Pillar of Garbage

@pillarofgarbage.bsky.social

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your fifth favourite video essayist www.YouTube.com/c/PillarOfGarbage

Remy from Ratatouille sat on the bloke’s head
Word info box reading: page 20 of 20, 12932 words
Apple Pages search function showing the phrase ‘peak in Darien’ - from the end of Keats’ poem On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer - is present in my script
a big ass stack of books: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes, Homer and his Iliad by Robin Lane Fox, Emily Wilson’s Odyssey, 1177BC by Eric Cline, Stanley Lombardo’s Iliad, The Great Sea. Y David Abulafia, Robert Fagles’ Odyssey, George Chapman’s collected Homer, C Day Lewis’ Aeneid
A discord response by pillar of garbage: ‘I think you’re definitely looking at a 20-30% increase in legibility’
Text reading CIV VII VIDEO DRAFT, followed by ‘page 1 of 18’
the Nothing Ever Happens chud pointing at a passage from Arendt that seems to evoke the contemporary meme
a section from Hannah Arendt's book On Violence with words "arbiter", "covenants" and "sword" highlighted and linked to cutouts of various relevant images from the Halo series
two books on a table: Capitalism and the Death Drive by Byung-Chul Han, and Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag
A thumbnail for the video ‘The Disney-Sora Deal Isn’t What It Looks Like’ I posted 3 months ago
Thumbnail for my video with text 'New Feature: Generate Misinformation' being clicked on by cursor above blurred background of YouTube videos.
a frame from the Marvel Studios intro
an update to my Patreon roadmap displaying 207 members with 3 days left
a screenshot of a churchyard scene in Wake Up Dead Man
Text from linked post reading ‘A Video Essay About Efficiency by Pillar of Garbage A clever video essay metaphor used to tackle what is lost in shortcuts made in our everyday lives.’
YouTube thumbnail of me next to Bob Iger and Sam Altman with the words ‘nothing-burger’ above
Minecraft’s Herobrine creepypasta
an identical email to the one in Lily’s picture, with my channel name swapped out for hers
YouTube AI prompting me to reply saying ‘I wrote this [reply] myself’
YouTube Ai prompting me to rely ‘us’ ‘I am!’ Or ‘up’ to a commenter asking where I’m from
Neal Mohan, YouTube head honcho
An updated roadmap for my membership drive showing I’ve crossed the 200 member goal!
An update to my '200+ member stretch goals' graphic clarifying that after 1 day I now have 195! Above this, the graphic shows that the stretch tiers are: <200 members means the channel approach gets rethought, 200 means business as usual continues, 225 means I try out some livestreaming, 260 means I'll release a longer video than ever before, 300 means I do a video sequel, and 350 means I'll do a 24 hour charity livestream.
a graphic with text detailing why I'm shooting for 200 members by end of year, and that I currently have 163 with 72 days remaining. The tiers are: <200 members means the channel approach gets rethought, 200 means business as usual continues, 225 means I try out some livestreaming, 260 means I'll release a longer video than ever before, 300 means I do a video sequel, and 350 means I'll do a 24 hour charity livestream.
YouTube box saying my channel subscribers are showing less interest in watching this video
a finger pressing the ‘irony note’
A chart showing YouTube views dropping
the ‘yea’ guy meme
the ‘heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point’ meme
Two emails pitching some creator agency type thing which insist my name is Benoit (it isn’t)
The Fantastic Four in Fantastic Four: First Steps
Matt Walsh’s recent uploads, all of which I’m able to view in ‘restricted mode’… including white supremacist content.
A sceeenshot of the 1/3 of recent PoG videos that YouTube hasn’t shadow-age-gated
A comic panel depicting Superman’s origin
YouTube notification telling me my copyright dispute was successful
Patreon graph showing 111 paid members in February.
The 12 videos I’ve released so far in 2025.
A painting of Jesus’ Side Wound getting a finger
A page from 18th century English periodical The Spectator in which non-proper nouns are capitalised
a phone camera image of a video script that discusses early Christian figural historicism dryly and at length
the cover photo from Vampire Weekend’s second album
Screenshot of my YouTube studio telling me a few seconds of my old video have flagged against a new copyright block & that it’s now visibility restricted.
Brendan from Brick (2005)
some cool falcon looking dude. white feathers with black accents? Idk
photo of a book page prominently featuring the phrase “Pillar of Wisdom”
an email asking me to fill in a survey on Storyblocks’ AI integration
note from my recent update post concerning an upcoming video: ‘that being said, I have some wildly ambitious (for me) presentational ideas for this one. If they come to fruition, they might add a bit more pizazz.’
Red Hulk close-up
an antique film camera
text popup on an ad spot I've placed reading 'if you leave this ad slot here, ads are unlikely to show'
YouTube studio showing me that 'automatic ad slots' which 'work alongside manual ad slots' are enabled by default on my upload
YouTube studio screenshot showing a copyright claim causing a video to be fully blocked
Claudia Winkelman in a promo image for ‘The Traitors’
A YouTube studio message informing me that they’re implementing a non-optional new system where they will automatically select additional spots in my videos to play more ads in. The ‘opt out until it becomes compulsory’ button is ticked by me.
Ghislaine Maxwell and Elon Musk
Reddit post on r/technology, a headline: Trump fires hundreds of staff overseeing nuclear weapons: a report