Ramble: Top and bottom media moments of 2024
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The part about people freaking out and hyper-overreacting to minor, innocuous things in a completely unpredictable way gave me the heebie jeebies. It brought up some memories of dealing with people like that. I really hate that. I guess a paywall isn't enough to create a chill zone. I wish there were some established way to create chill zones on the Internet. My first thought is comically Draconian, to give everyone psych evals, lol. I don't know the solution, but I feel unfiltered interactions with strangers on the Internet could, in sufficient quantity, make me go completely insane. I want access to the chill zone.
Yarrow
2026-03-12 12:33:01 +0000 UTCJust loved this. That's all.
South Korea's Got Seoul
2026-01-28 23:43:21 +0000 UTCAlyssa Grenfell did a video about that film you mentioned, Heretic, from the perspective of a former Mormon and Mormon missionary. She does awesome former-Mormon content, sometimes about the deep doctrine of the faith and sometimes just about *being* Mormon. Highly recommended. https://youtu.be/j5wpy7ZGfK4?si=CjmDziWUpxhGBzBz "... of which I have two." Yes! That is the proper way to use a preposition!
Clinton Weir
2025-12-18 03:48:41 +0000 UTCReminds me of that song by The Police. Don't Stand So Close to Me.
Clinton Weir
2025-12-18 00:07:01 +0000 UTCThe Crush 1993 w alicia silverstone and cary elwes had the same underage girl tries to seduce grown man plot and it wasn't even trying to stay at all hinged, like she attacks his adult love interest with bees. Potentially an even darker example as allegedly it was based on the writer-director's interactions with a real teen girl that he named the lead character after, who successfully sued to have her name taken out of the film so it had to be dubbed out.
shai
2025-10-28 19:16:31 +0000 UTCHi Jenny, my husband and I have been binge-watching all your videos, as these have become our new special interest, as ND artists & college professors from LA who now live in Paris. We’re on the part of this video where you talk about cutting a recording you made containing an unpopular opinion. We are so sad you had to do that. We are so sorry. We have always told our students, many of whom now help make the films we all watch, that their unique perspective is what will make them money that nothing can take away from them. And I want to share with you that we value your perspective & that that perspective is what you contribute to the universe & what people should value. Criticism and stupid comments are certainly a cost for this life of full access for everyone in this current age. I think you’re handling it well. I hope you’ll grow to become more bold with your perspective. We hope you are surrounded by and regularly supported by trusted friends and family who encourage you to contribute your beautiful view into this dreary world. I’m sorry for all these words. Sending lots of love!
Tayen
2025-10-28 09:27:34 +0000 UTCEyyy same here! It took me like a year to work up to watching HBomerGuy's video on Sherlock and I ended up having my mind changed about the show by the end! I think autism is part of it, we do tend to have media or items have a lot of personal meaning in our lives, especially if we have trouble connecting with people IRL. Though I find a lot of neurotypical people have the same reactions when you dislike things they love, so I think it's mostly just a human thing
Hannah Gs
2025-10-22 14:01:55 +0000 UTCAmy Fancast: Ashley Tisdale. she's got years of voice acting experience on Phineas and Ferb, she would certainly be in budget, and I just think her voice would match very well
Sam Shaw
2025-09-26 00:18:38 +0000 UTCI want to say, I can be someone who struggles with differing opinions (especially if it’s about something I love) and can take things very personally (I think it’s an autism thing maybe??) but I don’t want to be this way and I want to get better so like hearing your opinions (which I love !) and learning to digest them is actually helping me improve and hopefully change this way of thinking ☺️
Selcian
2025-09-14 22:15:42 +0000 UTCMy favourite part in Imaginary was when the therapist tried to rationalise the daughter's relationship with the evil imaginary bear-friend as her dabbling with ventriloquism; which would've been an even scarier twist than no-bear!
