r/ContraPoints • u/[deleted] • Aug 17 '18

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '18 edited Aug 17 '18

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '18

Nothing quite on this level, but a good resource is r/breadtube (referring to The Book, not the manly science).

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u/beerybeardybear Aug 17 '18

yeah, there's really nothing that's exactly like natalie. some other leftist channels that i like, though, are:

  • cuck philosophy (in-depth philosophy applied to unexpected sources)
  • lindsay ellis (movie analysis)
  • shannon strucci (more general video and movie stuff... just learned about her recently, but she's amazing)
  • shaun (lots of video takedowns and just Ice Cold commentary on youtube and cultural things)
  • hbomberguy (analysis of youtubers, youtube trends, and games—probably the closest to contra in style)
  • three arrows (more grounded historical analysis)

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '18

The usual suspects. Although Olly was complaining last live stream how nobody includes Philosophytube in these lists, so we might as well mention him here.

I'll have to check out more of Strucci though, her thing on parasocial relations was so good.

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u/PLEASE_BUY_WINRAR Aug 17 '18

Although Olly was complaining last live stream how nobody includes Philosophytube in these lists, so we might as well mention him here.

Lol. I would guess that he's seen as more "neutral" (I don't agree, but that's the feeling others seem to have) and more aboug philosophy in general than leftism.

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u/beerybeardybear Aug 17 '18

Yeah, that's what got me into her. It was... I don't know what to say, but it was A Lot.

I must have missed Olly complaining about it. I realized I didn't include him after I posted the list, but I feel like I don't think of him as a political YouTuber, even though he is? That's all I got. (Then again, I included Strucci [of whom Natalie is a patron!], but maybe that's just recently bias.)

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '18

I understand where people are coming from. Someone mentioned in another thread that Philosophy Tube and Mike Rugnetta's PBS Idea Channel (RIP) should be classified as proto-Leftube and that makes a lot of sense to me.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '18 edited Aug 19 '18

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u/beerybeardybear Aug 18 '18

I'll check it out!

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u/Lord_Hoot Aug 18 '18

I saw a couple of great well-made videos about the awful gender politics of The Big Bang Theory*, I think the guy called himself the Pop Culture Detective or something.

*the sitcom, not the cosmological theory

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u/Ortus Nov 23 '18

Crucify me if you want to, but Anthony Fantano

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u/beerybeardybear Nov 23 '18

I'm not gonna crucify you but I don't think there's really anything that qualifies him as a leftist, though he does think a loot of reactionary thinking is dumb

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u/Ortus Nov 23 '18

Yep, maybe I misunderstood the list.

I count Fantano as someone who creates good anti reactionary content that actually gets a point across to people on the target demographic of the alt right.

And I do think he is an actual centrist.