Thursday 18 August 2022

Speaking of YouTube...

...I've got to share this. I was recently commissioned by an arts magazine to write an article about Eastern European horror and sci-fi cinema. During my research I found a fan-made trailer on YouTube for Otakar Vávra's excellent 1970 film Witchhammer, a chilling study of the Moravia witch trials of the 1670s and, as you can probably guess, a sly indictment of the Czechoslovakian communist party. Scrolling through the comments, I found a bizarre statement left by a Gen Z YouTuber whose bio proudly states that he is an 'anarchist-socialist atheist-satanist' who 'speaks only the truth'. After a brief exchange of views (ie. me giving his statement a bloody good kicking), I took a screenshot just in case he deleted his original comment. Sadly, that proved to be the case, but thankfully this short but sweet meeting of minds can now be preserved on WordJam for all time:

Got to admire a man who sticks to his guns.