Make your interpretation first and then engage with fan theories. You yourself will always miss stuff, so it's necessary to discuss imo.

>>283142849
If these people had anything useful to know they wouldn't be anitubers.

>>283142849
It's not so much that they detract from the experience, but rather that the videos themselves are universally annoying to watch and are designed first to soak up viewership / ad revenue and only second provide any new information.

It almost feels like there's some implication that, when you watch the videos, you're going to have some kind of eureka moment where a wholly unknown truth about the anime is revealed to you that totally changes your perception of it, but that never, ever happens. I'll take anime reviews like Demolition D (RIP) a hundred times over watching one of these fan theory type videos.

Watch the anime, form your own take on it, then go online and take a look what others are saying. There's no way for this to take away from the experience because you're doing it afterwards and only because something in the source material prompted you to bother interpreting it anyway.

Fan theories I couldn't care less about. Most anime simply isn't that deep for any of this to not be a waste of time and fan theories themselves often only exist to explain away poor storytelling.

>>283142849
If you’re just watching someone list off their own opinions or recap what happened on screen, probably not. Good videos will do things like include outside research on a creator, an influence, or a trend that isn’t just a rehash of content from the show itself and that you might not know yourself if you haven’t done that research. Explaining opinions with supporting examples from a show at least has the potential to draw your attention to details and craft elements you might have missed. That’s sort of a bare minimum.