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Thinking about BreadTube, I guess, given the recent DiScoUrsE, and falling out of love with it. Sometimes I use Twitter as a diary and this is one of those times sorry I don't make the rulesPermalink On twitter.com
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I'd discovered Contra, Lindsey, Hbomb, and Olly before I knew "BreadTube" was a thing. When I did it was pretty great for me because if there was a single community out there that enjoys super detailed left-wing anime analysis it would be BreadTube, right?Permalink On twitter.com
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Up until then I think I was convinced I was the only leftist on the Internet??? Lol now that I'm neck deep in this bullshit that was obviously a lie. But statistically our corner of the Internet is hard to find. If you read my super early stuff I definitely WROTE like I was aloneOn twitter.com
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And then suddenly it was like "oh neat there are other leftists" and that was really liberating because instead of pitching my ideas to right-wingers I knew would just harass or ignore me I could pitch my ideas to other leftistsPermalink On twitter.com
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Alas, BreadTube is a community centered around passively consuming and financially supporting expensive, vaguely progressive, and (most importantly) non-challenging YouTube content. That's it. Every problem with BreadTube we've been seeing stems from this fundamental fact.Permalink On twitter.com
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The fact that it's impossible for new content creators to get started without being compared to Hbomb/Olly/Contra/Lindsey? The cringe takes on black nationalism? The rise in reactionary anti-idpol sentiment? The inability to turn viewership into offline praxis? Yup all thatPermalink On twitter.com
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Idk BreadTube is mainly a community of people who swapped their Ben Shapiro YouTube addiction with a Contrapoints addiction. Or their Destiny Twitch addiction with a Vaush one. Everything falls around that. Stuff is only successful if you can fill that "need"Permalink On twitter.com
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The audience wants entertainment, not information or action. And as such it doesn't want to be challenged. You know what's entertaining? Having a fascist step into the arena of LOGIC and IDEAS to get utterly demolished. Wow sure feels great that I'm on the good side now, huh?Permalink On twitter.com
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You know what's not entertaining? Being a dude and realizing you're part of the problem. Being white and realizing you're part of the problem. Being cis/het and realizing you're part of the problem. Living in the West and realizing you're part of the problem.Permalink On twitter.com
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Oh but it's only from that second thing that we can actually hope to fix how shit the world is, huh? Damn. Funny how that worksPermalink On twitter.com
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So what about me? Do I challenge my audience enough? Do I challenge myself enough? I don't really know. But I want to. I won't get it right on the first try but that's the ideal. That, and memesPermalink On twitter.com