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Oscar Wilde of YouTube fights the alt-right with decadence and seduction - The Verge
ContraPoints, whose real name is Natalie Wynn, is known for slick, moodily lit YouTube videos that draw hundreds of thousands of views, where she brings a leftist perspective to a variety of hot-button issues — things like structural racism, Marxism, transgender politics, and the alt-right. With a wink, she calls herself “one of YouTube’s leading B-List transsexuals.”

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Date: 2019-02-18 07:03 pm (UTC)
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Man, I have no idea how any Youtuber who gets big does it. People sometimes seem to think I have a rough line to hoe, but no way man, the Youtubers, those are the folks who REALLY have a rough time on their hands. Having your real live face associated with your public persona performance (instead of just lines of text or drawings) leads to a level of public identification that folks like me can mostly avoid.

And I imagine it only gets worse when you're trans, or visibly different or unusual in any way.

Date: 2019-02-19 12:43 pm (UTC)
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Great article! I'm always impressed, amused, and titillated by Wynn's work. (The heartbreaking scene where she doesn't want to penetrate her lady partner and resulting dysphoria and loneliness... god, I've been there, but from a transmasc perspective).

I hadn't heard about Wynn's breakdown re social media until now, I'm sorry to hear what she went through. I'm so tired of callout culture, and of how late capitalism seems to efface any separation between the private and promotional more and more with every passing day. Everything is brand, is image, is receipts, is done in public view of the entire world for everyone to pick apart, all on heavily-monetized, traffic-driven platforms.

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