Hello, friends. Four-and-a-half years after this video was released it got copyright claimed and I was forced to cut out a few short clips. If anything sounds weird, that's why. Sorry.

"Plenty of dystopias are classics"

Shows all the covers of 1984

Edit: it's been 3 years and there's still people fighting here, wow

It's funny in Panem's map that Mexico is still Mexico but Canada is simply "The wilds"

"the Romans conquered all of Italy"
They uh
They conquered a bit more than that

Every teen dystopia:
1. Hunter girl
2. Classes
3. Impossibly engineered monsters
4. Love triangle

“Don’t get me wrong, some dystopian books are classics”

The screen: 1984, 1984, 1984, 1984 and 1984

"the Illean empire is set in the ruins of the United States. The main character is named America."
I just felt my soul leave my body.

the absolute funniest thing about the hunger games to me is that Mexico is just still there.
I like to imagine only the US and canada went to hell, and the rest of the world is just doing alright. There's people killing each other in the streets, and the rest of the world is just staring at them I'm confusion.

"The main character is called America" I physically cringed

"Stanley Tucci has blue hair." That alone qualifies it as a dystopia.

"On the plus side, everyone in Scotland got to watch the English drown." Well, there you go, the entire book's redeemed!

So you're saying my setting doesn't have to be plausible to be popular? Sweet, time to abandon my economic, political, geographic, and social research to focus on the angsty love triangle instead.

Guys I’ve got an original book idea. So basically, there’s a dystopian society. It’s bad. Everyone’s the same, except for they aren’t because they are in a group. It all sucks until one lone individual rises up and begins a rebellion and it turns out every single damn person in the country hates the dystopia except for the supreme leader or emperor or president or some shit. Then, the war continues for 2 or so books and then in book 3 it ends, and the entire government is dissolved in about an hour and everything is great from then on.

"on the plus side, everyone in scotland got to watch the english drown"

Dystopia as a whole has a lot of potential, arguably more than most genres, but it's held back by refusing to experiment. The genre tends to work better when it's aimed at adults instead of teenagers

I love Maze runner but seriously, they could just plug the kids into an advanced virtual reality & gauge the reaction from that. Even 10% of the maze's funding may have been enough to develop this reality.

To this day, the only YA novel I remember was one where it started off cliche as hell, but then the protagonist rebel girl realized that overthrowing the government meant she was now in control, and the rest of the book is just her hunting down her rebel friends and realize that being a tyrannical dictator is awesome

Why's literally everything #1 New York Times Bestseller?

Funny how America is the only place that apparently "makes sense" when talking about divisions and diversity in these books, and then we have: "aSiA" "aFrIcA" "sOuTh aMeRiCa" "eUroPe"

the selection was insane. the government banned premarital sex and beat starving children for stealing food and instead of like overthrowing it or changing anything, the author just like... decided that was all okay???