• Yun [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Why would you become a streamer?

    For the same reason that communists sold news papers. With the collective audience and money that Breadtube and adjacent personalities have,you could do a shit ton of IRL action. The Infrared collective saw that nothing was happening/shit was heading in the wrong direction so they set out to take down Breadtube and do it themselves.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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      3 years ago

      For the same reason that communists sold news papers

      Communist parties sold newspapers. They were party-driven initiatives, not a bunch of larping crank individuals

      • Yun [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        the same reason

        Individuals can still leverage media to educate people and get them to join/support parties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Youth

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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          3 years ago

          Individuals who have no collective oversight can poison the well as well, as seen from every individualist new leftist personality that form personality cults that pigeonhole them into producing only certain kinds of content in order to generate views.

          • Yun [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Yeah, media is just a tool ultimately. Just because it hasn't been used productively yet, doesn't mean it should be shunned entirely. Infrared isn't just Haz btw. There are a bunch of other members that are part of Infrared which you can see in their older youtube videos.

            • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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              3 years ago

              So you're saying Haz is the dominant personality on the channel then? Sounds like he's already going the same way the rest of breadtube has.

              • Yun [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Yeah he's the face of the Infrared collective. I think it makes sense to have him be the entertainer on streams that attracts people to the channel. For the more serious educational content that they put out though, the other members can still take leading roles in producing stuff (e.g. https://youtu.be/1rSWhSBmfMA).

                This is similar to how for example Midwestern Marx (https://www.midwesternmarx.com/) has Eddie - who has 300k+ followers on TikTok - as their most prominent influencer