#Leftist YouTubers

[sapphiccooper]

I need some opinions on a joke made by a leftist Youtuber…

CW: r*pe jokes

I’m not sure what the best place to talk about this is, but I’ve decided tumblr will probably have a better answer than twitter or tiktok could. This is about the YouTube channel by Ryan Beard, more specifically, their newest video about Ariya (a music artist).

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I have been watching Ryan for many years, and have always felt like they had something special about their content (side note: I couldn’t find their pronouns, so I’m going to use they/them for this post, feel free to correct me if wrong). I felt like they truly research topics they bring up, and have always respected the amount of work they put into every video.

My issue with their most recent video has left me in a state of indecision, as I was unable to finish it after becoming extremely uncomfortable with a joke they made around 11:30. The joke was about how silly the guys lyrics are, and proceeds to have a skit where a doctor is confused of what a patient needs. This ends up (*CW again) with the doctor *jokingly* putting his d*ck in the patient while they are unable to speak. It was made worse with movements.

I’ve known many leftist creators (especially YouTubers) to have a very extreme sense of humor, and typically make fun of the people who “can’t handle it” (ex. Vaush). They tend to use humor that is shocking or “not politically correct” to seem edgy or seem like they care about things far beyond other people. It’s usually men who seem to feel the need to “out left” each other. I’ve never appreciated the type of humor, personally, and tended to lean closer to leftists that had alternative humor.

Ryan has never struck me as one of these leftists. They have shut down harmful jokes in the past, or at least brought attention to the possibility of a potentially harmful statement coming off as violent or ignorant.

Whatever your opinion is on this type of humor isn’t really the point of this post. I know people are going to react to things differently, and my uncomfortableness of this particular joke Ryan made could be personal without any fault to them. That’s where I need opinions other than my own. I have never been good at standing up for my own emotions without peer validation (something I am working on). But, my gut says otherwise this time. I can’t even watch any of their other newer videos at this point, and that concerns me.

This isn’t a post to encourage viewing of this joke to see if it makes you uncomfortable, but more for the people who may have already seen the video, and how they felt about it.

Thanks for reading of you made it this far, and please feel free to express your opinion whether it agrees, disagrees, or is indifferent to my own.

#ryan beard #leftist YouTubers #leftist creators #vaush #anti vaush

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

#personal #dumb #my art #immediately after finishing i was pumped to watch some analysis vids on it #cuz i heard a lot of the drama about the original author being a pro military fascist and the director going “fuck that” and making a satir #scrolling through youtube search results was not promising. lots of male film buffs i would Not trust even on a first glance. #“The Critical Drinker” (pfp of a bearded man drinking alcohol) lol. #and then I saw cinemawins did a video on it and was like oh nice i haven't seen his stuff in a while but he's a pretty leftist creator #scrolled through the comments #second panel face #this sucks i'm outta here. #just leagues and leagues and leagues of anime pfps and right leaning people dogpiling on him for “not understanding what fascism is” #idk it's pretty alien and weird to me watching this movie and going “wow yeah that was pretty obvious huh” like literally the from opening #to the teacher preaching militance and only giving voting rights to “those who serve their nation first and earn it” #and then seeing droves of people online going #WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? It's not anti-fascist and even if it was it's #the director's fault for desecrating heinlein's incredible sci-fi epic vision. ermm media literacy is dead.

[captainjonnitkessler]

I truly, TRULY do not know how to say this, because the fact that I have to say it makes me feel like I am losing my grip on reality. But no, in the post-capitalistic anarchist utopia, I will not be relying on “autistic minecraft girlies” to be building inspectors because - and this may shock you - one of those occupations takes years of education in how to read and interpret hundreds of thousands of lines of regulations based on complicated math and physics that were the result of decades of tragedy and death, and the other one involves playing a children’s video game.

#i am begging this website. BEGGING it. to stop acting like building codes are state oppression #and please stop reducing blue collar jobs to 'so easy any handyman could do it with a youtube video' #that's how people fucking die #i didn't spend five years learning how to do my job safely to watch people online tell me it could've just been a course in high school #i know that this is like. a minority minority opinion and not really worth getting worked up over #but it's so annoying to see supposed leftists denigrating blue collar jobs like this #same poster also opined that we won't need garbagemen #because 'if the trash is bothering people they'll figure out a way to clean it without having to pick it up' #like what??? does that even fucking mean???? #construction

[evertomorrowart]

Best of YouTube 2023

Yes, I did spend the first week and change of January on this. I wish I could have had it done for New Years, but too many people came out with incredible work in December, so waiting turned out for the best.

