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C o n t e n t
The Disappearance of 2 Soundcloud Rappers ► • Why These 2 Soundcloud...
Bo Burnham Exceptionalism: Inside Outtakes ► • Bo Burnham Exceptional...
the existential horror of creating content online ► • The Existential Horror...
i interviewed a trans guy ► • Video
Encanto Power & Demigods ► • Encanto: The Implicati...
The Yassification of Texas Chainsaw ► • The Yassification of T...
i threw away my childhood to be an influencer ► • i threw away my childh...
Social Media and Nihilism ► • Social Media & Nihilis...
10 video essayists who put me to shame ► • 10 video essayists who...
SCOOBY-DOO IS AN INCEL ► • SCOOBY DOO IS AN INCEL...
Bo Burnham Destroyed Me ► • BO BURNHAM'S INSIDE DE...
Lesbianism in Movies ► • LESBIANS ARE REAL AND ...
T i m e c o d e s
0:00 general threats
0:27 what is internet corruption?
1:20 the internet is kinda real and kinda not
2:57 internet vernacular
3:40 tiktok words lol
4:44 meme speech
5:35 internet trends
6:27 more threats
6:49 i wonder what this could be
7:26 CHRISCHAN
9:21 subcultures
11:20 fandoms
12:06 cancel culture haha lol
12:44 fandoms conclusion
13:20 THE FREE SPEECH ZONE
13:52 social movements online
14:48 misses information
16:17 INFOGRAPHIC HELL
19:35 threats 3
20:06 radicalization
21:18 the alt right pipeline
23:50 the alt left pipeline
24:33 fixing the entirety of american leftism
26:29 the lefttube rabbit hole
26:59 does any of this matter?
27:47 online vs reality
28:30 optimism??? maybe???
29:17 mia! mia! mia!
29:31 solving internet corruption
30:50 thank u!!!
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thank you for watching my video. - ตลก
This was really good. You put some sincerity in there and it landed. I'm not even going to add on an ironic joke. I'm just going to smile like a proud elder figure and nod approvingly at your growth.
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Omg hi FD love your content you’re my favorite TH-camr! Ty ❤️
God, I wish that was me
This was a good respectable comment, and something many can learn from.
Regardless of how I feel.
That’s an endorsement I can get behind. Not because I can’t think for myself but because I can💪❤️✌️Excellent production! Looking forward to more !
Has anyone considered Mia Cole as a renewable source of energy?
yes, but you need a diamond pickaxe to mine Cole
this video cured my ADHD and then gave it back to me again
GIVE US MORE CONTENT TO CONSUME, MIA COLE. WE DEMAD IT.
WE DEMAD IT LIKE MAND!
WE DEMAD IT LIKE MAND!
The internet took my pearls, killed my cat, stole my soul and kicked me but… no relationship is perfect so I’m just gonna pretend like everything is fine.
Omg, I just realized why I feel disconnected from those around me; it's because I define myself through internet fandoms and most other 34 year olds have an actual life and think you are fucking weird when you walk up to them and open with a quote from Hbomb
Now do this as a 47 year old... (Now you are free to judge me as the other commenters previously judged you. You're welcome.)
It could be worse - you could be like the guy my coworker went on a date with. He spent most of the time talking about how bad Jordan Peterson is, but she had no idea who he was.
Same, but big brain moves is to go into IT and make a new circle around IT so I can talk about computers which is like the internet.
I try and go with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia quotes... slightly more success...
What’s Hbomb
Mia...blink twice if your parents are/were Brooklyn Hipsters (in the 2010s) forcing you to make these videos for ✨clout✨
you cant tell but im aggressively blinking
@@miacole real talk, you do the best CJ the X impersonation that I have ever seen 😂☠️😂
@@miacole ok but come join me in Alvin and the taliban
@@miacole is this real
The bit about radicalization hit hard. I lost my dad to that shit. It got so bad I went no contact and was told I was "starting drama" when he was the one talking about hanging politicians and telling roe protesters to kill themselves. I am very alone now. I don't know where to go from here. I wish I knew someone else who went through this.
hey i’m a longtime lurker but your comment really struck me. i also lost my dad to radicalization and i feel for you. it’s so lonely especially when you are made out to be the black sheep for daring to go against it. My dad also spews incredibly violent rhetoric and i’ve never understood why it’s so difficult for him to understand why that stuff isn’t ok. that kind of rhetoric is never okay and it’s so sad it’s so pervasive now. you are not alone and there are lots of sad, lonely children out there that just wanted their parents to be good and lovely people. I’m sorry for you, myself, and all the people out there that don’t get experience parents that are loving and kind. I hope you can find peers that fill you with love and light. best wishes from an internet stranger!
