Scott the Woz: Help, I like a Youtuber!

Scott the Woz

Hey y'all, Lukas here, and I have to say, it's just not humanly okay if a person who is significantly younger than me delivers really good videos on Youtube and also shows a damn funny sense of humor

Because: Young people are known to be nothing and Youtube is crap anyway, unless you are listening to a guy with 9 subscribers who is building a quantum computer on his own.

Well, I'm exaggerating, of course , but of course I cannot completely escape some of the prejudices. A majority of the young or pseudo-young Youtubers, like all the influencers in the world, piss me off, I react with skilful ignoring and getting over it anyway.

Table of contents

1 Not like the others 2 Quality through strict rules 3 Authentic, but not himself 4 Breaking out of the blue frame 5 Unique selling point 6 The new generation 7 Nerd 2.0 However, there are also really good content creators on the video platform , and because someone has been particularly enthusiastic about me for some time, I want to dedicate my little Saturday text to him at this point.

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About the author

Scott the Woz: Help, I like a Youtuber! (1) Source: Lukas Schmid Lukas Schmid has been working in various functions at Computec Media and thus at PC Games since 2010, first as an intern, then as a freelancer, then as a volunteer, editor and now as editor-in-chief for pcgames.de, videogameszone. de, gamesaktuell.de and gamezone.de. He loves action, adventure, action adventures, shooters, jump & runs, horror and role-playing games, you can hunt him with strategy titles, most rogue likes and military simulations. Every Saturday at around 9 a.m. he tells you in his column what is annoying or happy about him. Hate comments and love letters are welcome in the comments under the column, to [email protected] or on Twitter to @Schmid_Luki.

Not like the others

At first glance, Scott's content doesn't differ much from that of other gaming youtubers. He takes a topic or a single game and talks about it. How he does it is unique.

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No, what I mean is that every look is perfect, every cut is for a good reason, a huge effort is made for actually tiny sidegags, for example the entire studio is unceremoniously set in the garden.

Quality through strict rules

This is how from what with someone like Peanutbuttergamer, who basically follows a similar approach, ends up with much less effort but often in a Dadaist cring show, for which I am probably simply too old, more an extremely skillfully structured comedy format.

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Authentic, but not himself

Part of this The fictional character Scott Wozniak himself is also responsible for the scripts and the narrative, some of which runs as a red thread through all of the videos all of this seems authentic. Although he acts continuously - and he does it pretty well - it doesn't seem like he's playing anything for you.

I like when I follow someone on Youtube, it's those who don't feel like they are pretending to be. That's why I really like the series Boundary Break by Youtubers Shezez, who always seems like he's chatting to you personally. Scott the Woz manages that too, but on a completely different level and in a completely different way.

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Breaking out of the blue frame

In fact, it is with Scott's videos through the constant visual and narrative gags in such a way that, unlike other videos on Youtube, I don't watch its content at the same time, for example when I'm cooking. No, I want to be there without being distracted, even though the videos have become longer and longer over the years and nowadays can take 30 minutes to over an hour.

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Unique selling point: Unique position

I don't remember where I read it, but someone once said that Scott's charm and uniqueness also come from the fact that he almost never has any half-baked collaborations with other Youtubers see is and I agree. He lives and acts in his own little microcosm, which is exactly what makes it so special.

And Scott actually refuses to accept any merchandise or other advertising cooperation. Earbuds or NordVPN are not advertised on him, and his video, in which he takes apart the massive money-fed Raid: Shadow Legends, is an absolute highlight.

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The new generation

For me he is what the angry video game nerd was when he was back in 2004 the comparatively young Internet, with its different videos full of heart, gathered a fan base, some of which is loyal to this day; and that although, unlike Scott the Woz, he always looked a bit wooden even in his best times, his scripts never reached its level and, above all, poop and burp humor were supposed to cause the laughs over long stretches.

Nowadays you can mostly forget him and his channel Cinemassacre anyway. Sure, I understand that after 17 years of doing the same job and getting older, at some point you don't feel like it anymore. But there the videos sometimes only seem like carriers for product placement and they are produced with about as much love as TV Total in Stefan Raab's last creative years.

Nerd 2.0

Scott the Woz is for me the only, or at least the only known, legitimate successor who has everything (minus the retro focus) that made the nerd unique, only significantly better.

If it works now someone asks what the point I am getting with this column is: there is none. In fact, I just wanted to introduce what I think was a great Youtuber, who of course many people already know, but not enough, and express my appreciation for him. May he continue to make successful videos as long as he is now.

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