I did a video called “Are Traps Gay?” which is about this transphobic meme. And in particular, I’m proud of videos I’ve done on transsexuality, for example, and men who are attracted to trans women and the stigma around that. Natalie: I’m really proud of the way my videos are sometimes able to reach people who start watching from a place of strong disagreement or ignorance. Kae: What are some of the accomplishments that you’re most proud of? I was at such a low point in my life that I wasn’t afraid of any backlash, I was like: bring it on. So I got the idea that I could do political content on YouTube that was a voice against all the antifeminist, anti-progressive stuff, because it seemed like that was a niche that wasn’t being filled. I was kind of failing as a writer of fiction, which was what I wanted to do at the time. And at the time I was a philosophy PhD dropout, I was underemployed and working the gig economy teaching piano lessons, copywriting, uber driving - that kind of thing. They were getting hundreds of thousands and even millions of views. And a lot of them were very, very popular.
And what made me start was that YouTube’s algorithm was recommending me a lot of antifeminist content, and anti-progressive and anti-Black-Lives-Matter content, and it was just showing up in my ‘recommended’ section. But I never really took it seriously or treated it as more than a very casual hobby until 2016 when I started my current channel. Natalie: I’m someone who’s been watching YouTube videos since YouTube started in 2005, and I dabbled with making videos since 2007 - but just like little piano videos and things and later vlogs when I was in college. Kae: Tell me about your YouTuber origin story. To further explore the powerful platform Wynn’s built, Writer Kae Goode spoke with the Youtube creator about everything from social justice, to trans identities, to (self) love and dating while internet famous. “So I got the idea that I could do political content on YouTube that was a voice against all the antifeminist, anti-progressive stuff, because it seemed like that was a niche that wasn’t being filled.”įlash forward to today, and ContraPoints has been celebrated as everything from “the Oscar Wilde of Youtube” to a vital antidote against the digital Alt-Right. “YouTube’s algorithm was recommending me a lot of antifeminist content, and anti-progressive and anti-Black-Lives-Matter content, and it was just showing up in my ‘recommended’ section,” she explains. Wynn - or ContraPoints, as over 700K subscribers now know her - was a self-described “underemployed PHD dropout” at the time, who spent her newly-freed up schedule working odd-jobs and scrolling through Youtube. In 2016, Natalie Wynn found inspiration for her career in the unlikeliest of places: the scary corners of extremist YouTube. Hair + MUA: Arpita Brahmbhatt Style: Sionan Murtagh Assistant: Riv Begas Otoko no ko memorable 男の娘メモラブル Kagamine Len 鏡音 レン かがみねれんĪ song for all the guys who feel for a trap.Photos by Signe Pierce. Thanks to everyone for their feedback and receiving any mental traumas from this map.
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