>kickstarted the YouTube nerd culture community (Screen Junkies, How It Should Have Ended, Cinemasins, Buzzfeed, Cracked, etc)>introduced mainstream public to fandom culture (fanart, fanfiction, memes, shipping) via tumblr and reddit>introduced mainstream audiences to the idea of easter eggs and post-credits scenes>led to a decade of multiple studios attempting to create their own cinematic universes out of distinct IPs
>>217351113>2012 was 25 years agodamn
>>217351113I have literally never watched any of those capeshit movies and I never will
>>217351113The Last Jedi aftermath unironically helped create the independent commentator side of Youtube
>>217351238good choiceCapeshit is to storytelling to what mcdonals is to the food scene
>>217351353The retarded side. We went from cool essays and people passionate about film talking about all kinds of things to rightoids crying about woke Hollywood for 50 videos. It's by far the worst trend in Youtube film criticism. Of course the retarded politicized masses prefer to watch this slop than actual film analysis.
>>217351113> nerd culture communityPretty sure "nerd culture" was memed into a positive thing for normies by the big bang theory in the late 2000s.