I had a hard time initially getting psyched to write about Will Vest. I watched some clips of his 2019 video, flipped over to a SNL sketch where Keenan Thompson is playing Lavar Ball, and naturally ended up spending 15 minutes reading about Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. I learned the city traces back to the 1300s, making it older than waistcoats or whiskey. People loved it so much they couldn’t stop calling it something else.
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What does this have to do with Mr. Vest? Absolutely nothing. But I didn’t watch The Simpsons growing up so I needed a buffer paragraph where site chief and casual-referencer-of-blue-period-minimalist-artists Kate Preusser assumed I had a sophisticated alternative intro to one that referenced the graphics she requested.