What would you say are the dos and don't dos of leftist YouTube and podcasts? I've been thinking of making one but I don't want to become just another channel that appeals exclusively to imageboards and preaches to the choir.
I'd guess you'd have to be
Is it even worth my time? People say I have a "voice for radio" all the time
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What's your niche? What do you have to say that other people aren't saying?
I think it is still worthwhile, there should be more channels. But you should attempt to have a good idea of what you want to be. I’m thinking of starting a really broad leftist history channel. Audio and especially video still seem preferable for propaganda because they’re more engaging than written word, but even then unfortunately the most engaging thing is shorter content with high production value or meme potential. That is why channels like contrapoints or hbombergiy really exploded in under a year, the production value is fairly high for what it is. But there are other popular lefty channels like Shaun that just do the slideshow thing and somehow got a decent following.
I was thinking of doing a mix of news and history, probably alone, but I have a friend I could easily get aboard for some sort of podcast format. For history, I was planning on spreading some info about the history of socialism in the US for a general audience (whether that includes more well known figures or the more obscure utopian socialists of the 19th century. There were several former utopian socialist communities in my state I've been planning to visit, anyway). Maybe some stuff like videos of events in my state and stuff like that. It's all kind of nebulous in my head, but I'm well aware that common topics on people like Stalin, the "Holodomor" lie have been well covered.
High quality is definitely something that is important. Just look at Black Pigeon Speaks. Despite being a clueless crypto-fascist the quality lends him an air of legitimacy. I have a bit of experience editing but I'd definitely have to learn more. Good luck with your channel if you decide to go ahead with it.
I have a really small channel and I have found that the best way to grow is by responding to reactionaries or other critics of Marxism in general. I’ll usually find videos by going to youtube, filtering results from about a week old to a month old, and find pretty memey videos filled with mudpie arguments and the general 900 trillion Robert Conquest BS. I’ll then post my video as a response to theirs in their comment section and sometime’s they’ll respond, sometimes they won’t. The good thing about this method is essentially stealing their spotlight (however big it may be) and hopefully picking up some other MLs to my channel. The fact that an already known ML e-celeb can make theory or history videos and get any attention whatsoever is because of their already established authority. Even responding to a simple mudpie or alexandria occasio cortez killed 1917 quadrillion people can encourage growth. Use tags as well.
Another thing that important is not what you say but how you say it. What format are your videos going to be in, vlogs, animations, video essays? It has to be interesting as well as informative and factually correct. Pacing is everything.
Aside from podcasts, actually make use of the visual element properly. Always bother with decent audio equipment so you don't sound like shit (video equipment is much less important tbh). Don't retread shit that's already covered, recommend where to find that instead (networking). Definitely do post original thoughts to enrich the discourse, and especially reply to comments and make reply videos to other people.
So A) don't even tell people you're from here and B) instead of saying shit people agree with, say more controversial shit that you feel needs to be said. Much more likely to get views that way anyway.
If you’re even the slightest bit knowledgable, definitely make a channel, there needs to be more leftist channels that don’t have squeeky-voiced stuttering teens behind the mic
This. Get involved in your community and create a channel around that. Or at the very least comment and report on proper praxis from other organizations. Not enough of that going around from what I've observed.
Exactly. I don't know of any well-known channels with that type of focus. There are enough channels that produce video essays on the past. While the past is important and something I'd still like to focus on to some degree, I want to do something more firmly rooted in the present and forward-looking.
I've thought about starting a channel for a while. Made this one video but it came out sorta trash.
What do you guys think?
I’d quiet down the music and enunciate your speech more. You sound a bit bored too, like you’re reading a school essay. I’d also say that there needs to be more going on on screen to keep people’s attention. Even random footage of something related to socialism (such as Russian revolution, everyday life in the USSR, etc) going on while you talk would keep viewers in longer.
Tbh I couldn’t even watch the whole thing. I would make the points more concise and instead of long quotes condensing them to the core, even bullet-pointing it. Extra information can be gotten by people who are truly interested by leaving links in the description below. This is all just my 2 cents though
We really need some Adam Curtis type identifiable, adult voices. Definitely feels like every late 20 early 30 something YouTube leftist has this funny, pubescent voice.
Flea Market Socialist has some good videos talking to workers about shit.
for the love of god, stay away from cringey cartoon avatars. Being a disembodied voice just doing commentary is better than that.
Don't worry I'll leave that to right-wingers like Sargon. I want it to be taken at least a bit seriously
I know this isn't a popular opinion on this board, but I like a lot of left-wing YouTubers. Breadtube is a good thing.
I want to believe in it, but the first thing on the page is Anita Sarkesians channel
Are response videos still a good medium? I feel like there is a monopoly over them. I try to keep mine flowing good but sometimes I feel like I talk too fast or put in too much theory
I'd advise you to try to E-mail Three Arrows (send him some of your stuff), and offer to help wright, or spellcheck for them.
