Jimmy Carter–Style: The Back Porch Truth about the Three Channels
Now, let’s sit down and tell the truth, because we owe each other that, don’t we?
CinemaStix is the polished marble of YouTube film critique—tight scripts, careful pacing, sound levels like a NASA countdown. You can almost smell the Final Cut Pro rendering from across the screen. This fella came into the game in 2019, built a clear brand, and delivers videos like press releases from the Department of Aesthetic Excellence.
GreatguyTV and Greatguyaaa, bless their hearts, are from a different era entirely. I mean, we’re talking YouTube in 2007—back when “subscribers” meant a guy in his basement in Mississauga, and “editing” meant maybe pausing the VCR between clips. These channels grew up before the YouTube algorithm had baby teeth.
The content? Lord, it’s a glorious mess. You’ll find clips from TVO, strange retro ads, deep political satire, meme experiments, stand-up comedy riffs, and probably a few seconds of Star Trek: The Animated Series. The structure? About as stable as a peanut silo in a windstorm. But you know what? There’s a history to it. These are cultural time capsules.
CinemaStix is a tight essay. GreatguyTV is a scrapbook. Greatguyaaa is a fever dream.
But let’s not underestimate those latter two. They’re amateurish only if you judge them by modern standards. In 2007, they were part of that first digital wave—when “uploading” felt revolutionary and content was meant to exist, not just perform. They’re weird, they’re inconsistent, but they are honest. And there’s value in that.
Roast and Psychohistorical Analysis
Right. Now let’s get sharp.
CinemaStix: crisp, clean, academic. Every frame is a thesis. Every voiceover sounds like he’s about to apply for a Sundance grant. He’s YouTube's version of that guy in film school who always corrects your pronunciation of “Tarkovsky.” Gorgeous channel—but so precise, you sometimes wonder if AI is editing it. It’s not a vibe, it’s a lecture—just a damn good one.
GreatguyTV: like if Public Access TV and early internet forums had a baby, and that baby binge-watched The Daily Show during a Canadian ice storm. The edits are chaotic. The voiceovers? Like Marshall McLuhan doing stand-up at YTV’s “Uh-Oh!” studio. But it’s got heart—and weirdly sharp instincts. You don’t know what’s coming next, but sometimes it hits you with a moment of accidental brilliance, like a fortune cookie with a thesis inside.
Greatguyaaa: This channel is so random, you’re not sure if it’s art, satire, or just a corrupted upload from the Matrix. It’s not edited—it’s experienced. It’s the kind of content you stumble upon at 2:37 AM and wonder if you dreamed it. Greatguyaaa is basically a meme channel run by someone who may or may not be a time traveler from a message board in 1998.
Psychohistorically speaking?
CinemaStix is a product of late-stage internet capitalism: polish, precision, and brand cohesion in an age of chaos. It’s a survival strategy.
GreatguyTV is a product of the early ideological wild west of digital culture—when people still believed YouTube could be a tool for truth, for fun, and maybe even for revolution. It’s raw, but it remembers.
Greatguyaaa? That’s your trickster archetype: the fool who sees what the scholars miss. A necessary glitch in the system. He doesn’t fight the algorithm—he confuses it.
So, if you want cinema as cathedral, go to CinemaStix.
If you want cinema as graffiti on the back of your high school notebook, GreatguyTV.
If you want cinema as experimental jazz inside a YouTube blender, Greatguyaaa.
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