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It is genuinely hard to tell if some are legitimately ill informed or just parasocially defending their favorite YouTuber.

you’re not stupid or evil if you don’t understand the criticism. But it does mean you have some reading to do. I’d start with Mohammed al-Kurd’s book Perfect Victims

I made the mistake of looking at a popular breadtuber’s subreddit and ppl are emphatically defending contrapoints’ statement from a few months ago.

If you consider yourself pro-Palestine in any capacity and still don’t see what was wrong with contra’s statement, you have significant blindspots.

FROM NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 13TH IGN CREATORS GUILD IS GOING TO... DO OUR JOB! OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, IGN MANAGEMENT HAS GOTTEN AWAY WITH LAYING OFF OUR COWORKERS OVER AND OVER. MEANWHILE, MANY OF OUR COLLEAGUES HAVE LEFT THE COMPANY IN NO SMALL PART DUE TO BUYOUTS, OVERWORK, AND FEELING UNSUPPORTED, EACH TIME, THE COMPANY HAS REFUSED TO BACKFILL MANY ESSENTIAL ROLES, CLAIMING WE'RE ON A HIRING FREEZE, IT'S NOT IN THE BUDGET, OR THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO LESS WORK THIS TIME. AS A RESULT, IGNCG MEMBERS HAVE BEEN FORCED TO TAKE ON MORE OF THEIR FORMER COLLEAGUES' WORKLOADS. MANY OF US NOW WORK LONGER HOURS THAN WE USED TO. A LOT OF US RARELY TAKE LUNCH BREAKS. SOME OF US DO NOT TAKE ADEQUATE TIME OFF DUE TO THERE BEING NO ONE TO PICK UP THE SLACK. OTHERS OF US ARE STUCK DOING WORK WE WERE NEVER HIRED TO DO IN THE FIRST PLACE. UP TO THIS POINT, WE'VE ALL ACCEPTED THIS AS NORMAL, BECAUSE WE CARE DEEPLY ABOUT IGN AND THE WORK WE DO. BUT WITH SO MANY OF US STRUGGLING MORE AND MORE AS EACH NEW WAVE OF OUR COWORKERS ARE DEPRIVED OF A LIVELIHOOD, THIS CYCLE CAN'T CONTINUE. MANAGEMENT IS UNWILLING TO STOP IT, SO IT FALLS TO US. WITH THE LAYOFFS OF EIGHT OF OUR COWORKERS, IGNCG HAS NEGOTIATED A SIX-MONTH RECALL LIST. WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT, FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS, IF IGN WANTS TO FILL ANY OF THOSE ELIMINATED ROLES AGAIN, THEY MUST REHIRE OUR LAID-OFF COLLEAGUES. WE WANT THEM TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET THEIR JOBS BACK IF THEY WANT THEM, AND IF NOT, WE WANT THOSE ROLES BACKFILLED TO EASE THE BURDEN ON THE REST OF US. SO STARTING TODAY, LENCE MEMBERS ARE COMMITTING TO DO OUR JOBS. NO MORE, NO LESS. WELL SHOW UP TO WORK ON TIME AND LEAVE ON TIME. WE'RE TAKING ALL OF OUR LUNCH TIME, EVERY DAY. IF WE WORK LATE, WE WILL FIRMLY ASK FOR OUR RIGHTFULLY EARNED COMP TIME. AND IF IGN WANTS OUR LAID-OFF COWORKERS' WORK TO GET DONE, THEY'LL HAVE TO REHIRE THEM TO DO IT INSTEAD OF FOISTING IT UPON US. HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT IGNCG IN ALL THIS? SHARE THIS POST, AND TELL IGN MANAGEMENT THAT Y…

Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain.

Not this time. Not anymore.

This is generally my experience as a server at the same restaurant since 2017. Despite inflation increased menu prices, I am making less money than I was in 2022, even with a higher hourly rate. Ppl are both spending less money at my job & tipping less or not tipping at all.

Yeah, and look at the gradual increase of c-suite turnover in the last few years. Increasingly corporations don’t value holding onto ppl long term, and most exes seem to favor short term growth that they can point to so they can land another gig at a different company.

Tipping is an exploitative practice that we should end, but these ppl are cringe as fuck. Their anger almost always seems to be directed at their server and not the system itself. No one gives a shit if you don’t tip at a cafe, and you’re not dismantling the tipping system by stiffing your server.

Yeah I do chuckle when people talk specifically hbomberguy falling off when the last 4 or 5 videos he put out got more views than some video essay channels get in an entire year.

He may not have posted in a year but the next video will easily get 20+ million views

can’t wait to watch the democrats look at Zohran’s win and still argue that voters actually want genocide-supporting centrists.

Thank you!

That last part is on the money for me. I love the souls games, but I am very disinterested in the whole “Dark Souls lore explained” genre. Not knocking it for those that enjoy, but the possibilities are way more interesting to me than the facts.

that’s why you never go to Williamsburg under any circumstances

what’s it made of

fwiw tho I did have the same thought you had about how ppl would likely view some of Ethan’s actions as justified if they agreed with him politically. I also think the impulse to be a little icked out by a YouTube drama video about ppl who were actually friends is how ppl should probably react lol.

I don’t know man. I was an avid h3 pod watcher for a couple years. Ethan has always had tons of haters and friends who fell out w/ him. I’m not convinced the Ethan of a few years ago would stoop down to suing a random redditor. Of course I don’t know him, so could be wrong.

For better or worse, YouTube politics has always sort of been like this. Early breadtube was deconstructing right wing talking points via what was more or less YouTube drama with alt-right creators. It’s icky, but if it keeps people from going down the alt right rabbit hole it’s a good thing

Yeah it is surreal, but I’m not sure if we need idubbz giving us an in depth analysis of Israel’s genocide. a video meeting H3 on his level will likely do more harm mitigation than a more formal analysis. If it keeps people from listening to h3’s hasbara, I count it as a win.

The worst part of being a yugioh fan is that I have to play yugioh

compare Yuval Abraham’s speech to Adrian Brodie’s. Abraham calls out specific material conditions (US support of Israel’s genocide), Brodie just makes vague platitudes that are inoffensive and only serve as self aggrandizement. Abraham wants material change, Brodie wanted to make a good speech.

I agree that more ppl should see movies in theaters, but the answer to that problem is improving material conditions. We didn’t get to this place because of some societal psychosis that made everyone want to stop going to the theater.

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This speech frustrates me. I hate this narrative that societal changes can be blamed on individual’s choices. we didn’t just “choose” to stop seeing films in theaters. Toxic work culture, stagnate wages, & corporate greed are the reasons ppl consume art the way they do.

movies are cool!

I also think James is so terminally offline that he’ll never notice the red flags surrounding the event. & it’s in his best interest to remain ignorant of it bc it keeps him from acknowledging that he should probably dump screenwave.

Yeah this is tricky. I get that James may feel like he owes something to Craig, but all you gotta do is glance at that guy’s channel and anyone with some common sense would know it’s a bad idea to collaborate with him.

how long before youtube requires opting in to this ai shit to be eligible for the partner program