Hey everyone!
Hope y’all are doing well. After the comments on my last post talking about possible changes to patron tiers, I’ve made a few edits that should mean more patron content for you guys! The main thing I heard in those suggestions were 1) the ability to suggest and vote on topics for future videos, and 2) the desire to see shorter, unscripted patron-exclusive videos on various topics. I’m hoping that what I’ve come up with will satisfy both those desires.
The fir...
2022-04-24 05:08:29 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
I'm writing this post to let people know I'm thinking of doing some revamping on the Patreon and changing some tiers around, especially the $10 one. I want to add more perks that mean posting more regularly to Patreon. But in order to do that, I'd love to hear more from people about what kind of benefits you might like to see from the Patreon. Are you happy with the way things are currently set up? Are there specific perks you'd be interested in seeing? Ar...
2022-04-06 16:39:04 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all!
Thank you all so much for supporting my channel- for those of you who didn't catch it, my last video got copyright detected by Fox and blocked near-instantly. I appealed it immediately, and I'm still waiting to hear back about that. As of now, it looks like the video is up again (although Fox is claiming all of the monetization from it, so I won't make any $ off ad revenue for it unless something changes). I'm hoping that for now, it stays up. It'll always be...
2022-03-27 20:20:32 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! After wrestling with soooo many copyright checks, I've finally got a ready version of this video for y'all. After having seen this 2000s film become part of our mainstream cultural lexicon, I wanted to revisit it with a more critical perspective. Here's an anticapitalist critique of Idiocracy and the general culture of smug talk show liberalism, a take on eugenicist rhetoric masking itself as progressive, and some good old fashioned film criticism. I hope you all enjoy!
2022-03-25 14:30:47 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! I hope you’ve all been doing fantastically. As some of you follow me on Twitter might see, Emily has been visiting me in Vancouver for the past few days, and this Monday at 1 PM Pacific Time, we’re going to be doing a Q&A stream together on my YouTube channel. For those of you who have not seen one before, I always prioritize questions from patrons, so if you drop your questions in the comment section of this post, that will be our first reference point for getting quest...
2022-03-19 22:34:14 +0000 UTC
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So this one is kind of a return to form! I haven't done just a flat out Social Commentary video in awhile, but I felt like I had a lot I wanted to say here. I'm not sure how this is going to be received, but I really hope you all like it. My intention here isn't to flare up or recap drama, but rather look at this instance as a case study and provide some thoughts and recommendations for how we engage with online content going forward. This is about surveillance, principles, algorithms, the so...
2022-03-02 20:00:58 +0000 UTC
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Ohhh man. This one's been a long time coming. I finally get to talk about Mormor, probably my biggest teen obsession fandom-wise ever. More broadly, this is a conversation about fanon- what it is, where it comes from, and what it means for creativity in fan spaces. This one was a lot of fun to make, and I hope it's a lot of fun to watch, too. Y'all get early access and it formally goes up tomorrow morning. :) Enjoy!
2022-02-01 07:45:50 +0000 UTC
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This one will formally go up for the general public tomorrow morning, but I thought I'd share it with y'all early! Here's a short(ish????) and sweet treat for the holidays, wherein I expand a little bit on one of my comments from the last video and talk about a musical that... I really do wish was better. I hope y'all enjoy and happy holidays!
2021-12-22 11:00:23 +0000 UTC
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(forgot to hit the 'charge for this creation' button. Here's the video again! Sorry for the double post!
2021-12-05 16:45:34 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for the wait, everyone!! Life stuff... is like that sometimes. But I'm happy to be back and getting essays out. I'm very proud of this one and I hope you all enjoy it too!
2021-12-05 16:44:44 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
My next video is out, and it talks about the market of young adult dystopian novels and films, how they took the world by storm for years, and then just kind of.. vanished. This one was really fun to make (Emily and I had to watch some pretty bad movies for it lol) and I hope it'll be just as fun to watch! Also, chiller after the doozy that was the shipping vid. Thank you so much and enjoy!
2021-09-29 17:21:59 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone!
I hope everyone has been doing well and staying safe.
Since the release of the shipping vid, I've been trying to avoid spending a huge amount of time in too many online spaces, to... varying degrees of success. I managed to avoid Twitter (almost) the entire time I was apparently trending, which I count as a success. And I haven't been online a ton this week, because my partner actually came up from the US to visit, so we've been super busy doing a lot...
