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5 min readWendigoon Ranks Every Wendigoon
"I would say those are the top 10 videos I've ever made." After nearly two hours of painstaking self-assessment, Wendigoon arrived at his definitive S-tier list: the Bible Theory Iceberg, the True Crime Iceberg, the Akali Raft, the MLK assassination, the North Hollywood shootout, Waco, Paradise Lost, the Pizza Bombing, the most painful death ever, and the Yuba County 5. But the journey to get there revealed far more about his creative philosophy than any final ranking could.
The Framework: Self-Criticism and Intent
The entire ranking exercise was inspired by a fan video from Connor's Curiosities, who had created a tier list template ranking every Wendigoon video. Wendigoon adopted that same template but applied his own criteria. Crucially, his rankings weren't based on popularity or even objective quality alone. They reflected three intertwined factors: how well the video achieved its purpose, how much personal investment he had in it, and what the video meant for his creative trajectory.
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What you'll learn
- 1 Timestamped Outline: Wendigoon Ranks Every Wendigoon
- 2 (01:00) **Introduction & Origin of the Tier List** - Wendigoon explains that Connor's Curiosities made a video ranking all his videos, which inspired him to do his own ranking
- 3 (02:23) **Early Channel Content: The F Tier** - Wendigoon groups his earliest videos as F tier, acknowledging they were made with an iPhone camera and no microphone
- 4 (04:07) **God in the Details: The First Glimpse of Direction** - Despite low quality, this video gets a D tier because it was one of the first times he felt passionate about storytelling
- 5 (05:28) **The Reddit Reading Video He Hates** - His most popular early video is F tier because it's literally just him reading a Reddit post for two hours with no editing
- 6 (06:26) **Sunday Studies: Why He Stopped** - All four Sunday Studies videos are grouped together at D tier, with a detailed explanation of why he quit the series
- 7 (12:05) **The Black Parade & Early Story Analysis** - The Black Parade video gets C tier because it was a personal story he was glad to tell, but the editing doesn't meet his current standards
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