I've been tired of straight guys reacting to for a while. It was cute and charming at first to see straight men moved by a gay love story. But it quickly turned into a bunch of straight men trying to center themselves in a conversation that was not about them, and now every day on YouTube I have to ignore a couple new videos from straight guys who want to cash in and assume we care what they think about a gay love story written by a woman. I occasionally check one of them out and they are usually "OK, since you insist I will watch the gay smut show and it will be just be me feeling obviousy uncomfortable while offering no insight at all."

There are a couple exceptions. There's a guy or two who works in the industry who have done some analysis of the craft of the show, and that's been interesting. Danny Motta is an exception for generic reaction – as usual he's all about making jokes and witty commentary and he does mostly OK with the humor even though he rarely offers any real insight. At least he's not boring.

On the other hand, I keep seeing interesting review and commentary by women, gay men, and autistic folk. Nina King's every-scene-in-the-whole-show-in-order analysis is great (I've posted about her before). There's a few others I liked but I'd have to go look through my watch history for them. I'll prob get around to that sooner or later, but if anyone is interested enough I could do it sooner.

By the way, the HonestTrailers HeatedRivalry video was funny enough, and almost worth it just for Epic Voice Guy saying the cottage line at the end. I hope Ryan George does a super cringey PitchMeeting video for it soon. I feel mixed about HISHE possibly doing a HR video - they *could* do a good one, but I doubt it would play well with their audience. I dunno, maybe if they make it about wolf birds it might work? (I feel like this paragraph is very YouTube inside jokes – sorry if you didn't get it!)