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 -
   / voicememosforthevoid  
Jordan Harrod-
   / jordanharrod  
The Storyteller-
   / thestorytelleraj  
CJ the X-
   / cjthex  
Noah Samsen-
   / noahsamsen  
khadija Mbowe-
   / khadijambowe  
T1J-
   / the1janitor  
Legal Eagle-
   / legaleagle  
Hank Green-
   / scishow  

Channels Mentioned
Yara Zayd-
   / yharazayd  
Kolpeshtheyardstick-
   / @kolpeshtheyardstick  
Victory-
   / @victorythecreator  

DJ Trackmatic-
https://www.instagram.com/trackmatic_...
   / @djtrackmatic6315  

Resources-

Pewdie Pipeline by Noncompete
   • The PewDiePipeline: how racist humor leads...  

The Alt Right Playbook series by Innuendo Studios
   • The Alt-Right Playbook: Introduction  

Not So Awesome (channel awesome fall out documentary)
   • Channel Awesome | Fallen Titans #3  

Implicit Bias Primer-
https://www.simplypsychology.org/impl...

Implicit Bias Association Harvard Study-
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit...