OutOfCharacters @outofcharacters.bsky.social yugioh video essayist | essay library cabal member | married to @dullakhannah.bsky.social 💕 | he/him
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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es my body is a machine that takes THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS and turns them into HEADACHES AND INCOMPREHENSIBLE VIDEO ESSAYS
youtube.com/@joshwithparentheses
contributing irritant for @theessaylibrary.com
The Adam Splitter @theadamsplitter.bsky.social 
SocraTetris @socratetris.bsky.social he/him. Woke As Hell. Haitian American. Cis.
About to make a big announcement
Buster The Corp @bustercorp.bsky.social Any/All
An Autistic, ADHD, and Islamic Writer+YouTuber
Typos! Media Analysis! Learning Art and VO! Comedy?
https://www.youtube.com/@BusterCorp/videos
Puddle @that5thpuddle.bsky.social Any/all
https://youtube.com/@that5thpuddle?si=6gt0thQZ4vu0ssVa
ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/5thpuddle
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Miranda Ketita @nassattack.bsky.social No one of consequence
LambHoot @lambhoot.bsky.social Video maker. B.Eng. μαλάκας γροίκστερ 🧿🌋🐑 he/him, en/fr 🍁 https://youtube.com/@LambHoot
harry @videogamesarebad.co.uk http://videogamesarebad.co.uk. Occasional videos. He/Him aro 💚
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CyberGrapeUK @cybergrapeuk.bsky.social I am Cyber. I am Grape. And that makes me great! || she/they || 24 years old || autistic || no stealing or NFTs please
Chris Sutcliffe @notquitecool.bsky.social I read a lot of Spider-Man comic books.
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PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/everyspidermanever
Kai After Kai @kaiafterkai.bsky.social 🇱🇨
Actor | Writer | Video Essayist | Music Maker.
They/Them.
Composer/Producer/Writer for @kingscreekofficial.bsky.social
WEBSITE: https://jamesmakepeace.carrd.co/
YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/@kaiafterkai
Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online web developer, writer, video maker, mad/disabled + audhd, queer, luddite, black innit | they/them | elsewhere: https://olu.online/contact
Kevin from Pixel Lit @kevin.pixellitpod.com One half of the @pixelitpod.com Podcast! We read video game novels because the only thing better than playing a game, is reading it. (Citation needed)
Matt "MML" Lucas @mml.bsky.social Video Producer by day.
Video Essay guy at night.
MML all the time.
Portfolio at http://mattmlucas.com.
He/Him
zutto @zuttoshow.bsky.social Video Maker. Niche Media Enjoyer. Hi Bsky!
http://youtube.com/@zuttoshow
https://letterboxd.com/zuttoshow
https://www.patreon.com/zuttoshow
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TSD Talks @tsdtalks.bsky.social Creator of @kingscreekofficial.bsky.social
I make youtube videos https://www.youtube.com/@TSDTalks22
Nina @zeitgeistmistress.northsky.social Your Wii is not thirsty. It does not want orange juice.
🏳️⚧️ | 29, Pan, Sapphic
Writer, Narrative Designer, Video Essayist & an illusive Gender Outlaw
My video essays live here: https://www.youtube.com/@zeitgeistmistress
Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social [in]Transition, the first peer-reviewed journal of videographic criticism. https://intransition.openlibhums.org/ 
Drew Morton @damorton.bsky.social Professor, videographic critic and co-editor of [in]Transition, author of Panel to the Screen, gamer, runner, bass player, wiener dog keeper.
Los Angeles/Texas
https://damorton.wordpress.com/
Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social Sharing links, since 2008, to #OpenAccess film/AV media scholarship and online resources, and news/free events of note; Honorary Professor at Aarhus University; Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Reading; she/their. https://linktr.ee/filmstudiesff
Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social 🖥️ Gaming Youtuber, Media Critic, Philosopher King 🤴
💙 Patreon.com/Hbomb
📩 Enquiries to contact@hbomb.zone
Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social Ex-philosopher, ex-Tweeter.
Email: info@contrapoints.com
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
Chris Becker @chrisbecker.bsky.social Associate Professor in Film, Television, and Theatre and the Sport, Media, & Culture Minor at University of Notre Dame. Working on a local TV history project: https://sites.nd.edu/boc-project/
Nilanjana Bhattacharjya @nilanjana.bsky.social Teaching professor at a large public university in Arizona. I start more books than I finish and write on music and films. (I also photograph trees.)
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez @llamasjr.bsky.social global media professor
author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01
español incluído.
mesk @meesk.bsky.social TV, media industries, algorithmic brand culture, videographic criticism. Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Media Studies, Lewis & Clark College. She/her.
Katie Bird @arthousedirectr.bsky.social Video Essayist, Independent Film Scholar, Lapsed Academic. Hollywood Film Labor and Film History.
Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social researcher, fact-checker: extremism, conspiracies, US history
critic: Paste, Time, etc.
assistant editor, Cineaste
PhD Candidate in Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
The Video Essay Podcast
views mine
www.willdigravio.com
Kathleen Loock @kathleenloock.bsky.social American studies and media studies | Leibniz University Hannover, Germany | New book: Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Prequels Shape Industry and Culture (UC Press, 2024) | Emmy Noether Research Group: Hollywood Memories
Derek Long @dereklong08.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Cinema Studies @UIUC; Author of PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES: HOW FILM DISTRIBUTION MADE THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYSTEM (University of Texas Press, 2024)
Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social Assistant Prof. of Popular Music at University of California, Riverside
PREPROGRAMMED: HOW ELECTRONIC PRESETS CHANGED MUSIC AND MEDIA, out Sept. ‘26: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/preprogrammed/paper
Social histories of music, sound, technology, & media
Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | film, dance, musicals, Jacques Demy, genre, videographic criticism | she/her | maman | author of Storytelling in Motion: Cinematic Choreography and the Film Musical (Oxford UP, 2024)
Filmscalpel @filmscalpel.bsky.social Audiovisual thoughts about audiovisual arts. Filmscalpel creates, collects and curates video essays at www.filmscalpel.com
Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social Media scholar, video maker and PhD student at Tel Aviv University. TV studies, popular culture and videographic criticism.
