Blog: Idolator

At their best, tribute videos—like trailers—are about emotional manipulation. Through a combination of music and carefully selected clips, they twist your senses until you're almost convinced that you actually care about ER characters or even evil sharks . Given that, it's no surprise that there's a bounty of Brokeback Mountain videos that employ aggressive emotional exploitation tactics. Two of these tributes stand above the rest. In a bout of tragic genius someone—with a fondness for anime —came so very close to perfection, but ultimately failed... big time. Join me after the [...]