Marc
2025-08-30 18:56:56 +0000 UTC(me dusting off my hands) Oh, there's no bear. Problem took care of itself
Jenny Nicholson
2025-08-28 18:36:04 +0000 UTCThis teddy bear horror twist has been stuck in my brain since Jenny recounted the scene to us and it's still so scary to me. It's funny that Jenny sees it as an unscary twist but to me it's something that would immediately make the movie a lot more terrifying! The way it instantly changes the plot from "my daughter has a haunted teddy bear" to "the teddy bear isn't even a physical object but has invaded MY MIND AS WELL, I CAN'T TRUST MY OWN PERCEPTION OF REALITY" creeps me out just thinking about. I think this movie would be TOO scary for me! Which is a shame because clearly it was made for me if I'm the type of person who finds that twist terrifying.
Silky
2025-08-28 18:02:56 +0000 UTCI know I'm late to this, but my "train" moment was Pan's Labyrinth where the bad guy takes the butt of his gun to the face of the young guy while his father begs and pleads on his knees to spare him. I genuinely had to rush up and out of the room when that happened, and was shaken about it for days afterwards. I still can't recall it without feeling queasy. There was something about it that was just too real, too viseral. In horror movies, I just kinda detach myself mentally in some ways from what is shown on screen, but I think the weird, fantastical plot drew me in and forced me to suspend my disbelief, so when that scene happened, all my usual mental shields had been peeled away and it hit me like a truck.
Lindoriell
2025-08-25 20:51:25 +0000 UTClove you jenny nicholson. please dont go bald
Aine
2025-08-22 21:38:11 +0000 UTCLove you Jenny but not in a weird way
MDeaner
2025-08-06 20:10:07 +0000 UTCI know this is a late response, but I saw the seventh Harry Potter movie in IMAX when I was 17. My sister and her then boyfriend (now husband) were with me. When Nagini lunged at the screen, I JUMPED out of my seat... And into my sister's boyfriend's lap. Note: 1. I didn't know him very well, and 2. I'm not attracted to men, so when my sister accused me of doing this because I was trying to flirt with him... No, just no.
LynStars
2025-08-06 15:21:35 +0000 UTCYou’re a human. It’s not kind for a viewer to put you on a pedestal because you don’t deserve that kind of pressure. It’s impossible. You’re great as you are, strong and mid opinions and all.
Cova Brouwer Gentry
2025-08-01 22:07:25 +0000 UTCYou are also like one of the most thoughtful creators on the platform so people having beef with you is genuinely puzzling.
Cova Brouwer Gentry
2025-08-01 22:04:14 +0000 UTCI hate that you have to deal with stupid people acting so rude to you. I could never be a public figure like you are, it takes so much courage and fortitude. I’m so sorry they wanted to try to tear you down. I love your opinions, you are so smart and so interesting, your videos are a delight to consume even if you hate a movie I like and Vice versus. You’re so articulate. And to alleviate pressure, you’re also free to have days where you’re not that articulate, these are “ramble videos” after all. Honestly, we’re here to listen to you chat about what you are passionate about, whatever it is. People are CRAZY.
Cova Brouwer Gentry
2025-08-01 22:02:54 +0000 UTCI forgot how good at voice acting Jenny is until she whipped out the Amy impression
Aidan Urquhart
2025-06-29 06:59:45 +0000 UTCWhat! I've never commented on here, but I thought that Mean Girls video was so funny. Your tone was jokey to me. If I wanted to hear a completely uncritical recap of the film I think there are lot of places I could have gone. Your observations pick up stuff that never occurs to me in movies I don't usually watch. The internet always directs the negative first.
Mr Standard
2025-06-27 07:39:37 +0000 UTCUgh, the issue with not being able to state even mid opinions is so real. We were hosting an in-game fashion show in an MMO, literally pixels on a screen, and we invited this content creator who isn't huge in youtube terms, but she's big in this game, to be a guest judge. She needed to make sure her judging scores would be secret, because she was afraid of backlash, she couldn't join the voice call because there's people who follow her around into any public voice channel and try to get her banned from twitch or just ruin her experience, she saw someone on our discord who misgendered her on purpose a while ago so she didn't feel comfy there and also didn't want us to do anything about it because it was in the past, so if we took action against that person now she was afraid people would see her as vindictive... it's just walking on eggshells, constantly having to be careful, never misstepping or it's clipped and used against you... It's tough, and it sucks, sorry you have to deal with it Jenny!
