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How to Misunderstand Masculinity - The Matrix & Fight Club
In this essay, I analyze the current trend of the "reject modernity, embrace masculinity" movement online, and examine how the religious undertones of The Matrix and Fight Club were inadvertently a catalyst for this phenomenon.
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The (Complicated) Legacy of Hamilton - Lin Manuel Miranda Video Essay
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With releases this year like "In the Heights" (HBOMax), "Encanto", (Disney ), and "Tick Tick Boom" (Netflix), it's undeniable that Lin Manuel Miranda is definitely here to stay. Thus, I have been reflecting on his legacy as a creator and the complexity of what many consider to be his magnum opus : Hamilton. ALL FOOTAGE / MEDIA BELONGS TO RIGHTFUL CREATORS
Kyle Rittenhouse - The Larger Issue
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Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted and I have some thoughts..... All footage / media belongs to their respective owners This video essay is for educational purposes only
The Blaccent Paradox
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In this video, I try to unpack and analyze the trend of non-black actors / creators (such as Awkwafina, star of Marvel’s Shang-Chi) using a "Blaccent" and other aspects of Black culture to advance their respective careers. This is a multifaceted issue, so I hope I approached this discussion with some semblance of nuance. Let me know what you think in the comments, agree or disagree. All opinion...
The Wire: My Favorite Opening Title Sequence
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Rest in power, Michael K Williams. Opening title sequences have been a staple of the medium of television since the beginning. Many have catchy theme songs / anthems that have become as iconic (if not more iconic) than the show itself. However, I think there's one tv title sequence that truly goes above and beyond... All footage belongs to respective owners. This video is non-profit and for ent...

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  • @aikidaedwards420
    @aikidaedwards420 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Lots of black ppl sound or try to sound white you guys just stretching things

  • @robber5310
    @robber5310 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    这样你

  • @slippytrippy8122
    @slippytrippy8122 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is how ppl talk tho

  • @bellamaz1972
    @bellamaz1972 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    She’s from New York, from a very diverse school. She speaks the way a lot of New Yorkers of her generation and circumstances speak.

  • @chisomokayuni8078
    @chisomokayuni8078 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I love Europeans (French, German) they all sound almost the same black and whites so long they from the same country.

  • @omellemmor4732
    @omellemmor4732 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    As annoying Awkwafina is, she is so yellow as a mustard as it is, she doesnt sound black

  • @81sushmita
    @81sushmita 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Dude im starting to think that i have a blaccent and didnt even notice until now

  • @artheaux666
    @artheaux666 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    There was a post online I saw that said specifically, queer people tend to adopt the opposite identity of themselves. White queer men adopt the identity of black women and that for someone like a Billie Eilish she’s adopted similar identities to almost like black female stud, or even black men. I.e. the do rags the baggy pants, the sneakers, the streetwear styling. A lot of people will pass it off as Gen Z, but it’s so specific to black culture. It’s just not the case.

  • @TurinoSucks...jk9090
    @TurinoSucks...jk9090 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Also with billie eilish ik the reason y she wears baggy clothes is bc she doesnt want to be know for her body

    • @Jeremy-wp4yh
      @Jeremy-wp4yh 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      and yet she does vogue lingerie shoots lol

  • @TurinoSucks...jk9090
    @TurinoSucks...jk9090 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Isnt she from New York i thought thats y she Talks like that

    • @bellamaz1972
      @bellamaz1972 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Exactly. From a diverse school also I think.

  • @yhn-jz9xs
    @yhn-jz9xs 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is really just in America cause in other parts of the world people do not give a shit if you sound black or white we all just live with it. This is why American culture sucks…

  • @jduwayne1
    @jduwayne1 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    @Narrator: BLACCENT IS NOT JUST SOUNDING BLACK! ITS SPEAKING, ENUNCIATING, ITS VERBAL GENUFLECTING...! AS A BABY-BOOMER I HAVE EXPERIENCED AS WELL AS BEEN TOLD BY OUR ANCESTORS DURING SLAVERY, RECONSTRUCTION AND JIM CROW WE WERE NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO ATTEND SCHOOL! SO WE ADOPTED BROKEN, ABBREVIATED ENGLISH! SO STOP WITH SAYING YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT AAVE OR EBONICS SOUND LIKE THAT HAS BEEN CO-OPTED AS WELL AS APPROPRIATED BECAUSE ITS TRENDY!

