Well spoken? Not to be that guy but you sound like Biden and the “Very Articulate” comment of his
Harry potter inflicts less brain damage than youtubers
I don't know about that.
I got 23 of them, how bad is it? I know I should log off yt
Barely less than half :cringe:, the person who made this list though
Hasan tried reading Marx, but got to the word "specter" and said "fuck this shit, can't make me read the dictionary"
What kind of social-chauvinist loser highly ranks the opportunists (e.g. Vaush, Cody, Natalie) who went full popular-frontist, critically endorsing Biden and tarring independent socialist supporters with the same ultraleft brush as the strict electoral abstentionists (while still putting the anarchist Thought Slime in a mid-high tier)?
Who puts women with much better politics (e.g. Mexie, and Lily Orchard to a lesser extent) in bottom tiers with Peter Coffin?
What the fuck is Jreg doing here at all when he's the Political Compass subreddit in YouTuber form and known magnet for fascist recruiters?
What kind of person knows this many media personalities? Either you can't hold all of them in your head or you're gonna make room by diverting power away from critical functions.
I honestly don't think Peter Coffin is as bad as people make them out to be
This is as detailed an explanation you'll ever get.
I've followed Peter since before they had a political channel and I'd be a total hypocrite to not see their progression as a reflection of my own.
I don't agree with Peter on everything, but I can trust that their opinions are as genuine as mine, because we walked similar paths.
Not to mention, they were the first (to my knowledge) in the youtube space to tackle the reactionary nature of overpopulation.
gamergate was cancel culture. additionally, coffin was one of gamergate's biggest targets, so it's kind of understandable that they'd identify mobs of morally indignant internet addicts as a problem.
he’s a fucking nazbol
lol it's 2021
I love to misgender people I disagree with, that makes me rational
I don't care whether it's a bit or not. Jreg is indirectly responsible for allowing fascist ideas to flourish by giving them a platform in his comments sections and by representing them as one of the "quadrants". Most people are too media-illiterate to understand simple satire (just look at all the misplaced hatred for Chapo Trap House, which employs first-order irony on a regular basis), let alone more abstract concepts like meta-irony.
Cryptofascists not only hide behind liberal formulations of free speech :freeze-peach:, they also have learned to infiltrate chan culture (and by extension meme culture in general) by hiding behind irony, post-irony, and meta-irony to spread their ideas because they recognize liberals and socialists would dogpile them, if not outright deplatform them, for earnestly or straightforwardly expressing their true beliefs and political goals.
I don't see much of a discontinuity in the Posadism search trend when there's a major uptick in the Jreg search trend. You could have the causality backwards: he could have done a video on Posadism in response to it having emerged as a meme tendency.
Who puts women with much better politics (e.g. Mexie, and Lily Orchard to a lesser extent) in bottom tiers with Peter Coffin?
Misogynists
Also stubborn cishet libs who don't understand why Natalie is a lib.
Uh, sir, this is ChapoChat, what else do we have to do but discuss how great Fallout New Vegas is and debate China?
I’ve yet to play the game. Still have it on steam, got it as a gift from a friend. Is it worth it?
Yes. Playing it now. It's a bit dated, but it's great once you get into it. The whole game basically explores political conflicts and such.
Yes just search New Vegas here, you'll see plenty of people explaining why its a real good game you should play
If you're into (classic) RPGs/Fallout or good stories/writing. People who prefer FPS games complain about the combat systems. But it's not like "teh best game eva" - it depends on your taste and it's not a groundbreaking game in itself. It's just semi-iconic because Bethesda games are very popular, and FNV is like the craft beer to the natty lite of big Bethesda games. Superior and smarter with less of a budget. And it's the last best Fallout game. So people rave about it for a bunch of reasons, but whether you'll like it depends more on you.
He doesn't really belong on the list I think, he mostly shitposts and doesn't have an apparent ideology. I kinda like him :side-eye-2: other than the political compass stuff, that got old fast and the 4 quadrants are dumb for reasons we've discussed here before.
people who place a great emphasis on doing politics online unreceptive to satire of the notion of doing politics online
I'm almost surprised he's that high tbh (given that Vaush is top-tier).
also purely coincidence that people of color rank lower, right?
right?
Why does anybody give a shit about people who just sit in front of a camera for three hours at a time and upload whatever they recorded like you could be watching DuckTales or spending time with friends and loved ones or planting a garden or reading what are these people doing with their lives?
I honestly don't get the appeal of extended Youtube videos. Even philosophytube, which is at least interesting and entertaining, is difficult to just sit through. Like I enjoy podcasts since they can sort of keep my mind occupied during menial tasks, but I don't get the point of sitting through video essays which presumably need your full attention.
I feel like I learn more from an engaging and interesting video than I do from a podcast but thats just me.
I think it's the way YouTube videos are edited. Podcasts are just a continuous thing for the most part, where YouTube videos have those weird quick cuts. I'm pretty sure those quick cuts help keep you focused on the video, but at the same time might harm recollection in the way walking through a door makes you forget why you decided to go into the other room.
Why make it a video then? Every video essayists has yet to figure out the medium they are working on. All the visuals in a video essay are completely superfluous.
I honestly don’t get the appeal of extended Youtube videos.
While I like quite a few of the people listed up there, I do think that they sometimes want to stroke their egos by making more "prestigious content".
For example, I don't see somebody watching Shaun's two hours and 20 minutes video about the atomic bombings of Japan, unless they already agreed with it.
Sometimes, I feel like a lot of Breadtube is like the wise council you see in a sci-fi movie. They (the council) just spend their time discussing trivial topics and end up missing whatever the major conflict is, causing them to get killed.
Really? They're just making content about what's interesting to them, they don't claim to be doing a revolution with it. And yeah, those videos are mainly watched by people who already have leftist views, but may not know much about a certain topic. I didn't know a lot about the bombings but I watch Shaun whenever he posts something. So he might not have converted me to the left but he educated me a bit.
You can do a lot of things while watching, play a game or sth. It can just be in the background.
I have no idea who these ppl are, I'm too old to understand the appeal of streamers. When I got into leftism, I watched a lot of youtube videos (Chomsky, Parenti) and read a lot of articles. From reading Chapo.chat take on breadtube, I don't know if it will turn out for the better that this generation is getting politically educated by streamers....lol....
I only watch them while working on other things
Destiny literally told everyone he was intentionally pushing the left away from his stream because too many of them were following him and he didn't like it, lmao
I'm so glad I don't know who 90% of these people are and curse this website for teaching me who V*ash is.
Same with Jimmy Dore and Mike from PA tbh. For Mike, I don't necessarily disagree with him as much as just find him really grating.
Well it seems like the list's goal is that, not ranking their political ideologies