What these creators do are a huge influence on my life, I would honestly have difficulty doing what I do without them. That isn't to say that my favorites of the year are *only* on this image--It was almost impossible to narrow down my favorites. Many creators I wanted to include couldn't fit on a single page, and too many of them made more than one video I wished I could draw too!

But, to all of you, thank you for what you do. You're an inspiration.

For those who don't know, further is an explanation.

At the bottom center is an artistic masterpiece by Defunctland: "Journey to EPCOT Center: A Symphonic History." Over the last several years, Defunctland has risen from delightfully-entertaining commentary on decommissioned theme park attractions to occasionally dropping profound statements on the creation of art itself. "Journey to EPCOT Center: A Symphonic History" is worth treating like the cinematic experience it is: No second screen, you sit your ass down in front of a TV, set down the phone, and then you *watch it.* Any Disney, theme park, or independent film fan needs to pay attention to this one.

Bottom left is Caelan Conrad with their piece "Drop the T - The Deadly Consequences of Gay Respectability Politics." While I do think they've done more visually or artistically-daring pieces before, "Drop the T" is one of the most important videos released on YouTube in today's current climate of hate. We as queer folk (and our allies) need to understand how integral every identity of the queer experience has been since the start of the Civil Rights movement (and before!). While we are not identical, we *are* inseparable, and we deserve having our real history easily accessible.

TERFs and other conservative mouthpieces need not reply. Your opinions are trash. 😘

I cannot stop watching and rewatching this video by @patricia-taxxon, "On the Ethics of Boinking Animal People." It's not just a defense of furry fandom and its eccentricities, it's a thoughtful and passionate analysis of what the artform achieves that purely human representation can't. Patricia goes outside of her usual essay format to directly speak to the viewer about the elements that define furry media (the most succinct definition I've ever heard) and just how *human* an act loving animal cartoons really is.

As an artist who can draw furry characters, but never really got into erotic furry art, this video is a treasure. Why did I choose to have her drawn as a Ghibli character, hanging out with one of the tanukis from "Pom Poko?" Guess you'll have to watch, bruh.

Philosophy Tube continuously puts out videos that I would put on this list--I'm not even sure that "A Man Plagiarised my Work: Women, Money, and the Nation" is the best work she released in 2023. However, this video got many conversations going between myself and my partner, and the twist on the tail end of the video shocked us both to such a degree that I had no choice.

At the very tail end of the year, Big Joel released "Fear of Death." On his Little Joel channel, he described it as the singularly best video he's ever done, and I'm inclined to agree. However, for this illustration, I ended up repeatedly going back to a mini-series he did earlier in the year: "Three Stories at the End of the World." All three videos are deeply moving and haunting, and I was brought to tears by "We Must Destroy What the Bomb Cannot." While it may be relatively-common knowledge that the original Gojira (Godzilla) film is horror grappling with the devastation America's rush to atomic dominance inflicted on Japan, Big Joel still manages to bring new words to the discussion. Please watch all three of the videos, but if, for some reason, you must have only one, let it be "We Must Destroy What the Bomb Cannot."

Y'all. Let me confess something. I hate football. I hate watching it, I associate seeing it from the stadiums with some of my worst childhood experiences, I despise collegiate and professional football (as institutions that destroy bodies and offer up children at the feet of its alter as a pillar of American culture)--

I. L o a t h e. Football.

But.

F.D. Signifier could get me to watch an entire hour-plus essay on why I should at least give a passing care. AND HE DID IT. I might think "F*ck the Police," the two-parter on Black conservatism, or his essay on Black men's connection to anime might be "better" videos, but this writer did the impossible and held my limited attention span towards football long enough to make a sincere case for NFL players--and reminds us that millionaires can *in fact* be workers. That alone is testament to his skill.

Sit down and watch "The REAL Reason NFL Running Backs Aren't Getting Paid." Any good anti-capitalist owes it to themselves.

CJ the X continuously puts out stunning, emotional videos, and can do it with the most seemingly-inconsequential starting points. A 30 second song? An incestuous commercial? Five minutes of Tangled? Sure, why not. Go destroy yourself emotionally by watching them. I'm serious. Do it.

