DROPOUT By CollegeHumor 17+

Love the content, no complaints there. Some of my favorite shows, so I use this app a lot. For the most part, this app is extremely functional, and none of the complaints I have keep me from using it. However a couple of changes would bump it up from ‘fine’ to ‘fantastic’. Firstly - it would be awesome if I could remove things from my Recents. Often I’ll have something there that I didn’t quite finish, or decided I wasn’t going to continue watching, or I finished offline so the app doesn’t register I finished it. A removal button on Recents would fix this, or failing that, a time based removal. If I haven’t come back to it in 6 months it’s not really recent is it? Second - I’d love a way to order my downloaded content. It defaults to most recently downloaded, which makes sense, but I’d love to order by show, or at least group by show. Right now I have to make an educated guess about which episode comes first - which is a pain specifically for Dimension 20 and Adventuring Party, and less of an issue with other shows. Third- love a mass delete function on downloads. Fourth - I would love if the app had a landing page for each episode that didn’t auto play. Sometimes I just want to read the description, and I don’t want to start watching, especially with the first point. Thanks for making a great app Dropout and making truly great shows!!! I hope the devs get a chance to think about implementing these features!

The Dropout team consistently produces some of the greatest content ever to have graced the internet. If you’re looking for something to make you laugh, think, and/or cry, (but mostly laugh) look no further! With what must be months worth of runtime already, with more added each week, there’s enough to last at least a couple of years, and at most, the time until you shuffle off this mortal coil and join the choir invisible. That being said, the UX is not great on either the web or iOS app versions. The search function isn’t particularly “function”al, though it could be with the right application of LLM semantic search using vector embeddings of the content. E.g., “The part with Chungledown Bim” should return not only the episode in question, but the matching timestamps as well. The closed captions accessibility settings aren’t particularly accessible either, needing to set the typeface (incorrectly labeled as “fonts”), size, color, opacity, etc. every time I open the app. To explain the 5-star rating: It’s to get more people in on the content, which, in the end, is what you’re paying for. If you love Dropout already, then you’re probably not looking at reviews before getting the app. However, if you’re the kind of person who isn’t already familiar with CollegeHumor/Dropout and maybe looks at reviews to decide which subscription is worth the money, then this review is for you, and so is the subscription.

So yeah, its basically college humor, that thing that used to be kind of funny sometimes and absolutely free until facebook lied about the potential of their new streaming service and conned them and a bunch of other media companies into making a huge bet on facebook and investing all of their efforts into the facebook feed, only to be swindled millions of dollars when facebook revealed that the goal was never to actually engage artists with audiences but to just keep people on facebook while taking an oversized share of the ad revenue… so anyway college humor went bankrupt right as they were hitting their stride and it was a huge shame because the writing and performances had really matured, but luckily the former president of college humor, Sam Reich, (fun fact- if you're wondering who that delightful old man on tik tok, who is always proselytizing Keynesian economic reform is..: he’s sam’s dad, Robert Reich! … and Clinton’s former labor secretary… remember the 90’s!? good times) anyway sam used some of that sweet sweet Clinton money and bought out most of the IP and started dropout, and for just $5 a month you can enjoy all their zany adventures! Is it worth $5? If you know what Keynesian economics is then you absolutely have $5 to burn each month you ivy leaguer, and you can rest assured that it is supporting artists who would otherwise be that barista who is kind of funny sometimes when they’ve remember to take their antidepressants