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Experience literature like never before through eyes of a gangsta,
@SparkySweetsPhD
. Diving into both classic and modern works, Thug Notes delivers smart takes and summaries in a way your high-school teachers never could.
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Hot Take: a good show or film can’t be spoiled. If something’s value is dependent on a big reveal or plot twist, then it’s just a gimmick and not good storytelling.
Getting an odd amount of “pretty ironic that Wisecrack makes videos with anti-capitalist themes and then does ads for capitalist companies” comments lately.
These comments always seem to ignore that the economic conditions of digital media are dictated by . . . capitalism.
It's our 4th Anniversary! Thank you so much for subscribing to us on YouTube, for being our patrons, and following us! We couldn't do any of this without you!
Today’s video is on the death of the adult animation industry. Come for the analysis and stay for Michael’s unhinged rant against his mom’s boyfriend, Dale.
Reading books is for losers who are afraid to learn from life.
So they try and learn from the life OTHERS have lived.
But you never REALLY learn unless you lived it.
You must feel it to believe it.
Books are a total waste of time.
Education for cowards.
Man, remember when
@Wisecrack
posted interesting and neutral philosophical and psychological analysis using popular culture as a springboard? You know, before it was just one endless lefty shibboleth post on YouTube after another…?
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Tomorrow we're introducing a new host - Kris!
Kris is a professor of video games at Ryerson University. He'll be helping us create awesome video game content in the future but is on regular hosting duty in the meantime. He's also very good at Street Fighter.
Thug Notes fans,
@SparkySweetsPhD
has a message for you - ALL episodes are now on Amazon Video! With NINE seasons categorized into your favorite lit genres, you can get lit like never before.
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We’re starting work on a new video and wondering if charity or good deeds done for the sake of clicks and algorithmic success have real moral value.
What do y’all think?
Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight:
@Donie
O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's
@drewharwell
.
Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.
Because we've been getting into some contentious topics in recent videos, we've decided to step back and talk about something non-controversial that everyone agrees on in tomorrow's video.
It's on the politics of gender theory.
It’s our ninth birthday! Thanks for helping us get this old, which is increasingly uncommon in digital media.
To help us celebrate, share some of your favorite Wisecrack memories from the last nine years, and/or what you hope to see from us in the next nine!
People seem very upset by our new video. So I guess don’t watch it? Or do? I don’t know anymore. It’s on the possibility of right-wing comedy. Happy Friday.
A cool thing about philosophy is it teaches us to not get caught in bifurcated parallels where everything is simply all the way good or all the way bad. It helps us approach things with critical nuance and suspend our emotional reactions to challenge our own assumptions.
Stare at YouTube analytics for hours hoping that truth will reveal itself and that we’ll be able to appease the algorithm enough to keep our health insurance.
Very excited to announce we've partnered with
@Medium
to bring Wisecrack to print. We've got articles about fancy toilets, Stranger Things, and way more coming! Be sure to check them out:
Last week we had a video removed from YouTube and a copyright strike was given to our channel, because we used 1.5 seconds of footage of zucchini’s from a gardening channel.
For perspective - if a channel gets three strikes they’re removed from the platform.
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We’re in YouTube jail so please watch our new video on why the productivity mindset is literally shifting our humanity and our collective sense of time.
Show Me the Meaning! is back tomorrow evening! Email us your thoughts or leave us a voicemail because we are going to be talking about The Dark Knight Rises!