[Shoe0nHead] The Male Loneliness Epidemic
[Shoe0nHead] The Male Loneliness Epidemic
I’ve never heard of her before. Her content seems odd to me. Like the kind of political YouTuber that doesn’t actually know what they’re talking about.
Before I probably invest way too much time into it, can someone give me a rundown of the kinds of views she espouses? Fairly balanced or leaning really far to one side?
In her words:
comedic social commentary from a left wing populist POV. stick around if you like loud screeching and bad memes.
She’s liberal, and doesn’t really say conservative shit, but she calls out her own side sometimes, and that draws in the conservative crowd. Take that as you will.
Also, memes I find funny, but might not be to everyone’s taste.
Like the kind of political YouTuber that doesn’t actually know what they’re talking about.
That’s pretty accurate. She claims to be left wing, and a fan of Bernie Sanders but she frequently repeats alt-right talking points and conspiracy theories. She does a lot of that thing that a lot of right wing online personalities do in paying lip service towards being a centrist “I MaKe FuN oF bOtH sIdEs” etc. but really ending up making the right look far more reasonable than the left the majority of the time. She’s also good friends with the conservative pick-me YouTuber Blaire White.
She became popular around the time of gamergate largely (imo) because she says a lot of the things those types like — makes a lot of videos ridiculing feminists etc — and is a somewhat conventionally attractive woman. So gamers^TM can convince themselves they don’t hate all women and all women don’t hate them because here’s one who agrees with them and “she [supposedly] isn’t even right wing”.
This is why I love Lemmy. Never knew this transcript website was a thing!
I have an idea…
@[email protected] could your TLDR bot theoretically summarise a video using the auto generated YouTube transcript? More of an experimental thing from my POV… if you try it out on here, please tag me so I can see the outcome 😁
Fairly balanced. She makes fun of both extremes and seems to have opinions from both sides, as well as covering topics from them. While she does cover far-left more than far-right, there does not seem to have a problematic bias towards one side.
Of course a lot of leftists call her far-right, but that seems to be painfully common with all centre-leaning political youtubers. Turns out if you are far-left, anything from centre to right will seem far-right to you.
Anyway, if you are interested in her, she is not as serious with most of her content, so you’ll probably stay for the humor, or balanced takes. As most political youtubers of her type, she is perfect to watch in terms of things both sides have completely different opinions on.
Good article on her: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Shoe0nHead
In short, she was a super right wing MAGA chud years before MAGA was a thing (she was one of the full on Gamergaters) and then a couple years ago suddenly claimed she's a progressive leftist and totally reformed. It seemed possibly legitimate for a while there, but she's been slowly backsliding ever since.
Makes it feel that much more like just a grift, ultimately.
June Nicole Lapine[1][2][3][4] (1991–),[5] better known as Shoe0nHead,[6][note 1] is an alt-right grifter who rose to prominence for videos making fun of online culture which most resembles right-wing strawmen (in particular Tumblr culture). As of 2022, Lapine's YouTube videos are mostly socially liberal but her Twitter feed contains a large amount of social conservative and alt-right dog whistling. Lapine's main YouTube channel has over 1.61 million subscribers and 128 million views.[6]