Welcome back to Unhinged, the three part miniseries where I’m encouraging myself to lose my marbles and say whatever I want. If you missed the previous installment, here is a link to that. It explains in depth what exactly this gig is. I encourage reading these in order.

However, the first article may not have been the best illustration of the concept of this series. Sure I was informal and ranting and cracked some jokes, but was I really unhinged?

I getcha. You wanna see an even less formal Ekat. You want to see the Ekat that sounds like he just overdosed on some good old sex, drugs, and rock n roll. (This Ekat doesn’t really exist as I don’t abuse drugs nor do I exactly get laid, but I can dream)

This topic will be an excellent one for truly demonstrating what Unhinged is. In fact, I feel like I may actually need to put a bit of a warning/clarification on this one.

This article is intended for the purposes of constructive criticism and entertainment only. This is a dialogue starter, not a hit piece.

There are a lot of bad webseries projects out there. Honestly, there are most likely more of those than there are good ones. Many of these are made by people who don’t know any better, and that’s why I spend a lot of time attempting to push aspiring webseries creators in what i think is a good direction. Like I said in the last article, you don’t know what you don’t know.

It frustrates me a bit when one gets super popular however.

The YouTube channel Deeper is currently sitting at 9K+ subscribers, which is kinda mind boggling to me. I really don’t understand. I applaud their success, as that’s a big number for a webseries, but it’s insanely confusing why this of all things is so popular and making panties damp across the globe. I really, really, really don’t get it.

So, I’m going to use Deeper. Through ranting and giving feedback on Deeper, I can rant and give feedback in general.

Or I could just nitpick random things because I’m not putting any boundaries or direction on where these rants evolve by the time they’re done. Here goes either.

The very first thing I ever noticed about Deeper was the fact that there are three whole videos in this project that consist of only footage of a spinning fan with a crappy VHS filter slapped on with white noise in the background. I am not kidding you. Three whole videos of fans that are near identical. At least one was a portable fan I suppose.

My first theory is maybe they want to hang themselves on a fan, and as impractical and silly as that is, I do too after watching Deeper.

I’m joking very heavily of course. It’s not that bad. But I do hope my humorous hyperbole gets across the point that this really isn’t good filmmaking. You don’t just have three entire scenes, entire installments that are the exact same shot in three different locations, especially for no directly apparent reason. I hope I don’t have to go too in depth with the discussion of why this is a bad idea.

However with a name like Deeper I’m not sure what I expected.

Names are important. They are the centerpiece of anything’s identity. You should pick a name that’s intriguing, yet fits your project as tight as the aforementioned short shorts that I’ve used as a comparison once before fit my ugly body.

The name Deeper does neither of these. It’s generic, which is not good name material on any level, doesn’t create any sort of intrigue, and could be slapped on any other project without losing any value as a name.

I cannot stress how very important names are. They are everything, in any form of art. The name of every work and every chapter or installment within the work should have a serious amount of thought put in.

Speaking of names of the individual installments, let’s count how many times Base64 is used as a video title in Deeper.

Eight. Eight whole times. Eight out of thirty five videos as of this writing. Now, some of these might be hybrid codes where you have to translate it again in another way after you translate the base, but it’s been a while since I “””played””” Deeper and really don’t want to do that again so I wouldn’t know for sure. And that really doesn’t change much. two super easy codes combined doesn’t make a harder code. It just makes a tedious one.

What I do remember from the time that I tortured myself is that like you’d expect, none of the codes really lead anywhere interesting. It’s all the “I LIKE BEANS” problem that I mentioned in the last article. Unless I missed some sort of super secret ultra hidden code that changes the whole thing and earns the love of thousands, but I doubt it.

And that’s not all the repetitive and questionable choices here. The VHS filter present in the fan videos is in oh so many more for seemingly no real reason. And there are even more repeat shots just like the fans. Running on the street and shots of trees from bellow them are also very, very frequent. And just as boring. I’d say even more boring since at least the fans are unintentionally hilarious.

There are rumors that this series is made by a real serial killer, but if this is what the whole “murderer’s wild goose chase to the police” thing has come to, I’d be very disappointed in the modern serial killer community.

I could rant about this forever, but I’m going to stop here. With my final paragraph, I’m going to say this.

While I may have gotten a bit harsh today, please do not get the boundaries between critique and harassment crossed. These sorts of things are simply uneducated people making beginner’s mistakes and should be taught, not shunned. Do not go attacking this dude or anything. Criticism is important, but raiding is pure vitriol. If you think I passed this line myself, tell me.

I’ll be back soon once again for the third and final part of this little test pilot thing for Unhinged. As always, give me any and all opinions and yell at me as much as you want. I’ll be at @ekatclan on Twitter where I browse memes and waste away precious hours of my life I can never get back.