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Hey team!
I'm heading out of town again in a couple days, so I wanted to get this online before I left. Looks like I'm going to pull it off! This is a fast and fun video to celebrate hitting 200k subs. It's missing an ending right now, which I've written and will incorporate tomorrow when I record final audio. Proper video next month!
<3
2019-07-22 02:21:13 +0000 UTC View Post
And it looks quite a bit different from last you looked at it! Check it out, show your friends.
Cheers, folks! I'm catching a plane to VidCon in a couple hours. Try not to have too much fun while I'm in the air.
-I
2019-07-08 10:52:49 +0000 UTC View PostHey team! Let's chat.
This Has Been An Ordeal
As of a couple days ago, you have the rough cut for the next video. It is very, very rough, and this week will be dedicated to polishing it into something I can release publicly. It needs some script adjustments, a bunch more footage, a lot of ...
2019-07-01 19:10:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team,
This is the roughest rough cut I've ever shown you. It's missing almost all of the graphics and titles, the script needs revisions, and there several chunks with no footage. But I haven't released anything since March and, when I got through this first pass, I wanted to show it to you. Not solely out of guilt (...
2019-06-28 02:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostHey team,
The script for the next video has proved very difficult and I just finished my fourth complete rewrite, but it's finally more or less working. Obviously, I'm not going to have it online before the end of the day, though, so it's gonna come out next month. The video I have planned for after that is something quick and fun to celebrate hitting 200,000 subs (which...
2019-05-31 23:56:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey team,
There's not going to be a video this month, and not in the usual "I'm behind schedule but I'll catch up later" way. For some very difficult personal reasons, I need to take a break.
The last videos brought in a lot of new patrons (hi new patrons) so I hate to take the very next month off, but I've been deliberating for the past couple weeks and feel it's needed.
I'll...
2019-04-15 14:57:59 +0000 UTC View PostHey team!
The AMA on Discord is starting at 3pm EST, about 1 hour from now. Here's a link to join the server. From what little time I've spent there, it seems the community can be kind of hostile and has it's fair share of reactionaries, but the stream itself should be well-moderated. If you can't (or don't want ...
2019-03-30 17:58:25 +0000 UTC View PostHey team. Let's do the thing we do.
Announcements!
Before we get into the nitty-gritty:
Both videos went public this morning, but I had to run out the door because I was late for something as soon as I finished. Sorry for the delay announcing it here!
Thanks for coming with me on this journey. I am very tired. The next video is going to be...
2019-03-23 02:24:50 +0000 UTC View PostHey team - I said the new video(s) would go public early next week. That is no longer true. In trying to record the final audio, I officially got fed up with my crappy microphone and ordered a Blue Yeti and pop screen. They will arrive on Tuesday.
So it'll probably be at least another day or two after that til the videos go live.
But they'll sound real good.
-...
2019-03-17 13:55:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the rough cut of the companion video to Always a Bigger Fish. It's missing credits, the audio is mediocre, and there's at least one slide I need to change, but it's mostly what it's gonna be in the final version.
I'll be doing revisions to this and Always a Bigger Fish over the weekend ...
2019-03-16 05:43:51 +0000 UTC View PostHey team, this is gonna be a quick one.
Timelines Diverge
I am sitting on the rough cut for Always a Bigger Fish while I put together a companion piece I'm calling The Origins of Conservatism. That one is underway and I'm aiming to get both released next week, but other obligation...
2019-03-06 19:02:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the rough of The Alt-Right Playbook: Always a Bigger Fish. Some slides reflected changes I've made to the script, so you don't need to point out discrepancies! And there are a few minor additions and revisions I've made, plus some graphical tricks, that will be in the final version. I'll be publishing that video and the companion piece where I discuss the origins of conservatism...
2019-02-28 19:12:44 +0000 UTC View PostHey team!
Real quick: The next video is the biggest Alt-Right Playbook so far. Not sure if it's the longest, but it has involved the most unique drawings (362 at last count). And it was my brilliant idea to try and release it during the shortest month!
So: You may get a rough cut today, and you may get it tomorrow.
Also: There's a small companion video that I want to ...
2019-02-28 15:19:02 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to the new year, twenty-nineteam.
Surprise Successes
I tell you what, 2019 is off to a good start, and after two years of bullshit I am here for it.
My year kicked off with Hbomberguy's D...