It's more helpful than effectively splitting a potential audience, and everything is effectively critique of reactionaries on that channel.
There's only a monopoly because Shaun and Three Arrows are the only ones not too lazy to make them. REACT FAGGOT
youll subdivide though
I didn't tell you to start picking fights. You'll only serve to grow the YouTube left.
Isn't a only couple big youtubers working independently, and quickly pumping out great unique content, better than 1000 micro sects, constantly dabbing on JBP?
Three arrows is kinda sus though, considering one of the three arrows is against communism. While he has a good audience it’s mainly radlibs and utopians. It’s good if we move anarchists and general radlibs into a Marxist line, it’ll be for the better (I think of badmouse who went from a syndicalist through baby steps of Philosophy Tube’s into a Marxist).
How do you mean ‘react’? Make more videos? Reaction videos like that one I made are incredibly easy to make, especially when it’s all theory.
Are you the Hoxhaposter who has been on a hiatus for a bit here and who was known for a some effortposts before the split? Then I'd recommend you to go ahead.
What's important I think is the following:
Christian Anarchist Chris Anderson makes a video about incels
1000s of people dabbing on jordan peterson is no subdivision
It's a great way to rake in views though. IMO finding a new way to dab on JBP should be what writing a novel disproof of astrology was for the greek philosophers.
pic related, I'm only a Wobbly because of optics btw
The channels are divided(i.e small), and YouTube doesn't favor small channels at all. Dabbing on JBP is still cool in moderation, btw.
Crypto lol. He's a 1488 gas the kikes type.
I made a video dabbing on JBP if anyone is interested.
rip the dream, I can't get around the copyright block
Search for James Lucrative and Adolf Stalin
Do: Actually make videos
Don't: Abandon your channel for 6+ months at a time due to crippling depression
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Its blocked in my country
I toyed with the idea of creating a YouTube channel to defend Pol Pot and maybe make some TGSNT-type video on Democratic Kampuchea but since I want to try to get involved in IRL politics one day, it's probably not worth the butthurt it would generate on YouTube. Sad. Maybe I'll find a way to do it without my voice
This, also watch the old Jim Profit videos under his abandoned channels like JimProfitCommunist
Yeahh I'm working on it. There was a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo in the outro music so it was blocks. Leave Jimi alone FFS, he's dead already.
Ahahahaha you moron
kek
it also got monetized by MBIYAD for having the fucking NAZBOL anthem in it
This is the kinda shit that makes me want to bomb US patent and copyright offices
Holy shit Adolf Stalin is still uploading. I used to cyberbully him like 2 years ago. Found his reddit account and replied to all of his posts just dunking on his theory. He got all salty and started threatening my family. Love that guy.
He's one of the prime people behind the shitting-up of Zig Forums too other than myself
cmon, why torment our comrades? I was on leftpol til last month when it got too bad, it's not like moderation on this board is fixed even if it is better.
Alright, reuploaded without the copyrighted content
hey leftypollacks here's a fascist server where you can post anything there are no mods all the fascist mods got banned LETS TAKE THIS OVER discord
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A video titled "The Revolutionary Party According To Lenin" next to bunch of other videos on piano improv is funny for some reason.
No one cares.
Don't forget the one on hallucinogenic mushrooms
Is Nobody in Cali a leftist?
Dab on Kermit, focus strongly on one or two marxist positions, have one or two videos explaining said Marxist positions, upload them all together and link to them in video so people will be more likely to watch them immediately. Keep shit short, the main goal is to get the public aware of the most basic principles of socialism, eventually radicals will emerge from the conglomeration of casual socialists.
Long form videos are good for educating people who already understand the basic principles but are perhaps intimidated by making a big leap to activism. Always try and pressure people to read Marx, I regret not reading for myself sooner.
y tho
thanks for the twentieth shillpost, jim
you’d be surprised
dup btfo
step 1: be british
step 2: make all the same easy arguments instead of ever covering actual theory like TRPF
step 3: ???
step 4: profit :D
watch my video niggers
i actually really enjoyed that video user, gj!
I really don't feel that there's a monopoly for react channels especially leftist ones. There's shaun three arrows and who else?
Also If you want to see some fat views you should dunk on jbp like some anons suggested, that always works. cheers
thanks a lot user. I’m definitely gonna start doing easy view videos like ben shapiro, yordon beterson etc. Although I won’t amass an audience like easy to digest lib three arrows and shaun, I’m sure they’ll pay off. cheers
I wanted to transition my channel into more of a leftist gaming channel but it's a bit contradictory.
How?
Holy shit lmao
Video games, like all media from music to TV shows, is the panem et circenses of capitalist society. Don't attempt to synthesize leftist thought with shallow consumerism.
