It's a radio show with a video version on Youtube. They're not looking into the camera or playing up to the Youtube audience. They didn't have video until a few years ago. Plus, Kermode is an actual critic. Aside from Stuckmann, none of the Youtube people are, and that shows.
What The Flick is a better choice with having legit critics on along with Kermode.
if it's on Youtube I will count it as a video. Kermode having a radio show that I watch as a video doesn't mean it's anything other than another video on that platform.
Also, when talking about the influence of reviews (which is how we got here), we're obviously only talking about the big box office monsters, not like, Prevenge, or some small indy production like that. We're also not talking about movies of the past (like Network) or anything outside of current marketing-dominated mainstream (Embrace of the Serpent).
So when talking about youtubers and movie reviews, with the presumption that traffic is moving away in terms of percentages over time from written reviews to video reviews, we're talking about a very small selection of movies specifically aimed at being in the top 50 of the boxoffice of that year.
And you don't require an actual critic for those movies. Hell, half of these threads is just schadenfreude of over seeing another 'surefire hit' being torpedoed in the box office. And it's glorious, but that's what that is.
This is not "every movie that came out this year"- the thread. It's the big BO, not the arthouse.
And on that end I do speculate that the extra influence of RT is related to the newer arrival of youtube commentators. Otherwise, what causes it?
Also, a very quick way to check if this holds up is to check the BO of the small releases and seeing whether they have the same effect size from RT's influence on the big ones. As far as I recall, kwinston did not do this in his RT thread (which drew a surprisingly small crowd, if it's all just RT that is), unless I missed it.
Because seriously, if posters here believe it's just RT, what changed?