reblog this post with the song that was last stuck in your head, I'll start:
505 by Arctic Monkeys
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The majority of professional YouTubers, particularly the more established ones, are bosses. Their economic interest rests on their ability to exert coercive power over their employees, including the coercive threat of homelessness. When they post about politics it's important to remember they aren't doing so from an uninvested position.
Look at it this way, if a packer at a DFTBA warehouse came to Hank Green saying their rent had increased and they could no longer afford it do you think he'd offer them a raise or more hours?
I mean tbf Hank Green is roughly as representative of youtubers as, I don't know, Taylor Swift is of musicians. Really, really riding the far edge of the power law line.
So like
When they post about politics it's important to remember they aren't doing so from an uninvested position.
is of course entirely correct, but I'm pretty sure the average 'pro' youtubers invested economic position is the desperate need to ride the algorithm and avoid pissing off BetterHelp or whoever's still buying ad reads on video essays these days. Making enough money to have employees is a, like, .01% thing.
ah tfw your sibling has a new special interest and then they get you somewhat exposed to it just enough that it infects your instagram for you page and now you have essentially no choice but to send them all the posts you find about said interest because it is becoming incredibly obvious that you need some baseline knowledge of the interest in order to have an average conversation with them