Their video Stranger Things and the Meaning of Life manages to to remind us all why the way we react to media does, in fact, matter. Yes, even nostalgia-driven, mass-media schlock. Yes, how we interact with media matters, what it says about us matters, and we all deserve to seek out the whys.

Folding Ideas has spent the last few years articulating exactly why so much of our modern world feels broken, and because of that his voice continuously lives rent-free in my brain. While the tricks that scam artists and grifters use to try to swindle us are never new, the advancement of technology changes the aesthetics of their performances. Portions of Folding Ideas' explanations might seem dry when going into detail of how stocks work in This is Financial Advice, but every bit of it is necessary to peel back the layers of techno-babble and jargon and make sense of the results of "Meme Stocks."

Jessie Gender puts out nothing but bangers, her absolute unit of a video about Star Wars might be my new favorite thing ever, but none of her work hit so profoundly in 2023 than the two-parter "The Myth of 'Male Socialization'" and "The Trauma of Masculinity." There's so much about modern life that isolates and traumatizes us, and so much of it is just shrugged off as "normal." We owe it to ourselves to see the world in more vivid a color palette than we're initially given.

Panels drawn after Kate Beaton and "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands."

"This is Not a Video Essay" is one of the most intense and beautiful pieces of art I've ever put into my eyeballs. Why do we create? What drives us to connect?

I don't even know what else to say about the Leftist Cooks' work, it repeatedly transcends the medium and platform. Watch every single one of their videos, but especially this one.

The likelihood you are terminally online and yet haven't heard of Hbomberguy's yearly forrays into destroying the careers of awful people is pretty slim. Just because it has millions of views doesn't mean that Hbomberguy's "Plagiarism and You(Tube)" isn't worth the hype. Too long? Shut up, it has chapters and YouTube holds your place, anyway. You think a deep dive into a handful of creators is only meaningless drama? Well, you're wrong, you wrong-opinion-haver. Plagiarism is an *everyone* problem because of the actual harm it creates--the history it erases, the labor it devalues, the art it marginalizes--which you would know if you watched "Plagiarism and You(Tube)".

Watch. The damn. Video.

In fact, watch all of them!

Thanks for reading this if you did.

#fanart #digital art #caricature #kate beaton #ducks #stranger things #apes #youtube #2023 #best of 2023 #video essay #hbomberguy #leftist cooks #cj the x #big joel #jessie gender #folding ideas #dan olson #jessie earl #neil and sarah #fd signifier #f.d. signifier #little joel #gojira #godzilla #philosophy tube #abigail thorn #caelan conrad #patricia taxxon #defunctland

[redditreceipts]

Random thought but have you ever noticed that breadtube is...misogynistic? Idk, as someone who used to watch a lot of breadtube (still a leftist, but as I've learned more about leftist politics and movements I find that breadtube often lacks substance - just seems like a lot of rambling without critical thinking/analysis).

Like, I can't help but notice that the lot of them shy away from topics around sex based oppression, male/female socialization, sexploitation etc (and if they're not ignoring it, they're saying that none of it is real and that those are just conservative talking points).

Idk. I just feel like a lot of people would rather watch transwomen talk about how important feminist works are actually bigoted to justify violent, misogynistic feelings toward radical feminists who discuss these things. It feels like they want to intellectualize misogyny and uphold a strawman of radical feminism so that they can validate telling women to shut the fuck up about our oppression. Am I making sense?

yes, you're totally making sense, and I decided to look into that. so I made an Excel list with the most prominent Bread Tubers, the number of their subscribers, their biological sexes and their gender identities:

if you just look at gender identity, the subscribers seem to be quite evenly distributed between men, women and non-binary people:

looks kinda fair, right?

but if we look into biological sex...

it's suddenly clear that biological males gather about 77 percent of the total subscribers, while biological females gather only about 24 percent.

doesn't seem that fair anymore, right?

but it gets even worse when you take into account the male's gender identities...

there are more subscribers to biological males with female or non-binary gender identities than subscribers to biological females???

I guess there is your answer on why bread tube does not cover issues of sexism and sex-based oppression.

