sword art online abridged (SAOA) is like the homestuck of anime abridged youtube series because it has:

- a lot of jokes early on that were insensitive even at the time of release but have only gotten worse with age

- a lot of people telling you you should skip the first little bit of it despite it containing some very important setup

- an unreasonably compelling story with interesting romance dynamics

- a lot of actually genuinely funny jokes that will pervade the language center of your brain for the rest of your life

9/10, objectively superior to the source material it's reconstructing