• epicspongee [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I don’t hate philosophy tube etc to be clear, I just find their videos to be self indulgent slop

    I don’t disagree, but I think she and contra hold a special place in my heart cause they were really the start to my radicalization. Contra’s earlier videos really got me thinking outside of a capitalist mindset and got me to think “oh, there’s alternatives to capitalism, and gender, and blah blah blah”, then I read the manifesto, then I started listening to Teach Me Communism, and then I became a chronically online tankie lol. I feel like I’m not the onlyyyy one that did this (I have friends who I think consider themselves socialist and anticapitalist who still like some of Contra’s newer stuff), but I definitely feel like the vast majority of her fanbase is annoyingly liberal to a fault. In her recent ‘anti-JK Rowling’ lane she’s been pretty decent I think except for when she steps even slightly out of it.

    • Tastysnack [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Yeah and that’s great! meow-hug I dunno breadtube always annoyed me and most of the insufferable soc dem libs I know swear by it so I’m probably injecting a lot of bias into this in hindsight but…

      ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH ralsei-angry