...and that is why an analysis based on biological sex is important and trying to erase it will let us believe that we are closer to equality between the sexes than we actually are

#I still watch some of them and think many have good analyses #for example on topics of history #but I will never #ever #try to know anything about sexism and misogyny by them ever again #breadtube #bread tube #leftist youtube #sex discrimination #trans #transgender #trans woman #listen to trans women #terfblr #terfs please interact #radical feminism #it took a while to make these graphs so #radblr #radfems please interact #gender critical #radical feminists please touch #radical feminists do interact #feminism #listen to women #misogyny #terfs please touch #gender critical feminism #gender critical feminist #gc feminist #gc feminism

[barkwife]

Hey if you live in the USA please sign this!

It's a petition for a movement that's trying to pass a constitutional amendment that would get money out of politics! It would ensure that corporations don't have the same legal rights as people and thereby end the loophole that the rich use to bribe politicians through superpacs!

This video explains how the loophole works, but before you watch it,

GO SIGN THE PETITION!!

#politics #democracy #usa #usa news #leftist #left or right #power to the people #Youtube

[grayheartart]

Biden's Mental Health Declines as he Spreads Misinformation about Trump.

Despite Biden's blatent cognitive failure on full display, he falsely claims Trump "encouraged Russia to attack NATO allies".

The reality is that Trump didn't encourage Russia to attack anyone. He made it clear to NATO allies that US involvement in foreign wars is expensive to America and the 100's of Billions of dollars spent defending NATO allies is a debt expected to be repaid. If there is no repayment of debt, there is no protection from the U.S, even if Russia comes knocking.

#politics #youtube #democrats #biden administration #left wing #joe biden #liberals #democrats are corrupt #leftists #progressives #Youtube

[strawberrybabydog]

them: i loooove being a mentally ill ally teehee :0) i had an anxiety attack once when i was 10 so i toooootally understand ur struggles. hashtag ally hashtag mental health awareness

also them: i hate this politician theyre delusional. what a psycho. i cant believe they let this narcissist on the internet still. absolutely psychotic behavior. this person is truly a sociopath. imagine having no empathy like this psychopath. couldnt be me, i Actually Care™ because im a Real Ally!

#delusional #my impression of every single leftist ever. every single fucking one apparently #really a slap in the face to be watching ur fave youtuber and they hit you with a out of nowhere #cuz i apparently needed a reminder that the world is hostile towards me #so i go to my 2nd fave youtuber. same thing #i literally watch breadtube how is this happening #on sanism

[whereserpentswalk]

Instead of saying "I want to kill myself" I now say "I'm going to violate the Hays Code." "I'm going to violate YouTube terms of service." Or "I'm going to violate the comics code." And I hate realizing all three of those mean the same thing. Progress is moving backwards in this society.

#anti censorship #anti capitalist #anti capitalism #196 #my thougts #free speech #leftist #left #leftism #youtube #hays code #comics code authority

[decolonize-the-left]

1) Find what you are willing to put effort and time into, something you are passionate about.

Look at what motivated you to start being active, that's usually a good place to start. Climate change, unemployment, systematic racism, etc.

And consider what your time and effort look like; making flyers, budgeting, spreading the cause online, networking, protesting?

2) Pinpoint local community problems.

Is it food or housing insecurity for example? Is it a food desert? This is where knowing your community will be helpful; others in your community may be able to help with these things. Just remember not to take on projects bigger than you can realistically do, activist burnout is very real.

Also, the issues your community faces may not be directly linked to the things you're passionate about. You may have to compromise that you will be indirectly aiding your true passion than directly, for example. That's okay. Bring this up with your community after their more immediate needs are met.

3) Decenter yourself and learn.

Your ideas are amazing I'm sure, but it's good to remember to learn the basics about mutual aid before you start throwing out ideas. In general, it's good to learn the basics about Any given movement before you start throwing out solutions for it.

4) Talk to your community.

Building on the last point your community will know which issues are important to them and likely already have ideas on how they could be addressed.

Also, talk to people. Go to community events like games and other community events. Don't be a socialist weirdo proselytizing on the town Facebook page about the importance of a community you never interact with.

5) Now it's time to work with the community to reach your goals.

You did it! You know your role, how you can help, you have a cause, goals, and ideas to reach them now! Mutual aid time babeyy.

From here you can build more formal groups and even network to mutual aid groups in other cities. You could form free stores, community fridges or libraries, form tenants unions, and/or crowdfund for community medical expenses. Some (like the Black Panthers) even get big enough to have free medical clinics for there community members in need.

It's as complex as you make it.

