BS Summary: This video contains 27 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Appeal to Emotion, and Negativity Bias, with Hasty Generalization as the most egregious example at 49% saturation with 166 hits. Analysis detected 1,259 faulty-reasoning hits from 339 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 83.3% and a BS Rank of 90% (2,243 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 89.80% of the video peer group.
Night Owl Video in Brooklyn has hit rewind, bringing back VHS tapes and DVDs.
>> This is the only video store left in New York City.
>> And with a Blockbuster first year in business, selling more than 30,000 tapes and discs.
>> When Blockbuster was at its height, people were renting movies like crazy.
Now, it is definitely much more of a niche thing, but growing.
>> Who's your typical customer that's walking through the door?
>> Younger generation, 25 and under. I remember asking a Gen Z customer, "Why VHS? What's the interest?" And they just said, "It's just a thing that works."
>> On the afternoon we visited, dozens of people came into the store, searching through bins, finding inspiration from cover art, and chatting with fellow customers about recommendations.
>> They're all animated differently, >> creating community.
>> Watching a film is such a solitary experience, and being around a bunch of like-minded people who want to pick things off the shelf, perhaps strike up a conversation is really nice.
Customers also seem to share a frustration over too many apps and too many fees.
>> The costs are rising and the selection is dwindling on streaming.
>> Co-owner Aaron Hamill says the store has films you can't find on apps, sourcing thousands of titles through tradeins and hunting online.
Are people coming in more for the newer releases or for the classics?
>> They want a lot of the classics.
Clueless is something that we can rarely keep in stock. The Matrix on DVD.
>> While the movies may be old school, co-owner Jess Mills says the social scene is what's really reeling people in.
>> Apps can't beat the real in person experience of getting someone's um, you know, in-person recommendation.
>> What's your favorite movie? Is it here?
>> My favorite movie is The Labyrinth.
>> As for me, Groundhog Day.
>> Pushing play on nostalgia in Brooklyn.
Evan Moon, CBS News.
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