2019-01-31 21:08:24 +0000 UTC View Post
After trying to determine whether 3:30 PM on a Friday is an inopportune time to release a video, I have determine that predicting The Algorithm is basically astrology, so hell with it, I'll just publish the video when it's ready.
Which is now! It's online! Go check it out and put it in a chain email!
-I
2019-01-25 20:35:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team!
I have a video for you. The Alt-Right Playbook: The Card Says Moops. There are some very minor tweaks that need to be made before it goes public - I know I say "Charlemagne" when I should say "Engelbert" at one point (this sentence will make sense after you watch the video) - but it is actually pretty ...
2019-01-24 23:20:13 +0000 UTC View PostHey team,
Time makes fools of us all! My promise to you was that, when I got back from my holiday travels, I would put in the remaining days of the month working on the next video and send you a rough cut, whatever state it was in, before the end of the month. What ended up happening was, when I got back from my holiday travels, I promptly got sick and spend several days in bed.
So ...
2018-12-31 19:59:56 +0000 UTC View PostHey team! I can see how the rest of the month is shaping up for me, so I'm doing our December update a little early.
Holiday Vacay
As of last night, I am in California to visit friends and family for the holidays. I will get back to Boston with about five days to spare before January. While I have a draft of the next script done and I'm quite happy with it, looking at how ...
2018-12-19 17:14:12 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Belated Indigenous Peoples Day, team!
The Elephant in the Algorithm
I guess we can't really do a retrospective on November without discussing the video takedown, can we?
Well, as most of you know, Endnote 2: White Fascism was falsely reported as hatespeech and was taken...
2018-12-06 17:51:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The new video got taken down as "hate speech," probably by getting mass-flagged by Nazis. I'm disputing it, and will hopefully either get it reinstated or find out what I need to change to reupload it.
In the meantime, here's a mirror on Vimeo (somewhat more compressed to get it under Vimeo's 500MB limit). Hopefully this will be...
2018-11-30 01:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Here it is. Sing it to the heavens.
2018-11-29 15:13:56 +0000 UTC View Post
There was no getting around it. At some point in the series we needed to define fascism. I worry this is going to piss some people off, because you can't discuss fascism in the current political climate without pointing some fingers.
This will go public on Thursday morning. Not even a rough cut this time! This is the whole shebang.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to pass out. <3
... 2018-11-28 06:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team! The new video is out in the wild. Put it in a chain email and tell people their eyebrows will fall out if they don't forward it to 10 more people!
The ostensibly better mic I used handles consonants better but overall sounds tinnier than my usual mic? Maybe I had the settings wrong, I dunno. Probably just need a new m...
2018-11-04 11:19:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team! Here is the rough cut for the new Alt-Right Playbook.
I have actually already done my rewrites and recorded the final audio, but I haven't edited it yet, so this version is with my temp narration. About half a page's worth of the script was cut before I drew the slides, so you may notice a few parts where a slide is up for a while and doesn't seem to perfectly reflect what is being dis...
2018-10-31 21:24:48 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Halloween, Team!
They Just Keep Getting Longer
Remember when I said episodes of The Alt-Right Playbook would be "short and to the point" and implied they'd probably average under 10 minutes? The next installment of is the longest one so far, which is what I said about the last one as well. I am currently 269 slides deep in this mofo and nearing the end.
<... 2018-10-30 21:55:40 +0000 UTC View PostHidilly ho, team.
Big ol' Releaso
Holy butts we did it. It took four months and eight videos, but we finally released Bringing Back What's Stolen. As suspected, it meant not releasing a second video in September so we are - once again - o...
2018-10-10 01:49:39 +0000 UTC View Post
HOLY SHIT TEAM IT'S ONLINE!!!
The Big ol' Longo is now public! Show all your friends!!!!
I decided to split the difference and release it as BOTH an hourlong video AND a playlist of eight smaller videos, and then YouTube gave me a worldwide block on the long one and bugs out when I try to dispute it, so I guess that solved the dilemma for us. I may fiddle with it to get around the strike a...
2018-09-29 18:11:17 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
I'm having a quandary about the next video. The plan was to release the whole thing as one, big video. But some part of me doesn't like the idea of releasing a video that long. So I've been considering releasing it as a playlist, all 8 parts as separate videos but released in quick succession.
Y'all have been watching the videos one by one as I've released them. Was that an enjoya...
2018-09-25 00:19:53 +0000 UTC View Post