I've recently learned that American Zoomers love to learn about politics, science, and history through YouTube videos. Kurzgesagt, CGP Grey, and many other capitalist funded trash
I've told a friend about France receiving billions in payments from "former colonies" for their "independence" every year and their first instinct was to search up a YouTube video in front of me to learn more while I was trying to Google for a primary source of the hard financial data and agreements signed
People were lecturing me about how Putin thinks and will act based on videos they've seen from CGP Grey (like Rules for Rulers LOL). As if a man like Putin can be so easily understood and predicted from a dumb tech bro who watched an 8 minute cartoon yt video, especially given the context that he is the leader of such an enormous country like Russia
Not just zoomers, humans and people.
This works for us as well, Second Thought has demonstrated this. The issue is that we lack people producing the content, something JT has called people to do more of.
A few others are doing good content like it, Gravel Institute's video on profit being theft is one of the best examples of this but marxist instead of liberal.
Make some fancy graphics, keep your videos short, and presenting them in a specific way reaches and convinces massively more people. Communists should learn to use this rather than just complaining about it.
If you make an edutainment video that's truly subversive it will be censored or shadowbanned as soon as it gains popularity (if it's on a major platform).
Who's JT?
JT runs Second Thought and has a pod with Hakim + Yugopnik. You're not wrong, homeland security knocked on JT's door and questioned him about his "anti-american activities" after this video.
JFC, I've never had to click through two content warnings on a youtube video before.
When the based levels are so high that it requires two based warnings.
Ugh I really don't want to but I could probably make decent historical agitprop on TikTok. Ugggh I really don't wanna make a TikTok.
TikTok is interesting because you also need to figure out ways to abuse the algorithm which is based around how long people keep watching for, etc. Tricks that mesmerise people into watching longer than they otherwise would have seem to work really well at boosting the algo.