@@lilymarchan4028 Thank you, this made me smile a bit. I see you and your struggles and wish the best for you
I also experienced this with my dad. He was kinda always obsessed with politics but now it’s insane. He has lost all critical thinking skills while hounding others for “not thinking for themselves” and “not doing research”…. And because he can’t be reasoned with, talking to him always leads to an argument where it can’t end unless you agree with him. And it hurts because we once had really interesting conversations where I felt like he was actually getting to know me. But now every conversation is him convincing me that all the beliefs, desires, and values that I hold is because I’m brainwashed…. All that is to say, I understand what it’s like to have a radicalized dad. It sucks. I’m sorry you deal with it too. Sending love, internet stranger ❤️ you are not alone
It really is awful. I have an aunt frequently starting family dramas over stupid things like "wearing masks bad" and she's so far down the rabbit hole that she spends hours arguing with someone who literally agrees with her?? Like they're so busy being mad they don't stop to listen to a word of anything someone says to them. I can understand people have different experiences, opinions and beliefs and it's not always easy to deal with those differences. I can understand even having extreme beliefs. But the least you can do is be civil about it. Spreading hate is never the answer. Violence is never the answer.
you touched on FOUR videos ideas I had?? I’m so impressed and angry that I’m gonna subscribe to your patreon
I'LL TAKE THEM ALL
yo mia and duncan! my favorite youtubers
To me, it's really weird that most white Americans only knew about systemic racism starting in 2020. I went to a more progressive charter school where they taught us Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States and the 1619 project.
I guess it's sort of inspiring to see so many people take action about racism as soon as they learned about it since I was taught this stuff in a pre-2020 atmosphere. It was kind of confusing to see that people knew about this stuff and weren't taking dramatic action to end it.
Anyway, really great video. I loved your tips for leftist radicalization.
We're also seeing a backlash too. With increasing awareness of systemic racism, there also comes an increasing number of people who were very happy /not/ being aware and would like for things to stay that way - back when everyone knew America was the best country in the world and a beacon of freedom, and anyone who says otherwise is a commie. Simpler times. That's why you're seeing so many politicians make a big campaign point out of fighting the 'woke' and 'liberal academics' they claim are controlling the education system, and passing state laws to keep that sort of thing out of textbooks.
I Think the leftist radicalization pipeline starts at fandom, like movie or book critiques that are left leaning and deeper analyses
anything that gets you to tumblr
I love being in my 30's! It's like being in your 20's but you know more stuff and also gross men are less likely to harass you! 🥳🎉
@@sophiafletcher124 true! and stretching too! I truly don't get why people are ashamed tho. Maybe they're the ones who peaked in high school or something lmao
Being 30 is like being 20 but with less emotions
30 is when women become truly 30
@@LouiSwagula that sounds fuckin amazing
@@LouiSwagula cause you're unalive inside
this is my first experience with this channel and I can already tell you either have crazy ADHD or just like giving us whiplash with how fast paced you made this 😭
You gotta check out the Randonautica video!
I’m new here, I’ve seen like your Bo burnham video and that’s it, but in the last CJ video when he referenced you and said “wait till your mother hears about this” and flashed a pic of contrapoints I nearly cried laughing so I think this is good and I will stay
it's so fast, it's so witty. my adhd brain can't even keep up. it's honestly impressive. subscribed
I keep having to pause and rewind to see what those things that pop up for half a second are lol
I appreciate that you included Some More News in the left tube pipeline, definitely accurate for me lol
I love how you can tell in her mannerisms that she’s watched every CJ the X video
I think I don't know what's going on, but this is the best possible way to find out or not find out. Thanks, Mia Cole!
