I just watched the Nerdonymous video and I find the moderated edits to OP’s post to be alarmingly defensive of Rocket Jump. Nerdonymous took a few light jabs at Star Wars fans but he also exposed Rocket Jump for some pretty shoddy research. Rocket Jump gets so many fundamentals of the film just plain wrong—-I can’t understand the mod’s reaction. Any fan of film or of Star Wars, anyone interested in clickbait media, or editing tricks, would get a lot out of his long but informative and funny video.

If Nerdonymous is a little snarky, I’d say that’s fine. The Rocket Jump video has millions of views. A lie travels the globe before the truth gets its shoes on. Snark is the currency of YouTube.

If Nerdonymous is a little zealous in his defense of Lucas I think it only appropriate given the fact that there has 100% long been a “Lucas sucks” contingent in SW fandom and in the mainstream. That is undeniable. (Lucas is neither an angel or a devil.) A counterbalance was inevitable.

My question now is, what has Rocket Jump ever done to deserve such high esteem of the OT mod? Are all their video essays as full of it as this one? For all I know, they are.