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Evan’s Ranking Tablet

@evansrankingtablet.bsky.social

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(20, He/him, 🇺🇸) Ex-wannabe YouTuber now on BlueSky. Media critic. My gimmick is everything I review gets put into one big ranking. My YouTube: https://youtube.com/@evansrankingtablet?si=7LfNHM05VGQfHuYO My Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/78yN7

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 9d

October #promosky!

I’m Evan, a media critic who ranks everything I review into one big ranking & tries to put utmost effort into everything I post.

• He/him, 🇺🇸, 20 yrs

Recent Interests:
• YouTube videos as a medium
• Expedition 33
• experimenting with my posts

September posts I’m proud of below.

An Animal Well “rest hub post I made that totally isn’t secretly an ARG. (:

The beginning of a review thread I made of the Lackadaisy Pilot, where I pretend to review “the Lackadaisy DVD”, which was an excuse to experimentally critique in-depth aspects of the pilot through “extras”

My response thread reviewing a post by Pud about trusting the artistic process.

An experimental photography post I made, with a message on not wanting to bloat my BlueSky page too much.

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 1h

Let's go on an adventure!

#art #illustration

A digital drawing featuring a warm toned landscape with pink and orange hills, and a hot air balloon flying across it. In the hot air balloon are two white cat characters, and below them on the ground are some sheep.

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 2h

I didn’t even realize she was doing a concert but that’s really cool!

Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 2h

Night!

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 4h

I’m going to spend this thread explaining this YouTube ranking playlist I made.

I decided to make this after watching the new sneak peek at TADC ep. 7, fitting how there’s 7 videos in the playlist to talk about!

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( #reviewsky, #TADC }

Beach YouTube videos based on how hard the beach aesthetic goes ranked. - YouTube

Starting with the strongest use of a beach-theme to the weakest. Top 5 nail it, bottom 2 don’t. Nothing to do with the overall quality of these videos.

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · Jun 25

The under-discussed world of analyzing Cartoon Saloon’s Éiru trailer

#animation

Tag list: @victorydrawsstuff.bsky.social, @emmathedpstan.bsky.social

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It’s already been minutes and I don’t see anyone on here discussing this trailer, which is a shame, Wolfwalkers is one of my favorite movies!

Éiru Trailer

YouTube video by Cartoon Saloon

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hby's stuff @hby.bsky.social · 11h

#pokemon #pixelart

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 4h

I thought it would be fun to take the #1 best thing on these ranking threads I guess I’m doing now and add them to the ranking tablet, sure!

TADC 7 sneak peek is going under the Eiru trailer & above Good Boy (which I’ll review on Letterboxd tomorrow btw)

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 4h

I also adore the actual beach activities the characters do in the first place!

This is weirdly the only one of these videos that successfully makes the people and/or fictional characters to beach activities at a beach.

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 4h

The absolute best beach thing of this sneak peek though (also my favorite thing of the video in general)? The character outfits!

Especially Gangle’s! I love the straw hat combined with the suit on her so much, it’s so accurate to an actual beach outfit!

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 4h

#1.

It was surprisingly close between this and #2, but I HAD to go with this one!

Probably because, while the music of that Madz video is kinda beach-like, this music definitely surpasses that with flying colors! It sounds exactly like the perfect beach aesthetic and inspired this thread!

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The Amazing Digital Circus Episode 7 SNEAK PEEK

YouTube video by SubCooler

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 4h

The beautifully-drawn water, the background music choices, life floats, the borders on gameplay footage even!

The right screen of the Monster Hunter gameplay is shaped like the kind of rock you’d find at a beach!

This is the 2nd best YouTube video ever made by this very specific standard!

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 4h

#2.

This takes place in an ocean, not a beach. So why is it here, especially so high? Because damn it if the ocean aesthetic, specifically a surface-beach feel, isn’t perfectly nailed on the head here!

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The Missed Potential of Water in Video Games

YouTube video by GetMadz

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 4h

#3.

This one is definitely an easy one to put so high because they literally filmed it at a beach, but I dunno, it’s really beach-feeling in a more nature-way!

Something about the ambience it naturally has as a horror short, but that ambience is on a beach, it weirdly somehow fits for me.