"30yos in the crowd" ouch, right in the feelings XD But thank you for thinking about the not-cool dinosaurs
Thanks I hate it
Note: the transition to "does any of this matter" was pretty impactful tbh. Slower speech, different music, more weighted tone.
Watching this video was one of my favorite moments on the internet. It made me laugh multiple times and I loved the points being made and the humanity that shines through your videos. Like, I see a part of you through your art. Your editing, your acting, your scripting, you worked on them to the point where you do amazing things. And because you shared your amazing creations on the internet, it has a ripple effect, much bigger than what either of us can see from our povs. This matters immensely.
As someone who is watching the process of internet corruption for a bit longer (I'm 29 and I have been chronically online since I was like 8) I've inhabited many different internets. It's all crazy when we deconstruct it; this magic box with billions of consciousness interacting that was just a computer or phone away from us. We had the power of gods on our hands before we were even teenagers.
Poetically, many of us who were fucked up by the internet in some senses are unfucking it up. You, CJ The X, Bo Burnham, I see many voices who get it talking about it in art with depth.
Thanks for this video, it means a lot that you did this.
29 online since you were 8???? youre a fucking case study, i think you might be exactly who i make videos for
@@miacole it started with neopets, now I'm a bi anarcho-communist watching all your videos and fluent in like 3 different meme languages.
One day you're taking a piece of the giant omelette of neopia and then a couple of decades later you're talking about commodification of your soul through the internet with a video essayist you admire. So the internet is good, actually.
Ps: I sent my last comment mid-draft by mistake, I edited it and said more
@@miacole but really, I think we are. I’m 36, have had unfettered internet access since I was 8 (didn’t experience boundaries on the internet until the badly implemented nanny software in ‘99/‘00 in middle school… learned what hentai was in the school library because porn sites were blocked but Sailormoon webrings were not lol).
Watching the online world crash into real life was a series of confusing, visceral experiences. The first commercial thing I saw was a neopets plush, it was pretty weird to see, like the matrix glitched. Watching the shift from the expectation of complete anonymity to using your real name with your photo and address attached was BONKERS. BBS boards losing their crown as king of internet was a big loss, the only way to avoid the algorithm is to force people to use a frustrating interface that gives equal weight to every user’s hot air.
I still use the internet as a separate place, like going to Walmart at 3am. People born after the merge are at a real disadvantage, if I saw a TH-camr in real life I would probably unsubscribe, that’s terrifying. The magic mirror is not real! I REFUSE!
@@vysharra That's really fascinating to hear, coming from someone who's more of an "after the merge" kind of person. I never got to experience the internet in its "wild west" phase, and by the time that I found the stuff I liked I didn't even consider that there were different "eras" of the internet until watching some internet history videos. I just assumed there was "the real internet" and what my parents showed me as a little kid.
Dude, I'm 38 and have also been terminally online since I was 8. Starting at 12 I started pouring my guts out on Usenet, then Livejournal, then social media. Probably why I find it so much easier to get along with younger people these days, they understand the brain cancer better than my peers.
Hi, failed leftist TH-camr here. Just wanna say that you're not unemployable, you can get out if you want to. That kept me trapped for a long time. I know you were joking, but I remember feeling that way unironically. I had to quit because it was really bad for me. I was living on Twitter, I was stressed, I wasn't sleeping, my relationships were suffering, and it was making me incapable of being creative enough to make videos. I have tried earnestly to leave social media as much as I can stand and I got a job teaching pottery and I'm doing much better. I don't think there's anything to be had for a real left social movement online because the world of social media is so much more constructed and controlled than irl. All the surveillance and control of the irl police state and capitalist economy is just amplified online. I like your videos but don't feel bad if you're doing your best and you don't make a revolution happen, or you can't make people really understand what you're trying to say. Everything online is designed to work against you
Leftist on the internet is not real.
Yeah, we should change this though. This should be OUR spaces to connect and unplug freely as we please.
@@mikafizz1022 that's not how it works. Capital owns the infrastructure that makes up these spaces. The architecture is evil, it doesn't matter who's in the building.
You and CJ are the only ones I've found that speak and exist at TH-cam X2 speed, and I'm here for it.
