Break Bread
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After a few months of “success” on the platform, I sat to contemplate my journey from unknown content creator scraping for views to hot new video essayist and legit “left tuber”. This contemplation led to numerous questions and ponderings, and as I dived into those questions I started to get frustrated the answers that I arrived at. I got tired of people asking me “where have you been this whole time” when I knew I had been just quietly treading water, wondering why my videos weren’t being seen, and wondering why I barely saw any creators in the mold of what I wanted to do.
To explore these emotions, I talked to a variety of creators and experts on the nature of YouTube as a media platform the algorithmic systems that govern it, and the greater culture around it. I delved into my own concerns and observations about the landscape of YouTube, especially “left tube”.
This video is my thesis on what challenges I and other black creators face.
00:00 Intro
02:12 How Did I Get Here?
08:22 The Untold History of Breadtube/Lefttube
33:17 No Favors From the Algorithm
1:09:10 Problems in the Community
Creators Featured
Voice Memos for the Void –
https://www.youtube.com/c/voicememosforthevoid
Jordan Harrod-
https://www.youtube.com/c/JordanHarrod/videos
The Storyteller-
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheStorytellerAJ
CJ the X-
https://www.youtube.com/c/CJTheX
Noah Samsen-
https://www.youtube.com/c/NoahSamsen
khadija Mbowe-
https://www.youtube.com/c/KhadijaMbowe
T1J-
https://www.youtube.com/c/the1janitor
Legal Eagle-
https://www.youtube.com/c/LegalEagle
Hank Green-
https://www.youtube.com/c/SciShow
Channels Mentioned
Yara Zayd-
https://www.youtube.com/c/Yharazayd
Kolpeshtheyardstick-
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Vj51Kp7qPC102MsA98Fww
Victory-
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8JTStI16odEK-N3JJcMmpw
DJ Trackmatic-
https://www.instagram.com/trackmatic_idris/?hl=en
https://youtube.com/channel/UCqeWnr-XOv2x8jr2fW72mnA
Resources-
Pewdie Pipeline by Noncompete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmRYRRDbuw&t=1029s
The Alt Right Playbook series by Innuendo Studios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xGawJIseNY&list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ
Not So Awesome (channel awesome fall out documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvedKSaHCBQ
Implicit Bias Primer-
https://www.simplypsychology.org/implicit-bias.html
Implicit Bias Association Harvard Study-
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
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