Ep 49: Breadtube Allstars w/ The Serfs, Non-Compete & Means.tv
The Antifada
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Every get the feeling that YouTube is a cesspool of corporate propaganda and right-wing nuttery? You're not wrong. Thankfully, the left is fighting back in myriad ways.
We are joined by content-craftspersons The Serfs, Non-Compete and Nick from Means Media to discuss how online got so fashy, what we can do to compete with Prager U (and a million other jerks) on the Tube and how left media can break from our capitalist overlords with new cooperative platforms.
The Serfs - http://bit.ly/2Y1YOP9 @serfspodcast
Non-Compete - http://bit.ly/2UXSMwM @emericanjohnson
Means.TV - https://www.youtube.com/user/saraj00n @means_tv
Go to https://means.media/ to help seize the means
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Antiphata one rest is best. I'm Sean KB and And yeah, that's pretty much it this week. |
| 0:15.0 | Producer AP Andy just recorded an excellent episode of the new series Po-C. |
| 0:20.0 | Pollack Cult, which will be looking at the paranormal, |
| 0:27.0 | the parasocial, and the parapolitical from a Marxist standpoint. |
| 0:31.9 | So he's off duty today. |
| 0:33.6 | And my co-host and partner, Jamie Peck, |
| 0:37.0 | is actually out of town right now at a 24-hour drone fest up state. |
| 0:42.0 | Now, she called me last night to inform me that she |
| 0:46.0 | happened to have taken some quote demon acid. I was a little concerned I talked to |
| 0:51.6 | her for a bit and then her friends you know obviously took the reins from there who were with her and I spoke with her this morning and she's doing great because you know what folks she is a tank she is everybody's drug mom and she is an experienced |
| 1:05.9 | psycho-naught so I'll be flying solo this week but fear not we have some excellent |
| 1:11.7 | guests we are going to be talking about the YouTube. |
| 1:15.0 | Now as anybody who spent more than five minutes on internet media platforms knows |
| 1:21.0 | the broader left has been on the back foot for years in the face of the near |
| 1:25.4 | hegemony held by the alt-right, the alt-light, and craven neoliberal shills like Pod Dam America. |
| 1:33.0 | Wait, sorry, I mean Pod Save America. |
| 1:36.0 | YouTube with its opaque recommendation algorithms and its imperative to profit |
| 1:41.8 | on even the most odious content is probably the greatest |
| 1:45.2 | exemplar of this. |
| 1:47.3 | YouTube serves as a lucrative pipeline for racist, misogynist, and nationalistic politics, even when it's not raking in millions in advertising |
| 1:56.7 | from corporate-funded right-wing propaganda outlets like Prager University. |
| 2:02.1 | Now, you can't see my hands right now but I practically dislocated a shoulder |
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