Chase that neoliberal exposure and parasocial fame, Queen 👏👏👏
Go check out Ro Ramdin, another speed devil.
@@ryn2844 will do!
Who is CJ?
Edit: nvm, she mentioned CJ the X
Fuck lol i can speak fast as my default too but its not very understandable and I used to not speak voluntarily until I found a reason to make a damn channel.
And I'm the masochist who watched this video at 2x speed for extra speedy confusion
If I weren't fully corrupted by being online all the time I never would have found Mia Cole.
Oh. Oh god. Oh my god. What have... what am I doing with my life. Oh god.
Your living in the matrix and watching a another clone of Ann Rand babel about the current state of things because she just got woke to how she about to loose her privilege..
Story of my life
This video feels exactly the length that it is and that is surprisingly rare
More people are doing long form now that Susan has loosen up the reins.
hey. I'm late 20s and I've been chronically online since I was 8. that's when socially engineered my way to finding out the family computer password. shortly thereafter i discovered neopets and fanfiction and the 3 hours between the end of the school day and my parents coming home from work became my personal descent into, er...whatever you want to call this particular corner of the sandbox I have the joy to share with you (parasocially) on this fine evening.
your videos entertain me. I like watching them. they make me feel smart, because I get the joke, and the reference, I only had to rewind twice to pause at the exact right moment to read the stealth screenshots, aren't you proud of me? the jokes are funny, and clever. even when im too high off weed (don't do drugs, child...) and/or too old to get it, I find the aesthetic pleasure of watching certain brains do a thought simply enjoyable regardless of whether I am actually absorbing what's bring said. Come to think of it this is probably why im into film theory video essay youtube. watch a whole movie? why bother when I can watch Dan Olson talk about it...
but it's more than just enjoying a content you made, though I did
l have spent the last pandemic and a bit starting my career in pediatric crisis/emergency mental health.
that has been a rather singular experience that is hard for me to characterize eithout resorting to wordless screams
your videos (along with the rest of the riding tide of youngins on here) gives me hope in a way little has in the past....ugh. best not to define a timeline, really
hope has been hard to come by. there's a reason my favorite video essay of the past few years has been How To Be Hopeless by Carlos Maza
so please understand that when I say I'm very grateful to get to watch something that gives me honest to god Hope after a long ass day at work
I mean it
cheers!!!!!!
In Paprika there's this scene where the detective is on a computer using the internet, and he meets Paprika there in a bar/website and she says "Don't you think dreams and the internet are similar? They're both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents."
Nowadays I think that more than ever, as in dreams are not real but a possibility of realization, the same way everything in the internet. The line has become more blurry ultimately, and if it depends on our technocratic overlords that line is to become even blurrier.
We are incentivized on behaving ways more and more genuine to our repressed selves, and that can be either good or bad, depending on what what kind of person represses.
That's it, this comment does not have an adequate conclusion. :)
I'm the obligatory skinny white girl who quit social media and is here to evangelize about it like it's my gameplan for private jet ownership.
But really... It's so good, and so scary. It's like you're standing in a garden and people are endlessly throwing garbage in. Sometimes you get a free last gen iphone you can sell, but most of the time it's a used condom.
I see internet culture from one step off. You can't escape it... But now I choose how much I swallow. I mean, engage with.
Highly recommend. You think you need Twitter to "keep up" but you don't. TH-cam cute girls will tell you all about it. You think you need it to keep up with friends, but you don't. You can just text/call them, and be that one friend that "actually reaches out :/".
And you get a lot, lot, lot less sad.
If you're an artist, I'm so sorry. You're trapped. You do need social media.
The medium is the message. Sorry. Really.
Listening at 2x speed is a form of mental focus I never anticipated
Not sure if this is intentional or just a part of the video, but you could say this same style of video you used that's snappy and fast is a byproduct of Internet corruption as well!
Since lots of people don't pay attention to stuff now unless it's fast, to the point and has lots of goofy editing
It’s just a part of the video. This editing style has evolved for about a decade. It started off with live-commentaries (think old school PewDiePie just talking over CoD gameplay), then cut-commentaries (FaZe house, Leafy, etc). Originally it was created to reduce the amount of stuttering/repeating oneself but it has been tweaked and refined. It keeps the viewer’s attention as opposed to somebody rambling about a topic, especially in scripted videos (podcasts/livestreams/other live events are an exception to this, but that is a different audience, likely with a longer attention span).
i love that you stand while filming it's very energetic
"Colonization has been a proven effective and fun way to develop trends"
This Puerto Rican:.... We know.... where do you think y'all got barbecue from? No, not the sauce, the method
Barbacoa?
