It will either be a good video or there will be a lot of comments dunking on it, either way :meow-popcorn:
i haven't watched since the one before the 3 hour apology, which i instead watched essence of thought's criticism of
I propose banning all pretentious theater tier video essays and replace them with early 2010s style video essays where you complain about politics with a lot of swears and then end the video with you battling an evil version of yourself to save the planet
abolish social media / algorithmic content feeds
return to geocities
Starting my channel The Pissed Off Communist.
"Wow, this liberalism stuff is a whole bag of donkey dicks. I'd rather be fucked by a rabid rhinoceros than listen to one more second of this shit. I'd rather be blasted by ass leakage from a 1000lb sumo wrestler than be a liberal. I'd suck a whole bag of worm shit through my nose than think like that. FUCK!"
Yeah, there's dozens of two hour retrospectives on different PS1 games you could be watching right now
Was watching Josh Strife's video on Armored Core 1 yesterday and got to feel waves of nostalgia washing over me.
:galaxy-brain: all the videoessayists switched to extremely long-form content so people wouldn't have the temerity to dunk watch them :think-mark:
Apparently there’s a material reason for the length of these videos … According to Spiffing Brit, a good chunk of a YouTuber’s monetization income comes from YouTube premium subscribers, and the algorithm works out (at least as it was 9 months ago) in such a way that, the longer a video is, the more money one gets from the share premium subscription fees.
they have 11k patrons on patreon. They dont make visible the dollar amount the make a month (which is weird???) but we can safely assume they are making at least $11k a month outside of youtube im sure they could release more frequent, shorter, videos lol
damn I didnt know there was a minimum, They may be making more a month than I do in a year :deeper-sadness:
yeah I think thats the real reason too. if you wanna grift the left (and who doesnt tbh) at least make transparent how much ppl are donating to you lol
We do have to consider that they have employees now (well Contra does, don't know about Philosophy Tube). I think hbombguy has a shitload of patrons as well too. The only patreons ive ever subscribed to were Chapo and Jim Sterling and both of theirs are public. (holy fuck chapo makes 160k a month on patreon still :awooga:)
i need to become a breadtuber theres too much dosh floating around
for what is worth, chapo is transparent about their finance, pay their collaborators fairly and also pay their featured guests, even if will menaker threw a hissy fit about chris wade's compensation that one time, i wouldn't feel thaaat bad about giving them money on patreon. I only support hazel, that dude who's making his own branch of mupen64 and melt banana, for some reason.
philosophy tube pays her actors, camera operator, and has set fees i guess. not sure what her writing/editing situation is regularly.
their class position is the least of breadtube's problem
I think co operative systems often work as well if not better as long as you have someone who's job it is to tell people to stope discussing and do the thing.
That said I mostly know theatre work.
Shaun is a podcast with an irregular schedule and occasionally helpful images.
Philosophy Tube has gotten a lot better recently (about since she came out as trans). Mostly just a lecture with costume changes and interesting sets, with only the occasional skit.
There was definitely a while there where her videos were like 90% art project with very little substance, but she came back around.
I feel like hbomb does do theatricality, but a lot of people dropped him after he posted a non-violence thing about BLM.
i mean, it depends. non-organized violence is useless and might hinder your movement.
I wonder if George Floyd's murderers would've been charged otherwise?
This seems to be kind of a shared quality among like 90%+ of all the people involved in "Breadtube", whatever we're taking that to be now. They're mostly college kids who have a personal affinity for "the left" because they still believe in nursery rhyme clichés about how "sharing is caring", or whatever. If, and when conversation ever actually does drift into questions about how political power is acquired or expended; they either begin to shrink & wilt in obvious discomfort, or put on the affect of a teacher trying to chastise a band of rowdy schooboys.
I ain't reading all that. I'm happy for u tho. Or sorry that happened
At least Skullman and Abby are alright (though I haven't checked up on them in a while).
Shaun is doing pretty ok, he made a video dunking on Harry Potter which I guess you could call a radlib thing to do, but its pretty decent at pointing out how the books are cruel to their core and also badly written.
He's also been conducting a campaign against the BBC for publishing a rabidly transphobic article where they quote someone who wrote a literal genocide manifesto against trans people. It hasnt gone anywhere cause the BBC just ignored it, but hes trying at least.
Shaun's dunk on Harry Potter was also centered on the fact that it forwards incoherent liberal ideology instead of transformative change.
I don't watch her for the takes. I watch her because she's the only internet personality who has background and costumes and bisexual lighting
Eh, contrapoints is cringe because she told leftists should vote for Biden because he's better on LGBT issues than Trump (wow, low bar indeed), all while mocking the idea of revolution.
before the election
"Vote for Biden! We'll push him to the left, gorge!"
after election
...
My attitude with breadtube for years has been that youtube is exclusively for sports highlights and weird obscure hobbies.
youtube is for ASMR and bizarre ai-generated children's programming
oh, and dunkey. hee hee funy
So she's parodying people like Tim Pool and Rogan so far but she fucked up by having her leftist strawman (Tabitha?) actually show up on the podcast and secondly have a polite back and forth conversation instead of getting :debatebro-l: :guaido-despair: :debatebro-r:
She’s turned Brunch lib Justine into a vaguely intersectional activist.
Tabby wouldn't have voted Biden, and has been proven completely fucking right about that choice.
Either way she was right and Contra was wrong. I really think the left would be in a better position without Biden, the US wouldn't be helping Ukraine so hard, libs would be politically activated, there'd be real riots over Roe v Wade, Trump would've convinced more right wingers covid was real, more money probably would've been handed out, international incompetence would be helping the left... I can't see how things would've been worse the other way. Everything bad that has happened would have happened but it would have far better resistance to it with liberals in the opposition seat.
She's just gonna mention her in every video from now on exclusively to troll us huh. :sicko-wistful: .
well this video is mostly about Justine still not being over the fact that Tabby refused to date her liberal ass, and it is supposed to be part one of two*, soooooooo ...
*where have i heard that one before lol
It's about her incessant, unrelenting craving for flesh, and why it's actually incredible inconsiderate of you to suggest going vegan, gorge
I can only assume a leftist video titled "the hunger" must be about the billions of people lacking food security
I mean, that sounds right, but now I have three "probablies" and nobody who actually bothered to check.
It's mostly expanding the existing lore of the channel, so if you do not care about ContraPoints deep lore, spare yourself the psychic damage and stop reading. otherwise, the first half hour pretends to be a debate between a radlib, a libertarian and an evangelical fundamentalist about LGBT rights, but that's mostly a setup for the radlib (Contra's self insert Justine) still not being over Tabby (a militant furry anarchist who despises electoralism and respectability politics and refused to date Justine because she's a brunch lib). Tabby then proceeds to cancel Justine on twitter, or on insta or w/e, which leads to Justine getting addicted to opioids. somehow, that is enough plot for a 50 minute video.
:sit-back-and-enjoy:
Cool... I'mma go try to catch up what's going on in the c/Literature book club... I'll keep an eye out for the "hot" and "yikes" takes later though.
