Category: Logical Fallacies

You know the feeling. A video essay starts with a big confident claim, then halfway through the creator says, “Well, it’s more complicated than that,” answers a softer version of the point, and somehow still acts like the original claim survived. It sounds thoughtful in the moment, but something about it feels slippery. That is…

One of the easiest ways to make your argument look strong is to give yourself a weaker opponent. Video essays do this all the time: not always by inventing a position from scratch, but by slightly altering it and answering the easier version instead. That move has a name, and it is one of the…