_...ah._
I'm pretty sure you're the feminine chaos Jordan Peterson warned everyone about, and I'm here for it
my brain is filled with rot thanks to the internet
I AM feeling the audience-retention-rate-engagement-core, how did you know!
Oh shit, I'm in the creditssss
It’s like she’s cohesively pieced together the random floating ideas in my head over the past few months.
the mia cole->cj the x->contrapoints pipeline worked for me but like…the opposite way
This video is like a blessed mashup of Ro Ramdin, ContraPoints, and NakeyJakey. I love it.
I think your videos are great Mia. I really think you deserve more subscribers and views, and I don't mean that in the soulless online TH-cam algorithm way, I say that because I think your takes hold so much value and deserve to be heard by many more people.
I went through the exact same experience in the summer of 2020, and that's when my leftist radicalization began. The way you described it was so accurate. That was the first time I ever actually got an idea of the weight of bigotry. I had just discovered my identity as a trans man so although I knew I was a part of the many groups of people society hates, I had never realized how prejudice actually operated, especially not racism which is so often watered down when you learn about it in school to "racism is bad kids, just be nice to everyone".
Ironically people like you and CJ are radicalizing me further. Some of your videos have blown my mind completely and I constantly get new perspectives from watching them, which is why I say that you deserve more views. This is not just content for the algorithm, this is worth it. I think it answers your question of if this truly matters. I think it does. These types of videos have shown me many different perspectives and new ideas and things to think about and new ways to view life. They change minds. This really matters.
And for a sprinkle of hope I do think that while alt-right radicalization is very prominent and worrysome, it has been since like, 2016 internet. Leftist radicalization has been on a massive rise since 2020 and like I said I was affected by it and it truly changed my life, for the better, because it really cleaned up my mind from all the bullshit society had been feeding me for years, the bullshit they feed you to hide all of its issues. And the fact that nowadays being somewhat progressive is viewed as socially acceptable, is mindblowing when you compare it to a few years ago when being bigoted was the norm. I truly do think that leftist radicalization will keep rising. More and more people are becoming aware of massive issues in the world, more than I have ever seen before. We are generally being taught with a leftist viewpoint at school, our teachers are actually talking about things like systemic racism now and other forms of bigotry. I am 16 in the second year of highschool and this is all in Brazil, where I live, which is a third world country with an alt-right president. I never thought I would hear about these subjects in school in my life, because up until 2020 I literally hadn't.
I think what happened in 2020 changed the world. I agree that it's still not enough, but it's something. Society shifted a little that year. Now progressive views are a little more encouraged, and I think we will keep moving forward, even if things look incredibly worrying right now. I don't say this in the perspective of not worrying because we should worry, but I say that in the sense that being a doomer about it is unhelpful and we need to try our best to remain hopeful if we want real change. I once saw someone say that apathy is the new denial. I think it's so true because you can even see that in the way Twitter, the News, TH-cam and other social medias only show you negative world news. It's like they're all working to crush our souls and get rid of our resolve to do anything.
So I like to think about the fact that years ago women were being burned to death because they were THOUGHT to be witches, for example. That and other horrendous historical events, because if we managed to move on from something so fucking absurd and unbelievable surely we can move on from the shit being thrown at us now. I agree with the theory that humanity works in cycles of good and bad, but I think we still ultimately end up moving forward and that's inevitable. It takes determination and a lot of fighting to make it happen though.
Videos like this help make the change happen. Even if it seems they do nothing, I think they ultimately contribute towards real change in society, even if it's just a little bit. It's through content like this that I got here after all, and I imagine that many other people's views are changing because of it just like me.
I don't know why I rambled so much, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I appreciate what you do and this video made me think a lot. About bad things and good things as well. And this comment is the conclusion that I've reached, and I think I needed this because I had been wondering about this same topic as of late. I hope you have a nice day today.
thank you for sharing this, genuinely. and especially for your story as well cause i think a lot of us have similar experiences like that and those dont get shared enough.
