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(previous anon here) I am unsubbed from both of his channels..I keep up with the uploads/updates of the new vids from that one Tumblr account (@tstwitterupdates) ,bless their heart, they are underrated and deserve more appreciation🙏

They are amazing and I love them so much.

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Thomas really taking his sweet time with videos and I really can't understand why...I really miss when he uploaded 20 min videos and we got them more frequently..I hate these 50 min videos that we only get once a year..like ffs dude, we just want to see the Sides interact, not Hollywood productions🤦 YES the quality is pretty good but they lack something that the smaller videos have...they lack a certain warmth and the longer videos seem faceless somehow🤷

Same, like it's cool that they're able to experiment with all this stuff. But I think the problem is that Sanders Sides started out as a very simple idea, it works best when it's kept simple. Adding all this extra stuff just doesn't work when the focal point should be Thomas and how his thoughts and feelings are shown through the Sides.

Like, Cartoon Therapy uses a very simple format, it's just the characters talking to each other very much like the early Sanders Sides episodes did while occasionally showing clips from cartoons. It's a simple premise that tells its story in a simple way and it works.

Imagine if all of a sudden they started using a bunch of green screen effects and adding all this extra stuff to the Cartoon Therapy episodes, it would be very distracting for a series that relies mostly on telling its story through the dialogue between the characters.

I just wish that Thomas and his team would realize that we don't need a huge production every single episode. Every once in awhile? Sure, why not. But when it's every single time and we hear "We're trying something new!" Every time there's a new episode, it just gets exhausting because then we know it's going to take who knows how long for an episode that could get its message across through the dialogue and interactions between the characters.

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The fandom on Twitter is one of the scariest places to be (that can technically be said about all of Twitter but that’s not my point)

The fandom on Twitter bows down to Thomas like he’s their lord and saviour. They hold him on such a high pedestal that it’s hard to criticize him without getting at least one, “Well, at least he makes content.

The support is simply overwhelming. Listen, if I was constantly given praise by my audience and ignored criticisms, I’d probably also make extremely difficult content that takes up so much time which could’ve been used for shorter, more precise videos.

We all agree the videos have slowly gotten more messier, plot-wise, right?? Just me??

Anyways, the Twitter fandom desperately needs a revamp. Maybe we can teach them about business practices??? About the YouTube algorithm. About how to give constructive criticism and not idolize creators.

All good ideas.

Okay, this is getting quite over dramatic, so I’ll finish here. It is fun to write a mini-rant, however.

Sincerely,

A Tired Lesbian who keeps getting recommended Thomas Sanders posts on Twitter

Yeah I don't mess around with fander Twitter. That's a whole other realm that I'd rather not get into.

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Do you think that the rainbow side theory is true? That would mean the a orange and a violent/indigo will arrive (what color is Virgil I know he’s purple but what shade? Same with Logan and Patton). People think orange will be anger and apparently Virgil also represents depression (it was mention in the court episode) but what would the other purple side be?

I don't think it's true mostly since there's only been one last side hinted at that will most likely be orange. Having an indigo/violet colored side when we've already got purple for Virgil just seems a bit too much, that would be asking Thomas to play 9 characters if you're counting his characterized self. And is just unnecessary story wise.

I honestly have no clue what the last side will be. All we've gotten is a vague "He represents a side of Thomas we haven't seen yet." But I think at this point we've seen just about all there is to see? I can see anger/wrath being a good candidate but I see that falling under the emotions category and honestly, I think it'd be more interesting to explore that aspect of Thomas through Patton instead of bringing in a whole new character for it.

Also I don't think Virgil is also depression. In the courtroom episode all I can think of is Logan saying that Thomas attending the wedding would cause Thomas to be more depressed since he'd have to be reminded that he's still single, but it's never said that Virgil is also depression. So far he's only been anxiety and others might feel differently but I personally don't feel comfortable with the idea of anxiety and depression being meshed into one thing, ya know?

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Is it just me or do I feel like Thomas is shooting himself in the foot with these asides videos.

I mean when it comes to the season 2 finale how are you going to explain Roman's emotions post pof when its literally been retconed in FWSA with only a little bit of Roman angst that hes mostly happy after hes got Thomas something he wants.

To be honest FWSA felt like it should be the season 2 finale.

In my opinion the only option is to now retcon Roman to Be Janus Disgusted as Roman during FWSA or have it revealed he was only pretending.

I've actually made a whole post about this, but I'm gonna rant about it again anyway because I have a personal grudge against Asides and will take any opportunity I can to rant about it.

