I will say it probably shouldn't, but I watched Contrapoints for an extremely long time, though she was never a favorite of mine. Extremely influential, sure, but I always thought she kinda reminincent of the BrowsHeldHigh guy or Hbomberguy, just with a more female affectation, but it was all very similar content at a similar time.

I was always more of a fan of the ThatGuyWithTheGlasses content growing up, which is kinda embarrassing to say now, but I still think they were doing the large amounts of theatre in your criticism thing at a way higher level early on in the online space. It was fun stuff, and it was cool to see Contra put on that level of performance, but that doesn't mean I found her actual insights on the nature of the political economy to be all that, well, insightful. Her trans stuff was extremely influential to introducing me to the trans space, and I cannot say she hasn't been extremely influenctial there. For better or for worse lol.

[–] Sneakytrickyyy@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It was mainly for the worse, introducing a young and impressionable audiance the the wonders of transmedicalism is not, like people say, cool.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

I am happy that I never really picked up on those particular flavors, just that I always noticed that she had infinite sympathy and patience for conservatives and their literature, but none for the left, and her personal tweets were always extremely distasteful.