  • @ignaciorequena9182
    @ignaciorequena9182 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    2:58 No one owns a culture. Or it's expressions.

  • @solidsnek1776
    @solidsnek1776 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How to misunderstand Fight Club and The Matrix - objective opinions 😂😂😂

  • @MichaelDespairs
    @MichaelDespairs หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don't mind if you sound white or if blacks sound black but it makes me absolutely furious to hear white kids trying to sound and act black.

  • @Babygurl933
    @Babygurl933 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When I hear the word blaccent, I think of that one sound that goes "in the clerrb, we all fam".

  • @carlosrivas1629
    @carlosrivas1629 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the black accent has direct origins to the south, get over it as it is also white.

  • @shqip_sumejja
    @shqip_sumejja หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's so cringy hearing awkwafina 😭

  • @Bigand788
    @Bigand788 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It’s sad talking ghetto and street has become black culture

  • @mikeFolco
    @mikeFolco หลายเดือนก่อน

    I thought that was just her NY accent

  • @marting5130
    @marting5130 หลายเดือนก่อน

    none of this is interesting. identity isnt interesting.

  • @niko-yp3ps
    @niko-yp3ps 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the author greatly got his point across. applause

  • @TheeKingRayzor
    @TheeKingRayzor 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    *"Not sounding black, but caricature."* Excellent way to say it. 👍

  • @Ggianni10
    @Ggianni10 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    awkwafina grew up in queens..

  • @saucygoat8287
    @saucygoat8287 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don’t like people using fake accents in real life like as if they’re real, but there’s no such thing as black or white accents. It just depends where, and how you’re raised. If that’s still exclusively a “black accent”, then what would you call the accent you have? I wouldn’t inherently call it a “white accent”, yet people call you the “whitest black guy”. Plenty of people put on a “white accent” for movies and the internet, people just like getting mad about nothing.

  • @ichigo121
    @ichigo121 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So I grew up in the hood as a white girl. I have always talked similarly to Billie Eilish's "dialect." It is annoying, ngl, when people try to portray you in a way that they expect of you just because its what they expect. Ive had plenty of people say if I was behind a curtain they would assume I was black. In all honesty... that my cultural upbringing. Nobody judged me for it except for a few racist individuals. I am done trying to play people pleaser and pretend I am someone I am not, just because that is what is "expected".

  • @mooviedude141
    @mooviedude141 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ok but what about the cone bread girl?

  • @BrysonYinglingUKR
    @BrysonYinglingUKR 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think another thing people forget is that some accents cross cultural and racial boundaries. There was some tiktokker who got canceled recently because she was supposedly using a blaccent. She was Asian, and had grown up in New York, either the Bronx or Brooklyn, and had a very strong accent and people canceled her for talking like a black person. But then when some native new Yorkers and a linguist chimed in, everyone started pointing out that her accent was more akin to a Bronx accent rather than a legitimate blaccent. People sometimes associate a blaccent with a regional accent, due to that region being associated with black people and culture, so then when someone of another race speaks in their normal voice, people who aren't from that region immediately call it a blaccent. Everyone who was cancelling the Asian girl online, where mostly white people who weren't from New York. I've had people tell me I sound black, when I'm just talking like I always talk, being from the south. If it's your natural voice, or if it's a natural accent, there isn't as much of a problem. Like you said, the issue is when people treat it like a costume that they can take off at will.

  • @erikpng
    @erikpng 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Technically, Neo is a savior, considering he offers the best alternative to the system at the end of Revolutions. And that's what it should always be about. Not destroying the system through anarchy, but replacing it with something better. He didn't save the human race by destroying the system, like Morpheus would have wanted.