They're literally writing themselves into a dead end here with both Roman and Virgil, seeing as both recently had something big happen happen them. You got Roman's breakdown at the end of POF and then you have Virgil's confession at the end of DWIT.

It looks like they were setting up some scenario where it's Roman and Virgil vs everyone else (especially Thomas) but both of their big moments have been retconed by Asides.

Literally the first episode takes away any potential conflict between Virgil and Thomas over him being a former "dark side" because the two have made up in a pretty lack luster way. What was the point of building that dramatic reveal up only to brush it aside? (Haha, get it?)

Even if I have some issues with the whole "Virgil being a past dark side" I wouldn't have cared if it had a satisfying conclusion but I highly doubt that now. Especially since anything interesting that could have come from that is gone.

(Somewhat unrelated note we also don't get to see Virgil's reaction to Janus earning Thomas and Patton's trust because Thomas confirmed in a live stream that he already knows it happened so there goes any confrontation between Virgil and Thomas in the finale)

And then you got Roman in FWSA where he acts as if nothing happened in POF. I figured we wouldn't see Roman again until the finale (I had thought the same about Virgil) since he feels betrayed and hurt by Thomas and Patton and probably wouldn't want to see them but nope, there he is acting like his usual self. Cracking jokes and looking nothing like how he was at the end of POF.

How are they going to address what happened in POF if Roman is suddenly in such a good mood and happy about Thomas getting a boyfriend? In my opinion FWSA could have been the start of season three, and originally I thought the episode took place sometime after season two only for it to be confirmed that it happens right after POF which makes things even more confusing.

If you follow the episodes starting from Selfishness vs Selflessness and ignore Asides you've got a pretty solid story going and POF is clearly meant to lead right into the finale.

But instead we keep getting these Asides that keep adding on more and more to a story that already has a lot going on. There's a chance the finale will showcase all the characters, all of which have something going on with them that they somehow have to resolve with one more season (not to mention a whole new character is on the way) so why keep making things more complicated when everything was already set up for you?

Sorry to kinda derail your initial ask but the whole concept of Asides confuses me because it doesn't make any sense. The fact that it's it's a year since POF and we still don't have a conclusion to that episode and are instead focusing on whatever Asides is doing is just frustrating.

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Having so many special effects for episodes and each one having its own ‘thing’ kind of makes it choppy to me when it comes to cohesion between the episodes. Makes me think of when some youtubers are trying out new editors in the way that the episodes can feel sooo different from one another except that in the case of Sanders Sides it’s for no reason other than ‘we thought it looked good despite it not being necessary for the story uwu’ at this point if you forget the story they’re trying to tell each episode could be from a completely different thing.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

Season two would have probably been finished by now if they didn't keep adding all this stuff in. Like it's okay to want to experiment but clearly there's more cons to pros when it comes to all these gimmicks.

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Just makes me really sad bc this series was one of my first serious hyperfixations and now with the fandom/Thomas's timing with the videos, I don't even get excited when he tweets about it anymore. Like I could honestly care less about this latest asides ep. Just...yeah

Yeah I'm still stuck here because I love the characters and I'm attached to the series despite its problems. But I'm not excited about this upcoming video, more like I'm just waiting for it to get over with which is sad because I want to be excited, but it's so weird because they're secretive and quiet about everything having to do with a video.

We used to get regular updates about what stage they were at, and even get little videos from the Sides in between filming, there was all this anticipation and excitement but i haven't felt any of that for this video.

Like these days we're not even told which characters are going to be in a video because that would be spoiling it for some reason??? The only reason I know who's gonna be there is because I'm a patreon but like; that shouldn't be info you have to pay for.

Nothing is going to be spoiled just from telling us who's gonna be in the dang episode. Like why all the secrecy? Things used to be so open and now it's like they're locking everything behind a door.

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Honestly, Logan is my favorite character but at the same time when I first heard of Sanders Sides I would’ve thought that Logic would know things that only Thomas knows, maybe including things that Thomas did learn but doesn’t fully remember but still. Now looking at the series part of me is just thinking ‘sooo... does character Thomas read a bunch of philosophy books and such in his nonexistent spare time or does Logan just have all the knowledge in the universe at his fingertips but can’t use it all?’

Honestly I don't think even the writers know. One minute it's "Oh we can't do this" and the next it's "What do you mean we could do this all along." As far as the characters abilities go.

When you're writing a series with characters like this you need to establish some basic rules as to how they work, and you can't explain all the changes outside the series either.