Here’s a few examples:
The Popcast (recently made a video warning of the “dangers” of the Barbie movie because it’s feminist. Now Im going to go see it lol), Midnights Edge (general right wing conspiracy theories regarding media, occasional delving into new age crank too), Nerdrotic (thinks Hollywood is engineering a communist Red Guards plot to kill conservatives), The Critical Drinker (typical edgelord anti feminist), Dave Cullen (extreme anti feminist who believes in all the QAnon, Agenda 21 conspiracy theories).
And it goes on and on. I know there’s popular left wing and liberal reviewers too, but for whatever reason so many of the ones I run into are far right. Is there some sort of draw for conservatives to geekdom or is something else going on?
Yeah who are these people?
Briahna from the bad faith podcast and Yannis Varoufakis are pretty left and avid star trek fans.
I never said all were far right, just that a lot of Youtubers who center around Star Trek or sci fi in general are far right. A lot complained that the Orville went “woke” in its third season, for example. And praised Picard Season 3 for being “unwoke”
I guess I just am never exposed to these Youtubers. Are these people popular? Seems like I’m better off staying ignorant of them!
They are regrettably popular and influential with a certain swath of fans, particularly among those who are Berman-era fans.
Terry Matalas courted them assiduously to bring a target niche of disgruntled and vocal fans back to the franchise for season three of Picard. It was successful to some extent, but now they are campaigning for all new Trek content to be ‘Terry Trek.’ They have hats and t-shirts and everything.
I noticed that he did exactly this, despite the fact that he isn’'t a conservative AFAIK.