Can Jump Cuts Be Effective?

Sticking to the YouTube train of thought, today's topic is: jump cuts. You know, that thing where one person is sat in front of the camera and then edits straight back to...itself, this is mostly done by vloggers where it's just a person talking into a camera and there's only one shot for the entire video, a lot of people find this annoying as it can be both distracting and show signs of stupidity in the vlogger because they for some reason can't remember one goddamn sentence without fucking up and redoing it, but the question is: can it be used effectively?

In my opinion, yes, it can, jump cuts are not necessarily a sign of stupidity, it all depends on how you use it. For example some YouTubers out there such as Jeremy Jahns will usually use a jump cut in between sentences, this is done because people have a horrible attention span, if Jeremy did a video with no edits whatsoever then some people will get bored, after all, stare at something long enough, on a big enough scale, everyone will eventually get bored, so people use edits in order to prevent that from happening, even if the thing they're editing to is...itself. But the difference between using it effectively and just coming across as stupid is when you use it, whenever there's a jump cut halfway through a sentence, you can't help but think "seriously, you couldn't get the whole sentence out? How dumb are you?" while using it inbetween sentences means that you can still come across as actually knowing what you're talking about without losing the attention of your audience.

And then there are the comedic aspects of it. One of the biggest aspects of comedy is the visuals of a joke, what we see, what don't see, how long we look at it, this is a major focus and can all come down to editing. YouTubers such as The Third Pew or Wheezy Waiter both use this to their advantage, edits give you full control over the comedy and seeing as for the most part their videos are filmed from one angle, jump cuts are their biggest key to comedic editing, and in some cases one shot is all they need in order to make a joke, editing to the exact same shot but seeing something different is all it takes to make some comedy.