Signal Boost: Oscar Wilde of YouTube fights the alt-right with decadence and seduction - The Verge

[ljwrites]

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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[lb_lee]

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.

[ljwrites]

Yeah it must be tough to get a degree of separation between the private person and the public persona--especially because there's a lot more immediate contact between internet celebrities and their audiences than traditional celebrities. I read that it really becomes a 24/7 thing and I could never do it--I'd flame out probably worse than I did with Tumblr.