a four hour premiere of this video!!
Elliott Goods
2026-03-02 23:05:28 +0000 UTCI'm sure other people have mentioned it, but at 43:04 a tiny.. grey Herobrine? appears at the bottom of the screen for a few seconds, and I think it's unintentional
Water Reed
2026-03-02 17:28:50 +0000 UTCMy only note. And it's important. Is to replace every single mention of "buy adobe software" with "rent adobe software".
m0sifer
2026-01-20 15:25:26 +0000 UTCWow, this video is shaping up to be amazing. Also, on a possibly related note, after learning about how everything in my country is even worse than I thought, I'm feeling very sad.
Bryce Davis
2026-01-20 07:56:57 +0000 UTCI kinda hope he drops it on Christmas Day, it would be a lovely gift. :)
Bryan Gray
2025-12-23 06:36:08 +0000 UTCIm sorry but theres still missing like 3hr of video
Ricardo Ibáñez Mercado
2025-12-23 04:06:59 +0000 UTCCan you make it 3 for 3 and this video actually ends Adobe? I mean, no pressure :p
kookie
2025-12-20 10:41:06 +0000 UTCThis is fabulous, and I am especially tickled by the on-location shooting and old west silliness.
three autistic penguins in a trench coat
2025-12-19 21:55:36 +0000 UTCWill this be out for Christmas? Not this year's 2026 obviously
Benjamin Storm
2025-12-01 08:35:50 +0000 UTCFisher Ilijasic
fisher ilijasic
2025-12-01 03:17:21 +0000 UTCIt's crazy how a video that is 80 minutes long just flies by.
Josh Grey
2025-11-21 12:37:22 +0000 UTCMonopolies eventually become stupid, because now the consumer has 2 choices. 1. Buy shit at an obscene price and watch as the company who bought it sends it to the shredder. 2. Do this totally illegal thing that really isn't inforced, but you (as the consumer) would never do that. Just think of the investors.
Spencer Levy
2025-11-21 04:58:04 +0000 UTCI hope you touch on their evil pricing. They automatically signed me up for another year of CC when I forgot to cancel and then wanted to charge me an extortionate cancellation fee. To get out of it, I had to sign up for a different new contract with them and then immediately cancel it. Gone back to cs6. Fuck it, I'm too old to learn a new program.
Jordan Cochrane
2025-11-21 01:01:42 +0000 UTCI've managed to watch the two video previews on heavily delayed trains. I think Adobe would be pleased given the context...
George
2025-11-20 23:36:48 +0000 UTCi for one will be upset if there is premiere that i cant attend >:(
Emma De'Montford
2025-11-20 12:39:14 +0000 UTCEric!!!
BscalE
2025-11-20 10:52:36 +0000 UTCDude just finished your first installment and I love all of it. I love that you touched on The Landlord’s Game.
Lynn Short
2025-11-20 05:29:27 +0000 UTCincredible video! I straight up have to take a break and think about things after this. I really wish I could edit the bork section down into something I can throw into peoples faces when they spew "free market" slosh at me.
Downright Autistic Medieval Wizard
2025-11-19 21:48:14 +0000 UTCi still haven’t updated adobe flash on my computer and it asks to be updated every time i turn my computer on
messilymoonlit
2025-11-19 15:49:26 +0000 UTCI would ABSOLUTELY come to a movie theater premier, yes please!
Sammie Auburn
2025-11-19 02:12:48 +0000 UTCNot criticism but today a judge ruled that Meta did not violate antitrust laws with buying Instagram. I obviously don't think that's true. But maybe it's something worth mentioning?
Adam Washington
2025-11-18 18:53:48 +0000 UTCLong time adobe user, recently quit them. Love the video as usual. Adobe is the worst and so emblematic of everything wrong with corporations today. Does anyone else feel like this whole problem is part of just an insane response to piracy? Everyone used to love adobe, Photoshop and InDesign were those amazing programs you got to use on a Mac G3 in newspaper class! Then the high speed internet came along and everyone pirated adobe. And so many creators grew up with pirated adobe that they just plain kept pirating it even after they were making a real income. Then adobe LOST THEIR DAMN MINDS and created the subscription dystopia that we live in today. It totally sucks. And, like almost everything involving the internet, we’re all also complicit in creating perfect pot for which this stew to boil.
Peter Galassi
2025-11-18 02:40:56 +0000 UTCYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! You're doing the lord's work bomby boi! One microscopic critique I would make is at 26:00 exactly, the cut is like one second away from perfect timing. That's it, keep having fun!
MaskMeh
2025-11-18 01:45:13 +0000 UTCLoving the video so far! Noticed a minor visual bug at 29:52, where some black boxes pop up for a split second.
