There is no other response to anything she says, across her entire lifetime, than linking a picture of her and the Clintons.
Iran-contra points
Lmao God dammit I can’t believe I never thought of that
kelly self-insert
How can you even smile and talk in the presence of a devil. “We came, we saw, he died” with her demonic laugh will never leave me
Truly a demonic people
I’ll never watch a video essayist who pays more attention to aesthetics than content. It’s the red flag that has consistently remained true since 2015. If you’re showing me some silly little skit, you aren’t showing me an argument. If you’re spending time on costuming that’s time you didn’t spend on research or sourcing footage that could replace the look-at-cartoon-me bullshit. If a serious person wants to wear a costume during their video essay, it stays consistent from start to finish without ever being mentioned.
It’s never steered me wrong. The channels I was immediately wary of because of that have all turned out to be weird social fascists.
Hakim stays winning
Type 56: white guy dressed in a rotating series of Chinese military uniforms. He never mentions them. The 30+ minute videos are Chinese history with translated Chinese from primary sources, maps with primary research, and historical footage. Solidly communist across all of it, no more doubt about his background than I have for any generic hexbear poster.
Beau of the 5th Column: white guy dressed as a whiter guy. Can’t get through a ten minute video without saying “
y’all i reckon i’d ding dang dun fuck mah banjo iffin it was my cousin” as hay falls out of his mouth. Social fascist who turned out to be a human trafficking mercenary.Scientifically proven.
Beau is the one dude I am totally certain was an Op. Like straight up, I think he was an intelligence guy.
I’m absolutely certain of it. He got off so lightly on such serious criminal charges. That is a federal informant [at the very least] doing COINTELPRO, 100%, not a single doubt in my mind.
he got clapped for human trafficking (labor violations and visa fraud not sex stuff afaik) and got off shockingly easy, and then later came the channel
These videos have convinced youtube I love Chinese history so now I get shit about like men’s hairstyles in the Ming dynasty with a thousand views. Might have clocked me tbh
The Lenin Head is sufficient, all other visuals are bourgeois.
“Have these gentlemen ever considered deez nuts?” -
i read that in his voice
With all three of them laughing and then talking over each other lmao.
The thing is, her “aesthetic” has always been fuckin bad. She throws up some red and blue lights and people thought she’s a fucking cinematographer
This too
I am a child so Sometimes a spoonful of sugar makes the theory medicine go down, you know? But yeah bad when such creators overdo it
Yeah I’m cool with style so long as the substance is there
I’m not saying you can’t watch it, just be especially critical of it. If 20% of a 10 minute video is silly time, did they actually do 8 minutes-worth of research on the topic or did they skim a few sources to frame their idea for silly time? Is their audience there for the ideas or silly time? Some creators will pass that bar, most of them won’t because they’ve self-selected for an audience that doesn’t want to listen to a detailed lecture or read the primary sources themselves. When there’s no silly time, a channel like Red Pen where it’s just a static screen and a lecture, they self-select for an audience that knows the material will enough to engage with it directly and critique all of the little details in their commentary on it. There’s no parasocial celebrity factor to it.
taking notes:
-Red Pen
-Type 56
Getting good channel recommendations from comrade happybadger in this thread.
There are like two exceptions I can think of, but usually when there’s a lot of sugar there’s no medicine, it’s just a sugar pill that you’re told is medicine.
two exceptions
Hit me
I was thinking of PhiTube and Tom Nicholas
I’ll never watch a video essayist
The correct take
she really wanted to say we conquered but couldnt help herself, she had to lib filter it
The online left thinks its bad when the US kills people, and I’m going to explain why they’re wrong
its bad when the US kills people
What are you, RUSSIAN!?
Yes
but then she didnt explain.
Her explanation will be “saying it’s bad when the US kills people is anti democracy and you should just vote more if you want to stop it”
I was feeling like her explanation would be more along the lines of “saying its bad is unpopular, and will lead to electoral losses therefore more bad things.” The weight of infinite possible future bad things keeps people from stopping the ones right in front of them all the time
Effective Altruism meets Effective Electorialism. You have to support the future Dem utopia or you will be punished for not helping it gain power.
Criticizing Trump now for doing something bad only opens up the possibility of the future Dem getting criticized for continuing to do the bad thing despite chastising Trump for it, ergo not criticizing Trump helps the future Dem get re-elected
Hillary’s basilisk
She just let he sycophants fill in the blanks in the replies
Russiagate is quite possibly the liberal establishment’s greatest propaganda coup of my lifetime.
it was in 2017, but only died-in-the-wool true believing libs still fall for it in 2025. It really only limped on because of the SMO in 2022, otherwise it would have completely fizzled out
I don’t think a lot of libs truly believe the election was stolen in 2016, but a lot still “believe Russiagate” to the extent they can dismiss stuff they don’t want to argue as perfidious foreign influence.
“Everything is Putin,”
Essential theory for the modern neoliberal, by A. Dumbass Analyst
o/u on time before Contra becomes a fox news commentator
Her takes have gotten so bad they almost seem like parody. I know she always sucked but now it almost seems like she’s intentionally trying to piss anyone to the lefty of Hillary off. I almost sometimes wonder if she’s genuinely been compromised or something.
