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Notes on upcoming video series

Hello everyone! This post is a brief overview of the upcoming video series I’ve been putting together. Both criticism and advice is very welcome.

It is intended as a relatively light introduction to several important (imo, anyway) political concepts, intended to be understood by people who are total newcomers to politics. So a series of short videos that are easy to follow along with, not too deep, structured so that we start with the basics and build to more complicated stuff. Mainly...

some waffle about my last video

Hello folks! 

I have to apologise about something. I had planned to make a short discussion video about my last video, talking about the choices I made when writing it and such. 

But I was unable to! Like, physically. I sat down to record that video, and I couldn't talk. I got the weirdest stage fright and totally froze up, which was surprising, as that's not something that usually happens to me. I think it's to do with the fact I was unsure of whether the approach I too...

The Death Penalty

I genuinely thought this one would be about 15 minutes long, at the outset.

Thank you, as always, for all your support <3 Feedback would be much appreciated. A few things may be changed or added for the live version. I chose to try out the new background with a serious topic - keen to hear what you think.

As I mentioned previously, sometime after this goes live I will record a backer-only readthrough of the script for this video. How potentially exciting, or possibly boring. W...

Work & Coronavirus update

even youtubers gotta do coronavirus updates

Suggestion box post

Howdy folks. This is a general post that people can reply to with video ideas.

Got a particular topic/video/book you'd like me to take a look at? Or any other suggestions for the channel? Please let me know below!

Thanks,
Shaun

The (hopefully) live version of The Bell Curve vid

Here's the updated version of The Bell Curve video, with (most of) the changes I mentioned in my last post, and a few more. I ended up not completely rerecording the audio thanks to an untimely cold :(

This will be the live version of the video unless there's any last minute major errors spotted in the next few hours.

Thank you so much for supporting me during the creation of this horrible nightmare <3

I was going to disable my patreon page for January and not do any wor...

The Bell Curve update:

Howdy folks! Currently in the process of drawing up a list of revisions to The Bell Curve video. Here’s a few of them so far. Production-wise:

A lot of the images in the video will be replaced for being blurry - these are scans I made that looked fine in my editor but exported all weird. They’ll be swapped out for clear versions, & there will be more of them.

I’ll put in brief pauses and segment titles breaking up the video, & corresponding timecode lin...

The Bell Curve: backer version

Howdy folks! Here is a (very) beta version of the bell curve video.

Audio is a bit naff and there are several visuals that are temporary/missing. The live version will have more visuals & some graphics that weren't made by me in mspaint. Most missing visuals are because I forgot to write down page numbers next to quotes, because I am a fool. I'll dig 'em up for the live version.

I have a few changes to the script planned - nothing too major, but a few things need to be added ...

The Bell Curve cometh

Hello folks! An update regarding my next video:

The backer version of The Bell Curve script is 23k words. It is ridiculous. I plan to start recording it in the next few days, and get it edited as soon as I am able. If all goes well I will have the backer version out before the end of the month.

This one will be out for patrons only for a few weeks at least, as I want to give ample time for people to spot mistakes & suggest changes.  I'm sure I'll have a lot to change, so ...

How PragerU Lies to You: Charlottesville

A response to prageru's recent vile video about the unite the right rally. Will be going live shortly unless any of you spot any large errors. Still processing, so don't worry if 360p is the only available quality, better qualities will be available soon

The bell curve video is still in the works, I just had to get this out asap, ha

Thanks folks!

Credits note:

Some people are being missed out of the credits because they're being marked as 'no reward' instead of the usual credits tier. I'm not sure if the issue is down to a Patreon bug or if it's on the user end, but it would help me out if you could double-check you aren't opted-out of the credits. Assuming you want to be in them, of course.

A guess would be that the issue might be for people who started out at a different amount but then edited their pledge to $5 without selecting to join th...

What is white supremacy? - A response to Steven Crowder

Update: this is the live version of the video, featuring a few extra bits/re-edits. Thanks a lot for your feedback!

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Howdy folks! New vid new vid

Apologies again for the delay. Feedback is appreciated, as there's a few things I may change for the live version.

Thanks as always <3

Right, I'm gonna get on video about the bell curve, Might not be the n...

Work Update!

Howdy folks. I'd like to apologise again for being slow with the video releases lately.

The video I announced would be next has been mostly finished for a couple of weeks, but I'm still struggling with actually publishing things, it seems. Since I froze on that project I've been working on a response to a Steven Crowder video about the terms 'white nationalism' and 'white supremacy,' which will be going out later this week, barring any more freezes. It is mostly complete, and I'm feel...

Video update! 30/04/2019

Hallo folks! Just a little update to let you know what videos I'm working on right now. My next video will be a continuation of my previous two videos about young online cishet white dudes & how to stop them being radicalised. That is nearly done and should be out very soon, hurrah!

I'm also working on a script about the book The Bell Curve, which is coming together nicely. Reading a few books for that one so it's taking a little while, but hopefully it should be worth it.

Al...

Announcement: I'm swapping to monthly payments

Hello folks,

As I discussed a while back on the channel, I'm changing over to monthly payments on Patreon. This is just a heads up to let you all know. I have a few reasons for making the change, primary among them being that I'd like to be able to work on different types of content, a lot of which I wouldn't be able to spend time making if I wasn't going to feel comfortable charging for it. 