ToastCrossDimensions
2025-11-17 22:30:43 +0000 UTCi have just been informed that my local arthouse theater allows booking a screen, so uh. i guess i'll go figure out what that costs
Stefan Wilde
2025-11-17 22:16:17 +0000 UTCHey i would watch a live screening in Odense, Denmark if you can swing that! also i am a software engineer and architect and i love software stuff and i was entertained!
Stefan Wilde
2025-11-17 22:11:03 +0000 UTCwe don't, no.
Calum Gillies
2025-11-15 15:47:52 +0000 UTCLeft a comment on the video but I'll leave it here too! I have a few thoughts and I hope they don’t come across as negative. Certainly not a defence of capitalism or monopolies (lol), more just observations from someone who works in this space but is maybe a bit more optimistic about how much the internet and software has levelled the playing field for creatives. My main criticism is whether the opening conceit of the video feels a little... dated? Setting aside Adobe’s business practices or the US antitrust issues, the opening complaints seems to be built on the idea that Adobe is sweeping up essential creative software, putting them behind paywalls, or shutting them down entirely (Flash being the obvious and damaging example) and thus making the ability to create, share and experiment for artists and creatives more and more difficult these days. But IS that really the case? Is Adobe actually as powerful or dominant today as you suggest? You get the impression watching this that Adobe is tightening its grip on the video editing space and sucking the air out of the room when it comes to creatives. But in reality Premiere is losing market share hand over fist to competitors. DaVinci Resolve, which is a superior product in many (most) areas and completely free at the base level, is becoming more and more popular among amateurs and pros. Premiere is also losing massively to younger creatives. With smartphone editing becoming the norm, CapCut and similar apps dominate mobile editing. Adobe barely features in that space. Even Final Cut, while paid, is still a one off traditional style software purchase. Twenty years ago the idea that anyone could download Hollywood grade colour grading software for literally nothing would have been absurd. In the 1990s or early 2000s you would have paid thousands to get access to anything close to the level of kit your phone and a few basic free apps now offer. If we broaden this beyond video editing I think my point still holds true. Imagine telling someone twenty years ago that a fully animated feature like Flow (2024) could be created entirely in a free (and open source!) piece of software like blender? Or that you could download Unreal Engine, a AAA game engine, for no cost unless your game earns real money? Add to that GIMP, Linux, Reaper, Krita, Inkscape, Godot. The list of professional grade free tools is enormous and the don't seem to be shrinking, if anything they seem to be getting more powerful and competitive. Small, open source projects seem to be more nimble and able to create features adobe and big companies take years to implement. You mention Amazon taking over the book industry. Fair enough. But self publishing has given writers access to an industry that used to be completely sealed off. Hugh Howey built a huge audience through KDP. Colleen Hoover started as a self published author and is now one of the best selling writers in the world. There's more independent book stores in America than ever (if a recent vlogbrothers video is correct). Have we simply traded one kind of monopoly for another? The old book world was an inaccessible boys’ club with a maze of gatekeepers and dodgy contracts that were more exploitative than the music industry. Today's monopoly is centred around Amazon, but it's hard to argue it's not more open than ever to ordinary writers. And you yourself are a good example of how different things are now. You mention "Adobe giving profits to shareholders rather than people whop actually work for a living" (sorry I might be paraphrasing), but none of the problems with Premiere or Adobe or Google stop you from actually owning your work. You say "in 2025 filmmaking is for rich people again" but I'd be lying if I said I didn't roll my eyes at that line. You can shoot a feature length movie on a phone, edit and grade it in DaVinci Resolve, animate in Blender, design graphics in Photopea or Krita, and publish it for free on YouTube. If the algorithm is kind, you can even make tens or hundreds of thousands of pounds and the rights remain entirely yours. At no point do you have to hand anything over to a big media company. All of that process is easier to do today rather than harder - surely that's reflected in just how many indie creators there are out there? I haven't even mentioned them but maybe Podcasts might be the clearest example of all this. Screw YouTube, you don't even need a platform! A completely decentralised system where some of the biggest shows out there are now among the most influential pieces of media we have and possibly all pieced together on Audacity or something. That level of independence simply wasn’t possible thirty years ago. If anything, I think the growing scale of software companies providing creative tools is a reflection of how they are no longer making niche software for media outlets and production houses. They're now making software for literally anyone and literally anyone can make a career from it. Because of that, I’m not sure the video’s opening argument really really rings all that true. It feels more like something that would have made sense around 2012 or 2014. The creative world now feels more decentralised than ever. Not to say I disagree with what I assume is the larger point of the video, I don't know anything about American antitrust laws, but the opening argument threw me off a bit. Sorry for the long comment! I say all that as someone who never uses any free software, I'm completely swallowed up in Adobe and too lazy to learn all the amazing free software out there!
Calum Gillies
2025-11-15 15:47:39 +0000 UTChbomb, do you think spirit halloween is named "spirit of halloween"? do you not have spirit halloween in britain?
Wakelyn
2025-11-15 15:17:17 +0000 UTC