#mutual aid #direct action #Youtube #how to help #how can i help #allies #allyship #actvism #leftists

[robynator]

contrapoints, shaun and philosophy tube all posted a new video in the span of 7 days AND james somerton crawled out of his hole, giving plenty of people plenty of reasons to respond (and some already have!), including potentially hbomb himself? what the fuck is going on, the stars have literally aligned

#a win for leftist youtube #jessie gender's response to james somerton came out as well and it was a good one #she talked about him personally apologising to her it was quite an illuminating video #contrapoints #shaun #philosophy tube #natalie wynn #abigail thorn #hbomberguy #harry brewis #james somerton #lefftube #leftist youtube

[former-leftist-jew]

"Ever since the pogrom of Oct 7th, we've witnessed the complete collapse of the moral authority of the Woke Left, and the Woke Elites. These are the kind of people who, for years, have posed as caring and loving and wonderful people who just want equality and for everyone to be treated fairly and nicely.

We now know, courtesy of the barbarism of Oct 7th, what a myth that was! Because they have made excuses for the pogrom of 7th Oct, they've said it was a form of 'resistance'... and since then, they have turned a blind eye to soaring levels of antisemitism..."

#antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #leftist hypocrisy #islamofascism #jumblr #israel #judaism #am yisrael chai #jewblr #jewish #hamas war crimes #hamas is evil #israel hamas war #hamas is isis #hamas massacre #hamas attack #hostages #release the hostages #Youtube

[girlactionfigure]

From the river to the sea, where do the Jews go?

As the genocidal cry ‘From the river to the sea’ is being heard more and more often on the streets of the West, this is a parody music video of pro-Palestinian professors who tell their students that Jews must ‘go back where they came from’.(With thanks: Michelle) 

The  J-TV video grapples with the absurd notion of 50 percent of Israel’s population returning to countries which ‘ethnically cleansed’ them  – while the Muslim population in Israel keeps on growing.

‘Go back to Algeria

Where we were cleansed like bacteria?’

…’Maybe they cancelled their anti-Jewish laws 

Maybe they’re down for the cause

Egypt has three Jews 

Give them a round of applause!

It’s an entertaining rap perfectly suited to capturing  young hearts and minds.

The post From the river to the sea, where do the Jews go? appeared first on Point of No Return.

#Indigenous Jews #Leftist bias against Jewish rights #Youtube

[jewish-vents]

I was so glad when Dead Domain posted a video on antisemitism, it was really good! Sure, there were things that could've been expanded on (particularly, unfortunately, the video dabbled in the "Jews and Muslims lived peacefully before the nasty zionists came over" myth) but overall a great video! I haven't felt this seen by a gentile leftist since PhilosophyTube's own video on antisemitism (which was uploaded before she came out as trans!). But of course in the "trans person infiltrates CPAC" video and the streams it's all back to "Zionists" and "genocide" there was a moment where one of the speakers during CPAC was made a point about antisemitism on college campuses/academia in relation to Pro-Palestinian protesters, DeadDomain did not address it at all! Like it's not a legitimate problem! Completely dismissed it! Because (apparently) people in academia are generally "more open-minded and learn stuff" and "why didn't they show videos of 30000 dead Palestinians" in response to the CPAC speaker trying to show Pro-Palestinian protesters as violent and "like hamas" with "scary music". I'm so tired. A lot of leftist YouTubers say stuff like "I don't condone antisemitism" but then ignore it in their own movent.

.

#jewish vents #antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #youtube

[grayheartart]

"Best he's Ever Been" According to MSNBC. Biden Trails Off Mid-sentence and Can't Remember Lie.

Biden claims that Trump is "going to cut social security and Medicare". The claim is blatantly false. Trump said he would fix bad management of entitlement programs.

Maybe Biden is referring to the 4 different occasions he supported the end of Social Security and veteran benefits when he was a Delaware senator. Dementia will do that to you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#politics #youtube #democrats #biden administration #left wing #joe biden #liberals #democrats are corrupt #leftists #progressives #joe biden has dementia #Youtube

[troythecatfish]

Source: Kyle Gordon on YouTube

#history memes #history humour #history shitposting #funny videos #meme video #feminism #Feminist #male feminist #history #history posting #history tumblr #history side of tumblr #meme #memes #funny #funny shit #funny memes #humor #humour #lol memes #lol #leftist memes #funny post #funny stuff #ha ha funny #shortvideo #short video #youtube shorts #funny meme haha #funny meme xd