I like Shaun though, he makes me laugh. Say something funny, skull man. Come on, skull man, make us laugh. Entertain us.
Hia video on JK Rowling and Harry Pottwr was great and he did a lot of public work on trans issues in general in the UK ao hes fine in my book
Idc if Hasan follows electoral politics, he’s still one of my faves. He’s had good guests on his streams and he’s pretty funny. I was excited that he was on The Deprogram(imo it wasn’t a spectacular episode like the one w Alan MacLeod or Luna Oi, which were like top 5 eps) and I don’t watch him as often as I used to but I still have plenty of respect for him. He isn’t as far ML as most people I watch, but he still dunks on people in chat that defend Ukraine and deny their Nazis involvement and his China takes are usually more sane than the vast majority of people online
Yeah, I found myself strangely disappointed with the Deprogram episode, I have to admit. I can't actually say anything that could have been done better, Hasan isn't an academic, doesn't have some kind of unique insight for a more western audience like Luna Oi, nothing like that, but nonetheless I was sad that it didn't really stick out when Hasan is basically the only leftist "content creator" I actually pay any attention to.
Hasan studied political sciences and communication studies
I’d rather watch Hasan when I want my mindless leftist adjacent entertainment, rather then someone like Vaush or Philosophy Tube.
What's wrong with philosophy tube?
I'm not OP and wouldn't put her in the same group as Vaush, but I feel that a lot of her videos, specially the newest ones fall a lot into the trap of being like "Isn't this problem interesting? Let's talk about how interesting it is!" without actually proposing solutions or challenging the pre-established "left" liberal narratives. I don't personally feel any contempt for her as that could even be some defence mechanism since now she's basically the most notable trans youtuber for politics, so to me it's understandable to be selfishly careful.
There's always the issue of pretending that a celebrity/personality is the best available source for information. Like sure, it's useful to people who don't have time to research because they work 8hrs/day (maybe we could change that ;) ), but lots of reddit "left" liberals like to pretend they're the most educated on any subject because they watched one or two hourlong video essays on it, brought to you by skillshare.
I think she actually had two very good but low viewcount videos (Solitary Confinement and Housing Crisis ones) back in the olden days, but don't watch her now unless it's about my pet interests.
Edit: Also I think it's detrimental to make it about individual youtubers, as if this is not a pervasive issue of the entire "edutertainment" industry that has only grown exponentially since the printing press.
I know it’s a meme, but if I’m getting my braindead entertainment from somewhere I would prefer it to be from breadtube, other than the worst offenders like Vaush or contra
Yeah, and it's not like some of those (like Lindsay Ellis who is listed there twice!) are all that harmful. We're already bombarded by extreme liberal entertainment every day, I don't see what is so bad about enjoying some slightly less liberal free content, specially for those of us who don't have much access to foreign media and languages.
There are definitely some false equivalencies in this group/list, some of these folks are very good entertainment and everything we consoom doesnt need to be advanced intellectual theory and hardcore conversations about intense topics. We need to have fun and pleasure too, and hbomberguy 3 hour long videos on deus ex are precisely the kind of thing i find great to relax to.
Western social democrats will literally spend hundreds of hours of their life staring at a screen and watching a dozen different streamers and youtubers instead of reading theory.
