This project is very dear to me… I first saw it at the New Museum back in like 2016 and became obsessed. This is once again a Riot Grrrl adjacent rec…
Artist, musician, filmmaker Wynne Greenwood started a band with herself basically. She takes on 3 personas: Tracy (the lead, usually live), and Cola and Nikki (usually projected behind her). It’s hard to explain how incredible this is. Even just timing each video must have been so meticulous. Tracy has live, hilarious conversations with Nikki and Cola. The girls each have such developed personalities. There’s one scene where Nikki asks Tracy to start calling her Nicole (even tho it’s not her name) and then Cola asks to be called Nicole too. IDK they crack me up and the music is honestly really good too! I find it all so inspiring and would love to try to make my own version… Maybe one of these days I will.
Wynne has worked with Le Tigre (she made the music video for Hot Topic) and one of the videos for their live performance backdrop last year.
I could ramble about this for a long time but I will not — u should go watch some Tracy & the Plastics!
May 18, 2024
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This project is very dear to me… I first saw it at the New Museum back in like 2016 and became obsessed.  Artist, musician, filmmaker Wynne Greenwood started a band with herself basically. She takes on 3 personas: Tracy (the lead, usually live), and Cola and Nikki (usually projected behind her). It’s hard to explain how incredible this is. Even just timing each video must have been so meticulous. Tracy has live, hilarious conversations with Nikki and Cola. The girls each have such developed personalities. There’s one scene where Nikki asks Tracy to start calling her Nicole (even tho it’s not her name) and then Cola asks to be called Nicole too. IDK they crack me up and the music is honestly really good too! I find it all so inspiring and would love to try to make my own version… Maybe one of these days I will. Wynne has worked with Le Tigre (she made the music video for Hot Topic and one of the videos for their live performance backdrop last year.) I could ramble about this for a long time but I will not — u should go watch some Tracy & the Plastics!
Jan 26, 2025
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5ninthavenueproject is something I stumbled across recently. Archival footage from the 80s ft. queer culture and the likes. Some glimpses of Rupaul in her earlier days.
milatequila for video essays and random takes.
OrionCarloto makes really pretty stuff to watch. So does Damon Dominique.
Ourmotherlan are a skate collective from Lagos who make some cool stuff.
And I have followed BrandiTV since I was like 15. If you ever have an intense need to watch someone do their makeup on edibles, she is the one.
Lastly, can’t go past The Cave series by Kenny Beats. literally the funniest
Sep 21, 2024
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Kel Lauren - They make videos on graphic design, but I find them really entertaining, even as someone who has no interest in being a graphic designer. Every time I watch their videos, I just feel instantly relaxed. I don't think they've been posting as much lately, but they have a great & unique backlog of vids to go through! Something very different from what other YT'ers are doing.
Ashley Norton - If you like Mic's Mike, Ashley's content is in in a similar fun, pop-culture commentary vein. Hers is more straightforward talking with less fun gimmicks (no wall-webs like Mike does), but she's still very funny and compassionate in her approach to topics. She covers nostalgic topics like old bandom drama and 2000s/early 2010s TV stars/shows. I like that she seems to focus on what she's interested in, instead of recycling the same discourse/hot topics that the algorithm pushes.
Mila Tequila - She does a lot of longform retrospectives on 2000s phenomenons, so they're really good for putting on and listening to while you're painting, cleaning, etc. I also appreciate that she doesn't have the specific type of boring, monotone, video-essay voice that can make a lot of people zone out! Hers feels more conversational.
Casey Aonso & UnCarley - Both do some fun pop culture tier list ranking vids that I think Mike's Mic enjoyers would like! UnCarley does some videos similar to his style with wall webs & Casey's whole channel is great.
ModernGurlz & Mina Le - Have some great fashion content! Modern Gurlz has some really interesting trend analysis videos & Mina Le does great interesting commentary on fashion history.
As for individual videos, this one had some refreshing relatability & charm that I feel like I haven't seen in a hot second on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/ZFhA26rPNy4?si=d9bmyekxAEv0zC5s
Feb 8, 2024
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as we all (pi fyi users) know, being into shit is cool.
i’ve been thinking about how in the early days of facebook rather than liking pages you would “become a fan” of them and i just love that verbage. so sweet and precious
Feb 23, 2024
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As Perfectly Imperfect subscribers know, being into shit is cool. This was an early rec I made on the PI.FYI app, inspired by Facebook’s “like” feature formerly being called “become a fan” because I find the verbiage so sweet and so supportive. It’ll always be way cooler to be an embarrassing superfan than to have 0 interests.Â
Jan 26, 2025
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Get out of the house and be in the world but in a cozy, private kinda way. Life changing
Jan 27, 2024