This was such a nice comment to read. What we're doing commenting here matters too, in similar ways.
I've also been radicalized to the left in the last few years, and I know the feeling you talk about of finally hearing counter-narratives to all the bullshit. I believe we intuitively feel something is off with the world, but we are constantly gaslighted into believing either "things are fine" or that we should blame a scapegoat and punch down.
Anarchism helped me seek coherence between what I see from the world, what I believe with my heart and what I analyze with my mind. It makes sense to me: there are systems pitting us against each other and ourselves, in order to make us divided, self-hating and easy to control. Destroying them takes a lot of unlearning and new learning.
As another brazillian, I think we'll have tough years ahead, even if we win the immediate battle of getting rid of Bolsonaro. Despite that more and more I have hope, people have been fighting forever and we are building upon resistance from the past and linking it towards resistance from the future. We are never alone when fighting for a better world.
I think you might like an interview podcast on youtube called Az Ideias, it's not mia-cole-esque, except for the part of having people who have a lot to say and do it well.
All of this matters. The internet touches real people, and I hope both you and Mia know that I was touched by your sincerity and willingness to share it.
It can get much better. Choosing hope is an act of defiance.
@@miacole Absoutely. And thank you as well for sharing yours.
@@cadb8 I agree so much. Nice to see another brazilian. I'll be sure to check out that podcast, thank you for the suggestion and your reply.
I absolutely love that last phrase you typed. I will be keeping it in mind.
finally, someone who embraces the insanity
12:47 "You like it! You're so retained right now! You feel so audience retention rate engagement core!" Best lines of the day!
I start to understand why some fans have this urge to call various leftist youtubers kings and queens with fanatic monarchist joy in their eyes. The culture we as audience look up to is aesthetically and intellectually so imbred the parallels are obvious.
awooga booga
Your energy is EXACTLY what we need in this new youtube atmosphere. Can’t wait for more.
I've watched your videos for a while and just super recently posted my first video essay-- it's wild how different it is to listen to you talk about being an internet person now that I've felt that other side a little. basically what I'm saying is I already appreciated you and now I appreciate you even more
instead of watching ContraPoints and CJ the X separately I can just watch Mia instead to get the same vibes but from one video
Does anyone else feel like Mia is glaring through the screen and into your soul if you ever pause the video to read the text on screen?
ive never seen someone represent the platonic ideal of a 100 gecs fans until i stumbled on this channel, so glad i did, great video
Mia looks like they eat Doritos and Fritos
same
_This_ is where I found it.
What a raw line.
Ha... I am an early 40s type and have been chronically online since the 90s. Love listening to the kids talking about modern day culture. Also i know the horrors of ChrisChan.
You're now in my top 10 favorite TH-camrs. I'm simping for that brain, girl.
The fact I'm definitely old enough to be your mom and yet I got the vast majority of your references *including Chrischan*...concerns me.
me when not watching a mia cole video:
*internal screaming*
me when watching a mia cole video:
*also internal screaming*
low key hearing mia say "we see you - you're valid" to the 30 year olds was oddly reassuring in a way I didn't know I needed (I'm 29 but w/e)
this video inspired me to touch grass for the first time in what seems like decades, and for that, i thank you, mia cole
Mia Cole did nothing wrong
This video and your channel are criminally underrated. This video was very well put together, and had lots of good points. Can’t wait for your future content!!
Matt Walsh being included in the "self hating queer people" line got me laughing way too hard.
Mia my crops are watered and my family FED on this great content, somehow by the end it was nice to be reminded that despite the internet being the internet, we get a lot of good from it
The internet isn’t bleeding into the real world it is the real world.
Very cool ideas here! The New Models podcast gang refers to a similar phenomenon called 'devirtualization' in which content generated in online spaces leaks out into physical ones, like someone wearing a wojak t shirt, but then we can get revirtualization where, say, that picture of someone wearing a wojak t shirt becomes a meme for being cringe. A better real world example of this is how bronycon devirtualized an online my little pony community and then revirtualized as a notorious event online.
