Some dork with 200,000 followers saying the CCP is bad probably has 1/1,000,000,000th the influence on your average Americans opinion than one Fox News or CNN host has.

And on the flip side them stanning the CCP would have a similarly meaningless affect.

So idk why we spend so much time getting pissy at them for their hot takes when all when all of them disappearing tomorrow wouldn’t change anything.

    • SteveHasBunker [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Okay but the only YTers with real influence are the ones who stream Fortnite and Minecraft and yell “epic bacon pownage! air horns” and they’re all Nazis.

        • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          "I think having more people who do Youtube-y content who just happen to be communists would be a good tool for onboarding. Same goes for all social media. Meet people where there at, etc."

          I think this is a key detail. There are some people that just inherently aren't receptive to having theory directly presented to/ pushed on them. But, just having media figures that they enjoy, who share their interests, and who happen to be communists, socialists, anarchists, etc., could help just by opening them up to the idea that they could like leftists as people, that they could have things in common with them, and maybe even that they could be lefties themselves.