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askchapoMine are Hakim, overzealots, spooky scary socialist, wow_mao, and probably others that I don't remember right now
I don't think this counts as a question? But it's more of a discussion, hope this counts as one
Eh, I'm sure there's some good people out there but I've been turned off political YouTubers because they always find some way of disappointing you.
But there's lots of good suggestions here I guess, take your pick from those lists.
George of Patmos, Boy Boy. I've watched some Hakim and Second Thought as well.
Anyone have any alternatives to Lily Orchard? I like her blunt attitude and hearing her speak about conservatives with actual contempt and not as if they’re big mean bullies we have to begrudgingly be nice to.
…but I found some…not so good lore about her so I need an alternative person to watch when I want someone to angrily speak of fascists like the scum they are.
But to answer the question myself: Adam Conover, Innuendo Studios, and modern DarkMatter2525 are my lib choices and Hasan, NonCompete, Thought Slime, Hakim, Yugopnik, Second Thought and Luna Oi are my commie picks
Lily Orchard is a name I haven't heard in a long time
Luna Oi is a Vietnamese communist party member, she also co-authors some translations of Marxist textbooks from Vietnamese curriculum that she's helping translate into English and are available for free online. She also participates in an all-female/female-adjacent podcast called Half The Sky.
A bit less "YouTube" and more into the podcast area, but ProlesPod is awesome, it's on YouTube, and the "Stalin Eras" series is the best content I've listened to.
some of you were wayyy too interested in hasans dong being displayed at that republican meeting
Let a girl enjoy a muscular hunk
Some of us still are
Don't shame me for enjoying a nice himbo
Revolutionaryth0t is cool . They are non-binary
They have a recent all-female/female adjacent podcast called Half the Sky, with Luna Oi (awesome Vietnamese commie), Rae from ProlesPod, and a few other girlies I don't know.
Came here to say this as well. Lady Izdihar is also good.
Lady Izdihar is a weird af, there was a short vid of her basically talking about how she's interested in gore and the macabre and went on to talk how the genocide in Gaza has given her some conflicting feelings
Haven't watched since because wtf
That's fucking wild and I am gonna need a source for that. Never have I got bad vibes from her.
You mean this? Idk if it embeds I've never linked anything on Hexbear
https://x.com/19brigid49/status/1735017938636140906
not making an account on the hellsite for this unfortunately
You can find an alternative, there are sites that allow you to look at the contents of links without having a Twitter account like Nitter/XCancel, I provided you the link, my end of the deal is fulfilled pretty much
https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2F19brigid49%2Fstatus%2F1735017938636140906
nah i get it, didn't ask for an alternative for a reason. nitter and xcancel are gone though, RIP
On this line: Hakim, Hasan Piker, Luna Oi, Second Thought, Yugopnik, Lady Izdihar, Revolutionary Thot, Boyboy + Ididathing... All of those socialist YouTubers seem to orbit the same ideas and views on socialism, with all of them being appreciative of past and present Actually Existing Socialism.
Is there a similar "bubble" for anarchism? Because either I don't get it recommended because I'm a socialist and I'm not exposed to it, or anarchists haven't been able to organize such a sphere
Luna Oi's husband runs an anarchist-theory youtube channel, can't remember the name
The anarchism bubble is definitely smaller, but check out Andrewism (his stuff literally doesn’t miss), Anark, AnRel, Alki, Prince Shakur, idk. I’m still a bit new to it.
I've encountered Anark before, never heard of the others. Are they as cohesive as the socialist sphere is?
Honestly feels kinda rude to call somebody you respect a breadtuber at this point.
Yeah breadtube died a while back, and even beyond that it was never a useful term.
Rohan Davis, he lives in India and goes into Hindu fascism, casteism, colonization, the protests in India, and anti Indian racism.
Florian (Florida Florian) talks about anti romani sentiment and interesting things about Romani history and culture
Ly Luan Marxist ASMR does theory asmr
Prairiefire does amazing anti imperialist video essays, very underrated, him and Rohan are my biggest recs
Other than Ly Luan im not sure if any of the explicitly call themself communists or socialists but Prariefire has a 3 and a half hour video on why Korea should be one country so I have a feeling
Boy_boy and ididathing
I am at the point where most I feel like most socialists on youtube are high on their own supply.
A lesser known creator that I like is Leaping Larry. He's an indigenous (Mikmaq) man living in Canada. He smokes weed and reads Juche books from DPRK.
https://www.youtube.com/@shanelawrence86/videos
That's fire wtf. Thanks for the recommendation.
Edit: he also plays super mario and zelda on a seperate channel‽ he's perfect.
he also streams on twitch https://m.twitch.tv/leaping_larry/home and is responsible for this masterpiece https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0S55Ux6PABQ
dunno what happened to his twitch group, "tank tube" though. it had madeline pendleton https://m.twitch.tv/madelinependleton/home and some smaller channels
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Noah Samson, Lady Izdihar
Lady Izdihar mentioned!
Noah Samson mentioned
I feel like video-essayist is a legacy art form already. Theres so few of them still releasing good things that you cant be picky about the subjects.
What do you think took its place? Or rather, there isn't an audience for video essays to be as common as they used to be?
I think nobody ever thought about youtube as a career, or a job even. They thought it would be a side hustle until a real job came along. Which is why so much of youtube lately has felt like the channel doing some soul searching about their life. I.E. the folding ideas I dont know james rolfe video, patrick willems death of the music video. A lot of video essayist are film majors; but unlike how music videos and commercials became a reliable method to get into the real movie business, being a youtuber didnt help you get real work. Print media is doing even worse so all the English majors who tried video essays have even worse luck.
I think a lot of people who would have become youtubers 10 years ago have substacks that get 10 views.
JohntheDuncan is one I thoroughly enjoy
StyroPyro
He's a commie‽ I love him so much more wtf. How do you know this?
https://hexbear.net/comment/7454534
He's a communist?
How else do you think he could wire 400 car batteries together?
But seriously, is he a commie??
No idea ask him, he's just the only capital Y youtuber I watch
Jihad?
:IASIPMac-Jot-That-Down:
Have you seen his storm chasing channel? Wild stuff.
Mac's?
Nah I kid, no I actually haven't tbh I'm just interested in the physics(not that meteorology doesn't involve physics) and chemistry experiments and domesticated squirrels
Ill have to check it out, but since seeing this video https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1w2ijhs/the_stadium_effect_inside_the_eye_of_a_category_5/ and this picture ::: spoiler spoiler :::
I'm not sure my storm chasing consumption can be topped lol
I just ran across it the other day. He watched a twister form like right in from of him before driving off. Lol
https://youtu.be/tfrurU-zbfY
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You like him because he is a commie, I like him because he makes cool stuff, we are not the same
cool stuff can be useful for praxis while pursuing the immortal science