  • @fero4298
    @fero4298 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi, I do have a question is it problematic? I’m a spanish speaking person. I’ve learned and am actively learning english through media. TH-cam, videogames, tv shows, etc. And I concider to have a higher level of English than the average person here. I’ve picked up an accent due to the media that I consume, and a friend of mine who now lives in the US, tells me that my way of speech is problematic. Now I personally don’t feel this way. Where I live there’s a lot of people from different countries and I’ve adapted their words. Like Mexico’s “ese” “wey” “alv” chile’s “la wea” DR’s “EL DIABLO”. I just don’t be understanding what the difference is if I can adapt vocabulary from other cultures in Spanish, but I can’t in English. I swear to you when I serve at restaurants I can’t say “Of course sir” without doing a Jarvis accent. Do I get a pass? Do I start speaking like Sofia Vergara? Do I start consuming “white media”?What do I do? Lmk

  • @greatemeraldgoat5029
    @greatemeraldgoat5029 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for making this video. I appreciate that you took the time to define out the difference between parody and appreciation.

  • @canti7951
    @canti7951 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I understand the sentiment behind this video but the way you talk about the case makes it seem like some injustice happened in the court. Shouldn't we call for black citizens to be given the same benefit as Rittenhouse instead of making it look like he didn't deserve that verdict because he's suddenly now in the center of a race issue? At this point, we need to start reconsidering how we conceive of equality because if we're going with this, we're just wishing for everyone to be worse off but equally. This is what people mean when they say identity politics tend to smokescreen class issue, we're able to accept equality given to us by a defunct system so long as we're equally suffering, equally exploited. In the process of you portraying Rittenhouse in this way, you got people looking at him like some criminal psychopath without care for human lives, not as a person trying to survive, making some stupid decisions, a product of his environment, etc. That's a great irony that you got people seeing this white guy like how racists see black people being convicted. Why not look at all criminals from shoplifters to pedophiles this way. Different color, same lowlifes amirite? Isn't that the equality you're advocating for here?

  • @patriciac.a.1614
    @patriciac.a.1614 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    now you just compare anything to jim crow to say it's just as racist yes, white people steal culture from any other cultures, cause theirs is so f. boring. they can't even make proper music. but yeah, I don't see that being so racist like you said

  • @timvanschuilenburg1524
    @timvanschuilenburg1524 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    when ever someone states the phantom that is 'alt right' they loose all credibility 😂😂

  • @Tkeyy12
    @Tkeyy12 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video

  • @lights_army
    @lights_army 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What is you talmbout

  • @mridulbisht9865
    @mridulbisht9865 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nothing cringe me more than seeing most vanilla looking guy with less than 1% melanin rocking durag at 6am in a tim hortons.

  • @apollonius6214
    @apollonius6214 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    lol culture

  • @godofroots
    @godofroots 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    SHOUTOUT JID AND EARTHGANG

  • @IForgotToWipe
    @IForgotToWipe 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    yeah i understand that feeling, or i can atleast relate to it a little.. im brown and people tell me i "act white" like how am i supposed to sound, how do you want me to act?

  • @GaryAa56
    @GaryAa56 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Remember, you ain't Black unless you voted for Joe Biden.

  • @GaryAa56
    @GaryAa56 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm offended by the movie White Girls, Jake from State Farm was White all of a sudden he's Black, Spider-Man is no Black, Spider-Man is White, Jimmy Olsen is not Black, Jimmy Olsen is White. How about we have a white Actor portray Black Panther?

  • @koalakoala2344
    @koalakoala2344 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In addition to Neo's name: "Anders" is a Scandinavian name that translates as "human" or "man". This makes Thomas Anderson -> Thomas, the son of man. Another reference to Jesus, with Thomas being the one Apostle who didn't believe that Christ returned after the resurrection, a hint at Neo not believing his own powers.

