there's this ridiculous pipeline on Youtube Shorts, where ZacSpeaksGiant

there's this ridiculous pipeline on Youtube Shorts, where ZacSpeaksGiant just combs tumblr for funny things people have said about D&D and ... reads those things, out loud, to an enormous audience, and THEN talented artist PunkeyDoodles will set those voice clips to lightly-animated gorgeously rendered drawings

and, like, they're reliably funny and they get a lot of engagement and I like them but there's something about the whole thing that makes me feel icky

If it were "just stealing tumblr comments" I'd be much angrier - but it's not a low-effort production, like, ZacSpeaksGiant presumably spends a lot of time curating and cannibalizing tumblr for funny comments and has very funny delivery, and PunkeyDoodles' doodles are quite ornate,

so I guess because they're stealing tumblr comments with panache it's okay?

There's a whole Content Ecosystem of people just, like, reading out the internet to you on TikTok and YouTube, and that does make me kinda sad