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Seagrass (Short Horror Film)

YouTube video by Dylan Clark

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 4h

#4.

Putting aside the fact that the game for this song is called Seaside Drive & where the game takes place, this tune does sound like the beach, just in 8-bit.

I’m not very good at analyzing non-lyrical music, I’ll say that, as an overall video, this one is my favorite on this list!

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Seaside Drive - Stage 1 - UFO 50 OST

YouTube video by Cha Chingo Christiano

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 4h

#5.

The short film Waves, aside from being really good, has the kind of beach aesthetic nature gives, aside supposed to the kind people give, mainly because of the waves themselves!

The sound effect that accompany them feel very beach-like. It also helps that Waves takes place at a beach.

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Waves - Stop Motion Short Film (2024)

YouTube video by Emma L.

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 4h

The frame on the left is great and has a lot of beach-y details! The edge of the waves, James’s outfit, etc.

I also noticed that the tree at the beginning of the video (right) looks like a sort of tree you might find at a beach (all be it not a palm tree), intentional or not, cool!

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 4h

#6.

Another one where the beach is barely in the video, although that is the point. It’s a roadtrip to the beach, so what are the beach-vibes like when we arrive?

The art we see of the beach looks cool! And some decently strong beach vibes despite the characters not actually stepping in.

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My Girlfriend, My Best Friend and the Barfy Beach Date

YouTube video by TheOdd1sOut

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 4h

#7.

EASILY the bottom spot because the beach is barely in the video, which is quite disappointing for a video called “Quest To Stand On The Beach.”

And the actual Minecraft beach itself doesn’t really give the strong aesthetic further entrees give, aside from the waves I guess?

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Minecraft Xbox - Quest To Stand On The Beach (135)

YouTube video by stampylonghead

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 4h

Note: I’m not ranking these as videos, simply on how hard the beach aesthetic goes, wether that be the initial nature of being at any old beachside, or the Job Simulator-esc beach vibes we as humans now associate with it.

I know this is dumb, but I dunno I thought it would be fun.

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 4h

Beach YouTube videos based on how hard the beach aesthetic goes ranked. - YouTube

Starting with the strongest use of a beach-theme to the weakest. Top 5 nail it, bottom 2 don’t. Nothing to do with the overall quality of these videos.

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · May 28

i am a dot’s “The 500 Year-Old Book That Inspired Metaphor: ReFantazio” review: “What different people promise in a utopia studied in one of 2025’s best YouTube videos”

Link to video: youtu.be/RQAfOrakRWA?...

~ What could Utopia mean? ~

For starters, I find it really clever how dot never says..

The 500 Year-Old Book That Inspired Metaphor: ReFantazio

YouTube video by i am a dot.

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · Nov 27

Lackadaisy Spaghetti Noodle (Episode 1 Preview) Review: “A Well-Lit Shot of Cinematography Pointed At Quality Spaghetti”

Link to the video itself: youtu.be/b2T3ywJ_y-8?...

- The Voice Acting -

Both Michael Kovach & Jason Marnocha are fantastic voice-actors, and they give..

#lackadaisy, #review

Lackadaisy Spaghetti Noodle - EPISODE PREVIEW

YouTube video by Lackadaisy

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 8h

Awww adorable face and moon logo, love it ❤️

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VictoryDrawsStuff - PBFP + AME @victorydrawsstuff.bsky.social · 8h

Princess Guinevere & the star 💙❤🌟

✨ #victorydrawsart ✨ #KnightsOfGuinevere #knightsofguineverefanart #fanart #art #artsky

A digital illustration that is fanart of Princess Guinevere [Gwen] from the indie animated series "Knights of Guinevere" from GLITCH. Princess Guinevere is drawn smiling at the viewer, holding some of her dress in her right hand and with her left hand is holding up a shining star. She is drawn implied kneeling on the floor with her dress spread across the floor.

Background goes from blue to a shade of dark red, with faded imagery of the wiring / guts in Guinevere , with very faded / implied blue blood on the floor.

Done in Clip Studio Paint.

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Evan’s Ranking Tablet @evansrankingtablet.bsky.social · 8h

Beautiful!!!! ❤️❤️❤️

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