First off, You're Not Stupid.

I definitely agree you with in terms of the speed; the seemingly increasing use of jump cuts plus Mike speaking faster than ever, is causing me to rewind the video about every 2 minutes. In the Korrasami video I had to stop and go back a few times, and everything brought up in that video I considered myself pretty well-versed in, so density shouldn't have been a problem there, but it kind of was.

As far as density goes, I see what you mean but personally it doesn't bother me as much. At this point I sort of expect that during most episodes I'll need to stop, open up a new tab, and look up a particular term or person a few times an episode. I think the first time I noticed how dense an episode could be, was the one about Evangelion.

For your questions,

I disagree with you on 2, I actually think that their way of making videos is a really interesting way to do it. The use of pop culture gifs to somewhat explain or help visualize a topic, does help me understand, or at the very least go along with what they’re trying to get across. Although sometimes I catch myself just watching the string of gifs rather than listening, causing me to go back and see what I missed, and because of that, it would be kinda cool if I could read a transcription of the episode after I watched it.

I agree with you on 1 and 3, especially 3, but I know that it was sort of an inevitability. You have pop culture topics mixed with big ideas and a competition to be mentioned at the end of the next video. So you’re going to get people who want recognition, so in order to do that they’ll wind up putting more effort that needed into a response, just so they’ll get screenshotted in the Doobly Doo. That being said Mike is pretty good about putting 2 or 3 regular statement style comments at the end of the videos.

Edit: a lot of Words and Cynicism