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

    • Owl [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      That "more than a hero, he was a union man" line is a pretty good example for pushing back against that. It's just a normative statement that being in a union is good, so there's nothing to really engage with. The audience's brain increments the number of times they've heard "union good" by one, then you move on. Eventually they've heard "union good" about as many times as they've heard "union bad," but heard a whole lot more reasons why unions are bad, which then makes them a lot more willing to listen to someone else explain why unions are good.

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Great advice.

      Yeah I want to mostly avoid that, and threw it in because I couldn't think of anything sort of basal and universal, and chalked that video up to the "memez" category.

      Still trying to come up with those non-terminology taglines, like maybe the one I did record should be changed to "if you make something at work, it should belong to you" - even "produce" is a bit triggering to some