This.
ok, i like vidya tho
You "like" video games because you are influenced by consumer, liberal ideology. Video games, like all media, push a class-message. Consuming this garbage disassociates you from reality, pushes bourgeois values (sometimes with a revolutionary tinge, but never legitimately anti-status quo) and is legitimately bad for human health. You think video games are harmless because you grew up in a milieu where these activities are seen as "normal", where in reality they are positively un-normal and antisocial. Just like how porn is often seen as normal when in reality it warps your mind. Consumerism and leftism do not and cannot mix. Unplug and live in reality
There is no such thing as "art for the sake of art".
I SAID WATCH MY VIDEO NIGGERS
Lol the first comment
"Progressives can't handle a Classical Liberal is a more fitting title"
What does that even mean? I can't understand liberals, it's like they have their own way of constructing sentences
They think JBP is a "classical liberal" and the "lefty" news media are "progressives." Just a complete misunderstanding of what they're looking at.
Sure, but the purpose of art must be untangled on a case-by-case basis. There are identifiable ways in which consumer media embodies reactionary capitalist ethics, but occasionally someone with some personal artistic insight gets the chance to materialize their vision inside the culture industry.
Anybody else find this guy completely intolerable? Idk what it is. His politics seem pretty typical radlib but something about him makes me really uncomfortable. Like I can't get more than 20 seconds into his videos without wanting to vomit.
He's fundamentally a dishonest person who goes with whatever ideas he thinks are going to go over well. Also he's a sex creep who made up a fake girlfriend (which involved racism) and later a fake wife (which involved a sex doll he brought to life with stop-motion animation). He even made a video about that recently because he wants to get in front of it and steer people away from learning the truth.
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Oh shit. I thought he was just another sjw nutuber. Do I have spidey senses?
There are a whole lot of people on the lefty/feminist bandwagon who have a fucked up history they're trying to atone for.
Other examples?
I want to know what kiwi farms digged up about contrapoints, could you give me a small resume on that? i don't feel like reading the apparently long ass thread they have about her. Did she do shady things?
Just watched the video he made about it. He is clearly lying about the fake girlfriend being a catfish and not a sockpuppet. Just look at the way his eyes move about 23:30 in. What a fucking jew.
Sarah Butts is still pretty popular among these people, and she's taken creepshots of toddlers and published them online.
Mostly this happens with minor people on twitter. Just watch those communities for a while. Happens every few months or so.
I don't know anything about Contra specifically. She comes across to me more like someone who self-harms than someone who hurts other people.
What a fucking chad.
Trying to integrate radlibs will literally destroy the chances of a successful socialist movement. Let them have their circlejerk, they're doing more damage than right wingers could ever dream of doing themselves as it is.
IIRC he opens the video adamantly saying that the allegations can't be proven, which is the least suspicious thing you can do lmao.
He using that retarded liberal feminist hat now.
it's good advice boomer sentiment aside
just pull your head out for a little while and breathe
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That's some pretty convincing stop motion. Peter much be a real master of animatronics.
prolly trying to be ironic "hey look at me. I'm a the big gay sjw liberal menace you altrighters hate so much. JK lol" sorta thing. I dislike it all the same.
Trying to dispel alt-right propaganda by leaning into it by way of irony has always proved to be a massive cringeworthy fucking failure and I despise anyone who does it. Like that youtube guy who calls himself Cuck Philosophy. Or just look at the massive misstep Bad Religion did with their "ironic" limpwristed "takedown" of the alt-right that just comes across as praise.
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This is what happens when you try to use the same ironic propaganda that used to work on Bush era evangelical neocons against the modern neofash alt right. Given that this iteration reactionary politics was basically born from ironic (non-ironic) praise of fascism you just play into their fucking hands if you try to use irony against them. Honestly the best propaganda tactics against neofash of this type is to just go full earnest and just call them out for the bunch of skinnyfat dweeb incel faggots that they are.
What is wrong with cuck philosophy? His name is sorta cringy I guess but his content is pretty damn good. He doesn't really engage with the alt right either so idk what you're talking about
He’s a college student pseud
Should we stop making response videos? It will attract many retards who don't even bother to watch it and it will dislike it to death.
And what is up with the high dislikes in every lefty-themed content on Youtube. Are there bots or are they're that fucking mad?
I don't think it we should stop making response videos, they do sometimes clear up misconceptions people may have. But it shouldn't be the main purpose. The main purpose is to educate and convince people of leftism.
youtube is the most reactionary social media platform
The right absolutely use bots yeah. It's not a coincidence that so much vacuous and just generally garbage right wing content is so popular. But at the same time they really are that mad. But so what? If someone watches your video the concepts will probably at least stick in their heads a bit, and considering how many YT viewers are zoomers, they're probably pretty impressionable too.