Hey all, I have a fledgling gaming channel on YouTube Shorts and TikTok. I started it a month ago and it already has 45k YouTube views and 11k TikTok views.

I'm starting to add leftist messaging to the videos that use apolitical/innocuous words to express obviously political ideas. Help me come up with these types of taglines.

Because games, the demographics are:

  • 96% male

  • 47% ages 18-24

  • 29% ages 25-34

  • 33% :amerikkka:

  • 23% :japan-cool:

  • 6% :ukkk:

So far the games are: Apex Legends, Battlefield 2042 Beta, and Halo Beta. Plenty others to come.

Help me come up with some taglines that we can use on the videos. They don't have to have any relation to the video itself. For instance, I recorded one that says

"If you produce it, you should own it"

which is OK.

I ultimately want a mix of:

  • A few total inside joke memes
  • A few super :based-department: but sneaky commie one liners
  • A lot of pedestrian leftist shit about like, unions, health care, working conditions, anti-racism, international solidarity, and anti-capital/anti-rich rhetoric.

More examples

Miles O'Brien from Deep Space Nine saying "He was more than a hero. He was a union man!" which does say the word "union" but idk if they'll pick that up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3SQ07AaAWg

Michael Brooks show outro tribute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY6iKuDH13w

If you put it in the thread, I'll put it on a video. I upload quite a bit. They're easy to create.

EDIT - the first video with a hexbear suggested line. Thank you /u/Owl!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY5JP4GhtS0

    • SerLava [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      Agreed.

      Yeah most of my videos are Apex Legends and that game is very popular among 16-25 year olds in Japan. I got a few Japanese comments and all those Japanese viewers, so I reuploaded a video or two, using Japanese titles & floating words as an experiment. It got some views but not as many as the original.

      I spent like 7 years learning Japanese as a kid, and although my skills are very poor now (was never fluent), I know enough to properly use Google Translate and some research to not sound stupid. Many languages translate great in Google Translate, but it's terrible for Japanese for many reasons. Not least of all, because there is no way to get a translation in non-formal language. Nothing exists for that.

      So I can write basic stuff and people are replying to my Japanese comments in ways that suggest I'm using casual words, slang, and netspeak well enough. But I don't think I can be very clever in Japanese. I did find a way to mask my acceptable-but-not-great accent, using voice changing effects. I just said "please subscribe"

      I hear that Japan does have quite a lot of communists and those must skew young, but yeah I don't think I can do much for them.