Jenny Nicholson's Most Successful Videos
With the recent viral success of her video on the failure of the Star Wars Hotel, let's look at Jenny's Most Successful videos.
I'm a fan of Jenny Nicholson, I have been for some time now. My Jenny awakening came when she dropped her incredible fandom deep dive on Bronycon. I was vaguely familiar with Bronycon as I had once been assigned to write about Bronies, a documentary about the seemingly odd phenomenon of adult men who enjoyed watching the cartoon series My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. The documentary was not very good. It contained few insights and came off as clearly pandering to the Bronies rather than providing any real insight about this unique fascination.
In 2021 Jenny Nicholson dropped The Last Bronycon: A Fandom Autopsy. The video went viral and when it was nominated for an award next videos by another YouTube favorite of mine, Lindsay Ellis, I became curious. Then, when Lindsay dropped Jenny's name a few times on Twitter and used her voice in a video, I was compelled to learn more. I watched her Bronycon video, and I was hooked. I immediately began binging Jenny's videos and I have been a fan ever since.
Her unique style is something I just find endlessly engaging. She appears innocent, seemingly naive, and then she drops banger after banger of insightful and funny lines in her videos and you realize the steely intelligence behind her sweet exterior. She has both a childlike enthusiasm for the things she loves and a searing wit for the things she doesn't like. She comes to her videos with receipts when she has a point to make about something she doesn't like, she can back it up when she has a criticism of something.
But she's also incredibly inviting, a little goofy, a little awkward, but when she decides to turn it on, her wit has a serious bite to it. My favorite Jenny video is her review of the awful movie, Escape from Tomorrow. She eviscerates that movie. Moreover, she eviscerates the director of the movie, Randy Moore. But she does it by using his own words against him. She shows videos of him making some very stupid, thoughtless things, and calls him out. She then digs into themes and offers an insightful examination of the various failed and lacking themes in the movie.
This is a way of saying that I have followed Jenny for a long time and this list is merely me satisfying my own curiosity about Jenny Nicholson's work in the wake of the viral success of her video The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel. A lot of people are discovering Jenny for the first time because of this four hour Star Wars Hotel video. But, at 5.4 million views as of 5.4 million views, as of this writing, May 27th, 2024, this is only Jenny's 5th biggest video of her YouTube career. Despite it making her the most talked about YouTuber of the moment, there are videos she's made that are way bigger than this one. Take a look: Here's Jenny's million plus videos by views. Only videos at or more 1 million views.
1. THE Vampire Diaries Video 12 million
2. Evermore: The Theme Park That Wasn’t 10 million
3. Well, I Guess SOMEBODY Had to Read Trigger Warning 6.7 million
4. A Needlessly Thorough Roast of Dear Evan Hansen 6.3 million
5. The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel 5.4 million
6. The Last Bronycon: A Fandom Autopsy 5.3 million
7. Oh No! The Rise of Skywalker is Was Real Bad 4.5 million
8. The Church Play Cinematic Universe 4.2 million
9. This Is DEFINITELY Not a Published Reylo Fanfic Novel 3.9 million
10. I’m on Lockdown So I Watched All 14 Land Before Times 3.7 million
11. An Excruciating Deep Dive Into the Avatar Theme Park 3.6 million
12. Suicide Squad Sales Pitch 3.3 million (Jenny's first million view video)
13. Nobody on the Planet Remembers Beastly 3.2 million
14. The Worst Reality Show of All Time 3 Million
15. Escape from Tomorrow is a Dumb Exercise in Misery 3 million
16. I Hate The Greatest Showman More Every Moment 2.9 million
17. There’s Something Wrong with Hallmark’s YouTube Channel 2.9 million
18. Insanity: A Jeff the Killer Fanfiction 2.8 million
19. Well. Let’s Read Colin Trevorrow’s Episode IX Script 2.6 million
20. 15 Very Dumb Things in Fantastic Beasts 2 2.5 million
21. The Grim Dystopia of A Christmas Price 2.5 million
22. The Worst Ghost Hunting Show of All Time 2.4 million
23. Well, I Didn’t Like Joker 2.2 million
24. Halloween Costumes Nobody Wanted 2.1 million
25. Trapped on an Island With Josh Hutcherson 2 million
26. Why Does Creepypasta Suck 1.8 million
27. I Guess I’ll Talk About Ready Player One 1.8 million
29. Star Wars Land: An Excruciatingly In-Depth Prequel 1.8 million
30. If Rey is a Skywalker 1.7 million
31. Dumping on Fifty Shades Freed for 25 Minutes 1.7 million
32. WHERE’S BUZZY? The Great Animatronic Caper 1.7 million
33. Top 10 Worst Reasons You Liked Rogue One 1.6 million
34. One Direction During The Purge 1.6 million
35. The Cursed Half-Life of the Pirates Franchise 1.5 million
36. Should We Let Jurassic World 2 Get Melted by this Volcano 1.5 million
37. Dark Internet Rituals 1.5 million
38. I Read the Terrible Episode IX Pitch Where Rey is a Robot 1.4 million
39. Tomorrowland Ruined My Life and Dreams 1.3 million
40. Justice League bad 1.3 million
41. Frozen 2 Script Doctor 1.2 million
42. Fifty Shades Darker Script Doctor 1.1 million
43. The Dark Side Doesn’t Make Sense 1.1 million
44. The Applejack Problem 1.1 million
45. SpiderQuest: Quest for the Man-Sized Spider 1.1 million
46. Let’s Do Real Magic 1 million
47. Top 10 Worst Reasons You Hated The Last Jedi 1 Million
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Hello, my name is Sean Patrick He/Him, and I am a film critic and podcast host for the I Hate Critics Movie Review Podcast I am a voting member of the Critics Choice Association, the group behind the annual Critics Choice Awards.
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