thread of youtubers whomst are not terrible

oh i just realized ilx mucks up youtube urls hang on

Hobo Shoestring looking out over Chattanooga:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EYctSLAUC8

Syman Says goat barn LIVE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfbmJIvwzgI

if u really need some slowness in ur life, here's the Duluth Harbor Cam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPM2pxCNHlQ

Thomas Johnson Antique Furniture Restoration, 187 Flaggy Meadow Rd, Gorham, ME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBwJ2PnUksY

^ have really enjoyed his videos recently

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that lots of YouTube series in 2020 are nominated in the 2020 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2020 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 29, 2021

If you like any particular series and would like to see them have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

New ContraPoints out. Topic: J. K. Rowling.

this should go great

I haven't watched it yet because it's, well, 1h30 mins long, but I look forward to hearing her deliver the line 'He never said he hated the jews. He is simply concerned about the overrepresentation of Jewish people in media and banking' (quoted in the YT comments).

I'm skipping that one because it's about JK fucking Rowling and I cannot countenance any further promotion (see "Streisand rule") of her or anything related to her fucking media empire, which has poisoned the brains of at least two generations at this point.

anecdotally I have some normie friends who only became aware of trans issues when this Rowling thing exploded and Contra is good at laying out situations in a way that reaches those types so this is good

yeah I'm only a few minutes in and I like her approach already, I think this is actually useful

framing it as "let's use this as a case study to determine the nature, origins and methodology of bigotry" is a pretty good angle, or at least it hooked me, and her videos have been hit or miss for me lately

anecdotally I have some normie friends who only became aware of trans issues when this Rowling thing exploded and Contra is good at laying out situations in a way that reaches those types so this is good

I watched it today.

As an old "normie" ish guy I think she was very good at spelling out the red flags and tropes that I could easily miss.

yes I thought this was one of her best, a lot of the jokes land and she navigates dissection and (the appropriate amount of) empathy as basically no one else I am aware of in the "same field" even cares to try to do

I watched yesterday and totally agree it's one of her best in the last year. She's very good at foregrounding the concerns of the opposing view in her videos in a completely uninflammatory way that (I imagine) disarms those people before they've had a chance to look away from and knee-jerk refute her explication of things. At least some comments seem to suggest this is the case.

Loved the idealism at the end too that Rowling could be the one in a million to change her outlook. If anything could work...

Watched it last night. Don't have anything to add other than: everyone otm.

yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rgxQMgw4bA

The Raccoon Whisperer has expanded his horizons and remains extremely wholesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwuClKryAhQ

lol Zen School Of Motoring got a BBC deal!

I am addicted to a few music reaction youtubers, not in a particularly healthy way, I keep staying up late impulsively going through their channels picking out all the songs I like. if I could stop after 2 or 3 it would be fine, but no, I do not have that kind of self control.

Same. I find it fascinating to watch people react to early Rage Against the Machine for some reason.

I'll watch any reaction video where they do Great Gig in the Sky

yeah I have seen plenty of RATM and Pink Floyd, current favourite is Dave's performance of Black from last year's Brit Awards.

big all gas no brakes energy: nyc edition here
https://www.instagram.com/sidetalknyc/

Did any of his Capitol footage come out?

dude has a tv deal, i'm sure he's either saving it for or to directly promote that, would be hard to imagine more valuable marketing

well, then again... this is from yesterday:

I am no longer associated with All Gas No Brakes.

I no longer receive any of the Patreon crowdfunding, YouTube monetization or any other show income.

Nic and Evan, who lived in the RV and created the original show material, are also no longer involved.

We have no control over the accounts or future of the show.

When was 20, I wrote a book called 'All Gas No Brakes' about hitchhiking around America as a teenager. At 21, I pitched the idea of a video-based road show to a production company, who loaned me an RV to make videos and explore America with my best friends.

I was ecstatic, who I signed an employment contract without reading it.

Lesson learned.

Thank you for supporting me these past years. It's been the time of my life. I can't wait to show you guys what I'm doing next.

This is not the end ..

It's only the beginning to a bright, independent future for the team.

I love y'all.

- Andrew

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMNnFMOsHvg/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/style/all-gas-no-brakes.html

The obvious lesson is of course "read employment contracts before you sign them", but the Doing Things Media people were/are nuts to actually fire them (and absolutely tank the value of the branding they own in the process).

it's hard to imagine that brand surviving without Andrew but I can see Andrew doing just fine working with Abso Lutely

yeah, don't see a scenario where this plays out well for his ex-producers

if they actually try to put out new "AGNB" content with a new host, they're going to get more viciously downvoted/spammed/etc than any youtube content in recent memory

According to people who worked on the show, Mr. Hailey asked Mr. Callaghan to focus on “party content” rather than news. “Reid from Doing Things was constantly pressuring us to make the show less political,” said Mr. Kahn.

It requires an impressive amount of stupidity to not realize what was driving its popularity and how they could have ridden it to no show jobs executive producing a television series instead of praying every day that a change to the Instagram algorithm doesn't zero out their meme accounts.

AGNB is back, kind of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f1aOOIg4Uo

that is quite a cast of characters there

Recommended by Clayton Ashley on a Polygon stream, I'm really enjoying this dude who plays Skylines from a socialist pov.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lvUByM-fZk

lindsay ellis has been having a rough couple of weeks

oh? I haven't kept up with her or her stuff at all

I saw something a couple weeks ago about a controversy involving her on twitter resulting in her deleting her account, her apparent offense sounded like a benign opinion that was not worth anyone getting upset over but I stopped investigating pretty quickly as it was depressing me.

Answer: She recently tweeted about Raya and the Last Dragon, bringing plot comparisons to Avatar: The Last Airbender.

People became aggravated because it was interpreted that she was saying that Raya copied Avatar thematically as Asian. It got blown up further by the fact that Avatar's primary writers are white and Raya's writers are Asian.

It then began to snowball to include things she had previously been in hot water for, such as a poor joke about Reylo-esque shipping in things like the Harriet Tubman movie; her personal experiences with trans male friends not being so badly harassed after fully transitioning; among other things.

It can be inferred that she started receiving harassment, as all these things eventually devolve into. In response, she probably deactivated her account to get a break from it, and the people that got mad at her took that as a victory, and are taking a lap.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/mef2yg/what_is_going_on_with_lindsay_ellis_being/gsgfz04?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

I figured as much.

benign opinion seems about right but people want a fight

I'm really really glad my income is not tied to working publicly online doing anything it seems very bad

1:40 for the response video. Nope.

Rear Window is like eight minutes longer than that.

oh nooooo

20 minutes longer than Killer of Sheep

To be fair, I watched a bit and it's not just her response video, it's more of an overview of the concept of cancelling in general.

Still didn't last long because shortly into it I'd sort of made me mind up that the lessons here were a) don't get into fights on twitter and b) fandoms centred around stuff for children are mostly populated by deranged people and actual children. Obviously I don't have my livelihood tied up into this demographic so things are harder for her.