Lelling
2025-06-20 15:21:44 +0000 UTCtrap is such a fascinating movie to me. I loved watching it, I will probably never watch it again unless it’s in a theater with tons of other people. it WOULD NOT END but I was never actually bored. I think it’s my favorite movie of all time maybe? but I’m never mad if someone says they hate it bc I think I also hate it. I don’t know!
Al Mayhugh
2025-06-20 09:31:46 +0000 UTCI know this is the least of the sins of that Miller's Girl movie, but, like, why was Martin Freeman doing the accent!! Do they not know that English people can live in Tennessee?
PRodger
2025-06-08 17:39:00 +0000 UTChad a one month sub in december and i am fucking OVERJOYED to see these vids again dear god
kj
2025-06-03 05:34:07 +0000 UTCA film scene that got a strong physical reaction from me was actually from an old movie made in the 1920s called “The Crowd.” The main characters toddler girl was crossing the street and a car that seemed relegated in the background swiftly drove closer and closer until, at the last moment, cut away before it hit the child. When they showed her and her brother crossing the street, I felt like one of them was going to be hit so I didn’t think I’d be so shocked, but something about the swiftness of the scene, the candidness of a film from the 1920s and the proximity of the car to the kid made it feel like the actor was genuinely in danger and pulled a visceral response from me.
Joejoe
2025-05-18 00:51:21 +0000 UTCThank you for trashing Miller's Girl, it was SO bad. I was so convinced it would all be a revealed to be the girl being an unreliable narrator because it was all such an overwrought childish view of like intellectualism and forbidden romance... but no, it was just misogynistic trash. The wife was my favorite though. She really wanted to be middle aged Liz Taylor, I loved it.
Uvtha
2025-05-05 19:02:59 +0000 UTCMy moment of recoil was in, I think it's the first Hobbit movie? Necessary context: I am allergic to, and deathly afraid of, bees. Like, full on uncontrollable panic response. And theres this scene where I think Bilbo falls asleep, and the screen fades to black and then fades back in to these ENORMOUS honey bees coming like right at the screen? Complete with buzzing sounds. I had a like purely primal instinct response of trying to fling myself backward out of the chair. Also, I was in a movie theater, near the front, so these bees were even more enormous and close to my face from that perspective. If the train story is true, and anything like that, its less like I really believed an enormous bee was right in front of me and more like for a moment it was so unexpected, and so terrifying, that my body reacted as if it were real before my brain could convince it that it wasn't.
Isabella Sanchez
2025-04-27 00:33:43 +0000 UTCOmg yes!!!
MatchaLatte
2025-04-20 16:01:14 +0000 UTCI love how Jenny mentions that she doesn't like the way her new makeup products work, just as I was thinking about how much I would love to see her do a makeup tutorial lol
Dire Wolf
2025-04-20 03:07:50 +0000 UTCI remember the 3D effects of the Terminator 2 Universal Studios show being so insanely good that I had to take my glasses off when the T1000 stretched his head into the crowd because it scared me
SincerelyEarnest
2025-04-15 17:26:29 +0000 UTCRepo! is one of my favourite movies ever and it would be cool if Jenny talked about her thoughts and feelings about it more sometime! I've been obsessed with that movie ever since it came out, from the age of 11. I showed it to my wife when we had been together for a few years and she's been obsessed with it since. The way I see it, people either really dislike it or really love it. No matter which camp Jenny belongs to, I'd enjoy hearing more abt it from her.
CEO of gender
2025-04-13 22:28:33 +0000 UTCJonathan Bailey is my shayla ever since he voiced g'raha Tia in ffxiv. I'm so glad he's getting his flowers!!!!
Marie
2025-04-08 03:43:49 +0000 UTCI totally agree about dancing through life omg
Bella Maldonado
2025-04-06 19:35:31 +0000 UTC
