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YouTube video by Bunky Marvel is SCARED of You: The Profound Failure of CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD

between the Doomsday cast announcements and Disney’s smear campaign against Rachel Zegler for speaking up about Palestine, now feels like a great time to remind y’all to watch my latest YouTube video about Marvel and Disney’s politics 🥰

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I encourage you to watch even if you haven’t seen the movie! I provide a summary to make sure everyone’s all caught up, and then we dive right in to the MCU, the history of Easter eggs, Disney’s real-world politics, and Marvel’s relationship with fans.

MY SECOND VIDEO ESSAY IS UP!!! 🥳 In it, I break down the pop cultural and sociopolitical context that led to Marvel’s pathetically nihilistic Captain America: Brave New World.

YouTube video by Bunky The Profound Failure of CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD

The Profound Failure of CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD

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Daniel Molloy using a laptop in Interview with the Vampire

My first video essay playing on YouTube on a laptop screen

AAAH MY FIRST VIDEO ESSAY IS UP!!! EVEN DANIEL IS WATCHING 😮😭

YouTube video by Bunky vampires, billionaires, and YOU: what INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE teaches us about power

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the Wicked movie poster that pays homage to the original Wicked Broadway poster

Melania Trump at the 2025 presidential inauguration. She wears a buttoned black coat and a wide-brimmed hat that covers her eyes.

When fans edited Wicked posters to cover Elphaba’s eyes, Cynthia Erivo pointed out that doing so degraded her humanness. I think about that today as we watch the new FLOTUS flaunt an inauguration look which communicates that, in Trump’s America, a woman is less than human.

If you keep opening TikTok out of habit, switch the app’s location on your phone with an app you’d rather be clicking on. Personally, I switched it with Tumblr. Vibes seem pretty good over there and I haven’t accidentally opened TikTok once all day.

I'm @/bunkytv on YouTube, Instagram, Letterboxd, and Serializd. Let's stay friends and keep making new ones. Mutuals, feel free to DM me for my phone number. Love and hugs all of you. ❤️🫂

KEEP MAKING CONTENT

If you found joy or success through one app, you can find it through another. It won't be easy, but you'll do it. Don't let the TT ban stifle your joy. Don't let it silence you. Keep building community and using your voice.
The world will be better for it.

FIND YOUR MUTUALS ON OTHER PLATFORMS

The data you downloaded from TT includes your following list. Consult this or your in-app following list to search for your friends on other platforms. TT was great be the people on it were great, so stay in touch!

RECONNECT WITH BRANDS

A text I received from the brilliant @producerliz.bsky.social: Send emails to brands who have sent you PR or paid work and tell them that you're still posting on other platforms, with links to those platforms, and you would love to continue working with them.

SCREENSHOT IMPORTANT ANALYTICS

Analytics data is PROOF that you're good at what you do! Save it for future resumes and media kits bc your content means nothing to brands w/o it. Send these screenshots to your computer via a cloud service and store them with your other TT data.

6. Double check that all your videos saved properly, and back them up to a second storage location with your previously downloaded data for safekeeping.

NOTE: From what I can tell, this method does not download Friends Only videos, so be sure to save these manually.

3. Open TT in Chrome with the myfaveTT extension and select "Download from people I follow." Make sure your main account is selected.
4. When prompted, make a new folder to save your videos in.
5. Watch myfaveTT do its thing. For my
400+ videos, it finished in about an hour.

DOWNLOAD YOUR VIDEOS AS .MP4s

1. Open Google Chrome on your desktop and add the myfaveTT extension.
2. Go to TikTok and log in via a second account, not the one whose videos you want to download. Follow your main account with this secondary account.

5. Click "Request data." TT asks for your password here.
6. In the "Download data" tab, wait ~1hr for your request to process until the
"Download" button appears.
7. Click "Download." A .zip file will save to your computer's downloads folder. This contains all your data.

DOWNLOAD YOUR DATA (incl. follower/ following lists, DMs, + more):

1. Have your login info handy, incl. your password.
2. Log into TT on a desktop web browser.
3. Under your pfp, click "Settings."
4. Under "Data," click "Download your data."

TO-DO LIST FOR AMERICAN TIKTOK CREATORS: A THREAD (with tutorials!) 🧵⬇️

- Download your data
- Download your videos
- Screenshot important analytics
- Reconnect with brands
- Find your mutuals on other platforms
- Keep making content!

I’ve been doing all of this today and it’s been super easy, but lmk if you need a hand and I’m here for ya! 🫂❤️

TikTok friends! PLEASE be sure to download all your data and videos, screenshot your notable analytics and comments, and keep it safe for future resumes and media kits! Your work is important, impressive, and worth archiving.