  • @koalakoala2344
    @koalakoala2344 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fight Clubs portrays the life of young people growing up in corporate culture and how they're unable to form meaningful relationships. Tyler IS the narrator with his desires realized through random acts of violence as opposed to his desires being formed by advertising. That's his way to coping with nihilism under capitalism. They all grew up without proper parenting (no matter if their parents were physically absent or just weren't there as role models). And the same is true for Marla. Marla is also unable to form emotional relationships with men, she's been sexually abused as a child, she has meaningless sex to satisfy her urges but that's it, nothing more. If you pay attention to it, there are so many little hints at this, the phone call close to the end with the narrator for example, when she asks if they "had sex" or "made love". Instead of proper parenting, corporations raised them. The corporate world sorts people by their behavior, punishes disobedience, rewards cowardice. Advertising tells you what you need, what you should enjoy, who you are. Even if you secretly wish something else, you still comply because that's all you know, because that's how you survived in the past, because you're afraid to be someone else - Tyler Durden. It really is a battle against your self, and most people either lose or don't dare to start the fight in the first place. The real merit of this battle lies not in a victory of Tyler over your old, weak, passive past self, but in what you learn from this battling. Tyler is resentful, destructive, anarchic in the worse sense of the word. He doesn't have a purpose in life either - but at least he accepted it. IIRC the movie says that at some point, that Fight Club "gives you a reason to cut your hair and trim your finger nails" - even when there's no deeper reason behind Fight Club itself, "because everything is meaningless anyway". So if there's nothing behind this belief, this violent nihilistic void of Tyler Durden (which leads to fascism when it influences others), then we get to see the merit in overcoming this too - genuine relationships. In the end when the narrator, *after learning from this nihilism*, sacrifices himself to end that nihilism (in other words, nihilism itself only hurts when you feel that you gotta do something with your life, that you have to "be good for something"), it is then that he realizes that self-sacrifice doesn't have to mean that your life literally ends. Only then is Marla interested in him again, because he's no longer the insecure order-follower, nor the emotionally unavailable bad boy, nor the unreliable mess fighting himself. He simply is whoever he is. They simply hold hands, the only genuine, kind, well-meaning sign of their affection for each other in the whole movie. No egotistic satisfaction of one's own needs, no self-interest, no "trying to get something from the other one". Now they like each other not because they have to, because there's no one else available, because they desire something or any of that - they like each other simply because that's how they feel about each other. They accepted life as it is, no need for destroying the world, no need for saving it. What's left is genuine love. Real love doesn't come out of despair, social conditioning, morality, drives, or advertising. Only after going through the pain of desire, nihilism they are free to love each other, because they no longer have to, but still do so. Growing up without parents or proper role models, they found each other. They'd make great parents, don't you think?

  • @momerathsoutgabe-mt1gc
    @momerathsoutgabe-mt1gc 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I grew up in a small southern town. The amount of racist rednecks that listened to rap and "talked black" was astounding. And it has only increased. More and more people adopt this or that from black culture, because it's cool or funny or "different" but they don't want to accept the actual people which it originated from. So many "internet words" that are used increasingly by more and more white people, going as far as having WHITE POLITICIANS using certain phases or words to seem "hip" and "widdit" are actually lifted straight from black people. So many non black people admire so much of the black culture but are hesitant to embrace it's people. It's so strange. And please, if you're a POC and think I sound like a moron or that I'm totally wrong, I would definitely appreciate being schooled.

  • @leeatkins2944
    @leeatkins2944 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How is this in any way objective?

  • @Appasplug
    @Appasplug 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bro upload again, the people need you

  • @maninwater5615
    @maninwater5615 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    it's cringe when it's obvious that it's put on

  • @CompleteManiac
    @CompleteManiac 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awkwafina doesn't do a Blaccent. She's not from Shanghai or Beijing, she's from Queens. That's how she talks. I'm from Brooklyn. That's how most native New Yorkers talk. So just because she's Asian she can't sound like a girl that grew up in a major urban metropolis?

    • @shqip_sumejja
      @shqip_sumejja หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm not familiar with NYC but in London, white, Asian or African people will use MLE, an accent rooted in Jamaican slang. I'd assume similar to NYC because of the melting pot culture there

    • @artheaux666
      @artheaux666 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Queens isn’t predominantly Asian is it tho? So this deflection doesn’t work, especially since those areas are predominantly black/hispanic

  • @SHMUPS
    @SHMUPS 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    But they never do learn or care without a real punishment. Cancel culture actually worked