Billiam's Hipster Trash

A thread for videos by the Youtuber Billiam.

This one is a revisiting of his video for Digimon the Movie.

American Dragon: Jake Long

Billiam did a video on the Netflix Winx show.

Billiam looks at Ben 10.

Billiam continues his Ben 10 retrospective by covering the franchise's first live action TV movie: Ben 10: Race Against Time.

Though he originally missed the film during its time, Billiam's current perspective is rather kind to the Spy Kids nature of the production and execution.

When Animal Planet Made Up a Bunch of Stuff

Well, this is what happened when some networks will do anything to attract more viewers in the age of internet videos and Youtube, even if it means creating false facts.

There was this period in the early 2010s at least (I cant say if it continues as i no longer have TV) where Discovery and its sibling channels had a lot of "Documentaries about things that didn't exists"

I remember one about space colonization that had all the trappings of a regular documentary you might expect, but ya know, it's about us colonizing other planets like it's a thing we were currently doing/had done.

The Science, Travel, and Destination America channels are still guilty of this today with mostly shows about ghosts and cryptids. Animal Planet has thankfully switched back to strictly animal-based programming for the most part.

I actually remember seeing the mermaids special years ago but even back then I could tell none of it was real.

Edited by Kaiseror on Apr 14th 2021 at 11:33:27 AM

Yeah, this is Billy Billiam returning to his other roots as an early 2000s toy reviewer.

This week covers the Girl Tech branded toys, which was software dev Janese Swanson (Carmen Sandiego)'s attempt to diversify toys aimed at young girls with nifty recorders and smart folders.

Edited by XMenMutant22 on Apr 14th 2021 at 10:38:53 AM

Yeah, this is Billiam covering the surreal anime familiar to early 2000s Toonami viewers: Bo Bo Bo Bo Bo Bo Bo.

Yeah, this is Billiam again, though he's talking about the early 2000s finger toy Tech Decks.

Ben 10: Alien Force

Billiam looks at Ben 10: Alien Swarm.

New video on Shark Week, its history, and the infamous Megaladon faux "documentary" that garnered mass controversy.

I'll admit, I really like this as a follow-up to the Animal Planet video.

Hey it's Billiam, and he's going to talk about one of the more notable program from the Discovery Kids library: Flight 29 Down.

"It's like Lost for kids."

This reminds me of the time I watched the 90s Lord of the Flies movie, I questioned why Ralph didn't just beat Jack with a rock when the little psycho tried to usurp him. It just seems like in all these island survival stories, they have a character who's either treacherous or lazy and they never do anything to reign them in or punish them for their misbehavior.

Well, I mean, when you're talking about child characters that is pretty reasonable. Conflict resolution isn't exactly a skill they've developed yet.

I am rather astounded by the apparent vegan character's rather extreme turnaround though. And what about the other kids? How'd they survive the crazy dude that I'm assuming turned on them and quickly became dangerous??? Do they just not appear in the show again? Are they assumed dead?

Also, where the hell is their adult escort? I've been on high school trips, and they don't send the students alone with only a pilot as their adult guidance.

Edited by AceofSpades on Jul 22nd 2021 at 11:31:24 AM

It gets me as he points out how this at least has better logistics than Lost. Drama aside, it's nice to see that resources are a big deal.

Billiam's take on the Digimon reboot.

Yeah, this is Billiam...talking about the smart pen from LeapFrog known as the Fly Pentop Computer. It's a semi- follow up to his overall LeapFrog retrospective, as this device's shortcomings deserved its own video.

The Raw Creativity of The Spy Kids Trilogy.