2021-09-04 07:17:44 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
This one was definitely A Lot to make and write, but I'm pretty satisfied with it and I hope everyone else is too. While we were working on it, Emily described it as a "season finale" for the past year or so of videos, and I think just based on the themes of it, that that's pretty accurate. I hope everyone enjoys.
(I was having some glitching putting the credits together for this, so if your payment has processed but your name isn't in the credits for some...
2021-08-17 17:16:05 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
I have a new video out! This one's a little shorter than previous ones, coming in at just over 50 minutes, and it's a bit less..... dramatic? Serious? Truth be told, after these past few months, and the next few topics I have lined up, it's kind of what I needed. I hope you're able to just vibe with me and enjoy this very, very weird cooking show that blends baking and a murder investigation.
Enjoy! <3
(sorry for the double notification, forgot to hit paid po...
2021-07-31 17:13:56 +0000 UTC
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Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so A Thing Happened.
2021-06-30 17:17:52 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for the delay on this one, y'all! Nevertheless, I'm pretty proud of it, and I hope you all like it. Enjoy!
2021-06-01 18:41:43 +0000 UTC
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So I just checked my email today, only to learn that I now have 1000 supporters on Patreon. When I made that category on my goals three years ago, I genuinely had no idea I would ever reach it- it seemed so absurdly far away from anything I could imagine that I put it there as a pie-in-the-sky upper limit. To actually reach it is so shocking, and really, really wonderful. I honestly just can't say enough how grateful I am for everyone's support. I feel so happy and so lucky that I am able to ...
2021-05-14 20:46:17 +0000 UTC
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Hoo boy. This one was a BEAST to make. 2 hours and 12 minutes! I hope y'all like it!!!
2021-04-13 17:52:55 +0000 UTC
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Was about to apologize for this being a 'short video' because it's 'only' 52 minutes. What has my life become.
I hope you enjoy this dive into the innocent text post that became one of the most infamous scams of all time!
2021-03-31 18:01:32 +0000 UTC
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Let's talk about fake stories on the Internet, and also the layers of deception. The LAYERS
2021-02-27 18:45:43 +0000 UTC
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2021-02-05 20:46:30 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone! I'm doing a Q&A stream tomorrow at 1 PST (or 4 EST). I want to prioritize patron questions first since that just seems fair, so drop your questions in the replies if you have them and I'll make sure to answer them on stream tomorrow!
2021-02-04 21:26:42 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for the delay on this one, y'all! There was some trouble with waiting for sponsor approval, but it's out now! In this one, I talk about the culture surrounding Twilight, its revival in the past couple years, and what we can take from the whole thing. I hope you like it!
2021-02-01 18:34:33 +0000 UTC
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One hour and 45 minutes. I cannot wait to rest after this. Let's talk about queerbaiting, fandom conspiracies, and, for some reason, intimate knowledge of Italian framerates.
2020-11-30 17:28:42 +0000 UTC
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The one we've all been waiting for, maybe? This one is LOOOOOONG, and possibly controversial, and took a lot of time and effort to make. I hope you like it!
2020-10-31 18:01:45 +0000 UTC
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I know I keep making 'MY LONGEST VIDEO YET', but this was the first one to exceed an hour, and I am EXHAUSTED. Regardless, this video was extremely fun to make, and I hope you like it!
2020-09-29 19:53:47 +0000 UTC
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Hi all! This one was a super fun video to do. It's partly a postmortem on the phenomenon of "tutorial channels" like HowCast, ExpertVillage, and VideoJug, and partly an exploration of my favourite one of these channels in all its weirdness. I hope you enjoy!
2020-08-31 18:33:37 +0000 UTC
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My last two videos were each my longest video to date, and today, that record is broken again. I go into an extensive history and chronology of the failed tumblr convention Dashcon, why it went wrong, and what absolutely buckwild stuff happened afterward. I hope you enjoy!
2020-07-27 19:26:41 +0000 UTC
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New video out, earlier this month than expected! Honestly, when I was JKR's statements, they were really upsetting and infuriating. In this one, I'm hoping to provide a response to them and explain their harmful nature, and talk about the "Miku made Harry Potter" meme and the subsequent attempts to divorce HP from Rowling. I hope you enjoy!
2020-06-12 20:21:35 +0000 UTC
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This one was really fun to make, because it was both a dive into weird fan culture and also a dive into my own history and interests. I hope it's equally entertaining to those of you who don't know much about how strange this moment in fan history was and those who were there every step of the way. Enjoy!
2020-05-29 16:43:01 +0000 UTC
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