Another great idea that I'm seeing you touch on a little bit is what artist Joshua Citarella calls "the slow red pill" in which radical online groups create meme pages that attract large followings, then sprinkle more radical content among the regularly scheduled programming, subtly making the algorithms of the followers more radical in the process. You followed the page for an antifeminism video, and ended up on the other end talking about white supremacy.
I bring these up just because you're totally not alone in seeing internet culture in this way and there's some great jumping off points here to dig deeper into this kind of analysis. Some of these communities are on a similar pulse coming to similar conclusions. Great video! keep it up!
nah this has gotta be one of the best videos ive seen on this topic
Contrapoints on Adderall and I'm here for it ♥️
More like CJ the X on xannax and k-pins
Genuinely my favorite channel on TH-cam. This video hit, I love the longer form content
this is an impeccable video, thank you, i dont even know how to fully describe in real or internet words
For someone who is on TH-cam A LOT, I’m surprised I haven’t developed some kind of psychotic disorder
Content injected into the mind socket, thank you so much and keep slaying, very content creator-core of you
Saw this recommended by CJ the X and realized I hadn't subscribed yet. This video was really well done!
Good lord, I'm only 8 minutes in, it's impossible to live at this pace.
Subscribed.
new 30yo here. your videos are holding me together please dont judge me lol
or go ahead and judge, imma stay old anyways 'cries in spanish'
“If any of you feel called out right now, good, suffer.” 5:13
I’m rolling on the ground in fits of laughter right now omfg.
i love your slippers, and also the existential breakdown
Yes Mia, please continue to feed me more prestigious content from your goblet of lies. I am grateful to drink at your well of content.
the internet took my favoite pencil, and I'm upset
You’re videos are just too good 🥺 They make my attention span cells vibrate outta my brain 🤝
this video perfectly encapsulates what happens in my head anytime someone references any deep internet interest/phenomenon
The average bisexual is chronically online, a fact established by a sample size of one (me).
admitting you once shared an instagram infographic? mia you're braver than the us marines!!!
I think one thing to add to contextualize radicalization is that these tactics and ideas are very old. Many of these talking points have existed since the 17th century. But I think you’re right in how effectively they were able to retool them for the internet. Our society is just racist already and these online pipelines was basically and oil spill in a volcano 🌋
🎵Welcome to the internet, have a look around.
Could I interest you in everything all of the time?
A little bit of everything, all of the time!
Apathy's a tragedy and boredom is a crime.
Anything and everything, all of the time!🎶
The Internet is wonderful - I can research complex and interesting things in niche hobbies and interests I never knew existed, I can join virtual communities of queer and likeminded people that I can’t find in my neck of the woods, I can learn a ton about leftist and feminist ideas and change my entire worldview and even my gender. And yet it’s been so harmful - quite literally with the alt right pipeline, and more figuratively with my Internet addiction or doomscrolling. Why did this amazing human creation have to become such a double edged sword? Ugh, it’s tiring that everything has to be nuanced…
Wonderful video, Mia, and I’m glad to have found you through CJ!
the speed at which this video goes makes my adhd brain really happy it helps me stay focused on what you're saying ^_^
i’m so glad you are getting more recognition!! i’ve been here since last year
This is the most gen z video essay I’ve watched yet, well done lol
take a shot everytime i say "internet"
my liver! my kidneys!
i’m underage why are you promoting underage drinking #cancelled
Wakes up on a dusty stage in a squat in the middle of the desert with the whole internet tattooed on their face
i died
I laughed way too hard at that mrs information joke lol
this video is so engagementcore!!
this was an amazing watch. i literally laughed out loud so many times, and at the same time it made me analyze myself (which i hate doing so damn you). but brilliant video as always. thanks for the content :)
The diagnose makes clear sense and doesn't stem too much into one of two polarizes """sides"""" but you also act sassy and confident making it harder to watch for the casual viewer like myself (id like to believe) and I absolutely love it!
