Reacting to the Meaning Crisis

Reacting to the Meaning Crisis is a video series by Immanuelle which comments on Awakening from the Meaning crisis by John Vervaeke. It is also their attempt to develop into a YouTuber with editing skills and good speaking skills. It was the beginning of Immanuelle's Youtube Channel

In retrospect it succeeded at most of its goals but not really editing skills. The Evolutionism Documentary is meant to be an attempt at developing editing

Channel usage
It is the end of the video path with the Evolutionism Documentary serving as the de facto end through which most paths funnel to.

It is unlikely to be the most viewer retaining content (although potential remakes will be more retaining). But someone who has already gone through the Evolutionism Documentary and possibly been funnelled through countless other videos will be selected to watch it all as opposed to moving onto videos from a different channel. This is an asset many channels do not have, and they are forced to just not recommend anything at the end of their videos. Viewer retention for a superfan will be dramatically increased through them being able to watch this series, especially if we remake older videos that may lose viewers.

Most early videos (pre-November 2022) will go through a path of giving an AI generated recommendation at the end which will go to a recent video (as of November 1st 2022 all link to the Evolutionism Documentary) and then its path will eventually lead them through this series

Remaking early videos
The biggest weakness of this usage is that the videos increase in quality through the playlist, which can be a potentially problematic drop in quality from the Evolutionism Documentary to the playlist.

This quality is present in all elements: Intellectual quality, audio quality, visual quality, etc.

Remaking the introduction and the first three videos may be most important, as those videos will help ease the transition into the series which is rudimentary otherwise

Episodes 32 and 33 have arguably the least commentary due to being so dense so new videos on them may be very helpful, episode 28 similarly

An addendum to episode 36-37 may be useful to explain how the Ninefold Vaccine has developed since then.

Already remade videos
Some videos have already been partially or fully remade including episodes 20. 21 (part 2 was added and part 1 had a large part removed), 22, 23, and 26.

These were due to early technical issues rather than a desire to maintain consistent channel quality.

Updating side videos
There are several side videos which were Immanuelle's first attempts at making standalone videos.

Manichaeism video
The Manichaeism video in particular needs updating as Manichaeism may have been discovered to be non-extinct

Retrospective video
I have been planning a retrospective video since starting the series, I likely plan in releasing it in early January so I have a lot of time to reflect on the series as a whole

Notes on each video
1-5 use chat sparsely and as a result can probably be replaced without too much hassle

6-19 use the chat well and that content is probably worth keeping

8 and 10 lost their chats so


 * 1) Chat not used much
 * 2) Chat not used much
 * 3) Chat not used much
 * 4) Chat not used much
 * 5) Chat not used much
 * 6) Informative but sparse chat usage
 * 7) Might be worth remaking just because the concepts have changed a lot
 * 8) Heavy chat usage
 * 9) Chat lost (replace this one)
 * 10) Mild chat use
 * 11) Chat lost (replace this one)
 * 12) Heavy chat use
 * 13) Heavy chat use
 * 14) Heavy chat use
 * 15) Light chat use
 * 16) Light chat use
 * 17) Heavy chat use
 * 18) Medium chat use
 * 19) Heavy chat use
 * 20) Heavy chat use
 * 21) Remade
 * 22) Remade
 * 23) Remade
 * 24) Remade
 * 25) Heavy chat use