User:Benmite/Jenny Nicholson

Jenny Nicholson is an American YouTuber. She is known for her longform video essays, in which she extensively covers topics in popular culture.

Career
In the mid-2010s, Nicholson uploaded videos about Star Wars, My Little Pony, and other science fiction and fantasy media franchises, and hosted the Screen Junkies series Millennium Falcon. Nicholson's YouTube channel first began gaining traction in early 2020. In early 2021, Nicholson uploaded a 153-minute-long video essay, split into 28 parts, about the CW teen drama television series The Vampire Diaries. By 2022, the video had received more than nine million views and had inspired numerous other video essays about television series. She began posting monthly, hour-long videos to her Patreon account in 2021. In June 2022, she uploaded an 80-minute-long documentary-style video about a Canadian Evangelical church's movie-themed plays, which received more than one million views days after its posting. In November 2022, she uploaded an almost four-hour-long video about Evermore Park.

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Boing Boing's Gareth Branwyn described Nicholson as a "nerd whisperer". In 2018, Gene Park of The Washington Post wrote of Nicholson, "Her channel is a testament to why blindly holding up a brand on a pedestal will never be as fun (or as smart) as taking it apart." For NBC News, Morgan Sung wrote that Nicholson and YouTubers like her "have carved out a niche of viewers who demand quality over frequency". For Mashable, Sung described her videos as "lengthy" and "surprisingly informational". In 2021, Zoe Haylock of Vulture described Nicholson's videos as "lengthy pop-culture explainers indoctrinating viewers into her latest obsessions", while Bethy Squires of Vulture called her Vampire Diaries video essay one of the "crucial YouTube deep dives". Meredith Dietz of Lifehacker called Nicholson "a true titan of the genre" of video essays and her Vampire Diaries video essay her "magnum opus", also writing, "Nicholson's reputation as a knowledgeable, passionate, funny YouTuber is well-earned." Allie Daisy King of Refinery29 described her Vampire Diaries video as "infamous".