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:
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96% male
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47% ages 18-24
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29% ages 25-34
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33% :amerikkka:
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23% :japan-cool:
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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
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.
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
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You should be able to vote on whether your landlord can raise rent.
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You should be able to vote on who your boss is.
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People shouldn't have to sleep in the streets while homes sit empty.
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If the US is so great, why doesn't it have any good trains.
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Owning stuff isn't a real job.
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Everyone who works for a living deserves a raise.
Someone posted that Skyrim crafting meme here a few days ago, with an ingot's base price, then the value of the items you can craft from it, showing the addition of labor value to the ingot.
Maybe something like that?
New video, with the "vote for your boss" line!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY5JP4GhtS0
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seeming as "under no pretext" seems to wash over people to the point where you can troll trumpers into thinking Reagan said the full Marx quote, you could use it regularly
ie: under no pretext should bloodhound be nerfed
"crypto" strategies don't work for the left. the machinery of false consciousness runs on inarticulate, dimly sensed beliefs. if you really want to use the internet content marketplace to "radicalize" people, express your radical beliefs in radical, clear language, while making cool stuff, and don't be cringe about it. shit, Hasan Piker's one of the most popular streamers on Twitch, and whether you think he's a fake leftist or a milquetoast succdem or whatever, he doesn't try to hide his politics.
It's not so much that I want it to be crypto. The ideal I'm aiming for is to use individual words that are innocuous, but that humans directly understand as leftist. So only crypto to the algorithm that listens in on the spoken content of videos.
I get the sense that sheer popularity can overcome a form of pigeonholing for political content that would affect a smaller channel.
And the political words might trigger YouTube to only show the videos to people who consume a lot of political or leftist content.
Just cut in a 2 second snippet of the internationale whenever something good and relatively commie happens.
While not innocuous, you'd be hard pressed to be fucked with this since many people meme this song.
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.
You should. YouTube Shorts and TikTok seem to make it pretty damn easy to upload stuff that gets views. Those short views arent worth as much but it's way better than the 10 views you'd get before as a new channel on long form videos.
You can get capture software like Nvidia overlay, Xbox overlay, or OBS which I use, and just slam F8 whenever something funny or cool happens in a game. Then pretty soon you have like 1000 clips to use. I have so god damn many clips in the last 5 months that, I could run this channel for like 5 years and not run out of clips. Huge backlog. And it can be so easy to edit these little 10-60 second videos.
I think an important part is 1. Some basic keywording and clickbaity titles 2. Flashy title screens which I just make with paint. net PNG's
Sucks about whatever WWII sim you were playing or Mordhau or whatever it was 🤢 I love those too but they're very infested.
Apex Legends is actually not bad because they seem to piss off a lot of chuds by having a lot of nonwhite, gay and trans characters and creating like player badges for pride, blm and stuff like that. It's performative but I think it helps shift the player base a bit.
