Sarah-Z

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**Sarah Z** is a YouTuber who usually makes video essays on media. At the time that EFAP covered her video "Bad Media Criticism," they considered it to be the best video they had covered at the time. She seems to agree with objectivity

## History

### EFAP 20

MauLer, Rags, Wolf, and new guest JLongbone took a look at Sarah Z's "**Bad Media Criticism**," and ended up considering it the best video they had covered so far (though Tonald's rise to glory would eventually supersede that), mainly having the criticism that while it was mostly technically correct, it was too vague at points. More important than that, however, was the discovery that Sarah's unexplained arm motions and seemingly Venus flytrap-like hand gestures were due to her constantly swatting flies that were too small to be seen on camera.

Almost half of the video first half doing short history on media critic channels and how people copied one another and not how what they copied was bad.

says she doesn’t try to say people are bad, but implies that some critics did their critique videos in bad faith. implies that dough walker gives his “genuine thoughts” but the Nostalgia Critic character is not giving his.

**Inauthentic nitpicking**

* Says cinema sins centers around things that he doesn’t like. open about her dislike on cinema sins
* criticizes cinema sins for critiquing movies related to upcoming films, like he criticizes Predator when another Predator film comes out. they criticize films that are popular or things related to the popular
* thinks that going after nitpicks in scrip is bad, as that takes your attention away from bigger things
* not everything should be explained thoroughly
* comments how they dodge criticisms by saying that its satire, they are no longer accountable of being wrong
* sees jokes and criticism as same
* people try to point the opinions as facts
* sees meshing both jokes and criticism as bad since you might not be able to tell the difference and has see that this bleeds into movies, where the writers and directors only think about the nitpicks

**Unconstructive misinformation**

* thinks that if you hate something and go look for failures, you won’t be able to not criticize something fairly, as you automatically just look for flaws and make anthills into mountains
* criticize Lily Orchard for her video having misinformation partially due to lilly disliking shows creator and putting lot things on her name, even though some of those things weren’t her making, like making racist character, even though it was made by a black man
* video might have been take-down of Lily originally
* thinks lily either doesn’t know some things because she didn’t do research or does know but decided to ignore the facts just because she wants to bash Rebecca sugar
* lot of people just want to bash and destroy people and their works and present all fault to one person and give incorrect information either because they don’t know its false or to just bash (like how Joseph Anderson made lot of people not want to play SOMA because of his video)
* sees anyone with okay music and visuals talking with authorities voice have the power to make thing they are talking with knowledge

lot of times directs the viewer to other channels that discussed the matter in more detail, like videos that discuss cinema sins and angry reviewer history.

says that people that make criticisms aren’t bad just because their content has mistakes and is ready to agree that some of her videos could have bad faith arguments.

relatively speaking she say lot of things that mauler says, but isn’t specific enough or might be using wrong terms or generalize too much. To extend the video was rambly and didn’t have enough evidence and exambles. makes lot of definitive arguments that she thinks are specific but are broad.

### (Alleged) DMs from Quinton

Sarah posted a screenshot of (alleged) Twitter DMs she received from someone passive-aggressively accusing her of disliking them and saying that they're going to unfollow. Lindsay Ellis responded to this with screenshots of similar DMs she (allegedly) received, believing that the same (alleged) person was responsible, and Sarah replied in confirmation. Ellis censored the profile picture of the (alleged) perpetrator with black circles, but they didn't line up perfectly, and people noticed that the sliver of (alleged) profile picture left unobscured matched that of none other than Quinton Reviews. Sarah's description of the (alleged) perpetrator as another creator who has an (alleged) history of mentioning in videos when she doesn't respond to them further narrows down the options and supports the (alleged) idea that the person is Quinton, allegedly. Quinton also (allegedly) posted two now-deleted Tweets (allegedly) saying that he felt awful to the point of having a mild panic attack and asking for nice messages, and Sarah's description of the (alleged) perpetrator being the type of person who "behaves inappropriately, gets told they're behaving inappropriately, and then deliberately solicits pity from people who don't have context," matches up with Quinton's (alleged) Tweet.

## Trivia

* She is non-fly-nary
* The Flycatcher, Lord of the Flies, the one fly to rule them all, Au-swatz (responsible for a fly holocaust)
* she is more Doctor Who than starwars
* her bed is like the universe
* she has black spot on her door, might be portal
* maybe the poster in her wall is curling up because she like Doctor Who and is that why wibbly and curly.
* says that nerd and critics characters were just “pathetic nerd that got angry over nothing”. “you are not supposed to like or empathize with them” comment on the character the angry critics play