I think the format of YouTube encourages creators to eventually focus on their own personal brand and presentation instead of presenting a topic. Every single leftist adjacent YouTuber and streamer goes down that hole eventually if they make a career out of it.
It's because no matter what the subject is, they eventually run out of content. One of my favorite channels for a while was "After Prison Show". It's this man who got released and then told entertaining stories about his time in prison. But after a few years, he had pretty much told all his stories. But he's got almost a million subscribers. What to do?
When I quit watching his channel, he was posting videos of him and his other released prison buddies renovating houses to flip. "Today, the plumbing" and then he finds out the guy he hired last week ran off with all his tools, sold them, and is somewhere getting high. Wow, compelling content.
I mean, her visuals are fantastic. One of the nicer things about Left-YouTube is the time and energy they put into their craft. Half the fun of Contrapoints is the aesthetic. She's not just crying into a camera under a bed sheet.
But there's definitely a feedback loop, wherein a YouTube personality stops being a witness to the world around them and starts becoming the story of themselves. Too much time engaging with people online who are either slavishly loyal to you or perpetually aggrieved at your existence or simply fishing for an interaction that can be leveraged into growing their own fledgling brand. It just overwhelms your feed.
The sanest thing you can do is log off entirely. But the second sanest thing is to at least spin up another anonymous account and never ever ever read the DMs sent to your original.
I think the format of YouTube encourages creators to eventually focus on their own personal brand and presentation instead of presenting a topic. Every single leftist adjacent YouTuber and streamer goes down that hole eventually if they make a career out of it.
It's because no matter what the subject is, they eventually run out of content. One of my favorite channels for a while was "After Prison Show". It's this man who got released and then told entertaining stories about his time in prison. But after a few years, he had pretty much told all his stories. But he's got almost a million subscribers. What to do?
When I quit watching his channel, he was posting videos of him and his other released prison buddies renovating houses to flip. "Today, the plumbing" and then he finds out the guy he hired last week ran off with all his tools, sold them, and is somewhere getting high. Wow, compelling content.
I mean, her visuals are fantastic. One of the nicer things about Left-YouTube is the time and energy they put into their craft. Half the fun of Contrapoints is the aesthetic. She's not just crying into a camera under a bed sheet.
But there's definitely a feedback loop, wherein a YouTube personality stops being a witness to the world around them and starts becoming the story of themselves. Too much time engaging with people online who are either slavishly loyal to you or perpetually aggrieved at your existence or simply fishing for an interaction that can be leveraged into growing their own fledgling brand. It just overwhelms your feed.
The sanest thing you can do is log off entirely. But the second sanest thing is to at least spin up another anonymous account and never ever ever read the DMs sent to your original.