https://www.arielavissar.work/
https://vimeo.com/arielavissar
Miklós Kiss @mikloskiss.bsky.social Associate Professor of AV Arts & Cognition @rug.nl, author of this http://bit.ly/2SJM29Q, this http://bit.ly/2a4zvaw and this http://bit.ly/3A0KrPG.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9136-8200
Philip Józef Brubaker @bolddecade.bsky.social Essayist/Filmmaker • Master of Ceremonies • Herzog Film School '10 | Fandor | MUBI |tecmerin | [in]Transition | Vague Visages | Substack
https://linktr.ee/philipjozefbrubaker
Johannes Binotto @jbinotto.bsky.social Professional hat wearer, amateur video tinkerer, wild analyst www.transferences.org
Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Film LJMU | researching film sound & production
Making video essays & exploring creative practice
Founding editor @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social
Associate Editor @intransition.bsky.social
Dr. Acafanmom @acafanmom.bsky.social Asst Professor in perpetuity | researching fandom and popular culture |
RPs are sometimes bookmarks for myself | Osaka
Queline (kikikrazed) @queline.bsky.social 📺 Video essayist: BFI, GKIDS, youtube.com/@kikikrazed
💬 Community manager: @theessaylibrary.com
💻 kikikrazed.com
Dan Golding @dangolding.com Professor of Media at Monash University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm).
dangolding.com
Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social film & lit prof, culture writer, editor, higher ed unionist, author of Elaine May (U of Illinois Press, 2025) and Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction (Ohio UP, 2019). Opinions my own.
Colleen Laird @colleenlaird.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese Film at the University of British Columbia. Videographic scholarship ❤️
Stephen Broomer @stephenbroomer.bsky.social filmmaker & writer. video essayist. host of art & trash. publisher, black zero. programmer, ad hoc. sessional lecturer, cinema studies institute, university of toronto. he/him.
Nelson Carvajal @nelsoncarvajal.com 📍Los Angeles ‣ Creator Manager at TikTok ‣ Webby Award winner ‣ Emmy-nominated Producer ‣ Born & raised in Chicago ‣ 📧: nelson.carvajal@tiktok.com ‣ nelsoncarvajal.com
Maike Reinerth @maireinerth.bsky.social Media Studies, Politics, Stuff. Dr. phil. & Angry Mom.
Film/Media scholar currently working on/with film, animation, videographic criticism & green media.
Based in Babelsberg, 🩷 in Hamburg.
Homepage: https://maikereinerth.de/
Photo Credit: S. Reis
MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture @maifeminism.bsky.social MAI is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication for feminist scholars, writers, artists and activists who address visual culture at large.
Shannon Strucci @strucci.bsky.social video editor, Marlin on Oddity Roadshow, cohost of Fight Together on the One Piece Podcast. also the parasocial hell person. based in ATL
Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social contact: christopher at nebula dot tv
Dan Olson 🔜 PAX West @foldablehuman.bsky.social Documentarian
Pixel a Day @pixeladay.bsky.social Youtube video essays critically analysing games and how they make us feel (youtube.com/pixeladay). Articles published in Uppercut, Into the Spine, Kritiqal, Gamers With Glasses. She/her. Support: patreon.com/pixeladay
Pop Detective @popdetective.bsky.social Video essays focusing on the intersections of society, masculinity, politics, and entertainment. Hosted by Jonathan McIntosh
Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
Also a cohort on MinnMax.
https://jacobgeller.com/
Will Webb @willwebbful.bsky.social Filmmaker, video essayist. Staking out this username.
Jemma Saunders (Penny) @jemsaunders1.bsky.social Film & TV placement person by day, audio-visual PhD student researching Birmingham's representation on screen by night (both UoB). Videographic criticism, documentary, TV, history, locations, employability... and being a Mum.
Dan O’Brien @drdanobrien.bsky.social I am a lecturer in Film and Digital Media. My research publications span across: Film, Television, Video Gaming, Digital Performance and Video Essaying.
https://vimeo.com/user107379730
https://criticalcommons.org/user/DanOB1/media
The Essay Library @theessaylibrary.com 📼 Video essay collective making weird and fun collaborative projects: youtube.com/@theessaylibrary
📱 Discord server with 900+ members dedicated to the craft of video essays: theessaylibrary.com
Jeff Romero Middents @middento.bsky.social "Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul." (James)
"What would it be like, he asked himself, a world where everything was foreign?" (Fouad Laroui)
Sam Close ButNoCigar @butnocigar.bsky.social Academic, knitter, video game player. Into popular culture, digital media, labor, and creativity. Known to make a video essay now and then.
Viktoria Paranyuk @vikap8.bsky.social film scholar & teacher | video essayist | occasional violinist
Sureshkumar P. Sekar @ursmusically.bsky.social PhD - Royal College of Music, London; MA - Univ. of East Anglia; B. Tech - NIT, Trichy. Researching audience experience, audiovisual culture, video essays.
bit.ly/baahubalive
Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social Film historian and video essayist.
Assistant Professor at University of Warwick.
Previously at Goethe University and University of Chicago.
https://www.ritikakaushik.com/
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