Seeing this not long after Sunburned Albino's video on information corruption... Between this and CJ and Exclamation Point going off on encanto at the same time, this is: Definitely An Experience 😆
another banger, keep up the great work queen
I'm in my 30s and finding out how deep the systemic racism is.
yay!! another video from my third least favorite lesbian!!
although seriously thank you a lot. i can tell how much effort you put into your videos, this one too, and i just wanna thank you for that. i love your subjects, the way you talk about things, and your ed-sheeran colored skirt. sometimes its downright cathartic :DD keep going!! im excited and scared for you and i hope you get all good things in the future
another mia cole video, another crisis, thanks Mia :D
as usual
the left tube pipeline part got me too fucking hard because i had a hasanabi video on another tab💀
your ad music is epic and I'm so glad it was never used for anyone's podcast
“It was a horrifying sign, but sounded like a neat adventure”
I’ve found myself repeating in the mirror more lately “I love being radicalized by the internet”
Why is "is making video essays to post on the internet good" even a question?
Its a utilitarian way to look at art when art is more than just that...and i do feel like content is art...or it can be.. i feel like a lot of video essays are... sure they spark discussion but Get Out started discussions and shit, its still art and valuable on merits aside from its political nature... and should its merits only be judged on whether it ended racism? Or should the worth of a song like polly by nirvana be judged only by if it brought about actual change and ended SA? Its a weird thing to expect art to fix everything and deem it useless if it doesnt....fucking kendrick just made a whole album bout this shit go listen to it
Utubers are not leftist messiahs who should only make videos that spark political change.. theres so many more layers to politics than just youtube videos
Theres so many leftist people ik who dont even watch video essays like i do
And so asking urself if you making video essays is good for society is kinda dumb imo... if it doesnt create active hurt and hate in the world against people, then its worth existing cuz its art
This is art. It has more value than how many leftist babies it births.
And me saying this is not to take away from the discussion of the left pipeline vs the alt right pipeline...
This is just kinda a response majorly to the last section... and also why is like every other video u make about if ur job is beneficial for society or not, not to be parasocial but like get a therapist or something idk
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Um... no. Like, actually fuck all this. Mia, idk if you're reading this, but if you are, please continue working through what you're doing on here (and what we're all doing on here) and how to do the most good you can with it. That's what Kendrick's album was actually about: him *figuring out the process* of what he's been accomplishing and what he should do next. Not him saying "I can't solve racism, so fuck it, art over everything." And like, honestly his shit was just as messy and grappling as yours (if not more so), and that's a big part of what made it worth listening to. And the messy questioning is the best thing about this video too.
Like, just speaking personally, i don't really care about the art (like, I literally didn't even watch most of this video; just listened to it). I care about people who are willing to tell stories and show their journey and share their ideas so others can learn and grow from it. I don't think the Noah Samsen to leftist voting block pipeline is gonna work, but you reflecting on 2020 and showing how you got to that thought is huge. And for more about that: I SUPER HIGHLY recommend the book Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell, because I think it expands on the biggest thing that's missing in your analysis of this issue. In short, I can describe it as a book that shows how the internet allows many leftists (including myself) to find and strive for the best versions of ourselves and create communities that we want to exist.
@@JamMastaJeremyo i didnt mean kendrick meant "fuck it, cant solve racism", i just meant its ok if he didnt solve racism with tpab.. cuz its a good album and it helped a ton of people out so its ok if mia's contribution to society is making video essays, cuz its good shit and helps people out even if it doensnt like create a marxist revolution or more leftist babies
My bad if i worded the original comment poorly and didnt get my point across, i was sleepy as shit
Thanks for the book recs though
@@leemuleemu7915 gotchu. But, like, no, it's not actually okay. We actually do need people who are consistently striving to make the world better and aren't willing to settle for just making good shit. And learning how not to beat yourself up over it is a struggle, so I get why you talked about Kendrick, but I feel like your ultimate conclusion was pushing in the wrong direction so, yeah, just wanted to say Mia (and everyone), keep trying to be better.
The internet gave us infinite cat pics so how bad can it really be
agreed
I agree the internet corrupts as much as it helps. The "glamorous", fake people type things are bleeding out to me- but I fight it. Once you know who you are, the internet can't brainwash you into being something you aren't. Now, I try my best to get into things that represent me more. Great vid.
I watched this at 4x speed and it gave me a headache. Very relatable takes I love the internet.
2:16 thanks for the idea mia 🙏