They release like two or three feature length videos a year with titles like "What Scooby Doo: Cyberchase has to say about parasocial relationships"
They release like two or three feature length videos a year with titles like "What Scooby Doo: Cyberchase has to say about parasocial relationships"
I don't like breadtube so much because I don't like reactions videos, and like 90% of breadtube is just reading off the idiotic things that right-wing internet personalities say and then explaining to the camera why those opinions are bad.
I already hear enough bourgeois propaganda at work and everywhere else in the real world; I'd rather not spend my free time listening to clips of Ben Shapiro or Jordan Peterson say idiotic and evils things, even if they're contained into a 50 minute video with the word "critique" in the title.
But in a way it makes sense. If you're a Youtuber dependent on their audience for an income you don't want to piss off any segment of them. Making videos dunking on right-wingers is something that everybody who considers themselves a "leftist" will find little to complain in. Advocating for a cohesive ideology that's not just "anti bad thing" is bound to make some of your subscribers angry when they learn that they're parasocial friend/teacher doesn't actually believe everything they do.
I like Shaun, but yeah it really steamed my beans in his older videos when he'd be dunking on a chud and would start off like "make sure you go watch this Lauren Southern video I linked in the description so you'll know I'm not mischaracterizing any of her arguments"
Very glad he stopped doing that, he was effectively platforming and signal boosting the ghouls he'd make videos about. It's a lesser complaint, but I also hated it when he'd play clips from those videos at all. I'd always skip those sections. I really don't want to hear Lauren Southern or Ben Shapiro or Jordan Peterson ramble about shit either. Glad he's mostly moved away from doing those types of videos. His new videos are very informative, just sucks he only makes a small handful of them a year.
I like Shaun's personality and agree with his politics a great deal but due to my personal preferences I have not watched much of his recent content because it's almost entirely responses. Responses to the 1776 report, to supporters of the Atomic Bomb dropping, to racists, to PragerU, etc. Shaun does these types of videos the best, but that genre of videos is just so over-saturated.
Maybe this sounds like a lib sentiment, but I want a wholesome leftist channel. One that covers past heroes rather than bastards, and details the good created by past/present socialist experiments rather than the misery created by capitalism. The world is already bleak enough, I'm more motivated by hopes for a better tomorrow, rather than fears that things can get even worse.
Yeah, I get what you mean. Most leftist videos are there to refute the justifications for the worst excesses of the hellworld we live in. But being constantly reminded about how bad things are isn't great for mental health.
There have been a lot of great socialist projects through history, and I'd also like to see more videos covering their achievements.
Why? Did someone actually do that?
"Go watch her videos so..."
"Yeah, sure, whatever, get on with the dunking"
I have to imagine some people did. Probably not his regular audience, but mostly the people who streamed in because the algorithm recommended a Shaun video.
One thing I've noticed with channels in & around the bread space is that, the longer the channels exist, the longer the "recap" video sections become.
I'm not really sure why, but over time it just gets more & more descriptive of... the topic's raw material. To the point where half the video is just explaining what exists.