Home Creators Posts Import Register Favorites Logout
haven't archived this post yet. have a subscription? use the importer!

Content

Hello:

Lots of new Patrons here. So, first and foremost, thank you to everyone supporting me here. Your support means I get to make the things I want, how I want. For any creative, that is truly the greatest opportunity that can exist. I really cannot thank you enough.

But onto the meat and potatoes: I'll be doing a Q+A video here in the coming weeks. Leave any questions you have in the comments and I'll pick a bunch to answer. If you don't want your question in the public record, feel free to DM me directly. I may not respond to every message but rest assured: I will read them all.

<3

-Michael

Files

Previews only

Comments

ꙮ

Why? (Not why do Q+A, our question is just, Why?)

Cody Beckman

Is their any meaning behind the name horses?

Richard Reece

Are there any creators on YouTube or other platforms that inspired you to create your channel?

Ellis Steide

the visual aspects of your essays always seem to have a unique aesthetic, are there certain recourses you use to find these or do you just wing it by looking up topics on google. love your content btw🤍

Bishop Churchill

Your channel has a very serious tone while still being personable but I was wondering, what non-serious shows/movies/books do you really enjoy and hold close to your heart?

Dr. Shakalu

Have you considered covering "The Book of Five Rings" by Miyamoto Musashi. I saw your video on Marcus Aurelius and there are a lot of parallels.

The Old Mundane

How do you deal with procrastination/insecurity/any other form of creative self sabatoge? I'm always interested in hearing people discuss how they win those internal battles.

Katyyo

How do you produce such high quality videos so quickly?!

Andrew Olivares

Do you have a background in art/design and how does it inform the way you approach and execute the videos?

Fotis Branikas

Have you considered a video on existentialism? There are tons of books and beautiful novels, as I’m sure you know

Evan

Would you ever consider covering John brown or Nat turner and discuss the abolitionist movement and some of its most radical fighters? (The fires of jubilee and to purge this land with blood by Stephen B. Oates) are the two books I read and would love to hear your thoughts on them.

Thomas Baxter

What's your educational background/what brought you to Video Essays?

SDJ

Do you immediately think of the next video idea after completing the previous one?

Nicholas Easler

How much time does it take to research for a video like “Ireland’s Unfinished Revolution?”

b1rrell

Love the essays! The recent one on the IRA is just excellent. More people in the UK must see this. Can you describe your political beliefs and views? Not which American party you prefer but your standpoints on issues and historical events. Completely understand if you don’t want to open this can of worms that may polarise your audience.

Philly444

how many video ideas you got in the backlog?

Bert De Coninck

What do you think is one of the most underrated tragic event of the past century and why?

T8ertot

Do you have any ideas that are too small or too big to tackle in one video?

Elsper

What's your process for learning, and what causes that spark for you to go "I'm going to make a video essay on this?"

Peter Yost

I think you would be a good screenwriter. Do you have any desire to make or write a movie? The medium is more accessible than ever.

Bryant Burn

Warmode released their IRA doc, spud went to Derry and interviewed some fellas that were in the prisons. Worth checking out. Not a question, sorry. Love the content.

Michael McCheese

What other channels do you like? Any plans to collaborate with other creators?

Wil J.

Do you use any AI such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, or any language model to help you write your videos? As a non-native English speaker, I do use these tools when it comes to writing emails, etc. It helps me to formalise my writing and learn simultaneously.

Joel Cashmir

What is your favorite cuisine and some of your favorite dishes?

Shayna Roberts

I'd still love to know what happened to the Madame X video, if you'd feel like/are able to talk about it. I love all your videos, but that was a favorite of mine. Due to being unable to rewatch the video I purchased "Straplesss" by Deborah Davis and an art book of Sargent's work, so I have to thank you for that. This continues to be a nagging mystery for me but I will respect your silence on the issue and continue to support your work regardless.

Wil J.

Hi Bryant, would you mind sharing more info about this? Is it on YouTube? Is it a podcast? I’m interested

Bryant Burn

They're just a podcast, two guys, but if you look em up it the last pod. It's about two hours. The interview starts maybe like 40 min in. It might be on YT but the video they uploaded was taken down because of the BBC striking it. Now that I think of it, it's uploaded for free on patreon.

Searcher

Prolific production. How much sleep/night do you average over a typical month ?

Conall

With the channels and content taking off the way they have, have you felt more pressure in choosing new topics or more freedom because people are responding to it in strong numbers?

Robert Whelan

Which video are you the most proud of and/or which video had biggest impact on you after making it. And why?

Willem De Ruysscher

Will the “ D E A T H B R I N G E R” ever go back in stock?

Grant Bowers

Do you have a favorite punctuation mark, and if so, which one?

Bert De Coninck

Apologies, English is not my native language. I should correct myself. What’s the most “ignored” or not talked enough about (for a lack of better words), tragedy. Thanks for pointing this out Peter, much appreciated!

Lane

how do you improve at writing meaningful essays

b1rrell

Would you consider any essays on the causes of wars within the past century or so? I feel a lot of the content out there is very similar, and struggle to find proper analysis of the events leading up to wars. The standard history channels on YouTube seem to revert to the ‘good guys vs bad guys’ narrative. I feel that an analysis in your style is what we could all do with. I find that interesting ones which I can’t find a lot of quality content on are the Spanish Civil War and also the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.

On loud 9ine

What’s the most frequent problem or delay you run into while making your videos?

HorsesPT

Hi! I get a fair amount of questions about this and it's really not that interesting of a story, so I'll just put it here. I didn't think I handled sources and citations well in that video, so I pulled it with the intention of fixing that in a new edit. But then I realized I didn't actually have the original project files. So, it's just been lost to cyberspace. Sorry about that, totally my mistake -Michael

Rihan

Life is absurd, isn’t it?

Jackson

Horses, what are your thoughts on Cormac McCarthy?

Cory Price

Do you collect anything, or is any object/thing special to you in some way?

Katyyo

How many unfinished scripts do you have?

Grant Bowers

Why do you use the 4:3 aspect ratio in your videos?

Edoardo Sangelaji

I think those would be two amazing wars for Horses to cover. You are right on point, there is nothing better than someone who loves history and can write essays like horses does. I would even be intrigued if he covered the Iran-Iraq war, the current conflict in Gaza, or China between the Japanese colonization and the CPP.

Edoardo Sangelaji

What do you think of Kafka? What would you say is a Kafkaesque moment

JJ Ibarra

I love writing essays but have no expierence with video editing or software at all, where do I start with getting written essays off the page and into a video format?

S. P.

I’m a longtime fan, I’ve been with this channel from the beginning, and I’ve loved seeing your creative growth. What has been the impetus for creative change? Do some videos start with one vision in your head but end up differently when published? Your work is my all time favorite and your visionary creativity is such a rare gem in the world!!

Congruent Crib

So when I bought my sword, I wanted to see that forge’s stock because it was so beautiful. I couldn’t find anything except a law firm company with the name sent. After awhile I realized the company was your last name. Does this mean you or your kin forged these swords? Also, how do you mount the sword with the provided mount?

Lane

how do you deal with comparison, insecurity, and or jealousy?

Nelson Hernandez

what do you ask yourself when you do an essay?

JJ Ibarra

why is ur channel called horses

Hosatomten

What happened to the Madame x video :(