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Memoria

gaming youtube’s new it girl. she is so fucking funny, and she also has a pretty unique editing style that’s reminiscent of trad tv (complementary), complete with cold open previews, intermissions, and adult swim esque text outros

@dotmatrices

Feb 19, 2025

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Video essayists, pop culture analysis, intersectionality, Capitalism, vidya games, fashion

Currently getting through Dan Olson/Folding Idea’s latest video. All of his stuff is great and thoroughly well researched. Some of my fave videos of his: Tuca & Bertie, Flat Earth, and *his critique* of the Nostalgia Critic's *critique* of The Wall by Pink Floyd - his videos on NFTs and The Metaverse are fantastic too In no particular order, here's some more YouTubers I'm subbed to: (would love to write up a paragraph for each of them but don't want to take up too much space!) Princess Weekes: https://www.youtube.com/@Princess_Weekes/videos Jenny Nicholson: https://www.youtube.com/@JennyNicholson/videos Defunctland: https://www.youtube.com/@Defunctland/videos Khadija Mbowe: https://www.youtube.com/@KhadijaMbowe/videos Lisa Fevral: https://www.youtube.com/@LisaFevral/videos Any Austin: https://www.youtube.com/@any_austin/videos Shesez: https://www.youtube.com/@BoundaryBreak/videos Leo Vader: https://www.youtube.com/@LeoVader/videos Yhara Zayd: https://www.youtube.com/@Yharazayd/videos ModernGurlz: https://www.youtube.com/@ModernGurlz/videos Mina Le: https://www.youtube.com/@gremlita/videos PushingUpRoses: https://www.youtube.com/@pushinguproses/videos Maggie Mae Fish: https://www.youtube.com/@MaggieMaeFish/videos hbomberguy: https://www.youtube.com/@hbomberguy/videos withcindy: https://www.youtube.com/@withcindy/videos Evasive: https://www.youtube.com/@EvasiveOne/videos Team Starkid: https://www.youtube.com/@starkid/videos Hildegard Von Blingin’: https://www.youtube.com/@Hildegardvonblingin/videos

@softshelled

Jan 26, 2025

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i watch a lot of youtube

the video essayists 🌟defunctland: classic. i feel like this is the basic answer for anyone who’s into video essays, but you must understand that i’ve been a theme park fiend since childhood and used to watch defunctland long before he blew up, so he’s special to me. 🌟contrapoints: whoever LIED and told me she did something really fucked up, leading me to take a year-long break from her content, is going to hell. so damn smart. baltimore legend. 🌟broeydeschanel: my favorite film critic. sensible, funny, and generally way more thoughtful with her critiques than other influencer critic types. book recs 🌟bigbooklady: great recommendations that are outside of the run-of-the-mill indie girl genre 🌟ana wallace: same deal but more mature. opens my eyes & tastes in a way that social media doesn’t allow for 🌟carley thorne: standup comedian and booktube veteran with a balance of popular and niche recs. retired from booktube-ing for a style that i’m not jazzed about, but i still love her. lifestyle/vlog-y 🌟linh truong: i’ve been following them since high school and we’re the same age. big comfort creator, i think i’ve seen nearly every video 🌟benjiplant: goated interior design content. unfortunately, he and his partner’s home was destroyed by the los angeles fires. go watch his videos and don’t you dare skip the ads!! 🌟kate brock: vibes. good vlogs, good outfits. lots of comfort 🌟halle burns: another creator close to my age who makes wonderful, comforting content. i’m not a vegan but i loveee to watch her put together the craziest veg food combos. 🌟2014 dan and phil: not much else to say here!

@strawberrygirl

Jan 21, 2025

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the new single woman

women watch each other; i watch my girlfriends, and i’m noticing a shift! the waning years of the trump era thrust us—the ones who date men, anyway—into serious relationships. we tweeted about our boyfriends and wore short dresses, espousing an ironic but undeniably effusive allegiance to some kind of nouveau #trad-itionalism. “feminist” became a pejorative and we lost our shit when lana dropped “norman fucking rockwell!” but now? everybody’s breaking up and getting her own apartment! the girls are sleeping around and wearing interesting pants with the tabi boots they bought during the second term of the obama administration. they’re speaking critically of “porn” in hushed tones, or in lower-case letters on twitter. as a friend of mine recently muttered, eyebrow raised: “maybe feminism made some points”

@hari-nef

Sep 16, 2021

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club carry

club carry is a new york-based nightlife collective built around queer, femme djs of color. club carry manifests chaotic, intentional, ecstatic, decadent, and consummately safe spaces around their music: the hardest, fastest, loudest, cuntiest techno i’ve ever heard in north america. founded by dj antpuke, with a fluid roster of regulars including ariel zetina, memphy, dangerous rose, and sauscha, club carry stands alone and apart within the bottle service hellscape of new york nightlife. trans girls and boys—or, as antpuke ava calls them, “dolls and ken dolls”—get in free. the girls who go all night, and most of them do, wear wrap-around shield shades in anticipation of the sunrise

@hari-nef

Sep 16, 2021

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"The Fool”

the fool, also known as the clown, is a touchstone of memes concerning the self-reflexivity of one’s own silliness, or more likely her foolishness. no more: silliness is the highest form of morality. i was watching an episode of rupaul’s drag race: untucked recently—season 2, which corresponds to rupaul’s drag race season 3, because the first season had no untucked—and there was shangela: leering, musing whether or not she’d been set up to be “the fool” in the wake of some foul play involving the construction of a gown made out of hair. there is valor in being deceived, shangela! there is even glamour in looking dumb. if you’re reading this you’re uncool: so why fake it?

@hari-nef

Sep 16, 2021