I also suffer from imposter syndrome pretty badly, and the act of charging for any o...

PragerU & The British Empire [live ver]

Hallo folks!

This is the live version of the video! Various minor errors were fixed. Huzzah

Group Bias & Black Pigeon Speaks [live ver.]

Hello folks! I was going to redo the audio on this one, but enough people said that it was fine that I decided to just get it out there & move on, ha

Thanks as always! 

200k Milestone incoming! Woo, etc

Hiya folks! We're (hopefully) about to hit another big milestone on the channel, which means I get to make another Q&A video, so I'm excited.

So: Q&A questions! I need them. Send them to me. Post a question in reply to this post and I might put it in the video and answer it. Pretty good deal, right. I asked on curiouscat a bunch but they kept asking me lewd things, so I thought I'd have a better shot with you lot

Thanks!

Transphobia in the UK (live ver.) (happy new year!)

Live changes: Credits are fixed! hopefully. Various minor edits for clarity. Changed the "this year"s to "last year"s and so on.

Happy holidays folks!

Big thanks to the folks who helped me out editing this one, and big thanks to all of you for supporting me making it. Big thanks all around, basically

This is the video I wrote about a while back, where I mentioned the donation to charity. I'll be making that donation in early February, once I'm s...

2-Year Anniversary Wafflecast!

Patron-only content! Commence rejoicing

A sincere thank you for all your support so far. Me talking nonsense for a while is a poor reward, i know. my apologies

this isn't being charged for, just to clarify. ha.

next month we'll have the long-delayed asian immigration video - been postponing that for months, now - and another video that i'm keeping under wraps right now because i'm nervous about it. exciting, eh?

thanks folks <3

Abolish the Monarchy! [backer version]

Hallo folks!

Having a complain about the ol' Queen today. thanks as always for all your support.

i know this one is rather short, but i chose to release it today alongside my lil patron-only bonus thing, since the other project i'm working on right now is a fair bit more complicated than this one. excuses! gotta love 'em

let me know what you think, kindly spot any fatal errors for me, all the usual stuff. ha

thanks!

Note about an upcoming video:

Howdy folks. Just a quick note about a (possible) upcoming project of mine - I'll be donating a portion of what I make from it to charity.

Not sure why anyone would object to this - maybe some of you like me but aren't keen on the concept of charity, or something - but I thought I should let you know, just in case.

No concrete plans just yet, but right now (if it happens) it is likely to be next month.

Thanks folks! Have a puppy Bat

New spooky video!

It is not spooky.

Possible tweaks to come tomorrow, along with thumbnail and sources and the likes.

Thanks folks! I've been away for a little while due to a consecutive holiday & illness, & depending on when they signed up, a few people who have pledged at the credits tier might not see their names in the credits until next month. Apologies for the delay, things should be back on track from now.

In other news, I'm coming up on a patreon anniversary here, so i'm putting toge...

DOOM: The Fake Outrage

Hello folks! New vid new vid aah. Just processing now so if the resolution is low it'll be updated soon. Thanks as always

Might upload a slightly different version of this one when it goes public so i guess this is the backer version. Noticed a couple of visual hiccups as i was uploading it just now. nothing too major though

<3 you all

New video! aaaAAA

Thanks folks! <3 This will go live tomorrow unless one of you notices some sort of horrible mistake. Proper title, link list & thumbnail to be added when it goes live.

2 (Two) videos incoming next month :3 huzzah

Love you all <3

new vid new vid

new video is uploading at the link above. will be live once it is done processing!

this isn't the video i said i would make next. i am constantly frustrated by past-shaun lying about me & what i'm doing

this one jumped the queue because it kept distracting me while i was putting the immigration video together. that one is on the way next. definitely. probably, anyway.

thumbnail incoming tomorrow once jen wakes up & i can poke her with a pencil until she makes one for me 2018-07-01 00:17:45 +0000 UTC View Post

New video incoming and it's about the star war. i am sorry

New video will be live at the above link once it is done processing! [EDIT: live version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTJIk5PkTXg]

Thanks folks. Bit of a lighter video this month, and I feel a little bad about that! Apologies. I have to make an easier one every so often to keep the ol' spirits up. Don't wanna stare into the abyss too long

As usual, let me know you notice any mistakes. I th...

Next video incoming. woo

[edit] this link now goes nowhere! wowza. live version is now up on youtube. only changed a few minor things here and there

thanks for your feedback, everyone!

Charlottesville Vid going live

(uncharged post, this one)

Here's the live version of the Unite the Right video! Thank you all for checking it for me.

List of changes:
Added subtitles to a couple of hard-to-hear clips
Boosted the audio in a couple of places it was low
Added a headline showing Roof's federal death sentence, as I only read his state sentence of life imprisonment out loud.
Added a headline referencing Trump shying away from disavowing David Duke & the KKK, so people know I'm aware that wa...

Unite The Right video incoming!

Edit: content warning, ofc, for basically everything you might imagine would be at a fascist rally

My Charlottesville video is currently uploading and processing at the attached link! Doing the post for it now to be sure I sneak in under the deadline, there. Check back in a little while to find it uploaded if it isn't already

Holy cow! This video was dreadful to make! Aha. The subject matter is obviously draining but also I've been rather sick the past week & have had to deal with ...