She’s always been like that, there is no “compromising” going on, that would imply she ever stood for anything in the first place, this is just the natural progression of what happens when a liberal can’t break their posting addiction
Was it ever revealed if she was one if the people getting Democratic party dark money like all those other social media people?
doubt she was ever active enough to qualify for it. besides she makes enough on patreon to never have to worry about stuff like that
It’s free money for her if she does qualify though.
i think we’ve all collectively just gotta stop giving these dumb Breadtube fucks the attention they crave. My quality of life is vastly improved anytime I haven’t recently thought about any dumbass cracker Breadtuber. This goes for 99% of them and I’ll even lump in streamers (Hasan), social media personalities (pick your favorite ‘leftist’ on twitter or tiktok), and every substack author in with them.
Goes against the spirit of the comm but I prefer my slop to at least be novel and not attention seeking. Place your bets now on when she will inevitably either deactivate her account again within a week or otherwise just double down on whatever dumbass reactionary bullshit she’s trying to peddle.
23,958 Paid members on Patreon by the way. Assuming all 24,000 of those paid members is only shelling out $2.00/month for the cheapest membership tier Natalie offers, that’s $47,916/month, which is like 8k more than I make a year after taxes. $574k/year. If we assume half of those 24,000 pay $5/month for Contrapoint’s ‘outtakes’ and ‘behind the scenes’ videos, that’s $59,485/month or $718k/year. If you assume the other half of those 24,000 are still cheap bastards paying $2/month, that’s still $23,985/month or $287k/year - which means, if we’re being realistic - Natalie Wynn probably pulls close to a million dollars a year before taxes for…posting shit takes on twitter occasionally.
She’s on my Cask of Amontillado list.
“For the love of God, ABC! Think of the video essay aesthetic that will be lost! Have you seen my video on Voting??”
“Yes, for the love of God.”and every substack author in with them
I will not let you slander Klippenstein like this.
Say what you want about the rest of them though.
Yeah Kenny Klipz is too good. Lee Oswald images for veterans Day lol
Klippenstein is a journalist not a substack author. I was talking more like Matt Taibbi, Matthew Yglesias, et al. Neither of whom are anywhere close to being ‘leftist’, mainly because they already had brainworms long before it was a thing, but the platform itself certainly doesn’t help. Case in point: the msot popular political/journalism substack is Bari Weiss’
there is one (1) good cracker twitter personality, his name is adam from nimashiraziandadamjohnson duo
is media criticism effective as a whole? no. still good consistent anchorhe doesn’t count because he doesn’t actively try to grow the
audience on his personal account (nor does he even repost the damn episodes when they get tweeted out), he doesn’t show up at political rallies/campaign events; he is only interested in critiquing political media/journalists, which I can respect.Also he’s just an OG poster, a posters’ poster. The man was like the based sheriff of Kinja back in the day.
free my bro madeline pendleton
I have no idea who that is (thankfully i imagine??) but if you’re implying they are trapped in the Montresors catacombs, I cannot help you…I am in poor health & the vaults are terribly damp and encrusted with nitre…
Madeline Pendleton is pretty excellent, and has single handedly been carrying the war on Western brain worms for a minute now
i love madeline pendleton but it’s probably better for you you’re not on tiktok enough to have heard about them
social media personalities (pick your favorite ‘leftist’ on twitter or tiktok)
I’m not giving up Thotline Miami Skits for Trump Press Conferences thank you very much
Thotline Miami Skits for Trump Press Conferences
i think we’ve all collectively just gotta stop giving these dumb Breadtube fucks the attention they crave. My quality of life is vastly improved anytime I haven’t recently thought about any dumbass cracker Breadtuber. This goes for 99% of them and I’ll even lump in streamers (Hasan), social media personalities (pick your favorite ‘leftist’ on twitter or tiktok), and every substack author in with them.
She’s on my Cask of Amontillado list.
The revolution will not be video essayed.
I envy Russian efficiency, they seem to be everywhere causing everything. Where do I learn this power?
Russia is simultaneously a failed petrolstate that can barely fight against a country with 20% of its GPD but also controls every single ideology on earth except white American ivy league liberals
“The enemy is both weak and strong.”
can psyop usa
cant psyop country next door speaking same language
Proud of her. It used to take her 17 costumes, 4 stage changes and 1.5 hours not to get a point across
She used to be a really succinct communicator. The incel video where she tied in the 4chan LGBT board was really effective.
But now she’s got so much Youtube money that she got addicted to literal Opium a few years ago, and slowly fried her brain with the most limp, feckless takes, based on a misguided trauma reaction to getting Twitter cancelled.
lmao what? she got hooked on straight up smoking opium?
Yeah, she made a whole video about it. Part of me is sympathetic, substance abuse and addiction can be really fucking rough to struggle with.
On the other hand, straight Opium is kinda crazy??? It just feels like such a uniquely petty bourgeois thing to get hooked on
Iran-Contra points
KKKontraPointSS
“God I hate how everything my opponents say is some sort of wild conspiracy theory. Anyhow, they must all be some elaborate network of Russian operatives deployed to deceive me.”
FedPoints has sent another silly letter that is not worth the time it took to read
petite-bourgeois yankee settler acts in accordance with her class interests
lmao fuckin Qtecks agrees with you, pack it up
who is Gootecks?
he’s an old fighting game streamer who you probably recognize as the original face of the PogChamp emote. COVID drove him crazy and he became a Qanon freak, and twitch changed the emote after he expressed support for January 6
PogChump
Gootecks jumpscare.
I bodied this guy at final round 2012
Follow the money (to Kinko’s)
the only person to get any punishment from whatever they actually did on january 6
she is truly a figure that comes to mind when I think about the society of the spectacle.
It’s quite a trade to make enough money and develop a fan base that will make sure you never have to do actual work again in your life, but you have to completely nuke your brain with twitter microwaves so you are incapable of enjoying your completely easy life
